History Film / RepoMen

* ShutUpKirk: The boss chews Remy out and is aggravated by customers' complains when they knew what they signed for

* MortonsFork: Repo Men are legally obliged to ask the people they are repossessing organs from if they wish to call for an ambulance to take them to a hospital after the procedure; but not only are most of said victims unconscious and unable to answer, Remy explains to one who is conscious that, if their HMO is already lousy enough that a Repo Man is bound to come a-knockin', then the hospital won't do anything to save their lives.

%%* DropTheHammer

* BittersweetEnding: In the end we find that getting [[spoiler:hit with the hook left Remy brain damaged; Jake is now paying for a [[LotusEaterMachine neural net]] so that Remy can live the rest of his life in happiness. So, while he didn't escape and Beth will probably die, Remy will live out the rest of his life thinking otherwise, sipping drinks on a beach with her and his best friend.]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:In the end, Jake is not punished for sabotaging Remy's defibrillator, which got him seriously injured and needing an artificial heart.]]

* MeatgrinderSurgery: Repo Men generally don't care much about making their repossessions neatly. Best example is Jake repossessing some poor man's liver in the middle of a BBQ party in Remy's house, gutting the guy in the back of a taxi, with the stake knife he used to but apart said BBQ a couple of minutes before. This actually helps Remy [[spoiler:when he foils the system into pretending he took Beth's organs when he didn't - he just scratched the barcodes of the artificial organs he was passing for Beth's and pretended that he screwed up their removal.]]

->''If you can't pay for your car, the bank takes it back. If you can't pay for your house, the bank takes it back. If you can't pay for your liver, well, that's where I come in.''

* RidiculousRepossession: "The Union" has greatly improved the quality of life through the creation of cutting-edge medical implants. However the dark side is that, if the recipients of said implants are unable to keep up with their fees, the Union is legally allowed to send repo men to reclaim the implants (which more often than not [[OrganTheft will be a fatal procedure]], not that the [[PsychoForHire repo men]] or [[CorruptCorporatExecutive the Union]] cares).

* MoralDissonance: Remy can't bring himself to repossess organs after being a recipient of an organ himself, viewing it as murder. However, he has no problems slicing up his former co-workers and murdering a security guard merely because they work for The Union, probably because those he's trying to repossess are innocent people.

* {{Dystopia}}: A world were if someone cannot pay for its artificial organs, they are removed and resold, even if it means the death of the patient. Moreover the interest rates offered for buying the organs are very high.

** In the end, we realize [[spoiler:that the everything that happened after Jake knocked Remy down was [[AllJustADream Remy's dream]].]]

* StunGuns: The weapon of choice for the repo men. [[spoiler:Averted when one is used with lethal consequence during Remy's raid.]]

* RealityEnsues: A brutal one that leads to TheReveal at the end. [[spoiler: Jake threw the mechanical hook so hard at Remy's head he fell into a permanent coma]].

* TapOnTheHead: Played straight when Jake knocks Remy unconscious at the end of the second act. [[spoiler:RealityEnsues when it's revealed at the very end that that blow caused ''permanent brain damage'': the entire third act where The Union was defeated was AllJustADream]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:The Neural Net.]]

* FantasticDrug: Q, a red powdered drug. Beth is a addict to it.

In the future humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don't pay your bill, The Union sends its highly skilled repo men to repossess your organs... with no concern for your comfort or survival. Former soldier Remy (Creator/JudeLaw) is one of the best organ repo men in the business. But when he suffers a cardiac failure on the job, he awakens to find himself fitted with the company's top-of-the-line heart-replacement... as well as a hefty debt. But a side effect of the procedure is that his [[IncrediblyLamePun heart's no longer in the job]]. When he can't make the payments, The Union sends its toughest enforcer, Remy's former partner Jake (Creator/ForestWhitaker), to track him down.

* NecessaryEvil: What the Union view their purpose to be, as the boss states in his video. Even resorting to guilt-tripping potential clients, since choosing not to sign up will only hurt their families financially.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: This world is not very different from ours (technology, clothes, music...). The only differences are the ubiquity of articifial organs and the fact that it is legal to remove them if the patient cannot pay his bills.

* BatmanGambit: Jake's plan. [[spoiler:He sabotages Remy's defibrilator, so that it explodes when Remy tries to use it, so that Remy is seriously injured and needs an artificial heart, so that he will keep on working as a repo man to pay for his articifial heart.]]

* OrganTheft: The Union's business model is an [[InvertedTrope inversion]]: The Union does not steal organs, it legally seizes unpaid articial organs.

* ResignationsNotAccepted: [[spoiler:Jake does not want Remy to stop working as a repo man, so he sabotages his defibrillator, which caused him to get an artificial heart. Jake seems to think that Remy will be forced to keep on working as a repo man to pay for his articifial heart.]]

* {{Dystopia}}: A world were if someone cannot pay for its artificial organs, they are removed and resold, even if it means the death of the patient. Moreover the interest rate offered for buying the organs are very high.

* RecursiveCanon: Sort of. At the end we see that Remy called his book ''The Repossession Mambo'', which is [[MythologyGag the name of the book the movie is based on]].

* TitleDrop: Sort of. At the end we see that Remy called his story ''The Repossession Mambo'', which is [[MythologyGag the name of the book the movie is based on]].

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Jake tries to convince Remy that repo is what they were meant to do together. They've been together since childhood and a war, so their bond is strong. [[spoiler:Strong enough that Jake does underhanded things to make sure they will stay together: he sabotages a defibrillator to nearly kill Remy, which caused him to get an artificial heart. Jake seems to think that Remy will be forced to keep on working as a repo man to pay for his articifial heart.]]

* LotusEaterMachine: The Neural Net is a device that allow you to always dream of your personal paradise. [[spoiler:In the end, Remy dreams of having drinks with Jake and Beth on a beach.]]

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* RedemptionEqualsAffliction: Remy realizes that seizing organs is a bad thing after he himself gets an artificial heart, so he tries to save Beth and even to erase the whole customer file of his former employer. Finally, [[spoiler:he is nearly killed by Jake and ends up in an artificial coma. {{Subverted|Trope}}, because he does not realize it (and the viewer either at first).]]