History Film / JupiterAscending

* NoExceptYes: Balem's "I CREATE LIFE!!! ...And I destroy it" line is in response to Jupiter's ArmorPiercingQuestion of what his mother taught him was necessary to rule: "Like killing people?".

* NoExceptYes: Balem’s line at the top of the page is in response to Jupiter’s ArmorPiercingQuestion of what his mother taught him was necessary to rule: “Like killing people?”

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* 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.

** The elephant splice pilot is named Nesh, after the Hindu Ganesh.
** Creator/GuguMbathaRaw's character is a deer-splice and Titus’ right-hand woman. Fittingly, her name is Famulus, which means ‘assistant or servant.’

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Balem gives Jupiter a pretty relentless beating with a metal rod after she [[spoiler:foils his plan]]. She later returns the favor.

** 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 their mother in the first place, and he screams “'''''[SHE] 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 if she doesn’t abdicate, 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.]]

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

''Jupiter Ascending'' is a 2015 space opera film from the Wachowskis.

Jupiter Jones (Creator/MilaKunis) is a Russian immigrant girl raised in 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 the other son Titus Abrasax sends Caine Wise (Creator/ChanningTatum), part-wolf part-human super soldier, to protect her, and they team up with Stinger Apini (Creator/SeanBean) to confront the Abrasax siblings and protect Jupiter's claim.

The film was released in the US on February 6th, 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.]]

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Everyone in this movie not from Earth speaks English and it is never even [[HandWave handwaved 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 millenia 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 ago.
* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: Jupiter's parents are said to have met while stargazing at the shore of Neva in Saint-Petersburg. Saint-Petersburg is in fact overcast during most of the year, and even when the sky is not clouded, stars can't be seen there.
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: [[spoiler:Unlike their sister, Balem and Titus don't try to sugar-coat the fact that obtaining their youth serum results in the deaths of untold billions of people.]]
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Jupiter Jones, Caine Wise and Stinger Apini.
* TheBadGuyWins: A downplayed example. The three Abrasax siblings all have competing schemes, and none of them are 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 lesser of three evils here.
* BigBadEnsemble: Balem is one of the three Abrasix 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.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Nobody outside of Jupiter is genuinely concerned with the harvesting of billions of innocents 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-space suits that get vented along with him, thus allowing Caine to survive until the Aegis arrive to rescue him. Not only was it a sloppy attempt to murder him, it was also completely unnecessary, as there was nothing Caine could do to thwart Titus when he was merely imprisoned.]]
* BulletTime: It's [[Film/TheMatrix the fucking Wachowskis]], though it shows up extremely 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. There are three groups that are looking for 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 her (and then kill her) so he can steal the inheritance, and another group trying to protect her.
* ChekhovsGun: Several. 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. Greeghen]]...
* ChewingTheScenery: While everyone is [[HamAndCheese having some fun]] with the script, no one 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:''' '''''I CREATE LIFE!!!!!'''''\\
'''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.
* 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", due to Caine's vessel having punctured the barrier around the planet and crashed into several structures. Maybe it was a bad idea to establish a base of operations on a planet so naturally hostile to life and machinery alike.]]

* CoolStarship: Both the functional and cool looking Aegis ship and the over-the-top elaborate personal ships of the Abrasax family.

** 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.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Balem]] falls to his doom from a collapsing platform.
* TheDragon: Mr. Greeghan to Balem, [[spoiler: after his predecessor Tskalikin is killed for his failure to capture Jupiter.]] Amusingly, the Sargon, his race of humanoid winged reptilians, resemble Dragons and are implied to have started the original myth on Earth.
* EasilyForgiven: Caine quickly forgives [[spoiler:Stinger]] for [[spoiler: handing him and Jupiter over to Titus. Justified, as Stinger also alerted the authorities about the situation and only did it to save his ailing daughter. Stinger is also one of the few people skilled enough to help Caine save Jupiter, and he also makes clear there are no other potential reasons he might turn on Caine a second time.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The three Abrasax siblings are introduced overlooking a Harvested planet with zero remorse and arguing (subtly) 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).]]

** 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 space ship 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 and seals and {{succession crisis}}es and all that, seem to dominate the economy.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Kalique admitting that her people may have inspired the myths about vampires foreshadows [[spoiler:the later revelation that their youth serum is made from people]].
* 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, including grey skin, large heads, and no clothes.

* HumanAliens: {{Inverted}}. 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 a tone that is [[FantasticSlurs very condescending]].

* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler:Inverted. Jupiter tells Balem just before he fell 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, in order to convince her to abdicate so he can take Earth for his own.]]
* ImmortalityImmorality: How the Abrasax family -- and presumably others out in space -- 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 a cynic 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, her Earth family would Ascend]]. Given that [[spoiler:Kalique's]] scheme hinged on this it can be presumed that 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.
* InterspeciesRomance: The human Jupiter and the half-wolf genetically engineered supersoldier Caine.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Titus tells Caine his plan [[spoiler: before throwing him out the airlock. Like most EvilGloating, it backfires]].
* 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're visiting forget any of the things they see that are out of the ordinary, 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'.\\

* {{Masquerade}}: One is enforced on Earth through liberal use of LaserGuidedAmnesia technology so that the Terrans don't notice when things get out of hand among the aliens.

* 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]].]]

