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The Last Starfighter

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The Last Starfighter	comment	What if you got a really high score in a video game, and then got recruited into an adventure where you needed to play the game for real? Well that's what happens in 1984's The Last Starfighter, which serves as both an exploration and a deconstruction of wish fulfillment.Alex Rogan has spent his whole life stuck in his family's trailer park, but his wish to leave it turns into more than he bargained for when the space-shooter arcade game he manages to beat turns out to have been a test to find the best space pilots in the universe. When Alex discovers that the actual Star League chose him to fight against the very real Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada, he refuses to go along with it. When Alex demands to return home, he finds an android duplicate of himself, Beta, having a tough time playing the role of Alex in the trailer park. After he reluctantly returns to space, the fun really begins.The Last Starfighter created all of its spaceship effects shots using only computer-generated images (one of the first films to do so), but since it did so during the very early days of CGI, said effects stand out as such. A Cray X-MP rendered all of the film's CGI; as a bit of perspective, the 800 MHz Pentium III processor available to consumers fifteen years later — or the average smartphone of 2012 — matches the processor power of what was then the most powerful supercomputer in the world.Not to be confused with The Starfighters.
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The Last Starfighter / int_1049848f	type	Aliens Speaking English
The Last Starfighter / int_1049848f	comment	Aliens Speaking English: Centauri does, due to already being familiar with Earth from producing and distributing the Starfighter video games, but the Rylans and other aliens don't. Alex has to wait a bit until they give him a translator. Afterwards, aliens are heard speaking English even when Alex isn't around, but this is likely Translation Convention. The novelization makes it clear that both speakers need translators and handwaves Grig talking to the humans at the end by saying that Alex taught him some English before they landed.
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The Last Starfighter / int_105f4bd9	type	Villain: Exit, Stage Left
The Last Starfighter / int_105f4bd9	comment	Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Xur, during the impact strikes of the Gunstar. Saved for the Sequel that never happened.
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The Last Starfighter / int_10e7d43c	type	Fanfare
The Last Starfighter / int_10e7d43c	comment	Fanfare: The theme is one, which adds even more trumpets at the end.
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The Last Starfighter / int_1161fb48	type	Bizarre Alien Biology
The Last Starfighter / int_1161fb48	comment	Bizarre Alien Biology: It's telling that Grig, a lizard-like humanoid, is perhaps the most normal-looking of all the aliens in the film (other than the Rylans, who look mostly human, other than having big foreheads and white hair in unusual styles). And then, of course, there's the Bogati, whose tentacle-thing Alex accidentally steps on.
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The Last Starfighter / int_12628662	type	The Call Knows Where You Live
The Last Starfighter / int_12628662	comment	The Call Knows Where You Live: After Alex initially refuses The Call, Xur sends an assassin after him. Centauri's near-sacrifice shows him that his only chance of survival is with the Star League.
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The Last Starfighter / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
The Last Starfighter / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: Xur. And everyone knows it. The only reason the bad guys even listen to him is because he holds vital information. Once they use it, they get him off the bridge so they don't have to listen to his raving anymore. They obviously have to restrain themselves to keep him around that long, especially since he seems to have deluded himself into believing he's in charge.
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The Last Starfighter / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Last Starfighter / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: It's not made clear how old Centauri is, but he's definitely Seen It All and has copious advice for Alex. Otis gives Alex advice about making something of his life and helps give him the motivation to accept The Call when it makes its return trip.
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The Last Starfighter / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Last Starfighter / int_17ce80aa	comment	The novelization adds a bit of dialogue when Alex shows Grig the photo, making it clear Alex's father died not too long ago.
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The Last Starfighter / int_19ebbe77	type	Photoprotoneutron Torpedo
The Last Starfighter / int_19ebbe77	comment	Photoprotoneutron Torpedo: The checklist that Alex runs down with Grig while they ready their Gunstar for battle includes "particle beams" and something called "photon bolts". In the novelization, Grig says that the real names involve science too advanced to translate, so he uses the game terms for the sake of convenience.
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The Last Starfighter / int_1b521523	type	Dream Deception
The Last Starfighter / int_1b521523	comment	Dream Deception: During the period where a robot duplicate, Beta, is standing in for Alex, his little brother Louis wakes up in the middle of the night and sees Beta performing self-maintenance. Beta tells Louis he's having a nightmare and to go back to sleep.
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The Last Starfighter / int_1ba5dc68	type	The Greys
The Last Starfighter / int_1ba5dc68	comment	The Greys: What Centauri looks like without his human mask. Interestingly, this is also what Beta resembles before he finishes shapeshifting into Alex.
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The Last Starfighter / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Last Starfighter / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: A key difference between Xur and the Ko-Dan is their reaction to a partial transmission.
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The Last Starfighter / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
The Last Starfighter / int_1dab76ed	comment	Cosy Catastrophe: Louis is not afraid at all when Alex's Gunstar lands; he thinks it's awesome.
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The Last Starfighter / int_1ec5a73c	type	Space Fighter
The Last Starfighter / int_1ec5a73c	comment	Space Fighter: The Gunstars and Ko-Dan fighters. The Gunstars apparently operate without the support of a battlestar-equivalent.
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The Last Starfighter / int_1f862cf	type	Dare to Be Badass
The Last Starfighter / int_1f862cf	comment	Dare to Be Badass: Centauri's reponse to Alex's Refusal of the Call: Otis gives one to Alex early on, minutes before he beats the Starfighter record and kicks off the plot. Grig gives an understated one, when Alex thinks up a plan to hide in asteroid caves to let the Ko-Dan armada pass, then attack the communication turret from behind.
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The Last Starfighter / int_1fb440a6	type	Voluntary Shapeshifting
The Last Starfighter / int_1fb440a6	comment	Voluntary Shapeshifting: The Zando-Zan assassins are shapeshifters. Also Centauri, to some extent.
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The Last Starfighter / int_1fc325dd	type	Do Not Adjust Your Set
The Last Starfighter / int_1fc325dd	comment	Do Not Adjust Your Set: Xur's introduction at the Starfighter base, when he takes over all their communications.
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The Last Starfighter / int_2006056c	type	Girls Have Cooties
The Last Starfighter / int_2006056c	comment	Girls Have Cooties: Louis doesn't actually believe this (having his stash of Playboys and all), but when he sees Alex and Maggie being romantic, he rolls his eyes and mutters, "Diarrhea!" in disgust.
