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2012	label	2012
2012	page	TwoThousandTwelve
2012	comment	2012 is a 2009 Disaster Movie based on the prediction that the world would end on December 21st, 2012. This prediction is itself based on the fact that the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar rolls over somewhere in the vicinity of 2012-12-21, in much the same way that the Gregorian calendar rolled over on 2000-01-01. It mainly follows Jackson Curtis (John Cusack), a struggling, divorced chauffeur, attempting to survive the apocalypse with his family. The one thing that keeps him and his family alive are rumors of 'Arks' built by the world governments to keep what they can safe.This movie is by the same guy who did Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. (There's probably a pattern here.) At the time of the film's release, Word of God stated that this was to be his final disaster flick,note Though it's now a Flip-Flop of God thanks to Independence Day: Resurgence in 2016 and Moonfall in 2022. so he tried as best as he could to pack enough Stuff Blowing Up and Monumental Damage into it to last a lifetime.A Spin-Off TV series, tentatively called 2013 and focusing on a group of survivors, was planned. However, as ABC decided to not finance it, not to mention that the actual year 2013 is already in the past, it's unlikely it will ever be made.Not to be confused with Twenty Twelve, a BBC sitcom about the committee preparing for the 2012 Olympic Games; 2010: The Year We Make Contact, or Rush's album 2112.
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2012 / int_116a941b	type	Applied Phlebotinum
2012 / int_116a941b	comment	Applied Phlebotinum: The apocalyptic seismic and volcanic activity seen throughout the film is caused by the heating of the Earth's core, caused by excess neutrinos being emitted by the Sun. However, since neutrinos almost never interact with matter, these are neutrinos that are "mutating into some other subatomic particle," presumably ones that can interact with matter more often. Why these new particles don't interact with the Earth's surface is unclear. Lampshaded when Adrian, listening about the neutrinos, simply declares "That's impossible". He's right.
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2012 / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
2012 / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: As befitting a movie about the end of the world, but even by disaster movie standards this one is pretty ruthless. Don't get attached to anyone who's not John Cusack's immediate family.
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2012 / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
2012 / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: The governor of California is never named, but has a strong Austrian accent, and apparently used to be an actor. Also the President is black (instead of biracial) though considerably different in background. And Germany's Chancellor is female. Yuri Karpov looks suspiciously similar in appearance and hairstyle to Shabtay Kalmanovich, an oligarch murdered in 2009, who was known for his patronage of sporting events. Russian boxer Zultan seems to be a stand-in for Sultan Ibragimov. And, for some weird reason, the Russian president is a look-alike of geriatric Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, who died in 1982 already.
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2012 / int_14180452	type	Instantly Proven Wrong
2012 / int_14180452	comment	Instantly Proven Wrong: The governor of California confidently announces at a press conference that the worst is over. Cue the the super-quake which caves in the roof on him and then destroys Los Angeles.
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2012 / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
2012 / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Many times. See Dramatic Irony.
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2012 / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
2012 / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Harry Helmsley and Tony Delgatto, the two slick elderly jazz singers.
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2012 / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
2012 / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: As a has-been sci-fi novelist, Jackson has a couple of moments.
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2012 / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
2012 / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: Kate, when she realizes that Noah has snuck off to help Jackson free the hydraulic gears, though it comes out sounding more like a Big "NO!".
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2012 / int_1a5bba2b	type	Artistic License â€“ Geology
2012 / int_1a5bba2b	comment	Geology: Most of the film operates under this, particularly the depiction the eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano. Except for Gordon, who raises his hand very calmly to his eyes in reaction to the brightness, the other protagonist's barely react to the eruption and come out completely unscathed. No-one goes deaf from the sound of the eruption, while the shockwave throws Charlie a couple of feet backwards, despite the trees all around him being uprooted in their thousands. Finally the pyroclastic flow slows down to let the plane time to escape unharmed, while ignoring convection not to boil them alive and after emerging from the ash cloud, the plane isn't even dirty. According to most, if not all, geologists and volcanologists, anything within 100 miles of Yellowstone is screwed, though the rest of the world isn't any safer from the Ashes and more than likely imminent volcanic winter and possibly the next ice age. Much of the eruption itself is highly inaccurate. First of all, before the main eruption even takes place, there would be a series of monstrous volcanic eruptions that take place all around the caldera; the most we get to see of this is a geyser blowing its top a few minutes before Yellowstone erupts. Second of all, there were no warning signs. There are specific warning signs that scientists look out for, such as increased gas levels within geothermal structures. There would also be swarms of earthquakes that would become more and more aggressive. Temperature changes within the geysers would also result. The topography of Yellowstone would also change months before the eruption, as rising magma would bring the surface up with it, creating visible bulges - again, we don't see this happen until the eruption itself is almost upon us. During the final minutes before the eruption, new cracks in the ground would have formed and geysers release superheated water. The terror doesn't stop there either. Volcanic lava begins oozing from cracks beneath the surface. This is the perfect time to shit yourself if you haven't already. Then, boom! But there are still multiple eruptions that takes place before the main event. The sinking of California by a 10.9 earthquake causing the Earth crust displacement has so much wrong written all over it that it doesn't even try to stray away from this trope. There are no active volcanoes in Honolulu.note Since this one seems to create confusion, some clarification. Honolulu is on the island of O'ahu which, though formed volcanically, is no longer on the hot spot. The five active volcanoes in the Hawaiian chain are Haleakala (Maui), Hualalai (Hawai'i), Mauna Loa (Hawai'i), Kilauea (Hawai'i again), and Lo'ihi (just southeast of Hawai'i island at a depth of about 3,000 ft). O'ahu is volcanically dead. Modern scientists studying the caldera at Yellowstone indicate that an eruption there would send enough ash into the atmosphere to bring about a miniature ice age. Combine that ash with the amount pouring from the Hawaiian island chain that has erupted, and the Earth would stay cool for a very long time. The end of the movie indicates that a mere 27 days after the event, the seas are calm and the sky is clear and warm. On a related note, while the ash cloud would easily reach and probably thickly blanket Las Vegas, the pyroclastic flow would not; it would have slowed, cooled, and collapsed long before then. So, while Vegas would've definitely had a lot of ashfall, the apocalyptic, control-tower-obliterating flow shown is completely unreasonable.
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2012 / int_1ad42ecd	type	The Glasses Come Off
2012 / int_1ad42ecd	comment	The Glasses Come Off: Played for Laughs as Noah tries on a pair of oversized sunglasses, then whips them off dramatically to share a message from Kate with Jackson: "She wants us to come home!"
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2012 / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
2012 / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Sasha, the most fit and well-groomed of the group of survivors with Jackson.
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2012 / int_1dca0b0a	type	Disaster Movie
2012 / int_1dca0b0a	comment	Disaster Movie: From start to finish, with very little of the Earth coming away unscathed by the end.
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2012 / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
2012 / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Harry and Tony.
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2012 / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
2012 / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: The deaths of Gordon and Tamara come across as gratuitously cruel. Tamara's death is an odd case, as her compartment was the only one to flood to that level. Note that the main characters are in the next two compartments over (with Tamara in the middle) and the water level does not reach the same height. Tamara must have been in the overflow section. At least she saved one of the kids and her dog first. Sasha's death. He manages to successfully land the plane, a few inches away from falling... and the cliff crumbles. George Segal's son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. The cataclysm serves as this to most of the human race.
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2012 / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
2012 / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: Upon learning that the world is about to end Harry orders a double. Tony and a waiter are both shocked, as he hasn't touched alcohol in 25 years.
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2012 / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
2012 / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: One of the few moments where this movie decides to be original is subverting this trope with Carl Anheuser. Initially he has all tell-tale signs of a stereotypical self-absorbed, short-sighted government official who is there to ignore Adrian's warning, but when Adrian's outburst prompts him to actually look into the latter's report, he recognizes instantly that this matter should not be red-taped.
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2012 / int_1fe36347	type	Take My Hand!
2012 / int_1fe36347	comment	Take My Hand!: About a dozen times but the most notable one is when Jackson attempts to pull Yenzin and Gordon out of the gear shaft. Gordon doesn't make it.
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2012 / int_213dc284	type	Closest Thing We Got
2012 / int_213dc284	comment	Closest Thing We Got: Gordon is only an amateur pilot, but he's the only person in Jackson's social circle who's remotely qualified to fly them to safety. Later Jackson is able to get his family a seat on Yuri Karpov's plane because Yuri needed a second pilot, even though Gordon was even less qualified to fly the much larger plane he'd be helping control.
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2012 / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
2012 / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: In Charlie's video, there is a scene where he holds up the Earth (metaphorically represented as an orange). A knife appears and slices through the Earth, cutting Charlie's fingers off in the process. The real Charlie hints he included it to draw his audience in.
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2012 / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
2012 / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The cars in the Russian plane.
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2012 / int_2470d8fd	type	Steel Ear Drums
2012 / int_2470d8fd	comment	Most of the film operates under this, particularly the depiction the eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano. Except for Gordon, who raises his hand very calmly to his eyes in reaction to the brightness, the other protagonist's barely react to the eruption and come out completely unscathed. No-one goes deaf from the sound of the eruption, while the shockwave throws Charlie a couple of feet backwards, despite the trees all around him being uprooted in their thousands. Finally the pyroclastic flow slows down to let the plane time to escape unharmed, while ignoring convection not to boil them alive and after emerging from the ash cloud, the plane isn't even dirty.
