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* ActionBomb: [[spoiler:Harry Stamper manually detonates the nuclear bomb, sacrificing himself to save the world]].
* AmericaSavesTheDay: As one of the few space faring nations, only America has the necessary technology and infrastructure to build the equipment necessary to destroy the asteroid. The Russians do provide support in the form of a refueling station. The team NASA sends is purely American, except for the Russian cosmonaut from the station.
* AndMissionControlRejoiced: Happens after Harry Stamper's team defeats the asteroid -- with one notable exception.
* AndMissionControlRejoiced: Happens after Harry Stamper's team defeats the asteroid -- with one notable exception.
* ApocalypseWow: The movie features the destruction of Paris by asteroid impact in one of the more impressive scenes of its run.
* ApocalypticGagOrder: The amateur astronomer who found the meteor after NASA did got to name it. He chose to call it after his wife, Dottie. Despite the roughnecks' blabbing at a strip club about their top-secret, world-saving mission for NASA, the lid is kept on the secret until a meteor hits a major city (it's kinda hard to not notice Shanghai turned into a freaking crater); then the NASA guy gets a text that lets him know that Dottie has gone public. Even ''then'', news reports for the first few days complain that the government is still not telling the public much.
* ArtificialGravity: The movie has a bizarre relationship with this trope, even by scifi standards. The film specifically addresses that the asteroid would have little to nil gravity and gives the characters special suits and equipment with "thrusters" so they don't float away while out on the surface of the asteroid. Yet, when the characters are inside their space shuttle, which is ''parked right on the asteroid'', they walk around unsuited as though under normal Earth gravity.
* ApocalypticGagOrder: The amateur astronomer who found the meteor after NASA did got to name it. He chose to call it after his wife, Dottie. Despite the roughnecks' blabbing at a strip club about their top-secret, world-saving mission for NASA, the lid is kept on the secret until a meteor hits a major city (it's kinda hard to not notice Shanghai turned into a freaking crater); then the NASA guy gets a text that lets him know that Dottie has gone public. Even ''then'', news reports for the first few days complain that the government is still not telling the public much.
* ArtificialGravity: The movie has a bizarre relationship with this trope, even by scifi standards. The film specifically addresses that the asteroid would have little to nil gravity and gives the characters special suits and equipment with "thrusters" so they don't float away while out on the surface of the asteroid. Yet, when the characters are inside their space shuttle, which is ''parked right on the asteroid'', they walk around unsuited as though under normal Earth gravity.
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*** If we assume the measurement "The size of Texas" which Truman uses to describe its mass to the scientifically illiterate president refers to the diameter.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: ''Astrophysics'' to be precise, to the point where the sci-fi in the movie is so soft that pretty much the only thing it gets right about space is "you can't breathe in it". The staggering amount of scientific inaccuracies in this film has [[http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/01/nasa-uses-the-movie-armageddon-in-their-management-training-program/ actually prompted NASA]] to use it as part of their management training to see how many inaccuracies candidates would be able to identify. So far, over 160 have been found and with the film being only 2 1/2 hours in length, that averages to roughly one inaccuracy per minute.
** Also, the plan they come up with for destroying the asteroid would ''never'' work in reality ''for the precise reason they insist it will work'';
** Also, the plan they come up with for destroying the asteroid would ''never'' work in reality ''for the precise reason they insist it will work'';
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: ''Astrophysics'' to be precise, to the point where the sci-fi in the movie is so soft that pretty much the only thing it gets right about space is "you can't breathe in it". ArtisticLicenseSpace: The staggering amount of scientific inaccuracies in this film has [[http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/01/nasa-uses-the-movie-armageddon-in-their-management-training-program/ actually prompted NASA]] to use it as part of their management training to see how many inaccuracies candidates would be able to identify. So far, over 160 have been found and with the film being only 2 1/2 hours in length, that averages to roughly one inaccuracy per minute.
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**Also, the The plan they come up with for destroying the asteroid would ''never'' work in reality ''for the precise reason they insist it will work'';
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*** The asteroid wouldn't split cleanly so the remaining pieces would miss, it would ''shatter'', turning the single mantle-piercing doomsday rock into a shotgun blast of rocks "the size of basketballs... and, uh, Volkswagens, things like that" that trashed New York in the opening scenes - over '''an entire hemisphere.''' However, detonating it on the ''side'' of the asteroid and knock it off course might work, seeing as that is ''NASA's actual plan'' if something like this actually happened.
*** They do handwave it with the implication that the bomb is targeting a fissure that may even be full of astronomical amount of combustible material which they had calculated would split the asteroid in two. How they managed to calculate the halves flying away from each other in the exact right direction when the bomb can be set off at any moment while the asteroid spins unpredictably on three axes is not discussed, of course.
*** Not to mention, if you want to destroy (that is, overwhelm the cohesive energy) of an asteroid "the size of Texas", it's safe to say that a nuclear bomb isn't going to cut it. Assimilating the asteroid to the aforementioned Ceres, it would take an energy of 8.4e25 joules to destroy it. That means you do not need one nuclear bomb, but rather a few thousand billions of them (to compare: the hiroshima bomb "merely" produced a trillion (1e12) joules...).
*** They do handwave it with the implication that the bomb is targeting a fissure that may even be full of astronomical amount of combustible material which they had calculated would split the asteroid in two. How they managed to calculate the halves flying away from each other in the exact right direction when the bomb can be set off at any moment while the asteroid spins unpredictably on three axes is not discussed, of course.
*** Not to mention, if you want to destroy (that is, overwhelm the cohesive energy) of an asteroid "the size of Texas", it's safe to say that a nuclear bomb isn't going to cut it. Assimilating the asteroid to the aforementioned Ceres, it would take an energy of 8.4e25 joules to destroy it. That means you do not need one nuclear bomb, but rather a few thousand billions of them (to compare: the hiroshima bomb "merely" produced a trillion (1e12) joules...).
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* ArtisticLicenseSpace:
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*** Well, given NASA seems to have mastered CentrifugalGravity inside its space shuttles (note the unrestricted movement of crew members ''inside'' the shuttle as opposed to ''outside'' the shuttle on the asteroid) maybe this had something to do with it.
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* BrickJoke: After Rockhound is selected for the mission, we see him receiving a huge amount of cash from a loan shark. Later, he mentions offhandedly that he's not looking forward to returning safely to Earth because he blew it all on a stripper named Molly Mounds. The real payoff comes at the end, though, when Miss Mounds (who is well-named) [[TheGlomp greets]] Rockhound as he comes off the shuttle.
** Presumably though, he could make it all back ten times over just doing interviews about the mission, plus whatever actual paycheck the US gov would comp them with afterward.
** Not to mention the fact that part of the compensation for the mission was the roughnecks never paying Taxes again. Ever.
** Then there's the fact the loan shark would probably not want to be discovered putting the screws to one of the heroes who literally saved the Earth. They're not usually subtle enough to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.
** And the fact that when we get to see the wedding of Grace and [=AJ=], Rockhound is alive and well and Molly is beside him in the pew. So at least one scenario preventing the loan shark from taking revenge actually played out.
** Presumably though, he could make it all back ten times over just doing interviews about the mission, plus whatever actual paycheck the US gov would comp them with afterward.
** Not to mention the fact that part of the compensation for the mission was the roughnecks never paying Taxes again. Ever.
** Then there's the fact the loan shark would probably not want to be discovered putting the screws to one of the heroes who literally saved the Earth. They're not usually subtle enough to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.
** And the fact that when we get to see the wedding of Grace and [=AJ=], Rockhound is alive and well and Molly is beside him in the pew. So at least one scenario preventing the loan shark from taking revenge actually played out.
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* BleakBorderBase: Before the two shuttle crews go to the moon, they stop at the Mir space station to refuel; there, they meet only one guy named Lev. Shortly after, a leak happened and the base is blown to bits, although the crew managed to escape.
* BrickJoke: After Rockhound is selected for the mission, we see him receiving a huge amount of cash from a loan shark. Later, he mentions offhandedly that he's not looking forward to returning safely to Earth because he blew it all on a stripper named Molly Mounds. The real payoff comes at the end, though, when Miss Mounds (who is well-named) [[TheGlomp greets]] Rockhound as he comes off theshuttle.
** Presumably though, he could make it all back ten times over just doing interviews about the mission, plus whatever actual paycheck the US gov would comp them with afterward.
** Not to mention the fact that part of the compensation for the mission was the roughnecks never paying Taxes again. Ever.
**shuttle. Then there's the fact the loan shark would probably not want to be discovered putting the screws to one of the heroes who literally saved the Earth. They're not usually subtle enough to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.
**And the fact that when we get to see the wedding of Grace and [=AJ=], Rockhound is alive and well and Molly is beside him in the pew. So at least one scenario preventing the loan shark from taking revenge actually played out.
* BrickJoke: After Rockhound is selected for the mission, we see him receiving a huge amount of cash from a loan shark. Later, he mentions offhandedly that he's not looking forward to returning safely to Earth because he blew it all on a stripper named Molly Mounds. The real payoff comes at the end, though, when Miss Mounds (who is well-named) [[TheGlomp greets]] Rockhound as he comes off the
** Presumably though, he could make it all back ten times over just doing interviews about the mission, plus whatever actual paycheck the US gov would comp them with afterward.
** Not to mention the fact that part of the compensation for the mission was the roughnecks never paying Taxes again. Ever.
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** Interesting to note how similar the thing looks to the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Asteroid Axis from the]] TropeNamer. Of course, that one's bizarre, spiny shape was due to having been carved up for minerals by space miners, while the one here has no excuse other than RuleOfCool.
