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* [[Creator Cameo]]: [[Michael Bay]] as a NASA scientist.
* [[Death From Above]]
* [[Deceptive Legacy]]: Chick's ex or estranged wife, incensed by Chick showing up unannounced to see their small son, dismisses him to the boy as "a salesman." Later on, she [[Dramatic Drop|drops the phone]] and tells the boy the truth when he points out "that salesman is on TV" ... as a member of the Freedom and Independence missions to save earth from the asteroid.
* [[Defcon Five]]: Yeah, giant meteor killing everything on the planet including bacteria, that'd work.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: "Iron Ferrite." ...yeah.
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* [[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.
* [[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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{{quote|'''Chick''': (eerily calm voice) Harry... The clock on that nine foot nuclear weapon is ticking.}}
* [[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]]
** [[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!
* [[Power Walk]] - an [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[The Right Stuff]]''
** "Man, talk about the ''wrong stuff''..."
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* [[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.
* [[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.}}
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* [[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.}}
* [[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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* [[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.
** Also justified in that they weren't trying to disable the bomb, as they still needed to use it. They just needed to disable the activated timer and stop the Pentagon ordered launch. It's also unclear if cutting the wrong wire would cause the bomb to detonate, or if it just wouldn't stop the countdown.
* [[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]].
** 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?''
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