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** By 2032, [[VisionaryVillain Doctor Cocteau]] has managed to create a society where crime is non-existent and the physical and mental well being of it's citizens are cared for, allowing each of them to live longer, healthier lives, but to do this, the lifestyles of the average San Angeles citizen have become so heavily sanitized that they are not only fined for swearing, they don't even engage in physical contact anymore, and anything deemed [[PoliticalOvercorrectness unhealthy is thus illegal]], rendering them almost childlike in their mannerisms and feeling unfulfilled with [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction nothing to struggle against.]] Cocteau outright holds his society to the ideal of being as a clear crystal ball, and is proven willing resort to [[KnightTemplar excise anything and anyone he considers a threat its purity.]]
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** By 2032, [[VisionaryVillain Doctor Cocteau]] has managed to create a society where crime is non-existent and the physical and mental well being of it's citizens are cared for, allowing each of them to live longer, healthier lives, but to do this, the lifestyles of the average San Angeles citizen have become so heavily sanitized that they are not only fined for swearing, they don't even engage in physical contact anymore, and anything deemed [[PoliticalOvercorrectness unhealthy is thus illegal]], rendering them almost childlike in their mannerisms and feeling unfulfilled with [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction nothing to struggle against.]] Cocteau outright holds his society to the ideal of being as a clear crystal ball, and is proven willing resort to [[KnightTemplar excise anything and anyone he considers a threat to its purity.]]
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**By 2032, [[VisionaryVillain Doctor Cocteau]] has managed to create a society where crime is non-existent and the physical and mental well being of it's citizens are cared for, allowing each of them to live longer, healthier lives, but to do this, the lifestyles of the average San Angeles citizen have become so heavily sanitized that they are not only fined for swearing, they don't even engage in physical contact anymore, and anything deemed [[PoliticalOvercorrectness unhealthy is thus illegal]], rendering them almost childlike in their mannerisms and feeling unfulfilled with [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction nothing to struggle against.]] Cocteau outright holds his society to the ideal of being as a clear crystal ball, and is proven willing resort to [[KnightTemplar excise anything and anyone he considers a threat its purity.]]
**At the end of the other extreme is Simon Phoenix, a mayhem spreading madman who follows no laws or creeds and lives only to indulge his every whim, his pure chaos leaving a trial of victims in its wake.
**By 2032, [[VisionaryVillain Doctor Cocteau]] has managed to create a society where crime is non-existent and the physical and mental well being of it's citizens are cared for, allowing each of them to live longer, healthier lives, but to do this, the lifestyles of the average San Angeles citizen have become so heavily sanitized that they are not only fined for swearing, they don't even engage in physical contact anymore, and anything deemed [[PoliticalOvercorrectness unhealthy is thus illegal]], rendering them almost childlike in their mannerisms and feeling unfulfilled with [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction nothing to struggle against.]] Cocteau outright holds his society to the ideal of being as a clear crystal ball, and is proven willing resort to [[KnightTemplar excise anything and anyone he considers a threat its purity.]]
**At the end of the other extreme is Simon Phoenix, a mayhem spreading madman who follows no laws or creeds and lives only to indulge his every whim, his pure chaos leaving a trial of victims in its wake.
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* BenevolentDictator: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]] and Deconstructed by San Angeles.
** On the surface, society there is peaceful and prosperous, and crime and disease have been all but eliminated. The people of San Angeles are at least complacent with this arrangement, if not perfectly happy with it.
** [[CrapsaccharineWorld Beneath that veneer]], however, all the problems the city claims to have done away with have really only been driven underground, things like [=STDs=] have been eradicated not by medical breakthroughs, but instead banning physical intimacy outside of procreation, and the crime-free society is maintained by a surveillance system so intrusive that even private homes are fitted with automated monitors that fine people for swearing. Plus, there is [[IndubitablyUninterestingIndividual no spark, personality, or ruggedness to the society]]; entertainment is about as baseline as it can get, and ''then some'', and that aforementioned "underground"? It's a literal one, filled with ''thousands'' of people who couldn't tolerate an oppressive existence under Raymond Cocteau's watchful eye, and preferred to live free even if it meant living in squalor and poverty. Even worse, he believes San Angeles' modern society could stand to be '''''more''''' lacking and submissive!
** Raymond Cocteau, the central figure of San Angeles, [[KnightTemplar believes strongly in the superiority of his own beliefs]] and makes a [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans series of warped and terrible decisions to deal with these so-called troublemakers threatening his seemingly harmonious society.]] [[spoiler: He decides to unleash a murderous SerialKiller on the population, hoping to use the psycho to kill his opponent Edgar Friendly. This leads to several excess deaths as Phoenix is too tough for the pacified police of San Angeles to fight, and eventually, Cocteau's own demise when [[EvilIsNotAToy Phoenix himself decides]] he [[EvenEvilHasStandards can't stand Cocteau and his prissy ways]].]]
