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John Carter

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John Carter is a live-action film released on March 9, 2012. It was released by Walt Disney Pictures and is based upon A Princess of Mars, the first novel in the John Carter of Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It is directed by Andrew Stanton, best known for directing Finding Nemo and WALL•E.In 19th century America, a Civil War veteran and wealthy traveler named John Carter has suddenly died. His nephew is instructed to read his private journal...Years ago, Carter comes across a cave of gold with strange inscriptions. Inside, he finds a medallion that transports him to the planet Barsoom, known to Earthlings (or rather, Jahsoomians) as Mars. The lower gravity gives him enhanced strength and the ability to jump great distances. He encounters human-like copper-toned Martians called Red Men, and four-armed, green-skinned Martians called Tharks. Though he just wants to go home, his otherworldly abilities get the attention of a Thark chief, Tars Tarkas, and of a Red Man princess, Dejah Thoris.Carter becomes involved in a war between factions of the Red Men, encouraged by a third group of aliens, the pale Therns. He discovers that the Therns have Earth in their sights as well...
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Aliens Speaking English
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Aliens Speaking English: Averted. John can't understand Barsoomians till he's given some kind of elixir that acts as a universal translator.
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HeavyWorlder
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Heavy Worlder: John, with Earth as the heavy world. Dejah and one of the Therns note that his bone structure and musculature from living on Earth makes him almost superhuman on Mars.
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Faustian Rebellion
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Faustian Rebellion: Briefly teased and then defied. The first thing that Sab Than does when he gets the power of the Ninth Ray is try and use it on the Therns. They effortlessly deflect it and knock him on his ass, with the collective expression of, "Do you think we're stupid?"
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Trailers Always Spoil
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Trailers Always Spoil: They show the outcome of the battle between John Carter and the White Apes, which happens near the end of the movie. Except the trailer makes it look like a Curb-Stomp Battle, but in the film, it's more difficult than that.
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Villain Opening Scene
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Villain Opening Scene: Sab Than gets a new weapon.
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The Wild West
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The Wild West: The action takes place there before John Carter gets transported to Mars.
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Genre Shift
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Genre Shift: Faithfully reflecting the shift in the original novel, it starts out as a Western before becoming a Science Fiction adventure when John winds up on Mars.
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Artistic License – Biology
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Artistic License – Biology: As with Avatar and its six-limbed fauna, the film depicts the eight-legged Barsoomian creatures as practically quadrupeds, with the pairs of legs grouped in twos and moving in unison...a rather awkward arrangement, as the creature would trip over its own legs when running!
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: "John Carter of Mars. This sounds much better." Also, upon learning that Dejah is a princess, John sarcastically refers to her as "a princess of Mars", the title of the first book.
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Mr. Fanservice
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Mr. Fanservice: Taylor Kitsch shows off his pecs.
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Papa Wolf
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Papa Wolf: Tars to Sola. He looks just about ready to kill John both when John gets her in trouble and later when he gets her captured.
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Framing Device
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Framing Device: Most of the story is told in John Carter's journal, being read by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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Royals Who Actually Do Something
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Royals Who Actually Do Something: Dejah is a princess, but she's also heavily involved in scientific research on Helium, being the main person in charge of the 9th Ray discovery at the Academy.
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Voluntary Shapeshifting
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Voluntary Shapeshifting: All the Therns can do this, though it appears to be a function of their medallions and bracelets rather than a natural ability.
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Adaptational Villainy
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Adaptational Villainy: In the book, Powell was John's best friend from his days in the Confederate Army, and he and John journeyed to Arizona together to prospect for gold. In the movie, he's a sort of a jerkass Union Army colonel who arrests John and tries to force him to help the Army fight the Apache despite his objections, though he does get better. Sab Than was originally described as "the flower of Zodangan chivalry" (though he didn't get much characterization beyond that and his desire to marry Dejah Thoris). Here, Sab Than is an unambiguous villain.
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How Do I Shot Web?
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How Do I Shot Web?: It takes some time for John to get used to Martian gravity and master his great leaps.
