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* GenderReveal: Right in the middle of the TearJerker that is [[spoiler:Sam's death]], Neville uses [[spoiler:her]] full name for the first time, somehow making the whole thing even more devastating:
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--> '''Neville:''' [[spoiler: "Samantha..."]]
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* Defictionalization: The movie features a billboard for a Superman/Batman crossover film. [[http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=106748 Guess what movie got announced at the 2013 Comic-Con?]]
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* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: A billboard in the abandoned Times Square has a ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'' logo. A "World's Finest" or Batman Vs. Superman film was in talks at the same time as this film, but fell through, so this reference was all we got.
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* BatFamilyCrossover: Referenced by a billboard in the abandoned Times Square, which depicts the Batman films' symbol with the Superman "S" in the middle.[[hottip:In the real world...:A "World's Finest" or Batman Vs. Superman film was in talks at the same time as this film, but fell through, so this reference was all we got.]].
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* MamaBear: Sam is usually shown as getting into trouble and in places where she shouldn't go. It gives the audience the impression that she's TheLoad. However when the infected trap Robert with infected dogs, it's Sam that comes to the rescue [[spoiler: at the cost of her own life.]]
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* DramaticSitDown: Robert Neville has a moment like this after his dog is infected by the vampire disease and he puts it down. The dog was only companion for three years during the [[ZombieApocalypse vampire apocalypse]]. The following shot is of Neville sitting in his car after burying the dog's body and blankly staring at the now empty passenger seat. He almost commits suicide when two unaffected survivors show up and help him.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The infected creatures. They display characteristics that are a cross between vampires and zombies. Their skin, which is pale, is harmed by sunlight, they're incredibly fast and strong, they feed on have a decayed appearance, are hairless, and spend most of the non-infected and whilst film acting like stereotypical fast zombies. [[spoiler:Except that they are apparently incapable of human speech, they do have their own form of intelligence.rudimentary intelligence and feelings for each other...]]
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* ContaminationSituation: The dog is infected with a virus that turns him into one of the mutants. Robert Neville has to kill his dog.
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* GhostCity: GhostCity, HarsherInHindsight and LifeImitatesArt: New York. The DVD extras show Hong Kong also became this.this.
** In October 2012, [[http://instagram.com/p/RaKZqxmWZ4/ Hurricane Sandy made those shots in the movie of an empty New York a lot less CGI.]] Even creepier is that the movie itself is set in 2012.
** In October 2012, [[http://instagram.com/p/RaKZqxmWZ4/ Hurricane Sandy made those shots in the movie of an empty New York a lot less CGI.]] Even creepier is that the movie itself is set in 2012.
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* OneSceneWonder: She has about 1 minute and a half of screen time at the beginning of the film (and isn't listed in the credits), but EmmaThompson as Alice Krippin is so delightful you desperately want to know more about the women who inadvertantly created TheVirus.
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* SanitySlippage: Mostly happens before the "current" time of the movie, though it gets really sliding after [[spoiler:Neville is forced to [[DespairEventHorizon mercy-kill his only companion, the dog]].]] Talking to your pet? That's fairly normal even now. Talking to a mannequin? A little odd. Expecting, nay, ''begging'' it to talk back? (See Manly Tears) Yeah, you're pretty far gone. Spending three years as the only uninfected human in New York City, hell the entire world, [[spoiler:or so he thinks,]] will probably make you a little unstable. There's also the fact that [[spoiler:even when reunited with other humans]] he still seems a little broken. Among which being the refusal to think that other humans even ''could'' be out there or that the infected aren't the mindless beasts he thinks, despite ever-growing mountains of evidence otherwise, and going blank as he spoke along with the movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' in a way that would make Pavlov proud.
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* SanitySlippage: Mostly happens before the "current" time of the movie, though it gets really sliding slidy after [[spoiler:Neville is forced to [[DespairEventHorizon mercy-kill his only companion, the dog]].]] Talking to your pet? That's fairly normal even now. Talking to a mannequin? A little odd. Expecting, nay, ''begging'' it to talk back? (See Manly Tears) Yeah, you're pretty far gone. Spending three years as the only uninfected human in New York City, hell the entire world, [[spoiler:or so he thinks,]] will probably make you a little unstable. There's also the fact that [[spoiler:even when reunited with other humans]] he still seems a little broken. Among which being the refusal to think that other humans even ''could'' be out there or that the infected aren't the mindless beasts he thinks, despite ever-growing mountains of evidence otherwise, and going blank as he spoke along with the movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' in a way that would make Pavlov proud.
