History Film / RidersOfJustice

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The girl who wants a blue bike inadvertently sets off the plot, as Mathilde traces the chain of events that put her on the train to her bike being stolen.

* Fingore: When the Riders of Justice track down Mathilde's boyfriend Sirius, they interrogate him for the location of Markus and his friends. The leader threaten to break a finger if he doesn't tell them. He then plans to breaks two when Sirius interrupts them, then three for being a snitch and four for when he cries too loudly about it. Luckily, we only get to see two of them being broken.

* DisasterDominoes: The CentralTheme, which is discussed by numerous characters. Events are caused by incidents that happened before, and no one can know what the consequences will be. In the film, the events can be traced back to the theft of Mathilde's bicycle, which caused her and her mother to take the train, which caused Otto give up his seat, which caused the mother to get killed in the explosion. Mathilde uses post-its to track the events back to their origin, though Otto points out that each post-it is part of its own causal chain. Otto believes his algorithm will be able to crunch this sort of data to predict the future. Along the same lines, Markus believes that life as a whole is just a meaningless series of random events. He tells his Mathilde that there is no supernatural force providing guidance to the universe, and when prompted to suggest a song for Emmenthaler to play, he says to play "something random."

''Riders of Justice'' is a 2020 thriller written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. It stars Creator/MadsMikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Lars Brygmann and Nicolas Bro.

The plot concerns a soldier who embarks on a campaign of revenge after a group of data scientists uncover evidence that a gang of outlaw bikers were responsible for his wife's death.

** People calling Otto's disabled arm a "retard arm."

* DisasterDominoes: The CentralTheme, which is discussed by numerous characters. Events are caused by incidents that happened before, and no one can know what the consequences are. In the film, the events can be traced back to the theft of Mathilde's bicycle, which caused her and her mother to take the train, which caused Otto give up his seat, which caused Markus's wife to get killed in the explosion. Otto believes his algorithm can predict the future. Meanwhile, Markus believes that life is just a meaningless series of random events. He tells his daughter that there is no supernatural force providing guidance to the universe, and when prompted to suggest a song for Emmenthaler to play, he says to play "something random."

* ButterflyOfDoom: The CentralTheme, which is discussed by numerous characters. Events are caused by incidents that happened before, and no one can know what the consequences are. In the film, the events can be traced back to the theft of Mathilde's bicycle, which caused her and her mother to take the train, which caused Otto give up his seat, which caused Markus's wife to get killed in the explosion. Otto believes his algorithm can predict the future. Meanwhile, Markus believes that life is just a meaningless series of random events. He tells his daughter that there is no supernatural force providing guidance to the universe, and when prompted to suggest a song for Emmenthaler to play, he says to play "something random."

** The Riders of Justice have an English name.

* ButterflyOfDoom: The CentralTheme, which is discussed by numerous characters. Events are caused by incidents that happened before, and no one can know what the consequences are. In the film, the events can be traced back to the theft of Mathilde's bicycle, which caused her and her mother to take the train, which caused Otto give up his seat, which caused Markus's wife to get killed in the explosion. Otto believes his algorithm can predict the future.

* BlackComedy: The film has a surprising amount of very dark humor.

** People calling Otto's disabled arm a "retard arm."
* VillainTitle: The villains are called the Riders of Justice, though the title could also apply to our heroes.

** People calling Otto's disabled arm a "retard arm."

* ButterfliesOfDoom: The CentralTheme, which is discussed by numerous characters. Events are caused by incidents that happened before, and no one can know what the consequences are. In the film, the events can be traced back to the theft of Mathilde's bicycle, which caused her and her mother to take the train, which caused Otto give up his seat, which caused Markus's wife to get killed in the explosion. Otto believes his algorithm can predict the future.