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* HistoricalInJoke: The beach of northern Africa may have been the first time someone left the etching KilroyWasHere. This story claims George Kilroy was a [[FieldTripToThePast time-traveller collecting original research for an academic paper]], and responsible for creating the MemeticMutation. [Invoked]
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* HistoricalInJoke: The beach of northern Africa may have been the first time someone left the etching KilroyWasHere. This story claims George Kilroy was a [[FieldTripToThePast time-traveller collecting original research for an academic paper]], and responsible for creating the MemeticMutation. [Invoked]
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* KilroyWasHere: The protagonist, a time traveler from the 30th century, visits northern Africa during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (20th century). Time travellers are [[TheWatcher forbidden from interfering with the past]], but he carves a message on the wall of the hut he was in, telling people George Kilroy was here. Supposedly [[HistoricalInJoke the first time anyone left the tag]], creating a MemeticMutation.
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* KilroyWasHere: The protagonist, a time traveler from the 30th century, visits northern Africa during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (20th century). Time travellers are [[TheWatcher forbidden from interfering with the past]], but he carves a message on the wall of the hut he was in, telling people George Kilroy was here. Supposedly [[HistoricalInJoke the first time anyone left the tag]], creating a MemeticMutation.
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First published in ''Magazine/TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction'' (February 1956 issue), this ShortStory by Creator/IsaacAsimov is focused on explaining an HistoricalInJoke; who first wrote "Kilroy was here"?
[[IntroOnlyPointOfView The story opens with three unnamed war veterans]] drinking and [[NostalgiaFilter celebrating their past]]. Discussion turns to a MemeticMutation, first seen in northern Africa. [[SwitchingPOV Switching to that instance, we also change perspectives]], telling the story from George's view. George has come [[FieldTripToThePast from the future to collect original research]] on infantrymen in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Unable to resist temptation, he leaves a tag for anyone who passes by to see; KilroyWasHere.
This story has been reprinted five times; ''Magazine/NewWorldsScienceFiction'' (issue #54, December 1956), ''Literature/EarthIsRoomEnough'' (1957), ''Literature/TheFarEndsOfTimeAndEarth'' (1979), ''Literature/IsaacAsimovDerTausendjahresplaner'' (1984), and ''Literature/TheCompleteStoriesVolume1'' (1990).
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!!Examples of tropes within this work:
* ButterflyOfDoom: (ImpliedTrope) A lot of effort is spent to make a time traveller the "pure observer", meaning [[TheWatcher they leave zero impact on events]]. [[spoiler: George Kilroy wasn't content with that, and wrote KilroyWasHere. The story ends after that transgression.]]
* FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue: This story is written with very clear imagery for the setting and emotion, but the character descriptions are, as usual, treated as sparse and unnecessary.
* FieldTripToThePast: The protagonist is from the thirtieth century, collecting original research for an academic paper on infantrymen in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* FlashFiction: When it was published in ''Magazine/TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction'', the editor called it an "ultra-short short-short", in contrast to the ''{{Literature/Foundation}}'' series that Dr Asimov had been publishing. This story barely took up both sides of one page.
* GoodIsBoring: George considers the warless thirtieth century insipid, tame, and stress-free. He very much prefers the violent, noisy, [[WarIsGlorious and heroic]] twentieth century, especially the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII period.
* HistoricalInJoke: The beach of northern Africa may have been the first time someone left the etching KilroyWasHere. This story claims George Kilroy was a [[FieldTripToThePast time-traveller collecting original research for an academic paper]], and responsible for creating the MemeticMutation.
* InformedConversation: The jokes and stories told by the old servicemebers are mentioned in the abstract, establishing the sort of conversation they're having before they obliquely mention the KilroyWasHere trope. The third soldier is implied to be the first person from the present to have seen [[TheNamesake the message]].
* IntroOnlyPointOfView: The story opens with three old war veterans in the twentieth century, reminiscing about their past. [[SwitchingPOV Then it flips]] to a time-traveller student from the thirtieth century, who is in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* KilroyWasHere: The protagonist, a time traveler from the 30th century, visits northern Africa during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (20th century). Time travellers are [[TheWatcher forbidden from interfering with the past]], but he carves a message on the wall of the hut he was in, telling people George Kilroy was here. Supposedly [[HistoricalInJoke the first time anyone left the tag]], creating a MemeticMutation.
* TheNamesake: The title refers to KilroyWasHere, a MemeticMutation left by the time-traveller.
* NostalgiaFilter:
** The old soldiers are [[InformedConversation talking about their past without explicit dialogue]], exaggerating the stories they remember.
---> ''They drank beer and reminisced as men will who have met after long separation. They called to mind the days under fire. They remembered sergeants and girls, both with exaggeration. Deadly things became humorous in retrospect, and trifles disregarded for ten years were hauled out for airing.''
** George, a time-traveller from the thirtieth century, compares home to the twentieth century that he's travelled to. He sees it as [[GoodIsBoring unbearably dull]], while UsefulNotes/WorldWarII is a [[WarIsGlorious superlative drama]].
* SwitchingPOV: The IntroOnlyPointOfView changes to George, a [[FieldTripToThePast college student time-travelling for original research on a paper]].
