History Film / TheDoomGeneration

* EagleLand: Type Two, full stop. [[VillainProtagonist the main characters]] names are [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Jordan White, Amy Blue, and Xavier Red]].

* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Jordan dies by a particularly gruesome case of this. The Neo-Nazis snap off his genitals using pruning shears.]]

%%* TriangRelations

''The Doom Generation'' is a 1995 film by Gregg Araki about Amy and Jordan, an angsty teen couple in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, who are joined by a lovable rogue named Xavier. Their adventures lead them to commit a series of accidental manslaughters as several of the strange characters they meet mistake their identities and swear to kill them. Apparently a loose adaptation of Mark Beyer's black comedy comic strip Amy and Jordan

* BuffySpeak: "Y'know, just because he and I...it doesn't mean that I'm like really all that...whatever..." "I know."

''The Doom Generation'' is a 1995 film by Gregg Araki about Amy and Jordan, an angsty teen couple in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, who are joined by a lovable rogue named Xavier. Their adventures lead them to commit a series of accidental manslaughters as several of the strange characters they meet mistake their identities and swear to kill them.

* ArcNumber: Everything the characters buy costs $6.66

* HomophobicHateCrime: The movie ends with the main characters being murdered by Neo-Nazis while engaged in a bisexual threesome.

* JerkAssFacade: Amy acts considerably less abrasive when she's alone with Jordan. The same is implied with Xavier.

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* BreakTheCutie: Averted. [[spoiler: The abruptly bloody and bleak ending does little to stop Amy and Xavier from being completely ambivilant.]]

* ClusterFBomb: Everytime Amy opens her mouth.
* CrapsackWorld: Images of Hell and the Apocalypse are on every corner, everywhere they go seems weirdly abandoned and degraded, and everyone they meet tries to kill them.

* ShootTheShaggyDog: The film becomes much more serious after the trio accidently hits a dog while driving.

* ThematicSeries: Forms a "Teen Apocalypse Trilogy" with Araki's other movies starring James Duval, Totally F***ed Up and {{Film/Nowhere}}.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: They randomly meet people, many of which try to kill them or claim they know them, then are never seen again. The most prolific example would be the store owner who gets his head blown off and lives. We never get much closure to that.

''The Doom Generation'' is a 1995 film by Gregg Araki about Amy and Jordan, an angsty teen couple in LosAngeles, who are joined by a lovable rogue named Xavier. Their adventures lead them to commit a series of accidental manslaughters as several of the strange characters they meet mistake their identities and swear to kill them.

%%* BadAss: Xavier

''The Doom Generation'' is a 1995 film by Gregg Araki about Amy and Jordan, an angsty teen couple in Los Angeles, who are joined by a lovable rogue named Xavier. Their adventures lead them to commit a series of accidental manslaughters as several of the strange characters they meet mistake their identities and swear to kill them.

%%* HandsomeDevil: Xavier

* SkinnyPuppy: Make a bizarre appearance as a gang of gay-bashers around the beginning.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Quite a lot in this movie. Jordan is Frank the Bunny from {{Donnie Darko}}, The Quickie Mart clerk's hysterical foreign wife is MargaretCho, the news anchor is Peter from TheBradyBunch, and then some...

* SkinnyPuppy: Make a bizarre appearance as a gang of fag-bashers around the beginning.

* RoadMovie: Where they're going is pretty ambiguous though.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Every time the characters use the skull lighter, it's a different color, coded to the other characters names. How cute.
** Also, as mentioned above, everything costs $6.66.
** The random Catholic, Pledge of Allegeance-reciting Nazis that show up at the end.

* [[ValleyGirl Valley Goth]]: Amy: "Jordan, I'm sure. We're in, like, this total predicament and you're worried about losing a fucking earring?"

* VillainProtagonist: Arguably the main characters, especially Xavier.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Jordan

* BadAss: Xavier
* BlackComedy

* BuryYourGays

* DepravedBisexual: Xavier.

* HandsomeDevil: Xavier

* MoodWhiplash: [[spoiler: The Downer ending.]]
** Mostly happens after they run over a dog.
* TheNineties: This movie reeks of it.

* TeensAreMonsters

* ThreeWaySex
* TriangRelations
* TheTwink: Jordan
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist

* GenerationX: This movie seems to be a weird love letter to it.

* RefugeInAudacity: The movie weird enough that many of the disturbing elements can seem quite numbing.