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* TemporalParadox: Averted. Jimmy used the time machine to go back in time and raise his younger self as his own son. This is not quite a StableTimeLoop in that he also prevented his younger self from using the SQUID to implant himself with his father's memories, therefore ensuring that he himself never came into existence. Of course, by this point, the universe's failure to [[TimeCrash implode properly]] is the least of the world's problems.
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* DepopulationBomb / DoomsdayDevice: At face value, the Killotron is a device which inexplicably kills all human life in the universe. However, with the proper preparations, it can be used to prune off alternate quantum possibilities and thus control entropy. The upshot of this is that proper use of the Killotron can apparently result in Utopia.
* DespairEventHorizon / DrivenToSuicide: After Jimmy learns the truth about the world, there's a choice panel where one choice has him succumb to this and kill himself.

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* DepopulationBomb / DoomsdayDevice: DepopulationBomb: At face value, the Killotron is a device which inexplicably kills all human life in the universe. However, with the proper preparations, it can be used to prune off alternate quantum possibilities and thus control entropy. The upshot of this is that proper use of the Killotron can apparently result in Utopia.
* DespairEventHorizon / DrivenToSuicide: After Jimmy learns the truth about the world, there's a choice panel where one choice has him succumb to this the DespairEventHorizon and kill himself.
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** Also the alternate ending, an infinite loop hidden in plain sight on one page spread. In it, Jimmy finds Ultima, a Utopian world free of entropy. On this note, during the argument between Jimmy and his past self, there is one panel that cannot ever be reached normally where one of the two Jimmies says "Ultima" for no apparent reason. This is potentially a clue to the above-mentioned alternate ending for those who know what it's a ShoutOut to (see below).

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** Also the alternate ending, an infinite loop hidden in plain sight on one page spread. In it, Jimmy finds Ultima, a Utopian world free of entropy. On this note, during the argument between Jimmy and his past self, there is one panel that cannot ever be reached normally where one of the two Jimmies says "Ultima" for no apparent reason. This is potentially a clue to the above-mentioned alternate ending for those who know what it's a ShoutOut to (see below).to.

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* MundaneUtility: The Doomsday Machine also makes ice cream.
** It controls entropy, which allows it to reconfigure matter. [[Manga/{{Bokurano}} And it destroys entire parallel worlds to do so.]]

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cream. It controls entropy, which allows it to reconfigure matter. [[Manga/{{Bokurano}} And it destroys entire parallel worlds to do so.]]

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* EasterEgg: [[http://www.shigabooks.com/interactive/meanwhile/41.html Page 41]] and [[http://www.shigabooks.com/interactive/meanwhile/47.html page 47]]. There are links (tabs) that go to these pages, but none of them are reachable from the start.

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[[http://www.shigabooks.com/interactive/meanwhile/41.html Page 41]] and [[http://www.shigabooks.com/interactive/meanwhile/47.html page 47]]. There are links (tabs) that go to these pages, but none of them are reachable from the start.



* TheFoodPoisoningIncident: If Jimmy eats the chocolate ice cream, this kicks off the plot when he needs to use Professor K's bathroom. It's later revealed that the ice cream was bad due to the ice cream man eating out of the vat and [[{{Squick}} using his bare hands to do so]].

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* TheFoodPoisoningIncident: If Jimmy eats the chocolate ice cream, this kicks off the plot when he needs to use Professor K's bathroom. It's later revealed that the ice cream was bad due to the ice cream man eating out of the vat and [[{{Squick}} using with his bare hands to do so]].hands.
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!!This comicbook provides examples of:
* AllForNothing: Jimmy's true father spent his last moments building the recieving end of the time machine so his son could build the other half and go back in time to stop the Killotron. Years later, Jimmy is despondent even after completing the time machine since no matter what he tried to open the Killotron from the outside, ''nothing'' could even dent it, including an H-Bomb. This means that the global tragedy cannot be averted.

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!!This comicbook comic book provides examples of:
* AllForNothing: Jimmy's true father spent his last moments building the recieving receiving end of the time machine so his son could build the other half and go back in time to stop the Killotron. Years later, Jimmy is despondent even after completing the time machine since no matter what he tried to open the Killotron from the outside, ''nothing'' could even dent it, including an H-Bomb. This means that the global tragedy cannot be averted.

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