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Noah is a 2014 epic biblical drama film co-written and directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ray Winstone, and Anthony Hopkins.Adapting the Book of Genesis, the Kaballah, and other sources, it is a retelling of the story of Noah, who is inspired to build an ark to preserve life on Earth after seeing visions of a horrifying deluge. Along the way, he faces resistance from fallen angels known as the Watchers (who later help Noah's cause for a shot of Redemption in the eyes of The Creator), human armies led by the villainous king Tubal-Cain, as well as tension within his own family and self-doubt about the worthiness of mankind to survive.A passion project for Aronofsky, he had been working on various versions of the screenplay for years, even teaming up with Niko Henrichon to adapt his vision into a French-language graphic novel, Noé: Pour la cruauté des hommes ("Noah: For the Cruelty of Men") published in 2011. An English-language translation was released alongside the movie.The film was released in America on March 28, 2014. Trailers can be seen here, here, and here.
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Flaming Sword
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According to the Book of Enoch, Methuselah did indeed have a magic sword given to him by God, with which he slew a thousand foes (although they were demons, not men, and it doesn't mention whether or not his sword was actually on fire.)
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Bloodless Carnage
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Bloodless Carnage: Averted. For a PG-13 movie, this one is pretty goddamn nasty with its violence.
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Darker and Edgier
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Darker and Edgier: Than most biblical epics, and portrayals of the Noah story in particular.
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Cool Old Guy
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Cool Old Guy: Methuselah is over nine hundred years old, which gives him wisdom and spirituality that is lost on nearly everyone in the corrupted world. His connection to the Creator nearly borders on magic when he gives Noah a seed that causes an entire forest to grow within moments.
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Graceful Loser
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Graceful Loser: Tubal-Cain congratulates Ham for 'becoming a man' after the former stabs him, and even gives him the snakeskin relic he stole from Noah's father as he dies.
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: To elaborate, the movie came about from a 7th grade writing assignment that Darren Aronofsky titled The Dove - and it won a UN-organized writing competition. His teacher Vera Fried is given a cameo as a woman greeting Noah, and given thanks in the closing credits.
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Papa Wolf
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Papa Wolf: Noah, and later Shem.
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Ãœbermensch
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Ãœbermensch: Tubal-Cain is presented as a profoundly dark version of this trope, trusting only in his own will to do whatever he pleases and dominate whatever he pleases out of pride in his own humanity and out of hatred of the God who he feels had abandoned humanity to fend for itself.
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Royals Who Actually Do Something
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Royals Who Actually Do Something: Tubal-Cain fights at the front and kills Samyaza, and even forges weapons for his army.
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: Earth prior to the Flood due to the sinful nature of humans. What little we see of the Cainite society includes or is implied to include copious amounts of slavery, cannibalism, rape, and murder.
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I'm a Humanitarian
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I'm a Humanitarian: The extreme of the last Cainites' hunger leads to them killing and eating their own neighbors when they run out of animals to kill and crops to grow.
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Nephilim
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For that matter, the Biblical Nephilim are usually considered to be the offspring of fallen angels, though to be fair the Bible is somewhat ambiguous about this itself, so the movie's interpretation isn't completely wrong. Nephilim are mentioned exactly twice in all of Biblical canon, so it's somewhat understandable that the filmmakers didn't have a lot to work with.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: The animal trap. We briefly see one of Tubal-Cain's follower's setting it, and then later Na'el gets her foot caught in it.
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Offing the Offspring
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Offing the Offspring: What Noah plans to do with his grandchildren if they are girls. Luckily, this is averted when he sees them.
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Emerging from the Shadows
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Emerging from the Shadows: Tubal-Cain's face emerges from the shadow when he talks with Ham on the Ark.
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Cain and Abel and Seth
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Cain and Abel and Seth: Referenced. The inclusion of Seth in the Cain and Abel story is explicitly stated in the prologue, with Noah being one of Seth's descendants.
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After the End
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After the End: The setting of the film, according to the costume designer. The character's clothing was designed to look like it had been woven together of scavenged materials that survived the apocalypse, such as plastic or old tarps.
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Adapted Out
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Adapted Out: Genesis clearly states that all three of Noah's sons already had wives before the Flood, none of which appear in the movie.
