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The Black Hole

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The Black Hole	comment	The Black Hole is a 1979 science fiction movie directed by Gary Nelson. It stars Maximilian Schell, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, Anthony Perkins, and Ernest Borgnine. The voices of the main robot characters in the film are provided by Roddy McDowall and Slim Pickens (both uncredited). The music for the movie was composed by John Barry. Alan Dean Foster novelized the screenplay.An Earth exploratory ship, the USS Palomino, discovers an impressively massive black hole with a missing Earth vessel, the USS Cygnus parked just outside its event horizon, somehow defying its gravity. Setting off to solve the mystery of the Cygnus are: the Palomino's Captain, Dan Holland (Forster); his First Officer, Lieutenant Charlie Pizer (Bottoms); journalist Harry Booth (Borgnine); ESP-sensitive scientist Dr. Kate McCrae (Mimieux); Dr. Alex Durant (Perkins), the expedition's civilian leader; and the robot V.I.N.CENT ("Vital Information Necessary CENTralized"). The Palomino attempts a dangerous fly-by of the ship, which is dark and apparently derelict. As they come within close range of it, the buffeting they experience due to the black hole's gravity suddenly ceases. They complete their fly-by with tantalizing signs that someone may still be aboard, but do not realize the gravity-free zone is artificial and limited; slipping outside it, they are almost drawn into the black hole.As the crew repairs the Palomino, they discover that the Cygnus is not only functional but inhabited by a crew of faceless robots and their human commander, Dr. Hans Reinhardt, who intends to take the Cygnus into the black hole to see what awaits him on the other side. Trivial matters like what happened to the original human crew or that Earth tried to recall his mission years ago do not concern him.Oh, did we forget to mention this is a Disney movie?The movie contains very clear homages in style and plot to 2001: A Space Odyssey and Forbidden Planet, and to the studio's own prior 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; it's possible they originally intended to create a similar "proverbial good science fiction film". The success of Star Wars meant that assorted cute robots and laser battles were crammed in, making the tone somewhat schizophrenic. The goofy robot shooting gallery scene seems particularly out of place.note It was originally a pool-shooting scene, and is considerably less goofy in the novelizationUntil The Lone Ranger (2013) came along, many considered this film to be Disney's biggest flop and a symbol of everything wrong with Ron Miller's leadership of the company, complete with countless jokes about the company's money being tossed into the eponymous hole. In actual fact, it made $35m on a budget of $20m, so it did earn a slight profit for the company. While not very many people regard the film as one of Disney's finer moments, it is considered a science fiction classic, often cited alongside Blade Runner and Disney's later TRON as examples of films that failed upon first release only to be critically reappraised and become cult favorites later on. On the plus side, along with one other movie that was released the same year, it was the first ever Disney movie to be given a PG rating; something that ultimately would lead to the creation of Disney's separate non-Disney branded label, Touchstone Pictures in 1984 (with the PG-rated Splash as its first release). The film in theatrical release was released under the Buena Vista label, and nowhere on the posters or promotional material did "Disney" appear, a first for any Disney film. (Nowadays, the title is Disney's The Black Hole.)The film is currently in development for a remake by TRON: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski. It even got a Shout-Out in Legacy as a poster in Sam's room.
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The Black Hole / int_11ec1fd5	type	Off-the-Shelf FX
The Black Hole / int_11ec1fd5	comment	Off-the-Shelf FX: The "pupils" of B.O.B. and V.I.N.CENT.'s eyes are pretty obviously simply black buttons, which were hastily glued onto them to compensate for the fact that their original computer screen eyes failed to work on the first day of shooting.
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The Black Hole / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Black Hole / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Harry Booth. He talks big about trying to overpower Reinhardt's robots, take control of the Cygnus, and head back to Earth... but as soon as he finds out what actually happened to the rest of Reinhardt's crew, he immediately changes his mind ("If they couldn't pull it off, what chance do we have?"). In fairness to him, this could be taken as him simply wising up after discovering that his earlier bravado would have been suicide, but... then Harry makes an ill-advised attempt to steal the Palomino and make for Earth alone, abandoning his companions to near-certain death on the Cygnus.
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The Black Hole / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Black Hole / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Director Gary Nelson plays the humanoid unmasked by Durant.
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The Black Hole / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
The Black Hole / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: Maximillian murders Alex by eviscerating him with its spinning blades. Papers were shown scattered and torn, but not a single drop of blood was shown to be spilled, even though Alex's innards should have been splattered all over Maximillian, Kate, and the bridge of the Cygnus.
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The Black Hole / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
The Black Hole / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: Durant doesn't think it credible that Reinhardt would have programmed his "robots" to have human emotions ... even though it's obvious that both V.I.N.CENT and B.O.B. have them, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, so it must be a known technology. note Perhaps Durant thinks that V.I.N.CENT and B.O.B. don't have "true" emotions? Or perhaps he considers programming emotions like theirs into new robots is something that couldn't be done with the resources of the Cygnus alone?
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The Black Hole / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Black Hole / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: One trailer for the movie showed Durant's death and Kate's rescue.
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The Black Hole / int_14d633ed	type	If I Wanted You Dead...
The Black Hole / int_14d633ed	comment	If I Wanted You Dead...: Dr. Durant uses this line of reasoning. It holds true... for a while.
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The Black Hole / int_15da4941	type	Badass Adorable
The Black Hole / int_15da4941	comment	Badass Adorable: V.I.N.CENT. almost looks like a toy robot and he's also one heckuva crack shot able to hit targets while spinning.
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The Black Hole / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Black Hole / int_17ce80aa	comment	The novelization adds a couple of lines of dialogue making it clear that the comparisons to the other ships is mostly a formality, to make sure some bureaucrat back on Earth doesn't second guess them later.
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The Black Hole / int_18ba2fe	type	Sound-Only Death
The Black Hole / int_18ba2fe	comment	Sound-Only Death: Durant's murder.
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The Black Hole / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
The Black Hole / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: The heroes dress up as the faceless humanoids at one point to evade Reinhardt's sentries. It actually works pretty well... until Reinhardt orders the sentries to blast all humanoids not at their posts.
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The Black Hole / int_1972ef89	type	Railing Kill
The Black Hole / int_1972ef89	comment	Railing Kill: Several of the bridge crew start going this way when the meteorites are pounding them.
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The Black Hole / int_1b3b48f3	type	David Versus Goliath
The Black Hole / int_1b3b48f3	comment	David Versus Goliath: Lampshaded by Reinhardt on seeing V.I.N.CENT. face off with Maximillian.
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The Black Hole / int_1b5c9c48	type	The Blank
The Black Hole / int_1b5c9c48	comment	The Blank: The robot crewmen have metal plates where their faces might otherwise be, and exhibit no expression or emotion.
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The Black Hole / int_1ba09c9d	type	Human Resources
The Black Hole / int_1ba09c9d	comment	Human Resources: Reinhardt really doesn't like mutineers. There are several clues that give their fate away: Harry spots one of the "robots" walking with a limp, the hydroponics garden is far larger than it needs to be for one man, none of the crew took their uniforms or other gear with them when they "abandoned ship", and Dan witnesses what looks like a funeral for one of the "robots."
