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Tremors

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Tremors	comment	Tremors is a 1990 Horror Comedy film about subterranean monsters. It is considered a Cult Classic for the way it plays with the typical monster movie tropes. The citizens of the isolated desert town of Perfection, Nevada find themselves under siege by "Graboids" (as they name them): massive, subterranean worm monsters who hunt prey by sensing ground-vibrations. It falls to two redneck handymen, Val and Earl (Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward, respectively), to save the town.It was directed by Ron Underwood and eventually spawned a franchise with six sequel movies, a prequel movie, and a short-lived TV series:
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Tremors / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
Tremors / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety: Shortly after Val and Earl encounter the dead construction workers Earl loads a revolver in the passenger seat of the truck and spends several seconds holding it pointed dangerously close to Val in the driver's seat. Odd for the franchise that gave us everyone's favorite gun-safety aficionado Burt Gummer, but possibly justified in that Earl likely has far less experience with firearms than Burt and both Val and Earl have just been thoroughly spooked.
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Tremors / int_13992073	type	Rasputinian Death
Tremors / int_13992073	comment	Rasputinian Death: The Graboid that bursts into Burt and Heather's basement takes getting shot for several minutes straight with a wide variety of guns to finally die. Justified, as huge, bulky animals tend to take a lot of punishment to put down if you don't have the right weapon, like the elephant gun Burt uses to finish it.
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Tremors / int_13e1c444	type	Plot-Triggering Death
Tremors / int_13e1c444	comment	Plot-Triggering Death: Val and Earl start to realize something's wrong after discovering the dead body of one of the townsfolk mysteriously hanging from a transmission tower. They were planning on permanently leaving town until this, but realize they have to warn the town
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Tremors / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Tremors / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Val saving Rhonda from being eaten alive certainly didn't hurt their budding relationship any.
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Tremors / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Tremors / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Earl and Valentine have resisted temptation (free beer) and left Perfection, Nevada for a new life. As they're driving along Valentine says, "Now there's nothing, and I mean nothing, between us and Bixby!" Seconds later, they see Edgar Deems high up on a power pylon. They stop to help him, and later events force them into a battle to the death against the Graboids. At one point the town residents say that eventually someone will notice the road's blocked and the phone lines are down and come check up on them. It then cuts to show someone did show up to check up on them... but was eaten by the Graboids. While riding the bulldozer to the mountains, Val and Earl see dust clouds in the distance ahead of them, prompting Earl to wonder what the Graboids are up to now.
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Tremors / int_17122b19	type	Exactly What I Aimed At
Tremors / int_17122b19	comment	Exactly What I Aimed At: Down to one pipe bomb and one Graboid, Val throws the bomb and overshoots the Graboid, leading to Earl complaining that he wasted it. But Val never intended to blow the Graboid up, as it had become too smart to fall for that. He needed the noise from the explosion to drive it in one direction at full speed, that direction terminating in a very high cliff that the Graboid sends itself over.
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Tremors / int_1c4e3202	type	The Spook
Tremors / int_1c4e3202	comment	The Spook: No one knows what the graboids are or where they came from; they make a few theories (aliens, genetic engineered bioweapon, nuclear mutants, prehistoric organisms), but none are confirmed in the first film. Only in later material is it revealed they're Paleozoic invertebrates related to cuttlefish. Some viewers found this disappointing, preferring the mystery in the first film.
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Tremors / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Tremors / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Val and Earl, sometimes edging towards Vitriolic Best Buds.
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Tremors / int_20215dc6	type	Primal Fear
Tremors / int_20215dc6	comment	Primal Fear: The Graboids themselves embody the fear of being eaten alive (swallowed whole) and enclosed spaces (being buried underground).
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Tremors / int_20e6a6e7	type	It Only Works Once
Tremors / int_20e6a6e7	comment	It Only Works Once: The Graboids have a tendency to find ways to work around the humans' counter-attacks before very long.
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Tremors / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Tremors / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Several of them: The cliff shown in the very first scene. And the lighter that Val and Earl can't keep track of. The bombs Burt and Heather bring along. It's initially considered as just a way to make the Graboids leave them alone (because the noise aggravates their hearing), but then Earl thinks up a fishing idea. Mindy's squeaky pogo stick and the bad bearing on Walter's fridge, both of which wind up attracting Graboids. Walter's tractor seen earlier in the minute before the Graboids attack Perfection. It is later used as a distraction for Val to rush towards the bulldozer. At the same time, the bulldozer Earl was driving, along with the semitrailer, would be later controlled by Val to evacuate the surviving residents. The refrigerator in Walter Chang's shop that occasionally squeals due to a bad bearing. It happens again later on, when everybody is trying to be silent to remain undetected by the Graboids. It doesn't end well.
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Tremors / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Tremors / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: When Val, Earl, and Rhonda are trying to explain the Graboids to the rest of the gang in Chang's shop, Nestor says that if one of them comes after him, he'll simply attack them with a five-pound pickaxe. In frustration, Val reminds him that this would never work because Nestor would never see the Graboid coming since they're underground. Not even ten minutes later, when Rhonda gets herself tangled up in barbed wire and is seconds from being Graboid food, Val comes to the rescue attacking said Graboid with ... a five pound pickaxe.
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Tremors / int_23ce4798	type	Sinister Southwest
Tremors / int_23ce4798	comment	Sinister Southwest: Monsters and mayhem in the Nevada desert.
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Tremors / int_2470d8fd	type	Steel Ear Drums
Tremors / int_2470d8fd	comment	Steel Ear Drums: Zig-Zagged. Neither of the Gummers seems to suffer any hearing loss while firing hundreds of rounds into a Graboid while underground in a cramped rec room, but Heather noticeably drops the guns she's holding to cover her ears when Burt brings out the elephant gun.
