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* [[An Aesop]]: Don't exploit working class, or their descendants will eat your descendants (which reflects Wells' socialist views)
* [[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]]: The Morlocks
* [[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]].
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* [[Eternal English]] (In the book the Eloi had their own language which The Time Traveler didn't understand, here they speak English ''over 800,000 years'' later. Presumably the talking rings have something to do with this.)
* [[The Great Politics Mess-Up]]:
{{quote| '''Talking ring:''' The war between East and West, which is now in its three hundred and twenty sixth year...}}
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Paul Frees has had multiple voice acting roles and is recognizable as the voice of the [[Apocalyptic Log|"talking rings"]]. You can also recognize Alan Young's legendary Scottish brogue in Filby (he's the voice of Scrooge [[McDuck]] in both Mickey's Christmas Carol, and [[DuckTales]].
* [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]: Though the Time Traveler is referred to as "George", the machine's date indicator plate clearly reads "Manufactured by H. George Wells" meaning the Time Traveller's actual name is... [[H. G. Wells]].
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* [[Temporal Paradox]]
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Given to the hero by the ''villain'' of all people.
{{quote| '''Alexander''': This is a perversion of every natural law!<br />
'''Uber-Morlock''': [[Armour Piercing Question|And what is time travel?]] But your pathetic attempt to control the entire world around '''you'''! }}
* [[Time Is Dangerous]]: The titular device creates a spherical bubble to protect the occupant. Reach outside, that protection no long applies. The main character hurts his hand when he instinctively grabs at an item he dropped. A Morlock wrestling with him on the machine ends up hanging outside the bubble, aging into dust. Logically, any attempt to reach outside the bubble should have violently scattered their atoms across dozens of years of history, but the [[Rapid Aging]] looked cooler, presumably.