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Space Sweepers
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Space Sweepers (Korean: 승리호; RR: Seungriho; lit. Spaceship Victory) is a 2021 South Korean film.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })In 2092, the Earth has become so polluted that the UTS Corporation has began to colonize space, setting up luxurious habitats in orbit for the rich and powerful. Their next step is a planned terraforming of Mars in preparation for the complete abandonment of Earth.However, while life for UTS Citizens is idyllic, it is a poverty-filled hardscrabble for all of the non-citizens who actually do the work in space.The 'Space Debris Cleaning Ship' Victory, crewed by three ne'er-do-well Koreans and a former military robot, is one of dozens of junk haulers trying to make a living in orbit by scavenging the old ships and waste that is floating around the earth. Each of its crew have their own secrets in their past, and each is desperate to make enough money to get by. When there is a news story about "Dorothy", an android that looks like a human girl which the "Black Fox" terrorist group plans to use to detonate a hydrogen bomb, they think they have finally hit their fortune when they find her hidden in one of the ships they attempt to salvage.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Hoping to ransom her back to the terrorists for a huge payday, they need to avoid the security forces of the UTS corporation and James Sullivan, its CEO who has his own plans for Dorothy.Originally intended for a 2020 theatrical release, the release was postponed numerous times before being acquired by Netflix for internet distribution. It was released online on February 5, 2021.A tie in Space Sweepers Digital Comic was published on Tapas Media. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Bubs literally lights up when addressed as "lady", expresses a desire for drastically appearance-changing surgery but sadly says it's both illegal and way too expensive, and eventually does get the surgery and achieve the appearance she wants. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: According to promotional material and a single line of text briefly visible during an Info Dump, James Sullivan was the one who brought Tae-ho into UTS and groomed him for the Space Guards. He even considered himself Tae-ho's adoptive father until Tae-ho was fired from UTS. | |
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Visionary Villain | |
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Visionary Villain: James Sullivan hopes to colonize Mars to make a new paradise for humanity after they have destroyed the Earth. | |
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Terraform | |
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Terraform: UTS Corporation is in the process of terraforming Mars, and is planning to announce the beginning of colonization. At the end, Kot-nim begins re-terraforming Earth to make it livable again. | |
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Extreme Speculative Stratification | |
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Extreme Speculative Stratification: The rich and powerful are "citizens" of the UTS corporation who live in idyllic space habitats explicitly compared to Eden, while all workers (with the exception of the security forces) are non-citizens. Non-citizens are taxed, forced to live in squalor, and aren't even allowed to have bank accounts. | |
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Human Resources | |
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Human Resources: The morgue where Tae-ho goes to look for his daughter's body is UTS Lost & Found, Integrated Warehouse. They charge to view the bodies. | |
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The Tooth Hurts | |
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The Tooth Hurts: James Sullivan rips a "micro chemical bomb" out of Captain Jang's mouth. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Tiger Park's axe is a minor characterization element mentioned in the first thirty minutes of the film, but is also used to deal the finishing blow to The Dragon. | |
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Kryptonite Factor | |
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Kryptonite Factor: Dorothy's control over nanobots makes her invulnerable to most damage, but certain forms of radiation (Actually called "Krypton waves") will deactivate the nanobots and, by extension, kill her. At the climax, they need to get Kot-nim more than 5,000km away from the explosion to protect her from the waves, much further than the blast itself can reach. | |
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Earth That Was | |
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Earth That Was: Not yet, but the UTS Corporation is actively planning for humanity to abandon Earth and settle on Mars. Sullivan plans to hurry it along by crashing the Factory into the Earth to render the planet completely uninhabitable. | |
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It Has Been an Honor | |
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It Has Been an Honor: The crew of the Victory all bid farewell during their Heroic Sacrifice, but when they survive Captain Jang jokes about how corny they got. | |
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Earth That Used to Be Better | |
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Earth That Used to Be Better: By 2092, the Earth is a polluted slum, inhabited only by those not rich or powerful enough to be allowed to move to and live in the UTS space colonies. Radioactive debris rains back to the world below, making things worse. Sullivan intends to finish the job. | |
