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* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: Richard seems to have a shitty enough life for it.

* [[Drunk On the Dark Side]]: {{spoiler|Andrew in the final showdown}}.

* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: {{spoiler|Andrew's mother}} is seemingly the only person he shows affection towards, and, conversely, the only person who seems to truly care for him.

* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: {{spoiler|Andrew's firefighting gear and gas mask make for a nice little [[Cheap Costume|makeshift supervillain costume]]}}.

* [[Flying Brick]]: When the boys master their powers, they come very close to this archetype: they can fly, kick major ass, and resist damage.

* [[Found Footage Films]]: Subverted in that the film uses multiple cameras owned by different people.

* [[Foreshadowing]]:

** After the talent show, Matt mentions that Andrew's expanding ego and hubris will be his downfall. He says it semi-jokingly, but it's from that point on that things start going downhill.

* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: {{spoiler|What Andrew becomes by the end.}}

* [[Reality Ensues]]/[[Deconstruction]]: The whole film is this to ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' and other teen superheroes. {{spoiler|In that story, the angsty teenage outcast who gets superpowers winds up learning about his [[Comes Great Responsibility|great responsibility]] and heroically fighting all manner of dastardly evil. Andrew, however, acts exactly like one would expect an angsty teenage outcast to act when given superpowers.}} {{spoiler|It doesn't help that instead of an Uncle Ben, Andrew is stuck with an abusive, raging alchoholic for a parental figure.}}

* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: Subverted {{spoiler|at the end. Matt, the only surviving character with superpowers states he's going to use them to help people. Previously, the characters just used it for fun or self-gain.}}

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Sure, {{spoiler|Andrew becomes an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] with a God complex}}, but that doesn't stop the focus on him.

* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]: When Andrew pukes for the first time, we don't see the process, although we do see the icky aftermath. When he does it again near the end of the movie, it is pretty much a [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]].

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: Andrew's {{spoiler|dark descent and ultimate rampage are heavily reminiscent of the way most kids who bring guns to school are pushed}}, except on a much grander scale.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Perks]]: Could possibly be [[The Movie]] of the trope. After three high-school guys are given telekinetic powers by a mysterious artifact hidden at the bottom of a crater, they mainly use their newfound abilities to waste time in increasingly spectacular ways, from playing pranks on customers at a department store, to playing football several thousand feet off the ground. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, a very nasty combination of [[Abusive Parents]] and bullying at school eventually turns one of them into a supervillain}}.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]:

** In the end, {{spoiler|Andrew is a rampaging lunatic with his powers and Matt has no choice but to kill him to stop him.}}

** Reversed with {{spoiler|Matt, who starts out as a pseudo-philosopher pothead, but ultimately becomes a better and more responsible person after gaining power.}}

* [[Worf Had the Flu]]: {{spoiler|Andrew is the strongest out of the three boys, but failed to take out Matt in the climax -- even though it should have been pretty easy considering the level of control he has over his powers -- and was easily killed by him instead. The fact that he only recently emerged from a coma, was suffering from severe burn wounds and probably also heavily doped up on painkillers likely affected his performance.}}

* [[X Meets Y]]: Hoo boy.

** ''[[Carrie]]'' meets ''[[Akira (Manga)|Akira]]''.

** ''[[Akira (Manga)|Akira]]'' meets [[Zero Day]]

* [[You Are Not Alone]]: Both Steve and Matt try to invoke this with Andrew (with the latter even using it word for word){{spoiler|, [[Subverted Trope|unfortunately]], Andrew is too far past the [[Despair Event Horizon]] for it to work.}}