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** The deaths of everyone involved in planning the demolition of Dent's house to construct a bypass in [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1 the first book]]. Dent himself wasn't informed of the plans until literally the day before, and he's then told that the plans for demolition have been available for the last nine months... in the unlit basement of the planning office (a basement without any stairs leading to it,) locked in a filing cabinet in an unused bathroom whose door was labelled "Beware of the leopard." Later that day, the Vogons arrive and announce that the Earth is to be demolished to make way for an intergalactic bypass, and counter any complaints by telling humanity that the demolition plans have been available for the last 50 years...on Alpha Centauri. ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'' {{retcon}}s this event by revealing that the [[SapientCetaceans dolphins]] secretly rescued all the humans [[LastMinuteReprieve at the last minute]], mitigating the death but not reducing the irony.
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** The deaths of everyone involved in planning the demolition of Dent's house to construct a bypass in [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1 the first book]]. Dent himself wasn't informed of the plans until literally the day before, and he's then told that the plans for demolition have been available for the last nine months... in the unlit basement of the planning office (a basement without any stairs leading to it,) it), locked in a filing cabinet in an unused bathroom whose door was labelled "Beware of the leopard." Later that day, the Vogons arrive and announce that the Earth is to be demolished to make way for an intergalactic bypass, and counter any complaints by telling humanity that the demolition plans have been available for the last 50 years... on Alpha Centauri. ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'' {{retcon}}s this event by revealing that the [[SapientCetaceans dolphins]] secretly rescued all the humans [[LastMinuteReprieve at the last minute]], mitigating the death but not reducing the irony.
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* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' relates the story of a civilization [[ApocalypseHow whose world was doomed]] and decided to send everyone to safety in [[TheArk Arks]]... only that's a big fat lie they told to the "useless" members of society like the beauticians, telephone washers, etc. to get rid of them. Then the rest of the civilization dies when a disease spreads via dirty telephone receivers. As for the exiled Ark, it crash-lands on Earth; those useless people may or may not be, in fact, humanity's ancestors, which would explain an awful lot.
** There's also the deaths of everyone involved in planning the demolition of Dent's house to construct a bypass. Dent himself wasn't informed of the plans until literally the day before, and he's then told that the plans for demolition have been available for the last nine months...in the unlit basement of the planning office (a basement without any stairs leading to it,) locked in a filing cabinet in an unused bathroom whose door was labelled "Beware of the leopard." Later that day, the Vogons arrive and announce that the Earth is to be demolished to make way for an intergalactic bypass, and counter any complaints by telling humanity that the demolition plans have been available for the last 50 years...on Alpha Centauri.
*** A later book in the series [[RetCon retconned]] this event by revealing that the [[SapientCetaceans dolphins]] secretly rescued all the humans at the [[LastMinuteReprieve last minute]], mitigating the death but not reducing the irony.
** There's also the deaths of everyone involved in planning the demolition of Dent's house to construct a bypass. Dent himself wasn't informed of the plans until literally the day before, and he's then told that the plans for demolition have been available for the last nine months...in the unlit basement of the planning office (a basement without any stairs leading to it,) locked in a filing cabinet in an unused bathroom whose door was labelled "Beware of the leopard." Later that day, the Vogons arrive and announce that the Earth is to be demolished to make way for an intergalactic bypass, and counter any complaints by telling humanity that the demolition plans have been available for the last 50 years...on Alpha Centauri.
*** A later book in the series [[RetCon retconned]] this event by revealing that the [[SapientCetaceans dolphins]] secretly rescued all the humans at the [[LastMinuteReprieve last minute]], mitigating the death but not reducing the irony.
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* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' relates the story of a civilization [[ApocalypseHow whose world was doomed]] and decided to send everyone to safety in [[TheArk Arks]]... only that's a big fat lie they told to the "useless" members of society like the beauticians, telephone washers, etc. to get rid of them. Then the rest of the civilization dies when a disease spreads via dirty telephone receivers. As for the exiled Ark, it crash-lands on Earth; those useless people may or may not be, in fact, humanity's ancestors, which would explain an awful lot.
''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyTrilogy'':
**There's also the The deaths of everyone involved in planning the demolition of Dent's house to construct a bypass.bypass in [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1 the first book]]. Dent himself wasn't informed of the plans until literally the day before, and he's then told that the plans for demolition have been available for the last nine months... in the unlit basement of the planning office (a basement without any stairs leading to it,) locked in a filing cabinet in an unused bathroom whose door was labelled "Beware of the leopard." Later that day, the Vogons arrive and announce that the Earth is to be demolished to make way for an intergalactic bypass, and counter any complaints by telling humanity that the demolition plans have been available for the last 50 years...on Alpha Centauri.
*** A later book in the series [[RetCon retconned]]Centauri. ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'' {{retcon}}s this event by revealing that the [[SapientCetaceans dolphins]] secretly rescued all the humans at the [[LastMinuteReprieve at the last minute]], mitigating the death but not reducing the irony.irony.
** ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse'' relates the story of a civilization [[ApocalypseHow whose world was doomed]] and decided to send everyone to safety in [[TheArk Arks]]... only that's a big fat lie they told to the "useless" members of society like the beauticians, telephone washers, etc. to get rid of them. Then the rest of the civilization dies when a disease spreads via dirty telephone receivers. As for the exiled Ark, it crash-lands on Earth; those useless people may or may not be, in fact, humanity's ancestors, which would explain an awful lot.
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*** A later book in the series [[RetCon retconned]]
** ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse'' relates the story of a civilization [[ApocalypseHow whose world was doomed]] and decided to send everyone to safety in [[TheArk Arks]]... only that's a big fat lie they told to the "useless" members of society like the beauticians, telephone washers, etc. to get rid of them. Then the rest of the civilization dies when a disease spreads via dirty telephone receivers. As for the exiled Ark, it crash-lands on Earth; those useless people may or may not be, in fact, humanity's ancestors, which would explain an awful lot.
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* ''Literature/JurassicPark'' has this in spades:
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* ''Literature/JurassicPark'' ''Literature/JurassicPark1990'' has this in spades:
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* In Creator/TimDorsey's first novel, ''Florida Roadkill'', an assassin who is a member of a Satanic cult is preparing to sacrifice Serge and Coleman (by kneeling in the middle of the highway and praying in black clothing in the middle of the night) when he is run over by a bus full of devout Christians.
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* In Creator/TimDorsey's first novel, ''Literature/SergeStorms'': ''Florida Roadkill'', an assassin who is a member of a Satanic cult is preparing to sacrifice Serge and Coleman (by kneeling in the middle of the highway and praying in black clothing in the middle of the night) when he is run over by a bus full of devout Christians.
