Line #84 Series/Obliterated


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2	''Obliterated'' is a 2023 Creator/{{Netflix}} action comedy series from Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald (''Series/CobraKai''). It centers on an elite special operations team who are tasked with finding a nuclear bomb before it vaporizes all of Las Vegas... while recovering from the hectic night of debauchery they had only hours before.
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4	Our team of Real American Heroes consists of:
5	* Ava Winters (Creator/ShelleyHennig), a confident but by-the-book CIA agent who acts as the team's leader.
6	* Chad [=McKnight=] (Creator/NickZano), a gung-ho Navy SEAL and the team's tactical leader.
7	* Trunk (Terrence Terrell), the team's muscle who is [=McKnight's=] best friend and has an affinity for food.
8	* Angela Gomez (Creator/PaolaLazaro), a sniper who struggles to balance her wartime mentality with her civilian life.
9	* Hagerty (Creator/CThomasHowell), a demolitions expert with a kooky SeenItAll demeanor.
10	* Maya Lerner (Kimi Rutledge), a tech expert who yearns to be taken seriously by the rest of the team.
11	* Paul Yung (Eugene Kim), a strait-laced pilot and proud father to an 18-year-old daughter.
12	* Lana (Alyson Gorske), a civilian party girl who gets caught up in the night's adventure.
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14	Also in the cast are Creator/CarlLumbly, Creator/DavidCostabile, and Creator/LindseyKraft.
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16	The eight-episode series premiered on November 30, 2023. Watch the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MNfBHFhnNs here]]. On February 2024, the show was cancelled after a single season.
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18	!!This series contains examples of the following tropes:
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20	* AccidentalHero: Ferguson had Ava and her team arrested for trying to interfere with the FBI's work on the mission, except for Hagerty and Paul, who were both missing. Hagerty was busy having fun with Yani (unaware of the events that have been going on), while Paul was zip-tied and left behind by Chad and Trunk at a diner so he wouldn't keep screwing up their efforts due to his hallucinations. Paul eventually released himself and tracked down his colleagues, intercepting the van that was taking them to prison, and releasing them in the process. Points go to Chad and Trunk for this unwitting back-up plan.
21	* ActionGirl: Ava is clearly a skilled fighter capable of taking advantage of her size to take down bigger opponents. Angela is also a pretty good fighter despite her preference for sniping from afar.
22	* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:After Ivan is killed by Ava, Anastasia lets out a BigNo, drives off in her motorcycle and mourns her deceased brother.]]
23	* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: A lot of the early struggles the team experiences are due to the ridiculous amount of alcohol and drugs they consumed.
24	* AllOfThem: When an army doctor asks the team how many drugs an unconscious Hagerty take before coming there, Paul snarkily answers with "all of them". This becomes ironic since Paul is just as drugged as Hagerty, just hasn't realized it yet.
25	* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:The Russians, Ivan Koslov, Vlad Litvin and Maddox included (except for Lana/Anastasia, the sole survivor), have done heinous crimes against humanity that no one was feeling sorry or crying for them after they were justifiably killed by the team.]]
26	* BarBrawl: A couple of this happen, including at a male strip club, a disco club, and a diner against a group of Elvis impersonators.
27	* BelligerentSexualTension: Chad and Ava spend most of their time snarking while clearly being attracted to each other.
28	* BetaCouple: Hagerty and Yani, Jen and Blast, Sarah and Billy.
29	* BettyAndVeronica: The love triangle involving Ava, Maya and [=McKnight=]. Ava's [[DarkAndTroubledPast traumatic past]] involving her deceased fiancé that marked her forever and shaped her into the icy and take-no-bullshit team leader she is makes her a Veronica, while Maya's dorkiness and NiceGirl persona give her the Betty position. Although, when it comes to Ava gradually [[DefrostingIceQueen showing her warm side]] and the unrequited crush Maya has on [=McKnight=], Ava would be the Betty and Maya the Veronica. In both cases, [=McKnight=] stands out as the Archie.
30	* BigNo: [[spoiler:Anastasia screams one out after Ava kills Ivan when he attempted to shoot [=McKnight=].]]
31	* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Maya and Lana are both clearly very intrigued by the extremely large penises of, respectively, a friendly stripper (who sadly manages to kill the mood with a can of whipped cream), and Trunk.
