Repo the Genetic Opera
Movie • 2008 • Horror
ReportBy the year 2056, an epidemic of organ failures has devastated the planet. The megacorporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan - and those who can’t fulfill their plans have their organs repossessed. In the midst of this, a sickly teenager discovers a shocking secret about herself, her father, and their connection to GeneCo.
This movie contains 74 potentially triggering events.
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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ChaosClub
It might not count but Rotti publicly disowns his (adult) children and calls them thinks like freaks and monsters
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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zydrateanatomy
A father calls his children disappointments, disgusting, etc. and publicly disowns them. Another father confines his daughter to her bedroom for her entire life, she has to sneak out to escape.
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He's also regularly poisoning his daughter to convince her she's sick. She's not.
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He's also regularly poisoning his daughter to convince her she's sick. She's not.
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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ASpiderNamedFish
At the end, a character forgives their father for intentionally poisoning them, and lying to them about major events.
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Is someone stalked?
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Lyoko2516
Rotti stalks Shilo
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Sassa
Nathan (father) slaps Shilo (daughter) at the end of 'Seventeen'
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
69 supporters
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zydrateanatomy
Several women are killed (stabbed, slit throat, etc.) and one slowly dies on-screen but it's played for laughs. Men are also killed in the same way however.
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zydrateanatomy
Quite the opposite. An abused character makes a promise to herself that she'll never become like her abuser.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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AngelPrincess
A character is gaslighted into believing she is extremely sick
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Sassa
Shilo is slapped by her father at the end of 'Seventeen'. It is also revealed at the end of the film that Shilo's father has been poisoning her to make her sick so he could keep her at home under his control. Shilo's father gaslights her several times (most noticeably after 'Things You See in a Graveyard' and 'Seventeen'). Shilo is 17 at the time that all of this happens, but it's implied this has been happening her entire life.
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Addiction
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tonystanza
The fictional painkiller Zydrate is shown and mentioned.
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Is there addiction?
15 supporters
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Moominland
One of the characters is addicted to zydrate, a fictional painkiller for surgeries
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Animal
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Does a dragon die?
25 supporters
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Anonymous
There are no dragons in this movie
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Are there spiders?
41 supporters
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TheoRagnarok
No, but there is a scorpion like creature
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Are there bugs?
27 supporters
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Kazu
The main character, Shilo, collects bugs, and you can see her chase one at the beginning of the movie, and there are some in display cases in her room.
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Assault
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KamiSteele
Nathan slaps his daughter Shilo at the end of the musical number 'Seventeen.' It, amongst other things, leads to their relationship shattering until the climax.
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Is someone drugged?
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Ellebella
The main character, Shilo, was drugged by her father throughout her life for a condition she did not have.
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Is rape mentioned?
74 supporters
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zydrateanatomy
Not in the movie, but in interviews, Terrance Zdunich (co-creator of Repo! and plays Graverobber) refers to Pavi as a rapist.
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Is someone restrained?
1 supporters
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Featherbirb
Yes, Repo Man's victims are often restrained
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RevonTulet
Up to interpretation. Zydrate Anatomy includes grinding and suggestive dancing between the Graverobber and Amber Sweet while she is under the effects of a drug, it's unclear to which extent it effects her ability to consent.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
32 supporters
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TwoLesbiansInATrenchcoat
Several people have their torso cut open. It is very graphic.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
27 supporters
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TwoLesbiansInATrenchcoat
Shilo struggles to breathe during anxiety attacks.
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Is there body horror?
42 supporters
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Anonymous
Intense. A man is tortured and has his organs removed while alive and once dead has a character shove a hand into his abdomen, up his throat into his skull, and is played like a puppet
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Is there amputation?
24 supporters
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anxietygoblin
No amputation of limbs or such but people's organs are being removed.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
15 supporters
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zydrateanatomy
No, but the back of Nathan's knee is sliced by Luigi at the end of the film. This seems to have the same impact as slicing an Achilles Tendon would.
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Is there a hanging?
31 supporters
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Lyoko2516
Kinda: A man is hung upside down by his ankles (a deleted scene shows GraveRobber the same way)
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Does someone asphyxiate?
