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▲{{quote| ''"Why are people born? Why do they die? And why do they spend much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?"''}}
'''Don't Panic!'''
To boil it down to the essentials, Arthur Dent, a fairly normal if feckless Earthling, wakes up one Thursday and, after a series of confusing events, is spirited away from Earth by his friend, Ford Prefect, right before [[Earthshattering Kaboom|the planet is destroyed]]. He then hooks up with Zaphod Beeblebrox, former President of the Galaxy, current fugitive, and all-around cool guy; Marvin the Paranoid Android, a sarcastic and chronically depressed AI; and Tricia McMillian, AKA Trillian, [[The Chick]] and the only other human being left. Zaphod is on a quest to find The Truth, and everyone else gets pulled along for the ride.
There have been many adaptations over the years, each one starting from this point and then branching off in a different direction. Adams himself has been part of most of these, and thus, they all have some level of "officialness"; it's less a single "original" with an [[Expanded Universe]], and more a string of multi-media [[Alternate Continuity|Alternate Continuities]].
The first version was the radio series, ''[[The
Next came the book series, ''[[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy (
The books, in order, are:
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to
* ''[[Young Zaphod Plays It Safe]]'' (short story)
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to
A six-episode TV series version was shown on [[The BBC]], ''[[The
There was an [[Interactive Fiction]] game, ''[[The
In 2005, a big-budget Hollywood movie version, ''[[The
The series has also been adapted into stage shows, albums, comic books, and even a version printed on [[In
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* [[Absolute Xenophobe]]: The Krikkiters, who on becoming aware that there was a universe outside their dust cloud decided that it all had to go.
* [[The Ace]]: Zaphod, [[Zig
* [[Achievements in Ignorance]]: Invoked. To fly, one must aim at the ground and miss. To miss you have to distract yourself at the last moment. Then once you've achieved flight, you have to avoid thinking about how this is impossible or gravity will notice you, hard.
* [[
** Except it's called The Big Bang Burger Chef in the radio series.
* [[Advertised Extra]]: Trillian, in the radio series.
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* [[Arc Number]]: 42. See also [[Memetic Number]] below.
* [[The Artifact]]: Zaphod, at least if his absence in the last two Hitchhiker's novels Adams wrote is any guide; either Adams grew weary of the character or simply found him too difficult to write for. Every subsequent adaptation, including the radio versions made after Adams died has restored him to prominence.
* [[Ass Pull]] Subverted.
** At one point, the main characters {{spoiler|escape being blown up by nuclear warheads only by the Improbability Drive turning the missiles into a sperm whale and a bowl of petunias}}.
*** This was even subverted later when it was revealed that the bowl of petunias was a fairly important character.
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* [[Author Existence Failure]]: [[Trope Namer]], almost; the third book mentions a "total existence failure". Later, of course, succumbed to the trope when Adams died while working on the sixth book; his last published collection of pieces, ''The Salmon of Doubt'', contains an early draft of a [[Dirk Gently]] novel that Adams was hoping to rework into a Hitchhiker book.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Random.
* [[Bad Guy Bar]]: The Old Pink Dog used to have a sign that read "Please don't ask for credit because having your throat torn out by a savage bird while a disembodied hand smashes your head against the bar often offends". The bar's reputation eventually made the sign unnecessary.
* [[Bathos]]: Used ''constantly'' for surreal humor. The page quote is just one of many, many examples.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: In ''Life, The Universe and Everything {{spoiler|Hactar takes advantage of his apparent failure to trick the people of Krikkit into destroying the universe to instead plant the real supernova bomb on Arthur and manipulate him into nearly doing so.}}
* [[Big Little Man]]: The G'Gugvuntt and Vl'hurg, who spend thousands of years sending their fleet across space to attack Earth, only to be swallowed by a small dog.
* [[Blessed
** Give him the POV Gun and he can make a small army of Vogons collapse from depression, unable to fight. Of course, that will not make Marvin himself feel any more significant.
