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* ExplosionsInSpace: Averted. At one point, a small part of the Navigation Platform International Space Station explodes, and it is a simple burst of debris with no fire to be seen. [[spoiler: Also, part of the plan to ignite Jupiter's atmosphere involves the fact that Jupiter has siphoned off part of Earth's atmosphere, allowing a fiery explosion to occur.]]
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler: Averted. The AI of [[spoiler:MOSS becomes the Navigational Platform International Space Station, MOSS, chooses to abandon Earth out of protocol and programming. Possibly zigzagged, since its last words before its destruction are seemingly anti-human words of contempt, in stark contrast to its usual serious and objective tone.primary antagonist on the space station, fighting Liu Peiqiang at every step.]]
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Earth leaves its orbit and starts wandering around the cosmos.[[note]]Or maybe not; see NonIndicativeName.[[/note]]
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* GravitySucks: Earth approching Jupiter and having its Earth Engines knocked out causes its trajectory to [[https://i.ibb.co/xz33tZR/chrome-2v-VBh8-DRS6.png suddenly and immediately go thirty to forty degrees off course]], essentially heading straight towards Jupiter.
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* GratuitousEnglish: Tim shouts one or two lines in English when frightened. Liu Qi also snaps at someone in English.
* GravitySucks: Earthapproching approaching Jupiter and having its Earth Engines knocked out causes its trajectory to [[https://i.ibb.co/xz33tZR/chrome-2v-VBh8-DRS6.png suddenly and immediately go thirty to forty degrees off course]], essentially heading straight towards Jupiter.
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* OnlyOneName: [[RunningGag Tim and Makarov]].
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* TheArk: Earth. Instead of bringing just a sufficient amount of resources to establish a new home around a new sun, humanity decides to bring the ''entire planet''.
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* BinarySuns: Assuming Earth makes it to its destination, the humans will have to deal with this, since Alpha Centauri is not one star, but two.[[note]]It's actually technically a ternary star system with three stars, since Proxima Centauri orbits the other two, but it's at a much greater distance.[[/note]]
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* ColonyShip: Earth is turned into one of these to reach a new star system.
* CreativeClosingCredits: A Earth the size of a grain of sand flies through floating parts of a printing press, which assemble together and print words onto immense pages, which get rolled up and bound into Liu Cixin's original ''The Wandering Earth'' novella. Pages of the book also reform into an Earth Engine, the Navigation Platform International Space Station, and Jupiter.
* CreativeClosingCredits: A Earth the size of a grain of sand flies through floating parts of a printing press, which assemble together and print words onto immense pages, which get rolled up and bound into Liu Cixin's original ''The Wandering Earth'' novella. Pages of the book also reform into an Earth Engine, the Navigation Platform International Space Station, and Jupiter.
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* InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: Liu Peiqiang and Makarov's faces are clearly visible in the helmets of their space suits.
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* SignatureScene: The Earth cruising through space. Also, Jupiter looming over the Earth, the enormous gas giant taking up the entirety of the sky.
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* WeaponizedExhaust: [[spoiler: The third act of the movie focuses on amplifying the output of one of the Earth Engines to blast Jupiter in order to cause an explosion to push Earth out of the danger zone.]]
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* TemptingFate: While driving a stolen transport, Liu Qi assures Han Duoduo that "no one can catch [him]". Seconds later, he runs into a police vehicle, and in the very next scene, [[GilliganCut he's in prison]].
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* TidallyLockedPlanet: Sort of. Since the Earth has stopped rotating and it is being propelled away from the Sun, only the northern hemisphere is exposed to sunlight, while the southern hemisphere, facing away from the sun, is in permanent night. Since the Earth Engines that push Earth are facing towards the sun, this means that most of the Earth Engines are on the lit side of Earth, with only the torque engines approaching the dark side.
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* TheBigGuy: Wang Lei and the other members of the CN171-11 rescue team.
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* FunnyForeigner: Tim provides quite a bit of comic relief. Makarov as well, to a smaller degree.
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* TheHeart: Han Duoduo.
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* PluckyComicRelief: [[OverlyLongGag Tim and Makarov for the fourth time]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler: MOSS, which has a design clearly inspired by [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL 9000]]. Surprise, surprise, it turns out to be the BigBad of the film.]]
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* TitleDrop: The plan to move Earth to a new star system is itself called "The Wandering Earth Project".
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* DrivenToMadness: When the heroes find Li Yiyi in a crashed airplane, he is homicidal and nearly kills Han Duoduo. Fortunately, the others are able to calm him down.
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* MundaneUtility: Li Yiyi wrote a program called the ''12 Chimes of Spring'' as a show for Chinese New Year's, which would modify an Earth Engine to fire out sequential red bursts of plasma through individual nozzles rather than constant blue streams of plasma through all seven nozzles.
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* CallingParentsByTheirName: Due to his contempt towards his father, Liu Qi always calls Liu Peiqiang by name. [[spoiler: It's not until Liu Peiqiang sacrifices himself at the climax of the movie that Liu Qi finally calls him "Dad".]]
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** The 10,000 Earth Engines are said to output a combined 150 trillion (1.5 x 10^14) tons of force to propel Earth to Jupiter's neighborhood in 17 years. However, according to [[https://www.inverse.com/article/54103-could-the-wandering-earth-movie-plot-actually-happen NASA engineer John Elliot]], this feat would require something more like 2.5 quadrillion (2.5 x 10^15) tons of thrust... ''for each of the 10,000 engines''.
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** The 10,000 Propulsion Earth Engines are said to output a combined 150 trillion (1.5 x 10^14) tons of force to propel Earth to Jupiter's neighborhood in 17 years. However, according to [[https://www.inverse.com/article/54103-could-the-wandering-earth-movie-plot-actually-happen NASA engineer John Elliot]], this feat would require something more like 2.5 quadrillion (2.5 x 10^15) tons of thrust... ''for each of the 10,000 engines''.
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* PoweredArmor: Not exactly armor, but rescue teams such as CN171-11 use exoskeletons that allow the user to move objects more easily.
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* PoweredArmor: Not exactly armor, but rescue teams such as CN171-11 use exoskeletons that allow grant the user to move objects more easily.strength.
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* NonIndicativeName: Earth isn't actually wandering (i.e. moving around aimlessly), since the planet has a destination (the Alpha Centauri system).
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler: MOSS, which has a design clearly inspired by [[TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL 9000]]. Surprise, surprise, it turns out to be the BigBad of the film.]]
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler: MOSS, which has a design clearly inspired by [[TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL 9000]]. Surprise, surprise, it turns out to be the BigBad of the film.]]
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* MissingMom: Liu Peiqiang's wife died before the events of the film, a fact that their son, Liu Qi, holds over his head due to the fact that Peiqiang chose to pull the plug for the Wandering Earth project.
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* MissingMom: Liu Peiqiang's wife died before the events of the film, a fact that their son, Liu Qi, holds over his head due to the fact that Peiqiang chose to pull the plug for to guarantee Liu Qi and Han Zi'ang residency in the Wandering Earth project.underground cities.
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* PercussiveTherapy: [[spoiler: Han Zi'ang's death enrages Liu Qi to the point of trying to attack Wang Lei.]]
* PrecisionFStrike: In the English dub, Liu Qi gives one to Wang Lei after [[spoiler:Han Zi'ang gets killed in a collapsing building.]]
-->Liu Qi: [[spoiler: Why the '''fuck''' didn't you save my grandfather!?]]
* PrecisionFStrike: In the English dub, Liu Qi gives one to Wang Lei after [[spoiler:Han Zi'ang gets killed in a collapsing building.]]
-->Liu Qi: [[spoiler: Why the '''fuck''' didn't you save my grandfather!?]]
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* NonActionBigBad: [[MOSS can't do much to the protagonists besides try to lock Liu Peiqiang in the hibernation chamber and activate a thruster to blast Makarov. Most of its antagonism is in the form of restricting access to various things on the Navigation Platform International Space Station.]]
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* NonActionBigBad: [[MOSS [[spoiler: MOSS can't do much to the protagonists besides try to lock Liu Peiqiang in the hibernation chamber and activate a thruster to blast Makarov. Most of its antagonism is in the form of restricting access to various things on the Navigation Platform International Space Station.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[The United Earth Government eventually agrees to allow Liu Peiqiang to terminate Project Helios to save the Earth.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[The [[spoiler: The United Earth Government eventually agrees to allow Liu Peiqiang to terminate Project Helios to save the Earth.]]
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* BigBad: [[spoiler: MOSS is the closest thing to a big bad that this movie has. Besides that, there is no real big bad.]]
* DisasterMovie: A lot of disaster happens for sure.
* DistantFinale: [[spoiler: Not super distant, but the last scene of the film takes place 3 years after the encounter with Jupiter.]]
* DistantPrologue: The beginning of the movie takes place 17 years before most of the events of the film, before the Earth Engines were activated and back when Earth was in its regular place in orbit.
* DistantFinale: [[spoiler: Not super distant, but the last scene of the film takes place 3 years after the encounter with Jupiter.]]
* DistantPrologue: The beginning of the movie takes place 17 years before most of the events of the film, before the Earth Engines were activated and back when Earth was in its regular place in orbit.
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* ExplosionsInSpace: Averted. [[spoiler: Part of the plan to ignite Jupiter's atmosphere involves the fact that Jupiter has siphoned off part of Earth's atmosphere, allowing a fiery explosion to occur.]]
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* ExplosionsInSpace: Averted. At one point, a small part of the Navigation Platform International Space Station explodes, and it is a simple burst of debris with no fire to be seen. [[spoiler: Part Also, part of the plan to ignite Jupiter's atmosphere involves the fact that Jupiter has siphoned off part of Earth's atmosphere, allowing a fiery explosion to occur.]]]]
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Aside from the DistantPrologue at the beginning of the movie and the DistantFinale at the end of the movie, the events of the film take place more-or-less over a mere 36-40 hour period.
* FightToSurvive: Comes with being a disaster movie of sorts.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Aside from the DistantPrologue at the beginning of the movie and the DistantFinale at the end of the movie, the events of the film take place more-or-less over a mere 36-40 hour period.
* FightToSurvive: Comes with being a disaster movie of sorts.
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: In a way, the United Earth Government is this, as MOSS is acting on the decision made by the council members of the government to continue with Project Helios instead of saving Earth. Eventually, however, the Government has a HeelFaceTurn and chooses hope, allowing Liu Peiqiang to destroy the Navigation Platform International Space Station to save Earth.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[The United Earth Government eventually agrees to allow Liu Peiqiang to terminate Project Helios to save the Earth.]]
** An unspecified worker chose to fall down a ravine in their truck rather than possibly allow the cargo to fall down with them. The cargo is an incredibly important Lighter Core - essentially, the firing mechanism for an Earth Engine.
* HollywoodScience: Has this in spades.
* NonActionBigBad: [[MOSS can't do much to the protagonists besides try to lock Liu Peiqiang in the hibernation chamber and activate a thruster to blast Makarov. Most of its antagonism is in the form of restricting access to various things on the Navigation Platform International Space Station.]]
* OutrunTheFireball: [[spoiler: Some of the protagonists hop in a transport to try to outrun the shockwave from the explosion on Jupiter's surface. The shockwave destroys half the transport before they can take shelter under an Earth Engine, but they all manage to survive.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler: MOSS, which has a design clearly inspired by [[TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL 9000]]. Surprise, surprise, it turns out to be the BigBad of the film.]]
* SceneryGorn: Has a few such scenes, such as the shot of the frozen Shanghai.
* SceneryGorn: Has a few such scenes, such as the shot of the frozen Shanghai.
* StuffBlowingUp: A few things. We have exploding electrical equipment, erupting volcanoes, and later, [[spoiler: the entire Navigation Platform International Space Station and ''Jupiter'']].
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* WhiteAndGreyMorality: [[spoiler: Though MOSS is the closest thing to a BigBad in the film, it is simply acting on orders given by the United Earth Government, the members of which are only choosing to abandon Earth to ensure human survival - a difficult decision for sure. They eventually decide to save Earth instead.]]
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Mostly for RuleOfCool.
** The 10,000 Earth Engines are said to output a combined 150 trillion (1.5 x 10^14) tons of force to propel Earth to Jupiter's neighborhood in 17 years. However, according to [[https://www.inverse.com/article/54103-could-the-wandering-earth-movie-plot-actually-happen NASA engineer John Elliot]], this feat would require something more like 2.5 quadrillion (2.5 x 10^15) tons of thrust... ''for each of the 10,000 engines''.
** The engines are also powered by ordinary rocks burned using "heavy fusion" technology. From John Elliot from the same article as above, it would also take 95% of the Earth's mass to power the entire 4.3 light year trip to the Alpha Centauri system.
** [[spoiler: The entire ploy to ignite Jupiter to cause an explosion strong enough to push Earth away is simply ludicrous for the people on the surface of the planet. Assuming such a powerful explosion can even happen, an explosion powerful enough to push Earth away to allow it to overcome Jupiter's gravity while it's 30 minutes from breaching its roche limit would crush all the Earth Engines on the side of the planet that the shockwave hits, killing everyone who is currently on that side of Earth, sending shockwaves through the entire crust and probably caving in every underground city on the face of the globe, and leaving the world with one hell of a dent. Of course, none of that happens and Earth simply continues on its merry way.]]
