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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: Not for the movie itself, but the Universal Studios show based on it is actually quite good and has been running for a fairly long time.
* [[After the End]]
* [[All Hail the Great God Mickey]]: Deacon every so often mentions "Old Saint Joe" with the same reverence as an actual saint. {{spoiler|Near the end of the movie, it's revealed that the Smokers' base is the remains of the Exxon Valdez, and "Old Saint Joe" is a portrait of the ship's disgraced captain, Joseph Hazelwood.}}.
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Don't like Kevin Costner's [[Lamarck Was Right|gills]].
* [[Anti-Hero]]: In typical 90's fashion.
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* [[Conflict Ball]]: Helen, listen, first of all, when you've just blackmailed someone into saving your life, expecting trust is a little much. On top of that, in the middle of a firefight when that someone is trying to save your life ''and'' his is a really stupid time to answer any random question he asks you with "Can I trust you?!"
* [[Crapsack World]]: [[Nathan Rabin]] [http://www.avclub.com/articles/my-year-of-flops-case-file-42-waterworld,14834/ said it best]:
{{quote|Consequently, successful post-apocalyptic joints must offer something to offset their innate pessimism and ugliness [...] ''Waterworld'', by comparison, offers only pessimism and ugliness, spiritually as well as aesthetically, most spectacularly in the form of the some of the most hideous sets ever created, extravagant eyesores even the film's production designer must have been happy to be seen torn down.}}
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Everything about the ice melting and covering the entire Earth.
** And about the result being undrinkable.
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* [[Dull Surprise]]: Costner, a notorious contrast to Dennis Hopper's [[Ham and Cheese]].
* [[Epic Movie]]
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The Mariner. Subverted in the extended edition, wherein after the heroes reach Dry Land, Helen gives the Mariner a real name just before he heads back out onto the ocean. {{spoiler|It's "Ulysses", a derivation of the Latin version of the name of the sailor who was the main character of Homer's ''Odyssey''.}}.
* [[Exclusively Evil]]: The smokers seem to fit this to a tT.
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: The Deacon gains one during the movie.
* [[Future Imperfect]]: While going through The Mariner's belongings, the Atoll's citizens assume that a yo-yo, flute, and exercise machine are garrote wire, a spy listener, and a torture device.
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* [[Large Ham]]: Dennis Hopper as the Deacon, the leader of the smokers.
* [[Logo Joke]]: The Universal globe floods to the levels seen in the movie proper.
* [[Made of Explodium]]: {{spoiler|The Deacon knocks Enola out of the balloon, and the Mariner bungees her to safety, causing a [[Wronski Feint]] between two smokers on jet skis, and, of course, a resulting giant-fireball explosion.}}. What fuel they used to create the massive, towering fireball is still unknown. There are also traces of [[Outrun the Fireball]] {{spoiler|[[Die Hard on an X|but on a bungee]]}}.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: So the world has gone crap, few survivors left are squabbling against each other and there's tension between the protagonist and two female he saved... Suddenly, over-the-top Smokers hijinx!
* [[More Dakka]]: theThe smokers' idea of a siege weapon is a four-barrel anti-aircraft machinegun emplacement trained at your enemy's floating citadel. It gets hijacked by the good guys, and shows itself very effective against ships too.
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: "Maybe he has some '''''FOOD!'''''"
* [[Novelization]]: Written by mystery/comics writer [[Max Allan Collins]], the novelization did a good job of expanding character backstory and tying loose plot threads together.
* [[Ocean Punk]]
* [[Of Corpse He's Alive]]: The Smokers make the residents of a small trading post, whom they've recently killed, appear to be waving to the Mariner as the latter approaches, intending to draw him into a deadly trap. {{spoiler|Unfortunately for them, the Mariner isn't fooled by the charade.}}.
* [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]]
* [[Plot Induced Stupidity]]: Leaving Enola alone on the ship to get kidnapped by the Smokers.
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* [[Token Romance]]: The Mariner and Helen.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Enola, who lives in a world covered in water and doesn't know how to swim.
** The people who persecute "mutants" who can breathe under water ([[Bellisario's Maxim|never mind]] [[Lamarck Was Right|how this makes]] [[Did Not Do the Research|any sense]]). You live on a planet of water, guys. Why are you chasing away one of the most useful people you could possibly find? In fairness, it is actually a somewhat believable reaction, considering most peoples' instinctive (if unfortunate) tendencies to fear anything that's different from them. No- one said it was a ''smart'' reaction, though.
