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* AmazonianBeauty: She is a legendary soldier with the nickname of "Full Metal Bitch" and sometimes has to fend off lewd comments. Every time she and Cage meet, she is inside of a target range doing push-ups wearing a tank top (and showing off the muscle Creator/EmilyBlunt [[DyeingForYourArt put on for the movie)]].
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* ActionSurvivor: He graduates from NewMeat to this early on, at least once he starts to figure out how to avoid dying immediately. It's from ''there'' that he begins to become more of a badass.
* AfraidOfBlood: Mentions this to his defense when the general commands him to go filming with the first wave. [[spoiler:Which makes the AfterActionPatchup scene, where he casually fixes Rita's shoulder wound, a subtle but powerful milestone of his CharacterDevelopment.]]
* AfraidOfBlood: Mentions this to his defense when the general commands him to go filming with the first wave. [[spoiler:Which makes the AfterActionPatchup scene, where he casually fixes Rita's shoulder wound, a subtle but powerful milestone of his CharacterDevelopment.]]
* ButtMonkey: Is this for J Squad, until he manages to earn their respect.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Cage begins as a slimey, cowardly weasel who'll do anything (even blackmail his superiors) to avoid combat. Eventually [[spoiler:he becomes battle-hardened and selfless.]]
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* CharacterDevelopment: Cage He begins the story as a slimey, an arrogant, cowardly weasel who'll do anything (even blackmail his superiors) to avoid combat. Eventually [[spoiler:he becomes battle-hardened {{Jerkass}}, and selfless.]]across the story evolves to a much more heroic figure. Particularly notable, as this is the result of Cage ''literally'' getting "Stop Being A Douchebag" ''beaten'' into him very, very slowly.
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* DirtyCoward: To begin with. Other characters even call him this outright. He becomes more of a CowardlyLion through repeated loops and eventually a bonafide badass.
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* DirtyCoward: To begin with. Tries to weasel and blackmail his way out of the front lines, and even tries running away several times on his first loop. Other characters even call him this outright. He becomes more of a CowardlyLion through repeated loops and eventually a bonafide badass.
* FeelNoPain: As a result of the time loops, he becomes considerably more numb to pain.
* GeniusBruiser: Not only does the constant fighting he does on the loops makes him stronger, he also been able to memorize nearly every single detail on the past loop and use it to advance further in the current loop.
* GeniusBruiser: Not only does the constant fighting he does on the loops makes him stronger, he also been able to memorize nearly every single detail on the past loop and use it to advance further in the current loop.
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* ModernMajorGeneral: He freely admits to being a PR guy with no taste for combat.
* NewMeat: Due to his demotion and the disgrace that lead to it, this trope is even more pronounced.
* NewMeat: Due to his demotion and the disgrace that lead to it, this trope is even more pronounced.
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* ModernMajorGeneral: While not a General, he qualifies. He freely admits is quite skilled at propaganda and at playing public opinion, but he has never seen active combat and has no clue how to being a PR guy with no taste for combat.
fight. At the start of the film, he repeatedly asks other soldiers how to turn off the safety on his guns; he only figures it out seconds before his first death.
* NewMeat:Due At the start of the film, he is a Major with no battle experience. He is demoted to Private and sent to the front lines. In the original book, his demotion and the disgrace that lead to it, this trope character is even a more pronounced.traditional young Private.
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* OneManArmy: Becomes this once he hits his DespairEventHorizon a second time.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Does this at times. It is ''hilarious''.
* SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder: Sgt. Farell looks surprised when Cage overperforms at the battlefield during later runs.
* TimeMaster: Accidentally acquired this ability which kicks off the plot.
* SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder: Sgt. Farell looks surprised when Cage overperforms at the battlefield during later runs.
* TimeMaster: Accidentally acquired this ability which kicks off the plot.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Thanks to innumerable "replays" of the same day, he goes from "completely clueless" to "god of war" in his mastery of battle suit warfare. He takes two in particular, however. One involves his mastery of his GroundhogDayLoop to kill a lot of Mimics, the other involves Rita's TrainingFromHell actually teaching him how to react to his knowledge of the battlefield.
