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Circle

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Circle	label	Circle
Circle	page	Circle
Circle	comment	Circle is a 2015 American sci-fi psychological thriller film written and directed by Aaron Hann and Mario Miscione. It stars an ensemble cast including Carter Jenkins, Julie Benz, Lawrence Kao, and Allegra Masters.Fifty people wake up in a darkened room, all strangers from all walks of life, arranged in a circle around a sinister device that kills one of them every two minutes, or if any of them try to leave. Before long, they figure out that they can influence which person the device kills next... and the debate of whose life is worthy of saving begins in earnest.The script for Circle was reportedly inspired by 12 Angry Men. It has also fielded many comparisons to the film Cube; to that end, a producer on Circle stated that in comparison, this film provides more answers and has a more definitive ending.The film premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 28, 2015, and was later released on video-on-demand on October 16 of that year.
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Circle / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Circle / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: A given, since the entire premise is that (almost) everyone will die. Characters will often be set up to be major players, only to be eliminated just as quickly. Even those who are deemed the most likely survivors (The Kid and the Pregnant Woman) are constantly in danger. In the end, only the most ruthless and amoral person survives.
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Circle / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Circle / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: The device (probably) kills people with some kind of electrical shock without leaving a mark on them, and the body is dragged off through some kind of magnetism involving the implant in their hands.
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Circle / int_13c9ced	type	PositiveDiscrimination
Circle / int_13c9ced	comment	The Cynical Atheist constantly and repeatedly belittles everyone around him, but when the Black Man tries to appeal to Positive Discrimination to make the voting "fair", Atheist immediately points out what in the blue fuck is fair about a bunch of innocent people slowly being murdered anyway.
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Circle / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Circle / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The unnamed black man in the grey suit is credited as "The Pilot", which is probably his occupation.
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Circle / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Circle / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Eric. He seems like a nice person, but he's actually a ruthless Manipulative Bastard who pits everyone against each other and remorselessly kills a little girl and a pregnant woman (and her child). He is the quickest to assess the situation from a cold and logical perspective, and he doesn't lose his cool like a normal person in such a stressful situation. Other characters may or may not be sociopaths also, but Eric is a classic and archetypal example of one.
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Circle / int_1b70ccc6	type	The Cynic
Circle / int_1b70ccc6	comment	The Cynic: The Rude Atheist and the Asian Kid believe that all of them are going to die.
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Circle / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Circle / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: There is one man who makes it to the final four who never voted and hadn't said a word the whole time. It almost seems like he was going to be revealed to be one of the aliens, but nope, he's just human as he gets eliminated himself.
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Circle / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
Circle / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: While the volunteers all count as such, since they're only delaying the inevitable, of particular note is the Little Girl. She offers to give her life to save the Pregnant Woman, only for Eric to use the distraction to take out the Pregnant Woman at the same moment. Another one to note is the man who sacrifices himself so that Shaun won't have to, only for Shaun to immediately sacrifice himself the next round anyway.
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Circle / int_1df37537	type	Mutual Kill
Circle / int_1df37537	comment	Mutual Kill: When there are only 11 survivors left, the next vote results in a colossal 4-way tie between Marine, Cancer Survivor Lady, Lesbian, and Pretty Girl, that takes out all of them. The Bearded Man attempts this twice to take out the Little Girl, offering to trade her for the Rich Man and then later the Fake Wife. It backfires badly both times. When the pragmatist block's majority intends to vote for the Solder, he threatens to force a tie between himself and the Fake Wife with the threat of killing them both. The Fake Husband relents and switches his vote at the pleas of his "wife" to save her, resulting in the Black Man's death instead.
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Circle / int_1e020735	type	Heroic Suicide
Circle / int_1e020735	comment	Heroic Suicide: Illegal Mexican gives his life to spare the Little Girl when they tie. A few characters volunteer to be killed to buy the others more time. The black guy in the grey suit sacrifices himself so Shaun doesn't have to, and Shaun himself does the same so he won't have to vote anymore. The mother who lost her son volunteers right after Shaun. The Little Girl sacrifices herself to spare the Pregnant Woman. When the people force the two lovers in a tie, they decide to go both together rather than one being responsible for the death of the other.
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Circle / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Circle / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: Whether or not the shocked people are actually being killed or just removed from the game is a point of contention among fans. One of the first people zapped is seen bleeding from his orifices afterwards, but that could have just been from a cracked skull when he hit the ground. The Rude Atheist claims that the Attractive Blonde Woman next to him is actually an ex-pornstar, which she denies. She might have been and just didn't want to be associated with her past career, or (probably wisely, if that's the case) didn't want to risk exposing herself to social stigma considering the triviality of the reasons that lead to some of the victims being chosen. Or maybe he was just making it up from whole cloth in a deliberate attempt to kill himself. It's even possible he just mistook her for someone who looked like her.
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Circle / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Circle / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Only one person ever notices that the Silent Man doesn't vote. This has fatal consequences for the Bearded Man when he simply assumes the Silent Man is on his side.
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Circle / int_2461166d	type	All Gays Are Pedophiles
Circle / int_2461166d	comment	All Gays Are Pedophiles: When a woman reveals herself to be part of a lesbian couple with a child when pressed on her background, the Lawyer goes on a homophobic tirade, insinuating that she and her wife are grooming their young daughter. His bigoted attitude disgusts more than enough people in the room for him to be eliminated next.
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Circle / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Circle / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Discussed at length due to the presence of a ten-year-old girl and a pregnant woman, and the knowledge that at least one will be sentenced to death. In the end, neither survive, and the woman's fetus is specifically killed by the last survivor.
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Circle / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Circle / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Subverted. In the end, with only Eric left, the countdown restarts, causing him to believe that the entire contest was pointless and everyone was going to die anyway. However, the Pregnant Woman's fetus has just happened to fall into one of the participant spaces, causing the Circle to count it as a new participant. All he has to do is vote against it, and he wins. We see in the final scene that other winners have also survived.
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Circle / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Circle / int_2764d432	comment	The ending, in which Eric reveals himself to the audience as a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who'd been gaming the system for around half the film.
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Circle / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Circle / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: Just about everyone shocked, given how fast their bodies are taken away without being examined and the ambigious nature of the ray, although the emphasis is a lot more on the "doom" than the "uncertain".
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Circle / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Circle / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: The Rude Atheist and the Rich Banker both have minor breakdowns with the knowledge that they would be the next to die.
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Circle / int_2f94135c	type	Thou Shalt Not Kill
Circle / int_2f94135c	comment	Thou Shalt Not Kill: Shaun, which why he volunteers to kill himself. Also the Silent Man, who never votes for unexplained reasons.
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Circle / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Circle / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Even the unpleasant lawyer, who just thought that talking about racism was bullshit, looks uncomfortable when the cop goes on a racist rant.
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Circle / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Circle / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: While there are plenty of moments of this as people try to get others voted off instead of them, a more petty and senseless moment is the Lawyer praising Shaun's sacrifice and promising to name his next kid after him, but then deliberately mispronouncing his name as he steps off the pedestal. He seems to find it amusing.
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Circle / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
Circle / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: When the room decides to force a universal tie in an attempt to cheat the game, one person secretly switches his vote to kill Pregnant Lady. Another astute person notices this, and switches his vote to that guy so he'll be trapped in a tie with Pregnant Lady. Of course, the room chooses to save her over him. When the cast is whittled down to less than ten people, Eric manages to outmaneuver Bearded Man twice in a row. First, he observes that the Silent Man never votes. Then he agrees to a deal to kill the Wife and the Little Girl simultaneously via tied vote, but ensures that the Silent Man was intended to be the final vote for the Little Girl. This results in the Wife getting a majority vote by default, and reducing the pragmatist bloc to only the Bearded Man. Then, he makes up a story about the Silent Man being untouchable and suggests voting for him, so that Bearded Man will waste his vote on Silent Man instead of trying to persuade either the Little Girl or Pregnant Woman and so gets eliminated himself.
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Circle / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Circle / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: As the final timer is running down, Eric suddenly shouts at the Little Girl to walk off the platform, despite talking to her kindly beforehand. This is because if she doesn't step off the platform in time, the end result will almost certainly be a tie and Eric's plan will have failed.
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Circle / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Circle / int_38d02d44	comment	The Fake Wife putting her trust in the Bearded Man. By that point, the Bearded Man has made it clear he doesn't care about killing the kid and the pregnant lady to save himself. Why would he be loyal to her? He was also the one to expose her being a liar in the first place. Sure enough, he offers her up as a trade for the Little Girl; except due to Eric's Batman Gambit she dies and the Little Girl is spared.
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Circle / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Circle / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: The black man in the grey suit, Shaun, the Illegal Mexican, the Silent Man, The Minister and the Little Girl all willingly go to their deaths for the sake of others.
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Circle / int_3a90dc63	type	Aliens Are Bastards
Circle / int_3a90dc63	comment	Aliens Are Bastards: The aliens are forcing the characters to kill each other either For Science! or For the Evulz.
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Circle / int_3d038b36	type	Rhetorical Question Blunder
Circle / int_3d038b36	comment	Rhetorical Question Blunder: During the discussion about whether or not to kill Cancer Survivor Lady, the Black Man and the middle-aged Black Woman get into this back and forth. Black Man is smart enough not to press the issue beyond that. College Guy isn't.
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Circle / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Circle / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: Eric sarcastically congratulates the aliens for proving this. Turns more ambiguous at the end, as a lot of the survivors are children and pregnant women, suggesting that, in at least some circles, the protectors won.
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Circle / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Circle / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Eric plays his "nice guy" role to the hilt from the very beginning. Through observation, persuasion and a generous helping of luck, he plays everyone to the very end. The Rich Guy and especially the Bearded Man also prove formidable at persuading people to do what they want. However, the former ends up becoming unhinged and voted to his death as a result, while the latter is Out-Gambitted by Eric.
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Circle / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Circle / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Eric tricks the Little Girl into killing herself for the baby while he votes for the Pregnant Woman at the last second. He and the unborn fetus are the only survivors left, and he returns to Earth after voting to kill the baby. At first, this ending seems like a downer because the character revealed to be the most cold-blooded and manipulative of them all ends up surviving, but Eric then finds the survivors of other circles, and we see that almost half of them are children and pregnant women. This means that in many other ships, everyone else willingly died in order to do the right thing and save those more vulnerable than themselves, which can restore some of a viewer's faith in mankind.
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Circle / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Circle / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: On more than one occasion, the Little Girl and the Pregnant Woman end up in ties where their lives are on the line and need to be saved by the protectors.
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Circle / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Circle / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Asian Kid is more in line with the pragmatic group, but he's usually the first to call out other people's biases. He mocks the Rich Guy's idea of saving people based on class, and defends the Lesbian against the Lawyer. The Lesbian ultimately sides with the pragmatic group but only after being pressured by the Bearded Man and out of a desire to see her wife and daughter again. Despite somewhat slut-shaming the Pregnant Woman the Lesbian later defends her from the Rich Guy's antagonistic line of questioning.
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Circle / int_4783acfa	type	Bait the Dog
Circle / int_4783acfa	comment	Bait the Dog: The Black Man actually seems kinda sympathetic when it turns out that his desperate claim that he was being targeted because of his race wasn't entirely unfounded... before he conspires to kill the Young Girl and the Pregnant Woman.
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Circle / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Circle / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Eric. When it is down to him, the Little Girl, and the Pregnant Woman, he tricks the Little Girl into killing herself to protect the Pregnant Woman and votes to kill the Pregnant Woman at the last second before either realize what's happening. When he ties with the latter's (still-living) fetus, he votes to kill the fetus as well. Near the end of the film, the players are split into two groups. The protectors: a group of individuals who want to protect the Little Girl and the Young Pregnant Woman. The pragmatists: a group of individuals who want to kill the Little Girl and the Young Pregnant Woman in order to give everyone in the circle a better chance at survival.
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Circle / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Circle / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Occasionally, we won't even see when the orb zaps someone to death — which makes it all the more shocking when someone unexpected dies.
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Circle / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Circle / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Eric's rant to those running the Circle after he survives at the end when another countdown starts and it seems like he's going to be killed regardless. It could just as well be directed at the audience, who have also spectated the full process of characters killing each other, especially with Eric noting that he's probably not "the one that you wanted" to have survived. (See You Bastard! below for the full speech.)
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Circle / int_4aa24ad9	type	I Have a Family
Circle / int_4aa24ad9	comment	I Have a Family: The Rich Guy attempts to earn sympathy from the other characters by informing the group he has seven children. Many of the other characters accuse him of lying to buy himself time and mockingly claim to have even more children. We don't find out whether the Rich Guy was telling the truth, but the eagerness with which he attempts to kill the Little Girl suggests that he was lying. It also turns out that another man and woman pretended to be husband and wife to buy some sympathy. But it does work to a certain extent—up until the two sides are established, people with children managed to last a bit longer than those who said they didn't have any.
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Circle / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Circle / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: The Lawyer. He deals with the situation by showing complete confidence about the prospects of his own survival, always ready with a sarcastic or witty comeback, but his luck runs out when he draws the ire of most other people by bullying a gay woman.
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Circle / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Circle / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: A lot of people are killed simply due to being a category the others dislike or pissing them off somehow. The most noticeable example would be Beth: she is agreeable enough to start telling her life's story, which is typical and has nothing offensive. She is killed because the others didn't find that story justified keeping her alive. Mind you, she is killed before openly racist or bigoted characters, or others actively antagonizing the characters, and isn't even killed because of something bad she did or as part of some strategic vote. Mocked when the Rich Man questions the Little Girl and seriously argues that she might deserve to die if she's enough of a Bratty Half-Pint or simply isn't a straight-A student. The One-Armed Man points out how idiotic this is ("Oh my god, she got a B, let's kill her!")
