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* SinisterSouthwest: The events of the film happen in a PrisonColony for vaguely-defined "undesirables" in the American Southwest desert with a cult leader-style WastelandWarlord and [[ToServeMan cannibalism like it was going out of style]].

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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Miami Man states his crime was being an illegal immigrant, yet later reveals he is Cuban. In the United States, all Cuban immigrants are given immediate amnesty and citizenship. While the film clearly depicts an alternate USA, the revocation of this policy is never hinted at.



* CriticalResearchFailure: Miami Man states his crime was being an illegal immigrant, yet later reveals he is Cuban. In the United States, all Cuban immigrants are given immediate amnesty and citizenship. While the film clearly depicts an alternate USA, the revocation of this policy is never hinted at.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Miami Man states his crime was being an illegal immigrant, yet later reveals he is Cuban. In the United States, all Cuban immigrants are given immediate amnesty and citizenship. While the film clearly depicts an alternate USA, the revocation of this policy is never hinted at.
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* RevengeByProxy: Arlen kills Maria out of anger about her husband and his tribe's cannibalization of two of Arlen's limbs. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone She immediately feels horrible about it]], especially since Maria's daughter [[HarmfulToMinors witnesses her mother's death]].


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* WastelandWarlord: The Dream controls the only known non-cannibal settlement in the desert PenalColony through a combination of manufacturing drugs as currency, rigging the only known working plumbing system, and having lots of armed guards.
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''The Bad Batch'' second first feature film of Iranian-American writer/directer Ana Lily Amirpour, released worldwide in 2017. It stars Creator/SukiWaterhouse, Creator/JasonMomoa, Creator/GiovanniRibisi, Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/JimCarrey.

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''The Bad Batch'' is the second first feature film of Iranian-American writer/directer Ana Lily Amirpour, released worldwide in 2017. It stars Creator/SukiWaterhouse, Creator/JasonMomoa, Creator/GiovanniRibisi, Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/JimCarrey.
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''The Bad Batch'' second first feature film of Iranian-American writer/directer Ana Lily Amirpour, released worldwide in 2017. It stars Suki Waterhouse, Creator/JasonMomoa, Creator/GiovanniRibisi, Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/JimCarrey.

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''The Bad Batch'' second first feature film of Iranian-American writer/directer Ana Lily Amirpour, released worldwide in 2017. It stars Suki Waterhouse, Creator/SukiWaterhouse, Creator/JasonMomoa, Creator/GiovanniRibisi, Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/JimCarrey.
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Not to be confused with ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch''.

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* ImAHumanitarian: The Miami Man and his family and friends. They eat Arlen's limbs and later he's shown butchering another young woman like a side of beef and serving her up.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Quite literally. Arlen has one arm and one leg sawed off below the joints by the cannibals shortly after she arrives in the wasteland.
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* CannibalTribe: Miami Man, his family, and various others wandering the wastes.
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''The Bad Batch'' second first feature film of Iranian-American writer/directer Ana Lily Amirpour, released in 2016. It stars Suki Waterhouse, Creator/JasonMomoa, Creator/GiovanniRibisi, Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/JimCarrey.

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''The Bad Batch'' second first feature film of Iranian-American writer/directer Ana Lily Amirpour, released worldwide in 2016.2017. It stars Suki Waterhouse, Creator/JasonMomoa, Creator/GiovanniRibisi, Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/JimCarrey.

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''The Bad Batch'' second first feature film of Iranian-American writer/directer Ana Lily Amirpour. Released in 2016, it centers around a [[TheExile young woman]] sentenced to live in a lawless wasteland somewhere in the southwestern United States for [[NoodleIncident unknown reasons.]]

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centers around a [[TheExile young woman]] sentenced to live in a lawless wasteland somewhere in the southwestern United States for [[NoodleIncident unknown reasons.]]



* SilentSnarker: The Drifter (Creator/JimCarrey's character) is mute (or at least appears to be) but he certainly doesn't needs to say anything to make clear what he thinks.

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* SilentSnarker: The Drifter (Creator/JimCarrey's (Jim Carrey's character) is mute (or at least appears to be) but he certainly doesn't needs to say anything to make clear what he thinks.thinks.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: While we never find out [[NoodleIncident why Arlen in specific]] got tossed into the prison, [[FreezeFrameBonus a sign at the wasteland's perimeter]] makes mention that place was set for "undesirables".


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* PenalColony: The prison in which the whole film takes place is some remote part of the Southwestern desert that is very barely inhabitable and civilized with the only structures lying around being containers and abandoned vehicles.
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* DeadlyEnvironmentPrison: The prison is not only dangerous because it's full of crazy people (to the point that cannibalism is seen as a normal thing to do inside) but it's just wide-open desert.



* NoodleIncident: You never learn what caused Arlen to be exiled.

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* NoodleIncident: You never learn what caused Arlen to be exiled.exiled.
* SilentSnarker: The Drifter (Creator/JimCarrey's character) is mute (or at least appears to be) but he certainly doesn't needs to say anything to make clear what he thinks.
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* HandicappedBadass: After losing her leg to cannibals shortly after arriving to the wasteland, Arlen [[DamselOutOfDistress escapes her captors]] and spends the rest of the film walking around with a prosthetic leg.
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Not to be confused with ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch''.
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''The Bad Batch'' second first feature film of Iranian-American writer/directer Ana Lily Amirpour. Released in 2016, it centers around a [[TheExile young woman]] sentenced to live in a lawless wasteland somewhere in the southwestern United States for [[NoodleIncident unknown reasons.]]

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* NoodleIncident: You never learn what caused Arlen to be exiled.

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