History Literature / ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree

* PragamticHero: [[spoiler: After failing to (completely) stop Frank Dunning on his first trip into the past, Jake mercilessly shoots Frank dead on the second trip]].

* PragamticHero: [[spoiler: After failing to (completely) stop Harry Dunning on his first trip into the past, Jake mercilessly shoots Harry dead on the second trip]].

** Deconstructed; placing big sports bets is a surefire way to draw the attention of organized crime, which happens to Jake on three separate occasions. Also, Al leaves behind the results of a boxing match that took place after he left the 1960s (and could not use himself) just in case Jake needs extra cash. [[spoiler: Jake not only uses the match results to pick up more money, they also serve as a ''bona fide'' to Sadie that he is in fact a time traveller.]]

* OutsideContextProblem: Jake is this to the FBI, who can't figure out how this man has the information he says he has or why there seems to be no record of his existence prior to 1958 (this ''is'' the FBI we're talking about here). The Yellow Card Man is this to Jake.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of romanticizing the so-called "good old days". As noted below, there is quite a lot of DeliberateValuesDissonance and aversions of PoliticallyCorrectHistory, not to mention [[spoiler:the fact that trying to change the past to better the future ends up leading to disastrous consequences for ''everyone'']].

* ILetGwenStacyDie: A weird, non-lethal [[SubvertedTrope subversion]]: While Jake blames [[spoiler:Sadie getting stabbed in the face]] on his mucking around with the past, when he [[spoiler:eventually fixes the BadFuture his saving Kennedy caused]], he finds out that [[spoiler:Sadie gets stabbed anyway... because [[ArcWords the past really does harmonize]].]]

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

** Deconstructed; placing big sports bets is a surefire way to draw the attention of organized crime, which happens to Jake on three separate occasions. Also, Al leaves behind the results of a boxing match that took place after he left the 1960's (and could not use himself) just in case Jake needs extra cash. [[spoiler: Jake not only uses the match results to pick up more money, they also serve as a ''bona fide'' to Sadie that he is in fact a time traveller.]]

* TakeThat: Jake is thoroughly creeped out by Dallas and flees to Jodie because he can't spend another night there. He finds Dallas ugly, smelly, racist and utterly miserable. And he can sense a great evil in the city, as he did in Derry. King noted in the afterword that some thought he was too hard on Dallas, but claims that, if anything, he was not nearly hard enough on the Dallas of the early 60's. And King made clear that he doesn't think the Dallas of the 2010s is much better.

* PhonyDegree: Jake has a genuine degree... from 2011, and knows better than to produce it to get a job in the late 1950s/early 1960s. So he gets a second degree from a diploma mill. [[spoiler: It only works for so long, [[RealityEnsues as the school officials in Jodie take time to investigate his background]]. A state law requiring vaccination records for all schoolteachers ultimately undoes Jake's ruse, although he's garnered enough goodwill that he's allowed simply to leave once his contract expires rather than forfeit all pay and possibly go to jail.]]

** In the opening to the second-to-last episode, the news paper headline also changes from "Kennedy Killed" to "Walker Lives!" This change is reversed again in the last episode.

* 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: [[JustifiedTrope 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.]]

** This could be accounted for by the POV characters in ''IT'' being Derry residents, thus used to the place. It wouldn't seem as bad to someone who's lived there for a decade as it does to an adult experiencing it for the first time.

* AlternateHistory: [[spoiler: Jake creates a spectacularly bad future, where the Vietnam War went nuclear, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain George Wallace]] and ''[[GeneralRipper Curtis [=LeMay=]]]'' became president, the Civil Rights Act never passed, and racial tensions are even worse. And that ignores the Earthquakes that will destroy the world]]...

* {{Interquel}}: The events of the Derry chapters could be considered a [[StealthSequel Stealth Interquel]] to ''It,'' although [[spoiler:thanks to the timeline being reset, most of them never happened.]]

* LifeWillKillYou: In the original timeline, Harry Dunning is the SoleSurvivor of his family's massacre at the hands of his father, but was injured in the attack, leaving him walking with a severe limp. [[spoiler:After [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong saving most of the family]] on his first go-round and going to check on them in the present, he finds out that without his handicap Harry was eligible for conscription and died in Vietnam as a young man.]]

* LifeWillKillYou: In the original timeline, Harry Dunning is the SoleSurvivor of his family's massacre at the hands of his father, but was injured in the attack, leaving him walking with a severe limp. [[spoiler:After [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong saving most of the family]] on his first go-round and going to check on them in the present, he finds out that without his handicap Harry was eligible for conscription and died in Vietnam.]]

* {{Interquel}}: The events of the Derry chapters could be considered a [[StealthSequel Stealth Interquel]] to ''It,'' although [[spoiler:thanks to timeline being reset, none of them happened.]]

* {{Interquel}}: The events of the Derry chapters could be considered a [[StealthSequel Stealth Interquel]] to ''IT,'' although [[spoiler:thanks to timeline being reset, none of them happened.]]