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* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Knowing the risk and also [[spoiler: his fatal condition]], Steve spends the third act trying to locate the missing daughter of his friend and jump back in time to bring her back.
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* ContinuityNod: During Steve's encounter with the voodoo cult, the staff the priest holds is almost identical with the signature pillars from Film/TheEndless.
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* ContinuityNod: During Steve's encounter with the voodoo cult, the staff the priest holds is almost identical with the signature pillars from Film/TheEndless.''Film/TheEndless''.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: One of the victims of Synchronic dies by an accident, when [[spoiler: the drug kicks in inside a highrise. Since there is no building in the past, the poor schmuck hits the ground after falling down, ''then'' the dead body syncs back into present with utterly impossible wounds]].
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: One of the victims of Synchronic dies by an accident, when [[spoiler: the drug kicks in inside a highrise. Since there is no building in the past, the poor schmuck hits the ground after falling down, ''then'' the dead body syncs back into present with utterly impossible wounds]].
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* DoomedProtagonist: [[spoiler:Steve]], thanks to his brain tumor.
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* DoomedProtagonist: [[spoiler:Steve]], [[spoiler:Steve, thanks to his brain tumor.
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* DrivenToSuicide: A report over the radio reveals [[spoiler:Dr. Kermani]] killedhimself,himself.
* DullSurprise: Steve is disturbingly stoic about the fact he figured out a reliable way for time travel.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: It seems that no matter what, whoever takes Synchronic, they always land into some hairy situation, with hostile people or wildlife around, or outright suffer from a TeleFrag. Even seemingly peaceful places are lethal by mere exposure, like landing in the middle of a blizzard somewhere during the Ice Age.
* DrivenToSuicide: A report over the radio reveals [[spoiler:Dr. Kermani]] killed
* DullSurprise: Steve is disturbingly stoic about the fact he figured out a reliable way for time travel.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: It seems that no matter what, whoever takes Synchronic, they always land into some hairy situation, with hostile people or wildlife around, or outright suffer from a TeleFrag. Even seemingly peaceful places are lethal by mere exposure, like landing in the middle of a blizzard somewhere during the Ice Age.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Two paramedics arrive to a 911 call and find a man with a truly gruesome slash and stab wounds, while everyone else in the house is high and unresponsive. They assume drug bust and call police to the site. The man get attacked with a sabre in the past.
* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: The in-universe time is not linear or circular, but everything is happening all at once. Synchronic allows to change your ''perception'' of the time continuum itself, and thus works as a ''highly'' unstable and unpredictable form of time travel. On top of that, you always shift to the exact same location in space[[note]]Ignoring the fact that both Earth and the universe as a whole are in constant motion[[/note]], just the time changes, so hopefully, you are at the ground level or just above it, or else...
* PowerAtAPrice: Despite being an adult, Steve has a still non-calcified pineal gland and thus is receptive to Synchronic. [[spoiler: That's because he has an inoperable brain tumor]].
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Steve experiments on himself to figure out the exact logic behind what Synchronic does. He quickly starts packing for the travel after a handful of nasty encounters with and in the past.
* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: The in-universe time is not linear or circular, but everything is happening all at once. Synchronic allows to change your ''perception'' of the time continuum itself, and thus works as a ''highly'' unstable and unpredictable form of time travel. On top of that, you always shift to the exact same location in space[[note]]Ignoring the fact that both Earth and the universe as a whole are in constant motion[[/note]], just the time changes, so hopefully, you are at the ground level or just above it, or else...
* PowerAtAPrice: Despite being an adult, Steve has a still non-calcified pineal gland and thus is receptive to Synchronic. [[spoiler: That's because he has an inoperable brain tumor]].
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Steve experiments on himself to figure out the exact logic behind what Synchronic does. He quickly starts packing for the travel after a handful of nasty encounters with and in the past.
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:Dennis takes the hand of Steve, who is fading in and out of reality. The credits roll before we find out if this hard contact with the present will pull Steve back into the present, or if he will remain stuck in the past]].
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--> '''Steve:''' And in that moment, seeing what years ofbarely surviving is like, this man, probably ten years younger than me but looking older despite his paleo diet, that I realized… [[PrecisionFStrike The past fucking sucks, man!]]
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--> '''Steve:''' And in that moment, seeing what years ofbarely of barely surviving is like, this man, probably ten years younger than me but looking older despite his paleo diet, that I realized… [[PrecisionFStrike The past fucking sucks, man!]]man!]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TagLine Time is an illusion.]]'']]
