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* MeaningfulName: Diktor, short for "Dictator."
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* {{Chronoscope}}: The Time Gate can be used to look backward and forward in time as well as to travel to the time shown.
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* HaveWeMetYet: Bob and [[spoiler: Arma]].
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* HaveWeMetYet: Bob and [[spoiler: Arma]].[[spoiler:Arma]].
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* KarmaHoudini: Bob is generally a mean guy; he starts a nasty (few) fight(s) during the story, displays an abusive relation with women, and even goes so far as to [[spoiler:enslave the entire human population of the future in preparation for a clash with "Diktor", the man who had ruled the Earth prior to Bob's jumping 10 years in the past of that time]]. [[DontExplainTheJoke The central irony of this being that]] [[spoiler:in doing so, Bob himself becomes "Diktor" and sets out to prepare his past self to do the same.]] Somewhat subverted considering that the most important people he slights during the story are actually just [[spoiler:versions of himself from varying timeframes]].
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* KarmaHoudini: Bob is generally a mean guy; he starts a nasty (few) fight(s) during the story, displays an abusive relation with women, and even goes so far as to [[spoiler:enslave the entire human population of the future in preparation for a clash with "Diktor", the man who had ruled the Earth prior to Bob's jumping 10 years in the past of that time]]. [[DontExplainTheJoke The central irony of this being that]] [[spoiler:in doing so, Bob himself becomes "Diktor" and sets out to prepare his past self to do the same.]] same]]. Somewhat subverted considering that the most important people he slights during the story are actually just [[spoiler:versions of himself from varying timeframes]].
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* OtherMeAnnoysMe: The first half of the story consists of the interaction between Bob Wilson and some of his past and future selves, due to a very convoluted TimeTravel plot. The scene is retold several times, each from the point of view of a different version of Bob -- who consistently thinks his past selves are idiots and his future selves are arrogant pricks. It comes to blows eventually. And this would be the man who [[spoiler:rules the Earth in the future? Diktor, the future dictator Bob considers a jerk and tries to double-cross, is Bob himself]].
* PortalCut: The time gate has an unusual form of this. The edge of the portal has no physical solidity, so if an object won't fit through the gate, the part that fits through the time gate does so, while the rest of it just keeps on moving in its original space-time and gets left behind. The result is something like being sheared with an infinitely sharp knife. [[spoiler:Fortunately, nothing more important than a printing of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's autobiography ''Mein Kampf'' is destroyed due to this.]]
* SanDimasTime: Diktor apparently tried to invoke San Dimas Time on his predecessor self, but was rebuffed by with the line "How can we waste time when we have ''this''?", so he smoothed it over with fast talk and invocation of authority. It was worth a shot, since the protagonist is [[spoiler:essentially every single important character in the story]] -- his own personal clock keeps ticking, meaning things need to happen precisely when they did/will/must happen.
* PortalCut: The time gate has an unusual form of this. The edge of the portal has no physical solidity, so if an object won't fit through the gate, the part that fits through the time gate does so, while the rest of it just keeps on moving in its original space-time and gets left behind. The result is something like being sheared with an infinitely sharp knife. [[spoiler:Fortunately, nothing more important than a printing of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's autobiography ''Mein Kampf'' is destroyed due to this.]]
* SanDimasTime: Diktor apparently tried to invoke San Dimas Time on his predecessor self, but was rebuffed by with the line "How can we waste time when we have ''this''?", so he smoothed it over with fast talk and invocation of authority. It was worth a shot, since the protagonist is [[spoiler:essentially every single important character in the story]] -- his own personal clock keeps ticking, meaning things need to happen precisely when they did/will/must happen.
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* TemporalDuplication: Because of time travel, there are three different versions of the same person (at different points in their lifespans) in the same place at the same time.
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* TongueTwister: Bob Wilson demonstrates that he ''is'' drunk by reciting "Peter Piper", and having it come out "Peter Piper pepped a pick of pippered peckles".
* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: Bob is introduced to time travel by a man from the future, and shortly finds himself meeting himself twice, and each self gets trapped into saying and doing the same things he saw and heard said before. Eventually, [[spoiler:he gets the drop on the man who introduced him to time travel by traveling into that man's past 10 years, only to find out he's waiting for himself]].
* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: Bob is introduced to time travel by a man from the future, and shortly finds himself meeting himself twice, and each self gets trapped into saying and doing the same things he saw and heard said before. Eventually, [[spoiler:he gets the drop on the man who introduced him to time travel by traveling into that man's past 10 years, only to find out he's waiting for himself]].
