Ready Player One (film)

Ready Player One is a 2018 film adapation of the novel of the same name by Ernest Cline, directed by Steven Spielberg. It takes place in the year 2049, where the entire world is hooked into a virtual reality massive multiplayer online role-playing game called "OASIS". OASIS is so popular that on top of the many different worlds to travel and the many weapons, items and vehicles you can create/buy there, it also is the most dominant source of economic revenue -- meaning that the money you gain in the game, you gain in real life as well. However, if you lose, you lose everything -- the money, clothes, your avatar, you name it.

It tells the story of Wade Watts, an orphan raised by his aunt, who enters the game through his Avatar Parzival. He become one of the many "Gunters" on the hunt for an Easter Egg that the Game Creator, James Halliday, left behind prior to his death. Whoever gets the Easter Egg gains ownership of the company behind OASIS, as well as OASIS itself and all of Halliday's shares, worth up to half a trillion dollars. Along with Parzival, many people are after the egg for their own reasons:


 * Aech, Parzival's best friend, a game mechanic who helps maintain busted vehicles and commissions various creations.
 * Daito and Sho, a Samurai-and-Ninja-themed Gunter duo who mostly fight for coin and artifacts.
 * Art3mis aka The Sixer Fixer, whom Parzival has a massive crush on, and a badass gunter who has a major grudge against the Sixer's boss.

Said boss is Nolan Sorrento, the CEO of Innovative Online Industries (IOI), the company that produces the many real world gadgets needed to access OASIS. Determined to gain control and ownership of OASIS, Sorrento employs a personal army of indentured servants, researchers and random gamers to find and solve the clues Halliday left behind.

After Parzival and his friends figures out the first two clue and solve the corresponding challenges, Sorrento focuses his attention on him, trying everything he can to get the egg. Parzival in returns works with his fellow Gunters in hopes to stop him.

With the exception of certain changes, the movie pretty much follows the same story as the book, even including as many pop cultural references the book itself has been known for.

"Sixer:"
 * Adaptation Distillation: While the movie does follow the novel closely. Certain changes to it have been made for various reasons.
 * Big Bad: Nolan Sorrento. He has vast amounts of wealth, an army of gamer mooks called Sixers that do his grunt work for him and a team of Halliday Scholars, who help him crack codes and attempt to manipulate Wade into thinking he's not so bad.
 * Big Brother Instinct
 * Convergent Non Sequitur: When Parzival prepares for his date with Art3mis at the Distracted Globe, among the outfits he was choosing; he picks Buckaroo Banzai's outfit. Believing that if he showed up in the outfit of his favorite movie, Art3mis would be impressed. Aech among most warnings, tries to tell him not to be that guy. When Parzival goes to the Distracted Globe and Art3mis meets him there, she practically squees over his outfit stating that she loves Buckaroo Banzai.
 * Cut Lex Luthor a Check: While Halliday is the villain, his company IoI did make enough of a profit. By providing products for people to immerse themselves in the Oasis. Such as X-1 Haptic Bootsuit.
 * The Dreaded: Many characters fall under this trope.
 * Art3mis being called the Sixer Fixer has weight to it as the beginning of the movie has her take out as many Sixers as she could
 * I-Rok, a mercenary under Sorrento's employ has spent the longest in the Oasis than anyone else has ever. 10 years of upgrading and prepping himself so that nothing can stop him. He's also a crack shot with his rifle and barely has to say a few words to clear a table full of gamers away.
 * Easter Egg: On top of the contest being based around the concept of this trope, there are many Easter eggs in the movie. Some of which are items, costumes and even avatars that take on the form of an item or person from a popular movie/tv show/video game/etc.
 * Even Evil Has Standards:
 * Fanservice / Fan Disservice:
 * GIRL: Joked about between Aech and Parzival. Parzival has a massive crush on Art3mis and while preparing for their date at The Distracted Globe, Aech, who suspects ulterior motives regarding Art3mis; makes various claims to try to talk him out of it. Such as the age old internet joke that Art3mis may be a guy in real life.
 * Gondor Calls For Aid:
 * It's Personal: Two examples of Gunters having a grudge against IoI and Nolan Sorrento.
 * Precision F-Strike:
 * It's Personal: Two examples of Gunters having a grudge against IoI and Nolan Sorrento.
 * Precision F-Strike:
 * Precision F-Strike:
 * Precision F-Strike:

"Parzival:"
 * Rousing Speech:


 * The Tease: Art3mis does it non stop at The Distracted Globe. While both are dancing, she moves close to him asking if he came prepared. Asking what kind of Haptics he was wearing. First she rubs his arm which he can see and feel through his bootsuit. When he reveals he's got the X1, she slides under him, feeling him up from his thighs, to his crotch to up his torso. Which naturally he also feels in real life.
 * Worthy Opponent: Parzival to Sorrento. Throughout the entire movie, despite Nolan tempting Wade and trying to kill him both in the real world and the Oasis; he has a lot of respect for him.
 * You! Get Me Coffee!: