The Impossible: Tropes

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• Plot-Driven Breakdownin 129 titlesHow the family reunion comes about. The truck Henry was traveling in refuses to start, giving him pause to look around the hospital yard and noticing the red ball.Read →
• File MixupRare · in 22 titlesWhile waiting at the hospital, Maria tells Lucas to leave her side and go help out however he can.Read →
• Adaptational Nationalityin 659 titlesThe family's nationality is changed from Spanish◊ to British (unstated, but the actors speak in British accents and have English name versions of their Real Life counterparts: Enrique is renamed Henr…Read →
• Go into the Lightin 141 titlesMaria's Nightmare Sequence at the hospital has a Crucified Hero Shot of her floating towards a light at the surface of the water.Read →
• Didn't Think This Throughin 240 titlesHenry sends off his younger sons, Thomas and Simon, to "safety" with a relative stranger so that he can look for his wife and older son, Lucas.Read →
• Manly Tearsin 1,566 titlesA particularly hard-hitting example. Henry holds up well until he is with a group of survivors and gets to call his father-in-law for the first time.Read →