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* GovernmentConspiracy: U.S. and Russia's involvement in Eastern Slav Republic's conflict is... is very dubious. [[spoiler:Turns out that the Eastern Slav government aren't just fighting B.O.W.s. They are actively producing them for black market sale. Svetlana also makes a secret deal with the leaders of the rebels to share in the profits, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness only to kill them when they cease being useful]] and to look good in front of the international community.]]
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** The Tyrants look a lot like the established T-103 line of Tyrants that includes Mr. X from ''Resident Evil 2'', the Tyrant from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'', and others.
** [[invoked]] The fact that the three Super Tyrants are dispatched with a tank and by attack jets could be a GeniusBonus one: in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles'', one of the files notes that Tyrants (specifically the Tyrant-Armored Lethal Organic System) are much less effective against armored vehicles and aerial vehicles.
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** [[invoked]] The fact that the three Super Tyrants are dispatched with a tank and by attack jets could be a GeniusBonus one: in''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles The Umbrella Chronicles]]'', one of the files notes that Tyrants (specifically the Tyrant-Armored Lethal Organic System) are much less effective against armored vehicles and aerial vehicles.
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*** [[spoiler: Also, the whole conflict between Svetlana and the rebels began because of petroleum in the area the rebels lived. It's made abundantly clear the Americans and Russians used the BOWs as an excuse to take said area for themselves, likely once more because of [[ResidentEvil6 Simmons and his Family]]. This means Sasha and the rebels' fight and JD's death were all for nothing.]]
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** YouKeepUsingThatWord: The rebels keep talking about their desire for "independence," but their desire to personally assassinate Svetlana and the fact that they're actively fighting soldiers in the capital makes it look more like they want to overthrow her and run the whole country themselves, rather than break off from it.
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** [[spoiler: Which is odd, since there was no such thing in the game for Dominant-Plaga. [[FridgeBrilliance This may be by design, since the Plaga-Dominant given to the rebels was made by Svetlana herself]]. She wanted to use the excuse of a BOW terrorist attack to purge the city entirely and look good for the international community; giving them a Dominant-Plaga like those used in the games would be signing her death sentence.]]
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* ActionGirl: Ada Wong makes her return claiming to be an agent of the BSAA. Then again, [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor she's Ada]].
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* PunchCatch: During their fight, Ada appears to successfully punch Svetlana in the face. Svetlana's head snaps to the side... and then the camera pans to reveal that she actually caught Ada's fist.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: In the end, the good guys triumph & peace reaches Eastern Slav once again, but at what cost? Tons of people are dead, including JD. Sasha is paralyzed from waist down though he's human again & has a new life to look forward to thanks to Leon. Svetlana is forced to step down from her presidency but that's kinda lenient considering all the shit she has done. Ada pisses off her employer(likely to be Simmons) & gets a massive warrant on her head which kinda sets up {{ResidentEvil6}}. And Leon's definitely pissed off & burnt out from his experiences there considering his higher-ups actually knew about the entire incident but pulled out last minute to join forces with the Russians to take back the country. Only all this still resulted a lot of casualties. No wonder he looked so gruff in RE6.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: In the end, the good guys triumph & peace reaches Eastern Slav once again, but at what cost? Tons of people are dead, including JD. Sasha is paralyzed from waist down though he's human again & has a new life to look forward to thanks to Leon. Svetlana is forced to step down from her presidency but that's kinda lenient considering all the shit she has done. Ada pisses off her employer(likely to be Simmons) & gets a massive warrant on her head which kinda sets up {{ResidentEvil6}}.ResidentEvil6. And Leon's definitely pissed off & burnt out from his experiences there considering his higher-ups actually knew about the entire incident but pulled out last minute to join forces with the Russians to take back the country. Only all this still resulted a lot of casualties. No wonder he looked so gruff in RE6.]]
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority / AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: [[spoiler:Svetlana Belikova]] holds her own against ''Resident Evil'' mainstays Leon S. Kennedy and Ada Wong without breaking a sweat. [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3 The Boss]] would be very proud.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority / AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: [[spoiler:Svetlana [[spoiler:ESR President Svetlana Belikova]] holds her own against ''Resident Evil'' mainstays Leon S. Kennedy and Ada Wong without breaking a sweat. [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3 The Boss]] would be very proud.
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* BlockingStopsAllDamage: Leon manages to survive a Tyrant punching him by blocking the hit. While he is hurt by the hit, the tyrant proves to be strong enough to stop a tank.
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* IdiotBall: The Eastern Slav Republic government receives a consultant from the BSAA, offering advice on their current bioterrorism problem. They let her right in and allow her access to the President herself as well as her council. It takes them a full day to realize that her credentials aren't legit and that she's an infiltrator. All this during a ''civil war in which the President herself is under constant threat of assassination.'' Add to this the fact that they don't put a security detail on her to prevent her from discovering their own sizable B.O.W. armament. The narrative makes a big deal out of Svetlana's bad ass credentials, and yet she and her staff are shown to be blitheringly incompetent by this oversight.
