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** In the absence of food caused by the GlacialApocalypse, people devolving to cannibalism is a horrific problem. Creator/LaurenceFishburne and Creator/BillPaxton[='s=] characters were part of the military before it fully collapsed, and they abandoned a stadium-based refugee center when it devolved into a military dictatorship where the ones in charge started "taking undesirables upstairs" to combat their food shortages. [[spoiler:The main antagonists of the movie are revealed to be a roaming post-apocalyptic bandit tribe whom have [[CannibalClan turned to cannibalizing any other survivors they find]] -- these cannibals don't even act human anymore; never saying more than one word between all of them for the entire movie, shrieking and snarling like animals, having filed their teeth to points, and making a CannibalLarder that would impress [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre the Sawyers]]]].
** Furthermore, Paxton's aforementioned character, Mason, has clearly started to [[SanitySlippage lose his mind]] at the movie's start decades into the apocalypse. He breaks an important colony rule of giving two quarantined cold patients whom have to be cast out the choice between dying or taking their chances in the snow so that he can shoot them himself, he does it again in his leader's absence after being explicitly told not to, and he wastes no time taking charge [[spoiler:after his leader's death]] and making it clear he'll be ruling with an even more iron fist [[spoiler:before the cannibals' arrival renders his rule extremely short-lived]].
** In the absence of food caused by the GlacialApocalypse, people devolving to cannibalism is a horrific problem. Creator/LaurenceFishburne and Creator/BillPaxton[='s=] characters were part of the military before it fully collapsed, and they abandoned a stadium-based refugee center when it devolved into a military dictatorship where the ones in charge started "taking undesirables upstairs" to combat their food shortages. [[spoiler:The main antagonists of the movie are revealed to be a roaming post-apocalyptic bandit tribe whom have [[CannibalClan turned to cannibalizing any other survivors they find]] -- these cannibals don't even act human anymore; never saying more than one word between all of them for the entire movie, shrieking and snarling like animals, having filed their teeth to points, and making a CannibalLarder that would impress [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre the Sawyers]]]].
** Furthermore, Paxton's aforementioned character, Mason, has clearly started to [[SanitySlippage lose his mind]] at the movie's start decades into the apocalypse. He breaks an important colony rule of giving two quarantined cold patients whom have to be cast out the choice between dying or taking their chances in the snow so that he can shoot them himself, he does it again in his leader's absence after being explicitly told not to, and he wastes no time taking charge [[spoiler:after his leader's death]] and making it clear he'll be ruling with an even more iron fist [[spoiler:before the cannibals' arrival renders his rule extremely short-lived]].
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* GoneMadFromTheIsolation: The SoleSurvivor of Colony 5 has locked himself behind a steel door, and won't come out for any reason even though he's starving to death.
* GreenAesop: The eternal winter that's choking Earth to death is indirectly but explicitly the result of mankind's overuse of fossil fuels.
* GreenAesop: The eternal winter that's choking Earth to death is indirectly but explicitly the result of mankind's overuse of fossil fuels.
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* GoneMadFromTheIsolation: The SoleSurvivor of Colony 5 has locked himself behind a steel door, and won't come out for any reason [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled even though he's starving to death.
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* GreenAesop: The eternal winter that's choking Earth to death is indirectly but explicitly the result ofmankind's Mankind's overuse of fossil fuels.
* GreenAesop: The eternal winter that's choking Earth to death is indirectly but explicitly the result of
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* EarthThatWas: Graydon enthuses about finding a crashed helicopter, wondering what it would be like to fly in one, and puzzles over a swimsuit magazine with its [[ExposedToTheElements scantily-clad women]] frolicking in the sun. Briggs suggests [[ADateWithRosiePalms he use it for a more pragmatic purpose]].
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* EarthThatWas: Graydon enthuses about finding a crashed helicopter, wondering what it would be like to fly in one, and puzzles over a swimsuit magazine with its [[ExposedToTheElements scantily-clad women]] frolicking in the sun. Briggs suggests [[ADateWithRosiePalms [[PornStash he use it for a more pragmatic purpose]].
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The Cannibal Leader is a pretty powerful hand-to-hand combatant and Briggs is a RetiredBadass good enough to pull a pretty decent YouShallNotPass TakingYouWithMe LastStand.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The Cannibal Leader is a pretty powerful hand-to-hand combatant and Briggs is a RetiredBadass good enough to pull a pretty decent YouShallNotPass TakingYouWithMe LastStand.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The only survivor from Colony 5 insists on locking himself up inside of a heavily-reinforced room and forces the Colony 7 team out after giving them some exposition [[spoiler: on the "oasis" that another group of colonists made. [[WhatAnIdiot Pity he didn't told them much about the cannibals, though]].]]
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The only survivor from Colony 5 insists on locking himself up inside of a heavily-reinforced room and forces the Colony 7 team out after giving them some exposition [[spoiler: on the "oasis" that another group of colonists made. [[WhatAnIdiot Pity he didn't told tell them much about the cannibals, though]].though.]]
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* PursuedProtagonist: The first scene shows two Colony 5 residents running through a bunker's tunnel until they reach a locked door. They beg for the man hiding inside to let them in as unseen figures quickly close in on the two fugitives and the camera cuts to the next scene. It's never shown what happened to them, but it's heavily implied that [[spoiler:they're killed and cannibalized like everyone else besides the man hiding behind the locked door.]]