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Circle / int_5111ff0	type	Kill the Poor
Circle / int_5111ff0	comment	Kill the Poor: The Rich Guy suggests picking off people based on their "societal contribution" and goes on a rant against people on welfare, which just ends up painting a target on his own back. He survives several ties, but is finally eliminated when he tries to get the Little Girl killed.
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Circle / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
Circle / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: The Amoral Attorney has a noticeable potbelly even though his limbs and head look slender. The Cop, who turns out to be racist, even more so.
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Circle / int_51ecf708	type	Self-Disposing Villain
Circle / int_51ecf708	comment	Self-Disposing Villain: A lot of the characters reveal themselves to be very despicable people to the point where the others cannot stand them anymore and get themselves voted out. The Tattooed Man, Raul Jimenez. He adamantly stands by his actions on beating his girlfriend when the Cop calls him out on it. This is enough to get everyone to vote for him to die. Shortly afterward, the Cop himself brings his own demise upon himself, when he reveals himself to be an unapologetic racist. Had he just kept his mouth shut for a little longer, the others probably would've voted for the Black Man he spouted racist insults towards instead.
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Circle / int_553c2ade	type	Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain
Circle / int_553c2ade	comment	Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain: The Rich Man and the Bearded Man are both part of the Pragmatist group with the common goal of killing the Little Girl and the Pregnant Woman to give everyone else an equal chance at survival. However, the Bearded Man is far more personable (which also makes him a better manipulator) and ultimately seems to think of it as a Cold Equation; while he does not like having to kill either of them, he simply values his own survival more. Meanwhile, the Rich Man is a Hate Sink who presents several incredibly odious views and becomes increasingly unhinged and less sympathetic over the course of the film.
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Circle / int_56766569	type	Token Religious Teammate
Circle / int_56766569	comment	Token Religious Teammate: The Minister...shocking, right?
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Circle / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Circle / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: The Tattooed Man beat up his girlfriend, as revealed by the Cop. This gets him killed.
Circle / int_590eb583	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_590eb583	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_590eb583
Circle / int_5a371c8f	type	Opportunistic Bastard
Circle / int_5a371c8f	comment	Opportunistic Bastard: Several characters attempt to be this by manipulating everyone through suggestions in order to survive, but none play it quite as well as Eric does.
Circle / int_5a371c8f	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_5a371c8f	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_5a371c8f
Circle / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
Circle / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Several characters try their hands at it including the Bearded Man and the Rich Banker but Eric outplays all of them.
Circle / int_5ca80293	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_5ca80293	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_5ca80293
Circle / int_5eb8a669	type	"Angry Black Man" Stereotype
Circle / int_5eb8a669	comment	"Angry Black Man" Stereotype: The main black person of the circle starts angrily complaining that the voting system has become racist. He gets flak for pulling the "race card" in a situation that is absolutely unfair to begin with, even from the other black people in the circle. His suspicions are then immediately proven right when another prisoner goes on a racist rant, but he calms down after the Racist Cop is killed. His attitude is ultimately validated when he, the lone black character left, is killed by the pregnant-woman-and-child bloc rushing to eliminate a member of the every-man-for-himself bloc and he's the easiest to identify and target ("everybody vote for the black guy!") among all the white people remaining.
Circle / int_5eb8a669	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_5eb8a669	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_5eb8a669
Circle / int_6126185e	type	You Wake Up in a Room
Circle / int_6126185e	comment	You Wake Up in a Room: Fifty people wake up in a pitch black room featuring a only a chess-like floor circled around a device in the center. It turns out that not only will someone die every two minutes, but the people in the room are voting who dies next by manipulating a mechanism on the floor.
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Circle / int_6126185e	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_6126185e
Circle / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Circle / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: Aside from a short scene at the end, the entire film is about a group of people standing still in a dark room.
Circle / int_62907b90	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_62907b90	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_62907b90
Circle / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Circle / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: The Racist Cop and the Rude Atheist. Inevitably, their rude tirades only serve to get them killed.
Circle / int_63b02752	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_63b02752	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_63b02752
Circle / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Circle / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The lawyer claims to have a family, and the Abuser claims that a teardrop tattoo he has is for his teenaged cousin, who was killed by the police.
Circle / int_63d861f8	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_63d861f8	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_63d861f8
Circle / int_676e942c	type	We Hardly Knew Ye
Circle / int_676e942c	comment	We Hardly Knew Ye: Some characters are killed off after only having a few (or no) lines. Inverted as well. Some characters, most notably Beth, are killed immediately after giving us a huge Infodump. Since a lot of people picked her after she revealed that she had no children, the other people in the room realize it's smarter to keep your mouth shut.
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Circle / int_676e942c	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_676e942c
Circle / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Circle / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Some characters, such as College Guy and Bearded Man, are capable of committing hard, yet logical choices that get some characters killed in order to prolong the other characters' chances of survival. The Cynical Atheist constantly and repeatedly belittles everyone around him, but when the Black Man tries to appeal to Positive Discrimination to make the voting "fair", Atheist immediately points out what in the blue fuck is fair about a bunch of innocent people slowly being murdered anyway. On a similar not, the Black Man might be rude about it, but several of the characters there express racists or general bigoted reasoning to deem people "unworthy", so he had a reason to look out for it. The Black Man also calls the Rich Man out on dictating who gets to live based on social class given that he's a wealthy banker.
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Circle / int_6b05b601	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_6b05b601
Circle / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Circle / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: A man and a woman lie about being husband and wife in order to get sympathy from the other members of the circle. They are eventually exposed by the Bearded Guy and the Lesbian. The man is then killed and the woman is blackmailed into joining the pragmatic side. The ending, in which Eric reveals himself to the audience as a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who'd been gaming the system for around half the film.
Circle / int_6b2b3b59	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_6b2b3b59	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_6b2b3b59
Circle / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Circle / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Several people "volunteer" to die by stepping off their platforms for various reasons. The Minister quietly asks God for forgiveness before stepping off his platform and dying.
Circle / int_6d332aea	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_6d332aea	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_6d332aea
Circle / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Circle / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Anyone who goes on a bigoted rant about something, like ageism, racism, misogyny, or homophobia. The Cop, Lawyer, Atheist, and Rich Banker are all eliminated this way. The Fake Wife putting her trust in the Bearded Man. By that point, the Bearded Man has made it clear he doesn't care about killing the kid and the pregnant lady to save himself. Why would he be loyal to her? He was also the one to expose her being a liar in the first place. Sure enough, he offers her up as a trade for the Little Girl; except due to Eric's Batman Gambit she dies and the Little Girl is spared.
Circle / int_7286e96d	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_7286e96d	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_7286e96d
Circle / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Circle / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: The Cop, the Lawyer, and the Rich Man make themselves rather unpopular with their respectively racist, homophobic, and Kill the Poor rants.
Circle / int_729c69f3	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_729c69f3	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_729c69f3
Circle / int_72d30083	type	Cheaters Never Prosper
Circle / int_72d30083	comment	Cheaters Never Prosper: Trying to rig the game never works out as intended. Refuse to vote? The game picks a victim at random. Try to force a tie? Either someone changes their vote in the run-off or everyone involved in the tie dies.
