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* CuttingTheKnot: When Sarone tries to take over and he and Danny propose capturing the snake, Danny says he's just going to throw them both in the river if they keep tallying like that, but he is shut down by Sarone pulling a gun.

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* CuttingTheKnot: When Sarone tries to take over and he and Danny Gary propose capturing the snake, Danny says he's that he is just going to throw them both in the river if they keep tallying talking like that, but he that. He is shut down by Sarone pulling a gun.
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Someone has spelt sisinister wrong. It’s sinister.


* DarkIsEvil: Dark-scaled, and more sisnsiter than the other.

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* DarkIsEvil: Dark-scaled, and more sisnsiter sinister than the other.
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* MinionWithAnFInEvil: When he decides to follow Sarone it's before he realizes that Sarone has set the whole thing up and he is upfront and non-hostile in saying he just thinks following Sarne an get them out alive and maybe with a film of the capture in the process..

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* MinionWithAnFInEvil: When he decides to follow Sarone it's before he realizes that Sarone has set the whole thing up and he is upfront and non-hostile in saying he just thinks following Sarne an Sarone and get them out alive and maybe with a film of the capture in the process..process.
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* CriticalHesitationBlunder: She tries to kill Sarone but pauses, and cries a bit when he tells her not to look into the eyes of someone she wants to kill. [[spoiler:Then Sarone jumps up and locks his legs around her neck.

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* CriticalHesitationBlunder: She tries to kill Sarone but pauses, and cries a bit when he tells her not to look into the eyes of someone she wants to kill. [[spoiler:Then Sarone jumps up and locks his legs around her neck.]]
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* VillainousRescue: He shoots a boar that's chasing Gary and Denise (likely to earn the crew's trust and to preserve his cannon fodder).


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* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: The Anaconda suffers a SurprisinglySuddenDeath about an hour into the movie when Terri shoots it twice in the head a it tires to attack the boat, at which point Sarone becomes more menacing to the heroes and the existence of another anaconda is revealed.]]
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* AdventureArcheologist: He's introduced having just hiked back through the jungle searching ahead for the documentary.

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* AdventureArcheologist: AdventurerArchaeologist: He's introduced having just hiked back through the jungle searching ahead for the documentary.documentary and is quite knowledgeable about the native lore and area.
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[[folder:The Second anaconda]]Anaconda]]

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* BigBadEnsemble: Along with Sarone.

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* BigBadEnsemble: Along with Sarone.Sarone and the second anaconda.


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[[folder:The Second anaconda]]
* DarkIsEvil: Dark-scaled, and more sisnsiter than the other.
* MadeOfIron: Takes several strikes with picks and such, and pursues Terri and Danny even while on fire.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Played a lot straighter than with the first. It spits out a body it just swallowed so that it can pursue someone else, whose trying to run away.

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* HoneyTrap: Terri tries one of these on Sarone, as part of TheMutiny.

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* HoneyTrap: Terri tries one of these on Sarone, as part of TheMutiny. He sees through it but Westridge and Danny still knock him out.



* BeardOfAwesome: Danny has Ice Cube's trademark light beard around his lower face and is capable of fighting both Sarone and the anaconda.
* CuttingTheKnot: When Sarone tries to take over and he and Danny propose capturing the snake, Danny says he's just going to throw them both in the river if they keep tallying like that, but he is shut down by Sarone pulling a gun.
* TheLancer: He seems to be Terri's oldest friend and main helper among the crew.



%%* ManipulativeBastard

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%%* ManipulativeBastard* ManipulativeBastard: He tricks everyone into login down the river to his snake while putting on a good show of being a helpful guy just wanting to get their friend to a hospital faster.



* MsFanservice: She ''is'' played by Creator/KariWuhrer, after all.
%%* TooDumbToLive

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* CriticalHesitationBlunder: She tries to kill Sarone but pauses, and cries a bit when he tells her not to look into the eyes of someone she wants to kill. [[spoiler:Then Sarone jumps up and locks his legs around her neck.
* MsFanservice: She ''is'' played by Creator/KariWuhrer, after all.
%%* TooDumbToLive
all, wearing short shorts and a midriff-baring top. One scene also has her shirt partially unbuttoned to show her bra.
* WomenAreWiser: She Unsuccessfully urges her boyfriend Gary not to fall for Sarone's promises.



* MinionWithAnFInEvil: When he decides to follow Sarone.

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* MinionWithAnFInEvil: When he decides to follow Sarone.Sarone it's before he realizes that Sarone has set the whole thing up and he is upfront and non-hostile in saying he just thinks following Sarne an get them out alive and maybe with a film of the capture in the process..



* AbortedArc: The reveal he and Sarone are working together seems rather pointless since he dies first.

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* AbortedArc: The reveal he and Sarone are working together seems rather pointless since he dies first.first without doing much, if anything to help Sarone besides picking him up.


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* WildHair: He has stringy, dirty hair.


