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Alita: Battle Angel
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Alita: Battle Angel is a 2019 Dystopian Cyberpunk Science Fiction film and a Live-Action Adaptation of the Yukito Kishiro manga Battle Angel Alita, directed by Robert Rodriguez and produced and co-written by James Cameron.The film is set in the year 2563, over 300 years after a catastrophic war known as "The Fall" has left Earth devastated. While scouting the junkyard metropolis of Iron City beneath the sky city of Zalem, cybernetic scientist Dr. Dyson Ido discovers a disembodied female cyborg with a fully intact human brain. Ido rebuilds the cyborg, who does not have any recollections of her past, and names her "Alita" after his deceased daughter.The cast includes Rosa Salazar as Alita, Christoph Waltz as Dr. Dyson Ido, Ed Skrein as Zapan, Mahershala Ali as Vector, Jennifer Connelly as Chiren, Keean Johnson as Hugo, Eiza González as Nyssiana, Lana Condor as Koyomi K., Jackie Earle Haley as Grewishka, Rick Yune as Master Clive Lee, Michelle Rodriguez as Gelda (uncredited) and Edward Norton as Nova (uncredited).The film was released in the UK on February 6th, in most other countries on February 14th, and released in China and Japan on February 22, 2019 by 20th Century Fox. It has the distinction of being Fox's last released film as an independent studio and distributor before Disney finished acquiring its assets a little over a month after its release, as well as the first film produced by Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment company since Avatar. It was also Disney's first 3D Blu-ray release in North America since Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, though the 3D disc was exclusive to the 4K release.While there was uncertainty about a sequel happening for a couple of years especially after the Disney merger, producer Jon Landau and James Cameron eventually confirmed that it is in development.The film has a character sheet.Previews: Trailer 1, Trailer 2, Trailer 3, Trailer 4. | |
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Later, during her assault on the Factory, one of the Centurions is taken out when she slips between its legs and slices it in the "pelvic region" with the newly-plasma-coated Damascus Blade. | |
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Canon Foreigner: Dr. Chiren and Grewishka are an interesting case, as they originate from the OVA adaptation, not the manga, and so were not created for the movie. | |
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Age Lift | |
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Age Lift: Christoph Waltz's Ido is considerably older than his manga counterpart. Alita and Yugo as well are much older than in the manga. In the original, Alita's story begins with her looking and acting around 15, and Yugo looks similar. In the movie, they are both between 18 and 20 Koyomi was just a baby in the arcs the movie adapts; she's a teenager here, making her basically a different character with the same name. | |
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The War Has Just Begun | |
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The War Has Just Begun: After making sense of her memories as a soldier of the United Republics of Mars (URM), learning about the dark side of Iron City, gaining a URM combat cyborg body and watching Chiren and Hugo die, Alita commences a personal mission to terminate Nova for his crimes. The end of the movie shows that she has accomplished the first step by becoming the Motorball champion who will win the ultimate prize — access to Zalem. | |
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Badass Adorable | |
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Badass Adorable: Alita. | |
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Removable Turret Gun: During the climactic battle at the Factory, Alita yanks a minigun from one of the Centurions she utterly demolished, drags it on the ground and silences the annoying bounty-delivering robot with a burst. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: McTeague, the Hunter-Warrior seen briefly in the bar with his cyber-dogs likely qualifies, especially since he's the only one to help rescue Alita from Grewishka. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The "Alita's World" section of the DVD Bonus Content includes a history of the war, and a description of the various neighbourhoods of the city. The cute doggy that Grewishka cruelly kills to taunt Alita is revealed to have been saved and converted into a cyborg by McTeague off-screen. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: One of the very last lines, no less. The Motorball announcer introduces "the Battle Angel herself, Alita!" It's somewhat established in the first Motorball massacre: "Looks like the fans have themselves a new underdog darling, with the face of an angel and a body built for battle!" | |
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Never Trust a Trailer | |
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Never Trust a Trailer: Some parts of Alita's flashbacks from her previous life are used in ads, but without the context that they're "flashbacks" gives the impression they're part of the film's climax. Also, some ads really play up the motorball sequences, making Alita seem like some weird sports movie, as opposed to a sci-fi action thriller. Alita's poster outfit combines her jumpsuit with the bloody war paint from her second battle with Grewishka. She never wore the two together. | |
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The Cameo | |
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In his very brief cameo, the originally dark-skinned blond Jashuugan is played by Jai Courtney, with red hair. | |
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The Heavy | |
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The Heavy: Vector and Grewishka form a collective one. They serve as the more immediate threats to Alita's well-being while taking orders from Nova, who watches from the safety of Zalem. | |
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One-Wheeled Wonder | |
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One-Wheeled Wonder: Hugo uses a monowheeled motorcycle to move around Iron City, and frequently gives rides to Alita. | |
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In the Hood | |
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In the Hood: Grewishka and Nyssiana both disguise their cyborg bodies with hooded cloaks to be inconspicuous, though it's debatable how effective the former's case is considering he's approximately the size of a Tyrannosaurus. | |
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Cool Shades | |
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Cool Shades: Worn by Vector, probably in equal parts for style and to conceal his eyes suddenly changing color whenever Nova assumes control. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: Hugo's cyborg harvesting for Vector. Vector even gets to quote the most famous line in Paradise Lost at one point. | |
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Sword Pointing | |
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Sword Pointing: At the end of the movie, Alita brandishes the Damascus Blade skyward under the cheers of the Motorball crowd. Not pointed straight at the sky, though, but more meaningfully toward Zalem. | |
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Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain | |
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Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain: Most darker segments of the story happen at night, and it's usually raining then, playing the trope straight despite the overall Lighter and Softer tone. | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Ido is initially convinced that giving Alita the URM Berserker body will make her a danger for everyone. Then he is proven wrong after being forced to transfer her on it since her previous body got cut to pieces by Grewishka, as Alita is still the same inside, only now she's much more powerful. | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Alita believes that she is in an idealistic cyberpunk setting where street warriors look after one another and will gladly band together against a common enemy. Not only do the Hunter-Warriors not give a crap about each other, but they are also out only for the money. Alita's rousing speech falls on deaf ears because the "common enemy" that she is asking everyone to fight has no bounty on him, thus nothing to be gained from killing. The only person to intervene in the fight with Grewishka does so out of pure disgust for dog killers, rather than any sympathy for Alita's cause. Worse yet, some of the Hunter-Warriors have absolutely no problem moonlighting as assassins to kill Alita. | |
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Adaptational Villainy | |
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Adaptational Villainy: In the manga, the Hunter-Warriors at the bar initially butted heads with Alita but, with the exception of Zapan, eventually befriended her. In the movie with the exception of McTeague, they instead accept to work for Vector alongside a couple of wanted criminals, and they try to kill Alita at the Motorball Circuit. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: This appears to be Hugo's view of their world: | |
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Adaptation Expansion: In the manga and OVA, Tanji was an accomplice of Hugo who barely got named. In the movie he's given much more characterization as a close friend of Hugo who grows increasingly jealous of his relationship with Alita, even though in the end he stays loyal to Hugo at the cost of his own life. He's also a bit of a Composite Character: he's got dark skin and curly hair like Van, Hugo's other accomplice in the manga. | |
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Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer | |
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Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Desty Nova, one of the most iconic characters of the franchise and its Deuteragonist, only appears as a cameo in the first four volumes covered by the movie, and isn't properly introduced into the story until these events are actually concluded. Naturally, he's nowhere to be seen in the trailers. The part is not even credited despite being portrayed by Edward Norton in his about 30 seconds of screen time, and he only ever speaks through other characters. | |
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Emergency Transformation | |
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Emergency Transformation: Hugo, from a stab wound. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: Alita's line of "I will not stand by in the presence of evil." is taken word-for-word from the first edition translation of the manga, specifically when she kills Peshkabz. Ido's dad "I don't want blood on your hands", as everyone who've read the manga knows that she already has plenty. Hugo's motorcycle has the same design as one Alita briefly uses in the manga during her time as a Tuned. Numerous Motorball players from the manga, such as Ajakutty and Zafar "Crimson Wind" Takie, get short references during clips of motorball races prior to Alita's debut on the track. Zapan's forehead shows a faint hook-shaped scar in the approximate location where he wore the Blue Öyster Cult logo in the manga. | |
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Earth That Used to Be Better | |
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Earth That Used to Be Better: The planet has suffered quite a bit, and Scrapyard/Iron City is one of the few places where the semblance of civilization remains. | |
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Blood Sport | |
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Blood Sport: Motorball, which is basically Rollerball on steroids, with competitors weaponizing their cyborg bodies to better tear each other apart. The corrupt owner of the games (Vector) turns a blind eye to such things as long as people keep watching for the thrills, only intervening against such practices when it suits him (such as having the previous owner of the Grind Cutters dismembered to give them to Grewishka). Needless to say, death isn't out of the ordinary in that sport. | |
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Paddleball Shot | |
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Paddle Ball Shot: A very disturbing example with a cutting torch. | |
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Mayincatec | |
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Mayincatec: This version of Zapan has chosen to decorate his cyborg body with an engraved metal representation of the Aztec Sun Stone across his back, and similar decorations painted over his chest. | |
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More Dakka | |
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More Dakka: The spider-mech tanks that protect the Factory, which are called Centurions, are armed with gatling guns. Do the math. | |
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Reveling in the New Form | |
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Reveling in the New Form: The Berserker body adjusts itself to Alita's self conscious when she is finally integrated with it, and when she awakes she quite literally revels in the freedom of movement the new body affords her. | |
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False Flag Operation | |
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The reason for attack was changed from Grünthal being hired by the Jovians to clandestinely manipulate the orbital supercomputer Melchizedek, forcing it to attack its ally Venus to break the alliance between the two powers, to an open and direct attack on Zalem with assassinating Nova as a main goal. | |
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Force and Finesse: In battle, Grewishka is all blunt force, while Alita (although much stronger than she looks) relies on finesse. | |
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Blade Brake | |
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Blade Brake: As Alita and Hugo are falling from the cable leading to Zalem, Alita grabs Hugo and slows their fall by wedging the Damascus Blade into the side of the giant cable. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Grewishka kills Little Marks, the tiny dog Alita had made friends with. Thankfully compared to the OVA, this happens off-screen, and a short advertisement on Twitter reveals that McTeague managed to save him and make him into a cyborg. | |
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Gratuitous German | |
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Gratuitous German: The name of Alita's martial art, Panzer Kunst, is a Dog German for "Armor Art", and is but a hint about the story's future, as Mars in this universe is settled by the native Germans. | |
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Death Is Cheap: Due to the working Cyborg technology, as long as the brain is reasonably intact, We Can Rebuild Him can apply to anybody and anyone. | |
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Ragnarök Proofing | |
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Ragnarök Proofing: The derelict Martian spaceship is 300 years old. Despite this, the main deck still has energy and is partly functional, allowing Alita to open a secret storage room and retrieve the Berserker body. The Berserker itself, too: it appears no maintenance was needed all these years for it to still work, good as new, once Alita is connected to it. (Might be justified by the field in which it was found, which could be some kind of stasis, and/or by its own nanomachines doing self-repair.) | |
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Motion Capture | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_3bfd0eb | comment |
Motion Capture: Rosa Salazar portrays Alita using this technique. Along with all the other cyborgs, presumably. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
In the movie, Ido and Chiren were exiled from Zalem for refusal to abandon their disabled daughter, whereas in the manga Ido was literally cast out through the Dust Chamber for some unmentioned transgression (apparently, precisely for being a Blood Knight, in conjunction with a genetic predisposition to crime). He also seemed to be a purely medical doctor, as he learned to work on cyborgs only while in Scrapyard, but looks to be already a full-fledged cyberphysician around his exile in the film. Furthermore, in the manga, all Zalemites are sterile and incapable of biological procreation. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_3d699462 | comment |
Curb-Stomp Battle: Let's just say that, once Alita get her Berserker body, she becomes unstoppable: As deadly and dangerous as they are, the assassins sent to take down Alita pretty much get their asses handed to them in a short amount of time. Alita's assault on the Factory, as she makes short work of the Centurions. Alita and Grewishka's final fight is this, as Alita takes out Grewishka with a few slashes before slicing him in half. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_3ed23024 | comment |
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Alita walks into the Hunter-Warrior bar and gives them a Rousing Speech to get them to help her in her cause. Since she's been a Hunter-Warrior for half an hour, with no kills or captures to her name, she utterly fails.note This scene has a more depressing take in the original manga, where it is Ido who makes the request, and despite everyone knowingly calling him "Doc", the result is the same. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_40bb59d0 | comment |
Blatant Lies: Vector made sure Alita's first Motorball match will be her last, by arming a Carnival of Killers to the teeth and having them be her adversaries. When Alita gets to the starting line, she asks them to go easy on her. Her direct neighbor on the line answers with "Sure kid, no worries!" | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: Leans more towards the bitter side in this case. Vector and Grewishka are killed by Alita, but Nova remains untouched and successfully wipes out Hugo from the comfort of his lair in Zalem. The film ends with a determined Alita vowing to take down Nova and all of Zalem once and for all. | |
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Female Gaze | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_44e64e96 | comment |
Female Gaze: When Alita first sees Zapan, there's a brief shot of him from her perspective as he walks away, and she's focusing on his shapely, leather-clad rear. This turns out to be a Chekhov's Gun; she later mocks him for spending all his money on his pretty face. | |
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Scavenged Punk | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_450d9b75 | comment |
Scavenged Punk: Many cyborgs in Iron City are made of pieces Ido found in the dumpyard of Zalem (or parts stolen from other cyborgs by gangs such as Hugo's and sold on the Black Market). Alita herself has been found in that dumpyard. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_4583a262 | comment |
Shirtless Scene: After having some drinks with Vector, Hugo wakes up the next morning shirtless with Alita perched on his windowsill. | |
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The Beastmaster | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_48414e75 | comment |
The Beastmaster: McTeague is a Cyber Beastmaster. | |
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Death by Adaptation | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_48c99e19 | comment |
Death by Adaptation: Unlike in the manga, but like in the OVA, Vector is killed, here by a vengeful and angry Alita when Nova threatens Hugo and Ido, as opposed to the OVA, where he is killed by Ido. | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_49f20c6a | comment |
Gory Discretion Shot: While violence against cyborgs is shown in all of its bloody glory, any gory violence against unmodified humans and animals is shown either very quickly or cuts away right before the act. We don't even get to see the corpses of Dr. Ido's daughter and Alita's street dog. | |