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Kick the Dog
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Kick the Dog: Tubal-Cain's pretty okay with killing animals and making them go extinct. At one point, he casually grabs an eel-like creature, the only one that could have survived the flood, and bites its head off to regain his strength. He justifies his actions because he thinks The Creator made man the most superior being and all others are nothing compared to the ultimate creation.
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Good Hair, Evil Hair
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Good Hair, Evil Hair: Manages to show the evolving characterization just with Noah's beard. He starts out with a "fatherly" full beard, but it gets shaggier as the time on the ark gets longer and Noah's family becomes more afraid of him. Then, after the floodwaters are gone, Noah's beard is trimmed back, showing the crazy is gone and replaced with his old "fatherly" qualities.
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Gentle Giant
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Gentle Giant: Og, the Watcher who releases Noah's family. He even plays with Noah's children.
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World-Healing Wave
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World-Healing Wave: A minor one when Methuselah gives Noah a seed from the Garden of Eden. He plants it and it sprouts a forest, possibly the only one of its kind left on Earth. A major one after the Flood, as the land that rises when the Flood recedes and the animals on the ark reproduce.
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Actor Allusion
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Actor Allusion: This isn't the first time Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly play a brilliant but insane husband with a devoted but worried wife. This isn't the first time Nick Nolte portrayed a being of stone as seen in Hulk. The close bond between Ila and Ham is a reference to Emma Watson and Logan Lerman playing love interests in The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Director allusion - the Tree of Life appears briefly in one of Noah's stories. Darren Aronofsky featured the Tree of Life in his film The Fountain.
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Face Death with Dignity
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Face Death with Dignity: When the Great Flood finally comes, Methuselah, who was not chosen to go into the Ark with his descendants, welcomes his fate with open arms. Plus, he got his berry.
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Humans Are Bastards
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Humans Are Bastards: Most of The Watchers (save for Og), believe that God has seen the corruption, exploitation, and murder humanity has committed and called the Flood to eliminate his corrupted creations. Noah is initially reluctant to think like this, but after walking through the village of the Caininites, seeing men exchange their own daughters for animals to slaughter, and facing someone who's face calls to mind the Serpent, Noah fully accepts the extinction of humanity and only lets his family board the ark with the knowledge that they'll eventually die with no way to have children and continue the human race. The Watchers come to appreciate humanity after getting to know Noah, but that does nothing to shake his shame for his species. Noah is so adamant that humanity is hopeless that he attempts to kill his own grandchildren, only to realize that the Creator was putting the fate of humanity in the hands of Noah, and that only by choosing mercy could Noah prove that humanity was worth saving.
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Historical Hero Upgrade
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Historical Hero Upgrade: The Watchers are depicted in the Apocrypha as angels who were entrusted with humanity's well-being, but sinned through their lust towards human women and sired children with them (the Nephilim, the principal cause and need for the Great Flood). God even sent his greatest angels to hunt them down and punish them. The movie's vision either removes these aspects of their character entirely or just doesn't show them, leaving only their well-meaning duty to teach mankind about science and the workings of the world. That said, morality in the Apocrypha isn't exactly as black and white as in Christianity, and many of the Watchers are also more benevolent entities in other texts.
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Adaptational Heroism
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Adaptational Heroism: The Nephilim/Watchers. They help Noah build the ark and protect it from the Cainite armies. This is in spite of the fact that in the Biblical narrative the Nephilim and the evils they perpetrated were one of the major reasons that God wanted to "reset" life on Earth in the first place.
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HumansAreSuperior
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Humans Are Superior: A particularly dark version of this trope. Tubul-cain believes this, which he uses as justification for his Empire's completely reckless ravaging of Earth to the point of apocalyptic resource depletion and full domination to do whatever he pleases. He even uses this as a Rousing Speech towards his forces to seize the Ark and eventually to convince Ham to turn against Noah. And again when convincing Ham to eat meat.
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Nay-Theist
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Nay-Theist: Tubal-Cain doesn't question the existence of the Creator at any point of the movie. But he does resent Him deeply, first for casting humanity out of Eden and then for sending the Great Flood to destroy them.
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Broken Angel
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Broken Angel: The poor Watchers, both physically and spiritually. Forced into stone bodies and then betrayed by the Cainites.