** The 10,000 Earth Engines are said to output a combined 150 trillion (1.5 x 10^14) tons of force to propel Earth to Jupiter's neighborhood in 17 years. However, according to [[https://www.inverse.com/article/54103-could-the-wandering-earth-movie-plot-actually-happen NASA engineer John Elliot]], this feat would require something more like 2.5 quadrillion (2.5 x 10^15) tons of thrust... ''for each of the 10,000 engines''.
** The engines are also powered by ordinary rocks burned using "heavy fusion" technology. From John Elliot from the same article as above, it would also take 95% of the Earth's mass to power the entire 4.3 light year trip to the Alpha Centauri system.
** [[spoiler: The entire ploy to ignite Jupiter to cause an explosion strong enough to push Earth away is simply ludicrous for the people on the surface of the planet. Assuming such a powerful explosion can even happen, an explosion powerful enough to push Earth away to allow it to overcome Jupiter's gravity while it's 30 minutes from breaching its roche limit would crush all the Earth Engines on the side of the planet that the shockwave hits, killing everyone who is currently on that side of Earth, sending shockwaves through the entire crust and probably caving in every underground city on the face of the globe, and leaving the world with one hell of a dent. Of course, none of that happens and Earth simply continues on its merry way.]]
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* PlanetSpaceship: Earth. The 10,000 Earth Engines on the surface of the planet allow it to cruise through space.
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* PlanetSpaceship: Earth. The 10,000 12,000 Earth Engines on the surface of the planet allow it to cruise through space.
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* EternalEngine: The Earth Engines. Each one is stated to be eleven kilometers tall, and the torque engines around the equator are even bigger. One Earth engine over Paris is shown to make the Eiffel Tower look like a blade of grass.
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* EternalEngine: The Earth Engines. Each one is stated to be eleven kilometers tall, and the torque engines around the equator are even bigger. One Earth engine over Paris is shown to make the Eiffel Tower look like a blade of grass. There are ''ten thousand'' standard thrust engines and ''two thousand more'' torque engines.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler: Averted. The AI of the Navigational Platform International Space Station, MOSS, chooses to abandon Earth out of protocol.]]
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler: Averted. The AI of the Navigational Platform International Space Station, MOSS, chooses to abandon Earth out of protocol.protocol and programming. Possibly zigzagged, since its last words before its destruction are seemingly anti-human words of contempt, in stark contrast to its usual serious and objective tone.]]
--> [[spoiler:'''MOSS''': It is unreasonable to expect humans to stay reasonable.]]
--> [[spoiler:'''MOSS''': It is unreasonable to expect humans to stay reasonable.]]
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* HumanPopsicle: The Navigational Platform International Space Station contains hundreds of thousands of human embryos on board in case something goes wrong with the Wandering Earth Project.
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* HumanPopsicle: The Navigational Platform International Space Station contains hundreds of thousands of human embryos on board in case something goes wrong with the Wandering Earth Project. Also happens in a lethal way a few times to some of the people due to the cold surface environment.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The movie takes place in 2075, as shown by a blink-and-you'll-miss-it banner. The technology (besides the Earth Engines) does not seem much more advanced than modern times. This means that the Earth Engines were activated in 2068.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The movie takes place in 2075, as shown by a blink-and-you'll-miss-it banner. The technology (besides the Earth Engines) does not seem much more advanced than modern times. This means that the Earth Engines were activated in 2068. In fact, Han Zi'ang states that no Earth Engine had failed in 30 years, which means that at least one was completed in 2045, and were being constructed earlier still.
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* MonumentalDamageResistance: Shanghai's Oriental Pearl Tower is shown to be intact. So is the (fictional) building for the Shanghai Olympics 2044.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It's not clear how far in the future this The movie takes place, but the place in 2075, as shown by a blink-and-you'll-miss-it banner. The technology (besides the Earth Engines) does not seem much more advanced than modern times. Notably, a building for This means that the Shanghai Olympics of 2044 can be seen.Earth Engines were activated in 2068.
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* ChekhovsVolcano: Sort of. The Earth Engines are essentially giant artificial volcanoes taller than even Mount Everest. [[spoiler: One of the oversized vectoring engines becomes essential in saving the Earth from Jupiter's gravitational pull.]]
* DepopulationBomb: Stopping the Earth's rotation causes catastrophic tsunamis all over the world that wipe out half the Earth's population.
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* ChekhovsVolcano: Sort of. The Earth Engines are essentially giant artificial volcanoes taller than even Mount Everest. [[spoiler: One of the oversized vectoring engines becomes essential in saving the Earth from Jupiter's gravitational pull.]]
