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* TakeItToTheBridge: Sailor's final confrontation with a group of enemies on a bridge loaded with explosives.
* TearJerker: Rhodes fantasises about his infant son visiting him whilst sleeping, stretching out his hand to reach him only to see the apparition fade away. After the mission he sits in silent contemplation, knowing that his child is not amongst the captives he has recovered. One of the traumatised and emaciated prisoners of war Rhodes has rescued then tells him how his son saved his life but subsequently died from disease, having always maintained his father would come to save them. Rhodes embraces him and weeps his heart out, mourning for his lost child but finally having closure and saving his son's friends, knowing all the sacrifice was not in vain.

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* TakeItToTheBridge: Sailor's Blaster's final confrontation with a group of enemies on a bridge loaded with explosives.
* TearJerker: Rhodes fantasises about his infant son visiting him whilst sleeping, stretching out his hand to reach him only to see the apparition fade away. After the mission he sits in silent contemplation, knowing that his child is not amongst the captives he has recovered. One of the traumatised and emaciated prisoners of war Rhodes has rescued then tells him how his son saved his life but subsequently died from disease, having always maintained his father would come to save them. Rhodes embraces him and weeps his heart out, mourning for his lost child but finally having closure and saving his son's friends, knowing all the sacrifice was not in vain.
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* WeakButSkilled: Deconstructed with Scott, whose martial arts skills do him little good against the much larger Sailor who tanks most of his blows before picking Scott up and tossing him down for the count.
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* TruthInTelevision: in the early 80s ex-Green Beret Colonel Bo Gritz did indeed organise a private rescue mission to try to recover American soldiers suspected being held prisoner in Vietnam.

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* TruthInTelevision: in the early 80s ex-Green Beret Colonel Bo Gritz did indeed organise a private rescue mission to try to recover American soldiers suspected of being held prisoner in Vietnam.
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* TruthInTelevision: in the early 80s ex-Green Beret Colonel Bo Gritz did indeed organise a private rescue mission to try to recover American soldiers suspected being held prisoner in Vietnam.
** the team are perhaps the only soldiers in the history of film to actually take the time to zero their weapons (adjust the sights to suit the individual firer) to improve their accuracy.
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[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Has nothing to do with the]] Music/JediMindTricks song, though both of the song and the movie deals with the Vietnam War.

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* ShellShockedVeteran: All of the main characters to some extent, but Wilkes is the best example of the trope, burnt out to the point where he spent days staring at the walls, making disturbing industrial art, and can't sleep through the night indoors. Admittedly, he was a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_rat_%28military%29 tunnel rat]] and [[NightmareFuel what made]] [[ShootTheDog him this way]]? Brr.

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* ShellShockedVeteran: ShellShockedVeteran:
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All of the main characters to some extent, but Wilkes is the best example of the trope, burnt out to the point where he spent days staring at the walls, making disturbing industrial art, and can't sleep through the night indoors. Admittedly, he was a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_rat_%28military%29 tunnel rat]] and [[NightmareFuel what made]] [[ShootTheDog him this way]]? Brr.Brr.
** Colonel Rhodes tries to console him, regaling his own horror story of his experiences in the Korean War, looking into the eyes of corpses frozen from the cold, telling him he eventually got over it by making friends with them in his mind.


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* TearJerker: Rhodes fantasises about his infant son visiting him whilst sleeping, stretching out his hand to reach him only to see the apparition fade away. After the mission he sits in silent contemplation, knowing that his child is not amongst the captives he has recovered. One of the traumatised and emaciated prisoners of war Rhodes has rescued then tells him how his son saved his life but subsequently died from disease, having always maintained his father would come to save them. Rhodes embraces him and weeps his heart out, mourning for his lost child but finally having closure and saving his son's friends, knowing all the sacrifice was not in vain.

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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Jiang mentions that his sons were killed by Laotian Red Guards in an opium run.



* RetiredBadass: All of the team members.

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* RetiredBadass: All of the team members.members, save for Scott.
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* DispenseWithThePleasantaries: Rhodes tells Scott to dispense with military courtesy since it isn't practical where they're going.

