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** Until the sequel novel, ''After Worlds Collide,'' published a year later, in which we learn that multiple rockets, launched from multiple nations, reached Beta.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Marsden and Spiro use their age as the reason for helping build the rocket so that the young might live. [[spoiler:Hendron later sacrifices himself and Stanton because "The new world isn't for us, it's for the young.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Marsden and Spiro use their age as the reason for helping build the rocket so that the young might live. [[spoiler:Hendron later sacrifices himself and Stanton because "The new world isn't for us, it's for the young.]]"]]
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* CompressedAdaptation: In the film, Bellus destroys Earth only 19 days after Zyra makes its pass. The book has 18 months pass between the two events, giving the survivors enough time to build a second rocket to carry the rest of the camp.
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* TheProfessor: Dr. Hendron, Dr. Bronson.
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* {{Precursors}}: The survivors' first view of Zyra's surface includes massive pyramid-like structures, suggesting an ancient civilization that used to inhabit the planet.
* TheProfessor: Dr. Hendron, Dr.Bronson.Bronson, Dr. Frye.
* TheProfessor: Dr. Hendron, Dr.
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* SceneryGorn: Planet Zyra's close call with Earth causes massive earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and all other manner of StockFootage.
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* SceneryGorn: Planet Zyra's close call with Earth causes massive earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and all other manner of StockFootage. After the pass, David and Tony get a look at the devastated New York City.
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** The book's sequel described the fate of the other ships: the French ship crashed in the Alps on takeoff, the British ship landed in a lake on the new planet, and the broad Asian ship lands successfully and tries to claim the new world as its own.
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** The book's sequel described the fate of the other ships: the French ship crashed in the Alps on takeoff, the British ship landed in a lake on the new planet, and the broad Asian ship lands successfully and tries to claim the new world as its own. It is also mentioned that other rockets were built in more countries which might have survived.
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* MoreExpendableThanYou: David believes he has no useful skills and so tries to turn down his free seat on the rocket. When Tony claims to him that Dr. Frye has a heart condition and thus might not survive, he realizes that his skills as a pilot will be needed.
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* RomanticFalseLead: Tony
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* RomanticFalseLead: TonyTony. He had been with Joyce for some time and even broaches the subject of marriage after learning the world will end.
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* SpeedSmartsAndStrength: Hendron, Frye, and Stanton are the three heads of the ark project. Hendron is the scientific head and overall leader of the camp, Frye supervises the rocket's construction, and Stanton provides financial backing to make the construction possible.
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* SpeedSmartsAndStrength: Hendron, Frye, and Stanton are the three heads of the ark project. Hendron is the scientific head and overall leader of the camp, Frye supervises the rocket's design and construction, and Stanton provides financial backing to make the construction possible.
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* WhosLaughingNow: The press initially dubs the ark rocket "Stanton's Folly," as prominent scientists scoff at the data that Bellus and Zyra will destroy the Earth. However, as the months pass and the evidence becomes irrefutable, Stanton laughs at their initial ridicule.
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* WhosLaughingNow: The press initially dubs the ark rocket "Stanton's Folly," as prominent scientists scoff at the data that Bellus and Zyra will destroy the Earth. However, as the months pass and the evidence end becomes irrefutable, Stanton laughs at their initial ridicule.
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* WhosLaughingNow: The press initially dubs the ark rocket "Stanton's Folley," as prominent scientists scoff at the data that Bellus and Zyra will destroy the Earth. However, as the months pass and the evidence becomes irrefutable, Stanton laughs at their initial ridicule.
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* WhosLaughingNow: The press initially dubs the ark rocket "Stanton's Folley," Folly," as prominent scientists scoff at the data that Bellus and Zyra will destroy the Earth. However, as the months pass and the evidence becomes irrefutable, Stanton laughs at their initial ridicule.
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* BlatantLies: Tony privately tells David that Dr. Frye has a heart contrition and may not survive the g-force, which makes a backup pilot necessary.
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* BlatantLies: Tony privately tells David that Dr. Frye has a heart contrition condition and may not survive the g-force, which makes a backup pilot necessary.
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* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Stanton fully admits that he's selfish and willing to pay whatever it takes to stay alive.
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* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Stanton fully admits that he's selfish and willing to pay whatever it takes to stay alive. He also admits that he's spent his whole life living in the cutthroat human jungle, and expects people to try to force their way on the ship.
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* RaygunGothic
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* RaygunGothicRaygunGothic: The design of the rocket is fully inline with this design philosophy.
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* SpeedSmartsAndStrength: Hendron, Frye, and Stanton are the three heads of the ark project. Hendron is the scientific head and overall leader of the camp, Frye supervises the rocket's construction, and Stanton provides financial backing to make the construction possible.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Tagline}} Planets destroy Earth!]]'']]
