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* MentorOccupationalHazard: Discussed. Upon learing of Marconi's health problems, Dave compares him to [[Literature/HarryPotter Dumbledore]], [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Qui-Gon Jinn]], [[Film/ANewHope Obi-Wan Kenobi]], [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Mufasa]], [[Film/RoadHouse1989 Wade Garrett]] and Mickey from Film/RockyIII, confidently stating that [[GenreBlind people like that can't die]].
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* MentorOccupationalHazard: Discussed. Upon learing learning of Dr. Marconi's health problems, Dave compares him to [[Literature/HarryPotter Dumbledore]], [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Qui-Gon Jinn]], [[Film/ANewHope Obi-Wan Kenobi]], [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Mufasa]], [[Film/RoadHouse1989 Wade Garrett]] and Mickey from Film/RockyIII, confidently stating that [[GenreBlind people like that can't die]].
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* AnAesop: If all you see in the world is evil, that's cynicism and depression speaking. There's as much good as bad out there as long as you're willing to acknowledge it.
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->''"The Devil is real, but he doesn't turn up in a red suit with hooves. You have to imagine him as like a disease that you get — you pass it on and you don't even know it. Educated people don't call it the devil; they call it ''trauma''. It rewires your brain and tries to [[GenerationalTrauma spread itself down to the next generation and the one after that]], the pain rolling down through time. … But if you want to fight him, the way you do it is by making sure you don't pass on the trauma. That's how you kill the devil. The only way".''
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->''"The Devil is real, but he doesn't turn up in a red suit with hooves. You have to imagine him as like a disease that you get — you pass it on and you don't even know it. Educated people don't call it the devil; they call it ''trauma''. It rewires your brain and tries to [[GenerationalTrauma spread itself down to the next generation and the one after that]], that, the pain rolling down through time. … But if you want to fight him, the way you do it is by making sure you don't pass on the trauma. That's how you kill the devil. The only way".''
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* HistoricalInJoke: After the orbital weapon fires [[spoiler:the second time around, Dave tells Bas to teleport the projectile]] “to Siberia” and “about a hundred years” back in time, thus implying the events of this book are responsible for [[TheTunguskaEvent Tunguska]].
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* HistoricalInJoke: After the orbital weapon fires [[spoiler:the second time around, Dave tells Bas to teleport the projectile]] “to Siberia” and “about a hundred years” back in time, thus implying the events of this book are responsible for [[TheTunguskaEvent Tunguska]].TheTunguskaEvent.
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* StableTimeLoop: Hoo boy. Get out your corkboards and coloured thread, people. This one’s a doozy. [[spoiler:Bas Galvatron reaches back in time to mentor his younger self and thus bring about his own rise to power by having his teenage self lead a cult in sacrificing body parts to an egg to create a crablike monster which travels back in time to become the “parasite” creature from the prologue so that John and Dave will catch it and trap it in resin and sell it to Ricardo Porkfart, who loses it in the river, causing it to be discovered and opened nearly 100 years later, whereupon it will impersonate Bas, enslave humanity and end the universe.]] Phew! Thankfully, the loop is [[spoiler:finally broken when Dave and John smoke weed with teen Bas and set off a chain of events culminating in his rejection of his future self, causing the “parasite” to never exist]].
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* StableTimeLoop: Hoo boy. Get out your corkboards and coloured thread, people. This one’s a doozy. [[spoiler:Bas Galvatron reaches back in time to mentor his younger self and thus bring about his own rise to power by having his teenage self lead a cult in sacrificing body parts to an egg to create a crablike monster which that travels back in time to become the “parasite” creature from the prologue so that John and Dave will catch it and trap it in resin and sell it to Ricardo Porkfart, who loses it in the river, causing it to be discovered and opened nearly 100 years later, whereupon it will impersonate Bas, enslave humanity and end the universe.]] Phew! Thankfully, the loop is [[spoiler:finally broken when Dave and John smoke weed with teen Bas and set off a chain of events culminating in his rejection of his future self, causing the “parasite” to never exist]].
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* TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter: Joy once against demonstrates this by transforming her appearance to change her outfit as part of her dazzling display to the Simurai.
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* TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter: Joy once against again demonstrates this by transforming her appearance to change her outfit as part of her dazzling display to the Simurai.
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* CoolCar: These days, Dave drives around in a classic Chevy Impala that he got by happenstance. He's annoyed by the attention it receives.
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* CoolCar: These days, Dave drives around in a classic Chevy Impala that he got by happenstance.from the Knolls in [[Literature/WhatTheHellDidIJustReadANovelOfCosmicHorror WTHDIJR]]. He's annoyed by the attention it receives.
