Line #11 WesternAnimation/Gen13TheMovie


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3	''Gen¹³: The Movie'' is a 1998 DirectToVideo animated film based upon the comic book ''ComicBook/{{Gen 13}}''.
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5	In the film, teenage Caitlin Fairchild is offered a place in an institute for gifted children. She soon learns that the school isn't really a school, but rather a military project to turn children with a special genetic structure into super soldiers. After developing incredibly enhanced abilities, Caitlin rebels against the program that created her. But all is not what it appears; there are some in the military who want to help her, and a deadly enemy is actually a long lost sibling.
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7	It should be noted that Creator/{{Disney}}, of all companies, financed the film and intended it to be releasing during its direct-to-video days (albeit through its Creator/TouchstonePictures banner). It is much DarkerAndEdgier than its other direct-to-video projects and borders between PG-13 and R with intense action violence, profanity, brief nudity, and blood and gore. The film ultimately wound up being shelved, as during its production, Creator/WildStorm was sold to Warner's Creator/DCComics, and Disney no longer wanted to market a film with ties to a rival company. It did get a limited video release in Europe and Australia, courtesy of Creator/{{Paramount}}.
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12	* AnimatedAdaptation: Of the comic book ''ComicBook/{{Gen 13}}''.
13	* AdaptedOut: Burnout aka Bobby Lane was a major member of the team in the comics but he doesn't make an appearance here.
14	* BloodFromTheMouth
15	* BigBad: Ivana
16	* BodyHorror: With human experimentation aplenty this is a given.
17	* BreastExpansion: When Caitlin first transforms, this happens.
18	* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Threshold is Caitlin's brother Matthew, having been turned into a weapon for the military. [[WeCanRuleTogether He tries to get his sister onboard]], but she refuses.]]
19	* ClothingDamage: When Caitlin's powers activate her muscles obliterate her clothing.
20	* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler: Caitlin is given Bliss' role as Threshold's sister, or in this case, his half-sister.]]
21	* DarkerAndEdgier: For Disney direct-to-video films. It's also darker in tone than the original comic series itself.
22	* DemotedToExtra: Sarah Rainmaker was a major character of the team in the comics. Here, she only has a few scenes and even less lines to the point of getting captured without much fanfare.
23	* EveryCarIsAPinto: In the opening scene.
24	* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[YourHeadAsplode A pilot's head is blown up]] by a telepathic attack. Cue blood, brains and his eyeballs splashing across the cockpit window. It is NOT a pleasant scene.
25	* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: Considering that Disney produced it.
26	* FlirtatiousSmackOnTheAss: Caitlin's college roommate receives one off-screen while telling her, through the crack in their dorm room door, that she's hooking up with her boyfriend.
27	* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: [[spoiler:Threshold]] was kidnapped as a child, experimented upon and forced into becoming a soldier. This still earns him the barest minimum of sympathy from [[spoiler:his sister]], seeing as all atrocities he had done up to that point put him well BeyondRedemption.
28	* GeniusBruiser: Caitlin.
29	* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: While Roxy, one of the protagonists smokes, two of the villains also smoke.
30	* {{Gorn}}: In the spirit of the comics there's no shortage of grotesque violence.
31	* GoryDiscretionShot: The film tries to do this by filming the pilot's head explosion from the back, but that makes it only worse.
32	* PetTheDog: Helga, when tasked to retrieve Caitlin after her powers manifest, seems extremely reluctant to do so and is actually crying, stating Caitlin was "Her favorite."
33	* TheReveal: For viewers not familiar with the comic, [[spoiler:Roxy's powers are revealed during the climax of the film]].
34	* ShowerScene: Both Caitlin and Roxy have one, but it's so [[CensorSteam misty]] that you can't see anything below the neck.
35	* SmokingIsCool: For Roxy, at least.
36	* ToiletHumor: Yes, fart jokes are in the film.
37	* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Caitlin's powers manifest when she, Roxy, and Grunge are caught in the computer room by a guard with a very threatening attitude.
38	* VomitDiscretionShot: Catlin's transition to superhero abilities end up giving her intense migraines and nausea, to the point that on the night of her final transformation she vomits over the side of her bed.
39	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Rainmaker is knocked out and carried off half-way through the film, never to be seen (or mentioned) again
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