* TookALevelInKindness:Following his CharacterDevelopment.In addition to the above trope, he increasingly becomes a nicer dude fight after fight.
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* TheAce: Unknown to everyone else, she's a BrokenAce.
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* TheAce: Unknown She has been hailed by the propaganda machine as a peerless hero, and is indeed an astoundingly powerful warrior [[spoiler:thanks to everyone else, she's countless days spent training and studying Mimic tactics in a BrokenAce.time loop]]. It's precisely her reputation that prompts Cage to seek out Rita's help in the first place; he believes that she can help stop the doomed beach invasion. He's correct, but not for the reason he initially thinks.
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* BrokenAce: She has quite a few emotional wounds on her, as a result of fighting in this war for so long. [[spoiler:And because she already looped at least 300 times previously watching her previous lover die that many times.]]
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* DefrostingIceQueenDefrostingIceQueen: Averted. Even though she starts bonding with Cage during their short time together, she always resets to being cold and rude at the start of each loop.
* FeelNoPain: As a result of the time loops, Rita has become considerably more numb to pain.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: She has gone through a series of time loops herself, netting her hundred plus kills in the [[GreatOffscreenWar Battle of Verdun]]. [[MysteriousPast We may never know how her story started.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: She clearly shows where she got her Full Metal Bitch nickname. Having seen her comrades (one of them implied to be a LoveInterest) die hundreds of times, she refuses to connect with anyone, beginning each reintroduction by demanding to know who said Cage could even ''speak'' to her. Cage, on the other hand, never gives up being a PR man, so he's able to convince his RagtagBunchOfMisfits he's telling the truth because he remembered details of their private lives. Even though she's a member of an elite squad, Rita never mentions the possibility of getting them into the act, having apparently failed to bond with her own unit.
* MsExposition: Provides {{Info Dump}}s about Cage's condition and ThePlan.
* MysteriousPast: Everything about Rita's experience at Verdun, specifically the fate of the man she had to watch die hundreds of times (and presumably couldn't save before the battle ended).
* SacrificialLion: Even though she is probably the most skilled Mimic fighter the humans have, she is killed early in the battle if Cage does not save her. This underscores the dire situation faced by the human army.
* TeamKiller: After Cage reveals that he has the ability to reset the day following his death, Rita shoots him at point-blank range when he becomes unable to train further due to being injured [[spoiler:or being surrounded by soldiers at Whitehall after attempting to steal a transmitter that will help him locate the Omega]]. This is justified because DeathIsCheap for Cage; the unpleasant experience of being shot is simply encouragement to train harder.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Brigham can come across as impatient and he's certainly stubborn.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Brigham can come across as impatient Goes back and forth between having a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold heart of gold]] and being a [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk flat-out jerk]]. He strongarms Cage into doing a war documentary despite Cage's obvious reservations about combat, but he's certainly stubborn.trying to put a good face on something that is objectively going to be a horrible tragedy even if it succeeds. When Cage tries to blackmail him out of doing it, he has Cage arrested, thrown into a penal unit, and falsifies documents claiming he's a deserter and impersonating an officer. Later on, when Cage is trying to talk Brigham into giving him Carter's device, he notes that every single tactic he's tried has utterly failed to get even an ounce of cooperation from him (which isn't that surprising, given their past meeting). His one successful method turns out to be a betrayal anyway. Even Rita notes that she couldn't work with the man; her attempts to get him to believe she could time-loop got her ''[[TheyWouldCutYouUp dissected]]'' in one loop, and Cage even mentions that she shot him during one of their previous loops. On the other hand, he got his secretary's son transferred to Australia instead of the front-lines of Europe. Summed up, clearly he's just very big on loyalty and cooperation, but to somewhat amoral extremes.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: The war has essentially forced this upon him. Not that he has much of a choice, given that one false move could mean the end of the human race.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: The war He has essentially forced this upon him. Not no qualms about forcing the inexperienced Cage into battle with a RagtagBunchOfMisfits--or with throwing entire armies into a campaign that can potentially end in disaster. On the other hand, he has is perfectly aware of the realities of war and sincerely wants to end the Mimic invasion once and for all, even if it means trying to sugarcoat the inevitable stream of body bags and the possibility of failure. Given the circumstances, he did not have much of a choice, given that one false move could mean the end of the human race.choice.
