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* NotHyperbole: Considering that her deciding not to be with Ed is [[ButterflyOfDoom the nail that led to the extinction of all life on Earth]], Ed is right to tell this to Kelly:
-->'''Ed''': I thought you ghosting me was the end of the world. Turns out I was right.

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For Want Of A Nail is now a disambiguation page, not a trope


* ButterflyOfDoom: This is the second straight season finale where Kelly falls victim to this. Kelly choosing not to go on a date with Ed meant that she never cared enough for him to get him the captaincy on the ''Orville''. Because he was never captain, Dr. Finn never joined the crew. Because she never joined the crew, Isaac never formed an attachment to her and her sons. Without that attachment, Isaac never changed sides and the Kaylons disassembled him, leaving no one to thwart their invasion of Earth.



* ForWantOfANail: This is the second straight season finale where Kelly falls victim to this. Kelly choosing not to go on a date with Ed meant that she never cared enough for him to get him the captaincy on the ''Orville''. Because he was never captain, Dr. Finn never joined the crew. Because she never joined the crew, Isaac never formed an attachment to her and her sons. Without that attachment, Isaac never changed sides and the Kaylons disassembled him, leaving no one to thwart their invasion of Earth.
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* TakingYouWithMe: The resistance base explodes shortly after the Kaylon breach the door. Based on ALara's comment earlier about the Kaylon wanting prisoners, it is likely that the resistance self-destructed their base to safeguard information and wipe out whatever Kaylons they could.

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* TakingYouWithMe: The resistance base explodes shortly after the Kaylon breach the door. Based on ALara's Alara's comment earlier about the Kaylon Kaylon wanting prisoners, it is likely that the resistance self-destructed their base to safeguard information and wipe out whatever Kaylons they could.
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* HeroicSacrifice: The resistance cell led by Alara and Yaphit stay behind to cover the escape of Ed and the others, leading to their deaths when the base explodes.


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** Likewise, the ship becomes fully operational again in a very short amount of time despite the damage it took, although this could be due to Bortus lacking the technical knowledge to make the repairs.


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* TakingYouWithMe: The resistance base explodes shortly after the Kaylon breach the door. Based on ALara's comment earlier about the Kaylon wanting prisoners, it is likely that the resistance self-destructed their base to safeguard information and wipe out whatever Kaylons they could.
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* ApocalypseHow: Planetary/Total Extinction of Earth. Not even the fish survived. Moclus has also been destroyed, as well as half of all biological life in the galaxy.
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* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The Kaylon in the beginning of the episode spend several minutes firing on and missing two middle-aged men struggling through the snow. Even when one trips and the other has to stop to pick him up, the advanced killer robots still can't hit them.
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** The BadFuture's ending in the titular ship having to overload its engine core while under attack in order to help SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong is reminiscent of the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "Twilight".
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* EvilVsEvil: It's mentioned that the Kaylon and the Krill are pretty much deadlocked.

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* EvilVsEvil: It's mentioned that the Kaylon and the Krill Calivon are pretty much deadlocked.deadlocked, and haven't yet engaged each other.
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* ShipShapeShipwreck: The Orville in the BadFuture is in remarkably good shape, considering it was badly damaged in battle, crashed into the ocean, and sunk to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The latter part is the worst, because even with full deflectors the shuttle they use to reach the ship is almost destroyed, and the Orville has been down there for 9 months on minimal power. The bar is even intact with intact bottles of alcohol, and when they power up the ship everything works normally, and no damage is discussed. It's particularly notable that they are able to drain the flooded shuttle bay and establish normal pressure (1 atm), when the pressure on the ship is 1071 atm. A simple HandWave about emergency deflectors keeping the ship intact would've been sufficient.

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* ShipShapeShipwreck: The Orville in the BadFuture is in remarkably good shape, considering it was badly damaged in battle, crashed into the ocean, and sunk to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The latter part is the worst, because even with full deflectors the shuttle they use to reach the ship is almost destroyed, and the Orville has been down there for 9 months on minimal power. The ship should have been crushed like an aluminum can in a hydraulic press. The bar is even intact with intact bottles of alcohol, and when they power up the ship everything works normally, and no damage is discussed. It's particularly notable that they are able to drain the flooded shuttle bay and establish normal pressure (1 atm), when the pressure on the ship is 1071 atm. A simple HandWave about emergency deflectors keeping the ship intact would've been sufficient.
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Futurama is not real life. Acceleration forces would be significantly more stressful than any Earthlike atmosphere could possibly manage.


