History Film / MazeRunnerTheScorchTrials

* {{Hallucinations}}: After downing a drink spiked with hallucinogens, Thomas starts freaking out when he sees hallucations of his friends turned into [[TechnicallyLivingZombie Cranks]] and a Griever, one of the biomechanical spiders from the previous film.

* {{Hallucinations}}: After downing a drink spiked with hallucinogens, Thomas starts freaking out when he sees hallucations of his friends turned into [[TechnicallyLivingZombie Cranks]] and a Griever, one of the spider-robot monsters from the previous film.

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* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:Winston]] is scratched by a Crank and becomes infected, so he begs his friends to do something to stop him from becoming a Crank himself. [[spoiler:Newt]] hands them a loaded gun and the rest quietly leave. After the group travels far enough, [[SoundOnlyDeath a gunshot is heard]].

* FamousLastWords:
** "Thomas... Take care of them..." [[spoiler: Winston]]
** "At least my conscience is clear." [[spoiler:Mary]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The three unnamed gladers who escape with Thomas’ group disappear after the first scene. One of them, a guy named Jack, escapes from the facility with them but is killed by cranks in the abandoned mall.

* ForgottenFallenFriend: While not completely forgotten, Billy, Tim and Jack are never mentioned by anyone after they die, it just seems like they don't care that their numbers are getting smaller without explanation.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The three other Gladers who managed to escape at the end of the first movie simply disappear.
as the movie progresses. First is Billy, who appears at the end of the first film but doesn’t appear at all in the second. Then is Tim, he is last seen training with Minho while Thomas is being injected. He isnt seen afterwards with no explination given, and last is Jack, who was last seen running in the mall while the cranks attack. In a deleted scene he’s killed just seconds later when several cranks get the jump on him. This scene is also in the trailers.

* KissingUnderTheInfluence: Thomas and Brenda make out at a post-apocalyptic rave party after they've been imbibed with hallucinogenic drugs. This also causes Thomas to image Teresa in her place, whom he's really in love with.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Teresa ends up betraying Thomas by calling WCKD to their location]], resulting in [[spoiler: Mary's death, Aris's, Minho's and many Immunes' captures, as well as the breaching of the Right Arm's safe place.]] Luckily, [[spoiler: some of the survivors repel WCKD's forces, and Thomas begins to formulate a plan to save everyone in WCKD's capture and kill the leader of WCKD, Ava Paige]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the abandoned shopping mall, the first Crank that Thomas and Minho see after turning on the power is a female that has bloody, eyeless sockets. Later on in the film, Teresa reveals to Thomas her recovered memories: [[spoiler:when she was young, her mother ended up catching the Flare, inducing hallucinations. To stop them, she gouged out her own eyes]].

* RaceLift: Retroactively done with Rachel, in ''The Scorch Trials'' she was a PosthumousCharacter and never got a physical description, but she appears in a brief scene as a white girl with straight hair. Two years after the film was released, ''Fever Code'' - a prequel to the books came out revealing Rachel to have dark skin and tightly curled hair.

* AscendedExtra: Assistant Director Janson a.k.a. "The Rat Man" only appeared in one chapter near the start of ''The Scorch Trials'' and didn't appear again until the next book -- ''The Death Cure'', where he became the BigBad. Here he’s promoted to main antagonist status and spends most of the film pursuing the protagonists.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In ''The Scorch Trials'' whilst travelling across the scorch the Gladers are caught in the middle of a lightning storm, where the lightning appears to be actively chasing them, with several characters getting struck. It’s implied, and outright speculated InUniverse by Thomas, that the lighting is being artificially created by WICKED. The film keeps this scene, but only having Minho being the one struck and removing Thomas’s theorizing. However, unlike in the book WCKD are no longer in their control of the Gladers who have already escaped from them and don't have the level of technology required to artificially make or manipulate a storm like their book counterparts had, making it unclear how apparently naturally occurring lightning is able to chase someone.

** Due to the film’s plot being radically different from the book, ''The Scorch Trials'' part becomes this. In the book after Janson revealed to The Gladers that they were still under WICKED’s control, the Gladers were made to cross the Scorch as part of a second trial – their first trial being the Maze from the previous book. In the film the Gladers themselves discover that they’re still with WCKD and escape from them by crossing the scorch, meaning that they are not on any trial.

** Mary Cooper; a scientist working for The Right Arm and had previously been a part of WCKD, is also a film only character.

* InNameOnly: The film is radically different from ''The Scorch Trials'', with only a few key elements and themes remaining due to AdaptationDistillation, and some elements of ''The Death Cure'' being merged into it. Wes Ball likened it to using the same ingredients to make a different recipe.