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Oblivion (2013)

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Oblivion (2013)	comment	Oblivion is a 2013 post-apocalyptic Science Fiction Action film directed by Joseph Kosinski (TRON: Legacy) starring Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Melissa Leo and Morgan Freeman. Anthony Gonzalez of M83 and Joseph Trapanese (The Raid, TRON: Uprising) are the composers. It is adapted from a comic book created by Kosinski that never got published.Cruise plays Jack Harper, a repairman who maintains a series of drones on the surface of the Earth in the aftermath of an alien invasion which resulted in half of Earth being destroyed. When he finds a crashed spaceship, he starts a series of events that forces him to question everything he knows.It's something of an "old-fashioned" style of Sci-Fi, i.e., an unraveling mystery/elements of conspiracy with visual effects concentrating mostly on a post-apocalyptic wasteland, as opposed to a series of confrontations in flashy scenery.Not to be confused with The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion nor the 1994 Space Western or its sequel.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_119498ff	type	Monumental Damage Resistance
Oblivion (2013) / int_119498ff	comment	Monumental Damage Resistance: The Capitol Building and the Washington Monument are free and still standing, everything else is gone and replaced by mud flats.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_132d93f1	type	Human Shield
Oblivion (2013) / int_132d93f1	comment	Human Shield: The only reason Julia isn't killed on landing is that Jack physically stands between the drone and her pod. Without the ability to get orders from the Tet, the drone withdraws. It's this act that convinces Beech that Jack is more than just a clone.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_141b5985	type	Morning Routine
Oblivion (2013) / int_141b5985	comment	Morning Routine: Before the film's title card, we see Jack with Vika eating breakfast, exercising, and leaving for work in his bubble ship while his voice-over narrates the fall of humanity.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Oblivion (2013) / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The fact that humanity isn't completely dead and there's a resistance led by Morgan Freeman would have been a great plot twist if it hadn't been included in the very first trailer. Fortunately, there are other twists that the trailer managed to omit.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_145babc0	type	Expendable Clone
Oblivion (2013) / int_145babc0	comment	Expendable Clones: Jack and Victoria, given Victoria 49's fate.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_14848fa3	type	Multinational Team
Oblivion (2013) / int_14848fa3	comment	Multinational Team: The NASA mission.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Oblivion (2013) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Jack laughs gleefully while being fast-winched out of the Scav ambush — only for his rope to snap.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Oblivion (2013) / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Jack has no memory from before he began his current job - his Opening Monologue is entirely based on what Sally tells him ( and Sally herself is an Unreliable Expositor).
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Oblivion (2013) / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
Oblivion (2013) / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: The fact that drone fuel cells are pretty devastating when they go off comes to bite both sides of the conflict in the ass a few times.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Oblivion (2013) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun/Brick Joke: Lots of them: The Logo Joke shows the Tet and the Odyssey, the latter being easy to miss. Repeated reminders about the Tet's blind spot make this especially relevant later in the film. Jack's recurring dream about a viewfinder on the Empire State Building. It's where the original Jack Harper proposed marriage to Julia. The picture of Jack and Vika in the apartment. It's the picture Victoria took in the Odyssey just before arriving at the Tet. The fact that the Scavs aka La RÃ©sistance have been stealing drone fuel cells. The fact that lightning strikes force electronics (such as the Bubble Ship's and the drones') to reboot if struck while flying. The constant reminding to Mission Control to please send parts and armor to repair the drone on Tower 49, which Sally keeps disregarding. Julia's Big Damn Heroes moment later on is also a good example of Worf Had the Flu because of it. The missing drone mentioned at the beginning. It was captured by La RÃ©sistance, but it's intended use to carry a nuke to the Tet ends up sadly subverted. The Bubble Ship and the drones using voice recognition to identify Jack. The latter comes in use when Jack first rescues Julia from the crashed Odyssey (since they're programmed to not shoot him). As for the former... as Jack discovers, all that it's necessary to use another clone's ship is to change the Tech operator number you say for ID, which comes in handy because he needs to use it to save Julia's life after she's accidentally shot. The Odyssey's flight recorder. And its nuclear reactor core. The Scav communications equipment that Jack deactivates on the ruins of the Empire State Building. And the building itself. The fact that the drones can track Jack's DNA comes back to bite the ass of the Scavs during the final act. When Jack first reports about finding Julia to Mission Control, Sally says there is a great deal of interest up there in bringing her up to the Tet. During the Trojan Prisoner gambit, Jack mentions this back to Sally to be allowed into the ship. When Jack first starts checking the wreckage of the crashed Odyssey, he opens a Human Popsicle capsule which is empty, and when the Scavs arrive, you can see them taking that capsule. It becomes pretty important later on as it is the capsule Julia goes into thinking that she and Jack will do the Trojan Prisoner gambit and Jack then transports to his cabin, where she will be safe. The capsule is labeled "J. Harper"—it belonged to her (real) husband. A minor one: when Jack first disables the communications equipment in the Empire State, he takes a gorilla plushie that was on the room and puts it among his collection of scavenged stuff. He remembers seeing the child who dropped it later. Also, Julia's child is seen playing with it in the movie's epilogue. When Jack first checks up on the downed Drone 166 in the opening scenes, he affixes the loose fuel cell to the frame with chewing gum because he doesn't have the proper tools with him to do a better job. When Drone 166 comes back online after his fight with Jack 52, he reaches into the open hatch and is able to yank the fuel cell out quickly and easily because it was just chewing gum holding it in.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
Oblivion (2013) / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave: The fate of the entire Odyssey crew except for Julia. Bonus whammy points for this information being given to her by a clone of her own husband.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Oblivion (2013) / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Between Mission Control and Victoria, Jack's partner.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_2458ae1a	type	Shiny-Looking Spaceships
Oblivion (2013) / int_2458ae1a	comment	Shiny-Looking Spaceships: The winners of the war deploy clean, shiny and very advanced weapons and crafts. An early hint about something strange going on, as a Used Future befits a post-apocalyptic civilization.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