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2012 / int_25dc6ef5	type	Apathetic Citizens
2012 / int_25dc6ef5	comment	Apathetic Citizens: When Tony calls his estranged son, his family is shown to have been sound asleep even though the world is literally collapsing around them.
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2012 / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
2012 / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Casualties include children from Tony and Satnam's families, along with a lot of other off-screen child deaths.
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2012 / int_26ce6ea7	type	Title by Year
2012 / int_26ce6ea7	comment	Title by Year: 2009 Disaster Movie based on the prediction that the world would end on December 21st, 2012
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2012 / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
2012 / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Gordon tries his best to be a good stepfather to Jackson's children, as well as getting on well with Jackson himself, and he manages to use his minimal flying experience to pilot several drastically different aircraft, and is never anything less than cooperative with the other characters. His reward is death and Jackson's family later reuniting.
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2012 / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
2012 / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: Various characters who aren't evacuated to the Arks. It does seem like a stretch that the various disasters killed every single other person on earth besides The Africans, but it's doubtful that there were many left. This is lampshaded after Tony loses connection with his son and granddaughter as an earthquake hits Japan and Harry tells him to hold out hope that they might have evacuated somewhere. And then there's the Genesis itself when it's hit, but not explicitly destroyed, by a giant wave just minutes later.
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2012 / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
2012 / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Several examples. Jackson is the "present in physicality only" sort who remarks with dismay that his 7-year-old daughter still has a bedwetting problem. Harry and Tony are both estranged from their children (and in one case, grandchildren).
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2012 / int_28d73447	type	Regional Redecoration
2012 / int_28d73447	comment	Regional Redecoration: Hoo-boy, where do we begin? Southern California is torn to shreds by an enormous earthquake, one big enough to rip open a new canyon and causes the fragmented land to sink into the ocean; Yellowstone national park is wiped out when the supervolcano erupts, Las Vegas is split in two by a huge fissure, and Hawaii is buried under miles of lava. However, the crowning moment has to be when the Earth's crust shifts. According to Adrian, it moves about 23 degrees to the southwest, which puts Wisconsin at the center of the new magnetic south pole. Conveniently, it also pushes the Himalayas close to the main characters. And during the crust shift, the African continent somehow rises several thousand feet, which saves it from the floods.
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2012 / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
2012 / int_2a090d00	comment	Subverted and Lampshaded with the actual planetary meltdown, which jumps itself up by six months and causes all the precise survival plans to collapse.
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2012 / int_2aff6a25	type	Death of the Hypotenuse
2012 / int_2aff6a25	comment	Death of the Hypotenuse: Poor Gordon.
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2012 / int_2bbba5f3	type	Say Your Prayers
2012 / int_2bbba5f3	comment	Say Your Prayers: The President of Italy remains behind at the Vatican, taking part in a prayer circle led by the Pope, rather than evacuate himself.
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2012 / int_2e528f4e	type	What Measure Is a Non-Cute?
2012 / int_2e528f4e	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Averted with Tamara.
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2012 / int_33fa230b	type	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
2012 / int_33fa230b	comment	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: Jackson, after finding out that the ships are in China.
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2012 / int_34bd7be2	type	Super Drowning Skills
2012 / int_34bd7be2	comment	Super Drowning Skills: Played straight with Tamara, who gets sealed in a room rapidly filling with water.
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2012 / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
2012 / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: The depiction of the various calamities, as well as the scene of the various species of animal being air-lifted to the arks. When was the last time you saw a plane dodge a subway train by flying past beneath it?
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2012 / int_38621649	type	Prodigal Family
2012 / int_38621649	comment	Prodigal Family: Subverted. Jackson is a Disappeared Dad who, despite being physically present, neglects his duties as a father. During the apocalypse, he tries his best to ensure his family survives. Unfortunately for him, Gordon, the would-be stepfather is a much better man and father to the kids than he ever was, so his kids and wife are initially not too thrilled at the idea. Yet, when Gordon dies, after saving everybody's asses twice, nobody mourns him.
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2012 / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
2012 / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Satnam and his family, knowing full well that they don't stand a chance in hell of escaping the oncoming tsunami, spend their final moments embracing each other as the others around them panic. Various other examples are also seen, combined with some of the facing the bullets one liners mentioned below. Lama Rinpoche gets an epic one as the tsunami sweeps away his monastery (note, at the very top of a mountain in the Himalaya). He simply stands and rings the giant bell at the top of the building as the wave approaches. Thomas Wilson, the President who did not abandon his post.
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2012 / int_39ed1c8a	type	Conspiracy Theorist
2012 / int_39ed1c8a	comment	Conspiracy Theorist: Charlie Frost again. Of course, he is right about what's happening, and sets into motion the race to get to the Ark. He is wrong on one thing: the Arks aren't spaceships to get completely off the planet, just super-armored carriers. He references several other theories he has, including some about Marilyn Monroe that he doesn't go into.
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2012 / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
2012 / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: When the Curtis family is frantically getting into the limo as Los Angeles is collapsing all around them, Lily looks back at the house in agony because she lost her hat collection. It takes her mother to snap her out of it and get in the limo. When Adrian sees the luxurious accommodations on the Ark, he's obviously dismayed to realize how much priority Anheuser placed on creature comforts over saving more people.
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2012 / int_3e5f74c	type	Take That, Critics!
2012 / int_3e5f74c	comment	Take That, Critics!: A subtle one can be found in the adoration Jackson's Sci-Fi book gets. In the movie, the book sells barely 432 copies because critics found its ridiculously Cosy Catastrophe view of the world to be insufferable and unrealistic, yet major characters (the president's science adviser included!) find it be a source of great inspiration. Director Roland Emmerich also made The Day After Tomorrow, which was criticized for being offensively preachy and silly in the levels of Cosy Catastrophe it brought to the screen.
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2012 / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
2012 / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: The people who The Conspiracy killed to cover up their crazy preparedness had some of the deaths reported in the obituaries as 'accidents'. One example is particularly noted: that of the NASA scientist who told Charlie about the Arks.
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2012 / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
2012 / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: Adrian accuses Anheuser of this after finding out that Satnam and his family, the ones who first discovered the danger in the first place and warned him, weren't evacuated, although there is some ambiguity over whose fault this was.
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2012 / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
2012 / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: This bit during the Yellowstone Caldera eruption...
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2012 / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
2012 / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: Charlieâ€™s video certainly has the vibes of the amateur video he says it is.
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2012 / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
2012 / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Gordon, Sasha, literally for Yuri, though it's not what kills him.
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2012 / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
2012 / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Gordon, who at first appears to just be a toolish plastic surgeon. The kids love him (so we know he can't be all bad) but what really shows his better side is finding out he tried to talk Tamara out of getting plastic surgery. Also Yuri. While Yuri's still a asshole for leaving Tamara, he does manage to get his children on board Ark 4 before dying a horrible death.
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2012 / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
2012 / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: Most of the planet. As seen at the top of the page, Emmerich pays particular attention to the destruction of Los Angeles. From all the downtown skyscrapers toppling, massive cracks opening, and chunks of landscape sliding into the sea as seen in the poster above and trailer. A review said the only thing Emmerich did not destroy was the Columbia Pictures logo at the beginning, which was considered a missed opportunity.
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2012 / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
2012 / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: Albeit unsuccessful ones. Jackson tries to pimp his book a lot.
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2012 / int_4a58592a	type	California Collapse
2012 / int_4a58592a	comment	California Collapse: Massive earthquakes tear up the California coastline, open up a giant canyon, then send the remains slipping down into the sea.
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2012 / int_4c123f8a	type	Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud
2012 / int_4c123f8a	comment	Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud: Well, the Yellowstone pyroclastic cloud.
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2012 / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
2012 / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Yuri. He desmonstrates his lack of gratefulness for Sasha's sacrifice by bringing up that he knew he was Tamara's lover and giving a Large Ham, highly insincere "may God bless that poor bastard's soul!"
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2012 / int_5017da77	type	Church of Saint Genericus
2012 / int_5017da77	comment	Church of Saint Genericus: In the White House.
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2012 / int_506bf16a	type	Sex Signals Death
2012 / int_506bf16a	comment	Sex Signals Death: Both Sasha and Tamara die because they were having an affair.
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2012 / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
2012 / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: The governments of the world knew the end was coming three years in advance, and they let the Chinese build ships to take those who could be saved away from danger.
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2012 / int_5103ab7b	type	Sexy Backless Outfit
2012 / int_5103ab7b	comment	Sexy Backless Outfit: Tamara in her first appearance.
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2012 / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
2012 / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Carl Anheuser after his introduction.
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2012 / int_52b36340	type	What Measure Is a Mook?
2012 / int_52b36340	comment	What Measure Is a Mook?: Or an unnamed character.
