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* TallPoppySyndrome: It's implied at the end that Elizabeth's distaste for Vernoica, apart from her general racism, comes from the latter being a successful celebrity author and activist.
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* StockholmSyndrome: Invoked. [[spoiler: Veronica sets up a trap by pretending to try to save the life of her captor, Senator Denton]].
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* HorsebackHeroism: At the end of the film, Veronica, wearing a Union tunic and brandishing a [[AnAxeToGrind hatchet]], goes charging on horseback through the middle of a [[spoiler:mock]] UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar battle.
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* HorsebackHeroism: At the end of the film, Veronica, wearing a Union tunic and brandishing a [[AnAxeToGrind hatchet]], hatchet, goes charging on horseback through the middle of a [[spoiler:mock]] UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar battle.
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* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Elizabeth has been running a plantation staffed by kidnapped slave labor so she can live life as it it was the antebellum South. She dies while [[WhatADrag being dragged behind Veronica's horse]] and her head slams into the base of a statue of General Robert E. Lee.]]
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* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Elizabeth has been running a plantation staffed by kidnapped slave labor so she can live life as it it was the antebellum South. She dies while [[WhatADrag being dragged behind Veronica's horse]] and her head slams into the base of a statue of [[UsefulNotes/RobertELee General Robert E. Lee.Lee]].]]
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* AnAxeToGrind: Eli takes a hatchet along with him during the final escape attempt, and uses it in a fight against the General who is wielding a sabre. During the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown that follows, both men drop their weapons and [[spoiler:the General winds up grabbing the hatchet and killing Eli with it]]. [[spoiler: Later on, Veronica ends up wielding it as she escapes on horseback.]]
* [[AngryBlackManStereotype Angry Black Woman Stereotype]]: Discussed by Eden/[[spoiler:Veronica during her speech at the inclusivity ceremony. She states that black women are expected to be quiet, or they get dubbed as being angry and irrational. By the end of the movie, she has become a far more victorious and ''very'' well-justified version of this trope.]]
* [[AngryBlackManStereotype Angry Black Woman Stereotype]]: Discussed by Eden/[[spoiler:Veronica during her speech at the inclusivity ceremony. She states that black women are expected to be quiet, or they get dubbed as being angry and irrational. By the end of the movie, she has become a far more victorious and ''very'' well-justified version of this trope.]]
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* AnAxeToGrind: Eli takes a hatchet along with him during the final escape attempt, AngryBlackManStereotype: [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender-inverted]] and uses it in a fight against the General who is wielding a sabre. During the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown that follows, both men drop their weapons and [[spoiler:the General winds up grabbing the hatchet and killing Eli with it]]. [[spoiler: Later on, Veronica ends up wielding it as she escapes on horseback.]]
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* [[AngryBlackMan [[AngryBlackManStereotype Angry Black Woman]]: Woman Stereotype]]: Discussed by Eden/[[spoiler:Veronica during her speech at the inclusivity ceremony. She states that black women are expected to be quiet, or they get dubbed as being angry and irrational. By the end of the movie, she has become a far more victorious and ''very'' well-justified version of this trope.]]
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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: This is obviously otherwise averted completely, but it's played straight in one very weird way: despite the wicked plantation owners and Confederate soldiers committing unspeakable atrocities against the slaves, not once do they use the word "nigger," even though it was commonplace in the Antebellum South. [[spoiler:The fact that this isn't the Antebellum South at all makes it even stranger - surely these people would be chomping at the bit to let out all their racial animus, n-word included?]]
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* ActionGirl: Veronica becomes this by the end of the film.
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* DirtyOldMan: The film has a particularly unsettling and disgusting example in "Him", a sextagenarian man who kidnaps Vernoica, who is at least a couple decades his junior, and repeatedly coerces her into sex. His daughter offhandedly implies that he's raped other women in the past, and that Veronica is just "his favorite girl."
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* HeroicBSOD: Veronica falls into stunned silence after being raped by "Him." [[spoiler: She breaks out of it upon realizing that her captor unknowingly brought the key to her escape to the plantation]].
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* WarReenactors: [[spoiler:The Confederate troops are a group of war reenactors who have bought in way too heavily to recreating the antebellum South. The plantation is located in a historical theme park which recreates Civil War battles, and the final chase takes place in the middle of one.]]
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* HateSink: "Him", real name [[spoiler: Senator Blake Denton]], is a slaver who runs a plantation where black people are forced to pick cotton [[spoiler: that he'll never actually make a profit from]] and where anyone who tries to escape will be tortured or killed. He also deliberately kidnapped Veronica for himself from her family, and [[spoiler: personally sticks an axe in Eli's chest when he tries to fight back]].
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* HateSink: "Him", real name [[spoiler: Senator Blake Denton]], is a slaver who runs a plantation where black people are forced to pick cotton [[spoiler: that he'll never actually make a profit from]] sell]] and where anyone who tries to escape will be tortured or killed. He also deliberately kidnapped Veronica for himself from her family, family to rape, and personally [[spoiler: personally sticks an axe ax in Eli's chest when he tries to fight back]].
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* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer suggests there is some supernatural element to the plot, such as the protagonist somehow time travelling from the 21st century to the 19th century. [[spoiler: The explanation is actually more mundane; the film takes place entirely in the 21st century, with modern black people being kidnapped by white supremacists]].
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