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* AfterTheEnd: Due to {{Weather Control Machine}}s GoneHorriblyRight, the Earth has been plunged into a GlacialApocalypse which has killed pretty much everything on the surface and left humans scarcely surviving with livestock and crops inside outpost shelters. It makes for some rather beautiful SceneryGorn. Not least due to the nature of this apocalypse, [[spoiler:[[ImAHumanitarian some humans turned to cannibalism and went insane from starvation]] during the early days]].
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* AfterTheEnd: Due to {{Weather Control Machine}}s GoneHorriblyRight, the Earth has been plunged into a GlacialApocalypse which has killed pretty much everything on the surface and left humans scarcely surviving with livestock and crops inside outpost shelters. It makes for some rather beautiful SceneryGorn. Not least due to the nature of this apocalypse, [[spoiler:[[ImAHumanitarian some [[spoiler:some humans [[ImAHumanitarian turned to cannibalism and went insane from starvation]] during the early days]].
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* ApocalypseHow: Humanity has at least suffered a ApocalypseHow/Class2, looking very likely to be a ApocalypseHow/Class3A if they can't reverse the weather machines' effect on the climate. The Earth's biosphere has technically suffered a ApocalypseHow/Class4 with the human survivors growing vegetable plants and keeping livestock in their underground shelters, but it's not far off from being a ApocalypseHow/Class5: nothing is alive or capable of growing on the planet's perpetually-frozen surface.
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* ApocalypseHow: Humanity For humanity it's a ApocalypseHow/Class2 approaching ApocalypseHow/Class3A, while the Earth overall has at least suffered a ApocalypseHow/Class2, looking very likely to be a ApocalypseHow/Class3A if they can't reverse the weather machines' effect on the climate. The Earth's biosphere has technically suffered a ApocalypseHow/Class4 with approaching a ApocalypseHow/Class5. The remaining humans [[spoiler:barring marauders such as the human survivors growing vegetable plants and keeping CannibalClan]] are forced to live in shelters where they struggle to grow livestock in their underground shelters, but it's not far off from being a ApocalypseHow/Class5: nothing and vegetables under artificial sunlight, and ''nothing'' is alive or capable of growing on the planet's perpetually-frozen surface.surface due to the perpetual global blizzard.
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* BittersweetEnding: On one end, the CannibalTribe is killed off, and Colony 7 now knows that another group has managed to fix ''some'' of the damage by the [[WeatherControlMachine Weather Control Machines]] and made an "oasis", that they now have the coordinates of. [[spoiler: On the other hand, Colony 7 has been completely destroyed, and only a handful of people (and one can full of seeds out of an entire warehouse) has survived. They now have no other option but to get to the oasis or perish. Sam has also been somewhat [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy Maddened Into Misanthropy]], if his final narrative speech (where he says that the only rule that matters now is "survive") is taken at face value.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: On one end, the CannibalTribe is killed off, and Colony 7 now knows that another group has managed to fix ''some'' of the damage by the [[WeatherControlMachine Weather Control Machines]] and made an "oasis", that they now have the coordinates of. [[spoiler: On [[spoiler:On the other hand, Colony 7 has been completely destroyed, and only a handful of people (and one can full of seeds out of an entire warehouse) has survived. They now have no other option but to get to the oasis or perish. Sam has also been somewhat [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy Maddened Into Misanthropy]], if his final narrative speech (where he says that the only rule that matters now is "survive") is taken at face value.]]
* EndlessWinter: In the future, the Earth has been plunged into such a winter for decades as a result of [[WeatherControlMachine weather-controlling machines]] meant to reverse ClimateChange [[GoneHorriblyRight working a little too well]] before they shut down. As a result, the planet's surface is a frozen wasteland covered in a neverending global snowstorm, and the only things which grow now are livestock and crops with artificial sunlight in the remaining humans' shelters (and even these are implied to be failing).
-->"''One day... it started to snow. And it never stopped.''"
-->"''One day... it started to snow. And it never stopped.''"
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* GlacialApocalypse: The movie revolves around a colony of people trying to survive a new Ice Age brought upon by weather manipulation machines trying to reduce global warning and [[GoneHorriblyRight working way too well at that]]. By the time the film starts, people are losing their minds, and much to the horror of the protagonists, a CannibalTribe has found them.
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* GlacialApocalypse: The movie revolves around a colony of people trying to survive a new Ice Age global EndlessWinter brought upon by weather manipulation machines trying to reduce global warning and [[GoneHorriblyRight working way too well at that]]. By the time the film starts, people are losing their minds, and much to the horror of the protagonists, a CannibalTribe has found them.
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* TheNightThatNeverEnds: The Earth's skies have been perpetually covered by snowclouds that prevent direct sunlight from reaching the surface for decades now, to the point the protagonist can't remember what sunlight feels like.
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* TheNightThatNeverEnds: The Earth's skies have been perpetually covered by snowclouds that prevent have prevented direct sunlight from reaching the surface for decades now, by the time the movie takes place, to the point the protagonist can't remember what sunlight feels like.
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* SoleSurvivingScientist: One appears on a video feed. He managed to find and fix one of the weather machines that caused the freeze to bring about a thaw in the icy terrain but his group needs seeds (which the protagonists have) to grow food and start over.
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* SoleSurvivingScientist: One appears on a video feed. He managed to find and fix one of the weather machines that caused the freeze to bring about a thaw in the surrounding icy terrain terrain, but his group needs seeds (which the protagonists have) to grow food and start over.
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* AHouseDivided: The first act sets things up that way, but by the time the TyrantTakesTheHelm, there's bigger things to worry about.
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* AHouseDivided: The first act sets things up that way, but by the time the TyrantTakesTheHelm, TyrantTakesTheHelm after [[spoiler:the death of Briggs]], there's a bigger things issue to worry about.
