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Bright	comment	Bright is a 2017 crime/fantasy film directed by David Ayer and written by Max Landis. It stars Will Smith, Joel Edgerton, Noomi Rapace and Lucy Fry.Set in an alternate present-day where humans, orcs, elves, and fairies have been co-existing since the beginning of time. Bright is a genre-bending action movie that follows two cops from very different backgrounds. Daryl Ward (Will Smith) and Nick Jakoby (Joel Edgerton), embark on a routine patrol night and encounter a darkness that will ultimately alter the future and their world as they know it.Instead of a theatrical release, the film was released on Netflix in December of 2017. The trailer is here.Less than a month after its release, Netflix stated they were working on a sequel, but as of 2022 it is no longer in development. In 2021, it was announced that that Bright was getting an animated film spin off set in medieval Japan, Bright: Samurai Soul.
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Bright / int_10dafb12	type	Flaming Sword
Bright / int_10dafb12	comment	Flaming Sword: Very briefly seen in the trailer, wielded by a human.
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Bright / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Bright / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Ward and Jakoby have a pretty tense relationship from the get go, despite being Partners in the LAPD. Ward tolerates his presence, but holds some pretty deep racism against Orcs, and/or is really fed up with being partnered with a guy who makes him a target. However, as they work to survive the events of the film, signs of them beginning to trust and respect each other show through. Ward was apparently willing to go along with the Internal Affairs plot to disgrace Jakoby until Jakoby comes clean about how he let a suspect escape. Ward ends up single-handedly saving Jakoby (and himself and Tikka) from a group of corrupt cops who were plotting to steal the magic wand and murder the protagonist trio in order to leave no witnesses. Nick saves Ward at numerous points in the film, mostly toward the end, where he shoots Leilah as she was about to kill Ward, and then risks his life by running into a burning building to save Ward. Their Snark-to-Snark Combat throughout the film shows signs of them getting to like one another. The one to take the cake is possibly when Jakoby is briefly murdered by Dorghu. Ward appears absolutely mortified, and then begins daring his killer to shoot him too, spewing out any Orcish insult he can think of. Thankfully, due to magic, Jakoby is resurrected before he fires.
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Bright / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Bright / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: The Dark Lord is referred as such even by his devoted followers.
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Bright / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
Bright / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: In the initial drafts of the script, Ward was estranged from his wife and daughter, and that's the reason Jakoby tells him he's lacking in love in the car. Along the lines it was changed so that Ward has a happy marriage, but the line was still left in. Some of Tikka's behaviour is a holdover from when she was a child in early drafts.
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Bright / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Bright / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The plight of orcs parallels the experience of almost every ethnic minority in America in some way or other. An urban US setting in which one race is openly discriminated against, gets the crummy jobs at best, has developed a gang culture in response and is subject to extreme violence by the police? What could that stand for? Also, an ethnic group getting hated on for the actions of some members two thousand years ago. There is also the fact, they endured persecution and extermination for centuries as well, since Pollard boasts that his ancestors killed orcs by the thousands in Russia (mirroring real-life pogroms). Orcs speak English as their first language but still maintain fluency in Orcish, using it for discreet conversation or when they want to spite an anglophone (human) cop. In inner-city California, this obviously mirrors a lot of hispanic neighborhoods, but can easily draw comparison with almost any immigrant population. If the fact that the Elven district of LA is walled off with armed guards, and even Ward, a police officer, is trepidatious about just passing through there as a shortcut to get to the precinct, is taken into consideration, you could easily argue that enforced racial segregation in this city is still around to some degree.
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Bright / int_15448489	type	Ancient Tradition
Bright / int_15448489	comment	Ancient Tradition: The Shield of Light, an ancient order that fights to prevent the resurrection of the Dark Lord and believe that magic will be necessary to defeat him should he ever arise again.
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Bright / int_15fc9fb	type	Our Elves Are Different
Bright / int_15fc9fb	comment	Our Elves Are Different: Long-lived, supremacist snobs that live in gated communities and are considered the elite of society due to having the majority of Brights in the world. At first glance, they look just like normal humans with Pointy Ears, but upon closer inspection it turns out they have sharp teeth and eyes and hair of unnatural color, such as Kandomere's blue hair while Tikka, Leila and Tien had silver hair.
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Bright / int_17059108	type	Magic Wand
Bright / int_17059108	comment	Magic Wand: The entire story revolves around a vicious fight to gain control of a powerful wand that is found with a young elf. Just one, in the hands of a Bright, is compared to a nuke. Three would enable the resurrection of the Dark Lord.
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Bright / int_171f4d57	type	Dungeon Punk
Bright / int_171f4d57	comment	Dungeon Punk: We've got orcs and elves, dragons and fairies, all coexisting in a cynical modern-day setting where magic works. The only genre hallmark this movie doesn't have is Magitek.
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Bright / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Bright / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Ward tries to pick up the wand at the end because he realizes he's involved in fulfilling a prophecy, so there must be some twist involved. There is - he's a bright himself.
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Bright / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Bright / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: The Illuminati are referenced as having once existed in this world. The Inferni killed them all.
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Bright / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Bright / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Netflix released a supplementary video detailing the backstory of magic, the wands, the Dark Lord's rising and the Brights in general. It also confirms the Dark Lord and Jirak were the very first Brights in existence.
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Bright / int_1a303edf	type	Our Orcs Are Different
Bright / int_1a303edf	comment	Our Orcs Are Different: Overall, Orcs are pretty normal people for all of their racial differences. They maintain some vestiges of being a Proud Warrior Race, with the idea of being "blooded" having a central role in their society. They have intelligence roughly on par with humans, though they're stereotyped as dumb, and Jakoby is frequently shown to be very slow on the uptake. They are apparently larger, heavier, stronger (one orc is shown fairly casually lifting the front end of a pickup truck so a child can retrieve a soccer ball from beneath it) and slower than humans on average (an IA detective mentions that this is why most NFL linemen are orcs, but there are no orcs in the NBA), and Jakoby exhibits some extraordinary toughness. They are extremely clannish and generally discriminated against by other races making them second-class citizens in the wider society.
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Bright / int_1adcd502	type	Sins of Our Fathers
Bright / int_1adcd502	comment	Sins of Our Fathers: Because most of their ancestors sided with the Dark Lord, most orcs are seen as lesser, if not evil.
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Bright / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Bright / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Joe Rogan and his podcast show make a brief appearance at the start, interviewing an Orc spokesman who considers Jakoby a Category Traitor for joining the LAPD.
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Bright / int_1e8b0711	type	Grenade Tag
Bright / int_1e8b0711	comment	Grenade Tag: Jakoby deals with one of Leilah's minions by sticking an IED (that Ward had previously grabbed from the Shield of Lightâ€™s stash of guns) in her waistband, then shoving her out a window before Ward triggers it.
