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* [[CreepyGymCoach Creepy Teacher]]: An introduction on Ross says that a high school teacher called her "the very flower of virile Texas womanhood". Bad enough for an average high school student, but the introduction also tells us that Ross graduated high school at 12.
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* MisappliedPhlebotinum: The compression algorithm used for voice communication is impressive even for today: real-time audio encoding and decoding on a general-purpose computer somewhere between last-generation [[UsefulNotes/Atari8BitComputers 8-bit Atari XE]] and lowest-end [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer IBM PC]]. But the way they use it, a text chat would've been faster and more convenient.
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* MisappliedPhlebotinum: The compression algorithm used for voice communication is impressive even for today: real-time audio encoding and decoding on a general-purpose computer somewhere between last-generation [[UsefulNotes/Atari8BitComputers [[Platform/Atari8BitComputers 8-bit Atari XE]] and lowest-end [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer [[Platform/IBMPersonalComputer IBM PC]]. But the way they use it, a text chat would've been faster and more convenient.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: Munro goes on a punitive expedition to wipe out the killer gorillas, finds several of them and is about to open fire [[OhCrap when he realises the entire mountain in swarming with them.]] He beats a hasty retreat.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: Munro goes on a punitive expedition to wipe out the killer gorillas, finds several of them and is about to open fire [[OhCrap when he realises the entire mountain in is swarming with them.]] He beats a hasty retreat.
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* MeaningfulName: Zinj, also spelled Zanj, means "country of the blacks" in Persian and Arabic (and is the root for both Tanzania and Zanzibar's names, for instance) but is phonetically the same as ''singe'', the French word for ape or monkey (as in ''[[Literature/PlanetOfTheApes La Planete des Singes]]''.
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* MeaningfulName: Zinj, also spelled Zanj, means "country of the blacks" in Persian and Arabic (and is the root for both Tanzania and Zanzibar's names, for instance) but is phonetically the same as ''singe'', the French word for ape or monkey (as in ''[[Literature/PlanetOfTheApes La Planete des Singes]]''.Singes]]'').
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* MeaningfulName: Not the book but the city - Zinj, also spelled Zanj, is the Arabic word for the color black and black people (and a root for both Tanzania and Zanibar, for example), but is phonetically the same as ''singe'', the French word for ape or monkey (as in ''[[Literature/PlanetOfTheApes La Planete des Singes]]'').
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* MeaningfulName: Not the book but the city - Zinj, also spelled Zanj, means "country of the blacks" in Persian and Arabic (and is the Arabic word for the color black and black people (and a root for both Tanzania and Zanibar, Zanzibar's names, for example), instance) but is phonetically the same as ''singe'', the French word for ape or monkey (as in ''[[Literature/PlanetOfTheApes La Planete des Singes]]'').Singes]]''.
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* MeaningfulName: Not the book but the city - Zinj, also spelled Zanj, is the Arabic word for the color black and black people (and a root for both Tanzania and Zanibar, for example), but is phonetically the same as ''singe'', the French word for ape or monkey (as in ''[[Literature/PlanetOfTheApes La Planete des Singes]]'').
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* DarkestAfricaDarkestAfrica: Much of the novel takes place in the Republic of Zaire, which is almost all rain forest. Even today it's a dangerous place to travel on foot, and often there's no other way to travel. In 1979 it was much more so thanks to an even lower level of technology and a raging civil war.
* LethallyStupid: Ross's psych profile states she has a habit of cutting corners and acting rashly when her goal is in sight - and boy howdy, is that on the mark. Despite herself being a geologist who should know about such things, she almost gets the entire team killed when she [[spoiler:ignores Munro's warning about how dangerous it is to set off explosive charges near an eruptive volcano]].
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** Averted HARD with the Kigani tribe who are rebelling against Mobutu's government. They're still at a stone age level of technology with bows, arrows, and spears. It is made VERY clear that there primitive weapons stand no chance in hell against the modern attack helicopters, RPGs, and assault rifles wielded the Zaire army sent to fight them. This is made even more clear at the end when the protagonists, reduced to only four people (and one gorilla) still manage to hold off and decimate an entire war party of Kigani themselves, armed only with assault rifles (though they quickly run low on ammunition and are forced to escape before the next war party is send against them).
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** Averted HARD with the Kigani tribe who are rebelling against Mobutu's government. They're still at a stone age level of technology with bows, arrows, and spears. It is made VERY clear that there these primitive weapons stand no chance in hell against the Zaire army, with its full array of modern attack helicopters, RPGs, {=RPG=}s, and assault rifles wielded the Zaire army sent to fight them. by men from an enemy tribe. This is made even more clear at the end when the protagonists, reduced to only four people (and one gorilla) still manage to hold off and decimate an entire war party of Kigani themselves, armed only with assault rifles (though they quickly run low on ammunition and are forced to escape before the next war party is send against them).
