Line #153 Film/RebelMoon


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4	->'''Kora:''' If I find warriors to fight with us...\
5	'''Hagen:''' We might stand a chance.
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7	''Rebel Moon'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}}-[=produced=] SpaceOpera {{action\|Genre}} film series directed by Creator/ZackSnyder and written by Snyder, Shay Hatten and Kurt Johnstad, with Music/JunkieXL for the soundtrack. Conceived in his youth as ''Film/SevenSamurai'' in space and once unsuccessfully pitched to Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} to be [[DolledUpInstallment absorbed]] into its ''Franchise/StarWars'' franchise as a distinct, albeit disconnected entry, after decades of on-and-off development, Snyder eventually [[DivorcedInstallment repurposed]] his original ideas and created a setting of his own. The two parts of this film duology have been [[MovieMultipack filmed together]].
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9	Veldt, a peaceful farming moon on the edge of the galaxy, is threatened by the armies of a tyrannical regent named Balisarius. The desperate civilians dispatch Kora, a young woman with a mysterious past, to seek out warriors from nearby planets to help them challenge the regent.
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11	The films star Creator/SofiaBoutella as Kora, Creator/EdSkrein as Admiral Atticus Noble, Creator/MichielHuisman as Gunnar, Creator/CharlieHunnam as Kai, Creator/RayFisher and Cleopatra Coleman as Darrian and Devra Bloodaxe respectively, Creator/DjimonHounsou as General Titus, Creator/BaeDoona as Nemesis, Creator/JenaMalone as Harmada, Creator/AnthonyHopkins as the voice of Jimmy, Fra Fee as Regent Balisarius and Creator/CoreyStoll, Creator/CaryElwes, Creator/AlfonsoHerrera, Creator/RayPorter, Creator/IngvarEggertSigurdsson, and Creator/DominicBurgess in further roles.
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13	Netflix released the first part, titled ''Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire'', on December 22, 2023. The second part, titled ''Rebel Moon: The Scargiver'', released on April 19, 2024. Snyder has indicated that there are two versions for each film -- an initial PG-13 cut followed by an extended R-rated cut that will release in summer 2024.
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15	An ExpandedUniverse is also in development, including the following projects:
16	* ''Rebel Moon: House of the Bloodaxe'', a comic book by Magdalene Visaggio (''ComicBook/VagrantQueen'') focusing on the Bloodaxe siblings.
17	* A yet untitled video game by the studio Super Evil Megacorp (''VideoGame/VainGlory'').
18	* A yet untitled animated series is in the works.
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20	'''Previews:''' [[https://youtu.be/_rHLOXbFZtI August 2023 trailer]], [[https://youtu.be/fhr3MzT6exg Geeked Week '23 trailer]], [[https://youtu.be/UEJuNHOd8Dw Part Two trailer]].
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22	Unrelated to the 1995 video game of the same name by Creator/VoxDay.
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24	!! ''Rebel Moon'' provides examples of:
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28	[[folder:''Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire'']]
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32	* ActionGirl: Kora was trained for war by Balisarius from an early age, and she is an expert in using both ranged and melee weapons. She has no problem taking on multiple armed opponents and winning.
33	* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Nemesis, the only Asian character with speaking lines, is an energy sword-wielding melee fighter. She wields her swords in Katana-like fashion.
34	* AmbitionIsEvil: Part of the motivation for Noble's ruthlessness is a desire to improve his standing in the Imperium and avoid being sent to the edges of the galaxy any further, first by quelling the Bloodaxe siblings' insurgencies, then later by bringing Kora to "justice".
35	* ArmiesAreEvil: The Imperium conquers worlds, and its individual soldiers are psychos.
36	* AttemptedRape: Twice, Kora is forced to kill a room full of people to prevent a rape, first killing Imperium soldiers attempting to gang-rape Sam, then later a DepravedHomosexual alien who wants to buy Gunnar.
37	* TheAssimilator: What the Imperium does to planets it conquers, how it replenishes its forces, and what happened to Kora and Titus as children.
38	* TheAtoner: Kora ran away from the Imperium once after years of fighting for them as a soldier. The moment Imperium forces show up on Veldt, she decides to make a stand against them. This also applies to Titus and most of her recruits for one reason or the other.
39	* AvengersAssemble: Unusually for a TheMagnificentSevenSamurai plot, the recruitment portion of the story takes up the majority of this film
40	* BaitAndSwitch:
41	** It looks like Noble is going to pummel Gunnar with his staff for being insubordinate to Sindri and promising grain to the Imperium without the necessary authority. Instead, he [[spoiler:kills Sindri for lying about their reserves of grain]].
