History Fridge / TheWorldsEnd

** The sheer fact that Gary tries to pick a fight with a minor over nothing is horrifying enough. Imagine, if you will, that you're a teenager minding your own business being solicited by an older man in a bathroom to go drinking with him. You don't know how to respond, so you just keep quiet in hope that the strange man will eventually go away. Except he doesn't, and your lack of response only agitates him further, culminating in him directly confronting you and knocking your hat off. You finally muster up the courage to ask him to stop, which he ignores and then tries to grab you. Without the kid being an android who is unfazed by the entire situation, this scene would be absolutely horrifying for any teenager to experience.

** The sheer fact that Gary tries to pick a fight with a minor over nothing is horrifying enough.

*** To be fair again, the kid attacked him first.

* Sam's childhood crush Adrian Keen appears in The Mermaid in order to distract Sam or tempt her into staying but she is horrified by his appearance because the real Adrian died in a motorcycle accident years earlier. Since he appears the same age as the main characters then it can be assumed that he was made into a blank when he was forty or had enough DNA on file to accurately guess his age during the time of the event. Since the real Adrian died in an accident, it's not hard to assume that he tried to escape one of the Blank's bases to warn the rest of the world but died when he drove too fast during his escape. Or the Blanks ''caused'' the accident.

* When Gary tries to convince Oliver to come, Oliver claims that he probably has a doctor appointment at that day, whereupon Gary jokingly says that it's with [[IncrediblyLamePun Dr. Ink]]. In the end they really ''do'' run into some...''[[AlienBlood blue-inky]]'' guys.

* The blackout at the end isn't the Network taking back its technology; they only came in 1990, meaning that Earth was already advanced enough without them. Instead, they purposefully leave human technology far ''far'' worse off than when they even came, [[AliensAreBastards for no apparent reason other than sheer spite]].

* The blackout at the end isn't the Network taking back its technology; they only came in 1990, meaning that Earth was already advanced enough without them. Instead, they purposefully leave human technology far ''far'' worse off than when they even came, for no apparent reason other than sheer spite.

* The Network's attempts to silence the Five Musketeers get more and more over-the-top as the pub crawl progresses, starting with being pulled over by a cop, and leading to them being swarmed by a few teenagers, then an angry mob, then [[UpToEleven a gigantic Mecha]]. The Network's defence becomes more and more outlandish the drunker Gary and his friends get, because if they live and run away, no-one would ever believe that five drunks stumbled upon a genuine galactic conspiracy!

* The Blanks ''are'' slaves. Once they're released, they're NotSoDifferent from the Humans, as shown by Blank!Oliver FlippingTheBird.

* After the Network releases control, the blanks repair none of their injuries (e.g. Blank!Oliver's head). Given how fragile they are this means they are going to eventually collapse from small accumulated injuries.

* Also doubles as a Tearjerker of sorts. When the musketeers are in the fourth pub, Shane Hawkins, a childhood bully to Peter, comes over and asks if he can take one of their chairs. He doesn't recognise Peter, and the others let him take the chair, but Peter immediately recognises him as the terror of his youth. He's visibly uncomfortable about seeing him, and when the others press him for information about exactly why, Gary is the only one who actually reasons with him, and tells him that bottling up past trauma can lead to unhealthy coping strategies. First, this something that Gary King would NEVER know to say (he's hardly likely to be reading psychology textbooks in his spare time or anything), and it also serves a double purpose. It tells us Gary actually has some experience with this kind of psychology, hinting about the revelation that he himself bottled up his past misery and pain resulting in his suicide attempt, and he undoubtedly heard this phrase several times from therapists. But it also shows us that Gary recognised the same behaviour in Pete and wanted to stop him from making the same mistakes that he did too, trying to help Pete overcome his own pain while burying his own. And just to hammer it home, right after Gary says thsi to Pete, his eyes flick around the group and he adds '...apparently', as if trying to cover up that he knows more than his friends would expect of him. Gary recognised Pete's behaviour, warded him off the destructive choice of burying his feelings, and then buried his own past by claiming he had no idea what he was actually talking about, despite knowing full well what he was doing.

** ... and discover the true nature of the Network's HiveMind at the Beehive.
** Gary (The King) then attempts to finish the crawl alone at The King's Head.

* The Network's argument of "look at all this technology? Don't you love it? Don't you love us?!" was never going to work on Gary. He has the same car from when he graduated high school (20 years before), still uses cassette tapes and uses a 10-year-old cellphone (which doesn't even have a colour screen). He barely benefited from their technological advances. Which is why, when the Network asks Gary if he's noticed the proliferation of technology, his response is "nope". It also fits with the theme of his being stuck in the past.

** Also, the Network admits that a ''lot'' more humans (i.e. nearly all of them) have had to be replaced than had been anticipated. Could be that the invasion only brought sufficient materials to make a handful of Blanks per outpost, and had to stretch their supplie by crafting really shoddy Blanks.

** Agreed; Gary was intoxicated and depressed at the way the crawl was going and didn't fully realise what he was doing until it had actually happened.

** To be fair it did look like it was an accident that the kids head hit the urinal as they were falling.