* CoolShip: The X-71 prototypes ''Independence'' and ''Freedom'' definitely count as militarized Space Shuttles with a lot more speed, agility and endurance than their real-life counterparts.
* CoolShip: The X-71 prototypes ''Independence'' and ''Freedom'' definitely count as militarized Space Shuttles with a lot more speed, agility and endurance than their real-life counterparts.
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** [[spoiler: Max. He is blown into outer space while inside the Armadillo, and where as every other character death in the movie was killed pretty much instantly, he will die slowly and be aware and alone.]]
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** [[spoiler: Max. He is blown into outer space while inside the Armadillo, and where as every other character death in the movie was killed pretty much instantly, he will die slowly and be aware and alone.]]
* DeathWorld: The asteroid is not only airless, it's covered in big, jagged, evil-looking spikes and regularly spews forth masses of gas and rock designed specifically to kill intrepid astronauts.
* DespiteThePlan: A lot goes wrong, but they somehow manage to destroy the asteroid anyway. Put briefly, the Russian Space Station explodes because of old, shoddy piping and wiring just after they refuel, one shuttle is destroyed by debris and crashes (but Frost survives), the other crashes on an almost undrillable section of the asteroid, Rockhound has a mental breakdown and starts shooting at everybody, the President decides to detonate the nuke prematurely and then doesn't, the asteroid kills more people with geysers when they ''do'' reach the right depth, but the transmitter on the nuke is damaged, forcing Harry Stamper to make a HeroicSacrifice.
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** And, in the words of Creator/RogerEbert:
--->''"OK, say you do succeed in blowing up an asteroid the size of Texas. What if a piece the size of Dallas is left? Wouldn't that be big enough to destroy life on Earth? What about a piece the size of Austin? Let's face it: Even an object the size of that big Wal-Mart outside Abilene would pretty much clean us out, if you count the parking lot."''
** He's not far off. An asteroid the size of a house would destroy the better part of a city. If it's as big as a 20-story office building, it could wipe out an entire city and all its suburbs. A rock [[http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/asteroid-hits-earth.htm one mile wide]] would cause a mass extinction; a rock six miles wide wiped out the dinosaurs.
--->''"OK, say you do succeed in blowing up an asteroid the size of Texas. What if a piece the size of Dallas is left? Wouldn't that be big enough to destroy life on Earth? What about a piece the size of Austin? Let's face it: Even an object the size of that big Wal-Mart outside Abilene would pretty much clean us out, if you count the parking lot."''
** He's not far off. An asteroid the size of a house would destroy the better part of a city. If it's as big as a 20-story office building, it could wipe out an entire city and all its suburbs. A rock [[http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/asteroid-hits-earth.htm one mile wide]] would cause a mass extinction; a rock six miles wide wiped out the dinosaurs.
* DisappearedDad: Chick's gambling problem resulted in his wife taking him to court and removing his paternal rights, so he wasn't willingly disappeared.
* DistantPrologue:
-->'''Narrator:''' This is the Earth at a time when the dinosaurs ruled a lush and fertile planet. A piece of rock just six miles wide changed all that.\\
65 MILLION YEARS LATER
* DivorceIsTemporary: Charles "Chick" Chapple is legally barred from being around his ex-wife and son whom he hasn't seen in a really long time. After learning of his part-taking in saving the world, she seems to forgive his former grievances and give their relationship another try upon his returning home.
-->'''Narrator:''' This is the Earth at a time when the dinosaurs ruled a lush and fertile planet. A piece of rock just six miles wide changed all that.\\
65 MILLION YEARS LATER
* DivorceIsTemporary: Charles "Chick" Chapple is legally barred from being around his ex-wife and son whom he hasn't seen in a really long time. After learning of his part-taking in saving the world, she seems to forgive his former grievances and give their relationship another try upon his returning home.
* EarthShatteringPoster: The movie's poster has the Earth in front of a humongous meteor silhouetted against a ring of fire.
* EtherealChoir: This is the asteroid's {{leitmotif}} and can be heard any time it's seen from space.
* FamilyFriendlyStripper: Rockhound decides to spend the night before the mission getting lap dances at a strip club. Seeing that this film is also a PG-13 summer blockbuster the dancers leave their underwear on.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Rockhound]] wanted to be the one to make the HeroicSacrifice. In his own words, [[spoiler:"I owe a hundred grand to a fat-ass LoanShark, which I spent on a stripper named Molly Mounds"]]. He's ''really'' not looking forward to being kneecapped until he pays back all that money.
** Fortunately, since Team Stamper saved the world and are pretty much BigDamnHeroes, said LoanShark will probably get paid back relatively quickly because Rockhound and company probably made lots of money very quickly on deals, interviews, merchandising, etc... (Plus, he won't be paying taxes ever again.)
** And, most importantly, [[MarshmallowHell Ms. Mounds]] met Rockhound at the spashdown to [[TheGlomp welcome him home]].
** Fortunately, since Team Stamper saved the world and are pretty much BigDamnHeroes, said LoanShark will probably get paid back relatively quickly because Rockhound and company probably made lots of money very quickly on deals, interviews, merchandising, etc... (Plus, he won't be paying taxes ever again.)
** And, most importantly, [[MarshmallowHell Ms. Mounds]] met Rockhound at the spashdown to [[TheGlomp welcome him home]].
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* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Rockhound]] wanted wants to be the one to make the HeroicSacrifice. In his own words, [[spoiler:"I owe a hundred grand to a fat-ass LoanShark, which I spent on a stripper named Molly Mounds"]]. He's ''really'' not looking forward to being kneecapped until he pays back all that money.
** Fortunately, since Team Stamper saved the world and are pretty much BigDamnHeroes, said LoanShark will probably get paid back relatively quickly because Rockhound and company probably made lots of money very quickly on deals, interviews, merchandising, etc... (Plus, he won't be paying taxes ever again.)
** And, most importantly, [[MarshmallowHell Ms. Mounds]] met Rockhound at the spashdown to [[TheGlomp welcome him home]].money.
** Fortunately, since Team Stamper saved the world and are pretty much BigDamnHeroes, said LoanShark will probably get paid back relatively quickly because Rockhound and company probably made lots of money very quickly on deals, interviews, merchandising, etc... (Plus, he won't be paying taxes ever again.)
** And, most importantly, [[MarshmallowHell Ms. Mounds]] met Rockhound at the spashdown to [[TheGlomp welcome him home]].
* HaggisIsHorrible: Max says this is his favorite dish. The NASA doctor gets visibly queasy as he describes it.
-->'''Max:''' Heart, lungs, liver. You shove that all in a sheep's stomach, than you boil it. That'll put some hair on your ass!
-->'''Max:''' Heart, lungs, liver. You shove that all in a sheep's stomach, than you boil it. That'll put some hair on your ass!
* HellYesMoment: Harry Stamper has this reaction when he cheers at the (unexpected) arrival of the other Armadillo carrying A.J., Bear, and Lev to the drill site.
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* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Kind of. It's a small dog who survives the opening destruction scenes, rather than a child, though seeing as its New York City, it's likely kids were killed during the meteor shower.
** Averted '''hard''' for the Shanghai scene, as we actually ''see'' children literally crying and screaming in fear as they're obliterated by the resulting meteor and megatsunami that follows, unlike the New York and Paris scenes, we actually see them die on-screen.
** Averted '''hard''' for the Shanghai scene, as we actually ''see'' children literally crying and screaming in fear as they're obliterated by the resulting meteor and megatsunami that follows, unlike the New York and Paris scenes, we actually see them die on-screen.
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* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Kind of. It's a small dog who survives the opening destruction scenes, rather than a child, though seeing as its New York City, it's likely kids were killed during the meteor shower.
** Averted '''hard'''shower. It is averted for the Shanghai scene, as we actually ''see'' children literally crying and screaming in fear as they're obliterated by the resulting meteor and megatsunami that follows, unlike the New York and Paris scenes, we actually see them die on-screen.
** Averted '''hard'''
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Col. Sharp.
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* IwoJimaPose: The Iwo Jima Memorial is visible at the start of the film
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Col. Sharp.
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Col. Sharp.
* JewelersEyeLoupe: Rockhound uses an eye loupe to seduce a young wife by telling her the diamond her husband gave her is fake.
* LastDayToLive: The astronauts/oil drillers have to go on a dangerous mission, and even if they survive, the Earth might still be destroyed. They spend their last day before training doing all the expected buffoonery.
* LunaticLoophole: Crazy Russian guy is one of the few guys that survives. Also Rockhound, who gets "space dementia." It helps that the rest of the crew [[BoundAndGagged duct-taped him to a chair]] because of it.
* MissingMom: Grace was raised by roughnecks because her mother walked out on Harry when Grace was very small, and Harry wouldn't leave the rig. Grace initially blamed Harry for her leaving, but has grown to accept her life and realized she left them ''both''.
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** It's a ''ballistic obstacle removal device''. Yeah...
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* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Lev Andropov of the space station. So tough, he was on the ''outside'' of an "asteroid rover" when it jumped a chasm, and fixes the space shuttle's navigation system by [[PercussiveMaintenance assaulting it]], because "[[PunctuatedPounding This! Is how we fix things! On Russian! Space! Station!]]"
* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Done when Harry detonates the bomb. Images of his daughter and wife briefly flash on the screen.
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* PapaWolf: Harry, of course. He goes ballistic when he thinks his daughter needs to be protected, and you do ''not'' want to be the one in his path. Leads to a funny moment when he chases AJ around the oil rig after finding out that he and Grace are together. Harry's PapaWolf qualities ultimately lead him to [[spoiler: sacrifice himself and go down destroying the asteroid in order to allow AJ to live and marry Grace so that she can be happy, leading to the most emotional scenes of the movie]].
