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* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Sure there is plenty of ConspicuousCG. But there's no denying the overflow of pure epic that is the Titan destroying the Drej and forming a new planet.
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* HomeworldEvacuation: The alien Drej vaporize Earth in the opening sequence while refugee ships try to escape.
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** Not to mention that both species [[spoiler:attempted genocide in hopes of getting rid of a virulent enemy. Only difference was that the humans suceeded in their attempt.]]
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''Titan A.E.'' was quite well received by critics, but unfortunately it was a commercial disaster, leading to the closure of Fox Animation Studios, and pretty much [[CreatorKiller ending Bluth's career]]. In a case of DuelingMovies, the superficially similar ''TreasurePlanet'' released around the same time also flopped badly, taking funding for traditional WesternAnimation along with it. A variety of explanations for the film's failure have been suggested:
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''Titan A.E.'' was quite well received by critics, but unfortunately it was a commercial disaster, leading to the closure of Fox Animation Studios, and pretty much [[CreatorKiller ending Bluth's career]]. In a case of DuelingMovies, the superficially similar ''TreasurePlanet'' released around the same time also flopped badly, taking funding [[TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation funding]] for traditional WesternAnimation along with it. A variety of explanations for the film's failure have been suggested:
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In 3028, humans create the ''Titan,'' a spaceship representing the pinnacle of human achievement. Threatened by humanity's potential, the Drej, a race of energy beings, attack and destroy Earth. The ''Titan'' manages to launch and escape, but it disappears in the aftermath, along with its primary creator Sam Tucker. The humans who survive the destruction of their planet become the homeless of the galaxy, living as laborers for alien species or on cobbled-together drifter colonies. Fifteen years later, Sam Tucker's son Cale is recruited into a RagtagBandOfMisfits who set out to find the lost ''Titan'' and restore hope to humanity, all the while hunted by the Drej.
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In 3028, humans create the ''Titan,'' ''Titan'', a spaceship representing the pinnacle of human achievement. Threatened by humanity's potential, the Drej, a race of energy beings, attack and destroy Earth. The ''Titan'' manages to launch and escape, but it disappears in the aftermath, along with its primary creator Sam Tucker. The humans who survive the destruction of their planet become the homeless of the galaxy, living as laborers for alien species or on cobbled-together drifter colonies. Fifteen years later, Sam Tucker's son Cale is recruited into a RagtagBandOfMisfits who set out to find the lost ''Titan'' and restore hope to humanity, all the while hunted by the Drej.
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* Above all, the film suffers from [[UncertainAudience deep uncertainty about its audience]]. Was it supposed to be a [[AnimationAgeGhetto cartoon film for children]], or was it aimed at an older science-fiction audience? Unsurprisingly its marketing was equally uncertain.
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* Above all, the film suffers from [[UncertainAudience deep uncertainty about its audience]]. Was it supposed to be a [[AnimationAgeGhetto cartoon film for children]], or was it aimed at an older science-fiction audience? Unsurprisingly its marketing was equally uncertain.
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-->'''Akima''': Hand me the probe.
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* ChekhovsGun: Korso's rant about how trying to defeat the Drej is futile because they're pure energy. [[spoiler: At the end, when Kale is trying to start up the Titan (whose fuel cells have long since run dry) he recalls Korso's speech and figures out that he can use the Drej's own energy to power the ship]].
* {{Chickification}}: Refreshingly averted. Stith kicks energy-being ass all the way through, and Akima shows no signs, even after being [[spoiler: shot by Preed.]]
* {{Chickification}}: Refreshingly averted. Stith kicks energy-being ass all the way through, and Akima shows no signs, even after being [[spoiler: shot by Preed.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Korso's rant about how trying to defeat the Drej is futile because they're pure energy. [[spoiler: At [[spoiler:At the end, when Kale is trying to start up the Titan (whose fuel cells have long since run dry) he recalls Korso's speech and figures out that he can use the Drej's own energy to power the ship]].
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* {{Chickification}}: Refreshingly averted. Stith kicks energy-being ass all the way through, and Akima shows no signs, even after being[[spoiler: shot [[spoiler:shot by Preed.]]
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* DespairEventHorizon: It's implied that crossing this before the start of the movie is the reason [[spoiler: Korso tries to hand Cale over to the Drej.]]
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** [-Fatherless boy tries to solve his [[DisappearedDad daddy issues]] by going on a space voyage in search of a long-lost treasure, hidden on a BigDumbObject, with a [[IncrediblyLamePun less-than-stellar]] crew of galactic PettingZooPeople, one of whom is a ParentalSubstitute, [[spoiler:but proves to be TheMole,]] using a [[IAmDyingPleaseTakeMyMacguffin starmap]] [[YouWillKnowWhatToDo only he]] [[LivingMacguffin can read]]. The villain [[spoiler:redeems himself in a TakeMyHand moment]] while trying to activate/deactivate the {{forgotten|Phlebotinum}} {{forgotten| phlebotinum}} DoomsdayDevice. Both films were deliberately marketed to single-parent Gen-X kids, with an uplifting {{Grunge}} soundtrack. One is about {{Pirates}} in a SteamPunk AlternateUniverse, based on a [[TreasureIsland classic novel]]. The other is about SpacePirates AfterTheEnd, inspired by ''StarWars'' and ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Classic}}''.Galactica| Classic}}''. Both films got an EarthShatteringKaboom.-]
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* GadgeteerGenius: Cale is a gifted mechanic; he can often figure out how they work and whats wrong with them after a simple glance. [[spoiler: This applies to Drej tech too.]]
* GenesisEffect: When they finally [[spoiler: turn the Titan on, resulting in]] Planet Bob.
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* GadgeteerGenius: Cale is a gifted mechanic; he can often figure out how they work and whats wrong with them after a simple glance. [[spoiler: This [[spoiler:This applies to Drej tech too.]]
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* {{Herald}}: Korso brings the CallToAdventure.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Korso.]] Maybe Cale's father too.
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* {{Herald}}: Korso brings the CallToAdventure.
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* HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: The movie begins in the year 3028 A.D. and ends fifteen years later, in the year 15 A.E. (After Earth).
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* HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: The movie begins in the year 3028 A.D. and ends fifteen years later, in the year 15 A.E. (After Earth).
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** Cale too, when [[spoiler: he steals an energy-construct Drej fighter to escape from the mothership.]] There is a shakier {{justifi|edTrope}}cation in ''Cale's Story''. He is depicted as having an [[TechnoWizard almost magical touch with any technology]]. Also note, while he's flying it, [[spoiler:the ship is bobbing around sloppily, and he hits the walls several times just getting out of the Drej ship. He's managing to fly it, sure, but just barely.]]
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** Cale too, when [[spoiler: he [[spoiler:he steals an energy-construct Drej fighter to escape from the mothership.]] mothership]]. There is a shakier {{justifi|edTrope}}cation {{justifi|ed trope}}cation in ''Cale's Story''. He is depicted as having an [[TechnoWizard almost magical touch with any technology]]. Also note, while he's flying it, [[spoiler:the ship is bobbing around sloppily, and he hits the walls several times just getting out of the Drej ship. He's managing to fly it, sure, but just barely.]]
