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District 9

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District 9	comment	District 9 is a 2009 science-fiction Thriller/Mockumentary by Neill Blomkamp, based on his short film Alive in Joburg (which can be found on YouTube) and produced by Peter Jackson.In 1982, a massive flying saucer came to a halt above the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. After three months of complete silence, the government had the ship boarded. Surprisingly, most of the aliens turned out to be confused, timid and starved. They were "drones" — working caste aliens, incapable of surviving or piloting their starship on their own, and their leaders had mysteriously disappeared.In August 2010, after many failed attempts to integrate the aliens into South African society, they found themselves confined to "District 9", a fenced-off shanty-town operated by multinational defense contractor MNU. The first third of the film is filmed documentary-style, focusing on sniveling corporate git Wikus van de Merwe (Sharlto Copley). Wikus is a MNU agent who's given the task of evicting the aliens, derogatorily nicknamed "prawns", from District 9. His job is to get the legal paperwork out of the way, so that the aliens can be transported to a new concentration camp in the wilderness, where they can't bother humans.During a search for weapons in a shack belonging to the alien "Christopher Johnson", Wikus accidentally opens up an alien device, spraying black goo all over himself. As the day drags on, he's forced to get a lot closer to the "prawns" than he'd have liked. When Wikus gets forcibly drawn into the life of the aliens and pursued by MNU, the documentary aspect slowly starts taking a backseat to Wikus' personal horrors and Christopher's efforts to save his people.The film itself is an odd (but very fitting) combination of a sociopolitical Improv Mockumentary, extreme violence based on (among other things) Robocop and Halo,note The budget for the film was originally slated for a Halo film adaptation that fell apart in preproduction. and a classic science-fiction horror story (slash Black Comedy) very much like The Fly (1986). Depending on how you watch it, it's either a scathing political satire with cool action elements, or a kickass action film with an underlying social moral.In 2019, Weta Workshop held a Kickstarter campaign to fund District 9: The Boardgame.Has no relation to District 5 or the First District. Or any of the numbered Districts of Panem.
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District 9 / int_115d318	type	And Then John Was a Zombie
District 9 / int_115d318	comment	And Then John Was a Zombie: And then Wikus was a prawn.
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District 9 / int_116a941b	type	Applied Phlebotinum
District 9 / int_116a941b	comment	Applied Phlebotinum: The mysterious alien "fluid," which powers all of their technology, and apparently can turn humans into aliens. Word of God says it's meant to repair things, which probably would apply to medical aid as well.
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District 9 / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
District 9 / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Despite being in a heavily armed and armored Mini-Mecha that's far more advanced than anything the humans can operate, Wikus' first instinct is to run away from the MNU troops, telling them "they can have the prawn" and begging them to leave him alone. It's not until he hears them preparing to shoot Christopher over the radio that he recognizes his own cowardice and turns back.
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District 9 / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
District 9 / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Neill Blomkamp can be seen giving the coordinates when Koobus is tracking Wikus's location.
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District 9 / int_132d93f1	type	Human Shield
District 9 / int_132d93f1	comment	Human Shield: Wikus uses a scientist as one, threatening to cut out his eyes with a scalpel if the others attack him.
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District 9 / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
District 9 / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Christopher when he reaches the MNU lab and sees the horrible carcasses that have been dissected by the humans.
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District 9 / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
District 9 / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: If you haven't seen the film, just watch the DVD ads.
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District 9 / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
District 9 / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Police Brutality perpetrated by the MNU soldiers, the "No Non-Human Loitering" signs◊, and even the title of the film itself are all decidedly unsubtle, with chilling effect. The MNU militant insignia shows a goat with two horns, two ears and an elongated beard that makes it look like a upside down star. The shaven-headed Koobus seems very reminiscent of Neo-Nazis. Particularly the lines of how he "loved watching prawns die" and calling Wikus a "filthy half-breed". The actor deliberately gave Koobus an English accent and a loathing of Wikus (an Afrikaaner). The aliens' drug-like addiction to cat food is based on a very common colonial occurrence: you find some substance the natives don't have (usually alcohol, caffeine, or sugar), get them hooked on it, and then make unfair deals with them that exploit their addiction. The treatment Wikus receives from his fellow humans after the news media claims he's been infected with an alien STD recalls the social ostracism of people infected with HIV/AIDS. The deplorable slum the prawns live in was an actual slum at the time, and continues to be a staple of South Africa. The alien language incorporates clicking sounds in a similar fashion to many African peoples, such as the Bantu. The Nigerian gang members eating and dismembering the aliens in an attempt to gain access to their technology parallels real-life ritual beliefs among African crime syndicates that eating or possessing the body parts of albinos will grant power. In a non-racial example, some critics have observed that the prawn guns tend to fry and explode people in a way that's very similar to...well, a bug zapper.
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District 9 / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
District 9 / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: A massive fight occurs between the evil MNU mercenaries and the evil Nigerian gangsters. Both want to use Wikus' corpse so that they can activate prawn weaponry, although the gangsters are considerably less scientific about it.
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District 9 / int_1713b00a	type	Your Head A-Splode
District 9 / int_1713b00a	comment	Your Head Asplode: The result of the alien weaponry, in the cases when it's not Your Entire Body Asplode. Most notably in the case of Obesanjo, whose head actually swells up before exploding.
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District 9 / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
District 9 / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: The first act is mostly shot in a mockumentary format with some conventional shots, then flips to mostly conventional around the time of Wikus's infection, with some of the mockumentary elements peppered in once in a while.
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District 9 / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
District 9 / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The promotional websites provide quite a bit of Backstory.
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District 9 / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
District 9 / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: We get our initial ideas about the prawns from possibly biased documentary footage and a making-of video for a bit of corporate spin. Not everything they say is true.
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District 9 / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
District 9 / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "There's a lot of secrets in District 9."
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District 9 / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
District 9 / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: Pretty much all the footage in the trailers was filmed specifically for promotion, and does not appear in the finished film.
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District 9 / int_19f6e383	type	Transhuman Treachery
District 9 / int_19f6e383	comment	Transhuman Treachery: Inverted; Wikus is betrayed by humanity due to him being infected and beginning to transform into a Prawn. His lashing out at them afterwards is simply justified revenge.
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District 9 / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
District 9 / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Tania. Only that her dad is a manipulative liar.
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District 9 / int_1a6960dd	type	Flying Saucer
District 9 / int_1a6960dd	comment	Flying Saucer: The Prawns' ship is a very large, industrial-looking one.
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District 9 / int_1c0dbffc	type	Pyromaniac
District 9 / int_1c0dbffc	comment	Yet another dark one in the deleted scenes: the "population growth control" flamethrower unit that Wikus calls in to kill a shack filled with babies is seen again when Wikus hijacks an APC (for the assault on the MNU headquarters). They promptly get shot by Wikus.
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District 9 / int_1d9ec554	type	Scannable Man
District 9 / int_1d9ec554	comment	Scannable Man: The left side of every prawn's head has white paint with a decal on it.
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District 9 / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
District 9 / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: The thing that snaps Christopher out of his brief mid-battle Heroic BSoD is Wikus desperately yelling at him "Think of your boy, for fok's sake!"
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District 9 / int_1e7affed	type	Amputation Stops Spread
District 9 / int_1e7affed	comment	Amputation Stops Spread: Wikus at one points grabs an axe to cut off his alien limb, but loses his nerve and does a trial run on his finger first. The incredible pain dissuades him from any further attempts. This almost certainly wouldn't have worked, given how he was infected.
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District 9 / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
District 9 / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: When Wikus's fingernails fall off as he transforms into an alien, and later, when he chops off one of his alien "fingers". This is an homage to The Fly (1986). Wikus even does the same fingernail-nibbling in the mirror that Jeff Goldblum did.
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District 9 / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
District 9 / int_1f799027	comment	The first interaction Wikus has with Koobus is when Wikus tells one of Koobus' mercenaries that he's carrying one more clip of ammunition than he's legally allowed to have on him, neatly demonstrating that Wikus is a bit stupid and in over his head, an interfering pencil-pusher, not completely lacking in moral scruples, and not going to do evil that doesn't serve the bottom line. Koobus responds by loudly swearing in his face and shoving Wikus down in front of all the cameras, firmly establishing himself as not only a racist but a brutish hotheaded bully as well.
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District 9 / int_1ff3b1d6	type	Harmful Healing
District 9 / int_1ff3b1d6	comment	Harmful Healing: Wikus is sprayed with an alien fluid and injures his arm shortly after. Word of God says the fluid is a nanite solution used to fix things, and sure enough, it starts to heal the wound and turn it back into a healthy arm. Unfortunately for Wikus, a healthy alien arm. And it doesn't stop there — apparently being human is entirely fixable, too.
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District 9 / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
District 9 / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Wikus. He's a rather goofy guy who is smitten with his wife and generally seems to want to avoid conflict with the prawns. However, his job is basically a concentration camp administrator, and he has no qualms about bullying the prawns to meet his quotas or enforcing brutal regulations on their freedom. It's all just in a day's work, and he seems to enjoy it.
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District 9 / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
District 9 / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: District 9 is pretty much the most run-down, degraded, depressing, hopeless hellhole of a town you could ever possibly imagine. And, for Truth in Television value, it was filmed in an actual South African shanty-town whose residents were being resettled by the government at the time of filming. In the commentary, the director pretty much describes it as Hell on Earth.
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District 9 / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
District 9 / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The Nigerian gangsters try to eat a human man after he has only partially mutated into a Prawn.
