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* TheAlcoholic - The mysterious Yellow-Card Man, as well as Jake's ex-wife.
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* * [[spoiler: BadFuture / CrapsackWorld]] - The result of Kennedy being saved.
* * [[spoiler: BadFuture / CrapsackWorld]] - The result of Kennedy being saved.
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* [[spoiler: NukeEm]] - [[spoiler:The result of the change is that George "Segregation Forever" Wallace is elected in 1968 instead of Nixon. He decides to end the Vietnam War by nuking Hanoi. With the nuclear genie out of the bag, everyone gets in on the act - Pakistan and India start nuking each other until the rest of the world threats to nuke ''both'' unless they stop. And Miami is destroyed by Al Qaeda.]]
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* [[spoiler:RelationshipResetButton]] - [[spoiler:Jake goes back to undo his changes to the time-line, thus erasing his relationship with Sadie. He meets her in the present where she's now an old woman and shares one last dance with her.]]
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*** One of the cars seen in the CrapsackWorld [[spoiler:CrapsackWorld]] is a Takura Spirit, also from The Dark Tower series.
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* [[spoiler: NukeEm NukeEm]] - The [[spoiler:The result of the change is that George "Segregation Forever" Wallace is elected in 1968 instead of Nixon. He decides to end the Vietnam War by nuking Hanoi. With the nuclear genie out of the bag, everyone gets in on the act - Pakistan and India start nuking each other until the rest of the world threats to nuke ''both'' unless they stop. And Miami is destroyed by Al Qaeda.]]
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** Life turns on a dime.
** The past harmonizes.
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** The past harmonizes.
* TheAlcoholic - The mysterious Yellow-Card
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* ButterflyOfDoom - The "butterfly effect" is explicitly mentioned (multiple times) in the novel. RayBradbury 's A Sound of Thunder is named. [[spoiler:It's impossible to make a completely positive change to the past. Positive changes will be accompanied by some negative effect--and a large enough change can unravel the very fabric of the universe.]]
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* GrandfatherParadox - {{Hand Wave}}d. When Jake asks about it, Al just asks what kind of sicko would even want to try?
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* GrandfatherParadox - {{Hand Wave}}d. When Jake asks about it, Al just asks what kind of sicko would even want to try?try? As Jake goes on, it becomes evident that if possible, it would at the least be very, very difficult.
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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory - Averted. While travelling through the Jim Crow-era South, Jake notices that the "Colored" toilets at a gas station are a stump over a stream surrounded by poison ivy. He mentions that he thinks about it every time he starts to romanticize the past.
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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory - Averted. While travelling traveling through the Jim Crow-era South, Jake notices that the "Colored" toilets at a gas station are a stump over a stream surrounded by poison ivy. He mentions that he thinks about it every time he starts to romanticize the past.
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* WhoShotJFK - One of the reasons why Jake just doesn't kill Lee Harvey Oswald right off the bat is because of the conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy's assassination and the possibility that another person may have been involved. [[spoiler: In the end, it's just Oswald working alone.]]
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* WhoShotJFK - One of the reasons why Jake just doesn't kill Lee Harvey Oswald right off the bat is because of the conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy's assassination and the possibility that another person may have been involved. [[spoiler: In the end, it's just Oswald working alone.]]]] In the afterword, King notes that after reading all he could on the subject, this is the situation he considers by far the most likely.
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* GraysSportsAlmanac - Al's notes. Some of which are actual sports scores for betting purposes.
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* ShoutOut - The male protagonist of a TimeTravel story falls in love with a girl whose (married) name is "Clayton". Does this remind you of [[BackToTheFuture anything]]?
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* ShoutOut - The male protagonist of a TimeTravel story falls in love with a girl whose (married) name is "Clayton". Said Time Traveller also funds their stay by gambling on longshot sports upsets with future information. Does this remind you of [[BackToTheFuture anything]]?
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* ButterflyOfDoom - The "butterfly effect" is explicitly mentioned (multiple times) in the novel. [[spoiler:It's impossible to make a completely positive change to the past. Positive changes will be accompanied by some negative effect--and a large enough change can unravel the very fabric of the universe.]] ]]
* CIAEvilFBIGood - ZigZagged on the FBI. [[spoiler: After saving Kennedy, the FBI agent in charge is content to help Jake disappear and gives him a large amount of money to do so. However, in the Crapsack Future, it is revealed that Hoover actually ordered the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.]]
