History Series / ThreePercent

There are, however, those resentful of the system and wishful for a more equal distribution of the wealth. These people have joined to form [[LaResistance The Cause]], a subversive group that aims to dethrone those in living in the Offshore and create a better world of everyone. The Cause sent agents to infiltrate The Process as candidates in order to get in a position of power and topple the system from the inside.

* XMeetsY: [[Literature/TheHungerGames In a post-apocalyptic setting, young people participate in ruthless and dangerous tests organized by the luxurious elite]] [[Film/TheIsland with the promise of joining a natural and technological paradise out in the sea.]] [[spoiler:In addition to clearing these tests, [[Literature/BraveNewWorld the 3% who pass have to become sterilized before they can join the paradise.]]]]

** When someone is eliminated, the Process employees usually deliver a pattern speech about the elimination, saying that "the joy of having children" is the best way to cope with the elimination trauma. In the end of season 1, [[spoiler: it's revealed that the candidates approved are turned sterile before going to the High Seas, as heredity is banned in their society and the only way to become a High Seas citizen is through merit (that is, being approved in The Process). In other words, they need to encourage the people in The Inland to reproduce in order to avoid human extinction.]]

** However, if the opening montage showing a submarine going to The Offshore is any indication, it looks like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%A1 Pará]] coast.

* FiveManBand: Averted, Although we mainly follow five candidates and they do a lot of the tests as a team, the relations between them are very individual and they never form an actual group.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When someone is eliminated, the Process employees usually deliver a pattern speach about the elimination, saying that "the joy of having children" is the best way to cope with the elimination trauma. In the end of season 1, [[spoiler: it's revealed that the candidates approved are turned sterile before going to the High Seas, as heredity is banned in their society and the only way to become a High Seas citizen is through merit (that is, being approved in The Process). In other words, they need to encourage the people in The Inland to reproduce in order to avoid human extinction.]]
** Ezequiel show to like to punish himself by diving his head in sink full of water until he almost lose his breath and is also found to use a DrowningPit to torture the members of The Cause. The cause of this obsession is likely linked to the fact that [[spoiler: his wife, Julia, drowned herself to death]].

* TheLeader: In Episode 4 Marco quickly and effectively organizes the other candidates. [[spoiler:This works wonderfully for all of five minutes before the circumstances make him show his dark side.]]

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The series takes place in Brazil, but where in the country is never stated and the fact that the characters has different regional accents makes the location hard to guess.

In the future, people are divided between those living in poverty and strife in the Inland and those living in luxury and comfort in [[CityOnTheWater the Offshore]]. Every year, 20 year olds get the chance to participate in "The Process", a series of test with the purpose of identifying those from the Inland deserving to join the elite in the Offshore. The Process tests the candidates' mental capacities, motivation, social skills and much more, ruthlessly weeding out all of those less than ideal until only the top 3% remain.

In the future, people are divided between those living in poverty and strife in the continent and those living in luxury and comfort in [[CityOnTheWater high seas]]. Every year, 20 year olds get the chance to participate in "The Process", a series of test with the purpose of identifying those from the continent deserving to join the elite in the Offshore. The Process tests the candidates' mental capacities, motivation, social skills and much more, ruthlessly weeding out all of those less than ideal until only the top 3% remain.

* CrapsackWorld: The Continent. Everybody looks malnourished and dirty, buildings are little more than rubble and clothing is pretty much only rags.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Pretty much a given when you grow up in a horribly impoverished pile of rubble. The end of Season 1 goes one step further [[spoiler: by revealing that the purification ritual is sterilization. Since there are no children in the Offshore, ''everybody'' grows up in the dark and dangerous Continent]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: While very sadistic as the process leader, Ezequiel still cares about [[spoiler:his wife's son, who lives in The Continent]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When someone is eliminated, the Process employees usually deliver a pattern speach about the elimination, saying that "the joy of having children" is the best way to cope with the elimination trauma. In the end of season 1, [[spoiler: it's revealed that the candidates approved are turned sterile before going to the High Seas, as heredity is banned in their society and the only way to become a High Seas citizen is through merit (that is, being approved in The Process). In other words, they need to encourage the people in The Continent to reproduce in order to avoid human extinction.]]

In the future, people are divided between those living in poverty and strife in the continent and those living in luxury and comfort in [[CityOnTheWater high seas]]. Every year, 20 year olds get the chance to participate in "The Process", a series of test with the purpose of identifying those from the continent deserving to join the elite in high seas. The Process tests the candidates mental capacities, motivation, social skills and much more, ruthlessly weeding out all of those less than ideal until only the best of the best remain, only the top 3%.

There are, however, those resentful of the system and wishful for a more equal distribution of the wealth. These people have joined to form [[LaResistance The Cause]], a subversive group that aims to dethrone those in high seas and create a better world of everyone. The Cause as agents infiltrated as candidates in order to get in a position of power and topple the system from the inside.

