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'''Basic Trope:''' A character uses a machine that reverts other characters to an earlier or previous state of evolution.

* '''Straight:''' Emperor Evulz' evil plan is to use a device he built to turn all of humanity into Australopithecus anamensis, making them too stupid to stop him from robbing several banks.
* '''Exaggerated:''' Evulz uses the device to revert every organism on Earth into single-celled form so he can rule over them.
* '''Downplayed:''' Bob, a TeenGenius, uses a simple device to temporarily turn every student in his school into Homo erectus humans, ensuring he'll become valedictorian of his class by virtue of being the smartest by comparison.

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'''Basic Trope:''' Trope''': A character uses a machine that reverts other characters to an earlier or previous state of evolution.

* '''Straight:''' '''Straight''': Emperor Evulz' evil plan is to use a device he built to turn all of humanity into Australopithecus anamensis, ''Australopithecus anamensis'', making them too stupid to stop him from robbing several banks.
* '''Exaggerated:''' '''Exaggerated''': Evulz uses the device to revert every organism on Earth into single-celled form so he can rule over them.
* '''Downplayed:''' '''Downplayed''': Bob, a TeenGenius, uses a simple device to temporarily turn every student in his school into Homo erectus ''Homo erectus'' humans, ensuring he'll become valedictorian of his class by virtue of being the smartest by comparison.comparison.
* '''Subverted''': Emperor Evulz' devolution machine appears to work, turning humans into prehistoric apes...until it's used on a cat, and the cat also turns into a prehistoric ape.
* '''Double Subverted''': The machine does work, and that cat was [[{{Animorphism}} a transformed human]] from the Emperor's previous endeavors.
* '''Averted''': No machine that reverts characters to previous evolutionary states exists.
* '''Played for Horror''': The machine is used on various people's dogs, turning them into wolves. Feeling threatened by the humans in close proximity to them, the wolves attack.
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'''Basic Trope:''' A character uses a machine that reverts other characters to an earlier or previous state of evolution.

* '''Straight:''' Emperor Evulz' evil plan is to use a device he built to turn all of humanity into Australopithecus anamensis, making them too stupid to stop him from robbing several banks.
* '''Exaggerated:''' Evulz uses the device to revert every organism on Earth into single-celled form so he can rule over them.
* '''Downplayed:''' Bob, a TeenGenius, uses a simple device to temporarily turn every student in his school into Homo erectus humans, ensuring he'll become valedictorian of his class by virtue of being the smartest by comparison.

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