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Cube

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Cube	type	TVTItem
Cube	label	Cube
Cube	page	Cube
Cube	comment	Cube is a Canadian science fiction/horror film series, consisting of Cube (1997), Cube 2: Hypercube (2002), and Cube Zero (2004). The first movie is directed by Vincenzo Natali, the second by Andrzej Sekula, and the third by Ernie Barbarash.The three movies are each based on the same premise; there is a gigantic, mechanical, cube-shaped structure (the purpose and origin of which are almost completely unknown) that is made up of lots of smaller cube-shaped rooms. Each of these rooms has 6 doors, one on each wall and one on the ceiling and one on the floor, which lead into adjacent, identical rooms, only differing by color. Some of these rooms are safe, while other rooms are equipped with booby traps that instantly kill those who enter them.In each case, a group of strangers wakes up in this mysterious structure, with no knowledge of how they got there or why they are there. In order to escape from the prison, however, they must band together and use their combined skills and talents to avoid the traps and navigate out of the maze, while also trying to solve the mystery of what the cube is and why they are in it. However, the pressure of being in the cube usually drives one or more of the characters insane, and they start killing the others.Cube Zero was slightly different from the original two movies, in that it also dealt with some people on the outside of the cube whose job it was to control the cube and oversee those within. It also attempted to answer some of the questions of the series.Lionsgate is currently working to reboot the series.Not to be confused with The Cube. A Japanese remake of the first film was released in October 2021.
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Cube / int_118a2d16	type	Hanlon's Razor
Cube / int_118a2d16	comment	Hanlon's Razor: The doctor's assumption that the Cube is part of some maniacal government plot is immediately shot down by the revelation that it's just a senseless project on which no bureaucrat had the cojones to pull the plug. Once the truth sinks in, she admits that's actually worse.
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Cube / int_1206d299	type	Can't Kill You, Still Need You
Cube / int_1206d299	comment	Can't Kill You, Still Need You: When it's revealed that Worth designed the outer shell, Quentin tries to kill him in a rage, but Leaven and Holloway both convince him that would be completely insane because he's literally the only one who knows anything about the place they're stuck in.
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Cube / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Cube / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: It's rare for anyone to survive the cubes, and they don't tend to have much of a lifespan even if they do. The survival rate in the series' entries is, successively, 1:0:2.
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Cube / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
Cube / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: Holloway and Quentin both during their discussion of each other's pet theories on the origins of the Cube. She believes that the military-industrial complex created the place, but he points out that for the most part, government organizations are just composed of people like him, whose goals in life are to "buy big boats," not conspire. Quentin's theory is that the structure is a rich psychopath's entertainment, and the two argue over this.
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Cube / int_15756c9d	type	Where It All Began
Cube / int_15756c9d	comment	Where It All Began: In a cruel twist of fate, the test subjects learn that the exit room is the very room they started out in, making their trek through the titular deathtrap dungeon a pointless waste of time and human life (although they wouldn't have found Kazan if they had stayed put, but then again, he might have gone off wandering on his own before everyone else woke up).
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Cube / int_16dad7a7	type	It May Help You on Your Quest
Cube / int_16dad7a7	comment	It May Help You on Your Quest: Those imprisoned in the Cube have their memories wiped on How We Got Here, yet are often left personal items that help them (Leaven's reading glasses in Cube, so she can read the numbers on the rooms) or hinder them (Simon's knife in Cube 2: Hypercube, which makes him a threat to the others) or simply taunt them (Simon has a photo of the woman he was hired to find who has also been dumped in there, and a colonel is left with an empty Handcuffed Briefcase whose only use is to help him commit suicide). Unlike per usual for this trope, this is neither a Contrived Coincidence or an attempt to help them succeed.
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Cube / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
Cube / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: The chances of Quentin being in the room right next to the bridge room where the other characters are is about 20,000 to 1, considering that the rooms move around.
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Cube / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Cube / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Alderson (who serves no real purpose in the film other than serving as a Decoy Protagonist) enters an orange-lit room from an adjacent one. When he takes a few steps a loud sound is heard, and for a while he just stands erect. He then collapses into a loose pile of bloody chunks that fall to the floor. It is only then that the audience sees a razor-wire trellis silently folding up and realizes how he has been killed.
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Cube / int_1fe36347	type	Take My Hand!
