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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.
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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 [http://www.behan.ws/lifevalue.htm life economic value]{{Dead link}}, which can calculate with varying degrees of precision the future income and net worth of a person after a given time period. By killing their customers, Gene Co miss the opportunity to take their share of the person's life economic value, which may as well be the whole thing by the time a sufficiently mercenary financing department gets through with them. But by killing the customer, Gene Co ''still'' doesn't recoup the cost of the loan, surgery, and organ fee charged to the customer, plus the cost to pay the Repo Man for his services.
** 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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