History YMMV / Scanners

* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Vale appears to have some sort of autistic or antisocial personality disorder that may in part be affected by his psychic abilities preventing him for developing a personality of his own. This is apparently unusual even among scanners, with Obrist describing him as "barely human".

* MagnificentBastard: [[VisionaryVillain Darryl Revok]] is a powerful and dangerous [[{{Telepathy}} scanner]] who seeks revenge on the society that created him, in particular [[spoiler:[[ArchnemesisDad his creator and father]]]], [[MadScientist Dr. Paul Ruth]]. Revok infiltrates a meeting at the weapons company [=ConSec=] to embarrass them publicly and eliminate the only other scanner still working for them, using his psychic powers to wipe out the security detail detaining him and escape. Together with his ally Braedon Keller, Revok usurps control over the [=ConSec=] subsidiary Biocarbon Amalgamate to have them produce Ephemerol in huge quantities. Revok plans to create a whole new generation of scanners by prescribing the mutative drug to pregnant women and recruit them as his foot soldiers. Meanwhile, Revok actively seeks out [[spoiler:his long-lost brother,]] Cameron Vale, so [[WeCanRuleTogether they can rule their new scanner empire together]].

* MagnificentBastard: Darryl Revok is a powerful and dangerous [[{{Telepathy}} scanner]] who seeks revenge on the society that created him, in particular [[spoiler:[[ArchNemesisDad his creator and father]],]] [[MadScientist Dr. Paul Ruth]]. Revok infiltrates a meeting at the weapons company Consec to embarrass them publicly and eliminate the only other scanner still working for them, using his psychic powers to wipe out the security detail detaining him and escape. Together with his ally Braedon Keller, Revok usurps control over the Consec subsidiary Biocarbon Amalgamate to have them produce Ephemerol in huge quantities. Revok plans to create a whole new generation of scanners by prescribing the mutative drug to pregnant women and recruit them as his foot soldiers. Meanwhile, Revok actively seeks out [[spoiler:his long-lost brother,]] Cameron Vale, so [[WeCanRuleTogether they can rule their new scanner empire together]].

* MagnificentBastard: Darry Revok is a powerful and dangerous [[{{Telepathy}} scanner]] who seeks revenge on the society that created him, in particular [[spoiler:[[ArchNemesisDad his creator and father]],]] [[MadScientist Dr. Paul Ruth]]. Revok infiltrates a meeting at the weapons company Consec to embarrass them publicly and eliminate the only other scanner still working for them, using his psychic powers to wipe out the security detail detaining him and escape. Together with his ally Braedon Keller, Revok usurps control over the Consec subsidiary Biocarbon Amalgamate to have them produce Ephemerol in huge quantities. Revok plans to create a whole new generation of scanners by prescribing the mutative drug to pregnant women and recruit them as his foot soldiers. Meanwhile, Revok actively seeks out [[spoiler:his long-lost brother,]] Cameron Vale, so [[WeCanRuleTogether they can rule their new scanner empire together]].

* EvilIsCool: Darryl Revok is a powerful psychic with a dream and plan to build an empire. He's also not hesitant to get into the fray, performing a daring infiltration of [=ConSec=] in order to embarass them and assassinate the only scanner they have.

* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: Most people nowadays have heard of this movie because it's "that movie with the exploding head", and if they're watching it, it's so they can see the part with the [[YourHeadASplode exploding head]]. Or to see the film's possible influence on the characterization of Magneto.

* SignatureScene: [[https://youtu.be/1qCszP4HI7U?t=166 Guess.]]

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Courtesy of frequent Cronenberg collaborator Music/HowardShore. For a sample, here's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAo-urYQoB0 main theme]].

