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The First Men in the Moon

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The First Men in the Moon	comment	The First Men in the Moon is a 1901 Science Fiction novel by H. G. Wells about two Edwardian-era Englishmen who utilise some Applied Phlebotinum to fly to the moon for a bit of a jolly gadabout. Things don't quite go as planned. There have been two film adaptations made; one in 1964, directed by Nathan Juran, written by Nigel Kneale, and with special effects by Ray Harryhausen, and more recently in 2010 by Mark Gatiss.In the 1964 film, the United Nations has launched a rocket flight to the Moon. A multi-national group of astronauts in the UN spacecraft land on the Moon, believing themselves to be the first lunar explorers. They discover a Union Jack flag on the surface and a note naming Bedford and Cavor, claiming the Moon for Queen Victoria. This discovery drives the plot, as the UN and many journalists seek out these men to get them to recount their first mission to the moon in the 1800s. Only Bedford is still alive and tells the story.The 2010 film sticks much more closely to the H. G. Wells original, with Professor Cavor and Bedford engaging in their flight to the moon alone. The ending is significantly changed.Though not a full-on adaptation, the first volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen also features Professor Cavor as a major supporting character, and a struggle to possess the Cavorite that fuels his spaceship ends up driving much of the plot.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
The First Men in the Moon / int_115b9907	comment	Starfish Language
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The First Men in the Moon / int_1713b00a	type	Your Head A-Splode
The First Men in the Moon / int_1713b00a	comment	Your Head Asplode: See Weaksauce Weakness above.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The First Men in the Moon / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: 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 Self-Serving Memory of his own
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The First Men in the Moon / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The First Men in the Moon / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: This seems to be the case when Bedford overhears Cavor speaking with the Selenites' Grand Lunar. As the Grand Lunar openly states his concerns about how dangerous humans are from what Cavor has told him. Bedford assumes Cavor (and possibly humanity) is being "put on trial" and starts shooting.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_20ffc19a	type	Famous for Being First
The First Men in the Moon / int_20ffc19a	comment	Famous for Being First: 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 Selenites.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_21d5918a	type	Rubber-Band History
The First Men in the Moon / int_21d5918a	comment	Rubber-Band History: At the beginning it looks like the science will be utterly outdated only to reveal at the end that Professor Cavor used a sheet of Cavorite to flush all the oxygen off the moon in a Heroic Sacrifice to save the Earth from a Selenite invasion, creating the deserted, airless moon discovered by Aldrin and Armstrong.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_22b411b9	type	Thinking Tic
The First Men in the Moon / int_22b411b9	comment	Thinking Tic: Cavor's tic of making odd noises while he's thinking is the whole reason he and Bedford even meet. Cavor has the habit of walking past the cottage Bedford lives in, while contemplating his experiments. He unconsciously sings as he walks, and the singing disturbs Bedford's attempts to write, to the point that he asks Cavor to either stop or to walk somewhere else.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
The First Men in the Moon / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: Cavor's entire motivation.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The First Men in the Moon / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Woman: Despite her bouts of being Too Dumb to Live, Kate was often the most honest and sensible of the three protagonists. First, for not being as duplicitous as her fiancé Arnold or as dangerously naïve as Cavor. Second, Kate sensibly helps repair the damaged ship in order for her and Arnold to escape.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_35543514	type	Just Eat Gilligan
The First Men in the Moon / int_35543514	comment	Just Eat Gilligan: Cavor really should have shot both Arnold and Kate with the elephant gun as soon as she handed it to him. Kate almost gets the sphere tossed into the sun when she tries to look out the window, and Arnold does nothing but antagonize the Selenites from the moment they meet.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
The First Men in the Moon / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: Cavor is afraid that humanity will fight over the moon, as they do the rest of the Earth. Ironically, his fear turns out to be justified, as the Selenites quickly adjust to the idea that being a bastard might be fun.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
The First Men in the Moon / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Kate gets captured by the Selenites and held as some kind of scientific specimen when they find the sphere.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_49de98db	type	Dilating Door
The First Men in the Moon / int_49de98db	comment	Dilating Door: The Selenites' lunar iris is a physically huge example of one.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
The First Men in the Moon / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Cavor's attempt to explain humanity to the Selenites comes across as this. They focus particularly on the contradiction of humans hating war and yet honoring people who fight in them.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_522811b8	type	Falling into the Cockpit
The First Men in the Moon / int_522811b8	comment	Falling into the Cockpit: At the end of the story, 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 Anti-Gravity.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_560fd3cb	type	Fan Sequel
The First Men in the Moon / int_560fd3cb	comment	Fan Sequel: The Martian War, wherein the Martians from The War of the Worlds conquer the Selenites.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_5d90c8e	type	Lunarians
The First Men in the Moon / int_5d90c8e	comment	Lunarians: The Selenites.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_63f22889	type	Insectoid Aliens
The First Men in the Moon / int_63f22889	comment	Insectoid Aliens: The Selenites, each of whom fulfills a specific specialized role in lunar society. They are often considered the Trope Maker.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The First Men in the Moon / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Cavor destroys the moon's atmosphere to prevent an alien invasion, dying in the process.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_69dfa613	type	Cephalothorax
The First Men in the Moon / int_69dfa613	comment	Cephalothorax: The Grand Lunar is a gargantuan brain attached to an atrophied, unused body.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_7041e520	type	Super Breeding Program
The First Men in the Moon / int_7041e520	comment	Super Breeding Program: Each Selenite is physically and mentally altered almost from hatching to fulfill one specific role in lunar society. They do not have any thoughts or desires outside of this role, and they are sedated during times when they have nothing to do.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_7160b097	type	Dawn of an Era
The First Men in the Moon / int_7160b097	comment	Dawn of an Era: Averted. Cavor desperately wants the voyage to be this trope, but events conspire to prevent this.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_77738f2	type	Accidental Astronaut
The First Men in the Moon / int_77738f2	comment	Accidental Astronaut: 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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The First Men in the Moon / int_77948aaa	type	Tattered Flag
The First Men in the Moon / int_77948aaa	comment	Tattered Flag: The modern astronauts discover, to their astonishment, an old, worn out Union Jack left in the Victorian age.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_7994c93a	type	Violence Really Is the Answer
The First Men in the Moon / int_7994c93a	comment	Violence Really Is the Answer: 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 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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The First Men in the Moon / int_7a4c6931	type	Aliens Never Invented Democracy
The First Men in the Moon / int_7a4c6931	comment	Aliens Never Invented Democracy: The moon's civilization is ruled by the Grand Lunar, who holds that office by virtue of having the biggest brain. It is noted in-universe that Lunars conduct eugenics to produce Lunars specific to a societal purpose.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_7f8ec449	type	Bold Explorer
The First Men in the Moon / int_7f8ec449	comment	Bold Explorer: When Joseph Cavor discovers a material that blocks gravity, he quickly decides to set off and explore the moon.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The First Men in the Moon / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: First, Kate almost dooms the expedition. Next, Arnold kills a bunch of the Selenites with little provocation. Finally, Cavor infects the whole population of Selenites with his cold, killing them all.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The First Men in the Moon / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Towards the end, a young English boy sneaks inside the Cavorite sphere and accidentally blasts himself off into space. Whatever happened to him or to the sphere is not revealed.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The First Men in the Moon / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Grand Lunar becomes one of these once introduced to the concept of empire and conquest by Cavor.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_885b0b18	type	Interplanetary Voyage
The First Men in the Moon / int_885b0b18	comment	Interplanetary Voyage: Bedford and 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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The First Men in the Moon / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The First Men in the Moon / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Bedford's repeated use of the word "Imperial" as a suplerlative sets up the Selenites' plan to invade and conquer Earth.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The First Men in the Moon / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Cavor's reaction to teaching The Grand Lunar about conquest and empire.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_a7caa5b5	type	First Contact
The First Men in the Moon / int_a7caa5b5	comment	First Contact: It doesn't end well.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
The First Men in the Moon / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: It's just no-one believes Bedford.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_ac711709	type	Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion
The First Men in the Moon / int_ac711709	comment	Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion: The Selenites' invasion gets stopped remarkably easily physically speaking. Cavor simply has to kill them all to do it...
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The First Men in the Moon / int_ad4578de	type	Hollow World
The First Men in the Moon / int_ad4578de	comment	Hollow World: The Moon is full of tunnels and is largely hollow.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_ad8dbae4	type	Public Domain Artifact
The First Men in the Moon / int_ad8dbae4	comment	Public Domain Artifact: Cavorite (often in lower case) has been adopted as a standard anti-gravity material in scores of sci-fi stories.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_b3393a2e	type	Trip to the Moon Plot
The First Men in the Moon / int_b3393a2e	comment	Trip to the Moon Plot: One of the earliest examples (and unlike in Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, Wells' explorers actually land on the Moon).
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The First Men in the Moon / int_b6d4b44e	type	Lightworlder
The First Men in the Moon / int_b6d4b44e	comment	Lightworlder: Well, the Selenites are from the moon, where the gravity is lower, after all...
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The First Men in the Moon / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The First Men in the Moon / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Bedford. He ropes his girlfriend into real estate fraud, immediately wants to use Cavorite for commercial purposes, and has no respect for Cavor's intentions of peaceful exploration.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_bffc7851	type	Humanity on Trial
The First Men in the Moon / int_bffc7851	comment	Humanity on Trial: The Grand Lunar questioning Cavor about earthlings comes across as this; whether this was actually the Grand Lunars' intent however is left a little vague.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_c09dbbbb	type	Weaksauce Weakness
The First Men in the Moon / int_c09dbbbb	comment	Weaksauce Weakness: 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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The First Men in the Moon / int_c309f9d1	type	Science Marches On
The First Men in the Moon / int_c309f9d1	comment	Science Marches On: Obviously there's a lot about this movie that is not accurate to what we now know about space travel and what the moon is like, but even the movie updates a few things - namely, the need for any kind of protective gear at all while on the moon's surface - from the book.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_c5499187	type	AntiGravity
The First Men in the Moon / int_c5499187	comment	Anti-Gravity: Cavorite blocks gravity. Put a sheet of it between yourself and the Earth and you're weightless — or, rather, you're now in the weak gravitational grip of the Moon.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The First Men in the Moon / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Bedford has a dream sequence that is almost exactly identical to the fantasy cinema of George Melies, creator of A Trip to the Moon.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_c7b5445c	type	Cool Starship
The First Men in the Moon / int_c7b5445c	comment	Cool Starship: Cavor's polyhedral spaceship is not only the first spaceship; it's the first spaceship with curtains.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_cf6d4bad	type	Steampunk
The First Men in the Moon / int_cf6d4bad	comment	Steampunk: It's a film about Victorian adventurer-scientists traveling to the moon and back. What would you expect?
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The First Men in the Moon / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The First Men in the Moon / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: The 2010 film is set in 1969, just prior to the "first" official moon landing. Bedford's been to the moon, and has kinematographic evidence. No-one believes him, and his films are regarded as fakes.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_dcaf20c4	type	Space Suits Are SCUBA Gear
The First Men in the Moon / int_dcaf20c4	comment	Space Suits Are SCUBA Gear: Actually, just diving gear. The Edwardian equivalent, diving suits, are used as space suits.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_e0e3579a	type	Fungus Humongous
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The First Men in the Moon / int_e2d6bd74	type	Insect Gender-Bender
The First Men in the Moon / int_e2d6bd74	comment	Insect Gender-Bender: the Grand Lunar and the common worker Selenites are referred to as male despite being said to be similar to ants. Male ants are simply drones for procreation and usually die after fertilizing the queen. Of course, these are aliens.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_ea9f0351	type	My Brain is Big
The First Men in the Moon / int_ea9f0351	comment	My Brain Is Big: 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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The First Men in the Moon / int_f3fac450	type	Brain in a Jar
The First Men in the Moon / int_f3fac450	comment	Brain in a Jar: The Grand Lunar's natural form seems to be this, only the "jar" is the inside of the moon itself.
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The First Men in the Moon / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
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