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The latest film adaptation (and only one to bear the name) of Richard Matheson's novel.
Creator/RichardMatheson's novel ''Literature/IAmLegend''.
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* ActorAllusion: Will Smith and his Marley, particularly "Three Little Birds", which he earlier mangled in ''SharkTale''.
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* FocusGroupEnding: Infamously so, ruining most of the {{Foreshadowing}} and creating a few {{Plot Hole}}s. Originally, [[spoiler:Neville would have realized that the infected are intelligent, and just want to take back the flock member he has in his captivity in order to test his cure. A shocked Neville allows to them do this, after which the infected leaves without causing further trouble. The whole event makes Neville [[HeelRealization start to question his own morality]], when the implications of what he has done to develop his cure dawns on him.]] In the final version of the ending [[spoiler:the intelligence of the infected is just implicated, but ultimately ignored, and Neville makes a HeroicSacrifice to help the others escape with his cure]]. The original ending was eventually included as bonus material on the DVD, where it was named the "controversial" ending.
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* FocusGroupEnding: Infamously so, ruining most of the {{Foreshadowing}} and creating a few {{Plot Hole}}s. Originally, [[spoiler:Neville would have realized that the infected are intelligent, and just want to take back the flock member he has in his captivity in order to test his cure. A shocked Neville allows to them do this, after which the infected leaves without causing further trouble. The whole event makes Neville [[HeelRealization start to question his own morality]], when the implications of what he has done to develop his cure dawns on him.]] In the final version of the ending [[spoiler:the intelligence of the infected is just implicated, implied, but ultimately ignored, and Neville makes a HeroicSacrifice to help the others escape with his cure]]. The original ending was eventually included as bonus material on the DVD, where it was named the "controversial" ending.
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* LivingProp: Ethan. He has no lines and never does anything other than not die. Only thing that he's used for is Neville showing how much time he's had on his hands when reciting Shrek by heart.
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* ManlyTears: [[spoiler: Neville sings Bob Marley's 'Three Little Birds to Samantha as he holds her in his arms. When she begins to attack him, he strangles her and weeps. The next day, he walks into the video store and breaks down when he finally talks to the girl-mannequin.]]
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* ManlyTears: [[spoiler: Neville sings Bob Marley's 'Three Little Birds Birds' to Samantha as he holds her in his arms. When she begins to attack him, he strangles her and weeps. The next day, he walks into the video store and breaks down when he finally talks to the girl-mannequin.]]
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* SanitySlippage: Mostly happens before the "current" time of the movie, though it gets really sliding after [[spoiler:Neville is forced to [[DespairEventHorizon mercy-kill his only companion, the dog]].]] Talking to your pet? That's fairly normal even now. Talking to a mannequin? A little odd. Expecting, nay, ''begging'' it to talk back? (See Manly Tears) Yeah you're pretty far gone. Spending three years as the only uninfected human in New York City, hell the entire world, [[spoiler:or so he thinks,]] will probably make you a little unstable. There's also the fact that [[spoiler:even when reunited with other humans]] he still seems a little broken. Among which being the refusal to think that other humans even ''could'' be out there or that the infected aren't the mindless beasts he thinks, despite ever-growing mountains of evidence otherwise, and going blank as he spoke along with the movie Shrek in a way that would make Pavlov proud.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Similar to the HeWhoFightsMonsters entry, it's rather subtle in the original ending; [[spoiler: after returning the mate to the alpha male, Neville looks over at the wall containing pictures of past infected who died in his experimentation.]]
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The latest film adaptation (and only one to bear the name) of Richard Matheson's novel.
With its release came four short animated movies which tell unrelated side stories about the rest of the world.
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* ActorAllusion: Will Smith and his Marley, particularly "Three Little Birds", which he earlier mangled in ''SharkTale''.
* TheAloner: Dr Neville.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: The DVD short "Shelter".
* BatFamilyCrossover: Referenced by a billboard in the abandoned Times Square, which depicts the Batman films' symbol with the Superman "S" in the middle.[[hottip:In the real world...:A "World's Finest" or Batman Vs. Superman film was in talks at the same time as this film, but fell through, so this reference was all we got.]].
* BigApplesauce: As noted on that trope's page, the setting was moved because the visual impact of an empty New York is more effective than Los Angeles, the book's setting.
