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Into the Badlands
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Into the Badlands is an American television series that premiered on AMC on November 15, 2015. The show ran for three seasons, clocking in at 32 episodes, before ending on May 6th, 2019.The series is a post-apocalyptic drama set in a large stretch of the southwestern United States known as "the Badlands", ruled by a tense alliance of six feudal Barons, each controlling a major industry - slavery, oil, weaponsmithing, etc. The story opens with a warrior named Sunny, Regent to Baron Quinn, discovering a young boy named M.K. with mysterious powers. Taking the boy under his wing, he soon finds himself embroiled in a tangled web of conspiracy amid a growing Ensemble Cast of characters with their own machinations for the Badlands.The show is especially notable for its style - rather than a traditional Mad Max wasteland, the Badlands cover sprawling poppy fields, lush forests, damp swamps, and snowy mountains. Cars and motorcycles are common, but firearms are nonexistent - characters do battle with swords, crossbows, and other medieval weapons in fight scenes heavily inspired by Wuxia films such as House of Flying Daggers and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, creating a very unique take on the standard After the End setting. | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Quinn and Ryder are a sad example. After Quinn tries to goad Ryder into killing him, Ryder can't bring himself to do it. Quinn stabs him instead, but is left dazed and horrified realizing he actually killed his own son. | |
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Stop, or I Shoot Myself! | |
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Stop, or I Shoot Myself!: In the season 2 finale, MK is being sheltered/imprisoned by The Widow, who is trying to persuade/force him to get his gift back so she can use it as a weapon. MK doesn't want to do this, so he holds pruning shears up to his neck to force the Widow to let him talk to Bajie. | |
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Old Man Marrying a Child | |
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Old Man Marrying a Child: As the series starts, Baron Quinn is about to get an additional wife, a girl named Jade who is young enough to be his daughter. And in fact happens to be sleeping with his son Ryder. | |
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Can't Kill You, Still Need You | |
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Can't Kill You, Still Need You: In season two, Bajie sells Sunny out to the prison warden only to end up chained with him in a fight with other inmates. When Sunny demands to know why he shouldn't just kill Bajie right now, Bajie points out "it'll be pretty hard to fight your best when you're chained to a corpse." | |
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Non-Heteronormative Society | |
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Non-Heteronormative Society: Despite the horrific systemic sexism and extent to which the Barons (especially Quinn and apart from the Widow) enforce it; there are characters who are out as lesbian, bi, and gay and this generally treated as incidental. For example: When Waldo learns about Tilda's girlfriend, his only concern is that her judgement may be affected by the relationship - just like his warning Sunny about his relationship with Veil. | |
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Rasputinian Death | |
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Rasputinian Death: In contrast to his being an Anticlimax Boss in first season, Quinn's final battle with Sunny involved two fakeout deaths from being stabbed through the torso until he finally goes down. Not bad for a man slowly dying from a massive brain tumor. In the third season, Pilgrim inflicts one of these on Nix after she defects from his army. Arms broken, run through with a sword, thrown across a room, neck snapped, and then decapitated. This is intended to show just how far beyond any moral horizon Pilgrim has gone. | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Ryder desperately craves his father's affection and approval, even as it becomes increasingly clear that he's not going to get it. | |
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Genre Shift | |
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Genre Shift: The first half of the pilot makes the story seem fairly mundane, aside from the stylish martial arts fights. Then, M.K. is cut, and his eyes turn black... The first few episodes of Season 2 sort of feel this way compared to the first since Sunny and M.K. have been separated, are no longer in the Badlands and as such have none of whatever power they may have held in the previous season. They also mostly spend the first half of the season traveling around multiple locations outside of the Badlands in their quest to get back in, encountering numerous one-shot villains they fight for one episode until finally getting back in. It feels for the first few episodes like Sunny and MK's scenes and the scenes back in the Badlands are wildly divorced from each other. There's also the fact that Sunny's scenes are really less interesting overall this time around as Quinn's resurgence in the Badlands and the associated shock value takes spotlight away when Sunny's scenes were the most interesting in the first season. This changes once he finally gets back into the Badlands towards the end. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The show's website provides a lot of detailed information about the history, society and characters of the show. | |
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A Father to His Men | |
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A Father to His Men: The Widow is this in a very literal fashion when it comes to her female Clippers. They all call her Mother and relate to her as if they were her actual children. | |
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World of Badass | |
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World of Badass: Nobody in the Badlands is a slouch with a blade or a fist. | |
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Underestimating Badassery | |
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Underestimating Badassery: The nomads in the pilot don't think that a single Clipper will pose much of a challenge, and end up on the receiving end of a Curbstomp Battle. A bully thinks that M.K. will be an easy target and ambushes him at night. Then M.K. gets cut, his eyes turn black, and the bully is sent flying across the room with supernatural strength. Sunny at first thinks that M.K. will be safer as the baron's slave rather than trying to survive on his own in the Badlands. However, after witnessing what M.K. is capable of, Sunny quickly revises his opinion of the boy. Ryder pays a gang of nomads to kill the Widow. She singlehandedly turns them into mincemeat. At first, the nomads the Widow tries to ally with thinks her Butterflies are just a bunch of weak girls. Boy, are they surprised when Tilda curb-stomps their man. In the first season; M.K. is told that Waldo is a former regent and the man who trained Sunny, but since Waldo is in a wheelchair, M.K. still underestimates just how capable a fighter Waldo is. M.K. does not appear to learn his lesson; since in the third season he underestimates Nathaniel for missing one hand despite knowing that only Sunny has beaten him before. Sunny briefly underestimates one of the Widow's Butterflies, and as a result receives his first wound of the series. | |
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Green-Eyed Monster: Ryder is jealous of Sunny and the trust Quinn places in him. This leads to him making several stupid decisions that could lead to open war with the other barons. | |
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Childhood Friends | |
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Childhood Friends: Veil and Jade are informed to have been this. Their relationship is brought up as a means to bring Veil into the fold of the political turmoil when Jade comes to her pleading to save Ryder's life (see below), and afterwards, they aren't seen together or even talk of one another again. | |
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Closest Thing We Got | |
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Closest Thing We Got: When Ryder is injured, Jade goes to Veil for help. Keep in mind that Veil's specialty is in general medicine and prosthetic limbs; not internal medicine, and definitely not head trauma. Lydia doesn't want to let her anywhere near her son, but Jade points out that Veil is the only chance Ryder has. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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The Badlands have a mountain of issues that make it a Crapsack World, but racism doesn't seem to be one of them. All the Barons' Clipper forces are racially diverse, and out of the seven barons, Jacobee is black, Rojas is Latino and Chau and Hassan are Chinese. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Or rather, Chekhov's Narwhal in Dragonfly's Last Dance, which Sunny uses to kill the River King at the end of the episode | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Jacobee is the Only Sane Man among the Barons: his style is controlled, pragmatic, and defense-oriented. | |
