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Push is a movie about Nick ([[Chris Evans]]), a man who lives in perpetual fear of the US version of Division, a worldwide agency of major governments whose goal is to train psychic soldiers. To aid this, Division injects psychics with a [[Super Serum|drug]] to boost their abilities. Only one person, Kira (Camilla Belle), has been able to survive this drug, and she quickly escapes after taking the drug. Nick meets Cassie ([[Dakota Fanning]]), a [[Deadpan Snarker|snarky]] 13-year old who can see the future. Together, they track down Kira and a stolen syringe which contains the serum with the hope that finding it will help them bring down Division.▼
▲'''''Push''''' is a movie about Nick ([[Chris Evans]]), a man who lives in perpetual fear of the US version of Division, a worldwide agency of major governments whose goal is to train psychic soldiers. To aid this, Division injects psychics with a [[Super Serum|drug]] to boost their abilities. Only one person, Kira ([[Camilla Belle]]), has been able to survive this drug, and she quickly escapes after taking the drug. Nick meets Cassie ([[Dakota Fanning]]), a [[Deadpan Snarker|snarky]] 13-year old who can see the future. Together, they track down Kira and a stolen syringe which contains the serum with the hope that finding it will help them bring down Division.
The movie was poorly received at the box office and by critics, getting a paltry 23% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It made a little over $31 million, not counting overseas and DVD sales, so a sequel is unlikely given that it had an estimated budget of $38 million. There is [http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=62491 a television series] in development being written by [[David Hayter]], but the lack of recent news means it has likely fallen into [[Development Hell]], [[And That's Terrible|which is a damn shame.]]▼
▲The movie was poorly received at the box office and by critics, getting a paltry 23% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It made a little over $31 million, not counting overseas and DVD sales, so a sequel is unlikely given that it had an estimated budget of $38 million. There is [https://web.archive.org/web/20120730000623/http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=62491 a television series] in development being written by [[David Hayter]], but the lack of recent news means it has likely fallen into [[Development Hell]]
For the 1996 novel of the same name that was made into the 2009 movie ''Precious'', click [[Push (Literature)|here.]]▼
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▲For the 1996 novel of the same name that was made into the 2009 movie ''[[Precious]]'', click [[Push (
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* [[Badass]] - The fact is, Victor was simply destroying ''everything'', and if the Divison already has ''him'' on their team it does not look like they even ''need'' the drug. Of course, if they made him even ''more'' super...well, then it just stops being fair. Nick also has his moments, though, and was giving Victor a run for his money near the end.
** [[Badass Family]]: The Chinese Triad we meet features a family of two {{spoiler|make that three}} Bleeders and a skilled Watcher.
** [[Badass in
** [[Little Miss Badass]] - Cassie.
** [[Took a Level
* [[Bald of Evil]] - Carver, one of the Sniffs (Mac)
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]] - Victor
* [[The Chessmaster]] - Both Cassie and the Pop Girl are constantly trying to prove that they're the best chessmaster in the film. Little do they know that they're really just fighting for second place. {{spoiler|The ''real'' chessmaster is Cassie's mom. See Gambit Roulette below.}}
** Possibly Nick as well, as he was the one who came up with the idea of using notes and mind-wipes. He also wrote all the notes, not showing them to anyone until the right time.
* [[Click. "Hello."]] - {{spoiler|Pop Girl clicks off the safety right behind Cassie near the end.}}
* [[Competence Zone]] - Averted. The parents are all far more powerful and skilled at using their powers than the younger psychics.
* [[Covers Always Lie]] - You see the poster on this page, where Nick telekinetically sweeps through a whole street, throwing cars and such? Yeah, that never happens. Not even close.
** Promotional images also seem to imply that a "push" involves telekinesis, when it actually revolves around implanting thoughts, movers being the ones capable of moving objects with their mind.
* [[Deadly Upgrade]] - The serum has killed every test subject, save Kira.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]] - Cassie is chock full of these, and Nick has his occasional moments.
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* [[Death
* [[Differently-Powered Individual]] - See the [[Psychic Powers]] entry, below
* [[The Dragon]] - Victor to Carver, Pop Girl to her father.