32	-->'''Lana:''' (to the torturers who have just removed Trunk's pants) "Hey! Don't objectify him. His eyes are up..." (looking over and doing a double take) "... there."
33	* BitchInSheepsClothing:
34	** Sharonda, who befriends a depressed Maya and give her a "girls' night" after her fallout with Ava over [=McKnight=]. [[spoiler:But at the ending of Episode 1 she quickly shows her true face, as she's an associate of Koslov sent to eliminate her, knowing that she is a vital key to the team in locating the nuke and will be screwed without her.]]
35	** Lana. She introduces herself as a typical DumbBlonde and partying girl who insists on helping the team in every way she can with the mission, despite being repeatedly and understandably sidelined because she's a civilian. Shortly after she is let go by Ava, [[spoiler:Episode 6 reveals that not only she lied about her name, but also is the mastermind behind the nuke and her real name Anastasia, Ivan Koslov's sister.]]
36	* BlatantLies:
37	** After the party in episode 1, when Director Langdon contacts them, he asks if they partied responsibly. Ava answers that they did, despite the fact that she is so drunk she's slurring her words, and the others aren't any better.
38	** After they commandeer the party bus, [=McKnight=] hits a pedestrian. When asked by Ava if he just hit someone, he says no.
39	* BookEnds:
40	** In the first episode the team celebrates completing their mission with a wild Las Vegas party, and in the final episode they also celebrate truly completing the mission with another party (albeit one with less drugs and debauchery).
41	** Also, in the first episode, Ava and [=McKnight=] hate-fuck during the party, but they are unable to take it any further when he says "I love you" and are caught on the act by a fully-naked Maya, who reacts furiously at this and blows on Ava for supposedly "stealing" her man. After Ava has dropped most of her frosty personality, her and [=McKnight=] try to have sex a second time in the penultimate episode, but are distracted by the camel and again caught by Maya. But this time, she has lost interest in [=McKnight=] and takes the whole thing lightly. In the last episode, they have sex for real and this time [=McKnight=] manages to give her an orgasm.
42	** In the first episode, Hagerty proceeds to defuse the bomb by listening to Michael Bublé's "I Feel Good", with Ava, [=McKnight=] and Trunk arguing with each other and yelling violently at him. He manages to stop it just before the timer goes down to zero. [=McKnight=] and Trunk celebrate with him, while Ava remains somewhat frustrated. In the last episode, Hagerty defuses the real bomb through Yani singing the song to help him out, as he doesn't have his phone (which he shattered earlier) to play it, all in front of a whole crowd. Ava reacts excited and celebrates with her teammates when the mission is over, even sharing a big hug with Maya.
43	* BoomHeadshot: A surprisingly large amount of people get shot right in the head.
44	* BreakTheHaughty: Ava's hardhearted leadership takes a hit when she nearly loses both Maya and [=McKnight=]. This reminds her of how her fiancé, an [=MI6=] agent died during a mission gone wrong, making her realize that still focusing on the work to get past it did not make her feel better after all.
45	* ButtMonkey: Billy, the fiancee of the woman Angela hooked up with, becomes this during his only major scene; his fiancee Sarah cancels the wedding due to the aforementioned hook up, Angela breaks his nose when he tries to pick a fight with her, gets shot in the shoulder by a sniper, and then loses two fingers while helping Angela take down that same sniper. [[spoiler:[[ThrowTheDogABone At least he and Sarah get back together in the end.]]]]
46	* TheCameo:
47	** Creator/VirginiaMadsen appears as Chad's mother in a flashback.
48	** Creator/LoriPetty cameos as "Crazy Susan", a CrazySurvivalist in the vein of her role as Film/TankGirl.
49	** Creator/JasonMantzoukas as the voice of the gremlin Paul hallucinates.
50	* CelebrityParadox: ''Series/BreakingBad'' is name-dropped a few times. Maddox is played by David Costabile, who played Gale Boetticher in that show and ''Series/BetterCallSaul''. Peter Diseth, who played Bill Oakley in ''Better Call Saul'' also appears in one episode as an FBI agent.
