History Film / SnakesOnAPlane

* AnyoneCanDie: Well, except Neville Flynn and his charge. Honestly, it could be argued that [[spoiler:there wasn't ''enough'' death in the film. Out of the twenty named characters on the plane, only eight die.]]

* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: [[spoiler: Paul the businessman was an arsehole through and through. When the snakes started attacking people, he callously threw Mercedes' dog to one of the snakes in an effort to distract them. He justified his actions by saying anyone would have done it and telling the devastated Mercedes that it was just a dog. For this act, Paul gets a satisfying and well-deserved death of being slowly crushed by a python, until he's bleeding from his orifices. All the while, the snake is staring at him and beginning to swallow him whole.]]
* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler:At the very end of the movie, when the plane safely lands, Sean is about to exit the plane but one last snake appears suddenly, latching onto his chest. Neville thinks fast and shoots the snake dead... but hits Sean in the chest in the process. It briefly seems as if the whole movie was for nothing, until it's revealed that Sean was wearing a bullet proof vest and is just fine.]]

* BigBad: While the snakes themselves are [[TheHeavy the foucsed-on threat]], it is international gangster Eddie Kim who unleashed the motherfucking snakes on the motherfucking plane to kill Sean and Flynn, so as to LeaveNoWitnesses to his murder of the prosecutor working on his case.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted since all four black characters (Flynn, Three Gs, Troy and Big Leroy) manage to survive.

* CampStraight: [[spoiler:The male flight attendant. Turns out he ''didn't'' make up his girlfriend]].
* ChekhovsGun: The cobra drawing one of the little boys does in the middle of the movie [[spoiler:which he uses to identify the snake that bit his brother at the end]].

* TheDreaded: Eddie Kim is nominally an "alleged" mobster, but in reality his criminal reputation is so well known and feared that even random civilians are shown to regard him with terror. When the passengers learn that Kim is responsible for releasing the snakes, the {{Jerkass}} businessman, who's not even from America, ''immediately'' assumes that everyone on the plane is doomed.

** After Jackson "opens up a fucking window", when the python (which had previously eaten a man) gets sucked out, you can see a human shaped bulge in it.

* GirlfriendInCanada: The very effeminate air steward mentions his girlfriend a couple times. No one buys it. [[spoiler:But subverted at the end, when his very real, very hot girlfriend shows up at the end and he kisses her passionately enough to kill all doubt.]]
* GladToBeAliveSex: [[spoiler:After the plane lands the CampStraight air steward calls his girlfriend (her legs presently wrapped around his waist) "his little cowgirl" and says he's going to get her home right away]].

* IKnowMortalKombat: Kenan Thompson's character (Troy) is called upon to land the plane after all of the snakes have been eradicated. He's been playing a PSP flight simulator throughout the trip, and he says he got his training from it... even though his brother has the high score. [[spoiler:Also, he doesn't do an expert job, to say the least.]]

** The controllers refer to "19,000 feet", when the actual expression they would use is "flight level, one-niner zero".

* KickTheDog: A quite literal example appears when the motherfucking snakes are let loose on the motherfucking plane and one businessman throws a Mercedes's chihuahua into their path so that he can get himself out of there safely. Made especially bad as the dog in question had earlier saved its owner by driving the snakes away from her while she was unconscious, and to top it off it was a futile move as the massive snake swallowed it whole in less time than it took to throw the poor thing. Have a nice KarmicDeath, buddy!

* LovableSexManiac: Rick makes some fairly perverted comments, but does get some audience respect for managing to survive his first encounter with the snakes and being wiling to try to keep flying the plane despite an arm swelling up from venom.

* {{Nerd}}: Averted. Dr. Steven Price, the snake expert consulted by the FBI, is a bit eccentric (what [=PhD=] isn't?) and sardonic, but is professional, calm and collected, basically gives the FBI their most important leads and greatly assists medical personnel with treatment. He manages to communicate his expertise to laypeople quickly, in terms they understand, without coming across as an arrogant asshole or using SpockSpeak -- professional, but clearly understands that people's lives are at stake. Dr. Price should be the model for film scientists everywhere.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Eddie Kim might still have managed to get off at the trial if the only crime they could definitively pin on him was the murder Sean witnessed, but by unleashing the snakes he starts a chain of events that gives the FBI everything they need to charge him with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder ''and'' have him tried for a death sentence]].

* PostClimaxConfrontation: After the motherfucking plane lands, it turns out there's one motherfucking snake left, which didn't get sucked out when Samuel L. Jackson opened the fucking windows. [[spoiler:It bites the witness on the chest, but luckily he was wearing a bulletproof vest, so he isn't hurt.]]

* PushedAtTheMonster: When the snakes start to overwhelm the coach section of the plane, the irritable business man [[KickTheDog throws Mercedes' chihuahua at a large anaconda]] to buy him time to escape. Everyone else is horrified at this. He stands still justifying what he did and the anaconda starts to eat him.
* ARareSentence: [[spoiler:Claire cannot ''believe'' she has to ask the passengers if any of them can fly a plane]].