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* AirVentEscape: Used by the cannibals to get around the defended door, and by the survivors to escape to the surface. Unlike other examples of this trope, climbing through the vents is very noisy.
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* AirVentEscape: Used by the cannibals to get around the defended door, and by the survivors to escape to the surface. Unlike other examples of this trope, climbing through the vents is very noisy.noisy, and the vents are a bit spacious enough to let people sit and have a short hand-to-hand combat.
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* BigBlackout: Played with; as the cannibals are breaking into Colony 7 the lights flicker causing a MassOhCrap, but don't go out.
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* CommunicationsOfficer: Colony 7’s radio operator, Cooper is a friend and ally of Briggs and Sam. [[spoiler: During the attack of the cannobals he breaks out a gun but is taken by surprise and knocked unconscious, with his final fate being ambiguous, but probably bad]].
* DecapitationPresentation: Cannibal Leader holds up the head of the man who escaped being shot by Mason to the security camera, then destroys the camera.
* DecapitationPresentation: Cannibal Leader holds up the head of the man who escaped being shot by Mason to the security camera, then destroys the camera.
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* CommunicationsOfficer: Colony 7’s 7's radio operator, Cooper is a friend and ally of Briggs and Sam. [[spoiler: During the attack of the cannobals he breaks out a gun but is taken by surprise and knocked unconscious, with his final fate being ambiguous, but probably bad]].
* DecapitationPresentation: The Cannibal Leader holds up the head of the man who escaped being shot by Mason to the security camera, then destroys the camera.
* DecapitationPresentation: The Cannibal Leader holds up the head of the man who escaped being shot by Mason to the security camera, then destroys the camera.
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* GlacialApocalypse: The movie revolves around a colony of people trying to survive a new Ice Age brought upon by weather manipulation machines trying to reduce global warning and [[GoneHorriblyRight working way too well at that]]. By the time the film starts people are losing their minds, and much to the horror of the protagonists CannibalTribe has found them.
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* GlacialApocalypse: The movie revolves around a colony of people trying to survive a new Ice Age brought upon by weather manipulation machines trying to reduce global warning and [[GoneHorriblyRight working way too well at that]]. By the time the film starts starts, people are losing their minds, and much to the horror of the protagonists protagonists, a CannibalTribe has found them.
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* IncurableCoughOfDeath: The first symptom of disease amongst the Colony 7 survivors-and literally because Mason's first option for dealing with sick people is BoomHeadshot. One man desperately tries to keep his sick wife from being heard by others when she develops it.
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* IncurableCoughOfDeath: The first symptom of disease amongst the Colony 7 survivors-and survivors - and literally because Mason's first option for dealing with sick people is BoomHeadshot. One man desperately tries to keep his sick wife from being heard by others when she develops it.
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* TheLoad: Graydon during the trip to Colony 5. Complains all the time, freaks out constantly, doesn't contribute anything to the task at hand, ultimately gives the heroes away to the cannibals when they first meet, and finally [[spoiler:gets himself killed when he runs away blindly without waiting for the others]]. He does volunteer in the first place, when Briggs was having trouble getting people to go, but he’s never really been out of the Colony before, and it shows.
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* TheLoad: Graydon during the trip to Colony 5. Complains He complains all the time, freaks out constantly, doesn't contribute anything to the task at hand, ultimately gives the heroes away to the cannibals when they first meet, and finally [[spoiler:gets himself killed when he runs away blindly without waiting for the others]]. He does volunteer in the first place, when Briggs was having trouble getting people to go, but he’s he's never really been out of the Colony before, and it shows.
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* PercussivePickpocket: Also serves as a ChekhovsGun. The kid steals Briggs' lighter, but Briggs notices (just as well as he needs it to light the dynamite). [[spoiler:Later Sam is handcuffed to a bed, so the kid lifts the handcuff key off Mason.]]
* RetiredBadass: It doesn't often come up during the day-to-day of managing the colony, but with his military background Briggs can hold his own in melee combat.
* RetiredBadass: It doesn't often come up during the day-to-day of managing the colony, but with his military background Briggs can hold his own in melee combat.
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* PercussivePickpocket: Also serves as a ChekhovsGun.ChekhovsSkill. The kid steals Briggs' lighter, but Briggs notices (just as well as he needs it to light the dynamite). [[spoiler:Later [[spoiler:Later, Sam is handcuffed to a bed, so the kid lifts the handcuff key off Mason.Mason and helps Sam escape.]]
* RetiredBadass: It doesn't often come up during the day-to-day of managing the colony, but with his militarybackground background, Briggs can hold his own in melee combat.
* RetiredBadass: It doesn't often come up during the day-to-day of managing the colony, but with his military
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* SendInTheSearchTeam: The first act of the story-sending someone to find out why Colony 5 stopped transmitting.
* ShellShockSilence: The first time Briggs sets off a dynamite charge it's underground, hence the aversion of SteelEardrums.
* ShellShockSilence: The first time Briggs sets off a dynamite charge it's underground, hence the aversion of SteelEardrums.
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* SendInTheSearchTeam: The first act of the story-sending story involves sending someone to find out why Colony 5 stopped transmitting.
* ShellShockSilence: The first time Briggs sets off a dynamitecharge charge, it's underground, hence the aversion of SteelEardrums.
* ShellShockSilence: The first time Briggs sets off a dynamite
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* SuperPersistentPredator: The cannibal tribe ''will not stop'', despite the fact that chasing the protagonists is killing them off quickly. Perhaps justifiable since they really have no other source of food.
