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Jumper

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Jumper	type	TVTItem
Jumper	label	Jumper
Jumper	page	Jumper
Jumper	comment	Jumper is a 2008 film about people who can teleport around the world, and the fanatical group who hunts them. Directed by Doug Liman. Stars Hayden Christensen and Samuel L. Jackson.It's loosely inspired by the novel Jumper by Steven Gould and inspired a Tie-In Novel, also by Gould, Griffin's Story. The movie also inspired a tie-in video game, also titled subtitled Griffin's Story.
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Jumper / int_12c65d9b	type	Abnormal Ammo
Jumper / int_12c65d9b	comment	Abnormal Ammo: Griffin is a master of using Jumping to hurl large and dangerous objects at his enemies, as Roland finds out the hard way courtesy of a double-decker bus.
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Jumper / int_14d633ed	type	If I Wanted You Dead...
Jumper / int_14d633ed	comment	If I Wanted You Dead...: At the end David jumps Roland to a small cave in the middle of nowhere. Just before jumping out, he points out that he could easily have left Roland to be eaten by sharks (as Griffin brags of doing to Paladin agents), trying to make the point that Jumpers aren't inherently evil.
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Jumper / int_19e22123	type	Ancient Tomb
Jumper / int_19e22123	comment	London, Tokyo and Griffin's hideout (an Ancient Tomb in an undefined Thirsty Desert); darkest night.
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Jumper / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
Jumper / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: Mark Kobold, the jerk who inadvertently causes David to discover his teleporting powers in the first place.
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Jumper / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Jumper / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Kristen Stewart as David's half-sister in the movie's ending.
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Jumper / int_1ca3c244	type	Who Are You?
Jumper / int_1ca3c244	comment	Who Are You?: Overlapping with What the Hell Are You?, Mark exclaims this word-for-word after witnessing David's jumping abilities, when David confronts Mark for (without knowing or caring what he was doing) spilling to the Paladins who came asking Mark about David.
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Jumper / int_2059a430	type	The Hedonist
Jumper / int_2059a430	comment	The Hedonist: The adult David viewers first see is a shallow and self-satisfied young man who cares about little other than his own pleasure. The rest of the film largely consists of him (slowly) growing out of this.
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Jumper / int_208c4494	type	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
Jumper / int_208c4494	comment	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Aside from the holy crusade thing, Roland expresses the belief that all Jumpers eventually "go bad", which is why they are targeted. While David is a bank robber, Roland still says this in the context of "you'll get worse" rather than this alone being proof of his point, suggesting that he means it in a more megalomaniacal context. As none of the Jumpers seen fit this definition, this is probably just another self-justification rather than a legitimate concern.
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Jumper / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Jumper / int_2139c878	comment	Church Militant: The Paladins, though they by far play up the "militant" over the "church".
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Jumper / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
Jumper / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: Roland's name means "famous throughout the land", yet Roland himself is a very anonymous agent (well, as anonymous as you can get when you're Samuel L. Jackson with white hair) who hunts Jumpers from the shadows. Though also subverted, as his name is supposed the resemble the figure of the Frankish Knight Roland — confer the name “Paladins” and Griffin's talk about the struggle going back to the medieval times.
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Jumper / int_2504772e	type	Walking Spoiler
Jumper / int_2504772e	comment	Walking Spoiler: Sophie, David's half-sister who is played by a young Kristen Stewart and only appears in one scene at the film's end.
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Jumper / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
Jumper / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: Griffin and Cox survive, as the movie was intended to be the first in a trilogy.
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Jumper / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Jumper / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Griffin. A cold and remorseless killer whose parents were murdered by the Paladins, giving him a motive to go to war with them. The only prospects he cares about anymore is saving his own skin and killing Paladins, and will personally slay anyone he feels will get in the way of either. Despite helping David understand his powers, David spends much of the third part of the film preventing him from blowing up the apartment the Paladins are located in to save his love interest. Roland was also going to be revealed as this in early script drafts, as his hatred for Jumpers was going to be revealed to be caused by a Jumper who helped Hitler in World War II. That premise went unused, perhaps because it is such a Dead Horse Trope, though Roland is still implied to be one of these in the final product.
