History Film / AmericanRenegades

* DeathGlare: Petrovic's default expression.
* DragonAscendant: Petrovic, after General Milic is captured.

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The heroes set out to find a bunch of lost NaziGold and see nothing wrong with splitting it between themselves and the impoverished locals. Once Admiral Levine finds out what the team is doing, he chews them out for this idea and quickly determines that the gold was originally stolen from the French government. Since the French, not the locals or the discoverers, are the rightful owners, Levine then returns the gold to them. [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight Half of it, anyway]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Lara's brother is last seen as a prisoner of Petrovic, inadvertently clueing him in on where to look for the main characters.

* TheQuietOne: Detroit, aside from a few laughs he tends to let Rainey do the talking for them.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Once Admiral Levine finds out what the team is doing, he returns the gold to the French government who the Nazis stole it from. [[PlayingWith Half of it, anyway]].

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Admiral Levine, who mostly abides by the book but appreciates the teams accomplishments.

* BaldOfAwesome: Levine is a bald man who is capable of inspiring a lot of authority and turning a bad situation around.

* BaldOfAwesome: Levine is a bald man who is capable of inspiring s lot of authority and turning a bad situation around.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Both the Nazi's who hid the gold in the first place (and were then killed when partisans blew a dam up to drown them) and General Milic, whose capture causes his [[TheDragon aide Petrovic]] to pursue the team to avenge him.
* IntroOnlyPointOfView: Lara's grandfather.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Once Admiral Levine finds out what the team is doing, he returns the gold to the French government who the Nazi's stole it from. [[PlayingWith Half of it, anyway]].

* RealityEnsues: Once Admiral Levine finds out what the team is doing, he returns the gold to the French government who the Nazi's stole it from. [[PlayingWith Half of it, anyway]].

* EurekaMoment: The search for the gold initially turns up just ten bars (although as Duffy points out this is still a nice haul for both Lars and the team) but then as they go o leave, Matt looks at a bricked wall with writing and realizes that the words are upside down, meaning the bricks were taken out and replace don't in a slipshod manner, sure enough there's more good behind them,

* ObnoxiousInLaws: Zigzagged with Levine's brother in-law. He sends Levine fancy cigars on his birthday but Levine claims he only does so to rub in his own wealth, later calling him "despicable." That being said those comment may be in a VitrolicBestBuds way given Levine's regular personality and how he later notes his brother-in-law is also his broker and financial advisor (and how the guy apparently helped sell the golden without demanding much, if any, for himself).

Set during the aftermath of [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars the Bosnian War]]. A [[UsefulNotes/NavySeals Navy SEAL]] team fresh off capturing a war criminal find themselves enlisted by a local woman, seeking funds to rebuild the country, to retrieve NaziGold from the bottom of a dam. In some territories the movie is titled just ''Renegades.''

This film contains examples of:

* ClicheStorm: A common complaint about the film was that it didn't have many original elements.

* GeneralRipper: General Milic, who the team captures at the beginning, orders various atrocities among his men and is trying to cover it up. He also comments that me may have the "reporters" skinned alive after they make a positive video of him.

* ObnoxiousInLaws: Zigzagged with Levine's brother in-law. He sends Levine fancy cigars on his birthday but Levine claims he only does so to rub in his own wealth, later calling him "despicable." That being said those comment may be in a VitrolicBestBuds way given Levine's regular personality and how he later notes his brother-in-law is also his broker and financial advisor (and how the guy apparently helped sell the golden without demanding much, its any, for himself).

* SpookyPainting: Diving for the gold also uncoveres a painting in the vault, badly waterlogged and a bit ominous after all htosr years, which just comes apart in front of the team.

* ObnoxiousInLaws: Zigzagged with Levine's brother in-law. He sends Levine fancy cigars on his birthday but Levine claims he only does so to rub in his own wealth. That being said it may be in a VitolicBestBuds way given Levine's regular personality and how he later notes his brother-in-law is also his broker and financial advisor.

* BaldOfAwesome: Levine.

* JustifiedCriminal: The gold is from France, but could do a lot of gold is Bosnia.

* RealityEnsues: Once Admiral Levine finds out what the team is doing, he returns the gold to the French government. [[PlayingWith Half of it, anyway]].

Set during the aftermath of [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars the Bosnian War]]. A [[UsefulNotes/NavySeals Navy SEAL]] team fresh off capturing a war criminal find themselves enlisted by a local woman, seeking funds to rebuild the country, to retrieve NaziGold from the bottom of a dam.

* GeneralRipper: General Milic, who the team captures at the beginning, orders various atrocities among his men and is trying to cover it up.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Both the Nazi's who hid the gold in the first place (and were then killed when partisans blew a dam up to drown them) and General Milic, whose capture causes his [[TheDragon Petrovic]] to pursue the team to avenge him.

Set during the aftermath of the Bosnian War. A Navy SEAL team fresh off capturing a war criminal find themselves enlisted by a local woman, seeking funds to rebuild the country, to retrieve NaziGold from the bottom of a dam.

* UltimateJobSecurity: Detroit's AcePilot status is confidently pointed out by his co-pilot Rainey when Levine threatens to have him dishonorably discharged unless he reveals what the SEAl's are up to, with Rainey arguing that Detroit is too valuable to get rid of like that. Levine agrees, and then points out that this isn't true of Rainey himself, however, which scares Rainey into talking.

* RealityEnsures: Once Admiral Levine finds out what the team is doing, he returns the gold to the French government. [[PlayingWith Some of it, anyway]].