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{{quote|''Where'' [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|you]] ''are the endangered species.''
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'''''Congo''''' is 1995 action/adventure film (with a slight comedic streak) based on the novel of the same name written by [[Michael Crichton]] (of ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' fame).
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''Congo'' is certainly trite, shallow, silly and cheesy; but intentionally so. If you don't think too hard about it, then it's a perfectly acceptable [[So Bad It's Good]] or [[So Okay It's Average]] fragment of entertainment; if you're browsing Blockbuster one night for a DVD for movie night with your friends and they don't have ''[[Anaconda]]'', this will do instead.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Karen Ross kicks serious ass in the movie. In the novel she's an [[Ice Queen]] who becomes overly focussed on her goal.
* [[All-Natural Gem Polish]]: The mines's diamonds.
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* [[Banana Republic]]: The African version.
* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: Averted; the character played by Ernie Hudson manages to survive all the way through.
* [[Bruce Campbell]]:{{context|reason=Is this a trope?}} In what he referred to as a "small, dead-in-five-minutes" role as Karen's missing boyfriend Charlie.
* [[Call Back]]:
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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The hot air balloon that Karen insists they don't need.
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* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: Mostly averted; the laser has no recoil, travels immediately in a straight constant beam and produces deadly amounts of heat and cutting power. It does, however, include a visible beam, appears to cauterize wounds, and is powered by an unprocessed diamond that was chipped out of a rock literally seconds earlier. So basically [[Rule of Cool|all the cool parts]] without any of the hassle or overwhelming gore.
* [[Great White Hunter]]: Somewhat straight in the novel, although really Munro is more of a [[Private Military Contractor|Hired Mercenary]] type, and also half-Indian. The trope proper is spoofed in the film.
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* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: In the novel only, the team has to constantly avoid a cannibalistic tribe of natives who are at war with the Mobutu government. Partly because they were cannibals, but mostly because Mobutu was a vicious dictator running a [[People's Republic of Tyranny]] and he didn't like that said tribe was ignoring him.
* [[Irony]]: Dr. Karen Ross pretends she used to work for the CIA but quit. Her "reason" being they're loveless bastards. However, her boss Travis turns out to be a "loveless bastard" because he cares more about the diamonds than the expedition team.
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* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Travis in the novel, as corporations are covertly fighting each other the way [[Cold War]] intelligence agencies used to. In the movie his paranoia is simply a sign of his general Jerkass nature.
* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]]: At the end of the movie, Dr. Ross destroys her company's satellite in payback for her boss putting the mission above her fiancée. Never mind that this would inevitably cause thousands of people to lose their jobs...
** Though the company was shown as already being in a tailspin and had been for (at the least) months before the events of the movie take place. Most of those thousands likely already had their resumes ready, and many will likely keep their jobs under new ownership as various bits of the company are sold off or taken over.
* [[Red Shirt]]: African porters.
** {{spoiler|Also Richard. He wasn't even in the novel}}
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