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* TheManBehindTheMan: General Cordosa, the Dictator of San Miguel, is a misogynistic fool who can't even spell. However, Colonel Salgado is the one with the brains who is actually running things. He is the one who actually negotiates with Ray and Ed to purchase the Luckup UAV technology so his country can produce and export it as a source of income.

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* TheManBehindTheMan: General Cordosa, the Dictator of San Miguel, is a misogynistic fool who can't even spell. However, Colonel Salgado is the one with the brains who is actually running things. He is the one who actually negotiates with Ray and Ed to purchase the Luckup UAV technology so technology--he and Ray talk about manufacturing-specific issues--so his country can produce and export it as a source of income.



* In one early scene Eddie is mugged by a pair of robbers, and he hands them his wallet… then pulls out a machine gun from his car's boot while they are standing there pulling out the cash and orders them at gunpoint to hand it back, their own money and their guns, and run like hell.
* Ray is accosted by an angry couple. He then demonstrates why messing with an arms dealer who just happens to have a flame thrower in the trunk of his car is a ''bad'' idea.

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* ** In one early scene Eddie is mugged by a pair of robbers, and he hands them his wallet… then pulls out a machine gun from his car's boot while they are standing there pulling out the cash and orders them at gunpoint to hand it back, their own money and their guns, and run like hell.
* ** Ray is accosted by an angry couple. He then demonstrates why messing with an arms dealer who just happens to have a flame thrower in the trunk of his car at the time is a ''bad'' idea.
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* ArmsDealer: The titular "deal" is them rebuilding by themselves a lemon of an AttackDrone in order to swindle a few million dollars in the black market.

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* ArmsDealer: The titular "deal" is them rebuilding by themselves selling a lemon of an AttackDrone in order to swindle a few million dollars in the black market.



** Despite extensive marketing research, the marketing team's work to create an advertising campaign for the Peacemaker misses its mark. The team's television and posters make the UAV seem more like a toy meant to be sold to the general public alongside cat food and over-the-counter pain medication than the lethal weapon of war that it is. Stryker rightfully calls it "soft" and reminds them that their clientele are dictators, private contractors, mercenaries, and governments who do ''not'' rent cars or eat cat food.

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** Despite extensive marketing research, the marketing team's work to create an advertising campaign for the Peacemaker misses its mark. The team's television and posters make the UAV seem more like a toy meant to be sold to the general public alongside cat food and over-the-counter pain medication than the lethal weapon of war that it is. Stryker rightfully calls it "soft" "soft", a public service message, and reminds them that their clientele are dictators, private contractors, mercenaries, and governments who do ''not'' rent cars or eat cat food.



* DisastrousDemonstration: When an early-generation UAV dubbed the Peacemaker is launched at a military aircraft demonstration, it malfunctions. Taking a little flight over to Longbeach, nearly shooting down a civilian traffic helicopter, and destroying a fuel tower in full view of their customers. After the disaster, the research and development team fix the Peacemaker's flaws for a later expo...

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* DisastrousDemonstration: When an early-generation UAV dubbed the Peacemaker is launched at a military aircraft demonstration, it malfunctions. Taking a little flight over Namely, flying to Longbeach, nearly shooting down a civilian traffic helicopter, and destroying a fuel tower in full view of their customers. After the disaster, the research and development team fix the Peacemaker's flaws for a later expo...
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Stryker ends up launching all the Peacekeeper's munitions, which miss and ends up destroying all the planes and munitions sitting on the ground at the expo, but no one is hurt or killed thanks to everyone being evacuated. He later takes an extended leave of absence from Luckup. Ray survives, destroys the UAV, and flies off to parts unknown. The Peacekeeper deal with San Miguel falls apart, averting a larger scale conflict and bloodshed. While Ed and Ray are now out of the arms business and a lot of money, they are both happier working in their new professions. Ray is working as a missionary in Africa while Ed is now working alongside his brother a used car salesman. Catherine is still in his life and he's planning on proposing marriage.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Stryker ends up launching all the Peacekeeper's munitions, which miss and ends up destroying all the planes and munitions sitting on the ground at the expo, but no one is hurt or killed thanks to everyone being evacuated. He later takes an extended leave of absence from Luckup. Ray survives, destroys the UAV, and flies off to parts unknown. The Peacekeeper deal with San Miguel falls apart, averting a larger scale conflict and bloodshed. While Ed and Ray are now out of the arms business and a lot of money, they are both happier working in their new professions. Ray is working as a missionary in Africa while Ed is now working alongside his brother as a used car salesman. Catherine is still in his life life, still smitten with each other, and he's planning on proposing marriage.to her.]]

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