** He does the same thing to the Krikkit robots in ''Life, The Universe, and Everything'' when the Masters of Krikkit salvage him and put his massive intellect to work coordinating their military strategy. The result was war robots who would go off and sulk and start doing quadratic equations instead of their job.
*** They harnessed Marvin's immense intellect to the Central Intelligence Core of the Krikkit War Computer. He didn't enjoy it. And neither did the Central Intelligence Core of the Krikkit War Computer.
** And earlier in the series he drives an AI to suicide just by trying to talk to it.
* [[The Blind Leading the Blind]]: Ford trying to teach Arthur about advanced scientific principles, most notably [[Time Travel]] in ''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe''.
* [[Bolivian Army Ending]]: ''Mostly Harmless''.
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* [[Cool Starship]]: The Heart of Gold, the Starship Bistromath and several others.
* [[Corrupt Politician]]: Played for laughs. Many galactic presidents are arrested on election, on general principal.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] The executives of insurance companies are implied to be this in general, since Trillian mentions that the death penalty has been instated for them, an when Arthur asks for wich offense she merely responds "What do you mean, offense?"
* [[Crapsack World]]: No one seems to mind blowing up a planet and the legal system seems broken. [[Played for Laughs]].
* [[Creator Breakdown]]: Regarding the [[Downer Ending]] of ''Mostly Harmless'' and the mixed-to-negative reaction from fans, Adams conceded, "I just had a thoroughly miserable year, and I was trying to write a book against that background." He intended a sixth book to give the series a better conclusion, but succumbed to [[Author Existence Failure]] first.
* [[Cross
** There's an in-story example, where a casual throwaway remark Arthur makes regarding his lifestyle leads to an interstellar war of gargantuan proportions <ref>from the perspective of the participants; both sides ultimately invade Earth and their forces are swallowed by a small dog</ref> breaking out.
** The Ford Prefect was a small car Ford manufactured and sold in England, but not America. Adams regularly commented on how Americans were completely unaware of a joke they weren't getting.
*** Other countries that did translate it had to find ways of getting around the problem. Usually by renaming him "Ford Escort".
*** The TV series partially averts it by showing a list of names Ford considered using, most of the rest being much more recognizable, at least getting across the impression that he's named after something real. The movie lampshades it by Ford referring to Arthur meeting him by saving him from being run over when he tried to shake hands with a car (which he now explains, having revealed himself to be an alien, he had mistaken for the dominant life form on Earth).
* [[Divide
▲* [[Divide By Zero]]: The second book states a theory which basically says that if anyone finds out the meaning of life, then the universe will end and reboot as something even harder to explain. (Another theory says that this may have happened.) ''Life, The Universe, And Everything'' later [[Hand Wave|handwaves]] away The Ultimate Question and Answer Of Life, The Universe, And Everything as causing such an event if anyone found out both.
* [[Does Not Understand Sarcasm]]: Ford, occasionally.
* [[The Dog Was the Mastermind]] / [[The Dog Is an Alien]]: The {{spoiler|white lab mice}} were the real masters of Earth.
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** On one occasion the argument is put forth that Disaster Area is actually good for the environment, on the basis that a show in a desert causes the entire desert to fly into the air and flip over like a mile-thick pancake, and the resulting exposure of fertile soil causes a field of vibrant flowers to sprout in short order.
** Also Disaster Area is the only noise in the universe loud enough to drown out the unwanted telepathy of the above-mentioned Belcerebons - this is why the Disaster Area concert takes place on Kakrafoon. The Belcerebons are quite lucky - since Disaster Area is established as the loudest noise in the universe, it not being loud enough would mean there is no cure at all.
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending|Earn Your Happy Entire Book]]: Arthur was due the huge break life gave him in ''So Long''. Too bad it didn't stick. (Though it does in the radio version.)
* [[Earth Is the Center of
** An odd example of this trope. While the Earth is important to the mices' plans, what ''are'' those plans? To go on the talk show circuit and get rich. The only version of the Ultimate Question we learn is nonsense. When another character learned universal Truth by another method, it [[Go Mad
* [[The Eeyore]]: Marvin.
