History YMMV / LoneSurvivor

** The log where a man is beheaded at the start of the movie ''still has dried blood on it'' when Luttrel is dragged over to it.

* [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Awesome Moment]]: The villagers are willing to protect the protagonist in openly defiance of the Taliban, who had already demonstrated their brutality with a prior beheading of a villager. It is in their sense of honor to protect the protagonist, whom they consider to be their guest, and they are willing to back that up by fighting the Taliban soldiers. Also doubles as a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Heartwarming Moment]].

* [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Awesome Moment]]: The villagers are willing to openly defy the Taliban, who had already demonstrated their brutality with a prior beheading of a villager, who are about to behead the protagonist, simply because they consider him their guest, and to back that up by fighting the Taliban soldiers. Also doubles as a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Heartwarming Moment]].

** [[http://spacerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/survival Survival,]] the theme that plays [[spoiler:When you get the Green ending]].

* {{Fanon}}: The pocket flashlight You wears is commonly mistaken by players for a red tie, and drawn as such in many fan works.

* WhatAnIdiot: Averted in that the film takes great pains during the captive scene to let the audience know how hard the team's decision is, effectively silencing armchair critics who might have a WhyDontYouJustShootHim approach. Granted, letting them go still wasn't the right move (obviously), but their choices were extremely limited: their operation was already compromised, their radios weren't working properly, and when comparatively innocent actions (such as taking a gun from an enemy) were being severely punished, they were reluctant to simply kill the shepherds. Doesn't stop most people from coming up with [[TakeAThirdOption their own solutions]] (at the very least, zip-tying the boy to a goat or zip-tying them together would have barred him from his LeParkour and slowed them down, buying much-needed time), but the pressure is very evident in the scene.
** While tying the herders up was an option they discussed, they also acknowledged that it got pretty cold in the mountains and there was a real chance they could freeze to death, or be easy prey for the local wolves, which would have been treated about the same as if they had just outright executed them. Additionally, "Just tie them up" is an option that only comes up in the movie. The book specifically notes that the [=SEALs=] didn't have anything to tie the goatherds up with.

* NightmareFuel: The squad jumps off of a small cliff to escape the Taliban. When they're rolling down the hill below, there are lots of wince-inducing shots showing them landing in ways that could easily break bones or hitting obstacles very hard, and the whole ordeal leaves them significantly bloodier than the preceding gunfight.

* WhatAnIdiot: Averted in that the film takes great pains during the captive scene to let the audience know how hard the team's decision is, effectively silencing armchair critics who might have a WhyDontYouJustShootHim approach. Granted, letting them go still wasn't the right move (obviously), but their choices were extremely limited: their operation was already compromised, their radios weren't working properly, and with comparatively innocent actions (such as taking a gun from an enemy) were being severely punished, they were reluctant to simply kill the shepherds. Doesn't stop most people from coming up with [[TakeAThirdOption their own solutions]] (at the very least, zip-tying the boy to a goat or zip-tying them together would have barred him from his LeParkour and slowed them down, buying much-needed time), but the pressure is very evident in the scene.

** While tying the herders up was an option they discussed, they also acknowledged that it got pretty cold in the mountains and there was a real chance they could freeze to death, or be easy prey for the local wolves, which would have been treated about the same as if they had just outright executed them.
** "Just tie them up" is an option that only comes up in the movie. The book specifically notes that the [=SEALs=] didn't have anything to tie the goatherds up with.

* ValuesDissonance: Luttrel is a very conservative Christian from the American South, and has effectively no common ground with the also very conservative Muslim Pashtun. Still, he admires their courage and commitment to ''their'' idea of honor, and when describes the [[StayInTheKitchen the Pashtun attitude towards women]], and admits that while their extreme views "may not work for downtown Dallas," it seemed to work well enough for them.