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=== This series contains examples of: === |
=== This series contains examples of: === |
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* [[Animated Adaptation]]: ''[[Future War |
* [[Animated Adaptation]]: ''[[Future War 198X]]'', an obscure anime movie loosely based on it. |
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* [[Apocalyptic Log]] (the journals of three civil defence centres in the UK at the back of the first book, one of those centres happening to be in Birmingham and ending mid-word) |
* [[Apocalyptic Log]] (the journals of three civil defence centres in the UK at the back of the first book, one of those centres happening to be in Birmingham and ending mid-word) |
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* [[Author Tract]] (admitted as such) |
* [[Author Tract]] (admitted as such) |
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* [[Reverse Funny Aneurysm]]- a couple actually: |
* [[Reverse Funny Aneurysm]]- a couple actually: |
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** In the first book, Jimmy Carter serves two full terms. The second implies [[Ronald Reagan]] stood down after one term. |
** In the first book, Jimmy Carter serves two full terms. The second implies [[Ronald Reagan]] stood down after one term. |
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** It's stated in the first book that [[Channel |
** It's stated in the first book that [[Channel 4]] is not created because of the increase in defence spending. By the second book, it was being created. [[Don't Explain the Joke|Considering what's on C4 at the moment, this line gets funnier all the time]]. |
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* [[Strawman Political]] (Hackett and his team have a clear dislike of militant trade unionists, although they never state they are knowingly doing Moscow's bidding, just that they're considered "useful fools"- a line commonly attributed to Lenin) |
* [[Strawman Political]] (Hackett and his team have a clear dislike of militant trade unionists, although they never state they are knowingly doing Moscow's bidding, just that they're considered "useful fools"- a line commonly attributed to Lenin) |
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* [[Superior Firepower]] (Two Trident missiles are fired at Minsk) |
* [[Superior Firepower]] (Two Trident missiles are fired at Minsk) |