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* RonTheDeathEater: The Shi'ar get re-imaginated as TheFundamentalist who want to destroy the Phoenix by all means. Played with in that, in the comic books, the Shi'ar are hostile to the Phoenix and have done some ruthless actions, such killing all members of the Grey family.
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* BetterThanCanon: The general consensus, as it averts TooBleakStoppedCaring (it doesn't mean the fic isn't dark though).

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* EvilIsCool: As a mercenary, Eric Stoller has shown how much he's in the top of his class. He doesn't just "kill people for money" - he's a top notch helicopter pilot, he got his "terrorist training in Vietnam and Korea", and he's demonstrated how good he is by luring a SWAT team into a trap, thinking they got him cornered, and they had no idea they were had until it was too late. And to top it off, Brad Little had this to say about Stoller:
--> '''Little:''' "Charming, isn't he?"



* MagnificentBastard - As a mercenary, Eric Stoller has shown how much he's in the top of his class. He doesn't just "kill people for money" - he's a top notch helicopter pilot, he got his "terrorist training in Vietnam and Korea", and he's demonstrated how good he is by luring a SWAT team into a trap, thinking they got him cornered, and they had no idea they were had until it was too late. And to top it off, Brad Little had this to say about Stoller:
--> '''Little:''' "Charming, isn't he?"
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Darkness Induced Audience Apathy was renamed. Spelling.


* BetterThanCanon: The general consensus, as it adverts DarknessInducedAudienceApathy (it doesn't mean the fic isn't dark though).

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* BetterThanCanon: The general consensus, as it adverts DarknessInducedAudienceApathy averts TooBleakStoppedCaring (it doesn't mean the fic isn't dark though).
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* HilariousInHindsight: One of the first things the Apaches and their Kiowa scout do is hunt down and destroy an enemy radar site so they can't observe the American helicopters. The year after the film's release, a task force of Apache helicopters, working with Air Force Pave Low helicopters, snuck up on a pair of Iraqi air defense sites to perform pretty much exactly this same mission, with the added hitch that they had to approach under cover of darkness over open desert. This ended up being the opening shots of UsefulNotes/TheGulfWar.

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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Little's "cure" for eye-dominance: driving a jeep while wearing [[spoiler:panties and a periscope on one's head]]. The ridiculousness of it all being lampshaded at the beginning of the scene:
--> '''Preston:''' "Uh, is this some sort of gag, sir?"
--> '''Little:''' "Oh really this is all bullshit."
** All the way to the end of it when they're seen by a General and his wife:
--> '''General's wife:''' "[[CaptainObvious That guy's wearing panties on his head!]]"
--> '''Little:''' (to Preston) "[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Get outta here!]]"


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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Little's "cure" for eye-dominance: driving a jeep while wearing [[spoiler:panties and a periscope on one's head]]. The ridiculousness of it all being lampshaded at the beginning of the scene:
--> '''Preston:''' "Uh, is this some sort of gag, sir?"\\
'''Little:''' "Oh really this is all bullshit."
** All the way to the end of it when they're seen by a General and his wife:
--> '''General's wife:''' "[[CaptainObvious That guy's wearing panties on his head!]]"
--> '''Little:''' (to Preston) "[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Get outta here!]]"

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* BetterThanCanon: The general consensus.
* CharacterRerailment: The Avengers here don't carry the IdiotBall that they did in canon.

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* BetterThanCanon: The general consensus.
consensus, as it adverts DarknessInducedAudienceApathy (it doesn't mean the fic isn't dark though).
* CharacterRerailment: Pretty much everyone. The X-Men lose their DesignatedVillain, the Avengers here don't carry and Wolverine lose their DesignatedVillain and everyone drops the IdiotBall that they did IdiotBall.
* RonTheDeathEater: The Shi'ar get re-imaginated as TheFundamentalist who want to destroy the Phoenix by all means. Played with
in canon.that, in the comic books, the Shi'ar are hostile to the Phoenix and have done some ruthless actions, such killing all members of the Grey family.

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* BetterThanCanon: The general consensus.
* CharacterRerailment: The Avengers here don't carry the IdiotBall that they did in canon.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Little's "cure" for eye-dominance: driving a jeep while wearing [[spoiler:panties and a periscope on one's head]]. The ridiculousness of it all being lampshaded at the beginning of the scene:
--> '''Preston:''' "Uh, is this some sort of gag, sir?"
--> '''Little:''' "Oh really this is all bullshit."
** All the way to the end of it when they're seen by a General and his wife:
--> '''General's wife:''' "[[CaptainObvious That guy's wearing panties on his head!]]"
--> '''Little:''' (to Preston) "[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Get outta here!]]"
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---> '''Little:''' "Charming, isn't he?"

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* {{Anvilicious}}: Preston's "War on Drugs" monologue in the film's intro.
* DemonicSpiders: Stoller and his Scorpion attack chopper are treated as such by the American pilots. In the film's intro, he turns three choppers into scrap metal in the time that it takes Preston to take control of his Cobra attack chopper from his co-pilot. They barely escape alive due to some quick and skillful maneuvering by Preston to get out of the area.



---> '''Little:''' "Charming, isn't he?"

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---> '''Little:''' "Charming, isn't he?"he?"
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