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Bright / int_1ebbdddb	type	Power at a Price
Bright / int_1ebbdddb	comment	Power at a Price: Subverted; most of the time using the wand has no price. When used too much it loses its glow for a while and has to recharge, but that's it. However, resurrecting someone causes a serious backlash on the Bright using the wand, and they will die if they don't get treatment from people experienced with magic.
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Bright / int_1f518822	type	Androcles' Lion
Bright / int_1f518822	comment	Androcles' Lion: Jakoby helped a tagger escape, knowing he would have been made a fall guy for the attempted murder of a cop. He turns up later in the Fogteeth's HQ, and refuses to kill him. Subverted when his father understands, but simply sends his son away and then shoots Jakoby himself.
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Bright / int_2123cbe8	type	Afrofuturism
Bright / int_2123cbe8	comment	Afrofuturism: The film's use of fantasy tropes to comment on present-day racial issues makes it at least an attempt at the genre.
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Bright / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Bright / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The city of Los Angeles is a crime-ridden hellhole wracked with both regular and Fantastic Racism full of violent human and orcish gangs, corrupt cops, Police Brutality, and poverty. The establishing shot of the LA skyline sums it up: glittering skyscrapers downtown (with the tallest and fanciest being in Elftown, behind machine gun-equipped checkpoints with "Elves Only" signs) while smoke from numerous structure fires rises from the less-affluent (and predominantly orcish) neighborhoods. Played with, as it is implied that the rest of the world is nowhere near as bad, as an orc describes Miami as a place where humans, orcs, and dwarves get along pretty well. Crime is much higher in this universe than in ours. The LAPD ride around in MRAP vehicles with .50-caliber machine guns on top like they're in a warzone, and even the regular patrol cars have bulletproof windows.
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Bright / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Bright / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: Internal Affairs' plot to have Ward tape Jakoby confessing to get him expelled from the police is never mentioned again. Given that both are declared heroes at the end and awarded, they presumably backed off the idea. At first, it looks as if the Shield of Light member whom Ward and Jakoby arrest will have a much larger role in the film. The first trailer also emphasizes this by having him clutch a flaming sword (which he never does). His extremist group does appear later if only to be killed off, but after his interrogation scene, he's never seen again.
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Bright / int_2629c82a	type	Breaking the Glass Ceiling
Bright / int_2629c82a	comment	Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Nick Jakoby is the first orc police officer in the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Bright / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Bright / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: While Ward and Jakoby are preparing to fight a horde of Gangbangers coming for the Wand at a strip club, behind them Tikka is busy staring at the strippers with an extremely happy look on her face. Before that, there's a shot of the L.A. skyline at night... with a freaking dragon the size of a 747 lazily cruising around above it. No-one so much as mentions dragons throughout the movie, which raises the question of just how common and dangerous they are. During the civil disobedience scene, a centaur can be seen on the shield line, complete in LAPD riot gear. Anti-orc graffiti is prominently visible in the quicky mart bathroom. One graffito in between Ward and Jakoby reads, "'I Love Orcs' -Nobody."
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Bright / int_2765af58	type	Language Fluency Denial
Bright / int_2765af58	comment	Language Fluency Denial: Tikka spends half the movie pretending she doesn't understand or speak English until she decides she can trust Ward and Jakoby. Luckily Jakoby took two years of Elvish in high school.
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Bright / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Bright / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: This film has many similarities with the cyberpunk tabletop game Shadowrun and the 1988 sci-fi Buddy Cop Show film Alien Nation. Could be seen as one for the HBO Made-for-TV Movie Cast a Deadly Spell, which is similarly a gritty crime drama that also takes place in an alternate version of Los Angeles where magic and fantasy elements are commonplace, set in the 1950's.
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Bright / int_27b83210	type	Hufflepuff House
Bright / int_27b83210	comment	Hufflepuff House: Only humans, elves and orcs play an active role in this movie, but centaur cops can be seen in the background in some scenes, a crosswalk sign at the beginning is shown with a lizard-man silhouette, and the dwarves are mentioned as having a thriving community in Miami. Further, since the alliance that defeated the Dark Lord two thousand years ago was made up of nine races, and assuming that included some orcs who didn't fight on the Dark Lord's side, there are by implication three other sapient races unaccounted for who exist but don't play a role in the story.
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Bright / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
Bright / int_2a015a74	comment	Also of beauty equaling goodness, or at least people tending to believe such. The Dark Lord was an incredibly evil elf heading an army of mostly orcs, against some other orcs mixed with the other races. This could have resulted in elves being hated, and orcs being viewed neutrally. But elves are beautiful and orcs are ugly, which amplifies the issue of elven physical superiority, so the ultimate result is that orcs are viewed as the villains while the elves rule the world. Made more blatant by the hero who rallied the joint resistance against the Dark Lord having been an orc. And yet this does not seem to buy his race any credibility.
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Bright / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
Bright / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: Leilah and her lieutenants massacre an army of gangsters in seconds, then do the same to a SWAT team. Somehow they can't seem to manage such a display of effortless murder against the two or three protagonists, either in the convenience store fight (where at least Tikka provided assistance (or in the final battle where they are outright defeated (despite Tikka being pretty much down for the count).
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Bright / int_2c9ef8f7	type	Combo Platter Powers
Bright / int_2c9ef8f7	comment	Combo Platter Powers: Magical Wands have seemingly unlimited potential. It has been used to strip enemies to the bone, create money out of thin air, resurrect the dead, heal ailments and assuming Pollard isn't exaggerating when describing their power, it's likely possible to travel back in time with it.
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Bright / int_2cd69f80	type	Fantastic Noir
Bright / int_2cd69f80	comment	Fantastic Noir: The film is a crime-thriller with fantasy creatures in co-existence with society, including both sides of the law.
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Bright / int_2cd6b637	type	Fantastic Nuke
Bright / int_2cd6b637	comment	Fantastic Nuke: Jakoby outright compares the Magic Wand to a nuclear weapon. He says that just one wand in the wrong hands would result in "all of L.A. on fire."
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Bright / int_2cd8db8c	type	FantasticSlur
Bright / int_2cd8db8c	comment	Fantastic Slur: "Pigskin" seems to be the N-word equivalent for orcs. With "Puerco" being the Spanish equivalent.
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Bright / int_32768814	type	Kick the Son of a Bitch
Bright / int_32768814	comment	Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Pollard was a racist and bigoted corrupt cop who ends up getting shot multiple times by Ward and is left to writhe in agony before he's finally finished off by Leilah, who casually slits his throat. Poison was a racist and bigoted handicapped gangbanger who antagonizes our heroes for a while before Leilah arrives on the scene and shows him who the real Big Bad is, her knife skills making very quick work of him.
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Bright / int_33affa42	type	Government Agency of Fiction
Bright / int_33affa42	comment	Government Agency of Fiction: Federal agents Kandomere and Montehugh work for the United States Department of Magic as part of the specialised Magic Task Force (MTF).