** Harry's crew members point out that they all had a hand in raising Grace, so they all feel protective of her. Doubles as a nice heartwarming moment.
* ParentalAbandonment:
** DisappearedDad: Chick's gambling problem resulted in his wife taking him to court and removing his paternal rights, so he wasn't willingly disappeared.
*** Technically, Harry Stamper himself.
** MissingMom: Grace was raised by roughnecks because her mother walked out on Harry when Grace was very small, and Harry wouldn't leave the rig. Grace initially blamed Harry for her leaving, but has grown to accept her life and realized she left them ''both''.
** Harry's crew members point out that they all had a hand in raising Grace, so they all feel protective of her. Doubles as a nice heartwarming moment.
* ParentalAbandonment:
** DisappearedDad: Chick's gambling problem resulted in his wife taking him to court and removing his paternal rights, so he wasn't willingly disappeared.
*** Technically, Harry Stamper himself.
** MissingMom: Grace was raised by roughnecks because her mother walked out on Harry when Grace was very small, and Harry wouldn't leave the rig. Grace initially blamed Harry for her leaving, but has grown to accept her life and realized she left them ''both''.
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* PapaWolf: Harry, of course. He goes ballistic when he thinks his daughter needs to be protected, and you do ''not'' want to be the one in his path. Leads to a funny moment when he chases AJ around the oil rig after finding out that he and Grace are together. Harry's PapaWolf qualities ultimately lead him to [[spoiler: sacrifice himself and go down destroying the asteroid in order to allow AJ to live and marry Grace so that she can be happy, leading to the most emotional scenes of the movie]].
**movie]]. Harry's crew members point out that they all had a hand in raising Grace, so they all feel protective of her. Doubles as a nice heartwarming moment.
* ParentalAbandonment:
** DisappearedDad: Chick's gambling problem resulted in his wife taking him to court and removing his paternal rights, so he wasn't willingly disappeared.
*** Technically, Harry Stamper himself.
** MissingMom: Grace was raised by roughnecks because her mother walked out on Harry when Grace was very small, and Harry wouldn't leave the rig. Grace initially blamed Harry for her leaving, but has grown to accept her life and realized she left them ''both''.her.
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* ParentalAbandonment:
** DisappearedDad: Chick's gambling problem resulted in his wife taking him to court and removing his paternal rights, so he wasn't willingly disappeared.
*** Technically, Harry Stamper himself.
** MissingMom: Grace was raised by roughnecks because her mother walked out on Harry when Grace was very small, and Harry wouldn't leave the rig. Grace initially blamed Harry for her leaving, but has grown to accept her life and realized she left them ''both''.
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* PercussiveMaintenance: [[spoiler:[[PunctuatedForEmphasis "This! Is how we fix things! On Russian! Space! Station! Because I don't want to stay here anymore!"]] ''(Engines finally whirl to life so the shuttle can escape)'']]
* PrecisionCrash: At the start of the film, the first incoming chunks of the asteroid hit downtown New York City. Later on, one large chunk precision-strikes the Eiffel Tower.
** The actual asteroid is predicted to hit the Pacific Ocean somewhere, but it never happens.
** Referenced and {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E17Failsafe Failsafe]]". Carter {{exposit|ion}}s how a 137-kilometer asteroid is on a collision course with Earth.
--> '''Jack:''' I've seen this movie. It hits Paris.\\
'''Sam:''' Actually sir, it will strike somewhere in the Arctic Circle. Probably Greenland or the Barents Sea.
* PrecisionCrash: At the start of the film, the first incoming chunks of the asteroid hit downtown New York City. Later on, one large chunk precision-strikes the Eiffel Tower.
** The actual asteroid is predicted to hit the Pacific Ocean somewhere, but it never happens.
** Referenced and {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E17Failsafe Failsafe]]". Carter {{exposit|ion}}s how a 137-kilometer asteroid is on a collision course with Earth.
--> '''Jack:''' I've seen this movie. It hits Paris.\\
'''Sam:''' Actually sir, it will strike somewhere in the Arctic Circle. Probably Greenland or the Barents Sea.
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* PercussiveMaintenance: [[spoiler:[[PunctuatedForEmphasis "This! Is Done when the crew was stranded on an asteroid: The [[Creator/PeterStormare Russian cosmonaut]] fixed the ship by banging the engines with a wrench, possibly in a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/StarWars''.
-->'''Lev Andropov:''' This is how we fixthings! On Russian! Space! Station! Because I don't want problem in the Russian space station!\\\
'''Lev Andropov:''' Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL [[MadeInCountryX MADE IN TAIWAN]]!
* PercussivePrevention: A.J. has tostay here anymore!"]] ''(Engines finally whirl be the one to life so remain on the asteroid and detonate the bomb, after drawing the short straw. Instead, Harry disconnects an oxygen tube from his space suit, forcing him to go back to the shuttle can escape)'']]
and let Harry do the job.
* PrecisionCrash: At the start of the film, the first incoming chunks of the asteroid hit downtown New York City. Later on, one large chunk precision-strikes the EiffelTower.
**Tower. The actual asteroid is predicted to hit the Pacific Ocean somewhere, but it never happens.
** Referenced and {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E17Failsafe Failsafe]]". Carter {{exposit|ion}}s how a 137-kilometer asteroid is on a collision course with Earth.
--> '''Jack:''' I've seen this movie. It hits Paris.\\
'''Sam:''' Actually sir, it will strike somewhere in the Arctic Circle. Probably Greenland or the Barents Sea.happens.
-->'''Lev Andropov:''' This is how we fix
'''Lev Andropov:''' Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL [[MadeInCountryX MADE IN TAIWAN]]!
* PercussivePrevention: A.J. has to
* PrecisionCrash: At the start of the film, the first incoming chunks of the asteroid hit downtown New York City. Later on, one large chunk precision-strikes the Eiffel
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** Referenced and {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E17Failsafe Failsafe]]". Carter {{exposit|ion}}s how a 137-kilometer asteroid is on a collision course with Earth.
--> '''Jack:''' I've seen this movie. It hits Paris.\\
'''Sam:''' Actually sir, it will strike somewhere in the Arctic Circle. Probably Greenland or the Barents Sea.
* PreSacrificeFinalGoodbye: Harry Stamper, in lieu of allowing his daughter's fiancée to die on the asteroid, takes his place, with a final goodbye to Grace before.
* PunctuatedPounding: The Russian Cosmonaut, while banging the engines with a wrench: "[[PercussiveMaintenance This! Is how! We fix! Things! On Russian! Space! Station!]]"
* PunctuatedPounding: The Russian Cosmonaut, while banging the engines with a wrench: "[[PercussiveMaintenance This! Is how! We fix! Things! On Russian! Space! Station!]]"
* ReallyDeadMontage: When Harry Stamper is about to push the button to detonate the nuke, we are shown a short montage of his memories of his daughter.
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* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: In the time Harry goes to NASA and accepts the mission (roughly one or two days), his crew spreads around the world, and AJ even starts his own oil company. Apparently, in earlier versions of the script, NASA was supposed to discover the asteroid several months before it was due to hit, but this was changed to differentiate the plot from ''Film/DeepImpact''.
** It's also a ShoutOut to the role of Creator/JamesDean in the film ''Giant'', which similarly involved a rebellious young man going and making his own fortune in oil. Has similar scenes, too.
%%* RidingTheBomb: [Re-add when Homage is fixed] See homage, above.
** It's also a ShoutOut to the role of Creator/JamesDean in the film ''Giant'', which similarly involved a rebellious young man going and making his own fortune in oil. Has similar scenes, too.
%%* RidingTheBomb: [Re-add when Homage is fixed] See homage, above.
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* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: In the time Harry goes to NASA and accepts the mission (roughly one or two days), his crew spreads around the world, and AJ even starts his own oil company. Apparently, in earlier versions of the script, NASA was supposed to discover the asteroid several months before it was due to hit, but this was changed to differentiate the plot from ''Film/DeepImpact''.
**''Film/DeepImpact''. It's also a ShoutOut to the role of Creator/JamesDean in the film ''Giant'', which similarly involved a rebellious young man going and making his own fortune in oil. Has similar scenes, too.
%%* * RidingTheBomb: [Re-add when Homage is fixed] See homage, above.When they're trying to lower the bomb into the core of the asteroid, Steve "Rockhound" Buscemi duplicates this scene, and everyone yells at him. Although he claims that he was actually getting the idea from ''Radio/TheLoneRanger''.
-->'''Colonel Sharp:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis GET OFF. THE NUCLEAR. WARHEAD.]]
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-->'''Colonel Sharp:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis GET OFF. THE NUCLEAR. WARHEAD.]]
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** The movie's ''physics''. It's not quite accurate, but it makes for an exciting movie.
%%** The ''Freedom'' and the ''Independence''. Now those are Space Shuttles.
%%** The ''Freedom'' and the ''Independence''. Now those are Space Shuttles.
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** Or more accurately, they consider it morale-boosting to remind these guys that they're brave heroes doing important work.
* SoloMissionBecomesGroupMission: When Harry tells the other members of Stamper Oil that they don't have to go and help him destroy the asteroid. The other men agree to go up with Harry to save the world.
* SpokenWordInMusic: The movie's official Album uses {{Music/Aerosmith}}'s "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" as musical {{Bookends}}... but the second time it appears, under the title "Animal Crackers", Steven Tyler only sings in the beginning and ending - the rest of the vocals consist of clips of dialogue between the characters A.J. and Grace, with the track title coming from a SeinfeldianConversation in which A.J. argues that animal crackers don't qualify as "crackers".