* AlmightyJanitor: He is a brilliant mind and used to work as a scientist at Whitehall, trying to find a way to defeat the aliens. However, he got [[ReassignedToAntarctica demoted to do low rank mechanics work]] for the mistake of believing in Rita's story.
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* MrExposition: Carter explains a great deal Acts as this with the help of TheBigBoard to provide necessary {{Info Dump}}s about Cage's condition, the biology behind the Mimics and the Omega.Omega as well as ThePlan to defeat them.
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* {{Jerkass}}: They are constantly belittling Cage and actively impeding his ability to be useful to the squad just because of petty "mess with the new guy" syndrome. It's actually quite satisfying after Cage undergoes his character development and is able to put them all in their place by showing, with the proper help and training, how badass he actually is.
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* TheSquadette: The token female of J Squad.
Squad, but based on background footage, female soldiers make up a large number of the UDF.
* SouthernFriedPrivate:
* VasquezAlwaysDies:While [[spoiler:Dies off-screen during the final battle, at some point between Cage falling in the water and regrouping with the rest of his team. A few other characters at least have the chance to [[DoNotGoGentle go out in a blaze of glory]] on-screen and Rita is barely more feminine, she dies in every timeline.
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:Turns out Ford is not his real name. The real Ford was killed in action and he took the name forhimself.himself and sent his wages to the dead man's family.]]
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* FatComicReliefFatComicRelief: He is the fat member of J Squad. He even goes to battle buck-naked underneath the armor and has a teddy bear strapped to his chestpiece.
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* TheSilentBob: In an early loop, Cage attempts to prove he has seen the future through knowledge of personal details and realizes that Kuntz never talked to him. In fact, Kuntz only has two lines in the entire film.
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* AlienBlood: It's blue, and confers the power of mental time travel onto humans who come into contact with it. While melting their flesh agonizingly.
* BigBad: The Omega.
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* EliteMooks: The Alphas.
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* EldritchAbomination: HiveMind: The Omega.
* EliteMooks: The Alphas.
* HiveMindMimics have one, [[spoiler:which Cage accidentally enters by killing an Alpha and being splashed with its blood]], with the Omega Mimic being the HiveQueen.
* EliteMooks: The Alphas.
* HiveMind
* KeystoneArmy: On two levels. Every Mimic force comes with an Alpha. If that dies, the Omega resets everything with foreknowledge of how things went down in the last loop, adapting until the Mimics win. [[InstantWinCondition Killing the Omega, however, stops all the Mimics.]]
* PlanetLooters: {{Discussed}}. London barflies speculate that the Mimics are after either oxygen or minerals, but their true motives are left vague. As Cage lampshades, what the Mimics want [[ExcusePlot makes no difference]] because they are trying to wipe out humanity and ''they have the means to do it''.
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* StarfishAliens: All the Mimics are actually [[TheWormThatWalks one giant organism]], with the Alphas serving as a kind of central nervous system and the Omega being the brain, [[JustifiedTrope justifying]] its HiveQueen status.
** Not to mention its design, which the effects team stated that looks "like if you built a creature out of heavy black spaghetti".
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* StarfishAliens: Both literally and metaphorically. Not only do they loosely resemble spider starfish (or creatures built out of heavy black spaghetti), but their biology and social structure is not even remotely human. All the Mimics are actually [[TheWormThatWalks one giant organism]], with the Alphas serving as a kind of central nervous system and the Omega being the brain, [[JustifiedTrope justifying]] its HiveQueen status.
** Not to mention its design, which the effects team stated that looks "like if you built a creature out of heavystatus.
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* AlienBlood: It's blue and turns blackspaghetti".upon contact with human skin. Also it confers the power of mental time travel onto humans who come into contact with it... while [[HollywoodAcid melting their flesh]] agonizingly.
* AnimalisticAbomination: Vaguely resemble lions.
* TheBrute:
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* RoarBeforeBeating: Are prone to doing this during combat.
