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* [[You Fail Physics Forever]]: The concrete barrier is set up in the wrong direction, making it far less effective when pushing against the lava.▼
* [[Cat Scare]]: Or more... a Rat scare. A couple rats spook two of the characters. But they press on deeper into the storm drain. Then they see the charred rats as the Thermal Camera goes nuts...
* [[Cassandra Truth]]
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* [[Dueling Movies]] with ''[[Dante's Peak]]'', both released months apart in early 1997.
* [[Feet of Clay]]: Minor example with Kelly having a scene with her father about what to do during an earthquake, yet during an actual earthquake she just sits in bed and screams until her father pulls her out and puts them under a doorway.
* [[Genre Blindness]]: The usual disaster movie ignorance is of course present but the fact no-one in LA has no clue what lava is verges [[Too Dumb to Live|on the ridiculous]]. Sure, the first time people actually see lava it's understandable they do a double-take. However it soon gets to the point where the film seems to be set in an alternate reality where the very ''existence'' of volcanoes is an obscure geological fact completely unfamiliar to the public.
{{quote|'''TV Anchorwoman:''' Well, we now have a ''name'' for this crisis. It is, according to the US Geological Survey, a "volcano"... }}
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: The train conductor that gets saved by Stan is Ernie from George Lopez.
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* [[No Endor Holocaust]]: {{spoiler|The bodycount at the end of this disaster is a paltry 100. With a few thousand injured. Considering the destruction on screen not just from the lava itself but numerous secondry fires. Not to mention the accompaning the offscreen implication of mass panic and looting, this result is nothing short of divine intervention.}}
* [[Red Shirt Reporter]]: At one point, a reporter is standing only barely on the right side of the concrete barriers holding the lava back! [[Convection, Schmonvection]] indeed...
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Kelly. She claims to not need a babysitter but she freezes up constantly, forcing people to drop what they're doing (which once includes trying to save someone else's life) to bail her ass out. The worse instance being
** More generally, the entire population of L.A., who have apparently never heard of volcanoes before the event of this movie.
* [[You Fail Geology Forever]]
** California is a geologically complex place with many centers of volcanic activity, but most of them aren't anywhere near the Los Angeles Basin. The closest volcanic rocks are millions of years old from long extinct volcanic activity, and the Los Angeles area has no volcanoes active or even recently extinct, with no volcanic activity anticipated in the foreseeable future of human presence.
** And of course, the La Brea Tar Pits are in a deep sedimentary basin associated with a transform boundary, and for bonus points, they are Tar Pits and the LA basin is full of oil wells, so it's hard to imagine that someone wouldn't have noticed long before the characters in the film. Petroleum deposits cannot form geologically in the presence of volcanic activity.
▲* [[You Fail Physics Forever]]: The concrete barrier is set up in the wrong direction, making it far less effective when pushing against the lava.
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