* DepopulationBomb: Stoppingthe Earth's rotation causes catastrophic tsunamis all over the world that wipe out half the Earth's population.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Earth leaves its orbit and starts wandering around the cosmos.[[note]]Or maybe not; see NonIndicativeName.[[/note]]
* ExactTimeToFailure: MOSS states that it will initiate a countdown in the final few seconds beforethe Earth is disintegrated by Jupiter's gravity. [[spoiler: Ultimately, however, no such countdown actually happens.]]
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* GenerationShip: The Earth, as a PlanetSpaceship. The Wandering Earth Project is said to take 2,500 years to complete, and will involve 100 generations of humans.
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* NonIndicativeName: The Earth isn't actually wandering (i.e. moving around aimlessly), since the planet's destination is the Alpha Centauri system.
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* OneWorldOrder: In the face of planetary destruction, all the nations of the Earth band together to form the United Earth Government, which initiates the Wandering Earth Project to save the world.
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* OneWorldOrder: In the face of planetary destruction, all the nations of the Earth band together to form the United Earth Government, which initiates the Wandering Earth Project to save the world.
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* PlanetSpaceship: The Earth. The 10,000 Earth Engines on the surface of the planet allow it to cruise through space.
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* PlanetSpaceship: The Earth. The 10,000 Earth Engines on the surface of the planet allow it to cruise through space.
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* TitleDrop: The plan to move the Earth to a new star system is itself called "The Wandering Earth Project".
* SingleBiomePlanet: The Earth becomes an ice world after leaving its place in the Solar System and begins to get more and more distant from the Sun.
* SingleBiomePlanet: The Earth becomes an ice world after leaving its place in the Solar System and begins to get more and more distant from the Sun.
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* TitleDrop: The plan to move the Earth to a new star system is itself called "The Wandering Earth Project".
* SingleBiomePlanet:The Earth becomes an ice world after leaving its place in the Solar System and begins to get more and more distant from the Sun.
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* SpaceStation: The Navigational Platform International Space Station, which cruises 100,000 km ahead of the Earth to help guide it.
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* SpaceStation: The Navigational Platform International Space Station, which cruises 100,000 km ahead of the Earth to help guide it.
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* TheCavalry: The rescue workers that [[spoiler: arrive at the Sulawesi Earth Engine to help push a firing pin into place.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: At age four, Liu Qi learns from Liu Peiqiang that Jupiter is composed 90% of hydrogen. [[spoiler: He then remembers this information and realizes that it means that the hydrogen could be used to cause an explosion strong enough to propel Earth out of Jupiter's gravitational pull.]]
* EternalEngine: The Earth Engines. Each one is stated to be eleven kilometers tall, and the torque engines around the equator are even bigger. One Earth engine over Paris is shown to make the Eiffel Tower look like a blade of grass.
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* FunnyForeigner: Tim provides quite a bit of comic relief.
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* FunnyForeigner: Tim provides quite a bit of comic relief. Makarov as well, to a smaller degree.
* GondorCallsForAid: Han Duoduo does this near the end of the movie.
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* HeartwarmingOrphan: Han Duoduo, who was orphaned in a tsunami as a baby and found and adopted by Han Zi'ang. [[spoiler: She later heartwarms enough rescue workers to convince them to help push the firing pin of one of the Earth Engines.]]
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* HeartwarmingOrphan: Han Duoduo, who was orphaned in a tsunami as a baby and found and adopted by Han Zi'ang. [[spoiler: She later heartwarms enough rescue workers to convince them to help push the firing pin of one of the Sulawesi Earth Engines.Engine.]]
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** [[spoiler: He Lianke dies while tweaking the hardware to hack the Earth Engine.]]
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** [[spoiler: He Lianke dies while tweaking the hardware to hack the Sulawesi Earth Engine.]]
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* IronicEcho: At the beginning of the film, Liu Peiqiang tells his son, Liu Qi, that he will turn into a star by flying up to the Navigational Platform International Space Station. [[spoiler: He says it again at the climax when he sends the same station into one of the Earth Engines' modified exhaust beams, causing an explosion visible from Earth's surface that resembles a star.]]
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* IronicEcho: At the beginning of the film, Liu Peiqiang tells his son, Liu Qi, that he will turn into a star by flying up to the Navigational Platform International Space Station. [[spoiler: He says it again at the climax when he sends the same station into one of the Sulawesi Earth Engines' Engine's modified exhaust beams, causing an explosion visible from Earth's surface that resembles a star.]]