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The Black Hole / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
The Black Hole / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: Looks like Reinhardt ended up wearing Maximilian, that is, Maximilian Schell is inside Maximilian's shell note A YouTuber noticed this first.
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The Black Hole / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
The Black Hole / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Dr. Reinhardt is presented this way at least in the novelization, with Harry Booth's remarks being the one most close to put him out of his senses.
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The Black Hole / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
The Black Hole / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: Dr. Reinhardt's decision to have the crew of the Palomino killed after his secret was discovered, rather than let them flee resulted in the destruction of the Palomino, the Cygnus, and, indirectly, Maximilian's destruction and Reinhardt's eventual fate. Had Reinhardt told them to go in peace after Durant unmasked a cloaked "robot" they would've had no other choice anyway, leaving the field clear for Reinhardt to pursue his plans; then again, that wouldn't have been enough villainy. In the novelization, it's also due to Reinhardt's own ego and vanity; he's unwilling, even in the face of his greatest expedition, to allow the Palomino crew to return to Earth and blemish his reputation with the truth of what he'd done to the Cygnus crew.
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The Black Hole / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Black Hole / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Maximillian drills a hole in Durant's chest, then throws his body onto some power busbars. In the novelization, he's "just" drilled down by Maximillian's lasers from afar.
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The Black Hole / int_204a1207	type	Hyperspace Is a Scary Place
The Black Hole / int_204a1207	comment	Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: Entering a black hole apparently sends you to Hell. Or through heaven.
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The Black Hole / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Black Hole / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The probe ship. There are two scenes that show how Reinhardt sends a probe ship near the black hole and back before sending the Cygnus in. These scenes seem unnecessary until both the Palomino and the Cygnus are destroyed or severely damaged, and the probe is the last ship standing and both sides scramble to reach it. V.I.N.CENT. gives some exposition about experiments sending models of his type into black holes and attempting communication with ESP-capable scientists outside. In the novelization this is why Reinhardt tries to keep Kate on the ship, so she can communicate with V.I.N.CENT. on the Palomino. In the end Kate uses her ESP to link everyone into a Hive Mind so they will survive the black hole by ascending to a higher plane.
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The Black Hole / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Black Hole / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The novelization adds in a lot of detail, such as defining Dr. McCrae's "ESP" as a wireless cybernetic interface, and a wonderfully grim conversation regarding rehydrated Christmas dinner, complete with rehydrated giblets. It also explains why just letting the decompressed cargo hold's contents escape the ship wasn't an option. It was apparently full of irreplacable pharmaceuticals.
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The Black Hole / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
The Black Hole / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: Dr. Reinhardt's ostensible motivation for entering the black hole and seeing what's on the other side. Also Dr. Durant's, for wanting to follow Reinhardt.
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The Black Hole / int_235289d	type	Conveyor Belt o' Doom
The Black Hole / int_235289d	comment	Conveyor Belt o' Doom: After Kate discovers the truth about the drones, Reinhardt has her taken away to be turned into one. She barely escapes a laser lobotomy.
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The Black Hole / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The Black Hole / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Reinhardt quotes from Genesis.
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The Black Hole / int_243cbd0d	type	Dope Slap
The Black Hole / int_243cbd0d	comment	Dope Slap: Amusingly inverted version, with Reinhardt triple-slapping his own forehead when rebuking Maximilian for the Sentries' failure against V.I.N.CENT. and Old B.O.B. To be fair, he would have just hurt his hand if he tried to dope slap Maximillian.
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The Black Hole / int_280f59bf	type	Extremely Short Timespan
The Black Hole / int_280f59bf	comment	Extremely Short Time Span: Except for the Gainax Ending, the entire film takes place over, at most, twelve hours.
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The Black Hole / int_29ad1d69	type	Facial Dialogue
The Black Hole / int_29ad1d69	comment	Facial Dialogue: V.I.N.CENT. can do this despite being a Tin-Can Robot with mock eyes, by raising (indicating surprise or pain) and lowering (usually Oh, Crap!) his top cover.
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The Black Hole / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Black Hole / int_2a090d00	comment	This movie has religious symbolism out the wazoo: in addition to the foreshadowing comparisons of the Black Hole with Hell ("My god, it's right out of Dante's Inferno"; "Every time I see one of these things I expect to see a guy in a red suit with a pitchfork"), Durant says it may lead "into the mind of God". Reinhardt likens V.I.N.CENT. and Maximilian to David and Goliath and quotes from Genesis. The Cygnus looks like a Gothic cathedral, the control panels on the bridge look like stained glass windows, and the humanoids are dressed like monks. Lampshaded when Reinhardt offhandedly remarks that it's another of his "theatrical gestures". In fact, one planned ending involved a reveal that shows Dr. McCrae as one of the angels depicted among the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel.
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The Black Hole / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Black Hole / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The eponymous black hole is described like an Eldritch Abomination that might one day devour the Universe. The Palomino crew (except V.I.N.CENT., but that's likely bravado) are wary of tangling with the menacing Maximillian and even its creator claims to be afraid of it.
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The Black Hole / int_2af7961	type	Faster-Than-Light Travel
The Black Hole / int_2af7961	comment	Faster-Than-Light Travel: The novelization mentions the Palomino at the very least being equipped with a form of FTL drive system with the disadvantage of when it's activated close to a large mass concentration pushing against the ship, likely destroying it.
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The Black Hole / int_2b812abd	type	Going for the Big Scoop
The Black Hole / int_2b812abd	comment	Going for the Big Scoop: Booth slips away to snoop around the ship, and urges the others to take over the Cygnus and take it back to Earth so they'll be heroes. He changes his tune when his own life's at stake though.
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The Black Hole / int_2ef833e7	type	Burial in Space
The Black Hole / int_2ef833e7	comment	Burial in Space: Done by the "robot" crewmen, which tips off the suspicions of the Palomino's crew that all is not as it appears aboard the Cygnus.
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The Black Hole / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Black Hole / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Dr. Reinhardt is genuinely upset at Durant's death and chastises Maximillian for killing him.
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The Black Hole / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
The Black Hole / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Reinhardt ticks all the boxes: great genius, huge ego, Large Ham, refusal to accept the boundaries of society, morality or physics as we know it. The only person he shows genuine empathy for is a fellow scientist who shows unquestioning awe of his genius. He also has no hesitation in using human beings as raw material for his grandiose project.
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The Black Hole / int_356e26da	type	Good Hair, Evil Hair
The Black Hole / int_356e26da	comment	Good Hair, Evil Hair: Dr. Reinhardt has the mad scientist's disheveled long beard.
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The Black Hole / int_35ca4848	type	Antimatter
The Black Hole / int_35ca4848	comment	Antimatter: In the novelization, a (very helpful) side effect of the anti-gravity field is also to permit antimattter to be used as fuel to power the engines of the Cygnus, and consequently said field.
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The Black Hole / int_371b253a	type	Testosterone Poisoning
The Black Hole / int_371b253a	comment	Testosterone Poisoning: Between robots, would you believe. The crew and Dr Reinhardt have to tell off V.I.N.CENT. and Maximillian from trying to one-up each other.
