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** Basho and Benny's plan is ultimately revealed to be [[spoiler:to have Boy create a diversion by attacking the Van Der Koys full on, and sneak in past their security while they are distracted and focused on him]]. Fast forward to the climax of the film, and it is revealed that [[spoiler:this was also the Shaman's plan, as he used the confusion caused by Boy attack to be able to infiltrate the bunker undetected while all eyes were in him. [[ProperlyParanoid Only Hilda saw through it]].]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: The Flower Girl who Boy sees earlier in the movie, praises and supports the Van Der Koys family. Later on in the movie we see her at The Culling being forced to participate in the event where she is violently murder by the Van Der Koys henchmen ]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: The Flower Girl who Boy sees earlier in the movie, praises and supports the Van Der Koys Koy family. Later on in the movie we see her at The Culling being forced to participate in the event where she is violently murder by the Van Der Koys henchmen ]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: The Flower Girl who Boy sees earlier in the movie, praises and supports the Van Der Koys.Koys family. Later on in the movie we see her at The Culling being forced to participate in the event where she is violently murder by the Van Der Koys henchmen ]]
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*EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler: The Van Der Koys are a ruthless tyrannical family. However The Shaman is revealed to be just as evil as they are with everything he put Boy through and the fact he was using him as a tool for his revenge]].
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* BigBad: Hilda Van Der Koy, the matriarch of a powerful, corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty and is responsible for the murder of Boy's family.
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* {{Determinator}}:
** Boy spends the movie getting the absolute 7 hells beaten out of him in both flashback to his TrainingFromHell and the entirety of his raid against the Van Der Koy forces over the course of a single afternoon. He's beaten, slashed, stabbed, thrown around and absolutely ''covered'' in blood towards the end, but never gives up his drive for {{revenge}} against his tormentors.
** [[spoiler:The Shaman turns out to be an even bigger one. He apparently led resistance efforts against the Van Der Koys in the past and trained soldiers to fight against them, even killing Boy's real father through his efforts, and despite the loss of his entire family and being forced into hiding, he never gave up his own desire for revenge either, [[BestServedCold spending years psychologically torturing and moulding Boy into his weapon of ironic payback on the family]]. Hilda is ''deeply'' aware of this, and that as long as he's alive, her life will always be in danger no matter how many soldiers or defences she has. It seems to the rest of the family to just be mere excessive paranoia, but the ending of the film proves [[ProperlyParanoid she had the Shaman's measure utterly correct]], even down to the fact he'd infiltrated the Culling. However, the TrueFinalBoss fight against the Shaman becomes instigated when he proves ''[[DetrimentalDetermination too]]'' determined to take absolute revenge for his loss, demanding June 27's death as well even after Hilda's passing to wipe the whole family out. When he and Boy come to blows over the issue, it's an immensely painful and bloody struggle between two men who won't quit no matter how badly they're hurt]].
** Boy spends the movie getting the absolute 7 hells beaten out of him in both flashback to his TrainingFromHell and the entirety of his raid against the Van Der Koy forces over the course of a single afternoon. He's beaten, slashed, stabbed, thrown around and absolutely ''covered'' in blood towards the end, but never gives up his drive for {{revenge}} against his tormentors.
** [[spoiler:The Shaman turns out to be an even bigger one. He apparently led resistance efforts against the Van Der Koys in the past and trained soldiers to fight against them, even killing Boy's real father through his efforts, and despite the loss of his entire family and being forced into hiding, he never gave up his own desire for revenge either, [[BestServedCold spending years psychologically torturing and moulding Boy into his weapon of ironic payback on the family]]. Hilda is ''deeply'' aware of this, and that as long as he's alive, her life will always be in danger no matter how many soldiers or defences she has. It seems to the rest of the family to just be mere excessive paranoia, but the ending of the film proves [[ProperlyParanoid she had the Shaman's measure utterly correct]], even down to the fact he'd infiltrated the Culling. However, the TrueFinalBoss fight against the Shaman becomes instigated when he proves ''[[DetrimentalDetermination too]]'' determined to take absolute revenge for his loss, demanding June 27's death as well even after Hilda's passing to wipe the whole family out. When he and Boy come to blows over the issue, it's an immensely painful and bloody struggle between two men who won't quit no matter how badly they're hurt]].