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Body-Count Competition | |
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Body-Count Competition: All Clippers get a tattoo for each person they kill. | |
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Monkey King Lite | |
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Sunny is Sun Wu Kong, the Monkey King, a parallel that becomes even more apparent in season three, when Sunny expertly uses a quarterstaff to kick some ass on a few occasions. | |
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Gas Mask Mooks | |
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Gas Mask Mooks: Shows up once, during the mutiny episode in the third season. Accompanied by the mutineers tossing tear gas grenades into the Widow's office. Which is strange, since nobody is ever seen using those otherwise. The plot motivation was for the mutineers to be able to disable the Widow long enough to imprison her (they don't kill her because they need her to sign orders they dictate). | |
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ChildSoldier | |
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Child Soldier: Colts start their training as children. Quinn will sometime use colts as scouts and the Widow's Butterflies are mostly teenage girls. Outside of the Badlands, other factions appear to draft children with the dark gift regardless of how young they are. | |
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Offing the Offspring | |
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Offing the Offspring: In season 2 Quinn kills Ryder for betraying and usurping him. | |
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Hufflepuff House | |
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Hufflepuff House: There are seven Barons in the Badlands, but only Quinn, The Widow and Jacobee get any screentime or are actively involved with the plot during the first season. Averted in Season Two with the other barons introduced, most prominently Baron Chau. Chau and the Widow are the only ones left by Season Three. | |
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Non-Indicative Name | |
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Non-Indicative Name: Despite being called "the Badlands," the Barons' territories are lush and green with plenty of wildlife — what makes them "bad" is that they're full of ruthless killers, many of whom are badass One-Man Army martial artists who can kill other experienced killers by the dozen. The "Outlying Territories" are even worse — Thirsty Deserts that no-one's successfully traversed... and filled with just as many killers — though luckily they seem to lack the super-martial artists of the Badlands. | |
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Inadequate Inheritor | |
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Inadequate Inheritor: Quinn is not very discreet about the fact that he doesn't think his son Ryder is tough or smart enough to take up the barony once he is gone. Ryder's case isn't helped by the fact that the baronies aren't necessarily hereditary; anyone can usurp and take the place of a baron if they're strong and ruthless enough. The previous Baron Chau avoided this problem by having all his daughters start out as Colts and working their way up. However, this was after he had written off his only son and heir apparent Gaius for having empathy towards Cogs. | |
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Sadly Mythtaken | |
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Sadly Mythtaken: Right before he kills Ryder, Quinn mistakenly identifies a statue as Cronus, the Titan who devoured his children to prevent them from rebelling. Ryder points out that the statue is actually Laocoön, a priest who, along with his sons, was killed by the gods. | |
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Exotic Extended Marriage | |
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Exotic Extended Marriage: Barons are allowed to take multiple wives, but it's implied they're the only ones allowed to do so. Justified since they have a crapton of social/physical power, so it's not like the women would have a choice in saying no. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: The other barons may be brutal despots who have no problems with killing to gain and maintain their own positions, but it's said more than once that almost all of them don't think highly of Quinn, and he's an asshole. | |
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After the End | |
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After the End: The time and place in which story's set is left intentionally ambiguous, but it's stated to be many years after a great war. Also, many remnants of our current culture can be seen everywhere. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: When his son is lying on what could well be his deathbed and Lydia is laying into him for killing the only surgeon in their territory, Quinn pointedly takes Jade into the room next door and proceeds to have sex with her. Leaving the door open, and kicking three dogs for the price of one. | |
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Rule of Cool | |
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Rule of Cool: Much of the fight choreography; and presumably why the Widow's able to fight in those incredibly high heels. | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse: Ryder heavily implies that Lydia poisoned Baron Quinn's second wife. | |
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Ragnarök Proofing | |
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Ragnarök Proofing: At least 500 years have passed since the fall of civilization, but machines and artifacts from that period are still being salvaged and being put to use, when by rights most of them should have rusted into nothingness by that point. Taken to an extreme in the season three finale, where a centuries-old revolver is found buried in mud - not only intact, but both operational and loaded with ammunition that still works. | |
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Schizo Tech | |
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Schizo Tech: Technology in the Badlands incorporates a mishmash of different eras and levels of advancement. for example, there are still working cars, but firearms are banned, leaving the Clippers and Nomads to fight with swords and knives. | |
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Interesting Situation Duel | |
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Interesting Situation Duel: The fight choreographers for the series liked to stage fight scenes with characters balanced on top of things - walls, cars, scaffolding, furniture, the tops of chimneys. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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At first, the nomads the Widow tries to ally with thinks her Butterflies are just a bunch of weak girls. Boy, are they surprised when Tilda curb-stomps their man. | |
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Cold Sniper | |
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Cold Sniper: Chau's crossbow marksman from Leopard Snares Rabbit definitely seems to fit the archetype, as he stays in complete silence throughout the entirity of his and Sunny's duel, resolutely remained at his post even after his whole squad was wiped out as he was "Just following orders", and when he has a kill shot lined up on Wren, instead drops his aim, kneecaps her with no less than three bolts, and leaves her in the open as bait to draw the rest of her squad. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: When asked if he had anything to do with the nomads who attacked The Widow, Ryder denies any involvement and says that he only follows Quinn's orders. | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture | |
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The Abbotts take things even further, with a side of Cold-Blooded Torture when cleansing people of their gifts. | |
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Kiss of Distraction | |
Into the Badlands / int_44cb8788 | comment |
Kiss of Distraction: When an increasingly deteriorating and paranoid Quinn holds a knife to baby Henry's throat while interrogating Veil about whether she's loyal to him, Veil kisses him in order to delude him into thinking she's on his side and get the blade the hell away from her son. | |
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Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting | |
Into the Badlands / int_45332ff5 | comment |
Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: Par of the course for the genre, given that firearms are non-existent and the characters are living in an extremely violent place, but the skill levels vary greatly. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_454b2f2b | type |
Secretly Dying | |
Into the Badlands / int_454b2f2b | comment |
Secretly Dying: Baron Quinn is diagnosed with a brain tumor and will be dead before the next winter solstice, but will brutally kill anyone who finds out. In the second season, it's subverted: He's still alive, but ironically still has the tumor - because Veil could not cure him, but could give him enough drugs and painkillers to make him think she had. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_471a505f | type |
Four Is Death | |
Into the Badlands / int_471a505f | comment |