* ShipShapeShipwreck: The Orville in the BadFuture is in remarkably good shape, considering it was badly damaged in battle, crashed into the ocean, and sunk to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The latter part is the worst, because even with full deflectors the shuttle they use to reach the ship is almost destroyed, and the Orville has been down there for 9 months on minimal power. The bar is even intact with intact bottles of alcohol, and when they power up the ship everything works normally, and no damage is discussed. Noone discusses how the ship could've possibly survived, or even gives a TechnoBabble explanation as to how it wasn't flattened like a beer can by the pressure (starships would have no way to survive very much pressure as they are designed to operate in a vacuum). It's particularly notable that they are able to drain the flooded shuttle bay and establish normal pressure (1 atm), when the pressure on the ship is 1071 atm. A simple HandWave about emergency deflectors keeping the ship intact would've been sufficient.

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* ShipShapeShipwreck: The Orville in the BadFuture is in remarkably good shape, considering it was badly damaged in battle, crashed into the ocean, and sunk to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The latter part is the worst, because even with full deflectors the shuttle they use to reach the ship is almost destroyed, and the Orville has been down there for 9 months on minimal power. The bar is even intact with intact bottles of alcohol, and when they power up the ship everything works normally, and no damage is discussed. Noone discusses how the ship could've possibly survived, or even gives a TechnoBabble explanation as to how it wasn't flattened like a beer can by the pressure (starships would have no way to survive very much pressure as they are designed to operate in a vacuum). It's particularly notable that they are able to drain the flooded shuttle bay and establish normal pressure (1 atm), when the pressure on the ship is 1071 atm. A simple HandWave about emergency deflectors keeping the ship intact would've been sufficient.
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Not sure if this qualifies as them being the same person


* DidntThinkThisThrough: Kelly herself lampshades how she failed to take into account the far-reaching effects on everyone that would occur without her and Ed ever being married. Ed even reminded her she took courses in Temporal Law about this sort of hypothesis.

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Kelly herself lampshades how she failed to take into account the far-reaching effects on everyone that would occur without her and Ed ever being married. Ed even reminded her she took courses in Temporal Law about this sort of hypothesis.hypothesis, and in an [[Recap/TheOrvilleS2E11LastingImpressions earlier episode]], it was her present version who explained to Gordon how her ability to cross a single eye was the result of her past relationship with Ed along with everyone else being currently being on the Orville.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: To say the episode didn't pull any punches would be an understatement.
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* ShipShapeShipwreck: The Orville in the BadFuture is in remarkably good shape, considering it was badly damaged in battle, crashed into the ocean, and sunk to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The latter part is the worst, because even with full deflectors the shuttle they use to reach the ship is almost destroyed, and the Orville has been down there for 9 months on minimal power. The bar is even intact with intact bottles of alcohol, and when they power up the ship everything works normally, and no damage is discussed. Noone discusses how the ship could've possibly survived, or even gives a TechnoBabble HandWave to how it wasn't flattened like a beer can by the pressure (starships would have no way to survive very much pressure as they are designed to operate in a vacuum). It's particularly notable that they are able to drain the flooded shuttle bay and establish normal pressure (1 atm), when the pressure on the ship is 1071 atm. A simple HandWave about emergency deflectors keeping the ship intact would've been sufficient.

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* ShipShapeShipwreck: The Orville in the BadFuture is in remarkably good shape, considering it was badly damaged in battle, crashed into the ocean, and sunk to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The latter part is the worst, because even with full deflectors the shuttle they use to reach the ship is almost destroyed, and the Orville has been down there for 9 months on minimal power. The bar is even intact with intact bottles of alcohol, and when they power up the ship everything works normally, and no damage is discussed. Noone discusses how the ship could've possibly survived, or even gives a TechnoBabble HandWave explanation as to how it wasn't flattened like a beer can by the pressure (starships would have no way to survive very much pressure as they are designed to operate in a vacuum). It's particularly notable that they are able to drain the flooded shuttle bay and establish normal pressure (1 atm), when the pressure on the ship is 1071 atm. A simple HandWave about emergency deflectors keeping the ship intact would've been sufficient.
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* ShipShapeShipwreck: The Orville in the BadFuture is in remarkably good shape, considering it was badly damaged in battle, crashed into the ocean, and sunk to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The latter part is the worst, because even with full deflectors the shuttle they use to reach the ship is almost destroyed, and the Orville has been down there for 9 months on minimal power. The bar is even intact with intact bottles of alcohol, and when they power up the ship everything works normally, and no damage is discussed. Noone discusses how the ship could've possibly survived, or even gives a TechnoBabble HandWave to how it wasn't flattened like a beer can by the pressure (starships would have no way to survive very much pressure as they are designed to operate in a vacuum). It's particularly notable that they are able to drain the flooded shuttle bay and establish normal pressure (1 atm), when the pressure on the ship is 1071 atm.