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Jumper / int_326a44a1	type	Create Your Own Villain
Jumper / int_326a44a1	comment	Create Your Own Villain: Griffin is a damaged and possibly even sociopathic young man who is obsessed with killing Paladins, yet the Paladins have no one to blame but themselves for their deadliest enemy.
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Jumper / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Jumper / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Roland vs. Griffin. As he approaches him he shouts; "Time to send you home to Mommy!" Roland was the one who killed Griffin's parents. However, this hits his Berserk Button, cuing a teleporting charge of Unstoppable Rage, where Griffin punches Roland through a wall.
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Jumper / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Jumper / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Griffin lives in the middle of a desert, is always looking over his shoulder, and thinks people out to get him are everywhere. The Paladins prove he is entirely correct on all counts.
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Jumper / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Jumper / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: The stated point of David's selfishness. Doug Liman was tired of standard Super Hero philosophy; he wanted to see one develop. In the beginning, he's a timid pre-teen with an abusive father. After his Super Empowering, he's a world-class thief who lives in a penthouse apartment. When the Paladins catch up to him, all he wants to do is "save his own ass". The near-miss fails to educate him, and he goes back to see his girlfriend and take her to Rome on a trip, just to impress her. A few misses later, they nearly kill his father. And when they capture Mille, he sticks his neck out for the first time. Time will tell if he goes further.
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Jumper / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Jumper / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Millie's primary utility to the plot.
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Jumper / int_450c5a85	type	Alternate Continuity
Jumper / int_450c5a85	comment	Alternate Continuity: The film and its Tie-In Novel Griffin's Story are this to the original novels: the prologue to the film, up to David robbing the bank, is broadly accurate to the book, but everything after that is original to the film, including Griffin and the Paladin order. In the original book, David was pursued by the NSA instead, then by a Nebulous Evil Organization of business leaders in the sequels.
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Jumper / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Jumper / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Roland seems to see David as this by the film's climax, noting how far he's come from robbing banks.
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Jumper / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Jumper / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: The movie and its supplementary material annoyingly waffle on whether or not the Paladins are this. On the one hand, they attacked Griffin and killed his family when he was only 5 years old, and Griffin notes that few Jumpers live into adulthood because of the Paladins. But in the press release it specifically notes that Jumpers become targets of the Paladins when they "make it to adulthood". David's mother abandoning him as a child because her only other choice was to kill him seems to indicate that the idea of Paladins waiting for Jumpers to get to adulthood was one that was phased out, making them this trope in the final product.
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Jumper / int_498a6a21	type	Badass Teacher
Jumper / int_498a6a21	comment	Badass Teacher: Griffin starts off as a reluctant one of these before becoming the...
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Jumper / int_4a0e2f8d	type	White Hair, Black Heart
Jumper / int_4a0e2f8d	comment	White Hair, Black Heart: Roland has (very conspicuously dyed) white hair and is an utterly remorseless murderer.
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Jumper / int_53528185	type	Piggybacking on Hitler
Jumper / int_53528185	comment	Roland was also going to be revealed as this in early script drafts, as his hatred for Jumpers was going to be revealed to be caused by a Jumper who helped Hitler in World War II. That premise went unused, perhaps because it is such a Dead Horse Trope, though Roland is still implied to be one of these in the final product.
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Jumper / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Jumper / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Paladins feel that all Jumpers are inherently evil and must be destroyed, evoking the standard "normal vs super" take on this trope.
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Jumper / int_599aa670	type	What the Hell Are You?
Jumper / int_599aa670	comment	What the Hell Are You?: Mixed in with Who Are You?. Although the latter is Mark's exact words, he's also clearly thinking this after witnessing David's teleportation abilities (and getting arrested for an alleged bank heist for them) when he sees David again.
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Jumper / int_5b6e57e	type	Required Secondary Powers
Jumper / int_5b6e57e	comment	Required Secondary Powers: Jumping not only teleports the person, but all the matter around them, otherwise Telefragging would be a big problem. David's first few teleportations result in damage to his surroundings because he hasn't streamlined the process, resulting in blasts of compressed air cracking the floor every time he Jumps into a building. This is exploited by Griffin in one instance; by closing on Roland with a series of rapid teleportations, he compresses so much air around him that the end result is Roland getting hit with enough force to punch him through a wall.