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* AdventureArcheologist: He's introduced having just hiked back through the jungle searching ahead for the documentary.
* BigDamnHeroes: He tranquilize Sarone as he's about to shoot Danny and Terri.
* ConvenientComa: He spends a lot of the movie in a delicious state after being stung by a pianos wasp Sarone put in his wetsuit.
* NewOldFlame: He and Terri have had some romance in the past.
* NiceGuy: He's very polite and considerate.

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* TheDogBitesBack: Sarone singles Westridge out as weak and submissive, and Westridge somewhat nervously tries to bite back by stammering that he's not Sarone's 'poodle'. [[spoiler:He gets a better moment later on when he knocks Sarone the fuck out with a golf club.]]



* TheDogBitesBack: Sarone singles Westridge out as weak and submissive, and Westridge somewhat nervously tries to bite back by stammering that he's not Sarone's 'poodle'. [[spoiler:He gets a better moment later on when he knocks Sarone the fuck out with a golf club.]]
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* {{Expy}}: Of Lewis Dodgson from "The Lost World Novel". He even tried to drown the female protagonist, just like Dodgson.
%%* FauxAffablyEvil

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* {{Expy}}: Of Lewis Dodgson from "The Lost World Novel".''Literature/TheLostWorld''. He even tried to drown the female protagonist, just like Dodgson.
%%* FauxAffablyEvil* FauxAffablyEvil: He is somewhat charming, but even a blind man could see he’s ObviouslyEvil from a mile away.



%%* MsFanservice

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%%* MsFanservice* MsFanservice: She ''is'' played by Creator/KariWuhrer, after all.



%%* {{Greed}}

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%%* {{Greed}}* {{Greed}}: One of the reasons he partners up with Sarone to kill the anaconda is the fame he would gain for doing so.



%%* TooDumbToLive

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%%* TooDumbToLive* TooDumbToLive: He thinks teaming up with the blatantly untrustworthy Sarone is a good idea, and wholeheartedly believes that he has the best interests of the documentary crew at heart.



->'''Played By:''' Eric Stoltz

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->'''Played By:''' Eric StoltzCreator/EricStoltz
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* AbortedArc: The reveal he and Sarone are working together seems rather pointless since he dies first.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: South American and the first of the crew to die.


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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:The very first casualty of the film.]]
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->'''Played By:''' Owen Wilson

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->'''Played By:''' Owen Wilson

%%* DumbBlonde
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* DumbBlonde: A rare male version.



%%* MinionWithAnFInEvil

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%%* MinionWithAnFInEvil* MinionWithAnFInEvil: When he decides to follow Sarone.
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/JenniferLopez

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->'''Played By:''' Creator/JenniferLopez
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* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He loves fine wine and golf.

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* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He loves fine Bordeaux wine and golf.country club-style golf, and he brings both on the expedition.
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* BritishStuffiness: Classic Example


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* HiddenDepths: He takes the helm literally [[spoiler: after Matteo's death]].


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* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He loves fine wine and golf.
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* Expy: Of Lewis Dodgson from "The Lost World Novel". He even tried to drown the female protagonist, just like Dodgson.

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* Expy: {{Expy}}: Of Lewis Dodgson from "The Lost World Novel". He even tried to drown the female protagonist, just like Dodgson.
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* Expy: Of Lewis Dodgson from "The Lost World Novel". He even tried to drown the female protagonist, just like Dodgson.
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* SuperPersistentPredator: Largely averted, actually. The anaconda doesn't actively hunt the characters, and it's Sarone's dogged insistence on hunting the anaconda that makes it so dangerous. After all, the characters blundered into it's territory in the first place.

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* SuperPersistentPredator: Largely averted, actually. The anaconda doesn't actively hunt the characters, and it's Sarone's dogged insistence on hunting the anaconda that makes it so dangerous. After all, the characters blundered into it's its territory in the first place.

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* DirtyCoward: Initially, such as when he's sufficiently freaked out enough to want to abandon the missing Mateo.

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* DirtyCoward: Initially, such as when he's sufficiently freaked out enough to want to abandon the missing Mateo.Matteo.
* HeroicSacrifice: While trying to wedge the boat free, the snake appears. He tells the others to get on the boat, then calls the snake toward him. A big growth from his DirtyCoward status.
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No longer a trope.


%%* {{Badass}}
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->'''Played By:''' Kari Wuhrer

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->'''Played By:''' Kari Wuhrer
Creator/KariWuhrer
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* BetterToDieThanToBeKilled: [[spoiler:He opts to shoot himself rather than endure a slow, painful death via giant fucking snake.]]

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* BetterToDieThanToBeKilled: BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:He opts to shoot himself rather than endure a slow, painful death via giant fucking snake.]]

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%%* MsFanservice
%%* TooDumbToLive




%%* DumbBlonde
%%* {{Greed}}
%%* MinionWithAnFInEvil
%%* TooDumbToLive



* BetterToDieThenToBeKilled: [[spoiler:He opts to shoot himself rather than endure a slow, painful death via giant fucking snake.]]

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* BetterToDieThenToBeKilled: BetterToDieThanToBeKilled: [[spoiler:He opts to shoot himself rather than endure a slow, painful death via giant fucking snake.]]


