Line #26 Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays


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3	One of the all-time great adventure novels and certainly the most famous non-science fiction one by Creator/JulesVerne.
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5	In 1872 [[VictorianLondon London, UK]], the [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman very proper English gentleman]] Phileas Fogg finds himself in a wager at his social club that he can travel around the world in eighty days, a seemingly impossible feat to Fogg's doubters. Thus committed, Fogg begins his trip at once, bringing along his new manservant, Jean Passepartout, who ironically wanted a nice sedate job after years traveling about in various jobs such as an acrobat or fireman.
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7	Along the way, Fogg and Passepartout have numerous adventures as they struggle to keep to a strict schedule. The most notable one in the first half is rescuing the beautiful Indian woman, Aouda, from being forced into a ceremonial self-immolation in India. Although Fogg tries to help her reach relatives in another safe British colony, this proves impossible and she becomes their fast companion for keeps who herself becomes more and more attracted to the dashing and intriguing Fogg.
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9	Unfortunately, there is a bank robbery in London and although Fogg is completely innocent, his trip abroad seems too coincidental by Detective Fix's reckoning. So, as Fogg begins his race, Fix follows him, unsuccessfully trying to keep his quarry stationary and initially unaware of how far he is going until it becomes more worthwhile to help Fogg complete his journey back to England where Fix can legally arrest him.
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11	As the gang continues their race through more adventures, it comes to a screeching halt when they reach Britain, where Fix arrests Fogg. Although Fix later lets Fogg out of jail upon realizing he made a mistake, they are apparently too late as they arrive in London.
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13	However, Aouda inadvertently saves the day: both in love with Fogg and feeling guilty that she may have cost him his bet, she proposes to the now-ruined Phileas and he joyfully accepts. Passepartout is sent to get a vicar to arrange the wedding, only to learn that the gang forgot they gained a day due to traveling east and actually arrived ''early''. With only moments left to the deadline, Fogg and company race to the Club and make it just in time.
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15	A Character List is in progress [[Characters/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays here.]]
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17	The book has numerous adaptations, first on stage and then on film and TV. See below.
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20	* A major [[Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956 1956 film]] starring Creator/DavidNiven, Cantinflas and Creator/ShirleyMacLaine which includes the travelers taking a balloon ride part of the way, a travel option which the original Fogg dismissed as impractical. This version won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Picture of 1956.
21	* The 1963 film ''Film/TheThreeStooges Go Around the World in a Daze'', in which Fogg's grandson attempts to repeat his grandfather's trip around the world (without spending any money, otherwise speedy modern travel would make it too easy to replicate the feat) and the Three Stooges are his servants who accompany him.
22	* A [[WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays 1972 animated version]] in which Fogg's bet is motivated more out of love (for Lord Maze's niece Belinda) than money; notable as the first Australian cartoon to be networked in the US.
23	* A 1976 anime film, ''Puss 'n Boots: Around the World in 80 Days'', which stars Creator/ToeiAnimation’s mascot, Pero.
24	* A famous 1981 animated AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation, ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog''.
25	* ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldInEightyDaysBurbankAnimation'', an AnimatedAdaptation from Creator/BurbankFilmsAustralia, which is also an AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation, albeit a [[CompressedAdaptation compressed one]].
26	* A 1989 TV mini-series starring Creator/PierceBrosnan, and Creator/EricIdle, which critics complained went at far too leisurely a pace for a story about a race against time.
27	* A famous 1989 TV travel documentary starring Creator/MichaelPalin where he takes the challenge to travel around the world without using aircraft, following Fogg's route as closely as possible. It turned Palin's career toward starring in a whole slew of travel series.
28	* A 1999 German/Chinese stop-motion animated film produced by Manfred Durniok Filmproduktion and Shanghai Animation Film Studio. This adaptation kept pretty close to the text as much as possible. One notable change from the original is that it was Scotland Yard who mistook Fogg for the bank-robber and tasked Fix to specifically apprehend Fogg.
29	* A UsefulNotes/ComicRelief series featured a celebrity relay version of this trip.
