History Film / SuddenDeath

* HyperFocusedCrowd: The crowd is so caught up in game 7 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs - all three periods - that they fail to notice people fighting on the catwalks above them and the fact that the parking lot is full of police cars keeping the building on lockdown.

* WouldntHitAGirl: A brutal fight to the death between Darren and a female assassin, which ends with the villain being simultaneously strangled and boiled alive. Though she's dressed as a penguin during their bout.

''Sudden Death'' is a 1995 movie starring JeanClaudeVanDamme. The story is about Darren [=McCord=], a {{Pittsburgh}} fire marshal who is on duty during the seventh UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague StanleyCup playoff game (with his kids in the seats), watching the game uncovers a plot to hold the stadium - and the Vice President, who is attending - for ransom.

!Tropes in ''Sudden Death'' include:
* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: This movie requires you to accept that this game is so interesting that every single person in the stadium - right down to the maintenance workers who are supposed to be behind the scenes and every security guard in the building are either watching the game or has been compromised. Otherwise there is no way Darren could wander the entire building which seems empty despite probably being the most occupied building in the city at that time.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never find out who wins the game. Everyone panics and leaves at an explosion and that's that.

* [[Novelization]]: By Steven Mertz. An audiobook adaptation was released at the same time, read by PowersBoothe, who plays the film's villain.

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Netflix streaming listed this as taking place at a ''baseball'' game.

* FullBodyDisguise: Darren dresses like a Penguins Goalie and goes out on the ice, sits next to and gets greeted by the team, ''plays'' goalie well, and no one notices that it's him and not the actual goalie. Not the other players, not the coach, not the audience... but for some reason the {{Mooks}} across the stadium recognize him, and his son way up in the nosebleed seats.

* NoOshaCompliance: Not a single usher is checking the seats to make sure everyone evacuated safely nor noticed a child sitting by himself in the stadium that everyone just evacuated due to an explosion.

''Sudden Death'' is a 1995 movie starring JeanClaudeVanDamme. The story is about Darren McCord, a {{Pittsburgh}} fire marshal who is on duty during the seventh UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague StanleyCup playoff game (with his kids in the seats), watching the game uncovers a plot to hold the stadium - and the Vice President, who is attending - for ransom.

* AccidentalAthlete:At one point Darren [=McCord=] actually has to ''pretend to be the Pittsburgh Penguins goalie'' to avoid the terrorists who have invaded the arena. He even makes a save.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: The movie tries to pass off Van Damme's Belgian accent as Quebecois.

* WouldntHitAGirl: A brutal fight to the death between Darren and a female assassin, which ends with the villain being simultaneously strangled and boiled alive.

* {{Padding}}: The opening scene with losing the girl in the house fire and picking up his kids from his ex-wife could be excised with almost no bearing on the plot at all.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Brazil loves JeanClaudeVanDamme, this movie got released there first.

* BadWithTheBone[=/=]ImprovisedWeapon: Darren in the {{Mook}}'s neck.

* BadWithTheBone: Darren in the {{Mook}}'s neck.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: When [[spoiler: Hallmark]] has a gun pulled on Darren instead of just shooting him he tells him to take his hands out of his pockets first. Bad move.

''Sudden Death'' is a 1995 movie starring JeanClaudeVanDamme. The story is about Darren McCord, a fire marshal who is on duty during the seventh UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague StanleyCup playoff game (with his kids in the seats), watching the game uncovers a plot to hold the stadium - and the Vice President, who is attending - for ransom.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: A mook messes up by saying Emily's name. He then {{Lampshades}} it by saying "You didn't say it, didn't you?"

* AccidentalAthlete:* At one point Darren McCord actually has to ''pretend to be the Pittsburgh Penguins goalie'' to avoid the terrorists who have invaded the arena. He even makes a save.

* WaitHere: Darren tells Emily and Tyler to sit and watch the game. By themselves. Tyler listens. Emily gets fed up with her brother and marches straight into the plot.

''Sudden Death'' is a 1995 movie starring JeanClaudeVanDamme. The story is about Darren McCord, a fire marshal who is on duty during the seventh Stanley Cup playoff game (with his kids in the seats), watching the game uncovers a plot to hold the stadium - and the Vice President, who is attending - for ransom.