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2[[caption-width-right:300:''"The name's Doomguy. You spell it--"'' *KLA-CHACK* *BLAM*]]
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4->''"In the year 2026, archaeologists working in the Nevada desert discovered a portal to an ancient city on Mars. They call this portal the Ark. Twenty years later, we're still struggling to understand why it was built and what happened to the civilization that built it."''
5-->-- '''Samantha Grimm'''
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7''Doom'' is a 2005 SciFiHorror film, loosely based on the ''Franchise/{{Doom}}'' series of video games created by Creator/IdSoftware. It was directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak and stars Creator/KarlUrban, Wrestling/DwayneJohnson, Creator/DeObiaOparei, and Creator/RichardBrake as SpaceMarines and Creator/RosamundPike as the DeterminedDoctor who have to figure out what went wrong with an outpost on Mars.
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9After option deals with Universal Pictures and Columbia Pictures expired, id Software signed a deal with Warner Bros. with the stipulation that the movie will be greenlit within 12 months. Warner Bros. lost the rights, which were subsequently given back to Universal Pictures who started production in 2004.
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11In an interview with executive producer John Wells, he stated that a second film would be put into production if the first was a success at the box office. Ticket sales for the opening weekend totaled more than US$15.3 million, but promptly dropped to $4.2 million in its second weekend and the story for a sequel was never written.
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13Ultimately the movie wasn't poorly acted or badly written nor were the effects bad, but it still got mixed reception, carried only on the game it was based on, and related to the game mostly by shout-outs (and the monsters used) rather than the actual plot - not that the game's plot was much deeper than "you see it, you shoot it".
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15Nearly 14 years after the release of this movie, Universal released a second adaptation, ''Film/DoomAnnihilation'', DirectToVideo in the fall of 2019. That adaptation is a ContinuityReboot, with no connections to this movie.
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18!! This movie contains examples of:
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20* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The Olduvai complex has one of these. For [[RuleOfScary some]] reason.
21* AdaptationalWimp: The demons in the film are just mutated humans, rather than genuine demons from Hell, and as a result can't throw plasma fireballs. ''Doom 3'' also has a scientist note that the demons have bullet-resistant skin (it takes a good 15-20 bullets to put down a basic Imp), which doesn't seem to be the case in the film. However, the demons in the film do seem somewhat smarter than their game counterparts, one Imp is even intelligent enough to run away when shot at and set up an ambush later down the line.
22* AllMenArePerverts: Portman and the Kid come across a woman stripping naked. It seems that like many members of the crew she has been driven insane from whatever horrors she has witnessed. They both ogle her for a few seconds, but then the Kid gets embarrassed and steps in to try and help her, and Portman gives him a dirty look for spoiling it. [[spoiler:It turns out that she's mutating into a demon.]]
23* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The monsters are driven to kill, unable to be reasoned with.
24* AnArmAndALeg:
25** A scientist in the opening gets her arm lopped off by a closing door. It becomes a plot point later on, providing a means to access the BFG.
26** Pinky was subject to this with the first teleporter tests. As succinctly put by a UAC Marine, "his ass went to one galaxy"...
27* AndThenJohnWasAZombie:
28** [[spoiler:John himself, appropriately enough, seems like he's going to when his sister gives him the demon gene to save his life. {{Subverted}} when it turns him into an "angel" instead.]]
29** [[spoiler:Sarge starts to turn into one himself. He eventually goes crazy and Reaper has to stop him.]]
30* AnkleDrag:
31** [[spoiler:Duke]] is killed by an especially gruesome version of this. An Imp grabs his ankles and pulls him ''through'' the floor grate he was unlucky enough to be standing on, to quote the script, "as though through a strainer."
32** This is also how [[spoiler:Pinky]] is killed, dragged by the wheelchair-leg offscreen by a demon.
33* ArmorPiercingQuestion:
34-->'''Reaper:''' What was in the files? What were you sent to protect?\
35'''Sam:''' The research data!\
36'''Reaper:''' Research into ''what''?
37* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: The Marines check their personal cameras, by circling up...and pointing the muzzles of their rifles at their teammates. Adding insult to injury, this is with weapons that they have already knowingly loaded for combat.
38* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Portman]] and [[spoiler:Dr. Carmack]], who performed torturous experiments on prisoners that involved agonizing transformations and live dissection. One of the first things we see [[spoiler:Dr. Carmack]] do is close the door on a panicking lab tech to save his own skin from a Hellknight.
39* AsTheGoodBookSays: Goat quotes ''1 Peter 5:8'' (KJV) while the squad is in the sewer.
40-->'''Goat:''' Be sober. Be vigilant. For your adversary the devil walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
41* AtrociousAlias:
42** Invoked by Samantha when she asks about her brother's nickname 'Reaper'.
43--->'''Reaper:''' They're Marines, Sam, not poets.
44** The Kid is, understandably, not pleased about being given this nickname.
45* AwesomeButImpractical: Nanowalls. A wall whose mode can be toggled between solid and able to pass matter? Cool, great way to show off technical prowess, but in a facility on another planet that clearly has some ongoing power and brownout issues, a good old-fashioned door would've been a smarter choice. Since there's only one shown in the colony, it exists purely to provide a mediocre plot cheat.
46** Though considering that the nano wall led into a medical facility, it may be used to keep any unknown airborne pathogens contained if any were to be discovered. It would certainly be useful to have something that a virus or bacteria physically can’t pass through.
47* AxeCrazy: The infected, though capable of some basic reasoning and even problem solving, become this as their infection starts to take hold and they start to turn. By the time they've completely turned, they're AlwaysChaoticEvil.
48* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:Goat]] is DrivenToSuicide by slamming his head into the glass over and over again before he can fully become a monster.
49* {{BFG}}: Sarge liberates one from the armory. It's called "Bio Force Gun" there, but Sarge states its TRUE full name when acquiring it ("Big... Fucking... Gun...").
50* BigBad: [[spoiler:Dr. Carmack, who is responsible for the experiments that caused the outbreak in the first place.]]
51* BigBrotherInstinct: Inverted, John will fight the hordes of hell to save his elder sister. Though to be fair, they're twins, and she's only a handful of minutes older than him.
52* BigShutUp: "Portman, you need to SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
53* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Chromosome 24 seems to have this. It [[spoiler:turns good people into supermen and bad people into monsters]]. Furthermore, the mutants choose who to infect based on this, preferring to infect [[spoiler:bad people, to grow their numbers and not give their prey an advantage]].
54* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted. All three black characters make it [[spoiler:a decent chunk of the way through the movie]].
55* BodyHorror: Rife throughout the movie, what with Chromosome 24 mutating people into monsters. [[spoiler:Although one notable point was the video depicting [[PatientZero Curtis Stahl's]] mutation into a hulking monster. The transformation starting in the hand and wrist where he was injected and slowly progressing up his arm...]]
56* BorrowedBiometricBypass: The Sarge uses the severed hand of the woman from the intro, to access the [=BFG=].
57* BrickJoke: When Duke first encounters a nanowall, his response is: "No, I don't do nanowalls," but no explanation is given. A while later, when [[spoiler:Carmack, who has mutated into an imp]], attacks and gets caught in the nanowall Duke tells Sam: "''That's'' why I don't do nanowalls."
58* TheCameo: Brian Steele, the Hell Knight's suit performer, makes a brief appearance out of the suit in the research footage that the main characters watch where he plays [[spoiler:Curtis Stahl (the Hell Knight's [[PatientZero pre-infected human identity]])]].
59* TheCanKickedHim: [[spoiler:Portman]] is attacked on the john, and if the monster didn't kill him all the way, Sarge's BFG sure did.
60* CatScare: Several. Throughout the movie, random animals appear for no reason other than to spook the Marines, and then quickly vanish [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse with no explanation]].
61* ChainsawGood: During the FPS sequence, [[spoiler:Reaper]] is attacked by a monster wielding a chainsaw. Later, he has to use one against [[spoiler:monsterized Pinky]].
62* ChivalrousPervert: Duke makes no attempt to hide his attraction to Sam, which is contrasted with Portman's utterly inept and offensive passes at the female scientists.
63* CoversAlwaysLie: At no point in the film is an FN P90 used. The movie also has nothing to do with Hell, despite the poster's tagline. Although they do ''try'' to make some connection, mostly with the following line:
64-->'''Reaper:''' Christ, don't you get it? It's this place, it's hell, it always was.
65* CreativeClosingCredits: The first part of the end credits is an another FPS sequence, with someone gunning down names instead of monsters. Fittingly, when the actors' names start showing, only the names of those whose characters died during the movie get shot.
66* DarknessEqualsDeath: The first squad member death occurs in the sewer, after his flashlight fails.
67* TheDarknessGazesBack: When one of the soldiers sees a pair of eyes in the darkness. He calls out, thinking it's one of the scientists he's looking for... only to see all the other eyes of the mutated monster opening just before it springs.
68* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:If [[CensoredChildDeath offscreen]]. When the Kid finds a group of survivors, there are several children among them. Later, when John inquires about them, Sarge remarks that he "took care of that problem".]]
69* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Sarge. The actual Doomguy is Reaper. Sarge even thinks he's still the hero, as prior to being dragged off to certain death, screams "I'm not supposed to die!" Turns into a GeniusBonus when you remember that video game Doomguy was a grunt who killed his Sergeant. And even moreso when you realise that Sarge resembles the former human Sergeants from the games.]]
70* DemonicPossession: Averted. Rather than being literal demons from hell, the monsters of the film are mutated humans who had a 24th chromosome pair inserted into their genetic structure, with the effect being that, rather than a demon invading their bodies, it reduces a person to their own inner demon.
71* DisproportionateRetribution: When [[ItMakesSenseInContext Pinky asks what Portman is doing in the bathroom]], he calls him a "fucking gimp". Later when [[spoiler:he's attacked by one of the monsters]], Pinky doesn't give out his position to his teammates so they can save him.
72* DirtyCoward:
73** Portman, though he has several moments of LovableCoward, too.
74** Pinky, given that he apparently [[spoiler:flees through the Ark rather than destroy it and the hell knight attempting to get through it with a grenade, as he was ordered]].
75** Dr. Carmack, who shuts the door on his utterly terrified assistant and abandons her to a brutal offscreen fate rather than giving her one extra second to make it inside with him. [[LaserGuidedKarma His cowardice doesn't save him for long, though.]]
76* DistressCall:
77** Dr. Carmack sends one in the opening scene, though it wasn't so much a distress call as it was a command to initiate the containment procedures.
78** Later, [[spoiler:Portman sends one, which really doesn't accomplish anything.]]
79* DoingInTheWizard: An element of the adaptation being changing the antagonists from demons from hell in the original game, to mutants created through splicing some LEGOGenetics learned from [[LostTechnology alien ruins]].
80* DoomedByCanon: Fans of the game will have known what will happen to Pinky the moment they heard his nickname.
81* DullSurprise: Done deliberately when it’s discovered [[spoiler:Mac]] got his head torn off.
82-->'''Sarge:''' Aw, shit.
83* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:Goat]] realizes he's turning into a zombie, and kills himself. [[spoiler:He crosses himself]] before bashing his head fatally against the wall, showing that he was still himself at the time.
84* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Destroyer]] doesn't survive his encounter with the Hell Knight, but he sure puts up one hell of a fight before succumbing.
85* EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler:Sam injects Reaper with C24 to save him from bleeding to death after he is struck by a ricocheting bullet near the end of the film, granting him superhuman abilities for the final fights]].
86* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:Reaper becomes one after the injection of C24 Sam gives him "judges" him to be worthy of the SuperSerum effects. Sarge also gets infected and despite it turning him AxCrazy and slowly turning him into a monster, the mutation grants him enough strength to fight evenly with Reaper.]]
87* EpicFail: [[spoiler:Mac]] spends the first half of the movie guarding the Ark. When he is finally called into the facility, his head is ripped off pretty much instantly. Not once did he fire his weapon, nor did he likely even see a demon.
88* EpicFlail: During his fight in the prison pit, Destroyer uses a ''computer monitor'' in this manner.
89* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Sarge becomes this at the end of the film, when the virus begins pushing him into AxCrazy violence, and even acting friendly and chatty with Reaper despite literally ''twitching'' with bloodlust.]]
90* FirstPersonPerspective: Perhaps the best known scene in the movie involves [[spoiler:Reaper]] slaughtering waves of zombies and demons in the games' first person perspective.
91* FoldSpindleMutilation: More ''pressed'' than folded, in the case of [[spoiler:Duke's]] death: dragged down through a floor grating with gaps barely wide enough for the monster that seizes him to get its claws through.
92* ForegoneConclusion: Any viewer who's familiar with the video game source material will immediately know what Pinky's ultimate fate is [[spoiler:(and possibly have a fairly good idea about the film's main twist of the monsters being mutated humans)]] as soon as they hear his name.
93* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Pinky, thanks to a glitch in teleportation, lost the lower half of his body. Fortunately, thanks to the advanced technology, he survives and has a SuperWheelchair grafted directly onto his spine instead.
94* HeroicWillpower: Carmack and Goat possess this. [[spoiler:When Carmack is infected and is AxCrazy enough to attack on impulse, he resists it and tells Samantha to "shut [the facility] down" and "It's inside" before he lapses back into violent delirium and Goat, when he reanimates, retains enough of himself to know that he's changing and so kills himself to stop it.]]
95* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Goat]] is killed by an Imp, and infected. He comes back to life early in his mutation. Realizing he is turning, he makes a sign of the cross, before smashing his head repeatedly against a bulletproof window, killing himself.
96* HopeSpot: As [[spoiler:Destroyer]] is battling the Hell Knight inside the holding cell, he manages to pin it against the electrified wall and starts climbing a chain to get out. He almost makes it, but the Hell Knight gets free and rips the chain from the ceiling, bringing [[spoiler:Destroyer]] down with it.
97* IDontPayYouToThink: Sarge does this to himself when he refuses to destroy the research data despite its obvious flaws, claiming he isn't paid for that.
98* ImprovisedWeapon: Destroyer turns the ''entire holding cell'' into one.
99* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Anyone [[spoiler:Chromosome 24 refuses to infect and turn into a monster. Reaper and Destroyer are outright confirmed as this. Duke and Mac are implied due to the monsters choosing to kill them rather than turn them despite there being clear opportunities to infect them both.]]
100* IndecisiveMedium: The film has a suspicious amount of scenes shot in "first person".
101* InNameOnly: The film borrows almost nothing from any previous source, not even ''VideoGame/{{Doom 3}}'', which is the biggest inspiration for the film. About the only thing carried over is the demon designs from ''3'', and a ShoutOut with the first-person scene. No demons, almost no Mars (it's never shown, which the games always did), none of the iconic weapons aside from the chainsaw (the BFG ''almost'' makes it, but suffers from looking and acting nothing like its game counterparts), even the plot is ''completely'' different from any of the the games or novels.
102* IncestSubtext: The framing and general vibe of John and Sam's relationship, despite them being siblings, comes off as noticeably tense and [[{{Twincest}} non-familial]].
103* ItCanThink: The infected seem to retain some cognitive functions at the very least. The zombified [[spoiler:Dr Olsen]] used a scalpel to attack [[spoiler:Reaper]] and [[spoiler:Goat]]. The Hell Knight noticeably adjusts its tactics mid-fight against Destroyer when its initial tactics aren't working, later uses a bone-saw to break through the Ark vault door to get to Earth, and is even able to competently use a chainsaw in its fight with [[spoiler:Reaper]]. Later still, one of the 'demons' disables the computers [[spoiler:in the UAC facility on Earth]] to prevent the marines from extending the quarantine countdown. Even lampshaded:
104-->'''Kid:''' They're disabling computers now!?\
105'''Duke:''' Yeah, Kid. They're rocket scientists, remember?
106** It's also clearly shown that the infected can somehow sense whether a potential infectee would become another monster or a superhuman and they are actively choosing to only infect those who will become monsters to increase their own numbers while avoiding infecting anyone who would become superhuman.
107* JerkassHasAPoint: The usual reply to anything Portman has to say is "shut up," and for good reason. But when Sarge announces his plan to send the remainder of his team back into the facility to search and destroy however many monsters might be running around, Portman rightly points out that this is a needlessly dangerous plan and that calling for backup would be a better idea. This would've been the one good time to listen to him.
108* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:Sarge]] near the end of the movie when he orders all the remaining UAC personnel killed, even the uninfected ones. He then clinches it by shooting [[spoiler:The Kid]] when he refuses to follow said order. [[spoiler:Note that he isn't infected yet.]]
109* KickTheDog: An infected Dr Olsen quickly glimpses Goat and Reaper, but instead of attacking them straight away turns back to the cage, grabs a rat and devours it alive in front of them, flashing a brief [[SlasherSmile sadistic smirk]] after doing so and reaching for the scalpel...
110* LargeHam: After [[spoiler:getting infected]] near the end of the movie, Sarge proceeds to start hamming it up.
111* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Sarge's [[spoiler:faux dying words]] could be seen this way, given the level of fame enjoyed by Creator/DwayneJohnson:
112-->'''Sarge:''' I'm not supposed to [[spoiler:die]]!
113* LogoJoke: The Universal logo has Mars instead of Earth.
114* LudicrousGibs: The hell knight's [[spoiler:death via Reaper's proximity mine.]]
115* MakeSureHesDead: After discovering that [[spoiler:some of the previously-thought-dead scientists might reanimate as monsters]], the marines take to [[DoubleTap double-tapping]] any "corpses" they come across.
116* MythologyGag:
117** Reaper confronting and subsequently fighting with [[spoiler:Sarge]] for ordering him to [[spoiler:[[WouldNotShootACivilian kill innocent civilians]]]] mirrors Doomguy's backstory in the original ''Doom'' video games, though it happens at the climax rather than before the beginning.
118** The first-person sequence at the climax of the film is, of course, a tribute to the FirstPersonShooter genre of the games.
119** Although the monsters are not really demons in this version, there are still plenty of references to Hell and other Christian mythological concepts all the same, such as characters ''referring'' to the beasts as "demons", John declaring that the research facility is "Hell", and [[spoiler:his finishing off Sarge with the PreAssKickingOneLiner "go to Hell".]]
120* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Dr. Todd Carmack is named after Creator/JohnCarmack, co-founder of Creator/IdSoftware. Similarly, Dr. Willits is named after video game designer and longtime id Software veteran Tim Willits.
121* NamedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:The Doomguy is given the name Reaper.]]
122* NoOSHACompliance: Even if they weren't worried that someone in the holding cell could get out, you'd think the UAC would put a lid on the thing (or at least some guardrails at the top) so that valuable research personnel did not accidentally fall in.
123** Not to mention simply installing a hatch/ceiling above the cell or at least a nanowall...
124* TheNotLoveInterest: Instead of your typical hero/heroine love interest angle, the film uses a familial/platonic bond to great effect: John and Samantha Grimm are estranged but loving fraternal twins.
125* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Mac]] loses his head to a surprise monster claw swipe from the shadows.
126* OhCrap: [[spoiler:Imp-Sarge's reaction when Reaper throws a live grenade into the teleporter Imp-Sarge was just thrown in.]]
127* OneBulletLeft: In the final battle, Sarge has one shot in his BFG. [[spoiler:He narrowly misses Reaper with it.]]
128* OneWordTitle: ''Doom''.
129* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Though every soldier has a name in the script, most of them are referred to only by their handle ID's. PlayedForLaughs in the case of "Mac."
130-->'''Pinky''': You don't look like a "Mac."\
131'''"Mac"''': [[TheUnpronounceable Katsuhiko Kumanosuke Takahashi]].\
132'''Pinky''': So... "Mac."
133* OnlySaneMan: Reaper, obviously, but also, surprisingly, Portman, once the squad finds out that they aren't dealing with a bunch of psychos or escaped animals, but honest-to-god monsters, Portman immediately suggests they evac and call for backup, because, as he points out, they have ''no idea'' what they are up against, they don't know how many "demons" are running around, nor exactly how strong and/or smart they are, and a single one took down [[spoiler:Goat]] without much trouble, he wisely tries to call for backup once he has a moment to himself [[spoiler:sadly, one of the creatures kills him and it seems the S.O.S never got outside the Ark facility]].
134* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Rosamund Pike and Karl Urban's American accents get a bit dodgy during parts of the film.
135* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Upon meeting Samantha and discovering that she and Reaper share the same last name, Duke asks Reaper if he let "that fine piece of ass get away", to which Reaper responds "she's my sister."
136* OrphansOrdeal: John and Sam lost their parents in an accident at the site when they were kids. [[spoiler:Heavily implied in an audio-only flashback to be caused by John himself.]]
137* OurZombiesAreDifferent: These are mutated by a Martian virus to give them superpowers and increase their violent tendencies. Some of them resemble wounded corpses, and some resemble various other monsters, but all have an uncontrollable urge to kill.
138* PalatePropping: Subverted, and in a grislier-than-usual fashion; the monster bites down on the flashlight that was used on its mouth, making the thing go through its head.
139* ParentalAbandonment: The Kid’s parents up and left him one day. He claims they wanted the TV more than they wanted him. It's hard to say how accurate this is, though, since he's stoned at the time.
140* PatientZero: The Hell Knight. Originally a death row inmate named Curtis Stahl, he was injected with Chromosome 24 and quickly mutated into the Hell Knight before escaping and infecting or killing every scientist he could get his hands on before the area was quarantined.
141* PortalCut: How the nanowall does something like this when [[spoiler:Imp-Carmack]] gets caught in it as the thing solidifies. Pinky lost his lower half in a botched foray through the Gate.
142* PreMortemOneLiner: [[spoiler:Like the Kid said, [[SeeYouInHell "Go to hell."]]]]
143* PunnyName: John Grimm's nickname on the team is Reaper. Grimm Reaper. His sister is less than impressed by this, but as John points out:
144-->'''Reaper:''' They're marines, Sam, not poets.
145* RealMenLoveJesus: Goat. He's so religious that he [[SelfHarm cuts a cross into his arm]] when he takes the Lord’s name in vain.
146* RelativeError: The team (and likely also the audience) initially assume from the shared surname that Sam is John's ex-wife, shortly before he informs them that she's actually his sister.
147* RightBehindMe: [[spoiler:Pinky and the Hell Knight.]]
148-->[[spoiler:'''Pinky''']]: [[LampshadeHanging Aw, there's something behind me, isn't there!?]]
149* RomanticFalseLead: While [[spoiler:Duke (Greg)]] is guarding [[spoiler:Dr. Sam Grimm (Reaper's sister)]], there is mild sexual tension as well as affectionate or intimate semi-flirting after the two spend a tiny bit of time together. [[spoiler:Duke]] even thinks she's about to ask for a quickie when she's only asking him to hand over the bone-saw during an autopsy she's performing.
150* RuleOfCool: Despite the obvious need to safely contain Chromosome 24 experiments, one would think the UAC would come up with something a little more practical than a massive pit with electrified walls.
151* SelfHarm: [[spoiler:Goat]] at one point cuts a cross into his arm because "I took [the Lord's] name in vain." At the same time, it can be seen that he has dozens of other cross-scars on that arm.
152* ShootEverythingThatMoves: Sarge's orders when the surviving squad members are about to [[spoiler:head back to Earth through the Ark]].
153--> '''Sarge:''' We uphold quarantine. Nothing gets to the elevator back on Earth..... If it breathes: Kill it!
154* ShotToTheHeart: While the squad is attempting to revive [[spoiler:Goat]].
155* SpiritualAdaptation: Many fans consider this movie to have little in common with the Doom video game it's supposed to be based on, but consider it to have a fair amount of similarities with ''VideoGame/{{Resident Evil}}'',another violent video game from the 1990s, the most obvious reason being that it's about a paramilitary tactical team sent on a rescue mission in a area around a secret lab that find themselves attacked by zombies and mutants that were created by a corporation, more specific similarities include the fact that Reaper has more in common with Chris Redfield than he has with Doomguy, because of his overall appearance, his outspokenness (whereas Doomguy is a silent protagonist) and his feud with his now mutated former commanding officer, along with his protectiveness of his sister.[[spoiler:Sarge's]] betrayal of his unit in the name corporate loyalty which he takes to the point of shooting [[spoiler:The Kid]], is reminiscent of how Wesker acted in the original Resident Evil, the fight between Reaper and the now mutated [[spoiler:Sarge]], is similar to the showdown between Chris and Wesker in ''VideoGame/{{Resident Evil Code Veronica}}'', as is Samantha's refusal to kill fellow scientist Carmack despite his grostesque mutation, being much like Annette Birkin's affection for her fellow researcher/husband William in ''VideoGame/{{Resident Evil 2}}''. In addition, many also consider this movie to be a thiny vieled remake of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', with certain scenes (such as [[spoiler:Duke's]] Death compared to [[spoiler:Hudson's]]) being almost identical, along with the fact that both are about gung-ho Marines on another planet that are lead by a tough black SergeantRock.
156* ShoutOut:
157** The introduction of the SpaceMarines is a shout out to similar introduction of the heroes of ''Film/{{Predator}}''.
158** id insisted the main character be named John, likely after [[Creator/{{John Carmack}} Carmack]] and [[Creator/{{John Romero}} Romero]].
159** The fact that the commanding officer is simply called "[[VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena Sarge]]".
160* SideBet:
161-->'''Portman:''' Five bucks says this shit ain't nothing but a disgruntled employee with a gun.
162%% This example is a mess. Each subtrope should be moved to its own bullet point and given an actual description.
163%% The first bullet point should be split (or one of the tropes should be deleted if it doesn't fit.
164%%* TheSquad / TheTeam:
165%%** TheLeader- Sarge
166%%** TheHero- Reaper
167%%** TheLancer- Duke
168%%** TheBigGuy- Destroyer
169%%** TokenReligiousTeammate- Goat
170%%** NewMeat- The Kid
171%%** RedShirt- Mac
172%%** TokenEvilTeammate- Portman
173%%** TheSmartGuy- Sam
174%%** VoiceWithAnInternetConnection- Pinky
175* SuddenVideoGameMoment: The FirstPersonShooter sequence. There's even a point where [[spoiler:Reaper is "killed" by the Pinky monster, but his advanced healing abilities, mentioned by Sam earlier, kick in and he gets another "life."]]
176* SurprisinglySuddenDeath:
177** In the middle of holding off a group of infected scientists, [[spoiler:Duke]] is suddenly yanked through a floor grate by an imp.
178** [[spoiler:Mac]]. In terms of time actually spent in the facility, he lasted the shortest, by far. Never even saw his killer, never saw a demon, never fired his weapon.
179* TeleportationSickness: Using the Ark isn't shown to be that pleasant an experience, what with the vomiting it may cause. It used to be far worse, subject to "[[TeleporterAccident turbulence]]".
180* TeleporterAccident: Pinky lost his lower body in the past due to "turbulence" in interplanetary travel.
181--> '''Reaper''': He means he went to one galaxy, his ass went to another.
182* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "Semper Fi, motherfucker!"
183* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:Portman]]. Granted, he wasn't USING the toilet, but yeah.
184* UsedToBeASweetKid: According to his sister, Grimm used to be sensitive and empathetic.
185* VerticalKidnapping: How [[spoiler:Portman]] is finished.
186* TheVirus: Chromosome 24. Visible in the blood, and transferred via parasitic tongues, bites, or scratches. It converts the host into a rage-filled monstrosity that will kill anything it can find. [[spoiler:Although this is a ZigzaggedTrope, depending on the morality or capacity for violence and ill will of the host. If the host doesn't have the potential to (or at the very least possesses less potential) for malicious and violent behaviour, then C24 will act as a SuperSerum.]]
187* WalkingArmory: Near the end of the movie when the surviving marines are [[spoiler:clearing the UAC facility back on Earth]], one can clearly see all of the extra weapons they are carrying (taken from the fallen squad members) slung on their bodies.
188** [[spoiler:Sarge]] is carrying both [[spoiler:Destroyer's [[MoreDakka chaingun]]]] and the BFG in addition to his own weapons.
189** [[spoiler:Duke]] has [[spoiler:Goat's shotgun]] plus his own assault rifle and sidearm.
190** [[spoiler:The Kid]] has his two submachine guns plus [[spoiler:Portman]]'s assault rifle.
191* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:All of the "demons" in the movie are revealed to be this, monsters created by the addition of a 24th chromosome pair]].
192-->'''Sam:''' [[spoiler:This thing didn't ''butcher'' Willits, it ''is'' Willits.]]
193* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When faced with the chance to destroy the data, which could be used to create more mutant monsters, [[spoiler:Sarge]] refuses to do it. Later on, he kills all the personnel despite Grimm telling him some aren’t infected. Chromosome 24 is supposed to emphasize this trait in a person... be it good, or bad.
194* WouldNotShootACivilian: Kid, when he disobeys Sarge's order to "clear" a room full of unarmed UAC personnel. Sarge doesn't take this well at all.

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