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Ender's Game

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Ender's Game	label	Ender's Game
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Ender's Game	comment	Ender's Game is a film adaptation of Orson Scott Card's most famous book. After years in Development Hell, it was finally green-lit and slated for a November 2013 release. Gavin Hood is both its screenwriter and director, and the film has an All-Star Cast including Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Viola Davis, and Abigail Breslin.In the near future, Earth is attacked by a hostile alien species called the Formics, whose invasion kills millions of humans. They were finally repelled, though, when the brilliant pilot Mazer Rackham identified their weakness and crippled their fleet. The Formics lost the war and retreated to their homeworld, preparing another fleet. In the meantime, humanity too began to prepare their own military to ensure another Formic assault would not occur.Gifted children are recruited in hopes of training them to become admirals for humanity's fleet. They are trained at the orbital station Battle School, overseen by Colonel Hyrum Graff. Graff has his eyes on one boy in particular, Ender Wiggin, who he's certain has the potential to lead their entire fleet. But Ender's training will not be limited to his classes and the school's war games. He's going to be manipulated and tested to his breaking point at all times, to ensure that the human species will survive.
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Ender's Game / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
Ender's Game / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: See Pragmatic Adaptation. The characters were aged up to preteens rather than small children, likely because it would be exceedingly hard to find 6-year-old actors who can carry an entire movie.
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Ender's Game / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Ender's Game / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Card voiced a pilot making an announcement to his passengers, though this didn't make it into the final cut. Director Gavin Hood plays the Giant of the Mind Game.
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Ender's Game / int_132d93f1	type	Human Shield
Ender's Game / int_132d93f1	comment	Human Shield: This is a favored tactic of Ender's in the battle sphere, on account of the fact that the weapons don't actually cause any harm, instead merely triggering the suit to paralyze the wearer. Thus, it doesn't matter how many times someone gets shot, as long as the one they're protecting is fine. A robotic variation of this occurs in the final battle simulation, when Ender orders his teammate's drones to form a protective barrier around Petra's ship while her Wave-Motion Gun recharges.
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Ender's Game / int_13f5b1b	type	Instant-Win Condition
Ender's Game / int_13f5b1b	comment	Instant-Win Condition: In the battle sphere, if a player passes through the enemy gate without having being hit prior, their team wins regardless of score. Ender's Game itself is the Former Trope Namer ("The Enemy Gate Is Down").
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Ender's Game / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Ender's Game / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: Mazer Rackham still being alive was kept secret until the last third of the book, but Ben Kingsley's participation is fully advertised. This is mitigated by Rackham being The Faceless up until his proper introduction, and never being addressed by his name in any of the trailers. One of the TV spots, "Truth", shows Ender discovering the Hive Queen's cocoon.
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Ender's Game / int_14848fa3	type	Multinational Team
Ender's Game / int_14848fa3	comment	Multinational Team: Ender's command staff, as is appropriate for an organization called the "International Fleet" that is in charge of saving the whole planet, has kids from multiple ethnicities: African-colored-Dutch-raised Dink, Arab Alai, Greek-ish Bean, Armenian Petra, and plain-white Bernard (French in the book, American in the film). However, we're still stuck with a White Male Lead, and it's also interesting that every jeesh member from East Asia (the Japanese Shen, Chinese Hot Soup and Filipino Fly Molo, who does have a couple of lines as a member of Salamander Army but is never identified by name) and South America (Dumper) was cut, along with three more white guys (Australian Carn Carby, Russian Vlad and British Crazy Tom).
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Ender's Game / int_16178c64	type	Gratuitous Spanish
Ender's Game / int_16178c64	comment	Gratuitous Spanish / Foreign Cuss Word: Bonzo addresses his team as mis pendejos.
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Ender's Game / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
Ender's Game / int_1649e053	comment	Your Mom: Bean delivers an awesome zinger of this type at Bernard when asked how he got such good test scores.
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Ender's Game / int_19660a62	type	Non-Specifically Foreign
Ender's Game / int_19660a62	comment	Non-Specifically Foreign: Ender's father is established as an immigrant, and speaks with a nonspecific accent, but his origin is left unexplained in the film. The book explains that he's Polish.
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Ender's Game / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
Ender's Game / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: Bernard is humiliated by Ender, then joins his team and becomes one of his trusted aides.
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Ender's Game / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Ender's Game / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: Ender shouting "NOW!" is often cut to seem as though it's from the final battle. It's actually from an earlier battle in an ice field.
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Ender's Game / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Ender's Game / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Played straight twice with both major factions. The formics have no comprehension that each human is an individual mind until after they've slaughtered a few million people, while humanity has no knowledge the formics have no intention of starting another war and feel an all-out attack is a justified reprisal. Each side is horribly misinformed, and it's this lack of understanding which drives the tragedy forward.
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Ender's Game / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
Ender's Game / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: Whether out of pride or spite, Bonzo's attempts to exclude Ender are more a detriment to himself than anyone else. By insisting that Ender not participate as part of Team Salamander, Bonzo nearly blows his perfect win record, then gets shown up by Ender saving the day. His attempt to dictate Ender's activities during free time could have gotten him iced; he's just lucky that Ender instead saw it as an opportunity to get some leverage.
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Ender's Game / int_1d77dd02	type	Motivational Lie
Ender's Game / int_1d77dd02	comment	Motivational Lie: Ender's superiors lie to him about the nature of his final training course so that he wouldn't endure the psychological pressure of risking real lives, nor hesitate to destroy an entire planet full of sentient beings.
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Ender's Game / int_1fb77f70	type	This Ain't Rocket Surgery
Ender's Game / int_1fb77f70	comment	This Ain't Rocket Surgery: Played with; a teacher admonishes Ender's class because, aside from him and two others, they all failed a planetary slingshot quiz that is basic rocket science and thus should have been easy for them.
