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* LOL69: The number for the Infinite starts with 69 [[spoiler:Or at least Bill & Ted think it does. You actually reach the Infinite by pressing the Infinity key.)]]

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* LOL69: The number for the Infinite starts with 69 69. [[spoiler:Or at least Bill & Ted think it does. You actually reach the Infinite by pressing the Infinity key.)]]]]
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** Death’s demotion probably had something to do with it.

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** Death’s demotion The entire multiverse falling apart probably had something to do with it.
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* FutureMeScaresMe: Bill and Ted run into themselves in trying to get the song to change the world, but each time their futures seems worst then the last. [[spoiler:over the course of decades they go from washouts and alcoholics, to squatters and thieves, to angry (and weirdly ripped) prison inmates. The versions of them on their deathbed have mellowed out, however, and explain that none of the intervening years are set in stone.]]

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* FutureMeScaresMe: Bill and Ted run into themselves in trying to get the song to change the world, but each time their futures seems worst then than the last. [[spoiler:over [[spoiler:Over the course of decades they go from washouts and alcoholics, to squatters and thieves, to angry (and weirdly ripped) prison inmates. The versions of them on their deathbed have mellowed out, however, and explain that none of the intervening years are set in stone.]]

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* TheDividual: Bill and Ted are so attached at the hip, they say "We love you" to their wives, to the frustration of their marriage councilor. Billie and Thea are the same.

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* TheDividual: Bill and Ted are so attached at the hip, they say "We love you" to their wives, to the frustration of their marriage councilor. Billie and Thea are the same.same with each other, and call Bill and Ted "Dads".
** To a lesser extent, Jo and Liz. As princesses from the 15th century, they're the only ones who really understand each other's experience.
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* FreeSamplePlotCoupon: When Billie and Thea went through time to recruit musicians to help with the song that would unite the world, Music/LouisArmstrong needed the least coaxing to join. The others required at least a bit more effort.
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** Death’s demotion probably had something to do with it.
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* GenerationXerox: Billie and Thea end up going on their own time-traveling adventures that involve picking up historical figures.

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* GenerationXerox: Aside from the difference in chromosomes, Billie and Thea end up going are ''just'' like their dads, and they even go on their own time-traveling adventures that involve picking up historical figures.



** Although SanDimasTime is in effect and Bill and Ted have a fixed period of time to write their song, versions of themselves from the future reveal that [[spoiler:quantum entanglement means that there are an infinite number of realities existing at once, so present Bill and Ted aren't necessarily locked into the FutureLoser lives they glimpsed in their travels]].
** [[spoiler:Time doesn't seem to exist in Hell as the characters reunite there despite all dying in different time periods (Ted's father in 2025, Billie, Thea, Kelly and the musicians in 2020 and Bill, Ted and Dennis in 2067). When Death takes them back to life they're back in 2020.]]

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** Although SanDimasTime is in effect and Bill and Ted have a fixed period of time to write their song, versions of themselves from the future reveal that [[spoiler:quantum entanglement means that there are an infinite number of realities existing at once, so present Bill and Ted aren't necessarily locked into the FutureLoser lives they glimpsed in their travels]].
travels]]. This is in direct conflict with the Hard Deterministic, SelfFulfillingProphecy-style rules established in the first two films.
** [[spoiler:Time [[spoiler:[[PlaceBeyondTime Time doesn't seem to exist in Hell Hell]] as the characters reunite there despite all dying in different time periods (Ted's father in 2025, Billie, Thea, Kelly and the musicians in 2020 and Bill, Ted and Dennis in 2067). When Death takes them back to life they're back in 2020.]]
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** The film also continues the series RunningGag of Missy marrying a family member of Bill or Ted - this time, it's Ted's brother, Deacon.
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* ICouldaBeenAContender: It is revealed that Death had a falling out with Wyld Stallyns when the fame went to his head, leading to a restraining order against him. Because he basically broke the rules and snuck the both of them into Heaven in the last film, he was demoted and now lives alone in Hell, bereft of his friends and clearly missing his rocking days.
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* InventionalWisdom: The TerminatorImpersonator that the Great Leader sent to assassinate Bill and Ted can time-travel, has a disintegrator ray and is smart enough to identify Bill and Ted on-sight, but it was ''also'' given [[DoAndroidsDream a capacity to feel]] enough to where it felt guilt when he accidentally kills [[spoiler:Ted's father, Thea, Billie and the band they were putting together]] and then decides to commit suicide when it's given the chance to kill them. It was also given a full-name -- Dennis Caleb [=McCoy=] -- after Kelly's ex-boyfriend.
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* ApocalypseHow: Straight-up Class Z very nearly happens, as all of time and the infinite multiverse is very nearly wiped away. Luckily, the heroes succeed in stopping it, and reality is saved.
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-->'''Kid Cudi:''' So is this some kind of error in a holographic dual field? Or is it Wilsonian loop causing a temporal singularity?\\

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-->'''Kid Cudi:''' So is this some kind of error in a holographic dual field? Or is it a Wilsonian loop causing a temporal singularity?\\

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* BlackAndNerdy: Music/KidCudi demonstrates intimate familiarity with the science of time travel and can speak knowledgeably about the subject with Kelly.

