Repo! The Genetic Opera/YMMV: Difference between revisions

* [[Awesome Music]]: Many. "Chase the morning" and "Zydrate Anatomy" are two examples.

* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: ''Seventeen.''

** 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.

{{quote|"Would you change yourself if you could?" }}

** Or it could be a metaphor against too much plastic surgery. You could go many ways with this

** CHA-HA-ASE THE MORNING! YIELD FOR NOTHING!

** Lungs and livers and bladders and hearts!

** Single Mom's been somewhat [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]] since the shadowcast performances started, due to the brave shadow actresses who flash the audience live.

** Don't forget DJ Granny. Does she even get 10 seconds of screen time?

** Given the fans' opinions on Luigi and Pavi, plus the attention they both get throughout the film...

** {{spoiler|Nathan,}} for some, as well as Amber.

** People go along with plans against them or manipulations they ''had songs about figuring out'' or present when they were first explained, do nothing to avoid falling for them, and then act surprised at the reveal.

** Also justified by the fact that it's a [[Screw Destiny]] story.

* [[Internet Backdraft]]: Never mention [[Repo Men]] or [[The Agony Booth]] recap in front of this film's fans.

* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Arguably Rotti and his children, at least Luigi.

** 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" -- see that Joan Jett cameo? That's right- people WILL have found this film because of rock bands.

** 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".

** Rotti Largo, Rotti Largo, ROTTI LARGO. ''Things You See In A Graveyard'', ''Gold'', and ''We Started This Op'ra Shit'', and ''Piece De Resistance'' showcase this especially well.

** His daughter Amber Sweet also shows signs of this. Not only did get her face restored to perfection, she also took over the company in spite of her bad reputation and previous [[Humiliation Conga|public humilation]].

** 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 [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.

** Repo fans who ship Shilo/Grave-Robber often refer to that couple as "Grilo."

** Luigi/Pavi fans worship at the altar of "Pavigi".

** 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.

* [[Selective Squick]]: Rotti is fine with having debtors brutally disembowelled in front of him, but reacts badly to Amber's disfigurement. [[Justified Trope|Granted, it comes as a shock, and it's his own daughter.]]

** Pretty much every time Shilo is on screen with an adult character, Amber Sweet's surgery montage, ''Mark It Up'', Grave-Robber getting up close and personal with his corpses, ''Blame Not My Cheeks'', {{spoiler|Blind Mag's final song}}. Also, you might be squicked if you think too much about the meaning behind Rotti putting his arm around Mag and saying "technically you belong to GeneCo."

** How about the fact that the large intestine is apparently the consistency of bread dough?

** ''Didn't Know I'd Love You So Much'' again.

** The image of Nathan being dragged away from dead Marni's bedside.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Nathan walking right past Luigi with no more than a sideways glance on his way to confront Rotti. He's met the guy, there's no excuse.

** Neither Nathan nor Shiloh ever find out {{spoiler|that Rotti was the one who had Marni killed.}} Nathan's [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] would have been ''epic''.

** It's implied that Nathan realises that Rotti poisoned Marni when Rotti tells Shilo "Your dad deserved whatever happened to him, he needed me and so do you!" and Nathan says in a very menacing tone "''I remember''". At this point however, his love for Shilo and desire to protect her from Rotti surpasses his urge for vengeance. At the time he's been left crippled in a wheelchair by the Genterns so he's not in any fit state to fight anyway.

** Also the fact that Rotti actually did take Marnie's murder to his death makes it all the more disturbing as often in real life, monsters such as [[Josef Stalin]] [[Karma Houdini|die before being seen for all that they really are]].

** Not only is Rotti Largo terminally ill, he's had to deal with Luigi, Amber, and Pavi. They could make anyone turn into a bastard.

** Luigi, Amber, and Pavi ''also'' qualify though. Luigi has a sad moment after {{spoiler|Rotti's death}}, during the press conference. After his spontaneous temper tantrum, he starts crying, and the last thing we hear him say is, {{spoiler|*Sob.* "Dad!"}} in a pathetic voice. Also, when Rotti disowns his children onstage and calls them useless, Pavi lets out such a pathetic little wail that some viewers expressed the desire to reach into the screen and hug him. As for Amber, the face humiliation is bad enough, but the sad look she has when her father disowns her publically also gets her some sympathy points.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?]]: A lot of people take their young children to see this movie, because hey, it has the girl from [[Spy Kids]] in it! And it's a musical! Never mind that it was directed by [[Saw|Darren Lynn Bousman]], or that the other stars include two horror film veterans and a violent gangster film veteran, or that the tamest of the trailers still contains a shot of someone being disemboweled...

* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Nathan Wallace/Repo Man.

** One of the best examples ever. You would never, ever, ''ever'' expect to find this group of people in the same movie, and some, like Sarah Brightman, you'd never think to find in that ''kind'' of movie.

** A behind-the-scenes example: The director ''vehemently'' refused to even consider Paris Hilton. Eventually they made him audition her, and she rocked out so hard that he hired her on the spot.

** [[Actor Allusion|Kinda funny that they'd object to letting a spoiled heiress play a spoiled heiress.]]

** A powerful "quick, clean, and ''pure''" drug can be extracted from a corpse's brain by sticking a syringe up the corpse's nose...wait, what? Or the idea that any part of the nervous system can be replaced...

** According to early interviews, Zydrate was discovered when doctors searched for a chemical reason for near-death experiences, then made a synthetic version of the compound they discovered for use in surgery.

** 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]].