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** Also, reflection. The pair of deer with floral antlers move as one body, mirrored as they make a turn and run offscreen.
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**To be fair, [[spoiler:that 'live' version of Kane had probably been mimicking the 'dead' version of Kane still inside the Shimmer until the connection was cut.]]
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* RealityIsOutToLunch: The Shimmer warps everything inside its sphere of influence in ways that simply shouldn't be possible. Plant and animals (humans included) are hybridized with ease, time doesn't flow naturally or even consistently, and near the center there are trees made of glass.
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* TheAtoner: Implied. Ventress blames herself for the deaths of all the men she's sent into the Shimmer, and [[spoiler: Lena blames herself for Kane going MIA, thinking he knowingly volunteered for a suicide mission because he [[YourCheatingHeart found out about her affair.]]]]
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* TheAtoner: Implied. Ventress blames herself for the deaths of all the men she's sent into the Shimmer, and [[spoiler: Lena [[spoiler:Lena blames herself for Kane going MIA, thinking he knowingly volunteered for a suicide mission because he [[YourCheatingHeart found out about her affair.]]]]]]
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* ToplessnessFromTheBack: We get to see Natalie Portman's naked back while she's [[spoiler: [[YourCheatingHeart banging Dan.]]]]
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* ToplessnessFromTheBack: We get to see Natalie Portman's naked back while she's [[spoiler: [[YourCheatingHeart banging [[spoiler:banging Dan.]]]]]]
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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Lena ''was'' having an affair with Daniel, after all... What's worse is that Kane himself found out about it and volunteered to go on a mission into The Shimmer as a form of suicide afterwards.]]
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* AdaptationalSkill: The biologist is given a military background that she did not have [[Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy in the books]], so she now knows her way around weapons.
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** Yes, that machine gun is ''really heavy''. Just ask Anya.[[note]]Before you start thinking Anya just didn't have the power to haul it, the M240B is 27 pounds (12 kg) ''not including ammo.'' Just hauling one around for a long period of time is taxing, never mind being on a long march and having to fight.[[/note]]
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** Yes, that machine gun is ''really heavy''. Just ask Anya.[[note]]Before you start thinking Anya just didn't have the power to haul it, the M240B [=M240B=] is 27 pounds (12 kg) ''not including ammo.'' Just hauling one around for a long period of time is taxing, never mind being on a long march and having to fight.[[/note]]
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** Yes, that machine gun is ''really heavy''. Just ask Anya.[[note]]Before you start thinking Anya just didn't have the power to haul it, the M240B is 27 pounds (12 kg) ''not including ammo.'' Just hauling one around for a long period of time is taxing, never mind being on a long march and having to fight.[[/note]]
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* TooDumbToLive: While most suicidally stupid moves can be blamed on people suffering from severe psychological distress ([[spoiler:and potential brain scrambling]]), there is at least one absolutely qualifying event: the bivouac at the old Southern Reach HQ. Getting out of a groud-floor room and making camp in a guard tower at least 50 feet off the ground with a single point of access, unimpeded visibility, and a working door - perfect! The same team setting an observation post on the ground in an open kiosk with no doors that provides only partial cover and with a light guaranteed to wreck night vision and impair NV optics, stationing only one person at a time to ensure there's nobody to provide 360 observation and buddy support - terminally stupid.
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* TooDumbToLive: While most suicidally stupid moves can be blamed on people suffering from severe psychological distress ([[spoiler:and potential brain scrambling]]), there is at least one absolutely qualifying event: the bivouac at the old Southern Reach HQ. Getting out of a groud-floor room and making camp in a guard tower at least 50 feet off the ground with a single point of access, unimpeded visibility, and a working door - perfect! The same team setting an observation post on the ground in an open kiosk with no doors that provides only partial cover and with a light guaranteed to wreck night vision and impair NV optics, stationing only one person at a time to ensure there's nobody to provide 360 observation and buddy support - terminally stupid. Made worse by the fact that they've already been through encounters with dangerous creatures at this point. Oh, and one of the team is ''ex-Special Forces.''
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* TooDumbToLive: While most suicidally stupid moves can be blamed on people suffering from severe psychological distress ([[spoiler:and potential brain scrambling]]), there is at least one absolutely qualifying event: the bivouac at the old Southern Reach HQ. Getting out of a groud-floor room and making camp in a guard tower at least 50 feet off the ground with a single point of access, unimpeded visibility, and a working door - perfect! The same team setting an observation post on the ground in an open kiosk with no doors that provides only partial cover and with a light guaranteed to wreck night vision and impair NV optics, stationing only one person at a time to ensure there's nobody to provide 360 observation and buddy support - terminally stupid.