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District 9 / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
District 9 / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: Because it's not spelled out in dialogue (and the condition of the body is so severely mutilated), first-time viewers are unlikely to pick up on the fact that the dissected prawn corpse Christopher sees in the MNU labs isn't just any old prawn — it's his friend, Paul, who Koobus killed during the eviction.
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District 9 / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
District 9 / int_222dc873	comment	Of the darkest type. When being forced to test fire alien weapons, Wikus begs his captors to let him shoot a pig in place of the alien they walk in front of him. In the big Power Armor shootout, Wikus uses a gravity gun to shoot a pig... into an MNU merc and through the wall behind him.
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District 9 / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
District 9 / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: Wikus is the MNU manager Piet Smit's son-in-law, who lampshades this with a Suspiciously Specific Denial of such. In this case, however, events later in the film invert the trope: Smit clearly gave him the promotion knowing that he was out of his depth and hoping he would be humiliated or somehow end up killed by the aliens.
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District 9 / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
District 9 / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The prawn Mini-Mecha suit, the falling wreckage from the mothership (later revealed as the shuttle), and more subtly, the anti-aircraft missile launcher. In addition, Wikus's sidekick is shown in the documentary sections in an orange jumpsuit, which is the standard South African prison attire. Sure enough, at the end it's revealed that he's awaiting trial because he revealed the illegal genetic experiments. He's in jail because he broke into their computer system to get the information, which is a crime in most countries. Tania mentioning that Wikus would make her handmade gifts, like the papier-mÃ¢chÃ© bowl she accidentally sat on.
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District 9 / int_2346a8ec	type	Metamorphosis
District 9 / int_2346a8ec	comment	Metamorphosis: Wikus' transformation into an alien.
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District 9 / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
District 9 / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Wikus and Christopher, by the end.
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District 9 / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
District 9 / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Christopher is the unfortunate victim of one of these. After the MNU mercs are done with the Nigerian gangsters, they get Christopher out of the truck he's in and Koobus starts beating him with metal pipes and rifle butts to get him to talk. He's so badly hurt that when Wikus comes in, he has to tug Christopher to his feet. Christopher is later lapsing in and out of consciousness because he's so badly hurt.
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District 9 / int_2592ee52	type	Impossibly Graceful Giant
District 9 / int_2592ee52	comment	Impossibly Graceful Giant: The alien Mini-Mecha is twenty feet tall but as agile as a grasshopper, and its legs are strong enough to jump over entire buses without smashing to pieces when it lands.
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District 9 / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
District 9 / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: A major plot device is Wikus' alien arm, especially how it lets him operate prawn technology. Ironically, it's not his arm that gives him away before he can get to District 9; it's his moustache, his most identifiable facial trait. If he had shaved it after going on the run, the people in the restaurant probably wouldn't have freaked out during the news report about him.
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District 9 / int_26130259	type	Drunk on Milk
District 9 / int_26130259	comment	Drunk on Milk: The prawns react to cat food in a similar way to hard drugs. This is an analogue to the colonialist practice of exploiting indigenous peoples by hooking them on addictive substances from the colonists' homelands.
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District 9 / int_26d18908	type	Puny Earthlings
District 9 / int_26d18908	comment	Puny Earthlings: While not quite Immune to Bullets, the Prawns are definitely much tougher than humans and are strong enough to rip a grown man limb from limb with their bare hands... err, claws. The differences in human and Prawn physiology becomes even more apparent when you consider the profound effects of Prawn weaponry on humans — a Prawn can shrug off a 9mm bullet like a shove, but anyone hit by even the weakest alien BFG is messily killed or at least horrifically maimed.
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District 9 / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
District 9 / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Just like Alien Nation, the premise of the film is about the oppression faced by worker-caste aliens on Earth as a commentary on that faced by real-world immigrants and refugees.
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District 9 / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
District 9 / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: Smit, Koobus, and at least one of Koobus' mercenaries. Although the baldness might just be a coincidence: for Africans, a clean shave is a pretty standard haircut. The same goes for soldiers, mercenaries and other military people.
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District 9 / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
District 9 / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: As the occasional timestamp notes, the main plot takes place over roughly three days (specifically 76 hours).
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District 9 / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
District 9 / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: Koobus. He's immune to machine guns, lightning cannons, rockets, Car Fu — you name it, he walks away from it. Boils away at the end, wherein aliens kill him to save Wikus, showing that they accept Wikus as one of their own.
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District 9 / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
District 9 / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Wikus. Some people count this as Break the Cutie, due to his portrayal as a joyfully bumbling white-collar government lackey who makes papier-mÃ¢chÃ© sentiments for his pretty wife.
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District 9 / int_2bd44a0f	type	Hermaphrodite
District 9 / int_2bd44a0f	comment	Hermaphrodite: In a deleted scene, a scientist explains that the aliens have both male and female reproductive organs, being able to impregnate and become pregnant themselves. Whether this is still canon is unknown, but it leads to some interesting Fridge Logic. And, of course, the corresponding fanfic.
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District 9 / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
District 9 / int_2cd22076	comment	Christopher's intelligence compared to the rest of the prawns is quite effectively established when all the others either rudely tell the MNU to fuck off (quite understandably) or fall for their tricks chasing their cat food addiction. Christopher is the only prawn who takes the time to ask why he's being evicted, points out that the legal form says they have to give him 24 hours advance warning beforehand, and tells Wikus that what they're doing to him isn't legal. He doesn't get openly angry with the MNU until Wikus threatens his child.
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District 9 / int_2cd8db8c	type	FantasticSlur
District 9 / int_2cd8db8c	comment	Fantastic Slur: The aliens are referred to as "prawns" for the entirety of the film. We never learn what their race is actually called.
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District 9 / int_2d6f00e4	type	Psycho for Hire
District 9 / int_2d6f00e4	comment	Psycho for Hire: Koobus and his bounty hunter team. "I can't believe I'm getting paid to do this. I love watching prawns die!" To their credit, it seems that most of the grunts are just Punch Clock Villains, while the higher-ups (who have been presumably doing it longer) are the psychos.
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District 9 / int_2e528f4e	type	What Measure Is a Non-Cute?
District 9 / int_2e528f4e	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: It's very heavily implied (and even pointed out in the DVD special features) that this is why MNU can get away with what they do. Played absolutely straight in the fact that Christopher is easily the most compassionate character in the film. And he's one of the aliens.
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District 9 / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
District 9 / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: The Nigerian gang boss Obesanjo is one scary dude, despite being in a wheelchair and never raising his voice.
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District 9 / int_310356c9	type	Color Me Black
District 9 / int_310356c9	comment	Color Me Black: The Fantastic Racism version of the trope.
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District 9 / int_31cd5fe7	type	Apologetic Attacker
District 9 / int_31cd5fe7	comment	Apologetic Attacker: Wikus, when he is forced to kill an alien as part of a weapons test.
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District 9 / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
District 9 / int_34579385	comment	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: The Nigerians attack the MNU convoy as soon as they arrest Wikus after his failed dropship escape.
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District 9 / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
District 9 / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: It is a little harder to like Wikus after the alien abortion scene and the attack on Christopher, the real hero of the story.
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District 9 / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
District 9 / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Wikus seems to drop this whenever he's upset (which is a lot). Koobus and some of the other mercenaries drop them whenever. According to the IMDB, it's dropped 137 times. This may or may not be partly due to all of Wikus' lines being improvised. He's actually cursing in Afrikaans, though the word in question ("fok") is the same as the f-word in all but spelling.
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District 9 / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
District 9 / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: After capturing him in the climax, Koobus tells Wikus "I see why everyone wants a piece of you." Moments later, a group of prawns surround Koobus and, well, let's just say they all "want a piece of him."
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District 9 / int_38805691	type	Catch and Return
District 9 / int_38805691	comment	Catch and Return: The Mini-Mecha is capable of stopping bullets—lots of them—in mid-air before choosing the option "Return to Sender." Awesome ensues.
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District 9 / int_38a1e0eb	type	Foreign Cuss Word
District 9 / int_38a1e0eb	comment	Foreign Cuss Word: Wikus uses several Afrikaans naughty words during his many, many rants. Moreover, every time he says the F-word, it's actually its Afrikaans counterpart.
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District 9 / int_3950c1f0	type	Poe's Law
District 9 / int_3950c1f0	comment	Poe's Law: As part of the Mockumentary section of the film, local South Africans on the street are shown giving largely xenophobic opinions on the prawns. Those locals making ultra-racist comments like "they have to go"? Not actors. The filmmakers got these sequences by asking locals for their opinions on Nigerian immigrants, without a single mention of science fiction. The fact that no-one noticed until Blomkamp pointed it out is probably what led him to make Elysium his next picture, where he hit that anvil even harder than he hit the ones in this film.
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District 9 / int_3aa2ac42	type	G-Rated Drug
District 9 / int_3aa2ac42	comment	G-Rated Drug: Cat food. Practically the only G-rated thing in the whole film.
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District 9 / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
District 9 / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: The main character's real turning point. In a mecha no less.
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District 9 / int_3b21fe98	type	Boldly Coming
District 9 / int_3b21fe98	comment	Boldly Coming: Interspecies prostitutes are briefly mentioned. And MNU's cover story for hunting Wikus is that he caught an alien STD.
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District 9 / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
District 9 / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Koobus gets isolated and surrounded by a half-dozen hungry (and likely also vengeful) Prawns who are unfazed by his sidearm. The moment the Prawns get their hands... claws on him, they literally tear him into pieces.
