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** In the opening, after an AccidentalMurder of a soldier that caved-in his skull over a corner of a table while goofing around with a football, the other soldiers toss his body off the window, solely to avoid direct trouble. It is further covered up as an accident during installation of an anthena.
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** [[spoiler: Sergeant Lee beats the shit out of Elwood, to the point he can't even stand on his own. He then drags Ray to the top flood of a tall building, with plans to splatter him on the road down below and thus cover his own tracks]].
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** [[spoiler: Sergeant Lee beats the shit out of Elwood, to the point he can't even stand on his own. He then drags Ray to the top flood floor of a tall building, with plans to splatter him on the road down below and thus cover his own tracks]].
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* BloodKnight: As far as Sergeant Lee is concerned, Vietnam War was a great time and he genuinely enjoyed every single minute of it. Particularly the fact that he could kill whoever he pleased, whenever he pleased. The top goes as far as telling Elwood - while [[spoiler: [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident preparing to kill him]]]] - that the war could be easily won, if only there were more people like him around.
* BoyfriendBlockingDad: Elwood figures out early on that Sergeant Lee must be this sort of man, so just to mess with him he starts dating his daughter. As she quickly points out, Robert E. Lee is not the sort of person you want to antagonise. Especially not when it comes to his daughter. Elwood is quickly to find out making things personal with his new Top is a terrible idea. [[spoiler: In the finale, Lee is ready to beat Ray to death not over his numerous crimes, but for sleeping with Robyn]].
* BoyfriendBlockingDad: Elwood figures out early on that Sergeant Lee must be this sort of man, so just to mess with him he starts dating his daughter. As she quickly points out, Robert E. Lee is not the sort of person you want to antagonise. Especially not when it comes to his daughter. Elwood is quickly to find out making things personal with his new Top is a terrible idea. [[spoiler: In the finale, Lee is ready to beat Ray to death not over his numerous crimes, but for sleeping with Robyn]].
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* BloodKnight: As far as Sergeant Lee is concerned, Vietnam War was a great time and he genuinely enjoyed every single minute of it. Particularly the fact that he could kill whoever he pleased, whenever he pleased. The top Top goes as far as telling Elwood - while [[spoiler: [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident preparing to kill him]]]] - that the war could be easily won, if only there were more people like him around.
* BoobyTrap: [[spoiler: Stoney goes to check on the drug stash after Saad voices complain about a missing shipment. As he opens the locker, he finds a grenade hanging on a string, with the pin taped to the doors. He has just enough time to notice what's up before it explodes in his face. Sergeant Lee explains to Elwood that he was the one who set it up, to remove Elwood's bodyguard from the picture]].
* BoyfriendBlockingDad: Elwood figures out early on that Sergeant Lee must be this sort of man, so just to mess with him he starts dating his daughter. As she quickly points out, Robert E. Lee is not the sort of person you want to antagonise. Especially not when it comes to his daughter. Elwoodis quickly to find finds out making things personal with his new Top is a terrible idea. [[spoiler: In the finale, Lee is ready to beat Ray to death not over his numerous crimes, but for sleeping with Robyn]].
* BoobyTrap: [[spoiler: Stoney goes to check on the drug stash after Saad voices complain about a missing shipment. As he opens the locker, he finds a grenade hanging on a string, with the pin taped to the doors. He has just enough time to notice what's up before it explodes in his face. Sergeant Lee explains to Elwood that he was the one who set it up, to remove Elwood's bodyguard from the picture]].
* BoyfriendBlockingDad: Elwood figures out early on that Sergeant Lee must be this sort of man, so just to mess with him he starts dating his daughter. As she quickly points out, Robert E. Lee is not the sort of person you want to antagonise. Especially not when it comes to his daughter. Elwood
* CallBack: "Cleanliness is next to godliness". First said by Elwood to justify excess requisition on cleaning supplies to sell off via black market, but in the finale [[spoiler: said by his new boss in the Hawaii base as Elwood [[HereWeGoAgain handles him a bogus requisition]]]].