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The Last Starfighter / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
The Last Starfighter / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave: Alex returns to the Starfighter base to find it in ruins, with the majority of the personnel dead and all but one of the Gunstars destroyed.
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The Last Starfighter / int_230c2632	type	Glowing Eyes
The Last Starfighter / int_230c2632	comment	Glowing Eyes: Centauri, when not wearing his human prosthetic mask.
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The Last Starfighter / int_240c4ac3	type	Unusual Hiring Practices
The Last Starfighter / int_240c4ac3	comment	Unusual Hiring Practices: The Star League hires pilots by seeing who does the best at video games, and seed arcades with their training game cabinet.
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The Last Starfighter / int_246c5b47	type	Ascended Fanboy
The Last Starfighter / int_246c5b47	comment	Ascended Fanboy: Alex goes from being the best at a video game to being the best (and only) Starfighter. An Invoked Trope, since unknown to him the game was deliberately set up with the same controls.
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The Last Starfighter / int_26263771	type	Ditto Aliens
The Last Starfighter / int_26263771	comment	Ditto Aliens: Although the member species of the Star League are visually diverse, members within most species are distinguishable only by their clothing. Played for laughs when Grig rapidly flashes through photos of his 6000-member family; the images are a blur of various Lizard Folk of different height and dress, all sharing the same face.
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The Last Starfighter / int_269c2c35	type	TechMarchesOn
The Last Starfighter / int_269c2c35	comment	Tech Marches On: Grig's amazing photo album - thousands of pictures stored in a device you can hold in your hand/tentacle/pseudopod! It seemed fantastic, back in the The '80s. Now, of course, it doesn't do enough compared to what's available only 30 years later, though it might have other capabilities that weren't shown.
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The Last Starfighter / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Last Starfighter / int_28cd01ca	comment	Maggie appears to have nobody but Granny, with no mention of her dad or her mom.
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The Last Starfighter / int_2a542c7d	type	Beam Spam
The Last Starfighter / int_2a542c7d	comment	Beam Spam: The Death Blossom attack fires both lasers and missiles in all directions to take out all enemies within a certain radius of the Starfighter. The attack uses a tremendous amount of energy and leaves the ship defenseless until the batteries recharge.
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The Last Starfighter / int_2e0c3dae	type	Huge Holographic Head
The Last Starfighter / int_2e0c3dae	comment	Huge Holographic Head: Xur uses one to communicate with the Star League.
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The Last Starfighter / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Last Starfighter / int_3114c1e5	comment	Ramming Always Works: Combined with Taking You with Me in both cases. Beta crashes his borrowed truck into the assassin's spaceship. Commander Kril gives the obligatory order in an attempt to ram Alex's immobile Gunstar.
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The Last Starfighter / int_32956961	type	Explosive Breeder
The Last Starfighter / int_32956961	comment	Explosive Breeder: Grig tells Alex that back home, he has "a wifeoid and 6,000 little Griglings."
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The Last Starfighter / int_32ae9544	type	Vertical Kidnapping
The Last Starfighter / int_32ae9544	comment	Vertical Kidnapping: Attempted when an alien assassin is sent to kill Alex.
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The Last Starfighter / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
The Last Starfighter / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Centauri, after his heroic sacrifice to save Alex from an assassination attempt.
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The Last Starfighter / int_3356ed55	type	I Wish It Were Real
The Last Starfighter / int_3356ed55	comment	I Wish It Were Real: Except that when it does turn out to be real, all Alex wants is to go home again.
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The Last Starfighter / int_336e891	type	Present Peeking
The Last Starfighter / int_336e891	comment	Present Peeking: Referenced by Centauri.
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The Last Starfighter / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The Last Starfighter / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Implied Trope. We don't hear what Alex is saying when he's told he's the only Starfighter left, but given whatever he's saying is drowned out by the noise of the ship's launch, it's likely something that would have upped the film's rating.
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The Last Starfighter / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Last Starfighter / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: The fast-talking (but ultimately heroic) character of Centauri is clearly a Recycled In Space version of Robert Preston's most famous character, Harold Hill from The Music Man, and Preston seemed to be having the time of his life playing him.
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The Last Starfighter / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Last Starfighter / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Villain though he is, Kril exhibits this trope.
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The Last Starfighter / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Last Starfighter / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Grig mentioning Centauri's "old Excalibur (Test) tricks" when he finds out how Alex was recruited. Centauri's Famous, Famous, Fictional mention of Galoka and the Ulus.
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The Last Starfighter / int_3d290492	type	Guy in Back
The Last Starfighter / int_3d290492	comment	Guy in Back: Inverted and Deconstructed. The hero is a gunner, not a pilot, which would traditionally be the rear position. However, the Gunstars are so sophisticated that the rear position is for navigation rather than piloting; the ship pretty much flies itself. note May count as Truth in Television. This mimics the setup of the real world AH-64 Apache helicopter gunship, which also set the gunner in the front for maximum field of view in combat.
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The Last Starfighter / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Last Starfighter / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Alex is convinced that he and Grig are heading into this - one Gunstar against the Armada - and for a moment, it looks like they're in for it; the Gunstar's main weapons are depleted and the Armada is closing in. Then Alex triggers Death Blossom...
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The Last Starfighter / int_3e3f9b19	type	Stay with the Aliens
The Last Starfighter / int_3e3f9b19	comment	Stay with the Aliens: Alex remains with the Star League to help them rebuild and to train their next generation of Starfighters.
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The Last Starfighter / int_3e9403d8	type	Fighter-Launching Sequence
The Last Starfighter / int_3e9403d8	comment	Fighter-Launching Sequence: Played for Laughs, as the ship takes off when Alex is basically told that he has to take on the Ko-Dan Armada all by himself, and he's likely cussing up a storm under his helmet.
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The Last Starfighter / int_41dce76e	type	Small Town Boredom
The Last Starfighter / int_41dce76e	comment	Small Town Boredom: Alex lives in a trailer park with so little to do that a video game is considered the pinnacle of excitement.
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The Last Starfighter / int_42839f8b	type	Sound-Effect Bleep
The Last Starfighter / int_42839f8b	comment	Sound-Effect Bleep: What is surely a truly spectacular string of profanity from Alex is conveniently drowned out by the noise from his and Grig's Gunstar taking off.
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The Last Starfighter / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Last Starfighter / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While Centauri seems like a Snake Oil Salesman, he means it when he says he always had the best intentions for Alex. He's also correct in pointing out that while Earth isn't advanced enough to be introduced to the Star League, they're still in danger from the Ko-Dan armada and thus Alex has every right to help fight the Ko-Dans.
