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** Bliss from ''{{Literature/Mouse}}'' owns a copy of ''Ender's Game''.

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** Bliss from ''{{Literature/Mouse}}'' ''Literature/Mouse2017'' owns a copy of ''Ender's Game''.
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* FakeAmerican: Asa Butterfield as Ender.

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* FakeAmerican: The British Asa Butterfield as Ender.
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** Bliss from ''{{Literature/Mouse}}'' owns a copy of ''Ender's Game''.
** The third DTV ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' movie is called "[[Recap/FuturamaM3BendersGame Bender's Game]]", replacing Ender's name for a character in the work whose name rhymes with theirs, although the plots are very unlike each other.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: The film was budgeted at $110 million not counting publicity, and it only made back $125 million worldwide. This is mainly due to an extremely poor marketing campaign that, in assuming that all audiences were familiar with the novel, not only made the story rather unclear, but suffered from [[UncertainAudience uncertainty about its target audience]], and the tight competition it faced from ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. The backlash the film received from the LGBT community due to Card's less-than-favorable views on homosexuality and gay marriage did not help Lionsgate one bit, despite the fact that [[http://www.thewrap.com/orson-scott-card-boycott-enders-game-box-office-book-instead Card actually makes NO money from the film's ticket sales]], and director Gavin Hood and co-star Creator/HarrisonFord stating repeatedly that they support gay rights.

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* BoxOfficeBomb: The film was budgeted at $110 million not counting publicity, and it only made back $125 million worldwide. This is mainly due to an extremely poor marketing campaign that, in assuming that all audiences were familiar with the novel, not only made the story rather unclear, but suffered from [[UncertainAudience uncertainty about its target audience]], and the tight competition it faced from ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. The backlash the film received from the LGBT community due to Card's less-than-favorable views on homosexuality and gay marriage did not help Lionsgate one bit, despite the fact that [[http://www.thewrap.com/orson-scott-card-boycott-enders-game-box-office-book-instead Card actually makes NO money from the film's ticket sales]], and director Gavin Hood Creator/GavinHood and co-star Creator/HarrisonFord stating repeatedly that they support gay rights.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: the songs Bonzo makes the cadets sing during the run to the battle room are a tame example of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_cadence military cadence]], fitting for school age children but not out of place in modern [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks US basic training]].

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* AluminumChristmasTrees: the The songs Bonzo makes the cadets sing during the run to the battle room are a tame example of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_cadence military cadence]], fitting for school age children but not out of place in modern [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks US basic training]].

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* AllStarCast: Creator/HarrisonFord, Creator/BenKingsley, Creator/AbigailBreslin, and more. In fact, the marketing campaign made a point of including "Academy Award Nominee" and "Academy Award Winner" in front of every name that qualified to show just how many heavy hitters were in the cast. Even Harrison Ford's nomination for ''Film/{{Witness}}'' was included even though he normally doesn't have any awards or nominations mentioned above his credit.

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* AllStarCast: Creator/HarrisonFord, Creator/BenKingsley, Creator/AbigailBreslin, Creator/AbigailBreslin and more. In fact, the marketing campaign made a point of including "Academy Award Nominee" and "Academy Award Winner" in front of every name that qualified to show just how many heavy hitters were in the cast. Even Harrison Ford's nomination for ''Film/{{Witness}}'' was included even though he normally doesn't have any awards or nominations mentioned above his credit.
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* PlayingWithCharacterType: Harrison Ford is known for playing heroic characters, among them [[Film/StarWars Han Solo]], a JerkWithAHeartOfGold that was likable. Ford's portrayal of Graff is just the opposite - a cold, calculating figure that isn't concerned for the safety of his cadets so much as he's concerned with overwhelming an alien race.

