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* AmericaTakesOverTheWorld: [[spoiler: Dekkom's ultimate goal is to make America the world's dominant nation with him as its leader.]]

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* AmericaTakesOverTheWorld: [[spoiler: Dekkom's ultimate goal is to make America the world's dominant nation with him as its leader. He does succeed with the former but with President Palma likely to benefit from it.]]
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* MonumentalDamage: Inevitable due to being a DisasterMovie. The Burj Khalifa is toppled when Dubai is flooded, and the Kremlin/St. Basil's Cathedral gets fried by a heat laser.

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* MonumentalDamage: Inevitable due to being a DisasterMovie. The Burj Khalifa is toppled when Dubai is flooded, and the Kremlin/St. Basil's Cathedral gets fried by a heat laser. Even the new World Trade Center isn't safe from flood and it is implied to be destroyed during a massive flood in Lower Manhattan, though it isn't shown for [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror obvious reasons]].
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Dutch Boy satellites are restored, the GovernmentConspiracy is thwarted, and the [[TitleDrop geostorm]] is averted, but millions of people are dead because of the chaos.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Dutch Boy satellites are restored, the GovernmentConspiracy is thwarted, and the [[TitleDrop geostorm]] is averted, but millions of people are dead because of the chaos. Though the ending scene lines into a more sweet side.]]
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'''[[spoiler: Dekkom]]:''' What you all genocide, ''I'' call preemptive strike.

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'''[[spoiler: Dekkom]]:''' What you all call genocide, ''I'' call preemptive strike.
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* MonumentalDamage: Inevitable due to being a DisasterMovie. The Burj Khalifa is toppled when Dubai is flooded, and the Kremlin/St. Basil's Cathedral are fried by a heat laser.

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* MonumentalDamage: Inevitable due to being a DisasterMovie. The Burj Khalifa is toppled when Dubai is flooded, and the Kremlin/St. Basil's Cathedral are gets fried by a heat laser.



* MultinationalTeam: Given the ICSS evolved from the ISS, it's no surprise. Yet for all the international representation (Germany, UK, Mexico, Nigeria, France), there's the conspicuous absence of spaceflight potency Russia.

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* MultinationalTeam: Given the ICSS evolved from the ISS, it's no surprise. Yet for all the international representation (Germany, UK, Mexico, Nigeria, France), France, Japan), there's the conspicuous absence of spaceflight potency Russia.



* SceneryGorn: [[spoiler:Hong Kong explodes, Mumbai gets devastated by a pack of monster tornadoes, Rio de Janeiro gets flash-frozen, Dubai gets hit by a massive tsunami, Moskau gets targeted by a nasty heat ray...]] If you expect anything ''but'' gorgeous destruction porn, you're watching the wrong movie.

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* SceneryGorn: [[spoiler:Hong Kong explodes, Mumbai gets devastated by a pack of monster tornadoes, Rio de Janeiro gets flash-frozen, Dubai gets hit by a massive tsunami, Moskau Moscow gets targeted by a nasty heat ray...]] If you expect anything ''but'' gorgeous destruction porn, you're watching the wrong movie.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/IndependenceDay'' and ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'' given the fact that Dean Devlin co-wrote them. It can also been as this for ''Film/Armageddon1998''.
** Regarding ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'', the literal [[KillItWithIce freeze frame]] scenes could be considered blatant {{shout out}}s.



* TheBadGuyWins: {{Subverted}}, [[spoiler: While Dekkom doesn't become president and that his plan was stopped, in ''doing so'' he is able to accomplish his goal of ending every perceived threat to America and when human civilization does recover it will definitely be [[AmericaTakesOverTheWorld a U.S. led world.]]]]

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* TheBadGuyWins: {{Subverted}}, {{Downplayed}}, [[spoiler: While Dekkom doesn't become president and that his plan was stopped, stopped before it could result in ''doing so'' the complete destruction of civilization, he is able to accomplish still accomplished his goal of ending every perceived threat to America and when human civilization does recover it will definitely be [[AmericaTakesOverTheWorld a U.S. led world.]]]]
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* ArtisticLicensePolitics: While it ''is'' true that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_elections 2022 is an election year]] in the United States, it is ''not'' when the presidential election takes place despite what the movie may think - presidential elections occur every four years, and the next is scheduled for 2024.