Cube / int_1fe36347	comment	After Holloway almost falls to her death climbing outside of the Cube, Quentin lunges out and grabs the clothing she'd been using as a rope. He pulls the rope back up and grabs Holloway's hand; both of them are relieved. Quentin's expression then hardens. Holloway's turns to fear. He lets go.
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Cube / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Cube / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Although there are no direct examples, it's implied that the builders of the Cube were of this nature.
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Cube / int_21889507	type	A House Divided
Cube / int_21889507	comment	A House Divided: Recurring plot point. In the original the booby traps only kill two of the seven characters. In the second it's the guy with the knife who goes on a killing spree, while the third has one character wirelessly "reactivated" as a supersoldier.
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Cube / int_23a06c52	type	TheUnReveal
Cube / int_23a06c52	comment	The Un-Reveal: The movie ends just as the lone survivor has found the exit and manages to escape. To twist the knife further, he's so severely mentally disabled that he would be unable to tell anyone what he discovered.
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Cube / int_251bce7c	type	Cardboard Prison
Cube / int_251bce7c	comment	Cardboard Prison: There is a character nicknamed The Wren who has escaped from seven different prisons. Sadly, he's not so lucky in the Cube.
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Cube / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Cube / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Quentin literally gives Worth "the boot" by beating him with it.
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Cube / int_28a1d0b	type	Sunk Cost Fallacy
Cube / int_28a1d0b	comment	Sunk Cost Fallacy: Worth postulates that the Cube's designers don't even have an end-goal in mind with what they're hoping to get out of putting people in it. They just figured that since they had already put so much money into building it, they might as well use it merely to justify the expense.
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Cube / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Cube / int_2ad2a2c8	comment	Diagonal Cut: The first trap seen seems to do nothing except go "schinggg" — until the hapless victim collapses into a pile of meat dice.
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Cube / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Cube / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Quentin once he shows his true colors.
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Cube / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Cube / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Quentin — a police officer — starts out as the apparent hero and leader of the victimized group. However, the stress of the situation erodes his sanity, and he ends up becoming the film's biggest threat besides the dangerous Cube itself.
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Cube / int_3133d1d7	type	Hollywood Acid
Cube / int_3133d1d7	comment	Hollywood Acid: One of the characters meets his end when a trap splashes incredibly corrosive acid in his face. Death occurs within seconds.
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Cube / int_3273ebb9	type	Cut-and-Paste Environments
Cube / int_3273ebb9	comment	Cut and Paste Environments: All of the rooms look the exact same minus the colors; justified because it's a maze. The set of the first movie actually is the same room over and over, with differently colored lights. (They didn't even have the budget to use six different colors like they wanted to, so it gets somewhat repetitive. Luckily, that repetitiveness actually adds to the film's oppressive mood.)
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Cube / int_349a9dbc	type	It Was with You All Along
Cube / int_349a9dbc	comment	It Was With You All A Long: The prisoners/subjects of the deathtrap-filled Cube start out in an unremarkable cubical room which happens to be the room one door away from the exit (after some shuffling), at the very end.
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Cube / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Cube / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Quentin trying to rape Leaven after Holloway's death.
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Cube / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Cube / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: As the characters stand at the exit of the Cube, moments before Quentin reappears and stabs Leaven, the sound of one of the doors opening can faintly be heard.
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Cube / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
Cube / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Worth and Leaven are stabbed by Quentin.
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Cube / int_39ed1c8a	type	Conspiracy Theorist
Cube / int_39ed1c8a	comment	Conspiracy Theorist: Holloway believes that the Cube was constructed by an evil government while she mocks Quentin for his own idea that it's some rich psycho's entertainment. She turns out be only half-right when Worth (who worked on the Cube) explains that the Cube is a public project with no bureaucratic oversight.
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Cube / int_3b4bd0b4	type	Killer Cop
Cube / int_3b4bd0b4	comment	Killer Cop: What Quentin is revealed to be, as he introduces himself as a beat cop in life, but becomes a murderer when he's had enough.
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Cube / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Cube / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: The film repeatedly rams this point home while intertwining it with Humans Are Morons as the entire reason why the Cube exists in the first place. The Cube is apparently the result of a bureaucratic mix-up with separate agencies all working on different parts of the structure and putting people in it without knowing about each other's existence, then being too dumb to actually just get rid of the Cube. Everyone is part of and upholds a broken system run by incompetent and uncaring stooges and are so content to go about their own lives that they never question it. The revelation essentially destroys Holloway's Conspiracy Theorist mindset and puts Quentin through Sanity Slippage. Both end up chewed out by Leaven and Worth for their ignorance.