* CIAEvilFBIGood - ZigZagged on the FBI. [[spoiler: After saving Kennedy, the FBI agent in charge is content to help Jake disappear and gives him a large amount of money to do so. However, in the Crapsack Future, it is revealed that Hoover actually ordered the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.]]
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything - [[spoiler: In the BadFuture, Kennedy runs the Vietnam War the same way Bush ran the second Iraq war, with even worse results.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything - [[spoiler: In the BadFuture, Kennedy runs the Vietnam War the same way Bush ran the second Iraq war, with even worse results.]]
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* [[spoiler: NukeEm - The result of the change is that George "Segregation Forever" Wallace is elected in 1968 instead of Nixon. He decides to end the Vietnam War by nuking Hanoi. With the nuclear genie out of the bag, everyone gets in on the act - Pakistan and India start nuking each other until the rest of the world threats to nuke ''both'' unless they stop. And Miami is destroyed by Al Qaeda.]]
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* AnachronismStew: One of Jake's friends tells him to stop wasting his time and bet the Bears to win the NFC in 1963. The Bears ''did'' win the title that year, but it was still the NF'''L'''. The league didn't merge for years afterwards.
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* AnachronismStew: TheAllegedCar - When Jake tries to change the past, every single car he touches turns into this.
* AnachronismStew - One of Jake's friends tells him to stop wasting his time and bet the Bears to win the NFC in 1963. The Bears ''did'' win the title that year, but it was still the NF'''L'''. The league didn't merge for yearsafterwards.afterwards.
* AndIMustScream - The Guardians. They are not only confined to an extremely small area (in this case over a [[{{Squick}} broken sewer pipe]]), [[spoiler: but the Time Travelers' effects drive them all insane.]]
* AnachronismStew - One of Jake's friends tells him to stop wasting his time and bet the Bears to win the NFC in 1963. The Bears ''did'' win the title that year, but it was still the NF'''L'''. The league didn't merge for years
* AndIMustScream - The Guardians. They are not only confined to an extremely small area (in this case over a [[{{Squick}} broken sewer pipe]]), [[spoiler: but the Time Travelers' effects drive them all insane.]]
* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide - The Yellow Card Man.]]
* TheFifties - Technically straddles the 50's and 60's, but Central Texas isn't exactly known for being on the forefront of social trends.
* ForTheEvulz - [[spoiler: George de Mohrenschildt basically confesses that he baited Oswald into shooting at Edwin Walker for fun.]]
* ForTheEvulz - [[spoiler: George de Mohrenschildt basically confesses that he baited Oswald into shooting at Edwin Walker for fun.]]
* TheMafia - Jake wins a few longshot bets from them to fund his time in the past. [[spoiler: It burns him when he doesn't account for their ''interstate'' connections.]]
* MyBelovedSmother
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory - Averted. While travelling through the Jim Crow-era South, Jake notices that the "Colored" toilets at a gas station are a stump over a stream surrounded by poison ivy. He mentions that he thinks about it every time he starts to romanticize the past.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory - Averted. While travelling through the Jim Crow-era South, Jake notices that the "Colored" toilets at a gas station are a stump over a stream surrounded by poison ivy. He mentions that he thinks about it every time he starts to romanticize the past.
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* RippleEffectProofMemory - Affects anyone in immediate proximity to the portal. Although [[spoiler:having to reconcile multiple alternate realities can be bad for your mental health.]]]]
* RussianGuySuffersMost - Lee's Russian bride Marina certainly has it worst.
* RussianGuySuffersMost - Lee's Russian bride Marina certainly has it worst.
* SomebodyElsesProblem - Jake notes humorously that the broken sewer pipe never gets fixed in any of the alternate realities.
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* WhoShotJFK - One of the reasons why Jake just doesn't kill Lee Harvey Oswald right off the bat is because of the conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy's assassination and the possibility that another person may have been involved. [[spoiler: In the end, it's just Oswald working alone.]]
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* WhoShotJFK - One of the reasons why Jake just doesn't kill Lee Harvey Oswald right off the bat is because of the conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy's assassination and the possibility that another person may have been involved. [[spoiler: In the end, it's just Oswald working alone.]]]]
