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''12 Monkeys'' is a television series adaption of the 1995 film [[Film/TwelveMonkeys of the same name]]. It was produced by Creator/{{Syfy}} and premiered in January 2015. The story, which loosely follows the plot of the film, has been updated to the present day.
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''12 Monkeys'' is a television series adaption of the 1995 film [[Film/TwelveMonkeys of the same name]].name]] ''and'' [[Film/LaJetee the French short movie it was based on]]. It was produced by Creator/{{Syfy}} and premiered in January 2015. The story, which loosely follows the plot of the film, has been updated to the present day.
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In March 2015, the show was renewed for a second season, and in June 2016 it was renewed for a third. A fourth and final season was announced in March 2017; the series finale aired on July 6, 2018.
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* ActionGirl: Max in Season 1 and Cassandra from Season 2 onward. The Daughters, [[spoiler: including Hannah]], also qualify.
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* ActionGirl: Max in Season 1 and Cassandra from Season 2 onward. The Daughters, [[spoiler: including Hannah]], Hannah]] and the rest of the Daughters also qualify.
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In March 2015, the show was renewed for a second season, and in June 2016 it was renewed for a third. A fourth and final season was announced in March 2017.
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In March 2015, the show was renewed for a second season, and in June 2016 it was renewed for a third. A fourth and final season was announced in March 2017.2017; the series finale aired on July 6, 2018.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Max in Season 1 and Cassandra in Season 2.
* ActionGirl: Max in Season 1 and Cassandra in Season 2.
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!!This film series provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Max in Season 1 and Cassandrain from Season 2. 2 onward. The Daughters, [[spoiler: including Hannah]], also qualify.
* ActionGirl: Max in Season 1 and Cassandra
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* MassTeleportation: Titan is eventually revealed to be an example of this: [[spoiler: a huge industrial facility that can instantaneously travel through time and space.]]
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** In "Guardians", we learn that [[spoiler: Jennifer hilariously attempted this during the five years she was TrappedInThePast in post-WW1 France. She became a singer and actress, and wrote plays and songs about the adventures of Team Splinter, hoping to attract the team's attention in the future so that they'd pick her up!]]
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** In "Guardians", we learn that [[spoiler: Jennifer hilariously attempted this during the five years she was TrappedInThePast in post-WW1 post-[=WW1=] France. She became a singer and actress, and wrote plays and songs about the adventures of Team Splinter, hoping to attract the team's attention in the future so that they'd pick her up!]]
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** Whenever a time-traveler does something which alters his/her personal timeline, they suffer from [[PsychicNosebleed nose bleeds]] and they get flashes of new memories.
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* TomatoInTheMirror: In Season 4, the team recieves a message in the form of a story of a demon (The Witness) that drove a Serpent (Time) mad, casuing it to eat its own tail ({{Stable Time Loop}}s). In the episode "One Minute More" [[spoiler: Cole discovers that he is 'the Demon' - the source of all the causality loops that have twisted time into knots, causing The Witness, the plague, and the entire events of the series.]]
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* TomatoInTheMirror: In Season 4, the team recieves a message in the form of a the story of a demon (The Witness) Demon that drove a Serpent (Time) mad, casuing causing it to eat its own tail ({{Stable Time Loop}}s). In the episode "One Minute More" [[spoiler: Cole discovers that he is 'the Demon' - the source of all the causality loops that have twisted time into knots, causing The Witness, the plague, and the entire events of the series.]]
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* AutobotsRockOut: Played for laughs in the series finale. As Cole and [[spoiler: Ramse]] are preparing to storm Titan by car for the FinalBattle, they decide they need some music playing to set the mood, and end up settling on, of all things, "(I've Had) The Time of My Life". Which leads to a hilarious scene of Olivia psyching up some {{Mooks}}, only to trail off in confusion as the music reaches them, right before the car comes roaring out of a tunnel, triggering a gunfight.
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** The Season 3 finale reveals that [[spoiler: Mallick]] has been carrying out orders for the true BigBad ([[spoiler:Olivia]]), essentially taking the actions necessary to create the Witness.