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* ArtisticLicensePolitics: While it ''is'' true that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_elections 2022 is was an election year]] in the United States, it is ''not'' when the presidential election takes place despite what the movie may think - presidential elections occur take place every four years, and with the next is scheduled for 2024.
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** When told to find a car, Max ends up stealing a self-driving taxi that he's set to manual. [[spoiler:They later set it on aautopilot and point it at the BigBad, letting him believe they're still inside so they can ambush him.]]

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** When told to find a car, Max ends up stealing a self-driving taxi that he's set to manual. [[spoiler:They later set it on aautopilot autopilot and point it at the BigBad, letting him believe they're still inside so they can ambush him.]]

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* ChekhovsGun: Early in the film, Max mentions a code he and Jake used to use as kids. Jake claims to not remember it. Later, however, Jake is able to send a message to Max using the code: [[spoiler:"Proof of sabotage at the highest levels of government. Trust no one."]]

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* ChekhovsGun: ChekhovsGun:
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Early in the film, Max mentions a code he and Jake used to use as kids. Jake claims to not remember it. Later, however, Jake is able to send a message to Max using the code: [[spoiler:"Proof of sabotage at the highest levels of government. Trust no one."]]"]]
** When told to find a car, Max ends up stealing a self-driving taxi that he's set to manual. [[spoiler:They later set it on aautopilot and point it at the BigBad, letting him believe they're still inside so they can ambush him.]]
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* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: One of these hitting [[spoiler:Dubai]] is [[spoiler:one of the last disasters caused by the hacked Dutch Boy Satellites.]]
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* TheBadGuyWins: {{Subverted}}, [[spoiler: While Dekkom doesn't become president and that his plan was stopped, in ''doing so'' he is able to accomplish his goal of ending every perceived threat to America and when human civilization does recover it will definitely be [[AmericaTakesOverTheWorld a U.S. led world.]]]]
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* ComputerVirus: [[spoiler:The apparent "failures" of the Dutch Boy Satellites are in truth caused by a virus planted in them by the BigBad's [[TheMole Mole]], with the end goal of obliterating every "enemy" of the USA.]]


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* RammingAlwaysWorks: Jake comes up with the plan of taking out the hacked Dutch Boy satellites by deploying the replacement satellites without retrieving the ones already in place. [[spoiler:It works, but after the first one, TheMole starts the ISS' SelfDestructSequence.]]
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/IndependenceDay'' and ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'' given the fact that Dean Devlin co-wrote them. It can also been as this for ''Film/{{Armageddon}}''.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/IndependenceDay'' and ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'' given the fact that Dean Devlin co-wrote them. It can also been as this for ''Film/{{Armageddon}}''.''Film/Armageddon1998''.
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* ArtisticLicensePolitics: While it ''is'' true that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_elections 2022 is an election year]] in the United States, it is ''not'' when the presidential election takes place despite what the movie may think - presidential elections occur every four years, and the next is scheduled for 2024.
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Not to be confused with a 90s arcade game whose sequel is titled ''[[VideoGame/GunForce Geo Storm]]'' in certain regions.
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Chain Reaction Destruction has been renamed to Post Defeat Explosion Chain. Cutting non-examples and ZCEs.


* ChainReactionDestruction: [[spoiler:The ICSS's self-destruct sequence, culminating in a big boom]].
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* NaturalDisasterCascade: Earth's [[WeatherControlMachine weather-controlling satellites]] going haywire causes them to inflict ApocalypseWow level natural disasters around the world, including a GiantWallOfWateryDoom that rivals the Burj Khalifa in height and a heat wave that ignites gas pipelines. Worse yet, the malfunction threaten to create a [[TitleDrop massive geostorm]]. It turns out that [[spoiler:the weather satellites didn't malfunction but were programmed to behave as they did by an {{Eagleland}} villain]]. Also worthy of note, freak weather disasters were already occurring in the setting's backstory due to ClimateChange, before the satellites were built to stabilize the climate.