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Tremors / int_2497e5b8	type	Atomic F-Bomb
Tremors / int_2497e5b8	comment	Atomic F-Bomb: Val, right after he and Earl accidentally fool the first Graboid encountered into slamming its head into a concrete wall, killing itself.
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Tremors / int_251bbe0e	type	Genre Blindness
Tremors / int_251bbe0e	comment	Farmer Fred notices his sheep acting skittish, but thinks nothing of it. That's his mistake. A minute later he's Eaten Alive by a graboid.
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Tremors / int_25b19f64	type	Cute Bookworm
Tremors / int_25b19f64	comment	Cute Bookworm: The Love Interest, Rhonda, is an attractive seismology grad-student.
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Tremors / int_287d3cc8	type	DarkHumor
Tremors / int_287d3cc8	comment	A chilling example: near the beginning of the movie, Walter's fridge starts going berserk, and he asks Val and Earl if they can fix it. Val is eager to do so (probably hoping to get out of doing the garbage), but Earl wants to keep to the schedule. Later on, while the group are hunkering down in Walter's shop, trying to keep vibrations to a minimum, the fridge goes berserk again, leading to Walter's death. The joke? Earl was ripping on Val for not "planning ahead" just prior to the first scene at Walter's shop.
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Tremors / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Tremors / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: While many viewers assumed that Melvin was Nestor's son, and had actually witnessed his own father's death, supplemental material reveals that his parents lived in Perfection, but were unsurprisingly in the habit of running off to Vegas and leaving him behind.
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Tremors / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Tremors / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: When everyone keeps asking Rhonda about the Graboids when her guess is as good as theirs. It's also poking fun at the cliche of the 50's monster movie scientist who knows everything from multiple disciplines relating to the creature. Rhonda, who's a graduate student in seismology, knows nothing of biology or cryptozoology.
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Tremors / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Tremors / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: Burt and Heather put the second Graboid down by unloading just about every gun they own at it. It's a lot of guns.
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Tremors / int_2e5b70e0	type	Foreshadowed
Tremors / int_2e5b70e0	comment	As Val and Earl are about to leave Perfection on horseback, Earl comments that he doesn't believe the "snake creatures" could be fast enough to outrun a horse. Val returns with "Shit, for all you know, they can fly". It was later referred to and foreshadowed by Val when he yells "Can you fly, sucker?" at the last Graboid before he kills it by chasing it off a cliff. In the third movie, of course, they finally can fly.
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Tremors / int_2fd985e3	type	Pit Trap
Tremors / int_2fd985e3	comment	Pit Trap: The Graboids set one up to disable the bulldozer, much to Valâ€™s surprise.
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Tremors / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Tremors / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Earl plays this role for Val and Rhonda.
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Tremors / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
Tremors / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Downplayed given that the graboid in question is still an animal and incapable of hate (no matter how smart it might be), but Val clearly regards "Stumpy" as such given its persistent attempts to kill him and his friends.
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Tremors / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Tremors / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: It's frequently obvious that Finn Carter is actively suppressing her Mississippi drawl.
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Tremors / int_37556e5e	type	Death by Transceiver
Tremors / int_37556e5e	comment	Death by Transceiver: Subverted. The other survivors are talking with Burt and Heather Gummer over a CB radio when a Graboid breaks into the Gummers' basement and attacks them. Burt yells "Jesus Christ!" into the radio and the other survivors look at each other sadly, believing that they're as good as dead. Then they hear gunfire coming from the Gummers' house, and we see them (eventually) blow the Graboid away with high power firearms.
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Tremors / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Tremors / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Though not a straight example, having an underground shelter with a Wall of Weapons and ammo, supplies and power generator in case of World War III served Burt well when his town got attacked by large subterranean carnivorous reptiles. Lampshaded by Burt as they drive away: At one point, Earl and Val warn two construction workers that something is killing people. The one with the jackhammer thinks they're just "pulling [their] chains", while the other grabs a crowbar just to be on the safe side. A lot of good it did for either of them.
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Tremors / int_3c728b77	type	Flare Gun
Tremors / int_3c728b77	comment	Flare Gun: A flare gun is one of the many weapons used by Burt and Heather Gummer on the Graboid that smashes into their underground "rec room."
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Tremors / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Tremors / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: When Earl asks Burt what he uses the cannon fuse for, Burt matter-of-factly replies that he uses it for his cannon.
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Tremors / int_41a6f48	type	Horror Comedy
Tremors / int_41a6f48	comment	Horror Comedy: Leans more heavily towards horror, although the sequels generally started striking a balance.
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Tremors / int_43a46119	type	Surrounded by Idiots
Tremors / int_43a46119	comment	Surrounded by Idiots: Rhonda gets this look several times, especially when she tells the townspeople that the Graboids are "unprecedented" after quite a few mentions earlier that there is no record of them, yet they still press her to explain where they come from. She gets further exasperated when even the somewhat smarter Val and Earl continually ask her to explain why the Graboids are doing what they are doing.
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Tremors / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
Tremors / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: In reference to the first dead Graboid. Burt explains that he's using cannon fuse for the pipe bombs.
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Tremors / int_47d35854	type	Intergenerational Friendship
Tremors / int_47d35854	comment	Intergenerational Friendship: Earl has to be at least a decade older than Val, but the two are thick as thieves from beginning to end.
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Tremors / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Tremors / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: The pipe bombs Burt constructs from "a few household chemicals in the proper proportions."
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Tremors / int_4e0b7617	type	We Just Need to Wait for Rescue
Tremors / int_4e0b7617	comment	We Just Need to Wait for Rescue: It's suggested that the town could simply wait for rescue, since someone is bound to notice that the lines are down and the road is out. Cut to said damaged road and phone lines where a phone company car is, and its occupant was clearly eaten by the Graboids. Later still, they completely abandon any form of waiting once they see the Graboids are getting smart enough to inspect and attack the foundations of their high ground. As Val notes to Heather on the radio, they'd all be dead by the time anyone shows up, so the best thing to do is grab everyone still alive and make a break for it.