51	* ChekhovsGun: At the party in the first episode, [=McKnight=] gives Gomez a large dildo with a glow stick inside. Later, after Maya falls into a pit, Gomez tosses it to her to use as a light source, and she finds out the pit is filled with scorpions!
52	* ChekhovsGunman: When we are first introduced to Yani, she's a singer with a beautiful voice. [[spoiler:In the finale, she shows up at the casino and sings to Bublé's "Feeling Good" to help Hagerty safely defuse the nuke, thus saving Las Vegas in the process.]]
53	* DancePartyEnding: The series ends with the team (sans Chad and Ava, who are having sex in a shower at the time) partying and dancing in Las Vegas to celebrate their victory.
54	* DefrostingIceQueen: Ava gradually starts showing her more vulnerable side for the mission's run and realizes how much she loves [=McKnight=] after nearly losing him.
55	* DirtyCommunists: Chad tends to refer to the terrorists they're going after as Commies just because they're Russian, even though Ava points out they are NOT. [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Crazy Susan agrees with Chad's sentiment]]:
56	* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler:The seemingly ditzy Lana was the real BigBad the entire time.]]
57	* DramaticallyDelayedDrug: In the first episode, helicopter pilot Paul eats a tub of guacamole which, unknown to him, his colleague Hagerty has spiked with copious amounts of shrooms and LSD. At first, he seems fine (and as the team is called back into action, leader Ava observes that at least one of them is sober), but a few hours later, while flying them over the city, Paul starts to hallucinate a gremlin sitting in the copilot's seat and taunting him, causing him to freak out. His situation quickly starts going downhill after this.
58	* DreamTeam: In the flashback showing the team being brought together six months prior, all are said to be "the best of the best" in their respective specialties.
59	* {{Eagleland}}: Chad [=McKnight=] is practically a parody of this trope, being a freedom-loving, gun-toting, Commie hating {{Hunk}}. He does show some HiddenDepths at times.
60	* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: The team’s military members appear to be drawn from the best of several branches, including the Navy ([=McKnight=], who is a [=SEAL=] and the Marine Corps (Gomez, who is a scout sniper).
61	* EroticDream: While she's recovering at the hospital from her injuries, the morphine makes Maya have one with [=McKnight=] when they are about to have sex in a limo. Initially, Maya is pleased that she's getting the attention she longed for so bad, but she quickly has second thoughts and decides that [=McKnight=] isn't her type after all, and not worth ending her friendship with Ava.
62	* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:The team feels understandably hurt when they find out about Lana's involvement in Ivan's plot with the bomb. Even Trunk admits he had genuinely befriended her and put his own life at risk to save her when they were kidnapped.]]
63	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Anastasia Koslov’s (Lana) main motivation for her plan is revenge against the United States for an air strike that killed her and Ivan’s parents. When Ava kills Ivan, Anastasia is left weeping for her brother.]]
64	* EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler:Once Lana/Anastasia reveals her true colors, she changes from the blue party dress she'd been wearing so far for a black leather outfit.]]
65	* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The entire series takes place over the span of 12 hours.
66	* {{Fanservice}}: The entire main cast (except for Paul, who is married) shows some skin at one point. There are also countless {{Fanservice Extra}}s on display here. [[https://www.instagram.com/p/C1djo2KLp5i/ Eugene Kim did show himself naked during a live on Shelley Hennig's Instagram with Nick Zano, Terrence Terrell and Alyson Gorske present. Their reactions are priceless.]]
67	* {{Fingore}}:
68	** Hagerty lost his right thumb while deactivating a bomb in Tel Aviv several years prior. He sees it as a medal of honor.
69	** [[ButtMonkey Billy]] gets two of his fingers blow off by a sniper in the final episode.
70	* FastRoping: How [=McKnight=] and the rest of the Navy [=SEALs=] make their entrance for the takedown in episode 1.
71	* TheFellowshipHasEnded: After successfully completing the mission they've spent six months preparing for and executing, the team realizes that, tomorrow, they will each pack up and move on to their next assignments, and is one of the reasons they had a huge party. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when they find out the suitcase nuke they recovered was a fake, and the real one is still out there.
72	* FireForgedFriends: The team in general, but [=McKnight=], Trunk and Gomez especially, as they had done numerous missions together prior.
