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12 Monkeys

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12 Monkeys	label	12 Monkeys
12 Monkeys	page	TwelveMonkeys
12 Monkeys	comment	12 Monkeys is a 1995 science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by David and Janet Peoples. It is based on the famous French experimental short film La JetÃ©e. It stars Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and Brad Pitt, who won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category.There is a chance that asylum patient James Cole (Willis) is not insane. That he might really be a time traveler from a post-apocalyptic future. That the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, and the deadly virus he claims they plan to release, are all real. The only trouble is, if Dr. Kathryn Railly (Stowe) accepts this, she will have to accept an even more terrifying truth: that The End of the World as We Know It is coming, and soon.Beware of spoilers.The film was adapted into a television series for Syfy, which premiered in January 2015.
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12 Monkeys / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
12 Monkeys / int_17a45ff5	comment	Misplaced Wildlife: Cole encounters a bear in the city while collecting samples in the future. Releasing zoo animals was the Army Of The Twelve Monkeys' real plan.
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12 Monkeys / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
12 Monkeys / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Cole's memory of what happened at the airport is hazy because he was a boy at the time.
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12 Monkeys / int_191535aa	type	Eiffel Tower Effect
12 Monkeys / int_191535aa	comment	Eiffel Tower Effect: Philadelphia's skyline, particularly Liberty Place, is seen quite a bit, it's also rather large. The Benjamin Franklin Bridge is inevitably featured as well.
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12 Monkeys / int_1dd14f5a	type	I Surrender, Suckers
12 Monkeys / int_1dd14f5a	comment	I Surrender, Suckers: Cole pulls this trick on an assailant at the theatre. He crouches and feigns surrender screaming "Please don't kill me!" and when close enough he kicks the guy in the nuts.
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12 Monkeys / int_207c3447	type	Can't Take Anything with You
12 Monkeys / int_207c3447	comment	Can't Take Anything with You: It seems the rule is you can't take anything that is external to your body. Cole gets the spider he swallowed back to the future just fine and the bullet that gets lodged in his leg time travels with him as well.
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12 Monkeys / int_208c4494	type	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
12 Monkeys / int_208c4494	comment	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: All the time travelers go insane from the stresses involved in time travel; hence government use of expendable prisoners for this task.
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12 Monkeys / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
12 Monkeys / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The future, where a plague has killed 99% of humanity and the rest live in an underground Dystopia where prisoners are treated like animals.
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12 Monkeys / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
12 Monkeys / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Lots, when updating a 28-minute short to a 129-minute movie. Notably, the entire Army of the Twelve Monkeys plot is new to the movie.
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12 Monkeys / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
12 Monkeys / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Cole delivers one to an aggressive pimp for threatening Reilly, which horrifies her even more.
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12 Monkeys / int_26fb2f9e	type	Past Experience Nightmare
12 Monkeys / int_26fb2f9e	comment	Past Experience Nightmare: Cole is Plagued by Nightmares of a shootout at an airport he witnessed at a young age.
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12 Monkeys / int_2745f935	type	Gas Mask Mooks
12 Monkeys / int_2745f935	comment	Gas Mask Mooks: The French soldiers when James is accidentally sent to 1917. It's mentioned later that they were countering a mustard gas attack that killed thousands.
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12 Monkeys / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
12 Monkeys / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: The film isn't about twelve monkeys, nor is it about the Army of the Twelve Monkeys that the title alludes to. The organization and the title itself are red herrings.
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12 Monkeys / int_2e285a8b	type	Person as Verb
12 Monkeys / int_2e285a8b	comment	Person as Verb: Cole is referred to as having "pulled a Houdini." He was a time traveler, and got pulled back out of impossible-to-escape restraints.
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12 Monkeys / int_324385bb	type	We Have to Get the Bullet Out!
12 Monkeys / int_324385bb	comment	We Have to Get the Bullet Out!: Kathryn's reaction when she learns about Cole's leg wound.
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12 Monkeys / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
12 Monkeys / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: Cole's 'present'. He's sent back to pre-end times not to Set Right What Once Went Wrong but just to collect information they need in their present.
