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* KidnappedForExperimentation: [[spoiler: The end of the movie (plus WordOfGod) confirms that the three teens, and every human they met after being captured, were test subjects in an alien experiment, which is why they were abducted in the first place.]]
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''The Signal'' is a 2014 American science-fiction thriller film starring Creator/BrentonThwaites and Creator/LaurenceFishburne. Jonah, Nic, and Haley are on a cross-country road trip that Jonah and Nic are using as an excuse to track NOMAD - a hacker whose recent intrusion at MIT was blamed on Jonah and Nic, almost resulting in their expulsion.
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''The Signal'' is a 2014 American science-fiction thriller film directed by Creator/WilliamEubank and starring Creator/BrentonThwaites and Creator/LaurenceFishburne. Jonah, Nic, and Haley are on a cross-country road trip that Jonah and Nic are using as an excuse to track NOMAD - a hacker whose recent intrusion at MIT was blamed on Jonah and Nic, almost resulting in their expulsion.
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''The Signal'' is a 2014 American science-fiction thriller film. Jonah, Nic, and Haley are on a cross-country road trip that Jonah and Nic are using as an excuse to track NOMAD - a hacker whose recent intrusion at MIT was blamed on Jonah and Nic, almost resulting in their expulsion.
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''The Signal'' is a 2014 American science-fiction thriller film.film starring Creator/BrentonThwaites and Creator/LaurenceFishburne. Jonah, Nic, and Haley are on a cross-country road trip that Jonah and Nic are using as an excuse to track NOMAD - a hacker whose recent intrusion at MIT was blamed on Jonah and Nic, almost resulting in their expulsion.
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* SuperSpeed: What Nic demonstrated at the end as he ran away from those that want to shoot him down.
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* ParodiesOfFire: While Nic is running in the beginning of the movie, A very slowed down & remixed version of The famous Chariots of Fire theme is playing.
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Not to be confused with the 2007 horror/scifi film ''Film/TheSignal''.
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Not to be confused with [[Film/TheSignal2007 the 2007 horror/scifi film ''Film/TheSignal''.
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* SceneryPorn: Long shots of the West. The shots of running through lush forest.
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* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: Nic has a surprising amount of stuff to work with in his locked hospital room.
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* SoapOperaDisease: Nic walks with two crutches because of an unnamed wasting disease which he says will eventually put him in a wheelchair.
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* RoomFullOfCrazy: The scribblings Nic wrote under his mattress.
* SoapOperaDisease: Nic walks with two crutches because of an unnamed wasting disease which he says will eventually put him in a wheelchair.
* SoapOperaDisease: Nic walks with two crutches because of an unnamed wasting disease which he says will eventually put him in a wheelchair.
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* AnachronismStew: [[spoiler: A clue foreshadowing the fact that they are not on Earth. Damon uses a tape recorder. Mirabelle's car is an old ~1970's model. It should be long off the road. There's a payphone in the gas station.]]
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* WholePlotReference: [[spoiler: To ''Film/DarkCity''. They're in a copy of Earth InSpace for an alien race's strange plans. A character even rescues a goldfish!]]
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** Also note that while Nic's legs are cool and see-through, Jonah's hands are ''not''. This allows for them to be simply practical-effect gloves for the actor to wear.
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** Also note that while Nic's legs are cool and see-through, Jonah's hands are ''not''. This allows for them to be simply practical-effect gloves for the actor to wear. Note they even save on him wearing those by having him wear the biosuit gloves even after the reveal.
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* FanService: When Haley speaks to Nic and Jonah in the tub, you get a full-on shot of Olivia Cooke's behind in tight, tight underwear. [[spoiler: Because she's going to spend the rest of the movie in a hospital gown.]]
* GasMaskMooks: Pretty much everyone at the facility who isn't Damon.
* GasMaskMooks: Pretty much everyone at the facility who isn't Damon.
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**Nic covers up his legs with tape and sheets so he doesn't have to look at them. Of course this saves on the special effects costs, too - considering he's a main character.
** Also note that while Nic's legs are cool and see-through, Jonah's hands are ''not''. This allows for them to be simply practical-effect gloves for the actor to wear.
**Nic covers up his legs with tape and sheets so he doesn't have to look at them. Of course this saves on the special effects costs, too - considering he's a main character.
** Also note that while Nic's legs are cool and see-through, Jonah's hands are ''not''. This allows for them to be simply practical-effect gloves for the actor to wear.
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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: They're on a spaceship, Nomad is a robot thing. For what purpose did the aliens have an underground base and model city? Why were limbs replaced? Will they ever get home? Sorry, movie's over.]]
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* ArcWords: "Agitation." Nomad asks Nic and Jonah if they're "agitated." Later, scientists in the bunker "begin agitation" during an experiment.
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* ClosedCircle, the Nevada desert for the facility they're being held in. [[spoiler:Turns out thats because they're on a space ship.]]
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* ClosedCircle, the Nevada desert for the facility they're being held in. [[spoiler:Turns out thats that's because they're on a space ship.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Nic's first scene has him cracking the pattern of a merchandiser game, tutoring the kid playing it, and handing him a dollar, establishing him as an intelligent and generous guy. His crutches are also visible.
