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''Outpost'' is a movie about a team of mercenaries who are hired to scope out an old [[World War Two]] bunker in war-torn Eastern Europe at the behest of a mysterious scientist. It soon becomes apparent that the bunker was a secret research facility into reality-bending experiments done by the [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazis]]... and that the bunker's last garrison might not be as dead as they should be.
Drawing on the sci-fi fanon of urban legends like [
Not to be confused with the [[Outpost 2|Outpost computer games]].
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* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: [
* [[Ascend to
* [[Badass]]: Most of the mercenaries, but especially DC and Prior.
* [[California Doubling]]: Scotland is used as a stand-in for Eastern Europe.
* [[Can You Hear Me Now?]]: The radio is totalled after the first attack.
* [[Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough]]: DC and Prior.
* [[Child Soldiers]]: Mentioned as past of Cotter's backstory.
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* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: Type R with a vengeance.
* [[Pretty Little Headshots]]: Quite gruesomely averted.
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** Also played straight with all the point-blank headshots {{spoiler|shown in the recording of the experiments}}.
* [[Private Military Contractors]]
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* [[Redshirt Army]]: Both the mercenaries and, inevitably, the team that are sent in to relieve them.
* [[The Remnant]]: The inhabitants of the titular outpost.
* [[Shout
* [[Semper Fi]]: There is a Royal Marine(DC) and a US Marine (Prior).
* [[Sole Survivor]]: "The Breather"
* [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler]]
* [[Super Soldier]]: What the Nazis very nearly succeeded in creating.
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: The entire film runs on this. The premise is that in their dabblings with the occult and science, they invented a machine that could make their soldiers [[Ascend to
* [[The Troubles]]: Hinted at with MacKay, an Irish soldier in British uniform.
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* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]: The introductory scene shows that all characters are members of elite military units. This however is never commented upon but must be inferred from the badges on the characters' uniforms (that are shown casually but long enough to catch the viewer's eye).
* [[Villain Teleportation]]
* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Prior tries hard to be this with his endless philosophising, but he's too much of an evil [[Badass]].
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* [[Zombie Gait]]: Averted, in that they're not zombies in the classic sense.
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