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* SpaceIsCold: Jim goes from roasting to freezing in no time once he's knocked out into space. His suit even starts to frost and crack.
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* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: [[spoiler: After Aurora learns that Jim woke her up on purpose, she goes into his room one night and wakes him up with a beating. Then she picks up a blunt object...and Jim deliberately lowers his arms. Ultimately, Aurora doesn't go through with it.]]
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* AsteroidThicket: The ''Avalon'' passes through one at the start of the film.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Of more than five thousand cryo pods, the one that malfunctioned happens to contain a man who's a GadgeteerGenius, possessing the necessary skills to be able to fix the crippled ship. [[spoiler:Another such incident awakens a senior crew member with full authority to access all of the starship systems, which is exactly what the two protagonists needed in the third act.]]
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* AutoDoc: AsteroidThicket: The ''Avalon'' passes through one at the start of the film.
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* {{Autodoc}}: The device appears by trope name.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: RuleOfDrama wins the day with the ArtificialGravity failures. A rotational gravity centrifuge would continue to function from inertia after a power loss, and gradually lose gravity as the rings stop spinning from friction on the bearings.
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* FailsafeFailure: Homestead are so confident in their cutting-edge starships that they decided to make them all pilot themselves completely on autopilot, with even all their crew remained in cryosleep until they almost arrive at their destination (''not even in urgent situations''). Without actual humans overseeing the ship, there is ''no one'' around to fix the problems when things go wrong. [[spoiler: This leads to the AIIsACrapshoot situation when the ''Avalon'' gets hit by a large asteroid, causing a hull breach, and the ''Avalon'' computer starts diverting energy to fix the systems that go wrong, but is incapable of fixing the ''actual'' problem (the fire in the reactor room) itself. This wears down the systems little by little until eventually crippling the ship because too many systems got broken. If Jim hadn't been accidentally woken up from cryosleep, the ship wouldn't have even make it halfway to its destination.]]
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* FailsafeFailure: Homestead are so confident in their cutting-edge starships that they decided to make them all pilot themselves completely on autopilot, with even all their crew remained in cryosleep until they almost arrive at their destination (''not (not even being forcibly awakened to take command of the ship in urgent ''emergency situations''). Without actual humans overseeing the ship, there is ''no one'' around to fix the problems when things go wrong. [[spoiler: This leads to the AIIsACrapshoot situation when the ''Avalon'' gets hit by a large asteroid, causing a hull breach, and the ''Avalon'' computer starts diverting energy to fix the systems that go wrong, but is incapable of fixing the ''actual'' problem (the fire in the reactor room) itself. This wears down the systems little by little until eventually crippling the ship because too many systems got broken. If Jim hadn't been accidentally woken up from cryosleep, the ship wouldn't have even make it halfway to its destination.]]
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* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler: Jim, to Aurora, feels like this even before he wakes her up from cryosleep agaisnt her will.]] Though it's mostly because of the predicament of GoMadFromIsolation, and the character contemplated about the morality of the act several times before giving in.
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* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler: Jim, to Aurora, feels like this even before he wakes her up from cryosleep agaisnt her will.]] Though it's mostly because of the predicament of GoMadFromIsolation, GoMadFromTheIsolation, and the character contemplated about the morality of the act several times before giving in.
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* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler: Jim, to Aurora, feels like this even before he wakes her up from cryosleep agaisnt her will.]] Though it's mostly because of the predicament of GoMadFromIsolation, and the character contemplated about the morality of the act several times before giving in.
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* FailsafeFailure: Homestead are so confident in their cutting-edge starships that they decided to make them all pilot themselves completely on autopilot, with even all their crew remained in cryosleep until they almost arrive at their destination.destination (''not even in urgent situations''). Without actual humans overseeing the ship, there is ''no one'' around to fix the problems when things go wrong. [[spoiler: This leads to the AIIsACrapshoot situation when the ''Avalon'' gets hit by a large asteroid, causing a hull breach, and the ''Avalon'' system computer starts diverting energy to fix the systems that go wrong, but is incapable of fixing the ''actual'' problem (the fire in the reactor room) itself. Eventually, this This wears down the systems little by little until eventually crippling the ship is crippled because too many systems got broken.broken. If Jim hadn't been accidentally woken up from cryosleep, the ship wouldn't have even make it halfway to its destination.]]
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Aurora Dunn (Creator/JenniferLawrence) and Jim Preston (Creator/ChrisPratt) are two people from Earth traveling aboard the ''Starship Avalon'' on a 120-year trip to Homestead II, a [[SettlingTheFrontier colonized planet]] in distant outer space. When they're awoken prematurely by their malfunctioning sleep pods, they discover there's more to the ship than meets the eye... and start falling in love.
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Aurora Dunn Lane (Creator/JenniferLawrence) and Jim Preston (Creator/ChrisPratt) are two people from Earth traveling aboard the ''Starship Avalon'' on a 120-year trip to Homestead II, a [[SettlingTheFrontier colonized planet]] in distant outer space. When they're awoken prematurely by their malfunctioning sleep pods, they discover there's more to the ship than meets the eye... and start falling in love.
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* StarshipLuxurious: The ''Starship Avalon'' is this, deliberately and unabashedly.
* SubspaceAnsible: Humorously {{averted}}. Jim learns the hard way that interstellar communication doesn't work that way when he sends a message to earth, only to find out he won't get a response for at least 55 years.
* SubspaceAnsible: Humorously {{averted}}. Jim learns the hard way that interstellar communication doesn't work that way when he sends a message to earth, only to find out he won't get a response for at least 55 years.