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* TooDumbToLive: Despite being a trained geologist, Ross's psych profile states she has a habit of cutting corners and acting rashly when her goal is in sight. At the end, she almost gets the entire team killed when she [[spoiler:ignores Munro's warning about how dangerous it is to set off explosive charges near an eruptive volcano]].
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* HeadCrushing: The lost city of Zinj is guarded by gray gorillas who were trained by the city's human inhabitants to [[spoiler:kill intruders by crushing their heads between stone paddles held in each hand. Hundreds of years after the human trainers died out, the gorillas are still training each other to perform this gruesomely effective duty]].
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* IceQueen: Ross.
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* IceQueen: Ross.Ross is a cold, practical, methodical egotist, driven to obtain her goal at any cost including betraying the trust of her teammates. She trusts other people only as far as they are useful to her.
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* RockBeatsLaser: Averted HARD. The Kigani tribe rebelling against Mobutu's government is still at a stone age level of technology with bows, arrows, and spears. It is made VERY clear that there primitive weapons stand no chance in hell against the modern attack helicopters, RPGs, and assault rifles wielded the Zaire army sent to fight them. This is made even more clear at the end when the protagonists, reduced to only four people (and one gorilla) still manage to hold off and decimate an entire war party of Kigani themselves, armed only with assault rifles (though they quickly run low on ammunition and are forced to escape before the next war party is send against them).
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* RockBeatsLaser: Zig-zagged.
** AvertedHARD. The HARD with the Kigani tribe who are rebelling against Mobutu's government is government. They're still at a stone age level of technology with bows, arrows, and spears. It is made VERY clear that there primitive weapons stand no chance in hell against the modern attack helicopters, RPGs, and assault rifles wielded the Zaire army sent to fight them. This is made even more clear at the end when the protagonists, reduced to only four people (and one gorilla) still manage to hold off and decimate an entire war party of Kigani themselves, armed only with assault rifles (though they quickly run low on ammunition and are forced to escape before the next war party is send against them).them).
** Played straight when the protagonists go up against the gray gorillas of Zinj. Despite all the high technology they brought with them, they're nearly helpless against the gorillas, who outnumber them and also benefit from the humans' tendency to see the gorillas as dumb animals.
** Subverted when Munro and Elliott get the idea of turning the gorillas' greatest advantage - their intelligence and use of language - into a weapon against them.
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** Played straight when the protagonists go up against the gray gorillas of Zinj. Despite all the high technology they brought with them, they're nearly helpless against the gorillas, who outnumber them and also benefit from the humans' tendency to see the gorillas as dumb animals.
** Subverted when Munro and Elliott get the idea of turning the gorillas' greatest advantage - their intelligence and use of language - into a weapon against them.
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* RockBeatsLaser: Averted HARD. The Kigani tribe rebelling against Mobutu's government is still at a stone age level of technology with bows, arrows, and spears. It is made VERY clear that there primitive weapons stand no chance in hell against the modern attack helicopters, RPGs, and assault rifles wielded the Zaire army sent to fight them. This is made even more clear at the end when the protagonists, reduced to only four people (and one gorilla) still manage to hold off and decimate an entire war party of Kigani themselves, armed only with assault rifles (though they quickly run low on ammunition and are forced to escape before the next war party is send against them).
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* AbandonedCampRuins: When the protagonists' expedition arrives to the place where the [[SendInTheSearchTeam the missing E.R.T.S. expedition they were sent to find]] was camped, the narration notes that in the weeks in between the missing team's last contact and the protagonists' arrival the whole site has been ReclaimedByNature and cleaned by the KillerGorilla tribe who killed the team, and aside from a couple of gadgets there is no trace left.
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* AbandonedCampRuins: When the protagonists' expedition arrives to the place where the [[SendInTheSearchTeam the missing E.R.T.S. expedition they were sent to find]] was camped, the narration notes that in the weeks in between the missing team's last contact and the protagonists' arrival the whole site has been ReclaimedByNature and cleaned by the KillerGorilla tribe who killed the team, and aside from a couple of gadgets there is no trace left.
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* AbandonedCampRuins: When the protagonists' expedition arrives to the place where the [[SendInTheSearchTeam the missing E.R.T.S. expedition they were sent to find]] was camped, the narration notes that in the weeks in between the missing team's last contact and the protagonists' arrival the whole site has been ReclaimedByNature and cleaned by the KillerGorilla tribe who killed the team, and aside from a couple of gadgets there is no trace left.
