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* PeoplePuppets: The surrogates are basically ''VideoGame/SecondLife'' in real life, only the "avatars" are slightly overdone UncannyValley [[invoked]] robots. Someone has found a way to kill the "users" when they kill the robots, which was previously impossible (there is a grizzled detective, but he's a long-time Surrogate user and probably not as technophobic as, say, Will Smith's character in ''Film/IRobot'').
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* PeoplePuppets: The surrogates are basically ''VideoGame/SecondLife'' in real life, only the "avatars" are slightly overdone UncannyValley [[invoked]] robots. Someone has found a way to kill the "users" when they kill the robots, which was previously impossible (there is a grizzled detective, but he's a long-time Surrogate user and probably not as technophobic as, say, Will Smith's character in ''Film/IRobot'').
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* UncannyValley: [[invoked]] The film does this intentionally, as almost every surrogate is "too perfect." They have a shiny, overly made-up look and clearly aren't quite people. A number of the actors portraying surrogates appeared to take special care moving just a ''hair'' more stiffly, and to not look like they were breathing. And while certain surrogates are indistinguishable from real people, [[spoiler:like the Prophet]], the "life-like" appearance varied according to the quality and model of the surrogate. Cam's landlord, for instance, is using a cheap, temporary model. This is especially evident on Bruce Willis' character's surrogate, who has the worst toupee in the world, and a scary-smooth face, which makes him look super-creepy. The main character's wife is likewise scary, particularly something about her Michael Jackson-esque nose. To add a dash of creepy, she works in a "beauty salon" where she peels off customers' faces and cleans them. The fact that there is a whole planet of sad shut-ins living through these weird robots just digs that Valley deeper and adds another layer to a movie that's already dark. Given that the moral is that the surrogates' artificiality is destroying real human interaction, this was very much intentional to emphasize the message.
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* RedShirt: Five armed cops cornering a fleeing suspect clutching a mysterious grey box? This isn't going to end well.
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* RedShirt: Five Six armed cops cornering a fleeing suspect clutching a mysterious grey box? This isn't going to end well.
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* TheMole: [[spoiler:Andrew Stone ws the one who hired Strickland and wanted Canter dead on VSI orders.]]
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* TheMole: [[spoiler:Andrew Stone ws was the one who hired Strickland and wanted Canter dead on VSI orders.]]
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* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler:The Prophet, the leader of the anti-surrogate movement,]] is revealed to be a surrogate controlled by [[spoiler:Lionel Canter, the surrogates' inventor]], when he is shot and we see [[spoiler:circutry inside his body]].
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* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler:The Prophet, the leader of the anti-surrogate movement,]] is revealed to be a surrogate controlled by [[spoiler:Lionel Canter, the surrogates' inventor]], when he is shot and we see [[spoiler:circutry [[spoiler:circuitry inside his body]].
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* UncannyValley: [[invoked]] The film does this intentionally, as almost every surrogate is "too perfect." They have a shiny, overly made-up look and clearly aren't quite people. A number of the actors portraying surrogates appeared to take special care moving just a ''hair'' more stiffly, and to not look like they were breathing. And while certain surrogates are indistinguishable from real people, [[spoiler:like the Prophet]], the "life-like" appearance varied according to the quality and model of the surrogate. Cam's landlord, for instance, is using a cheap, temporary model. This is especially evident on Bruce Willis' character's surrogate, who has the worst toupee in the world, and a scary-smooth face, which makes him look super-creepy. The main character's wife is likewise scary, particularly something about her Michael Jackson-esque nose. To add a dash of creepy, she works in a "beauty salon" where she peels off customers' faces and cleans them. The fact that there is a whole planet of sad shut-ins living through these weird robots just digs that Valley deeper and adds another layer to a movie that's already dark. Given that the moral is that the surrogates' artificiality is destorying destroying real human interaction, this was very much intentional to emphasize the message.
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* YourMindMakesItReal: Originally people could operate remotely-controlled surrogate version of themselves without any risk - no damage done to the surrogate could have any lasting effect on the operator. Naturally, someone finds a way to subvert this rule, and this is when the problems (and the plot) start. This is different from the original graphic novel, where there is no way to kill a person via his or her surrogate.
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* YourMindMakesItReal: Originally people could operate remotely-controlled surrogate version of themselves without any risk - -- no damage done to the surrogate could have any lasting effect on the operator. Naturally, someone finds a way to subvert this rule, and this is when the problems (and the plot) start. This is different from the original graphic novel, where there is no way to kill a person via his or her surrogate.
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* AcceptableTargets: The non-surrogate-using populace in the Dread reservations (or the one we see) is primarily composed of various species of hillbillies. Downplayed, however, in that they are depicted sympathetically and their viewpoint is understandable, if not vindicated by the end. Also, their leader is a charismatic hippie.
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** {{Subverted}} in the prequel comic, where a teenage boy gets his hands on his fathers' surrogate and beats a homeless man to death with it ForTheEvulz.
* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler: The Prophet and Lionel are two different characters in the original comic and the former is actually killed by the latter, although they both agree that surrogacy is a bad thing]].
* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler: The Prophet and Lionel are two different characters in the original comic and the former is actually killed by the latter, although they both agree that surrogacy is a bad thing]].