Oblivion (2013) / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: Harper's Bubble Ship has a bobble-head figurine glued to the instrument panel that Jack calls "Bob" and occasionally talks to. He makes a point of gluing it to his fellow clone's replacement Bubble Ship's dashboard after his first one gets wrecked.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_254a6a7d	type	Earth That Was
Oblivion (2013) / int_254a6a7d	comment	Earth That Was: Earth was nearly destroyed during a war against a race of alien invaders known as Scavengers. They were only defeated by the use of nuclear weapons, which left most of the planet irradiated and uninhabitable.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_2933bdf5	type	Genetic Memory
Oblivion (2013) / int_2933bdf5	comment	Genetic Memory: Within both Jack Harper 49 and 52, which causes the original to be, in a sense, "reincarnated" in both.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_2c628d38	type	Worf Had the Flu
Oblivion (2013) / int_2c628d38	comment	Worf Had the Flu: The drone on Tower 49. See Big Damn Heroes and Chekhov's Gun.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
Oblivion (2013) / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Jack awakes this way from another dream of Julia at the lake, at the moment when she calls out for him.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_2ccdff6c	type	Mortal Wound Reveal
Oblivion (2013) / int_2ccdff6c	comment	Mortal Wound Reveal: Non-lethal example. During the fight between Jack-49 and Jack-52, they are struggling for a gun and it goes off. Julia (and the audience) only notices that she is hit by discovering the blood on her hand several moments later.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
Oblivion (2013) / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: He's not the real Jack Harper, but a clone. He works for the Tet, which is stealing the planet's water for fuel. And he's just one of many (we follow the 49th, which fights the 52nd later on, and Beech mentions that the Tet used an army of Harper clones as foot soldiers during the war).
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Oblivion (2013) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Oblivion (2013) / int_3114c1e5	comment	Ramming Always Works: While set on a much smaller scale, drone 166 does this to Jack 49's bubbleship a couple of times. The final time knocks him to go into the radiation zone.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_32e7cb8d	type	Waking Up Elsewhere
Oblivion (2013) / int_32e7cb8d	comment	Waking Up Elsewhere: Julia wakes up at the cottage after passing out from her gutshot.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
Oblivion (2013) / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: The primary setting is Earth after it was devastated by an interstellar war.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Oblivion (2013) / int_34dd5f3	comment	The evil-looking Scavengers all wear dark colors and live in dark underground areas, but are eventually revealed to be a human resistance force led by Malcolm Beech with noble goals.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_354077f9	type	Plummet Perspective
Oblivion (2013) / int_354077f9	comment	Plummet Perspective: When Harper descents into the abandoned library, there is a huge chasm at the bottom which several objects fall into for effect.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Oblivion (2013) / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: One of the more prominently featured artifacts that Jack collects is a set of aviator shades - perhaps previously owned by a certain naval aviator? Another of his treasured artifacts is a faded New York Yankees ballcap, like the one Tom Cruise wore in the first half of War of the Worlds (2005). Jack is at one point covered in ash, after witnessing an alien device vaporize someone in front of him.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_3b4abb27	type	Double Meaning
Oblivion (2013) / int_3b4abb27	comment	Double Meaning: When Vika is killed by the drone-in-maintenance, Mission Control absolves Jack from blame by telling him that drones are unreliable. She wasn't only referring to the robots.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_3c3b5c27	type	Vehicular Assault
Oblivion (2013) / int_3c3b5c27	comment	Vehicular Assault: During the Aerial Canyon Chase, one of the drones tries to ram Jack's bubble ship against the canyon wall but fails. The last one however succeeds in doing a Taking You with Me, crashing into the bubble ship and forcing them to eject.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_3f92ad39	type	"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight
Oblivion (2013) / int_3f92ad39	comment	"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Basically what Beech tries on Jack after he sees him display curiosity (studying a book) and protectiveness/disobedience (protecting Julia's pod against the drone). We can assume from Sergeant Sykes' skepticism that this tactic has been tried before and failed — presumably without Julia's presence to awaken their memories and feelings other captured 'Jack' soldiers refused to accept the evidence, like Victoria when confronted with Jack's wife. Of special note pointing out Beech's tactic. When he reveals the captured drone to Jack for the first time, Jack refuses to help. He has Jack shot (his spacesuit protects him from damage), to put him under stress and then has Julia brought out on her knee's execution style with a gun put to her head. this incites a reaction from Jack. While at first this ruthlessness seems out of character, it's just Beech bluffing to intentionally stoke Jacks feelings and memories and set him on a path that will "bring him back"
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Oblivion (2013) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Oblivion (2013) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The Earth is finally saved from the Tet after 60 years of a war that humanity pretty much lost, and that which remains of humanity finally will have a chance to rebuild. All that it cost were the lives of the Drone Tech 49 clone of Jack Harper and Malcolm Beech. Julia has a daughter and the 52nd Drone Tech clone of Harper has finally found her after looking for her for three years.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Oblivion (2013) / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: At the end, you get this doozy:
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Oblivion (2013) / int_420081bf	type	Alien Sky
Oblivion (2013) / int_420081bf	comment	Alien Sky: The wreckage of the destroyed Moon.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_457655dd	type	Human Popsicle
Oblivion (2013) / int_457655dd	comment	Human Popsicle: Julia and the rest of the Odyssey crew.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_46c1dc8e	type	Someone to Remember Him By
Oblivion (2013) / int_46c1dc8e	comment	Someone to Remember Him By: At the end, Julia tends a garden while her two-year-old daughter plays nearby. Subverted, sorta, when it's revealed that Jack-52 note the other Jack that was in the Mirror Match who was shaken from oblivion upon seeing Julia himself had joined up with Sykes and company and searched for the hidden cottage he knew was out there.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Oblivion (2013) / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: Most of the Earth has been wrecked and we get lots of shots of crumbled, bombed, and/or partially buried landmarks (among them the Empire State Building, the New York Public Library, Brooklyn Bridge, the Pentagon (implied to have been ground zero for a nuclear strike during the Alien Invasion war) and Washington, DC).
