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* [[Based on a True Story]]: the story was inspired by a real-life mutiny on board a Soviet frigate (the ''Storozhevoy'', mentioned in the book) in 1975, but differs in several key respects from it.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: in the movie, the ''Dallas'' swoops in to drop a couple of decoys and save the Red October.
* [[Bothering
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Jones is described as weird even by Navy sub sonarman standards.
* [[The Captain]]: Bart Mancuso of the USS ''Dallas'', and Marco Ramius of the ''Red October''.
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* [[The Consigliere]]: Jeffrey Pelt is the President's National Security Advisor.
* [[Daddy's Girl]]: Jack Ryan always remembers to get his daughter a present, even when busy saving the world.
* [[Death
* [[Defector From Decadence]]: See [[It's Personal]].
* [[Everyone Knows Morse]]: [[Justified]] to some extent: the British Signals Officer is the one who sends the message via blinker from ''HMS Invincible'' to the ''Red October''. It is described as a slow and rather jerky process since the officer is a bit rusty at it. On the other hand, Ramius knowing Morse is entirely believable, since he's from an older school of military.
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** The reactor accident that sinks the first Alfa would be impossible; they used a liquid metal cooled nuclear reactor that wasn't pressurized. Ironically, the use of a liquid metal plant rather than an American-style pressurized water reactor is mentioned as a faulty guess by U.S. military intelligence.
* [[Hot Sub-On-Sub Action]]
* [[If I Wanted You Dead...]]: The Americans, being understandably nervous about the Soviet fleet off their shores, give them several such moments, with the [[
* [[It's Personal]]: In the book Ramius' main motive was to punish the state for the fact that his wife had died in a botched operation directed by a surgeon who had got the job from [[Upperclass Twit|Party Patronage]]. The movie emphasized his desire to prevent nuclear war; perhaps it was quite reasonably felt that the audience would prefer a more grand motive for treason than revenge even if it was treason against an enemy.
** Not only was his wife's routine operation botched, but the "antibiotics" given to correct the botch were Soviet-manufactured "bonus" drugs. (In Clancy's version of the USSR at least, the workers are given a bonus for exceeding quota, and those products produced just to make quota were often poor or fraudulent, bypassing quality control completely). Further, what he considers the greatest crime is the State's suppression of religion that robbed him of a "hope, even if it was a lie" of seeing his wife again.
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* [[Mr. Fixit]]: Skip Tyler
* [[The Mutiny]]: Inverted. An American officer calls it a mutiny only to be told that mutiny is when the crew rises against officers. The officers trying to steal their ship is barratry.
* [[Name's the Same]]: [[
* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]: It's stated the ship's sonar officer, despite not being hugely attractive, gets a lot of "action" on shore leave.
* [[A Nuclear Error]]: [[Averted Trope]] -- it's [[Discussed Trope|specifically stated]] that A) if he had wanted to and were capable of doing so, Ramius could have launched from the dockside and his missiles would still have enough range to hit the U.S. and B) Soviet controls against a rogue launch are even stricter than their NATO equivalents.
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* [[Saving Christmas]]: What a time for a possible [[World War III]]! It ''would'' have to happen then, now wouldn't it?
* [[The Smart Guy]]: Submarine warfare is probably the geekiest form of war yet invented by mankind and this book is practically an orgy of smartness. Nevertheless Seaman Jones the sonarman is closest to the classic model, with the Executive Officer of the ''Dallas'' mentally commenting that Seaman Jones has the highest IQ on the boat by a healthy margin.
* [[Spared
* [[Stock British Phrases]]: [[Tom Clancy]]'s attempts at writing dialogue for the British character [[Did Not Do the Bloody Research|fall short of reality]].
* [[The Strategist]]: Ramius, whose plan sets everything in motion. Jeffrey Pelt, Admiral Greer, and to some degree Jack Ryan. And the unnamed President who does not show up in the movie.
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* [[Aerial Canyon Chase]]: At least twice, in a missile submarine.
* [[Age Lift]]: In the novel, Mancuso is said to be in his mid-thirties, young for a command of this level; Scott Glenn, however, was 48 at the time the movie was made.
* [[All-Star Cast]]: What else do you call this combination? [[Sean Connery]], [[Alec Baldwin]], [[Jurassic Park|Sam Neill]], [[Tim Curry]], [[Stellan Skarsgard]], [[James Earl Jones]], [[Scott Glenn]], even [[Star Trek:
* [[Americans Are Cowboys]]:
{{quote| (Ramius sees Mancuso's sidearm and says to Borodin that Mancuso is a ''бакару'' (sounds just like the English "buckaroo"). Ryan laughs.)<br />
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'''Russian Sailor (in English)''': Another torpedo. The Americans are shooting at us again!<br />
'''Seaman Jones''': [[Hyper Awareness|Pitch is too high]]. [[Oh Crap|The torpedo's]] ''[[Oh Crap|Russian]]''. }}
* [[Backed
* [[Badass Boast]]:
{{quote| '''Kamarov:''' Stop pissing, Yuri. Give me a stopwatch and a map, and I'll fly the Alps in a plane with no windows.}}
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{{quote| '''Steiner''': Hey, I think someone's shooting torpedoes!<br />
'''Mancuso''': No [[Precision F-Strike|shit]], buckwheat! Get the hell out of here! }}
* [[Character
* [[Coming in Hot]]: With the aid of [[Just Plane Wrong|anachronistic]] [[Stock Footage]] and [[Eject! Eject! Eject!]] instruction heard from the tower.