** Jupiter has the name of an extra-terrestrial body. Jupiter is also the name of the king of the gods, as Jupiter is the queen of the interstellar magnates. In-universe, her name is meaningful to her family as her father named her after his favorite planet, and she was born with Jupiter in Leo.
** Stinger Apini is part bee. (Apinae is the subfamily for most bees in Taxonomy).
** Caine is part canine. He's also a badass who starts out working for a bad guy, fitting with NameOfCain.
** ''Kalique'' is said the same way as ''Caligula'' -- the corrupt and decadent dictator.
** Knock off the 'm' from 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.]]
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Balem gives Jupiter a pretty relentless beating with a metal rod after she [[spoiler: foils his plan]]. She later returns the favor.
* 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 their mother in the first place, and he screams '''''"SHE BEGGED ME TO DO IT!!"''''' That's more than a little obsessed with her]].
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Balem subjects this to Jupiter: 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 if she doesn't abdicate, 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, unable to pay off the stuff he bought, and having the rest of the family found out.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Balem spends a lot of time sending minions to do his dirty work, but not once do we see him leave the Jupiter refinery.
* OutGambitted: Balem and Titus spend most of the movie sending more guards or bribing more mercenaries to bring them Jupiter. [[spoiler: Kalique buys out two of Balem's mercenaries so that she sees Jupiter 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 millenniums 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]] - which is 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 have 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: ZigZagged. 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.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: All the Abrasax siblings, and potentially any monied character Jupiter encounters in space. Kalique in particular just turned 14,004 years old and her mother was in her 91st millennium when she died (and not of old age).

* 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 immortality.
* SceneryPorn: All the scenery is taken to an absurd degrees of detail, ranging from the insides of even the cruisers and motorbikes, to the individual planets and the starships.
* SchizoTech: Ores looks like any number of 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''. In a rare exception in space opera movies, 3 million or even billions of people isn't a huge number, centuries and even thousands of years 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.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Balem killed his mother, because she begged him to, likely because she can't stand taking part in the planetary genocides anymore.]]
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: After kidnapping [[spoiler:Jupiter's family]], Mr. Knight 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]].

* 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 100 meter tall 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 91 ''thousand'' years old when she died. Of the "younger" generation Kalique recently passed the 14 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. She's ''not'' 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 number of characters: The bounty hunters, Kalique, and Advocate Bob also vanish the moment their role in the plot has been fulfilled. Since most of these people are bit players in the unfolding events, or have lost the ability to influence the outcome, it's justified. 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 reptillian Sargorn head of security, Mr. Tskalikin.]] Balem makes sure the replacement, Mr. Greeghan, watches it happen. It's an especially strange example, considering [[spoiler:Tskalikin]] wasn't directly responsible for anything that went wrong, but was killed anyway, apparently for the sole purpose of having 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.

The film was released in the US on February 6th, 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]].

* AncientAstronauts: The alien dynasties that seeded Earth millenia 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 ago.

* AtLeastIAdmitIt: [[spoiler:Unlike their sister, Balem and Titus don't try to sugar-coat the fact that obtaining their youth serum results in the deaths of untold billions of people]].

* BulletTime: It's [[TheMatrix the fucking Wachowskis]], though it shows up extremely sparingly, most notably in the fight between Caine and Stinger to show how quickly Stinger can move despite his age.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Kalique admitting that her people may have inspired the myths about vampires foreshadows [[spoiler:the later revelation that their youth serum is made from people.]]

* ImmortalityImmorality: How the Abrasax family -- and presumably others out in space -- 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.]]

** "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, her Earth family would Ascend.]] Given that [[spoiler:Kalique’s]] scheme hinged on this it can be presumed that 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.

* 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.]]

* PinBallProtagonist: Jupiter Jones. The directors [[WordOfGod have stated]] that they wanted to have a female protagonist who didn't conform to RealWomenNeverWearDresses. 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]] - which is over an hour into the film.

** Gugu Mbatha-Raw's character is a deer-splice and Titus' right-hand woman. Fittingly, her name is Famulus, which means "assistant or servant."

** The film does the infamous revolving door of bureaucrats scene from ''{{Film/Ikiru}}'' in sci-fi style.

** The film does the infamous revolving door of bureaucrats scene from {{Film/Ikaru}} in sci-fi style.

* ShoutOut: 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]].

* RuleOfThree: There are three Abrasax siblings, which Jupiter meets in turn, each one more evil and ruthless than the last.

* SpaceOpera: A romantic love story with political intrigue and epic battles? Definitely.

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

* ChronicallyKilledActor: Subverted with [[spoiler: Creator/SeanBean as Stinger]]: he lives through not one, but two action sequences.

%% * CityPlanet: Ourus. It has two artificial rings surrounding the planet and structures so tall they stretch above the planet's atmosphere.
%% * ChronicallyKilledActor: [[spoiler:Subverted with Creator/SeanBean as Stinger, even though there were at least two reasonable spots for it to happen: The Hammerheads, and the RedemptionEqualsDeath]].

%% * TheGreys: They’re employed by Balem to guard Earth and maintain the {{Masquerade}}.

* SceneryPorn: all the scenery is taken to an absurd degrees of detail, ranging from the insides of even the cruisers and motorbikes, to the individual planets and the starships.

%% * SpaceOpera: Looks to be the first original space opera film in quite a while.

* PinBallProtagonist: Jupiter Jones. The plot mostly happens ''at'' her and she has very little agency in her own story. She's dragged from plot point to plot point without actually doing anything herself. The first thing she properly does is [[spoiler:marrying Titus to get pardons for Stinger and Caine]], which is over an hour into the movie.

%% * PsychopathicManchild: Type D for [[spoiler: Kalique, who 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.]]

* GodIsEvil: Humans were created by the Abrasax with the intention of being harvested eventually.

* Gnosticism: An Evil Creator God. The name of the family, Abrasax, is gnostic.