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** The Season 3 finale reveals that [[spoiler: Mallick]] has been carrying out orders for the true BigBad ([[spoiler:Olivia]]), essentially taking the actions necessary to create the Witness. Then in Season 4 he [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlives his usefulness]] and is then replaced with the nameless Advisor.
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* TomatoInTheMirror: In the Season 4, the team recieves a message in the form of a story of a demon (The Witness) that drove a Serpent (Time) mad, casuing it to eat its own tail (StableTimeLoops). In episode "One Minute More" [[spoiler: Cole discovers that he is 'the Demon' - the source of all the causality loops that have twisted time into knots, causing The Witness, the plague, and the entire events of the series.]]
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* TomatoInTheMirror: In the Season 4, the team recieves a message in the form of a story of a demon (The Witness) that drove a Serpent (Time) mad, casuing it to eat its own tail (StableTimeLoops). ({{Stable Time Loop}}s). In the episode "One Minute More" [[spoiler: Cole discovers that he is 'the Demon' - the source of all the causality loops that have twisted time into knots, causing The Witness, the plague, and the entire events of the series.]]
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* TomatoInTheMirror: In the Season 4 episode "One Minute More" [[spoiler: Cole discovers that he is 'the Djinn' - the source of all the causality loops that have twisted time into knots.]]
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* TomatoInTheMirror: In the Season 4 4, the team recieves a message in the form of a story of a demon (The Witness) that drove a Serpent (Time) mad, casuing it to eat its own tail (StableTimeLoops). In episode "One Minute More" [[spoiler: Cole discovers that he is 'the Djinn' Demon' - the source of all the causality loops that have twisted time into knots.knots, causing The Witness, the plague, and the entire events of the series.]]
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** In "The Beginning" [[spoiler: after the timeline is completely reset with no plague, Army of the 12 Monkeys and time-travel, its revealed that Cassie, Jennifer and Jones still retain their memories of the previous timeline and all the series' events.]]
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** In "The Beginning" [[spoiler: after the timeline is completely reset with no plague, Army of the 12 Monkeys and time-travel, its revealed that Cassie, Jennifer and Jones still retain their memories of the previous timeline and all the series' events. WordOfGod says that all the other major characters remember the previous timeline as well.]]
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* Cassie's ex-boyfriend Aaron Marker is named after Chris Marker, the creator of the short film ''La Jetee'', that inspired the original '12 Monkeys' film.
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* ResetButtonSuicideMission: This is essentially what Cole and everyone else from Project Splinter have been on throughout the series. If their time-travel missions succeed in preventing the plague and erasing the Army of the 12 Monkeys from history, then the current versions of them will all simply [[RetGone cease to exist]].
**Ultimately [[spoiler: in Cole's case, this becomes a ''literal'' suicide mission, given that resetting the timeline means erasing him from existence completely and permanently]].
**Ultimately [[spoiler: in Cole's case, this becomes a ''literal'' suicide mission, given that resetting the timeline means erasing him from existence completely and permanently]].
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--> '''Cole''': ''I should be used to this by now but, how do you know me?''
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--> '''Cole''': ''I I should be used to this by now but, how do you know me?''me?
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** {{Lampshaded}} by Cole in "45 RPM" [[spoiler: when he meets Interpol officer Bonham who seems to know him. Of course, in this case, neither Cole nor Bonham have met before from either of their perspectives, with Bonham only knowing of Cole through legends. Cole does go onto meet Bonham's medieval-era ancestors in a later episode though.]]
--> '''Cole''': ''I should be used to this by now but, how do you know me?''
--> '''Cole''': ''I should be used to this by now but, how do you know me?''
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** [[spoiler: A non-human example with the virus. The virus was genetically engineered by Markridge scientists from centuries old skeletal-remains discovered in the Himalayas, referred to as the 'Precursor'. The series finale "The Beginning" reveals that the remains were of Olivia, after the upper half of her body was splintered to the past, killing her. Olivia's blood contained a dormant strain of the virus to give her immunity. Thus, the virus was its own origin point.]]