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2012 / int_5642c768	type	Horrible Camping Trip
2012 / int_5642c768	comment	Horrible Camping Trip: Downplayed. While there is no volcanic eruption (yet) and it does not form the majority of the plot, the military presence at Yellowstone is taken as something out of the ordinary, while the Curtis kids are bitten by mosquitoes because Jackson apparently forgot to spray the tent. One of them seems to consider the mosquitoes to be the low-point.
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2012 / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
2012 / int_56515a39	comment	History: The scientific paper on the shifting of the Earth's crust is said to have been published in 1958, and Albert Einstein is said to have agreed with it. How somebody who died in 1955 can agree with a paper written after their death is anybody's guess. The trailers called the Mayans "Mankind's Earliest Civilization". It's certainly old, with roots stretching back to 2000 BCE, but Egypt, Sumer, and the Indus Valley Civilization date back to at least 1,000 years prior to that. The Classic Period coincides with the decline of the Roman Empire.
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2012 / int_58154a14	type	Bribe Backfire
2012 / int_58154a14	comment	Bribe Backfire: Implied. After the Chinese take Yuri and his sons to the helicopter while leaving the rest of Jackson's group behind, Kate asks if any of them has money, thinking they could bribe the Chinese into taking them to the Arks. Gordon says he has some and begins looking into what looks like a wallet. The response:
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2012 / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
2012 / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: The governments of the world knew beforehand, but didn't tell anyone even after it started, assassinating everyone who tried to tell people the truth, except for obvious nutjobs like Charlie Frost. Explained as being the only way they could build any Arks without the place being swarmed by refugees, terrorists, renegade army units, etc. that would jeopardize any humans surviving.
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2012 / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
2012 / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Yuri, with a low threshold for villainy.
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2012 / int_5d716d61	type	Ground by Gears
2012 / int_5d716d61	comment	Ground by Gears: Gordon ends up caught in the gears of the Ark's door mechanism and is brutally (though not explicitly) crushed to death. A minor Chinese character also ends up getting a leg caught in the machinery.
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2012 / int_608b84cc	type	25th Amendment
2012 / int_608b84cc	comment	25th Amendment: Floated, then immediately ripped up.
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2012 / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
2012 / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: More Jerkass than evil, but Yuri sacrifices his life so his sons can survive, throwing one of them onto the Ark's walkway and hurling himself off a cliff with the momentum. Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Played with for Anheuser, who loves his mother and tearfully tells her goodbye, but feels she's too old to be worth saving.
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2012 / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
2012 / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Yuri throws one of his children to safety, the momentum of which hurtles him to his death. and Sasha stays in the plane in order to give the others a chance to escape. Heck, even Tamara ensures her dog and Lilly are safe but is fatally trapped herself.
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2012 / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
2012 / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: Charlie Frost gleefully enjoys one last scenery-feast before the Yellowstone Caldera erupts and kills him. This moment triples as Charlie Chewing the Scenery as well as a Large Ham moment. This is Woody Harrelson clearly having a great time. Also Yuri, who throws his kids to safety before the momentum takes him over the edge of the bridge.
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2012 / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
2012 / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: First Lady Dorothy Wilson, Laura's mother, died prior to the main events of the film. President Wilson mentions that she suggested they hold a lottery for the Arks (instead of what actually transpired).
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2012 / int_69285c21	type	Embarrassing Damp Sheets
2012 / int_69285c21	comment	Embarrassing Damp Sheets: Jackson remarks with dismay that his 7-year-old daughter still has a bedwetting problem.
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2012 / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
2012 / int_69fb91e8	comment	This moment triples as Charlie Chewing the Scenery as well as a Large Ham moment. This is Woody Harrelson clearly having a great time.
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2012 / int_6a6e2a10	type	Don't Call Me "Sir"
2012 / int_6a6e2a10	comment	Don't Call Me "Sir": Dr. Helmsley prefers to be called "Adrian".
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2012 / int_6ac3af76	type	Divorce Is Temporary
2012 / int_6ac3af76	comment	Divorce Is Temporary: Double Subverted. Looks like they're going to play it straight as Kate and Gordon seem to be drifting apart then, then subverted as it looks like they're going to work things out, then cruelly forced back into played straight as Gordon is killed in the gears of the Ark while Jackson looks on, unable to save him.
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2012 / int_6ada388a	type	Russian Guy Suffers Most
2012 / int_6ada388a	comment	Russian Guy Suffers Most: All Russian characters who are not children, dogs, or politicians bite the dust sooner or later.
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2012 / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
2012 / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The kid is named Noah and is the reason Ark 04 didn't sink. His father's initials are JC Boorish President-by-Default Carl Anheuser, who is first seen in the movie partying and ignoring warning signs of dangerous happenings-to-be.
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2012 / int_6de438eb	type	The Everyman
2012 / int_6de438eb	comment	The Everyman: Jackson Curtis, a down-on-his-luck divorced writer working as a limo driver to pay the bills.
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2012 / int_6e49fa1f	type	Mayan Doomsday
2012 / int_6e49fa1f	comment	Mayan Doomsday: The whole premise.
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2012 / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
2012 / int_6eb4e408	comment	Military: The US Navy doesn't paint the name and pennant number of a carrier on the flight deck in the method shown. The number is painted on the island and bow of the flight deck (quite prominently) and name on the stern per maritime convention, but that's it.
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2012 / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
2012 / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Jackson has one in Yellowstone when the RV he's in falls into a fissure. And this is just after he has found the map to the Arks. He gets a second one near the end when he frees the hydraulic gear as it's flooding and it appears that he has drowned. After several tense seconds, he reappears much to everyone's joy and relief.
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2012 / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
2012 / int_7012424f	comment	Stealth Hi/Bye: Both of Jackson's kids appear to have perfected the art of teleportation. In two separate screens he explicitly tells them to stay put, and with no indication the kid have moved they abruptly appear next to him a few scenes later.
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2012 / int_707bb8ce	type	Pair the Spares
2012 / int_707bb8ce	comment	The bonding between Gordon and Tamara initially looks like Pair the Spares, only for both to later die.
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2012 / int_727177df	type	Teetering on the Edge
2012 / int_727177df	comment	Teetering on the Edge: When the protagonists reach the China mountains, they have to make a rough landing due running out of fuel. Sasha stays on the plane to keep it level while everyone evacuates via the cars on the plane when it low enough to eject out the cargo hold safely. Sasha manages to land the plane safe enough that it skids to the edge of a mountain and stops. He himself chuckling at his good luck... then the plane proceeds to tilt over the edge, crash and explode; killing him.
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2012 / int_7582930a	type	Hollywood Science
2012 / int_7582930a	comment	Hollywood Science: Even given some Lampshade Hanging at the beginning.
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2012 / int_75979171	type	The Cuckoolander Was Right
2012 / int_75979171	comment	The Cuckoolander Was Right: Charlie and his prediction of the Yellowstone Caldera erupting.
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2012 / int_75c952bf	type	Our Presidents Are Different
2012 / int_75c952bf	comment	Our Presidents Are Different: President Wilson is both a President Personable and a President Minority, but knows he's not a President Action.
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2012 / int_77315f4f	type	You Have to Believe Me!
2012 / int_77315f4f	comment	You Have to Believe Me!:
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2012 / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
2012 / int_7969f21e	comment	No One Gets Left Behind: Subverted by the other characters, but Averted by Anheuser, who tries to leave thousands of refugees behind right at the doors of the Ark.
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2012 / int_7bed2677	type	Super Cell Reception
2012 / int_7bed2677	comment	Super Cell Reception: A review in Empire Magazine includes this response to Emmerich's "wilfully ignoring science to keep the plot boiling": "For future reference, sudden continental drift probably will affect your cellphone reception." And even if it doesn't, good luck getting through when literally the whole world is trying to call someone. A cell phone that gets reception from inside a metal ship buried under the Himalayas off in an undeveloped, rural corner of Tibet. After it has been explicitly stated that the apocalypse has knocked out nearly all communications.
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2012 / int_7c00138a	type	Pre-Mortem Catchphrase
2012 / int_7c00138a	comment	Pre-Mortem Catchphrase: Charlie Frost has the Signing Off Catchphrase, "Folks, always remember, you heard it first from Charlie," which he repeats just before his death.
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2012 / int_7c52ea03	type	The White House
2012 / int_7c52ea03	comment	The White House, which gets crushed by an aircraft carrier. By the carrier named after John F. Kennedy, no less.
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2012 / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
2012 / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Ark 4 is almost doomed when equipment Jackson's family and the Tibetan family use to sneak aboard becomes jammed in the gate's hydraulics.
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2012 / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
2012 / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Woody Harrelson ("BRING IT ON!") That Chewing the Scenery bit on the Yellowstone caldera puts him up here for sure.
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2012 / int_82fc5bdf	type	Bratty Half-Pint
2012 / int_82fc5bdf	comment	Bratty Half-Pint: Yuri's twins, but living through the disaster hammers that out of them. Noah initially, due to resenting Jackson for being a Disappeared Dad.
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2012 / int_82ff8b68	type	Artistic License â€“ Animal Care
2012 / int_82ff8b68	comment	Animal Care: Amongst the animals being airlifted to the Arks include a rhinoceros and a giraffe. Due to a mixture of the high altitude, low temperatures and the frigid winds being blown over them, both of those animals - as well as any other African animals - would die of either hypothermia or oxygen deprivation.