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Ender's Game / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Ender's Game / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Downplayed with Peter Wiggin. His status as an Anti-Villain is never shown in the film, but only because the subplot featuring him is not included in the theatrical cut of the film, reducing his screentime to about one scene. However, while they do leave in the "Buggers and Astronauts" (Called Formics and Astronauts in the movie) game, they cut out the part where Peter tells Ender in detail how easily he could murder him and get away with it if he felt like it, downgrading him to a Big Brother Bully instead of an outright sociopath. However, Graff suffers badly from this. Since the movie changes the backstory so that the Formics only attacked once, his motivation becomes much flimsier. Combine that with the fact that he never expresses regret for his actions or empathy for Ender as he does in the book, and he comes off as a warmongering Jerkass, if not an outright villain. By extension to Graff, the rest of the staff overseeing the simulations at the end of the story come across as more cold and sinister compared to the book. After Ender wins the final battle by destroying the Formic homeworld, he sees the facility's staff calming applauding him, giving a rather cold and cruel vibe over the destruction of an entire planet. In the book, they show a lot more emotion upon Ender's victory, with many breaking down into tears of joy. This shows a more human side to them, particularly since in the book the Formics invaded twice rather than one time, so it's more understandable why they were so happy about the war being finally over.
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Ender's Game / int_23a79ebf	type	Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
Ender's Game / int_23a79ebf	comment	Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Ender's older brother Peter, a rather important character, is missing from the trailer (and only got one scene in the movie). Bean, major enough to get his own side-series, appears for only a few seconds in which his face isn't even shown. In story terms, his role as Ender's right-hand man is taken by Petra.
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Ender's Game / int_263bb4ec	type	Wave-Motion Gun
Ender's Game / int_263bb4ec	comment	Wave-Motion Gun: The Little Doctor.
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Ender's Game / int_2673425b	type	Kid Hero
Ender's Game / int_2673425b	comment	Kid Hero: Deconstructed. The film realistically shows the incredible emotional and physical strain of being a child burdened with saving the world.
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Ender's Game / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Ender's Game / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: A few of the events from the larger "Enderverse" are hinted at, without being described in great detail. Ender's father, John Paul Wiggin, briefly mentions being brought to America by the International Fleet, referencing the prequel short story "The Polish Boy"; Bean mentions that he grew up on the streets, and that he got his nickname because he was told that he "[wasn't] worth a bean", referencing his origin story described in Ender's Shadow; Mazer has a speech where he tells Ender that his MÄ�ori tattoos are "a way to speak for the dead", referencing Ender's future destiny as "The Speaker for the Dead" in the sequel novel of the same name.
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Ender's Game / int_278a8f2b	type	ChildSoldier
Ender's Game / int_278a8f2b	comment	Child Soldier: All of the "launchies" are technically this, something that disturbs Anderson to no end.
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Ender's Game / int_29292e6d	type	Walking the Earth
Ender's Game / int_29292e6d	comment	Ender's decision to leave Earth to look for a new Formic homeworld isn't explained nearly as thoroughly as it was in the book, leaving us with the impression that his only plan is to wander the universe aimlessly out of guilt. In the book, that's one of only several reasons he decides to go: the post-xenocide political situation made it impossible for him to return to Earth, because he knew that he would be targeted for assassination or pulled into the war with the Second Warsaw Pact. Additionally, the Formics' demise opened up their territory to human colonization, and Ender decides to become the governor of the first colony, which is where he becomes the custodian of the sole remaining Formic queen. The business of wandering aimlessly only really kicks in during the last couple of pages, when he realizes he needs to find a place where it's safe to revive her.
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Ender's Game / int_30537448	type	The War to End All Wars
Ender's Game / int_30537448	comment	The War to End All Wars: Deconstructed. Ender believes that the best way to end a conflict is to prevent all future conflict, making sure that his opponent never comes back to hurt him again, without necessarily implying his physical destruction. The fleet command harness and exploit that feeling and manipulate him into unwittingly eradicating an entire alien race, using "the war to end all wars" as a justification.
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Ender's Game / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Ender's Game / int_3114c1e5	comment	Ramming Always Works: The footage repeatedly shown of Mazer Rackham's victory ends with ramming his F-35 into a Formic starship. This annoys Ender because he's sure there's got to be more to Rackham's victory than that. He's right. Rackham did only destroy one ship, but it was the ship he identified as the one carrying their queen. He also ejected and is still alive.
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Ender's Game / int_32768814	type	Kick the Son of a Bitch
Ender's Game / int_32768814	comment	Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Ender twice ends up in fights and in both instances hospitalizes the opposition (accidentally the second time). Both times, it's agreed the loser had it coming.
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Ender's Game / int_347fd07d	type	Converging-Stream Weapon
Ender's Game / int_347fd07d	comment	Converging-Stream Weapon: The Little Doctor fires two beams which react at the point of impact, causing a chain reaction that destroys all matter it spreads to until it has nowhere left to go.
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Ender's Game / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
Ender's Game / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: Card planned for Graff to be gender-flipped when he was trying to adapt Ender's Game himself; when Hood took over, he cast Harrison Ford instead. Major Anderson was gender-flipped, played by Viola Davis.
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Ender's Game / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Ender's Game / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Asa Butterfield plays Ender as an American. When Ender has his breakdown at the end of the movie, he starts sounding more British.
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Ender's Game / int_374c339d	type	I'll Kill You!
Ender's Game / int_374c339d	comment	I'll Kill You!: Bonzo threatens Ender with this after Ender has shown him up a couple times.
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Ender's Game / int_3b27cf16	type	Hormone-Addled Teenager
Ender's Game / int_3b27cf16	comment	Hormone-Addled Teenager: Invoked when Sgt. Dap threatens to personally neuter any launchie caught in the area reserved for the opposite sex. Seems to have worked, since nothing remotely naughty happens on screen for the duration of the movie.
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Ender's Game / int_3c88d6c2	type	Flat "What"
Ender's Game / int_3c88d6c2	comment	Flat "What": During the final test, while the team are in a Curb-Stomp Battle, Ender try a last move, they will shoot the Dr. Device directly to the Formicâ€™s planet, to destroy all the Hive Queenâ€™s starships. The reaction of Petra to this is of complete incredulity.
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Ender's Game / int_3df9c288	type	Keystone Army
Ender's Game / int_3df9c288	comment	Keystone Army/Mother Ship: The Formics' warships are directed by a Queen, and destroying her renders them inert.
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Ender's Game / int_3e710b5d	type	Recruit Teenagers with Attitude
Ender's Game / int_3e710b5d	comment	Recruit Teenagers with Attitude: The fleet mobilizes gifted children to combat an alien threat.
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Ender's Game / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Ender's Game / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Bernard, in the final test: "They're swarming. They see us!"
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Ender's Game / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Ender's Game / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Ender is much less aggresively violent in the movie towards those who attack him. Stilson is "just" hospitalized and Bonzo gets accidentally put into a coma when he falls backwards during a fight with Ender and breaks his neck. In the book, Ender deliberately crushed both of their faces in, though he doesn't realize that he actually killed them both until the end of the story. Bernard in the book was merely a bully to Ender, and only cooperated with him when they had the mutual friend Alai. In the film, Bernard and Ender forgive each other and he even becomes part of Dragon Army and Ender's jeesh. Major Anderson in the book often objected to Col. Graff, but was more concerned with preserving the integrity of the Battle Room rules and Battle School society than about Ender's wellbeing. To contrast better with Graff, Anderson in the film has more moral concerns, even quitting after Bonzo is killed (put in a coma in the film), whereas the book Anderson became the new principal of the Battle School. Petra, like the other commanders, was greatly resentful and jealous of Ender in the book due to the Dragon Army's unbeatable winning streak and him easily taking down her own jeesh. The film seamlessly brushes past that and turns her into Ender's Lancer. She also gets an important role in the final battle, as opposed to her controversial Worf Effect treatment in the book. The Formics arguably get this due to there only being one invasion. As Ender states at the end, they were simply looking to start a colony on Earth. After humanity drove them away, they returned to their planet for 50 years without ever attempting to contact Earth. As Ender says, they might have completely given up on Earth, which makes humanity's overt aggression against them seem barbaric when they could have at least studied what they were up to first before committing to genocide. The lack of a second invasion (which consequently brings down humanity's losses against the Formics from millions to "just" thousands) makes humanity's retaliation against the Formics seem more extreme.
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Ender's Game / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Ender's Game / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: The Formics do this in their battles, attacking in with massive numbers of expendable drones to overwhelm their opponents. It can be seen in the very first battle Earth has against the Formics, and again in the final simulation battle Ender plays with his teammates.
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Ender's Game / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
Ender's Game / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Downplayed with Peter Wiggin. His status as an Anti-Villain is never shown in the film, but only because the subplot featuring him is not included in the theatrical cut of the film, reducing his screentime to about one scene. However, while they do leave in the "Buggers and Astronauts" (Called Formics and Astronauts in the movie) game, they cut out the part where Peter tells Ender in detail how easily he could murder him and get away with it if he felt like it, downgrading him to a Big Brother Bully instead of an outright sociopath.
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Ender's Game / int_42d3be0b	type	Population Control
Ender's Game / int_42d3be0b	comment	Population Control: Due to overpopulation, families are allowed a maximum of two children. Ender is a government-approved exception, as the IF had considered recruiting his siblings but wanted someone with a personality balance between the two. Despite his case being legal, he still receives prejudice from other kids for being a "Third". In the book, it's explained that his parents jumped at the chance to have another child, as expected by the IF, as his father is Polish Catholic while his mother is a Mormon, both religions promoting large families.
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Ender's Game / int_482c31d4	type	No Hugging, No Kissing
Ender's Game / int_482c31d4	comment	No Hugging, No Kissing: There isn't a barest hint of romance between Ender and Petra, despite the trailers seeming to hint at it. There are enough scenes featuring the two by themselves for there to be some Ship Tease, though. The Sergeant even says as much when he informs the group that they are not to enter opposite-gender areas of the school. The battle school seems to have no problems with this issue so far as we ever see.
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Ender's Game / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Ender's Game / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: In the beginning, Ender gets into a fight with a classmate. After goading him into a one-on-one fight, he grabs the nearest blunt object to knock the bully down, then kicks him until he stays there. Against Bonzo, who does this while Ender's in the shower, he turns the water up to full heat, then sprays it in Bonzo's face, and also rubs on some fresh soap so that Bonzo can't get a hold of him. And during his match against both Salamander and Leopard, he utilizes some effective techniques against the other team despite being outnumbered 2 to 1 in that match, such as launching one of his teammates out on a rope so said teammate could gather intel on where the enemy team was hiding behind the blocks and be roped back in to let Ender know.
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Ender's Game / int_4a5fcde	type	Adaptational Alternate Ending
Ender's Game / int_4a5fcde	comment	Adaptational Alternate Ending: The film adaptation ends with Valentine staying on Earth instead of joining Ender, leaving him to wander the galaxy alone.
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Ender's Game / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Ender's Game / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: The destruction of the Formic planet is definitely meant to invoke this.
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Ender's Game / int_4c798fd5	type	Shock and Awe
Ender's Game / int_4c798fd5	comment	Shock and Awe: The Formics' point-defense weapons resemble electricity.
