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* INeedAFreakingDrink: Haber pounds some bourbon after Orr's dream about overcrowding results in six billion people, some 6/7 of the human race, vanishing into nonexistence. As he drinks he thinks about how in the previous reality there was no liquor, because all grain was required for food on the overcrowded Earth.
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* WhamLine: "[H]e had done just what she had told him to do. [[LiteralGenie She had told him to dream that the Aliens were no longer on the Moon]]."

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* AGodAmI: Haber comes to believe it, though he doesn't really have any power of his own.



* AGodAmI: Haber comes to believe it, though he doesn't really have any power of his own.



* StarfishAliens: They invade the Earth... and then, thanks to a just-in-time dream, they turn out to be peaceful.
* StrawmanPolitical: If Haber is meant to represent utilitarianism and Western rationalism.



* StarfishAliens: They invade the Earth... and then, thanks to a just-in-time dream, they turn out to be peaceful.
* StrawmanPolitical: If Haber is meant to represent utilitarianism and Western rationalism.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The world is at peace. While Orr's not married to Heather in the final reality and Dr. Haber is in a mental institution, at least she exists in this world. He's also happy at his job working for an alien designing household goods and is free from Haber's influence.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The world is at peace. While Orr's not married to Heather in the final reality and Dr. Haber is in a mental institution, at least she exists in this world.world and he has the opportunity to pursue a relationship with her. He's also happy at his job working for an alien designing household goods and is free from Haber's influence.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: While he's not married to Heather in the final reality and Dr. Haber is in a mental institution, at least she exists in this world. He's also happy at his job working for an alien designing household goods and is free from Haber's influence.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The world is at peace. While he's Orr's not married to Heather in the final reality and Dr. Haber is in a mental institution, at least she exists in this world. He's also happy at his job working for an alien designing household goods and is free from Haber's influence.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: While he's not married to Heather in the final reality, at least she exists in this world. He's also happy at his job working for an alien designing household goods.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: While he's not married to Heather in the final reality, reality and Dr. Haber is in a mental institution, at least she exists in this world. He's also happy at his job working for an alien designing household goods.goods and is free from Haber's influence.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: While he's not married to Heather in the final reality, at least she exists in this world. He's also happy at his job working for an alien designing household goods.]]
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* ApocalypseHow: of various sorts

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* ApocalypseHow: of Of various sortssorts. All of the following are involved in at least one reality: [[spoiler:global climate change due to pollution, overpopulation and food shortages, a third World War, nukes, widespread radiation sickness, global plague which kills upwards of 5 billion people, aliens (complete with space battles, a moon base, and an invasion), a goddamn volcano, and whatever weirdness The Break is.]]

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