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* FocusGroupEnding: Infamously so, ruining most of the {{Foreshadowing}} and creating a few {{Plot Hole}}s. Originally, the ending was much closer to the novel it was based on, with [[spoiler:Neville realizing that the infected are intelligent, and just want to take back the flock member he has in his captivity in order to test his cure. A shocked Neville allows them to do this, after which the infected leaves without causing further trouble. The event leads Neville to ponder the implications of how he has been carrying out his research into finding a cure, and realizes that in the eyes of the infected, ''he'' [[HeelRealization is the monster]], as to them he is some strange creature who is abducting and killing them for seemingly no reason at all]]. In the final version of the ending [[spoiler:the intelligence of the infected is just implied, but ultimately ignored, and Neville makes a HeroicSacrifice to help the others escape with his cure]]. The original ending was eventually included as bonus material on the DVD, where it was named the "controversial" ending.
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* FocusGroupEnding: Infamously so, ruining most of the {{Foreshadowing}} and creating a few {{Plot Hole}}s. Originally, the ending was much closer to the novel it was based on, with [[spoiler:Neville realizing that the infected are intelligent, and just want to take back the flock member he has in his captivity in order to test his cure. A shocked Neville allows them to do this, after which the infected leaves leave without causing further trouble. The event leads Neville to ponder the implications of how he has been carrying out his research into finding a cure, and realizes that in the eyes of the infected, ''he'' [[HeelRealization is the monster]], as to them he is some strange creature who is abducting and killing them for seemingly no reason at all]]. In the final version of the ending [[spoiler:the intelligence of the infected is just implied, but ultimately ignored, and Neville makes a HeroicSacrifice to help the others escape with his cure]]. The original ending was eventually included as bonus material on the DVD, where it was named the "controversial" ending.
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* FocusGroupEnding: Infamously so, ruining most of the {{Foreshadowing}} and creating a few {{Plot Hole}}s. Originally, the ending was much closer to the novel it was based on, with [[spoiler:Neville realizing that the infected are intelligent, and just want to take back the flock member he has in his captivity in order to test his cure. A shocked Neville allows to them do this, after which the infected leaves without causing further trouble. The event leads Neville to ponder the implications of how he has been carrying out his research into finding a cure, and realizes that in the eyes of the infected, ''he'' [[HeelRealization is the monster]], as to them he is some strange creature who is abducting and killing them for seemingly no reason at all]]. In the final version of the ending [[spoiler:the intelligence of the infected is just implied, but ultimately ignored, and Neville makes a HeroicSacrifice to help the others escape with his cure]]. The original ending was eventually included as bonus material on the DVD, where it was named the "controversial" ending.
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* FocusGroupEnding: Infamously so, ruining most of the {{Foreshadowing}} and creating a few {{Plot Hole}}s. Originally, the ending was much closer to the novel it was based on, with [[spoiler:Neville realizing that the infected are intelligent, and just want to take back the flock member he has in his captivity in order to test his cure. A shocked Neville allows to them to do this, after which the infected leaves without causing further trouble. The event leads Neville to ponder the implications of how he has been carrying out his research into finding a cure, and realizes that in the eyes of the infected, ''he'' [[HeelRealization is the monster]], as to them he is some strange creature who is abducting and killing them for seemingly no reason at all]]. In the final version of the ending [[spoiler:the intelligence of the infected is just implied, but ultimately ignored, and Neville makes a HeroicSacrifice to help the others escape with his cure]]. The original ending was eventually included as bonus material on the DVD, where it was named the "controversial" ending.
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* CompanionCube: The mannequins were this for Neville.
