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* LastMomentsTogether: [[spoiler:On the night the comet hits, Mindy reconciles with his wife and has a final dinner with his family, Kate, and Yule.]]

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* LastMomentsTogether: LastMomentTogether: [[spoiler:On the night the comet hits, Mindy reconciles with his wife and has a final dinner with his family, Kate, and Yule.]]
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* LastMomentsTogether: [[spoiler:On the night the comet hits, Mindy reconciles with his wife and has a final dinner with his family, Kate, and Yule.]]
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* GenreDeconstruction: The film presents how a common disaster movie scenario (specifically a planet-killing comet heading toward Earth) would [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome likely play out in real life in a modern-day political and social landscape]], with their answer being that government corruption, greed, and a dash of willful ignorance would ultimately screw everyone over. Also doubles as DeconstructiveParody since [[BlackComedy this outcome is]] PlayedForLaughs.

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* GenreDeconstruction: The film presents how a common disaster movie scenario (specifically a planet-killing comet heading toward Earth) would [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome likely play out in real life in a modern-day political and social landscape]], landscape, with their answer being that government corruption, greed, and a dash of willful ignorance would ultimately screw everyone over. Also doubles as DeconstructiveParody since [[BlackComedy this outcome is]] PlayedForLaughs.
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* BlandNameProduct: Most of the movie's in-universe social networks are thinly veiled parodies of real-life networks, with the bizarre exception of Website/{{Twitch}}.

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* BlandNameProduct: Most of the movie's in-universe social networks are thinly veiled parodies of real-life networks, with the bizarre exception of Website/{{Twitch}}.Platform/{{Twitch}}.
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* StrawmanNewsMedia: Kate at one point goes on what appears to be a Creator/FoxNewsChannel stand-in, with highly {{patriotic|Fervor}} imagery in the backdrop, whose hosts snidely dismiss her claims with the implication that she's getting some kind of benefit from belief in the comet because she discovered it and it's named for her.

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* StrawmanNewsMedia: Kate at one point goes on what appears to be a Creator/FoxNewsChannel Fox News Channel stand-in, with highly {{patriotic|Fervor}} imagery in the backdrop, whose hosts snidely dismiss her claims with the implication that she's getting some kind of benefit from belief in the comet because she discovered it and it's named for her.
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* EverybodyDiesEnding: [[spoiler:The comet kills (nearly) everyone on Earth, except for the ones who fled on the starship, and even they seem to be slated to die by the large wild animals that populate the planet they arrive on. The post-credits scene reveals that Jason somehow survived the comet, though it's highly doubtful that he'll last long.]]

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* EverybodyDiesEnding: [[spoiler:The [[spoiler:Thanks the greed of the Administration, and the overall ignorance of humanity, there is nothing stopping the comet kills (nearly) from killing virtually everyone on Earth, except for the Earth. The only ones who do survive are the upper class who fled on the a starship, and even they seem to be slated to die by the large wild animals that populate the planet they arrive on. The post-credits scene reveals that Jason somehow survived the comet, though it's highly doubtful that he'll last long.]]



* TitleDrop: The "Don't Look Up" campaign slogan gets chanted by its supporters.

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* TitleDrop: The When Mindy's team tries to convince humanity to unite via "Just Look Up" campaign to help stop the comet, Orlean sets up a "Don't Look Up" campaign counter-campaign to convince her supporters that their opposers are actually belittling them, all while further politicizing and downplaying a clear crisis. The slogan gets chanted by its supporters.
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* AcademiaElitism: The POTUS's bumbling Chief-Of-Staff sneers at Randall and Kate's research because they are from the "less prestigious" Michigan State University while he is Ivy League educated. He also attempts to discredit them by suggesting that if they were really as clever as they think, they would be affiliated with better schools. When he gets the results repeated by Harvard, Yale, and Princeton scientists, he's much quicker to believe them (even though, by then, their options are narrowing).
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->''"Look, let's establish, once again, that there is a huge comet headed towards Earth. And the reason we know that there is a comet is because we saw it. We saw it with our own eyes using a telescope. I mean, for God's sake, we took a fucking picture of it! What other proof do we need? And if we can't all agree at the bare minimum that a giant comet the size of Mount Everest, hurtling its way towards planet Earth is not a fucking good thing, then what the hell happened to us?!"''
-->-- '''Randall Mindy'''

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->''"Look, let's establish, once again, that there is a huge comet headed towards Earth. And the reason we know that there is a comet is because we saw it. We saw it with our own eyes using a telescope. I mean, for God's sake, we took a fucking picture of it! What other proof do we need? And if we can't all agree at the bare minimum that a giant comet the size of Mount Everest, hurtling its way towards planet Earth is ->''"I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not a fucking good thing, then what the hell happened to us?!"''
screaming in terror like his passengers."''
-->-- '''Randall Mindy'''
'''Creator/BobMonkhouse'''
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* ApocalypseWow: The stunning sequence of the comet hitting Earth.

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* ApocalypseWow: The [[spoiler:The stunning sequence of the comet hitting Earth.]]
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* HomeworldEvacuation: Orlean and Isherwell's Plan B is to evacuate themselves and 2,000 people off the planet and onto another one in the Goldilocks zone.

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* HomeworldEvacuation: Orlean and Isherwell's Plan B is to evacuate themselves and 2,000 people off the planet and onto another one in the Goldilocks zone.zone via a SleeperStarship. [[spoiler:TheStinger then [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructs]] this trope: when the ship arrives, several of the landers fail and burn up in orbit, while the others successfully set foot on another world, [[EverybodyDiesEnding and are promptly eaten by the local wildlife]], having failed to bring [[TooDumbToLive any supplies or clothing whatsoever]] with them]].

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