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* PlayingWithCharacterType: Harrison Ford is known for playing heroic characters, among them [[Film/StarWars [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]], a JerkWithAHeartOfGold that was likable. Ford's portrayal of Graff is just the opposite - a cold, calculating figure that isn't concerned for the safety of his cadets so much as he's concerned with overwhelming an alien race.
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* StillbornFranchise: Plans were made for a sequel, but the underwhelming box office performance has left that in doubt. That being said, the plans were to follow with the ''Literature/FleetSchool'' series instead of the actual follow-ups (which are completely different in tone from ''Ender's Game'', slower-paced, more philosophical, and eventually reaching ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]]'' levels of oddity; in Card's own admission, ''Literature/SpeakerOfTheDead'' is unfilmable for being "talking heads, interrupted by moments of excruciating and unwatchable violence").

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* StillbornFranchise: Plans were made for a sequel, but the underwhelming box office performance has left that in doubt. That being said, the plans were to follow with the ''Literature/FleetSchool'' series instead of the actual follow-ups (which are completely different in tone from ''Ender's Game'', slower-paced, more philosophical, and eventually reaching ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]]'' levels of oddity; in Card's own admission, ''Literature/SpeakerOfTheDead'' ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead'' is unfilmable for being "talking heads, interrupted by moments of excruciating and unwatchable violence").
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* StillbornFranchise: Plans were made for a sequel, but the underwhelming box office performance has left that in doubt. It doesn't help that the sequels are completely different in tone from ''Ender's Game'', being slower-paced, more philosophical, and eventually reaching ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]]'' levels of oddity.

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* StillbornFranchise: Plans were made for a sequel, but the underwhelming box office performance has left that in doubt. It doesn't help that That being said, the sequels plans were to follow with the ''Literature/FleetSchool'' series instead of the actual follow-ups (which are completely different in tone from ''Ender's Game'', being slower-paced, more philosophical, and eventually reaching ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]]'' levels of oddity.oddity; in Card's own admission, ''Literature/SpeakerOfTheDead'' is unfilmable for being "talking heads, interrupted by moments of excruciating and unwatchable violence").

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* AluminumChristmasTrees: the songs Bonzo makes the cadets sing during the run to the battle room are a tame example of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_cadence military cadence]], fitting for school age children but not out of place in modern [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks US basic training]].



* AluminumChristmasTrees: the songs Bonzo makes the cadets sing during the run to the battle room are a tame example of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_cadence military cadence]], fitting for school age children but not out of place in modern [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks US basic training]].
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: the songs Bonzo makes the cadets sing during the run to the battle room are a tame example of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_cadence military cadence]], fitting for school age children but not out of place in modern [[YanksWithTanks US basic training]].

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* AluminumChristmasTrees: the songs Bonzo makes the cadets sing during the run to the battle room are a tame example of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_cadence military cadence]], fitting for school age children but not out of place in modern [[YanksWithTanks [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks US basic training]].
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** At one point during the film's production, effects studio Creator/DigitalDomain (''Film/{{Transformers}}'', ''Film/RealSteel'') were co-producers.

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** At one point during the film's production, effects studio Creator/DigitalDomain (''Film/{{Transformers}}'', ''Film/RealSteel'') were co-producers. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that they ''did'' wind up co-producing the film anyway.
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* TheWikiRule: [[http://enderverse.wikia.com/wiki/Ender%27s_Game_Wiki The Ender's Game Wiki]].
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: the songs Bonzo makes the cadets sing during the run to the battle room are a tame example of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_cadence military cadence]], fitting for school age children but not out of place in modern [[YanksWithTanks US basic training]].
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* The command school sequences show the characters using [https://www2.razerzone.com/au-en/gaming-keyboards-keypads/razer-nostromo Nostromo keypads] as they give commands to the fleet.

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* OffTheShelfFX: The command school sequences show the characters using [https://www2.[[https://www2.razerzone.com/au-en/gaming-keyboards-keypads/razer-nostromo Nostromo keypads] keypads]] as they give commands to the fleet.
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* The command school sequences show the characters using [https://www2.razerzone.com/au-en/gaming-keyboards-keypads/razer-nostromo Nostromo keypads] as they give commands to the fleet.
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* AllStarCast: Creator/HarrisonFord, Creator/BenKingsley, Creator/AbigailBreslin, and more.