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Oblivion (2013) / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Oblivion (2013) / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: But the few bits of untouched scenery we do see such as Jack's hideaway are beautiful. The film was also filmed on location in Iceland and the wasteland is pretty damn beautiful as a result.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_4df647d9	type	Billed Above the Title
Oblivion (2013) / int_4df647d9	comment	Billed Above the Title: Downplayed. The movie poster has Tom Cruise's name appear in small letters right above the title.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Oblivion (2013) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "I'm your wife." "No. We are not an effective team." "The drones were designed to kill humans."
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Oblivion (2013) / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Oblivion (2013) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: After Jack goes into the forbidden territory of the Radiation Zone and crash-lands with Julia, he finds another person who had landed in a Bubble Ship, and as a quick zoom-in shows when they're face-to-face... it's another Jack.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_514cba56	type	Sinister Geometry
Oblivion (2013) / int_514cba56	comment	Not to mention, The Tet very likely references how the Monolith originally had a tetrahedral shape in Arthur C. Clarke's original The Sentinel short story.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Oblivion (2013) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Jack finishes his Opening Monologue with "I can't shake the feeling that Earth is still my home". The last scene of the movie has Jack closing with "And I am home".
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Oblivion (2013) / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
Oblivion (2013) / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: The Universal logo features Earth with coastlines consistent with much of the oceans being drained. It also shows the "Tet" space station floating over it, as well as the Odyssey, which is easier to miss. This becomes a plot point. Why doesn't the Tet already have Julia, if it wants her so badly? The Odyssey is in its blind spot!
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Oblivion (2013) / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Oblivion (2013) / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: The evil-looking Scavengers all wear dark colors and live in dark underground areas, but are eventually revealed to be a human resistance force led by Malcolm Beech with noble goals. The Tet is a pretty ominous-looking black obelisk in space, but Jack describes it as being something like a human Mission Control HQ. Jack's wrong. The Tet is monstrous. At first, our hero Jack, Victoria, their home and all their equipment is pure white, establishing them as the good guys. As Jack continues his trip away from the evil side and towards the good, his white uniform becomes darker and closer to black. Notably, the Odyssey crew wear very dark gray uniforms which are nearly black. Also, the real Sally wears black, but when the Tet is impersonating her, it crops close to her face and doesn't show her black jacket.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_598b59a4	type	Everything Is an iPod in the Future
Oblivion (2013) / int_598b59a4	comment	Everything Is an iPod in the Future: The Bubble Ship in particular is a prime example, all sleek curves and shiny white surfaces.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Oblivion (2013) / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: The origin, motives and nature of the Tet — is it an Artificial Intelligence stealing the energy it needs, or is it acting on behalf of an unseen alien race?