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* WhamLine: Briggs's group investigates further into Colony 5 because they heard a thunking noise. When they meet the SoleSurvivor who intentionally locked himself in a room, he insists that [[spoiler:he's not the one making such noise, hinting that there are other people in that place; the cannibals]].
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* WastelandElder: Briggs (Creator/LaurenceFishburne) is a former soldier who gathered a few dozen people to survive the second ice age in an underground colony and struggles to keep his WellIntentionedExtremist second in command in line while working toward goals that will help their long-term survival.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's unrevealed if the survivor from Colony 5 survived a large part of the Colony being destroyed in an explosion, or if he was able or willing to get out and try to make it somewhere after the cannibals left in pursuit of Briggs and Sam.
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** It's unrevealed if the survivor from Colony 5 survived a large part of the Colony being destroyed in an explosion, or if he was able or willing to get out and try to make it somewhere after the cannibals left in pursuit of Briggs and Sam.
** It's unrevealed if the survivor from Colony 5 survived a large part of the Colony being destroyed in an explosion, or if he was able or willing to get out and try to make it somewhere after the cannibals left in pursuit of Briggs and Sam.
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* TheNightThatNeverEnds: {{Downplayed}}, but the Earth's skies have been perpetually covered by snowclouds for decades now, to the point the protagonist can't remember what sunlight feels like.
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* RuinsOfTheModernAge: Both the futuristic weather machines and the modern cities' skylines, river-spanning bridges and wrecked vehicles are still visible on the Earth's surface, preserved in the ice and cold.
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* ApocalypseHow: Humanity has at least suffered a ApocalypseHow/Class2, looking very likely to be a ApocalypseHow/Class3A if they can't reverse the weather machines' effect on the climate. The Earth's biosphere has technically suffered a ApocalypseHow/Class4 with the human survivors growing vegetable plants and keeping livestock in their underground shelters, but it's not far off from being a ApocalypseHow/Class6: nothing is alive or capable of growing on the planet's perpetually-frozen surface.
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* ApocalypseHow: Humanity has at least suffered a ApocalypseHow/Class2, looking very likely to be a ApocalypseHow/Class3A if they can't reverse the weather machines' effect on the climate. The Earth's biosphere has technically suffered a ApocalypseHow/Class4 with the human survivors growing vegetable plants and keeping livestock in their underground shelters, but it's not far off from being a ApocalypseHow/Class6: nothing is alive or capable of growing on the planet's perpetually-frozen surface.
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* AfterTheEnd: Endless winter has killed pretty much everything on the surface, and humanity isn't far off.
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The year is 2045, and humanity has been nearly eradicated by a globe-spanning winter.devastating ice age. Pockets of civilization remain, hiding from the cold in underground structures. The residents of Colony 7 receive a distress signal from Colony 5 and go to investigate, setting off a chain of events that will change their lives forever.
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'''''The Colony''''' is a 2013 [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalytic]] survival film starring Creator/LaurenceFishburne, Creator/BillPaxton, and Creator/KevinZegers.
The year is 2045, and humanity has been nearly eradicated by a globe-spanning winter. Pockets of civilization remain, hiding from the cold in underground structures. The residents of Colony 7 receive a distress signal from Colony 5 and go to investigate, setting off a chain of events that will change their lives forever.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AHouseDivided: The first act sets things up that way, but by the time the TyrantTakesTheHelm, there's bigger things to worry about.
* AfterTheEnd: Endless winter has killed pretty much everything on the surface, and humanity isn't far off.
* AirVentEscape: Used by the cannibals to get around the defended door, and by the survivors to escape to the surface. Unlike other examples of this trope, climbing through the vents is very noisy.
* ApocalypseHow: Societal Collapse, verging on Extinction. It seems extremely unlikely that humanity will survive.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: It's implied that the trip from Colony 7 to Colony 5 takes at least a day, plus another one before the heroes even embark on the journey, yet when they arrive, all the pools and spatters of blood everywhere have neither dried nor frozen. Needless to say that RealLife blood behaves differently.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The Cannibal Leader is a pretty powerful hand-to-hand combatant and Briggs is a RetiredBadass good enough to pull a pretty decent YouShallNotPass TakingYouWithMe LastStand.
* BattleAmongstTheFlames: Sam vs. the Cannibal Leader, on the burning warehouse of Colony 7.
* TheBerserker: The cannibals are so far gone that they mindlessly attack and chase anything edible in sight with no regard for their own health or even life, and [[AttackAttackAttack they neither hesitate nor retreat]] no matter how many casualties they take. Only their leader acts more restrained, but not by much.
* BigBlackout: Played with; as the cannibals are breaking into Colony 7 the lights flicker causing a MassOhCrap, but don't go out.
* BittersweetEnding: On one end, the CannibalTribe is killed off, and Colony 7 now knows that another group has managed to fix ''some'' of the damage by the [[WeatherControlMachine Weather Control Machines]] and made an "oasis", that they now have the coordinates of. [[spoiler: On the other hand, Colony 7 has been completely destroyed, and only a handful of people (and one can full of seeds out of an entire warehouse) has survived. They now have no other option but to get to the oasis or perish. Sam has also been somewhat [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy Maddened Into Misanthropy]], if his final narrative speech (where he says that the only rule that matters now is "survive") is taken at face value.]]
* BookEnds: The film starts with a man and a woman frantically hammering on a metal door at Colony 5. [[spoiler:Later Mason locks the door on Sam and Kai, but fortunately Nara knocks him out and opens it in time.]]
* BringNewsBack: Even with the cannibal tribe following him, Sam has to return to Colony 7 to tell them [[spoiler:about the colony that's got a weather machine working. The other colony has fertile soil and sunlight but no seeds, which Colony 7 has.]]
