History Film / TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005

** The [[Franchise/StarWars lightsabre]] toasters, complete with authentic Lucas sound effects.

* DeathByAdaptation: In the [[AdaptationalVillainy book and television]] series Frankie and Benjy, the two hyper-intelligent mice that commissioned Earth's construction, wanted the Ultimate Question from the only surviving component, Arthur, [[BrainTheft by extracting his brain]]. Arthur flees, forcing the two to scam the fifth-dimensional television networks with a ''fake'' Ultimate Question. In the film they're played by HumanoidAliens Lunkwill and Fook, both are killed by Arthur when they attempt to remove his brain. This is a ''[[{{Consistency}} bit silly]]'' and is PlayedForLaughs as we see their [[SquashedFlat pancaked forms]] when creator [[WordOfGod Douglas Adams]] stated they are '''vast''' pan-dimensional beings. The mice we see are merely their protrusions, looking into our dimension. You'd be unable to kill them, no more than able to kill ThePeepingTom by flicking them on the nose.

* DeathByAdaptation: In the [[AdaptationalVillainy book and television]] series Frankie and Benjy, the two hyper-intelligent mice that commissioned Earth's construction, wanted the Ultimate Question from the only surviving competent, Arthur, [[BrainTheft by extracting his brain]]. Arthur flees, forcing the two to scam the fifth-dimensional television networks with a ''fake'' Ultimate Question. In the film they're played by HumanoidAliens Lunkwill and Fook, both are killed by Arthur when they attempt to remove his brain. This is a ''[[{{Consistency}} bit silly]]'' and is PlayedForLaughs as we see their [[SquashedFlat pancaked forms]] when creator [[WordOfGod Douglas Adams]] stated they are '''vast''' pan-dimensional beings. The mice we see are merely their protrusions, looking into our dimension. You'd be unable to kill them, no more than able to kill ThePeepingTom by flicking them on the nose.

* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:Arthur is offered the opportunity to return to a re-creation of his home on Earth, exactly like he left it (well, without the imminent demolition by Prosser). He chooses to stay with Ford, Zaphod and Trillian and continue exploring the galaxy.]]

* AccidentalHero: Marvin ends up saving the day [[spoiler:by inadvertently firing the POV gun at the Vogons and making them as depressed as him]].

** The Vogon guard who grabs Ford and Arthur telling them [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration "Resistance is useless."]]

* DisneyDeath: During the climax Marvin gets shot in the back of the head by the Vogons. He collapses onto the ground and his eyelights extinguish, leading everyone to assume he's dead. A few minutes later he reboots and turns the P.O.V. Gun on the Vogons.

* {{Eagleland}}: Mixed variety. Trillian is American (as she was on the TV version), whom Arthur adores, while Zaphod acts like a JerkAss American stereotype (not surprising considering he's played by Sam Rockwell). Ford, too, is a sympathetic American type of TheStoner variety. As the director commented, the only character who absolutely '''needed''' to remain British was Arthur.

* FakeOutOpening: The film actually has ''two'' title sequences. If you excised the entire dolphin musical number, there would be no loss, except for a damned catchy song.
* FantasticFirearms: PlayedForLaughs with the Point-Of-View Gun, which when fired at someone causes that person to see things from the perspective of the person who fired it. When Zaphod attempts to fire it at Trillian, she notes (or perhaps bluffs) that it doesn't work on her because she's "already a woman" and therefore automatically knows what his point of view is. [[TheEeyore Marvin]] saves the day at the climax by [[spoiler: setting it on wide-shot mode and afflicting all the vogon soldiers attacking the group with his Manic Depression.]]

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: After Ford explains to the barman that the Earth is going to be destroyed, as Ford leaves you can hear the barman call out "last orders then".

* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:Arthur is offered the opportunity to return to a recreation of his home on Earth, exactly like he left it (well, without the imminent demolition by Prosser). He chooses to stay with Ford, Zaphod and Trillian and continue exploring the galaxy.]]
* IToldYouSo: When the portal on Magrathea stops working preventing Arthur from following the others:

* ImmuneToMindControl: Marvin the Paranoid Android in the movie isn't attacked by the spade-shaped things on Vogsphere that rise from the ground and smack the other characters in the face whenever they have ideas. WordOfGod explains that this is a psychic creature that feeds on original thought, which is why the Vogons have evolved to be exceptionally dull, and thus become the bureaucrats of the galaxy. Presumably Marvin isn't affected because of his inorganic brain.

-->"Often, this section is preceded by the words, 'In a world' ...[earth explodes] but sometimes not."

* InternalReveal: Trillian learns Earth was destroyed, and that it was because of Zaphod signed the approval for its destruction thinking they want his autograph. Arthur was there but kept it a secret from Trillian (partly under threat by Zaphod), then found out the truth from Trillian after they rescued her. Even Zaphod didn't know what he'd done until Trillian called him out.

* LampshadeHanging: Ford is played in an American accent by American actor Mos Def; his mentioning having come "not from Guildford after all" (albeit from Brooklyn, rather than a small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse) takes on a slightly surreal edge presumably unintended by Adams. Later, Arthur mentions wondering about Ford's atypical accent.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Trillian, as played by Creator/ZooeyDeschanel. [[spoiler:Deconstructed later when she realizes the "boring" [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan Arthur cares far more for her than the spontaneous Zaphod]].]]