* {{Retirony}}: Two stewardesses are on their last flight. It's pretty much a given that the one who specifically mentions that they put off retiring for one last flight is going to die. The other one is planning on retiring to go to law school (as opposed to outright retiring). [[spoiler:She lives.]]
** To be fair, The one who was outright retiring never mentions this fact until after being bitten, and being unlikely to survive.

* VanillaProtagonist: Somewhat justified. On one hand, Sean is the strictly told that he needs to be kept alive or all the deaths will have been for nothing. On the other hand, nothing about him is especially memorable, probably due to being overshadowed to such a colorful cast of passengers.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: The anti-venom's been secured, the snakes have been blocked out of first class, the A/C is supplying air again, they're in the home stretch to LA, and the pilot is [[spoiler:...dead. Hope someone can fly a plane]].

* {{Nerd}}: Averted. Dr. Steven Price, the snake expert consulted by the FBI, is a bit eccentric (what [=PhD=] isn't?), but is professional, calm and collected, basically gives the FBI their most important leads and greatly assists medical personnel with treatment. He manages to communicate his expertise to laypeople quickly, in terms they understand, without coming across as an arrogant asshole or using SpockSpeak -- professional, but clearly understands that people's lives are at stake. Dr. Price should be the model for film scientists everywhere.

* BigBad: While the snakes themselves are [[TheHeavy the foucsed-on threat]], it is international gangster Eddie Kim who unleashed the snakes on the plane to kill Sean and Flynn, so as to LeaveNoWitnesses to his murder of the prosecutor working on his case.

* ComplexityAddiction: The outright insane plan to unleash hundreds of snakes inside of a jumbo jet, spray pheromones so they will become hostile, and hope they kill the witness among the passengers somehow. Kim roars that he has run out of options when one of his goons questions the idea, but even the InUniverse pointing out that it's CrazyEnoughToWork is full of befuddlement.

* StaticStunGun: Flynn uses one to stun numerous snakes as he makes his way through the plane. Given the chaos that's going on, a normal gun would've been a ''terrible'' idea. Unfortunately, the batteries run out.

In 2010, an actual plane crashed in the Congo due to a panic caused by an escaped crocodile. How many passengers survived? One (plus the crocodile, which an emergency response unit promptly slaughtered with machetes after arriving at the scene).

In 2012, [[http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/snakes-plane-australian-pilot-makes-emergency-landing-discovering-140345209.html it happened for real]], though only one snake showed up. Then it happened again in Scotland. [[http://www.travelerstoday.com/articles/3499/20121027/snakes-plane-snake-found-scotland.htm Again, only one showed up.]]

''This time...''

* CommonalityConnection: Claire and Flynn are both intelligent, competent people in unglamorous jobs who recognize these qualities in each other immediately.

* HatesBeingTouched: Three Gs is a germaphobic carries around hand sanitizer, and he expects his entourage to ward off people who try to casually touch him. He can suppress it when it comes to signing autographs or hitting on hot ladies, though.

* ICallHimMisterHappy: After the snakes are unleashed, a guy heads to the bathroom and says: "How's my big boy?" to uh, himself. [[TemptingFate The very large poisonous snake in the toilet is just fine, thank you]].

* StaticStunGun: Flynn uses one to stun numerous snakes as he makes his way through the plane. Given the chaos that's going on, a normal gun would've been a ''terrible'' idea.

* HatesBeingTouched: Three Gs is a germaphobic carries around hand sanitizer, and he expects his handlers to ward off people who try to casually touch him. He can suppress it when it comes to signing autographs or hitting on hot ladies, though.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: The other FBI agent with Flynn is ophidiophobic. And man-oh-man, is ''he'' ever in the wrong movie.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Kim going after Sean.

%%* DramaticLandfallShot

* CrashCourseLanding: In the final act Troy, who only knows how to fly because of a videogame, has to take the controls and land a jumbo jet for real in LAX. It's more shaky than desired, but it works.
-->'''Flynn''': All praises to the Playstation!

* TheSociopath: Eddie Kim, a crime boss who is willing to massacre a plane with vicious snakes to eliminate one witness. He also makes his entrance into the plot by killing a district attorney who was investigating his crimes with little to no regard about the possibility of being witnessed and pummeling a heavy bag with martial arts moves... which is stuffed with some random goon that pissed him off.

** And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9y2lAuo90 that's not even HALF of it]]! For one, there's mention of a "Thai [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess]]".

->''"Enough is ENOUGH! I have HAD IT with these motherfuckin' snakes on this motherfuckin' plane! Everybody strap in; I'm about to open some fuckin' windows!"''

->-- '''[[Creator/SamuelLJackson Neville Flynn]]'''

->''"Enough is enough! I have HAD IT with these motherfuckin' snakes on this motherfuckin' plane! Everybody strap in; I'm about to open some fuckin' windows!"''

* PerfectPoison: Averted. Dr. Price, the herpetologist who helps the heroes, explains that snakes have venoms of all different levels of potency, from death sentence if not dealt with quickly down to those that can be endured with some orange juice and sleeping off the side-effects. He makes clear, however, that if the wrong kind of anti-venom is administered to deal with the bites, this will definitely kill the patient, so knowing what snakes are about is crucial.

* SuckOutThePoison: Maria gargles olive oil and attempts to suck out the poison from one wound. At least she makes an incision over the blister where he was bitten.