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This Means Warpaint | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_4b2500a1 | comment |
This Means Warpaint: After Grewishka kills Alita's adopted stray mutt, Alita uses his blood as war paint, drawing stripes under her eyes. | |
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Roofhopping | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_4d28eee2 | comment |
Roofhopping: In order to both escape the Carnival of Killers and rescue Hugo, Alita crashes through a screen during her first Motorball match to leave the stadium and goes roofhopping over Iron City. | |
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Loyal Phlebotinum | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_4d359d57 | comment |
Loyal Phlebotinum: The URM ship and Berserker body seem to respond to Alita, and she tells Ido she feels a connection to the Berserker body. | |
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Sci-Fi Bob Haircut | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_4f7d9f02 | comment |
Sci-Fi Bob Haircut: Alita herself sports one. | |
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Audible Sharpness | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_5029c444 | comment |
Audible Sharpness: Makaku's (and later Grewishka's) Grind Cutters, multiple lengths of chain built into their robotic arm with a claw-like ending, make a very distinctive high sound when used to stress how sharp they are. | |
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Body Horror | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_504a1991 | comment |
Body Horror: How people who earn the right to travel to Zalem make the trip — as various extracted organs in jars. | |
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Non-Action Big Bad | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_51c28ba3 | comment |
Non-Action Big Bad: Vector, who doesn't bother to put up a fight when Alita corners him. | |
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Logo Joke | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_5473668f | comment |
Logo Joke: The 20th Century Fox logo briefly changes into a dilapidated, futuristic version of itself, reading "26th Century Fox". | |
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Who Needs Their Whole Body? | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_54a74b43 | comment |
Who Needs Their Whole Body?: In her second fight with Grewishka, Alita's first body literally falls apart on her because it was never designed to be a combat unit, reducing her to just a torso and one arm. Grewishka proceeds to taunt her, but she still manages to continue fighting by balancing herself on one hand to catapult herself up and jab him through the eye. | |
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Le Parkour | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_54cc6b24 | comment |
Le Parkour: Alita often uses flashy moves during battles and to get around using any part of the enviroment that comes in hand. Of course, having an advanced cybernetic body is a major help for all those jumps and cat leaps. During a chase scene, Hugo shows surprising dexterity in escaping Zapan by leaping on top of shop stalls and using walls and pillars as jumping-off points to avoid crowds of people. | |
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Seeking Sanctuary | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_54fbf23f | comment |
Seeking Sanctuary: Downplayed; Alita takes a wounded Hugo into the ruined cathedral, but Zapan and the Centurions are waiting outside and will kill her if she doesn't fulfill the bounty on Hugo. | |
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Adaptational Attractiveness | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_557838d1 | comment |
Adaptational Attractiveness: Hugo is a teen of 15 at most in the manga, kinda scrawny and with a boyish face; here, he's played by Keean Johnson who's considerably more built and has a certain '90s heartthrob look to him, not too dissimilar from the likes of Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Zapan, who was an average, if somewhat ugly cyborg, also goes through this, being played by Ed Skrein here. Ido's actually quite awkward-looking in the manga, with the longish face, large bulbous nose, bushy eyebrows and the hairstyle essentially stolen from one Egon Spengler. In the movie he's played by the much more conventionally handsome (if older) Christoph Waltz. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_57b80b45 | comment |
Fantastic Racism: Some cyborgs such as Romo and Zapan feel superior to regular humans now that they are mostly machine, calling them "meat-boys". | |
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Adaptational Modesty | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_580be152 | comment |
Adaptational Modesty: Chiren is naked in the bed during her first scene at the factory in the OVA. Here she's merely Stocking Filler. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_59907e4f | comment |
Police Are Useless: Crime fighting is done by centurions and hunter-warriors. Alita turns to the latter to take down Grewishka. However, they are reluctant to hunt someone who is not on the wanted list, unless that someone does something to personally earn their ire—McTeague in particular hates seeing animals killed. | |
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The Un-Reveal | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_5a3b8032 | comment |
The Unreveal: We never see how Alita wound up as an amnesiac disembodied head and torso — her last flashback shows her fighting on one of Zalem's supply pipes, though she evades getting shredded by the defensive ring. The fate of Alita's Berserker body is unknown, though as she wreaths the Damascus Blade in plasma while pointing it at Zalem it's possible that she either transformed it to resemble the manga's Motorball body or that she's just wearing additional armor over it, like she did with her previous body. | |
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Adaptation Distillation | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_5a40d6a | comment |
Adaptation Distillation: The film compresses many distinct, consecutive arcs from the manga and the OAV and adapts them into parallel storylines that intersect each other for efficiency. Motorball in particular becomes the connecting thread around which most of these arcs revolve: Like in the OAV, Alita meets Hugo much earlier, and he introduces her to Motorball. Although Alita registers as a Hunter-Warrior, she doesn't really pursue this role, and instead chooses to participate in Motorball to help Hugo win enough credits to travel to Zalem. At first, Ido tells Alita not to concern herself with Motorball, but after she acquires the Berserker body, he's glad to help getting her career started. In the manga, he's aghast at the thought of her taking part in such a brutish, deadly sport, and joins Jashuugan's pit crew specifically to defeat her and force her to come home. In the manga, Hugo's death drives Alita into depression; she runs away from home and joins a Motorball team to drown out her despair. In the film, she had already tried out for the sport by then, but we still get a Time Skip epilogue in which she appears in her Motorball body (as opposed to the Berserker) and Ido is nowhere to be seen. The Vector and Grewishka arcs were combined, with Grewishka working for and being outfitted by Vector rather than being unrelated foes like in the Manga. This brings Vector in much earlier in the story and places him in a central role from the beginning rather than episodic villains they were originally. Chiren, a character originally created for the OAV, is included here and given an even more expanded backstory with Ido. | |
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Under City | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_5adca41e | comment |
Under City: There's a huge desolated wasteland underneath Iron City, which Grewishka says he used to call home and battles Alita there. | |
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Disney Villain Death | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_5bdcc85a | comment |
Disney Villain Death: A heroic example occurs at the end of the film. Hugo falls while trying to climb one of the transport cables leading up to Zalem. | |
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Ground by Gears | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_5d716d61 | comment |
Ground by Gears: The grinder Alita manages to have Stinger caught in is akin to big gears crushing what's thrown in it. | |
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Time Skip | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_5fcb9ad1 | comment |
In the manga, Hugo's death drives Alita into depression; she runs away from home and joins a Motorball team to drown out her despair. In the film, she had already tried out for the sport by then, but we still get a Time Skip epilogue in which she appears in her Motorball body (as opposed to the Berserker) and Ido is nowhere to be seen. | |
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Lost Technology | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_6114a875 | comment |
Lost Technology: The first thing viewers are told about exactly how Alita is special is that the power source that serves as her heart utilizes incredibly advanced technology that was lost in the ravages of the Great War. It seems that this applies to all military technology the URM deployed back then. Ido explicitly warns Alita that he can't repair any of it because he simply doesn't know how (then it turns out that technology can self-repair). Unsurprisingly, once she acquires her Martian Berserker body and the Damascus Blade, everyone who attempts to oppose her ends up dead in hilariously short order. | |
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BigDamnKiss | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_61375e57 | comment |
Big Damn Kiss: Alita rushes off to show Hugo her new (and more sexually mature) body. He takes her somewhere private to test out her tactile sensors and once a Romantic Rain starts falling, it's obvious what's going to happen. | |