* DirtyCop: Sergeant Saad is a MP of the base. Along with other [=MPs=], he's running an [[GenericEthnicCrimeGang all-black outfit]] that is too busy selling dope to be bothered with the consequences, while using their position to cover up all the minor fuck-ups, as long as they get their cut of profits.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Turk is a [[ShapedLikeItself Turkish mobster]] with NoNameGiven.
* FalseFriend: Elwood is very friendly with his commanding officer, Colonel Berman. That's because this makes stealing military provisions all that easier. On top of that, he's ''also'' [[SleepingWithTheBosssWife sleeping with Berman's wife]], just because. Eventually, [[spoiler: Elwood personally arranges for the colonel to fail the field exercise in a very quick order for personal gains, while Berman, nonthewiser, is discharged of duty]] - and he even confesses his personal feelings about it directly to Elwood.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Turk is a [[ShapedLikeItself Turkish mobster]] with NoNameGiven.
* FalseFriend: Elwood is very friendly with his commanding officer, Colonel Berman. That's because this makes stealing military provisions all that easier. On top of that, he's ''also'' [[SleepingWithTheBosssWife sleeping with Berman's wife]], just because. Eventually, [[spoiler: Elwood personally arranges for the colonel to fail the field exercise in a very quick order for personal gains, while Berman, nonthewiser, is discharged of duty]] - and he even confesses his personal feelings about it directly to Elwood.
* FriendInTheBlackMarket: In both cases, they are very chummy to Ray
** Herman the German is Elwood's contact for the regular stuff that the quartermaster can requisit and then sell off.
** [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Turk]] delivers Elwood opiates to cook heroin for the base's drug ring.
** Herman the German is Elwood's contact for the regular stuff that the quartermaster can requisit and then sell off.
** [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Turk]] delivers Elwood opiates to cook heroin for the base's drug ring.
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* TheLastStraw: [[spoiler: The utterly failed field exercise is the breaking point for already failing military career of Colonel Berman. Since he proposed the whole exercise himself and failed it so miserably, all right before his incoming evaluating, he's discharged of his duty and from the Army]].
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* TheLastStraw: [[spoiler: The utterly failed field exercise is the breaking point for the already failing military career of Colonel Berman. Since he proposed the whole exercise himself and failed it so miserably, all right before his incoming evaluating, he's discharged of his duty and from the Army]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: When Stg. Lee meets Elwood and his crew for the first time, he acts like a bumbling, elderly man who's all chummy and easily fooled. The charade is off when Elwood tries to bribe him and Lee shows his [[CowboyCop true]] [[KnightTemplar colours]].
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* OnlySaneMan: Garcia is the only person in Elwood's outfit who instantly realises that they should ''instantly'' return the weapons they've accidently seized, as this is completely out of their league. He is also the only person to keep his head cool when [[spoiler: a group of soldiers raid their smack lab in the finale - and he lives to tell the tale]].
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* OnlySaneMan: Garcia is the only person in Elwood's outfit who instantly realises that they should ''instantly'' return the weapons they've accidently seized, as this is completely out of their league. He is also the only person to keep his head cool when [[spoiler: a group of soldiers raid their smack lab in the finale - and he lives to tell the tale]].
* ScaryBlackMan:
** Stoney is Elwood's [[TheHeavy heavy]]: tall, muscular, black and ''very'' confrontational against anyone who as much as gives Elwood a strange look.
** Saad and his gang of [=MPs=] deliberately invoke it as part of their schtick as {{Dirty Cop}}s intimidating everyone on their way.
** Stoney is Elwood's [[TheHeavy heavy]]: tall, muscular, black and ''very'' confrontational against anyone who as much as gives Elwood a strange look.
** Saad and his gang of [=MPs=] deliberately invoke it as part of their schtick as {{Dirty Cop}}s intimidating everyone on their way.
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* SuspiciousSpending: Sgt. Lee quickly catches on to the criminal activities going on in the base when he notices that Pvt. Garcia is wearing a very expensive watch he has no business of having based on his salary.
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* SuspiciousSpending: Sgt. Lee quickly catches on to the criminal activities going on in the base when he notices that Pvt. Garcia is wearing a very expensive watch he has no business of having based on his salary.salary or lowly origins.
