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9->''"Now what?"''
10-->-- '''John Finnegan'''
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12''Deep Rising'' is a 1998 ActionHorror film starring Creator/TreatWilliams and Creator/FamkeJanssen and directed by Creator/StephenSommers.
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14John Finnegan (Williams) is a for-hire boat captain who is contracted by a group of mercenaries led by Hanover (Creator/WesStudi) to ferry them to a [[CoolBoat luxury cruise liner]] they intend to rob. However, when they arrive on board, they discover that something has killed all of the guests.
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16They eventually meet a pair of survivors -- professional thief Trillian St. James (Janssen), the ship's captain, and Simon Canton (Creator/AnthonyHeald), the ship's owner, who reveal that a malignant creature has infested the ship. What follows is a race against time as the mercenaries try to escape before the creature kills them all.
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19!!''Deep Rising'' provides examples of:
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21* AccidentalMurder: Canton accidentally [[spoiler:axes Vivo in the head]] when he believes that it was the creature on the other side of the door. The trigger-happy mercenaries panic and accidentally gun down three unarmed passengers in response.
22* ActuallyPrettyFunny: T-Ray suggests the passengers thought the ship was sinking and abandoned it. Joey snarks at that, saying the passengers "obviously" jumped overboard miles from land rather than make use of the many lifeboats. Finnegan and Mamooli chuckle at that crack; T-Ray not at all.
23-->'''Joey:''' He's right. You're right! I can just see the last asshole in saying, "Shit, Gus, we forgot the lifeboats. I guess we're just gonna have to swim for it!"
24* AdmiringTheAbomination: Canton is admittedly impressed by the creatures' sheer strength, due to how easily the ship's hull has been ripped open.
25-->'''Finnegan:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Glad you're so impressed.]]
26* AffablyEvil: Finnegan and his boat crew, Trillian and the mercenaries are just {{Punch Clock Villain}}s who are not completely unlikeable.
27* AlienBlood: The Octalus appears to bleed two colours, red and green. Its unclear if one is blood and the other is bile, if it has a double circulatory system, or if the red is actually liquified human tissue spilled from its multi-branched digestive tract.
28* AllThereInTheManual: The creatures ([[spoiler: actually ''creature'', singular]]) are called Octalus, based on the alternative European name for the film.
29* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Despite both it and the finished film being set in the South China Sea, the script identifies the oceanic trench at the beginning as the Sulu Basin. As its name implies, it is in the Sulu Sea, which is all the way on the other side of Palawan from the South China Sea.
30* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Canton and the mercenaries. It even gets {{Lampshaded}} in Hanover's case.]]
31* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: The monsters are actually [[spoiler:the tentacles of a bigger beast]].
32* AwesomeByAnalysis: Finnegan was able to figure out Canton's plan based on the torpedoes and Canton knowing Hanover (who [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this) by name without explanation.
33* BadassLongcoat: Hanover. He loses it halfway through.
34* BaitTheDog: Canton is introduced addressing the passengers talking about the cruise being the fulfillment of his life's dream. He's not shy about admitting he finds the passengers' money appealing, but he comes across as quite the pleasant host and honest CEO. After Trillian is caught trying to rob the safe, though, he slaps her for talking back to him, hinting at the HateSink to come.
35* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Few of the protagonists sustain any obvious injuries over the course of the movie, with Canton's and Joey's leg wounds being the only noticeable exceptions. Who really invokes the trope, however, are Finnegan and Trillian. Not only does neither of the two get as much as a scratch on them -- even their clothes remain completely untarnished regardless of being exposed to bloody water, explosions, fireballs and whatnot all over the place. Famke Janssen in particular ends the movie as impeccably dressed and as ridiculously gorgeous as she was in her first scene, hairdo and makeup included. [[{{Fanservice}} Not that anyone's complaining]].
36* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Entirely justified by anyone who attempts it, given that dying to the sea monster is a slow and awful affair.
37** When [[spoiler:Mason]] is grabbed by a sea monster that will slowly and painfully digest him alive, he detonates one of his explosives before it can eat him.
38** Subverted when [[spoiler:Hanover]] is grabbed by one of the monsters. [[spoiler:Joey]] [[LeaveBehindAPistol hands him a weapon as an act of mercy]], only for the former to [[SoreLoser start shooting at him]]. While [[spoiler:Joey]] escapes, [[spoiler:Hanover]] [[FaceDeathWithDignity tries to take his own life]] and discovers [[LaserGuidedkarma he doesn't have any bullets left]].
39--->[[spoiler:'''Joey:''' ''[tossing Hanover a pistol]'' Here. Don't say I never did nothin' for ya.\
40''[Hanover takes the gun, shoots at Joey]''\
41'''Joey:''' ''YOU [[AssholeVictim ASS]][[LampshadeHanging HOLE]]!'']]
42* BigBadWannabe: Simon Canton is responsible for hiring the mercenaries to sink the ship for him to collect the insurance. However, he is upstaged by the sea monsters that infest the ship. [[spoiler:Despite the infestation, he still tries making a shot for the BigBad title by using the others as bait so he can escape himself and tries to kill Trillian and steal Finnegan's boat.]]
43* BigDamnHeroes:
44** Trillian and her pilfered pistol show up just in time to save Finnegan from becoming sea monster sushi. Finnegan and his BFG later return the favor when Trillian is being threatened by Canton.
45** Joey is being [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown curbstomped]] by Hanover's men for being a snoop when Finnegan appears out of nowhere and puts an end to the fun by firing three spears into the wall... [[ImprobableAimingSkills right next to where Hanover is standing]].
46* TheBigDamnKiss: [[spoiler:Trillian gives Finnegan one after they make it to the island]].
47* BigWhat: Joey in response to Finnegan sheepishly admitting he lost the repair parts.
48* BizarreAlienBiology: The monster [[spoiler:is some sort of gargantuan octopus-like beast with dozens of tentacles, but its tentacles have their own teeth, mouths, and digestive systems and function almost autonomously, leading them to be mistaken as huge worms at first.]]
49* BlindWithoutEm: When [[spoiler:Canton jumps onto the mercenaries' boat from the cruise ship in an attempt to escape, he breaks his leg and loses his glasses. This proves to be his undoing, as he finds the boat has been intentionally set on autopilot in a collision course with the cruise ship, and without his glasses he can't tell what buttons and gauges can set it back to manual.]]
50* BolivianArmyEnding: The ending features the heroes [[spoiler:now stranded on an IsleOfGiantHorrors that seems to have more monstrous creatures they have to deal with. We cut to credits right before they come face to face with something that sounds like Godzilla]].
51-->'''Finnegan:''' Now what?