* YearInsideHourOutside - No matter how long one spends in the past, returning through the portal dumps you two minutes after you left.
* YearInsideHourOutside - No matter how long one spends in the past, returning through the portal dumps you two minutes after you left.
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* AnachronismStew: One of Jake's friends tells him to stop wasting his time and bet the Bears to win the NFC in 1963. The Bears ''did'' win the title that year, but it was still the NF'''L'''. The league didn't merge for years afterwards.
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* ContrivedCoincidence - Lampshaded. Situations keep repeating for Jake as the past "harmonizes."
* CoolCar - The portal happens to dump travelers out near a dealership with a killer Ford Sunliner for sale.
* DomesticAbuser - Oswald is one. Frank Dunning is worse.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou - When Jake tries to change the past, ever more significant calamities befall him. When he gets close to making a big change, it stops dicking around and tries to kill him repeatedly.
* GrandfatherParadox - {{Hand Wave}}d. When Jake asks about it, Al just asks what kind of sicko would even want to try?
* CoolCar - The portal happens to dump travelers out near a dealership with a killer Ford Sunliner for sale.
* DomesticAbuser - Oswald is one. Frank Dunning is worse.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou - When Jake tries to change the past, ever more significant calamities befall him. When he gets close to making a big change, it stops dicking around and tries to kill him repeatedly.
* GrandfatherParadox - {{Hand Wave}}d. When Jake asks about it, Al just asks what kind of sicko would even want to try?
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* [[spoiler:RelationshipResetButton]] - [[Jake goes back to undo his changes to the time-line, thus erasing his relationship with Sadie. He meets her in the present where she's now an old woman and shares one last dance with her.]]
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* ItsForABook - His original cover story as to why he was traveling to Dallas. Eventually, he actually started writing a book.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen - One of King's earlier ideas for the story:
-->I'd like to tell a time-travel story where this guy finds a diner that connects to 1958... you always go back to the same day. So one day he goes back and just stays. Leaves his 2007 life behind. His goal? To get up to November 22, 1963, and stop Lee Harvey Oswald. He does, and he's convinced he's just FIXED THE WORLD. But when he goes back to '07, the world's a nuclear slag-heap. Not good to fool with Father Time. So then he has to go back again and stop himself... only he's taken on a fatal dose of radiation, so it's a race against time.
-->I'd like to tell a time-travel story where this guy finds a diner that connects to 1958... you always go back to the same day. So one day he goes back and just stays. Leaves his 2007 life behind. His goal? To get up to November 22, 1963, and stop Lee Harvey Oswald. He does, and he's convinced he's just FIXED THE WORLD. But when he goes back to '07, the world's a nuclear slag-heap. Not good to fool with Father Time. So then he has to go back again and stop himself... only he's taken on a fatal dose of radiation, so it's a race against time.
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*** One of the cars seen in the CrapsackWorld is a Takura Spirit, also from The Dark Tower series.
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* JohnFKennedy - Saving him from death is the main plot point.
* RippleEffectProofMemory - Although [[spoiler:having to reconcile multiple alternate realities can be bad for your mental health.]]
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* TimeyWimeyBall - How time travel works can be rather... confusing at [[IncrediblyLamePun times]].
* TimeyWimeyBall - How time travel works can be rather... confusing at [[IncrediblyLamePun times]].
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* JerkassWoobie - Oswald is depicted as a somewhat sympathetic character.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds - Oswald is depicted as a somewhat sympathetic character. (YMMV)
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* WhoShotJFK - One of the reasons why Jake just doesn't kill Lee Harvey Oswald right off the bat is because of the conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy's assassination and the possibility that another person may have been involved. [[spoiler: In the end, it's just Oswald working alone.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds - Oswald is depicted as a somewhat sympathetic character. (YMMV)]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds - Oswald is depicted as a somewhat sympathetic character. (YMMV)
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished - Subverted. [[spoiler: Sandy is disfigured and given a GlasgowGrin on one side of her face by her crazy ex-husband. She gets better by the end of the book but still retains a scar.]]
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Clarification from my dad. :P
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Someone else correct me if I\'m wrong but I don\'t recall this happening—while he was writing a book, he didn\'t tell Sadie that he was following Oswald because of it and he only told her about it once he told her that he was from the future.
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'''''11/22/63''''' is a HistoricalFiction novel written by StephenKing.
