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* LargeHam: Wanda June, as she gets crazier. "WE! MADE! ''YOU!!!''"
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* LargeHam: Wanda June, as she [[SanitySlippage gets crazier.crazier]]. "WE! MADE! ''YOU!!!''"
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* SquashedFlat: One of the junior baseball players is flattened by a steamroller.
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* SquashedFlat: SquashedFlat:
** One of the junior baseball players is flattened by a steamroller.
** One of the junior baseball players is flattened by a steamroller.
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* UncleTomFoolery: When the arcade machines go nuts, the black man's response is "Yo mamma!" even though it doesn't make any sense. Basically the '80s equivalent of having a black person show up and say "You go girl" or "Oh no, you didn't!" just because the white filmmakers think its funny.
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* UncleTomFoolery: UncleTomfoolery: When the arcade machines go nuts, the black man's response is "Yo mamma!" even though it doesn't make any sense. Basically the '80s equivalent of having a black person show up and say "You go girl" or "Oh no, you didn't!" just because the white filmmakers think its it's funny.
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* DirtyOldMan: Hendershot and the Bible salesman are both the oldest members of the cast and are both crude and libidinous. The Bible salesman even tries to seduce a woman in the truck stop by pitching her to buy the Bible and caresses the thigh of Brett (who was hitchhiking with him until they heard the radio warning to get off the roads) until Brett tells him that unless he wants to lose the hand, he is going to stop touching her right the hell now.
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* OneDimensionalThinking: Camp Loman's response to be pursued by the Green Goblin truck is to simply run without actually getting out of the truck's path. Naturally, he gets run down by the truck and knocked into a ditch.
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* OneDimensionalThinking: Camp Loman's response to be pursued by the Green Goblin truck is to simply run without actually getting out straight ahead instead of dodging to the truck's path.left or right. Naturally, he gets run down by the truck and knocked into a ditch.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Bubba puts on a welcoming demeanor, but he's a BadBoss to his employees.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Bubba puts on a welcoming demeanor, but he's a BadBoss to his employees.employees and only teams up with the heroes because he can't make money with rampaging vehicles killing off potential customers.
* NextSundayAD: Released in 1986, the film takes place during June 1987.
** Camp Loman thinks he can outrun a big rig with just his two feet. He naturally gets creamed by the truck.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Released in 1986, the film takes place during June 1987.
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* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: As with the other Stephen King films. A special case here, as he also directed the movie and even appeared in its first trailer, rambling about how OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight and promising that he's "gonna scare the ''hell'' outta you."
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* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: As with the other Stephen King films. A special case here, as he also directed the movie and even appeared in its first trailer, rambling about how OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight and promising that he's "gonna scare the ''hell'' outta you."" By his own later admission, a lot of this was the coke talking.
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* GroinAttack: A baseball coach is on the receiving end of one at the hands of a vending machine using soda cans as ammunition.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: [[invoked]] Subverted - Stephen King claims it ''was''.
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** Duncan Keller. He gets diesel sprayed into his eyes and is temporarily blinded. He attempts to leave while barely having any vision and drops his keys. His blindness results in him jot being able to see a sentient teuck barreling towards him until it's too late to get out of the way.
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** Duncan Keller. He gets diesel sprayed into his eyes and is temporarily blinded. He attempts to leave while barely having any vision and drops his keys. His blindness results in him jot being able to see a sentient teuck truck barreling towards him until it's too late to get out of the way.
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* DoomedHurtGuy: The Bible salesman. An entire sequence is dedicated to the characters trying to get to where he's lying injured and they fail. It only succeeds in wasting time.
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* DoomedHurtGuy: DoomedHurtGuy:
** Duncan Keller. He gets diesel sprayed into his eyes and is temporarily blinded. He attempts to leave while barely having any vision and drops his keys. His blindness results in him jot being able to see a sentient teuck barreling towards him until it's too late to get out of the way.
** The Bible salesman. An entire sequence is dedicated to the characters trying to get to where he's lying injured and they fail. It only succeeds in wasting time.
** Duncan Keller. He gets diesel sprayed into his eyes and is temporarily blinded. He attempts to leave while barely having any vision and drops his keys. His blindness results in him jot being able to see a sentient teuck barreling towards him until it's too late to get out of the way.
** The Bible salesman. An entire sequence is dedicated to the characters trying to get to where he's lying injured and they fail. It only succeeds in wasting time.
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* EvilIsHammy: While not necessarily evil, as the worst things we see him do are take advantage of employees who are on parole and bluntly tell a small boy his father was killed by a truck with no empathy at all, Bubba Hendershot is the film's human antagonist and Creator/PatHingle clearly had a ball playing the part as evidenced by his chewing of the scenery just about every time he shows up.
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* PapaWolf: Duncan Keller. Once it's become apparent machines have turned on man, he immediately tries to get to his car to leave, despite being barely able to see and his co-workers attempting to stop him, to look for his son. He states he's GOTTA find his boy to make sure he's okay. Hendershot threatens to fire him if he leaves while on the clock, which Duncan brushes off and call him a "fat fuck" which results in him almost getting clobbered.
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The movie centers around people trapped in the Dixie Boy truck stop outside Wilmington, North Carolina, surrounded by homicidal trucks and other machines which have become [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever animate and dangerous]] from radiation produced by a comet close to earth. The cast includes Creator/EmilioEstevez, Creator/PatHingle, Laura Harrington, Creator/FrankieFaison, Creator/LeonRippy, and Creator/YeardleySmith.
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The movie centers around people trapped in the Dixie Boy truck stop outside Wilmington, North Carolina, surrounded by homicidal trucks and other machines which have become [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever [[SinisterCar animate and dangerous]] from radiation produced by a comet close to earth. The cast includes Creator/EmilioEstevez, Creator/PatHingle, Laura Harrington, Creator/FrankieFaison, Creator/LeonRippy, and Creator/YeardleySmith.
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: Brett gives a hard one to Bubba after he casually tells Deke that his father was among the earlier casualties.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Brett notes that Billy "sure makes love like a hero".
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* SexGod: Brett notes that Billy "sure makes love like a hero".
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* NonProtagonistResolver: While the survivors on the gas station are able to escape to a location with no vehicles, the overall AlienInvasion was stopped off-screen by the Russians destroying the spacecraft with a KillSat.
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** The predictable moment when Duncan looks inside the handle pump to check why it is not working is very evocative of [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote gags]].
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* ShoutOut: The light aircraft flying recon for the trucks is [[Film/ApocalypseNow playing "Flight of the Valkyries" on its radio.]]
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** The Happy Toyz truck may look creepy, but it is really hard to take seriously a truck with the [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Green Goblin face]].
** The light aircraft flying recon for the trucks is [[Film/ApocalypseNow playing "Flight of the Valkyries" on its radio.]]
** The Happy Toyz truck may look creepy, but it is really hard to take seriously a truck with the [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Green Goblin face]].
** The light aircraft flying recon for the trucks is [[Film/ApocalypseNow playing "Flight of the Valkyries" on its radio.]]
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* CorruptHick: Bubba Hendershot runs a truck stop that mostly employs people on parole allowing him to force them to work more hours than he has to pay them for. If they refuse, then he can get his friend who is on the state patrol to arrest them and send them back to jail. Billy theorizes that Bubba also sells guns on the side when his gun cache is found.
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* SmallTownTyrant: Bubba Hendershot runs a truck stop that mostly employs people on parole allowing him to force them to work more hours than he has to pay them for. If they refuse, then he can get his friend who is on the state patrol to arrest them and send them back to jail. Billy theorizes that Bubba also sells guns on the side when his gun cache is found.
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* OneDimensionalThinking: Camp Loman's response to be pursued by the Green Goblin truck is to simply run without actually getting out of the truck's path. Naturally, he gets run down by the truck and knocked into a ditch.
* CarFu: This is the default attack of the vehicles that don't have weapons attached.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: In stark contrast to [[DownerEnding the original short story]] it was based on, [[spoiler:the movie ends with Bill, Brett, Curtis, Connie, Deke, Handy (the driver of the Green Goblin truck) and a few others happily sailing off to the safety of an island, while the ''Soviets'' save the day firing down the UFO hiding near the comet causing all their troubles]].
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: In stark contrast to [[DownerEnding the original short story]] it was based on, [[spoiler:the movie ends with Bill, Brett, Curtis, Connie, Deke, Handy (the driver of the Green Goblin truck) and a few others happily sailing off to the safety of an island, while the ''Soviets'' save the day firing by shooting down the UFO hiding near the comet causing that caused all their troubles]].the trouble]].
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Bubba puts on a welcoming demeanor, but he's a BadBoss to his employees.
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* UpToEleven: In an MTV spot advertising the film's release, King said he asked cinema houses to play the sound as loud as possible when showing his film--so it would be the loudest movie ever.