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Ender's Game / int_4f6cf75	type	Mirroring Factions
Ender's Game / int_4f6cf75	comment	Mirroring Factions: Obvious parallels are drawn between Formics' swarms controlled by Queens and human remote-controlled space drones. Also, Graff says that both human and Formic populations have become unsustainable, and it is heavily implied that Formics are driven by the same concern for the survival of their species as humans are.
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Ender's Game / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Ender's Game / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: This is Ender's entire M.O. His feeling is that he wants to win not just this fight, but all the other ones to follow. Amongst other things, he invokes Kick Them While They Are Down as a form of psychological warfare. Ender believes that devastating the Formic homeworld and eradicating their race in response to their invasion of Earth was this. This makes sense given the context of how he dealt with his bullies, whom he never intended to kill, only drive off. Note his reaction to his and Bonzo's fight.
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Ender's Game / int_525df529	type	Not Using the "Z" Word
Ender's Game / int_525df529	comment	Not Using the "Z" Word: A variant. In the book, the aliens are rarely addressed as Formics and are more commonly known by the derogatory term used against them - "Buggers". In the film, the Formics are always addressed by their name, and are never addressed as "Buggers". This may be to avoid coming across as profane by British standards. This happens in the Shadow books, as well. After someone mentions "Bugger", they are berated for using such a derogatory term. The audioplay mostly uses "Formic", except in scenes where someone is really angry.
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Ender's Game / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
Ender's Game / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: Ender does this in the match between Salamander and Leopard army.
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Ender's Game / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Ender's Game / int_558245a7	comment	Redshirt Army: Ender treats his forces this way in the final simulation battle, since he wants to destroy the Queen's ship, and orders his remaining ships to protect Petra's Wave-Motion Gun ship until it could recharge to fire another shot.
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Ender's Game / int_598b59a4	type	Everything Is an iPod in the Future
Ender's Game / int_598b59a4	comment	Everything Is an iPod in the Future: The children's "desks" look and "feel" like slightly futuristic iPads, just as they were portrayed in the novel... which was released in 1985.
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Ender's Game / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Ender's Game / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: Many of the minor battles in Battle School are not shown to save time, but are still implied to have happened. The time between Ender joining Salamander Army and gaining command of Dragon Army is particularly curtailed: No mention is made of his after hours training in the Battle Room with the Launchies; his fight with Bonzo is instead precipitated by the latter ordering him to stop training with Petra. Ender is never traded to Rat Army, instead being pulled directly from Salamander to form Dragon.
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Ender's Game / int_5da3f522	type	Big Brother Is Watching
Ender's Game / int_5da3f522	comment	Big Brother Is Watching: Recruits get tagged with a transmitter linked to their senses, allowing the overseers to hear and see everything they do. The tag is removed upon promotion.
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Ender's Game / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Ender's Game / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: Writer/director Gavin Hood cut almost everything that doesn't directly involve Ender to avoid diluting the effect of his story in the limited space of a two-hour movie. The result is that several characters who are important in the book have their roles dramatically reduced or simplified. The book opens with Ender six years old, and he is 11 when he fights the Final Battle (and 15 counting the epilogue chapters!). For the film, Ender and his jeesh are 10, and played by teenagers. And all the casual nudity in the book is cut out to ensure a lower than R rating. Ender's time in Rat and Phoenix Army is cut. Dink Meeker is also now a part of Salamander Army instead of Rat. Bonzo's objections to Ender's free time training is that he's practicing with Petra. In the book, it's because he's practicing with his former Launchies despite now being in an army. Dragon Army's training is cut and only one battle is shown, utilizing elements from several of the book's battles. Its members also include several former teammates of Ender, when in the book he didn't know any of his new soldiers, almost all of whom were Launchies. Mazer and Graff's motives are better explained in the novel, as well as why they feel the Formics are such a danger, having some basic understanding of their hive society. To paraphrase, "Don't apologize for them, Ender; in the last war, they killed millions of thinking, feeling individuals, while we only killed one of them." Ender's Angst Coma is cut because it wouldn't be interesting to see him sleeping off trauma. Instead, he has a breakdown on learning he was participating in a real war and it's only after that military officers sedate him. Valentine and Peter's subplot where they become internet demagogues is completely cut, since it adds nothing to Ender's story, isn't truly necessary except as set-up for the Shadow sequels (and so could be retconned in if those sequels are made), and it'd seem unbelievable today that two "bloggers" could affect world politics so powerfully. In the book, Ender leads his jeesh at the IF's asteroid base Eros, and after the war visits a former Formic colony where he finds a replica of the Mind Game's landscape. In the film, his base is on the former colony and the replicated game landscape is made to look like natural formations, likely so the IF wouldn't notice the resemblance. The fact that mankind launches its own antebellum colony program is left out, despite causing Adaptation Explanation Extrication in the (unlikely) event Speaker For The Dead is movie-fied. The timeline of the war with the Formics is simplified. In the book there were two invasions, with the threat of a third invasion being a cover for humanity's retaliation. In the film there is only one invasion and retaliation.
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Ender's Game / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
Ender's Game / int_60b21fa3	comment	Petra, like the other commanders, was greatly resentful and jealous of Ender in the book due to the Dragon Army's unbeatable winning streak and him easily taking down her own jeesh. The film seamlessly brushes past that and turns her into Ender's Lancer. She also gets an important role in the final battle, as opposed to her controversial Worf Effect treatment in the book.
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Ender's Game / int_60ec7ddd	type	Young and in Charge
Ender's Game / int_60ec7ddd	comment	Young and in Charge: Gifted children undergo Training from Hell to become lead officers of the fleet.