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2012 / int_8494bcb3	type	Disposable Pilot
2012 / int_8494bcb3	comment	Disposable Pilot: Sasha stays behind on the plane while everyone else bails out. He safely lands, but an ice shelf gives way under him.
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2012 / int_85650443	type	Noah's Story Arc
2012 / int_85650443	comment	Noah's Story Arc: There are great disasters all around the world, particularly a giant flood. The small portion of the populace try to escape this fate by building giant arks in the Himalayas. In one shot, some animals are brought in such as giraffes and elephants. One of the protagonists is a young boy named Noah.
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2012 / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
2012 / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The president for some reason searches for a girl's father instead of seeing the full damage that happens to the capital. The girl's father gets forgotten a few minutes after he gets outside, not that it mattered with the wave.
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2012 / int_8acf3a97	type	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic
2012 / int_8acf3a97	comment	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic: Towards the end, on-screen graphics in the ark control room depict the massive waves closing in Asia and other continents.
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2012 / int_8f4822fd	type	The Great Flood
2012 / int_8f4822fd	comment	The Great Flood: And that's after the land-shattering earthquakes and volcanoes.
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2012 / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
2012 / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: At the beginning of the movie, after Jackson, Noah, and Lucy sneak into the restricted area of Yellowstone, Noah asks fairly randomly "Haven't you seen the signs?" It takes place just long enough after the signs have been shown that it seems out of place and almost like a warning. The Cristo Redentor crumbles spectacularly. See the Sistine Chapel example below. The Arks. They even carry animals. The Sistine Chapel crumbles and is destroyed. Guess where the ceiling splits? The crack separates Adam's finger from God's finger. Also, just afterwards, the masses praying there are crushed by the dome when it topples from St. Peter's Square. Jackson Curtis' son is named "Noah," and he later rescues Ark 4 from disaster. At the end the human race all goes back to Africa, where it started out in the first place. The White House getting destroyed by the USS John F. Kennedy.
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2012 / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
2012 / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: If humanity hadn't had their arks (which notably prioritize saving several species of animals as well as a chunk of humanity), the devastation would've likely been a Class 4 for the Earth's biosphere and a Class 3b for the human race (probably actually just a Class 2 in that scenario since it's suggested at the film's end that the megatsunamis never even flooded South Africa). As it stands, a large chunk of humanity including world leaders from several nations survive aboard the arks, putting the likely actual fallout at a Class 1 or at worst a Class 2 — the vast majority of humans are dead, but civilization perseveres.
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2012 / int_91e8cd03	type	Apocalypse Wow
2012 / int_91e8cd03	comment	Apocalypse Wow: ...Pretty much the whole point of the film.
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2012 / int_94cc2c28	type	Exact Time to Failure
2012 / int_94cc2c28	comment	Exact Time to Failure: The scientists' estimates about when the tidal waves are expected to reach the location of the Ark ships. Semi-justified in that you can calculate the time it'll take for a wave to reach the Ark, but as it's flowing over a massive landmass, it should be an estimate. Subverted and Lampshaded with the actual planetary meltdown, which jumps itself up by six months and causes all the precise survival plans to collapse.
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2012 / int_9500202a	type	Machine Empathy
2012 / int_9500202a	comment	Machine Empathy: Sasha, when trying to clear the ruined skyline in the giant Antonov.
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2012 / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
2012 / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Multiple, particularly the scene in Air Force One between Adrian and Laura, what's left of Washington DC and the President, and the scenes involving Jackson and his family in Yuri's plane.
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2012 / int_9af96ec2	type	Acrophobic Bird
2012 / int_9af96ec2	comment	Acrophobic Bird: Justified in that Gordon just got his pilot's license and can barely fly. Barely fly upward, that is. He does amazingly well at dodging buildings and debris, something even an experienced pilot would have trouble with. It happens in two instances, the second one has Gordon pair up with an experienced Russian pilot, flying a giant Antonov plane. In all of these instances, the runway is disintegrating, but with the Antonov, they actually run out of runway before reaching liftoff speed.
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2012 / int_9c5e78d0	type	Kill the Cutie
2012 / int_9c5e78d0	comment	Kill the Cutie: Poor Tamara.
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2012 / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
2012 / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In the beginning of the movie, a child has an accident with a toy boat in a puddle. That toy boat is a scale model of the SS United States During the destruction of Los Angeles, Gordon's Porsche Cayman falls into the Earth after getting pushed by Jackson's limo upon fleeing from the Curtis residence. This foreshadows Gordon's own death, as he falls into the gears later in the film.
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2012 / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
2012 / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Literally of course in case of the Arks, but even then these things are ludicrously durable for something so huge, to the point that even head-on collisions with the Air Force One and the flippin' Mount Everest barely make a dent.
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2012 / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
2012 / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Played with for Anheuser, who loves his mother and tearfully tells her goodbye, but feels she's too old to be worth saving.
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2012 / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
2012 / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: To famous disaster movies, with numerous references. Independence Day/Jurassic Park: "must go faster, must go faster!" Jaws: "We're gonna need a bigger boat plane." The Poseidon Adventure as Papa Helmsley's ship capsizes. And, of course, Earthquake. The Vice President suffers a similar fate to the First Lady in Independence Day, going down in a helicopter trying to escape an area.
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2012 / int_a1d41a07	type	Throw-Away Country
2012 / int_a1d41a07	comment	Throwaway Country: Sometimes played straight, sometimes subverted - e.g., India and China are given considerable focus beyond being nature's Chew Toy. Canada possibly fits this trope too. The world leaders conference at the beginning is held in British Columbia, and Canada is mentioned as having survivors on board one of the Arks.
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2012 / int_a3c6c2b7	type	"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner
2012 / int_a3c6c2b7	comment	"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: "You heard first from Charlie!" "I'm coming home, Dorothy".
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2012 / int_a3c96809	type	Harmless Luminescence
2012 / int_a3c96809	comment	Harmless Luminescence: When the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, it emits a powerfully bright glow that many of the characters stare into.
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2012 / int_a3eae597	type	Award-Bait Song
2012 / int_a3eae597	comment	Award-Bait Song: 2012 has Adam Lambert's Time For Miracles and Filter's Fades Like A Photograph.
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2012 / int_a5f0752f	type	Rule of Drama
2012 / int_a5f0752f	comment	A review in Empire Magazine includes this response to Emmerich's "wilfully ignoring science to keep the plot boiling": "For future reference, sudden continental drift probably will affect your cellphone reception." And even if it doesn't, good luck getting through when literally the whole world is trying to call someone.
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2012 / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
2012 / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Carl Anheuser. When the wave reaches the Arks, he orders them to abandon the people who paid to be on the Arks and the builders to die in the tsunami, not to mention the majority of the human race. He also planned only to save world leaders along with the wealthy social elite while leaving everyone else to die, including THE WORKERS WHO BUILT THE ARK. Adrian and Laura call him out on a few things, but he doesn't even get a Shut Up, Hannibal!.note He technically did in an extended scene where he was punched in the face by Adrian for insulting his romance with the first daughter. A moment that made it to the film among many others in the climax has Anheuser cleaning up a bloody lip all of a sudden — which he got from this punch.
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2012 / int_a8a5e4ed	type	Christianity Is Catholic
2012 / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity is Catholic: Sasha makes the sign of the cross in the Catholic way (forehead - chest - left shoulder - right shoulder), instead of the Orthodox way (forehead - chest - right shoulder - left shoulder) — 97% of Russian Christians are Orthodox.
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2012 / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
2012 / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Adrian, to get the other world leaders to agree to open the doors and let the last group of refugees in, even though it could harm their ship.
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2012 / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
2012 / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Immediately after scenes of wanton destruction, the cruise ship musicians Harry and Tony sing a song with the lyrics "It's not the end of the world/It's only the end of this song." The earthquakes have a nice sense of this too. One strikes just after the Governor of California says "the worst is over." Even better, Gordon says to Kate that 'there is something pulling us apart'... and a fissure promptly opens between them. There's also a massive example at the end: It's stated that the African continent has risen after the crust displacement, and that it likely never flooded. This means that the world's poorest continent was the one to receive the least devastation, since it only got hit by the earthquakes. The Captain even remarks that's why that region has a place called Cape of Good Hope, where all Arks head to after the tidal waves subside.
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2012 / int_abc55125	type	Character Filibuster
2012 / int_abc55125	comment	Character Filibuster: Adrian takes the world's leaders to school on the meaning of humanity.
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2012 / int_ac33492	type	Destroy the Product Placement
2012 / int_ac33492	comment	A Chevron gas station makes a brief appearance, only to be blown up by a careening cement truck.
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2012 / int_ac5364fe	type	Chekhov's Hobby
2012 / int_ac5364fe	comment	Chekhov's Hobby: Gordon's flying lessons.
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2012 / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
2012 / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Yuri Karpov easily knocks out a guard in one punch. Anyone remember him telling Jackson that he, in his younger days, was a boxer in Murmansk?