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'''''Resident Evil: Damnation''''' is the second full-length CGI film for the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' franchise, following 2008's ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration Degeneration]]''. Unlike the live-action films, ''Damnation'' is firmly set within the games' continuity, and serves as a bridge between ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6''.
A civil war is raging in the fictional Eastern Slav Republic, between the oligarchy that's seized control of the country and the freedom fighters that represent the lower class. The military sat out the war and grew powerful, and after a cease-fire was declared, the military broke it in order to seize natural resources discovered in the freedom fighters' territory. In an attempt to even the odds, the freedom fighters have begun using black-market bioweapons.
The U.S. government sends in [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 Leon]] [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 S. Kennedy]] to investigate, as both the U.S. and Russia are planning to intervene in the war. After entering the field, Leon is ordered to pull right back out, but after seeing the destruction the [=B.O.W.=]s are causing, he goes rogue in an effort to stop them.
''Damnation'' was released on DVD and Blu-ray in late September 2012, with a cinematic release in Shinjuku at the end of October. It was leaked a couple of weeks early on streaming video networks like the Xbox Live Marketplace, presumably in an attempt to capitalize on the release of ''Film/ResidentEvilRetribution''.
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!!''Resident Evil: Damnation'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Ada Wong makes her return claiming to be an agent of the BSAA. Then again, [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor she's Ada]].
* [[AllCGICartoon All-CGI Movie]]
* AmericaSavesTheDay: At the end [[spoiler:Leon and Buddy are saved from the two Tyrants by American and Russian forces invading and blowing everything up.]]
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority / AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: [[spoiler:Svetlana Belikova]] holds her own against ''Resident Evil'' mainstays Leon S. Kennedy and Ada Wong without breaking a sweat. [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3 The Boss]] would be very proud.
* BadassBoast
** [[spoiler:Svetlana]] delivers one to Ada when the latter realizes that the rumors of her being [[LadyOfWar a former instructor]] are true.
-->'''Ada:''' So... it's true what they said about you being a former instructor.\\
'''[[spoiler:Svetlana]]:''' Former? I still ''am'' an instructor.
** [[spoiler:Svetlana]] also hands out a boast to Leon when he is holding her hostage during the [[MexicanStandoff standoff under the palace.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Svetlana]]:''' Do you have any idea who you are pointing your gun at?\\
'''Leon:''' Let me see... you're the Beekeeper?\\
'''[[spoiler:Svetlana]]:''' The Beekeper?\\
'''Leon:''' The person who released the [[spoiler:Plaga]].\\
'''[[spoiler:Svetlana]]:''' Just as I thought. You haven't a clue. [[spoiler:[[TranquilFury I am the President... of this country.]]]]
* BadassNormal: Leon is a master of this. Ada is also quite the badass. Svetlana is a [[spoiler:former fighting instructor, and holds her own in a battle with Ada, and Leon]] so she counts as well.
* BigDamnVillain
** [[spoiler:Svetlana stating that she has disposed of the other Elders, thus making sure none remains in the post-war Eastern Slav Republic.]]
** [[spoiler:Buddy's Lickers saving Leon from the Tyrants.]] [[HoYay No, it completely makes sense in the movie.]]
* BodyHorror
** Getting a [[spoiler:Plaga parasite stuffed down your throat]] is pure NightmareFuel. Especially what happens afterwards. And remember; the Lickers and the [[spoiler:Tyrants]] were human once.
** The Ganados heads still explode into a [[CombatTentacles a whirling mass of blade-tipped tentacles]] like they did in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', only this time in highly-detailed CGI. We even get to see it happening to someone in a slow, gradual manner before their heads explode. [[spoiler:[[CruelAndUnusualDeath Poor JD.]]]]
* BoomHeadshot: Seeing as how a good portion of the bad guys are [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Ganados]], [[RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain this is par for the course]]. [[spoiler:Also how Leon and Buddy kill a Super Tyrant, with the [[{{BFG}} 100mm main cannon of a BMP-3]].]]
* CaptainErsatz: The way the [[spoiler:Plagas]] reproduce seems to be inspired by [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Mind Flayers.]] But here, they latch to spinal cord rather than eating and displacing the host's brain.
* CatFight: Ada vs. [[spoiler:Svetlana.]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Leon mentions early on in the film that removing a Plagas ''at best'' results in paralysis. Buddy ends up paralyzed but alive at the end of the film after a fake-out MercyKill.]]
* ClothingDamage: During Ada's knife fight with [[spoiler:Svetlana]], the latter slashes Ada's shirt, [[{{Fanservice}} giving everyone a convenient look at Ada's bra and cleavage]].
