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* CatchPhrase: "I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed", "Life? Don't talk to me about life." some of the first two lines he says when introduced in every continuity of [=H2G2=]. There's also his "Here I am, brain the size of a planet..." speeches.
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* CatchPhrase: CharacterCatchphrase: "I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed", "Life? Don't talk to me about life." some of the first two lines he says when introduced in every continuity of [=H2G2=]. There's also his "Here I am, brain the size of a planet..." speeches.
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* SimplemindedWisdom: The reason a guy like him rules the universe to begin with. Since he doesn't believe in anything he can't directly perceive at any given moment, ''including his own memories'', he's the only one who can really be impartial about anything anyone asks him about.
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* TheAlcoholic: Among other things, he plays a psychic drinking game to lose, and [[SkewedPriorities decides in the third book he'd rather get drunk and dance with girls if the universe is ending than do anything to save it]].
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* TimeAbyss: Oh so very, very much. In one instance he stays in one spot from approximately 1980 until ''the end of the universe''[[note]]Five hundred and seventy-six thousand million, three thousand five hundred and seventy-nine years[[/note]]. By the end of the series he is, by virtue of TimeTravel, six times older than the universe itself! He is then brought back to life again because numerous characters that lived when he was created were still alive, and [[InsaneTrollLogic that went against the Lifetime Insurance Policy]] of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
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* TimeAbyss: Oh so very, very much. In one instance he stays in one spot from approximately 1980 until ''the end of the universe''[[note]]Five hundred and seventy-six thousand million, three thousand five hundred and seventy-nine years[[/note]]. By the end of the series he is, by virtue of TimeTravel, six ''thirty-seven'' times older than the universe itself! He is then brought back to life again because numerous characters that lived when he was created were still alive, and [[InsaneTrollLogic that went against the Lifetime Insurance Policy]] of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
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** The glossary, since it's ripped off a cereal box (which ripped off The Guide thanks to TimeTravel).
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* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: According to the second radio series a lot of the Guide's entries seem to have no reason for their inclusion other than someone thinking it was a good idea at the time.
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* DoctorWhomage: He's [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]], if The Doctor were incompetent. Or at least totally uninteresting in interfering.
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* DoctorWhomage: He's [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]], if The Doctor were incompetent. Or at least totally uninteresting uninterested in interfering.interfering and righting wrongs; on those rare occasions when he manages to rise out of his indifference, he can pull off some pretty impressive schemes.
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* TheUnblinking: At least in the novels, it's noted that he doesn't blink very much, and if a human has a conversation with him, after a while their own eyes start watering in sympathy.
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* SelfImposedChallenge: He recognizes that his purpose in (eternal) life is meaningless and stupid, but he picked it as the only thing he could work up some interest in.
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* SelfImposedChallenge: He In-universe, he recognizes that his purpose in (eternal) life is meaningless and stupid, but he picked it as the only thing he could work up some interest in.
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* PutOnABus: In the second series of the radio version, she gets a rather brutal one-line send off. In later series, she's brought back.
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* AlternateSelf: In ''Mostly Harmless'', there's Tricia and Trillian. The former is a Trillian who, when asked by Zaphod to come with her, went back for her bag and by the time she had Zaphod had already left. She is extremely confused at the end of the book when she meets Trillian. The radio version is also, for no reason the narrative feels to explain, blonde and American-raised (on account of being played by Sandra Dickinson instead of Trillian's Susan Sheridan).
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* WhatIsThisFeeling: According to the radio version, Vogons don't know what happiness is. When Jeltz does experience joy, and is told this is what it is, he kills the Vogon who told him so because he assumes the guy ''must'' be lying.
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[[folder:The Guide MK.II]]
->'''Played in the radio by:''' Rula Lensca
A new version of the Guide, designed by Infini-dim Enterprises to maximise their profit margin, among other things.
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* ArcWelding: The radio version is connected to the Total Perspective Vortex (because it ''is'' a miniaturised TPV) and Lintilla from the second series (she provided the voice).
* CreepyMonotone: In the radio version. Especially where TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou.