52* BottomlessMagazines: Lampshaded. The writers, aware that the plot will require BottomlessMagazines, introduce the primary weapon of Hanover's pirates as an exotic "Chinese" minigun assault rifle that is auto-cooling, water-tight and has a thousand-round magazine. The small size is still preposterous, given that they dropping .308 casings (a thousand rounds of .308 weighs about 55 pounds and would fill a duffel bag) when they fire. Though in a strange adherence to established canon, they do occasionally run out of bullets at roughly the time that a five-barreled Gatling gun would burn through a thousand rounds while firing in bursts.
53* BrainFood: Vivo tries to make seasick T. Ray puke by claiming he'll be eating pigs' feet, monkey brains and elephant eyeballs once their mission's over.
54* BreakTheBadass:
55** Some of the mercenaries, particularly and especially Mason and Mulligan, started to go through this as they [[NotWhatISignedOnFor never expected to face and combat a sea monster when they were hired for the job]] and eventually become distraught over the loss of their close comrades. Mason lampshades it with this quote:
56--->'''Mason:''' I don't mean to sound like a pussy, but this shit is startin' to freak me out, man!
57** Mulligan, overlapping with BreakTheHaughty due to Mulligan representing the sin {{Pride}}, begins to freak out when he realizes all his fellow mercenary friends are gone, the monster is cornering them and even sheds a [[TearsOfFear tear]] in light of the situation.
58** Hanover as well, [[spoiler:when he is slowly eaten by the creature and his facial expressions show him in visible pain without even screaming initially. After Joey gives him his handgun to perform a MercyKill (which he unfortunately wasted the last bullet on Joey in a TakingYouWithMe attempt only to miss) and he failed to commit [[SuicideIsPainless quick painless suicide]], Hanover can only scream finally in a mixture of horror, disbelief over the loss of bullets and pain as he is eaten alive.]]
59* BreakTheHaughty: The remaining mercenaries go through this when they are terrorized by the monster.
60* BrickJoke: When Trillian tries to barter her way onto Finnegan's boat, she reluctantly agrees he can name his price, to which he simply asks for a cold beer. [[spoiler:In the last scene, Trillian observes being stuck on the island with her has to be better than a cold beer for Finnegan]].
61* ButtMonkey: Joey. He lampshades it when Trillian treats him like crap for [[IrrationalHatred no reason]] after she's just met him.
62* TheCanKickedHim: One of the passengers tries to escape by hiding in the restroom. She ends up getting killed anyway when a tentacle comes up through the toilet.
63* CannibalLarder: The heroes at one point come across the creatures' feeding grounds in the bowels of the ship. There are hundreds of gory, skeletal remains strewn across the giant storage room. The haunting final screams of the people can be heard as the camera pans over them. Earlier in the film, some of the passengers' excreted corpses are found in a corridor at the bottom of the elevator.
64* CatchPhrase: "Now what?"
65* CatScare: Non-cat example: one of the mercenaries is "ambushed" by a bundle of thick cables that drop from the damaged corridor ceiling.
66* ChekhovsGun: Occurs numerous times.
67** Early on in the film, the mercenaries arm all of the torpedoes onboard Finnegan's boat. [[spoiler:At the end, Finnegan rigs the boat so it will loop back around and ram into the ''Argonautica'', destroying both ships]].
68** One of the first shots of Finnegan focuses on a shotgun he has strapped to the back of his chair. He doesn't carry it for most of the movie, but straps it to his back later on, and uses it to [[spoiler:shoot out the creature's eye when it captures him in the ballroom]].
69** When the creatures first attack the ''Argonautica'', a speedboat can be seen dropping off the ship into the water. Several minutes later, Finnegan's craft sees the speedboat too late and crashes through it, crippling their systems.
70** Near the end, a surfboard sent flying by the exploding [[spoiler: charter boat, which is then used (offscreen) by Joey to swim to safety]].
71** After being confined, Trillian reveals she pickpocketed Canton's wallet. Later, after encountering her, the mercenaries use material inside to quickly get into the vault, [[spoiler:resulting in Vivo's death and the beginning of an explanation of the overall situation]].
72* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: There's a GambitPileup involving a thief, mercenaries on their way to a heist, a transport crew hired by those mercenaries willing to look the other way, a captured cruise ship run by a guy attempting to pull off an insurance scam, and a pack of sea monsters [[spoiler:that are actually just the tentacles of a larger sea monster]].
73* ComedicSociopathy: When Finnegan finds the mercs beating up [[ButtMonkey Joey]] and threatening to kill him, he points out that killing his mechanic means the boat won't be able to reach its maximum speed, costing them valuable time, then adds "Which actually works just fine for me, since, y'know, we're charging you by the hour."
74* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: Upon seeing [[spoiler:Hanover]] in the process of being swallowed, Joey is quite content to leave him to his fate and save himself. However, due to just how ghastly that fate is going to be, Joey feels some pity and goes back to hand over a gun for a quickie suicide. [[spoiler:Joey is nearly shot for this act of mercy.]]
75* CoolBoat: Finnegan's boat is a decommissioned WWII-vintage US Navy Elco PT boat. The cruise ship ''Argonautica'' looks like she'd be a ''wonderful'' choice for a luxury vacation. Too bad the travel agency didn't warn people about the mercs, the sabotage, and the ravenous sea monsters...
76* CombatTentacles: Near the end, it turns out that [[spoiler:the protagonists have been facing nothing ''but'' these until they encountered the head.]]
77* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Simon Canton. The man was willing to hijack his own ship and sink it to keep himself financially afloat. That sea monsters ate everybody inside it before he arrived only eliminated the issue about having to kick the passengers out.
78* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The creatures do not simply rip up and digest their victims. Instead they are swallowed up, have their liquids effectively drained away, and whatever's left of the body being spit back out (mostly bones and gore). Oh, and did we mention that the victims are still alive during this process?
79* DeadpanSnarker: Joey, Finnegan's very snarky mechanic who always has something witty to say.
80* DeliciousDistraction: [[spoiler:Hanover]] tries to turn ''Joey'' into one, wounding him and leaving him behind as bait to distract the pursuing tentacles.
81* DerelictGraveyard: In the opening scene of the film, the creatures are seen travelling through a deep sea ship graveyard, some of them hundreds of years old, ''all of which they presumably attacked, ate all the people on it, and sank the ships afterwards''. There are even remains of whale skeletons besides the derelict ships.
82* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[spoiler:Finnegan destroys one of the monster's eyes with his shotgun, allowing him and Trillian time to escape.]]
83* DidntThinkThisThrough: In his attempt to create the world's ultimate luxury liner, Canton ended up creating something that could never be run profitably. He tries to downplay this by saying that he "misjudged the market", but Joey offers the much simpler and more damning assessment that he doomed everyone on-board to a horrible death because he "screwed up the math".
84* DieHardOnAnX: Subverted. The main characters were plotting a "''Die Hard'' on a cruise ship" robbery, only to find that some''thing'' beat them to the ship.
85* DinnerDeformation: Played for horror. A piece of a monster's body is noticeably bulging before the heroes open fire on it. Then the half-digested, shrieking body of another character falls out.
