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* TerroristsWithoutACause: The terrorist is not part of any cause or established movement. He's a lone wolf who gives only a very generic motive about [[spoiler:the world being "hell" and people needing to rebuild society]]/
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* TerroristsWithoutACause: The terrorist is not part of any cause or established movement. He's a lone wolf who gives only a very generic motive about [[spoiler:the world being "hell" and people needing to rebuild society]]/society]].
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivered in the first person no less, when Colter reports the susepct.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivered in the first person no less, when Colter reports the susepct.suspect.
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* ExpendableAlternateUniverse:
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Played extremely straight with the main plot being about all the alternate realities where Colter is sent where he failed to prevent the bombing.
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* ExpendableAlternateUniverse:
ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Played extremely straight with the main plot being about all the alternate realities where Colter is sent where he failed to prevent the bombing.
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* DeathIsCheap: Colter, who was mortally wounded before the film even starts, is kept alive on life support and doesn't die at the end of every run through, even as the entire train he's supposedly on blows up.
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* DeathIsCheap: Colter, who was mortally wounded Colter who, before the film even starts, is kept alive on life support and doesn't die at the end of every run through, even as the entire train body he's supposedly in at the time is on a train that blows up.
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* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Inverted. [[spoiler: In the end, there's a reality where they found the bomber after he blew up the train, the Source Code project is deemed a success, Colter gets KilledOffForReal and Goodwin will probably have to face military court. Colter simply uses his new Sean body to go drink a coffee with Christina.]] Played staight with all the alternate realities where Colter failed to prevent the bombing.
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* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Inverted. [[spoiler: In the end, there's a reality where they found the bomber after he blew up the train, the Source Code project is deemed a success, Colter gets KilledOffForReal and Goodwin will probably have to face military court. Colter simply uses his new Sean body to go drink a coffee with Christina.]] ExpendableAlternateUniverse:
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* TimeTravel: Colter Stevens uses technology to return to an earlier point in time, [[spoiler: but his actions do not erase the accident that originally happened, but rather creates a branch timeline.]]
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* TimeTravel: Colter Stevens uses technology to return to an earlier point in time, [[spoiler: but his actions do not erase the accident that originally happened, but rather creates a branch timeline.]]
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* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Goodwin decides to [[spoiler:mercy kill Colter rather than let him be used endlessly by the Source Code project]], which will get her in big trouble.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Colter doesn't remember where he is or what he's doing during his first mission. Even during his debrief, he remembers almost nothing about his mission or situation and must receive an InfoDump from Goodwin. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:this is because he had just been plugged into the Source Code system before his first mission]].
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:For a loose definition of "villain". When Goodwin goes against orders and is prepared to kill Colter (on his request) at the end of his final Source Code trip, Rutledge is screaming at his men to stop her after he finds she's changed the access code.]]
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Colter doesn't remember where he is or what he's doing during his first mission. Even during his debrief, he remembers almost nothing about his mission or situation and must receive an InfoDump from Goodwin. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:this is because he had just been plugged into the Source Code system before his first mission]].
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:For a loose definition of "villain". When Goodwin goes against orders and is prepared to kill Colter (on his request) at the end of his final Source Code trip, Rutledge is screaming at his men to stop her after he finds she's changed the access code.]]
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* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Goodwin decides to [[spoiler:mercy mercy kill Colter rather than let him be used endlessly by the Source Code project]], which will get her in big trouble.
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* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Colter doesn't remember where he is or what he's doing during his first mission. Even during his debrief, he remembers almost nothing about his mission or situation and must receive an InfoDump from Goodwin. It's later revealed that[[spoiler:this this is because he had just been plugged into the Source Code system before his first mission]].
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:For a loose definition of "villain". When Goodwin goes against orders and is prepared to kill Colter (on his request) at the end of his final Source Code trip, Rutledge is screaming at his men to stop her after he finds she's changed the access code.]]mission.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Colter doesn't remember where he is or what he's doing during his first mission. Even during his debrief, he remembers almost nothing about his mission or situation and must receive an InfoDump from Goodwin. It's later revealed that
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:For a loose definition of "villain". When Goodwin goes against orders and is prepared to kill Colter (on his request) at the end of his final Source Code trip, Rutledge is screaming at his men to stop her after he finds she's changed the access code.]]