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Adaptation Expansion
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Adaptation Expansion: How Carter gets to Mars. In the books he projects himself there after inhaling some kind of witch's brew and it's never really explained until the end; in the movie, it's an effect of a piece of Thern technology he found on Earth (which is likely also the explanation for his agelessness).
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Non-Mammal Mammaries
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Non-Mammal Mammaries: Averted with the Tharks, where only a mild dimorphism differentiates the two sexes.
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Dope Slap
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Dope Slap: Tars Tarkas gives John one when they arrive at Zodanga only to learn they're at the wrong city.
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Multi-Armed and Dangerous
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Multi-Armed and Dangerous: The Tharks have four arms, as do the White Apes.
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Death of a Child
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Death of a Child: Thark eggs that are late too hatch are considered "weak" and destroyed.
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Bilingual Bonus
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Bilingual Bonus: Inter Mundos, the inscription on John's crypt, means "Between Worlds" in Latin.
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Special Person, Normal Name
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Special Person, Normal Name: Analysts discussing the failure of John Carter at the box office have suggested that the title character has such a boring name that it doesn't get audiences interested in the movie, and he simply doesn't have the same name recognition enjoyed by Burroughs' most famous character, Tarzan.note Charlton Heston's real name was John Carter; is it any wonder that he changed it to something more interesting?
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Magic from Technology
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Magic from Technology: The source of the Therns' more spectacular powers.
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: John Carter gets fooled by Matai Shang and sent back to Earth the very night he defeats the enemy army, marries Dejah, and becomes Prince of Barsoom. Also, more literally, when Carter leads the Thark horde into Zodanga to stop the wedding, only to arrive there and find that it's being held in Helium.
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Fourth-Date Marriage
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Fourth-Date Marriage: John and Dejah get married at the end of the film, despite the fact that they've only known each other for a few days.
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Squishy Wizard
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Squishy Wizard: The Therns are ageless and wield enormous magical power, but die a from a single gunshot, like mere Puny Humans.
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Batman Gambit
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Batman Gambit: Sab Than, on the advice of Matai Shang, uses one to persuade Dejah to go through with the wedding: he puts his life in her hands, knowing that she's too honorable to kill him in cold blood and that she'll sacrifice her own freedom to end the war. At the end, we find out that most of the framing story has been one big one by John to get back to Barsoom by luring a Thern to his house and taking his medallion. He pretended to already have found a medallion, faked his death and hid the instructions on how to open his mausoleum (where the Therns thought they would find his body in order to kill him) in his letter to Edgar. He knew that the Therns would be watching Edgar to find out how to get into the mausoleum, so he hid back and ambushed one of them when they were focused on stalking Edgar.
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The Man Behind the Man
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The Man Behind the Man: Matai Shang to Sab Than.
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Schizo Tech
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Schizo Tech: Lots and lots. For example, Red Martians can build Those Magnificent Flying Machines and walking cities, yet fight with swords and rather primitive firearms and use beasts of burden instead of automobiles for land-based travel.
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Immortality Immorality
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Immortality Immorality: The biologically immortal Therns look down upon all other creatures and style themselves the rulers of the universe.
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Ungrateful Bastard
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Ungrateful Bastard: John at first before he takes a level in kindness, since he repeatedly betrays the Tharks despite Tars saving his life several times. Tars finally has enough and calls him out on it when his actions cause Sola to be sentenced to death, since she's held responsible for his actions.
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Manipulative Bastard
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Manipulative Bastard: Matai Shang. May qualify for Magnificence.
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Alien Sky
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Alien Sky: The two moons of Barsoom. (While Mars does have two moons, Phobos and Deimos, their depiction in the film is not very accurate in respect to appearance or behavior.)
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The Name Is Bond, James Bond
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The Name Is Bond, James Bond: The title character's first words in the film. When he sends a telegram to his nephew, he tells the telegraph operator that the name of sender is "Carter. John Carter."
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Single-Stroke Battle
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Single-Stroke Battle: The fight between John and Tal Hajus.
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Worthy Opponent
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Sab Than was originally described as "the flower of Zodangan chivalry" (though he didn't get much characterization beyond that and his desire to marry Dejah Thoris). Here, Sab Than is an unambiguous villain.
