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* IdiotBall: the young boy who goes up to an obviously sick Jimbo and asks if he can have his 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: the IdiotBall:
** The young boy who goes up to an obviously sick Jimbo and asks if he can have his 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 lookssicksick.
** The young boy who goes up to an obviously sick Jimbo and asks if he can have his 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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** Later, Casey gets infected when the oxygen line on his isolation suit gets stretched too far, causing the suit to rip open like it were made of tissue paper.
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** Later, Casey gets infected when the oxygen line on his isolation suit gets stretched too far, causing the suit to rip open like it were it's made of tissue paper.
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** The first is a field hospital in Zaire, 1967; overrun with cases of the virus, forty-eight people have already died in the last two days, and conditions are dire even without the place being in the middle of a war zone. With no morgue or graveyard available, bodies are dumped outside under a tarpaulin. General McClintock has the place bombed to prevent the disease from spreading. [[spoiler: And to hide the existence of the virus so he could acquire it as a biological weapon.]]
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** The first is a field hospital in Zaire, 1967; overrun with cases of the virus, forty-eight people have already died in the last two days, and conditions are dire even without the place being in the middle of a war zone. With no morgue or graveyard available, bodies are dumped outside under a tarpaulin. General McClintock [=McClintock=] has the place bombed to prevent the disease from spreading. [[spoiler: And to hide the existence of the virus so he could acquire it as a biological weapon.]]
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** [=McClintock's=] is him visiting an infected camp to personally see how lethal Motaba is, getting some samples, lying to a terminally-ill patient for FalseReassurance, and then calling an airstrike to [[KillEmAll kill everybody in it, infected or not]].
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** [=McClintock's=] is him visiting an infected camp to personally see how lethal Motaba is, getting some samples, lying to a terminally-ill patient for FalseReassurance, and then calling an airstrike to [[KillEmAll [[KillItWithFire kill everybody in it, infected or not]].
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* CrisisPointHospital: This is the inevitable condition of any hospital in an area hit by the Motaba virus, as no less than three examples in the film aptly demonstrate.
** The first is a field hospital in Zaire, 1967; overrun with cases of the virus, forty-eight people have already died in the last two days, and conditions are dire even without the place being in the middle of a war zone. With no morgue or graveyard available, bodies are dumped outside under a tarpaulin. General McClintock has the place bombed to prevent the disease from spreading. [[spoiler: And to hide the existence of the virus so he could acquire it as a biological weapon.]]
** The second is another field hospital in modern Zaire, this time built around a peacetime village. By the time the USAMRIID team get there to investigate, the virus has killed just about everyone in the building and left them as breeding grounds for the flies - a sight that prompts Major Salt to vomit in his hazmat suit. The only surviving inhabitant who isn't infected is the attending physician.
** The worst is the local hospital at Cedar Creek, California: here, the virus mutates into an airborne form, so it spreads quickly through the ventilation ducts and into wards for uninfected patients. By the end, the hospital has gotten so crowded the military have been forced to expand testing and treatment outdoors into a field hospital, and the mortality rate is so vicious that the bodies eventually have to be burned immediately to save space. [[spoiler: [=McClintock=] plans to have the town bombed as well, both to prevent it from breaking quarantine and to preserve Motaba as a bioweapon.]]
** The first is a field hospital in Zaire, 1967; overrun with cases of the virus, forty-eight people have already died in the last two days, and conditions are dire even without the place being in the middle of a war zone. With no morgue or graveyard available, bodies are dumped outside under a tarpaulin. General McClintock has the place bombed to prevent the disease from spreading. [[spoiler: And to hide the existence of the virus so he could acquire it as a biological weapon.]]
** The second is another field hospital in modern Zaire, this time built around a peacetime village. By the time the USAMRIID team get there to investigate, the virus has killed just about everyone in the building and left them as breeding grounds for the flies - a sight that prompts Major Salt to vomit in his hazmat suit. The only surviving inhabitant who isn't infected is the attending physician.
** The worst is the local hospital at Cedar Creek, California: here, the virus mutates into an airborne form, so it spreads quickly through the ventilation ducts and into wards for uninfected patients. By the end, the hospital has gotten so crowded the military have been forced to expand testing and treatment outdoors into a field hospital, and the mortality rate is so vicious that the bodies eventually have to be burned immediately to save space. [[spoiler: [=McClintock=] plans to have the town bombed as well, both to prevent it from breaking quarantine and to preserve Motaba as a bioweapon.]]
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* ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure: A fuel-air bomb is used to sterilize an infected camp in Africa, and another is nearly used to sterilize an American town. [[spoiler:They do in fact have the cure for the original Motaba strain, but jump to sterilization because it would make a very effective biological weapon.]
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* ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure: A fuel-air bomb is used to sterilize an infected camp in Africa, and another is nearly used to sterilize an American town. [[spoiler:They do in fact have the cure for the original Motaba strain, but jump to sterilization because it would make a very effective biological weapon.]]]
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** At the Boston hospital, the technician working with the blood sample from the pet store owner becomes infected himself when he reaches into an active centrifuge, breaks the sample container, and splatters himself with the blood. The reason? He was distracted by a sports broadcast, and not even a televised one. He was ''staring at the radio''.
** Also stated by the dying American soldier in the 1967 prologue when he realizes that the hazmat-clad newcomers are also Americans.
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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.
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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.
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* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Casey]] succumbs to the virus after being infected when his suit tears.
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* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Casey]] [[spoiler:Casey Schuler]] succumbs to the virus after being infected when his suit tears.
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* KindheartedSimpleton: Jimbo isn’t particularly smart and starts the whole crisis by stealing the monkey, but he is by no means a bad person and whenever given the opportunity he makes sure to PetTheDog.
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** The Centrifuge operator, who splatters himself with Rudy Alvarez's infected blood because he wasn’t paying attention and infects even more people when he goes out to a crowded movie theater while knowing full well he is very sick and doesn't even cover his mouth when he coughs.
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* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Casey]] succumbs to the virus after being infected when his suit tears.
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* AssholeVictim: Rudy Alvarez spends his screentime being an abrasive asshole with a HairTriggerTemper, and he winds up one of the first to die of Motaba.
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* ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure: A fuel-air bomb is used to sterilize an infected camp in Africa, and another is nearly used to sterilize an American town. [[spoiler:They do in fact have the cure for the original Motaba strain, but jump to sterilization because it would make a very effective biological weapon.]]
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* ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure: A fuel-air bomb is used to sterilize an infected camp in Africa, and another is nearly used to sterilize an American town. [[spoiler:They do in fact have the cure for the original Motaba strain, but jump to sterilization because it would make a very effective biological weapon.]]]
* {{Jerkass}}: General [=McClintock=] is a sociopathic InsaneAdmiral with a LackOfEmpathy who is perfectly happy to kill hundreds of innocent people as long as it gets him what he wants.
* {{Jerkass}}: General [=McClintock=] is a sociopathic InsaneAdmiral with a LackOfEmpathy who is perfectly happy to kill hundreds of innocent people as long as it gets him what he wants.
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* ArmiesAreEvil: Variation. The entire U.S. Army is not evil; the film takes great pains to show that individual soldiers obey orders even when they visibly have concerns and questions, but GeneralRipper [=McClintock=] ''definitely'' is.
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* ArmiesAreEvil: Variation. The entire U.S. Army is not evil; the film takes great pains to show that individual soldiers obey orders even when they visibly have concerns and questions, but GeneralRipper InsaneAdmiral [=McClintock=] ''definitely'' is.
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* GeneralRipper: [=McClintock=], whose go-to option for disease control can be summed up as "KillItWithFire". [[spoiler:This is because he wants Motaba as a biological weapon, which won't work if it can be cured by anyone else. It says a lot that he's the ''only'' man in the film that sees the horrors Motaba can do and ''doesn't'' look disturbed (he doesn't even try).]]
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* InsaneAdmiral: [=McClintock=], whose go-to option for disease control can be summed up as "KillItWithFire". [[spoiler:This is because he wants Motaba as a biological weapon, which won't work if it can be cured by anyone else. It says a lot that he's the ''only'' man in the film that sees the horrors Motaba can do and ''doesn't'' look disturbed (he doesn't even try).]]
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* IdiotBall: the young boy who goes up to an obviously sick Jimmy and asks if he can have his 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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* IdiotBall: the young boy who goes up to an obviously sick Jimmy Jimbo and asks if he can have his cookie. He's a kid, but ''c'mon''. Luckily his mom is smarter and stops him before he can touch it.it.
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* IdiotBall: the young boy who goes up to an obviously sick Jimmy and asks if he can have his 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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Imagine you are hunting a killer. The perpetrator is insidious, invisible, and deadly. It is reactive and fast. Its victims suffer and die in horrifying pain. There is no reasoning with it, no bargaining with it, and no way to stop it. The military wants to avoid a panic. The media questions the methods being used to stop it. [[TheReveal It is a billionth your size]].
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Imagine you are hunting a killer. The perpetrator is insidious, invisible, and deadly. It is reactive and fast. Its victims suffer and die in horrifying pain. There is no reasoning with it, no bargaining with it, and no way to stop it. The military wants to avoid a panic. The media questions the methods being used to stop it. [[TheReveal [[TheVirus It is a billionth your size]].
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* WithDueRespect: See SophisticatedAsHell, above.
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* WithDueRespect: WithDueRespect:
** See SophisticatedAsHell,above.above.
** When Daniels and Salt are discussing how to intercept the Tae Kuk, Salt says, "You want me to fly you out to sea, drop you onto a freighter? Sir, with all due respect, that is idiotic."
** See SophisticatedAsHell,
** When Daniels and Salt are discussing how to intercept the Tae Kuk, Salt says, "You want me to fly you out to sea, drop you onto a freighter? Sir, with all due respect, that is idiotic."
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* ReassignedToAntartica: [=McClintock=] attempts this by sending Daniels to New Mexico. Daniels has other ideas.
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* ReassignedToAntartica: ReassignedToAntarctica: [=McClintock=] attempts this by sending Daniels to New Mexico. Daniels has other ideas.
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* BavarianFireDrill: Daniels uses this to get his plane redirected to Cedar Creek
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* BavarianFireDrill: Daniels uses this to get his plane redirected to Cedar CreekCreek. He intimidates a poor airman who is in charge of getting the plane ready that he didn't had orders to go to New Mexico, he had orders to go to Cedar Creek, and call General Ford to confirm it if he's unsure, then tell the airman that it's too damn late in the night and to ''not'' call Ford and wake him up, just get the damn plane ready to go.
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* BavarianFireDrill: Daniels uses this to get his plane redirected to Cedar Creek
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* ReassignedToAntartica: [=McClintock=] attempts this by sending Daniels to New Mexico. Daniels has other ideas.
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** In the novelization, Casey gets infected when his oxygen line gets disconnected from his suit. Said valve on the suit is one way and require the oxygen line to be connected for anything to get in.
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** In the novelization, Casey gets infected when his oxygen line gets disconnected from his suit. Said valve on These kinds of valves are designed to seal if there is not a plug installed -- air compressors use the suit is one same technology -- so the only way and require this could happen is if the oxygen line hose itself were separated from the plug attaching it to the suit, which itself would be connected for anything a pretty inexcusable failure to get in.check their gear before use.
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* TooDumbToLive: The guy who thought firing on a ''military attack chopper'', '''which had already fired warning shots at his truck''', was a good idea. Suffice it to say he did not live long after that.
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* TooDumbToLive: TooDumbToLive:
** The guy who thought firing on a ''military attack chopper'', '''which had already fired warning shots at his truck''', was a good idea. Suffice it to say he did not live long after that.
** The guy who thought firing on a ''military attack chopper'', '''which had already fired warning shots at his truck''', was a good idea. Suffice it to say he did not live long after that.
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''Outbreak'' is a 1995 suspense {{film}} directed by Creator/WolfgangPetersen and starring Creator/DustinHoffman, Creator/ReneRusso, and Creator/MorganFreeman (among many others: Creator/DonaldSutherland, Creator/KevinSpacey, Creator/CubaGoodingJr, Creator/PatrickDempsey, etc.), depicting a what-if scenario surrounding a deadly fictional African virus called Motaba, inspired by real-life Ebola outbreaks, and speculating on the measures taken by the military and the Center for Disease Control if such an outbreak occurred in the United States.
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''Outbreak'' is a 1995 suspense {{film}} film directed by Creator/WolfgangPetersen and starring Creator/DustinHoffman, Creator/ReneRusso, and Creator/MorganFreeman (among many others: Creator/DonaldSutherland, Creator/KevinSpacey, Creator/CubaGoodingJr, Creator/PatrickDempsey, etc.), depicting a what-if scenario surrounding a deadly fictional African virus called Motaba, inspired by real-life Ebola outbreaks, and speculating on the measures taken by the military and the Center for Disease Control if such an outbreak occurred in the United States.
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* ChekhovsGunman: The sailor aboard the Tai Kook. At the beginning, he is seen playing with the monkey. But when Daniels and Salt visit the ship, they are immediately taken to the freezer, where his dead body is seen.
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* ObviouslyEvil: General McClintock, with his permanent smug scowl.
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* ObviouslyEvil: General McClintock, [=McClintock=], with his permanent smug scowl.
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* BellyScrapingFlight: [=McClintock=]'s helicopter trails its skids through the water when it passes under the bridge during the helicopter chase along the river.
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** In the novelization, Casey gets infected when his oxygen line gets disconnected from his suit. Said valve on the suit is one way and require the oxygen line to be connected for anything to get in.
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''Outbreak'' is a 1995 suspense {{film}} directed by Creator/WolfgangPetersen and starring Creator/DustinHoffman, Creator/ReneRusso, and Creator/MorganFreeman (among many others: Creator/DonaldSutherland, Creator/KevinSpacey, Creator/CubaGoodingJr., Creator/CubaGoodingJr, Creator/PatrickDempsey, etc.), depicting a what-if scenario surrounding a deadly fictional African virus called Motaba, inspired by real-life Ebola outbreaks, and speculating on the measures taken by the military and the Center for Disease Control if such an outbreak occurred in the United States.
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-->"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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''Outbreak'' is a 1995 suspense {{film}} directed by Creator/WolfgangPetersen and starring Creator/DustinHoffman, Creator/ReneRusso, and Creator/MorganFreeman (among many others: Creator/DonaldSutherland, Creator/KevinSpacey, Cuba Gooding, Jr.Creator/CubaGoodingJr., Creator/PatrickDempsey, etc.), depicting a what-if scenario surrounding a deadly fictional African virus called Motaba, inspired by real-life Ebola outbreaks, and speculating on the measures taken by the military and the Center for Disease Control if such an outbreak occurred in the United States.
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* HateSink: [=McClintock=], full stop. The audience can't exactly hate a disease, so the filmmakers compensate by making him as unsympathetic as they can.
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* HateSink: [=McClintock=], full stop. The audience can't exactly hate a disease, so the filmmakers compensate by making him as unsympathetic as they can.can -- a sociopathic SmugSnake WarHawk that has about the same problem with killing thousands of people (be it by bio-weapon or gigantic fireball) as he has wiping dog crap from the bottom of his shoe.
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* HateSink: [=McClintock=], full stop. The audience can't exactly hate a disease, so the filmmakers compensate by making him as unsympathetic as they can.