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* QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything: Let you hijack the mind of a person eight minutes before they died, in this case.
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* QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything: Let you create an entire new reality to hijack so you can steal the mind life and body of a person eight minutes before they would have died, in this case.
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* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: Colter ''is'' Sean. Probably a visual form of TranslationConvention since Colter is not looking at himself all the time, he percieves himself (And we see him) as Colter. Is only when he looks in the mirror that he (And thus the audience) realizes what he actually looks like.
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* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: Colter ''is'' Sean. Probably a visual form of TranslationConvention since Colter is not looking at himself all the time, he percieves perceives himself (And (and we see him) as Colter. Is It's only when he looks in the mirror that he (And (and thus the audience) realizes what he actually looks like.
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* DeathIsCheap: Colter, who was mortally wounded before the film even starts, is kept alive on life support and doesn't die at the end of every run through, even as the entire train he's supposedly on blows up.
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* BittersweetEnding: It leans way more on the happy side. [[spoiler:Colter's original life is over and he will never see his father again. However, he will live on as Sean with Christina with a much happier lease on life. A large plot point of the film is his amends with the former.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: It leans way more on the happy side. [[spoiler:Colter's original life is over and he will never see his father again. However, he will live on as Sean with Christina with a much happier lease on life. A large plot point of the film is his amends with the former. Original Sean is still dead in both realities.]]
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** [[spoiler: While literally everyone else survives, the original Sean is dead even in the happy universe ending.]]
** It leans way more on the happy side. [[spoiler:Colter's original life is over and he will never see his father again. However, he will live on as Sean with Christina with a much happier lease on life. A large plot point of the film is his amends with the former.]]
** [[spoiler: While literally everyone else survives, the original Sean is dead even in the happy universe ending.]]
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* BittersweetEnding:
**BittersweetEnding: It leans way more on the happy side. [[spoiler:Colter's original life is over and he will never see his father again. However, he will live on as Sean with Christina with a much happier lease on life. A large plot point of the film is his amends with the former.]]
** [[spoiler: While literally everyone else survives, the original Sean is dead even in the happy universe ending.]]
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** [[spoiler: While literally everyone else survives, the original Sean is dead even in the happy universe ending.
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** One of the passengers drops his wallet, which is returned to him by another passenger. [[spoiler:The first passenger is Derek Frost, the bomber, and he's deliberately leaving his wallet at the site to be assumed one of the casualties of the bomber.]]
* ConcealmentEqualsCover: Averted. [[spoiler: Derek shoots Christina through the van.]]
* ConcealmentEqualsCover: Averted. [[spoiler: Derek shoots Christina through the van.]]
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** One of the passengers drops his wallet, which is returned to him by another passenger. [[spoiler:The first passenger is Derek Frost, the bomber, and he's deliberately leaving his wallet at the site to be assumed one of the casualties of the bomber.]]
* ConcealmentEqualsCover: Averted. [[spoiler: Derek shoots Christina through the van.]]bomber]].
* ConcealmentEqualsCover: Averted. [[spoiler: Derek shoots Christina through the van.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Colter notes that transmission fluid is leaking everywhere in his capsule, Goodwin casually dismisses it. When Colter brings up his capsule to Rutledge, the doctor says "Is that where you see yourself?" It later turns out that [[spoiler:the capsule is a projection of Colter's imagination]].
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** Rutledge, [[spoiler:bordering on EvilCripple (he's got a LackOfEmpathy, to say the least)]].
** Technically Colter, though we don't tend to see his actual body and his genius is in solving terrorist plots, rather than inventing brain-linked super-computers.
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** Rutledge, [[spoiler:bordering on EvilCripple (he's got a LackOfEmpathy, to say the least)]].
** Technically Colter, though we don't tend to see his actual body and his genius is in solving terrorist plots, rather than inventing brain-linked super-computers.