Four Is Death: Sunny has 404 tattoos representing the number of people he's killed. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_478ae179 | type |
And Now You Must Marry Me | |
Into the Badlands / int_478ae179 | comment |
And Now You Must Marry Me: In order to make Henry his rightful heir, Quinn - a psychopath who grows increasingly obsessed with her and her son - forces Veil to marry him. Of course, that's not his only motive. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_49d59be9 | type |
Scenery Porn | |
Into the Badlands / int_49d59be9 | comment |
Scenery Porn: There's a lot of gorgeous shots of the Western-style deserts, Quinn's poppy fields are full of red blooms, and the Barons' massive Antebellum-styled mansions are pretty damn luxurious. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_4cacfcc3 | type |
Honey Trap | |
Into the Badlands / int_4cacfcc3 | comment |
Honey Trap: The Widow's butterflies aren't just good in a fight, they also come in handy for serving this function. As Ryder found out the hard way. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_4cf04991 | type |
SocialDarwinist | |
Into the Badlands / int_4cf04991 | comment |
Social Darwinist: Baron Chau is a firm believer that the strong will rise to the top, no matter what. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_4e3d253b | type |
Downer Ending | |
Into the Badlands / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Downer Ending: Each season ends on one. Let's see... Season One Finale: We have a depressing monologue given by M.K. as he's hauled away inside a trunk to god-knows-where for gods-know-why, Sunny being held prisoner by the River King as revenge for lying about killing M.K., and a cliffhanger with Tilda in regards to whether or not she poisons the Widow. And apparently... the journey has only just begun. Damn. Season Two Finale: Veil sacrifices her life to kill Quinn once and for all, leaving Sunny heartbroken and guilt-ridden. He buries her, then leaves with Henry to Walk the Earth. The Widow reveals herself to be no better than the other Barons, planning to use M.K. as a weapon and making Waldo a Deal with the Devil that we're not sure he's going to turn down. Disillusioned, Tilda leaves with Odessa to an unknown fate. And Bajie gets to a communication tower and sends some kind of mysterious message before possibly bleeding out. Season Three ends with several main characters dying in the fight against Pilgrim and his army of dark ones. Most notably, M.K meets a fiery end after nearly fatally stabbing Tilda, and Sunny himself bleeds out after killing Pilgrim. However, this gets averted in the final two minutes as the Master's spirit tells him that his own dark gift is bringing him back to life. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_508535ad | type |
Fighting Fingerprint | |
Into the Badlands / int_508535ad | comment |
Fighting Fingerprint: Each of the Barons and major characters we've seen fight have styles that complement their personalities: Quinn is not subtle or elegant: his style is direct and power-driven. Averted in the season 2 finale. Once Sunny manages to disarm Quinn's long sword he responds by using two sais, effectively disarming Sunny despite being at a reach disadvantage. It's during this time that Quinn uses a more elegant weapon, a more complex fighting style and different tactics than anything up to that point. This suggests that Sonny was the ultimate opponent: Quinn could be brutal and simple with everybody else but it took Sonny to force him to change things up. The Widow is the The Chessmaster: her style is all about speed, precision, and misdirection. Jacobee is the Only Sane Man among the Barons: his style is controlled, pragmatic, and defense-oriented. Pilgrim's fighting style is graceful and fluid like water, nodding to his religious ideology (baptism): he alternates between flowing like a river to deflect opponents and hitting like a tsunami if he puts his weight behind his blows. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_50d71a78 | type |
Dual Wielding | |
Into the Badlands / int_50d71a78 | comment |
Dual Wielding: Sunny, the Widow, and a couple of other characters do this a lot; with various degrees of practicality from "two daggers" to "short and long sword" to "two long blades". In the first season finale, Sunny combines dual wielding with Double Weapon by revealing that he can lock the hilts of his swords together. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_50f66629 | type |
Crazy-Prepared | |
Into the Badlands / int_50f66629 | comment |
Crazy-Prepared: Both Quinn and the Widow have large hidden bases that even most of their own clippers do not know about, to use if they are ever forced out of their usual territories. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_5300b1de | type |
Invincible Hero | |
Into the Badlands / int_5300b1de | comment |
Invincible Hero: Sunny rarely loses a fight, even when he's drastically outnumbered, and if he does, he usually wins the rematch. Other established Badasses like the Widow somehow become less badass just by facing off with him. Ironically the only non-superpowered person to land a cut on him without any help was some random assassin-prostitute who was easily dispatched shortly afterwards. Then again, she worked for the Widow and it's implied that she was one of the elite Butterfly clippers gone undercover. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_5313c266 | type |
Bookends | |
Into the Badlands / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: Season 1 began with M.K. being held captive in a trunk. As of "Hand of Five Poisons," he's being hauled away in a disturbingly similar trunk. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_53d45fa8 | type |
Back-Alley Doctor | |
Into the Badlands / int_53d45fa8 | comment |
Back-Alley Doctor: Veil is a "cog doctor", meaning she mostly treats peasants, and Lydia thinks she's unqualified to treat Ryder. However, she doesn't have much of a choice. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_550754dc | type |
Improbable Infant Survival | |
Into the Badlands / int_550754dc | comment |
Improbable Infant Survival: After he is born; Sunny and Veil's son Henry survives being held hostage by Quinn, Veil's fleeing with him, being held hostage by Quinn again, Veil's death, many people trying to kill Sunny, his own dark gift awakening and nearly killing him, Sunny carrying him through a war zone to get him treatment, and being moved repeatedly through another war zone between fortresses and a refugee camp. His emotional state from all of that early childhood trauma is unclear, but physically he is never hurt. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_557a31ce | type |
Actual Pacifist | |
Into the Badlands / int_557a31ce | comment |
Actual Pacifist: The Totemists will not use violence under any circumstance, even to defend their own lives or those of others, driving them into Suicidal Pacifism territory. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_558245a7 | type |
Redshirt Army | |
Into the Badlands / int_558245a7 | comment |
Redshirt Army: A literal example with Quinn's red-coloured Clippers, who especially in the second season suffer continuous heavy casualties by constant attacks from rivals. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_588d766f | type |
BlackAndGreyMorality | |
Into the Badlands / int_588d766f | comment |
Black-and-Grey Morality: As the opening narration states, nobody is innocent in the Badlands. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_5989e3b6 | type |
Enemy Mine | |
Into the Badlands / int_5989e3b6 | comment |
Enemy Mine: Pretty common considering that alliances in this series tend not to last very long. Of particular note: In Season One, Quinn's attempt to ally with another Baron, Jacobee, whom he looks down upon in a rather mutual dislike, in order to take down the Widow are cut rather short during their first parley when the Widow's forces rather efficiently ambush them Still in Season One, Sunny is offered Quinn's Barony by The Widow and Zephyr (Jacobee's Regent) if he kills and usurps him as they will back him as the new Baron. When he fails to do it, the two of them ally with Ryder (who had previously tried to kill the Widow and vice-versa) in order to get it done In Season Two, Ryder proves himself pretty efficient at being a Baron when he rather quickly manages to get all of the other Barons on his side and agree to try and lock out the Widow during the Conclave. Though it's undone not long after when the lie he used to build it on is revealed In Season Two, upon his return, Quinn and The Widow ally in order to attack the other Barons and wage their war since they're both out for vengeance for different reasons and are basically the only Barons left that either has not trying to kill them...at the moment. They even succeed in working together to kill two other Barons a couple episodes later And in Season Three, Sunny is willing to make an alliance with the Black Lotus - the shadowy organization that destroyed Azra, and whose leader personally raped and tortured his own sister. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_5aa8b4b6 | type |
Intrepid Merchant | |
Into the Badlands / int_5aa8b4b6 | comment |
Intrepid Merchant: The River King, whose wealth and power derive from commerce, as opposed to the barons who focus in the production of commodities. The importance of this trade is such that the barons dare not interfere with his affairs. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_5aa8b4b6 | |
Into the Badlands / int_5ac34441 | type |
Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp" | |
Into the Badlands / int_5ac34441 | comment |
Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": The setting uses a number of peculiar terms to refer to certain categories of people: "Clippers" are soldiers and by extension "clipping" means to kill someone. "Colts" are recruits in training. "Cogs" are peasants. "Dolls" are prostitutes. "Pickers" are miners. "Stalkers" are bounty hunters. "Abbots" is used to refer to all the monks from a particular order, instead of just the head of the monastery. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_5bf69547 | type |
Gang of Hats | |
Into the Badlands / int_5bf69547 | comment |
Gang of Hats: Each baron appears to have an associated color and industry. So far we have Quinn (red and opium), The Widow (turquoise and oil), and Jacobee (green plaid and gold). Also, The Widow's Clippers fight using butterfly-shaped shuriken while Jacobee's Clippers wield pickaxes. In Season 2 we add Baron Chau (pure white and Cogs) who fights with knives and daggers, Baron Hassan (orange and textiles) who fights with spaded blades and swords, Baron Broadmore (turquoise and weapons manufacture), Baron Rojas is seen to wear green and black and control agriculture but his fighting style is not seen. Most literally: The men among the Widow's clippers all wear stylish bowler hats and are literally referred to as "Bowlers", in distinction to the women-only Butterflies. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_5fcb9ad1 | type |
Time Skip | |
Into the Badlands / int_5fcb9ad1 | comment |
Time Skip: Six months pass In-Universe between the ending of the first season and the beginning of the second. There is a similar skip between the second season and the third. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_60194b82 | type |
Spanner in the Works | |
Into the Badlands / int_60194b82 | comment |
Spanner in the Works: The Widow lures Ryder into a trap but did not count on Sunny coming as well. The plan might have still succeeded, but M.K. was also there and was able to save Sunny's life. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_638b65bc | type |
Armor Is Useless | |
Into the Badlands / int_638b65bc | comment |
Armor Is Useless: Despite all of the swords, blades on sticks, and crossbow bolts flying around; none of the fighters wear more than leather armor. A few do use shields. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_648fe274 | type |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday | |
Into the Badlands / int_648fe274 | comment |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Sunny killed more than 400 people before he became The Atoner. He does not remember the details of every one of them, although their family members do. May also apply to other characters. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_65331274 | type |
Flynning | |
Into the Badlands / int_65331274 | comment |
Flynning: Seen in the show's many sword fights. Even more egregious, though, is sometimes-obviously-mistimed choreography that has actors moving off the mark, hesitating, and/or ending up a move ahead of their opponents. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_65acf9db | type |
He Knows Too Much | |
Into the Badlands / int_65acf9db | comment |
He Knows Too Much: Quinn will kill anyone who knows that he is dying of a brain tumor. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_66181568 | type |
Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions | |
Into the Badlands / int_66181568 | comment |
Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: Played with. Christianity is a thing of the past in the Badlands, to the point that most people don't even know what it was. Quinn has a bible, but makes it clear to his Clippers that he is the only God they worship. Lydia's father is known as The Preacher and is a priest of the Totemists, a polytheistic faith that teaches acceptance of one's position in the world, and employs totems in its rituals. But even he is dismissive of the supernatural... in public at least. Later in the series; the Abbotts are presented as Buddhists and Pilgrim appears to be sincere in his messianic Christian-derived religion (which features, among other things, ritual crucifixion). | |
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Into the Badlands / int_6a4c6ec0 | type |
The Promised Land | |
Into the Badlands / int_6a4c6ec0 | comment |
The Promised Land: The City of Azra, a fabled land free of inequality and violence... and the Barons' control. It is said to lay beyond the Badlands. MK claims to be from there and know the way back. Averted in season three when it's revealed that Azra had been destroyed prior to the series by the Black Lotus. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_6bcfbc7e | type |
Fantasy Gun Control | |
Into the Badlands / int_6bcfbc7e | comment |
Fantasy Gun Control: Explicitly invoked by the barons, who haven't just outlawed the possession of firearms, but their very manufacture. Even their own enforcers are armed with nothing more than swords and spears. And the occasional crossbow, as seen when Quinn's men storm the Widow's compound. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_6beacd8c | type |
Badass and Baby | |
Into the Badlands / int_6beacd8c | comment |
Badass and Baby: Shows up a few times with Sunny and Henry, so that Sunny can demonstrate his Action Dad status. More commonly deliberately averted with Sunny leaving Henry in the care of others when he has to fight (which also limited the complexities of having a young kid on-set while filming fight scenes). | |
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Into the Badlands / int_6d4a4c29 | type |
Unspecified Apocalypse | |
Into the Badlands / int_6d4a4c29 | comment |
Unspecified Apocalypse: The specifics of the catastrophe that destroyed civilization are not elaborated upon, although according to the AMC website, approximately 500 years have elapsed since it occurred. Since it's unclear how long ago the original Seven Barons took over, it is entirely possible that few people in the Badlands even remember what happened. Waldo and Quinn seem to genuinely believe there is nothing better outside the Badlands. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_72cdfc33 | type |
Big Bad Ensemble | |
Into the Badlands / int_72cdfc33 | comment |
Big Bad Ensemble: Both Quinn and The Widow share the position of Big Bad in Season 1, spending the majority of it fighting each other. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_735b4101 | type |
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience | |
Into the Badlands / int_735b4101 | comment |
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Each of the barons seems to have a color associated with them. Everything associated with Quinn tends to be red, from the poppies in his plantations, to his banners and the uniforms of his Clippers. In Season 2, after his return, he and his forces are now clad in black with fur lining on their clothes while his son Ryder, who has taken both he and Jacobee's places in light of their absence, has now taken the red Armadillo and The Fort. The Widow's forces all wear turquoise and blue, but this is more notable in her female warriors. Most things associated with Jacobee are blue and green plaid. Chau and her forces wear pure white. Baron Hassan and his Clippers are clad in orange and purple. Baron Broadmore wears turquoise and white. Baron Rojas wears green-black. Extended to non-Baron factions. The Totemists get off-white, the Abbotts have saffron and maroon robes, Lydia as viceroy gets dark green, and Black Lotus gets black and red. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_73ef9ef3 | type |
Almighty Janitor | |
Into the Badlands / int_73ef9ef3 | comment |
Almighty Janitor: Veil is a doctor, not a warrior or politician. However, she is one of the few doctors left in the Badlands after the deaths of her adoptive parents and even barons can get sick or injured, which gives her a lot of power. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_7b50237d | type |
Distinction Without a Difference | |
Into the Badlands / int_7b50237d | comment |
Distinction Without a Difference: What lies at the heart of the other Barons' animosity towards The Widow. Killing your own Baron and usurping his place is a perfectly acceptable (and even customary) way for a new Baron to take power. But killing your own Baron and usurping his place while you are married to him is apparently cheating somehow. It's made clear in Season 2 that Quinn openly challenged his Baron and presumably this is the usual method, The Widow assassinated her husband. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_7c5960bf | type |
Hall of Mirrors | |
Into the Badlands / int_7c5960bf | comment |
Hall of Mirrors: The Abbotts' Master has one, which she uses for rituals to lock and unlock characters' dark gifts. | |
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ShmuckBait | |
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Shmuck Bait: Despite having seen the result of M.K.'s episodes, Sunny still wanted to personally see it happen, so he deliberately cut M.K. To nobody's surprise, this resulted in Sunny being hit so hard that he was downright lucky not to have ended with a broken back. | |