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Sequel Hook | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_6293c185 | comment |
Sequel Hook: The movie ends with a rather blatant one: Alita being set on becoming the Motorball Champion so she can head to Zalem and confront Nova, while the now-faceless Zapan could potentially return seeking revenge for his humiliation. | |
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Mid-Season Upgrade | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_62cbb836 | comment |
Mid-Season Upgrade: The Berserker body, used by Alita after Grewishka shreds her original body. Being Imported Alien Phlebotinum, it's actually just about the best that can be obtained in Iron City. Possibly on Earth. Grewishka is already a walking tank in his introduction, but Alita's combat training makes her far deadlier than you'd expect and he is forced to retreat. When he confronts her again he is even heavier armored and upgraded with razor cutters, managing to No-Sell the same attack that previously took off an arm. In their final encounter, with her Berserker body she in turn was able to no-sell the no-sell. | |
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Replacement Goldfish | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_643618e5 | comment |
Replacement Goldfish: Dr. Dyson Ido may claim that he didn't repair and foster Alita as a replacement for his dead daughter, but nobody is fooled, especially not Chiren (his former mate, and said daughter's mother). The facts that he reused a cyborg body that was conceived for his daughter, and even gave the same name to the amnesiac, further hammer the point. Even Alita realizes this, leading to a You're Not My Father moment when she's fed up with his over-protectiveness. In the end, Ido does come to understand that Alita is her own person and nowhere close to a fragile child, and he starts providing help in some of her dangerous endeavors, even though he still disapproves. | |
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You Will Not Evade Me | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_649345a2 | comment |
You Will Not Evade Me: Grewishka's upgraded chassis comes equipped with Kinuba's blade-tipped chain-fingers that he could use to stick someone from a distance and reel them back in. If they're not already in pieces. | |
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Only One Name | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_663f35c0 | comment |
Only One Name: The majority of the characters only have one name revealed, though the example that stands out the most is Nova, whose first name — Desty in the manga — goes unmentioned. | |
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Fantasy Gun Control | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_6bcfbc7e | comment |
Fantasy Gun Control: Not stated as explicitly as in the manga, where it was established from the start that possession of a firearm and aircraft are the only capital crimes enforced by the Factory, but still followed in practice, as there is no gun to see in the whole movie. Even Vector's bodyguards only carry stun batons, and the closest thing to a projectile weapon are Kinuba's (and later Grewishka's) grind cutters — which actually are ainvoked Game-Breaker in motorball exactly for that reason. There's also the mortar-like cannon that one of the enemy Motorballers attacks Alita with during the game, but considering he's both a wanted criminal and was augmented by Vector's crew specifically to assassinate her (we even see the "Factory Team" assemble around a huge gun at the locker room) it's pretty clear that Vector is once again treating Factory Law like an afterthought. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Subverted on a Meta level with the Kansas bar — while the Scrapyard in the manga was the remains of the old Kansas City, in the adaptation the Iron City was moved to Central America, breaking the connection. Vector is often used as a proxy by Nova, making him a form of "carrier" — that is, a vector — for Nova's personality. | |
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Conspicuously Public Assassination | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_6da4d56e | comment |
Conspicuously Public Assassination: During Alita's first Motorball match, the cyborg "players", who are actually just a Carnival of Killers, don't even feign to go after the ball and outright attempt to murder Alita, and they're very visibly armed to the teeth before the match begins. The crowd doesn't seem to mind, neither does the announcer. | |
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Iconic Outfit | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_6f33059b | comment |
Alita's poster outfit combines her jumpsuit with the bloody war paint from her second battle with Grewishka. She never wore the two together. | |
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Bar Brawl | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_716d9138 | comment |
Bar Brawl: Alita ends up starting one in the Kansas bar during her fight with Zapan. In fact, she walks in knowing full well she's going to start one. | |
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Limb-Sensation Fascination | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_72b4977e | comment |
Limb-Sensation Fascination: At the beginning, Alita wakes up at Doc Ido's home and finds out (with delight) that she has been given a cybernetic body (she was only a torso and head in the dump beneath Zalem a couple hours/days before), and progressively discovers its possibilities, from walking and touching things all the way to performing Panzer Kunst martial arts. She's similarly delighted and experimentative once she's given the URM berserker body after the previous cybernetic one got cut to pieces. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_7315fd38 | comment |
Covers Always Lie: The posters prominently show Alita wearing her "war paint" on her face while in her Berserker body, a combination that never occurs in the film. | |
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Adaptational Badass | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_736d791f | comment |
Adaptational Badass: Downplayed with Alita herself; in the manga, her first fight with Makaku went catastrophically, costing her her original body before being saved by Ido, whereas this time round she was effectively winning against Grewishka, costing him a limb and forcing his retreat, and her loss was shifted into their second fight. Similarly, her barfight at the Kansas bar only happened after she acquired the berserker body and subsequent power up in the manga, whereas here her civilian body is up to the job. However, in both of these fights she had some help. On a related note, the Damascus Blade in the manga was a very expensive well-made weapon, but nevertheless one made in the Scrapyard using the technology of the time. The film version is a unique pre-fall artefact made using lost technology, making it at least 300 years old, and is so formidable a weapon that Zapan considers "Keeper of the Damascus Blade" a Badass Boast. | |
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All of Them | |
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All of Them: When Ido warns Alita through radio that the motorball match is a trap, she asks which one of her opponents will try to kill her. The answer, of course, is "All of them!" | |
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Combat Tentacles | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_77666408 | comment |
Grewishka is already a walking tank in his introduction, but Alita's combat training makes her far deadlier than you'd expect and he is forced to retreat. When he confronts her again he is even heavier armored and upgraded with razor cutters, managing to No-Sell the same attack that previously took off an arm. In their final encounter, with her Berserker body she in turn was able to no-sell the no-sell. | |
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Rocket-Powered Weapon | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_792e2f27 | comment |
Rocket-Powered Weapon: Ido wields a large rocket spike on a stick as a weapon. The rocket gives it enough force for a human like him to put a sizable dent in a cyborg but if he misses it is difficult to recover from the swing. | |
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Big Anime Eyes | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_7b66bc3b | comment |
Big Anime Eyes: Alita's and her former comrades' eyes are made larger than humanly possible to deliberately invoke the trope. Director Rodriguez explains the reason why he made Alita with anime eyes in this IGN interview. | |
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Off with His Head! | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_7e6c0522 | comment |
Off with His Head!: Hunter-Warriors claim their bounties by turning in the heads of their marks. Since the system checks for the head and only that, without stipulating that the head needs to be a dead one, this is taken advantage of by Alita to save Hugo's life near the end of the film with assistance from Dr. Chiren. | |
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Amnesiac Dissonance | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_8404a0f3 | comment |
Ido's dad "I don't want blood on your hands", as everyone who've read the manga knows that she already has plenty. | |
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Ambiguously Evil | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_853b7948 | comment |
Ambiguously Evil: It's unclear if Hugo and Tanji's fellow street Motorball players are members of their part-jacking crew or not. | |
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By the Hair | |
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By the Hair: After Grewishka slices Alita's body up during their second fight, leaving her as nothing but a torso with one arm, Grewishka pulls her up by her hair to taunt her. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: Alita's simple "I will not stand by in the presence of evil." | |
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Deadly Dodging | |
