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=== [[Red Tails (Film)|Red Tails]] features examples of the following tropes: ===
 
* [[Abandon Ship]]: Of the aviation variety. Various aircraft end up badly damaged, requiring their crews to bail out.
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* [[Foreign Cuss Word]]: A German pilot yells ''"Scheiss!!"'' as he is shot down.
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
** Deacon is badly wounded, and ends up soaked in gasoline due to a punctured fuel tank, in one mission. It doesn't take much imagination to foresee [[Kill It Withwith Fire|how this will end for him.]] {{spoiler|His plane crash-lands, and bursts into flames. He is pulled out and survives, however.}}
** A bomber officer warns the fighter pilots about the new jet fighters the Germans are beginning to field late in the movie.
* [[Functional Addict]]: He never gets heavily drunk, and it's unclear if anything particularly bad ever comes of it. That said, because of the revelation that he {{spoiler|has been [[Drinking Onon Duty]]}}, many of his choices are called into question by Lightning {{spoiler|and Easy himself.}}
* [[George Lucas Throwback]]: To the straightforward, patriotic war movies of the 1940s and 1950s, which the Tuskegee pilots didn't actually get back then because of their race.
* [[He Didn't Make It]]: {{spoiler|Junior, according to an escaped prisoner of war. Subverted, in that Junior manages to survive and escape on his own.}}
* [[Helmets Are Hardly Heroic]]: [[Played Straight]] at the beginning to give the audience a chance to get to know the pilots, then [[Averted]] after the switch from P-40 Warhawks to P-51 Mustangs.
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: A racist officer in Washington, Colonel Mortamus, leaks a report critical of the Tuskegee Airmen's lack of success to the press, hoping to erode support for it. Instead, it is pointed out that doing so could be considered a ''major security leak'', and the Army is forced to save face by reassigning the unit to a sector where they can actually contribute to the war (the reason for their lack of success being that they were assigned to fly in sectors where the Germans hadn't been spotted).
* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Lightning, gets chewed out for it after starting a bar fight.
* [[Huddle Power]]: "[[Dare to Be Badass|Nothing's difficult! Everything's a challenge! Through adversity to the stars!]] [[Determinator|From the last plane to the last bullet to the last minute to the last man we fight! We fight!]]"
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** [[Nicknaming the Enemy]]: "Pretty Boy"
** [[Nom De Guerre]]: Literally all of the pilots are referred to by their call-signs.
** [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: The German ace that acts as a recurring antagonist is only known as "[[Nicknaming the Enemy|Pretty Boy]]."
* [[Iconic Item]]: Deacon's "Black Jesus" picture, Junior's toy Ray Gun, Stance's pipe, and {{spoiler|Easy's pocket flask.}}
** Also the Red Tail's [[Nose Art|red-tailed planes]], and Pretty Boy's yellow-nosed Messerschmidts.
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* [[We Have Reserves]]: Escort pilots are explicitly encouraged to think of themselves as this in relation to bombers. The commander of the bomber forces comes to Bullard looking for escort pilots who'll put the bombers over themselves, and Bullard tells his men "At all costs, protect the heavies."
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Easy
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Lucas held discussions with [[Samuel L. Jackson]] regarding Jackson possibly directing and acting in the film. Although Jackson praised the script, he did not commit to either role.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Lightning towards Easy after he realizes that {{spoiler|Easy has been flying while drunk.}}
** And later on, Major Stance towards Easy for allowing himself {{spoiler|to wallow in his self pity. He has to accept that not every choice he makes as a commander will be correct.}}
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