86* DirtyCoward:
87** Simon Canton, [[spoiler:when he attempts to leave the survivors for dead.]]
88** Hanover, [[spoiler:when he tries to sacrifice Joey to save himself. Joey escapes and [[KarmicDeath Hanover himself is eaten]].]]
89* DisappointedByTheMotive:
90** Canton spent so much money on the boat that even at full capacity he'd be at a Net Loss. So he makes a big InsuranceFraud scheme involving mercenaries and torpedoes. Of course he couldn't have anticipated the monsters, but Joey is mad that ''this'' is what everyone is dying over.
91--->'''Joey:''' You mean we're all gonna die because you screwed up on the math!?
92** Even Captain Atherton is not very happy by this revelation as he furiously attacks Canton for this, right before the mercenaries told him to stop fighting.
93--->'''Atherton:''' You despicable lousy BASTARD!!! You sold us out to the bloody insurance!!
94* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Finnegan comes back to the boat to see that Joey's gone, and he assumes that he was eaten by the creature. Later, when he's on the island with Trillian, Joey comes paddling onto shore on Finnegan's surfboard.]]
95* DisposableWoman: [[spoiler:Leila, Finnegan's foul-mouthed yet sympathetic right hand as well as Joey's girlfriend,]] is the first protagonist to be killed by the creatures. Thankfully we're spared the more gruesome details of her demise that many of the other characters get. Her death still manages to deliver quite the punch the farther the story progresses, simply by how little recognition her gruesome fate gets from her crew mates. Aside from a gloomy "I don't think she made it" and a single tear shed by her boyfriend, it's like she never even existed after the first twenty minutes into the movie.
96* DistressCall: Averted and that's part of the problem. To ensure the mercenaries can pull off their end of the deal, Canton disabled ship communications. This prevents the crew from sending a distress call and reporting their location, as tentacles begin swarming. By the time the other protagonists arrive, there's no way to undo Canton's sabotage. With no way to call for help, it'll be at least a day before the authorities even begin looking for the ''Argonautica''.
97* DoomedHurtGuy: Similar to Acres in ''Film/ThePoseidonAdventure'', poor Atherton spends half his screentime limping from a pretty bad leg injury. Unlike many examples of this trope, Atherton still manages to keep up with the group, but past a certain point it's obvious he's TheLoad and a goner. [[spoiler:Swimming was probably out of the question for him with his bad leg, so he was never going to make it through the underwater portion (another ''Poseidon'' ShoutOut), so he gets killed right before the group gets to that part.]]
98* DragonInChief: Despite Canton technically being the brains behind the operation, Hanover is mostly in charge. Canton doesn't bark any orders at the mercenaries. Justified as Canton does not have as much combat and survival experience unlike the mercenaries.
99* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Finnegan interrupts the second MexicanStandoff with his story of an octopus figuring out how to claim a fish that had been placed in a bottle. Joey appears to be the only one not grasping the point of this story.
100-->'''Joey:''' And the moral of this story is?\
101'''Trillian:''' ''[grimly]'' We're the fish.
102* DroolHello: As the remaining group of survivors discuss what to do next, one of the monsters drips slime/drool onto Joey's shoulder. The mercs open fire on the monster, causing it to split and spill out the partially digested (but still alive) remains of [[spoiler:Billy.]]
103* DroppedGlasses: When Canton leaps onto the mercenaries' ship at the end in an attempt to escape, he breaks his leg and loses his glasses. [[spoiler:This proves to be his undoing when he finds the vessel has been locked on autopilot to ram the cruise ship and blow up, and without his glasses, he can't tell which of the buttons deactivates autopilot.]]
104* DwindlingParty: As to be expected, characters get picked off one by one. By the end, [[spoiler:only three characters are alive, and even then, the odds of their continued survival are not good.]]
105* EarWorm: Joey gets the elevator music ("The Girl from Ipanema") stuck in his head.
106* EatenAlive: Everyone the creatures get their teeth into, except [[spoiler:Mason, who blows himself up, and possibly Captain Atherton and that one female passenger in the restroom, both of whom were yanked through such narrow gaps that crush injuries probably killed them first]].
107* TheElevatorFromIpanema: Lampshaded.
108* EmptyElevator: The mercenaries are searching through the abandoned cruise ship looking for any passengers or crew members, but none can be found. Then the elevator activates, and they can see it moving to their floor. They keep their weapons aimed at the door, but it's empty. Except for the blood-covered walls inside the elevator, that is.
109* TheEndOrIsIt: Our heroes wash up on an island, only to discover [[spoiler: another giant monster lives there.]]
110* EnemyMine: Finnegan and Hanover form a ''very'' reluctant alliance in a bid to survive the common threat the creature poses to both of them.
111* EnemyRisingBehind: When the DwindlingParty reaches the kitchen, Mulligan wants to hole up there for a last stand as he thinks that it's the only place on the ship where they'll be safe from the man-eating giant worms. This results in a MexicanStandoff when Finnegan and Hanover disagree, but before it can get violent Mulligan suddenly notices that everyone facing him has an OhCrap expression...
112* EvenEvilHasStandards:
113** Canton wanted to sink the cruise liner so he could reap the insurance money, but when Finnegan accuses him of trying to kill all the passengers Canton takes offense. He claims that he's just a crook, not a savage; he planned for all of them to live, as they would be safely transported off the ship before anyone could drown. Ultimately subverted when [[spoiler:Canton decides it would be better for everyone not named Canton to "go down with the ship" since they're all [[LeaveNoWitnesses witnesses]].]]
114** Played straight with the PunchClockVillain mercenaries, who are disgusted with Canton's plan, the motive behind it and how he left them in the dark about it that results in the deaths of their comrades. In addition, they themselves are horrified by the carnage left by the creature's rampage and devastated over the loss of their comrades, who from what we seen so far are best buds to one another aside from their ruthlessness.
115** T-Ray and Vivo take offense to Mamooli's promiscuity, with the former calling him a "bloody pervert" and musing over Mulligan's suggestion that the only way to shut him up from constantly talking about women and sex is to shoot him.
116* EveryoneHasStandards:
117** Finnegan is the first to note how Canton's scam effectively killed innocent passengers.
118** Captain Atheron is also disturbed by the fact Canton WouldHitAGirl, despite the fact that said girl stole his wallet and tried to rob from the vault.
119** Joey hands Hanover a pistol as a MercyKill so he will not be EatenAlive and painfully digested. This is right after Hanover shot Joey himself and tried to feed him to the monster in his place. When Hanover tries to shoot him ''again'', Joey calls him an asshole and leaves him to his fate.
120* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Finnegan shoots out one of the creature's eyes on the boat.]]
121* FaceRevealingTurn: When [[spoiler:Billy]] gets expelled from the tentacle that swallowed him, [[spoiler:he looks intact from the right, but then raises a half-melted hand and turns, revealing that the left side of his head has been dissolved ''all the way through his skull''.]]
