History WesternAnimation / Nine

* AdamAndEvePlot: Well, more of an Adam And Eve ENDING than anything. Kind of.

** In fanfic, it's practically his CatchPhrase.

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The main characters are tiny, sentient animate constructs designed after sackdolls, or ragdolls depending on who you ask, though two of them are made from garden gloves. The creator, Shane Acker, [[WordOfGod has officially dubbed]] them "[[PunkPunk stitchpunks]]". This has generally become the term for them in fandom.

The main characters are tiny, sentient robots designed after sackdolls, or ragdolls depending on who you ask, though two of them are made from garden gloves. The creator, Shane Acker, [[WordOfGod has officially dubbed]] them "[[PunkPunk stitchpunks]]". This has generally become the term for them in fandom.

* DeathOfAChild: 9 finds the corpses of a mother and infant in a car. * DecompositeCharacter: 5 from the short film had his role split between 2 and 5 in the Burton-produced film.

Not to be confused with the musical adaptation of ''Film/EightAndAHalf'', ''Theatre/NineMusical''.

[[caption-width-right:358:Ladies and gentlemen, our hero.]]

* DecompositeCharacter: 5 from the short film had his role split between 2 and 5 in the Burton-produced film.

* InfantImmortality: Subverted when 9 finds the corpses of a mother and infant in a car. [[spoiler:Also played straight in that 3 and 4, the most childlike of the bunch, survive the ending]].

** The method of their creation seems to point towards their being some manner of primitive [[ArtificialHuman Hommunculi]].

In both cases, the plot follows one particular sackdoll, simply known by the number [[TitleDrop 9]] painted onto his back, as he attempts to survive in an AlternateUniverse where all life on Earth has been [[AfterTheEnd wiped out]].

The short was released first, and chronicles 9's attempts to defeat an unnamed mechanical creature, who killed [[TheMentor 5, his one-eyed mentor]], and the other dolls, and retrieve the machine's [[OurSoulsAreDifferent soul-stealing device]]. The film, while ambiguous about the setting, was praised for its storyline and plot.

The movie [[AdaptationExpansion expands]] on the short considerably; Nine awakens alone in a burned out house in the ruins of a city, with no clue to his origins except a mysterious talisman. He begins to explore the wasteland and quickly encounters both the Cat-Beast and his own numbered compatriots (each of whom is more fully fleshed out as a character). Soon, they are drawn into an exploration of both humanity's destruction and their own origins as a terrible enemy hunts them down to consume their souls.

* MechanicalLifeforms: The dolls seem to be small sentient robots made out of scrap, possess some form of "soul" and look like they could, say, repair themselves with anything to hand. The machines that hunt them incorporate non-standard building materials, like animal skulls.

The main characters are tiny, sentient robots in the form of sackdolls, or ragdolls depending on who you ask, though two are made from garden gloves. The creator, Shane Acker, [[WordOfGod has officially dubbed]] them "[[PunkPunk stitchpunks]]". This has generally become the term for them in fandom.

The main characters are sentient robots in the form of sackdolls, or ragdolls depending on who you ask, though two are made from garden gloves. The creator, Shane Acker, [[WordOfGod has officially dubbed]] them "[[PunkPunk stitchpunks]]". This has generally become the term for them in fandom.

* CompositeCharacter: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]; 5 from the short film had his role split between 2 and 5 in the Burton-produced film.

* ShaggyDogStory: A good portion of the movie can feel like this. Basically, [[spoiler:once the Beast is defeated, 9 has a TooDumbToLive moment and wakes up a rogue machine by inserting the MacGuffin into it, and the rest of the movie is essentially about them trying to undo this mistake by removing the said MacGuffin from the machine. All of this could have been avoided if 9 wasn't so suicidally curious]].

In both cases, the plot follows one particular sackdoll, simply known by the number [[TitleDrop 9]] painted onto his back, as he attempts to survive in an AlternateUniverse where humanity has been [[AfterTheEnd wiped out]].

The main characters are sackdolls, or ragdolls depending on who you ask, though two are made from garden gloves. The creator, Shane Acker, [[WordOfGod has officially dubbed]] them "[[PunkPunk stitchpunks]]". This has generally become the term for them in fandom.

In both cases, the plot follows a stuffed sackdoll, simply known by the number [[TitleDrop 9]] painted onto his back, as he attempts to survive in an AlternateUniverse where humanity has been [[AfterTheEnd wiped out]].

* FanFicMagnet: Name a character. ANY. Heck, the whole movie is this.

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:All of the stitchpunks die but 9, 7, 3, and 4.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: 9 and others are cornered by a beast twice with no apparent way out, when 7 suddenly appears out of nowhere to save the day. (although the second time this was attempted 7 [[spoiler: ended up with a harpoon in her leg]].)

* BigGood: The Scientist, the one who created Stitchpunks to deal with machine army.

* BreakTheCutie: 5. In his blog, The Scientist talks about how ''pure'' and ''trusting'' 5 is... then he [[spoiler:loses an eye in an explosion, his best friend gets kidnapped, said friend dies before his eyes ''minutes after getting rescued'' due to idiocy on the part of the hero, and when he finally learns to stand up for himself and enjoy life, [[KillTheCutie he dies]]. He's happy at the end of the movie, but, still...]].

* CainAndAbel: 1 felt very threatened by 2's curiosity and feared that he might be overthrown, which is why[[spoiler: he sent 2 out into the Emptiness to die. (It may not be as violent, but it gets the job done)]]. 1 and 2 are also widely considered as brothers in the fandom.

** "Return to the Source!"

* ArcWords: "One must be sacrificed."

* TheForties: In an alternate universe, at least, given the date on the newspaper clippings (1930) and the old-fashioned record player playing ''Somewhere Over the Rainbow'' (recorded in 1939). Not that it's really ''important'', though, since most human concepts of time have probably been eliminated.
** A Mark I tank (1916) can be seen sticking out of the ground at one point, but it's a blink-and-you'll miss it scene, so the 40s have much more evidence going for them.

* AntiHero: 1 and 8 both have shades of this. 1 is the WellIntentionedExtremist, while 8 is a jerk and a bully but also unabashedly heroic and kicks a ton of ass.

* CatsAreMean: The Cat Beast in both incarnations, with its movie version's savagery being upped to eleven.

* AmbiguousGender: 3 and 4 never speak and have no TertiarySexualCharacteristics like 7, so it's up for debate what gender they are. Not that any of the Stitchpunks have a biological gender, really.

*** 8's "magnet abuse" could also be interpreted as a FantasticDrug. Using a mundane object, like a magnet, while sitting in a park bears strong similarities to sniffing glue. Could also explain 8's below average intelligence.

* ConflictBall: 1 starts out opposing everything 9 suggests. Then [[spoiler: everyone else starts opposing 9's ideas as well near the end, when they try to destroy the Machine but he doesn't want to]]. 1 even refuses at first to [[spoiler: take of his cape to save his life]], for no clear reason. (It could have been symbolic of his authority over the stichpunks, and losing it would mean losing the very thing that defined him (besides his dogged stubbornness).[[spoiler: or it could also foreshadow his eventual HeroicSacrifice later in the movie. First, a lost cape, next, Soul Theft]], or he could have just not wanted to loosen his desperate grip so as to free a hand for taking the cape off. Then again, 1 never actually ''refused'', or said "no," he said "I can't." He could have been afraid he'd fall if he freed one hand, but he still may not have been flat-out opposing 9.)

* AfterTheEnd: The movie and short both take place after humanity has apparently been destroyed by machines.

* BigGood: The Scientist, the one who created Stitchpunks to deal with machine army.