* BoobyTrap: Dr. Neville's zom... er, infection victim traps. The Darkseekers eventually learn to set traps themselves.
* CatapultNightmare: Averted; Neville wakes up from a nightmare by quietly opening his eyes, as a normal person would do.
* ChewingTheScenery:
-->"FRED? WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT HERE, FRED?"
* CosyCatastrophe: Robert Neville lives in relative peace and luxury in his house, even playing golf and browsing through video stores.
* CrazyPrepared: Dr. Neville, going home at night and also [[spoiler:blowing up his house]]. He also keeps a rifle in an umbrella stand, and hides weapons [[spoiler:including the grenade in the finale]] in random drawers throughout his house.
* CureForCancer: The start of the zombie apocalypse.
* EvilBrit: Averted; Dr. Krippen didn't ''mean'' to create a virus that nearly annihilates the human race.
* {{Flashback}}s: Tells how [[spoiler:his family died]].
* FocusGroupEnding: Infamously so, ruining most of the {{Foreshadowing}} and creating a few {{Plot Hole}}s. Originally, [[spoiler:Neville would have realized that the infected are intelligent, and just want to take back the flock member he has in his captivity in order to test his cure. A shocked Neville allows to them do this, after which the infected leaves without causing further trouble. The whole event makes Neville [[HeelRealization start to question his own morality]], when the implications of what he has done to develop his cure dawns on him.]] In the final version of the ending [[spoiler:the intelligence of the infected is just implicated, but ultimately ignored, and Neville makes a HeroicSacrifice to help the others escape with his cure]]. The original ending was eventually included as bonus material on the DVD, where it was named the "controversial" ending.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The film demonstrates a bit of it, but the ending's change rendered the Foreshadowing null.
* GhostCity: New York. The DVD extras show Hong Kong also became this.
* HellishCopter: [[spoiler: The fate of Neville's family, [[HopeSpot as they were being evacuated from the city no less]].]]
* HollywoodAtheist: Neville refuses to believe in God due to the events after the outbreak.
* TheImmune: Dr. Neville.
* ItIsDehumanizing: Anna watches Neville experiment on a captured zombie, and asks whether what he's doing will "cure her." Neville responds "Actually, it will probably kill it," with the second "it" slightly emphasized.
* LivingProp: Ethan. He has no lines and never does anything other than not die. Only thing that he's used for is Neville showing how much time he's had on his hands when reciting Shrek by heart.
* MadScientistLaboratory: Dr. Neville's basement lab, which requires several generators to power and is quite impressive for a post-ZombieApocalypse lab.
* ManlyTears: [[spoiler: Neville sings Bob Marley's 'Three Little Birds to Samantha as he holds her in his arms. When she begins to attack him, he strangles her and weeps. The next day, he walks into the video store and breaks down when he finally talks to the girl-mannequin.]]
-->"Don't worry... 'bout a thing... 'cause every little thing, is gonna be alright..."
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* MayorOfAGhostTown: Neville, more or less.
* MindScrew: Fred the Dummy. Neville is less than pleased to see him outside the store.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The commercials suggested the film was an action thriller instead of the slow horror-drama it is.
* OneSceneWonder: She has about 1 minute and a half of screen time at the beginning of the film (and isn't listed in the credits), but EmmaThompson as Alice Krippin is so delightful you desperately want to know more about the women who inadvertantly created TheVirus.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The infected creatures. They display characteristics that are a cross between vampires and zombies.
* RaceLift: Neville is black in the film.
* RidiculousFutureInflation: Gas costing $5.95 a gallon.
* SanitySlippage: Mostly happens before the "current" time of the movie, though it gets really sliding after [[spoiler:Neville is forced to [[DespairEventHorizon mercy-kill his only companion, the dog]].]] Talking to your pet? That's fairly normal even now. Talking to a mannequin? A little odd. Expecting, nay, ''begging'' it to talk back? (See Manly Tears) Yeah you're pretty far gone. Spending three years as the only uninfected human in New York City, hell the entire world, [[spoiler:or so he thinks,]] will probably make you a little unstable. There's also the fact that [[spoiler:even when reunited with other humans]] he still seems a little broken. Among which being the refusal to think that other humans even ''could'' be out there or that the infected aren't the mindless beasts he thinks, despite ever-growing mountains of evidence otherwise, and going blank as he spoke along with the movie Shrek in a way that would make Pavlov proud.
* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler: Sam the dog is actually Samantha]]
* SceneryGorn: Much of the movie dwells on the spectacle of New York returning to nature and the traces of the desperate last days e.g. the blown bridges. The portrayal of the vegetation, contrary to popular belief, is actually quite conservative. In reality it's likely that the speed of New York's reclamation by nature would be much ''more'' thorough by three years later. As one example, if such an extinction were to occur there would be no one to man the water pipes underneath the city, the subways would flood within a week and almost all of the surface streets would cave in from the erosion. As a rich pool of nature right in the middle of Manhattan, Central Park would also increase the rate of reclamation.
* ScienceIsBad: The vampire/zombie plague began as a cure for cancer.
-->'''Neville:''' God didn't do this, ''we did!''
* ShootTheDog: Literally. Alright, literally figuratively: [[spoiler:More like "Choke the (Zombie) Dog".]]
* ShoutOut: The aforementioned Batman-Superman billboard.
* StakingTheLovedOne: [[spoiler: Sam]]
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Dr. Neville uses steel manacles to do this to a vampire while searching for the cure. Several, in fact.
* SurvivorGuilt: So, so much.
* SyntheticPlague: The mutated cancer cure [[HatePlague rage virus]].
* TheLastManHeardAKnock: Dr. Neville meets up with the other survivors.
* ThereIsAnother: [[spoiler: A whole village of them, in fact]].
* TheVoiceless: Ethan never says anything throughout the movie. Well, he does say "It's cold." at one point.
* WhereItAllBegan: A variant; Dr. Neville refuses to leave New York City because it's ground zero for the virus, and he will not let it win in his backyard.
* ZombieApocalypse: With Vampire Fast Ghouls that aren't really vampires. Close enough, even if the film is NotUsingTheZWord and instead calls them "dark seekers".
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* ActorAllusion: Will Smith and his Marley, particularly "Three Little Birds", which he earlier mangled in ''SharkTale''.
* TheAloner: Dr Neville.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: The DVD short "Shelter".
* BatFamilyCrossover: Referenced by a billboard in the abandoned Times Square, which depicts the Batman films' symbol with the Superman "S" in the middle.[[hottip:In the real world...:A "World's Finest" or Batman Vs. Superman film was in talks at the same time as this film, but fell through, so this reference was all we got.]].
* BigApplesauce: As noted on that trope's page, the setting was moved because the visual impact of an empty New York is more effective than Los Angeles, the book's setting.
* BoobyTrap: Dr. Neville's zom... er, infection victim traps. The Darkseekers eventually learn to set traps themselves.
* CatapultNightmare: Averted; Neville wakes up from a nightmare by quietly opening his eyes, as a normal person would do.
* ChewingTheScenery:
-->"FRED? WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT HERE, FRED?"
* CosyCatastrophe: Robert Neville lives in relative peace and luxury in his house, even playing golf and browsing through video stores.
* CrazyPrepared: Dr. Neville, going home at night and also [[spoiler:blowing up his house]]. He also keeps a rifle in an umbrella stand, and hides weapons [[spoiler:including the grenade in the finale]] in random drawers throughout his house.
* CureForCancer: The start of the zombie apocalypse.
* EvilBrit: Averted; Dr. Krippen didn't ''mean'' to create a virus that nearly annihilates the human race.
* {{Flashback}}s: Tells how [[spoiler:his family died]].
* FocusGroupEnding: Infamously so, ruining most of the {{Foreshadowing}} and creating a few {{Plot Hole}}s. Originally, [[spoiler:Neville would have realized that the infected are intelligent, and just want to take back the flock member he has in his captivity in order to test his cure. A shocked Neville allows to them do this, after which the infected leaves without causing further trouble. The whole event makes Neville [[HeelRealization start to question his own morality]], when the implications of what he has done to develop his cure dawns on him.]] In the final version of the ending [[spoiler:the intelligence of the infected is just implicated, but ultimately ignored, and Neville makes a HeroicSacrifice to help the others escape with his cure]]. The original ending was eventually included as bonus material on the DVD, where it was named the "controversial" ending.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The film demonstrates a bit of it, but the ending's change rendered the Foreshadowing null.
* GhostCity: New York. The DVD extras show Hong Kong also became this.
* HellishCopter: [[spoiler: The fate of Neville's family, [[HopeSpot as they were being evacuated from the city no less]].]]