* [[Electric Instant Gratification]]: In the radio series and in ''Mostly Harmless.''
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* [[Empty Shell]]: Arthur visits a planet like Earth, but without any motivation or hope. They die of thirst when their plumbing breaks.
* [[Encyclopedia Exposita]]: Not only are there lengthy excerpts from Guide articles, the radio series, television series, and [[The Movie]] make it plain that the story is being told by the Guide itself.
* [[The End of the World
** Lampshaded in advance by the barkeep at the pub from which Ford and Arthur have just left.
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** [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: ...and rather spectacularly in [[The Movie]].
*** The novels play it in a very understated way:
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* [[Evil Minions]]: "Resistance is useless!"
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Extra Parent Conception]]: Zaphod has a bit of this, mixed with [[Grandfather Paradox]].
* [[Eye Lights Out]]
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* [[Fictional Colour]]: Hooloovoo is a supersmart shade of blue. And by "supersmart", we mean "sentient and intelligent."
* [[Fish Out of Water]]
* [[Foreshadowing]]: In the first book, Arthur says, "I wish I had {{spoiler|a daughter so I could forbid her to marry [a Vogon].}}" As of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to
** The other half of the spoilered text turns out to be a subversion in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to
** The part on Bartledan literature is foreshadowing on the use of foreshadowing in ''Mostly Harmless''. In the book Arthur reads, the main character dies of thirst just before the last chapter, because of some problem with the plumbing that is only referenced once at the beginning of the book. Arthur finds this exasperating. Of course, {{spoiler|the few clues that explain the [[Bolivian Army Ending]] are hidden the same way in Mostly Harmless. The reader finds this exasperating.}}
** The demolition of Arthur's house due to a huge bureaucratic cockup foreshadows Earth's fate.
*** Although it is subverted in the books and the movie by [[The Reveal]] that it was actually malicious. (For money in the books, and to break up Zaphod and Trillian in the movie.)
* [[Friendly Playful Dolphin|Friendly Playful Dolphins]]: This trope is stated to be why dolphins are a [[Superior Species]] -- while humans went around having wars and inventing the wheel, dolphins just splashed about in the water having a good time. Their final message to humanity ("So long, and thanks for all the fish") was disguised as "a sophisticated attempt to jump through a hoop while whistling The Star-Spangled Banner."
▲* [[Gargle Blaster]]: The [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Genesis Effect]]: The Magratheans create customized planets for very wealthy customers.
* [[Genetic Memory]]: Humans created Cricket out of a racial memory for the Krikkit wars.
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** The footnotes of the original radio scripts notes that a letter in The New Scientist points out that 42 is the atomic number for Molybdenum, a chemical thought to have been instrumental in the creation of organic life.
* [[Good Guy Bar]]: Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. It's also implied that the Big Bang Burger Bar at the other "end" of the universe is one as well.
* [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress]]: The art of flying lies in the ability to abuse [[The Order of the Stick
** It involves throwing yourself at the ground and missing. This can only be accomplished by distracting yourself from the fact that you're about to hit the ground, thus inverting [[Dilbert|Dogbert's]] approach on [[Gravity Is Only a Theory]].
* [[Great Big Book of Everything]]: The titular Guide.
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* [[Herald]]: Ford.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Ford and Arthur.
* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]: Arthur learning to fly in the third book.
* [[Huge Rider, Tiny Mount]]: The Vogons and their gazelle-like creatures.
** In this case the poor unfortunate gazelle-like creatures are used more as furniture than transport, as they were too fragile to support a full-grown Vogon and their backs would snap instantly under the strain.
* [[Human Aliens]]
* [[Humans Are Morons]]: Arthur Dent, the only human left alive (except for Trillian), is constantly being referred to as an ape or otherwise put down as a moron (mainly by Zaphod, though he isn't exactly bright himself.)