* CombatStilettos: Ada spends most of the movie doing handsprings, backflips, and roundhouse kicks, and does it all in a pair of high heels. [[spoiler:The heels on her shoes actually are combat stilettos: she uses a spring-loaded knife in one of the heels to cut herself down from a rope.]]
* ContinuityNod: A few to ''[=RE2=]'', ''[=RE4=]'' and ''[=RE5=]''.
** Ada's fight with [[spoiler:Svetlana is sort of a nod to her fight with Annette Birkin. Although this one is more intense (and sexy).]]
** Leon noticing drops coming from a ceiling revealing two Lickers revealing themselves in the same way they did in ''[=RE2=]''.
** Leon coming prepared and bringing a [[spoiler:Rocket Launcher to kill the Tyrant. Too bad it doesn't work this time around.]]
** Two of the Ganados have their head explode, revealing the tentacled Plaga abominations within, just like in ''[=RE4=]''.
** The way we saw the first[[spoiler:onscreen victim of the Plaga get infected is similar to ''5'''s.]]
** Ada obviously took Leon's advice in regards to [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 knives and close encounters.]] Too bad it didn't do her any good against [[spoiler:Svetlana.]]
** Once again, Leon gets captured, tied down and loses a cool article of clothing (in this case, a tactical vest).
** Also, Ada gets captured by the bad guys. [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 Unlike the last time]], she's smart enough to keep a hidden blade handy to cut herself free.
** A near-dead soldier grabs Leon's ankle, just as how [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 a downed female zombie did to Leon 15 years earlier.]]
* CurbStompBattle
** Most fights against the Lickers end up this way, with the local militia at best getting one or two kills onscreen. [[spoiler:Reversed when the Tyrants are unleashed.]]
** [[spoiler:Said Tyrants get wiped off the face of the Earth in seconds by A-10 gunships]].
* DeadpanSnarker: By this time, it's pretty obvious Leon uses humor to get through the increasingly horrifying life-or-death situations he finds himself in. He does know when to rein it back, though.
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: The way Ada asks Leon about when they might "carry on from where [they] left off that night" leaves it ambiguous as to how far they got, but it clearly hasn't [[UnresolvedSexualTension resolved]] anything between them.
* DisneyDeath: A Licker is on the receiving end of one. Subverted with the two Tyrants inside the elevator.
* DyingAsYourself: Several infected characters attempt to do this, or have others do it for them before they turn.
* EliteMooks
** The Lickers.
** The guards in riot gear who protect the underground facility as well.
* {{Expy}}: [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--fB0VlhGWA4/UINo7Fc2yLI/AAAAAAAACRk/wuL2tNDJIts/s1600/Resident+Evil+Damnation+Leon+Alexander+Buddy+Fight+(20).png Buddy]] bears an ''uncanny'' resemblance to the [[http://cdn.dualshockers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Final_Fantasy_XIV.png poster-boy]] for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''.
* {{Fanservice}}: The aforementioned clothing damage scene, as well as a ShirtlessScene for Svetlana, ostensibly to show off several burns she has on her body. How she got them is never revealed.
* ForeShadowing: When JD asks Leon about a cure for the plaga, he says that about the only thing anyone can do is sever their spinal cord. However, he also says that they'll at best, be crippled, or at worst, die. [[spoiler:He does this to Buddy at the end. Although he loses the use of his legs, he seems to be cured of the plaga he injected himself with earlier.]]
* FromBadToWorse: As if the civil war wasn't bad enough, licker's being controlled by a human start fighting with government troops in the underground lair, two Tyrants also show up. They [[CurbStompBattle promptly destroy]] every Licker that attempts to fight them.
* GovernmentConspiracy: U.S. and Russia's involvement in Eastern Slav Republic's conflict is... very dubious. [[spoiler:Turns out that the Eastern Slav government aren't just fighting B.O.W.s. They are actively producing them for black market sale. Svetlana also makes a secret deal with the leaders of the rebels to share in the profits, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness only to kill them when they cease being useful]] and to look good in front of the international community.]]
* GunshipRescue: Just when it looks like Buddy and Leon are about to die at the hands of [[spoiler:a pair of Super Tyrants, two A-10 Thunderbolt II's of the U.S. Air Force]] swoop in and save the day.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe
** One of the [[spoiler:Tyrants]] rip a Licker in half with his bare hands.
** [[spoiler:Also, a Tyrant gets shredded in half by an A-10 Warthog's Avenger main gun]].
* HeroTrackingFailure: When the government troops fire on Leon in the underground facility. Hilariously they hit their own men, although it's justified as they had him completely surrounded at the time, so were in the line of fire of other soldiers when the room went dark.
* HiveMind: Every [[spoiler:Plagas infected]] is controlled by a [[spoiler:Dominant-strain Plaga.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: The [[spoiler:T-013 Tyrant]] is certainly humanoid. [[spoiler:Until his power limiter became damaged, and he mutated. A little less humanoid, but still with a human face.]]
