History Film / JupiterAscending

* CostumePorn

** However, Balem’s raspy voice and ornate collars hint it was him- and according to Eddie Redmayne, he had his larynx ripped out by a Lycantant, so unless that happened twice, it’s safe to assume it was him. Given Balem’s delightful personality, it’s not hard to imagine why Caine did it.

* FantasticRacism

* ImpoverishedPatrician

* LaymansTerms

* MeaningfulName

** Creator/GuguMbathaRaw's character is a deer-splice and Titus' right-hand woman. Fittingly, her name is Famulus, which means ‘assistant’ or ‘servant.’
* MrFanservice

* ShoutOut

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Jupiter’s father. When a bunch of armed guys break into his house and try to steal his telescope, he tries to stop them and is promptly shot. What did he think would happen? Whilst the telescope was important to him, it wasn’t worth risking his life over ... or [[WhatTheHellHero risking the lives of his wife and unborn child]], who were in the room with him.]]

* WeWinBecauseYouDidnt

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse

* OedipusComplex: The driving force of the movie is the conflict between the Abrasax siblings and Jupiter, the genetic recurrence of their mother. While the Abrasax patriarch is never mentioned or seen, the two Abrasax brothers definitely have an unhealthy interest in their mother.
** Titus is TheCasanova whose defining scene is a ZeroGSpot pseudo-orgy of heavy petting. He plans to secure his claim to Earth by [[spoiler:marrying Jupiter, [[ParentalIncest and all that implies]]]]. (Although he repeatedly insists it's only a contract, he's fairly touchy and flirty and makes a lot of [[HeldGaze intense eye contact]].)
** Balem's main goal is to kill Jupiter to retain his claim to Earth. Pretty standard villain fare, until [[spoiler:his VillainousBreakdown culminates in the reveal that he murdered the mother in the first place, and, believing Jupiter is truly she, he screams "'''''YOU BEGGED ME TO DO IT!!!'''''" That's a clear sign that he is more than a little obsessed with her]].

Jupiter Jones (Creator/MilaKunis) is a Russian immigrant girl raised in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} who makes her living cleaning houses with her family. Unbeknownst to her, she is also the genetic recurrence (reincarnation) of the Queen of the Universe, whose three scions are vying for control of Earth. The son of the queen, Balem Abrasax (Creator/EddieRedmayne), sends an agent to kill Jupiter, but her other son Titus Abrasax sends Caine Wise (Creator/ChanningTatum), part-wolf, part-human SuperSoldier, to protect her, and they team up with Stinger Apini (Creator/SeanBean) to confront the Abrasax siblings and protect Jupiter's claim.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Jupiter Jones, Caine Wise, and Stinger Apini.

* SocietyOfImmortals: The Abrasax family can live forever on their wealth, and their lives are very different from both Earthlings and even the rest of their space society. They have a CrystalSpiresAndTogas look to their stuff, they seem to have [[IncestIsRelative no incest taboo]], and plan on ''very'' long time-scales. The Earth, for example, is a sixty-five-million-year investment that's about to come ripe.

* FountainOfYouth: '[=RegeneX=]' is a special fluid restores your youth when you bathe in it. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it's produced by killing and processing people; one hundred humans are needed to create a single portion of the fluid.]]

* HumanityCameFromSpace: And one of the few examples where humanity's ancient galaxy-spanning empire still exists, and is hostile.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted; Jupiter uses a maxi pad (for lack of anything else) as a bandage for Caine's wound, telling him to be thankful that the car they've stolen is owned by a woman. Overlaps with TruthInTelevision, considering that in the absence of actual first aid supplies, instructors and manuals actually recommend such pads as viable alternatives to medical dressings due to them being just as absorbent and mostly sterile.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: Jupiter's parents are said to have met while stargazing at the shore of Neva in [[UsefulNotes/TheCityFormerlyKnownAs Saint Petersburg]]. Saint Petersburg is in fact overcast during most of the year, and even when the sky is not clouded, one can't see stars there. Mind you, her father did seem very excited, so maybe this was a rare clear day during a power cut.

''Jupiter Ascending'' is a 2015 space opera film written and directed by Creator/TheWachowskis.

The film was released in the United States on February 6, 2015. Watch the teaser trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THVFkk-sEus here]] and the main trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOvITFK98gg here.]]

[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas No relation to]] ''Film/MercuryRising''.

!!Tropes found in ''Jupiter Ascending'':

* AerithAndBob: Literally! In a world where people have names like Kalique, Balem, Famulus, and Maladictes, we also have ... Intergalactic Advocate Bob.

* AncientAstronauts: The alien dynasties that seeded Earth millennia ago inspired many of humanity's myths about vampires, dragons (one of the races that work for Balem [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons even looks like smaller dragons]]), [[NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus and possibly even deities]]. Humanity isn't even native to Earth, having evolved on a planet called Ourus, and Earth was "seeded" by Abrasax Industries roughly one hundred thousand years before.

