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* AsianAndNerdy: In this depiction Thomas Edison is a young Chinese woman who is able to invent and build various devices to an Iron Man-esque degree.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Paul Revere on his horse runs away with a bomb that's about to blow up, to save his newfound friends who were caught in a trap, but his horse Clyde drops him and convinces him to go back to Washington and the others, being suddenly able to talk (with [[RuleOfFunny a Hispanic accent]] even). Then the animal gets killed in the resulting explosion.
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* MeaningfulName: Paul Revere's steed Clyde is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clydesdale_horse Clydesdale horse]].
* NippleAndDimed: Both used and subverted. Martha Washington always covers her breasts with her arms or sheets, but a random unnamed girl takes her top off during the illegal horse race... and when she reappears among numerous other extras during the final battle, she's still topless.
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** King James physically takes after [[Literature/{{Dune}} Baron Harkonnen]], while his plan is like [[Franchise/StarWars Vader and Palpatine]], with a IHaveYouNowMyPretty moment modeled after Jabba the Hut.
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** King James physically takes after [[Literature/{{Dune}} Baron Harkonnen]], while his plan is like [[Franchise/StarWars Vader and Palpatine]], with a IHaveYouNowMyPretty moment modeled after Jabba the Hut.Hutt. He also once tents his fingers while saying "Excellent!" just like [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Mr. Burns]].
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* BlandNameProduct: There's a sign for "Britweiser" beer in the Vietnam pub, then there's "Colonial Sanders' Fried Chicken" and an arcade cabinet named "Yankee Kong".
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* TwentyFourHourArmor: Paul Revere says he's never taken off his armor after the Blacksmith made it for him, and indeed we never see him wearing anything else.
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** While Benedict Arnold was hardly a good person in real life, he was never a power-hungry megalomaniac or a werewolf for that matter.
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** The final battle parodies a lot of big final battles, with Benedict's army making use of [[Film/LordOfTheRings war elephants]] and [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi AT-ATs that look like British buses]], and the battle as a whole looks like the climax of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. For added points, Benedict even repeats Thanos' same KickTheDog moment of opening fire on his own troops to wipe out the heroes, lampshading immediately that they're ''the badguys''.
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** The final battle parodies a lot of big final battles, with Benedict's army making use of [[Film/LordOfTheRings war elephants]] and [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi AT-ATs that look like British buses]], and the battle as a whole looks like the climax of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. For added points, Benedict even repeats Thanos' same KickTheDog moment of opening fire on his own troops to wipe out the heroes, lampshading immediately that they're ''the badguys''.bad guys''.
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* RaisedByWolves: Paul Revere's SuspiciouslySpecificDenial suggests he was raised by Horses. His steed Clyde might literally be his brother.
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* SchizoTech: Along with the many anachronisms there's also things like King James' hover platform, Edison's lightning gauntlets, Paul Revere becoming a cyborg-centaur and at one point a steampunk looking messenger droid uses a candle and crystal to project a hologram.
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** King James physically takes after [[Literature/{{Dune}} Baron Harkonnen]], while his plan is like [[Franchise/StarWars Vader and Palpatine]], with a IHaveYouNowMyPretty moment modeled after Jabba the Hut.
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* FatBastard: King James is very chubby and has a very unpleasant personality.
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* FatBastard: King James is very chubby and about as wide as he is tall has a very unpleasant personality.
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* AnachronismStew: It would be easier to list the ways the movie doesn't play fast and loose with period-accurate technology.
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* AffectionateParody: The depiction of the American Revolution and many historical figures is hardly accurate, but it's clearly just doing it to have fun and parody typical American Revolution stories and films. The film also pokes fun at a variety of contemporary franchise movies, but is similarly done clearly out of enjoyment of those films.
* AnachronismStew: It would be easier to list the ways the movie doesn't play fast and loose with period-accuratetechnology.technology, never mind which historical figures appear in the story. Lampshaded several times, when certain terms are used (such as "hold the phone") and are immediately questioned because they have no concept of what a phone ''is''.
* AnachronismStew: It would be easier to list the ways the movie doesn't play fast and loose with period-accurate
* BuxomIsBetter: Martha, to almost a parodic level, complete with near non-stop JigglePhysics.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade:
** Parodied with George Washington, who bares no resemblance to the actual Washington but is instead cast as a typical [[ReluctantHero Reluctant]] IdiotHero type protagonist. He naturally lacks many of the real man's moral failings, namely the whole 'slave' thing, and is depicted as being uncomfortable with the genocides against the Natives that the real Washington was involved in, but he also lacks almost all of Washington's genuine leadership skills.
** Subverted with Samuel Adams, who is one of the protagonists, but is depicted as the TokenEvilTeammate who's a ''somewhat'' more accurate idea of what American revolutionaries were like in terms of social norms and attitudes (albeit, is depicted with a FratBro personality).
** Thomas Edison is somewhat infamous nowadays for being a ruthless businessman and there's a lot of shady practices they're guilty of. They were also, of course, ''not'' part of the American Revolution.
** Parodied with George Washington, who bares no resemblance to the actual Washington but is instead cast as a typical [[ReluctantHero Reluctant]] IdiotHero type protagonist. He naturally lacks many of the real man's moral failings, namely the whole 'slave' thing, and is depicted as being uncomfortable with the genocides against the Natives that the real Washington was involved in, but he also lacks almost all of Washington's genuine leadership skills.
** Subverted with Samuel Adams, who is one of the protagonists, but is depicted as the TokenEvilTeammate who's a ''somewhat'' more accurate idea of what American revolutionaries were like in terms of social norms and attitudes (albeit, is depicted with a FratBro personality).
** Thomas Edison is somewhat infamous nowadays for being a ruthless businessman and there's a lot of shady practices they're guilty of. They were also, of course, ''not'' part of the American Revolution.
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** Whichever King James this is meant to be. While neither was necessarily pleasant, they were certainly not the cartoonishly evil megalomaniac depicted here.
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** Whichever King James this is meant to be. While neither was necessarily pleasant, they were certainly not the cartoonishly evil megalomaniac depicted here. They were also not even the ''king'' at the time of the revolution.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: King James towards Martha, and later again Benedict towards her.
* InsaneTrollLogic: To fine the Gettysburg Address (here a literal address in Gettysburg, the location of which Benedict is supposedly heading to), George comes up with the theory that Abe, who he claims was a cryptologist, named the country "America" as a secret code to help him find it, despite this having nothing to do with Abe or his death and him dying long before the location was even established. Even better, when George solves the "code", it's literally a matter of deciding A=1, and thus the address is "1, Merica St".
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: King James towards Martha, and later again Benedict towards her.
* InsaneTrollLogic: To fine the Gettysburg Address (here a literal address in Gettysburg, the location of which Benedict is supposedly heading to), George comes up with the theory that Abe, who he claims was a cryptologist, named the country "America" as a secret code to help him find it, despite this having nothing to do with Abe or his death and him dying long before the location was even established. Even better, when George solves the "code", it's literally a matter of deciding A=1, and thus the address is "1, Merica St".
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* ShoutOut: Washington has an entire decoding sequence ripped straight out of ''Film/{{Swordfish}}'', which is lampshaded after the fact.
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* ShoutOut: SadlyMythtaken: Benedict Arnold is identified both as a werewolf and as a skinwalker. These are two completely different mythic concepts from completely different cultures. Skinwalkers are also a Navajo concept, yet Geronimo, an Apache, calls it something "his people" know of.
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** Washington has an entire decoding sequence ripped straight out of ''Film/{{Swordfish}}'', which is lampshaded after thefact.fact.
** Paul Revere is introduced by him interrupting and winning a horse race, one that looks like it was taken out of ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' films.
** The final battle parodies a lot of big final battles, with Benedict's army making use of [[Film/LordOfTheRings war elephants]] and [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi AT-ATs that look like British buses]], and the battle as a whole looks like the climax of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. For added points, Benedict even repeats Thanos' same KickTheDog moment of opening fire on his own troops to wipe out the heroes, lampshading immediately that they're ''the badguys''.
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** Washington has an entire decoding sequence ripped straight out of ''Film/{{Swordfish}}'', which is lampshaded after the
** Paul Revere is introduced by him interrupting and winning a horse race, one that looks like it was taken out of ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' films.
** The final battle parodies a lot of big final battles, with Benedict's army making use of [[Film/LordOfTheRings war elephants]] and [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi AT-ATs that look like British buses]], and the battle as a whole looks like the climax of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. For added points, Benedict even repeats Thanos' same KickTheDog moment of opening fire on his own troops to wipe out the heroes, lampshading immediately that they're ''the badguys''.