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Oblivion (2013) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Oblivion (2013) / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Jack 49 and Malcolm Beech.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_64972c10	type	Flashback Effects
Oblivion (2013) / int_64972c10	comment	Flashback Effects: Jack's memories of Julia at New York City are depicted in black and white.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_652bf890	type	Drone of Dread
Oblivion (2013) / int_652bf890	comment	Drone of Dread: The soundtrack makes use of the drone sounds.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
Oblivion (2013) / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: Jack 49 and Malcolm Beech.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_68069489	type	Nipple and Dimed
Oblivion (2013) / int_68069489	comment	Nipple and Dimed: The nude swimming scene, showing off pretty much everything they could of Andrea Riseborough and still have a PG-13 rating - including light shining through her thigh gap.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Oblivion (2013) / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: The war with the Scavs never happened the way it's told. Rather, the Tet kidnapped the real Jack and Victoria, cloned them a thousand times and used them to Kill All Humans and Take Over the World to be able to use the ocean water as a fuel source for itself.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_6b898eb8	type	Post-Apocalyptic Dog
Oblivion (2013) / int_6b898eb8	comment	Post-Apocalyptic Dog: Jack discovers a shaggy dog early on and almost shoots it by accident.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Oblivion (2013) / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Stanza XXVII of Horatius (The Lay). Gets used three times. First time is just a random passage of a book Jack scavenged that he reads aloud. The second time it's said by Malcolm Beech to tell Harper that he's different from the army of Harper clone soldiers that assisted in devastating the planet, since he has curiosity and they were 'soulless'. The third time is said by Harper right before his Heroic Sacrifice by setting off the nuke inside of the Tet.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Oblivion (2013) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The Odyssey is the name of an ancient greek poem which describes Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan war, during which he gets lost for 10 years. Similarly, the spaceship Odyssey returns to Earth after being lost in space for a long time.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Oblivion (2013) / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: The movie's epilogue which shows Julia tending the garden at Jack-49's secret cottage with a three year-old girl which is most definitely his.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_71384f0e	type	Two-Person Pool Party
Oblivion (2013) / int_71384f0e	comment	Two-Person Pool Party: Begins with Jack being made "Rule of Pool-compliant". For extra male Fanservice, Victoria's the one character we see naked (her shadow from behind), with Jack ending up shirtless afterwards.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_713e479	type	Sensor Suspense
Oblivion (2013) / int_713e479	comment	Sensor Suspense: The first time the Bubble Ship is struck by lightning, we get a glimpse of the Ship disapearing from the Tower's sensor display, much to the distress of Victoria.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_72d2ac55	type	Clone Army
Oblivion (2013) / int_72d2ac55	comment	Clone Army: The Tet cloned an army of astronaut Jack Harper to conquer earth, then switched to drones and had the Jacks maintain them. It's left unexplained why Tet would send out Harper clones instead of the superior Attack Drones to fight the human forces, though given how often the coversations between Vika and Sally concern a lack of spare parts for the drones and the unacceptability of losing one, it can be inferred the drones are either non-replaceable or at least much more resource-intensive than clones are.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Oblivion (2013) / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The page image poster shows a waterfall cascading down by the Empire State Building, but in the film it is buried up to the observation deck all around. Another poster shows the George Washington Bridge free and at an angle, while in the movie it is half-buried and standing straight.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Oblivion (2013) / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: The poem that Jack reads in the library is quoted several times and is directly relevant to the plot: Also, "effective team." If they stop being an effective team, Jack and Victoria are killed and replaced.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_74e9a5b1	type	Scavenger World
Oblivion (2013) / int_74e9a5b1	comment	Scavenger World: The underground world beneath the surface of the Earth, where the remaining humans live.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Oblivion (2013) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Jack 52 gets to grow old with Julia. What happened to the Victoria 52 that we saw? And to the other 50+ Jacks and Victorias that presumably must be out there somewhere.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_8aae41e3	type	Saharan Shipwreck
Oblivion (2013) / int_8aae41e3	comment	Saharan Shipwreck: At one point we see Harper riding his Cool Bike across a plane with lots of shipwrecks sticking out of the ground.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_8b2f45df	type	Cryo Sickness
Oblivion (2013) / int_8b2f45df	comment	Cryo Sickness: When Julia is woken from her cryogenic escape pod, the first thing she does is vomit. It also turns out she is dehydrated. She makes a full recovery from this state though.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Oblivion (2013) / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: When Julia wakes up from her cryosleep, she repeatedly pukes cryo-liquid on camera.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Oblivion (2013) / int_966da803	comment	During the final shootout between the drones and the Scavengers on the bunker, one of the drones is about to shoot Julia and some human civilians. Julia picks up a gun and shoots the drone ineffectively... but is enough of a diversion for Sykes to be able to shoot it in the back with no problem. Beech also mans a turret and shoots it out with one of the drones, destroying it although he ends up injured because of it.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_96709930	type	Posthumous Narration
Oblivion (2013) / int_96709930	comment	Posthumous Narration: Subverted. In the epilogue, we're initially made to think Jack's narration is this, but it turns out to be Jack 52 looking for Julia.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Oblivion (2013) / int_970c790a	comment	The Big Bad is a giant sentient spaceship with a god complex.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_9b9d5657	type	Slow-Motion Fall
Oblivion (2013) / int_9b9d5657	comment	Slow-Motion Fall: Happens when the rope snaps and Harper falls back into the cave.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Oblivion (2013) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Beech expresses the desire to see the look on the Tet's face when they detonate the bomb. He got his wish. Jack's conversation with Victoria at the beginning about the last Super Bowl before the Alien Invasion (especially, that the last play on it was a "Hail Mary" pass) becomes pretty important later on in context (the plan regarding the Trojan Prisoner is a "Hail Mary" play). The phrase about sacrifice Jack finds in a book sets up his final sacrifice.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_9f679e25	type	Future Copter