** On the surface, society there is peaceful and prosperous, and crime and disease have been all but eliminated. The people of San Angeles are at least complacent with this arrangement, if not perfectly happy with it.
** [[CrapsaccharineWorld Beneath that veneer]], however, all the problems the city claims to have done away with have really only been driven underground, things like [=STDs=] have been eradicated not by medical breakthroughs, but instead banning physical intimacy outside of procreation, and the crime-free society is maintained by a surveillance system so intrusive that even private homes are fitted with automated monitors that fine people for swearing. Plus, there is [[IndubitablyUninterestingIndividual no spark, personality, or ruggedness to the society]]; entertainment is about as baseline as it can get, and ''then some'', and that aforementioned "underground"? It's a literal one, filled with ''thousands'' of people who couldn't tolerate an oppressive existence under Raymond Cocteau's watchful eye, and preferred to live free even if it meant living in squalor and poverty. Even worse, he believes San Angeles' modern society could stand to be '''''more''''' lacking and submissive!
** Raymond Cocteau, the central figure of San Angeles, [[KnightTemplar believes strongly in the superiority of his own beliefs]] and makes a [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans series of warped and terrible decisions to deal with these so-called troublemakers threatening his seemingly harmonious society.]] [[spoiler: He decides to unleash a murderous SerialKiller on the population, hoping to use the psycho to kill his opponent Edgar Friendly. This leads to several excess deaths as Phoenix is too tough for the pacified police of San Angeles to fight, and eventually, Cocteau's own demise when [[EvilIsNotAToy Phoenix himself decides]] he [[EvenEvilHasStandards can't stand Cocteau and his prissy ways]].]]
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* ObfuscatingPostmortemWounds: Spartan comes to Phoenix's base looking for hostages from a bus the criminal captured. During the confrontation, Simon blows up the base, John gets him out, and then dozens of bodies are found around. Despite Spartan's reassurances his thermal scanner showed nothing, it is assumed that they died in the explosion due to his negligence, and the cop is sentenced to the cryoprison along with the criminal. Later, during a confrontation, Phoenix taunts Spartan with the fact that by the time the building exploded, the hostages were dead and cold already.
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-->'''Huxley''': Look at you, you're a shambles!\\
'''Spartan''': Don't worry, I can fix it, [[ItMakesSenseInContext all I need is a needle and thread]]. [{{Beat}}] I really didn't just say that, did I? Damn!
'''Spartan''': Don't worry, I can fix it, [[ItMakesSenseInContext all I need is a needle and thread]]. [{{Beat}}] I really didn't just say that, did I? Damn!
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* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: After Spartan crashes into a fountain.
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'''Spartan''': Don't worry, I can fix it, [[ItMakesSenseInContext all I need is a needle and thread]]. [{{Beat}}] I really didn't just say that, did I? Damn!
-->'''Huxley''': Look at you, you're a shambles!\\
'''Spartan''': Don't worry, I can fix it, [[ItMakesSenseInContext all I need is a needle and thread]]. [{{Beat}}] I really didn't just say that, did I? Damn!
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* RunningGagged: The profanity-detecting machine gag gets a suitably violent end when John Spartan shoots one as part of his RageBreakingPoint regarding Cocteau. The rest of the film happens in locations where there is no such machine ([[spoilers:such as the sewers and Cocteau's office after Spartan shot the gadget]]).
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* RunningGagged: The profanity-detecting machine gag gets a suitably violent end when John Spartan shoots one as part of his RageBreakingPoint regarding Cocteau. The rest of the film happens in locations where there is no such machine ([[spoilers:such ([[spoiler:such as the sewers and Cocteau's office after Spartan shot the gadget]]).
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* RunningGagged: The profanity-detecting machine gag gets a suitably violent end when John Spartan shoots one as part of his RageBreakingPoint regarding Cocteau. The rest of the film happens in locations where there is no such machine ([[spoilers:such as the sewers and Cocteau's office after Spartan shot the gadget]]).
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* TextileWorkIsFeminine: It's clear what Spartan thinks about being taught knitting while in cryo-stasis. He's so aghast that he jumps right to calling himself a seamstress. (The masculine form of the word would have worked just fine.) He does at least grow comfortable enough with his new profession to knit a sweater for Huxley, and he casually remarks to her that all he needs is a needle and thread to fix his clothes after crashing his squad car into a fountain.
