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* FaceDeathWithDignity:
** In the prologue, the Congo camp doctor [[OhCrap figures out]] that the "care package" being airdropped is [[QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice a daisy cutter]] a few seconds before the sick soldiers do, and he remains stone-faced while the soldiers [[FaceDeathWithDespair have varying degrees of shock on their faces]].
** Casey tries, but in his last moments he is too feverish to carry a conversation.
** In the prologue, the Congo camp doctor [[OhCrap figures out]] that the "care package" being airdropped is [[QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice a daisy cutter]] a few seconds before the sick soldiers do, and he remains stone-faced while the soldiers [[FaceDeathWithDespair have varying degrees of shock on their faces]].
** Casey tries, but in his last moments he is too feverish to carry a conversation.
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* ApocalypticGagOrder: Colonels [=McClintock=] and Ford, despite knowing how deadly the Motaba virus is, play clueless so that they can use the version they have a cure for as a germ warfare weapon. There's even a scene in TheWarRoom where they watch a projection of Motaba's contagion spread and death toll, indicating the president is on board. There are repeated examples of the government telling people who are sick that they'll be just fine -- right before [[KillItWithFire dropping a Fuel Air Bomb]] on the infection.
* ChekhovsGun: Subverted. The soldiers begin rounding up infectees in the quarantined small town, and we get to see only one woman say a tearful goodbye to her family. We follow her for a few minutes while they take a blood sample during her initial medical exam. There is even a close up of the phial, labeled "Sample 612". In a later scene, we see a scientist examining blood slides:
--> '''Scientist''': "Sample 607: Infected. 608: Infected. 609: Infected. * Frustrated sigh* They can't ''all'' be infected. 610... Infected. 611...''Infected''. 612... Damn! Still infected!"
--> '''Scientist''': "Sample 607: Infected. 608: Infected. 609: Infected. * Frustrated sigh* They can't ''all'' be infected. 610... Infected. 611...''Infected''. 612... Damn! Still infected!"
* ContaminationSituation: Robby Keough and Casey Schuler both contract the deadly Motaba virus. Robby lives long enough to get the cure. Unfortunately, Casey does not.
* FieryCoverUp: The military threatens to bomb the town in order to contain the virus.
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) plays a fairly large role and so does USAMRIID (United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases).
* HazmatSuit: Worn by the security guards. Because if they didn't, they'd all discover a lot about the disease a little ''too'' personally.
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* IdiotBall: The young boy who goes up to an obviously sick Jimbo and asks if he can have his half-eaten cookie. He's a kid, but ''c'mon''. Luckily his mom is smarter and stops him before he can touch it.
** Also Jimbo's girlfriend, who kisses him even after noticing that he looks sick.
** Also Jimbo's girlfriend, who kisses him even after noticing that he looks sick.
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* IdiotBall: IdiotBall:
** The young boy who goes up to an obviously sick Jimbo and asks if he can have his half-eaten cookie. He's a kid, but ''c'mon''. Luckily his mom is smarter and stops him before he can touch it.
**Also Jimbo's girlfriend, who kisses him even after noticing that he looks sick.
** The young boy who goes up to an obviously sick Jimbo and asks if he can have his half-eaten cookie. He's a kid, but ''c'mon''. Luckily his mom is smarter and stops him before he can touch it.
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* InfectionScene: There are numerous instances of viral infection. First, when a courier takes the [[PlagueMaster Motaba Virus infected]] [[MisplacedWildlife African Monkey]] to release it into the Northern California redwood forest, he gets scratched (which the camera focuses on), and boards a plane where his girlfriend meets him at the airport and make out, infecting her; the camera does a spin effect before showing the courier collapsing from illness. At the pet store where the courier tried to sell the monkey, a half eaten banana is taken by another monkey infecting it, and it infects the shop owner, who later dies in the hospital. Later, a careless lab technician gets the shop owner's contaminated blood on him. Up to this point, Motaba Virus could only be spread through physical contact, however it mutates inside the lab assistant to be spread via the air, and when he has a coughing fit he infects dozens of movie theater goers, with a lot of focus on his flushed face and the mucus droplets in the air. Robby and Casey, two virologists, work non-stop for days, and the fatigue makes them careless in the lab. The camera focuses on a tear in Robby's hazmat suit that allows the virus to enter, and a needle prick on Casey's hand that she tries to disinfect.
