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* CoolGun: Zayas uses a custom twin barreled assault rifle (suggested to be a Soviet prototype) with a top-mounted drum magazine and what is either a ludicrously thick foregrip or a second bottom-feeding magazine. It has a very imposing appearance, and is a fictional weapon design made specifically for the film (made from an FN FAL).

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* ManOnFire: [[spoiler: [[BigBad Kendrick's]] ultimate fate.]]
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* {{Bulungi}}: The films setting, in the Marxist Sub-Saharan country of Mombaka, an {{expy}} of Angola and Mozambique.

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* {{Bulungi}}: The films setting, film is set in the Marxist Sub-Saharan country of Mombaka, an a Marxist African state in the middle of a civil war, serving as a direct {{expy}} of Angola and Mozambique.Angola.

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Claims that the gun was an AO-63 are false; see this edit on IMFDB, where the rumor came from. http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=%28Red_Scorpion%29_-_Russian_Assault_Rifle&diff=1434289&oldid=1434080


* CoolGun: Zayas's FN FAL, modified to look like a [[http://guns.wikia.com/wiki/AO-63 Simonov AO-63 assault rifle]].

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* CoolGun: Zayas's FN FAL, modified to look like Zayas uses a [[http://guns.wikia.com/wiki/AO-63 Simonov AO-63 custom twin barreled assault rifle]].rifle (suggested to be a Soviet prototype) with a top-mounted drum magazine and what is either a ludicrously thick foregrip or a second bottom-feeding magazine. It has a very imposing appearance, and is a fictional weapon design made specifically for the film (made from an FN FAL).
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* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Nikolai relies on this when he has doubts about carrying out his mission. Later on he decides to rely on the Right Thing after his country betrays him.

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* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Nikolai relies on this when he has doubts about carrying out his mission. Later on he decides to rely on the Right Thing ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight after his country betrays him.
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* TheAtoner: Nikolai following his HeelFaceTurn.


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* HeelRealization: Nikolai realizes how corrupt and brutal his country he had served once witnessing the aftermath of such atrocities and how he gets on the receive end of them.


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* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Nikolai's actual HeelFaceTurn is prompted by his superiors turning on him and submitting him to ColdBloodedTorture.


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* TheMole: Nikolai was sent as a fake defector to get close to the leader of the rebels, but the latter weren't that gullible.


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* VillainProtagonist: Nikolai started out as this, even if he was an AntiVillain compared to his sadistic comrades, until his HeelFaceTurn.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Dewey doesn't waste any opportunity to demonstrate his contempt for Russians in general and Nikolai in particular. Justifiable, since he has witnessed first hand the Russians crossing the MoralEventHorizon quite a few times. He [[TookALevelInKindness eventually warms up]] to Nikolai during the FinalBattle.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Dewey doesn't waste any opportunity to [[JerkassToOne demonstrate his contempt for Russians in general and Nikolai in particular. Justifiable, particular]]. [[JerkassHasAPoint Justifiable]], [[ThisIsUnforgivable since he has witnessed first hand the Russians crossing the the]] MoralEventHorizon [[ThisIsUnforgivable quite a few times.times]]. He [[TookALevelInKindness eventually warms up]] to Nikolai during the FinalBattle.
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* BecomingTheMask: Nikolai's fact HeelFaceTurn turned into a real one.

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* BecomingTheMask: Nikolai's fact fake HeelFaceTurn turned into a real one.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Dewey doesn't waste any opportunity to demonstrate his contempt for Russians in general and Nikolai in particular. Justifiable, since he has witnessed first hand the Russians crossing the MoralEventHorizon quite a few times. He eventually warms up to Nikolai during the FinalBattle.

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* {{Jerkass}}: JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Dewey doesn't waste any opportunity to demonstrate his contempt for Russians in general and Nikolai in particular. Justifiable, since he has witnessed first hand the Russians crossing the MoralEventHorizon quite a few times. He [[TookALevelInKindness eventually warms up up]] to Nikolai during the FinalBattle.

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Lt. Nikolai Petrovich Radchenko is a Spetnaz who is given a mission to help Cuban communists stationed in Africa to get rid of the resistance leader Sundata who's opposing them. But he soon learns that the man is doing the right thing, and eventually [[HeelFaceTurn joins him]] in his fight.

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Lt. Nikolai Petrovich Radchenko is a Spetnaz Spetsnaz who is given a mission to help Cuban communists stationed in Africa to get rid of the resistance leader Sundata who's opposing them. But he soon learns that the man is doing the right thing, and eventually [[HeelFaceTurn joins him]] in his fight.


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* BecomingTheMask: Nikolai's fact HeelFaceTurn turned into a real one.


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* ChummyCommies: Nikolai Petrovich Radchenko, the most noble Spetsnaz operative.


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* TokenGoodTeammate: Nikolai is this for the DirtyCommunists.
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-->-- '''{{Tagline}}'''
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* {{Eagleland}}: Dewey is a mixed case. He's a loudmouth who swears a lot and isn't really an ideal role model, but he is also reporter working to get local atrocities known and to bring peace to the land.

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* {{Eagleland}}: Dewey is a mixed case. He's a loudmouth who swears a lot and isn't really an ideal role model, but he is also a reporter working to get local atrocities known and to bring peace to the land.
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Has nothing to do with familiarity with in-universe fiction.


* GenreSavvy: Sundata doesn't fully trust the Russian "defector" Kallunda brings with him. He's right.
-->'''Sundata''': ''I'm afraid I'm not as trusting as Kallunda. It is a weakness I endorse from those who rely upon me''.
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* BigBad: Andrew Kendrick, a neo-Nazi white supremacist determined to take over the United States.
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* ManOnFire: [[spoiler: [[BigBad Kendrick's]] ultimate fate.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Hans is somehow still alive even after being ''electrocuted'', and the squad quickly gun him down as they escape from the CollapsingLair.]]
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%%* RightWingMilitiaFanatic

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%%* RightWingMilitiaFanatic* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: The main villains.



%%* ThoseWackyNazis

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%%* ThoseWackyNazis* ThoseWackyNazis: The main antagonists of the movie.

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* YouHaveFailedMe: Gen. Vortek isn't too pleased with Nikolai's failure to kill Sundata.
-->'''Gen. Vortek''': ''How could you fail? [[SuddenlyShouting HOW!?]]''
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* BlatantLies: At the beginning of the movie, during Nikolai's mission briefing, Kallunda and Sundata are introduced as brutal warlords who oppress their people.

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-->"He's very emotional man."

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-->"He's a very emotional man.""
* {{Jerkass}}: Dewey doesn't waste any opportunity to demonstrate his contempt for Russians in general and Nikolai in particular. Justifiable, since he has witnessed first hand the Russians crossing the MoralEventHorizon quite a few times. He eventually warms up to Nikolai during the FinalBattle.
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* LargeHam: Dewey, who spends almost every second of screentime he has showing off his [[NoIndoorsVoice lack of indoors voice]] and his [[SirSwearsALor love for injurious expellitives]].

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* LargeHam: Dewey, who spends almost every second of screentime he has showing off his [[NoIndoorsVoice [[NoIndoorVoice lack of indoors voice]] and his [[SirSwearsALor [[SirSwearsALot love for injurious expellitives]].

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