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* NaturalDisasterCascade: Earth's [[WeatherControlMachine weather-controlling satellites]] going haywire causes them to inflict ApocalypseWow level natural disasters around the world, including a GiantWallOfWateryDoom that rivals the Burj Khalifa in height and a heat wave that ignites gas pipelines. Worse yet, the malfunction threaten to create a [[TitleDrop massive geostorm]]. It turns out that [[spoiler:the weather satellites didn't malfunction but were programmed to behave as they did by an {{Eagleland}} villain]]. Also worthy of note, freak weather disasters were already occurring in the setting's backstory due to ClimateChange, GlobalWarming, before the satellites were built to stabilize the climate.
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* AGodAmI: Dekkom outright admits to playing god with the world's weather, claiming that it was the whole point of Dutch Boy in the first place. Palma is predictably not amused, and has Dekkom arrested on the spot.
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** The South-African henchman who chases after Sarah, Max and Palma in the middle of a super lightning storm that is destroying the buildings around them for no apparent reason but zealous devotion to his job.
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* NaturalDisasterCascade: Earth's [[WeatherControlMachine weather-controlling satellites]] going haywire causes them to inflict ApocalypseWow level natural disasters around the world, including a GiantWallOfWateryDoom that rivals the Burj Khalifa in height and a heat wave that ignites gas pipelines. Worse yet, the malfunction threaten to create a [[TitleDrop massive geostorm]]. It turns out that [[spoiler:the weather satellites didn't malfunction but were programmed to behave as they did by an {{Eagleland}} villain]]. Also worthy of note, freak weather disasters were already occurring in the setting's backstory due to ClimateChange, before the satellites were built to stabilize the climate.
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* YoureInsane:

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* YoureInsane:YoureInsane: [[spoiler:President Palma]] accuses [[spoiler:Secretary of State Dekkom]] of genocide after learning that he masterminded the titular Geostorm by having the satellites hacked, which will cause billions of deaths, so he could [[spoiler:wipe out every non-American nation]].
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''Geostorm'' is a 2017 disaster film directed by Dean Devlin and starring Creator/GerardButler, Creator/JimSturgess, Creator/EdHarris, Creator/AbbieCornish, Richard Schiff, Alexandra Maria Lara, Creator/RobertSheehan, Creator/DanielWu, Creator/EugenioDerbez, and Creator/AndyGarcia.

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''Geostorm'' is a 2017 disaster film directed by Dean Devlin and starring Creator/GerardButler, Creator/JimSturgess, Creator/EdHarris, Creator/AbbieCornish, Richard Schiff, Alexandra Maria Lara, Creator/AlexandraMariaLara, Creator/RobertSheehan, Creator/DanielWu, Creator/EugenioDerbez, and Creator/AndyGarcia.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler: Dekkom is revealed to be the one who perperated the Geostorms]].

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* BigBad: [[spoiler: Dekkom [[spoiler:[[CorruptPolitician Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom]]]] is revealed to be the one who perperated ordered the Geostorms]].hacking of the Dutch Boy satellites and perpetrated the titular Geostorms.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler: Dekkom is revealed to be the one who perperated the Geostorms]].
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* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The theme song for the Japanese release is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jMk3NVatas "Dinosaur"]] by B'z.

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* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The theme song for the Japanese release is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jMk3NVatas "Dinosaur"]] by B'z.Music/{{Bz}}.
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''Geostorm'' is a 2017 disaster film directed by Dean Devlin and starring Creator/GerardButler, Creator/JimSturgess, Creator/EdHarris, Creator/AbbieCornish, Creator/RichardSchiff, Creator/AlexandraMariaLara, Creator/RobertSheehan, Creator/DanielWu, Creator/EugenioDerbez, and Creator/AndyGarcia.

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''Geostorm'' is a 2017 disaster film directed by Dean Devlin and starring Creator/GerardButler, Creator/JimSturgess, Creator/EdHarris, Creator/AbbieCornish, Creator/RichardSchiff, Creator/AlexandraMariaLara, Richard Schiff, Alexandra Maria Lara, Creator/RobertSheehan, Creator/DanielWu, Creator/EugenioDerbez, and Creator/AndyGarcia.

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