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* [[Send in The Search Team]]: The SWAT team sent into the museum to rescue those trapped and kill the Kothoga.
* [[Tragic Monster]]: Kothoga, once its full origin is revealed.
* [[Viewers Areare Morons]]: There are quite a few glaring examples when compared to the source material. Any difficult names are dumbed down (Whittlesey becomes Whitney, Kawakita becomes Lee), the monster Mbwun and the tribe that controlled it, The Kothoga, are combined into one term.
** And if you didn't get it five minutes ago when we told you he's afraid of black cats, we'll remind you now that D'Agosta is superstitious by having him refuse to pick up a penny wrong-side-down, and five minutes from now when we tell you about his lucky bullet.
* [[Viral Transformation]]: {{spoiler|The reovirus creates monsters out of anything that ingests it}} by inserting saurian and reptilian DNA into host cells; but the victim needs a steady supply of specialized hormones to {{spoiler|retain its new form, the victim-turned-monster}}; in order to acquire these hormones, the victim must go right to the richest source available and ''[[Horror Hunger|eat the hypothalamus]]'' of its victims or go mad from the pain of being unable to sustain {{spoiler|its new form}}.