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: James Cole. The movie famously ends with Cole being shot dead at an airport, an event witnessed by his younger self. In the show however, Cole not only avoids getting shot and killed at the airport (in the episode "One Minute More"), but ultimately, he survives to the end of the story altogether and gets a HappyEnding.]]
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** In "The Beginning" [[spoiler: Cole ends the series trapped in the 2010's of the AlternateTimeline. However, given that Cole literally isn't supposed to ''exist'' in this timeline and as such has no 'native' time period, its certainly not a normal example of this trope.]]
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* WhereItAllBegan: [[spoiler: Overlaps with WhenItAllBegan thanks to time-travel. In the fourth and final season, the Project Splinter facility is transported from 2046 to 2043, the year in which they were based in Season 1. In fact, in the episode "Ouroboros", the Season 4 versions of Cole, Cassie and Jones visit the earlier version of the Splinter facility just before the very first splinter, that led into the events of the pilot.]]
** In the series finale [[spoiler: after the timeline is reset, there is a return to one of the earliest scenes of the pilot, with Cassie getting into her car after giving a speech in 2013 - except that in this AlternateTimeline, there is no Cole to abduct her.]]
** In the series finale [[spoiler: after the timeline is reset, there is a return to one of the earliest scenes of the pilot, with Cassie getting into her car after giving a speech in 2013 - except that in this AlternateTimeline, there is no Cole to abduct her.]]
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* MyOwnGrampa: [[spoiler: Olivia is revealed to be this in the Season 2 episode "Fatherland". She was genetically engineered using the DNA of Mantis, one of the Messengers who was sent back in time by the Army of the 12 Monkeys. Years later, Olivia would use her DNA to genetically engineer the Messengers, one of whom was her future mother, Mantis. Needless to say, this trope logically applies to Mantis as well.]]
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** The ultimate StableTimeLoop of the series is the simple fact that [[spoiler: time-travel created the problem that it was created to solve. Jones sums it up aptly in the series finale, describing the situation as "a disease caused by the cure".]]
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* ParadoxPerson: [[spoiler: James Cole himself is ultimately revealed to be one in "One Minute More". This is largely due to the fact that Cole's very existence is dependent on time-travel, as his mother was a time-traveler from the future. As a result, Cole is considered to be the 'Djinn' - the central point from which all the causality loops originated]]
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* ParadoxPerson: [[spoiler: James Cole himself is ultimately revealed to be one in "One Minute More". This is largely due to the fact that Cole's very existence is dependent on time-travel, as his mother was a time-traveler from the future. As a result, Cole is considered to be the 'Djinn' - the central point from which all the causality loops originated]]originated.]]
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* ResetButtonEnding: [[spoiler: The series finale has Cole using the Primary's code in the machine to erase himself completely from the timeline - thus unraveling all the causality loops and creating a new AlternateTimeline with no time-travel, no plague, and no Army of the 12 Monkeys.]]
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*** The truth about the 'Precursor' corpse is finally revealed [[spoiler: in the series finale "The Beginning". During the final battle at Titan, Olivia is killed when a splinter ray accidentally splinters the upper half of her body to the year 894 in the Himalayas. The upper half of her corpse becomes the Precursor that Leland Goines acquires and Markridge's scientists use to develop the virus. It had been previously revealed that Olivia's body contained a dormant strain of the virus - thus making the virus its own origin.]]
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** In "Daughters" [[spoiler: Deacon sensed a shift in the timeline while on Titan.]] In "Demons" [[spoiler: this leads him to give Jennifer his knife during their mission in 1491, shortly before his HeroicSacrifice.]] Finally, in the series finale "The Beginning" [[spoiler: it is revealed that the older 2043!Jennifer used the knife to get Deacon's younger self to trust her, and was thus able to enlist the help of West 7 to take control of Titan. Deacon was retroactively aware of these events all along, and played along to maintain the timeline - culminating in his giving the younger Jennifer his knife to complete the cycle.]]