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Tremors / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Tremors / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Those whoâ€™ve heard of the series thanks to the overwhelming discussion and love for Burt Gummer might be shocked to see that heâ€™s actually one of the many supporting characters of the film, and that the main protagonists are a pair of handymen wanting to leave Perfection. Itâ€™s also the only film in which heâ€™s happily married.
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Tremors / int_4fa986e	type	Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help
Tremors / int_4fa986e	comment	Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help: Val and Earl attempt multiple times early in the movie to leave town for greener pastures, but are stopped when they see situations they are compelled to get involved in and help; seeing Edgar stuck atop a tower, and discovering that he was dead, they brought him back to town for the doctor to look him over. Later, they find that a local farm had been ransacked by a "Murderer" and head back to town to warn everyone and call the police.
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Tremors / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Tremors / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "Can you fly, you sucker? Can you fly?!" Which rather becomes a Brick Joke in the third film. No, it can't, but its ass-blaster parents and children could.
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Tremors / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Tremors / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Some people have generators to power their homes, and Burt does too. A few people have backup power in case the main generator gives out, and so does Burt. But only Burt has backup backup power. Burt also mentions having five years worth of food stockpiled, along with air filtration and water filtration, at his and Heather's place. In an early scene, Val jokes that Burt will have a stress-induced heart attack before he gets to survive World War III.
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Tremors / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Tremors / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: After blasting the second Graboid to shreds in the basement, Burt celebrates the achievement with one.
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Tremors / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Tremors / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The film starts with Valentine waking up Earl near the edge of a cliff by pretending that there's a stampede. The movie ends with Valentine using a bomb to stampede the last graboid over said cliff to its death. The first and last graboids both die after ramming themselves through a concrete canal wall and cliff face respectively, although the first dies on impact with concrete, while the last dies upon crashing on the rocks at the bottom of the cliff.
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Tremors / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
Tremors / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Burt Lampshades the evident absence of any "spoor" when he and Heather return from their search for the creatures (which presumably do poop, but not at the surface). Averted two other times. First with Val, who was evidently peeing over the edge of the cliff just before the opening shot. Second, Earl says he has "some business to take care of" when he, Val, and Rhonda are trapped on the rock at night, and they respond that so do they. And, of course, Val and Earl get sprayed with the contents of a septic tank when the valve breaks early in the movie.
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Tremors / int_579d50de	type	Monster Threat Expiration
Tremors / int_579d50de	comment	Monster Threat Expiration: Subverted, since the Graboids display the ability to learn from experience and innovate.
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Tremors / int_5a8f3057	type	Hand Signals
Tremors / int_5a8f3057	comment	Hand Signals: Rhonda escapes a Graboid by climbing up a water tower. When Valentine asks her if she's O.K., she gives him a "thumbs up".
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Tremors / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
Tremors / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: With Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors, of all things — Earl claims that since he won, he should be the one to distract the Graboid while the others flee, while Val argues that since he lost, he should act as the distraction.
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Tremors / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Tremors / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: The final Graboid suffers this after Val lures it into tunneling out a cliffside.
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Tremors / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
Tremors / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: Several, the shop-owner Walter, the farmer Old Fred, the doctor Jim and his wife, the two construction workers, and Nestor are all minor characters killed by the graboids to establish that everyone's going to be eaten if they don't find some way to escape or kill the graboids.
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Tremors / int_6454966e	type	World War III
Tremors / int_6454966e	comment	Burt's lifestyle and home were prepped under the belief there was going to be a catastrophe at some point he'd need to be prepared for. He was right, though it turns out it wasn't World War III like he'd thought, but "underground goddamn monsters".
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Tremors / int_67e53056	type	Gun Porn
Tremors / int_67e53056	comment	Gun Porn: The Gummer residence is the NRA member equivalent of the Playboy Mansion.
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Tremors / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Tremors / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Three of 'em: In an early scene, Val and Earl are bulldozing trash, Val using an old toilet to keep beer in. Val complains how "low" their job is, and Earl says they have to set their sights higher. The next scene, they're working on Melvin's septic tank. When the hose ruptures, they finally decide to leave town for good. Two scenes later, Nancy offers Val and Earl free beer and lunches (on top of their wages) if they stick around for a month's worth of work, just as they're leaving Perfection. They (much to their own surprise) reject her offer. Rather more grimly, later in the film, after the true nature of the creatures is revealed, Nancy and Nestor posit that with the roads out and phone lines down, someone's bound to check in on them. Cut to the devoured remains of those who did try to check in...
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Tremors / int_69cce3dc	type	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
Tremors / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: After one graboid got killed.
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Tremors / int_6b00879d	type	Disconnected by Death
Tremors / int_6b00879d	comment	Disconnected by Death: Subverted, albeit over a radio set instead of a phone. Burt Grummer, after being told that the graboids are coming straight for his house, is last heard saying, "Jesus Chr—!" before the line goes dead as a graboid bursts through his wall. As it turned out, that graboid did indeed break into the wrong goddamned rec room.
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Tremors / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Tremors / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Earl originally believes Edgar did this, unable to believe anyone could chase a man carrying a Winchester rifle up a tower and then "camp out down below to wait for him to die." He quickly changes his tune once he actually sees a Graboid in person.
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Tremors / int_70b840b6	type	Giving Them the Strip
Tremors / int_70b840b6	comment	Giving Them the Strip: Rhonda loses her pants because her legs were tangled badly in barbed wire with a Graboid closing in on her. Walter gives her a replacement pair from his inventory shortly afterward.