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Balance of Power | |
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Balance of Power: Quinn is already a very powerful Baron, and the other Barons fear that his war with the Widow will make him too powerful. Quinn knows that he only has a short window of time to negotiate a compromise before they all unite against him and attack. | |
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Left Hanging | |
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Left Hanging: At the end of Season 3, Sunny encounters the Master's spirit, who warns him that an evil force more powerful than Pilgrim threatens the Badlands and he must be ready to face it. Meanwhile, one of Pilgrim's followers finds a working gun. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Applies to a few characters. In particular, Nick Frost really hams things up as Bajie in Seasons 2 and 3. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Rescue | |
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Roaring Rampage of Rescue: Since the very start of season two, Sunny's sole mission was to reunite with Veil and their newborn child. Once he learned that the Widow sold Veil to Quinn for marriage, it only fueled Sunny more, even knowing how dangerously outnumbered he'd be. | |
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Conservation of Ninjutsu | |
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Conservation of Ninjutsu: In both of Sunny's fights in the pilot, the last remaining opponent is the most dangerous. | |
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Automatic Crossbows | |
Into the Badlands / int_83ede4e3 | comment |
Automatic Crossbows: Chau's sniper in Leopard Snares Rabbit carries a custom self-loading crossbow which can chamber up to three bolts at once, and has several scope options including night vision. We get several shots of the side-mounted revolving reload mechanism in action as he tries to pin down the Widow's forces. Chau's army also has automated crossbow launchers to make a Rain of Arrows. | |
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Badass Crew | |
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Badass Crew: The Barons' Clipper forces are this. Quinn has an entire army of male Clippers while The Widow has a gender-neutral combination of both and a personal corps of all-female guards. | |
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Just Before the End | |
Into the Badlands / int_8bf8adfa | comment |
Quinn's bunker in the second season is in an old ruined subway station; but no real city in that region has a subway. Maybe somebody built one before the Just Before the End. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: In the season one finale, Sunny apparently kills Quinn, M.K. gets taken away by a mysterious group who have the same powers as him and they beat Sunny in a fight, and the River King kidnaps a badly beaten Sunny for double crossing him and plans to sell him. | |
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Recycled IN SPACE! | |
Into the Badlands / int_905438eb | comment |
Recycled In Space: The entire premise of this series is essentially Journey to the West with elements of Westerns, the Antebellum South, and post-apocalyptic dystopia. | |
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Paper Tiger | |
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Paper Tiger: Baron Quinn attacks the Lodge and conquers the Widow's lands with such ease that one wonders why he didn't do it in the first place... until it becomes apparent that doing so has left his forces spread too thin, and additionally made all the other barons angry at his upsetting the balance of power. He also gets killed pretty easily by Sunny despite his famed battle skills and heaps of proven cunning, seeing as he's past his prime with a secret brain tumor. | |
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Take a Third Option | |
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Take a Third Option: When he finds out Veil is pregnant with their illicit child, Sunny’s options are either to force her to have an abortion, or make a run for it. Both options are so bad that he eventually decides to train MK to fight so that he can take Veil and her unborn child safely out of the Badlands to Azra. | |
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Mook Chivalry | |
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Mook Chivalry: In the pilot, the nomads surround Sunny and attack him one at a time since they aren't trained to coordinate their attacks. This is contrasted with the fight against The Widow's highly trained men, who strike from four sides at the same time and give Sunny a real challenge. | |
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Men Are the Expendable Gender | |
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Men Are the Expendable Gender: Given that the vast majority of clippers are male, it's only normal for them to be fodder. Only the Widow employs a lot of women as fighters, and their deaths are treated much more dramatically. Come season 2, male clippers start being seen on the Widow's side, but mainly only serve as red shirts (ironic, given they wear blue). | |
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One-Man Army | |
Into the Badlands / int_9e943076 | comment |
The Barons themselves have to be formidable fighters to achieve and maintain their position. Quinn rose through the ranks of the Clippers from the bottom, and the Widow is a One-Man Army all unto herself. Baron Chau is shown to be the Widow's equal in a fight and the other Barons are just as formidable. Ryder is presented as the weakest fighter among the leaders but he is still trained well enough to take on most Clippers. | |
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Artistic License – Religion | |
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Artistic License – Religion: The Abbotts are presented and styled as being some variant of Buddhist; but beyond invoking ideas about reincarnation, their practice seems entirely focused on All Monks Know Kung-Fu. | |
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Not Hyperbole | |
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Not Hyperbole: Bajie ended up in the mines when the opium for a deal he was brokering turned out to be shit. Which he means literally as in actual human feces, compressed into bricks and stamped with Quinn's trademark coiled armadillo. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: In Season 2, The River King has yet to appear again let alone get his comeuppance for selling Sunny off into slavery earlier in ending of the first season. He finally shows up again near the end of the first half of the third season, and even though it looks like he's going to pull off another [1], he isn't so lucky. | |
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Handicapped Badass | |
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Handicapped Badass: Waldo, especially when he breaks out the weapons hidden in his wheelchair. Shown to be fairly common in the Badlands, given the injury rates in fights and that Veil and non-physician armorers provide clippers as well as cogs with prosthetics. Nathaniel loses his hand, which only slows him down so much. And Ryder fights pretty well for someone missing part of his foot. | |
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No Woman's Land | |
Into the Badlands / int_a8357dc2 | comment |
No Woman's Land: Whether within the Badlands or outside of it, women are treated as little more than property to powerful men unless they're hypercompetent fighters like Zephyr or Chau. | |
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Sole Survivor | |
Into the Badlands / int_aa30e350 | comment |
Sole Survivor: MK twice, although the second time wasn't his fault. | |
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Tyke-Bomb | |
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Tyke Bomb: Clippers start their training as children. | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
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Dramatic Irony: "I gave Bajie the key to his freedom. He's probably long gone by now." Bajie is quietly following right behind Sunny. | |
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Chronic Hero Syndrome | |
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Chronic Hero Syndrome: After being exiled from the Badlands and sold into slavery during Season 2, Sunny's journey home hits frequent roadbumps because he keeps trying to help people in need, including a sick slave in the mines and a mother and daughter forced into prostitution. | |
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Alas, Poor Villain | |
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Alas, Poor Villain: A deeply twisted — and reciprocal — version when Quinn finally kills Ryder in Season 2. Quinn wants Ryder to inherit his title as Baron, and gives Ryder multiple opportunities to deliver a killing stroke, but in the end, Ryder is unable to overcome his love for his father and Quinn is unable to overcome his instincts to destroy his enemies; Quinn is left cradling his son's body, both cursing that Ryder wasn't strong enough to be his father's heir. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
Into the Badlands / int_ac4ac8e5 | comment |
Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each episode's title is a (real or fictitious) kung fu move. | |
