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* BrickJoke: One of the reasons for all of it happening is that they need inspiration for their next big song. One song Bill composes in the interim is based ''very obviously'' on De Nomolos attacking them. Several pages later, a tour guide mentions that they composed several songs outside their apartment, including their one flop... ''"Girl (Why'd You Build Those Robots)"'', that exact song.



* CasualTimeTravel;
** Bill and Ted consulted musicians from all over history, including Music/Jim when researching their song for the Battle Of The Bands.

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* CasualTimeTravel;
CasualTimeTravel:
** Bill and Ted consulted musicians from all over history, including Music/Jim Music/JimiHendrix when researching their song for the Battle Of The Bands.



* ChekhovsSkill;

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* ChekhovsSkill;ChekhovsSkill:



* CoolTeacher;

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* CoolTeacher;CoolTeacher:



** Einstein threatens to stop teaching the class if they don't stop shunning De Nomolos.

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** Einstein threatens to stop teaching the class if they don't stop shunning De Nomolos.Nomolos, due to knowing ''exactly'' how that can turn out.



* DeathTakesAHoliday: Richie De Nomolos ends up RelievingTheReaper but forgets to do.it half the time and the people he forgets about end up immortal.

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* DeathTakesAHoliday: Richie De Nomolos ends up RelievingTheReaper but forgets to do.it do the Reaper's job half the time and the people he forgets about end up immortal.immortal, notably including Rufus.



* FutureBadass;

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* FutureBadass;FutureBadass:



* TrickedOutTime: Billy the Kid's going to fake his death in 1881 and travel to Las Vegas in the year 2000 where he'll change his name to Herman and run a wild west-themed wedding chapel.

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* TrickedOutTime: Billy the Kid's going to fake his death in 1881 and travel to Las Vegas in the year 2000 where he'll change his name to Herman and run a wild west-themed wedding chapel.chapel, with it being implied that he ended up either founding or named after the Herman The Kid Rehabilitation Center and Spa.



* YourCostumeNeedsWork;

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* YourCostumeNeedsWork;YourCostumeNeedsWork:



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* AmbiguousDisorder: Richie De Nomolos. He can't eat with a spoon without scarring himself and sings nursery rhymes at a rock concert.



* StupidFuturePeople: Under Bill and Ted's teachings, De Nomolos' AmbiguousDisorder brother Richie gets diagnosed as a genius for being nice and able to use a waterslide while genius JerkAss De Nomolos fails school.

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* StupidFuturePeople: Under Bill and Ted's teachings, De Nomolos' AmbiguousDisorder mentally disabled brother Richie gets diagnosed as a genius for being nice and able to use a waterslide while genius JerkAss De Nomolos fails school.

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* AirGuitar;

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* AirGuitar;AirGuitar:



* WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque: The boys end up in prehistoric times when Ted accidentally presses the booth's [=BC=] button instead of [=AD=].

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* WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque: The boys end up in prehistoric times when Ted accidentally presses the booth's [=BC=] button instead of [=AD=].[=AD=].
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* DoctorWhomage: Claudia mentions that Rufus' idea to convert phonebooths into time machines was copied by aliens who did the same with British phone boxes and made them BiggerOnTheInside.


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* ShoutOut: Claudia mentions that Rufus' idea to convert phonebooths into time machines was copied by aliens who did the same with [[Series/DoctorWho British phone boxes]] and made them BiggerOnTheInside.

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• NextSundayAD;
** Ted complains that 2645 looks exactly the same as 1991 but then realizes their apartment has been preserved as a museum.

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• NextSundayAD;
** Ted
* NextSundayAD: Red complains that 2645 looks exactly the same as 1991 but then realizes their apartment has been preserved as a museum.



* BasementDweller: Starts with Bill and Ted living in Missy's basement with their robots.

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* BasementDweller: Starts with Bill and Ted living in Missy's ([[InsistentTerminology I mean Mom's]]) basement with their robots.

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** After visiting the future, the duo overshoot by two years and end up in 1993 [[spoiler:where De Nomolos has won the Battle of The Bands with their song.]]



* WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque: The boys end up in prehistoric times when Ted accidentally pressed the booths [=BC=] button instead of [=AD=].

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* WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque: The boys end up in prehistoric times when Ted accidentally pressed presses the booths booth's [=BC=] button instead of [=AD=].
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* 419Scam: The virused email from the future mentions that a robot uncle in Nigeria has left them cool guitars.

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* 419Scam: FourOneNineScam: The virused email from the future mentions that a robot uncle in Nigeria has left them cool guitars.



* WrongTurnAtAlbuqurque: The boys end up in prehistoric times when Ted accidentally pressed the booths [=BC=] button instead of [=AD=].

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* WrongTurnAtAlbuqurque: WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque: The boys end up in prehistoric times when Ted accidentally pressed the booths [=BC=] button instead of [=AD=].

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Each issue ended with a standalone side-story by a different artist.



* AmbiguousDisorder: Richie De Nomolos. He can eat with a spoon without scarring himself and sings nursery rhymes at a rock concert.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Richie De Nomolos. He can can't eat with a spoon without scarring himself and sings nursery rhymes at a rock concert.



