Deathwatch (2002 film): Difference between revisions

* {{spoiler|[[Gainax Ending]]}}

* [[Genre Blindness]] : Both played straight and averted.

** [[Billy Elliot Plot|Billy Elliot]] and [[The Lord of the Rings (Film)|Gollum]] wade through the mud of a haunted trench on the western front.

* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|Most of the cast, who are each shown to be morally flawed (or just unlucky) in some way, are shown to get their comeuppance in various gruesome ways. Especially Quinn. *shudder*}}

* [[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]].

* [[Psychotic Smirk]] : Quinn most of the time. {{spoiler|By the end of the movie, Bradford has an even creepier smile on his face when threatening Charlie.}}

* [[The Reveal]] : {{spoiler|The German soldier at the end.}}

* [[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]]...

* [[Sociopathic Soldier]]: Quinn.

** [[Sergeant Rock]]: sergeant Tate

** [[Upperclass Twit]] / [[The Neidermeyer]] : Captain Jennings. Particularly [[Narm|narmy]] when he definitely [[Go Mad From the Isolation|goes off his nut]].

** [[Psycho for Hire]]: private Quinn

** [[Cold Sniper]] : private Starinski