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Bright / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Bright / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Leilah and her cohorts slaughter an innocent Mexican family to leave no witnesses, including their baby just to show how amoral and uncaring they are towards humans.
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Bright / int_373283c9	type	This Cannot Be!
Bright / int_373283c9	comment	This Cannot Be!: Leilah says, "This is impossible!" when it turns out Ward is also a Bright and can wield the Wand.
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Bright / int_38bf28e3	type	Engineered Public Confession
Bright / int_38bf28e3	comment	Internal Affairs' plot to have Ward tape Jakoby confessing to get him expelled from the police is never mentioned again. Given that both are declared heroes at the end and awarded, they presumably backed off the idea.
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Bright / int_3b5fcbb7	type	Artifact of Doom
Bright / int_3b5fcbb7	comment	Artifact of Doom: Magical Wands are weapons of mass destruction that presumably have unlimited power in the hands of a Bright (a person able to wield magic). It also kills any non-Bright that tries to touch it. How powerful are they? Tikka, who still is only a novice in their use, uses it to bring Jakoby back from the dead.
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Bright / int_3bebfcc0	type	Living Lie Detector
Bright / int_3bebfcc0	comment	Living Lie Detector: Orcs can tell when someone is lying to them thanks to their incredibly heightened sense of smell. Jakoby points this out when Ward criticizes him for his lack of trust, pointing out that it's hard for him to trust someone who so clearly does not trust him.
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Bright / int_3d85c6bc	type	Black Speech
Bright / int_3d85c6bc	comment	Black Speech: Orcish, following the usual Tolkien tradition. Played for Laughs when Jakoby plays what he calls one of the greatest love songs ever written, despite the fact that the actual song playing is, in real life, "Hammer Smashed Face" by Cannibal Corpse.
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Bright / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
Bright / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Ward starts off as an antagonistic bigot to Jakoby. Even though Ward never does a complete 180, his adventures with Jakoby and Tikka have a profound impact on his views.
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Bright / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Bright / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The Shield of Light may be all about safeguarding good magic users for the return of the Dark Lord... but if you're an underground society that stockpiles weapons and explosives, not to mention fooling around with magic that is explicitly compared to nuclear weapons, the government is going to slap a "Terrorist Organization" label on you. They're not necessarily wrong, either, given the collateral damage that ensues when the Shield of Light clash with the Inferni (who also happen to be the FBI's Most Wanted). Rather than admit that the Dark Lord is coming and a wand was on the loose in L.A., the government covers up everything, takes the wand, and paints all the cops involved (including the corrupt ones, much to Ward's disgust) as heroes who died fighting an "extremist group". Better to keep The Masquerade intact and a potential magical WMD under wraps than cause mass panic, after all. Look closely at Ward and Jakoby's medal ceremony. The crowd is silent during Jakoby's crowning but not at Ward's. Despite doing the same heroic actions as his partner, many people are still going to see Jakoby as another violent Orc not worthy of respect.
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Bright / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Bright / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: Some critics have taken issue for the story's heavy-handed "Racism is Bad" message, but while the Orcs are depicted as Not Evil, Just Misunderstood and Dark Is Not Evil, it has a huge in-universe Screw You, Elves! mentality in how elves are widely hated by most of the humans for being rich Kardashian types obsessed with shopping in the Beverly Hills Expy, but is not presented as a bad thing like the Orcs. Either rendering it a confused metaphor for the upper class or the writers unintentionally invoking a Double Standard which is compounded by how they're presented as more feminine compared to the rugged, stoic orcs and humans.
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Bright / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Bright / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: On the bad side, the dirty cops are honored as heroes and despite his heroism, Jakoby is still viewed with scorn from most of the public. On the good side, Tikka turns out to be alive, Jakoby is accepted by his orc brethren, and he and Ward have a closer relationship and are also honoured as heroes.
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Bright / int_421e0f6a	type	Mysterious Waif
Bright / int_421e0f6a	comment	Mysterious Waif: The plot of the movie is kicked off when Ward and Jakoby investigate a crime scene to find a young elf named Tikka with a Magic Wand.
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Bright / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Bright / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: When Ward and Jakoby are brought before Dorghu, the Orcish head of the Fogteeth clan, they try their best to keep from admitting they're in possession of a magic wand â€” unfortunately, their best is not good enough, and Dorghu doesn't take long to grow tired of it.
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Bright / int_446c5792	type	Villainous Rescue
Bright / int_446c5792	comment	Villainous Rescue: The heroes are cornered in the strip club by the Altamira Gangbangers who are heavily armed and outnumber them, then just as Ward and Jakoby are preparing to go down guns blazing, the Inferni charge in and slaughter the gangsters.
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Bright / int_477be1ba	type	Seriously Scruffy
Bright / int_477be1ba	comment	Seriously Scruffy: Montehugh, especially in comparison to Kandomere, his elven superior in the MTF.
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Bright / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Bright / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Ward. He is bigoted against non-humans, but is shown to be a caring family man and even defend Nick from his racist co-workers, despite nurturing resentment towards him.
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Bright / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Bright / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Leilah and her cronies wipe out an entire family after questioning them to clean up any witnesses. Including the baby in the crib nearby.
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Bright / int_4a0e2f8d	type	White Hair, Black Heart
Bright / int_4a0e2f8d	comment	White Hair, Black Heart: Leilah and the Dark Lord are both villainous elves with silver hair. Averted with Tikka, who has silver hair but is one of the heroes.
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Bright / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
Bright / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: Agent Kandomere is the closest thing we have in the story as a federal agent that has been hunting Leilah for twenty years and he is the only one that can protect Ward and Jakoby, who spend the entire movie trying to keep the wand safe, not knowing who they can trust. He actually seems skeptical of the Dark Lord's return, but nonetheless goes after the Inferni as a mass-murdering terrorist group.
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Bright / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
Bright / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: Jakoby is treated with scorn and disgust by his fellow cops because he's an orc. Even his own kind despise him, considering him a race traitor for becoming a cop and working with humans, who in turn generally work for elves. This in spite of the fact that Nick is an "unblooded" orc who, per orcish tradition, is an outcast with no obligation to any orc clan. Nick's unblooded status is indicated by his filed-down teeth, as orc culture allows only blooded orcs to display tusks. Several orcs, like the chauffeur in Elftown, insult Nick by simply pointing to their own teeth. Blooded status is apparently hereditary, given several bits of dialog and the fact that multiple orc children and teenagers are seen with unfiled teeth. This makes it all the more poignant when Nick gets blooded by Dorghu and the Fogteeth gang, as it means that the Jakoby family is honored with him. No wonder he briefly breaks into Manly Tears over it.
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Bright / int_4d359d57	type	Loyal Phlebotinum
Bright / int_4d359d57	comment	Loyal Phlebotinum: The wand has a binding spell cast on it which will prevent it from being taken too far from its owner. When Ward and Jakoby try to drive out of the area, it creates an invisible barrier which totals their police SUV.