** Enola is actually justified by reality, too. [[Reality Is Unrealistic|You might think that a sailor not knowing how to swim was the stupidest thing you'd ever heard]], but it used to be exceptionally common. Besides, if the water was full of stuff like what the Mariner killed by ''using himself as bait'' (meaning: yes they do see humans as food), would ''you'' want to hop in and learn to swim?
*** Thing is, sailors not knowing how to swim was either because it wasn't part of the requirements, making employment easier, and/or because the crews viewed anybody who tried to swim away from a sinking ship a coward. That's hardly the case in this water-covered Earth.
**** Indeed, in the days of press gangs, men who didn't know how to swim were ''more desirable'' as impressed sailors, as they wouldn't be liable to escape!
*** Also, in some areas (such as the North Atlantic), swimming in icy cold waters would probably kill you quicker than drowning, so swimming wasn't really a useful life saving skill for some sailors.
* [[Traumatic Haircut]]
* [[Underwater Ruins]]
 
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* [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|Awesome Music]]: The SNES ''Waterworld'' game is known as a pretty bad game. However its OST by Dean Evans has a lot of awesome tracks.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H5YoFv09uQ&fmt=18 Diving] is a perfect example of an amazing ambient track on this OST.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp7xqhunH88&fmt=18 Mission Theme 1] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA062Rc5tmQ&fmt=18 Mission Theme 3]
* [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|Funny Moments]]: "Maybe he doesn't like to be called Chuck. Maybe we should call him Charles. Charles!"
** The Exxon Valdez's oil reserve tankman's reaction when he sees the flare the Mariner dropped down a pipe fall into a pool of oil in the reserve.
{{quote|Oil Reserve Tankman: [[Oh Crap|"Oh thank god."]]}}
** When Helen asks about '''FOOD!!!'''
* [[Critical Backlash]]: Some people don't find the movie to be that bad.
* [[Designated Hero]]: The Mariner.
* [[Narm]]: The scene where Kevin Costner blows up at the kid over the crayons
* [[Older Than They Think]]: The setting has more than a few similiarities to the French comic series ''Aquablue.''
* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: Hey, that's a pre-fame [[Jack Black]] as the Smoker plane pilot!
** [[Napoleon Dynamite|Deb]] has the map to dry land!
* [[The Scrappy]]: Enola is really annoying.
** Which makes the scene where she gets punched in the face really satisfying.
** Helen's really not a lot better, you can kind of see where Enola learned it from.
* [[Special Effect Failure]]
* [[Take That Scrappy]]: The Deacon slaps Enola.
** Kevin Costner throws her in the ocean and she ''can't swim''. Please oh god, leave her...
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* [[Box Office Bomb]]: ''Subverted''. It is often cited as one of the most notorious box office failures in movie history, but that's not doing the research properly: it did flop in the ''US'', but then it went to the foreign market and performed very well there, easily making back its budget in gross revenue.
* [[Executive Meddling]]:
** Unusually it was actually Costner editing with rumors of him firing Reynolds.
** Relatedly, script doctor [[Joss Whedon]] says his job was basically taking notes from Costner.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]:
** [[Jack Black]] as the smoker airplane pilot.
** Enola went on to play Deb in ''[[Napoleon Dynamite]]''.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]:
** For some who watched the Japanese dub, [[Ikue Ohtani]], who does the voice for Enola is known for providing the voice for Pikachu years before [[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]].
** Trailer voiceover legend Hal Douglas narrates the opening.
* [[Troubled Production]]: The ballooning of the budget ($100 million to $175 million) is the lesser part of it. The [[Executive Meddling]] made it even worse. The hurricane trashing the main set didn't help either.
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** The film originated as a writer's pitch to notoriously low-budget producer [[Roger Corman]]. Corman turned it down [[Hilarious in Hindsight|saying that it would cost them $5 million]].
** The version that Universal ended up buying was basically a kiddie flick -- Enola was the main character alongside two of Helen's own kids, the Mariner was a human and largely a supporting character, while the early version of the Deacon can only be described as being how you'd expect the Adam West ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' series to characterize him. Needless to say, the subsequent drafts took the film in a very different direction.
** Universal Pictures wanted [[Robert Zemeckis]] <ref>Yes, [[Back to The Future|that]] [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?|Robert]] [[Forrest Gump|Zemeckis]]</ref> to direct. [[Kevin Costner]] insisted on having [[Kevin Reynolds]].
** Also: The film originally had a different composer, Mark Isham, but his soundtrack was thrown out and replaced with a new score by James Newton Howard. Both scores present drastically different tones to the material, with the latter being more adventurous and upbeat sounding.
** The entire slaver faction was written out when the set was destroyed.
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