42	** With their situation completely hopeless and no chance of escape in sight, it looks like Gunnar would take Kai's sadistic choice to save his own life and cripple Kora with the boltgun, after apologizing to her. [[spoiler:Gunnar instead kills Kai with it]]
43	* BigBad: Admiral Noble drives the action of this film by hunting for the Bloodaxes, arriving in Veldt to demand the farmers' harvest, and then later attempting to capture Kora. We see [[GreaterScopeVillain his boss]] at the end of the movie.
44	* BigBadassBattleSequence: A truly significant chunk of Part Two’s two-hour-long runtime is spent on the battle to protect Veldt (or [[TrashTheSet whatever is still standing after so many explosions]]).
45	* BlatantLies: Sindri tries this on Nobel, and ''persists'' even when Nobel makes it clear that he's not fooled. Sindri tries to convince Nobel that they have no stored crops to give him because they're subsistence farmers who are barely producing enough food to get by. Nobel quickly shoots this down, correctly observing that the villagers look much too fit, well-nourished, and healthy to be in such a state, and that he can easily see their vast cropland is producing plentiful crops. Sindri still persists, and also makes the mistake of offering ale to Nobel more than once. If they were actually subsistence farmers, ''there wouldn't be any excess crops to set aside to make ale.'' [[spoiler:After Gunnar lets it slip that they actually have stored food, Nobel does some taunting then kills Sindri for being, in his opinion, TooDumbToLive]]
46	* BlueSkinnedSpaceBabe: One of the workers at the brothel in Providence, is a [[DressedAllInRubber latex]] fetish example of this.
47	* BrotherSisterTeam: Darrian and Devra Bloodaxe are siblings, and they're also insurgents fighting against the Imperium.
48	* BystanderSyndrome:
49	** When Nemesis is getting knocked around fighting a child-murdering spiderwoman, our rebels just stand there and watch. Only the NonActionGuy Gunnar thinks to rush in to protect the child, and even then, they just stand there watching ''him''.
50	** None of the men with Hickman try to get the rogue Bennu off of him when it has him pinned.
51	* CallToAgriculture: Kora is a former Imperium fighter who moved to a small farming village. When the Imperium shows up to their moon, she knows they cannot be appeased.
52	-->'''Sindri:''' What do you think they want?\
53	'''Kora:''' Everything.
54	* CampfireCharacterExploration: Kora details her {{backstory}} to Gunnar when they sit around a campfire.
55	* CastingGag: In the Japanese dub, this is not the first time a character voiced by Creator/HiroshiKamiya, as Admiral Noble, [[spoiler:has undergone BrainUploading [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 before]]]].
56	* CharacterNarrator: JC-1435 provides the narration in the opening scene.
57	* DeathByIrony:
58	** Hickman really wants to ride that Bennu, even gambling Tarak's freedom and the 300,000 darams he's owed on it. It flings him off its back and kills him.
59	** Noble loves to personally finish off victims with his bone staff by bashing their head in. Kora seemingly finishes him off after a brutal beatdown, with said bone staff knocking out his [[TeethFlying teeth]]. [[spoiler:Subverted when he survived due to Motherworld technology but only barely.]]
60	* DeathByMaterialism: [[spoiler:Given Kora's status as the single-most wanted fugitive in the Imperium, Kai could've made a pretty penny by turning in just her to Admiral Noble. But his greedy plan to fatten the pot even more by having her recruit a who's who of the Motherworld's Most Wanted results in the final battle being won by the heroes and Kai's own death.]]
61	* DefectorFromDecadence: Kora and General Titus are both former members of the Imperium who defected and led different lives since, with Kora taking up a life of farming in Veldt, and Titus becoming a gladiator out of guilt for his actions.
62	* DepravedHomosexual: While stopping at a Brothel to find information on General Titus, Gunnar and Kora are briefly accosted by a male-appearing alien who believes Gunnar is a SexSlave for sale. When he refuses, he aggressively gropes Gunnar and turns violent, then later gathers a posse to help kill Kora for beating him up.
63	* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: The ancient combat robot guard JC-1435 or "Jimmy", was created and programmed to believe in a benevolent future ruled by the Motherworld's Princess Issa. When she and the royal family are killed, Jimmy loses sense of its purpose for existing.
64	-->''"I was given memories of a world I will never see. Loyalty to a king I cannot serve. And love for a child I could not save."''