Circle / int_72d30083	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_72d30083	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_72d30083
Circle / int_7758b2c5	type	Protectorate
Circle / int_7758b2c5	comment	Protectorate: The Little Girl and the Young Pregnant Woman are presumed to be the most likely survivors, since they're considered the most innocent. However, as soon as attention is drawn to them, this makes them the focus point between a group that want to protect them and another group that wants to eliminate them first to even the odds for the rest of them.
Circle / int_7758b2c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_7758b2c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_7758b2c5
Circle / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Circle / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: The Fake Husband and the Fake Wife are manipulated and blackmailed by both the protectors and the pragmatists to vote off certain members. When both groups realize they are lying about being married, they become targets instead of swing voters. The Fake Wife breaks down in tears while the Fake Husband angrily yells at the others that it was her idea and to vote for her only to get eliminated instead.
Circle / int_7c862b8a	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_7c862b8a	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_7c862b8a
Circle / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Circle / int_7d89315b	comment	Several times, one character argues heatedly for why another particular character deserves to die next — only to find that everyone else is so disgusted by their hateful rant that they are the next one to die instead.
Circle / int_7d89315b	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_7d89315b	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_7d89315b
Circle / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Circle / int_7f390ebc	comment	Developing Doomed Characters: We only get to know some of the characters right before they are killed. The most notable example is Beth, who tells her backstory to everyone before dying.
Circle / int_7f390ebc	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_7f390ebc	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_7f390ebc
Circle / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
Circle / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: The ending reveals that it really was an alien abduction and there are even more circles than that one. However, why the aliens did it remains unknown. Eric speculates that they are testing the humanity, but testing what and for what purpose?
Circle / int_80b5924	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_80b5924	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_80b5924
Circle / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Circle / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: Downplayed. The first thing the Illegal Mexican does is pull out a family photo, but he isn't killed even though the others were debating picking him next. When he does go, it's to save the Little Girl.
Circle / int_8560c16f	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_8560c16f	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_8560c16f
Circle / int_8573ac0a	type	The Social Darwinist
Circle / int_8573ac0a	comment	The Rich Man, whose Social Darwinist views, Dirty Coward rationale and It's All About Me attitude are absolutely vile. He also makes a completely unnecessary ableist comment towards the One Armed Man — even the Lesbian calls him out on this despite being abrasive herself.
Circle / int_8573ac0a	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_8573ac0a	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_8573ac0a
Circle / int_87ab7f69	type	Sharp-Dressed Man
Circle / int_87ab7f69	comment	Sharp-Dressed Man: The unnamed black guy in the grey suit. He even dies elegantly.
Circle / int_87ab7f69	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_87ab7f69	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_87ab7f69
Circle / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Circle / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Numerous characters reveal some ugly traits under stress and desperation, which usually causes the others to turn against them immediately.
Circle / int_8cb1a369	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_8cb1a369	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_8cb1a369
Circle / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Circle / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: The Lawyer starts to argue that the Lesbian woman should be picked because she and her wife are undermining "family values", and even goes so far as to suggest that she's a pedophile. He's saying this to a room full of Californians. Naturally, he gets picked next. This ends up being the undoing of the pragmatist group: they have a common goal in general, but not a real strategy or ranks, leading to their demise. Also, while the group is focused on the fact that eliminating the Kid and Pregnant Woman gives all of them a chance, only the Bearded Guy thinks further ahead realizing that still only one of them can make it, and are caught out of guard when they end up being sacrificed for that goal. Ironically, while being the cleverer of the group, the Bearded Guy is the one that falls for it the most: he assumes the votes in his favor without actually counting them, and when Eric suddenly reveals himself willing to go along with his plan he sees it as a victory, not considering Eric might have a plan of his own. This first leads to his whole group being wiped out, but after that he trusts Eric again, this time leading to his own demise.
Circle / int_8d0785d5	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_8d0785d5	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_8d0785d5
Circle / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Circle / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Several of the characters get zapped while on a tear about their own prejudiced point of view or after revealing some major sin from their past. The most notable examples are Raoul the Domestic Abuser, the Racist Cop, the Cynical Atheist, the Lawyer, and the Rich Banker.
Circle / int_8ed5c6e4	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_8ed5c6e4	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_8ed5c6e4
Circle / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Circle / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Two of the would-be victims are a ten-year-old girl and a pregnant woman. They both survive to the end...where they are killed by Eric, who exploited this trope by manipulating the situation until he and they were the only three left.
Circle / int_91672d3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_91672d3e	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_91672d3e
Circle / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Circle / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Rich Guy, Bearded Man, and Black Guy form an alliance to eliminate either the Little Girl or the Pregnant Woman to increase their own chances of survival, but when it comes down to a tie between the Little Girl and Rich Guy, both of his allies immediately turn on him, offering to kill them both. The Wife is convinced to join the pragmatic camp by the Bearded Man, but he later trades her life with Eric for the Little Girl.
Circle / int_928ca2cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_928ca2cc	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_928ca2cc
Circle / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Circle / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: The Rich Banker starts off reasonably composed, making decent arguments for sacrificing others without appearing too much like a jerkass, but as the game continues he becomes more unhinged and resorts to increasingly desperate means to survive, finally ending as a ranting and raving Hate Sink campaigning to murder a child to save his own skin.
Circle / int_957e5fc2	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_957e5fc2	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_957e5fc2
Circle / int_95a4c6df	type	Wild Card
Circle / int_95a4c6df	comment	Wild Card: The Fake Husband and Fake Wife. Both factions try to pressure and manipulate them and they both wind up being swing votes to take out members both the protector and pragmatist factions. After the fake relationship is discovered and the Fake Husband is eliminated the Fake Wife throws her lot in with the Bearded Man only to get Out-Gambitted by Eric and eliminated.
Circle / int_95a4c6df	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_95a4c6df	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_95a4c6df
Circle / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Circle / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: We get no explanation for why the aliens are doing this. Researching human behavior and/or sadistic gratification are offered as possibilities by the captives.
Circle / int_96a33f11	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_96a33f11	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_96a33f11
Circle / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
Circle / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Discussed by the African-American man, who sarcastically suggests that everyone kill off all the black people first. A lot of the other characters call him out on trying to score sympathy points by pulling the race card. Even the other black people in the circle disagree with him and tell him to leave them out of it. However, this argument is quickly shut down when the Cop suddenly displays genuinely racist views. His suspicions are ultimately validated when he, the lone black character left, is killed by the pregnant-woman-and-child bloc rushing to eliminate a member of the every-man-for-himself bloc and he's the easiest to identify and target ("everybody vote for the black guy!") among all the white people remaining. This is also played straight with the first onscreen casualties being a Hispanic woman and an African-American man.
Circle / int_9788e2b1	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_9788e2b1	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_9788e2b1
Circle / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Circle / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: In the beginning, when everyone starts talking at once, you can briefly see the Husband and Wife talking to each other. If you've seen the film already, you can realize that this is the moment that they establish their plan to masquerade as a married couple.
