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'''[[Sergeant Rock|Colour Sergeant Bourne]]:''' "[[Someone Has to Do It|Because we're here, lad]]. [[The Remnant|No one else.]] [[Last Stand|Just]] [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|us.]]" }}
''Zulu'' was followed fifteen years later by a prequel, ''Zulu Dawn'', about the disastrous Battle of Isandlwana that took place earlier the same day. It starred [[Burt Lancaster]] and [[Peter O'Toole]].
* [[Seventies Hair]]: Well... the '''18'''70s anyway. The long sideburns on the men wouldn't look out of place a century later.▼
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* [[Becoming the Mask]]: during the ''Men of Harlech'' scene you see dozens of weary demoralized soldiers who enlisted because no one else was poor enough for the job, [[Take a Level In Badass|converting themselves]] into the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] s that they were singing of.
** If you look closely at the Zulus you can see how many are obviously youngsters out for the first time. They are becoming a mask too.
***That may have been [[Fridge Brilliance]] rather then intentional. If every one had looked like a veteran of years of campaigning the message would not have gotten across. But because they were [[Real Life]] Zulus hired for a quick job, probably the first job of many of them, the effect was that a lot of them looked like fearful youths like all soldiers trying to live up to their own image and emotionally flagellating themselves to keep from running.
* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: "[[Memetic Mutation|Suddenly, Zulus! Thousands of them!]]"
* [[The Cavalry]]: Rather cruelly subverted. A large force of cavalrymen arrive at the fort...then flee when faced with the Zulu army.
* [[Cunning Linguist]]: Adendorff gives cultural advice.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Bromhead, very much so.
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'''Bromhead:''' Looks bad in the newspapers and upsets civilians at their breakfasts. }}
** Adendorff also has his moments.
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'''Adendorff:''' That leaves only 3,940. }}
* [[Ensign Newbie]]: Bromhead.
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* [[The Medic]]: Reynolds.
* [[More Dakka]]: The chief tactic of the British.
** Note that "rashasha" is a real-life
* [[Nippled and Dimed]]: The first TV screenings this film cheerfully screened it in its
* [[Not So Different]]: The Men of Harlech scene emphasizing the [[Proud Warrior Race|mutual
* [[Proud Warrior Race]]: Both the British and the Zulus.
* [[Plunder]]: Zulus are shown rifling British dead at Isandhwana.
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*** They were still more then scary enough. Historically, the British, the Boers, and the Zulus were in South Africa like the three toughest kids in a high school arguing about who is toughest. And scaring all the little kids.
* [[Sergeant Rock]]: Colour-Sergeant Bourne. Corporal Allen, although not a sergeant, also qualifies.
▲* [[Seventies Hair]]: Well... the '''18'''70s anyway. The long sideburns on the men wouldn't look out of place a century later.
* [[The Spartan Way]]: The Zulus.
* [[War Is Hell]]: "Do you think I could stand this butcher's yard more than once?"
** The film does, however, adhere to the 60s trope of bloodless wounds - including bayonettings. The actual Zulu practice of
* [[We Have Reserves]]: The Zulus.
* [[What a Senseless Waste of Human Life]]: A couple times, and wrong on both counts.
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