Legion is an action movie starring Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, and Lucas Black about what happens when God sends down an apocalypse and all that's left is an archangel that defected and a diner full of people. Oh, but it's the pregnant woman who's important, since she's carrying the one who will be the second Christ.Syfy is currently preparing a television series based on the film.
Anyone Can Die: Considering that Gabriel, Charlie, and Jeep are the only characters that survive to the end of the film without being resurrected...
Anti-Hero: Michael. Especially since nobody trusts him until about an hour into the movie.
Anti Anti Christ: The baby...technically. It is destined to be the savior of mankind, but since God's already decided that Humans Are Bastards this technically makes the baby evil.
Except this trope page also agrees that God is evil, making the baby good. Anti Anti Anti Christ?
Arab Israeli Conflict: In a comic book tie-in. A Palestinian is sent to suicide bomb an Israeli airport but ends up fighting angels instead. Yeah, he basically has to fight angel-possssedIDF troops.
Big Brother Mentor: Jeep, who is constantly worried about everybody in the diner, not just Charlie.
Big Damn Heroes: Plenty of instances, from Percy saving Sandra and dying because of it to Michael rushing in to save Jeep at the absolute last minute after being resurrected.
Big "Shut Up!": The angel-possessed old lady tells a woman to "SHUT THE FUCK UP", because she's tired of her "bitching".
Bittersweet Ending: God regained his faith in humanity but he caused the deaths of countless people who are not shown being revived (except Michael) and since they were killed while they were going against God's will they're probably in hell, suffering for all eternity since they can't be forgiven. Maybe bittersweet is being generous
There's another Bittersweet Ending for humanists and misotheists, Yay! Humans survive. But... only because god let them. Fucking what?
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Gabriel and Michael treat each other like brothers before their big fight scene.
Fingore: The Creepy Child attacks Charlie with a knife. She blocks his blows with a metal pan and, as the knife has no guard, he ends up accidentally cutting off his thumbs.
Good Bad Girl: Audrey, although her sexual history is never touched on throughout the movie.
Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Subverted. Bob, Kyle and Charlie all smoke. They all have their issues with hard luck and drama in their lives, but none are truly evil. However, there is the Anvilicious bit about Charlie being a pregnant woman who smokes.
And yet, perhaps not as anvilicious as one might think! Because the only reason the humans 'win' is because the baby is born prematurely. And what is one thing that smoking can cause? Premature birth! That's right. Smoking saved the world.
Harbinger of Impending Doom: The old lady at the beginning. I mean, she casually comments that Charlie's baby is gonna burn, proceeds to say everyone else in the diner will burn, bites a guy in the neck when told to apologize for that, and runs on the ceiling before finally getting shot by Kyle. She even tells the guy's wife to shut up and hates her complaining.
Heroic Sacrifice: Lots. Percy dies saving Sandra from an acid attack, and Kyle dies trying to save a Creepy Child who turns out to be possessed and which tears his throat out. Michael stays behind to fight Gabriel, and when he loses, a mortally-wounded Bob blows up the diner to by the escapees some time. Audrey shoots Gabriel in the face with a flare-gun and winds up thrown out the windshield of a car doing 90 down the freeway, trying to strangle him. Really, among those who die, only Sandra and Howarddon't sacrifice themselves for something.
Hidden Heart of Gold: Kyle; it's implied early on that he was involved in criminal activities prior to getting stuck at the diner with everyone else.
Humans Are Bastards: The sole reason why God sends his angels to exterminate him. God and His angels prove to be no better.
Karma Houdini: God, Gabriel, and possibly all the Mook angels. "Sorry about the mess, I'll stop making my angels body snatch y'all" is not a satisfactory apology. Seriously, where is Kratos when you need him?
Kick the Dog: Sandra gives her daughter a little speech about how all the bad things happening to them are her fault. She's not a nice person.
Jeep has a Missing Mom who left when he was 15, and Charlie's own father was a Disappeared Dad who left when she was a kid; then there's the "out of sight, out of mind" father of her own unborn child.
And there's a subversion. Kyle is on his way to his child, to be a not disappeared dad.
Plot-Driven Breakdown: Everything goes down during the course of this movie. Phone lines, cell phone reception, TV signal, radio, power, it all goes down. Lampshaded by Bob when he mentions that the only thing still running is the gas.
It's inverted briefly when the radio is able to pick up one station and the lights go back on for a brief period of time.
It's also subverted for much of the film, given the fact that calling for help wouldn't really do a whole lot given that all the people in the nearest towns are crowded around the diner trying to kill them.
— Michael: "You were always so eager to please him."
Given a touch of bitter irony after Michael is resurrected and tells Gabriel that he's failed when he points out he wouldn't have spared Michael's life.
Rule of Fun: Bettany has said he did the movie largely because the idea of playing an archangel with a bunch of guns was just too much fun to pass up, especially since if he's in an action movie he's almost always the bad guy.
Sanity Slippage: Sandra. Not a huge problem for the group until she decides to give the baby up to Gabriel, thinking that if she does, they can just leave.
Shell Shocked Senior: Percy. In case the shot of the dog tags didn't cue you in, he also uses a prosthetic hand.
Even if she gives them the baby, they'll STILL kill them! Predictably, Michael shoots her.
Let's not forget for a second that she was also dumb enough to bite into the obvious trap that was her husband being crucified upside-down. And unfortunately, Percy pays the price when she gets too close and her husband explodes in acidic goodness. To her credit, Kyle also falls for a similar trick with the aforementioned Creepy Child, but there's less of an excuse for Sandra since everybody including her own daughter was telling her that it was a trap and it's also harder to tell something is a trap when a complete and very innocent stranger is involved.
Triple Shifter: Michael doesn't sleep once during the two days the movie takes place. Partially justified in that being a former angel, he's got more stamina than the average human.
Tracking Device: Word Of God states that the collars Michael and Gabriel wears are used to keep track of their whereabouts.
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