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* [[Gentleman Adventurer]]: The main character
* [[Giant Enemy Crab]]: There are lots of them in the farther future.
* [[I Want My Jetpack]]: Probably the [[Ur Example]] of the trope. Time Traveller arrives in the distant year 802701, expecting to see all those marvelous achievements of mankind, and what does he find? A [[Scavenger World]] inhabited by tiny childish people who think he fell from the sun.▼
* [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me]]: In chapter 7, the Time Traveller plans to take Weena back to his home time.
▲* [[I Want My Jetpack]]: Probably the [[Ur Example]] of the trope. Time Traveller arrives in the distant year 802701, expecting to see all those marvelous achievements of mankind, and what does he find? A [[Scavenger World]] inhabited by tiny childish people who think he fell from the sun.
* [[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]]: Subsequent fictional time travellers such as [[Doctor Who|The Doctor]], [[Back to The Future|Doc Brown]], and [[Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure|Bill and Ted]] are usually better remembered than this guy.
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|The Eloi aren't the rulers of the world - they're the cattle.}}▼
* [[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]]: the one time the Time Traveller is addressed by name, this trope is used.
* [[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]]: Several of the main character's colleagues scoff at his theories about time travel, which, of course, turn out to be true.
* [[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.▼
* [[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]]: The original and Trope Namer.
* [[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 [[The Reveal]] might be just another wrong theory. Also, due to the [[Framing Device]], the narrator's spellings of the few samples of Eloi language that readers get are likely poor reflections of the actual phonology, as neither the Time Traveller nor the outer story's narrator is a linguist by profession.
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* [[Veganopia]]: Eloi eat the produce of an enormous garden, whose pests are at least locally extinct.
* [[Victorian London]]: [[The Present Day]] for the main character in the book and maintained as such in most adaptations. The 2002 film [[Cultural Translation|moved the setting to New York]] but kept the same time period.
* [[We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future]]: Discussed extensively; the time traveller suspects that the people of the future, having conquered all disease, found no reason to develop any further technologically. Because of this, they degenerated into mindless beasts. This seems a valid theory at first, until he realizes with creeping horror that he ''also'' doesn't see any broken legs or other inevitable injuries. It's because {{spoiler|the underground humans prey on the weak at night}}. ▼
* [[Weird Sun]]: travelling millions of years into the future, Time Traveller notices the sun growing larger and more red, as well as slowing down on its way across the horizon, until finally setting still forever. He concludes that the Earth must have ceased to spin around its axis.
▲* [[We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future]]: Discussed extensively; the time traveller suspects that the people of the future, having conquered all disease, found no reason to develop any further technologically. Because of this, they degenerated into mindless beasts. This seems a valid theory at first, until he realizes with creeping horror that he ''also'' doesn't see any broken legs or other inevitable injuries. It's because {{spoiler|the underground humans prey on the weak at night}}.
* [[Writer on Board]]
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