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Riz Ahmed is the main actor, so anyone who saw this would recognize him in subsequent roles.


* RetroactiveRecognition: Aside from the [[Creator/BenedictCumberbatch police negotiator]], the group's leader Omar would later be known as [[Film/RogueOne Bodhi Rook]] (the two characters [[spoiler:[[DelayedExplosion even die]] [[GoryDiscretionShot the same way]]]]).
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* TheWoobie: Feisal. Waj takes over later on.

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* TheWoobie: Feisal.Faisal. Waj takes over later on.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: Aside from the [[Creator/BenedictCumberbatch police negotiator]], the group's leader Omar would later be known as [[Film/RogueOne Bodhi Rook]] (the two characters [[spoiler: [[DelayedExplosion even die]] [[GoryDiscretionShot the same way]]]]).

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* RetroactiveRecognition: Aside from the [[Creator/BenedictCumberbatch police negotiator]], the group's leader Omar would later be known as [[Film/RogueOne Bodhi Rook]] (the two characters [[spoiler: [[DelayedExplosion [[spoiler:[[DelayedExplosion even die]] [[GoryDiscretionShot the same way]]]]).



* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Even though Omar's brother Ahmed is innocent of plotting terrorism and [[spoiler: ends up arrested on this false charge]], he's still an obscenely misogynistic fundamentalist who imprisons his wife and female relatives in a tiny room - something ''very'' illegal in the UK and subject to prison time. As a result, [[spoiler: his arrest comes off as somewhat less an innocent man persecuted by a prejudiced government and more a criminal domestic abuser rightfully busted on the wrong charge.]] He's also aware of his brother planning a terror attack but fails to inform the authorities, which also warrants criminal charges.

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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Even though Omar's brother Ahmed is innocent of plotting terrorism and [[spoiler: ends [[spoiler:ends up arrested on this false charge]], he's still an obscenely misogynistic fundamentalist who imprisons his wife and female relatives in a tiny room - something ''very'' illegal in the UK and subject to prison time. As a result, [[spoiler: his [[spoiler:his arrest comes off as somewhat less an innocent man persecuted by a prejudiced government and more a criminal domestic abuser rightfully busted on the wrong charge.]] He's also aware of his brother planning a terror attack but fails to inform the authorities, which also warrants criminal charges. \n
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---->'''Bystander:''' And out comes the peanut. [[spoiler:('''''BOOM!''''')]]

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---->'''Bystander:''' And out comes catch the peanut. [[spoiler:('''''BOOM!''''')]]

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** Alice seems like a regular {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, being perky and completely blind to the fact her new friends' house is filled with supplies for homemade explosives. [[BlackComedyBurst Turns out she's also homophobic]], as Omar convinces her to never talk to them again by [[MistakenForGay going along with her accusations]] that they are all gay.

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** Alice seems like a regular {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, being perky and completely blind to the fact her new friends' house is filled with supplies for homemade explosives. [[BlackComedyBurst Turns out she's also homophobic]], as Omar convinces her to never talk to them again by (hesitantly) [[MistakenForGay going along with her accusations]] that they are all gay.gay.
** Being the idiots they are, it's no surprise that none of the [[spoiler:suicide bombings]] go as well as they planned, with two in particular being hilarious for how anticlimactic and cruel they are:
*** [[spoiler:Faisal]] [[DroppedABridgeOnHim blows up after tripping over a stone fence]], his only victim [[BlackComedyAnimalCruelty a single sheep]]. Everyone's [[OhCrap horrified reactions]] are the cherry on top.
*** [[AssholeVictim And then there's]] [[spoiler:Barry]] who goes out [[KarmicDeath in a particularly karmic way]]: [[spoiler:he begins choking on the SIM card he swallowed, and a HeroicBystander attempts the Heimlich maneuver on him. Long story short: one man choked, two men died.]]
---->'''Bystander:''' And out comes the peanut. [[spoiler:('''''BOOM!''''')]]
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Even though Omar's brother Ahmed is innocent of plotting terrorism and [[spoiler: ends up arrested on this false charge]], he's still an obscenely misogynistic fundamentalist who imprisons his wife and female relatives in a tiny room - something ''very'' illegal in the UK and subject to prison time. As a result, [[spoiler: his arrest comes off as somewhat less an innocent man persecuted by a prejudiced government and more a criminal domestic abuser rightfully busted on the wrong charge.]]

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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Even though Omar's brother Ahmed is innocent of plotting terrorism and [[spoiler: ends up arrested on this false charge]], he's still an obscenely misogynistic fundamentalist who imprisons his wife and female relatives in a tiny room - something ''very'' illegal in the UK and subject to prison time. As a result, [[spoiler: his arrest comes off as somewhat less an innocent man persecuted by a prejudiced government and more a criminal domestic abuser rightfully busted on the wrong charge.]] He's also aware of his brother planning a terror attack but fails to inform the authorities, which also warrants criminal charges.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Even though Omar's brother Ahmed is innocent of plotting terrorism and [[spoiler: ends up arrested on this false charge]], he's still an obscenely misogynistic fundamentalist who imprisons his wife and female relatives in a tiny room - something ''very'' illegal in the UK and subject to prison time. As a result, [[spoiler: his arrest comes off as somewhat less an innocent man persecuted by a prejudiced government and more a criminal domestic abuser rightfully busted on the wrong charge.]]

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%%* CrossesTheLineTwice: More than a couple of times actually.

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%%* * CrossesTheLineTwice: More than a couple of times actually.actually considering this movie's premise.
** Hassan's EstablishingCharacterMoment includes him attending the same Muslim moderation as Barry, revealing himself to be armed with a bomb vest, ''rapping about it'', and then setting it off, revealing the vest to be [[{{Troll}} nothing more than confetti-filled party poppers]]. The audience around him go from scared from their lives to [[DudeNotFunny booing him out of the room]].
--->'''Hassan:''' What, just cuz I'm Muslim you thought it was real?
** Alice seems like a regular {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, being perky and completely blind to the fact her new friends' house is filled with supplies for homemade explosives. [[BlackComedyBurst Turns out she's also homophobic]], as Omar convinces her to never talk to them again by [[MistakenForGay going along with her accusations]] that they are all gay.



%%* MemeticMutation: "Rubber dinghy rapids, bro!"

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%%* * MemeticMutation: "Rubber dinghy rapids, bro!"bro!" has easily become the most quoted line from the movie.



%%* OneSceneWonder: Creator/BenedictCumberbatch as a particularly inept police negotiator.

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%%* * OneSceneWonder: Creator/BenedictCumberbatch as a particularly inept police negotiator.negotiator attempting to talk down Waj.
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* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Barry blowing up Hassan when he bottles out and tries to surrender to a police officer who happens upon them. A fairly despicable act in itself, but Omar is especially outraged that Barry took away Hassan's choice to give his own life, and thus the posthumous rewards of his sacrifice.]]

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* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Barry blowing up Hassan when he bottles out and tries to surrender to a police officer who happens upon them. A fairly despicable act in itself, but Omar This is especially outraged that a particularly interesting example since it counts as an MEH from both a pro and anti jihad viewpoint. Either Barry took away blew up two people and made it so that they can never be held accountable for their plotting, or it's an MEH because he made Hassan's choice to give for him, rendering his own life, [[AllForNothing suicide bomb pointless and thus denying his reward in the posthumous rewards of his sacrifice.]]afterlife.]]]]

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