Oblivion (2013) / int_9f679e25	comment	Future Copter: The VTOL craft that Jack flies around, the Bubble Ship. With guns (which can fire in any direction, even straight backwards), autopilot (and remote piloting), ejecting cockpit, voice-recognition lock, remotely-accessible surveillance cameras, storage space for a Cool Bike, and the capacity to fly up to space.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_a05522e3	type	Alien Abduction
Oblivion (2013) / int_a05522e3	comment	Alien Abduction: What happened to the real Jack and Victoria. It was Harper's decision to uncouple the piloting section from the crew section as it was being swallowed by the Tet that prevented the rest of the Odyssey's crew from becoming clones.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Oblivion (2013) / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Dramatic example. During the fight between Jack-49 and Jack-52, they are struggling for a gun. The gun goes off, hitting Julia on the stomach. This prompts Jack to knock out his opponent who is understandably shocked to have shot the woman he's seen in his dreams and steal his ship to get to the Tower and retrieve medical equipment to save her.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_a3eae597	type	Award-Bait Song
Oblivion (2013) / int_a3eae597	comment	Award-Bait Song: Oblivion
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Oblivion (2013) / int_a567f7f2	type	I Want My Jet Pack
Oblivion (2013) / int_a567f7f2	comment	I Want My Jetpack: By 2017 (a mere 4 years after the movie's release), we were supposed to have self contained "delta sleep" capsules that allow humans to survive for up to 60 years in hibernation and all of the space hardware we need to send a manned mission to Titan. This did not happen.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_a7caa5b5	type	First Contact
Oblivion (2013) / int_a7caa5b5	comment	First Contact: The Odyssey mission was originally meant to be a manned mission to Titan, but was repurposed into this instead when they discovered an alien craft entering the solar system. To say that it Went Horribly Wrong is a massive understatement.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_ab1659d5	type	Hero Stole My Bike
Oblivion (2013) / int_ab1659d5	comment	Hero Stole My Bike: Harper got both ends of the trope. La RÃ©sistance steals his motorcycle after an attempted ambush on the beginning of the movie, and he steals the Bubble Ship of one of his fellow clones when his own gets wrecked near the end.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
Oblivion (2013) / int_ac320c0e	comment	Nuke 'em: The resistance sabotage a fusion reactor, and later the Tet.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Oblivion (2013) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When Jack is dropping down into the pit to get one of the drones, he finds out that the drone signal was fake and it was all a trap, he starts to escape successfully - and then the line snaps and he falls back into the pit. Beech gives a small one when Julia Rusakova reintroduces herself as Julia Harper, revealing that she and the original Jack were secretly married, so Beech realizes that single factor might have been the only thing that made "bringing back" Commander Jack Harper at all possible.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
Oblivion (2013) / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: The flight recorder playback of the Odyssey.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Oblivion (2013) / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: It initially appears that the humans have defeated the aliens, but at the cost of the Earth. It's actually the opposite. The aliens have conquered the Earth, but they haven't yet managed to successfully wipe out the humans.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Oblivion (2013) / int_ae3d6438	comment	However, Sally's voice, her Deadpan Snarker attitude, and the turrets, along with the cloning of two people, using them as test subjects, setting up individual areas, the remarkably mechanized voice when approaching the core, and the glaring red eye when confronted are much closer to GlaDOS. All we need now is a literal Companion Cube and we have a post-apocalypic Portal!
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Oblivion (2013) / int_aed29b5c	type	Die Laughing
Oblivion (2013) / int_aed29b5c	comment	Die Laughing: Combining the savoring of the imminent doom the Tet is facing and Jack's one last comment to Sally, Beech does this as the bomb lights off.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Oblivion (2013) / int_b01abe4f	comment	"Welcome back, Commander." although this is a massive case of Irony consodering where and when this is said.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_b1bf431c	type	Go for the Eye
Oblivion (2013) / int_b1bf431c	comment	Go for the Eye: Along with the engines, this is one of the few unshielded points on the drones.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_b3dce477	type	Recurring Camera Shot
Oblivion (2013) / int_b3dce477	comment	Recurring Camera Shot: The scene where Jack finds Julia's sleeper pod, with her visible through the viewport while he looks down at her from the right with a hand on the pod, is mirrored later when he puts her back into it right before he flies up to the Tet.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_b78b8584	type	Hope Sprouts Eternal
Oblivion (2013) / int_b78b8584	comment	Hope Sprouts Eternal: At least one small valley within the area of the state of New York remained forested. Harper found it, and it's where he keeps his collection of scavenged memorabilia and a small cottage he built. Him trying to give Victoria a small plant (presumably from this place) and her casually throwing it away, justifying it as the plant possibly being contaminated with radiation, is another sign of Victoria's Stepford Smiler behavior.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
Oblivion (2013) / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: Of a Graphic Novel, actually. It was begun by the film's director, as it happens. However, as of 2021 it still hasn't been finished or printed yet and most likely due to the movie's lukewarm reception (and that he intended it to be a movie rather than graphic novel in the first place), never will.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_bb0197af	comment	Cool Bike: Harper's motorcycle-which is collapsible so it can be carried on the Bubble Ship's storage space, has integral winch and sensors, and is pretty rugged. Pity that it gets stolen early in the movie, and then soon after Harper gets it back it runs out of gas.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_bb067aba	type	Cool Mask
Oblivion (2013) / int_bb067aba	comment	Cool Mask: The Predator-style masks that the Scavs wear. Made of Stealth Bomber material (as well as the rest of their armor), with voice distortion, and very intimidating. It's no wonder they look like rampaging aliens during the first act.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_bb18e3c9	type	Detonation Moon
Oblivion (2013) / int_bb18e3c9	comment	Detonation Moon: A torn-apart moon is a constant sight during night sequences. Malcolm Beech reminisces when it was blown apart to cripple the human race pre-invasion.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_bbca7a41	type	Mirror Match
Oblivion (2013) / int_bbca7a41	comment	Mass Effect 3's final downloadable content Citadel has the plot revolves around the clone of Commander Shepard, and its climax is the clone and the original Commander getting into a Mirror Match battle. Guess what happens in this film?
