Dog Soldiers: Difference between revisions

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Ryan. Megan also has her moments.

* [[Danger Takes a Backseat]]: {{spoiler|How poor Joe [[Incredibly Lame Pun|meats]] his end. At least he fights it like a man.}}

* [[Developing Doomed Characters]]: A rare case where this trope is pulled off with success.

* [[Development Hell]]: The sequel seems to be stuck here.

* [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?]]: Spoon's epic performance with the flares.

* [[Drop the Cow]]: In a subversion of the usual comedic intention of this trope, a dead, bloody cow hits the ground just as Spoon is warming up a joke, in order to take the edge off Wells' deeply unsettling story of Eddie Oswald.

* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: Quite a few of the characters get these. {{spoiler|Sarge for blowing the werewolves to bits, Joe for attacking a werewolf with a combat knife instead of giving up and dying. Spoony gets special mention for going toe to toe with a werewolf unarmed and nearly winning until another werewolf shows up to help.}}

* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: {{spoiler|Ryan shoots a dog in the head in the first few minutes of the film, just because he ''can''.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}: Sergeant Wells.

* [[If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten|If You're So Evil, Shoot This Dog]]

* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Many examples. Cooper tells the rest of squad to boil water - they use it later to fend off attacks. Megan starts [[Weaponized Cameras|taking pictures of a werewolf with a camera]], trying to blind or distract it with the repeated flashes. Spoon throws half the contents of the kitchen at a werewolf, uses a [[Frying Pan of Doom]], and then totally snaps and brutally speed-knifes the wolf.

** Also counts when Spoon [[Played for Laughs|goes hammer-frenzy on werewolf's paw]], while barricading doors.

* [[Nigh Invulnerability]]: The werewolves.

* {{spoiler|[[No Party Like a Donner Party]]}}: Implied, but not stated outright. When the squaddies arrive at the abandoned house, dinner's still on the stove. They tuck in; when asked what it is, one says "Pork, I think." {{spoiler|Later, we find out the house belongs to the werewolves and they have human bodies hanging up in the cellar, so what tasted like pork...}}

* [[Orphaned Punchline]]: Reversed, in that we hear the beginning, but not the punchline. The reaction to what happens next might compensate for this, though.

* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: Slightly. They have a silver vulnerability, turn with the full moon, etc. However, they can resist the transformation (albeit with difficulty), and killing them without silver is possible - it's just ''extremely'' hard.

* [[Resist the Beast]]: {{spoiler|Wells manages to resist his transformation just long enough to get Cooper to safety, before blowing up the house.}}

* [[Screaming Warrior]]: Spoon, during his [[Last Stand]], as he prepares to smack a werewolf with a [[Frying Pan of Doom|frying pan]].

* [[Shown Their Work]]: The dialogue was clearly all written by someone who knows a lot of genuine British squaddies. Also, the L85s seen in the first few minutes all possess the proper Blank Firing Attachments.

** Also, Cooper closing Sarge's wound with super glue is indeed [[Truth in Television]]; the US Army developed a Super Glue spray during the Vietnam War for (temporarily) closing a soldier's wounds until they could get him to a hospital.

* {{spoiler|[[Sole Survivor]]}}

* [[Team Pet]]: Sam.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: {{spoiler|The Spec Ops team that lured the protagonists there as bait qualify. They have equipment to capture a werewolf and live weapons... loaded with regular ammo. YOU KNOW YOU'RE HUNTING WEREWOLVES, WHY DON'T YOU HAVE SILVER BULLETS? They get themselves eaten off-camera.}} Admittedly, silver ammunition may not be available, but still, their weapons? Submachineguns, one semi-auto rifle, and a shotgun. No machine guns, assault rifles, grenades, or other powerful weapons.

* [[Wham! Line]]: {{spoiler|"They were always here. I just unlocked the door."}}

* [[What Could Have Been]]: [[Jason Statham]] was originally cast as Cooper, but dropped out of the production to do ''[[The Transporter]]'' instead. In addition, a sequel was planned, ''Fresh Meat'', seeing Cooper encountering the American team his section was to have exercises with, as more werewolves emerge.

* [[Worst News Judgement Ever]]: [[Inverted]], as the headline about the squad is overshadowed by the result of an international football match.

* [[X Meets Y]]: Basically it's ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'' meets ''[[The Howling]]''.