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** He's shown looking at the body as he passes, but it just looks like the body has been strapped in place to stop if floating in zero-gravity.

* LanguageBarrier: [[spoiler:In the twist ending Calvin is revealed to have been in the escape pod that landed on earth. The Vietnamese fishermen who opened the pod didn't understand David's attempts to stop them. However considering the state David was in when he was found, the barrier was the only unavoidable factor.]]
* MadeOfIron: Calvin has an insanely durable physiology, able to withstand intense heat and the vacuum of space for extended periods while still needing oxygen, with even direct exposure to orbital re-entry not deemed likely to kill it. This is due to its entire body being made of multipurpose cells, rather than different types of cells for different purposes and tissues. The creature is more akin to a sea sponge or a tumour than a vertebrate (although it runs into FridgeLogic on how come it's not [[ArtisticLicenseBiology just as dumb as a tumour or sea sponge...]]).
** On the other hand, for ''real-life examples'' of small animals that can survive ''up to ten days in space'', see tardigrades.

* NothingPersonal: Hugh says the organism is just fighting to survive. Averted with Miranda who says that in violation of her scientific objectivity, she's grown to hate Calvin as her crewmates are killed one at a time.

* TooDumbToLive: The film basically runs on a long string of questionable decisions, but worst of all [[spoiler:are the Vietnamese fishermen in the final scenes. A space capsule drops out of the sky with a bloodied, frantic man inside who's completely webbed up in some strange gooey substance and screaming at the men in obvious desperation. Do they turn around on the spot and run/swim/drive like hell? Of course not, they proceed to open the hatch and thus probably doom every living thing on Earth.]] As commendable as helpfulness may be, common sense can't get violated much harder than this.

* DiabolusExMachina: [[spoiler:David and Miranda's plan to trap and dispose of Calvin is set to go off perfectly, until debris from the ISS results in their pods switching paths, ensuring not only humanity's demise on Earth, but Miranda's in deep space as well.]]

* KillItWithFire: Rory tries this with a handheld incinerator. It doesn't work. Even the WeaponizedExhaust of the thrusters fails to do the job. By this point, the crew is genuinely concerned that Calvin might be able to ride the ISS to Earth in an uncontrolled re-entry and survive.

* ItWasThereTheWholeTime: The crew realizes too late that their plan to suffocate Calvin has failed when [[spoiler:Hugh starts dying and they pull up his pant leg to find that Calvin has been feeding on it (he's paralyzed and can't feel it there)]].

* GodzillaThreshold: Firewall Three. [[spoiler:In the event of failure to contain Calvin in its pod or the lab, this involves Earth Control sending a Soyuz spacecraft to attempt to push the International Space Station (representative of nearly 20 years of international cooperation and quite possibly the single most expensive single item ever constructed at an estimated cost of over $150 ''billion'', the in universe version stated $200 billion) and everyone still on board into deep space. As Calvin's arrival on Earth would very likely be an extinction-level event, this is entirely justified.]]

* GodzillaThreshold: Firewall Three. [[spoiler:In the event of failure to contain Calvin in its pod or the lab, this involves Earth Control sending a Soyuz spacecraft to attempt to push the International Space Station (representative of nearly 20 years of international cooperation and quite possibly the single most expensive single item ever constructed at an estimated cost of over $150 ''billion'') and everyone still on board into deep space. As Calvin's arrival on Earth would very likely be an extinction-level event, this is entirely justified.]]

* FluffyTheTerrible: The alien is called 'Calvin' by an elementary school who was picked out of 11,000 schools to name it.