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: While doing a WalkAndTalk to the TV studio for The Culling, Melanie tells an underling that because they don't have Glen for colour commentary, she wants a camera "right in the splatter zone, if that lens isn't covered in blood you're doing it wrong". [[spoiler: The lens of one camera does indeed get [[CameraAbuse covered in blood]] when Boy uses it to splatter Melanie herself.]]
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** One of the kitchen workers Boy fights has part of his cheek torn off by a cheese grater.
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* ParodyProductPlacement: Frosty Puffs is a kid-friendly breakfast cereal with colourful mascot characters, and is a long-lasting enough brand that Boy was eating it as a child. Melanie Van Der Koy has, [[OffscreenVillainy somehow]], arranged for them to sponsor the latest iteration of the Culling, a televised slaughter of innocent people, and they've even allowed Melanie's executioners to wear costumes of their characters during the event. Either Frosty Puffs are an EvilInc, or Melanie is just that persuasive.
--> '''Melanie''': [[VillainousBreakdown I'm a goddamn broadcasting miracle worker! Do you know how hard it is to get a cereal company to sponsor mass murder?! THAT WAS ME!"]]
--> '''Melanie''': [[VillainousBreakdown I'm a goddamn broadcasting miracle worker! Do you know how hard it is to get a cereal company to sponsor mass murder?! THAT WAS ME!"]]
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* RunningGag: Boy has no idea what Benny, one of the resistance, is saying (due to his bushy beard) and keeps hearing random words which he then imagines as he tries to make sense of them, such as him and Basho cutting off a farmer's foot.
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: Boy is amazing at parkour and combat, but completely helpless at planning, socializing, or even showing emotion.
* SigilSpam: The crest of the Van Der Koy Dynasty, a four-petal yellow flower on a black field is positively everywhere in the city.
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: Boy is amazing at parkour and combat, but completely helpless at planning, socializing, or even showing emotion.
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** Boy has no idea what Benny, one of the resistance, is saying (due to his bushy beard) and keeps hearing random words which he then imagines as he tries to make sense of them, such as him and Basho cutting off a farmer's foot.
** Other members of the Van Der Koy family keep shitting on and belittling Gideon's writing and artistic pursuits. Over the course of the film Glen, Melanie and Gram Gram all do it.
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: Boy is amazing atparkour parkour, as well as armed and unarmed combat, but completely helpless at planning, socializing, or even showing emotion.
* SigilSpam: The crest of the Van Der Koy Dynasty, a four-petal yellow flower on a blackfield field, is positively everywhere in the city.
** Boy has no idea what Benny, one of the resistance, is saying (due to his bushy beard) and keeps hearing random words which he then imagines as he tries to make sense of them, such as him and Basho cutting off a farmer's foot.
** Other members of the Van Der Koy family keep shitting on and belittling Gideon's writing and artistic pursuits. Over the course of the film Glen, Melanie and Gram Gram all do it.
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* AllThereInTheScript: The grandmother of the Van Der Koy family is never referred to onscreen as anything other than "Gram Gram", but the credits reveal that her name is Beatrice Van Der Koy.
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* EvilOldFolks: Grandma Gram Gram Beatrice, the ultimate matriarch grandmother of the Van Der Koy family family, is as nasty as you would expect from someone who raised Hilda, Gideon and Melanie. the ultimate matriarch of such a clan. [[spoiler:After Hilda's death she is the one who orders all the remaining troops to kill her grandchildren]].great-grandchildren]].
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* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:June 27 has been security chief of the Van Den Koy dynasty for years, and by her own admission during that time she has been [[MisplacedRetribution making the people of the City suffer over the loss of her brother]], but as soon as she sides with Boy he seemingly acts as if none of that ever happened.]]