** Later when recognised, the duo claim to be holograms, members of the Bill and Ted Reinactment Society and figments of imagination.

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** Later when recognised, the duo claim to be holograms, members of the Bill and Ted Reinactment Society and figments of imagination.imagination.

[[WMG:The ''Wyld Stallyns B-Sides" side story has examples of;]]

* 419Scam: The virused email from the future mentions that a robot uncle in Nigeria has left them cool guitars.
* AirGuitar: The duo do them to celebrate their robots getting an upgrade. The now virused robots reply with an Air-filling-out-tax-return and an Air-quietly-folding-laundry-at-11pm-on-a-Friday-night.
* ArtShift: Each issue was noticibly drawn by a different artist.
* BasementDweller: Starts with Bill and Ted living in Missy's basement with their robots.
* BigRedDevil: Dante sees a family of them through a window in Hell.
* ChessWithDeath: The duo invoke this when they decide to play chess with the robots because they think it's the only game that humans always beat computers at.
* ComputerVirus: The robots get infected with one from an email from the future.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: A 14th century Italian man keeps killing himself, coming back to life after winning ChessWithDeath and writing about his experiences in Hell. His name turns out to be [[spoiler:[[Creator/DanteAlighieri Dante]]]].
* DemonicPossession: Einstein possesses Missy so he can drive her to school faster.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Einstein drives like a madman when possessing Missy.
* ElectronicTelepathy: The robots can receive emails inside their heads.
* FinishingEachOthersSentences: When explaining how they got together, Captain Logan finishes with "And the rest as they say is--" and Missy finishes off with the word "History".
* FogFeet: Einstein's ghost has the standard ghost tail.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Two old men can be seen in the background of the 2015 computer store, one of whom is dressed the same as Bill implying they're the duo's future selves.
* TheFuture: The sent date on the virus email literally said "THE FUTURE".
* GlamRock: The duo disguise themselves with this look when visiting their junior high selves so their LimitedWardrobe won't get them recognised.
* ImprovisedWeaponUser: The princesses beat Meghan and Syd unconscious with various instruments and speakers.
* InstantSedation: Meghan Deth and Sydney Ro use "Hypno-shreds" that put people to sleep to steal Rufus' phonebooth and start trying to hypnotize Bill and Ted into thinking they were always in Wyld Stallyns.
* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: The robots' software runs on Bill's and Ted's instead of zeros and ones.
* KillAndReplace: Meghan Deth and Sydney Ro come to kill the princesses and take their places in Wyld Stallyns.
* LimitedWardrobe: When travelling back to their junior high days, a Bully recognises the future Bill and Ted because they're wearing the same clothes as their younger selves.
* LOL69: When the virused robot look at Bill and Ted they see a message saying "ERROR 69: MEGADWEEBS DETECTED".
* MyBrainIsBig: People in the distant future have huge, bald heads.
* NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus: The "Gods of Rock" that blessed Bill and Ted before their junior high battle of the bands turn out to be modern Bill and Ted from the future.
* NOT!: The book that Missy uses to summon Einstein is called ''GONE, NOT!''.
* POVSequel: We again see the engagement party from ''Bogus Journey'' but focusing on Missey and Captain Logan telling Colonel Oats how they met.
* PunnyName: One of the usurpers from the future is called Megan Deth, a nod to the band ''Music/{{Megadeth}}''.
* ReligionOfEvil: It's implied that demons have one as an upside down cross can be seen on a demon family's wall in Hell.
* RoboCam: The robots see everything through a red filter with descriptive text boxes appearing beside peoples' heads and possible responses to whatever is being said to them at the bottom.
* SchizoTech: Demon's had televisions in the 14th century.
* SkySurfing: The people from the "shiny future" all float on thought-controlled discs.
* SpellBook: Missy's ''Gone, NOT!'' Summoners Guide. It sits in top of anot book with a pentagram on it.
* SummonMagic: Missy summons Albert Einstein's ghost while studying for her psychic exam.
* UncertainDoom: The Evil Robot Usses appear as the sender's of the virus email. Whether they somehow survived ''Bogus Journey'', got repaired or replaced or are sending it from a point in time before they came back to kill Bill and Ted is unknown.
* UnusualUserInterface: The flying discs in the future are thought controlled.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Colonel Oats is amazed that Bill and Ted managed to land women as normal as the princesses.
* WrongTurnAtAlbuqurque: The boys end up in prehistoric times when Ted accidentally pressed the booths [=BC=] button instead of [=AD=].
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* RougeAnglesOfSatin: The bowls in De Nomolos house have "ZIGGY PIGGY" printed on them as a nod to the ice cream place from the first movie. Though there it was spelled "''Zyggie'' piggy".
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* LOL69: The duo take De Nomolos to Woodstock to educate him and badger him to guess the year until he says it's 1969.

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* LOL69: The duo take De Nomolos to Woodstock to educate him and badger him to guess the year until he reluctantly says it's 1969.