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* BlackAndNerdy: Music/KidCudi demonstrates intimate familiarity with the science of time travel and can speak knowledgeably about the subject with Kelly.subject.
-->'''Kid Cudi:''' So is this some kind of error in a holographic dual field? Or is it Wilsonian loop causing a temporal singularity?\\
'''Billie:''' Well, it seems to me your classic tautological causal circuit!\\
'''Kid Cudi:''' I don't know. Seems like textbook entanglement to me.\\
'''Thea:''' I must say, your understanding of our dire circumstances is most impressive.

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* OutOfTimeOutOfMind: Bill and Ted get killed in 2067 so the other characters they reunite with and Hell should have been there for three decades but they don't seem that bothered.



* OutOfTimeOutOfMind: Bill and Ted get killed in 2067 so the other characters they reunite with and Hell should have been there for three decades but they don't seem that bothered.
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''Bill & Ted Face the Music'' is a SciFi comedy starring Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/AlexWinter. It is the long-awaited and third film in the ''Franchise/BillAndTed'' franchise, coming ''[[SequelGap 29 years]]'' after ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney''.

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''Bill & Ted Face the Music'' is a SciFi comedy starring Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/AlexWinter. It is the long-awaited and third film in the ''Franchise/BillAndTed'' franchise, coming ''[[SequelGap 29 years]]'' after ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney''.
''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney''. It was directed by Dean Parisot and written by franchise creators Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon.
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* AllForNothing: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with the events of the previous films. Despite all the help provided to ensure their success, Wyld Stallyns never managed to craft the song that would unite the world by the events of ''Face the Music'' and the band is in dire straits. However, Bill and Ted are still very close friends with a positive attitude in spite of everything, and it's clear that their lives are better than they would have been had Rufus never intervened all those years ago. [[spoiler:Things will [[FutureMeScaresMe go downhill]] '''swiftly''', however, if they fail in their mission, meaning the film is essentially the pair trying to prevent this trope from applying in full.]]
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* BroadStrokes: How the film treats the end credits of ''Bogus Journey''. Wyld Stallyns indeed put out albums following the climax of the second film, and Death indeed made his own poorly-received solo album, but they did not unite the world and the band faded into obscurity as their music was increasingly poorly received.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: The writers seem to.have forgotten what years the first two movies were set in;

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* WritersCannotDoMath: The writers seem to.to have forgotten what years the first two movies were set in;

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* SeriesContinuityError: The Rufus hologram mentions first meeting Bill and Ted in 1989. Though ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' was released in '89, it was explicitly set in 1988.



* WritersCannotDoMath: This movie's set in 2020 but the Great Leader mentions Bill and Ted did their concert 25 years ago meaning that ''Bogus Journey'' would have to be set in 1995. ''Bogus Journey'' inconsistently set itself in 1991[[note]]The year of release and the newspapers and magazines that appear during the credits are dated 1991[[/note]] and 1993[[note]]Ted says the princesses are celebrating their fifth year in the 20th century and they arrived in the first movie that was set in 1988[[/note]].

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* WritersCannotDoMath: The writers seem to.have forgotten what years the first two movies were set in;
** The Rufus hologram mentions first meeting Bill and Ted in 1989. Though ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' was released in '89, it was explicitly set in 1988.
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This movie's set in 2020 but the Great Leader mentions Bill and Ted did their concert 25 years ago meaning that ''Bogus Journey'' would have to be set in 1995. ''Bogus Journey'' inconsistently set itself in 1991[[note]]The year of release and the newspapers and magazines that appear during the credits are dated 1991[[/note]] and 1993[[note]]Ted says the princesses are celebrating their fifth year in the 20th century and they arrived in the first movie that was set in 1988[[/note]].
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* WritersCannotDoMath: This movie's set in 2020 but the Great Leader mentions Bill and Ted did their concert 25 years ago meaning that ''Bogus Journey'' would have to be set in 1995. ''Bogus Journey'' inconsistently set itself in 1991[[note]]The year of release and the newspapers and magazines that appear during the credits are dated 1991[[note]] and 1993[[/note]]Ted says the princesses are celebrating their fifth year in the 20th century and they arrived in the first movie that was set in 1988[[/note]].