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* KarmicDeath: After the Drej destroy Earth, how does humanity end up building a new homeworld? [[spoiler: Why, harvesting the energy Drej are made of in an inversion of HumanResources to power the device to make a new, viable replacement world!]]
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* KarmicDeath: After the Drej destroy Earth, how does humanity end up building a new homeworld? [[spoiler: Why, [[spoiler:Why, harvesting the energy Drej are made of in an inversion of HumanResources to power the device to make a new, viable replacement world!]]
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* TheMole: [[spoiler: Korso (who [[HeelFaceTurn gets better]]) and Preed (who aids Korso, then betrays him).]]
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* RacialRemnant: Humans are this after the {{Scary Dogmatic Alien|s}} EnergyBeings decide to [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up Earth]] in order to prevent humanity [[HumansAreSpecial becoming a threat]] to them.
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* RacialRemnant: Humans are this after the {{Scary Dogmatic Alien|s}} EnergyBeings decide to [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up Earth]] in order to prevent humanity [[HumansAreSpecial becoming a threat]] to them.
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* RedundantRescue: By the time the crew comes to rescue Akima from the slave market, she's already beaten up everyone there.
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* SelfFulfillingProphecy: From the novelization; the Drej believe that if humans are allowed to replicate their technology, they'll eventually destroy the Drej with it, thus leading to the destruction of Earth. This fear is so deep-seated that when the Drej have the chance to later salvage the Titan and use it to repair their nearly dead mothership, they decide to destroy it anyway and hope they can solve their problems without it. [[spoiler: The Drej firing on the Titan to destroy it is exactly what lets Cale steal their energy to power it.]]
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: From the novelization; the Drej believe that if humans are allowed to replicate their technology, they'll eventually destroy the Drej with it, thus leading to the destruction of Earth. This fear is so deep-seated that when the Drej have the chance to later salvage the Titan and use it to repair their nearly dead mothership, they decide to destroy it anyway and hope they can solve their problems without it. [[spoiler: The Drej firing on the Titan to destroy it is exactly what lets Cale steal their energy to power it.]]
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** Akima, [[spoiler: when [[spoiler:when jettisoned from the Drej ship in the middle of a nebula but is picked up by slavers in matter of hours.]]
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: From the novelization; the Drej believe that if humans are allowed to replicate their technology, they'll eventually destroy the Drej with it, thus leading to the destruction of Earth. This fear is so deep-seated that when the Drej have the chance to later salvage the Titan and use it to repair their nearly dead mothership, they decide to destroy it anyway and hope they can solve their problems without it.[[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The Drej firing on the Titan to destroy it is exactly what lets Cale steal their energy to power it.]]
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: From the novelization; the Drej believe that if humans are allowed to replicate their technology, they'll eventually destroy the Drej with it, thus leading to the destruction of Earth. This fear is so deep-seated that when the Drej have the chance to later salvage the Titan and use it to repair their nearly dead mothership, they decide to destroy it anyway and hope they can solve their problems without it.
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** Of course, nearly the entire human race was eradicated... and we do see one human [[spoiler: get pretty graphically electrocuted]].
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* IndyHatRoll: Cale quickly props the Valkyrie's airlock door open with a floor grate during his and Akima's escape from the ship.
* KarmicDeath: After the Drej destroy Earth, how does humanity end up building a newhomeworld?[[spoiler: homeworld? [[spoiler: Why, harvesting the energy Drej are made of in an inversion of HumanResources to power the device to make a new, viable replacement world!]]
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* OneSceneWonder: The guard. It helps that his dialogue was written by JossWhedon.
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* AnalProbing: Lampshaded:
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** Justified with the Titan. There might have been plans to make a backup Titan, but then the Earth kinda got blown up. After that, where exactly were they going to get dolphin DNA?
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** Justified with the Titan. There might have been plans to make a backup Titan, but then the Earth kinda got blown up. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint After that, where exactly were they going to get dolphin DNA?DNA?]]
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* BloodlessCarnage: Averted. This is possibly Bluth's bloodiest film, with characters getting shot, impaled, and one gets blown up into a pile of green goo on screen.
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* EverythingsBetterWithBob: ''Planet'' Bob.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: During the battle in the climax, when Stith and Akima are fighting off the Drej with the laser turrets, they seem to act more like overly enthusiastic teenagers at an arcade than freedom fighters holding the last line of defense.
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* LaserBlade: Cale uses something like a laser ''chainsaw'' on the job in the beginning, to cut up space junk for salvage. How does the blade stop? It doesn't, that thing was huge.
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* GadgeteerGenius: Cale is a gifted mechanic; he can often figure out how they work and whats wrong with them after a simple glance. [[spoiler: This applies to Drej tech too.]]
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''Titan A.E.'' (for "[[AfterTheEnd After]] [[HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt Earth]]") is an animated science fiction film released in 2000 and directed by DonBluth.
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* {{Terraform}}: The Titan doesn't bother with converting existing planets and just makes its ''own'' damn planet.
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** And early on, there's the insectoid cook that gets splattered by the Drej.
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* HardWorkMontage: Of Akima, Cale and the citizens of drifter colony ''New Bangkok'' making ''Phoenix'' spaceworthy.
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* HardWorkMontage: Of Akima, Cale and the citizens of drifter colony ''New Bangkok'' UsefulNotes/{{Bangkok}}'' making ''Phoenix'' spaceworthy.
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* RedundantRescue: By the time the crew comes to rescue Akima from the slave market, she's already beaten up everyone there.
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** [[Reconstruction And then]]. Cale uses the Titan to [[spoiler:destroy the Drej and create a new planet.]]
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* HumansAreSpecial: [[DeconstructedTrope So special]], that the Drej blow up the Earth because they feel threatened by humanity.
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* HumansAreSpecial: [[DeconstructedTrope So special]], that the Drej blow up the Earth because they feel threatened by humanity. humanity.
** [[Reconstruction And then]]. Cale uses the Titan to [[spoiler:destroy the Drej and create a new planet.]]
** [[Reconstruction And then]]. Cale uses the Titan to [[spoiler:destroy the Drej and create a new planet.]]
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''Titan A.E.'' (for "[[AfterTheEnd After Earth]]") is an animated science fiction film released in 2000 and directed by DonBluth.
In 3028, humans create the ''Titan,'' a spaceship representing the pinnacle of human achievement. Threatened by humanity's potential, the Drej, a race of energy beings, attack and destroy Earth. The ''Titan'' manages to launch and escape, but it disappears in the aftermath, along with its primary creator Sam Tucker. The humans who survive the destruction of their planet become the homeless of the galaxy, living as laborers for alien species or on cobbled-together drifter colonies. Fifteen years later, Sam Tucker's son Cale is recruited into a RagtagBandOfMisfits who set out to find the lost ''Titan'' and restore hope to humanity, all the while hunted by the Drej.