* NoBodyLeftBehind: De Nomolos' gun leaves its victims as piles of ashes apart from the odd hat or badge.

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* NoBodyLeftBehind: De Nomolos' gun RayGun leaves its victims as piles of ashes apart from the odd hat or badge.



* ThanatosGambit: De Nomolos kills himself somhe can play ChessWithDeath.

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* ThanatosGambit: De Nomolos kills himself somhe so he can play ChessWithDeath.
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• AmbiguousDisorder: Richie De Nomolos. He can eat with a spoon without scarring himself and sings nursery rhymes at a rock concert.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Richie De Nomolos. He can eat with a spoon without scarring himself and sings nursery rhymes at a rock concert.



* ChessWithDeath: De Nomolos does a sit-contest with Death to get his brother, Richie the job of Death.

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* ChessWithDeath: De Nomolos does a sit-contest sit-up contest with Death to get his brother, Richie the job of Death.

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* DoctorWhomage: Claudia mentions that Rufus' idea to convert phonebooths into time machines was copied by aliens who did with the same
British phone boxes and made them BiggerOnTheInside.

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* DoctorWhomage: Claudia mentions that Rufus' idea to convert phonebooths into time machines was copied by aliens who did the same with the same
British phone boxes and made them BiggerOnTheInside.



• * FriendlessBackground: De Nomolos had none due to his schoolmates knowing he was going to grow up and try to kill Bill and Ted.

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* FriendlessBackground: De Nomolos had none due to his schoolmates knowing he was going to grow up and try to kill Bill and Ted.



* HumansArePsychicInTheFuture: Implied as the people of the year ??? have huge heads and their hoverboards are mentally controlled though Bill and Ted are able to use them.



• MuggedForDisguise: The duo swipe some jackets and a hat from a stall in the future in order to blend in.

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* MuggedForDisguise: The duo swipe some jackets and a hat from a stall in the future in order to blend in.



* SpiritualAdaptation: A sequel that starts with the protagonists going to the future where the [[spoiler:previous movie's villain steals a time machine and alters the present to put himself in charge.]] It's basically ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' as a comic.
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''Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return" is a six-issue sequel comic to ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney''. Written by Brian Lynch for Creator/BoomStudios.

• * AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: [[spoiler:Rufus']] resistance movement lives in one in the BadFuture.
• * AirGuitar;

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''Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return" Return'' is a six-issue sequel comic to ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney''. Written by Brian Lynch for Creator/BoomStudios.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: [[spoiler:Rufus']] resistance movement lives in one in the BadFuture.
* AirGuitar;



• * AttackDrone: A load of them shoot and Bill and Ted in the BadFuture for.dling an AirGuitar.
• * BadFuture: De Nomolos rules Earth and most of the galaxy thousands of years in the future where nobody can die due to [[DeathTakesAHoliday Death taking a holiday]].
• * BarBrawl: Billy The Kid starts one because a man cussed in front of a woman.
• * BedSheetGhost: The duo disguise themselves as these when visiting [[spoiler:their past selves before they meet Rufus in the first movie.]]
• * BigCreepyCrawlies: A giant beetle attaches itself to De Nomolos' back in prehistoric times. Bill takes it off and mimes playing it like a guitar.
• * BiggerOnTheInside: As a nod to ''Franchise/DoctorWho'', it's mentioned that some aliens have time travelling phone booths that are bigger inside.
• * BroughtDownToNormal: Death has lost his abilities to bring people to the afterlife and resurrecting the dead since losing his job to Richie. [[spoiler:He gets better]].
• * CasualTimeTravel;

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* AttackDrone: A load of them shoot and Bill and Ted in the BadFuture for.dling for doing an AirGuitar.
* BadFuture: De Nomolos rules Earth and most of the galaxy thousands of years in the future where nobody can die due to [[DeathTakesAHoliday Death taking a holiday]].
* BarBrawl: Billy The Kid starts one because a man cussed in front of a woman.
* BedSheetGhost: The duo disguise themselves as these when visiting [[spoiler:their past selves before they meet Rufus in the first movie.]]
* BigCreepyCrawlies: A giant beetle attaches itself to De Nomolos' back in prehistoric times. Bill takes it off and mimes playing it like a guitar.
* BiggerOnTheInside: As a nod to ''Franchise/DoctorWho'', it's mentioned that some aliens have time travelling phone booths that are bigger inside.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Death has lost his abilities to bring people to the afterlife and resurrecting the dead since losing his job to Richie. [[spoiler:He gets better]].
* CasualTimeTravel;



** Creator/AlbertEinstein comes to the future to teach classes.
• * ChekhovsSkill;

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** Creator/AlbertEinstein UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein comes to the future to teach classes.
* ChekhovsSkill;



• * ChessWithDeath: De Nomolos does a sit-contest with Death to get his brother, Richie the job of Death.
• * CoolTeacher;

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* ChessWithDeath: De Nomolos does a sit-contest with Death to get his brother, Richie the job of Death.
* CoolTeacher;



