History Literature / ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree

* TheFifties: Technically straddles the 50's and 60's, but Central Texas isn't exactly known for being on the forefront of social trends.

** During his stay in Derry, Jake runs into Richie Tozier and Beverly Marsh, two of the "Losers Club" from ''Literature/{{It}}''. A certain [[MonsterClown clown]] is referenced as well.

* YearInsideHourOutside: No matter how long one spends in the past, returning through the portal dumps you two minutes after you left.

** Al wants to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but he only feels 95% sure that Lee Harvey Oswald is the real killer and acted alone, so he (and later, Jake) spends five years in the past attempting to make sure. Why not just track down and kill Oswald right away, head back through the portal, and spend five minutes on the Internet checking to see if Kennedy was still killed? You can always just hit the ResetButton and try again if you got it wrong. [[note]]It's worth noting that even doing this Al or Jake would still have to wait around a while, as Oswald was on a military base in Japan at 1958 where the time portal came out.[[/note]]

* EvolvingCredits: After going unchanged for most of the series, the opening for the final episode changes things up. [[spoiler: Given its rather foreboding imagery, such as the drooping [[StringTheory red strings,]] the diner being on fire, and the overturned car, it's an early tell that something has GoneHorriblyWrong.]]

* TheFifties: Technically straddles the 50's and 60's, but Central Texas isn't exactly known for being on the forefront of social trends.

* [[spoiler: BadFuture / CrapsackWorld]]: The result of Kennedy being saved.

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding]]: [[spoiler: Jake finds out that not only did stopping the Kennedy assassination make a world '''far''' worse, it will eventually destroy the fabric of time. Jake is able to undo this easily, but sadly he can't ever meet Sadie again. Thankfully, she turns out to still be alive in modern days, albeit wounded by her crazy ex. Ultimately, the only thing he changed was that he aged the years he spent in the past.]]

'''''11/22/63''''' is a HistoricalFiction novel written by Creator/StephenKing and published in 2011.

* RevolversAreJustBetter: When in Derry, Jake makes use of a .38 revolver. He becomes fond of it and purchases a second one when he moves to Dallas. [[spoiler: Ultimately averted, as the limited effective range on the .38 results in Jake missing Oswald and Oswald having a chance to retaliate and kill Sadie]]

* RevolversAreJustBetter: When in Derry, Jake makes use of a .38 revolver. He becomes fond of it and purchases a second one when he moves to Dallas.

* OutsideContextProblem: Jake is this to the FBI, Oswald, and several other characters, and the Yellow Card Man is this to Jake.

'''''11/22/63''''' is a HistoricalFiction novel written by Creator/StephenKing.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Subverted. [[spoiler: Sadie 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.]]

* 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.]]

* ContrivedCoincidence: Lampshaded. Situations keep repeating for Jake as the past "harmonizes."

* JustInTime: [[spoiler:Jake stops Oswald in the very last minute.]]
* 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.]]

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted. While 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.

* SeriesContinuityError: While in Derry in 1958, Jake is told the body of Patrick Hockstetter, one of the victims of Pennywise, has recently been found in The Barrens. However, in "{{Literature/IT}}" Patrick was dragged into the tunnels underneath Derry by Pennywise and remained there undiscovered for decades. The Losers encounter his (skeletal) remains down in the tunnels in both 1958 and again in 1985. Likewise, by this time Henry Bowers should have been apprehended by the Derry Police, and under intense pressure from both police questioning and severe psychological strain from what transpired in the sewers, falsely confessed to the murders and sent off to Juniper Hill. The townspeople of Derry don't seem to be aware of this, however, even suspecting that the killer may still be out there, or even unsure that the murders have stopped for good. [[spoiler: Justified in that Jake's changes to the timeline with each visit [[ButterflyEffect may have made subtle changes to events in Derry]] which altered the narrative for that timeline.]]

* ShaggyDogStory: Jake rescues [[spoiler:President Kennedy]] in the last moment, but Sadie is killed. When he returns to the present, he finds out that this only made things a lot worse, and changing history always does. [[spoiler:So, he goes back in time once more, which resets the whole thing.]]

* StupidEvil: Johnny, even though you were holding a loaded gun, it was a really, really bad idea to serve a man a tall glass full of powerful bleach, ''tell'' him that it's bleach, order him to drink it, threaten to kill the woman he loves[[note]] who's sitting at the same table with a terrible facial wound that you just inflicted on her[[/note]] if he doesn't drink it, and finally, when he's actually ''holding the glass in his hand'', lean across the table at him but not so close that anything that hits you might splash back on him, and scream at him that he'd better drink it or else.

* TimePolice: There are "guardians" of respective time portals. Drastic changes to the past make them, [[spoiler:along with the time-space continuum itself]] worse for the wear.

A television series by Creator/JJAbrams and Stephen King starring Creator/JamesFranco as Jake started airing on Creator/{{Hulu}} in 2016.

* ButterflyOfDoom: The "butterfly effect" is explicitly mentioned (multiple times) in the novel. Creator/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 [[TimeCrash unravel the very fabric of the universe]].]]

** Not to mention [[spoiler:Frank Dunning, who brutally murders his wife and children with an axe.]]

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Jake hits [[spoiler: Johnny]] in the head with a fire poker that appears to have spikes in it, because it connects with his head with an audible crunching noise, and stays there when Jake lets go of it. Johnny just stares blankly at Jake. [[spoiler: Then Sadie, to everyone's immense relief, blows Johnny away with the handgun he dropped.]]

* StupidEvil: Johnny, even though you were holding a loaded gun, it was a really, really bad idea to serve a man a tall glass full of powerful bleach, ''tell'' him that it's bleach, order him to drink it, threaten to kill the woman he loves[[note]] who's sitting at the same table with a terrible facial wound that you just inflicted on her[[/note]] if he doesn't drink it, and finally, when he's actually ''holding the glass in his hand'', lean across the table at him so that you're right up in his face, and scream at him that he'd better drink it or else.

* StupidEvil: Johnny, even with a loaded gun in your hand, it was a really, really bad idea to serve a man a tall glass full of powerful bleach, ''tell'' him that it's bleach, order him to drink it, threaten to kill the woman he loves[[note]] who's sitting at the same table with a terrible facial wound that you just inflicted on her[[/note]] if he doesn't drink it, and finally lean across the table at him so that you're right up in his face, and scream at him that he'd better drink it or else.

* GenreSavvy: By the time Jake and Sadie are racing through Dallas on the day of the assassination, Jake understands exactly what the past is going to do to stop them. He runs up six flights of stairs in the book depository instead of taking the elevator because he knows that the elevator would just get stuck if they used it.