First Squad: Difference between revisions

* [[All Monks Know Kung Fu]]

* [[Back From the Dead]]

* [[Child Soldiers]]: The titular First Squad.

* [[Conveniently an Orphan]]: Nadya's parents are dead.

** ''Possibly'' subverted for historical reality--you're a child in the western Soviet Union at this time, there's a not unreasonable chance that your parents are missing or dead. {{spoiler|Her parents are shown as being very much alive before the war.}}

* [[Cool Airship]]: Not mind-blowingly cool (to some), but reconnaissance airships are scattered here and there.

* [[Determinator]]: While Nadya may be a [[Faux Action Girl]] (see below) she does deserve credit for soldering on traveling probably over a hundred miles in the Russian Winter wearing nothing more than pajamas and an overcoat, handling assassinate attempts, the cold, amnesia, the death of her friends and family, the cold, air raids, visions of every third person she meets dying horrific deaths from the war, the cold, probably underfed and malnourished from rations, did I mention that it's really really cold in Russia during the winter?

* [[Empathic Weapon]]: Sputnik-01 is guided by the pilot's mind, and so they end up in a familiar place.

* [[The End - or Is It?]]: {{spoiler|Von Wolff escapes with his sword.}}

* [[Hair of Gold]]: Nadya.

* Homage: The climactic scene is one big homage to the Battle on the Ice from Sergei Eisenstein's film ''[[Alexander Nevsky]]''.

* [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]]

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Everyone.