This book is a fuckin trip
Tropes present inThe Last Resort include:
- Alternate Self
- A Million Is a Statistic
- Anachronism Stew
- Apocalypse How
- Can't Kill You, Still Need You
- Conqueror from the Future: Well, Good Times Inc. are ethics-lacking capitalists from the future.
- The Constant: Sabbath, and oh is he ever sanctimonious about it.
- Expendable Alternate Universe: So many. So very, very, many.
- Expendable Clone: Almost everyone gets extremely prone to dying, just because almost everyone suddenly has all these doppelgangers. Or else can teleport and therefore safely make fun of everyone else's mortality rate.
- For Want Of A Nail: The quantum physics concept that every decision anyone makes creates an alternate universe where a different outcome occurred is taken very literally, and in this case the multiverse is collapsing as every alternate universe smashes into each other. And, most specifically, the Doctor breaks reality by stepping out of the TARDIS (the only place where causality is safe) because he couldn't bear to watch one version of Anji and Fitz being murdered, and tried to save them. This created two universes: one where the Doctor left the TARDIS, and one where he didn't, and they infinitely multiplied as Eight tried to fix the past via the TARDIS and only made things worse.
- Giving Radio to the Romans: Ancient Egypt experiences quite a few massive technological advancements. The older generations who remember life before Good Times arrived are scorned by the young people, who enjoy the perks of cars, clubs and modern recreational drugs.
- Grandfather Paradox
- Have We Met Yet?: Mostly due to the abundance of alt-universe versions of our heroes running around, and compounded by the time-traveling
- Plucky Boy: Jack Kowazcki, fourteen years old and the father of modern time travel.
- Reset-Button Suicide Mission: Every other version of Eight, Anji, Fitz, Jack, and Iyeeye must die in order for one stable universe to be created with only one of each of them.
- Ripple Effect Indicator
