History Film / Bright

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Pollard was a racist and bigoted corrupt cop who ends up getting shot multiple times by Ward and is left to writhe in agony before he's finally finished off by Leilah, who casually slits his throat. Poison was a racist and bigoted handicapped gangbanger who antagonizes our heroes for a while before Leilah arrives on the scene and shows him who the ''real'' BigBad is, her knife skills making very quick work of him]].

* GenreSavvy: [[[spoiler: Ward tries to pick up the wand at the end because he realizes he's involved in fulfilling a prophecy, so there must be some twist involved. There is - he's a bright himself.]]

* ArtifactOfDoom: Magical Wands are weapons of mass destruction that presumably have unlimited power in the hands of a Bright (a person able to wield magic). It also kills any non-Bright that tries to touch it. How powerful are they? Tikka, who still is only a novice in their use, uses it to [[spoiler: bring Jakoby back to life.]]

** Serling claims that the only way to know if you're a Bright or not is to pick up a wand and see if you die or not. Presumably there are other means of detection - [[spoiler:Serling, the Shield of Light member, seems to have some idea that Ward is a Bright well before Ward finds out himself, and Ward's exceptional speed and skill when shooting seem to foreshadow the reveal]] - but most people would never have access to them.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Ward is one of the main protagonists, but he is heavily prejudiced against non-humans in general; he dislikes orcs despite his partner being one and always being [[TheFarmerAndTheViper nice to him]], considers fairies sub-human and is disdainful towards elves.

* ScrewYouElves: It's pretty clear in-universe that some characters such as Daryl don't have a high opinion about elves and how they run the Earth, sort of like their version of EatTheRich.

* StandardFantasyRaces: The movie takes the standard fantasy races and puts them in a modern UrbanFantasy setting, with a lot of FantasticRacism. Humans are the most mundane and most numerous ones, and [[HumansAreDivided have within-species racism, such as Americans disliking Mexicans]]. Elves are the snobbish elite who look down on the other races, whereas orcs are mostly lower class and form urban gangs. Orcs also get the most hate from other races due to being the {{mooks}} of TheDarkLord back when the world was a StandardFantasySetting (despite the fact that the Dark Lord was an elf and the hero who defeated him was an orc). Fairies are common, non-sapient pests; a human killing one is seen as a disturbing act, but not a crime. There are references to "the nine races", suggesting that other stock fantasy races also exist.

* GreenLanternRing: Magical Wands have seemingly unlimited potential. It has been used to strip enemies to the bone, create money out of thin air, resurrect the dead, heal ailments and assuming Pollard isn't exaggerating when describing their power, it's likely possible to travel back in time with it.

** Jirak is the orc equivalent of Jesus Christ, as he shares the same first initial, also lived 2000 years ago and saved the world from the EvilOverlord in this setting. He is the subject of worship in Orc religion, and orcs partly correspond to real-life Jews, since they have been long discriminated and accused of betraying Jesus, even though he was Jewish himself, much like orcs are hated for siding with the Dark Lord when it was an orc that united other races to oppose him.

* TheFairFolk: Leilah and her associates embody all the worst and most monstrous traits associated with elves. And the Dark Lord himself is said to be so much worse. Really at best, elves as a whole are viewed as arrogant and privileged twits that not even humans can stand.

Less than a month after its release, Netflix stated they were working on a sequel, but as of 2022 it is no longer in development. In 2021, it was announced that that ''Bright'' was getting an animated film spin off, ''Anime/BrightSamuraiSoul''. The film takes place in Japan during the end of the Shogunate and the beginning of the UsefulNotes/MeijiRestoration.

** If he did come back, he would most likely command an army with comparable modern armament that could easily match the US military, if not military forces in the world combined. Given that he’s an {{Expy}} of Sauron, no matter how many casualties his forces were to suffer, the Dark Lord himself would be vulnerable only to weaponized magic and lots of it.

** If he did come back, he would most likely command an army with comparable modern armament that could easily match the US military, if not every world's military forces combined. Given that he’s an {{Expy}} of Sauron, no matter how many casualties his forces were to suffer, the Dark Lord himself would be vulnerable only to weaponized magic and lots of it.

** If he did come back, he would most likely command an army with comparable modern armament that could easily match the US military. Given that he’s an {{Expy}} of Sauron, no matter how many casualties his forces were to suffer, the Dark Lord himself would be vulnerable only to weaponized magic and lots of it.

* BrokenAesop: Some critics have taken issue for the story's heavy-handed "Racism is Bad" message, but while the Orcs are depicted as NotEvilJustMisunderstood and DarkIsNotEvil, it has a huge in-universe ScrewYouElves mentality in how elves are widely hated by most of the humans for being rich Kardashian types obsessed with shopping in the Beverly Hills Expy, but is not presented as a bad thing like the Orcs. Either rendering it a confused metaphor for the upper class or the writers unintentionally invoking a DoubleStandard. Coupled with the unrelated UnfortunateImplications on how they're presented as [[SissyVillain more feminine]] compared to the rugged, stoic orcs and humans.

* ConLang: David J. Peterson created languages and scripts for the languages the elves and the orcs use in the movie. The elvish language is called Övüsi, and orcish is Bodzvokhan.

Less than a month after its release, Netflix stated they were working on a sequel, but as of 2022 it is no longer in development.

In 2021, it was announced that that ''Bright'' was getting an animated film spin off, ''Anime/BrightSamuraiSoul''. The film takes place in Japan during the end of the Shogunate and the beginning of the UsefulNotes/MeijiRestoration.