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* BastardBastard: Traylor's illegitimate son Lysol is a CompleteMonster.
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* BastardBastard: Traylor's illegitimate son Lysol is a CompleteMonster.an absolute monster.
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* AmicableExes: Traylor and Joss.
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Joss are divorced but get along great.
* BastardBastard:LysolTraylor's illegitimate son Lysol is a CompleteMonster.
* TheBigGuy: Bumper is a burly man who carries [[AnAxeToGrind a large axe]] as his favorite weapon and is one of the group's main fighters. When someone asks who has "the most meat on them", everyone looks at Bumper.
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* DeathOfAChild: One woman infected with the zombie virus is seen eating the fetus she had just given birth to.
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* ConstructionVehicleRampage: A variant occurs when Bumper and Moon block the bridge leading to the reservation with a giant snowblower. The zombies mindlessly try to charge through it and are shredded apart.
* CoolHat: Moon wears a fancy black cowboy hat throughout the movie that provides some distraction from his FatBastard status.
* DeathOfAChild: One woman infected with the zombie virus (Shooker's girlfriend) is seen eating the fetus she had just given birth to.
* CoolHat: Moon wears a fancy black cowboy hat throughout the movie that provides some distraction from his FatBastard status.
* DeathOfAChild: One woman infected with the zombie virus (Shooker's girlfriend) is seen eating the fetus she had just given birth to.
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* FreudianExcuse: Lysol's mother died soon after his birth, and Traylor basically abandoned him.
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* FreudianExcuse: Lysol's mother died soon after his birth, and Traylor basically abandoned him.him, something Lysol is quick to bring up.
* GateGuardian: Lysol and James guard the main entrance to the post-apocalyptic compound and are rather unpleasant toward arriving refugees.
* GateGuardian: Lysol and James guard the main entrance to the post-apocalyptic compound and are rather unpleasant toward arriving refugees.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: ZigZagged. Joseph's girlfriend Charlie is planning on getting an abortion early in the movie, and Joseph is hesitantly supportive, but it never happens because of the chaos caused at the hospital by the zombie outbreak. [[spoiler:She later gives birth before dying.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Unlike Lysol and Moon, James never gets killed for participating in the murders of the white refugees and unleashing the zombie in the reservation]].
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* WouldntHurtAChild: Bumper is in charge of executing infected refugees, but can't bring himself to kill a little girl who has been bitten by a zombie. Traylor does it for him.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Lysol is defeated and Joesph, Charlie and Joss escape a horde of zombies by boat. But the reservation is overrun, Traylor and many other survivors are dead (with the fates of the rest of the survivors being unknown) and Joseph is forced to kill Charlie (who just gave birth) after she was bitten by a zombie.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Lysol is defeated and Joesph, Joseph, Charlie and Joss escape a horde of zombies by boat. But the reservation is overrun, Traylor and many other survivors are dead (with the fates of the rest of the survivors being unknown) and Joseph is forced to kill Charlie (who just gave birth) after she was bitten by a zombie.]]
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* WastelandElder: Gisigu is a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII veteran and First Nations fisherman who is about to become a great-grandfather and is the first person to notice signs of the ZombieApocalypse. He becomes his son's right-hand man in running a besieged encampment of reservation inhabitants (who are immune to zombification but are still at risk of being EatenAlive) and Caucasian refugees.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Unlike Lysol and Moon, James never gets killed for participating in the murders of the white refugees and unleashing the zombie in the reservation]].
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* DeathOfAChild: One woman infected with the zombie virus is seen eating the fetus she had just given birth to.
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''Blood Quantum'' is a Canadian Zombie Horror movie written and directed by Jeff Barnaby and starring Creator/MichaelGreyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Creator/ForrestGoodluck, Kiowa Gordon, Brandon Oakes, [[Series/{{Degrassi}} Olivia Scriven]], Creator/KawennahereDeveryJacobs and Gary Farmer.
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''Blood Quantum'' is a Canadian Zombie Horror movie written and directed by Jeff Barnaby and starring Creator/MichaelGreyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Creator/ForrestGoodluck, Kiowa Gordon, Brandon Oakes, [[Series/{{Degrassi}} Olivia Scriven]], Creator/KawennahereDeveryJacobs and Gary Farmer.
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''Blood Quantum'' is a Canadian Zombie Horror movie written and directed by Jeff Barnaby and starring Creator/MichaelGreyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Creator/ForrestGoodluck, Kiowa Gordon, Brandon Oakes, [[Series/{{Degrassi}} Olivia Scriven]], Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs Creator/KawennahereDeveryJacobs and Gary Farmer.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Lysol. He absolutely hates white people and expresses it to the refuges and those protecting him. Right when it looks like Joseph saved him from his zombified girlfriend though, he proceeds to stab Joseph and has his own forces deposit said girlfriend into the camp, killing and zombifying numerous refugees, [[spoiler:while also killing his father Traylor.]]
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* KatanasAreJustBetter: Traylor's father prefers a katana.
