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Fido

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Fido	comment	Fido is a 2006 comedy film directed by Andrew Currie and produced by Lionsgate Entertainment.In an Alternate History version of the 1950s, cosmic radiation has initiated a Zombie Apocalypse. And while the bulk of the infestation has been dealt with, the lingering radiation means that anyone that dies eventually rises again as a zombie. To help maintain order, a company called Zomcon comes into power, fencing in safe communities from the heavily infested "Wild Zone", and develops a containment device to curb the remaining zombies' flesh-eating urges. With the device in place, the zombies provide a cheap source of manual labor (but if the collar is ever switched off...)The story begins when status-conscious homemaker Helen Robinson purchases a zombie in order to save face in front of new neighbors the Bottoms, of whom Johnathan works as chief of security for Zomcon. This causes friction with her husband Bill, who hates zombies as a result of his experiences in the Zombie Wars, but son Timmy—who happens to be something of an outcast at school—quickly befriends their new acquisition, whom he names "Fido."All goes well until a mishap with Fido's collar causes him to attack and kill the Robinsons' neighbor, Mrs. Henderson; Timmy manages to re-kill her and dispose of her body, but not in time to prevent the deaths and reanimation of several other people in the neighborhood. Now Timmy must try to keep Fido's actions under wraps while dealing with increasing scrutiny by Zomcon and growing friction between his parents.
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Fido / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
Fido / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Mr Bottoms was a hero of the zombie wars, where he killed at least 500 zombies.
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Fido / int_15070c2b	type	Timmy in a Well
Fido / int_15070c2b	comment	Timmy in a Well: Played practically word-for-word, just with a zombie rather than a dog.
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Fido / int_15da4941	type	Badass Adorable
Fido / int_15da4941	comment	Badass Adorable: 12-year-old Ballet student Cindy, is established as a great rifle shot in her first scene, and raises her hand when the class is asked if anyone there has ever killed a zombie. This aspect of her character isn't really emphasized, since this isn't that kind of movie, but there is a scene where she shoots a rogue zombie attacking Timmy's mom after Mr. Theopolis tries to help but turns out to be a graduate of Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy.
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Fido / int_166e33f3	type	Little Miss Badass
Fido / int_166e33f3	comment	Little Miss Badass: Cindy is a frilly, chipper preteen sharpshooter.
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Fido / int_1d435a4d	type	A Boy and His X
Fido / int_1d435a4d	comment	A Boy and His X: A boy and his pet zombie. Timmy's blossoming friendship with Fido not only helps him become more sociable and strong willed, but eventually strengthens his entire family's bond as well.
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Fido / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Fido / int_1dab76ed	comment	Cosy Catastrophe: Well, there are still uninhabitable Wild Zones, but the fenced communities have it pretty good to be able to mostly recreate standard '50's living.
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Fido / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Fido / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Timmy's Jerkass dad turns into one at the end, facing his incredible fear of zombies to go and find his son.
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Fido / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
Fido / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: An idyllic-seeming 50s world where the Zombie Apocalypse is a thing of the past thanks to control collars... Except it's mostly an act, anyone who dies almost immediately turns into a flesh-eating menace, any problem with the collars or the timely collection of new zombies risks another outbreak, collared zombies are basically a Slave Race, Lack of Empathy is rampant out of necessity, and the shady MegaCorp that handles all zombie-related problems looms large and controls the information available to the public.
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Fido / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Fido / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: During the climax, one Zomcon scientist stops to retrieve her purse while being chased by zombies.
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Fido / int_43964f3	type	Worst News Judgment Ever
Fido / int_43964f3	comment	Worst News Judgment Ever: played with, in that the newspaper often does report important stuff, but words it pretty sillily.
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Fido / int_4d451cc6	type	Old Media Are Evil
Fido / int_4d451cc6	comment	Old Media Are Evil: The newspaper and TV stations around town don't appear to say anything except what Zomcon tells them, even when it's Blatant Lies.
