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* BaldOfAwesome: Top, one of the most proactive members of the group.
* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler: Charlie's]]. body gets treated with sad respect.
** [[spoiler: Briggs]]. remaining behind to provide cover as Katheryn and Alex run.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Briggs is fairly cocky (it's commented that without his arrogance he'd have no personality at all) despite his relatively low-niche in the group and limited qualifications (according to Charlie, he was "table-dancing in a club outside of Calgary" before they hired him), but he does have some HiddenDepths moments and can do his job well enough.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Nicolai, with his decision to explore the cave.
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* ActionGirl: Charlie shows some of this, especially while fighting the creature that attackers her while climbing.
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* RussianGuySuffersTheMost: Nicolai does not have it easy.
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* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Charlie is wearing a bikini at the beginning while working on some equipment on a boat, while waiting on the boat as Briggs, Top and the brothers dive for their latest job.
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* TheVirus: Anyone who is unlucky enough to survive being attacked by the underground flying monsters eventually turns into one of them. [[spoiler:It's actually more of a symbiotic virus, intending to help its host adapt to the conditions of the cave, thus surviving, thus allowing the virus to survive.]]
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* GoshDangItToHeck: Charlie when she realizes [[spoiler:"They fly, they freaking fly!"]] Intended to be a PrecisionFStrike, but the studio was gunning for a specific rating.
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* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: One character says he can smell methane gas - which is a colourless and odourless substance.
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* DwindlingPartyDownerEnding: [[spoiler: Everyone except Tyler and Top are dead, while Katheryn is infected and reveals that the creature wanted to escape the cave all along. The last we see of her is disappearing into a crowd of people]].
* DwindlingParty: By the end only [[spoiler: Top, Tyler and Katheryn have survived. And Katheryn is revealed to have the infection]].
* DwindlingParty: By the end only [[spoiler: Top, Tyler and Katheryn have survived. And Katheryn is revealed to have the infection]].
* FinalGirl: [[spoiler: Looks like it'll be played straight with Katheryn surviving and Charlie dying. But Katheryn has the infection now]].
* HotScientist: Lena Headey as Katheryn of course!
* ImpliedLoveInterest: There appears to be an attraction between Tyler and Katheryn.
* ImprobableAge: Subverted. Katheryn's youth is justified by her being the associate to Dr Nikolai - who is in charge. And Lena Headey was 32 at the time, making her a little more plausible than many other such scientist babes.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: There appears to be an attraction between Tyler and Katheryn.
* ImprobableAge: Subverted. Katheryn's youth is justified by her being the associate to Dr Nikolai - who is in charge. And Lena Headey was 32 at the time, making her a little more plausible than many other such scientist babes.
* OhCrap: Charlie when she realises [[spoiler: the creature can fly!]]
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* ShownTheirWork: The movie is inspired by true events. Around 35 new species were discovered in Eastern European caves in the 1980s. Romania itself has around 12,000 caves and there is no limit to what could possibly be down there.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Common sense would dictate that the characters shouldn't be able to have conversations underwater - since they have mouthpieces fully inserted into their mouths.
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** Any caver will tell you that you never use flares inside a cave - since it's a closed environment, the flares fill it up with smoke.
** One diver gives the thumbs up to show he's okay. In diving one shows they're okay by holding the index finger and thumb together in an o shape. Thumbs up means to go to the surface.
** One diver gives the thumbs up to show he's okay. In diving one shows they're okay by holding the index finger and thumb together in an o shape. Thumbs up means to go to the surface.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Jack for Tyler.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Jack for Tyler.
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* NonActionGuy: Dr Nicolai.
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* ShipTease: Between Tyler and Kathryn.
* ShownTheirWork: The movie is inspired by true events. Around 35 new species were discovered in Eastern European caves in the 1980s. Romania itself has around 12,000 caves and there is no limit to what could possibly be down there.
** The man laying explosives has VSSF tattooed on his arm. The acronym translates to Swiss Society of Explosive Engineers.
* ShownTheirWork: The movie is inspired by true events. Around 35 new species were discovered in Eastern European caves in the 1980s. Romania itself has around 12,000 caves and there is no limit to what could possibly be down there.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted. [[spoiler: The Asian is one of the last characters to die and the black guy survives]].
* BunnyEarsLawyer: The caving team are quite quirky but very good. As Jack puts it when they're trapped, the people best qualified to get them out of the cave-in are all currently down there.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: The caving team are quite quirky but very good. As Jack puts it when they're trapped, the people best qualified to get them out of the cave-in are all currently down there.
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* FiveTokenBand: We have the two white American brothers, the black guy, the female tomboy, the Canadian and the Australian on the diving team. The expedition also includes the east European doctor, the British female scientist and the Asian camera man.
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* TwoGirlsToATeam: Kathryn and Charlie are the only women on the expedition.
* VasquezAlwaysDies: [[spoiler: Two girls on the team - trained cave diver and climber Charlie and research scientist Kathryn.]] Guess which one lives. Though this is semi-justified as [[spoiler: Charlie gets killed precisely because she's a climber; she scales a rockwall before everyone else and gets attacked by a creature]].
* VasquezAlwaysDies: [[spoiler: Two girls on the team - trained cave diver and climber Charlie and research scientist Kathryn.]] Guess which one lives. Though this is semi-justified as [[spoiler: Charlie gets killed precisely because she's a climber; she scales a rockwall before everyone else and gets attacked by a creature]].
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* FaceMonsterTurn - One of the explorers, after being attacked by one of the subterranean monsters, begins to start evolving (or mutating) into one of them, his eyes changing into a different shape while also being able to detect the monsters in complete darkness as well.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jack blows up the last cavern while fighting one of the monsters to give the other survivors an opportunity to escape.]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Film/PitchBlack Johns? What are you doing leading a cave expedition? Shouldn't you be looking for Riddick?]]
* ScaryScorpions - Our cast encounters transparent ones in one of the smaller tunnels.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jack blows up the last cavern while fighting one of the monsters to give the other survivors an opportunity to escape.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jack blows up the last cavern while fighting one of the monsters to give the other survivors an opportunity toescape.]]
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* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: When the team [[spoiler: finally escapes from the Cave, it turns out one of the doctors that entered with them is carrying the parasite with them, and vanishes into the crowd of people.]]
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:One of the monsters bears the same tattoo on its hand as one of the cavers previously seen entombed within the cave system at the beginning of the movie. Which bodes poorly for parasite-infected expedition leader Jack.]]
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At it's base ''The Cave'' was a very good stand alone movie, and while [[DuelingMovies it was released at the same time as a couple other movies with similarities]] (such as ''Film/TheDescent'' and ''The Cavern''), ''Film/TheCavern''), the movie was able to develop a cult following.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: No, the team is not attacked by a massive subterranean water monster. While there are monsters and they do travel through water as well, they're human-sized.
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