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[[caption-width-right:350: [[Series/TheBigBangTheory Oh no, not Morlocks! Not flesh-eating Morlocks!]] '''''HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!''''']]
* George goes forward in time...only to discover his best friend has died [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI in some war with Germany.]]
* George again goes forward in time, only for the house to be destroyed in a fire. He stops and finds his town being blown to [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII bits in another war.]]
* The nuclear war is somewhat jarring.
** George first arrives in a futuristic and prosperous 1966...only for his whole town to be obliterated in a violent atomic blast. The blast is so destructive it causes a volcanic eruption, and George barely escapes from being burned to death.
** The rings tell of a nuclear war that was so destructive that it brought humanity to the brink of extinction, with the air too poisonous to breathe.
* At the end we're treated to a sped-up scene of a Morlock decaying ''rapidly''.
* None of the Eloi lifting a finger to help Weena as she's drowning. They don't see the point, not even Weena (who wonders why George even bothered at all).
* The JumpScare when we first see the Morlocks has chilled the blood of more than a few viewers over the years. The masters of the Eloi, a race of vicious cannibalistic apes.
** The mass grave of the Morlocks previous victims.
* How do the Morlocks get the Eloi into the tunnels in the film? By conditioning them to come to them by playing an air raid siren [[MagicalFlutist Pied Piper]] style.