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Aliens of London
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Aliens of London: Red and White Martians speak with an English accent, which must stand for a more sophisticated dialect of the Barsoomian tongue.
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Gory Discretion Shot
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Gory Discretion Shot: Thark Sarkoja is ripped in half by a White Ape, which we only see via the shadow on the wall.
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Gold Fever
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Gold Fever: Early in the film, a disillusioned John's only real concern is finding a cave of gold somewhere in Arizona. In a cruel twist towards the end, he gets what he initially wanted in his return to Earth. It's subverted however in that by the time Edgar was contacted, it's clear that John used the gold wisely, mainly to fund archeological digs in the hopes of finding a way back to Mars/Barsoom, with enough to maintain a comfortable lifestyle.
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Motive Rant
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Motive Rant: Matai Shang gives an odd sort of one to John, but it's more about the Therns' narcissistic, racial supremacist attitude that drives them to strip Mars of its resources, not the motive itself.
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Adaptational Ugliness
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Adaptational Ugliness: The Thoats, the Tharks's animal mounts, are less of the slender, draconic equinoids in the books, and more like a stocky, pug-faced bull.
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Audible Sharpness
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Audible Sharpness: Anytime someone pulls a blade, which is a lot of times.
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Dual Wielding
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Dual Wielding: Multiarmed Tharks wield up to four weapons at once. John often fights with two swords.
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Challenging the Chief
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Challenging the Chief: Whoever gets to be Jeddak of the Tharks has to have defeated (not necessarily killed) the previous one in a duel, though onlookers have to support the challenger. Tars Tarkas loses his position to Tal Hajus who in turn loses to John.
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Bookends
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Book Ends: The first word spoken in the movie is "Mars". The last is "Barsoom" (the name for the planet in the Martian language).
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Empowered Badass Normal
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Empowered Badass Normal: John is a competent fighter even on Earth.
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Flash Step
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Flash Step: Woola can run so fast that John seems to mistake it for teleportation in his first encounter with the creature.
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Logo Joke
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Logo Joke: The Disney castle is lit by reddish light, under an Alien Sky.
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Adaptational Attractiveness
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Adaptational Attractiveness: The main difference between how the green Martians look in the book and the movie is that in the movie, they have fairly human eyes, not big bulbous ones that would have made them look even freakier. Not to mention how many early artworks tended to depict the Tharks as being brutish-looking and orc-like, as opposed to the more graceful and slender version seen here.
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Troubled Backstory Flashback
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Troubled Backstory Flashback: To John's life with his wife and daughter, and his later grim discovery.
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Green Aesop
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Green Aesop: Barsoom's "dying" state is attributed to industrialization, even making Zodanga into a mobile "predator city" strip mining the planet as it goes. And it discards entirely (or at least forgets to mention) the atmosphere generator that in the novels was the only thing keeping Barsoom barely inhabitable.
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Super-Speed
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Super-Speed: Woola, who can climb a massive staircase faster than John can jump the same distance.
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Adaptational Modesty
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Adaptational Modesty: In the books the Red Martians don't wear any clothes (or even armor), just a harness on which they hang their weapons, pouch and any marks of rank. Justified because that much nudity is not acceptable for a PG-13 movie.
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Adaptation Distillation
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Adaptation Distillation: The film weaves in threads from the second and third Burroughs Barsoom books, mainly with the Therns and the River Issus. It also provides an explanation for John's agelessness.
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Faux Death
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Faux Death: When John is banished back to Earth, he takes puffer fish toxin that puts him into a death-like sleep to throw the Therns off his trail.
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Time Skip
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Time Skip: By the time John Carter gets banished back to Earth, Colonel Powell is little more than a decaying skeleton, while John himself is covered in a thick layer of sand and dust, implying that he'd been away for at least months.
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Pragmatic Adaptation
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Pragmatic Adaptation: The movie retains the spirit of the books, but considerably reduces what is now incredibly rude and hurtful language from a hundred-year old story (example from A Princess of Mars about John: "We all loved him, and our slaves fairly worshiped the ground he trod"). It's an adaption of the first book, A Princess of Mars, but also fleshes things out a bit by borrowing characters and situations from The Gods of Mars and The Warlord of Mars. There's also the matter of the Tharks. In the books, they were all 14 feet tall. Since a whole movie of John craning his neck up to speak with Tars or Sola would be kind of bad, the Tharks are shrunk to about half their book-size.