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District 9 / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
District 9 / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: Inverted, since the outsiders aren't native to Earth. White oppressor (Wikus) saves the oppressed outlanders after beginning his metamorphosis into a prawn, and twists the trope by clearly not enjoying his forced native-going. In fact, he almost leaves Christopher at the end out of pure cowardice.
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District 9 / int_3f76f32	type	Bad Black Barf
District 9 / int_3f76f32	comment	Bad Black Barf: Wikus starts coughing up black fluid as a result of transforming into a Prawn.
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District 9 / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
District 9 / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: Koobus' last name is "Venter."
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District 9 / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
District 9 / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Various people in the opening mockumentary state that MNU keeps the aliens safe and gives them what they need. Uh-huh. Piet Smit claiming that his daughter's marriage to Wikus wasn't a factor in choosing him as field commander for the relocation effort (immediately after we see his parents proclaim that he "wasn't very smart").
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District 9 / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
District 9 / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Wikus is transformed and living in the slums, but Christopher and his son got away in the mothership, promising to return in three years. He's promised to cure Wikus and bring help for the rest of the prawns — but whether "help" entails medical rescue or overwhelming firepower is unclear. In the meantime, Wikus is leaving gifts for his wife, who is apparently pregnant.
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District 9 / int_42064d3c	type	Left It In
District 9 / int_42064d3c	comment	Left It In: Played for Drama. Early on, Wikus, while leading the documentary crew through a tour of a Prawn's home, gets sprayed on the face and arm with some kind of fluid, and he stuffily orders the crew to "Edit that out," because he's a pompous bully (to Prawns) who doesn't want to be exposed as the kind of idiot who gets sprayed with fluid when he didn't even wear a surgical mask. That footage is then preserved for In-Universe reasons: the Mockumentary begins recording what happens to Wikus two hours after exposure, eight hours after exposure, twenty-four hours after exposure...
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District 9 / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
District 9 / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: MNU's experiments on Wikus after his transformation starts.
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District 9 / int_4465b4a0	type	Fix It in Post
District 9 / int_4465b4a0	comment	Fix It in Post: After Wikus is sprayed in the face with the fluid, he asks the cameraman to have it taken out of the final cut. If he did, we wouldn't be talking about it.
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District 9 / int_446c5792	type	Villainous Rescue
District 9 / int_446c5792	comment	Villainous Rescue: Subverted. The gangsters show up just as Wikus and Christopher are being taken away by the PMC troops, resulting in Evil Versus Evil as noted above.
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District 9 / int_45567321	type	Fantastic Ghetto
District 9 / int_45567321	comment	Fantastic Ghetto: The eponymous District 9.
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District 9 / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
District 9 / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Wikus is extremely callous towards the prawns at the beginning, but we do see that he's quite in love with his wife. Eventually he manages to crack open his humanity toward the prawns as well.
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District 9 / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
District 9 / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: News reports at the beginning establish that many regular citizens see the prawns this way, accusing them of eating live animals, kidnapping people, derailing trains, and burning down townships. Whether or not they actually do those things is open to interpretation. Even if they did do them, it'd be unclear whether they really understood the ramifications of their actions, given the cultural divide. When violent resistance groups in South Africa would attempt to send a message by, for example, derailing trains, the government would give excuses like 'the natives don't understand the system involved' and so on to cover up the unrest and keep it from spreading.
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District 9 / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
District 9 / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: District 9 itself is positively disgusting to look at. (Even more horrifying, most of these scenes were filmed in an actual temporary housing settlement in Joburg.)
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District 9 / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
District 9 / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The choppers flying toward the Mothership is definitely this.
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District 9 / int_4aa5f9f7	type	Ominous Floating Spaceship
District 9 / int_4aa5f9f7	comment	Ominous Floating Spaceship: Subverted as the humans find out that the aliens are helpless.
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District 9 / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
District 9 / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: And how: not only do they abuse the shit out of the aliens but once the main character Wikus starts transforming into one, they halt otherwise decent medical treatment and are authorized by his father-in-law to torture him with painful procedures, minus anesthesia, force him to kill an innocent alien with its own weapons, and attempt to dissect him while he's still alive. When it comes to the prawns themselves, one of the mercenaries says he gets off on killing prawns to Christopher's face, other people kill and eat prawns, and MNU has been vivisecting and experimenting on them in an attempt to create supersoldiers. The pro-alien humans appear in a brief scene as a human (prawn?) rights organization protesting outside District 9. It's pretty clear that the reason MNU keeps their evil activities secret is so they don't come down on them like the wrath of God and since MNU's evil has been exposed at the end of the film, you can bet those activists will be going after that company big time! The Nigerians crank this movie's use of this trope up to eleven in one of the deleted scenes: one of them features an MNU worker who finds an alien kept in a cryogenic chamber exported from the mothership. It is then explained that the Nigerians force anybody who can't pay up into staying in a cryo chamber until someone can pay up. It's one thing to go in there willingly, but unwillingly? MNU classifies it as illegal activity, but still...
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District 9 / int_4b045a8a	type	Villainous Valour
District 9 / int_4b045a8a	comment	Villainous Valour: Obesandjo might be a psychopathic cannibal, but you need some serious balls to laugh at the hero when he's just blown a hole through the wall of your cabin and is currently aiming a very large gun at your head. Then again, as his entry under Too Dumb to Live suggests, he may just be too delusionally egomaniacal to even grasp the idea that he could ever be in any danger.
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District 9 / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
District 9 / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: The cuties here would probably be Christopher and his son who, while maybe not as dramatically abused in the film as Wikus, probably had to endure a lot more hardship. Tania may also qualify, given that she ends up traumatized by her father's lies and her husband's disappearance and frightened phone calls.
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District 9 / int_4daeb0b9	type	Situational Sword
District 9 / int_4daeb0b9	comment	Situational Sword: Prawn weapons require prawn DNA to work. Most of the plot is driven by MNU seeing Wikus as their only shot at being able to operate the far superior Prawn weaponry.
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District 9 / int_4fe592e9	type	Previews Pulse
District 9 / int_4fe592e9	comment	Previews Pulse: The film's second trailer featured pulses of many sizes.
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District 9 / int_5020a82	type	Duality Motif
District 9 / int_5020a82	comment	Duality Motif: Wikus has one alien eye towards the end of the movie. The movie's final scene also shows that one eye of the fully-transformed Wikus retains its human coloring.
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District 9 / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
District 9 / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: How else do you describe watching yourself slowly transform into a completely different biological organism? The transformation involves skin being pierced from the inside by a newly developing exoskeleton. Wikus actually just starts tearing off parts of his skin at one point.
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District 9 / int_5115e5f6	type	Fantastic Underclass
District 9 / int_5115e5f6	comment	Fantastic Underclass: Regarded as vermin by the South African populace, the "Prawns" are segregated to the gang-run shantytown known as District 9, where they are largely left to their own devices unless MNU feels the need to cull their numbers or confiscate their technology. Most cannot find work, and many of them are kept addicted to cat food, which makes them even more listless and easier to exploit.
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District 9 / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
District 9 / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Wikus is little more than a slimy pencil-pushing bureaucrat at the beginning. Even when he starts fighting back against the MNU, he's not any stronger or better-trained—it's just that the prawns' weapons are so hilariously overpowered compared to the humans' that it doesn't really matter how inexperienced he is in combat.
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District 9 / int_5360c039	type	Karmic Transformation
District 9 / int_5360c039	comment	Wikus himself is such an absolute asshole to the prawns early on that it's hard to see him being turned into one as anything but supremely justified.
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District 9 / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
District 9 / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Koobus Venter and Moraneau to Piet Smit.
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District 9 / int_546e23f6	type	Evilutionary Biologist
District 9 / int_546e23f6	comment	Evilutionary Biologist: Dr. Moraneau, the MNU head doctor. Word of God states those things in the jars were his attempts at fusing human babies with alien DNA.
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District 9 / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
District 9 / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Aliens who arrive on Earth are treated as second-class citizens and forced into ghettos by the South African government. Parallels to apartheid are obvious, but the writer insists that it's not an allegory for apartheid. The film deals as much with hostility of black Africans toward the aliens as the white members of government (for example, the MNU officer accompanying Wikus in the opening sequence is black). The director coaxed Enforced Method Acting performances from local South Africans by asking them what they thought of immigrants to use as "man on the street" criticisms of the aliens. The original short film, "Alive in Joburg," however, does specifically mention that the government used apartheid laws against the aliens. Some of the racist interviewees in the beginning of the film were real people asked to give their opinions on recent Nigerian refugees.
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District 9 / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
District 9 / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: So, team up with the former leader of your oppressors who is turning into one of your kind, is now at the top of their Most Wanted list, and can get you into their secure facility to retrieve the one item critical to your plan... all right, when do we start?
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District 9 / int_5aea9c6a	type	Virus-Victim Symptoms
District 9 / int_5aea9c6a	comment	Virus-Victim Symptoms: Wikus displays these after being sprayed with the black prawn goo.
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District 9 / int_5bdffefe	type	Jitter Cam
District 9 / int_5bdffefe	comment	Jitter Cam: At least in the beginning.
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District 9 / int_5c446b43	type	Aliens in Cardiff
District 9 / int_5c446b43	comment	Aliens in Johannesburg: Lampshaded in the first ten minutes of the film, where the sick, malnourished aliens had the misfortune to make first contact with the South African city, and notes when the ship first appears over the city that it wasn't some place like New York City, London, or Chicago. And cue the thinly-veiled apartheid parallels.