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* TextileWorkIsFeminine: It's clear what Spartan thinks about being taught knitting while in cryo-stasis. He's so aghast that he jumps right to calling himself a seamstress. (The seamstress (the masculine form of the word would have worked just fine.) fine; admittedly, most people aren't aware of the word "seamster"). He does at least grow comfortable enough with his new profession to knit a sweater for Huxley, and he casually remarks to her that all he needs is a needle and thread to fix his clothes after crashing his squad car into a fountain.
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* StayInTheKitchen: Near the end of the movie, John Spartan is so determined to confront Simon Phoenix alone that he actually knocks out Huxley out with a stun-stick in order to prevent her from following him. Nevermind the fact that she has proven her value to him many times over, including in a fight just a few minutes earlier where she beat up mooks with her martial arts skills and saved Spartan's life by shooting one who was about to kill him. Though being [[spoiler:wrongly]] blamed for the death of hostages can easily make ItsPersonal and various scenes have shown that Spartan and Phoenix are obsessed with killing each other, to say nothing of how Phoenix was tweaked as a HumanPopsicle to make him ''far'' more dangerous compared to his mooks. There's also that Spartan saw how devastated Huxley was at having to take a human life, even in self-defense, and either wanted to spare her going through that again or felt that she'd be useless until she came to grips with that.
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* StayInTheKitchen: Near the end of the movie, John Spartan is so determined to confront Simon Phoenix alone that he actually knocks out Huxley out with a stun-stick in order to prevent her from following him. Nevermind Never mind the fact that she has proven her value to him many times over, including in a fight just a few minutes earlier where she beat up mooks with her martial arts skills and saved Spartan's life by shooting one who was about to kill him. Though being [[spoiler:wrongly]] blamed for the death of hostages can easily make ItsPersonal and various scenes have shown that Spartan and Phoenix are obsessed with killing each other, to say nothing of how Phoenix was tweaked as a HumanPopsicle to make him ''far'' more dangerous compared to his mooks. There's also that Spartan saw how devastated Huxley was at having to take a human life, even in self-defense, and either wanted to spare her going through that again or felt that she'd be useless until she came to grips with that.
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* ScaryImpracticalArmor: The Scraps, and the armor that Phoenix wears that was presumably stolen from them, is constructed from scrap materials, most prominently cut up tires. Spartan beats them up just as handily as anyone else, and of course, rubber isn't very bulletproof. It does make some sense, though; Scrap armor is meant to defend against San Angeles cops, who only carry glow rods. Though we're not told exactly how the rods work, it stands to reason a rubber insulator would render them ineffective. The tires would also be very effective against clubs and other blunt weapon attacks.
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* ScaryImpracticalArmor: The Scraps, and the armor that Phoenix wears that was presumably stolen from them, is constructed from scrap materials, most prominently cut up tires. Spartan beats them up just as handily as anyone else, and of course, rubber isn't very bulletproof. It does make some sense, though; Scrap armor is meant to defend against San Angeles cops, who only carry glow rods. Though we're not told exactly how the rods work, it stands to reason a rubber insulator would render them ineffective.ineffective (the fact that Spartan jams the rod into the water Phoenix is standing in and it "travels" through the water to him all but confirms that it's some kind of electrical effect). The tires would also be very effective against clubs and other blunt weapon attacks.
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*** It's so bad that one cop (who seems to have enough boxing training to actually know how to set up and throws several punches; Phoenix is just toying with him and easily dodges) actually drops his guard with a scared "Oh my God, did I hurt him?!" expression when Phoenix suddenly throws up his palms as if to say "Wait, stop!". Phoenix then takes him out easily.
--->'''Phoenix:''' (disgusted) Stupid!
--->'''Phoenix:''' (disgusted) Stupid!
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* MurderByProxy: Simon Phoenix wants to kill Dr. Cocteau when he decides that the dictator has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]]. To get around the RestrainingBolt that prevents him from directly harming Dr. Cocteau, he unfreezes the rest of his gang and just orders one of his goons to pull the trigger instead.
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--->'''Edgar Friendly:''' I'm the kind of guy who wants to sit in a [[GreasySpoon greasy spoon]] and think, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, butter and buckets of cheese, okay? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in a non-smoking section. I wanna run through the streets naked with green Jello all over my body reading a Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to. Okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Mayer Wiener.
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--->'''Edgar Friendly:''' I'm the kind of guy who wants to sit in a [[GreasySpoon greasy spoon]] and think, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, butter and buckets of cheese, okay? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in a non-smoking section. I wanna run through the streets naked with green Jello all over my body reading a Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to. Okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Mayer Wiener."
