History Characters / Tomorrowland

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Governor Nix is fond of Athena, despite the fact she's working against him. [[spoiler:He is even [[OhCrap horrified]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone at shooting her by accident]] due to her [[TakingTheBullet taking the raygun shot meant for Frank]].

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Governor Nix is fond of Athena, despite the fact she's working against him. [[spoiler:He is even horrified at shooting her by accident due to her taking the raygun shot meant for Frank]].

--> '''Governor Nix''': Let's imagine, if you glimpsed the future, were frightened by what you saw, what would you do with that information? Would you go to... The politicians? Captains of industry? And how would you convince them? With data, facts? Good luck. The only facts they won't challenge are the ones that keep the wheels greased and the dollars rolling in. [[spoiler:But, what if? What if there was a way of skipping the middleman, and putting the critical news directly into everyone's head? The probability of widespread annihilation kept going up. The only way to stop it was to show it, and to scare people straight. Because, what ''reasonable'' human being wouldn't be galvanized by the potential destruction of everything they've ever known or loved? To save civilization, I would show its collapse. But, how do you think this vision was received? How do you think people responded to the prospect of imminent doom? They gobbled it up! Like a chocolate eclair! They didn't fear their demise, they repackaged it! It can be enjoyed as video games, as TV shows, books, movies – the entire world wholeheartedly embraced the apocalypse, and sprinted toward it with gleeful abandon. Meanwhile, your Earth was crumbling all around you. You've got simultaneous epidemics of obesity and starvation! Explain that one! Bees and butterflies start to disappear, the glaciers melt, algae blooms... All around you the coal mine canaries are dropping dead and ''you won't take the hint!'' '''In every moment there is the possibility of a better future, but you people won't believe it. And because you won't believe it, you won't do what is necessary to make it a reality!''' So you dwell on this terrible future, you resign yourselves to it. For one reason -- because [[EvilIsEasy that future doesn't ask anything of you]] ''today.'' So, yes, we saw the iceberg, we warned the Titanic. But you all just steered for it anyway, full steam ahead. Why? Because you ''want'' to sink. You ''gave up.'' That's not the ''Monitor's'' fault. That's ''yours.'']]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Governor Nix, when he inadvertently shot Athena when she took his raygun shot for Frank]].

* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Comes close to one when she sees what Tomorrowland has become, until her EurekaMoment pulls her out of it.]]
* EurekaMoment: [[spoiler: Casey has one that shakes her out of her DespairEventHorizon, when she realizes that the Monitor was broadcasting negative images in people's minds, to hasten the End of the World.]]

* GlamourFailure: This is how Casey realizes that [[spoiler:Frank’s guard dog is a hologram. It doesn’t leave any footprints]].

* MeaningfulEcho: Casey at one point tells her father the story of [[http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/TwoWolves-Cherokee.html The Two Wolves]], a story he used to tell her, reminding him that the wolf that wins is whichever you keep feeding. [[spoiler: She later realizes that Governor Nix has been broadcasting apocalyptic images in people's minds, causing them to "feed the wrong wolf".]]

* TeenGenius
* TeleportationSickness: The teleporter used to take [[spoiler: the main characters to Paris]] also causes a good loss of blood sugar. While Frank and Athena aren't so badly affected, Casey is.

* FirstLove: [[spoiler: Athena is this to Frank. Which is why he's so bitter when they meet again, he never got over her even after his exile.]]
* GadgeteerGenius

* HowWeGotHere: The movie begins with Frank telling his story, with Casey interjecting running commentary, in the present day, before cutting to the main action. [[spoiler: The movie ends where they leave off, revealing that Frank and Casey are telling their stories to a new line of androids, who will take on Athena's role to distribute newly-minted pins to the dreamers of the world, to invite them to Tomorrowland.]]

* MadeOfIron: As a kid he survives get driven into the dirt at high speeds by his jetpack instead of suffering any serious injuries. [[spoiler: It also takes his body a few seconds to disintegrate when shot with a raygun in a potential timeline, unlike everyone else who disintegrates instantly.]]

* MeaningfulEcho: Frank at one point describes the T-pin as "an invitation to a party that never happened." [[spoiler: At the end of the movie, Frank says that they should "put the party back on and print out new invitations."]]

* DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch: [[spoiler:Governor Nix’s very last words are "Oh, bollocks"]], this was enough to get the film a 12A rating in the U.K. despite the film being rated P.G. in America.

* EvilBrit: [[spoiler: Governor Nix. He's played by Hugh Laurie, what did you expect?]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Governor Nix’s EstablishingCharacterMoment consists of him being an asshole to a 10 year old kid for no good reason.

* {{Masquerade}}: Governor Nix says that, in the old days, Tomorrowland would work to have the Eiffel Tower turning into a huge rocket dismissed as a hoax. [[spoiler: However, with the world ending in less than two months, he's not going to bother keeping it a secret.]] It didn't stop his [[MechaMook androids]] from atomizing those three cops when they [[HeKnowsTooMuch started asking uncomfortable questions though]].

