History Film / JupiterAscending

* DramaticSpaceDrifting: [[BondVillainStupidity Caine is spaced by Titus Abrasax for 'betraying' him]] [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim instead of just being killed outright]]. [[BondVillainStupidity Of course, he explains to Caine the entirety of his]] EvilPlan - [[NiceJobFixingItVillain and it works out exactly as you'd expect for Titus.]]

* FountainOfYouth: A special fluid restores your youth when you bathe in it. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it's produced by killing and processing people.]]

** 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]]]].

* 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, he only wants to marry her so he can be her heir, then immediately kill her to get the inheritance.]]

-->'''Kalique:''' …and all you have to do is ''close your eyes''.

* DisappearedDad: Max Jones is murdered before the birth of his daughter Jupiter. No mention is made of the Abrasax siblings' father (or fathers?) either.

* 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 — [[CriticalResearchFailure although she applies it sticky side down.]]

* AmbiguouslyJewish: Jupiter's family. They're seen eating latkes at one point.

* 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, sounds fair huh.), 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.

* 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.

* 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), 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.

* ObliviouslyEvil: Kalique seems to try to look on the other way on the gravity of the fact that [[spoiler:''billions'' of innocent people have to die for her to get her youth serum. At least Balem and Titus acknowledge it as mass murder]]. Lampshaded when she tells how she personally deals with it when she tells Jupiter about the things she'll be able to do to better her family's lives once she's Ascended:

* CrypticBackgroundReference: While the film is actually pretty good at world-building with background references and a surprisingly interesting universe, one reference in particular feels cryptic. Caine, the part-wolf part-human super soldier, is said to have ripped the throat out of an Entitled, yet he doesn't remember the incident taking place and apparently was informed of its occurrence by his mentor, Stinger. The only indication that it actually happened is that he was court-martialled for the crime, and is no longer a skyjacker. Who the Entitled was, the reasons for it occurring, and why Caine is said to have done it in a fit of rage when we never see him acting out of rage at any point in the movie, is never expanded upon.
* DisappearedDad: Max Jones is murdered before the birth of his daughter Jupiter.

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

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

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

** Caine is part canine. He's also a {{badass}} who starts out working for a bad guy, fitting with NameOfCain.

* 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, 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.

* TheBadGuyWins: A downplayed example. The three Abrasax siblings all have competing schemes, none of them particularly good. By the end of the movie [[spoiler:Kalique's]] scheme has gone off exactly as planned: [[spoiler:Jupiter claimed her inheritance at the expense of one of Balem's most important holdings]]. What's more, depending on how inheritance laws work she may even get a share of [[spoiler:what Balem had left when he died]]. Ultimately, the [[spoiler:brothers]] had far worse designs, so [[spoiler:Kalique]] is definitely the least of three evils here.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Nobody but Jupiter is genuinely concerned with the harvesting of billions of innocent people like the people of Earth and others in order to have the genetic material for Recodes, comparing it to animals being humanely slaughtered for their meat and it being perfectly legal within the system.
* BondVillainStupidity: [[spoiler:Titus vents Caine into the vacuum of space in an attempt to kill him, but leaves him his jet boots and allows him to kick a crate filled with instant-spacesuits that get vented along with him, thus allowing Caine to survive until the ''Aegis'' arrives to rescue him. Not only was it a sloppy attempt to murder him, it was also completely unnecessary, as Caine was powerless to thwart Titus when he was merely imprisoned.]]

* 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 maker [[spoiler:which is used to kill Mr. Greeghan]].

* CoolVersusAwesome: At least one fight scene is human/wolf hybrid Caine fighting a group of space dragon soldiers.
* CostumePorn:

* FantasticRacism:

* TheGreys: The "Keepers." They're employed by Balem to guard Earth and maintain the {{Masquerade}}, and have all the hallmarks of the trope, cf. grey skin, large heads, and no clothes.
* HalfHumanHybrid:
** Caine, both [[DesignerBabies genetically manufactured]] and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent half wolf]]. Stinger and Famulus also count, being half bee and half deer respectively.

