History Anime / FirstSquad

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

* {{Determinator}}: While Nadya may be a FauxActionGirl (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?
* DownerEnding:[[spoiler: the entire events of the movie could be interpreted as Nadya simply hallucinating while improperly dosed sedatives tied up in a medical ward.]]

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Baron von Wolf is a bloodthirsty knight who carries out campaigns of murder because... he's evil, we guess? We learn next to nothing about his character, just that he's some guy leading an army of undead warriors resurrected by the Nazis.

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* ShoutOut: Nadya may be based on [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater The Sorrow]].

* TrailersAlwaysLie: The trailers promised [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi mecha]], among other things. The film did not deliver.
** In fact this isn't completly true. The trailers never shows the mechas, as the clips in it were straight from the movie. The mechas apperaed in a russian [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbp5AJ63kEI russian music video]], that was produced by parts of the same crew, that later made the film and that inspeared them. Still it's not an official trailer.

* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:Von Wolff escapes with his sword.]]

* [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld Semi-rigid Airships From Another World]]

* Homage: The climactic scene is one big homage to the Battle on the Ice from Sergei Eisenstein's film ''Film/AlexanderNevsky''.

* TheObiWan: Known only as "Monk", although his name is never stated in the film.

* WarIsHell: On multiple levels--the [[WorldWarII Eastern Front]] is hell all the time, and then there's an actual hell of sorts.

%%* AllMonksKnowKungFu

%%* ChildSoldiers: The titular First Squad.

%%* SoleSurvivor

%%* WaifProphet: Nadya.

* [[spoiler:DownerEnding]]:[[spoiler: the entire events of the movie could be interpreted as Nadya simply hallucinating while improperly dosed sedatives tied up in a medical ward.]]

* AllMonksKnowKungFu
* BackFromTheDead

* AChildShallLeadThem
* ChildSoldiers: The titular First Squad.

* ImmuneToBullets
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind
* KarmaHoudini: Everyone.
* KatanasAreJustBetter

* KilledMidSentence
* LanguageOfMagic

* MeaningfulName: Lots.

* MoreDakka: Marat lives for this trope.
* MrExposition: General Below serves as this.

* RampJump

* SheFu

* SloMoBigAir

* SoleSurvivor
* SpiritWorld

* TrainEscape: Twice--one for each kind.

* WaifProphet: Nadya.
* WallOfWeapons: In the ''spirit world''.

* ShoutOut: Nadya may be based on [[MetalGearSolid3 The Sorrow]].

* AChildShallLeadThem

* WarriorHeaven: The Gloomy Valley, or the Valley of the Dead in some translations. [[CrapSackWorld It's a pretty awful variant of this trope, however]]

* FiveManBand
** Leonya/Leo (TheHero--but not really)
** Zena (TheLancer)
** Marat (BoisterousBruiser)
** Valya (TheSmartGuy / CuteBruiser)
** Nadya (TheChick)

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Leo.

* WarriorHeaven: The Gloomy Valley, or the Valley of the Dead in some translations.

* HairOfGold: Nadya.

* CompleteMonster: Baron von Wolff

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

* OrIsIt: [[spoiler:Von Wolff escapes with his sword.]]