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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 [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.
 
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* [[Adaptation Decay]]: The movie centres around the [[Live Action Escort Mission]] through a [[Crapsack World]], with the [[Viewers Areare Morons|emphasis on the action]] and the high-concept aspects of the novel [[Gainax Ending|shoehorned in at the end]]. In the novel Toorop simply jumps on the plane to Quebec with his charge, the action is mostly over by the first half and the high-concept aspects are [[Viewers Are Geniuses|not necessarily easier to understand]]. Therefore if you enjoyed either the novel or the movie, you're likely to be disappointed in its counterpart.
* [[Almost Kiss]]: Between Aurora and Toorop just after the latter's [[Shower Scene]] (Sister Rebeka walks in on them).
* [[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]].
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* [[Evil Matriarch]]/[[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: The High Priestess of the Neolite sect.
* [[Faceless Mooks]]: Gorsky's men in New York wear motorcycle helmets with skull facemasks.
* [[First -Person Shooter]]: Toorop's downloaded memories of the New York shootout.
* [[Fridge Logic]]: {{spoiler|Toorop wouldn't have time to die from a shot to the heart (it takes at least ten seconds) before the missile struck; the tracker would still have been working.}}
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: In the backstory; amoral scientist Dr Darquandier after he found himself thinking of Aurora as a daughter rather than an experiment.
* [[Hey ItsIt's That Guy]]: The amoral scientist is [[The Matrix Reloaded|the Merovingian]].
* [[The Ingenue]]: Aurora in the movie, but averted with Marie Zorn in the novel: a schizophrenic prostitute who was simply meant to be a courier for the babies. Unfortunately for the Neolites her [[Mysterious Past]] starts to complicate things.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: The High Priestess destroys the convent where Aurora was brought up in with a missile strike, presumably to remove evidence of her past that would obscure her status as a modern Virgin Mary.
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* [[Tempting Fate]]: When the High Priestess of the Noelites threatens to kill Gorsky he scoffs it off, since he's so well-protected that she would pretty much have to drop a nuclear bomb on his head to do him in. Missile launch detected...
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: ''Babylon Babies'' was published in 1999 and takes place in 2013. Based on several references throughout the film, the movie probably takes place in the late 2020s or the 2030s.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Aurora after Toorop chokes the boxer and shoots an unarmed man, both of whom were trying to protect her.
 
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