->''"I CREATE LIFE!!! …and I destroy it."''

** Director allusion - this is the [[Film/TheMatrix second movie]] by the Wachowskis that ends with a character flying at the camera.
* AerithAndBob: Literally! In a world where people have names like Kalique, Balem, Famulus, and Maladictes, we also have … Intergalactic Advocate Bob.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Everyone in this movie not from Earth speaks English (except the official Bob has to bribe), which is never even {{Hand Wave}}d away. It gets to the point where even the writing in the alien spaceships and bureaucratic offices is in English. A bit jarring, since even Jupiter's family doesn't exclusively speak English.

* AncientAstronauts: The alien dynasties that seeded Earth millennia ago inspired many of humanity's myths about vampires, dragons (one of the races that work for Balem [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons even looks like smaller dragons]]), [[NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus and possibly even deities]]. Humanity isn't even native to Earth, having actually evolved on a planet called Ourus, and Earth was "seeded" by Abrasax Industries roughly one hundred thousand years before.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Jupiter Jones, Caine Wise, and Stinger Apini.

** Don't forget the classic 'stupid Bond villain move' [[IdiotBall of explaining one's]] EvilPlan [[IdiotBall and then tossing the good guy into 'an inescapable deathtrap' without staying to see if he actually]] ''[[DeaderThanDead dies]]''. '''[[EvilOverlordList There are at least]]''' ''' ''FIVE'' ''' '''[[EvilOverlordList rules in the]]''' ''' ''EvilOverlordList'' ''' '''[[NiceJobFixingItVillain that explain why this is such a stupendously bad idea.]]'''

* CapitalismIsBad: The primary theme of the movie is how people can become commodities under capitalism. Jupiter and Vlady enter into a scheme to sell Jupiter's eggs for money (despite the eggs being Jupiter's, ''Vlady'' gets a bigger cut of the funds. She also has less eggs than he has sperm, which sounds fair.), space society apparently runs on lab-grown slave labor, and all of Earth's population - everything humans have ever accomplished - is rendered completely meaningless to the Abrasax family, who use them as an interchangeable resource with as much significance as we might a herd of cattle.

* ChekhovsGun: Several. Most notable are the word "harvest" (used to describe Jupiter's egg donation [[spoiler:and the process of collecting humans]]), and Caine's portal gun [[spoiler:which he uses to kill Mr. Greeghan]].
* ChewingTheScenery: While everyone is [[HamAndCheese having some fun]] with the script, nobody is chewing more scenery than Eddie Redmayne. Most of the time, he speaks in a hoarse whisper … Until things start going downhill, and then [[SuddenlyShouting he breaks out the shouting]].

'''Balem:''' …And I destroy it.

* DramaticSpaceDrifting: [[BondVillainStupidity Caine is spaced by Titus Abrasax for 'betraying' him]] [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim instead of just being killed outright or sinply left to rot in hus cell until after Titus got everything he wanted]]. [[BondVillainStupidity Of course, he explains to Caine the entirety of his]] EvilPlan - [[NiceJobFixingItVillain and it works out exactly as you'd expect for Titus.]]
* DynamicEntry: It's almost Caine's trademark for the film. His interruption of Jupiter and Titus' wedding aboard Titus' pleasure starship, going into Balem's factory, surprising the hunters after him at the medical clinic (and his rescue of Jupiter there), his 'rescue' of Jupiter from Kalique... it's actually easier to count the times when he enters an area through normal means.

-->[repeatedly hitting Vladie with a pillow] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis You! do! not! treat! your cousin! like! chicken!]]
* ExactWords: Balem's intentions are pretty transparent when he's trying to blackmail Jupiter into abdication — send her and her family back to Earth, and immediately harvest the planet. [[spoiler: It's so transparent, in fact, that she realizes as much and decides to spite him by refusing, even knowing he'll kill her family (and probably her as well).]]

* ImmortalityImmorality: How the Abrasax family — and presumably others out in space like it — maintain their long lives is [[PoweredByAForsakenChild pretty horrible.]] [[spoiler:The substance that rejuvenates them is created by harvesting human life forms they seeded millennia ago on other planets.]]

** Stinger Apini is part bee. (''Apinae'' is the subfamily for most bees in Taxonomy.)

** ''Kalique'' is said the same way as ''Caligula'' — [[TheCaligula the corrupt and decadent dictator.]]

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraxas Abrasax]] is from Myth/GreekMythology, the name itself refers to the order of the seven classical planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn). In the context of the movie, it refers to how their dynasty "owns" all of the planets.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted; Jupiter uses a maxi pad (for lack of anything else) as a bandage for Caine's wound, telling him to be thankful that the car they've stolen is owned by a woman. Overlaps with TruthInTelevision, considering that in the absence of actual first aid supplies, instructors and manuals actually recommend such pads as viable alternatives to medical dressings due to them being just as absorbent and mostly sterile.

