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Battle Royale

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Battle Royale	comment	In a fascist, alternate-timeline Japan, called the Greater East Asia Republic, the government has a unique way of curbing delinquency amongst its youth: It chooses 50 classes of high school students at random every year, then kidnaps the whole class and places them all on an isolated island with no chance of escape. The students are given one weapon each, then — under the threat of death — forced to kill each other until only one student remains alive. This once controversial (but now regularly recurring) military experiment has gone on since 1947, a few years after this version of Japan won a certain war, and is known only as "The Program." Out of the latest such class to "volunteer" for The Program, aspiring rock musician and orphaned teenager Shuya Nanahara has no desire to play the sick game — and every intention of escaping with his life.Originally a novel by Koushun Takami, Battle Royale was adapted into a live-action movie and a Door Stopper manga series (it has over 3000 pages). The plots of these adaptations have minor differences, but each feature the same general events. An American remake was announced in 2006, but it quickly fell into Development Hell.One of the main themes of this book / manga / movie is fear and hatred of young people. Several Japanese government officials completely missed this and blamed Battle Royale for a sharp rise in teenage delinquency in Japan.The book, along with its film and manga adaptations, is the Trope Namer for Battle Royale Game, a video game genre with rules similar to the "game" in the book and its adaptations.Unrelated to Battle Royal High School despite the title, although otherwise similar in bloodshed.
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Battle Royale / int_12a22bd8	type	Katanas Are Just Better
Battle Royale / int_12a22bd8	comment	Katanas Are Just Better: Used in the film, where Kazuo uses it against Oda. When the target is wearing a bullet proof vest, an Uzi isn't of much use (in the novel, he simply shoots Oda in the face). Such a pity he had to tell his assailant what had saved his life... Technically of course it isn't a katana, but a Wakizashi, but the principle still applies.
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Battle Royale / int_13992073	type	Rasputinian Death
Battle Royale / int_13992073	comment	Rasputinian Death: Kiriyama and Shinji are the best examples, though others borderline this.
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Battle Royale / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Battle Royale / int_1439161f	comment	In the manga, Shuya spends a lot of time reassuring everyone that Shinji's going to come up with a plan to get them all off the island. Finding his body is a big factor in Shuya's epic Heroic BSoD.
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Battle Royale / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Battle Royale / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Several of the students' weapons weren't seen in the film version, however what they were given was confirmed in promotional materials released in Japan along with the film.
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Battle Royale / int_185be310	type	Acceptable Feminine Goals and Traits
Battle Royale / int_185be310	comment	Acceptable Feminine Goals and Traits: It's most apparent just after Noriko's dream sequence, where she tells Kawada how she was expected to just leave school, find a man, be a Housewife and live a normal, boring life. Now however, with all this, she realises that even if she does somehow survive (and remember that her protector, Shuya, is missing at this point) then nothing will ever be the same again.
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Battle Royale / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Battle Royale / int_19851b86	comment	Played with in the case of Kazuo. Due to brain damage, he is a sociopath who doesn't care about anything in general. As a result, he flipped a coin to determine what he was going to do: if heads, he was going to rebel against the Program's overseers and if tails, he was going to participate in the Program.
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Battle Royale / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
Battle Royale / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: In the movie, Shuya and Yoshitoki shout each other's names before Yoshitoki's collar explodes.
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Battle Royale / int_1aa30797	type	Single Woman Seeks Good Man
Battle Royale / int_1aa30797	comment	Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Probably part of the reason that Shuya is a Chick Magnet, as he's one of the nicest boys in the class.
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Battle Royale / int_1b06aa41	type	Villains Never Lie
Battle Royale / int_1b06aa41	comment	Villains Never Lie: Kamon boasts that he raped and murdered the head of Shuuya's orphanage, Ms. Ryoko to demoralize him. This is later subverted as in the final chapter, Shuya, spying on the orphanage, sees her alive and well. Kamon, apparently, was just being a Troll.
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Battle Royale / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Battle Royale / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Sonny Chiba turns up for a scene as Mimura's uncle in the second film (although the character is already dead before Battle Royale, according to the original novel). Yuko Miyamura, best known as the voice actress for Asuka Langley Soryu and Casca, appears in the first film as the Cool Big Sis in the Battle Royale instructional video.
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Battle Royale / int_1c77ec26	type	The Voice
Battle Royale / int_1c77ec26	comment	The Voice: An extremely interesting case that makes a sub-plot stretching across both films more effective. In the first film, we don't see Shiori Kitano, the teacher's daughter, we only hear her voice on the phone. In the second film, she's a main character. What adds more to this is that Kitano (senior) sees Noriko as his surrogate daughter as Shiori hates him. Noriko and Shiori are played by real life sisters, Aki and Ai Maeda (respectively).
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Battle Royale / int_1d91d828	type	Deadly Game
Battle Royale / int_1d91d828	comment	Deadly Game: The Program is very deadly. Out of 42 students only one can survive and there is no such thing as foul play or unneccessary roughness. If there's no winner after three days, all of them will die.
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Battle Royale / int_1f0f3d6f	type	Cute Kitten
Battle Royale / int_1f0f3d6f	comment	Cute Kitten: Many kittens pop up in the story: Shuya and Noriko find a cute kitten, play with it as they comment about how cute it is. Then they are attacked by Oki. In the manga Kaori is driven mad by the violence and she shoots a kitten with her gun, thinking "Even kittens want to kill me!" Hiroki has a flashback about Kayoko when he took with him a very young kitten in the street, hiding it in his desk and wondering why it is meowing so much. Kayoko teaches him that he must rub its crotch with a warm wet towel to make it pee.
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Battle Royale / int_1faf34ad	type	Prisoner's Dilemma
Battle Royale / int_1faf34ad	comment	Prisoner's Dilemma: A major theme all around. While most of them want to cooperate and find a way to survive together, they know that in the minute the game has started they can't trust anyone anymore because anybody could be playing the game to win and betray everyone (and Kiriyama and Mitsuko absolutely do).
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Battle Royale / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Battle Royale / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Kitano in the film, compared to his novel counterpart (an active psychopath, liar, rapist, and murderer who delights in the game) is much more apathetic and sad, having a dead-end job in the wake of an economic crash, under the iron fist of a fascist government, disrespected by his family, maimed by one of his students and ignored by the rest. - the only real joy he takes from Program is killing are killing the delinquents who severely wounded him or taunted him.
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Battle Royale / int_21889507	type	A House Divided
Battle Royale / int_21889507	comment	A House Divided: The girls in the lighthouse. Deadly distrust drives them apart of each other.
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Battle Royale / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Battle Royale / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: All three versions make it pretty clear that that's what the world has become, though the sequel to the film suggests that in the film continuity things aren't quite as bad as they are in the novel/manga, both of which have a Nineteen Eighty-Four type feel to them.
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Battle Royale / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
Battle Royale / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Shinji, Shogo, and the lighthouse girls are open to helping their classmates but are cautious of people they don't know too well and are willing to kill in self-defense if necessary. None of them want to play by the Program's rules and instead spend most of their time gathering supplies for themselves and hiding from the other classmates.
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Battle Royale / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Battle Royale / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Given the premise, most of the more humorous moments fall into this category. Notable examples include the Genki Girl who explains the brutal, violent nature of the competition in an utterly inappropriately cheerful voice while gesturely cutely, some of the more useless "weapons" the students are given, and Kitano munching on the cookies he confiscated from the students.
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Battle Royale / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Battle Royale / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In the manga, Shogo Kawada remembers that they left a shotgun in a field when ambushed earlier by Kiriyama. He manages to shoot Kiriyama, but it doesn't work. Furthermore, Sugimura gives Yukie a throwing knife to give to Shuya when he wakes up. Later, during Shuya's final fight with Kiriyama, he uses it to blinds Kiriyama in the same eye that Kiriyama had blinded Sugimura in during their last fight, though Shuya wouldn't have known that.
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Battle Royale / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
Battle Royale / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: Mistakenly believing Shuya to have murdered another student (the death was accidentally self-inflicted), Yuko tries to kill him with food laced with potassium cyanide. Another student ends up eating it, her death causing a domino effect that kills all of Yuko's friends, then Yuko, herself.
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Battle Royale / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Battle Royale / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The manga expands the characters from the novel a lot.