Circle / int_97926168	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_97926168	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_97926168
Circle / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Circle / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: Several characters choose to kill themselves voluntarily by jumping off the platform rather than wait to be killed by the circle.
Circle / int_99298c71	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_99298c71	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_99298c71
Circle / int_99c49c21	type	Villains Blend in Better
Circle / int_99c49c21	comment	Villains Blend in Better: Eric avoids antagonizing people or calling attention to himself by not making sarcastic comments, rants or arguments about morals. He sometimes intervenes by steering people into targeting others but otherwise doesn't stand out. His soft voice, shirt that blends into the background, generally polite mannerisms and his position in the back row also help with this. Tellingly, the Black Man refers to the Marine as the leader of the protector camp when it was Eric who organized the faction in the first place before fading back into the background.
Circle / int_99c49c21	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_99c49c21	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_99c49c21
Circle / int_9c5e78d0	type	Kill the Cutie
Circle / int_9c5e78d0	comment	Kill the Cutie: Most notably the Minister, Shaun, the Little Girl, and the Spanish Translator.
Circle / int_9c5e78d0	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_9c5e78d0	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_9c5e78d0
Circle / int_9c73b5b2	type	Let Them Die Happy
Circle / int_9c73b5b2	comment	Let Them Die Happy: The Minister comforts a grieving woman who elects to step off of her circle to buy the others time after revealing her son died prior to the events of the film, telling her that she'll see him again soon. The Rude Atheist reacts dismissively but the Fake Wife and Spanish Translator defend the Minister.
Circle / int_9c73b5b2	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_9c73b5b2	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_9c73b5b2
Circle / int_a05522e3	type	Alien Abduction
Circle / int_a05522e3	comment	Alien Abduction: The prevailing theory about why everyone is there. It turns out to be correct, although the aliens themselves are never seen. The characters theorize that the aliens are either forcing them to kill each other off for social experiments, or just their sick amusement.
Circle / int_a05522e3	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_a05522e3	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_a05522e3
Circle / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Circle / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: Happens several times when people protest against being picked.
Circle / int_a2022cc9	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_a2022cc9	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_a2022cc9
Circle / int_a2b998a0	type	Wouldn't Hurt a Child
Circle / int_a2b998a0	comment	Wouldn't Hurt a Child: The Pregnant Lady actively refuses to target the Little Girl — not even to save her OWN child! Despite the Fake Husband and Fake Wife initially voting with the pragmatists to tie a vote between the Little Girl and the Rich Banker, the Fake Wife doesn't vote on the runoff so that only the Rich Banker dies. She admits that she couldn't bring herself to do it. The Rich Banker being who he was probably helped.
Circle / int_a2b998a0	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_a2b998a0	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_a2b998a0
Circle / int_a56e3cba	type	Language Barrier
Circle / int_a56e3cba	comment	Language Barrier: When attention is drawn to Illegal Mexican, there's a debate about whether he should be eliminated next since he doesn't speak any English and they're already short on time. Spanish Translator tries to act as an intermediary until she's killed off to shift votes in favor of the pragmatists.
Circle / int_a56e3cba	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_a56e3cba	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_a56e3cba
Circle / int_a5f0752f	type	Rule of Drama
Circle / int_a5f0752f	comment	Rule of Drama: It's established that if votes are tied, a run-off results, while if no one votes, the machine selects a person randomly. Therefore, when it's down to just Eric and the Pregnant Woman's unborn child, one of them should have simply been picked right away without a tie resulting since neither of them voted, but this would have removed the dramatic impact of The Reveal. The baby itself also never counted as a player up until that point. Then again, all the "rules" of the game are deduced as event unfolds, but never stated, nor is ever actually stated that there are rules being followed. As one of the characters points out, after all, the very situation they find themselves in is intrinsically unfair. It's entirely possible that the aliens changed the rules to invoke that trope.
Circle / int_a5f0752f	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_a5f0752f	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_a5f0752f
Circle / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Circle / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Eric gets off scot-free for killing Pregnant Woman's baby and convincing the Little Girl to kill herself.
Circle / int_a70223	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_a70223	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_a70223
Circle / int_a8c1433e	type	Dead Star Walking
Circle / int_a8c1433e	comment	Dead Star Walking: Both College Guy and Wife are portrayed by well-known TV actors. Neither of them survive, and the former is killed before the halfway mark.
Circle / int_a8c1433e	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_a8c1433e	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_a8c1433e
Circle / int_a99f4468	type	Bigot with a Badge
Circle / int_a99f4468	comment	Bigot with a Badge: One of the black people trapped in the circle starts complaining that the voting order has become racist. Although this initially draws the ire of his fellow captives, he's proven right when the Cop goes on a bigoted tirade against black people as a whole and "socialist bullshit" in particular. Interestingly, the Cop had earlier gotten a Latino Tattooed Crook killed because he allegedly beat his girlfriend. The criminal himself confirmed this, but it raises doubts as to how sincere the Cop's motives were.
Circle / int_a99f4468	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_a99f4468	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_a99f4468
Circle / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
Circle / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: The premise of the Circle runs on the idea that only one person in the circle can survive. Emphasis on can: if two people are left, they can only vote for each other. Thus, for anyone to survive at all one of the two will have to sacrifice themselves, which is statistically unlikely anyway since making it to the final few requires a fair bit of self-preservation and ruthlessness. In the end, Eric manages to be the only survivor after manipulating everyone else to either vote each other out or kill themselves.
Circle / int_aa30e350	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_aa30e350	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_aa30e350
Circle / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Circle / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Eric is very observant, which becomes obvious as he was the one to notice that someone is changing his vote to the pregnant lady and also understanding the motive behind it. He was also the one who remembered most about the abduction. This helps him make it right to the end.
Circle / int_acecb17d	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_acecb17d	featureConfidence	1.0
Circle	hasFeature	Circle / int_acecb17d
Circle / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Circle / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Several times when people realize they've been marked for elimination. Marine is shocked when he thinks he's firmly beaten the Bearded Man, only for the majority to switch to the pragmatists again. Bearded Man gets two when he gets Out-Gambitted twice. First when the Silent Man (whom he had assumed was in his faction) doesn't vote, causing his remaining ally, the Fake Wife, to get killed and causing Eric to regain the majority. Then on the subsequent round where he realizes Eric's majority voted for him rather than the Silent Man it dawns on him right before he's zapped, only being able to say "Wait..." Also, Katie notices that Eric is casting a vote at the very last moment, but she's already sacrificed herself at that point
Circle / int_ad1db87c	featureApplicability	1.0
Circle / int_ad1db87c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Circle / int_ad4c74ed	type	Final Girl
Circle / int_ad4c74ed	comment	The first woman to wake up is a young woman who has all the makings of being the Final Girl. She's quickly cast aside once the other survivors start waking up and is reduced to being another background survivor. She's later offed unceremoniously during the last half-hour of the movie.
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Circle / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Circle / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: The Asian Kid, and the Lawyer. One-Armed Man has some nice zingers as well in his objections to some of the reasoning used by others.