122* AFatherToHisMen: Hanover appears to be this towards his fellow mercenaries, especially after learning about and witnessing their deaths.
123* FavorsForTheSexy: After the first full depiction of a tentacle and the chaos that follows, Trillian wants to make a deal with Finnegan for a seat on his boat. She reluctantly agrees that he can ask her for anything in return, though he says he just wants a cold beer.
124* FinallyFoundTheBody: When the mercenaries board the cruise ship, they're utterly bewildered to find the inside in ruin and everyone gone; Joey darkly jokes that perhaps everyone simultaneously jumped overboard and collectively forgot about the lifeboats. They eventually find the fate of the passengers and crew in the bow of the ship, all reduced to bloody skeletons after being digested and regurgitated by the monsters.
125* FlowerMouth: The creatures [[spoiler:which are actually just the tentacles to a single ''big'' monster]] function like this, being closed until they detect prey and split open like a blooming flower to reveal an additional two-jawed inner mouth.
126* FoldSpindleMutilation: Captain Atherton dies when he's yanked through a gap in a catwalk. A very ''small'' gap. Also the fate of the woman who hides in the restroom; she gets pulled down through the toilet, resulting in a very big splash of blood and gore. The monster, some sort of giant octopus, is ''very'' agile; at one point Trillian notices one of the tentacles (which can swallow a person whole) slithering through a pipe barely two feet wide.
127* ForgottenFallenFriend: Finnegan and especially Joey [[spoiler:mourn Leila death's with tears]] -- and then proceed to never speak of her again.
128* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are several allusions to the revelation that the creatures [[spoiler:are actually the tentacles of a humongous octopoid monster, most notably Finnegan's anecdote about the octopus and the bottle]].
129* FromBadToWorse: Finnegan, Joey, Trillian, and Hanover find the feeding ground and are horrified by the messy sight. Then the tentacles rip into the hull, letting water come rushing in.
130* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the background, and mostly sound-only, Atherton snaps and begins loudly berating Canton for being a "greedy bastard" and getting them all in the predicament they're now stuck in, with Mason trying to keep him from physically attacking the other man. Meanwhile, the focus during this scene is Trillian surreptitiously tucking a discarded pistol into her pants and Finnegan checking her out from the rear while she does this.
131* GhostShip: Subverted in that the main characters are seeking out the cruise liner intentionally. It also turns out that there are at least a handful of survivors on the ship, although most do not last long.
132* {{Gorn}}: This is a ''very'' nasty movie with special effects that spare little to the imagination of what being eaten and digested is like. Stand out examples include the woman being violently pulled into a toilet, the monster spitting up a half-melted but ''still alive'' victim, and coming across the room with hundreds of regurgitated skeletons piled together.
133* TheGreatRepair: The boat that was released during the initial monster attack on the cruise smashes Finnegan's ship, damaging it severely and leaving its engines nearly useless, so the crew enters the ship to search for spare parts. [[spoiler:The situation becomes too dangerous for them to get the parts, so Finnegan rigs the boat to ram the cruise and set off the torpedoes it has on board.]]
134* HateSink: Simon Canton. The monsters are just predators that live to consume, and most of the mercenaries have some redeeming qualities such as [[VillainousValour determination]], being mostly PunchClockVillain-type characters, caring for each other except those not in their personal group like Finnegan, their [[AffablyEvil unique wise-cracking characterizations]] and being badasses. Canton however is ''only'' selfish, cowardly, and greedy. [[spoiler:He's not so bad at first (having clearly established with Finnegan that he had planned for everyone aboard the boat to be safely evacuated), but he eventually tries to leave the other survivors for dead, then tries to kill Trillian, shrugs off the all the passengers' deaths because he can still scam the insurance agency if the ship sinks, and tries to steal Finnegan's boat. He meets a deliciously KarmicDeath.]]
135* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:After Mulligan is eaten, what's left of the DwindlingParty is on the move and finding themselves being herded. However, Canton also deliberately misleads them on which way they can go. He wants all witnesses dead so that he doesn't get busted for his insurance scam.]]
136* HeartbrokenBadass: After everything he's been through, Finnegan, when [[spoiler:it looks like Joey has been dragged off]], simply [[spoiler:clutches Joey's hat and sits there quietly]].
137* HellIsThatNoise: After Trillian steps outside and reveals she swiped the captain's keycard, she and the audience hear something disturbing far out in the dark. It was apparently the main menace.
138* HiredGuns: Hanover's team.
139* HollywoodHacking: As with a lot of other films from the era, computer viruses are depicted as something able to physically destroy hardware, with Canton explaining that they can't send a distress signal because the virus he used burned out all the systems on-board. In reality it probably ''would'' have been impossible to get the ship up and running again in the circumstances, but because the people with the required technical know-how would likely have already become monster chow.
140* HopeSpot:
141** [[spoiler:At the end, the few survivors regroup on a nearby island they spotted earlier while on the ship. Unfortunately, they have little time to be grateful about their survival before they hear something huge roar and crash its way through the jungle towards them. The camera then zooms out to show the island they're on has multiple erupting volcanoes on top of that.]]
142** In the corridor at the bottom of the elevator, the group finds a bloody mess and then sees something bending the other side of door trying to reach them. After a moment, it all stops and nothing happens, even as Finnegan and Hanover cautiously check things out. Then Mason accidentally steps on a skull and shouts in surprise, prompting the creature to realize there are people in there and resume attacking.
143* {{Hypocrite}}: Finnegan calls out Canton for endangering his passengers/crew in order to pull off a lucrative insurance scam. Yet, he willingly endangers his own crew by turning a blind eye to his clients' motives and not asking so much as a single question before accepting a job as long as he gets paid. Not to mention he's the one who brought the mercs to the cruise ship in the first place. Canton quickly calls him back on this.
144* ICallItVera: Played with in that, while none of the mercenaries name their many, many weapons, the twin ''engines'' of Finnegan's charter boat are called "Jezebel" and "Hercules". [[spoiler: Finnegan and Joey weaponize the explosive-laden boat so it crashes into the ''Argonautica'' to kill the monster, so technically they ''do'' count as "weapons".]]
145* ImprobableAimingSkills: Finnegan hits an elevator door button from about 15 metres with a shotgun, one handed, while driving a jet ski. Twice.
146* ImprobableTaxonomySkills: And how, Canton! Just from brief examinations, he theorizes that the creatures they're fighting are gargantuan priapulids, a family of carnivorous marine worms commonly nicknamed "penis worms". More glaringly, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoia the taxonomic group he claims they belong to]] is actually '''extinct''' in RealLife, being known only from fragmentary fossils. Yet he somehow describes its ''behavior'', which would be pretty darn improbable even from a paleontologist... let alone, a cruise ship designer like Canton. [[spoiler:So it is probably no great surprise that he turns out to be ''completely wrong'' in his assumptions. The "creatures" are actually the tentacles belonging to a gigantic cephalopod-type creature]]. In fairness, the Ottoia ''do'' have living relatives who are all but unchanged from the prehistoric model, so extrapolating their behavior isn't a huge stretch... but he still would have been better naming one of the still-living taxonomies. And even then, he loses points by claiming there are some species of priapulid worm that eat sharks; the largest known priapulid worm species today is only 39 centimeters long.
