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* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: The destruction of the Earth is caused by the heating of its core, caused by excess neutrinos being emitted by the Sun. However, since neutrinos almost never interact with matter, these are neutrinos that are "mutating into some other subatomic particle," presumably ones that can interact with matter more often. Why these new particles don't interact with the Earth's surface is unclear. Lampshaded when Adrian, listening about the neutrinos, simply declares "That's impossible". He's right.
* [[The Ark]]
* [[Artistic License Geology]]: Somewhere, a geologist is crying.
* [[Badass]]: Anybody who faces their death and doesn't run.
** The Lama Rinpoche. {{spoiler|His response to a tidal wave going to drown his ass is to ring a bell.}}
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* [[Bratty Half-Pint]]: Yuri's twins, but living through the disaster hammers that out of them.
** Also Jackson's son, whose snottiness towards his father in the first few minutes is incredibly annoying.
* [[California Collapse]]: Massive earthquakes tear up California and send it ''straight'' down.
* [[Can You Hear Me Now?]]: A cell phone that gets reception from inside {{spoiler|a metal ship buried under the Himalayas}} off in an undeveloped, rural corner of Tibet. After it has been explicitly stated that the apocalypse has knocked out nearly all communications.
* [[Car Meets House]]: Or rather, limo meets crumbling high rise.
* [[Character Filibuster]]: Adrian takes the world's leaders to school on the meaning of humanity.
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* [[Eureka Moment]]: Overlaps with [[Oh Crap]] with Jackson Curtis. After taking Karpov's kids to the airport, he tells our hero that he will die while they will survive the imminent apocalypse. That, and the fact that [[I Warned You|Charlie was right.]]
* [[Exact Time to Failure]]: The scientists' estimates about when the tidal waves are expected to reach the location of the Ark ships. Semi-justified in that you can calculate the time it'll take for a wave to reach the Ark, but as it's flowing over a massive landmass, it should be an estimate.
** Subverted and [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] with the actual planetary meltdown, which jumps itself up by six months and causes all the precise survival plans to collapse.
* [[Expy]]:
** The unnamed, former [[Arnold Schwarzenegger|actor-turned-California governor]] [[The Ahnold|with a thick Austrian accent]]
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** Mocked mercilessly by Dara O'Briain in his "This is the Show".
{{quote|'''Dara:''' [The scientist] might as well have gone "the electrons... are ''angry''". Or "the light from the sun..." *sniffs* "it's gone off."}}
** Excellent example with Yellowstone. It manages an explosion probably measured in gigatons without any significant blast overpressure. Trees are flattened, but it abates within a mere mile or two - helpfully before obliterating all the major characters.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: "''Get in the fucking car!''"
* [[Product Placement]]:
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