* MagnificentBastard: Darry Revok is a powerful and dangerous [[{{Telepathy}} scanner]] who seeks revenge on the society that created him, in particular [[spoiler:[[ArchNemesisDad his creator and father]],]] [[MadScientist Dr. Paul Ruth]]. Revok infiltrates a meeting at the weapons company Consec to embarrass them publicly and eliminate the only other scanner still working for them, using his psychic powers to wipe out the security detail detaining him and escape. Together with his ally Braedon Keller, Revok usurps control over the Consec subsidiary Biocarbon Amalgamate to have them produce Ephemerol in huge quantities. Revok plans to create a whole new generation of scanners by prescribing the mutative drug to pregnant women and recruit them as his foot soldiers. Meanwhile, Revok actively seeks out his long-lost brother, Cameron Vale, so [[WeCanRuleTogether they can rule their new scanner empire together]].

* MagnificentBastard: Darry Revok is a powerful and dangerous [[{{Telepathy}} scanner]] who seeks revenge on the society that created him, in particular [[ArchNemesisDad his creator and father]], [[MadScientist Dr. Paul Ruth]]. Revok infiltrates a meeting at the weapons company Consec to embarrass them publicly and eliminate the only other scanner still working for them, using his psychic powers to wipe out the security detail detaining him and escape. Together with his ally Braedon Keller, Revok usurps control over the Consec subsidiary Biocarbon Amalgamate to have them produce Ephemerol in huge quantities. Revok plans to create a whole new generation of scanners by prescribing the mutative drug to pregnant women and recruit them as his foot soldiers. Meanwhile, Revok actively seeks out his long-lost brother, Cameron Vale, so [[WeCanRuleTogether they can rule their new scanner empire together]].

* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: Most people nowadays have heard of this movie because it's "that movie with the exploding head", and if they're watching it, it's so they can see the part with the [[YourHeadASplode exploding head]].
** Or to see the film's possible influence on the characterization of Magneto.

* SignatureScene: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnp1jfLhtck Guess.]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler:Dr. Paul Ruth. While the revelations near the end indicate he's clearly a MadScientist and AbusiveParent who was willing to [[GuineaPigFamily experiment on his own family]], it's not really clear what became of his wife. Maybe she died in childbirth or maybe they just divorced, but it's not inconceivable that either of his psychic sons might have something to do with her absence. This would lend a lot more weight to Ruth's apparent resentment of Revok and Vale.]]

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments:
** Revok's moment is [[YourHeadASplode obvious]]. Vale's is probably the final twist in the film.
** Blowing up an entire computer room with nothing but his mind probably counts as well. It's a pity the gas station and phone booth had to get caught in the crossfire.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome:

* SignatureScene: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY-03vYYAjA Guess.]]

* PlayingGertrude: Patrick [=McGoohan=]'s character, Dr. Ruth was said to have founded a biochemical company in 1942. That would make him somewhat older than [=McGoohan=] who was only about 13 or 14 at the time. This is somehwat tempered, though, by [=McGoohan=] looking and sounding [[YoungerThanTheyLook older than he was]] at this point in his career (possibly attributed to his reputed alchoholism, he did not age well after his mid-late forties).

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler:Dr. Paul Ruth. While he's clearly a MadScientist and AbusiveParent who was willing to [[GuineaPigFamily experiment on his own family]], it's not really clear what became of his wife. Maybe she died in childbirth or maybe they just divorced, but it's not inconceivable that either of his psychic sons might have something to do with her absence. This would lend a lot more weight to Ruth's apparent resentment of Revok and Vale.]]

* EvilIsCool: Revok, that MagnificentBastard

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* MemeticMutation: The infamous YourHeadASplode scene is used as a reaction image, especially on Website/{{Cracked}} and the late Blog/ToplessRobot.

* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: Most people nowadays have heard of this movie because it's "that movie with the exploding head", and if they're watching it, it's so they can [[WatchItForTheMeme see the part with the exploding head]].

* MemeticMutation: The infamous YourHeadASplode scene is used as a reaction image, especially on Website/{{Cracked}} and Blog/ToplessRobot.