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Circle / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Circle / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: Many characters end up joining the group of pragmatists even if they won't vote to kill the Little Girl and the Young Pregnant Woman. They do this because they either want to survive or because they want to see their family again. The most notable examples of relatively nice characters joining this group are: the Husband, the Wife, the Pretty Girl, and the Lesbian.
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Circle / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Circle / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Comes down to this in many cases. The Husband says this word-for-word when he switches sides to prevent his wife from being killed next. Only it's not his wife, they were both just pretending to be married for sympathy and increase their chances of survival, and he had to switch his allegiance simply to keep up the pretense.
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Circle / int_b39d5719	type	Sadist
Circle / int_b39d5719	comment	Sadist: The domestic abuser is briefly seen chuckling after the death of a woman in the circle. This is what causes the Racist Cop to notice and recognize him.
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Circle / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Circle / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Deconstructed and heavily debated throughout the film. The pragmatists argue that while they don't want to kill children and pregnant women, they all deserve to vote according to their self interest in this unfair circumstance. Despite his racist behavior that gets him sacrificed, the Cop also is the one that informs people of the Abuser's wife-beating, showing sincere disgust for it. Regardless of all the other crimes or sins they previously used as excuses to vote for someone, almost nobody thought illegal immigration and homosexuality should be among them. During the Lawyer's homophobic tirade against the Lesbian several people who end up joining the pragmatist faction including the Black Man and Rich Man are visibly uncomfortable at his comments. At one point in a tie between the Little Girl and the Rich Banker, the Fake Wife can't bring herself to kill the Little Girl and doesn't vote, resulting in the Rich Banker's death. The Pregnant Woman also can't bring herself to vote for the Little Girl.
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Circle / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Circle / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: It's discovered pretty early on that the elimination is based on popular vote, but rather than keeping their mouth shut or outright lying for sympathy (as several smarter characters attempt), some of the people in the room behave like massive jerkasses, which almost always gets them killed: When the Racist Cop accuses the Tattooed Crook of beating his girlfriend, the Tattooed Crook denies it and several people seem to be on the verge of taking his side — and then he not only admits it but says she "got what she deserved." He's promptly eliminated. When the Black Man angrily claims the process of elimination has gotten racist, multiple people including a few other black characters say he's being overdramatic. Then the Racist Cop goes on a completely unprompted rant at him making several racist comments. He's eliminated moments later. The Rude Atheist acts this way only for someone else to get eliminated. Then, moments later, he starts bullying the Pretty Girl and accusing her of being a porn actress, causing the survivors to finally eliminate him. The Homophobic Lawyer manages to survive making a racist comment about illegal immigrants and just being an asshole multiple times as other people are eliminated for abrasive behavior. Rather than take this as a signal to shut up he goes on a tirade once the Lesbian reveals she has a wife and daughter, assuming everyone will vote for the Lesbian despite multiple people giving him very obvious unpleasant looks. The group finally gets sick of his crap and eliminates him.
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Circle / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
Circle / int_b5b3599d	comment	The Amoral Attorney has a noticeable potbelly even though his limbs and head look slender.
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Circle / int_b731fa6e	type	I Cannot Self-Terminate
Circle / int_b731fa6e	comment	I Cannot Self-Terminate: Played with. People can't use their votes to eliminate themselves. However, stepping off your platform causes you to automatically be eliminated, which resets the timer, and acts as a way around this.
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Circle / int_b9fd7929	type	Morality Chain
Circle / int_b9fd7929	comment	Morality Chain: At one point the Pregnant Lady seems to be wavering on joining the pragmatist faction after the Bearded Man pressures her. Katie pleads with her not to, and she reaffirms her loyalty to the protectors.
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Circle / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Circle / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: The whole movie is full of those, but the main one is about either let the child or the Pregnant Woman be killed. The Bearded Man tries to force Eric to choose between the two of them, only for Eric to realize that the Silent Man has never voted and uses him to break the tie, allowing him to regain the majority by killing the Fake Wife. The Pregnant Woman has one herself eventually: kill both herself and her unborn child to save a little girl, or allow the little girl to commit suicide for her? She refuses to vote for the little girl when pressed, but simply breaks down sobbing when the little girl volunteers herself.
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Circle / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Circle / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: The Old White Lady gets only one line right before College Guy is eliminated after he suggests killing everyone over not just 70, but 50 or perhaps even 40 years of age: "Fuck you!"
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Circle / int_bc03c871	type	Child Hater
Circle / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: The Rich Man claims he has 7 children, but his behavior strongly suggests he was lying, as he aggressively campaigns to kill the Little Girl (the Lesbian also suspects that he is a Gay man). While the others in the pragmatist camp make purely pragmatic arguments for doing so, the Rich Man suggests that the Little Girl is fair game if she's a "miserable brat" or doesn't do well enough in school.
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Circle / int_bedae243	type	Relative Button
Circle / int_bedae243	comment	Relative Button: The Lawyer unknowingly drew the ire of the middle-aged Black Man to vote for him with his homophobic rant, as the latter admits that his son is actually gay.
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Circle / int_bff666b	type	Suicide Pact
Circle / int_bff666b	comment	Suicide Pact: Since there's no way of stopping the elimination process, it's suggested that people volunteer to sacrifice themselves. At least one person suggests that they all do it simultaneously, but since most of them do want to survive, this never transpires. The black man and woman who had an affair decide to step off the platform at the same time when they tie.
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Circle / int_c02a3bf2	type	Imperiled in Pregnancy
Circle / int_c02a3bf2	comment	Imperiled in Pregnancy: There's one pregnant woman among the group of fifty captives. It doesn't take long for different characters to figure out that she (and a little girl) would have the strongest chances of surviving the elimination, as most people would balk at murdering either of them. However, this makes them the prime targets of a group seeking to "level the playing field" to increase their own chances of getting out alive.
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Circle / int_c2afffe	type	Take Me Instead
Circle / int_c2afffe	comment	Take Me Instead: The Husband asks the others to take him first so Wife can live when it comes down to it. Which is just a ploy by two unrelated people to survive longer. They're not even married.
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Circle / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Circle / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: All the members of the pragmatism group end up eliminated for pragmatic reasons. In their defense, though, this is also due to Eric being actually the craftiest and most pragmatic of them all. The Rich Banker makes himself hated by the majority before revealing his reasons, ending up in a tie with one of the people he wanted to eliminate. It's also very likely that the Bearded Guy saw it as the chance to take control of the group. The Black Guy is killed by the opposing faction when they realize he is the easy one to identify, and they can vote all against him too fast for the other group to counteract that. The Lesbian and the Pretty Girl end up in a tie with the Marine and Cancer Survivor Lady. Rather than try to save one of them and risk the survival of either Marine and Cancer Survivor Lady, the Wife and Bearded Guy let them die to cull the number of both groups, thinking it will turn the tide to their advantage. The Wife is quickly given up when Eric offers the Bearded Guy the chance to sacrifice her, but also kill the Pregnant Lady. It also ends up being for nothing, since thanks to Eric's plan the Pregnant Lady survives anyway. Lastly, the Bearded Guy is disposed of since both Eric and the Pregnant Lady realize they have the majority, and he is more dangerous to keep around than the Silent Man.