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* FocusGroupEnding: Infamously so, ruining most of the {{Foreshadowing}} and creating a few {{Plot Hole}}s. Originally, the ending was much closer to the novel it was based on, with [[spoiler:Neville realizing that the infected are intelligent, and just want to take back the flock member he has in his captivity in order to test his cure. A shocked Neville allows to them do this, after which the infected leaves without causing further trouble. The implications of what he has done to develop his cure dawns on Neville, and he [[HeelRealization realizes]] that in the eyes of the mutants, ''he'' is the monster who is killing them for seemingly no reason at all]]. In the final version of the ending [[spoiler:the intelligence of the infected is just implied, but ultimately ignored, and Neville makes a HeroicSacrifice to help the others escape with his cure]]. The original ending was eventually included as bonus material on the DVD, where it was named the "controversial" ending.
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* FocusGroupEnding: Infamously so, ruining most of the {{Foreshadowing}} and creating a few {{Plot Hole}}s. Originally, the ending was much closer to the novel it was based on, with [[spoiler:Neville realizing that the infected are intelligent, and just want to take back the flock member he has in his captivity in order to test his cure. A shocked Neville allows to them do this, after which the infected leaves without causing further trouble. The event leads Neville to ponder the implications of what how he has done to develop been carrying out his cure dawns on Neville, research into finding a cure, and he [[HeelRealization realizes]] realizes that in the eyes of the mutants, infected, ''he'' [[HeelRealization is the monster monster]], as to them he is some strange creature who is abducting and killing them for seemingly no reason at all]]. In the final version of the ending [[spoiler:the intelligence of the infected is just implied, but ultimately ignored, and Neville makes a HeroicSacrifice to help the others escape with his cure]]. The original ending was eventually included as bonus material on the DVD, where it was named the "controversial" ending.
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--> '''Neville:''' [[spoiler: "Samantha..."]][[spoiler:Samantha...]]
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* FocusGroupEnding: Infamously so, ruining most of the {{Foreshadowing}} and creating a few {{Plot Hole}}s. Originally, [[spoiler:Neville would have realized that the infected are intelligent, and just want to take back the flock member he has in his captivity in order to test his cure. A shocked Neville allows to them do this, after which the infected leaves without causing further trouble. The whole event makes Neville [[HeelRealization start to question his own morality]], when the implications of what he has done to develop his cure dawns on him.]] In the final version of the ending [[spoiler:the intelligence of the infected is just implied, but ultimately ignored, and Neville makes a HeroicSacrifice to help the others escape with his cure]]. The original ending was eventually included as bonus material on the DVD, where it was named the "controversial" ending.
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* FocusGroupEnding: Infamously so, ruining most of the {{Foreshadowing}} and creating a few {{Plot Hole}}s. Originally, the ending was much closer to the novel it was based on, with [[spoiler:Neville would have realized realizing that the infected are intelligent, and just want to take back the flock member he has in his captivity in order to test his cure. A shocked Neville allows to them do this, after which the infected leaves without causing further trouble. The whole event makes Neville [[HeelRealization start to question his own morality]], when the implications of what he has done to develop his cure dawns on him.]] Neville, and he [[HeelRealization realizes]] that in the eyes of the mutants, ''he'' is the monster who is killing them for seemingly no reason at all]]. In the final version of the ending [[spoiler:the intelligence of the infected is just implied, but ultimately ignored, and Neville makes a HeroicSacrifice to help the others escape with his cure]]. The original ending was eventually included as bonus material on the DVD, where it was named the "controversial" ending.
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* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: A billboard in the abandoned Times Square has a ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'' logo. A "World's Finest" or Batman Vs. Superman film was in talks at the same time as this film, but fell through, so this reference was all we got...[[http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=106748 until 2015, that is]].
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* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: A billboard in the abandoned Times Square has a ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'' logo. A "World's Finest" or Batman Vs. Superman film was in talks at the same time as this film, but fell through, so this reference was all we got...[[http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=106748 [[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice until 2015, 2016 that is]].
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** The Alpha Male is in one of these as the Darkseekers break into Neville's home, smashing aside those of his own pack that get in the way to get at Robert. [[spoiler: Justified, as in the original ending, [[LoveMakesYouCrazy the Alpha considers Neville to be holding his mate hostage and desperately wants her back]].
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** The Alpha Male is in one of these as the Darkseekers break into Neville's home, smashing aside those of his own pack that get in the way to get at Robert. [[spoiler: Justified, as in the original ending, [[LoveMakesYouCrazy the Alpha considers Neville to be holding his mate hostage and desperately wants her back]].]]
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* OhCrap: Anna and Neville when they realise the Darkseekers managed to track them home.
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* EvilStoleMyFaith: When Anna speculates that her coming to New York to find Neville is some part of God's plan, Robert launches into a furious tirade that given everything he's seen since KV got loose, there can be no God.
-->'''Robert Neville''': God's plan?! All right, let me tell you about your God's plan. There were 6 billion people on Earth when the infection hit. KV had a 90 percent kill rate; that's 5.4 billion people dead. Crashed and bled out, ''dead''. Less than 1 percent immunity, that left 12 million healthy people like you, me and Ethan. The other 588 million turned into your Darkseekers, and then they got hungry, and they killed and fed on everybody. ''Everybody!'' Every single person that you or I has ever known is '''''DEAD!!!!''''' Dead! There is no God! There is no God.
-->'''Robert Neville''': God's plan?! All right, let me tell you about your God's plan. There were 6 billion people on Earth when the infection hit. KV had a 90 percent kill rate; that's 5.4 billion people dead. Crashed and bled out, ''dead''. Less than 1 percent immunity, that left 12 million healthy people like you, me and Ethan. The other 588 million turned into your Darkseekers, and then they got hungry, and they killed and fed on everybody. ''Everybody!'' Every single person that you or I has ever known is '''''DEAD!!!!''''' Dead! There is no God! There is no God.
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** The Alpha Male is in one of these as the Darkseekers break into Neville's home, smashing aside those of his own pack that get in the way to get at Robert. [[spoiler: Justified, as in the original ending, [[LoveMakesYouCrazy the Alpha considers Neville to be holding his mate hostage and desperately wants her back]].
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* BigWordShout: Neville roars "'''''DIEEEEE!'''''" as he [[DrivenToSuicide launches a grief and rage-fuelled attack]] on the Darkseekers in the wake of [[spoiler: Sam's death]].
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* LonersWillStayAlone: Neville is lonely for reasons evidently unrelated to his social skills, but he exhibits many of the characteristic traits of the more extreme examples of this trope, such as making imaginary friends out of puppets.
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* ItCanThink: The Darkseekers are very intelligent, replicating Neville's traps as well as [[spoiler: taking out the defense floodlights around Neville's house.]]
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* AllThereInTheScript: The recurring Darkseeker with a grudge against Robert Neville in the film is called the "Alpha Male".
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The film demonstrates a bit of it, but the ending's change rendered the Foreshadowing null.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Neville captures an infected female with a snare trap, and the Alpha of the pack leaves the dark to glare at Neville before walking back into the dark. Neville takes it as a sign that they've lost their self-preservation skills. The film demonstrates a bit of it, but Alpha later shows up, having caught Neville in the ending's change rendered exact same type of snare trap he built with a pack of dogs, [[spoiler:hinting that the Foreshadowing null.infected are intelligent, and that the Alpha wants the girl back]].
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The latest film adaptation (and only one to bear the name) of Creator/RichardMatheson's novel ''Literature/IAmLegend''.
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The latest 2007 loose film adaptation (and only one to bear the name) of Creator/RichardMatheson's novel ''Literature/IAmLegend''.
''Literature/IAmLegend''.
Creator/WillSmith plays virologist Robert Neville, who is immune to a man-made virus originally created to cure cancer. He works to create a remedy while defending himself against the virus' victims, who turn into hostile mutants.
Creator/WillSmith plays virologist Robert Neville, who is immune to a man-made virus originally created to cure cancer. He works to create a remedy while defending himself against the virus' victims, who turn into hostile mutants.