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* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: With a sci-fi twist. The prisoners in cryostasis were implanted with behavior modification to give them skills which would make them productive members of society. Phoenix was turned into the perfect criminal. [[RuleOfFunny Spartan learns knitting.]]
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* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: With a sci-fi twist. The prisoners in cryostasis were implanted with behavior modification to give them skills which would make them productive members of society. Phoenix was turned into the perfect criminal.criminal (though that's due to [[spoiler:Cocteau deliberately giving him combat and programming skills]]. [[RuleOfFunny Spartan learns knitting.]]
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* DoYouWantToCopulate: Lenina's proposal for sex (or what is considered "sex" in San Angeles, anyway) is quite blunt, to say the least.
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* DoYouWantToCopulate: Lenina's proposal for sex (or what is considered "sex" in San Angeles, anyway) is quite blunt, to say the least. Probably because their "sex" is a great deal less intimate or personal.
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** Cocteau feels comfortable freeing Phoenix because Phoenix's conditioning prevents Phoenix from killing Cocteau... but Cocteau never considered that Phoenix could order someone ''else'' to kill him.
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** Cocteau feels comfortable freeing Phoenix because Phoenix's conditioning prevents Phoenix from killing Cocteau... but Cocteau never considered that Phoenix could order someone ''else'' to kill him.him (even worse, Cocteau is the one who ''released'' those other criminals for Phoenix).
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[[caption-width-right:300:''[[{{Tagline}} The future isn't big enough for the both of them.]]'']]
[[caption-width-right:300:''[[{{Tagline}} The future isn't big enough for the both of them.]]'']]
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* MurderByProxy: Simon Phoenix wants to kill Dr. Cocteau when he decides that the dictator has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]]. To get around the RestrainingBolt that prevents him from directly harming Dr. Cocteau, he unfreezes the rest of his gang and just orders one of his goons to pull the trigger instead.
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* HellishLA: Los Angeles in 1996 is a crime-ridden wasteland that looks downright post-apocalyptic. Los Angeles in 2032, [[FalseUtopia on the other hand]]...
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--->'''Dr. Cocteau:''' Yes, but this time, the're really intimidated. Now I'll have carte blanche to create the perfect society. My society. San Angeles will be a beacon of order with the purity of an ant colony, and the beauty of a flawless pearl.\\
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--->'''Dr. Cocteau:''' Yes, but this time, the're they're really intimidated. Now I'll have carte blanche to create the perfect society. My society. San Angeles will be a beacon of order with the purity of an ant colony, and the beauty of a flawless pearl.\\
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* StabTheScorpion: Lenina Huxley and John Spartan have just taken out a bunch of mooks and Spartan thinks they're safe, but then Huxley suddenly picks up a gun and points it at Spartan. Spartan gets a millisecond of shock before she saves his life by shooting the mook that was sneaking up on Spartan with a knife.
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* StabTheScorpion: Lenina Huxley and John Spartan have just taken out a bunch of mooks and Spartan thinks they're safe, but then Huxley suddenly picks up a gun and points it at Spartan. Spartan gets a millisecond of shock before she saves his life by shooting the mook that who was sneaking up on Spartan with a knife.
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-->"Send a maniac to catch a maniac."
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* TrashcanBonfire: Several are visible in the AbsurdlySpaciousSewer where Edgar Friendly's people live.
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* TrashcanBonfire: Several barrels filled with fire are visible in the AbsurdlySpaciousSewer where Edgar Friendly's people live.
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* LightswitchSurprise: When Doctor Cocteau and his assistant Bob enter Cocteau's office, it's dark. When Cocteau tries to turn on the voice-activated lights, they don't work. Then Simon Phoenix (who is sitting in Cocteau's chair in the dark) does so using another verbal command, revealing his presence.
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* WeWillAllBeHistoryBuffsInTheFuture: {{Justified}}. One of the protagonists is very knowledgeable about the 20th century because he is a FanOfThePast.
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* WeWillAllBeHistoryBuffsInTheFuture: {{Justified}}. One of the protagonists Lenina Huxley is very knowledgeable about the 20th century because he she is a FanOfThePast.
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* CruelToBeKind: As they head into the cryoprison, Spartan knocks Huxley out with a zap from a glow-rod and leaves her by the entrance. He knows just how ruthless Phoenix can be and doesn't want to take a chance on her getting hurt.
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* WeWillAllBeHistoryBuffsInTheFuture: {{Justified}}. One of the protagonists is very knowledgeable about the 20th century because he is a FanOfThePast.
