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''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/436/436-h/436-h.htm The Master Key]]: An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded upon the Mysteries of Electricity and the Optimism of Its Devotees. It Was Written for Boys, but Others May Read It.'' a story by [[Creator/LFrankBaum Lyman (long for "L.") Frank Baum]].
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''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/436/436-h/436-h.htm The Master Key]]: An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded upon the Mysteries of Electricity and the Optimism of Its Devotees. It Was Written for Boys, but Others May Read It.'' a 1901 story by [[Creator/LFrankBaum Lyman (long for "L.") Frank Baum]].
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: It's subtle, but compared to the Demon of Electricity, the human race has a lot of soul-searching to do. Except for the king of England, everybody Rob meets on his journey tries to kill him or cheat him out of his stuff, [[NotSoDifferent he himself]] sees nothing wrong with [[GodGuise deceiving "savages"]] and double-crossing armies, and, most tellingly, once he receives goggles that show if a person is good or evil, so many people are judged to be "evil" that he is afraid to use it on any of his loved ones, [[BrokenPedestal lest he learn that they are no better than the rest of the world]].
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: It's subtle, but compared to the Demon of Electricity, the human race has a lot of soul-searching to do. Except for the king of England, everybody Rob meets on his journey tries to kill him or cheat him out of his stuff, [[NotSoDifferent he himself]] himself sees nothing wrong with [[GodGuise deceiving "savages"]] and double-crossing armies, and, most tellingly, once he receives goggles that show if a person is good or evil, so many people are judged to be "evil" that he is afraid to use it on any of his loved ones, [[BrokenPedestal lest he learn that they are no better than the rest of the world]].
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* ThreeWishes: The Demon of Electricity gives Rob the "liberty to demand from me three gifts each week for three successive weeks", and there's the ResetButtonEnding on the third week.
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* ThreeWishes: The Demon of Electricity gives Rob the "liberty to demand from me three gifts each week for three successive weeks", and there's the ResetButtonEnding on the third week.week.
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* ThreeWishes: The Demon of Electricity gives Rob the "liberty to demand from me three gifts each week for three successive weeks", and there's the ResetButtonEnding on the third week.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The book is inextricably tied to the turn of the century, because Rob meets King Edward VII, Thomas Edison is still alive, [[BombThrowingAnarchists anarchists]] are assumed to be a threat to civilized society, there are tribes of [[DarkestAfrica Africa]] who have never seen a white man,[[note]]already an anachronism by then[[/note]] and, most importantly, heavier-than-air flight does not exist, and [[PhlebotinumDuJour electricity is considered an exciting and wondrous new technology]].
* ValuesDissonance: That the narrative points out that European explorers often exploited Africans instead of helping them does nothing to mitigate the fact that said Africans are described as completely barbaric and superstitious enough to believe that [[ThisIsMyBoomstick Rob is a god because of his flying machine]], which is one of the few actions he takes early on that the narrative does not condemn.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The book is inextricably tied to the turn of the century, because Rob meets King Edward VII, Thomas Edison is still alive, [[BombThrowingAnarchists anarchists]] are assumed to be a threat to civilized society, there are tribes of [[DarkestAfrica Africa]] who have never seen a white man,[[note]]already an anachronism by then[[/note]] and, most importantly, heavier-than-air flight does not exist, and [[PhlebotinumDuJour electricity is considered an exciting and wondrous new technology]].
* ValuesDissonance: That the narrative points out that European explorers often exploited Africans instead of helping them does nothing to mitigate the fact that said Africans are described as completely barbaric and superstitious enough to believe that [[ThisIsMyBoomstick Rob is a god because of his flying machine]], which is one of the few actions he takes early on that the narrative does not condemn.
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* ThreeWishes: The Demon of Electricity gives Rob the "liberty to demand from me three gifts each week for three successive weeks", and there's the ResetButtonEnding on the third week.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The book is inextricably tied to the turn of the century, because Rob meets King Edward VII, Thomas Edison is still alive, [[BombThrowingAnarchists anarchists]] are assumed to be a threat to civilized society, there are tribes of [[DarkestAfrica Africa]] who have never seen a white man,[[note]]already an anachronism by then[[/note]] and, most importantly, heavier-than-air flight does not exist, and [[PhlebotinumDuJour electricity is considered an exciting and wondrous new technology]].
* ValuesDissonance: That the narrative points out that European explorers often exploited Africans instead of helping them does nothing to mitigate the fact that said Africans are described as completely barbaric and superstitious enough to believe that [[ThisIsMyBoomstick Rob is a god because of his flying machine]], which is one of the few actions he takes early on that the narrative does not condemn.week.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The book is inextricably tied to the turn of the century, because Rob meets King Edward VII, Thomas Edison is still alive, [[BombThrowingAnarchists anarchists]] are assumed to be a threat to civilized society, there are tribes of [[DarkestAfrica Africa]] who have never seen a white man,[[note]]already an anachronism by then[[/note]] and, most importantly, heavier-than-air flight does not exist, and [[PhlebotinumDuJour electricity is considered an exciting and wondrous new technology]].
* ValuesDissonance: That the narrative points out that European explorers often exploited Africans instead of helping them does nothing to mitigate the fact that said Africans are described as completely barbaric and superstitious enough to believe that [[ThisIsMyBoomstick Rob is a god because of his flying machine]], which is one of the few actions he takes early on that the narrative does not condemn.
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** At first, Rob thinks the Demon of Electricity is up to no good because of his name, so the Demon [[LampshadeHanging mentions all the older writers who used the world as a synonym for "spirit"]], not necessarily an ''evil'' spirit.
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** At first, Rob thinks the Demon of Electricity is up to no good because of his name, so the Demon [[LampshadeHanging mentions all the older writers who used the world word as a synonym for "spirit"]], not necessarily an ''evil'' spirit.
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* HumansAreSpecial: As the Demon says:
--> Mars is not peopled at all, nor is any other of the planets you recognize in the heavens. Some contain low orders of beasts, to be sure, but Earth alone has an intelligent, thinking, reasoning population.
--> Mars is not peopled at all, nor is any other of the planets you recognize in the heavens. Some contain low orders of beasts, to be sure, but Earth alone has an intelligent, thinking, reasoning population.
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* FoodPills: The food tablets:
--> Within each tablet are stored certain elements of electricity which are capable of nourishing a human body for a full day. All you need do is to toss one into your mouth each day and swallow it. It will nourish you, satisfy your hunger and build up your health and strength.
--> Within each tablet are stored certain elements of electricity which are capable of nourishing a human body for a full day. All you need do is to toss one into your mouth each day and swallow it. It will nourish you, satisfy your hunger and build up your health and strength.
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* RuleOfThree: The Demon of Electricity gives Rob the "liberty to demand from me three gifts each week for three successive weeks".
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* ThreeWishes: The Demon of Electricity gives Rob the "liberty to demand from me three gifts each week for three successive weeks", and there's the ResetButtonEnding on the third week.
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* GenreDeconstruction: Of the {{Edisonade}}, a genre that was popular at the time but is now [[ForgottenTrope all but forgotten]]. A typical Edisonade featured a [[TeenGenius young]], [[{{Eagleland}} red-blooded American]] [[AlwaysMale lad]] who, through [[GadgeteerGenius his own inborn ingenuity]], creates an invention that would revolutionize the world, promptly uses it to go on a globe-spanning adventure, where he triumphs over [[TheNativesAreRestless savage indigenous tribes]] and [[YellowPeril insidious Orientals]], and returns home with oodles of treasure. In this book, however, while [[ValuesDissonance the racism is unfortunately still present]], the hero stumbles upon the [[TitleDrop master key]] by pure luck, does not understand what he has done, and is given all of his gadgets by the [[BenevolentGenie Demon of Electricity]]. Being a typical teenage boy who [[KnowNothingKnowItAll thinks he knows everything about the world despite never having left his home town]], Rob gets into trouble as soon as he starts his adventure, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero frequently leaves his destinations worse than when he arrived]], gets [[spoiler:captured by bandits through his own stupidity]], [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter blindly does whatever strangers tell him to do]] even though it usually screws him over, takes advantage of his benefactor and his family, and ''never'' learns from his mistakes until [[spoiler:the end, where he, now convinced that HumansAreTheRealMonsters, turns down the Demon's final gifts, gives him a huge [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "fuck you"]], and demands that he depart forever, because TheWorldIsNotReady]]. Though it is implied that he did the right thing in the end, it's still a little bit ambiguous.