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* TakeThat: Pretty much constantly throughout to jingoistic American Nationalism, with George constantly having MyGodWhatHaveIDone moments when he realises what he's creating, and both Geronimo and John Henry admitting they're only helping them with the revolution because the Brits are ''even worse''.
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''America: The Motion Picture'' is an R-rated [[AnimatedFilms animated movie]] that premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} on June 30, 2021, with animation produced by Lord Miller Productions. It's set in 1776 America in an {{alternate timeline}} where the British reign supreme against the Americans and the declaration of independence was never signed and George Washington leads a rag-tag band of alternate versions of historical figures into overthrowing the British and avenging the murder of his best friend Abraham Lincoln.
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''America: The Motion Picture'' is an R-rated [[AnimatedFilms animated movie]] that premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} on June 30, 2021, with animation produced by Lord Miller Productions. It's set in 1776 America in an {{alternate timeline}} where the British reign supreme against the Americans and the declaration of independence was never signed and George Washington UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington leads a [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits rag-tag band of alternate versions of historical figures figures]] into overthrowing the British and avenging the murder of his best friend Abraham Lincoln.UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln.
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* BittersweetEnding: Wshington realizes this in the end as he makes his address to the people, and sees the 'boorish' side of the {{Eagleland}} tropes start to form.
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* BittersweetEnding: Wshington Washington realizes this in the end as he makes his address to the people, and sees the 'boorish' side of the {{Eagleland}} tropes start to form.
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''America: The Motion Picture'' is an R-rated [[AnimatedFilms animated movie]] that premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} on June 30, 2021, with animation produced by Lord Miller Productions. It's set in 1776 America in an alternate timeline {{alternate timeline}} where the British reign supreme against the Americans and the declaration of independence was never signed and George Washington leads a rag-tag band of alternate versions of historical figures into overthrowing the British and avenging the murder of his best friend Abraham Lincoln.
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* BittersweetEnding: Wshington realizes this in the end as he makes his address to the people, and sees the 'boorish' side of the {{Eagleland}} tropes start to form.
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* RuleOfCool: The movie plays like drunk history as told by a total bro with a failing grade in history class. Caring less about accuracy and more about what is cool.
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* RuleOfCool: The movie plays like drunk history as told by a total frat bro with a whose failing grade in history class. Caring less about accuracy and more about what is what's cool.
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* {{Eagleland}}: Adams dips into both sides of the trope. Proud and patriotic, but also very openly racist towards Edison.
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* {{Eagleland}}: Adams dips into both sides of the trope. Proud and patriotic, but also very openly racist towards Edison.and sexist, though he does make an effort to change.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While Benedict Arnold was hardly a good person in real life, he was never a power-hungry megalomaniac, or a werewolf for that matter.
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** While Benedict Arnold was hardly a good person in real life, he was never a power-hungry megalomaniac, or a werewolf for that matter.
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** Whichever King James this is meant to be. While neither was necessarily pleasant, they were certainly not the cartoonishly evil megalomaniac depicted here.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: For the most part it's fairly easy to tell who are the good and the bad guys this way.
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* {{Eagleland}}: Adams dips into both sides of the trope. Proud and patriotic, but also very openly racist towards Edison.
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* BurnTheWitch: The British try to burn Edison for practicing "witchcraft" (science), but her tech lets her easily escape.
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* BurnTheWitch: Parodied. The British try to burn Edison for practicing "witchcraft" (science), what is explicitly science and referred to as such, but is treated like it's witchcraft, but her tech lets her easily escape.
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* MookLieutenant: The cape wearing British soldier with Benedict Arnold at the beginning appears to be of higher authority then a standard Redcoat, and fittingly puts up a decent fight against Washington using dual rapiers. Arnold even outright calls him a miniboss.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: As the citizens of the newly-minted America devolve into infighting over various grievances, George Washington gives the final line of the film:
-->"We're gonna fuck this up, aren't we?"
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* AnachronismStew: It would be easier to list the ways the movie doesn't play fast and loose with period-accurate technology.
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* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: The title card advertises that the movie is "based on actual history", which is accurate by an incredibly lenient interpretation of "based".
