Line #40 Film/Apocalypto


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3	->''"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."''[[note]]Not so true in real life, but that's another story.[[/note]]
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5	''Apocalypto'' is a 2006 Epic Historical [[{{ActionGenre}} Action]]-{{Adventure}} film directed by Creator/MelGibson. It was entirely filmed in Yucatec Mayan language.
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7	In 1502, a village of rainforest tribesmen in [[UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} Yucatán]] is attacked by an ambush of depraved city-dwelling [[UsefulNotes/PreColumbianCivilizations Mayans]]. Many are captured for use as slaves, {{human sacrifice}}s, and target practice. One young captive, a hunter named Jaguar Paw, desperately tries to make his escape back to his pregnant wife and child, who are trapped in a well at the mercy of the elements. His pursuers will have no mercy.
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9	This has been called "TheChase movie [[SternChase to end all chase movies]]", done entirely on foot with all manner of obstacles on the way.
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11	!!This film provides examples of:
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13	* OneDimensionalThinking: Played straight, then subverted. When the Mayans make a game of releasing the slaves and having them run to freedom while trying to hit them from a distance, the first two run straight and are easily killed. The next two zig-zag to make themselves harder targets, though they still get hit eventually.
14	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: After being subjected to a gag [[ItMakesSenseInContext involving chili peppers and his genitals]], poor Blunt can't help but laugh along with the rest of the mocking throng in between his agonizing whimpers.
15	* AloofArcher: Snake Ink, the most cold and intelligent of the slavers, is an awesome archer.
16	* AlwaysABiggerFish:
17	** The powerful Mayan civilization is abusing the smaller groups of forest-dwelling natives to feed their own greed. At the end of the film, [[spoiler:the Europeans arrive, signaling the UsefulNotes/SpanishConquestOfTheMaya is near.]].
18	** When Jaguar Paw is being pursued through the jungle by the Mayan raiders and hides in the trees he discovers he is in a tree with a black jaguar cub and its ''mother''; as he is running away he is spotted by a raider who runs towards him and ends up in the path of the big cat, who proceeds to maul the raider to death, allowing Jaguar Paw to escape.
19	* AnachronismStew:
20	** The film is officially set in 1502, with its ending showing [[spoiler:the Spanish showing up ready to colonize Mexico]], despite the fact that it otherwise portrays a civilization from the classical Mayan era, 600 years earlier. By the time the [[spoiler:first contacts with the Spaniards happened, the Mayan civilization had already completely collapsed]].
21	** Not even [[spoiler:the Spaniards]] escape from this, as several of them are wearing [[spoiler:the stereotypical conquistador morion]], which in reality would not be used until half a century later.
22	* AndShowItToYou: Aside from the obvious, Zero Wolf also talks about peeling off Jaguar Paw's skin and wearing it for him to see.
23	* AnnoyingArrows: Jaguar Paw gets pierced by an arrow through the abdomen, and we see what a horrific weapon a bow is. Yet he keeps on running like nothing happened, and the wound heals over time.
24	* ArtisticLicenseArt: The Bonampak murals were digitally altered to show a warrior holding a dripping human heart, which is not present in the original.
25	* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
26	** The Maya did perform human sacrifice, only not in the scale shown in this film, which would be more fitting to the ''Aztecs''. Mayans only sacrificed important war captives, while lower tribes like Jaguar Paw's were instead enslaved for labour.
27	** Judging by the year, the location and the number of ships, [[spoiler:the Spaniards]] seen at the end of the film are implied to be [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus in his fourth and last voyage, in which he reached Yucatán in 1502.]] However, [[spoiler:the guy who seems to be in charge is played by a rather elderly-looking actor with a white beard, when Columbus would have been just 51 at the time (although he would die of illness the next year). The actor does resemble a bit the classical portrayals of Bartholomew Columbus, Christopher's brother, but those aren't accurate either, as Bartholomew was nine years younger than Christopher and also died in his early fifties.]]
28	* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: When the slave hunters and their captives enter the outskirts of the Mayan city, they're approached by an emaciated man spouting incoherent gibberish. He's said to have "laughing sickness", which probably refers to Kuru, a neurodegenerative disease spread by cannibalism. Kuru was endemic to Papua New Guinea and was never documented in the Americas.