** Well, humans
* [[Humans Are Their Own Precursors]]: Modern humans are revealed to be descended from the most useless members of the Golgafrinchams, an ancient extra-terrestrial race. {{Spoiler|Turns out they weren't ''entirely'' useless, the rest of the race [[Death by Irony|died without them]].}}
* [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place]]: Travel through hyperspace is described as "unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk", you say? Ask a glass of water.
* [[
* [[The Infinite]]: As a speed you can move at it is played for all the absurdity it is worth with the Infinite Improbability Drive. Where you can move at infinite speeds but only if the destination is really improbable.
* [[Informed Obscenity]]: The word Belgium, while on Earth the name of
* [[Insignificant Little Blue Planet]]: Probably the most famous example, but Earth actually doesn't stay that way for long. See [[Earth Is the Center of
* [[It Runs
** For instance, a giant cup made out of solid marble being held up fifteen miles in the air by art.
** The Bistromathic Drive is far more efficient than all that mucking about in hyperspace or Improbability Factors because it runs off a form of mathematics based off ''the calculation of restaurant bills''.
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** The print version pretty much portray Zaphod this way as well. It's even more obvious when you know that when Douglas Adams wrote the original radio play, he based the character of Zaphod on similar characters played by actor Mark Wing-Davey, who played Zaphod in the radio show and television series. [[Large Ham]] is a quintessential part of Zaphod's nature.
** Valentine Dyall's portrayal Deep Thought. A multi dimensional super-computer is able to take hamminess to levels that are not normally physically possible.
* [[Law of Conservation of Detail]]: Subverted to hell and back, probably deliberately. The narrative throws in references to bizarre alien places and things via the Guide frequently. A few of them pop up later in the same book or radio show, a few of them become [[Brick Joke|Brick Jokes]] when a later book or show makes a [[Call Back]] to them, and some quite clearly were random jokes that no one ever fleshed out or ever intended to.
* [[Left Hanging]]: Partly because Douglas Adams is now, you know, [[Author Existence Failure|living-impaired]])
* [[Life Imitates Art]]: Smartphones and tablets with access to Wikipedia mimic the capability and functions of the Guide with uncanny accuracy.
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** Adams seemed to regret this somewhat, at least to the extent that this one joke overshadowed all the others. "I just looked out the window and thought '42 will do'. I may be a pretty sad case but even I don't make jokes in base 13."
* [[Memory Gambit]]: Zaphod setting up a scheme to learn who the ruler of the universe is, which involved [[Manchurian Agent|giving himself self-imposed amnesia]] so that he could become president, allowing him to steal a ship equipped with the Infinite Improbability Drive so that he could find the hidden planet used to hide the aforementioned Ruler of the Universe.
* [[Message in
* [[Mile
* [[A Mind Is a Terrible Thing
* [[Monkeys
* [[Morning Routine]]: The opening, with Arthur Dent waking up as normal to discover his house is about to be bulldozed... and his planet destroyed.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: The Book, and to a less literal degree, Ford and Slartibartfast.
* [[Multi Boobage]]: Eccentrica Gallumbits, the Triple-Breasted Whore of Eroticon VI.
* [[Nobody Poops]]: Lampshaded in the new radio series adaptation of Life, The Universe, and Everything. "You know, in all this time I have never once [[Sound Effect Bleep|''flush'']]".
* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: Marvin is known as "The Paranoid Android," but he's not remotely paranoid. He's depressed, nihilistic, sarcastic, pessimistic, and a few other adjectives, but never paranoid.
** He's also not manically depressed, despite multiple people (including himself) referring to him as a "manically depressed robot".
* [[Noodle Implements]]: Twice in the book series: Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged became that way due to an accident involving a particle accelerator, a liquid lunch, and a pair of rubber bands. The other was due to an incident with a time machine and a contraceptive, maybe
** The second one is the reason that Zaphod's direct ancestors are named in reverse order; his father is Zaphod Beeblebrox the Second, his grandfather the Third, and so forth, all the way back to Zipo Bibrok 5 × 10 to the 8th power or some damn thing.