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* {{GIFT}}: People tend to use the no-consequence nature of Surrogates with abandon to behave in ways they couldn't in person.
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** The surrogates themselves were developed by Lionel Canter to help disabled people like him move around with no limitations. It ended up becoming so popular that ''everyone'' began using them for things like getting a dream body, resulting in an agoraphobic society of [[{{Hikikomori}} shut-ins]]. [[spoiler:Lionel himself regrets this so much that he creates a surrogate alter-ego, "The Prohpet", and uses it to create an anti-surrogate resistance and formulate a plan to destroy surrogates for good.]]
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** The surrogates themselves were developed by Lionel Canter to help disabled people like him move around with no limitations. It ended up becoming so popular that ''everyone'' began using them for things like getting a dream body, resulting in an agoraphobic society of [[{{Hikikomori}} shut-ins]]. [[spoiler:Lionel himself regrets this so much that he creates a surrogate alter-ego, "The Prohpet", Prophet", and uses it to create an anti-surrogate resistance and formulate a plan to destroy surrogates for good.]]
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* GreaterScopeVillain: VBI, the MegaCorp that creates the surrogates, has a stranglehold on society since everyone now relies on the surrogates, making them responsible for the dystopian world depicted in the film where agoraphobia is societally entrenched and human interaction is almost non-existent. They also [[spoiler:created the super-weapon that the resistance is trying to steal]]. They never take direct action, though- of the two main antagonists, the Prophet/[[spoiler:Lionel Canter]] is trying to bring down their dystopian society at great cost, while [[spoiler:Andy Stone]] is working with them to uphold the society and kill anyone who opposes them.
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* UncannyValley: [[invoked]] The film does this intentionally, as almost every surrogate is "too perfect." This is especially evident on Bruce Willis' character's surrogate, who has the worst toupee in the world, and a scary-smooth face, which makes him look super-creepy. The main character's wife is likewise scary, particularly something about her Michael Jackson-esque nose. To add a dash of creepy, she works in a "beauty salon" where she peels off customers' faces and cleans them. The fact that there is a whole planet of sad shut-ins living through these weird robots just digs that Valley deeper and adds another layer to a movie that's already dark.
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* UncannyValley: [[invoked]] The film does this intentionally, as almost every surrogate is "too perfect." They have a shiny, overly made-up look and clearly aren't quite people. A number of the actors portraying surrogates appeared to take special care moving just a ''hair'' more stiffly, and to not look like they were breathing. And while certain surrogates are indistinguishable from real people, [[spoiler:like the Prophet]], the "life-like" appearance varied according to the quality and model of the surrogate. Cam's landlord, for instance, is using a cheap, temporary model. This is especially evident on Bruce Willis' character's surrogate, who has the worst toupee in the world, and a scary-smooth face, which makes him look super-creepy. The main character's wife is likewise scary, particularly something about her Michael Jackson-esque nose. To add a dash of creepy, she works in a "beauty salon" where she peels off customers' faces and cleans them. The fact that there is a whole planet of sad shut-ins living through these weird robots just digs that Valley deeper and adds another layer to a movie that's already dark. Given that the moral is that the surrogates' artificiality is destorying real human interaction, this was very much intentional to emphasize the message.
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The entire campaign for Surrogates was a spoiler: [[spoiler:James Cromwell's character, Lionel Canter (who invented the surrogates), describes them as "an addiction", which makes him easy to guess as the killer, and every trailer and TV spot showed the surrogates shutting down and collapsing in the street, which is the ending to the movie]].
* UncannyValley: [[invoked]] The film does this intentionally, as almost every surrogate is "too perfect." This is especially evident on Bruce Willis' character's surrogate, who has the worst toupee in the world, and a scary-smooth face, which makes him look super-creepy. The main character's wife is likewise scary, particularly something about her Michael Jackson-esque nose. To add a dash of creepy, she works in a "beauty salon" where she peels off customers' faces and cleans them. The fact that there is a whole planet of sad shut-ins living through these weird robots just digs that Valley deeper and adds another layer to a movie that's already dark.
* UncannyValley: [[invoked]] The film does this intentionally, as almost every surrogate is "too perfect." This is especially evident on Bruce Willis' character's surrogate, who has the worst toupee in the world, and a scary-smooth face, which makes him look super-creepy. The main character's wife is likewise scary, particularly something about her Michael Jackson-esque nose. To add a dash of creepy, she works in a "beauty salon" where she peels off customers' faces and cleans them. The fact that there is a whole planet of sad shut-ins living through these weird robots just digs that Valley deeper and adds another layer to a movie that's already dark.
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* OutOfCharacterAlert: Tom Greer is tipped off that [[spoiler:his partner's surrogate isn't being controlled by his actual partner]] when she refers to him by his last name. Everybody else in the movie does this, but she always [[FirstNameBasis called him Tom]].
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* MyselfMyAvatar: The Surrogates.
* NewMediaAreEvil: A world where everyone stays home all day and only interacts with each other via an avatar that only reflects what you want other people to see? Gee, that couldn't possibly be a metaphor for something, could it?
* NoEndorHolocaust: Justified in the big car pileup in the middle of the film since most people would be using surrogates. However [[spoiler: it's played straight in the ending. We are told explicitly no humans died when surrogates went offline, despite the likelihood many were flying planes, performing surgery, driving and other tasks that could cause wide-scale devastation if interrupted.]]
* NewMediaAreEvil: A world where everyone stays home all day and only interacts with each other via an avatar that only reflects what you want other people to see? Gee, that couldn't possibly be a metaphor for something, could it?
* NoEndorHolocaust: Justified in the big car pileup in the middle of the film since most people would be using surrogates. However [[spoiler: it's played straight in the ending. We are told explicitly no humans died when surrogates went offline, despite the likelihood many were flying planes, performing surgery, driving and other tasks that could cause wide-scale devastation if interrupted.]]
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* MyselfMyAvatar: The Surrogates.
plot has this happen on a global scale in everyday life- everyone uses the titular robot bodies to go around, while their real bodies are kept inside their homes.
* NewMediaAreEvil: A world where everyone stays home all day and only interacts with each other via an avatar that only reflects what you want other people tosee? Gee, see. Basically, the robot surrogates stand in for just about everything wrong about New Media and how's it preventing social interaction and true "humanity." The original comic book has this as well, particularly when the protagonist asks his wife to have dinner with him... and she immediately heads to her room to connect with her surrogate. When he tries to stop her and ask her to have dinner with him physically, she angrily tells him that couldn't possibly he may be a metaphor for something, could it?
happy with his Real Life appearance, but she isn't. At the end of the story, [[spoiler:after he lets all the surrogates be shut down, he comes home to find that she committed suicide]].
* NoEndorHolocaust: Justified in the big car pileup in the middle of the film since most people would be using surrogates.However [[spoiler: it's However, [[spoiler:it's played straight in the ending. We are told explicitly no humans died when surrogates went offline, despite the likelihood many were flying planes, performing surgery, driving and other tasks that could cause wide-scale devastation if interrupted.]]
* NewMediaAreEvil: A world where everyone stays home all day and only interacts with each other via an avatar that only reflects what you want other people to
* NoEndorHolocaust: Justified in the big car pileup in the middle of the film since most people would be using surrogates.
* PeoplePuppets: The surrogates are basically ''VideoGame/SecondLife'' in real life, only the "avatars" are slightly overdone UncannyValley [[invoked]] robots. Someone has found a way to kill the "users" when they kill the robots, which was previously impossible (there is a grizzled detective, but he's a long-time Surrogate user and probably not as technophobic as, say, Will Smith's character in ''Film/IRobot'').
* RapidFireTyping: Tom Greer types this way in a scene, seemingly calling up dozens of files with each stroke.
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* RemoteBody: The basic premise of titular surrogates are robots that are remotely piloted by users in their homes, and have become ubiquitous in society, replacing human interaction entirely. [[spoiler:The Prophet also turns out to be this for Lionel Canter.]]
* ResidualSelfImage: The film has this trope in spades given that literally anyone can carry out their everyday lives through a robot that looks exactly how they'd like it to. Age, race and gender are decided by themovie.user.
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* RoboticAssemblyLines: Produce surrogate bodies.
* RoboticReveal: Done as a TearOffYourFace.
* SettingUpdate: the comic book was set in 2054 [[UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} "Central Georgia Metropolis"]], while the movie is set in 2017 UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}.
* RoboticReveal: Done as a TearOffYourFace.
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* RoboticAssemblyLines: Produce VBI has some that produce the surrogate bodies.
* RoboticReveal:Done as [[spoiler:The Prophet, the leader of the anti-surrogate movement,]] is revealed to be a TearOffYourFace.
surrogate controlled by [[spoiler:Lionel Canter, the surrogates' inventor]], when he is shot and we see [[spoiler:circutry inside his body]].
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* SexByProxy: Some people willingly let others access their robotic avatars to feel the pleasure of living in a perfect body (and touching it).
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* SexByProxy: Some people willingly let others access their robotic avatars to feel the pleasure of living in a perfect body (and touching it).
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Greer laying there staring down one of the Dreads' double-barrel shotgun after already being blasted in the chest by it.
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* TheBlank: Pictures from the movie (''VideoGame/SecondLife'' in RealLife via sexy androids) show the two leads inspecting android soldiers: their faces consist of two tiny camera lenses for eyes and vague brow/nose ridges.
* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: People feel safe when they only interact with the real world through the titular robotic avatars: if it is destroyed, it is merely inconvenient. The discovery that someone has been remotely killed "through" their surrogate shocks the police and kick-starts the plot.
* ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet: The first victim is an overweight male who operated a sexy female surrogate.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Greer laying there staring down one of the Dreads' double-barrel shotgun after already being blasted in the chest by it. He is only saved by the fact that he is operating a RemoteBody.
* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: People feel safe when they only interact with the real world through the titular robotic avatars: if it is destroyed, it is merely inconvenient. The discovery that someone has been remotely killed "through" their surrogate shocks the police and kick-starts the plot.
* ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet: The first victim is an overweight male who operated a sexy female surrogate.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Greer laying there staring down one of the Dreads' double-barrel shotgun after already being blasted in the chest by it. He is only saved by the fact that he is operating a RemoteBody.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: The beautiful lady surrogate that was killed alongside the inventor's son via feedback weapon, turns out to be an over-weight man. Considering that each person is usually allowed one Surrogate, it means this guy has been going around as a woman for quite some time.