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The Black Hole / int_3892655c	type	Magical Security Cam
The Black Hole / int_3892655c	comment	Magical Security Cam: Reinhardt watches the Palomino crew with one of these late in the movie.
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The Black Hole / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Black Hole / int_392372f9	comment	Another Actor Allusion is the name of Reinhardt's robot, Maximilian.
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The Black Hole / int_3da6b7c8	comment	Comm Links: All of the Palomino crew have their transmitters on or just below their collars. Dan is the only one shown to use his, which Reinhardt mockingly imitates at one point. Kate's ESP also provides covert communication with V.I.N.CENT.
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The Black Hole / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Black Hole / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Dr. Reinhardt claims that the rest of the Cygnus crewmen willingly left him alone with the ship, but his account is full of so many inconsistencies that it was only a matter of time before the truth came out. Reinhardt also claims that a communication error prevented him from answering the Palomino's hail. As Holland notes, that still doesn't explain why he waited so long to turn on the lights, which let them know the ship wasn't a derelict. B.O.B. later says he only did this because he was worried the Cygnus would get damaged if the Palomino impacted it. Harry in the novelization. When he and Charlie leave the Palomino to help Dan and Kate, he fakes having broken his leg. Charlie realizes he's probably lying and thinks he's just scared of fighting, but as soon as Charlie leaves Harry rushes back to the Palomino and attempts to take off, leaving the rest of the crew stranded in the Cygnus.
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The Black Hole / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Black Hole / int_40c57041	comment	Though that's likely just a last minute ploy to keep her on his side. It doesn't work.note It was a Throw It In line by Schell, to keep the audience guessing.invoked
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The Black Hole / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: There are also several scenes where it's hinted Maximillian is actively deciding whether or not to follow Reinhardt's orders. In the end it abandons him to his death. In the novel, the robot is much more loyal to Reinhardt even if it also abandons him to his death at the end.
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The Black Hole / int_42632336	comment	Mecha-Mooks: The sentry robots. Since they're only robots (and they aren't cute like V.I.N.CENT. and B.O.B.), when it's time to have a gun battle the protagonists have no compunctions about blasting them apart by the dozens.
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The Black Hole / int_4536fd29	type	Energy Weapon
The Black Hole / int_4536fd29	comment	Energy Weapon: Glowy but otherwise fairly realistic — they produce beams rather than "bolts", and leave burn marks everywhere.
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The Black Hole / int_46bcebfd	type	Starship Luxurious
The Black Hole / int_46bcebfd	comment	Starship Luxurious: The Cygnus is constructed on a grandiose scale to match Dr Reinhardt's ego, more suited to a generation ship than a vessel of exploration. Booth makes some sardonic comments on how much taxpayers' money was wasted to build it. Given more overt justification in the novelization. The ship's deep-space exploration mission was originally expected to be multi-generational in the first place, with a crew of about a thousand to maintain it and pass control over to their descendants over time. Technology Marches On later left the ship obsolete; it's said that the Palomino can cover the same mission in 5 years with a crew of less than 10 that it would've taken the Cygnus decades with its full complement to perform. That same obsolescence is what motivated the recall of the Cygnus in the first place.
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The Black Hole / int_471fdb9e	type	Defeat Equals Explosion
The Black Hole / int_471fdb9e	comment	Defeat Equals Explosion: Captain S.T.A.R. blows a fuse after V.I.N.CENT. beats it in a shooting contest, though that ricochet shot V.I.N.CENT. 'accidentally' put in its chest can't have helped.
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The Black Hole / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Black Hole / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The interior of the Cygnus resembles a high tech-cathedral of steel and glass with mammoth, lengthy corridors and ominous lighting.
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The Black Hole / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Black Hole / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Durant's death was shot in such a way that the damage of getting drilled to death can't be seen, so the film could avoid an R rating.
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The Black Hole / int_4a5fcde	type	Adaptational Alternate Ending
The Black Hole / int_4a5fcde	comment	Adaptational Alternate Ending: The reason the ending of the Alan Dean Foster novelisation lacks all the metaphysical elements is that he had no idea they would be in the movie. Executive Meddling decreed that the scriptwriters write up to the last seven minutes, and so at the time Foster was writing the novel, they still hadn't decided what the ending would be, or at least hadn't told anyone else. The people involved with making the film recently admitted they had no idea what the ending would be even during production, and lied to the cast that they were keeping it a secret to keep their reactions fresh. There was no ending til the last minute.
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The Black Hole / int_4b17763f	type	Technology Marches On
The Black Hole / int_4b17763f	comment	Given more overt justification in the novelization. The ship's deep-space exploration mission was originally expected to be multi-generational in the first place, with a crew of about a thousand to maintain it and pass control over to their descendants over time. Technology Marches On later left the ship obsolete; it's said that the Palomino can cover the same mission in 5 years with a crew of less than 10 that it would've taken the Cygnus decades with its full complement to perform. That same obsolescence is what motivated the recall of the Cygnus in the first place.
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The Black Hole / int_4cb71cf9	type	Unwilling Roboticisation
The Black Hole / int_4cb71cf9	comment	Unwilling Roboticisation: The sad fate of the Cygnus crew after they tried to take control of the ship from Reinhardt.
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The Black Hole / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Black Hole / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: From Reinhardt after Maximilian kills Durant: Though that's likely just a last minute ploy to keep her on his side. It doesn't work.note It was a Throw It In line by Schell, to keep the audience guessing.invoked
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The Black Hole / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
The Black Hole / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: The large laser guns on the Cygnus and all the personal laser guns carried onboard are explained in the novel as having been built in case she needed to defend herself from attacking aliens - which never happened, see also "Absent Aliens" above.
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The Black Hole / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Black Hole / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Maximillian.
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The Black Hole / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
The Black Hole / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: Everyone, both sentry robots and humans, wields two of the double-barreled laser pistols (one barrel above the handle, one below) issued on the Cygnus. It's actually pretty effective when laying down suppressive fire, though it's not so great for pinpoint accuracy. V.I.N.CENT. and B.O.B. are also equipped with laser emitters in both of their front "arms." (Their grasping manipulators extend to the sides, from their "shoulders.") V.I.N.CENT.'s are disabled (i.e., shot out) by the automated security system soon after boarding Cygnus. They are then repaired twice: He gets a temporary fix for the shooting gallery scene, and a permanent fix from B.O.B. shortly thereafter, to aid the humans during the final battle. (This is one of the signs the shooting gallery scene was a last-minute addition.)
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The Black Hole / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Black Hole / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: V.I.N.CENT. is regarded as a member of the Palomino's crew, but ironically claims not to like other robots. He has a snobbish attitude to the Cygnus androids, but gets on fine with B.O.B., an earlier model of the same type of robot. In turn the androids and Maximillian bully B.O.B and (unsuccessfully) attempt the same with V.I.N.CENT.
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The Black Hole / int_58aedae3	type	Our Doors Are Different
The Black Hole / int_58aedae3	comment	Our Doors Are Different: The requisite hatches that slide up, down, apart and sideways. In one scene a door slides up halfway from the deck, providing cover for the Killer Robots' lower half while they fire over the top.
