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1	!!The film
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhG4cAZv8cY "This is a Revolution"]] by Music/{{Ruelle}} is a ''very'' haunting and beautiful song.
3	* CompleteMonster:
4	** [[AdaptationalVillainy Clancy Gray]], one of the first survivors of Idiopathic Adolescent Acute Neurodegeneration, [[TheStarscream overthrows his father]] to [[PlayingWithSyringes begin mass experimentation on fellow psis]]. Posing as a heroic RebelLeader, Clancy has countless psis tricked and rounded up for study in facilities where they are molded into his soldiers. When he learns of heroine Ruby Daly's ability to alter memories, Clancy copies her technique before [[AttemptedRape trying to rape Ruby]], and when Ruby resists, Clancy attempts to kill her friends and rewrite her mind to be his "perfect" lover while his conquers the planet with his slave psi army.
5	** [[WardensAreEvil Captain McManus]], the [[PsychoForHire most gleeful]] and involved of Clancy's minions, oversees the facilities, [[WouldHurtAChild murdering all psi children]] deemed dangerous, as well as any who prove problematic. Having a doctor [[CruelAndUnusualDeath painfully murdered]] for [[YouHaveFailedMe misdiagnosing one psi]], [=McManus=] is also responsible for taking in massive shipments of psis tricked by Clancy.
6	* CriticalDissonance: The film has received largely negative reviews from critics (17% on [[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_darkest_minds/ Rotten Tomatoes]], 39 out of 50 on [[https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-darkest-minds Metacritic]]) for being a [[ClicheStorm derivative]] YA adaptation without much to distinguish itself from the others, but audiences have been much more forgiving (76% on RT, 5.5 on MC).
7	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The film has made [[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=thedarkestminds.htm twice as much money]] overseas, with [[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=thedarkestminds.htm France]] being most appreciative.
8	* HilariousInHindsight: Looks like [[Film/TheHungerGames Rue]] gets to be a part of the rebellion against a teenage dystopia for real this time.
9	%%* {{Narm}}:
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11	!!The novels
12	* CompleteMonster: Both halves of ''The Darkest Legacy'''s [[BigBadDuumvirate despicable duo]] are responsible for [[SuperHumanTrafficking selling and trafficking]] psi [[WouldHurtAChild children]]:
13	** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Joseph Moore]] is a wealthy businessman running for President of the United States on an anti-psi platform. Arranging terrorist attacks that kill dozens, Moore [[FalseFlagOperation blames these attacks]] on psis to justify his policy of sending them to his "personal training" compound. There the children are abused and treated like animals, and can be sold to Gregory Mercer as slave [[ChildSoldiers soldiers]].
14	** [[TheDon Gregory Mercer]] is the leader of the international crime syndicate [[TheSyndicate Blue Star]], dealing in crimes such as assassinations and HumanTrafficking. Abducting children around the world, Mercer would have them experimented on to try give them psi powers, resulting in many of them dying. [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulating]] the survivors into being loyal to him, Mercer used them as a wet work team before several of them escaped. Mercer works with Moore to help arrange his terrorist attacks so he have access to more psi children so he sell them as slave soldiers.

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