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* ConquerorFromTheFuture: Inverted. The main character is brought from the present to the far future and becomes [[spoiler:the world's "Diktor" (dictator)]]. Apparently the people from the future have become too soft, following a massive alien invasion.
* EldritchAbomination: The High Ones are [[ImpliedTrope implied]] to be this.
* EldritchAbomination: The High Ones are [[ImpliedTrope implied]] to be this.
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* BrownNote: Bob gets one brief glimpse of the aliens who ruled Earth in a bygone age, and is so badly shaken by it that he thereafter appears to have aged considerably.
* ConquerorFromTheFuture: Inverted.The main character Bob is brought from the present to the far future and becomes [[spoiler:the world's "Diktor" (dictator)]]. Apparently Apparently, the people from the future have become too soft, following a massive alien invasion.
* EldritchAbomination: The High Ones are[[ImpliedTrope implied]] {{implied|Trope}} to be this.
* ConquerorFromTheFuture: Inverted.
* EldritchAbomination: The High Ones are
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* TimeyWimeyBall: The protagonist exploits a time machine to move himself forward in time. Simple enough. The MindScrew comes in when [[spoiler: he does this by his future self sending back his intermediate self to persuade his past self to enter the machine's portal. When the past self becomes the intermediate self, he attempts to double cross the future self, but that double cross naturally results in him becoming the future self.]] Follow all that?
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* TimeyWimeyBall: The protagonist exploits a time machine to move himself forward in time. Simple enough. The MindScrew comes in when [[spoiler: he [[spoiler:he does this by his future self sending back his intermediate self to persuade his past self to enter the machine's portal. When the past self becomes the intermediate self, he attempts to double cross the future self, but that double cross naturally results in him becoming the future self.]] self]]. Follow all that?
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* FutureSelfReveal: [[spoiler:As the result of TimeTravel shenanigans involving a TimeMachine and a StableTimeLoop, Bob meets three different men and eventually realizes that each of them is one of his future selves.]]
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"By His Bootstraps" is a short story by Creator/RobertAHeinlein first published in 1941. It deals with Bob, a student and all-round terrible person, who suddenly finds himself faced with the idea of a time portal and several strange men in his bedroom. At the other end, 30000 years into the future, lies an {{Arcadia}} ripe for the taking, and a man named Diktor is willing to give him half of the future land.
The story became the TropeCodifier for the StableTimeLoop idea, and was the former TropeNamer for the page. It is also where the phrase "bootstrap paradox" comes from.
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The story became the TropeCodifier for the StableTimeLoop idea, and
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* EldritchAbomination: The High Ones are implied [[ImpliedTrope implied]] to be this.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: A modern reader might guess the twist from the very beginning and therefore find the story uninteresting - however, it doesn't take into account that Heinlein was one of the very first (if not the first) people to employ it.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: A modern reader might guess the twist from the very beginning and therefore find the story uninteresting - however, it doesn't take into account that Heinlein was one of the very first (if not the first) people to employ it.
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The story became the TropeCodifier for the StableTimeLoop idea, and was the former TropeNamer for the page.
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page. It is also where the phrase "bootstrap paradox" comes from.
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* IHatePastMe: Bob is not impressed when he sees himself from the outside.
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* ConquerorFromTheFuture: Inverted. The main character is brought from the present to the far future and becomes [[spoiler:the world's "Diktor" (dictator)]]. Apparently the people from the future have become too soft, following a massive alien invasion.
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* AlienGeometry: The rooms of the High Ones in the palace are so unusual that Bob quickly decides not to enter them again.
* ConquerorFromTheFuture: Inverted. The main character is brought from the present to the far future and becomes [[spoiler:the world's "Diktor" (dictator)]]. Apparently the people from the future have become too soft, following a massive alieninvasion. invasion.
* EldritchAbomination: The High Ones are implied to be this.
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* ImportedAlienPhlebotinum: The Time Gate.
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* KarmaHoudini: Bob is generally a mean guy; he starts a nasty (few) fight(s) during the story, displays an abusive relation with women, and even goes so far as to [[spoiler:enslave the entire human population of the future in preparation for a clash with "Diktor", the man who had ruled the Earth prior to Bob's jumping 10 years in the past of that time]]. [[DontExplainTheJoke The central irony of this being that]] [[spoiler:in doing so, Bob himself becomes "Diktor" and sets out to prepare his past self to do the same.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: Bob is generally a mean guy; he starts a nasty (few) fight(s) during the story, displays an abusive relation with women, and even goes so far as to [[spoiler:enslave the entire human population of the future in preparation for a clash with "Diktor", the man who had ruled the Earth prior to Bob's jumping 10 years in the past of that time]]. [[DontExplainTheJoke The central irony of this being that]] [[spoiler:in doing so, Bob himself becomes "Diktor" and sets out to prepare his past self to do the same.]]]] Somewhat subverted considering that the most important people he slights during the story are actually just [[spoiler:versions of himself from varying timeframes]].
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* KarmaHoudini: Bob is generally a mean guy; he starts a nasty (few) fight(s) during the story, displays an abusive relation with women, and even goes so far as to [[spoiler:enslave the entire human population of the future in preparation for a clash with "Diktor", the man who had ruled the Earth prior to Bob's jumping 10 years in the past of that time]]. The central irony of this being that [[spoiler:in doing so, Bob himself becomes "Diktor" and sets out to prepare his past self to do the same.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: Bob is generally a mean guy; he starts a nasty (few) fight(s) during the story, displays an abusive relation with women, and even goes so far as to [[spoiler:enslave the entire human population of the future in preparation for a clash with "Diktor", the man who had ruled the Earth prior to Bob's jumping 10 years in the past of that time]]. [[DontExplainTheJoke The central irony of this being that that]] [[spoiler:in doing so, Bob himself becomes "Diktor" and sets out to prepare his past self to do the same.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: Bob is generally a nasty guy, especially in the way he treats -- and even abuses -- women.
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* KarmaHoudini: Bob is generally a mean guy; he starts a nasty guy, especially in (few) fight(s) during the way he treats -- story, displays an abusive relation with women, and even abuses -- women. goes so far as to [[spoiler:enslave the entire human population of the future in preparation for a clash with "Diktor", the man who had ruled the Earth prior to Bob's jumping 10 years in the past of that time]]. The central irony of this being that [[spoiler:in doing so, Bob himself becomes "Diktor" and sets out to prepare his past self to do the same.]]
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"By His Bootstraps" is a short story by Creator/RobertAHeinlein first published in 1941.
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"By His Bootstraps" is a short story by Creator/RobertAHeinlein first published in 1941.
1941. It deals with Bob, a student and all-round terrible person, who suddenly finds himself faced with the idea of a time portal and several strange men in his bedroom. At the other end, 30000 years into the future, lies an {{Arcadia}} ripe for the taking, and a man named Diktor is willing to give him half of the future land.
The story became the TropeCodifier for the StableTimeLoop idea, and was the former TropeNamer for the page.
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* ConquerorFromTheFuture: Inverted. The main character is brought from the present to the far future and becomes the world's "dictor" (dictator). Apparently the people from the future have become too soft or something.
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* ConquerorFromTheFuture: Inverted. The main character is brought from the present to the far future and becomes the [[spoiler:the world's "dictor" (dictator). "Diktor" (dictator)]]. Apparently the people from the future have become too soft or something.soft, following a massive alien invasion.
*HaveWeMetYetHaveWeMetYet: Bob and [[spoiler: Arma]].
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* KarmaHoudini: Bob is generally a nasty guy, especially in the way he treats -- and even abuses -- women.
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* OneDegreeOfSeparationOneDegreeOfSeparation: The story's main draw.
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* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: Bob Wilson sees one of the High Ones through a time viewer and almost loses his mind. It was the emotions the High One was feeling that caused his discomfort - an overwhelming mixture of sadness, tragedy, grief and weariness.
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* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: Bob Wilson sees one of the High Ones through a time viewer and almost loses his mind. It was the emotions the High One was feeling emotion of seeing something so powerful and advanced that caused his discomfort - -- an overwhelming mixture of sadness, tragedy, grief and weariness.
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* TimeyWimeyBallTimeyWimeyBall: The protagonist exploits a time machine to move himself forward in time. Simple enough. The MindScrew comes in when [[spoiler: he does this by his future self sending back his intermediate self to persuade his past self to enter the machine's portal. When the past self becomes the intermediate self, he attempts to double cross the future self, but that double cross naturally results in him becoming the future self.]] Follow all that?
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* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnowTheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: Bob Wilson sees one of the High Ones through a time viewer and almost loses his mind. It was the emotions the High One was feeling that caused his discomfort - an overwhelming mixture of sadness, tragedy, grief and weariness.
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* TemporalParadoxTemporalParadox: Among other hijinks, the main character gets a book from the future, which he copies into another one (the same one, when it's new?) when it becomes too old and falling apart. A good way to avoid an object-based ontological paradox.
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* StableTimeLoopStableTimeLoop: Also known as the "Bootstrap Paradox" because of this story.
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* MyFutureSelfAndMeMyFutureSelfAndMe: A man's future selves go back and meet his past self for various reasons.
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