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2[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TagLine May your days be long upon the Earth.]]'']]
3->''I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye.\
4I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind.\
5I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.''
6-->-- '''The Gunslinger'''
7
8''The Dark Tower'' is a live-action adaptation/sequel of author Creator/StephenKing's [[Literature/TheDarkTower series of novels]] of the same name, that was released on August 4, 2017.
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10Creator/IdrisElba plays the last gunslinger, Roland Deschain, and Creator/MatthewMcConaughey plays the Man in Black. Though based loosely on the first book in the series, it is considered canon in its own right by virtue of taking place ''after'' the last line of the final novel. (Those who have read the books understand why this is a big deal; others need not be spoiled.)
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12Previews: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjwfqXTebIY Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al8fHNujjHo Connected KINGdom]].
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14!!''The Dark Tower'' provides examples of:
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16[[folder:A-E]]
17* AbandonedPlayground: An abandoned theme park from before the world moved on. [[FutureImperfect Jake has to tell Roland what it is.]]
18* {{Acrofatic}}: For a chubby guy, Toby, the institute driver, really has some moves going after Jake.
19* ActorAllusion:
20** It's hard to imagine that casting Fran Kranz as a minion whose job is to strap people into chairs that overwrite and use their brainpower wasn't a deliberate ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' reference.
21** When [[Creator/IdrisElba Deschain]] asks Jake if animals in our world "still talk", it dawns on you he's been in at least two movies where indeed animals did talk, and in [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 both]] of those [[WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}} movies]] he was a talking animal.
22** A year before this movie came out, Creator/MatthewMcConaughey played in ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'', where he was a different kind of "[[ExactWords man in black]]", Beetle.
23* AdaptationalAttractiveness:
24** Jake's mom in the novels is skinny and wasted-looking. Creator/KatherynWinnick is fit and very good-looking.
25** Appearing in Book VII of the series, Pimli Prentiss, head of security in Algul Siento, is middle-aged, overweight, and balding. He's played by a quite fit and handsome Creator/FranKranz, in his mid-30s.
26* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: In the case of the Breakers. In the books, we're told that it's actually an ecstatic experience ("to Break is divine"). The kids here scream in pain when they're Breaking. They're also strapped into seats that look like torture devices, rather than sitting comfily in easy chairs while they work.
27* AdaptationalBadass: Walter Padick, the Man in Black, is considerably more of a threat than he was in the books, displaying mind control, telekinesis, and actually confronting Roland during the climax and nearly killing him.
28* AdaptationDyeJob: Jake, who is blond in the novels, is played by brunet Tom Taylor.
29* AdaptationalHeroism:
30** Both Jake's mother and father (his real father anyway) are much, much nicer than they were in the novels, and his mom actually cares for him versus barely knowing he exists. Additionally, Jake's dad in the novels is a TV executive (mockingly called "a gunslinger for the network"); here he's a fire captain who died in the line of duty. You don't get more heroic than that in NYC. The only way to explain these discrepancies consistent with the novels is to conclude that the Jake in the novels is not from Keystone Earth. [[spoiler:There is circumstantial evidence for this in the picture Jake looks at; the caption identifies his late dad as "Elmore Chambers", while in the novels, his name was Elmer.]]
31** The Tower itself is a more heroic icon, "protecting us from darkness", whereas in the novels, the Tower was a much more neutral force, even downright threatening ("From its field of roses, the Tower cries out in its beast's voice").
32* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Rather than sharing the [[TheUnsmile creepy smile]] and [[FauxAffablyEvil mocking personality]] of his book counterpart, the Man in Black is here portrayed as TheStoic, displaying little emotion and smiling (briefly) once in the entire film.
33* AfterTheEnd: Mid-World is a wild and dangerous place dotted with the ruins of a fallen civilization. None of the people that live there have any clue what these crumbling structures used to be despite still being able to operate some of the old tech.
34* AlienSky: Mid-World in the film has two moons, one of which is much bigger than ours. Even though he's landed in the ThirstyDesert with no apparent way to return to Keystone Earth, Jake appears quite happy to see the two moons, knowing that he's actually in another world.
