History Film / TheRelic

** It’s not the best way to die but given [[OffWithHisHead how the Kothoga performs his kills, he was very lucky to go out that way.

* TooDumbToLive: Parkinson, Lee and the wealthy married guests who stay behind in the exhibition area while everyone else including the Mayor evacuates through the sewers. You would think after seeing the body of a headless Police Officer fall from the ceiling and along with being ordered by a extremely competent and experienced Detective to get out through the sewers that they would listen and get the hell out of dodge to safety right? No they choose to stay and wait for the rescue team to break through the doors despite the very real danger that is present and unsurprisingly all of them are slaughtered by the Kothoga.

* TooDumbToLive: Parkinson, Lee and the wealthy married guests who stay behind in the exhibition area while everyone else including the Mayor evacuates through the sewers. You would think after seeing the body of a headless Police Officer fall from the ceiling and from orders from a extremely competent and experienced Detective that they would listen and get the hell out of dodge to safety right? No they choose to stay and wait for the rescue team to break through the doors despite the very real danger that is present and unsurprisingly all of them are slaughtered by the Kothoga.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[OffWithHisHead The Kothoga’s method of killing]] is a VERY horrible and nasty way to go.....

* TooDumbToLive: Parkinson, Lee and the wealthy married guests who stay behind in the exhibition area while everyone else including the Mayor evacuates through the sewers. You would think after seeing the body of a headless Police Officer fall from the ceiling and from orders from a extremely competent and experienced Detective that would listen and get the hell out of dodge to safety right? No they choose to stay and wait despite the very real danger that is present and unsurprisingly all of them are slaughtered by the Kothoga.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[OffWithHisHead The Kothoga’s method of killing]] is a VERY horrible and nasty way to go.....

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[The Kothoga’s OffWithHisHead! method of killing]] is a VERY horrible and nasty way to go.....

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The Kothoga’s [[OffWithHisHead! method of killing]] is a VERY horrible and nasty way to go.....

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The Kothoga’s [[OffWithHisHead! method of killing is a VERY horrible and nasty way to go.....]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[The Kothoga’s OffWithHisHead! method of killing is a VERY horrible and nasty way to go.....]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[The Kothoga’s OffWithHisHead! method of killing]] is a VERY horrible and nasty way to go.....

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The Kothoga’s [[OffWithHisHead! method of killing]] is a VERY horrible and nasty way to go.....

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The Kothoga’s [[OffWithItsHead! method of killing]] is a VERY horrible and nasty way to go.....

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The Kothoga’s [[OffWithItsHead!method of killing is a VERY horrible and nasty way to go.....]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[OffWithItsHead! The Kothoga’s method of killing is a VERY horrible and nasty way to go.....]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[OffWithItsHead The Kothoga’s method of killing is a VERY horrible and nasty way to go.....]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[OfWithItsHead The Kothoga’s method of killing is a VERY horrible and nasty way to go.....]]

* InfantImmortality: Averted in the novel, as the first museum victims are two young boys who wander off in a closed area. The movie turns and plays it straight though, changing the boys to the discoverers of the body and the victim becomes the [[BlackDudeDiesFirst old black security guard.]]

** The police searching for the killer end up filling a homeless man living in the basement full of lead. While he's not responsible for the murders they're investigating, he's still a serial rapist and an actual murderer who had it coming.

** Tom Parkinson as well, due to being a loud-mouth who ignores the warnings of D'Agosta of the case not being closed.

* {{Jerkass}}: [[SmugSnake Dr. Lee]] throws his hat in against Margo for a grant he doesn't even need (and she will have to close down without) and then to up his odds of getting said grant, he has her "accidentally" locked into the labs during the party so he can brown nose the benefactors in peace.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: The black security guard Frederick Ford ([[ActorAllusion played by the same actor who is the raptors' appetizer in]] ''Film/JurassicPark'') is the first to get it.
** With a slow zoom on the reefer he was smoking in the restroom as he's mauled off-screen, no less. DrugsAreBad, folks, and can result in a KarmicDeath.

** DecompositeCharacter: D'Agosta's part in the last act of the book is largely taken over by [[CanonForeigner Hollingsworth]] in the film, with D'Agosta filling Pendergast's role.

* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler: The Kothoga]].

* DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: In the original book, the monster was killed due to Margo shining a light on a weak point of it, giving Pendergast an opening to shoot it dead. In the film, she gets it lit on fire and then blown up.]]

* {{Lockdown}}: The damaged security system effectively locks everyone in the museum with the monster.

* PoliceAreUseless: The SWAT team sent in are immediately picked off one by one by the Kothoga. None of them even attempt to shoot it and [[TooDumbToLive apparently sending them in one at a time is not a good idea.]]

''The Relic'' (or ''Relic'') is a 1997 film adaptation of a novel by [[Literature/AgentPendergast Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child]], directed by Creator/PeterHyams, starring Creator/TomSizemore, Penelope Ann Miller, and Linda Hunt.