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The Last Starfighter / int_4a0821b4	type	Archnemesis Dad
The Last Starfighter / int_4a0821b4	comment	Archnemesis Dad: An Inverted Trope here — the Big Bad's father is the Big Good.
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The Last Starfighter / int_4b1247b8	type	Red Pill, Blue Pill
The Last Starfighter / int_4b1247b8	comment	Red Pill, Blue Pill: Subverted at first; Centauri does a very hard sell to pressure Alex into becoming a Starfighter, up to "kidnapping" him (but not really), and taking him to the Star League and having him sit in a mission briefing, but Alex still turns down the offer.
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The Last Starfighter / int_4b9aac14	type	Christmas Rushed
The Last Starfighter / int_4b9aac14	comment	Christmas Rushed: Gets an In-Universe mention.
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The Last Starfighter / int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
The Last Starfighter / int_52aa0c4a	comment	The Caligula: It's implied that Xur's treachery and megalomaniacal tendencies are the result of something being very messed up in his head.
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The Last Starfighter / int_53a7089a	type	Pint-Sized Powerhouse
The Last Starfighter / int_53a7089a	comment	Pint-Sized Powerhouse: The Gunstar, particularly Alex and Grig's Super Prototype. While it's large by fighter standards (it might possibly even be classified as a corvette), it has disproportionately enormous firepower capable of taking on an entire fleet of fighters and bringing down a capital ship single-handedly. It's the reason the titular Starfighters are the gunners who man the weapons rather than the navigators who steer the craft, as so much of the Gunstar is dedicated to weapons. It's also a tough little ship.
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The Last Starfighter / int_557a31ce	type	Actual Pacifist
The Last Starfighter / int_557a31ce	comment	Actual Pacifist: The novelization features the League as such. They had some real trouble recruiting soldiers - or even finding a politician to recite to them a Rousing Speech.
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The Last Starfighter / int_595e4b03	type	Synthetic Voice Actor
The Last Starfighter / int_595e4b03	comment	Synthetic Voice Actor: Most of the aliens that are not largely human in appearance have heavily filtered voices, with the notable exception of Grig.
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The Last Starfighter / int_5c446b43	type	Aliens in Cardiff
The Last Starfighter / int_5c446b43	comment	Aliens in Cardiff: Or rather, a remote California desert trailer park. However, it's justified in that the arcade machine that tests skills was supposed to be shipped to Las Vegas.
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The Last Starfighter / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
The Last Starfighter / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: Alex is a variation as he is a talented gunner, not a pilot; Grig, the navigator, takes care of that, and the Gunstar, though fast and heavily armored, doesn't seem to be particularly maneuverable. The trope is otherwise played straight.
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The Last Starfighter / int_5e782d0c	type	Super Prototype
The Last Starfighter / int_5e782d0c	comment	Super Prototype: The Gunstar that Alex and Grig use is stated to be an "advanced prototype" featuring numerous improvements over the current line of Gunstars, such as better armor, better weapons, and experimental systems such as Death Blossom. Since it was a work-in-progress kept in a separate part of the base from the main hangar, it's also the only Gunstar to survive Xur's sneak attack. It also breaks down after annihilating the armada due to the prototype superweapon draining all power, and Grig has to hot-wire the life support systems to jumpstart the reactor in order to get them out of the way of the charging command ship.
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The Last Starfighter / int_6003726c	type	Trashy Trailer Home
The Last Starfighter / int_6003726c	comment	Trashy Trailer Home: Alex lives in the StarLite StarBrite trailer park, which his mom manages. Alex is responsible for repairs and maintenance.
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The Last Starfighter / int_61ff365d	type	Deflector Shields
The Last Starfighter / int_61ff365d	comment	Deflector Shields: Largely averted. The Frontier itself seems to be a massive energy shield, but none of the ships, even capital ships, seem to have shields. Alex's prototype Gunstar is said to have "Deflector Plating", but that's just a kind of armor.
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The Last Starfighter / int_62259825	type	Nintendo Hard
The Last Starfighter / int_62259825	comment	Nintendo Hard: Starfighter is an In-Universe example. Despite being a Rail Shooter, the second Alex lets Louis take over, he's immediately killed. Apparently, no one has ever defeated the Command Ship before, which attracts Centauri's attention.
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The Last Starfighter / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
The Last Starfighter / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: The Frontier is still down, Xur escapes, and the Ko-Dan Emperor presumably could send more ships to attack. Too bad there never was a sequel.
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The Last Starfighter / int_62cae28a	type	Losing Your Head
The Last Starfighter / int_62cae28a	comment	Losing Your Head: The Beta unit can remove (and replace) its head, which can still remotely control the body.
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The Last Starfighter / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Last Starfighter / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The Novelization reveals that Kril has a family he loves.
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The Last Starfighter / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Last Starfighter / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Centauri sacrifices himself to save Alex from an assassin. He gets better. Beta prevents a Zando-Zan spy reporting that Alex is still at large by ramming the spy's ship with a truck, causing an explosion that takes out the spy, the ship, and himself.
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The Last Starfighter / int_646b9cc8	type	Organ Autonomy
The Last Starfighter / int_646b9cc8	comment	Organ Autonomy: When the first Zando-Zan has its arm shot off by Centauri, we see that is it still capable of firing the gun it is holding.
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The Last Starfighter / int_66805a18	type	Race for Your Love
The Last Starfighter / int_66805a18	comment	Race for Your Love
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The Last Starfighter / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
The Last Starfighter / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: Xur at the end of his speech to the Starfighter base personnel. He also does it in the faces of the Ko-Dan commanders and the First Officer is all for throwing him out the airlock right there and then.
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The Last Starfighter / int_68e9a98d	type	A Villain Named "Z__rg"
The Last Starfighter / int_68e9a98d	comment	A Villain Named "Z__rg": Xur fits, pronunciation-wise.
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The Last Starfighter / int_6a61050e	type	The Only One
The Last Starfighter / int_6a61050e	comment	The Only One: Alex Rogan escaped the Ko-Dan Armada's destruction of Starfighter Command by Colony Drop because he was off-planet at the time, having refused to become a Starfighter in the first place. The Gunstar he ends up piloting was in a separate hangar because it was an advanced prototype.