65	* DieselPunk: More than it is Hard Sci-fi, is how Creator/ZackSnyder describes the setting.
66	* DisneyVillainDeath:
67	** [[spoiler:Darrian Bloodaxe]] attacks an aircraft with a spear, gets shot in a non-vital area, and crashes the ship into the ground.
68	** Admiral Noble also confronts this trope. [[spoiler: Unlike Darrian, he survives, although barely]].
69	* TheDogBitesBack: The gryphon Hickman stipulates Tarak to tame in return for his freedom, kills Hickman after he tries to ride it.
70	* DualWielding: Nemesis wields two {{hot blade}}s against [[SpiderPeople Harmada]].
71	* EnergyWeapon: Par for the course for the Imperium and rebels in the setting.
72	* ExperiencedProtagonist: Kora is already an experienced fighter when the story starts. Most of her future recruits such as Titus, Nemesis, Darrian and Kai already have their own experiences in varying areas relevant to the plot from the beginning.
73	* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The people of Veldt have Scandinavian accents, names, and style.
74	* FascistButInefficient: The massive war machine of the Imperium has brought many worlds under its iron fist, but its logistics are apparently so shoddy that a massive warship's provisions have gotten low enough that it has to spend a week wresting the grain harvest from a village of 50-odd people.
75	* FauxAffablyEvil: Admiral Noble is very polite to the little farming community he intends to grind beneath the heel of the Imperium. It's just an act, as he later calls the villagers "simple" and mockingly bows to Tarak with a scoff of derision.
76	* FinalBattle: Of Part One. The one on one fight between Kora and Admiral Noble.
77	* {{Flashback}}: Kora's backstory is told in several lengthy flashbacks.
78	* ForDoomTheBellTolls: Kora rings her village's alarm bell with a mallet to announce the Imperium's arrival.
79	* GalacticConqueror: The Imperium is conquering all the planets it encounters.
80	* GenocideSurvivor: Kora is the only survivor of an Imperium genocide and then, was adopted as the daughter of the general who did the genociding.
81	* GladiatorGames: Shortly after leaving the Imperium, General Titus fled to a nearby planet, where he spends his days fighting in a colosseum as a gladiator, though we don't see any of it.
82	* GreaterScopeVillain: Regent Balisarius, whose takeover of the Imperium in the wake of the royal family's deaths turned an already aggressively imperialist force into an even more aggressive, needlessly brutal one.
83	* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Nemesis warns Tarak and the others to not celebrate Harmada's death, because it could have been any one of them dying in the gutter of a forgotten world in the name of revenge for their grievances.
84	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Hickman gives Tarak a stipulation; ride a wild, untameable Bennu and gain his freedom or fail, then Kora and Gunnar[[note]]Who are trying to win his freedom, to recruit him to defend their moon against the Imperium[[/note]] also get shackled as slaves. Tarak succeeds in taming the gryphon, Hickman lets him go as promised, tries to ride the creature, is violently thrown off, then impaled with it's claws.
85	* HornedHumanoid:
86	** A random woman in a bar has huge horns.
87	** JC-1435 has tied antlers to his head in the final shot of the film.
88	* HotBlade: Nemesis wields a pair of heated swords, which only warriors of her kind are able to wield because of their extreme heat.
89	* ImmuneToBullets: Getting repeatedly shot knocks JC-1435 down but does no damage.
90	* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Not really surprising considering the inspiration, but during each action scene, not a single named hero is ever shot, even in spaces with little cover and not enough room to move around. [[spoiler:Darrian Bloodaxe is only shot when he's hit point-blank by the pilot in a MutualKill.]]
91	* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: Molten metal blades, 4-foot guns, ammos made of pressurized plasma, etc.
92	* ImprobableAimingSkills: Being a combat robot, JC-1435 can shoot a hostage-taker with perfect accuracy without using the gun's sights.
93	* InformedAbility: Titus is an ex-general and famous tactician, but he's introduced as a gladiator and does not contributes any strategic or tactical input to the gang during the rest of the film.
94	* InMediasRes: Kora has already had her planet wiped out, been adopted by Balisarius, trained as a soldier, become a grizzled veteran, fled the Imperium, crashed into Veldt, and spent two seasons there trying to start a new life before the film starts. All of this backstory is told in lengthy flashbacks in the first act of the film.
95	* InTheHood:
96	** Kai wears a hooded jacket.
97	** Kora is seen wearing a tan hooded cloak.
98	* InappropriatelyCloseComrades: {{Inverted}}. According to [[https://twitter.com/NetflixDE/status/1697912249636077970 Zack Snyder]], the Motherworld actually ''encourages'' romantic relationships between their soldiers so that if they lose sight of the reason they're fighting, they'll still fight for their comrades.
99	* IronicName: The evil servant of the Imperium is named Admiral Noble.
100	* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Kai tries to force Gunnar to sever Kora's spine with a gas powered bolt gun after betraying them to the Imperium. Gunnar shoves it under his head and squeezes the trigger, shooting the bolt straight through his brain.]]
101	* LeanAndMean: The evil Admiral Noble has some impressively sunken cheeks.
102	* LostTechnology: The Imperium seems to lack the ability to make more "Jimmy" robots.
103	* LoveIsAWeakness: A confusing case. Kora says she was taught that "love is weakness" as a child, but the Motherworld actually ''encourages'' romantic attachments between soldiers so they have someone to fight for.
104	* TheMagnificentSevenSamurai: Our heroes must recruit a rag-tag group of warriors to help some humble farmers fight off a threat. The film is essentially ''Film/{{The Magnificent Seven\|1960}}'' and ''Film/TheSevenSamurai'' InSpace. In other words, ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars''.
105	* MeaningfulName: Veldt is a farming community, and its name means "field" in Dutch.
106	* MonumentalDamage: A gigantic statue is seen being destroyed by ships.
107	* MoralSociopathy: According to Ed Skrein, Admiral Noble chooses to be above all concerns of morality.
108	* MovieMultipack: Once a singular movie and first of a potential trilogy, but concerns over its running time have caused it to be divided into two parts.
109	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast:
110	** The two rebel siblings are named Bloodaxe.
111	** Kora herself is christened the "Scargiver" for an as yet unknown reason.
112	* NeverTrustATitle: [[https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/zack-snyder-endless-movie-tv-plans-rebel-moon-exclusive/ According to Zack Snyder]], Veldt is ''not'' the titular rebel moon. The true rebel moon is a place called Vanna, which won't even appear until the third movie.
113	* NobleDemon: Admiral Noble makes a good case for the villagers to deal with him, pointing out that the Motherworld can pay above market rate and the villagers can use that money to grow their operation and save themselves the labour. He only [[DayOfTheJackboot garrisons the village]] after Sindri tries some very BlatantLies on him, and gives the village more time than they asked for to ensure the surplus will be ready when he comes back. He doesn't care when told they'll starve if he takes that much, but these are the same villagers that lied about how fertile their land was to begin with. This characterisation doesn't stick, and he engages in CardCarryingVillainy in later scenes.
114	* NoodleIncident:
115	** No details are provided about what happened the day the last King of Motherworld and his daughter were assassinated.
116	** Exactly why Kora is known as "the Scargiver", and why she's so wanted by the Imperium, are never divulged.
117	** Why Tarak would be valuable to the team Kora's assembling is left unexplained beyond a line from Kai much later saying he's an ex-prince.
118	* NonIndicativeName: The Bloodaxe siblings. Once seen in action, Darrian wields ''anything'' but an axe.
119	* OneWomanWail: [[https://youtu.be/mw0nwvwfaWI "A Call to Courage"]] on the soundtrack.
120	* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Charlie Hunnam attempts a vaguely Irish accent as Kai but frequent lapses into his native Newcastle.
121	* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: There is a species of winged creatures called Bennus in this universe native to Tarak's planet, that are essentially space gryphons.
122	* OurGryphonsAreDifferent: A black gryphon-like creature is broken to the saddle by one of our heroes.
123	* PlanetLooters: The Motherworld plunders other planets for resources through use of it's massive Imperium forces.
124	* {{Planetville}}: The small, unnamed village of less than a thousand people Kora settles in is treated as though it represents the entire planet of Veldt when Noble lands. This leads to Noble coming down, personally, to deal with a small settlement while acting as if it was the solution to feeding an entire dreadnought, even though logically there should be lots of different communities for him to send envoys down to.
125	* PlasmaCannon: The weapons in the setting use magazines of pressurized plasma to shoot hot, dense matter called a "lava cork" by the production team and "slag" by the [[Creator/ZackSnyder director]].
126	* PosthumousCharacter: The king and queen of the Motherworld have been assassinated before the beginning of the film..
127	* PursuedProtagonist: Kora is the most wanted fugitive from the Imperium, above the likes of even General Titus.
128	* RedshirtArmy: A lot of the film's focus is on Kora and Gunnar's journey to find the Bloodaxe insurrectionists to recruit their army to their cause. The handful of them that volunteer are promptly killed in the film's climax.