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Battle Royale / int_27b418da	type	A Winner Is You
Battle Royale / int_27b418da	comment	A Winner Is You: A rare example outside of video games. The winner will get nothing in the film and nothing besides a small life-long pension and the the dictator's autograph in the novel. Shogo was the winner of the last (third to last in the film) year's program. It doesn't protect him from being part of the program again. Mai is the winner of last year's program (in the film) but doesn't receive anything. She joins Shuya's resistance in Requiem: The winner of this year's program is technically Shogo after faking the deaths of Shuya and Noriko but he dies on the boat shortly after the Big Bad dies. Shuya and Noriko are legally dead now and have to go underground. They are back for Requiem.
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Battle Royale / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Battle Royale / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Shiori in the second film, as she comes to a greater understanding of herself and the relationship between her father and Noriko.
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Battle Royale / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Battle Royale / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshaded by a ship's captain in the final chapter when talking about Noriko and Shuuya, who survived, saying that he feels terrible because, looking into Noriko's eyes and seeing what she must've gone through, makes him think that it could very easily be his own daughter next time.
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Battle Royale / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Battle Royale / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Some of the weapons, like the nunchaku. Notably, when Genre Savvy Kiriyama kills off Numai's gang and paws through their weapons, he doesn't bother taking that one.
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Battle Royale / int_2be271c7	type	Hollywood Hacking
Battle Royale / int_2be271c7	comment	Hollywood Hacking: Complete with Rapid-Fire Typing in what appears to be perfectly valid C, but arguably a subversion since the source code is that of Nmap, a network scanning tool in common usage for penetration testing.
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Battle Royale / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
Battle Royale / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: The two best friends, Yumiko Kusaka and Yukiko Kitano, are this respectively in the novel. Yumiko is on the softball team and Yukiko enjoys making cakes.
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Battle Royale / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Battle Royale / int_2d4fa515	comment	Kazuo Kiriyama gets his Ax-Crazy streak magnified to the point that he's nothing more than a mute one-man genocide machine who goes sprinting after every quarry he can find, guns blazing; in the novel, he's a dispassionate psychopath who maintained a group of friends, put up a facade of being normal, and is extremely dispassionate in dispatching the competitors.
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Battle Royale / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Battle Royale / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: In the manga, most of the students in the class look a bit older than junior high students should.
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Battle Royale / int_306faf0d	type	Close to Home
Battle Royale / int_306faf0d	comment	Close to Home: The premise is this, as well as part of its tagline of "Could you kill your best friend?". It revolves around 15 year olds being forced to fight each other, friends against each other. Lampshaded by a ship's captain in the final chapter when talking about Noriko and Shuuya, who survived, saying that he feels terrible because, looking into Noriko's eyes and seeing what she must've gone through, makes him think that it could very easily be his own daughter next time.
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Battle Royale / int_32e279c4	type	Humans Are Flawed
Battle Royale / int_32e279c4	comment	Humans Are Flawed: The general consensus of the novel and its adapataions. Some of the students kill one other out of paranoia and at some points, the protagonists are forced to kill out of self-defense, something that negatively affect their psyches. However, most of Class 3B are not killers; in fact, some of the killers go insane due to the Program's Sadistic Choice of kill or be killed. On the same note, the best killers in Class 3B have freudian excuses, most notoriously Kazuo Kiriyama, who is only a killer due to brain damage caused by a freak accident and even then, it takes a coin flip for him to decide to kill everyone else. In the end though, it is the alliance of two pacifists and a hardened veteran of the Program that ultimately wins the Program and defeats the Program Administrator of Class 3B.
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Battle Royale / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Battle Royale / int_34579385	comment	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Kazuo Kiriyama manages to do this when he kills Mitsuko who happens to use sympathy and her body as a weapon. This makes her a perfect counter for someone like Shuya, and since Kiriyama is an Empty Shell that can't be seduced, he manages to kill her before she can kill any other students.
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Battle Royale / int_3548fa0b	type	Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You
Battle Royale / int_3548fa0b	comment	Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: In the novel and manga, Yoshimi, after learning that Yoji intends to kill her, tells Yoji that he can kill her. Yoji, in shock, does not kill her. Also occurs with Shinji Mimura and Yutaka Seto. Shinji throws his gun at Yutaka and tells him that if he can't trust him then he can shoot him if he wants to. It leads to a moment where the two cry together.
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Battle Royale / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
Battle Royale / int_36135fb0	comment	Noriko and Shuya are the Official Couple, with Kuninobu also very obviously crushing on Noriko. While Shuya's feelings for Noriko are left slightly ambiguous, this appears to be due to not wanting to go after the girl his best friend was crazy about so soon after his death. That she has feelings for him though she can't hold in, even if she does apparently feel a bit guilty about it.
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Battle Royale / int_370aad9	type	Split Personality
Battle Royale / int_370aad9	comment	Split Personality: Mitsuko basically has two sides to her. One is a child desperate for love, the other is a deranged, cynical killer.
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Battle Royale / int_38d12399	type	Teens Are Monsters
Battle Royale / int_38d12399	comment	Teens Are Monsters: The main question asked of the movie is a large part of the point of the story. 'Could you kill your best friend?' In a lot of ways it doesn't matter that the protagonists are teens, it's about human nature in general.
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Battle Royale / int_39684516	type	Kill the Ones You Love
Battle Royale / int_39684516	comment	Kill the Ones You Love: "Could you kill your best friend?" is the Tag Line of the movie. Although Kiriyama and Mitsuko accumulate the highest body count, there are many instances where best friends kill each other like the lighthouse girls and Mizuho/Kaori.
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Battle Royale / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Battle Royale / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: Sugimura's tracking device. It's a good thing it never fell into the hands of a student actually playing to win; Kazuo or Mitsuko in particular would have been even more unstoppable had they added this little gadget to either of their arsenals.
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Battle Royale / int_3a967286	type	Handsome Lech
Battle Royale / int_3a967286	comment	Handsome Lech: Shinji Mimura. His marked sexist tendencies don't seem to get in the way of this at all.
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Battle Royale / int_3cb9ed4d	type	Bulletproof Vest
Battle Royale / int_3cb9ed4d	comment	Toshinori Oda in the film only, who is shot with an Uzi by Kazuo but survives because of his awesome Bulletproof Vest. A fact he screams at the top of his voice the second he realises he's still alive. Cue Kazuo leaping off a small building beside him, wakizashi in hand.
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Battle Royale / int_3e22702	type	O.C. Stand-in
Battle Royale / int_3e22702	comment	O.C. Stand-in: Mayumi Tendo and Fumiyo Fujiyoshi due to the characters receiving almost no characterization whatsoever in any of the media - including the novel (they don't live long enough for that). Most of the students in the second film.
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Battle Royale / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: The two cars in the chase sequence at the end of the novel/manga.
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Battle Royale / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
Battle Royale / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Shuya and Yuichiro, though Yuichiro actually made some headway; His refusal to think of Mitsuko as a bad person genuinely touched her to the point that she had a complete mental breakdown when he was shot. There is at least one recorded instance of an entire Program completely refusing to kill each other. The government decided to detonate all their collars after they avoided the hot zones and lasted two days.
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Battle Royale / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Battle Royale / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: In the film adaptation, Shuya and Noriko have survived and escaped, meaning the Program has failed for the first time ever, and Shogo has found peace at last, but everyone else is dead, including Kitano and Shogo, and they're doomed to live the rest of their lives as fugitives. And while The Program has failed, they didn't completely stop it from happening again... so it's likely that, in six months, another class will be chosen and submitted to it. And again and again. This is further emphasized by the events of Battle Royale II. The manga adaptation is similar but much more optimistic. Shuya and Noriko make it to the democratic America where they are presumably safe from the Republic of Greater East Asia. All their friends, including Shogo, are still dead though. Shuya's commentary lampshades how the apparent Happily Ever After epilogue is not indicative of his mental state or his future, and he is generally a bitter and violent person inside from all the death and gore of the "fucking game".
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Battle Royale / int_40fa47e4	type	Say It with Hearts
Battle Royale / int_40fa47e4	comment	Say It with Hearts: Various characters in the manga (obviously). Used for a variety of effects, from the very creepy to the heartwarmingly sincere.