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The Black Hole / int_5ed3ace2	type	Batman Can Breathe in Space
The Black Hole / int_5ed3ace2	comment	Batman Can Breathe in Space: Near the end the characters are inexplicably seen climbing from the Cygnus to the probe ship through the vacuum of space without space suits. Reportedly space suits were to be used in this sequence but the cast disliked their design and there wasn't enough time to redesign themnote The novelization averts this, with everyone human dressing in space suits.
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The Black Hole / int_61e43473	type	Dramatic Space Drifting
The Black Hole / int_61e43473	comment	Dramatic Space Drifting: Fortunately V.I.N.CENT. has anti-gravs and the obligatory grappling hook of any Do-Anything Robot. Others aren't so lucky.
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The Black Hole / int_61fee923	type	Reinventing the Telephone
The Black Hole / int_61fee923	comment	Reinventing the Telephone: Dr. McCrae's ESP does have a necessary function plotwise; to allow Kate and V.I.N.CENT. to exchange information without Reinhardt and Maximillian overhearing. And it appears to be a more reliable means of transmission than radio, as she was able to make contact when V.I.N.CENT. had lost comms while doing repairs outside the Palomino.
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The Black Hole / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
The Black Hole / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: The ending left the door wide open for a follow-up movie featuring the Palomino crew's adventures through the black hole, but no sequel was ever produced. However there was a comic book adaptation by Whitman Comics that did this.
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The Black Hole / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Black Hole / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Doubles as a Genius Bonus. On scenes where Reinhardt is seen on his command post, you can see on the screens the two pathways used by stars to fuse hydrogen -the CNO cycle and the protonâ€“proton chain reaction.
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The Black Hole / int_65163c3a	type	Evil Tower of Ominousness
The Black Hole / int_65163c3a	comment	Evil Tower of Ominousness: The Cygnus control tower, with its menacing appearance, fits well the trope before being torn free of the Cygnus near the very end, as the ship disintegrates
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The Black Hole / int_651a8540	type	Indy Escape
The Black Hole / int_651a8540	comment	Indy Escape: A gigantic (and suspiciously-spherical) red-hot meteor comes rolling down the Cygnus's central shaft as the heroes rush across a small footbridge in its path. Comes complete with Dramatic Slip. It predated the trope maker by a year.
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The Black Hole / int_66bee5ea	type	Shooting Gallery
The Black Hole / int_66bee5ea	comment	Shooting Gallery: V.I.N.CENT. shows off its superior shooting skills in a competition with Captain S.T.A.R on a laser shooting range. The latter is such a Sore Loser it blows a fuse, though V.I.N.CENT. 'accidentally' ricocheting a beam into S.T.A.R's chest in payback for cheating can't have helped either.
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The Black Hole / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Black Hole / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The Cygnus, named after the first suspected black hole.
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The Black Hole / int_6c0e5342	type	No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine
The Black Hole / int_6c0e5342	comment	No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine
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The Black Hole / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
The Black Hole / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: Reinhardt wears the Legion of Merit as a neck medal. The US Military normally awards the Legion of Merit in the form of a neck ribbon (Referred to as Commander of the Legion of Merit) to foreign military chiefs of staff (who would hold General rank), not US citizens. It may be justified if Reinhardt was not a US citizen, but he was the head of a US expedition.
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The Black Hole / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
The Black Hole / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Averted for anyone hoping that Old B.O.B. would miraculously survive that last shootout with Maximillian.
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The Black Hole / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
The Black Hole / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: The ending appears to imply this, though except for a pair of ultra-rare Gold Key Comic issues continuing the story, what happens after the crew go through the black hole remains unchronicled. In the novelization, going through the black hole combines the entire crew into a single entity.
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The Black Hole / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Black Hole / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Reinhardt would've avoided so much trouble if he had just remembered to keep B.O.B. out of reach from the Palomino crew instead of letting it become pals with V.I.N.CENT. and telling it what actually happened to the crew of the Cygnus...no one else on the ship could have told them anything, since they're all robots without speech capability. In the novelization, B.O.B. explains that Reinhardt and Maximillian missed reprogramming him to be obedient, as they did all the other robots on the ship, because he was deactivated during the mutiny, and he has survived with his personality intact since then by acting like he had been reprogrammed. Reinhardt again in regards to Maximillian. It wasn't very smart to create a robotic assistant that is physically superior to you, has an aggressive personality, a mind of its own, and clearly demonstrates a tendency to think it over before deciding to follow your orders. You'd think Reinhardt would have been smart enough to install a remotely controlled kill switch in Maximillian, but his arrogance could have also caused him to not even consider the thought that he couldn't control his own creation...until Maximillian started displaying behavior that he clearly didn't anticipate, and by then it would have been too late. The Cygnus was the vessel Kate's father was stationed aboard. Harry Booth met Reinhardt and was well aware of the scientist's history re: the Cygnus. Yet no one recognizes the vessel at first sight, forcing Vincent to scroll through several wildly incompatible options (including space stations, not voyaging craft) before finally confirming it to be the Cygnus. That's like the daughter of the captain of a space shuttle mission not being able to recognize the shuttlenote On the other hand, Kate may well have recognized the ship to begin with, but didn't say anything until Vincent made the identification official, precisely because it was her father's ship and she didn't want to appear over-eager to board it and find out what happened. The novelization adds a couple of lines of dialogue making it clear that the comparisons to the other ships is mostly a formality, to make sure some bureaucrat back on Earth doesn't second guess them later. The whole Palomino crew regarding the fate of the original Cygnus crew: The humanoid drone robots holding funerals, some of them limping, Reinhardt keeping a greenhouse orchard large enough to feed an army... and no one connects the dots. Heck, when V.I.N.CENT. secretly communicates the solution to Dr. McCrae, she's shocked enough that Reinhardt notices something's not right.
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The Black Hole / int_7484b619	type	Herr Doktor
The Black Hole / int_7484b619	comment	Herr Doktor: First name Hans, last name Reinhardt, speaks with a slight German accent, played by an Austrian actor... und he ist ein Doktor!
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The Black Hole / int_782b8a66	type	Absurdly Dedicated Worker
The Black Hole / int_782b8a66	comment	Absurdly Dedicated Worker: The creepy cloaked and mute robots on the Cygnus continue to water and care for the plants in the massive hydroponics bay despite Dr. Reinhardt supposedly being the only one left aboard who needs to eat or breathe. The "robots" are, in fact, what's left of the former crew after undergoing Unwilling Roboticisation, and the garden is used to feed them as well. When the Cygnus is being pummeled by asteroids, and in the novelization at least begins to be ripped apart by the black hole's gravity, none of the cloaked robots react to preserve their lives at all, continuing to man their posts. It's made poetically ironic when Dr. Reinhardt is trapped by a falling viewscreen and begs for help, only to be ignored by the crew he roboticized.
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The Black Hole / int_7b077e8c	type	Stumbling Upon the Lost Wizard
The Black Hole / int_7b077e8c	comment	Stumbling Upon the Lost Wizard: The protagonists stumble upon the lost scientist Dr. Reinhardt alone on a giant ship full of robots some of who turn out to be the original crew with mind-control implants, plus big robot Maximillian as The Dragon. The eponymous black hole is the Negative Space Wedgie.