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Stylistic Suck
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Stylistic Suck: The Watchers are deliberately animated in a jerky, halting manner that more closely resembles stop-motion animation than traditional CGI.
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Alien Sky
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Alien Sky: The sky of Noah's world is filled with visible stars and galaxies, even during daytime. It helps with the "otherworldly" ambiance as well as the "closer to Heaven" motif.
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Emma Watson. And not only does she stand out against much of the rest of the cast, but her character supposedly grew up with Noah's family since she was six and the child actress didn't have anywhere near as much of an accent. In fairness, she isn't the only offender on that charge - apparently Noah and his father are from New Zealand and Wales respectively.
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Would Hurt a Child
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Would Hurt a Child: Noah vows to kill his own grandchild once it's born to makes things right by God. However, he changes his mind once he sees his newborn grandchildren and retreats in shame.
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Our Angels Are Different
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Our Angels Are Different: Angels are shown as giant beings of golden light, and when they turn to evil, the fall towards the Earth and become trapped in rocks that make them resemble Golems. From then on, these fallen angels are known as the Watchers.
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Dueling Messiahs
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Dueling Messiahs: An interesting example in which both Noah and Tubal-Cain both count as both dark ones. Noah wants to save the world, but by dooming all mankind to drown, while Tubal-Cain wants to save his ruthless and bloodthirsty people so that their empire will continue to survive.
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God Is Neutral
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God Is Neutral: How Tubal-Cain sees the Creator, desperately searching for a response but not getting any.
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Wham Line
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Wham Line: Three. Naamah delivers one to a nauseated Ila once she discovers the cause of her illness: And after Ila just delivered her and Shem's child, she suddenly experiences sharp stomach pains and starts crying again. And then Naamah delivers a devastating one to Shem and Ila regarding their child's safety (as Noah planned to kill their child should it be born a girl):
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Born After the End
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Born After the End: The third act is about how one of the women on the ark is pregnant despite God's attempt to wipe out humanity. Noah has to consider why God let this new child be brought into the world and whether He wants him to kill the child.
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Drowning My Sorrows
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Drowning My Sorrows: Noah, as in the source material, gets unhealthily drunk after the flood subsides. Crosses over into Binge Montage as he spends a long time in a cave binging on home-made wine. Points for creativity, because he literally gathers the grapes and ferments them on his own due to the lack of any wineries, breweries, and bars.
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Not Using the "Z" Word
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Not Using the "Z" Word: God is referred to as The Creator throughout. This may be a reference to Jewish belief that pronouncing the name of God is forbidden. note  However, "God" is not what the Jews believe to be His/its real, forbidden name. That would be Yahweh.
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No Animals Were Harmed
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No Animals Were Harmed: Almost all of the animals in this movie are CGI creations.
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If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!
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If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Inverted and defied by Ham. He kills Tubal-Cain who approves, thinking he passed on his legacy to Ham. After the deluge, Ham is resentful of his father, but expresses hope that humanity will learn to be kind and leaves in peace.
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Green Aesop
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Green Aesop: In this version of the story, Man's reckless behavior towards the Earth is as much a provocation of the Flood as his murderous nature towards Man. The Cainites are characterized by their industry, which is described in terms like a cancer spreading across the world. They are ironworkers, in spite of the ancient, ambiguous timeframe, and even wear helmets that resemble welder's masks. Noah, on the other hand, does not eat meat and instructs his children not to even pick flowers without need. The good demons are literally made of stone, part of the earth, to push this point further.
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Fantasy Metals
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Fantasy Metals: Zohar, a strange, not-really-explained, evidently non-renewable mineral that the descendants of Cain mined up pretty much entirely.
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Fallen Angel
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Fallen Angel: The Watchers, multi-armed angels who lost their wings when they chose to descend to Earth, became encased in bodies of stone, and after sharing with humans the secrets of science and magic became enslaved by them. They understandably don't like humans for this, but decide to help Noah in the hope that it would allow them to find redemption in the eyes of God. It works, with Samayza being the first recipient to be redeemed.
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Pragmatic Adaptation
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Pragmatic Adaptation: Drawing from the Biblical story of Noah, the Creation narrative, the Cain and Abel story, the binding of Isaac, some non-canonical Biblical sources (such as the Book of Enoch for the Watchers/Nephilim), and Aronofsky's graphic novel. The origins of the Watchers even draws some parallels to the story of Prometheus.
