History Film / The6thDay

* YourDaysAreNumbered: The clones are built with congenital defects designed to kill them in a few years, an insurance policy against clients that get the urge to blab to the press.

* PoliceAreUseless: The police are pretty useless when [[spoiler: the real]] Adam tries to get help from them after his family are taken.

* ClonesArePeopleToo: Ultimately proven correct in the case of many individuals, including [[spoiler: Adam himself]]. He ultimately goes into business with the original.

* UnfriendlyFire: Wiley twices shoots a member of his side while trying to hit Adam. Once during a car chase, he shoots Talia in the neck. Later, he shoots Drucker himself in the gut. The latter screw-up proves to be his undoing, since Drucker [[YouHaveFailedMe personally executes Wiley]] and orders his other minions [[FinalDeath not to clone him again]].

* UnfriendlyFire: Wiley twices shoots a member of his side while trying to hit Adam. Once during a car chase, he shoots Talia in the neck. Later, he shoots Drucker himself in the gut. The latter screw-up proves to be his undoing, since Drucker [[YouHaveFailedMe personally executes Wiley]] and orders his other minions not to clone him again.

* VillainHasAPoint: Drucker points out that human cloning could save many lives, and ensure that humanity doesn't have to lose its Martin Luther Kings and Mozarts. The laws on cloning in-story are also heavily implied to be out-of-date, and influenced by religion.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: While Drucker's speech about the 'merits' of human cloning appeared mostly convincing, it falls apart when Adam bluntly asks him ''who'' gets to actually choose who can be cloned.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Hank essentially sets off the subsequent chain of events just because he volunteers to take Drucker flying while posing as Adam so the real Adam can check out [=RePet=], leading to the exposure of Drucker’s cloning program.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture:
** The movie takes place "Sooner Than You Think." On the "The Future is Coming" DVD featurette, Schwarzenegger states that the film takes place in 2015.
** The scene in the parking structure features [[http://spotthebeetle.tumblr.com/image/101167798359 a junked-out Volkswagen New Beetle]] (which had just been introduced in 1997, three years before the film's release).

** While cloning is nowhere near as advanced as in the film, the writers did make some accurate predictions on the smaller-scale tech, like Adam putting in an order for milk on his smart fridge, video phones (which sci-fi writers have hypothesized since at least the 1950s), driverless cars, and Adam's friend Hank has an A.I. girlfriend. This is not so surprising, since most of these are reasonable extrapolations from technology in the early 2000s.

* {{Zeerust}}: The film opens on an XFL game. The XFL was a blink-and-you'll-miss-it UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball league, backed by Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, which was meant to compete with the NFL. It ended so quickly that most people don't even remember it existed, yet it's featured in this movie's futuristic setting (even an attempt at reviving it in 2020 didn't last long).

* LegallyDead: One of the reasons why Drucker is so keen to keep the fact that he's a clone secret. As the law is written, he's already legally dead and thus his assets would be seized. The other is because he would also likely be destroyed.

* CloneDegeneration: Most of the clones are actually perfect copies with the memories of the original uploaded into them, but in the climax the villain is forced to clone himself again before he dies of a gutshot. Adam then sabotages the cloning tanks which creates an incomplete, embryonic-looking clone of Drucker.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Tripp's importance to the plot before the reveal is foreshadowed by the several lingering camera shots.