Jake Epping, a divorced high school teacher, discovers from his dying friend a time portal to a date in 1958 at the back of his friend's diner. His friend proposes that he go back in time to stop JohnFKennedy's assassination. There, Jake lives a different life and falls in love all while preparing for the eventual date that will change history.
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!!This story provides examples of:
* ArcWords: '''JIMLA!'''
* TheAlcoholic - The mysterious Yellow-Card Man.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished - Subverted. [[spoiler: Sandy is disfigured and given a GlasgowGrin on one side of her face by her crazy ex-husband. She gets better by the end of the book but still retains a scar.]]
* [[spoiler: CrapsackWorld]] - The result of Kennedy being saved.
* ContinuityNod - During his stay in Derry, Jake runs into Richie Tozier and Beverly Marsh, two of the "Losers Club" from ''{{It}}''. A certain [[MonsterClown clown]] is referenced as well.
* DomesticAbuser - Oswald is one.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter - A chunk of the book is Epping keeping a close eye on Lee Harvey Oswald and monitoring his life and relationships with friends and family.
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct
* MommyIssues - Oswald has these.
* PortalToThePast
* ResetButton - Anyone who travels through the portal overwrites the actions of the previous person.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong - That's the plan at least.
* [[spoiler:ShaggyDogStory]] - [[spoiler:After discovering saving Kennedy's life only made things worse, Jake undoes what he did and everything goes back to normal.]]
* ShownTheirWork - King did extensive research on what life on the 50s and even interviewed historians about what life may have been like had Kennedy not been shot.
* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit - Al Templeton used the portal to get meat from the same day in 1958 and make a profit selling it for cheap in the present. As a result, everyone assumes that he's using roadkill in his burgers.
* TimePolice - There are 'guardians' of respective time portals. Drastic changes to the past make them worse for the wear.
* WhoShotJFK - One of the reasons why Jake just doesn't kill Lee Harvey Oswald right off the bat is because of the conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy's assassination and the possibility that another person may be involved. [[spoiler: In the end, it's just Oswald working alone.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds - Oswald is depicted as a somewhat sympathetic character.
'''''11/22/63''''' is a HistoricalFiction novel written by StephenKing.
Jake Epping, a divorced high school teacher, discovers from his dying friend a time portal to a date in 1958 at the back of his friend's diner. His friend proposes that he go back in time to stop JohnFKennedy's assassination. There, Jake lives a different life and falls in love all while preparing for the eventual date that will change history.
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!!This story provides examples of:
* ArcWords: '''JIMLA!'''
* TheAlcoholic - The mysterious Yellow-Card Man.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished - Subverted. [[spoiler: Sandy is disfigured and given a GlasgowGrin on one side of her face by her crazy ex-husband. She gets better by the end of the book but still retains a scar.]]
* [[spoiler: CrapsackWorld]] - The result of Kennedy being saved.
* ContinuityNod - During his stay in Derry, Jake runs into Richie Tozier and Beverly Marsh, two of the "Losers Club" from ''{{It}}''. A certain [[MonsterClown clown]] is referenced as well.
* DomesticAbuser - Oswald is one.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter - A chunk of the book is Epping keeping a close eye on Lee Harvey Oswald and monitoring his life and relationships with friends and family.
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct
* MommyIssues - Oswald has these.
* PortalToThePast
* ResetButton - Anyone who travels through the portal overwrites the actions of the previous person.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong - That's the plan at least.
* [[spoiler:ShaggyDogStory]] - [[spoiler:After discovering saving Kennedy's life only made things worse, Jake undoes what he did and everything goes back to normal.]]
* ShownTheirWork - King did extensive research on what life on the 50s and even interviewed historians about what life may have been like had Kennedy not been shot.
* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit - Al Templeton used the portal to get meat from the same day in 1958 and make a profit selling it for cheap in the present. As a result, everyone assumes that he's using roadkill in his burgers.
* TimePolice - There are 'guardians' of respective time portals. Drastic changes to the past make them worse for the wear.
* WhoShotJFK - One of the reasons why Jake just doesn't kill Lee Harvey Oswald right off the bat is because of the conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy's assassination and the possibility that another person may be involved. [[spoiler: In the end, it's just Oswald working alone.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds - Oswald is depicted as a somewhat sympathetic character.