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Bright / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Bright / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: In the warehouse where Tikka is hiding, there's an elf who's been fused to the wall, her torso completely gone, yet still alive.
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Bright / int_504a5ec7	type	Greater-Scope Paragon
Bright / int_504a5ec7	comment	Greater-Scope Paragon: Jirak, the orc that led The Alliance against the Dark Lord. Several graffiti show that some orcs revere him in modern times, despite the fact they are second-class citizens at best. Jakoby looks up to him and recites his legend in order to convince Ward to save Tikka's life.
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Bright / int_5115e5f6	type	Fantastic Underclass
Bright / int_5115e5f6	comment	Fantastic Underclass: Orcs fill the role of a societal underclass, facing discrimination from other species and largely living in impoverished neighborhoods and ghettos.
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Bright / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Bright / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The movie begins and ends with a fairy's appearance. The climax also takes place inside the warehouse where Ward and Jakoby found Tikka.
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Bright / int_543a0278	type	Villain Respect
Bright / int_543a0278	comment	Villain Respect: Dorghu pronounces his respect for Jakoby when he doesn't break under a beating, and later bloods him when he runs into a burning building to save someone.
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Bright / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
Bright / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero: Ward is one of the main protagonists, but he is heavily prejudiced against non-humans in general; he dislikes orcs despite his partner being one and always being nice to him, considers fairies sub-human and is disdainful towards elves. Though, to be fair, all of these beliefs are pretty standard for the setting.
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Bright / int_567e2f0	type	No True Scotsman
Bright / int_567e2f0	comment	No True Scotsman: Agent Kandomere makes a comment calling the Inferni "renegade elves", to which the human he's interrogating snarks that of course he makes that distinction. Because regular elves are just universally awesome.
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Bright / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Bright / int_57b80b45	comment	A half-dozen human LAPD officers (supervised by a centaur) give a vicious Rodney King-style beating to an unarmed orc with his hands up. This happens on a sidewalk, in broad daylight, in front of dozens of witnesses, including the orc's wife and child, and nobody bats an eye. It ain't easy being an orc in LA.
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Bright / int_583ec33e	type	Snark-to-Snark Combat
Bright / int_583ec33e	comment	Their Snark-to-Snark Combat throughout the film shows signs of them getting to like one another.
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Bright / int_59788b2c	type	Hiding Behind the Language Barrier
Bright / int_59788b2c	comment	Orcs speak English as their first language but still maintain fluency in Orcish, using it for discreet conversation or when they want to spite an anglophone (human) cop. In inner-city California, this obviously mirrors a lot of hispanic neighborhoods, but can easily draw comparison with almost any immigrant population.
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Bright / int_5b965319	type	Language of Magic
Bright / int_5b965319	comment	Language of Magic: The Wand requires speaking Elvish words to cast spells. Vykwarus for example is capable of reducing a person to a charred skeleton.
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Bright / int_5db7301f	type	Prophetic Names
Bright / int_5db7301f	comment	Prophetic Names: 'To ward' is to protect or guard something. Ward protects Tikka, the wand, is grudgingly protective of Jakoby and was possibly prophesized to protect the world from the Dark Lord's return.
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Bright / int_5ecaab25	type	Fantastic Vermin
Bright / int_5ecaab25	comment	Fantastic Vermin: Fairies are urban pests of animal intelligence, acting much like aggressive birds.
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Bright / int_5ee0a2d8	type	Token Heroic Orc
Bright / int_5ee0a2d8	comment	Token Heroic Orc: Jakoby is the first and only orc police officer in the LAPD in a world where many of his kind are criminals. Two thousand years ago, the Dark Lord led an army of orcs in an attempt to conquer the world. Jirak was one of the few orcs who opposed him, and eventually wound up leading an army of nine races against him. This is curiously ignored by the other races, however, given how they seem to unanimously hate all orcs regardless.
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Bright / int_5f45ab38	type	Space Jews
Bright / int_5f45ab38	comment	Space Jews: The orcs seem like an amalgamation of several real-life minorities: at first glance, they appear to be parallel with African-Americans due to racial tensions, but their backstory is also similar to the discrimination faced by Jews in the past, while their faith is similar to Celtic/Viking pagan religions.
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Bright / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Bright / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Pretty much the only sympathetic moment Leilah has in the movie is when she tries to convince Tikka to return to the Inferni... because she is her sister. She even rants and screams at Ward, convinced the human must have somehow corrupted her. Subverted in the next scene, when she remorselessly threatens to kill her if Ward doesn't return her wand. Poison, the Altamira shot caller, mentions he wants to "make love" (as opposed to just fuck) his old lady again. Dorghu, the Fogteeth gang leader, treats his son with nothing but pride, and respects his decision not to kill Jakoby (who had saved his life), rather than blindly follow orders.
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Bright / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Bright / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Attempted towards the end of the movie when Ward grabs the wand expecting to explode him and take Leilah down with him. Turns out no self-sacrifice is required since he is a Bright and manages to use the wand to dispatch Leilah.
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Bright / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Bright / int_64e975cf	comment	Blooded status is apparently hereditary, given several bits of dialog and the fact that multiple orc children and teenagers are seen with unfiled teeth. This makes it all the more poignant when Nick gets blooded by Dorghu and the Fogteeth gang, as it means that the Jakoby family is honored with him. No wonder he briefly breaks into Manly Tears over it.
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Bright / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
Bright / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: Leilah and her two goons need a lot of firepower to be brought down, with Leilah herself catching a second wind after being shot twice by Jakoby.
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Bright / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Bright / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Much in the vein of Ayers' other films like Training Day, Street Kings, Harsh Times and End of Watch, this film takes place in the world of cops and gangsters of modern Los Angeles. Writer Max Landis is a noted fan of fantasy/sci-fi themes. He also slips in oblique references to the Orcs being like Jews in addition to the much more obvious African-American allegory.
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Bright / int_69dff6df	type	Fantasy Counterpart Religion
Bright / int_69dff6df	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Religion: Orcish religion has traits of both Christianity and European pagan faiths since they worship a Messianic Archetype that saved the world and their priests dress themselves like druids, respectively. It's unknown if traditional religions like Christianity and Islam exist in this universe, though multiple exclamations of "Jesus Christ!" suggest that some form of Christianity, at least, probably exists.
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Bright / int_6aada778	type	Only the Chosen May Wield
Bright / int_6aada778	comment	Only the Chosen May Wield: A Wand can only be used by a Bright. Anyone else that tries to touch it directly explodes into a cloud of dust and ash, taking those nearby with them. This area of effect is a plot point during the climactic fight when Ward is willing to take out everyone else to kill Leilah because she's going to kill them all anyway. Serling, the Shield of Light member, claims that the only way to know if you're a Bright or not is to pick up a wand and see if you die or not. Presumably there are other means of detection - Serling himself seems to have some idea that Ward is a Bright well before Ward finds out himself, and Ward's exceptional speed and skill when shooting seem to foreshadow the reveal - but most people would never have access to them.