''Titan A.E.'' was quite well received by critics, but unfortunately it was a commercial disaster, leading to the closure of Fox Animation Studios, and pretty much [[CreatorKiller ending Bluth's career]]. In a case of DuelingMovies, the superficially similar ''TreasurePlanet'' released around the same time also flopped badly, taking funding for traditional WesternAnimation along with it. A variety of explanations for the film's failure have been suggested:
* Its [[DevelopmentHell development was protracted]], with Bluth being the second director to have worked on it. The race to release before ''TreasurePlanet'' certainly didn't help.
* ''Five'' writers were credited for the story, primarily [[TheTick Ben Edlund]], JossWhedon and JohnAugust, but also Hans Bauer and Randall [=McCormick=]. A case perhaps of TooManyCooksSpoilTheSoup, or just ExecutiveMeddling.
* Above all, the film suffers from [[UncertainAudience deep uncertainty about its audience]]. Was it supposed to be a [[AnimationAgeGhetto cartoon film for children]], or was it aimed at an older science-fiction audience? Unsurprisingly its marketing was equally uncertain.
The movie eventually managed to find an audience, and has become something of a CultClassic. It is worth watching for its [[SceneryPorn impressive visuals]], cheerful willingness to [[TropesAreNotBad embrace]] and [[BetterThanABareBulb lampshade]] sci-fi tropes, and the wittier parts of the script.
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!!Titan A.E. provides examples of:
* AbsentMindedProfessor: Gune.
-->'''Gune:''' Does this look familiar? Do you know what it is? Neither do I. I made it last night in my sleep. Apparently I used Gindrogac--highly unstable. I put a button on it, yes. [[SchmuckBait I wish to press it]], but I'm not sure what will happen if I do...
* ActionGirl: Akima. She flies, she shoots, she scores! And Stith is a kickass screaming Amazon with not only a great big gun, but a freakin' weapons turret in a spaceship.
* AirVentPassageway: {{Lampshaded}}:
-->'''Korso''': Follow ugly.\\
'''Cale''': Yeah, cause ''no one'' would ever think to look for us in the vents!
* TheAlcatraz: The energy-cell brig on the Drej mothership, from which [[spoiler:Cale escapes by opening a hole in the wall ''with his fingers!'' Oops! Could be a {{Justified|Trope}} WeaksauceWeakness, since they probably [[LeaveNoSurvivors aren't accustomed to taking prisoners, especially not human prisoners]]. The book even explains that he was smart enough to figure out the patterns in the wall were actually a sort of circuitry he could manipulate]].
* AlienLunch: Since the Earth blew up in the prologue, humans have to settle for alien food, which is pretty unappetizing.
-->'''Cale:''' I'd just like them to kill my food before they serve it to me. Is that too much to ask?
** Later he learns that his lunch had been ''[[{{Squick}} laced with feces]]'' before it was served to him.
--->'''Gune:''' ''[licks Cale's hand]'' Spaghetti derivative, meatballs - sort of, anyway - and... Caldoch droppings. Who ate it before you did?
* AllThereInTheManual: The novels, apparently.
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Mainly applies if you're familiar with Don Bluth's other films. This one's considerably less whimsical and is dark even for him.
** Nevermind the complete and total GenreShift into Science Fiction.
* {{Animesque}}
* AnimeHair: Akima definitely, and Cale to a lesser extent.
* AntiHero: Korso.
** Some would argue he's more [[spoiler:AntiVillain. To elaborate: this is a guy who was willing to sell the Drej, the guys responsible for blowing up Earth, the last hope for humanity. From what we can gather from the few hints dropped in the movie Korso might have just lost all hope of being able to beat the Drej and decided to take what he could get. Watching them destroy his planet and allow the human race to slowly die out within fifteen years might explain his actions along with some other possible reasons that happened off screen between the prologue and the start of the movie. He does make a HeelFaceTurn during the climax of the film. Whether its out of remorse, because he had nothing left to lose or both, he did help save humanity even if he was willing to sell out to the Drej.]]
* AnythingThatMoves: Aside from drooling all over Akima, Preed ''really'' [[NightmareFetishist gives off this vibe.]]
* ApocalypseHow: Class X, thanks to the EarthShatteringKaboom.
* ApocalypseWow: The film's ActionPrologue.
* AsteroidThicket: The ice-field. Combined with a HallOfMirrors.
* BigBad: The Drej Queen.
* BigSleep: See DisneyDeath.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: For the home video release, Cale had the gun in his hand taken out and redrawn with his hand outstretched showing the map. This was due to a shooting incident around the time.
* BreakTheCutie: Cale seems to have undergone some of this between the ages of 6 and 21. But, as he says-[[EarthShatteringKaboom "having your planet blown up will do that to you]]." As will being considered a third-class race by most of the galaxy.
* ChekhovsGun: Korso's rant about how trying to defeat the Drej is futile because they're pure energy. [[spoiler: At the end, when Kale is trying to start up the Titan (whose fuel cells have long since run dry) he recalls Korso's speech and figures out that he can use the Drej's own energy to power the ship]].
* {{Chickification}}: Refreshingly averted. Stith kicks energy-being ass all the way through, and Akima shows no signs, even after being [[spoiler: shot by Preed.]]
* TheChosenOne: Cale is the only one able to operate the ultimate TreasureMap to humanity's salvation.
* TheChosenZero: Cale, at least as far as Akima and Preed are concerned at the beginning:
-->'''Akima:''' This is just great. We cross half the galaxy and nearly get our butts shot off by the Drej just so we can rescue the [[ItMakesSenseInContext window washer]].\\
'''Cale:''' Hey! I happen to be Humanity's last great hope!\\
'''Preed:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I weep for the species...]]
* ConspicuousCG: There's a rather jarring contrast between the computer-generated and traditional hand animation. Though this may be intentional in order to drive home [[UncannyValley how alien the Drej are.]]
* ContemptibleCover: Some promotional material for the film showed Akima in a breast-baring {{Stripperiffic}} outfit which appears nowhere in the film.
* CoolStarship: The ''Valkyrie'', the Drej mothership and fighters, the ''Titan'', and perhaps the ''Phoenix'' as well.
* CreatingLifeIsAwesome: [[spoiler:Mankind triumphs by creating an entire planet for itself, complete with a fully populated biosphere]].
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Gaoul are creepy part-bat part-pterosaur aliens... who happen to be quite helpful in finding the ''Titan'' and escaping the Drej.
* DeadpanSnarker: All of the crew, especially Preed, have their moments, expect perhaps Gune.
* DisneyDeath: Hangs a Lampshade on it and the BigSleep.
-->'''Gune''': I've finished my nap!
* DistressedDamsel: Subverted. Akima is kidnapped, but by the time the the rest of her crew shows up to rescue her, she's sitting on a pile of unconscious prison {{Mooks}}, not distressed in the least.
** In other words, she's a BadassDamsel[=/=]BadassInDistress.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Korso, of course.