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* GenreDeconstruction: Of the {{Edisonade}}, Edisonade, a genre that was popular at the time but is now [[ForgottenTrope all but forgotten]]. A typical Edisonade featured a [[TeenGenius young]], [[{{Eagleland}} red-blooded American]] [[AlwaysMale lad]] who, through [[GadgeteerGenius his own inborn ingenuity]], creates an invention that would revolutionize the world, promptly uses it to go on a globe-spanning adventure, where he triumphs over [[TheNativesAreRestless savage indigenous tribes]] and [[YellowPeril insidious Orientals]], and returns home with oodles of treasure. In this book, however, while [[ValuesDissonance the racism is unfortunately still present]], the hero stumbles upon the [[TitleDrop master key]] by pure luck, does not understand what he has done, and is given all of his gadgets by the [[BenevolentGenie Demon of Electricity]]. Being a typical teenage boy who [[KnowNothingKnowItAll thinks he knows everything about the world despite never having left his home town]], Rob gets into trouble as soon as he starts his adventure, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero frequently leaves his destinations worse than when he arrived]], gets [[spoiler:captured by bandits through his own stupidity]], [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter blindly does whatever strangers tell him to do]] even though it usually screws him over, takes advantage of his benefactor and his family, and ''never'' learns from his mistakes until [[spoiler:the end, where he, now convinced that HumansAreTheRealMonsters, turns down the Demon's final gifts, gives him a huge [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "fuck you"]], and demands that he depart forever, because TheWorldIsNotReady]]. Though it is implied that he did the right thing in the end, it's still a little bit ambiguous.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The book is inextricably tied to the TurnOfTheCentury, because Rob meets King Edward VII, Thomas Edison is still alive, [[BombThrowingAnarchists anarchists]] are assumed to be a threat to civilized society, there are tribes of [[DarkestAfrica Africa]] who have never seen a white man,[[note]]already an anachronism by then[[/note]] and, most importantly, heavier-than-air flight does not exist, and [[PhlebotinumDuJour electricity is considered an exciting and wondrous new technology]].
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The book is inextricably tied to the TurnOfTheCentury, turn of the century, because Rob meets King Edward VII, Thomas Edison is still alive, [[BombThrowingAnarchists anarchists]] are assumed to be a threat to civilized society, there are tribes of [[DarkestAfrica Africa]] who have never seen a white man,[[note]]already an anachronism by then[[/note]] and, most importantly, heavier-than-air flight does not exist, and [[PhlebotinumDuJour electricity is considered an exciting and wondrous new technology]].
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* HaveAGayOldTime: Using ''arouse'' as the past-tense version of "arise" and could be used to refer to all manner of raising.
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* HaveAGayOldTime: BenevolentGenie: The Demon of Electricity, who gives Rob stupendous inventions which could solve all human problems with no catch, and does what he asks, even including [[spoiler:pressing the ResetButton]].
* BookDumb: Rob may be fascinated with electricity, but is kind of an idiot, not to mention an asshole.
* GenreDeconstruction: Of the {{Edisonade}}, a genre that was popular at the time but is now [[ForgottenTrope all but forgotten]]. A typical Edisonade featured a [[TeenGenius young]], [[{{Eagleland}} red-blooded American]] [[AlwaysMale lad]] who, through [[GadgeteerGenius his own inborn ingenuity]], creates an invention that would revolutionize the world, promptly uses it to go on a globe-spanning adventure, where he triumphs over [[TheNativesAreRestless savage indigenous tribes]] and [[YellowPeril insidious Orientals]], and returns home with oodles of treasure. In this book, however, while [[ValuesDissonance the racism is unfortunately still present]], the hero stumbles upon the [[TitleDrop master key]] by pure luck, does not understand what he has done, and is given all of his gadgets by the [[BenevolentGenie Demon of Electricity]]. Being a typical teenage boy who [[KnowNothingKnowItAll thinks he knows everything about the world despite never having left his home town]], Rob gets into trouble as soon as he starts his adventure, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero frequently leaves his destinations worse than when he arrived]], gets [[spoiler:captured by bandits through his own stupidity]], [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter blindly does whatever strangers tell him to do]] even though it usually screws him over, takes advantage of his benefactor and his family, and ''never'' learns from his mistakes until [[spoiler:the end, where he, now convinced that HumansAreTheRealMonsters, turns down the Demon's final gifts, gives him a huge [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "fuck you"]], and demands that he depart forever, because TheWorldIsNotReady]]. Though it is implied that he did the right thing in the end, it's still a little bit ambiguous.
* HaveAGayOldTime:
** Using ''arouse'' as the past-tense version of "arise" and could be used to refer to all manner of raising.
* BookDumb: Rob may be fascinated with electricity, but is kind of an idiot, not to mention an asshole.
* GenreDeconstruction: Of the {{Edisonade}}, a genre that was popular at the time but is now [[ForgottenTrope all but forgotten]]. A typical Edisonade featured a [[TeenGenius young]], [[{{Eagleland}} red-blooded American]] [[AlwaysMale lad]] who, through [[GadgeteerGenius his own inborn ingenuity]], creates an invention that would revolutionize the world, promptly uses it to go on a globe-spanning adventure, where he triumphs over [[TheNativesAreRestless savage indigenous tribes]] and [[YellowPeril insidious Orientals]], and returns home with oodles of treasure. In this book, however, while [[ValuesDissonance the racism is unfortunately still present]], the hero stumbles upon the [[TitleDrop master key]] by pure luck, does not understand what he has done, and is given all of his gadgets by the [[BenevolentGenie Demon of Electricity]]. Being a typical teenage boy who [[KnowNothingKnowItAll thinks he knows everything about the world despite never having left his home town]], Rob gets into trouble as soon as he starts his adventure, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero frequently leaves his destinations worse than when he arrived]], gets [[spoiler:captured by bandits through his own stupidity]], [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter blindly does whatever strangers tell him to do]] even though it usually screws him over, takes advantage of his benefactor and his family, and ''never'' learns from his mistakes until [[spoiler:the end, where he, now convinced that HumansAreTheRealMonsters, turns down the Demon's final gifts, gives him a huge [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "fuck you"]], and demands that he depart forever, because TheWorldIsNotReady]]. Though it is implied that he did the right thing in the end, it's still a little bit ambiguous.
* HaveAGayOldTime:
** Using ''arouse'' as the past-tense version of "arise" and could be used to refer to all manner of raising.
** At first, Rob thinks the Demon of Electricity is up to no good because of his name, so the Demon [[LampshadeHanging mentions all the older writers who used the world as a synonym for "spirit"]], not necessarily an ''evil'' spirit.
* HopeSpringsEternal: Rob rejects [[spoiler:gifts that could produce a {{Utopia}} because people would probably screw it up]], but at least the Demon of Electricity is assured that the next time the Master Key is pressed, it will be deliberate, and the human race will be wise enough to understand his knowledge and use it properly.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: It's subtle, but compared to the Demon of Electricity, the human race has a lot of soul-searching to do. Except for the king of England, everybody Rob meets on his journey tries to kill him or cheat him out of his stuff, [[NotSoDifferent he himself]] sees nothing wrong with [[GodGuise deceiving "savages"]] and double-crossing armies, and, most tellingly, once he receives goggles that show if a person is good or evil, so many people are judged to be "evil" that he is afraid to use it on any of his loved ones, [[BrokenPedestal lest he learn that they are no better than the rest of the world]].
* InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien: Rob eventually comes to believe ''humans'' are this. The Demon of Electricity did not expect to be summoned unless the human race fully understands everything about electricity, and is surprised that Rob stumbles upon the Key by accident, and can't do it again. He assumed that any civilization that advanced would appreciate his offerings and have the wisdom to use them wisely, and Rob's CharacterDevelopment involves him finding out that [[spoiler:what he did was a fluke, and that Earth is not ready, because he did not understand the Master Key]].
* LittleMissSnarker: Rob's little sister, who openly insults his claim to have a flying machine, in front of their parents, and gets away with it. [[OlderThanTheyThink In 1901!]]
* NoOSHACompliance: Rob crossed his entire bedroom floor with live wires. [[TooDumbToLive How is he still alive?!]]