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Ender's Game / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Ender's Game / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: Ender flying off into deep space with the last Formic queen. Amusingly, it complicates both of the Sequel Hooks found in the original series.
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Ender's Game / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Ender's Game / int_62f9d08e	comment	Ender has this reaction at the end of the film, after he realizes the "simulations" he and his teammates played were actual battles between Earth's forces and the Formics. The other kids also look horrified in a Freeze-Frame Bonus.
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Ender's Game / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
Ender's Game / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: The cadets can be a nasty bunch, especially team leaders. Hazing New Meat is par for the course, and cutthroat competition makes almost everyone mean and vindictive.
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Ender's Game / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Ender's Game / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: Sgt. Dap is a textbook example. He becomes much less severe when Ender gets promoted.
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Ender's Game / int_63f22889	type	Insectoid Aliens
Ender's Game / int_63f22889	comment	Insectoid Aliens: The Formics. Their name is derived from the Latin word for "ant".
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Ender's Game / int_6af8ebb5	type	Death by Falling Over
Ender's Game / int_6af8ebb5	comment	Death by Falling Over: Or coma rather. In this version, Ender takes Bonzo out almost by accident, kicking him backwards, at which point he falls down and breaks his neck, as opposed to getting his nose stomped into his skull like in the book.
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Ender's Game / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Ender's Game / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Near the end of the film, after Ender's team defeats the Formic armada and destroys their homeworld. He then finds out that it wasn't a game at all, and both people and Formics died in the "simulations".
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Ender's Game / int_6e469807	type	OlderThanHeLooks
Ender's Game / int_6e469807	comment	Older Than He Looks: Asa Butterfield, age 14-15 at the time of filming, looks barely 11, perfect for the part of Ender who is supposed to be one of the youngest kids in the program.
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Ender's Game / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
Ender's Game / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: Bizarrely, Major Anderson and Colonel Graff have a Lieutenant insignia and a Captain insignia, respectively, on their collars. Maybe Justified because it is the future and the IF could use a different rank system.
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Ender's Game / int_72455542	type	Adaptational Intelligence
Ender's Game / int_72455542	comment	Adaptational Intelligence: Happens with Ender, believe it or not. He goes with Spotting the Thread on how only one invasion happened, and says if he had known the "simulation" was real, he would have tried to open up negotiations. Ender in the books never even realized that was an option.
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Ender's Game / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
Ender's Game / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: Ender can bring down far stronger opponents by quick thinking and using the environment to his advantage.
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Ender's Game / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Ender's Game / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Possibly Stilson and Bonzo, as (unlike in the book) the audience is never told outright that they died. In the book, Ender only finds out much later, when Graff is court-martialled after the war for his harsh treatment of all the child soldiers. The small strike craft that Ender treats as expendable before discovering to his horror they were piloted by real men all along as he goofed around with them, are replaced by ansible-controlled drones in the movie. The drone operators are shown in a few shots, seated behind Ender and his team and clearly not in danger.
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Ender's Game / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Ender's Game / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "The Enemy Gate is Down." A term used in battle school where all combat scenarios came with one Instant-Win Condition: getting one member through the enemy gate without being shot. It's a philosophical premise that there is always a victory condition the instant the enemy decides to meet you in battle.
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Ender's Game / int_7518df99	type	The Power of Legacy
Ender's Game / int_7518df99	comment	The Power of Legacy: The fact that Rackham ejected during his attack of the Mother Ship rather than going out in a blaze of glory was concealed in order to create an irreproachable propaganda narrative.
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Ender's Game / int_78c5ce7e	type	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
Ender's Game / int_78c5ce7e	comment	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Graff, running out of time to pick a candidate for command, pits Ender's recently-formed Dragon Army team (ranked third) against the top two teams at once, on top of letting the opposing teams deploy before he's ever arrived. Ender takes it in stride.
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Ender's Game / int_791ae258	type	Eldritch Starship
Ender's Game / int_791ae258	comment	Eldritch Starship: Formic ships◊ are red, skinny, and with lots of curves and sharp points.
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Ender's Game / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
Ender's Game / int_794f3589	comment	The fact that mankind launches its own antebellum colony program is left out, despite causing Adaptation Explanation Extrication in the (unlikely) event Speaker For The Dead is movie-fied.
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Ender's Game / int_7976e429	type	2-D Space
Ender's Game / int_7976e429	comment	2-D Space: Heavily averted. The entire story is about training to comprehend battle strategies from every angle, battle school in particular revolves around an open sphere facility with no Artificial Gravity. The only orientation is the opposite sides of the team entrances, and they focus on complex formations that can protect important assets, especially with the Instant-Win Condition of getting a team member through the enemy gate without being shot.
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Ender's Game / int_7ab81664	type	Kick Them While They Are Down
Ender's Game / int_7ab81664	comment	This is Ender's entire M.O. His feeling is that he wants to win not just this fight, but all the other ones to follow. Amongst other things, he invokes Kick Them While They Are Down as a form of psychological warfare.
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Ender's Game / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Ender's Game / int_7abba202	comment	Mazer Rackham still being alive was kept secret until the last third of the book, but Ben Kingsley's participation is fully advertised. This is mitigated by Rackham being The Faceless up until his proper introduction, and never being addressed by his name in any of the trailers.
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Ender's Game / int_7c36c716	type	Angst Coma
Ender's Game / int_7c36c716	comment	Ender's Angst Coma is cut because it wouldn't be interesting to see him sleeping off trauma. Instead, he has a breakdown on learning he was participating in a real war and it's only after that military officers sedate him.
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Ender's Game / int_7c7589af	type	Earth-Shattering Kaboom
Ender's Game / int_7c7589af	comment	Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Played with. The Formic homeworld is not literally blown to pieces, but gradually disintegrates, while the surface that has not yet melted becomes a burning wasteland from the igniting of the atmosphere.