* CannibalLarder: What Briggs's group walk right into when they investigate the thunking noise at Colony 5.
* CannibalTribe: One serves as the central threat.
* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: The Briggs/Mason division. Briggs is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure that tries to run the Colony with fairness (such as giving sick people time off in quarantine and testing before having to give them the SadisticChoice of exile or death, as per procedure, and choosing to check on Colony 5 because they've made an agreement with it that includes going to check if it's in trouble) and Mason (who [[WellIntentionedExtremist only bothers about the survival of Colony 7, no matter what]]).
* CatapultNightmare: Sam dreaming of finding his mother frozen to death.
* ColdEquation: Anyone falling sick is expelled from the colony if they don't get better. Briggs mentions an incident where refugees in a stadium were shooting people once the food started to run out.
* CommunicationsOfficer: Colony 7’s radio operator, Cooper is a friend and ally of Briggs and Sam. [[spoiler: During the attack of the cannobals he breaks out a gun but is taken by surprise and knocked unconscious, with his final fate being ambiguous, but probably bad]].
* DecapitationPresentation: Cannibal Leader holds up the head of the man who escaped being shot by Mason to the security camera, then destroys the camera.
* DavidVersusGoliath: Sam vs. the Cannibal Leader. Sam spends a good chunk of the fight being flung around and battered mercilessly.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Mason and Briggs were soldiers who deserted a unit that was doing nothing to feed or shelter civilians during the early months of the ice age.
* EarthThatWas: Graydon enthuses about finding a crashed helicopter, wondering what it would be like to fly in one, and puzzles over a swimsuit magazine with its [[ExposedToTheElements scantily-clad women]] frolicking in the sun. Briggs suggests [[ADateWithRosiePalms he use it for a more pragmatic purpose]].
* TheEngineer: Dex, one of the sick people. He’s willing to go on the trip to Colony 5 but Sam insists on going in his place in case Colony 7’s turbines break down and need Dex to fix them.
* ExplosiveBreeder: Inverted, the colony’s livestock is dying out due to the animals being too cold to display interest in sex and most of the new animals being stillborn. To quote Viktor:
--> You know you’re screwed when even the rabbits won’t fuck.
* FallenHero: According to Briggs, Mason was once just as idealistic and determined to save everyone as he did, before he TookALevelInCynic and became as bad as some of the people they deserted from.
* FangsAreEvil: The cannibals are quickly identified as villains by their file-sharpened teeth.
* FingerTwitchingRevival: Played with; in the CannibalLarder there's a pile of dismembered bodies, with a hand twitching as if a victim is still alive. However it turns out there are cannibals sleeping among them, so it may have just been one of them asleep.
* ForTheEvulz: The only reason we get about why the cannibal tribe is doing all the horrible things it's doing is because [[HorrorHunger they want "more".]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: When global warming was threatening mankind's survival on Earth, a system of huge [[WeatherControlMachine weather-manipulating towers]] was set up to counter the effect. It worked so well that the planet fell into an eternal winter instead, setting the stage for the film's plot two decades later.
* GoneMadFromTheIsolation: The SoleSurvivor of Colony 5 has locked himself behind a steel door, and won't come out for any reason even though he's starving to death.
* GreenAesop: The eternal winter that's choking Earth to death is indirectly but explicitly the result of mankind's overuse of fossil fuels.
* HardToLightFire: The fuse of the dynamite Briggs sets on the bridge doesn't light easily, [[spoiler: and blows out when he plants it, forcing him to go back and blow it up himself in a HeroicSacrifice]]. And it doesn't light easily the second time, either.
* HeroicSacrifice: Two major ones.
** [[spoiler:Briggs blows himself up to destroy the bridge between Colony 7 and Colony 5. The cannibals end up taking the long route, but he still killed quite a few of them.]]
** [[spoiler:Mason later shoots a propane tank to take out all but the leader.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:Sam beats and decapitates Cannibal Leader in a savage frenzy, and says at the end that the only rule left is to survive.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: The cannibal tribe has turned to this either from going mad or getting truly desperate.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The Cannibal Leader kills [[spoiler:Mason's lieutenant]] by hurling a piece of rebar through his chest like a javelin.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: The first symptom of disease amongst the Colony 7 survivors-and literally because Mason's first option for dealing with sick people is BoomHeadshot. One man desperately tries to keep his sick wife from being heard by others when she develops it.
* IronicEcho: "NothingPersonal."
* {{Jerkass}}: Mason.
* JerkassHasAPoint
** Mason opposes the mission to Colony 5 on the grounds that they're unlikely to be able to help and that the resources would be better spent preserving themselves. He's proven right on both counts.
** [[spoiler:Mason also criticizes Sam for leaving a trail that brings the cannibals back to Colony 7. Sam knew the cannibals were following his footprints and that there was another way across the river, so he knew coming home would directly endanger the colony.]]
* LargeAndInCharge: Cannibal Leader
* LeaveBehindAPistol: Sam leaves a pistol for a wounded Mason, who points it at Sam as if to shoot him. Sam coldly reminds him that he's going to need every bullet against the cannibals who are breaking through the door.
* TheLoad: Graydon during the trip to Colony 5. Complains all the time, freaks out constantly, doesn't contribute anything to the task at hand, ultimately gives the heroes away to the cannibals when they first meet, and finally [[spoiler:gets himself killed when he runs away blindly without waiting for the others]]. He does volunteer in the first place, when Briggs was having trouble getting people to go, but he’s never really been out of the Colony before, and it shows.
