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* EverybodyHelpsOutDenouement: The movie ends has Mal, Zoe, and Jayne [[spoiler: (and The Operative's troops)]] fixing up the titular ship, while Simon and Kaylee are... otherwise engaged.
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* SurpriseInspectionRuse: At the beginning, Simon Tam pretends to be a high-level Alliance official investigating the facility where his sister River Tam is being conditioned. He uses this access to help River escape.
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Mal kills a wounded Alliance soldier who participated in the attack on Haven.
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* YouHaveToHaveJews: David Krumholtz as Mr. Universe, who is even shown breaking glass during his... [[CargoShip "wedding".]]
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* BuildingIsWelding: The montage in the end where the crew is repairing ''Serenity'' includes a shot of Zoe welding something, complete with a big showy shower of sparks.
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* ChemicalMessiah: The Alliance wants its populations to be docile and peaceful, so it develops the drug Pax (G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate) and [[spoiler:tests it on the planet Miranda]]. It doesn't go well, so officially, [[spoiler:[[OrwellianRetcon there never was a colony on Miranda]]]].
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* ChemicalMessiah: The Alliance wants its populations to be docile and peaceful, so it develops the drug Pax (G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate) and [[spoiler:tests it on the planet Miranda]]. It doesn't go well, so officially, [[spoiler:[[OrwellianRetcon there [[spoiler:there never was a colony on Miranda]]]].Miranda]].
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* ApocalypticLog: Given by Dr. Caron, the female scientist on [[spoiler:Miranda]], explaining what has happened to the people and [[spoiler:how it created Reavers, the greatest threat of the 'verse.]] Once the crew finds it, they resolve to BringNewsBack to the rest of the 'verse, revealing the Alliance's scheme.
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* ApocalypticLog: Given by Dr. Caron, the female scientist on [[spoiler:Miranda]], explaining what has happened to the people and [[spoiler:how it created Reavers, the greatest threat of the 'verse.]] Once the crew finds it, they resolve to BringNewsBack to the rest of the 'verse, revealing the Alliance's scheme.
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** Dr. Caron (the female scientist on the planet [[spoiler:Miranda]]) says in her holographic message "I won't live to report this..." because she knows that the Reavers will soon attack and kill her. Moments later they do so, in a chilling and horrifying manner.
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** Dr. Caron (the female scientist on the planet [[spoiler:Miranda]]) says in her holographic message "I won't live to report this..." because she knows that the Reavers will soon attack and kill her. Moments later they do so, in a chilling and horrifying manner.
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* HologramProjectionImperfection: When the hologram of the female scientist on the planet [[spoiler:Miranda]] plays, there are occasional shifts in the picture.
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* HologramProjectionImperfection: When the hologram of the female scientist on the planet [[spoiler:Miranda]] plays, there are occasional shifts in the picture.
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* ShoutOut: Numerous. Special mention goes to the Reavers, who share the name of the Scottish/English Border-Reivers of the late Middle Ages, and exist in similar political circumstances, with similar behavior.
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* ShoutOut: Numerous. Special mention goes to the Reavers, who share the name of the Scottish/English Border-Reivers of the late Middle Ages, and exist in similar political circumstances, with similar behavior. Of particular note is the [[spoiler: crashed Research & Rescue ship on Miranda: its ID number is [=C57D=], sharing that designation with the C-57D Cruiser from Film/ForbiddenPlanet. Miranda itself is a "black rock," forbidden and forgotten.]]
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After ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' was [[ScrewedByTheNetwork cancelled partway through its first season]], a massive letter writing campaign was launched to bring it back. Years later, TheMovie was released to provide closure to some of the [[AbortedArc unanswered questions]] of the show and accompany the comic series and other ExpandedUniverse materials.
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After ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' was [[ScrewedByTheNetwork cancelled partway through its first season]], a massive letter writing letter-writing campaign was launched to bring it back. Years later, TheMovie [[TheMovie a movie]] was released to provide closure to some of the [[AbortedArc unanswered questions]] of the show and accompany the comic series and other ExpandedUniverse materials.
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Not to be confused with the [[{{Film/Serenity2019}} 2019]] movie of the same name, starring Creator/MatthewMcConaughey and Creator/AnneHathaway.
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* TooMuchInformation: Mal, when Kaylee talks about ADateWithRosiePalms. Jayne disagrees.
-->'''Kaylee''': It’s been on a year now since I had anything twixt my nethers wasn’t run on a battery
-->'''Mal''' :oh God I can’t know that!
-->'''Jayne''': I could stand to hear a little more.
-->'''Kaylee''': It’s been on a year now since I had anything twixt my nethers wasn’t run on a battery
-->'''Mal''' :oh God I can’t know that!
-->'''Jayne''': I could stand to hear a little more.
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* DoorJam: In the climax, River jumps into a horde of murderous Reavers, fights a few of them off, and jams the only door that would allow them to attack her allies. However, that leaves her to fight a small army totally alone.
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* TheWholeWorldIsWatching: At the end, armed with knowledge that [[spoiler: the Alliance is responsible for the existence of the Reavers]], Mal decides that everyone needs to know about this and for that, he intends to take it to Mr. Universe, who has the equipment to put it on every screen in the system.