* MoralMyopia: Governor Nix has a very [[CharacterFilibuster long and angry rant]] about [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech why the people of Earth deserve doom]], but never stops to ponder that by doing nothing to prevent it, even though he has the means and technology to do so, [[{{Hypocrite}} he's just being as apathetic as they are]]. He has so few craps to give that he doesn't even bother to [[spoiler: stop the Monitor from broadcasting, even though he knows full well it's only making things worse]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Governor Nix saw that, the way things were going, the Earth [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt wouldn't last forever]] unless something was done to save it, so he [[spoiler: used the Monitor to subconsciously project the images of doom it had predicted in the hopes that it would scare the people into action. Instead, the only thing it achieved was to [[StoppedCaring desensitize people to the possibility of armageddon]] which actually hastened it dramatically]].

* VillainHasAPoint: Governor Nix's plan wasn't actually evil. At first he believed [[spoiler: showing humanity a possible apocalyptic future would scare them into trying to prevent it. However, he lost faith when instead of trying to prevent the apocalypse, humanity ''embraced'' the idea of it. How do you save someone who doesn't ''want'' to be saved? Even better, why would ''you'' want to interact with them in any way, shape or form? This is why the killer robots attempted to assassinate Casey, Frank and Athena; after it became blatantly clear that Earth didn't want to be saved, it was simply a manner of ''survival'' - if the nihilistic masters and masses could get to Tomorrowland, they'd almost certainly destroy it too. Secrecy was its shield. The robots were simply operating on orders received ''decades'' earlier.]]

* TheChooserOfTheOne: Athena senses in Casey the qualities she's looking for and gives Casey the means to see Tomorrowland. [[spoiler: This is actually her job, Frank was her first personal candidate; later after her passing, we see that Frank and Casey have set up a whole slew of new young recruiter units out to do exactly as she did.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Athena is damaged beyond repair when she takes an energy blast to the chest intended for Frank.]]
* HeroicSuicide: [[spoiler: Athena self-destructs to destroy the Monitor.]]

* LittleMissSnarker: Athena can be this quite a bit, especially when she's running out of patience [[spoiler: such as lying that she's got an automatic shutoff function if someone asks her too many sensitive questions. She's really just playing dead because she found Casey annoying.]]

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: [[spoiler: The later robots sent to hunt her down slide too far into the Uncanny Valley. Even the robots built to succeed her mission don't have her liveliness. However, her successors are fresh off the assembly line while she had decades to [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming become more human]]. Given some time and care, the new recruiters are more than likely to become like her eventually.]]

* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer makes Casey's dad out to be a {{Jerkass}} FantasyForbiddingFather when in the actual movie he's… a NASA engineer who's facing unemployment as Cape Canaveral is getting closed down, but still is a loving and supporting father despite being left a tad embittered and bearing a somewhat fatalistic viewpoint over being on the verge of unemployment. His angry outburst seen in the trailer is entirely justified because he just bailed Casey out after she gets caught [[spoiler: breaking into NASA and sabotaging the demolition efforts, and he plans to ground her for it]].

* SupernaturalProofFather: Casey tries to convince her father that the pin is showing her another world but it doesn’t work on him, as it only make him think Casey was fooling around, prompting him to confiscate the pin from her, reprimand her and then seemingly ground her. {{Justified}} because Athena was earlier seen encoding it to Casey’s DNA.

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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Casey is subject to most of the physical comedy of the movie. Her painful interactions with the real world while inside the pin-induced vision is the prime example.

* BuffySpeak: Casey tends to use this a ''lot'' when talking - for example, she describes [[spoiler:Athena's default shutdown mode (which it isn't - it's just what Athena does when she's tired of answering Casey's constant questions) as Athena's "automatic shutoff thingy"]].

* VillainHasAPoint: Governor Nix's plan wasn't actually evil. At first he believed [[spoiler: showing humanity a possible apocalyptic future would scare them into trying to prevent it. However, he lost faith when instead of trying to prevent the apocalypse, humanity ''embraced'' the idea of it. How do you save someone who doesn't ''want'' to be saved? Even better, why would ''you'' want to interact with them in any way, shape or form? This is why the killer robots attempted to assassinate Casey, Frank and Athena; after it became blatantly clear that Earth didn't want to be saved, it was simply a manner of ''survival'' - if the nihilistic masters and masses could get to Tomorrowland, they'd almost certainly destroy it too. Secrecy was its shield. The robots were simply operating on orders received ''decades'' earlier. NotSoDifferent from Athena.]]

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler: He goes out with some very appropriate words.]]
-->[[spoiler: "Oh, ''bollocks''."]]

* PrecisionFStrike: Nix says, [[spoiler:"Oh, bollocks!" as his FamousLastWords.]]

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Invoked in-universe: [[spoiler: Nix projected images of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt into people's minds in order to steer humanity away from destroying itself. This resulted in people becoming desensitized to the inevitable, prompting Nix's FaceHeelTurn as he decided that HumansAreBastards and should be put out of their misery.]] The film implies this is what spurred on the popularity of dystopic literature (''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'', etc) and bleak, grimdark media being popular.