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* {{Main/Robot}}: The sweet, silvery [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey nonHAL]]-[[Creator/IsaacAsimov asimov]]-[[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 42]] model android, [[Film/ForbiddenPlanet Robby]] clearly counts.

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* {{Main/Robot}}: RobotBuddy: The sweet, silvery [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey nonHAL]]-[[Creator/IsaacAsimov asimov]]-[[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 42]] model android, [[Film/ForbiddenPlanet Robby]] clearly counts.
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* Main/AddictionDisplacement: The mysterious anti-craving potion Laura drinks to combat her heroin addiction counts, kind of. It's basically

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* Main/AddictionDisplacement: The mysterious anti-craving potion Laura drinks to combat her heroin addiction counts, kind of. It's basicallybasically sci-fi methadone.
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* Main/PopCulturedBadass: Laura's incredibly well-read and pretty brave.
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* Main/Robot: The sweet, silvery [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey nonHAL]]-[[Creator/IsaacAsimov asimov]]-[[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 42]] model android, [[Film/ForbiddenPlanet Robby]], obviously.

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* Main/Robot: {{Main/Robot}}: The sweet, silvery [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey nonHAL]]-[[Creator/IsaacAsimov asimov]]-[[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 42]] model android, [[Film/ForbiddenPlanet Robby]], obviously.Robby]] clearly counts.
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* Main/Catchphrase: Herr Braune often says "Great Scott"... just like another [[Film/BackTotheFuture fatherly character]] with a similar name.

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* Main/Catchphrase: {{Main/Catchphrase}}: Herr Braune often says "Great Scott"... just like another the similarly-named [[Film/BackTotheFuture fatherly character]] with a similar name.time traveler]].



* Main/MadScientist: Cook's an especially benign example.

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* Main/MadScientist: Cook's an especially benign example. Uncle Henrik might be one, too.
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* Main/Robot: The silvery nonHAL-[[Creator/IsaacAsimov asimov]]-[[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 42]] model android, [[Film/ForbiddenPlanet Robby]], obviously.

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* Main/Robot: The sweet, silvery nonHAL-[[Creator/IsaacAsimov [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey nonHAL]]-[[Creator/IsaacAsimov asimov]]-[[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 42]] model android, [[Film/ForbiddenPlanet Robby]], obviously.
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* Main/Robot: The silvery nonHAL-[[Creator/IssacAsimov asimov]]-42 model android, [[Film/ForbiddenPlanet Robby]], obviously.

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* Main/Robot: The silvery nonHAL-[[Creator/IssacAsimov asimov]]-42 nonHAL-[[Creator/IsaacAsimov asimov]]-[[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 42]] model android, [[Film/ForbiddenPlanet Robby]], obviously.
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* Main/Robot: The shiny, silvery "[[Film:2001ASpaceOdyessey nonHAL]]-asimov-42 model android, [[Film/ForbiddenPlanet Robby]], obviously.

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* Main/Robot: The shiny, silvery "[[Film:2001ASpaceOdyessey nonHAL]]-asimov-42 nonHAL-[[Creator/IssacAsimov asimov]]-42 model android, [[Film/ForbiddenPlanet Robby]], obviously.
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* Main/Robot: The shiny, silvery "non[[Film:2001ASpaceOdyessey HAL]]model [[Film/ForbiddenPlanet Robby]], obviously.

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* Main/Robot: The shiny, silvery "non[[Film:2001ASpaceOdyessey HAL]]model "[[Film:2001ASpaceOdyessey nonHAL]]-asimov-42 model android, [[Film/ForbiddenPlanet Robby]], obviously.
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* Main/Robot: The shiny, silvery model [[Film/ForbiddenPlanet Robby]], obviously.

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* Main/Robot: The shiny, silvery model "non[[Film:2001ASpaceOdyessey HAL]]model [[Film/ForbiddenPlanet Robby]], obviously.

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* Main/CoolOldLady: Granny, Laura's wonderfully badass grandmother.



* Main/TheFlapper: What Granny used to be, in her youth.



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* Main/Catchphrase:

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* Main/Catchphrase: Herr Braune often says "Great Scott"... just like another [[Film/BackTotheFuture fatherly character]] with a similar name.


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* Main/TheFairFolk: An army of evil, well-armed fairies pursue Laura and her friends for most of the story. The Boss might also count.
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* Main/ReferenceOverdosed: Well, it ''was'' written by Creator/MLLanzillotta. That's sort of expected.
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* Main/TheGhost: Though she never actually shows up, Laura's ex-roommate Mary is mentioned rather often in the narration. Laura might've had a crush on her.
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* Main/HomoeroticSubtext: Laura often daydreams about her old reform school roommate, Mary. Apparently they were extremely, ah, ''close''.
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* Main/CostumePorn: Laura spends quite a bit of time describing her (sometimes clownish) outfits.