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Circle / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Circle / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: When it's just Eric, the Little Girl, and the Pregnant Woman left, the audience is relieved that one of the two innocents is going to survive. However, Eric was faking his kindness the whole time and killed both of them.
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Circle / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Circle / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Marine, Cancer Survivor Lady, One-Armed Man, and Spanish Translator. These four take a strong stance against killing the Little Girl and the Young Pregnant Woman and never waver. The Minister is also a pleasant man who tries to offer kindness to people, including to a grieving mother whose son died prior to the events of the movie. He opts to step off the circle rather than be involved in getting the Pregnant Woman and Little Girl killed.
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Circle / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Circle / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: The Rich Guy claims that people with children should be given priority over those who don't. Then he excludes the Young Pregnant Woman from this, claiming that she's expendable because "lots of people have babies."
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Circle / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Circle / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: The Tattooed Man, who is revealed to be a Domestic Abuser, says that his cousin was shot by police when he was 15. It doesn't save him.
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Circle / int_c8f98eb5	type	Ontological Mystery
Circle / int_c8f98eb5	comment	Ontological Mystery: How did they get there? Why are they there? Turns out it's aliens, albeit for reasons that are never revealed.
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Circle / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
Circle / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: When the Rude Atheist manages to turn half of the circle against him, he tries to make the Beautiful Blonde Woman next to him a target by insinuating she's a porn star and ends up making her cry. This earns him the ire of everyone in the circle, and he's the next to die. The Lesbian does a little of this when it's suggested the Pregnant Woman should be spared.
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Circle / int_c9aea8c8	type	Armies Are Evil
Circle / int_c9aea8c8	comment	Armies Are Evil: Subverted. Some of the people in the room suspect that the lone Marine in their midst might have something to do with their kidnapping or the alien invasion, but he furiously rebukes them, pointing out that he's been risking his neck for years and that he just returned from deployment to see his wife and newborn. He proves himself to be one of the most moral people there in his effort to protect the Young Girl and Pregnant Lady.
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Circle / int_ca5eda76	type	Heteronormative Crusader
Circle / int_ca5eda76	comment	The Lawyer starts to argue that the Lesbian woman should be picked because she and her wife are undermining "family values", and even goes so far as to suggest that she's a pedophile. He's saying this to a room full of Californians. Naturally, he gets picked next.
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Circle / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Circle / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Only a handful of the characters have names, and in the credits the others are described by phrases like Cancer Survivor, Pretty Girl, Cop, and so on. Justified in that they don't really have any time to get to know each other, and at least one survivor argues that knowing each other's name only makes what they're doing harder.
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Circle / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Circle / int_caf89e54	comment	When the pragmatist block's majority intends to vote for the Solder, he threatens to force a tie between himself and the Fake Wife with the threat of killing them both. The Fake Husband relents and switches his vote at the pleas of his "wife" to save her, resulting in the Black Man's death instead.
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Circle / int_d03fc3f1	type	Good Shepherd
Circle / int_d03fc3f1	comment	Good Shepherd: The Minister, who tries to comfort some of the others, and is part of the group dedicated to saving Katie or the Pregnant Woman.
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Circle / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
Circle / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: After the Lawyer is swiftly killed because he argued that they should kill the Lesbian before she molests her own daughter.
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Circle / int_d1b19b75	type	Debate and Switch
Circle / int_d1b19b75	comment	Discussed by the African-American man, who sarcastically suggests that everyone kill off all the black people first. A lot of the other characters call him out on trying to score sympathy points by pulling the race card. Even the other black people in the circle disagree with him and tell him to leave them out of it. However, this argument is quickly shut down when the Cop suddenly displays genuinely racist views. His suspicions are ultimately validated when he, the lone black character left, is killed by the pregnant-woman-and-child bloc rushing to eliminate a member of the every-man-for-himself bloc and he's the easiest to identify and target ("everybody vote for the black guy!") among all the white people remaining.
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Circle / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
Circle / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: Right after Beth is killed merely because she didn't have children, the Rich Man asks the Black Man next to him to share his life story as well. The Black Man is savvy enough not to fall for that one, since it's already been established that people will be killed for the pettiest reasons.
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Circle / int_d2cf1dce	type	Hyper-Awareness
Circle / int_d2cf1dce	comment	Hyper-Awareness: One thing that helps Eric get so far in the circle is that he intelligently observes all the actions and interactions of the different players. He notices, from across the room, that someone is voting for the Pregnant Woman, and immediately deduces that some people will try to eliminate her and the Little Girl to increase their odds of survival.
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Circle / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Circle / int_d397657d	comment	When the room decides to force a universal tie in an attempt to cheat the game, one person secretly switches his vote to kill Pregnant Lady. Another astute person notices this, and switches his vote to that guy so he'll be trapped in a tie with Pregnant Lady. Of course, the room chooses to save her over him.
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Circle / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Circle / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: The Rich Guy advocated allowing those with children to live longer than those who didn't. Yet he was one of the main people to also push for killing the Young Pregnant Woman and the Little Girl. The Rich Banker also advocated how his side was about treating other people "equally", yet he finds very flimsy pretenses to consider some people being worth less than others and deserving to be killed.
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Circle / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Circle / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Eric notices the one guy trying to vote for the pregnant lady and eliminates him. Then, by explaining that the pregnant lady and the kid will probably last until the end, he actually paints a target on their back for the other ones who want to survive at all costs. He signals to the pregnant lady to vote for the bearded man, taking the last of the pragmatists out. Finally, he manipulates Katie into sacrificing herself and then killing the pregnant lady by a last moment twist of the wrist. During the whole thing, he stays away from any ideological discussions or emotional outbursts, making sure nobody feels any strong hostility towards him.
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Circle / int_d9f97805	type	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing
Circle / int_d9f97805	comment	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: The Silent Man survives for an impressive length of time simply by saying and doing nothing. Eric is the only one to even notice this, using it to outwit another player. The Silent Man is then killed in the next round.
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Circle / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
Circle / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: The Atheist is rude, cynical and mocks other people for believing in God.
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Circle / int_da4cec2d	type	Would Harm a Senior
Circle / int_da4cec2d	comment	Would Harm a Senior: As soon as people realize that the order of killing is based on voting, College Guy suggests killing off the oldest people first in order to buy themselves more time because it's "more fair", which the room begrudgingly agrees to. However, when they run out of truly elderly people, the room turns against him because it's clear he's just going to keep targeting people based on age.
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Circle / int_dbab18ef	type	Morally Bankrupt Banker
Circle / int_dbab18ef	comment	Morally Bankrupt Banker: The Rich Guy, per his own description, was actually a normal banker who just loaned money to businesses and entrepeneurs, not some crook. However, when he is forced to participate in the elimination, he turns into a Dirty Coward and for a while leads the effort to kill the Little Girl and Pregnant Lady.