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The Black Hole / int_7c4f6612	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
The Black Hole / int_7c4f6612	comment	Comic-Book Adaptation: There was a Newspaper Comic, drawn by Jack Kirby, and the movie was adapted by Whitman Comics, an imprint of Gold Key Comics. The Gold Key title actually went on to publish two extremely rare original stories, the only official fiction to be set after the events of the film.
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The Black Hole / int_7d7c8e54	type	Being Watched
The Black Hole / int_7d7c8e54	comment	Being Watched: Dr. Kate McCrae says that she feels like there are a million eyes watching the Palomino crew when they first enter the Cygnus through the reception area.
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The Black Hole / int_7d87a66d	type	All-Star Cast
The Black Hole / int_7d87a66d	comment	All-Star Cast: Two Oscar-winners in Maximilian Schell, and Ernest Borgnine, two Oscar-nominees in Anthony Perkins and (retroactively) Robert Forster, as well as Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, and even uncredited voice work by Roddy McDowall and Slim Pickens.
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The Black Hole / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
The Black Hole / int_7eb73553	comment	Maximillian even gets a silent shot in. While Dan, Charlie, and V.I.N.CENT. are in the elevator with Max, V.I.N.CENT. quotes "the bigger they are, the harder they fall." Maximillian immediately does a 180Â° roll to heads down in response to this, and then V.I.N.CENT gets the last word in with a 360Â° roll. This does not reassure V.I.N.CENT's human companions at all.
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The Black Hole / int_7f84552e	type	Tin-Can Robot
The Black Hole / int_7f84552e	comment	Tin-Can Robot: B.O.B. and V.I.N.CENT.
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The Black Hole / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Black Hole / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Reinhardt most of the time, Booth some of the time, and a couple of one-shots: Interestingly, while B.O.B.'s dialogue is hammy, Slim Pickens chose to underplay the line, delivering it in a matter-of-fact way. It works better than one might expect.
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The Black Hole / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
The Black Hole / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: Seemingly a literal trip through hell and heaven. At least it's foreshadowed. The novelization may be even stranger, with all of the surviving crew merging into one entity and their combined consciousness permeating an entire new universe. It was later revealed that Disney considered an ongoing series, with the astronauts on an adventure-every-week format based on the ending.
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The Black Hole / int_8342be26	type	Space Madness
The Black Hole / int_8342be26	comment	Space Madness: Dr. Reinhardt, though Booth hints that the good Doctor wasn't all that stable before he left Earth. Dr. Durant is only willing to say the isolation has made Reinhardt a little eccentric.
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The Black Hole / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Black Hole / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: "We are going through," even as the meteor storm plows all around the Cygnus and is severely damaging the ship. In the novelization after the meteor storm, when the hole's gravity begins to overwhelm the Cygnus anti-gravity field.
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The Black Hole / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
The Black Hole / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: Dr. McCrae has a telepathic link with V.I.N.CENT. According to the novelization, it's thanks to a cybernetic implant in her brain.
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The Black Hole / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Black Hole / int_8774fb47	comment	The eponymous black hole is described like an Eldritch Abomination that might one day devour the Universe.
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The Black Hole / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
The Black Hole / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Maximilian never actually speaks; he presumably is able to communicate somehow, since Reinhardt seems to understand him (perhaps via the same kind of mental link that V.I.N.CENT and Dr. McCrae have), but the audience doesn't see any sign of it, which of course makes him all the more unsettling. He does, however, let out an electronic sounding shriek when V.I.N.CENT. drills him at the end. Likewise the humanoid crew of the Cygnus.
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The Black Hole / int_8f8d0d32	type	Exposed Starship Bridge
The Black Hole / int_8f8d0d32	comment	Exposed Starship Bridge: The bridge of the Cygnus is located at the top of the command tower. It gives a very nice view of the ship and its surroundings, but it's gone with such tower when the ship is disintegrating.
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The Black Hole / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
The Black Hole / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Both it and The Black Hole involve a ship captained by a Mad Scientist rebelling against conventional authority, who reluctantly takes the heroes on board because he wants to show off his achievements — which only one of the protagonists is sympathetic to — and who intends to dive his ship into a maelstrom. There are "No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine" scenes in both stories. The original concept for the film was The Poseidon Adventure IN SPACE!!, and it shows in the last twenty minutes.
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The Black Hole / int_90965cc7	type	Hive Mind
The Black Hole / int_90965cc7	comment	V.I.N.CENT. gives some exposition about experiments sending models of his type into black holes and attempting communication with ESP-capable scientists outside. In the novelization this is why Reinhardt tries to keep Kate on the ship, so she can communicate with V.I.N.CENT. on the Palomino. In the end Kate uses her ESP to link everyone into a Hive Mind so they will survive the black hole by ascending to a higher plane.
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The Black Hole / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Black Hole / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Reinhardt is pinned down by debris as the ship heads towards the black hole. Maximillian leaves, so he begs the humanoid robots to help him. Thanks to his own programming which turned them into mindless zombies in the first place, they completely ignore him and continue to follow their routines as he dies painfully and slowly. Maximillian gets one of his own; his signature weapons are those horrible drills, and he gets a neat little hole drilled in his own torso by V.I.N.CENT., in much the same way that he had eviscerated Dr. Durant.
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The Black Hole / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Black Hole / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Harry gets a very literal dose of this when he tries to steal the Palomino, which is promptly destroyed by a barrage from the laser cannons of the Cygnus.
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The Black Hole / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Black Hole / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The Black Hole is likened to a gateway to Hell. Or Heaven. Have doubts? Watch that climax again... if you dare. This movie has religious symbolism out the wazoo: in addition to the foreshadowing comparisons of the Black Hole with Hell ("My god, it's right out of Dante's Inferno"; "Every time I see one of these things I expect to see a guy in a red suit with a pitchfork"), Durant says it may lead "into the mind of God". Reinhardt likens V.I.N.CENT. and Maximilian to David and Goliath and quotes from Genesis. The Cygnus looks like a Gothic cathedral, the control panels on the bridge look like stained glass windows, and the humanoids are dressed like monks. Lampshaded when Reinhardt offhandedly remarks that it's another of his "theatrical gestures". In fact, one planned ending involved a reveal that shows Dr. McCrae as one of the angels depicted among the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. Durant tries to shield himself from Maximillian... with a book. His admiration of knowledge is useless against the murderous truth.
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The Black Hole / int_927d046a	type	Accidental Pun
The Black Hole / int_927d046a	comment	Accidental Pun: When the Palomino first enters the black hole's gravity field, Charlie says that the ship is "bucking like a bronco."
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The Black Hole / int_986dad9a	type	Killer Robot
The Black Hole / int_986dad9a	comment	Killer Robot: Maximillian: A single glaring red eye, a barely-humanoid frame, and those damn drill-claws. The S.T.A.R serve as Mecha-Mooks, each armed with twin under-over laser pistols.