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* Fiction500: Sydney Stanton. Hendron is forced to approach him so that they'll have enough money to build the rocket.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Marsden and Spiro use their age as the reason for helping build the rocket so that the young might live. [[spoiler:Hendron later sacrifices himself and Stanton because "The new world isn't for us, it's for the young.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Marsden and Spiro use their age as the reason for helping build the rocket so that the young might live. [[spoiler:Hendron later sacrifices himself and Stanton because "The new world isn't for us, it's for the young.]]
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* TemptingFate: As the designated hour of Zyra's approach is reached, Stanton scoffs at Hendron and the other scientists of their evidently flawed prediction.
-->'''Stanton:''' Nothing is going to happen!
-->''(Cue Zyra's approach)''
-->'''Stanton:''' Nothing is going to happen!
-->''(Cue Zyra's approach)''
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* WhosLaughingNow: The press initially dubs the ark rocket "Stanton's Folley," as prominent scientists scoff at the data that Bellus and Zyra will destroy the Earth. However, as the months pass and the evidence becomes irrefutable, Stanton laughs at their ridicule.
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* WhosLaughingNow: The press initially dubs the ark rocket "Stanton's Folley," as prominent scientists scoff at the data that Bellus and Zyra will destroy the Earth. However, as the months pass and the evidence becomes irrefutable, Stanton laughs at their initial ridicule.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Stanton makes a valid point early on that anyone desperate to survive will try to board their rocket, and so brings several cases of rifles to defend the camp. [[spoiler:In the end, Hendron admits that Stanton was right, calling him a better judge of people than himself.]]
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* WhoLaughingNow: The press initially dubs the ark rocket "Stanton's Folley," as prominent scientists scoff at the data that Bellus and Zyra will destroy the Earth. However, as the months pass and the evidence becomes irrefutable, Stanton laughs at their ridicule.
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* WhoLaughingNow: WhosLaughingNow: The press initially dubs the ark rocket "Stanton's Folley," as prominent scientists scoff at the data that Bellus and Zyra will destroy the Earth. However, as the months pass and the evidence becomes irrefutable, Stanton laughs at their ridicule.
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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Stanton initially offers to pay for the ark on the condition that he select the passengers. Hendron replies that he's not qualified to do so, and so simply offers him "his money for his life," granting him a seat on the rocket. Stanton says he can't refuse.
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** Other than Julie (who is given a place anyway thanks to [[spoiler: Hedron's]] HeroicSacrifice), the female lottery losers completely disappear from the story towards the end. Technically we know ''what'' happened to them in the very end but unlike their male counterparts we don't witness it.
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** Other than Julie (who is given a place anyway thanks to [[spoiler: Hedron's]] HeroicSacrifice), the female lottery losers completely disappear from the story towards the end. Technically we know ''what'' happened to them in the very end but unlike their male counterparts we don't witness it.it.
* WhoLaughingNow: The press initially dubs the ark rocket "Stanton's Folley," as prominent scientists scoff at the data that Bellus and Zyra will destroy the Earth. However, as the months pass and the evidence becomes irrefutable, Stanton laughs at their ridicule.
* WhoLaughingNow: The press initially dubs the ark rocket "Stanton's Folley," as prominent scientists scoff at the data that Bellus and Zyra will destroy the Earth. However, as the months pass and the evidence becomes irrefutable, Stanton laughs at their ridicule.
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the book, Dr. Hendron joins the survivors on the rocket to lead the new colony. In the film, he stays behind with Stanton, sacrificing themselves to ensure the rocket has enough fuel to make it to Zyra.]]
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-->'''Dr. Hendron:''' Before you opened your pocketbook, you tried to make this a personal enterprise, a private rocket ship for your own special use. This project was started by real humanitarians, by Marsden and Spiro. They gave their money with no strings attached. You're not here under any special license. You're always shouting for facts, not theories. Well, remember these facts. Our chance of reaching the new world is as thin as your chance of ever becoming a humanitarian. If we do make it, will there be a place to land? Will the air be fit to breathe? Will there be water Vegetable life? Men and women here have been praying for God's help and guidance. Not your kind of hypocritical praying, but the kind that comes from deep inside a man.
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-->'''Dr. Hendron:''' Before you opened your pocketbook, you tried to make this a personal enterprise, a private rocket ship for your own special use. This project was started by real humanitarians, by Marsden and Spiro. They gave their money with no strings attached. You're not here under any special license. You're always shouting for facts, not theories. Well, remember these facts. Our chance of reaching the new world is as thin as your chance of ever becoming a humanitarian. If we do make it, will there be a place to land? Will the air be fit to breathe? Will there be water water? Vegetable life? Men and women here have been praying for God's help and guidance. Not your kind of hypocritical praying, but the kind that comes from deep inside a man.
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* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Stanton gets off his wheelchair and stumbles a few steps away from it [[spoiler:to bid the rocket --that is launching without him-- goodbye]].
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* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Stanton gets off his wheelchair and stumbles a few steps away from it [[spoiler:to [[spoiler:in a futile bid to board the rocket --that is launching as it launches without him-- goodbye]].him]].