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Sequel Hook
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Sequel Hook: The film ends on John Carter's return to Barsoom, where he will likely have to deal with the consequences of his long absence and the Therns' intrigues, particularly since the Therns, their rivals the First Born, and the cult of Issus are the primary focus of the second book, The Gods of Mars.
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Nanomachines
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Nanomachines: What the Therns' technology is implied to be based on.
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Gladiator Games
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Gladiator Games: John Carter tests his mettle in an arena fight.
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Unstoppable Rage
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Unstoppable Rage: Channeling his unresolved grief and anger from the death of his wife and child while he was away, years ago, John Carter takes on an army of feral Green Martians alone, immersing himself in slaughter in a blood-soaked catharsis. In a Disney movie!
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Base on Wheels
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Base on Wheels: Zodanga is a city that moves around on mechanical (?) legs.
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Adaptational Early Appearance
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Adaptational Early Appearance: The Therns are the Big Bad, provoking the conflict between the city-states of Helium and Zodanga, and even being accidentally responsible for bringing John Carter to Mars in the first place. In the original novels, the Therns weren't introduced until the second book.
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Adaptational Badass
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Adaptational Badass: In the novel, Tal Hajus is a lazy Villainous Glutton who pretty much never moves from the throne he's parked himself on. Here, he's just as cruel, but much more active and in much better shape. The White Martians themselves were a scheming race with godlike delusions, but no more immortal, advanced or formidable than the Red Martians. Here, they are Sufficiently Advanced Aliens with psychic powers to back up their A God Am I claims.
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Bond Villain Stupidity
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Bond Villain Stupidity: The villains have multiple opportunities to easily kill John Carter, but fail to do so for unexplained reasons. These are discussed on the Headscratchers page.
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Belligerent Sexual Tension
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Belligerent Sexual Tension: John and Dejah. When Dejah looks closely at John to work out an explanation for his jumping abilities and strength, slapping him on the butt in an attempt to make him jump, Sola lampshades this: "There will be time for playfulness later!"
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Horse of a Different Color
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Horse of a Different Color: Martians use rhino-like eight-legged mounts.
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You Wouldn't Shoot Me
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You Wouldn't Shoot Me: Sab Than pulls this on Dejah by inviting her to either marry him or kill him. They both know that Zodanga would probably raze Helium to the ground in retaliation if she actually killed him, leaving Dejah no choice but to accept.
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Adaptation Explanation Extrication
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Adaptation Explanation Extrication: The book explains that all Barsoomians are mildly telepathic, with some individuals having more dramatic abilities; this is why Carter is able to learn the Barsoomian language quite easily. The movie has Sola teach him the language, but the only explanation she gives is that she's using the "Voice of Barsoom", and Barsoomian telepathy is not mentioned. The Therns use telepathy, but it's natural to think it's special to them as Sufficiently Advanced Aliens.
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The Ageless
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The Ageless: The Therns do not die from old age, but can be killed. Also, it seems that John Carter stops aging (or at least slows in aging) after his visit to Barsoom.
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Not Quite the Right Thing
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Not Quite the Right Thing: John Carter bravely saves the wounded Colonel Powell from probable death at the hands of the Apache and thereby (unintentionally) condemns him to die a lonely death from exposure and blood loss in a cave.
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Deuteragonist
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Deuteragonist: John Carter is the protagonist, Dejah Thoris is the deuteragonist, and Tars Tarkas is the tritagonist.
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Grandfather Clause
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Grandfather Clause: John Carter gets a free pass for using really old fantasy and sci-fi tropes due to the original book being either their Ur-Example, Trope Maker, or Trope Codifier - sometimes all three at once.
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Canine Companion
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Canine Companion: Woola, a bear-sized, ten-legged, super-speedy pug-dog... reptile... thing, who will literally follow you anywhere, occasionally bite people, and predict your every movement.
