History YMMV / Avalanche

* AngstWhatAngst: In the span of a day, David loses the ski resort he fought so hard to build, becomes responsible for the injuries and deaths of numerous innocent lives, and loses his mother in a rather brutal manner. Hard as he is, you'd expect him to be a ''little'' broken by all of this. It's even lampshaded by Caroline and Nick.
** He's broken enough at least to solemnly admit that he was to blame for all of it, which Caroline admits is something he's never done before.

* WhatAnIdiot: David's uncanny hubris pretty much drives the whole film.

** The chaos that ensues as the emergency vehicles respond to the avalanche; especially the aforementioned out-of-control police car that crashes into the man and the store. After the horrific avalanche sequence, the cars and their drivers somehow failing to leave town without causing even ''more'' chaos is just downright comical.

* NightmareFuel: In the middle of all the rather silly disaster scenes, there's one truly gasp worthy moment when a cook gets a pot of boiling sauce poured onto his face.

--> '''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E04Avalanche Crow]]''': If they get back together ''now'', I'm gonna kill myself.

** Also, the human crushes that ensue as the avalanche approaches, with people being ''literally trampled''

--> '''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E04Avalanche Crow]]''': If they get back together ''now'', I'm gonna kill myself.

* StrangledByTheRedString: Caroline and David are implied to get back together at the end, despite the fact David's behaviour is borderline obsessive towards her. Ditto with Nick, who Carolina has even less chemistry with, but is implied to have had intercourse with.
* TooCoolToLive: Cool might be stretching it, but minor character and Jason's ski-lift mate Martin ensures that Jason is gets down from the ski-lift safe and sound....only for his own attempt at getting down to be botched by an electric shock and result in him falling to his death.

* DesignatedHero: David. His own stubbornness is why the eponymous avalanche is so devastating, and he doesn't seem to have any visible concern about anyone except Caroline (and maybe his mother). He accepts responsibility for the mess in the end, but he doesn't seem very torn up over it. Let's not forget how disturbingly possessive he is of Carolina.

** The death of Florence can be seen as the writers trying a bit to hard to tug at your heartstrings. Did she die thanks to the avalanche or the dining room gas leak? No, she died when the person driving the ambulance she's in careens off a cliff. Then, as if to drive the point home, it blows up. [[SarcasmMode Subtle.]]

* NightmareFuel: In the middle of all the rather silly disaster scenes, there's one truly gasp worthy moment when a cook falls face-first into a pot of boiling sauce.

* Strangledbytheredstring: Caroline and David are implied to get back together at the end, despite the fact David's behaviour is borderline obsessive towards her. Ditto with Nick, who Carolina has even less chemistry with, but is implied to have had intercourse with.

* DesignatedHero: David. His own stubbornness is why the eponymous avalanche is so devastating, and he doesn't seem to have any visible concern about anyone except Caroline (and maybe his mother). He accepts responsibility for the mess in the end, but he doesn't seem very torn up over it.

* AngstWhatAngst: In the span of a day, David loses the ski resort he fought so hard to build, becomes responsible for the injuries and deaths of numerous innocent lives, and loses his mother in a rather brutal manner. Hard as he is, you'd expect him to be a ''little'' broken by all of this. It's even lampshaded by Caroline and Bruce.

** The kitchen scenes during the avalanche, thanks to the over-the-top chef costumes the actors are wearing, the ridiculous ways they all get thrown around, and the aforementioned cheerleader who is in there for no apparent reason during the gas explosion.

* {{Narm}}: The chaos that ensues as the emergency vehicles respond to the avalanche; especially the aforementioned out-of-control police car that crashes into the man and the store. After the horrific avalanche sequence, the cars and their drivers somehow failing to leave town without causing even ''more'' chaos is just downright comical.

* WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack: After David's stubbornness puts a lot of blood on his hands, the implication that the movie ends with that he and Caroline may get back together down the line is just ''really'' unbelievable.