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* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:[[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in regards to the Shaman. While his backstory is pitiful (watching his entire family being killed on the orders of Hilda Van Der Koy), he loses sympathy with the TrainingFromHell he puts Boy through solely out of revenge.]]
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* HenpeckedHusband: It's very clear who wears the trousers in Glen and Melanie's marriage (there's a reason why he's taken her surname), and Glen is visibly nervous when he has to report to Melanie that he's failed to gather the full complement of victims needed for her Culling show, to the point that he ''actually flinches'' when she turns her gaze on him. In the CreativeClosingCredits that show comic book style artwork of the characters alongside their actors' names, when the artwork of Melanie is shown in a triumphant pose with her shotgun held aloft, Glen is depicted kneeling at her feet in the stereotypically feminine LegCling position.
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** Hilda shrieks hysterically for Boy to be killed, but instead [[spoiler: June 27 strikes Hilda dead with a hatchet]].
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*** Boy remembers eating Frosty Puffs with his sister, the same cereal company that endorses the Culling, despite his mother's hatred for the Van Der Koy regime.
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*** Boy remembers eating Frosty Puffs with his sister, the same cereal company that endorses the Culling, despite his mother's hatred for the Van Der Koy regime. When Melanie is arranging for Hilda to introduce the Culling in Glen's absence, she notably instructs an underling to make sure Hilda doesn't see who the event's sponsor is.
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* VillainousBreakdown: The Van Der Koys go in for a few different flavours of this:
** Glen AintTooProudToBeg and even offers to help Boy and the Resistance bring down Hilda, but Basho accidentally drops the heavy machine part he's [[HeadCrushing holding above Glen]] before he can be of any assistance, although realistically [[StupidEvil he probably wouldn't have been]].
** Melanie cries BrokenTears as she rages at Gideon for helping Boy [[BerserkButton ruin the Culling broadcast she spent months arranging]], and then starts ChewingTheScenery and spraying MoreDakka, taking out both good guys and bad guys before Boy brings her down.
** Glen AintTooProudToBeg and even offers to help Boy and the Resistance bring down Hilda, but Basho accidentally drops the heavy machine part he's [[HeadCrushing holding above Glen]] before he can be of any assistance, although realistically [[StupidEvil he probably wouldn't have been]].
** Melanie cries BrokenTears as she rages at Gideon for helping Boy [[BerserkButton ruin the Culling broadcast she spent months arranging]], and then starts ChewingTheScenery and spraying MoreDakka, taking out both good guys and bad guys before Boy brings her down.
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* VagueAge: Between the flashback of the Van Der Koys executing Boy's family when he was a child and the present day, Hilda, Melanie and Gideon don't visibly age a single day, with only their hairstyles and outfits changing, meaning they were all either much YoungerThanTheyLook in the flashback or much OlderThanTheyLook in the present.
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* DragonInChief: Melanie considers herself to be the true ruler of the city, dismissing Hilda as a "psycho bitch" hiding in a cave, and reminding June 27 that while Hilda started the revolution that put them in power, Melanie was the one who got it paid for. She sees Hilda as little more than a tool to be wheeled out for a ratings boost on her show, while her own use of the media and The Culling events are what keep the Van Der Koys popular and in power. However, ItsPersonal between Boy and Hilda, so regardless of whether Melanie really is more powerful than Hilda, Boy still sees her as a secondary target and she's accordingly dispatched before he reaches Hilda.
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* MisplacedRetribution: [[spoiler:As she admits to him while escaping the bunker, June 27 took out her pain and grief over the loss of her brother out on the people of the City, who had nothing to do with the Shaman kidnapping him.]]
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: The movie makes reference to the fact that 25 years ago Hilda and her family took control of the City and instituted the Cullings, but who her revolution was directed against and how it was carried out is never elaborated upon, beyond the fact that eventually Melanie got the Frosty Puffs cereal company to pay the costs.