29	* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The Mayan sun god Kukulkan is sometimes portrayed as presiding human sacrifices, but in real life, those sacrifices weren't specifically dedicated to ''him'' as in the film. Their meaning was a wider offering of blood to the gods, not just one.
30	* ArtisticLicenseSpace: A solar eclipse is significant to the action. That night, a full moon is significant to the action. It's impossible for both of those to occur within 24 hours of each other because solar eclipses and full moons occur during completely opposite phases of the moon, and it takes roughly two weeks to transition between the two.
31	* AxeCrazy: Zero Wolf, the leader of the Holcane slavers and BigBad of the film.
32	* BadBoss: Zero Wolf starts out as a competent chieftain and a AFatherToHisMen, but after his [[spoiler:son's tragic death]], he degenerates into completely AxeCrazy behavior against everyone around him. During the obsessive hunt through the jungle for Jaguar Paw, the slavers are motivated by fear of their boss more than anything else. [[spoiler: At one point, he stabs one of his minions to death just for suggesting they climb down the cliff next to a waterfall instead of jumping like Jaguar Paw did.]]
33	* BattleInTheRain: A deluge starts pouring down after [[spoiler: Jaguar Paw kills Middle Eye, ratcheting the tension way up as he must now both evade Zero Wolf's remaining men and save his family from drowning]].
34	* BeatStillMyHeart: The human sacrifices. Also Jaguar Paw's prophetic dream, which has the sacrificed ghost of the refugee he met the previous day holding up his beating heart before begging Jaguar Paw to run.
35	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jaguar Paw returns in time to save his family]], but most of the cast died by the end, and then there's the fact that [[spoiler:the [[UsefulNotes/SpanishConquestOfTheMaya Spanish Conquest]] is about to begin.]]
36	* BlowGun: Jaguar Paw improvises one with leaves. He creates the darts with thorns, poisons them with frog venom, and uses them against his pursuers.
37	* {{Bowdlerize}}: When one of the slavers is bitten by a snake, Middle Eye comments, "He's fucked." And he is. This is changed to "He's dead" in the TV version.
38	* BreakTheCutie: The village children being left behind.
39	* ButtMonkey: Poor old Blunt.
40	* CharacterFocus: From the point where Jaguar Paw escapes, most of the other characters (except Seven) drop out of the story and it focuses all on Jaguar Paw running away from Zero Wolf, leading to a lot of instances of WhatHappenedToTheMouse.
41	* TheChase
42	* ChekhovsGun: The tapir trap, [[spoiler: which Jaguar Paw lures Zero Wolf into during the climax. Zero Wolf is ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice and killed almost instantly]].
43	* ConvenientEclipse: The Mayan leaders secretly know that an eclipse will occur during their sacrifices, since this is the whole point of the show. It conveniently occurs ''just before'' our hero was to be sacrificed.
44	* ConvenientlyTimedDistraction: Jaguar Paw would have probably met a terrible end at the hands of his final remaining pursuers had all three of them not suddenly come across [[spoiler:a Spanish fleet arriving in the Americas]]. When the other two are overcome by their shock and completely forget about Jaguar Paw, he takes the opportunity to slip away.
45	* CostumePorn: The jade-covered Mayan elite, particularly the high priests and the royal family.
46	* CoversAlwaysLie: [[spoiler:Middle Eye]] is not the main character of the film, or even the main villain, he's simply the one with most distinctive sillhouette.
47	* CrapsackWorld: The film shows the Mayan civilization in a horrific state of decadence, scourged with drought, famine, and diseases. We see fields of rotting crops, slaves burning down entire forests to make lime dust, young children dying of plague, and poor people who have been starved to the point of insanity. In response to all this, the priests are demanding more {{Human Sacrifice}}s. This is essentially the meaning behind the opening quote of the movie; the Mayan civilization was killing itself long before the conquistadors came.
48	* CreepyChild: The plague-stricken little girl who cryptically foretells the events of the rest of the film in an eerie voice.
49	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Blunt, the big and gentle guy who is the village ButtMonkey at first proves to be a fearless and adept fighter during the Mayan raid, managing to kill or at least main several Maya before he's finally subdued.
