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Martyrs is a 2008 horror film written and directed by Pascal Laugier, starring Morjane Alaoui and Mylène Jampanoï. Due to its pervasive graphic violence and bleak themes, it's a heavily polarizing film often deemed one of the most disturbing of all time, and it's one of the most well-known films associated with the New French Extremity movement.The story is about Lucie, a torture victim who escapes from her captors. She's sent to an orphanage where she meets and befriends Anna, a fellow child abuse victim. While the police and the media investigated Lucie's predicament, the perpetrators were never caught, so Anna pledges to help Lucie track them down. Fifteen years later, Lucie seizes the chance to have her revenge, and things spiral out of control from there.The film received an American remake in 2016 from Blumhouse Productions. While the remake is Lighter and Softer than the original film, it's not any easier a watch for the faint of heart. | |
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Chunky Salsa Rule | |
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Chunky Salsa Rule: Lucie vs. the wife. The second blow is followed by a closeup shot of the skull caving in, and she keeps hammering away for a while. | |
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Full-Frontal Assault | |
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Full-Frontal Assault: Lucie's tormentor is completely nude and covered in scars. | |
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The Sociopath | |
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The Sociopath: The Mademoiselle acts like an affable philosopher, but thinks nothing of torturing people to death in an obsessive quest to find the secrets of the afterlife. | |
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Being Tortured Makes You Evil | |
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Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Lucie is hounded by a fellow torture victim who never forgave her for running away. She exists only in Lucie's mind and resembles what Lucie would have been had she not escaped. | |
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Primal Fear | |
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Primal Fear: As the torture progresses, the victims are turned into atrophied, feral shells of their former selves. | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: The torturers live like normal people when off-duty. | |
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For Science! | |
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For Science!: The torturers do not do it for the sake of sadistic pleasure, and it is repeatedly emphasized that no overt sexual abuse happens to the victims. Rather, it is for the sake of Mademoiselle trying to observe and study the afterlife. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Anna and Lucie became friends in an orphanage. A brief telephone conversation in the present establishes that Anna is estranged from her mother, but we never learn why she was put into the orphanage. Lucie escaped from being kidnapped as a child. We never learn why she was put into the orphanage, instead of being reclaimed by her parents. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Lucie kills an entire family because she saw their photo (in a newspaper report about a swimming competition), and thought that the parents looked like the people who kidnapped and tortured her fifteen years ago. | |
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Kick the Son of a Bitch | |
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Kick The Son Of A Bitch: They really had it coming. | |
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Ate His Gun | |
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Ate His Gun: The Mademoiselle at the end, after Anna tells her the secrets of the afterlife. What aspects of Anna's confession drove her to suicide are left unknown. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The 2016 remake changes the ending so that Anna is able to escape her captors and rescue Lucie, killing many of the cult members in the process, including their leader Eleanor. However, both she and Lucie succumb to their wounds just as the police arrive on the scene. At the very least, Anna was able to spare Sam from the violence, and the existence of the cult is exposed to the authorities. | |
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Spoiler Cover | |
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Spoiler Cover: See American Kirby Is Hardcore above; that poster shows the emaciated torture victim whom Anna later rescues from the underground dungeon as the Face on the Cover. | |
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Offscreen Afterlife | |
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Offscreen Afterlife: Only Anna knows for sure. | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture: The premise of the film and modus operandi of the villains. | |
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Break the Cutie | |
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Break the Cutie: Possibly one of the most brutal examples ever with Lucie and Anna. | |
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Motive Rant | |
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Motive Rant: The Mademoiselle calmly gives Anna a presentation on what the conspiracy is about and what they want to accomplish. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Anna survives, but is left catatonic, and most of the torturers get away with everything. | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: The steel face mask and the "diaper" are stapled into the victim. Anna after she is flayed. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: The Mademoiselle. | |
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Force Feeding | |
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Force Feeding: Anna is tied to a chair and force-fed some protein goo on the first days - or maybe weeks - of her captivity. After some time of torture, abuse and isolation, she's too weak and broken to resist being fed. | |