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* AchillesHeel: Its greatest ability (to reset time) is also its greatest weakness, and it can be passed on to its enemy.
* BigBad: Is a slightly complicated example -- it's the aliens' leader, but that's because they're all a single, diffuse organism, and it's the brain.
* TheChessmaster: According to Carter, its only defeat (The Battle of Verdun) was ''intentional'' to lead the humans into a false sense of safety so it could crush them all at once at Operation Downfall. [[spoiler:It also sends false visions into Cage and Rita's heads to lure them to traps.]]
* EldritchAbomination: It's utterly incomprehensible and alien (even the expert can't truly explain just what it is), its motives and reasoning are BlueAndOrangeMorality at best, and it can ''control time''.
* FinalBoss: Certainly has this vibe, [[TheManyDeathsOfYou considering what Cage]] [[ContinuingIsPainful had to do to get there.]]
* HiveQueen:
* ItCanThink: Proves to be quite a cunning foe, unexpectedly. The UDF in general, especially the brass, and their utter inability to comprehend this.
* TimeMaster: The time-travelling ability of the Omega allows the aliens to "retry" battles they lose.
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* AlienBlood: It's blue and turns black
* AnimalisticAbomination: Vaguely resemble lions.
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* RoarBeforeBeating: Are prone to doing this during combat.
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* AchillesHeel: Its greatest ability (to reset time) is also its greatest weakness, and it can be passed on to its enemy.
* BigBad: Is a slightly complicated example -- it's the aliens' leader, but that's because they're all a single, diffuse organism, and it's the brain.
* TheChessmaster: According to Carter, its only defeat (The Battle of Verdun) was ''intentional'' to lead the humans into a false sense of safety so it could crush them all at once at Operation Downfall. [[spoiler:It also sends false visions into Cage and Rita's heads to lure them to traps.]]
* EldritchAbomination: It's utterly incomprehensible and alien (even the expert can't truly explain just what it is), its motives and reasoning are BlueAndOrangeMorality at best, and it can ''control time''.
* FinalBoss: Certainly has this vibe, [[TheManyDeathsOfYou considering what Cage]] [[ContinuingIsPainful had to do to get there.]]
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* ItCanThink: Proves to be quite a cunning foe, unexpectedly. The UDF in general, especially the brass, and their utter inability to comprehend this.
* TimeMaster: The time-travelling ability of the Omega allows the aliens to "retry" battles they lose.
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* BeginnersLuck: For most of the first battle Cage is pathetically useless, with no idea of how to operate his Jacket, screaming for anyone to tell him at least how to take the safety off his weapons. But when he finally manages to find the safety release he actually manages to gun down an attacking Mimic right away, which considering [[CurbStompBattle how badly humanity is getting mauled]] is almost enough to count as a CurbstompCushion in its own right. But then he does one even better when sheer luck lets him kill an Alpha with a claymore mine and, well, the rest is history.
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* BeginnersLuck: For most of the first battle Cage is pathetically useless, with no idea of how to operate his Jacket, screaming for anyone to tell him at least how to take the safety off his weapons. But when he finally manages to find the safety release he actually manages to gun down an attacking Mimic right away, which considering [[CurbStompBattle how badly humanity is getting mauled]] is almost enough to count as a CurbstompCushion in its own right. But then he does one even better when sheer luck lets him kill an Alpha with a claymore mine and, well, the rest [[{{Pun}} reset]] is history.
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* ActionGirl: ''Hell yes''. She's renowned as humanity's mightiest warrior, and she gets to amply demonstrate it throughout the film.
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* UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships: Brigham is a British General, yet the man himself is Irish (His actor is from Ireland and speaks with the Mainland Irish accent, rather than a Northern Irish accent which the latter is part of the United Kingdom.) Then again he could have originally been from the Irish Republic, joined one of the British Army's Irish units (either the Irish Guards or Royal Irish Regiment) and rose to the ranks of General.
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* DirtyCoward: To begin with. Other characters even call him this outright. He becomes more of a CowardlyLion through repeated loops and eventually the {{Badass}}.