-->'''Guide Mk. II:''' Events that draw themselves to a conclusion across multidimensional levels ''will'' draw themselves to a conclusion. Closure will be final and irrevocable. And I am your guide. And in the last ever episode of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, what happens is inevitably what ''must'' happen. Let me guide you. All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. Even if it does not have much time left.
* HeroKiller: In the novel, it helps kill all versions of the main characters (except Zaphod and Marvin) and eradicates every possible alternate version of Earth.
* KnightOfCerebus: ''Mostly Harmless'' is much darker than the previous instalment to begin with, but the New Guide brings a much more sinister atmosphere to the whole thing, culminating in the book's DownerEnding.
* ManipulativeBastard: You may think you're doing what you want, but the Guide is manipulating reality so you do what ''it'' wants.
* MechanicalAbomination: It occasionally looks like a tiny bird. It's actually a multi-dimensional... ''thing''.
* RealityWarper: It uses reverse-temporal engineering to make things happen the way it wants.
* SmugSuper: Freely admits to being extremely clever and extremely vain.
* ThisIsNoTimeToPanic: The original Guide has "Don't Panic" written in large, friendly letters on its cover. In its book form, the new Guide does not. Instead, in small print, it has the word "panic".
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* HumanAliens: There's some implication that he originally looked human, his third arm is outright said to have been added but there's some inconsistentcy on whether he always had two heads or not:
** When Arthur first boards the Heart Of Gold, he says that when he met Zaphod on Earth he had only two arms and one head.
** we see an AlternateUniverse in ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'' where he first met Trillion at a costume party. He was dressed as a pirate with his second head hidden in a covered parrot cage. It's implied this universe is otherwise the same as the main one with the divergence point being in the original he waited for Trillion to pack her things while in the alternate he left Earth without her.
** The movie implies the two heads are a recent thing and he justifies Ford's surprise by saying a president can't have a full brain. He implies his brain was split into two. Here his second "head" is actually a face in his throat so he can cover it with a scarf and pass for human.
** When Arthur first boards the Heart Of Gold, he says that when he met Zaphod on Earth he had only two arms and one head.
** we see an AlternateUniverse in ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'' where he first met Trillion at a costume party. He was dressed as a pirate with his second head hidden in a covered parrot cage. It's implied this universe is otherwise the same as the main one with the divergence point being in the original he waited for Trillion to pack her things while in the alternate he left Earth without her.
** The movie implies the two heads are a recent thing and he justifies Ford's surprise by saying a president can't have a full brain. He implies his brain was split into two. Here his second "head" is actually a face in his throat so he can cover it with a scarf and pass for human.
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* OutofFocus: She really doesn't have a lot to do after the first book, at least until she becomes a mother in ''Literature/MostlyHarmless''.
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* RidiculouslyLonglivedFamilyName: A throwaway gag reveals that there was "an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine" which means that Zaphod Beeblebrox's father was Zaphod Beeblebrox II, his grandfather was Zaphod Beeblebrox III and so on. In ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'', in a historical flashback scene set billions of years ago, we meet a Zaphod-like character called Zipo Bibrok 5 x 10^8.
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* CozyVoiceForCatastrophes: Particularly Peter Jones. In one particularly stressful scene in the television series, he assures the main characters' safety in advance while pleasant images appear on the screen.
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* UnknownRival: Agrajag sees Arthur as a nemesis who keeps killing him, and has thus dedicated his many lives to destroying Arthur. Arthur, on the other hand, is literally unaware of Agrajag's existence until the latter spirits him away to the Cathedral of Hate.
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* BatOutOfHell: The "revenge body" he wears when he finally confronts Arthur is a giant and very distressing-looking bat-like creature, with torn wings and [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily a great number of sharp, misaligned teeth]].
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* OneWingedAngel: He incarnated as a giant, BodyHorror-filled bat creature purely for the purpose of killing Arthur, referring to it as his "revenge body." Unfortunately for him, its gruesome condition means that it goes down easily when Arthur proceeds to [[RunningGag accidentally cause his death again]].