147* InsideJob: Finnigan eventually figures out that Hanover was working with someone on the cruise liner for the planned heist that never materialized. That person turns out to be Canton (the ship's owner), who was responsible for sabotaging the ship's systems before the monster happened to show up. His motive was to sink the ship so he could [[InsuranceFraud reap the insurance money]] since they were actually operating at a loss. This revelation infuriates the Captain, since it's entirely Canton's fault that they couldn't get out a distress signal.
148* InsuranceFraud: Business mogul Simon Canton wanted to sink the cruise liner he built to cater exclusively to the mega-rich because despite all the money he poured into the project, he was still operating at a net loss and only the insurance money could save him from going bankrupt. His plan involved faking a take-over by pirates, then escorting the passengers to the lifeboats and having the pirates blow up the ship with a torpedo. Then of all things a giant octopus monster shows up and spoils his plan by eating everyone.
149* IronicEcho:
150** Trillian steals the captain's ID and snarks to herself about its lousy photo. Then she's caught by Canton and some crewmen, and ''he'' snarks about the lousy mugshot on the fax his security people had received about her.
151** Joey angrily complains about how they're going to die because Canton "screwed up on the math". Later, as Canton outlines how the monsters are relatively small and harmless at shallow depths, and big enough to eat a shark at moderate depths, he points out exactly how deep the sea beneath them is, before turning to Joey and saying "''you'' do the math".
152* {{Irony}}: After all the chaos and carnage, Joey manages to get back up to the ballroom. He passes an electric sign reading "Your fun ship!" on the wall. His annoyed glance at this says it all.
153* IsleOfGiantHorrors: At the end, the remaining survivors have escaped to a beautiful sunlit island, only to hear a terrifying monster roar. The camera pulls back to reveal the island is host to an erupting volcano and ''[[NothingIsScarier something]]'' tearing down trees as it makes a beeline for the beach where the protagonists are. Cut to credits as the hero asks with exasperation, "''[[OhNoNotAgain NOW]]'' [[HereWeGoAgain what?]]"
154* ItCanThink:
155** When Mulligan suggests holing up in the kitchen, Finnegan relates how he once saw an octopus uncork a bottle to get a fish that had been placed inside.
156** At one point late in the film the monsters start herding the remaining humans towards their feeding area. [[spoiler:Makes some sense, as the "monsters" are tentacles of the same creature, and are moving the humans toward the open space where there's the most room to maneuver.]]
157** Later, when Finnegan comes face to face with [[spoiler:the creature, it doesn't kill him straight away, but inquisitively brings him up to its head to inspect him. Finnegan uses the opportunity to [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu shoot one of its eyes out]]]].
158* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Joey and Finnegan (especially Joey) after Leila's death.]] And later, [[spoiler:Finnegan when he thinks that Joey has been killed.]]
159* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Finnegan is OnlyInItForTheMoney, but he cares about his friends.
160* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk:
161** Hanover initially started out as distrusting of Finnegan and his crew, but then started to gradually drop his hostility and shows a level of begrudging respect towards Finnegan when onboard the infested ship. [[spoiler:Then when the flooding hits, Hanover, when paired with Joey, pulls a DirtyCoward move by shooting Joey in the leg to feed to the creature and then tried to kill Joey when he himself is slowly eaten]].
162** Canton is a corrupt asshole, but even he is horrified at the carnage the monsters left behind and insists to Finnegan that he was going to make the passengers evacuate before sinking the ship. [[spoiler:And then he admits that the monster killing everybody on board simplified the scam operation somewhat, and he tries to leave everybody to die.]]
163* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: At first, Canton's plan was to destroy the ship as an insurance scam, but to make it so all of the passengers live. Later though, he uses the others as bait so he can escape himself, and tries to kill Trillian and steal Finnegan's boat. Fortunately, though, he meets his KarmicDeath in the end.
164* KarmicDeath:
165** [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, Simon Canton attempts to get away on Finnegan's boat without the others after trying to kill them. When he jumps onto the boat from the cruise ship, he breaks a leg. Unbeknownst to him, the torpedo filled boat has been rigged to run into the cruise ship in order to explode and kill the creature. When Canton realizes this, it's too late and the last thing he sees before dying is Finnegan's computer screen which reads "Game Over".]]
166** [[spoiler: Hanover's death mentioned in BetterToDieThanBeKilled. He could've spared himself the horrific fate of being a sea monster's meal, but rather than accept Joey's gun as an offer of mercy, he tries to shoot him out of spite. Of course, it was the last bullet, so cue the scream.]]
167* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:The monster is finally killed when the mercenaries' ship crashes into the ''Argonautica'', blowing up both boats and the monster with it.]]
168* KnightOfCerebus: Things get serious when the monster attacks.
169* KrakenAndLeviathan: The monster is a humongous deep-sea octopoid with possibly hundreds of man-eating tentacles, and is large enough to just fit into the ocean liner's main hall.
170* LadyInRed: This is Trillian's outfit for the first half of the movie, as she was a thief and conman on the cruise liner who used it to [[DistractedByTheSexy distract the captain]] so she could steal his keycard as part of her scheme.
171* LaserGuidedKarma: Finnegan initially had no interest in rescuing Joey from the mercenaries, figuring it'd be risky for himself and that the guy deserved a little pummeling for explicitly ignoring orders to stay out of the mercenaries' stuff. Leila pointing out the mercenaries are likely to outright kill Joey gets Finnegan moving, though.
172* LateToTheTragedy: The mercenaries were planning to rob the cruise ship and then sink it, but when they arrive the ship is deserted. All of the passengers were eaten while they were en route by a far more dangerous sea monster that is now infesting the ship.
173* LampreyMouth: The monster, a giant cephalopod, has a main mouth that is just a giant opening littered with numerous backwards-facing teeth.
174%%* LargeHam: Anthony Heald, especially towards the end.
175* LaserGuidedKarma: Hanover shoots Joey in the leg while the two are being chased by the monsters so they'll eat Joey first and give him time to escape. [[spoiler:Not only does Joey survive, Hanover ends up being caught by one of the tentacles off-screen. Joey walks in on Hanover in the middle of being swallowed and gives him a pistol so he can MercyKill himself before being digested. Hanover decides to use the gun to shoot Joey first; not only does he ''miss'', but it turns out that was the last bullet and he just wasted it.]]
176* LeaveNoWitnesses: [[spoiler:Canton escalates to this. He knows he'll face serious repercussions for his attempted scam being part of why so many people died, so he tries to save himself and leave those who know what he did behind to die.]]
