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* AnswerCut: Earl suggests they might need help in hunting the Graboids, but Brady thinks anyone would have to be crazy to want to help them.
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* KilledMidSentence: During the night, Earl and Brady hear a [[TooDumbToLive coyote howling in the distance]]. Earl says it better keep quiet, and immediately afterwards the coyote's howl is interrupted by the sound of a panicked yelp and earth moving.
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** By the fifth movie he seems to be over it as he states he greatly misses the gun she took with her "and to a lesser extent you(heather)".
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* RaptorAttack: The shriekers , a velociraptor-like "nymph" stage (this movie premiered 2 years after the first ''Film/JurassicPark'').
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* RaptorAttack: The shriekers , a velociraptor-like "nymph" stage (this movie premiered 2 years after the first ''Film/JurassicPark''). They're not even close to dinosaurs, however.
* RedShirt: Kate has an assistant named Pedro, he does very little until he gets eaten by a shrieker.
* RedShirt: Kate has an assistant named Pedro, he does very little until he gets eaten by a shrieker.
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* GilliganCut: Earl suggests they might need help in hunting the Graboids, but Brady thinks they'd have to be crazy to want to help them.
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* NaiveNewcomer: Earl is very experienced around Graboids, while Brady... isn't.
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* AskAStupidQuestion:
-->'''Brady:''' How dumb do you think I am?
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-->'''Earl:''' Catch me later on that one.
-->'''Brady:''' How dumb do you think I am?
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-->'''Earl:''' Catch me later on that one.
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** Earl decides things with Grady with rock-paper-scissors as he did in the first movie with Val.
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** On the wall of Earl's home we see that he and Val did end in both ''People'' and ''Magazine/NationalGeographic'' magazine (among others).
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* HopeSpot: At the beginning of the movie an oil worker is trying to get to a van without touching the ground, and he sees a direct path by hopping on oil barrels. Unfortunately for him, it's not good enough.
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* HumanLadder: When most of the heroes hide on a roof from the Shriekers, the beasties eventually decide to get at them by stacking themselves on top of each other.
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* HumanLadder: When most of the heroes hide on a roof from the Shriekers, the beasties eventually [[ItCanThink decide to get at them them]] by stacking themselves on top of each other.
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* HumanLadder: When most of the heroes hide on a roof from the Shriekers, the beasties eventually decide to get at them by stacking themselves on top of each other.
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* TemptingFate: Regarding the [[OutrunTheFireball soon-to-be fireball]]:
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* TemptingFate: The heroes flee the site of an impending explosion and take cover behind a wooden shack... then Burt runs past them, yelling "Keep going! It's going to be ''big''!" Regarding the [[OutrunTheFireball soon-to-be fireball]]:
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* TemptingFate: Regarding the [[OutrunTheFireball soon-to-be fireball]]:
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-->"Is it going to be ''today''?"\\
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** Later on, it turns out that the Shriekers actually ''are'' capable of [[ItCanThink surprisingly concrete problem-solving]] despite their apparent stupidity, as they [[spoiler: begin forming a living ladder to get at Burt and Kate on top of the tower]].
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* ItCanThink: Initially everyone is convinced that the Shriekers are highly intelligent and coordinated. Subverted when it turns out that all they're doing is just attacking anything warm that they see on their infrared vision, which includes car engines and electronics. This leads to everyone concluding that the Shriekers are really just stupid animals, right up until [[spoiler: it gets DoubleSubverted: the Shriekers start forming a living ladder to get up on top of the tower Burt and Kate are hiding on, and later immediately locate the refinery's large food stores when they get locked inside the garage and begin spawning huge numbers to break out through brute force]].
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Earl hears that he set off 2.5 tons of Burt's high explosives, and he thinks that's not enough.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Earl hears that he set off 2.5 tons of Burt's high explosives, and he thinks that's not enough.See StuffBlowingUp below.
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* EveryCarIsAPinto: Averted. A car takes a {{BFG}}'s bullet to the engine without exploding ([[RealityEnsues the bullet still wrecks the engine, leaving the car undrivable, it just doesn't explode]]). When Burt's truck explodes, it's because it was stuffed full of high explosive.
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* EveryCarIsAPinto: Averted. A car takes a {{BFG}}'s bullet to the engine without exploding ([[RealityEnsues the bullet still wrecks the engine, leaving the car undrivable, it just doesn't explode]]). When Burt's truck explodes, it's because it was stuffed full of high explosive.explosives.
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* ClosedCircle: The characters originally go to the Petromaya oil fields willingly and can leave whenever they want, but then the Shriekers show up and start destroying their radio equipment and vehicles, effectively cutting them off from the outside world.
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-->'''Earl''': Sure is the middle of nowhere.
-->'''Grady''': Of course, stuff like this only happens in the middle of nowhere!
* LoweredMonsterDifficulty: Played with. The Shriekers are smaller and considerably more fragile than the Graboids they mutated from, and are easier to fire at since they're above the ground. However, they're also far more numerous and, in that particular situation, Burt had stocked up on low ammo, high impact weapons expecting to deal with Graboids, which results in him burning through his ammo rather quickly once the Shriekers show up.\\
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Notably, Shiekers seem to be a combination of both remarkably stupid yet incredibly smart. They attack anything that's hot enough to be alive, resulting in them assaulting a radio tower and shredding the electronics within, as well as ripping up the engines of cars. In Grady's own words, "You mean they've been acting so smart because they're so stupid?" At the same time, they're clever enough to prepare ambushes like the one that Burt stumbled into (and apparently the one that killed Pedro) and they formed a living ladder to get to the humans on top of the oil tower.
-->'''Earl''': Sure is the middle of nowhere.
-->'''Grady''': Of course, stuff like this only happens in the middle of nowhere!
* LoweredMonsterDifficulty: Played with. The Shriekers are smaller and considerably more fragile than the Graboids they mutated from, and are easier to fire at since they're above the ground. However, they're also far more numerous and, in that particular situation, Burt had stocked up on low ammo, high impact weapons expecting to deal with Graboids, which results in him burning through his ammo rather quickly once the Shriekers show up.\\
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** They have an understandable "Oh God, we're fucked!" reaction when they find Pedro's remains. It's a whole new ball game indeed.
** Earl and Grady in the second movie when they find the remains of a Graboid that just gave "birth" to Shriekers.
** They have an understandable "Oh God, we're fucked!" reaction when they find Pedro's remains. It's a whole new ball game indeed.
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** Earl soaks a piece of clothing in hot water to use as a distraction for the heat-seeking Shriekers so he and Kate could move to a safer location.
** Later on, Burt uses ''himself'' as a distraction to lure the Shriekers into the garage to trap them inside, though that doesn't work out as planned thanks to the piles of sweet snack foods, rice, and flour inside.
** Earl soaks a piece of clothing in hot water to use as a distraction for the heat-seeking Shriekers so he and Kate could move to a safer location.
** Later on, Burt uses ''himself'' as a distraction to lure the Shriekers into the garage to trap them inside, though that doesn't work out as planned thanks to the piles of sweet snack foods, rice, and flour inside.
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* AliensInCardiff: Lampshaded.
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** "Grizzly single-shot BMG based on a WorldWarI anti-tank cartridge." This gun blew a Shrieker in half, then proceeded to punch holes through the stone wall behind the Shrieker, several oil drums, a tool shed, another oil drum and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the engine of their escape vehicle]].
** Burt gives Earl and Grady .375 H&H magnum double rifles and cautions them to "hold 'em good and tight to your shoulder or they'll break your collarbone."
** "Grizzly single-shot BMG based on a WorldWarI anti-tank cartridge." This gun blew a Shrieker in half, then proceeded to punch holes through the stone wall behind the Shrieker, several oil drums, a tool shed, another oil drum and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the engine of their escape vehicle]].
** Burt gives Earl and Grady .375 H&H magnum double rifles and cautions them to "hold 'em good and tight to your shoulder or they'll break your collarbone."
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** When Kate finds evidence of the Graboid's origins, Earl states that he had always thought they were from space - an opinion he had also expressed in a conversation during the first movie.
** The scene in Burt's rec room shows a wall visibly patched in the same spot a Graboid had burst through in the previous movie (of course, there's also the ''giant stuffed Graboid head'' mounted on the wall next to Burt). You can also see the patch in the third movie. Burt still hasn't painted over it.