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**GeniusCripple: Rutledge, [[spoiler:bordering on EvilCripple (he's got a LackOfEmpathy, to say the least)]].
** Technically Colter, though we don't tend to see * GroundhogDayLoop: Colter must play through the same eight-minute loop over and over again, using his actual body accumulated knowledge to get closer and his genius is in solving terrorist plots, rather than inventing brain-linked super-computers.
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** Trains do not have guns on board. As quoted by Metra's own commuter newsletter '''On the Bi Level''', ''"If conductors wanted to wield guns they would have applied for a different kind of blue uniform."'' Same thing with tasers and handcuffs.
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** Trains do not have storage lockers with guns in them, nor do any train personnel carry weapons on board. As quoted by Metra's own commuter newsletter '''On the Bi Level''', ''"If conductors wanted to wield guns they them. The only armed and uniformed officers on a train would have applied for a different kind of blue uniform."'' Same thing with tasers and handcuffs.be actual law enforcement.
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* PermaStubble: Colter out stubbles Sean, his own reflection.
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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Nobody seems to care that Colter is essentially body-jacking Sean every time he jumps. [[spoiler:It's taken a step further at the end, where he has effectively murdered the real Sean and stolen his identity.]] In fairness, though, the real Sean is dead either way: either Colter jacks his body or he goes up with the train, [[spoiler:and it's beyond Colter's power to give the body back at the end]]. It doesn't even go into what exactly is happening to Sean mentally, namely whether his mind is being suppressed or outright replaced. The former leaves him in in a Film/BeingJohnMalkovich state for as long as Colter's borrowing him, the latter would leave him brain-dead assuming Colter saved him and left his body at the end of the Source Code.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[MakesSenseInContext Delivered in the first person no less]].
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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Nobody seems to care that Colter is essentially body-jacking Sean every time he jumps. [[spoiler:It's taken a step further at QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything: Let you hijack the end, where he has effectively murdered the real Sean and stolen his identity.]] In fairness, though, the real Sean is dead either way: either Colter jacks his body or he goes up with the train, [[spoiler:and it's beyond Colter's power to give the body back at the end]]. It doesn't even go into what exactly is happening to Sean mentally, namely whether his mind is being suppressed or outright replaced. The former leaves him of a person eight minutes before they died, in in a Film/BeingJohnMalkovich state for as long as Colter's borrowing him, the latter would leave him brain-dead assuming Colter saved him and left his body at the end of the Source Code.
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* TerroristsWithoutACause: The motivation for the bombing is not really important to the plot. The bomber apparently acted alone, [[spoiler: and defied all the stereotypes, being neither Middle Eastern nor Asian nor a radical college kid, but a standard-issue middle class white guy.]] When Stevens does get a chance to ask "why", he gets some answer about rebuilding from the rubble, but no specifics or clear ideology. His line "This world is Hell" plus a strong implication of mental illness is the most we ever get.
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* TerroristsWithoutACause: The motivation for the bombing terrorist is not really important to the plot. The bomber apparently acted alone, [[spoiler: and defied all the stereotypes, part of any cause or established movement. He's a lone wolf who gives only a very generic motive about [[spoiler:the world being neither Middle Eastern nor Asian nor a radical college kid, but a standard-issue middle class white guy.]] When Stevens does get a chance "hell" and people needing to ask "why", he gets some answer about rebuilding from the rubble, but no specifics or clear ideology. His line "This world is Hell" plus a strong implication of mental illness is the most we ever get.rebuild society]]/
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* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: In the original timeline, Christina died on the train and Colter died when Goodwin shut off his life support. In the alternate timeline, they live.]]
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Colter begins the film having no idea why he's on a train with a woman who claims to know him under another name. Later, when he "wakes up" inside of the capsule, he doesn't recognize Capt. Goodwin or anybody involved with the Source Code Project. [[spoiler:But then, he's never met ''any'' of them before, since he was assigned to the program after his presumed death.]]
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* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: In the original timeline, Christina died on the train and Colter died when Goodwin shut off his life support. In the alternate timeline, they live.]]
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Colter begins the film having no idea why he's on a train with a woman who claims to know him under another name. Later, when he "wakes up" inside of the capsule, he doesn't recognize Capt. Goodwin or anybody involved with the Source Code Project. [[spoiler:But then, he's never met ''any'' of them before, since he was assigned to the program after his presumed death.]]
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* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: In the original timeline, Christina died on the train and
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to Sean after [[spoiler: Colter hijacked his body in the new timeline?]] Also, what happens to [[spoiler:original timeline]] Goodwin? For that matter, [[spoiler: what about all those other timelines where they failed to find the bomber?]] Presumably [[spoiler: each timeline where the train is destroyed has a good chance of catching the bomber, but it's never really settled.]]
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Derek Frost speaks in a slurred manner, which is a possible trait for autistic people, and [[spoiler: brings up KillEmAll as his motive to restart society.]]
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A 2011 CyberPunk film directed by Creator/DuncanJones starring Creator/JakeGyllenhaal. Has quite a few similarities with ''Series/QuantumLeap'', which is acknowledged with a VoiceOnlyCameo by Creator/ScottBakula.
Captain Colter Stevens (Gyllenhaal) is a decorated helicopter pilot who [[OntologicalMystery wakes up in the body]] of an unknown man inside a train in Chicago, where he meets a woman named Christina (Creator/MichelleMonaghan). But before he can understand what's going on, a bomb explodes on the train.
Captain Colter Stevens (Gyllenhaal) is a decorated helicopter pilot who [[OntologicalMystery wakes up in the body]] of an unknown man inside a train in Chicago, where he meets a woman named Christina (Creator/MichelleMonaghan). But before he can understand what's going on, a bomb explodes on the train.
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A 2011 CyberPunk film directed by Creator/DuncanJones and starring Creator/JakeGyllenhaal. Has It has quite a few similarities with ''Series/QuantumLeap'', which is acknowledged with a VoiceOnlyCameo by Creator/ScottBakula.
Captain Colter Stevens (Gyllenhaal) is a decorated Army helicopter pilot who [[OntologicalMystery wakes up in the body]] of an unknown man inside a commuter train in Chicago, where he meets a woman named Christina (Creator/MichelleMonaghan). But before he can understand what's going on, a bomb explodes on the train.
Captain Colter Stevens (Gyllenhaal) is a decorated Army helicopter pilot who [[OntologicalMystery wakes up in the body]] of an unknown man inside a commuter train in Chicago, where he meets a woman named Christina (Creator/MichelleMonaghan). But before he can understand what's going on, a bomb explodes on the train.
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Waking up once again, this time in a capsule in an unknown location, Colter is greeted by a military woman named Captain Colleen Goodwin (Creator/VeraFarmiga), who informs Colter that he is inside the Source Code, a program that allows him to take over the body of another in the last eight minutes of that person's life. What he experienced on the train was merely an "after-image", an alternate timeline that runs parallel but more slowly. Earlier that day, a bomb already detonated and destroyed a train in Chicago, killing everyone aboard, including Christina, whom he has developed feelings for, and the original owner of Colter’s assumed identity within the Source Code, a man named Sean Fentress. Colter's mission is to use the simulation to retroactively discover the location of the bomb on the train and trace it to the bomber so that a second detonation can be prevented.
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Waking up once again, this time in a capsule in an unknown location, Colter is greeted by a military woman named Captain Colleen Goodwin (Creator/VeraFarmiga), who informs Colter that he is inside the Source Code, a program that allows him to take over the body of another in the last eight minutes of that person's life. What he experienced on the train was merely an "after-image", an alternate timeline that runs parallel but more slowly. Earlier that day, a bomb already detonated and destroyed a train in Chicago, killing everyone aboard, including Christina, whom he has developed feelings for, and the original owner of Colter’s assumed identity within the Source Code, a man named Sean Fentress. Colter's mission is to use the simulation after-image to retroactively discover the location of the bomb on the train and trace it to the bomber so that a second detonation can be prevented.