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The Black Hole / int_98a7ffba	type	Androids Are People, Too
The Black Hole / int_98a7ffba	comment	Androids Are People, Too: The opening scene makes it clear that the Palomino's crew consider V.I.N.CENT a full friend and colleague, but they don't extend the same courtesy to any of the Cygnus's robots except B.O.B., who is the same model as V.I.N.CENT. In fairness, the cloaked robots appear nonsentient (in fact, not only are they sentient, they're human), the Sentries are mute and ambiguously self-aware at best, and Maximillian is a monster even Reinhardt is scared of.
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The Black Hole / int_99db72ee	type	Immune to Bullets
The Black Hole / int_99db72ee	comment	Immune to Bullets: Maximillian to lasers. Not to a drill, though.
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The Black Hole / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
The Black Hole / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: When Maximillian drills a hole in Durant's chest. Yes, there's a book in the way so you can't see it, and yes, there's no visible blood; but he still drills a hole in his chest. The sound effect for the drill — and Anthony Perkins' agonized scream — makes it all the worse. It's part of the reason why this is the first PG-rated Disney production.
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The Black Hole / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
The Black Hole / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Averted; the captain makes it clear that V.I.N.CENT. is regarded as one of the crew.
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The Black Hole / int_9dd0f9bf	type	Acid-Trip Dimension
The Black Hole / int_9dd0f9bf	comment	Acid-Trip Dimension: The black hole's "Einstein-Rosen Bridge" ("wormhole" in plain English).
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The Black Hole / int_9de3b377	type	Unrealistic Black Hole
The Black Hole / int_9de3b377	comment	Unrealistic Black Hole: The movie depicts the black hole as a giant space whirlpool. Especially evident near the end of the film, where closeups show it as a giant red whirlpool. In recent years the scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson has been very vocal in his criticism of how the titular black hole was treated in this film. In its defense, at the time the film was made much less was known about black holes (for example, the first simulation of the actual look of one surrounded by an accretion disk came in the same year it was released).
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The Black Hole / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
The Black Hole / int_9dfb8296	comment	S.T.A.R. gets a good one despite not having any facial features (it helps that his performer, Tommy McLoughlin, is a mime) when V.I.N.CENT challenges him to a shooting contest. He knows V.I.N.CENT's model of robot can outgun him (B.O.B. shot circles around him once, and he only won the rematch by cheating), he can't push V.I.N.CENT around... and dozens of other sentries are watching. S.T.A.R. most likely knows that this is not going to end well for him.
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The Black Hole / int_a148f27b	type	Living Legend
The Black Hole / int_a148f27b	comment	Living Legend: Reinhardt, who got the United States government to fund his vanity project as a national enterprise. The failure of the Cygnus mission means his reputation has taken a nose dive back on Earth, but Durant is still in awe of him.
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The Black Hole / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
The Black Hole / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: Apart from the obvious similarities to 2001 and Star Wars, there are definite hints of Forbidden Planet and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
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The Black Hole / int_a20d4674	type	Techno Babble
The Black Hole / int_a20d4674	comment	Technobabble: Most visible in the novelization. Of course it comes with the territory...
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The Black Hole / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
The Black Hole / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The sentry robots. Justified... somewhat... in that their laser guns are double-barreled and apparently meant to be held Guns Akimbo style. The sentries aren't bad at laying down suppressive fire (as shown when they pin the crew down just before Harry decides to take off without them), but they have terrible aim when trying to actually hit them. Unfortunately this contradicts the precision with which our heroes had their weapons blasted from their hands when they first came on board (though this was not done by the sentries, but by a mounted, computer-controlled system).
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The Black Hole / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Black Hole / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Dr. Reinhardt ends up in a (possibly literally) hellish burning landscape, while being trapped in Maximillian's body.
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The Black Hole / int_a9c7258a	type	Absent Aliens
The Black Hole / int_a9c7258a	comment	Absent Aliens: According to the novelization, during the eighteen months of the Palomino's journey its crew found nothing more evolved than a few insignificant microbes. It also suggests that other similar missions had similar results.
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The Black Hole / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
The Black Hole / int_aa30e350	comment	The probe ship. There are two scenes that show how Reinhardt sends a probe ship near the black hole and back before sending the Cygnus in. These scenes seem unnecessary until both the Palomino and the Cygnus are destroyed or severely damaged, and the probe is the last ship standing and both sides scramble to reach it.
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The Black Hole / int_ac12cde1	type	Bully Hunter
The Black Hole / int_ac12cde1	comment	Bully Hunter: After hearing how Captain S.T.A.R. did something nasty to Old B.O.B. in payback for losing a shooting contest, V.I.N.CENT. decides to return the favour by out-shooting the android (including 'accidentally'' hitting him with a ricochet) causing Captain S.T.A.R. to blow a fuse. The storybook and comics adaptations note that the medal S.T.A.R. is wearing is a sharpshooter's medal, and that V.I.N.CENT's guns are only powerful enough to destroy the medal, not hurt S.T.A.R. himself. V.I.N.CENT. did that specifically to humiliate S.T.A.R., and S.T.A.R. blows a fuse out of anger; B.O.B. noted a moment ago that this has happened before.
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The Black Hole / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Black Hole / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Booth steals the Palomino before the others can get back to it, but ends up doing them a favour as Reinhardt was intending to blast the spaceship the moment it got clear. Alarmed by Booth's inept piloting, Reinhardt orders the Palomino blasted out of the sky but the wreckage still crashes into the Cygnus, heavily damaging it.
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The Black Hole / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Black Hole / int_ad1db87c	comment	Kate has a serious Oh, Crap! when V.I.N.CENT tells her the true nature of the humanoid robots.
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The Black Hole / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Black Hole / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: All the robots seem to inhabit a World of Snark. V.I.N.CENT., thanks to his endless store of quotations. B.O.B. gets a couple of snarks in, too.... Maximillian even gets a silent shot in. While Dan, Charlie, and V.I.N.CENT. are in the elevator with Max, V.I.N.CENT. quotes "the bigger they are, the harder they fall." Maximillian immediately does a 180Â° roll to heads down in response to this, and then V.I.N.CENT gets the last word in with a 360Â° roll. This does not reassure V.I.N.CENT's human companions at all. It's implied that doing a 360Â° roll is V.I.N.CENT's way of smiling and trying to be friendly. But clearly Max isn't in a friendly mood.
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The Black Hole / int_ae69516f	type	Artificial Gravity
The Black Hole / int_ae69516f	comment	Artificial Gravity: One of Reinhardt's breakthroughs is an anti-gravity forcefield that protects the Cygnus from the black hole, though judging from its layout the Cygnus must have been built with some form of interior artificial gravity.
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The Black Hole / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Black Hole / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For / Tempting Fate: After winning the first shootout with Reinhardt's robots, Old B.O.B. wishes that "Reinhardt and Maximillian had been out there." He gets his wish partially granted later and ends up fatally damaged as a result.
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The Black Hole / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Black Hole / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: It's somewhat ambiguous if the humanoid shapes seen in the "hell" sequence in the ending are supposed to be the same humanoid robots that made up the ship's crew. If it is those same humanoids actually the original crew, which Reinhardt had lobotomized into wretches too mindless to even notice their ship collapsing around them then they apparently spend the rest of eternity trapped in a hellish landscape and watched over by their master, without even the hope of death to free them. Ouch.
