The 6th Day

Smile for the camera, Mr. Gibson!

Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, this Sci Fi movie takes place in a not-too-distant future where limited cloning technology has come into use for a number of things, from curing diseases to re-animating your pet to cloning fish as a food supply. However, cloning people is illegal. Arnie plays helicopter charter pilot Adam Gibson, a man who unintentionally gets involved with a human cloning cabal, who will kill him to protect their secrets.

The title comes from Genesis 1:31, "And on the sixth day God created man," which ends up being plot-relevant. The official title is "The 6th Day," not "The Sixth Day," changed to prevent it from being confused with another film that came out the year before.

Tropes used in The 6th Day include:

• As the Good Book Says...: The legislation that outlawed cloning is known collectively as "Sixth Day Laws", in reference to the above verse.
• Automated Automobiles
• Big Bad: Michael Drucker.
• Borrowed Biometric Bypass: The below-mentioned thumb.
• Brain Uploading
• Broken Masquerade
• Came Back Wrong: While most clones are just fine, Wiley keeps having phantom pains from previous deaths.
  • Also Drucker at the end, whose new clone wasn't quite done cooking. Squick.
• Cloning Blues
• Cloning Gambit: Unusual in that it's a voluntary activity, at least for the villains.
• Cool Plane: Adam owns a pair of helicopters that can transform into jet planes in mid-flight.
• Disney Villain Death
• Doesn't Anyone Stay Dead Any More?
• Eternal Prohibition

Natalie (Adam's Wife): "Is this because of the cigars?!"

• Expendable Clone: Both subverted and played straight.
  • Also played for laughs: a goon who's just had his leg shot off starts screaming angrily about his new boots being ruined!
• Fingore: Adam shoots the female villain, severing some fingers. He uses the thumb on biometric scanners soon thereafter.
• For Inconvenience Press One
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: Sarah Winter's bare breast is visible for one or two frames as she sits up as the newest clone of Talia Elsworth.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: A vaguely alluded to early cloning experiment, producing something that was thereafter mercy killed, is among the reasons for the Sixth Day Laws.
• Insecurity Camera: Subverted--there's a reason he comes in shooting all the cameras!
• I Say What I Say: Adam Gibson teams up with his clone. They're mixing up some thermite, and one of them decides to test-burn some of it. They watch as it burns through the table.

Adam Gisbon and Adam Gibson: Cool.

• Justified Extra Lives: "Re-pet" and the illegal human cloning.
• Kiss Me I Am Virtual: Adam's associate has an... interesting virtual companion.
• Meaningful Name: Adam Gibson.
• Memory Gambit: An interesting variation. Adam fakes his own memories, knowing that the bad guys will read them to find out where he stashed the evidence.
• Nightmare Fuel: The "blanks". Also the weird talking dolls.
• Won't Work On Me: The mooks have been killed and cloned so often that nothing really seems to phase them, including pain. After being revived, the female mook gripes about having to redo her piercings... and shoves one of the bits of jewelry into her ear to make the hole.
• Papa Wolf: When his family is held to ensure compliance, Adam comes to the rescue, hard.
• Police Are Useless
• Respawn Point: A rare non-video game example.
• Resurrection Sickness
• Screw Yourself: Used as a bravado one-liner, but later appears again for laughs.
• Shut UP, Hannibal: See Screw Yourself above.
• Storming the Castle: What the two Adams did in the end.
• Tomato in the Mirror
• Twenty Minutes Into the Future: The movie takes place "Sooner Than You Think."
• Utopia Justifies the Means: How Drucker tries to justify his cloning, saying with his technology, the world won't have to lose its Einsteins and Mozarts.
• Video Phone: Interestingly showcased a video phone call with an automated machine... for 911 Emergencies.
• Villains Never Lie: Double subverted: When Drucker tells Adam Gibson that he's really the clone, Adam just laughs him off, saying he's lying. Then Drucker provides proof.
• You Are Already Checked In
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Talia (a different color for each life, even). She even gripes about having to redye it every time she gets a new body.
• You Have Failed Me...: It's bad enough that Wiley keeps screwing up and getting himself killed, but when he accidentally shoots Drucker, Drucker decides not to bring him back again.