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* TrojanHorse: Since Elwood need the nuclear base clear, he decides to help the other side of the field exercises to use FalseFlagOperation and drive two supply trucks that were supposed to deliver breakfast for Colonel Berman's troops. The two-day exercise is thus over before it even started for good, [[spoiler: and Berman is drummed out of the military for being an incompetent officer]].
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* TrojanHorse: Since Elwood need needs the nuclear base clear, clear to ship out the weapons he stored there earlier [[TheMobBossIsScarier post-haste]], he decides to help the other side of the field exercises to use FalseFlagOperation and drive two supply trucks that were supposed to deliver breakfast for Colonel Berman's troops. The two-day exercise is thus over before it even started for good, [[spoiler: and Berman is drummed out of the military for being an incompetent officer]].
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* BoyfriendBlockingDad: Elwood figures out early on that Sergeant Lee must be this sort of man, so just to mess with him he starts dating his daughter. As she quickly points out, Robert E. Lee is not the sort of person you want to antagonise. Especially not when it comes to his daughter. Elwood is quickly to find out making things personal with his new Top is a terrible idea. [[spoiler: In the finale, Lee is ready to beat Ray to death not over his numerous crimes, but for sleeping with Robyn]].
* IgnoredExpert: Robyn knows her dad more than anyone else. ''Everyone'' ignores her warnings about what sort of man and soldier he is, until it is way too late.
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** Elwood starts dating Sergeant Lee's daughter, simply to get back on him. It backfires in a spectacular fashion, as Lee starts to punish Ray at every given chance, taking very personal offense.
* TheLastStraw: [[spoiler: The utterly failed field exercise is the breaking point for already failing military career of Colonel Berman. Since he proposed the whole exercise himself and failed it so miserably, all right before his incoming evaluating, he's discharged of his duty and from the Army]].
* LikeADuckTakesToWater: Somewhere between [[TradingBarsForStripes his sentence]] and the film's present, Elwood managed to climb to Specialist, get into quartermaster position and set himself a cozy life by trading military supplies to the outside, while also being ClandestineChemist for the drug ring of his base.
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* SelfMadeMan: General Lancaster reached his current rank all on his own, without any pedigree to help himself. Which means he not only isn't impressed by {{Famous Ancestor}}s, he outright mocks his underlings for their petty bidding of who's lineage is better. As he puts it:
-->I don't go much for this lineage shit. I'm not related to anyone famous. And this family line bullshit makes me feel insecure. My belief is: if you come from dirt, you fight better, because you don't want to go back to the dirt.
-->I don't go much for this lineage shit. I'm not related to anyone famous. And this family line bullshit makes me feel insecure. My belief is: if you come from dirt, you fight better, because you don't want to go back to the dirt.
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* TradingBarsForStripes: Ray Elwood was caught while carjacking. He was given a choice by the judge: six months in prison and a stain in his papers... or three years in the Army. He picked the Army, but decided to instantly employ his skills to make the most of it - [[CorruptQuartermaster financially, that is]].
* TrojanHorse: Since Elwood need the nuclear base clear, he decides to help the other side of the field exercises to use FalseFlagOperation and drive two supply trucks that were supposed to deliver breakfast for Colonel Berman's troops. The two-day exercise is thus over before it even started for good, [[spoiler: and Berman is drummed out of the military for being an incompetent officer]].
* TrojanHorse: Since Elwood need the nuclear base clear, he decides to help the other side of the field exercises to use FalseFlagOperation and drive two supply trucks that were supposed to deliver breakfast for Colonel Berman's troops. The two-day exercise is thus over before it even started for good, [[spoiler: and Berman is drummed out of the military for being an incompetent officer]].
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* FreezeFrameBonus: When Elwood is checking files on Lee, there is his entire military career, education, family status and few other details that [[ChekhovsGun set up things to come]]. Without pausing, you've got exactly 3 seconds to read each page.
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* SleepingWithTheBosssWife: Private Elwood is sleeping with his superior Colonel Berman's German wife behind his back. His boss is enough of a dimwit that he never suspects a thing, and still believes that Elwood is a stand-up soldier after he's forced into early retirement as a result of Elwood's machinations.
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* SleepingWithTheBosssWife: Private SPC Elwood is sleeping with his superior Colonel Berman's German wife behind his back. His boss is enough of a dimwit that he never suspects a thing, and still believes that Elwood is a stand-up soldier after he's forced into early retirement as a result of Elwood's machinations.
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* TropicalEpilogue: [[spoiler:At the end Pvt. Elwood gets away basically scot-free with his crimes and ends up getting redeployed to a U.S. base in Hawaii where he can continue his schemes.]]
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* TropicalEpilogue: [[spoiler:At the end Pvt. SPC Elwood gets away basically scot-free with his crimes and ends up getting redeployed to a U.S. base in Hawaii where he can continue his schemes.]]
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* BloodKnight: As far as Sergeant Lee is concerned, Vietnam War was a great time and he genuinely enjoyed every single minute of it. Particularly the fact that he could kill whoever he pleased, whenever he pleased. The top goes as far as telling Elwood - while [[spoiler: [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident preparing to kill him]]]] - that the war could be easily won, if only there were more people like him around.
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** [[spoiler: Ironically, when the top brass has to cover the explosion of the drug lab and various other mishaps going in the base, they write part of it as a freak accident]].
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** [[spoiler: Ironically, when the top brass has to cover the explosion of the drug lab and various other mishaps going in the base, they write part of it as a freak accident]].accident with a gas leak]].
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking : When Berman reads the coroner's report :report:
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* ArtisticLicensePharmacology: No, eating would do nothing to prevent getting high on the heroin fumes. But otherwise, the pay-back on Saad wouldn't work.
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* OnlySaneMan: Garcia is the only person in Elwood's outfit who instantly realises that they should ''instantly'' return the weapons they've accidently seized, as this is completely out of their league. He is also the only person to keep his head cool when [[spoiler: a group of soldiers raid their smack lab in the finale - and he lives to tell the tale]].
-->'''Elwood''': There is no time like now...
-->'''Garcia''': "There is no time like now"? Are you crazy? We're not weapons dealers!
-->'''Elwood''': There is no time like now...
-->'''Garcia''': "There is no time like now"? Are you crazy? We're not weapons dealers!
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* TanksButNoTanks: Since Pentagon denied any support to the movie, the production team had to improvise. [[UsefulNotes/WeAreNotTheWehrmacht Bundeswehr]] provided former US military bases for location shots, trucks, military cars and even few M113 were rented and sourced from collectors... but the US soldiers are still driving in German Leopard 1 tanks, with ''zero'' effort to conceal the fact, since the prop department quickly realised it would be impossible.
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* TheMobBossIsScarier: Elwood learns the hard way that the Turk might be [[AffablyEvil a very polite man]], but he ''will'' kill Ray and his friends should they get some dumb ideas like breaking the deal for the weapons the Turk already have sold and now needs them delivered.
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* {{Irony}}: Knoll has a breakdown after being beaten by Saad and his gang of [=MPs=], confessing to Elwood how awful this is when compared with the fond memories of his father and grandfather of their service and FireForgedFriends. This is a turning point for Elwood, as he takes pity in Knoll, and the two eventually become good, trusting friends. [[spoiler: Except Knoll is TheMole to arrest Ray. They ''both'' acknowledge in the end how weird it is to have FriendlyEnemy]] and how Ray is the only real friend Brian made during his service.
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* {{Irony}}: Knoll has a breakdown after being beaten by Saad and his gang of [=MPs=], confessing to Elwood how awful this is when compared with the fond memories of his father and grandfather of their service and FireForgedFriends. This is a turning point for Elwood, as he takes pity in on Knoll, and the two eventually become good, trusting friends. [[spoiler: Except Knoll is TheMole to arrest Ray. They ''both'' acknowledge in the end how weird it is to have FriendlyEnemy]] and how Ray is the only real friend Brian made during his service.
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Pretty much every party in the GambitPileup is evil one way or another, but Elwood comes on top on being non-malicious and least brutal of all sides, while in the same time Sergeant Lee is an actual lawman taking down a criminal net - it's his methods that are abhorrent. Everyone else is just different shades of organised crime.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: In the end, Elwood gets away with everything scot-free and [[HereWeGoAgain proceeds to set up a new racket]] as soon as put back to service]].
