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** Jaeger's wife and Searcher's mom is called Penelope, like the wife of another famous explorer (''Literature/TheOdyssey'')
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** Jaeger's wife and Searcher's mom is called Penelope, like the wife of another famous explorer (''Literature/TheOdyssey'')(''Literature/TheOdyssey'').
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* BadassFamily: Once they get past their hangups, the Clades all work together with each one's unique set of talents. .
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* BadassFamily: Once they get past their hangups, the Clades all work together with each one's unique set of talents. .
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*WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We're left to assume the original pilot fell to his death, since we never see what became of him and the creatures don't seem to eat meat.
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** This has quite a lot in common with the movie of ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''.
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* WhamShot: [[spoiler:When Searcher and Ethan end up on the other side of the mountains, the mountains themselves seem to rise up out of the ocean, revealing a giant eye.]]
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-->'''Ethan:''' This place is alive. It's a living thing. We didn't find the heart of Pando--we found an actual heart.\\
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'''Ethan:''' Yeah, and Pando is killing it.
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'''Ethan:''' Yeah, and Pando is killing it.]]
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->They're the Clades! They're the Clades!
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* EyelessFace: None of the creatures in the strange world have eyes.
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* PteroSoarer: The flying creatures who attack the ship are rather reminiscent of Pterosaurs, but are clearly something different.
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The plot follows Searcher Clade (Gyllenhaal), a humble farmer who once traveled the world with his legendary explorer father Jaeger Clade, whose legacy he could never live up to. When his country’s president calls upon him for a mission of dire importance, he and his wife and son join a dangerous expedition to a bizarre subterranean world full of equally bizarre lifeforms.
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The plot follows Searcher Clade (Gyllenhaal), a humble farmer who once traveled the world with his legendary explorer father Jaeger Clade, Clade (Quaid), whose legacy he could never live up to. When his country’s president (Liu) calls upon him for a mission of dire importance, he and his wife (Union) and son (Young-White) join a dangerous expedition to a bizarre subterranean world full of equally bizarre lifeforms.
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* AsHimself: Parodied - the end credits list Legend and Splat as being played by "himself" and "itself" respectively.
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* AsHimself: Parodied - the Parodied--the end credits list Legend and Splat as being played by "himself" and "itself" respectively.
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* BizarreAlienBiology: The entire film. Most notably- [[spoiler:the creature has symbiotic organisms that can instantaneously regrow dead tissues, its "blood" appears to be giant schools of flatworm—adjacent cells, it's possible to travel directly from a hole in its back to its lungs to its stomach to its heart, and its heart lies in a cavity near an opening that is also near its face. Despite this, the end of the film depicts it as turtle-like when seen from space.]]
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* BizarreAlienBiology: The entire film. Most notably- notably, [[spoiler:the creature has symbiotic organisms that can instantaneously regrow dead tissues, its "blood" appears to be giant schools of flatworm—adjacent flatworm-adjacent cells, it's possible to travel directly from a hole in its back to its lungs to its stomach to its heart, and its heart lies in a cavity near an opening that is also near its face. Despite this, the end of the film depicts it as turtle-like when seen from space.]]
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* FantasticNamingConvention: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], but Avalonian parents seem to prefer names based on the concept of hunting or exploring [[note]]Jaeger (German for ‘hunter), Searcher, Callisto (one of Artemis’s hunters in Greek mythology)[[/note]], navigational, cartographical, or geographical terms[[note]]Meridian (imaginary line used to indicate longitude), Azimuth (the horizontal angle or direction of a compass bearing)[[/note]], or scientific concepts[[note]]Diazo (A formal organic chemistry term for two nitrogen atoms bonded to a carbon atom)[[/note]]. It’s not universal, though, given there are names that don’t fit this pattern, such as Ethan, Caspian, Duffle, and Pulk.
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* FantasticNamingConvention: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], but Avalonian parents seem to prefer names based on the concept of hunting or exploring [[note]]Jaeger (German for ‘hunter), "hunter"), Searcher, Callisto (one of Artemis’s hunters in Greek mythology)[[/note]], navigational, cartographical, or geographical terms[[note]]Meridian (imaginary line used to indicate longitude), Azimuth (the horizontal angle or direction of a compass bearing)[[/note]], or scientific concepts[[note]]Diazo (A (a formal organic chemistry term for two nitrogen atoms bonded to a carbon atom)[[/note]]. It’s not universal, though, given there are names that don’t fit this pattern, such as Ethan, Caspian, Duffle, and Pulk.
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** Jaeger wife and Searcher mom is called Penelope, like the wife of another famous explorer (cue''Literature/TheOdyssey'')
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** Jaeger Jaeger's wife and Searcher Searcher's mom is called Penelope, like the wife of another famous explorer (cue''Literature/TheOdyssey'')(''Literature/TheOdyssey'')
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** To ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''- [[spoiler:The Clades trying to keep president Callisto from making the Pando infection worse is very reminiscent of what happens when Milo realizes Roark's true purposes for visiting Atlantis and tries to stop him- both scenes even take place on similar airships!]] The general tone of the film is also very similar.
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** To ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''- [[spoiler:The ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''--[[spoiler:The Clades trying to keep president Callisto from making the Pando infection worse is very reminiscent of what happens when Milo realizes Roark's true purposes for visiting Atlantis and tries to stop him- both scenes even take place on similar airships!]] The general tone of the film is also very similar.