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Battle Royale / int_41271766	type	Happily Ever After
Battle Royale / int_41271766	comment	The manga adaptation is similar but much more optimistic. Shuya and Noriko make it to the democratic America where they are presumably safe from the Republic of Greater East Asia. All their friends, including Shogo, are still dead though. Shuya's commentary lampshades how the apparent Happily Ever After epilogue is not indicative of his mental state or his future, and he is generally a bitter and violent person inside from all the death and gore of the "fucking game".
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Battle Royale / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
Battle Royale / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: The novel ends with Shuya and Noriko fleeing from a police officer. While the narrator is optimistic about the duo's chances, there is a good possibility that Shuya and Noriko will be captured sooner or later by the government's forces.
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Battle Royale / int_442a6995	type	Stupid Sacrifice
Battle Royale / int_442a6995	comment	Stupid Sacrifice: Shintaro in the second film accidentally pulls this - not only does his death accomplish nothing, it gets Kazumi killed because he's her partner. And let's not forget Riki's final rugby dive.
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Battle Royale / int_453871ec	type	What Could Have Been
Battle Royale / int_453871ec	comment	What Could Have Been: In-universe, Kazuo's coin flip in the novel and manga acts as this, especially since Shuya and Mitsuru believed that given Kazuo's many talents, Kazuo could have easily outsmarted Sakamochi and the others.
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Battle Royale / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Battle Royale / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Kiriyama may or may not have seen Sugimura as this in the manga. Being the first person to significantly damage him. Even when Shuuya was throwing the knife, he was having a Call-Back to Hiroki doing the same thing.
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Battle Royale / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Battle Royale / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Kazuo, Mitsuko, and a few other students are this.
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Battle Royale / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Battle Royale / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Pretty much all the students. Of course excluding Mitsuko, Yoshimi, and Yuko, who came pre-broken.
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Battle Royale / int_4c24a9ed	type	Power Copying
Battle Royale / int_4c24a9ed	comment	Power Copying: Kazuo Kiriyama in the manga adaptation. He's a genius who can perform flawlessly anything he's seen (or read about) once, and he employs this fully in his fight against Hiroki Sugimura (an accomplished Kenpo master).
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Battle Royale / int_4f773434	type	Wise Beyond Their Years
Battle Royale / int_4f773434	comment	Wise Beyond Their Years: Most of the students in The Program handle things better than other classes would. Not only that, each of them usually has some special skill.
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Battle Royale / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Battle Royale / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Kamon and Oda both qualify.
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Battle Royale / int_5029c444	type	Audible Sharpness
Battle Royale / int_5029c444	comment	Audible Sharpness: In the film. When Kitano pulls his knife out of Fujiyoshi's skull, it inexplicably makes a metallic sound of a knife brushing against metal.
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Battle Royale / int_531a1f38	type	Book Snap
Battle Royale / int_531a1f38	comment	Book Snap: A flashback shows Kiriyama snapping his book shut and shouting "Some of us are trying to study!" when a few hoodlums try to start a fight in the library. He then opens a can of whoop-ass.
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Battle Royale / int_54a4233b	type	Honorary True Companion
Battle Royale / int_54a4233b	comment	Honorary True Companion: Hiroki and the lighthouse girls provide some aide to the main characters and get offers to join their group, but none survive long enough to do so.
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Battle Royale / int_557a31ce	type	Actual Pacifist
Battle Royale / int_557a31ce	comment	A few such as Yumiko and Yukiko do not want to fight at all even in self-defense and try to unite the entire class.
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Battle Royale / int_557dabce	type	Deserted Island
Battle Royale / int_557dabce	comment	Deserted Island: The game takes place on a small and evacuated island where only the remains of civilization are found. Its circumference is about 10 km.
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Battle Royale / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Battle Royale / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit. Mitsuko in all three versions, though the victim changes. In the novel and manga, it's Hiroki, who has captured her and intends killing her in revenge for Chigusa. A combination of her crocodile tears and his martial pacifism allow her to escape. In the film she pulls it on Hirono, though it doesn't actually work as Hirono knows her too well. Mitsuko still kills her though.
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Battle Royale / int_56d5b88f	type	Divided We Fall
Battle Royale / int_56d5b88f	comment	Divided We Fall: In the book, this turns out to be the whole point of the Program. Every six months, everyone in Japan gets to see a broadcast giving the body count of a particular runthrough, categorized by means of death. When the average citizens all have it ingrained in their minds that the people they grew up with are willing to kill them to survive, trusting one another becomes quite a lot harder, meaning that they can't coordinate and organise effectively to overthrow the government. Additionally, the government is seeking to actively recruit the winners as people callous and self-interested enough to maintain control.
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Battle Royale / int_5730ba86	type	Pop the Tires
Battle Royale / int_5730ba86	comment	Pop the Tires: The Grand Finale has the heroes facing off against Kiriyama in a car chase. They use guns to pop his tires and cause his car to get destroyed.
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Battle Royale / int_5876fa2d	type	Inverse Dialogue Death Rule
Battle Royale / int_5876fa2d	comment	Inverse Dialogue Death Rule: All the major characters get long drawn-out deaths, with the huge hordes of enemies at the end of the film all stopping their attacking to let characters like Shiori Kitano spend five full minutes making peace with the world.
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Battle Royale / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Battle Royale / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The film distills the original novel down to feature length.
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Battle Royale / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Battle Royale / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: The main and most obvious one is trust and What You Are in the Dark, both of which are tested by the Program. Paranoia also plays a part as certain students are very good at hiding their ulterior motives. The film has an additional theme concerning The Generation Gap between youth and elderly. In the beginning of the film, the economic crisis has caused the country of Japan to collapse, demoralizing the adults. As a result, the youth revolt as they have lost confidence in the adults, and the adults fearing the youth fight back with the Battle Royale Act. This is best emphasized with Kitano, whose daughter doesn't respect him; subsequently, Kitano exploits the Battle Royale Act to take out his frustration on Class 3B, who are of the same generation as his daughter.
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Battle Royale / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Battle Royale / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: The Big Bad casually explains the rules in all versions he also kills a few students in a calm manner. It's possibly even worse in the film, in which an instructional video featuring a Genki Girl joyfully explains the rules to the students.
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Battle Royale / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Battle Royale / int_60547993	comment	Chigusa loves Hiroki, who secretly loves Kotohiki. Chigusa does find out when she flat out asks Hiroki if he loves her, but she's dying when she asks so, while clearly upsetting to her, it's the least of her concerns at the time. Also qualifies as a heartwarming I Want My Beloved to Be Happy moment, since she'd clearly already worked it out and was just hoping he really did love her. In the novel, when Hiroki admits that he does have crush, Takako comments that he'd better not say her (i.e. "You know better than to say it just to try to make me happy in my last moments.").
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Battle Royale / int_605dc9af	type	Team Mercy vs. Team Murder
Battle Royale / int_605dc9af	comment	Team Mercy vs. Team Murder: When the stakes reveal themselves, everyone instantly splits into groups of "doesn't want to kill anyone" and "definitely wants to kill someone."
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Battle Royale / int_60f567f1	type	Lonely Piano Piece
Battle Royale / int_60f567f1	comment	Lonely Piano Piece: Shiori Kitano plays "Memories" in the second film, the scene cutting between her abuse of her late father in the past, and as she is now in the present.
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Battle Royale / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Battle Royale / int_627264e0	comment	Kawada actually gets two in the film. The first is him already lacing up his shoes so he is ready to run when his name is called... then turning around a claiming a different bag as his own all fearlessly talking back to the military and giving Kiriyama a Death Glare, showing that Kawada is focused, knows what is going on, and isn't frightened by the circumstances. The second is when he saves Shuuya and Noriko from the class president but spares them when he learns that aren't a threat. He then tries to save two girls calling for peace by shooting in the air to scare him, while also stopping Shuuya from running to his death. This establish him as someone, while willing to kill, is far from heartless or sociopathic like Mitsuko or Kiriyama.
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Battle Royale / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Battle Royale / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: In the second film, Shibaki and Osamu each pull one in short succession.
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Battle Royale / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
Battle Royale / int_659ef759	comment	Just about every time a character realizes how much of an Implacable Man Kiriyama is their face looks like this.
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Battle Royale / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Battle Royale / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen gets quite a number of mentions due to being a song the author loves.