* DuelingMovies: One of the most [[PyrrhicVictory destructive]] duels ever, in its race to be released prior to the long-delayed ''TreasurePlanet''. Both animation teams were constantly looking over their shoulder at each other, according to WordOfGod:
** [-Fatherless boy tries to solve his [[DisappearedDad daddy issues]] by going on a space voyage in search of a long-lost treasure, hidden on a BigDumbObject, with a [[IncrediblyLamePun less-than-stellar]] crew of galactic PettingZooPeople, one of whom is a ParentalSubstitute, [[spoiler:but proves to be TheMole,]] using a [[IAmDyingPleaseTakeMyMacguffin starmap]] [[YouWillKnowWhatToDo only he]] [[LivingMacguffin can read]]. The villain [[spoiler:redeems himself in a TakeMyHand moment]] while trying to activate/deactivate the {{forgotten|Phlebotinum}} DoomsdayDevice. Both films were deliberately marketed to single-parent Gen-X kids, with an uplifting {{Grunge}} soundtrack. One is about {{Pirates}} in a SteamPunk AlternateUniverse, based on a [[TreasureIsland classic novel]]. The other is about SpacePirates AfterTheEnd, inspired by ''StarWars'' and ''BattlestarGalactica''. Both films got an EarthShatteringKaboom.-]
** The sad part is neither film won, despite both of them being very good; in fact both ended up tanking their respective studios. Bluth has yet to produce a new movie in 11 years, and Disney almost decided to completely abandon traditional animation.
* DutchAngle
* EarthShatteringKaboom: In the [[ApocalypseWow first five minutes of the movie]], the Drej don't just blow up Earth, they make the planet spin so fast that centrifugal forces blow it up.
* EarthThatWas: Earth gets blown up, forcing humanity to eke out an existence in drifting, [[UsedFuture jumbled composites]] of spacecraft
* EldritchAbomination: The Drej as a whole, arguably.
* EnergyAbsorption: [[spoiler:Which conveniently deals with the big, bad Drej at the same time.]]
** The novel explains that [[spoiler:the reason the Drej destroyed Earth was that the energy-to-matter technology of the Titan was the same as that which created their species. The Drej queen actually considers using the tech to repair their energy source before deciding it's too dangerous.]]
* EnergyBeings: The Drej, sort of. What the Drej really are is far more complex: The novel seems to indicate that the Drej have mastered the transfer of matter to energy and can easily reverse the process.
* EverythingsBetterWithBob: ''Planet'' Bob.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Fox Animation Studios is [[WordOfGod blamed by the directors]] in the DVD commentary for starving the movie of both time and money, forcing them to produce a product they were not happy with; as a result the film is unfinished at best.
* ExplosiveDecompression: {{Averted}} for once. The original script for the scene in question had Korso and Cale ''in''haling. They found out later that this would actually ''increase'' the likelyhood of death and rewrote that scene to have Korso tell Cale to ''ex''hale (to a bit of vocal protest from Cale). If you look closely, you can see that he animation was made before the change with Cale inhaling.
* {{Expy}}: Both Cale's character design and {{deadpan snarker}} attitude (along with his animation as well, for that matter) are virtually dead-ringers for Dimitri from {{Anastasia}}, a previous Don Bluth/Gary Goldman movie.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: In scenes that are very dark, even for Don Bluth, [[spoiler:Preed has his neck broken by Korso, who in turn is electrocuted. Also Gune's body thumping against the wall after shielding an explosion.]]
* {{Fanservice}}: Both Cale and Akima get scenes of brief nudity in the film.
* FantasticRacism: Humans are regarded as the homeless of space, and despised accordingly.
* ForceFieldDoor
* GenesisEffect: When they finally [[spoiler: turn the Titan on, resulting in]] Planet Bob.
* GenreSavvy: See also TheGuardsMustBeCrazy and AirVentPassageway.
* GoingCommando: Akima and Cale both skip the underwear when putting clothes on.
* TheGreatRepair: How Cale and Akima got off the derelict settlement.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Subverted heavily (and ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesomely]]'') in a line written by JossWhedon to foil the TrojanPrisoner ploy, left in uncut.
-->'''Guard:''' You're lying! He's not a slave and you're not traders. He doesn't carry himself like a slave! Look at the way he stands... probably ex-military. Akrennian traders always threaten before they ask a favor, it's tradition. ''[to Stith]'' And ''your'' robes are made out of bedspreads.\\
'''Preed:''' Just out of curiosity, did we have a [[TimeForPlanB plan "B"?]]\\
''[Stith charges the guard and lays him out with a few brutal kicks]''\\
'''Preed:''' An intelligent guard. Didn't see ''that'' one coming.
* HallOfMirrors: The ice-field surrounding the Titan.
* HappilyEverAfter
* HardWorkMontage: Of Akima, Cale and the citizens of drifter colony ''New Bangkok'' making ''Phoenix'' spaceworthy.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler:Korso]] worked for humanity, than the Drej, then came back to the side of humanity, and [[RedemptionEqualsDeath was killed]] in a HeroicSacrifice.
* {{Herald}}: Korso brings the CallToAdventure.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Korso.]] Maybe Cale's father too.
* TheHerosJourney: The marks of Joseph Campbell's cookie-cutter are ''all over'' this film.
* HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: The movie begins in the year 3028 A.D. and ends fifteen years later, in the year 15 A.E. (After Earth).
* HumansAreSpecial: [[DeconstructedTrope So special]], that the Drej blow up the Earth because they feel threatened by humanity.
* ImprobablePilotingSkills:
** Akima "If you can fix it, I can fly it!". Could be {{justified|Trope}}: in her own novel, ''Akima's Story'', she trains as an AcePilot in ships designed for BizarreAlienBiology. It was probably a relief to fly one purpose-built for ''her'' anatomy for a change. The basics would have been the same in the ''Phoenix'' (roll, pitch, yaw), with computer systems and controls in a language she could understand.
** Cale too, when [[spoiler: he steals an energy-construct Drej fighter to escape from the mothership.]] There is a shakier {{justifi|edTrope}}cation in ''Cale's Story''. He is depicted as having an [[TechnoWizard almost magical touch with any technology]]. Also note, while he's flying it, [[spoiler:the ship is bobbing around sloppily, and he hits the walls several times just getting out of the Drej ship. He's managing to fly it, sure, but just barely.]]
* KarmicDeath: After the Drej destroy Earth, how does humanity end up building a new homeworld?[[spoiler: Why, harvesting the energy Drej are made of in an inversion of HumanResources to power the device to make a new, viable replacement world!]]
* KickTheDog: Shown when the alien cook at the salvage yard is reduced to goo [[spoiler:despite offering to help the Drej]], showing that the Drej don't exclusively kill Humans, but pretty much anyone they find even mildly annoying.
--> [[spoiler: '''Cook''': No no! Down there! He went down there! Down-- [BAM!] Ohh... Bulls-eye...]]
* LaserBlade: Cale uses something like a laser ''chainsaw'' on the job in the beginning, to cut up space junk for salvage. How does the blade stop? It doesn't, that thing was huge.
* LanternJawOfJustice: Cale.
* MagicBullets: Averted when the Drej come for Cale; despite Korso's efforts, an overturned cafeteria table doesn't offer much protection at all from Drej weapons.
* TheMillenniumAgeOfAnimation
* MillionToOneChance: Invoked almost to the letter by Cale when he takes the express route to [[AlienLunch lunch]].