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Pretty much every party in the GambitPileup is evil one way or another, but Elwood comes on topon for being non-malicious and the least brutal of all sides, while in at the same time Sergeant Lee is an actual lawman taking down a criminal net - it's his methods that are abhorrent. Everyone else is just different shades of organised crime.crime, fully accepting murder as a solution.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Pretty much every party in the GambitPileup is evil one way or another, but Elwood comes on top
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* LovableRogue: Despite Elwood being thoroughly crooked and self-serving criminal in uniform, he manages to still be a sympathetic character. It helps that his enemies are [[DirtyCop dirty]] and [[PoliceBrutality brutal]] [=MPs=], along with a hardass, KnightTemplar First Sergeant trying to set order in the base.
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* LovableRogue: Despite Elwood being a thoroughly crooked and self-serving criminal in uniform, he manages to still be a sympathetic character. It helps that his enemies are [[DirtyCop dirty]] and [[PoliceBrutality brutal]] [=MPs=], along with a hardass, KnightTemplar First Sergeant trying to set order in the base.
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* VillainProtagonist: Elwood isn't just a CorruptQuartermaster, he's running an openly criminal racket, with drug cooking and distribution and in the very opening manages to steal ''two trucks full of weapons'' in a freak accident caused by his own drugs.
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* VillainProtagonist: Elwood isn't just a CorruptQuartermaster, he's running an openly criminal racket, with drug cooking and distribution and in the very opening he manages to steal ''two trucks full of weapons'' in a freak accident caused by his own drugs.
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* BlackComedy: Unlike just about any other ArmedFarces movie, this one is incredibly cynical and bitter, where the incompetence of the military is portrayed not as funny by itself, but how much bad and depraved things such incompetence allows for. It is ''still'' played for laughs, but the context and ever-increasing pile of dead bodies makes it a wholly different experience.
* BrokenPedestal: [[NewMeat PFC Knoll]] faces extreme levels of brutal bullying and even racism (and he's ''white'', which makes it stand out even more), to the point he is utterly disillusioned about the military, comparing his miserable lot with his father and grandfather having nothing but the best memories from their service and life-long friendship with the people they've served with. [[spoiler: And then we ''also'' learn he endured all that shit just to box Elwood, Saad and their associates]].
* {{Irony}}: Knoll has a breakdown after being beaten by Saad and his gang of [=MPs=], confessing to Elwood how awful this is when compared with the fond memories of his father and grandfather of their service and FireForgedFriends. This is a turning point for Elwood, as he takes pity in Knoll, and the two eventually become good, trusting friends. [[spoiler: Except Knoll is TheMole to arrest Ray. They ''both'' acknowledge in the end how weird it is to have FriendlyEnemy]] and how Ray is the only real friend Brian made during his service.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Pretty much every party in the GambitPileup is evil one way or another, but Elwood comes on top on being non-malicious and least brutal of all sides, while in the same time Sergeant Lee is an actual lawman taking down a criminal net - it's his methods that are abhorrent. Everyone else is just different shades of organised crime.
* LivingCrashpad: [[spoiler: In the finale, Elwood drags Sergeant Lee off the window with himself, and then uses Lee as a cushion, effectively murdering him]].
* LovableRogue: Despite Elwood being thoroughly crooked and self-serving criminal in uniform, he manages to still be a sympathetic character. It helps that his enemies are [[DirtyCop dirty]] and [[PoliceBrutality brutal]] [=MPs=], along with a hardass, KnightTemplar First Sergeant trying to set order in the base.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident:
** [[spoiler: Sergeant Lee beats the shit out of Elwood, to the point he can't even stand on his own. He then drags Ray to the top flood of a tall building, with plans to splatter him on the road down below and thus cover his own tracks]].
** [[spoiler: Ironically, when the top brass has to cover the explosion of the drug lab and various other mishaps going in the base, they write part of it as a freak accident]].
* LivingCrashpad: [[spoiler: In the finale, Elwood drags Sergeant Lee off the window with himself, and then uses Lee as a cushion, effectively murdering him]].
