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The Last Starfighter
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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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Aliens Speaking English | |
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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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Villain: Exit, Stage Left | |
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Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Xur, during the impact strikes of the Gunstar. Saved for the Sequel that never happened. | |
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Fanfare | |
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Fanfare: The theme is one, which adds even more trumpets at the end. | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology | |
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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 | |
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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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Card-Carrying Villain | |
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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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Cool Old Guy | |
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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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All There in the Manual | |
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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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Photoprotoneutron Torpedo | |
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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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Dream Deception | |
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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 Greys | |
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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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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: A key difference between Xur and the Ko-Dan is their reaction to a partial transmission. | |
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Cosy Catastrophe | |
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Cosy Catastrophe: Louis is not afraid at all when Alex's Gunstar lands; he thinks it's awesome. | |
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Space Fighter | |
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Space Fighter: The Gunstars and Ko-Dan fighters. The Gunstars apparently operate without the support of a battlestar-equivalent. | |
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Dare to Be Badass | |
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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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Voluntary Shapeshifting | |
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Voluntary Shapeshifting: The Zando-Zan assassins are shapeshifters. Also Centauri, to some extent. | |
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Do Not Adjust Your Set | |
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Do Not Adjust Your Set: Xur's introduction at the Starfighter base, when he takes over all their communications. | |
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Girls Have Cooties | |
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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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Everybody's Dead, Dave | |
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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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Glowing Eyes | |
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Glowing Eyes: Centauri, when not wearing his human prosthetic mask. | |
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Unusual Hiring Practices | |
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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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Ascended Fanboy | |
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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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Ditto Aliens | |
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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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TechMarchesOn | |
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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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Disappeared Dad | |
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Maggie appears to have nobody but Granny, with no mention of her dad or her mom. | |
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Beam Spam | |
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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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Huge Holographic Head | |
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Huge Holographic Head: Xur uses one to communicate with the Star League. | |
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Ramming Always Works | |
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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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Explosive Breeder | |
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Explosive Breeder: Grig tells Alex that back home, he has "a wifeoid and 6,000 little Griglings." | |
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Vertical Kidnapping | |
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Vertical Kidnapping: Attempted when an alien assassin is sent to kill Alex. | |
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Dies Wide Open | |
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Dies Wide Open: Centauri, after his heroic sacrifice to save Alex from an assassination attempt. | |
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I Wish It Were Real | |
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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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Present Peeking | |
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Present Peeking: Referenced by Centauri. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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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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Actor Allusion | |
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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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Face Death with Dignity | |
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Face Death with Dignity: Villain though he is, Kril exhibits this trope. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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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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Guy in Back | |
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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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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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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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Stay with the Aliens | |
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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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Fighter-Launching Sequence | |
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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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Small Town Boredom | |
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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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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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_42839f8b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_42839f8b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_42839f8b | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_4781adbb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_4781adbb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_4781adbb | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_4a0821b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_4a0821b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_4a0821b4 | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_4b1247b8 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_4b1247b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_4b1247b8 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_4b9aac14 | type |
Christmas Rushed | |
The Last Starfighter / int_4b9aac14 | comment |
Christmas Rushed: Gets an In-Universe mention. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_4b9aac14 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_4b9aac14 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_4b9aac14 | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_52aa0c4a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_52aa0c4a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_52aa0c4a | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_53a7089a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_53a7089a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_53a7089a | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_557a31ce | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_557a31ce | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_557a31ce | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_595e4b03 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_595e4b03 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_595e4b03 | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_5c446b43 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_5c446b43 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_5c446b43 | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_5deb34da | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_5deb34da | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_5deb34da | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_5e782d0c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_5e782d0c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_5e782d0c | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_6003726c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_6003726c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_6003726c | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_61ff365d | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_61ff365d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_61ff365d | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_62259825 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_62259825 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_62259825 | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_6293c185 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_6293c185 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_6293c185 | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_62cae28a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_62cae28a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_62cae28a | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_63d861f8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_63d861f8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_63d861f8 | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_6439de78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_6439de78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_6439de78 | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_646b9cc8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_646b9cc8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_646b9cc8 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_66805a18 | type |
