History Film / Damnatus

* BadassNormal: All of the protagonists bar Nira (whose psychic powers put her on the SuperWeight scale), although Corris and Wodan approach CharlesAtlasSuperpower when they survive a grenade and an RPG going off right next to them, respectively. Subverted with Oktavian

[[caption-width-right:350:The Enemy is close. The Enemy is watching. The Enemy is here.]]

* KillEmAll: The only characters to survive [[spoiler: are the ones who weren't on planet when the Exterminatus was invoked]].

* DeathOfAChild: One of the more hard-hitting images during [[spoiler:the Exterminatus scene]] is a shot of a mother and baby inamongst the CrowdPanic.

%%* DwindlingParty: Once the daemon gets loose.
%%* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:The Exterminatus order given by Lessus.]]

* GratuitousLatin: As people in the Imperium are wont to do, the characters utter a few phrases of latin ("High Gothic") during situations of appropriate gravitas.

* KillEmAll: The only characters to survive [[spoiler: are the ones who weren't on planet when Exterminatus was invoked]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's not clear whether or not Makkabeus' plan [[spoiler: to use the daemon would have actually worked or it would have just set it free]] but when it was interrupted and [[spoiler: Makkabeus killed the daemon was set free with no one left to stop it]] without resorting to [[spoiler: Exterminatus]].

* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:Our heroes screw up, die trying to escape, and then Lessus invokes exterminatus on the planet.]]

* VoiceOfTheLegion: "Ich bin hier... WEIL DIES MEINE WELT IST!"

* ActionBomb: [[spoiler: Oktavian]]

* DwindlingParty: Once the daemon gets loose.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:The Exterminatus order given by Lessus.]]

* FaintingSeer: Nira

* FiveManBand: Von Remus is {{the Hero}}, Corris is {{the Lancer}}, Wodan is TheBigGuy, Oktavian is {{the Smart Guy}} and Nira is {{the Chick}}. Adeodatus is a {{sixth ranger}} with TheFundamentalist tendencies.

Compare and contrast with ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultramarines}}'', the first official Games Workshop movie, and ''WesternAnimation/TheLordInquisitor'', another fan-made ''40k'' film.

* FiveManBand: Von Remus is {{the Hero}}, Corris is {{the Lancer}}, Wodan is TheBigGuy, Oktavian is {{the Smart Guy}} and Nira is {{the Chick}}. Adeodatus is a {{sixth ranger}} with TheFundamentalist tendancies.

* FiveManBand: Von Remus is {{the Hero}}, Corris is {{the Lancer}}, Wodan is {{the Big Guy}}, Oktavian is {{the Smart Guy}} and Nira is {{the Chick}}. Adeodatus is a {{sixth ranger}} with {{Fundamentalist}} tendancies.

* NarratorAllAlong: [[spoiler: If you thought the creepy filter was put on the intro voiceover just [[DarkerAndEdgier for effect]] then think again.]]

* InfantImmortality: Implicitly averted. One of the more hard-hitting images during [[spoiler:the Exterminatus scene]] is a shot of a mother and baby inamongst the CrowdPanic.

* AltumVidetur: As people in the Imperium are wont to do, the characters utter a few phrases of High Gothic during situations of appropriate gravitas.

* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: An interesting variation that also works out as a {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}} for Oktavian.

%%* AlmostLethalWeapons: See BadassNormal below.

* BaitAndSwitch: A meta-example, the film's [[http://www.damnatus.de/ official website]] features a downloadable "soundtrack album", but only one of the songs therein actually features in the film ([[spoiler: "Farewell" by Music/{{Summoning}}, which plays over the ending credits]])

* CosmicHorrorStory

%%* GoryDiscretionShot

%%* KillEmAll

%%* MindRape

%%* NiceJobBreakingItHero
%%* NonFatalExplosions

* BadassNormal: All of the protagonists bar Nira (who is a level 2 on the SuperWeight scale), although Corris and Wodan approach CharlesAtlasSuperpower when they survive a grenade and an RPG going off right next to them, respectively. Subverted with Oktavian

* YouAreTooLate: Both Type 1 and Type 4, but with debatable success.

* Dog Food Diet: Apparently, during a past mission Wodan was allowed to eat rats. He is quite nostalgic about it.

''Damnatus: The Enemy Within'' (or to give it its original German name, ''Damnatus: Der Feind Im Innern'') is a {{fan film}} set in the universe of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. It follows a small team of [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits mercenaries]] recruited by the Imperial [[StateSec inquisition]] as they attempt to infiltrate a suspected Chaos cult on the planet of Sancta Heroica. It appears that a rogue inquisitor is behind the cult and is attempting to summon a [[EldritchAbomination daemon]] for his own purposes, but the plot goes deeper than that, and it is not long before the heroes find themselves in way over their heads.

* You Shall Not Pass: Von Remus does one of these. [[spoiler:It doesn't work out so well.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: A meta-example, the film's [[http://www.damnatus.de/ official website]] features a downloadable "soundtrack album", but only one of the songs therein actually features in the film ([[spoiler: "Farewell" by {{Summoning}}, which plays over the ending credits]])

* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: All the heroes give their lives to try and stop G'guor, an Eldar spirit accompanying them pulls a ThanatosGambit, and inquisitor Lessus invokes [[EarthShatteringKaboom exterminatus]] on the planet, but the outro voiceover implies that G'guor will ''still'' be back someday.]]

* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:The Exterminatus order.]]

* GenreSavvy: In general the heroes are pretty good at this, sticking together and making a {{tactical withdrawal}} where appropriate. G'gour has to resort to [[RealityWarper reality hacks]] to split them up.

Created "by fans, for fans" by Spharentor studios in 2003, it originally enjoyed the full support of Games Workshop. However during post-production, problems arose over Intellectual Property rights due to differences in British and German copyright law and it was [[ExecutiveMeddling subsequently banned]] [[ScrewedByTheLawyers from official release]] in 2007. However, the movie was leaked onto various torrent sites on the net by an unknown party, and used to be available on Megaupload before its January 2012 shutdown.