* InstantIllness: The Motaba Virus almost immediately enters the infectious phase right after initial infection (At first it was through physical touch, though once the virus mutates it can spread through the air), with symptoms appearing after about four hours which includes [[SicknessEqualsRedness a flush looking face]], [[IncurableCoughOfDeath severe cough]], and high fever. A few hours later, the victim will be too weak to move, have difficulty breathing, and [[BloodFromEveryOrifice experience extreme hemorrhaging]], eventually suffering seizures, organ failure, and, about twenty-four hours after infection, death.
* IWasNeverHere: Played with. Lt. Daniels has, against orders, gone to the site of an [[TitleDrop outbreak]] of a deadly virus. His superior, General Ford, discovers this and also discovers that the situation is much worse than anticipated. Ford needs Daniels on the ground to battle the disease and doesn't want to waste time disciplining him, while Daniels is angry at how long it's taken for the military to respond to the situation. So:
-->'''Ford:''' You were never here.\\
'''Daniels:''' No, I was here. I've been here from the beginning. I followed the bug here.
-->'''Ford:''' You were never here.\\
'''Daniels:''' No, I was here. I've been here from the beginning. I followed the bug here.
* MagicalAntibiotics: Antiviral rather than antibiotic, but Robbie contracts the Motaba virus and is on the brink of death before they administer the virus' antiserum. She is almost completely recovered after only a day. In reality, this is far too soon to recover from a hemorrhagic fever, which causes massive internal bleeding and organ failure.
* MagicAntidote: One of the CDC doctors contracts the disease (a hemorrhagic fever with a near-100% fatality rate), and is hanging on by a thread when she's given the antiserum. Barely a day later, the splotches on her skin have disappeared, and she's looking tired but otherwise perfectly fine. FYI, hemorrhagic fever causes massive internal bleeding and organ damage. Much of this damage should be permanent even if the disease was arrested, and certainly would not be healed in a single day.
* MagicAntidote: One of the CDC doctors contracts the disease (a hemorrhagic fever with a near-100% fatality rate), and is hanging on by a thread when she's given the antiserum. Barely a day later, the splotches on her skin have disappeared, and she's looking tired but otherwise perfectly fine. FYI, hemorrhagic fever causes massive internal bleeding and organ damage. Much of this damage should be permanent even if the disease was arrested, and certainly would not be healed in a single day.
* OrbitalKiss: A particularly disturbing one takes place in a scene. Jimbo and Cindy have one, but Jimbo's got Motaba virus and passes out in Cindy's arms when the orbit comes full circle.
* PatientZero: A wild monkey carries the Motaba virus; the first ''human'' infectees are Jimbo Scott and the pet store owner he was trying to sell said monkey too -- the latter of whom got scratched while handling the animal, the former of whom got spat on by the monkey while releasing it into the wild. Though Jimbo only ends up spreading the virus to his girlfriend before snuffing it, the pet store owner ends up infected with an airborne strain of Motaba... and ends up spreading it to everyone in his town.
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* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Imploringly spoken by Sam Daniels as Robby looks like she might succumb to her Motaba infection. Followed by his calculated risk.
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* PleaseDontLeaveMe: PleaseDontLeaveMe:
** Imploringly spoken by Sam Daniels as Robby looks like she might succumb to her Motaba infection. Followed by his calculated risk.
** Imploringly spoken by Sam Daniels as Robby looks like she might succumb to her Motaba infection. Followed by his calculated risk.
* ReminderOfDuty: Several times:
** Ford reminds Daniels of the fact that he, himself, is part of the Army that developed the disease, in an effort to keep him quiet about the weapons project. This is about duty to the group.
** [=McClintock=] tells Ford that if he goes down, Ford will have just as much to answer for. Eventually, this no longer matters to Ford. This is about his own desires, though posed as duty to the group.
** The White House Chief of Staff tells the people preparing to authorize the bomb strike to wipe out the infected city that if there are any voices of the objection, they belong in the room, then and there, not someone running to the press later and claiming disingenuously that they were the "sole voice of opposition" in the room. This is about duty to higher ideals.