35* AllThereInTheManual: It goes without saying that readers of the series will catch a ''lot'' more background references and place names than those who are seeing the film cold.
36* AlternateRealityGame: As part of the film's marketing campaign, an app for the [[EvilInc Sombra Group]] appeared on the Google Play and App Stores on [[MeaningfulReleaseDate July]] [[ArcNumber 19th]], which includes a scanner that accesses symbols from the novels when used on certain images.
37* AncestralWeapon: Roland is armed with his family's sandalwood revolvers, forged from the sword of [[Myth/KingArthur Arthur Eld]].
38* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:Roland takes Jake back to his world at the end of the film, Jake having earned the accolade Gunslinger. Together, it's implied, they will fight the remaining darkness that threatens the Tower. This was also possibly meant as a SequelHook for more movies or a series if the box office had supported it.]]
39* AnyoneCanDie: If your name isn't Roland or [[spoiler:Jake]], chances are you didn't make it through this movie.
40* ArtisticLicenseLaw: The gun dealer Roland and Jake visit shouldn't have anything like the selection displayed in his shop (a wall full of guns featuring high-capacity assault rifles, as well as high-cap, high-caliber handguns), given the gun laws in NYC. Also, in a blink-and-you-miss-it, the gunbelt Roland grabs is already loaded with ammunition, right there in the store, which is not only a no-no but amazingly dumb.
41* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Jake's step-dad]] really had it coming.
42* BadassLongcoat: Roland is sporting a well worn yet still classy duster. The Man in Black is a villainous example.
43* BadBoss: Do you work for Walter? Hope the health plan is really good because [[YouHaveFailedMe he doesn't take failure well]].
44* BallisticDiscount: A heroic example, as just prior to the big shootout at the climax, Roland forces a gun shop owner to hand over all the bullets of the caliber for his revolvers.
45* BathroomBreakOut: Jake makes a point of leaving his bag outside so it doesn't look like he's trying this trope, but the people from the 'clinic' quickly realise what he's up to, break down the door and go after him.
46* BerserkButton: Don't, don't, ''don't'' tell Jake Chambers he's crazy, and ''especially'' don't mess with his sketchbook. A school bully learns this the hard way.
47* BigBad: The Man In Black (Walter Padick) is the film's main antagonist, contrary to the books where he was merely the Crimson King's agent (though that is implied to still be the case here; see GreaterScopeVillain).
48* BigApplesauce: Part of the film takes place in New York City.
49* BigShutUp: When his stepdad mocks Jake's fear of the Institute people ([[spoiler:actually skin-changing monsters from Roland's world]]), Jake shuts him down with: "''Shut up'', Lon! [[CallingTheOldManOut You actually hope I'm crazy just so you can get me out of here.]]"
50* BizarreAndImprobableBallistics: It doesn't get much more bizarre than someone altering the path of his own bullet by ricocheting another bullet into it from the side, and one fired from the same gun, to boot. It violates physics on so many levels one doesn't even want to count them anymore, but at least it looks cool. [[spoiler:Only remotely possible if the Man in Black used magic to slow the first bullet to the point he was about to catch it, which would let the [[PinballProjectile second bullet]] be faster.]]
51* BlatantLies: During Jake's escape from the "clinic" people: "Don't worry, Toby will get him down safely."
52* BoomHeadshot: Roland favors a single shot to the head to dispatch his opponents. [[spoiler: He also finishes Walter with a final bullet between the eyes.]]
53* BroadStrokes: The events of the film only loosely follow those of the books, which makes sense, since Roland having the horn indicates that this is [[StealthSequel the next iteration of the cycle]] started at the end of ''Literature/TheDarkTower''.
54* BulletCatch: Walter does this all the time. The first time we see it, he catches a bullet shot at him ''[[OffhandBackhand from behind, without looking back]]''.
55* BullyHunter: A kid at Jake's school snatches his drawing book off him, but instead of the standard bully-picking-on-the-weird-kid scene, Jake just lays right into him and forces the bully to hand it back. Unfortunately this gets Jake sent home from school which is the last straw for his parents.
