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->''"Hello. My name is Violet and I was born into a world you may not understand."''

''Ultraviolet'' is a 2006 ScienceFiction / Action film starring Creator/MillaJovovich as the eponymous Violet, fighting in a guerrilla war against the oppressive Arch-Ministry government in a [[{{Dystopia}} dystopian]] future.

Violet is a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent hemophage]], a person infected with TheVirus that produces symptoms similar to traditional vampirism. The infection confers [[SuperSenses superhuman senses]], [[SuperStrength strength]] and [[SuperSpeed agility]], but is [[CursedWithAwesome ultimately fatal]]. Violet became infected while pregnant, and lost her unborn child as a result of experiments performed on her in a concentration camp for hemophages. She is in the terminal stages of the disease, and her latest mission is also expected to be [[OneLastJob her last.]]

Violet infiltrates an Arch-Ministry stronghold disguised as a courier, and escapes with what is supposed to be an ultimate weapon, something which will kill the few remaining hemophages with a single blow. But the "weapon" turns out to be a child named Six, prompting [[MamaBear Violet]] to defy both her own kind, who want him dead, and the Ministry, who want him back.

''Ultraviolet'' was deliberately created to stylistically resemble a Main/ComicBook, with brilliantly colored outfits and hair, and an airbrushed appearance to close-ups. As with many comic books, the action scenes are deliberately over the top. It was not well-received, with a Website/RottenTomatoes rating of 9%, but some find it SoBadItsGood or a GuiltyPleasure.

In 2008, the studio Creator/{{Madhouse}} produced a TwelveEpisodeAnime [[AnimatedAdaptation series]] loosely based on the film titled ''Ultraviolet: Code 044''.

Not to be confused with ''Series/Ultraviolet1998'' the British television series, which was also a modern take on vampires, but which could otherwise not be more different in story, style and tone.

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!!This film provides examples of:

* ActionGirl: Violet, of course.
* AdaptationalWimp: Daxus isn't a [[spoiler:hemophage]] in the {{Novelization}}.
* AnimatedAdaptation: Has a loose anime adaptation by Creator/{{Madhouse}} called ''Ultraviolet: Code 044''.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Garth, after he saves V's life, has a tiny moment of this, after V asks why he brought her back at all.
-->'''Garth:''' Isn't it... isn't it obvious?
* AteHisGun[=/=]DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: It's implied that V would have done this when she's in her HeroicBSOD post-Six's "death" and after seeing her ex-husband with his new family]].
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Daxus. It helps that [[spoiler: he is a hemophage himself.]]
* BadassAndChildDuo: Violet and Six.
* BareYourMidriff: Violet's entire wardrobe is an example of this. In fact, the real star of the movie is probably Creator/MillaJovovich's abs.
* BigBad: Vice Cardinal Ferdinand Daxus, the ruthless leader of the Arch-Ministry government.
* BorrowedBiometricBypass: The Arch-Ministry has a system to scan someone entering a secure facility to make sure they aren't vampires. It involves two thick needles ''stabbing the subject in the wrists''. Getting around it by temporarily altering one's blood seems fairly simple.
* BloodlessCarnage: The movie isn't bloodless but the fight scenes are inexplicably clean, even when our heroine is pressing that nice sharp blade to mooks in spotless white clothing. What little blood does result is usually obscured by motion blur.
* BottomlessMagazines: People do run out of ammo. Occasionally. Semi-justified with the whole idea of "flat-space technology". Violet, for example, only needs to bend her wrists to have her flat-space wristband feed bullets right into her guns, which makes one wonder why not build a literal bottomless magazine to begin with.
* BringMyRedJacket: Invoked. When Violet receives a nasty gash on her hand, her color-changing clothes immediately change to red.
* BulletholeDoor: A variation. Violet shoots at the hinge on the passenger side of her car. The door manages to stick until she slams the car passenger-side into a subway entrance, sending the door flying off.
* CarFu: Violet uses a sedan to crush a large group of mooks against a wall.
* CensorShadow / SexySilhouette: Used when Violet walks nude through the scanning chamber, with shadows covering most of her body while the dim ultraviolet lights showing only her shapely silhouette.
* ChekhovsGun: Daxus's flamethrower pistol, which actually fires ''twice''. The first time is in squirting flammable gel, which provides Violet with her FlamingSword. The second is when she then uses the flamethrower itself during the ensuing battle.
* CombatPragmatist: Daxus openly admits that he couldn't beat Violet in a straight fight, so he tries to use a flamethrower. [[spoiler:When that fails, he kills the light in the dome so his own hemophage night vision will give him an edge.]]
* ConservationOfNinjitsu: When Violet is confronted by a mob of fellow superhuman hemophage bad-asses, she cuts every single one of their heads off with a [[SingleStrokeBattle single swing]].
* CoolShades: Part of Violet's outfit.
* CoolSword: Violet's sword, as seen on the movie poster above.
* CosmicDeadline: Which seems to set about ''twenty minutes in''.
* DeadlyDodging: Violet kills most of a group of gunmen mooks this way. It helps that they were stupid enough to stand in a ''circle'' around her with guns pointed inwards...
* DeathByCameo: Director Kurt Wimmer cameos as a RedShirt hemophage.
* DecontaminationChamber: Violet has to walk through an ultraviolet scanning chamber as part of a security screening.
* {{Dystopia}}: ''Ultraviolet'' is set in a world run by a KnightTemplar health organization trying to eradicate a disease which gives anyone infected superpowers. But they seem to have given up on finding a cure and instead just kill the infected.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: The head of research is seen doing this to Violet as she exits the DecontaminationChamber naked and starts getting dressed.
* EliteMooks: The guys with katanas... maybe. You'd have to be either crazy-good or just plain crazy to be armed with a sword when everyone else has access to guns.
* ExtendedDisarming: The computer attempts to tally all the weapons in Violet's HyperspaceArsenal. It finally gives up and just says "many" in a very surprised-sounding voice.
* EyeScream: When two needles are injected into both of Violet's eyes.
* FacelessGoons: The Ministry's {{Mooks}}.
* {{Fanservice}}: Violet walking naked through the ultraviolet scanner.
* FictionalDocument: The opening credits show that the movie is supposed to be based on a series of comic books or manga.
* FlamingSword: In Violet and Daxus' FinalBattle, they both wield one.
* GasMaskMooks: One of the flavors of FacelessGoons. Considering how paranoid everyone is about disease in this era, it's probably semi-justified.
* GirlInABox: A male example, with Six being in the suitcase Violet steals (The suitcase being BiggerOnTheInside thanks to space-warping technology).
* GirlsWithGuns: Violet counts with her twin uzis and constant use of GunKata and SheFu.
* GovernmentConspiracy: Daxus isn't looking to wipe out the hemophages; he's pretty much already done that. He's [[spoiler: created an illness that targets humans that will require all infected people to line up every day for a cure, thus allowing him to rule them.]]
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: The Blood Chinois speak (very formal) Vietnamese. Violet speaks it badly.
* GravityScrew: Violet wears a gravity leveller on her belt that allows her to use this trope to great effect. Her motorcycle has such a device as well, allowing her to flee from her foes along the sides of skyscrapers.
* GunKata: And lots of it.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:How Daxus goes out, while on fire no less.]]
* {{Hammerspace}}: Used liberally. The hemophage strike team in the opening has shoulder-mounted ones that holds swords, Violet has her wrist-mounted HyperspaceArsenal, Garth has an entire MadScientistLaboratory in a semi, Six is initially held in a suitcase, and Daxus produces both a flamethrower and sword from nowhere.
* HealItWithFire: In the FinalBattle, Violet's hands are cut up pretty badly, so she fires her [=SMGs=] so she can use the muzzle heat to cauterize the wounds.
* HeroicBSOD: Violet suffers this after [[spoiler: she believes that Six has died]].
* HeroTrackingFailure: The movie has several such scenes, but none is more blatant than when Violet is on a gravity-defying motorcycle and running from two helicopter gunships armed with miniguns. Thousands of bullets are spewed in her direction, and they seemingly manage to hit everywhere - including ahead! - except from where she currently is.
* HollywoodDarkness: Averted. When the hemophages shoot out the lights, it actually gets too dark to see what happens. Given the amount of bodies on the ground when the lights come back on, we can guess, though.
* HowManyAllOfThem
* HyperspaceArsenal: Violet caries a ridiculously large number of guns and her sword in a pocket dimension. This leads to a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} when the computer in the Arch-Ministry building scans her for hidden weapons.
* ImpersonationGambit: Violet impersonates a courier in order to get inside the Arch-Ministry's headquarters and steal the supposed weapon that will wipe out the hemophages. She almost succeeds, until the end when the courier she supposed impersonating arrives, making her having to get out of there guns blazing.
* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Violet routinely takes out hordes of submachine-gun-toting mooks with her sword.
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Violet's wardrobe. It even changes colors to fit the current scene.
* InvincibleHero: Violet isn't really challenged by any of the enemies she meets. As a hemophage, she's far more powerful than mere humans. Even when confronted by a dozen hemophages, she [[spoiler:kills them all in a single blow.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Violet. She's extremely mean to Six, but [[DefrostingIceQueen warms up to him]] near the end.
* KaleidoscopeHair: Violet hair changes color, much like her clothes.
* KillTheLights: The final villain plunges the room into total darkness, explaining that he can see in the dark. Violet counters by [[FlamingSword lighting her sword on fire]].
* KnightTemplar: Daxus.
* MadScientistLaboratory: Garth's semi trailer is a modern version of one, anyway.
* MaleGaze: There are many shots of Violet's rear and abs.
* MamaBear: Violet.
* TheManBehindTheCurtain: Subverted. Daxus is a great deal more dangerous than he looks. Unlike [=DuPont=] from ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'', it's made clear halfway through the film instead of [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]].
* MonkeyMoralityPose: Three vampiric goons receive wounds causing them to adopt this pose before they collapse.
* MookChivalry: Forming circles around Violet, attacking one-by-one, charging forward with guns at ready - it has it all.
* MoreDakka: Violet uses her extradimensional space/folding technology to almost achieve enuff dakka.
* MsFanservice: Violet played by Creator/MillaJovovich constantly wears ultra-tight clothing that hugs her figure and also wears low-slung pants shows a great deal of BareYourMidriff.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Daxus gets his coffee fix, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome even in the midst of battling hemophages.]]
* NeverTrustATrailer: Due to coming out during a spate of vampire action films there was no mention of the characters' "condition".
* NoPaperFuture: Violet has a bracelet that's actually a bendy credit card... which she uses to buy disposable cell phones, printed on paper.
* NonActionGuy: Garth.
* NotEvenHuman: [[spoiler:Daxus is revealed to be a hemophage, despite being the leader of the Arch-Ministry.]]
* NotUsingTheZWord: The movie only mentions the word "vampire" thrice, first in the exposition dump when Violet notes that it's a slur used for hemophages, and a second time (in Vietnamese) when Violet is confronted by the Blood Chinois. The third is towards the end, when Daxus points out she is one and so her helping a human child makes little sense.
* {{Novelization}}: A book version of the film was written by Yvonne Navarro, which is based and expands upon the original, uncut screenplay.
* ObliviousToLove: Violet seems completely unaware that Garth has feelings for her.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The hemophages are infected with a disease that's been around since ancient times, creating the myth of vampires. This virus, however, has been modified in an attempt to create {{Super Soldier}}s.
* PatientZero: [[spoiler:Daxus is the first hemophage.]]
* PhlebotinumRebel: All of the hemophages, but especially Violet. Six can be seen this way as well.
* PietaPlagiarism: At the end.
* PoisonAndCureGambit: Daxus EvilPlan is to unleash a plague targeting humans, to which he has the cure. This is because hemophages are nearly extinct, and he needs a new plague to justify the Arch-Ministry's continued existence.
* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler: Violet crying over Six's body brings him back to life... because her tears infected him with hemophagia.]]
* ProHumanTranshuman: Subverted by Violet when tried to be reasoned that she was human once, she dismisses it, saying that humans were who made her that way and then wanted her dead, so she owes them no loyalty.
* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: A computer scans Violet and tries to count how many weapons she has in her HyperspaceArsenal. It eventually gives up and says "Many" in a surprised tone of voice.
* RuleOfCool: The movie practically ''runs'' on it.
** Violet and Daxus both wield swords that look ''awesome'', but would be highly impractical in a real sword-fight. Violet's katana has a [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/File:Ultraviolet-Katana_02a.jpg square-edged "chisel" shape]], that would not only greatly reduce its ability to both cut and pierce, but also make it much more susceptible to breaking. Daxus' sword has [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/File:Ultraviolet-Katana_01a.jpg jagged teeth like a saw blade]], which would render it very unwieldy and actually hinder its ability to make clean cuts.
* SceneryPorn: Between the sleek utopian sci-fi architecture (some of which isn't CGI fabrication, but shot in real buildings), and the insanely vibrant color palette, every single frame is like wallpaper.
* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: Violet pointing her sword to the viewer in the poster.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Violet isn't too bothered to take off all her clothes to go through the ultraviolet scan room. In the {{Novelization}} she notes the entire world lost it's modesty due to constant medical checks the government forces on the populace. She still notes with some irritation, that all the [[CovertPervert doctors]] ''are'' [[EatingTheEyeCandy checking]] [[MsFanservice her]] out as she strips.
* SheFu: Need you ask?
* ShortRangeLongRangeWeapon: The {{Mooks}} are so very guilty of this. When entering the stronghold at the end of the film, Violet kills dozens of mooks with assault rifles in the reception area. The next area is a room filled with soldiers with swords. She kills them too. Then a room of guys with more [=ARs=], which have her in a perfect crossfire. They even have ''cover''. Violet kills them too. Walks across a bridge, then reaches the final room before her objective, which is shaped like a tube. One entrance, one exit. The soldiers near the entrance are the ones armed with swords, while the ones in the rear have the rifles. You'd think they'd have the sword guys in the back where they wouldn't block their allies' fire, or even ''pick her off with sniper fire'' while she was crossing the ''long, exposed bridge''.
* SlouchOfVillainy: Nerva is seen doing this.
* ShouldersUpNudity: Violet when she goes through the U.V. DecontaminationChamber.
* SmugSnake: Nerva and Daxus.
* SoundOnlyDeath: One scene starts with a closed door when you hear gunshots, sword sounds, screams, mayhem... and then Violet comes through the door alone.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Intended to be this to ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''. Both are directed by Kurt Wimmer, and this movie has several scenes that pay homage to ''Equilibrium''. Both movies also co-star Creator/WilliamFichtner.
* StepIntoTheBlindingFight: During the FinalBattle Daxus plunges the room into total darkness, explaining that he can see in the dark. Violet counters this by lighting her [[FlamingSword sword on fire]].
* StormingTheCastle: Violet does this near the end, in order to rescue Six.
* StoryboardBody: Violet has tattoos in Thai Hindi on the fingers of one hand, listing romantic life stages. The pinky is "Comrade", the ring finger "Lover", the middle finger reads "Wife". She became a hemophage before the next finger could be tattooed with "Mother".
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: When trying to infiltrate the Arch-Ministry Violet is strapped to a chair and has several pointy objects and needles prod her to verify she's human.
* StrawHypocrite: Daxus. Turns out that [[spoiler: not only is he a hemophage like those he hunts down, he was the very first one and let the virus loose in the first place.]]
* SwissArmyTears: Violet's tears [[spoiler: infect Six with hemophagia, which saves his life.]]
* SwordSparks: Used to light the FlamingSword.
* SyntheticPlague: [[spoiler: The hemophage virus was engineered by Daxus who goes on to take over the world using the infected as a bogeyman.]]
* TheOnlyOneITrust: Garth is this for Violet.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Daxus ordering his entire army of mooks to open fire on Violet.... [[{{Hologram}} or so he thinks]].
* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Violet's bare backside is seen when she has to go through the ultraviolet scanner while naked, although CensorShadow obscures most of her.
* ThrowAwayGuns: Violet has hundreds of weapons stored in high-tech HammerSpace, so she just drops empties.
* TranshumanTreachery: The hemophages. To be fair, the humans locked them in concentration camps, experimented on them, and have almost wiped them out.
* UnorthodoxReload: Violet reloads her guns via tiny portals to her HyperspaceArsenal above her wrists.
* VampireRefugee: Violet, for the last part of the movie.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Violet vomits after her first fight sequence, a consequence of the drugs she was using to disguise her vampire traits.
* WithholdingTheCure: [[YouCanPanicNow Demonizing]] hemophages as monsters instead of treating them as victims of disease enabled the "Medical Establishment" to take control of the government and become [=ArchMinistry=]. Unfortunately, they did too good a job of hunting them and, by the time of the movie, needed a new threat to "protect" the world from -- a "human antigen", cultivated inside of a LivingMacGuffin. Once it's released, people will have to line up at [=ArchMinistry=] to get the cure or die.
* YouAreAlreadyCheckedIn: After Violet pretends to be a courier in order to sneak into the Arch-Ministry building, the real courier shows up and her ID is rejected, thus alerting the guards.
* YouAreNumberSix: Literally true for the boy whom Violet abducts from the Arch-Ministry. When she asks the boy what his name is, he responds by holding up six fingers. Later on, Daxus reveals to Violet why Six is known as such: [[spoiler:Six is his clone; specifically, number six in a series of eight.]]
* YouCanPanicNow: A ''big'' part of the setting is that the government and the media have made politicized the hemophage issue to increase their power, to the point of treating them as terrorists/monsters rather than sick people. [[spoiler:Daxus even has a cure, but is [[WithholdingTheCure withholding it]] to support the power of Archministry.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: And red, and purple, and white, and...
* ZombieInfectee: Propaganda has led many to confuse "vampire" with "zombie" - in the first scene, a cop cuts his finger on a hemophage fang and is cold-bloodedly executed by his partner the instant it's noticed.
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->''"Hello. My name is Violet and I was born into a world you may not understand."''

