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* [[The Archer]]: Eli uses a bow to protect Solara from road bandits and to hunt for food.
* [[All Men Are Rapists]]: It is ''not'' a good idea to wander alone in post-apocalyptic America if you're a woman.
* [[As the Good Book Says...]]: Natch, given what [[The Bible|the book]] is. And they're not too subtle about it [[Trailers Always Spoil|in the trailers.]]
** Subverted hilariously when Eli is trying to explain the concept of faith to Solara with the metaphor "flower of light in a field of darkness". She asks if he got that from the book, and he admits that it's a quote from [[Johnny Cash]].
* [[Badass]]: Three guesses as to whom.
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* [[Scenery Gorn]]: Standard fare for [[After the End]], though the only major landmark is fairly well off.
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: {{spoiler|For Carnegie; he spends the entire movie hunting Eli to steal the bible. Carnegie feels that with the bible, he can use it to maintain his iron-grip on the town. At the climax of the film, he finally does get the book, but at the sacrifice of [[The Dragon|his dragon]], only to learn the book is in braille. And after putting so much effort into his manhunt, the towns people have finally turned against him and started rioting and looting his "kingdom."}}
* [[Shout
** {{spoiler|The two cannibals}} are named [[Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf|George and Martha.]]
* [[Shown Their Work]]: [
** There's also a frequent [
* [[Something Else Also Rises]]: Just as someone is about to rape Solara, something else goes right through his pants. No, [[Right Through His Pants|not like that]]. [[Groin Attack|More like this.]]
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: "Ring my Bell" by Anita Ward, for any number of reasons.
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* [[Take That]]: Among the pile of books and magazines brought before Carnegie (and subsequently burned) is a copy of ''[[The Da Vinci Code]].''
* [[These Hands Have Killed]]: Eli is really good at killing people, but feels guilty about it.
* [[Throw
* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: The trailers painted it as more of a generic action movie, instead of the more cerebral film that it is.
* [[Tomato Surprise]]: {{spoiler|Eli was blind the entire time. Plus, the book's in Braille.}}
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Before the apocalypse, Eli was a simple clerk at a local Kmart.
** Then again, Eli might've just been a [[Retired Badass]]. Solara on the other hand, certainly goes through this.
* [[Truth in Television]]: The [[Nightmare Fuel|symptoms]] that the [[Cannibal Clan|cannibals]] showed. [
** For a more memorable analogue, a similar disease is also known as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy or more commonly "Mad Cow Disease", which can be caused by feeding cows beef.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: Or thirty years.
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