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Tremors / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Tremors / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: What happens when a Graboid attempts to attack a pair of heavily-armed survivalists.
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Tremors / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Tremors / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The Graboid jaw on the cover art is nowhere as huge as the above poster implies.
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Tremors / int_77e73dc7	type	Food as Bribe
Tremors / int_77e73dc7	comment	Food as Bribe: In an early scene, Val and Earl decide to leave Perfection for good, but are stopped by Nancy, who offers them work with free lunches and beer. In the next scene, they're on their way out of town, hardly able to believe they turned the offer down.
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Tremors / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Tremors / int_7870735b	comment	The movie starts with Val and Earl finally getting sick of being stuck in Perfection working dead-end jobs and decide to leave. Nancy comes up to them just as they're packing up and offers them free food and beer on top of paying them for a new job. They just barely reject the offer, but they don't make it far before encountering a dead body mysteriously hanging on a transmission tower, and it only goes From Bad to Worse from there...
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Tremors / int_78d0ebcf	type	Crying Wolf
Tremors / int_78d0ebcf	comment	Crying Wolf: Melvin Plug repeatedly plays pranks on Earl and Valentine, including wrapping a severed Graboid tentacle around his head and pretending it's attacking him. Finally he starts yelling and Earl, thinking he's still joking, says he's going to kick Melvin's ass. When they go outside, they see Melvin cowering on top of a metal pole — making them realize that this time he isn't kidding — the Graboids are here. You'd likely expect a jerk like Melvin to be counted among the victims in a film like this, but ironically, he survives.
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Tremors / int_7a3aa8ea	type	You Must Be Cold
Tremors / int_7a3aa8ea	comment	You Must Be Cold: Earl uses this trope to play matchmaker for Valentine and Rhonda, by borrowing Val's jacket and covering Rhonda with it while she's asleep.
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Tremors / int_7ccd3698	type	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
Tremors / int_7ccd3698	comment	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In this case a giant worm.
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Tremors / int_7f413791	type	Wall of Weapons
Tremors / int_7f413791	comment	Wall of Weapons: The Gummer residence has one in their rec room, much to the detriment of the Graboid that breaks in.
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Tremors / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Tremors / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Burt was angry at Val and Earl for getting them stuck on a huge boulder while on their way to the mountains. A Graboid set a trap while the survivors were riding on a heavy truck. No one has any back-up plans. Burt believes they could have stood their ground back in town since they had food, water and supplies. Subverted, in that Earl points out (and the movie shows) that this siege mentality is hopeless against graboids, due to their ability to wait out their isolated victims, and the inability of even Burt and Heather's strongest weapons to hurt them while they're underground.
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Tremors / int_812f36e8	type	Nausea Fuel
Tremors / int_812f36e8	comment	And, of course, Val and Earl get sprayed with the contents of a septic tank when the valve breaks early in the movie.
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Tremors / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Tremors / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: The "Elephant Gun". It is actually an 8-gauge side by side shotgun. In case you were wondering, that means the barrel has an inside diameter of 0.835 inch. Let's just say Michael Gross, the actor playing Burt, was lucky he was firing blanks. Had he been holding the gun below his shoulder like that, he would have likely broken his wrist or at least had the gun launch out of his hands.
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Tremors / int_83641c73	type	Logical Weakness
Tremors / int_83641c73	comment	Logical Weakness: The graboids are totally blind and hunt using an extremely acute sense of hearing and vibrational sense, allowing them to sense the movement of prey from miles away. This also makes any loud noises, like explosions, extremely painful for them.
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Tremors / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Tremors / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Burt's lifestyle and home were prepped under the belief there was going to be a catastrophe at some point he'd need to be prepared for. He was right, though it turns out it wasn't World War III like he'd thought, but "underground goddamn monsters". When the town is looking over the Graboid tentacle that was on Val and Earl's truck, Burt notes there's no way just one of these things could have eaten Fred and his flock of sheep and guesses there must be more of them out there. He was right about there being more than one Graboid, but they greatly underestimate just how big they really are by assuming that tentacle is the whole creature.
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Tremors / int_84c5ec0b	type	Free-Range Children
Tremors / int_84c5ec0b	comment	Free-Range Children: Melvin, the teen boy, seems to have no parents. When "everyone in town" is escaping no mention of his parents is even brought up. Apparently it's explained in the original script that Melvin's parents are away in Vegas at the time, vacationing without him, something they apparently did quite often which probably explains why Melvin's such an asshole. Melvin's reaction to Nestor's death can give some viewers the impression that the two are related and that he is the child of Nestor and Nancy, but it's more likely a response to seeing a death up close for the first time.
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Tremors / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Tremors / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Earl's borrowed horse is last seen sprawled on the ground, injured, and Val's runs off when the first Graboid to be seen in full attacks its companion.
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Tremors / int_8d189cee	type	Nothing Can Stop Us Now!
Tremors / int_8d189cee	comment	Nothing Can Stop Us Now!: Val and Earl each say this while heading for Bixby. And then again when the survivors finally are able to move out of Perfection... but the Graboids are one step ahead of them.
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Tremors / int_92d6110b	type	Grenade Hot Potato
Tremors / int_92d6110b	comment	Grenade Hot Potato: With a pipe bomb.
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Tremors / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
Tremors / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": All the survivors when "Stumpy" figures out their fishing plan and vomits their bomb back at them.
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Tremors / int_99db72ee	type	Immune to Bullets
Tremors / int_99db72ee	comment	Immune to Bullets: Subverted. The Graboid that breaks into Burt's rec room at first appears to be immune to bullets, but Burt and Heather are very persistent and VERY well armed. After taking sustained fire from ever-larger guns for two solid minutes of screentime, the Graboid finally goes down. Worth noting that Burt and Heather were also directing a good chunk of their firepower into the monster's mouth, which is likely its most vulnerable spot. Graboids are very difficult to kill with firearms, both due to their sheer size and the fact they spend most of their time under layers of dirt, "Best damn bullet-stopper there is" according to Burt.
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Tremors / int_9bd8f6c8	type	Nested Mouths
Tremors / int_9bd8f6c8	comment	Nested Mouths: The Graboids have three tongues, each with its own mouth.
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Tremors / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Tremors / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When Val and Earl first meet Rhonda, she asks them if they know of anyone doing any mining or blasting in the valley, mentioning that the college seismographs have been getting strange high readings recently and worries if they're malfunctioning. This highlights the Graboids' method of traveling underground, as well as hinting at how big they really are to be able to make such big signals. There are many to the actual size of the Graboids and the worm-like creatures seen first are just their tongues. Burt notes that the Graboid tentacle that stalled out Val and Earl's truck would have to be "one strong son of a bitch" to manage that. The relative size of the tentacle in comparison to just a person would likely strain disbelief that it could manage that on its own, but the actual creature dwarfs said truck. The sheer speed at which the tentacles are able to grab and drag a full-sized person down into the earth and later still an entire station-wagon hints at some incredible strength that seems out of place for just the tentacles alone. When one of the construction workers ends up spearing a Graboid through the pavement with his jackhammer, the Graboid is able to speed away while tearing the still-impaled jackhammer through pavement and dirt like nothing. There's no way just one tentacle could muster the strength and speed to do that, especially since the jackhammer spike would have pierced clean through most of its body. Early in the movie, Val and Earl discover Edgar, the town drunk, clinging to the top of a power pylon. Assuming him to simply be plastered, they climb up to get him; only to discover that he has died from dehydration after sitting up there for three days, confusing them both. It's later revealed that if one of the Graboids has you trapped somewhere, they'll wait for days until they assume you are dead. Early in the movie, Earl falls out of the back of the truck and hits the ground headfirst, still wrapped in his brown sleeping bag, which makes him look an awful lot like a Graboid. This bears a heavy resemblance to the way Stumpy crashes through the cliff and falls to its death. Two-fold in a scene with Nestor noting that if a Graboid comes after him, he'll just hit it with a five-pound pickaxe. Val retorts that he'd never see it coming in the first place since they're underground. Later on, Val saves Rhonda from a Graboid by slamming a five-pound pickaxe into it while it's distracted trying to grab her, and later still Nestor gets eaten, sure enough, by a Graboid he didn't see coming.
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Tremors / int_a0412c52	type	Gun Nut
Tremors / int_a0412c52	comment	Gun Nut: Burt and Heather, naturally, with the twist that they're very careful and responsible about firearms. See I Just Shot Marvin in the Face below for a good example.
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Tremors / int_a129cb19	type	Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors
Tremors / int_a129cb19	comment	Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors: Val and Earl argue a lot, using this method to resolve most everything, such as who makes breakfast. Notably, Val never wins; the one time he does, which was for Edgar's rifle, Heather just lends Earl her far better one. At the climax, they use it to decide who will make a dangerous heroic dash to save everyone.
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Tremors / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Tremors / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Averted by Burt Gummer, who shows proper gun-handling technique at all times, and occasionally chastises other characters for not doing so. He gives an idiot a revolver to get him to cooperate — an unloaded revolver. After he takes it back, he pops the cylinder just to make sure it's unloaded. This is what you are supposed to do anytime you pick up a firearm, just so you do not Shoot Someone In The Face. Oddly, it's also waived somewhat in the rec room scene, where the flare gun already has a chambered round when it's taken from the wall. Also, a minor one, but Burt fails to put the elephant gun against his shoulder when firing it. An 8-gauge shotgun firing live rounds would likely break your wrists or fly wildly out of your hands when fired like that.
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Tremors / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Tremors / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: Subverted. Burt only manages to say "Jesus Chri-" on the radio before it cuts out, and the others think the Graboids got him and Heather... for a few seconds, after which they hear numerous gunshots coming from their compound.
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Tremors / int_a215c15d	type	Peek-a-Boo Corpse
Tremors / int_a215c15d	comment	Peekaboo Corpse: Rather, part of a corpse. (Poor Ol' Fred...)
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Tremors / int_a5cfe2ac	type	And There Was Much Rejoicing
Tremors / int_a5cfe2ac	comment	And There Was Much Rejoicing: Thrice. One where the citizens of Perfection cheer as Burt and Heather slaughter the Graboid that invades their basement. The next was after feeding a Graboid with a bomb, the survivors cheer at its death, even though its blood splattered all over. The final time is when Val tricks the last Graboid, the aptly named Stumpy, into plowing out through the side of a cliff, sending it plunging to its death.
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Tremors / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Tremors / int_a6cda066	comment	"Pardon my French", used by a speaker after cussing. Used by Earl to Rhonda the first two times, then by Rhonda back to Earl the third time.
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Tremors / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Tremors / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: A minor one. Earl mentions having been caught in a stampede during the opening scene, suggesting that he has worked with cattle at some point in the past. At the end of the movie, his lasso skills - presumably picked up during that time - come in handy when he goes "fishing" with pipe bombs.
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Tremors / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Tremors / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: For a creature without a face, the last Graboid conveyed this trope remarkably well when it burst out of the cliffside and found that it wasn't at the right stage of its life cycle to fly.
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Tremors / int_ad982e04	type	Super-Persistent Predator
Tremors / int_ad982e04	comment	Super-Persistent Predator: The Graboids. They don't give up, and anything which drives them away does so only temporarily. Meanwhile they can soak up a huge amount of punishment before succumbing. Most notably, if they pursue prey to a place they cannot access or easily undermine (such as up an electrical tower or on top of a large rock), a Graboid won't just leave... it'll wait and listen for the prey to come within striking distance again. Apparently, their senses are keen enough to detect such isolated prey so long as they're alive, and the Graboid won't leave until the prey is dead. It's occasionally subverted in the movie itself in the case where another thing is putting off more vibrations nearby. The graboids generally decide to abandon their current quarry for an easier meal, such as when the townspeople send an ATV out to distract the graboids from the buildings. It doesn't work with the last graboid though, because it's learned when it's been tricked and only pretends to be fooled.
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Tremors / int_afc8ddc7	type	Armor-Piercing Attack
Tremors / int_afc8ddc7	comment	Armor-Piercing Attack: The Graboid, a big, bulky animal with thick hide can take a lot of punishment to finally put down if you don't know where to aim for an instant kill or have the right weapon, such as the elephant gun Burt uses to finish it off.
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Tremors / int_b06186c2	type	RoofHopping
Tremors / int_b06186c2	comment	Roof Hopping: Well, Rock Hopping actually; averted in town, where the rooftops in Perfection are too far apart for the trapped residents to do this. It wouldn't matter anyway, since the graboids start to inspect the foundations looking for weak spots.
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Tremors / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Tremors / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Valentine uses the "sharp shot to the solar plexus" version on Earl.
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Tremors / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Tremors / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: As with most gun tropes in the Tremors franchise, this is averted. During Burt and Heather's gun battle with the Graboid, Heather calls for an extra magazine when she needs to reload (which Burt tosses to her), and both take to grabbing a new gun from their Wall of Weapons when their current one runs out of ammo.
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Tremors / int_b2f7c60a	type	Living Motion Detector
Tremors / int_b2f7c60a	comment	Living Motion Detector: The Graboids can hear even the slightest noise. This is what prevents the characters from just leaving the valley; the graboids are fast, persistent, and can hear for miles; any attempt to flee on foot would be certain death.
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Tremors / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Tremors / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Melvin. When the other residents are on edge from the discovery of one of the Graboid's tongues, this punk decides to wrap said tongue around his neck and run out of the store screaming. Need you be reminded that one of those residents is Burt Gummer? Burt ends Melvin's kick by making it clear how close he came to getting shot. Even later, when everyone else is up on the roof, Melvin decides that he doesn't want to join in until one Graboid rocks his shack. He survives. Nestor, who decides to hide on a large tire after falling off his trailer. He gets eaten. Though to be fair to Nestor, it wasn't like he had a lot of better options anywhere he could get to in a hurry.
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Tremors / int_b72ae7	type	Omnidisciplinary Scientist
Tremors / int_b72ae7	comment	Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Defied. Rhonda's a seismologist grad-student and not a zoologist, and while she does come up with a couple of plausible theories about specifics of Graboid behavior, she's ultimately just as ignorant about them as everyone else:
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Tremors / int_b80b2ba5	type	Namedar
Tremors / int_b80b2ba5	comment	Namedar: How the Graboids are named. Walter decides he likes the "-oid" suffix, and considers "snakeoids" before settling on "Graboids".
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Tremors / int_b90e8dc1	type	Hard-to-Light Fire
Tremors / int_b90e8dc1	comment	Hard-to-Light Fire: Val and Earl discover they don't have the lighter with them after they start running for the cliff, so Rhonda has to run after them with it.
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Tremors / int_bbeea2fe	type	Percussive Prevention
Tremors / int_bbeea2fe	comment	Percussive Prevention: Valentine to Earl over who gets to run to the bulldozer.
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Tremors / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Tremors / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: When Val and Earl manage to get the first Graboid killed by ramming into hard cement, Val drops the sole "F Bomb" in the movie, joyfully screaming "fuck you!" at it. (Another — Val's "two more — repeat — two more motherhumpers" — was rather obviously dubbed over.)
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Tremors / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Tremors / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: That or just Improbably Good Luck. The final Graboid spits the bomb it swallowed with the precision of a seasoned artillerist, straight into the heroes' hideout, and straight into their cache of bombs.
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Tremors / int_c0069027	type	Flower Mouth
Tremors / int_c0069027	comment	Flower Mouth: The graboids and their subsequent forms have large beaks and side mandibles that make their open mouths resemble disgusting flowers.
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Tremors / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Tremors / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Inverted twice. Burt and Heather unknowingly attract a graboid to their basement, and it bursts through the wall. The last thing his friends hear on the radio is Burt yelling, "Jesus Christ!" and they all hang their heads, thinking that's it for the Gummers...and then they start hearing gunfire. Then it pulls it again a few seconds later, when Burt and Heather run out of ammo for the rifles they were holding...and the camera pulls back to show the Wall of Weapons, which up to this point had never been shown or hinted at. The movie starts with Val and Earl finally getting sick of being stuck in Perfection working dead-end jobs and decide to leave. Nancy comes up to them just as they're packing up and offers them free food and beer on top of paying them for a new job. They just barely reject the offer, but they don't make it far before encountering a dead body mysteriously hanging on a transmission tower, and it only goes From Bad to Worse from there... After Jim the doctor is pulled underground by a graboid, his wife Megan frantically runs into their car to hide. She seems safe, but after a moment's pause the graboid simply pulls the entire station wagon into the ground.
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Tremors / int_c4835ce7	type	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape
Tremors / int_c4835ce7	comment	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: The graboids are relentless eating machines, but they are smart enough to recognize one another and work together as a pack if they need to. This includes coordinating to dig a giant pit trap to sink the bulldozer the protagonists are riding on.
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Tremors / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Tremors / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: At one point, Rhonda has to strip out of her pants after her legs are caught in barbed wire, but it's not played for sex appeal since she just narrowly escaped being eaten by a Graboid, and later she needs first aid because of the barbed wire cuts.