''Ultraviolet'' is a 2006 ScienceFiction / Action film starring Creator/MillaJovovich as the eponymous Violet, fighting in a guerrilla war against the oppressive Arch-Ministry government in a [[{{Dystopia}} dystopian]] future.

Violet is a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent hemophage]], a person infected with TheVirus that produces symptoms similar to traditional vampirism. The infection confers [[SuperSenses superhuman senses]], [[SuperStrength strength]] and [[SuperSpeed agility]], but is [[CursedWithAwesome ultimately fatal]]. Violet became infected while pregnant, and lost her unborn child as a result of experiments performed on her in a concentration camp for hemophages. She is in the terminal stages of the disease, and her latest mission is also expected to be [[OneLastJob her last.]]

Violet infiltrates an Arch-Ministry stronghold disguised as a courier, and escapes with what is supposed to be an ultimate weapon, something which will kill the few remaining hemophages with a single blow. But the "weapon" turns out to be a child named Six, prompting [[MamaBear Violet]] to defy both her own kind, who want him dead, and the Ministry, who want him back.

''Ultraviolet'' was deliberately created to stylistically resemble a Main/ComicBook, with brilliantly colored outfits and hair, and an airbrushed appearance to close-ups. As with many comic books, the action scenes are deliberately over the top. It was not well-received, with a Website/RottenTomatoes rating of 9%, but some find it SoBadItsGood or a GuiltyPleasure.

In 2008, the studio Creator/{{Madhouse}} produced a TwelveEpisodeAnime [[AnimatedAdaptation series]] loosely based on the film titled ''Ultraviolet: Code 044''.

Not to be confused with ''Series/Ultraviolet1998'' the British television series, which was also a modern take on vampires, but which could otherwise not be more different in story, style and tone.