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Common Tongue
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Common Tongue: The various races of Barsoom appear to speak a common Barsoomian language. The term Jeddak (king/chief) is used by both the Red and Green Martians. However, individual languages are also present, as shown by assorted prayers and terms unique to the Green Martians (which the film doesn't render in English).
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Breakout Villain
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Breakout Villain: Matai Shang isn't mentioned until the second book, and hangs around the edges of the story before being introduced in person in the third. Here, he's being set up as Big Bad from the beginning.
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Off with His Head!
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Off with His Head!: Tal Hajus's death. Almost happens to John when Thars Tharkas attempts to kill Matai Shang impersonating him.
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Establishing Character Moment
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Establishing Character Moment: Despite saying he no longer wanted anything to do with humanity, John Carter quickly came to the aid of the wounded cavalry officer during the Apache encounter.
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Arranged Marriage
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Arranged Marriage: Dejah's father wants to give her hand to Sab Than in order to win peace and prevent his city from being conquered. As she is a Rebellious Princess, you can imagine how well this pans out.
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Breaking the Bonds
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Breaking the Bonds: John Carter is Chained to a Rock, but uses his strength to break them — after that the Tharks make sure to use stronger chains, not that it always helps.
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Inherently Funny Words
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Inherently Funny Words: The name Helium has all the wrong connotations...
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No Time to Explain
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No Time to Explain: Tars Tarkis is rather puzzled as to why he just saw two John Carters, one of which vanished into thin air. The real John says he'll explain later.
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Psychic Powers
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Psychic Powers: The Red and Green Martians are mildly telepathic (which is how Carter learns their language so quickly); the Therns have much more expansive abilities.
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Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life
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Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: John Carter willingly fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. But with the South's defeat and his first wife's death, he basically ceased to give a damn about everything. Until he found a worthy cause in Mars.
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Just Before the End
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Just Before the End: Lampshaded — Mars is called a "dying world" several times, and several characters speculate that civilization on Barsoom will soon fall apart.
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Proud Warrior Race Guy
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Proud Warrior Race Guy: The Tharks, and to a lesser extent the Red Martians.
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Unscrupulous Hero
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Unscrupulous Hero: John Carter definitely starts out as one.
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Justified Trope
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Tal Hajus against John; justified, given his abilities.
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Half the Man He Used to Be
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Half the Man He Used to Be: A Thark who was bullying Sola the entire film and tried to throw her to her death gets torn in half by a White Ape.
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Cavalry Officer
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Cavalry Officer: John Carter is an ex cavalry-man of the state of Virginia in the American Civil War. In the film, he is forced into being one again for the state of Arizona (despite three escape attempts in the space of five minutes). He is an Officer and a Gentleman despite very much not looking the part (the only time we see him clean-shaven in the whole movie is the brief period before his wife and child are killed and his house burned).
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Sab Than tries to trade information on the Therns for his life. Matai Shang is watching.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: Matai Shang, Holy Hekkador of the Therns, is The Man Behind the Man to Sab Than.
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In the Blood
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In the Blood: The reason Sola is one of the kindest Tharks? Her father, Tars Tarkas, is too, though he hides it better. Presumably her mother was as well.
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Tragic Keepsake
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Tragic Keepsake: John wears two wedding rings. You might well guess what happened to his wife.
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Chainmail Bikini
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Chainmail Bikini: John for most of the movie, and Dejah, all while wearing a suit of armour. All Martian armor seems to do this, regardless of gender. (Unless you're a middle-aged and out-of-shape Martian, in which case interwoven bandages protect your dignity while acting as a truss.)
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One-Man Army
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One-Man Army: John, particularly in the scene where he takes on a horde of enemy Green Martians all by himself (yes, Woola helps him, which he doesn't like at all).
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Classical Anti-Hero
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Classical Antihero: John Carter starts out as a decidedly unheroic character because he simply doesn't give a damn about much of anything — unless he sees someone being the underdog and in direct danger. He does finally pick a cause, however.
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Planetary Romance
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Planetary Romance: Of course!
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Super-Strength
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Super-Strength: Thanks to being a Heavy Worlder, John is a real powerhouse in melee combat and can break really heavy chains. However, he is incapable of truly superhuman feats of strength.
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Ancient Astronauts
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Ancient Astronauts: The Therns are heavily implied to have visited Earth before and influenced our world's history. In the credits, the Barsoomian symbol is seen on Egyptian bas-reliefs and other historical artifacts.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: Sab Than's reaction when his Evil Gloating over John is interrupted. John's reaction to see a horde of Tharks, headed up by a jubilant Tars, running towards him, eager to celebrate his party in their victory over the Zodangans.
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I Choose to Stay
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I Choose to Stay: At the end of the film, Carter decides he likes being John Carter of Mars better than John Carter of Earth. Moments later, he's ambushed by Matai Shang and sent back to Earth to get him out of the way. He eventually returns.
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Heavyworlder
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Thanks to the Heavyworlder effect, John can leap incredible heights AND pack a hefty punch.
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For the Evulz
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For the Evulz: It's implied that this is more or less the only reason behind the Therns' machinations. Alternatively, it's implied the Therns maintain their power and immortality by stealing resources from planets whose civilizations are on the verge of collapse. However, they don't even try to give their victims a chance to save themselves, and actively sponsor the sides that are the most violent and/or brutish.
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Accidental Misnaming
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Accidental Misnaming: The Tharks never stop calling John "Virginia", after he introduces himself as Captain John Carter of Virginia.
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Ms. Fanservice
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Ms. Fanservice: ...And Lynn Collins wears some very skimpy outfits. She lampshades it when wearing a very strategically designed wedding dress, saying it's too vulgar for her tastes. She's pretty well covered compared with the original novels though.
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Why Waste a Wedding?
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Why Waste a Wedding?: So the wedding between Sab Than and Dejah didn't go as planned and erupted in epic bloodshed? Why, we can marry her off to John Carter that very night, amid the wreckage of the city!
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No OSHA Compliance
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No OSHA Compliance: Zodanga has a distinct lack of guard rails, even on the open-air elevators and walkways above the industrial machinery.
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Trapped in Another World
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Trapped in Another World: Played mostly straight (well, duh, the original novel is one of the Trope Codifiers), then inverted when John is banished back to Earth and desperately wants to return to Barsoom.
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Xenafication
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Xenafication: Book Dejah always had the attitude of a Proud Warrior Race Girl; the film gives her the fighting skills to back it up.
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Forgotten Fallen Friend
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Forgotten Fallen Friend: John and Colonel Powell can't exactly be called friends but they did save each others' lives and it was via rescuing Powell that John ended up on Mars in the first place. If John ever remembers he left a badly wounded man behind he never shows it — until he returns to Earth and finds Powell's decomposing remains still stuck in the cave.
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Market-Based Title
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Market-Based Title: In some countries, the title has more than just "John Carter" in it.
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Aerith and Bob
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Aerith and Bob: The two rival Red Martian city-states are named Zodanga and Helium.
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Vertebrate with Extra Limbs
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Vertebrate with Extra Limbs: The Barsoomian fauna, as well as the four-armed Tharks.
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Adventurer Archaeologist
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Adventurer Archaeologist: John takes on aspects of this after he is sent back to Earth by the Therns and searches the world for a way to return by funding archeological digs, in the hopes that one will contain an artifact that can send him back. His nephew thinks he's a bit of an oddball for this.
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Genius Bruiser
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Genius Bruiser: After his banishment to Earth, John Carter reveals his intellectual side, studying ancient cultures and pulling off a masterfully executed Batman Gambit. He also knows enough about astronomy to figure out where he is by comparing notes with Dejah.
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In a Single Bound
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In a Single Bound: Huge leaps are John Carter's specialty.
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Translator Microbes
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Translator Microbes: John doesn't understand one bit of the Martian language until he's force-fed liquor that allows him to understand the "Voice of Barsoom" (i.e. Martian language).
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Path of Inspiration
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Path of Inspiration: The cult of Issus is implied to have been set up by the Therns to further their agenda on Barsoom.
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Serkis Folk
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Serkis Folk: The Tharks, who end up looking pretty seamless in most live action scenes. Considering how faithful they are to Burroughs' original descriptions and previous artist depictions, it was no easy task.
