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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Despite calling Six out for unintentionally getting her in trouble with Carmichael, Miranda nevertheless decides to help him out rather than bring him over to the CIA. If not for Six's words, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she could've made a big mistake, not only for having Six brought over, but also for nearly endangering a kid's life]].

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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Despite calling Six out for unintentionally getting her in trouble with Carmichael, Miranda nevertheless decides to help him out rather than bring him over to the CIA. If not for Six's words, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she could've made a big mistake, not only for having Six brought over, but also for nearly endangering a kid's life]].life caused by]] [[ItsAllAbout Me her own selfishness]].
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Despite calling Six out for unintentionally getting her in trouble with Carmichael, Miranda nevertheless decides to help him out rather than bring him over to the CIA. If not for Six's words, [[MyGodWhatDidIAlmostDo she could've made a big mistake, not only for having Six brought over, but also for nearly endangering a kid's life]].

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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Despite calling Six out for unintentionally getting her in trouble with Carmichael, Miranda nevertheless decides to help him out rather than bring him over to the CIA. If not for Six's words, [[MyGodWhatDidIAlmostDo [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she could've made a big mistake, not only for having Six brought over, but also for nearly endangering a kid's life]].
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Despite calling Six out for unintentionally getting her in trouble with Carmichael, Miranda nevertheless decides to help him out rather than bring him over to the CIA. If not for Six's words, [[MyGodWhatDidIAlmostDo she could've made a big mistake, not only for having Six brought over, but also for nearly endangering a kid's life]].
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* ItsAllAboutMe: After Carmichael assumed she was covering for him, Miranda initially took it upon herself to turn Six over to the CIA in order to salvage both her career and reputation. However, she has a change of heart when Six manages to convince her otherwise.
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* DoNotGoGentle: Possibly doubling as both [[spoiler:Margaret and Fitzroy's motivations for their HeroicSacrifice: with the latter dying of cancer and he already bleeding out from a stray gunshot, they decided to go out on their own terms]].

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* CreditsGag: Earlier in the pursuit, Lloyd was disabled by Miranda by shooting a tranq round in his ass. Later on, Creator/ChrisEvans's listing in the CreativeClosingCredits focuses on Lloyd's ass with the round too. Possibly also doubling as an ActorAllusion, especially considering how [[Characters/MCUCaptainAmerica his biggest role]] was subject to MemeticMutation in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.



* LargeHam: Lloyd. Creator/ChrisEvans seems to be almost channeling Creaotr/NicolasCage at times.

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* LargeHam: Lloyd. Creator/ChrisEvans seems to be almost channeling Creaotr/NicolasCage Creator/NicolasCage at times.

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%%Zero Context Example* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Margaret, and later Fitzroy.]]

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%%Zero Context Example* * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Margaret, Doing triple-duty with MentorOccupationalHazard and TakingYouWithMe, no less:
** [[spoiler:Margaret]] chooses to stall for time to let Gentry and Miranda get away [[spoiler:by blowing up her own flat through a gas leak, taking the mercenaries that perforated her flat with her]].
** Later, [[spoiler:Fitzroy, already bleeding out from a stray shot]], also chooses to [[spoiler:stay behind and attempt to blow up Hansen and his goons with a grenade. While Hansen still survives this, this definitely helps to injure and wind him down enough for the
later Fitzroy.]]fights]].
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%%Zero Context Example* WorldOfSnark: As expected from a movie directed by Creator/TheRussoBrothers.

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%%Zero Context Example* * WorldOfSnark: As expected from a movie directed by Creator/TheRussoBrothers.Creator/TheRussoBrothers, there's no shortage of dialogue involving the protagonists and antagonists sniping at each other (be it about their competence or their shared history). Hell, even the IllGirl MoralityPet Claire and the dying Margaret gets in on it (admittedly to the people they trust).
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Creator/RyanGosling and Creator/ChrisEvans play Gentry and Hansen, respectively, leading an AllStarCast that includes Creator/AnaDeArmas, Creator/RegeJeanPage, Creator/JessicaHenwick, and Creator/BillyBobThornton.

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Creator/RyanGosling and Creator/ChrisEvans play Gentry and Hansen, respectively, leading an AllStarCast that includes Creator/AnaDeArmas, Creator/RegeJeanPage, Creator/JessicaHenwick, Creator/JessicaHenwick and Creator/BillyBobThornton.
Creator/BillyBobThornton. Frequent Russo collaborator Creator/CallanMulvey plays a key role kicking off the plot, while Creator/JuliaButters plays the MoralityPet for our protagonists.