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BigDamnKiss
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Big Damn Kiss: Shem and Ila, moments after she is cured of her infertility by Methuselah.
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Sanity Slippage
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Sanity Slippage: Noah, just before they board the ark. It really sets in afterward, leading at least one reviewer to compare the arc to the Overlook Hotel, with two madmen aboard — one nobody knows is there, and the other, Noah, who everyone knows about and are actively trying to avoid.
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Armor Is Useless
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Armor Is Useless: The Watchers: despite being 12-foot tall angels made out of stone, they could be killed quite easily with spears and swords.
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Only One Name
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Only One Name: Noah and his family.
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Express Delivery
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Express Delivery: Ila announces that she's pregnant, and just a couple of scenes later, she is visibly pregnant, and then gives birth. It's probably the movie failing to make clear the passage of time, a problem the movie has a lot as you can easily miss the fact that it took Noah over half a century to build the ark if you're not familiar with the source story, instead of any action on God's part.
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Jerkass Has a Point
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Jerkass Has a Point: Tubal-Cain points out to Ham that Noah is threatening to kill children, and allowed his potential wife—his last chance to find a wife—to be trampled to death. Granted, he just wanted to be a new, evil Adam post-Flood, but at the time, Noah was dead set on it.
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FanService
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Fanservice: Shem and Ila kissing after playfully chasing each other through the woods. Shem and Ila starting to have sex after Ila is healed of the wound that left her infertile.
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Uniqueness Value
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Uniqueness Value: Every animal in the Ark is the last of its kind and gender. So when Tubal-Cain or Cainites catch and kill the ones heading to the Ark, they're ending an entire species. In the graphic novel, the climactic fight even shows sabretooth tigers and other antediluvian mammals being slaughtered while defending Noah.
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Ermine Cape Effect
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Ermine Cape Effect: Tubal-Cain has some long whitish furs decorating his cloak. It doesn't look as imposing as he'd like.
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Adaptational Badass
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Adaptational Badass: Noah takes out Cainites left and right, throwing an axe to drop one at about twenty feet. Methuselah, in his youth, is presented as a One-Man Army who took down a massive horde of Cainites with his Flaming Sword. Although, in The Book of Enoch, Methuselah does have a magic sword, but he still can't wipe out armies with it.
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God Is Good
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God Is Good: Noah worships a just Creator who made all the beauty and diversity on Earth and gave man his intelligence in order to steward that great creation. In response to humanity's abuse of nature and murderous corruption, God charged Noah, his one faithful servant, to preserve all that was good while the Creator washes clean all evil. Unfortunately, Noah too abused his freedom and refused to allow any innocents outside his family to be saved from the Flood, only realizing too late that the Creator wanted him to love humanity despite its horrible potential.
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The Descendants of Cain
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The Descendants of Cain: The film has the antagonists explicitly be the descendants of Cain. Not all of them are evil, they "merely" suffer from a near total cultural lack of the wisdom and compassion needed to use their knowledge and technology to live in harmony with nature— and each other. This has gone on since the beginning of their history, leading to ravaging the planet to the point of apocalyptic resource depletion and descent into cannibalism. Of the Cainites, only Ila and the girl Ham finds, Na'el, were shown to be innocent, and the former was basically raised by descendants of Seth.
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Morning Sickness
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Morning Sickness: The first sign that Ila has fallen pregnant is when she awakens in the middle of the night aboard the ark experiencing severe nausea.
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Ambiguous Time Period
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Ambiguous Time Period: The story doesn't attempt to create a realistic portrayal of any specific time period. The Cainites have a surprisingly high level of technology, including ironworking. Some of the establishing shots appear to feature skyscrapers in the background, but ones which seem to be made of stone and wood scaffolding. The characters use glowing combustible rocks, which presumably don't exist anymore. Noah also discovers a scaled foxlike creature that doesn't look like any real creature discovered from any time period, and many of the animals look downright prehistoric, yet the characters' clothing and level of sophistication in building the Ark is far beyond what could be expected from a Stone Age people. Not only that, but the secrets of metalworking have apparently existed for centuries, since Methuselah, who according to the Bible, lived to 969, is shown wearing segmented plate armor and wielding a metal sword as a young man. The silhouettes of humans rapidly changing to progressive time periods to emphasis Humans Are Bastards includes knights, samurais, and modern soldiers.