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* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:And Greer ultimately seems to agree with it in the end judging by his actions (or lack thereof in the particulars). He just manages to go about Canter's plan in a less mass-murdery way.]]
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* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:And The Prophet/[[spoiler:Lionel Canter]] might be resorting to extreme measures to make his point about the 'need' to restore humanity to its roots rather than living virtually through remote-controlled robots, but at the end, protagonist Tom Greer ultimately seems acknowledges his point to agree with it in the end judging by his actions (or lack thereof in extent that [[spoiler:he deliberately avoids taking action to save the particulars). surrogates from Canter's planned attack, even if he prevents Canter's plan from being fatal to all those connected to their surrogates while simply shutting down the controlling network. He just manages to go about Canter's plan in a less mass-murdery way.]]way]].
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* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:The Prophet, a man leading a group against the eponymous [[RemoteBody surrogates]], is [[RoboticReveal himself a surrogate]], controlled by the inventions' ''creator'' at that.]]
* YourMindMakesItReal: Originally people could operate remotely-controlled surrogate version of themselves without any risk - no damage done to the surrogate could have any lasting effect on the operator. Naturally, someone finds a way to subvert this rule, and this is when the problems (and the plot) start. This is different from the original graphic novel, where there is no way to kill a person via his or her surrogate.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Originally people could operate remotely-controlled surrogate version of themselves without any risk - no damage done to the surrogate could have any lasting effect on the operator. Naturally, someone finds a way to subvert this rule, and this is when the problems (and the plot) start. This is different from the original graphic novel, where there is no way to kill a person via his or her surrogate.
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* ApocalypseWow: The film ends in a way with this, as [[spoiler:all the surrogates just shut down, and as a result, cars start crashing ''en masse'' into buildings and each other, with all the destruction drawn out (though it is BloodlessCarnage since the surrogates are not human]].
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* {{GIRL}}: Among the first victims of the OD is a hot female model surrogate that turns out to be an old, fat man.
* GoneHorriblyRight: The "OD" anti-Surrogate weapon. [[spoiler:The US military invented it as a means to disable armies of Surrogates in one shot, which it does very well. What they didn't expect was that it disables the Surrogate ''operators'' just as permanently.]]
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Canter kills Greer's partner, and impersonates her via Surrogate. And then Greer himself hijacks the surrogate, from the dead man's chair no less, to stop the surrogate-shutdown from killing billions]].
* GoneHorriblyRight: The "OD" anti-Surrogate weapon. [[spoiler:The US military invented it as a means to disable armies of Surrogates in one shot, which it does very well. What they didn't expect was that it disables the Surrogate ''operators'' just as permanently.]]
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Canter kills Greer's partner, and impersonates her via Surrogate. And then Greer himself hijacks the surrogate, from the dead man's chair no less, to stop the surrogate-shutdown from killing billions]].
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* {{GIRL}}: Among the first victims of the OD is a hot OD, the operator of the seductive, female model surrogate at the nightclub that got fried, turns out to be an old, fat man.
man. The characters don't treat this "revelation" as unusual or noteworthy in any way, implying this happens a lot.
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** The surrogates themselves were developed by Lionel Canter to help disabled people like him move around with no limitations. It ended up becoming so popular that ''everyone'' began using them for things like getting a dream body, resulting in an agoraphobic society of [[{{Hikikomori}} shut-ins]]. [[spoiler:Lionel himself regrets this so much that he creates a surrogate alter-ego, "The Prohpet", and uses it to create an anti-surrogate resistance and formulate a plan to destroy surrogates for good.]]
** The "OD" anti-Surrogate weapon. [[spoiler:The US military invented it as a means to disable armies of Surrogates in one shot, which it does very well. What they didn't expect was that it disables the Surrogate ''operators'' just as permanently.]]
* GrandTheftMe:[[spoiler:Canter Unique variant; the remote-controlled body of [[spoiler:Greer's partner Jennifer Peters]] is hijacked by not one, but two different characters. [[spoiler:Lionel Canter kills Greer's partner, and impersonates her via Surrogate. And her Surrogate to use her as TheMole, and then Greer himself hijacks the surrogate, from the dead man's Canter's chair no less, to stop the surrogate-shutdown from killing billions]].billions.]]
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** The surrogates themselves were developed by Lionel Canter to help disabled people like him move around with no limitations. It ended up becoming so popular that ''everyone'' began using them for things like getting a dream body, resulting in an agoraphobic society of [[{{Hikikomori}} shut-ins]]. [[spoiler:Lionel himself regrets this so much that he creates a surrogate alter-ego, "The Prohpet", and uses it to create an anti-surrogate resistance and formulate a plan to destroy surrogates for good.]]
** The "OD" anti-Surrogate weapon. [[spoiler:The US military invented it as a means to disable armies of Surrogates in one shot, which it does very well. What they didn't expect was that it disables the Surrogate ''operators'' just as permanently.]]
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* MarionetteMaster: Well, everyone. But specifically Lionel Cantor.Canter, the inventor of the surrogates, uses them much more than anyone else. In the film, he uses a handsome executive, a young teen boy, and [[spoiler:a black hippie-ish man known as "The Prophet"]] as [[RemoteBody remote bodies]], and his office shows that he has quite a few more.
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* MegaCorp: VSI.VSI, the company that makes the surrogates, has quite a bit of control on the US government now that all of society depends on surrogates to go outside. They are so powerful that they are even able to [[spoiler:buy off a high-ranking FBI agent to assassinate their retired former CEO]].
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* CallAHumanAMeatbag: Odd human-to-human variant. There are two kinds of humans in the movie; those that use their animatronic counterparts, and those who don't. Those who do always refer to those who don't as "meatbags" as an insult because they refuse to openly embrace the cultural norm.
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* EvilLuddite: The Dread rebels, who despise [[RemoteBody Surrogacy]] and want to destroy it, are portrayed as a bunch of redneck hicks. However, they are seen as [[VillainHasAPoint having a point]]; as their charismatic leader, the Prophet, says, the widespread use of surrogates have cheapened human interaction. [[spoiler: The protagonist's decision to allow surrogate technology to be destroyed is also treated fairly positively in the ending, despite current society relying on them.]]
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* AntiEscapismAesop: A rather {{Anvilicious}} one in the film about how we should all get up off our collective duff and interact with people eyeball-to-eyeball.
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Lionel Cantor has some sympathetic qualities (putting aside the murdering a pregnant woman part); he regrets inventing the surrogates and wants to free humanity from his mistake. Until at the end he decides to [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope cause one billion completely avoidable deaths]].]]
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Lionel Cantor has some sympathetic qualities (putting aside the murdering a pregnant woman part); he regrets inventing the surrogates and wants to free humanity from his mistake. Until at the end he decides to [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope cause one billion completely avoidable deaths]].]]
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* AntiEscapismAesop: A rather {{Anvilicious}} one In the world of the film, nobody interacts in-person anymore; instead, the robotic [[RemoteBody surrogates]] are used as a substitute. Using the surrogates, people can now step into their dream body and be completely safe from any real harm, doing everything in the comfort of their own home. The message of the film is about how this has rendered human interaction meaningless, and how we were not meant to live like this; instead, we should all get up off our collective duff and interact with people eyeball-to-eyeball.
eyeball-to-eyeball. Protagonist Tom Greer, upon being disconnected from his surrogate, finds himself wanting to actually interact with people and not robots. The film ends with [[spoiler:Tom allowing a virus to destroy all the surrogates to force everyone to go outside and be human again]].
* AntiVillain:[[spoiler:Lionel Cantor The Prophet/[[spoiler:Lionel Cantor]] has some sympathetic qualities (putting aside [[spoiler:his murder of the murdering a pregnant woman part); Jennifer]]); he regrets despises how the Surrogates have completely replaced human interaction, [[spoiler:regrets inventing the surrogates surrogates]], and wants to free humanity from his mistake. [[spoiler:his mistake]]. Until at the end he decides to [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope [[spoiler:[[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope cause one billion completely avoidable deaths]].]]deaths]]]].
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* BloodlessCarnage: The surrogates are machines. [[AlienBlood Except they do seem to leak an awful lot of green hydraulic fluid when smashed.]]
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* BloodlessCarnage: Subverted. The surrogates are machines. [[AlienBlood Except surrogates, being machines, usually do not shed blood when beaten up or penetrated; this is part of their appeal for the users. But they do seem to leak an awful lot of [[AlienBlood green hydraulic fluid fluid]] when smashed.]]
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* ExpendableClone: Any surrogate not [[spoiler:zapped by the superweapon]] from the army to the annoying guy Greer punches out at his wife's party.
* TheExtremistWasRight: This seems implied of [[spoiler: Canter]].
* TheExtremistWasRight: This seems implied of [[spoiler: Canter]].
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* ExpendableClone: Any surrogate not [[spoiler:zapped by the superweapon]] superweapon]], from the army to the annoying guy Greer punches out at his wife's party.
party, is considered this since the actual person piloting the surrogate is completely safe. Notably, when Greer beats down the guy at the party, he and the others just laugh, knowing full well no one is in any real danger.
* TheExtremistWasRight: This seems implied of[[spoiler: Canter]].[[spoiler:Canter]].
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* FantasticDrug: "Jacking" aka "electro-bong meets vibrator."
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* FantasticDrug: "Jacking" aka "Jacking", essentially "electro-bong meets vibrator."
vibrator", is used by the surrogates to translate the feeling of a drug high to their operators.
*FantasticRacism:FantasticRacism: On both sides of the [[RemoteBody Surrogate]] divide.
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Set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture (2017), ''Surrogates'' gives us a world where everybody (or at least the USA) lives through robotic puppets known as Surrogates. The appeal of this lifestyle is obvious from the outset: Freedom to live life the way you want, looking how you want, without the downsides of pain and death. That is until FBI Agent Tom Greer comes across a victim somehow killed ''through'' their Surrogate.
Given how large a role Surrogates play in people's lives, Greer expectantly meets heavy resistance to the notion someone is able to target people through their mechanical avatars. And as it becomes more clear that there is someone attempting to destroy this way of life Tom soon finds himself outside the safety of his machine body.
Given how large a role Surrogates play in people's lives, Greer expectantly meets heavy resistance to the notion someone is able to target people through their mechanical avatars. And as it becomes more clear that there is someone attempting to destroy this way of life Tom soon finds himself outside the safety of his machine body.