* StoryboardingTheApocalypse: The movie contains ''two'' examples of this. One is at the beginning of the film, as Charlton Heston's voiceover about what happened to the dinosaurs threatens the same consequence for Earth later on. Truman later makes it explicit:
-->'''Truman:''' Damage? Ah, total, sir. If this asteroid hits, nothing would survive. Not even bacteria.\\
'''Truman:''' So when the rogue comet hit the asteroid belt it sent all these pieces spinning off. Next fourteen days, the Earth's in a shooting gallery. Now, if it's a Pacific Basin impact, which we think it will be, it'll flash-boil millions of liters and set off earthquakes when it hits the ocean bedrock. Half the Earth's population will be incinerated by the heat blast and the other half will freeze to death in nuclear winter ... this is as real as it gets. It's coming. Right now, at about eighteen thousand miles an hour. Not a soul on Earth can hide from it.
-->'''Truman:''' Damage? Ah, total, sir. If this asteroid hits, nothing would survive. Not even bacteria.\\
'''Truman:''' So when the rogue comet hit the asteroid belt it sent all these pieces spinning off. Next fourteen days, the Earth's in a shooting gallery. Now, if it's a Pacific Basin impact, which we think it will be, it'll flash-boil millions of liters and set off earthquakes when it hits the ocean bedrock. Half the Earth's population will be incinerated by the heat blast and the other half will freeze to death in nuclear winter ... this is as real as it gets. It's coming. Right now, at about eighteen thousand miles an hour. Not a soul on Earth can hide from it.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Harry Stamper knows that he has only a few minutes to press the detonator that will destroy the giant asteroid and [[HeroicSuicide kill him in the process]]. So naturally, he finds a camera and spends several of those minutes giving a tearful goodbye to his daughter, still managing to press the button at the last second.
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* ThrowAwayCountry: France and China.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The movie has Harry Stamper [[spoiler:lament [[HeroicSacrifice his decision to stay behind on the asteroid to manually throw the switch on the bomb]] that will split the asteroid in two,]] saying [[SarcasmMode "This was a smart idea"]].
* ThrowAwayCountry: France and China. Paris is destroyed by a chunk of asteroid, just to serve as a reminder that these things hurt. Shanghai suffers a similar fate later in the movie, so the heroes have further reason to angst about the danger.
* TimeBomb: The timer on a nuclear bomb is remotely canceled from Earth, only to be restarted after a direct order from the President. Back on board the asteroid, the bomb is stopped again manually, the timer freezing at 2.46 seconds.
* ThrowAwayCountry: France and China. Paris is destroyed by a chunk of asteroid, just to serve as a reminder that these things hurt. Shanghai suffers a similar fate later in the movie, so the heroes have further reason to angst about the danger.
* TimeBomb: The timer on a nuclear bomb is remotely canceled from Earth, only to be restarted after a direct order from the President. Back on board the asteroid, the bomb is stopped again manually, the timer freezing at 2.46 seconds.
* UnimpressiveProgressReveal: PlayedForDrama. After landing on the [[ColonyDrop killer asteroid]], Harry Stamper and his team have exactly eight hours to drill a shaft eight hundred feet deep to plant a bomb before it crosses "zero barrier" and cannot be deflected away from Earth. After a HardWorkMontage that lasts two and a half hours in-universe, Colonel Sharp demands an update and is [[OhCrap less than pleased]] when Stamper admits they're only at 57 feet.
* VisitByDivorcedDad: One of the guys who has to go to space visits his son. The mom doesn't tell the boy that this is his father, but that he's a salesman; from what she says to her ex after their son goes into the house, it's implied that he's actually not ''allowed'' to visit, or at least not without advance notice (which is why his son doesn't recognize him). Later, after the father takes part in a plan that saves the planet, his family sees him on TV. When the boy says, "That salesman is on TV," the mom finally admits, "That's not a salesman. That's your dad."
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: A Russian cosmonaut, confronted with a malfunctioning piece of equipment, [[PercussiveMaintenance repeatedly hits it with another, similarly malfunctioning, piece of equipment]], shouting "THIS IS HOW YOU FIX THINGS ON RUSSIAN SPACE STATION!"
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* WithThisRing: Rockhound puts the mack on a hot blonde in a bar by informing her her shiny new engagement/wedding ring is not a real diamond.
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* WithThisRing: WithThisRing:
** Rockhound puts the mack on a hot blonde in a bar by informing her her shiny new engagement/wedding ring is not a real diamond.
** Rockhound puts the mack on a hot blonde in a bar by informing her her shiny new engagement/wedding ring is not a real diamond.
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*** Considering the size of the church in which the actual wedding takes place, though, the roughnecks got paid really, really well so the ring got upgraded after the survivors came home. Just as a RealLife example, a wedding at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York cost $2000 in 2012 for just the wedding, with a singer and organist thrown in. That's before counting the gown, tuxes, flowers, invites and all the other details that go into a high profile wedding.
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* ActionBomb: [[spoiler:Harry Stamper manually detonates the nuclear bomb, sacrificing himself to save the world]].
* AmericaSavesTheDay: As one of the few space faring nations, only America has the necessary technology and infrastructure to build the equipment necessary to destroy the asteroid. The Russians do provide support in the form of a refueling station. The team NASA sends is purely American, except for the Russian cosmonaut from the station.
* AndMissionControlRejoiced: Happens after Harry Stamper's team defeats the asteroid -- with one notable exception.
* AndMissionControlRejoiced: Happens after Harry Stamper's team defeats the asteroid -- with one notable exception.
* ApocalypseWow: The movie features the destruction of Paris by asteroid impact in one of the more impressive scenes of its run.
* ApocalypticGagOrder: The amateur astronomer who found the meteor after NASA did got to name it. He chose to call it after his wife, Dottie. Despite the roughnecks' blabbing at a strip club about their top-secret, world-saving mission for NASA, the lid is kept on the secret until a meteor hits a major city (it's kinda hard to not notice Shanghai turned into a freaking crater); then the NASA guy gets a text that lets him know that Dottie has gone public. Even ''then'', news reports for the first few days complain that the government is still not telling the public much.
* ArtificialGravity: The movie has a bizarre relationship with this trope, even by scifi standards. The film specifically addresses that the asteroid would have little to nil gravity and gives the characters special suits and equipment with "thrusters" so they don't float away while out on the surface of the asteroid. Yet, when the characters are inside their space shuttle, which is ''parked right on the asteroid'', they walk around unsuited as though under normal Earth gravity.
* ApocalypticGagOrder: The amateur astronomer who found the meteor after NASA did got to name it. He chose to call it after his wife, Dottie. Despite the roughnecks' blabbing at a strip club about their top-secret, world-saving mission for NASA, the lid is kept on the secret until a meteor hits a major city (it's kinda hard to not notice Shanghai turned into a freaking crater); then the NASA guy gets a text that lets him know that Dottie has gone public. Even ''then'', news reports for the first few days complain that the government is still not telling the public much.
* ArtificialGravity: The movie has a bizarre relationship with this trope, even by scifi standards. The film specifically addresses that the asteroid would have little to nil gravity and gives the characters special suits and equipment with "thrusters" so they don't float away while out on the surface of the asteroid. Yet, when the characters are inside their space shuttle, which is ''parked right on the asteroid'', they walk around unsuited as though under normal Earth gravity.
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*** If we assume the measurement "The size of Texas" which Truman uses to describe its mass to the scientifically illiterate president refers to the diameter.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: ''Astrophysics'' to be precise, to the point where the sci-fi in the movie is so soft that pretty much the only thing it gets right about space is "you can't breathe in it". The staggering amount of scientific inaccuracies in this film has [[http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/01/nasa-uses-the-movie-armageddon-in-their-management-training-program/ actually prompted NASA]] to use it as part of their management training to see how many inaccuracies candidates would be able to identify. So far, over 160 have been found and with the film being only 2 1/2 hours in length, that averages to roughly one inaccuracy per minute.
** Also, the plan they come up with for destroying the asteroid would ''never'' work in reality ''for the precise reason they insist it will work'';
** Also, the plan they come up with for destroying the asteroid would ''never'' work in reality ''for the precise reason they insist it will work'';
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: ''Astrophysics'' to be precise, to the point where the sci-fi in the movie is so soft that pretty much the only thing it gets right about space is "you can't breathe in it". ArtisticLicenseSpace: The staggering amount of scientific inaccuracies in this film has [[http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/01/nasa-uses-the-movie-armageddon-in-their-management-training-program/ actually prompted NASA]] to use it as part of their management training to see how many inaccuracies candidates would be able to identify. So far, over 160 have been found and with the film being only 2 1/2 hours in length, that averages to roughly one inaccuracy per minute.
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**Also, the The plan they come up with for destroying the asteroid would ''never'' work in reality ''for the precise reason they insist it will work'';
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*** The asteroid wouldn't split cleanly so the remaining pieces would miss, it would ''shatter'', turning the single mantle-piercing doomsday rock into a shotgun blast of rocks "the size of basketballs... and, uh, Volkswagens, things like that" that trashed New York in the opening scenes - over '''an entire hemisphere.''' However, detonating it on the ''side'' of the asteroid and knock it off course might work, seeing as that is ''NASA's actual plan'' if something like this actually happened.
*** They do handwave it with the implication that the bomb is targeting a fissure that may even be full of astronomical amount of combustible material which they had calculated would split the asteroid in two. How they managed to calculate the halves flying away from each other in the exact right direction when the bomb can be set off at any moment while the asteroid spins unpredictably on three axes is not discussed, of course.
*** Not to mention, if you want to destroy (that is, overwhelm the cohesive energy) of an asteroid "the size of Texas", it's safe to say that a nuclear bomb isn't going to cut it. Assimilating the asteroid to the aforementioned Ceres, it would take an energy of 8.4e25 joules to destroy it. That means you do not need one nuclear bomb, but rather a few thousand billions of them (to compare: the hiroshima bomb "merely" produced a trillion (1e12) joules...).
*** They do handwave it with the implication that the bomb is targeting a fissure that may even be full of astronomical amount of combustible material which they had calculated would split the asteroid in two. How they managed to calculate the halves flying away from each other in the exact right direction when the bomb can be set off at any moment while the asteroid spins unpredictably on three axes is not discussed, of course.
*** Not to mention, if you want to destroy (that is, overwhelm the cohesive energy) of an asteroid "the size of Texas", it's safe to say that a nuclear bomb isn't going to cut it. Assimilating the asteroid to the aforementioned Ceres, it would take an energy of 8.4e25 joules to destroy it. That means you do not need one nuclear bomb, but rather a few thousand billions of them (to compare: the hiroshima bomb "merely" produced a trillion (1e12) joules...).
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* ArtisticLicenseSpace:
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*** Well, given NASA seems to have mastered CentrifugalGravity inside its space shuttles (note the unrestricted movement of crew members ''inside'' the shuttle as opposed to ''outside'' the shuttle on the asteroid) maybe this had something to do with it.
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* BrickJoke: After Rockhound is selected for the mission, we see him receiving a huge amount of cash from a loan shark. Later, he mentions offhandedly that he's not looking forward to returning safely to Earth because he blew it all on a stripper named Molly Mounds. The real payoff comes at the end, though, when Miss Mounds (who is well-named) [[TheGlomp greets]] Rockhound as he comes off the shuttle.
** Presumably though, he could make it all back ten times over just doing interviews about the mission, plus whatever actual paycheck the US gov would comp them with afterward.
** Not to mention the fact that part of the compensation for the mission was the roughnecks never paying Taxes again. Ever.
** Then there's the fact the loan shark would probably not want to be discovered putting the screws to one of the heroes who literally saved the Earth. They're not usually subtle enough to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.
** And the fact that when we get to see the wedding of Grace and [=AJ=], Rockhound is alive and well and Molly is beside him in the pew. So at least one scenario preventing the loan shark from taking revenge actually played out.
** Presumably though, he could make it all back ten times over just doing interviews about the mission, plus whatever actual paycheck the US gov would comp them with afterward.
** Not to mention the fact that part of the compensation for the mission was the roughnecks never paying Taxes again. Ever.
** Then there's the fact the loan shark would probably not want to be discovered putting the screws to one of the heroes who literally saved the Earth. They're not usually subtle enough to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.
** And the fact that when we get to see the wedding of Grace and [=AJ=], Rockhound is alive and well and Molly is beside him in the pew. So at least one scenario preventing the loan shark from taking revenge actually played out.
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* BleakBorderBase: Before the two shuttle crews go to the moon, they stop at the Mir space station to refuel; there, they meet only one guy named Lev. Shortly after, a leak happened and the base is blown to bits, although the crew managed to escape.
* BrickJoke: After Rockhound is selected for the mission, we see him receiving a huge amount of cash from a loan shark. Later, he mentions offhandedly that he's not looking forward to returning safely to Earth because he blew it all on a stripper named Molly Mounds. The real payoff comes at the end, though, when Miss Mounds (who is well-named) [[TheGlomp greets]] Rockhound as he comes off theshuttle.
** Presumably though, he could make it all back ten times over just doing interviews about the mission, plus whatever actual paycheck the US gov would comp them with afterward.
** Not to mention the fact that part of the compensation for the mission was the roughnecks never paying Taxes again. Ever.
**shuttle. Then there's the fact the loan shark would probably not want to be discovered putting the screws to one of the heroes who literally saved the Earth. They're not usually subtle enough to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.
**And the fact that when we get to see the wedding of Grace and [=AJ=], Rockhound is alive and well and Molly is beside him in the pew. So at least one scenario preventing the loan shark from taking revenge actually played out.
* BrickJoke: After Rockhound is selected for the mission, we see him receiving a huge amount of cash from a loan shark. Later, he mentions offhandedly that he's not looking forward to returning safely to Earth because he blew it all on a stripper named Molly Mounds. The real payoff comes at the end, though, when Miss Mounds (who is well-named) [[TheGlomp greets]] Rockhound as he comes off the
** Presumably though, he could make it all back ten times over just doing interviews about the mission, plus whatever actual paycheck the US gov would comp them with afterward.
** Not to mention the fact that part of the compensation for the mission was the roughnecks never paying Taxes again. Ever.
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** Interesting to note how similar the thing looks to the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Asteroid Axis from the]] TropeNamer. Of course, that one's bizarre, spiny shape was due to having been carved up for minerals by space miners, while the one here has no excuse other than RuleOfCool.
* CoolShip: The X-71 prototypes ''Independence'' and ''Freedom'' definitely count as militarized Space Shuttles with a lot more speed, agility and endurance than their real-life counterparts.
* CoolShip: The X-71 prototypes ''Independence'' and ''Freedom'' definitely count as militarized Space Shuttles with a lot more speed, agility and endurance than their real-life counterparts.
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** [[spoiler: Max. He is blown into outer space while inside the Armadillo, and where as every other character death in the movie was killed pretty much instantly, he will die slowly and be aware and alone.]]
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** [[spoiler: Max. He is blown into outer space while inside the Armadillo, and where as every other character death in the movie was killed pretty much instantly, he will die slowly and be aware and alone.]]
* DeathWorld: The asteroid is not only airless, it's covered in big, jagged, evil-looking spikes and regularly spews forth masses of gas and rock designed specifically to kill intrepid astronauts.
* DespiteThePlan: A lot goes wrong, but they somehow manage to destroy the asteroid anyway. Put briefly, the Russian Space Station explodes because of old, shoddy piping and wiring just after they refuel, one shuttle is destroyed by debris and crashes (but Frost survives), the other crashes on an almost undrillable section of the asteroid, Rockhound has a mental breakdown and starts shooting at everybody, the President decides to detonate the nuke prematurely and then doesn't, the asteroid kills more people with geysers when they ''do'' reach the right depth, but the transmitter on the nuke is damaged, forcing Harry Stamper to make a HeroicSacrifice.
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** And, in the words of Creator/RogerEbert:
--->''"OK, say you do succeed in blowing up an asteroid the size of Texas. What if a piece the size of Dallas is left? Wouldn't that be big enough to destroy life on Earth? What about a piece the size of Austin? Let's face it: Even an object the size of that big Wal-Mart outside Abilene would pretty much clean us out, if you count the parking lot."''
** He's not far off. An asteroid the size of a house would destroy the better part of a city. If it's as big as a 20-story office building, it could wipe out an entire city and all its suburbs. A rock [[http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/asteroid-hits-earth.htm one mile wide]] would cause a mass extinction; a rock six miles wide wiped out the dinosaurs.
--->''"OK, say you do succeed in blowing up an asteroid the size of Texas. What if a piece the size of Dallas is left? Wouldn't that be big enough to destroy life on Earth? What about a piece the size of Austin? Let's face it: Even an object the size of that big Wal-Mart outside Abilene would pretty much clean us out, if you count the parking lot."''
** He's not far off. An asteroid the size of a house would destroy the better part of a city. If it's as big as a 20-story office building, it could wipe out an entire city and all its suburbs. A rock [[http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/asteroid-hits-earth.htm one mile wide]] would cause a mass extinction; a rock six miles wide wiped out the dinosaurs.
* DisappearedDad: Chick's gambling problem resulted in his wife taking him to court and removing his paternal rights, so he wasn't willingly disappeared.
* DistantPrologue:
-->'''Narrator:''' This is the Earth at a time when the dinosaurs ruled a lush and fertile planet. A piece of rock just six miles wide changed all that.\\
65 MILLION YEARS LATER
* DivorceIsTemporary: Charles "Chick" Chapple is legally barred from being around his ex-wife and son whom he hasn't seen in a really long time. After learning of his part-taking in saving the world, she seems to forgive his former grievances and give their relationship another try upon his returning home.
-->'''Narrator:''' This is the Earth at a time when the dinosaurs ruled a lush and fertile planet. A piece of rock just six miles wide changed all that.\\
65 MILLION YEARS LATER
* DivorceIsTemporary: Charles "Chick" Chapple is legally barred from being around his ex-wife and son whom he hasn't seen in a really long time. After learning of his part-taking in saving the world, she seems to forgive his former grievances and give their relationship another try upon his returning home.
* EarthShatteringPoster: The movie's poster has the Earth in front of a humongous meteor silhouetted against a ring of fire.
* EtherealChoir: This is the asteroid's {{leitmotif}} and can be heard any time it's seen from space.
* FamilyFriendlyStripper: Rockhound decides to spend the night before the mission getting lap dances at a strip club. Seeing that this film is also a PG-13 summer blockbuster the dancers leave their underwear on.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Rockhound]] wanted to be the one to make the HeroicSacrifice. In his own words, [[spoiler:"I owe a hundred grand to a fat-ass LoanShark, which I spent on a stripper named Molly Mounds"]]. He's ''really'' not looking forward to being kneecapped until he pays back all that money.
** Fortunately, since Team Stamper saved the world and are pretty much BigDamnHeroes, said LoanShark will probably get paid back relatively quickly because Rockhound and company probably made lots of money very quickly on deals, interviews, merchandising, etc... (Plus, he won't be paying taxes ever again.)
** And, most importantly, [[MarshmallowHell Ms. Mounds]] met Rockhound at the spashdown to [[TheGlomp welcome him home]].
** Fortunately, since Team Stamper saved the world and are pretty much BigDamnHeroes, said LoanShark will probably get paid back relatively quickly because Rockhound and company probably made lots of money very quickly on deals, interviews, merchandising, etc... (Plus, he won't be paying taxes ever again.)