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World-Wrecking Wave | |
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World-Wrecking Wave: In Captain Jang's Nightmare Sequence, sees the Earth's surface being destroyed by one caused by the nuke inside the Factory. | |
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Deadly Euphemism | |
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Deadly Euphemism: 'Going to work'. When Kot-nim asks where her father is, after he has just been killed, the crew tells her that he had to go to work. Later, when they are planning their Heroic Sacrifice to save her life, they likewise say that now they need to go to work. | |
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Ramming Always Works | |
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Ramming Always Works: Done by a sweeper ship to a drone in the final battle. Justified, as sweepers not only clear up space debris, but also have to contend with other sweepers after the same debris, meaning that such ships tend to be bulky and built to resist hard impacts. | |
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Apologetic Attacker | |
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Apologetic Attacker: Park and Tae-ho are ganging up on Captain Jang during their fight after the poker game, but Park winds up knocking out Tae-ho by mistake. Park can only say "oh, sorry" before turning back to Jang. | |
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup | |
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: After Kot-nim successfully terraforms Mars, all the information on the nanobots that gave her her powers is destroyed and plans are made to kill her so that her powers can't be used to save Earth as well. | |
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Engineered Public Confession | |
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Engineered Public Confession: The Victory's emergency broadcast system has the quirk of defaulting to airing whenever the system is rebooted, as demonstrated when Pierre accidentally broadcasts his love song to Jang through it. This comes in handy later once Sullivan let the ship come back online after he explained his plan. | |
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Defector from Decadence | |
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Defector from Decadence: The UTS Corporation is so awful that almost half the protagonists are former members. Tae-ho was a high-ranking member of the Space Guards who was discharged and had his citizenship revoked when he refused to fire on non-citizens that were attempting to reach space. Captain Jang was adopted and raised by UTS, but defected at 19 and formed an anti-UTS resistance group. Dr. Kang was a UTS scientist who used advanced technologies to try to save his daughter's life, and tried to escape UTS when they wanted to use his daughter to colonize Mars and destroy Earth. | |
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First-Name Basis | |
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First-Name Basis: Throughout the film, the Victory crew refer to each other formally, always using the Korean honorific -sshi at the end of their names. When he thinks they're about to die and Tae-ho goes into his Heroic BSoD, Tiger Park gently refers to him as "Taeho-ya" note Koreans sometimes add "ya" or "ie" to the end of names as a form of endearment. However, this can only be done if you are extremely close. | |
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What a Piece of Junk | |
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What a Piece of Junk: The Victory is actually an extremely powerful ship, able to outperform all of the other salvage ships. Numerous people point out that it is over-built for its duties, and this actually costs them more money than they can possibly make. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: The shots of the UTS residential district in space are very detailed and realistic, reminiscent of the diorama effect. | |
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I Have a Family | |
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I Have a Family: Inverted. During his meeting with a reporter, James Sullivan uses the reporter's wife and son as leverage to try to get him to give in to Sullivan's demands, namely proving himself and his family worthy of getting into a terraformed Mars by executing a captured and defenseless Black Fox. Sullivan ends up killing the reporter anyway. | |
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Terrorists Without a Cause | |
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Terrorists Without a Cause: The Black Fox terrorist group is planning to detonate the hydrogen bomb within Dorothy, but we never learn why. Because they're not terrorists, they're an environmental group that UTS is setting up to take the blame for their own actions. | |
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Improvised Weapon | |
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Improvised Weapon: Technically, none of the space sweeper ships are armed. But they do have giant metal harpoons they shoot at high speed, which by the nature of their jobs all the sweepers have to be extremely good at hitting moving targets with. When they decide to aim those at fighters instead of trash, the distinction between "weapon" and "tool" goes out the window. | |
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Double Knockout | |
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Double Knockout: Triple. The crew poker game erupts into a brawl between Tae-ho, Park, and Captain Jang, and it ends with all three unconscious and Bubs stepping over them remarking how they are a "scary crowd". | |