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District 9 / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
District 9 / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: The 82nd Academy Awards' montage of the film gave away the fact that Wikus starts to become an alien. As did the commercial spots for the DVD release, as well as spoiling the alliance between Wikus and Christopher, particularly the raid on MNU.
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District 9 / int_6023a9bc	type	Bloody Hilarious
District 9 / int_6023a9bc	comment	Bloody Hilarious: This is a very serious, layered movie. That doesn't make seeing people explode like balloons any less funny.
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District 9 / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
District 9 / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Wikus couldn't care less about prawns and is interested only in curing himself, until the last 30 minutes of the movie.
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District 9 / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
District 9 / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: The high-pitched ringing-ears sound whenever the earlier effects of the fluid on Wikus become apparent (e.g. when he throws up and when he has a nosebleed).
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District 9 / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
District 9 / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Koobus gives one to his subordinate when he has to be reminded that they have orders Wikus is to be captured alive. He gives another to Wikus thrice during the final battle, once when he runs off to abandon his friend, the second when the mech is near-dead and is hit by a car, and the third when he's about to kill Wikus.
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District 9 / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
District 9 / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: Christopher will be back. And probably with help. The aliens are living in District 10 by the end of the movie, so there's your title right there.
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District 9 / int_638b65bc	type	Armor Is Useless
District 9 / int_638b65bc	comment	Armor Is Useless: Against the alien weapons, Koobus and his goons might as well be wearing nothing. They either explode instantly from the lightning gun or the portable Rail Gun tears right through them.
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District 9 / int_63f22889	type	Insectoid Aliens
District 9 / int_63f22889	comment	Insectoid Aliens: The Prawns, which are based on South African ground crickets according to Word of God. Much like the Prawns, they have a tough outer shell and are kind of Ugly Cute.
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District 9 / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
District 9 / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: In the penultimate shot, when Wikus' wife talks about the handmade flower she mysteriously received, on the mirror behind her you can briefly see three ultrasound pictures. Those with some radiology knowledge would recognize them as abdomen cavity ultrasound images, with the top one showing what looks like a 8-10-week-old embryo.
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District 9 / int_652bf890	type	Drone of Dread
District 9 / int_652bf890	comment	Drone of Dread: Parts of the soundtrack, used extensively on Prawnkus.
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District 9 / int_676e942c	type	We Hardly Knew Ye
District 9 / int_676e942c	comment	We Hardly Knew Ye: Christopher's doomed prawn friend Paul.
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District 9 / int_68f6e811	type	Made of Plasticine
District 9 / int_68f6e811	comment	Made of Plasticine: Anyone hit by Prawn weaponry is immediately killed in the messiest way imaginable. Railgun hits in the shoulder? Lost the entire arm. Hit by the Lightning Gun? Pop goes the weasel!
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District 9 / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
District 9 / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Wikus in his Last Stand. He keeps the Mini-Mecha going through what can only be described as pure Heroic Willpower, despite it literally falling apart around him.
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District 9 / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
District 9 / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Christopher Johnson — just switch the order of his initials. "Van de Merwe" is a generic name given to characters who are the butt of ethnic jokes against Afrikaaners. Dr. Moraneau's name, the MNU head doctor who attempted to fuse human babies with alien DNA, is very reminiscent of Dr. Moreau. The African King Cricket is an insect considered a pest in urban settings and its primary means of defence if threatened is to spray an unpleasant black faecal gloop over the threat. It is known as the Parktown Prawn. note According to The Other Wiki, the Parktown Prawn is attracted, in large numbers, to cat food and will do anything to get it
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District 9 / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
District 9 / int_6c553873	comment	Private Military Contractors: MNU's entire security force.
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District 9 / int_6c7a36fc	type	Vampire Refugee
District 9 / int_6c7a36fc	comment	Vampire Refugee: Alien Variant. Wikus as the plot moves along (not to be confused with the actual aliens who are treated as refugees.)
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District 9 / int_6dd4006e	type	The Great Repair
District 9 / int_6dd4006e	comment	The Great Repair: Christopher's goal throughout the movie.
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District 9 / int_6de438eb	type	The Everyman
District 9 / int_6de438eb	comment	The Everyman: Despite the horrible things he's fine with MNU doing to the prawns early on, Wikus retains our sympathy because he's ultimately just a wimpy, clueless pencil-pusher, working in an unpleasant and stressful environment that he's severely underequipped to deal with effectively. Part of what makes the movie's action scenes so exciting (and Wikus himself so easy to root for doing said scenes) is that Wikus is no action hero, he's just a scared guy trying to stay alive, and is mostly successful in doing so because of how ludicrously overpowered the prawns' weapons are.
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District 9 / int_6fb7cf97	type	Bigger Stick
District 9 / int_6fb7cf97	comment	Bigger Stick: Wikus and CJ aren't warriors, but they are able to outfight soldiers due to being armed with alien technology that turns their targets into Ludicrous Gibs. It's implied by the South African official in the epilogue that CJ will tell his people what MNU are doing to the Prawns on Earth and they might be sending an armada to save them, a terrifying prospect given we've seen how much they outclass us technologically.
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District 9 / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
District 9 / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: Yeah, Koobus is a racist, bloodthirsty maniac, but he's not wrong when he calls Wikus a coward for running away while he's driving a telekinetic bulletproof walking tank that shoots lightning bolts from its hands. Wikus himself seems to realize it, and soon changes his mind.
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District 9 / int_7289b368	type	Idiot Hero
District 9 / int_7289b368	comment	Idiot Hero: Zig-zagged. Wikus has moments of cunning as well as foolishness throughout the film. However, the general consensus among people who know him seems to be that he's not very bright. His own mom refers to him as "not very bright", as does his father-in-law.
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District 9 / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
District 9 / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Christopher and his son are the only green prawns we see throughout the film. It might be that green prawns are more intelligent, or it might simply be a way to visually distinguish the important characters from the rest. Wikus transforms into a green prawn at the end. If green prawns are actually special, this might explain why the other prawns defended him.
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District 9 / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
District 9 / int_744e3311	comment	The Police Brutality perpetrated by the MNU soldiers, the "No Non-Human Loitering" signs◊, and even the title of the film itself are all decidedly unsubtle, with chilling effect.
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District 9 / int_76468dfa	type	Internet Jerk
District 9 / int_76468dfa	comment	Internet Jerk: Christopher is infinitely more fiery on his blog.
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District 9 / int_77b2803c	type	Vox Pops
District 9 / int_77b2803c	comment	Vox Pops: As part of the Mockumentary section of the film, local South Africans on the street are shown giving largely xenophobic opinions on the prawns. The filmmakers got these sequences by asking locals for their opinions on Nigerian immigrants.
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District 9 / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
District 9 / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Wikus quickly goes from beleaguered corporate drone to actual alien drone, hunted by his former employers, and then gets his wife dumped, and then it turns out an alien — of whom he despised — wants him to help with a plan that just might get him killed or captured...
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District 9 / int_7a2a34ef	type	Not With the Safety On, You Won't
District 9 / int_7a2a34ef	comment	Not With the Safety On, You Won't: During a raid on Christopher's shanty, the mercenary taking point has his rifle on safe as seen from the gun-mounted camera's POV.
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District 9 / int_7cbba5d3	type	Ruthless Foreign Gangsters
District 9 / int_7cbba5d3	comment	Ruthless Foreign Gangsters: The Nigerians, with their black market cat food, illegal arms dealing, inter-species prostitution, and eating the flesh of the aliens, ostensibly to gain their "power", are working District 9 from every possible angle.
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District 9 / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
District 9 / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Let's all commit horrible acts against an alien race that would be classified as crimes against humanity if they were human. Did we mention that the alien race in question happens to have the ability to tear a man limb from limb, insanely powerful weapons, Mini-Mecha only they can use, and a huge ship? After Wikus' first escape in the alien mini-mecha he's still reluctant to enter the fight full-on, and Koobus takes the opportunity to yell at him in the meantime.
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District 9 / int_7ee93bc9	type	Some Call Me "Tim"
District 9 / int_7ee93bc9	comment	Some Call Me "Tim": The only alien with a name is "Christopher Johnson". The origin of this moniker is explained through Christopher's blog, where he states that the MNU has assigned all aliens new, human names as a form of cultural repression. This is implied in the film itself but never stated outright.
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District 9 / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
District 9 / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: We get two for Wikus. His Jerkass attitude when evicting the shantytown is mostly a front he puts on for the camera to impress his MNU bigwigs, but it does indicate that his main concern is always looking out for #1. Later we see him freak out when forced to kill an innocent prawn, showing that as self-centered as he is, Wikus is no monster. The first interaction Wikus has with Koobus is when Wikus tells one of Koobus' mercenaries that he's carrying one more clip of ammunition than he's legally allowed to have on him, neatly demonstrating that Wikus is a bit stupid and in over his head, an interfering pencil-pusher, not completely lacking in moral scruples, and not going to do evil that doesn't serve the bottom line. Koobus responds by loudly swearing in his face and shoving Wikus down in front of all the cameras, firmly establishing himself as not only a racist but a brutish hotheaded bully as well. Christopher's intelligence compared to the rest of the prawns is quite effectively established when all the others either rudely tell the MNU to fuck off (quite understandably) or fall for their tricks chasing their cat food addiction. Christopher is the only prawn who takes the time to ask why he's being evicted, points out that the legal form says they have to give him 24 hours advance warning beforehand, and tells Wikus that what they're doing to him isn't legal. He doesn't get openly angry with the MNU until Wikus threatens his child.