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* AllStarCast: Creator/HarrisonFord, Creator/BenKingsley, Creator/AbigailBreslin, and more. In fact, the marketing campaign made a point of including "Academy Award Nominee" and "Academy Award Winner" in front of every name that qualified to show just how many heavy hitters were in the cast. Even Harrison Ford's nomination for ''Film/{{Witness}}'' was included even though he normally doesn't have any awards or nominations mentioned above his credit.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: The film was budgeted at $110 million not counting publicity, and it only made back $125 million worldwide. This is mainly due to an extremely poor marketing campaign that, in assuming that all audiences were familiar with the novel, not only made the story rather unclear, but suffered from [[UncertainAudience uncertainty about its target audience]], and the tight competition it faced from ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. The backlash the film received from the LGBT community due to Card's less-than-favorable views on homosexuality and gay marriage did not help Lionsgate one bit, despite director Gavin Hood and co-star Creator/HarrisonFord stating repeatedly that they support gay rights.

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* BoxOfficeBomb: The film was budgeted at $110 million not counting publicity, and it only made back $125 million worldwide. This is mainly due to an extremely poor marketing campaign that, in assuming that all audiences were familiar with the novel, not only made the story rather unclear, but suffered from [[UncertainAudience uncertainty about its target audience]], and the tight competition it faced from ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. The backlash the film received from the LGBT community due to Card's less-than-favorable views on homosexuality and gay marriage did not help Lionsgate one bit, despite the fact that [[http://www.thewrap.com/orson-scott-card-boycott-enders-game-box-office-book-instead Card actually makes NO money from the film's ticket sales]], and director Gavin Hood and co-star Creator/HarrisonFord stating repeatedly that they support gay rights.
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* HeyItsThatGuy:
** You'll recognize Asa Butterfield from ''Film/{{Hugo}}'' or ''Series/{{Merlin 2008}}''. Harrison Ford is one of his generation's most prolific, beloved icons, playing [[StarWars Han Solo]] and IndianaJones.
** [[spoiler:Mazer Rackham]] is played by Film/{{Gandhi}} / [[Film/IronMan3 The Mandarin]].
** [[Film/TrueGrit Mattie Ross]] is a long way from the wild west.
** [[Film/LittleMissSunshine Olive]] moved on after the Little Miss Sunshine Pageant.
** [[Series/GameOfThrones Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] plays Sergeant Drill instructor Dap.
* HeyItsThatVoice: In the Japanese dub:
** [[Creator/RyotaOhsaka Ender is]] [[Manga/AttackOnTitan Marco Bodt]] and [[Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator Haruto Tokishima]].
** Hyrum Craft is [[Manga/BlackLagoon Dutch]] and [[Anime/CowboyBebop Vincent Volanju]].
** [[Creator/{{Mugihito}} Mazer Rackham is]] [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Keel Lorentz]].
** [[Creator/RyokoShiraishi Valentine Wiggin is]] [[Manga/HayateTheCombatButler Hayate Ayasaki]], [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Asuka Kazama]] and [[VideoGame/SenranKagura Hikage]].
** [[Creator/AtsukoTanaka Theresa Wiggin is]] [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell Motoko Kusanagi]], [[Anime/QueensBlade Claudette]] and [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Konan]].
** [[Creator/SatomiSato Petra Arkanian is]] [[Manga/{{KON}} Ritsu Tainaka]], [[Manga/FairyTail Wendy Marvell]] and [[Anime/QueensBlade Laila]].
** [[Creator/MiyukiSawashiro Bean is]] [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Carl Clover]], [[Manga/RozenMaiden Shinku]] and [[Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead Saeko Busujima]].
** [[Creator/KoukiUchiyama Bonzo is]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Banarghe Links]], [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts Roxas]] and [[InfiniteStratos Ichika Orimura]].
** [[Creator/HoukoKuwashima Alai is]] [[Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico Yurika Misumaru]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Fllay Allster, Natarle Badgiruel]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Stella Loussier]].
** Dink is [[Anime/{{Doraemon}} Gian's new voice]]
** [[Creator/KenjiNomura Sgt. Dap is]] [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Iron Tager]] and [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Yammy]].
** [[Creator/RyuzaburoOtomo Admiral Chamrajnagar is]] [[Manga/DragonBall Dabura]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamAGE Lord Ezelcant]]
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** TheFlamingLips wrote a EP that they suggested as a concept soundtrack for the producers. Only one of the songs made it onto the film (over the end credits).