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Cube / int_3e463af8	type	Prison Escape Artist
Cube / int_3e463af8	comment	Prison Escape Artist: Rennes is a French escape artist known for getting out of prisons. Subverted when he triggers a fatal booby trap shortly after he's introduced. There'll be no easy way out of the Cube, folks.
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Cube / int_46cd696	type	Eye Open
Cube / int_46cd696	comment	Eye Open: The film opens with a tight close-up of a man's eye when he wakes up to find himself in the Cube.
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Cube / int_4783acfa	type	Bait the Dog
Cube / int_4783acfa	comment	Bait the Dog: Quentin at first appears to be a noble cop who will lead the prisoners out of the Cube. It turns out he's actually a vicious psychopath with homicidal tendencies who cares only for himself. Inverted with Worth who, though seeming like someone who doesn't care about anyone but himself and believes there is no way out of the Cube, over time shows himself to be a kindhearted man who eventually starts to genuinely care about the group and proves himself in the end to be more of a hero than Quentin.
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Cube / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Cube / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Worth is basically Quentin's punching bag who he regularly beats and throws into rooms.
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Cube / int_498ddf27	type	Psycho Party Member
Cube / int_498ddf27	comment	Psycho Party Member: Quentin.
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Cube / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
Cube / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: Worth, briefly, upon rediscovering Rennes's dead body.
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Cube / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Cube / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Characters are repeatedly set up as heroes in an escape for their lives from a mechanical maze, but they all end up dying by the traps or being killed by another character, except for the lone survivor: the mentally disabled character. He would be the only person who could sound the alarm or summon help, but would not be able to communicate the situation, assuming he understood it at all.
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Cube / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Cube / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: After Holloway almost falls to her death climbing outside of the Cube, Quentin lunges out and grabs the clothing she'd been using as a rope. He pulls the rope back up and grabs Holloway's hand; both of them are relieved. Quentin's expression then hardens. Holloway's turns to fear. He lets go. Immediately after Leaven remarks "I can live with that," her face suddenly explodes into shocked pain as we hear a stabbing noise. She then rises up...because, as we soon see, she has been impaled on a sharp object being held by Quentin.
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Cube / int_4f52ac6a	type	World Limited to the Plot
Cube / int_4f52ac6a	comment	World Limited to the Plot: Deliberately invoked in the series. The inconsistent internal logic from movie to movie is designed to eliminate the possibility of a wider world beyond the Cube.
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Cube / int_5029c444	type	Audible Sharpness
Cube / int_5029c444	comment	Audible Sharpness: The Razor Wire trap gives a sharp "whoosh" as the victim is diced.
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Cube / int_514cba56	type	Sinister Geometry
Cube / int_514cba56	comment	Sinister Geometry: The protagonists are trapped in a grid of cubic rooms filled with deathtraps.
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Cube / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
Cube / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: Cube ended with the Sole Survivor escaping the labyrinthine Death Course and walking into a white void before a Fade to White, leaving his ultimate fate unknown. In Cube Zero, this happens to a different character... who is then chained up, asked if he believes in God, and incinerated when he says no.
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Cube / int_549a92e7	type	Minimalism
Cube / int_549a92e7	comment	Minimalism: There is only one set throughout the entire first film; after all scenes set in cubes of a given color were shot, the panels were replaced with a different color and another set of scenes were shot. The sequel didn't even bother with that; every room of the cube was identical, and the final set was green-screened. The third was atypical simply because it had any sets besides the cube.
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Cube / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
Cube / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Averted, as at least one character takes a leak in a corner.
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Cube / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Cube / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: It's implied that Quentin's wife left him because of his violent temper, and that he was also abusive to his children.
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Cube / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
Cube / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: Subverted. The protagonists at first speculate that the government is responsible for the mysterious cubical death maze and putting innocent people in there. A character who is revealed to have worked on it explains that there is no grand master plan behind it and it sort of grew by itself without any oversight.
