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As the film's development was hellish from A to Z, the final product bombed hard and was disavowed by its own director, Matthieu Kassovitz. A making-of called [https://web.archive.org/web/20130520001437/http://www.erenumerique.fr/fucking_kassovitz_-article-1634-1.html Fucking Kassovitz] was released in 2011 to reveal the extent of the disaster behind the scenes.

* [[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.

* [[Checkpoint Charlie]]: The protagonists must cross the Bering Strait via submarine and snowbike, while avoiding [[Attack Drone|Attack Drones]].

* [[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.

* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: Aurora in ''Babylon A.D.'' is believed to be a viral weapon at first. In "Babylon Babies" another woman is used in this fashion -- when she comes into proximity with the pheromones of her target, her body rapidly [[Rapid Aging|creates a virus that kills several hundred people in minutes]], wiping out the upper echelons of the Neolite sect.

* [[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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