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!!This film provides examples of:

* ActionGirl: Violet, of course.
* AdaptationalWimp: Daxus isn't a [[spoiler:hemophage]] in the {{Novelization}}.
* AnimatedAdaptation: Has a loose anime adaptation by Creator/{{Madhouse}} called ''Ultraviolet: Code 044''.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Garth, after he saves V's life, has a tiny moment of this, after V asks why he brought her back at all.
-->'''Garth:''' Isn't it... isn't it obvious?
* AteHisGun[=/=]DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: It's implied that V would have done this when she's in her HeroicBSOD post-Six's "death" and after seeing her ex-husband with his new family]].
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Daxus. It helps that [[spoiler: he is a hemophage himself.]]
* BadassAndChildDuo: Violet and Six.
* BareYourMidriff: Violet's entire wardrobe is an example of this. In fact, the real star of the movie is probably Creator/MillaJovovich's abs.
* BigBad: Vice Cardinal Ferdinand Daxus, the ruthless leader of the Arch-Ministry government.
* BorrowedBiometricBypass: The Arch-Ministry has a system to scan someone entering a secure facility to make sure they aren't vampires. It involves two thick needles ''stabbing the subject in the wrists''. Getting around it by temporarily altering one's blood seems fairly simple.
* BloodlessCarnage: The movie isn't bloodless but the fight scenes are inexplicably clean, even when our heroine is pressing that nice sharp blade to mooks in spotless white clothing. What little blood does result is usually obscured by motion blur.
* BottomlessMagazines: People do run out of ammo. Occasionally. Semi-justified with the whole idea of "flat-space technology". Violet, for example, only needs to bend her wrists to have her flat-space wristband feed bullets right into her guns, which makes one wonder why not build a literal bottomless magazine to begin with.
* BringMyRedJacket: Invoked. When Violet receives a nasty gash on her hand, her color-changing clothes immediately change to red.
* BulletholeDoor: A variation. Violet shoots at the hinge on the passenger side of her car. The door manages to stick until she slams the car passenger-side into a subway entrance, sending the door flying off.
* CarFu: Violet uses a sedan to crush a large group of mooks against a wall.
* CensorShadow / SexySilhouette: Used when Violet walks nude through the scanning chamber, with shadows covering most of her body while the dim ultraviolet lights showing only her shapely silhouette.
* ChekhovsGun: Daxus's flamethrower pistol, which actually fires ''twice''. The first time is in squirting flammable gel, which provides Violet with her FlamingSword. The second is when she then uses the flamethrower itself during the ensuing battle.
* CombatPragmatist: Daxus openly admits that he couldn't beat Violet in a straight fight, so he tries to use a flamethrower. [[spoiler:When that fails, he kills the light in the dome so his own hemophage night vision will give him an edge.]]
* ConservationOfNinjitsu: When Violet is confronted by a mob of fellow superhuman hemophage bad-asses, she cuts every single one of their heads off with a [[SingleStrokeBattle single swing]].
* CoolShades: Part of Violet's outfit.
* CoolSword: Violet's sword, as seen on the movie poster above.
* CosmicDeadline: Which seems to set about ''twenty minutes in''.
* DeadlyDodging: Violet kills most of a group of gunmen mooks this way. It helps that they were stupid enough to stand in a ''circle'' around her with guns pointed inwards...
* DeathByCameo: Director Kurt Wimmer cameos as a RedShirt hemophage.
* DecontaminationChamber: Violet has to walk through an ultraviolet scanning chamber as part of a security screening.
* {{Dystopia}}: ''Ultraviolet'' is set in a world run by a KnightTemplar health organization trying to eradicate a disease which gives anyone infected superpowers. But they seem to have given up on finding a cure and instead just kill the infected.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: The head of research is seen doing this to Violet as she exits the DecontaminationChamber naked and starts getting dressed.
* EliteMooks: The guys with katanas... maybe. You'd have to be either crazy-good or just plain crazy to be armed with a sword when everyone else has access to guns.
* ExtendedDisarming: The computer attempts to tally all the weapons in Violet's HyperspaceArsenal. It finally gives up and just says "many" in a very surprised-sounding voice.
* EyeScream: When two needles are injected into both of Violet's eyes.
* FacelessGoons: The Ministry's {{Mooks}}.
* {{Fanservice}}: Violet walking naked through the ultraviolet scanner.
* FictionalDocument: The opening credits show that the movie is supposed to be based on a series of comic books or manga.
* FlamingSword: In Violet and Daxus' FinalBattle, they both wield one.
* GasMaskMooks: One of the flavors of FacelessGoons. Considering how paranoid everyone is about disease in this era, it's probably semi-justified.
* GirlInABox: A male example, with Six being in the suitcase Violet steals (The suitcase being BiggerOnTheInside thanks to space-warping technology).
* GirlsWithGuns: Violet counts with her twin uzis and constant use of GunKata and SheFu.
* GovernmentConspiracy: Daxus isn't looking to wipe out the hemophages; he's pretty much already done that. He's [[spoiler: created an illness that targets humans that will require all infected people to line up every day for a cure, thus allowing him to rule them.]]
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: The Blood Chinois speak (very formal) Vietnamese. Violet speaks it badly.
* GravityScrew: Violet wears a gravity leveller on her belt that allows her to use this trope to great effect. Her motorcycle has such a device as well, allowing her to flee from her foes along the sides of skyscrapers.
* GunKata: And lots of it.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:How Daxus goes out, while on fire no less.]]
* {{Hammerspace}}: Used liberally. The hemophage strike team in the opening has shoulder-mounted ones that holds swords, Violet has her wrist-mounted HyperspaceArsenal, Garth has an entire MadScientistLaboratory in a semi, Six is initially held in a suitcase, and Daxus produces both a flamethrower and sword from nowhere.
* HealItWithFire: In the FinalBattle, Violet's hands are cut up pretty badly, so she fires her [=SMGs=] so she can use the muzzle heat to cauterize the wounds.
* HeroicBSOD: Violet suffers this after [[spoiler: she believes that Six has died]].
* HeroTrackingFailure: The movie has several such scenes, but none is more blatant than when Violet is on a gravity-defying motorcycle and running from two helicopter gunships armed with miniguns. Thousands of bullets are spewed in her direction, and they seemingly manage to hit everywhere - including ahead! - except from where she currently is.
* HollywoodDarkness: Averted. When the hemophages shoot out the lights, it actually gets too dark to see what happens. Given the amount of bodies on the ground when the lights come back on, we can guess, though.
* HowManyAllOfThem
* HyperspaceArsenal: Violet caries a ridiculously large number of guns and her sword in a pocket dimension. This leads to a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} when the computer in the Arch-Ministry building scans her for hidden weapons.
* ImpersonationGambit: Violet impersonates a courier in order to get inside the Arch-Ministry's headquarters and steal the supposed weapon that will wipe out the hemophages. She almost succeeds, until the end when the courier she supposed impersonating arrives, making her having to get out of there guns blazing.
* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Violet routinely takes out hordes of submachine-gun-toting mooks with her sword.
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Violet's wardrobe. It even changes colors to fit the current scene.
* InvincibleHero: Violet isn't really challenged by any of the enemies she meets. As a hemophage, she's far more powerful than mere humans. Even when confronted by a dozen hemophages, she [[spoiler:kills them all in a single blow.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Violet. She's extremely mean to Six, but [[DefrostingIceQueen warms up to him]] near the end.
* KaleidoscopeHair: Violet hair changes color, much like her clothes.
* KillTheLights: The final villain plunges the room into total darkness, explaining that he can see in the dark. Violet counters by [[FlamingSword lighting her sword on fire]].
* KnightTemplar: Daxus.
* MadScientistLaboratory: Garth's semi trailer is a modern version of one, anyway.
* MaleGaze: There are many shots of Violet's rear and abs.
* MamaBear: Violet.
* TheManBehindTheCurtain: Subverted. Daxus is a great deal more dangerous than he looks. Unlike [=DuPont=] from ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'', it's made clear halfway through the film instead of [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]].
* MonkeyMoralityPose: Three vampiric goons receive wounds causing them to adopt this pose before they collapse.
* MookChivalry: Forming circles around Violet, attacking one-by-one, charging forward with guns at ready - it has it all.
* MoreDakka: Violet uses her extradimensional space/folding technology to almost achieve enuff dakka.
