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* [[Achievements in Ignorance]]: How he managed to fly. You have to invoke this intentionally but Arthur stumbled across the technique by accident.

* [[Catch Phrase]]:

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Occasionally.

'''Arthur''': I don't know. Why, do you think it's the sort of thing you're likely to say? }}

* [[Foe Yay]]: With Zaphod, though it's more present in the novels. (Though, in the movie, it goes into Tsundere territory because one head hates Arthur while the other one generally seems to like him).

* [[Genre Savvy]]

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Ford.

* [[Unfazed Everyman]]: The former [[Trope Namer]].

* [[Unknown Rival]]: {{spoiler|Agrajag}}

 

* [[Brick Joke]]: She is the subject of one, when the [[So Long and Thanks For All The Fish|fourth book]] opens with a narration identical to that of the first book, then reveals that Fenchurch was the woman mentioned therein.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Named for the Fenchurch Street railway station, where she was conceived in the ticket queue.

 

* [[Bearer of Bad News]]

* [[Herald]]

* [[Sarcasm Blind]]

 

* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]

* [[Chaotic Neutral]]

* [[Crazy Awesome]]

* [[Foe Yay]]: With Arthur, though it's more present in the novels. (Though, in the movie, it goes into Tsundere territory because one head hates Arthur while the other one generally seems to like him).

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Multiple Head Case]]: Subverted in most adaptations (where there's no distinction between the two heads), pretty much played straight in the movie, and zigzagged in the sixth novel, where the second head has a distinct personality after being removed and attached to the Heart of Gold.

* [[Rule of Cool]]: Pretty much what he lives his life by.

* [[That Man Is Dead]]: In the backstory he lobotomised himself to keep his plans secret even from himself. However, turns out that the 'new him' hates the old one and actively works against those plans.

 

* [[Brainy Brunette]]: Originally an astrophysicist and mathematician.

* [[My Biological Clock Is Ticking]]: At the time she had Random.

* [[Shallow Love Interest]]

 

* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]

* [[Little Miss Badass]]

* [[Unwitting Pawn]] {{spoiler|Being manipulated by the Guide Mk II.}}

 

* [[The Chew Toy]]: He literally gets treated like crap (or makes himself believe he is, at times) by almost everything in the entire universe. The fact that he is several times older than the universe itself in the later books doesn't help much, either.

* [[The Constant]]: And he's ''not'' happy about it.

* [[Personality Chip]]: As stated above: A flawed prototype.

* [[Ridiculously Human Robot]]: Subverted. While ''humanoid'', his emotion chip is supposed to emulate real emotions. Unfortunately, it does that ''[[Gone Horribly Right|too]]'' well, and only with depression.

* [[Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence]]: Easily of [[Deus Est Machina]] levels intelligence, but it's ''never'' put to full use.

** In the first book, he kills two policemen on Magrathea by plugging up to the ship controlling their life support system and having a long chat, explaining to it his opinion and perspectives of the Universe...

'''Marvin:''' It commited suicide. }}

** A lot later, amongst the swamps of Sqornshellous Zeta, he recalled to the matress Zem the time he, some miles away and five million years earlier, had opened a bridge meant to revitalize the economy of the Sqornshellous System (after the entire economy of the Sqornshellous System had been spent building the bridge) with a depressing speech in which he expressed his spiteful contempt for everyone who would ever cross the bridge in question and then plugged into the bridge's opening circuits.

'''Marvin:''' Reasonably magnificent. The entire thousand-mile-long bridge spontaneously folded up its glittering spans and sank weeping into the mire, taking everybody with it. }}

* [[Time Abyss]]: Oh so very, very much. In one instance he stays in one spot from approximately 1980 untill ''the end of the universe''. By the end of the series he is, by virtue of [[Time Travel]], six times older than the universe itself! ...He is then brought back to life again because numerous characters that lived when he was created were still alive, and [[Insane Troll Logic|that went against the Lifetime Insurance Policy]] of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

* [[The Woobie]]: [[Played for Laughs]], but still...

 

* [[Human Alien]]

* [[Mr. Exposition]]

 

* [[Lawful Neutral]]: So very, very much

** According to the Guide itself, they are "''not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous.''"

* Squick: Their poetry. Used in the novels as [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]].

 

* {{spoiler|[[Death Seeker]]}}

* [[Immortality Inducer]]

* [[Noodle Implements]]: How Wowbagger became immortal involves a rubber band, a boxed lunch, and a high-powered particle accelerator. People who have attempted to recreate the circumstances that made him immortal have failed, looking very stupid (or very dead) in the process. Or both.

* [[Jerkass]]

 

* [[Encyclopedia Exposita]]