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2012 / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
2012 / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Every few minutes, as befits the end of the world
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2012 / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
2012 / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Jackson has his moments: Also: Anheuser also has his moment:
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2012 / int_af2547c9	type	Informed Flaw
2012 / int_af2547c9	comment	Informed Flaw: Gordon is an amateur pilot and claims to have had only a few flying lessons, but performs impressive feats of stunt piloting during the escape from California. He is, of course, improvising and is helped along by an actual pilot on the Russian plane.
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2012 / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
2012 / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: Tenzin, a worker on the Ark who made arrangements for a secret passage that would save his family, accepts putting the plan at risk when confronted with Jackson and his family when his grandmother points out that they are all children of God, when he could have argued that his plan was too risky even with just them never mind with more people involved. Yuri may have abandoned his cheating mistress, but he acts to save his children over himself in the final moments. Adrian Helmsley quotes Jackson when he observes that "The moment we stop fighting for each other, that's when we lose our humanity", reinforcing that what matters in a crisis like this is humanity's compassion for each other rather than making purely pragmatic choices, which inspires all the other world leaders to open the gates of the Arks and try and let more people in even if it puts their current passengers at risk.
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2012 / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
2012 / int_b01abe4f	comment	"You heard first from Charlie!"
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2012 / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
2012 / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Scantily clad blonde bombshell Tamara gets little characterization beyond being Yuri's somewhat reluctant arm candy, which makes her this both In-Universe and out.
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2012 / int_b0a91b69	type	Convection, Schmonvection
2012 / int_b0a91b69	comment	Convection, Schmonvection: The movie seems to forget that in pyroclastic flows, the heat kills people long before the ash cloud touches them. Of course, they do stay barely ahead of the flow itself. While that's already testing of the Suspension of Disbelief, if they were all the way in the cloud, they'd be dead. They do very briefly get caught inside of the flow in an airplane, which makes even less sense, since airplanes generally don't run well in clouds of superheated ash. Bizarrely, the film then starts paying attention to the laws of physics again, just in time for said pyroclastic flow to utterly disintegrate Las Vegas airport (and the city itself).
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2012 / int_b3987997	type	Men Act, Women Are
2012 / int_b3987997	comment	Men Act, Women Are: The female characters don't really do a whole lot. They comfort the children, sometimes. And the President's daughter exists solely to be Adrian's Love Interest. Notable especially in the plane sequences, where only Yuri and Jackson ever go up to see what's happening.
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2012 / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
2012 / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: A very lazy shot at Arnold Schwarzenegger ("He's an actor - he's reading from a script!"). There is a veritable myriad of take-thats in the film, but there's so many that it's kind of hard to pinpoint them all. Civilization? Religion? Rich people? Poor people?
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2012 / int_b5b4b24e	type	The Ark
2012 / int_b5b4b24e	comment	The Ark: Nine of them, in fact. Though only four of them were completed in time, and one was critically damaged before it could be launched.
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2012 / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
2012 / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Two of them. Gordon, Kate, and Jackson. Yuri, Tamara and Sasha.
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2012 / int_ba0ff694	type	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
2012 / int_ba0ff694	comment	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!:
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2012 / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
2012 / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: Played straight for about ten seconds as Anheuser blows a frantic Adrian off, then subverted as he grudgingly stops to flip through Adrian's manuscript, and immediately starts taking the findings seriously.
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2012 / int_bb01ad0e	type	Cool Boat
2012 / int_bb01ad0e	comment	Cool Boat: The Arkships, absolutely gigantic, heavily armored super-carriers designed to comfortably harbor 100,000 passengers apiece until the apocalypse blows over.
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2012 / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
2012 / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: As Carl Anheuser gradually gains more political power over the course of the film's story, he lets the authority get to his head while rationalizing his selfish, reprehensible actions with an I Did What I Had to Do attitude. As the Chief of Staff, he arranged the death of the director of the Louvre who tried to go public with the disaster and deliberately abandoned many of the scientists who worked under him in order to keep their findings secret from the general public. He also designed the Arks with comfortable luxury suites, neglecting to accommodate as many people as possible. As the de-facto President of the USA, Anheuser argued for allowing millions of stranded passengers to die in order for the rest to survive, despite the possibility of saving those passengers. While Anheuser makes a reasonable point or two for what he does, his selfishness and expediency has resulted in many avoidable deaths.
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2012 / int_bb40e7e0	type	Failed Future Forecast
2012 / int_bb40e7e0	comment	Failed Future Forecast: Obviously.
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2012 / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
2012 / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: "Get in the fucking car!"
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2012 / int_bfc84d44	type	Calling Parents by Their Name
2012 / int_bfc84d44	comment	Calling Parents by Their Name: Noah does this to his father Jackson at least twice, which is meant to signal the strained relationship they have at the beginning. Each time it happens, Jackson expresses his annoyance with this.
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2012 / int_c12d6db6	type	Earthquakes Cause Fissures
2012 / int_c12d6db6	comment	Earthquakes Cause Fissures: Good Lord, do they ever. The entire Pacific plate basically turns into one great big fissure by the time the movie's even halfway through...
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2012 / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
2012 / int_c12f0c4	comment	Outrun the Fireball: Or outrun the earthquake, supervolcano and tidal wave. Luckily the Earth is sufficiently polite to wait for the protagonists to reach a car, plane and ark to escape to catastrophe. Not so much for everyone else.
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2012 / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
2012 / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: The Blu-Ray has an alternate ending where the ship Dr. Helmsley's father was travelling on survived the tsunami.
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2012 / int_c57f0d4f	type	Natural Disaster Cascade
2012 / int_c57f0d4f	comment	Natural Disaster Cascade: Heating of the Earth's core from the sun causes a global chain of truly apocalyptic natural disasters to rock the world in the lead-up to 21 December, 2012: all the Earth's tectonic plates destabilizing causes Readings Are Off the Scale level earthquakes to basically tear the Earth's crust apart at the boundaries, Yellowstone unleashes an all-destroying ash cloud, and for the grand finale, megatsunamis which literally rival the Himalayas in height flood the majority of the planet.
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2012 / int_c75061a3	type	Notable Non Sequitur
2012 / int_c75061a3	comment	Notable Non Sequitur: Charlie tells Jackson that ordinary people like them have no chance of getting on the "spaceships," saying the only people guaranteed to do so are Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, or "some Russian billionaire." Turns out Jackson actually does work for a Russian billionaire.
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2012 / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
2012 / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The film contains various references to the The Bible. During the destruction of the Sistine Chapel, the cracks forming on the roof directly between God and Adam in the Creation Of Adam symbolize two aspects related to the Bible: the transition between the first and second circles of life (specifically, breaking the connection between humans and God) and God's reversal of creation of humanity in Chapters 6-9 in the Book of Genesis. The Biblical flood: Jackson's son is named Noah, the cruise ship (where Adrian's father Harry performs) is called Genesis (the book in the Bible in which the account appears), and humanity is saved by the use of "arks". At one point we also see animals being lifted aboard the arks. Jackson Curtis' name is 50 Cent's (Curtis Jackson) name backwards. Reportedly, Emmerich is a fan of him.
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2012 / int_ca326e1e	type	Chekhov's Volcano
2012 / int_ca326e1e	comment	Chekhov's Volcano: Guess where.
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2012 / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
2012 / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Charlie Frost. Needless to say, he actually is right.
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2012 / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
2012 / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Anheuser shows signs of this, being quick to assume command on the possibility that other important members of government may be dead and only saved world leaders or the rich social elite, who were said to be determined by "genetic tests done by top scientists".
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2012 / int_ce68d46b	type	Next Sunday A.D.
2012 / int_ce68d46b	comment	Next Sunday A.D.: Right in the title.
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2012 / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
2012 / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Jackson. He buys into Charlie's theories after seeing Yuri's preparations for the Ark, and when trying to convince Kate, she does not believe him until California begins breaking up beneath her feet.
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2012 / int_d0c30f35	type	Did I Mention It's Christmas?
2012 / int_d0c30f35	comment	Did I Mention It's Christmas?: The supposedly Mayan Doomsday is on December 21, 2012, which is almost around the time of Christmas. However for unknown reasons, there were no Christmas decorations set up in different areas. However, it is implied that the cataclysm is happening "too early" to be around Christmas, which would explain the lack of decorations (and the London Summer Olympics being called off). It would also explain why the global disaster appears to start on a Saturday even though December 21, 2012 was a Friday.
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2012 / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
2012 / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Overlaps with Oh, Crap! with Jackson Curtis. After taking Karpov's kids to the airport, one of them tells our hero that he will die while they will survive the imminent apocalypse in a ship. That, and the fact that Charlie was right.
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2012 / int_d1d4cf48	type	Cheating with the Milkman
2012 / int_d1d4cf48	comment	Cheating with the Milkman: Tamara with Yuri's pilot Sasha. Yuri, who had discovered the affair some time before, gets his revenge by dumping both Tamara and Sasha behind to fend for themselves.
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2012 / int_d47f35de	type	First Father Wins
2012 / int_d47f35de	comment	First Father Wins: And lives.
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2012 / int_d545b2	type	Belly-Scraping Flight
2012 / int_d545b2	comment	Belly-Scraping Flight: Escaping Las Vegas, Yuri's plane knocks the top off the Eiffel Tower Experience at the Paris casino.
