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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} He's eleven, he's invisible, he can fly, and he has 24 hours to save New York.]]]] |
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4 | ''Phantom Boy'' is a [[FrenchMedia French]]-[[BelgianMedia Belgian]] [[AnimatedFilms Animated]] {{Fantasy}} movie by Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol. |
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6 | UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity is facing a new threat. A mysterious criminal mastermind with [[FacialHorror a ridiculously scarred face]] is threatening to destroy the city's infrastructure with a computer virus that's been let into its network. He will only relent if he's paid one billion dollars. |
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8 | Who can save the city? Unbelievably, the city's best hope comes not from the most awesome CowboyCop the city can employ. Nope, it comes from, get this, wheelchair-bound police Lieutenant Alex Tanner (Edouard Baer/Creator/JaredPadalecki) and young Leo (Gaspard Gagnol/Marcus D'Angelo), a young boy with cancer who has the ability to [[AstralProjection leave his body at will]]. These two will have to work together to save the city from catastrophe. |
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10 | The movie was released on September 12th, 2015. |
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13 | !!''Phantom Boy'' contains examples of: |
14 | * AstralProjection: Leo's condition somehow grants him the ability to leave his body at will and fly all over the city. [[spoiler:However, his soul starts disintegrating if he stays out of his body for too long.]] |
15 | * BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Near the climax of the film, The Face attacks his dog, after which the dog attacks him. |
16 | * BigApplesauce: The film is Franco-Belgian, but is set in NYC, as evidenced by th architecture and the fact that the NYPD is seen. |
17 | * BigBad: The Face, a crook who plans to destroy the city's infrastructure with a computer virus if his demands aren't met. |
18 | * TheBadGuysAreCops: Averted. Lieutenant Alex Tanner is demoted by his boss and assigned grunt work after he manages to catch two burglars robbing a supermarket, but blows up part of the building in the process, but he's a nice guy and helps Leo. |
19 | * FacialHorror: The Face's face looks like a Picasso painting. Don't believe me? [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRLHrkRYD5YHFRShtNUSBhEB0ENYvdncdTgyA&usqp=CAU See for yourself.]] |
20 | * FamilyThemeNaming: In the English dub, the main character is ''Le''o and his sister is ''Li''ly. |
21 | * HandicappedBadass: The main character, Leo, is a cancer patient with poltergeist powers. |
22 | * MisterMuffykins: The crooks of the movie have a scruffy, yappie, tempermental little dog among their ranks. One of them sums him up nicely. |
23 | -->'''Crook:''' This dog has the soul of a shark in the body of a squirrel. |
24 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Face's real name is never given. |
25 | * OurGhostsAreDifferent: If Leo spends too much time away from his body, he will perish for real. |
26 | * StepfordSmiler: The main character's mother weeps for her son as his cancer makes him lose his hair, but she hides this from his sister, Lily. |
27 | * TheUnreveal: At many points throughout the movie, the audience is set up to think they'll hear how The Face got his scars. Each time, it's averted. [[spoiler:It even happens one last time at the end.]] |
28 | * WouldHitAGirl: The Face attacks Mary Delaney, a news reporter, because she has a lead on him. |
29 | * YourDaysAreNumbered: The main character is a boy with cancer. |
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