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** Also, does anyone else find it creepy he's so obsessed with Shilo being like his wife? He also buys her some really short clothing.
* [[Awesome Music]]: Many. "Chase the morning" and "Zydrate Anatomy" are two examples.
* [[
* [[Broken Aesop]]:
** If you think the aesop is [[Screw Destiny]], you probably think it's broken on account of {{spoiler|Shilo's father leaving her alone, with nothing, unprepared for living on her own in the [[Crapsack World]].}} If you think the aesop is "megacorporations rule the world" or "always read the fine print," it's not broken.
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** That said, the film actually ''doesn't'' contain any examples of this. Rotti and Nathan are rescued from this label by having a [[Morality Pet]] in Shilo and by ''realizing'' what bastards they've become and hating themselves for it (this is harder to see with Rotti, but the melancholy tone of "Gold" coupled with the flashbacks to magazines hailing him as a hero certainly implies it), and Rotti's kids, while certainly horrible people, are [[Dead Baby Comedy|funny]], not revolting.
* [[Creepy Awesome]]: Blind Mag, Graverobber & Pavi Largo.
* [[Critical Dissonance]]: Most critics were tough on this film. They warned people away, rated it as low as possible, expressed horror at the casting choices, scoffed at the low budget, and generally just sat there being sick into their hats. But to no
* [[Crosses the Line Twice]]: Just about anything to do with the Largo siblings. And the Repo Man playing ventriloquist with a corpse definitely deserves mention too. The last part with the puppet is probably the freakiest moment in the entire film, and it's subtle and small as Hell: he and the puppet are singing at the same time.
* [[Cult Classic]]
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* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]:
** Grave-Robber is actually a relatively minor character, but has one of the biggest fan followings. Single Mom has something of a [[The Scrappy|reverse Ensemble Darkhorse]] going on - even though she only appears for a few moments, the fans ''hate'' her.
** Single Mom's been somewhat [[Rescued
** Don't forget DJ Granny. Does she even get 10 seconds of screen time?
* [[Evil Is Sexy]]:
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* [[Just Here for Godzilla]]:
** Fans of Anthony Stewart Head, Sarah Brightman, Paul Sorvino, Alexa Vega, Paris Hilton, Bill Mosely, and/or Nivek Ogre went to see ''Repo!'' based solely on their favourite actor/singer's appearance therein. Many of them are now devoted fans of the movie.
** Take a look at the musician list, and see members of Bauhaus, [[Korn]], Rasputina, and [[Guns N' Roses]] being credited, then look at the who the music producer is- [[X Japan]]'s bandleader. And then watch "Seventeen"
** There's also Anne Danielewski who people might remember from the 90's as ''[[Poe (band)|Poe]]''.
* [[Les Yay]]: Marni and Blind Mag. Also Amber Sweet and the Genterns in "Zydrate Anatomy".
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* [[Older Than They Think]]:
** Persons claim that this movie is a rip-off of the novel Reposession Mambo... despite the fact that the novel was first published in 2009 whereas the film came out in 2008. This itself ignores that the opera itself was first performed as a stage-show in 2001 and portions of the music were first performed as operettas in the 1990s.
** One [https://web.archive.org/web/20100324213352/http://blogs.amctv.com/horror-hacker/2010/02/repo-men-and-repo-the-genetic-opera.php film critic] made this claim, until they were called on it.
* [[Painful Rhyme]]: ''[[The Movie]]!'' It tends to be most obvious in the songs that are less plot-important.
* [[Portmanteau Couple Name]]:
** Repo fans who ship Shilo/Grave-Robber often refer to that couple as "Grilo."
** Luigi/Pavi fans worship at the altar of "Pavigi".
* [[Rescued
** To an extent, Paris Hilton. Many ''Repo!'' fans went in to see the film unhappy about her having a role, but after seeing her performance, came out with at least a grudging respect for her. A fair number have actually grown quite fond of her, defending her where they would once have joined in with the mocking.
** Of course the fact that she gets mangled in surgery then has her face skinned off probably helped some of her haters work out their frustration.
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** So defaulting on your organ loan for 90 days gets the Repo Man sent after you, who will fatally retreive GeneCo's property. So it never occurred to the genuises at GeneCo's finance department that hitting the customer with massive penalty fees and interest rate hikes would be a more cut-throat response to consumer delinquency, leveraging an asset on the books into one two or three times the value. Dead customers don't pay, after all, and they're out the cost of the surgery and repossession costs every time they kill a customer.
** The people we see being killed by the Repo Men have already been taken for every penny they have and have nothing to offer the company but their bodies. Gene Co's business plan saves the company a fortune in litigation costs going after deadbeats in court and insures maximum profit potential by [[Incredibly Lame Pun|allowing their accountants to bleed the customers dry before sending in the Repo Men to bleed their customers dry]].
** Every life has a value. That's not a wishy-washy way of saying that human life is sacred or crap like that; in economics, every living person has what is known as their [
** Unless either the customer's organ value being resold dips below the life economic value or the value in scaring the customers to pay up. After all a single Repoman working can only do so many Repo's, but the mere threat would be very effective against the rest. Especially if Organ loans are like nearly all other loans and discharagable in bankruptcy. (Of course the only non-dischargable loan is student loans which the government can jail you if you refuse to pay).
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