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* [[Laughing Mad]]: After Rockhound goes quite nutty in space, Rockhound, during the dig, ends up utilizing a Gatling gun and starts shooting indiscriminately while laughing.

* [[Manly Tears]]: shed by AJ and by most of the surviving roughnecks during Harry's big speech.

* [[Mathematician's Answer]]: In some markets, this film was advertised as starring "Oscar winners Ben Affleck and Billy Bob Thornton". While it is true that both these men won Oscars, neither of them won for acting.

* [[Mathematician's Answer]]: In some markets, this film was advertised as starring "Oscar winners Ben Affleck and Billy Bob Thornton." While it is true that both these men won Oscars, neither of them won for acting.

* [[Melodrama]]: This isn't meant to win awards, so it doesn't try.

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: From the Roughnecks's reunion outside of the government building to their reactions to why they're there.

* [[More Dakka]] (No, I've no idea why they fitted a BFG to the Armadillo, either)

* [[More Dakka]]: No, I've no idea why they fitted a BFG to the Armadillo, either.

** It's a ''ballistic obstacle removal device''. Yeah...

* [[Mutual Kill]]: Hello Harry vs. Asteroid. (~~Man~~ destroys asteroid he's riding.) It's really a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] when he stays on the asteroid to detonate the bomb but the asteroid is cursed at so frequently as to become somewhat personified.

* [[Mutual Kill]]: Hello Harry vs. Asteroid (man destroys asteroid he's riding). It's really a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] when he stays on the asteroid to detonate the bomb, but the asteroid is cursed at so frequently as to become somewhat personified.

* [[Nations of the World Montage]]

* [[No Periods, Period]]: Only mentioned; while Grace is arguing with Harry about her and A.J.'s relationship, she brings up a laundry list of all the things she had to deal with on her own because he was a distant parent.

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'''Rock:''' Hey!

'''Harry:''' *[[Death Glare]]*

'''Rock:''' I ''told'' [[Digging Yourself Deeper|her how to use them]]. I didn't ''show'' her, Harry. }}

'''Rock:''' I ''told'' [[Digging Yourself Deeper|her how to use them]]. I didn't ''show'' her, Harry.}}

* [[Nuclear Option]]: Avoids [[Deus Ex Nukina]] only by using the nuke to supply the one thing that nukes actually supply -- very large explosions. Unfortunately, even a nuclear explosion [[Did Not Do the Research|wouldn't have been enough]] to cause the results seen in the movie.

* [[Oh Crap]]: ''Lots'' of them, particularly when they're on the rock itself.

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* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: [[Peter Stormare]] would be this if, like so many of his other roles, his character was restricted to just one scene instead of being a main character in the second half of the movie.

* [[Overshadowed by Awesome]]

* [[Parental Abandonment]]

* [[Parental Abandonment]]:

** [[Disappeared Dad]]: Chick's gambling problem resulted in his wife taking him to court and removing his paternal rights, so he wasn't willingly disappeared.

*** Technically, Harry Stamper himself.

** [[Missing Mom]]: Grace was raised by roughnecks because her mother walked out on Harry when Grace was very small, and Harry wouldn't leave the rig.

* [[Percussive Maintenance]]: {{spoiler|[[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|"This! Is how we fix things! On Russian! Space! Station!"]]}}

* [[Power Walk]] ~~- an~~ [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[The Right Stuff]]''

* [[Power Walk]]: An [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[The Right Stuff]]''.

** "Man, talk about the ''wrong stuff''..."

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: "This is one order you shouldn't follow and you ''fucking'' know it!"

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* [[Race Lift]]: Owen Wilson's character was supposed to be Asian American. The surname "Choi" is of Korean origin, but [[Throw It In|they didn't bother changing it]] when Wilson was cast.

** Which, let's face it, is a mild and unintended case of [[Truth in Television]]: not everyone has the same ethnicity one's surname might indicate.

* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: ~~the~~ Roughnecks

* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: The Roughnecks

* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: The "slingshot effect" of the shuttle, [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Rockhound, who pointed out it didn't ever work out well for [[Looney Tunes|Wile E. Coyote]].

* [[Real Men Love Jesus]]: ~~mild~~ version of this with Harry Stamper. Of all the characters, he does not indulge any vices on-camera, and several times mentions God or prays outright.

* [[Real Men Love Jesus]]: Mild version of this with Harry Stamper. Of all the characters, he does not indulge any vices on-camera, and several times mentions God or prays outright.

* [[Redshirt Army]]: The other astronaut team {{spoiler|gets killed when their shuttle is hit by meteors. They never even make it to the asteroid}}.

* [[Riding the Bomb]]: ~~see~~ ~~homage,~~ above.

* [[Riding the Bomb]]: See [[Homage]] above.

* [[Ridiculously-Fast Construction]]: The time Harry goes to NASA and accepts the mission (roughly one or two days), his crew spreads around the world, and AJ even starts his own oil company.

* [[Rule of Cool]]

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Rockhound ends up losing some of his sanity while undergoing the mission, eventually cumulating in him using a gatling gun to to shoot everything in sight.

* [[Scary Black Man]]: Michael Clarke Duncan's "Bear" is a surprising subversion. He's [[Bruiser with a Soft Center|rather a softy]], despite looking huge and menacing.

