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* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The protagonist is referred as the Time Traveller, and in the framing story, he tells his tale to a group of men identified by their description: The Editor, The Provincial Mayor, The Medical Man, etc. In fact, only two personal names appear in the entire book: Filby in the framing story and Weena in the future narrative.
** This is even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] early one character asks "Where's -----?", referring to the Time Traveller by name.
* [[Executive Meddling]]: The author was forced to write and include an extra chapter, entitled [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Grey_Man "The Grey Man"] to lengthen the story. This chapter is generally not included in modern publications of the story.
** 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 Traveller makes one last stop 200 years ahead of his home time, in a setting that he considered the Golden Age of Science. I never questioned its authenticity then, as it sounded exactly like something H.G. Wells would have written, but I can't find this segment in any other media retelling of this story.
*** 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 Traveller's going to come out okay (for now) because he's telling the narrator about it. Nobody asks [[Did You Die?]].
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