30	* ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' released a CompressedAdaptation, casting Mickey, Goofy, and Minnie as Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Aouda respectively. The basic story outline remains pretty much the same, but changes Fogg from an incredibly wealthy English gentleman to the caretaker of a financially struggling orphanage, and rather than as a wager, he goes on the journey as a test of punctuality in order to prove he's worthy of inheriting his uncle's fortune to [[SavingTheOrphanage save his orphanage from foreclosure.]] Also, the robbery of the bank of England subplot is omitted.
31	* A [[Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays2004 2004 film]] starring Creator/JackieChan and Creator/SteveCoogan, mostly working on RuleOfFunny and (being a Chan film) slapstick martial arts. It is full of cameos by [[HistoricalFiction historical figures]].
32	* A [[VideoGame/AroundTheWorldIn80Days 2008 game]] which belongs in the MatchThreeGame genre, where you have to drop all pieces of an item to the bottom before you run out of time for the day, but it's otherwise faithful to the original.
33	* An interactive fiction game by Inkle called ''[[VideoGame/EightyDays 80 Days]]'', released on iOS, Android, and PC that follows the same characters in a steampunk world complete with submarine trains, mechanical soldiers and a guild of Artificers. The player takes the role of Passepartout and allows him free reign to take nearly any route possible to complete the journey, even possibly traveling over the North Pole.
34	* Pioneering woman journalist Nellie Bly made the trip in RealLife, traveling east from New York, stopping in France to interview Jules Verne. She made it with eight days to spare after Joseph Pulitzer sent a private train to California to pick her up. Her memoir ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInSeventyTwoDays'' was published in 1890.
35	* The Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom timeline ''Literature/LookToTheWest'' has the [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/look-to-the-west-volume-v-to-dream-again.354968/page-36#post-11931574 Great World Race]], a race between two couples (one American, one Meridian) to circumnavigate the globe in 90 days (longer because in this timeline India lacks a transcontinental railway). It has almost the same outcome as Verne's story, except the racers insist that the challenge was how long it ''took'', not what day they arrived, and therefore they failed. Most people, however, disagree.
36	* Another AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation, this time a French animated film, released in 2021. This one re-interprets Phileas Fogg (or [[SpeciesSurname Frogg]], here) as a con artist and Passepartout as a naive, bookish type with an overbearing mother.
37	* An [[Series/AroundTheWorldIn80Days2021 eight-part TV series]] starring Creator/DavidTennant and airing on Creator/TheBBC between 2021 and 2022.
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41	!!The book ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' displays these tropes:
42	* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Phileas Fogg bets half his fortune that he can travel around the world in eighty days and takes the other half with him in cash to cover expenses during the trip. If he wins the bet, he'll have at least as much money as he started with; if he loses, he runs the risk of ending up broke.
43	* {{Adventure}}: A grand race around the world with many death-defying exploits along the way.
44	* AfterlifeOfService: While crossing India, the heroes encounter a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice) sati]] ritual where a dead man's widow is burned alive to accompany him to the afterlife. They crash the funeral by impersonating the corpse to free the widow, after which she joins the main cast [[spoiler:and marries Phileas Fogg]].
45	* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The ending hinges on Fogg not noticing that he has gained an extra day (by crossing the then-unnamed International Date Line) until his arrival back in London. However, this oversight requires him not to notice the date during his entire trip across America, and to fail to notice when he boards a ship across the Atlantic to Britain a day early. This case of FailedASpotCheck is out-of-character for Fogg, who, the narration notes, constantly adjusts his watch to account for his passage between time zones.
46	* AssumedWin: Inverted Phileas, Aouda, and Passepartout initially assume they ''lost'' the race against time when they hear the bells signaling the deadline and they're nowhere near the finish. It's not until Passepartout discovers they actually got back to London the day before the deadline that they realize they still have a chance.
47	* TheBet: Circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. Keep in mind that the book is set during the nineteenth century, when travel by rail was in its infancy and modern commercial aircraft hadn't even been invented yet.
48	* BigBad: While Inspector Fix's intentions are noble, believing that Fogg is a bank robber on the run, he is still the main source of conflict in the story, pursuing our heroes on their round the world journey and attempting to sabatoge them in any way possible.
49	* TheBigGuy: Passepartout, one of whose odd jobs was a fireman. Keep in mind the story is set in an age when firemen needed to pull the burning houses apart ''by hand'', and thus invariably were recruited from men built like brick outhouses. Passepartout's immense physical strength (and agility) is mentioned several times in the book: when he is forced to join a Japanese circus run by an American when he is temporarily stranded in Yokohama without any money, during the Indian attack on the train in United States, and when Fogg is forced to buy the steamship he's using to cross the Atlantic back to England and then burn all the wooden parts to keep it moving.