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Jumper / int_5d6f4033	type	Agonizing Stomach Wound
Jumper / int_5d6f4033	comment	Roland is introduced telling a Jumper at his mercy that only God should have this power, then shanking the man in the gutnote instead of, say, a relatively painless and quick bullet to the head, establishing his religious extremism and viciousness.
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Jumper / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Jumper / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The book spans about one year of David's life as a teleporter, during which he learns the specifics of his power, meets his Love Interest, and reconnects with his Missing Mom. Then, in the space of a week, he runs afoul of a wife-beating cop, is exposed first as a criminal then as a teleporter, and is finally knocked off his feet by a case of pneumonia, thus making him Late to the Tragedy when his mother is killed by terrorists. David has only begun to hunt them down and reconcile with his girlfriend when The Government steps in and things go From Bad to Worse. At this point, David has his Super Hero Origin and can begin to kick ass - after three fourths of the book. The movie manages to adapt just about all of this (swapping terrorists for Church Militants) with room for several Fight Scenes, and even set up a few sequel hooks.
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Jumper / int_63cad64b	type	Threatening Shark
Jumper / int_63cad64b	comment	Threatening Shark: Griffin explains that he knows of a reef with an active school of sharks where he dumps Paladin agents that attack him.
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Jumper / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Jumper / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In a deleted scene, Roland is introduced by tucking in his young son to bed, telling him about the Paladins in a very sanitized way and encouraging him to "follow in his footsteps" when he gets older.
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Jumper / int_64070096	type	Cowardly Lion
Jumper / int_64070096	comment	Cowardly Lion: David at first. He wants no part of fighting the Paladins, and shamelessly abandons (or tries to abandon) Griffin to fight them on his own. But once Millie gets dragged into things he finds his spine and seeks out Griffin in hopes of teaming up against them.
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Jumper / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
Jumper / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: Roland's sneering promise to send Griffin "home to mommy" reveals he is just as bad as any of the monsters he may or may not have fought.
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Jumper / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Jumper / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: David's mom is one of the leaders of the Ancient Conspiracy trying to kill Jumpers, and had to leave her family behind.
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Jumper / int_67e9f779	type	Teleport Spam
Jumper / int_67e9f779	comment	Teleport Spam: Primary method of Jumping combat, obviously.
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Jumper / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Jumper / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: It's probably not a coincidence that The Bully Mark Kobold shares a name with the aggressive and xenophobic yet very weak goblinoids from Dungeons & Dragons.
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Jumper / int_6feaf27b	type	Scarily Competent Tracker
Jumper / int_6feaf27b	comment	Scarily Competent Tracker: If you're a Jumper, Roland will find you, even if he has to crisscross the world to do it.
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Jumper / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
Jumper / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: Despite the Paladins having religious motivations for hunting Jumpers, they are very correct in believing that Jumpers can be highly dangerous. For example, David, the protagonist, uses his powers to steal whatever he wants and also uses his powers for petty reasons such as teleporting a former bully into a sealed bank vault. It's not until Millie's life is threatened that David is motivated to do anything heroic. Griffin is a zig-zagging case; he learned to Jump as a teenager, but was relatively harmless until the Paladins killed his parents - after which he dedicates his life to killing Paladins with no consideration for collateral damage, not any different from the Paladins' efforts to exterminate Jumpers.
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Jumper / int_798c54a4	type	Randomly Gifted
Jumper / int_798c54a4	comment	Randomly Gifted: Jumpers are born randomly, which is why the Paladins can't just track down bloodlines and have to instead look for unusual reports — though they usually kill all of a Jumper's family as well, both to draw the Jumper out and just to be sure. David's mother is revealed in the end to be a Paladin, who was horrified to find out that her own son was a teleporter, so she left him at the age of 5, knowing that he'll be killed otherwise. Slightly different in the novels, where the ability can be obtained by simply being teleported enough times.
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Jumper / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Jumper / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Roland is introduced telling a Jumper at his mercy that only God should have this power, then shanking the man in the gutnote instead of, say, a relatively painless and quick bullet to the head, establishing his religious extremism and viciousness. As mentioned above, one of the first things we see adult David do after jumping all around the world is shrug at a news report of a flood he could very easily do something about, establishing his moral apathy and lack of concern for others.