* MisplacedNamesPoster: Laurence Fishburne is Bill Paxton and Bill Paxton is Laurence Fishburne.
* NeverSplitTheParty: On seeing a blood trail leading into the dark chimney, Graydon nervously suggests he wait up on the surface. The others force him to come along, [[spoiler:but he gets too far ahead of the others while they're fleeing the cannibals, and is killed.]]
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Administered by Sam to the Cannibal Leader with an iron bar to end the fight. [[MadeOfIron Turns out that the Leader is tough enough (and smart enough) to be able to play dead]], prompting Sam to find a different way to make sure he's finished for good...
* NoisyGuns: A double-barrelled shotgun makes a [[DramaticGunCock pump-action sound]].
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:The cannibal leader is killed by Sam chopping his head off. From the jaw upwards.]]
* PercussivePickpocket: Also serves as a ChekhovsGun. The kid steals Briggs' lighter, but Briggs notices (just as well as he needs it to light the dynamite). [[spoiler:Later Sam is handcuffed to a bed, so the kid lifts the handcuff key off Mason.]]
* RetiredBadass: It doesn't often come up during the day-to-day of managing the colony, but with his military background Briggs can hold his own in melee combat.
* RopeBridge: One made of concrete and steel girders, but falling apart after years of harsh weather and neglect.
* SadisticChoice: Anyone who gets sick and fails to get better has two options: a bullet or walking off into the snow, never to return. [[spoiler:Mason doesn't even give them the luxury of walking, convinced they'll just get desperate and come back for a bullet anyway.]]
* SanitySlippage: The Cannibals have clearly lost all semblance of sanity, Mason starts to lose his earlier on and it's hinted that it might be the case for Sam at the end.
* SceneryGorn: We get numerous nice shots of what's left of Earth - a frozen wasteland dotted with the ruins of a civilization that recklessly brought about its own destruction.
* ScreamingWarrior: Cannibal Leader and the rest of his tribe. Justified as they've become TheSpeechless.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The only survivor from Colony 5 insists on locking himself up inside of a heavily-reinforced room and forces the Colony 7 team out after giving them some exposition [[spoiler: on the "oasis" that another group of colonists made. [[WhatAnIdiot Pity he didn't told them much about the cannibals, though]].]]
* SendInTheSearchTeam: The first act of the story-sending someone to find out why Colony 5 stopped transmitting.
* ShellShockSilence: The first time Briggs sets off a dynamite charge it's underground, hence the aversion of SteelEardrums.
* ShoutOut: Cannibal Leader saying that the only thing he wanted was "More" may be one to ''Literature/OliverTwist''. Remember the "more" Oliver asks for is more food, about the only thing that matters to the cannibals.
* ShootTheFuelTank: Used effectively against the cannibals in [[spoiler:Mason]]'s last stand.
* TheSpeechless: The Cannibal Leader is the only member of their tribe we hear speak, and only a single word: "More."
* SoleSurvivingScientist: we see one of these on a video feed. He managed to find and fix one of the weather machines that caused the freeze to bring about a thaw in the icy terrain but his group needs seeds(which the protagonists have) to grow food and start over.
* StandYourGround: [[spoiler:Attempted by Viktor, but [[SenselessSacrifice he doesn't have the authority or combat skill to uphold it]].]]
* SuperPersistentPredator: The cannibal tribe ''will not stop'', despite the fact that chasing the protagonists is killing them off quickly. Perhaps justifiable since they really have no other source of food.
* TagLine: "Hell has frozen over."
* TheChase: The second half of the film.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: [[spoiler:Once news of Briggs' death reaches Colony 7, Mason tries to take charge. The cannibals quickly take that option off the table.]]
* WeatherControlMachine: The reason for the eternal winter. They were initially built to combat global warming. [[GoneHorriblyRight They certainly made it colder.]] [[spoiler:One group of humans has managed to get one back online and undone the cloud cover in their vicinity.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's unrevealed if the survivor from Colony 5 survived a large part of the Colony being destroyed in an explosion, or if he was able or willing to get out and try to make it somewhere after the cannibals left in pursuit of Briggs and Sam.
** Several people from Colony 7 also disappear during the climax and aren’t seen either being killed or escaping at the end.
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'''''The Colony''''' is a 2013 [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalytic]] survival film starring Creator/LaurenceFishburne, Creator/BillPaxton, and Creator/KevinZegers.
The year is 2045, and humanity has been nearly eradicated by a globe-spanning winter. Pockets of civilization remain, hiding from the cold in underground structures. The residents of Colony 7 receive a distress signal from Colony 5 and go to investigate, setting off a chain of events that will change their lives forever.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AHouseDivided: The first act sets things up that way, but by the time the TyrantTakesTheHelm, there's bigger things to worry about.
* AfterTheEnd: Endless winter has killed pretty much everything on the surface, and humanity isn't far off.
* AirVentEscape: Used by the cannibals to get around the defended door, and by the survivors to escape to the surface. Unlike other examples of this trope, climbing through the vents is very noisy.
* ApocalypseHow: Societal Collapse, verging on Extinction. It seems extremely unlikely that humanity will survive.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: It's implied that the trip from Colony 7 to Colony 5 takes at least a day, plus another one before the heroes even embark on the journey, yet when they arrive, all the pools and spatters of blood everywhere have neither dried nor frozen. Needless to say that RealLife blood behaves differently.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The Cannibal Leader is a pretty powerful hand-to-hand combatant and Briggs is a RetiredBadass good enough to pull a pretty decent YouShallNotPass TakingYouWithMe LastStand.