22 supporters
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zydrateanatomy
She doesn't die, but Shilo struggles to breathe as she's coming off of her 'medicine'.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
71 supporters
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5
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KamiSteele
Potentially, but it's in out-of-movie text. Amber's two musclebound bodyguards in BDSM gear are described as 'euniches' in initial promotional material. They are minor, nameless characters.
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Does someone become unconscious?
5 supporters
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Anonymous
The main character faints a lot
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Does someone break a bone?
19 supporters
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alonelylion
In a very brief scene, the repo man kills a victim by snapping his neck before continuing his work.
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Is someone tortured?
71 supporters
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TwoLesbiansInATrenchcoat
Sort of. People have their organs taken out while conscious. The point isn't to cause pain, but it does and they are not given anesthesia.
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Does someone fall to their death?
10 supporters
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Lyoko2516
Blind Mag falls to her death and is impaled on a piece of fence.
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Is there eye mutilation?
82 supporters
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Travis
A women rips her own eyes out
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Is there excessive gore?
73 supporters
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KamiSteele
Surgery and medical gore appear throughout. It's somewhat softened by black comedy, such as "Thankless Job" ending with the Repo Man using the man whose organs he repossesses as a flesh puppet or Amber's face literally falling off at the start of a stage performance in "Blame Not My Cheeks." It's overall campy and darkly humorous enough that the gore isn't too bad in context, but there is a lot of it, so it's still worth warning for.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
38 supporters
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KamiSteele
The youngest character in the story is Shilo, who is 17, and she survives to the end. There's a possibility Nathan could be targeting children due to the nature of his job, but nothing really indicates this other than typical overthinking about the plot.
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Is a minor sexualized?
93 supporters
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KamiSteele
Shilo is 17, and there's nothing really sexualized about her. However, she does get flirted with by adult men. A nameless minor character at the start of "Zydrate Anatomy" mentions that she started taking a street drug at 13 and started doing sex work shortly after. It's only discussed briefly, and she appears to be an adult.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
9 supporters
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Kzuck1209
Blind Mag gouges her eyes out in order to avoid a repossession of them. She dies, falls on a fence and is impaled.
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Does a non-human character die?
21 supporters
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zydrateanatomy
The only non-human character in this film is a fantasy-esque bug. It doesn't die.
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Does someone die?
12 supporters
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zydrateanatomy
So many.
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Disability
Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
21 supporters
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zydrateanatomy
Depends how you define disabled. Marni and Shilo have a blood disease and are played by actresses without any kind of illness.
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
14 supporters
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redvyn
Not obvious, but in the Zydrate Anatomy scene, one of the 'Z-whores' is rendered unconscious after shooting up.
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Family
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Does a parent die?
19 supporters
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trickedboon
Two parents die, only one of which to the child's active memory.
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Is someone kidnapped?
7 supporters
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TwoLesbiansInATrenchcoat
Not by force, but someone manipulates a teenager into getting into his limo and then ignores her request to go home.
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Does someone cheat?
16 supporters
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anxietygoblin
Marni gets together with Nathan and therefore breaks Rotti's heart. It's kinda unclear if she cheated or just left him, though.
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Fear
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Are there clowns?
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no, but pavis face at the end where hes smiling is sort of clownish
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
88 supporters
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Anonymous
No but there is a scene where it looks like a character might vomit (after seeing a botched surgery) but he instead only coughs into a handkerchief
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
31 supporters
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KamiSteele
Amber canonically was born 'Carmela Largo' before legally changing to her stage name. At one point, Rotti guilt trips his daughter by saying 'I did not complain when you changed your name from Largo to Sweet,' to which she replies 'I needed a stage name.' There is no indication Amber is trans, but might be upsetting in a similar vein.
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Loss
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Anonymous
Zydrate comes in a little glass vial.
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Is there a hospital scene?
11 supporters
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Anonymous
There's not an explicit hospital scene, but the entire movie is about surgery and medical themes, some of which is preformed on camera.
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Does someone have cancer?
17 supporters
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alonelylion
Rotti is terminally ill; while his illness has never been confirmed it is implied to be lung cancer.
