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!!This work features examples of:!!THERE IS NO TROPE LIST, DAMNIT!!!
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* CoolGuns: Neville's signature weapons are a Browning Automatic Rifle with an early-model infrared scope and a Smith & Wesson Model 76 sub-machine gun with a hand-made clip-on flashlight mount.
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* CoolGuns: Neville's signature weapons are a Browning Automatic Rifle with an early-model infrared scope and a Colt M76 sub-machine gun with a hand-made clip-on flashlight mount.

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* CoolGuns: Neville's signature weapons are a Browning Automatic Rifle with an early-model infrared scope and a Colt M76 Smith & Wesson Model 76 sub-machine gun with a hand-made clip-on flashlight mount.
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* AlbinosAreFreaks: The Family is a collection of "survivors" of the ArtificialPlague that [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroyed the world]], who's exposure to said plague turned them albino. In addition to not being able to ''physically'' withstand any strong lights, it's mentioned the plague will still kill them eventually, and the few completely uninfected survivors also think of them as things that should not be.

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* AlbinosAreFreaks: The Family is a collection of "survivors" of the ArtificialPlague SyntheticPlague that [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroyed the world]], who's exposure to said plague turned them albino. In addition to not being able to ''physically'' withstand any strong lights, it's mentioned the plague will still kill them eventually, and the few completely uninfected survivors also think of them as things that should not be.
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* DiabolusExMachina: Neville has a clear shot at Matthias during the final fight of the film, [[spoiler:but unfortunately his sub-machine gun jams, and when he tries to clear it Matthias tosses a spear at him and fatally wounds him]].


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* TheLastManHeardAKnock: For the first half of the film it's only Neville vs. the Family but at one early point Neville sees a woman on the street as he's gathering clothing and tries to chase her, but when she disappears he dismisses her as a hallucination. Then he is finally captured by the Family and sentenced to be executed via [[BurnTheWitch pyre]] in Dodger Stadium... upon which Lisa (the woman Neville saw) and Dutch (a fellow survivor) [[BigDamnHeroes barge in to rescue him]].


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* MoreDakka: The only chief advantage Neville has over the Family is that he brings machine guns to a knife fight.
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-->'''Matthias''': You are discarded. You are the refuse of the past.\\
'''Neville''': You are full of crap.

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-->'''Matthias''': You are discarded. You are the refuse of the past.\\
'''Neville''':
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-->'''Neville''':
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-->'''Neville''': You are full of crap.

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-->'''Neville''': '''Neville''': You are full of crap.



* WouldHurtAChild: Richie goes to the Family's base and tells them that Neville is working on a cure for their disease. Mathias kills him and leaves his dead body for display on said base.

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* WouldHurtAChild: Richie goes to the Family's base and tells them that Neville is working on a cure for their disease. Mathias kills him and leaves his [[DeadGuyOnDisplay dead body for display display]] on said base.
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No one will every confuse this movie with a video game about Mega Man.


Has nothing to do with ''[[VideoGame/MegaManStarForce MegaMan: Star Force]]'', we can assure you. Nor does it have anything to do with ''Comicbook/OmegaMen''.

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Has nothing to do with ''[[VideoGame/MegaManStarForce MegaMan: Star Force]]'', we can assure you. Nor does it have anything to do with ''Comicbook/OmegaMen''.
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The second, and perhaps the best-known, screen version of ''Literature/IAmLegend'', ''The Omega Man'' was released in 1971 and directed by Boris Sagal.

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The second, and perhaps the best-known, screen version of ''Literature/IAmLegend'', ''The Omega Ωmega Man'' was released in 1971 and directed by Boris Sagal.



* AdaptationTitleChange: ''The Omega Man'' is based on the novel ''I Am Legend''.

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* AdaptationTitleChange: ''The Omega Ωmega Man'' is based on the novel ''I Am Legend''.
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* EvilLuddite: The Family is an entire group full of them--Mathias believes that anything and everything Man has made (from cars to guns to paintings) is a sign of his corruption and must be destroyed.[[note]]His definition of what's corrupt is somewhat arbitrary, though. For example, he's OK with using a medieval-style ballista to shoot flaming bolts at Neville's house.[[/note]] Once the last scientist on Earth is dead at his hands, the survivors are forced to leave the city to live [[TheSimpleLifeIsSimple lives of backbreaking agrarian toil in the countryside]].

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* EvilLuddite: The Family is an entire group full of them--Mathias believes that anything and everything Man has made (from cars to guns to paintings) is a sign of his corruption and must be destroyed.[[note]]His definition of what's corrupt is somewhat arbitrary, though. For example, he's OK with using a medieval-style ballista to shoot flaming bolts at Neville's house. Even more egregiously, he's also perfectly fine with the use of sunglasses, which are manufactured using relatively advanced industrial polymers. [[/note]] Once the last scientist on Earth is dead at his hands, the survivors are forced to leave the city to live [[TheSimpleLifeIsSimple lives of backbreaking agrarian toil in the countryside]].
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* InfantImmortality: Children have an immunity to the plague, but [[OnlyFatalToAdults it wears off when they get older]].

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* InfantImmortality: ImprobableInfantSurvival: Children have an immunity to the plague, but [[OnlyFatalToAdults it wears off when they get older]].
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* AdaptationTitleChange: ''The Omega Man'' is based on the novel ''I Am Legend''.
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* MessianicArchetype: Robert Neville is definitely too cynical to admit he fits here, but a lot of the visual bullet points (his blood holds the only known cure to the disease, he's fatally wounded by being stabbed on the side, once he passes away he gets a CrucifiedHeroShot) still apply.

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* HorrorHippies: While they probably don't identify as "hippies" per se (their leader Matthias was a news anchor until the world ended and he snapped and the only character who does identify as a hippy is one of the heroic survivors), the Family still borrows a lot in terms of presentation from the Manson cult.



* InfantImmortality: Children have an immunity to the plague, but it wears off when they get older.

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* InfantImmortality: Children have an immunity to the plague, but [[OnlyFatalToAdults it wears off when they get older.older]].

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* ApocalypseHow: This was a result of DepopulationBomb in the form of TheVirus. Everybody just went and keeled over where they stood.

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* ApocalypseHow: This was a result A not-quite-Class 3-the majority of DepopulationBomb in humanity dies from the form of TheVirus. Everybody just went virus, and keeled over where they stood.the few remaining survivors have mutated into insane albinos.



* DepopulationBomb: The plague originated as a bioweapon deployed during a war between the Soviet Union and China and rapidly spread around the world.



* NextSundayAD: The war that leads to the release of the plague happens in 1975. The main part of the film takes place in 1977.



* SoleSurvivingScientist: Robert Neville is the only person still alive with knowledge of how to develop a cure. He was successful when the world ended, but was forced to inject himself witht he only sample to survive, and has spent all of the aftermath years working on replicating the vaccine from his blood.

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* SoleSurvivingScientist: Robert Neville is the only person still alive with knowledge of how to develop a cure. He was successful when the world ended, but was forced to inject himself witht he with the only sample to survive, and has spent all of the aftermath years working on replicating the vaccine from his blood.

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