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Cube / int_5da3f522	type	Big Brother Is Watching
Cube / int_5da3f522	comment	Big Brother Is Watching: Discussed and actively defied by Worth. He reveals that he worked on the construction of the Cube, but when the other characters question who is ultimately responsible and secretly controlling and watching their lives, his theory (also very likely) is that the Cube no longer has a purpose or an owner, and is nothing more than somebody's forgotten project, being used simply because it is there, and nobody wants to admit how pointless it is. He caps it off with "Big Brother is NOT watching you."
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Cube / int_6126185e	type	You Wake Up in a Room
Cube / int_6126185e	comment	You Wake Up in a Room: Or a cube, in this case. The characters all awaken, totally stumped as to where they are and how they got there.
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Cube / int_61ef56f5	type	Inventional Wisdom
Cube / int_61ef56f5	comment	Inventional Wisdom: Worth believes that the only reason they were put into the Cube was because it had been built, rather than to admit that building it was pointless.
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Cube / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Cube / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Happens to everyone to some extent, but special mention goes to Quentin in the first film who goes from the calmest and most rational to a mass-murdering lunatic.
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Cube / int_67fedd35	type	Bizarrchitecture
Cube / int_67fedd35	comment	Bizarrchitecture: The film is set in a building made up of a three-dimensional moving matrix of cube-shaped cells, most equipped with various booby traps that will kill the prisoners inside.
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Cube / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Cube / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Partway through the movie, Quentin says, "Trust me on this. It's my job to read people like an x-ray." This is later echoed as, "Try and see what I see. How my mind works. The flash when I look into someone's head like a fucking x-ray!" turning a previously innocuous line into proof of just how crazed and delusional he really is.
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Cube / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Cube / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The characters themselves reflect the prisons they are named after in their personality traits. Kazan (the autistic man) is a disorganized prison. Rennes (the "mentor") pioneered many of today's prison policies. Quentin (the policeman who eventually goes Ax-Crazy) is known for brutality. Holloway is a women's prison. Alderson (who is killed before even so much as seeing another human being within the Cube) is a prison where isolation is a common punishment. Leavenworth runs on a rigid set of rules (Leaven's mathematics), and the new prison is corporately owned and built (Worth, hired as an architect).
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Cube / int_6e8b95dc	type	The Teaser
Cube / int_6e8b95dc	comment	The Teaser: The opening scene depicts the gruesome death of an unrelated character, setting the mood for the movie.
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Cube / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Cube / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Holloway continuing to insult and argue with Quentin after the point where it becomes blatantly obvious that he's become a violent psychopath. Generally speaking, going out of your way to mock such a man is fairly counter-intuitive to your own survival, which she unfortunately finds out to her cost.
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Cube / int_72c04e0d	type	Door to Before
Cube / int_72c04e0d	comment	Door to Before: A rare movie version of this; justified because the rooms move around.
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Cube / int_7462b84d	type	Dead-End Room
Cube / int_7462b84d	comment	Dead-End Room: The titular Cube is a gigantic series of these. Some are booby-trapped while others are safe, with almost no way of knowing either way until it's too late. Escape is made all the more difficult because the rooms move.
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Cube / int_7eaf99d	type	Malevolent Architecture
Cube / int_7eaf99d	comment	Malevolent Architecture: Also the whole point of the series.
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Cube / int_80874b5d	type	Mechanical Abomination
Cube / int_80874b5d	comment	Mechanical Abomination: The Cube sometimes feel less like a maze or building, and more like an inscrutably unknowable thing that seemingly random people find themselves trapped within. While the cube is implied to be man-made, there seems to be no real purpose behind it and it just exists as a giant prison full of deathtraps.
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Cube / int_80eb641c	type	Straw Nihilist
Cube / int_80eb641c	comment	Straw Nihilist: Worth, which he lampshades. He ends up helping the others, though.
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Cube / int_8163e2bb	type	Dramatic Drop
Cube / int_8163e2bb	comment	Dramatic Drop: Quentin drops the boot when he finds Rennes's body despite travelling lots of rooms away from where he died.
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Cube / int_83308c12	type	Spikes of Doom
Cube / int_83308c12	comment	Spikes of Doom: There's a room where sound-activated spikes move out of the walls in every which direction.
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Cube / int_8ad2077d	type	The Government
Cube / int_8ad2077d	comment	The Government: At the end, one character declares that the eponymous deathtrap was built by the government, but no one in the government really knows why; it just sort of organically grew out of too much red tape and "boundless human stupidity."