• * CoverVersion: A Wyld Stallyns cover band called "Wild Stallions" immediately pops up.
• * CrisisMakesPerfect: Confronting De Nomolos and his army in the BadFuture finally let's Bill and Ted [[spoiler:sing their new song they couldn't think of before.]]
• * DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: [[spoiler:De Nomolos shoots Bill and Ted but they get resurrected in the next page.]]
• * DeathTakesAHoliday: Richie De Nomolos ends up RelievingTheReaper but forgets to do.it half the time and the people he forgets about end up immortal.
• * DistantFinale: Ends in the future with the Wyld Stallyns visiting De Nomolos at the Herman the Kid Rehabilitation Center and Spa.
• * DoctorWhomage: Claudia mentions that Rufus' idea to convert phonebooths into time machines was copied by aliens who did with the same

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* CoverVersion: A Wyld Stallyns cover band called "Wild Stallions" immediately pops up.
* CrisisMakesPerfect: Confronting De Nomolos and his army in the BadFuture finally let's Bill and Ted [[spoiler:sing their new song they couldn't think of before.]]
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: [[spoiler:De Nomolos shoots Bill and Ted but they get resurrected in the next page.]]
* DeathTakesAHoliday: Richie De Nomolos ends up RelievingTheReaper but forgets to do.it half the time and the people he forgets about end up immortal.
* DistantFinale: Ends in the future with the Wyld Stallyns visiting De Nomolos at the Herman the Kid Rehabilitation Center and Spa.
* DoctorWhomage: Claudia mentions that Rufus' idea to convert phonebooths into time machines was copied by aliens who did with the same



• * DreadfulMusician: De Nomolos is dreadful on the cowbell when he [[spoiler:joins Wyld Stallyns.]] The comic ends with Bill and Ted mirroring Rufus in the first movie by saying he does get better.
• * {{Egopolis}}: Thousands of years into the BadFuture, San Dimas has been renamed San De Nomolos. It has streets like "De Nomolos Is Stronger Than You Avenue" and "De Nomolos Set The Standard For Beauty Terrace".
• * FightOffTheKryptonite: Death gets his relinquished powers seemingly by believing he still has them.

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* DreadfulMusician: De Nomolos is dreadful on the cowbell when he [[spoiler:joins Wyld Stallyns.]] The comic ends with Bill and Ted mirroring Rufus in the first movie by saying he does get better.
* {{Egopolis}}: Thousands of years into the BadFuture, San Dimas has been renamed San De Nomolos. It has streets like "De Nomolos Is Stronger Than You Avenue" and "De Nomolos Set The Standard For Beauty Terrace".
* FightOffTheKryptonite: Death gets his relinquished powers seemingly by believing he still has them.



• * FutureBadass;

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* FutureBadass;



•* FutureLoser: In the BadFuture Would Stallyns never won the contest and Rufus was fired.
• * GalacticConqueror: De Nomolos' power is said to extend far beyond Earth in the BadFuture. Might even be a DimensionLord because his public address is called the "De Nomolos State of The Universe' Address".
• * GoofyPrintUnderwear?

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•* * FutureLoser: In the BadFuture Would Stallyns never won the contest and Rufus was fired.
* GalacticConqueror: De Nomolos' power is said to extend far beyond Earth in the BadFuture. Might even be a DimensionLord because his public address is called the "De Nomolos State of The Universe' Address".
* GoofyPrintUnderwear?



• * GrievousBottleyHarm: Billy The Kid hits a guy with one in a bar fight, luckily it doesn't break. Another man is swinging one behind Billy.
• * HaHaHaNo: Teenage De Nomolos laughs happily upon meeting Bill and Ted and starting a "Wyld Stallyns Rules!" lightshow before admitting it's a distraction and trying to shoot them.
• * HehHehYouSaidX: Colonel Oats asks FutureBadass Ted why he giggles every time he addresses him and Ted says it's the use of the word "Private".
• * HumansArePsychicInTheFuture: Implied as the people of the year ??? have huge heads and their hoverboards are mentally controlled though Bill and Ted are able to use them.
• * HumongousMecha: Bill and Ted have Station build [[spoiler:two giant Bill and Ted robots called [[Franchise/{{Gundam}} Mobile Suit]] Bill S. Preston Esquire and [[Anime/{{Gigantor}} Giganto]]-Ted Theodore Logan.]]
• * ImmediateSequel: It starts five seconds after The Battle Of The Bands where the movie ended.
• * ItTastesLikeFeet: When complaining about the bootleg taco in the BadFuture, Bill says that tacos shouldn't taste like toxic foot.
• * LaserBlade: A man in the future is using laser hedge clippers.
• * LaserSight: Ted's chest having an [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial "E.T." moment]] is the first sign De Nomolos is trying to kill them.
• * LOL69: The duo take De Nomolos to Woodstock to educate him and badger him to guess the year until he says it's 1969.
• * MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: De Nomolos [[spoiler:steals a time machine and goes back and wins The Battle Of The Bands instead of Wyld Stallyns.]]