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Mental Health
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Anonymous
Someone violently removes their own eyes to make a statement.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
32 supporters
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KamiSteele
Honestly, given the setting, a huge chunk of the cast aren't particularly healthy as people. Nathan in particular needs to violent by necessity, as it's part of his job ("Thankless Job" is a jaunty number about how, well, it's a thankless job, even if he has fun during the song). However, guilt is a major part of his character, and he does messed-up things outside of being the Repo Man. There is also Luigi Largo, whose entire schtick is snapping and stabbing people in a rage under little provocation in a darkly humorous way. Unlike the other siblings who seem to just be depraved, there's a possible reading that he has an underlying undiagnosed/untreated illness.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
18 supporters
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KamiSteele
The Repo Man and Nathan Wallace are treated as separate characters, complete with different voices, so it's technically a split-personality situation. However, the intent seems to be more to emphasize Nathan's double life.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
67 supporters
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
17 supporters
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KamiSteele
Briefly, during the musical number 'Zydrate Anatomy.' Amber gets hit with Zydrate, and her trip is depicted as a bizarre sexualized surgery scene with the Genterns. Shilo and the Graverobber appear briefly during this sequence, despite them still being in the alleyway, further suggesting this is a drug-induced hallucination and not a flashback.
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Is there misophonia?
32 supporters
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ASpiderNamedFish
Plenty of moaning, as well as squishy sounds.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
23 supporters
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32
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DrTeatime42
Shilo becomes distressed when deprived of her medicine or when she fails to take it on time.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
27 supporters
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KamiSteele
Not directly, but an on-stage operatic performance ends with a woman daring the Repo Man to take her eyes and that she'd 'rather be blind,' with a graphic visual of her ripping them out. It's clear contextually she knew she would die and have her eyes repossessed, and decided to take a final stance before her death. Her death through falling and impalement come shortly after.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
28 supporters
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AnagnorisisM
A few characters, specially Amber, are constantly having surgeries to alter their bodies.
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Anonymous
Someone directly causes trauma to their body that would have likely killed them anyways, but the actual COD was not direct. It was murder, but the person knew it would happen. Indirect suicide.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
37 supporters
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BriarRose
Yes. The titular Repo Man struggles to cope with the violent nature of his job. It is not explicitly stated to be ptsd, but he clearly feels guilt and calls himself a “monster.”
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Noxious
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Is there shakey cam?
1 supporters
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SomeOneHere
In brief, emotionally intense moments. One section where it's particularly prevalent is at 47:00.
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Does a baby cry?
13 supporters
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anxietygoblin
When "Nathan's Story" is shown, they also show Shilo's birth.
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Yes
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Yes
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Paranoia
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0
Is the fourth wall broken?
12 supporters
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26
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Tattyk
The Graverobber is known to address the audience in certain cases (such as where he introduces and concludes affairs). He looks at the camera and addresses the viewer in these cases.
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Pregnancy
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Does someone miscarry?
21 supporters
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1
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Anonymous
Marni Wallace dies during Shilo's birth, but she does not miscarry.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
14 supporters
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ForgetfulCupid
Very briefly a baby is shown after a childbirth scene, not important to the overall plot and you can look away
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Is there childbirth?
20 supporters
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45
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fridgesama
There is a (non-explicit) cartoon backstory sequence where Shilo is born.
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Are there abortions?
13 supporters
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trickedboon
No, but a woman dies during childbirth.
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Does a pregnant person die?
16 supporters
Yes
48
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trickedboon
A woman dies during childbirth.
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Prejudice
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34
Is there ableist language or behavior?
41 supporters
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9
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TwoLesbiansInATrenchcoat
A character chastises her (dead) mother for giving her a blood condition. (She later recants on her blame)
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Yes
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
33 supporters
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2
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KamiSteele
Not a joke and not necessarily the same, but the character Pavi Largo wears skinned women's faces to cover his own scarred face. The context seems to be partly serial killer-esque 'trophies', as it's confirmed out-of-movie that Pavi has a history of being sexually predatory, implying that at least some of his faces were from his past victims (however, he does wear his sister's face at the end, so make of that what you will).
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Does an LGBT person die?
30 supporters
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40
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AJestersFork
Though no character that is explicitly queer dies, there are characters that depending on the viewer may be seen as queer that do die.
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Are there fat jokes?
51 supporters
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6
No
32
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TheoRagnarok
A fat man stands up while testifying for surgeries "Before GeneCo, my anatomy was completely surpressed," meaning he was thin and Geneco's solution was to make him fat to fix dysmorphia
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11
Is a minority is misrepresented?
