Would you say that sealing a breached compartment while people are still inside, leaving them to die, is a possible subtrope.
Examples include:
Titanic1997: The titular ship has bulkheads to seal off flooding compartments, after the iceberg strike we see workers attempting to swim through before the bulkheads are sealed, and not all of them make it in time. Even then too many compartments have flooded for the ship to stay afloat.
In the pilot miniseries of BattlestarGalactica2003 the Galactica takes a Cylon nuke that causes several engineering compartments to start decompressing. Commander Adama makes the hard decision to seal off the compartments, condemning hundreds of engineers to death with no chance of rescue, something Chief Tyrol resents him for.
Would you say that sealing a breached compartment while people are still inside, leaving them to die, is a possible subtrope.
Examples include:
- Titanic1997: The titular ship has bulkheads to seal off flooding compartments, after the iceberg strike we see workers attempting to swim through before the bulkheads are sealed, and not all of them make it in time. Even then too many compartments have flooded for the ship to stay afloat.
- In the pilot miniseries of BattlestarGalactica2003 the Galactica takes a Cylon nuke that causes several engineering compartments to start decompressing. Commander Adama makes the hard decision to seal off the compartments, condemning hundreds of engineers to death with no chance of rescue, something Chief Tyrol resents him for.
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