* PoweredArmor: Not exactly armor, but rescue teams such as CN171-11 use exoskeletons that allow the user to move objects more easily.
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* Space Station: The Navigational Platform International Space Station, which cruises 100,000 km ahead of the Earth to help guide it.
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* Space Station: SpaceStation: The Navigational Platform International Space Station, which cruises 100,000 km ahead of the Earth to help guide it.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Goodbye, Solar System.]]
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* ChekhovsGift: Makarov puts a bottle of vodka in Liu Peiqiang's space suit to celebrate the latter's retirement. [[spoiler: Peiqiang later uses the vodka to disable MOSS.]]
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Wang Lei.]]
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* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: [[spoiler: Wang Lei convinces Liu Qi and Tim to escape with Han Duoduo, as he's trapped under rubble and can't escape. When they do, he cracks a smile before he dies.]]
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* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: [[spoiler: Wang Lei convinces Liu Qi and Tim to escape with Han Duoduo, as he's trapped under rubble and can't escape. When they do, [[GoOutWithASmile he cracks a smile before he dies.]]]]]]
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* NotAfraidToDie: [[spoiler: Liu Peiqiang is absolutely fearless as he steers the Navigational Platform International Space Station into the Earth Engine's exhaust stream.]]
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* TitleDrop: The plan to move the Earth to a new star system is itself called "The Wandering Earth Project".
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[[caption-width-right:350:Goodbye, Solar System.]]
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler: Averted. It chooses to abandon the Earth out of protocol.]]
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler: Averted. It The AI of the Navigational Platform International Space Station, MOSS, chooses to abandon the Earth out of protocol.]]]]
* ApocalypseAnarchy: When the destruction of the world seems imminent, the people in the underground cities start rioting and stealing everything they can.
* ApocalypseAnarchy: When the destruction of the world seems imminent, the people in the underground cities start rioting and stealing everything they can.
* TheBeforetimes: Han Zi'ang reminisces of the time before the Wandering Earth Project, when nobody worried about the sun and everyone was more interested in something called "money".
* CallingTheOldManOut: Liu Qi does this to Liu Peiqiang for leaving his family behind and allowing Qi's mother/Peiqiang's wife to die.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Liu Qi does this to Liu Peiqiang for leaving his family behind and allowing Qi's mother/Peiqiang's wife to die.
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* Cryonics: The Navigational Platform International Space Station contains hundreds of thousands of human embryos on board in case something goes wrong with the Wandering Earth Project.
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* Cryonics: ChekhovsVolcano: Sort of. The Navigational Platform International Space Station contains hundreds of thousands of human embryos on board in case something goes wrong with the Wandering Earth Project.Engines are essentially giant artificial volcanoes taller than even Mount Everest. [[spoiler: One of the oversized vectoring engines becomes essential in saving the Earth from Jupiter's gravitational pull.]]
* DepopulationBomb: Stopping the Earth's rotation causes catastrophic tsunamis all over the world that wipe out half the Earth's population.
* ExactTimeToFailure: MOSS states that it will initiate a countdown in the final few seconds before the Earth is disintegrated by Jupiter's gravity. [[spoiler: Ultimately, however, no such countdown actually happens.]]
* DepopulationBomb: Stopping the Earth's rotation causes catastrophic tsunamis all over the world that wipe out half the Earth's population.
* ExactTimeToFailure: MOSS states that it will initiate a countdown in the final few seconds before the Earth is disintegrated by Jupiter's gravity. [[spoiler: Ultimately, however, no such countdown actually happens.]]
* HeartwarmingOrphan: Han Duoduo, who was orphaned in a tsunami as a baby and found and adopted by Han Zi'ang. [[spoiler: She later heartwarms enough rescue workers to convince them to help push the firing pin of one of the Earth Engines.]]
* HumanPopsicle: The Navigational Platform International Space Station contains hundreds of thousands of human embryos on board in case something goes wrong with the Wandering Earth Project.
* IronicEcho: At the beginning of the film, Liu Peiqiang tells his son, Liu Qi, that he will turn into a star by flying up to the Navigational Platform International Space Station. [[spoiler: He says it again at the climax when he sends the same station into one of the Earth Engines' modified exhaust beams, causing an explosion visible from Earth's surface that resembles a star.]]
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: [[spoiler: Wang Lei convinces Liu Qi and Tim to escape with Han Duoduo, as he's trapped under rubble and can't escape. When they do, he cracks a smile before he dies.]]