24 supporters
Yes
0
No
10
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demolovania
no, but there isnt many minorities in the first place unfortunately
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39
Yes
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40
Race
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0
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9
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
33 supporters
Yes
0
No
11
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SomeOneHere
There isn't anything in the movie, but there are short moments that ping similar vibes in terms of interest of older men towards a 17-year-old character (with one writer confirming this was intentional), though one where it's more obvious is a deleted scene and it's overall not too blatant in the actual movie.
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Religious
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0
No
7
Yes
0
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7
Sex
Are there nude scenes?
38 supporters
Yes
17
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1
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milkapplecup
there's no full frontal nudity, but there's at least one scene where a woman very prominently bares her breasts.
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10
Yes
0
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9
Is someone sexually objectified?
43 supporters
Yes
20
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0
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KamiSteele
Basically, the Genterns are sexy nurse ladies that work for GeneCo. None of them get any amount of characterization, and, aside from being eye candy, are mostly abused by the Largos and do minor minion gruntwork. Many of the characters wear revealing/sexualized clothes but are not objectified to the same extent.
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Reapermanee
Pavi says Amber and Luigi should have sex during "Mark It Up", but presumably it's only a joke.
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Is there sexual content?
52 supporters
Yes
60
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0
4
TwoLesbiansInATrenchcoat
No one actually has sex on-screen, but the movie has a lot of sexual and kinky energy to it. In particular:
• There are two pairs of sexualized bodyguards (shirtless men, women with fishnet stockings)
• Drug users react to the drug as if it sexually arouses them.
• A chorus of minimally clothed dancers grind on each other.
• Several people wear leather harnesses and other BDSM attire.
• A woman removes her top with no bra underneath.
• There are two pairs of sexualized bodyguards (shirtless men, women with fishnet stockings)
• Drug users react to the drug as if it sexually arouses them.
• A chorus of minimally clothed dancers grind on each other.
• Several people wear leather harnesses and other BDSM attire.
• A woman removes her top with no bra underneath.
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Is there BDSM?
18 supporters
Yes
2
No
4
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umbravas
Some of the costumes have BDSM-like elements but nothing occurs on screen.
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Sexism
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18
Sickness
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11
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0
Yes
0
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14
Does someone have a chronic illness?
10 supporters
Yes
18
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0
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KamiSteele
A central part of the backstory is that there have been a series of mass-organ failures, leaving GeneCo to become powerful due to its medical advancements. A posthumous character has a blood disorder that her husband was trying to find a cure for, but she died due to the treatment being tampered with. Shilo, the protagonist, and the character's daughter, inherited her blood disease (though this is later revealed to be the result of ongoing poisoning) and is receiving home treatment. A major plot point is Rotti Largo, the president of GeneCo, ironically dying of a terminal illness (implied to be cancer), which results in an ongoing inheritance debate between his three adult children.
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Social
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12
Is someone homeless?
5 supporters
Yes
18
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1
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Tattyk
People’s homes are generally not shown on screen, however the Graverobber is seen to be reading a newspaper in a dumpster in a way that implies he is generally found there.
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Is existentialism debated?
11 supporters
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7
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1
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KamiSteele
Not hugely, but the closing number, 'Epitaph' has Graverobber conclude the movie by talking about how Rotti's feud with Nathan was ultimately pointless because 'cause we all end up in a tiny pine box/a mighty small drop in a mighty dark plot.' Meaning, he feels that Rotti should not have wasted his time alive dwelling on the past as we all die someday.
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9
Spoiler
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41
Yes
8
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0
Does it have a sad ending?
50 supporters
Yes
50
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1
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AJestersFork
Yes and no, its a very bittersweet ending.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
13 supporters
Yes
2
No
14
1
autisticTropesmith
A truck honks as the graverobber and shilo accidentally run in front of it, but nothing actually happens, and the music is louder than it.
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40
Yes
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40
Yes
0
No
37
Violence
Yes
0
No
44
Is there blood/gore?
51 supporters
Yes
58
No
0
3
fridgesama
There is a lot of extreme gore involving organs throughout.
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0
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Is there gun violence?
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KamiSteele
There are two instances of Rotti shooting someone. The first is in his establishing scene early into the movie, while the second occurs at the climax. The first is a minor role, the second is a major character. Both die.
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