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* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: The Eloi appear to meet [[wikipedia:ADHD predominantly inattentive|DSM criteria for inattentive ADHD]]. From chapter 4:
{{quote| A queer thing I soon discovered about my little hosts, and that was their lack of interest. They would come to me with eager cries of astonishment, like children, but like children they would soon stop examining me and wander away after some other toy.}}
* [[Beneath the Earth]]:
* [[Crying Wolf]]: One reason the Time Traveller's friends are so skeptical of his claims at first is that he's tricked them into believing outlandish, and false, stories [[Noodle Incident|several times before]].
* [[Distressed Damsel]]: The Time Traveller forms a bond with Weena, after rescuing her from drowning.
* [[Dystopia]]
* [[Elves vs. Dwarves]]: The Eloi and the Morlocks, of course.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]:
** This is even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] early one character asks "Where's -----?", referring to the Time Traveller by name.
* [[Executive Meddling]]
** In an even more extreme example, a whole chapter titled "The Golden Age of Science", depicting a cold war in a technologically advanced future (and possibly the beginning of the Eloi-Morlock genesis) was written in in the Great Illustrated Classics version.
*** This troper can attest to that: I own a copy of that Great Illustrated Classics book; in a vain attempt to try to bring something...*anything* back from the future, the Time
*** You're not alone. This one too had a copy, albeit an abridged copy intended for younger readers, containing that tale.
* [[Fashions Never Change]]: Discussed in chapter 1. The Medical Man points out that observing the Battle of Hastings in person would attract attention: "Our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms."
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: You know that the Time
* [[Framing Device]]: The narrator is a guest at the Time Traveller's party, who for all but the first two chapters and the final chapter is taking dictation from the Time Traveller.
* [[Gentleman Adventurer]]:
* [[Giant Enemy Crab]]: There are lots of them in the farther future.
* [[I Want My Jetpack]]: Probably the [[Ur Example]] of the trope. Time
* [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me]]: In chapter 7, the Time Traveller plans to take Weena back to his home time.
* [[Kill the Cutie]]: Damn, {{spoiler|poor Weena...}}
* [[The Night That Never Ends]]: After the Earth stops rotating around its axis in the distant future, part of it becomes plunged in perpetual twilight.
* [[No Name Given]]: The main character, both the films decided to change this. Also every Eloi other than Weena.
* [[Popcultural Osmosis]]:
* [[Scavenger World]]
* [[Society Marches On]]: Back when the book was written, English society could be mostly divided into two classes, the aristocracy and working class. H. G. Wells assumed this model would remain for over 800 thousand years, finally separating mankind into two different species. However, the twentieth century brought radical changes in society and today even the middle class has three subclasses.
* [[Spell My Name with a Blank]]:
* [[Spooky Silent Library]]: The book and all adaptations have included a scene involving an enormous abandoned library where all books have decayed to dust.
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|The Eloi aren't the rulers of the world - they're the cattle.}}
* [[They Called Me Mad]]:
* [[Time and Relative Dimensions In Space]] Unlike some other time machines, this one doesn't "teleport". It rests on the ground while it travels through time, and the continental drift carries it.
* [[Time Machine]]:
* [[Time Travel]]
* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]: Played with briefly, when the Time Traveller nears the end of his story. His thoughts grow more rambling and he starts to wonder aloud if he's somehow imagined the whole experience, or if he's only imagining being home right now. He insists upon seeing the time machine again for himself and, once he does, he comes back to his senses.
* [[To the Future and Beyond]]
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Various hypotheses about the nature of the Eloi as the story progresses, with the narrator admitting that even
* [[Urban Segregation]] (the genesis of the Morlocks and the Eloi)
* [[Veganopia]]:
* [[Victorian London]]:
* [[We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future]]: Discussed extensively; the time
* [[Weird Sun]]: travelling millions of years into the future, Time
* [[Writer on Board]]
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