56* CassandraTruth:
57** Earlier on, Jake tried to warn his mother not to send him to the institute because [[spoiler: the people sent to pick him up were monsters in disguise he saw in his dreams]]. Later, it's deconstructed when [[spoiler: Walter points out to Jake's mother that her son was right all along, before killing her.]]
58** A [[CrazyHomelessPeople crazy homeless person]] tries to warn Jake that he's in danger. It seems like the usual MadOracle {{Doomsayer}} trope, but Jake later realises that he was one of the boys who were abducted, then abandoned when he was no longer of use.
59* ClickHello: Jake meets the gunslinger in this fashion, when Roland puts one of his six-guns to the boy's head.
60* CompellingVoice: The Man in Black seems to have this as his main power, forcing people to (among other things) stop breathing, kill each other, and [[ThePowerOfHate hate]] simply by telling them to do so.
61* CompressedAdaptation: Among other things, there's no mention of Eddie, Susannah, or Oy, and Sheemie only cameos as a crazy hobo. The Man in Black dies at the end of the movie, rather than late into the series. Of course, this is what comes from adapting seven [[DoorStopper several hundred page books]] into an hour and a half. Alternatively, the fact that Roland is carrying the Horn of Eld in this story implies that this is not meant to be the same story that was told in the written series.
62* ContinuityCameo: One of Jake's drawings of the tower and field of roses has a composition almost identical to one of Michael Whelan's illustrations for the books.
63* ContinuityNod:
64** The voice in Jake's dream reciting the first line of the Dark Tower series. [[spoiler:It's also the last line, which may be a clue that the film is a continuation of the story. See StealthSequel.]]
65---> ''The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed.''
66** It's "Spaghetti Week at the Majestic", just as in Eddie Dean's flashbacks and the day Jake crosses back to Mid-World in Book III.
67** In another nod to Book III, Jake crosses worlds via the old mansion in Dutch Hill [[spoiler:and has to fight the Doorkeeper to get through]].
68** The Man in Black mentions that there are no chickens in Mid-World; Eddie Dean spent a lot of his time in Book II griping about the absence of a Popeye's Fried Chicken along the route of their quest.
69** The village elder who helps set up the portal is named Cantab in the credits. That would make the village Calla Bryn Sturgis, setting of Book V, ''Wolves of the Calla''.
70** For a time, Roland's right arm is infected and nearly disabled so he can only shoot left-handed. The infection and injury resemble what happened after Roland lost two fingers on his right hand to the "lobstrosities" in ''The Drawing of the Three''; Roland could only shoot left-handed for the rest of the series.
71** Roland's reaction to sugary drinks was first established in Book II.
72** The talking animals in a TV commercial prompt Roland to ask if animals "still" talk in our world; possibly a reference to the billy-bumblers in the novels, which once spoke, but mostly lost the knack (except for Jake's friend Oy).
73** The Man in Black has a cabinet full of glass orbs, which appear to be part of the Wizard's Rainbow aka Maerlyn's Rainbow, a series of 13 glass balls with [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Palantir-esque]] powers, which features prominently in the series. He uses the pink stone, central to the plot of ''Literature/WizardAndGlass'', to observe a taheen raid on a village. [[spoiler:He later uses Black Thirteen, the most powerful, to project himself as an image to deceive and taunt Roland in New York.]]
74** Once more there's a confrontation in the Dixie Pig.
75** Roland also displayed something akin to SuperSenses in Book V, ''Wolves of the Calla'', when he was able to successfully visualize the enemy's progress and reactions using "one eye of intuition and one of imagination".
76** During his battle against Walter, Roland is impaled through the palm with a shard of glass. In Book VII his hand is stabbed with a rose thorn in a similar manner in the field of roses outside the Tower.
77** Preparing to go after Roland in person, Walter murmurs, "One last time around the wheel, old friend." It's a recurring phrase in the books that "Ka (i.e., destiny) is a wheel."
