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* [[Color Me Black]]: "Tribunal" featured an ending where a Nazi war criminal whose escaped justice for 50 years put into the uniform of his prisoners and taken back in time to his own camp. His younger self shoots him for being Jewish.
* [[Compelling Voice]]: "The Special One", "The Inheritors"
* [[Cool Motive, Still A Crime]]: Hawkes in "White Light Fever" had a king-sized [[Freudian Excuse]], but became a super-king-sized [[Jerkass]].
* [[Crapsack World]]: In [[The Remake|the remake series]], at least. Many episodes are interconnected through the mysterious [[Evil, Inc.|Innobotics Corporation]] and their [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]], not to mention that every season produces a couple of sequel episodes for earlier stories for double the [[Cruel Twist Ending]]!
* [[Cruel Twist Ending]]: The [[Revival]] series did this so often, the trope used to be named Outer Limits Twist.
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* [[Everything's Worse with Bees]]: "ZZZZZ"
* [[Evil Teacher]]: Mr. Zeno in "The Special One".
* [[Evil Is Deathly Cold]]: the power trying to claim Hawkes in "White Light Fever" is cold, to the surprise of some characters.
* [[Executive Meddling]]
* [[Fable Remake]]: "The Man Who Was Never Born" is based on ''[[Beauty and The Beast]]'', and "The Bellero Shield" is based on ''[[Macbeth]]'' (which also makes it an example of [[The Bard on Board]]). Concidentally, both episodes star Martin Landau.
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* [[Screwed by the Network]]
* [[Secret Test]]: In "Nightmare" a group of soldiers invading the planet Ebon are captured and tortured for information by the Ebonites. They eventually learn that the situation is a set-up by their own superiors to test their ability to resist interrogation, with the cooperation of the Ebonites (who eventually protest the unethical nature of the test).
* [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]: In "White Light Fever", {{spoiler|Hawkes believed he would end up in Hell because of what he did to survive as a child, but his description of the event made him sound like an innocent victim with a bad case of [[Survivor Guilt]]. In the end he did appear to be going to Hell, because his fear of the afterlife led him to become a selfish [[Jerkass]] willing to let a young woman die to buy himself a few more months.}}
* [[Send in the Search Team]]: "The Invisible Enemy"
* [[Show Accuracy, Toy Accuracy|Show Accuracy Trading Card Accuracy]]: The original TOS ''Outer Limits'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20110714165043/http://science-fiction.netfirms.com/ cards] (one of which is the page pic), released while the series was still in production, are notorious because the writer, who apparently had never watched the show, concocted new stories (and [[So Bad It's Good|laughable]] ones, at that) around colorized photos of the [[Aliens and Monsters]]. Later series of cards didn't have this problem; one series recycled the original pics with new text including both the TV and trading card plots.
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