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'''Don't Panic!'''

* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: Subversion: The series ''starts'' by blowing up the planet.

** Lampshaded in advance by the barkeep at the pub from which Ford and Arthur have just left.

** [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: ...and rather spectacularly in [[The Movie]].

*** The novels play it in a very understated way:

* [[Evil Minions]]: "Resistance is useless!"

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: The Point of View Gun.

* [[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.

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'...]]