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The Dragon | |
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The Dragon: She doesn't get much characterization, but the leader of the Space Guards is always leading the soldiers in pursuit of the Victory, and at the end, she shows up personally to battle them unarmored. | |
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Luminescent Blush | |
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Luminescent Blush: the parts of Bubs' faceplate where the cheeks would be literally light up red when Kot-nim says it reminds her of a big sister. | |
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Green Thumb | |
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Green Thumb: Kot-nim can cause rapid plant growth, even in hostile environments. She is the "tree of life" that James Sullivan claims he created, which was used to terraform Mars. | |
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Bribe Backfire | |
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Bribe Backfire: Sort of. When the cop comes to investigate the previous call from the Victory, they literally shove a roll of bills in his hands to try to bribe him to go away. He initially acts hostile over the bribe, but then when they realize he isn't on-duty so he must be trying to pull his own crime here they switch to threatening to blackmail him over 'accepting' that bribe. | |
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Forced to Watch | |
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Forced to Watch: James Sullivan orders the crew of the Victory spared so they can see the Earth be destroyed before they are killed. | |
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Nightmare Sequence | |
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Nightmare Sequence: Captain Jang has one where she sees the Earth destroyed by the fall of the Factory. | |
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Aliens in Cardiff | |
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Aliens in Cardiff: Before fleeing to space to escape a death sentence, Park was formerly a gang lord in... Springfield, Oregon. His criminal empire was apparently taken apart by local authorities and the Portland Police Bureau. | |
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Thrown Out the Airlock | |
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Thrown Out the Airlock: How Park gets rid of The Dragon. | |
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Distracted from Death | |
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Distracted from Death: During the disaster that killed Su-ni, Tae-ho only noticed that there was loose cash all over the place. He was ecstatically grabbing money and telling her that they would be eating well that night before he realized that she wasn't there beside him. | |
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Death Glare | |
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Death Glare: When Pierre tries to casually lean on Captain Jang's shoulder, she glares at him and he instantly straightens up and lowers his arm. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: The data markers on the police surveillance footage of Park's time on Earth indicate that his criminal empire was based on Springfield, Oregon. A single line of text visible on-screen while James Sullivan receives a briefing on the Victory reveals that he was the one who brought Tae-ho into UTS and groomed him for the Space Guards. | |
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Nanomachines | |
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Nanomachines: They are part of the terraforming project on Mars, and are also used in industrial aspects in orbit around Earth. They are regarded with fear by the salvagers, since if any active nanobots are on their salvage they may spread to their ship and dismantle it around them. They are what saved Kot-nim's life, and now she can control them. This is partially why UTS spreads the story about her being the android "Dorothy". | |
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Cyanide Pill | |
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Cyanide Pill: When they are playing dress-up and giving crew backstory, Bubs tells Kot-nim that Captain Jang has a "self destruct" in her mouth. The climax reveals that it is a "micro chemical bomb" which has a 100m destruction radius, and which she hopes to use to kill James Sullivan. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: The bomb in the Factory cannot be disarmed, so the Victory decides to fly it away from the Factory as fast as they can. This will save Kot-nim from its radiation, and will also save the entire Earth from the extinction-level event of the Factory crashing to its surface. Thankfully, Kot-nim manages to use her control over nanobots to save them from the explosion. | |
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Creepy Souvenir | |
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Creepy Souvenir: Park used to cut off the hands of thieves on Earth, he would keep one for himself while giving the other to the thief's boss. He cuts the hand off The Dragon at the end and tosses it to Bubs, who drops it after realizing what it is. | |
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Company Town | |
| Space Sweepers / int_67711aa | comment |
Company Town: Everything in space is owned by UTS. All the money that the Victory makes on their salvage runs is paid back to UTS in ship costs, fees, taxes, penalties, and interest. | |
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Wimp Fight | |
| Space Sweepers / int_688238d6 | comment |