''Synchronic'' is a [[GenreBusting science fiction cosmic horror drama]] directed by Creator/AaronMoorhead and Creator/JustinBenson and starring Creator/AnthonyMackie.
Paramedics Steve Danube (Mackie) and Dennis Donnally (Creator/JamieDornan) have seen some pretty horrifying things on the job, but recently they've been seeing cases with bizarre, unexplainable deaths, all of which are connected to a new designer drug, Synchronic. However, after Dennis's daughter goes missing during one of these cases, Steve investigates and discovers that Synchronic is far more than a mere drug - and challenges his view in reality itself.
!!List of tropes applying to this film:
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Dr. Kermani was just trying to make a designer drug, but wound up basically inventing a time machine completely by accident.
* TheAtoner: Dr. Kermani, the creator of Synchronic, deeply regrets making the drug and the lives lost as a result, and is trying to destroy every last sample of it.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Steve reconciles with Dennis and saves his daughter, but he winds up trapped in the past in the process, though he was dying of a brain tumor anyway.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Steve is pretty snarky, always ready with some sort of barb.
* DiabolusExNihilo: [[spoiler:Right when Brianna and Steve are about to travel back to the present, a looter holds them up and, mistaking Steve for a slave, tries to steal him and kill Brianna.]]
* DoomedProtagonist: [[spoiler:Steve]], thanks to his brain tumor.
* DrivenToSuicide: A report over the radio reveals [[spoiler:Dr. Kermani]] killed himself,
* {{Gorn}}: [[spoiler:The looter being blown apart by an artillery shell.]]
* LovecraftLite: The film toys a lot with existentialist dread and the nature of reality, but ultimately takes the slightly more idealistic approach that your connections with other people is all that really matters, and the characters manage to earn a BittersweetEnding.
* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler:Steve keeps the fact that he's dying of a brain tumor under wraps for a while.]]
* SophisticatedAsHell: Steve monologues after meeting a caveman while time traveling.
--> '''Steve:''' And in that moment, seeing what years ofbarely surviving is like, this man, probably ten years younger than me but looking older despite his paleo diet, that I realized… [[PrecisionFStrike The past fucking sucks, man!]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TagLine Time is an illusion.]]'']]
''Synchronic'' is a [[GenreBusting science fiction cosmic horror drama]] directed by Creator/AaronMoorhead and Creator/JustinBenson and starring Creator/AnthonyMackie.
Paramedics Steve Danube (Mackie) and Dennis Donnally (Creator/JamieDornan) have seen some pretty horrifying things on the job, but recently they've been seeing cases with bizarre, unexplainable deaths, all of which are connected to a new designer drug, Synchronic. However, after Dennis's daughter goes missing during one of these cases, Steve investigates and discovers that Synchronic is far more than a mere drug - and challenges his view in reality itself.
!!List of tropes applying to this film:
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Dr. Kermani was just trying to make a designer drug, but wound up basically inventing a time machine completely by accident.
* TheAtoner: Dr. Kermani, the creator of Synchronic, deeply regrets making the drug and the lives lost as a result, and is trying to destroy every last sample of it.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Steve reconciles with Dennis and saves his daughter, but he winds up trapped in the past in the process, though he was dying of a brain tumor anyway.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Steve is pretty snarky, always ready with some sort of barb.
* DiabolusExNihilo: [[spoiler:Right when Brianna and Steve are about to travel back to the present, a looter holds them up and, mistaking Steve for a slave, tries to steal him and kill Brianna.]]
* DoomedProtagonist: [[spoiler:Steve]], thanks to his brain tumor.
* DrivenToSuicide: A report over the radio reveals [[spoiler:Dr. Kermani]] killed himself,
* {{Gorn}}: [[spoiler:The looter being blown apart by an artillery shell.]]
* LovecraftLite: The film toys a lot with existentialist dread and the nature of reality, but ultimately takes the slightly more idealistic approach that your connections with other people is all that really matters, and the characters manage to earn a BittersweetEnding.
* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler:Steve keeps the fact that he's dying of a brain tumor under wraps for a while.]]
* SophisticatedAsHell: Steve monologues after meeting a caveman while time traveling.
--> '''Steve:''' And in that moment, seeing what years ofbarely surviving is like, this man, probably ten years younger than me but looking older despite his paleo diet, that I realized… [[PrecisionFStrike The past fucking sucks, man!]]