* 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.]]
* ImpoverishedPatrician:

* LaymansTerms:

* MeaningfulName:

** Caine is part canine. He's also a badass who starts out working for a bad guy, fitting with NameOfCain.

* MrFanservice:

* 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 — [[CriticalResearchFailure although she applies it sticky side down]].

* OutGambitted: Balem and Titus spend most of the movie sending more guards or bribing more mercenaries to bring them Jupiter. [[spoiler:Kalique bribes two of Balem's mercenaries to bring Jupiter to her first, and is nothing but polite and kind to her. The result is that Titus is under investigation by the ''Aegis'' and Balem is dead, while Kalique is alive and well to take control of the company, exactly as she wanted.]]

* 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.]]

-->'''Jupiter:''' I'll never complain about the DMV ever again.
* WeWinBecauseYouDidnt:

** This is also [[spoiler:Jupiter's]] gambit in the climax. [[spoiler:Regardless of whether she abdicates, she and her family ''will'' die eventually: either they'll be murdered by Balem or they'll die of old age. But if she abdicates, Balem will own the Earth, and be able to Harvest it at any time. Jupiter chooses not to abdicate for this reason: sure, she and her whole family will die, but Balem won't get his hands on Earth.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:

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

* AerithAndBob: Literally! In a world where people are named things 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 and 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.

''[Jupiter [[DullSurprise barely reacts]]]''\\

** 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.]]

** Earth as well is looked down upon, but it is done subtly. For example, the Abrasax siblings don't refer to Earth as a ''planet'', but as an ''industry''. They treat the people as a commodity.

* HumanAliens: {{Inverted|Trope}}. All humans come from a distant planet, Orous, while Earth humans (and Splices) are lesser beings artificially created by genetic engineering. ''We're'' the human aliens.

* IHaveYourWife: Happens more than once. [[spoiler:Stinger's daughter is ailing, compelling him into handing Jupiter and Caine over to Titus in exchange for the money to afford a "recode." Balem does this with Jupiter's entire family, to convince her to abdicate so he can take Earth for his own.]]

* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Stinger's daughter. Downplayed compared to many examples, but still, the moment she did it, you pretty much knew what was coming.
* InformedAbility: In the opening narration, Jupiter claims her father's death made her TheCynic who always sees the worst in people. However, much of the latter half of the plot is fueled by her trusting strangers blindly, accepting their claims at face value, and falling for someone she just met that day.

** "Impoverished" is a relative term here, but all three heirs stood to lose a portion of their inheritance once [[spoiler:Jupiter ascended]]. A few lines also make it clear they're no longer even in the line of inheritance [[spoiler:if she dies, in which case her Earth family would Ascend]]. As [[spoiler:Kalique's]] scheme hinged on this, we can presume the lion's share of [[spoiler:Jupiter's]] inheritance would come out of Balem's holdings. Titus in particular is this: while he maintains an expensive lifestyle, he's running out of money and failed a recent financial enterprise, which is why he competes with his siblings for control of Earth.
** While at the house of a wealthy client, a young woman is dithering over the prospect of receiving a marriage proposal from one of America's richest bachelors. She compares herself to Cinderella. The irony is lost on her, though clearly not on Jupiter.

* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Titus tells Caine his plan [[spoiler:before throwing him out the airlock. Like most EvilGloating, it backfires]].

* PeopleFarms: The sole point of Earth (and countless other planets seeded by the Abrasax family) is to grow a sizable population and then kill the entire planet overnight, turning them into immortality bathwater.

* SchizoTech: Ourus resembles myriad bureaucratic facilities built in the early 20th century, staffed by splices and androids who ask for signatures in the form of thumbprints. In sharp contrast to House Abrasax's CrystalSpiresAndTogas look.
* 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.]]

-->'''Intergalactic Advocate Bob:''' It goes without saying that [[BlatantLies graft is incompatible with my programming.]] ''[proceeds to bribe the person in question]''

* 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]].
* VastBureaucracy: The captain of the ''Aegis'' cruiser would much rather go into battle than dealing with the bureaucracy that [[spoiler:claiming Jupiter's title to Earth]] involves. [[SeriousBusiness She's]] ''[[SeriousBusiness not]]'' [[SeriousBusiness exaggerating.]]

* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:After his bounty hunters betray him and his keepers fail to capture Jupiter, Balem tortures and executes his reptilian Sargorn head of security, Mr. Tskalikin.]] Balem makes sure the replacement, Mr. Greeghan, watches it happen. It's a very strange example, because [[spoiler:Tskalikin]] wasn't directly responsible for any of the mishaps, but Balem killed him anyway, apparently just to have someone, ''anyone'', to blame.
* YouWouldntShootMe: Balem points out Jupiter isn't a killer. He's right, so she lowers the gun and shoots him in the leg, which is still very satisfying.

->''"[[LargeHam I CREATE LIFE!!!]] [[{{Narm}}…and I destroy it.]]"''

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

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

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.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Everyone in this movie not from Earth speaks English, 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.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Jupiter’s family. They’re seen eating latkes at one point.

* AncientAstronauts: The alien dynasties that seeded Earth millennia ago inspired many of humanity’s myths about vampires and 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.
* 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.

* TheBadGuyWins: A downplayed example. The three Abrasax siblings all have competing schemes, none of them particularly good. By the end of the movie [[spoiler:Kalique’s]] scheme has gone off exactly as planned: [[spoiler:Jupiter claimed her inheritance at the expense of one of Balem’s most important holdings]]. What’s more, depending on how inheritance laws work she may even get a share of [[spoiler:what Balem had left when he died]]. Ultimately, the [[spoiler:brothers]] had far worse designs, so [[spoiler:Kalique]] is definitely the least of three evils here.
* BigBadEnsemble: Balem is one of the three Abrasax siblings competing for Jupiter’s inheritance and is the most evil of them as he’s trying to harvest Earth after she gives him the planet while [[spoiler:Titus]] is [[spoiler:another one of those siblings and is also trying to kill Jupiter]]. The fact that they’re also at odds with each other is the only reason Jupiter has a chance in hell of staying alive.

* BulletTime: Naturally, since it’s ''[[Film/TheMatrix the Wachowskis]]'', though it shows up quite sparingly, most notably in the fight between Caine and Stinger to show how quickly Stinger can move despite his age.

* ChangelingFantasy: Jupiter Jones is the genetic reincarnation of the Queen of the Universe. Three factions want her: the Queen’s elder son, who wants to kill her so she can’t reclaim the inheritance he received, the Queen’s younger son who wants to marry (and then kill) her so he can steal the inheritance, and another group trying to protect her.
* ChekhovsGun: Several. Most notable are the word “harvest” (used to describe Jupiter’s egg donation [[spoiler:and the process of collecting humans]]), Caine’s portal maker [[spoiler:which is used to kill Mr. Greeghan]] …

-->'''Balem''': '''''I CREATE LIFE!!!!!'''''\\
[''Jupiter [[DullSurprise barely reacts]]'']\\
'''Balem''': …And I destroy it.
* CityPlanet: Ourus. It has two artificial rings surrounding the planet and structures so tall they stretch above the planet’s atmosphere, and the entire thing is described as an "overpopulated cesspool." The usual problems with the trope (such as the lack of farmland and population size) can be explained by their extensive space empires and virtual immortality.
* CollapsingLair: [[spoiler:The headquarters of Balem’s corporation, located on Jupiter, begins to be demolished because the “grav-hull [was] ruptured” and “[t]he gas was reacting to the stockworks,” because Caine’s vessel had punctured the barrier around the planet and crashed into several structures. [[NoOSHACompliance Maybe it was a bad idea to establish a base of operations on a planet so naturally hostile to life and machinery alike.]]]]

** 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.]]
** Likewise, Kalique’s [[http://41.media.tumblr.com/f66753f6fd4169824d638a8f53f134de/tumblr_ninprsoscr1u2rmc6o1_1280.jpg own dresses]] [[http://41.media.tumblr.com/3020bdfad173e7583c71d5225db698f6/tumblr_ninprsoscr1u2rmc6o2_1280.jpg and gowns]] fit this trope too.