Wimp Fight: When the Black Fox corner Tae-ho and Kot-nim, Park arrives and singlehandedly defeats the entire crew. He is a former ganglord, whereas despite being a terrorist organization, the Foxes seem completely unprepared for violence and are unsure how to even throw punches. They resort to hair pulling and pleading for mercy. This is because they're not terrorists at all, but environmental activists. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
| Space Sweepers / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: The ship is named Victory, because Bubs used to think that winning was always a good thing. | |
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Disney Death | |
| Space Sweepers / int_6ef6417b | comment |
Disney Death: Twice Midway through the film when the Victory is nearly destroyed by the nanobot cloud in the Lagrange Point, Kot-nim's own nanobots hack into them and force them to repair the ship. After an asteroid hits the ship Kot-nim collapses due to a heart attack. She's fortunately revived. At the climax the Victory is seemingly destroyed by the hydrogen bomb that they removed from the Factory, only to emerge from the explosion having been protected by the nanobots. | |
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Bond Villain Stupidity | |
| Space Sweepers / int_7570a10c | comment |
Bond Villain Stupidity: James Sullivan orders his troops to leave the crew of the Victory alive. He even has them formally cleared of all charges and gives them double the money they were owed. All so they can see the Earth be destroyed, and then be killed afterwards. | |
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Comically Small Demand | |
| Space Sweepers / int_7f6885c4 | comment |
Comically Small Demand: The Victory asks for $2 million to hand over Dorothy, and unprompted they even offer to go down to one and a half million if the Black Foxes "really insist". This is still a lot of money, but it's less than they could demand for such an advanced android equipped with a hydrogen bomb because they don't want to push the Foxes into trying to break the deal. The Foxes agree to the original $2 million. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
| Space Sweepers / int_7febc23b | comment |
Establishing Character Moment: Park is the only member of the crew who doesn't cheat when they play poker. Despite being the only actual "Commit crimes for money" criminal in the group he is the honest one, and later he is the one who first warms up to Kot-nim and wants to back out of selling her. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
| Space Sweepers / int_8797239c | comment |
Bait-and-Switch: The heroes use this to full effect. In the climax, it looks like they were trying to spirit away Kot-Nim from the bomb, when really, it's the bomb they were trying to get away from her. | |
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Abhorrent Admirer | |
| Space Sweepers / int_88cee6e2 | comment |
Abhorrent Admirer: Pierre, another salvager, has a deep crush on Captain Jang and even serenades her over the emergency channel between ships. Tae-ho tells him that Jang said if he calls her again, she'll kill him. | |
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Bilingual Dialogue | |
| Space Sweepers / int_8a800d36 | comment |
Bilingual Dialogue: Thanks to translators, characters who speak different languages are all able to understand each other. Korean is the language of the five protagonists, the villain speaks English, and the supporting characters speak a mix of many different languages. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
| Space Sweepers / int_8ad43dc9 | comment |
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The Victory is crewed by four random lowlifes out to make a quick buck, but who get drawn into preventing a scheme that might wipe out all life on earth. | |
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Self-Serving Memory | |
| Space Sweepers / int_8fdd68fc | comment |
Self-Serving Memory: When Tae-ho thinks back to Su-ni's death, he remembers her wandering away when he was distracted playing cards. He leaves out that he had angrily sent her away, giving her a dollar to buy something to eat, after she nearly got involved in a knife-fight between him and another card player. | |
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IKEA Weaponry | |
| Space Sweepers / int_90141f06 | comment |
IKEA Weaponry: Apparently now standard for weapons, as Captain Jang points out to an off-duty cop that he's breaking the rules by carrying his assembled weapon. Her own laser rifle is kept disassembled and hidden throughout the ship. | |
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Future Food Is Artificial | |
| Space Sweepers / int_93c04c8a | comment |
Future Food Is Artificial: The very first scene shows Tae-ho attempting to make payment with a small bag of rice, insisting that it is real and not "the molecular stuff". Later, when Kot-nim makes the tomato plant in the Victory rapidly grow and start fruiting, the other salvagers are all desperate for 'real' fruit and pay $1 per tomato. | |
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Flipping the Table | |
| Space Sweepers / int_9421aa41 | comment |
Flipping the Table: Captain Jang flips over the poker table to start the brawl when Tae-ho and Park gang up on her over their grievances. | |
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One Degree of Separation | |
| Space Sweepers / int_959cb9aa | comment |
One Degree of Separation: Except for Park and Bubs, all of the protagonists are intimately connected to James Sullivan in various ways. When he realizes who everybody is and the way it has all come together, Sullivan himself calls it "a sick twist of fate". | |
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Never My Fault | |