177* LesserOfTwoEvils: After some casualties and no chance of rescue anytime soon, the DwindlingParty makes it to the kitchen, which is supposed to be airtight. Mulligan suggests holing up there with the food and water to wait for rescue. Finnegan rejects that idea; he knows continuing trying to reach his boat is dangerous, but that it's still preferable to staying in a single place that the creatures know they're in. Trillian also adds the ship is sinking.
178* LetsSplitUpGang:
179** Deconstructed. After finding the ship, the group splits up. Leila is left on Finnegan's boat to do some repair work, with Billy watching her. That makes some sense, but once aboard the ship and finding the place trashed and bloody, Hanover splits up the group again. He leads most of the team in trying to find the crew, while T-Ray and Mamooli escort Finnegan and Joey below decks to find repair parts. It goes badly to varying degrees for everyone.
180** Later justified when the DwindlingParty finds the feeding ground and has to flee from a hull breach. With water rushing in, everyone just runs wherever they can, so they get split up, with Finnegan and Trillian in one spot and Joey and Hanover elsewhere. Canton also deliberately split off prior to this in the hopes of saving himself.
181* TheLoad: Joey, for most of the film. Becomes particularly bad when he and Hanover are separated from Finnegan and Trillian and he manages to lose ''both'' their guns and throw one of their two grenades without having pulled the pin. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that he's the ship's mechanic/technician in a group composed mostly of hardened mercenaries, and he was only brought aboard to find the parts to fix their ship.
182* LockedInAFreezer: The ''Argonautica'' security locks Trillian in the ship's cold pantry when she's caught stealing. In an inversion of the norm for this trope, this ''protects'' her from death because its insulating walls keep the tentacles from finding her.
183* MadeOfExplodium: [[spoiler:The cruise ship doesn't just burn and sink, it goes up like a Roman Candle, taking the sea monster -- head and all -- with it.]]
184* ManOnFire: Subverted. Canton threatens Trillian with a flare gun, saying it "might not be quick, but it'll be interesting." Fortunately for her, [[BigDamnHeroes Finnegan shows up]] before this can be tested.
185* MassOhCrap: In the kitchen scene every character in the room has an unspoken "holy fuck!" etched across their face when they see one of the monsters [[EnemyRisingBehind rise up behind an oblivious Mulligan]].
186* MexicanStandoff:
187** Finnegan has one with the mercenaries when he stops them from beating Joey to pulp and later comments on the experience taking a year off of his life.
188** Halfway through, Hanover and Mulligan get into one when debating bout whether or not to get off the ship or hole up and wait to be rescued.
189* MoeGreeneSpecial: Finnegan gets lifted up to the monster's eye so it can examine him, and he blasts the eye to bits with his shotgun.
190* MoleInCharge: Canton, who disabled the communications on the cruise ship for the mercenaries to do their job that he hired them for.
191* MrExposition: Canton with his Ottoia speech (see ImprobableTaxonomySkills and SmartBall):
192-->'''Canton:''' I'm beginning to fear that our friends here may be some kind of strange offshoot of the Archaea Ottoia family...
193* MsFanservice: The entire female cast consists of Leila, who's Finnegan's beautiful Korean XO that gets a half-off-screen topless scene early on, and Trillian, who's played by gorgeous Creator/FamkeJanssen, wears a lovely, deeply cut [[LadyInRed red dress]] in the beginning and an only marginally less fanservice-y getup later on. Neither of them ever suffers [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished even the slightest injury]], or gets dirty for that matter.[[spoiler: Leila does die, but she does it offscreen.]]
194* MurdererPOV: The opening scene, as something big swims past many sunken ships and whale bones.
195* NoHoldsBarredBeatDown: When Vivo catches Joey snooping around their cargo, he and Hanover's other men proceed to [[CurbStomp curb stomp]] the poor guy. Only Finnegan's [[BigDamnHeroes timely intervention]] keeps Joey from being killed.
196* NonMaliciousMonster: Ironically, the protagonists are all criminals of some kind, while the main antagonist is a non-sapient SeaMonster that has no motivation beyond hunting its prey. Although it is incredibly persistent in hunting such a meagre number of remaining humans and doesn't even bother killing its victims before ingesting them.
197* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Trillian gets out of her red dress and into some army clothes ''in front of the mercenaries, and Canton'', albeit she remains off-camera the whole time. None of the guys at any point glance at her while she's changing because they're too busy arguing. Although Finnegan does make a blink-and-you'll-miss-it comment on her "assets" when she slips a pistol into her back pocket.
198* NothingIsScarier: Employed for much of the first half, as the tentacles stay under water, bang against closed hatches, or move through pipes and the walls. Victims are also grabbed suddenly. We get our first glimpse shortly before [[spoiler:T-Ray]] is killed, and then get a full reveal after Joey notices slime dripping onto his shoulder and looks up.
199* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Towards the end, Finnegan finds the windshield smashed open, Joey missing, and monster slime in the boat, so he assumes the worst. However, in the final scene, Joey turns up alive and says he barely escaped.]]
200* OhCrap:
201** Joey gives a smooth "Oh, shit..." when finding out that the basement is [[spoiler:full of torpedoes. "Enough to sink a damn aircraft carrier".]]
202** [[spoiler:Canton, when he realizes the boat he's on is about to self-destruct.]]
203** The reveal that [[spoiler:it's not a group of creatures, but ''one'' giant entity]] understandably leaves Finnegan and Trillian realizing just how much bigger their problems have gotten.
204** The ending definitely counts. [[spoiler:It's the only natural reaction that can be to finding out you're ''marooned on an island full of monsters''.]]
205** When Trillian wakes up in the pantry and wonders what happened, she hears something moving around and sees one of the pipes shaking. She realizes she needs to leave ASAP.
206** Once a tentacle becomes aware of him, Finnegan sees the FlowerMouth open up in full detail. He is most distressed by this, especially up so close.
207* OneLiner:
208** "What are you looking at?"
209** Shortly after getting the first glimpse of the monster:
210--->'''Trillian:''' What are those things?\
211'''Finnegan:''' Real unfriendly.
212* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The mercenaries are obviously being paid handsomely to help Canton go through with his little scheme. And then there's Finnegan's motto:
213-->'''Finnegan:''' If the cash is there, we do not care.
214* OutsideContextProblem: A bunch of mercenaries are hired by a cruise ship captain for an inside job; pretend to be pirates, take everyone "hostage", blow up the now-empty ship, collect the insurance money. Nobody expected a SeaMonster to attack the ship before the mercenaries arrived.
215* OutrunTheFireball: On a jet ski actually.
216* PeekabooCorpse: The floating body that scares Leila while she's using the blowtorch.
217* {{Phlegmings}}: Thick sticky globs of them, no less.
218* PickyPeopleEater: The creatures are interested only in human bodily fluids. They leave their victims as a pile of bone and digested guts.
219* PlausibleDeniability: Finnegan runs his business on this. He doesn't ask for details; he's just paid for transport.