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Set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture (2017), ''Surrogates'' gives us a world where everybody (or at least the USA) lives through robotic puppets known as Surrogates. The appeal of this lifestyle is obvious from the outset: Freedom to live life the way you want, looking how you want, without the downsides of pain and death. Not everyone agrees with this, as there is a movement, led by a mysterious and charismatic man known only as "The Prophet", that is opposed to surrogacy and considers it to be a perversion of human interaction, but for most of society, surrogacy provides guaranteed safety.
Thatis is, until FBI Agent Tom Greer comes across a victim somehow killed ''through'' their Surrogate.
Given how large a role Surrogates play in people's lives, Greer expectantly meets heavy resistance to the notion someone is able to target people through their mechanical avatars. And as it becomes more clear that there is someone attempting to destroy this way oflife life, Tom soon finds himself outside the safety of his machine body.
body, and forced into the real world... and in the process, he begins to question the society's way of life and how fulfilling it really is.
That
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* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: Lionel Cantor has some sympathetic qualities (putting aside the murdering pregnant women part); he regrets inventing the surrogates and wants to free humanity from his mistake. Until at the end he decides to [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope cause one billion completely avoidable deaths]].]]
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* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: Lionel [[spoiler:Lionel Cantor has some sympathetic qualities (putting aside the murdering a pregnant women woman part); he regrets inventing the surrogates and wants to free humanity from his mistake. Until at the end he decides to [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope cause one billion completely avoidable deaths]].]]
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Lionel Canter, the creator of the Surrogates who is angry at how society is misusing the technology he created and wants to destroy it.]]
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Lionel Canter, BigBadEnsemble: On one end is The Prophet/[[spoiler:Lionel Canter]], the creator leader of the Surrogates anti-[[MyselfMyAvatar Surrogate]] movement and [[spoiler:creator of the Surrogates]] who is angry at how society is misusing the technology he created [[spoiler:he created]] and wants to destroy it.]]it, [[spoiler:killing the billion users in the process]]. On the other end, [[spoiler:Andrew "Andy" Stone]] is the one who hired Miles Strickland to assassinate [[spoiler:Lionel]] to stop his plan and uphold the dystopian Surrogate society.
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: They can remind Greer of his own innocence by playing baseball!
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: Saunders suddenly changes the rules of the superweapon out of nowhere so it doesn't kill anyone.]]
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: Saunders suddenly changes the rules of the superweapon out of nowhere so it doesn't kill anyone.]]
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: They can remind Greer of his own innocence by playing baseball!
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* DeusExMachina:[[spoiler: Saunders [[spoiler:Saunders suddenly changes the rules of the superweapon out of nowhere so it doesn't kill anyone.]]
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* ExpendableClone: Any surrogate not [[spoiler: zapped by the superweapon]] from the army to the annoying guy Greer punches out at his wife's party.
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* ExpendableClone: Any surrogate not [[spoiler: zapped [[spoiler:zapped by the superweapon]] from the army to the annoying guy Greer punches out at his wife's party.
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** In less than 10 years, everyone who doesn't use a Surrogate is looked down upon as being an uncultured luddite by the Surrogate masses, who call them "Meatbags" and "Dreads" and treat them as though they are sub-human. This despite the fact that they themselves have to routinely go offline to get off their own "meatbag" asses in order to eat or use the bathroom. It is possible that this is coming from a certain amount of projection since, judging by many of the main characters, many of those who use Surrogates tend to have plenty of self-loathing, neuroses and insecurities.
** On the other hand, the "Dreads" are not much better, being able to rapidly organise a lynch-mob once they realise that Greer is a Surrogate. Not to mention, Surrogate or not, there is really no excuse for unloading a double-barrelled shotgun into someone's face and still think you get to keep the moral high-ground afterwards. Even so, that's not half as bad as the things the Surrogates do to ''each other''.
** On the other hand, the "Dreads" are not much better, being able to rapidly organise a lynch-mob once they realise that Greer is a Surrogate. Not to mention, Surrogate or not, there is really no excuse for unloading a double-barrelled shotgun into someone's face and still think you get to keep the moral high-ground afterwards. Even so, that's not half as bad as the things the Surrogates do to ''each other''.
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** In less than 10 years, everyone who doesn't use a Surrogate is looked down upon as being an uncultured luddite by the Surrogate masses, who call them "Meatbags" [[CallAHumanAMeatbag "Meatbags"]] and "Dreads" and treat them as though they are sub-human. This despite the fact that they themselves have to routinely go offline to get off their own "meatbag" asses in order to eat or use the bathroom. It is possible that this is coming from a certain amount of projection since, judging by many of the main characters, many of those who use Surrogates tend to have plenty of self-loathing, neuroses and insecurities.
** On the other hand, the "Dreads" are not much better, being able to rapidlyorganise organize a lynch-mob once they realise realize that Greer is a Surrogate. Not to mention, Surrogate or not, there is really no excuse for unloading a double-barrelled double-barreled shotgun into someone's face and still think you get to keep the moral high-ground afterwards. Even so, that's not half as bad as the things the Surrogates do to ''each other''.