** Julia Butters [[Film/OnceUponATimeInHollywood once again]] plays a little girl who is captured by a villain completely willing to hurt her, although the situation is very much real this time around.

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** Julia Butters Creator/JuliaButters [[Film/OnceUponATimeInHollywood once again]] plays a little girl who is captured by a villain completely willing to hurt her, although the situation is very much real this time around.
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* AllForNothing: The plot was kicked off by Dining Car/[[spoiler:Sierra Four]] trying to expose the crimes of [[spoiler:Denny, whose dirt is coded in an encrypted drive]], hoping that Sierra Six takes over the hunt instead by appealing to his sense of morality. By the end, despite the massive trail of bodies all over the world, [[spoiler:Denny and Suzanne were able to retrieve the very same disk and destroy it, keeping the former's dirty laundry secret]].


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* BittersweetEnding: While [[spoiler:Suzanne manages to leverage Gentry/Sierra Six and Miranda to cooperate with her in pinning the blame for all the body count on the dead Lloyd, this does mean they were able to retrieve and dispose of Denny's black ops dirt encrypted drive. At the same time, despite nominally keeping Gentry on a leash, he manages to escape and once again rescue Claire, with them RidingIntoTheSunset--either for this or a SequelHook]].
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* SurroundedByMorons: Lloyd clearly doesn't think much of his subordinates or his supposed partner Suzanne, and treats them with barely disguised contempt.

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* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Lloyd Hansen is a raging psychopath willing to commit horrific acts of violence to achieve his goals. He's also a grade-A {{Hunk}}, with a LanternJawOfJustice and a sculpted physique. In the finale, he uses his innocent-looking blue eyes to beg Claire not to shoot him point-blank, and it works: Claire hesitates long enough that he disarms her and takes her hostage (again).
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* LargeHam: Lloyd. Creator/ChrisEvans seems to be almost channeling Creaotr/NicolasCage at times.


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* SurroundedByMorons: Lloyd clearly doesn't think much of his subordinates or his supposed partner Suzanne, and treats them with barely disguised contempt.
--> '''Lloyd:''' ''[as he angrily beats a dead mook's corpse]'' MORONS!
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* HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler:Lloyd loses several of his fingers just before the final fight.]] He's still very deadly but the impairment is remarked on by Six.
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* PsychopathicManChild: Hansen acts very much like an immature middle-school football player who switched out his pads for guns and henchman (and in actuality is someone who went ''to Harvard'' to ''play [[SkewedPriorities football]]''), and even whines line he’s still on 6th Grade.
** Denny isn’t any better; while less outwardly psychotic and staying well away from the action, his undisciplined and reckless command style is basically just a decaffeinated version of Hansen’s. He adds to it by acting like a spoiled rich kid who employs Hansen in the first place.
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* BadassInDistress: At one point in the movie, Six remarks on the fact that Miranda has had to save his life multiple times.
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** [[spoiler: Tamil ultimately declines to kill Miranda and chooses to return the drive because he overhears Lloyd ordering his men to kill Claire, a line Tamil would not cross.]]