* BattleAmongstTheFlames: Sam vs. the Cannibal Leader, on the burning warehouse of Colony 7.
* TheBerserker: The cannibals are so far gone that they mindlessly attack and chase anything edible in sight with no regard for their own health or even life, and [[AttackAttackAttack they neither hesitate nor retreat]] no matter how many casualties they take. Only their leader acts more restrained, but not by much.
* BigBlackout: Played with; as the cannibals are breaking into Colony 7 the lights flicker causing a MassOhCrap, but don't go out.
* BittersweetEnding: On one end, the CannibalTribe is killed off, and Colony 7 now knows that another group has managed to fix ''some'' of the damage by the [[WeatherControlMachine Weather Control Machines]] and made an "oasis", that they now have the coordinates of. [[spoiler: On the other hand, Colony 7 has been completely destroyed, and only a handful of people (and one can full of seeds out of an entire warehouse) has survived. They now have no other option but to get to the oasis or perish. Sam has also been somewhat [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy Maddened Into Misanthropy]], if his final narrative speech (where he says that the only rule that matters now is "survive") is taken at face value.]]
* BookEnds: The film starts with a man and a woman frantically hammering on a metal door at Colony 5. [[spoiler:Later Mason locks the door on Sam and Kai, but fortunately Nara knocks him out and opens it in time.]]
* BringNewsBack: Even with the cannibal tribe following him, Sam has to return to Colony 7 to tell them [[spoiler:about the colony that's got a weather machine working. The other colony has fertile soil and sunlight but no seeds, which Colony 7 has.]]
* CannibalLarder: What Briggs's group walk right into when they investigate the thunking noise at Colony 5.
* CannibalTribe: One serves as the central threat.
* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: The Briggs/Mason division. Briggs is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure that tries to run the Colony with fairness (such as giving sick people time off in quarantine and testing before having to give them the SadisticChoice of exile or death, as per procedure, and choosing to check on Colony 5 because they've made an agreement with it that includes going to check if it's in trouble) and Mason (who [[WellIntentionedExtremist only bothers about the survival of Colony 7, no matter what]]).
* CatapultNightmare: Sam dreaming of finding his mother frozen to death.
* ColdEquation: Anyone falling sick is expelled from the colony if they don't get better. Briggs mentions an incident where refugees in a stadium were shooting people once the food started to run out.
* CommunicationsOfficer: Colony 7’s radio operator, Cooper is a friend and ally of Briggs and Sam. [[spoiler: During the attack of the cannobals he breaks out a gun but is taken by surprise and knocked unconscious, with his final fate being ambiguous, but probably bad]].
* DecapitationPresentation: Cannibal Leader holds up the head of the man who escaped being shot by Mason to the security camera, then destroys the camera.
* DavidVersusGoliath: Sam vs. the Cannibal Leader. Sam spends a good chunk of the fight being flung around and battered mercilessly.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Mason and Briggs were soldiers who deserted a unit that was doing nothing to feed or shelter civilians during the early months of the ice age.
* EarthThatWas: Graydon enthuses about finding a crashed helicopter, wondering what it would be like to fly in one, and puzzles over a swimsuit magazine with its [[ExposedToTheElements scantily-clad women]] frolicking in the sun. Briggs suggests [[ADateWithRosiePalms he use it for a more pragmatic purpose]].
* TheEngineer: Dex, one of the sick people. He’s willing to go on the trip to Colony 5 but Sam insists on going in his place in case Colony 7’s turbines break down and need Dex to fix them.
* ExplosiveBreeder: Inverted, the colony’s livestock is dying out due to the animals being too cold to display interest in sex and most of the new animals being stillborn. To quote Viktor:
--> You know you’re screwed when even the rabbits won’t fuck.
* FallenHero: According to Briggs, Mason was once just as idealistic and determined to save everyone as he did, before he TookALevelInCynic and became as bad as some of the people they deserted from.
* FangsAreEvil: The cannibals are quickly identified as villains by their file-sharpened teeth.
* FingerTwitchingRevival: Played with; in the CannibalLarder there's a pile of dismembered bodies, with a hand twitching as if a victim is still alive. However it turns out there are cannibals sleeping among them, so it may have just been one of them asleep.
* ForTheEvulz: The only reason we get about why the cannibal tribe is doing all the horrible things it's doing is because [[HorrorHunger they want "more".]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: When global warming was threatening mankind's survival on Earth, a system of huge [[WeatherControlMachine weather-manipulating towers]] was set up to counter the effect. It worked so well that the planet fell into an eternal winter instead, setting the stage for the film's plot two decades later.
* GoneMadFromTheIsolation: The SoleSurvivor of Colony 5 has locked himself behind a steel door, and won't come out for any reason even though he's starving to death.
* GreenAesop: The eternal winter that's choking Earth to death is indirectly but explicitly the result of mankind's overuse of fossil fuels.
* HardToLightFire: The fuse of the dynamite Briggs sets on the bridge doesn't light easily, [[spoiler: and blows out when he plants it, forcing him to go back and blow it up himself in a HeroicSacrifice]]. And it doesn't light easily the second time, either.
* HeroicSacrifice: Two major ones.
** [[spoiler:Briggs blows himself up to destroy the bridge between Colony 7 and Colony 5. The cannibals end up taking the long route, but he still killed quite a few of them.]]
** [[spoiler:Mason later shoots a propane tank to take out all but the leader.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:Sam beats and decapitates Cannibal Leader in a savage frenzy, and says at the end that the only rule left is to survive.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: The cannibal tribe has turned to this either from going mad or getting truly desperate.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The Cannibal Leader kills [[spoiler:Mason's lieutenant]] by hurling a piece of rebar through his chest like a javelin.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: The first symptom of disease amongst the Colony 7 survivors-and literally because Mason's first option for dealing with sick people is BoomHeadshot. One man desperately tries to keep his sick wife from being heard by others when she develops it.
