History Film / Passengers2016

** Jim stands in a tube through which [[spoiler:the contents of a malfunctioning fusion reactor are being vented, almost frying his spacesuit, but he doesn't appear to suffer from radiation poisoning]], just as Aurora stands in [[spoiler:the control room of said reactor (the shielded window of which is cracking) and she doesn't get radiation poisoning either]].

* CryonicsFailure: Two cases; the first wakes Jim early, the second [[spoiler:ends up killing Gus some time after he wakes up]].

** It's scientifically sound thanks to time dilation. The ship is traveling at half the speed of light, and the 36.7 light years distance is time dilated to 31.783 years on-ship time. From Earth, the ship passes the star 73.4 years after launch. Jim was woken after 30 years on board, Aurora one year later, Einstein approves.

** It's scientifically sound thanks to time dilation. The ship is traveling at half the speed of light, and the 36.7 light years is time dilated to 31.783 years on-ship time. Jim was woken after 30 years, Aurora one year later, Einstein approves.

* GirlInABox: Aurora in her pod. An obvious reference to ''[[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White]]'' in her glass case. [[GenderFlip Gender flipped]] in the end, when [[spoiler:a dead Jim]] is put into the Autodoc.

** The woman woken up from a lengthy hypersleep is named [[Disney/SleepingBeauty Aurora]].

** Next, the ship is largely fleeing from issues in Earth is effectively Noah's ark, although the destruction of Earth is subverted quite a bit, since it is mainly a colony ship.

*** She can start swimming out, but the water wraps back around her due to surface tension (and no gravity to counteract the surface tension).

* RidiculousFutureInflation: The message Jim sends back to earth costs him $6,012, though this is still implied to be fairly expensive.

* GirlInABox: Aurora in her pod. An obvious reference to ''The Sleeping Beauty'' in her glass case.

* EconomyCast: There are only four characters in the entire film, and a good chunk of it only has two.

** The infirmary. Jim mentions it's "just scanners and an Autodoc". [[spoiler:They later use the Autodoc to find out what's wrong with Gus, and then Aurora uses it to resusciate Jim following his HeroicSacrifice.]]

* SwordOverHead: Aurora attacks Jim at night [[CrowbarCombatant wielding a crow bar over her head]], ready to deliver a fatal blow. Overwhelmed with guilt, Jim [[PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou doesn't try to defend himself]]. The sight of it makes Aurora change her mind, so she throws the crowbar away and runs off.

* TooDumbToLive: After being unexpectedly awoken and [[spoiler:coughing up blood, Gus]] decides to sleep it off rather than visit the {{Autodoc}}. [[spoiler:If he had gone to the autodoc immediately, there's a slim chance he'd have survived.]]

* BaitAndSwitchAccusation: Half-way through the movie Aurora approaches Jim with a stern voice, asking him "Why did you do it?". He looks perplexed, fearing that his house of cards may have finally broken down. But then Aurora reveals she only wanted to know why he left Earth.

* BaitAndSwitchAccusation: Half-way through the movie Aurora approaches Jim with a stern voice, asking him "Why did you do it?". He looks perplexed, fearing that his house of cards may have finally broken down. But then Aurora reveals she only wanted to know why he left earth.

*** [[spoiler: Gus reads an override code to make the Autodoc gives him the true diagnosis of his condition. Aurora would later use that same code to force the doc to use every resusciation process at the same time on Jim.]]

** [[https://youtu.be/Gksxu-yeWcU?t=176 It's being pointed out]] that putting the audience in Aurora's shoes instead would have made for a more interesting viewing experience.

** The Homestead Company is so confident in its cutting-edge starships that it decided to completely trust the automatic pilot and maintenance systems to fly the ship for the near-totality of its journey, only waking everyone for the final four months. The crew is never to be awoken from stasis for any reason (even ''emergency situations'') and there is no means to put anyone under again if they are revived somehow. All it takes to nearly destroy the entire ship is one unlucky encounter with an asteroid [[spoiler:which damages the reactor control computer and leads to a cascade failure in all the ship's systems as the computer tries and fails to compensate for the loss. If Jim hadn't been accidentally awoken from cryosleep, the ship wouldn't have even made it halfway to its destination, for want of someone to replace the broken control module.]]

* PovertyFood: Not being a gold class passenger confines Jim to a brick of oatmeal for breakfast, this being the one machine on the ship he can't seem to reprogram or disassemble for his own benefit. He still has access to unlimited amounts of liquor and gourmet food he appropriates from the restaurants.
** The Dispenser starts to mention purchasing food somewhere, before Jim cuts it off in disgust. One assumes that he's been buying restaurant food and booze on credit with no intention of ever paying it off.

** [[spoiler:And finally when her spacesuit tether goes taut and prevents her from reaching Jim. She has to use his severed tether to reach him.]]

* ArtificialOutdoorsDisplay: The backside of Jim's living room has a large display for such. In one scene it shows a forest at sunset.

* ProsceniumReveal: There is a shot inside a forest. As the camera zooms out we realize that this was just a projection on the room's window monitor.

* BananaPeel: Jim slips on the alcohol bottle he tossed away earlier.