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Oblivion (2013) / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Oblivion (2013) / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Jack: Fuck you, Sally. detonates fuel cells
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Oblivion (2013) / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
Oblivion (2013) / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: The movie happens in a virtually unrecognizable New York State. What remains of the Empire State Building is a plot-important location.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_bebf0356	type	Mission Control
Oblivion (2013) / int_bebf0356	comment	The Tet is a pretty ominous-looking black obelisk in space, but Jack describes it as being something like a human Mission Control HQ. Jack's wrong. The Tet is monstrous.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_bf4fb49b	type	Aerial Canyon Chase
Oblivion (2013) / int_bf4fb49b	comment	When the drone on Tower 49 is reactivated, killing Victoria and getting ready to shoot Jack, Julia saves him by blowing away the drone with the Bubble Ship's guns. The fact that the later Aerial Canyon Chase has the drones getting shot repeatedly with the same guns with little damage making it also an example of Worf Had the Flu, is justified by Harper mentioning earlier that the drone isn't worth much without its armor.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_bf67c13e	type	Opening Monologue
Oblivion (2013) / int_bf67c13e	comment	Opening Monologue: Provided by Harper while we get brought up to speed on the characters and situation and see a montage of Scenery Porn (The skies and some parts of the planet that look less wasteland-y), Scenery Gorn (the shot of the bombed-out Pentagon - with implications of it having been ground zero for a nuclear strike during The War - and the remains of New York and Washington, DC), Technology Porn (Tower 49, the Bubble Ship, the collector vessels, the guns and the Tet), Fanservice (Shirtless Scene and Toplessness from the Back) and some Irony in that most of the info is unwitting bullcrap on Jack's part.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
Oblivion (2013) / int_c12f0c4	comment	Outrun the Fireball: Happens to Jack during the final shootout with the drones inside of La RÃ©sistance's bunker - complete with visible Oh, Crap! moment as he starts to run away just before the explosion.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Oblivion (2013) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Jack and Julia return to the resistance base so Jack can reprogram the drone for an attack on the Tet. The drone is loaded on a vehicle and the doors are opened...just as three drones arrive outside and catch everyone not wearing their stealth gear. The reprogrammed drone is then destroyed in the subsequent shoot-out.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Oblivion (2013) / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: "And Melissa Leo." note as Sally
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Oblivion (2013) / int_c547cd6d	type	Bulletproof Vest
Oblivion (2013) / int_c547cd6d	comment	Bulletproof Vest: The suit Jack wears for most of the movie is a pretty effective Space Clothes kind of armor. We see how effective it is when Sergeant Sykes shoots him in the chest during the interrogation scene. At the least, it can take 9mm rounds with nothing to show for it but one hell of a scare.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Oblivion (2013) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Several to 2001: A Space Odyssey, such as the shape of the drone pods, Jack being suddenly denied access to the base, the red glaring eye of the eerie antagonist or the name of the space mission to the unknown, The Odyssey. Jack Harper's situation at the beginning of Oblivion is essentially a deconstruction of what happens to Dave Bowman at the end of 2001: aliens have abducted the first human astronaut to make contact with them, put him up in a luxurious all-white set of rooms, and made him into their servant. Not to mention, The Tet very likely references how the Monolith originally had a tetrahedral shape in Arthur C. Clarke's original The Sentinel short story. The number of shout outs to the Mass Effect series in this movie is rather astounding: Jack's rifle looks almost exactly like the Viper Sniper Rifle from Mass Effect 2. It also sounds the same with similar-looking glowing blue projectiles. Jack Harper has the same name as (Mass Effect spoiler) The Illusive Man. (spoiler for Mass Effect 3) Fridge Brilliance: The Illusive Man was Indoctrinated! "Welcome back, Commander." although this is a massive case of Irony consodering where and when this is said. The soundtrack is at times reminiscent of the Mass Effect soundtrack. The Big Bad is a giant sentient spaceship with a god complex. However, Sally's voice, her Deadpan Snarker attitude, and the turrets, along with the cloning of two people, using them as test subjects, setting up individual areas, the remarkably mechanized voice when approaching the core, and the glaring red eye when confronted are much closer to GlaDOS. All we need now is a literal Companion Cube and we have a post-apocalypic Portal! The drones resemble the Oculus fighters. The scene where the drones attack the human base is very similar to the scene near the end of Mass Effect 2 where an oculus breaks into the Normandy's cargo hold. Mass Effect 3's final downloadable content Citadel has the plot revolves around the clone of Commander Shepard, and its climax is the clone and the original Commander getting into a Mirror Match battle. Guess what happens in this film? There's also a nice shoutout to the Fallout series, with the present year being 2077, the same as the Great War. Considering the vital part nukes take place in the back story, it's hardly a coincidence. Also, in the making-of features, we learn that the Scavs' base is called Raven Rock - the same as The Enclave's base in Fallout 3. Raven Rock is a real place too, in any case. The name Sally might be a shoutout to Sally Calypso from the Doctor Who episode "Gridlock". The character was a newscaster who communicated with everyone solely via video transmissions, and also turned out to be a recording of a person long dead. The chase scenes through the city are more than a bit reminiscent of Star Wars: A New Hope. Several to Planet of the Apes: There's a shot of the Statue of Liberty during the chase (and buried ruins of the Empire State Building and other New York City landmarks evoking the 1968 film's sequel), and astronauts in cryosleep who crash back to an Earth long after apocalyptic cataclysms, and then does an inversion from Apes; there, three male astronauts survive to return to Earth but the sole woman astronaut did not due to a cryosleep failure, while here Julia and three male astronauts survive the long cryosleep and the crash of the "Odyssey", but a drone kills the other three still asleep in their pods. There are nods to Zardoz, as the protagonists both stumble upon a library in the ruins which catch their interests, and one particular book they find becomes important. And like the "Tabernacle" A.I., the Tet boasts that it's a "God".