* IronicEcho: "NothingPersonal."
* {{Jerkass}}: Mason.
* JerkassHasAPoint
** Mason opposes the mission to Colony 5 on the grounds that they're unlikely to be able to help and that the resources would be better spent preserving themselves. He's proven right on both counts.
** [[spoiler:Mason also criticizes Sam for leaving a trail that brings the cannibals back to Colony 7. Sam knew the cannibals were following his footprints and that there was another way across the river, so he knew coming home would directly endanger the colony.]]
* LargeAndInCharge: Cannibal Leader
* LeaveBehindAPistol: Sam leaves a pistol for a wounded Mason, who points it at Sam as if to shoot him. Sam coldly reminds him that he's going to need every bullet against the cannibals who are breaking through the door.
* TheLoad: Graydon during the trip to Colony 5. Complains all the time, freaks out constantly, doesn't contribute anything to the task at hand, ultimately gives the heroes away to the cannibals when they first meet, and finally [[spoiler:gets himself killed when he runs away blindly without waiting for the others]]. He does volunteer in the first place, when Briggs was having trouble getting people to go, but he’s never really been out of the Colony before, and it shows.
* MisplacedNamesPoster: Laurence Fishburne is Bill Paxton and Bill Paxton is Laurence Fishburne.
* NeverSplitTheParty: On seeing a blood trail leading into the dark chimney, Graydon nervously suggests he wait up on the surface. The others force him to come along, [[spoiler:but he gets too far ahead of the others while they're fleeing the cannibals, and is killed.]]
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Administered by Sam to the Cannibal Leader with an iron bar to end the fight. [[MadeOfIron Turns out that the Leader is tough enough (and smart enough) to be able to play dead]], prompting Sam to find a different way to make sure he's finished for good...
* NoisyGuns: A double-barrelled shotgun makes a [[DramaticGunCock pump-action sound]].
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:The cannibal leader is killed by Sam chopping his head off. From the jaw upwards.]]
* PercussivePickpocket: Also serves as a ChekhovsGun. The kid steals Briggs' lighter, but Briggs notices (just as well as he needs it to light the dynamite). [[spoiler:Later Sam is handcuffed to a bed, so the kid lifts the handcuff key off Mason.]]
* RetiredBadass: It doesn't often come up during the day-to-day of managing the colony, but with his military background Briggs can hold his own in melee combat.
* RopeBridge: One made of concrete and steel girders, but falling apart after years of harsh weather and neglect.
* SadisticChoice: Anyone who gets sick and fails to get better has two options: a bullet or walking off into the snow, never to return. [[spoiler:Mason doesn't even give them the luxury of walking, convinced they'll just get desperate and come back for a bullet anyway.]]
* SanitySlippage: The Cannibals have clearly lost all semblance of sanity, Mason starts to lose his earlier on and it's hinted that it might be the case for Sam at the end.
* SceneryGorn: We get numerous nice shots of what's left of Earth - a frozen wasteland dotted with the ruins of a civilization that recklessly brought about its own destruction.
* ScreamingWarrior: Cannibal Leader and the rest of his tribe. Justified as they've become TheSpeechless.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The only survivor from Colony 5 insists on locking himself up inside of a heavily-reinforced room and forces the Colony 7 team out after giving them some exposition [[spoiler: on the "oasis" that another group of colonists made. [[WhatAnIdiot Pity he didn't told them much about the cannibals, though]].]]
* SendInTheSearchTeam: The first act of the story-sending someone to find out why Colony 5 stopped transmitting.
* ShellShockSilence: The first time Briggs sets off a dynamite charge it's underground, hence the aversion of SteelEardrums.
* ShoutOut: Cannibal Leader saying that the only thing he wanted was "More" may be one to ''Literature/OliverTwist''. Remember the "more" Oliver asks for is more food, about the only thing that matters to the cannibals.
* ShootTheFuelTank: Used effectively against the cannibals in [[spoiler:Mason]]'s last stand.
* TheSpeechless: The Cannibal Leader is the only member of their tribe we hear speak, and only a single word: "More."
* SoleSurvivingScientist: we see one of these on a video feed. He managed to find and fix one of the weather machines that caused the freeze to bring about a thaw in the icy terrain but his group needs seeds(which the protagonists have) to grow food and start over.
* StandYourGround: [[spoiler:Attempted by Viktor, but [[SenselessSacrifice he doesn't have the authority or combat skill to uphold it]].]]
* SuperPersistentPredator: The cannibal tribe ''will not stop'', despite the fact that chasing the protagonists is killing them off quickly. Perhaps justifiable since they really have no other source of food.
* TagLine: "Hell has frozen over."
* TheChase: The second half of the film.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: [[spoiler:Once news of Briggs' death reaches Colony 7, Mason tries to take charge. The cannibals quickly take that option off the table.]]
* WeatherControlMachine: The reason for the eternal winter. They were initially built to combat global warming. [[GoneHorriblyRight They certainly made it colder.]] [[spoiler:One group of humans has managed to get one back online and undone the cloud cover in their vicinity.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's unrevealed if the survivor from Colony 5 survived a large part of the Colony being destroyed in an explosion, or if he was able or willing to get out and try to make it somewhere after the cannibals left in pursuit of Briggs and Sam.
** Several people from Colony 7 also disappear during the climax and aren’t seen either being killed or escaping at the end.
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