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The Last Starfighter / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Last Starfighter / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Getting a high score in a video game is so important that it gets the entire trailer park's attention. Given Alex' complaints about how boring his hometown is, it may well be the most exciting thing around. Also, Alex seems to be well-known and well-liked (at least among the older residents), so it may have been less about breaking the record, and more about Alex breaking the record.
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The Last Starfighter / int_6bab4b2e	type	Like a Duck Takes to Water
The Last Starfighter / int_6bab4b2e	comment	Like a Duck Takes to Water: Alex manages to be an exceptional Starfighter, despite having grown up in a trailer park on Earth. Justified as Alex has been playing the game repeatedly, and since the gunner's real controls are actually near-identical to the game's, the game has actually been training Alex to operate a Gunstar. Alex inherently has the rare skill and reflexes needed to be a Starfighter.
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The Last Starfighter / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
The Last Starfighter / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: When Alex repeats the attraction line from the video game, just before readying to attack the actual armada.
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The Last Starfighter / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
The Last Starfighter / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Centauri
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The Last Starfighter / int_722d0026	type	Vanity Plate
The Last Starfighter / int_722d0026	comment	Vanity Plate: Centauri's Cool Car has "RYLOS" as a license plate.
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The Last Starfighter / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Last Starfighter / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Although Kril is the principal Ko-Dan bad guy, he is shown, red-lensed techno-monocle and all, in a Starfighter uniform for some unknown reason.
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The Last Starfighter / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Last Starfighter / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Greetings, Starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada!"
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The Last Starfighter / int_75159534	type	CoolSpaceShip
The Last Starfighter / int_75159534	comment	Cool Spaceship: As the first sci-fi film to have all its space scenes rendered in CGI, all the ships are fairly cool. Alex's Gunstar is the top of the line: a Super Prototype with advanced weapons and shielding systems that can take out an armada all by itself.
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The Last Starfighter / int_7719cf90	type	It Began with a Twist of Fate
The Last Starfighter / int_7719cf90	comment	It Began with a Twist of Fate: At one point, Centauri chuckles to Alex that the Starfighter arcade machine was never intended to be delivered to a trailer community — it was intended to be shipped to Las Vegas. One of the greatest Starfighters who ever lived (Centauri's words) was found in the middle of nowhere.
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The Last Starfighter / int_78255ad7	type	Passing the Torch
The Last Starfighter / int_78255ad7	comment	Passing the Torch: As Alex and Maggie head into space, his younger brother, Louis steps up to the Starfighter video game, and watches as the Gunstar flies into the stars. It's implied that Louis might join his brother among the stars.
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The Last Starfighter / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
The Last Starfighter / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: Alex, when Centauri's Star Car first takes off.
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The Last Starfighter / int_788b4436	type	I Like Those Odds
The Last Starfighter / int_788b4436	comment	I Like Those Odds: One Gunstar against the entire Ko-Dan armada. Grig likes the idea, but subverts the trope in that he thinks it'll be a Bolivian Army Ending.
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The Last Starfighter / int_79372d59	type	The Game Come to Life
The Last Starfighter / int_79372d59	comment	The Game Come to Life: Inverted. The game is based on a space war that was already in progress.
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The Last Starfighter / int_7976e429	type	2-D Space
The Last Starfighter / int_7976e429	comment	2-D Space: The at-the-time brand new CGI effects allowed for a rare aversion of this trope; the battles are fought in a very noticeable 3D environment. The Gunstar chair that Alex sits in allows for full 360 degree movement, including flipping him upside down at one point, which makes even more sense, as the Gunstar is sort of an outer-space gunship, made to attack opponents in any direction regardless of the one the ship is aimed at (as opposed to the Ko-Dan, who are in traditional "fighters"), and Alex is the gunner, not the pilot.
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The Last Starfighter / int_79a08ea0	type	Doom as Test Prize
The Last Starfighter / int_79a08ea0	comment	Doom as Test Prize: In the novelization, Alexâ€™ internal narration refers to being recruited to fight in a real interstellar war as his "prize" for winning an arcade game as, "The booby prize."
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The Last Starfighter / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
The Last Starfighter / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Beta before shaking hands with Alex. This apparently is some sort of DNA extraction / analyzer, as Beta is growing a new face - Alex's - that night.
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The Last Starfighter / int_7bb63bc	type	Motile Vehicular Components
The Last Starfighter / int_7bb63bc	comment	Motile Vehicular Components: Gunstar One had an unique new feature that separated it from other Gunstars, a prototype weapon called Death Blossom Mode, installed by Grig. Panels along the engine block would open up, referred to by Grig as Petals, and exposeÂ Photon Orb launchersÂ and extra laser cannons, which would, when engaged, allow the Gunstar toÂ spin in a spherical axis and obliterate every target in range.
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The Last Starfighter / int_7c4f6612	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
The Last Starfighter / int_7c4f6612	comment	Comic-Book Adaptation: By Marvel Comics.
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The Last Starfighter / int_7d5324cf	type	The Federation
The Last Starfighter / int_7d5324cf	comment	The Federation: The Star League.
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The Last Starfighter / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Last Starfighter / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Xur, to the point that even his Ko-Dan allies find him insufferable. Centauri has his share of moments (Robert Preston seems to be having a grand ol' time) and Grig has one or two as well.
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The Last Starfighter / int_83ee0615	type	Rail Shooter
The Last Starfighter / int_83ee0615	comment	Rail Shooter: How the Gunner deals with enemies, which makes the arcade game "simulator" a Justified Genre.
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The Last Starfighter / int_850258ca	type	I Know Mortal Kombat
The Last Starfighter / int_850258ca	comment	I Know Mortal Kombat: The movie is an explicit justification of this trope; the video game is designed to be a training and recruitment tool.
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The Last Starfighter / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
The Last Starfighter / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: Inverted. One might expect Grig showing Alex the photos of his family to lead to this, but instead it helps Alex realize what he's fighting for.... and how to fight for it.
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The Last Starfighter / int_867f9f5c	type	Alien Non-Interference Clause
The Last Starfighter / int_867f9f5c	comment	Alien Non-Interference Clause: The Star League has no intention of contacting Earth until it matures.
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The Last Starfighter / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
The Last Starfighter / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: Alex wants to get out of his small town, but isn't sure he wants to get involved in an interstellar war. Yet this refusal is followed by Xur And The Ko-Dan Armada Know Where You Live.