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* AdaptationalContextChange: In the novel, "Annihilation" was [[spoiler:a TriggerPhrase to be used by The Expedition's leader to make other members of The Expedition kill themselves.]] In the movie, it refers to [[spoiler:The Shimmer's expansion and inevitable consumption of Earth.]]
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* AdaptationalContextChange: In the novel, "Annihilation" was [[spoiler:a TriggerPhrase to be used by The the Expedition's leader to make other members of The the Expedition kill themselves.]] themselves]]. In the movie, it refers to [[spoiler:The [[spoiler: the Shimmer's expansion and inevitable consumption of Earth.]]Earth]].
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* AdaptationalContextChange: In the novel, "Annilihation" was [[spoiler:a TriggerPhrase to be used by The Expedition's leader to make other members of The Expedition kill themselves.]] In the movie, it refers to [[spoiler:The Shimmer's expansion and inevitable consumption of Earth.]]
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* AdaptationalContextChange: In the novel, "Annilihation" "Annihilation" was [[spoiler:a TriggerPhrase to be used by The Expedition's leader to make other members of The Expedition kill themselves.]] In the movie, it refers to [[spoiler:The Shimmer's expansion and inevitable consumption of Earth.]]
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* AdaptationAmalgamation: Although mainly inspired by the first book in the ''[[Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy Southern Reach]]'' trilogy, the plot point of [[spoiler:Ventress wanting to see what's in the Shimmer/Area X before she dies of cancer]] comes from ''Acceptance'', the third book.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Thorensen breaks down, becomes paranoid and ties up and holds the remaining party members bound and gagged. Considering that she discovered that Lena and Ventress had been lying about Kane all along, one cannot easily blame her.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Thorensen breaks down, becomes paranoid and ties up and holds the remaining party members bound and gagged.gagged at gunpoint. Considering that she discovered that Lena and Ventress had been lying about Kane all along, one cannot easily blame her.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Thorensen breaks down, becomes paranoid and ties up and holds the remaining party members bound and gagged. Considering that she discovered that Lena and Ventress had been lying about Kane all along, one cannot easily blame her.
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** [[spoiler:The real Kane, [[spoiler:Kane, having lost all sense of who he really is to the Shimmer's mutation]], decides to immolate himself with a phosphorus grenade.grenade. [[spoiler:It's not clear if the Kane who killed himself is the real one or a clone.]]
* TheEndingChangesEverything: In the ''very last shot of the movie'', [[spoiler: Lena's eyes flicker with light, suggesting this [[UnreliableNarrator may not be]] the original Lena who returned.]]
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* TheEndingChangesEverything: In the ''very last shot of the movie'', [[spoiler: Lena's eyes flicker with light, suggesting this [[UnreliableNarrator may not be]] the original Lena who returned.]]
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* HumanArchitectureHorror: [[spoiler:When exploring the FOB after viewing the vivisection video, the protagonists discover the eventual fate of the man disemboweled by Kane: his corpse has been fused with fungal-like growth on the wall (the lower half of his body horizontally lying near the ground, while his torso and his skull (separated) are glued to higher areas of the wall]]. Said scene provides the trope's page image.
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* AdaptationalContextChange: In the novel, "Annilihation" was [[spoiler:a TriggerPhrase to be used by The Expedition's leader to make other members of The Expedition kill themselves.]] In the movie, it refers to [[spoiler:The Shimmer's expansion and inevitable consumption of Earth.]]
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* NiceDayDeadlyNight: The trip through the Shimmer [[DaylightHorror has its fair share of daylight scares (including, yeah, a monster attack)]], but the majority of the flat-out fatal encounters occur at night.
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* NiceDayDeadlyNight: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The trip through the Shimmer [[DaylightHorror has its fair share of daylight scares (including, yeah, a monster attack)]], but the majority of the flat-out fatal encounters occur at night.
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** At the beginning of the movie when Dan approaches Lena about attending the barbeque at his house, he steps very close to her and rubs her arm at one point in their conversation. Lena doesn't quite move to stop him either... [[spoiler: We later find out that Lena had affair with Dan during her (and his) marriage, causing Kane to volunteer to enter The Shimmer as a form of suicide once he finds out.]]