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*UnstoppableRage: After he is forced to MercyKill Sam, he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the infected, [[TakingYouWithMe hoping that he dies as well.]]
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* WorthlessYellowRocks: Dr Neville finds himself walking over a fortune in bank notes, abandoned on the floor.
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* WorthlessYellowRocks: Dr Dr. Neville finds himself walking over a fortune in bank notes, abandoned on the floor.floor.
* WorthyOpponent: Dr. Neville seems to consider the virus itself to be this. While documenting the results of his latest failed attempt to cure the virus, he comments on the elegance of its design with what is clearly a tone of grudging respect.
* WorthyOpponent: Dr. Neville seems to consider the virus itself to be this. While documenting the results of his latest failed attempt to cure the virus, he comments on the elegance of its design with what is clearly a tone of grudging respect.
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Harsher In Hindsight is YMMV and unless New York has recently been overrun with vampires, Life has yet to Imitate Art.
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** In October 2012, [[http://instagram.com/p/RaKZqxmWZ4/ Hurricane Sandy made those shots in the movie of an empty New York a lot less CGI.]] Even creepier is that the movie itself is set in 2012.
** In October 2012, [[http://instagram.com/p/RaKZqxmWZ4/ Hurricane Sandy made those shots in the movie of an empty New York a lot less CGI.]] Even creepier is that the movie itself is set in 2012.
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* GhostCity, HarsherInHindsight and LifeImitatesArt: GhostCity: New York. The DVD extras show Hong Kong also became this.
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** In October 2012, [[http://instagram.com/p/RaKZqxmWZ4/ Hurricane Sandy made those shots in the movie of an empty New York a lot less CGI.]] Even creepier is that the movie itself is set in 2012.
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* CoolGun: Neville's rifle; a Colt Law Enforcement Carbine with an [=ACOG=] scope and PentagonLight [=MD3R=] flashlight.
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* CoolGun: Neville's rifle; a Colt Law Enforcement Carbine with an [=ACOG=] scope and PentagonLight [=MD3R=] flashlight.
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* BadassAndChildDuo: Anna and Ethan are a rare {{Gender Inverted| Trope}} version. While we don't see her fight much, the two of them came to New York from Maryland, across a wasteland infested with [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Darkseekers.]] The two of them were from the same group of refugees, and survived by dint of being immune to the airborne strain of the virus.
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* ContaminationSituation: [[spoiler:The dog is infected with a virus that turns him into one of the mutants. Robert Neville has to strangle his dog as it tries to kill him.]]
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* ContaminationSituation: [[spoiler:The dog Sam, the dog, is infected with a virus that turns him [[spoiler:her into one of the mutants. Robert Neville has to strangle his dog as it her before she fully turns and tries to kill him.]]
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* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: The number of times is not specified, but Neville has seen ''{{Shrek}}'' enough to know the dialogue by heart.
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* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: The number of times is not specified, but Neville has seen ''{{Shrek}}'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' enough to know the dialogue by heart.
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* ActorAllusion: Will Smith and his Marley, particularly "Three Little Birds", which he earlier mangled in ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale''.
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* {{Defictionalization}}: The movie features a billboard for a Superman/Batman crossover film. [[http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=106748 Guess what movie got announced at the 2013 Comic-Con?]]
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* ContaminationSituation: [[spoiler:The dog is infected with a virus that turns him into one of the mutants. Robert Neville has to kill his dog.]]
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* ContaminationSituation: The dog is infected with a virus that turns him into one of the mutants. Robert Neville has to kill his dog.
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* ContaminationSituation: The [[spoiler:The dog is infected with a virus that turns him into one of the mutants. Robert Neville has to kill his dog.]]
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* GenderReveal: Right in the middle of the TearJerker that is [[spoiler:Sam's death]], Neville uses [[spoiler:her]] her full name for the first time, somehow making the whole thing even more devastating:
