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* [[Bruce Campbell]]: 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.

* [[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.

* [[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.