Elysium: Tropes

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• BFGin 606 titlesMany of the Elysium weapons are stated on the respective wiki as being absurdly heavy or potent, given their size, but significantly less so in the actual film.Read →
• Artistic License – Nuclear PhysicsRare · in 18 titlesJustified somewhat due to the movie's Crapsack World setting and the Devil-may-care attitude towards worker safety.Read →
• Unwinnable by Designin 71 titlesThe ARG website contains a short "test" supposedly conducted by a robotic official to check if the player (supposedly a person from the impoverished Earth) is fit for a free move to Elysium under som…Read →
• Magic Plastic Surgeryin 187 titlesA feature of the Med-Pods.Read →
• Insecurity SystemRare · in 29 titlesCarlyle encrypts the data in his head with a defense system designed to kill anyone that tries to use it without his authorization.Read →
• Swiss-Cheese Securityin 297 titlesFor a habitat supposedly concerned with keeping the riff-raff out, there doesn't appear to be anything actually stopping people from flying up there aside from Kruger, and the government does not lik…Read →