History TabletopGame / PunkRockSavesTheWorld

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Thomas Edison being imagined as a power-crazed megalomaniac to make him the ultimate villain of the show.

* MulticoloredHair: Two of the Punks on the cover have it.

* DeaderThanDisco: InUniverse, the Disco Dastards want to avert this; their goal is to "destroy music as we know it, by remaking all songs into disco songs".

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A {{Meta}} example. The writers of the (non-existent) cartoon the book is based on knew that censors would try to water down the subversive elements of the punk genre, so "they worked very hard to disguise the message in such a way that the message would go over the network censors' collective heads."

The premise: a PunkRock band called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Punks]] stumbles on a gigantic gramophone that turns out to be a disguised TimeMachine created by UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla. It causes them to become UnstuckInTime, where they must SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong before returning to the present. Invariably, the Punks' adventures involve the history of recorded music, as they encounter "{{Disco}} Dastards", "Endless [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvises]]", a rival band called the Glam Girls, and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Berliner Emile Berliner]], the inventor of the phonograph. The main villains seem to be a CorruptCorporateExecutive called "The Man" (aka John Smith) and his {{Mooks}}, "the Suits", but TheManBehindTheMan is actually Tesla's old {{Rival}}, UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, who is out to become "the greatest inventor of his time"--even if he has to steal his inventions from Tesla to make it happen. Edison is using the Punks to locate Tesla, who is hiding somewhere in the timestream.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Happens to all the main characters, but the best example is Joel "Smooth" Alberson, lead singer of TheSeventies band the Disco Dastards, who's actually [[Film/TheJazzSinger Al Jolson]].

* AntiVillain: Edison, at least at first. He strictly adheres to ThouShaltNotKill, and tries to avoid even injuring people if possible; when he does, he always creates an AlternateTimeline where he never had to hurt anyone in the first place. [[NotSoHarmlessVillain However, he eventually decides "to break his no-killing rule for a chance to put an end to Tesla once and for all"]]

* AntiVillain: Edison, at least at first. He strictly adheres to ThouShaltNotKill, and tries to avoid even injuring people if possible; when he does, he always creates an AlternateTimeline where he never had to hurt anyone in the first place.
** NotSoHarmlessVillain: However, he eventually decides "to break his no-killing rule for a chance to put an end to Tesla once and for all".

** GadgeteerGenius: Just John "is also the gadget guy, as well as the one who knows the most about the time travel stuff (as he calls it)."

* CaptainErsatz: The Glam Girls are probably a TakeThat toward other fictional {{Girl Group}}s like JosieAndThePussycats and WesternAnimation/JemAndTheHolograms.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A {{Meta}} example. The writers of the (non-existent) cartoon the book is based on knew that censors would try to water down the subversive message of the punk genre, so "they worked very hard to disguise the message in such a way that the message would go over the network censors' collective heads."

* CulturedBadass: Sir Ollie Cromwell, the Punks' guitarist. "Due to huis upbringing, which he has obviously rebelled against,Ollie is able to quick-change into a cultured member orf society; grat for gaining access to places punks might not normally be allowed".

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: [[UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell Sir Ollie Cromwell]], the Punks' British guitarist.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: InUniverse, The Man wants to avert this. He's working with Edison to keep [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph_cylinder phonograph cylinders]] (the earliest form of recorded sound) alive well into TheSeventies.

* AlliterativeName: '''K'''itty '''K'''arr and '''J'''ust '''J'''ohn, two members of the Punks.

* TheChessmaster: The Man is an "elaborate planner" who runs a "villainous international network".

* ConsummateLiar: Edison is "a facile liar" who says that the rivalry between himself and Tesla was a publicity stunt, and they're really friends. The Punks believe this for a while, but discover the truth soon enough.

* DoingItForTheArt: InUniverse, the Punks wonder if they should accept The Man's offer to abandon their own style and transform into "the Blam Boys", the Glam Girls' new opening act. They decide not to after they travel 30 years and see that they've become a legendary band by "doing it all their own way".

* AlliterativeName: '''K'''itty '''K'''arr and '''J'''ust '''J'''ohn.

* DeaderThanDisco: InUniverse, the Disco Dastards want to avert this; they want to "destroy music as we know it, by remaking all songs into disco songs".

* ConsummateLiar: Edison is "a facile liar" who says that the rivalry between himself and Tesla was a publicity stunt, and they're really friends. The punks believe this for a while, but discover the truth soon enough.

* TheChessmaster: The Man is an "elaborate planner"

* DeaderThanDisco: The Disco Dastards want to avert this; they want to "destroy music as we know it, by remaking all songs into disco songs".

The premise: a PunkRock band called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Punks]]
stumbles on a gigantic gramophone that turns out to be a disguised TimeMachine created by UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla. It causes them to become UnstuckInTime, where they must SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong before returning to the present. Invariably, the Punks' adventures involve the history of recorded music, as they encounter "{{Disco}} Dastards", "Endless [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvises]]", a rival band called the Glam Girls, and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Berliner Emile Berliner]], the inventor of the phonograph. The main villains seem to be a CorruptCorporateExecutive called "The Man" (aka John Smith) and his {{Mooks}}, "the Suits", but TheManBehindTheMan is actually Tesla's old {{Rival}}, UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, who is out to become "the greatest inventor of his time"--even if he has to steal his inventions from Tesla to make it happen. Edison is using the Punks to locate Tesla, who is hiding somewhere in the timestream.

* AntiVillain: Edison, at least at first. He strictly adheres to ThouShaltNotKill, and tries to avoid even injuring people if he can avoid it; when he does, he always creates a new timeline where he never had to hurt anyone in the first place.

stumbles on a gigantic gramophone that turns out to be a disguised TimeMachine created by UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla. It causes them to become UnstuckInTime, where they must SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong before returning to the present. Invariably, the Punks' adventures involve the history of recorded music, as they encounter "{{Disco}} Dastards", "Endless [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvises]]", a rival band called the Glam Girls, and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Berliner Emile Berliner]], the inventor of the phonograph. The main villains seem to be a CorruptCorporateExecutive called "The Man" (aka John Smith) and his {{Mooks}}, "the Suits", but TheManBehindTheMan is actually Tesla's old {{Rival}}, UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, who is out to become "the greatest inventor of his time"--even if he has to steal his inventions from Tesla to make it happen.

!!Tropes Save the World:
* DitzyGenius
* TheManBehindTheMan