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* GrievousBottleyHarm: Billy The Kid hits a guy with one in a bar fight, luckily it doesn't break. Another man is swinging one behind Billy.
* HaHaHaNo: Teenage De Nomolos laughs happily upon meeting Bill and Ted and starting a "Wyld Stallyns Rules!" lightshow before admitting it's a distraction and trying to shoot them.
* HehHehYouSaidX: Colonel Oats asks FutureBadass Ted why he giggles every time he addresses him and Ted says it's the use of the word "Private".
* HumansArePsychicInTheFuture: Implied as the people of the year ??? have huge heads and their hoverboards are mentally controlled though Bill and Ted are able to use them.
* HumongousMecha: Bill and Ted have Station build [[spoiler:two giant Bill and Ted robots called [[Franchise/{{Gundam}} Mobile Suit]] Bill S. Preston Esquire and [[Anime/{{Gigantor}} Giganto]]-Ted Theodore Logan.]]
* ImmediateSequel: It starts five seconds after The Battle Of The Bands where the movie ended.
* ItTastesLikeFeet: When complaining about the bootleg taco in the BadFuture, Bill says that tacos shouldn't taste like toxic foot.
* LaserBlade: A man in the future is using laser hedge clippers.
* LaserSight: Ted's chest having an [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial "E.T." moment]] is the first sign De Nomolos is trying to kill them.
* LOL69: The duo take De Nomolos to Woodstock to educate him and badger him to guess the year until he says it's 1969.
* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: De Nomolos [[spoiler:steals a time machine and goes back and wins The Battle Of The Bands instead of Wyld Stallyns.]]



• * NeverFoundTheBody: The fact that all De Nomolos' father's victim's bodies weren't found is part of the reason he was let out of jail early.

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* NeverFoundTheBody: The fact that all De Nomolos' father's victim's bodies weren't found is part of the reason he was let out of jail early.



• ** Ted complains that 2645 looks exactly the same as 1991 but then realizes their apartment has been preserved as a museum.

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** Ted complains that 2645 looks exactly the same as 1991 but then realizes their apartment has been preserved as a museum.



• * NightmareFetishist: Bill and Ted's stories about wiping their sons from existence actually cheers Station up.
• * NoBodyLeftBehind: De Nomolos' gun leaves its victims as piles of ashes apart from the odd hat or badge.
• * NoodleIncident: Richie De Nomolos is proud of the scar he has from the last time he tried to feed himself with a spoon.
• * {{Omnibus}}: Got released in the ''Bill & Ted Omnibus'' trade paperback alongside ''Bill & Ted Go To Hell'' and ''Bill & Ted Save The Universe''
• * ParentalIncest: Missy marries her ex-stepson, Bill in the new timeline.
• * ThePowerOfRock: Bill and Ted finally play their new song [[spoiler:and make the people of the future Rebel against De Nomolos.]]
• * RelievingTheReaper: Richie De Nomos gets Death's job.
• * RetGone: In the BadFuture, Rufus' bosses made him take the princesses back to medieval England to marry the royal ugly dudes so Little Bill and Ted were never born.
• * RetroactivePreparation: The duo decide to get Station to build them a time machine and its first use will be to go back to the aftermath of the concert so they can tell Station to start building the time machine so it'll be ready now.
• * RidiculouslySuccessfulFutureSelf: A future teacher says the good robot Bill and Ted are better k own as the 65th and 66th presidents of the United States.
• * SadisticTeacher: Danitra Armijo picks on teenage De Nomolos like the rest of her students.
• * SandInMyEyes: ThePowerOfRock gets De Nomolos depressed about his ex-girlfriend, Claudia. When he's asked why he's crying, he says it's allergies.
• * ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: The gang mistake Death's scream for a woman when the apartment is invaded by future students.
• * SelfFulfillingProphecy: It's implied that De Nomolos being blamed as a child for his future self killing Bill and Ted is what caused him to hate them in the first place.
• * SpiritualAdaptation: A sequel that starts with the protagonists going to the future where the [[spoiler:previous movie's villain steals a time machine and alters the present to put himself in charge.]] It's basically ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' as a comic.

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* NightmareFetishist: Bill and Ted's stories about wiping their sons from existence actually cheers Station up.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: De Nomolos' gun leaves its victims as piles of ashes apart from the odd hat or badge.
* NoodleIncident: Richie De Nomolos is proud of the scar he has from the last time he tried to feed himself with a spoon.
* {{Omnibus}}: Got released in the ''Bill & Ted Omnibus'' trade paperback alongside ''Bill & Ted Go To Hell'' and ''Bill & Ted Save The Universe''
* ParentalIncest: Missy marries her ex-stepson, Bill in the new timeline.
* ThePowerOfRock: Bill and Ted finally play their new song [[spoiler:and make the people of the future Rebel against De Nomolos.]]
* RelievingTheReaper: Richie De Nomos gets Death's job.
* RetGone: In the BadFuture, Rufus' bosses made him take the princesses back to medieval England to marry the royal ugly dudes so Little Bill and Ted were never born.
* RetroactivePreparation: The duo decide to get Station to build them a time machine and its first use will be to go back to the aftermath of the concert so they can tell Station to start building the time machine so it'll be ready now.
* RidiculouslySuccessfulFutureSelf: A future teacher says the good robot Bill and Ted are better k own as the 65th and 66th presidents of the United States.
* SadisticTeacher: Danitra Armijo picks on teenage De Nomolos like the rest of her students.
* SandInMyEyes: ThePowerOfRock gets De Nomolos depressed about his ex-girlfriend, Claudia. When he's asked why he's crying, he says it's allergies.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: The gang mistake Death's scream for a woman when the apartment is invaded by future students.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: It's implied that De Nomolos being blamed as a child for his future self killing Bill and Ted is what caused him to hate them in the first place.
* SpiritualAdaptation: A sequel that starts with the protagonists going to the future where the [[spoiler:previous movie's villain steals a time machine and alters the present to put himself in charge.]] It's basically ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' as a comic.