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Oblivion (2013) / int_c7b5445c	type	Cool Starship
Oblivion (2013) / int_c7b5445c	comment	Cool Starship: The "Tet" space station, and the Odyssey (for how little time it appears on-screen, anycase)
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Oblivion (2013) / int_c85cb635	type	WhyDontYaJustShootHim
Oblivion (2013) / int_c85cb635	comment	Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him?: Averted. Sgt Sykes actually does that when Jack 49 initially refuses to cooperate. Fortunately he was wearing a Bulletproof Vest, and Sykes was using a low caliber handgun, so while it knocked Jack down, it did stop the bullet.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
Oblivion (2013) / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: Throughout the movie, both Jack and Victoria mention that they had two weeks remaining on their mission before being sent to the Tet, where they would go with the rest of the human survivors to their new home in the moon of Titan. It's all a lie anyway. It's unclear what the Tet would actually do to them when that time comes, but considering the movie doesn't hold back in showing its monstrosity...
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Oblivion (2013) / int_c8ce7b2d	type	Smash to Black
Oblivion (2013) / int_c8ce7b2d	comment	Smash to Black: When Jack gets apprehended by the scavengers. The screen goes black after the Darth Vader-like figure knocks Jack out with his gun.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Oblivion (2013) / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: How Jack and Malcolm save the world from Tet.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Oblivion (2013) / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: "Oblivion", meaning to be forgotten - as stated by Jack at the beginning, Jack and Victoria have chosen to forget the war so as not to interfere with his job. ...Or so he thinks.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_d139ffaf	type	Genre Throwback
Oblivion (2013) / int_d139ffaf	comment	Genre Throwback: Joseph Kosinski's word is that it's meant to evoke sci fi movies of The '70s. What we see wouldn't be (that much) out of place in a Heavy Metal or MÅ“bius comic.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_d323d090	type	Incendiary Exponent
Oblivion (2013) / int_d323d090	comment	Incendiary Exponent: The drone on Tower 49 right after it gets reactivated by the Tet and vaporizes Victoria 49 is briefly on fire for no reason other than looking pretty scary (and floating into the room through recently-shot curtains).
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Oblivion (2013) / int_d48605dc	type	Our Weapons Will Be Boxy in the Future
Oblivion (2013) / int_d48605dc	comment	Our Weapons Will Be Boxy in the Future: Jack's rifle, and the guns on the drones and bubble ship too. Though not the human's weapons.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
Oblivion (2013) / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: The film's backstory includes a manned mission to Saturn's moon Titan in 2017- merely four years after the movie's release date. NASA doesn't even have concrete plans for a mission to Mars. Such a mission isn't likely to materialize until the 2030s. Also, it seems FTL communication is already possible by 2017, which did not come to pass in reality. Also, even if cracking the Moon caused massive tidal waves and earthquakes, there wouldn't be enough sedimentation to completely bury New York up to the Empire State's observation deck. The fracturing of the Moon would result in the destruction of life on Earth, except maybe a few extremophile bacteria extremely deep in the crust. It would continue to break into smaller parts and send debris to Earth in increasing amounts until the atmosphere was heated to thousands of degrees and the sky would be solid white with falling stars. As is often the case in such films, the final explosion just was as big as it needed to be; in this case, the "nuke" had the explosive yield of several hundred hydrogen bombs.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_d545b2	type	Belly-Scraping Flight
Oblivion (2013) / int_d545b2	comment	Belly-Scraping Flight: Happens a few times to Jack's aircraft, sometimes with its belly scraping the side of a canyon because it's capable of flying in several different orientations.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Oblivion (2013) / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Though done more as a Badass Boast. When Jack quotes the line about "the temples of his Gods", the Tet replies: "I created you, Jack. I am your God."
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Oblivion (2013) / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Oblivion (2013) / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The deactivated drone that is being repaired on Tower 49. Jack Harper. Clone Number 52, to be specific. Shaken from his oblivion after encountering Jack 49 and Julia, he seeks her out after encountering the survivors. Drone 166, which Jack goes out to fix in a routine job during the expository opening scenes. It comes back to "save" him from the Scav ambush at the buried NY City Library, it arrives at the Odyssey crash site to dispose of survivors, and then it becomes the lead drone and most persistent foe chasing after Jack when he escapes with Julia.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_dddbdc26	type	Monumental Damage
Oblivion (2013) / int_dddbdc26	comment	Monumental Damage: One of the first things we see during Jack's Opening Monologue is the Pentagon smashed almost beyond recognition by a huge crater. The New York Public Library is completely underground. The Empire State Building is buried up to its observation deck, leaving only the gift shop and the spire above ground. The Statue of Liberty is broken up and scattered, with the torch-holding hand visible during a high-speed canyon chase. The One World Trade Center building, taller than the ESB and prominent in the flashbacks, is nowhere to be seen in the present time, implying that whatever wasn't buried was demolished.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_de51d725	type	Eye Lights Out
Oblivion (2013) / int_de51d725	comment	Eye Lights Out: At the tower, the "death" of the drone that Julia is able to shoot down is signaled by its red light going out.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_dfc19f42	type	Underwater Kiss
Oblivion (2013) / int_dfc19f42	comment	Underwater Kiss: From the Two-Person Pool Party trope above.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_e061d153	type	Sergeant Rock
Oblivion (2013) / int_e061d153	comment	Sergeant Rock: Sykes. Complete with one-liners, Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique, and Big Damn Heroes moment.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_e17ca895	type	The Cake Is a Lie
Oblivion (2013) / int_e17ca895	comment	The Cake Is a Lie: "There is no Titan".