50	* BurlyDetectiveSyndrome: Aouda is a young beautiful Indian woman, who is rescued from a sati[[note]]Ritual immolation of widows, in many instances forced upon her [[/note]] by Mr Fogg and his companions. She travels with them because she's in danger of being forced into the ceremony again. The narrator later refers to her as "the young woman" a lot.
51	* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: The one incident of Passepartout wandering into a temple with his shoes on, [[InvokedTrope invoked]] by Inspector Fix to try and delay the party.
52	* ClockDiscrepancy: At first it looks like Phileas Fogg has lost the bet by returning to London minutes after the deadline. The next day, though, Passepartout learns that the date is one day earlier than he thought, giving Fogg just enough time to win the bet. (The party had [[UsefulNotes/InternationalDateLine circled the world by going east and thus gained one day]].)
53	* ClockKing: Phileas Fogg until the end, when he breaks his usual habits to win his bet. Phileas Fogg is the UnbuiltTrope for the ClockKing: published at 1872, is the TropeMaker, but also explores all the ramifications about that trope: Being a MysteriousStranger, the readers never know any of his BackStory, and only in the very last chapters the reader realizes that Fogg’s extreme reserve was not an EvilBrit case, but only a severe case of BritishStuffiness. Unlike all his imitators, Fogg is very good at XanatosSpeedChess and the IndyPloy, because that’s the only way he can win TheBet. Fogg’s plan didn’t work, but it didn’t work ''in his favor'': the Universe rewards him by granting him almost an extra day. And the one obsessed with his clock was not him, but his employee, Jean Passepartout.
54	* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: From the perspective of the Very British Fogg, America is a nation full of crazy people. A riot breaks out when they arrive in San Francisco (and Fogg gains a SitcomArchnemesis) over the election of a local Justice of the Peace. And when their eastbound train is stopped by floodwaters rending a bridge unsafe, the engineer elects to just have the train ''jump the river.''
55	* ContrivedCoincidence: Somebody robs the Bank of England at roughly the same time Fogg and Passpartout set out on their journey, and the robber's vague description matches that of Fogg, so Detective Fix mistakes him for the bank robber and pursues him accordingly. Then, when they all get back to England and Fix arrests Fogg, it turns out that the ''real'' robber was arrested in Edinburgh three days before.
56	* CooperationGambit: The valet and the police inspector come to an agreement to help each other as long as Fogg is out of British territory - the inspector wants to arrest Fogg for a bank robbery, the valet is trying to help his boss finish his world trip.
57	-->"Friends, no, allies, yes, but at the slightest sign of treachery I'll wring your neck."
58	* CosmicPlaything: Passepartout, whom Verne seems to delight in embarrassing by putting him in seemingly out-of-nowhere situations.
59	* CriminalDoppelganger: Phileas Fogg is wrongly pursued around the globe by [[InspectorJavert Detective Fix]] because, in addition to the suspicious circumstances surrounding his sudden departure, he answers to the description of the gentleman who robbed the Bank of England.
60	* DamselInDistress: Aouda in her debut in the book. However after her rescue, Aouda more than pulls her own weight in the story. For example, when their train is attacked by Indians [[note]]Native Americans [[/note]], Aouda immediately gets a gun and starts shooting along with her companions and of course, she saves Fogg's future at the climax of the story.
61	* DarkestHour: Fogg is despondent about losing his bet because he missed his train -- but it turns out he forgot to account for the fact that he gained a whole extra day during his travels, which allows him to win the bet in the end.
62	* DubNameChange: Early English translations sometimes changed Fogg's first name to Phineas.
63	* DynamicEntry: Fogg arrives back at the Club literally ''less than a second'' away from running over his deadline, throwing the doors open and walking in calmly.
64	-->'''Fogg:''' Well, gentlemen, I'm here.
65	* EmergencyCargoDump: Phileas Fogg and the ship he has commandeered are racing across the Atlantic to Liverpool. Unfortunately, the coal on the ship runs out. So Fogg has the crew rip out just about everything on the vessel made of wood, and throw the wood in the furnace. By the time Fogg reaches England the ship is nothing but an iron hull above the waterline.
66	* EpicRace: Possibly the TropeCodifier.
67	* FamousForBeingFirst: This book is about Fogg becoming the first person to traverse the world in 80 days.
68	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Multiple references to Passepartout's watch falling further behind as they travel east, complete with an explanation in Chapter 11 regarding how the days are shorter when one travels eastbound.
69	* FunnyForeigner: Passepartout plays this role more than once. Verne is playing with the trope since, as a Frenchman, Passepartout is not a foreigner from the author's perspective. This trope is deconstructed when the American circus master in Japan offers Passepartout a job as a clown on his troupe, "In France, they hire foreign jesters. Abroad, they hire French buffoons."
70	* GentlemanThief: Phileas Fogg's CriminalDoppelganger who robbed from the Bank of England. Fix thinks Fogg is this through most of the book.
71	* GoingToSeeTheElephant: Literally inverted. At one point, Fogg goes to see an actual elephant, but only to hurry up and get past a gap in the train routes.
72	* HeroicBSOD: A relatively minor example is Passepartout's reaction at Fogg's announcement to make the titular journey.
73	* HolyGround: Passepartout gets in trouble for wearing shoes into a Hindu temple.
74	* InWhichATropeIsDescribed: Verne's chapter titles.
75	* InjunCountry: A native tribe attacks the train that Fogg and company are riding across the United States.
76	* InspectorJavert: Inspector Fix, who accompanies Fogg all around the world, trying desperately to arrest him. At least partially justified, as Fix will receive a share of whatever money is recovered from the thief as a reward.
77	* {{Irony}}: For Passepartout, who grew tired of his fickle previous masters, a big reason to work as Phileas Fogg's servant is that the gentleman isn’t one to travel or even sleep anywhere but home. Guess what? The plot kicks in.
78	* ItsTheJourneyThatCounts: Fogg spends 19,000 pounds to win 20,000 pounds, not much of a profit given everything he went through. But in the end Fogg considers the experience to be worth it.
79	* LeavingAudience: Happens to the lecturer on UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}}. Ultimately Passepartout is the only one left listening.
80	* MeaningfulName:
81	** Passepartout's name literally means "goes everywhere" in French and has been used as a slang term for a skeleton key (capable of opening any lock). Furthermore, the name sounds a mighty lot like "Passport", which is inseparable from the modern traveller. [[LampshadeHanging He admits himself the name is fitting]], as he went through several jobs in his past.
82	** Phileas Fogg's background is mysterious and obscure, or foggy.
83	** Inspector Fix is fixated on the belief that Fogg is the robber (an ''idée fixe'', fixed idea).
84	** Colonel Proctor, a character from the {{Eagleland}} of the boorish category. Given what proctology is (study of rectal diseases and infections), Verne is basically saying that the character is an ass.
85	* TheMillstone:
86	** Aouda fears that her presence with the travelers cost Fogg his bet by delaying him. Fogg firmly denies she was any problem and any concerns she may still have are dispelled by the fact that she is then instrumental instead in saving the day.
87	** Passepartout at times as well. Several large delays were caused by him, even if [[CosmicPlaything mostly indirectly]] -- like being lured into an opium den in Hong Kong by Fix, or being kidnapped by Sioux in America. Blundering into a Hindu temple in Bombay and being dragged to court for this was totally [[IdiotBall his own doing]], though.
88	* TheMutiny: When the captain of the ''Henrietta'' refuses to alter his course and take Fogg to Liverpool instead of going to Bordeaux, Fogg incites a mutiny, essentially paying the crew to overthrow the captain and put him in charge.
89	* MyFistForgivesYou: Fogg's revenge on Fix for arresting him and nearly ruining him is...a punch in the face. Then a share of his winnings.
90	* MysteriousPast: Nothing about Fogg's BackStory is explained in the book: he's simply a wealthy gentleman living off the rent on his capital, doing nothing except [[IdleRich reading papers and playing cards]] at his club. However during his journey we witness firsthand that he's able to handle a gun, navigate a boat and a ship, knows a lot about engineering, etc. HowWeGotHere, though, remains a mystery even in the finale. The fact that he is able to recognize the taste of cat meat when it is served to him, passed as rabbit, might hint that he found himself in a city under siege, or served in an army in difficult times (the Crimean War, perhaps?)