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The Watchers felt pity for humanity after being expelled from the Garden, so they chose to fall to Earth and teach humanity. For their sacrifice, humanity pillaged the world, killed its brothers, and then finally started hunting them. Noah's ancestor Methuselah saved the remaining ones.
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Pun
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Pun: One of the six-armed Watchers assures Noah that his family is in good hands.
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Where the Hell Is Springfield?
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Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The setting is not supposed to be any specific area in the modern world. The planet shown in the intro has continents that do not match them as they currently look, though they closely resemble Pangea.
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Noah's Story Arc
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Noah's Story Arc: The entire plot.
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: The movie never even attempts to explain how the species saved are supposed to get through the genetic bottleneck of having only two left apiece, not to mention that Ham and Japheth would have to marry their nieces if they wanted wives. And if they do, of course, what exactly happens the next generation...
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Females Are More Innocent
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Females Are More Innocent: Despite being set a world where humanity as a whole has so monstrous as to be destroyed, all the atrocities seen in the film are committed by men, while women are present only as victims of massacre or rape. Additionally, when Noah cites his family's own sins as proof that they too have evil in them, the worst he can come up for the women is that they would do anything to protect their children.
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Origin Story
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Origin Story: Noah relates the origin story of the universe to his family after they board the Ark, explaining how God created all things. In an interesting twist, Noah's very religious and spiritual dialogue is played over a very secular and scientific montage of events such as the Big Bang and the formation of stars and galaxies, as well as natural development of life on Earth. In this way Aranofsky paid homage to both the religious origins of the universe as a creation of God and to what science has revealed to us about how the world physically formed without denigrating either side in the process.
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The Great Flood
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The Great Flood: Obviously, the film
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But I Can't Be Pregnant!
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But I Can't Be Pregnant!: After awakening one night due to nausea and going to Naameh for help, she discovers she is pregnant. Ila, at first, is in disbelief due to the injury she sustained as a child that caused her infertility. But then she remembers being cured by Methuselah and tells Shem the good news.
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Watchers were on the receiving end of this, when Cain's followers no longer saw room for them in their conquests. Luckily, Methuselah saved a good amount of them before they became completely extinct.
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Evil Mentor
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Evil Mentor: Tubal-Cain takes a liking to Ham from the moment he sees him, even killing one of his men when he attempts to attack Ham. He then hands Ham a weapon and calls him his best soldier. He also lectures Ham on his own philosophy while Ham takes care of his in the Ark. Through it's obvious he is doing this (especially the later) to turn Ham against Noah, in light of Tubal-cain congratulating Ham on killing him and giving Ham the snakeskin relic he stole from Noah's father as he dies it's seems Tubal-cain sees Ham as a possible recruit with great potential. This is your world, Ham. Seize it!
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The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
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The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Tubal-Cain towards Noah as shown when he knocks aside Shem who was trying to save his daughters from Noah.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: Methuselah mentions how his father Enoch told him the world would end by fire, and he is surprised when Noah speaks of death by water. Considering the rest of the story, he was right (the Bible references a few times a future fire-type apocalypse), and his words were one hint that this wasn't going to be the end.
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One-Man Army
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One-Man Army: Methuselah was this as shown in a scene where he single-handedly incinerates an entire army with a Flaming Sword.
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Real Men Eat Meat
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Real Men Eat Meat: The belief of Tubal-Cain and the Cainites, who are willing to eat live animals thrown into a crowd. This unmerciful attitude towards livestock is contrasted with the vegetarianism of Noah and his family, who tend and care to other creations.