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Bright / int_6cbcd596	type	Gangbangers
Bright / int_6cbcd596	comment	While Ward and Jakoby are preparing to fight a horde of Gangbangers coming for the Wand at a strip club, behind them Tikka is busy staring at the strippers with an extremely happy look on her face.
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Bright / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
Bright / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: When the Dark Lord tried to conquer the world, most of the orcs sided with him. The other races still hold it against them, despite the fact that this happened two thousand years ago. Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you remember it's probably thanks to the long-lived and supremely petty Elves that are responsible for this attitude.
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Bright / int_6eaff95	type	Leno Device
Bright / int_6eaff95	comment	Leno Device: Early in the film, Daryl is shown watching an ork being interviewed on the Joe Rogan podcast who denounces his ork partner Nick.
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Bright / int_7095c87e	type	TheMasquerade
Bright / int_7095c87e	comment	Rather than admit that the Dark Lord is coming and a wand was on the loose in L.A., the government covers up everything, takes the wand, and paints all the cops involved (including the corrupt ones, much to Ward's disgust) as heroes who died fighting an "extremist group". Better to keep The Masquerade intact and a potential magical WMD under wraps than cause mass panic, after all.
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Bright / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
Bright / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: The orc gang leader accurately points out that it was humans who disturbed the peace between the different races, which Ward agrees is true.
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Bright / int_734632b0	type	Noble Bigot
Bright / int_734632b0	comment	Noble Bigot: The MTF agents express their disgust at seeing Jakoby, an orc police officer. That said, they do help out Ward and Jakoby, even covering up that Ward had to kill four police officers, in self-defense. Ward himself isn't quite above it either - while he tries to teach his daughter that all races are equal and everyone just wants to live their own life, he actively tries to get out of being partnered with Jakoby and repeatedly insults him by wondering whether he'll have his back when they're up against other orcs.
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Bright / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
Bright / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The wand glows an with an incandescent blue-white light when its magic is activated or when it is wielded by an elf Bright, but it glows red when wielded by a human Bright.
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Bright / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
Bright / int_7360a6b6	comment	Noble Demon: The orc gang leader, despite being, well, a gang leader, tries his best to create peace between the different races.
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Bright / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
Bright / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: A half-dozen human LAPD officers (supervised by a centaur) give a vicious Rodney King-style beating to an unarmed orc with his hands up. This happens on a sidewalk, in broad daylight, in front of dozens of witnesses, including the orc's wife and child, and nobody bats an eye. It ain't easy being an orc in LA. MTF agent Montehugh has no problem roughing up a Shield of Light member to get him to talk.
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Bright / int_79c34029	type	The Nose Knows
Bright / int_79c34029	comment	The Nose Knows: Orcs have a greater sense of smell than most other species. So good that Jakoby was able to tell the difference between two different orcs based on smell alone, and he can just tell that "something bad" happened to Ward at the station when he wasn't there (presumably the scent of sweat and adrenaline).
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Bright / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Bright / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: When Ward tells Jakoby to just ask him for guidance and trust his advice, Jakoby points out the hypocrisy of the statement by asking why he is supposed to have total trust in someone that doesn't trust him. Ward gets a humorous one in when criticizing the Fantastic Racism of Pollard and the other cops in his unit: "How is it that a bunch of dumbasses who can't remember their baby-mommas' birthdays still have a hard on for some shit that happened two thousand years ago?"
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Bright / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
Bright / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: The two Internal Affairs detectives are obscenely Smug Snake pricks even before either of them says a word. They only get worse when they start talking.
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Bright / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Bright / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Surrounded by orc gangsters, Ward has the balls to go up to one of them and compare him to Shrek, then doubles down by telling Nick to translate that into Orcish. Nick, on the other hand, just looks down and quietly says that they speak English. Expectedly, Ward gets his ass kicked by all of them.
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Bright / int_84764598	type	Dramatic Thunder
Bright / int_84764598	comment	Dramatic Thunder: Multiple times, mostly when the Inferni are on screen.
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Bright / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Bright / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Any glance at the background characters makes it obvious that the different races (humans, orcs, elves) getting it on with each other is a pretty everyday sight.
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Bright / int_857abc33	type	Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters
Bright / int_857abc33	comment	Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters: The Orc Gang leader, all he wants is that there be peace between the races, hosting a big party where everyone has a good time, until the police came and wrecked things. He even Bloods Jakoby at the end.
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Bright / int_857d1626	type	Power Glows
Bright / int_857d1626	comment	Power Glows: The wand glows with a blinding blue-white light during most of the movie. When wielded by a human Bright that glow turns red.
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Bright / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
Bright / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: Leilah and her associates embody all the worst and most monstrous traits associated with elves. And the Dark Lord himself is said to be so much worse. Really at best, elves as a whole are viewed as arrogant and privileged twits that not even humans can stand.
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Bright / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Bright / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: When Ward has his gun trained on Jakoby, daring him to draw his sidearm and threatening to kill him.
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Bright / int_8a0d290b	type	Conlang
Bright / int_8a0d290b	comment	Conlang: David J. Peterson created languages and scripts for the languages the elves and the orcs use in the movie. The elvish language is called Ã–vÃ¼si, and orcish is Bodzvokhan.
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Bright / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Bright / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of Legolas type super-elves. Turns out having a race of such beings in real life would be completely horrifying for a multitude of reasons: their incredible physical abilities make them nigh-impossible to kill (though it's unclear how much of the villains' martial prowess is pure elvishness and how much is their affiliation with the Inferni), their magical prowess makes the average one akin to a super-weapon if they get a Wand, and their total superiority to all races makes them sociopathically immoral with the vast majority of them openly controlling society. Also of beauty equaling goodness, or at least people tending to believe such. The Dark Lord was an incredibly evil elf heading an army of mostly orcs, against some other orcs mixed with the other races. This could have resulted in elves being hated, and orcs being viewed neutrally. But elves are beautiful and orcs are ugly, which amplifies the issue of elven physical superiority, so the ultimate result is that orcs are viewed as the villains while the elves rule the world. Made more blatant by the hero who rallied the joint resistance against the Dark Lord having been an orc. And yet this does not seem to buy his race any credibility.
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Bright / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
Bright / int_8c1ad82f	comment	Proud Warrior Race Guy: Jakoby is a more subtle example of this than most. He's a nice, even dorky guy, but his eagerness to die if it means he dies a heroic cop shows that underneath the goofy nerd is someone who fundamentally believes in his people's warrior philosophy.
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Bright / int_8cb01d0e	type	Category Traitor
Bright / int_8cb01d0e	comment	Category Traitor: Most of the orc population of LA looks at Jakoby with contempt for joining the police.