220* PlayAlongPrisoner: Trillian is outed as a thief by the ''Argonautica'' crew and stuck inside a locked pantry since the normal brig was still under construction. When things go sideways, she's able to rig the electric door to open in such an easy manner that suggests she could have left whenever she felt like it. Presumably, she didn't because she's already been exposed and is on a ship with nowhere to run.
221* PlotArmor: Obviously, the [[spoiler:three surviving protagonists Finnegan, Trillian, and Joey]].
222** [[spoiler:For Finnegan, a prime example is when the monster wastes its own time picking him up to examine him as opposed to other victims who are attacked and devoured immediately]].
223** [[spoiler:Trillian, who has little to no knowledge in gun defense/combat, escapes and/or gets rescued at the right time]].
224** [[spoiler:Last but not least, Joey, who is probably the most egregious offender here. Just like Trillian, he has little to no knowledge in gun defense/combat, but always end up being lucky. He is the second last person to jump into the water so the monster ends up chasing after and attacking the last person (Mason). He is shot in the leg by Hanover to act as bait for the monster, but escapes in time with a limp. A short while later, he avoids getting shot by a dying Hanover who is holding a gun. And finally, offscreen he is attacked by the monster but he jumps into water to safety, miraculously avoids the explosive range of the torpedoes, and floats to shore to safety, all the while with a limp due to that injured leg...]]
225* PragmaticVillainy:
226** Mamooli makes it very clear that he'd like to rape Leila and asks to be her guard instead of Billy, almost getting into a fight with her boyfriend Joey over it. The other mercenaries tell him to "behave yourself", but only because they're there to do a job.
227** As Joey's getting roughed up by the mercenaries for snooping around, Finnegan pointed out that killing the ship's mechanic risks the job into going overtime and thus increasing his fee, per their contract. This actually doesn't work, leading to the first MexicanStandOff. Finnegan knows he would be cut down pretty quickly, but he also notes to Hanover how messy it would still be for mercenaries who have a big job to do. Hanover promptly lets Finnegan take Joey and leave.
228* ProperlyParanoid:
229** A crewman detects something very large approaching the ship. Canton suggests it's a pod of whales, but the crewman is doubtful because of the speed.
230** Finnegan immediately notices when Canton uses Hanover's name. He deduces that Canton was the inside connection for this job.
231* PunchClockVillain: If it weren't the fact that they're thieving and RuthlessModernPirates, if not brash and boisterous, the mercenaries would count as they are only concerned with completely their mission to force out the passengers to make way to sink the cruise liner. While being hardened, trigger-happy and somewhat crooked, they are not {{sadist}}s or completely unlikable (unlike [[HateSink Canton]]). Finnegan and his boat crew would also count (as quoted by Finnegan about his line of work, "If the cash is there, we do not care"), perhaps even more so than the mercenaries, with the Punch Clock side outweighing the Villain side. Also Trillian is a thief, but appears to be a affable career thief who is not much of scumbag like Canton.
232* PushedAtTheMonster: Hanover and Joey are fleeing from the tentacle monsters, which are gaining on them. Joey yells that they have to slow them down; Hanover shouts back that they only way to do that is to feed them. While Joey is trying to figure out what the hell to feed them, Hanover shoots him in the leg. Despite this, he manages to escape and in fact survives to the end of the movie, while Hanover gets eaten.
233* RaceAgainstTheClock: As if man-eating tentacle monsters aren't bad enough, the ship is sinking.
234* RecoilBoost: Happens ''accidentally'' to Trillian when she's shooting one of the mercs' machine guns at worm monsters. The recoil pushes her over backwards into the flooded compartment that everyone needs to escape through, anyway, effectively giving her a head start.
235* RewatchBonus: After losing Atherton, the group moves about the ship trying to find a way out. Canton explains where a particular path will lead them, but Mulligan disputes that by citing the schematics he has access to. Canton rebuffs him by saying he provided those schematics and that he certainly knows his own ship, so everyone takes the route he suggested. On the first viewing, it just seems like a haughty executive insisting he knows better than a merc. On the second viewing, [[spoiler:Canton has already started thinking about finding some way to ensure there would be no witnesses to tell the authorities how his attempted scam got a lot of people killed]].
236* RuthlessModernPirates: The mercenaries.
237* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:The mercenaries, who were all killed by the main monster one by one.]]
238* SanitySlippage: The deaths of his colleagues one after another take a toll on Mulligan. By the time they make it to the kitchen, he's on his last nerve, talking about making a stand and threatening to shoot anyone who tries to leave (Hanover included).
239* ScaryBlackMan: Two of the mercenaries, Vivo and Mason.
240* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Joey, especially when he discovers that one of the tentacle monsters is right above his head and he never knew it.
241* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
242** After the mess that happens when the vault is open, Trillian takes the opportunity to slip off and make her way to an elevator.
243** After the group is briefly scattered, a tentacle soon gets the drop on Finnegan and Trillian. She immediately starts running, but Finnegan gets trapped and has to be very careful with his movements. Subverted in that Trillian comes back once she realizes he wasn't right behind her.
244** Upon seeing [[spoiler: the creature's full form]], Trillian suggests leaving immediately. Finnegan agrees; a pesky tentacle ''doesn't''.
245* SenseImpairedMonster: Knocked onto the floor, a quiet Finnegan notices a tentacle simply feel around the area rather than lunge right at him. He then sees it react to the noise he makes when retrieving his gun off the floor. [[spoiler:Ultimately downplayed. The tentacles do rely on noise and touch rather than sight, but they're all part of one big monster that does have eyes, as Finnegan learns firsthand (before shooting one out).]]
246* SensorSuspense: One of the ''Argonautica'''s bridge crew counts off the rapidly-decreasing distance between the mysterious whatever-it-is that's coming towards the ship.
247* SevenDeadlySins: The villainous mercenary group seems to be made up of this: Vivo is always talking about food (Gluttony), T. Ray threatens with violence all the time (Wrath), Mamooli talks about his desire to have sex with women from every country (Lust), Mulligan says that the group will "kick ass and take names" as well as taunts a monster and claims it is nothing (Pride), Hanover is paranoid, distrustful and later [[spoiler:ends up shooting at someone who is going to live and not him in a TakingYouWithMe attempt]] (Envy), Mason is seen stuffing money into his pockets (Greed) and Billy complains about all the work he has to do (Sloth).
248* SmartBall: Canton's theory of the creatures' origins is completely out of left field. [[spoiler:In an unexpected (but appropriate) subversion, he turns out to be very wrong.]]
249* SpoilerTitle: Averted, as the working title of [[spoiler:''Tentacles'']] was changed to conceal the real nature of the monsters. However, it's played straight with the theatrical poster, which features a menacing eyeball underwater. The "worms" don't have eyeballs, [[spoiler:but the giant octopoid monster which the "worms" are attached to does.]]
