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* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Subverted excellently. The production sets up GERTY as a close cousin of HAL 9000 from ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey|2001]]'', and seems to be keeping a terrible secret from Sam. In the end, however, {{spoiler|GERTY was programmed to help Sam, not protect the mining operation. When Sam begins to figure things out, GERTY helps him do that as well.}}
* [[Artificial Gravity]]: Outside the base, gravity on the lunar surface is appropriately low, but inside the base it appears to be standard Earth gravity. The DVD commentary admits this was done for practical reasons.
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* [[The Cake Is a Lie]]
* [[Can You Hear Me Now?]]: Satellite failure and the fact that he's stationed on the far side of the moon prevents real-time contact with Earth -- except that's just a cover story. Once he gets far enough away from the base, he makes a perfectly real-time video phone call.
* [[Cloning Blues]]: What most of the movie deals with.▼
* [[Clone Degeneration]]: Each clone breaks down after three years. The DVD commentary states Lunar Industries figured three years was the longest they could expect someone to "want" to work on an isolated moon base, so they designed the clones to last just that long. It leads to use of [[Blood From the Mouth]] and [[I'm Cold... So Cold...]].
▲* [[Cloning Blues]]: What most of the movie deals with.
* [[The Computer Is Your Friend]]: GERTY. He subverts this, despite initial appearances to the contrary.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Lunar Industries appears to be run by them. They apparently have no moral qualms with {{spoiler|creating a reserve army of slave labour and covering it up back on Earth.}}
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* [[Economy Cast]]: To the point it borders on [[Minimalist Cast]]. The only character we really see "live" in shot is Sam -- everyone else appears on a video screen or in a flashback, or is a robot. If it wasn't for Kevin Spacey's voice acting, this would be a film starring one person.
* [[Faking the Dead]]: Not exactly "faking", but Sam 1 volunteers to be left in the crashed rover, so that the "rescue team" wouldn't realize Sam 2 was escaping.
* [[Fan Service]]: We see Sam in the shower.▼
* [[Famous Last Words]]:
{{quote|[[Tear Jerker|"I want to go home."]]}}
▲* [[Fan Service]]: We see Sam in the shower.
* [[Funny Background Event]]:
** We get occasional brief glimpses of GERTY's back; looking closely reveals a Post-It note reading "Kick Me". Sam 2 makes a point of removing it after giving poor GERTY a forced reboot.
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* [[Space Is Noisy]]: Mostly averted. Wide exterior shots on the moon are mostly silent. We do hear some noises in close-ups -- the engine noise of the rovers, rocks falling in the wake of the harvesters, hatches opening, and so on -- but this could be [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that they have the POV of a human in a pressurized compartment.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Sam is the [[wikipedia:Man in the Moon|man in the moon]].
* [[Strawman Political]]: The radio [[Talk Show]] host at the end is implied to be the conservative version. The final line of the movie is, "You know what, he's one of two things. He's a wacko or an illegal immigrant -- and either way, they need to lock him up. Line two!"▼
* [[Stock Footage]]: The "commercial" for Lunar Industries at the start of the film contains mostly stock footage, because the indie film production couldn't afford anything else.
▲* [[Strawman Political]]: The radio [[Talk Show]] host at the end is implied to be the conservative version. The final line of the movie is, "You know what, he's one of two things. He's a wacko or an illegal immigrant -- and either way, they need to lock him up. Line two!"
* [[Suicide Is Painless]]: Subverted in that they don't realize it's suicide.
** Hmm... It can't really be a suicide since they don't realise that {{spoiler|once they get on the box they will be killed.}}
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