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* KatanasAreJustBetter: Traylor's father Gisigu prefers a katana.
* LastStand: As Joseph, Charlie, and Joss are leading the surviving refugees to the boat, Joseph's grandfather Gisigu decides to remain behind to hold the Zeds off, saying he won't abandon their land again. As the others flee, Gisigu can be seen holding off the Zeds on his own with his {{katana|sAreJustBetter}}. While he makes clear he doesn't expect to be making it out of this alive, he's last seen standing triumphant over the Zeds holding a decapitated head.
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* RetiredBadass: Traylor's katana-wielding, WWII veteran father is one of the most competent zombie killers in the movie.
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* RetiredBadass: Traylor's katana-wielding, WWII veteran father father, Gisigu, is one of the most competent zombie killers in the movie.
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The last Gisigu is seen is him fighting off a bunch of Zeds, and the animation depicts him standing triumphant holding one of the Zeds heads. Whether or not he got bit during all this is unknown, but possible, but the bottom line is that Gisigu leaves the movie still alive.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Lysol is defeated and Joesph, Charlie and Joss escape a horde of zombies by boat. But the reservation is overrun, Traylor, Gisigu and many other survivors are dead (with the fates of the rest of the survivors being unknown) and Joseph is forced to kill Charlie (who just gave birth) after she was bitten by a zombie.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Lysol is defeated and Joesph, Charlie and Joss escape a horde of zombies by boat. But the reservation is overrun, Traylor, Gisigu Traylor and many other survivors are dead (with the fates of the rest of the survivors being unknown) and Joseph is forced to kill Charlie (who just gave birth) after she was bitten by a zombie.]]
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:In the end, Joseph sadly shoots Charlie in the head after she was bitten by a zombie.]]
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:In the end, Joseph sadly shoots Charlie in the head after she was bitten by a zombie.]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Traylor, the main character and leader of the survivors, dies at the beginning of the third act. Emphasis then shifts to Joseph and the grandfather, and their efforts to defeat Lysol and save the remaining survivor.survivors.]]
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* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Lysol, by way of the infected girl brought into the camp.]]
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outbreak. [[spoiler:She later gives birth before dying.]]
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Lysol, by way of the infected girl being brought into the camp.]]
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Lysol, by way of the infected girl being brought into the camp.]]
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''Blood Quantum'' is a Canadian Zombie Horror movie written and directed by Jeff Barnaby and starring Creator/MichaelGreyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Forrest Goodluck, Creator/ForrestGoodluck, Kiowa Gordon, Brandon Oakes, [[Series/{{Degrassi}} Olivia Scriven]], Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs and Gary Farmer.
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''Blood Quantum'' is a Canadian Zombie Horror movie written and directed by Jeff Barnaby and starring Michael Greyeyes, Creator/MichaelGreyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Forrest Goodluck, Kiowa Gordon, Brandon Oakes, [[Series/{{Degrassi}} Olivia Scriven]], Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs and Gary Farmer.
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* TheImmune: All native people are immune to the virus.
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* TheImmune: All native people are immune to the virus.zombie virus. Due to this, native Canadians on a reservation fight off the zombies and aid the survivors.
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* ChainsawGood: a favorite weapon against the zombies, including a very memorable shot where a zombie attacking Traylor is killed with a chainsaw through the back of its head.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: the movie was meant as an allegory for the 1981 raids on the Restigouche Reservation by Canadian police. Jeff Barnaby has cited the documentary ''Incident at Restigouche'' as a major inspiration.
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** The movie was meant as an allegory for the 1981 raids on the Restigouche Reservation by Canadian police. Jeff Barnaby has cited the documentary ''Incident at Restigouche'' as a major inspiration.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Lysol's hostility towards white people is cruel and unpleasant, but he's not ''wrong'' when says an infection among them could end up killing everybody.
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* MalignedMixedMarriage: They're not married, but Charlie and Joseph having a child together is looked with trepidation by some because Charlie is white and therefore vulnerable to the zombie virus.
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** Then there is the scene where a white survivor is chastised for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Pitt#Biological_warfare_involving_smallpox attempting to bring a plague-infected blanket into the camp.]]
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* TimeSkip: At the end of the first act, we jump six months into the future where society is at the brink and the Reservation seems like it could be the last safe place for the uninfected.
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* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler: The grandfather makes a solo last stand against the horde, downing an impressive number with his katana before being overwhelmed. However, one of the film's surrealistic animated sequences then shows him rising out of the pile of corpses, sword in hand, seemingly ready to fight again and declaring that none of the zombies shall make it past him.]]
* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler: The grandfather makes a solo last stand against the horde, downing an impressive number with his katana before being overwhelmed. However, one of the film's surrealistic animated sequences then shows him rising out of the pile of corpses, sword in hand, seemingly ready to fight again and declaring that none of the zombies shall make it past him.]]
