Editing Arthur Dent (section)

==Arthur's "death"==
Arthur dies in the fifth installment of the book series, ''[[Mostly Harmless]]'', in a club called Beta (owned by Stavro Mueller) when the Earth and all its duplicates are seemingly destroyed by the Grebulons. Adams frequently expressed his disdain for this ending in retrospect, claiming that it was too depressing and came about as the result of him having a bad year.<ref>{{cite web|first=Amanda|last=Mannen|url=https://www.cracked.com/article_28601_hitchhikers-guide-to-galaxy-loose-ends-finally-got-fixed-on-radio.html|title='Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' Loose Ends Finally Got Fixed (On The Radio?)|website=[[Cracked (website)|Cracked]]|date=20 September 2020|accessdate=18 July 2021}}</ref>

In the radio series, Arthur is saved by the Babel Fish, which can teleport itself, along with its carrier, out of danger. Arthur and the others who died in the books are instead teleported by their Babel Fishes to somewhere safer than Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha. This is also used in Trillian's dream sequence, as the reason for their escape.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

In ''[[And Another Thing... (novel)|And Another Thing...]]'', written by [[Eoin Colfer]], Arthur is put into a dream sequence (presumably referring to the epilogue of the radio series) and then frozen in time by the ''Guide'' Mk.2, allowing him to experience decades of life on a peaceful beach. The ''Guide''<!-- -->'s batteries soon run out, however, so all the main characters are re-awakened on the exploding Earth, at the exact point where ''Mostly Harmless'' left off. Zaphod then rescues them in the ''Heart of Gold''. All alternative Arthurs are killed. In the end, Arthur travels through hyperspace on an interstellar passenger ship; he looks to the seat next to him to find Fenchurch sitting there talking to him, but he fades out of her dimension and into a new one. Materializing on the beach from his dream, he looks into the sky and discovers that the Vogons are on their way to destroy this planet.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}