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Tremors / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Tremors / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Val calls Burt Rambo. When Chang is partially swallowed by the Graboid, it swerves back and forth before drawing back under the ground. It's almost identical to the scene near the end of Jaws where Quint slides into the mouth of the giant shark and it swings back and forth with him in its mouth before sliding back into the water.
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Tremors / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
Tremors / int_c95d04f2	comment	It Can Think: The Graboids learn at a pretty alarming rate. Not only are they intelligent, but they're incredibly patient, too. When Val and Earl find that the town drunk Edgar died of dehydration after being stuck on a tower for three days, Earl skeptically asks "What'd they do, just camp out below him and just wait for him to die?" As it turns out, that is exactly what the Graboids did. At the climax of the movie, Val also acknowledges that Stumpy, at least, is "not dumb".
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Tremors / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Tremors / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Burt considers blowing himself up along with the graboids as an alternative to starvation. This gives Earl the idea of "going fishing", averting the need for a Heroic Sacrifice.
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Tremors / int_cb1f5db5	type	Feed It a Bomb
Tremors / int_cb1f5db5	comment	Feed It a Bomb: This works the first time they try it, but not with the last Graboid survivor Stumpy, who spits the bomb back at them (which unfortunately lands on the other unlit bombs).
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Tremors / int_cc28f3bf	type	Not That Kind of Doctor
Tremors / int_cc28f3bf	comment	Not That Kind of Doctor: Rhonda displays a good working knowledge of biology, but she is expressly a seismologist, not a biologist. She is genuinely surprised every time the others turn to her for answers, and finally starts to get frustrated.
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Tremors / int_cc7fae30	type	Outside-Context Problem
Tremors / int_cc7fae30	comment	Outside-Context Problem: The Gummers are prepared for tyrannical governments, nuclear war and everything in between. The graboid problem, on the other hand, taxes even their capabilities (and firepower).
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Tremors / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
Tremors / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: When Melvin decides to make a joke with the Graboid's tongue by pretending the thing is still alive and attacking him, everybody else at the store jumps in fright and Burt points out to Melvin that he almost shot him. Earl reacts this way to Val waking him up by pretending there's a cattle stampede.
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Tremors / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Tremors / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Similar to Jaws, we don't actually see the Graboids themselves too often, instead using POV shots or visual signs of their movement, such as Wormsign, to convey their presence.
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Tremors / int_cec50edf	type	OneBuwwetWeft
Tremors / int_cec50edf	comment	One Buwwet Weft: One pipe-bomb left that Val used against Stumpy.
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Tremors / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Tremors / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title
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Tremors / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Tremors / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: The main characters are desperately trying to figure out a way to escape from the Graboids, which perform a Dig Attack. Valentine says "We need a helicopter. Or a goddamn tank!" Earl realizes that they can use a bulldozer to pull an open semi-trailer and carry everyone to safety.
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Tremors / int_d139ffaf	type	Genre Throwback
Tremors / int_d139ffaf	comment	Genre Throwback: 1950s monster movies. More so here than in the sequels.
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Tremors / int_d1522cf	type	Tongue Trauma
Tremors / int_d1522cf	comment	Tongue Trauma: One of Stumpy's grasping-tongues gets torn off after it latches onto the axle of Val and Earl's pickup (which is what prompts the nickname). When it's found, Burt speculates that it's a mutant snake, and Walter buys it off the guys for $15. Later, Heather blows apart another gripping-tongue with repeated shotgun blasts when the Graboid that breaks into the Gummers' cellar drags Burt off his feet. It briefly stops attacking them to jerk its head up and smash through their basement ceiling with a loud scream.
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Tremors / int_d308cbb0	type	Character Catchphrase
Tremors / int_d308cbb0	comment	Character Catchphrase: "Pardon my French." Also "We need a plan," and "I've got a plan."
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Tremors / int_d6de2d34	type	Clingy Sleepers
Tremors / int_d6de2d34	comment	Clingy Sleepers: Valentine and Rhonda are trapped together on a rock by a Graboid and have to spend the night there. When Valentine wakes up in the morning they're nestled together. He quickly scrambles away and when she wakes up she doesn't realize that they were together.
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Tremors / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Tremors / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Val and Early are always shooting shit at one another, but they're still best friends.
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Tremors / int_d9ce79de	type	Only Shop in Town
Tremors / int_d9ce79de	comment	Only Shop in Town: Perfection is served only by Chang's General Store.
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Tremors / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
Tremors / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: It's pretty obvious what first attracted Heather to Burt; the two of them are the first ones to actually fight a Graboid and win, doing so as a team.
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Tremors / int_dc61f525	type	Dig Attack
Tremors / int_dc61f525	comment	Dig Attack The Graboids' standard attack is to burrow underneath their human/animal prey, grab them with their tentacles and pull them underground (and into their mouths to be eaten). The Graboids can attack vehicles resting on the surface by digging under them (dropping them underground) or bursting their tires. They have also been known to dig underground tunnels near the surface in a vehicle's path to trap it.
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Tremors / int_dda12cb3	type	Cat Scare
Tremors / int_dda12cb3	comment	Cat Scare: "Damn prairie dog burrow!"
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Tremors / int_dddc0035	type	Wormsign
Tremors / int_dddc0035	comment	Wormsign: The Graboids give these as they tunnel. When Valentine and Earl are fleeing a graboid in the desert, a line of posts fall down as the graboid passes under them. As the protagonists are fleeing inside the store, a line of planks start flying into the air as a graboid goes beneath them.
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Tremors / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
Tremors / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: Burt laments at one point that he did all that survival prep, such that he could survive just about anything... except all his preparations were for attacks from overhead, not underground.
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Tremors / int_e24e15a6	type	Has a Type
Tremors / int_e24e15a6	comment	Has a Type: Val explains his preference in women and Earl later criticizes him for it. Val even has a number of pictures taped to his roof of his truck. Subverted in that the woman he ends up with is a petite brunette.