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Fido / int_5a62e8d0	type	SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror
Fido / int_5a62e8d0	comment	Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror
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Fido / int_60414102	type	Zombie Apocalypse
Fido / int_60414102	comment	Zombie Apocalypse: Happened pre-movie.
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Fido / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
Fido / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: The two Zomscouts, who not only bully Timmy but plan to kill him by removing Fido's collar, then being "heroes" by putting down Fido.
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Fido / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Fido / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: One of the bullies is horrified after accidentally shooting his own brother.
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Fido / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
Fido / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: With the Zombie Apocalypse, society seems to be a lot more callous. The local zombie war veteran tells his wife that he would put a bullet in her if she were to die; Timmy's mother (at the start of the movie anyway) is quite transparent about caring more about social standings and what is considered normal than Timmy's well-being and even the hero cares more about keeping Fido than the fact he (both Fido and him indirectly) have killed dozens of innocent people. It's necessitated by the consequences of being too close to people who end up turning. A Running Gag is that you "Can't Trust the Elderly" because they are prone to dying unexpectedly.
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Fido / int_69655022	type	Gigantic Moon
Fido / int_69655022	comment	Gigantic Moon: A shot of a zombie grandma as a silhouette in front of a huge moon.
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Fido / int_7e07f634	type	Paranoia Fuel
Fido / int_7e07f634	comment	Paranoia Fuel: In-universe example with people at risk for heart attacks, aneurysms or other health conditions that cause unpredictable death, as reanimation occurs almost immediately after death.
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Fido / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Fido / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Cindy gets one in her first prominent scene outside of the school, jump-roping up to Timmy and Fido and saying their moms think they should be friends, and that she wouldn't mind. Then she notices Fido isn't wearing a leash and says that all zombies have to have a leash when only supervised by a minor. Timmy says he doesn't care about Zomcon rules but Cindy points to her approaching father, says that he cares and gives Timmy her jump-rope so he can pretend it's a leash right before Mr. Bottoms gets close enough to tell. She then corrects him when he gets Timmy's name wrong, and as he tells her it's time for ballet class, whispers to Timmy that she really hates ballet.
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Fido / int_812a2820	type	Pink Means Feminine
Fido / int_812a2820	comment	Pink Means Feminine: several of Cindy's dresses.
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Fido / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Fido / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Most of the living characters, to varying degrees.
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Fido / int_89f50aaa	type	Restraining Bolt
Fido / int_89f50aaa	comment	Restraining Bolt: The collars keep zombies docile and obedient.
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Fido / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
Fido / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: Anyone that dies during or after the Zombie Wars automatically rises up as a zombie, no matter the cause of death. Newly-risen zombies are collected, collared, and sold by Zomcon as menial labor; for those that can afford the high price tag, Zomcon offers full, reanimation-proof funeral services (complete with "head coffin"), but as Mr. Robinson notes, only about 10% of the population can actually afford this treatment. With the collars, zombies are mostly mindless, but can retain some traits from their pre-mortem existences (Fido still has a thing for cigarettes, for example), and can still eat or drink normal food even though they no longer require it to survive. Without the collars, a zombie will attack and devour a human on sight unless they were already friendly with one another, as with Fido and Timmy. Unlike many other zombie movies, a zombie bite does not seem to inevitably result in death (the Romero zombie movies, in which people who died of any cause rose again even if never bitten, nonetheless went by the "a bite is fatal" rule, having invented it in the first place). While not directly stated, the very much alive Mr. Theopolis is seen to bear several scars on his chest that likely came from his girlfriend.
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Fido / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Fido / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Mrs. Henderson, who likes to spy on people and order Timmy around.
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Fido / int_9277483f	type	Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak
Fido / int_9277483f	comment	Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Cindy wears fancy dresses, dances ballet and has good manners, but is also a good shot, admits she hates ballet, and likes to play catch.
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Fido / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Fido / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Mr. Theopolis' zombie/girlfriend Tammy died before the age of twenty of a brain aneurysm right in front of her mother.