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The Black Hole / int_b3c864b0	type	Going Down with the Ship
The Black Hole / int_b3c864b0	comment	Going Down with the Ship: Reinhardt says he stayed with the Cygnus (though he admits his flair for the dramatic gesture is responsible) when ordering the crew to Abandon Ship, and claims to be surprised they never made it back to Earth.
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The Black Hole / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Black Hole / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Dr. Durant ignores some pretty obvious signs that Dr. Reinhardt is less than sane until it's too late. Harry Booth attempts to escape by himself in the Palomino, despite not knowing how to fly it.
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The Black Hole / int_bb40e7e0	type	Failed Future Forecast
The Black Hole / int_bb40e7e0	comment	Failed Future Forecast: Averted by pure accident; when comparing outlines of known deep-space vessels to the Cygnus's profile, V.I.N.Cent coincidentally calls one "Russian", not "Soviet". Although it was common to use the two names interchangeably during the Cold War, including when referring to spacecraft, the decision to not use Soviet provided a bit of future-proofing here.
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The Black Hole / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
The Black Hole / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: The Sentry robots' stiff gait comes close to resembling a "goose-step" march. During dinner Reinhardt wears the red uniform-like outfit along with a fancy medal, and continues wearing them both when taking the Cygnus towards the black hole. Then there's the name, Hans Reinhardt, and even Maximillian.
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The Black Hole / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
The Black Hole / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: What Reinhardt believes will happen inside a black hole, where conventional physical laws break down. This is what happens to the survivors in the novelization.
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The Black Hole / int_bedd799b	type	Blunt "Yes"
The Black Hole / int_bedd799b	comment	Blunt "Yes": In the probe ship that is programmed to Reinhardt's course.
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The Black Hole / int_bf5b6abf	type	Cyber Cyclops
The Black Hole / int_bf5b6abf	comment	Maximillian: A single glaring red eye, a barely-humanoid frame, and those damn drill-claws.
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The Black Hole / int_bf9ed416	type	Immortality
The Black Hole / int_bf9ed416	comment	Immortality: The novelization explains that Reinhardt wants to plunge the Cygnus into the black hole hoping to emerge in an Universe where normal time does not flow, thus obtaining eternal life or nearly so that way.
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The Black Hole / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
The Black Hole / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: While tame by today's standards - and even by late-1970s standards - Alex's unmasking of a "robot," revealing a groaning, zombie-like face undernearth had no precedent in a Disney live-action film and was quite disturbing for the time. While Holland is snooping around, a sliding door whooshes opens right next to him to reveal a glowering Maximillian.
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The Black Hole / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
The Black Hole / int_c12f0c4	comment	Outrun the Fireball: The scene where the heroes try to make it across a tunnel before a huge meteor plowing through the ship reaches them. It was in all the trailers.
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The Black Hole / int_c1fffb62	type	Industrialized Evil
The Black Hole / int_c1fffb62	comment	Industrialized Evil: The machine used to convert the crew to cyborgs.
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The Black Hole / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
The Black Hole / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: V.I.N.CENT. (Vital Information Necessary CENTralized), B.O.B. (BiO-sanitation Battalion) and Captain S.T.A.R. (Special Troop, Arms Regiment).
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The Black Hole / int_c4b910bf	type	Slow Doors
The Black Hole / int_c4b910bf	comment	Slow Doors: Averted; the doors are fast, and one cuts off the crew from the Palomino as it's about to launch without them.
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The Black Hole / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
The Black Hole / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: by Alan Dean Foster.
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The Black Hole / int_c6c86cd	type	Collapsing Lair
The Black Hole / int_c6c86cd	comment	Collapsing Lair: Inverted when Reinhardt is killed in the destruction of the Cygnus. It's also a Justified Trope given that the Cygnus is being crushed in the intense gravity of the black hole.
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The Black Hole / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Black Hole / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: After the combined Reinhardt and Maximillian are left in hell, the other characters' journey through heaven is depicted by a single long multiplane shot reminiscent of the Ave Maria segment in Fantasia (the segment in that film meant to represent the "sacred," following the "profane" of the demons in "A Night On Bald Mountain"). The end sequence can possibly be considered a major one to Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, with Dr. Hans Reinhardt and Maximilian joining the Cygnus's ruins in Hell, the remaining voyagers journeying past the Cygnus's wreckage and through the black hole as Purgatory, and meeting the angelic figure as they journey through bright, luminescent cathedral-shaped doors as they approach a planet as their journey towards Heaven.
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The Black Hole / int_c7b5445c	type	Cool Starship
The Black Hole / int_c7b5445c	comment	Cool Starship: The Cygnus is a sort of glass cathedral spaceship that runs on pure awesomenote Well, Matter-Antimatter annihilation in the novelization.
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The Black Hole / int_ce0bffd0	comment	Hover Bot V.I.N.Cent, B.O.B. and Maximillain are floating robots. Maximillian is humanoid but with no feet, while V.I.N.Cent and B.O.B. are spherical floating torsos with retractable arms, legs, and heads.
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The Black Hole / int_ce4f133d	type	Gun Twirling
The Black Hole / int_ce4f133d	comment	Gun Twirling: Captain S.T.A.R. spins its laser pistols after winning a round of target shooting. V.I.N.CENT one-ups him by spinning its entire body while still hitting the target.
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The Black Hole / int_ceabe589	comment	Incoming Ham: As noted by Booth, Reinhardt has a flare for the dramatic, waiting for just the right moment for his Chair Reveal.
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The Black Hole / int_cf48c17	comment	Nightmare Face: The brief glimpse of the "humanoid-robot's" face when Durant removes the reflective faceplate; although technically still alive, the crewman's face resembles that of a corpse, and the eyes seem on the verge of hemorrhaging.
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The Black Hole / int_d4bf11d1	comment	Dramatic Unmask: Durant rips off the shiny metal faceplate of a 'robot' to reveal a zombified human face underneath.
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The Black Hole / int_d51553de	comment	Our Wormholes Are Different: The movie treats the eponymous black hole as a wormhole, even going so far as to have the characters travel through it and come out "unharmed" on the other side, though the journey itself is pretty trippy. This is averted in the novelisation.
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The Black Hole / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: The meteor storm that hits with almost divine timing, right as the story begins its climax.
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The Black Hole / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: The film is virtually devoid of romance, however, the film surprisingly provides ship tease moments between not only Kate and Holland (who at one point gives Kate a chaste kiss after saving her life), but also Kate and Durant. Possibly not surprising given she's the only female on board the Palomino. (In the novelization, and in earlier screenplays, Holland and Kate were in a relationship.)
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The Black Hole / int_de953d10	comment	Rage Helm: Maximillian has a bright red eye with a furrowing brow sculpted/painted above it, making it look like he's permanently scowling.
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The Black Hole / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: When Reinhardt is trapped under the viewscreen, watching the control room collapse around him, he says "More light," which were the last words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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The Black Hole / int_e08f3fed	comment	Chair Reveal: A nicely underplayed version. The protagonists enter a huge bridge manned by silent black-robed figures. Maximillian floats down from an upper deck and deploys whirling cutting blades. Just when things are getting tense, a nearby chair swivels round from its console to introduce Dr. Hans Reinhardt.
