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* '''Invoked''': The BigBad tries to make the volcano erupt.

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* '''Invoked''': The BigBad tries to make rigs the volcano erupt.to cause an explosive, volcanic reaction.
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** The {{documentary}}/HistoricalFiction centers on [[ForegoneConclusion one of the volcano's better known eruptions]].

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** The {{documentary}}/HistoricalFiction centers on [[ForegoneConclusion one of the volcano's better known eruptions]]. [[note]][[Series/SecondsFromDisaster Disasters don't just happen...]][[/note]]

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* '''Enforced''': The writers say "We need the volcano on that island to ''do'' something".

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* '''Enforced''': '''Enforced''':
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The writers say "We need the volcano on that island to ''do'' something".something".
** The {{documentary}}/HistoricalFiction centers on [[ForegoneConclusion one of the volcano's better known eruptions]].
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'''Carol:''' Don't say that!! [[TemptingFate Now,it's]] ''[[TemptingFate bound]]'' [[TemptingFate to erupt!]]\\

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'''Carol:''' Don't say that!! [[TemptingFate Now,it's]] Now, it's]] ''[[TemptingFate bound]]'' [[TemptingFate to erupt!]]\\
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---> '''Alice''': Is this volcano gonna erupt?\\
'''Bob''': Ah, don't worry, it ain't erupted in years!\\
'''Carol''': "Don't say that!! [[TemptingFate Now it's]] ''[[TemptingFate bound]]'' [[TemptingFate to erupt!]]"\\
'''Dave''': [[TheSpock "That assumption is not logical."]]

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---> '''Alice''': -->'''Alice:''' Is this volcano gonna erupt?\\
'''Bob''': '''Bob:''' Ah, don't worry, it ain't erupted in years!\\
'''Carol''': "Don't '''Carol:''' Don't say that!! [[TemptingFate Now it's]] Now,it's]] ''[[TemptingFate bound]]'' [[TemptingFate to erupt!]]"\\
'''Dave''':
erupt!]]\\
'''Dave:'''
[[TheSpock "That That assumption is not logical."]]logical]].

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* '''Zigzagged''': The volcano appears like it might erupt several times before actually erupting.

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* '''Zigzagged''': '''Zigzagged''':
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The volcano appears like it might erupt several times before actually erupting.erupting.
** The volcano does erupt early on before going quiet and it is assumed it has calmed down before it is revealed that it was just a prelude to the real, much worse, eruption.
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** The volcano is a supervolcano

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** The volcano is a supervolcanosupervolcano.

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* '''Exaggerated''': In the middle of the film, all the volcanoes in the world erupt.

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* '''Exaggerated''': In '''Exaggerated''':
**In
the middle of the film, all the volcanoes in the world erupt.erupt.
**The volcano is a supervolcano

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---> '''Alice''': Is this volcano gonna erupt?
---> '''Bob''': Ah, don't worry, it ain't erupted in years!
---> '''Carol''': "Don't say that!! [[TemptingFate Now it's]] ''[[TemptingFate bound]]'' [[TemptingFate to erupt!]]"
---> '''Dave''': [[TheSpock "That assumption is not logical."]]

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---> '''Alice''': Is this volcano gonna erupt?
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erupt?\\
'''Bob''': Ah, don't worry, it ain't erupted in years!
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years!\\
'''Carol''': "Don't say that!! [[TemptingFate Now it's]] ''[[TemptingFate bound]]'' [[TemptingFate to erupt!]]"
--->
erupt!]]"\\
'''Dave''': [[TheSpock "That assumption is not logical."]]



* '''Implied''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': It leads to the characters getting a WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes type fear of volcanoes.
* '''Reconstructed''': The fear goes away.
* '''Played for Laughs''': ???
* '''Played for Drama''': [[CaptainObvious Lava is dangerous.]]



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'''Basic Trope''': Volcanoes always erupt.
* '''Straight''': In ''AliceAndBob: TheMovie'', they go to an island with a volcano. In the middle of the film it erupts.
* '''Exaggerated''': In the middle of the film, all the volcanoes in the world erupt.
* '''Downplayed''': The volcano starts smoking, but doesn't quite erupt.
* '''Justified''': The volcano was dormant, but not extinct.
* '''Inverted''': A volcano that people say will erupt doesn't.
* '''Subverted''': The volcano keeps looking like it may erupt but doesn't.
* '''Double Subverted''': It does in TheStinger.
* '''Parodied''': The volcano can talk, and says "Don't say I won't erupt, or I will!"
* '''Zigzagged''': The volcano appears like it might erupt several times before actually erupting.
* '''Averted''': The volcano does not erupt.
* '''Enforced''': The writers say "We need the volcano on that island to ''do'' something".
* '''Lampshaded''': "It's gonna erupt. I can tell."
* '''Invoked''': The BigBad tries to make the volcano erupt.
* '''Exploited''': Warriors use the lava as a weapon.
* '''Defied''': The characters refuse to go anywhere near a volcano [[GenreSavvy for fear of invoking this trope]].
* '''Discussed''':
---> '''Alice''': Is this volcano gonna erupt?
---> '''Bob''': Ah, don't worry, it ain't erupted in years!
---> '''Carol''': "Don't say that!! [[TemptingFate Now it's]] ''[[TemptingFate bound]]'' [[TemptingFate to erupt!]]"
---> '''Dave''': [[TheSpock "That assumption is not logical."]]
* '''Conversed''': "There's a volcano in this film. What's to bet it'll erupt?"
* '''Implied''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': It leads to the characters getting a WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes type fear of volcanoes.
* '''Reconstructed''': The fear goes away.
* '''Played for Laughs''': ???
* '''Played for Drama''': [[CaptainObvious Lava is dangerous.]]
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