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=== Contains examples of: ===
* [[Action Girl]]: Eden Sinclair. Kick-boxing sharp-shooting one-eyed [[Badass]].
* [[Alas, Poor Yorick]]: Done by Sol, who {{spoiler|reattaches Viper's head to her corpse and sits her in the passenger seat.}}
* [[The Apunkalypse]]: After [[The Plague]], Scotland's walled off and everyone reverts to their tribal, punkish roots.
* [[The Archer]]
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** Well, maybe that's global warming for you. It does take place in 2030-something...
* [[Five-Man Band|Four Man Band]]: Eden ([[The Hero|The Heroine]]), Norton ([[The Lancer]] and [[The Big Guy]]), Stirling ([[The Smart Guy]]) and Cally ([[The Chick]]).
* [[Freeze Frame Bonus]]/[[Shout
* [[Full
* [[Genre Shift]]: The film is advertised as a serious "after the plague" story kind of in the same vein as [[Twenty Eight Days Later]], and plays it straight for about a half hour. Then we're off to over the top [[Mad Max]] land with an overnight in [[Live Action Role Play]] castle.
* [[George Lucas Throwback]]: Marshall basically made this film to show off his love for dystopian science fiction movies from [[The Eighties]].
* [[Gorn]]
* [[Have a Nice Death]]: The movie's establishing raid sequence includes, among other things, Eden shooting a hot naked chick dead in her bathtub...[[Beyond the Impossible|THROUGH THE CERAMIC]].
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: It seems werewolves aren't the only thing [[Dog Soldiers|Wells, Spoon, and Joe]] have to worry about...
** Hatcher is [[Twenty Four|Hamri Al-Assad]].
*** ...and [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine|Dr Julian Bashir ]], [[Kingdom of Heaven|Imad ad-Din]] and [[Primeval|Philip Burton]] he must be immortal or something
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** [[Harry Potter|Runcorn]] is a corrupt politician.
* [[Homage]]: To ''[[Mad Max]]'', ''[[The Warriors (Film)|The Warriors]]'' and ''[[Escape From New York (Film)|Escape From New York]]''.
** The song that plays after Sol has burned someone alive is remarkably similar to the ''[[
** There is also a bit of [[Resident Evil (Film)|Resident Evil]] in there.
** Some of [[Damnation Alley]] is in there too.
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'''Gimp:''' Yeeeah! }}
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Cyber-eyed badass, foam grenades, "Good Thing", cannibal BBQ, medieval castle in the future, random Bentley having a car chase with punk-built mutant cars and then the punks climb on the Bentley and fight while everyone's still driving, [[Made of Explodium]], nude chick with shotgun, exploding bunny, random gimp, the [http://img22.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vlcsnap5023426.png Gimpmobile!], a severed head crashing into the camera, and the {{spoiler|cyber-eyed badass going back to Glasgow and becoming the cannibal punk's leader by tossing their former leader's aforementioned severed head in front of them and telling them [[Call Back|"If you're hungry, try a piece of your friend"]].}} And just about everything else in between those moments.
* [[Schizo
** One group of survivors intentionally threw out all modern tech, and the other group doesn't have the means to reproduce the now-broken technology.
** According to the director, this was the inspiration for the movie. He got a picture in his head of a medieval knight attacking a futuristic agent with gun and tried to figure out how to work that scene into a movie.
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