* CrypticBackgroundReference: While the film is actually pretty good at world-building with background references and a surprisingly interesting universe, one reference in particular feels cryptic. Caine, the part-wolf part-human super soldier, is said to have ripped the throat out of an Entitled, yet he doesn’t remember the incident taking place and apparently was informed of its occurrence by his mentor, Stinger. The only indication that it actually happened is that he was court-martialled for the crime, and is no longer a skyjacker. Who the Entitled was, the reasons for it occurring, and why Caine is said to have done it in a fit of rage when we never see him acting out of rage at any point in the movie, is never expanded upon.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The three Abrasax siblings are introduced overlooking a Harvested planet with no remorse and arguing (as subtly as they can) over their mother and the inheritance she left them. Jupiter has a montage of cleaning other people’s houses and admiring their beautiful and expensive things. And Caine’s introduced with all the bounty hunters speaking in awe of him: cue fight scene.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: All three Abrasax siblings remember their mother fondly, and each is (in his or her own way) carrying out her legacy.[[spoiler: Didn’t stop Balem from killing her, though.]]
* 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).]]
* {{Fanservice}}:
** Kalique emerges nude from the fountain at one point. Also, Caine takes his shirt off at one point, perfectly normal since he’s treating an injury, but it doesn’t go back on until he’s collected some weapons, had a fight, stowed away on a spaceship and gets to another planet.
** [[http://40.media.tumblr.com/7bc4364dd201aad4ecbda4b015473a95/tumblr_nk7kbotrw91rr7sduo1_1280.jpg Balem’s lounge attire.]]

** Earth as well is looked down upon, but it is done subtly. For example, the Abrasax siblings don’t refer to Earth as a ''planet'', but as an ''industry''. They treat the people as a commodity.
* FeudalFuture: The space-faring human civilization is stated to be a “confederation” but families such as the House of Abrasax, which has titles, seals, {{succession cris|is}}es, et al., seem to dominate the economy.

* FountainOfYouth: A special fluid restores your youth when you bathe in it. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it’s produced by killing and processing people.]]
* TheGreys: The “Keepers.” They’re employed by Balem to guard Earth and maintain the {{Masquerade}}, and have all the hallmarks of the trope, cf. grey skin, large heads, and no clothes.

* HumanAliens: {{Inverted|Trope}}. All humans come from a distant planet, Orous, while Earth humans (and Splices) are lesser beings artificially created by genetic engineering. ''We’re'' the human aliens.

* HumanityCameFromSpace: And one of the few examples where humanity’s ancient galaxy-spanning empire still exists, and is hostile.
* HumansByAnyOtherName: Caine refers to the humans of Earth as “''Terrsies''” in an [[FantasticSlurs extremely condescending]] tone.
* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler:Inverted. Jupiter tells Balem just before he falls to his death that she’s ''not'' his mother.]]
* IHaveYourWife: Happens more than once.[[spoiler: Stinger’s daughter is ailing, compelling him into handing Jupiter and Caine over to Titus in exchange for the money to afford a “recode.” Balem does this with Jupiter’s entire family, to convince her to abdicate so he can take Earth for his own.]]

* 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.]]
* InformedAbility: In the opening narration, Jupiter claims her father’s death made her TheCynic who always sees the worst in people. However, much of the latter half of the plot is fueled by her trusting strangers blindly, accepting their claims at face value, and falling for someone she just met that day.

** “Impoverished” is a relative term here, but all three heirs stood to lose a portion of their inheritance once [[spoiler:Jupiter ascended]]. A few lines also make it clear they’re no longer even in the line of inheritance [[spoiler:if she dies, in which case her Earth family would Ascend]]. As [[spoiler:Kalique’s]] scheme hinged on this, we can presume the lion’s share of [[spoiler:Jupiter’s]] inheritance would come out of Balem’s holdings. Titus in particular is this: while he maintains an expensive lifestyle, he’s running out of money and failed a recent financial enterprise, which is why he competes with his siblings for control of Earth.
** While at the house of a wealthy client, a young woman is dithering over the prospect of receiving a marriage proposal from one of America’s richest bachelors. She compares herself to Cinderella. The irony is lost on her, though clearly not on Jupiter.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Titus Abrasax]] faces no consequences for his actions in the movie other than some mild damage to his clipper, although Caine does try to assure Jupiter that he’ll receive his comeuppance via bureaucracy.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The space police and bounty hunters come standardly equipped with the ability to make people on the worlds they visit forget anything out of the ordinary that they see, including inducing laser-guided amnesia and building back structures that were damaged in combat that the visitors were involved in. However, the fact that people may have been killed during the fight wasn’t brought up.