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Battle Royale / int_68186dcd	type	Double Tap
Battle Royale / int_68186dcd	comment	Double Tap: How Kiriyama kills Oda.
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Battle Royale / int_68f6e811	type	Made of Plasticine
Battle Royale / int_68f6e811	comment	Made of Plasticine: The manga version is extremely graphic. Kegfuls of blood are spilled, brains are frequently blown out, one character is disemboweled, and another is torn in half when she hits the ground after she jumps off a lighthouse. According to some, even blows the infamous Elfen Lied out of the water.
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Battle Royale / int_6a2ae11f	type	Improbable Weapon User
Battle Royale / int_6a2ae11f	comment	Improbable Weapon User: Mai in the sequel, with her explosive-laden doll.
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Battle Royale / int_6a2c358d	type	A Death in the Limelight
Battle Royale / int_6a2c358d	comment	A Death in the Limelight: When a chapter suddenly switches to the point of view of a minor character, it's generally not good news for him/her...
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Battle Royale / int_6a6c1f35	type	The Power of Rock
Battle Royale / int_6a6c1f35	comment	Discussed with these words, when Shuya says that The Power of Rock could make the country crumble down.
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Battle Royale / int_6a85e9e1	type	Dub-Induced Plot Hole
Battle Royale / int_6a85e9e1	comment	Dub-Induced Plot Hole: The English translation of the manga introduces the conceit that the Program is actually a televised reality show, rather than just a government program. This creates multiple plot holes, including Mimura failing to realise that the collars are wired for sound (which goes from a foolish oversight in the original to totally inexplicable in the translation), and Kawada choosing a location to fake Shuuya and Noriko's deaths in an area where what's really happening can't be seen even though the entire island is meant to be covered in cameras so the footage can be broadcast (it's hardly unthinkable that there would be some camera blindspots, but in the original he chooses a heavily forested area so the government can't tell what really happens using satellite imaging).
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Battle Royale / int_6b53db7b	type	Help Mistaken for Attack
Battle Royale / int_6b53db7b	comment	Help Mistaken for Attack: Hiroki tries to help save his crush, but the minute he approaches her in the game she shoots him down, mistaking it for attack.
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Battle Royale / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Battle Royale / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: In the film, Shuya's father hangs himself after Shuya's mother left the family. During the program itself, this happens to a few students who would rather die than fight. Yuko Sakaki kills herself after accidentally poisoning one of her friends, which caused her other friends to turn on each other.
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Battle Royale / int_6d57a234	type	Lemony Narrator
Battle Royale / int_6d57a234	comment	Lemony Narrator: The book's narrator lapses into this whenever someone's about to die or has just died.
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Battle Royale / int_6fd83482	type	Ocular Gushers
Battle Royale / int_6fd83482	comment	Ocular Gushers: Too many instances to count. In the manga, practically every character has at least one instance of crying over something big (or small) over the course of the story. Except for Kiriyama.
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Battle Royale / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Battle Royale / int_722b3319	comment	Sho's Camp Gay-ness is taken up to eleven in the manga. Asides from just being concerned with his appearance, he acts and speaks in an overly flamboyant, effeminate manner (for example, saying "drinky-poo" and wearing a zebra print suit, along with lipstick) and is shown making sexual advances towards Ryuji, a sexist regular in the bar his dad runsnote Granted, it is just to get him to stop harassing a woman there, but he does it entirely willingly.. His stalker tendencies are also ramped up, to the point where the notes state he has a tendency to develop irrational crushes on heterosexual man.
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Battle Royale / int_7289b368	type	Idiot Hero
Battle Royale / int_7289b368	comment	While Shuya is a bit of an Idiot Hero in general, two particular moments of stupidity stick out from the film. The first is him screaming at the top of his lungs after two girls are killed nearby, thus potentially alerting the killer to his location, and the second is him sticking his head up in full view of the window when he knows a killer with a gun is nearby. Both times Shogo is left to keep Shuya from getting himself (and Noriko) killed, first by telling him to shut up and second by literally shoving Shuya's head down out of sight.
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Battle Royale / int_72c8b35c	type	When She Smiles
Battle Royale / int_72c8b35c	comment	When She Smiles: Hirono, at least in the manga. When she smiled from the heart, Shuya realized that she actually wasn't such a bad person after all.
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Battle Royale / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
Battle Royale / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: Numai's gang in the film fall victim to this, though in their defence (a) it's reasonable to assume that 3 people with guns and a fourth with grenades are going to win in a fight against a guy "armed" with a paper fan and (b) in the film version they don't know how just how dangerous Kazuo actually is. Hirono also makes the mistake in the film by not killing Mitsuko on one of the very rare occasions on which she was actually caught vulnerable. Unlike Numai, Hirono can't justify her actions with the belief that Mitsuko was unarmed, because it's clear Hirono knows her well enough that she realise know such problems don't stop a person like Mitsuko.
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Battle Royale / int_7583ecbf	type	Morality Kitchen Sink
Battle Royale / int_7583ecbf	comment	Morality Kitchen Sink: All the Class 3B students react to the Program and its rules in a variety of ways due to differing levels of morality. A few such as Yumiko and Yukiko do not want to fight at all even in self-defense and try to unite the entire class. Some such as Shuya and Noriko believe in the best in people and unselfishly want to help all their classmates escape the Program. That said, they resort to non-lethal violence to defend themselves if nonviolence does not work against the more crazy/malicious classmates. However, they do have one kill each in the novel, which dealt blows to their psyches. Others like Hiroki, Kazuhiko, and Sakura are more concerned with finding their loved ones before finding a means of escape. Though in the case of Kazuhiko and Sakura, their escape is more metaphorical. Shinji, Shogo, and the lighthouse girls are open to helping their classmates but are cautious of people they don't know too well and are willing to kill in self-defense if necessary. None of them want to play by the Program's rules and instead spend most of their time gathering supplies for themselves and hiding from the other classmates. Interestingly, most members of Kiriyama's gang of delinquents—Mitsuru, Ryuhei, and Hiroshi—do not want to partake in the Program and are more interested in escaping as a gang although they are not concerned about helping anyone else escape. And then there are those, such as Yoshio, Tatsumichi and Kaori, who try to kill the other students after losing their sanity to paranoia and the moral dilemma of killing others to survive. Mitsuko and Toshinori are some of the few students who actively seek out and kill the other students while retaining some semblance of sanity, which suggests a lot about their characters. That said, Mitsuko does have a Freudian Excuse. Kazushi, who knew he wasn't likely going to win, attempts to rape the other students. Played with in the case of Kazuo. Due to brain damage, he is a sociopath who doesn't care about anything in general. As a result, he flipped a coin to determine what he was going to do: if heads, he was going to rebel against the Program's overseers and if tails, he was going to participate in the Program.
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Battle Royale / int_777c0033	type	Technical Pacifist
Battle Royale / int_777c0033	comment	Technical Pacifist: Sugimura subverts it; While he refuses to take Shuya's gun because "that's not my way," he's genuinely dedicated to only using his ample martial arts abilities in self defense, because he worries that if he genuinely beats someone up, he'll enjoy it.
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Battle Royale / int_7a2a34ef	type	Not With the Safety On, You Won't
Battle Royale / int_7a2a34ef	comment	Not With the Safety On, You Won't: Shogo Kawada bluffs a student this way at the end of his first game, then shoots him.
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Battle Royale / int_7cda47b	type	Dying Declaration of Love
Battle Royale / int_7cda47b	comment	Dying Declaration of Love: Two characters do this before they get killed off. Several others get a moment to ask the other character with them who they liked.
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Battle Royale / int_7d49d74a	type	Cultural Translation
Battle Royale / int_7d49d74a	comment	Cultural Translation: Keith Giffen's work on the manga. Also counts as Pragmatic Adaptation to an extent, considering the things that most people find fault with (unrealistic references to Western pop culture) could only be avoided by resorting to Viewers Are Geniuses.
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Battle Royale / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Battle Royale / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: In the film version, Kitano the director borders on this. Sure, he sets up dozens of children to kill each other and kills two himself, but you can't help but feel sorry for him as he tries to teach those delinquents at the start of the movie.