73	* FiveTokenBand: Ava, [=McKnight=], Lana and Hagerty are white, Trunk and Director Langdon are black, Gomez is Hispanic, Paul is Asian and Maya is AmbiguouslyBrown.
74	* FlashedBadgeHijack: Played with, as none of them have their actual credentials on them. They take the party bus by announcing, "The US government is commandeering this bus."
75	* FreudianExcuse: Ava was engaged to an [=MI6=] agent, who was captured and tragically killed during a mission that went awry. Because of this, she maintains a rigid no-nonsense demeanor to her team as a mechanism defense to cope with he loss.
76	* GenderEqualEnsemble: For most of the show, there are 4 men ([=McKnight=], Trunk, Paul and Hagerty) and 4 women (Ava, Angela, Maya and Lana).
77	* GirlsWithGuns: In spades. Ava and Gomez are well-versed in guns, being a CIA agent and a Marine Corps sniper, respectively. Maya tries to when the team goes to the lake house, but being a young, inexperienced NSA tech specialist, it goes badly as she can't handle the recoil of a submachine gun on full auto. [[spoiler: Lana also gets into it, once she's revealed to be the real BigBad, Anastasia Koslov.]]
78	* GoingCommando: Lampshaded when Chad is surprised to find strait-laced CIA team leader Ava, who's decided to have a drunken one-night stand with him now that the mission is (supposedly) over, is wearing a bra but no panties under her LittleBlackDress.
79	-->'''Chad''': I guess you're going commando for real.
80	-->'''Ava''': I like to keep it well ventilated.
81	* HeroAntagonist: FBI agent Ferguson. He sidelines the team due to their incompetence in handling the mission, although it is partly justified. Ferguson wants to stop Koslov as much as they do, but while that doesn't stop him from being a jerkass, at least he is the sanest agent left on the field.
82	* HeroicSacrifice: Paul says that, if it comes down to it, he would fly the bomb into the Nevada desert so no one else but him dies, ensuring his daughter's safety. [[spoiler: Averted when Hagerty shows up just in time.]]
83	* HonestyIsTheBestPolicy: Ava realizes that playing dumb with a CrazySurvivalist like Crazy Susan is not going to work, so she just tells her the actual truth, which sounds almost like a conspiracy theory, and Susan indeed gives them assistance.
84	* InterserviceRivalry: Largely subverted, as the team is made up of members of the CIA, NSA and all four branches of the Armed Forces. They work very well together, but all hate the FBI, and the dislike is mutual.
85	* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Once they find the bomb and Paul prepares to fly it out into the desert where it won't harm anyone, he says this.
86	-->'''Paul''': It's been an honor, serving with the best of the best.
87	-->'''[=McKnight=]''': The honor is ours. You're a goddamn American hero.
88	** [[spoiler:Averted at the last minute when Hagerty arrives to disarm it.]]
89	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Behind her resilient take-no-bullshit facade, Ava displays a softer side at times, such as having a heart-to-heart with Maya, even refering to her as a "genius", at the party celebrating their initial success in disarming the nuke (despite that she was drunk) and putting a sweet smile on her face while overhearing [=McKnight=] talking affectionately to his mother on the phone.
90	* JerkassHasAPoint:
91	** Ava may be very frosty to her team and she really is remorseful when Maya gets the wrong conclusion about her and Chad, but she's understandably fed up with Maya's childish behavior toward her everytime she brings it up, especially when they are back on duty trying to locate a bomb that threatens the lives of innocent people, and all this girl does is complain that Ava "betrayed" her.
92	** While removing them from the mission for the FBI to take over was not the best call, Ferguson had plenty of reason to be mad at Ava and her team over the wild party they had and how irresponsibly they handled the situation.
93	* JustInTime: Each time Hagerty has to disarm a bomb, the timer gets down to the last few seconds.
94	* KnightOfCerebus: In comparison to the antics the team gets into, the antagonists are played surprisingly serious whenever they get focused on.
95	* LastNameBasis:
96	** Hagerty is never referred to by his first name and he never bothers to mention it either.
97	** Chad is almost always referred to as "[=McKnight=]". Ava even lampshades in the final episode that she forgot Chad was his first name.
98	** Maya is often referred to as Lerner by Ava.
99	* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Gomez says Ava and [=McKnight=] are like one, due to all the bickering they were doing in the helicopter on the way to the army base for briefing in episode 2.
100	* TheLoad:
101	** Hagerty literally is for much of the first half, due to being unconscious from all the drugs he took.
102	** Maya is unfortunately dead weight when it comes to fighting, as she and Angela note.
103	** Paul becomes this when his hallucinations make him crash the helicopter, ruin the team's attempt at stealth, lose sight of an unconscious Hagerty and starts a fight while trying to punch a gremlin. It's so bad that Chad leaves him tied to a pole outside of a diner for his own safety.
104	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Maya was unaware that [[spoiler:Lana was actually the mastermind behind the bomb scheme]], as she was at the hospital recovering from her wounds, and it takes her EroticDream as well as recalling one time she had to momentarily lend her tablet for her to put the pieces together.
105	* LodgedBladeRemoval: In the original mission to recover the suitcase nuke in episode 1, a mook stabs Trunk in the shoulder with a knife. He does a NoSell, pulls the knife out, and throws the mook out the window.
106	* {{Malaproper}}: Ava mangles a few of her words during a video call right after they're forced to end the party.
107	* ManlyGay: Trunk is big, strong, and macho. He doesn't exactly make a secret of his sexuality, but since he never actually came out to him, [=McKnight=] never realised (as Gomez points out, [=McKnight=] just saw Trunk as a larger version of himself, and Trunk didn't want to let his friend down).
108	* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Hagerty has sex with Yani, the woman who was singing on the party boat, and are seen by a father and his younger son who were fishing nearby. The father is understandably grossed out by this and covers his son's eyes.
109	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In the final episode [[spoiler:Hagerty tells Paul he can also see Zogg the gremlin because of "all the things he's seen", leaving Paul baffled and wondering if the gremlin is real or Hagerty just has the same hallucinations due to all the drugs he's taken.]]
110	* MeaningfulName: Several examples. Winters is known in her team for being cold, McKnight is a self directed warrior, Hagerty is haggard, and Lerner is a smart geek.
111	* MisguidedMissile: Paul redirects a heat-seeking RPG by firing a flare gun out the window of his helicopter.
112	* MissedHimByThatMuch: Both Hagerty and the team fail to notice each other several times, and right when they need him the most.
113	* MoodWhiplash: The end of Episode 5. [[spoiler:Maya is shot in the gut and seemingly killed... and we cut to Hagerty finally waking from his drug-induced coma as his raft drifts into a nearby party boat, where he's promptly welcomed by the drunken guests and falls [[LoveAtFirstSight instantly in love]] with the party's singer, who's performing "[[Creator/MichaelBuble Haven't Met You Yet]]" throughout the scene. Though this could serve as a hint that Maya actually survives, since the creators probably wouldn't be so cavalier about actually killing off a main character, especially TheBabyOfTheBunch]].
114	* MushroomSamba: Hagerty apparently makes a special guacamole mixed with LSD, hallucigenic mushrooms [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and pineapple]]. Paul eats all of it and he hallucinates a gremlin at inopportune times.
115	* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Near the end of the first episode, Hagerty comes out completely naked while wasted and stoned in front of his shocked team before he falls onto the glass table.
116	* NeverMyFault: Maya behaves unprofessional most of the time to Ava at the beginning of the mission, blaming her for "stealing" [=McKnight=] from her, not acknowledging that she was blinded by her own insecurities of not being taken seriously by the team as well as her unrequited crush on [=McKnight=].
117	* NotSoStoic: Langdon is serious and professional most of the time, but when Ava announces that the nuke has been finally defused, he becomes excited and yells "Fuck, yeah!". Nonetheless, he quickly reverts to his previous demeanor to congratulate Ava for her work.
118	* NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat: [=McKnight=] says he wants to kill "the Russian cocksucker" who has the nuke, then immediately goes into this, as he only found out less than an hour prior that his best friend, Trunk, is gay.
119	* OfficialCouple: Ava and Chad.
120	* OneHitPolykill: Angela delivers a double headshot to a pair of Russian bad guys in the first episode, blowing through one guy's head to get the guy behind him.
121	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Trunk is never referred to by his actual name.
122	* OocIsSeriousBusiness: When Maya risks her own life trying to take down the bad guys, which results in her getting wounded, Ava sounds so broken [[PleaseDontLeaveMe while pleading for Maya not to die]], to the point that she's clearly trying to fight back tears while doing so. And this is not Ava's usual attitude the team and the audience is used to.
123	* PartingWordsRegret: The teams has had their fights along the way of the mission and even said things they didn't mean to, the major case being Trunk and [=McKnight=]. The latter is upset that Trunk didn't tell him he was gay the entire time. When they make up, [=McKnight=] tells him that if anything goes wrong when the bomb explodes, the last thing he needs is for them to die being feuded with each other.
124	* PottyFailure: While unconscious, Hagerty shits his pants on the party bus, forcing Maya and Lana to wash his ass on a fountain and buy him new pants.
125	* PulledFromYourDayOff: What kicks off the main plot. The team had completed their mission to stop a suitcase nuclear bomb, and were having a big party to celebrate its completion, only to find out the suitcase nuke they seized was a fake, and the real one was still out there.
126	* RaceAgainstTheClock: Because of finding out the real suitcase nuke was still out there and planned to be used within 8 hours (the show more or less progresses in RealTime), the team doesn't have time to sober up from their wild post-mission party.
127	* RagingStiffie: Trunk tries waking up an unconscious Hagerty with meth, only for the drug to be viagra, leaving him with a raging erection instead, even after the helicopter crashes.
128	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: CIA Director Langdon is pretty understanding of Ava and aids her and the team in every way he can.
129	* RetiredBadass: Langdon.
130	-->'''Langdon''' (to Ava): You forget, Winters. I used to be a field agent. And a damn good one.
131	* RunningGag:
132	** Ava and Chad being distracted or interrupted while attempting to get intimate.
133	** Trunk having the munchies and being unable to eat anything.
134	** Maya repeatedly and inadvertently phrasing things in a way that sounds very sexual.
135	* SayMyName: When [=McKnight=] sacrifices himself by falling off the elevator shaft to get one of Anastasia's soldiers off of her, Ava screams out his name in anguish.
136	* ScaryScorpions: When Maya falls into the scorpion pit and has a meltdown over it. Gomez has to calm her down and help her climb out.
137	* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Trunk understandably gives some high-pitched screaming when Maddox's torturer Ehren [[GroinAttack shoves a torture device up his dong]].
138	* ShipperOnDeck: Unlike the rest of the team, Lana is all supportive of Ava and [=McKnight=] as a couple.
139	* SecondAmericanCivilWar: [[RogueAgent Wade]] [[WesternTerrorists Maddox]]'s plan turns out to be to start one. By nuking Las Vegas -- a city that extremists on both ends of the political spectrum have reason to hate -- and planting conflicting stories online about who was responsible, he hopes to turn the country against itself and create enough chaos that he and his allies can seize power. [[spoiler:Before his plan can come to fruition, however, he gets taken out by the real BigBad, Anastasia Koslov.]]
140	* SeenItAll:
141	** A police officer sees a clearly drugged Paul hugging empty air, only to shrug it off and say is too early for that kind of crap and goes for a coffee. That actually gives Paul the chance to steal his patrol car.
142	** When Maya, who just woke up from a morphine-induced coma, walks out of the emergency room wearing only a hospital gown, the ER doctor just shrugs it off and says that's a pretty standard day in Las Vegas.
143	* ShowerOfLove: At the end, instead of partying, Chad and Ava decide to have sex in the shower. [[spoiler: This time, they manage to finish what they are doing unlike the previous two attempts]].
144	* SirSwearsALot: Everyone has plenty of swearing, although Chad, Ava and Hagerty are the most prone of all the main cast.
145	* SmarterThanTheyLook: [=McKnight=] might be gun-ho and too keen on acting like Rambo, but he's still a Navy SEAL and can be strategic when he needs to. Trunk is the same, being pretty observant and quick to react when something is amiss.
146	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
147	** Maya is a tech expert with barely any knowledge about guns, so when she tries to shoot a group of bad guys with a submachinegun on full automatic, the recoil causes her to miss almost completely, only hitting one man in the shoulder. [[spoiler:She gets shot in the gut for her trouble and is lucky to recover completely.]]