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Bright / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Bright / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Played with the corrupt cops that try to kill Ward, Jakoby, and Tikka, when they are gunned down by Ward in self-defense, with Jakoby, having no clue what's going on, sticking to the book and trying to arrest Ward despite how horribly the shot cops had treated Nick in the past. Pollard survives long enough for Leilah's arrival, and unfortunately for him she's there to kill all witnesses. Messily. With that said, in order to protect Ward and Jakoby, the feds concoct a cover story where the slain corrupt cops died fighting an extremist group, thus ensuring that they go down as heroes, much to Ward's disgust, as they are posthumously honored alongside Rodriguez, who was a good cop. Also the gangsters who get massacred by the Inferni. Yeah they were jerks, but shoot that was a hard way to go.
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Bright / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Bright / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: Alien Nation... WITH FANTASY CREATURES! Zootopia...IN MODERN DAY LOS ANGELES WITH HUMAN AND STANDARD FANTASY RACES!
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Bright / int_90d5b651	type	Our Fairies Are Different
Bright / int_90d5b651	comment	Our Fairies Are Different: Fairies in this universe don't appear to be sentient; despite being humanoid, their appearance and behavior is shown to be animal-like, with feathers all over their bodies, sharp teeth and an apparent inability to speak. They're treated as pests by most people as well, with Ward's wife asking him to kill one when it gets in their birdfeeder and a few ads for pest control specializing in getting rid of them.
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Bright / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Bright / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Near the beginning of the film, Pollard and his fellow corrupt officers plot to have Ward and Jakoby killed, and cover up the circumstances of their deaths by claiming they died as heroes. However, Ward kills them all first, and in order to cover up the events surrounding the wand, the MTF creates a cover story claiming Pollard and the other corrupt officers died heroically fighting terrorists.
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Bright / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Bright / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Though she repeats some prejudiced comments from her mother, Ward's daughter Sophia is very friendly to Jakoby, and even admonishes her father for yelling at him.
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Bright / int_918ef79f	type	Our Mages Are Different
Bright / int_918ef79f	comment	Our Mages Are Different: A "Bright" is a person born with an affinity for magic, and can freely handle wands without exploding (which happens to everyone else who tries). Almost all Brights are elves, which has led to their species winding up in positions of power, though it is mentioned a very small number of humans ("one-in-a-million") are also Brights. Near the end of the movie, Ward is revealed to be a Bright, as he handles a wand without exploding, and even manages to cast a spell.
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Bright / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Bright / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: For most of the movie, Leilah has been The Stoic and very rarely shows any emotion. And then during the climax, she tries to bring Tikka back to the Inferni, but she refuses, preferring to die than return to her. At this point, Leilah starts ranting and screaming angrily at Ward for having "corrupted" her sister. She also shows complete disbelief when Ward is revealed to be a Bright.
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Bright / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Bright / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Leilah, the elvish Bright and Inferni leader who had intended to use the wand that was taken from her as one of three needed to bring the Dark Lord back to life.
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Bright / int_978b5f6d	type	Screw You, Elves!
Bright / int_978b5f6d	comment	Screw You, Elves!: It's pretty clear in-universe that some characters such as Ward don't have a high opinion about elves and how they run the Earth, sort of like their version of Eat the Rich.
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Bright / int_9ae8eea9	type	Character Tics
Bright / int_9ae8eea9	comment	Character Tics: Tikka often jumps, slides, and swings around Parkour-style when running, even when thereâ€™s no particular reason to. Even when not running, she often climbs on anything nearby. Ward quickly gets tired of it, telling her to sit her crazy ass down for a second.
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Bright / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Bright / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The Dark Lord. He is responsible for the racism that modern orcs face today since many of their ancestors chose to fight for him, which led to many of them being hated and discriminated by everyone else. He is long dead by the time the movie takes place, but many people such as the Shield of Light fear his return, since it's believed that not even the most advanced modern weaponry could be able to bring him down. If he did come back, he would most likely command an army with comparable modern armament that could easily match the US military, if not every military forces in the world combined. Given that heâ€™s an Expy of Sauron, no matter how many casualties his forces were to suffer, the Dark Lord himself would be vulnerable only to weaponized magic and lots of it.
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Bright / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Bright / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The crazy Shield of Light member rambles that Ward is blessed. He identifies him as a Bright.
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Bright / int_9d29321a	type	Can't Argue with Elves
Bright / int_9d29321a	comment	During the intro, there's graffiti stating "IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED ALL RACES EQUAL" with "but elves are more equal" below it.
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Bright / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Bright / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Elves aligned with the Inferni are super-strong, super-fast, highly acrobatic and skilled fighters that manage to slaughter entire groups of enemies without breaking a sweat. Leilah and her Co-Dragons display this when they kill Poison's gangbangers effortlessly when both Ward and Jakoby have been trying to evade them rather than fight them off. Leilah herself personally kills several SWAT members in less than a minute. It is unknown if this is the natural capability of an elf, or if it's due to their associations with the Inferni. No other elves are seen in combat, unless any of the fully-masked and helmeted SWAT cops and FBI agents happen to be elves.
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Bright / int_a04eb363	type	Lizard Folk
Bright / int_a04eb363	comment	Lizard Folk: While none physically seen in the film, a crossing sign in the opening montage has a person with a distinctly reptilian head and tail, implying that they exist in this world in some capacity. A woman in the strip club is also shown to have nictitating membranes in their eyes, a common indicator of reptilian humanoids in conspiracy theory literature.
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Bright / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Bright / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: A Dark Lord graffiti depicts him as a white-haired elf similar to a range of characters from fantasy media, including Elric of Melnibone, Mannimarco, or Sauron's Annatar Lord of Gifts form.
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Bright / int_a30c287	type	Good Parents
Bright / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: For all his racism against non-humans (but mostly towards orcs), Ward tries to teach his daughter to not share his bigoted viewpoints. While he falls short of the standard himself, at least he tries and his little girl certainly doesn't. The orc gangleader doesn't get mad at his son nor is he in the least bit disappointed in him for not being able to pull the trigger on Jakoby because Jakoby helped him escape to save him from taking the fall for the orc that shot Ward.
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Bright / int_a3eea2ea	type	Cop Killer
Bright / int_a3eea2ea	comment	Cop Killer: Plenty to go around; Leilah and her sidekicks. Officer Ward is one too, but he did it in self-defense and his victims were all corrupt cops.
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Bright / int_a4070b5e	type	Stripped to the Bone
Bright / int_a4070b5e	comment	Stripped to the Bone: One of the wand's spells can reduce people to ash while leaving their glowing skeleton behind. Ward and Jakoby find several bodies in this state when they first stumble upon Tikka. This ends up being how Leilah is killed in the final battle.
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Bright / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Bright / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The Magic Wand that everyone in the movie is trying to get their hands on.
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Bright / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Bright / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The orc that shot Ward before the start of the movie. He's never caught.