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The Last Starfighter / int_87ee897	type	Crazy Cultural Comparison
The Last Starfighter / int_87ee897	comment	Crazy Cultural Comparison: As Alex and Grig fly through the tunnels of an asteroid, Grig mentions that it reminds him of home. That leads to a chat comparing their species' differences in families, dwellings, and games... which inspires Alex to suggest hiding as the Ko-Dan Armada goes by, then make a surprise attack on them.
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The Last Starfighter / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
The Last Starfighter / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Centauri's, which took the angular wedge design of the DeLorean, turned it up to eleven, then made it a transforming starship. It's alien enough to be impressive to the average human, but not so alien as to be suspicious.
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The Last Starfighter / int_8b93a168	type	Macross Missile Massacre
The Last Starfighter / int_8b93a168	comment	Macross Missile Massacre: Coupled with Beam Spam, Death Blossom is a Desperation Attack that fires all of the Gunstar's weaponry at once.
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The Last Starfighter / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
The Last Starfighter / int_8c1ad82f	comment	Proud Warrior Race Guy: Some of the Starfighters are from a race called the Bogati, Cthulhumanoids that are noted for their love of fighting. Given their still tiny number, this is only relative to the rest of the pacifist Star League.
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The Last Starfighter / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
The Last Starfighter / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: Careful listeners will notice that Centauri never says "I", but "Centauri" (though he does say "me".)
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The Last Starfighter / int_9123208f	type	Breaching the Wall
The Last Starfighter / int_9123208f	comment	Breaching the Wall: The Ko-Dan Armada has been kept beyond the frontier of the civilized galaxy by an energy wall generated by thousands of satellites in a grid formation. That is, until the Ko-Dan laser-bore a hole in this wall, through which they launch meteors at Starfighter Base. After the Starfighter fleet is all but eliminated, the Armada then proceeds through the widened hole in the Frontier, expecting an unopposed march to the enemy's capital.
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The Last Starfighter / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Last Starfighter / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Why is the official starfighter test called the "Excalibur test"? It's because the idea for this movie came from one of the filmmakers watching kids play arcade games, while he read The Once and Future King, and thought of a video game being a sword in the stone. So the term is an in-joke.
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The Last Starfighter / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Last Starfighter / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: While Xur believes himself the leader of the Ko-Dan armada, he is in fact useful to them in exactly one way: by having the codes to the Frontier. Once he's served that purpose, he is rapidly shunted aside. Earlier, the Ko-Dan second-in-command whispers to Kril, "How long must we endure this fool?" Kril motions for him to shut up, since Xur is still in the room.
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The Last Starfighter / int_94d295c0	type	The Precious, Precious Car
The Last Starfighter / int_94d295c0	comment	The Precious, Precious Car: Blake's red Dodge pickup. When Beta "borrows" it to chase after the Zando-Zan impersonating a cop, Blake warns him not to scratch the paint. He does a lot more than scratch the paint; he ends up crashing it into the alien assassin's ship, blowing both vehicles to bits.
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The Last Starfighter / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Last Starfighter / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Xur, once his allies have had enough of his bizarre personality.
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The Last Starfighter / int_963086ce	type	Damn You, Muscle Memory!
The Last Starfighter / int_963086ce	comment	Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Inverted and exploited. The Starfighter arcade cabinet mimics the control setup on a real Gunstar, so the game is actually training the reflexes necessary to be a real Starfighter. After some warm-ups in the real thing, Alex is blasting Ko-Dan fire before it hits exactly as he did in the game.
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The Last Starfighter / int_973291cd	type	Pardon My Klingon
The Last Starfighter / int_973291cd	comment	Pardon My Klingon: The audience does get to hear some Rylan putdowns before the Translator Microbes are activated.
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The Last Starfighter / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
The Last Starfighter / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Ambassador Enduran uses this trope almost by name — "as you all know" — as he mentions to the Starfighters what the Frontier is, why it's important, and how, because of a dark betrayal (by Xur), the Frontier will soon collapse. Naturally, the audience and Alex are hearing this for the first time. Justified in that the Ambassador is giving a standard "Welcome to the Star League, New Starfighters" speech given to new recruits.
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The Last Starfighter / int_9a7f6233	type	Fictional Video Game
The Last Starfighter / int_9a7f6233	comment	Fictional Video Game: Atari Inc. was originally slated to develop arcade and home video games based on the movie (the game(s) were even mention in the closing credits). They were cancelled for various reasons, including the sale/division of Atari Inc. into Atari Games and Atari Corp. The home computer game was eventually released (with minor changes) as Star Raiders II.
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The Last Starfighter / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
The Last Starfighter / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: The spy is executed by Xur by having his skull then brain melted. And no, there's no Gory Discretion Shot. Even the DVD Commentary acknowledges how extreme it is compared to the rest of the film. It's even worse in the novel: the spy has a helmet placed over his head, then the helmet shrinks around the poor guy's head, crushing his skull, slowly. At the end, all that's left of the spy's head is a pointed nub of neck bone.
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The Last Starfighter / int_9afa5bb6	type	Mole Men
The Last Starfighter / int_9afa5bb6	comment	Mole Men: Grig's species live underground.
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The Last Starfighter / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The Last Starfighter / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The Ko-Dan Emperor is never seen or heard in the film, only being mentioned a couple of times by other characters. However, he's the one providing the armada Xur uses to breach the Frontier and attack Rylos (and presumably the one who gives Kril permission to get rid of Xur once his usefulness in getting past the Frontier was over).
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The Last Starfighter / int_9ce6492a	type	Taking the Bullet
The Last Starfighter / int_9ce6492a	comment	Taking the Bullet: Centauri does it to save Alex from a Zando-Zan energy bolt.
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The Last Starfighter / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Last Starfighter / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Alex destroys the videogame Command Ship in the same way he'll critically wound the real one.
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The Last Starfighter / int_a04eb363	type	Lizard Folk
The Last Starfighter / int_a04eb363	comment	Lizard Folk: Grig is a heroic example.
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The Last Starfighter / int_a0d9c2f3	type	Final Speech
The Last Starfighter / int_a0d9c2f3	comment	Final Speech: Centauri's big death scene. Or so we think.
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The Last Starfighter / int_a1fedb67	type	Parental Obliviousness
The Last Starfighter / int_a1fedb67	comment	Parental Obliviousness: There is no sign that Alex's mother notices anything wrong with Beta, who's pretending to be him. Justified in that she's almost always at work, and Alex seems to be just a moody teen who just learned he was turned down for a college loan when she is home.
