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* [[Dystopia]]
* [[Elves vs. Dwarves]]: The Eloi and the Morlocks, of course.
* [[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.
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* [[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
* [[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... [[HG Wells]].
* [[Named By the Adaptation]]: The Time Traveller is a addressed as "George", and his full name is visible on a plaque on the machine.
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* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Mara's outfit.
* [[Brain Critical Mass]]: The far future villain has a massive brain that extends down his back. He uses it to control the beasts that prey on the humans.
* [[Spell My Name With a "The"]]: The Uber-Morlock's real name is apparently Jeremy Morlock. Heh.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Hartdegen reaching out of the time bubble to catch his dropped pendant {{spoiler|and his hand rapidly aging while outside the bubble's protection}}.
* [[Disposable Woman]]: The time-traveler's fiancée; he spent ''years'' building the time machine to change history and save her from dying. Two failed attempts are depicted, and then later we're told he tried to save her ''twenty-seven times''. She really does have no further character development than being destined to die.
* [[Eternal English]]: This time, they have their own language, but they still speak "the Stone Language" found on pieces of ruins of U.S. buildings. And the AI librarian (see [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]] below) likely fills the same role in maintaining early 21st-century American English pronunciation as the talking rings did in the 1960 film.
* [[Evil Albino]]
* [[Evil Overlooker]]: [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6f/Time_machine.jpg/220px-Time_machine.jpg The poster.]
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* [[Fridge Horror]]: Vox spent thousands of years alone in the underground ruins completely alone, save for one Eloi who managed to escape the Morlocks. We then see that the Eloi died of old age and until Alex showed up, Vox was probably going to spend eternity in the same room as his only friend's corpse, all the while unable to bury him.
* [[Fridge Logic]]: If the Morlocks can no longer go in the sunlight, how come the raiding party took place in the middle of the day? The only explanation is that the Uber-Morlocks as albinos aren't capable of returning to the surface and they're keeping the other castes underground ''on purpose''.
* [[Hey
** And Alan Young, the original Filby, as the flower-shop salesman. Apparently he even found the Victorian-style collar he wore in the 1960 version!
* [[I Choose to Stay]]
* [[Large Ham]]: See below -- [[One
* [[Lost in Imitation]]: This film seems to really be a rather loose [[The Remake|remake]] of the 1960 film, which itself was a somewhat loose adapation of Wells's novel, so you can imagine how little it resembles the book in any way.
* [[My Brain Is Big]]: The Uber-Morlock -- rather than have the usual huge head, his brain extended down the neck and lower back.
* [[Named By the Adaptation]]: Alexander Hartdegen, the time traveller.
* [[The Lost Lenore]]: The protagonist is now entirely motivated by the loss of his love, Emma.
* [[One
* [[Perfect Pacifist People]]: Arguably, the Eloi are these, though [[Deconstructed]] since it makes them easy preys for the Morlocks.
** The 1960 version had an anti-war sentiment that was lost in this version, shown when an Eloi male says "It is all clear," a phrase he'd learned from the Talking Rings. In THIS version, however, the Eloi are pacifists because of the Uber-morlock's "psychic filter," which makes them forget about their dead and keeps them pacifistic. (Warning: this may have gotten lost in the cutting-room.)
* [[Psychic Dreams for Everyone]]: Literally. Though, as it turns out, it's a side effect of the aforementioned [[Laser
* [[Ragnarok Proofing]]: Averted with the planet in general. After the moon disaster, any traces of civilization were pretty much obliterated over millions of years. Inexplicably played straight with the photonic library computer. His main processing unit survives orbital bombardment, the resulting millions of years of neglect, and somehow end up ''underground'' on top of that. He even still has numerous functioning projection screens.
* [[Recursive Canon]]: Alex is offered a copy of HG Wells's "The Time Machine" in the future library.
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* [[Spinning Clock Hands]]: The first sign Professor Hartdegen is travelling into the past is when the hands on his collection of pocket watches slow down, then reverse, speeding up as he travels further back.
* [[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.
* [[Timey
** He couldn't save his girlfriend because it would remove his reason for creating the time machine, but could stop that future from occurring because he was just observing it.
*** But remember that he wouldn't be able to observe it in the future if he prevented it from happening in the first place. The same effect, only the other way round.
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* [[Undeathly Pallor]]: The Morlocks, though not undead, have become pale from living underground and fear the light.
* [[Weenalized]] (again)
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: The photonic library computer AI from 2030, who inexplicably manages to survive what is basically the apocalypse in an above-ground building which presumably has absolutely no protection from that sort of thing, and whose power and memory unit last literally hundreds of thousands of years. The fact that he remembers ''everything'' doesn't help. Leads to a bit of [[Pet the Dog]] when he's given the opportunity to do the one thing he wants to do: teach.
* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: Played straight and then possibly averted. The main character tries to save his girlfriend but every time, his girlfriend gets killed; the chief Morlock later explains that the time machine cannot change the past in a way that prevents it from being built in the first place. Later in the movie, he goes to a [[Bad Future]] where the Morlocks have wiped out the Eloi, and then he goes back in time and wipes out the Morlocks. Either this means he sucessfully averted that bad future, or in the intervening several million years, the Morlocks from other areas will invade and wipe out the Eloi.
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