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* UnreliableNarrator: In his transmissions from the Moon, Cavor accuses Bedford of being rather more cowardly and dishonorable than Bedford's own narrative made himself out to be, but Bedford in turn points out that Cavor appears to be engaging in some SelfServingMemory of his own
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* FamousForBeingFirst'': The book details the odd but brilliant inventor Doctor Cavor, who discovers a material that's opaque to gravity, and dubs it Cavorite. Cavor then decides to build a spacecraft from the stuff, and explore the moon with it, taking his good friend Bedford along as chronicler (the story is recounted from Bedford's perspective). The craft works, and the two men become the first humans to set foot on the moon. They are not the first living beings there, however, as there's a whole subterranean society full of [[{{Lunarians}} Selenites]].
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* FamousForBeingFirst'': FamousForBeingFirst: The book details the odd but brilliant inventor Doctor Cavor, who discovers a material that's opaque to gravity, and dubs it Cavorite. Cavor then decides to build a spacecraft from the stuff, and explore the moon with it, taking his good friend Bedford along as chronicler (the story is recounted from Bedford's perspective). The craft works, and the two men become the first humans to set foot on the moon. They are not the first living beings there, however, as there's a whole subterranean society full of [[{{Lunarians}} Selenites]].
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* InterplanetaryVoyage: Bedford and Favor discuss setting up interplanetary routes (with Bedford being primarily interested in the shipping and mining possibilities), but the only location they end up visiting on the test flight is the Moon.
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* InterplanetaryVoyage: Bedford and Favor Cavor discuss setting up interplanetary routes (with Bedford being primarily interested in the shipping and mining possibilities), but the only location they end up visiting on the test flight is the Moon.
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* FanSequel: ''The Martian War,'' wherein the martians from ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' conquer the selenites.
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* FanSequel: ''The Martian War,'' wherein the martians Martians from ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' conquer the selenites.Selenites.
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* ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer: [[spoiler: Although initially describing himself as a pacifist, Cavor ultimately decides that the Selenites cannot be dissuaded from their plans of violent invasion. The result? He decides to ''KillEmAll'' by using his Cavorite to ''blow away the Moon's atmosphere'', suffocating the entire species and rendering the planet utterly useless for all life forever afterwards.]]
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* ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer: [[spoiler: Although initially describing himself as a pacifist, Cavor ultimately decides that the Selenites cannot be dissuaded from their plans of violent invasion. The result? He decides to ''KillEmAll'' kill them all by using his Cavorite to ''blow away the Moon's atmosphere'', suffocating the entire species and rendering the planet utterly useless for all life forever afterwards.]]
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* FamousForBeingFirst'': The book details the odd but brilliant inventor Doctor Cavor, who discovers a material that's opaque to gravity, and dubs it Cavorite. Cavor then decides to build a spacecraft from the stuff, and explore the moon with it, taking his good friend Bedford along as chronicler (the story is recounted from Bedford's perspective). The craft works, and the two men become the first humans to set foot on the moon. They are not the first living beings there, however, as there's a whole subterranean society full of [[{{Lunarians}} Selenites]].
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* AccidentalAstronaut: Near the end of the story, after Bedford has been forced to leave Cavor behind on the moon and barely made it back to Earth in the sphere they designed, a curious boy enters the sphere and activates it, sending him off into space, and leaving Bedford with no way of ever going back to retrieve Cavor. The kid's fate is not revealed. This scene was also included in the 2010 movie, except here it's an adult who accidentally launches the sphere.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Towards the end, a young English boy sneaks inside the Cavorite sphere and accidentally blasts himself off into space. Whatever happened to the him or to the sphere is not revealed.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Towards the end, a young English boy sneaks inside the Cavorite sphere and accidentally blasts himself off into space. Whatever happened to the him or to the sphere is not revealed.]]
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* WeaksauceWeakness: The Selenites are pretty vulnerable to a punch to the head. It's like hitting cinder toffee, apparently... Justified, as they are built for 1/6th Earth's gravity, and are much weaker and more slender than humans.
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* WeaksauceWeakness: The Selenites are pretty vulnerable to a punch to the head. It's like hitting [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeycomb_Toffee cinder toffee, toffee]], apparently... Justified, as they are built for 1/6th Earth's gravity, and are much weaker and more slender than humans.
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* FungusHumongous
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* FungusHumongousFungusHumongous: They grow underground in the Moon's lower gravity. Some provide illumination, and some are hallucinogenic.