78* ContrivedCoincidence:
79** The villagers on Mid-World send Roland and Jake back to Earth through a portal, which just so happens to lead smack-dab into the middle of New York, the place where Jake comes from and Walter's main base of operations is located.
80** The gun dealer Roland [[BallisticDiscount robs for ammunition]] happens to have a gun belt set up for exactly the kind of fancy reloading tricks Roland is trained for and set up for his one-of-a-kind Ancestral Weapons to boot.
81* CorruptTheCutie: The Man in Black randomly commands a little girl to hate ForTheEvulz.
82* CosmicKeystone: The eponymous Dark Tower is as literal an example as it gets.
83* CouldntFindAPen: Done with ashes instead of blood.
84* DarkIsEvil: The Man in Black, a malevolent force within the universe of The Dark Tower is, rather appropriately, dressed in all black and possesses jet-black hair.
85* DarkIsNotEvil:
86** The titular Dark Tower; its existence means the universe/multiverse is protected from [[EldritchAbomination beings from outside reality.]]
87** Roland, the hero, also wears a big dark coat which could seem sinister in other circumstances.
88* DeathGlare: Roland gives the [[spoiler: smiley face Walter painted on Jake's wall with his mother's ashes ]] a vicious glare as he gently carries a sobbing Jake out of the room. He is clearly furious about the lengths Walter is going to not just to track Jake down for his powers but also to just make the boy suffer. It is actually a since of Roland's CharacterDevelopment. At first, he just cared about getting revenge on Walter, but now he wants to get revenge for himself and Jake while also protecting the boy.
89* DemotedToExtra: Though not a character, the titular Dark Tower technically counts as this. Even though it plays a larger role in the series, it is seen very little in the film.
90* DestinationDefenestration: At one point during the FinalBattle, one of Walter's {{Mooks}} tackles Roland out of a window, leading to them [[CarCushion crashing into a bus]].
91* DoingInTheWizard: While plenty of wizardry remains, some of the explicitly magical things in the books, like the portals between worlds, are given a technological explanation. (Although the books made clear that the ''reason'' for the collapse of the old world was mankind trying to control magic via technology.)
92* DontGoInTheWoods: Roland warns Jake not to wander off by himself in the woods. That night he's lured away from Roland by a demon using a glamor of his dead father.
93* {{Eagleland}}: When Roland asks Jake if his world has guns, Jake smiles and tells him he's going to love it there. Given that they end up in the USA, it makes perfect sense.
94* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Walter O'Dim's ultimate plan is to bring down the Dark Tower, allowing all the hungry things in the outer dark to rush in and devour and destroy as they will. The fall of the Tower means the end of the world.
95* EvilCannotComprehendGood: A zigzagged variation. Walter anticipates what the good guys (like Roland) will try. There ''are'' things Walter doesn't comprehend about good (like [[LetThemDieHappy the Seer comforting a dying man]]), but it's to the point where he just thinks there's an ulterior reason for it.
96* EvilInc: The Sombra Group, the evil MegaCorp aligned with the Crimson King from the novels which is working to destroy the Rose in our world, appears once again in the movie.
97* EvilIsPetty: When he's on Keystone Earth looking for Jake and Roland, Walter passes a random young girl on the street and just arbitrarily commands her to hate for no reason.
98* EvilSorcerer: You were expecting anything less from Walter O'Dim, evil magic user and would-be OmnicidalManiac?
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100[[folder:F-Z]]
101* FauxAffablyEvil: Walter acts friendly enough when things are going his way, but he'll kill people for basically no reason, as seen when he [[spoiler: tells Jake's stepfather to stop breathing.]]
102* TheFilmOfTheBook: Yes and no; it's the film of the seven books, and just possibly the film of an entirely different, still unwritten book set after the end of the series (see StealthSequel).
103* FishOutOfWater: During his brief time on Earth, Roland just doesn't fit in.
104* FlechetteStorm: Roland shoots out a skylight above Walter, who takes the falling glass and [[AttackBackfire redirects it at Roland]], who catches a [[ImpaledPalm shard of glass through the palm]].
