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== "Safe" tropes ==
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: When Jules and Curt go off to fool around in the forest, {{spoiler|the control room is packed to capacity with male staffers, all of whom (save Truman) are grinning ear to ear and eager to see some action}}. They only leave (with plenty of "Awww"s of disappointment) when Hadley shoos them out of the room.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: In addition to the usual expected horror movie deaths,
* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: Patience's diary.
* [[Artifact of Doom|Arsenal Of Doom]]: The cabin basement. Though we eventually settle on the tried and true {{spoiler|[[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]}}.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]:
* [[Barrier-Busting Blow]]: One of the zombies pulls {{spoiler|Marty}} through a window. Later on, {{spoiler|a giant Vampire Bat smashes an agency employee into and through a wall, giving Marty and Dana an escape route.}}
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]:
* [[Beehive Barrier]]: {{spoiler|It surrounds the site. And it doesn't just deflect contact, it ''fries'' whatever touches it}}.
* [[Big Bad]]: {{spoiler|The Director is initially presented at this, then turns out to be [[Necessarily Evil]] due to...}}
* [[Bigger Bad]]:
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]:
* [[Big Red Button]]: One of these
* [[Black Comedy]]: Boy howdy.
* [[Bloody Hilarious]]
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Dana. [[Joss Whedon|As to]] [[Signature Style|be expected]].
* [[Brick Joke]]:
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** The intern splits the pot with Maintenance.
* [[Buffy-Speak]]: In the credits, even. "Japanese Floaty Girl."
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* [[Cosmic Horror Story]]: The ''real'' story of the movie.
* [[Downer Ending]]: One of the only pieces of fiction where [[Endofthe World As We Know It|the world could end]]...''and it does''.
* [[Physical God]]: Judging from the giant fiery hand we see at the end, it can be inferred that the Ancient Ones are this.▼
* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: No hope for a sequel here, people.
** Not necessarily. Why should we believe the assumption that the gods mean to destroy the world is accurate? Maybe they just want to give humanity the secret of space travel or immortality.
* [[Kill'Em All]]: No, not just everyone in the movie. [[The End of the World as We Know It|EVE-RY-ONE]].
▲* [[Physical God]]: Judging from the giant fiery hand we see at the end, it can be inferred that the Ancient Ones are this.
* [[Playing with a Trope]]: [[The Movie]].
* [[Stealth Parody]]: Though it's pretty obvious, [[Poe's Law|people still seemed to miss the point]] and decried it as [[Hate Dumb|"A disgrace to true horror"]]. It helps that it was [[Trailers Always Lie|advertised as a straight horror film.]]
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