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[[File:doomsday.jpg|frame|She's a horrifying savage who [[I'm a Humanitarian|wants to eat me]], and yet [[Bare Your Midriff|I can't stop staring at her belly.]]]]
{{quote|''"[[The Government|They]] started [[The Plague|this fire]]. '''[[Hoist
|'''Dr. Marcus Kane'''}}
'''''Doomsday''''' is a gleefully derivative [[After the End|post-apocalyptic]] sci-fi action movie, written and directed by Neil Marshall (director of ''[[
In the present day, after an outbreak of [[The Plague|deadly killer face-rot]] in Glasgow, Scotland as a whole is walled off and the general population left to... well... rot. The rest of the world thinks this is [[Moral Event Horizon|going a little too far]], and respond by turning their backs on Britain as whole. On the last helicopter out of Scotland is a little girl who's just taken a bullet to the face, given to the custody of soldiers by her desperate mother...
Fast forward to [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|
Too bad the surviving population of Scotland are not feeling particularly fond of the nation that abandoned them...
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* [[Action Girl]]: Eden Sinclair. Kick-boxing sharp-shooting one-eyed [[Badass]].
* [[Alas, Poor Yorick]]: Done by Sol, who {{spoiler|reattaches Viper's head to her corpse and sits her in the passenger seat.}}
* [[The Apunkalypse]]: After [[The Plague]], Scotland's walled off and everyone reverts to their tribal, punkish roots.
* [[The Archer]]
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* [[Call Back]]: {{spoiler|"If you're hungry, try a piece of your friend."}}
* [[Chainsaw Good]]: Seen briefly in Sol's cellblocks.
* [[Chased
* [[Cool Car]]: Bentley Continental GT Speed
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Viper. Tattooed machete-wielding cannibal babe.
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** Well, maybe that's global warming for you. It does take place in 2030-something...
* [[Five-Man Band|Four Man Band]]: Eden ([[The Hero|The Heroine]]), Norton ([[The Lancer]] and [[The Big Guy]]), Stirling ([[The Smart Guy]]) and Cally ([[The Chick]]).
* [[Freeze
* [[Full
* [[Genre Shift]]: The film is advertised as a serious "after the plague" story kind of in the same vein as [[
* [[George Lucas Throwback]]: Marshall basically made this film to show off his love for dystopian science fiction movies from [[The Eighties]].
* [[Gorn]]
* [[Great Wall]]: In response to the appearance of a deadly plague in Scotland the UK builds a sixty-foot wall with automated weapons emplacements to separate it from the rest of Great Britain. While it's successful at keeping ''people'' from crossing, it doesn't stop the ''virus''.
* [[Have a Nice Death]]: The movie's establishing raid sequence includes, among other things, Eden shooting a hot naked chick dead in her bathtub...[[Beyond the Impossible|THROUGH THE CERAMIC]].
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: It seems werewolves aren't the only thing [[Dog Soldiers|Wells, Spoon, and Joe]] have to worry about...
** Hatcher is [[
*** ...and [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Dr Julian Bashir ]], [[Kingdom of Heaven|Imad ad-Din]] and [[Primeval|Philip Burton]] he must be immortal or something
** Nelson is [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?|Eddie Valiant]].
** [[Harry Potter|Runcorn]] is a corrupt politician.
* [[Homage]]: To ''[[Mad Max]]'', ''[[The Warriors (
** The song that plays after Sol has burned someone alive is remarkably similar to the ''[[
** There is also a bit of [[Resident Evil (
** Some of [[Damnation Alley]] is in there too.
* [[Hot Amazon]]: Viper.
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* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: Lots, but the ultimate example is probably the cannibal punk Glaswegian strippers. Pole dancing to "Good Thing".
* [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]]: Averted by Sol, who can't seem to let his go.
* [[Off
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: [[Malcolm McDowell]] as King of Medieval Land, for about five seconds.
** He's also the narrator at the beginning [[Genre Shift|but by the time you get to his scene, you'll have long forgotten about it]].
* [[The Plague]]
* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: In the [[Car Chase]] at the end.
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'''Gimp:''' Yeeeah! }}
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Cyber-eyed badass, foam grenades, "Good Thing", cannibal BBQ, medieval castle in the future, random Bentley having a car chase with punk-built mutant cars and then the punks climb on the Bentley and fight while everyone's still driving, [[Made of Explodium]], nude chick with shotgun, exploding bunny, random gimp, the [http://img22.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vlcsnap5023426.png Gimpmobile!], a severed head crashing into the camera, and the {{spoiler|cyber-eyed badass going back to Glasgow and becoming the cannibal punk's leader by tossing their former leader's aforementioned severed head in front of them and telling them [[Call Back|"If you're hungry, try a piece of your friend"]].}} And just about everything else in between those moments.
* [[Schizo
** One group of survivors intentionally threw out all modern tech, and the other group doesn't have the means to reproduce the now-broken technology.
** According to the director, this was the inspiration for the movie. He got a picture in his head of a medieval knight attacking a futuristic agent with gun and tried to figure out how to work that scene into a movie.
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