** On the other hand, the "Dreads" are not much better, being able to rapidly
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''Surrogates'' is a 2009 film by Jonathan Mostow (''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'') Creator/JonathanMostow and based on the comic ''Comicbook/TheSurrogates''. Features Creator/BruceWillis, Creator/RosamundPike, Creator/VingRhames, and Creator/JamesCromwell.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Zigzagged. [[spoiler[[spoiler:Canter kills himself, believing his plan cannot be stopped, but Greer ''does'' get the means to stop the deaths of all the people connected to surrogates. However, he doesn't disable the virus that destroys them and allows it to happen, giving Carter exactly what he wanted.]]
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: Cantor.]]
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: Cantor.BigBad: [[spoiler:Lionel Canter, the creator of the Surrogates who is angry at how society is misusing the technology he created and wants to destroy it.]]
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* {{GIFT}}: People tend to use the no-consequence nature of Surrogates with abandon.
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* {{GIFT}}: People tend to use the no-consequence nature of Surrogates with abandon.abandon to behave in ways they couldn't in person.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler: Canter and Greer]] feel entitled to decide that the world should be changed to fit their worldview. [[spoiler: Canter especially, who feels entitled to dictate how people use the technology he invented, by mass murder if necessary.]]
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* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler: Canter [[spoiler:Canter has a point that his invention that he created to help the disabled and Greer]] feel entitled the enfeebled live normal lives has been capitalized on for profit by producing it for the masses. However, he feels ''he'' has the right to decide that how the world should be changed is meant to fit their worldview. [[spoiler: Canter especially, who feels entitled to dictate how people use his technology, and intends to destroy all the technology he invented, by mass murder if necessary.surrogates and kill everyone using one.]]
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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: No less than three times.
** The absolute control the FBI has over all surrogates (which are used by ~99% of the world--[[FridgeLogic even third-world countries]]). Oh, and no one knows they can play God, either.
** [[spoiler:Except for Canter who intends to use it to destroy every surrogate everywhere, '''and every user'''.]]
** [[spoiler:Except that he gets stopped, and ''Tom'' is the one who ultimately does the deed, destroying the surrogates but only after ensuring that no one would die.]]
** The absolute control the FBI has over all surrogates (which are used by ~99% of the world--[[FridgeLogic even third-world countries]]). Oh, and no one knows they can play God, either.
** [[spoiler:Except for Canter who intends to use it to destroy every surrogate everywhere, '''and every user'''.]]
** [[spoiler:Except that he gets stopped, and ''Tom'' is the one who ultimately does the deed, destroying the surrogates but only after ensuring that no one would die.]]
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In the comic, [[spoiler:Maggie commits suicide after her surrogate is destroyed.]] In the film, she and Tom just hug.
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In the comic, [[spoiler:Maggie commits suicide after her surrogate is destroyed.]] destroyed]]. In the film, she and Tom just hug.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: I can be anything I want without anyone ever finding out, and the worst thing that can happen to me is that I have to order a new robot? What could ''possibly'' go wrong here?
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''Surrogates'' is a 2009 film by Jonathan Mostow (''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'') based on the comic ''Comicbook/TheSurrogates''. Features Creator/BruceWillis, Creator/RosamundPike, Creator/VingRhames, and Creator/JamesCromwell.
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''Surrogates'' is a film by Jonathan Mostow (''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'') based on the comic ''Comicbook/TheSurrogates''. Creator/BruceWillis stars.
Features Creator/BruceWillis, Creator/RosamundPike, Creator/VingRhames, and Creator/JamesCromwell.
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* {{GIRL}}: Among the first victims of the OD is a hot female model surrogate that turns out to be an old, fat man
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* {{GIRL}}: Among the first victims of the OD is a hot female model surrogate that turns out to be an old, fat manman.
* GoneHorriblyRight: The "OD" anti-Surrogate weapon. [[spoiler:The US military invented it as a means to disable armies of Surrogates in one shot, which it does very well. What they didn't expect was that it disables the Surrogate ''operators'' just as permanently.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: The "OD" anti-Surrogate weapon. [[spoiler:The US military invented it as a means to disable armies of Surrogates in one shot, which it does very well. What they didn't expect was that it disables the Surrogate ''operators'' just as permanently.]]
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* {{GIFT}} and {{GIRL}}: Among the first victims of the OD is a hot female model surrogate that turns out to be an old, fat man, and people tend to use the no-consequence nature of Surrogates with abandon.
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* {{GIFT}} and {{GIFT}}: People tend to use the no-consequence nature of Surrogates with abandon.
* {{GIRL}}: Among the first victims of the OD is a hot female model surrogate that turns out to be an old, fatman, and people tend to use the no-consequence nature of Surrogates with abandon.man
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* MayDecemberRomance: Tom Greer (Creator/BruceWillis) and Maggie Greer (Creator/RosamundPike) is an interesting Subversion. Due to the surrogate technology, everyone appears as an ''idealized'' version of themselves, with Pike's character appearing late 20s or so, and Willis' as a well-kept 50-something. The relationship is portrayed as normal and not unusual. However, the reveal shows [[spoiler: Pike's character being OlderThanTheyLook is really in her late-40s/early 50s, an acceptable match with a late-50s Willis).]]