* MissingMom: Liu Peiqiang's wife died before the events of the film, a fact that their son, Liu Qi, holds over his head due to the fact that Peiqiang chose to pull the plug for the Wandering Earth project.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: [[spoiler: Invoked, but ultimately averted. Han Zi'ang gets left behind while transporting the Lighter Core through Shanghai, and dies when the building they are in collapses. This leaves Liu Qi enraged.]]
* NonIndicativeName: The Earth isn't actually wandering (i.e. moving around aimlessly), since the planet's destination is the Alpha Centauri system.
* OneWorldOrder: In the face of planetary destruction, all the nations of the Earth band together to form the United Earth Government, which initiates the Wandering Earth Project to save the world.
* OnlyOneName: Tim and Makarov, both foreigners.
* IronicEcho: At the beginning of the film, Liu Peiqiang tells his son, Liu Qi, that he will turn into a star by flying up to the Navigational Platform International Space Station. [[spoiler: He says it again at the climax when he sends the same station into one of the Earth Engines' modified exhaust beams, causing an explosion visible from Earth's surface that resembles a star.]]
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: [[spoiler: Wang Lei convinces Liu Qi and Tim to escape with Han Duoduo, as he's trapped under rubble and can't escape. When they do, he cracks a smile before he dies.]]
* MissingMom: Liu Peiqiang's wife died before the events of the film, a fact that their son, Liu Qi, holds over his head due to the fact that Peiqiang chose to pull the plug for the Wandering Earth project.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: [[spoiler: Invoked, but ultimately averted. Han Zi'ang gets left behind while transporting the Lighter Core through Shanghai, and dies when the building they are in collapses. This leaves Liu Qi enraged.]]
* NonIndicativeName: The Earth isn't actually wandering (i.e. moving around aimlessly), since the planet's destination is the Alpha Centauri system.
* OneWorldOrder: In the face of planetary destruction, all the nations of the Earth band together to form the United Earth Government, which initiates the Wandering Earth Project to save the world.
* OnlyOneName: Tim and Makarov, both foreigners.
* SleeperStarship: The Navigational Platform International Space Station comes with hibernation chambers for the crew.
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* UndergroundCity: There is one under each of the 10,000 Earth Engines.
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* Cryonics: The Navigational Platform International Space Station contains hundreds of thousands of human embryos on board in case something goes wrong with the Wandering Earth Project.
* ExplosionsInSpace: Averted. [[spoiler: Part of the plan to ignite Jupiter's atmosphere involves the fact that Jupiter has siphoned off part of Earth's atmosphere, allowing a fiery explosion to occur.]]
* ExplosionsInSpace: Averted. [[spoiler: Part of the plan to ignite Jupiter's atmosphere involves the fact that Jupiter has siphoned off part of Earth's atmosphere, allowing a fiery explosion to occur.]]
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** [[spoiler: He Lianke dies while tweaking the hardware to hack the Earth Engine.
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** [[spoiler: He Lianke dies while tweaking the hardware to hack the Earth Engine.]]
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* PlanetSpaceship: The Earth. The 10,000 "Earth Engines" on the surface of the planet allow it to cruise through space.
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* PlanetSpaceship: The Earth. The 10,000 "Earth Engines" Earth Engines on the surface of the planet allow it to cruise through space.space.
* SaharanShipwreck: There is an enormous ship frozen in the middle of Shanghai. Justified in that it is explicitly stated that due to the Earth Engines' influence, the planet's rotation stopped, causing tsunamis all across the globe, which is how the ship could have gotten there.
* SingleBiomePlanet: The Earth becomes an ice world after leaving its place in the Solar System and begins to get more and more distant from the Sun.
* Space Station: The Navigational Platform International Space Station, which cruises 100,000 km ahead of the Earth to help guide it.
* SaharanShipwreck: There is an enormous ship frozen in the middle of Shanghai. Justified in that it is explicitly stated that due to the Earth Engines' influence, the planet's rotation stopped, causing tsunamis all across the globe, which is how the ship could have gotten there.
* SingleBiomePlanet: The Earth becomes an ice world after leaving its place in the Solar System and begins to get more and more distant from the Sun.
* Space Station: The Navigational Platform International Space Station, which cruises 100,000 km ahead of the Earth to help guide it.
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* ApocalypseHow: The expanding Sun threatens to engulf the Earth.
* ApocalypticLogistics: No emphasis is put on the logistics of maintaining underground cities, how populations are supported, or how space is distributed.
* ApocalypticLogistics: No emphasis is put on the logistics of maintaining underground cities, how populations are supported, or how space is distributed.
