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* An ''[[Elseworlds]]'' one-shot that combined this Metropolis with [[Superman]]'s.
* Singer [[Janelle Monae]]'s ''Metropolis'' series of [[Concept Album|Concept Albums]].
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* [[Kraftwerk (Music)|Kraftwerk]]'s ''Man Machine'' album, which includes a track titled "Metropolis", a nod to the film.
* A mad scientist named Rotwang appears in [[Tiger and Bunny]]- complete with [[Robot Girl]] creation.
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* [[Apocalypse Maiden]]: Robot Maria.
* [[Artificial Limbs]]: Rotwang's right hand, because for some reason creating a robotic body requires a human hand as an ingredient.
* [[As the Good Book Says...]]: Maria reinterprets the story of the Tower of Babel as a failure of labor relations. A preacher quotes Revelation Chapter 16 in a missing scene, which is later reprised in flashback during Freder's fever dream.
* [[Background Halo]]: Maria gets this quite a bit, especially as she is preaching to the workers in the catacombs.
* [[Bad Export for You]]: Up until 2003, nearly every version of this movie released in America was based on the [[Macekre|heavily edited]] Channing Pollock version. And then there was the version made in [[The Eighties]]... an... [[Love It or Hate It|interesting]] experiment.
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* [[German Expressionism]]
* [[Gonk]]: In a film where everyone looks uniform, Rotwang- the [[Mad Scientist]] with fuzzy hair, bulging eyes, and a hunchback figure- really stands out.
* [[Gratuitous Japanese]]: The apparently European city contains a nightclub inexplainably called the [
** *[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|cough]]*
* [[The Grim Reaper]]: He has a statue along with the 7 deadly sins in the cathedral. When Freder falls sick, he has a dream of it coming alive, and advancing on him with it's scythe.
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* [[Robot Girl]]: Futura/Robotrix/Fake Hel/Fake Maria/Machine Man/etc.
* [[Say My Name]]: A rare silent example occurs after {{spoiler|Maria's kidnapping}}, where Freder runs through the city "shouting" Maria's name via intertitle cards.
* [[Schizo
** Specifically, consultation of the ticker tape causes Fredersen to immediately contact the Foreman on a flatscreen video phone/surveillance monitor.
* [[Seven Deadly Sins]]: {{spoiler|Fake Maria}} is seen as the epitome of this. Statues of the seven deadly sins are shown and even animated during a dream sequence, while she sits on top of a statue of a seven-headed dragon.
* [[Shout
* [[A Sinister Clue]]: Rotwang's left hand.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]] / [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Giorgio Moroder's version is a [[Love It or Hate It|love it]] [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|or hate it]], [[Cult Classic|cult adaptation]]. Featuring [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuUqdkO47w Jon Anderson] (of [[Yes]]), [[Pat Benatar]], Adam Ant, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNEjSi9SVAU#t=2m45s "Destruction"] by Loverboy, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLUo2UQxSts Bonnie Tyler], [[Queen|Freddie Mercury]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7CLLBZpT_Q Cycle V and Moroder himself]. Yes. [[Keep Circulating the Tapes|Hard to find]].<ref> even on Youtube -- apparently FW Murnau Foundation is against it, [[Sarcasm Mode|though they aren't against any other version appearing on Youtube]]...</ref>
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* [[Technicolor Science]]: In a black and white film no less. Rotwang's lab when he is transforming his mechanical girl has milky white liquids, transparent liquids, and dark colored liquids all boiling and bubbling away in strangely shaped glass containers.
* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]: Maria - Mother, maiden and sex machine. The Oedipal themes come free with the package.
* [[Thousand
* [[Thunderbolts and Lightning]]: The destruction of the machines.
* [[Title Drop]]: Rotwang talking to Joh Fredersen calls the city "your metropolis". [[No Name Given]]?
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{{quote| '''Joh''': Surely a mind like yours must be able to forget...<br />
'''Rotwang''': ''([[Milking the Giant Cow|shaking a fist in Fredersen's face]])''I only ever forgot one thing in my life: that Hel was a woman and you a man! }}
* [[Unfortunate Name]]: Oh, poor [[In My Language, That Sounds Like...|Rotwang]]. A child with a name like that was doomed to become evil. (Needless to say it probably wasn't the case when the film was made, but today...)
** Why? What's wrong with "Rotwang"? It doesn't sound too awkward for a German surname. But it does literally mean "Red-Cheek". Make of that what you will.
** Also having a character called Hel was too close to Hell for the liking of American censors, who removed all reference to her - along with several important plot-points.
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* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: the whole film.
** [[Rule of Symbolism]], for the most part. You have crucifixion imagery, giant clock face, personified Whore of Babylon, retelling of the Tower of Babel story, animated gargoyles personifying Death and the Seven Deadly Sins, a hidden church in catacombs, an inverted pentagram, talk about "brothers and sisters", the machine as Moloch...
** The Moroder lyrics add a bunch more, with [[George Orwell|Orwellian]] [[Shout
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: Georgy ([[You Are Number Six|11811]]), the worker Freder takes the place of at the dial machine, after he goes into Yoshiwara. His story was expanded on in the footage that was later cut and, until recently, [[Lost Forever]].
** Much of the lost footage also pertains to the Thin Man, who follows Freder, Georgy, and Josaphat at Joh Fredersen's behest.
* [[While Rome Burns]]: {{spoiler|The happy crowd from the Yoshiwara club while the city is being blacked out by the workers' revolution.}}
* [[Witch Hunt]]: Literally.
* [[Yes
* [[You Are Number Six]]: Georgy 11811.
* [[You Can Leave Your Hat On]]: That's right. In 1927.
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