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''[[Gamer]]'' is a 2009 movie starring Gerard Butler. He plays John "Kable" Tillman, a death row inmate, who is forced to battle other prisoners in an online game called ''Slayers'', and as his every move is controlled by a young gamer's remote device. If they survive 30 matches, they get a full pardon. To the players, Kable and the other inmates are just simulated characters. But, to a resistance group that opposes the game's now-billionaire inventor, Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall), Kable, who has just survived his record-setting 27th match, is a critical piece of their plan to end the sinister inventor's form of high-tech slavery.
Not to be confused with the Korean [[Manhwa]] ''[[The Gamer]]'' or the short film series ''[[The Gamers]]''.
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* [[Ax Crazy]]: [[Scary Black Man|Hackman]].
* [[Badass]]: Kable. Not only did he survive for so long in what is essentially ''[[
** Also, Hackman. It's said that he killed nine dozen people, and he's one of the few people that survive an encounter with Kable.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: Castle first tries to sell his [[Mind Control]] Nanites to the military, it folds, then turns it into 2 games, with plans to disperse it aerially to [[Take Over the World]]. Honestly, if he had skipped right to that last step (and we don't know if he didn't) all it would take is one hacker to turn us ALL into zombies.
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* [[Halfway Plot Switch]]: Yeah, the ''GAME'' part of ''Game''r gets dropped early on. [[Never Trust a Trailer]].
* [[Heroic Willpower]]
* [[Hoist
* [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]]: Now in handy online form!
* [[Just Hit Him]]: Subverted; when Kable slams a mook headfirst into the floor, there's a nasty crunching sound and it's pretty clear he ain't getting up from that one.
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* [[Smug Snake]]: Castle. Later, he also crosses the line into [[Complete Monster|complete monsterdom]]
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Way, way, ''waaaaaay'' over on the Cynical end. People are depicted as being generally depraved, sadistic, amoral monsters with no regard for each others' lives who will willingly sacrifice actual, real people by the thousands for ''entertainment''. (Those people are almost all volunteers, but still.)
* [[There Are No Girls
** However, one scene shows a male character who Nika is flirting with is controlled by a woman.
* [[This Loser Is You]]: One wonders why someone would make a film about video games if their idea of video gamers was a massively obese pervert...
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* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: The trailer makes it seem like the entire movie was about the online game and nothing else.
* [[Troll]]/[[GIFT]]: A good chunk of the characters are straight-up trolls, and the GIFT is in full, terrifying force here.
* [[Villain
** Note that he pulled the entire US Prison system back from the verge of bankruptcy, revitalized the economy and everybody involved, convict or otherwise, signed up voluntarily.
** Given [[And I Must Scream|some of the reactions]] from the Slayers 'volunteers' {{spoiler|and the whole backstory where Kable was forced to commit/framed for murder while being used as a guinea pig for the nanites,}} it's fairly safe to say that the volunteer thing [[Unreliable Narrator|isn't always true.]]
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