Deathwatch (2002 film): Difference between revisions

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* [[Not Even Bothering with the Accent]] / [[What the Hell Is That Accent?]] : Is Bradford supposed to be Canadian or British ?

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]] : The earlier portions of the movie, before the squad members start getting killed off in mysterious ways by unknown forces or themselves under suspicious coincidences.

* [[Officer and a Gentleman]] : Averted by Jennings and Tate, both of them enormous [[Jerkass~~|JerkAsses~~]]. This trope is also [[Double Subversion|double subverted]] by Tate, since he's oficially [[[[Sergeant Rock]] a sergeant] and acts pretty jerky, but shows some signs of being a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]].

* [[Officer and a Gentleman]] : Averted by Jennings and Tate, both of them enormous [[Jerkass]]es. This trope is also [[Double Subversion|double subverted]] by Tate, since he's oficially [[Sergeant Rock|a sergeant]] and acts pretty jerky, but shows some signs of being a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]].

* [[Only Sane Man]] : [[Kid Hero|Charlie]] and, to a questionable extent, private Chevasse and doc Fairweather.

* {{spoiler|[[Our Ghosts Are Different]]}}

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* [[Sanity Slippage]]: All the characters [[Tempting Fate|after they enter the creepy abandoned trench]] and [[What an Idiot!|decide to hold it]] [[Genre Blindness|until backup arrives]].

* [[Sinister Minister]] : {{spoiler|[[Not-So-Harmless Villain|Bradford]] }} slowly morphs into this because of his gradual [[Sanity Slippage]]. {{spoiler|He was quite [[The Fundamentalist]] before as well, just not insane yet.}}

* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]] : Unabashedly cynical in ~~it's~~ portrayal of [[The Squad]], whose members are mostly [[Humans Are Bastards|bastards]] at best and [[Ax Crazy|violent]] [[Sociopathic Soldier|psychos]] at worst. Needless to say, the image of the [[Iron Woobie|tragic]] [[Stiff Upper Lip|yet cheerful]] "Tommies" seen in British [[World War One]] propaganda [[Deconstruction|gets completely shattered]]...

* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]] : Unabashedly cynical in its portrayal of [[The Squad]], whose members are mostly [[Humans Are Bastards|bastards]] at best and [[Ax Crazy|violent]] [[Sociopathic Soldier|psychos]] at worst. Needless to say, the image of the [[Iron Woobie|tragic]] [[Stiff Upper Lip|yet cheerful]] "Tommies" seen in British [[World War One]] propaganda [[Deconstruction|gets completely shattered]]...

* [[Sociopathic Soldier]]: Quinn.