-->'''Human Salvage Worker:''' Go through the docks and you'll get yourself killed!\\
'''Cale:''' Coward! You know the odds of a ship docking are a thousand to one!\\
(Cue the ''[[CoolStarship Valkyrie]]'')\\
'''Cale:''' And that would be the one...
* MissingMom: Cale's mom is never mentioned. Not once.
* MixAndMatchCritters: And they get pretty bizarre with this too. Stith, for example, is a four-kneed critter that looks to be part Kangaroo, part Velociraptor, and all Impossible To Stage Scenes Around.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Korso (who [[HeelFaceTurn gets better]]) and Preed (who aids Korso, then betrays him).]]
* TheMothership: the Drej's.
* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:Korso]] does this to [[spoiler:Preed]], proving that betraying someone and then letting them get behind you is a massively stupid idea.
* NewEden: New Earth a.k.a. Planet Bob.
* [[NoodleIncident Noodle Artifact]]: Gune built a device out of a highly unstable material ''while he was asleep''. He knows he gave it a button, but he doesn't want to push it because he has no idea what it actually does.
* {{Novelization}}: There is a book of the film, which attempts to patch some of the film's plot holes. There are also two prequel novels, covering the early years of Akima and Cale, titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ''Akima's Story'' and ''Cale's Story'' respectively]]. Little attention seems to have been given to continuity between the books.
* NoOSHACompliance: The salvage yard.
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Play for laughs with Gune's device. Played straight with the Titan to drive the plot.
* NotSoDifferent: The novelization reveals this of the Drej compared to post-Earth humanity; much like the surviving humans fighting to survive without a home, the Drej are on the brink due to their technology breaking down in ways they don't know how to fix.
* OneSceneWonder: The guard. It helps that his dialogue was written by JossWhedon.
* ParentalAbandonment: Par for the course, being a Don Bluth film. The surviving Earthlings have even lost their mother ''planet'', so some critics have [[FanNickname dubbed it]] "The Ultimate Don Bluth Film".
* PettingZooPeople: Most of the alien designs are like this, so they rather come off as typical children's cartoon {{talking animal}}s, until they start shooting people, getting their necks broken, and so on. It's all part of the film's split personality.
* PunyEarthlings: Earthlings.
* PureEnergy: The Drej, according to Korso, but the truth is a little more complex. See EnergyBeings above.
* RacialRemnant: Humans are this after the {{Scary Dogmatic Alien|s}} EnergyBeings decide to [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up Earth]] in order to prevent humanity [[HumansAreSpecial becoming a threat]] to them.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Korso]].
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Gune's mysterious device, which serves no useful purpose except for distracting him from the approaching Drej fighters.]]
* RefusalOfTheCall: Initally Cale blows Korso off, but then [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive the Drej turn up and try to kill him.]]
* ScaryDogmaticAliens: The Drej.
* ScavengerWorld: The human colonies.
* SceneryPorn: The highlight of the film. Pick a scene, any scene...
** SceneryGorn
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Many examples.
** In general stellar objects are insanely miniaturized. Nebulas appear to be a few ship lengths tall, distanced between stars and moons are covered in a matter of days or hours with sub-light speed propulsion systems.
** Akima, [[spoiler: when jettisoned from the Drej ship in the middle of a nebula but is picked up by slavers in matter of hours.]]
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: From the novelization; the Drej believe that if humans are allowed to replicate their technology, they'll eventually destroy the Drej with it, thus leading to the destruction of Earth. This fear is so deep-seated that when the Drej have the chance to later salvage the Titan and use it to repair their nearly dead mothership, they decide to destroy it anyway and hope they can solve their problems without it. [[spoiler: The Drej firing on the Titan to destroy it is exactly what lets Cale steal their energy to power it.]]
* ShesGotLegs: Stith, the ship's kangaroo-like alien mechanic.
* SightGag: When they first enter the ''Phoenix'', the warning sign over the door appropriately depicts "No Drej".
* SmugSnake: [[spoiler: Preed.]]
* SpaceFriction
* SpaceIsCold: A very rare aversion. According to the commentary, a line that got deleted from the final cut mentioned Cale's blood being frozen due to exposure. If that one simple line hadn't been cut, this trope wouldn't have been averted.
* SpaceIsNoisy: Zoom! Wizz! Crunch! Ka-boom! Zap! Crunch!
* SpaceWhale: The Wake Angels.
* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** In the movie, [[spoiler:the cook]] is killed very early on by the Drej. In the novelization, [[spoiler:he]] merely disappears and [[spoiler:his]] fate is unknown.
** Another, albeit-more-subtle example, in the film, [[spoiler:Cale's father]] is clearly mentioned as having died and the characters never question this. In the novel, they merely say that the character is "probably" dead.
* StealthPun: After Cale gets back, Korso tells him that Gune needs a hand. Literally, Gune needs Cale's hand.
* StoryboardBody: There ''is'' a story behind the tattoo on Cale's right arm, but the only place it is explained is [[AllThereInTheManual in the]] ''[[AllThereInTheManual Cale's Story]]'' [[AllThereInTheManual novel.]] Paradoxically, the story behind the tattoo was probably invented after the fact for the novel, since the experience that earned him that mark should have made him far less cynical.
* TechnoWizard: Cale.
* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:Captain Korso]], who is being paid by the Drej to find the Titan, so they can blow it up. He is betrayed in turn by [[spoiler:HIS right hand man, Preed.]]
* TreasureMap: The ring keyed to Cale's father's DNA projects a visible map onto Cale's hand, showing the location of the Titan.
* TrojanPrisoner: Doesn't exactly work. [[SubvertedTrope See]] [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy above.]]
* UsedFuture: The human refugees have to make do with what they have.
* WarWasBeginning: It [[WhyYouShouldDestroyThePlanetEarth didn't last long]].
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Used weirdly throughout. In the world of the film, the phrase would more accurately be "What Measure is a Human?", because Earthlings are the ButtMonkey minorities after the destruction of Earth. That said, the human characters get away more or less unscathed when the action gets hot -- but it's okay to have the alien characters get fried, get their necks snapped, and get turned into chunky salsa.
** Of course, nearly the entire human race was eradicated... and we do see one human [[spoiler: get pretty graphically electrocuted]].
* WhatKeptYou: By the time the crew comes to rescue Akima from the slave market, she's already beaten up everyone there.
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: [[spoiler: From a cliff overlooking Planet Bob.]]
* WrenchWench:
** Akima.
** Stith thoroughly averts this in that she is ''not'' the typical human (or alien) cutie and she ''hates'' doing repairs, though she is rather handy with weapons.
--->'''Stith:''' I am educated and well-read, I am ''not'' a mechanic! I have my pride!
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''Titan A.E.'' (for "[[AfterTheEnd After Earth]]") is an animated science fiction film released in 2000 and directed by DonBluth.
In 3028, humans create the ''Titan,'' a spaceship representing the pinnacle of human achievement. Threatened by humanity's potential, the Drej, a race of energy beings, attack and destroy Earth. The ''Titan'' manages to launch and escape, but it disappears in the aftermath, along with its primary creator Sam Tucker. The humans who survive the destruction of their planet become the homeless of the galaxy, living as laborers for alien species or on cobbled-together drifter colonies. Fifteen years later, Sam Tucker's son Cale is recruited into a RagtagBandOfMisfits who set out to find the lost ''Titan'' and restore hope to humanity, all the while hunted by the Drej.