* GeniusCripple: As established by a few scenes, MIT student Nic is very intelligent and also has a degenerative health condition.
* TheGreys: Damon pauses Nic's home movie on a tree that conceals a Grey, proving that aliens are involved. It's left unclear whether they actually look like that.
* GeniusCripple: As established by a few scenes, MIT student Nic is very intelligent and also has a degenerative health condition.
* TheGreys: Damon pauses Nic's home movie on a tree that conceals a Grey, proving that aliens are involved. It's left unclear whether they actually look like that.
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* InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: Damon's Hazmat suit has lights inside the visor so we can see his face properly.
* TheLoad: Haley adds nothing to the plot other than motivation for Nic to escape and fight back.
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* InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: Damon's Hazmat suit has The hazmat suits of everyone in the underground bunker have lights inside in the visor so we can see his face properly.their faces.
* TheLoad: Haley adds nothing to the plot other than motivation for Nic to escape and fight back. She spends a good portion of the film in a coma.
* TheLoad: Haley adds nothing to the plot other than motivation for Nic to escape and fight back. She spends a good portion of the film in a coma.
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** [[spoiler: The Signalitself.]]itself. After waking from an unexplained coma, Haley comments on hearing something in the desert that Nic cannot hear. You might think that this is foreshadowing that the aliens tinkered with her head, but it actually foreshadows the fact that they're on a spaceship]].
** The film implies that the underground hospital has a trapped alien of immense size and strength. [[spoiler:It's apparently Jonah, who used his alien-hands to carve a large gash into a wall on his way out]].
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** The film implies that the underground hospital has a trapped alien of immense size and strength. [[spoiler:It's apparently Jonah, who used his alien-hands to carve a large gash into a wall on his way out]].
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* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler: All of the staff in the isolation hospital wear hazmat suits, with only their faces visible. At the end of the film, Damon takes his helmet off, revealing that there is only circuitry behind his face. The others are probably the same.]]
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* {{Area 51}}: Jonah's theory for where they are. They turn out to be somewhere else entirely.
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* SoapOperaDisease: Nic walks with two crutches because of an unnamed wasting disease which he says will eventually put him in a wheelchair.
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* EleventhHourSuperPower: Nic's final run, foreshadowed by Jonah's final attack and his first run.
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* MyNaymeIs: Nic and Haley, conventionally spelled Nick and Hayley.
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* AsceticAesthetic: The facility Nic, Haley and Jonah are being held in, seeming like a sparse, outdated hospital.
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* ClosedCircle, the Nevada desert for the facility they're being held in. [[spoiler:Turns out thats because they're on a space ship.]]
* TheCracker: Nomad.
* TheCracker: Nomad.
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* RedHerring: [[spoiler: The Signal itself]]
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* BigBad: NOMAD [[spoiler: Which is to say, Damon. Which is to say, the alien civilization luring and experimenting on humans.]]
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* BigBad: NOMAD NOMAD. [[spoiler: Which is to say, Damon. Which is to say, the alien civilization luring and experimenting on humans.]]
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* GroundPunch: Jonah's final attackattack creates a shockwave - through asphalt!
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* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler: Nic gets artificial legs attached at mid-thigh. Jonah gets forearms and hands attached at the elbow.]]
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* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler: Nic gets artificial legs attached at mid-thigh. Jonah gets forearms and hands attached at the elbow.]]elbow.
* BigBad: NOMAD [[spoiler: Which is to say, Damon. Which is to say, the alien civilization luring and experimenting on humans.]]
* GroundPunch: Jonah's final attack
* EleventhHourSuperPower: Nic's final run, foreshadowed by Jonah's final attack and his first run.
* TheLoad: Haley adds nothing to the plot other than motivation for Nic to escape and fight back.
* PowerGlows: When the artificial limbs are about to do something ''big''.
* BigBad: NOMAD [[spoiler: Which is to say, Damon. Which is to say, the alien civilization luring and experimenting on humans.]]
* GroundPunch: Jonah's final attack
* EleventhHourSuperPower: Nic's final run, foreshadowed by Jonah's final attack and his first run.
* TheLoad: Haley adds nothing to the plot other than motivation for Nic to escape and fight back.
* PowerGlows: When the artificial limbs are about to do something ''big''.
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* RedHerring: [[spoiler: The Signal itself]]itself]]
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''The Signal'' is a 2014 American science-fiction thriller film. Jonah, Nic, and Haley are on a cross-country road trip that Jonah and Nic are using as an excuse to track NOMAD - a hacker whose recent intrusion at MIT was blamed on Jonah and Nic, almost resulting in their expulsion.
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!!This film contains examples of the following tropes:
* [[spoiler: AlienAbduction: What actually happened to the trio.]]
* {{Area 51}}: Jonah's theory for where they are.
* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler: Nic gets artificial legs attached at mid-thigh. Jonah gets forearms and hands attached at the elbow.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: The Signal itself]]
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!!This film contains examples of the following tropes:
* [[spoiler: AlienAbduction: What actually happened to the trio.]]
* {{Area 51}}: Jonah's theory for where they are.
* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler: Nic gets artificial legs attached at mid-thigh. Jonah gets forearms and hands attached at the elbow.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: The Signal itself]]
