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* [[Chekhov's Volcano]]
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The E.L.F. global tracking device, the mineshaft.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: Dr. Dalton manages to drive a car over a flow of magma and manages only to melt the tyres, and lava flows into the living room of a log cabin and only catches the immediate area on fire. The commentary on the DVD says the lava-crossing sequence was mosty done for real. [[Big "What?"|WHAT?]]
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: The Wando children's father left Rachel and them. Ruth, his mother, holds Rachel responsible for that, and their relationship is adversarial as a result.
* [[Disaster Movie]]
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* [[Hellish Copter]]: The helicopter pilot attempts to take off in the middle of the ash storm, [[Cassandra Truth|despite being warned about what a bad idea this was]]. The ash is ingested into the turbines, the engines seize, and the chopper crashes to the ground.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Ruth.}} Cracked [http://www.cracked.com/article_18838_the-5-most-easily-avoidable-movie-deaths_p2.html points out] some major flaws in the logic of this.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Now we know what [[Remington Steele]] and [[Terminator|Sarah Connor]] like to do in their spare time...
* [[Hollywood Science]]: Although it's known for being scientifically sound, it's still an action movie.
** Volcanic ash should have all the main characters either dead or dying because it's incredibly fine and will get into their lungs and kill them. But seeing as this is just a disaster movie, this is excusable.
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** You'd think a trained pilot would know better than to attempt to take off in the middle of an ash storm. Especially since he was specifically warned that the ashes would seize up his engines. There's a good reason civil aviation grinds to a halt when there's a major volcanic eruption.
** Grandmother Ruth refusing to listen to the warnings of a member of the ''USGS'' and staying on her mountainside home.
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* [[You Fail Geology Forever]]: It tried to get some research done, but they ultimately could not get it all right. Fluid lava is not known for being a sign of an explosive eruption. Likewise, [[Outrun the Fireball|Outrunning the Pyroclastic Flow]] is impossible in [[Real Life]] if you are already in its path; the mine they held up in should have been rendered a [[Death World]] by the hot gas and sheer temperature. And that far in the mine should have been wiped out the second the flow hit.
** On the other hand, they aren't shown to be actually outrunning the pyroclastic flow: they traveled a much shorter distance than it did -- it was gaining on them the whole way, and people ''have'' survived pyroclastic flows by being underground at the time they passed over them. The most famous example is a prisoner in the St. Pierre jail on the island of Martinique, when Mount Pelee erupted in 1902.
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