250* SpottingTheThread: Finnegan was able to figure out that Canton was at the center of everything involving the mercenaries based on that fact he knew Hanover by name, something that wasn't touched on about until he accused him of being TheMole.
251-->'''Canton:''' [[FlatWhat What?]]\
252'''Hanover:''' [[AtLeastIAdmitIt Very quick Mr. Finnegan.]]
253* StickyFingers: Trillian deftly swipes Captain Atherton's security pass at the party and uses it to break into the ship's vault. When she's caught red-handed and Canton slaps her, she just as deftly steals ''his'' wallet in retaliation.
254* SuperPersistentPredator: The sea monster continues to relentlessly pursue the heroes despite suffering extreme trauma from doing so every time. The graveyard of sunken ships we see at the beginning seems to indicate that the creature long ago figured out that ships were easy to attack and filled with tasty morsels. This is probably the first time it encountered anything on a ship that put up serious resistance. There are also dozens of whale skeletons in the same underwater graveyard, suggesting that it's an equal-opportunity predator.
255* SwallowedWhole: The creature's tentacles can eat human beings in one gulp, and function as a digestive chamber as well. One such victim falls back out after the heroes fire at a tentacle, ''still alive and half-melted''.
256* TakingYouWithMe:
257** [[spoiler:Mason gets snagged by one of the tentacles and sets off a grenade when he gets halfway down its gullet.]]
258** [[spoiler:When Hanover is slowly being eaten, he tried to shoot Joey so he won't die alone, only to miss.]]
259* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Hanover reluctantly teams up with Finnegan (after threatening him multiple times over the last several hours) as he begins to lose [[DwindlingParty more and more]] of his men.
260* TemptingFate:
261** "I ask you, could it get any worse?" (Lights go out.) "Thanks, Joey."
262** At the end, [[spoiler: Joey]] says "This looks like a nice enough place" just before [[spoiler:something huge starts snarling and tossing trees around in the jungle]].
263* TentacledTerror: The monster is a cephalopod-like beast which happens to ''drink'' its preys alive.
264* ThisIsGonnaSuck:
265** Joey over Vivo catching him sneaking a look at the mercenaries' cargo.
266** After the group finds the ship devoid of people and a total mess, an elevator suddenly starts rising. Finnegan has this reaction. The insides being smeared with blood validate his concern, as well as creep out the mercenaries.
267* TrailersAlwaysLie: The trailers depict it as a standard monster movie. There's a lot more to it than that.
268* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Disney was really bad about this in the trailer and video cover. The trailer basically shows you nearly all of the second half (despite the fact that you could have cut a really good trailer with just the first act) while the video cover depicts the film's climax. In all fairness, the cover looked so over the top, one could be excused for assuming it was just poster art and not actually a scene from the movie.
269* TrappedWithMonsterPlot: On a sinking cruise ship infested with man-eating tentacle monsters.
270* TravelingPipeBulge:
271** When the worm monsters pass through pipes.
272** Overlaps with DinnerDeformation when the bulging mass of [[spoiler: half-digested Billy]] travels the length of a loop of tentacle.
273* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The hold full of [[spoiler:bloody skeletons stretching as far as the eye can see]] doesn't really seem to affect Hanover that much.
274* UnseenEvil: [[spoiler: The thing on the island.]]
275* {{Understatement}}: When Joey finds out [[spoiler:all the torpedoes]] and Vivo catches him, echoing his "Oh, shit", Joey points out:
276-->'''Joey:''' I am feeling a real lack of love here.
277* UpCloseWithTheMonster: In the climax, Octalus grabs the hero Finnigan with one of its tentacles and pulls him up to its face to have a look at him. This gives Finnigan the perfect opportunity to [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu blow one of its eyes out with his shotgun]].
278* VasquezAlwaysDies: [[spoiler:The spunky and capable Leila dies early on to establish the presence of the monsters]].
279* VillainProtagonist: It is one of the few films that has no heroes or heroines. Finnegan and his crew are hired for villainous reasons. Trillian is a thief. Canton is a fraudster. The mercenaries are simply mercenaries, and the few crew members to survive the initial attack don't last long enough to do anything heroic.
280* VillainousFriendship: The mercenary RuthlessModernPirates appear to be {{Boisterous Bruiser}}s with genuine camaraderie amongst themselves. They are even legitimately and grief-stricken distraught when learning of the deaths of their comrades.
281* VillainousValour: Despite the infestation and ultimately getting all killed, the mercenaries are shown to be capable of this despite some of them undergoing the BreakTheBadass treatments, determined to fight their way to survival despite being picked off one by one.
282-->'''Hanover:''' I ain't waiting for no rescue party, Finnegan.
283* WhatTheHellHero:
284** With mercenaries and torpedoes on their ship, Joey and Leila chastise Finnegan for his OnlyInItForTheMoney attitude.
285** After everyone learns that Canton indirectly caused all this because of an InsuranceFraud scam, Joey shouts, "You mean we're all gonna die because you screwed up on the math?!" and shortly after, Atherton can be heard loudly berating Canton for his greed in a FunnyBackgroundEvent. Subverted in that Canton is nowhere near heroic.
286* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Upon getting ensnared, Atherton calls out to Canton for help. Canton responds by backing away for his own safety. By contrast, Finnegan and Trillian stumble upon this, and they at least try to pull Atherton to safety.
287* WithFriendsLikeThese: En route to their target, T-Ray gets seasick and then has to put up with Vivo describing an assortment of tasty treats he'd like to snack on--greasy pigs feet, pickled monkey brains and raw elephant eyeballs. Billy blowing cigarette smoke in his face doesn't help.
288* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler: T. Ray, the [[TheBrute biggest and most violent member]] of Hanover's mercenary crew, is the [[SacrificialLamb first of them to be eaten by the monsters]]. Vivo who's the second biggest member of the crew, gets taken down by suprise by Canton hitting him with an axe to the head.]]
289* {{Wormsign}}:
290** Something makes the floor's iron grates rise up as it chases Finnegan and Joey down a corridor.
291** Occasionally, when the worms move underwater, you only see the rapid crest of water as they speed underneath.
292** [[spoiler:At the end, the path of the unknown roaring creature is made visible because of the ''trees'' it's hurling aside as it charges through the jungle.]]
293* WouldHitAGirl:
294** At the beginning of the film, Canton has no qualms about giving Trillian a vicious bitch slap when he and his goons catch her red-handed in the Argonautica's vault. She nicks his wallet in revenge.
295** After finding Trillian sneaking around, Hanover stops her from leaving by forcing her against the wall and putting a hand on her neck. He warns she'd better give him some answers about the situation or else.
296* YouJustHadToSayIt:
297-->'''Joey:''' I ask you, man, could it get any worse?\
298''[lights go out]''\
299'''Finnegan:''' [[SarcasmMode Thanks, Joey.]]
300* YoureInsane: Trillian's response to Mulligan wanting to hole up in the kitchen and wait for rescue rather than keep moving.

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