| Space Sweepers / int_973d220f | comment |
Never My Fault: James Sullivan has a disturbing habit of forcing people to do something, often at literal gunpoint, and then criticizing them for it and saying that their actions prove they're not good enough for his utopia. | |
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The Elites Jump Ship | |
| Space Sweepers / int_97e48376 | comment |
The Elites Jump Ship: Only the rich are able to become UTS citizens and live comfortably off-world, and Sullivan plans to kill off those left down below. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
| Space Sweepers / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: When Pierre is serenading her over the emergency channel, Jang can't shut it down no matter how hard she hits the switch. Later, when she goes to give her Rousing Speech, she orders it turned on only to find it already is. And it has been since Sullivan revealed his plan to the crew, meaning his Evil Gloating was broadcasted to the whole system and picked up by reporters. Bubs notes that Dorothy is so realistic that she fooled even her sensors. They later discover that Dorothy is not a gynoid at all. At the end of the film, Bubs actually does get a super-realistic remodeling to essentially become a woman herself. | |
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Stealing from the Till | |
| Space Sweepers / int_9e622f84 | comment |
Stealing from the Till: Tae-ho has been pilfering ship supplies — and personal stores of the other crew — in order to pay for his search for Su-ni's body. | |
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It Is Beyond Saving | |
| Space Sweepers / int_9e9e8623 | comment |
It Is Beyond Saving: James Sullivan feels that the Earth is lost, and so focuses all his efforts on terraforming Mars. He even stops in the middle of the film's crisis to have a promotional video re-edited to emphasize that the genetically engineered crops they're making are specifically intended for Mars, not Earth. His ultimate plan is to destroy the Earth and all life on it, so he can relocate humanity to Mars and start over in a new Eden, free from the worst of human nature forever. | |
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It's Personal | |
| Space Sweepers / int_a0db7803 | comment |
It's Personal: Captain Jang was the only person who ever got close enough to aim a gun in James Sullivan's face, which he remembers years later. He says it was her lifelong dream to kill him, which she was willing to die to accomplish. | |
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Really700YearsOld | |
| Space Sweepers / int_a633a438 | comment |
Really 700 Years Old: James Sullivan is 152 years old. | |
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Sole Survivor | |
| Space Sweepers / int_aa30e350 | comment |
Sole Survivor: Captain Jang was the only survivor of her resistance group when they tried to assassinate James Sullivan. It was after this that she fell in with the Victory. | |
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MegaCorp | |
| Space Sweepers / int_aa8dcc21 | comment |
Mega-Corp: The UTS Corporation seems to be the only authority outside of Earth orbit. | |
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Rousing Speech | |
| Space Sweepers / int_aaece264 | comment |
Rousing Speech: Captain Jang gives one to the other sweepers at the climax of the film, telling them that Sullivan is going to crash the Factory into Earth, so either they should run, or fight for their true home. | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
| Space Sweepers / int_ab5eea65 | comment |
Dramatic Irony: At the crew poker game, Park reveals that his stash of rice has been stolen, and lists previous ship items that have also gone missing. Tae-ho did it all to pay for his search for Su-ni, but Park thinks Captain Jang did it to buy booze. | |
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What You Are in the Dark | |
| Space Sweepers / int_afc6df04 | comment |
What You Are in the Dark: James Sullivan likes putting people in impossible situations that he controls and criticizing them for succumbing. Sullivan brings a reporter to his office that had previously criticized his efforts to terraform Mars at the expense of the people still living on Earth. He then also brings in a tied-up member of the Black Fox terrorists and, with the promise of elevating the reporter's family to living in orbit as UTS citizens, forces him to shoot the terrorist. Immediately afterward, Sullivan says that the fact that he was willing to kill somebody proves that the reporter is not worthy of being a UTS citizen and promptly kills him with a knife, after his Space Guards bolt his arms to the wall. After recapturing Dorothy, Sullivan drops $4 million in front of Tae-ho. As soon as Tae-ho touches it, Sullivan says that this is the price of Dorothy's life, which Tae-ho knew, and that by accepting it, he just gave up any chance of becoming a better person. Though Tae-ho does initially take the money to pay for the search for Su-ni, he turns back and throws it down the waste instead. | |
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Just Between You and Me | |
| Space Sweepers / int_b26cc887 | comment |
Just Between You and Me: James Sullivan explains the whole plan to the crew of the Victory. | |
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Colony Drop | |
| Space Sweepers / int_b3eecaae | comment |
Colony Drop: Sullivan intends to destroy the Earth with one of this by crashing the Factory on its surface. He also put an armed high-yield nuclear bomb on it to maximize the damage. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
| Space Sweepers / int_b4a6ae4c | comment |
