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'''The Brain:''' Because it's part of how this is done. You're at my mercy, so now I taunt you. I subject you to a game of verbal cat and mouse until you have no choice. but to admit I am your superior. Or maybe I am slowly peeling away the layers of your psyche to expose a mental weakness, some crippling vulnerability that I can exploit.\\
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'''The Brain:''' Because it's part of how this is done. You're at my mercy, so now I taunt you. I subject you to a game of verbal cat and mouse until you have no choice. choice but to admit I am your superior. Or maybe I am slowly peeling away the layers of your psyche to expose a mental weakness, some crippling vulnerability that I can exploit.\\
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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In RealLife, UsefulNotes/NeilArmstrong died of complications for Coronary artery disease in 2012. Here, he was eaten by {{Luna|rians}}ns in 1960.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The [[JerkassGods Eleventh God of Venus]] is known to [[YourHeadASplode explosively decapitate]] as a form of DivinePunishment for any Venusian who shows cowardice.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The [[JerkassGods Eleventh God of Venus]] is known to [[YourHeadASplode explosively decapitate]] as a form of DivinePunishment for any Venusian who shows cowardice.
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In the 2013 anthology book ''Robots versus Slime Monsters'', one of the stories — "Literature/CindyAndCragg" — set within the setting of the novel, starring minor characters Cragg and Cindy.
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* EasilyConqueredWorld: PlayedForLaughs, as Mollusk managed to crown himself ruler of Earth and the humans that make up most of its population using a complicated mix of mind-controlling chemicals and displacement of countries and individuals. By the time he makes himself known to the humans, they practically roll out the red carpet for him. Even better, he only did it as an intellectual experiment and [[MyopicConqueror had no real end-goal once he became Emperor]].
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* RedHerring: A nihilistic, entropy-worshipping death cult called the Celebrants of Oblivion is mentioned a few times at the start of the novel and Mollusk even takes Zala to meet an assassin from the cult for information gathering, so you'd think they would have a bigger role in the plot at large. [[spoiler:The Celebrants have nothing to do with the conspiracy going on in the plot. In fact, Mollusk admits that he's a member, albeit in an "honorary degree" sort of way.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While every other brain in the Council of Egos is named, the actual identity of the Sinister Brain Mollusk deals with throughout the book is never revealed. The only clues we ever get is that he was brought into the Council for his skills in espionage and, in lieu of a name when Mollusk asks for it, asks to be addressed as "Omega." Not liking the name, Mollusk decides to call him "Buddy."
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* TheAntiNihilist: What Emperor Mollusk and the Pluvian Philosopher Kings agree on is that while entropy will always win out in the end, it's one's strive to one day overcome it that is the prime initiative of sentient life. A universe without life would be entirely pointless, in contrast to a universe with life being ''mostly'' pointless.
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* TheAntiNihilist: What Emperor Mollusk and the Pluvian Philosopher Kings agree on is that while entropy will always win out in the end, it's one's strive to one day overcome it that is the prime initiative of sentient life. A universe without life would be entirely pointless, in contrast to a universe with life being ''mostly'' pointless. [[spoiler:So the idea that he would be able to create a Quantum Certainty Generator, a machine that would allow anyone to control all probability in the universe in spite of entropy, should clue you in that the Council of Ego actually didn't build a Quantum Certainty Generator under Mollusk's instruction.]]
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** [[spoiler:Using schematics sent to them by a future version of Emperor Mollusk and the various objects they steal throughout the book (the anti-time radio, the Eiffel Tower, Shambala's molluskotrenic engine), the Council of Egos build a Quantum Certainty Generator, [[WindsOfDestinyChange a device that controls the universe on a quantum level and turns possibilities into certainties]].]]
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** [[spoiler:Using schematics sent to them by a future version of Emperor Mollusk and the various objects they steal throughout the book (the anti-time radio, the Eiffel Tower, Shambala's molluskotrenic engine), the Council of Egos build a Quantum Certainty Generator, [[WindsOfDestinyChange a device that controls the universe on a quantum level and turns possibilities into certainties]]. It's subverted of course, as Future-Mollusk tricked them into building a telepathic ecstasy field-generator that traps them all in a LotusEaterMachine.]]
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* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:The Council of Ego's fate has them trapped in a telepathic ecstasy field-generator, living out a fantasy where they've conquered the galaxy when really they're all in storage, Emperor Mollusk the true victor.]]
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* OutGambitted: [[spoiler:The events of the book were all orchestrated by the Council of Egos, who intend on enslaving Mollusk under instruction of a Future-Mollusk sending them instructions with the anti-time radio. Except it was all devised by Future-Mollusk, tricking them into building a LotusEaterMachine that traps them all in a dream-state while Present-Mollusk goes off scot-free, creating a StableTimeLoop.]]
--> '''Zala:''' This plan of yours seems needlessly complicated. There must have been a simpler way than to put yourself through all that.\\
'''Mollusk:''' If it were too simple, [[spoiler:the Council]] would never have believed it. It had to be reidiculous, even unnecessary, in order to fool the [[spoiler:the Council]].
--> '''Zala:''' This plan of yours seems needlessly complicated. There must have been a simpler way than to put yourself through all that.\\
'''Mollusk:''' If it were too simple, [[spoiler:the Council]] would never have believed it. It had to be reidiculous, even unnecessary, in order to fool the [[spoiler:the Council]].
