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* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: Wells finds that the future isn't the utopia he'd thought.

** Also, he has this exchange with Amy:

{{quote|Wells: Much superior to that Scottish place where I breakfasted.<br />

{{quote|'''Wells:''' Much superior to that Scottish place where I breakfasted.<br />

Amy ~~(Looks~~ at him in confusion)<br />

(Amy looks at him in confusion)<br />

Wells: [[McDonald's|~~MacDougals~~.]] }}

'''Wells:''' [[McDonald's|MacDougal's.]] }}

* [[Good Is Dumb]]: Wells, during {{spoiler|the [[Hostage for Macguffin]] scene.}}

* [[Good Is Old-Fashioned]]: Stevenson considers Wells to be this.

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* [[Oh Crap]]: {{spoiler|Stevenson}} during the climax when he realizes {{spoiler|Wells is about to pull the [[Chekhov's Gun|"send the passenger to infinity" key]] out of the time machine}}.

* [[Playing Against Type]]: Malcolm McDowell, who [[A Clockwork Orange (film)|thanks to various]] [[Caligula|prior roles]] generally gets cast as a bit of a psycho nutcase or otherwise amoral type, plays the rather sweet, slightly naive Wells -- in a movie with Jack the Ripper.

* [[Shown Their Work]: Inverted and expressed simultaneously: McDowell studied actual recordings of H. G. Wells speaking -- but because ~~Wells'~~ real voice was high-pitched and Cockney-accented, he chose not to imitate it.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: Inverted and expressed simultaneously: McDowell studied actual recordings of H. G. Wells speaking -- but because the real Wells' voice was high-pitched and Cockney-accented, he chose not to imitate it.

* [[Taking the Heat]]: When the cops [[Police Are Useless|refuse to listen]] to Wells's Jack-the-Ripper story, he gets so desperate that he confesses to the killings in an attempt to get them to check Amy's apartment and make sure she's safe.

* [[Terminator Twosome]]