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** Ultimately, [[spoiler: the series finale reveals that you ''can'' fight fate - it just takes a CosmicRetcon. Specifically, in this case, Cole's entire existence had to be wiped from the timeline using the Primary's weapon in order to unravel all the loops and eliminate time-travel (and its consequences - including the entire 12 Monkeys conspiracy and the plague).]]
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** In the series finale, "The Beginning" [[spoiler: after Cole erases himself from the timeline and all the loops are unraveled, a new timeline is created where there is no plague, no Army of the 12 Monkeys, and no time-travel. Cassie leads a normal life as a doctor, Jennifer becomes Markridge's CEO, Deacon opens a bar, Katarina and Elliot live happily with Hannah, and Sam is still born to Ramse (and presumably Elena as well).]]
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** In "The Beginning" [[spoiler: despite the timeline being completely reset and the plague and the post-apocalyptic world that followed being wiped from history, Ramse's son Sam is still born - implying that despite their wildly different circumstances, Ramse and Elena still got together.]]
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** Another major loop revealed in "One Minute More" - [[spoiler: Cole and Cassie travel back to April 2018 to prevent the release of the virus. They steal the sole surviving sample of the virus from the Markridge lab, only to be told by Hannah that preventing the plague won't erase the Witness and the Army of the 12 Monkeys from existence, as they are now immune to causality on Titan. Realizing that they need the plague to happen to prevent their own timelines from unraveling, Cole and Cassie release the virus at the JFK airport, realizing that they were the ones who did it all along. However it is likely that this only applies to the current cycle - as in the original timeline, it was Jennifer who released the plague in 2016, as per the Season 2 episode "Primary".]]
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* TomatoInTheMirror: In the Season 4 episode "One Minute More" [[spoiler: Cole discovers that he is 'the Djinn' - the source of all the causality loops that have twisted time into knots.]]
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** In "Guardians", we learn that [[spoiler: Jennifer hilariously attempted this during the five years she was TrappedInThePast in post-WW1 France. She became a singer and actress, and wrote plays and songs about the adventures of Team Splinter, hoping to attract the team's attention in the future so that they'd pick her up!]]
** An interesting example occurs in "Ouroborous". [[spoiler: Cassie is wandering the Splinter facility in 2043, the night before Cole's very first splinter. She watches the earlier Cole watching an interview of her from 2018 (which from her perspective, occurs in the future). During the interview, 2018!Cassie looks straight the direction of 2043!Cassie, as though addressing her younger self, and gives her a message about a loop being a 'second chance'. This gets Bonus Points for being an example of WriteToTheFuture where a future version of a character is actually communicating with her ''past'' self!]]
** In "One Minute More" [[spoiler: Hannah writes a letter to Cole in 2018 which she leaves behind in her room at the Emerson Hotel, and which Cole finds in 2043 - in which she reveals that she is his mother.]]
** An interesting example occurs in "Ouroborous". [[spoiler: Cassie is wandering the Splinter facility in 2043, the night before Cole's very first splinter. She watches the earlier Cole watching an interview of her from 2018 (which from her perspective, occurs in the future). During the interview, 2018!Cassie looks straight the direction of 2043!Cassie, as though addressing her younger self, and gives her a message about a loop being a 'second chance'. This gets Bonus Points for being an example of WriteToTheFuture where a future version of a character is actually communicating with her ''past'' self!]]
** In "One Minute More" [[spoiler: Hannah writes a letter to Cole in 2018 which she leaves behind in her room at the Emerson Hotel, and which Cole finds in 2043 - in which she reveals that she is his mother.]]
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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In "One Minute More" [[spoiler: it is revealed that Hannah is Cole's mother, making Jones his grandmother. In the movie, there was absolutely no familial relationship between Jones and Cole.]]
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* TheConstant: The Emerson Hotel. [[spoiler: Cole purchases Room 607 in the hotel in perpetuity on a trip to 1944 (having discovered that [[StableTimeLoop he'd already done so in 2016]].]] Since then, its been used by Cole and the other time-travelers from Project Splinter as their base during missions in the past. In Season 4 we learn that [[spoiler: the structure is still standing in the post-apocalyptic world of the 2040's - and the entire Splinter facility is splintered to the basement of the hotel after the Army of the 12 Monkeys attacks and destroys Raritarn Labs.]]