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Evil Gloating
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Sab Than's reaction when his Evil Gloating over John is interrupted.
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Killer Space Monkey
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Killer Space Monkey: White apes, Barsoom's most dreaded predators.
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Alien Blood
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Alien Blood: All Barsoomian life appears to have bright blue blood. The filmmakers actually get away with some astonishingly gory scenes due to this.
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Good Colors, Evil Colors
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Good Colors, Evil Colors: Zodanga and Helium have, respectively, red and blue as the colour of their banners and cloaks. In traditional military usage, red denotes enemies, and blue represents allies. Though considering the blue blood of the Barsoomians one might expect them to use the reverse colors.
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Badass Bookworm
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Badass Bookworm: Dejah Thoris, Regent of the Hall of Science and Lady of War.
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Gunship Rescue
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Gunship Rescue: The Helium airship that rescues John and co. from the Thark horde working for the Therns. The friendly Tharks do this in the last battle.
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The Dulcinea Effect
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The Dulcinea Effect: Though he witnesses an entire aerial battle between Zodanga and Helium, he doesn't jump in until Dejah (whom he has not yet met) is in danger. No more than five minutes later, Tars Tarkas gets John to join him by threatening her. It's lampshaded by Dejah.
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Big Bad Wannabe
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Big Bad Wannabe: Sab Than is under the illusion that he's actually the Big Bad. The Therns allow him to think that when and only when it suits them.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: The very first time we see Dejah Thoris, she's looking directly at the camera in closeup and talking about the nature of Barsoom. This may be a deliberate reference to Princess Irulan's narration at the beginning of David Lynch's Dune (1984) — and also a parody, since Dejah Thoris turns out to be rehearsing a speech. Possibly mixed with a Self-Deprecation In-Joke on the part of the movie makers, as the original opening for the movie was Dejah Thoris giving a long, drawn-out lecture about what was essentially the entire history of Barsoom. It was painfully boring, and apparently when that was realized they decided to poke fun at their own pretentiousness a bit.
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Bystander Syndrome
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Bystander Syndrome: John Carter, for the first half of the movie, cares very little for the fact that Mars is going to hell. Or, at least, he claims to — he's more than willing to intervene if a lady gets hurt (both Sola and Dejah).
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Troperiffic
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Troperiffic: Inevitable for an adaptation of a book series that inspired countless fantasy and sci-fi tropes. As one reviewer wrote, "just about every sci-fi/fantasy/superhero adventure you ever loved is in here somewhere".
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My Species Doth Protest Too Much
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My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Sola's kindness and compassion make her, at best, an oddball among her merciless Proud Warrior Race Guy brethren. Seems she gets it from her father.
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Death of a Thousand Cuts
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Death of a Thousand Cuts: The Tharks shooting at the Zodanga airship early in the film. While it seems each individual shot doesn't do much, they fire a lot of shots at the ship until it finally goes down.
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Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand
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Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand: Sab Than gives Dejah his sword and a chance to kill him, but she agrees to marry him instead.
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Side Bet
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Side Bet: Between the Tharks while they're watching a fight between Zodanga and Helium airships. When John Carter leaps to rescue Dejah, Tars Tarkus adds his own wager and declares he's betting on Virginia.
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Protagonist Title
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Genre Throwback
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Genre Throwback: One review claims that "John Carter tries to evoke, to reanimate, a fondly recalled universe of B-movies, pulp novels and boys’ adventure magazines". Ironically, the source material is what most throwbacks are in homage to, in some degree or another.
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Walking Shirtless Scene
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Walking Shirtless Scene: Taylor Kitsch, in most Barsoom scenes.
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Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit"
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Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": Gigantic predators with six gorilla-like limbs, hippopotamus-tusks and white fur — called simply White Apes. Woola is referred to as a "dog" sometimes.
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Unusual Euphemism
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Unusual Euphemism: "I want no 'playfulness' from him!"
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The Cavalry
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The Cavalry: John Carter is saved from an army of Warhoons by the arrival of Tardos Mors' airship.
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Action Girl
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Action Girl: Dejah Thoris knows how to fight in this version.