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* TwinTest: When Mal meets with his contacts, Fanty and Mingo, they try to pull this on him by claiming [[TwinSwitch they're the other one]]. Mal sees through it, and when they ask "How do you always know?" he replies [[SarcasmMode "Fanty's prettier."]] The novelization explains that Mal has identified certain tells-- Mingo has a slightly deeper voice, for instance-- but refuses to tell the twins what they are.
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Not to be confused with the 2019 movie of the same name, starring Matthew [=McConaughey=] and Creator/AnneHathaway.
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'''Guard:''' I was thinking more of a graze.
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'''Guard:''' I was thinking more of a graze.\\
'''Mal:''' Well, you don't want it to look like you just gave up.\\
'''Guard:''' (affably) No, I get that.
'''Mal:''' Well, you don't want it to look like you just gave up.\\
'''Guard:''' (affably) No, I get that.
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*MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Dr Caron is horrified and devastated, near tears as she speaks of it, to learn what happened to the people of Miranda, presumably from a project she worked on.
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* FinaleProductionUpgrade: * In a subversion to its television counterpart, Serenity was produced when fan demand was enough to warrant a full-length Hollywood flick, and was produced to wrap up its most salient plot threads (including Mal Reynold's CharacterArc, River Tam's secret, and the origin of the Reavers), and because it was a movie, it featured much more expensive props, sets, and CGI effects.
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* FinaleProductionUpgrade: * In a subversion to its television counterpart, Serenity was produced when fan demand was enough to warrant a full-length Hollywood flick, and was produced to wrap up its most salient plot threads (including Mal Reynold's CharacterArc, River Tam's secret, and the origin of the Reavers), and because it was a movie, it featured much more expensive props, sets, and CGI effects.
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* FinaleProductionUpgrade: * In a subversion to its television counterpart, Serenity was produced when fan demand was enough to warrant a full-length Hollywood flick, and was produced to wrap up its most salient plot threads (including Mal Reynold's CharacterArc, River Tam's secret, and the origin of the Reavers), and because it was a movie, it featured much more expensive props, sets, and CGI effects.
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* DestroyTheSecurityCamera: In the beginning of the movie, the crew is robbing a bank and there's a brief shot of Zoe shooting a security camera as they walk in guns drawn.
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* DareToBeBadass: River admits to Simon as he lies dying from a gunshot to the stomach that she understands that she's always relied on him and the rest of the crew to [[TheCaretaker take care of her]] through her helpless madness. Then, she adds that now, it is [[NowLetMeCarryYou her turn]] to [[LetsGetDangerous take care of them.]] [[YouShallNotPass Cue awesome.]]
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* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: River admits to Simon as he lies dying from a gunshot to the stomach that she understands that she's always relied on him and the rest of the crew to [[TheCaretaker take care of her]] through her helpless madness. Then, she adds that now, it is [[NowLetMeCarryYou her turn]] to [[LetsGetDangerous take care of them.]] [[YouShallNotPass Cue awesome.]]
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** Played with just before the final confrontation between Mal and the Operative. When the Operative asks Mal if he truly believes in revealing the Alliance's dirty laundry and that he's willing to die for it, Mal affirms to both, confirming his stand of principles and how he's not running...and then immediately empties his gun at the Operative and forces him into cover while quipping that dying "ain't exactly Plan A."
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* {{Understatement}}: "Hard to get to." [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Mal when he sees [[NoOSHACompliance where the equipment is.]]
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* EurekaMoment: When The Operative tries to appeal to Malcolm, telling him he's "not a Reaver," you can see on his face that Mal suddenly realized what he had to do. In the next scene, he has the crew disguise Serenity as a Reaver ship to infiltrate their space.
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Jayne asks, if the Alliance knew they were coming to Haven, why they attacked before ''Serenity'' even arrived. Zoe comes to the only logical conclusion: they didn't know, so they must have attacked ''everywhere they might have gone.''
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* SplitPersonality: Invoked by Simon. When River starts talking about "Miranda" out of nowhere, no one has any clue who or what Miranda is. At one point Simon asks her if he is "talking to Miranda right now." She responds with an eye-rolling expression of disdain that only a teenager could pull off.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Mr. Universe is apparently an old friend who the crew has had plenty of interaction with. None of it occurred during the series.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: Although a followup and conclusion to the television series, there are a subtle amount of changes and simplifications made to make the movie more accessible to those who hadn't watched the series and/or to make the film more self-enclosed: The western/19th century clothing/motifs are heavily toned down, the swearing in Chinese is heavily reduced, Inara's profession is never disclosed, and Mal's Sergeant rank in the army is changed to Captain to avoid confusion about why he is called Captain Malcolm Reynolds.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: Although a followup and conclusion to the television series, there are a subtle amount of changes and simplifications made to make the movie more accessible to those who hadn't watched the series and/or to make the film more self-enclosed: The western/19th century clothing/motifs are heavily toned down, the swearing in Chinese is heavily reduced, Inara's profession is never disclosed, and Mal's Sergeant rank in the army is changed to Captain to avoid confusion about why he is called Captain Malcolm Reynolds. Also, he apparently received a commendation for valor in a battle that, in the show, was a massive failure for his side in which they abandoned their soldiers on the field (including Mal and Zoe.)