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Battle Royale / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Battle Royale / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Kazuo Kiriyama gets one in the film, where he's outnumbered and surrounded by five other students questioning him and disarms one of their Uzi before he kills them all in seconds, casually grabbing all the fallen peoples firearms and explosives for himself, leaving only one students nunchuks behind. Kawada actually gets two in the film. The first is him already lacing up his shoes so he is ready to run when his name is called... then turning around a claiming a different bag as his own all fearlessly talking back to the military and giving Kiriyama a Death Glare, showing that Kawada is focused, knows what is going on, and isn't frightened by the circumstances. The second is when he saves Shuuya and Noriko from the class president but spares them when he learns that aren't a threat. He then tries to save two girls calling for peace by shooting in the air to scare him, while also stopping Shuuya from running to his death. This establish him as someone, while willing to kill, is far from heartless or sociopathic like Mitsuko or Kiriyama.
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Battle Royale / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Battle Royale / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Taku in the second film; almost everything he says he shouts. Granted, he's rather tame in comparison to Riki Takeuchi, the 'teacher' in the same film. Seriously, check out his best moments (moderate spoilers).
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Battle Royale / int_88ebc539	type	Always a Bigger Fish
Battle Royale / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: Chigusa is pretty dangerous when pushed to it, easily turning the tables on Niida, but she runs out of luck when Mitsuko shows up. Mitsuko herself is taken out in all three versions by Kiriyama, the one person whose evil and ruthlessness outshines her own.
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Battle Royale / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Battle Royale / int_8a817c2a	comment	Kazushi, who knew he wasn't likely going to win, attempts to rape the other students.
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Battle Royale / int_8bff32a8	type	Creepy Doll
Battle Royale / int_8bff32a8	comment	Creepy Doll: Mitsuko's alter ego is a giant damaged doll, the same as the one she was given as her mother remarried. Mai's doll also counts, being seen briefly in the first film and again in the second when it's packed with explosives and hurled at a group of attacking soldiers.
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Battle Royale / int_8e9cf84e	comment	"Blind Idiot" Translation: Many of the subtitling attempts at the film version tend to localise very badly. (Channel 4 and the producers of the Korean Starmax version, here's looking at you!) The 2012 North American DVD/Blu-ray edition features some of the worst English dubbing ever, and the dialogue often doesn't even come close to the translation given in the subtitles.
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Battle Royale / int_902f19e	type	Hacked by a Pirate
Battle Royale / int_902f19e	comment	Hacked by a Pirate: The brief glimmer of hope that was the hacking scene featured a chibi-style basketball player dominating the monitors at BR headquarters.
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Battle Royale / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
Battle Royale / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: Tatsumichi Oki in the film, after getting his own axe stuck in his head.
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Battle Royale / int_92d6110b	type	Grenade Hot Potato
Battle Royale / int_92d6110b	comment	Grenade Hot Potato: In the novel and manga, Shuya catches and throws away one of Kazuo's grenades.
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Battle Royale / int_949819b6	type	Children Forced to Kill
Battle Royale / int_949819b6	comment	Children Forced to Kill: The plot revolves around a middle school class being sent on a deserted island and forced to kill each other. And there's nothing you could really do about it, as well; two of the adult characters protested against it in the book and manga, resulting in one getting brutally killed and the other getting raped to silence her. Yikes.
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Battle Royale / int_94d0eb61	type	Lighthouse Point
Battle Royale / int_94d0eb61	comment	Lighthouse Point: At one point a bunch of the girls get holed up in a lighthouse.
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Battle Royale / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Battle Royale / int_970c790a	comment	The winner of this year's program is technically Shogo after faking the deaths of Shuya and Noriko but he dies on the boat shortly after the Big Bad dies. Shuya and Noriko are legally dead now and have to go underground. They are back for Requiem.
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Battle Royale / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
Battle Royale / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: The sequel film reveals that Shuya keeps a photo of his classmates, Nobu's knife, and Shogo Kawada's bandana (and possibly his flask) to remind himself why he is fighting against the government.
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Battle Royale / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
Battle Royale / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: Shuya. Quite a large portion of the girls in the manga were revealed to have crushes on him. Noriko, Yukie, Hirono, Yukiko and Yumiko were all shown to like him. And according to Yukie, "half the girls in class are sweet on him," indicating that other girls other than the aforementioned probably harbored an attraction to him as well. Shinji had been a womanizer when we first see him. The manga even shows his first appearance as playing basketball and wondering if he has enough condoms to do the whole crowd of fangirls.
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Battle Royale / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Battle Royale / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: How 5 of the students chose to escape the game: 2 jump off a cliff, 1 jumps off a lighthouse into rocks and 2 hang themselves from a tree with rope.
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Battle Royale / int_99e14f05	type	All-Loving Hero
Battle Royale / int_99e14f05	comment	All-Loving Hero: Shuya. Heck, the guy is so innocent and wonderful, he actually manages to convert and save the souls of several crazy / bad people by giving them emotional speeches (before they die, of course).
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Battle Royale / int_9a888d97	type	Finger-Licking Poison
Battle Royale / int_9a888d97	comment	Finger-Licking Poison: Yuka dies by grabbing a sample of a dish meant for Shuya.
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Battle Royale / int_9c73b5b2	type	Let Them Die Happy
Battle Royale / int_9c73b5b2	comment	Let Them Die Happy: Mitsuko's big Pet the Dog moment (only in the novel) also involves this. She lies to her Morality Pet Yuichiro, who's dying by saying that his friend Tadakatsu (whom she killed) ran away after accidentally shooting him, making him believe that he's still alive. She also doesn't reveal to him that she manipulated them all along and gives him a sincere kiss just before killing him instantly with a gun so that her face is the last thing he sees. She makes her reasons clear after killing him, thanking him in her head for his kindness, and promising to remember him.
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Battle Royale / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
Battle Royale / int_9cad69bf	comment	Depraved Homosexual: Sho Tsukioka is effeminate in manner but humorously masculine in appearance and uses his skills as a Stalker with a Crush to tail Kiriyama. He's also a borderline alcoholic drag queen with an irrational crush on Kiriyama and overall thinks like a total lunatic in the manga.
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Battle Royale / int_9d02df1b	type	Blast Out
Battle Royale / int_9d02df1b	comment	Blast Out: The fate of a group of friends. Yukie Utsumi and some of her friends take shelter in a lighthouse. They take Shuuya Nanahara in when they find him injured, but one of Yukie's friends, Yuko Sakaki, is distrusting of Shuuya due to believing he killed another classmate (said classmate accidentally killed himself trying to kill Shuuya) and spikes a meal with poison in the hopes of killing Shuuya. Unfortunately, another friend, Yuka Nakagawa, eats the poisoned food and dies. Tensions spike, a Mexican Standoff ensues as trust erodes, and the entire group of friends end up shooting each other to death (save for Yuko, who is so wracked with guilt afterwards that she is Driven to Suicide).
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Battle Royale / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Battle Royale / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Lampshaded in the YMMV English translation of the manga: in the beginning of the car chase, when Shogo kicks away the windshield so he doesn't have to "dodge flying glass", he hands Shuuya his Uzi, recommending him to not "go all Marvin in Pulp Fiction" with the weapon.
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Battle Royale / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Battle Royale / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: In the film, Hiroki suffers this fate, and so does Kiriyama from the frag and heat of the explosion - we get a good look at his ruined eyes, staggering around in pain before his collar is shot and his head goes bye-bye. Niida receives some of this from Takako in the novel and manga too. And, in the manga, Jaguar.
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Battle Royale / int_a32a1881	type	Supporting Leader
Battle Royale / int_a32a1881	comment	Supporting Leader: Shogo is this to Shuya and Noriko, especially in the film. Consider that he's the one with the dark and brooding past, he's the one with a grudge against the Program, and he's the one who knows how to stop it. He does it deliberately though, because he's not interested in his own survival, just wanting revenge and to understand what happened with Keiko. He's happy to let the others take the credit. Consider just how much Shuya and Noriko would actually accomplish (answer: nothing) without Shogo's help and you'll see how he fits.
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Battle Royale / int_a3673c4c	type	It Gets Easier
Battle Royale / int_a3673c4c	comment	It Gets Easier: Niida doesn't quite lampshade it, but he clearly tries to make clear to Chigusa that having killed before accidentally, he's now in a position to do so again, deliberately. In the film, Mitsuko makes several statements to the effect that she killed before the game even started (as shown in the Special Edition version of the film), and so killing again is no big deal to her.