* MsFanservice: Violet played by Creator/MillaJovovich constantly wears ultra-tight clothing that hugs her figure and also wears low-slung pants shows a great deal of BareYourMidriff.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Daxus gets his coffee fix, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome even in the midst of battling hemophages.]]
* NeverTrustATrailer: Due to coming out during a spate of vampire action films there was no mention of the characters' "condition".
* NoPaperFuture: Violet has a bracelet that's actually a bendy credit card... which she uses to buy disposable cell phones, printed on paper.
* NonActionGuy: Garth.
* NotEvenHuman: [[spoiler:Daxus is revealed to be a hemophage, despite being the leader of the Arch-Ministry.]]
* NotUsingTheZWord: The movie only mentions the word "vampire" thrice, first in the exposition dump when Violet notes that it's a slur used for hemophages, and a second time (in Vietnamese) when Violet is confronted by the Blood Chinois. The third is towards the end, when Daxus points out she is one and so her helping a human child makes little sense.
* {{Novelization}}: A book version of the film was written by Yvonne Navarro, which is based and expands upon the original, uncut screenplay.
* ObliviousToLove: Violet seems completely unaware that Garth has feelings for her.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The hemophages are infected with a disease that's been around since ancient times, creating the myth of vampires. This virus, however, has been modified in an attempt to create {{Super Soldier}}s.
* PatientZero: [[spoiler:Daxus is the first hemophage.]]
* PhlebotinumRebel: All of the hemophages, but especially Violet. Six can be seen this way as well.
* PietaPlagiarism: At the end.
* PoisonAndCureGambit: Daxus EvilPlan is to unleash a plague targeting humans, to which he has the cure. This is because hemophages are nearly extinct, and he needs a new plague to justify the Arch-Ministry's continued existence.
* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler: Violet crying over Six's body brings him back to life... because her tears infected him with hemophagia.]]
* ProHumanTranshuman: Subverted by Violet when tried to be reasoned that she was human once, she dismisses it, saying that humans were who made her that way and then wanted her dead, so she owes them no loyalty.
* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: A computer scans Violet and tries to count how many weapons she has in her HyperspaceArsenal. It eventually gives up and says "Many" in a surprised tone of voice.
* RuleOfCool: The movie practically ''runs'' on it.
** Violet and Daxus both wield swords that look ''awesome'', but would be highly impractical in a real sword-fight. Violet's katana has a [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/File:Ultraviolet-Katana_02a.jpg square-edged "chisel" shape]], that would not only greatly reduce its ability to both cut and pierce, but also make it much more susceptible to breaking. Daxus' sword has [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/File:Ultraviolet-Katana_01a.jpg jagged teeth like a saw blade]], which would render it very unwieldy and actually hinder its ability to make clean cuts.
* SceneryPorn: Between the sleek utopian sci-fi architecture (some of which isn't CGI fabrication, but shot in real buildings), and the insanely vibrant color palette, every single frame is like wallpaper.
* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: Violet pointing her sword to the viewer in the poster.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Violet isn't too bothered to take off all her clothes to go through the ultraviolet scan room. In the {{Novelization}} she notes the entire world lost it's modesty due to constant medical checks the government forces on the populace. She still notes with some irritation, that all the [[CovertPervert doctors]] ''are'' [[EatingTheEyeCandy checking]] [[MsFanservice her]] out as she strips.
* SheFu: Need you ask?
* ShortRangeLongRangeWeapon: The {{Mooks}} are so very guilty of this. When entering the stronghold at the end of the film, Violet kills dozens of mooks with assault rifles in the reception area. The next area is a room filled with soldiers with swords. She kills them too. Then a room of guys with more [=ARs=], which have her in a perfect crossfire. They even have ''cover''. Violet kills them too. Walks across a bridge, then reaches the final room before her objective, which is shaped like a tube. One entrance, one exit. The soldiers near the entrance are the ones armed with swords, while the ones in the rear have the rifles. You'd think they'd have the sword guys in the back where they wouldn't block their allies' fire, or even ''pick her off with sniper fire'' while she was crossing the ''long, exposed bridge''.
* SlouchOfVillainy: Nerva is seen doing this.
* ShouldersUpNudity: Violet when she goes through the U.V. DecontaminationChamber.
* SmugSnake: Nerva and Daxus.
* SoundOnlyDeath: One scene starts with a closed door when you hear gunshots, sword sounds, screams, mayhem... and then Violet comes through the door alone.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Intended to be this to ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''. Both are directed by Kurt Wimmer, and this movie has several scenes that pay homage to ''Equilibrium''. Both movies also co-star Creator/WilliamFichtner.
* StepIntoTheBlindingFight: During the FinalBattle Daxus plunges the room into total darkness, explaining that he can see in the dark. Violet counters this by lighting her [[FlamingSword sword on fire]].
* StormingTheCastle: Violet does this near the end, in order to rescue Six.
* StoryboardBody: Violet has tattoos in Thai Hindi on the fingers of one hand, listing romantic life stages. The pinky is "Comrade", the ring finger "Lover", the middle finger reads "Wife". She became a hemophage before the next finger could be tattooed with "Mother".
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: When trying to infiltrate the Arch-Ministry Violet is strapped to a chair and has several pointy objects and needles prod her to verify she's human.
* StrawHypocrite: Daxus. Turns out that [[spoiler: not only is he a hemophage like those he hunts down, he was the very first one and let the virus loose in the first place.]]
* SwissArmyTears: Violet's tears [[spoiler: infect Six with hemophagia, which saves his life.]]
* SwordSparks: Used to light the FlamingSword.
* SyntheticPlague: [[spoiler: The hemophage virus was engineered by Daxus who goes on to take over the world using the infected as a bogeyman.]]
* TheOnlyOneITrust: Garth is this for Violet.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Daxus ordering his entire army of mooks to open fire on Violet.... [[{{Hologram}} or so he thinks]].
* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Violet's bare backside is seen when she has to go through the ultraviolet scanner while naked, although CensorShadow obscures most of her.
* ThrowAwayGuns: Violet has hundreds of weapons stored in high-tech HammerSpace, so she just drops empties.
* TranshumanTreachery: The hemophages. To be fair, the humans locked them in concentration camps, experimented on them, and have almost wiped them out.
* UnorthodoxReload: Violet reloads her guns via tiny portals to her HyperspaceArsenal above her wrists.
* VampireRefugee: Violet, for the last part of the movie.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Violet vomits after her first fight sequence, a consequence of the drugs she was using to disguise her vampire traits.
* WithholdingTheCure: [[YouCanPanicNow Demonizing]] hemophages as monsters instead of treating them as victims of disease enabled the "Medical Establishment" to take control of the government and become [=ArchMinistry=]. Unfortunately, they did too good a job of hunting them and, by the time of the movie, needed a new threat to "protect" the world from -- a "human antigen", cultivated inside of a LivingMacGuffin. Once it's released, people will have to line up at [=ArchMinistry=] to get the cure or die.
* YouAreAlreadyCheckedIn: After Violet pretends to be a courier in order to sneak into the Arch-Ministry building, the real courier shows up and her ID is rejected, thus alerting the guards.
* YouAreNumberSix: Literally true for the boy whom Violet abducts from the Arch-Ministry. When she asks the boy what his name is, he responds by holding up six fingers. Later on, Daxus reveals to Violet why Six is known as such: [[spoiler:Six is his clone; specifically, number six in a series of eight.]]
* YouCanPanicNow: A ''big'' part of the setting is that the government and the media have made politicized the hemophage issue to increase their power, to the point of treating them as terrorists/monsters rather than sick people. [[spoiler:Daxus even has a cure, but is [[WithholdingTheCure withholding it]] to support the power of Archministry.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: And red, and purple, and white, and...
* ZombieInfectee: Propaganda has led many to confuse "vampire" with "zombie" - in the first scene, a cop cuts his finger on a hemophage fang and is cold-bloodedly executed by his partner the instant it's noticed.
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Not to be confused with ''Series/{{Ultraviolet}}'' the British television series, which was also a modern take on vampires, but which could otherwise not be more different in story, style and tone.