* LovableRogue: Despite Elwood being thoroughly crooked and self-serving criminal in uniform, he manages to still be a sympathetic character. It helps that his enemies are [[DirtyCop dirty]] and [[PoliceBrutality brutal]] [=MPs=], along with a hardass, KnightTemplar First Sergeant trying to set order in the base.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident:
** [[spoiler: Sergeant Lee beats the shit out of Elwood, to the point he can't even stand on his own. He then drags Ray to the top flood of a tall building, with plans to splatter him on the road down below and thus cover his own tracks]].
** [[spoiler: Ironically, when the top brass has to cover the explosion of the drug lab and various other mishaps going in the base, they write part of it as a freak accident]].
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Brian Knoll is not a Private First Class, but a 2nd Lieutenant and the inside man to Ray's operation]]. He endured everything thrown at him just to keep his cover until the last moment.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: When Lee eventually [[spoiler: gets his hands on Elwood]], he is beating him to death.
* OddFriendship: Ray eventually befriends Knoll, a NaiveNewcomer that Lee spitefully assigned to Elwood's barrack's "suite". [[spoiler: While Knoll is there to eventually arrest Elwood for his crimes, their friendship is completely genuine]].
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: When Lee eventually [[spoiler: gets his hands on Elwood]], he is beating him to death.
* OddFriendship: Ray eventually befriends Knoll, a NaiveNewcomer that Lee spitefully assigned to Elwood's barrack's "suite". [[spoiler: While Knoll is there to eventually arrest Elwood for his crimes, their friendship is completely genuine]].
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: [[spoiler: '''2nd Lieutenant''' Brian Knoll is there to arrest Elwood and gather first-hand evidence on his operation]], but he's one of the most sympathetic characters in the story. They ''both'' acknowledge that their friendship couldn't get any more complicated than that.
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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: It's never spelled out, but Knoll probably died in the explosion in the end]].
* TheVietnamVet: First Sergeant Lee. He's probably the only person in the entire base to actually take part in an armed conflict.
* VillainProtagonist: Elwood isn't just a CorruptQuartermaster, he's running an openly criminal racket, with drug cooking and distribution and in the very opening manages to steal ''two trucks full of weapons'' in a freak accident caused by his own drugs.
* TheVietnamVet: First Sergeant Lee. He's probably the only person in the entire base to actually take part in an armed conflict.
* VillainProtagonist: Elwood isn't just a CorruptQuartermaster, he's running an openly criminal racket, with drug cooking and distribution and in the very opening manages to steal ''two trucks full of weapons'' in a freak accident caused by his own drugs.
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* AccidentalMurder:
** In the opening scene, the bored soldiers at the base try to play a game of football indoors. They knock one skinny soldier into the corner of a table by the head. Elwood is the only person present who notices that he died.
** The drugged-up tank crew kill two of their fellow soldiers by blowing up a gas station, engulfing the pair in a huge fireball. The crew is too high to even care or realize. Earlier on, they nearly flatten several German civilians.
** In the opening scene, the bored soldiers at the base try to play a game of football indoors. They knock one skinny soldier into the corner of a table by the head. Elwood is the only person present who notices that he died.
** The drugged-up tank crew kill two of their fellow soldiers by blowing up a gas station, engulfing the pair in a huge fireball. The crew is too high to even care or realize. Earlier on, they nearly flatten several German civilians.
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''Buffalo Soldiers'' is a 2001 American satirical war film directed by Creator/GregorJordan, starring Creator/JoaquinPhoenix, Creator/AnnaPaquin, Creator/ScottGlenn, Creator/MichaelPena, Creator/DeanStockwell, and Creator/EdHarris.
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''Buffalo Soldiers'' is a 2001 American satirical war film directed by Creator/GregorJordan, starring Creator/JoaquinPhoenix, Creator/ScottGlenn, Creator/AnnaPaquin, Creator/ScottGlenn, Creator/GabrielMann, Creator/ElizabethMcGovern, Creator/MichaelPena, Creator/DeanStockwell, and Creator/EdHarris.
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: Based on the 1993 novel of the same name by Robert O'Connor.