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The soldiers who fight the Lickers cannot hit even one.
* ImplacableMan: [[spoiler:The Tyrants.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Leon carries a flask full of booze. Buddy and JD also help themselves to Leon's booze.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Svetlana [[WildMassGuessing (possibly to keep her quiet)]], and arguably Buddy.]]
* LadyOfWar: Svetlana, the President of the Eastern Slav Republic, looks like a standard-issue Western politician. [[spoiler:She's a former combat instructor and can effortlessly hold her own in a fistfight with Ada, and Leon.]]
* LargeAndInCharge: The [[spoiler:Tyrants.]]
* LifeOrLimbDecision: It's mentioned with how deeply the Plaga embeds in the central nervous system, a host's only options to avoid becoming a Ganado are suicide or removal, which will at best result in paralysis. [[spoiler:Buddy tries to choose death but, after Leon's intervention, is seen in a wheelchair in the final scene.]]
* KungShui: Ada punts a table at [[spoiler:Svetlana.]] She later knocks a pitcher full of water at [[spoiler:her.]]
* MadeOfIron: Leon must be made of this. [[spoiler:He gets smacked around by a Tyrant, and smashed against a pillar, and he just gets up and keeps going.]]
* MagicSkirt: Semi-averted with Ada. Played straight with [[spoiler:Svetlana]].
* MissionControl: Ingrid Hunnigan is once again Leon's handler.
* {{Mooks}}: The Ganado.
* MythologyGag
** Listen carefully during the first scene in the church: the background music is the save room music from either the classic games or ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' in particular.
** The Tyrants look a lot like the established T-103 line of Tyrants that includes Mr. X from ''Resident Evil 2'', the Tyrant from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'', and others.
** [[invoked]] The fact that the three Super Tyrants are dispatched with a tank and by attack jets could be a GeniusBonus one: in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles'', one of the files notes that Tyrants (specifically the Tyrant-Armored Lethal Organic System) are much less effective against armored vehicles and aerial vehicles.
* NoKillLikeOverkill
** The way [[spoiler:the Tyrant]] kills some of the Lickers. It sometimes makes you feel sorry for them.
** About two dozen or so of [[spoiler:Svetlana's elite troops]] open up with sub-machine guns on a single Licker. [[MadeofIron It still manages to take a swipe at the mook who checks to see if it's dead.]]
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Leon, who is out of ammo, tries to take on two [[spoiler:Super Tyrants]] with only a knife rather than run away and leave Buddy, who can't run unaided, even though Buddy left him for dead earlier and has been an ally for just minutes. [[spoiler:Thankfully, a couple of fighter jets [[BigDamnHeroes blast the Tyrants]] before Leon and Buddy can [[CurbStompBattle get smashed to a pulp]].]] Still borders on HonorBeforeReason, though.
* OhCrap
** Both Leon and Buddy when the Tyrants are unleashed upon them.
** You can just imagine the look on Leon's face when the Super Tyrant not only dodges the first RPG, but actually [[NoSell catches the second one]] and [[ThisIsGonnaSuck sends it towards Leon as a makeshift mortar.]]
** Ada has one when [[spoiler:Svetlana]] steps in and takes the fight to her.
** Svetlana has one when she is notified that the Americans and Russians have invaded the country.
* OminousWalk: [[spoiler:The Tyrants' default movement.]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:The Tyrants when their limiters are damaged/removed.]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent
** The Ganados are of the Type PS variety.
** Lickers are a [[BodyHorror heavily mutated]] Type P.
* OutOfTheInferno: [[spoiler:The Tyrants. Twice.]]
* PantyShot: Pretty hard to see since the area around Ada's crotch was always overly-darkened when doing wide-legged kicks. However, the moment it's not overly dark reveals that they were black all along.
* PowerDegeneration: The Lickers in the ESR are under humans' direct control. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 Plagas]] have been used to provide a master-slave relationship, allowing a human to inject a parasite and control the Lickers via direct ultrasonic commands. Unfortunately, doing so will eventually turn the human into a Ganado.]]
* PowerLimiter: The suits worn by the Tyrants initially. However, [[OhCrap once it comes off...]]
* PreMortemOneLiner: Leon delivers a real snarky one to the Tyrant before blowing its head off.
-->'''Leon:''' This might hurt a little.
* RasputinianDeath: One of the [[spoiler:Tyrants]] is repeatedly shot, swarmed by Lickers, blown up by exploding fuel tanks, blown up with an exploding fuel truck, shot with an RPG, and finally [[spoiler:run over and shot at point-blank range by a tank]]. Then run over again for good measure.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Buddy, and whoever else has the Master Plagas.
* [[spoiler:RedShirt: The Lickers again, fighting the Tyrants to save Leon. The audience won't believe how relieved they are seeing a wave of Lickers coming Leon's way.]]