** There is a short scene where Earl explains how the Graboids got their name in the first movie.
--->'''Earl:''' He named them. Then they ate him.
** When Kate finds evidence of the Graboid's origins, Earl states that he had always thought they were from space - an opinion he had also expressed in a conversation during the first movie.
** The scene in Burt's rec room shows a wall visibly patched in the same spot a Graboid had burst through in the previous movie (of course, there's also the ''giant stuffed Graboid head'' mounted on the wall next to Burt). You can also see the patch in the third movie. Burt still hasn't painted over it.
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** Earl chastises Grady for not knowing geology terms, and then refers to the seismograph as a [[BuffySpeak "Seismojigger"]].
** Later on, Burt goes on a rant about how the oil company that brought them in didn't brief them about the Shriekers, something they couldn't have ''possibly'' known about. Twice in the movie, once before this point and once afterward, Burt's actions [[NiceJobBreakingItHero put the group in further danger]] due to [[ContrivedCoincidence something he couldn't have known about]].
** Earl chastises Grady for not knowing geology terms, and then refers to the seismograph as a [[BuffySpeak "Seismojigger"]].
** Later on, Burt goes on a rant about how the oil company that brought them in didn't brief them about the Shriekers, something they couldn't have ''possibly'' known about. Twice in the movie, once before this point and once afterward, Burt's actions [[NiceJobBreakingItHero put the group in further danger]] due to [[ContrivedCoincidence something he couldn't have known about]].
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Burt uses an anti-tank rifle to take out a Shrieker, and as noted above also accidentally destroys the getaway vehicle they were heading for. Later, he manages to trap a Shrieker pack inside a building, which he only then learns is filled with food (which causes the creatures to multiply rapidly).
-->"I didn't know, HOW COULD I HAVE KNOWN?" (both times)
-->"I didn't know, HOW COULD I HAVE KNOWN?" (both times)
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* ProperlyParanoid: Burt brings it up himself:
--->'''Burt:''' You know, Grady, some people think I'm over-prepared. Paranoid. Maybe even a little crazy.... But they never met any precambrian life forms did they?
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* StuffBlowingUp: Burt can always be counted on to bring on the explosions:
-->'''Burt:''' That's two and half tons of high explosives, Earl!
-->'''Earl:''' You mean [[ComicallyMissingThePoint that's not enough]]? Oh Burt, don't tell me it's not enough!
-->'''Burt:''' ''Not enou...'' [[DontAskJustRun Never mind, just run]]! ''Run!''
-->'''Burt:''' That's two and half tons of high explosives, Earl!
-->'''Earl:''' You mean [[ComicallyMissingThePoint that's not enough]]? Oh Burt, don't tell me it's not enough!
-->'''Burt:''' ''Not enou...'' [[DontAskJustRun Never mind, just run]]! ''Run!''
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: Acts like attacking the truck and disabling the radio tower initially make it seem like the Shriekers are just as intelligent as the Graboids they spawned from. As the characters learn later, rather than hunt by sound like Graboids, the Shriekers hunt by heat and were only attacking those things because they were hot.
-->'''Grady:''' You mean they're acting so smart... because they're so ''stupid?!''
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* ArcWords: "Do what we can with what we've got" (in the TV series)
** The line "Doin' what I can with what I got" originates on-screen in Tremors 2 when Burt says it, but is also closely paraphrased some 100 years earlier by another character in Tremors 4.
** Speaking of Tremors 2 and Tremors 4, there's also the term "Dandy"...
** The line "Doin' what I can with what I got" originates on-screen in Tremors 2 when Burt says it, but is also closely paraphrased some 100 years earlier by another character in Tremors 4.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Earl hears that he set off 2.5 tons of Burt's high explosives, and he thinks that's not enough.
* CrazyPrepared: This is played around with Burt. He has loads of ammo and explosives. One comes into play in the climax, but one gets used up by the third act.
-->"I... am completely out of ammo. ({{beat}}) That's never happened before."
* CrazyPrepared: This is played around with Burt. He has loads of ammo and explosives. One comes into play in the climax, but one gets used up by the third act.
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* TheGreatPoliticsMessup: It turns out that this was the cause for Burt and Heather breaking up.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Not a very prominent part of his character, but Burt qualifies, when he all but admits he's there at least in part to get his mind off of Heather leaving him. The series drops a few hints that he's still not completely over her.
** Burt is also quite devastated in third movie when [[spoiler:Miguel]] is killed.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Not a very prominent part of his character, but Burt qualifies, when he all but admits he's there at least in part to get his mind off of Heather leaving him. The series drops a few hints that he's still not completely over her.
** Burt is also quite devastated in third movie when [[spoiler:Miguel]] is killed.
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* OutrunTheFireball: Subverted. The heroes flee the site of an impending explosion and take cover behind a wooden shack... then Burt runs past them, yelling "Keep going! It's going to be ''big''!"
** [[TemptingFate Is it going to be today?]]
*** Aaaand ''then'' it's [[BlownAcrossTheRoom played straight]]. That little shack they wanted to hide behind... Blasted to splinters!
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** The subversion is when the heroes flee the site of an impending explosion and take cover behind a woodenshack... shack, and then Burt runs past them, yelling "Keep going! It's going to be ''big''!"
** [[TemptingFate Is it going to be today?]]
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** The justification is that the bomb takes a bit longer to go off than they expected, giving them just enough time to get out of the considerable blast radius.
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** [[TemptingFate Is it going to be today?]]
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* RaptorAttack: The shriekers , a velociraptor-like "nymph" stage. ''Tremors 2'' premiered 2 years after the first ''Film/JurassicPark.'' That's probably the reason why they brought in the shriekers in the first place.
** In the episode "Night of the Shriekers", which deals with... well, figure it out, Tyler calls them "Jurassic Park wannabes".
** In the episode "Night of the Shriekers", which deals with... well, figure it out, Tyler calls them "Jurassic Park wannabes".
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* RaptorAttack: The shriekers , a velociraptor-like "nymph" stage. ''Tremors 2'' stage (this movie premiered 2 years after the first ''Film/JurassicPark.'' That's probably the reason why they brought in the shriekers in the first place.
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** In the series, the tables are turned and Burt calls out an military general for wanting to get rid of the current problem with Mixmaster by essentially ''nuking Perfection.''
* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: According to Burt, one of the reasons his wife had for leaving him was the fall of the Soviet Union, and that Burt couldn't handle life without the threat of nuclear annihilation.
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* MinimalistCast: In ''Tremors 2'' only eight actors appear on-screen ''at all.'' Two of them never appear again after the first reel.
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* AnArmAndALeg: In the second movie, Earl and Grady see the truck they called for has been torn apart by Shriekers. When they look for the driver, all they find are his severed arms.
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* AscendedFanboy: Grady in the second movie certainly acts this way and does have genuine admiration for Earl. Larry in the TV series, though his admiration extends to the whole town.
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* TheCrocIsTicking: Because Grady left the radio blaring on the ground in the second film.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Burt Gummer, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QvhCDsFkk0 in the second movie.]]
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* TheCrocIsTicking: Because Grady left the radio blaring on the ground in the second film.
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* EveryCarIsAPinto: Averted. A car in the second film takes a {{BFG}}'s bullet to the engine without exploding ([[RealityEnsues the bullet still wrecks the engine, leaving the car undrivable, it just doesn't explode]]). When Burt's truck explodes, it's because it was stuffed full of high explosive.
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* TheGreatPoliticsMessup: In the second film, it turns out that this was the cause for Burt and Heather breaking up.
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* HeartbrokenBadass: Not a very prominent part of his character, but Burt qualifies in the second movie, when he all but admits he's there at least in part to get his mind off of Heather leaving him. The series drops a few hints that he's still not completely over her.
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* MaleGaze: A great example and reversal in the second movie. In one scene, Earl checks out Kate while her back is turned; in the very next shot, Kate checks out Earl [[FemaleGaze in exactly the same way.]]
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* MyGreatestSecondChance: In the second movie, Earl starts out thinking he's blown any chance to make something of himself. Grady convinces him the current threat is his big second chance.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Burt's escape from the Shrieker ambush in the second film, which included fighting some of them off ''hand to hand''.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Burt's escape from the Shrieker ambush in the second film, which included fighting some of them off ''hand to hand''.