''3%'' is a 2016 SciFi Brazilian Creator/{{Netflix}} original series.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Marco, since he as shown his worst side in the moment of his death.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Pretty much a given when you grow up in a horribly impoverished pile of rubble. The end of season 1 reveals [[spoiler: the purification ritual is sterilization so there are no children in the Offshore ''everybody'' grows up in the dark and dangerous Continent]]

* DecoyProtagonist: Michele, Rafael, Marco, Joana and Fernando are the candidates that get the most focus, they appear in the opening credits and promotional material [[spoiler: Marco dies at the end of episode four.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Julia.]]

* FanDisservice: Michelle has a nude scene in Season 1... [[spoiler:which she is being tortured.]]

** Ezequiel show to like to punish himself by diving his head in sink full of water until he almost lose his breath and is also found to use a DrowningPit to torture the members of The Cause. The cause of this obsession is likely linked to the fact that [[spoiler: his wife, Julia, drown herself to death]].
* FullEpisodeFlashback: Episode 5 of season 1 provides Ezequiel's backstory and the reason that he's being evaluated by the council.

* IronicEcho: "Whatever happens, you deserve it" The words are sid by Ezequiel to the candidates in the first day of The Process, he hears them in his mind again in the end, when [[spoiler: all his actions have only left him more alone and all he believes in is put into question]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Marco is beat up to a pulp by the candidates he subdue and later is smashed to half by an automatic gate when he tries to escape from the test location while wounded.]]
* LaResistance: The Cause
* TheLeader: In episode four Marco quickly and effectively organizes the other candidates, which works wonderfully for all of five minutes before the circumstances make him show his dark side.

* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler: Marco, after the circumstances of a test turn him into a psychotic elitist bastard.]]
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: The reason why many people stand for the process insane demands.
* MeaningfulEcho: Joana disses Ezequiel with the same words that his wife used. which breaks him.

* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Ezequiel plays by this, altering the Process' tests in any way he wants, usually to make things worse to the candidates.

* XMeetsY: [[Literature/TheHungerGames In a post-apocalyptic setting, young people participate in ruthless and dangerous tests organized by the luxurious elite]] [[Film/TheIsland with the promise of joining a natural and technological paradise out in the sea.]] [[spoiler:In addition to clearing these tests, [[Literature/BraveNewWorld the 3% who pass have to become sterilized before they can join the paradise.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When someone is eliminated, the Process employees usually deliver a pattern speach about the elimination, saying that "the joy of heaving children" is the best way to cope with the elimination trauma. In the end of season 1, [[spoiler: it's revelead that the candidates approved are turned sterile before going to the High Seas, as heredity is banned in their society and the only way to became a High Seas citizen is through merit (it is, being approved in the process). In other words, they need to encourage the people in The Continent to reproduce in order to avoid populational extinction.]]

* XMeetsY: [[Literature.TheHungerGames In a postapocaliptic setting, young people participate in a ruthless and dangerous test organized by the luxurious elite]] [[Film.TheIsland with the promise of joining a natural and technological paradise out in the sea.]]

* DrowningPit: Ezequiel's favorite way of torturing people... [[SelfHarm including himself]].

** Ezequiel show to like to punish himself by diving his head in sink full of water until he almost lose his breath and is also found to use a DrowningPit to torture the members of The Cause. The cause of this obsession is likely linked to the fact that [[spoiler: his wife drown herself to death]].

* FanDisservice: Michelle has a nude scene in Season 1... [[spoiler:where she is being tortured.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: Julia.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: While very sadistic was the process leader, Ezequiel still cares about [[spoiler:his wife's son, who lives in The Continent]].

* DrivenToSuicide: Julia
* EveryoneHasStandards: Rafael has no qualms about stealing a cube from another candidate and voting to eliminate Fernando because of his wheelchair, but he's the first to oppose when Marco forms a gang and starts using violence to take the food from other candidates

* BlueBlood: Marco comes from the Alvarez family, famous because all of them pass The Process and even have a maid, although he still lives in an dirty old house and has little food, and he as to pass The Process on his own if he wants to join his family. [[spoiler: It turns out the system is intentionally set to avoid this, so nobdy can get wealth and power just from being born in a wealthy and powerful family.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Pretty mcuh a given when you grow up in a horribly empoverished pile of rubble. The end of season 1 reveals [[spoiler: the purification ritual is sterilization so there are no children in the Offshore ''everybody'' grows up in the dark and dangerous Continent]]

''3%'' I is a 2016 SciFi Brazilian Creator/{{Netflix}} original series.

* Meaningful Echo: Joana disses Ezequiel with the same words that his wife used. which breaks him.

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