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** At the beginning of the movie when Dan approaches Lena about attending the barbeque at his house, he steps very close to her and rubs her arm at one point in their conversation. Lena doesn't quite move to stop him either... [[spoiler: We later find out that Lena had an affair with Dan during her (and his) marriage, causing Kane to volunteer to enter The Shimmer as a form of suicide once he finds out.]]
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** At the beginning of the movie when Dan approaches Lena about attending the barbeque at his house, he steps very close to her and rubs her arm at one point in their conversation. Lena doesn't quite move to stop him either... [[spoiler: We later find out that Lena had affair with Dan during her (and his) marriage, causing Kane to volunteer to enter The Shimmer as a form of suicide once he finds out.]]
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* TitleDrop: Like in the book, the movie's title gets dropped near the end. The context is completely different though. Ventress says that Annihilation is [[spoiler:the ultimate result of the Shimmer, as the genetic code of everything inside the Shimmer gets reflected upon each other endlessly, eventually nothing will retain form, everything will become nothing.]] This necessitates it's destruction by Lena, even though she
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* TitleDrop: Like in the book, the movie's title gets dropped near the end. The context is completely different though. Ventress says that Annihilation is [[spoiler:the ultimate result of the Shimmer, as the genetic code of everything inside the Shimmer gets reflected upon each other endlessly, eventually nothing will retain form, everything will become nothing.]] This necessitates it's its destruction by Lena, even though she Lena.
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* CosmicHorrorStory: A strange and unknowable alien presence has turned a harmless coastline town into [[EldritchLocation a place where all signals (be it radio signals or DNA) are reflected back into itself again and again, mutating all life within again and again]]. And the sight is only growing bigger, the worse case scenario being the mutation of all life on the planet into a chaotic bramble beyond human comprehension.
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* CosmicHorrorStory: A strange and unknowable alien presence has turned a harmless coastline town into [[EldritchLocation a place where all signals (be it radio signals or DNA) are reflected back into itself again and again, mutating all life within again and again]]. And the sight site is only growing bigger, the worse case scenario being the mutation of all life on the planet into a chaotic bramble beyond human comprehension.
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* ImmuneToBullets: Lena immediately empties her assault rifle into [[spoiler:the Humanoid]] at the moment of its birth, but the bullets just bounce off to become part of the creature's structure.
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''Annihilation'' is a 2018 [[SciFiHorror SciFi]]/[[PsychologicalHorror Psychological]]/AlienInvasion/ {{Horror}} film written and directed by ''Film/ExMachina''-director and ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' writer Creator/AlexGarland. [[TheFilmOfTheBook It is loosely based on]] ''Annihilation'', the first book of the ''[[Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy Southern Reach Trilogy]]'' by Jeff [=VanderMeer=], and stars Creator/NataliePortman, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/TessaThompson, Creator/GinaRodriguez, Creator/OscarIsaac, Creator/BenedictWong, Tuva Novotny, Creator/SonoyaMizuno, and David Gyasi.
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''Annihilation'' is a 2018 [[SciFiHorror SciFi]]/[[PsychologicalHorror Psychological]]/AlienInvasion/ Psychological]]/AlienInvasion {{Horror}} film written and directed by ''Film/ExMachina''-director and ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' writer Creator/AlexGarland. [[TheFilmOfTheBook It is loosely based on]] ''Annihilation'', the first book of the ''[[Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy Southern Reach Trilogy]]'' by Jeff [=VanderMeer=], and stars Creator/NataliePortman, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/TessaThompson, Creator/GinaRodriguez, Creator/OscarIsaac, Creator/BenedictWong, Tuva Novotny, Creator/SonoyaMizuno, and David Gyasi.
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''Annihilation'' is a 2018 [[SciFiHorror SciFi]]/[[PsychologicalHorror Psychological]]/AlienInvasion {{Horror}} film written and directed by ''Film/ExMachina''-director and ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' writer Creator/AlexGarland. [[TheFilmOfTheBook It is loosely based on]] ''Annihilation'', the first book of the ''[[Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy Southern Reach Trilogy]]'' by Jeff [=VanderMeer=], and stars Creator/NataliePortman, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/TessaThompson, Creator/GinaRodriguez, Creator/OscarIsaac, Creator/BenedictWong, Tuva Novotny, Creator/SonoyaMizuno, and David Gyasi.