50	* DamselOutOfDistress: Seven, Jaguar Paw's wife, is [[PregnantBadass Pregnant]] and trapped with her other young child in an underground cave. Whilst in said cave, she helps stitch her son's injury, bashes in the skull of a rabid primate, and still manages to climb halfway up the cave to freedom. Sadly, she falls, quickening her impending labor. When her contractions begin and the cave is filling with water, her first instinct is to hoist her son onto her shoulders. Oh, and she also [[spoiler:delivers her baby like this while being almost drowned herself]].
51	* DeathMarch: The enslaved villagers are transported through brutal conditions with no medical attention and plenty of taunting from Middle Eye. That said, Zero Wolf doesn't approve of the villagers being deliberately killed, since it means [[PragmaticVillainy they'll get less money selling the villagers as slaves or sacrifices]].
52	* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:In the form of European missionaries and an Eclipse.]]
53	** [[spoiler: Admittedly, the Eclipse is less so, since the ritual sacrifices were no doubt planned specifically because the eclipse would happen that day. The Mayans were able to predict eclipses of the sun even centuries into the future, so the priests timed the ritual at a time when the eclipse would happen, for the purpose of demonstrating their power and control over the heavens.]]
54	* DoomedHometown: The village in the forest.
55	* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Jaguar Paw's nightmare in which he sees the refugee's leader with his heart in his hand and telling him to run.
56	* DrowningPit: Jaguar Paw's pregnant wife and child get trapped in one when the rain begins falling. If alone she would have been fine (she would just float up), but her son cannot swim, and she goes into labor.
57	* DwindlingParty: The slavers.
58	* TheEvilEmpire: The Mayan city.
59	* EvilIsHammy: The high priest knows how to ''put on a show'' for the people of the city. Despite there being several hundred people crammed into the square, nobody has a problem hearing his bellowing pronouncements from the top of the pyramid.
60	* EndOfAnAge: It's in the title, the Mayan civilization is on its last legs, and [[spoiler:the Spaniards have arrived in the Americas]].
61	* EpicMovie: While it's only a little over two hours in length, it fits absolutely every other criteria for the trope. The level of time, money, and effort Mel Gibson put into making the film feel authentic would make Creator/CecilBDemille cry.
62	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Zero Wolf aiding, congratulating, and showing appreciation of his young son, then mourning him when [[spoiler:Jaguar Paw kills him in self-defense]].
63	* EvenEvilHasStandards:
64	** When the slavers reach a foaming river that there's no possible way the children would be able to cross, they just let the children walk free instead of killing them. Similarly, when an old woman is being sold as a slave but no-one is interested in buying her, the slaver just tells her to run along. Though there is also a certain cruelty in both of these examples as well; the children are being left to fend for themselves in a jungle full of untold dangers, while the old woman is being stranded in an unfamiliar city far from home with no means of supporting herself.
65	** Zero Wolf is fine with killing a lot of innocent people during the village raid, but he doesn't like it when Middle Eye decides to "let go" a dying slave. Though like the above example, this comes off as another inversion since he seems more irritated that Middle Eye killed one of ''his'' spoils of war without his permission.
66	* EverythingTryingToKillYou: During the chase through the jungle, many of the slavers fall to the nature's elements, these don't affect Jaguar Paw since ''he is a hunter'' in his element.
67	* FeelingTheBabyKick: On their LastDayOfNormalcy, Seven and Jaguar Paw relax and embrace in the evening. When he leans close and murmurs to their unborn child, Seven's belly bulges conspicuously as it kicks. Jaguar Paw smiles at the sight.
68	--> '''Jaguar Paw:''' My son is dancing.\
69	'''Seven:''' Your son is happy.
70	* {{Foreshadowing}}: When the raiding party passes through a village that has been destroyed by disease, the only surviving little girl and the corpses display symptoms [[spoiler: of Smallpox, an Old World disease.]]
71	* FreezeFrameBonus:
72	** At one point in one of the trailers, it turns into a rapid-firing seizure-inducing bombardment of striking images. But a single image depicts Mel Gibson standing around with his buddies on the set with a big smile on his face.
73	** And in the original cut, there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT3woa2INr8 a still frame]] of [[Literature/WheresWally Waldo]] lying amongst the corpses in a mass grave.