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* BigBadEnsemble: Along with Sarone.


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* TitleCharacter: Obviously.
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* BetterToDieThanToBeKilled: [[spoiler:He opts to shoot himself rather than endure a slow, painful death via giant fucking snake.]]

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* BetterToDieThanToBeKilled: BetterToDieThenToBeKilled: [[spoiler:He opts to shoot himself rather than endure a slow, painful death via giant fucking snake.]]

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* BetterToDieThanToBeKilled: [[spoiler:He opts to shoot himself rather than endure a slow, painful death via giant fucking snake.]]



* SuperPersistantPredator: Largely averted, actually. The anaconda doesn't actively hunt the characters, and it's Sarone's dogged insistence on hunting the anaconda that makes it so dangerous. After all, the characters blundered into it's territory in the first place.

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* SuperPersistantPredator: SuperPersistentPredator: Largely averted, actually. The anaconda doesn't actively hunt the characters, and it's Sarone's dogged insistence on hunting the anaconda that makes it so dangerous. After all, the characters blundered into it's territory in the first place.

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%%* EvilPoacher

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%%* EvilPoacher* EvilPoacher: A snake poacher to be precise.


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* HateSink: You can't hate the anaconda but you CAN hate him.

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%%* HoistByHisOwnPetard
%%* JustDesserts

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%%* HoistByHisOwnPetard
%%* JustDesserts
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Sarone effectively engineers his own death by trying to capture the anaconda. He sets two people up as bait (he only needed one, if that, since he already had a dead monkey that worked as bait earlier) and his great plan to capture the snake? A net.]]
* JustDesserts: [[spoiler:He's eaten by the very snake he was trying to capture.]]



%%* ObviouslyEvil
%%* SinisterMinister

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%%* ObviouslyEvil
%%* SinisterMinister
* ObviouslyEvil: From the very start, Sarone comes across as intensely creepy. Only Terri, Westridge and Cale seem suspicious of him.
* SinisterMinister: According to Sarone, he was a priest at one point. He even administers half-hearted last rites for someone who he gets killed.



->'''Played By:''' Creator/OwenWilson

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->'''Played By:''' Creator/OwenWilsonOwen Wilson




* DirtyCoward: Initially, such as when he's sufficiently freaked out enough to want to abandon the missing Mateo.
* TheDogBitesBack: Sarone singles Westridge out as weak and submissive, and Westridge somewhat nervously tries to bite back by stammering that he's not Sarone's 'poodle'. [[spoiler:He gets a better moment later on when he knocks Sarone the fuck out with a golf club.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Westridge comes across as a stuffy and even cowardly prick, but he's really not that bad and even becomes FireForgedFriends with the rest of the crew.
* JerkassHasAPoint: It sure isn't a nice thing to abandon one of your crew, but his logic is sound.
-->'''Terri:''' We are not sure that Mateo is dead. We'll wait here till morning.
-->'''Westridge:''' Are you insane? Where do you think he went? A walk in the woods?



->'''Played By:''' Creator/EricStoltz

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->'''Played By:''' Creator/EricStoltzEric Stoltz


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* SuperPersistantPredator: Largely averted, actually. The anaconda doesn't actively hunt the characters, and it's Sarone's dogged insistence on hunting the anaconda that makes it so dangerous. After all, the characters blundered into it's territory in the first place.
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[[folder:Terri]]
!!Terri Flores
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JenniferLopez

* MsFanservice: It's J-Lo, after all. Very early on in the movie, there is a scene of her in a see-through slip with nothing on underneath.
* HoneyTrap: Terri tries one of these on Sarone, as part of TheMutiny.
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[[folder:Danny]]
!!Danny Rich
->'''Played By:''' Creator/IceCube
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[[folder:Sarone]]
!!Paul Sarone
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JonVoight

%%* {{Badass}}
* BigBadEnsemble: With the Anaconda.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Even if Sarone ''did'' manage to capture the snake alive, it's unclear how he would get it back to civilization, convince the crew he'd been terrorising to help him out, or even restrain it in the first place.
%%* EvilPoacher
%%* FauxAffablyEvil
%%* HoistByHisOwnPetard
%%* JustDesserts
%%* ManipulativeBastard
* NotSoDifferent: From the Anaconda; both are determined predators. Sarone even squeezes a victim to death.
%%* ObviouslyEvil
%%* SinisterMinister
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[[folder:Denise]]
!!Denise Kalberg
->'''Played By:''' Kari Wuhrer
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[[folder:Gary]]
!!Gary Dixon
->'''Played By:''' Creator/OwenWilson
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[[folder:Westridge]]
!!Warren Westridge
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JonathanHyde
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[[folder:Mateo]]
!!Mateo
->'''Played By:''' Vincent Castellanos
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[[folder:Cale]]
!!Dr. Steven Cale
->'''Played By:''' Creator/EricStoltz
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[[folder:Poacher]]
!!Poacher
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DannyTrejo
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[[folder:The Anaconda]]
!!The Anaconda
->'''Played By:''' Creator/FrankWelker
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