History Film / TheWorldsEnd

* KickTheSonOfABitch: In Andy's eyes, at least with regard to the "son of a bitch" part. After Peter remarks Gary may have had an accident on his way to pick them up from the station, Andy says it would be the best outcome for all of them, Gary included. Yeah, Gary may be an irresponsible ManChild and a bit of a dick at times, [[spoiler:and almost indirectly killed his friend by accident]], but that was uncalled for. [[spoiler:Especially when we learn later Gary is a nervous wreck who attempted suicide, but Andy didn't know this at the time.]]
** There was also his rather cruel but accurate line to Gary in The Cross Hands: "You don't need us to help you get fucked up. You've done a perfectly good job so far on your own." Ouch.
** Peter's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on his former bully when he tried to apologize for his past behaviour must count [[spoiler:though the fact that said bully is a Blank does diminish things somewhat]].

* {{Killer Robot}}s: Who keep insisting that they're [[WeComeInPeaceShootToKill not trying to hurt you]].

* GroupPowerWalk: Of the group walking the streets of Newton Haven.

* CozyCatastrophe: [[spoiler:The ending. Sure, it's pretty much the end of the world, but the survivors manage to eke out some happiness for themselves.]]

** Julia Deakin, who appeared as the landlady in ''Spaced'', appears here as the proprietor of the B&B the FiveManBand checks into in Newton Haven. (She has parts in ''Shaun'' and ''Hot Fuzz'' as well.)

* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:When the Network leaves, all of the Blanks are effectively on their own, with no guidance. Andy remarks it's a lot like children being abandoned by their parents. On the plus side, they are no longer slaves and have FreeWill.]]

* DebatingNames: The characters at one point argue over what they should refer the robot invaders as. Their suggestions include "nobots," "fauxbots," "blue bloods," and "Smashy-Smashy Egg Men." They eventually settle on "blanks."

* The Network's symbol is seen in many places, one of them being on trash and recycling bins. [[spoiler:This foreshadows what happens to the "empties," once their DNA is extracted]].
* ForWantOfANail: It is possible that if the young Blank that Gary was speaking to had been more polite (i.e., not ignored his multiple attempts to start a quick friendly conversation while in the men's room) and not ignored everything he was saying, it wouldn't have led to a violent outburst. [[{{Irony}} So ironically,]] the rudeness of one Blank part of the Network trying to achieve a more peaceful, civilized Earth kickstarted the events that drive the second half of the movie and caused their entire mission to fail.

** To ''[[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'' in particular. [[spoiler:And AfterTheEnd, to the ''Film/MadMax'' series.]]

** To ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' in particular. [[spoiler:And AfterTheEnd, to the ''Film/MadMax'' series.]]

** Gary mentions the "[[FiveFingerFillet knife game]]" from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', a scene in which it is revealed that [[spoiler:Bishop]] [[RoboticReveal is a robot]].

** Might be a coincidence, but both the words "Robotnik" and "Eggman" are used in the discussion about what to call Blanks. Those are the two alias of the BigBad from VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog.

*** After the ninth pub, at the bowls club, "everyone got para and Pete chucked a whitey so we had to bench him". [[spoiler:They go to the bowls club again after the ninth pub, and this is when they start accusing each other of being Blanks. [[note]]The first time they are paralytic, the second time paranoid[[/note]]]]

** An exchange between Gary and The Network at the film's climax repeats the spoken-word opening of Music/PrimalScream's "Loaded" pretty much word for word:

** He quotes Music/PrimalScream word for word at the film's climax.
--->We wanna be free, to do what we wanna do!

* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:A Class I or low-level Class II. Humanity is knocked back to pre-industrial levels but the bulk of the population apparently survives and there seems no danger of actual extinction. In fact most of the surviving characters are shown to prefer the new way of life. Oliver still works as a real estate agent in the epilogue, implying that some sort of government is still enforcing private property laws, at least in England[[note]]the script explicitly mentions that Gary is in a place called New Anglia in the final scene[[/note]]. The blanks are also shown being escorted away with a set of barriers protecting them from protesters, showing that there's at least some form of authority protecting them.]]

* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:A low level Class II - humanity is knocked back to pre-industrial levels but the bulk of the population apparently survives and there seems no danger of actual extinction. In fact most of the surviving characters are shown to prefer the new way of life.]]
** [[spoiler:However, it can also be argued that it's merely a Class I - Oliver still works as a real estate agent in the epilogue, implying that some sort of government is still enforcing private property laws, at least in England[[note]]the script explicitly mentions that Gary is in a place called New Anglia in the final scene[[/note]]. The blanks are also shown being escorted away with a set of barriers protecting them from protesters, showing that there's at least some form of authority protecting them.]]

** [[spoiler:However, it can also be argued that it's merely a Class I - Oliver still works as a real estate agent in the epilogue, implying that some form of functioning government still exists, at least in Britain (the script explicitly mentions that Gary is in New Anglia in the final scene). The blanks are also shown being escorted away with a set of barriers protecting them from protesters, implying that some form of authority survives and is protecting them.]]

* PowerWalk: Of the group walking the streets of Newton Haven.

* CosyApocalypse: [[spoiler:Andy seems to think so, believing that life has become simpler following the apocalypse. All other members of the gang are shown to adapt to their new life quite well too, with Oliver happily going back to his old job, Peter continuing to take care of his family, Sam and Steven building a life together, and Gary becoming the badass drifter he has always wanted to be.]]

** [[spoiler:However, it can also be argued that it's merely a Class I - Oliver still works as a real estate agent in the epilogue, implying that some form of functioning government still exists, at least in Britain. The blanks are also shown being escorted away with a set of barriers protecting them from protesters, implying that the government survives and is protecting them.]]

* BilingualBonus: In-universe, it's pointed out that the word "robot" is [[Theatre/RossumsUniversalRobots derived from a Czech word meaning "slave,"]] [[spoiler:and the Blanks object rather strongly to being called slaves. It turns out they ''were'' slaves, as they have free will ''after'' the Network is gone.]]