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Artistic License – Religion
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Artistic License – Religion: Noah's Flood is described in three religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. None of these religions' narrations of Noah's Ark include an army trying to storm the ark, nor an environmental message, nor does Noah try to kill some babies in any of Abrahamic Religious traditions, he knew from the beginning that his descendants were to replenish the earth. In all three religions, God does not give Noah vague dreams as warning. God tells Noah about the Flood directly. Also, the Watchers don't really have anything to do with anything in the story of Noah, and no stowaway is ever mentioned. Basically, the movie embellishes a lot to add conflict and because the original story is so short. Some reviewers have described the movie as a modern midrash, an elaboration and interpretation of the bare bones of the Biblical story. For that matter, the Biblical Nephilim are usually considered to be the offspring of fallen angels, though to be fair the Bible is somewhat ambiguous about this itself, so the movie's interpretation isn't completely wrong. Nephilim are mentioned exactly twice in all of Biblical canon, so it's somewhat understandable that the filmmakers didn't have a lot to work with. The scene where Noah recaps the genesis of the Earth and cosmos seems to imply that creationism and evolution are both correct in this universe. We are shown a quick montage of how science views the formation of early Earth, and it's shown that terrestrial life on Earth evolved from sea life, with the implication that the billions of years it took for the Earth to become inhabited with familiar organisms was a mere seven days in the eyes of the Creator.
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Sexy Discretion Shot
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Sexy Discretion Shot: Shem and Ila kiss and begin to strip down for sex before the scene cuts away to Noah investigating his enemy campsites.
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Ascended Demon
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Ascended Demon: The Nephilim/Watchers. Once Semyaza asks God to forgive him as his rocky shell is being destroyed, he gets re-ascended to heaven. For that matter, all the remaining Watchers are likewise redeemed, taking out large chunks of attacking humans in the resulting explosions.
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Rousing Speech
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Rousing Speech: Subverted, as a few speeches that would have been made by the hero in any other movie are here given to the megalomaniacal Tubal-Cain to an army of thoroughly awful people.
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Tubal-Cain taunts Noah about how he will take the women for himself. With Ham standing right there. Understandably, despite Ham's bitterness at his father, he isn't ok with the implication that his mother and sisters are going to be raped, so he kills Tubal-Cain.
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Aesop Collateral Damage
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Aesop Collateral Damage: The Flood kills the corrupt and innocent alike, with Na'el falling firmly in the latter group.
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Instant Birth: Just Add Labor!
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Instant Birth: Just Add Labor!: Ila goes from her water breaking to holding a pair of twins in minutes.
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Heaven Above
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Heaven Above: The movie's genocidal villain frequently looks to the sky and yells for God to reveal himself to him, only to find the sky shrouded in the clouds that will flood the world. The skies only clear and allow humanity to see the light once Noah realizes God's desire for humanity: for them to be merciful to each other.
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Omnicidal Maniac
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Omnicidal Maniac: Believe it or not, Noah has shades of this. First when he decides not to find wives for his children, lets Na'el get trampled, doesn't even attempt to help the drowning Cainites, and lastly decides to kill any girls Ila may give birth to in order to allow humanity to die out to protect creation. Tubal-Cain is the biggest example of one in this movie. He's completely fine with cannibalism, rape and murder and is also responsible for the extinction of many species, both on and off the Ark.
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Jesus Taboo
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Jesus Taboo: A minor source of controversy with the film is that the word "God" is never used, although characters do often make reference to "The Creator".
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Soiled City on a Hill
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Soiled City on a Hill: Based on the earliest version of this trope.
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The Ark
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The Ark: The film details the building of Noah's famous ark, which he builds with the assistance of the Watchers/Fallen Angels and woods from a forest that miraculously grew within a moment for by the grave of the Creator.
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Corrupt the Cutie
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Corrupt the Cutie: Tubal-Cain towards Ham, although it helps that Jerkass Has a Point.
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Logical Fallacies
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Logical Fallacies: Tubal-Cain is prone to using them in quick succession.
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Mirror Character
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Mirror Character: Lampshaded in one of Tubal-Cain's multiple Rage Against the Heavens monologues. Tubal-Cain sows misery and death, even against the innocent, but so does the Creator. The idea is further illustrated with the death of Na'el, a reminder that not everyone killed in the Flood deserved it.
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Battle in the Rain
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Battle in the Rain: The battle between the Watchers and the Cainites happens when rain is pouring down. Remember, it is the deluge!
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Anti-Hero: Noah. He'll do anything he thinks God wants, to the point of temporarily becoming a Villain Protagonist and trying to kill the baby twins. Thankfully, he refrains once he sees them.
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Evil Gloating: Tubal-Cain announces as he is about to kill Noah that he will take Noah's women (i.e., his wife and daughter-in-law/adoptive daughter) for his own, not a terribly wise move when Noah's son is standing behind him).