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** [[spoiler: Lone Wolf, the Tamil mercenary, ultimately declines to kill Miranda and chooses to return the drive because he overhears Lloyd ordering his men to kill Claire, a line Tamil Lone Wolf would not cross.]]
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* ShotInTheAss: Miranda shoots Lloyd there with a tranquilizer dart, much to his consternation.
--> '''Suzanne:''' Why are you limping?\\
'''Lloyd:''' [[LargeHam 'CAUSE I GOT]] ''[[LargeHam SHOT IN THE ASS]]'', [[LargeHam SUZANNE!]]
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* MadeOfIron: And ''how''! Gentry suffers from a massive fall, multiple close-range explosions, and multiple major stab wounds – along with the standard hand-to-hand beating all the other characters get throughout the movie. He still manages to not only complete his objectives to satisfaction, but [[spoiler:keeps enough awareness and recovers fast enough to fake unconsciousness, breaking out of a heavily-secured military hospital the first chance he gets]].
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* ClassifiedInformation: A rare inversion of the classic “heavily redacted file”. Gentry’s file is ''blank'', and it is implied the same goes for all the other Sierra operatives. Later on we see a more standard example when [[spoiler:Gentry and his allies see the contents of the encrypted hard drive,]] revealing a document completely covered in black ink to highlight [[spoiler:just how much Denny’s allies are able to cover up]].
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* ItsPersonal: Hansen openly acknowledges his opportunity to have walked away from the conflict at any time, but by the end he ''must'' prove he is better than Gentry for all the trouble the latter caused him.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Lloyd is introduced electro-torturing a man with jumper cables ''attached to his face'', waxing faux-philosophical between charges, and referring to the torture in creepily semi-sexual terms when he takes a call. All in all, a sadistic, ruthless, gleefully amoral monster who's in it for the power trip as much as the paycheck.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Both the leads immediately show what kind of people they are in their first missions shown on screen.
** Six directly disobeys orders from his superior and jeopardizes his mission’s success for the sole reason that a civilian child ''might'' be in the line of fire. A HitmanWithAHeart who very much stuck to his recruiting pitch of only going after the "bad guys".
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Lloyd is introduced electro-torturing electro-tortures a man with jumper cables ''attached to his face'', waxing faux-philosophical between charges, and referring to the torture in creepily semi-sexual terms when he takes a call. All in all, a sadistic, ruthless, gleefully amoral monster who's in it for the power trip as much as the paycheck.
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* HitmanWithAHeart: Six [[spoiler:and later revealed, Lone Wolf,]] as a stark contrast to the PsychoForHire Hansen. Both are completely unwilling to harm children, to the point of [[spoiler:jeopardizing their standing with their employers]]. The former explicitly tries to clear out (not just minimise, clear out) civilian casualties from danger, while the film never shows the latter killing non-combatants.
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** During the hospital fight, Six throws Miranda a gun, which she only realizes is unloaded when she attempts to fire at Lone Wolf. When she calls out Six, he points out that throwing a loaded gun is insanely reckless and [[LampshadeHanging questions why she'd assume a highly trained black ops operative would engage in such a flagrant violation of gun safety.]]

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** During the hospital fight, Six throws Miranda a gun, which she only realizes is unloaded when she attempts to fire at Lone Wolf. When she calls out Six, he points out that throwing a loaded gun is insanely reckless and [[LampshadeHanging questions why she'd assume a highly trained black ops operative such as himself would engage in such a flagrant violation of gun safety.]]
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* {{Expy}}: Lloyd bears a lot of resemblance to [[Machinima/RedVsBlue Felix]], another wisecracking, FauxAffablyEvil mercenary despised by his more pragmatic colleagues for his sociopathy and impulsiveness.
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An Inspector Javert is a neutral or sympathetic law enforcer who falsely believes that the protagonist is a criminal. Hansen is a psycopath who hunts a hero for fun.


* InspectorJavert: Hansen ruthlessly hunts Gentry with what amounts to a small army.

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Lloyd orders a hit squad to assassinate Six after he is detained by the police in the middle of a public square, in spite of the fact that several armed police officers including a SWAT team are present. The result is a chaotic gunfight where the assassins are so preoccupied with fending off the police that they're unable to get a clear shot in at Six, and most of them wind up being killed.

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** During the hospital fight, Six throws Miranda a gun, which she only realizes is unloaded when she attempts to fire at Lone Wolf. When she calls out Six, he points out that throwing a loaded gun is insanely reckless and [[LampshadeHanging questions why she'd assume a highly trained black ops operative would engage in such a flagrant violation of gun safety.]]
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Lloyd orders a hit squad to assassinate Six after he is detained by the police in the middle of a public square, in spite of the fact that several armed police officers including a SWAT team are present. The result is a chaotic gunfight where the assassins are so preoccupied with fending off the police that they're unable to get a clear shot in at Six, and most of them wind up being killed.

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* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler:Lloyd]] uses a pair of pliers to torture [[spoiler:Fitzroy]] by tearing off several of his fingernails. Later during the final battle, [[spoiler: Claire shoots a flare gun at Lloyd which tears several of his fingers off.]]

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* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler:Lloyd]] Lloyd uses a pair of pliers to torture [[spoiler:Fitzroy]] by tearing off several of his fingernails. Later during the final battle, [[spoiler: Claire shoots a flare gun at Lloyd which tears several of his fingers off.]]


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* LaughablyEvil: Lloyd is a sardonic, oddly cheerful sociopath who never lets up on the wisecracking even when he's torturing and murdering people.
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* {{Expy}}: Lloyd bears a lot of resemblance to [[Machinima/RedVsBlue Felix]], another wisecracking, FauxAffablyEvil mercenary despised by his more pragmatic colleagues for his sociopathy and impulsiveness.

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