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8. Frank's Creepy Relationship With Athena - Tomorrowland

Tomorrowland opens in 1964, as a young Frank Walker (later played by George Clooney) goes to the New York World's Fair, where he meets young Athena (Raffey Cassidy), who shows him the futuristic utopia known as Tomorrowland. In the present day, it's revealed that Athena is a robot, and when she ends up meeting Frank once again, he's left emotionally conflicted, due to having been exiled from Tomorrowland as a youngster after losing hope in humanity's survival. At the end of the story, however, Tomorrowland's tyrannical leader David Nix (Hugh Laurie) fires a plasma pistol at Frank, and Athena dives in front of the shot. Frank tries to fix her, but Athena is terminally damaged and plays a recording to Frank of their time together as children, stating that she knew Frank loved her but was unable to reciprocate due to her not being a human and all. A devastated Frank ultimately uses Athena's self-destruct sequence to destroy the dangerous tachyon machine and kill Nix. But let's rewind a minute: it's hard not to be at least a bit weirded out by a tearful George Clooney presiding over a dying girl he loved as a kid, and in most probability still does. Yes, nobody's saying that modern-day Frank is a child molester, but the film puts his character in an impossibly strange situation, where Athena has been unable to grow up with him, and so his feelings play as odd and inappropriate even within that sci-fi context.