History Film / PanicButton

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:The four passengers are revealed to be awful, vile people who drove Alligator's daughter to suicide. And he is simply getting back at them for it]].

* AnAxeToGrind: Max finds one on the plane, and it gets used multiple times.

''Panic Button'' is a 2011 British thriller featuring Creator/ScarlettJohnson, Creator/MichaelJibson, Creator/ElenRhys, and Creator/JoshuaRichards. Four people are awarded an all expenses paid vacation from London to New York City as thanks for their participation on a social media website known as All2Gthr, but once the plane takes off they find themselves trapped in a deadly game that revolves around their online lives.

** Max claims he genuinely doesn't know any of the answers to the questions about himself in the first round. [[spoiler:He's not actually Max; he hacked Max's All2gthr account to steal the "vacation".]]

* SuicideAttack: This turns out to be [[spoiler:Alligator's plan. He is going to crash the "winners" into the HQ of All2Gthr.]]

* SuicideAttack: This turns out to be [[spoiler:Alligator's plan. He is going to crash the "winners" into the HQ of All2Gthr.]]

* StunGuns: The pilot has one.

AnAxeToGrind: Max finds one on the plane, and it gets used multiple times.

AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Alligator, who is getting revenge against the four passengers for driving his daughter to suicide by making them play a suicide game]].

ArmorPiercingQuestion: Round two involves asking the players extremely personal, specific questions about embarrassing things they do online. Everyone gets visibly upset by this, and two refuse to keep playing.

AssholeVictim: We find out near the end of the film that each of the passengers were [[spoiler:taunting a teenage girl that was livestreaming herself committing suicide.]]

DeadlyGame: If one of the players does not complete their task, a family member of theirs is tortured or killed.

DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Everyone dies. The video of their deaths goes viral. Jo's daughter is kidnapped and forced to become the replacement daughter for her family's murderer.]]

ForcedToWatch: Alligator's main method to ensure compliance is to livestream the player's family members being tortured to the plane's screens if they don't continue playing his game.

{{Foreshadowing}}:

* The flight attendant remarks that giving up your cell phone is "like losing a limb, isn't it?" [[spoiler:Dave's family member is later tortured by having his arm cut off with a machete.]]

* Max claims he genuinely doesn't know any of the answers to the questions about himself in the first round. [[spoiler:He's not actually Max; he hacked Max's All2gthr account to steal the "vacation".]]

GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Alligator]].

HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:Alligator turns out to be this. Or rather, an AntiHero Antagonist]].

HollywoodHacking: Max does some completely ambiguous "hacking" on his laptop. What he is allegedly hacking, how he is doing it, or what his goal is never gets explained, but his screen shows a couple of command prompt windows open as he taps away at a keyboard and mumbles to himself about being "in".

HumansAreBastards: Alligator's point is that social media encourages this.

KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:The four passengers are revealed to be awful, vile people who drove Alligator's daughter to suicide. And he is simply getting back at them for it]].

ManOnFire: [[spoiler:Gwen's sister is doused in gasoline and set on fire when she fails her task.]]

MileHighClub: Gwen is given this as a task.

{{Revenge}}: Turns out Alligator [[spoiler:is the father of the teenager that committed suicide,]] and his goal is to spread their [[spoiler:deaths]] on social media like they did his daughter's.

SnuffFilm: Jo is accused of watching one repeatedly. Additionally, Alligator is revealed to be [[spoiler:creating one.]]

StreisandEffect: Alligator hopes this is what happens.

StunGuns: The pilot has one.

SuicideAttack: This turns out to be [[spoiler:Alligator's plan. He is going to crash the "winners" into the HQ of All2Gthr.]]

KickTheSonOfBitch: [[spoiler:The four passengers are revealed to be awful, vile people who drove Alligator's daughter to suicide. And he is simply getting back at them for it]].

HollywoodHacking: Max does some completely ambiguous "hacking" on his laptop. What he is allegedly hacking, how he is doing it, or what his goal is never gets explained, but his screen shows a couple of command prompt windows open as he taps away at a keyboard.

''Panic Button'' is a British thriller featuring Creator/ScarlettJohnson, Creator/MichaelJibson, Creator/ElenRhys, and Creator/JoshuaRichards. Four people are awarded an all expenses paid vacation from London to New York City as thanks for their participation on a social media website known as All2Gthr, but once the plane takes off they find themselves trapped in a deadly game that revolves around their online lives.

SuicideAttack: This turns out to be [[spoilers:Alligator's plan. He is going to crash the "winners" into the HQ of All2Gthr.]]