*** Fenchurch's discarded underwear were also noodle implements in their own right as they massively changed lives for reasons not gone into.
* [["No Respect" Guy]]: Arthur.
* [[Note to Self:]]: Zaphod.
* [[The Nudifier]]: Finite improbability generators were doing this in their early versions.
* [[Ominous Floating Spaceship]]
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: {{spoiler|Hactar. And because of him, also}} the people of Krikkit.
* [[Once
* [[Only Known
** Which means [[Translation: "Yes"|"boy who cannot sufficiently explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven."]]
* [[Only Sane Man]]: After being convinced the entire universe is insane, Wonko the Sane built an inside-out house and named it "Outside the Asylum". If the outside of the house is on the "inside", then everything on the outside is also on the "inside" and thus safely contained. (If you know topology, this makes absolutely perfect sense -- see, he told you he was sane.)
* [[Outsourcing Fate]]: To the real President of the Galaxy, a little old man in a shed in the middle of nowhere. All he's interested in is feeding his cat, but occasionally people stop round and ask him what he thinks about certain things.
* [[Pajama
* [[Pardon My Klingon]]: Apparently, "Belgium" is the most offensive word in the entire galaxy.
* [[Pieces of God]]
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* [[Precision F-Strike]]: In ''So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish'' and ''Mostly Harmless''.
* [[Promoted to Love Interest]]: Trillian in the movie. In the novels, the relationship between Trillian and Arthur is somewhat schizoid -- Arthur had a chance with her at one point before she became involved with Zaphod, but they get [[Ship Tease|Ship Teased]] in ''Life, the Universe, and Everything'', get [[Ship Sinking|sunk]] in ''So Long and Thanks For All the Fish'' when Arthur hooks up with Fenchurch, and actually have a daughter together (via sperm bank) in ''Mostly Harmless''.
▲* [[Puff of Logic]]: The [[Trope Namer]].
▲* [[Put On a Bus]]: Fenchurch after ''So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish''
* [[Relatively Flimsy Excuse]]: The radio series has a subversion of the 'this autograph isn't for me' variant: "It's not for my daughter, you understand, it's for me." (It turns out to be a ruse to get Zaphod's signature on a contract he'd never have signed voluntarily.)
* [[Riddle for
* [[Ridiculously
* [[Robot Buddy]]: Subverted with Marvin the Paranoid Android, and just about everything made by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
* [[Sanity Ball]]: Arthur starts off as the sane one. Ford quickly takes over this role. You ''know'' things have gotten weird when ''Zaphod'' gets the ball, however temporarily...
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** [[The Movie]] even gave the dolphins a musical number as an opener, complete with a beautiful view of them shooting into the skies like rockets.
* [[Sapient Ship]]: The spaceship Heart Of Gold is maintained by Eddie, a Sirius Cybernetics Corporation computer with a sickeningly cheerful and optimistic programmed personality. Other equally unlikable computers have been installed to run other functions on the ship as well, right down to automated doors run by programs that live for the chance to open and close for someone. At one point Zaphod discovered that Eddie had an emergency backup personality - unfortunately, it was worse.
* [[Saw Star Wars
* [[Science Is Wrong]]
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Second Law, My Ass]]: Marvin is a low-grade version of this trope.
* [[Security Blanket]]: Always know where your towel is.
* [[Seekers]]: Most of the core cast, really.
* [[Seen It All]]: Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: "Any people you may meet are merely the products of a deranged imagination." All the people are, of course, the product of Douglas' imagination.
* [[Shiny-Looking Spaceships]]: The Heart Of Gold, which makes sense because Zaphod steals it just as it is being christened.
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Arthur: Why? Do you have some kind of alien technology for measuring the age of metal?
Ford: No, I just found this sales brochure lying on the floor. }}
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: ''So Long And Thanks For All The Fish''. Not the book itself which has the happiest ending of any in the series, but what ''Mostly Harmless'', the next book in the series, [[Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome|did to this happy 'ending'...]]