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Oblivion (2013) / int_e4d39e54	type	Mars Needs Water
Oblivion (2013) / int_e4d39e54	comment	Mars Needs Water: Humanity has rigs draining all of Earth's oceans to produce fusion energy in order to send the rest of humanity to Titan. Actually, the Tet itself is gathering it to finish off humanity and power its trip to another planet and begin again.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
Oblivion (2013) / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: The white-suited humans in their clean, sterile towers. Sure, they're more-or-less good people, but they're unwittingly maintaining the Tet's ongoing obliteration of humanity. Similarly, the shiny, white, disturbingly Trigger-Happy Attack Drones.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_e5a93e61	type	Homeworld Evacuation
Oblivion (2013) / int_e5a93e61	comment	Homeworld Evacuation: The film has humanity attempting to escape a ruined Earth that has been wrecked during an Alien Invasion war, settling a new colony on Titan. Of course, this is a big damn lie, but saying any further details is a massive spoiler.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_e6291d05	type	Percussive Maintenance
Oblivion (2013) / int_e6291d05	comment	Percussive Maintenance: Jack does this to make the Bubble Ship restart when it gets struck by lightning the first time.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_e62dfb96	type	No Endor Holocaust
Oblivion (2013) / int_e62dfb96	comment	No Endor Holocaust: The Tet is in low orbit and explodes in a giant explosion. No one is hurt. Hell, the freaking Moon was destroyed before that! Whatever happened later, couldn't be much worse.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_e6a901a3	type	Meaningful Rename
Oblivion (2013) / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: Julia Rusakova makes a point of presenting herself as Julia Harper when she and Jack go back to the bunker. When the Trojan Prisoner gambit is being worked on, she enters a capsule with a Meaningful Name on it. See Chekhov's Gun for details.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: The drone coming to Jack's rescue during the Scavs' ambush on the remains of the New York Public Library, and the drones sent to intimidate the Scavengers when they capture Jack and Julia. Although considering The Reveal that follows, they could be considered more of a Villainous Rescue in action. When the drone on Tower 49 is reactivated, killing Victoria and getting ready to shoot Jack, Julia saves him by blowing away the drone with the Bubble Ship's guns. The fact that the later Aerial Canyon Chase has the drones getting shot repeatedly with the same guns with little damage making it also an example of Worf Had the Flu, is justified by Harper mentioning earlier that the drone isn't worth much without its armor. During the final shootout between the drones and the Scavengers on the bunker, one of the drones is about to shoot Julia and some human civilians. Julia picks up a gun and shoots the drone ineffectively... but is enough of a diversion for Sykes to be able to shoot it in the back with no problem. Beech also mans a turret and shoots it out with one of the drones, destroying it although he ends up injured because of it. A swarm of drones swoop down to finish off La RÃ©sistance. Sykes and Kara order everyone inside while they make a clearly suicidal attempt to hold them off. Fortunately they're a Keystone Army and fall out of the sky the moment the Tet is destroyed.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_ece27800	comment	Kill and Replace: Jack and Victoria were astronauts on a mission to Titan when Mission Control picked up the Tet and sent them to investigate. They were captured, cloned and probably killed. Then their clones were sent back to Earth to maintain equipment while the Tet drains the world of water to power itself.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_f018c5cf	comment	Offhand Backhand: The Drones' weapons can turn independently of each other and the general facing of the drone. Several of these ensue whenever the drones fight.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: A really bizarre example: in the final scene when the human survivors arrives to Jack's hidden valley, one of said survivors has a sweater with the Coca Cola logo printed on it and he spends a significant amount of time front and center amongst the crowd.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_fa779d17	comment	Ascetic Aesthetic: How the Tet and anything related to it (the Towers, the suits, the drones, the firearms) is represented. Borders Everything Is an iPod in the Future in some places (like the Towers' communication consoles).
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Oblivion (2013) / int_fb9afaab	comment	It's left unexplained why Tet would send out Harper clones instead of the superior Attack Drones to fight the human forces, though given how often the coversations between Vika and Sally concern a lack of spare parts for the drones and the unacceptability of losing one, it can be inferred the drones are either non-replaceable or at least much more resource-intensive than clones are.
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Oblivion (2013) / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Oblivion (2013) / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: The Moon is still in several large pieces that haven't orbited each other nor fallen back together after 60 years. The buildings of Manhattan are buried under an improbable amount of dirt, and probably couldn't take the weight of that much dirt on top of, around and on their sides without being in much worse shape. Tsunamis and earthquakes are mentioned, but they would probably have destroyed the buildings rather than just buried them all. However this all makes for some stunning, beautiful visuals. The Tet appears to be in an orbit around Earth that is at most a couple of hundred kilometers high, yet it appears to lose line of sight (and communication) with Tower 49 for around 12 hours each night. Such a low orbit would normally mean that the Tet would orbit Earth within a much shorter time, meaning it might be offline for less than an hour before rising above the horizon again note The International Space Station orbits Earth in about 90 minutes and is 400 kilometers high . The 12-hour orbital period shown in the movie would correspond to a much higher orbit of several tens of thousands of kilometers. Put a Cool Bike on its twin stands, pull a winch cable out of the front, rappel down into a building. How does that work? It seems unlikely that the bike would be heavy enough or anchored well enough by the two stands to hold Jack up, especially with the acrobatics he goes through on the end of that line.
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