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* BewareTheNiceOnes: He may be the kindest, most open one of the group, but he's still a centuries old warrior who can tear through a group of heavily armed soldiers like a hot knife through butter. He also manages to calmly and cold-bloodedly intimidate [[spoiler:Merrick]] when the latter goes into a villainous rant.

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* BewareTheNiceOnes: He may be the kindest, most open one of the group, but he's still a centuries nearly 1000 year old warrior who can tear through a group of heavily armed soldiers like a hot knife through butter. He also manages to calmly and cold-bloodedly intimidate [[spoiler:Merrick]] when the latter goes into a villainous rant.
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* ActionHeroine: Even among a group of ActionHeroes, she stands out, since she'd been doing saving humans in perilous distress even when she was alone. She was always more than willing to throw herself into danger to save the day, because she knows nothing could kill her anyways. She keeps going even after years of becoming disillusioned with humanity [[spoiler: and losing her immortality]].

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* ActionHeroine: Even among a group of ActionHeroes, she stands out, since she'd been doing saving humans in perilous distress even when she was alone. She was always more than willing to throw herself into danger to save the day, because she knows nothing could kill her anyways. She keeps going even after years of becoming disillusioned with humanity [[spoiler: and losing her immortality]].


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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: She must have always been a firm believer in this, as even before she found other immortals, she used her immortality to save people.
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* MortalityEnsues: Loses her immortality halfway through the movie.
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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Their only actual power is their ability to rapidly heal from any injury (including what should be lethal ones), but centuries of practice and being able to make and learn from lethal mistakes have given them all inhuman combat skills.
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* CulturedWarrior: They are all hyper-competent warriors, but are also shown to have an appreciation for the finer things in life: Booker is excited by a first edition copy of ''Literature/DonQuixote'', Andy can identify the geographic origin of a piece of baklava from a single bite, Joe is an extremely skilled artist, and all of them are [[ContemplateOurNavels eloquent and philosophical]], especially Nicky. Even newly-immortal Nile shows she fits right in when she recognizes a Rodin sculpture on sight.

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* CulturedWarrior: They are all hyper-competent warriors, but are also shown to have an appreciation for the finer things in life: Booker is excited by a first edition copy of ''Literature/DonQuixote'', Andy can identify the geographic origin of a piece of baklava from a single bite, Joe is an extremely skilled artist, and all of them are [[ContemplateOurNavels eloquent and philosophical]], especially Nicky. Even newly-immortal Nile shows she fits right in when she recognizes a Rodin sculpture an Creator/AugusteRodin {{sculpture|s}} on sight.

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* ChurchMilitant: In the past. As a crusader he would have been ordained into priesthood and so is part of the historic codifiers for this trope.

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* ChurchMilitant: In the past. As He was a crusader he would have been ordained into priesthood priest and fought in a Holy War explicitly called by Pope Urban II, and so is part of the historic codifiers for this trope.



* InformedAttribute: Nile calls him "the brains of the operation," and while he is intelligent, he doesn't seem to be above and beyond the rest of the team, who are all philosophical, well-spoken polyglots.

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* InformedAttribute: Nile calls him "the brains of the operation," and while he is intelligent, he doesn't seem to be above and beyond the rest of the team, who are all philosophical, well-spoken polyglots.polyglots - though she could be referring to his technical expertise in that context.



An old immortal, whom Andy knew long before she met the others.

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An old immortal, whom Andy knew long before she met the others. She's the reason they fear capture - [[spoiler: she was locked in an iron sarcophagus and dumped in the ocean sometime in the early 16th century and has been drowning constantly ever since]]. [[spoiler: Somehow, she turns up at the end of the film]].



* AndIMustScream: She was [[spoiler:locked in an iron sarcophagus and dumped into the Atlantic Ocean during the English witch hunts, where she's been drowning and reanimating over and over since the Middle Ages]].

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* AndIMustScream: She was [[spoiler:locked in an iron sarcophagus and dumped into the Atlantic Ocean during the English witch hunts, where she's been drowning and reanimating over and over since the Middle Ages]].Ages. By the end of the film, she's out - though how and why are so far unknown]].
* CrazySane: [[spoiler: It's obliquely implied that her experiences have done this to her, as Nile, shaken, remarks that she felt insane with rage and pain in her psychic dream (and as is pointed out, given she was constantly drowning in an iron coffin for five centuries, you can see why), yet she ''seems'' perfectly sane when she meets Booker six months after the events of the film.]]



* AntiVillain: He genuinely admires the immortals, having gone to a great deal of trouble to not just trace them but all the good they've done, becoming animated when he discusses Andy's impact in particular - and pointing out that in terms of fine detail, this is just what he can find from the last 150 years. The only reason he's opposing them is that he's a WellIntentionedExtremist who hopes their abilities can be replicated and is appalled [[spoiler: when he realises that Merrick isn't content with just taking samples, but is utterly sadistic and intends to keep them locked up forever to get the secret and keep them out of the hands of his competitors]].



* CombatPragmatist: He only goes after [[spoiler: Joe and Nicky]] once he's sure he has them on the ropes from being caught in an explosion.



* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: He doesn't let the fact that [[spoiler: Joe and Nicky are just coming around from being knocked out or possibly even killed]] get in the way of delivering the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown mentioned below.

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* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: He doesn't let the fact that [[spoiler: Joe and Nicky are just coming around from being knocked out or possibly even killed]] get in the way of delivering the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown mentioned below. Given that he's seen what they're capable of, this is less unnecessary violence, more completely practical. It still doesn't help.
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* AnAxeToGrind: She uses a ''labrys'' (a double-headed axe) in battle, in addition to her guns. When Merrick gets a hold of her ''labrys'', she settles for using a regular fireman's axe to fight mooks until she gets it back.

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