* [[Scenery Gorn]] (The post-meteor shower shots of [[New York City]])

* [[Scenery Gorn]]: The post-meteor shower shots of [[New York City]].

* [[Seinfeldian Conversation]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD25aAsDqZ8 Animal crackers]. And the bad thing is, it's not played for laughs. It was actually meant to be deep and romantic.

* [[Sigil Spam]]: The giant decals all over the interior of both shuttles bearing the shuttles' name and insignia. Apparently NASA's art department isn't afraid of the end of the world.

* [[Sigil Spam]]: The giant decals all over the interior of both shuttles bearing the shuttles' name and insignia. Apparently, NASA's art department isn't afraid of the end of the world.

* [[Smurfette Principle]]: ~~the~~ two shuttle crews have only one woman between them. Incidentally, [[Men Are the Expendable Gender|her shuttle isn't smashed up during the approach]].

* [[Smurfette Principle]]: The two shuttle crews have only one woman between them. Incidentally, [[Men Are the Expendable Gender|her shuttle isn't smashed up during the approach]].

* [[Someone Has to Die]]: {{spoiler|~~due~~ to the [[Deus Ex Nukina]] getting damaged such that someone has to stay behind.}}

* [[Someone Has to Die]]: {{spoiler|Due to the [[Deus Ex Nukina]] getting damaged such that someone has to stay behind}}.

* [[Space Does Not Work That Way]]:

** Why on Earth would they want to make the Russian space station ''rotate'' before they started docking with it? It'd just make the docking maneuver that much more complicated, and the [[Artificial Gravity]] you generated would be directed radially -- toward the outer edge of the rotation -- not top-to-bottom as was shown.

*** Well, given NASA seems to have mastered [[Artificial Gravity]] inside its space shuttles (note the unrestricted movement of crew members ''inside'' the shuttle as opposed to ''outside'' the shuttle on the asteroid) maybe this had something to do with it.

*** Well, given NASA seems to have mastered [[Artificial Gravity]] inside its space shuttles (note the unrestricted movement of crew members ''inside'' the shuttle as opposed to ''outside'' the shuttle on the asteroid), maybe this had something to do with it.

* [[Space Is Noisy]]

* [[Space Madness]]: Rockhound's "space dementia" and the Russian cosmonaut's behavior.

* [[Space Suits Are Scuba Gear]]: So that {{spoiler|Harry can subvert his future son-in-law's [[Heroic Sacrifice]] by yanking his air line and taking his place.}}

* [[Space Suits Are Scuba Gear]]: So that {{spoiler|Harry can subvert his future son-in-law's [[Heroic Sacrifice]] by yanking his air line and taking his place}}.

* [[Take That]]

* [[Take That]]:

** In the first scene, a bunch of toy Godzillas are attacked by a small dog.

** Also the victim of a [[Take That]] from ''[[Deep Impact]]'': When the tidal wave hit, the first structure we see it taking out is an oil rig.

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* [[The War Room]]

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]

* [[Who Shot JFK?]]: ~~one~~ of the requests made by Stamper's team was to be told this in exchange for going on the mission. All they get are blank stares.

* [[Who Shot JFK?]]: One of the requests made by Stamper's team was to be told this in exchange for going on the mission. All they get are blank stares.

** Might be a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Michael Bay]]'s previous film, ''[[The Rock]]''.

** Might be a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Michael Bay]]'s previous film ''[[The Rock]]''.

* [[Wildlife Commentary Spoof]]

* [[Wire Dilemma]]: Played straight when the Pentagon activates the nuclear bomb on the shuttle because they believe the mission is doomed to failure, and the Air Force nuclear specialists on the mission have to disarm it. In this case, the airmen can't shut the bomb down directly because it has been remotely activated, and they have to cut the wiring. The usual dilemma is subverted; the airman disarming the wires briefly hesitates when determining which wire to cut, but he remembers exactly which one to cut after a second of thought.

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* [[With This Ring]]: Rockhound puts the mack on a hot blonde in a bar by informing her her shiny new engagement/wedding ring is not a real diamond.

** AJ puts a dinky little ring on Grace after she accepts his proposal. You'd think that a skilled oil rig worker could afford a better ring, but considering his relationship with Harry, he may have [[George Jetson Job Security]].

* [[You Keep Using That Word]]: The title of the film, Armageddon, is actually incorrect, as the word refers to a place or a battle AT that place. A better title for the movie would've been Giant [[Good Name for A Rock Band|Rock Apocalypse]].

* [[You Keep Using That Word]]: The title of the film ''Armageddon'' is actually incorrect, as the word refers to a place or a battle AT that place. A better title for the movie would've been ''Giant [[Good Name for A Rock Band|Rock Apocalypse]]''.

** Which, as pointed out above, also doesn't "the end of the world" as commonly thought, but "unveiling".

*** Okay, how 'bout ''Rocks Fall, Everybody Dies?''

*** Okay, how 'bout ''Rocks Fall, Everybody Dies''?

**** Or better yet, ''Rocks Fall, {{spoiler|Bruce Willis Dies?''}}

**** Or better yet, ''Rocks Fall, {{spoiler|Bruce Willis Dies''}}?