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Stupid Evil | |
Into the Badlands / int_affd30b0 | comment |
Stupid Evil: Quinn murders Veil's adoptive parents in full view of Sunny, his best warrior and Veil's lover and the father of her child. | |
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Meatgrinder Surgery | |
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In the third season, we encounter a Badlands combat medic. Without the skills or equipment of Veil or her father, the combat medic's only option for someone with an injured leg is immediate above-the-knee amputation with no pain medication. Apparently, that's the standard of care in the Badlands. | |
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Klingon Promotion | |
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Klingon Promotion: This appears to be the standard way a new baron seizes power. Baron Quinn seems to subscribe to this view since he claims that power should be taken, not just inherited. However, he is quite dismissive of The Widow for doing just that by murdering her husband. It is unclear if he has an issue with the fact that she is a woman, or if he thinks that the rule should not apply to spouses. He himself killed his old baron and took his land (it is implied that the Widow assassinated her husband, as opposed to openly challenging him to a duel, and Quinn mentions doing to his Baron). Sunny is offered this by the other barons. If he kills Quinn, they will back him to become the new baron of Quinn's territory. However, it is not the only way a new baron ascend to power, since Baron Jacobee inherited the position from his father. Quinn seems to look down on him in the same way he does the Widow. Baron Chau in Season 2 also inherited from her father after being put through Clipper training as a Colt and surpassing her sisters. | |
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Heir Club for Men | |
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Quinn is not very discreet about the fact that he doesn't think his son Ryder is tough or smart enough to take up the barony once he is gone. Ryder's case isn't helped by the fact that the baronies aren't necessarily hereditary; anyone can usurp and take the place of a baron if they're strong and ruthless enough. | |
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Feudal Overlord | |
Into the Badlands / int_b343fa47 | comment |
Feudal Overlord: The series features seven of them, known as the barons, who rule the Badlands with an iron fist. | |
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Corrupt the Cutie | |
Into the Badlands / int_b5c56995 | comment |
Corrupt the Cutie: The entire plot of Sunny's "dream" in which Henry is convinced by his "friend" Artemis to kill his mother, Veil. | |
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Mundane Luxury | |
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Mundane Luxury: Quinn spends several episodes grooming his Clipper Gabriel into carrying out a suicide bombing. This includes bribing Gabriel by offering him an exotic food known as "ice cream". Less malevolently, characters are quite impressed by collections of ancient printed books - at least, those characters who know how to read. | |
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Trauma-Induced Amnesia | |
Into the Badlands / int_b66a24a7 | comment |
Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Invoked to explain why Sunny does not remember his childhood before Waldo found him; including his parents, sister, Pilgrim, all of Azra, and part of his own original name. Also invoked to explain M.K. not remembering his mother's death and not immediately recognizing Sunny as her killer. | |
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Firearms Are Revolutionary | |
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Firearms Are Revolutionary: In the final episode, a survivor from Pilgrim's army finds a working gun. Since the Barons who controlled the Badlands ordered all guns destroyed and banned their manufacture centuries earlier, it's implied this is the next great force that will threaten the Badlands. However, the series was not renewed after this so the full implication of this discovery remain unknown. | |
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Metaphorically True | |
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Metaphorically True: In season 1, Quinn tells Veil that Sunny's sword killed her parents in order to screw with their relationship (presumably to keep Sunny's loyalties firmly focused on him). He neglects to mention that he, not Sunny, was wielding it at the time. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
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Aerith and Bob: Names range from Lydia and Ryder to Veil and Zephyr. | |
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Storming the Castle | |
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Storming the Castle: Quinn storms the Widow's stronghold with a frontal assault halfway through the first season. | |
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The Great Wall | |
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The Great Wall: The southern border of the Badlands is one of these. Sunny is bewildered upon seeing it; given the Barons can barely keep oil refineries running, he can't believe they built a metal wall dozens of stories high and over five hundred miles long. Bajie says that it was there long before they came to power, and no one knows who actually built it. | |
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Cool Bike | |
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Cool Bike: The first scene in the first episode is Sunny speeding across the post-apocalyptic agricultural landscape on his motorcycle wearing Cool Shades, swords across his back; which pretty much sets the stylistic tone for the entire series. Used in silhouette in the opening credits. | |
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WalkTheEarth | |
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Season Two Finale: Veil sacrifices her life to kill Quinn once and for all, leaving Sunny heartbroken and guilt-ridden. He buries her, then leaves with Henry to Walk the Earth. The Widow reveals herself to be no better than the other Barons, planning to use M.K. as a weapon and making Waldo a Deal with the Devil that we're not sure he's going to turn down. Disillusioned, Tilda leaves with Odessa to an unknown fate. And Bajie gets to a communication tower and sends some kind of mysterious message before possibly bleeding out. | |
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Anti-Hero | |
Into the Badlands / int_beb9a361 | comment |
Anti-Hero: Sunny is this, hovering somewhere between a Type III and IV. He may be a brutal Clipper, but he also has certain actions that he won't do if he can help it — like murdering someone who isn't a threat to his Baron or anyone else. | |
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Imperiled in Pregnancy | |
Into the Badlands / int_c02a3bf2 | comment |
Imperiled in Pregnancy: Both Sunny and Veil feel this for their unborn child, who would be killed if Quinn ever found out about its connection to him. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_c2288824 | type |
A Nazi by Any Other Name | |
Into the Badlands / int_c2288824 | comment |
A Nazi by Any Other Name: In Season 2, Quinn's new clippers wear black uniforms and are constantly fed his insane philosophy of living death, combining Nazi colors and Social Darwinism with the insane bushido of Imperial Japan. When Lydia tells them that they're going to be sacrificed when the bombs he set destroy West Avalon, they don't flinch, because "he who is afraid to die does not deserve to live." | |
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Into the Badlands / int_c3b40ab8 | type |
Evil Redhead | |
Into the Badlands / int_c3b40ab8 | comment |
Evil Redhead: The Widow is the main antagonist of the first series, and she has bright red hair. (Though whether she actually qualifies as "evil" in comparison to the other barons is highly questionable.) | |
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Into the Badlands / int_c3bdfbb9 | type |
Let's You and Him Fight | |
Into the Badlands / int_c3bdfbb9 | comment |
Let's You and Him Fight: The Widow tries to start a war between Quinn and Jacobee. Quinn easily sees through her first attempt but her next False Flag Operation is more successful. Sunny is eventually able to expose the assassin as one of The Widow's Butterflies and stops the conflict. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_c5474384 | type |
Vow of Celibacy | |
Into the Badlands / int_c5474384 | comment |
Vow of Celibacy: Clippers, at least in Quinn's service, are not supposed to get into relationships but sex is clearly allowed. Quinn explicitly promises his Clipper recruits that if they succeed they can have their choice of women (or men) and he's aware of Sunny's past relationship with Zephyr, while Waldo scoffs at Sunny's concern that Veil is pregnant with Sunny's child. Waldo states that most Clippers, at least the male ones, have offspring all over the Badlands. Sunny's problem is that he fell in love. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_c58de9b | type |
Supernatural Martial Arts | |
Into the Badlands / int_c58de9b | comment |
