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For the 2012 video game:

  • Awesome Music:
  • Fanon: The pocket flashlight you wear is commonly mistaken by players for a red tie, and drawn as such in many fan works.
  • Narm: Although it's meant to be a mask, the white parts of the Player Character's face can look like the biggest, goofiest smile you've ever seen.

For the book and the film adaptation:

  • Aluminum Christmas Trees: Most of the pictures of SEALs who participated in Operation Red Wings show them with beards.
  • Awesome Moment: The villagers are willing to protect the protagonist in open 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 Heartwarming Moment.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: As if the terrifying descriptions of combat and death weren't bad enough, a man was killed at a screening of the film adaptation for refusing to stop texting.
  • Nightmare Fuel: 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. But that was their only way to escape hordes of malicious enemy forces, showcasing graphically the extreme situations special operations forces put themselves through to fight and (attempt to) accomplish a mission.
    • The log where a man is beheaded at the start of the movie still has dried blood on it when Luttrell is dragged over to it.

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