History Anime / ResidentEvilDamnation

* 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.

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* 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.

* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:In the end, it was revealed that but the American and Russian government were aware that Svetlana is secretly manufacturing B.O.W.s behind their backs, therefore, by the beginning of the story, they were already secretly planning a coordinated military intervention against the Eastern Slav Republic to overthrow Svetlana's government and put an end to the civil war. Meaning that other then saving Buddy's life at the cost of crippling his legs, everything would have happened almost exactly the same with even without his intervention.]]

** One of the [[spoiler:Tyrants]] rip a Licker in half with his bare hands.

* 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. Also, Sacha is Ark Thompson with a different name, they even have the same haircut. Although this is a subversion due the fact that he and Leon are not friends.

** The way we saw the first[[spoiler:onscreen victim of the Plaga get infected is similar to ''5''[='=]s.]]

* AmericaSavesTheDay: Downplayed, At the end [[spoiler:Leon and Buddy are saved from the two Tyrants by American and Russian forces invading and blowing everything up.]]

** [[spoiler:In the end, the good guys triumph and 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 and 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. And Leon's definitely pissed off and 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, and Leon suspects that America only came to save the day to protect themselves from the publish backlash of having initially supported Svetlana. No wonder he looked so gruff in ''RE6''.]]

** 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.]]]]

* AmericaSavesTheDay:Downplayed, At the end [[spoiler:Leon and Buddy are saved from the two Tyrants by American and Russian forces invading and blowing everything up.]]

** [[spoiler:Ironically, Svetlana herself becomes a victim of this. Everything she did, she did to wipe out the rebels and make herself look like the hero who defeated a bio-terrorist organisation, thereby convincing the United Nations to allow her country to join them. This was all for naught from the very beginning, as an American spy discovered she was secretly producing bioweapons and reported it to his superiors, who proceed to invade the Eastern Slav Republic at the end of the game, forcing her to leave the presidential office in disgrace.]]

* BigDamnVillain: [[spoiler:Svetlana stating that she has disposed of the Elders, thus making sure none remains in the post-war Eastern Slav Republic.]]

* VillainousRescue: Leon is saved a couple of times from the Tyrants by the Lickers controlled by Buddy.

* 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:In the end, the good guys triumph and 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 and 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, most likely Simmons, and gets a massive warrant on her head which kinda sets up ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6''. And Leon's definitely pissed off and 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''.]]

* 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.]]

* TragicKeepsake: Subverted as it's not tragic in Buddy's case. He is seen with Leon's flask in the ending.

* 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.

* [[AllCGICartoon All-CGI Movie]]

* OutOfTheInferno: [[spoiler:The Tyrants. Twice.]]

* [[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.]]

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* 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]]."

* TheWorfEffect: Svetlana demonstrates this by [[spoiler:easily defeating Ada Wong, whom is often portrayed as one of the strongest and most calculating characters in ''Resident Evil''.]]

* AmericaSavesTheDay: At the end [[spoiler:Leon and Buddy are saved from the two Tyrants by American and Russian forces invading and blowing everything up.]]

-->'''Ada:''' So... it's true what they said about you being a former instructor.\\

-->'''[[spoiler:Svetlana]]:''' Do you have any idea who you are pointing your gun at?\\

* 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: In the end, the good guys triumph and 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 and 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, most likely Simmons, and gets a massive warrant on her head which kinda sets up ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6''. And Leon's definitely pissed off and 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''.]]
** [[spoiler: 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 B.O.W.s as an excuse to take said area for themselves, likely once more because of [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 Simmons and his family]]. This means Sasha and the rebels' fight and JD's death were all for nothing.]]

** [[spoiler: Near the end of the film, a Tyrant gets hit by the [=30mm=] cannon of an A-10 gunship. When the dust clears, we see that everything from the waist up has been obliterated, leaving only a bit of meat and the shredded remains of its spinal column and ribs.]]

* TheWorfEffect: Svetlana demonstrates this by [[spoiler: easily defeating Ada Wong, whom is often portrayed as one of the strongest and most calculating characters in ''Resident Evil''.]]

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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''.

* 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.

* VillainousRescue: Leon is saved a couple of times from the Tyrants by the lickers controlled by Buddy.

* 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.

* TheWorfEffect: Svetlana demonstrates this by [[spoiler: easily defeating Ada Wong, whom is often portrayed as one of the strongest and most calculating characters in Resident Evil.]]

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The way [[spoiler:the Tyrant]] kills some of the Lickers. It sometimes makes you feel sorry for them.

* 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.]]

** [[spoiler: In the end, the good guys triumph and 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 VideoGame/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''.]]

* BodyHorror

* ContinuityNod: A few to ''[=RE2=]'', ''[=RE4=]'' and ''[=RE5=]''.

* {{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''.

** [[spoiler: In the end, the good guys triumph and 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''.]]

* 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.]]
*** [[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.]]

** [[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.]]

* 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.