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2012 / int_d7d588c8	type	Lethal Lava Land
2012 / int_d7d588c8	comment	Lethal Lava Land: Hawaiʻi gets turned into this. Complete with Scenery Gorn of the ruined Honolulu skyline.
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2012 / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
2012 / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The bonding between Gordon and Tamara initially looks like Pair the Spares, only for both to later die. The continual references to "big ships" makes one think of spaceships that are going to leave Earth. They're really just boats.
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2012 / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
2012 / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: The various ways in which Jackson and his family meet up with the other groups in the story and manage to get on the Arks. It's lampshaded when the geological expert sees Jackson's family get aboard the Ark — he wonders how they managed to get on... Also of note are the sheer number of situations where the characters "just barely" escape death, such as a building "nearly" falling onto their plane. The scientist who helped Jackson with his book just so happened to be one of the people involved in the conspiracy and he was killed when he tried to come forward. Oh, and he just so happened to give Charlie a map to the ark ships.
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2012 / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
2012 / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Adrian's father Harry is shown boarding a cruise ship early in the film, and he mentions that he has a son he stays in touch with. It isn't clear until later in the film that Adrian is his son.
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2012 / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
2012 / int_dd082289	comment	A Million Is a Statistic: Anheuser, who points out they can't save everybody. He attempts to abandon the passengers of Ark 4 due to this and another trope.
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2012 / int_dd6ce5db	type	Artistic License
2012 / int_dd6ce5db	comment	Artistic License: Up to its neck in this, as per Roland Emmerich convention. Animal Care: Amongst the animals being airlifted to the Arks include a rhinoceros and a giraffe. Due to a mixture of the high altitude, low temperatures and the frigid winds being blown over them, both of those animals - as well as any other African animals - would die of either hypothermia or oxygen deprivation. Engineering: Architects and construction engineers everywhere were cringing in their seats when the earthquakes hit Italy and the Vatican Basilica topples sideways in one piece, then proceeds to roll across the whole of St Peter's Square like a giant flipper ball. A building like this (or any building at all, really) would've simply collapsed like a house of cards when subjected to such unimaginable forces. The same goes for how the destruction of most of LA's skyscrapers is depicted. Geography: The film suggests that a journey between Yellowstone National Park and Los Angeles can be driven in a few hours. The two are 1000 miles apart. The same issue happens when they go from Yellowstone to Las Vegas. Somehow, the ground-based pyroclastic flow from the super-eruption made it all those miles without its momentum getting killed off. If a plane needs to be refuelled during a flight between Las Vegas and China, it would save around 1100 miles if you did so in Alaska or Siberia rather than Hawaii. If the highest point in the world was in South Africa, it would not look anything like it does now. If a cruise ship starts its voyage in San Francisco and travels westwards, within two days it would be a third or so of the distance between California and Hawaii, NOT in the middle of the Sea of Japan. In 2012, as it had been since 2008, the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) was berthed at NISMF Philadelphia. For a wave to scoop it up from Philly, haul it out to the ocean, then bring it back in on its collision course with Danny Glover is an extreme stretch. Geology: Most of the film operates under this, particularly the depiction the eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano. Except for Gordon, who raises his hand very calmly to his eyes in reaction to the brightness, the other protagonist's barely react to the eruption and come out completely unscathed. No-one goes deaf from the sound of the eruption, while the shockwave throws Charlie a couple of feet backwards, despite the trees all around him being uprooted in their thousands. Finally the pyroclastic flow slows down to let the plane time to escape unharmed, while ignoring convection not to boil them alive and after emerging from the ash cloud, the plane isn't even dirty. According to most, if not all, geologists and volcanologists, anything within 100 miles of Yellowstone is screwed, though the rest of the world isn't any safer from the Ashes and more than likely imminent volcanic winter and possibly the next ice age. Much of the eruption itself is highly inaccurate. First of all, before the main eruption even takes place, there would be a series of monstrous volcanic eruptions that take place all around the caldera; the most we get to see of this is a geyser blowing its top a few minutes before Yellowstone erupts. Second of all, there were no warning signs. There are specific warning signs that scientists look out for, such as increased gas levels within geothermal structures. There would also be swarms of earthquakes that would become more and more aggressive. Temperature changes within the geysers would also result. The topography of Yellowstone would also change months before the eruption, as rising magma would bring the surface up with it, creating visible bulges - again, we don't see this happen until the eruption itself is almost upon us. During the final minutes before the eruption, new cracks in the ground would have formed and geysers release superheated water. The terror doesn't stop there either. Volcanic lava begins oozing from cracks beneath the surface. This is the perfect time to shit yourself if you haven't already. Then, boom! But there are still multiple eruptions that takes place before the main event. The sinking of California by a 10.9 earthquake causing the Earth crust displacement has so much wrong written all over it that it doesn't even try to stray away from this trope. There are no active volcanoes in Honolulu.note Since this one seems to create confusion, some clarification. Honolulu is on the island of O'ahu which, though formed volcanically, is no longer on the hot spot. The five active volcanoes in the Hawaiian chain are Haleakala (Maui), Hualalai (Hawai'i), Mauna Loa (Hawai'i), Kilauea (Hawai'i again), and Lo'ihi (just southeast of Hawai'i island at a depth of about 3,000 ft). O'ahu is volcanically dead. Modern scientists studying the caldera at Yellowstone indicate that an eruption there would send enough ash into the atmosphere to bring about a miniature ice age. Combine that ash with the amount pouring from the Hawaiian island chain that has erupted, and the Earth would stay cool for a very long time. The end of the movie indicates that a mere 27 days after the event, the seas are calm and the sky is clear and warm. On a related note, while the ash cloud would easily reach and probably thickly blanket Las Vegas, the pyroclastic flow would not; it would have slowed, cooled, and collapsed long before then. So, while Vegas would've definitely had a lot of ashfall, the apocalyptic, control-tower-obliterating flow shown is completely unreasonable. History: The scientific paper on the shifting of the Earth's crust is said to have been published in 1958, and Albert Einstein is said to have agreed with it. How somebody who died in 1955 can agree with a paper written after their death is anybody's guess. The trailers called the Mayans "Mankind's Earliest Civilization". It's certainly old, with roots stretching back to 2000 BCE, but Egypt, Sumer, and the Indus Valley Civilization date back to at least 1,000 years prior to that. The Classic Period coincides with the decline of the Roman Empire. Military: The US Navy doesn't paint the name and pennant number of a carrier on the flight deck in the method shown. The number is painted on the island and bow of the flight deck (quite prominently) and name on the stern per maritime convention, but that's it. Physics: The Yellowstone eruption. It manages an explosion probably measured in gigatons without any significant blast overpressure. Trees are flattened, but it abates within a mere mile or two - helpfully before obliterating all the major characters. Geologists say that in an eruption of that magnitude, anyone close enough to see it with the naked eye would not survive. First of all, any right minded person who knows about the eruptive history of Yellowstone, would know that there would be multiple monstrous eruptions before the main eruption even takes place. Yellowstone just doesn't erupt with a massive explosion like a nuclear bomb. There are several eruptions that occur, according to most volcanologists and geologists, mainly because of the fact the entire supervolcano is a tightly sealed can. Secondly, there would be pyroclastic surges that rampage. The megatsunamis. A huge and incredibly heavy Tsunami is able to climb up a steep hill without changing its trajectory. Another tsunami is also able to carry an aircraft carrier on its side without the ship breaking up. The Earth is ripping itself a new one because solar neutrinos are "mutating" into a form that heats the interior of the Earth like a microwave oven. In reality, solar neutrinos do mutate — they change between electron, muon, and tau flavors during their travels in a process called neutrino oscillation. However, none of these neutrino flavors is capable of interacting with the Earth's interior. Or any form of normal matter. Now, it could be possible for neutrinos to be energized to the point that they become functionally larger and can interact with matter more easily. However, not only would this take something like a supernova to actually occur, but the resulting wave of hyper-energized neutrinos would either vaporize or lethally irradiate everything on the surface of the planet, making the consequences of them heating up the Earth's core a moot point. Two courtesy of the Little Prop Plane that Could: Takeoff speeds are not negotiable. When Gordon points out a specific speed of 85 knots he needs to take off (unsurprisingly reading his airspeed indicator's markings wrong), Cusack essentially tells him to go anyway, the fool agrees, and it works. note There are two screwups here, one a glaring oversight by anyone with the ability to read (He's reading the wrong damn numbers - the outer ring of the ASI is in miles per hour, and the inner one is knots. So if he'd said "70 knots" he would've had the right conversion for the speed he thinks he needs, but he didn't. Of course, it's only marked with a prominent white MPH at the top and he's theoretically had a flight lesson, but oh well.) while the other is basic airmanship: the white arc on the ASI indicates the flap operating speed range. The bottom of the arc (the lowest speed) is the stall speed of the aircraft with full flaps and in landing configuration (gear extended). Coincidentally, this is also the minimum takeoff speed. Trying to lift before that speed just adds drag and lengthens your takeoff roll - which, when the airport is falling into a bottomless abyss, ain't exactly a great plan. The little red mark at 82 MPH we're led to believe is takeoff speed actually indicates the single-engine controllable airspeed, and is useful only