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Bright / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Bright / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: In this universe, humans have co-existed with fantastical creatures since the dawn of time and over two thousand years ago, a figure known as the Dark Lord nearly took over the world and it took the combined might of nine armies to bring him down. Apart from that major event, history seems to have followed more or less the same path. The Alamo and the LAPD's Rampart corruption scandal are specifically mentioned.
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Bright / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
Bright / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: Leilah hardly has any facial expression for most of the film. Up until the end, where she starts moaning when Tikka, her sister, refuses to join the Inferni. She then angrily blames Ward and Jakoby for "ruining her."
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Bright / int_a8c6a317	type	Super-Strength
Bright / int_a8c6a317	comment	Super-Strength: Orcs and elves both have it, being able to casually toss people across a room. Early in the movie, an adult orc is seen lifting a pick-up truck off the ground, by the front... so that an orc child can reclaim their football.
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Bright / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Bright / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Ward and Jakoby when they find Larika fused to a wall. Ward immediately gets on the radio to report a possible magic-user and request backup. Even more so when they find a Magic Wand with Tikka.
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Bright / int_b0bce7aa	type	Selective Obliviousness
Bright / int_b0bce7aa	comment	Selective Obliviousness: The other races are very quick to condemn the orcs as the followers of the Dark Lord, but seem to regularly forget the fact that not only were there a number of elves who did the same thing, but that the Dark Lord himself was an elf. They also seem to forget the detail that it was an orc who united the races, and led them against the Dark Lord.
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Bright / int_b1a3ce24	type	Horned Humanoid
Bright / int_b1a3ce24	comment	Horned Humanoid: The orc priest wears a mask made up of a deer skull and antlers, giving him the appearance of this trope.
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Bright / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
Bright / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: The orcs are treated like pariahs because their ancestors sided with the Dark Lord two millennia ago. Meanwhile, the elves get to be treated like a privileged class despite the Dark Lord being an elf himself. The fact that an orc himself rose up against him doesn't even make the irony clear to anyone else. And nevermind that it's a sect of elves that are trying to bring him back.
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Bright / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Bright / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Ward's neighbors encourage him (possibly sarcastically) to kill a fairy "L.A.P.D. style".
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Bright / int_b8dde2	type	Evil Overlord
Bright / int_b8dde2	comment	Jirak is the orc equivalent of Jesus Christ, as he shares the same first initial, also lived 2000 years ago and saved the world from the Evil Overlord in this setting. He is the subject of worship in Orc religion, and orcs partly correspond to real-life Jews, since they have been long discriminated against and accused of betraying Jesus, even though he was Jewish himself, much like orcs are hated for siding with the Dark Lord when it was an orc that united other races to oppose him.
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Bright / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Bright / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Dorghu, the leader of the Fogteeth clan, has a son named Mikey.
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Bright / int_bd5e8cd9	type	Urban Fantasy
Bright / int_bd5e8cd9	comment	Urban Fantasy: With a heavy emphasis on the "urban" side of things — while the nonhuman species are important to the story, the emphasis is clearly placed on the movie being set in a modern day Wretched Hive.
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Bright / int_bdd027c5	type	Den of Iniquity
Bright / int_bdd027c5	comment	Den of Iniquity: The various clubs the characters stumble through, full of coke sniffing gangsters and strippers.
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Bright / int_c0afd51a	type	Evil Cripple
Bright / int_c0afd51a	comment	Evil Cripple: Poison, complete with wheelchair and colostomy bag. He hates this so much he is more than willing to risk magically exploding if there's even the slightest chance it will get him out of the chair.
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Bright / int_c2f7db18	type	Alien Blood
Bright / int_c2f7db18	comment	Alien Blood: The fairy beaten up by Ward bleeds purple blood.
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Bright / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
Bright / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: The Magic Wand is said to be able to grant any wish, but since the only people who use it are very inexperienced we're never shown how it does this exactly, or in fact see it do anything besides blowing people up. The wand clearly has limitations, and the general lack of experience with them that most characters display suggests that a fair amounts of the claims made about it are urban legends.
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Bright / int_c3bdeeda	type	She-Fu
Bright / int_c3bdeeda	comment	She-Fu: All elves who are shown fighting, many of them female, fight like they've got even more than the normal +2 racial bonus to Dexterity.
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Bright / int_c4c4004a	type	Treachery Cover-Up
Bright / int_c4c4004a	comment	Treachery Cover Up: Pollard and the other 3 corrupt cops are lionized as heroes at the end to keep word of the wand from getting out. Ward finds it disgusting but Jakoby knows it's for the best.
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Bright / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Bright / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Jakoby through and through. Best shown when he helped an orc teen that's only tagging from taking the blame for the one that shot Ward. Tikka herself qualifies as the only elf that isn't arrogant and pompous or just straight up evil.
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Bright / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Bright / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: During the intro, there's graffiti stating "IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED ALL RACES EQUAL" with "but elves are more equal" below it. Daryl Ward compares an orc to Shrek as an insult, uttering the line: "So I need you to take your fat Shrek-looking ass back to your vehicle and drive the fuck home to Fiona. A'ight?"
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Bright / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Bright / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Jakoby nails Serafin to the wall with a chunk of pipe from a foosball table. It doesn't take.
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Bright / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
Bright / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: Both Jirak and the Dark Lord fit this in different ways. Jirak is the orc equivalent of Jesus Christ, as he shares the same first initial, also lived 2000 years ago and saved the world from the Evil Overlord in this setting. He is the subject of worship in Orc religion, and orcs partly correspond to real-life Jews, since they have been long discriminated against and accused of betraying Jesus, even though he was Jewish himself, much like orcs are hated for siding with the Dark Lord when it was an orc that united other races to oppose him. The Dark Lord, on the other hand, is the Dark Messiah mostly towards the Inferni - renegade elves that seek to revive him so he could complete his conquest of Earth. Leilah even refers to herself as his "priestess". It's shown that some orcs still revere him if his graffiti pictures in the prologue are any indication. Jakoby is implied to be one. When he's brought back from the dead the priest says "He is risen", the other orcs kneel before him, and he's part of a major prophecy that he has yet to fulfill.
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Bright / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Bright / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Leilah's goons (Tien and Serafin) and the two MTF agents (Kandomere and Montehugh) are named only in the credits.
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Bright / int_ce147566	type	Weak Boss, Strong Underlings
Bright / int_ce147566	comment	Weak Boss, Strong Underlings: Poison is an Evil Cripple bound to a wheelchair who commands a couple of trigger-happy cholos.
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Bright / int_d243518d	type	In Spite of a Nail
Bright / int_d243518d	comment	In Spite of a Nail: Even though magic exists and non-human sapient species share the world with humanity, human history and technology seem to have progressed along more or less the exact same lines as in the real world. A line from Deputy Rodriguez indicates that even the events of the Alamo still somehow occurred. Taken to an extreme when Ward makes a crack about Shrek to an Orc, which begs the question of why a movie like Shrek would exist in a world where the various fairy tale creatures it references are actually real.