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Stinger cuts Screwhead in two with his buzzsaws as a result of a Deadly Dodging by Alita. | |
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Only in It for the Money | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_895ec17 | comment |
Only in It for the Money: Even knowing about his crimes, none of the other Hunter-Warriors can be bothered to care about Grewishka once Vector cancels his bounty, as they wouldn't be paid for stopping him. The sole exception is McTeague, whose actions aren't so much about Grewiska's crimes against society as they are about Grewishka murdering a dog. | |
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Spell My Name with an S | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_89a17726 | comment |
Scrapyard is called Iron City, though this is more of a Spell My Name with an S or You Are the Translated Foreign Word, as both English names are just different translations of the city's name in Japanese — "Kuzutetsu", or, literally, "Scrap Iron". | |
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Beat Them at Their Own Game | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_8a6d2168 | comment |
Beat Them at Their Own Game: Tanji plays rough and dirty against Alita in the street version of Motorball he and his buddies practice, so what does Alita do for the next round? Well, she plays rough and dirty against him. | |
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Bilingual Dialogue | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_8a800d36 | comment |
Bilingual Dialogue: The director's decision to move the entire setting from Kansas to Latin America means there's quite a bit of Spanish to be heard and seen, with bits from additional languages thrown in here and there. Lampshaded by Alita early in the movie. | |
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Bullet Time | |
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Bullet Time: Alita bypassing Grewishka's grind cutters is shot in this manner. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_8d0785d5 | comment |
Didn't Think This Through: Alita offers to sell her core by offering Hugo her still-beating heart, as she suggest that they sell it in order to get enough money to get to Zalem, where she thinks she could get a cheaper alternative. She doesn't seem to realize that doing this would kill her. Though given all the cyborg technology and what happens to Hugo later, she could have had Ido rig up a working substitute until she got to Zalem. What she's not thinking through is that she's offering a priceless piece of technology to someone she really doesn't know all that well (and who's secretly involved in forcibly stripping cyborgs like Alita for black market parts). Hugo is noticeably shaken by this (not only because she's literally offering him her heart) and warns her against such selflessness because others will exploit it. | |
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Half the Man He Used to Be | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_91697559 | comment |
Tanji gets sliced in half by Zapan's Absurdly Sharp Blade for trying to save his friend Hugo. | |
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Arc Number | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_9203bf6 | comment |
Arc Number: Alita is associated with the number 99. | |
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Outside Ride | |
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Outside Ride: While escaping from Zapan, Hugo clings to front of one of the buggies driving the streets of Iron City. | |
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Big Bad | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Nova walks a fine line between this and a Greater-Scope Villain. While technically at the top of the hierarchy among the villains, Nova spends his time safely ensconced up in Zalem and only ever makes his presence known through his remote control of his minions (he in fact only has a few brief cameos in person), the role of main active antagonist falls instead to Vector, who controls all the criminals down in Iron City. | |
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Black Dude Dies First | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_9788e2b1 | comment |
Black Dude Dies First: The first person to die in the movie is a black woman, killed by Grewishka and his goons. | |
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Cyborg | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_99a12edd | comment |
Cyborgs: Come in all shapes and forms in Iron City. It's as if humans without any kind of cybernetic replacement are a rarity. | |
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Alita: Battle Angel / int_9eb11fac | type |
Weak, but Skilled | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_9eb11fac | comment |
Weak, but Skilled: Alita's initial body is more ornamental than anything else. While she may have enhanced strength compared to unaltered humans, unlike many other cyborgs she doesn't have any built-in weapons and is very human-like in shape. She is a former elite soldier with an advanced power core but she relies exclusively on martial arts in a particularly small and lightweight body. It's even said specifically that she shouldn't have been able to harm the mountain-sized Grewishka. When she gets the nano-tech berserker body, she is still smaller than everyone else but becomes the most advanced cyborg in the city. | |
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We Can Rebuild Him | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_9f9540ae | comment |
We Can Rebuild Him: Dr. Dyson Ido makes cyborgs out of people who lost limbs or their entire body using various kinds of cybernetics but not quite managing to make a living off of it (a lot of his income comes from bounty hunting). In one of the very first scenes of the film he fits a factory worker who lost his arm in an accident with a prosthetic limb, with only a pack of oranges and a promise to pay when the man receives a bonus for his efforts. From his threat to discontinue free repairs during the barfight in the Kansas, it's evident that he rarely gets paid even by the somewhat affluent Hunter-Warriors. He also rebuilds Alita twice — first after finding her chest and head in the trash dumped by Zalem, giving her the robotic body he intended for his deceased daughter; then after that body is cut to pieces by Grewishka, giving her the URM-made Berserker body. After Hugo is framed by Zapan and Alita cuts off his head to appease the Centurions, Ido gives him a new cyborg body as well. | |
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_9fde2eb1 | comment |
Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: An epic one from Alita: "I do not stand by, in the presence of evil." | |
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Eye Scream | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_a2b38d3b | comment |
Eye Scream: Alita jabs her hand and entire forearm into Grewshika's eye. | |
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Single Tear | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_a2ff4e6f | comment |
Single Tear: Alita on several occasions; the last one has her angrily drawing her sword and cutting the tear in half before it hits the ground. | |
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Cool Sword | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_a6275bef | comment |
Cool Sword: The Damascus Blade. Forged with long-lost Martian techniques, it has a monomolecular edge and was seemingly made for Alita, or at least a Berserker-type body, since she can channel plasma through it. | |
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Hollywood Tactics | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_a6b14ee1 | comment |
Hollywood Tactics: In one flashback, Alita and her team climb up to assault Zalem on the outside of the tube which connects it with the ground. Even if it were necessary to climb to Zalem from the ground, the tubes are transports, so going up the interior where they can't put giant spinning blades of doom would have been a smarter option. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: The rest of Hugo's ripper crew gets away completely scot-free. Even if the crew falls apart due to the loss of two leading members, the black market for stolen parts is so lucrative that they definitely won't have a problem finding more work anyway. | |
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Role Called | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_a89d9b38 | comment |
Role Called: Alita: Battle Angel. Noticeably, this is a reversal of the manga, which was titled Battle Angel Alita. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_a8a04f6f | comment |
And I Must Scream: Grewishka would like to make Alita into a living pendant constantly begging for mercy. Chiren's fate, and that of anyone else Vector sends up to Zalem, on Nova's orders. | |
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Rousing Speech | |
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Rousing Speech: Fails when Alita tries to rally the Hunter-Warriors to her side. There are no bounties on Grewishka, and thus, no bounty money to be made in the risky enterprise of trying to take him down. | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
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Dramatic Irony: Alita offers to give Hugo her heart to sell so he can get to Zalem. Unknown to her, the ruler of Zalem wants her heart for its Lost Technology and Hugo is working for one of his minions stripping cyborgs for their technology. Fortunately Hugo has fallen in love with Alita and doesn't take the opportunity offered (though he's also in ignorance of just how important his girlfriend's heart is). | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Ido when Alita (his daughter) gets killed in his backstory. Ido when he realizes that Alita's first Motorball tournament turns out to be a trap. | |
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All for Nothing | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_aed65980 | comment |
All for Nothing: Despite all the effort Alita puts into saving Hugo, she eventually loses him when he dies in the film's final chapter. | |