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* MyGreatestSecondChance: In the second movie, Earl starts out thinking he's blown any chance to make something of himself. Grady convinces him the current threat is his big second chance.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Burt's escape from the Shriekerambush in the second film, ambush, which included fighting some of them off ''hand to hand''.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Burt's escape from the Shrieker
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* RaptorAttack: The shriekers , a velociraptor-like "nymph" stage.
** ''Tremors 2'' premiered 2 years after the first ''Jurassic Park.'' That's probably the reason why they brought in the shriekers in the first place.
** ''Tremors 2'' premiered 2 years after the first ''Jurassic Park.'' That's probably the reason why they brought in the shriekers in the first place.
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* RaptorAttack: The shriekers , a velociraptor-like "nymph" stage.
**stage. ''Tremors 2'' premiered 2 years after the first ''Jurassic Park.''Film/JurassicPark.'' That's probably the reason why they brought in the shriekers in the first place.
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* RealityEnsues: In the second film, Burt manages to take out a shrieker with the only weapon he has, a [[{{BFG}} .50 caliber rifle]] he brought along to kill graboids with. It ''obliterates'' the shrieker, but then proceeds to punch through everything behind it, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero including the engine block of the one working vehicle several yards behind it]].
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* RealityEnsues: In the second film, Burt manages to take out a shrieker with the only weapon he has, a [[{{BFG}} .50 caliber rifle]] he brought along to kill graboids with. It ''obliterates'' the shrieker, but then proceeds to punch through everything behind it, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero including the engine block of the one working vehicle several yards behind it]].
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''Tremors 2: Aftershocks'' (1996) is the second movie in the ''Film/{{Tremors}}'' film series.
Filmed and set six years after the first, a group of Graboids is menacing a Mexican oil refinery. The owners hire a reluctant Earl and his hustling fanboy Grady to deal with the problem. But things gets complicated when the Graboids start hatching out "Shriekers" -- smaller, bipedal critters that hunt by sensing heat.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AnArmAndALeg: In the second movie, Earl and Grady see the truck they called for has been torn apart by Shriekers. When they look for the driver, all they find are his severed arms.
* ArcWords: "Do what we can with what we've got" (in the TV series)
** The line "Doin' what I can with what I got" originates on-screen in Tremors 2 when Burt says it, but is also closely paraphrased some 100 years earlier by another character in Tremors 4.
** Speaking of Tremors 2 and Tremors 4, there's also the term "Dandy"...
* AscendedFanboy: Grady in the second movie certainly acts this way and does have genuine admiration for Earl. Larry in the TV series, though his admiration extends to the whole town.
* BigBulkyBomb: 2.5 tons of high explosives. It levels ''everything'' in the area and leaves a massive crater.
* BlatantLies: This telephone exchange in the second film:
-->'''Earl:''' So I guess you've been kinda laying low?
-->'''Burt:''' No, negative. Keepin' busy. Lots of projects. ''[brushes food crumbs off his shirt.]''
* ChestBurster: The Shriekers eat their way out of the Graboids.
* TheCrocIsTicking: Because Grady left the radio blaring on the ground in the second film.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Burt Gummer, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QvhCDsFkk0 in the second movie.]]
-->'''Burt Gummer:''' "I feel I was denied... ''Critical''... '''Need-To-Know'''... '''''Information.'''''"
* DontAskJustRun: After Earl tosses a timed bomb onto Burt's massive pile of high explosives.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Averted. A car in the second film takes a {{BFG}}'s bullet to the engine without exploding ([[RealityEnsues the bullet still wrecks the engine, leaving the car undrivable, it just doesn't explode]]). When Burt's truck explodes, it's because it was stuffed full of high explosive.
** Which may have more to do with the Graboids' tendency to ''eat cars'' than realism. Letting them blow themselves up by chomping on Pintos wouldn't have been as exciting.
* {{Explosive Breeder}}s: Shriekers.
* TheGreatPoliticsMessup: In the second film, it turns out that this was the cause for Burt and Heather breaking up.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Not a very prominent part of his character, but Burt qualifies in the second movie, when he all but admits he's there at least in part to get his mind off of Heather leaving him. The series drops a few hints that he's still not completely over her.
