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''Mostly Harmless'' (1992) is the fifth installment in the [[Trilogy Creep|increasingly inaccurately-named]] ''[[The
The second concerns Ford Prefect and his ill-conceived attempts to save the ''Guide'' Corporation from [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|corporate sleaze]] Vann Harl and Infini-Dim Enterprises, a bureaucratic nightmare run by the Vogons that wants to pervert the spirit of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' for profit. The third concerns Trillian, who reinvents herself as an interplanetary anchorwoman and bears Arthur's child, Random Dent, who is absolutely nothing like her mild-mannered father.
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This book is by far [[Darker and Edgier|the darkest of the series]], which had hitherto been very upbeat, due to a bad case of [[Creator Breakdown]].
Preceded by ''[[The
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* [[Alternate Universe]]
* [[Anti
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Random Dent.
* [[Bus Crash]]: Fenchurch.
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Vann Harl.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|All [[Alternate Universe]] Earths are destroyed, and [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|80% of the main cast dies]].}} See [[Creator Breakdown]] in the Trivia section.▼
* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: {{spoiler|Poor Fenchurch}}.▼
▲* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|All [[Alternate Universe]] Earths are destroyed, and [[Rocks Fall Everyone Dies|80% of the main cast dies]].}} See [[Creator Breakdown]].
** {{spoiler|...or so it seems, until the sixth book reveals that, at Random's request, they're placed into a [[Lotus Eater Machine]] by the Guide Mk. II and given one last shot at survival.}}
* [[Elvis Has Left the Planet]]▼
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The Guide Mk. II is a pandimensional ''thing'' of limitless power (it can make anything happen simply by arranging events in the past to bring about a given future event) that has the appearance of a black bird. [[A Form You Are Comfortable With|Sometimes]].
▲* [[Elvis Has Left the Planet]]
* [[Satiating Sandwich]]: Arthur Dent, having undergone an existential crisis over his only skill being sandwich making, ends up the chief sandwich maker for the tribe on Lamuella, with several whole pages about this exalted position, and his divine sandwich-making skills earn him more respect than the village chief.▼
* [[Evilly Affable]]: Vann Harl {{spoiler|(actually Zarniwoop, as described in the second book)}}, [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|corporate bastard extraordinaire.]] By this point in the series, the ''Guide'' had come to represent freedom from the norm, and thus, both his transformation of the ''Guide'' HQ from a dadaesque palace of fun to a drab corporate office complex and his attempt to misuse [[Time Travel|time-traveling technology]] to profit infinitely from a single sale are seen as gruesome sins in this series' world. However, he is ever so utterly suave and in-control... though we know he is loathsome, it's hard not to like him. Just a little.
* [[Genre Shift]]: This book isn't really very funny. Mostly it's just [[Mind Screw|creepy and strange]].
* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Random (at the very least, she ''tries'' to be).
* [[Married to
* [[Mega Corp]]: The ''Hitchhiker's Guide'' Corporation and Infini-Dim Enterprises.
* [[Mind Screw]]: Ford's voyage into the four-dimensional ''Guide'' online network.
** The scene in which Arthur visited the man in the village filled with poles. Said man can walk ''to the horizon and back'' in a single step, and can step off one of the poles (each one is 40 feet tall, mind you) and live.
* [[The Operators Must Be Crazy]]:
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In the ensuing days of carnage every single window in the city, rocket-proof or not, was smashed, usually to accompanying cries of "Get off the line, asshole! I don't care what number you want, what extension you're calling from. Go and stick a firework up your bottom! Yeeehaah! Hoo Hoo Hoo! Velooooom! Squawk" and a variety of other animal noises that they didn't get a chance to practice in the normal line of their work.
As a result of this, all telephone operators were granted a constitutional right to say "Use BS&S and die!" at least once an hour when answering the phone and all office buildings were required to have windows that opened, even if only a little bit. }}
* [[Plot Armor]]: Arthur Dent has it, and it's explicitly justified. {{spoiler|Remember Agrajag from [[Life the Universe And Everything]]? The guy who kept getting reincarnated, and whom Arthur keeps accidentally killing? There's an incarnation of him that Arthur ''hadn't'' met at that point, and the narration explicitly states that until Arthur accidentally kills ''that'' incarnation of Agrajag, he literally cannot die. Which he does, at the end of this book, with his own death (and everyone else's) following by mere seconds.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|Earth Gets Obliterated, Everyone Dies]]}}
▲* [[Satiating Sandwich]]: Arthur Dent, having undergone an existential crisis over his only skill being sandwich making, ends up the chief sandwich maker for the tribe on Lamuella, with several whole pages about this exalted position, and his divine sandwich-making skills earn him more respect than the village chief.
* [[Sick Sad World]]: Now What, the most miserable planet in the Galaxy.
* [[Sir Not
** Well, at least Marvin [[Dead for Real|has a good excuse]].
* {{spoiler|[[Spared
* [[Stranded
* [[Took a Level
* [[Unfortunate Names]]: Be honest. If you heard someone refer to Random Dent, you would probably think they were talking about, well, some '''random dent''' on the wall.
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: "Temporal reverse-engineering", the special feature of the Guide Mark II; give it a goal, and it will turn out to have already been acting to bring it about. While also working on somebody else's future agenda.
** The Guide Mark II's Xanatos skills are greater than that; give it a goal, and not only will it have already been acting to bring it about, it will also have been acting to ensure ''you give it the goal it wants''.
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