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Hired Guns | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_afd112fe | comment |
In the manga she was a member of the Panzer Kunst-practicing organization Grünthal, which was acting as more-or-less pure mercenary outfit, while in the movie she's a member of the Berserkers — an elite unit of the regular Martian military, equipped with powerful nanomachine bodies and trained in Panzer Kunst. This is probably because in a post-9/11 world, being a soldier who fought on the other side for understandable reasons is a much more sympathetic backstory than being the most notorious and destructive terrorist in history. | |
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Just Between You and Me | |
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Just Between You and Me: Grewishka takes time to gloat about having Nova's backing during his second fight with Alita. However, this does serve a dual purpose since he's able to pinpoint her exact location when she responds. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: McTeague usually sits out wherever he's not concerned, or when there's no bounty for him to pursue. But killing a dog in front of him? Oh, that's just unforgivable! Hugo and especially Tanji maybe unscrupulous harvesters, but laying a finger on their loved ones and they will show you they mean business. | |
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The Ace | |
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Ajakutty (named) and an unnamed Motorballer with Armblessed's design appear during Alita's visit to the arena. Jashuugan also appears, but is dispatched mid-game and we later catch up with him at the pits. | |
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Facepalm of Doom | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_b71fe734 | comment |
Facepalm Of Doom: On the night Alita finds that Ido is a hunter-warrior, Grewishka catches Ido by the face and presses him against a wall, forcing him to watch as Alita is fighting the murderous female cyborg. Grewishka is fully expecting his accomplice to kill Alita before Ido's eyes, only to be disappointed. | |
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Blood Knight | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_b7c53a22 | comment |
Ido's reasoning for becoming a hunter-warrior is expanded in the film. In the manga he simply vents his frustrations and also gets a nice income to add to his medical fees. In the film he wants to avenge his murdered daughter. He has also deliberately removed the distinctive mark of all citizens of Zalem from his forehead. | |
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And Show It to You | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_b807624a | comment |
And Show It to You: At one point, Alita literally offers Hugo her still-beating heart, seemingly without any ill effects (though she only removes it from her chest cavity without disconnecting it from her systems — it's still attached to her by tubes serving as "blood" vessels). It Makes Sense in Context, as she suggest that they sell it in order to get enough money to get to Zalem, where she thinks she could get a cheaper alternative. Hugo is understandably befuddled. | |
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Third Party Stops Attack | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_b9368655 | comment |
Third Party Stops Attack: Zapan raises his sword to attack Hugo, but just before he can finish his downswing, Alita skates in and grabs his arm by the wrist. | |
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Storming the Castle | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_b9f472b | comment |
Storming the Castle: Alita fighting through the factory's defenses for a final showdown with Vector. | |
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Adaptational Backstory Change | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_ba46585b | comment |
Adaptational Backstory Change: Alita's own backstory is heavily altered from what was revealed in the original manga and Last Order: In the manga she was a member of the Panzer Kunst-practicing organization Grünthal, which was acting as more-or-less pure mercenary outfit, while in the movie she's a member of the Berserkers — an elite unit of the regular Martian military, equipped with powerful nanomachine bodies and trained in Panzer Kunst. This is probably because in a post-9/11 world, being a soldier who fought on the other side for understandable reasons is a much more sympathetic backstory than being the most notorious and destructive terrorist in history. As revealed in the Last Order, during the war Mars was a poor backwater colony and not vested in the Terraforming Wars as such, main sides being the superpowers of Jupiter and the Venus-Earth alliance, while in the movie Mars was a major side in the war. The reason for attack was changed from Grünthal being hired by the Jovians to clandestinely manipulate the orbital supercomputer Melchizedek, forcing it to attack its ally Venus to break the alliance between the two powers, to an open and direct attack on Zalem with assassinating Nova as a main goal. The whole operation (code-named Maulwurf) almost succeeded in the manga, if not for a Suicidal Overconfidence on Alita's part, leading to her capture and the reveal of collusion between Jovians and Grünthal — after which she is subjected to orbital drop as a means of execution. In the film the attack apparently fails outright (we never find out how close her mission came to succeeding, especially with Nova explicitly boasting of his immortality), and Alita's fate is glossed over. In the manga, the Berserker Body was a piece of advanced Venusian technology comprised of biomechanical nanites called Berserker Cells that Ido happened to have stored, whereas in the movie it's Martian, Alita recovers it from a downed spaceship, and it belongs to the same Martian forces she used to be a part of. The war itself was moved a whole century back in time: in the manga, Terraforming Wars happened about two hundreds years ago, while in the film the Great War was three centuries away. Unlike Makaku in the manga and Grewcica in the OVA — who are deranged brain-eating cannibals — Grewishka is bowdlerized into a failed Motorball player turned serial killer. Hugo's backstory is changed to him being a Motorball fan, and he is the one who introduces Alita to the sport and teaches her how to play. His main occupation is also changed from a criminal who steals spines and occasionally brains to "just" dismantling cyborg parts for the black market. His connection with Vector remains, only this time, Vector is his main customer. As the whole Zapan's story is heavily modified, Alita's iconic Damascus Blade, which in the original was initially just a feature of her Motorball Body, was changed into a trophy she obtained from defeating Zapan. Ido's reasoning for becoming a hunter-warrior is expanded in the film. In the manga he simply vents his frustrations and also gets a nice income to add to his medical fees. In the film he wants to avenge his murdered daughter. He has also deliberately removed the distinctive mark of all citizens of Zalem from his forehead. The reasoning for Ido choosing Alita's name is in memory of his and Chiren's murdered daughter (instead of his dead cat). While in the OAV, Chiren and Ido are only hinted to have had a relationship in the past, here, they were parents to a murdered daughter and have since grown apart. Given that Ido removed his chip, and we actually see Chiren's brain, it seems that Zalem citizens don't have their brains uploaded into biochips once they reach adulthood, as was the case in the original manga (though this was also inconsistent in the manga). In the manga, Desty Nova is a Tipharian mad scientist exiled to the surface for his sadistic experiments, and is the age he looks: late forties to early fifties. In the movie, he's over three hundred years old — killing him having been the reason the Martian army attacked Earth during the war — and is quite comfortable up in Zalem, apparently also getting some elements of Bigott Eisenburg from the TUNED arc. In the manga, Vector is a Factory supervisor, well-connected and one of the top dogs in the Scrapyard, but very obviously under the heel of Zalem/Tiphares. In the movie, his position in the Factory makes him untouchable, able to twist the law to his own purposes, and also basically owns Motorball outright. He seems to be answerable directly to, and only to, Nova. In the movie, Ido and Chiren were exiled from Zalem for refusal to abandon their disabled daughter, whereas in the manga Ido was literally cast out through the Dust Chamber for some unmentioned transgression (apparently, precisely for being a Blood Knight, in conjunction with a genetic predisposition to crime). He also seemed to be a purely medical doctor, as he learned to work on cyborgs only while in Scrapyard, but looks to be already a full-fledged cyberphysician around his exile in the film. Furthermore, in the manga, all Zalemites are sterile and incapable of biological procreation. | |
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Robot Dog | |
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Robot Dog: Hunter-warrior McTeague has several robot (or cyborg?) dogs, along with a genuine one. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: Alita delivers one to Grewishka during their second battle, after she loses both legs and an arm. After Grewishka tells her he'll keep her as a pendant, she takes out his eye with her remaining hand, losing that in the process also. | |
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Subverted | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_bc103f8b | comment |
Subverted on a Meta level with the Kansas bar — while the Scrapyard in the manga was the remains of the old Kansas City, in the adaptation the Iron City was moved to Central America, breaking the connection. | |
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-0.3 | |
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Berserk Button | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