** Burt is also quite devastated in third movie when [[spoiler:Miguel]] is killed.
* ImprobableCover: Subverted when Earl sets Burt's whole truck--packed with explosives--to explode. When the others hide behind a nearby building, Burt shouts at them to "Keep running!". They look at Earl, who replies "Burt knows his bombs". After quite a bit more running, they find a ditch, which, combined with the distance, provides sufficient cover.
* InfraredXrayCamera: Shrieker vision - though a realistic, non-X-ray version.
* MaleGaze: A great example and reversal in the second movie. In one scene, Earl checks out Kate while her back is turned; in the very next shot, Kate checks out Earl [[FemaleGaze in exactly the same way.]]
* MinimalistCast: In ''Tremors 2'' only eight actors appear on-screen ''at all.'' Two of them never appear again after the first reel.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: In the second movie, Earl starts out thinking he's blown any chance to make something of himself. Grady convinces him the current threat is his big second chance.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Burt's escape from the Shrieker ambush in the second film, which included fighting some of them off ''hand to hand''.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Played straight with Val and Stumpy, but subverted in ''Aftershocks'' when Burt takes out the Graboid that terrorized Earl and Grady.
-->'''Grady:''' Burt, you scum! That one was ours!
-->'''Burt:''' Oh yeah, son!? I didn't see your name on it!
* OutrunTheFireball: Subverted. The heroes flee the site of an impending explosion and take cover behind a wooden shack... then Burt runs past them, yelling "Keep going! It's going to be ''big''!"
** [[TemptingFate Is it going to be today?]]
*** Aaaand ''then'' it's [[BlownAcrossTheRoom played straight]]. That little shack they wanted to hide behind... Blasted to splinters!
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "I feel...I was ''denied''.. CRITICAL .. ''NEED TO KNOW'' .. '''INFORMATION.'''"
* RaptorAttack: The shriekers , a velociraptor-like "nymph" stage.
** ''Tremors 2'' premiered 2 years after the first ''Jurassic Park.'' That's probably the reason why they brought in the shriekers in the first place.
** In the episode "Night of the Shriekers", which deals with... well, figure it out, Tyler calls them "Jurassic Park wannabes".
* RealityEnsues: In the second film, Burt manages to take out a shrieker with the only weapon he has, a [[{{BFG}} .50 caliber rifle]] he brought along to kill graboids with. It ''obliterates'' the shrieker, but then proceeds to punch through everything behind it, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero including the engine block of the one working vehicle several yards behind it]].
* SequelGoesForeign: Takes place in Mexico.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: "Man, Burt, you put a whole new shine on the word 'overkill'."
-->'''Burt''': Memo: two pounds of C4 may be a bit....''excessive''.
** In the series, the tables are turned and Burt calls out an military general for wanting to get rid of the current problem with Mixmaster by essentially ''nuking Perfection.''
* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: According to Burt, one of the reasons his wife had for leaving him was the fall of the Soviet Union, and that Burt couldn't handle life without the threat of nuclear annihilation.
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Filmed and set six years after the first, a group of Graboids is menacing a Mexican oil refinery. The owners hire a reluctant Earl and his hustling fanboy Grady to deal with the problem. But things gets complicated when the Graboids start hatching out "Shriekers" -- smaller, bipedal critters that hunt by sensing heat.
----
!!This film provides examples of:
* AnArmAndALeg: In the second movie, Earl and Grady see the truck they called for has been torn apart by Shriekers. When they look for the driver, all they find are his severed arms.
* ArcWords: "Do what we can with what we've got" (in the TV series)
** The line "Doin' what I can with what I got" originates on-screen in Tremors 2 when Burt says it, but is also closely paraphrased some 100 years earlier by another character in Tremors 4.
** Speaking of Tremors 2 and Tremors 4, there's also the term "Dandy"...
* AscendedFanboy: Grady in the second movie certainly acts this way and does have genuine admiration for Earl. Larry in the TV series, though his admiration extends to the whole town.
* BigBulkyBomb: 2.5 tons of high explosives. It levels ''everything'' in the area and leaves a massive crater.
* BlatantLies: This telephone exchange in the second film:
-->'''Earl:''' So I guess you've been kinda laying low?
-->'''Burt:''' No, negative. Keepin' busy. Lots of projects. ''[brushes food crumbs off his shirt.]''