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Battle Royale / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Battle Royale / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Niida's extremely brutal attack on Chigusa and her equally violent defense, followed by her gut-wrenchingly tragic death scene moments later. An even bigger one comes when Yutaka forgives Shinji for accidentally killing one of their classmates, and chooses to stick with him, bringing Shinji to tears as they reaffirm their partnership. Cue a barrage of bullets coming from nowhere and ripping through Yutaka's head and Shinji's stomach.
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Battle Royale / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
Battle Royale / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	Cruel Twist Ending: In the manga, Hirono Shimizu climbs out of the well, manages to cure her thirst with rainwater, and meets up with Shuya, Noriko, and Shogo. It looks like things will work out for Hirono until the story reveals that all of the prior events were her own delusions and reveals that she has just drowned in the well. To be fair, the chapter does hint that it was an Unreliable Narrator since Oda picks up Hirono's gun after pushing her into the well and in the dream portion, Hirono reacquires her gun after "escaping" the well.
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Battle Royale / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Battle Royale / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: In the novel, whenever Shuya finds someone who died with their eyes open, he closes their eyes. Well, except for one character who's been so mutilated his head resembles a peanut—only one of his eyes will close properly, and as the narration observes, a winking mutilated corpse is just too much.
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Battle Royale / int_a6bd04e0	type	Rule of Scary
Battle Royale / int_a6bd04e0	comment	Rule of Scary: In the film, Kiriyama cuts a student's head off and shoves a grenade in his mouth. Just because. In the same scene, he puts his bloodied hand on the window just because.
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Battle Royale / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Battle Royale / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: The backstory, at least in the original novel and the manga, is that World War II ended in favor of Japan, which decided to keep up with the military dictatorship—in fact, it looks like it had one even back in 1917. The first Battle Royale Program took place as early as 1947, shortly after the Japanese victory. In other words, it's become so commonplace by the time the story takes place (in 1997, at least in the novel) that no one really cares. The movie takes place in modern Japan, but 20 Minutes into the Future after an economic collapse and sharp rise in juvenile crime.
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Battle Royale / int_a8c1433e	type	Dead Star Walking
Battle Royale / int_a8c1433e	comment	Dead Star Walking: Yoshitoki Kuninobu is introduced as Shuya's best friend and comic relief, and it seems like he'll be at Shuya's side for the duration of the series... until he's killed during the Program briefing. Defied by Executive Meddling in the film, as a major Japanese star was going to play the boy, before his managers decided it would be dangerous to his career and forbade him from accepting the role. The character of Mitsuko is depicted for much of the film as one of the lead villains (and was played by a well-known teen singing star), but she's killed off suddenly 3/4 of the way through the movie when she encounters Kiriyama, a student she can't seduce or overpower, and gets shot dead.
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Battle Royale / int_a8e6393d	type	Nose Tapping
Battle Royale / int_a8e6393d	comment	Nose Tapping: Hiroki does it out of habit, something the other characters recognize.
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Battle Royale / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Battle Royale / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: In the film, the Japanese youth believe this to be the case for most if not all adults; in fact, this is the basis for the central conflict. See also Central Theme. On a more personal level, Shiori Kitano and the film version of Shuya consider their parents (particularly their fathers) to have failed them in that role.
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Battle Royale / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Battle Royale / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Beautiful classical music is played over the 6 hourly announcements in the movie, a torturing counterpoint to the chaos and death taking place on the island. Also in the movie, Mitsuko's death is to the tune of Bach's Air on the G String. It's Asuka's death in End of Evangelion all over again.
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Battle Royale / int_abc57fc1	type	There Are No Rules
Battle Royale / int_abc57fc1	comment	There Are No Rules: As Kitano explains, there's no such thing as foul play, the students are allowed to do anything to ensure to be the last survivor. This includes murder, manslaughter, physical injury, arson, betrayal, manipulation... the laws of society don't exist on this island anymore.
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Battle Royale / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
Battle Royale / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: The vast majority of students receive at least some characterisation (at least in the novel and manga). Tendo and Fujiyoshi receive almost none even in those versions. In both films, almost everyone save the core eight or so and a couple of One Scene Wonders are this.
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Battle Royale / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Battle Royale / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Mitsuko's facial expression says it all when, in the movie, she slashes Kiriyama across the chest, only to discover that he's wearing a bulletproof vest... She also gets one when the teacher shows up while she has Noriko at gunpoint. Shogo Kawada in the manga, when he realizes where the bus is taking the class. Just about every time a character realizes how much of an Implacable Man Kiriyama is their face looks like this.
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Battle Royale / int_ae3a3b36	type	Take a Moment to Catch Your Death
Battle Royale / int_ae3a3b36	comment	Take a Moment to Catch Your Death: Shinji realizes a bit too late that either the bomb did not hit Kazuo or he's just that much of an Implacable Man. The second he feels as though it's over Kiriyama escapes from a burned down car, with not a single bit of damage.
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Battle Royale / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Battle Royale / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: One of the main themes. Given the secrecy of each Program experiment, the public usually does not know the specifics of each experiment other than the face of the winning student, along with some other trivial details, such as causes of death for the students killed. This means that every student in the Program experiment can do anything without risking public disapproval; as a result, this brings out the worst/best in the Class 3B students. See the Morality Kitchen Sink entry above for more info.
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Battle Royale / int_b1b48ad1	type	Foreign Language Title
Battle Royale / int_b1b48ad1	comment	Foreign Language Title: The film is called "Battle Royale" all over the world, including Japan.
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Battle Royale / int_b1d2b799	type	Artistic Age
Battle Royale / int_b1d2b799	comment	Artistic Age: A lot of the characters in the manga do not even remotely resemble people in their 20's, let alone junior high school students. Shogo Kawada with his beard is the most unrealistically adult-looking character, while Yutaka Sato (who is about one or two years younger) looks like he's ten. And the hyper-sexualized manga version of Mitsuko looks and acts like she's in her 20s.
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Battle Royale / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Battle Royale / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Zigzagged. While many firearms run out of bullets (often at plot-convenient times which have nothing to do with the number of shots fired), reloading is almost never showed. Particularly egregious is anyone with a submachinegun (especially Kiriyama), as they're repeatedly shown firing on full automatic way too long or far too frequently. Let's just say that the film makers really didn't bother with being realistic about both single-magazine count, or the amount of ammunition that would have been given out.
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Battle Royale / int_b2f26025	type	Genki Girl
Battle Royale / int_b2f26025	comment	It's possibly even worse in the film, in which an instructional video featuring a Genki Girl joyfully explains the rules to the students.
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Battle Royale / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Battle Royale / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Interestingly, most members of Kiriyama's gang of delinquents—Mitsuru, Ryuhei, and Hiroshi—do not want to partake in the Program and are more interested in escaping as a gang although they are not concerned about helping anyone else escape.
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Battle Royale / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Battle Royale / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Anyone that trusts Mitsuko despite her reputation. Toshinori Oda in the film only, who is shot with an Uzi by Kazuo but survives because of his awesome Bulletproof Vest. A fact he screams at the top of his voice the second he realises he's still alive. Cue Kazuo leaping off a small building beside him, wakizashi in hand. He's less obviously stupid in the book and manga, but still pretty stupid—in the manga, he fakes a death rattle so Kazuo will come close to him and check if he's dead, allowing Oda to stab him with his hidden kitchen knife. Kazuo doesn't fall for this moronic ruse. The normally rather practical and intelligent Noriko becomes this briefly during the film when she runs out into the rain looking for Shuya, leaving Kawada (her primary protector and only armed one of the two) scrambling to find her. This leads to her bumping into Mitsuko and nearly being killed if not for the arrival of Kitano. While Shuya is a bit of an Idiot Hero in general, two particular moments of stupidity stick out from the film. The first is him screaming at the top of his lungs after two girls are killed nearby, thus potentially alerting the killer to his location, and the second is him sticking his head up in full view of the window when he knows a killer with a gun is nearby. Both times Shogo is left to keep Shuya from getting himself (and Noriko) killed, first by telling him to shut up and second by literally shoving Shuya's head down out of sight.