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''Buffalo Soldiers'' is a 2001 satirical film starring Creator/JoaquinPhoenix, Creator/AnnaPaquin, Creator/ScottGlenn, Creator/MichaelPena, Creator/DeanStockwell, and Creator/EdHarris.
Ray Elwood is a U.S. soldier stationed at an American army base in late 1980s Germany. With no war to fight, the privates spend their time in the drug business and other illegal activities to pass the time. When Elwood and his guys encounter a large supply of military-grade weapons whose owners were killed in a bizarre tank accident, he steals and tries to sell the weapons. His cozy life on the base becomes more difficult when he's confronted by Robert Lee, a by-the-book Sergeant who immediately takes a dislike to Elwood.
''Buffalo Soldiers'' is a 2001 satirical film starring Creator/JoaquinPhoenix, Creator/AnnaPaquin, Creator/ScottGlenn, Creator/MichaelPena, Creator/DeanStockwell, and Creator/EdHarris.
Ray Elwood is a U.S. soldier stationed at an American army base in late 1980s Germany. With no war to fight, the privates spend their time in the drug business and other illegal activities to pass the time. When Elwood and his guys encounter a large supply of military-grade weapons whose owners were killed in a bizarre tank accident, he steals and tries to sell the weapons. His cozy life on the base becomes more difficult when he's confronted by Robert Lee, a by-the-book Sergeant who immediately takes a dislike to Elwood.
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''Buffalo Soldiers'' is a 2001 American satirical war film directed by Creator/GregorJordan, starring Creator/JoaquinPhoenix, Creator/AnnaPaquin, Creator/ScottGlenn, Creator/MichaelPena, Creator/DeanStockwell, and Creator/EdHarris.
Ray Elwood (Phoenix) is a
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* ClandestineChemist: Ray Elwood.Elwood is baking heroin using supplies provided by the Turk.
* CorruptQuartermaster: We are introduced to Elwood as he's in the process of back-selling cleaning supplies on the black market. A big part of the plot revolves around him trying to sell a truck full of firearms and weapon systems that went missing, while at the same time Sergeant Lee is trying to crack down on the whole operation.
* GeneralFailure: Coloner Berman is an incompetent career officer who clearly only got his rank and post simply by tenure (and even that barely), rather than having any actual skills or abilities. However, his incompetence is catching up with him, and after [[spoiler: the disastrous exercises, he's drummed out of the military]].
* GenericEthnicCrimeGang:
** The base's MP is an all-blacks gang of thugs that have dibs on every illicit operation going on and boss around everyone, enforcing ScaryBlackMan in-universe.
** Downplayed with the Turk and his Turkish enforcers, befitting the story set in the West Germany in the tail end of the 80s.
* GenericEthnicCrimeGang:
** The base's MP is an all-blacks gang of thugs that have dibs on every illicit operation going on and boss around everyone, enforcing ScaryBlackMan in-universe.
** Downplayed with the Turk and his Turkish enforcers, befitting the story set in the West Germany in the tail end of the 80s.
* InLoveWithTheMark: Ray starts dating Robyn simply to spite Sergeant Lee, but eventually they end up in a genuine relationship.
* ItsPersonal:
** Elwood starts dating Sergeant Lee's daughter, simply to get back on him. It backfires in spectacular fashion, as Lee starts to punish Ray at every given chance, taking very personal offense.
** Ray himself is taken aback when targeted by Lee, so he starts to further escalate things, creating a vicious cycle of ever-increasing tension.
* ItsPersonal:
** Elwood starts dating Sergeant Lee's daughter, simply to get back on him. It backfires in spectacular fashion, as Lee starts to punish Ray at every given chance, taking very personal offense.
** Ray himself is taken aback when targeted by Lee, so he starts to further escalate things, creating a vicious cycle of ever-increasing tension.
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* RealMenEatMeat: Defied by the head of the MP at the military base, who is a very manly ScaryBlackMan who abhors meat. The main character uses this to mess with him by only providing him with sausages during a drug cooking.
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* RealMenEatMeat: Defied by the head of the MP at the military base, who is a very manly ScaryBlackMan who abhors meat. The main character uses this to mess with him by only providing him with sausages nothing but hot-dogs and burgers during a drug cooking.cooking session.