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** TheFlamingLips Music/FlamingLips wrote a EP that they suggested as a concept soundtrack for the producers. Only one of the songs made it onto the film (over the end credits).
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** You'll recognize Asa Butterfield from ''{{Hugo}}'' or ''{{Merlin}}''. Harrison Ford is one of his generation's most prolific, beloved icons, playing [[StarWars Han Solo]] and IndianaJones.

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** You'll recognize Asa Butterfield from ''{{Hugo}}'' ''Film/{{Hugo}}'' or ''{{Merlin}}''.''Series/{{Merlin 2008}}''. Harrison Ford is one of his generation's most prolific, beloved icons, playing [[StarWars Han Solo]] and IndianaJones.
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** Wolfgang Peterson (''Film/DasBoot'', ''Film/InTheLineOfFire'', ''Film/AirForceOne'' and ''ThePerfectStorm'') was initially going to direct this film

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** Wolfgang Peterson (''Film/DasBoot'', ''Film/InTheLineOfFire'', ''Film/AirForceOne'' and ''ThePerfectStorm'') ''Film/ThePerfectStorm'') was initially going to direct this film
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* BoxOfficeBomb: The film was budgeted at $110 million not counting publicity, and it only made back $112 million worldwide. This is mainly due to an extremely poor marketing campaign that, in assuming that all audiences were familiar with the novel, not only made the story rather unclear, but suffered from [[UncertainAudience uncertainty about its target audience]], and the tight competition it faced from ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. The backlash the film received from the LGBT community due to Card's less-than-favorable views on homosexuality and gay marriage did not help Lionsgate one bit, despite director Gavin Hood and co-star Creator/HarrisonFord stating repeatedly that they support gay rights.

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* BoxOfficeBomb: The film was budgeted at $110 million not counting publicity, and it only made back $112 $125 million worldwide. This is mainly due to an extremely poor marketing campaign that, in assuming that all audiences were familiar with the novel, not only made the story rather unclear, but suffered from [[UncertainAudience uncertainty about its target audience]], and the tight competition it faced from ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''. The backlash the film received from the LGBT community due to Card's less-than-favorable views on homosexuality and gay marriage did not help Lionsgate one bit, despite director Gavin Hood and co-star Creator/HarrisonFord stating repeatedly that they support gay rights.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: Notably averted in the remarkably accurate descriptions of tablet-sized computers, the Internet and the blogosphere, in a book written before the creation of the World Wide Web. Although, as [[http://xkcd.com/635 xkcd points out]], it missed the mark on the blogosphere in terms of scale if nothing else.
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* AllStarCast: Creator/HarrisonFord, Creator/BenKingsley, Creator/AbigailBreslin, and more.


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* DawsonCasting: The Battle School students are all meant to be ten years old, but they're all played by actors who are very obviously in their teens.


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* FakeAmerican: Asa Butterfield as Ender.


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* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Orson Scott Card's vocal cameo was removed from the final cut after threats to boycott the film followed anti-gay remarks he had made. Still didn't help its box office chances, though.
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** [[KoukiUchiyama Bonzo is]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Banarghe Links]], [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts Roxas]] and [[InfiniteStratos Ichika Orimura]].

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** [[KoukiUchiyama [[Creator/KoukiUchiyama Bonzo is]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Banarghe Links]], [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts Roxas]] and [[InfiniteStratos Ichika Orimura]].
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** At one point during the film's production, effects studio DigitalDomain (''Film/{{Transformers}}'', ''Film/RealSteel'') were co-producers.

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** At one point during the film's production, effects studio DigitalDomain Creator/DigitalDomain (''Film/{{Transformers}}'', ''Film/RealSteel'') were co-producers.

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