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The Un-Reveal | |
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The Unreveal: Near the end, Anna whispers something to Mademoiselle, and the audience doesn't hear it. The rest of the conspiracy doesn't hear it either, because the Mademoiselle blows her brains out shortly afterwards. | |
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Through the Eyes of Madness | |
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Through the Eyes of Madness: Just how crazy is Lucie? | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: Anna phones her estranged mother after Lucie has been revealed to be Axe-Crazy. Mother is generally rude and hostile. However, she's not wrong when she says that "that girl" is a bad influence, and that Anna should dump her. | |
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The Remake | |
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The Remake: A US version was made in 2016. It is generally considered quite inferior. Major differences occurred midway on: Lucie is captured rather than killing herself, Anna escapes to rescue her and alerts the police (so the torturers won't go unpunished — she also kills several). However still Lucie dies near the end, with both her and Anna viewing whatever the afterlife is. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Lucie cuts her own throat after taking her revenge, and the Mademoiselle shoots herself at the very end after learning about the afterlife. | |
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Medical Horror | |
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Medical Horror: The Torture Cellar is quite refined and utilitarian. | |
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Go Mad from the Revelation | |
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Go Mad from the Revelation: One interpretation of what happens to the Mademoiselle. | |
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Audience Surrogate | |
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Audience Surrogate: Anna. | |
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Euroshlock | |
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Euroshlock: Obviously. | |
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Ancient Conspiracy | |
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Ancient Conspiracy: The torturers. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: The Mademoiselle. | |
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American Kirby Is Hardcore | |
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American Kirby Is Hardcore: Inverted. This movie was released with the page image as the poster in most regions. However, the Japanese poster was this◊ (possible spoiler alert). | |
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Blown Across the Room | |
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Blown Across the Room: This happens right after the father opens the door for Lucie, at which she shoots him with a shotgun. It also occurs when the rest of the family are shot. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Most of the torturers get away completely scot free. The only remote upside is that the family that tortured Lucie and the Mademoiselle are both dead. There's a case to be made that this was subverted, however — or subverted twice, depending on your perspective. Whatever the Mademoiselle heard, it caused her to immediately shoot herself in the head. From a certain point of view, this can be taken as a sign that it was All for Nothing, and that their whole Ancient Conspiracy — despite nominally working — was an utter failure. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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And I Must Scream: Anna's final state: skinned alive and left in a catatonic state, her expression petrified. | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
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Adults Are Useless: The police and the media. | |
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Evil Is Not Well-Lit | |
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Evil Is Not Well-Lit: The torture dungeon is consistently dimly lit, when it might make more sense for it to be brightly lit when the torturers are working, and for the lights to be turned off when the prisoner is alone. | |
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20 Minutes into the Past | |
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20 Minutes into the Past: Released in 2008, set in an unspecified time in the 1990s. The biggest giveaway to the period is that nobody has a mobile phone, but this has no bearing on the plot. | |
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Torture Cellar | |
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Torture Cellar: The setting of the second half of the movie. | |
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Mouth Stitched Shut | |
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Mouth Stitched Shut: The tormentor's lips were sewn shut. | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
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Nothing Is Scarier: Lucie's tormentor is initially shown only in glimpses because she doesn't exist. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: The Foreign Remake is this with much of the graphic violence toned down. It also has a 'happier' ending with the torturers being killed. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Deconstructed. Lucie goes on one against those she thinks tortured her, but even after she kills them all, the manifested Survivor Guilt she has from her imprisonment continues to haunt her and eventually drives her to suicide. | |
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Orphanage of Fear | |
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Orphanage of Fear: Lucie and Anna get assigned to one. | |
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Badass Longcoat | |
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Badass Longcoat: The mooks who arrive at the house halfway through the movie wear these. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: Martyrs | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Mademoiselle. | |
