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* Our loser hero Arthur Dent escapes certain death by ''learning to fly''.
* The very moment Arthur becomes the ultimate form of [[Unfazed Everyman]]:
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** Keep in mind that he is saying this to ''[[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?|Thor, the Norse God of Thunder]]''.
** ''Also'' keep in mind they are on a flying party at the time. Meaning Arthur ''just got Thor to throw himself into thin air.'' Seriously, that part is so subtle, it's easily missable and awesome in and of itself.
* Another Arthur example. Summing it up wouldn't do it justice, but realize that the robot mentioned in the following paragraph has xenophobia, homicide, and world-ending destruction programmed into its mind and has proven throughout the novel that it is more than equipped to act on said programming...
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With a sudden mad outburst of strength, he [Arthur] wrestled the battleclub from the startled robot, executing a dazzling banking turn in the air, hurtled back in a furious power drive and with one crazy swing knocked the robot's head from the robot's shoulders. }}
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* The prologue, a [[Call Back]] to the prologue of the first book:
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Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terribly stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.
This is her story. }}
* Ford bluffing his way past a crapload of armed security officers to smuggle himself, Arthur and Fenchurch onto a [[First Contact|very public spacecraft]].
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