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Big "NO!": Ila cries one out once she learns that she's given birth to a girl. Two girls in fact. And Noah planned to kill her baby should the child have been born a girl.
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Redemption Earns Life
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Redemption Earns Life: Well, more like "Earns Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence" for the Watchers.
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We Can Rule Together
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We Can Rule Together: Offered to Ham by Tubal-Cain.
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Moral Event Horizon
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Moral Event Horizon: Invoked by Ham, who starts to oppose Noah for leaving Na'el caught in a leg trap to be trampled by Tubal-Cain's army.
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The Dulcinea Effect
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The Dulcinea Effect / Dying Declaration of Love: Ham to Na'El whom he just met as he covers her with protecting arms from the oncoming stampede of the Cainites coming right at them and willingly prepares to die with her moments before Noah shows up.
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Fan Disservice
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Fan Disservice: A naked Noah lying drunk and passed out on the beach.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: The film features a scene in which a burr is planted in the earth and a scene in which a small white flower grows instantly in the ground from a drop of fluid. Both of these images are also used in Aronofsky's The Fountain.
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Rock Monster
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Rock Monster: The Watchers of the film, upon their Fall, became imprisoned in the soil and mud of the Earth as punishment for their disobedience. In the graphic novel, they merely (and knowingly) lost their wings, and look more like six-armed giants.
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Protagonist Title
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Protagonist Title: The main character is the biblical Noah, whose righteousness makes him the one man the Creator will trust with the future of humanity in the face of a massive flood.
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Cassandra Truth
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Cassandra Truth: Noah, of course, when he warns Tubal-Cain of the upcoming flood.
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Surprise Multiple Birth
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Surprise Multiple Birth: The formerly barren Ila becomes pregnant with her and Shem's first child after being cured magically of the wounds causing her infertility. After the birth of their first child, Ila begins to scream and her contractions start up once again, leading Shem and his equally surprised mother to realize that she is delivering twins.
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Anti-Villain
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Anti-Villain: Tubal-Cain is an Ax-Crazy and thoroughly nasty man leading an army of bloodthirsty cannibals, savages, and rapists, but he's motivated by the fairly understandable and sympathetic goal of getting his people to safety from the coming cataclysm. His aggression against Noah and his family manifests itself in seizing the Ark so his tribe can survive - after he accurately points out that it could easily carry hundreds if not thousands of families to safety and later taking revenge on Noah after his entire tribe has been wiped out by the wave and he no longer has anything left to lose.
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Genre Throwback
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Genre Throwback: To biblical epics of the 50's and 60's.
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Love Redeems
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Love Redeems: The sight of Ila's newborn children causes Noah to stop himself from killing them and sing the old lullaby he would sing to her when she was first adopted.
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Action Bomb
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Action Bomb: Killing a Watcher, or one willingly tearing open their own chest, results in a golden explosion.
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Pillar of Light
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Pillar of Light: Whenever a Watcher dies.
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A God Am I
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A God Am I: Tubal-Cain is the ruler of the descendants of Cain, and in his anger at the Creator's indifference to him, has decided that the entire Earth is made for Man to dominate. The forests, the animals, and even the lives of others exist only for man to exploit as he see fits; he even directly conflates himself with the Creator in his ultimate moment of hubris:
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Despair Event Horizon
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Despair Event Horizon: Zig-Zagged with Noah. He reaches it when he witnesses the horrors in the Cainite camp. It's what convinces him that the Creator intends for humanity to be wiped out altogether, and that his and his family's only purpose is to preserve the animals, then die. He is then pulled out of it when he sees his daughter's twins, but it triggers a new one in that he feels he failed The Creator. After reconciling with Ila, he more or less pulls himself out of it, and welcomes a new world.
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Alone with the Psycho
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Alone with the Psycho: Two ways. There's the actively homicidal Tubal-Cain, who most of the cast doesn't even know is on the ark, except for Ham. There's also Noah, who is more subdued, but comes to the belief that Humans Are Bastards and even they need to die, with his family actively avoiding him.
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Historical Villain Upgrade
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Historical Villain Upgrade: Tubal-Cain is only briefly mentioned in the Book of Genesis, listed as one of Cain's descendants, and plays no part in the Noah story. Here, he's leader of the Cainites and Noah's antagonist.
