ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Submitted by: Janeth Marcelino

SUMMARY:

The people and cyborgs of the Scrap Yard live beneath the flying city of Tiphares, whose inhabitants dump
their junk in the Scrap Yard and rules above it's inhabitants.Tiphares exploits the Scrapyard and
surrounding farms, paying mercenaries called hunter-warriors to hunt criminals and arranging violent sports
to keep the population entertained. Massive tubes connect the Scrapyard to Tiphares, and the city uses
robots for carrying out errands and providing security on the ground. Occasionally, Tiphareans (such as
Ido) are exiled and sent to the ground. Aside from the robots and exiles, there is little between the two cities.

In a scrap yard, Dr. Ido finds an intact head of young cyborg-girl. He takes her in and gives her a body and
the name Alita, after his deceased daughter. Though her body is restored, her memory is gone. Alita
awakens with no memory of her past,and she can’t even remember her name. She meets Dr. Chiren, Ido's
estranged ex-wife, and befriends Hugo, who dreams of moving to the wealthy sky city of Zalem. Hugo
introduces Alita to Motorball, a battle royale racing sport played by cyborg gladiators. Secretly, Hugo robs
cyborgs of their parts for Vector, owner of the Motorball tournament.

Alita then discovers since long forgotten fighting techniques hidden in her body and decides to become a
hunter-warrior like Ido. One night, Alita follows Ido; they are ambushed by cyborg serial killers led by
Grewishka. Ido is injured, and Alita instinctively fights using "Panzer Kunst" (a German expression, meaning
"the art of the armor" literally "armor art"), a lost combat art for machine bodies, kills two of the cyborgs and
damages Grewishka, who retreats underground. Ido reveals that he is a Hunter-Warrior, a type of bounty
hunter. Grewishka goes to Dr. Chiren for help, who is working for Vector. Despite Alita believing that fighting
will help her rediscover her past, Ido discourages her from becoming a Hunter-Warrior. Alita finds a highly
advanced cyborg body in a crashed spaceship outside the city. Recognizing that the body is a Berserker—
deadly shock troops of the enemy nation United Republics of Mars (URM) from the Great War—Ido refuses
to install Alita in it.

Alita registers as a Hunter-Warrior. At the bar, she and Hugo are unable to recruit other Hunter-Warriors
to her cause of taking down Grewishka. Zapan, a Hunter-Warrior, provokes Alita, and she severely beats
him in a fight, triggering a chaotic bar brawl until Ido intervenes. An upgraded Grewishka arrives and
challenges Alita to a duel, revealing that he has been sent by Zalem's technocrat overlord, Nova, to destroy
her. Despite her combat skills, Alita's body is sliced up by Grewishka's chain-bladed fingers, but Ido, Hugo
and Hunter-Warrior McTeague and his cyborg dogs arrive and force Grewishka to retreat. Ido apologizes
and transplants Alita into the Berserker body.

Alita enters a Motorball tryout race for the prize money to send Hugo to Zalem. Hugo's relationship with
Alita leads him to decide to quit his secret job. He confronts his partner Tanji, but Zapan appears, murdering
a cyborg and Tanji and framing Hugo, though he escapes and calls Alita for help; she abandons the race
and finds him just as Zapan does. Zapan mortally wounds Hugo. Dr. Chiren offers to save Hugo by attaching
his severed head to Alita's life support system. When Zapan sees through the trick and attempts to stop
Alita, the guard mech stops Zapan from stealing her claim on Hugo's bounty, and Alita seizes his prized
Damascus blade and slices most of his face off.

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 Ido transplants Hugo's head onto a cyborg body and tells Alita that Vector's offer to help Hugo reach Zalem
was a lie; as an exiled citizen of Zalem, Ido is certain that citizens of Iron City cannot enter Zalem without
becoming a motorball champion. Alita storms the factory and confronts Vector, who reveals that Chiren has
been harvested for her organs. Vector summons Grewishka, but Alita's new nanotechnological body allows
her to easily destroy him. She forces Nova to speak to her through Vector. When Nova threatens to harm
her friends, Alita fatally stabs Vector.

Ido tells Alita that Hugo has fled to climb a cargo tube towards Zalem. Alita catches up to him and pleads
with him to return with her. He agrees, but a serrated defense ring dropped by Nova shreds his body and
throws him off the tube. Alita catches him but cannot pull him up, as his arm is breaking off. Hugo thanks
Alita for saving him before falling to his death.

Alita decides to get to Zalem, and Nova, the only way she knows is possible: winning Motorball and
becoming the top champion, which should earn her ascension. She aims to finally meet Nova, the
mysterious scientist from Zalem who wielded control over all the humans and cyborgs on Earth with the
ability to transfer his consciousness into theirs. Beyond behind being behind all the attacks on Alita (and
Hugo), which would be enough to justify her aims, Nova also knows more about her past than she does.

In the final scene, sees Alita gearing up for a fated Motorball competition, determined to win and finally
arrive in Zalem to confront Nova, cheered on by the crowd, she pledges vengeance by pointing her sword
toward Zalem, where Nova watches from above.

I AM INSPIRED THE MOST WITH ALITA’S CHARATER

Alita’s message in the film seems to never give up, even when the odds are against you. Never let anyone
tell you who you are or who you should become. I really relate to the story line and it made me to want to
be the best that I can. Alita is brave, strong through rough times and proves people wrong.

Also, that If we do not have empathy for others, we will understand neither our own mind nor the right and
wrong of what we are doing. There's no power to obtain, the power is there. The next level is how to handle
the options.

There is more than one concept of justice. It is Alita that shown such lessons too. Alita, in the ending
scene, points her sword ,as the crowd cheers, towards Zalem while Nova watches her from above. Her
focus is upward – not to stay there, but to destroy it! Now she knows what her mission in the past, what she
meant to do – to destroy Zalem and killed Nova. Of course, it would not sound right if I encourage to dream
to kill and destroy. The motive behind Alita’s mission is to change the way people think about Nova and
Zalem. They are not beyond reach and they are not untouchable. Nova is not God or divine and Zalem is
not impenetrable.

Alita is both machine and human yet she has a strong moral compass — "I do not stand by in the
presence of evil,".She is a true warrior with Beautiful Heart..“I’m a warrior!” she said also as she displays
her fighting skills one night during one of her first fights. Knowing who you are is the greatest wisdom a
human being can possess. Know your goals, what you love, your morals, your needs, your standards, what
you will not tolerate and what you are willing to die for. It defines who you are.