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* YouWillBeBeethoven: In the Season 3 finale "Witness" [[spoiler: Olivia, after decades off warring against the Witness, believing him to be Athan Cole, discovers that ''she'' in fact is the one destined to become the Witness - a mantle she assumes by the end of the episode.]]
** In "One Minute More" [[spoiler: Hannah is sent back to 2009 to learn more about Cole's mother Marion Woods, and her knowledge of the weapon built by Primaries in medieval times. She encounters Marion, who turns out to be Olivia's daughter Emma living under an alias. However, when Emma is killed after an attack by the Army of the 12 Monkeys, Hannah assumes the identity of Marion Woods and ends up becoming Cole's mother.]]
** In "One Minute More" [[spoiler: Hannah is sent back to 2009 to learn more about Cole's mother Marion Woods, and her knowledge of the weapon built by Primaries in medieval times. She encounters Marion, who turns out to be Olivia's daughter Emma living under an alias. However, when Emma is killed after an attack by the Army of the 12 Monkeys, Hannah assumes the identity of Marion Woods and ends up becoming Cole's mother.]]
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** "Memory of Tomorrow" has [[spoiler: Jennifer Goines trapped in 1917, during UsefulNotes/WW1...for now]].
* TrickedOutTime: Cole and Cassie do this in "Lullaby". [[spoiler: After realizing that it is impossible to either kill Jones in 2020, or alter her timeline in any way by saving her daughter Hannah's life, they save Hannah's life but fake her death, handing her over to Jennifer and the Daughters. As a result, Hannah lives, but since Jones believes her daughter is dead for the next 24 years, her timeline is preserved.]]
*** However, the Season 4 episode "One Minute More" [[spoiler: reveals that Hannah is Cole's mother, which means that her survival in "Lullaby" was always part of a StableTimeLoop.]]
* TrickedOutTime: Cole and Cassie do this in "Lullaby". [[spoiler: After realizing that it is impossible to either kill Jones in 2020, or alter her timeline in any way by saving her daughter Hannah's life, they save Hannah's life but fake her death, handing her over to Jennifer and the Daughters. As a result, Hannah lives, but since Jones believes her daughter is dead for the next 24 years, her timeline is preserved.]]
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UsefulNotes/WW1.]] In Season 3, [[spoiler: we learn that she spent five years living in France as a singer and actress, until Cole and Jones rescue her in 1922]].
** In "Daughters" [[spoiler: Hannah ends up trapped in 2009 after the tether injection she was carrying is damaged. She spends the next nine years in the past, until she meets Cole and Cassie in 2018 in "One Minute More"]]
* TrickedOutTime: Cole and Cassie do this in "Lullaby". [[spoiler: After realizing that it is impossible to either kill Jones in 2020, or alter her timeline in any way by saving her daughter Hannah's life, they save Hannah's life but fake her death, handing her over to Jennifer and the Daughters. As a result, Hannah lives, but since Jones believes her daughter is dead for the next 24 years, her timeline is preserved.]]
***]] However, the Season 4 episode "One Minute More" [[spoiler: reveals that Hannah is Cole's mother, which means that her survival in "Lullaby" was always part of a StableTimeLoop.]]
** In "Daughters" [[spoiler: Hannah ends up trapped in 2009 after the tether injection she was carrying is damaged. She spends the next nine years in the past, until she meets Cole and Cassie in 2018 in "One Minute More"]]
* TrickedOutTime: Cole and Cassie do this in "Lullaby". [[spoiler: After realizing that it is impossible to either kill Jones in 2020, or alter her timeline in any way by saving her daughter Hannah's life, they save Hannah's life but fake her death, handing her over to Jennifer and the Daughters. As a result, Hannah lives, but since Jones believes her daughter is dead for the next 24 years, her timeline is preserved.
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