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* InterplanetaryVoyage
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* InterplanetaryVoyageInterplanetaryVoyage: Bedford and Favor discuss setting up interplanetary routes (with Bedford being primarily interested in the shipping and mining possibilities), but the only location they end up visiting on the test flight is the Moon.
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* PantyShot: Since this is Victorian times, "panty shot" means seeing a pair of knee-length bloomers when the sphere lifts off.
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''The First Men in the Moon'' is a 1901 ScienceFiction novel by Creator/HGWells about two Edwardian-era Englishmen who utilise some AppliedPhlebotinum to fly to the moon for a bit of a jolly gadabout. Things don't quite go as planned. There have been two [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptations]] made; one in 1964, directed by Nathan Juran, written by Creator/NigelKneale, and with special effects by Creator/RayHarryhausen, and more recently in 2010 by Creator/MarkGatiss.
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''The First Men in the Moon'' is a 1901 ScienceFiction {{science fiction}} novel by Creator/HGWells about two Edwardian-era Englishmen who utilise some AppliedPhlebotinum to fly to the moon for a bit of a jolly gadabout. Things don't quite go as planned. There have been two [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptations]] made; one in 1964, directed by Nathan Juran, written by Creator/NigelKneale, and with special effects by Creator/RayHarryhausen, and more recently in 2010 by Creator/MarkGatiss.
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''The First Men in the Moon'' is the name of an Creator/HGWells novel about two Edwardian-era Englishmen who utilise some AppliedPhlebotinum to fly to the moon for a bit of a jolly gadabout. Things don't quite go as planned. There have been two filmed adaptations; one in 1964, directed by Nathan Juran, written by Creator/NigelKneale, and with special effects by Creator/RayHarryhausen, and more recently in 2010 by Creator/MarkGatiss.
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''The First Men in the Moon'' is the name of an a 1901 ScienceFiction novel by Creator/HGWells novel about two Edwardian-era Englishmen who utilise some AppliedPhlebotinum to fly to the moon for a bit of a jolly gadabout. Things don't quite go as planned. There have been two filmed adaptations; [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptations]] made; one in 1964, directed by Nathan Juran, written by Creator/NigelKneale, and with special effects by Creator/RayHarryhausen, and more recently in 2010 by Creator/MarkGatiss.
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''The First Men in the Moon'' is the name of an Creator/HGWells novel about two Edwardian-era Englishmen who utilise some AppliedPhlebotinum to fly to the moon for a bit of a jolly gadabout. Things don't quite go as planned. There have been two filmed adaptations - one in 1964, directed by Nathan Juran, written by Creator/NigelKneale, and with special effects by Creator/RayHarryhausen, and more recently in 2010 by Creator/MarkGatiss.
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''The First Men in the Moon'' is the name of an Creator/HGWells novel about two Edwardian-era Englishmen who utilise some AppliedPhlebotinum to fly to the moon for a bit of a jolly gadabout. Things don't quite go as planned. There have been two filmed adaptations - adaptations; one in 1964, directed by Nathan Juran, written by Creator/NigelKneale, and with special effects by Creator/RayHarryhausen, and more recently in 2010 by Creator/MarkGatiss.
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* TripToTheMoonPlot: One of the earliest examples (and unlike in Jules Verne's ''Literature/FromTheEarthToTheMoon'' and ''Around the Moon'', Wells' explorers actually land on the Moon).
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* BrainMonster: The Grand Lunar is the ruler of the "Moonies," and rests in the throne room with his exposed brain taking up most of the cathedral-like ceiling space. There are lesser Moonies that hover around moistening this huge brain. The Grand Lunar is LawfulNeutral, but takes Doctor Cavor prisoner on the belief that humans are intelligent anarchists.
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* MyBrainIsBig: Members of the Selenite aristocracy are identifiable by their massively oversized brains.
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* MyBrainIsBig: Members of the Selenite aristocracy are identifiable by their massively oversized brains. This is especially true of the Grand Lunar, whose exposed brain takes up most of the ceiling space in his cathedral-like throne room.
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* FallingIntoTheCockpit: At the end of the story, [[spoiler:the interplanetary sphere takes off soon after the narrator left it on a beach, and he immediately suspects a kid they passed by on the way (and who is later reported missing) of having stepped inside and accidentally activated the sphere's AntiGravity.]]
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* WeaksauceWeakness: The Selenites are pretty vulnerable to a punch to the head. It's like hitting cinder toffee, apparently...
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* WeaksauceWeakness: The Selenites are pretty vulnerable to a punch to the head. It's like hitting cinder toffee, apparently... Justified, as they are built for 1/6th Earth's gravity, and are much weaker and more slender than humans.