• * SuperPrototype: Teenage De Nomolos made a two-headed Bill and Ted robot called Billted 1.0.
• * SympathyForTheDevil: Bill and Ted end up feeling sorry for teenage De Nomolos for having no friends and teach him how to play guitar to become popular.
• * ThanatosGambit: De Nomolos kills himself somhe can play ChessWithDeath.
• * TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: When trying to work out why Station has been in the bathroom for 12 hours, Ted guesses that it's some martian thing that man isn't meant to understand. Turns out [[spoiler: they're working on a time machine at the request of Bill and Ted's future selves.]]
• * TimeyWimeyBall: Time actually gets changed here when the movies were strictly StableTimeLoop.
• * TrickedOutTime: Billy the Kid's going to fake his death in 1881 and travel to Las Vegas in the year 2000 where he'll change his name to Herman and run a wild west-themed wedding chapel.
• * UngratefulBastard: After the duo feel sorry for De Nomolos and teach him to play guitar so he can make friends, he [[spoiler: goes back in time and wins the Battle Of The Bands instead of them.]]
• * WaxingLyrical: Ted sings the ''Series/SesameStreet'' theme to rally people against De Nomolos in the future.
• * WeWillAllFlyInTheFuture: 2645 San Dumas is full of [[FlyingCar Flying Cars]] and jetpacks.
• * WritersCannotDoMath: This comic assumes the two movies were set in the years they were released (1989 and 1991) even though ''Excellent Adventure'' was set in 1988 and Ted's comment about the princesses celebrating their fifth year in the 20th century imply ''Bogus Journey'' to be set in 1993.
• * YourCostumeNeedsWork;

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* SuperPrototype: Teenage De Nomolos made a two-headed Bill and Ted robot called Billted 1.0.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Bill and Ted end up feeling sorry for teenage De Nomolos for having no friends and teach him how to play guitar to become popular.
* ThanatosGambit: De Nomolos kills himself somhe can play ChessWithDeath.
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: When trying to work out why Station has been in the bathroom for 12 hours, Ted guesses that it's some martian thing that man isn't meant to understand. Turns out [[spoiler: they're working on a time machine at the request of Bill and Ted's future selves.]]
* TimeyWimeyBall: Time actually gets changed here when the movies were strictly StableTimeLoop.
* TrickedOutTime: Billy the Kid's going to fake his death in 1881 and travel to Las Vegas in the year 2000 where he'll change his name to Herman and run a wild west-themed wedding chapel.
* UngratefulBastard: After the duo feel sorry for De Nomolos and teach him to play guitar so he can make friends, he [[spoiler: goes back in time and wins the Battle Of The Bands instead of them.]]
* WaxingLyrical: Ted sings the ''Series/SesameStreet'' theme to rally people against De Nomolos in the future.
* WeWillAllFlyInTheFuture: 2645 San Dumas is full of [[FlyingCar Flying Cars]] and jetpacks.
* WritersCannotDoMath: This comic assumes the two movies were set in the years they were released (1989 and 1991) even though ''Excellent Adventure'' was set in 1988 and Ted's comment about the princesses celebrating their fifth year in the 20th century imply ''Bogus Journey'' to be set in 1993.
* YourCostumeNeedsWork;
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''Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return" is a six-issue sequel comic to ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney''. Written by Brian Lynch for Creator/BoomStudios.

• * AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: [[spoiler:Rufus']] resistance movement lives in one in the BadFuture.
• * AirGuitar;
** The duo have to tell the good robots not to do this while holding the babies.
** Future San Dimas High School teaches a class on the subject.
• AmbiguousDisorder: Richie De Nomolos. He can eat with a spoon without scarring himself and sings nursery rhymes at a rock concert.
• * AttackDrone: A load of them shoot and Bill and Ted in the BadFuture for.dling an AirGuitar.
• * BadFuture: De Nomolos rules Earth and most of the galaxy thousands of years in the future where nobody can die due to [[DeathTakesAHoliday Death taking a holiday]].
• * BarBrawl: Billy The Kid starts one because a man cussed in front of a woman.
• * BedSheetGhost: The duo disguise themselves as these when visiting [[spoiler:their past selves before they meet Rufus in the first movie.]]
• * BigCreepyCrawlies: A giant beetle attaches itself to De Nomolos' back in prehistoric times. Bill takes it off and mimes playing it like a guitar.
• * BiggerOnTheInside: As a nod to ''Franchise/DoctorWho'', it's mentioned that some aliens have time travelling phone booths that are bigger inside.
• * BroughtDownToNormal: Death has lost his abilities to bring people to the afterlife and resurrecting the dead since losing his job to Richie. [[spoiler:He gets better]].
• * CasualTimeTravel;
** Bill and Ted consulted musicians from all over history, including Music/Jim when researching their song for the Battle Of The Bands.
** The gang are visited by a class of students from the future taking a field trip to meet Bill and Ted.
** Creator/AlbertEinstein comes to the future to teach classes.
• * ChekhovsSkill;
** At the end of ''Bogus Journey'', Rufus mentions that De Nomolos is the 27th Century sit-up champion. Here he uses it instead of ChessWithDeath.
** Early on, Station is shown to be able to build a time machine. Guess how the duo escape the BadFuture.
** Like in ''Bogus Journey'', Bill and Ted defeat De Nomolos by [[spoiler: getting Station to build more robots.]]
• * ChessWithDeath: De Nomolos does a sit-contest with Death to get his brother, Richie the job of Death.
• * CoolTeacher;
** Danitra Armijo holds her classes on the beach and takes her students on field trips to the past.
** Einstein threatens to stop teaching the class if they don't stop shunning De Nomolos.
• * CoverVersion: A Wyld Stallyns cover band called "Wild Stallions" immediately pops up.
• * CrisisMakesPerfect: Confronting De Nomolos and his army in the BadFuture finally let's Bill and Ted [[spoiler:sing their new song they couldn't think of before.]]
• * DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: [[spoiler:De Nomolos shoots Bill and Ted but they get resurrected in the next page.]]
• * DeathTakesAHoliday: Richie De Nomolos ends up RelievingTheReaper but forgets to do.it half the time and the people he forgets about end up immortal.
• * DistantFinale: Ends in the future with the Wyld Stallyns visiting De Nomolos at the Herman the Kid Rehabilitation Center and Spa.
• * DoctorWhomage: Claudia mentions that Rufus' idea to convert phonebooths into time machines was copied by aliens who did with the same
British phone boxes and made them BiggerOnTheInside.
• * DreadfulMusician: De Nomolos is dreadful on the cowbell when he [[spoiler:joins Wyld Stallyns.]] The comic ends with Bill and Ted mirroring Rufus in the first movie by saying he does get better.
• * {{Egopolis}}: Thousands of years into the BadFuture, San Dimas has been renamed San De Nomolos. It has streets like "De Nomolos Is Stronger Than You Avenue" and "De Nomolos Set The Standard For Beauty Terrace".
• * FightOffTheKryptonite: Death gets his relinquished powers seemingly by believing he still has them.
• * FriendlessBackground: De Nomolos had none due to his schoolmates knowing he was going to grow up and try to kill Bill and Ted.
• * FutureBadass;
** Ted goes to military school in the BadFuture and is now built like a tank.
** Thousands of years later Rufus (now immortal because the new Death forgot to claim him) and the old Death run a resistance movement, hiding people from De Nomolos.
•* FutureLoser: In the BadFuture Would Stallyns never won the contest and Rufus was fired.
• * GalacticConqueror: De Nomolos' power is said to extend far beyond Earth in the BadFuture. Might even be a DimensionLord because his public address is called the "De Nomolos State of The Universe' Address".
• * GoofyPrintUnderwear?
** The "Weird Underwear Guy" student steals a pair of heart-covered boxers from Bill and Ted's apartment.
** FutureLoser Bill is later seen wearing similar boxers
• * GrievousBottleyHarm: Billy The Kid hits a guy with one in a bar fight, luckily it doesn't break. Another man is swinging one behind Billy.
• * HaHaHaNo: Teenage De Nomolos laughs happily upon meeting Bill and Ted and starting a "Wyld Stallyns Rules!" lightshow before admitting it's a distraction and trying to shoot them.
• * HehHehYouSaidX: Colonel Oats asks FutureBadass Ted why he giggles every time he addresses him and Ted says it's the use of the word "Private".
• * HumansArePsychicInTheFuture: Implied as the people of the year ??? have huge heads and their hoverboards are mentally controlled though Bill and Ted are able to use them.
• * HumongousMecha: Bill and Ted have Station build [[spoiler:two giant Bill and Ted robots called [[Franchise/{{Gundam}} Mobile Suit]] Bill S. Preston Esquire and [[Anime/{{Gigantor}} Giganto]]-Ted Theodore Logan.]]
• * ImmediateSequel: It starts five seconds after The Battle Of The Bands where the movie ended.