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Not to be confused with ''Series/{{Ultraviolet}}'' ''Series/Ultraviolet1998'' the British television series, which was also a modern take on vampires, but which could otherwise not be more different in story, style and tone.
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* SameStoryDifferentNames: The basic structure of the story is rehashed from Wimmer's previous film, ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'', with the colors ramped UpToEleven.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Intended to be this to ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''. Both are directed by Kurt Wimmer, and this movie has several scenes that pay homage to ''Equilibrium''.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: Intended to be this to ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''. Both are directed by Kurt Wimmer, and this movie has several scenes that pay homage to ''Equilibrium''. Both movies also co-star Creator/WilliamFichtner.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Intended to be this to ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' with several scenes in ''Ultraviolet'' paying homage to ''Equilibrium''.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: Intended to be this to ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' with ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''. Both are directed by Kurt Wimmer, and this movie has several scenes in ''Ultraviolet'' paying that pay homage to ''Equilibrium''.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''.Intended to be this to ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' with several scenes in ''Ultraviolet'' paying homage to ''Equilibrium''.
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Also noteworthy for Violet having arguably the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOHXFmKxzq4 single highest body count of any character in film history.]]
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He didn't die. She even spies on him and his new wife later in the film.


* DeathByOriginStory: Violet's husband who died before the story started.
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* {{Dystopia}}: ''Ultraviolet'' is set in a world run by a KnightTemplar health organization trying to eradicate a disease which gives anyone infected superpowers. But they seem to have given up on finding a cure and instead just kills the infected.

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* {{Dystopia}}: ''Ultraviolet'' is set in a world run by a KnightTemplar health organization trying to eradicate a disease which gives anyone infected superpowers. But they seem to have given up on finding a cure and instead just kills kill the infected.



* WithholdingTheCure: [[YouCanPanicNow Demonizing]] hemophages as monsters instead of treating them as victims of disease enabled the "Medical Establishment" to take control of the goverment and become [=ArchMinistry=]. Unfortunately, they did too good a job of hunting them and, by the time of the movie, needed a new threat to "protect" the world from -- a "human antigen", cultivated inside of a LivingMacGuffin. Once it's released, people will have to line up at [=ArchMinistry=] to get the cure or die.

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* WithholdingTheCure: [[YouCanPanicNow Demonizing]] hemophages as monsters instead of treating them as victims of disease enabled the "Medical Establishment" to take control of the goverment government and become [=ArchMinistry=]. Unfortunately, they did too good a job of hunting them and, by the time of the movie, needed a new threat to "protect" the world from -- a "human antigen", cultivated inside of a LivingMacGuffin. Once it's released, people will have to line up at [=ArchMinistry=] to get the cure or die.
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* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Violet isn't too bothered to take off all her clothes to go through the ultraviolet scan room. In the {{Novelization}} she notes the entire world lost it's modesty due to constant medical checks the government forces on the populace. She still notes with some irritation, that all the [[CovertPervert doctors]] ''are'' [[EatingTheEyeCandu checking]] [[MsFanservice her]] out as she strips.

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* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Violet isn't too bothered to take off all her clothes to go through the ultraviolet scan room. In the {{Novelization}} she notes the entire world lost it's modesty due to constant medical checks the government forces on the populace. She still notes with some irritation, that all the [[CovertPervert doctors]] ''are'' [[EatingTheEyeCandu [[EatingTheEyeCandy checking]] [[MsFanservice her]] out as she strips.
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''Ultraviolet'' is a 2006 ScienceFiction / Action film starring Creator/MillaJovovich as the eponymous Violet, fighting in a guerrilla war against the oppressive Arch-Ministry government in a dystopian future.

Violet is a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent hemophage]], a person infected with a virus that produces symptoms similar to traditional vampirism. The infection confers superhuman senses, strength and agility, but is ultimately fatal. Violet became infected while pregnant, and lost her unborn child as a result of experiments performed on her in a concentration camp for hemophages. She is in the terminal stages of the disease, and her latest mission is also expected to be her last.