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Fido / int_9a1fe522	type	Attractive Zombie
Fido / int_9a1fe522	comment	Attractive Zombie: Tammy, although she's kept like that deliberately by his owner, in a world where zombies are kept as slaves, you can imagine why.
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Fido / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Fido / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: the two bullies looking a bit jealous when others raise their hands after Mr. Bottoms asks who there has killed a zombie.
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Fido / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
Fido / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: A few of the zombies seem to have this, but given that they can't talk it's hard to tell for sure.
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Fido / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Fido / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Mr. Henderson gets in trouble with Zomcon for giving his wife an unauthorized funeral although it was actually Timmy who did it, with a guilty apology after having to put her down, having hoped she'd like it in a rosebush.
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Fido / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Fido / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Timmy, as mentioned above. He realizes that he and Fido were responsible for the deaths of many innocents, and he even feels bad about being a Karma Houdini by using two (near) successful cover ups. Mr. Theopolis, in order to create a diversion, deactivates a zombie collar in Zomcom's hall and is responsible for all ensuing deaths. He gets away scot-free.
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Fido / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Fido / int_b9c3de84	comment	Bumbling Dad: Bill is this Played for Drama, having no understanding of his son's feelings or tact towards him, and not even noticing that his wife is pregnant with another baby well after their neighbors pick up on it.
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Fido / int_b9f8c6f8	type	Sleeping Single
Fido / int_b9f8c6f8	comment	Sleeping Single: Mr. and Mrs. Robinson. Fits the 50s sensibility, and shows how distant they are as a couple.
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Fido / int_c1e2c633	type	Academic Athlete
Fido / int_c1e2c633	comment	Academic Athlete: Cindy is a pre-teen version of this, being one of the classes best students, and a good rifle shot and ballet dancer.
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Fido / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Fido / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Johnathan Bottoms is willing to do nearly anything to protect Zomcon's interests, to the point where he throws Timmy into the Wild Zone after he causes a minor outbreak in Zomcon headquarters while looking for Fido.
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Fido / int_cbf8d018	type	Necromantic
Fido / int_cbf8d018	comment	Nec Romantic: Mr. Theopolis is in love with his zombie, a still relatively fresh young woman, and does things with her that are... cough There's a lot of romantic tension in the air between Helen and Fido, who while dead, is a lot more alive than her husband.
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Fido / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Fido / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: The two bullies telling Mr. Bottoms that Fido attacked them and probably killed Mrs. Henderson.
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Fido / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Fido / int_d39e327f	comment	Timmy, as mentioned above. He realizes that he and Fido were responsible for the deaths of many innocents, and he even feels bad about being a Karma Houdini by using two (near) successful cover ups.
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Fido / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Fido / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: What makes the movie so funny.
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Fido / int_d5f518d3	type	The Dead Can Dance
Fido / int_d5f518d3	comment	The Dead Can Dance: Helen and Fido share a rather romantic dance.
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Fido / int_d93c5989	type	Stepford Suburbia
Fido / int_d93c5989	comment	Stepford Suburbia: The entire setting is picket fences and fifties clothes, combined with unhappy families, a police state and anyone who dies coming back as a zombie.
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Fido / int_daa59ba1	type	Puppy Love
Fido / int_daa59ba1	comment	Puppy Love: Timmy feels a little towards Cindy, with a song with the lyrics "puppy love" actually playing in one scene as he watches her shoot targets.
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Fido / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Fido / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Mrs. Robinson showing up with Fido to rescue Timmy from the zombified bullies. and earlier, Cindy shooting a zombie about to attack her.
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Fido / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Fido / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Mr. Robinson, established as a Jerkass almost from the get-go, dies trying to prove that he is a good father by saving his son from Bottoms.
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Fido / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Fido / int_f9f2c33	comment	A Running Gag is that you "Can't Trust the Elderly" because they are prone to dying unexpectedly.
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Fido / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Fido / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Mr. Bottoms reprimanding the two bullies for pointing a loaded gun at Timmy (although it was partially for their stupidity in failing to know that the gun was loaded).
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