History Film / FrankensteinsArmy

* ArtificialZombie: The [[FrankensteinsMonster Frankenstein's Monsters]] in the village are actually horrific cyborgs. The trope is lampshaded and given a huge TakeThat, as, according to Sergei: "Only the Nazis would think of this. Sewing dead people together and giving them knives for hands".

* WouldHurtAChild: The "Zompod" cyborg used to be a boy named Hans, who got chopped in half by the Propellerhead Zombie because the "heroes" pushed him down a processing chute to see what's down it at the same time the monster was climbing up.

* RaceLift: There is no indication that Victor Frankenstein is Jewish in the original novel. However, since we're dealing with his grandson, it's possible that his wife in this timeline is a Jew, then his son marries another Jew, making his grandson Jewish by Nazi laws (anyone with 3 Jewish grandparents was considered a full Jew, while anyone with only two or fewer was considered only a Mirschling and often faced hard labor instead of being sent to the camps).

** [[spoiler:While the rest of the squad gets captured by Frankenstein in the game, Sasha somehow manages to slip by him offscreen and emerges at the last minute to kill the doctor.]]

* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: Dimitri's orders are to either bring Frankenstein back alive or kill him so he doesn't work for anyone else. [[spoiler:Frankenstein could have chosen the former, but he chose to betray Dimitri for one last laugh instead, allowing the still-alive Sasha to kill him from behind and fulfilling the later criteria.]]

** [[spoiler:Sasha managing to avoid the fate that befalls the rest of the squad and emerging in the last possible moment to kill Frankenstein before he can get away.]]

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: There's talk of taking a sniper blind early in the film. We don't get to see them destroy it.

* EnemyMine: Subverted. The squad's first instinct upon meeting a group of German survivors is to try killing all the men and raping the woman, even though they know at this point that there are cyborgs running rampant all over the facility that kill indiscriminately. Even when they do team up, the Germans are treated less as allies and more as meatshields to be sacrificed at the earliest convenience.

* EnemyMine: Subverted. The squad's first instinct upon meeting a group of German survivors is to try killing all the men and raping the woman, even though they know at this point that there are cyborgs running rampant all over the facility that kill indiscriminately. Even when they do team up, the Germans are treated less as allies and more as meatshields to be sacrificed at a moment's convenience.

* EnemyMine: Subverted. The squad's first instinct upon meeting a group of German survivors is to kill all able-bodied men and try to rape the woman, even though they know at this point that there are cyborgs running rampant all over the facility that kill indiscriminately.

* EnemyMine: Subverted. The squad's first instinct upon meeting a group of German survivors is to kill all able-bodied men and rape the woman, even though they know at this point that there are cyborgs running rampant all over the facility.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Every single character but one dies in the movie,]] and all but three of them deserve it. The Soviets are war criminals who raze a farmstead and later execute non-combatants. The Nazis are the Nazis. [[spoiler:Frankenstein is an insane sociopathic maniac who not only mutilates and lobotomizes people, but also reserves a particular [[FateWorseThanDeath fate]] for those who really piss him off, as seen with his [[AndIMustScream beheaded but still alive mother]]. Dimitri, our protagonist, is a manipulative and ruthless jerkass who forces his comrades to go through with the mission with their families as collateral, and once he comes face-to-face with the doctor, he expresses nothing but admiration at his work and offers to let him get away scotfree as a USSR scientist]]. The only people who don't deserve their fates are the [[spoiler: nurse, the Hitlerjugend boy, and the elderly Nazi who's shown to be quite grandfatherly to the boy.]]