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* BreakTheCutie: Jim spends his first year alone on the ''Avalon'' going through this.
* BurialInSpace: [[spoiler:Gus.]]
* BurialInSpace: [[spoiler:Gus.]]
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* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:In the end, Aurora forgives Jim and chooses to stay awake with him aboard the Avalon instead of using the medical facilities to go back to cryosleep.]]
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* BeardOfSorrow: Jim grows one that would make ''Film/CastAway Chuck Nolan'' proud after one year of being alone in ''Avalon''.
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* TheAtoner: Jim for the last act of the film [[spoiler:definitely tried to make up for waking up Aurora, nearly dying and even offering her a chance to enter a makeshift hybernation pod.]]
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* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Jim gets into one after doing a HeroicSacrifice]].
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jim holds the door open long enough for the excess heat to escape the ship and reboot the system, all while taking a face full of heat and being stranded in space with a hole in his suit]].
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:Exaggerated. Gus' time is mere ''hours'' when he found out he's dying.]]
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* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:Averted. Aurora takes plenty of time hating on Jim for what he did to her before realizing that he can be forgiven.]]
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* DistantFinale: [[spoiler:The film ends with the entire crew waking up at the intended time, only to find that Jim and Aurora had redecorated the ship and that the tree has grown huge.]]
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* OntologicalMystery: The humans seek the reason why the cryonic pods are malfunctioning. They [[spoiler:They find it in the end. end.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler:Gus, while calling out Jim on waking up Aurora, understands ''exactly'' what he was going through]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler:Gus, while calling out Jim on waking up Aurora, understands ''exactly'' what he was going through]].
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* SleeperStarship: The ''Starship Avalon'' is this.
this... Well, save for Jim and Aurora's pods.
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"Who the hell planted this tree?" It's not so much as the context of the line but rather that it's a new person who said it, which opens up the plot to both Jim and Aurora.]]
* WorstAid: The medical equipment needs captain's clearance to revivepeople. people and give people diagnostics on specific diseases. [[spoiler:Not to mention that the malfunctioning pods can end up killing someone]].
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"Who the hell planted this tree?" It's not so much as the context of the line but rather that it's a new person who said it, which opens up the plot to both Jim and Aurora.]]
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* CuteMachines: The cleaning robots resemble cybermats.
* GadgeteerGenius: Jim is able to jury rig the facilities aboard the Avalon
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: A year of being the only cognizant organism on the ship begins to grate on Jim.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: A year of being the only cognizant organism on the ship begins to grate on Jim.
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* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Arthur the bartending robot. Averted with the other robots.
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* DesignatedHero: Jim is actually the only person to wake up on the ship prematurely. Ordinarily this would be cause for some kind of thriller or quiet drama setup, but the "romance" of it comes from him looking into the personal history of another colonist, deciding he's in love with her, then ''deliberately waking her up'' to fall in love with her.
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* XMeetsY: ''Passengers'' has been described as a sci-fi romance, which is backed up by one of the trailers released.
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[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/passengers_3.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:[[{{Tagline}} There is a reason they woke up]].]]
'''''Passengers''''' is a 2016 {{science fiction}}[=/=]{{romance}} film directed by Morten Tyldum (''Film/TheImitationGame'') and written by Jon Spaihts (''Film/DoctorStrange'').
Aurora Dunn (Creator/JenniferLawrence) and Jim Preston (Creator/ChrisPratt) are two people from Earth traveling aboard the ''Starship Avalon'' on a 120-year trip to Homestead II, a [[SettlingTheFrontier colonized planet]] in distant outer space. When they're awoken prematurely by their malfunctioning sleep pods, they discover there's more to the ship than meets the eye... and start falling in love.
Creator/MichaelSheen and Creator/LaurenceFishburne also star.
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!! ''Passengers'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Arthur the bartending robot.
* RobotReveal: Jim doesn't known Arthur is actually a robot until his lower, mechanical half is shown.
* SettlingTheFrontier: The ''Starship Avalon'' is en route to Homestead II, a human colonization somewhere in distance space.
* SleeperStarship: The ''Starship Avalon'' is this.
* XMeetsY: ''Passengers'' has been described as a sci-fi romance, which is backed up by one of the trailers released.
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[[caption-width-right:300:[[{{Tagline}} There is a reason they woke up]].]]
'''''Passengers''''' is a 2016 {{science fiction}}[=/=]{{romance}} film directed by Morten Tyldum (''Film/TheImitationGame'') and written by Jon Spaihts (''Film/DoctorStrange'').
Aurora Dunn (Creator/JenniferLawrence) and Jim Preston (Creator/ChrisPratt) are two people from Earth traveling aboard the ''Starship Avalon'' on a 120-year trip to Homestead II, a [[SettlingTheFrontier colonized planet]] in distant outer space. When they're awoken prematurely by their malfunctioning sleep pods, they discover there's more to the ship than meets the eye... and start falling in love.
Creator/MichaelSheen and Creator/LaurenceFishburne also star.
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!! ''Passengers'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Arthur the bartending robot.
* RobotReveal: Jim doesn't known Arthur is actually a robot until his lower, mechanical half is shown.
* SettlingTheFrontier: The ''Starship Avalon'' is en route to Homestead II, a human colonization somewhere in distance space.
* SleeperStarship: The ''Starship Avalon'' is this.
* XMeetsY: ''Passengers'' has been described as a sci-fi romance, which is backed up by one of the trailers released.
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