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* TranquilFury: When Cage tries to blackmail him, Brigham calmly walks him to the door and, without raising his voice, tells the [=MPs=] to arrest him. In one the later loops, when Rita and Cage confront him, he speaks with them again quite calmly, but it's easy to tell that he's extremely pissed off. When they try to leave, Brigham responds by siccing PoweredArmor security teams on them.
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** Worse still, there was one person she had. Hendricks. It was heavily implied she did everything she could to try and transfer the power to him so he would reset the time loop when he died too, but it never worked. As such, she could never save him in any time loop.
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* SouthernFriedPrivate: Sargeant instead of Private, but still fits, hailing from Kentucky and loving to kill .
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* SiliconBasedLife: In a way. Their bodies are constituted of obsidian-like shards.
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* ExactWords: After Cage tries to blackmail him to avoid covering the invasion, Brigham responds that Cage won't be filming it. He then has Cage arrested and sent to ''fight'' in it.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Having Cage arrested for trying to blackmail him? Makes sense. Having him stripped of rank, given papers identifying him as a deserter, and then put into the first wave of the invasion with no combat training? Bit much.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Having Cage arrested for trying to blackmail him? Makes sense. Having him stripped of rank, given papers identifying him as a deserter, and then put into the first wave of the invasion with no combat training? Bit much.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: He is absolutely right about the PR angle of the war. If Cage had been more cooperative about the whole thing, Brigham probably would have sent him in as a VIP with a fair bit of protection. Cage instead breaks the law and tries disobeying a lawful order and then blackmailing a superior officer. Brigham decided to quietly get rid of him. Cage flouted every standard of conduct for an officer, so Brigham's duty was to have him arrested and tried in a court martial. Instead, Brigham abuses his authority to overstep his bounds. Cage may be nothing but an activated reservist, but being a reservist means ''you can be called up'' and not wanting to go means squat.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: He is absolutely right about the PR angle of the war. If Cage had been more cooperative about the whole thing, Brigham probably would have sent him in as a VIP with a fair bit of protection. Brigham even notes that the beach seems to have little enemy movement and Cage would barely see any action (he's horrifically misinformed, but that's not his fault). Cage instead breaks the law and tries disobeying a lawful order and then blackmailing a superior officer. Brigham decided to quietly get rid of him. Cage flouted every standard of conduct for an officer, so Brigham's duty was to have him arrested and tried in a court martial. Instead, Brigham abuses his authority to overstep his bounds. Cage may be nothing but an activated reservist, but being a reservist means ''you can be called up'' and not wanting to go means squat.
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* BeginnersLuck: For most of the first battle Cage is pathetically useless, with no idea of how to operate his Jacket, screaming for anyone to tell him at least how to take the safety off his weapons. But when he finally manages to find the safety release he actually manages to gun down an attacking Mimic right away, which considering [[CurbStompBattle how badly humanity is getting mauled]] is almost enough to count as a CurbstompCushion in its own right. But then he does one even better when sheer luck lets him kill an Alpha with a claymore mine and, well, the rest is history.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: He is absolutely right about the PR angle of the war. If Cage had been more cooperative about the whole thing, Brigham probably would have sent him in as a VIP with a fair bit of protection. Cage instead breaks the law and tries disobeying a lawful order and then blackmailing an officer. Brigham decided to quietly get rid of him. Cage flouted every standard of conduct for an officer, so Brigham's duty was to have him arrested and tried in a court martial. Instead, Brigham abuses his authority to overstep his bounds. Cage may be nothing but an activated reservist, but being a reservist means ''you can be called up'' and not wanting to go means squat.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: He is absolutely right about the PR angle of the war. If Cage had been more cooperative about the whole thing, Brigham probably would have sent him in as a VIP with a fair bit of protection. Cage instead breaks the law and tries disobeying a lawful order and then blackmailing an a superior officer. Brigham decided to quietly get rid of him. Cage flouted every standard of conduct for an officer, so Brigham's duty was to have him arrested and tried in a court martial. Instead, Brigham abuses his authority to overstep his bounds. Cage may be nothing but an activated reservist, but being a reservist means ''you can be called up'' and not wanting to go means squat.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She can be ''very'' cold, at one point stealing Cage's suit battery and leaving him to die (and this is ''before'' he can even reset). His suit is implied to be damaged beyond repair anyway, meaning he is as good as dead but she offers no explanation or words of comfort.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She can be ''very'' cold, at one point stealing Cage's suit battery and leaving him to die (and this is ''before'' she knows he can even reset). His suit is implied to be damaged beyond repair anyway, meaning he is as good as dead but she offers no explanation or words of comfort.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She can be ''very'' cold, at one point stealing Cage's suit battery and leaving him to die (and this is ''before'' she knows he resets). His suit is implied to be damaged beyond repair anyway, meaning he is as good as dead but she offers no explanation or words of comfort.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She can be ''very'' cold, at one point stealing Cage's suit battery and leaving him to die (and this is ''before'' she knows he resets).can even reset). His suit is implied to be damaged beyond repair anyway, meaning he is as good as dead but she offers no explanation or words of comfort.