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* DispenseWithThePleasantaries: DispenseWithThePleasantries: At the team's first dinner together in camp, Rhodes tells Scott to dispense with military courtesy since it isn't practical where they're going.
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* DispenseWithThePleasantaries: Rhodes tells Scott to dispense with military courtesy since it isn't practical where they're going.

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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Frank Rhodes, who died of illness shortly after the failed rescue operation in the opening.]]



* HellishCopter: [[spoiler: Charts's helicopter gets shot down by a Laotian patrol boat, however, he survived the crash]].

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* HellishCopter: HellishCopter:
** In the opening, one of the helicopters is blown up by a rocket.
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[[spoiler: Charts's helicopter gets shot down by a Laotian patrol boat, however, he survived the crash]].


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* SayMyName:
** Sailor screams "Frank!" as he's left behind in the opening.
** Scott screams "Sailor!" as [[spoiler:Sailor blows himself up.]]
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* CasanovaWannabe: Charts hits on anything that moves. He even tries to sneak up and, erm, snuggle with ActionGirl Lai Fun. It [[GirlWithPsychoWeapon doesn't]] [[KnifeNut go]] [[MexicanStandoff well]].

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* CasanovaWannabe: Charts hits on anything that moves. He even tries to sneak up and, erm, snuggle with ActionGirl Lai Fun. It [[GirlWithPsychoWeapon doesn't]] [[KnifeNut doesn't go]] [[MexicanStandoff well]].
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It is UsefulNotes/{{the Eighties}}, and Col. Jason Rhodes (Hackman), a [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar Korean war]] veteran, is haunted by the loss of his son, Frank, who has been Missing In Action [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar since 1972]]. After a [[AdultFear particularly disturbing nightmare]], he decided to take action. He [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections petitions the government and all of his military contacts]] to no avail, eventually being [[ReluctantRetiree forcibly retired for being a nuisance]]. What's a PapaWolf to do? Team up with the father of another MIA, now an oil magnate (Stack) for finances and recruit your son's former squadmates, drill them into a precise military unit with the help of a young Marine Kevin Scott (Swayze), and send them back to the war they've been trying to escape for the last 10 years.

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It is UsefulNotes/{{the Eighties}}, and Col. Jason Rhodes (Hackman), a [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar Korean war]] veteran, is haunted by the loss of his son, Frank, who has been Missing In Action [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar since 1972]]. After a [[AdultFear [[NightmareSequence particularly disturbing nightmare]], he decided to take action. He [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections petitions the government and all of his military contacts]] to no avail, eventually being [[ReluctantRetiree forcibly retired for being a nuisance]]. What's a PapaWolf to do? Team up with the father of another MIA, now an oil magnate (Stack) for finances and recruit your son's former squadmates, drill them into a precise military unit with the help of a young Marine Kevin Scott (Swayze), and send them back to the war they've been trying to escape for the last 10 years.
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* AuditThreat: Used on MacGregor. Failed epically.

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* AuditThreat: Used on MacGregor.[=MacGregor=]. Failed epically.



* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Rhodes's son died of illness several years before in the very camp they found. He is too late to save his son but finds MacGregor's son and three others for whom the war is now over. Also, one member of the team dies for every POW they rescue.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Rhodes's son died of illness several years before in the very camp they found. He is too late to save his son but finds MacGregor's [=MacGregor's=] son and three others for whom the war is now over. Also, one member of the team dies for every POW they rescue.]]



** Rhodes's son Frank was captured after stopping to retrieve MacGregor's son and carrying the injured man to the helicopter.

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** Rhodes's son Frank was captured after stopping to retrieve MacGregor's [=MacGregor's=] son and carrying the injured man to the helicopter.
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* AuditThreat: Used on Mac Gregor. Failed epically.