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''Annihilation'' is a 2018 [[SciFiHorror SciFi]]/[[PsychologicalHorror Psychological]]/AlienInvasion Psychological]]/AlienInvasion/ {{Horror}} film written and directed by ''Film/ExMachina''-director and ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' writer Creator/AlexGarland. [[TheFilmOfTheBook It is loosely based on]] ''Annihilation'', the first book of the ''[[Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy Southern Reach Trilogy]]'' by Jeff [=VanderMeer=], and stars Creator/NataliePortman, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/TessaThompson, Creator/GinaRodriguez, Creator/OscarIsaac, Creator/BenedictWong, Tuva Novotny, Creator/SonoyaMizuno, and David Gyasi.
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* SurrealHorror: One half of the movie's theme, combining it with PsychologicalHorror and FirstContact.
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* TitleDrop: Like in the book, the movie's title gets dropped near the end. The context is completely different though. Ventress says that Annihilation is [[spoiler:the ultimate result of the Shimmer, as the genetic code of everything inside the Shimmer gets reflected upon each other endlessly, eventually nothing will retain form, everything will become nothing.]]]] This necessitates it's destruction by Lena, even though she
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''Annihilation'' is a 2018 [[SciFiHorror SciFi]]/[[PsychologicialHorror Psychological]]/AlienInvasion {{Horror}} film written and directed by ''Film/ExMachina''-director and ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' writer Creator/AlexGarland. [[TheFilmOfTheBook It is loosely based on]] ''Annihilation'', the first book of the ''[[Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy Southern Reach Trilogy]]'' by Jeff [=VanderMeer=], and stars Creator/NataliePortman, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/TessaThompson, Creator/GinaRodriguez, Creator/OscarIsaac, Creator/BenedictWong, Tuva Novotny, Creator/SonoyaMizuno, and David Gyasi.
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''Annihilation'' is a 2018 [[SciFiHorror SciFi]]/[[PsychologicialHorror SciFi]]/[[PsychologicalHorror Psychological]]/AlienInvasion {{Horror}} film written and directed by ''Film/ExMachina''-director and ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' writer Creator/AlexGarland. [[TheFilmOfTheBook It is loosely based on]] ''Annihilation'', the first book of the ''[[Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy Southern Reach Trilogy]]'' by Jeff [=VanderMeer=], and stars Creator/NataliePortman, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/TessaThompson, Creator/GinaRodriguez, Creator/OscarIsaac, Creator/BenedictWong, Tuva Novotny, Creator/SonoyaMizuno, and David Gyasi.
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''Annihilation'' is a 2018 [[SciFiHorror SciFi]]/[[PsychologicialHorror Psychologicial]]/AlienInvasion]] {{Horror}} film written and directed by ''Film/ExMachina''-director and ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' writer Creator/AlexGarland. [[TheFilmOfTheBook It is loosely based on]] ''Annihilation'', the first book of the ''[[Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy Southern Reach Trilogy]]'' by Jeff [=VanderMeer=], and stars Creator/NataliePortman, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/TessaThompson, Creator/GinaRodriguez, Creator/OscarIsaac, Creator/BenedictWong, Tuva Novotny, Creator/SonoyaMizuno, and David Gyasi.
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''Annihilation'' is a 2018 [[SciFiHorror SciFi]]/[[PsychologicialHorror Psychologicial]]/AlienInvasion]] Psychological]]/AlienInvasion {{Horror}} film written and directed by ''Film/ExMachina''-director and ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' writer Creator/AlexGarland. [[TheFilmOfTheBook It is loosely based on]] ''Annihilation'', the first book of the ''[[Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy Southern Reach Trilogy]]'' by Jeff [=VanderMeer=], and stars Creator/NataliePortman, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/TessaThompson, Creator/GinaRodriguez, Creator/OscarIsaac, Creator/BenedictWong, Tuva Novotny, Creator/SonoyaMizuno, and David Gyasi.
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''Annihilation'' is a 2018 SciFiHorror [[SciFiHorror SciFi]]/[[PsychologicialHorror Psychologicial]]/AlienInvasion]] {{Horror}} film written and directed by ''Film/ExMachina''-director and ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' writer Creator/AlexGarland. [[TheFilmOfTheBook It is loosely based on]] ''Annihilation'', the first book of the ''[[Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy Southern Reach Trilogy]]'' by Jeff [=VanderMeer=], and stars Creator/NataliePortman, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/TessaThompson, Creator/GinaRodriguez, Creator/OscarIsaac, Creator/BenedictWong, Tuva Novotny, Creator/SonoyaMizuno, and David Gyasi.