---> '''Chief of Staff:'''"Those are the citizens of Cedar Creek, go ahead take a look at them - these are not statistics ladies and gentlemen - they're flesh and blood! I want you to burn those images into your memories, because they should haunt you until the day you die!"
** Daniels appeals to the pilots who have been assigned with the duty of delivering the bomb that will wipe out the town on the basis of duty to ideals first:
---> '''Daniels:''' "If you think I'm lying, drop the bomb. If you think I'm crazy, drop the bomb, but don't drop the bomb because you're following orders!"
** Ford reminds Daniels of the fact that he, himself, is part of the Army that developed the disease, in an effort to keep him quiet about the weapons project. This is about duty to the group.
** [=McClintock=] tells Ford that if he goes down, Ford will have just as much to answer for. Eventually, this no longer matters to Ford. This is about his own desires, though posed as duty to the group.
** The White House Chief of Staff tells the people preparing to authorize the bomb strike to wipe out the infected city that if there are any voices of the objection, they belong in the room, then and there, not someone running to the press later and claiming disingenuously that they were the "sole voice of opposition" in the room. This is about duty to higher ideals.
---> '''Chief of Staff:'''"Those are the citizens of Cedar Creek, go ahead take a look at them - these are not statistics ladies and gentlemen - they're flesh and blood! I want you to burn those images into your memories, because they should haunt you until the day you die!"
** Daniels appeals to the pilots who have been assigned with the duty of delivering the bomb that will wipe out the town on the basis of duty to ideals first:
---> '''Daniels:''' "If you think I'm lying, drop the bomb. If you think I'm crazy, drop the bomb, but don't drop the bomb because you're following orders!"
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** The Centrifuge operator is not a sympathetic character because he wasn't paying full attention when he stuck his hand in a still-moving centrifuge full of blood. And the thing that distracted him? A sports broadcast on a radio. He was ''staring at a radio'' when he reached into the active centrifuge.
*** Worse still, he goes to the movies not feeling well, and ''doesn't cover his mouth when he coughs'', pretty much exposing his girlfriend and the entire movie theater.
** The doctors don't want to touch Jimbo and Alice to autopsy them. Unsympathetic but understandable.
*** One doctor agrees to but he's so terrified that his hands shake too much to hold the scalpel. Sympathetic.
*** Worse still, he goes to the movies not feeling well, and ''doesn't cover his mouth when he coughs'', pretty much exposing his girlfriend and the entire movie theater.
** The doctors don't want to touch Jimbo and Alice to autopsy them. Unsympathetic but understandable.
*** One doctor agrees to but he's so terrified that his hands shake too much to hold the scalpel. Sympathetic.
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** The Centrifuge operator is not a sympathetic character because he wasn't paying full attention when he stuck his hand in a still-moving centrifuge full of blood. And the thing that distracted him? A sports broadcast on a radio. He was ''staring at a radio'' when he reached into the active centrifuge.
***centrifuge. Worse still, he goes to the movies not feeling well, and ''doesn't cover his mouth when he coughs'', pretty much exposing his girlfriend and the entire movie theater.
** The doctors don't want to touch Jimbo and Alice to autopsy them. Unsympathetic but understandable. \n*** One doctor agrees to but he's so terrified that his hands shake too much to hold the scalpel. Sympathetic.
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** The doctors don't want to touch Jimbo and Alice to autopsy them. Unsympathetic but understandable.
* SillySimian: The movie unashamedly features a cute little monkey who is the plague bringer of doom (albeit unintentionally).
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: General Ford has a change of heart about the imminent incineration of an infected town. He gets on the horn to the chopper carrying Colonel Sam Daniels -- who has been unable to convince the army to call off the bombing -- to deliver the following warning:
-->'''Ford:''' This is General Ford. I remind you that you are interfering with presidential authority. Sandman has a specific line to the target. If you are in his way, he cannot complete his bombing run and there will be hell to pay. Do you understand?
-->'''Ford:''' This is General Ford. I remind you that you are interfering with presidential authority. Sandman has a specific line to the target. If you are in his way, he cannot complete his bombing run and there will be hell to pay. Do you understand?
* TyphoidMary: The lab tech unwittingly infects dozens of people in a cinema after an accident in the lab in which he catches the virus. He's exposed to a blood sample from a dead man, who caught the virus from a smuggled monkey.
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** See SophisticatedAsHell, above.Colonel Daniels has this exchange with General [=McClintock=] while in a helicopter blocking a bomber from nuking a small town:
--->'''General [=McClintock=]:''' With all due respect, Colonel Daniels, if you do not follow us to Travis Air Force Base, I will blow you out of the sky. \\
'''Daniels:''' General, with all due respect, '''fuck you''', sir.
--->'''General [=McClintock=]:''' With all due respect, Colonel Daniels, if you do not follow us to Travis Air Force Base, I will blow you out of the sky. \\
'''Daniels:''' General, with all due respect, '''fuck you''', sir.
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* HyperCompetentSidekick: Salt is this to Daniels, as an AcePilot and marksman.
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* HyperCompetentSidekick: Salt is this to Daniels, as an AcePilot and marksman.marksman and a doctor who is capable of making an antivirus within a few minutes.
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* HyperCompetentSidekick: Salt is this to Daniels, as an AcePilot and marksman.
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* TheDeadHaveNames: {{Invoked}} by the White House Chief of Staff, dropping a stack of photos onto a conference room table:
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* TheDeadHaveNames: {{Invoked}} {{Invoked|Trope}} by the White House Chief of Staff, dropping a stack of photos onto a conference room table:
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* DeadpanSnarker: Casey.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Casey. No surprise there considering [[Creator/KevinSpacey who plays him]].
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* ReassignedToAntarctica: [=McClintock=] attempts this by sending Daniels to New Mexico. Daniels has other ideas.
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The film was nominated for various awards but failed to garner any major award nominations. Notable in that it was set-up as a [[DuelingMovies counter-production]] to a film adaptation of the novel ''The Hot Zone'' that never materialized.
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The film was nominated for various awards but failed to garner any major award nominations. Notable in that it was set-up as a [[DuelingMovies [[DuelingWorks counter-production]] to a film adaptation of the novel ''The Hot Zone'' that never materialized.
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* FalseReassurance: In the opening, [=McClintock=] tells the African doctor that he'll arrange an airdrop of medical supplies for the mercenary camp. He also tells one of the mercenaries that he'll be brought home and will see his girl again. A few hours later, a plane does come by and drop a large container... it's just said container is actually a fuel-air bomb which then vaporizes the camp.
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* FalseReassurance: In the opening, [=McClintock=] tells the African Congolese doctor that he'll arrange an airdrop of medical supplies for the mercenary camp. He also tells one of the mercenaries - a fellow American - that he'll be brought home and will see his girl again. A few hours later, a plane does come by and drop a large container... it's just said container is actually a fuel-air bomb which then vaporizes the camp.
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Daniels encounters one of these, but convinces him to cut the crap by informing him that he has come all the way from the disease-infected city, clutching the man's hands very earnestly, and offering to cough on him if he doesn't believe him. This causes him to call his much more helpful boss, who gladly goes above and beyond to help Daniels.
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: ObstructiveBureaucrat:
** Daniels encounters one of these, but convinces him to cut the crap by informing him that he has come all the way from the disease-infected city, clutching the man's hands very earnestly, and offering to cough on him if he doesn't believe him. This causes him to call his much more helpful boss, who gladly goes above and beyond to helpDaniels.Daniels.
** Ford ''behaves'' as one but only because he's trying to participate in the coverup of Motaba so it can be used as a superweapon. By the end of the movie he's had enough of [=McClintock's=] crap and turns on him.
** Daniels encounters one of these, but convinces him to cut the crap by informing him that he has come all the way from the disease-infected city, clutching the man's hands very earnestly, and offering to cough on him if he doesn't believe him. This causes him to call his much more helpful boss, who gladly goes above and beyond to help
** Ford ''behaves'' as one but only because he's trying to participate in the coverup of Motaba so it can be used as a superweapon. By the end of the movie he's had enough of [=McClintock's=] crap and turns on him.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The U.S. Chief of Staff certainly behaves as one during his one scene. When confronted by the reality of the dangers of Motaba he makes sure that it's ''absolutely necessary'' to wipe out Cedar Creek to contain the virus and that there was no other choice. The only reason he agrees to it in the first place is being lied to by [=McClintock=].