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The Last Starfighter / int_a2f1b41d	type	Robot Me
The Last Starfighter / int_a2f1b41d	comment	Robot Me: Beta is a duplicate of Alex intended to cover up his absence from Earth.
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The Last Starfighter / int_a2fea27d	type	The Chosen Many
The Last Starfighter / int_a2fea27d	comment	The Chosen Many: The Starfighters. Unfortunately, all but Alex die in the initial attack when the base is mostly destroyed.
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The Last Starfighter / int_a3df8e61	type	And You Thought It Was a Game
The Last Starfighter / int_a3df8e61	comment	And You Thought It Was a Game: Alex (and everyone else in his town) thinks the Starfighter video game is just that. He's quite surprised to learn that it's a recruitment tool.
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The Last Starfighter / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Last Starfighter / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: When Alex's mom comes home, he's beaming from breaking the Starfighter record ("This is where they're going to say it all started"); his mom is a flat "that's nice, dear", then reveals Alex failed to get enrolled in the university he wanted, which crushes the entire mood.
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The Last Starfighter / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Last Starfighter / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: At the end of the movie, Xur flies off in an escape pod and is never seen again (though it was done as a Sequel Hook).
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The Last Starfighter / int_a74d419a	type	Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway
The Last Starfighter / int_a74d419a	comment	Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway: The Death Blossom device in Alex's Gunstar has never been tested. Grig tells Alex that using it might overload the systems and blow up the ship. Alex convinces him to use it anyway, and it destroys all of the Ko-Dan fighters, however it does overload the systems and leaves them adrift in space.
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The Last Starfighter / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
The Last Starfighter / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: Averted with Centauri's true form, which has red eyes but is not evil. Still striking enough to cause a minor Jump Scare the first time we see it. And then there's the Bogati, who have six of them, although they're still technically good guys (albeit ones who it's best to tread lightly around).
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The Last Starfighter / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
The Last Starfighter / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech:
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The Last Starfighter / int_acbd5c12	type	Perfect Pacifist People
The Last Starfighter / int_acbd5c12	comment	Perfect Pacifist People: The Star League, who had to recruit from hundreds of member planets to find a roomful of warriors who "possess[ed] the...gift". The novelization even describes the League President as turning queasy at hearing their Battle Cry.
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The Last Starfighter / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Last Starfighter / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Alex initially refuses to be a Starfighter and returns to Earth, but changes his mind when he (and Centauri) are attacked by Zandozan assassins who were deployed by Xur. Had Xur simply left Alex alone, he would have stayed on Earth, and there would have been no Last Starfighter to oppose the Ko-Dan invasion.
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The Last Starfighter / int_add931af	type	I Choose to Stay
The Last Starfighter / int_add931af	comment	I Choose to Stay: After saving the galaxy, Alex and Maggie leave Earth to seek their future in the stars.
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The Last Starfighter / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Last Starfighter / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Unsurprisingly, Alex is a little cynical. Beta, surprisingly - the clone is snarkier than the original.
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The Last Starfighter / int_b02f21f	type	Digital Destruction
The Last Starfighter / int_b02f21f	comment	Digital Destruction: The 2009 (25th anniversary) DVD and Blu-ray editions are missing a dramatic-sting music cue about half an hour in, when Beta Alex is shown with goopy skin under his blankets. Strangely, this omission doesn't seem to be the fault of the conversion to 5.1, as the 1999 (Collector's Edition) DVD is in 5.1 and has the cue. 1999's also had the rarely-included Universal Studios and tour banners at the end, but not 2009's. Although most of the 1999 DVD's extras are brought over to the 2009 edition, they are of considerably worse image quality, with lots of interlacing artifacts and dot-crawl (and a cropped trailer). In fact, everything on the disc, including the feature, takes up less space on the 2009 DVD, and even with a new 20-minute retrospective the entire disc is smaller. The only thing keeping the 1999 DVD from being superior, apart from a slightly dirtier film transfer and one new extra, is the replacement of the original Universal and Lorimar logos with the 1997 Universal logo.
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The Last Starfighter / int_b117e1fb	type	You Owe Me
The Last Starfighter / int_b117e1fb	comment	You Owe Me: Beta, almost word for word, to an absent Alex during his Heroic Sacrifice.
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The Last Starfighter / int_b3eecaae	type	Colony Drop
The Last Starfighter / int_b3eecaae	comment	The Ko-Dan command ship's Colony Drop against the Star League base. Leaving aside the pinpoint accuracy required to hit a particular planetary target from space distances, the Frontier is apparently well within Rylos' star system because otherwise it would've taken tens of thousands of years for the meteorites to hit at sublight velocities.
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The Last Starfighter / int_b618409c	type	Sentry Gun
The Last Starfighter / int_b618409c	comment	Sentry Gun: An array of automatic defensive turrets protects the Star League's base, and do quite well at it until they are sabotaged.
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The Last Starfighter / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
The Last Starfighter / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight / Proud Warrior Race: The Bogati, though they're never seen in action. Grig also has his moments of Blood Knighthood.
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The Last Starfighter / int_ba8b13ad	type	Catch-22 Dilemma
The Last Starfighter / int_ba8b13ad	comment	Catch-22 Dilemma: A tactical variant, lampshaded by Alex when Grig explains the plan of attack against the Ko-Dan Armada.
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The Last Starfighter / int_bb30b9e9	type	Danger Takes a Backseat
The Last Starfighter / int_bb30b9e9	comment	Danger Takes a Backseat: How the second Zando-Zan kills the police officer.
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The Last Starfighter / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Last Starfighter / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike.
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The Last Starfighter / int_bcff3e56	type	The Last Title
The Last Starfighter / int_bcff3e56	comment	The Last Title: The title.
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The Last Starfighter / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
The Last Starfighter / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Grig views death as this:
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The Last Starfighter / int_bdf0640e	type	You're Not My Father
The Last Starfighter / int_bdf0640e	comment	You're Not My Father: Inverted. Xur mocks his familial relationship to his father, who in turn disowns him.
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The Last Starfighter / int_bf487e2b	type	Translator Microbes
The Last Starfighter / int_bf487e2b	comment	Translator Microbes: Viewers with good ears can tell when the device becomes active, because the background chatter switches instantly from Rylan to English. Translation Convention takes effect after Alex is given the translation device, as conversations among aliens from then on are heard in English even when Alex isn't around.
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The Last Starfighter / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
The Last Starfighter / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s: Primarily the video gaming culture that had spawned that decade.
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The Last Starfighter / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
The Last Starfighter / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: Xur's father disowns him for his monstrous crimes.
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The Last Starfighter / int_c152042a	type	Multi-Directional Barrage
The Last Starfighter / int_c152042a	comment	Multi-Directional Barrage: What makes the "Death Blossom" attack so effective is that the ships rotates like crazy on all three axis, making sure no direction is safe when in range.
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The Last Starfighter / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
The Last Starfighter / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot: How to get through the fleet to get to the turret that makes the fleet so effective? Wait in something like an asteroid for the ships to pass, and you have an open shot at the turret.
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The Last Starfighter / int_c32201f6	type	Good Colors, Evil Colors
The Last Starfighter / int_c32201f6	comment	Good Colors, Evil Colors: Rylos and the Ko-Dan sets were set up this way, as told in the DVD Commentary.
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The Last Starfighter / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
The Last Starfighter / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Alex, who's sick of being selfless. He's constantly helping the hapless trailer park residents with their problems, but never has any sort of time for himself. When he gets turned down for financial aid at a university he was interested in (possibly forcing him to go to the local city college), he suffers a Heroic BSoD.
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The Last Starfighter / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
The Last Starfighter / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: Written by Alan Dean Foster. Most noted for a vastly expanded space battle against the Ko-Dan armada, the removal of the Death Blossom super-weapon, and "refueling" the Gunstar by flying it near the surface of a star.
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The Last Starfighter / int_c5a1fb94	type	Hologram Projection Imperfection
The Last Starfighter / int_c5a1fb94	comment	Hologram Projection Imperfection: While Xur's Huge Holographic Head is appearing in the Starfighter base, it flickers and distorts.
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The Last Starfighter / int_c6339c44	type	Famous, Famous, Fictional
The Last Starfighter / int_c6339c44	comment	Centauri's Famous, Famous, Fictional mention of Galoka and the Ulus.
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The Last Starfighter / int_c67af1b0	type	Big Bad Wannabe
The Last Starfighter / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Xur only thinks he's in charge of the Ko-Dan armada. They barely tolerate his presence until they have crossed the Frontier.
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The Last Starfighter / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
The Last Starfighter / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: Happens right after Xur shows the torturous execution of the master spy for all of the Starfighters to see.
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The Last Starfighter / int_cb6178fc	type	Rule #1
The Last Starfighter / int_cb6178fc	comment	Rule #1: "Always trust Centauri!"note According to Centauri. Though, technically, this piece of advice is actually #3. The first was "You're on Rylos, my boy. Stop thinking Human." Followed by "You've got a good thing going here. Keep smiling. Don't blow it."
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The Last Starfighter / int_cd7ef676	type	Seen It All
The Last Starfighter / int_cd7ef676	comment	It's not made clear how old Centauri is, but he's definitely Seen It All and has copious advice for Alex.
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The Last Starfighter / int_cf314438	type	Warrior Heaven
The Last Starfighter / int_cf314438	comment	Warrior Heaven: Grig prefers to think his fallen comrades are "battling evil in another dimension".
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The Last Starfighter / int_cfbbd075	comment	Porn Stash: "Back to sleep, Louis, or I'm telling Mom about your Playboys!" (Followed by...)
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The Last Starfighter / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Alex and Grig comparing their homes, with Grig's people living in caves, causes Alex to reminisce about playing hide-and-seek in the caves near the trailer park. This sparks a train of thought about using the asteroid cave they're in to hide from the armada, then attack from behind.
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The Last Starfighter / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Granted, beating a difficult video game is worthy of a high five or two, but when Alex goes for, and beats the Starfighter record, the trailer park acts as if The Beatles just came to town (though it is probably the most exciting thing that's happened there lately).
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The Last Starfighter / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Maggie's grandma. When Maggie is conflicted about whether to leave Earth to go with Alex, Granny encourages her, just so long as she writes back.
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The Last Starfighter / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: If Xur hadn't sent assassins to kill Alex, he might never have returned to Rylos. Also ordering an invasion ensured the fleet rushed ahead, making Alex's sneak attack even easier.
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The Last Starfighter / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
The Last Starfighter / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: The Frontier is an energy field that encapsulates (or at least cordons off) an entire section of the known galaxy. The energy field is projected by field generators that are placed, at best, ten kilometers apart. That would be a septillion (10 to the power of 24) generators per square light year of barrier, with a few billion of those for one third of the galaxy. The novelization changes this to state that the Frontier is a political designation and that, rather than knowing how to defeat it, Xur instead knows the location of the Starfighter base. Also, it changes the destruction of a force field to the traitor giving the enemy the codes for the League No Warping Zone generators. The Ko-Dan command ship's Colony Drop against the Star League base. Leaving aside the pinpoint accuracy required to hit a particular planetary target from space distances, the Frontier is apparently well within Rylos' star system because otherwise it would've taken tens of thousands of years for the meteorites to hit at sublight velocities. The distance from Rylos to the Frontier is apparently really short as well, given the brief flight in the Gunstar. Grig says they'll be there in "twenty klicks" and that he'll have a solution to getting past the fighters to hit the command ship before they do. When he finishes speaking, an alarm sounds, and they're at the Frontier.note By the look on Grig's face, however, it's more likely he made a mistake in distance. In real life "klicks" is a common slang term for "kilometers"... The running gunfight at the end concludes a few minutes after it started just inside the Frontier with the out-of-control Ko-Dan flagship colliding with Rylos' moon. Either both sides continued to travel at superluminal speeds throughout (which seems unlikely given how long it took the Mothership to close on the stationary Gunstar) or the Frontier really is inside the Rylos system. note Logically, as the (only?) military base and primary launch/training platform of the Starfighters, Rylos would be close to the border of an obviously hostile star nation.
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The Last Starfighter / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Invoked by Centauri.
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The Last Starfighter / int_dd5faec5	type	Only Mostly Dead
The Last Starfighter / int_dd5faec5	comment	Only Mostly Dead: Centauri was just going into a deep sleep while his Healing Factor kicked in.
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The Last Starfighter / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention takes effect after Alex is given the translation device, as conversations among aliens from then on are heard in English even when Alex isn't around.
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The Last Starfighter / int_e2121aa2	type	Post–Wake-Up Realization
The Last Starfighter / int_e2121aa2	comment	Postâ€“Wake-Up Realization: Alex has been replaced by a Beta Unit (android double) while he's off in outer space. Late at night, the Beta Unit takes off his own head to try to repair it. Alex's brother Louis is sleeping in the same room and wakes up. When he sees what appears to be his brother with his head removed, he starts to go back to sleep and then does a Double Take and becomes fully awake.