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Tremors / int_e2a6ebc1	type	Closed Circle
Tremors / int_e2a6ebc1	comment	Closed Circle: Happens on a large scale. The movie takes place within a large, open valley in Nevada, but it's a valley no one can leave. The telephone lines have gone down, the only real road in or out has been destroyed by a landslide, and every attempt to leave via another route is blocked by the Graboids. No one can get in either — at one point someone does try to check on the aforementioned lines only to be killed by the Graboids as well. As Burt points out, this is the whole reason he and Heather decided to live there, "geographic isolation", as he calls it.
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Tremors / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
Tremors / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: Val playing Chicken with the final Graboid is this, ducking out of the way so it crashes out of the cliff and falls to its death.
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Tremors / int_e43b42ea	type	We Need a Distraction
Tremors / int_e43b42ea	comment	We Need a Distraction: Several times the characters have to come up with ways of distracting the noise-sensitive Graboids away from their immediate target; the most basic is simply stomping on the ground. As Val stops to prevent himself from becoming noticed and eaten by the Graboids, the surviving residents throw out yells to give him time. It unfortunately does not work because they cannot hear, so Rhonda kicks the water pipe to attract the worms. It doesn't work with the last Graboid, Stumpy, however. As Val realizes, "This one's not falling for it."
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Tremors / int_e4ba33fc	type	Disaster Dominoes
Tremors / int_e4ba33fc	comment	Disaster Dominoes: The toppling of shelves at Chang's store, which tosses Rhonda out the window.
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Tremors / int_e68b72	type	The Load
Tremors / int_e68b72	comment	The Load: Melvin and Mindy, though to be fair, they're still just kids, and at least Mindy isn't obnoxious about it like Melvin. Earl also describes all of Val's previous girlfriends as being "dead weight".
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Tremors / int_eb4ee9eb	type	Guns Are Worthless
Tremors / int_eb4ee9eb	comment	Guns Are Worthless: Averted, played with and then reinforced. Burt and Heather do manage to take down a Graboid using their massive arsenal, but it takes a lot of sustained firepower to even take down a single Graboid. Even then, the Graboid shrugs off pretty much everything but the elephant gun, and it was a stationary target. Afterwards, the remaining Graboids learn from their fallen brethren and make sure they don't engage the humans in any way that would make them susceptible to gunfire, causing the remaining humans to rely on explosive ordinance to deal with the final two.
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Tremors / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Tremors / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Melvin. When the other residents are on edge from the discovery of one of the Graboid's tongues, this punk decides to wrap said tongue around his neck and run out of the store screaming. Need you be reminded that one of those residents is Burt Gummer? Burt ends Melvin's kick by making it clear how close he came to getting shot. Even later, when everyone else is up on the roof, Melvin decides that he doesn't want to join in until one Graboid rocks his shack. He survives.
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Tremors / int_ef276485	type	Battle of Wits
Tremors / int_ef276485	comment	Battle of Wits: What the conflict between the humans and the Graboids ultimately comes down to. Much of the conflict comes from one side trying to out think and outmaneuver the other, coming up with strategies to address the latest wrinkle the other side has thrown their way.
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Tremors / int_efc49c38	type	Trapped-with-Monster Plot
Tremors / int_efc49c38	comment	Trapped-with-Monster Plot: With the twist that the characters aren't physically trapped; instead, attempting to flee overland attracts the monsters, so that they are forced to deal with them.
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Tremors / int_f25493f4	type	Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here
Tremors / int_f25493f4	comment	Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here: Perfection, until the Graboids arrive.
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Tremors / int_f38adaff	type	Fast Tunnelling
Tremors / int_f38adaff	comment	Fast Tunnelling: The graboids themselves.
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Tremors / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Tremors / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: "Pardon my French", used by a speaker after cussing. Used by Earl to Rhonda the first two times, then by Rhonda back to Earl the third time. The lighter never being in the hands of the person who needs it.
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Tremors / int_fd16495f	type	Answer Cut
Tremors / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut: Early on, the townspeople of Perfection argue their best option is to stay put because someone outside the valley is bound to notice the road is out and the phone lines are down and come check on them. It then cuts to show someone did try to check on them... emphasis on try.
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Tremors / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Tremors / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: As Val and Earl are about to leave Perfection on horseback, Earl comments that he doesn't believe the "snake creatures" could be fast enough to outrun a horse. Val returns with "Shit, for all you know, they can fly". It was later referred to and foreshadowed by Val when he yells "Can you fly, sucker?" at the last Graboid before he kills it by chasing it off a cliff. In the third movie, of course, they finally can fly. In the opening, Val approaches Earl, who is snoozing in the bed of his truck, and wakes him by faking a stampede. Earl, who once got caught in a stampede and survived, is less than amused. At the end, after they have discovered the Graboids are sensitive to loud noises, Val uses the last bomb by lighting it and throwing it behind the Graboid, sending it fleeing in pain to carom out of the side of the cliff—a tactic used by ranchers to direct stampeding cattle. A chilling example: near the beginning of the movie, Walter's fridge starts going berserk, and he asks Val and Earl if they can fix it. Val is eager to do so (probably hoping to get out of doing the garbage), but Earl wants to keep to the schedule. Later on, while the group are hunkering down in Walter's shop, trying to keep vibrations to a minimum, the fridge goes berserk again, leading to Walter's death. The joke? Earl was ripping on Val for not "planning ahead" just prior to the first scene at Walter's shop.
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Tremors / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Tremors / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Amusingly subverted: our first view of Rhonda is with a glob of unflattering sunscreen covering her nose. Later she frankly admits that she needs to "take care of some business" along with the two men, and at another point gets her legs torn up in some barbed wire, costing her a pair of pants in order to escape.
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