History Film / Tomorrowland

* ClingyMacGuffin: The pin only works if the user is wearing it or holding it. [[spoiler:it can also be encoded to the DNA of a specific person so only they can use it]].

* BaitAndSwitch: The rocket launched from the Eiffel Tower makes the audience think the Tomorrowland is located on a distant planet. [[spoiler: In reality they only make it to high orbit because that iteration of the technology is so primitive it needs a “running start” to make the jump to a parallel universe]].

** The tachyon-induced glimpses of the near future. [[spoiler: One glimpse shows Casey how to activate the explosive, while another one warns Athena that Nix will try to shoot Frank, giving her enough time to take the blast herself.]]

* TheChooserOfTheOne: Athena senses in Casey the qualities she's looking for and gives Casey the means to see Tomorrowland. [[spoiler: This is actually her job, Frank was her first personal candidate; later after her passing, we see that Frank and Casey have set up a whole slew of new young recruiter units out to do exactly as she did.]]
* ClingyMacGuffin: The pin only works if the user is wearing it or holding it. [[spoiler: it can also be encoded to the DNA of a specific person so only they can use it]].

--> '''Casey''': '''''SON OF A-''''' <''engine revs''>

** [[spoiler: Casey comes close to one when she sees what Tomorrowland has become, until her EurekaMoment pulls her out of it.]]

--> '''Casey:''' Is that like a portal to Earth?\\

* DoomsdayClock: [[spoiler: Frank has one at home. It predicts that our planet has 56 days left to survive due to nuclear war, ecological meltdown and natural disaster. There's also a probability counter, showing the chance of that future coming to be an 100%, until Casey comes along and it drops just a bit]].

* EurekaMoment: [[spoiler: Casey has one that shakes her out of her DespairEventHorizon, when she realizes that the Monitor was broadcasting negative images in people's minds, to hasten the End of the World.]]

* EvilBrit: [[spoiler: Governor Nix. He's played by Hugh Laurie, what did you expect?]]

* FirstLove: [[spoiler: Athena is this to Frank. Which is why he's so bitter when they meet again, he never got over her even after his exile.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Athena is damaged beyond repair when she takes an energy blast to the chest intended for Frank.]]
* HeroicSuicide: [[spoiler: Athena self-destructs to destroy the Monitor.]]

-->'''Hugo Gernsback''': Have you ever wondered what would happen… if all the geniuses, the artists, the scientists, the… smartest, most creative people in the world… decided to actually change it? But where? Where could they even do such a thing? They’d need a place, free from politics, bureaucracy, distractions… Greed… A secret place. Where they could build whatever they were crazy enough to imagine.

* HowWeGotHere: The movie begins with Frank telling his story, with Casey interjecting running commentary, in the present day, before cutting to the main action. [[spoiler: The movie ends where they leave off, revealing that Frank and Casey are telling their stories to a new line of androids, who will take on Athena's role to distribute newly-minted pins to the dreamers of the world, to invite them to Tomorrowland.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Governor Nix’s EstablishingCharacterMoment consists of him being an asshole to a 10 year old kid for no good reason.

* LittleMissSnarker: Athena can be this quite a bit, especially when she's running out of patience [[spoiler: such as lying that she's got an automatic shutoff function if someone asks her too many sensitive questions. She's really just playing dead because she found Casey annoying.]]

* MadeOfIron: Frank. As a kid he survives get driven into the dirt at high speeds by his jetpack instead of suffering any serious injuries. [[spoiler: It also takes his body a few seconds to disintegrate when shot with a raygun in a potential timeline, unlike everyone else who disintegrates instantly.]]

* {{Masquerade}}: Governor Nix says that, in the old days, Tomorrowland would work to have the Eiffel Tower turning into a huge rocket dismissed as a hoax. [[spoiler: However, with the world ending in less than two months, he's not going to bother keeping it a secret.]] It didn't stop his [[MechaMook androids]] from atomizing those three cops when they [[HeKnowsTooMuch started asking uncomfortable questions though]].

** Casey at one point tells her father the story of [[http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/TwoWolves-Cherokee.html The Two Wolves]], a story he used to tell her, reminding him that the wolf that wins is whichever you keep feeding. [[spoiler: She later realizes that Governor Nix has been broadcasting apocalyptic images in people's minds, causing them to "feed the wrong wolf".]]
** Frank at one point describes the T-pin as "an invitation to a party that never happened." [[spoiler: At the end of the movie, Frank says that they should "put the party back on and print out new invitations."]]

* MoralMyopia: Governor Nix has a very [[CharacterFilibuster long and angry rant]] about [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech why the people of Earth deserve doom]], but never stops to ponder that by doing nothing to prevent it, even though he has the means and technology to do so, [[{{Hypocrite}} he's just being as apathetic as they are]]. He has so few craps to give that he doesn't even bother to [[spoiler: stop the Monitor from broadcasting, even though he knows full well it's only making things worse]].

** The trailer makes Casey's dad out to be a {{Jerkass}} FantasyForbiddingFather when in the actual movie he's… a NASA engineer who's facing unemployment as Cape Canaveral is getting closed down, but still is a loving and supporting father despite being left a tad embittered and bearing a somewhat fatalistic viewpoint over being on the verge of unemployment. His angry outburst seen in the trailer is entirely justified because he just bailed Casey out after she gets caught [[spoiler: breaking into NASA and sabotaging the demolition efforts, and he plans to ground her for it]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Governor Nix saw that, the way things were going, the Earth [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt wouldn't last forever]] unless something was done to save it, so he [[spoiler: used the Monitor to subconsciously project the images of doom it had predicted in the hopes that it would scare the people into action. Instead, the only thing it achieved was to [[StoppedCaring desensitize people to the possibility of armageddon]] which actually hastened it dramatically]].

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: [[spoiler: Just Athena. The later robots sent to hunt her down are creepy. Even the robots built to succeed her mission don't have her liveliness. However, her successors are fresh off the assembly line while she had decades to [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming become more human]]. Given some time and care, the new recruiters are more than likely to become like her eventually.]]

* TeleportationSickness: The teleporter used to take [[spoiler: the main characters to Paris]] also causes a good loss of blood sugar. While Frank and Athena aren't so badly affected, Casey is.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: The main means of transportation between Earth and Tomorrowland. They are also used to take [[spoiler: Casey, Frank and Athena from New York to Paris]]. Some of them can be a fairly rough ride.

* VillainHasAPoint: Governor Nix's plan wasn't actually evil. At first he believed [[spoiler: showing humanity a possible apocalyptic future would scare them into trying to prevent it. However, he lost faith when instead of trying to prevent the apocalypse, humanity ''embraced'' the idea of it. How do you save someone who doesn't ''want'' to be saved? Even better, why would ''you'' want to interact with them in any way, shape or form? This is why the killer robots attempted to assassinate Casey, Frank and Athena; after it became blatantly clear that Earth didn't want to be saved, it was simply a manner of ''survival'' - if the nihilistic masters and masses could get to Tomorrowland, they'd almost certainly destroy it too. Secrecy was its shield. The robots were simply operating on orders received ''decades'' earlier.]]

** Literally all over the place when Casey visits the Blast From The Past shop, as sci-fi/fantasy collectibles of every type fill the place, and the ''Franchise/StarWars'' theme plays when Hugo steps out of his room. Notable are the figures of WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant and [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Mr. Incredible]], since their films were directed by Creator/BradBird.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Casey is subject to most of the physical comedy of the movie. Her painful interactions with the real world while inside the pin-induced vision is the prime example.

* HurricaneOfPuns:
** Brad Bird tweeted a picture of the soundtrack album with the message "Another film, another great score by [[Creator/MichaelGiacchino @m_giacchino]], and most importantly, another bunch of crazy-ass cue titles--" which this time around include "You've Piqued My Pin-Trist," "Boat Wait, There's More!," "Home Wheat Home," "Pin-Ultimate Experience," "People Mover And Shaker," "What An Eiffel!" and "Sphere And Loathing." Giacchino stated that his music editor came up with most of the track titles, but Giacchino did admit he named the final cue on the album... "End Credits." The soundtrack also continues Giacchino's RunningGag with "World's Worst [[spoiler:Shop Keepers"]].

* GratuitousLatin: Though "Plus Ultra" appears a kludge of TotallyRadical words, in Latin it means "Further Beyond."[[note]]It's a reversal of the Latin phrase "Non Plus Ultra" (nothing further beyond), and represents the society's continuous search for new knowledge. Plus Ultra is also the motto of Spain.[[/note]]

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: [[spoiler: Just Athena. The later robots sent to hunt her down slide too far into the Uncanny Valley. Even the robots built to succeed her mission don't have her liveliness. However, her successors are fresh off the assembly line while she had decades to [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming become more human]]. Given some time and care, the new recruiters are more than likely to become like her eventually.]]

* UncannyValley: Invoked by some of the audio animatronic villains.

* ILoveNuclearPower: Henry's robot body runs on a plutonium power source.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn7Pn6pVkaQ Nix's speech]] about the state about the modern world to the heroes at the climax is essentially this towards society as a whole.

* VillainHasAPoint: Governor Nix's plan wasn't actually evil. At first he believed [[spoiler: showing humanity a possible apocalyptic future would scare them into trying to prevent it. However, he lost faith when instead of trying to prevent the apocalypse, humanity ''embraced'' the idea of it. How do you save someone who doesn't ''want'' to be saved? Even better, why would ''you'' want to interact with them in any way, shape or form? This is why the killer robots attempted to assassinate Casey, Frank and Athena; after it became blatantly clear that Earth didn't want to be saved, it was simply a manner of ''survival'' - if the nihilistic masters and masses could get to Tomorrowland, they'd almost certainly destroy it too. Secrecy was its shield. The robots were simply operating on orders received ''decades'' earlier. NotSoDifferent from Athena.]]

''Tomorrowland'' is a 2015 film produced by [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney Pictures]] and directed by Creator/BradBird. The film stars Creator/GeorgeClooney, Creator/BrittRobertson, and Creator/HughLaurie, and is inspired by the Tomorrowland area found at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks. The first teaser trailer was released on October 9, 2014.

** A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHE0UjBSbfI&t=387s deleted scene]] explains that Nix was able to turn to turn Frank's invention into the best clean energy source ever discovered, and it is now Tomorrowland's primary source of power. [[spoiler:This neatly explains why he doesn't want to turn it off]].

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler: Governor Nix]] goes out with some very appropriate words.
-->[[spoiler: "Oh, ''bollocks''."]]

* PrecisionFStrike: Nix says, "Oh, bollocks!" as his FamousLastWords.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Invoked in-universe: [[spoiler: Nix projected images of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt into people's minds in order to steer humanity away from destroying itself. This resulted in people becoming desensitized to the inevitable, prompting Nix's FaceHeelTurn as he decided that HumansAreBastards and should be put out of their misery.]] The film implies this is what spurred on the popularity of dystopic literature (''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'', etc) and bleak, grimdark media being popular.

* CurseCutShort: Casey when Athena suddenly shuts down mid-conversation.

''Tomorrowland'' is a 2015 film produced by [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney Pictures]] and directed by Creator/BradBird. The film stars Creator/GeorgeClooney, Britt Robertson, and Creator/HughLaurie, and is inspired by the Tomorrowland area found at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks. The first teaser trailer was released on October 9, 2014.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: [[spoiler: Just Athena. The later robots sent to hunt her down slide too far into the Uncanny Valley. Even the robots built to succeed her mission don't have her liveliness. However, her successor are fresh off the assembly line while she had decades to [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming become more human]]. Given some time and care, the new recruiters are more than likely to become like her eventually.]]

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: [[spoiler: Just Athena. The later robots sent to hunt her down slide too far into the Uncanny Valley. Even the robots built to succeed her mission don't have her liveliness.]]

** Much like [[Disney/MeetTheRobinsons another Disney film about the future]], ''Ride/SpaceMountain'' appears as part of Tomorrowland's skyline. People have also spotted nods to Epcot's ''Ride/{{Horizons}}'' and the Disneyland episode ''Magic Highway USA.'' During the end credits, Space Mountain and EPCOT's iconic ''Spaceship Earth'' appear side-by-side as part of the landscape.

''Tomorrowland'' is a 2015 film produced by [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney Pictures]] and directed by Creator/BradBird. The film stars Creator/GeorgeClooney, Britt Robinson, and Creator/HughLaurie, and is inspired by the Tomorrowland area found at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks. The first teaser trailer was released on October 9, 2014.

''Tomorrowland'' is a 2015 film produced by [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney Pictures]] and directed by Creator/BradBird. The film stars Creator/GeorgeClooney, Britt Robertson, and Creator/HughLaurie, and is inspired by the Tomorrowland area found at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks. The first teaser trailer was released on October 9, 2014.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Governor Nix is fond of Athena, despite the fact she's working against him. [[spoiler:He is even horrified of shooting her by accident due to her taking the raygun shot meant for Frank]].

* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Frank and Athena are butting heads like this almost constantly. Made both extra funny and creepy by Frank being (visually) almost four times as old as Athena[[note]]George Clooney was 54 at the time of filming, Raffey Cassidy only 14[[/note]].