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Jumper / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Jumper / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Griffin becomes one of these to David after he decides to blow up Millie's apartment because the Paladins are all inside — despite Millie still being inside too.
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Jumper / int_874201dc	type	Inside Job
Jumper / int_874201dc	comment	Inside Job: Referenced but averted. David cleans out a bank vault with his teleportation power. Later, somebody theorizes in his hearing that the robbery must've been an inside job since there wasn't any sign of forced entry.
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Jumper / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
Jumper / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: Griffin can't seem to decide if he's English, Irish or Scottish.
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Jumper / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
Jumper / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: The Paladins are an army of Badass Normals whom have proven formidable to be able to hunt Jumpers since the Medieval Times. Note this is before they had the technology to follow Jumpers through their jump points or electrocute them to nullify their powers. The fact they are a group of religious fanatics and can appear anywhere in the world through sheer expediency and coordination makes them even more dangerous.
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Jumper / int_8b37da56	type	The Omnipresent
Jumper / int_8b37da56	comment	The Omni Present: The Paladins reference this, claiming that the reason they hunt the jumpers is because "Only God should have this power—to be in all places, at all times." Note that the jumpers aren't actually an example (being pretty standard teleportation with mass limits), the Paladins are just over-reacting fanatics.
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Jumper / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Jumper / int_8e5c862	comment	Ancient Conspiracy: An entire one revolving around killing teleporters and inventing technology to stop them.
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Jumper / int_8f0dc93c	type	Dangerous Forbidden Technique
Jumper / int_8f0dc93c	comment	Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Jumpers can easily move themselves and another person, but greater masses are more difficult. Griffin is able to jump cars and a double decker bus at one point, but only when they're moving and it's implied he's using their momentum to take some of the strain off. Griffin relates a tale of a Jumper who tried to teleport an entire building; he managed to shake it a little before the strain killed him. In the climax, David manages to jump a sizable portion of Millie's apartment twice without killing himself, but it takes a lot out of him.
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Jumper / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Jumper / int_90c018ac	comment	Justified when you think of how Unfettered the Paladins are. See the I'm Not a Hero, I'm... below for elaboration.
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Jumper / int_9b3c14cb	type	Van Helsing Hate Crimes
Jumper / int_9b3c14cb	comment	Van Helsing Hate Crimes: The Paladins are a sort of Van Helsing Ku Klux Klan. Indeed one gets the feeling they do what they do more out of jealousy that they don't have the power rather than a holy crusade. In the videogame interpretation of Jumper: Griffin's Story, Griffin mockingly lampshades the jealousy aspect while fighting Roland.
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Jumper / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Jumper / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: David's Mom. She abandoned Jake and his father, and so far as shown in the movie didn't send any money to help out despite living in a nice house. Yes, she didn't kill David when he was young, and gave him a "head start" at the end of the movie, but evidently has not given the same courtesy to other jumpers over the years.
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Jumper / int_a91078ea	type	Adaptational Jerkass
Jumper / int_a91078ea	comment	Adaptational Jerkass: Done deliberately by Doug Liman due to wanting a protagonist who learns and grows, but it must be said that the David Rice of the movie is rather more amoral and self-centered than the David "Davy" Rice of the books. The best example of this is a scene shortly after we are introduced to adult David, when he is lounging in his apartments and flips the channels to find a news report of a flood. Seeing the location, David could easily jump there and save people, but he just shrugs and changes the channel. By contrast, the Davy of the books is so moral that he kidnaps a terrorist, but instead of killing him he dumps him in a hole and gives him food and water until he learns the error of his ways.
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Jumper / int_ac3ccb12	type	The Unapologetic
Jumper / int_ac3ccb12	comment	The Unapologetic: Roland has no regrets for any of the ordinary humans he kills for being between him and a Jumper, and even goes so far as to use Griffin's dead mother (who he himself murdered) to taunt him with.
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Jumper / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Jumper / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Had the Paladins not been intent on hunting all of David's friends and family down, he probably would have just run away from them forever. But threatening his lover Millie and then nearly killing his father gives him a will to fight them in earnest.
