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=== ''2012'' exhibits the following tropes: ===
* [[Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene]]: Multiple, particularly the scene in Air Force One between Adrian and Laura, what's left of Washington DC and the President, and the scenes involving Jackson and his family in Yuri's plane.
* [[Acrophobic Bird]]: Justified in that Gordon just got his pilot's license and can barely fly.
* [[Aloha Hawaii]]: The characters planned to stop in Honolulu to refuel. {{spoiler|It's completely covered in lava.}}
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* [[Most Writers Are Writers]]: Albeit unsuccessful ones. Jackson tries to pimp his book a lot.
* [[Neutral Female]]: The female characters don't really ''do'' a whole lot. They comfort the children, sometimes. And the President's daughter exists solely to be Adrian's [[Love Interest]]. Notable especially in the plane sequences. Only Yuri and Jackson ever even go up to see what's happening.
* [[Next Sunday
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Nice Job (Almost) Breaking It Hero]]: Ark 4 is almost doomed when equipment Jackson's family and the Tibetan family use to sneak aboard becomes jammed in the gate's hydraulics.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]:
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** A Chevron gas station makes a brief appearance, only to be blown up by a careening cement truck.
* [[Prophecies Are Always Right]]
* [[
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Yuri}}.
* [[Red Herring]]:
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* [[Take That]]:
** A very lazy shot at [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] ("He's an actor - he's reading from a script!"). There is a veritable myriad of [[Take That|take-thats]] in the film, but there's so many that it's kind of hard to pinpoint them all. Western civilization? Religion? Rich people? Russians?
* [[Take That, Critics!]]: A subtle one can be found in the adoration John Cusack's character's [[Sci Fi]] book gets. In the movie, the book sells barely a dozen copies because critics found its ridiculously [[
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Many times. See Dramatic Irony.
* [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]: Charlie and his prediction of the Yellowstone Caldera erupting.
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