* WarIsGlorious: The time-traveller has gone to visit Oran beach in northern Africa during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in order to collect direct research on the social life of infantry servicemen. He's ecstatic with the experience, watching tracer rounds and flares, hearing artillery and airplanes. He's so excited that he wants to be remembered for having been there, and carves into the building "KilroyWasHere".
* TheWatcher: The ideal time-traveller is never seen by people in the past, never takes anything, and never leaves anything. It's an ImpliedTrope that the ButterflyOfDoom could change things if they didn't follow the rules. Naturally our time-traveller violates the rule. George Kilroy [[KilroyWasHere tagged a wall to inform other people that he had been there]].
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[[IntroOnlyPointOfView The story opens with three unnamed war veterans]] drinking and [[NostalgiaFilter celebrating their past]]. Discussion turns to a MemeticMutation, first seen in northern Africa. [[SwitchingPOV Switching to that instance, we also change perspectives]], telling the story from George's view. George has come [[FieldTripToThePast from the future to collect original research]] on infantrymen in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Unable to resist temptation, he leaves a tag for anyone who passes by to see; KilroyWasHere.
This story has been reprinted five times; ''Magazine/NewWorldsScienceFiction'' (issue #54, December 1956), ''Literature/EarthIsRoomEnough'' (1957), ''Literature/TheFarEndsOfTimeAndEarth'' (1979), ''Literature/IsaacAsimovDerTausendjahresplaner'' (1984), and ''Literature/TheCompleteStoriesVolume1'' (1990).
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!!Examples of tropes within this work:
* ButterflyOfDoom: (ImpliedTrope) A lot of effort is spent to make a time traveller the "pure observer", meaning [[TheWatcher they leave zero impact on events]]. [[spoiler: George Kilroy wasn't content with that, and wrote KilroyWasHere. The story ends after that transgression.]]
* FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue: This story is written with very clear imagery for the setting and emotion, but the character descriptions are, as usual, treated as sparse and unnecessary.
* FieldTripToThePast: The protagonist is from the thirtieth century, collecting original research for an academic paper on infantrymen in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* FlashFiction: When it was published in ''Magazine/TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction'', the editor called it an "ultra-short short-short", in contrast to the ''{{Literature/Foundation}}'' series that Dr Asimov had been publishing. This story barely took up both sides of one page.
* GoodIsBoring: George considers the warless thirtieth century insipid, tame, and stress-free. He very much prefers the violent, noisy, [[WarIsGlorious and heroic]] twentieth century, especially the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII period.
* HistoricalInJoke: The beach of northern Africa may have been the first time someone left the etching KilroyWasHere. This story claims George Kilroy was a [[FieldTripToThePast time-traveller collecting original research for an academic paper]], and responsible for creating the MemeticMutation.
* InformedConversation: The jokes and stories told by the old servicemebers are mentioned in the abstract, establishing the sort of conversation they're having before they obliquely mention the KilroyWasHere trope. The third soldier is implied to be the first person from the present to have seen [[TheNamesake the message]].
* IntroOnlyPointOfView: The story opens with three old war veterans in the twentieth century, reminiscing about their past. [[SwitchingPOV Then it flips]] to a time-traveller student from the thirtieth century, who is in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* KilroyWasHere: The protagonist, a time traveler from the 30th century, visits northern Africa during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (20th century). Time travellers are [[TheWatcher forbidden from interfering with the past]], but he carves a message on the wall of the hut he was in, telling people George Kilroy was here. Supposedly [[HistoricalInJoke the first time anyone left the tag]], creating a MemeticMutation.
* TheNamesake: The title refers to KilroyWasHere, a MemeticMutation left by the time-traveller.
* NostalgiaFilter:
** The old soldiers are [[InformedConversation talking about their past without explicit dialogue]], exaggerating the stories they remember.
---> ''They drank beer and reminisced as men will who have met after long separation. They called to mind the days under fire. They remembered sergeants and girls, both with exaggeration. Deadly things became humorous in retrospect, and trifles disregarded for ten years were hauled out for airing.''
** George, a time-traveller from the thirtieth century, compares home to the twentieth century that he's travelled to. He sees it as [[GoodIsBoring unbearably dull]], while UsefulNotes/WorldWarII is a [[WarIsGlorious superlative drama]].
* SwitchingPOV: The IntroOnlyPointOfView changes to George, a [[FieldTripToThePast college student time-travelling for original research on a paper]].
* WarIsGlorious: The time-traveller has gone to visit Oran beach in northern Africa during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in order to collect direct research on the social life of infantry servicemen. He's ecstatic with the experience, watching tracer rounds and flares, hearing artillery and airplanes. He's so excited that he wants to be remembered for having been there, and carves into the building "KilroyWasHere".
* TheWatcher: The ideal time-traveller is never seen by people in the past, never takes anything, and never leaves anything. It's an ImpliedTrope that the ButterflyOfDoom could change things if they didn't follow the rules. Naturally our time-traveller violates the rule. George Kilroy [[KilroyWasHere tagged a wall to inform other people that he had been there]].
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