''Titan A.E.'' was quite well received by critics, but unfortunately it was a commercial disaster, leading to the closure of Fox Animation Studios, and pretty much [[CreatorKiller ending Bluth's career]]. In a case of DuelingMovies, the superficially similar ''TreasurePlanet'' released around the same time also flopped badly, taking funding for traditional WesternAnimation along with it. A variety of explanations for the film's failure have been suggested:
* Its [[DevelopmentHell development was protracted]], with Bluth being the second director to have worked on it. The race to release before ''TreasurePlanet'' certainly didn't help.
* ''Five'' writers were credited for the story, primarily [[TheTick Ben Edlund]], JossWhedon and JohnAugust, but also Hans Bauer and Randall [=McCormick=]. A case perhaps of TooManyCooksSpoilTheSoup, or just ExecutiveMeddling.
* Above all, the film suffers from [[UncertainAudience deep uncertainty about its audience]]. Was it supposed to be a [[AnimationAgeGhetto cartoon film for children]], or was it aimed at an older science-fiction audience? Unsurprisingly its marketing was equally uncertain.
The movie eventually managed to find an audience, and has become something of a CultClassic. It is worth watching for its [[SceneryPorn impressive visuals]], cheerful willingness to [[TropesAreNotBad embrace]] and [[BetterThanABareBulb lampshade]] sci-fi tropes, and the wittier parts of the script.
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!!Titan A.E. provides examples of:
* AbsentMindedProfessor: Gune.
-->'''Gune:''' Does this look familiar? Do you know what it is? Neither do I. I made it last night in my sleep. Apparently I used Gindrogac--highly unstable. I put a button on it, yes. [[SchmuckBait I wish to press it]], but I'm not sure what will happen if I do...
* ActionGirl: Akima. She flies, she shoots, she scores! And Stith is a kickass screaming Amazon with not only a great big gun, but a freakin' weapons turret in a spaceship.
* AirVentPassageway: {{Lampshaded}}:
-->'''Korso''': Follow ugly.\\
'''Cale''': Yeah, cause ''no one'' would ever think to look for us in the vents!
* TheAlcatraz: The energy-cell brig on the Drej mothership, from which [[spoiler:Cale escapes by opening a hole in the wall ''with his fingers!'' Oops! Could be a {{Justified|Trope}} WeaksauceWeakness, since they probably [[LeaveNoSurvivors aren't accustomed to taking prisoners, especially not human prisoners]]. The book even explains that he was smart enough to figure out the patterns in the wall were actually a sort of circuitry he could manipulate]].
* AlienLunch: Since the Earth blew up in the prologue, humans have to settle for alien food, which is pretty unappetizing.
-->'''Cale:''' I'd just like them to kill my food before they serve it to me. Is that too much to ask?
** Later he learns that his lunch had been ''[[{{Squick}} laced with feces]]'' before it was served to him.
--->'''Gune:''' ''[licks Cale's hand]'' Spaghetti derivative, meatballs - sort of, anyway - and... Caldoch droppings. Who ate it before you did?
* AllThereInTheManual: The novels, apparently.
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Mainly applies if you're familiar with Don Bluth's other films. This one's considerably less whimsical and is dark even for him.
** Nevermind the complete and total GenreShift into Science Fiction.
* {{Animesque}}
* AnimeHair: Akima definitely, and Cale to a lesser extent.
* AntiHero: Korso.
** Some would argue he's more [[spoiler:AntiVillain. To elaborate: this is a guy who was willing to sell the Drej, the guys responsible for blowing up Earth, the last hope for humanity. From what we can gather from the few hints dropped in the movie Korso might have just lost all hope of being able to beat the Drej and decided to take what he could get. Watching them destroy his planet and allow the human race to slowly die out within fifteen years might explain his actions along with some other possible reasons that happened off screen between the prologue and the start of the movie. He does make a HeelFaceTurn during the climax of the film. Whether its out of remorse, because he had nothing left to lose or both, he did help save humanity even if he was willing to sell out to the Drej.]]
* AnythingThatMoves: Aside from drooling all over Akima, Preed ''really'' [[NightmareFetishist gives off this vibe.]]
* ApocalypseHow: Class X, thanks to the EarthShatteringKaboom.
* ApocalypseWow: The film's ActionPrologue.
* AsteroidThicket: The ice-field. Combined with a HallOfMirrors.
* BigBad: The Drej Queen.
* BigSleep: See DisneyDeath.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: For the home video release, Cale had the gun in his hand taken out and redrawn with his hand outstretched showing the map. This was due to a shooting incident around the time.
* BreakTheCutie: Cale seems to have undergone some of this between the ages of 6 and 21. But, as he says-[[EarthShatteringKaboom "having your planet blown up will do that to you]]." As will being considered a third-class race by most of the galaxy.
* ChekhovsGun: Korso's rant about how trying to defeat the Drej is futile because they're pure energy. [[spoiler: At the end, when Kale is trying to start up the Titan (whose fuel cells have long since run dry) he recalls Korso's speech and figures out that he can use the Drej's own energy to power the ship]].
* {{Chickification}}: Refreshingly averted. Stith kicks energy-being ass all the way through, and Akima shows no signs, even after being [[spoiler: shot by Preed.]]
* TheChosenOne: Cale is the only one able to operate the ultimate TreasureMap to humanity's salvation.
* TheChosenZero: Cale, at least as far as Akima and Preed are concerned at the beginning:
-->'''Akima:''' This is just great. We cross half the galaxy and nearly get our butts shot off by the Drej just so we can rescue the [[ItMakesSenseInContext window washer]].\\
'''Cale:''' Hey! I happen to be Humanity's last great hope!\\
'''Preed:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I weep for the species...]]
* ConspicuousCG: There's a rather jarring contrast between the computer-generated and traditional hand animation. Though this may be intentional in order to drive home [[UncannyValley how alien the Drej are.]]
* ContemptibleCover: Some promotional material for the film showed Akima in a breast-baring {{Stripperiffic}} outfit which appears nowhere in the film.
* CoolStarship: The ''Valkyrie'', the Drej mothership and fighters, the ''Titan'', and perhaps the ''Phoenix'' as well.
* CreatingLifeIsAwesome: [[spoiler:Mankind triumphs by creating an entire planet for itself, complete with a fully populated biosphere]].
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Gaoul are creepy part-bat part-pterosaur aliens... who happen to be quite helpful in finding the ''Titan'' and escaping the Drej.
* DeadpanSnarker: All of the crew, especially Preed, have their moments, expect perhaps Gune.
* DisneyDeath: Hangs a Lampshade on it and the BigSleep.
-->'''Gune''': I've finished my nap!
* DistressedDamsel: Subverted. Akima is kidnapped, but by the time the the rest of her crew shows up to rescue her, she's sitting on a pile of unconscious prison {{Mooks}}, not distressed in the least.