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12 Monkeys / int_33fa230b	type	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
12 Monkeys / int_33fa230b	comment	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: James Cole finally figures out who the Army of the Twelve Monkeys are: Relatively harmless pranksters. Convinced that the Bad Future was just a figment of his imagination, he books a flight to the tropics with Kathryn. But before he can board the plane he receives another message from the future: The End of the World as We Know It is at hand and he can still stop it.
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12 Monkeys / int_37690091	type	Stable Time Loop
12 Monkeys / int_37690091	comment	Stable Time Loop: As a child, Cole witnessed his own death, showing that everything that he does was already going to happen.
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12 Monkeys / int_3791608	type	Tracking Chip
12 Monkeys / int_3791608	comment	Tracking Chip: Cole is told by a Crazy Homeless Person that he has a tracking chip in his teeth. He removes them just in case this is true, but Jose is later able to track him down without difficulty, and asks why he took his teeth out.
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12 Monkeys / int_37a034a4	type	Contagious Cassandra Truth
12 Monkeys / int_37a034a4	comment	Contagious Cassandra Truth: The film has an interesting variation of this trope. Dr. Railly doesn't believe James Cole's claims that he's from the future, but when he disappears she investigates his claims and finds corroborating evidence. When Cole returns Dr. Railly has difficulty convincing Cole of the truth, as he has accepted her explanation that he is delusional.
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12 Monkeys / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
12 Monkeys / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Cole is killed before he can stop the virus from being unleashed on the world.
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12 Monkeys / int_3d63f495	type	No Mere Windmill
12 Monkeys / int_3d63f495	comment	No Mere Windmill: An understandable instance occurs. Windmill Crusader James Cole has to try and prevent the near-extinction of mankind by lethal virus; however, the reason nobody listens to his warnings is that he claims to be from the future, and even Cole himself begins to question if people are right about him being insane.
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12 Monkeys / int_3dd9b78a	type	DoomSayer
12 Monkeys / int_3dd9b78a	comment	Dr. Railly's research draws attention to the phenomenon of Doomsayer prophets: strange people spouting half-coherent Cassandra Truth about an incoming plague and the end of the world. It is suggested (but not confirmed) that every such Mad Oracle in history is like Cole: flung into the past, driven mad, and doomed to babble about a half-remembered reckoning.
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12 Monkeys / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
12 Monkeys / int_42c9f1ec	comment	The medieval alarmist mentioned by Dr. Railly in her lecture appears later in 1996 Philadelphia as an apocalypse evangelist, who reveals to Cole that he, like Cole, is a time traveler. He turns out to be unimportant to the plot.
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12 Monkeys / int_42d3be0b	type	Population Control
12 Monkeys / int_42d3be0b	comment	Population Control: Suggested by the fact that Cole lives in an Underground City with limited resources, and his rap sheet lists "anti-social sex" as an offense.
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12 Monkeys / int_42d7e928	type	Meanwhile, in the Futureâ€¦
12 Monkeys / int_42d7e928	comment	Meanwhile, in the Futureâ€¦: There are characters communicating with scientists in the future with a business's answering machine in the "present", which a team of scientists spends months and years recovering from the decayed magnetic tape. Since the movie is based on a Stable Time Loop, they should have all the messages from Cole in one batch, however, the narrative treats each message sent from the past as a new event in the future.
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12 Monkeys / int_4c3f14e0	type	You Are Too Late
12 Monkeys / int_4c3f14e0	comment	You Are Too Late: Even if Cole hadn't been shot down by airport security and had succeeded in taking down the rogue scientist, the virus had already been released to the Airport Security Guard.
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12 Monkeys / int_4cccd2a9	type	Mad Oracle
12 Monkeys / int_4cccd2a9	comment	Mad Oracle: It's implied that at least one such oracle is actually a time traveler who landed in the wrong era, since he sees James and says: "You! You are one of us!"
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12 Monkeys / int_4e7017f1	type	Wig, Dress, Accent
12 Monkeys / int_4e7017f1	comment	Wig, Dress, Accent: Used at the end, when the protagonists use store-bought disguises (a glued-on mustache for the man and a blonde wig for the woman) to get through airport security and escape to Florida.