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Jumper / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Jumper / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: David's father is an alcoholic drunk while his mother is a member of the Ancient Conspiracy tasked with killing all Jumpers, including him. Granted, the former is an alcoholic because of said mother leaving them.
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Jumper / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Jumper / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: When David reproaches his mother for abandoning him when he was a kid at the end of the film, she responds by saying this trope word-for-word.
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Jumper / int_b252f072	type	Megaton Punch
Jumper / int_b252f072	comment	Megaton Punch: Jumpers can do this by teleporting in front of themselves multiple times as they charge an opponent. Griffin uses it to great effect during his fight with Roland.
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Jumper / int_b6e1d40b	type	Acceptable Breaks from Reality
Jumper / int_b6e1d40b	comment	One of the Acceptable Breaks from Reality is the fact that the surface of the earth is revolving at a different rate at each lattitude, meaning you would have to compensate for speed.
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Jumper / int_ba0791de	type	First Girl Wins
Jumper / int_ba0791de	comment	First Girl Wins: Millie and David don't have a lot of established chemistry (only some backstory), but he ends up choosing her and she's single and ready.
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Jumper / int_ba33bad5	type	I'm Not a Hero, I'm...
Jumper / int_ba33bad5	comment	I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: Griffin spits this at David as he walks off to what Griffin believes to be certain death; in his experience, Jumpers don't have the power to save anyone, as while the Paladins are ready, willing and able to kill entire families as collateral damage in killing Jumpers, all Jumpers can do is Jump away. The best Griffin's ever accomplished is escaping with his life after killing his enemies, and he's been Forced to Watch everyone he's ever cared for die at the hands of the Paladins.
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Jumper / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Jumper / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Roland Cox, and indeed all the Paladins, are literally this, as Griffin reveals when he tells David that their organization goes back to medieval times.
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Jumper / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Jumper / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: A justified aversion during Roland's first encounter with David. He could have easily killed the unsuspecting Jumper when he first shows up in his penthouse, but Roland wants to find out how David evaded detection for eight whole years and if somebody else is shielding him from the Paladins. Unknown to both, it's been David's own mother.
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Jumper / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Jumper / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: David. He is by no means a bad person, but ended up stealing a good deal of money as a child which led to his mildly hedonistic lifestyle. He doesn't do anything heroic until the 3rd arc though.
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Jumper / int_c09dbbbb	type	Weaksauce Weakness
Jumper / int_c09dbbbb	comment	Weaksauce Weakness: Being zapped with electricity scrambles a Jumper's ability to teleport.
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Jumper / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
Jumper / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: Roland indulges in this during his first meeting with David, believing that the young Jumper has had help in staying under the radar and wanting to interrogate him rather than kill him outright.
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Jumper / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
Jumper / int_c145f69b	comment	Though also subverted, as his name is supposed the resemble the figure of the Frankish Knight Roland — confer the name “Paladins” and Griffin's talk about the struggle going back to the medieval times.
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Jumper / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
Jumper / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: Griffin jumps an entire double-decker bus at Roland, who only narrowly avoids getting crushed.
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Jumper / int_c2e2a445	type	Jade-Colored Glasses
Jumper / int_c2e2a445	comment	Jade-Colored Glasses: Having been on the run for most of his life, Griffin is rather less enamored with his jumping ability than David, rolling his eyes at the latter's hedonist use of his power — though this notably does not stop him from stealing a Mercedes after he agrees to the "team-up" with David.
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Jumper / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Jumper / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: While trying to convince Griffin to team up with him against the Paladins, David references the "Marvel Team-Up" series, in which multiple Marvel heroes (usually Spider-Man and some B-list character) team up against a single threat.
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Jumper / int_d1ceb951	type	Holier Than Thou
Jumper / int_d1ceb951	comment	Holier Than Thou: Roland considers himself morally superior to any Jumper, despite committing acts much worse than even the worst Jumper we see.
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Jumper / int_d2e98fd5	type	Die or Fly
Jumper / int_d2e98fd5	comment	Die or Fly: David's first jump is out of pure instinct after he falls into a frozen lake and nearly drowns.