if one of the engines has failed in flight. Ironically, though, while the ASI shown on screen does not belong to a Cessna 340, he ends up being nearly right anyway; the 340's takeoff speed actually is 71 knots...if it's empty. The Cessna 340 can hold six people and up to 102 gallons of fuel in stock configuration, expandable to up to 207 gallons. The problem is that with six people aboard, their weight has to be saved somewhere, which means the pilot is going to need to dump some fuel to get down to maximum takeoff weight. Either that or leave a nonessential character behind. The plane apparently had a warp drive. When the Yellowstone caldera decides it's time to party, among other things it sends out a pyroclastic flow. This is to be expected should Yellowstone erupt again. The problem is that the average speed of a pyroclastic flow is between 300 and 450 MPH, and the top speed of a Cessna 340 is 279MPH. It is physically incapable of remaining in stable flight at greater speed. note Referring back to the airspeed indicator, you can see a very prominent red line at about 240 miles per hour. This is called the VNE speed, also known as the never exceed speed. There is a reason for this name: the plane should never, not ever, not even if it's being chased by a giant angry ash cloud, go that fast or faster. Above that speed, the control surfaces will eventually cease to be able to control the plane (you can't maneuver) and the plane could even begin to come apart in midair. In the interests of full disclosure: reaching or exceeding the VNE speed may or may not cause problems right away, but the plane begins to become markedly less stable. Flutter - which is exactly what it sounds like - may begin, causing a loss of control or damage to the wings. The aircraft will begin to adopt a nose-down trim as dynamic air pressure continues to build, eventually forcing it into an unrecoverable dive. (Contrary to popular and cinematic belief, though, it's very unlikely the wings will snap off.) But even if nothing deadly happens, the plane will almost certainly need depot maintenance and an inspection teardown. It's bad. There's a reason the line is red. It's also worth noting that many aircraft can't even reach their VNE speed with stock engines; they just don't have the horsepower. Now, the ASI shown on screen isn't an ASI for the Cessna 340 we see being flown (its markings are wrong). The ASI we see has a VNE of about 249 MPH, while a Cessna 340 maxes out at 279 MPH. Either way, the plane will become an uncontrollable lawn dart long before it's able to outrun a pyroclastic flow. (Given how the rest of the film plays out, this might have been preferable.) All scientists - even American ones - use metric units, so Satnam should have referred to the mine as being about 3,300 meters rather than 11,000 feet deep. It's not possible for a ship's engines not to function when there is one door or gate open. It's not possible for water to flow into a watertight room when all access routes are closed. Politics: The US President requests to speak to his fellow heads of state at the G8 Summit. If this was to happen, he'd only be speaking to the French and Russian presidents - the restnote Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom send their head of government (who actually exercise executive power). Arnold Schwarzenegger's term as Governor of California ended in 2011, as the state has a two-term limit. With the Vice President and Speaker of the House nowhere to be found, Anheuser takes charge as acting commander-in-chief as the President refuses to leave. However, the next in line of succession is the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. After them, it passes through members of the cabinet. The only way Anheuser could take charge is if none of them made it, as the chief of staff isn't even part of the line of succession.
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2012 / int_dddbdc26	type	Monumental Damage
2012 / int_dddbdc26	comment	Monumental Damage: The film gives us the destruction of the following landmarks: The Cristo Redentor statue (aka Christ The Redeemer) in Rio de Janeiro. St. Peter's Basilica and the Sistine Chapel in Rome, the latter complete with a crack opening up between Adam and God on the fresco ceiling. And the dome rolling away like it was a massive ball. The Las Vegas Strip, including its fake Eiffel Tower, gets torn apart by an Earthquake AND a Pyroclastic cloud, to add even more insult to injury to the fake tower, it's antenna taken out by Sasha's plane during takeoff as the tower sinks. The Washington Monument. The White House, which gets crushed by an aircraft carrier. By the carrier named after John F. Kennedy, no less. Yellowstone National Park balloons then explodes as the caldera erupts. The entire city of Los Angeles. You could probably pick out both the Capital Records Building and the U.S Bank Tower getting it again if you look closely. Subverted during the movie's planning stages with the Kaaba in Mecca. One of the scriptwriters outright said that he didn't want a fatwa issued against him, thus it was ultimately not included.
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2012 / int_e26f04b4	type	Last of His Kind
2012 / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: Lampshaded by Thomas Wilson, who dies during the apocalypse as the last President of the United States of America. After the apocalypse is over, the only continent on Earth that still remains intact is Africa.
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2012 / int_e3bdea5c	type	Artistic License â€“ Politics
2012 / int_e3bdea5c	comment	Politics: The US President requests to speak to his fellow heads of state at the G8 Summit. If this was to happen, he'd only be speaking to the French and Russian presidents - the restnote Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom send their head of government (who actually exercise executive power). Arnold Schwarzenegger's term as Governor of California ended in 2011, as the state has a two-term limit. With the Vice President and Speaker of the House nowhere to be found, Anheuser takes charge as acting commander-in-chief as the President refuses to leave. However, the next in line of succession is the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. After them, it passes through members of the cabinet. The only way Anheuser could take charge is if none of them made it, as the chief of staff isn't even part of the line of succession.
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2012 / int_e3c20140	type	As Long as It Sounds Foreign
2012 / int_e3c20140	comment	As Long as It Sounds Foreign: When the Russian president whispers to his interpreter, he is doing so in Serbo-Croatian rather than Russian.
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2012 / int_e53a34aa	type	Death Course
2012 / int_e53a34aa	comment	Death Course: From Kate's home to the Santa Monica Airport. And that was just the beginning.
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2012 / int_e5421161	type	Expy
2012 / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The unnamed, former actor-turned-California governor with a thick Austrian accent The female German chancellor. The British Royal Family: a quick shot as they are loading the Arks shows an elderly well-dressed woman in a purple coat with Corgis, undoubtedly Queen Elizabeth II (and her family). The inspirational black president.
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2012 / int_e9784ee6	type	Epic Movie
2012 / int_e9784ee6	comment	Epic Movie: Hell, yeah!
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2012 / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
2012 / int_e9f517e1	comment	Geography: The film suggests that a journey between Yellowstone National Park and Los Angeles can be driven in a few hours. The two are 1000 miles apart. The same issue happens when they go from Yellowstone to Las Vegas. Somehow, the ground-based pyroclastic flow from the super-eruption made it all those miles without its momentum getting killed off. If a plane needs to be refuelled during a flight between Las Vegas and China, it would save around 1100 miles if you did so in Alaska or Siberia rather than Hawaii. If the highest point in the world was in South Africa, it would not look anything like it does now. If a cruise ship starts its voyage in San Francisco and travels westwards, within two days it would be a third or so of the distance between California and Hawaii, NOT in the middle of the Sea of Japan. In 2012, as it had been since 2008, the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) was berthed at NISMF Philadelphia. For a wave to scoop it up from Philly, haul it out to the ocean, then bring it back in on its collision course with Danny Glover is an extreme stretch.
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2012 / int_ebcf99b5	type	The Unmasqued World
2012 / int_ebcf99b5	comment	The Unmasqued World: The 2012 phenomenon and significance of the Mayan Long Count Calendar was considered a myth by everyone except world governments...until the apocalypse actually occurred.
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2012 / int_efc1d647	type	Never a Self-Made Woman
2012 / int_efc1d647	comment	Never a Self-Made Woman: All the women are pretty much defined by their roles as mothers, daughters, girlfriends and ex-wives except maybe the German Chancellor and President Wilson's secretary.
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2012 / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
2012 / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Yuri.
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2012 / int_f50c4557	type	Viewer-Friendly Interface
2012 / int_f50c4557	comment	Viewer-Friendly Interface: Both played straight (the computers on the arks with 3D, real-time representations of the gears for the doors) and averted (the scientist who discovers the end is near uses Vista, and everyone else who's not an Ark operator).
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2012 / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
2012 / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Vault, Bentley, Huggies (Goodnites), and many, many other things. At the global conference near the start, every single person is using the same Sony Vaio laptop. A Chevron gas station makes a brief appearance, only to be blown up by a careening cement truck.
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2012 / int_f9636192	type	Prophecies Are Always Right
2012 / int_f9636192	comment	Prophecies Are Always Right
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2012 / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
2012 / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Jackson Curtis. In a limo and RV of all things.
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2012 / int_f9c17447	type	The Remnant
2012 / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: The survivors on the Arks, along with all the animals and cultural treasures they managed to save, are all that remains of human civilization. Everyone and everything else on Earth has perished.
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2012 / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
2012 / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Jackson: "I'm on my way toward you/hurtling toward you as we speak!" Jackson's daughter and her obsession with fun hats. Played tragically by all the desperate farewell phone calls cut short by impacting disasters. The various references to Wisconsin throughout the film; first from an old lady at the beginning who regrets moving from there, it becoming the new location of the South Pole at the end of the film, as well as being mentioned in the last sentence of Jackson's novel.