74	* {{Gorn}}: Lots of it.
75	** The human sacrifices are especially horrific, when the victims are pulled over an altar and a priest cuts their chests open. And pulls out their dripping, [[BeatStillMyHeart beating hearts]] while they are still alive and kicking. He then proceeds to decapitate them, then bounce their heads down a long flight of stairs, followed by their corpse, to the cheering of the crowds below. This is TruthInTelevision, for the most part (the body wasn't decapitated on top of the pyramid).
76	** The bit when a slaver is being mauled by a jaguar is also shown in lovely detail. At one point, you see her start to rip his face off.
77	* GreaterScopeVillain: The high priest, as well as the king and queen of the city, all seen briefly during the sacrifice scene.
78	* HelplessWithLaughter: Early on, the normally-sober Flint Sky plays a prank on Blunt Rock by giving him a herbal cure for his infertility, telling him to apply it directly to his genitals before sex. Unfortunately, the "cure" is made of chili peppers. Seeing Blunt frantically plunging himself balls-first into a trough of water leaves the entire village in hysterics; most of the hunters can't even stand upright, Flint Sky is laughing too hard to explain himself, and even Blunt can't help but giggle in between pained whimpers.
79	* HeroicSacrifice: The fatally wounded [[spoiler:Blunt]] gives Jaguar Paw a chance to escape by delaying Cut Rock.
80	* HighPressureBlood: [[spoiler:Middle Eye]]'s fatal head wound spurts quite a lot.
81	* HumanSacrifice: Lots and lots of them.
82	* HunterTrapper: Jaguar Paw, his father, most of the village men. Jaguar Paw's ostensibly a master of it though.
83	* ImprobableHairstyle: Like you wouldn't believe. That said, real-life Mayan hairstyles did get pretty elaborate, if their art is any indication. The Mayan noblewomen look especially cool, with their bodies painted green and massive headdresses made of jade snakes.
84	* IronicEcho: While defending the village, Jaguar Paw almost kills Middle Eye before being overwhelmed by Zero Wolf; Middle Eye, in mockery, nicknames him "Almost" because of this. On their battle to the death, Middle Eye barely misses hitting Jaguar Paw's head, which gives him the opening to deliver the decisive blow.
85	* ItsPersonal: Zero Wolf becomes AxCrazy hellbent on killing Jaguar Paw for killing his son Cut Rock.
86	* IWantGrandkids: Blunt's mother-in-law really, really does. Poor ButtMonkey Blunt, this is the day when the entire hunting party decides to play practical jokes on him regarding his impotence.
87	* JustBeforeTheEnd: If the title is any indication, not to mention the [[spoiler:arrival of the Europeans]].
88	* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Zero Wolf, Snake Ink, Middle Eye.]]
89	* LastDayOfNormalcy: The first part of the movie depicts the villagers in their more or less peaceful life, before the Mayans come along and trash it.
90	* LawOfInverseFertility: Blunt and his wife dearly want to have kids, but simply can't seem to have any. Though there is a subtle suggestion that the problem may be that Blunt isn't doing the right ''sort'' of sex to get his wife pregnant (the scene where the chili pepper gag's climax is revealed; Blunt needs to soak his abused genitals, but his wife is trying to desperately put out the flames ''in her mouth'').
91	* MamaBear: The attacking jaguar.
92	* ManiacMonkeys: The crazed monkey that attacks the wife and son in the cave.
93	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The creepy little girl's prophecy ''did'' come true...
94	* {{Mayincatec}}: The film depicts a Mayan culture with elements taken from the Aztecs, like religion and society. Also, the sheer scale of the human sacrifices plus the practice of raiding smaller villages and settlements in order to capture slaves and sacrifices' victims, as portrayed in the film, are more reminiscent of the Aztecs than the Maya (there's also no evidence of slave auctions for the latter). This was deliberate, as the director said that what he wanted to do was to depict the [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything decadence of a once proud civilization, brought by political corruption, environmental collapse, and that was now resorting to sacrifice its own people]] (truly, some of the probable causes for the Maya collapse in the southern lowlands, according to archaeological finds), which would not have worked had TheEvilEmpire of the film been the Aztecs, since they were on the apex of their splendor when the Spaniards arrived.