* MediumShiftGag: After the Infinite Improbability Drive is used to jump to Viltvodle VI, everything is animated in stop motion yarn for a few seconds. Arthur gets nauseous, and the art cuts back to live action just as he vomits a yarn ball, leaving him with a yarn thread sticking out of his teeth.

** Right before the Earth is destroyed by the Vogons, we get an AstronomicZoom that goes from ground level to seeing the entire earth in a dramatic series of ''fifty-five'' jump-cuts. With every single beat.

* PragmaticAdaptation: Zaphod's second head and third arm are made infinitely discreet, so that 1) Zaphod could visit Earth without anyone taking a second glance, and 2) It looks too goofy in practice, and allowed Sam Rockwell to act without having to deal with extra prosthetics.

* PunchClockVillain: Invoked ''literally'' by the Vogon as [[spoiler: Zaphod and crew escape the Vogsphere, the Vogon President [[ItMakesSenseInContext takes a bit of crab to the face]]. He then decides to lead the hunt for Zaphod "personally", but is interrupted by the whistles announcing lunch. All the Vogon immediately stop working, giving the heroes at least an hour headstart. The Vogons may be all about revenge for slights, but ''won't'' work through lunch!]]

** Ford Prefect is now played by a black American. The director/producers figured since Ford is an alien it doesn't really matter what his race is. It makes Arthur's comment "So, you're ''not'' from Guildford", and remarking Ford's accent was sort of off, even funnier.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The Scintillating Jewelled Scuttling Crabs, which the Vogon enjoy smashing to bits with mallets. When Zaphod, Marvin, Ford and Arthur crash-land on Vogsphere, one crab starts running towards them, jumping and saying "yeah!", perhaps hoping to be taken away from the planet of abusers, [[HopeSpot but it gets crushed by the dropship's door]].

* RobotBuddy: As usual Marvin is a DeconstructiveParody of this trope.

--> '''Marvin''': I don't know what all the fuss is about, Vogons are the worst marksmen in the galaxy. [''Zap''] Ow.

** ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'': The ''Heart of Gold'' resembles the Aries 1B Lunar Carrier and the frontal section of the ''Discovery'' with its dropships. According to the DVD commentary, the slapping creatures in Vogsphere are also meant to be anti-Monoliths; instead of inspiring evolution, they made the Vogon unimaginative.

* StiffUpperLip: You can see Creator/DouglasAdams' mother sitting outside a cafe reading a paper even as the world ends. [[spoiler:And is equally stoic when the world is remade -- as if expecting it would be a minor inconvenience at best.]]

* TrickedIntoSigning: The President of the Galaxy (the vain Zaphod Beeblebrox) signed the document authorizing the destruction of Earth while thinking he was giving an autograph -- though it's unclear whether someone deliberately tricked him, or if he's just that dim and just assumed it was an autograph.
* UngratefulBitch: Trillian, after the rest came to rescue her. Though this is justified, since she found out that Zaphod is the reason Earth was destroyed. Although she's also angry at Arthur for not telling her about it, and becomes exasperated by his spinelessness when he explain that Zaphod threatened him if he told her.

** In-universe, Arthur thinks Zaphod's exclamations of "Humma Kavula!" are a strange curse word.
** Arthur also thinks Zaphod wanting to show Trillian his spaceship is sexy innuendo as well.

* DisneyDeath: During the climax Marvin gets shot in the back of the head by the Vogons. He collapses onto the ground and his eyelights extinguish leading everyone to assume he's dead. A few minutes later he reboots and turns the P.O.V. Gun on the Vogons.

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Trish [=McMillian=] shortened her name to "Trillian" because it sounded "spacey".

* AlienSky: The sunset on Magrathea [[https://media.nature.com/lw800/magazine-assets/d41586-019-02969-8/d41586-019-02969-8_17222542.jpg is quite pretty]] once you put aside you're freezing next to a maniacally depressed robot.

* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: Ford approaches Arthur with a shopping trolley filled with cans of beer and packets of peanuts. In the book he explains that these are necessary for combatting TeleportationSickness but not here. With teleportation not being mentioned, we also aren't told how Arthur and Ford got on board the Vogon ship.

** Ford's name is still associated with the idea that he thought that cars were the native intelligent life on Earth. However, the film never mentions his full name as Ford Prefect as that reference to an actual Ford model would not be recognizable to modern audiences. And unlike the late 1970s when there were likely still quite a few of these models on the British road, the same could not be said for 2005 and Ford would have been unlikely to have even heard of them in the time that he would have been on Earth.[[note]]Ford Prefects were make in the UK between 1938 and 1961. In the original versions of the story, Ford had been on Earth for about 15 years. So when he first arrived in the early to mid 60s, there was likely a significant number of these cars still around. The movie version, even if he's been on Earth that long, would have arrived in the early 90s by the time of which this model car had totally faded into obscurity.[[/note]]

* BalefulPolymorph: Happens briefly to the main cast a couple of times, courtesy of the Infinite Improbability Drive.
-->'''Arthur:''' Ford... I think I'm a sofa.
-->'''Ford:''' I know how you feel.

** Gag Halfrunt is quoted in the book. Here, he is shown on a monitor, acting a little different.

** Ford's name is still associated with the idea that he thought that cars were the native intelligent life on Earth. However, the film never mentions his full name as Ford Prefect as that reference to an actual Ford model would not be recognizable to modern audiences. And unlike the late 1970s when there were likely still quite a few of these models on the British road, the same could not be said for 2005 and Ford would have been unlikely to have even heard of them in the time that he would have been on Earth.