* HopeSpringsEternal: Rob rejects [[spoiler:gifts that could produce a {{Utopia}} because people would probably screw it up]], but at least the Demon of Electricity is assured that the next time the Master Key is pressed, it will be deliberate, and the human race will be wise enough to understand his knowledge and use it properly.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: It's subtle, but compared to the Demon of Electricity, the human race has a lot of soul-searching to do. Except for the king of England, everybody Rob meets on his journey tries to kill him or cheat him out of his stuff, [[NotSoDifferent he himself]] sees nothing wrong with [[GodGuise deceiving "savages"]] and double-crossing armies, and, most tellingly, once he receives goggles that show if a person is good or evil, so many people are judged to be "evil" that he is afraid to use it on any of his loved ones, [[BrokenPedestal lest he learn that they are no better than the rest of the world]].
* InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien: Rob eventually comes to believe ''humans'' are this. The Demon of Electricity did not expect to be summoned unless the human race fully understands everything about electricity, and is surprised that Rob stumbles upon the Key by accident, and can't do it again. He assumed that any civilization that advanced would appreciate his offerings and have the wisdom to use them wisely, and Rob's CharacterDevelopment involves him finding out that [[spoiler:what he did was a fluke, and that Earth is not ready, because he did not understand the Master Key]].
* LittleMissSnarker: Rob's little sister, who openly insults his claim to have a flying machine, in front of their parents, and gets away with it. [[OlderThanTheyThink In 1901!]]
* NoOSHACompliance: Rob crossed his entire bedroom floor with live wires. [[TooDumbToLive How is he still alive?!]]
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* ResetButtonEnding: Once Rob realizes he screwed up and that NoManShouldHaveThisPower, he asks the Demon of Electricity to take back his gifts, knowing full well that he could only return if Rob were to press the Master Key, which he had done by accident and could not repeat. [[spoiler:The Demon obeys]].
* ShockAndAwe: A tube that fires electricity to knock out a person for an hour. [[UrExample Perhaps the earliest depiction of less-lethal weaponry.]]
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The book is inextricably tied to the TurnOfTheCentury, because Rob meets King Edward VII, Thomas Edison is still alive, [[BombThrowingAnarchists anarchists]] are assumed to be a threat to civilized society, there are tribes of [[DarkestAfrica Africa]] who have never seen a white man,[[note]]already an anachronism by then[[/note]] and, most importantly, heavier-than-air flight does not exist, and [[PhlebotinumDuJour electricity is considered an exciting and wondrous new technology]].
* ValuesDissonance: That the narrative points out that European explorers often exploited Africans instead of helping them does nothing to mitigate the fact that said Africans are described as completely barbaric and superstitious enough to believe that [[ThisIsMyBoomstick Rob is a god because of his flying machine]], which is one of the few actions he takes early on that the narrative does not condemn.
* ShockAndAwe: A tube that fires electricity to knock out a person for an hour. [[UrExample Perhaps the earliest depiction of less-lethal weaponry.]]
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The book is inextricably tied to the TurnOfTheCentury, because Rob meets King Edward VII, Thomas Edison is still alive, [[BombThrowingAnarchists anarchists]] are assumed to be a threat to civilized society, there are tribes of [[DarkestAfrica Africa]] who have never seen a white man,[[note]]already an anachronism by then[[/note]] and, most importantly, heavier-than-air flight does not exist, and [[PhlebotinumDuJour electricity is considered an exciting and wondrous new technology]].
* ValuesDissonance: That the narrative points out that European explorers often exploited Africans instead of helping them does nothing to mitigate the fact that said Africans are described as completely barbaric and superstitious enough to believe that [[ThisIsMyBoomstick Rob is a god because of his flying machine]], which is one of the few actions he takes early on that the narrative does not condemn.
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''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/436/436-h/436-h.htm The Master Key]]: An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded upon the Mysteries of Electricity and the Optimism of Its Devotees. It Was Written for Boys, but Others May Read It.'' a story by [[Creator/LFrankBaum Lyman (long for "L.") Frank Baum]].
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* HaveAGayOldTime: Using ''arouse'' as the past-tense version of "arise" and could be used to refer to all manner of raising.
--> The sound of voices aroused Rob next morning,
--> When at last he aroused himself, he found it was nearly four o'clock.
* ShockAndAwe: A tube that fires electricity to knock out a person for an hour.
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* HaveAGayOldTime: Using ''arouse'' as the past-tense version of "arise" and could be used to refer to all manner of raising.
--> The sound of voices aroused Rob next morning,
--> When at last he aroused himself, he found it was nearly four o'clock.
* ShockAndAwe: A tube that fires electricity to knock out a person for an hour.