McTeague usually sits out wherever he's not concerned, or when there's no bounty for him to pursue. But killing a dog in front of him? Oh, that's just unforgivable! | |
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Compressed Adaptation | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_bdc94cd9 | comment |
Compressed Adaptation: The film adapts the first two volumes of the original manga into one two-hour movie, importing along some of the elements of the next two volumes, elements from Alita's backstory from Last Order, and the also compressednote two volumes into two 30-min episodes anime OVA. | |
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Guard Stations Terminally Unattended | |
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Guard Stations Terminally Unattended: Vector keeps asking what is happening, right up until the moment Alita comes crashing through the skylight with her Cool Sword, the sword she'd already used to carve up warmechs several times her size. | |
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Keeping the Handicap | |
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Keeping the Handicap: Alita manages to stab Gruwishka in the eye before he retreats to his masters. When asked about why he won't have his eye fixed, he says he wants to feel the pain. | |
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Advertising by Association | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_c180f1cb | comment |
Advertising by Association: While Robert Rodriguez is the director, trailers and previews have been more focused on James Cameron's involvement as producer, because the movie has been Cameron's pet project for a long time. | |
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Mutually Assured Destruction | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_c18d469b | comment |
Mutually Assured Destruction: Part of the film's backstory, and the reason why Earth (and presumably also Mars) is a crapsack world: At the climax of the Fall, Earth and Mars effectively destroyed each other, with the URM deploying an unknown virus against Earth, while the Earth-led Colonial Empire released reverse-terraforming nanites on Mars as well as hit it with high-energy projectiles. The virus was more than 70 percent fatal and highly contagious, resulting in a massive emergency quarantine being enacted by the various floating cities on Earth (explaining why Zalem is effectively cut off from Iron City). Mars, in turn, suffered a mass extinction from the reverse-terraforming, with the planet rendered mostly uninhabitable. | |
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Dull Surprise | |
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Dull Surprise: Justified as Alita stabs Vector-controlled-by-Nova, his reaction is a detached "Well that looks fatal." | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": Once Ido refuses to transfer Alita into the Berserker body, she screams "NO!" and smashes a tray of surgical tools. She also yells it once her attempt at pulling a nearly destroyed Hugo to safety fails and he falls to his death. | |
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Alien Blood | |
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Alien Blood: All cyborg blood shown on-screen is blue. | |
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Mooks | |
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Mooks: The Hunter Warriors who face off with Alita on her first Motorball match, all employed by Vector to kill her but end up being destroyed without much effort. | |
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Walk, Don't Swim | |
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Walk, Don't Swim: Alita gets to the URM ship by jumping into the pond it's submerged in and walking along the bottom, her cyborg body being heavier than a human's (which Hugo mentioned earlier). | |
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Shout-Out | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Grewishka makes several references to Freddy Krueger. He is played by Jackie Earle Haley, who played Freddy in the Remake. His right hand has claws on it. In his second fight with Alita, he shouts "Welcome to my world!" The Lighter and Softer depiction of Iron City in the daytime — bright cheerful sunlight and colorful throngs of happy people — owes a lot to the depiction of post-apocalyptic Seattle in Dark Angel, which was essentially Cameron's first attempt at adapting Battle Angel Alita: "The thing I don't get is why they call it a depression. I mean, everybody's broke, but they aren't really all that depressed. Life goes on." The change from Daisuke to Dyson may be in reference to Miles Bennett Dyson, considering that James Cameron is the co-writer of the script. | |
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DefeatEqualsFriendship | |
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Defeat Equals Friendship: Alita tries to invoke this in the bounty hunter bar, challenging anyone to take her on on the condition that they help her take down Grewshika if she wins. It doesn't work, as the only bounty hunter willing to take on Grewshika when he turns up is McTeague, who sat out the entire Bar Brawl (and he only does it because Grewshika killed a dog in front of him). In fact the trope backfires with Zapan, who seeks revenge on Alita instead for being humiliated. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_ce6555f0 | comment |
The Lighter and Softer depiction of Iron City in the daytime — bright cheerful sunlight and colorful throngs of happy people — owes a lot to the depiction of post-apocalyptic Seattle in Dark Angel, which was essentially Cameron's first attempt at adapting Battle Angel Alita: "The thing I don't get is why they call it a depression. I mean, everybody's broke, but they aren't really all that depressed. Life goes on." | |
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Badass Longcoat | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_d01cffbc | comment |
Badass Longcoat: Ido wears a very nice black one, complete with a stylish fedora. Later on, Alita wears her iconic coat from her Hunter-Warrior period after registering as one. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_d028e0da | comment |
An Arm and a Leg: A regular occurrence in cyborg combat. Happens to Alita during her second fight with Grewishka. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Alita when she finds out that Hugo's been jacking and stripping other cyborgs for parts. | |
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Imported Alien Phlebotinum | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_d45ad2f5 | comment |
Imported Alien Phlebotinum: The Berserker body Alita uses later is head and shoulders above any cyborg body that could be produced on Earth,note Unless we talk of Desty Nova. and is found in the crashed spaceship. In the original manga it was developed by the République Vénus and ended on the Earth more or less by accident, while in the movie its origin was changed to Mars. | |
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Dark Action Girl | |
Alita: Battle Angel / int_d5b3df2d | comment |
Dark Action Girl: Nyssiana, a cyborg serial killer Alita crosses paths with early in the film. | |
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Carnival of Killers | |
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Carnival of Killers: As the eponymous protagonist starts growing to become a problem for the Big Bad, a group of cyborg bounty hunters and criminals, all with their own unique armaments, is hired to assassinate her in the course of a Motorball match. | |
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Race Lift | |
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Race Lift: Much like most live-action adaptations of anime and with Hollywood's reluctance to cast Asian actors in main roles, it was inevitable this was bound to happen to some of the characters. Around the time when Alita was living as Yoko, she had both an Asian first name and European last name,note though this later turned out to be a lie, and her real last name is much more ambiguous implying her to be of Eurasian descent. Here, she's played by the white Peruvian-American Rosa Salazar. However, Alita/Yoko/Gally was intentionally kept a Mukokuseki in the manga, with the generic appearance, Multi-Ethnic Name, and vague background that Mars Chronicle muddled even further despite ostensibly intending to clarify it. Kishiro specifically wanted her to be divorced from the conventional notions of race and ethnicity, and CGI-enhanced Salazar conveys this intention quite faithfully. Daisuke Ido, as evidenced by his name, is at least part-Japanese. Here, he's named Dyson Ido and is played by the white Austrian Christoph Waltz. Ironically, his appearance in the manga (tall, blond, big-nosed) is more in line with the caricatured images of Europeans common in the Japanese media. Subverted with Koyomi, who, like Daisuke, is Japanese, but is played by Vietnamese-American Lana Condor. She's still kept Asian, but she's changed to Southeast Asian as opposed to East Asian. In his very brief cameo, the originally dark-skinned blond Jashuugan is played by Jai Courtney, with red hair. | |
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Adaptation Name Change | |
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Daisuke Ido, as evidenced by his name, is at least part-Japanese. Here, he's named Dyson Ido and is played by the white Austrian Christoph Waltz. Ironically, his appearance in the manga (tall, blond, big-nosed) is more in line with the caricatured images of Europeans common in the Japanese media. | |
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LastOfTheirKind | |
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Last of Their Kind: Nova/Vector tells Grewishka that he can never defeat Alita unless he knows what she is — the last of the URM Berserkers. | |
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Archaic Weapon for an Advanced Age | |
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Archaic Weapon for an Advanced Age: Justified and enforced. It is stated early on that firearms are outlawed in Iron City, so the local population has to get creative when it comes to inflicting violence. At one point in the movie, we do see one firearm user, and what a firearm it is! Unsurprisingly, "Exploder" is a criminal with a bounty on his head. | |
