The Doom Generation

"Sex, Violence, Whatever..."

The Doom Generation is a 1995 film by Gregg Araki about Amy and Jordan, an angsty teen couple in Los Angeles, who are joined by a lovable rogue named Xavier. Their adventures lead them to commit a series of accidental manslaughters as several of the strange characters they meet mistake their identities and swear to kill them.

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Tropes in The Doom Generation include:

• Accidental Murder: Though it can be mistaken for Ax Crazy, Xavier ends up doing this a lot.
  • "Do you have to kill someone every time we stop the fucking car!?"
• Ambiguously Gay: Jordan
• Arc Number: Everything the characters buy costs $6.66
• Asshole Victim: All the people they kill were trying to kill them first. The kids get attacked by Neo-Nazis and one of them dies in the end. Some viewers may see that as an example as well.
• Badass: Xavier
• Black Comedy
• Break the Cutie: Averted. The abruptly bloody and bleak ending does little to stop Amy and Xavier from being completely ambivilant.
• Bury Your Gays
• Buffy-Speak: "Y'know, just because he and I...it doesn't mean that I'm like really all that...whatever..." "I know."
• Continuity Nod: "Where have you been?" "Nowhere."
• Cluster F-Bomb: Everytime Amy opens her mouth.
• Crapsack World: Images of Hell and the Apocalypse are on every corner, everywhere they go seems weirdly abandoned and degraded, and everyone they meet tries to kill them.
• Eagle Land: Type Two, full stop. the main characters names are Jordan White, Amy Blue, and Xavier Red.
• Generation X: This movie seems to be a weird love letter to it.
• Groin Attack: Jordan dies by a particularly gruesome case of this. The Neo-Nazis snap off his genitals using pruning shears.
• Handsome Devil: Xavier
• Ho Yay: Buckets of it every time Xavier and Jordan are left alone together.
  • Now, when we normally say "Buckets" of it....
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Quite a lot in this movie. Jordan is Frank the Bunny from Donnie Darko, The Quickie Mart clerk's hysterical foreign wife is Margaret Cho, the news anchor is Peter from The Brady Bunch, and then some...
• Jerkass Facade: Amy acts considerably less abrasive when she's alone with Jordan. The same is implied with Xavier.
• Meaningful Name: The main characters are Xavier Red (also known as "X"), Jordan White, and Amy Blue.
• Mood Whiplash: The Tear Jerker ending.
  • Mostly happens after they run over a dog.
• The Nineties: This movie reeks of it.
• Number of the Beast: It gets some use. And by "some," we mean, "any time a numerical value is mentioned."
• Off with His Head: The store owner gets his head blown off with a shotgun and somehow manages to live.
• Road Movie: Where they're going is pretty ambiguous though.
• Refuge in Audacity: The movie weird enough that many of the disturbing elements can seem quite numbing.
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The film becomes much more serious after the trio accidently hits a dog while driving.
• Skinny Puppy: Make a bizarre appearance as a gang of fag-bashers around the beginning.
• Smoking Is Cool: Some tropers might find themselves smoking a lot more after watching this.
• Teens Are Monsters
• Thematic Series: Forms a "Teen Apocalypse Trilogy" with Araki's other movies starring James Duval, Totally F***ed Up and Nowhere.
• Three-Way Sex
• Triang Relations
• The Twink: Jordan
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
• Valley Goth: Amy: "Jordan, I'm sure. We're in, like, this total predicament and you're worried about losing a fucking earring?"
• Villain Protagonist: Arguably the main characters, especially Xavier.
• What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: Every time the characters use the skull lighter, it's a different color, coded to the other characters names. How cute.
  • Also, as mentioned above, everything costs $6.66.
  • The random Catholic, Pledge of Allegeance-reciting Nazis that show up at the end.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: They randomly meet people, many of which try to kill them or claim they know them, then are never seen again. The most prolific example would be the store owner who gets his head blown off and lives. We never get much closure to that.