91	* NotSoStoic: Fogg only loses his cool twice in the entire story:
92	** The first time is when Fix comes up to apologise to him for his WrongfullyAccused business, and sets him free. Phileas Fogg, quintessential GentlemanAdventurer and completely in control of his emotions and passions throughout his voyage, decks Fix so hard the inspector collapses like a sack of potatoes. Though Fogg does forgive Fix after that.
93	** The second time is when Aouda offers to marry him. He is described as having for a moment an "unwonted light in his eyes, and a slight trembling of his lips" before he accepts her offer.
94	* NumberOfObjectsTitle: ''Around the World in 80 Days''.
95	* OpiumDen: Passepartout wanders into one of them in Hong Kong, at Fix's instigation, and in a drug-fueled stupor forgets to tell Fogg about their ship's schedule change, ending up in Yokohama alone, until Fogg gets there on a different ship.
96	* PlotHole: OK, so the International Date Line didn't exist, so Fogg might not have noticed that he was gaining a few minutes every day if he was counting off days as he went. But he should have noticed the calendar date as he transited the United States, studying train tables and ship schedules. In particular, even if Fogg never so much as looked at a newspaper in the United States, he should not have missed his transatlantic steamer -- unless for some unexplained reason it left a whole day earlier than scheduled.
97	* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Phileas Fogg. He's very proper and extremely stiff, and takes his routine seriously. He's also described as a very handsome man. One of his travelling companion thinks his scheme nonsensical and not what a proper gentleman should devote his time to, but he wins him over when he's determined to help Aouda.
98	* RaceAgainstTheClock: One of the most triumphant examples of this trope. Travel around the world in eighty days. It was extremely exciting for the writer who said he was studying ships' schedules as if it had been the most adventurous and exciting reading ever.
99	* RedOniBlueOni: Phileas Fogg (Blue) is practically an automaton. Passepartout (Red) is a much more excitable fellow.
100	* RescueRomance: Phileas Fogg rescues Aouda from death by suttee. Fogg sacrificed for her valuable travel time to rescue her from certain death and then invited her along on his trip home. Aouda falls in love with Fogg, offers to marry him in part to help him live through his difficult future. Fogg who seems rather distant and cold admits he loves her as well. And their planned marriage saves the day and Fogg ends up winning the bet.
101	* RightOnTheTick: Fogg has to be back at the club by 8:45 pm on the 80th day in order to win the bet. Not one second later.
102	* RunningGag: Passepartout realizes he left a gas lamp on in Fogg's apartment as they're leaving London. Throughout the whole trip, Fogg occasionally reminds him of the bill he's racking up. Another gag is Passepartout's insistence that his watch is right and the rest of the world is wrong.
103	* TheSavageIndian: A band of Sioux waylay Fogg's train.
104	* ScheduleFanatic: Phileas Fogg until the end, where he misses a key detail and decides to heck with schedule fanaticism.
105	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: How Fogg solves most of his travel difficulties. His luggage comprises one very oversized carpetbag stuffed with cash. Whenever a problem occurs, he buys the solution. In fact, Fogg bets half his fortune (20,000 pounds) and takes the other half with him. So, [[LampshadeHanging as Verne himself notes]] [[InWhichATropeIsDescribed in a chapter heading]], he's just about even afterwards. Note that 40,000 quid at the time is equivalent to roughly US$13 million as of now, on a gold price alone. The purchase power parity would yield even higher amount. Spending 6 megabucks in just 80 days would smooth the things up quite a bit. Even though he stands to make an incredible amount of money or lose everything, it's not about the money. It's about the adventure, and Fogg's honour: for at the outset, he notes that "a gentleman never jokes about a bet".
106	* StiffUpperLip: Phileas Fogg's basic personality until Aouda's heartfelt proposal at his darkest hour finally makes let himself go with love.
107	* SuicideWatch: Aouda and Passpartout are both worried that Mr Fogg might end it all after he loses the bet and is financially ruined. Passepartout keeps watching him.
108	-->From the words which Mr Fogg dropped, she saw that he was meditating some serious project. Knowing that Englishmen governed by a fixed idea sometimes resort to the desperate expedient of suicide, Passepartout kept a narrow watch upon his master, though he carefully concealed the appearance of so doing.
