Disaster: Day of Crisis/YMMV
- Cliché Storm : Look at the tropes attached to action and disaster movies ; they're almost all here. Although this may be somewhat parodic, see Lampshade Hanging.
- Ensemble Darkhorse: Despite his fate already revealed through every trailer released, Steve ends up being decently liked for his level-headedness and sympathetic reasoning for the short time he gets on-screen.
- Memetic Mutation: For a short while, people were going "DIZASTTAAAAA!!!" after the Japanese commercials were aired.
- Heartwarming Moments : It's surprisingly hard to not feel fluffy inside when you finally manage to bring Iris to safety. And when the ending shows her reuniting with her parents.
- Wangst : Ray.