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{{quote| '''[[The Hero|Quinn]]:''' [[Unspoken Plan|Anything happens, you know what to do.]]<br />
'''[[The Lancer|Creedy]]:''' Eh, no, I have no idea. <br />
'''Quinn:''' Me neither. }}
 
In [[Next Sunday ADA.D.|2008]], 12 year old Quinn Abercromby, stumbles upon a sleeping dragon recently unearthed at a construction site in London. Said dragon then awakens, and proceeds to decimate the construction site and kill everyone present, except for young Quinn. Before long more dragons hatch and proceed to multiply across the face of the Earth at an exponential rate, burning human civilization as they go. Paris is burnt to the ground, attacks in Kenya kill dozens of people, [[Nuke'Em|until the humans just decide to nuke the dragons out of existence.]] [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard|Unfortunately, this backfires, and rather than killing the dragons it ends up]] [[EndoftheThe End of the World Asas We Know It|wiping out human civilization as we know it.]]
 
Years later, Quinn ([[Christian Bale]]) is the leader of a small band of surviving humans living in an English castle. The people hope to survive by keeping their heads down until the dragons run out of food, and starve themselves to death, as fossil evidence in Antarctica suggests they had before. Unfortunately a dragon follows some of the people back to the village and burns their crops. Days later, a band of professional dragon hunters, led by Denton Van Zan and Alex Jensen, come to the village. After killing the dragon that burned the crops, Van Zan reveals that [[Our Dragons Are Different|all of the dragons seen in the world are female, and there is only one male, who fertilizes the females' eggs like a salmon.]] If this dragon can be slain, the dragons will be unable to reproduce.
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* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The male dragon wipes out Van Zan's convoy in a single pass.
* [[Death From Above]]: Dragons to people, Archangels to dragons.
* [[Defiant to Thethe End]]: Van Zan. "Come on big boy!"
* [[Doing inIn Thethe Wizard]]: How the dragons make fire, via a reaction of two chemicals similar to a bombardier beetle.
* [[Draconic Demon]]: ''Reign of Fire'' is a very rare movie centered around a ''dragon apocalypse'', with the dragons in question being a collective of dangerous, terrifying beasts responsible for the end of civilization as we know it. They even slumber deep underground, and when the protagonist accidentally wakes the alpha male up as a boy, the monster's rampage and escape make him look as if he's a demon clawing his way out of Hell itself.
* [[Dug Too Deep]]: How the Dragons were awakened.
* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: He may not inflict any damage, but the way {{spoiler|Van Zan}} goes out is still awesomely [[Badass]].
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* [[Final Boss]]: The male dragon, whose defeat spells the end of the entire species.
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Van Zan. Quinn can look this way to certain members of his community. As Creedy puts it "I'm your best friend. And some days, even I don't like you."
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: According to Alexander Siddig, his more famous co-actors where rather miffed that the Irish children on the set recognised him as Julian Bashir from ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' and not them.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Van Zan is heading there at a rapid pace. To quote Alex after his fight with Quinn: "He would have killed you. He doesn't feel things. It's the only way he can do what he does."
* [[The Hero]]: Quinn to the castle community and the film.
* [[Hero -Killer]]: The big male, who is the original dragon and responsible for the death of Quinn's mother. When Van Zan tells Quinn about him, Quinn is visibly scared, and even Van Zan (the man who will take on a dragon with a chopper and a harpoon gun) wants a small army with him when he goes hunting for it. It even has the reputation you'd expect: Quinn relates an incident wherein a group from Pembery went to London and disturbed him, resulting in 90 deaths and the destruction of the castle. The male subsequently goes on to wipe out Van Zan's army, {{spoiler|burn the castle down, killing AJ and Creedy in the process}}, cannibalise several of his own and {{spoiler|kill Van Zan}}. On top of all that, his vast size makes him the only dragon that's easily distinguishable and recognisable.
* [[Keystone Army]]: There is only one male dragon. Kill him and the entire species dies out.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|Eddie, Barlow, AJ, Creedy, Van Zan}}
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* [[Meaningful Echo]]: Early on Van Zan demands to speak to the person in charge. Everyone turns to Quinn. "Well, that'd be you then." The line isn't said again, but a constant theme of the movie is the community's dependence on Quinn as the leader. At the end, Jared rides up to inform Quinn that they have a message from France, and that "They want to speak to the person in charge." Quinn by this point can safely look at his protege and say, "Well, that'd be you then."
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: The poster showed dragons attacking London, and coming in contact with the human military, implying that it's an ''[[Independence Day]]''-style invasion movie. The movie's actually set [[After the End]].
* [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown]]: Van Zan starts to administer one to Quinn, but they are dragged apart.
* [[Not So Stoic]]: Van Zan is in visible pain when his comrades are killed.
* [[Quick Nip]]: Subverted
{{quote| '''Quinn''': Hey! This is water!}}
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: Oh, so different. They have only four limbs, connected by a bat-like membrane of skin like a [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Wyvern |Wyvern]].; they breathe fire through a chemical reaction; and there is only one male who fertilizes all the eggs of the females like a male salmon.
** The first point was likely a [[Shout -Out]] to ''[[Dragonslayer]]'' and its villain, Vermithrax Pejorative. Also for a more realistic look for the dragons (considering that there are no and have never been vertebrates with more than four limbs), along with the napalm-like fire.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Quinn, Jared, and likely most of the kids in the community have lost their parents.
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Quinn to Jared, a boy he rescued from a destroyed town.
* [[Passing the Torch]]: Quinn's objective with Jared, who he is training as his replacement.
* [[Perma -Stubble]]: Van Zan
* [[Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs]]: It was the ''dragons'' who killed the dinosaurs.
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Quinn and Creedy's concerns about Van Zan aren't too far off.
* [[Reality Ensues]]: Yeah, Van Zan is a badass and all that, but come on people, no-one is going to survive {{spoiler|leaping through the air from the top of a high tower, at an 80ft dragon, with nothing but an axe, when it's heading right for you}}.
* [[Red Shirt]]: The skydivers know they've got a limited life expectancy.
* [[Shout -Out]]: The re-enactment of the Star Wars scene. In the post-apocalyptic future, Star Wars has apparently become legend (and one of the few entertaining memories/stories available to members of the camp).
* [[Sleeves Are for Wimps]]: Van Zan.
* [[Tank Goodness]]: The tank Van Zan's crew has with them causes noticeable concern among Quinn and his community.
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