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Jumper / int_d581ba71	type	Comes Great Responsibility
Jumper / int_d581ba71	comment	Comes Great Responsibility: Defied. Neither David nor his pal seem to care about using their teleportation powers to help "muggles". Justified when you think of how Unfettered the Paladins are. See the I'm Not a Hero, I'm... below for elaboration.
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Jumper / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Jumper / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: During the jumper duel, nobody notices the two men that appear out of nowhere and are wrestling in the street.
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Jumper / int_daba19f1	type	Portal Cut
Jumper / int_daba19f1	comment	Portal Cut: Zig-zagged. The Grappling-Hook Pistol works against the Jumpers because they can't simply teleport away. Once it's secured, the wire teleports with them. David ends up embedding one in a door when he tries to jump with one attached. The fact that they're electrified might have something to do with it. On the other hand, Jumpers definitely can jump out with only part of an object, as David demonstrates near the end when he jumps most of Mille's apartment, cutting a huge chunk out of the building.
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Jumper / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
Jumper / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: Said verbatim by Griffin after Millie is kidnapped.
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Jumper / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Jumper / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Griffin has been hunted by Paladins since he was 5 years old, but he's still going strong.
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Jumper / int_e59735eb	type	ArchEnemies
Jumper / int_e59735eb	comment	Arch-Enemies: Griffin and Roland. The latter killed the former's family when he was just 5, and the former now spends most of his time plotting the violent murder of the latter.
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Jumper / int_e6a901a3	type	Meaningful Rename
Jumper / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: A meta example — David Rice in the books is usually referred to by the nickname "Davy", while the less moral and more self-centered movie David is never called by any sort of diminutive, not even by his love interest Millie.
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Jumper / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
Jumper / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License – Geography: The Coincidental Broadcast in Ann Arbor, Michigan somehow shows NY1 on their TV sets, despite Ann Arbor being far from New York City. This was a result of film technique: Doug Liman shot the film on-location in various exotic settings, and all the scenes for a particular location were shot at the same time, regardless of plot progression. This results in some glaring inconsistencies in time of day, as David and Griffin will Jump between them instantly. London, Tokyo and Griffin's hideout (an Ancient Tomb in an undefined Thirsty Desert); darkest night. The Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, New York, Ann Arbor; broad daylight. Rome; early morning. An extremely justified case here, as the director was able to get limited permission to shoot inside the Coliseum.
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Jumper / int_eb4ee9eb	type	Guns Are Worthless
Jumper / int_eb4ee9eb	comment	Guns Are Worthless: The Paladins use hybrid Grappling-Hook Pistol/stun guns because when a conventional bullet hits the "Jump Scar" left in the wake of a teleport, it spins off in a random direction. It's All There in the Manual.
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Jumper / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Jumper / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: David uses Jumping to travel the world and make moving faster. Taken to an extreme where he would rather Jump to his television remote literally a few inches away from him on the couch rather than physically move to it. When David tries to exit his apartment without teleporting, his muscle memory is so bad that he can't turn the doorknob. Roland comments that he Jumps so much it's probably been a while since he actually used a door.
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Jumper / int_f2bf7993	type	Psycho Electro
Jumper / int_f2bf7993	comment	Psycho Electro: The Paladins predominantly fight with electroshock-based weapons, as they are one of the few ways to slow a Jumper down.
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Jumper / int_f4045892	type	Fighting Across Time and Space
Jumper / int_f4045892	comment	Fighting Across Time and Space: Towards the film's climax, Griffin plans to bomb David's apartment and kill Roland. David objects to this since his love interest Millie is in there. This results in a fight/chase sequence in which the two teleport to various locations across the world for possession of the detonator. It ends with David trapping Griffin with power lines in Chechnya.
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Jumper / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License – Physics
Jumper / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License – Physics: It's one of the Acceptable Breaks from Reality with most teleportation stories that the center of the Earth is down, and teleporting to another location won't leave you at an angle to the ground - for example teleporting to the exact opposite side of the earth you won't end up upside down One of the Acceptable Breaks from Reality is the fact that the surface of the earth is revolving at a different rate at each lattitude, meaning you would have to compensate for speed.
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Jumper / int_fc7c4f92	type	Canon Immigrant
Jumper / int_fc7c4f92	comment	Canon Immigrant: Griffin, who wasn't in the novels, but did get a book based on the film.
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