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Narrator's name is Jack; anti-hero origins; MMA ruining Fight Club; Fight Club doping; Reddit and Twitter replacing Fight Club; NBA players in Fight Club; Tyler Durden cult of personality
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- The narrator's name is considered answered as Jack, per the original screenplay, Norton's commentary and press materials.
- The movie did not create the anti-hero, since most viewers see Norton's character as a nice guy.
- MMA training would have ruined Fight Club by 2004, with chokes replacing punches; a doping controversy and a Players' Tribune retirement are joked about.
- Reddit and Twitter absorbed the space for cultish devotion and anonymous fighting.
- Famous players could join; Kevin Durant, Kyrie, Bobby Portis and a Balkan fight club are joked about.
- The Trump-Tyler Durden cult-of-personality parallel: tapping loneliness and offering an alternate path that leads nowhere.