** And, most importantly, [[MarshmallowHell Ms. Mounds]] met Rockhound at the spashdown to [[TheGlomp welcome him home]].
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* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Rockhound]] wanted wants to be the one to make the HeroicSacrifice. In his own words, [[spoiler:"I owe a hundred grand to a fat-ass LoanShark, which I spent on a stripper named Molly Mounds"]]. He's ''really'' not looking forward to being kneecapped until he pays back all that money.
** Fortunately, since Team Stamper saved the world and are pretty much BigDamnHeroes, said LoanShark will probably get paid back relatively quickly because Rockhound and company probably made lots of money very quickly on deals, interviews, merchandising, etc... (Plus, he won't be paying taxes ever again.)
** And, most importantly, [[MarshmallowHell Ms. Mounds]] met Rockhound at the spashdown to [[TheGlomp welcome him home]].money.
** Fortunately, since Team Stamper saved the world and are pretty much BigDamnHeroes, said LoanShark will probably get paid back relatively quickly because Rockhound and company probably made lots of money very quickly on deals, interviews, merchandising, etc... (Plus, he won't be paying taxes ever again.)
** And, most importantly, [[MarshmallowHell Ms. Mounds]] met Rockhound at the spashdown to [[TheGlomp welcome him home]].
* HaggisIsHorrible: Max says this is his favorite dish. The NASA doctor gets visibly queasy as he describes it.
-->'''Max:''' Heart, lungs, liver. You shove that all in a sheep's stomach, than you boil it. That'll put some hair on your ass!
-->'''Max:''' Heart, lungs, liver. You shove that all in a sheep's stomach, than you boil it. That'll put some hair on your ass!
* HellYesMoment: Harry Stamper has this reaction when he cheers at the (unexpected) arrival of the other Armadillo carrying A.J., Bear, and Lev to the drill site.
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* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Kind of. It's a small dog who survives the opening destruction scenes, rather than a child, though seeing as its New York City, it's likely kids were killed during the meteor shower.
** Averted '''hard''' for the Shanghai scene, as we actually ''see'' children literally crying and screaming in fear as they're obliterated by the resulting meteor and megatsunami that follows, unlike the New York and Paris scenes, we actually see them die on-screen.
** Averted '''hard''' for the Shanghai scene, as we actually ''see'' children literally crying and screaming in fear as they're obliterated by the resulting meteor and megatsunami that follows, unlike the New York and Paris scenes, we actually see them die on-screen.
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* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Kind of. It's a small dog who survives the opening destruction scenes, rather than a child, though seeing as its New York City, it's likely kids were killed during the meteor shower.
** Averted '''hard'''shower. It is averted for the Shanghai scene, as we actually ''see'' children literally crying and screaming in fear as they're obliterated by the resulting meteor and megatsunami that follows, unlike the New York and Paris scenes, we actually see them die on-screen.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Col. Sharp.
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* IwoJimaPose: The Iwo Jima Memorial is visible at the start of the film
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%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Col. Sharp.
* JewelersEyeLoupe: Rockhound uses an eye loupe to seduce a young wife by telling her the diamond her husband gave her is fake.
* LastDayToLive: The astronauts/oil drillers have to go on a dangerous mission, and even if they survive, the Earth might still be destroyed. They spend their last day before training doing all the expected buffoonery.
* LunaticLoophole: Crazy Russian guy is one of the few guys that survives. Also Rockhound, who gets "space dementia." It helps that the rest of the crew [[BoundAndGagged duct-taped him to a chair]] because of it.
* MissingMom: Grace was raised by roughnecks because her mother walked out on Harry when Grace was very small, and Harry wouldn't leave the rig. Grace initially blamed Harry for her leaving, but has grown to accept her life and realized she left them ''both''.
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** It's a ''ballistic obstacle removal device''. Yeah...
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* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Lev Andropov of the space station. So tough, he was on the ''outside'' of an "asteroid rover" when it jumped a chasm, and fixes the space shuttle's navigation system by [[PercussiveMaintenance assaulting it]], because "[[PunctuatedPounding This! Is how we fix things! On Russian! Space! Station!]]"
* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Done when Harry detonates the bomb. Images of his daughter and wife briefly flash on the screen.
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* PapaWolf: Harry, of course. He goes ballistic when he thinks his daughter needs to be protected, and you do ''not'' want to be the one in his path. Leads to a funny moment when he chases AJ around the oil rig after finding out that he and Grace are together. Harry's PapaWolf qualities ultimately lead him to [[spoiler: sacrifice himself and go down destroying the asteroid in order to allow AJ to live and marry Grace so that she can be happy, leading to the most emotional scenes of the movie]].
** Harry's crew members point out that they all had a hand in raising Grace, so they all feel protective of her. Doubles as a nice heartwarming moment.
* ParentalAbandonment:
** DisappearedDad: Chick's gambling problem resulted in his wife taking him to court and removing his paternal rights, so he wasn't willingly disappeared.
*** Technically, Harry Stamper himself.
** MissingMom: Grace was raised by roughnecks because her mother walked out on Harry when Grace was very small, and Harry wouldn't leave the rig. Grace initially blamed Harry for her leaving, but has grown to accept her life and realized she left them ''both''.
** Harry's crew members point out that they all had a hand in raising Grace, so they all feel protective of her. Doubles as a nice heartwarming moment.
* ParentalAbandonment:
** DisappearedDad: Chick's gambling problem resulted in his wife taking him to court and removing his paternal rights, so he wasn't willingly disappeared.
*** Technically, Harry Stamper himself.
** MissingMom: Grace was raised by roughnecks because her mother walked out on Harry when Grace was very small, and Harry wouldn't leave the rig. Grace initially blamed Harry for her leaving, but has grown to accept her life and realized she left them ''both''.
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* PapaWolf: Harry, of course. He goes ballistic when he thinks his daughter needs to be protected, and you do ''not'' want to be the one in his path. Leads to a funny moment when he chases AJ around the oil rig after finding out that he and Grace are together. Harry's PapaWolf qualities ultimately lead him to [[spoiler: sacrifice himself and go down destroying the asteroid in order to allow AJ to live and marry Grace so that she can be happy, leading to the most emotional scenes of the movie]].
**movie]]. Harry's crew members point out that they all had a hand in raising Grace, so they all feel protective of her. Doubles as a nice heartwarming moment.
* ParentalAbandonment:
** DisappearedDad: Chick's gambling problem resulted in his wife taking him to court and removing his paternal rights, so he wasn't willingly disappeared.
*** Technically, Harry Stamper himself.
** MissingMom: Grace was raised by roughnecks because her mother walked out on Harry when Grace was very small, and Harry wouldn't leave the rig. Grace initially blamed Harry for her leaving, but has grown to accept her life and realized she left them ''both''.her.
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* ParentalAbandonment:
** DisappearedDad: Chick's gambling problem resulted in his wife taking him to court and removing his paternal rights, so he wasn't willingly disappeared.
*** Technically, Harry Stamper himself.
** MissingMom: Grace was raised by roughnecks because her mother walked out on Harry when Grace was very small, and Harry wouldn't leave the rig. Grace initially blamed Harry for her leaving, but has grown to accept her life and realized she left them ''both''.
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* PercussiveMaintenance: [[spoiler:[[PunctuatedForEmphasis "This! Is how we fix things! On Russian! Space! Station! Because I don't want to stay here anymore!"]] ''(Engines finally whirl to life so the shuttle can escape)'']]
* PrecisionCrash: At the start of the film, the first incoming chunks of the asteroid hit downtown New York City. Later on, one large chunk precision-strikes the Eiffel Tower.
** The actual asteroid is predicted to hit the Pacific Ocean somewhere, but it never happens.
** Referenced and {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E17Failsafe Failsafe]]". Carter {{exposit|ion}}s how a 137-kilometer asteroid is on a collision course with Earth.
--> '''Jack:''' I've seen this movie. It hits Paris.\\
'''Sam:''' Actually sir, it will strike somewhere in the Arctic Circle. Probably Greenland or the Barents Sea.
* PrecisionCrash: At the start of the film, the first incoming chunks of the asteroid hit downtown New York City. Later on, one large chunk precision-strikes the Eiffel Tower.
** The actual asteroid is predicted to hit the Pacific Ocean somewhere, but it never happens.
** Referenced and {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E17Failsafe Failsafe]]". Carter {{exposit|ion}}s how a 137-kilometer asteroid is on a collision course with Earth.
--> '''Jack:''' I've seen this movie. It hits Paris.\\
'''Sam:''' Actually sir, it will strike somewhere in the Arctic Circle. Probably Greenland or the Barents Sea.
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* PercussiveMaintenance: [[spoiler:[[PunctuatedForEmphasis "This! Is Done when the crew was stranded on an asteroid: The [[Creator/PeterStormare Russian cosmonaut]] fixed the ship by banging the engines with a wrench, possibly in a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/StarWars''.
-->'''Lev Andropov:''' This is how we fixthings! On Russian! Space! Station! Because I don't want problem in the Russian space station!\\\
'''Lev Andropov:''' Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL [[MadeInCountryX MADE IN TAIWAN]]!
* PercussivePrevention: A.J. has tostay here anymore!"]] ''(Engines finally whirl be the one to life so remain on the asteroid and detonate the bomb, after drawing the short straw. Instead, Harry disconnects an oxygen tube from his space suit, forcing him to go back to the shuttle can escape)'']]
and let Harry do the job.
* PrecisionCrash: At the start of the film, the first incoming chunks of the asteroid hit downtown New York City. Later on, one large chunk precision-strikes the EiffelTower.