* ChestBurster: The Shriekers eat their way out of the Graboids.
* TheCrocIsTicking: Because Grady left the radio blaring on the ground in the second film.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Burt Gummer, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QvhCDsFkk0 in the second movie.]]
-->'''Burt Gummer:''' "I feel I was denied... ''Critical''... '''Need-To-Know'''... '''''Information.'''''"
* DontAskJustRun: After Earl tosses a timed bomb onto Burt's massive pile of high explosives.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Averted. A car in the second film takes a {{BFG}}'s bullet to the engine without exploding ([[RealityEnsues the bullet still wrecks the engine, leaving the car undrivable, it just doesn't explode]]). When Burt's truck explodes, it's because it was stuffed full of high explosive.
** Which may have more to do with the Graboids' tendency to ''eat cars'' than realism. Letting them blow themselves up by chomping on Pintos wouldn't have been as exciting.
* {{Explosive Breeder}}s: Shriekers.
* TheGreatPoliticsMessup: In the second film, it turns out that this was the cause for Burt and Heather breaking up.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Not a very prominent part of his character, but Burt qualifies in the second movie, when he all but admits he's there at least in part to get his mind off of Heather leaving him. The series drops a few hints that he's still not completely over her.
** Burt is also quite devastated in third movie when [[spoiler:Miguel]] is killed.
* ImprobableCover: Subverted when Earl sets Burt's whole truck--packed with explosives--to explode. When the others hide behind a nearby building, Burt shouts at them to "Keep running!". They look at Earl, who replies "Burt knows his bombs". After quite a bit more running, they find a ditch, which, combined with the distance, provides sufficient cover.
* InfraredXrayCamera: Shrieker vision - though a realistic, non-X-ray version.
* MaleGaze: A great example and reversal in the second movie. In one scene, Earl checks out Kate while her back is turned; in the very next shot, Kate checks out Earl [[FemaleGaze in exactly the same way.]]
* MinimalistCast: In ''Tremors 2'' only eight actors appear on-screen ''at all.'' Two of them never appear again after the first reel.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: In the second movie, Earl starts out thinking he's blown any chance to make something of himself. Grady convinces him the current threat is his big second chance.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Burt's escape from the Shrieker ambush in the second film, which included fighting some of them off ''hand to hand''.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Played straight with Val and Stumpy, but subverted in ''Aftershocks'' when Burt takes out the Graboid that terrorized Earl and Grady.
-->'''Grady:''' Burt, you scum! That one was ours!
-->'''Burt:''' Oh yeah, son!? I didn't see your name on it!
* OutrunTheFireball: Subverted. The heroes flee the site of an impending explosion and take cover behind a wooden shack... then Burt runs past them, yelling "Keep going! It's going to be ''big''!"
** [[TemptingFate Is it going to be today?]]
*** Aaaand ''then'' it's [[BlownAcrossTheRoom played straight]]. That little shack they wanted to hide behind... Blasted to splinters!
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "I feel...I was ''denied''.. CRITICAL .. ''NEED TO KNOW'' .. '''INFORMATION.'''"
* RaptorAttack: The shriekers , a velociraptor-like "nymph" stage.
** ''Tremors 2'' premiered 2 years after the first ''Jurassic Park.'' That's probably the reason why they brought in the shriekers in the first place.
** In the episode "Night of the Shriekers", which deals with... well, figure it out, Tyler calls them "Jurassic Park wannabes".
* RealityEnsues: In the second film, Burt manages to take out a shrieker with the only weapon he has, a [[{{BFG}} .50 caliber rifle]] he brought along to kill graboids with. It ''obliterates'' the shrieker, but then proceeds to punch through everything behind it, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero including the engine block of the one working vehicle several yards behind it]].
* SequelGoesForeign: Takes place in Mexico.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: "Man, Burt, you put a whole new shine on the word 'overkill'."
-->'''Burt''': Memo: two pounds of C4 may be a bit....''excessive''.
** In the series, the tables are turned and Burt calls out an military general for wanting to get rid of the current problem with Mixmaster by essentially ''nuking Perfection.''
* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: According to Burt, one of the reasons his wife had for leaving him was the fall of the Soviet Union, and that Burt couldn't handle life without the threat of nuclear annihilation.
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