Daybreakers: Difference between revisions

* [[Berserk Button]]: Bromley gets really touchy about anything involving his estranged daughter. {{spoiler|As intended, Edward's calling him a coward for sending Frankie to bite her instead of doing it himself pushes him over the edge.}}

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Yes, our heroes found a cure, but it's not clear whether it'll work on the subsiders, they still face considerable opposition to administering it, and casualties from the worldwide war between humans and vampires will surely continue to mount.}}

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|First Frankie, and then Elvis turn up in the lobby just in time to save the heroes.}}

* [[Bloody Hilarious]]: The truly [[Ludicrous Gibs|epic failure]] of {{spoiler|the first test subject for the blood substitute}} is so brutally abrupt, one's reaction may well be a sort of horrified breath of laughter.

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Sam Neill's character Charles Bromley is every bit this in his own charming way.

* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]: The last shot of {{spoiler|Frankie is of him lying on the floor, his legs straight and arms outstretched after sacrificing himself holding back his former comrades so that Allison and Edward could get away.}}

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Society is running out of a resource that it needs to keep functioning. Those in charge of procuring it insist they can always find new supplies of it somewhere. At the same time, they are searching for an alternative more easily renewable resource, but have no plans to alter the selfish behavior that brought about this shortage in the first place. Society's last hope is a scientist who was never very happy with exploiting this resource in the first place and refuses to consume it himself. This movie certainly uses a lot of the classic tropes one finds in a conservationist movie with a [[Green Aesop]].

** While reminiscent of peak oil and fossil fuel depletion in general, it's also reminiscent of any number of scarcity issues, corporate ethics issues, and the like.

* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: Put to humorous use at one point when a human pops up behind Edward, spooking him. Occurs from time to time during the rest of the movie, too.

** Later, Frankie manages to sneak up behind Audrey while she's in the middle an open field. Of course, he's a trained soldier, and her being in broad daylight gives her a false sense of security.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Frankie spends the majority of the film as a lapdog of the government, intent on hunting down humans and reining in his own brother. Towards the end of the film he repents, becomes human, and dies in his very next scene. Also, the cure for vampirism plays with this trope, as in order to become human again both Elvis and Edward have to absorb (in controlled doses) enough sunlight to kill a vampire.}}

* [[Scars Are Forever]]: Almost all vampires have a scar on their neck from when they themselves were turned. It's also how Elvis proves that he ''was'' formerly a vampire.

* [[Terminally Dependent Society]]: This vampire civilization depends on keeping enough humans alive to manufacture its blood. Apparently, most of them don't think to do the math and realize their supply can't last at the rate they're using it.

* [[Vampire Bites Suck]]: See [[Kiss of the Vampire]] above. Even the non-fatal bites look really painful.