Race for Your Love | |
The Last Starfighter / int_66805a18 | comment |
Race for Your Love | |
The Last Starfighter / int_66805a18 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_66805a18 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_66805a18 | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_68068108 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_68068108 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_68068108 | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_68e9a98d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_68e9a98d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_68e9a98d | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_6a61050e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_6a61050e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_6a61050e | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_6b35bdff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_6b35bdff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_6b35bdff | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_6bab4b2e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_6bab4b2e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_6bab4b2e | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_6bd689ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_6bd689ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_6bd689ca | |
The Last Starfighter / int_6ef6417b | type |
Disney Death | |
The Last Starfighter / int_6ef6417b | comment |
Disney Death: Centauri | |
The Last Starfighter / int_6ef6417b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_6ef6417b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_6ef6417b | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_722d0026 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_722d0026 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_722d0026 | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7315fd38 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7315fd38 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_7315fd38 | |
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!" | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7464705c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7464705c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_7464705c | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_75159534 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_75159534 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_75159534 | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7719cf90 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7719cf90 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_7719cf90 | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_78255ad7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_78255ad7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_78255ad7 | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_78270847 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_78270847 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_78270847 | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_788b4436 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_788b4436 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_788b4436 | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_79372d59 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_79372d59 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_79372d59 | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7976e429 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7976e429 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_7976e429 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_79a08ea0 | type |
Doom as Test Prize | |
The Last Starfighter / int_79a08ea0 | comment |
Doom as Test Prize: In the novelization, Alex’ 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." | |
The Last Starfighter / int_79a08ea0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_79a08ea0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_79a08ea0 | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7abba202 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7abba202 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_7abba202 | |
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 expose Photon Orb launchers and extra laser cannons, which would, when engaged, allow the Gunstar to spin in a spherical axis and obliterate every target in range. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7bb63bc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7bb63bc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_7bb63bc | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7c4f6612 | type |
Comic-Book Adaptation | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7c4f6612 | comment |
Comic-Book Adaptation: By Marvel Comics. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7c4f6612 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7c4f6612 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_7c4f6612 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7d5324cf | type |
The Federation | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7d5324cf | comment |
The Federation: The Star League. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7d5324cf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_7d5324cf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_7d5324cf | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_823c6e3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_823c6e3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_823c6e3e | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_83ee0615 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_83ee0615 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_83ee0615 | |
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. | |
The Last Starfighter / int_850258ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_850258ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Starfighter | hasFeature |
The Last Starfighter / int_850258ca | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lizard Folk | |
The Last Starfighter / int_a04eb363 | comment |
Lizard Folk: Grig is a heroic example. | |
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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 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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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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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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Rousing Speech | |
The Last Starfighter / int_aaece264 | comment |
Rousing Speech: | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Precision F-Strike | |
The Last Starfighter / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike. | |
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The Last Title | |
The Last Starfighter / int_bcff3e56 | comment |
The Last Title: The title. | |
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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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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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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 '80s | |
The Last Starfighter / int_c10da874 | comment |
The '80s: Primarily the video gaming culture that had spawned that decade. | |
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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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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_c54d550d | |
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_c5a1fb94 | |
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_c67af1b0 | |
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_cb6178fc | |
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 | type |
Porn Stash | |
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 | type |
"Eureka!" Moment | |
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_d129e13e | |
The Last Starfighter / int_d148b019 | type |
Mundane Made Awesome | |
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_d148b019 | |
The Last Starfighter / int_d2b59903 | type |
Cool Old Lady | |
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 | type |
Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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_dbb414ed | type |
Hand Wave | |
The Last Starfighter / int_dbb414ed | comment |
Hand Wave: "Oh, I won't bore you with the details." Complete with a literal hand wave. | |
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The Last Starfighter / int_dbb414ed | |
The Last Starfighter / int_dc579c91 | type |
Contrived Coincidence | |
The Last Starfighter / int_dc579c91 | comment |
Contrived Coincidence: Invoked by Centauri. | |
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The Last Starfighter / int_dc579c91 | |
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 | type |
Translation Convention | |
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 |
Post–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_e2121aa2 | |
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_e5411cdf | |
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 | type |
Traitor Shot | |
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_ea8de006 | |
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 | type |
Decomposite Character | |
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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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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FacePalm | |
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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 — sort of a third-person face palm. | |
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Robot Names | |
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Robot Names: "Beta" is not a name, but a designation for a type of robot. | |
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The Mothership | |
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The Mothership: The Ko-Dan mothership is the home of their fleet and also serves the role of The Battlestar. | |
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Evil Is Hammy | |
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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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