The Grey: Difference between revisions

* {{spoiler|[[Bolivian Army Ending]]}}: The film ends with {{spoiler|Ottway surrounded by wolves and getting ready for the big showdown with the alpha wolf, a knife in one hand and broken liquor bottles taped to the other. [[The Stinger]] reveals that neither he nor the alpha survived the fight.}}

* [[California Doubling]]: The film was shot in British Columbia, which often doubles for Alaska.

* [[Dead All Along]]: {{spoiler|Ottway's wife.}}

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|This is part of the reason Diaz decides to stay behind, along with his bad leg. He doesn't feel there's any reason anymore. Finally after Hendrick is killed, Ottway pretty much crosses it and accepts that he's going to die.}}

* [[Dwindling Party]]

* [[Early Bird Cameo]]: All of the main survivors appear in the bar at the beginning of the film, including Diaz who (very much in-character) starts a minor brawl.

* [[Give Me a Sign]]: After {{spoiler|the death of Hendrick, the only other survivor}}, Ottway screams at the heavens demanding help from God. {{spoiler|It never comes.}}

* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified]] - wolves have reflective eyes to improve night vision.

* [[Great White Hunter]]: Ottway is described as such by [[Ethnic Scrappy|Diaz]].

* [[Improvised Weapon]]: A few. Early in the film, the others fend a wolf off Ottway with various detritus from the crash. Later, Ottway fashions one-use spears from a stick, some tape, and a single shotgun shell. Finally, as shown in the trailer, Ottway uses a few empty bottles of airline-sized liquor taped between his fingers as a knuckleduster.

* [[Jerkass]]: Diaz. He gets better.

* [[Jump Scare]]: A couple, mostly involving - you guessed it - the wolves.

* [[Last Stand]]: {{spoiler|If Ottway wasn't going to survive, he was at least going to go down fighting.}}

* [[Miles Gloriosus]]: Diaz considers himself a [[Badass]] who isn't afraid of anything, and mocks Ottway for admitting that he's scared. He's quickly shown how foolish his bravado is.

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: The marketing traded very heavily on Liam Neeson's [[Actor Allusion|fame]] from ''Taken.'' The movie itself is decidedly ''not'' "Bryan Mills punches wolves to death for two hours."

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: While we do have plenty of scenes with the wolves onscreen, there are other times where we only hear them.