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12 Monkeys / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
12 Monkeys / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The film begins and concludes with closeups of the main character when he was a child.
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12 Monkeys / int_58cb5c33	type	Escaped Animal Rampage
12 Monkeys / int_58cb5c33	comment	Escaped Animal Rampage: The final act shows the eponymous Animal Wrongs Group releasing the animals of the local zoo, causing all sorts of pandemonium and their "we did it!" message spray-painted all over the city setting them up as the Red Herring for the cause of The End of the World as We Know It.
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12 Monkeys / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
12 Monkeys / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: Who, or what, the voice who keep addressing Cole as "Bob" are is never revealed.
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12 Monkeys / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
12 Monkeys / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: WE DID IT! They're not confessing to the virus, but to the animals they released as a protest.
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12 Monkeys / int_5b19cc1b	type	Air-Vent Passageway
12 Monkeys / int_5b19cc1b	comment	Air-Vent Passageway: The absurdity of this in real life is lampshaded when Cole vanishes from a locked room, the only other exit from which is an air vent that has not been forced open and into which he could not possibly fit.
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12 Monkeys / int_5ec15a79	type	Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
12 Monkeys / int_5ec15a79	comment	Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: The nuclear war from La JetÃ©e is replaced by a bioengineered virus as the cause of the end of civilization.
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12 Monkeys / int_5f252b8b	type	One Phone Call
12 Monkeys / int_5f252b8b	comment	One Phone Call: When Cole gets apprehended in 1990, he demands his phone call which the police don't grand him.
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12 Monkeys / int_5fdf73bc	type	Photographic Memory
12 Monkeys / int_5fdf73bc	comment	The scientists responsible for the project tell Cole that he possesses a mental resilience that makes him a good candidate for time travel: an ability to remember facts and details. He is not unscathed though, as he can Go Among Mad People and fit in perfectly. One might even attribute his growing doubts about his own sanity to his repeated jaunts through time.
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12 Monkeys / int_661a66d8	type	Animal Wrongs Group
12 Monkeys / int_661a66d8	comment	Animal Wrongs Group: The Army of the Twelve Monkeys is an animal rights group blamed for the spread of a deadly super-virus that killed most of humanity. They end up having nothing to do with it.
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12 Monkeys / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
12 Monkeys / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: Brad Pitt goes somewhat over-the-top in his scenes in the madhouse, but it works.
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12 Monkeys / int_71268450	type	Adaptation Title Change
12 Monkeys / int_71268450	comment	Adaptation Title Change: The movie is an American remake of the 1962 French short film La JetÃ©e.
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12 Monkeys / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
12 Monkeys / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Time-travelling protagonist Cole recognizes a scientist and concludes he is directly involved with the virus that wiped out most of humanity. Cole runs trying to stop him, and is shot down by airport security. Said death is witnessed by young Cole, becoming one of his most vivid memories, played over and over in his dreams - it was already set that he couldn't change the future.
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12 Monkeys / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
12 Monkeys / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: The airport security guard. When a scientist has a specially sealed case and tells you the vials inside contain "biological samples", what in the name of sanity would make you want him to open it, especially if one can see that there is nothing but colorless gas inside.
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12 Monkeys / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
12 Monkeys / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: At first glance it sure looks like a cyborg on the cover. It's not until you look closer that you see it's the symbol of the Army of the 12 Monkeys.
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12 Monkeys / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
12 Monkeys / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: The damaged phone recording is cryptic and eerily distorted, but later we watch it being made, revealing who recorded it and why. The ending is a repeat of the beginning, cluing the audience in that the film is a Stable Time Loop.
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12 Monkeys / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
12 Monkeys / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "The Keys are lovely this time of year."
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12 Monkeys / int_76933235	type	Depopulation Bomb
12 Monkeys / int_76933235	comment	Depopulation Bomb: A man-made virus is released that is so deadly that it kills 5 billion people and, 30 years later, the survivors still have to live underground and can only go outside in environmental suits.
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12 Monkeys / int_78314050	type	Unstuck in Time
12 Monkeys / int_78314050	comment	Unstuck in Time: Happens with Cole getting lost in the past because the time machine used is very unreliable and unpredictable.
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12 Monkeys / int_78d0ebcf	type	Crying Wolf
12 Monkeys / int_78d0ebcf	comment	Crying Wolf: Part of what convinces Kathryn that Cole's telling the truth is he remembers hearing as a child about a boy who pretended to be lost in a well, only to turn out to have been hiding in a barn. The event plays out as he remembers, indicating he's probably telling the truth.
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12 Monkeys / int_794095d7	type	Boxed Crook
12 Monkeys / int_794095d7	comment	Boxed Crook: James Cole, a habitual criminal in the future, is 'volunteered' by the scientists to go back to the past to investigate the virus that now forces what's left of humanity to live underground. In return he gets offered a reduced sentence.
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12 Monkeys / int_796c89bc	type	Temporal Sickness
12 Monkeys / int_796c89bc	comment	Temporal Sickness: The process of time travel seems to cause psychological harm. This is explained early, as Cole relays rumors that the other inmates who Got Volunteered for the trip wound up in the psych ward. The scientists responsible for the project tell Cole that he possesses a mental resilience that makes him a good candidate for time travel: an ability to remember facts and details. He is not unscathed though, as he can Go Among Mad People and fit in perfectly. One might even attribute his growing doubts about his own sanity to his repeated jaunts through time. Before his final journey to the past, Cole tries to excuse his declarations that the scientists aren't real by theorizing that the human mind isn't meant to exist in two different dimensions, that the experience is very stressful and it's difficult to tell what's real. Dr. Railly's research draws attention to the phenomenon of Doomsayer prophets: strange people spouting half-coherent Cassandra Truth about an incoming plague and the end of the world. It is suggested (but not confirmed) that every such Mad Oracle in history is like Cole: flung into the past, driven mad, and doomed to babble about a half-remembered reckoning.
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12 Monkeys / int_7f745ffa	type	Shackle Seat Trap
12 Monkeys / int_7f745ffa	comment	Shackle Seat Trap: When James Cole is brought in to meet the panel of scientists, his guards caution them about how dangerous he is. A scientist assures them that Cole isn't going to do them harm, and asks him to take a seat. Cole sits in the only chair available, whereupon metal clamps close over his wrists and the seat elevates halfway up the wall.
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12 Monkeys / int_80ebdcb2	type	Mobstacle Course
12 Monkeys / int_80ebdcb2	comment	Mobstacle Course: The climax takes place in such a scene at the airport.
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12 Monkeys / int_821bdd2c	type	Hey, Wait!
12 Monkeys / int_821bdd2c	comment	Hey, Wait!: A rare villainous example. After Dr. Peters passed the security check at the airport and is walking towards his gate, a security guard calls after him which shocks Peters. But it turns out the guard only pointed him to a piece of underwear he forgot at the checkpoint.
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12 Monkeys / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
12 Monkeys / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: In the woods, after Kathryn removed the bullet from Cole's leg, he starts feeling her up and it looks like he is about to rape her. Then we cut to the next scene where he is alone at night and a news report talks about a woman found strangled in a park. However, we then see Cole return to his car where he frees Kathryn from the trunk.
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12 Monkeys / int_8bd16732	type	The Law of Conservation of Detail
12 Monkeys / int_8bd16732	comment	The Law of Conservation of Detail: During Dr. Railly's speech she briefly shows an etching of a man from the 1100s proclaiming the end of the world in 1995. Later on when James arrives in 1996 you see that man preaching on the side of a street corner. Also another example is a phone message heard by Cole in the 'present' is later found out to be made by Dr. Railly.
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12 Monkeys / int_8bf8adfa	type	Just Before the End
12 Monkeys / int_8bf8adfa	comment	Just Before the End: The entire film is a Stable Time Loop that has one of the main characters seeing the first few minutes of a viral infection that will cull mankind in the flesh, and see his older self being assassinated by airport security in a futile attempt at stopping it. The only true change he brings with his time travel is providing information to the scientists that did it so they can maybe create a vaccine many years later.