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The Last Starfighter / int_e240ea	type	TheCall
The Last Starfighter / int_e240ea	comment	Otis gives Alex advice about making something of his life and helps give him the motivation to accept The Call when it makes its return trip.
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The Last Starfighter / int_e38b0f45	type	Snake Oil Salesman
The Last Starfighter / int_e38b0f45	comment	Snake Oil Salesman: Centauri is a space version, peddling video games to planets too primitive for the Star League and conveniently failing to mention that they are a recruitment tool. Downplayed in that while Centauri does prize wealth, his intentions are ultimately heroic (he's not above issuing a sincere Dare to Be Badass or even Taking the Bullet), and he's only trying to hoodwink people into doing the right thing.
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The Last Starfighter / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Last Starfighter / int_e482cfa7	comment	It's even worse in the novel: the spy has a helmet placed over his head, then the helmet shrinks around the poor guy's head, crushing his skull, slowly. At the end, all that's left of the spy's head is a pointed nub of neck bone.
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The Last Starfighter / int_e5411cdf	type	Cult
The Last Starfighter / int_e5411cdf	comment	Cult: Xur's father mentions the "Xurian cult" that had to be put down in his I Have No Son! speech.
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The Last Starfighter / int_e70127	type	The Mole
The Last Starfighter / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: The Rylan recruitment officer who argues with Centauri after Alex is brought in later sabotages the base's defenses during Xur's attack.
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The Last Starfighter / int_e7d03dc5	type	Excalibur in the Stone
The Last Starfighter / int_e7d03dc5	comment	Excalibur in the Stone: It's implied that Centauri has recruited starfighters this way before as he's accused of using the "Excalibur Test" to recruit Alex from Earth.
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The Last Starfighter / int_e9a97564	type	Evil Wears Black
The Last Starfighter / int_e9a97564	comment	Evil Wears Black: Xur wears a black outfit.
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The Last Starfighter / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
The Last Starfighter / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: Beta assures Louis of this when he sees Beta take off his own head and start working on it.
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The Last Starfighter / int_ea8de006	comment	Traitor Shot: One of the Rylans is secretly a Xur follower. The camera holds on his face just before he plants an explosive device.
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The Last Starfighter / int_ece27800	type	Kill and Replace
The Last Starfighter / int_ece27800	comment	Kill and Replace: Zando-Zan assassins do this to a local cop and a hitchhiker.
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The Last Starfighter / int_edf8db61	type	Oh, My Gods!
The Last Starfighter / int_edf8db61	comment	Oh, My Gods!: Centauri tells Alex Rogan, "May the luck of the Seven Pillars of Gulu be with you at all times."note "Oh, these cheapskates are going to thank Centauri, trust me. Bula!"
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The Last Starfighter / int_ee6fc4e0	type	No Warping Zone
The Last Starfighter / int_ee6fc4e0	comment	The novelization changes this to state that the Frontier is a political designation and that, rather than knowing how to defeat it, Xur instead knows the location of the Starfighter base. Also, it changes the destruction of a force field to the traitor giving the enemy the codes for the League No Warping Zone generators.
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The Last Starfighter / int_f01a1b71	type	Insignificant Little Blue Planet
The Last Starfighter / int_f01a1b71	comment	Insignificant Little Blue Planet: Earth isn't advanced enough to even know about the Star League, much less participate. Centauri retorts that it's irrelevant.
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The Last Starfighter / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: In the Novelization, Kril's Mook Lieutenant is split into multiple Ko-Dan officers performing different functions on the command ship's bridge.
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The Last Starfighter / int_f14264e9	type	DeFictionalized
The Last Starfighter / int_f14264e9	comment	Defictionalized: A fan game that attempts to recreate the arcade game depicted in the film was released 23 years after the movie. The Atari game planned along with the movie and mentioned in the credits never materialized. One year later it was released as Star Raiders II, with the player fighting enemies resembling Ko-Dan fighters and command ships from the Zylon Empire.note In Name Only sequel to a highly successful game. considered a Killer App for 8-bit Ataris back in 1979, itself an adaptation of Star Trek with lawyer-friendly names. The true sequel was stuck in a mostly finished state since shortly after The Great Video Game Crash of 1983. While quite good for 1985 and fairly close to the film, it still has 2-D Space.
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The Last Starfighter / int_f68ac685	type	Battle Chant
The Last Starfighter / int_f68ac685	comment	Battle Chant: When Ambassador Enduran gives a pep talk to the personnel of the Starfighter base, he concludes by saying "Victory or death!". They all start chanting "Victory or death!" in unison.
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The Last Starfighter / int_f6db5b1e	type	RidiculouslyHumanRobot
The Last Starfighter / int_f6db5b1e	comment	Ridiculously Human Robot: Beta absorbs Alex's DNA and thereby copies him with near perfection, but has a hard time learning all of the humans' customs. Like the tongue in the ear thing.
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The Last Starfighter / int_f9375414	comment	Face Palm: When Beta sees a Zando-Zan landing outside his window, he just sighs, pinches the bridge of his nose, and shakes his head. It's worth noting that his head was detached and sitting on a desk at the time, and he shook it by rotating it back and forth with his other hand â€” sort of a third-person face palm.
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The Last Starfighter / int_fdf22cfd	comment	Evil Is Hammy: Xur, oh so very much. It's amazing the hull of his command ship was able to withstand his intense scenery chewing.
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The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	Stay with the Aliens / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	Stealth in Space / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	Summon Everyman Hero / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	Super Prototype / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	The Call Knows Where You Live / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	The Empire / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	The Federation / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	The Game Come to Life / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	The Great Wall / int_fad1ddfe
TheLastStarfighter	seeAlso	The Last Starfighter
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	The Last Title / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	The Mothership / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	The Precious, Precious Car / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	The Wall Around the World / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	Transforming Mecha / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	Translator Microbes / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	Trashy Trailer Home / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	Unusual Hiring Practices / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	Vehicle Title / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	Video Game Stories / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	Virtual Training Simulation / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	Warrior Heaven / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	We Don't Need Roads / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	Whole-Plot Reference / int_5e0a75de
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	Whooshing Credits / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	Dramatic Deadpan / int_fad1ddfe
The Last Starfighter	hasFeature	Evil Wears Black / int_fad1ddfe

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