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District 9 / int_8344209e	type	BFG
District 9 / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: All the alien weapons fit this title. The weakest alien gun is some sort of compressed air blaster which can knock out an entire wall and fling people dozens of feet away. Then it goes to Lethal, to Unnecessarily Lethal, to "Just What The Fuck Did The Aliens Fight That Needed Such Outrageous Firepower?" When the power armor goes live, its main guns are BFG versions of the lightning cannon and automatic rifle used by Wikus and Christopher in the MNU raid, and when the mercenaries oppose it they get no traction until a mercenary is able to severely damage it with a South African anti-tank rifle. Needless to say, the mech is a LOT more vulnerable to small-arms fire afterwards.
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District 9 / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
District 9 / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: The MNU portrays Wikus' transformation to the public as caused by a badly photoshopped picture of him... copulating with a Prawn prostitute.
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District 9 / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
District 9 / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: The film's portrayal of xenophobic anti-immigrant South Africa is, if anything, toned down not just from history but from actual modern life: District 9 itself is not CGI and wasn't built for the movie, it was an actual slum where immigrants were really living at the time of filming (and were in the process of being relocated by the government.) Some of the Vox Pops segments (those not specifically mentioning "prawns") were not actors but real South Africans asked for their opinions on Nigerian immigrants. Obasanjo and the other Nigerian gang members carving up aliens so they can eat them and gain their powers? Horrifyingly, that wasn't an invention of the film — cannibalism of body parts for witchcraft is still practiced in parts of Africa today, especially on albinos (whose body parts are believed to have magical powers.)
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District 9 / int_85f23fcf	type	Untouchable Until Tagged
District 9 / int_85f23fcf	comment	Untouchable Until Tagged: See above Unstoppable Rage. Once a single missile gets through, he's slowly whittled to the mech's destruction.
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District 9 / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
District 9 / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: The movie has almost no unambiguously good people, aside from "Christopher Johnson" and his son, the former being the only alien who tries being diplomatic and uses violence only as a last resort (even after his friend is killed, he agrees to not kill any humans during their attack on MNU, as Wikus insists), and Fundiswa, who is noticeably reluctant during the first half of the film and leaks out MNU's data post-ending, even though he knows he'll go to jail for it, to expose MNU's abuses.
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District 9 / int_8a7488a4	type	They Walk Among Us
District 9 / int_8a7488a4	comment	They Walk Among Us: Well, they would walk among us, except that we have ever so kindly moved them into a horrible filthy militarized ghetto.
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District 9 / int_8a800d36	type	Bilingual Dialogue
District 9 / int_8a800d36	comment	Bilingual Dialogue: Prawns and humans are totally unable to speak the others' language, so this suffices. Africans are also shown speaking different languages to each other at the same time.
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District 9 / int_8aa0f76	type	Deconstructed Trope
District 9 / int_8aa0f76	comment	Deconstructed Trope: The First Contact plot. The aliens that land over Johannesburg aren't invaders, they're refugees. The South African authorities, completely unprepared for the situation and facing massive public backlash against the new arrivals, hastily inters the aliens in a slum in appalling Apartheid-like conditions.
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District 9 / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
District 9 / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Again, every single time the alien weapons are fired — including the counterattack performed by the Mini-Mecha. It is glorious. Eventually reaches the point where all you can ask is, "Just what the fuck are the prawns used to fighting?" Especially since they're already strong enough to rip people limb from limb without using weapons. Though perhaps it's a case of Puny Earthlings, as the aliens seem to treat getting shot by a handgun as equivalent to a hard shove several times.
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District 9 / int_8b93a168	type	Macross Missile Massacre
District 9 / int_8b93a168	comment	As mentioned above, the armor's Macross Missile Massacre is a reference to that trope's namer.
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District 9 / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
District 9 / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	The Prawns aren't above dealing this back to humans, as Koobus finds out.
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District 9 / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
District 9 / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Wikus. The F-word is dropped 137 times.
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District 9 / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
District 9 / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: The Apartheid Era WITH ALIENS! Or, Alien Nation in South Africa without Rubber-Forehead Aliens.
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District 9 / int_90965cc7	type	Hive Mind
District 9 / int_90965cc7	comment	Hive Mind: Word of God says the aliens normally belong to one but the aliens stranded on Earth are cut off from it.
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District 9 / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
District 9 / int_90d44f44	comment	Koobus gets ripped apart and eaten by the prawns he hates so much like a bunch of kids pulling the legs off...well, a bug.
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District 9 / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
District 9 / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Koobus gets ripped apart and eaten by the prawns he hates so much like a bunch of kids pulling the legs off...well, a bug. Wikus himself is such an absolute asshole to the prawns early on that it's hard to see him being turned into one as anything but supremely justified.
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District 9 / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
District 9 / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Well, as innocent as you can be when you're living in a crime-ridden slum. One of Wikus' worst acts is torching a shed full of alien eggs, and Christopher Johnson, despite planning his escape from Earth, works hard not to get his son's hopes up, for fear of having to crush them. Christopher even tries to cheer up his son by saying that D10 will be a much better place and that they should be happy. It gets crushed when Wikus says it's a concentration camp. Christopher is caught off-guard by this honesty, which is unfortunately a new desolation, helping to humanize (so to speak) both Christopher and Wikus.
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District 9 / int_927ac006	type	Killing for a Tissue Sample
District 9 / int_927ac006	comment	Killing for a Tissue Sample: MNU does some tests on Wikus to confirm his ability to use alien weaponry, then decides to kill him to examine his genetic material.
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District 9 / int_934c7e38	type	Paper Tiger
District 9 / int_934c7e38	comment	Paper Tiger: The mercs initially seem like a tough, grizzled bunch of killers, but are shown to be pretty inept at fighting anything other than half starved slum dwellers as a result of their Hollywood Tactics. When Christopher and Wikus get guns, they go down in droves despite fighting only two opponents with little to no military training.
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District 9 / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
District 9 / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: A lot. Even a mech suit vomits oil at one point.
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District 9 / int_96a2363c	type	Bathos
District 9 / int_96a2363c	comment	Bathos: In the middle of the dramatic and intense final battle comes a brief moment where Wikus takes out one mercenary by launching a live pig at him. The pig even walks away unharmed!
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District 9 / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
District 9 / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: CJ, on the last day of his 20-year magic juice collection program, explains the entire thing to his prawn friend, who probably should already know.
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District 9 / int_99db72ee	type	Immune to Bullets
District 9 / int_99db72ee	comment	Immune to Bullets: The prawns' exoskeleton is tough enough to take a shot from a handgun, provided it isn't armor-piercing, but that's it. The Mini-Mecha is functionally immune to small arms, and can use its Gravity Gun to catch bullets and shoot them back at those who fired them; it's the big guns Wikus has to watch out for.
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District 9 / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
District 9 / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The MNU CEO. Smit and Koobus ultimately answer to him (or to one of his subordinates), but his only appearance in the film is part of a brief news clip. MNU as a whole and particularly its upper management and presumably its board of directors would count too; District 9 is but one of their countless concerns.
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District 9 / int_9b610976	type	I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!
District 9 / int_9b610976	comment	I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: Apparently cat food is like crack cocaine to the aliens, though no health issues or psychoactive effects are mentioned. (Given the tone of the movie, there's a roughly one hundred percent chance that the cat food is detrimental to the aliens' health and the makers just didn't have a way to highlight it.)
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District 9 / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
District 9 / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: By the look of it, Wikus. Then again: powerful, user-friendly, alien technology meets Wikus's rage, recognising him as family — that's a free ticket to Took a Level in Badass.
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District 9 / int_9bfa1697	type	Eye of Newt
District 9 / int_9bfa1697	comment	Eye of Newt: The Nigerian gangsters chop up prawns for witchcraft in an attempt to gain the ability to use their biometrically locked weaponry. This is based on real modern practices in parts of Africa where people, especially those with albinism, are killed so their body parts can be used for witchcraft.
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District 9 / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
District 9 / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Apparently, less than the dirt they're standing on. This movie is pretty much about exploring this trope. Lampshaded in the first five minutes or so. If you take Christopher to be a master alien to the drones stuck on this C-grade planet full of primitives, well we're the aliens and What Measure Is A Non Prawn? Nothing. Until one is willing to sacrifice himself for him and his son.
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District 9 / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
District 9 / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: An ingeniously subtle example. When Wikus' mother is being interviewed at the beginning about her son, she trails off and places both hands over her mouth. Her fingers sort of look like prawn tentacles...
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District 9 / int_9d1fa121	type	Alien Catnip
District 9 / int_9d1fa121	comment	Alien Catnip: The aliens love regular cat food.
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District 9 / int_9dd2329c	type	Camera Abuse
District 9 / int_9dd2329c	comment	Camera Abuse: Koobus and his MNU mercenaries get pretty rough with the camera crew during the first half of the movie, and the camera lens ends up spattered in blood a few times. In the aforementioned scene, Koobus even yells abuse at the cameraman Trent, the actual cinematographer of the film.
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District 9 / int_9e03dbd6	type	Mr. Fixit
District 9 / int_9e03dbd6	comment	Mr. Fixit: Christopher's son.
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District 9 / int_a02c7509	type	Shock Party
District 9 / int_a02c7509	comment	Shock Party: Wikus stumbles home in the midst of a physical breakdown, having shat his pants, only to suddenly face a surprise party.
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District 9 / int_a0f6ab07	type	Nicknaming the Enemy
District 9 / int_a0f6ab07	comment	Nicknaming the Enemy: "Prawns".