Violet infiltrates an Arch-Ministry stronghold disguised as a courier, and escapes with what is supposed to be an ultimate weapon, something which will kill the few remaining hemophages with a single blow. But the "weapon" turns out to be a child named Six, prompting Violet to defy both her own kind, who want him dead, and the Ministry, who want him back.

''Ultraviolet'' was deliberately created to stylistically resemble a comic book, with brilliantly colored outfits and hair, and an airbrushed appearance to close-ups. As with many comic books, the action scenes are deliberately over the top. It was not well-received, with a Website/RottenTomatoes rating of 9%, but some find it SoBadItsGood or a GuiltyPleasure.

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''Ultraviolet'' is a 2006 ScienceFiction / Action film starring Creator/MillaJovovich as the eponymous Violet, fighting in a guerrilla war against the oppressive Arch-Ministry government in a dystopian [[{{Dystopia}} dystopian]] future.

Violet is a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent hemophage]], a person infected with a virus TheVirus that produces symptoms similar to traditional vampirism. The infection confers [[SuperSenses superhuman senses, strength senses]], [[SuperStrength strength]] and agility, [[SuperSpeed agility]], but is [[CursedWithAwesome ultimately fatal.fatal]]. Violet became infected while pregnant, and lost her unborn child as a result of experiments performed on her in a concentration camp for hemophages. She is in the terminal stages of the disease, and her latest mission is also expected to be [[OneLastJob her last.

last.]]

Violet infiltrates an Arch-Ministry stronghold disguised as a courier, and escapes with what is supposed to be an ultimate weapon, something which will kill the few remaining hemophages with a single blow. But the "weapon" turns out to be a child named Six, prompting Violet [[MamaBear Violet]] to defy both her own kind, who want him dead, and the Ministry, who want him back.

''Ultraviolet'' was deliberately created to stylistically resemble a comic book, Main/ComicBook, with brilliantly colored outfits and hair, and an airbrushed appearance to close-ups. As with many comic books, the action scenes are deliberately over the top. It was not well-received, with a Website/RottenTomatoes rating of 9%, but some find it SoBadItsGood or a GuiltyPleasure.



In 2008, the studio Creator/{{Madhouse}} produced a TwelveEpisodeAnime series loosely based on the film titled ''Ultraviolet: Code 044''.

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In 2008, the studio Creator/{{Madhouse}} produced a TwelveEpisodeAnime series [[AnimatedAdaptation series]] loosely based on the film titled ''Ultraviolet: Code 044''.



* AdaptationalWimp: Daxus isn't a [[spoiler:hemophage]] in the {{Novelization}}.
* AnimatedAdaptation: Has a loose anime adaptation by Creator/{{Madhouse}} called ''Ultraviolet: Code 044''.



* BareYourMidriff: Violet's entire wardrobe is an example of this.
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* BadassAndChildDuo: Violet and Six.
* BareYourMidriff: Violet's entire wardrobe is an example of this.
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this. In fact, the real star of the movie is probably Milla Jovovich's abs.Creator/MillaJovovich's abs.
* BigBad: Vice Cardinal Ferdinand Daxus, the ruthless leader of the Arch-Ministry government.
* BorrowedBiometricBypass: The Arch-Ministry has a system to scan someone entering a secure facility to make sure they aren't vampires. It involves two thick needles ''stabbing the subject in the wrists''. Getting around it by temporarily altering one's blood seems fairly simple.



* BringMyRedJacket: Invoked. When Violet receives a nasty gash on her hand, her color-changing clothes immediately change to red.



* CensorShadow / SexySilhouette: Used when Violet walks nude through the scanning chamber, with shadows covering most of her body while the dim ultraviolet lights showing only her shapely silhouette.



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* ConservationOfNinjitsu: And how!When Violet is confronted by a mob of fellow superhuman hemophage bad-asses, she cuts every single one of their heads off with a [[SingleStrokeBattle single swing]].
* CoolShades: Part of Violet's outfit.



* DeathByCameo: Director Kurt Wimmer.

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* DeathByCameo: Director Kurt Wimmer.Wimmer cameos as a RedShirt hemophage.
* DeathByOriginStory: Violet's husband who died before the story started.
* DecontaminationChamber: Violet has to walk through an ultraviolet scanning chamber as part of a security screening.
* {{Dystopia}}: ''Ultraviolet'' is set in a world run by a KnightTemplar health organization trying to eradicate a disease which gives anyone infected superpowers. But they seem to have given up on finding a cure and instead just kills the infected.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: The head of research is seen doing this to Violet as she exits the DecontaminationChamber naked and starts getting dressed.



* {{Fanservice}}: Violet walking naked through the ultraviolet scanner.



* GirlInABox: A male example, with Six being in the suitcase Violet steals (The suitcase being BiggerOnTheInside thanks to space-warping technology).
* GirlsWithGuns: Violet counts with her twin uzis and constant use of GunKata and SheFu.



* HealItWithFire: In the final battle, Violet's hands are cut up pretty badly, so she fires her [=SMGs=] so she can use the muzzle heat to cauterize the wounds.

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* HealItWithFire: In the final battle, FinalBattle, Violet's hands are cut up pretty badly, so she fires her [=SMGs=] so she can use the muzzle heat to cauterize the wounds.



* HeroTrackingFailure: The movie has several such scenes, but none is more blatant than when Violet is on a gravity-defying motorcycle and running from two helicopter gunships armed with miniguns. Thousands of bullets are spewed in her direction, and they seemingly manage to hit everywhere - including ahead! - except from where she currently is.



* ImpersonationGambit: Violet impersonates a courier in order to get inside the Arch-Ministry's headquarters and steal the supposed weapon that will wipe out the hemophages. She almost succeeds, until the end when the courier she supposed impersonating arrives, making her having to get out of there guns blazing.



* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Violet's wardrobe even changes color.

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* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Violet's wardrobe wardrobe. It even changes color.colors to fit the current scene.



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Violet. She's extremely mean to Six, but warms up to him near the end.
* KaleidoscopeHair: Violet, again.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Violet. She's extremely mean to Six, but [[DefrostingIceQueen warms up to him him]] near the end.
* KaleidoscopeHair: Violet, again.Violet hair changes color, much like her clothes.



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* MsFanservice: Violet

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* MonkeyMoralityPose: Three vampiric goons receive wounds causing them to adopt this pose before they collapse.
* MookChivalry: Forming circles around Violet, attacking one-by-one, charging forward with guns at ready - it has it all.
* MoreDakka: Violet uses her extradimensional space/folding technology to almost achieve enuff dakka.
* MsFanservice: Violet played by Creator/MillaJovovich constantly wears ultra-tight clothing that hugs her figure and also wears low-slung pants shows a great deal of BareYourMidriff.



* NotEvenHuman: [[spoiler:Daxus is revealed to be a hemophage, despite being the leader of the Arch-Ministry.]]