** In other words, she's a BadassDamsel[=/=]BadassInDistress.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Korso, of course.
* DuelingMovies: One of the most [[PyrrhicVictory destructive]] duels ever, in its race to be released prior to the long-delayed ''TreasurePlanet''. Both animation teams were constantly looking over their shoulder at each other, according to WordOfGod:
** [-Fatherless boy tries to solve his [[DisappearedDad daddy issues]] by going on a space voyage in search of a long-lost treasure, hidden on a BigDumbObject, with a [[IncrediblyLamePun less-than-stellar]] crew of galactic PettingZooPeople, one of whom is a ParentalSubstitute, [[spoiler:but proves to be TheMole,]] using a [[IAmDyingPleaseTakeMyMacguffin starmap]] [[YouWillKnowWhatToDo only he]] [[LivingMacguffin can read]]. The villain [[spoiler:redeems himself in a TakeMyHand moment]] while trying to activate/deactivate the {{forgotten|Phlebotinum}} DoomsdayDevice. Both films were deliberately marketed to single-parent Gen-X kids, with an uplifting {{Grunge}} soundtrack. One is about {{Pirates}} in a SteamPunk AlternateUniverse, based on a [[TreasureIsland classic novel]]. The other is about SpacePirates AfterTheEnd, inspired by ''StarWars'' and ''BattlestarGalactica''. Both films got an EarthShatteringKaboom.-]
** The sad part is neither film won, despite both of them being very good; in fact both ended up tanking their respective studios. Bluth has yet to produce a new movie in 11 years, and Disney almost decided to completely abandon traditional animation.
* DutchAngle
* EarthShatteringKaboom: In the [[ApocalypseWow first five minutes of the movie]], the Drej don't just blow up Earth, they make the planet spin so fast that centrifugal forces blow it up.
* EarthThatWas: Earth gets blown up, forcing humanity to eke out an existence in drifting, [[UsedFuture jumbled composites]] of spacecraft
* EldritchAbomination: The Drej as a whole, arguably.
* EnergyAbsorption: [[spoiler:Which conveniently deals with the big, bad Drej at the same time.]]
** The novel explains that [[spoiler:the reason the Drej destroyed Earth was that the energy-to-matter technology of the Titan was the same as that which created their species. The Drej queen actually considers using the tech to repair their energy source before deciding it's too dangerous.]]
* EnergyBeings: The Drej, sort of. What the Drej really are is far more complex: The novel seems to indicate that the Drej have mastered the transfer of matter to energy and can easily reverse the process.
* EverythingsBetterWithBob: ''Planet'' Bob.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Fox Animation Studios is [[WordOfGod blamed by the directors]] in the DVD commentary for starving the movie of both time and money, forcing them to produce a product they were not happy with; as a result the film is unfinished at best.
* ExplosiveDecompression: {{Averted}} for once. The original script for the scene in question had Korso and Cale ''in''haling. They found out later that this would actually ''increase'' the likelyhood of death and rewrote that scene to have Korso tell Cale to ''ex''hale (to a bit of vocal protest from Cale). If you look closely, you can see that he animation was made before the change with Cale inhaling.
* {{Expy}}: Both Cale's character design and {{deadpan snarker}} attitude (along with his animation as well, for that matter) are virtually dead-ringers for Dimitri from {{Anastasia}}, a previous Don Bluth/Gary Goldman movie.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: In scenes that are very dark, even for Don Bluth, [[spoiler:Preed has his neck broken by Korso, who in turn is electrocuted. Also Gune's body thumping against the wall after shielding an explosion.]]
* {{Fanservice}}: Both Cale and Akima get scenes of brief nudity in the film.
* FantasticRacism: Humans are regarded as the homeless of space, and despised accordingly.
* ForceFieldDoor
* GenesisEffect: When they finally [[spoiler: turn the Titan on, resulting in]] Planet Bob.
* GenreSavvy: See also TheGuardsMustBeCrazy and AirVentPassageway.
* GoingCommando: Akima and Cale both skip the underwear when putting clothes on.
* TheGreatRepair: How Cale and Akima got off the derelict settlement.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Subverted heavily (and ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesomely]]'') in a line written by JossWhedon to foil the TrojanPrisoner ploy, left in uncut.
-->'''Guard:''' You're lying! He's not a slave and you're not traders. He doesn't carry himself like a slave! Look at the way he stands... probably ex-military. Akrennian traders always threaten before they ask a favor, it's tradition. ''[to Stith]'' And ''your'' robes are made out of bedspreads.\\
'''Preed:''' Just out of curiosity, did we have a [[TimeForPlanB plan "B"?]]\\
''[Stith charges the guard and lays him out with a few brutal kicks]''\\
'''Preed:''' An intelligent guard. Didn't see ''that'' one coming.
* HallOfMirrors: The ice-field surrounding the Titan.
* HappilyEverAfter
* HardWorkMontage: Of Akima, Cale and the citizens of drifter colony ''New Bangkok'' making ''Phoenix'' spaceworthy.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler:Korso]] worked for humanity, than the Drej, then came back to the side of humanity, and [[RedemptionEqualsDeath was killed]] in a HeroicSacrifice.
* {{Herald}}: Korso brings the CallToAdventure.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Korso.]] Maybe Cale's father too.
* TheHerosJourney: The marks of Joseph Campbell's cookie-cutter are ''all over'' this film.
* HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: The movie begins in the year 3028 A.D. and ends fifteen years later, in the year 15 A.E. (After Earth).
* HumansAreSpecial: [[DeconstructedTrope So special]], that the Drej blow up the Earth because they feel threatened by humanity.
* ImprobablePilotingSkills:
** Akima "If you can fix it, I can fly it!". Could be {{justified|Trope}}: in her own novel, ''Akima's Story'', she trains as an AcePilot in ships designed for BizarreAlienBiology. It was probably a relief to fly one purpose-built for ''her'' anatomy for a change. The basics would have been the same in the ''Phoenix'' (roll, pitch, yaw), with computer systems and controls in a language she could understand.
** Cale too, when [[spoiler: he steals an energy-construct Drej fighter to escape from the mothership.]] There is a shakier {{justifi|edTrope}}cation in ''Cale's Story''. He is depicted as having an [[TechnoWizard almost magical touch with any technology]]. Also note, while he's flying it, [[spoiler:the ship is bobbing around sloppily, and he hits the walls several times just getting out of the Drej ship. He's managing to fly it, sure, but just barely.]]
* KarmicDeath: After the Drej destroy Earth, how does humanity end up building a new homeworld?[[spoiler: Why, harvesting the energy Drej are made of in an inversion of HumanResources to power the device to make a new, viable replacement world!]]
* KickTheDog: Shown when the alien cook at the salvage yard is reduced to goo [[spoiler:despite offering to help the Drej]], showing that the Drej don't exclusively kill Humans, but pretty much anyone they find even mildly annoying.
--> [[spoiler: '''Cook''': No no! Down there! He went down there! Down-- [BAM!] Ohh... Bulls-eye...]]
* LaserBlade: Cale uses something like a laser ''chainsaw'' on the job in the beginning, to cut up space junk for salvage. How does the blade stop? It doesn't, that thing was huge.