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** Sharp-eared viewers will pick up on the fact that when Boy first infiltrates the mansion disguised as a chef, the butler loudly announces to the staff that "[[spoiler:the dinner ''scene'' is about the begin]]", foreshadowing the reveal a few minutes later that [[spoiler:the whole annual dinner is a staged and scripted setup put on by Gideon to lure people trying to kill Hilda]].
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* CreativeClosingCredits: The credits see done in comic book style, not only showing the various characters as the names of the actors playing them appear onscreen, but also depicting a mini story of [[spoiler:Boy and June 27 fighting their way through many mooks together]].
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** [[spoiler: Glen has a bench press accidentally dropped on his face by Basho while being interrogated, crushing his entire head into a bloody mess]].
** One of the innocent victims of Melanie's winter wonderland Culling is killed by having hooks inserted at either side of his mouth and then pulled. A GoryDiscretionShot and VomitIndiscretionShot follow.
** [[spoiler: The support rods attached to the camera that Boy rams into Melanie's head clearly do [[GoryDiscretionShot something bloody]] to her face and neck area, but it's shown from the camera's POV and the [[CameraAbuse lens cracks and distorts]] upon impact.]]
** [[spoiler: Glen has a bench press accidentally dropped on his face by Basho while being interrogated, crushing his entire head into a bloody mess]].
** One of the innocent victims of Melanie's winter wonderland Culling is killed by having hooks inserted at either side of his mouth and then pulled. A GoryDiscretionShot and VomitIndiscretionShot follow.
** [[spoiler: The support rods attached to the camera that Boy rams into Melanie's head clearly do [[GoryDiscretionShot something bloody]] to her face and neck area, but it's shown from the camera's POV and the [[CameraAbuse lens cracks and distorts]] upon impact.]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Melanie only cares about her TV ratings, even daring Boy to kill her on camera because it'd drive up those ratings. Boy responds by killing her ''with'' [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine a TV camera]].
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Melanie only cares about has controlled the media narrative and subjugated the populace with her TV ratings, even daring broadcasts for years, so [[spoiler: Boy to kill dispatches her on by zooming the Culling's livestream camera because it'd drive into her head and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling her through the face or throat with its support rods]]. This is shown from the camera's POV and [[CameraAbuse the lens cracks]] on impact so we only see a distorted GrossUpCloseUp of Melanie's bloodied face and her eyes rolling up those ratings. into her head as her last breaths rattle. To put the capper on it, the camera boom lifts Melanie into the air and as Boy responds by killing walks away her ''with'' [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine a TV camera]].body slides off the rods and crashes to the ground along with the chair she's tied to. [[AssholeVictim As Melanie manages the impressive feat of being the worst human being even in her horrible family, it's hard to feel sorry for her]].]]
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* DragonInChief: Melanie considers herself to be the true ruler of the city, dismissing Hilda as a "psycho bitch" hiding in a cave, and reminding June 27 that while Hilda started the revolution that put them in power, Melanie was the one who got it paid for. She sees Hilda as little more than a tool to be wheeled out for a ratings boost on her show, while her own use of the media and The Culling events are what keep the Van Der Koys popular and in power. However, ItsPersonal between Boy and Hilda, so regardless of whether Melanie really is more powerful than Hilda, Boy still sees her as a secondary target and she's accordingly dispatched before he reaches Hilda.
* DragonInChief: Melanie considers herself to be the true ruler of the city, dismissing Hilda as a "psycho bitch" hiding in a cave, and reminding June 27 that while Hilda started the revolution that put them in power, Melanie was the one who got it paid for. She sees Hilda as little more than a tool to be wheeled out for a ratings boost on her show, while her own use of the media and The Culling events are what keep the Van Der Koys popular and in power. However, ItsPersonal between Boy and Hilda, so regardless of whether Melanie really is more powerful than Hilda, Boy still sees her as a secondary target and she's accordingly dispatched before he reaches Hilda.
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