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12 Monkeys / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
12 Monkeys / int_8cb844c6	comment	Jose at first seems just like a guy to give Cole some exposition on forced volunteering. Then, he shows up on the WW1 battlefield to highlight the multiple missions and dangers of time travel. Finally, he shows up at the end as the messenger to force Cole onto the suicide mission.
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12 Monkeys / int_8f7059b	type	A Match Made in Stockholm
12 Monkeys / int_8f7059b	comment	A Match Made in Stockholm: Cole hooks up with Kathryn, whom he kidnapped when he was sent to 1996. Although they fall in love long after the kidnapping, during which Kathryn is nothing but terrified of him and tries everything to escape. Verges on a Discussed Trope when Kathryn's explanations of her experience are met with derisive skepticism from the police, who muse about Stockholm Syndrome without ever naming it. Kathryn even acknowledges it as a common psychological response to this kind of situation.
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12 Monkeys / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
12 Monkeys / int_91e3910c	comment	Ruins of the Modern Age: At the start, James Cole Got Volunteered to leave the Underground City in a Hazmat Suit to collect samples from the ruins of Philadelphia. This serves to establish the post-pandemic world he lives in before he time-travels to the past.
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12 Monkeys / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
12 Monkeys / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Billions die to a killer virus, released by a mad scientist named Dr. Peters.
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12 Monkeys / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
12 Monkeys / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Cole has no control over what year the machine sends him to, but when he ends up in 1990 instead of 1996, the scientists blame that mistake on him.
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12 Monkeys / int_991af300	type	Poke the Poodle
12 Monkeys / int_991af300	comment	Poke the Poodle: It is revealed that the horrifyingly evil plot of The Army of the Twelve Monkeys amounts to releasing some animals from a zoo, which stops traffic, but no more.
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12 Monkeys / int_9b2923bc	type	Mooning
12 Monkeys / int_9b2923bc	comment	Mooning: Jeffrey Goines does this to the security staff at a mental institution while acting up.
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12 Monkeys / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
12 Monkeys / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In her lecture on doomsayers, Dr. Railly mentions that Jose disappeared from the WW1 hospital, which hints that he'll show up again. Dr. Peters first appears at Dr. Railly's lecture and at the autograph session, tells Dr. Railly that the doomsayers have a point since mankind is destroying the Earth with atomic bombs, pollution, etc. Subsequently, it is revealed that Peters is the assistant to Dr. Leland Goines, the virologist.
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12 Monkeys / int_9da6354b	type	Reality Has No Subtitles
12 Monkeys / int_9da6354b	comment	Reality Has No Subtitles: The French soldiers in the WW1 scene are not subtitled.
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12 Monkeys / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
12 Monkeys / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: NO! MORE! MONKEY! BUSINESS!!!
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12 Monkeys / int_a08199ec	type	The Dog Was the Mastermind
12 Monkeys / int_a08199ec	comment	The Dog Was the Mastermind: Who is the leader of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys? None other than Cole's fellow mental hospital inmate Jeffrey Goines. Ultimately subverted, since he and his Army had nothing to do with releasing the virus.
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12 Monkeys / int_a2ba7393	type	Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes
12 Monkeys / int_a2ba7393	comment	Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes: When Cole exits the police station in 1990, he is blinded by the daylight that he hasn't seen for ages.
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12 Monkeys / int_a4ffefce	type	Dream Intro
12 Monkeys / int_a4ffefce	comment	Dream Intro: The movie starts with the pivotal scene at the airport which turns out to be a dream Cole was having in his prison cell.
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12 Monkeys / int_a63a8586	type	Graffiti of the Resistance
12 Monkeys / int_a63a8586	comment	Graffiti of the Resistance: The Army of the Twelve Monkeys is a terrorist organization blamed for spreading a deadly super-virus that caused the destruction of most of humanity. When James Cole is sent back in time for intelligence and attempts to stop them against orders, he uses the Army's graffiti depicting twelve monkeys in a ring to locate them. In the end this trope gets subverted, since the Army is actually just an animal rights group that had nothing to do with the virus.