* [[Compressed Adaptation]]: The movie gets rid of the British role entirely, ditches the [[Feed the Mole]] sideplot and most of the fleet-level conflict between the U.S. and Soviets, and cuts out most of Clancy's rhapsodizing about the intricacies of sub warfare.
* [[Cunning Linguist]]: Jack Ryan.
* [[Cut Himself Shaving]]: An inconvenient political officer "slips on his tea."
* [[Death
* [[Description Cut]]: Ramius mentions to Borodin that a "buckaroo" will be sent to meet them - and we immediately cut to Ryan in the plane, bouncing about uncomfortably in the turbulence.
* [[Everyone Knows Morse]]: Mancuso sends Morse messages to Ramius (watching by periscope) with a light blinker, asking for an active sonar ping to signal Ramius' agreement. It's at least discussed, as Mancuso says, "My Morse is so rusty, I could be sending him dimensions on [[Playboy|Playmate of the Month]]."
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{{quote| '''Beaumont:''' A what?<br />
'''Jones:''' A whale, Seaman Beaumont, a whale. A marine mammal that knows a heck of a lot more about sonar than you do. }}
* [[Fake Nationality]]: It's a Hollywood flick, so it's a given that many of the major Russian characters were played by non-Slavic actors. The most obvious is [[Sean Connery]] as Lithuanian-born Captian Ramius, as his Scottish accent almost makes it as jarring as an [[Patrick Stewart|Englishman]] [[Star Trek:
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: While a few of the officers are bothered by {{spoiler|Ramius killing Putin, see [[What the Hell, Hero?]] below,}} they are, [[The Stoic|with one exception,]] shocked out of their minds when he reveals that he {{spoiler|sent a letter to Admiral Pedorin telling him of their plans to defect.}}
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Borodin [[Taking the Bullet|takes a bullet]] from the saboteur.}}
** The crew of the ''Red October'' end up believing Ramius and the officers did a collective one since they were fooled into thinking that they got them off so they could scuttle the sub rather than have it captured.
* [[Hoist
* [[Hyper Awareness]]: Seaman Jones, [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that veteran sonar operators in [[Real Life]] really are that good, to the point of identifying individual ships by the sound of their engines.
{{quote| '''Seaman Jones''': [[Awesomeness By Analysis|Pitch is too high]]. The torpedo's ''Russian''.}}
* [[If I Wanted You Dead...]]: Subverted in the film, after the Red October evades a torpedo launched from a Soviet anti-submarine patrol plane, one of the crew asks "Why's our own navy shooting at us?" and is told by the first officer "If they were really shooting at us, we'd be dead."
* [[I'm a Doctor, Not
{{quote| '''Ramius''': Ryan, sit here.<br />
'''Ryan''': I'm not a naval officer, I'm with the CIA!<br />
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* [[Nausea Dissonance]]: Ryan hates flying because of turbulence. When he's on a turbulent flight to the ''Enterprise'', the navigator goes into excruciating detail about a ''really'' rough ride on his last mission.
* [[Nerves of Steel]]: Marko Ramius quizzes Ryan about Ryan's books while a torpedo is homing in on their sub.
* [[Not Even Bothering
* [[A Nuclear Error]]: [[Rule of Drama|In order to heighten tensions and give a deadline for the affair,]] the movie never explains what the book did about the range of SS-N-20s or Soviet safeguards against rogue launch.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Subverted. Tupolev's second officer, when he finds out {{spoiler|that their torpedo is now going to hit them instead}}, he doesn't freak out, but simply points out to his captain how much of an arse he had been.
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* [[Precision F-Strike]]: "You arrogant ass, You've killed ''us''!"
** "Son of a ''BITCH!''" "[[Deadpan Snarker|Do you have something you'd like to add to our]] ''[[Sarcasm Mode|discussion]]'', [[Deadpan Snarker|Doctor Ryan?]]"
* [[Prop Recycling]]: The teddy bear Jack Ryan gets his daughter at the end is the same teddy bear John McClane was bringing for his kids at the beginning of ''[[
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Putin. "I am only doing my job, it ''is'' my responsibility!"
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: When Tupolev fires torpedoes at the ''Red October'', Ramius orders the crew to make the submarine close with the torpedoes at full speed. He correctly deduces that by getting close to the torpedoes shortly after they've fired, he can catch them while their safeties are still on and ram them with minimal damage. [[Casual Danger Dialogue|All the while calmly asking Ryan what kind of books he writes.]]
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