History Characters / Midway2019

* OnlyAFleshWound: Subverted. He gets shot in the arm and initially walks if off. Adm. Spruance, who realizes the severity of his wound, orders him to get patched up, as he's rightfully not in a condition to lead or fly.

* PutOnABus: When Admiral Halsey is forced to take sick leave, Browning stays behind at Pearl when the ''Enterprise'' leaves for Midway. (Which is NOT what happened in Real Life; Browning serves as Chief of Staff to Spruance and does not perform well in executing the morning attack on 4 June).

* OhCrap: He has a silent one when he sees Best's flight of SBD Dauntlesses line up for an attack on the ''Akagi''.

* HonorBeforeReason:
** Played with, when even after the loss of the other three carriers, Yamamoto commands Yamaguchi to press on with his remaining carrier and salvage the battle. Yamaguchi considers this action pointless now, but carries out his orders.

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Luke Kleintank

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Subverted. When transferred to a dive bomber before the battle, he claims to Best that he can do as good a job when it comes to flying the SBD and bombing. But during the Battle of Midway he not only confuses both his and Best's squadrons into going after one carrier, he also misses his target and then gets shot in the shoulder during the flight back to the ''Enterprise''. In reality, [=McClusky=] (as noted above) had only recently transferred from a fighter to a dive bomber, and the doubling-up upon the ''Kaga'' was due to simultaneous radio broadcasts confusing both units.

* FamousLastWords: "You bastard..."

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: A rather tragic example regarding [[spoiler:his death. While the film version goes out like a champ, the real Guido was ''gruesomely'' tortured until he cracked and told the Japanese everything he knew; and he begged for his life as they tied him down with weights and prepared to toss him overboard]].

* AdultFear: Happens to her twice. First is when she sees her daughter out in the open just as the Japanese are bombing Pearl Harbor, the second is when she hears rumors about her husband's squadron taking heavy casualties. It's clear during both scenes that she was fearing for both her daughter's and husband's lives.

* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: [[spoiler:Rather than take Gaido and O'Flaherty with them back to Japan, he has them executed via CementShoes.]]

* BigGood: Serves as this to the main cast on the ''USS Enterprise'' as commander of the Second World War in the Pacific (though he also shares authority with General UsefulNotes/DouglasMacarthur in the Philippines), replacing the disgraced Adm. Kimmel. He is subordinate to the even [[BigGood bigger goods]] Ernest King (chief of the navy) and President Roosevelt.
* RankUp: Nimitz is promoted to full Admiral to replace Kimmel as commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Come 1945 and he is promoted to the new five-star rank of Fleet Admiral, only given to four officers thus far. The aftermath of the war also sees him appointed Chief of Naval Operations, succeeding Ernest King.