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* DeadlyDodging - The fist fight between James Mason and a {{Mook}} near the end.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Hummell - altought is not technically a real villain]].

* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous - Marine Corps Force Recon faces off against the Navy [=SEALs=] and a former member of the the British Special Air Service. [[AndZoidberg And Goodspeed.]]

-->''Guy'': "''Hey man, you just fucked up your Ferrari''.

* CriticalResearchFailure - One of the Marines tells Hummel that we should "Be all we can be!" which is the old Army motto.

* BadassBookworm -- Stanley Goodspeed.

* TheAlcatraz - The original, naturally.

* GuiltyPleasures

** If one believes the [[WildMassGuessing fan theory]] that JamesBond is a pseudonym used by British Intelligence, the name is irrelevant anyway, and Mason ''was'' JamesBond.

* ActorAllusion - Kicked off Nicholas Cage's "Beige Volvo" trilogy. And then of course Connery's lines about being a British agent.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[Hummell, altought is not technically a real villain]].

* BlastOut -- When Hummel informs Captains Frye and Darrow plus Gunny Crisp that he plans to abort the mission, a mexican standoff ensues, with Hummel's second-in-command Major Baxter being the only one not participating. When Frye tells him to pick a side, Baxter opens up on the mutinous officers.

** By virtue of his rank and the gravity of the threat posed by his scheme to San Francisco (even if he didn't mean to carry it out, his men certainly did), Hummel is also arguably a [[GeneralRipper Ripper]].

* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous - Marine Corps Force Recon faces off against the Navy [=SEALs=] and a former member of the the British Special Service. [[AndZoidberg And Goodspeed.]]

* BondOneLiner - See PreMortemOneLiner below for context:
-->[Goodspeed fires a rocket at him]
-->'''Goodspeed''': [calling after him] How do ya like how ''that'' shit works?

** Alluded to figuratively in the Alcatraz shower room - "We are so f*** ed!"

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Hans Zimmer's "Hummel Gets The Rockets". [[XJustX Enough said.]]

** Also, before his men take all the tourists hostage, he tells a couple of little girls on a field trip to go find their teacher and tell her they have to leave right now.

* FridgeLogic: Mason was able to go through the incinerator, carefully avoiding the conveniently timed blasts of flame, and opens the door from the other side to get them in. So the security door only keeps people from breaking '''in''' to the prison?
** Take it a step further and you wonder why he had to roll through the incinerator when there was a perfectly good unlocked door there.
** They reversed the lock when they turned the prison into a museum.
** The "timings" remaining intact after so many decades is already a stretch, so you might not realize you'd need a totally different pattern to traverse the incinerator backwards. [[OneWayTrip Such a route might even be physically impossible]]!

* FridgeLogic - TheGovernment becomes a bit of a KarmaHoudini when you realise...by movies end, they're ''still'' going to carry on screwing over the families of soldiers. Bastards.
** Well, Goodspeed ''did'' discover the microfilm with every major government secret for the last half-century on it.
** Mason was able to go through the incinerator, carefully avoiding the conveniently timed blasts of flame, and opens the door from the other side to get them in. So the security door only keeps people from breaking '''in''' to the prison?
*** Take it a step further and you wonder why he had to roll through the incinerator when there was a perfectly good unlocked door there.
*** They reversed the lock when they turned the prison into a museum.
*** The "timings" remaining intact after so many decades is already a stretch, so you might not realize you'd need a totally different pattern to traverse the incinerator backwards. [[OneWayTrip Such a route might even be physically impossible]]!

** After Goodspeed launches the rocket to kill the gutting man, why does the last chip stay important? ''It was the last rocket'', it just went into the bay. Unless being a Marine means you can HailMary the gas into San Fran, the final fight means nothing.
*** The morgue scene hints to plenty of perfectly serviceable rockets still existing in the Rock, they are just missing their guidance chips.
*** Shortly after, Goodspeed smashes the remaining chips so the final fight is about saving the hostages from the airstrike.
*** There's still one chip to call another bluff.