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Ender's Game / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Ender's Game / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, Mazer Rackham shoots down a Formic, only to have a piece of debris from the vanquished foe slice through his wingman's fighter.
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Ender's Game / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
Ender's Game / int_830b0ac9	comment	The book opens with Ender six years old, and he is 11 when he fights the Final Battle (and 15 counting the epilogue chapters!). For the film, Ender and his jeesh are 10, and played by teenagers. And all the casual nudity in the book is cut out to ensure a lower than R rating.
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Ender's Game / int_850258ca	type	I Know Mortal Kombat
Ender's Game / int_850258ca	comment	I Know Mortal Kombat: In the film's universe, mastering a skill in a game is directly linked to mastering it in real life, and the entire premise dwells upon this principle. Could well be The Movie of the trope.
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Ender's Game / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Ender's Game / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Rackham's and Graff's unapologetic stance about the Formics' destruction ruins whatever respect Ender held for them.
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Ender's Game / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Ender's Game / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: After taking out the bully in the beginning, Ender dissuades his friends from taking revenge by pointing out just how brutally he'll fight back if they try it.
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Ender's Game / int_870bbf64	type	Show, Don't Tell
Ender's Game / int_870bbf64	comment	Show, Don't Tell: When Ender and the others are first sent into the zero-g room, he and Bean shoot each other with the guns to find out what it does. Petra also later shows him some of the basics of how to shoot during the matches, which allows him to formulate plans and strategies later on.
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Ender's Game / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Ender's Game / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Lampshaded when Ender is told he's getting a team of "misfits" and "outcasts" just like himself.
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Ender's Game / int_8e20ae0d	type	Child Prodigy
Ender's Game / int_8e20ae0d	comment	Child Prodigy: Ender especially, but other kids as well.
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Ender's Game / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Ender's Game / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Stilson and Bonzo, the two boys who force Ender into a fight at different points in the film. Both of them act very bully-like, and neither one of them seems to know when they've had enough. In the film at least, Ender isn't a psychopath, and stops attacking them when he realizes that they're no longer a threat to him. And though Ender does feel some remorse for his attackers, both times the bullies had it coming after Ender delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle to them.
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Ender's Game / int_9002083e	type	Character Exaggeration
Ender's Game / int_9002083e	comment	Character Exaggeration: The omission of Peter's subplot unfortunately means that his psychopathy and sadism end up dominating his characterization, while his precocious intelligence ends up becoming something of an Informed Attribute. We know that he's smart enough to have been a serious candidate for Battle School, but we never get to see him put his intelligence into practice by single-handedly predicting the coming of World War III and getting himself elected leader of Earth's government.
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Ender's Game / int_90965cc7	type	Hive Mind
Ender's Game / int_90965cc7	comment	Hive Mind: What the Formics have, which makes their fleets all the more coordinated and quick to react.
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Ender's Game / int_91c651a1	type	Guilt-Free Extermination War
Ender's Game / int_91c651a1	comment	Guilt-Free Extermination War: Deconstructed, both the film and the book may have significant similarities with Starship Troopers, but with better technology and smarter people fighting against an even more intelligent race of insects, and the military is looking for young cadets to prepare for the endgame of the war. The Formics attack the humans merely out of searching for resources and not knowing the humans are intelligent lifeforms. Unfortunately for the Formics, they realized that the humans are capable of fighting back much like the situation they are handling at Ender's time, succumbing themselves in defense against the humans.
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Ender's Game / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Ender's Game / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Alai barfs during his first space flights, with drops of vomit floating in zero gravity.
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Ender's Game / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Ender's Game / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: A signature move of Ender, illustrated by his playing of the Mind Game, where, instead of choosing between two poisoned chalices, he kills the giant giving him the choice.
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Ender's Game / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Ender's Game / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: Grant can be seen looking at a report of a fleet approaching Formic with a worried expression. Second-time viewers will instantly realize that he is worried because the actual human fleet is approaching soon and he doesn't know if Ender will be ready before then.
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Ender's Game / int_97b5e1f9	type	Bug War
Ender's Game / int_97b5e1f9	comment	Bug War: The Formic-Human conflict is a classic example.
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Ender's Game / int_99b22790	type	The Knights Who Say "Squee!"
Ender's Game / int_99b22790	comment	The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Ender is amazed to see Rackham alive, saying he's been painting the models of his ship for years.
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Ender's Game / int_9ac6b0c1	type	Sociopathic Hero
Ender's Game / int_9ac6b0c1	comment	Sociopathic Hero/Sociopathic Soldier: Graff is less concerned with the well-being of his cadets than making sure that the human race survives against the Formics. Best expressed in this exchange:
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Ender's Game / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Ender's Game / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The fleet command do not even ponder that Formics might have a human-like level of sentience or any motivation for their attack beyond Kill All Humans.
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Ender's Game / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Ender's Game / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Ender's first scene has him playing a starfighter dogfight video game against Stilson, which he wins by tricking Stilson's ship into crashing into an asteroid. Not only does this foreshadow Ender's tactic of using the environment to his advantage, but it also points to his fistfight against Stilson later when he accuses Ender of cheating because he didn't actually destroy Stilson's fighter personally. And, most obviously, Ender will end up commanding real starships soon. Also, in his last Battle School game, Ender's use of his team as human shields to protect one boy they surround is a precursor to how he'll use the drone-swarm to defend the "Little Doctor" while it powers up in his final Command School battle.