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12 Monkeys / int_ab27d196	type	Apocalypse Cult
12 Monkeys / int_ab27d196	comment	Apocalypse Cult: The film follows a time traveler from plague-devastated 2035 sent back to 1996 to prevent an apocalyptic group known as the Army of the Twelve Monkeys from releasing the virus. The Army of the Twelve Monkeys didn't actually release the virus; their great act of subversion was freeing animals from a zoo. The virus was actually released by an assistant at the lab where it was developed.
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12 Monkeys / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
12 Monkeys / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: The man who is really behind the release of the virus gets on the airplane and is seated next to a woman who, decades later, will send Cole on his mission into the past. When the man asks what she does for a living, she replies, "I'm in insurance."
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12 Monkeys / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
12 Monkeys / int_ad1db87c	comment	When Cole and Dr. Railly see a news program identifying them as wanted fugitives, they have an Oh, Crap! moment on realising a camera in a nearby video equipment store is projecting their faces on a huge multiple screen.
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12 Monkeys / int_ad459d78	type	Write Back to the Future
12 Monkeys / int_ad459d78	comment	Write Back to the Future: As Cole prepares to travel from the future, he is given the telephone number of an answering machine whose tape was found in archaeological research; the whole end-of-the-world problem ensured the tape was not erased for reuse. Although a team of scientists spent months and years recovering from the decayed magnetic tape. Later, Kathryn uses what she's learned from Cole to draw attention from the scientists, spray-painting the message "Is there a virus? Is this the source? 5,000,000,000 die?" on the wall of the 12 Monkeys' headquarters. Cole emerges from the forming crowd of spectators mere moments after she's finished her message.
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12 Monkeys / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
12 Monkeys / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Done in a very unique way. The protagonist has a recurring nightmare about a traumatic experience he had as a kid where he saw a man get shot by police after pulling a gun in an airport. It is only at the end that it becomes clear it is both a memory of his past and a vision of his future; the man that got shot is his older self from the future.
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12 Monkeys / int_b0218885	type	Mickey Mousing
12 Monkeys / int_b0218885	comment	Mickey Mousing: When he's introduced, Jeffrey Goines pops his head out of the collar of his shirt synchronized to a BOING sound effect from a cartoon playing on TV.
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12 Monkeys / int_b1562440	type	Sinister Tango Music
12 Monkeys / int_b1562440	comment	Sinister Tango Music: The title theme is also the leitmotif of the Army of the 12 Monkeys, the Animal Wrongs Group believed responsible for causing the apocalypse. It's written and performed by legendary tango musician Astor Piazzolla.
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12 Monkeys / int_b4322cd7	type	Cuckoo Nest
12 Monkeys / int_b4322cd7	comment	Cuckoo Nest: After arriving in 1990 Baltimore, Cole quickly ends up in an asylum, whose doctors believe that his warnings of the virus are just delusions. Much later, after returning to the future from the year of 1996, he finds himself in a hospital bed and comes to believe that he is still at the asylum.
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12 Monkeys / int_b534592c	type	This Is My Chair
12 Monkeys / int_b534592c	comment	This Is My Chair: Candidate for Trope Namer is the mentally insane Jeffrey Goines, who reacts like the loon he is when he sees another patient seated in his favorite chair.
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12 Monkeys / int_bb0a2242	type	No-Tell Motel
12 Monkeys / int_bb0a2242	comment	No-Tell Motel: Cole and Railly visit an hourly hotel to work out just what the hell is going on with their lives in privacy. The clerk assumes that she's a prostitute and that they're role-playing some sort of doctor/patient fetish. Later, a pimp arrives and accuses her of turning tricks in his territory.
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12 Monkeys / int_bcf1bb32	type	Ominous Multiple Screens
12 Monkeys / int_bcf1bb32	comment	Ominous Multiple Screens: Cole is questioned and briefed by the panel of scientists while strapped to a Shackle Seat Trap as a sinister globe holding a confusing array of cameras, microphones and video screens is held in front of his face. When Cole and Dr. Railly see a news program identifying them as wanted fugitives, they have an Oh, Crap! moment on realising a camera in a nearby video equipment store is projecting their faces on a huge multiple screen.
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12 Monkeys / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
12 Monkeys / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: For the viewer, although by the end it becomes comprehensible. Also, for James, who starts to think he really is insane and that he imagined traveling from the future. It's mentioned that this happens to all time travelers. Finally, for Katherine, first as she starts to realize that James must have come from the future, and later when she starts to "remember" things that never actually happened (when they put on the disguises and she says he looks familiar.)
