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* EveryoneHasStandards: The two soldiers with Jody are clearly horrified after he guns down his flatmates for looting.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: The two soldiers with Jody are clearly horrified after he guns down his flatmates for looting. They eventually draw the line when Rosa starts screaming for help and run to get an officer.



* HeroicSacrifice: Remy falls off a ladder trying to escape a flood in the sewer, and Stewart, instead of climbing the ladder to safety (and the waiting arms of his girlfriend Denise), jumps off in a futile effort to save Remy. Both of them are swept away by the rushing torrent.

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** While rescuing all of his employees, Mr. Royce makes sure that he goes last and saves everyone else while breathing in phosgene gas. In the end, after he's saved everyone else, he suffers a fatal heart attack from the gas inhalation and dies at the makeshift hospital.
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Remy falls off a ladder trying to escape a flood in the sewer, and Stewart, instead of climbing the ladder to safety (and the waiting arms of his girlfriend Denise), jumps off in a futile effort to save Remy. Both of them are swept away by the rushing torrent.



* IdiotBall: For a DisasterMovie where structural incompetence is usually part of the premise, the authority figures in the movie are generally reasonable and make good choices, including making reasonable preparations to evacuate the area near the dam because of the threat of aftershocks. Then they make the truly expert decision to put one of the field hospitals in an underground parking garage, where the first aftershock kills a decent chunk of the survivors and traps anyone left in a concrete tomb in danger of being flooded by the nearby crumbling dam.



* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Played with. Due to exposure to phosgene, Royce gets very sick and coughs. Shortly afterwards, though, the doctor declares that he has had a heart attack and writes him off as a goner.

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* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Played with. Due to exposure to phosgene, Royce gets very sick and coughs. Shortly afterwards, though, the doctor declares that he has had a heart attack attack, and writes him off as a goner.soon enough he's dead on the stretcher.



* NotEvenBotheringWithAnExcuse: The doctor, confronted by Remy about her father, pauses a beat to think of a comforting lie, then replies with the single least empathetic line ever:

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* NotEvenBotheringWithAnExcuse: The doctor, confronted by Remy about her father, father (who just died on the stretcher), pauses a beat to think of a comforting lie, then replies with the single least empathetic line ever:

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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: It should go without saying that a bicycle getting caught in electrified water isn't going to explode like a volatile gas tank.



* EveryoneHasStandards: The two soldiers with Jody are clearly horrified after he guns down his flatmates for looting.



* {{Fanservice}}: As noted under MaleGaze, Slade gets a good, long look at Rosa's t-shirt, but the camera does not fail to share it with us.

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* {{Fanservice}}: As noted under MaleGaze, Slade gets a good, long look at Rosa's t-shirt, but the camera does not fail to share it with us.


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* GoodSamaritan: Miles and Sal stop their driving when they see Denise and Corry stuck in the canal and work to get the two of them out of the sewer before the water reaches a dangerous level. Later on, Sal agrees to use his large truck to help ferry people to the hospital where he can while Miles uses his motorcycle to look for Rosa.

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* IgnoredExpert: Seismologist Walter Russell predicts the earthquake with perfect accuracy, but because he's only a graduate student and his superiors are squeamish about false alarms, they take a while to act on his advice. They ultimately do act on Russell's concerns after his predictions about the earlier, smaller quakes prove accurate and the death of the seismology institute's director makes the assistant directors grasp the tragedy of what is happening.

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Seismologist Walter Russell predicts the earthquake with perfect accuracy, but because he's only a graduate student and his superiors are squeamish about false alarms, they take a while to act on his advice. They ultimately do act on Russell's concerns after his predictions about the earlier, smaller quakes prove accurate and the death of the seismology institute's director makes the assistant directors grasp the tragedy of what is happening.happening.
** The dam's watchman reports a crack along the dam's surface that wasn't there before, arguing that he knows every inch of the dam. The technician instead ridicules him for trying to explain the technician's job and argues that concrete always has hairline cracks. It's not until another watchman reports that the water has risen half an inch that he starts to consider anything might be wrong.



* TheNeidermeyer: Jody is an unstable and impatient military officer, especially when his men tries to look for an officer to have him face court martial out of fear.

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* TheNeidermeyer: Jody is an unstable and impatient military officer, especially when his men tries try to look for an officer to have him face court martial court-martial out of fear.



* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Dr. Stockle at the seismology institute is a patient man who hears out Russell's claims of a major earthquake. While he refuses to publicize the earthquake warnings, he has good reasons for this (there is no evacuation plan in place so they don't know where to send anyone, and a panic could get people hurt) and he does convince the mayor to mobilize National Guardsmen and other resources and responders to be ready to help earthquake victims.

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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Dr. Stockle at the seismology institute is a patient man who hears out Russell's claims of a major earthquake. While he refuses to publicize the earthquake warnings, he has good reasons for this (there is no evacuation plan in place so they don't know where to send anyone, and a panic could get people hurt) and when the institute's director is killed while investigating an issue with the fault line, he does convince the mayor to mobilize National Guardsmen and other resources and responders to be ready to help earthquake victims.victims without causing a panic in the process.


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* SenselessSacrifice: Stewart tries to save Remy's life when she's caught in the sewer water, only for both of them to get caught in the rising tide and swept away to die.

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