* [[Evil Brit]] - The mercenary Stitch
* [[Evil Counterpart]] - Victor to Nick, Pop Girl to Cassie, and Carver to Kira.
* [[Fainting Seer]] - Cassie and her evil watcher counterpart have occasional flutters.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Kira}} is pushed into this towards the end of the film.
* [[Gambit Roulette]]:
** {{spoiler|The entire movie was one gigantic one by Cassie's mother to get the serum into the hands of her daughter. Cassie jokes that her mom must've been planning this since before Cassie was born. Knowing that, she's probably ''right''.}}
** {{spoiler|Nick's letters can be considered this, especially the one of he and Kira at Coney Island at the end. This is justified by them having dated for quite some time, and by having someone who can see the future on their side.}}
* [[Guns Akimbo]] - A favorite technique of the good guys, {{spoiler|not that they ever get to use them}}.
* [[Healing Hands]] - It's here, but it's VERY painful, and can work in reverse.
* [[Hoist
* [[Improvised Weapon]] - A wet floor sign by Kira, chairs and bamboo shoots by Victor.
* [[Inspired By]] - A mild case, as it turns out there actually ''was'' a [[wikipedia:Stargate Project|government project]] for investigating psychics.
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* [[Master of Illusion]] - Hook, one of Nick's friends.
* [[Melee a Trois]] - Nick, Cassie and friends vs the Chinese Triad vs Division
* {{spoiler|[[Memory Gambit]]}}- Tack on some [[Omniscient Morality License]] and you essentially have a non-traceable future, since Watchers {{spoiler|work off of everyone's hypothetical plans.}}
* [[Men Are the Expendable Gender]]: Despite the relatively high total bodycount, female character deaths number exactly {{spoiler|zero}}. The two female villains are specifically scripted to not cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]] so the audience won't be upset. They merely get in the way of the heroes, never killing anyone. One pulls a gun and is about to fire but is stopped just in time to avoid facing Karma. Conversely, {{spoiler|all the male villains, including mooks, die, regardless of how bad their actions are.}}
** In a deleted scene {{spoiler|Popgirl kills Stowe (the Stitch) for failing her}}
* [[Mind Rape]] - Remember that time your best friend killed your brother? No? Well, you do now.
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* [[Mutant Draft Board]] - present, but unclear. It's not made sure if Division just registers and tracks all psychics, or if it makes them actively work for Division, whether they want to or not.
* [[Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book]] - Cassie's drawings of the future.
* [[Not Even Bothering
* [[One Person, One Power]] - strictly observed.
* [[Psychic-Assisted Suicide]] - Pushers can make you eat your gun.
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** {{spoiler|Kira to Carver at the end of the film. Yay karma!}}
* [[Psychic Powers]] - The basis of all powers in ''Push'':
** Pushers are able to use [[Mind Control]]. Really, it's [[More Than Mind Control]], since it works by implanting and/or overwriting memories.
** Wipers are able to erase all or parts of a person's memory.
** Movers are [[Mind Over Matter|telekinetics]].
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* [[Shoot the Dog]]: The Chinese Triad leader {{spoiler|killing Victor}} before Nick has to.
* [[Shout-Out]] - Mind control being described as "pushing" someone was first used in [[Stephen King]]'s ''Firestarter'', although as the power works here it's more evocative of a drug dealer "pushing".
** Also [[The X
* [[Slo Mo]] - A dramatic walk down a hallway. Verges on [[Narm]].
* [[Strong
* [[Super Human Trafficking]]
* [[Super Serum]] - The [[MacGuffin]] of the plot; Division is testing it on psychics to enhance their powers. It's failed so far in every case, save one.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]] - Once Nick and Cassie realize how they can shut down Pop Girl, things change very quickly, especially when the letters come into play.
** The entire ''movie'' is like this as it's basically a [[Melee a Trois]] between two [[Chessmaster|Chessmasters]] and a [[Manipulative Bastard]].
* [[You Have Failed Me...]] - Carver "pushes" one of his agents to shoot himself for letting Kira escape and killing his partner (Kira's "push"). Carver was willing to let it slide until the agent started claiming that there is no way he can be "pushed" again.
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