129	* RevengeIsNotJustice:
130	** Before their fight, Nemesis tries to reach Harmada by pointing out there's a difference between the justice she seeks for her emotional pain and the revenge she's pursuing by kidnapping a child with intentions to kill her.
131	** The above example is then completely disregarded by Kora when she meets Titus, explicitly appealing to his desire for revenge against the Imperium.
132	* RichesToRags: Tarak is royalty, lived in a highly developed kingdom with his people and their Bennu bond partners. After his planet runs into the Motherworld and post "a long road of mistakes", Tarak is introduced in the movie, chained to an anvil in indentured servitude, due to a debt on his name.
133	* ShirtlessScene: Tarak is usually shirtless.
134	* ShootTheHostageTaker: JC-1435 shoots a hostage-taking soldier with ImprobableAimingSkills.
135	* ShoutOut: The title ''Rebel Moon'' is a {{homage}} to Yavin IV -- the moon base in ''Film/ANewHope'' where the Rebel Alliance is stationed -- alluding to this film's history of once being proposed as a [[DolledUpInstallment dolled-up]] ''Franchise/StarWars'' spin-off.
136	* SchizoTech: The level of technology differs greatly among planets and also within different parts of the same planet--soldiers with spaceships, blasters and sentient robots next to a farming commune that works by hand and with beasts of burden and move around on horseback, yet have automatic doors.
137	* SociopathicSoldier: The Imperium's soldiers, with one exception, are portrayed as rapist psychos.
138	* SpaceOpera: It's a galactic adventure about a heroic woman hopping from planet to planet to gather rebels to fight back against an evil empire..
139	* SpiderPeople: Nemesis fights Harmada, a vengeful being with a humanoid torso and spider legs.
140	* SuperpoweredMooks: Among the Imperium's soldiers is a special class called Krypteians, who have super strength and wield heated blades of their own.
141	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:Contrary to audience expectations, a mercenary pilot who is NotInThisForYourRevolution is really not going to be throwing his lot in with a RagtagBunchOfMisfits who can't really pay anything and whom he just met, so quite realistically, the resident Han Solo {{Expy}} Kai sells out the heroes to Admiral Noble (and intended to do so from the very beginning).]]
142	* TooDumbToLive:
143	** After Sindri is beaten to death and his wife shot in front of everyone, the villagers conclude that it was just to scare them and the Motherworld [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou can't kill them all, or they wouldn't get any crops]]. First, nothing stops Noble from publicly and painfully executing a small number of villagers instead, and second, he's already mentioned agricultural robots, so they should know their labour is replaceable.
144	** When Admiral Noble is told about an informant that can take him to the Bloodaxes, he decides to have some rec time with a tentacle beast instead of doing his job and interrogating him, which gives Kora enough time to assemble a team and start coalescing an organised resistance. When he ''does'' meet the informant, he has him killed and dissected before verifying whether anything he said was true, which incidentally discourages anyone else from coming to him with information.
145	** When the team finally meets the Bloodaxe siblings, Devra correctly points out that they don't have the resources to do more than harass the Motherworld's shipping, and that trying them in open battle would be suicide. Darrien joins anyway saying that their associations got the planet in trouble to begin with, but that's not true - the Imperium didn't know and never did find out about Gunnar's dealing with them, and Sindri's bad lies were what provoked it.
146	* UnfulfilledPurposeMisery: Any still active robots from the line of "Jimmys" are stated to be suffering from one, after the royal family they were programmed to serve is murdered.
147	* VillainTakesAnInterest: Admiral Noble initially opts not to immediately use the dangerous weapons in his arsenal to quell the threat from his opponents, until he discovers Kora aka the "Scargiver" in hiding and slowly becomes consumed with capturing her.
148	* VillainWorld: Universe, in this case. The Motherworld is an ancient civilization that has been in control of everything for an unknown length of existence through its highly aggressive imperialist conquests. Their stranglehold has stunted most technological advancements in the setting.
149	* VisualInnuendo: The film opens with a spaceship tearing open a wormhole and passing through it, with the edges of the wormhole peeling back in a diamond shape, creating an unmistakable yonic image. Zack Snyder says this is a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sxaNChKmMk hint]] at larger themes concerning Mother World that will be expanded on in the Director's Cut.
150	* WeWillWearArmorInTheFuture: Both Kora and Titus wear armor and take part in wars that are fought with blaster rifles.
