History Film / Supervolcano

** Jock was skeptical of the threat posed by Yellowstone until a harmonic trigger is detected. He's the only one of the team that survives the initial eruption and ashfall due to being injured and boarding a helicopter (reluctantly, as he wanted Nancy to go). [[spoiler:Aside from Rick, anyway.]]

** Jock was skeptical of the threat posed by Yellowstone until a harmonic trigger is detected. He's the only one of the team that survives the initial eruption and ashfall due to being injured and boarding a helicopter (unreluctantly, he wanted Nancy to go). [[spoiler:Aside from Rick, anyway.]]

* DisturbedDoves: Some birds can be seen fleeing as the eruption begins. Before this, thousands of bison are spotted fleeing from the park by the main characters.

** Jock was skeptical of the threat posed by Yellowstone. He's the only one of the team that survives the initial eruption and ashfall. [[spoiler:Aside from Rick, anyway.]]

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Subverted. Maggie gives up on covering Yellowstone on-site when Matt makes her aware of just how big an eruption would be and instead starts covering the government's response.

* EleventhHour-Ranger: Johnson appears late in the middle of part 2 of the movie, yet he's essential for establishing communications between Rick and the rescue efforts.

* HolographicTerminal: Virgil, the modeling computer they use to look at the magma chamber, uses one to display results.

** When the route of the ash cloud is mapped out and shown to cross over many major commercial air routes. Including the plane Rick is on.

** Later, when the route ash cloud is mapped out and shown to cross over many major commercial air routes.
-->'''Wendy:''' Michael, where is your guy? I need him here.
-->'''Michael:''' Rick Lieberman?
-->'''Wendy:''' Yes!
-->'''Michael:''' He's in there somewhere.

* DisturbedDoves: Some birds can be seen fleeing as the eruption begins.

* AnyoneCanDie: Besides the countless people who die in the eruption off-screen, a lot of the main cast dies as well.

* EleventhHour-Ranger: Johnson only appears in the middle of part 2 of the movie, yet he's essential for establishing communications between Rick and the rescue efforts.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Joe Foster is forced to accept that there's no way to send help to survivors directly thanks to the ash cloud disabling any air traffic. With no other options he's forced to accept Rick's "Walk to Life" program in order to save as many as possible.

* OutrunTheFireball: Technically it's a pyroclastic flow, but otherwise the trope is intact when Jock, Nancy and Matt flee the incoming pyroclastic flow. [[spoiler: They don't survive, sadly.]] Jock manages to out''fly'' the flow in a helicopter by telling the pilot to keep going up as they fly away from the eruption.

* BittersweetEnding: Rick, Jock, Johnson, and Kenneth survive the eruption, and ultimately Rick's suggestion of "Walk to Life" saves 7.3 million people. However, [[spoiler: the eruption has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, wreaked havoc on the entire global ecosystem, rendered 20% of the United States uninhabitable, and caused mass famine and a volcanic winter.]]

** The remainder of the team at the field office have a giant one when they realise that Yellowstone's finally gone off. Even the skeptical Jock realises what's happened and let's out a horrified "This isn't mud. It's started."