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Cube / int_8e3b5b4d	type	Minimalist Cast
Cube / int_8e3b5b4d	comment	Minimalist Cast: Only seven people. One of them appears only in the first scene and doesn't interact with the rest.
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Cube / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Cube / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Quentin. From letting Holloway fall to her death, to actively killing Leaven and stabbing Worth, he was the only one who deserved to be in the Cube in the first place, and he definitely deserved getting crushed between the walls.
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Cube / int_8fe6b348	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Cube / int_8fe6b348	comment	Sir Swearsalot: Quentin. While the amount of profanity in the movie as a whole isn't particularly remarkable, the fact that about 90% of comes out of his mouth alone certainly is, especially when he nearly gets killed.
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Cube / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Cube / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The mentally handicapped Kazan is the only person to make it out of the Cube alive. The meek shall inherit the Earth, anyone?
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Cube / int_931fecec	type	Enclosed Space
Cube / int_931fecec	comment	Enclosed Space: The individual cubical rooms, which are no more than 15 feet in diameter on the inside.
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Cube / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Cube / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Quentin, who snaps and starts trying to kill all the protagonists when they defy him. Whomever is behind the Cube is never seen.
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Cube / int_97914ed	type	Idiot Savant
Cube / int_97914ed	comment	Idiot Savant: Kazan, a severely mentally handicapped man who, to the rest of the people trapped in the Cube, is a nuisance at first, constantly banging his head against the walls, making loud, annoying whining noises, and babbling about gumdrops. Later on it's discovered that he can easily find the prime factors of huge numbers in his head, and he ends up as both their savior and the only survivor.
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Cube / int_9ae5a580	type	Razor Floss
Cube / int_9ae5a580	comment	Razor Floss: Grids of such wire are used to kill off the first character we see. Many traps in the movie are like this.
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Cube / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Cube / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Quentin's introduction is his hand covered in blood that may not be his own. Later we see him give Holloway a Death Glare that at first could be chalked up to annoyance...right up until he slaps her.
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Cube / int_9f7c2eb7	type	Location Theme Naming
Cube / int_9f7c2eb7	comment	Location Theme Naming: All the characters are named after prisons. Quentin is named after San Quentin State Prison in California, Holloway after the Holloway Prison in London, Kazan after the prison in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. Rennes is named after a prison in Rennes, Britanny, France, Alderson after the prison in Alderson, West Virginia, and Leaven and Worth after the prison in Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Cube / int_a0edf122	type	Good with Numbers
Cube / int_a0edf122	comment	Good with Numbers: Leaven, and Kazan even more so.
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Cube / int_a3a6fdb2	type	Room 101
Cube / int_a3a6fdb2	comment	Room 101: While never specifically revealed, there is some speculation that the Cube is one of these. Even if you manage to live through the deadly deathtraps of death, the massive psychological horror experienced within might make you wish you hadn't.
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Cube / int_a3d86f4a	type	Delayed Causality
Cube / int_a3d86f4a	comment	Delayed Causality: The Clean Cut in the opening scene is followed by the character standing still for a few moments before the body parts fall apart.
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Cube / int_a8c1433e	type	Dead Star Walking
Cube / int_a8c1433e	comment	Dead Star Walking: The guy billed as the star of the movie and pictured on the poster gets diced five minutes in.
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Cube / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
Cube / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: Kazan is the only one out of seven people to escape the Cube alive, only to disappear in a white void right before the credits roll.
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Cube / int_ab686f50	type	You All Meet in a Cell
Cube / int_ab686f50	comment	You All Meet in a Cell: The series has characters meeting after being mysteriously imprisoned for no known reason in a shifting death trap.
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Cube / int_ab6e01e	type	Clean Cut
Cube / int_ab6e01e	comment	Clean Cut: In The Teaser, a character is in one room when something happens. The character freezes in shock, and seconds later falls apart in neatly diced cubes. The something turns out to be a moving grid made of razor wire.
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Cube / int_ad4c74ed	type	Final Girl
Cube / int_ad4c74ed	comment	Final Girl: Used one way or another in every movie: Cube features a cute, innocent girl in the cast of prisoners, but it's the mentally disabled boy who survives, apparently by being even more innocent. Cube 2: Hypercube appears to play it straight, with a wholesome blonde surviving to the end but not much further — she's revealed to be a government operative who, after her de-briefing, is executed to keep the secrets secure. Cube Zero plays it straight with Raines.