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* BadassGrandpa: Traylor's katana-wielding, WWII veteran father is one of the most competent zombie killers in the movie.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Joseph (left), Traylor (center) and Lysol (right)]]
'''Blood Quantum''' is a 2019 Canadian Zombie Horror movie written and directed by Jeff Barnaby and starring Michael Greyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Forrest Goodluck, Kiowa Gordon, Brandon Oakes, Olivia Scriven, Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs and Gary Farmer.
Set in 1981, the movie concerns a zombie outbreak near the Red Lake Reservation, where Traylor (Michael Greyeyes) is the police chief. The Native population discovers they are immune to the virus, and begin fighting back against the zombies and taking in survivors.
The movie premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival in the Midnight Madness category, it will be released on the Shudder streaming service.
!!Tropes Associated With Blood Quantum Include:
* AmicableExes: Traylor and Joss.
* Badass Grandpa: Traylor's katana-wielding, WWII veteran father is one of the most competent zombie killers in the movie.
* BastardBastard: Lysol
* ChainsawGood: a favorite weapon against the zombies, including a very memorable shot where a zombie attacking Traylor is killed with a chainsaw through the back of its head.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: the movie was meant as an allegory for the 1981 raids on the Restigouche Reservation by Canadian police. Jeff Barnaby has cited the documentary ''Incident at Restigouche'' as a major inspiration.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Joseph might not be the ''most'' responsible teen, but he's a lot more well-adjusted than his half-brother Lysol.
* FreudianExcuse: Lysol's mother died soon after his birth, and Traylor basically abandoned him.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Zig-Zagged. Joseph's girlfriend Charlie is planning on getting an abortion early in the movie, and Joseph is supportive, but it never happens because of the chaos caused at the hospital by the zombie outbreak.
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Lysol, by way of the infected girl brought into the camp.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Traylor sacrifices himself so the others can escape.]]
* InfantImmortality: Averted. One woman infected with the zombie virus is seen eating the fetus she had just given birth to.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Lysol's hostility towards white people is cruel and unpleasant, but he's not ''wrong'' when says an infection among them could end up killing everybody.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Lysol.
* KillItWithFire: One of the only safe ways to dispose of the dead.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Traylor's father prefers a katana.
-->"You don't need to reload a sword"
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Alan aka "Lysol", Traylor's oldest son.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: This zombie virus infects salmon and dogs, too, and seems to be spread by water. Also, indigenous people are immune to infection.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler: Lysol is left to be torn apart by zombies when the others escape.]]
* TimeSkip: At the end of the first act, we jump six months into the future where society is at the brink and the Reservation seems like it could be the last safe place for the uninfected.
[[caption-width-right:350: Joseph (left), Traylor (center) and Lysol (right)]]
'''Blood Quantum''' is a 2019 Canadian Zombie Horror movie written and directed by Jeff Barnaby and starring Michael Greyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Forrest Goodluck, Kiowa Gordon, Brandon Oakes, Olivia Scriven, Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs and Gary Farmer.
Set in 1981, the movie concerns a zombie outbreak near the Red Lake Reservation, where Traylor (Michael Greyeyes) is the police chief. The Native population discovers they are immune to the virus, and begin fighting back against the zombies and taking in survivors.
The movie premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival in the Midnight Madness category, it will be released on the Shudder streaming service.
!!Tropes Associated With Blood Quantum Include:
* AmicableExes: Traylor and Joss.
* Badass Grandpa: Traylor's katana-wielding, WWII veteran father is one of the most competent zombie killers in the movie.
* BastardBastard: Lysol
* ChainsawGood: a favorite weapon against the zombies, including a very memorable shot where a zombie attacking Traylor is killed with a chainsaw through the back of its head.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: the movie was meant as an allegory for the 1981 raids on the Restigouche Reservation by Canadian police. Jeff Barnaby has cited the documentary ''Incident at Restigouche'' as a major inspiration.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Joseph might not be the ''most'' responsible teen, but he's a lot more well-adjusted than his half-brother Lysol.
* FreudianExcuse: Lysol's mother died soon after his birth, and Traylor basically abandoned him.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Zig-Zagged. Joseph's girlfriend Charlie is planning on getting an abortion early in the movie, and Joseph is supportive, but it never happens because of the chaos caused at the hospital by the zombie outbreak.
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Lysol, by way of the infected girl brought into the camp.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Traylor sacrifices himself so the others can escape.]]
* InfantImmortality: Averted. One woman infected with the zombie virus is seen eating the fetus she had just given birth to.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Lysol's hostility towards white people is cruel and unpleasant, but he's not ''wrong'' when says an infection among them could end up killing everybody.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Lysol.
* KillItWithFire: One of the only safe ways to dispose of the dead.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Traylor's father prefers a katana.
-->"You don't need to reload a sword"
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Alan aka "Lysol", Traylor's oldest son.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: This zombie virus infects salmon and dogs, too, and seems to be spread by water. Also, indigenous people are immune to infection.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler: Lysol is left to be torn apart by zombies when the others escape.]]
* TimeSkip: At the end of the first act, we jump six months into the future where society is at the brink and the Reservation seems like it could be the last safe place for the uninfected.