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* MayDecemberRomance: Tom Greer (Creator/BruceWillis) and Maggie Greer (Creator/RosamundPike) is are an interesting Subversion. Due subversion. Their actors have 24 years between them, and due to the surrogate technology, everyone appears as an ''idealized'' version of themselves, with Pike's character Maggie's surrogate appearing as a woman in her late 20s or so, and Willis' Tom's as a well-kept 50-something. The relationship is portrayed as normal and not unusual. However, the reveal shows [[spoiler: Pike's character being [[spoiler:Maggie's OlderThanTheyLook and her true body is really shown to be that of a woman in her late-40s/early 50s, an acceptable match with a late-50s Willis).50s.]]
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* MisappliedPhlebotinum: In this film the technology exists to control machines with your mind. Take a few minutes and think about what the world would really be like if we had that. For example, why control robot infantry that look human and are even wearing combat fatigues and helmets? Why not just control a tank?
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* MisappliedPhlebotinum: In this film film, the technology exists to control machines with your mind. Take a few minutes and think about what the world would really be like if we had that. For example, why control robot infantry that look human and are even wearing combat fatigues and helmets? Why not just control a tank?
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* NoEndorHolocaust: Justified in the big car pileup in the middle of the film since most people would be using surrogates. However [[spoiler: it's played straight in the ending. We are told explicitly no humans died when surrogates went offline, despite the likelihood many were flying planes, performing surgery, driving and other tasks that could cause widescale devestation if interrupted.]]
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* NoEndorHolocaust: Justified in the big car pileup in the middle of the film since most people would be using surrogates. However [[spoiler: it's played straight in the ending. We are told explicitly no humans died when surrogates went offline, despite the likelihood many were flying planes, performing surgery, driving and other tasks that could cause widescale devestation wide-scale devastation if interrupted.]]
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* RedShirtArmy: The U.S. Army surrogates, called ''G.I.'' Joes. Hur hur.
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* RedShirtArmy: The U.S. Army surrogates, called ''G.I.'' Joes. Hur hur.
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* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Hmm Bruce Willis sure looks like [[RobotMe Robot Bruce Willis]], that could be confusing. Fortunately one has a beard and the other wears a wig!
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* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Hmm Bruce Willis sure looks like [[RobotMe Robot Bruce Willis]], that could be confusing. Fortunately one has a beard The Surrogates, although they still need maintenance and the other wears a wig!human users still need to take care of their own human needs.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: At the end of the original comic [[spoiler:Maggie Greer]] committed suicide after the Surrogates were all shut down. In the movie [[spoiler:she and her husband]] instead just face each other physically for the first time in years.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: At the end of the original comic comic, [[spoiler:Maggie Greer]] committed suicide after the Surrogates were all shut down. In the movie movie, [[spoiler:she and her husband]] instead just face each other physically for the first time in years.
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* {{Technophobia}}: There are "dread reservations" which consist of communities that strongly oppose the use of surrogate robots, which are use by the vast majority of the world's population to live their daily lives risk free, which they consider them abominations and will attack surrogates if they come into their communities.
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* {{Technophobia}}: There are "dread reservations" which consist of communities that strongly oppose the use of surrogate robots, which are use used by the vast majority of the world's population to live their daily lives risk free, which they free. The "Dreads" consider them the surrogates to be abominations and will attack surrogates if they come into their communities.
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Isn't homage supposed to be a *deliberate* references, not just a list of works with similar plot elements?
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* CallARabbitASmeerp SettingUpdate: the comic book was set in 2054 [[UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} "Central Georgia Metropolis"]], while the movie is set in 2017 UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}.
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* {{Homage}}: Oh boy. ''Literature/SnowCrash'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''Film/MinorityReport'' (in fact anything Creator/PhilipKDick ever wrote), ''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Franchise/TheMatrix'', ''Film/MarsAttacks'', ''Film/BicentennialMan'', ''Literature/IRobot'', (and other works of Creator/IsaacAsimov), ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Film/{{Westworld}}'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', ''Anime/GhostInTheShell''.
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler: Canter and Greer]] feels entitled to decide that the world should be changed to fit their worldview. [[spoiler: Canter especially, who feels entitled to dictate how people use the technology he invented, by mass murder if necessary.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler: Canter and Greer]] feels entitled to decide that the world should be changed to fit their worldview. [[spoiler: Canter especially, who feels entitled to dictate how people use the technology he invented, by mass murder if necessary.]]
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%% * {{Homage}}: Oh boy. ''Literature/SnowCrash'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''Film/MinorityReport'' (in fact anything Creator/PhilipKDick ever wrote), ''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Franchise/TheMatrix'', ''Film/MarsAttacks'', ''Film/BicentennialMan'', ''Literature/IRobot'', (and other works of Creator/IsaacAsimov), ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Film/{{Westworld}}'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', ''Anime/GhostInTheShell''.
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler: Canter and Greer]]feels feel entitled to decide that the world should be changed to fit their worldview. [[spoiler: Canter especially, who feels entitled to dictate how people use the technology he invented, by mass murder if necessary.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler: Canter and Greer]]
* OhCrap: Stone's reaction right before [[spoiler:he gets his brain fried via his surrogate.]]
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* PreemptiveDeclaration: "I found Greer. He's been in an accident at Market and Andover." And then Greer looks up and sees the street signs...
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In the comic, [[spoiler:Maggie commits suicide after her surrogate is destroyed.]] In the film, she and Tom just hug.
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* RevisedEnding: In the comic, [[spoiler:Maggie commits suicide after her surrogate is destroyed.]] In the film, she and Tom just hug.