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Circle / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Circle / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The characters delve into their pasts at different points, hoping that there might be some clue to explain what is happening or how to escape from the game, but none of it really means anything. They were just picked at random during the Alien Invasion.
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Circle / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Circle / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: How Bearded Man realizes that Fake Husband and Wife were lying to them all along. Even if they really were a married couple, what are the odds they just happened to land right next to each other? The only people who knew each other at all were randomly placed in the room.
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Circle / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Circle / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: The first woman to wake up is a young woman who has all the makings of being the Final Girl. She's quickly cast aside once the other survivors start waking up and is reduced to being another background survivor. She's later offed unceremoniously during the last half-hour of the movie. Man 1 is the first character to figure out how the circle works, and he clearly seems like a level-headed character capable of keeping everyone—nope. He's the third victim. College Guy is the first one to figure out how to buy everyone time and tries to figure out how and why everything's happening. And while his methods seemed extreme, he seemed to know what he was doing. So naturally, he dies early on, too.
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Circle / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Circle / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: All the characters are seemingly randomly selected from society and forced into a Machiavellian game of life and death. The Bearded Man is silent for the first act of the film. But when the group begins to divide, he quickly emerges as the leader of the pragmatists, persuading others to vote along with him and coordinating who should die next, becoming the primary antagonist to the more sympathetic protector faction. Eric seems to be a normal person who argues for making purely moral choices in the game and becomes the rival ringleader to the pragmatists. In the end, however, it's revealed that he's either changed his mind or been hiding his true intentions to come out on top with a cruel masterstroke.
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Circle / int_e21e21be	type	Red and Black and Evil All Over
Circle / int_e21e21be	comment	Red and Black and Evil All Over: The premise is about a Deadly Game which is set up in a dark room with a large glowing red circle in the middle.
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Circle / int_e2a6ebc1	type	Closed Circle
Circle / int_e2a6ebc1	comment	Closed Circle: A literal example here, as the people are trapped in a circle that will kill them if they try to leave. Surrounding them is nothing but a featureless black void that the bodies of the dead periodically disappear into.
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Circle / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
Circle / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: The Lesbian suggests she's not the only gay person in the room and looks pointedly at The Rich Guy. He looks troubled, but it's never confirmed or revisited.
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Circle / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Circle / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: The Rich Man, whose Social Darwinist views, Dirty Coward rationale and It's All About Me attitude are absolutely vile. He also makes a completely unnecessary ableist comment towards the One Armed Man — even the Lesbian calls him out on this despite being abrasive herself. The Lawyer makes racist comments against illegal immigrants, deliberately mispronounces the name of a teenage boy who sacrificed himself to buy the others time, and goes on a homophobic tirade against the Lesbian. The latter finally gets him eliminated.
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Circle / int_e640b487	type	Infodump
Circle / int_e640b487	comment	Inverted as well. Some characters, most notably Beth, are killed immediately after giving us a huge Infodump. Since a lot of people picked her after she revealed that she had no children, the other people in the room realize it's smarter to keep your mouth shut.
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Circle / int_e69004a6	type	There Can Be Only One
Circle / int_e69004a6	comment	There Can Be Only One: The people in the room can't choose themselves, only other people, meaning there will be a single survivor after the elimination process has run its course. However, as someone points out later, when it comes down to the final two, it will inevitably be a Mutual Kill unless one person sacrifices themselves by not voting.
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Circle / int_e6c88e42	type	Old Shame
Circle / int_e6c88e42	comment	The Rude Atheist claims that the Attractive Blonde Woman next to him is actually an ex-pornstar, which she denies. She might have been and just didn't want to be associated with her past career, or (probably wisely, if that's the case) didn't want to risk exposing herself to social stigma considering the triviality of the reasons that lead to some of the victims being chosen. Or maybe he was just making it up from whole cloth in a deliberate attempt to kill himself. It's even possible he just mistook her for someone who looked like her.
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Circle / int_e975738d	type	Forgettable Character
Circle / int_e975738d	comment	Forgettable Character: When the atheist ties with a woman, who tries to save herself by pointing out she didn't say anything wrong, he yells: "Who the f is this?!" Justified in that the audience probably didn't notice her either. The Silent Man, who might be invoking this as a strategy; he never votes or says a word, and as such no one takes much notice of him. He makes it all the way to the final six with almost no one even acknowledging he's there.
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Circle / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
Circle / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: The Cancer Survivor Lady is 52 but looks older due to her chemotherapy. It becomes a plot point when this gets her aggressively targeted by the College Guy as part of his plan to kill the elderly to buy others time, only for everyone to be so disgusted they eliminate College Guy instead.
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Circle / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Circle / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: The Fake Wife said she was married and has a daughter. As she later insists, she didn't lie about that — she just wasn't married to the Fake Husband.
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Circle / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Circle / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Despite the Fake Husband and Fake Wife initially voting with the pragmatists to tie a vote between the Little Girl and the Rich Banker, the Fake Wife doesn't vote on the runoff so that only the Rich Banker dies. She admits that she couldn't bring herself to do it. The Rich Banker being who he was probably helped.
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Circle / int_ebec7ff5	type	Death by Racism
Circle / int_ebec7ff5	comment	Death by Racism: Since the characters are forced to kill each other off by popular vote, every time one of the abductees espouses openly bigoted views, they're almost inevitably chosen.
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Circle / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
Circle / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: Every two minutes, someone dies. They actually attempt several different ways to cheat the game, such as not voting or forcing a tie, both of which fail. For the former, the device selects a random victim. For the latter, everyone put into a tie will be killed if the votes don't shift.
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Circle / int_efbb5f9c	type	Down L.A. Drain
Circle / int_efbb5f9c	comment	Down L.A. Drain: The final scene is set here, before moving out to a nearby street.
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Circle / int_f642b1f9	type	You Bastard!
Circle / int_f642b1f9	comment	You Bastard!: Eric's rant at the aliens (including a defense of his actions), when he thinks he's going to be killed regardless, could just as well be directed at the audience, who have enjoyed 90 minutes of characters killing each other via mass vote.
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Circle / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Circle / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: The two having an affair choose to die together when they tie.
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Circle / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Circle / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: The College Guy suggests killing off the oldest people in the room first to buy themselves more time and come up with some sort of plan to escape. Most of the room goes along with him when it's people in their eighties and seventies who are picked off, but when College Guy keeps lowering the age by targeting Cancer Survivor Lady (who insists that she's 52 but looks older), he pisses off enough people to be outvoted next. The Bearded Man leads a campaign to kill off the Child and Pregnant Woman, because to do otherwise would be for everyone else to simply accept death.
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Circle / int_fe6c146e	type	The Corrupter
Circle / int_fe6c146e	comment	The Corrupter: One can make a case for the Bearded Man, since he's able to pressure the Lesbian and Pretty Girl into actively trying to kill a pregnant woman and a ten year old girl by playing on them not wanting to die themselves.
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Circle / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Circle / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: While the Lawyer's sincerity is debatable, the Rich Man actually does seem to show a moment of decency to teenage Shaun when he offers himself to die next.
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