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The Black Hole / int_e21e21be	comment	Red and Black and Evil All Over: Maximillian, the security drones, most of Reinhardt's outfits, and the lobotomy machines in the Cygnus's medical bay. It's a rather dark "dried-blood" red too. Even the so-called 'black' hole turns red-and-black just before it is entered, and it is compared to something out of Dante's Inferno throughout.
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The Black Hole / int_e26d8285	comment	Explosive Decompression: Several guard bots are blown out of the hydroponics dome when a meteor makes a hole in the roof. Also in the novelization it's mentioned explosive decompression is a rotten and messy way to die. Reinhardt experiences it, his eyes bulging out as the Cygnus control tower is torn away due to the black hole's intense gravity, that is, if he wasn't already dead from having the display screen fall on him.
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The Black Hole / int_e4ba33fc	type	Disaster Dominoes
The Black Hole / int_e4ba33fc	comment	Disaster Dominoes: The way the Cygnus is destroyed. Things begin when the Palomino is eliminated by the lasers of the former as it goes out of control, damaging the Cygnus, and especially in the novelization spiral out of control thanks to the meteorites impacting and damaging her.
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The Black Hole / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Black Hole / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: V.I.N.CENT. is a slightly less effeminate, and considerably more competent version of C-3P0 (with an R2-D2 style body). Or perhaps what R2-D2 would sound like if it could speak.
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The Black Hole / int_eae0e9e0	comment	From My Own Personal Garden: During Reinhardt's No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine moment, he tries to pass off the garden as "tiny" — it is, in fact, huge, far more than one man would need for food or to recycle oxygen. He maintains it at its original full size in order to feed the entire zombified crew.
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The Black Hole / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: Kate covers her mouth to keep from throwing up when she sees the Nausea Fuel of the face of the lobotomized Cygnus crew member
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The Black Hole / int_ee7885fa	comment	Southern-Fried Genius: Old B.O.B. (he got his accent from having been programmed in Houston.)
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The Black Hole / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Alex Durant finally realizes that Reinhardt is mad and tries to save Kate...too late. Holland says that maybe Harry Booth did them a favor by trying to leave the rest of them behind. Charlie correctly shoots this down: "I'm sure that's not what he had in mind. He was trying to save his own skin!"
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The Black Hole / int_f226207f	comment	Conveniently Close Planet: After the probe ship carrying the heroes passes through the black hole and comes out the other side it is seen heading towards a planet that just so happens to be close by.
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The Black Hole / int_f273b1cb	comment	Devil in Plain Sight: Dr. Reinhardt. If the crew of faceless cloaked humanoids lead by a floating red killbot with blender blades wasn't enough of a giveaway, the man himself gives you another big hint by wearing bright red outfits for many of his scenes. The ending explicitly has him fusing with Maximillian and standing over a very Hell-like wreckage of the Cygnus like a devil.
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The Black Hole / int_f2877d9e	comment	Incredibly Lame Pun: "Maximilian Schell in Maximillian's shell in Maximilian's Hell" in the "Hell" scene.
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The Black Hole / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Evil Plan: Actually averted, at least initially, with regards to the Palomino and its crew. As Reinhardt explains to Alex and Kate, he knows the trip through the black hole is a one-way journey; all he wants is for the Palomino to observe and record as much as possible, with no indication of keeping the visitors with him. It's not until Alex decides to stay on board and Reinhardt is made aware that Holland, Kate and the others have discovered the fate of the original crew that things escalate.
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The Black Hole / int_f360fc33	comment	Dumbass Has a Point: Say what you will about Reinhardt's obvious madness and psychopathy, but he was right about this particular black hole being an endpoint for a wormhole.
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The Black Hole / int_f492089e	comment	Quote-to-Quote Combat: A brief example between Charlie and V.I.N.CENT (who tends to talk in quotes):
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The Black Hole / int_f6b1ac42	type	Tim Taylor Technology
The Black Hole / int_f6b1ac42	comment	Tim Taylor Technology; In the novel, what dooms the Cygnus is damage to her antimatter engines, not the anti-gravity projectors, after the Palomino crashes into it. Reinhardt tries several times to increase the output of the working ones to increase both speed and the strength of the anti-gravity field, but in vain.
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The Black Hole / int_f910567	comment	This Is a Drill: V.I.N.CENT. has a drill. He asks Maximillian to say hi to his drill near the end of the movie. Maximillian's own spinning claw-saw would also qualify.
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The Black Hole / int_fade9118	comment	Robotic Psychopath: Maximillian. When Maximillian slaughters Alex Durant, Reinhardt berates it for killing a "good man". Clearly, he does not control the robot fully, and it has a malevolent will of its own - when the ship is later disintegrating, Maximillian leaves Reinhardt to die, despite the fact that his predicament was clearly visible to it.
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The Black Hole / int_fb794269	comment	Electronic Telepathy: Between Dr. Kate McCrae and V.I.N.CENT.
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The Black Hole / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: The mission of the Cygnus is described as the same as that of the Palomino: "to discover habitable life in outer space." V.I.N.CENT's full name, "Vital Information Necessary Centralized," uses two very similar words to complete its acronym.
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The Black Hole / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
The Black Hole / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: This film didn't have the best grasp of physics when it first came out, but it was no worse than its peers. Still, it hasn't aged well, and the following points are particularly notable: One major plot point is that the Cygnus is actively defying the black hole with its anti-gravity field. This is unnecessary, as despite their mass black holes can be orbited like any other object. The opening of the movie is full of inconsistencies about gravity. The crew is shown floating around from deck to deck during the whole sequence. This might make sense in the beginning and makes for a cool visual effect, but when the Palomino passes out of the Cygnus anti-gravity field it is being pulled in by the gravity field of the black hole, a gravity so massive that it damages the ship and the ship's engines can barely escape it. People shouldn't float at this point, they should in fact have clear problems with the effects of such gravity, especially as the ship is spinning and hence gravity should at times pin them to walls or ceilings. The enormous gravitational lensing black holes are capable of isn't present in any of the special effects - indeed the hole looks nothing like modern artists conceptualizations of their appearance, such as is seen in Interstellar (as noted further down, the first simulation of the actual look of one surrounded by an accretion disk came in the same year this movie was released, however.) Spaghetification. Objects crossing into black holes are torn apart as the gravity differential across them becomes severe. The smaller the black hole the more violent and sudden this effect is. Handwaved in the movie by Reinhardt's anti-gravity field protecting the Cygnus and its probe ship.note Averted in the novel, as the damaged Cygnus falls closer and closer to the black hole she's stated to suffer further damage due to its gravity until her final destruction Time Dilation. Being parked so close to the event horizon, time would pass slower for those on the Cygnus than in the rest of the universe, though how much so is unclear. This isn't mentioned at all, and Reinhardt and the crew of the Palomino act as if the same amount of time has passed since the Cygnus left Earth.
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The Black Hole / int_fcbcc221	comment	Robot Buddy: V.I.N.CENT. and Old BOB. Maximillian, not so much.
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