105* ForTheEvulz: Walter's pettier actions are undertaken simply because he enjoys hurting others.
106* GasLeakCoverUp: An overheard newscast in the epilogue blames the very visible, glowing-red harbinger of the apocalypse in the sky that appears during the finale on the one thing stuff like this is pretty much always blamed on in recent movie history: a freak solar flare.
107* GRatedDrug: Roland quite enjoys the sugar from a can of Coke (though he likes our painkillers too).
108* GhostCity: Lud, a remnant of a time long gone and a symbol of the decay and death of Mid-World.
109* GlamourFailure: Walter's minions clothe themselves in human skin to operate on Earth unnoticed (and also to not offend Walter's sensibilities, it seems), but their disguise comes with very visible seams behind the ears and has a tendency to sag, giving away their true nature. Jake's still the only one to take note even in crowded places, though.
110* GlassCannon: Walter is an incredibly powerful sorcerer, but if you get past his magic, a bullet will do the job on him just fine.
111* GoodIsNotNice: Roland dangles Jake off a cliff shortly after they meet. He's also continuously brusque to pretty much everyone.
112* GreaterScopeVillain: The Crimson King is hinted to be the one behind the scenes. When encountering his subordinates, the Man in Black is asked eagerly how they can "serve him", implying someone above Walter. And there's graffiti saying "All Hail The Crimson King."
113* TheGunslinger: Roland Deschain of Gilead is one of the quintessential examples in popular culture, and it's no different here. As in the novels he appears to be a [[ImprobableAimingSkills Trick Shot]] and a QuickDraw, but he also shows elements of [[GunFu The Woo]] since he wields both guns.
114* GunsAkimbo: [[Literature/TheDrawingOfTheThree Since Roland didn't lose several of his fingers to a lobstrosity this time around]], he wields both of his ancestral revolvers at once as he did in ''Literature/TheGunslinger''.
115* GunTwirling: Roland does this just before shooting an explosive to kill some of Walter's {{Mooks}}.
116* HeroicSecondWind: [[spoiler: When Walter brings Roland down, all seems lost until Jake psychically whispers the Gunslinger's creed to Roland, making him remember the Gunslinger he truly is to get himself back up and take Walter down.]]
117* HighAltitudeInterrogation: When Jake first mentions the Man In Black, Roland, thinking Jake's one of Walter's minions, grabs him and dangles him over a fatal drop.
118* HollywoodHealing: Even though Roland is impaled through the shoulder, fighting an infection and has his right arm disabled, he only needs an IV full of antibiotics, a handful of painkillers and vitamins, and a Coke to bounce back to full strength. He chalks it up to MadeOfIron.
119* ImpaledPalm: Roland's left palm gets pierced by a shard of glass during the final fight against Walter.
120* ImprobableAimingSkills: Roland is a Gunslinger, so this comes with the territory, but for example:
121** Roland manages to kill a {{Mook}} making off with Jake by shooting through two windows, a clothesline and a bush at one point, ''[[OffhandBackhand without even looking]]''.
122** Roland also appears to use his bullets ricocheting off of various surfaces [[PinballProjectile to his advantage.]]
123** Roland [[spoiler:kills the Man in Black by bouncing a bullet off of another bullet to push it out of the way of Walter's grab and into his heart.]]
124* ImprovisedScattershot: In the climax, [[spoiler:Roland finally kills Walter O'Dim by firing a bullet at him, then [[ShootingAtYourOwnProjectiles splitting it with a second bullet]] at the last moment so Walter's magicks can't stop both fragments in time.]]
125* KickTheDog: Walter's specialty. [[spoiler: Murdering Jake's mother is a dick move. But drawing a smiley face and taunting message out of her ashes is a special level of dickery.]]
126* KillItWithFire: If Walter doesn't just tell you to stop breathing and drop dead, he'll probably inflict this on you instead.
127* KnightInSourArmor: Roland is bitter and not a very friendly man after the fall of Gilead, but is still a heroic man deep down. He's even more sour than in the novels, where he still used some diplomatic skills and presented himself as a Gunslinger; here he denies that heritage.
