History YMMV / Gravity

* MemeticMutation: [[FromBadToWorse Gravity 2: Escape from North Korea]].

%%* MemeticMutation: Gravity 2: Escape from North Korea.

* MemeticMutation: Gravity 2: Escape from North Korea.

* InferredHolocaust: As pointed out in [[http://www.cracked.com/article_23474_5-likely-world-ending-scenarios-no-one-talking-about.html this]] ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' article, the KesslerSyndrome portrayed in the film would disrupt or destroy much of our modern-day technological infrastructure, thus potentially causing the ''collapse'' of civilization itself. Even if that doesn't happen, the fact remains that Russia has inadvertently destroyed every single satellite and space station in orbit, killing at least four people, which will have all kinds of nasty political fallout...

* InferredHolocaust: As pointed out in [[http://www.cracked.com/article_23474_5-likely-world-ending-scenarios-no-one-talking-about.html this]] ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' article, the Kessler Syndrome portrayed in the film would disrupt or destroy much of our modern-day technological infrastructure, thus potentially causing the ''collapse'' of civilization itself. Even if that doesn't happen, the fact remains that Russia has inadvertently destroyed every single satellite and space station in orbit, killing at least four people, which will have all kinds of nasty political fallout...

* TooCoolToLive: DoubleSubverted with [[spoiler:Kowalski]]. At first [[spoiler:he seems to die due to his HeroicSacrifice]]. But then, [[spoiler:he shows up later while Stone is attempting to get the rocket started. And then it's revealed to just be a [[AllJustADream dream/hallucination]] on Stone's part.]]

* TheWoobie: Dr. Ryan Stone. Aningaaq isn't having a great day either.

* AcceptableTargets: A Russian anti-satellite missile test triggers a series of DisasterDominoes that sets back ''every'' country's space program by decades. In RealLife, China was the only country (at the time, see HarsherInHindsight below) to have conducted an anti-satellite missile test that created a space debris problem, it just wasn't as serious as this.

* EsotericHappyEnding: Despite the fact that Ryan Stone managed to make it back to Earth safely, the space program for the entire world has been set back due to Russias' screw-up, and in all likelihood prevent further space travel for decades, if not entire ''Centuries''.

* {{Narm}}: Some of the lines can be pretty clunky. "No more just driving", anyone?

* InferredHolocaust: As pointed out in [[http://www.cracked.com/article_23474_5-likely-world-ending-scenarios-no-one-talking-about.html this]] ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' article, the Kessler Syndrome portrayed in the film would disrupt or destroy much of our modern-day technological infrastructure, thus potentially causing the collapse of civilization itself. Even if that doesn't happen, the fact remains that Russia has inadvertently destroyed every single satellite and space station in orbit, killing at least four people, which will have all kinds of nasty political fallout...

* ParanoiaFuel: The disaster depicted in the film is entirely possible in real life: it's called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome Kessler syndrome]], and all it takes is two satellites colliding (or one getting blown up by a missile, as is the case is ''Gravity'') to start the chain reaction. It could happen at any time, and many astronomers believe [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision it's already begun]]. While a Kessler disaster wouldn't directly hurt us on Earth, and would take a while longer than seen in the film, anything in low-Earth-orbit is going to end up getting shredded, including the thousands of satellites needed for our technological civilization to exist, and launching new ones won't be possible for decades due to the AsteroidThicket now hanging in orbit.