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Cube / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Cube / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Worth. Also, Leaven sometimes.
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Cube / int_b661954a	type	Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere
Cube / int_b661954a	comment	Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere: The mazes featured in the series, doubly so the Hypercube, which is implied to be non-Euclidean space folded into a single room.
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Cube / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
Cube / int_b869b5b1	comment	Color Motif: Played with. The room color has nothing to do with whether there is a trap or not. On a meta level, however, the colors sometimes signify what happens within them: White represents discovery. Any time the characters make some kind of discovery, it's within a white room. Red represents death or distress. Kazan is disturbed by red rooms, and often characters will confront one another and fight in red rooms.
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Cube / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
Cube / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: Worth near the end due to his injuries.
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Cube / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Cube / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: The film intentionally offers no real explanations to what the Cube is and why the characters have been placed in it. It just developed by itself, with one architect behind it saying, "Because it's here. You either use it, or admit it's pointless," which in and of itself is pretty mind-screwy.
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Cube / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
Cube / int_c145f69b	comment	Cube 2: Hypercube appears to play it straight, with a wholesome blonde surviving to the end but not much further — she's revealed to be a government operative who, after her de-briefing, is executed to keep the secrets secure.
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Cube / int_c1fffb62	type	Industrialized Evil
Cube / int_c1fffb62	comment	Industrialized Evil: The focus of the series is on a network of giant, mechanical Cubical mazes built up of thousands of smaller cubes, some of which are boobytrapped. It's inferred that they're some way of testing human behavior under stressful conditions, punishing dissidents of the regime and/or testing chemicals and other weapons, with one captive deciding that they have no purpose but were simply the product of a senseless, secretive bureaucracy gone mad.
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Cube / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Cube / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Holloway, as she falls to her death. Worth, when Quentin murders Leaven.
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Cube / int_c39dd4d	type	Fade to White
Cube / int_c39dd4d	comment	Fade to White: At the end, when Kazan exits the Cube and enters the white void beyond.
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Cube / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
Cube / int_c4240537	comment	Moral Event Horizon: Quentin crosses it in-universe when he allows Holloway to drop to her death, then goes even further along when he tries to abandon Worth and Kazan, tries to rape Leaven, and violently beats Worth with a boot. It is after this that Leaven refuses to go anywhere near him.
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Cube / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
Cube / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: Quentin, now insane, gets pulled down into a cube room and left by the other survivors, who have to use the composite of their knowledge and mathematical prowess to figure out how The Cube works and avoid the traps. They manage to get to the exit, but then he shows up, kills Leaven, and mortally wounds Worth. How he managed to get there without their aid to avoid trapped rooms and to figure out the final pieces of The Cube's puzzle is unknown. Even if he did somehow get there by sheer blind luck, Leaven and Worth also don't notice him opening the door, which is quite loud and clunky. That in itself leans on Breaking the Fourth Wall. The door opening sound effect is played before Quentin reappears. Be honest, viewer: did you hear it?
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Cube / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Cube / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Quentin believes that the Cube is just some rich weirdo's funhouse, like Scaramanga's. As Worth is explaining to the group that the Cube isn't part of some evil scheme or government conspiracy, he tells them, "Big Brother isn't watching you."
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Cube / int_c8f98eb5	type	Ontological Mystery
Cube / int_c8f98eb5	comment	Ontological Mystery: Aside from being a basic survival story this is the major plot point of the movies, particularly the first one, although the sequels adhere to this progressively less and less.
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Cube / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Cube / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How Quentin kills Leaven.
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Cube / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
Cube / int_c95d04f2	comment	It Can Think: Applied to a structure instead of a monster, but it still fits the purposes of the trope. The protagonists openly wonder if the Cube is actually watching them and calculating.
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Cube / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Cube / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: Cube.
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Cube / int_d45bdfee	type	Locked in a Freezer
Cube / int_d45bdfee	comment	Locked in a Freezer: Obviously, nearly the entire Cube is a trap. There's also the added bonus of having a limited time frame to escape (before you simply starve to death or die of dehydration, that is).