109	* SuspectIsHatless: Whatever description Fix was given about the robber, it's made obvious that it was not detailed enough, considering that he spent seventy-eight days chasing the wrong guy and in the meanwhile the rest of the London Police easily found the real thief.
110	* SweetAndSourGrapes: Fogg returns to London believing himself to be a ruined man, having spent half his fortune on the voyage and believing himself to have lost the other half in the bet. Aouda still loves him, however, and asks to get married immediately. Passepartout goes out to make the arrangements, and while doing so he discovers that Fogg's calculations are off by a day...
111	* SwissCheeseSecurity: The Bank of England takes it up to eleven. Basically, they don’t want to show any doubt in the customer's trustworthiness, so they have ''no security whatsoever''. Gold, silver and banknotes are laying ''out in the open'', with ''no guards'' and not even ''the cashier'' keeping an eye on the stuff. Which makes the theft of fifty five thousand pounds more understandable.
112	* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Fix to a degree. He might be considered the bridge between InspectorJavert and this, being comical like a SympatheticInspectorAntagonist is, but also unethical like an InspectorJavert. Much more sympathetic in the miniseries, where he is played by [[Creator/PeterUstinov Peter Ustinov]].
113	* TheyCalledMeMad: Soon after Phileas Fogg leaves London, his journey becomes heavily debated in the UK, with the majority of people declaring him an idiot and a maniac.
114	* TimeTitle: Around the World in '''Eighty Days'''.
115	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: When Passepartout arrives at Yokohama, Verne provides a good description of the Japanese political system in the middle of 1860s that most Europeans would have been unaware of: namely that there is a "civil emperor" (the Shogun) and an "ecclesiastical emperor" (the position that we usually call the emperor of Japan today). By the time the novel was published (1872), however, events in Japan (UsefulNotes/{{Meiji Restoration}}) had made this description obsolete, as the "civil emperor" was overthrown in 1868 and the "ecclesiastical emperor" was installed as the sole (nominal) emperor. At best, this places the novel in a very narrow window of just the few years between 1865 and 1868 (since the novel's events in United States clearly indicate that the UsefulNotes/{{American Civil War}} is over.), or more likely, the impossible time period when the American Civil War has been over for several (more than 3) years but the Meiji Restoration has not yet taken place.
116	** In fact, the time period depicted in the novel cannot co-exist with the events of real life history: the first Transcontinental Railroad (completed only in May, 1869) exists and in fact is a crucial component of Fogg's itinerary. So Japan could not still have "two emperors" at this time.
117	* WackyAmericansHaveWackyNames: Col. Stamp W. Proctor who forced Phileas Fogg to duel. Fogg didn't want to do anything with him at first due to wanting to keep his timetable, but the American man would have none of it.
118	* WealthyPhilanthropist: Phileas Fogg is a very rich English gentleman of the IdleRich variety because he has no job and doesn't seem to do much except frequenting the Reform Club, reading papers and playing whist. The narrator says that whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble, useful, or benevolent purpose, he supplied it quietly and sometimes anonymously. He also gives money to a beggar-woman with a child who asks for alms when he and Passepartout leave London (20 guineas, equal to more than ''two thousand pounds'' in 2021).
119	* WidowMistreatment: Phileas Fogg rescues Indian princess Aouda from a forced ritualistic death after her husband died.
120	* WorldTour: The TropeCodifier. Phileas Fogg must travel round the world and along the way, he visits several important cities but he's actually absolutely uninterested in those mesmerising, unique places. His servant Passepartout is the one who admires the world's many wonders. The plan is to go from London to Suez via Paris, Mont Cenis and Brindisi, then to Bombay, Calcutta, UsefulNotes/HongKong, and Yokohama; from Yokohama to San Francisco and then to New York and from New York back to London. It must be accomplished in 80 days and the plan is to travel by rail or streamers. They also use an elephant, a small pilot-boat and a sledge with sails.
121	* WritersCannotDoMath: Plenty of mathematical errors were made by Verne. For example, in the first chapter, Phileas asks for the time to Passepartout, who responds with 11:22. Phileas claims he’s four minutes behind, and almost immediately after that says its 11:29 at the moment. That’s seven minutes. And later in the story, the apparent difference between 11:40 a.m. and 8:45 p.m. is nine hours and fifteen minutes (it’s supposed to be nine hours and ''five'' minutes).
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