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* WritersCannotDoMath: This movie's set in 2020 but the Great Leader mentions Bill and Ted did their concert 25 years ago meaning that ''Bogus Journey'' would have to be set in 1995. ''Bogus Journey'' inconsistently set itself in 1991[[note]]The year of release and the newspapers and magazines that appear during the credits are dated 1991[[note]] 1991[[/note]] and 1993[[/note]]Ted 1993[[note]]Ted says the princesses are celebrating their fifth year in the 20th century and they arrived in the first movie that was set in 1988[[/note]].
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* WritersCannotDoMath: This movie's set in 2020 but the Great Leader mentions Bill and Ted did their concert 25 years ago meaning that ''Bogus Journey'' would have to be set in 1995. ''Bogus Journey'' inconsistently set itself in 1991[[note]]The year of release and the newspapers and magazines that appear during the credits are dated 1991[[/note]] and 1993[[/note]]Ted says the princesses are celebrating their fifth year in the 20th century and they arrived in the first movie that was set in 1988[[/note]].

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* WritersCannotDoMath: This movie's set in 2020 but the Great Leader mentions Bill and Ted did their concert 25 years ago meaning that ''Bogus Journey'' would have to be set in 1995. ''Bogus Journey'' inconsistently set itself in 1991[[note]]The year of release and the newspapers and magazines that appear during the credits are dated 1991[[/note]] 1991[[note]] and 1993[[/note]]Ted says the princesses are celebrating their fifth year in the 20th century and they arrived in the first movie that was set in 1988[[/note]].
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* WritersCannotDoMath: This movie's set in 2020 but the Great Leader mentions Bill and Ted did their concert 25 years ago meaning that ''Bogus Journey'' would have to be set in 1995. ''Bogus Journey'' inconsistently set itself in 1991[[note]]The year of release and the newspapers and magazines that appear during the credits are dated 1991[[/note]] and 1993[[/note]]Ted says the princesses are celebrating their fifth year in the 20th century and they arrived in the first movie that was set in 1988[[/note]].
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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: With time running out, Bill and Ted look up Infinity in the directory and start the tedious process of dialing the full number, only for the princesses to point out that the phone booth as an Infinity button.
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* Contrasting sequel antagonist: [[spoiler: The new leader of the organisation that gave Bill and Ted the time machine in the first place is trying to kill them because she thinks their deaths will bring about utopia.]] Though she does send another robot assassin after them. Ted's dad is still being a Fantasy-Forbidding Father but he's in no position to send his adult son to military school.

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* Contrasting sequel antagonist: ContrastingSequelAntagonist: [[spoiler: The new leader of the organisation that gave Bill and Ted the time machine in the first place is trying to kill them because she thinks their deaths will bring about utopia.]] Though she does send another robot assassin after them. Ted's dad is still being a Fantasy-Forbidding Father but he's in no position to send his adult son to military school.
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* Contrasting sequel antagonist: [[spoiler: The new leader of the organisation that gave Bill and Ted the time machine in the first place is trying to kill them because she thinks their deaths will bring about utopia.]] Though she does send another robot assassin after them. Ted's dad is still being a Fantasy-Forbidding Father but he's in no position to send his adult son to military school.
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* DeadArtistsAreBetter: [[spoiler:The Great Leader decides to work with the theory that Bill and Ted's deaths will cause utopia and sends Dennis to assassinate them.]]


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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: [[spoiler:The Great Leader decides to work with the theory that Bill and Ted dying will cause utopia and tries to have them assassinated.]]

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* ChekhovsGun: When [[spoiler:Captain Logan]] gets shot, the police van gets destroyed and falls to Hell with him. The gang later drives it out of Hell.



* FantasyForbiddingFather: Ted's dad doesn't believe Bill and Ted's stories about time ravel or the afterlife. He thinks they should quit trying to unite the world and get jobs.

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* FantasyForbiddingFather: Ted's dad doesn't believe Bill and Ted's stories about time ravel or the afterlife. He thinks they should quit trying to unite the world and get jobs. [[spoiler:He later apologizes to the boys when he meets them in Hell.]]


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* MeanwhileInTheFuture: Occasionally cuts to the Great Leader monitoring thing from the future.
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* LOL69: The number for the Infinite starts with 69 [[spoiler]]Or at least Bill & Ted think it does. You actually reach the Infinite by pressing the Infinity key.)[[/spoiler]]

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* LOL69: The number for the Infinite starts with 69 [[spoiler]]Or [[spoiler:Or at least Bill & Ted think it does. You actually reach the Infinite by pressing the Infinity key.)[[/spoiler]])]]
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* ImprobableAge: Johnathan Logan, Ted's father was not particularly young even in the original movie. In this film he is apparently an active member of the San Dimas police force despite being in at least his late seventies (he isn't just manning a desk either - he goes out into the field with a SWAT team.)


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** Bill's father (Ian Preston) is also absent from the film and only briefly mentioned in passing with no indication about his present whereabout or whether the character is even still living.
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* RealityEnsues: Billie and Thea gather some of the greatest musicians from history, but their first attempts at playing together produce garbage because they haven't had any rehearsal or guidance.

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