148	** When Ferguson takes over and sidelines Ava's team, the latter finds intel that the bad guys are planning to escape in a plane at an airport. Ava calls Ferguson to tell him, but he won't listen and hangs up on her. In most movies, this is where the team would go rogue -- but Ava just calls Ferguson again. And again. In most movies, Ferguson would ''still'' refuse to listen, but he reluctantly realizes that Ava's suspicions are worth checking out, so he sends agents to inspect the plane.
149	** Ferguson and experienced FBI agents take over the mission due to the irresponsibility of Ava's team after the party, except that removing them turned out to be a big mistake. Since Ferguson and the other agents lacked the abilities and perceptions the team have to even suspect that [[spoiler:Anastasia was planning to double-cross them during the exchange of her brother Ivan over the nuke, it's absolutely no surprise that the situation goes out of hand when the citizens start fighting each over the money falling from the sky, which eventually causes the city to erupt into chaos, and ultimately results in Ferguson and his men getting killed in the process. With Anastasia's plot and Ferguson's poor handling of it having now become public knowledge, Ava's team was inevitably the last hope to accomplish the mission, otherwise Vegas would've been doomed by now.]]
150	* TakeMyHand: Ava says this to [=McKnight=] after he and Hagerty fall out of the helicopter, resulting in him holding onto the landing ski with one hand and an unconscious Hagerty with the other. Defied when he tells her that their combined weight (over 400 pounds) would pull her out and they would all die.
151	* TitleDrop: When the team gets the heads-up about the fake bomb and are forced to find the real one. Duh!
152	--> To those who have Ivan Koslov, as you have probably now realized, the bomb you deactivated was a fake. We still have the five kiloton nuclear device, and we will detonate it unless you release Mr. Koslov. Any attempt to evacuate the city will result in immediate detonation. You have until 9:00 a.m. If you do not comply, the city will be '''obliterated'''.
153	* TookALevelInJerkass: Maya behaves unfairly mean and disrespectful to Ava after seeing between her and [=McKnight=] what she thinks is an attraction to each other. Ava has had enough of it whenever Maya brings it up and tells her to focus on the mission instead of whining over some man who is too old for her. Maya eventually grows out it.
154	* TraumaButton: Maya has to relive the trauma of her failed attempt to seduce [=McKnight=] with the whipped cream when the male stripper sprays it all over his penis, which causes Maya to break down in tears.
155	* UngratefulBitch: Even though Ava and the team saved Maya from Koslov's associate Sharonda, this wasn't enough for Maya to get over the petty grudge she has against Ava for "stealing" [=McKnight=] from her.
156	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Hagerty doesn't even bother questioning why he woke up on a raft in the middle of a lake when the last time he was conscious was at a party on a hotel.
157	* UrineTrouble: Ava ends up having to pee in a can during a helicopter ride, spilling some on Angela and then dropping it on [=McKnight=] when he and an unconscious Hagerty almost fall.
158	* VulnerableConvoy: When Freguson has the team arrested, he says they will detained by the LVPD until after the op is over. While being transported, the LVPD convoy is hit and the team is rescued by Paul, who has now recovered from all the drugs in the guacamole he ate.
159	* WakingNonSequitur: Only from the viewpoint of the doctor, but Maya wakes up from a morphine-induced coma right after having a dream about [=McKnight=] with [[ItMakesSenseInContext "your penis is a trap"]]. The (female) doctor doesn't really react to it.
160	* WhamLine: Hagerty is revealed to also see the Gremlin hallucinated by Paul.
161	-->'''Zogg''': I knew you could do it, Paulie.
162	-->'''Hagerty''': Zogg! My man!
163	* WhenSheSmiles: Ava reacts to Chad talking to his mother on the phone with an adorable smile on her face.
164	* WorfHadTheFlu:
165	** Angela normally wouldn't miss a shot, even while moving, but the ecstasy in her system causes her to miss and scratch a bystander instead.
166	** Trunk is easily the strongest guy on the team, but having a bad case of the munchies leaves him weaker as he grows hungrier. [[spoiler:On the final episode, once he finally gets something to eat, he beats the crap out of all the remaining mooks.]]
167	* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Maya is given at least two speeches of this by both Gomez and Paul. Even a male stripper she just met understood what she was going through and encouraged her as well.

Context Series / Obliterated