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* GentleGorilla: Amy was raised in captivity by humans and trained to communicate via sign language. She's very friendly and docile, and acts as an interpreter between the humans and the {{Killer Gorilla}}s.
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* KillerGorilla: On the way to the city of Zinj, Karen Ross's team has to contend with a group of deadly gorillas.
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* KillerGorilla: On the way to the city of Zinj, Karen Ross's team has to contend with a group of deadly gorillas. Played with, in that the gorillas are not inherently aggressive, but [[spoiler:were ''trained'' that way by the former inhabitants of Zinj, and they have been teaching themselves this behavior through succeeding generations.]]
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: Munro goes on a punitive expedition to wipe out the killer gorillas, finds several of them and is about to open fire [[OhCrap when he realises the entire mountain in swarming with them.]] He beats a hasty retreat.
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* MisappliedPhlebotinum: The compression algorithm used for voice communication is impressive even for today: real-time audio encoding and decoding on a general-purpose computer somewhere between last-generation [[UsefulNotes/Atari8BitComputers 8-bit Atari XE]] and lowest-end [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer IBM PC]]. But the way they use it, a text chat would've been faster and more convenient.
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''Congo'' is a 1980 science fiction novel by Creator/MichaelCrichton, who admitted he was trying to {{remake}} Literature/KingSolomonsMines.
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''Congo'' is a 1980 science fiction novel by Creator/MichaelCrichton, who admitted he was trying to {{remake}} Literature/KingSolomonsMines.
''Literature/KingSolomonsMines''.
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* SentryGun: One of three pieces of the expedition's W.E.I.R.D. package (alongside a portable electrified fence, NightVisionGoggles and FrickinLaserBeams in designator-rifle-mode for the guns). Tripod-mounted, portable, [[HollywoodSilencer silenced]], capable of detecting heat or attack laser-designated targets. They unfortunately (and quickly) become TooAwesomeToUse because of their [[MoreDakka immense firing rate]] eating too much ammo.
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* SentryGun: One of three pieces of the expedition's W.E.I.R.D. package (alongside a portable electrified fence, NightVisionGoggles and FrickinLaserBeams [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] in designator-rifle-mode for the guns). Tripod-mounted, portable, [[HollywoodSilencer silenced]], capable of detecting heat or attack laser-designated targets. They unfortunately (and quickly) become TooAwesomeToUse because of their [[MoreDakka immense firing rate]] eating too much ammo.
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* CannibalTribe: The team has to constantly avoid a cannibalistic tribe of natives (the Kigani) who are at war with the Mobutu government. Partly because they were cannibals, but mostly because Mobutu was a vicious dictator running a PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny and he didn't like that said tribe was ignoring him.
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* BittersweetEnding: Ross, Elliot, Amy, and Munro escape the Congo with their lives, but that's about all they escape with, as most of the porters they brought with them are dead, and the [[spoiler:eruption of Mukenko has buried the Lost City of Zinj, Ross' diamonds, and Elliot's dreams of introducing a new species of gorilla to the world under almost half a mile of lava in one fell swoop.]] The epilogue gives a little more sweetness to their future: [[spoiler:Ross resigns from ERTS and eventually marries a fellow scientist, Elliot sees Amy begin to fully assimilate into a mountain gorilla troop, Amy bears a child to whom she can teach her own sign language (which Elliot witnesses for himself), and Munro is able to return to his old lifestyle after selling a handful of blue diamonds on the market for a handsome profit.]]
* CannibalTribe: The team has to constantly avoid a cannibalistic tribe of natives (the Kigani) who are at war with the Mobutu government. Partly because they were cannibals, but mostly because Mobutu was a vicious dictator running a PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny and he didn't like that said tribe was ignoring him. Nor does it help that the general in charge of battling the tribe, Ngo Muguru, is said to be just as unpleasant as any one Kigani.
* CannibalTribe: The team has to constantly avoid a cannibalistic tribe of natives (the Kigani) who are at war with the Mobutu government. Partly because they were cannibals, but mostly because Mobutu was a vicious dictator running a PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny and he didn't like that said tribe was ignoring him. Nor does it help that the general in charge of battling the tribe, Ngo Muguru, is said to be just as unpleasant as any one Kigani.
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* EyeScream: The leader of the first expedition is calling for his friend when something plops next to him. He picks it up and realises he's holding a severed eyeball.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The fact that ERTS is one of the sponsors of project Amy becomes this, not only because of the involvement of apes in the destruction of the first team, [[spoiler:but also because it is eventually revealed that Amy was ''born'' near Zinj and her mother was killed by the grey apes.]]