Everyone Has Standards: The pampered and sheltered elites living in the luxurious space colonies are horrified upon learning that Sullivan plans to destroy the Earth and kill the billions of people still living there. | |
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Translator Microbes | |
| Space Sweepers / int_bf487e2b | comment |
Translator Microbes: The first scene establishes that every person has a translator for speaking across the language barrier, and the film is filled with conversations in multiple different languages. | |
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A Nazi by Any Other Name | |
| Space Sweepers / int_c2288824 | comment |
A Nazi by Any Other Name: James Sullivan is obsessed with the idea of purity and genetics, and has very strong overtones of ecofascism (saying that humans as a whole are "dirty" and that's what destroyed the planet). There are even light hints that he may be the child of literal Nazis, since he was born in 1940 and is heavily motivated by what he experienced as a child in WWII. He plans to wipe out all life on Earth so that only the 'pure' will survive. | |
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Fixing the Game | |
| Space Sweepers / int_c6b2fdd1 | comment |
Fixing the Game: The crew of the Victory play cards, and they all cheat except for Park (who folds after the deal). Bubs, the dealer, rigs the deck and ultimately wins the hand. Tae-ho has an extra card hidden up his sleeve. Captain Jang wears glasses that let her see the other players' cards. | |
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Taking You with Me | |
| Space Sweepers / int_caf89e54 | comment |
Taking You with Me: At the climax, Captain Jang activates a "micro chemical bomb" hidden in her tooth which has a 100m destruction radius, and which she hopes to use to kill James Sullivan. He knows about it, and pulls it out of her mouth before destroying it. | |
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We ARE Struggling Together | |
| Space Sweepers / int_cbdd9a55 | comment |
We ARE Struggling Together: If the crew's not in the middle of working, there's a good chance they're bickering. If they are working...there's a slightly lower chance. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
| Space Sweepers / int_d028e0da | comment |
An Arm and a Leg: Park tells Bubs a story about how when he used to be a gangster he would chop off the hands of thieves, and keep one for himself while giving the other to the thief's boss. Bubs is doubtful, but at the end Park cuts off the hand of The Dragon and tosses it to Bubs. | |
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The Cavalry | |
| Space Sweepers / int_d9e9ad7e | comment |
The Cavalry: The Victory calls the other salvage ships, who show up to rescue them in the climax. | |
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Tattooed Crook | |
| Space Sweepers / int_dde43ab | comment |
Tattooed Crook: Park, who was a ganglord on Earth before coming to space, has numerous tattoos. The ending reveals he had them all removed in order to stop scaring Kot-nim's friends. | |
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Urban Segregation | |
| Space Sweepers / int_e04ed269 | comment |
Urban Segregation: Citizens live in habitats designed to mimic beautiful parks and grassland, and are explicitly compared to Eden. Non-citizens live in dirty slums eked out of whatever space they can find. | |
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Space Station | |
| Space Sweepers / int_e0ecb7b3 | comment |
Space Station: Earth orbit has become settled, with the UTS corporation operating habitats and a full sphere-shaped industrial base known as the Factory. | |
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Tainted Veins | |
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Tainted Veins: James Sullivan is suffering from some illness that is never directly explained (presumably related to the way his lifespan was artificially lengthened). It flares up throughout the film, and when it does, his veins became discolored and visible and his skin becomes discolored, spreading outwards from the veins. | |
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Morality Pet | |
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Morality Pet: Adopting Su-ni turned Tae-ho from a UTS enforcer to a kinder man. Unfortunately when he lost his job as a result he became angry at their subsequent poverty and descended to gambling. | |
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Ridiculously Human Robots: Dorothy is an android carrying a hydrogen bomb, but is indistinguishable from a cute little girl and has no idea that she is anything else. She really is a normal human girl named Kot-nim, and the entire "Dorothy" story is a lie by UTS. Bubs becomes one at the end of the movie, after receiving skin grafts to look like a pretty human woman. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: Park insists that he is Tiger Park, his nickname from back in his gang days. All news broadcasts and UTS personnel refer to the android as "Dorothy", while she calls herself "Kot-nim". The entire "Dorothy" story is fiction, she really is a human girl named Kot-nim, and UTS uses the fake name to depersonalize and trick people into thinking she is not a real person. | |
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A single line of text visible on-screen while James Sullivan receives a briefing on the Victory reveals that he was the one who brought Tae-ho into UTS and groomed him for the Space Guards. | |
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Infodump | |
