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* BringHelpBack: Maudie, a marathon runner does this.

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* BringHelpBack: Maudie, a marathon runner does this.runner, goes cross country to summon the authorities to the trapped bus.



* DirtyBusiness: None of the group are happy about having to kill, even in self-defense with Annabel taking a lot of coaxing for it.

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* DirtyBusiness: None of the group are happy about having to kill, even in self-defense self-defense, with Annabel taking a lot of coaxing for it.



* DisappearedDad: Sam has had no part in his sons upbringing and is going to meet him for the first time.

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* DisappearedDad: Sam has had no part in his sons son's upbringing and is going to meet him for the first time.



* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The bus contains a Marine deserter, a couple heading to loss Vegas to work at casinos, a fired football coach, a {{LARP}}er and competitive archer, a marathon runner, a DisappearedDad, a middle-aged Hispanic tinkerer, a businessman, a college student, and a driver who drove convoys under hostile fire in the Middle East.

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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The bus contains a Marine deserter, a couple heading to loss Vegas to work at casinos, a fired football coach, a {{LARP}}er and competitive archer, a marathon runner, a DisappearedDad, a middle-aged Hispanic tinkerer, a businessman, a college student, and a driver who drove convoys under hostile fire in the Middle East.

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* ArcherArchetype: Subverted with Annabel, whose a decent archer but one of the more sentimental of the group.
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* BikerBabe: Some of the bikers are women.
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* BadassInANiceSuit: Walter is the best dressed of the passengers and also one of the first to do anything to try to save them once the driver is killed.



* DecoyProtagonist: Danny the bus driver develops a rapport with some of the passengers and is mentioned as having driven through mined roads in the Middle East but he is the first person the bikers kill, before having an opportunity to do anything.



* TheLadette: Desiree is a tough woman, not dressed particularly femininely and who recognizes the biker tattoos pretty well.



* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A Marine deserter, a couple heading to loss Vegas to work at casinos, a fired football coach, a LARPer and competitive archer, a marathon runner, a DisappearedDad, and a middle-aged Hispanic tinkerer.

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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A The bus contains a Marine deserter, a couple heading to loss Vegas to work at casinos, a fired football coach, a LARPer {{LARP}}er and competitive archer, a marathon runner, a DisappearedDad, and a middle-aged Hispanic tinkerer.tinkerer, a businessman, a college student, and a driver who drove convoys under hostile fire in the Middle East.
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The cast includes Creator/LeaThompson as one of the passengers (a single mother and breast cancer awareness runner), Creator/DannyReesSnell as the bus driver and Creator/FredWard as a military policeman who is chasing one of the passengers (a sympathetic deserter) and ends up coming to their aide.

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The cast includes Creator/LeaThompson as one of the passengers (a single mother and breast cancer awareness runner), Creator/DannyReesSnell Creator/DavidReesSnell as the bus driver and Creator/FredWard as a military policeman who is chasing one of the passengers (a sympathetic deserter) and ends up coming to their aide.
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The cast includes Creator/LeaThompson as one of the passengers (a single mother and breast cancer awareness runner) Creator/FredWard as a military policeman who is chasing one of the passengers (a sympathetic deserter) and ends up coming to their aide.

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The cast includes Creator/LeaThompson as one of the passengers (a single mother and breast cancer awareness runner) runner), Creator/DannyReesSnell as the bus driver and Creator/FredWard as a military policeman who is chasing one of the passengers (a sympathetic deserter) and ends up coming to their aide.
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Exit Speed is a 2008 Action film following a group of bus passengers being pursued by a group of bikers after one of them is accidentally hit by the bus.

The cast includes Creator/LeaThompson as one of the passengers (a single mother and breast cancer awareness runner) Creator/FredWard as a military policeman who is chasing one of the passengers (a sympathetic deserter) and ends up coming to their aide.

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* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: The bikers are portrayed as trigger-happy, drug-using people who kill for fun.
* AnyoneCanDie: Of the eleven people on the bus, six die.
* ArcherArchetype: Subverted with Annabel, whose a decent archer but one of the more sentimental of the group.
* BikerBabe: Some of the bikers are women.
* BringHelpBack: Maudie, a marathon runner does this.
* DirtyBusiness: None of the group are happy about having to kill, even in self-defense with Annabel taking a lot of coaxing for it.
* DisposablePilot: The bus driver Danny is the first killed when he stops to check on the dead biker. Passenger Walter Lindley, who takes over the wheel of the bus and drives them to the junkyard they hole up in is also killed when the bus crashes.
* DisappearedDad: Sam has had no part in his sons upbringing and is going to meet him for the first time.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The biker died due to his own stupidity in driving in front of the bus, and the driver and passengers stopped to try and help him but the bikers still try to kill them all.
* GymClassHell: Coach Yarbo is implied to have run one, despite his reliability in the group as a whole, give how he’s introduced re-reading a letter from his school firing him for assaulting a football player.
* LanguageBarrier: Mr.Vargas only speaks Spanish, so it takes a long time for the others to figure out the weapon he’s building is a potato gun.
* LetOffByTheDetective: Sergeant Sparks, the military policeman chasing Meredith gives her another head start at the end for her role in helping the others.
* LovableCoward: Duke panics a bit at the beginning, and the others call him Rabbit sometimes but he is friendly, and dependable when the chips are down.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A Marine deserter, a couple heading to loss Vegas to work at casinos, a fired football coach, a LARPer and competitive archer, a marathon runner, a DisappearedDad, and a middle-aged Hispanic tinkerer.
* StandYourGround: As the final battle approaches, the Coach declares “We can hold.”
* SurvivalMantra: Maudie saying “I have children” to motivate herself while having to fight and kill a biker.

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