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{{quote|''"[[The Government|They]] started [[The Plague|this fire]]. '''[[Hoist Byby His Own Petard|They can burn in it!]]'''"''|'''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 ''[[Dog Soldiers (Film)|Dog Soldiers]]'' and ''[[The Descent (Film)|The Descent]]'').
 
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...
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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 Byby Angry Natives]]: Occur here, with the natives being [[Violent Glaswegian|Violent Glaswegians]].
* [[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 -Frame Bonus]]/[[Shout-Out]]: In the underground bunker, just as one of the characters says "What were they keeping in here, the Lost Ark?", the camera shows a momentary flash of a wooden crate with a stencil that says "TOP SECRET -- ARMY INTEL 9906753 -- DO NOT OPEN", last seen in the closing shot of ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''
* [[Full-Frontal Assault]]: The woman in the bathtub opens fire while naked.
* [[Genre Shift]]: The film is advertised as a serious "after the plague" story kind of in the same vein as [[Twenty Eight28 Days Later]], and plays it straight for about a half hour. Then we're off to over the top [[Mad Max]] land with an overnight in [[Live Action Role Play]] castle.
* [[George Lucas Throwback]]: Marshall basically made this film to show off his love for dystopian science fiction movies from [[The Eighties]].
* [[Gorn]]
* [[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 [[Twenty Four24|Hamri Al-Assad]].
*** ...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 (Filmfilm)|The Warriors]]'' and ''[[Escape From New York (Film)|Escape Fromfrom New York]]''.
** The song that plays after Sol has burned someone alive is remarkably similar to the ''[[28 Days Later (Film)|Twenty Eight Days Later]]'' theme.
** There is also a bit of [[Resident Evil (Filmfilm)|Resident Evil]] in there.
** 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 Withwith His Head]]
* [[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]].
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