* {{Ruritania}}: As with most of the recent ''Resident Evil'' games, ''Damnation'' is set in a fictional country. This time, it's somewhere in war-torn Eastern Europe.
* SceneryCensor: One shot during Ada's cartwheel is blocked by a gun that is kicked up towards the ceiling.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Basically Leon's entire reason for disobeying his order to pull out.
* ShootTheFuelTank
** Leon tries this to [[spoiler:kill the attacking Tyrant. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero It just damages its limiter.]]]]
** And Leon actually does it correctly by shooting tracer rounds into the fuel that is leaking out and causing it to catch on fire.
* ShoutOut: Leon's CIA contact uses the codename "Scarecrow". After finding him, he makes several allusions to ''[[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz The Wizard of Oz]]'', including calling a Licker a "cowardly lion".
* ShownTheirWork: An impressive amount of research must have went into this film. For starters, almost all of the weapons depicted would likely be encountered in Eastern Europe, [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Resident_Evil:_Damnation despite several having been rarely or never shown in a film before]] and are modeled to an impressive level of detail. The opening credits make heavy use of [[BilingualBonus Cyrilic]], which is also consistently seen on signs and billboards throughout the film. Leon empties his gun's magazine and properly reloads it with tracer rounds to set off [[ShootTheFuelTank a tanker truck]] [[StuffBlowingUp explosion]], [[spoiler:and the Russian troops at the end of the film are using accurately-depicted weapons, camouflage and vehicles]]. Normally, even big-budget Hollywood films get at least one of these wrong. And this is coming from a company that, a decade and a half previously, made reference to "[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 The United States Federal Police Department]]" and "[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis The Federal Council]]."
* [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown Stomp on Them While They Are Down:]] The Tyrants squash a couple of Lickers under their boots with gruesome results.
* TankGoodness: Kozachenko commandeers a tank to fight off the [[spoiler:Super Tyrant.]]
* TragicKeepsake: Subverted as it's not tragic in Buddy's case. He is seen with Leon's flask in the ending.
* VillainousRescue: Leon is saved a couple of times from the Tyrants by the lickers controlled by Buddy.
-->'''Leon:''' Never thought I'd be saved by B.O.W.'s.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Alluded to. J.D. tries telling Leon off that he wouldn't understand why the rebels are doing what they are doing, to which Leon cuts him off by stating that they won't see eye to eye on the issue.
* ZergRush: [[spoiler:Kozachenko sends wave after wave of Lickers after his pursuing tyrant. [[TheJuggernaut They barely slow it down.]]]]
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'''''Resident Evil: Damnation''''' is the second full-length CGI film for the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' franchise, following 2008's ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration Degeneration]]''. Unlike the live-action films, ''Damnation'' is firmly set within the games' continuity, and serves as a bridge between ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6''.
A civil war is raging in the fictional Eastern Slav Republic, between the oligarchy that's seized control of the country and the freedom fighters that represent the lower class. The military sat out the war and grew powerful, and after a cease-fire was declared, the military broke it in order to seize natural resources discovered in the freedom fighters' territory. In an attempt to even the odds, the freedom fighters have begun using black-market bioweapons.
The U.S. government sends in [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 Leon]] [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 S. Kennedy]] to investigate, as both the U.S. and Russia are planning to intervene in the war. After entering the field, Leon is ordered to pull right back out, but after seeing the destruction the [=B.O.W.=]s are causing, he goes rogue in an effort to stop them.
''Damnation'' was released on DVD and Blu-ray in late September 2012, with a cinematic release in Shinjuku at the end of October. It was leaked a couple of weeks early on streaming video networks like the Xbox Live Marketplace, presumably in an attempt to capitalize on the release of ''Film/ResidentEvilRetribution''.
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!!''Resident Evil: Damnation'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Ada Wong makes her return claiming to be an agent of the BSAA. Then again, [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor she's Ada]].
* [[AllCGICartoon All-CGI Movie]]
* AmericaSavesTheDay: At the end [[spoiler:Leon and Buddy are saved from the two Tyrants by American and Russian forces invading and blowing everything up.]]
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority / AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: [[spoiler:Svetlana Belikova]] holds her own against ''Resident Evil'' mainstays Leon S. Kennedy and Ada Wong without breaking a sweat. [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3 The Boss]] would be very proud.
* BadassBoast
** [[spoiler:Svetlana]] delivers one to Ada when the latter realizes that the rumors of her being [[LadyOfWar a former instructor]] are true.
-->'''Ada:''' So... it's true what they said about you being a former instructor.\\
'''[[spoiler:Svetlana]]:''' Former? I still ''am'' an instructor.