Supernatural Martial Arts: The monks who beat up Sunny and kidnap M. K. use this. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_c6aec72c | type |
Healing Magic Is the Hardest | |
Into the Badlands / int_c6aec72c | comment |
Healing Magic Is the Hardest: The dark gift that turns characters into superhuman killing machines was supposedly originally created as a way for people to heal injuries. But we only encounter two characters who can use it do that. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_c77ad743 | type |
Mentor Archetype | |
Into the Badlands / int_c77ad743 | comment |
Mentor Archetype: Waldo; variously to Sunny, MK, Ryder, Tilda, and the Widow. That they represent at least three different sides does not stop him from giving them all advice. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_c86a6f38 | type |
Cannon Fodder | |
Into the Badlands / int_c86a6f38 | comment |
Cannon Fodder: The nomads' main role in the show is to be easily slaughtered in large numbers by the named characters. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_cab5085a | type |
Rain of Arrows | |
Into the Badlands / int_cab5085a | comment |
Rain of Arrows: Shows up a couple of times in the third season with Baron Chau's forces deploying a large automated arrow launcher. Used both with and without the "hiding from the arrows under a shield" variation. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_cadbe2b3 | type |
She Is the King | |
Into the Badlands / int_cadbe2b3 | comment |
She Is the King: Even though she is a woman, The Widow is only ever referred to as a baron, not a baroness, the latter title being reserved for a baron's wife. Likewise for Juliet Chau, who succeeded her father as Baron of their territory. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_ccffaa84 | type |
Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand | |
Into the Badlands / int_ccffaa84 | comment |
Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand: Quinn does this to Ryder and Lydia. Ryder can't go through with it, and Quinn kills him in part for his failure. Lydia tries, and while Quinn stops her, he admires her for having the strength to go through with it. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_cefc098a | type |
Artificial Script | |
Into the Badlands / int_cefc098a | comment |
Artificial Script: Used along with Conlang for the Azran language that no one outside of the city of Azra is able to read. When we hear the Azran language spoken in the third season, it is a constructed language made by applying centuries of sound changes to Mexican Spanish - which nobody in-universe picks up on either. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_d01cffbc | type |
Badass Longcoat | |
Into the Badlands / int_d01cffbc | comment |
Badass Longcoat: Sunny sports a series of pretty neat coats, and is the best fighter in the series. The Widow herself wears one in the opening of the second episode where she is shown to match Sunny's skills. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_d62dd556 | type |
The Chessmaster | |
Into the Badlands / int_d62dd556 | comment |
The Widow is the The Chessmaster: her style is all about speed, precision, and misdirection. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_d66cd0e6 | type |
Training from Hell | |
Into the Badlands / int_d66cd0e6 | comment |
Training from Hell: All Clippers are put through this in their younger years as recruits and then colts, continuing to practice equally brutal training in their adult years as well. As Waldo states to Sunny in the first episode, they're called "Colts" because they need to be broken first. The Abbotts take things even further, with a side of Cold-Blooded Torture when cleansing people of their gifts. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_d7b34c31 | type |
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
Into the Badlands / int_d7b34c31 | comment |
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Badlands' newest Baron is only ever referred to as "The Widow". She actually prefers it that way, and corrects an old acquaintance who calls her Minerva. Lydia's father is only known as The Preacher. Though on the show's website his name is Penrith. The River King is only ever referred to by his title. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_d9d2c40b | type |
Amazon Brigade | |
Into the Badlands / int_d9d2c40b | comment |
Amazon Brigade: In addition to her regular Clippers, The Widow has an all-female corps of lethal warriors called Butterflies. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_d9ffec82 | type |
Curb-Stomp Battle | |
Into the Badlands / int_d9ffec82 | comment |
The nomads in the pilot don't think that a single Clipper will pose much of a challenge, and end up on the receiving end of a Curbstomp Battle. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_dae5c997 | type |
Action Girl | |
Into the Badlands / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Full of them. At least one of the founding barons was a woman, as are the Widow and Baron Chau. So far, The Widow has an all-female personal guard called the Butterflies and a large portion of her Clipper force is also female. The regent of Baron Jacobee, Zephyr, is yet another example. There's also the Widow's regent, Tilda. Season Two brings in the Master of the temple M.K. is currently training in, as well as his coach/mentor Ava. In the third season, we meet Nix and Sunny's sister Kannin. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_daef39ee | type |
Elaborate Underground Base | |
Into the Badlands / int_daef39ee | comment |
Elaborate Underground Base: Quinn's bunker in the second season is inside an old subway station. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_db08a39d | type |
Animesque | |
Into the Badlands / int_db08a39d | comment |
Animesque: The world is set After the End, filled with Samurai Cowboys, including katanas everywhere, every fight is fast-paced & bloody as hell, and the main character is a stoic Asian man in a Badass Longcoat. There's a reason this show was being called "A live-action Anime" when it was first previewed. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_db153fef | type |
Casual Crucifixion | |
Into the Badlands / int_db153fef | comment |
Later in the series; the Abbotts are presented as Buddhists and Pilgrim appears to be sincere in his messianic Christian-derived religion (which features, among other things, ritual crucifixion). | |
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Into the Badlands / int_dbb414ed | type |
Hand Wave | |
Into the Badlands / int_dbb414ed | comment |
Hand Wave: Where did all the guns go? The barons banned them. How did this affect areas outside the Badlands where the barons have no power? Don't worry about it - just watch the cool martial arts. At the beginning of Season One; Quinn appears to have a clipper force of a few hundred, stated as the largest in the Badlands. Most of the clippers we see have killed multiple people and Sunny has killed more than 400. Later on; we meet Nathaniel, who has killed a thousand people. Where are all of their martially-trained opponents coming from? Do not ask. Focus on the roaring rampages. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_dc1761bd | type |
A God Am I | |
Into the Badlands / int_dc1761bd | comment |
Christianity is a thing of the past in the Badlands, to the point that most people don't even know what it was. Quinn has a bible, but makes it clear to his Clippers that he is the only God they worship. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_dcdde3b | type |
Inherent in the System | |
Into the Badlands / int_dcdde3b | comment |
Sexism, on the other hand, seems to be a problem Inherent in the System. Despite there being women as Barons and Clippers without much issue, for the most part they're treated like property - and primarily women are enslaved and forced to work as Dolls. Quinn is allowed to take multiple wives without condemnation, and The Widow's husband is implied to have been even worse. The Widow's crusade is for a more egalitarian Badlands, where young girls aren't dragged into dark rooms by their Barons to be used and tossed aside. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_dce448d | type |
Reduced to Ratburgers | |
Into the Badlands / int_dce448d | comment |
Reduced to Ratburgers: Rats appear to be an accepted food source in some locations but not in others. Sunny is visibly perturbed by Bajie's catching one and cooking it while describing his favorite recipes. Although given that this is Bajie, he may have been playing it up just to mess with Sunny. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_ddb8ba26 | type |
Shot at Dawn | |
Into the Badlands / int_ddb8ba26 | comment |
Shot at Dawn: Happens twice in Dragonfly's Last Dance; firstly when Lydia fails to return in time and Wren and Othur execute the hostages and again at the end of the episode when The Widow has Wren and the other mutinous soldiers shot for treason. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_df60d405 | type |
Culture Chop Suey | |
Into the Badlands / int_df60d405 | comment |
Culture Chop Suey: The Badlands are mainly a mix of the American West and antebellum South with elements of samurai Japan. Clippers are a cross between samurai and, being slave-soldiers, Ottoman Janissaries. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_e003c829 | type |
History Repeats | |
Into the Badlands / int_e003c829 | comment |