95	* MeaningfulEcho: The speech made by Flint Sky about his forefathers and his descendants hunting in the forest, repeated in defiance by Jaguar Paw later on.
96	* MeaningfulName: Jaguar Paw, the man who brings the jaguar.
97	* MindLinkMates: Jaguar Paw and Seven seem to be this. When Jaguar Paw has a minor HeroicBSOD after realizing he'll be sacrificed, Seven (who is trapped in the cave) physically shows the distress he is experiencing and reminds him to "come back" to her. When Blunt wishes Jaguar Paw to "journey well", Jaguar Paw responds with "I can't go now."
98	* MyNameIsInigoMontoya: "I am Jaguar Paw, son of Flint Sky. My father hunted this forest before me. My name is Jaguar Paw. I am a hunter! This is my forest! And my sons will hunt it with their sons after I am gone."
99	* NationalGeographicNudity: Used realistically, and not too excessively.
100	* NewMeat: Cut Rock is the nervous newbie of the slaver band. Zero Wolf is nonetheless impressed with his performance, and goes out of his way to [[SoProudOfYou express his pride in his son]], gifting him his dagger.
101	* NobleSavage: Played straight with Jaguar Paw and his village. Although they are not above pranking one of their own, their way of life is depicted as far more idyllic than the Mayans and their brutal human sacrifices.
102	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Flint Sky, despite his old age, kicks Middle Eye's ass when he's about to rape Blunt's wife. Flint Sky ends up being executed in front of his helpless son, and Middle Eye goes on to rape and murder the poor woman anyway.
103	* OhCrap:
104	** The exact look on Jaguar Paw's face, when after climbing a tree to hide from his pursuers, he [[spoiler:[[CubCuesProtectiveParent finds himself between a jaguar cub and its pissed off mother]].]]
105	** Additionally, the look on his face when he realizes that Zero Wolf and those under his command are willing to take the near-suicidal leap off a waterfall to pursue him.
106	* OracularUrchin: The plague-stricken little girl who prophesies the downfall not just of Zero Wolf's warband, but also all Mayan society.
107	* PapaWolf: Jaguar Paw and, of course, [[MeaningfulName Zero Wolf]].
108	* PinkMist: A rare non-gunshot related example. [[spoiler: This fountains out of Middle Eye's head after Jaguar Paw clubs his skull in]].
109	* PromotionToParent: The eldest of the village children left behind calls after the captured adults that they needn't worry, because she will be mother to the others.
110	* QuicksandSucks: Jaguar Paw falls into a quicksand pit, but he manages to escape, signifying his prophesied "Rebirth from Mud".
111	* RapePillageAndBurn: The fate of the village.
112	* RatedMForManly: A hyperviolent historical epic about a lone man using only his wits and determination to take vengeance on a group of brutal slavers. It's a Creator/MelGibson movie, what the hell else would you expect?
113	* ReactionShot: The audience is treated to the looks of shock on Jaguar Paw's and his pursuers' faces upon seeing [[spoiler: the Spaniards arriving on ships]] before the camera [[RevealShot reveals]] [[spoiler: the ships themselves.]]
114	* RevealShot: The WhamShot of the [[spoiler: Spaniards' ships arriving in the Americas.]]
115	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Zero Wolf probably wouldn't have pursued Jaguar Paw so ruthlessly if [[spoiler:Cut Rock]] hadn't been killed.
116	* SadlyMythtaken: Kukulkan ([[Myth/AztecMythology Quetzalcoatl for the Aztecs]]) was probably the only god in the Mesoamerican pantheon that did not demand {{human sacrifice}}s and actually spoke against them.
117	* SavagePiercings: Most of the tribesmen and women had piercings of some description. There were wooden and jade studs, as well as more complicated, ornate pieces. The Mayan king is completely covered in elaborate piercings.
118	* TheSavageSouth: This movie takes place in South America, and features some particularly brutal kills from the Mayans.
119	* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Zero Wolf and Snake Ink.
120	* ScaryStingingSwarm: Jaguar Paw wraps a beehive in a massive leaf and chucks it at his pursuers. It works pretty well.