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2012 / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
2012 / int_fc225bec	comment	Physics: The Yellowstone eruption. It manages an explosion probably measured in gigatons without any significant blast overpressure. Trees are flattened, but it abates within a mere mile or two - helpfully before obliterating all the major characters. Geologists say that in an eruption of that magnitude, anyone close enough to see it with the naked eye would not survive. First of all, any right minded person who knows about the eruptive history of Yellowstone, would know that there would be multiple monstrous eruptions before the main eruption even takes place. Yellowstone just doesn't erupt with a massive explosion like a nuclear bomb. There are several eruptions that occur, according to most volcanologists and geologists, mainly because of the fact the entire supervolcano is a tightly sealed can. Secondly, there would be pyroclastic surges that rampage. The megatsunamis. A huge and incredibly heavy Tsunami is able to climb up a steep hill without changing its trajectory. Another tsunami is also able to carry an aircraft carrier on its side without the ship breaking up. The Earth is ripping itself a new one because solar neutrinos are "mutating" into a form that heats the interior of the Earth like a microwave oven. In reality, solar neutrinos do mutate — they change between electron, muon, and tau flavors during their travels in a process called neutrino oscillation. However, none of these neutrino flavors is capable of interacting with the Earth's interior. Or any form of normal matter. Now, it could be possible for neutrinos to be energized to the point that they become functionally larger and can interact with matter more easily. However, not only would this take something like a supernova to actually occur, but the resulting wave of hyper-energized neutrinos would either vaporize or lethally irradiate everything on the surface of the planet, making the consequences of them heating up the Earth's core a moot point. Two courtesy of the Little Prop Plane that Could: Takeoff speeds are not negotiable. When Gordon points out a specific speed of 85 knots he needs to take off (unsurprisingly reading his airspeed indicator's markings wrong), Cusack essentially tells him to go anyway, the fool agrees, and it works. note There are two screwups here, one a glaring oversight by anyone with the ability to read (He's reading the wrong damn numbers - the outer ring of the ASI is in miles per hour, and the inner one is knots. So if he'd said "70 knots" he would've had the right conversion for the speed he thinks he needs, but he didn't. Of course, it's only marked with a prominent white MPH at the top and he's theoretically had a flight lesson, but oh well.) while the other is basic airmanship: the white arc on the ASI indicates the flap operating speed range. The bottom of the arc (the lowest speed) is the stall speed of the aircraft with full flaps and in landing configuration (gear extended). Coincidentally, this is also the minimum takeoff speed. Trying to lift before that speed just adds drag and lengthens your takeoff roll - which, when the airport is falling into a bottomless abyss, ain't exactly a great plan. The little red mark at 82 MPH we're led to believe is takeoff speed actually indicates the single-engine controllable airspeed, and is useful only if one of the engines has failed in flight. Ironically, though, while the ASI shown on screen does not belong to a Cessna 340, he ends up being nearly right anyway; the 340's takeoff speed actually is 71 knots...if it's empty. The Cessna 340 can hold six people and up to 102 gallons of fuel in stock configuration, expandable to up to 207 gallons. The problem is that with six people aboard, their weight has to be saved somewhere, which means the pilot is going to need to dump some fuel to get down to maximum takeoff weight. Either that or leave a nonessential character behind. The plane apparently had a warp drive. When the Yellowstone caldera decides it's time to party, among other things it sends out a pyroclastic flow. This is to be expected should Yellowstone erupt again. The problem is that the average speed of a pyroclastic flow is between 300 and 450 MPH, and the top speed of a Cessna 340 is 279MPH. It is physically incapable of remaining in stable flight at greater speed. note Referring back to the airspeed indicator, you can see a very prominent red line at about 240 miles per hour. This is called the VNE speed, also known as the never exceed speed. There is a reason for this name: the plane should never, not ever, not even if it's being chased by a giant angry ash cloud, go that fast or faster. Above that speed, the control surfaces will eventually cease to be able to control the plane (you can't maneuver) and the plane could even begin to come apart in midair. In the interests of full disclosure: reaching or exceeding the VNE speed may or may not cause problems right away, but the plane begins to become markedly less stable. Flutter - which is exactly what it sounds like - may begin, causing a loss of control or damage to the wings. The aircraft will begin to adopt a nose-down trim as dynamic air pressure continues to build, eventually forcing it into an unrecoverable dive. (Contrary to popular and cinematic belief, though, it's very unlikely the wings will snap off.) But even if nothing deadly happens, the plane will almost certainly need depot maintenance and an inspection teardown. It's bad. There's a reason the line is red. It's also worth noting that many aircraft can't even reach their VNE speed with stock engines; they just don't have the horsepower. Now, the ASI shown on screen isn't an ASI for the Cessna 340 we see being flown (its markings are wrong). The ASI we see has a VNE of about 249 MPH, while a Cessna 340 maxes out at 279 MPH. Either way, the plane will become an uncontrollable lawn dart long before it's able to outrun a pyroclastic flow. (Given how the rest of the film plays out, this might have been preferable.) All scientists - even American ones - use metric units, so Satnam should have referred to the mine as being about 3,300 meters rather than 11,000 feet deep. It's not possible for a ship's engines not to function when there is one door or gate open. It's not possible for water to flow into a watertight room when all access routes are closed.
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2012 / int_fced5df7	type	Disposable FiancÃ©
2012 / int_fced5df7	comment	Disposable FiancÃ©: Gordon.
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2012 / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
2012 / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Say what you like about Anheuser, but he genuinely wanted humanity and civilization to survive the planetary upset.
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2012 / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
2012 / int_ff5a74c8	comment	Talking Is a Free Action: Characters ramble on for minutes without any noticeable difference between the time they got started and the time they finished, usually minutes later. Standouts include Adrian's speech on the Ark and Jackson getting ready to unplug the gears.
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2012 / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
2012 / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Yuri is a massive Smug Snake throughout the entire film, abandoning the rest of the party, including his girlfriend and the surviving pilot who helped save his life, in the Himalayas, but selflessly gives his life to save his sons. Anheuser is a flawed character, but he does have moments of sadness about how many people are dying, and genuinely compliments and encourages Adrian a few times, Even admitting that he was right to oppose him at the end in a deleted scene.
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2012	hasFeature	Alternate Landmark History / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Always Know a Pilot / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	America Saves the Day / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Angst? What Angst? / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Apathetic Citizens / int_14b52449
ApocalypseDayPlanner	seeAlso	2012
2012	hasFeature	Apocalypse Wow / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Apocalyptic Gag Order / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Apocalyptic Montage / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Artistic License â€“ Geology / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Artistic License â€“ Physics / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	As Long as It Sounds Foreign / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Belly-Scraping Flight / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Big Disaster Plot / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Bollywood Nerd / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	California Collapse / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Car Meets House / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Celebrity Casualty / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Christianity Is Catholic / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Church of Saint Genericus / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Civilians Are Irrelevant / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Conveniently Empty Building / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Cool Boat / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Cool Car / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Deadline News / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Death of the Hypotenuse / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Developing Doomed Characters / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Dewey Defeats Truman / int_14b52449
DigitalDomain	seeAlso	2012
2012	hasFeature	Disaster Movie / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Disposable Pilot / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Divorce Is Temporary / int_14b52449
DoubleNegativeVFX	seeAlso	2012
2012	hasFeature	Earthquakes Cause Fissures / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Embarrassing Damp Sheets / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Encyclopedia Exposita / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Epic Movie / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Event Title / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Exact Time to Failure / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Failed Future Forecast / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Fake Nationality / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Fan-Preferred Cut Content / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	First Father Wins / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Formerly Fat / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Four Lines, All Waiting / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Giant Wall of Watery Doom / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Glasses Pull / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Gonna Need More X / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Harmless Luminescence / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Hit So Hard, the Calendar Felt It / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Hurricane of Euphemisms / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Ignored Expert / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Immortal Iconic Car / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Improbable Infant Survival / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Indy Hat Roll / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Infallible Babble / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Instantly Proven Wrong / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Just Before the End / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Just the Way You Are / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Mayincatec / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Men Are the Expendable Gender / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Misplaced Accent / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Money Is Not Power / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Most Writers Are Writers / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Natural Disaster Cascade / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Next Sunday A.D. / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	No-Dialogue Episode / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	No Endor Holocaust / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Noah's Story Arc / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Only I Can Make It Go / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Prodigal Family / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Recycled Trailer Music / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Regional Redecoration / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Relationship-Salvaging Disaster / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Russian Guy Suffers Most / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Screen Shake / int_14b52449
SeventeenAgain	seeAlso	2012
2012	hasFeature	Sistine Steal / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Sole Surviving Scientist / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Straw Character / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Suddenly Always Knew That / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Super Cell Reception / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Take a Moment to Catch Your Death / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Take My Hand! / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Talking Is a Free Action / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Teetering on the Edge / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	That Poor Car / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	The Ark / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	The Capital of Brazil Is Buenos Aires / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	The End Is Nigh / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	The End of the World as We Know It / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	The Great Flood / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	The Mockbuster / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	The Needs of the Many / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	The New '10s / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	The Unmasqued World / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Title by Year / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Too Cool to Live / int_14b52449
Two Thousand Twelve	seeAlso	2012
2012	hasFeature	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Underdressed for the Occasion / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Viral Marketing / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Watch the World Die / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Weird Sun / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	When the Planets Align / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Writers Suck / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Year Zero / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	Husky Russkie / int_14b52449
2012	hasFeature	The Centerpiece Spectacular / int_14b52449

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