** [[spoiler: Igniting Jupiter's atmosphere which would cause a shockwave strong enough to push the Earth out of its gravitational pull.]]
* CentrifugalGravity: The Navigational Platform International Space Station spins, which allows the crew to walk normally. At one point, the control room of the station stops spinning, and everything starts floating away.
* FunnyForeigner: Tim provides quite a bit of comic relief.
* CentrifugalGravity: The Navigational Platform International Space Station spins, which allows the crew to walk normally. At one point, the control room of the station stops spinning, and everything starts floating away.
* FunnyForeigner: Tim provides quite a bit of comic relief.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Comes with being a disaster movie.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Comes with being a disaster movie.A few.
** [[spoiler: He Lianke dies while tweaking the hardware to hack the Earth Engine.
** [[spoiler: He Lianke dies while tweaking the hardware to hack the Earth Engine.
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* TranslatorMicrobes: Despite speaking different languages, characters in the film can often understand each other, such as the Chinese Liu Peiqiang and the Russian Makarov. At one point in the movie, one worker is explicitly shown activating a translation device when receiving a spoken message.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It's not clear how far in the future this movie takes place, but the technology (besides the Earth Engines) does not seem much more advanced than modern times. Notably, a building for the Shanghai Olympics of 2044 can be seen.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It's not clear how far in the future this movie takes place, but the technology (besides the Earth Engines) does not seem much more advanced than modern times. Notably, a building for the Shanghai Olympics of 2044 can be seen.
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''The Wandering Earth'' (Chinese: 流浪地球, Pinyin: Liu Lang Di Qiu) is a 2019 live-action science fiction film directed by Frant Gwo, based on the novella by Liu Cixin. It is currently the second highest-grossing non-English film, surpassed only by ''Wolf Warrior 2''.
In the near future, the sun is exhausting its fuel, and will soon turn into a red giant, destroying the entire Solar System in three hundred years. Under threat of planetary annihilation, humanity bands together to construct 10,000 enormous "Earth Engines" on the planet's surface to propel it out of the Solar System to a new home. However, upon approaching Jupiter to make use of gravity assist, thousands of engines get knocked offline all across the globe, threatening to plunge the entire Earth into Jupiter.
It was released on Chinese New Year's Day (February 5th, 2019) and later picked up by Netflix on April 30th.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler: Averted. It chooses to abandon the Earth out of protocol.]]
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The movie prefers to handwave some of the more ludicrous aspects.
** Of course, the idea that the entire Earth can be equipped with giant thrusters to push it out of orbit.
** The Sun suddenly dying in a span of a few hundred years.
** The "gravitational spike" that Jupiter causes.
* GenerationShip: The Earth, as a PlanetSpaceship. The Wandering Earth Project is said to take 2,500 years to complete, and will involve 100 generations of humans.
* HeroicSacrifice: Comes with being a disaster movie.
** [[spoiler: Liu Peiqiang plunges himself and the Navigational Platform International Space Station into the exhaust beam of one of the Earth Engines to ignite Jupiter's atmosphere.]]
* PlanetSpaceship: The Earth. The 10,000 "Earth Engines" on the surface of the planet allow it to cruise through space.
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In the near future, the sun is exhausting its fuel, and will soon turn into a red giant, destroying the entire Solar System in three hundred years. Under threat of planetary annihilation, humanity bands together to construct 10,000 enormous "Earth Engines" on the planet's surface to propel it out of the Solar System to a new home. However, upon approaching Jupiter to make use of gravity assist, thousands of engines get knocked offline all across the globe, threatening to plunge the entire Earth into Jupiter.
It was released on Chinese New Year's Day (February 5th, 2019) and later picked up by Netflix on April 30th.
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!!Tropes:
* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler: Averted. It chooses to abandon the Earth out of protocol.]]
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The movie prefers to handwave some of the more ludicrous aspects.
** Of course, the idea that the entire Earth can be equipped with giant thrusters to push it out of orbit.
** The Sun suddenly dying in a span of a few hundred years.
** The "gravitational spike" that Jupiter causes.
* GenerationShip: The Earth, as a PlanetSpaceship. The Wandering Earth Project is said to take 2,500 years to complete, and will involve 100 generations of humans.
* HeroicSacrifice: Comes with being a disaster movie.
** [[spoiler: Liu Peiqiang plunges himself and the Navigational Platform International Space Station into the exhaust beam of one of the Earth Engines to ignite Jupiter's atmosphere.]]
* PlanetSpaceship: The Earth. The 10,000 "Earth Engines" on the surface of the planet allow it to cruise through space.
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