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* AuditThreat: Used on Mac Gregor.MacGregor. Failed epically.
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It is UsefulNotes/{{the Eighties}}, and Col. Jason Rhodes (Hackman), a [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar Korean war]] veteran, is haunted by the loss of his son, Frank, who has been Missing In Action [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar since 1972]]. After a [[AdultFear particularly disturbing nightmare]], he decided to take action. He [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections petitions the government and all of his military contacts]] to no avail, eventually being [[ReluctantRetiree forceably retired for being a nuisance]]. What's a PapaWolf to do? Team up with the father of another MIA, now an oil magnate (Stack) for finances and recruit your son's former squadmates, drill them into a precise military unit with the help of a young Marine Kevin Scott (Swayze), and send them back to the war they've been trying to escape for the last 10 years.

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It is UsefulNotes/{{the Eighties}}, and Col. Jason Rhodes (Hackman), a [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar Korean war]] veteran, is haunted by the loss of his son, Frank, who has been Missing In Action [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar since 1972]]. After a [[AdultFear particularly disturbing nightmare]], he decided to take action. He [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections petitions the government and all of his military contacts]] to no avail, eventually being [[ReluctantRetiree forceably forcibly retired for being a nuisance]]. What's a PapaWolf to do? Team up with the father of another MIA, now an oil magnate (Stack) for finances and recruit your son's former squadmates, drill them into a precise military unit with the help of a young Marine Kevin Scott (Swayze), and send them back to the war they've been trying to escape for the last 10 years.



* AuditThreat: Used on Mac Gregor. Failed epicly.

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* AuditThreat: Used on Mac Gregor. Failed epicly.epically.



* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Rhodes's son died of illness several years before in the very camp they found. He is too late to save his son, but finds Macgregor's son and three others for whom the war is now over. Also, one member of the team dies for every POW they rescue.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Rhodes's [[spoiler: Rhodes's son died of illness several years before in the very camp they found. He is too late to save his son, son but finds Macgregor's MacGregor's son and three others for whom the war is now over. Also, one member of the team dies for every POW they rescue.]]



* ChekhovsGun: Sailor's hand grenade, [[spoiler:used by him in a HeroicSacrifice]].

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* ChekhovsGun: Sailor's hand grenade, [[spoiler:used [[spoiler: used by him in a HeroicSacrifice]].



* DeadpanSnarker: During one of the exercises, the team must make it through the forest to the tower, without being tagged by Wilkes. Wilkes not only systematically takes them apart, using traps, positioning and tactics, but ''hangs a customised sign on each of them to make them look stupid''. Can you be a snarker without speaking?

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* DeadpanSnarker: During one of the exercises, the team must make it through the forest to the tower, without being tagged by Wilkes. Wilkes not only systematically takes them apart, using traps, positioning positioning, and tactics, but ''hangs a customised sign on each of them to make them look stupid''. Can you be a snarker without speaking?



* DrillSergeantNasty: Scott tries to be this early in the veteran's re-training. It doesn't work, as the men see him as TheNeidermeyer, when the situation is actually [[spoiler:that his father was a pilot shot down in Vietnam, and this is Kevin's way of coming to terms with his loss.]]
* HellishCopter: [[spoiler:Charts' helicopter gets shot down by a Laotian patrol boat, however he survived the crash]].

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* DrillSergeantNasty: Scott tries to be this early in the veteran's re-training. It doesn't work, as the men see him as TheNeidermeyer, when the situation is actually [[spoiler:that [[spoiler: that his father was a pilot shot down in Vietnam, and this is Kevin's way of coming to terms with his loss.]]
* HellishCopter: [[spoiler:Charts' [[spoiler: Charts's helicopter gets shot down by a Laotian patrol boat, however however, he survived the crash]].



** Scott after [[spoiler:Blaster is killed and Chart's helicopter is shot down. It sends him berserk and screaming out of cover charging a gunboat by himself to save Charts.]]

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** Scott after [[spoiler:Blaster [[spoiler: Blaster is killed and Chart's helicopter is shot down. It sends him berserk and screaming out of cover charging a gunboat by himself to save Charts.]]



** Rhodes' son Frank was captured after stopping to retreive Macgregor's son and carrying the injured man to the helicopter.
** [[spoiler:Blaster dies manually detonating the explosives that take out the bridge after they misfire.]]
** [[spoiler:Sailor blows himself up with his grenade after being fatally shot, taking out a tower and a whole bunch of enemy soldiers.]]

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** Rhodes' Rhodes's son Frank was captured after stopping to retreive Macgregor's retrieve MacGregor's son and carrying the injured man to the helicopter.
** [[spoiler:Blaster [[spoiler: Blaster dies manually detonating the explosives that take out the bridge after they misfire.]]
** [[spoiler:Sailor [[spoiler: Sailor blows himself up with his grenade after being fatally shot, taking out a tower and a whole bunch of enemy soldiers.]]



* TheMountainsOfIllinois: The team is supposed to be training in Galveston, Texas, with mountains in the background. Galveston is on an island just off the Texas coast, and is either cities, beach, or wetlands. No mountains for hundreds of miles.

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* TheMountainsOfIllinois: The team is supposed to be training in Galveston, Texas, with mountains in the background. Galveston is on an island just off the Texas coast, coast and is either cities, beach, beaches, or wetlands. No mountains for hundreds of miles.



* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Rhodes' recruitment of the scattered veterans. Subverted slightly in that they initally all turn him down bar [[MadBomber Blaster]] and [[TheBigGuy Sailor]] (who they had to dig out of prison), but all show up when the plane is ready to leave.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Blaster, while a MadBomber in war, was a slacker in peacetime who never cared about anything, and spent his time racing [=BMXs=] and goofing around. When the bombs on the bridge failed to detonate, he sacrificed himself to make sure his part of the plan went through.]]
** [[spoiler:Sailor, who got to the helicopter that left Frank behind, and had to be physically restrained from going back for Frank, got to buy time for Rhodes to get back to the helicopter with a [=POW=], thus bookending the film.]]

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* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Rhodes' Rhodes's recruitment of the scattered veterans. Subverted slightly in that they initally initially all turn him down bar [[MadBomber Blaster]] and [[TheBigGuy Sailor]] (who they had to dig out of prison), but all show up when the plane is ready to leave.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Blaster, [[spoiler: Blaster, while a MadBomber in war, was a slacker in peacetime who never cared about anything, and spent his time racing [=BMXs=] and goofing around. When the bombs on the bridge failed to detonate, he sacrificed himself to make sure his part of the plan went through.]]
** [[spoiler:Sailor, [[spoiler: Sailor, who got to the helicopter that left Frank behind, and had to be physically restrained from going back for Frank, got to buy time for Rhodes to get back to the helicopter with a [=POW=], thus bookending the film.]]



** [=MacGregor=], even in his noncombatant role, is told that there were serious threats against his company if he went through with the mission, such as IRS audits. His response? ''[[PrecisionFStrike "Fuck you."]]''

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** [=MacGregor=], even in his noncombatant non-combatant role, is told that there were serious threats against his company if he went through with the mission, such as IRS audits. His response? ''[[PrecisionFStrike "Fuck you."]]''



** Played completely serious with one of the [=POWs=]: [[spoiler:when Sailor breaks down the door to take him home, the POW, who's so weak he can barely lift his head to speak, refuses to leave because he can't leave "The garden". Sailor expediates matters by reassuring him ''"Don't worry. We'll take the garden with us."'']]

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** Played completely serious with one of the [=POWs=]: [[spoiler:when [[spoiler: when Sailor breaks down the door to take him home, the POW, who's so weak he can barely lift his head to speak, refuses to leave because he can't leave "The garden". Sailor expediates matters by reassuring him ''"Don't worry. We'll take the garden with us."'']]



* UnspokenPlanGuarantee / ImpossibleMissionCollapse: The team plans the raid to perfection (with the capacity to pull it off in a minute and a half of a maximum of three that Rhodes thinks they have before they are swamped with enemy reinforcements), it was supposed to be at night, and was supposed to be a blitzkrieg that would have them all gat out of there unharmed alongside the soldiers. Everything goes to hell the moment they put boots on Vietnamese ground because of the CIA, and although the plan works even with improvisation and old weapons... well, look up on BittersweetEnding for details.

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* UnspokenPlanGuarantee / ImpossibleMissionCollapse: The team plans the raid to perfection (with the capacity to pull it off in a minute and a half of a maximum of three that Rhodes thinks they have before they are swamped with enemy reinforcements), it was supposed to be at night, and was supposed to be a blitzkrieg that would have them all gat get out of there unharmed alongside the soldiers. Everything goes to hell the moment they put boots on Vietnamese ground because of the CIA, and although the plan works even with improvisation and old weapons... well, look up on BittersweetEnding for details.



* WheresTheKaboom: The explosives planted to destroy the bridge in order to cut off enemy reinforcements misfire, forcing Blaster to [[spoiler:make a HeroicSacrifice to manually detonate them]].

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* WheresTheKaboom: The explosives planted to destroy the bridge in order to cut off enemy reinforcements misfire, forcing Blaster to [[spoiler:make [[spoiler: make a HeroicSacrifice to manually detonate them]].



* WretchedHive: The Blue Parrot bar, complete with slimy maitre d, patrons firing guns into the ceiling to the music, the menus being lists of weaponry, and the basement being a huge warehouse of guns.

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* WretchedHive: The Blue Parrot bar, complete with a slimy maitre d, patrons firing guns into the ceiling to the music, the menus being lists of weaponry, and the basement being a huge warehouse of guns.
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It is UsefulNotes/{{the Eighties}}, and Col. Jason Rhodes (Hackman), a [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar Korean war]] veteran, is haunted by the loss of his son, Frank, who has been Missing In Action [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar since 1972]]. After a [[AdultFear particularly disturbing]] [[BadDreams nightmare]], he decided to take action. He [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections petitions the government and all of his military contacts]] to no avail, eventually being [[ReluctantRetiree forceably retired for being a nuisance]]. What's a PapaWolf to do? Team up with the father of another MIA, now an oil magnate (Stack) for finances and recruit your son's former squadmates, drill them into a precise military unit with the help of a young Marine Kevin Scott (Swayze), and send them back to the war they've been trying to escape for the last 10 years.

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It is UsefulNotes/{{the Eighties}}, and Col. Jason Rhodes (Hackman), a [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar Korean war]] veteran, is haunted by the loss of his son, Frank, who has been Missing In Action [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar since 1972]]. After a [[AdultFear particularly disturbing]] [[BadDreams disturbing nightmare]], he decided to take action. He [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections petitions the government and all of his military contacts]] to no avail, eventually being [[ReluctantRetiree forceably retired for being a nuisance]]. What's a PapaWolf to do? Team up with the father of another MIA, now an oil magnate (Stack) for finances and recruit your son's former squadmates, drill them into a precise military unit with the help of a young Marine Kevin Scott (Swayze), and send them back to the war they've been trying to escape for the last 10 years.
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''Uncommon Valor'' is a 1983 war film directed by Creator/TedKotcheff, starring Creator/GeneHackman, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Creator/RobertStack (yes [[Series/UnsolvedMysteries that]] [[{{Transformers}} Robert Stack]]), Creator/RebBrown (yes [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica that]] [[Film/SpaceMutiny Reb]] [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E20SpaceMutiny Brown]]), and a post-''Film/{{The Outsiders}}'', pre-''Film/DirtyDancing'' Creator/PatrickSwayze.

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''Uncommon Valor'' is a 1983 war film directed by Creator/TedKotcheff, starring Creator/GeneHackman, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Creator/RobertStack (yes [[Series/UnsolvedMysteries that]] [[{{Transformers}} Robert Stack]]), Creator/RobertStack, Creator/RebBrown (yes [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica that]] [[Film/SpaceMutiny Reb]] [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E20SpaceMutiny Brown]]), and a post-''Film/{{The Outsiders}}'', pre-''Film/DirtyDancing'' Creator/PatrickSwayze.
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%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Sailor, of the drug-addled variety, at least when we first meet him. He pulls himself together once it's explained why Rhodes is doing this, but only to a given value of together.
%%--> ''"Man, I'm so far beyond that shit, man... I can pull energy from the AIR. I can talk to polar bears, I converse with paramecium, man, I '''FUCKED''' NUCLEAR WASTE."''