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** Jaeger wife is called Penelope, like the one of Odysseus, the archetypal traveler and explorer from ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', but maybe ironically this Penelope remarries. Moreover, Odysseus' son, Telemachus is content being a ruler in their hometown of Ithaca instead of a warrior/hero/adventurer like his father.
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** Jaeger Jaeger's wife is called Penelope, like the one of Odysseus, the archetypal traveler and explorer from ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', but maybe ironically ironically, this Penelope remarries. Moreover, Odysseus' son, Telemachus Telemachus, is content being a ruler in their hometown of Ithaca instead of a warrior/hero/adventurer like his father.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: After learning the truth about pando, [[spoiler:its roots start to look an awful lot like cancer veins.]]
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: After learning the truth about pando, Pando, [[spoiler:its roots start to look an awful lot like cancer veins.]]
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* GroundedForever: When Meridian meets up with Searcher, Yeager, and Ethan, she is quick to tell Ethan that he is grounded for the rest of his life after taking a skiff and riding off into the strange world on his own.
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* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Going off of a photo, Yeager’s wife Penelope is shorter and more slender than her hefty husband. [[spoiler: When Yeager returns to Penelope at the very end, we see Penelope’s new husband Sheldon is ''even taller and heftier than Yeager!'']]
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* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Going off of a photo, Yeager’s Jaeger’s wife Penelope is shorter and more slender than her hefty husband. [[spoiler: When Yeager Jaeger returns to Penelope at the very end, we see Penelope’s new husband Sheldon is ''even taller and heftier than Yeager!'']]Jaeger!'']]
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** Pando shares its name with one of the largest known organisms on Earth, a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree) colony of genetically-identical aspen trees with a shared root network.]] [[spoiler:It also means [[TheVirus "I spread"]] in Latin. And its name sounds a bit similar to "pandemic."]]
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** Pando shares its name with one of the largest known organisms on Earth, a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree) colony of genetically-identical aspen trees with a shared root network.]] [[spoiler:It also means [[TheVirus "I spread"]] in Latin. And its name sounds a bit similar to "pandemic."pandemic" and "Pandora's Jar."]]
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*** The game also foreshadows and makes fun of how [[spoiler: there aren't any traditional bad guys in the film, save for a brief mutiny.]]
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* BizarreAlienBiology: The entire film. Most notably- [[spoiler:the creature has symbiotic organisms that can instantaneously regrow dead tissues, its "blood" appears to be giant schools of flatworm—adjacent cells, and its heart lies in a cavity near an opening that is also near its face. Despite this, the end of the film depicts it as turtle-like when seen from space.]]
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* GroundedForever: When Meridian meets up with Searcher, Yeager, and Ethan, she is quick to tell Ethan that he is grounded forever after wandering off into the strange world on his own.
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* MissingMom: For once, this common Disney trope is subverted. Searcher tells Jaeger that his wife Penelope is gone, which Jaeger takes as being dead. Searcher then clarifies that she left their house and got remarried to someone named Sheldon.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Played with in that Jaeger's first reactionto finding out his wife remarried is to declare he will kill her new husband Sheldon.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Played with in that Jaeger's first reactionto finding out his wife remarried is to declare he will kill her new husband Sheldon.
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Sheldon and moved in with him because Jaeger was presumed dead for 25 years.
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* NoAntagonist: The main conflict at the end of the film is caused by [[spoiler:Pando, the disease that is ravaging the [[TurtleIsland massive monster that is Strange World]].]] As [[spoiler:Pando]] is neither sapient nor a creature, the closest things the film has to a sentient antagonist are the Reapers, which attempt to eat the heroes several times but are eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:[[NotEvilJustMisunderstood part of the creature's natural immune system]]]], and [[spoiler:Callisto Mal]], who is an antagonist for around 5 minutes of the film's runtime when she [[spoiler:assumes command of the ship in an attempt to continue the ''Venture'''s mission despite Searcher and Ethan's revelation concerning Pando's nature]] before being shown the light very quickly by the protagonists. The film's whole message of protecting the environment and learning to do better as a society wouldn't work with a standard villain.
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* NoAntagonist: The main conflict at the end of the film is caused by [[spoiler:Pando, the disease that is ravaging the [[TurtleIsland massive monster that is Strange World]].Avalonia]].]] As [[spoiler:Pando]] is neither sapient nor a creature, the closest things the film has to a sentient antagonist are the Reapers, which attempt to eat the heroes several times but are eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:[[NotEvilJustMisunderstood part of the creature's natural immune system]]]], and [[spoiler:Callisto Mal]], who is an antagonist for around 5 minutes of the film's runtime when she [[spoiler:assumes command of the ship in an attempt to continue the ''Venture'''s mission despite Searcher and Ethan's revelation concerning Pando's nature]] before being shown the light very quickly by the protagonists. The film's whole message of protecting the environment and learning to do better as a society wouldn't work with a standard villain.
* OpenMindedParent: Searcher, Meridian, and Jaegar are all supportive of Ethan’s crush on Diazo.
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* PicturePerfectPresentation: used as BookEnds. The introduction of the Clades is the beginning of a comic which becomes animated action. And the outro is the end of Ethan's letter to his father on the farm turning into a comic panel.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The making of book ''The Art of Strange World'' reveals the names of the rest of the Venture Crew.
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