128-->'''Roland:''' There are no Gunslingers. Not any more.
129* LastOfHisKind: Roland is the last Gunslinger of Gilead.
130* LatexPerfection: The Can-toi wear fake human skin while disguised as humans.
131* LetThemDieHappy: The seer is comforting a dying man, when Walter makes an appearance and [[EvilCannotComprehendGood congratulates her on being able to lie]] about the NothingAfterDeath.
132* LighterAndSofter: In comparison with the books (which are pretty much R-rated material, while the movie is rated PG-13.)
133* LookBothWays: Though the mook does get shot first, which must be rather distracting.
134* MadeOfExplodium: It takes just one bullet from Roland into what must have been a [[AttackItsWeakPoint critical machine]] for the entire Devar-Toi to blow up, for no reason whatsoever except RuleOfDrama.
135* MadeOfIron: Played for BlackComedy when Roland is taken to a hospital on Keystone Earth. Not only is he showing TaintedVeins from a demon sting, a bunch of doctors turn up to inform him that he's suffering everything from hepatitis to radiation poisoning. When they want him to remain overnight for observation, Roland just pulls out his IV tubes and walks away.
136* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane:
137** Portals between worlds! And yet they're controlled by computer consoles. A similar situation existed in the novels, where it was left vague whether the Old People's technology either created or controlled the portals.
138** Then there's the Man in Black's magic seeing stone, which he sits in some kind of control cradle to use.
139* MindOverMatter: Telekinesis is one of Walter's powers, and he's damn good at it as Roland finds out the hard way.
140* MoveAlongNothingToSeeHere: Appropriately enough used by ''The'' Man in Black when [[BadBoss he makes two minions kill each other]] in a restaurant, then uses his CompellingVoice to stop bystanders from interfering. Walter then adds that [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt they ain't seen nothing yet]].
141* MythologyGag: Several to the various other works of Creator/StephenKing's {{Verse}}:
142** [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/120d001dde22321a66d7000d1fd87b98/tumblr_opdvhlQ4P41w9o8mto1_540.png A picture of]] [[Literature/TheShining the Overlook Hotel]] (more specifically the Overlook from [[Film/TheShining Stanley Kubrick's film]]) can be seen in Dr. Hotchkiss' office.
143** In Jake's room, his friend Timmy is playing with a model of the car ''Film/{{Christine}}''.
144** [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/40383fa4510e42b324f6b1e163f822e1/tumblr_opdvhlQ4P41w9o8mto2_540.png A sign with]] the word [[Literature/{{It}} "PENNYWISE"]] on it can be seen in the forests of Mid-World, [[{{Idiosyncrazy}} next to some balloons.]]
145** [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/c33b9e6896941fe66ea675349b24b054/tumblr_opdw82l16t1w9o8mto1_540.jpg Behind-the-scenes photos]] from the New York set also show that [[Literature/SalemsLot Barlow and Straker's Furniture Shop]] will be appearing in the film.
146** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ7TrKv01cg "Connected KINGdom"]] trailer is one long string of these. With Roland narrating over sweeping shots of [[Literature/TheShining an upturned tricycle in a hotel corridor]], [[Literature/{{It}} a paper boat floating down a down a river of sewage]], [[Literature/{{Carrie}} a high school gym in flames, with a blood-filled bucket hanging from the ceiling]], [[Literature/DifferentSeasons a jail cell with an escape tunnel hidden behind a poster]], [[Literature/{{Christine}} a 1958 Plymouth Fury]] abandoned on the interstate heading for [[Literature/TheStand Las Vegas]], and a field of roses situated in the shadow of the Dark Tower.
147** The code given to Jake and Roland to return to the village's portal is "[[Literature/FourteenOhEight 14-08]]".
148** Jake's quasi-psychic/clairvoyant ability (which the Seer and the homeless man share) is colloquially known as [[Literature/TheShining "The Shine"]]. In this case, the film is following the books lead.
149** When Jake is getting on a bus in New York, a woman and her kid are seen walking a dog that looks a lot like {{Literature/Cujo}}.