121	* SceneryPorn mixed with SceneryGorn
122	* SergeantRock: Zero Wolf -- this deteriorates considerably as the film goes on.
123	* ShoutOut:
124	** To ''Film/{{Commando}}'', of all things.
125	** And stranger yet, ''Film/{{Midnight Cowboy}}''.
126	** And even one to Film/TheThreeStooges (as Mel Gibson's a fan).
127	* ShowDontTell: The film communicates quite a lot of information about Mayan politics, social structure, and religion purely through extremely detailed costume and set design.
128	* ShownTheirWork:
129	** Jaguars have the strongest jaws of any of the big cats, and unlike the rest, which will usually go for the jugular, the jaguar will instead crush its prey's skull between its jaws as in the film.
130	** Although the region and [[HollywoodHistory time period is wrong]], the film did accurately portray the theories based on archaeological evidence about the reasons the Classic Maya civilization collapsed, like the environmental degradation which led to famine and eventually social unrest.
131	** It also shows the aristocracy [[HanlonsRazor unconscious of its problems]] or unwilling to find solutions. The archaeologists also mentioned this political [[GenreBlindness blindness]] during the [[GoneHorriblyWrong long Mayan collapse]].
132	** Also a lot of research went into the costumes, piercings, and tattoos of the characters. For example, Seven has the Mayan numeral 7 tattooed on her arm.
133	* SternChase: The entire second half of the film.
134	* StunnedSilence: [[spoiler: The three remaining hunters, upon seeing Spanish galleons unloading soldiers and missionaries towards the shore, can only stare in confusion and awe]].
135	* StupidEvil: The slavers from the city would have been much better served if, instead of burning down Jaguar Paw's village, sacrificing the men who dare to fight back, raping and killing the women, and driving everyone else deeper into the forest to live in exile, they had left the village standing and kept returning at regular intervals to "harvest" slaves from a still-sedentary subject population, or even demanded yearly tribute. Which incidentally, was exactly what the RealLife Aztecs did.
136	* TechnologicallyAdvancedFoe:
137	** The {{Mayincatec}} civilization to Jaguar Paw's forest-dwelling people.
138	** [[spoiler:The Spaniards at the end, though we don't see enough of them for them to be portrayed in a positive or negative light]].
139	* TranslationConvention: Averted, the film is entirely spoken in a contemporary Mayan language with subtitles.
140	* UglyGuyHotWife: Downplayed; Blunt is big-boned, but not unattractive; however, his wife is clearly meant to be the most beautiful girl in the village and everyone thinks she's too good for him.
141	* VerbalBusinessCard: His name is really Jaguar Paw and he is definitely a hunter.
142	* VertigoEffect: Used near the beginning of the film during a terrifying dream sequence.
143	* VillainousDemotivator: Before Zero Wolf got into YouHaveFailedMe at the waterfall, he did warn his warriors not to cross him.
144	-->'''Zero Wolf''': Shall we now do what you want? Let us try that... [draws knife]
145	* VillainousRescue:
146	** The mother jaguar who angrily chases Jaguar Paw for (unintentionally) threatening her cub ends up attacking and ripping the face off one of his pursuers -- who was ''also'' trying to kill him.
147	** [[spoiler:The ending should also count since the Spanish unknowingly stopped Jaguar Paw's execution and will bring about the further collapse of the Mayans... before taking over themselves.]]
148	* WaifProphet: The enslaved tribe villagers and slavers come across a mysterious little girl who tells them of the fall of the Mayans.
149	* WhamShot: One for the characters as well as the audience; both Jaguar Paw and his pursuers stop everything and can do nothing but stare in astonishment at the sight of [[spoiler: the Spanish ships arriving in the shore.]]
150	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
151	** When the women of the village are being sold as slaves, the oldest one is set free because there were no buyers. We last see her looking on as the men are marched off to be sacrificed.
152	** The surviving children from the villages, who follow behind the enslaved adults on their forced march until the adults cross a foaming river that the children cannot pass.
153	* YouHaveFailedMe: In a rage, Zero Wolf kills one of his underlings after Jaguar Paw escaped at the waterfall. Said underling refused to follow when Zero Wolf announced they'd be going over the waterfall after him.

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