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District 9 / int_a2cb509b	type	Tested on Humans
District 9 / int_a2cb509b	comment	Tested on Humans: Inverted when Wikus is forced by his captors to test an alien weapon on a live prawn. An offhand comment by Moraneau indicates that there have been previous (fatal) attempts to integrate human and alien DNA. Also played straight: a horribly mutated human fetus is visible in a jar during the assault on the MNU lab.
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District 9 / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
District 9 / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Wikus is one for a short while, but the alien DNA is taking over the human DNA quickly.
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District 9 / int_a33b90b2	type	Improv
District 9 / int_a33b90b2	comment	Improv: A lot of dialogue in the film was made up by the actors on the spot, including pretty much everything Wikus and Christopher say. Christopher's dialogue was first spoken in English by the actor, then later re-dubbed to alien speak, with the subtitles following the improvised lines. The acting directions, however, were mapped out in painstaking detail.
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District 9 / int_a45651a4	type	Ironic Birthday
District 9 / int_a45651a4	comment	Ironic Birthday: Or, in this case, an ironic surprise promotion party.
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District 9 / int_a4916876	type	Blown Across the Room
District 9 / int_a4916876	comment	Blown Across the Room: The alien gun Wikus gets his hands on at the gangsters' compound, which seems to be its explicit purpose. One shot throws a mook through the flimsy wall of the shack they're in.
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District 9 / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
District 9 / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Given the tone, pretty much every joke in the film.
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District 9 / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
District 9 / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: The newsreader who makes the announcement that Wikus has contracted an alien STD is an actual newscaster for the same channel.
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District 9 / int_a67b8999	type	Extreme Graphical Representation
District 9 / int_a67b8999	comment	Extreme Graphical Representation: Alien vehicles are piloted via holographic control panels that also provide a 3D map of the environment. While Wikus is able to demonstrate some of the more tactile-based controls, it's Christopher and his son who show what a master of the tech can do.
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District 9 / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
District 9 / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Smit, Moraneau, and the rest of the MNU higher-ups. However, considering that the truth of MNU's activities were leaked at the end, it's likely they'll be under investigation.
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District 9 / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
District 9 / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: When Christopher mourns the deaths of other prawns in the MNU Laboratory he seems to forget that there are dozens of MNU agent shooting at him, it helps that not one bullet touches him.
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District 9 / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
District 9 / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: The Nigerian gang leader is confined to a wheelchair.
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District 9 / int_a7caa5b5	type	First Contact
District 9 / int_a7caa5b5	comment	First Contact: A rather dark take on it. Just look at the trailer! Talked about by a sociologist during the mockumentary, who says that people were expecting bright lights and music from heaven.
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District 9 / int_a8abe9d1	type	Separated by a Common Language
District 9 / int_a8abe9d1	comment	Separated by a Common Language: The "prawns" to which the aliens are compared are not the seafood, but the Parktown prawn, a species of cricket found in South Africa. Which are known to eat cat food if they can...
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District 9 / int_a8c6a317	type	Super-Strength
District 9 / int_a8c6a317	comment	Super-Strength: Not that extreme, but the prawns are still strong enough to literally toss people around like ragdolls and rip them a grown man to pieces with their bare hands...er, claws. Considering how they're universally malnourished, starving, and most likely disease-ridden, it gives you a hint at how strong they must be when they're in perfect health.
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District 9 / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
District 9 / int_aa8dcc21	comment	MegaCorp: Multi-National United, or MNU, who are interested in the aliens' technology and are using them for cheap labor.
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District 9 / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
District 9 / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: One of the first things we learn is that something happens to Wikus. When he is heading into District 9, he tells his assistant he doesn't need to wear a protective mask or a bulletproof vest. For extra irony, said assistant (who's the only one going in without either a protective mask, a bulletproof vest, or a weapon, and is rightfully concerned about doing so) is the only one of the three not to be harmed or attacked by a prawn in any way.
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District 9 / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
District 9 / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: Although they're not immune to point-blank headshots, the prawns are more-or-less Immune to Bullets, which naturally makes the humans even more nervous around them. One MNU mook even shoots a couple of prawns from a distance of about thirty feet away with a machine gun during the mass eviction, and they don't do much more than flinch or stumble backwards, more in surprise than in pain.
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District 9 / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
District 9 / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Played for Drama when, in the middle of one of his many profane rants, Wikus lets out a single quiet and solemn "Oh, fok" when he and Christopher see the nauseatingly mutilated prawn corpses in the MNU laboratory.
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District 9 / int_ad42c163	type	Alphabet News Network
District 9 / int_ad42c163	comment	Alphabet News Network: Several fictional news networks (both local and international) are seen covering events throughout the film and provide footage from earlier incidents in the prologue. BNC—British News Corporation UK News Desk ANT—America News Television (specifically the South Africa Desk) EGOLI News SATV—South Africa Television JHB Media
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District 9 / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
District 9 / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: The aliens love cat food, bordering on drug addiction at times.
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District 9 / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
District 9 / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: Koobus's only real motive is that he loves to kill prawns.
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District 9 / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
District 9 / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: Happens to Wikus. He's alone, in an apparently invincible Mini-Mecha, and the soldiers thus far haven't tried to chase him. Then he hears that they're gonna kill Christopher. Beat Roaring Rampage Of Revenge!
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District 9 / int_b13bb418	type	Alien Among Us
District 9 / int_b13bb418	comment	Alien Among Us: Kind of. The whole point of the eponymous district is to ensure that the aliens are not among us.
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District 9 / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
District 9 / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: When Wikus is trying to serve one of the prawns with an eviction notice, the prawn angrily slaps the clipboard out of his hand and tells him to fuck off. Wikus then tells his assistant that the prawn in question technically agreed to their terms, since all they asked for him to do was "make a mark on the paper."
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District 9 / int_b2d8059f	type	Innocent Aliens
District 9 / int_b2d8059f	comment	Innocent Aliens: The humans claim that the drones think setting fire to things and derailing trains is recreational and a bit of sport. Given that this was how the government would write off the exact same types of actions by violent resistance groups in apartheid South Africa, the validity of this claim is questionable.
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District 9 / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
District 9 / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: The Nigerian gangster boss is apparently so much of a megalomaniac that his reaction to the alien Mini-Mecha slaughtering all his men is to start ranting at it in a fit of annoyed pique. Predictably, his head is impaled and detonated mid-rant. Wikus really should have known better than to turn down an offer of a bulletproof vest or protective surgical mask while heading into District 9, especially since he's not only openly antagonistic to aliens who are much tougher and stronger than humans but is himself a Non-Action Guy with no combat experience to boot. Getting a faceful of alien gunk is probably one of the nicest things that could have happened to him.
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District 9 / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
District 9 / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: After telling Christopher not to kill anyone, Wikus kills a guard after being shot at. When questioned by Christopher he responds, "He shot at me!"
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District 9 / int_b9f472b	type	Storming the Castle
District 9 / int_b9f472b	comment	Storming the Castle: Wikus and Christopher at the MNU labs.
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District 9 / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
District 9 / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Christopher's entire situation. A single father trying to raise his kid in abysmal conditions while protecting him from people who will not hesitate to kill him, one of these guys knocks demands that he sign an obviously illegal eviction notice, and threatens to have Child Protective Services to take his kid away from him if he refuse. Two options: Sign the form and let them move him where they want, or refuse to sign it and (at best) have them take him away anyway?
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District 9 / int_badfee0b	type	Ominous Obsidian Ooze
District 9 / int_badfee0b	comment	Ominous Obsidian Ooze: The plot begins to heat up when Wikus finds the cylinder of Mutagenic Goo that Christopher Johnson was saving up, and fiddling with it results him accidentally getting a spray of oily black gunk to the face. Before long, Wikus is puking up Bad Black Barf and transforming into one of the aliens...
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District 9 / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
District 9 / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Wikus's father is more annoyed at the questions left unanswered, and by the inconvenience to him, than by his son's disappearance and possible death, which explains a few things about Wikus' milquetoast personality and quest for Piet's acceptance.
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District 9 / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
District 9 / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Christopher yelling "Fuck!" in Alien when Wikus blows up a guard at MNU.
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District 9 / int_bc452029	type	Strapped to an Operating Table
District 9 / int_bc452029	comment	Strapped to an Operating Table: Played horrifyingly straight with Wikus, who is fully conscious while his own father-in-law orders his vivisection.
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District 9 / int_bcf135d7	type	Curb-Stomp Cushion
District 9 / int_bcf135d7	comment	Curb-Stomp Cushion: The MNU mercenaries in the Final Battle actually manage to hold their own surprisingly well against Wikus, disabling and causing severe damage to the prawn Mini-Mecha he's using and eventually crippling it...it's just that by that point in the fight, every MNU mook except Koobus ends up decorating the surrounding landscape.
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District 9 / int_bd5a03ea	type	Orgasmic Combat
District 9 / int_bd5a03ea	comment	Orgasmic Combat: The first sign that something is seriously wrong with Koobus is the breathy laughter and orgasmic sigh he lets out when he shoots an alien point-blank.
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District 9 / int_bd8b2b0b	type	To Serve Man
District 9 / int_bd8b2b0b	comment	To Serve Man: Inverted. The Nigerian gang believes that eating prawn body parts will grant them power over the alien's DNA-activated technology. They eat the limbs raw. They don't even afford the prawns the dignity of paella. The Prawns aren't above dealing this back to humans, as Koobus finds out.
