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The story begins in [[Victorian London]] with the nameless narrator talking to his equally nameless friends, among them the Time Traveler, who casually describes his invention, and gives the assembled friends a demonstration. The next week, the Time Traveler appears, much the worse for wear, saying he has been to the year AD 802,701.
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The link in the first sentence will provide you with an online version of this classic (now in the [[Public Domain]] just about [[Offer Void in Nebraska|everywhere but Europe]]). You can also download the full text at [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/35 Project Gutenberg].
For the ''[[Choose Your Own Adventure]]'' series, see ''[[Time Machine Series]]''.
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== The Book ==
* [[An Aesop]]: Don't exploit working class, or their descendants will eat your descendants (which reflects Wells' socialist views)
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* [[Beneath the Earth]]: The Morlocks
* [[Crying Wolf]]: One reason the Time Traveler'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]].
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: The Time Traveler forms a bond with Weena, after rescuing her from drowning.
* [[Dystopia]]
* [[Elves vs. Dwarves]]: The Eloi and the Morlocks, of course.
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* [[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.
* [[Weird Sun]]: Traveling millions of years into the future, Time Traveler 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 Traveler 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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* [[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 (1987)]].
* [[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 Traveler's actual name is... [[H. G. Wells]].
* [[Named by the Adaptation]]: The Time Traveler is a addressed as "George", and his full name is visible on a plaque on the machine.
* [[Next Sunday
** This could even border on [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]], with 1966 London full of skyscrapers and having shiny monorail, not to mention "tubeless TV" on window display.
* [[No New Fashions in the Future]]: The Eloi women love their '50s hair. Weena, whose attitude and interests are akin to a child, even calls attention to it by asking George how the women of his time wear their hair.
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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 fiancee; 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.
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* [[Large Ham]]: See below -- [[One-Scene Wonder]]
* [[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 adaptation of Wells's novel, so you can imagine how little it resembles the book in any way.
* [[My Brain Is Big]]: The Uber-
* [[Named by the Adaptation]]: Alexander Hartdegen, the Time Traveler.
* [[The Lost Lenore]]: The protagonist is now entirely motivated by the loss of his love, Emma.
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* [[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.
* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]: The photonic library computer. The computer even gets visibly irritated at what he regards as stupid questions from the Time Traveler, when a real computer would simply and happily attempt to answer any of his inquiries regardless of what was asked. This means that for whatever reason creators gave him the same flaws as a human librarian would have, even though there was no reason for it and would actually hinder his performance as a library computer.
* [[Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory]]
* [[Science Is Bad]]: "We went too far."
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