** [[spoiler:Svetlana]] also hands out a boast to Leon when he is holding her hostage during the [[MexicanStandoff standoff under the palace.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Svetlana]]:''' Do you have any idea who you are pointing your gun at?\\
'''Leon:''' Let me see... you're the Beekeeper?\\
'''[[spoiler:Svetlana]]:''' The Beekeper?\\
'''Leon:''' The person who released the [[spoiler:Plaga]].\\
'''[[spoiler:Svetlana]]:''' Just as I thought. You haven't a clue. [[spoiler:[[TranquilFury I am the President... of this country.]]]]
* BadassNormal: Leon is a master of this. Ada is also quite the badass. Svetlana is a [[spoiler:former fighting instructor, and holds her own in a battle with Ada, and Leon]] so she counts as well.
* BigDamnVillain
** [[spoiler:Svetlana stating that she has disposed of the other Elders, thus making sure none remains in the post-war Eastern Slav Republic.]]
** [[spoiler:Buddy's Lickers saving Leon from the Tyrants.]] [[HoYay No, it completely makes sense in the movie.]]
* BodyHorror
** Getting a [[spoiler:Plaga parasite stuffed down your throat]] is pure NightmareFuel. Especially what happens afterwards. And remember; the Lickers and the [[spoiler:Tyrants]] were human once.
** The Ganados heads still explode into a [[CombatTentacles a whirling mass of blade-tipped tentacles]] like they did in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', only this time in highly-detailed CGI. We even get to see it happening to someone in a slow, gradual manner before their heads explode. [[spoiler:[[CruelAndUnusualDeath Poor JD.]]]]
* BoomHeadshot: Seeing as how a good portion of the bad guys are [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Ganados]], [[RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain this is par for the course]]. [[spoiler:Also how Leon and Buddy kill a Super Tyrant, with the [[{{BFG}} 100mm main cannon of a BMP-3]].]]
* CaptainErsatz: The way the [[spoiler:Plagas]] reproduce seems to be inspired by [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Mind Flayers.]] But here, they latch to spinal cord rather than eating and displacing the host's brain.
* CatFight: Ada vs. [[spoiler:Svetlana.]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Leon mentions early on in the film that removing a Plagas ''at best'' results in paralysis. Buddy ends up paralyzed but alive at the end of the film after a fake-out MercyKill.]]
* ClothingDamage: During Ada's knife fight with [[spoiler:Svetlana]], the latter slashes Ada's shirt, [[{{Fanservice}} giving everyone a convenient look at Ada's bra and cleavage]].
* CombatStilettos: Ada spends most of the movie doing handsprings, backflips, and roundhouse kicks, and does it all in a pair of high heels. [[spoiler:The heels on her shoes actually are combat stilettos: she uses a spring-loaded knife in one of the heels to cut herself down from a rope.]]
* ContinuityNod: A few to ''[=RE2=]'', ''[=RE4=]'' and ''[=RE5=]''.
** Ada's fight with [[spoiler:Svetlana is sort of a nod to her fight with Annette Birkin. Although this one is more intense (and sexy).]]
** Leon noticing drops coming from a ceiling revealing two Lickers revealing themselves in the same way they did in ''[=RE2=]''.
** Leon coming prepared and bringing a [[spoiler:Rocket Launcher to kill the Tyrant. Too bad it doesn't work this time around.]]
** Two of the Ganados have their head explode, revealing the tentacled Plaga abominations within, just like in ''[=RE4=]''.
** The way we saw the first[[spoiler:onscreen victim of the Plaga get infected is similar to ''5'''s.]]
** Ada obviously took Leon's advice in regards to [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 knives and close encounters.]] Too bad it didn't do her any good against [[spoiler:Svetlana.]]
** Once again, Leon gets captured, tied down and loses a cool article of clothing (in this case, a tactical vest).
** Also, Ada gets captured by the bad guys. [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 Unlike the last time]], she's smart enough to keep a hidden blade handy to cut herself free.
** A near-dead soldier grabs Leon's ankle, just as how [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 a downed female zombie did to Leon 15 years earlier.]]
* CurbStompBattle
** Most fights against the Lickers end up this way, with the local militia at best getting one or two kills onscreen. [[spoiler:Reversed when the Tyrants are unleashed.]]
** [[spoiler:Said Tyrants get wiped off the face of the Earth in seconds by A-10 gunships]].
* DeadpanSnarker: By this time, it's pretty obvious Leon uses humor to get through the increasingly horrifying life-or-death situations he finds himself in. He does know when to rein it back, though.
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: The way Ada asks Leon about when they might "carry on from where [they] left off that night" leaves it ambiguous as to how far they got, but it clearly hasn't [[UnresolvedSexualTension resolved]] anything between them.
* DisneyDeath: A Licker is on the receiving end of one. Subverted with the two Tyrants inside the elevator.
* DyingAsYourself: Several infected characters attempt to do this, or have others do it for them before they turn.
* EliteMooks
** The Lickers.
** The guards in riot gear who protect the underground facility as well.
* {{Expy}}: [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--fB0VlhGWA4/UINo7Fc2yLI/AAAAAAAACRk/wuL2tNDJIts/s1600/Resident+Evil+Damnation+Leon+Alexander+Buddy+Fight+(20).png Buddy]] bears an ''uncanny'' resemblance to the [[http://cdn.dualshockers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Final_Fantasy_XIV.png poster-boy]] for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''.
* {{Fanservice}}: The aforementioned clothing damage scene, as well as a ShirtlessScene for Svetlana, ostensibly to show off several burns she has on her body. How she got them is never revealed.
* ForeShadowing: When JD asks Leon about a cure for the plaga, he says that about the only thing anyone can do is sever their spinal cord. However, he also says that they'll at best, be crippled, or at worst, die. [[spoiler:He does this to Buddy at the end. Although he loses the use of his legs, he seems to be cured of the plaga he injected himself with earlier.]]
* FromBadToWorse: As if the civil war wasn't bad enough, licker's being controlled by a human start fighting with government troops in the underground lair, two Tyrants also show up. They [[CurbStompBattle promptly destroy]] every Licker that attempts to fight them.
* GovernmentConspiracy: U.S. and Russia's involvement in Eastern Slav Republic's conflict is... very dubious. [[spoiler:Turns out that the Eastern Slav government aren't just fighting B.O.W.s. They are actively producing them for black market sale. Svetlana also makes a secret deal with the leaders of the rebels to share in the profits, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness only to kill them when they cease being useful]] and to look good in front of the international community.]]
* GunshipRescue: Just when it looks like Buddy and Leon are about to die at the hands of [[spoiler:a pair of Super Tyrants, two A-10 Thunderbolt II's of the U.S. Air Force]] swoop in and save the day.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe
** One of the [[spoiler:Tyrants]] rip a Licker in half with his bare hands.
** [[spoiler:Also, a Tyrant gets shredded in half by an A-10 Warthog's Avenger main gun]].
* HeroTrackingFailure: When the government troops fire on Leon in the underground facility. Hilariously they hit their own men, although it's justified as they had him completely surrounded at the time, so were in the line of fire of other soldiers when the room went dark.
* HiveMind: Every [[spoiler:Plagas infected]] is controlled by a [[spoiler:Dominant-strain Plaga.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: The [[spoiler:T-013 Tyrant]] is certainly humanoid. [[spoiler:Until his power limiter became damaged, and he mutated. A little less humanoid, but still with a human face.]]
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The soldiers who fight the Lickers cannot hit even one.
* ImplacableMan: [[spoiler:The Tyrants.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Leon carries a flask full of booze. Buddy and JD also help themselves to Leon's booze.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Svetlana [[WildMassGuessing (possibly to keep her quiet)]], and arguably Buddy.]]
* LadyOfWar: Svetlana, the President of the Eastern Slav Republic, looks like a standard-issue Western politician. [[spoiler:She's a former combat instructor and can effortlessly hold her own in a fistfight with Ada, and Leon.]]
* LargeAndInCharge: The [[spoiler:Tyrants.]]
* LifeOrLimbDecision: It's mentioned with how deeply the Plaga embeds in the central nervous system, a host's only options to avoid becoming a Ganado are suicide or removal, which will at best result in paralysis. [[spoiler:Buddy tries to choose death but, after Leon's intervention, is seen in a wheelchair in the final scene.]]
* KungShui: Ada punts a table at [[spoiler:Svetlana.]] She later knocks a pitcher full of water at [[spoiler:her.]]
* MadeOfIron: Leon must be made of this. [[spoiler:He gets smacked around by a Tyrant, and smashed against a pillar, and he just gets up and keeps going.]]
* MagicSkirt: Semi-averted with Ada. Played straight with [[spoiler:Svetlana]].
* MissionControl: Ingrid Hunnigan is once again Leon's handler.
* {{Mooks}}: The Ganado.
* MythologyGag
** Listen carefully during the first scene in the church: the background music is the save room music from either the classic games or ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' in particular.
** The Tyrants look a lot like the established T-103 line of Tyrants that includes Mr. X from ''Resident Evil 2'', the Tyrant from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'', and others.
** [[invoked]] The fact that the three Super Tyrants are dispatched with a tank and by attack jets could be a GeniusBonus one: in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles'', one of the files notes that Tyrants (specifically the Tyrant-Armored Lethal Organic System) are much less effective against armored vehicles and aerial vehicles.
* NoKillLikeOverkill
** The way [[spoiler:the Tyrant]] kills some of the Lickers. It sometimes makes you feel sorry for them.
** About two dozen or so of [[spoiler:Svetlana's elite troops]] open up with sub-machine guns on a single Licker. [[MadeofIron It still manages to take a swipe at the mook who checks to see if it's dead.]]
