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In his first adventure, Robert Langdon gets called late at night by the head of CERN, and gets faxed the picture of a mangled corpse, one of the facility's most prominent scientists, branded with the word "[[Illuminati]]" on his chest, which lights a fire under his ass. The Head of CERN, Maximilian Kohler, arranges for a plane to pick him up. Once at the CERN facility and joined by the late scientist's daughter, they find that a quarter gram (it's a lot, trust us) of Anti-Matter has been stolen.

 

* [[Big Bad]]: {{spoiler|The Camerlengo}}

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Rudimentary knowledge of Italian fills in a couple of gaps in dialogue.

* [[Bookshelf Dominoes]]: In the film, how Langdon escapes the Vatican Archives.

* [[Calling Card]]: Each of the Preferiti are slayed in a manner corresponding to the Illuminati's elements - For example, the first, who is branded with Earth, is killed by having soil stuffed down his throat and thrown into a burial ground. In addition, the mastermind specifically instructed the Hassassin to steal the Anti-Matter to show that Science destroys religion. Literally. {{spoiler|And subverted in that despite the whole things that are supposed to be divine intervention in the book, the only thing come closest to this is Langdon survived falling from helicopter, and even ''that'' was helped by science.}}

** Well, she does try and disarm the bomb {{spoiler|but it doesn't work}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Genghis Gambit]]: What the Camerlengo does in the movie with the Illuminati.}}

* [[Hollywood Atheist]]: Kohler's reason for being atheist was that his parents, instead of getting him the right medicine for a crippling, life-threatening illness when was young, decided to pray over him. He only survived because a doctor injected him with the medicine without his parents' knowledge. The whole ordeal left Kohler paraplegic. To top it all off, when his parents took him to a Priest to ask why their son is crippled, the priest ''berates him for not having enough faith.'' He became very bitter, to say the least.

* [[Hope Spot]] - {{spoiler|The third Preferiti}}.

* [[Man On Fire]] - The fate of <s>Janus</s> {{spoiler|the Camerlengo}}.

* [[Meaningful Background Event]]: In the film at St. Peter's Square, the Assassin can be seen leading the second of the Preferiti to the western wind marker while the camera is focused on the police.

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]] - the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5dgxDIYMT4 teaser trailer] for the film features a sinister voice talking about how the Illuminati are about to take their revenge. {{spoiler|But it turns out that the [[Big Bad]] just used the Illuminati as scapegoats for his plot, and they probably no longer even exist.}}

* [[No Hugging, No Kissing]]: The removal of the romantic plot between Langdon and Vittoria from the film.

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]] - it's set in Rome/Vatican. Go figure.

* [[Planar Shockwave]] - averted in the movie, the antimatter detonation produced a invisible and expanding sphere of energy. Also averted in the book, where the antimatter bomb (a bomb that was supposed to clock in at about 5 kilotons) blew up with out even ruffling anyone's tie. It did, however, shake things up.

* [[Race Lift]] - To avoid offense in the current political climate, the Assassin is changed from a suave and sophisticated Arabic Hassassin with an addiction to sadism, killing, and rape into a European professional with some mercy and honor who is only in it for the money.

* [[Rare Guns]] - The Swiss Guard arms its snipers with $10,000-a-unit [[wikipedia:PSG-1|Heckler & Koch PSG-1s]], probably because it's one of the few snipers that doesn't look like an American-made deer rifle.

* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Vittoria Vetra

* [[Sherlock Scan]]: Langdon does it in the movies when it determines that the man who comes to see him is jetlagged because a) he has bags under his eyes, b) it's 5am, and c) he's from the Vatican.

 

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