-->'''Caine''': [The boots] harness the force of gravity, redirecting it into differential equation slips so you can surf.\\
'''Jupiter''': Yeah, I heard ‘gravity’ and ‘surf.’\\
'''Caine''': Up is hard. Down is easy.
* {{Masquerade}}: One is enforced on Earth through liberal use of LaserGuidedAmnesia technology so the Terrans don’t notice when things get out of hand among the aliens.
* MaternityCrisis: Jupiter’s mother gives birth to her in a shipping container en route to America.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Jupiter was born in the House of Leo with [[TitleDrop Jupiter ascending]], which according to her aunt means she’s destined for greatness.
* MeaningfulEcho: “I hate my life.” First said during a montage of Jupiter’s boring life on Earth, then comes back to bite her[[spoiler: when Balem reveals that it’s [[MercyKill what his mother said to him before he killed her]]]].

** Caine is part canine. He’s also a badass who starts out working for a bad guy, fitting with NameOfCain.

** Knock the “m” off Balem and you have Bale, as in evil and spite.
** [[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.

** Creator/GuguMbathaRaw's character is a deer-splice and Titus’ right-hand woman. Fittingly, her name is Famulus, which means ‘assistant’ or ‘servant.’
* NavalBlockade: Balem orders a planetary blockade of Earth as soon as he finds out that Jupiter escaped his agents.[[spoiler: It fails miserably.]]

* 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 — [[CriticalResearchFailure although she applies it sticky side down]].

* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: Jupiter holds Caine at gunpoint when she first meets him.[[spoiler: Subverted in that he tells her how to disengage the safety, so when she holds it up again, it’s primed to fire. He actually left the gun there for her to point at him, so she’d feel more comfortable.]]
* ObliviouslyEvil: [[spoiler:Kalique doesn’t seem to realize the gravity of the fact that ''billions'' of innocent people have to die for her to get her youth serum. At least Balem and Titus acknowledge it as mass murder.]]
** Actually, Kalique ''does'' acknowledge the dark nature behind her wealth and longevity (and how she personally deals with it) when she tells Jupiter about the things she’ll be able to do to better her family’s lives once she’s Ascended:
-->'''Kalique''': …and all you have to do is ''close your eyes''.

** 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]].
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Balem subjects Jupiter to this: he promises her that if she abdicates the throne, he’ll wait to harvest Earth until after she’s dead and he’ll let her family live.[[spoiler: Subverted when she realizes that, even if he does kill her and her family, he can’t harvest Earth unless she abdicates, whereas if she does, then they’re ''all'' animals for the slaughter. She thus decides that, if the [[MortonsFork choice]] is between her and her family being murdered or being harvested with the rest of the Earth, she’ll pick the option that ''hurts'' Balem.]]
* 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.

* OutGambitted: Balem and Titus spend most of the movie sending more guards or bribing more mercenaries to bring them Jupiter.[[spoiler: Kalique bribes two of Balem’s mercenaries to bring Jupiter to her first, and is nothing but polite and kind to her. The result is that Titus is under investigation by the ''Aegis'' and Balem is dead, while Kalique is alive and well to take control of the company, exactly as she wanted.]]
* 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, 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.
* PracticalCurrency: As Kalique explains, the most valuable resource in the galaxy is "more time." She bribes some mercenaries with a supply of “finest Abrasax.”
* PraetorianGuard: Each of the Abrasax siblings has their own Royal Guard. Balem doesn’t rely on them as much as the others in favor of Mr. Greeghan and his men. Jupiter is also informed that she’s entitled to a Royal Guard by law, after being legitimized.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: ZigZaggingTrope. Jupiter herself clearly wants to prevent the Earth from being harvested, but the ''Aegis'' crew, and in general anyone who helps her, are never shown to care one way or the other about the Earth. They’re portrayed as heroic simply for protecting Jupiter’s legal inheritance.

* 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.

* SchizoTech: Ourus resembles myriad bureaucratic facilities built in the early 20th century, staffed by splices and androids who ask for signatures in the form of thumbprints. In sharp contrast to House Abrasax’s CrystalSpiresAndTogas look.
* 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.]]

* ScrewYourUltimatum: Jupiter does this to [[spoiler:Balem]]. He can kill her [[spoiler:and her family]], but the alternative is just as bad and this way she’s screwing him over in the process.

* ShameIfSomethingHappened: After kidnapping [[spoiler:Jupiter’s family]], Mr. Night never admits to kidnapping them, but merely offers to help ensure their safety if his demands are met.

** Jupiter’s [[Film/TheWizardOfOz blue gingham]] flannel shirt from the beginning of the film. [[WordOfGod Lana made this explicit]] in [[http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-matrix-creators-launch-a-new-epic-with-jupiter-ascending-1422548645 at least one interview.]]
** Jupiter cites law [[{{Film/Brazil}} 27b/6]]. Also doubles as an ActorAllusion, since director Creator/TerryGilliam actually has a cameo in the film.

* 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.
* SpacePolice: The ''Aegis''. They’re “like cops” and provide legal services and an escort.

* StarshipLuxurious: All the personal ships of the Abrasax heirs qualify, but Titus’ clipper takes the cake. It has its own cathedral inside, as well as hundred-meter-high gilded statues lining the hull.
* SuddenlyShouting: When Balem Abrasax isn’t whispering, he’s shouting. Transcends into VillainousBreakdown by the end.
-->'''Balem''': Bring her to me … '''''NOW!!!'''''

* TimeAbyss: The late Abrasax Matriarch was over ninety-one ''thousand'' years old when she died. Of the ‘younger’ generation, Kalique recently passed the fourteen-millennia mark, and she’s the ''middle'' child.
* VastBureaucracy: The captain of the ''Aegis'' cruiser would much rather go into battle than dealing with the bureaucracy that [[spoiler:claiming Jupiter’s title to Earth]] involves. [[SeriousBusiness She’s]] ''[[SeriousBusiness not]]'' [[SeriousBusiness exaggerating.]]
-->'''Jupiter''': I’ll never complain about the DMV ever again.
* WeWinBecauseYouDidnt: This sums up [[spoiler:Kalique’s]] gambit in a nutshell.[[spoiler: As the middle child, she seems to be well off and financially stable. By allowing Jupiter to ascend and protecting her from Titus, she screws over her older brother, who loses his greatest asset by virtue of it being Jupiter’s inheritance, and prevents Titus from becoming more powerful by keeping Jupiter out of his hands.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse
** Titus disappears from the story after Caine rescues Jupiter from the forced marriage. Granted, he might have been apprehended or arrested, but we never see it, and it’s never mentioned by anyone (Caine begins to explain Titus’ likely fate, but Jupiter cuts him off).
** This seems to be the case for a few characters: The bounty hunters, Kalique, and Advocate Bob also vanish the moment their role in the plot has been fulfilled. {{Justified|Trope}} since most of these people are bit players in the unfolding events, or have lost the ability to influence the outcome. Stinger’s daughter Kiza is actually gone ''before'' her relevance is explained.

* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:After his bounty hunters betray him and his keepers fail to capture Jupiter, Balem tortures and executes his reptilian Sargorn head of security, Mr. Tskalikin.]] Balem makes sure the replacement, Mr. Greeghan, watches it happen. It’s a very strange example, because [[spoiler:Tskalikin]] wasn’t directly responsible for any of the mishaps, but Balem killed him anyway, apparently just to have someone, ''anyone'', to blame.
* YouWouldntShootMe: Balem points out Jupiter isn’t a killer. He’s right, so she lowers the gun and shoots him in the leg, which is still very satisfying.

%% * CityPlanet: Ourus. It has two artificial rings surrounding the planet and structures so tall they stretch above the planet’s atmosphere.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Apparently embedded in Orous' legal system to the point that Intergalactic Advocate Bob, Jupiter's android lawyer, has protocols for it.