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* [[Batman Gambit]]: {{spoiler|By ''the sharks'', whose pursuit of the humans is actually a ploy to get them to flood the floating station, so it'll sink low enough for the super-makos to escape into the ocean.}}
* [[Badass Preacher]]: {{spoiler|Preacher's MO.}}
* [[Big Bad]]: The sharks.
* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: There are actually two black dudes; one a heroic leader figure played by [[Samuel L. Jackson]] and the other a secondary character separated from the main group with his own B-plot played by rapper LL Cool James. Guess which dies first? {{spoiler|Subverted. Preacher even survives, thanks to the below-mentioned [[Focus Group Ending]], and Jackson's character dies right in the middle of his [[Rousing Speech]].}}
* [[Darkness Equals Death]]
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** Lampshaded. {{spoiler|"25-foot shark and you hit ''me''? Nice."}}
* [[Dead Star Walking]]
* [[Death by Irony]]: {{spoiler|Subverted, as the character escapes with his life. Preacher hides from a shark in one of his ovens, when the shark's thrashing ''turns on the gas''. He even [[
* [[Death by Sex]]: With drunk teens no less. Subverted, though it did attract the escaped shark in the opening.
* [[Decoy Protagonist]]
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** Like swimming backwards. Sharks ''physically can't'' swim backwards; it has nothing to do with how smart they are.
** Although, to be fair, this is pointed out by one of the characters who states something to the effect of: "That shark just swam backwards. That's impossible! Sharks can't do that." However, as the sharks aren't just stated as being smarter as a result of the scientist's genetic tampering, but also faster and stronger, it's feasible to presume that the genetic changes were to more than their brains. If those changes also affected their basic physiology, too, perhaps those changes made it possible for them to sudden swim backwards.
** The [[
** Even a real mako could clear that fence with almost twenty feet to spare.
** Carter's tiger shark. Tigers don't have pointed snouts.
* [[Everything
* [[Famous Last Words]]
{{quote|{{spoiler|"We're going to pull together and we're gonna find a way to get outta here! [[Shut Up, Kirk|First, we're gonna seal off this--!]]"}}
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** It helps that the intelligence was just a byproduct instead of the goal.
* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]: The shark's escape wasn't exactly as planned though.
* [[Great White Hunter]]: Carter.
* [[Hot Scientist]]: Susan.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: {{spoiler|Passed around right before Janice's death. She falls into the water, and stays there crying for help. It's a little hard to believe that even in a state of frenzied panic and fear of impending death she'd forget that there is a perfectly fine ladder about eight feet away from her. And Carter, rather than urge her to swim over to him, instead instructs her to just stay afloat right where the shark can most easily grab her, while taking the time to climb onto the broken ladder section so he can stage a [[Take My Hand]] scene by fishing her out of the water. Predictably, he fails.}}
** {{spoiler|And then there is Susan who goes back to her lab to retrieve her Alzeheimer cure data and finds it flooded. In the middle of a flooded facility teeming with aggressive sharks and a large lab area with multiple open access points. Sorry, not even for a cure for Alzeheimer's would I step into that waist-deep water. But Susan...? Uh huh.}}
* [[Ignored Expert]]: Jake Carter tries to convince the "good" doctor that her plan is ''spectacularly'' ill-concieved.
** Obviousness levels approaching [[Only Sane Man]] territory.
* [[It Can Think]]
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* [[Shock and Awe]]: Another way to kill a shark.
* [[Short-Lived Aerial Escape]]: The [[Trope Namer]] is the director, after all.
* [[Stock Dinosaurs|Stock Sharks]]: Well, there are no dinosaurs here, but almost all shark attack films have the stock shark: the Great White. This one subverts it by making them mako sharks.
** Could be [[Shown Their Work]] too, as real makos are among the smarter and more agile of shark species. A great white wouldn't have done so well at navigating the flooded corridors.
** Might be attributed to [[Rule of Scary]], as [http://aka.media.entertainment.sky.com/image/unscaled/2009/3/13/Deep-Blue-Sea-08-3.jpg the pointed and jagged teeth] of the mutated makos in this film are considerably scarier than [http://eu.art.com/products/p954405493-sa-i4064365/posters.htm?ui=FDDA16EF663B4613882C3F53F56F6A95 the triangular ones] of the Great White.
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** [[Fridge Logic]] sets in. He survived an avalanche in the Himalayas. Certainly there were sacrifices there... he's giving everyone a fair chance to not be the one who gets eaten. What he underestimates is how much faster the sharks are than humans in the water, so much so that no one was making it to the surface intact. Not once did he think that everyone would survive the swim.
*** In other words, "I don't have to be faster than the shark, I just have to be faster than you." (While not realizing that the shark is fast enough to get you and you and you and then you.)
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: between Carter and Susan.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|Susan}}.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Dr. Susan's actions prior to the film.
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