**Tower. The actual asteroid is predicted to hit the Pacific Ocean somewhere, but it never happens.
** Referenced and {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E17Failsafe Failsafe]]". Carter {{exposit|ion}}s how a 137-kilometer asteroid is on a collision course with Earth.
--> '''Jack:''' I've seen this movie. It hits Paris.\\
'''Sam:''' Actually sir, it will strike somewhere in the Arctic Circle. Probably Greenland or the Barents Sea.happens.
-->'''Lev Andropov:''' This is how we fix
'''Lev Andropov:''' Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL [[MadeInCountryX MADE IN TAIWAN]]!
* PercussivePrevention: A.J. has to
* PrecisionCrash: At the start of the film, the first incoming chunks of the asteroid hit downtown New York City. Later on, one large chunk precision-strikes the Eiffel
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** Referenced and {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E17Failsafe Failsafe]]". Carter {{exposit|ion}}s how a 137-kilometer asteroid is on a collision course with Earth.
--> '''Jack:''' I've seen this movie. It hits Paris.\\
'''Sam:''' Actually sir, it will strike somewhere in the Arctic Circle. Probably Greenland or the Barents Sea.
* PreSacrificeFinalGoodbye: Harry Stamper, in lieu of allowing his daughter's fiancée to die on the asteroid, takes his place, with a final goodbye to Grace before.
* PunctuatedPounding: The Russian Cosmonaut, while banging the engines with a wrench: "[[PercussiveMaintenance This! Is how! We fix! Things! On Russian! Space! Station!]]"
* PunctuatedPounding: The Russian Cosmonaut, while banging the engines with a wrench: "[[PercussiveMaintenance This! Is how! We fix! Things! On Russian! Space! Station!]]"
* ReallyDeadMontage: When Harry Stamper is about to push the button to detonate the nuke, we are shown a short montage of his memories of his daughter.
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* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: In the time Harry goes to NASA and accepts the mission (roughly one or two days), his crew spreads around the world, and AJ even starts his own oil company. Apparently, in earlier versions of the script, NASA was supposed to discover the asteroid several months before it was due to hit, but this was changed to differentiate the plot from ''Film/DeepImpact''.
** It's also a ShoutOut to the role of Creator/JamesDean in the film ''Giant'', which similarly involved a rebellious young man going and making his own fortune in oil. Has similar scenes, too.
%%* RidingTheBomb: [Re-add when Homage is fixed] See homage, above.
** It's also a ShoutOut to the role of Creator/JamesDean in the film ''Giant'', which similarly involved a rebellious young man going and making his own fortune in oil. Has similar scenes, too.
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* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: In the time Harry goes to NASA and accepts the mission (roughly one or two days), his crew spreads around the world, and AJ even starts his own oil company. Apparently, in earlier versions of the script, NASA was supposed to discover the asteroid several months before it was due to hit, but this was changed to differentiate the plot from ''Film/DeepImpact''.
**''Film/DeepImpact''. It's also a ShoutOut to the role of Creator/JamesDean in the film ''Giant'', which similarly involved a rebellious young man going and making his own fortune in oil. Has similar scenes, too.
%%* * RidingTheBomb: [Re-add when Homage is fixed] See homage, above.When they're trying to lower the bomb into the core of the asteroid, Steve "Rockhound" Buscemi duplicates this scene, and everyone yells at him. Although he claims that he was actually getting the idea from ''Radio/TheLoneRanger''.
-->'''Colonel Sharp:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis GET OFF. THE NUCLEAR. WARHEAD.]]
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-->'''Colonel Sharp:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis GET OFF. THE NUCLEAR. WARHEAD.]]
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** The movie's ''physics''. It's not quite accurate, but it makes for an exciting movie.
%%** The ''Freedom'' and the ''Independence''. Now those are Space Shuttles.
%%** The ''Freedom'' and the ''Independence''. Now those are Space Shuttles.
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** Or more accurately, they consider it morale-boosting to remind these guys that they're brave heroes doing important work.
* SoloMissionBecomesGroupMission: When Harry tells the other members of Stamper Oil that they don't have to go and help him destroy the asteroid. The other men agree to go up with Harry to save the world.
* SpokenWordInMusic: The movie's official Album uses {{Music/Aerosmith}}'s "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" as musical {{Bookends}}... but the second time it appears, under the title "Animal Crackers", Steven Tyler only sings in the beginning and ending - the rest of the vocals consist of clips of dialogue between the characters A.J. and Grace, with the track title coming from a SeinfeldianConversation in which A.J. argues that animal crackers don't qualify as "crackers".
* StoryboardingTheApocalypse: The movie contains ''two'' examples of this. One is at the beginning of the film, as Charlton Heston's voiceover about what happened to the dinosaurs threatens the same consequence for Earth later on. Truman later makes it explicit:
-->'''Truman:''' Damage? Ah, total, sir. If this asteroid hits, nothing would survive. Not even bacteria.\\
'''Truman:''' So when the rogue comet hit the asteroid belt it sent all these pieces spinning off. Next fourteen days, the Earth's in a shooting gallery. Now, if it's a Pacific Basin impact, which we think it will be, it'll flash-boil millions of liters and set off earthquakes when it hits the ocean bedrock. Half the Earth's population will be incinerated by the heat blast and the other half will freeze to death in nuclear winter ... this is as real as it gets. It's coming. Right now, at about eighteen thousand miles an hour. Not a soul on Earth can hide from it.
-->'''Truman:''' Damage? Ah, total, sir. If this asteroid hits, nothing would survive. Not even bacteria.\\
'''Truman:''' So when the rogue comet hit the asteroid belt it sent all these pieces spinning off. Next fourteen days, the Earth's in a shooting gallery. Now, if it's a Pacific Basin impact, which we think it will be, it'll flash-boil millions of liters and set off earthquakes when it hits the ocean bedrock. Half the Earth's population will be incinerated by the heat blast and the other half will freeze to death in nuclear winter ... this is as real as it gets. It's coming. Right now, at about eighteen thousand miles an hour. Not a soul on Earth can hide from it.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Harry Stamper knows that he has only a few minutes to press the detonator that will destroy the giant asteroid and [[HeroicSuicide kill him in the process]]. So naturally, he finds a camera and spends several of those minutes giving a tearful goodbye to his daughter, still managing to press the button at the last second.
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* ThrowAwayCountry: France and China.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The movie has Harry Stamper [[spoiler:lament [[HeroicSacrifice his decision to stay behind on the asteroid to manually throw the switch on the bomb]] that will split the asteroid in two,]] saying [[SarcasmMode "This was a smart idea"]].
* ThrowAwayCountry: France and China. Paris is destroyed by a chunk of asteroid, just to serve as a reminder that these things hurt. Shanghai suffers a similar fate later in the movie, so the heroes have further reason to angst about the danger.
* TimeBomb: The timer on a nuclear bomb is remotely canceled from Earth, only to be restarted after a direct order from the President. Back on board the asteroid, the bomb is stopped again manually, the timer freezing at 2.46 seconds.
* ThrowAwayCountry: France and China. Paris is destroyed by a chunk of asteroid, just to serve as a reminder that these things hurt. Shanghai suffers a similar fate later in the movie, so the heroes have further reason to angst about the danger.
* TimeBomb: The timer on a nuclear bomb is remotely canceled from Earth, only to be restarted after a direct order from the President. Back on board the asteroid, the bomb is stopped again manually, the timer freezing at 2.46 seconds.
* UnimpressiveProgressReveal: PlayedForDrama. After landing on the [[ColonyDrop killer asteroid]], Harry Stamper and his team have exactly eight hours to drill a shaft eight hundred feet deep to plant a bomb before it crosses "zero barrier" and cannot be deflected away from Earth. After a HardWorkMontage that lasts two and a half hours in-universe, Colonel Sharp demands an update and is [[OhCrap less than pleased]] when Stamper admits they're only at 57 feet.
* VisitByDivorcedDad: One of the guys who has to go to space visits his son. The mom doesn't tell the boy that this is his father, but that he's a salesman; from what she says to her ex after their son goes into the house, it's implied that he's actually not ''allowed'' to visit, or at least not without advance notice (which is why his son doesn't recognize him). Later, after the father takes part in a plan that saves the planet, his family sees him on TV. When the boy says, "That salesman is on TV," the mom finally admits, "That's not a salesman. That's your dad."
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: A Russian cosmonaut, confronted with a malfunctioning piece of equipment, [[PercussiveMaintenance repeatedly hits it with another, similarly malfunctioning, piece of equipment]], shouting "THIS IS HOW YOU FIX THINGS ON RUSSIAN SPACE STATION!"
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* WithThisRing: Rockhound puts the mack on a hot blonde in a bar by informing her her shiny new engagement/wedding ring is not a real diamond.
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* WithThisRing: WithThisRing:
** Rockhound puts the mack on a hot blonde in a bar by informing her her shiny new engagement/wedding ring is not a real diamond.
** Rockhound puts the mack on a hot blonde in a bar by informing her her shiny new engagement/wedding ring is not a real diamond.
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*** Considering the size of the church in which the actual wedding takes place, though, the roughnecks got paid really, really well so the ring got upgraded after the survivors came home. Just as a RealLife example, a wedding at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York cost $2000 in 2012 for just the wedding, with a singer and organist thrown in. That's before counting the gown, tuxes, flowers, invites and all the other details that go into a high profile wedding.
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* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Kind of. It's a small dog who survives the opening destruction scenes, rather than a child.
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* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Kind of. It's a small dog who survives the opening destruction scenes, rather than a child.child, though seeing as its New York City, it's likely kids were killed during the meteor shower.
** Averted '''hard''' for the Shanghai scene, as we actually ''see'' children literally crying and screaming in fear as they're obliterated by the resulting meteor and megatsunami that follows, unlike the New York and Paris scenes, we actually see them die on-screen.