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Ender's Game / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Ender's Game / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Ender has this reaction at the end of the film, after he realizes the "simulations" he and his teammates played were actual battles between Earth's forces and the Formics. The other kids also look horrified in a Freeze-Frame Bonus. Graff briefly has one when Ender, rather than celebrating his climactic victory, nearly throws up and asserts he will be remembered as a killer. When Ender needs to be sedated, Graff actually looks horrified.
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Ender's Game / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Ender's Game / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: In the Mind Game, the rat that Ender controls kills a giant by chewing out his eye and then possibly his brain.
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Ender's Game / int_a3df8e61	type	And You Thought It Was a Game
Ender's Game / int_a3df8e61	comment	And You Thought It Was a Game: Sorry, Ender, but you really did just sacrifice thousands of human lives and wipe out the entire Formic species in what you thought was a simulation.
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Ender's Game / int_a67b86a7	type	General Ripper
Ender's Game / int_a67b86a7	comment	However, Graff suffers badly from this. Since the movie changes the backstory so that the Formics only attacked once, his motivation becomes much flimsier. Combine that with the fact that he never expresses regret for his actions or empathy for Ender as he does in the book, and he comes off as a warmongering Jerkass, if not an outright villain.
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Ender's Game / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
Ender's Game / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: While averted with Ender himself, as his tactical brilliance is what allows him to overcome even the most overwhelming odds in the simulations given to him, it is this very disparity that is itself tactics straight from Hollywood. Almost all of the scenarios presented to Ender have him taking control of a force that is horribly outgunned, outnumbered, and generally outclassed in every possible way, only winning due to his genius tactics. This would be a perfectly acceptable setup in a video game... However, once it's revealed that the simulations were real the entire time, it becomes mind boggling that the human military would not only engage their opponents with such odds stacked against them, but also willingly and on the offensive the whole time. Real life militaries would never pick a fight with such a disparity unless extremely desperate, which obviously is not an issue as the Formics were on the defensive the entire time and refused to go back on the offensive the whole war.
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Ender's Game / int_a7e47a11	type	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame
Ender's Game / int_a7e47a11	comment	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame / Medal of Dishonor: Ender is furious for being hailed as a hero after he exterminated the Formics.
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Ender's Game / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Ender's Game / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Said word for word by Bernard during the final battle, when seeing that their shot of the Dr. Device only obliterated part of the fleet. The rest of the Formic fleet has just arrived, and is thousands of times more massive than the fleet they just fought.
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Ender's Game / int_b09c818	type	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word
Ender's Game / int_b09c818	comment	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: After Bonzo tries to dictate what Ender can do in his free time, Ender threatens to have him iced if he tries it again. Then he offers Bonzo a way out that will make him look like the one in charge even though he's being forced to play along.
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Ender's Game / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Ender's Game / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Graff insists that lying to Ender, exploiting his talents, and exterminating an alien species were necessary to secure the future of the human race.
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Ender's Game / int_b333f02e	type	Achilles in His Tent
Ender's Game / int_b333f02e	comment	Timeline problems occur when Graff, just prior to promoting Ender to Dragon Army, looks at a display and sees that the Third Invasion will reach Formic space in a mere twenty-eight days. This forces Ender's sole battle with Dragon Army to be taken literally, not as an ellision, and then raises the question of how Ender had time to have his Achilles in His Tent moment on Earth, travel to the command post (near the Formic homeworld), and had any amount of time to integrate with his squad... in less than a month.
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Ender's Game / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Ender's Game / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: When hearing Ender's name aboard the shuttle, Bean taunts him for it. When asked his own name, though, he admits "Bean" isn't exactly something to brag about.
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Ender's Game / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Ender's Game / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Ender's siblings have much smaller roles in the film than in the book.
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Ender's Game / int_b956ebdd	type	Tron Lines
Ender's Game / int_b956ebdd	comment	Tron Lines: "Star" blocks have them, to make them more visible in the Battle Room.
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Ender's Game / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Ender's Game / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Bonzo thinks he's a capable commander, but all he is is a tyrannical bully who badgers, threatens, or attacks anyone he doesn't like — which is everyone who he isn't personally familiar with.
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Ender's Game / int_bdc94cd9	type	Compressed Adaptation
Ender's Game / int_bdc94cd9	comment	Compressed Adaptation: The film's events take place in less than a year, as opposed to the five years of the book (and another five for the epilogue). See "Pragmatic Adaptation" below for a full list of what got cut out.
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Ender's Game / int_c45e0fea	type	Adaptational Timespan Change
Ender's Game / int_c45e0fea	comment	Adaptational Timespan Change: In the novel, the story takes place over a span of five years. The movie compresses all the events into just one year, avoiding the problem of how to depict the child characters aging.
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Ender's Game / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Ender's Game / int_c9868780	comment	Playing Possum: Ender utilizes this tactic against Leopard army. He deliberately floats towards them and doesn't move, as if he's already been hit and immobilized. Then he grabs a second gun when he floats close enough to it, and starts shooting Leopard army with it. Though he doesn't make it to the enemy gate, he does take out quite a few of the enemy team before he's really taken out in the match.
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Ender's Game / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Ender's Game / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Both of Ender's showdowns with bullies are softened. Although Ender sends one boy to the hospital and breaks the other boy's neck, it's not certain whether or not they survived, as Ender doesn't believe Graff's assurances that they'll recover. In the book, both boys die thanks to Ender stamping their nose into their brain, although again Ender is never told of this until after the war. Ender's mental state near the end of Command School is lightened up.
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Ender's Game / int_cf9b131f	type	Muscles Are Meaningless
Ender's Game / int_cf9b131f	comment	Muscles Are Meaningless: While the frail and skinny Ender can't overpower much older and beefier boys, his superior intelligence helps, such as when he grabs Bonzo's arm and uses biomechanics to threaten to break it.