* PatientZero: [[spoiler:Daxus is the first hemophage.]]



* PoisonAndCureGambit: Daxus plans to unleash a plague targeting humans, to which he has the cure. This is because hemophages are nearly extinct, and he needs a new plague to justify the Arch-Ministry's continued existence.

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* PoisonAndCureGambit: Daxus plans EvilPlan is to unleash a plague targeting humans, to which he has the cure. This is because hemophages are nearly extinct, and he needs a new plague to justify the Arch-Ministry's continued existence.



* ProHumanTranshuman: Subverted.
* RuleOfCool: The movie practically runs on it.

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* ProHumanTranshuman: Subverted.
Subverted by Violet when tried to be reasoned that she was human once, she dismisses it, saying that humans were who made her that way and then wanted her dead, so she owes them no loyalty.
* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: A computer scans Violet and tries to count how many weapons she has in her HyperspaceArsenal. It eventually gives up and says "Many" in a surprised tone of voice.
* RuleOfCool: The movie practically runs ''runs'' on it.



* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: Violet pointing her sword to the viewer in the poster.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Violet isn't too bothered to take off all her clothes to go through the ultraviolet scan room. In the {{Novelization}} she notes the entire world lost it's modesty due to constant medical checks the government forces on the populace. She still notes with some irritation, that all the [[CovertPervert doctors]] ''are'' [[EatingTheEyeCandu checking]] [[MsFanservice her]] out as she strips.



* ShortRangeLongRangeWeapon: The mooks are so very guilty of this.
* SlouchOfVillainy: Nerva does this.
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this. When entering the stronghold at the end of the film, Violet kills dozens of mooks with assault rifles in the reception area. The next area is a room filled with soldiers with swords. She kills them too. Then a room of guys with more [=ARs=], which have her in a perfect crossfire. They even have ''cover''. Violet kills them too. Walks across a bridge, then reaches the final room before her objective, which is shaped like a tube. One entrance, one exit. The soldiers near the entrance are the ones armed with swords, while the ones in the rear have the rifles. You'd think they'd have the sword guys in the back where they wouldn't block their allies' fire, or even ''pick her off with sniper fire'' while she was crossing the ''long, exposed bridge''.
* SlouchOfVillainy: Nerva does is seen doing this.
* ShouldersUpNudity: Violet when she goes through the U.V. DecontaminationChamber.
* SmugSnake: DaxusNerva and Daxus.
* SoundOnlyDeath: One scene starts with a closed door when you hear gunshots, sword sounds, screams, mayhem... and then Violet comes through the door alone.



* StepIntoTheBlindingFight: During the FinalBattle Daxus plunges the room into total darkness, explaining that he can see in the dark. Violet counters this by lighting her [[FlamingSword sword on fire]].
* StormingTheCastle: Violet does this near the end, in order to rescue Six.
* StoryboardBody: Violet has tattoos in Thai Hindi on the fingers of one hand, listing romantic life stages. The pinky is "Comrade", the ring finger "Lover", the middle finger reads "Wife". She became a hemophage before the next finger could be tattooed with "Mother".
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: When trying to infiltrate the Arch-Ministry Violet is strapped to a chair and has several pointy objects and needles prod her to verify she's human.



* SyntheticPlague: [[spoiler: The hemophage virus was engineered by Daxus who goes on to take over the world using the infected as a bogeyman.]]
* TheOnlyOneITrust: Garth is this for Violet.



* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Violet's bare backside is seen when she has to go through the ultraviolet scanner while naked, although CensorShadow obscures most of her.
* ThrowAwayGuns: Violet has hundreds of weapons stored in high-tech HammerSpace, so she just drops empties.



* YouAreAlreadyCheckedIn
* YouAreNumberSix: Literally true for the boy whom Violet abducts from the Arch-Ministry.

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* YouAreAlreadyCheckedIn
WithholdingTheCure: [[YouCanPanicNow Demonizing]] hemophages as monsters instead of treating them as victims of disease enabled the "Medical Establishment" to take control of the goverment and become [=ArchMinistry=]. Unfortunately, they did too good a job of hunting them and, by the time of the movie, needed a new threat to "protect" the world from -- a "human antigen", cultivated inside of a LivingMacGuffin. Once it's released, people will have to line up at [=ArchMinistry=] to get the cure or die.
* YouAreAlreadyCheckedIn: After Violet pretends to be a courier in order to sneak into the Arch-Ministry building, the real courier shows up and her ID is rejected, thus alerting the guards.
* YouAreNumberSix: Literally true for the boy whom Violet abducts from the Arch-Ministry. When she asks the boy what his name is, he responds by holding up six fingers. Later on, Daxus reveals to Violet why Six is known as such: [[spoiler:Six is his clone; specifically, number six in a series of eight.]]
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* ShoutOut: One near-archetypical shot in particular may be a reference to ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'', to ''Film/TheMatrix'', or to both.
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''Ultraviolet'' was deliberately created to stylistically resemble a comic book, with brilliantly colored outfits and hair, and an airbrushed appearance to close-ups. As with many comic books, the action scenes are deliberately over the top. It was not well-received, with a RottenTomatoes rating of 9%, but some find it SoBadItsGood or a GuiltyPleasure.

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''Ultraviolet'' was deliberately created to stylistically resemble a comic book, with brilliantly colored outfits and hair, and an airbrushed appearance to close-ups. As with many comic books, the action scenes are deliberately over the top. It was not well-received, with a RottenTomatoes Website/RottenTomatoes rating of 9%, but some find it SoBadItsGood or a GuiltyPleasure.
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* {{Fingore}}: Violet loses a couple fingers during the library fight.
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* {{EyeScare}}: When two needles are injected into both of Violet's eyes.

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* {{EyeScare}}: EyeScream: When two needles are injected into both of Violet's eyes.
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* EyeScare: When two needles are injected into both of Violet's eyes.

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* EyeScare: {{EyeScare}}: When two needles are injected into both of Violet's eyes.
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* EyeScare: When two needles are injected into both of Violet's eyes.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''.
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** Violet and Daxus both wield swords that look ''awesome'', but would be highly impractical in a real sword-fight. Violet's katana has a [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/File:Ultraviolet-Katana_02a.jpg square-edged "chisel" shape]], that would not only greatly reduce its ability to both cut and pierce, but also make it much more susceptible to breaking. Daxus' sword has [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/File:Ultraviolet-Katana_01a.jpg jagged teeth like a saw blade]], which would render it very unwieldy and actually hinder its ability to make clean cuts.
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* PoisonAndCureGambit: Daxus plans to unleash a plague targeting humans, to which he has the cure. This is because hemophages are nearly extinct, and he needs a new plague to justify the Arch-Ministry's continued existence.

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