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Infodump: Two primary ones. While they are applying her makeup, Bubs tells Kot-nim some of the backstory of the crew, primarily Tae-ho's story in detail. After identifying all the players, James Sullivan watches a briefing giving the detailed backstories of Park and Captain Jang that had been implied earlier. | |
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Briefcase Full of Money | |
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Briefcase Full of Money: The $2 million for Dorothy is delivered in the standard case. | |
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Dirty Cop | |
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Dirty Cop: The crew of the Victory are very surprised when a cop actually responds when they call the police. They point out that it normally takes repeated calls to get the cops to respond for non-citizens, and together with other clues they realize that he's off-duty and has only shown up to abuse his authority in some way. | |
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Children Raise You | |
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Children Raise You: After Tae-ho adopted Su-ni, he felt guilt for massacring non-citizens and could no longer function as an enforcer for UTS. The crew of the Victory finds themselves drawn more and more out of their self-interest after they find Dorothy. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: The Victory is despised by the rest of the salvage crews because they always hog their hauls and steal from the others. The crew are all self-interested and greedy, and explicitly wonder why they should bother caring about other people. After they find Dorothy they begin to lose these self-serving qualities. | |
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Finally Found the Body | |
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Finally Found the Body: Tae-ho is driven throughout the film by his search for his daughter Su-ni's body. She died in an accident in space, and if she isn't found before she drifts out of Earth's orbit, the odds of her ever being found are insignificant. He never does ''reach'' her body, but through Kot-nim, he is able to briefly connect with her and say goodbye one last time before she drifts away. | |
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Indentured Servitude | |
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Indentured Servitude: With UTS owning everything in space, all of the profits that the Victory makes are paid right back to them in ship costs, fees, taxes, penalties, and interest. No matter how hard they work or how much they make, it will never cover the debts they already have. This is intentional, as Sullivan intends to kill everyone planet-bound, as he sees them as worthless and malevolent scum that would corrupt his "Eden" if they were allowed anywhere near them. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: It's by no means easy or without sacrifice, but the crew forces UTS to back down and apologize (and, it's implied, to stop bleeding the sweepers dry), Kot-nim uses her powers to fix the Earth, Jang kicks her drinking problem, Tae-ho gets closure even if he doesn't find Su-ni's body, Bubs gets to be her true self, and the crew and Kot-nim adopt each other as family. | |
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How the Mighty Have Fallen | |
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How the Mighty Have Fallen: James Sullivan cannot believe that Tae-ho, former commander of the Space Guard, has been reduced to squalor. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Tae-ho trades away his magnetic boots in the first scene — after having just found them the day before — and spends the rest of the film scrounging up any kind of footwear he can. Wrapping his feet in rags, pulling old shoes out of the trash and gluing them back together, etc. The epilogue states that he bought ten new pairs of shoes, and prominently shows a fancy pair of sneakers. | |
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Lost in a Crowd | |
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Lost in a Crowd: When arranging the meeting with the Black Fox, Tae-ho sets it up at a masquerade nightclub where everybody is wearing costumes and masks. He and Park wear masks to hide their identities and are still indistinguishable from the crowd, and the Black Fox even initially approaches a random drunk clubgoer. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: At the crew poker game, Bubs reveals that "Porky" ran off with their money. Tae-ho freaks out over the loss, but it is not mentioned again as other events dominate the story. In the epilogue, Captain Jang, Bubs, and the other salvagers have tracked down Porky. | |
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Dark and Troubled Past | |
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Dark and Troubled Past: All four of the crew of the Victory. Tae-ho was a First Commander of the Space Guard, who was fired after refusing to kill non-citizens and fell into homeless poverty with his daughter Su-ni. His daughter was later killed when debris collided with the space station they lived on, and he is trying to scrounge up the money to hire a search craft to find her body. "Tiger" Park was a ganglord on Earth (apparently operating in Springfield, Oregon) and he fled to space four years ago after being sentenced to death. He would be executed if he ever returned to Earth. Captain Jang defected from UTS after they raised and educated her, forming a resistance group at 19. Her entire crew died while attempting to assassinate James Sullivan and she has been in hiding ever since. We don't know the precise details, but Bubs was apparently a military robot and casually talks about combat and assassinations. | |
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