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12 Monkeys / int_bf35c04a	type	Demoted Memories
12 Monkeys / int_bf35c04a	comment	Demoted Memories: Late in the film, Cole starts to believe he really is just an escaped schizophrenic and not a time-traveler. He gets over it.
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12 Monkeys / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
12 Monkeys / int_c145f69b	comment	At the very end of the story, it is subverted when James gets over his mental breakdown and tries to attack Peters, which ends with him dead and Peters still alive to spread the virus, completing the Stable Time Loop.
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12 Monkeys / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
12 Monkeys / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: Bruce Willis, which is very well justified by his character being either heavily sedated or emotionally traumatized for most of the movie. In addition, it provides a perfect contrast for Brad Pitt's maniacal bombast.
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12 Monkeys / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
12 Monkeys / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": A bit understated for the trope, but extremely impactful: when Kathryn sees Cole's photo from the First World War.
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12 Monkeys / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
12 Monkeys / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: "I've done my job, I did what you wanted. Good luck. I'm not coming back."
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12 Monkeys / int_c6255bd1	type	Infectious Insanity
12 Monkeys / int_c6255bd1	comment	Infectious Insanity: Discussed by Jeffrey and defied by the authorities.
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12 Monkeys / int_c6c5ce4	type	Bedlam House
12 Monkeys / int_c6c5ce4	comment	Bedlam House: Averted. The protagonist is confined to a regular psychiatric hospital, and not to some sort of Arkham Asylum.
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12 Monkeys / int_c6dccfb7	type	Musical Spoiler
12 Monkeys / int_c6dccfb7	comment	Musical Spoiler: The first clue of Brad Pitt's involvement with the Army of the 12 Monkeys is when the "12 Monkeys" leitmotif plays during one of his rants.
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12 Monkeys / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
12 Monkeys / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Cole and Railly attend an Alfred Hitchcock movie marathon just before they go to the airport and catch a viewing of Vertigo. It gives Railly the idea to dye her hair blonde.
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12 Monkeys / int_c7f6bce3	type
12 Monkeys / int_c7f6bce3	comment	"End Is Nigh" Ending: Downplayed. The pandemic's aftermath is amply depicted in scenes of the future, and the movie ends with the post-apocalyptic time traveler failing to change events in the slightest, although his boss appears at the end to collect a viral sample and thus, make the more distant future less grim. The person carrying the deadly virus is then forced to open the canister by airport security, which is the exact moment that dooms mankind. We never get to see the virus spread, but we already know that it's inevitable.
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12 Monkeys / int_cafdaf4e	type	Trust Password
12 Monkeys / int_cafdaf4e	comment	Trust Password: A first pointer to Kathryn that Cole is indeed telling the truth about being a time traveler from the future is him correctly predicting the Timmy in a Well story on the news to be a prank. Later he tells Kathryn to make a phone call for him to a phone he knows will be monitored in the future. Kathryn leaves a message that Cole can recite together with her from his Photographic Memory.
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12 Monkeys / int_cd3ebc8e	type	What Year Is This?
12 Monkeys / int_cd3ebc8e	comment	What Year Is This?: Cole gets sent to the wrong year several times, so he has to figure out when he is a few times.
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12 Monkeys / int_cf16fd74	type	Girl of My Dreams
12 Monkeys / int_cf16fd74	comment	Girl of My Dreams: Cole has repeating dreams of a woman who resembles his psychiatrist, but the recurring dream was caused by a childhood memory of seeing something horrible happen to his time-traveling future self and his lover.
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12 Monkeys / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
12 Monkeys / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Discussed. Cole can't get people to believe that he's from the future and needs to find the virus sample to save humanity. During Dr. Railly's lecture on apocalyptic visions, her audience has a good chuckle when she talks of a doomsayer in the Middle Ages who foretold that the world would be destroyed by a virus in the same year the lecture is taking place in. It's implied this is another time traveller who got stranded in the wrong century. She even describes this potential mentall illness as a "Cassandra complex" and briefly relates the Cassandra legend.
