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* HidingInPlainSight: HiddenInPlainSight: [[spoiler:Kang runs his extremist paramilitary outfit whilst being the South Korean Prime Minister's head of security. It helps that prior to the events of the film, he'd never been photographed.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Also the terrorists disguised as tourists, the tour bus that [[ActionBomb blows up]], and the garbage trucks carrying [[MoreDakka machine guns]].
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* TortureAlwaysWorks: Used reliably by both Banning on captured Korean terrorists and by Kang on the President's cabinet.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: In the lobby of the US Treasury building,BarackObama's [[CorruptPolitician BarackObama's]] photo is on display apparently with other former Presidents, thus establishing the President in the story took office after him.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: In the lobby of the US Treasury building,
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* YouCantThwartStageOne: Partially averted, [[spoiler:the villains were looking for the President's son so they can threaten him to force the President to give up his Cerebus code, but Banning successfully gets the boy out of the White House and to safety.
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** Also Kang is aware of the secret tunnels created when the White House was rebuilt during Truman's administration and orders his goons to fire into the walls.
* GeneralFailure: General Edward Clegg refuses to listen to Banning's warning to abort a SEAL raid because of an advanced anti-aircraft gun being deployed and all the SEALS are killed. Afterward, the House Speaker tells him that the present emergency was only thing keeping him from relieving the idiot officer of duty.
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* YouCantThwartStageOne: Partially averted, [[spoiler:the villains were looking for the President's son so they can threaten him to force the President to give up his Cerebus code, but Banning successfully gets the boy out of the White House and to safety.
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* VillainsDyingGrace: [[spoiler:Forbes, defeated, lies about having killed Mike, giving him a bit more breathing room.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The President [[AFatherToHisMen orders his other two advisors to give up their access codes]], certain that he can resist any forthcoming torture and withhold the third. Kang just brute-forces the President's code instead.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The President [[AFatherToHisMen orders his other two advisors to give up their access codes]], certain that he can resist any forthcoming torture and withhold the third. [[spoiler: Kang just brute-forces the President's code instead.instead]].
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* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The entire premise of the movie.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Kang. Also his {{Mooks}}, who headshot every downed Secret Service agent just to make sure they're dead.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: rare Rare villainous example in ([[spoiler:David Forbes, formerly a member of the President's security detail]]).
** [[spoiler: Ironically, she's the only one other than Banning and the President to survive.]]
** Also the last Secret Service agent standing (other than Banning) -- his last act, before being shot dead, is to tell the terrorist standing over him "Fuck you!" and shooting him.
** Also the last Secret Service agent standing (other than Banning) -- his last act, before being shot dead, is to tell the terrorist standing over him "Fuck you!" and shooting him.
* [[spoiler: FakingTheDead: Kang has several of his {{Mooks}} and all the hostages except the President dressed up identically before boarding a helicopter, which is then destroyed by a suicide bomber, tricking everyone (except [[GenreSavvy Banning]]) into thinking he and the President are dead, so they can sneak away.]]
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: {{in-universe}}, someone refers to the pound sign as "hashtag", causing confusion to the non-Twitter user at the keyboard. ("It's Shift-3!")
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SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: Everyone on the helicopter Kang blows up to fake his and the President's death.]]
* TechnologyMarchesOn:{{in-universe}}, {{In-universe}}, someone refers to the pound sign as "hashtag", causing confusion to the non-Twitter user at the keyboard. ("It's Shift-3!")
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Taken UpToEleven by Banning. [[spoiler: He kills one prisoner to get the other to loosen up.]
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* ActorAllusion: MorganFreeman plays the Speaker of the House, who, when the President and Vice President are captured, gets promoted to "[[IncrediblyLamePun Acting]] President".
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* DefiantToTheEnd: The secretary of defense:
-->"We may die here, but no way will I let my tombstone say 'she went down without a fight.'"
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Oh, crap. A group of Korean terrorists led by [[NinjaAssassin Takeshi]] has taken President [[TheDarkKnight Harvey Dent]] hostage, and it's up to [[ThreeHundred Leonidas]] to save the day. He has House Speaker [[DeepImpact Tom Beck]] backing him up, with [[StrangeDays Mace Mason]], the head of the Secret Service.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Forbes]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: Oh, crap. A group of Korean terrorists led by [[NinjaAssassin Takeshi]] has taken President [[TheDarkKnight Harvey Dent]] hostage, and it's up to [[ThreeHundred Leonidas]] to save the day. He has House Speaker [[DeepImpact Tom Beck]] backing him up, with [[StrangeDays Mace Mason]], the head of the Secret Service.
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*HeyItsThatGuy: Oh, crap. A group of EvilPlan: Kang's is to remove US military presence from the DMZ to enable a North Korean terrorists led by [[NinjaAssassin Takeshi]] has taken President [[TheDarkKnight Harvey Dent]] hostage, invasion of South Korea, [[spoiler: as well as hijacking a nuclear self-destruct protocol to detonate warheads inside their silos and it's up to [[ThreeHundred Leonidas]] to save cause a nuclear holocaust in the day. US.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Forbes.]]
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* TooDumbToLive: The two mooks that Mike interrogates who laugh in his face. Mike's response? [[spoiler:He stabs one in the throat.]]
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* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:Kang's plan is to cause all of America's nukes to self-destruct at once, blanketing the country in nuclear debris.]]
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* RedshirtArmy: The Secret Service don't come out of this looking too good... unless you're OneManArmy Mike Banning.
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* RedshirtArmy: The Secret Service don't come out of this looking too good... unless you're OneManArmy Mike Banning.
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Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Butler) is distressed when he fails to rescue the first lady during a snow storm. More than a year later, he takes it upon himself to rescue the President of the United States (Eckhart) and the country after the White House is taken over by Korean terrorists bent on revenge.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AllStarCast: On top of the aforementioned three, there is also [[TheFighter Melissa Leo]], [[ThePractice Dylan McDermott]], [[DoubleJeopardy Ashley Judd]], and AngelaBassett.
* BigBad: Kang
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Mike successfully rescues President Asher and saves the country from being obliterated, but hundreds of lives, including many civilians, were lost.]]
* DeadStarWalking: Ashley Judd
* DieHardOnAnX: In the White House
* DuelingMovies: With Roland Emmerich's ''White House Down''.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Forbes]]
* OhCrap: The reaction one of the mooks gets when [[spoiler:Mike stabs his partner in the throat.]]
* TooDumbToLive: The two mooks that Mike interrogates who laugh in his face. Mike's response? [[spoiler:He stabs one in the throat.]]
Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Butler) is distressed when he fails to rescue the first lady during a snow storm. More than a year later, he takes it upon himself to rescue the President of the United States (Eckhart) and the country after the White House is taken over by Korean terrorists bent on revenge.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AllStarCast: On top of the aforementioned three, there is also [[TheFighter Melissa Leo]], [[ThePractice Dylan McDermott]], [[DoubleJeopardy Ashley Judd]], and AngelaBassett.
* BigBad: Kang
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Mike successfully rescues President Asher and saves the country from being obliterated, but hundreds of lives, including many civilians, were lost.]]
* DeadStarWalking: Ashley Judd
* DieHardOnAnX: In the White House
* DuelingMovies: With Roland Emmerich's ''White House Down''.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Forbes]]
* OhCrap: The reaction one of the mooks gets when [[spoiler:Mike stabs his partner in the throat.]]
* TooDumbToLive: The two mooks that Mike interrogates who laugh in his face. Mike's response? [[spoiler:He stabs one in the throat.]]