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Continuity Cameo | |
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Continuity Cameo: Ajakutty (named) and an unnamed Motorballer with Armblessed's design appear during Alita's visit to the arena. Jashuugan also appears, but is dispatched mid-game and we later catch up with him at the pits. Murdock, here called McTeague, first appeared in the manga after the Motorball arc, but in the movie he's seen in the Kansas Bar and he's the only hunter-warrior to give a hand to the main characters against Grewishka. | |
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Bad Guy Bar | |
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Bad-Guy Bar: The Kansas, a.k.a. the bar hunter-warriors frequent. | |
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Absurdly Sharp Blade | |
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Absurdly Sharp Blade: The Damascus Blade — originally wielded by Zapan before being taken by Alita — is a Martian sword capable of easily slicing through most materials like butter — especially when Alita channels plasma through it. | |
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Grief-Induced Split | |
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Grief-Induced Split: The death of Ido and Chiren's Delicate and Sickly daughter Alita at the hands of one of Ido's patients led to their messy divorce. Using the cyborg body intended for their daughter, Ido repairs an amnesiac cyborg girl and names her Alita. Chiren isn't thrilled when she discovers this. | |
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The Cake Is a Lie | |
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The Cake Is a Lie: Zigzagged. You get sent to Zalem all right... as a few organs for Nova's experiments. | |
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Dub Name Change | |
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Dub Name Change: Rather than being called "Tiphares" like in other English localizations, as in the Japanese original the floating space-elevator city is called "Zalem". Scrapyard is called Iron City, though this is more of a Spell My Name with an S or You Are the Translated Foreign Word, as both English names are just different translations of the city's name in Japanese — "Kuzutetsu", or, literally, "Scrap Iron". | |
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Assassin Outclassin' | |
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Assassin Outclassin': In the second trailer, when Alita is determined to be a threat to the natural order, Zapan and Grewishka are sent by Vector to bring her in dead or alive — without much success. In the film proper, this happens differently and for a different reason, but the result is the same. | |
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Bounty Hunter | |
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Bounty Hunter: Ido, Alita and Zapan are bounty hunters called Hunter-Warriors. | |
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DVD Bonus Content | |
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The "Alita's World" section of the DVD Bonus Content includes a history of the war, and a description of the various neighbourhoods of the city. | |
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Nerf | |
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Nerf: In-Universe example. Kinuba's Grind Cutters make him too effective at Motorball so Vector hires Hugo to steal them. | |
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Chain Pain | |
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Chain Pain: While not a simple length of chain, the grind-cutters have elements of this and Combat Tentacles. The hunter-warrior Screw Head uses a chain weapon similar to the grind cutters but not nearly so powerful. Alita is able to take Screw Head's chain and uses it to dump one of her foes into a trash compactor. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: Vector promises to send Dr. Chiren to Zalem, and he does so. He never said she'd go there in one piece. | |
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Artistic License – Geography | |
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Artistic License – Geography: Averted Trope — in the manga, Scrapyard sits under the end of a Space Elevator, but is eventually revealed to be the former Kansas City. For a lot of reasons, Space Elevators most optimally should be placed at the equator. According to Robert Rodriguez, James Cameron moved Iron City to Latin America for exactly that reason. That also explains why all the standing architecture of the old world is Spanish Colonial, including the remains of a cathedral, and why there's a tropical rainforest right outside the city. | |
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You Are Number 6 | |
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You Are Number 6: During Alita's flashback, she's referred to by her superior officernote who is easily recognizable as Gerda as "99". She subsequently turns the number into her Motorball emblem. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: Alita inflicts this on a (non-cyborg) hunter-warrior during the bar brawl. Later, during her assault on the Factory, one of the Centurions is taken out when she slips between its legs and slices it in the "pelvic region" with the newly-plasma-coated Damascus Blade. | |
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Resignations Not Accepted | |
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Resignations Not Accepted: As both Hugo and Chiren learn the hard way, Vector doesn't allow people to just quit working for him. | |
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A Lady on Each Arm | |
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A Lady on Each Arm: When Kinuba leaves the Kansas bar (just before he is jumped by the jackers), he has a girl on each arm, and one slung across his shoulders for good measure. | |
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Space Elevator | |
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Space Elevator: Zalem, floating above Iron City, is at the bottom end of one, though the main column is not as prominent in the film as in the original incarnation. | |
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Redemption Equals Death | |
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Redemption Equals Death: Tanji gets sliced in half by Zapan's Absurdly Sharp Blade for trying to save his friend Hugo. Hugo himself tries to leave his business, and then gets framed and fatally wounded. | |
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Unskilled, but Strong | |
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Unskilled, but Strong: Seems to be Grewishka's whole shtick. He towers over every other character in the film, and is built, both literally and figuratively, like a tank. In all three fights he has with Alita, he relies on heavy, crushing blows when she gets up close or the grind cutters when she moves out of contact range. Despite his clear size and strength advantage over virtually everyone, Alita is able to deal some real damage to him due to her Panzer-Kunst fighting skills. As Nova says early on: "It was not the power of the body that did this, it was the mind." | |
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Bit-Part Bad Guys | |
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Bit Part Bad Guys: The android criminals encountered by Alita in her first fight after she follows Ido and are killed by her within moments. However, this is subverted by Grewishka, who retreats when he realizes he's outclassed and becomes a recurring bad guy working for Nova. | |
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Battle Trophy | |
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Battle Trophy: Alita takes Zapan's Damascus Blade after Zapan's hunting of Hugo, she had previously defeated Zapan before at the bar but merely kicked it back at him. This time, she really wanted to hurt him in the ego. Zapan may have gotten the Damascus Blade in a similar manner. In the bar fight, Alita taunted him about who he murdered to get such a fine weapon, Zapan was so noticeably quiet after that. | |
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Sharpened to a Single Atom | |
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Sharpened to a Single Atom: As Zapan boasts, the Damascus Blade has a monomolecular edge, making it capable of effortlessly slicing through most materials. And then Alita sends a plasma charge through it, which makes it even sharper. | |
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Suicidal Overconfidence | |
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The whole operation (code-named Maulwurf) almost succeeded in the manga, if not for a Suicidal Overconfidence on Alita's part, leading to her capture and the reveal of collusion between Jovians and Grünthal — after which she is subjected to orbital drop as a means of execution. In the film the attack apparently fails outright (we never find out how close her mission came to succeeding, especially with Nova explicitly boasting of his immortality), and Alita's fate is glossed over. | |
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Cyberpunk | |
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Cyberpunk: With its dystopian future, pervasive corruption, class differences, cyborgs, bounty hunters, body mods, punk fashions and cheerful cynicism, Alita epitomises Cyberpunk in many ways. | |
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Theme Naming | |
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Theme Naming: While not directed by James Cameron, the film is still produced by him, and was his pet projectinvoked for decades, so it still matches the Theme Naming pattern of Cameron's films, whose titles all start with either "A" or "T". | |
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Spider Tank | |
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Alita's assault on the Factory, as she makes short work of the Centurions. | |
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