* OhCrap: Jupiter's cousin Vladie's reaction when she didn't sell her eggs, because the doctors were Keepers in disguise trying to kill her. Thus, he couldn't pay for the things he bought, and the rest of the family found out.

* ParentalIncest: The several-millennia-old Titus Abrasax tries to force Jupiter Jones, the reincarnation of his mother, to marry him. [[spoiler:However, while he does creepily try to charm her, and Famulus taunts Caine with the idea of them having sex, he only wants to marry her so he can be her heir, then immediately kill her to get the inheritance. ]]

* PinballProtagonist: Jupiter Jones. The directors [[WordOfGod have stated]] that they wanted to have a female protagonist who didn't conform to RealWomenDontWearDresses. Unfortunately, Jupiter is merely swept up into a plot she has no idea of and nothing to do with. Other people help her and rescue her, and she's just along for the ride. She displays no special skills or knowledge to contribute anything. The first thing she does for herself is to [[spoiler:agree to marry Titus in exchange for pardoning Caine and Stinger]] — over an hour into the film.

* RoyallyScrewedUp: The Abrasax clan; even the best of them — arguably [[spoiler:Kalique]], the only one whose endgame doesn't seem to necessitate Jupiter's death — has no qualms committing genocide for the sake of personal immortality.
* RubberForeheadAliens: Most of the non-human.

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: ''{{Averted|Trope}}.'' In a rare exception in SpaceOpera movies, three million or even billions of people isn't a huge number, centuries and even millennia is a short period of time, and a planet is a common resource — though some are more valuable for various reasons. Also, fancy orbital structures are very delicate and [[RammingAlwaysWorks anything that works as a spaceship works as a projectile.]]

-->'''Balem:''' Bring her to me … '''''NOW!!!'''''

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Jupiter’s father. When a bunch of armed guys break into his house and try to steal his telescope, he tries to stop them and is promptly shot. What did he think would happen? Whilst the telescope was important to him, it wasn’t worth risking his life over … or [[WhatTheHellHero risking the lives of his wife and unborn child]], who were in the room with him.]]

* WouldHitAGirl: Balem slaps Jupiter across the face when [[spoiler:she adds two and two and verbalizes her realization that he killed Mother Abrasax]].

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted; Jupiter uses a maxi pad (for lack of anything else) as a bandage for Caine's wound, telling him to be thankful that the car they've stolen is owned by a woman. Overlaps with TruthInTelevision, considering that in the absence of actual first aid supplies, instructors and manuals actually recommend such pads as viable alternatives to medical dressings as they are just as absorbent and mostly sterile.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted; Jupiter uses a maxi pad (for lack of anything else) as a bandage for Caine's wound, telling him to be thankful that the car they've stolen is owned by a woman.

* HarsherInHindsight: The scene where Titus explains to Jupiter what 'nectar' is - and she accidentally drops a container of the fluid, causing her to go into a HeroicBSOD. The ''true'' horror arises when you consider the start of the scene when Titus and Jupiter walk into a storage area filled with ''thousands'' of the containers, it's implied that the area may be only one of several aboard, and Titus (not to mention Kalique speaking earlier) mention ''that what Jupiter has seen is an infinitesimal glimpse of the genocide visited upon uncounted worlds filled with human beings'' just to maintain the supply of 'nectar' to meet the universal demand.
** This also explains the suicide of the Abrasax matriarch, who was said to be over 91,000 years old at her death. [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Living that long and knowing it's at the cost of billions upon billions of lives has to eat at your soul...]]

* CastingGag: Creator/MilaKunis, a Ukrainian woman, as a Russian immigrant, which is doubly darkly hilarious due to the quasi-war between the two states.

** Jupiter's [[http://www.naergilien.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/WorkPictures.jpg silver, white, and red gown]] with matching [[HairDecs headdress.]] [[spoiler:It's her wedding dress.]]

* DramaticSpaceDrifting: [[BondVillainStupidity Caine is spaced by Titus Abrasax for 'betraying' him]] [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim instead of just being killed outright or sinply left to rot in hus cell until after Titus got everything he wanted]]. [[BondVillainStupidity Of course, he explains to Caine the entirety of his]] EvilPlan - [[NiceJobFixingItVillain and it works out exactly as you'd expect for Titus.]]

* ExactWords: Balem's intentions are pretty transparent when he's trying to blackmail Jupiter into abdication — send her and her family back to Earth, and immediately harvest the planet.[[spoiler: It's so transparent, in fact, that she realizes as much and decides to spite him by refusing, even knowing he'll kill her family (and probably her as well).]]

* FountainOfYouth: 'RegeneX' is a special fluid restores your youth when you bathe in it. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it's produced by killing and processing people; one hundred humans are needed to create a single portion of the fluid.]]