* HollywoodAtheist: Neville refuses to believe in God due to the events after the outbreak.
* TheImmune: Dr. Neville.
* ItIsDehumanizing: Anna watches Neville experiment on a captured zombie, and asks whether what he's doing will "cure her." Neville responds "Actually, it will probably kill it," with the second "it" slightly emphasized.
* LivingProp: Ethan. He has no lines and never does anything other than not die. Only thing that he's used for is Neville showing how much time he's had on his hands when reciting Shrek by heart.
* MadScientistLaboratory: Dr. Neville's basement lab, which requires several generators to power and is quite impressive for a post-ZombieApocalypse lab.
* ManlyTears: [[spoiler: Neville sings Bob Marley's 'Three Little Birds to Samantha as he holds her in his arms. When she begins to attack him, he strangles her and weeps. The next day, he walks into the video store and breaks down when he finally talks to the girl-mannequin.]]
-->"Don't worry... 'bout a thing... 'cause every little thing, is gonna be alright..."
::Also:
-->"I... I promised a friend I would say hello to you today... Please say hello to me... Please say hello to me..."
* MayorOfAGhostTown: Neville, more or less.
* MindScrew: Fred the Dummy. Neville is less than pleased to see him outside the store.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The commercials suggested the film was an action thriller instead of the slow horror-drama it is.
* OneSceneWonder: She has about 1 minute and a half of screen time at the beginning of the film (and isn't listed in the credits), but EmmaThompson as Alice Krippin is so delightful you desperately want to know more about the women who inadvertantly created TheVirus.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The infected creatures. They display characteristics that are a cross between vampires and zombies.
* RaceLift: Neville is black in the film.
* RidiculousFutureInflation: Gas costing $5.95 a gallon.
* SanitySlippage: Mostly happens before the "current" time of the movie, though it gets really sliding after [[spoiler:Neville is forced to [[DespairEventHorizon mercy-kill his only companion, the dog]].]] Talking to your pet? That's fairly normal even now. Talking to a mannequin? A little odd. Expecting, nay, ''begging'' it to talk back? (See Manly Tears) Yeah you're pretty far gone. Spending three years as the only uninfected human in New York City, hell the entire world, [[spoiler:or so he thinks,]] will probably make you a little unstable. There's also the fact that [[spoiler:even when reunited with other humans]] he still seems a little broken. Among which being the refusal to think that other humans even ''could'' be out there or that the infected aren't the mindless beasts he thinks, despite ever-growing mountains of evidence otherwise, and going blank as he spoke along with the movie Shrek in a way that would make Pavlov proud.
* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler: Sam the dog is actually Samantha]]
* SceneryGorn: Much of the movie dwells on the spectacle of New York returning to nature and the traces of the desperate last days e.g. the blown bridges. The portrayal of the vegetation, contrary to popular belief, is actually quite conservative. In reality it's likely that the speed of New York's reclamation by nature would be much ''more'' thorough by three years later. As one example, if such an extinction were to occur there would be no one to man the water pipes underneath the city, the subways would flood within a week and almost all of the surface streets would cave in from the erosion. As a rich pool of nature right in the middle of Manhattan, Central Park would also increase the rate of reclamation.
* ScienceIsBad: The vampire/zombie plague began as a cure for cancer.
-->'''Neville:''' God didn't do this, ''we did!''
* ShootTheDog: Literally. Alright, literally figuratively: [[spoiler:More like "Choke the (Zombie) Dog".]]
* ShoutOut: The aforementioned Batman-Superman billboard.
* StakingTheLovedOne: [[spoiler: Sam]]
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Dr. Neville uses steel manacles to do this to a vampire while searching for the cure. Several, in fact.
* SurvivorGuilt: So, so much.
* SyntheticPlague: The mutated cancer cure [[HatePlague rage virus]].
* TheLastManHeardAKnock: Dr. Neville meets up with the other survivors.
* ThereIsAnother: [[spoiler: A whole village of them, in fact]].
* TheVoiceless: Ethan never says anything throughout the movie. Well, he does say "It's cold." at one point.
* WhereItAllBegan: A variant; Dr. Neville refuses to leave New York City because it's ground zero for the virus, and he will not let it win in his backyard.
* ZombieApocalypse: With Vampire Fast Ghouls that aren't really vampires. Close enough, even if the film is NotUsingTheZWord and instead calls them "dark seekers".
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