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Kick the Morality Pet | |
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Kick the Morality Pet: Anna's not sure whether Lucie's really found the real torturers or just slaughtered an innocent family. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
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Contrived Coincidence: The entire present-day portion of the film happens because a regional newspaper prints a story about a junior swimming competition, and Lucie sees the story and recognises the parents in the photo. | |
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Decoy Protagonist | |
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Decoy Protagonist: Anna's the main protagonist, even if the first half of the movie focuses on Lucie. | |
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Tragic Monster | |
| Martyrs / int_e35bc0f7 | comment |
Tragic Monster: The second torture victim. | |
| Martyrs / int_e35bc0f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Martyrs / int_e35bc0f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Martyrs / int_e35bc0f7 | |
| Martyrs / int_e431c24c | type |
Not Quite Dead | |
| Martyrs / int_e431c24c | comment |
Not Quite Dead: The wife survives Lucie's shotgun blast. Anna tries to help her, but Lucie catches her in the act and kills the wife with a hammer. | |
| Martyrs / int_e431c24c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Martyrs / int_e431c24c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Martyrs / int_e431c24c | |
| Martyrs / int_e482cfa7 | type |
To the Pain | |
| Martyrs / int_e482cfa7 | comment |
To the Pain: The Big Bad tells Anna exactly what they're going to do and why they do it. | |
| Martyrs / int_e482cfa7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Martyrs / int_e482cfa7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Martyrs / int_e482cfa7 | |
| Martyrs / int_e542d889 | type |
Gorn | |
| Martyrs / int_e542d889 | comment |
Gorn: Plenty, most notably Anna being skinned alive. | |
| Martyrs / int_e542d889 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Martyrs / int_e542d889 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Martyrs / int_e542d889 | |
| Martyrs / int_e6321da2 | type |
Info Drop | |
| Martyrs / int_e6321da2 | comment |
Info Drop: The torturers describe their victims as martyrs on several occasions. Before the credits roll, a bit of on-screen text tells us that "martyr" comes from the Ancient Greek word for "witness." The torturers want to know what their victims see when they are on the boundary between life and death. Not essential to understanding the plot, but still nice to know. | |
| Martyrs / int_e6321da2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Martyrs / int_e6321da2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Martyrs / int_e6321da2 | |
| Martyrs / int_eb9afb9d | type |
Evil Old Folks | |
| Martyrs / int_eb9afb9d | comment |
Evil Old Folks: The Mademoiselle. | |
| Martyrs / int_eb9afb9d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Martyrs / int_eb9afb9d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Martyrs / int_eb9afb9d | |
| Martyrs / int_f273b1cb | type |
Devil in Plain Sight | |
| Martyrs / int_f273b1cb | comment |
Devil in Plain Sight: The torturers act like normal people, and the cellar is very well hidden. | |
| Martyrs / int_f273b1cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Martyrs / int_f273b1cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Martyrs / int_f273b1cb | |
| Martyrs / int_fe614133 | type |
Beauty Is Never Tarnished | |
| Martyrs / int_fe614133 | comment |
Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted heavily with Anna, who's almost unrecognizable by the end. | |
| Martyrs / int_fe614133 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Martyrs / int_fe614133 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Martyrs / int_fe614133 | |
| Martyrs / int_feaf12e8 | type |
Survivor Guilt | |
| Martyrs / int_feaf12e8 | comment |
Survivor Guilt: The creature that stalks Lucie is revealed to be a psychological manifestation of her guilt for leaving behind another torture victim as she escaped. | |
| Martyrs / int_feaf12e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Martyrs / int_feaf12e8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Martyrs / int_feaf12e8 | |
| Martyrs / int_name | type |
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| Martyrs / int_name | comment |
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| Martyrs / int_name | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Martyrs / int_name | |
| Martyrs / int_name | itemName |
Martyrs |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Ate His Gun / int_3d547d2a | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Blown Across the Room / int_3d547d2a | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Canadian Movies / int_3d547d2a | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Completely Different Title / int_3d547d2a | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Evil Is Not Well-Lit / int_3d547d2a | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Force Feeding / int_3d547d2a | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Gender-Restricted Ability / int_3d547d2a | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Info Drop / int_3d547d2a | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Sympathetic Murderer / int_3d547d2a | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
The Foreign Subtitle / int_3d547d2a | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
The Remake / int_3d547d2a | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know / int_3d547d2a | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Torture Cellar / int_3d547d2a | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Torture Porn / int_3d547d2a | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Traumatic Haircut / int_3d547d2a | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
20 Minutes into the Past / int_3d547d2a | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Unrated Edition / int_3d547d2a | |
| Martyrs | hasFeature |
Vader Breath / int_3d547d2a |
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