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%%* * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Sailor, of In the drug-addled variety, at least when time in between the Vietnam War and the film's current day, Sailor has been on such a hard-core constant intake of drugs that he admits to Rhodes he spends all of his time hallucinating and we first meet him. him dancing ballet (well, as well as someone built like Randall "Tex" Cobb could do it) inside of a police interrogation room. He pulls himself together once it's explained why Rhodes is doing this, but only to a given value of together.
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together (he still dances "ballet" in the team's training grounds).
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''"Man, I'm so far beyond that shit, man... I can pull energy from the AIR. I can talk to polar bears, I converse with paramecium, man, I '''FUCKED''' NUCLEAR WASTE."''
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''Uncommon Valor'' is a 1983 war film directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Creator/GeneHackman, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Creator/RobertStack (yes [[Series/UnsolvedMysteries that]] [[{{Transformers}} Robert Stack]]), Creator/RebBrown (yes [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica that]] [[Film/SpaceMutiny Reb]] [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E20SpaceMutiny Brown]]), and a post-''Film/{{The Outsiders}}'', pre-''Film/DirtyDancing'' Creator/PatrickSwayze.

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''Uncommon Valor'' is a 1983 war film directed by Ted Kotcheff, Creator/TedKotcheff, starring Creator/GeneHackman, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Creator/RobertStack (yes [[Series/UnsolvedMysteries that]] [[{{Transformers}} Robert Stack]]), Creator/RebBrown (yes [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica that]] [[Film/SpaceMutiny Reb]] [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E20SpaceMutiny Brown]]), and a post-''Film/{{The Outsiders}}'', pre-''Film/DirtyDancing'' Creator/PatrickSwayze.
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** played completely serious with one of the [=POWs=]: [[spoiler:when Sailor breaks down the door to take him home, the POW, who's so weak he can barely lift his head to speak, refuses to leave because he can't leave "The garden". Sailor expediates matters by reassuring him ''"Don't worry. We'll take the garden with us."'']]

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** played Played completely serious with one of the [=POWs=]: [[spoiler:when Sailor breaks down the door to take him home, the POW, who's so weak he can barely lift his head to speak, refuses to leave because he can't leave "The garden". Sailor expediates matters by reassuring him ''"Don't worry. We'll take the garden with us."'']]


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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Sailor, of the drug-addled variety, at least when we first meet him. He pulls himself together once it's explained why Rhodes is doing this, but only to a given value of together.
--> ''"Man, I'm so far beyond that shit, man... I can pull energy from the AIR. I can talk to polar bears, I converse with paramecium, man, I '''FUCKED''' NUCLEAR WASTE."''
* CoolOldGuy / BadassGrandpa:
** Xiang, the drug dealer who supplies the mission, and then comes along to man the recoilless rifle and be awesome.
** Rhodes qualifies, both as a capable leader, and as an anti-personnel sniper.

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* %%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Sailor, of the drug-addled variety, at least when we first meet him. He pulls himself together once it's explained why Rhodes is doing this, but only to a given value of together.
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* CoolOldGuy / BadassGrandpa:
** Xiang, the drug dealer who supplies the mission, and then comes along to man the recoilless rifle and be awesome.
** Rhodes qualifies, both as a capable leader, and as an anti-personnel sniper.
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''Uncommon Valor'' is a 1983 war film directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Creator/GeneHackman, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Robert Stack (yes [[Series/UnsolvedMysteries that]] [[{{Transformers}} Robert Stack]]), Creator/RebBrown (yes [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica that]] [[Film/SpaceMutiny Reb]] [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E20SpaceMutiny Brown]]), and a post-''Film/{{The Outsiders}}'', pre-''Film/DirtyDancing'' Creator/PatrickSwayze.

