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* [[Ascended Extra]]: Rebecca Waterman (an Israeli mercenary who's part of Toorop's team) becomes Sister Rebeka, Aurora's [[Parental Substitute]] and a [[Warrior Monk|martial arts-trained nun]].

* [[Astronomic Zoom]]: The movie begins with a zoom down to Earth's nightside through orbiting satellites, ending up on the New York street at the moment Toorop gets killed.

* [[Bait and Switch Gunshot]]: {{spoiler|Toorop is hit by fighter drones while escorting Aurora and Sister Rebeka across the Bering Strait. His 'friend' Finn decides to take Aurora for himself, believing she's a priceless viral weapon. When Sister Rebeka objects he says matter-of-factly: "You, I don't need." A shot then rings out...and Finn falls dead, revealing the [[Not Quite Dead]] Toorop holding a pistol. The scene works well because Rebeka is not a main character, and thus more likely to get shot.}}

* [[Beast and Beauty]]: The bare-knuckle brawler in the refugee camp is instantly smitten with Aurora and tries to protect her from kidnappers.

* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: At first Toorop treats Aurora as [[The Load]]; by the time they get to Canada there's noticeable [[UST]] between them.

* [[Car Chase]]: The chase scene between [[Van in Black|Neolite Range Rovers]] and the Hummers, shown in the cinemas and available as a deleted scene on DVD.

* [[Coincidental Broadcast]]: Used more judiciously than usual. There's an entire wall showing dozens of channels, which makes it easier to accept if at least one of the channels is showing something relevant.

* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: In slow motion, during the New York shoot out, Aurora and Sister Rebekah have a missile pass ''not more than a foot'' in front of their faces. This should not be pleasant.

* [[Creator Backlash]]: ''Babylon A.D.'' was hit with this before it even came out. The director, Matthieu Kassovitz, has been quite open about how his initial vision of a dark but thoughtful cyberpunk world was [[Executive Meddling|edited beyond all recognition]] and turned into "a bad episode of ''[[24]]''." (For context, [[Rotten Tomatoes]] rates this movie at 7% freshness.)

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* [[Death by Adaptation]]: {{spoiler|Darquandier.}}

* [[Doesn't Like Guns]]: Sister Rebeka turns down the gun Toorop offers her, but doesn't hesitate to grab one in New York. {{spoiler|Subverted with Aurora, who's the last person you'd expect to use a gun until she threatens them on the submarine and later shoots Toorop in New York.}}

* [[The Ophelia]]: Aurora has touches of this, though she's not mad. She does gets hysterical when she has visions, but that's because what she's seeing is not pretty.

* [[Parental Substitute]]: Aurora has several of these; Rebeka who raised her in the convert, while Darquandier and the High Priestess both refer to Aurora as their daughter and act [[Like an Old Married Couple]] who've undergone a nasty divorce.

* [[Product Placement]]: An airliner with a Coke Zero ad painted across its entire surface. The [[Big Applesauce]] is also full of advertising, some of it related to the plot, others for products well known to the audience.

* [[Prophecy Twist]]: Aurora predicts they're all going to die in New York. {{spoiler|Rebeka is indeed killed in the shootout. Toorop also dies, but he gets revived. Aurora dies during childbirth in a hospital in the state of New York.}}

 

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