History Recap / LoveDeathAndRobotsPopSquad

* AssholeVictim: Unlike her partner Briggs, Detective Pentle feels no remorse at all about killing children, derisively refers to the desperate families as "Breeders", and murders Briggs for sparing a child's life. Good luck feeling sympathy ''at all'' when she gets shot in turn and bleeds out before her partner dies.
* AutoErotica: Alice outright propositions Briggs in his flying car but the latter turns her down because he's not in the mood.

* IronicName: Melanie. The girl is fair-skinned and light-haired.

* RetroUniverse: It's eternal Chandler times, despite sky-scrappers reaching above the clouds, hoovering cars and clinical immortality. Part of it comes from the fact humanity itself no longer really progresses, as it has no need or reason to do it, instead relishing the relics of the past to boast of how great it is to live forever.

* OutDamnedSpot: Briggs notices blood on his hands, after "popping" a "gang" of children too young to even speak. He can't clean it, until he realises after a while it isn't real.

* HeroicSacrifice: Melanie's mother would rather let herself be killed and thus "make room" for her daughter than let Briggs shoot Melanie.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The immortal part of the society just can't wrap their heads around ''why'' anyone would rather live in a squalor and constant hiding for the sake of having a child. Since the system has been running for so long, people genuinely no longer ''remember'' what it is to have children around or what they even need. Up to the point where Alice tells Briggs she would have a baby with him in any other set up, and all it causes it his horrified expression and her cracking up that it was only a joke to rile him, without meaning a word of it.

* IronicName: Melanie. The girl is fair-skined and light-haired.

* KarmicDeath: Pentle dies an ignominious death from being shot in the throat, unrepentant of her crimes. Briggs, who [[HeroicSacrifice dies for Melanie's sake]], [[Film/BladeRunner peacefully looks up at the rain in his last moments]].
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Alice holds this view and states that not having children is a small price to pay for immortality. She's proud of spending 20 years to perfect her solo number. This seems to be the general sentiment of the fortunate/upper class. On the other hand...

* OutDamnedSpot: Briggs notices blood on his hands, after "popping" a "gang" of children too young to even speak. He can't clean it, until he realises after a while it isn't real.

* RayOfHopeEnding: Briggs dies, after he kills his detective partner... but that leaves two "slots" open for other people to live and nobody has reported Melanie's existence yet.

* TheRoaringTwenties: The aesthetic of the immortal humans' civilization, from their fashions and art down to the designs of their flying cars.

** Eve openly states that she's seen too much and lived for too long to keep going anymore, but having Melanie has made things seem new again and given that will back.
** In the original story, Briggs himself has a hard time remembering ''when'' exactly things happened in his life, because he's been around for centuries, to the point even basic trivia has become fuzzy since he learned it so long ago. Trace amounts of original dialogue indicating that are still left in the animated short, but almost all without the context.

Based on the [[Literature/PumpSixAndOtherStories short story]] of the same name by Creator/PaoloBacigalupi.

* BodyMotifs: Eyes. The "Rejoo" treatment is visually signified by how, among other things, Alice's eyes get brighter. Later, Melanie admits that she's SeenItAll, but seeing the world through Melanie's eyes has made life worth living again. And when Briggs is fatally shot, the scene focuses on his eyes gazing at the world around him before he collapses.

* ImmortalProcreationClause: Rejuvenation treatments appear to cause sterility as a side effect, as the ones with children have stopped taking them.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Briggs appears to genuinely want to understand why breeders do what they do. The adaptation plays his drive to learn as entirely noble, whereas the original short story more describes him coming to terms with the fact that he's developing a fetish for these women.

* DeathOfAChild: Briggs kills two children in the opening.