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Hero Killer
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Hero Killer: Tubal-Cain proves to be a pretty efficient one. In addition to killing Noah's father at the beginning, he's also the first one to take down one of the Watchers on screen and nearly defeats Noah in the climax.
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Not Blood Siblings
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Not Blood Siblings: Shem and Ila.
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Screaming Warrior
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Screaming Warrior: Tubal-Cain and some of The Watchers certainly have this trope down before the Flood hits.
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Dark Is Evil
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Dark Is Evil: Tubal-Cain and his followers wear a whole lot of black hoodies, armor and robes.
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Kill It with Water
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Kill It with Water: The Great Flood.
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Epic Movie
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Epic Movie: By a large scale the biggest movie Aronofsky's ever done, and featuring some of the most intricate special effects work in ILM's history.
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Cain and Abel
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Cain and Abel: The story of the Trope Namer is recited on the ark by Noah, which the film visualizes the story's with a silhouetted man striking another silhouetted man to the floor with a rock. Then, Noah begins mentioning how since that time, sin has pitted "brother against brother, nation against nation" as the Cain figure throws his rock at Abel, only for the silhouetted Cain to be replaced by a barbarian, then a viking, a samurai, a centurion, a pharaoh, a Hun, a knight, a Redcoat, a rifleman, a police officer, and a modern soldier all within three seconds as the camera cuts to Cain's weapon flying through the air, changing every second from a knife to a machine gun to a broadsword to an axe to bolas, which impacts Abel and knocks him over as he flashes between every single uniform Cain wore. The story, and the generalizing visuals, serve Noah's point that man does not deserve to live because of his role in ruining creation. The image of Cain and Abel is then used one more time in the film: As Tubal-Cain rants about remaking the world in his image, he raises his weapon over Noah while they're in the exact same positioning as the silhouettes from Noah's story. Thankfully, Noah's son, who was tempted by Tubal-Cain's philosophy, defends his father and defeats the final descendant of the original murderer, giving hope that man can finally live a life of mercy.
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Can't Have Sex, Ever
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Can't Have Sex, Ever: Due to a stab wound she suffered as a child, Ila is unable to have sex (comfortably, at least). After being cured by Methuselah of her scarring, Ila wastes no time finding Shem and having sex with him.
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Distracted by the Sexy
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Distracted by the Sexy: Ham is immensed by two women he sees laughing and walking through the woods when he is ambushed and nearly killed by the Cainites.
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Law of Inverse Fertility
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Law of Inverse Fertility: Ila is infertile from a stab wound as a child and therefore was unable to enjoy sex comfortably with Shem. When she is healed, she immediately has sex with Shem without discomfort and not long after, she falls pregnant. Though she wasn't aware being cured of her wound would aid her with conception, she and Shem are thrilled nonetheless. Noah is angry at this, reminding her that she was barren.
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A Real Man Is a Killer
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A Real Man Is a Killer: Tubal-Cain believes this as shown when he is actually pleased that Ham kills him telling him that he's a man with his last words.
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Earn Your Happy Ending
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Earn Your Happy Ending: Probably the closest one we'll see in an Aronofsky movie. After enduring the violence of man, the Flood wiping out humanity, Noah almost killing his newborn grandchildren, and their son Ham leaving them, Noah and his family prosper on their new land with the animals, with The Creator bringing life to the planet once more.
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Last Stand
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Last Stand: the Watchers fighting of the angry mob of Cainanites.
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Running Gag
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Running Gag: Methuselah really wants some berries ever since his grandson brought it up. He's still waiting for them ten years later when he meets Naameh and Ila. He finally finds one just as a tidal wave of water rushes at him.
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You Killed My Father
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You Killed My Father: Tubal-Cain killed Noah's father and stole the relic signifying the latter's birthright. However, there is no personal resolution to this arc, as the former never knew Noah had witnessed this, and the latter merely added it to the pile of humanity's wickedness.
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Evil Is Hammy
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Evil Is Hammy: Tubal-Cain doesn't just chew the scenery; He cannibalizes it.
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Shown Their Work
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Shown Their Work: According to the Book of Enoch, Methuselah did indeed have a magic sword given to him by God, with which he slew a thousand foes (although they were demons, not men, and it doesn't mention whether or not his sword was actually on fire.) The Watchers' designs are partially based off the Seraphim angels - who had six wings.
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