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Bright / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
Bright / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: The Magic Wand kills anyone who touches it if they're not a Bright (and it seems like the odds of being a Bright are one in a million or worse for humans). Naturally, the first thing anyone who sees it wants to do is try to pick it up, in the hope they might beat the odds and gain limitless power.
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Bright / int_d5b3df2d	type	Dark Action Girl
Bright / int_d5b3df2d	comment	Dark Action Girl: Leilah, and her sidekick Tien.
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Bright / int_d6087f0d	type	Seeks Another's Resurrection
Bright / int_d6087f0d	comment	Seeks Another's Resurrection: The Inferni seek to resurrect the Dark Lord.
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Bright / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Bright / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: When Ward and Jakoby start investigating a crime scene, Jakoby asks if they should wait for the cavalry. Ward replies that they are the cavalry.
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Bright / int_da57ab3c	type	Unlikely Hero
Bright / int_da57ab3c	comment	Unlikely Hero: Jakoby mentions that Jirak, the orc who united all nine races to defeat the Dark Lord, was a simple farmer at the start.
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Bright / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Bright / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: The Shield of Light member, when interviewed by the MTF, points out how it's a "strange coincidence" that elves, who produce the most brights and thus are more able to wield magic, happen to also be largely rich, successful, influential, and generally rule the world and aren't held accountable for the actions of the Dark Lord or the Inferni, contrasting the way orcs are looked at. It's never outright said, but it seems heavily implied that elves use magic to ensure this status quo in order to maintain control.
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Bright / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Bright / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The young orc boy that Jakoby saves from the police turns out to be the son of the Fogtooth gang's leader, and when asked by his father to kill Jakoby, the orc boy refuses for this reason.
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Bright / int_e057ad12	type	I'm Not Here to Make Friends
Bright / int_e057ad12	comment	I'm Not Here to Make Friends: Jakoby says it's OK if Ward doesn't like him (presumably due to Fantastic Racism, above), and Ward replies with this almost verbatim.
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Bright / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Bright / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Dorghu, head of the Fogteeth gang, was a bus driver before he moved to LA and took over.
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Bright / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
Bright / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Tikka spends almost the entire run of the movie in a state of panic and terror...except when Ward and Jakoby take her to a strip club. Then she gets positively giddy and delighted at the sight of half-naked women writhing on stage. Jakoby exhibits shades of this, too, as some of his attempts to tease his partner while on patrol sound very much like genuine flirting. Ward even calls Jakoby out on Jakoby possibly being gay and Jakoby says nothing to deny it.
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Bright / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Bright / int_e5421161	comment	If he did come back, he would most likely command an army with comparable modern armament that could easily match the US military, if not every military forces in the world combined. Given that heâ€™s an Expy of Sauron, no matter how many casualties his forces were to suffer, the Dark Lord himself would be vulnerable only to weaponized magic and lots of it.
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Bright / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Bright / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: All over the LAPD, with many of them acting as obstacles to our protagonists. Ward is forced to gun down four of them, including his watch sergeant, after they plot to steal the wand and murder Ward, Jakoby, and Tikka in the process.
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Bright / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
Bright / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: Leilah and Tikka, respectively. The former sent an assassin to kill the latter when she deserts their group and tries one last time to bring her back during the climax. Tikka instead tells her to Get It Over With and just kill her already, which Leilah tries to do before Ward stops her.
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Bright / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Bright / int_eba911fd	comment	The Dark Lord, on the other hand, is the Dark Messiah mostly towards the Inferni - renegade elves that seek to revive him so he could complete his conquest of Earth. Leilah even refers to herself as his "priestess". It's shown that some orcs still revere him if his graffiti pictures in the prologue are any indication.
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Bright / int_ec7da60a	type	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy
Bright / int_ec7da60a	comment	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: According to supplementary backstory, Pharaoh Khufu and Sargon the Great of Akkad were both magicians with the former using his powers to build the Egyptian pyramids and the latter transcended mortality and that the Wands were forged out of his body from his executioner, the Dark Lord.
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Bright / int_ed61457c	type	The Illuminati
Bright / int_ed61457c	comment	The Illuminati: When Ward flippantly calls the Inferni "Elf Illuminati," Tikka corrects him by saying the Inferni massacred the Illuminati a hundred years ago.
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Bright / int_f2c895f	type	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
Bright / int_f2c895f	comment	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: The Shield of Light sees themselves as the last line of defense against the Dark Lord, and are implied to be descended from the army that defeated him two thousand years ago. Modern governments just see a bunch of delusional radicals who are stockpiling weapons and magic. While the MTF is willing to use them to take down the Inferni, who they admit are a much greater threat, they still treat them as criminals. Serling seems a little bitter about this treatment, but insists that when the time comes, they will protect the world regardless.
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Bright / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Bright / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Given that many of the females they meet are trying to kill them, neither Ward nor Jakoby have a problem with killing them as well.
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Bright / int_f522d94b	type	Kneel Before Frodo
Bright / int_f522d94b	comment	Kneel Before Frodo: After Jakoby is revived, the rest of the orcs who were previously demeaning him bow respectfully, recognizing him as their next hero.
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Bright / int_f5b974c6	type	Superior Species
Bright / int_f5b974c6	comment	Superior Species: The elves. They are all impossibly beautiful, stronger than humans and are pretty much the only ones able to wield magical WMDs. They don't even subject themselves to jobs that "lesser" races can perform, since one federal agent notes that seeing an orc as a cop is as rare as seeing an elf as a janitor.
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Bright / int_f5e59782	type	A Real Man Is a Killer
Bright / int_f5e59782	comment	A Real Man Is a Killer: The orc gang leader believes this to some degree. They revere being "blooded" above all other honors, which can involve slaying an enemy, but also nonviolent actions like standing up to torture or risking your life to save a comrade (the courage of the act is what's important). Averted by Jakoby, who is quite distressed when he has to shoot and kill one of the Mexican gang members in self-defense.
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Bright / int_f97ad4fe	type	Standard Fantasy Races
Bright / int_f97ad4fe	comment	Standard Fantasy Races: The movie takes the standard fantasy races and puts them in a modern Urban Fantasy setting, with a lot of Fantastic Racism. Humans are the most mundane and most numerous ones, and have within-species racism, such as Americans disliking Mexicans. Elves are the snobbish elite who look down on the other races, whereas orcs are mostly lower class and form urban gangs. Orcs also get the most hate from other races due to being the mooks of The Dark Lord back when the world was a Standard Fantasy Setting (despite the fact that the Dark Lord was an elf and the hero who defeated him was an orc). Fairies are common, non-sapient pests; a human killing one is seen as disturbing, but not a crime. There are references to "the nine races", suggesting that other stock fantasy races also exist.
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Bright / int_fea27091	type	Buffy Speak
Bright / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: Ward's report to Sergeant Ching regarding the wand:
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