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* [[Arc Words]]: “Are you an effective team?” {{spoiler|Director commentary explains that the Tet is so eager to have Julia because the Jack/Vika combination tends to eventually fail, and they want to see if Jack/Julia works better.}}
** The quote at the top of the page, a quote from ''Lays of Ancient Rome'', comes up several times in the movie.
** “Jack Harper, Tech 49.” {{spoiler|Jack Harper… Tech 52.”}}
** “Another day in paradise.”
* [[Cat Scare]]: In one scene, we see scavs lurking and watching Jack. Vika frightenedly warns Jack of impending enemy contact—but what ''she'' sees turns out to just be a dog.
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* [[Companion Cube]]: Bob the bobblehead.
{{quote|'''Jack''': Buck up, Bob. Don’t go all shaky on me.}}
* [[Detonation Moon]]: Destroyed by the Scavs sixty years before the events of the movie, in order to lay waste to Earth through earthquakes and tidal waves. {{spoiler|Actually done by the Tet, for the same reasons, a fact that’s hidden from Jack and Vika.}}
* [[Dress Hits Floor]]: Done without a cut, but [[Sexy Silhouette|from behind and silhouetted]].
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: At a pivotal moment in the ending.▼
* [[Gilligan Cut]]:
{{quote|'''Sally''': Are you an effective team?
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* [[Humans Are Special]]: Why does {{spoiler|the Tet need humans}}? The answer is shown early on—the directory commentary states that {{spoiler|the scene where Jack jerry‐rigs a drone repair with bubble gum exemplifies human ingenuity, and why Sally is so obsessed with the effectiveness of her techs.}}
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Jack spends several minutes in a dogfight taking down two of three drones that are pursuing him. When his ship is damaged and starts to go down, he manages to take the last one out with a ''single shot'' from his ''sidearm''.
* [[Innocent Cohabitation]]: It’s made clear from the very beginning of the move that Jack and Vika’s relationship is ''not'' this—in case there’s any doubt after they wake up in the same bed, they’re immediately shown [[Shower of Love|showering together]] and [[Date Crepe|taking bites of each other’s breakfast]].
* [[Machine Monotone]]: {{spoiler|Sally from Mission Control speaks in a delightful Southern twang, until she’s revealed to be [[Not Even Human]]—the next time she talks to Jack, her audio starts glitching out and you can hear a synthesized voice underneath.}}
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Although it’s never mentioned in the movie, the Tet is so named because it is shaped like a [[Sinister Geometry|tetrahedron]].
* [[Oh Crap]]: Jack has this moment when he realizes what he thought was a downed drone was a trap set up to capture him.
▲* [[Precision F-Strike]]: At a pivotal moment in the ending.
* [[Rule of Pool]]: Vika pulls Jack into their pool for an impromptu [[Two-Person Pool Party]].
* [[Scenery Porn]]: This movie and [[Tron: Legacy]], both directed by Joseph Kosinski, exemplify his beautiful visual style.
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* [[Someone to Remember Him By]]: {{spoiler|In the closing scene, Julia is shown to have [[Babies Ever After|borne Jack’s child]].}}
* [[Special Effect Failure]]: The scene with Jack and Julia riding the bike under a bridge—a sweeping 12‐second shot—is, jarringly, [[Conspicuous CG|obviously entirely CG]].
* [[Sunglasses at Night]]: Beech,
* [[The Cake Is a Lie]]: {{spoiler|“There is no Titan. They lied to us!”}}
* [[The Only One]]: {{spoiler|Beech implies that the Jack clones he’s encountered weren’t curious, which is why he is so interested in Jack 49’s aberrant behavior.}}
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