History Repeats: The series mixes and mashes feudal societies from all over the world and throughout history — feudal Japan, Imperial China, medieval Europe, antebellum South — and shows that they are aren't that different in any ways save name; an ideology of glorifying endless war, monopolization of resources by a small elite, the domination and exploitation of the weak by the strong. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_e2ccee25 | type |
Animal Motifs | |
Into the Badlands / int_e2ccee25 | comment |
Animal Motifs: All the Barons use animals on their banners Quinn's and later Ryder: an armadillo The Widow has butterflies not just on her banners but all over the place. Broadmore: Two narwhals facing each other with their horns crossed Hassan: A peacock Rojas: A grasshopper or locust Chau: A fox Lydia: As of becoming the Widow's viceroy in Season 3, a Horse | |
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Into the Badlands / int_e2d7b14c | type |
Made of Explodium | |
Into the Badlands / int_e2d7b14c | comment |
Made of Explodium: Usually averted, but still shows up a couple of times. Played for drama when Sunny takes an axe to the Meridian Chamber Pilgrim is using to give the dark gift to his army. Played for laughs when Bajie accidentally throws a wooden spear into a car's fuel tank and it promptly goes up in flames. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_e34ada78 | type |
Authority Equals Asskicking | |
Into the Badlands / int_e34ada78 | comment |
Authority Equals Asskicking: The Barons themselves have to be formidable fighters to achieve and maintain their position. Quinn rose through the ranks of the Clippers from the bottom, and the Widow is a One-Man Army all unto herself. Baron Chau is shown to be the Widow's equal in a fight and the other Barons are just as formidable. Ryder is presented as the weakest fighter among the leaders but he is still trained well enough to take on most Clippers. This applies to the Nomads as well. Among the Nomads who Sunny fight in the first episode, the only one who lands a hit is their leader, and in the second episode, the leader of the Nomad group ambushing Sunny and Ryder nearly killed Sunny with a surprise attack. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_e5421161 | type |
Expy | |
Into the Badlands / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy : Since this series is loosely based on Journey to the West, several of the characters from both works parallel each other: Sunny is Sun Wu Kong, the Monkey King, a parallel that becomes even more apparent in season three, when Sunny expertly uses a quarterstaff to kick some ass on a few occasions. M.K. may be the monk Xuanzang, aka Tripitaka, or the name M.K. may be a play on the word Monkey King. Season 2 newcomer Bajie is Zhu Bajie, aka Pigsy. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_e8878c29 | type |
Despair Speech | |
Into the Badlands / int_e8878c29 | comment |
Season One Finale: We have a depressing monologue given by M.K. as he's hauled away inside a trunk to god-knows-where for gods-know-why, Sunny being held prisoner by the River King as revenge for lying about killing M.K., and a cliffhanger with Tilda in regards to whether or not she poisons the Widow. And apparently... the journey has only just begun. Damn. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_e993da98 | type |
Equal-Opportunity Evil | |
Into the Badlands / int_e993da98 | comment |
Equal-Opportunity Evil: The Badlands have a mountain of issues that make it a Crapsack World, but racism doesn't seem to be one of them. All the Barons' Clipper forces are racially diverse, and out of the seven barons, Jacobee is black, Rojas is Latino and Chau and Hassan are Chinese. Sexism, on the other hand, seems to be a problem Inherent in the System. Despite there being women as Barons and Clippers without much issue, for the most part they're treated like property - and primarily women are enslaved and forced to work as Dolls. Quinn is allowed to take multiple wives without condemnation, and The Widow's husband is implied to have been even worse. The Widow's crusade is for a more egalitarian Badlands, where young girls aren't dragged into dark rooms by their Barons to be used and tossed aside. We see clippers and regents who are openly gay, lesbian, and bi. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_e9a3a1ed | type |
Never Learned to Read | |
Into the Badlands / int_e9a3a1ed | comment |
Never Learned to Read: It's implied through his scene with Veil that neither Sunny nor the other Clippers know how to read and write. This may apply to the greater population too, since it would be a perfect way for barons to control how much knowledge their people have of the outside world. Veil has taught Sunny how to read well enough that that scene has him reading her Paradise Lost. He apparently "prefers The Cat In The Hat". | |
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Into the Badlands / int_e9f517e1 | type |
Artistic License – Geography | |
Into the Badlands / int_e9f517e1 | comment |
Artistic License – Geography: The map on the show's website indicate that the territories controlled by the Barons stretch from the Mississippi River all the way to the Rocky Mountains, a situation which would make the traveling times in the show quite absurd. Quinn's bunker in the second season is in an old ruined subway station; but no real city in that region has a subway. Maybe somebody built one before the Just Before the End. The first season was filmed in Louisiana, with both antebellum slave-holder plantation houses and French-influenced mansions available as sets. The rest of the production was moved to Ireland, making some of the sets and location filming not match the setting or locations previously established. | |
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Self-Made Man | |
Into the Badlands / int_ed874c14 | comment |
Self-Made Man: Quinn sees himself as this, being quick to remind people that nobody handed him anything when he rose from the bottom of the food chain. | |
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Into the Badlands / int_edcc813f | type |
Fantastic Caste System | |
Into the Badlands / int_edcc813f | comment |
Fantastic Caste System: The Badlands are very much a feudal setup, with several different levels of society: The Barons are the overlords, who run their own fiefdoms. Clippers are the Barons' enforcers and assassins, entitled to whatever they want with the exception of starting their own families. Cogs are essentially serfs/slaves, providing the workforce for their respective Baron. Makers are engineers and inventors, repurposing ancient technology and building new machines. Dolls are people trafficked and sold into prostitution. Nomads are roving bandits who prey on anyone they find, and Barons only move against them when they become a threat. There are also other classes in smaller numbers; Lydia, for example, is the daughter of a Preacher. In Season 2 we see more: Pickers are miners and outside of the Badlands are all sorts of people from the mysterious Abbots to Smugglers and Nomads. | |
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The Starscream | |
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The Starscream: Zephyr is plotting to usurp Baron Jacobee's place with the aid of The Widow. | |
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Kidnapped Doctor | |
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Kidnapped Doctor: After the Widow sustains life-threatening injuries from her battle with Sunny, she orders her Butterflies to kidnap Veil. | |
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Improvised Lockpick | |
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Improvised Lockpick: Done multiple times by Bajie, using a rat's leg bone and a metal clip bookmark. | |
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No Healthcare in the Apocalypse | |
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No Healthcare in the Apocalypse: Played with. Veil and her father are both doctors and provide care to patients from barons to the enslaved cogs; but they appear to be the only physicians in the entirety of the Badlands - so that the Widow has Veil kidnapped to perform emergency surgery. They are also quite limited in what they can do: Veil can trepan a skull to treat a hematoma, but Quinn's brain tumor is incurable. Some of the factions outside the Badlands do have healing skills, such as the Abbotts' Master's gift for magically repairing bones. In the third season, we encounter a Badlands combat medic. Without the skills or equipment of Veil or her father, the combat medic's only option for someone with an injured leg is immediate above-the-knee amputation with no pain medication. Apparently, that's the standard of care in the Badlands. | |
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Wouldn't Hit a Girl | |
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Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Averted totally as women fight (and are in some cases killed by) men in equal measure to their same-gender opponents. | |
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Feudal Future | |
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Feudal Future: How far into the future the story takes place is never mentioned, but at least in the Badlands things are set up in an explicitly feudal manner: seven barons rule the land through their elite armies of enforcers. | |
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