* LanternJawOfJustice: Cale.
* MagicBullets: Averted when the Drej come for Cale; despite Korso's efforts, an overturned cafeteria table doesn't offer much protection at all from Drej weapons.
* TheMillenniumAgeOfAnimation
* MillionToOneChance: Invoked almost to the letter by Cale when he takes the express route to [[AlienLunch lunch]].
-->'''Human Salvage Worker:''' Go through the docks and you'll get yourself killed!\\
'''Cale:''' Coward! You know the odds of a ship docking are a thousand to one!\\
(Cue the ''[[CoolStarship Valkyrie]]'')\\
'''Cale:''' And that would be the one...
* MissingMom: Cale's mom is never mentioned. Not once.
* MixAndMatchCritters: And they get pretty bizarre with this too. Stith, for example, is a four-kneed critter that looks to be part Kangaroo, part Velociraptor, and all Impossible To Stage Scenes Around.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Korso (who [[HeelFaceTurn gets better]]) and Preed (who aids Korso, then betrays him).]]
* TheMothership: the Drej's.
* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:Korso]] does this to [[spoiler:Preed]], proving that betraying someone and then letting them get behind you is a massively stupid idea.
* NewEden: New Earth a.k.a. Planet Bob.
* [[NoodleIncident Noodle Artifact]]: Gune built a device out of a highly unstable material ''while he was asleep''. He knows he gave it a button, but he doesn't want to push it because he has no idea what it actually does.
* {{Novelization}}: There is a book of the film, which attempts to patch some of the film's plot holes. There are also two prequel novels, covering the early years of Akima and Cale, titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ''Akima's Story'' and ''Cale's Story'' respectively]]. Little attention seems to have been given to continuity between the books.
* NoOSHACompliance: The salvage yard.
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Play for laughs with Gune's device. Played straight with the Titan to drive the plot.
* NotSoDifferent: The novelization reveals this of the Drej compared to post-Earth humanity; much like the surviving humans fighting to survive without a home, the Drej are on the brink due to their technology breaking down in ways they don't know how to fix.
* OneSceneWonder: The guard. It helps that his dialogue was written by JossWhedon.
* ParentalAbandonment: Par for the course, being a Don Bluth film. The surviving Earthlings have even lost their mother ''planet'', so some critics have [[FanNickname dubbed it]] "The Ultimate Don Bluth Film".
* PettingZooPeople: Most of the alien designs are like this, so they rather come off as typical children's cartoon {{talking animal}}s, until they start shooting people, getting their necks broken, and so on. It's all part of the film's split personality.
* PunyEarthlings: Earthlings.
* PureEnergy: The Drej, according to Korso, but the truth is a little more complex. See EnergyBeings above.
* RacialRemnant: Humans are this after the {{Scary Dogmatic Alien|s}} EnergyBeings decide to [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up Earth]] in order to prevent humanity [[HumansAreSpecial becoming a threat]] to them.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Korso]].
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Gune's mysterious device, which serves no useful purpose except for distracting him from the approaching Drej fighters.]]
* RefusalOfTheCall: Initally Cale blows Korso off, but then [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive the Drej turn up and try to kill him.]]
* ScaryDogmaticAliens: The Drej.
* ScavengerWorld: The human colonies.
* SceneryPorn: The highlight of the film. Pick a scene, any scene...
** SceneryGorn
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Many examples.
** In general stellar objects are insanely miniaturized. Nebulas appear to be a few ship lengths tall, distanced between stars and moons are covered in a matter of days or hours with sub-light speed propulsion systems.
** Akima, [[spoiler: when jettisoned from the Drej ship in the middle of a nebula but is picked up by slavers in matter of hours.]]
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: From the novelization; the Drej believe that if humans are allowed to replicate their technology, they'll eventually destroy the Drej with it, thus leading to the destruction of Earth. This fear is so deep-seated that when the Drej have the chance to later salvage the Titan and use it to repair their nearly dead mothership, they decide to destroy it anyway and hope they can solve their problems without it. [[spoiler: The Drej firing on the Titan to destroy it is exactly what lets Cale steal their energy to power it.]]
* ShesGotLegs: Stith, the ship's kangaroo-like alien mechanic.
* SightGag: When they first enter the ''Phoenix'', the warning sign over the door appropriately depicts "No Drej".
* SmugSnake: [[spoiler: Preed.]]
* SpaceFriction
* SpaceIsCold: A very rare aversion. According to the commentary, a line that got deleted from the final cut mentioned Cale's blood being frozen due to exposure. If that one simple line hadn't been cut, this trope wouldn't have been averted.
* SpaceIsNoisy: Zoom! Wizz! Crunch! Ka-boom! Zap! Crunch!
* SpaceWhale: The Wake Angels.
* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** In the movie, [[spoiler:the cook]] is killed very early on by the Drej. In the novelization, [[spoiler:he]] merely disappears and [[spoiler:his]] fate is unknown.
** Another, albeit-more-subtle example, in the film, [[spoiler:Cale's father]] is clearly mentioned as having died and the characters never question this. In the novel, they merely say that the character is "probably" dead.
* StealthPun: After Cale gets back, Korso tells him that Gune needs a hand. Literally, Gune needs Cale's hand.
* StoryboardBody: There ''is'' a story behind the tattoo on Cale's right arm, but the only place it is explained is [[AllThereInTheManual in the]] ''[[AllThereInTheManual Cale's Story]]'' [[AllThereInTheManual novel.]] Paradoxically, the story behind the tattoo was probably invented after the fact for the novel, since the experience that earned him that mark should have made him far less cynical.
* TechnoWizard: Cale.
* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:Captain Korso]], who is being paid by the Drej to find the Titan, so they can blow it up. He is betrayed in turn by [[spoiler:HIS right hand man, Preed.]]
* TreasureMap: The ring keyed to Cale's father's DNA projects a visible map onto Cale's hand, showing the location of the Titan.
* TrojanPrisoner: Doesn't exactly work. [[SubvertedTrope See]] [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy above.]]
* UsedFuture: The human refugees have to make do with what they have.
* WarWasBeginning: It [[WhyYouShouldDestroyThePlanetEarth didn't last long]].
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Used weirdly throughout. In the world of the film, the phrase would more accurately be "What Measure is a Human?", because Earthlings are the ButtMonkey minorities after the destruction of Earth. That said, the human characters get away more or less unscathed when the action gets hot -- but it's okay to have the alien characters get fried, get their necks snapped, and get turned into chunky salsa.
** Of course, nearly the entire human race was eradicated... and we do see one human [[spoiler: get pretty graphically electrocuted]].
* WhatKeptYou: By the time the crew comes to rescue Akima from the slave market, she's already beaten up everyone there.
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: [[spoiler: From a cliff overlooking Planet Bob.]]
* WrenchWench:
** Akima.
** Stith thoroughly averts this in that she is ''not'' the typical human (or alien) cutie and she ''hates'' doing repairs, though she is rather handy with weapons.
--->'''Stith:''' I am educated and well-read, I am ''not'' a mechanic! I have my pride!
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