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* BodyHorror: In the end where she plays [[HeroicSacrafice decoy]] to allow Cage to end the war [[spoiler: she gets ripped in half by the Alpha.]]
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* BodyHorror: In the end where she plays [[HeroicSacrafice [[HeroicSacrifice decoy]] to allow Cage to end the war [[spoiler: she gets ripped in half by the Alpha.]]
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* BodyHorror: In the end where she plays [[HeroicSacrafice decoy]] to allow Cage to end the war [[spoiler: she gets ripped in half by the Alpha.]]
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* BodyHorror: His numerous deaths, but his first one deserves special mention: [[spoiler: He's torn apart by a claymore mine.]]
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* BodyHorror: His numerous deaths, but his first one deserves special mention: [[spoiler: He's torn apart by a claymore mine.mine and the blood splattered on his face is acidic.]]
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* JerkassHasAPoint: As much as he's forcing Cage into something he is obviously against, he is absolutely right about the PR angle of the war. If Cage had been more cooperative about the whole thing, Brigham probably would have sent him in as a VIP with a fair bit of protection (can't record when you're dead, after all). Cage instead tries to take a hard line against going at all, escalating things until Brigham decided to quietly get rid of him.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: As much as he's forcing Cage into something he is obviously against, he He is absolutely right about the PR angle of the war. If Cage had been more cooperative about the whole thing, Brigham probably would have sent him in as a VIP with a fair bit of protection (can't record when you're dead, after all). protection. Cage instead breaks the law and tries to take disobeying a hard line against going at all, escalating things until lawful order and then blackmailing an officer. Brigham decided to quietly get rid of him.him. Cage flouted every standard of conduct for an officer, so Brigham's duty was to have him arrested and tried in a court martial. Instead, Brigham abuses his authority to overstep his bounds. Cage may be nothing but an activated reservist, but being a reservist means ''you can be called up'' and not wanting to go means squat.
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* AlienBlood: It's blue, and confers the power of time travel onto humans who come into contact with it.
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* AlienBlood: It's blue, and confers the power of mental time travel onto humans who come into contact with it.it. While melting their flesh agonizingly.
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* HordeOfAlienLocusts: The only motive they are suggested to have in destroying humanity it to exploit the earth's resources.
* ILetYouWin: The victory at Verdun was nothing more than a means to give humanity false hope and convince them to invest all their resources into Operation: Downfall.
* ILetYouWin: The victory at Verdun was nothing more than a means to give humanity false hope and convince them to invest all their resources into Operation: Downfall.
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* HordeOfAlienLocusts: The only motive they are suggested to have in destroying humanity it is to exploit the earth's resources.
* ILetYouWin: The victory at Verdun was nothing more than a means to give humanity false hope and convince them to invest all their resources into Operation: Downfall.
* ILetYouWin: The victory at Verdun was nothing more than a means to give humanity false hope and convince them to invest all their resources into Operation: Downfall.
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* SaveScumming: They are practically invincible because the Omega will reset time after every defeat.
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* SaveScumming: They are practically invincible because the Omega will reset time after every defeat.if even a single Alpha is defeated.