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* EurekaMoment: George gets this when Edison says that the team needs to code the coordinates for the Gettysburg address.
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* EurekaMoment: BurnTheWitch: The British try to burn Edison for practicing "witchcraft" (science), but her tech lets her easily escape.
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** George gets this when Edison says that the team needs to code the coordinates for the Gettysburg address.
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** George gets this when Edison says that the team needs to code the coordinates for the Gettysburg address.
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* EvilBrit: King James sounds very evil with Creator/SimonPegg at the helm. Since King James is the king of the British, it makes this trope more meaningful.
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** King James sounds very evil with Creator/SimonPegg at the helm. Since King James is the king of the British, it makes this trope more meaningful.
** King James sounds very evil with Creator/SimonPegg at the helm. Since King James is the king of the British, it makes this trope more meaningful.
* ReverseThePolarity: Edison uses beer to reverse the British teabagging machine so it instead seeds the clouds with beer, converting the British into Americans.
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* TheStarscream: Benedict Arnold is this to King James to the point where he straight up kills him.
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* TheStarscream: Benedict Arnold is this to King James to the point where he straight up kills him.him.
* WeCanRebuildHim: Paul Revere is fused to his decapitated horse to become a Franchise/RoboCop-esque cyborg centaur.
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* TheSmurfette: Thomas Edison.
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* TheSmurfette: TheSmurfettePrinciple: Thomas Edison.
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* OnlySaneMan: Geronimo and Edison share this role among their group.
* RaceLift: Thomas Edison is both a female andan Asian.Chinese in this movie.
* RaceLift: Thomas Edison is both a female and
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* AssholeVictim: King James is suck a dick that when Benedict Arnold betrays and murders him, you don't really feel sorry for him.
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** Benedict Arnold is also this. Despite acutally being born in America, he can pull of a convincing British accent.
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** Benedict Arnold is also this. Despite acutally actually being born in America, he can pull of off a convincing British accent.
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** Edison herself gets this when Samuel Addams says that beer is the opposite of tea, which gives her the idea of how to stop Arnold's plan of using British tea to turn all of the Americans into British people.
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* ArtisticLiscenceLaw: This goes without saying, but none of the movie's events are historically accurate.
* BigBad: Creator/BenedictArnold, who is a werewolf.
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* ArtisticLiscenceLaw: This goes without saying, but none of the movie's events are historically accurate.
* BigBad: Creator/BenedictArnold, who is a werewolf.
* EurekaMoment: George gets this when Edison says that the team needs to code the coordinates for the Gettysburg address.
** Edison herself gets this when Samuel Addams says that beer is the opposite of tea, which gives her the idea of how to stop Arnold's plan of using British tea to turn all of the Americans into British people.
* GenderFlip: Thomas Edison is a female in this version.
* GreaterScopeVillain: King James.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While Benedict Arnold was hardly a good person in real life, he was never a power-hungry megalomaniac, or a werewolf for that matter.
* RaceLift: Thomas Edison is both a female and an Asian.
* TheStarscream: Benedict Arnold is this to King James to the point where he straight up kills him.
''America: The Motion Picture'' is an R-rated [[AnimatedFilms animated movie]] that premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} on June 30, 2021, with animation produced by Lord Miller Productions. It's about 1776 America in an alternate timeline where the British reign supreme against the Americans and the declaration of independence was never signed and George Washington leads a rag-tag band of alternate versions of historical figures into overthrowing the British and avenging the murder of his best friend Abraham Lincoln.
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* ArtisticLiscenceLaw: This goes without saying, but none of the movie's events are historically accurate.
* BigBad: Creator/BenedictArnold, who is a werewolf.
* EurekaMoment: George gets this when Edison says that the team needs to code the coordinates for the Gettysburg address.
** Edison herself gets this when Samuel Addams says that beer is the opposite of tea, which gives her the idea of how to stop Arnold's plan of using British tea to turn all of the Americans into British people.
* GenderFlip: Thomas Edison is a female in this version.
* GreaterScopeVillain: King James.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While Benedict Arnold was hardly a good person in real life, he was never a power-hungry megalomaniac, or a werewolf for that matter.
* RaceLift: Thomas Edison is both a female and an Asian.
* TheStarscream: Benedict Arnold is this to King James to the point where he straight up kills him.
