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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Billy eventually realizes trying to continue home through the storm is suicide and turns the boat around, pledging to his crew they'll return next season to make up for their lost catch.

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Billy eventually realizes trying to continue home through the storm is suicide and turns the boat around, pledging to his crew they'll return next season to make up for their lost soon-to-be spoiled catch.



* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The crew's decision to risk the storm (which didn't happen in real life) is depicted as being because Bob Brown didn't immediately get the ''Andrea Gail'' a new ice machine when Bugsy told him they needed one just to save money. With a fully operational ice machine, the crew could have waited out on the Flemish Cap until the storm had died down.

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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The crew's decision to risk the storm (which didn't happen in real life) is depicted as being because Bob Brown didn't immediately get the ''Andrea Gail'' a new ice machine when Bugsy told him they needed one just to save money. With a fully operational ice machine, the crew could have waited out on the Flemish Cap until the storm had died down.down without fear of their catch spoiling.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The crew's decision to risk the storm (which didn't happen in real life) is depicted as being because Bob Brown didn't immediately get the ''Andrea Gail'' a new ice machine when Bugsy told him they needed one just to save money. With a fully operational ice machine, the crew could have waited out on the Flemish Cap until the storm had died down.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Billy eventually realizes trying to continue home through the storm is suicide and turns the boat around, pledging to his crew they'll return next season to make up for their lost catch.
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* LittleNo: Bobby utters one upon seeing the giant rogue wave near the end.
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Kill Em All was renamed Everybody Dies Ending due to misuse. Dewicking


* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Nobody on the ''Andrea Gail'' survives that fateful boating trip.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:''Andrea Gail'' is sunk in the storm, and all crew members die]].

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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:''Andrea Gail'' is sunk in the storm, and all crew members die]].die. Additionally, one of the Air National Guardsman who set out to rescue them before the crew was forced to ditch their helicopter is lost at sea and never found]].
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** One of the reasons the next-of-kin of the crew were no doubt angry is how the film weaves this into the meta-narrative. The decision to plow through the storm, while the crew are concerned, can be read as a macho or immature overestimation of abilities. One of the USCG crew even sarcastically comments "They're always from Gloucester."
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* HopeSpot: The brief glimpse of the sun (actually the eye of the storm) they get right before things go downhill. They get another one when the skipper manages to get the boat around to run with the weather. For a moment, the seas are calmer - then the rogue wave appears, which the boat ''nearly'' gets over before capsizing.

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* HopeSpot: The brief glimpse of the sun (actually the eye of the storm) they get right before things go downhill. They get another one when the skipper manages to get the boat around to run with the weather. For a moment, the seas are calmer - -- then the rogue wave appears, which the boat ''nearly'' gets over before capsizing.
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->''"Wait, what if...what if Hurricane Grace runs smack into it? Add to the scenario this baby off Sable Island, scrounging for energy. She'll start feeding off both the Canadian cold front...and Hurricane Grace. You could be a meteorologist all your life and never see something like this. It would be a disaster of epic proportions. It would be... [[TitleDrop the perfect storm]]."''

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->''"Wait, what if... what if Hurricane Grace runs smack into it? Add to the scenario this baby off Sable Island, scrounging for energy. She'll start feeding off both the Canadian cold front...and Hurricane Grace. You could be a meteorologist all your life and never see something like this. It would be a disaster of epic proportions. It would be... [[TitleDrop the perfect storm]]."''
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