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District 9 / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
District 9 / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Wikus and Tania, until Wikus' transformation begins and he's hunted down by MNU, and she thinks Wikus has an alien STD. To Tania's credit, she figures it out, and it seems that by the end of the movie she loves him again. It's too bad they're separated by, you know, Wikus being an alien at the end.
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District 9 / int_bf26c02e	type	Viral Transformation
District 9 / int_bf26c02e	comment	Viral Transformation: Wikus. After being sprayed by the black liquid, he begins to transform into an alien, starting with his left arm. This gives him status as an alien as far as their advanced technology is concerned. The movie keeps count of how many hours it's been since he was "exposed", and the progression of the transformation is evident onscreen. He eventually completes the transformation and joins the "prawn" residents of District 10.
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District 9 / int_c06bdf26	type	Cannibalism Superpower
District 9 / int_c06bdf26	comment	Obasanjo and the other Nigerian gang members carving up aliens so they can eat them and gain their powers? Horrifyingly, that wasn't an invention of the film — cannibalism of body parts for witchcraft is still practiced in parts of Africa today, especially on albinos (whose body parts are believed to have magical powers.)
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District 9 / int_c0abbbc2	type	Serkis Folk
District 9 / int_c0abbbc2	comment	Serkis Folk: The aliens are completely computer-generated. The deleted scenes on the DVD (only one of which has CGI added in, by the way) also reveal that Jason Cope played pretty much every single grown alien in the film that got more than five seconds of screen time. Blomkamp describes the animation process as "rotomation," a portmanteau of rotoscopy and animation. Basically, Cope was digitally erased from the footage and his performance was referenced by the animators, but not actually recorded move-for-move.
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District 9 / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
District 9 / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: Colonel Koobus really likes the sound of his own voice. He does shoot an alien in the head after a similar rambling speech in the beginning of the movie, so apparently he just likes to dick around with his victims before killing them, and just happens to get interrupted before the critical moment in the later confrontations.
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District 9 / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
District 9 / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: While it's not quite as in-your-face as the references to Apartheid, the unethical medical experiments including vivisection, the forced "abortion" of a shed full of larval aliens by burning them alive, and the description of the new District 10 as "like a concentration camp."
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District 9 / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
District 9 / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: Used twice. First by the Nigerians against the MNU, secondly by the MNU against the Mini-Mecha. In, ironically, one of the Nigerian's cars.
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District 9 / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
District 9 / int_c335b9ec	comment	In a non-racial example, some critics have observed that the prawn guns tend to fry and explode people in a way that's very similar to...well, a bug zapper.
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District 9 / int_c34b316c	type	Bee People
District 9 / int_c34b316c	comment	Bee People: The only insight into the alien's biology is from an entomologist, saying they are a colony-based organism like ants or bees. Word of God has stated that the prawns on Earth are a worker caste, explaining why they're listless without direction from a leader caste. There's no official explanation as to why Christopher is different from the rest, but he might be a leader caste prawn. There might also be a hive mind at work.
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District 9 / int_c3bafbce	type	Satan
District 9 / int_c3bafbce	comment	The MNU militant insignia shows a goat with two horns, two ears and an elongated beard that makes it look like a upside down star.
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District 9 / int_c40db9e1	type	Viral Marketing
District 9 / int_c40db9e1	comment	Viral Marketing: The in-universe Multinational United webpage, and Christopher Johnson's blog. In addition, signs have appeared in major cities, instructing people to report all sightings of non-humans to an MNU hotline, which has its own website. At Comic Con, they had people handing out various fliers asking for donations to support humanitarian efforts in District 9. The first viral ad was a sign outside a bathroom at San Diego Comic-Con '07, announcing "NO ALIENS ALLOWED". There's a Facebook group called MNU Spreads Lies.
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District 9 / int_c4b8e2ae	type	One-Woman Wail
District 9 / int_c4b8e2ae	comment	One-Woman Wail: Played perfectly straight, and foreshadowed by a One Man Wail.
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District 9 / int_c547cd6d	type	Bulletproof Vest
District 9 / int_c547cd6d	comment	Bulletproof Vest: Most of the MNU employees wear them. Wikus has one with a calculator on it. Fadiswa was supposed to get one. He is also one of the only people not to get mauled.
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District 9 / int_c6695a49	type	MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois
District 9 / int_c6695a49	comment	MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois: Wikus and Christopher versus the MNU versus the Nigerian gangsters.
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District 9 / int_c72af5a8	type	Mini-Mecha
District 9 / int_c72af5a8	comment	The Nigerian gangster boss is apparently so much of a megalomaniac that his reaction to the alien Mini-Mecha slaughtering all his men is to start ranting at it in a fit of annoyed pique. Predictably, his head is impaled and detonated mid-rant.
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District 9 / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
District 9 / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: During the attack on MNU HQ, you can see Tetra Vaal Biosafety on the wall. Also, the Mini-Mecha looks a lot like the robot from Tetra Vaal (also by Neill Blomkamp), and "Tetra Vaal" signs can clearly be seen inside MNU headquarters. It was subsequently remade as the full-length film Chappie. As mentioned above, the armor's Macross Missile Massacre is a reference to that trope's namer. The mothership's landing module bears a strong resemblance to Serenity. The Mini-Mecha's gravity weapon looks to be one to Half-Life 2.
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District 9 / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
District 9 / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: Christopher Johnson intends to save the prawns from poverty and slavery, one way or another. If he comes back with firepower and a grudge, it might be a case of Dark Messiah, or Kung-Fu Jesus. Note that his initials are an inversion of those of Jesus Christ. Since Christ is a title not a name, it works regardless. Oh, and the movie ends with him departing Earth for the heavens, and the people of Earth speculating on when he will return, and what will happen if/when he does.
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District 9 / int_c9ca4e7f	type	Kung-Fu Jesus
District 9 / int_c9ca4e7f	comment	Kung-Fu Jesus: If CJ ever makes good on his promise to return to Earth, it might be coming back with a liberating army behind him!
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District 9 / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
District 9 / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Christopher's son is never named in-film. It's given as Oliver in his "MNU Spreads Lies" blog, while the DVD subtitles give it as "Little C.J."
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District 9 / int_cafca250	type	Conscience Makes You Go Back
District 9 / int_cafca250	comment	Conscience Makes You Go Back: Wikus for Christopher.
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District 9 / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
District 9 / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: A MegaCorp is involved; of course there's going to be those. Smit is the main one in the film.
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District 9 / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
District 9 / int_cc1bd54d	comment	Wikus really should have known better than to turn down an offer of a bulletproof vest or protective surgical mask while heading into District 9, especially since he's not only openly antagonistic to aliens who are much tougher and stronger than humans but is himself a Non-Action Guy with no combat experience to boot. Getting a faceful of alien gunk is probably one of the nicest things that could have happened to him.
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District 9 / int_cd23ee7d	type	Colonel Badass
District 9 / int_cd23ee7d	comment	Colonel Badass: Koobus the mercenary commander. He's actually quite fearless, keeping his head even when faced by the awesome power of the alien weaponry. In the end he gets killed only when he runs out of bullets. He does, however, lose his head.
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District 9 / int_ce2969d8	type	Spiritual Antithesis
District 9 / int_ce2969d8	comment	Spiritual Antithesis: To Avatar of the same year. Both are sci-fi action films about a race of aliens being exploited by a militaristic MegaCorp, but while Avatar was a PG-13 mega-budget Hollywood blockbuster with a cast of major stars about humans oppressing a race of angelically beautiful but technologically primitive human-like aliens on their own home planet, District 9 is a gory, profane hard R independent film featuring a cast of unknowns about a race of ugly but technologically superior bug-like aliens living in horrible conditions on Earth. The protagonists of both films are white men who start Going Native through the most literal biological means, but Jake Sully was a career soldier who was crippled in the line of duty and jumped at the chance to inhabit an alien because he could enjoy the basic biological pleasures of having a functional body, while Wikus van de Merwe is a wheedling paper-pusher who undergoes a Karmic Transformation against his will but gains the access to mega-powerful weaponry in the process. Even their climaxes are mirror images of each other: In Avatar, an unarmored Jake Sully duels Colonel Quaritch while the latter is piloting an AMP suit, while in District 9, it's the protagonist who's piloting the mini-mecha while Koobus and his army of goons attack it with small arms fire.
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District 9 / int_ce68d46b	type	Next Sunday A.D.
District 9 / int_ce68d46b	comment	Next Sunday A.D.: Although the film was released in 2009 it's shown at various points that the "present" of the story is August, 2010.
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District 9 / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
District 9 / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Wikus goes absolutely apeshit in the Mini-Mecha, trying to take as many MNU mercenaries with him as he can during his Last Stand, covering Christopher to help him get back to his ship. He yells "IS THAT ALL YOU'VE GOT" while the mech is literally falling to pieces around him, still trying to take down more MNU mercs. Of course, he could be talking to the mech not the mercs; regardless, he's pretty much roaring to keep fighting.
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District 9 / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
District 9 / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: During the initial attempt to get the Prawns to sign the eviction forms, one poor guard ends up getting his arm torn off when a Prawn loses his temper and attacks. If the alien guns don't outright gib who they hit, they're losing a limb at least. Most prominently is the scene where Wikus rescues Christopher using the mech suit. For good measure, the mech stomps on the arm. Wikus attempts to chop his arm off, believing it'll stop his metamorphosis, but he only manages to get a finger off and stops due to the pain. The Nigerian gang boss tries to have his arm cut off twice, under the mistaken belief it'll grant him the power to operate the alien weapons.