150** Jake has a book on him called ''{{Literature/Misery}}'s Child''.
151** Compare the shot of Walter striding through the portal to confront Roland to [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/9/9f/Flager.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180722204800 this image of Randall Flagg]], who was revealed as another incarnation of the Man in Black in ''Literature/TheStand''.
152** One of the first things Jake finds in Midworld is an old junked out monorail car. Seems Blaine the Mono finally got his wish.
153** One in the first minute or so of the film; two of the children in the Breaker village are twin girls playing pattycake while chanting [[Film/TheShining "Come and play with us"]].
154* TheNothingAfterDeath: Walter claims this is the case to mock a dying Gilead gunslinger.
155* OhCrap:
156** The minions who lost Jake are eager to serve when Walter makes an appearance...until he asks them about the boy they let escape.
157** Jake's mother when she realizes that the intruder standing in front of her in her kitchen is the same man from her son's nightmares about the end of the world.
158* OmnicidalManiac: Walter O'Dim plans to bring down the Dark Tower and bring about the apocalypse, leaving humanity and the world annihilated.
159* OneManArmy: Give Roland a gun or two. Now watch him positively mow through Walter's army singlehandedly.
160* ParentalSubstitute: Roland steadily becomes like a new father to Jake.
161* PortalNetwork: Walter and his minions operate a fairly high-tech-looking one to travel between the worlds. Roland and Jake hijack it at several points, which never goes unnoticed by the bad guys and is even used to track them down on occasion.
162* PostApunkalypticArmor: The Taheen in the movie looks like something straight out of ''Film/MadMax''.
163* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Walter is using the powers of psychic children to attack the Tower. [[spoiler: Jake is powerful enough to potentially bring the whole thing down by himself.]]
164* ThePowerOfHate: [[spoiler: Deconstructed, as Walter exploits it for the Tower-destroying machine, by reminding Jake that it was the former who killed the latter's mother.]]
165* PrettyLittleHeadshots: [[spoiler:Walter checks out by way of a .45 bullet to the forehead.]] This should've made a spectacularly gory mess, but all we see is a nice and clean entry wound ''that doesn't even bleed''.
166* PsychicNosebleed: The seer starts bleeding from the nose during her futile struggle to resist Walter's CompellingVoice.
167* RaceLift: Roland, who is described as looking like a man of Caucasian/"white" descent, is played by British-Ghanaian actor Idris Elba.
168* RealAfterAll: Jake's mother was very concerned that Jake's drawings were the sign of a mental health issue, but when [[BigBad Walter]] shows up in their home she immediately recognizes him as "the man from Jake's drawings."
169* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Played with. [[spoiler: While not of the [[EvenEvilHasStandards even-evil-has-standards]] variety, [[JerkassHasAPoint Walter]] gives one to Jake's step-dad, summing up how he purposefully sent Jake to that "institution" just so "Mommy would love [him] best", before casually pointing out he'll "always be a [[ReplacementGoldfish seat-filler]]".]]
170* RevolverCylinderSpin: Roland often gives the cylinders of his revolvers a spin when reloading. In addition, he's so fast and nimble that he can reload each chamber ''while the cylinder is still spinning.''
171* RoaringRampageOfRescue: At least part of the FinalBattle is Roland [[spoiler: fighting to rescue Jake from Walter]].
172* RoomFullOfCrazy: Jake has his drawings on the wall of his room, and takes them down when his mother starts talking of sending him to a clinic.
173* {{Sadist}}: Walter loves hurting people. It's rare he'll just kill a victim without twisting the knife in some way.
174* SatanicArchetype: {{Discussed}} with regards to the Man in Black.
175-->'''Jake:''' He's like the Devil, isn't he?\
176'''Roland:''' No, he's worse.
177* SceneryPorn: Mid-World is an awesomely beautiful place. Too bad you can't go ten steps without something nasty trying to kill you.
178* ShoutOut: That scene that looks like product placement from the Road.
179* SignatureScent: Jakes leaves blood behind on a splinter of wood from the house demon. Walter gives the splinter to his minions so they can track him.
