History Film / TheForeverPurge

* AxCrazy: As always, anyone who participates in the Purge, as well as the Purgers themselves post-Purge Night. Elijah and the Ever After Purgers also qualify, [[spoiler:with Elijah becoming more unhinged after his wife is killed.]]

* HappyEndingOverride: In ''Film/ThePurgeElectionYear'', Roan won the election and her first step was to abolish the Purge. In this movie, however, not only was the Purge ill-adviseably reinstated by a new NFFA nearly a decade after her term ended, but now there are extremists continuing the Purge long after the holiday is over against the new government's wishes. [[spoiler: The end reveals that the American government was ultimately overthrown by the Ever After Purgers]].

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Kirk stands out among the Purgers for being the only one who doesn't exclusively target minorities, instead putting more effort into capturing the Tuckers with the justification that he is righting America's course by [[EatTheRich killing the rich]] who refuse to pay their poorer employees more. Despite his agenda being less politically-incorrect on paper, he ultimately is just as despicable as the people he rolls with, especially since Caleb had been nothing but a BenevolentBoss to him, even financially compensating him for the Purge...[[NeverMyFault which Kirk blew on arming his own militia of Purgers]].

''The Forever Purge'' is the fifth installment of ''Film/ThePurge'' franchise, serving as a direct sequel to ''Film/ThePurgeElectionYear''. Several years after the events of ''Election Year'', Adela (Creator/AnaDeLaReguera) and Juan (Creator/TenochHuerta), a young Mexican couple fleeing a drug cartel, migrate to the United States. That same year, as a result of rising tensions over immigration, the New Founding Fathers are voted back into power, and the Purge is reinstated.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Considering how popular the Purge was during its existence, it stands to reason that there would be psychos all over the country that don't want it to end. In particular, even though ''Election Year'' ended on a triumphant note of Roan being elected on an anti-Purge platform, a victory by one party doesn't erase the other one forever, and after she left office the NFFA came back into power (by preying on people's fear of illegal immigration, something many political groups in the real United States have done) and reinstated the Purge.
** When the Forever Purge begins, the governments of Mexico and Canada open their borders to Americans fleeing the carnage. Whilst it was intended to last for six hours, Mexico at least is quickly forced to close the border when the Ever After Purgers reach it and begin massacring the refugees trying to flee, as leaving them open risks said Purgers (many of whom are explicitly targeting Latin Americans) making their way into the country and threatening the Mexican population.
** Is there really a big surprise that decades of nurturing violence among Americans for the Annual Purge culture won't end badly one day? The bigger surprise is that it presumably took 8 years of no-purging by the previous Anti-Purge President to bring this to boil.

* YouCantThwartStageOne: At the end of the El Paso act, the group fails to make it to the border in time due to the situation growing beyond the military’s control.

* ArtisticLicensePolitics: As par for the course for this film series. Is it plausible that in real life a powerful country's government can [[spoiler:be overthrown by disorganized rioting in just a few days? Yes. Is it likely? Far from it. For the seemingly less-equipped, disorganized rioters to overthrow the American government, they must first defeat the military and for such a scenario it either requires the military to be severely weakened (civil war or massive all-out war with other foreign countries, etc), or them to side with the rioters. Or that the riot/uprising was actually secretly mass-coordinated by other political parties but out of National Security it would have already been squashed before it can even begin None of this was suggested in this movie, making it look like that the Ever After Purgers are '''THAT''' powerful, although it can possibly be retconned in future movies.]]

* MoralMyopia: The leader of the Purgers in El Paso is furious at Juan for killing his wife. Said wife had been trying to kill Juan for being Mexican, and he was simply acting in self-defense.

* ArtisticLicensePolitics: As par for the course for this film series. Is it plausible that in real life a powerful country's government can [[spoiler:be overthrown by disorganized rioting in just a few days? Yes. Is it likely? Far from it. For the seemingly less-equipped, disorganized rioters to overthrow the American government, they must first defeat the military and for such a scenario it either requires the military to be severely weakened (civil war or massive all-out war with other foreign countries, etc), or them to side with the rioters. Or that the riot/uprising was actually secretly mass-coordinated by other political parties but out of National Security it would have already been squashed before it can even begin]]. None of this was suggested in this movie, making it look like that the Ever After Purgers are '''THAT''' powerful, although it can possibly be retconned in future movies.
** It might be partially a consequence of previous movies, since it was established that the NFFA actually helped the purged along, sending various mercenary groups, and the ending of Election Year showed revolts starting. It was also shown that the Purge itself had also the purpose of distracting from how bad things were going under the NFFA, particularly economy and social order were crumbling. And this movie shows that the NFFA went back in power specifically by preying on fear and reinstating the Purge as an answer. While not openly shown, is safe to assume the Purge's usa are nowhere near are powerful or stable as the real-life ones.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"The rules are broken."'']]

* DaylightHorror: As this is the first movie to see Purgers in daytime, this definitely qualifies.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Actually inverted, since the black man is the first to ''kill'' an Ever After, and although he later abandons the group to go looking for his family we have nothing to assume he died. The first of the main characters to die is also [[spoiler: Caleb, an older white man.]]

* TheDragon: Mother Hardin to Elijah. [[spoiler: She’s taken out very early near the end of the El Paso battle.]]

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Adela and Darius kill a couple of Ever After Purgers in self-defense. Unfortunately, a passing cop assumes it was cold-blooded murder and arrests them.

* PoliceAreUseless: Two cops arrest Adela and Darius for thinking they murdered two Ever After Purgers when it was in self-defence and insist on ploughing on to the station despite clearly witnessing the chaos going on. Also applies to the military, who put up a decent fight but are ultimately routed, and the government who are overthrown by both Purgers and Anti-Purgers.

* TitleDrop: After Adela is caught in a trap, a Purger tells her that “This is the Forever Purge. It’s never over.”