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* Main/LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: Herr Braune aka Mr. Bradshaw]] turns out to be Sam's real father.
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* Main/GratuituousGerman: See Bilingual Bonus, above.

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* Main/GratuituousGerman: Main/GratuitousGerman: See Bilingual Bonus, above.

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* Main/AddictionDisplacement: The mysterious anti-craving potion Laura drinks.
* Main/AscendedFanfic: It's based on the author's ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' fanfic, ''Fanfic/LifeNotAtTheFrankensteinPlace''.
* {{Main/Diary}}: The book itself is presented as Laurie's diary.
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* Main/GratituousGerman: Sam's Aunt and Uncle throw in German words... even when they're speaking to characters who can't understand. Much of it's incorrect, though. The author seems to have used Google Translate.

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* Main/AddictionDisplacement: The mysterious anti-craving potion Laura drinks.
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drinks to combat her heroin addiction counts, kind of. It's based on the author's ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' fanfic, ''Fanfic/LifeNotAtTheFrankensteinPlace''.basically
* Main/AllGermansAreNazis: Referenced by Laura when she first meets Sam's (German-speaking) family. He denies this, though.

* {{Main/Diary}}: The book itself is presented as Laurie's diary.
Main/AscendedFanfic: ''If I Go It Will Be Double'''s plot seems suspiciously reminiscent of the author's ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' fanfic, ''Fanfic/LifeNotAtTheFrankensteinPlace''. In some ways, the book's an improved version of the fanfic. Irrelevant scenes and confusing plot points found in the latter aren't present in the former.
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* Main/GratituousGerman: Sam's Aunt
Main/BilingualBonus: Auntie Emma and Uncle throw in German words... even when they're speaking to characters who can't understand.Henrik often speak German. Much of it's incorrect, though. The author seems to have used Google Translate.
* {{Main/Diary}}: The book itself is presented as Laurie's diary.
* Main/GratuituousGerman: See Bilingual Bonus, above.
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* Main/GratituousGerman: Sam's Aunt and Uncle throw in German words... even when they're speaking to characters who can't understand. Much of it's incorrect, though. The author seems to have used Google Translate.
* Main/MadScientist: Cook's an especially benign example.
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Yeah. ''If I Go It Will Be Double'' sure is strange.

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Yeah. ''If I Go It Will Be Double'' sure is strange. \n You can read it here [[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JQ6TRCP]].


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* Main/AscendedFanfic: It's based on the author's ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' fanfic, ''Fanfic/LifeNotAtTheFrankensteinPlace''.
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* [[Main/Diary]]: The book itself is presented as Laurie's diary.

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Set in the 1970s, it's about a drug-addicted party girl named Laura "Laurie". She lives with a sleazy but alluring man known only as the “Boss" and his peculiar hanger-ons. Behind the secluded walls of his strange mansion, Laura pines for hard drugs (her first love), misses her old friend, forges an unlikely alliance, and falls in love with the boy of her dreams. But will she lose everything when she and her beloved escape the confines of the castle and find themselves on the run from a multitude of dangerous and enigmatic enemies? Nothing is what it seems and everyone has their secrets in this sci-fi/thriller-meets-addiction portrait-meets-road trip romance.

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Set in the 1970s, it's about a drug-addicted party girl named Laura "Laurie"."Laurie" Trent. She lives with a sleazy but alluring man known only as the “Boss" and his peculiar hanger-ons. Behind the secluded walls of his strange mansion, Laura pines for hard drugs (her first love), misses her old friend, forges an unlikely alliance, and falls in love with the boy of her dreams. But will she lose everything when she and her beloved escape the confines of the castle and find themselves on the run from a multitude of dangerous and enigmatic enemies? Nothing is what it seems and everyone has their secrets in this sci-fi/thriller-meets-addiction portrait-meets-road trip romance.
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* Main/Unreliable narrator: Laurie just might be this.

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''If I Go It Will Be Double'' is an Main/UrbanFantasy story by Creator/MLLanzillotta.

Set in the 1970s, it's about a drug-addicted party girl named Laura "Laurie". She lives with a sleazy but alluring man known only as the “Boss" and his peculiar hanger-ons. Behind the secluded walls of his strange mansion, Laura pines for hard drugs (her first love), misses her old friend, forges an unlikely alliance, and falls in love with the boy of her dreams. But will she lose everything when she and her beloved escape the confines of the castle and find themselves on the run from a multitude of dangerous and enigmatic enemies? Nothing is what it seems and everyone has their secrets in this sci-fi/thriller-meets-addiction portrait-meets-road trip romance.

Yeah. ''If I Go It Will Be Double'' sure is strange.

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* Main/Diary: The book itself is presented as Laurie's diary.
* Main/TeenPregnancy: Laurie's [[spoiler:sister Agnes]] apparently gave birth to a son in high school.
* Main/Unreliable narrator: Laurie just might be this.

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