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Cube / int_d4bcc4c5	type	I Can Live With That
Cube / int_d4bcc4c5	comment	I Can Live With That: Upon reaching the exit:
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Cube / int_d833090a	type	Right Hand Versus Left Hand
Cube / int_d833090a	comment	Right Hand Versus Left Hand: Discussed. It's eventually revealed that the giant death maze in which the protagonists find themselves trapped has been—bizarrely—built and used without a genuine purpose. One of the architects who worked on the project concluded that there wasn't a malevolent master plan behind it, it was just the result of a bureaucratic mix-up with separate agencies all working on different parts of the structure and putting people in it without knowing about each other's existence. Whether or not he's right is ultimately left up in the air.
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Cube / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Cube / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Averted, as most characters will drop F-bombs when adequately frustrated, but as for Holloway...
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Cube / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Cube / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: Factoring a 3-digit number into its prime factors is not actually that difficult to do mentally; it just takes a minute, and some are easily memorized (e.g. the powers of 2). Leaven, the team mathematician, also takes much longer than she should in working out if a number is prime or not, given it ends in a 5, and then factors a more difficult composite number relatively quickly. The worst case would have to be when she has to stop and think if 372 (an even number) is prime. Possibly justified, since the stress and energy spent clearly exhausts her as well as the others.
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Cube / int_daba19f1	type	Portal Cut
Cube / int_daba19f1	comment	Portal Cut: Non-magical variation. Quentin dies when he's trapped halfway into one room and halfway into another, right as they start to move...
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Cube / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Cube / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: The characters all end up meeting each other very quickly despite the enormous size of the maze. Regardless of whether this was intended by the people who put them in or if it's simply the writer's choice, it's this trope. The ending suggests they were just all dumped into one room from the entrance.
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Cube / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Cube / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The film includes a seemingly detrimental character, Kazan, who turns out to be an idiot savant and critical to solving the formula needed to escape. Rennes seems like another pointless addition to the team who dies incredibly quickly. After heâ€™s long dead, the group stumbles on his corpse, which is how theyâ€™re able to figure out the Cube moves on its own and theyâ€™ve been moving in pointless circles.
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Cube / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Cube / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Alderson. Most of the other characters also fit this trope at one point or another, as one of the selling points of the movie is that the viewer's perception of the characters is meant to change as the movie progresses.
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Cube / int_e1fa333c	type	Hannibal Lecture
Cube / int_e1fa333c	comment	Hannibal Lecture: Quentin and Holloway let fly at each other when things get particularly tense. This costs Holloway's life later, when Quentin suspects from her (apparently accurate) "The Reason You Suck" Speech that she's a spy and kills her.
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Cube / int_e2a6ebc1	type	Closed Circle
Cube / int_e2a6ebc1	comment	Closed Circle: The eponymous contraptions of the series are these. The protagonists are doomed to roam around a maze of cuboid rooms until they can figure out its particular structure and escape.
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Cube / int_e53a34aa	type	Death Course
Cube / int_e53a34aa	comment	Death Course: The Cube again.
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Cube / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
Cube / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: Many of the traps have extremely gory results.
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Cube / int_e68b72	type	The Load
Cube / int_e68b72	comment	The Load: Kazan starts out this way. He's an autistic man who is somehow able to survive in the Cube long enough to meet the other characters, especially given his knack for springing traps. Near the end it's discovered that he has a very useful skill, as he can perform the arithmetic required for navigating the cube extremely fast.
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Cube / int_e6ce4b	type	The Maze
Cube / int_e6ce4b	comment	The Maze: The series entirely revolves around a mysterious cubical labyrinth filled with death traps that the protagonists must escape from.
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Cube / int_e7bffa82	type	Sarcastic Devotee
Cube / int_e7bffa82	comment	Sarcastic Devotee: A good part of the film is spent establishing Worth as a villainous character — and he is indeed eventually revealed to have some relation to their predicament — but in the end, he proves to be more heroic than de facto The Captain Quentin.
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Cube	hasFeature	Cube / int_e7bffa82
Cube / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
Cube / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: After Quentin kills Holloway, there's a near two-minute-long single take of everyone's reactions to it.
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Cube / int_e7f5713a	type	Ominous Cube
Cube / int_e7f5713a	comment	Ominous Cube: The eponymous Cube is a Big Labyrinthine Building made up of a bunch of smaller cube-shaped rooms. The entire building is one colossal Death Trap, which the protagonists are expected to navigate and escape.
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Cube / int_ea8de006	type	Traitor Shot
Cube / int_ea8de006	comment	Traitor Shot: In the beginning, Worth gets a fairly extreme and suspicion-raising closeup. About halfway through the movie, he confesses that he helped design the Cube in which the characters are trapped.