* [[Sinister Geometry]]: The Vogon ships in the movie.
* [[Sink
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Firmly cynical, with a brief one-book excursion to visit the idealistic side.
* [[The Slow Path]]: One of the ways in which the universe keeps kicking Marvin in the teeth is that he keeps getting sent back in time but never forward, resulting in him just waiting around to intersect with the rest of the cast again. {{spoiler|By the end of his life he is more than 37 times older than the universe itself}}
* [[Somebody Else's Problem]]: Trope named by the Somebody Else's Problem Field.
* [[Something Completely Different]]/[[Out
* [[Sound Effect Bleep]]: In the radio version of ''Life, The Universe And Everything'', "Most Gratuitous Use of the Word * engine roar* in a Serious Screenplay".
* [[Sound to Screen Adaptation]]
* [[Spanner in
* {{spoiler|[[Spared
* [[Spoiler]]: In-universe example, at the beginning of the missile attack, although this is done ostensibly in order to reduce suspense-induced stress (the narrator says so). It does preserve a minor piece of suspense, however, by not telling us exactly who's arm is bruised.
** See also: Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses.
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* [[Take That]]: Ever wondered why the worst poet in the universe was changed from Paul Neil Milne Johnstone in the radio series to Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings in all other versons? It's because Johnstone was a real poet who was at university with Adams and he complained. The snippet of Paula's poetry seen in the TV series ("The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool...") is a genuine poem that Johnstone wrote.
** He was just "amused" at being called the worst poet in the universe, but he objected to his address being broadcast. So instead of "Beehive Court, Redbridge", Paula lived in "Wasp Villas, Greenbridge". He went on to be quite a successful poet, but he admitted that [[Old Shame|the stuff he wrote as a teenager sucked]].
* [[Talking the Monster
** He also talks a tank and a ''bridge'' to death.
*** Although the tank is a subversion, since he actually tricks it into sending itself plunging to its' doom, rather than making it suicidally depressed. The bridge, however, appears to have been intentional.
* [[Tannhauser Gate]]: Mentioned by Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged in [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to
* [[Ted Baxter]]: Zaphod.
* [[Terrain Sculpting]]: Slartibartfast once won an award for his work on the fjords in Norway.
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* [[Translator Microbes]]: Lampshaded with the Babel Fish.
* [[Tricksters]]: Zaphod and, to a lesser degree, Ford.
▲* [[Unfazed Everyman]]: Arthur Dent, the former [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Unkempt Beauty]]: Trillian ([[Zooey Deschanel]]) in her first main story scene in [[The Film of the Book]].
* [[Unknown Rival]]: Agrajag and Arthur.
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: Belgium!
** To a lesser extent, Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish.
* [[Utility Belt]]: Always know where your towel is.
** Other hitchhikers had seen fit to modify their towels in exotic ways, weaving all kinds of esoteric tools and utilities and even computer equipment in their fabric.
* [[Video Inside, Film Outside]]: The TV series.
* [[The Wall Around the World]]: Wonko the Sane constructs a wall around his home to fence in the world, which he calls "the Asylum."
* [[Warrior Poet]]: The Vogons, in a depressingly literal fashion.
* [[Watching the Sunset]]
* [[Weapons Grade Vocabulary]]: Vogon poetry, which makes the listeners seriously ill or worse. It is advised to take some other option than that.
** Marvin's seen it. It's rubbish.
* [[Weirdness Censor]]: The "Somebody Else's Problem" field, which makes people dismiss anything unusual as "somebody else's problem". Much easier (and more power-efficient) that real [[Invisibility]].
* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: The luckless Arthur; more literally, the Infinite Improbability Drive, which ''creates'' weirdness.
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* [[Widget Series]]: A Western example.
* [[The Wonka]]: Ford Prefect.
* [[Write Back to
* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]: Because, as has been mentioned, it exploded.
** Doesn't stop them from doing so. Twice.
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