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12 Monkeys / int_d026cad8	type	Sigil Spam
12 Monkeys / int_d026cad8	comment	Sigil Spam: The Army of the 12 Monkeys tags the walls around their base with graffiti shaped like a ring of 12 monkeys.
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12 Monkeys / int_d73e0f7f	type	"Ray of Hope" Ending
12 Monkeys / int_d73e0f7f	comment	"Ray of Hope" Ending: Protagonist James Cole, a time traveler from After the End, dies trying (and failing) to stop the villain from releasing the virus that triggers The End of the World as We Know It. But in the next scene, another time traveler appears in disguise to speak with the villain — implying that, thanks to Cole's work, the scientists of the future will finally get a pure sample of the virus so they can make a vaccine. The past can't be changed, but the future can still be saved.
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12 Monkeys / int_d8d22bb0	type	Dutch Angle
12 Monkeys / int_d8d22bb0	comment	Dutch Angle: The camera is tilted during Cole's time in the psychiatric hospital in 1990, to highlight his losing grip on reality.
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12 Monkeys / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
12 Monkeys / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The Army of the Twelve Monkeys didn't release the virus.
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12 Monkeys / int_dc8ecfda	type	Futureshadowing
12 Monkeys / int_dc8ecfda	comment	Futureshadowing: We see a man being shot in an airport, long before we find out who the man is, what he's doing in the airport, and why he got shot.
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12 Monkeys / int_dcaa8b35	type	Locked Room Mystery
12 Monkeys / int_dcaa8b35	comment	Locked Room Mystery: The staff at the asylum is puzzled after Cole escapes into thin air from the isolation cell. The answer, of course, is time travel.
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12 Monkeys / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
12 Monkeys / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The medieval alarmist mentioned by Dr. Railly in her lecture appears later in 1996 Philadelphia as an apocalypse evangelist, who reveals to Cole that he, like Cole, is a time traveler. He turns out to be unimportant to the plot. Dr. Peters is introduced as someone who attended Dr. Railly's lecture "Madness and Apocalyptic Visions" and turns out to be the guy who spread the virus. Jose at first seems just like a guy to give Cole some exposition on forced volunteering. Then, he shows up on the WW1 battlefield to highlight the multiple missions and dangers of time travel. Finally, he shows up at the end as the messenger to force Cole onto the suicide mission. The three animal rights protestors operating Freedom for Animals Associationâ€”Teddy, Fale, and Beeâ€”initially seem to be unrelated to the Army of the Twelve Monkeys but later show up helping Jeffrey.
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12 Monkeys / int_e0dc6390	comment	Go Among Mad People: The protagonist (a man from the post-apocalyptic future sent back in time to try to prevent an unprecedented disaster) can't function in modern society and is quickly institutionalized, where his claims of being a time traveler from the future don't really help. He spends much of the rest of the movie more than half convinced that his memories of time travel are just a fantasy.
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12 Monkeys / int_e47d1ecc	comment	Doomed Fellow Prisoner: Zigzagged. Cole is introduced sharing a cell with Jose, speculating about being subjected to the time travel experiment. Cole is the one who gets taken and subjected to this, but then he encounters Jose, also having been sent through time and in a far more precarious situation than Cole himself is. Then it turns out that Jose survived that though, and he ultimately makes it to the end of the movie, unlike Cole himself.
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12 Monkeys / int_f329f2a2	comment	Got Volunteered: The movie opens with Cole being selected for Volunteer Duty, which involves him going up to the virus-infected surface in a Hazmat Suit to gather samples. While ostensibly the prisoners are offered a reduction in sentence, those 'volunteered' either go insane or simply disappear — Cole finds out why when he's asked to join a special program.
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12 Monkeys / int_f57bd598	comment	The Schizophrenia Conspiracy: Jeffrey Goines is a paranoid schizophrenic, while James Cole is a man sent back in time to save the Future from a viral plague but everyone assumes he's a paranoid schizophrenic because he claims he was sent back in time to save the Future from a viral plague. Additionally, most of the other patients at the hospital Cole was at were quite paranoid or delusional.
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