Act of Valor: Difference between revisions

* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: "I don't know much about Senior Chief, just that I wouldn't want to be interrogated by him."

* [[Code Name]]: Blackbeard Actual for Lt. Rorke, Blackbeard Main for [[Mission Control]], Whiplash for the [[Gunship Rescue|SWCC boats]], and Bucket for the Army Chinooks.

* [[Cool Boat]]: The SWCC boats. Fast and bristling with guns, can be inserted and extracted by ''helicopter,'' and enough space to evacuate a SEAL team.

** Christo's yacht is pretty nice, too...

* [[Faceless Mooks]]: The Mexican SOF team again, with their balaclavas. [[Justified Trope|They need to hide their identities or risk cartel retribution.]]

* [[Fast Roping]]: Done twice as a means of transfer from helicopter to boat.

* [[Framing Device]]: A letter written by Chief Dave, which forms the basis for his narration.

* [[Friendly Sniper]]: Weimy. [[Played With]] in that Weimy doesn't necessarily talk more on his missions, or directly address his enemies, which actually makes him a [[Cold Sniper]], if it wasn't for the fact that he's on the good guys' side.

* [[Gatling Good]]: The SWCCs are equipped with these for [[More Dakka]].

* [[Gunship Rescue]]: The SWCC boats coming to extract the SEALs.

* [[Hope Spot]]: {{spoiler|After Rorke jumps on the grenade, it first seems he's died, until we see him blinking a few times... and then his eyes stop moving as the soundtrack goes silent and his heartbeat slows to a halt.}}

* [[Infant Immortality]]: Brutally averted: the first onscreen terror attack is a bomb at a primary school in the Phillipines.

* [[In the Blood]]: Chief Dave's attempt to provide some measure of comfort to {{spoiler|Lt. Rorke's son: His great-grandfather was a hero, his father was a hero, and the same blood flows through his veins.}}

* [[Interservice Rivalry]]: Very strongly averted; the SEALs have no problems coordinating with other Navy assets, and Army Spec Ops Chinooks infil and extract Whiplash.

* [[Its Raining Men]]: First scene of the movie. HALO insertion and parachuting make more appearances as a prime method of inserting SEALsinto combat.

* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]: Senior Chief Miller averts this when interrogating Christo, relying instead on psychological head games and leverage. It does come close to getting to this trope when Christo uses a metronome device to demonstrate the two pronged front on America between him and Shabal, however, due to Miller shattering the metronome in irritation at Christo's attempt at playing mind games on him.

** In a subversion, most of the time the SEALs are firing on semiauto, instead of burst or full automatic.

* [[New Meat]]: Averted: all members of Bandito Platoon are experienced SEALs; the least experienced SEAL, Sonny, has 3 SEAL tours and seven years as an EOD tech, defusing bombs.

* [[Obfuscating Disability]]: Possibly. The Senior Chief tells Crisco -- uh, Christo that he's hard of hearing, and uses that information as an interrogation technique.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Happens a few times. Particularly noteworthy is when LT and Chief breach a room and come face to face with a suicide bomber, and rush to GTFO before she detonates. {{spoiler|They make it out just in time.}}

* [[Retirony]]: While no one is on the verge of retirement, any [[Genre Savvy]] viewer can figure out that the {{spoiler|person that keeps talking about taking time off to be with his wife while their baby is born}} is going to end up doing a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] before the end of the movie.

* [[Reluctant Warrior]]: The female jihadist {{spoiler|that ended up blowing herself up during the climax}} is shown to not want to have to essentially go suicide bomber, as she is seen displaying visible reluctance to Shabal of having to commit to it (to which Shabal {{spoiler|reassures her that [[False Reassurance|she'll meet up with her husband in Heaven]]}}), as well as silently crying when {{spoiler|she ultimately goes through with it.}}

* [[Sharp Dressed Man]]: Senior Chief's attire when interrogating Christo, contrasting the fatigues worn earlier.