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Battle Royale / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Battle Royale / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Kiriyama, especially in the novel. He can apparently keep up with Shuya in basketball, mastered the violin better than Oda at a young age, can keep up with Hiroki in martial arts, and as the manga puts it; has an intuitive grasp on everything. He may be even better at all those activities since he has no drive to do anything, meaning he wasn't even trying. Possibly moreso in the manga, since he's able to master just about anything just by seeing it.
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Battle Royale / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Battle Royale / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Chigusa loves Hiroki, who secretly loves Kotohiki. Chigusa does find out when she flat out asks Hiroki if he loves her, but she's dying when she asks so, while clearly upsetting to her, it's the least of her concerns at the time. Also qualifies as a heartwarming I Want My Beloved to Be Happy moment, since she'd clearly already worked it out and was just hoping he really did love her. In the novel, when Hiroki admits that he does have crush, Takako comments that he'd better not say her (i.e. "You know better than to say it just to try to make me happy in my last moments."). Noriko and Shuya are the Official Couple, with Kuninobu also very obviously crushing on Noriko. While Shuya's feelings for Noriko are left slightly ambiguous, this appears to be due to not wanting to go after the girl his best friend was crazy about so soon after his death. That she has feelings for him though she can't hold in, even if she does apparently feel a bit guilty about it. Utsumi secretly has feelings for Shuya which she tries to tell him (when he's barely conscious though so not the best time). Admittedly we don't know for sure where she would have gone with her feelings given she and her friends massacre each other moments after their conversation.
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Battle Royale / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Battle Royale / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: For time constraint reasons, a lot of the characters were given offscreen deaths or given less screen time in general in the film. Particularly Sho Tsukioka. Some of these characters' cause of deaths were also changed.
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Battle Royale / int_b97c2cfb	type	Maybe Ever After
Battle Royale / int_b97c2cfb	comment	Maybe Ever After: Between Shuya and Noriko. They escape the Greater East Asian Republic together, and though it's not made explicit that Shuya returns Noriko's feelings, it's pretty heavily implied. It's less ambiguous in the manga in which the epilogue suggests they at least get a Relationship Upgrade at some point.
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Battle Royale / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
Battle Royale / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Mitsuko, oh so often, with the start of her encounter with Megumi being the best example. The first female winner shown at the beginning of the movie has one of these too. In the movie, Kiriyama pulls this off a few times.
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Battle Royale / int_bffb777a	type	Sawed-Off Shotgun
Battle Royale / int_bffb777a	comment	Sawed-Off Shotgun: Shogo Kawada uses a sawed-off M31 Remington shotgun in the novel and manga, and a Franchi SPAS-12 combat shotgun in the movie.
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Battle Royale / int_c09c2921	type	Dystopian Edict
Battle Royale / int_c09c2921	comment	Dystopian Edict: The Battle Royale law. It's the legitimization for the program and keeps all people in it from being criminally persecuted.
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Battle Royale / int_c2619557	type	Girl with Psycho Weapon
Battle Royale / int_c2619557	comment	Girl with Psycho Weapon: Mitsuko with that sickle - the image of her smiling in Megumi's doorway, shining the torch upwards into her face and grinning maniacally is one of the most iconic from the film. This one.◊
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Battle Royale / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Battle Royale / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Common in the Manga (along with an eye is blown out of its socket by the sheer force.)
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Battle Royale / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
Battle Royale / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: Both films had an extended version made. The first's extra scenes includes a flashback to Mitsuko's past and a scene of the class playing basketball, shown in pieces throughout the film. The second film added extra characterisation to the main students and Shuya's group. The first film was also cut back so that it would pass the censors' requirements for under 15s to see it, as was the director's original intention.
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Battle Royale / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Battle Royale / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: There are lots of scenes with any of the girls naked, but the fact that they're with dirty old men isn't exactly arousing and their age.
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Battle Royale / int_c7270d1c	type	With This Herring
Battle Royale / int_c7270d1c	comment	With This Herring: Weapons are doled out completely at random. A student might get lucky and get a gun or they might wind up with something completely useless like a small pot lid.
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Battle Royale / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Battle Royale / int_c75df49a	comment	In the manga, Hirono's death is a clear Shout-Out to An Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge.
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Battle Royale / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Battle Royale / int_c868a42a	comment	Mitsuko and Toshinori are some of the few students who actively seek out and kill the other students while retaining some semblance of sanity, which suggests a lot about their characters. That said, Mitsuko does have a Freudian Excuse.
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Battle Royale / int_ccbd82d3	type	Gotta Kill Them All
Battle Royale / int_ccbd82d3	comment	Gotta Kill Them All: To win the Program you must be the last survivor, either by murdering everybody who crosses your way or waiting until all other people have gone. Kiriyama and Mitsuko opt for the first possibility.
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Battle Royale / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Battle Royale / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: After each iteration of the Program, the government broadcasts the face of the winner, who is usually not in the best mental state, while reciting the death statistics for the iteration in question. There is no footage recorded for each round of the Program, so what exactly happened is left up to the viewers' imagination.
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Battle Royale / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
Battle Royale / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: Averted. Mitsuko had started having her period the day prior her fight with Hirono.
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Battle Royale / int_d243518d	type	In Spite of a Nail
Battle Royale / int_d243518d	comment	In Spite of a Nail: In the novel, even though a totally different political situation replaced the Cold War as we know it, it didn't stop Armstrong from being the first man on the moon, or the rock music scene turning exactly in the same way as in our world, with the same stars. The totalitarian fascist government also appears to tolerate the otaku subculture (Yuichiro), and flamboyant homosexuality (Sho). (Though it might be in the same way as they "tolerate" rock music). The Director in the book version makes some comment about how those degenerate Americans allow homosexuality, so it's probably not all roses for gay people. And in the manga, a brief government-written overview of Sho remarks that he must not be allowed to leave the island alive because of his homosexuality due to issues with "genetic impurity."
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Battle Royale / int_d2566b32	type	Hunting the Most Dangerous Game
Battle Royale / int_d2566b32	comment	Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: The entire plot of the story.
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Battle Royale / int_d6268c2e	type	Shoot Everything That Moves
Battle Royale / int_d6268c2e	comment	Shoot Everything That Moves: Most of the students attack others on sight, especially Kiriyama, who has no qualms about killing his classmates.
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Battle Royale / int_d67d184b	type	Murder Makes You Crazy
Battle Royale / int_d67d184b	comment	And then there are those, such as Yoshio, Tatsumichi and Kaori, who try to kill the other students after losing their sanity to paranoia and the moral dilemma of killing others to survive.
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Battle Royale / int_da19c62a	type	Leave No Survivors
Battle Royale / int_da19c62a	comment	Leave No Survivors: You can only win the game if you are the last survivor.
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Battle Royale / int_da2f3716	type	Intimate Healing
Battle Royale / int_da2f3716	comment	Intimate Healing: In some twisted part of her mind, this is what Mitsuko thought she was doing to a bleeding/dying Yuichiro in the manga.
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Battle Royale / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Battle Royale / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Shinji is this in all three versions of the story due to his plan to disable the Battle Royale administrator's computer systems and facilitate the escape of the other students, along with him and Yutaka. While Shogo also has a plan, he does not reveal it to Shuya, Noriko, and the audience until the very end, which in the meantime raises questions about his true intentions. Thus, Shinji's death in the middle of the book is a huge surprise, after which no attempt is made to hide the protagonist status of the Cast Herd consisting of Shuya, Shogo, and Noriko. In the manga, Shuya spends a lot of time reassuring everyone that Shinji's going to come up with a plan to get them all off the island. Finding his body is a big factor in Shuya's epic Heroic BSoD.
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Battle Royale / int_e0789c2a	type	Your Head A-Splode
Battle Royale / int_e0789c2a	comment	Your Head A-Splode: What will happen to anyone caught in a danger zone. In the end, though, it only befalls one person in all versions (Shou Tsukioka in the novel and manga, and Yoshitoki Kuninobu in the film, and in the latter case, it was deliberately set off before the game properly begins).
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Battle Royale / int_e292f761	type	Obligatory Swearing
Battle Royale / int_e292f761	comment	Obligatory Swearing: In the manga, almost every character can't seem to say a sentence without swearing.
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Battle Royale / int_e2cbeee9	type	Gangsta Style
Battle Royale / int_e2cbeee9	comment	Gangsta Style: In the manga, this is how Kazuo Kiriyama fires every single weapon. Apparently, genius though he may be, he fails to realize that this is a highly ineffective method of firing a handgun, to say nothing of firing an automatic weapon. However, this is sometimes an Averted Trope due to a few instances where he appears to fire normally.
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Battle Royale / int_e3da6e6c	type	Deus Angst Machina
Battle Royale / int_e3da6e6c	comment	Deus Angst Machina: Mitsuko's past, especially in the novel/movie.
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Battle Royale / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
Battle Royale / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: Often believed to be played straight, but actually subverted — the film is shockingly violent in order to, well, shock. The fact that this is happening to teenagers, and at the hands of their own friends/classmates is in no way meant to titillate, it's meant to horrify. Sadly, many people fail to realise this and believe it's a straight up gorefest. The same could be said of the manga, though the artist was a little too eager with the gruesome images, so whether or not it achieves the same purpose is up to interpretation.
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Battle Royale / int_e5466866	type	Ojou
Battle Royale / int_e5466866	comment	Ojou: Several prominent examples of the first type, with Noriko in the film more or less making this a Discussed Trope with her monologue to Kawada. Kotohiki certainly fits this trope, especially in the novel.
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Battle Royale / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Battle Royale / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Shinji Mimura and Hiroki Sugimura in the manga. While his initial plan to cripple The Program failed, Mimura is able to come up with his bomb plan which is only foiled by the Implacable Man. Sugimura also tracks down two people on the island thanks to his tracking device. Unfortunately, he finds the first girl too late and is once more stopped by the Implacable Man. Also Mitsuko, more so in the film when she continues to get up even though Kiriyama is firing bullets in her.
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Battle Royale / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
Battle Royale / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: The manga does this to some of the novel's characters (and the movie to Kiriyama). The good guys are very beautiful, while two of the bad guys are hideous and irredeemably evil. Kazushi Niida is a big victim of this - in the novel, he was merely a horny teenage boy who tried to rape Chigusa when they were alone; in the manga, Niida was portrayed as a monster from the beginning. Toshinori Oda was also extremely Flanderized: he's a grotesque little goblin. Mitsuko Souma's ultra-sexual portrayal is an actual rapist in the manga (the novel and film leave it more open about whether she goes that far). Kazuo Kiriyama gets his Ax-Crazy streak magnified to the point that he's nothing more than a mute one-man genocide machine who goes sprinting after every quarry he can find, guns blazing; in the novel, he's a dispassionate psychopath who maintained a group of friends, put up a facade of being normal, and is extremely dispassionate in dispatching the competitors. Sho's Camp Gay-ness is taken up to eleven in the manga. Asides from just being concerned with his appearance, he acts and speaks in an overly flamboyant, effeminate manner (for example, saying "drinky-poo" and wearing a zebra print suit, along with lipstick) and is shown making sexual advances towards Ryuji, a sexist regular in the bar his dad runsnote Granted, it is just to get him to stop harassing a woman there, but he does it entirely willingly.. His stalker tendencies are also ramped up, to the point where the notes state he has a tendency to develop irrational crushes on heterosexual man.
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Battle Royale / int_e5ea3e9a	type	Page-Turn Surprise
Battle Royale / int_e5ea3e9a	comment	Page-Turn Surprise: In the manga version, this trope gets used frequently in order to shock the player when things look up, only for the next page to reveal that things were never that happy. Prominent examples are seeing an image of Hirono successfully reuniting with The Hero and smiling, with the next page showing that smile to actually be a deranged one as she's drowning in a well. In a similar vein, showing a close-up of Yuko smiling in a photo with all her friends to then showing a tearfully smiling Yuko with a graphically broken neck.
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Battle Royale / int_e69004a6	type	There Can Be Only One
Battle Royale / int_e69004a6	comment	There Can Be Only One: The object of the Program. Many people still work together but sooner or later they'll have to settle the score.
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Battle Royale / int_e6df8814	type	Screaming Warrior
Battle Royale / int_e6df8814	comment	Screaming Warrior: Mitsuko, during her Last Stand in the movie.
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Battle Royale / int_ea7e3be8	comment	Dramatic Gun Cock: Shogo Kawada does this quite a lot.
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Battle Royale / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack Used by Chigusa against Niida after his attack on her fails. Used again by Kiriyama on Oda with a machine gun!
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Battle Royale / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Kawada gets this trope multiple times. First, against the school president Kyoichi saving Shuya. Later, once again, in the manga, saving Shuya from Kaori. Shuya and Noriko manage to distract the Supervisor from killing Shogo in all three versions
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Battle Royale / int_ed46da54	comment	Martial Pacifist: Hiroki Sugimura due to his martial arts skills and his unwillingness to use them.
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Battle Royale / int_edfb8d92	comment	The film has an additional theme concerning The Generation Gap between youth and elderly. In the beginning of the film, the economic crisis has caused the country of Japan to collapse, demoralizing the adults. As a result, the youth revolt as they have lost confidence in the adults, and the adults fearing the youth fight back with the Battle Royale Act. This is best emphasized with Kitano, whose daughter doesn't respect him; subsequently, Kitano exploits the Battle Royale Act to take out his frustration on Class 3B, who are of the same generation as his daughter.
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Battle Royale / int_f018c5cf	comment	Offhand Backhand: Kiriyama kills Mizuho Inada this way in the novel.
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Battle Royale / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: Battle Royale is often credited with inspiring the Battle Royale Game genre, which is named after the book and its various adaptations. However, Battle Royale plays the tropes found in the Battle Royale Game genre for drama to explore themes about trust, paranoia, and morality; as a result, it unintentionally acts as a Darker and Edgier deconstruction of the video games it inspired. While games such as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or Fortnite encourage killing the other players to win, Battle Royale notes that in a real-life scenario, killing other people, especially one's friends, to survive goes against most people's instincts and would naturally invoke a moral dilemma. In fact, most of the students in the story are uninterested in killing one another, and some try to rebel against the system. Likewise, the top killers in Battle Royale were a sociopath, whose brain damage gave him a Lack of Empathy, and a cynical Empty Shell, who wanted to take revenge against the world due to her abusive upbringing. Finally, winning the "game" is a Pyrrhic Victory as most of the winners tend to end up mentally broken by the entire ordeal.
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Battle Royale / int_f5c505db	comment	The Cracker: In a slightly more heroic example, formerly Playful Hacker Shinji Mimura decides to use his skills for something a bit more serious after being forced into the Program. In all three versions, he attempts to hack into the government's computer system to disable the collars in order to make an escape attempt: he is caught in the manga and novel versions halfway through his plan due to the microphones in the collars; but in the movie, he does succeed in doing so. His uncle, particularly in the manga version, is also an example. Actually, in the end, Kitano realizes that Kawada, and not Mimura, hacked into the game's intranet system months beforehand.
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Battle Royale / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: The manga adaptation fits here out of all the versions as it confirms that Shuya and Noriko make it safely to America and maybe become an Official Couple.
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Battle Royale / int_f6624c30	comment	Others like Hiroki, Kazuhiko, and Sakura are more concerned with finding their loved ones before finding a means of escape. Though in the case of Kazuhiko and Sakura, their escape is more metaphorical.
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Battle Royale / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Manga only, but when Yuichiro tries to befriend and understand Mitsuko, she believes that he is trying to gain her trust only to sleep with her. Whilst prepared for that situation, she is taken by surprise that he genuinely wants to help her. Even when he reaches towards her, she believes he is going to try to feel her up and is surprised that he is just removing the belt tying her hands up so she can have a drink. Of course, this depends on whether you believe she actually is pure evil, which she probably isn't.
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Battle Royale / int_fa73ee9d	comment	Explosive Leash, Your Head A-Splode: If someone tries to leave the island, the collar that they are wearing explodes, along with their head. Ditto for trying to remove the collar, or lingering in a danger zone. Also, if 24 hours pass with nobody being killed, everyone's collars will go simultaneously. In the novel and manga, it only makes one victim, Sho. In the film, Yoshitoki is the only victim of the collar actually detonating, but Kiriyama gets shot in his explosive collar at the climax, which is what finally kills him.
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