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''Uncommon Valor'' is a 1983 war film directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Creator/GeneHackman, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Robert Stack Creator/RobertStack (yes [[Series/UnsolvedMysteries that]] [[{{Transformers}} Robert Stack]]), Creator/RebBrown (yes [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica that]] [[Film/SpaceMutiny Reb]] [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E20SpaceMutiny Brown]]), and a post-''Film/{{The Outsiders}}'', pre-''Film/DirtyDancing'' Creator/PatrickSwayze.
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''Uncommon Valor'' is a 1983 war film directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Creator/GeneHackman, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Robert Stack (yes [[Series/UnsolvedMysteries that]] [[{{Transformers}} Robert Stack]]), Creator/RebBrown (yes [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica that]] Reb Brown), and a post-''Film/{{The Outsiders}}'', pre-''Film/DirtyDancing'' Creator/PatrickSwayze.

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''Uncommon Valor'' is a 1983 war film directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Creator/GeneHackman, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Robert Stack (yes [[Series/UnsolvedMysteries that]] [[{{Transformers}} Robert Stack]]), Creator/RebBrown (yes [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica that]] Reb Brown), [[Film/SpaceMutiny Reb]] [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E20SpaceMutiny Brown]]), and a post-''Film/{{The Outsiders}}'', pre-''Film/DirtyDancing'' Creator/PatrickSwayze.
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''Uncommon Valor'' is a 1983 war film directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Creator/GeneHackman, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Robert Stack (yes [[UnsolvedMysteries that]] [[{{Transformers}} Robert Stack]]), Creator/RebBrown (yes [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica that]] Reb Brown), and a post-''Film/{{The Outsiders}}'', pre-''Film/DirtyDancing'' Creator/PatrickSwayze.

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''Uncommon Valor'' is a 1983 war film directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Creator/GeneHackman, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Robert Stack (yes [[UnsolvedMysteries [[Series/UnsolvedMysteries that]] [[{{Transformers}} Robert Stack]]), Creator/RebBrown (yes [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica that]] Reb Brown), and a post-''Film/{{The Outsiders}}'', pre-''Film/DirtyDancing'' Creator/PatrickSwayze.
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Pretty much every higher-up that comes into contact with Rhodes. He is forced into retirement because he continues to pester the government about finding his son, and the team has to make do with WorldWarII-era equipment because the CIA tips off the Vietnamese government about the mission because they don't want the team to cause political trouble (although the CIA agent that informs them of this is sympathetic enough to allow the team to go and plead to them to go home, which allows them to go and purchase said weapons and continue the mission anyway).

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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Pretty much every higher-up that comes into contact with Rhodes. He is forced into retirement because he continues to pester the government about finding his son, and the team has to make do with WorldWarII-era UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era equipment because the CIA tips off the Vietnamese government about the mission because they don't want the team to cause political trouble (although the CIA agent that informs them of this is sympathetic enough to allow the team to go and plead to them to go home, which allows them to go and purchase said weapons and continue the mission anyway).
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* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Scott's reaction to the first enemy soldier he kills during the battle at the Laotian border.
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''Uncommon Valor'', made in 1983 and starring Creator/GeneHackman, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Robert Stack (yes [[UnsolvedMysteries that]] [[{{Transformers}} Robert Stack]]), Creator/RebBrown (yes [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica that]] Reb Brown), and a post-''Film/{{The Outsiders}}'', pre-{{Dirty Dancing}} Patrick Swayze.

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''Uncommon Valor'', made in Valor'' is a 1983 and war film directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Creator/GeneHackman, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Robert Stack (yes [[UnsolvedMysteries that]] [[{{Transformers}} Robert Stack]]), Creator/RebBrown (yes [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica that]] Reb Brown), and a post-''Film/{{The Outsiders}}'', pre-{{Dirty Dancing}} Patrick Swayze.
pre-''Film/DirtyDancing'' Creator/PatrickSwayze.

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