151	* WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture: The villagers on the farming community do all their agricultural work using manual labor instead of robots because of philosophical/religious reasons.
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154	[[folder:''Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver'']]
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157	* AndTheAdventureContinues: The film ends with the surviving heroes committing to go on an adventure to find the princess.
158	* BadBoss: Noble kills one of the technicians who resurrected him for insisting that he remain on leave until he's fully recovered.
159	* BlackAndGrayMorality: It's revealed [[spoiler: Kora was part of the coup that put Balisarius in power, even attempting to assassinate the Princess (a child), and fled not because she disagreed with it but because they scapegoated her for the crime afterwards]], and the battle for Veldt involves her and Gunnar committing war crimes [[spoiler: when they pretend to be injured Motherworld soldiers to get on the ''King's Gaze'' and slaughter the medics who picked them up]].
160	* CallBack: Noble references the cup of ale he was promised and never received in the first film.
161	* TheCavalry: [[spoiler:Devra Bloodaxe and the entire rebel fleet arrive to join the fight just as the ''King's Gaze'' crashes into the ground, and without the Dreadnaught to worry about they annihilate all the remaining Motherworld forces in short order]].
162	* CoolButInefficient: The main batteries of a Motherworld Dreadnaught are devastatingly powerful weapons of mass destruction that can level cities... but they take forever to move into position to aim even at a stationary target. And that's leaving aside the fact that they have to be aimed ''by hand and sight''.
163	* ConcealmentEqualsCover: The Veldt resistance uses wooden tables and walls as cover, which proves effective against bulky energy weapons.
164	* TheCoup: The death of the Emperor and his heir was one, orchestrated by [[spoiler:Belisarius, because he couldn't accept that the Emperor had decided that there had been enough militant expansion of the Empire, and it was time to focus on consolidating what they'd taken.]]
165	* CurbStompBattle: Once Jimmy joins the fight, he effortlessly slaughters the remaining enemy soldiers in a matter of seconds.
166	* EvilIsPetty: The main characters share their reasons for fighting on the eve of battle, virtually all of which stem from unnecessary acts of cruelty by the Empire.
167	* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The movie takes place over the course of a week. The farmers learn of when Noble will arrive on the day Kora returns, they bring in the harvest over the next three days (something that normally takes them half a month), fortify the village the day after, and then fight the battle the next morning. Given that pace, it's a miracle that anyone had the strength to fight at all as opposed to just falling over asleep mid-battle.
168	* FramingTheGuiltyParty: [[spoiler:Kora actually ''was'' a willing and active participant of the coup and the assassination of the Royal Family, and was framed only insomuch as she was made out to be the sole perpetrator instead just a junior member of a larger conspiracy]].
169	* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: Kora forgoes the helmet part of the disguise after getting on board the ''King's Gaze''. It's an especially egregious example, as [[spoiler: it leads to Admiral Noble being tipped off that she's on board, leading to Gunnar being killed]].
170	* HopeSpot: The defenders suddenly realize that there are no enemies left, and they all cheer in victory... only for a second wave to appear on the horizon with a few {{walking tank}}s.
171	* LastSupperSteal: During their last meal before the battle, our heroes sit on one side of a table and share their backstories.
172	* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The flashback depicting the assassination of the royal family is set to epic string music... which is revealed to be being played by an actual InUniverse string quartet that is shown to not stop playing even when the shooting starts.
173	* {{Mook}}: The Imperium troops are simply chaff to be mowed down by hero and farmer alike.
174	* MookLieutenant: The strike team sent to the longhouse is led by a visually distinct commander whose bearded face is visible.
175	* TheScapegoat: Kora is wanted by the Motherworld and Regent Belisarius for [[spoiler:assassinating the royal family]], casually ignoring that while she was involved, she wasn't the ringleader - that was [[spoiler:Belisarius himself]].
176	* SchizoTech: This film reveals that schizo-tech isn't limited to the Veldt farmers.
177	** The Imperium's dreadnaught spaceships are apparently powered by ''coal'', which is shoveled by hand by Imperium boilermen.
178	** Likewise, it's main weapons systems are not computer operated, but moved by manual levers and aimed by sights.
179	* TookALevelInBadass: Getting regenerated seems to have given Noble increased strength and speed.
180	* WalkingTank: The second wave of Imperium troops includes beetle-like walking tanks.
181	* WeHaveReserves: Noble orders the Veldt village to be shelled even though their own troops are still fighting there. He reasons that losing troops would be beneficial, since they'd also be losing their food supply.
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