History Film / TheLastDaysOnMars

* {{Jerkass}}: Kim's teammates think she is one. [[DrJerk She certainly doesn't has a problem making them believe that]], at the beginning.

* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Once the menace is even remotely identified, Kim treats it with much more pragmatism and level-headedness than her colleagues. She quickly acknowledges that the infected are dead and won't come back to their senses, when [[spoiler:Campbelle]] dies she expects him to return as a zombie and premptively restrains him, and when a zombie comes close she quickly gathers bottles of antiseptic to stun it. [[spoiler: She still dies, but only because of Irwin's cowardice.]]

''The Last Days on Mars'' is about a group of astronauts who are about to return from a 19-month mission to UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} when they are afflicted by a biological agent that turns them into zombie-like creatures.

* {{Jerkass}}: Kim's teammates think she is one. [[DrJerk She certainly doesn't has a problem making them believe that]], at the beginning but she's probably one of a few of the cast not to act incompetent or mentally compromised.

* FightingFromTheInside: DiscussedTrope, but finally averted: the one person who seemingly tries this (Brunel) was probably long dead by the time the "fighting" reflex appeared (which makes it just that, a reflex), and the vaccine given to him to help with the fighting is completely useless against the infection (at best, the substance stuns the zombie for a moment).

* {{Jerkass}}: Kim's teammates think she is one. [[DrJerk She certainly doesn't has a problem making them believe that]], at the beginning.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Marko broke the base team's regulations. To clarify, they had to document every finding they had in the main database and Marko deliberately withheld his discovery (which due to being kept a secret led to his unfortunate death) to hog all the glory, which Kim pointed out. [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown Which was after Marko died]].

* [[LetMeAtHim Let Me At Her]]: Richard has to be held back by crew members after Kim nonchalantly blames him for [[spoiler: Marko's]] death and shows no remorse about it. Like many other examples, [[JerkassHasAPoint she has a point.]]

* [[LetMeAtHim Let Me At Her]]: Richard has to be held back by crew members after Kim nonchalantly blames him for [[spoiler: Marko's]] death and shows no remorse about it.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Dalby, the team medic and sole black crew member of the explorers, is the first to get killed and infected by a zombie (Marko).]]

* AssholeVictim: ZigZaggedTrope with Kim. While she is very much deserving of the "asshole" title (read the {{Jerkass}} entry below), she did try her best to help find a solution to the zombie problem and what gets her killed is not karma but Irwin being too much of a DirtyCoward to try to help her when she was attacked.

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: 3, though it edges on the harder side (the One Small Fib being... well... the [[RecycledInSpace Space]] [[ZombieApocalypse Zombies]]).

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Campbell has become afraid of dark enclosed spaces as a result from the extended periods of isolation (spaces like, say, the spaceship that will take him to Earth). Therefore it is only fitting that he is chosen to crawl through a tunnel to the abandoned habitat to reach communication equipment.

* RecycledINSPACE: It's a zombie film takes place on Mars instead of Earth.

* ParasiteZombie: The zombies appear to be infected by some sort of Martian fungal organism.

* ParasiteZombie

--> '''Kim:''' "[[spoiler: Marko and Dalby]] are dead. They couldn't have survived it. But they're still moving."

* DirtyCoward: Irwin. Leaves Kim to die when she is attacked by the zombies, wants to leave behind Lane at the moment she is suspected to be a ZombieInfectee (and will not allow someone to check him and see if he's not infected himself) and charges head-on into the rescue crew's landing site, with several zombies right behind him that kill the whole crew, with the intent of being rescued or taking the transport lander himself.
* FingerTwitchingRevival

* BolivianArmyEnding: The film ends with Campbell stranded in Martian orbit, unable to reach the spaceship to Earth (but still having enough fuel to make the lander re-entry, which he will do if he needs to commit suicide), with enough supplies within the lander to live on until a rescue ship arrives (if one is sent)... and he is possibly infected with the zombie virus. He reports all of these facts to Earth and the movie cuts while he's awaiting their decision.

* FightingFromTheInside: DiscussedTrope, but finally averted: the one person who seemingly tries this was probably long dead by the time the "fighting" reflex appeared (which makes it just that, a reflex), and the vaccine given to him to help with the fighting is completely useless against the infection (at best, the substance stuns the zombie for a moment).

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: 3, though it edges on the harder side.

** JerkassHasAPoint: That being said, there were regulations they all had to follow and Marko broke them to hog all the glory, which Kim pointed out. [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown Which was after Marko died]].

** However, there is a scene where the infected Lane commits suicide and turns, and as she attacks Campbell, she seems to mouth the words "Kill me" while in the middle of screaming madly, at which point Campbell complies with her request by caving in her skull with a rock. So there might be some evidence to this after all.

* IOweYouMyLife: Campbell's reluctance to abandon Lane is explained when a flashback scene shows she stopped him from killing himself during an attack of claustrophobia, when he tried to open the airlock door on the spaceship bringing them from Earth.

* GlorySeeker: Needless to say that Kim is ''very'' pissed about discovering no life forms in her entire duration on Mars.