** Averted '''hard''' for the Shanghai scene, as we actually ''see'' children literally crying and screaming in fear as they're obliterated by the resulting meteor and megatsunami that follows, unlike the New York and Paris scenes, we actually see them die on-screen.
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* MonumentalDamage: A must have for a disaster films, to start:
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** New York City's Chrysler Building and the World Trade Centers get struck by meteors at the film's beginning with the former having its upper half toppling over, the Metlife Building also gets hit and Grand Central Station likewise gets obliterated. While it's not shown, a meteor was about to strike the Empire State Building, implying it too was destroyed.
** Averted for Shanghai, which lacked a recognizable landmark. [[note]]The Oriental Pearl Tower wouldn't be opened for another 3 years[[/note]]
** Paris's beloved Eiffel Tower gets snapped in half like a matchstick by the initial meteor impact, with the blast radius destroying the Notre Dame Cathedral. The Arc De Tromphe is shown badly damaged in the city's aftermath.
** Averted for Shanghai, which lacked a recognizable landmark. [[note]]The Oriental Pearl Tower wouldn't be opened for another 3 years[[/note]]
** Paris's beloved Eiffel Tower gets snapped in half like a matchstick by the initial meteor impact, with the blast radius destroying the Notre Dame Cathedral. The Arc De Tromphe is shown badly damaged in the city's aftermath.
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** New York City's Chrysler Building and the World Trade Centers get struck by meteors at the film's beginning with the former having its upper half toppling over, over [[note]]making this eeriely prophetic is that the meteor that strikes the South Tower of the WTC is the exact same spot Flight 175 strikes on 9/11[[/note]], the Metlife Building also gets hit and Grand Central Station likewise gets obliterated. While it's not shown, a meteor was about to strike the Empire State Building, implying it too was destroyed.
destroyed as well. It's also implied the Statue of Liberty was destroyed off-screen.
** Averted for Shanghai, which lacked a recognizablelandmark.landmark to smash. [[note]]The Oriental Pearl Tower wouldn't be opened for another 3 years[[/note]]
** Paris's beloved Eiffel Tower gets snapped in half like a matchstick by the initial meteor impact, with the blast radius destroying the Notre Dame Cathedral. The Arc DeTromphe Triomphe is shown badly damaged in the city's aftermath.aftermath, but still standing. The Louver likewise is destroyed off-screen.
** Averted for Shanghai, which lacked a recognizable
** Paris's beloved Eiffel Tower gets snapped in half like a matchstick by the initial meteor impact, with the blast radius destroying the Notre Dame Cathedral. The Arc De
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** New York City's Chrysler Building and the World Trade Centers get struck by meteors at the film's beginning with the former having its upper half toppling over, the Metlife Building also gets hit and Grand Central Station likewise gets obliterated. While it's not shown, a meteor was about to strike the Empire State Building, implying it too was destroyed.
** Averted for Shanghai, which lacked a recognizable landmark. [[note]]The Oriental Pearl Tower wouldn't be opened for another 3 years[[/note]]
** Paris's beloved Eiffel Tower gets snapped in half like a matchstick by the initial meteor impact, with the blast radius destroying the Notre Dame Cathedral. The Arc De Tromphe is shown badly damaged in the city's aftermath.
** New York City's Chrysler Building and the World Trade Centers get struck by meteors at the film's beginning with the former having its upper half toppling over, the Metlife Building also gets hit and Grand Central Station likewise gets obliterated. While it's not shown, a meteor was about to strike the Empire State Building, implying it too was destroyed.
** Averted for Shanghai, which lacked a recognizable landmark. [[note]]The Oriental Pearl Tower wouldn't be opened for another 3 years[[/note]]
** Paris's beloved Eiffel Tower gets snapped in half like a matchstick by the initial meteor impact, with the blast radius destroying the Notre Dame Cathedral. The Arc De Tromphe is shown badly damaged in the city's aftermath.
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* MemorialPhoto: Glossy poster size photos of Oscar, Freddie, Max, Noonan, and Harry, the roughnecks who didn't survive the mission, are placed on the altar at the wedding of Grace and [=AJ=].
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* MemorialPhoto: Glossy poster size photos of Oscar, [[spoiler:Oscar, Freddie, Max, Noonan, and Harry, Harry]], the roughnecks who didn't survive the mission, are placed on the altar at the wedding of Grace and [=AJ=].
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: It's one thing to destroy the astroid, but the team has a particular window of time to do so by splitting it in two to avoid a collision with Earth. Blowing it up past that point is GameOver as the two halves could still hit the planet.
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: It's one thing to destroy the astroid, asteroid, but the team has a particular window of time to do so by splitting it in two to avoid a collision with Earth. Blowing it up past that point is GameOver as the two halves could still hit the planet.
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* SanitySlippage: Rockhound ends up losing some of his sanity while undergoing the mission, eventually culminating in him using a gatling gun to to shoot everything in sight.
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* SanitySlippage: Rockhound ends up losing some of his sanity while undergoing the mission, eventually culminating in him using a gatling gun to to shoot everything in sight.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: For all the ways this movie plays fast and loose with reality, the fact that one of the shuttles crashes is probably the most realistic moment in the film.
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* StampOfRejection: Played for laughs. The roughnecks are all deemed unfit to execute a space mission (and not without cause). Their paperwork is stamped accordingly.But we wouldn't have much of a film if that stuck, [[IgnoredExpert so the experts are overridden.]]
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* StampOfRejection: Played for laughs. The roughnecks are all deemed unfit to execute a space mission (and not without cause). Their paperwork is stamped accordingly. But we wouldn't have much of a film if that stuck, [[IgnoredExpert so the experts are overridden.]]
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* PercussiveMaintenance: [[spoiler:[[PunctuatedForEmphasis "This! Is how we fix things! On Russian! Space! Station! Because I don't want to stay here anymore!" ''(Engines finally whirl to life so the shuttle can escape)'']]]]
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* PercussiveMaintenance: [[spoiler:[[PunctuatedForEmphasis "This! Is how we fix things! On Russian! Space! Station! Because I don't want to stay here anymore!" anymore!"]] ''(Engines finally whirl to life so the shuttle can escape)'']]]]escape)'']]
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** Referenced and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E17Failsafe Failsafe]]". Carter {{exposit|ion}}s how a 137-kilometer asteroid is on a collision course with Earth.
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** Referenced and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E17Failsafe Failsafe]]". Carter {{exposit|ion}}s how a 137-kilometer asteroid is on a collision course with Earth.
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The plot: a peaceful summer afternoon in [[BigApplesauce New York City]] is disturbed by meteorites falling, destroying all the recognizable buildings and [[WhatMeasureIsAMook killing a bunch of characters we're not supposed to care about]]. UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} reveals (to themselves) that they're the pebbles before the boulder -- a meteor ''the size of Texas'' is going to hit Earth in 18 days, and nothing, not even bacteria, will survive. The big brains at NASA have come up with a plan to save the world: land a shuttle on the asteroid and drill far enough into it to place a nuke inside and split it like an apple.
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The plot: a peaceful summer afternoon in [[BigApplesauce New York City]] is disturbed by meteorites falling, destroying all the recognizable buildings and [[WhatMeasureIsAMook [[AMillionIsAStatistic killing a bunch of characters we're not supposed to care about]]. UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} reveals (to themselves) that they're the pebbles before the boulder -- a meteor ''the size of Texas'' is going to hit Earth in 18 days, and nothing, not even bacteria, will survive. The big brains at NASA have come up with a plan to save the world: land a shuttle on the asteroid and drill far enough into it to place a nuke inside and split it like an apple.
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* GamblingRuinsLives: Chick is shown to be TheGamblingAddict, as he's found in a craps table when he's taken to NASA, and When Harry presents to the heads of NASA and the military the material rewards his crew for destroying the asteroid, Chick asks for an all expenses paid, summer-long vacation at the Caesar's Palace casino. However, on the evening before the mission, Chick goes to visit his ex-wife and son for what may be the last time, and she tells their young son Chick is "a salesman," with the heavy implication that she used his gambling addiction as the reason to sue him for sole custody and deny him visitation rights.
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* PowerWalk:
** An AffectionateParody of ''Film/TheRightStuff'' when the guys approach Col. Sharp: "Talk about the ''wrong'' stuff..."
** Done two more times. By the roughnecks and astronauts, on their approach to the shuttles before the launch and then again at the end when they return to Earth. The one at the end deserves special mention, [[spoiler:as the line-up is about 60% thinner. The line-up is even organized the same, with gaps where the ones who died would have been.]]
** An AffectionateParody of ''Film/TheRightStuff'' when the guys approach Col. Sharp: "Talk about the ''wrong'' stuff..."
** Done two more times. By the roughnecks and astronauts, on their approach to the shuttles before the launch and then again at the end when they return to Earth. The one at the end deserves special mention, [[spoiler:as the line-up is about 60% thinner. The line-up is even organized the same, with gaps where the ones who died would have been.]]
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The film also stars Creator/BillyBobThornton as Dan Truman, Will Patton as Chick Chapel, Creator/KeithDavid as General Kimsey, Creator/MichaelClarkeDuncan as Bear Curlene, Creator/PeterStormare as Lev Andropov and Creator/SteveBuscemi as Rockhound.
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The film also stars Creator/BillyBobThornton as Dan Truman, Will Patton as Chick Chapel, Creator/KeithDavid as General Kimsey, Creator/MichaelClarkeDuncan as Bear Curlene, J. Otis Curlene Bear, Creator/PeterStormare as Lev Andropov and Creator/SteveBuscemi as Rockhound.