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* ShipShapeShipwreck: The Orville in the BadFuture is in remarkably good shape, considering it was badly damaged in battle, crashed into the ocean, and sunk to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The latter part is the worst, because even with full deflectors the shuttle they use to reach the ship is almost destroyed, and the Orville has been down there for 9 months on minimal power. The bar is even intact with intact bottles of alcohol, and when they power up the ship everything works normally, and no damage is discussed. Noone discusses how the ship could've possibly survived, or even gives a TechnoBabble HandWave to how it wasn't flattened like a beer can by the pressure (starships would have no way to survive very much pressure as they are designed to operate in a vacuum). It's particularly notable that they are able to drain the flooded shuttle bay and establish normal pressure (1 atm), when the pressure on the ship is 1071 atm. A simple HandWave about emergency deflectors keeping the ship intact would've been sufficient.
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* ShipShapeShipwreck: The Orville in the BadFuture is in remarkably good shape, considering it was badly damaged in battle, crashed into the ocean, and sunk to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The latter part is the worst, because even with full deflectors the shuttle they use to reach the ship is almost destroyed, and the Orville has been down there for 9 months on minimal power. Noone discusses how the ship could've possibly survived, or even gives a TechnoBabble HandWave to how it wasn't flattened like a beer can by the pressure (starships would have no way to survive very much pressure as they are designed to operate in a vacuum). It's particularly notable that they are able to drain the flooded shuttle bay and establish normal pressure (1 atm), when the pressure on the ship is 1071 atm.

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* ShipShapeShipwreck: The Orville in the BadFuture is in remarkably good shape, considering it was badly damaged in battle, crashed into the ocean, and sunk to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The latter part is the worst, because even with full deflectors the shuttle they use to reach the ship is almost destroyed, and the Orville has been down there for 9 months on minimal power. The bar is even intact with intact bottles of alcohol, and when they power up the ship everything works normally, and no damage is discussed. Noone discusses how the ship could've possibly survived, or even gives a TechnoBabble HandWave to how it wasn't flattened like a beer can by the pressure (starships would have no way to survive very much pressure as they are designed to operate in a vacuum). It's particularly notable that they are able to drain the flooded shuttle bay and establish normal pressure (1 atm), when the pressure on the ship is 1071 atm.
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* ShipShapeShipwreck: The Orville in the BadFuture is in remarkably good shape, considering it was badly damaged in battle, crashed into the ocean, and sunk to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The latter part is the worst, because even with full deflectors the shuttle they use to reach the ship is almost destroyed, and the Orville has been down there for 9 months on minimal power. Noone discusses how the ship could've possibly survived, or even gives a TechnoBabble HandWave to how it wasn't flattened like a beer can by the pressure (starships would have no way to survive very much pressure as they are designed to operate in a vacuum). It's particularly notable that they are able to drain the flooded shuttle bay and establish normal pressure (1 atm), when the pressure on the ship is 1071 atm.
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** The Resistance outpost looks like a cross of the Yavin base in ''Franchise/StarWars'' and the Endor base in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''

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** The Resistance outpost looks like a cross of the Yavin base in ''Franchise/StarWars'' ''Film/ANewHope'' and the Endor base in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''
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** The Resistance outpost looks like a cross of the Yavin base in ''Film/StarWars'' and the Endor base in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''

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** The Resistance outpost looks like a cross of the Yavin base in ''Film/StarWars'' ''Franchise/StarWars'' and the Endor base in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''
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* EvilVsEvil: It's mentioned that the Kaylon and the Krill are evenly matched.

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* EvilVsEvil: It's mentioned that the Kaylon and the Krill are evenly matched.pretty much deadlocked.
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* EvilVsEvil: It's mentioned that the Kaylon and the Krill are evenly matched.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Kelly herself lampshades how she failed to take into account the far-reaching effects on everyone that would occur without her and Ed ever being married. Ed even reminded her she took classes in quantum physics about this sort of hypothesis.

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Kelly herself lampshades how she failed to take into account the far-reaching effects on everyone that would occur without her and Ed ever being married. Ed even reminded her she took classes courses in quantum physics Temporal Law about this sort of hypothesis.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Kelly herself lampshades how she failed to take into account the far-reaching effects on everyone that would occur without her and Ed ever being married.

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Kelly herself lampshades how she failed to take into account the far-reaching effects on everyone that would occur without her and Ed ever being married. Ed even reminded her she took classes in quantum physics about this sort of hypothesis.
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* TheDeterminator: Bortus has managed to stay alive for several months on an ''Orville'' that's been stuck on the ''bottom of the ocean'', subsisting on combat rations.

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* TheDeterminator: Bortus has managed to stay alive for several months on an ''Orville'' that's been stuck on the ''bottom of the ocean'', subsisting on combat rations.rations and the hope that he'll get to see his family again.

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