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Leon, who is out of ammo, tries to take on two [[spoiler:Super Tyrants]] with only a knife rather than run away and leave Buddy, who can't run unaided, even though Buddy left him for dead earlier and has been an ally for just minutes. [[spoiler:Thankfully, a couple of fighter jets [[BigDamnHeroes blast the Tyrants]] before Leon and Buddy can [[CurbStompBattle get smashed to a pulp]].]] Still borders on HonorBeforeReason, though.
* OhCrap
** Both Leon and Buddy when the Tyrants are unleashed upon them.
** You can just imagine the look on Leon's face when the Super Tyrant not only dodges the first RPG, but actually [[NoSell catches the second one]] and [[ThisIsGonnaSuck sends it towards Leon as a makeshift mortar.]]
** Ada has one when [[spoiler:Svetlana]] steps in and takes the fight to her.
** Svetlana has one when she is notified that the Americans and Russians have invaded the country.
* OminousWalk: [[spoiler:The Tyrants' default movement.]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:The Tyrants when their limiters are damaged/removed.]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent
** The Ganados are of the Type PS variety.
** Lickers are a [[BodyHorror heavily mutated]] Type P.
* OutOfTheInferno: [[spoiler:The Tyrants. Twice.]]
* PantyShot: Pretty hard to see since the area around Ada's crotch was always overly-darkened when doing wide-legged kicks. However, the moment it's not overly dark reveals that they were black all along.
* PowerDegeneration: The Lickers in the ESR are under humans' direct control. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 Plagas]] have been used to provide a master-slave relationship, allowing a human to inject a parasite and control the Lickers via direct ultrasonic commands. Unfortunately, doing so will eventually turn the human into a Ganado.]]
* PowerLimiter: The suits worn by the Tyrants initially. However, [[OhCrap once it comes off...]]
* PreMortemOneLiner: Leon delivers a real snarky one to the Tyrant before blowing its head off.
-->'''Leon:''' This might hurt a little.
* RasputinianDeath: One of the [[spoiler:Tyrants]] is repeatedly shot, swarmed by Lickers, blown up by exploding fuel tanks, blown up with an exploding fuel truck, shot with an RPG, and finally [[spoiler:run over and shot at point-blank range by a tank]]. Then run over again for good measure.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Buddy, and whoever else has the Master Plagas.
* [[spoiler:RedShirt: The Lickers again, fighting the Tyrants to save Leon. The audience won't believe how relieved they are seeing a wave of Lickers coming Leon's way.]]
* {{Ruritania}}: As with most of the recent ''Resident Evil'' games, ''Damnation'' is set in a fictional country. This time, it's somewhere in war-torn Eastern Europe.
* SceneryCensor: One shot during Ada's cartwheel is blocked by a gun that is kicked up towards the ceiling.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Basically Leon's entire reason for disobeying his order to pull out.
* ShootTheFuelTank
** Leon tries this to [[spoiler:kill the attacking Tyrant. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero It just damages its limiter.]]]]
** And Leon actually does it correctly by shooting tracer rounds into the fuel that is leaking out and causing it to catch on fire.
* ShoutOut: Leon's CIA contact uses the codename "Scarecrow". After finding him, he makes several allusions to ''[[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz The Wizard of Oz]]'', including calling a Licker a "cowardly lion".
* ShownTheirWork: An impressive amount of research must have went into this film. For starters, almost all of the weapons depicted would likely be encountered in Eastern Europe, [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Resident_Evil:_Damnation despite several having been rarely or never shown in a film before]] and are modeled to an impressive level of detail. The opening credits make heavy use of [[BilingualBonus Cyrilic]], which is also consistently seen on signs and billboards throughout the film. Leon empties his gun's magazine and properly reloads it with tracer rounds to set off [[ShootTheFuelTank a tanker truck]] [[StuffBlowingUp explosion]], [[spoiler:and the Russian troops at the end of the film are using accurately-depicted weapons, camouflage and vehicles]]. Normally, even big-budget Hollywood films get at least one of these wrong. And this is coming from a company that, a decade and a half previously, made reference to "[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 The United States Federal Police Department]]" and "[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis The Federal Council]]."
* [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown Stomp on Them While They Are Down:]] The Tyrants squash a couple of Lickers under their boots with gruesome results.
* TankGoodness: Kozachenko commandeers a tank to fight off the [[spoiler:Super Tyrant.]]
* TragicKeepsake: Subverted as it's not tragic in Buddy's case. He is seen with Leon's flask in the ending.
* VillainousRescue: Leon is saved a couple of times from the Tyrants by the lickers controlled by Buddy.
-->'''Leon:''' Never thought I'd be saved by B.O.W.'s.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Alluded to. J.D. tries telling Leon off that he wouldn't understand why the rebels are doing what they are doing, to which Leon cuts him off by stating that they won't see eye to eye on the issue.
* ZergRush: [[spoiler:Kozachenko sends wave after wave of Lickers after his pursuing tyrant. [[TheJuggernaut They barely slow it down.]]]]
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