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Ender's Game / int_d080f396	type	The Napoleon
Ender's Game / int_d080f396	comment	The Napoleon: Bonzo is a full head shorter than the entirety of his teenage team, even though he is the commander. Even Ender, implied to be an adolescent boy, is taller than he is (although Ender's actor was also a teenager in real life).
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Ender's Game / int_d09eafbc	type	Floating Head Syndrome
Ender's Game / int_d09eafbc	comment	Floating Head Syndrome: In the poster that serves as the page image.
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Ender's Game / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
Ender's Game / int_d33456e7	comment	Improbable Age: Becoming a Commander of the fleet at the tender age of 10? Seems about right. Semi-justified in the movie, where it's stated that a) the fleets ready to destroy the Formics are almost at the Formic homeworld, b) Ender has been covertly scouted for years for exactly this sort of thing, and c) children are noted as being better at inputting and processing data. The movie's title also has something to do with it. (Ender is led to believe it's all a game, so that he can invoke Video Game Cruelty Potential. And Kids Are Cruel.)
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Ender's Game / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Ender's Game / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: During class, Bernard transmits a message to the other students' consoles mocking Alai's vomit incident. Ender then covertly sends a message mocking Bernard's intelligence. When Bernard blurts this out, the teacher quips that he shouldn't insult people if he can't take it in turn.
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Ender's Game / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Ender's Game / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Ender lashes out at Graff and other commanders of the fleet for using Earth's safety as a pretext for exterminating an entire species.
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Ender's Game / int_d66cd0e6	type	Training from Hell
Ender's Game / int_d66cd0e6	comment	Training from Hell: The "launchies" undergo an excruciating, Full Metal Jacket-like training routine.
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Ender's Game / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Ender's Game / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After Bonzo is devastatingly injured by Ender, Major Anderson resigns, unable to tolerate Graff's extreme methods any longer. Ender himself quits after that event. Graff uses Valentine to persuade him to come back.
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Ender's Game / int_dccf42c1	type	Our Graphics Will Suck in the Future
Ender's Game / int_dccf42c1	comment	Our Graphics Will Suck in the Future: The Mind Game that Ender plays looks and feels like a 2013 Playstation video game. This also counts as foreshadowing because the "graphics" of the "simulated battles" are a huge step up from the game.
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Ender's Game / int_dd01736e	type	One-Eyed Shot
Ender's Game / int_dd01736e	comment	One-Eyed Shot: Closeup Of Ender's eye
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Ender's Game / int_de56f2bf	type	Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide"
Ender's Game / int_de56f2bf	comment	Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide": To Ender, destroying the Formic homeworld is genocide; to Graff, it's just "winning the game". Averted from a literal standpoint. Ender does call it "genocide" in dialogue—even though Card already came up with a more accurate term, "xenocide"note "genocide" would be for extermination of an entire race, "xenocide" for the extermination of a species, and "Speaker for the Dead" was title-dropped by Rackham in reference to his tattoos.
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Ender's Game / int_e26f04b4	type	Last of His Kind
Ender's Game / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: The Formic Queen and her larva seem to be the only examples of the species left in existence after the destruction of their homeworld.
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Ender's Game / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
Ender's Game / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: Exploited by the fleet command, who pick Ender specifically for his ability to improvise and think outside the box.
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Ender's Game / int_e4d39e54	type	Mars Needs Water
Ender's Game / int_e4d39e54	comment	Mars Needs Water: Discussed when Graff suggests that the Formics wanted to invade Earth for water, which their desert-like homeworld doesn't appear to have much of. Though they do attack a fleet of Formic ships harvesting ice from a gas cloud at one point.
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Ender's Game / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Ender's Game / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: When recruiting Ender, Graff tells him that his thoughts won't be monitored and his privacy rights restored. When Ender later complains about the Battle School blocking his emails, Graff retorts that he said his thoughts would be private, but his emails aren't.
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Ender's Game / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Ender's Game / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Ender's brother Peter, Bernard (though he later becomes friendly to Ender), and Bonzo.
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Ender's Game / int_ec17dabd	type	Adaptational Angst Downgrade
Ender's Game / int_ec17dabd	comment	Adaptational Angst Downgrade: Ender is depicted as much more mentally resilient to everything that happens to him. In particular, his actions at the climax of the movie are just treated as him trying to win the simulation while in the book, he is so beaten down by everything the military school has put him through that he attempts to win the simulation in such a horrifying way, by destroying an entire planet with everyone on it, getting his fleet destroyed in the process, that the school would kick him out for it. Subsequently, he takes the revelation that all of those battles he had participated in weren't simulations but real battles with real lives so badly that he goes completely catatonic in the book, compared to the movie where he is stable enough to deliver a "Reason You Suck" Speech to Graff before being sedated against his will.
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Ender's Game / int_ed2bbf8a	type	You Are in Command Now
Ender's Game / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: Ender is gradually promoted and given command of first his own army at the Battle School, and later command of Earth's forces in the battle simulations to help train him to become a capable military leader. He later learns that said simulations were actual Earth forces, and doesn't take it too well when he learns he committed genocide on an alien species.
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Ender's Game / int_f0b516b	type	Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us
Ender's Game / int_f0b516b	comment	Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us: The fleet command's plan is to blockade the Formic homeworld, then attack it, as a means of keeping the Formics from doing the same to Earth.
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Ender's Game / int_f432c6bf	type	Glad I Thought of It
Ender's Game / int_f432c6bf	comment	Glad I Thought of It: Invoked several times by Ender. Knowing that Bonzo values looking good in front of his army, he deliberately allows people to assume that his own smart ideas were really Bonzo's. Of course, Bonzo himself knows that he didn't think of those ideas, so the knowledge that Ender is the real genius fills him with seething jealousy.
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