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Lightning Bruiser
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Lightning Bruiser: Thanks to the Heavyworlder effect, John can leap incredible heights AND pack a hefty punch. Then there's Woola, who has Super-Speed and enough weight to hold John in place (no easy feat given his abilities on Mars). Combine those two and you have a missile made of meat and teeth.
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Arc Welding
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Arc Welding: The Therns don't show up until the second book, though the religion of Issus is introduced from the beginning. Here, they're tied to both the Helium vs. Zodanga conflict and how Carter gets to Mars in the first place.
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Composite Character
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Composite Character: Several minor characters from the book were merged into more major ones. Than Kosis (Jeddak of Zodanga) was merged with his son Sab Than. Lorquas Ptomel (a Tharkian Jed) was merged with his lieutenant Tars Tarkas. Mors Kajak, Dejah's father, was merged with his own father Tardos Mors, making a character who is Dejah's father but has her grandfather's name.
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Light Is Not Good
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Light Is Not Good: The villainous Therns dress in shining silvery robes.
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Chain Pain
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Chain Pain: How John deals with one of the white apes.
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All Animals Are Dogs
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All Animals Are Dogs: Woola, the Tharks' guard-dog-lizard-thing. John refers to him as a dog when he finds it following him about. Woola has very doglike body language (aside from running impossibly fast speeds in a blur), and at one point makes a noise that is unmistakably a bark. It's even an Evil-Detecting Dog — but John Failed a Spot Check. Watch closely when John, Sola and Woola are riding the flying machine: just before they crash, Woola can be seen leaning into the wind with its tongue hanging out, exactly like a dog with its head out a car's window. None of this is really surprising considering the books' clear Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit" approach.
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Cool Airship
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Cool Airship: Barsoomian airships belong to the Those Magnificent Flying Machines type.
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Exact Words
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Exact Words: Tars Tarkas dubs John Carter Dotar Sojat, "my right arms". Later, when John unexpectedly challenges Tal Hajus for the Thark leadership, the latter protests that he's not even a Thark. Tars Tarkas says he is "my right arms".
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Heroes: Carter does a couple of these throughout the film, such as when he's rescuing Dejah, and later, the Tharks pull one.
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Jerkass
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In the book, Powell was John's best friend from his days in the Confederate Army, and he and John journeyed to Arizona together to prospect for gold. In the movie, he's a sort of a jerkass Union Army colonel who arrests John and tries to force him to help the Army fight the Apache despite his objections, though he does get better.
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Mobile City
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Mobile City: Zodanga is reinvented as a mobile city dragging itself across the surface of Barsoom by dozens of giant shovels strip-mining the planet as it goes.
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Anti-Climax
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Anti-Climax: The fight between John and Tal Hajus.
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Undying Loyalty: Woola will follow John anywhere.
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Evil Brit: All Zodangans and Therns.
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Human Aliens: As per the books, the Red Martians and Therns are visually virtually indistinguishable from Earth humans.
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In the novel, Tal Hajus is a lazy Villainous Glutton who pretty much never moves from the throne he's parked himself on. Here, he's just as cruel, but much more active and in much better shape.
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Fed to the Beast: Tal Hajus attempts to execute John and Tars Tarkas by chaining them to a rock in an arena and unleashing two White Apes on them. He didn't count on John overpowering the beasts.
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Sufficiently Advanced Alien: The Therns are implied to be these.
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Team Pet: Woola.
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You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious
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You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: An interesting variant. Edgar Rice Burroughs realizes that something's up when his Uncle Jack addresses him as "Ned" in his letter instead of "Edgar", which he never does. At the end, he finds out that pressing the letters N, E, and D on the "Inter Mundos" inscription unlocks John's burial chamber.
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The White Martians themselves were a scheming race with godlike delusions, but no more immortal, advanced or formidable than the Red Martians. Here, they are Sufficiently Advanced Aliens with psychic powers to back up their A God Am I claims.
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Mighty Whitey: Technically an adaptation of the first such story to use the "human among aliens" version (although in this case, his Heavy Worlder status makes the "mighty" part a bit more literal than most uses of the trope). Subverted with the actual White Martians, the Therns, who are evil.
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Spider Tank: Zodanga walks along across the martian surface on hundreds of giant legs.
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