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=== This film contains examples of: ===

* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: [[wikipedia:Die Glocke|Die Glocke]] ("The Bell"), a popular urban legend about a secret Nazi Wunderwaffe.

* [[Ascend to A Higher Plane of Existence]]: The Bell was a machine to remove the unified field from everyday objects - in this case people - allowing them to become immaterial; exactly the same thing that happened to Dr. Manhattan from ''[[Watchmen]]''.

* [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]: The Bell was a machine to remove the unified field from everyday objects - in this case people - allowing them to become immaterial; exactly the same thing that happened to Dr. Manhattan from ''[[Watchmen]]''.

* [[Badass]]: Most of the mercenaries, but especially DC and Prior.

* [[California Doubling]]: Scotland is used as a stand-in for Eastern Europe.

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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 Out]]: DC's pistol uses the sound effect from Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

* [[Shout-Out]]: DC's pistol uses the sound effect from Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

* [[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 A Higher Plane of Existence]] in order to become unkillable and... ''invisible''.

* [[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 a Higher Plane of Existence]] in order to become unkillable and... ''invisible''.

* [[The Troubles]]: Hinted at with MacKay, an Irish soldier in British uniform.

{{quote| "[[Useful Notes/Ireland|Where I come from]], you ''don't'' join the ''British'' Army."}}