• * ItTastesLikeFeet: When complaining about the bootleg taco in the BadFuture, Bill says that tacos shouldn't taste like toxic foot.
• * LaserBlade: A man in the future is using laser hedge clippers.
• * LaserSight: Ted's chest having an [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial "E.T." moment]] is the first sign De Nomolos is trying to kill them.
• * LOL69: The duo take De Nomolos to Woodstock to educate him and badger him to guess the year until he says it's 1969.
• * MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: De Nomolos [[spoiler:steals a time machine and goes back and wins The Battle Of The Bands instead of Wyld Stallyns.]]
• MuggedForDisguise: The duo swipe some jackets and a hat from a stall in the future in order to blend in.
• * NeverFoundTheBody: The fact that all De Nomolos' father's victim's bodies weren't found is part of the reason he was let out of jail early.
• NextSundayAD;
• ** Ted complains that 2645 looks exactly the same as 1991 but then realizes their apartment has been preserved as a museum.
** After visiting the future, the duo overshoot by two years and end up in 1993 [[spoiler:where De Nomolos has won the Battle of The Bands with their song.]]
• * NightmareFetishist: Bill and Ted's stories about wiping their sons from existence actually cheers Station up.
• * NoBodyLeftBehind: De Nomolos' gun leaves its victims as piles of ashes apart from the odd hat or badge.
• * NoodleIncident: Richie De Nomolos is proud of the scar he has from the last time he tried to feed himself with a spoon.
• * {{Omnibus}}: Got released in the ''Bill & Ted Omnibus'' trade paperback alongside ''Bill & Ted Go To Hell'' and ''Bill & Ted Save The Universe''
• * ParentalIncest: Missy marries her ex-stepson, Bill in the new timeline.
• * ThePowerOfRock: Bill and Ted finally play their new song [[spoiler:and make the people of the future Rebel against De Nomolos.]]
• * RelievingTheReaper: Richie De Nomos gets Death's job.
• * RetGone: In the BadFuture, Rufus' bosses made him take the princesses back to medieval England to marry the royal ugly dudes so Little Bill and Ted were never born.
• * RetroactivePreparation: The duo decide to get Station to build them a time machine and its first use will be to go back to the aftermath of the concert so they can tell Station to start building the time machine so it'll be ready now.
• * RidiculouslySuccessfulFutureSelf: A future teacher says the good robot Bill and Ted are better k own as the 65th and 66th presidents of the United States.
• * SadisticTeacher: Danitra Armijo picks on teenage De Nomolos like the rest of her students.
• * SandInMyEyes: ThePowerOfRock gets De Nomolos depressed about his ex-girlfriend, Claudia. When he's asked why he's crying, he says it's allergies.
• * ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: The gang mistake Death's scream for a woman when the apartment is invaded by future students.
• * SelfFulfillingProphecy: It's implied that De Nomolos being blamed as a child for his future self killing Bill and Ted is what caused him to hate them in the first place.
• * SpiritualAdaptation: A sequel that starts with the protagonists going to the future where the [[spoiler:previous movie's villain steals a time machine and alters the present to put himself in charge.]] It's basically ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' as a comic.
* StupidFuturePeople: Under Bill and Ted's teachings, De Nomolos' AmbiguousDisorder brother Richie gets diagnosed as a genius for being nice and able to use a waterslide while genius JerkAss De Nomolos fails school.
• * SuperPrototype: Teenage De Nomolos made a two-headed Bill and Ted robot called Billted 1.0.
• * SympathyForTheDevil: Bill and Ted end up feeling sorry for teenage De Nomolos for having no friends and teach him how to play guitar to become popular.
• * ThanatosGambit: De Nomolos kills himself somhe can play ChessWithDeath.
• * TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: When trying to work out why Station has been in the bathroom for 12 hours, Ted guesses that it's some martian thing that man isn't meant to understand. Turns out [[spoiler: they're working on a time machine at the request of Bill and Ted's future selves.]]
• * TimeyWimeyBall: Time actually gets changed here when the movies were strictly StableTimeLoop.
• * TrickedOutTime: Billy the Kid's going to fake his death in 1881 and travel to Las Vegas in the year 2000 where he'll change his name to Herman and run a wild west-themed wedding chapel.
• * UngratefulBastard: After the duo feel sorry for De Nomolos and teach him to play guitar so he can make friends, he [[spoiler: goes back in time and wins the Battle Of The Bands instead of them.]]
• * WaxingLyrical: Ted sings the ''Series/SesameStreet'' theme to rally people against De Nomolos in the future.
• * WeWillAllFlyInTheFuture: 2645 San Dumas is full of [[FlyingCar Flying Cars]] and jetpacks.
• * WritersCannotDoMath: This comic assumes the two movies were set in the years they were released (1989 and 1991) even though ''Excellent Adventure'' was set in 1988 and Ted's comment about the princesses celebrating their fifth year in the 20th century imply ''Bogus Journey'' to be set in 1993.
• * YourCostumeNeedsWork;
** A kid in the future Bill and Ted museum comments on how real the Bill animatronic is.
** Another man compliments Bill and Ted's "Holo-faces".
** Later when recognised, the duo claim to be holograms, members of the Bill and Ted Reinactment Society and figments of imagination.

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