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Cube / int_ed3a5a30	type	Big Labyrinthine Building
Cube / int_ed3a5a30	comment	Big Labyrinthine Building: The Cube has to be traversed to find the exit before the prisoners die. The first one has 17,576 rooms in total and the hypercube over 60 million or just one, depending on how you look at it, both filled with boobytrapped rooms.
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Cube / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
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Cube / int_ee1c6326	type	Mobile Maze
Cube / int_ee1c6326	comment	Mobile Maze: The Cube is a highly malicious, non-sentient (we hope) one. Near the end, the characters discover to their horror that all the rumbling machinery they've been hearing are rooms shifting around and they've been jumping from multiple locations the whole time. The Cube is only escapable when a specific room reaches the outer edge before the entire thing locks and the room makes its next days-long journey through the maze. It's actually the very room they started out in.
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Cube / int_ee1c6326	featureConfidence	1.0
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Cube / int_f97df10b	type	The World's Expert (on Getting Killed)
Cube / int_f97df10b	comment	The World's Expert (on Getting Killed): The group of people trapped in the death maze are quickly joined by Rennes aka "The Wren," a notorious escape artist who has gotten out of six- seven- different prisons around the world. He introduces the idea of checking trapped rooms by throwing their boots in, advises the others to focus only on getting out lest they turn on each other, and promises to get them all out of there if they can keep up. He dies minutes after being introduced due to a molecular-chemical sensor he doesn't notice.
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Cube / int_f9ab4501	type	R-Rated Opening
Cube / int_f9ab4501	comment	R-Rated Opening: The dispatching of the initial prisoner is...graphic.
Cube / int_f9ab4501	featureApplicability	1.0
Cube / int_f9ab4501	featureConfidence	1.0
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Cube / int_fb3456e	type	Last Words
Cube / int_fb3456e	comment	Immediately after Leaven remarks "I can live with that," her face suddenly explodes into shocked pain as we hear a stabbing noise. She then rises up...because, as we soon see, she has been impaled on a sharp object being held by Quentin.
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Cube / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
Cube / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: Quentin starts to hate Holloway because she laughs at his theory of the Cube being constructed purely for some random, rich asshole's pleasure.
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Cube / int_ffd816e7	type	Everything Trying to Kill You
Cube / int_ffd816e7	comment	Everything Trying to Kill You: A good 95% of the rooms and at least one of your fellow prisoners.
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Cube	hasFeature	Bait the Dog / int_b36952af
Cube	hasFeature	Big Bad Slippage / int_b36952af
Cube	hasFeature	Big Brother Is Employing You / int_b36952af
Cube	hasFeature	Big Brother Is Watching / int_b36952af
Cube	hasFeature	Big Labyrinthine Building / int_b36952af
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Cube	hasFeature	Bury Your Disabled / int_b36952af
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Cube	hasFeature	Capitalism Is Bad / int_b36952af
Cube	hasFeature	Cardboard Prison / int_b36952af
Cube	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_b36952af
Cube	hasFeature	Dead-End Room / int_b36952af
Cube	hasFeature	Death Course / int_b36952af
Cube	hasFeature	Delayed Causality / int_b36952af
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Cube	hasFeature	Eye Open / int_b36952af
Cube	hasFeature	Fade to White / int_b36952af
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Cube	hasFeature	Good with Numbers / int_b36952af
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Cube	hasFeature	Hanlon's Razor / int_b36952af
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Cube	hasFeature	Hollywood Autism / int_b36952af
Cube	hasFeature	I Can Live With That / int_b36952af
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Cube	hasFeature	It May Help You on Your Quest / int_b36952af
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Cube	hasFeature	Take My Hand! / int_b36952af
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Cube	hasFeature	The World's Expert (on Getting Killed) / int_b36952af
Cube	hasFeature	Thriller / int_b36952af
Cube	hasFeature	Traitor Shot / int_b36952af
Cube	hasFeature	Unseen Evil / int_b36952af
Cube	hasFeature	Unwitting Test Subject / int_b36952af
Cube	hasFeature	Where It All Began / int_b36952af
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Cube	hasFeature	World Limited to the Plot / int_b36952af
Cube	hasFeature	You All Meet in a Cell / int_b36952af
Cube	hasFeature	You Wake Up in a Room / int_b36952af

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