180* TheSociopath: Walter ticks just about every box here, being utterly incapable of empathy for anything else.
181* SparedByTheAdaptation: Jake Chambers is killed in the first book of the series, but is brought back to life, only to die in the final book. Here, he survives the entire film.
182* StealthSequel: Because Roland is now in possession of the Horn of Eld already from the beginning of the story, it is apparent he is going through a different iteration of past events, most likely ''after'' the final book of the series.
183* StepfordSuburbia: The opening scene takes place in a town of happy children playing. Then the audience notices the UncannyValley appearance of the caretakers before a UsefulNotes/ColdWar-type siren sounds, the children are [[PoweredByAForsakenChild used to power the machine]] attacking the Dark Tower, and the town is shown to be an oasis on a mesa above the Wastelands.
184* StormingTheCastle: During the FinalBattle, Roland bursts into Walter's base on Earth and mows down the army of {{Mooks}} inside.
185* StrawNihilist: Seemingly the reason why the Man in Black wants to destroy TheMultiverse. He believes death always wins and the tower will inevitably fall so he may as well hasten it along. Of course, he's also a sadist in general, so he may have just been saying it to psyche Roland out.
186* SuperSenses: Roland appears to have an unnaturally sharp sense of hearing that allows him to analyse active battlefields and perform insane shooting feats without seeing his targets.
187* TallDarkAndHandsome: Both Roland and Walter qualify in their own ways. Funnily, Walter actually describes Roland [[InvokedTrope with these exact words]] at one point. Possibly a subtle reference to Eddie Dean, who referred to Roland as "Old long, tall, and ugly."
188* ThirstyDesert: Both Roland and Jake appear to be in the Mohaine Desert at one point or another.
189* TomTheDarkLord: Despite being haunted by terrible dreams of his evil Jake can't help but laugh when he finds out The Man In Black's name is ''Walter''.
190* UnorthodoxReload: The trailer shows Roland pulling off some very impressive reloads with his revolvers, including rapidly dropping individual bullets into a spinning cylinder, trailing his open cylinders along his belt as he pushes bullets into the chambers with his thumbs, and catching two speedloaders ''[[RuleOfCool in mid air]]'' [[RuleOfCool with both of his guns' cylinders]] before quickly opening fire. In the books, he had a "reloading trick" for reloading two revolvers simultaneously at speeds that never got described in detail -- presumably one of these is how it went.
191* VehicularKidnapping: While Walter traps Roland in a standoff, his {{Mooks}} pull up in a van outside and drag Jake away as he tries to flee.
192* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler: Of all people, it's Walter who ([[KickTheDog sadistically]]) [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech shames]] Jake's mother for sending her son to an "asylum". Even though she had good intentions, she didn't even bother to come to this "facility" and see for herself if it was authentic or to trust even a little that her son might not be the problem.]]
193* VillainsOutShopping: Walter breaks into Jake's apartment and proceeds to... cook some chicken, since they don't have any on Mid-World.
194* VillainousCheekbones: The Man in Black has a pair courtesy of his actor, Creator/MatthewMcConaughey.
195* WastelandElder: Roland and Jake go to a desert village in a society that's been post-apocalyptic for a long, long time to seek help from a psychic. The village leader is a white-bearded man who was a young man when the Gunslingers were still a major force. He is eager to help out Roland, despite some initial dissent from a few of his people.
196* YouHaveFailedMe: Walter makes the two minions who failed to catch Jake the first time kill each other. Later, he scars the face of the head of his security forces when the attack on the village where Jake and Roland are hiding fails.
197* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Jake says this word-for-word to his mother when he tries to convince her that the two people from the "clinic" are monsters in disguise.
198* YouKilledMyFather:
199** Roland wants The Man in Black's head on a pike for killing his father. [[spoiler:Later on, he also wants to avenge Jake's mother and stepfather.]]
200** Deconstructed when Walter uses ThePowerOfHate to activate the Tower-destroying beam; he can't get it to work until Jake says, "You killed my mother!"
201[[/folder]]
202----
203->''"Death always wins."''

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