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District 9 / int_d0447c7b	type	Lightning Gun
District 9 / int_d0447c7b	comment	Lightning Gun: One very powerful alien weapon shown fires lightning bolts at the target, causing them to instantly explode in a shower of gore.
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District 9 / int_d0c5fb3	type	Impossibly Cool Weapon
District 9 / int_d0c5fb3	comment	Impossibly Cool Weapon: Pretty much every alien weapon suffers from More Dakka, Macross Missile Massacre, or Beam Spam. Consider especially the phrase "Needs more pig cannon!"
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District 9 / int_d0cd306e	type	Sheep in Wolf's Clothing
District 9 / int_d0cd306e	comment	Sheep in Wolf's Clothing: Wikus.
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District 9 / int_d264e7d4	type	Bullet Catch
District 9 / int_d264e7d4	comment	Bullet Catch: Wikus in alien Powered Armor catches an RPG-7 rocket fired at Christopher's command ship. Then it explodes in his 'hand'. He survives, though. The armor also has the ability to suspend incoming bullets in a force-field generated from one of its arms and then fire them back at the assailants although Wikus himself never uses this while piloting the mech (presumably because he didn't know how).
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District 9 / int_d3540d32	type	Life Imitates Art
District 9 / int_d3540d32	comment	District 9 itself is not CGI and wasn't built for the movie, it was an actual slum where immigrants were really living at the time of filming (and were in the process of being relocated by the government.) Some of the Vox Pops segments (those not specifically mentioning "prawns") were not actors but real South Africans asked for their opinions on Nigerian immigrants.
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District 9 / int_d45ad2f5	type	Imported Alien Phlebotinum
District 9 / int_d45ad2f5	comment	Imported Alien Phlebotinum: The goal of MNU and the Nigerian gangsters.
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District 9 / int_d68aa8e9	type	Inexplicably Speaks Fluent Alien
District 9 / int_d68aa8e9	comment	Inexplicably Speaks Fluent Alien: It's clear that the South African characters understand Prawn.
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District 9 / int_d69421ec	type	Small Universe After All
District 9 / int_d69421ec	comment	Small Universe After All: Word of God says the prawns come from the Andromeda galaxy.
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District 9 / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
District 9 / int_d8573ef9	comment	Piet Smit claiming that his daughter's marriage to Wikus wasn't a factor in choosing him as field commander for the relocation effort (immediately after we see his parents proclaim that he "wasn't very smart").
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District 9 / int_db33bc7e	type	Ludicrous Gibs
District 9 / int_db33bc7e	comment	Ludicrous Gibs: A common end-result of the usage of alien weaponry.
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District 9 / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
District 9 / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Fundiswa Mhlanga, citing concern for his family, asks for a ballistic vest at the beginning of the operation to service eviction notices to the aliens. As he cannot find one, Wikus assures him not to worry about it. Not only is Mhlanga not killed, as expected, but he is the only character of the three who doesn't get attacked by an alien. This sequence simply shows the rather slipshod outfit Wikus is running.
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District 9 / int_dc955e66	type	Inspired by…
District 9 / int_dc955e66	comment	Inspired byâ€¦: The real life forced removal of over 60,000 blacks from District 6 in Cape Town. And the whole "Nigerians eating alien body parts to get their powers" thing is sadly inspired by what happens to Albinos in Tanzania. Similar instances of cannibalism have occurred during the Second Congo War, with the victims being Mbuti pygmies. In one of the DVD extras there is a brief conversation with Neill Blomkamp where he talks about growing up in apartheid South Africa. His decision to use this setting wasn't necessarily a decision to make a moralistic movie, but to put aliens and Sci Fi into a realistic third-world crapsack environment — and what better setting than what he knew growing up?
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District 9 / int_dcd29760	type	They Would Cut You Up
District 9 / int_dcd29760	comment	They Would Cut You Up: Unlike most examples, they damn well very happily would cut you up.
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District 9 / int_dea5ae31	type	Doomed Protagonist
District 9 / int_dea5ae31	comment	Doomed Protagonist: At least if you consider "being turned into a prawn with no hope of ever recovering" as Wikus being "doomed".
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District 9 / int_e0111a63	type	Phlebotinum-Handling Requirements
District 9 / int_e0111a63	comment	Phlebotinum-Handling Requirements: Only living prawns can use the prawn weapons; no Borrowed Biometric Bypass here. Thus Wikus becomes of interest to the authorities when he is infected with alien prawn DNA and begins transforming into one.
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District 9 / int_e0ecc959	type	Changed My Mind, Kid
District 9 / int_e0ecc959	comment	Changed My Mind, Kid: Wikus runs from the captured Christopher in the middle of the climatic battle. As Christopher is about to die he changes his mind. Unstoppable Rage meets mecha!
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District 9 / int_e11e88b6	type	Thousand-Yard Stare
District 9 / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: Wikus in the back of the MNU van, after he has been apprehended by Koobus.
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District 9 / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
District 9 / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: Wikus gets him and Christopher into MNU headquarters, but hasn't bothered to work out how to get out again, mainly because he thinks it's a Suicide Mission anyway. Christopher has to think up a plan on the spot to save both their butts.
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District 9 / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
District 9 / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: The alien weapons more often than not blow their targets into tiny, bloody pieces.
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District 9 / int_e75be4b3	type	MacGuffin Super-Person
District 9 / int_e75be4b3	comment	MacGuffin Super-Person: Eventually, Wikus, in the eyes of MNU and the Nigerians.
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District 9 / int_ea92aeb0	type	Concealment Equals Cover
District 9 / int_ea92aeb0	comment	Concealment Equals Cover: Christopher grabs a discarded metal door as a shield to block bullets with while running from the MNU. It seems to work pretty well but Wikus' mech suit makes it fairly redundant.
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District 9 / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
District 9 / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Double-subverted, when it appears that Wikus is going to abandon Christopher at the hands of the psychotic Koobus when Wikus runs away in his giant mech, until he hears from the mech's audio that Koobus has ordered one of his goons to kill Christopher. Cursing to himself, Wikus runs back. Cut to Christopher having a gun pressed to his head by the aforementioned goon, then the goon's entire arm is suddenly blown off. Christopher's son activating the Mini-Mecha and saving Wikus' ass from the Nigerian thugs. A rare villainous example: Koobus is about to be shot by Wikus' mecha, but a soldier in a jeep rams the mecha and knocks it over. This is subverted soon enough, as both the soldier and Koobus die later anyway. An extremely brutal version of this occurs at the very end. Koobus has Wikus held dead to rights, talking about how he would love seeing Wikus cut up, but instead wants to kill Wikus right then and there. Just as Koobus is about to pull the trigger, numerous prawns show up, rip Koobus to pieces and begin to eat him.
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District 9 / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
District 9 / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	We get two for Wikus. His Jerkass attitude when evicting the shantytown is mostly a front he puts on for the camera to impress his MNU bigwigs, but it does indicate that his main concern is always looking out for #1. Later we see him freak out when forced to kill an innocent prawn, showing that as self-centered as he is, Wikus is no monster.
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District 9 / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
District 9 / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Our first indicator that Koobus is this is when he yells at Wikus for no reason after Wikus tells him he needs to put on a bulletproof vest.
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District 9 / int_edeafb2e	type	Malicious Misnaming
District 9 / int_edeafb2e	comment	Malicious Misnaming: Koobus mockingly shouts "Run, Dickus!" when Wikus is running away from the MNU inside the prawn mech.
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District 9 / int_f3b5d559	type	SWAT Team
District 9 / int_f3b5d559	comment	SWAT Team: MNU has two variants of armed personnel in their employ: Security Force: The standard MNU guards who wear all black combat gear and carry white firearms, who provide most of the security and law enforcement at both District 9 and MNU Headquarters. First Reaction Battalion: The much tougher "cowboy" private contractors who wear a mish-mash of their own combat clothing and white MNU body armour. They are called in for serious incidents to back up the regular MNU security forces and seem to be subject to much less oversight.
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District 9 / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
District 9 / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Wikus' Sony Vaio laptop, right in the foreground of the the first shot in the movie!
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District 9 / int_f56aeb67	type	Alien Invasion
District 9 / int_f56aeb67	comment	Alien Invasion: Speculated to happen when Christopher returns.
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District 9 / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
District 9 / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: It took twenty years of hellish life in a slum, watching his friend be murdered, seeing horrific experiments that humans were subjecting his people to, and being savagely beaten by psychopathic mercenaries... but CJ and his child manage to return to their homeworld in the end.
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District 9 / int_f7cee9b	type	Last Stand
District 9 / int_f7cee9b	comment	Last Stand: Wikus uses the Mini-Mecha to fight the MNU mercenaries while Christopher bolts for the ship and his son. The armor is already heaving and failing with him inside, but Wikus does not stop until the ship is safe. Even more heroic when you consider that Wikus knows that he will almost certainly not be killed, but rather captured and returned to the MNU for further "experimentation".
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District 9 / int_fa8245fb	type	Death Ray
District 9 / int_fa8245fb	comment	Death Ray: At least one of the alien weapons could only be called this.
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District 9 / int_fb3c0a6	type	Firing in the Air a Lot
District 9 / int_fb3c0a6	comment	Firing in the Air a Lot: The Nigerians.
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District 9 / int_fbba5e98	type	Gadgeteer Genius
District 9 / int_fbba5e98	comment	Gadgeteer Genius: Christopher is good enough to construct a bomb in the middle of combat.
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