History Film / Overlord2018

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The US Armed Forces were segregated during World War II, and African-American soldiers fought in all-black units like the Tuskegee Airmen or the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/761st_Tank_Battalion_(United_States) 761st Tank Battalion]]. This means that Boyce, Dawson, and Rensin who are all black, would very much ''not'' be in an Airborne unit in Europe, and Rensin certainly wouldn't be leading a combat jump over Normandy. There was only one battalion of black paratroopers during the war, the 555th Parachute Infantry, who were barred from combat and instead spent the war fighting forest fires sparked by Japanese balloon bombs in the Pacific Northwest.
** The racial attitudes in the films reflect in the 21st century, not in 1944. Not only would African American soldiers not be in the White military units, many White soldiers at the time wouldn't even talk with or to them. There are also would be great more racial epithets spoken than were during the film.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking:
** Corporal Ford, the leader of the paratrooper squad. He always maintains his composure even when the others panic, and racks up a huge body count of German soldiers with his trusty Thompson. Probably his best feat is [[spoiler:[[HeroicResolve pulling himself off of a meat hook he's trapped on]] gritting his teeth through the agonizing pain, injecting himself with some SuperSerum, and taking on the super-powered BigBad in hand-to-hand combat, before [[TakingYouWithMe killing himself along with all the other test subjects with bunch of C4]] in a HeroicSacrifice.]]

* AlternateHistory: The film is apparently set in an Alternate 1940s where the US Armed Forces are desegregated in 1944 (In real life the US military was desegregated on July 26, 1948) or could be set in the {{Creator/MachineGames}} ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' series as a live-action prequel in an Alternate universe where the Axis Powers are winning World War II, and vice president UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman managed to successfully convince President UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt to desegregated the US Military in a will of manpower.

* AlternateHistory: The film is apparently set in an Alternate 1940s where the US Armed Forces are desegregated in 1944 (In real life the US military was desegregated on July 26, 1948) or could be set in the {{Creator/MachineGames}} ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' series in an Alternate universe where the Axis Powers are winning World War II, and vice president UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman managed to successfully convince President UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt to desegregated the US Military in a will of manpower.

* AlternateHistory: The film is apparently set in an Alternate 1940s where the US Armed Forces are desegregated in 1944 (In real life the US military was desegregated on July 26, 1948) or could be set in the{{Creator/MachineGames}} ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' series in an Alternate universe where the Axis Powers are winning World War II, and vice president UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman managed to successfully convince President UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt to desegregated the US Military in a will of manpower.

* AlternateHistory: The film is apparently set in an Alternate 1940s where the US Armed Forces are desegregated in 1944 (In real life the US military was desegregated on July 26, 1948) or could be set in an Alternate universe where the [[Video Game/Wolfenstein: The New Order Axis Powers are winning World War II]], and vice president Harry S. Truman managed to successfully convince President Franklin D. Roosevelt to desegregated in a will of manpower.

* AlternateHistory: The film is apparently set in an Alternate 1940s where the US Armed Forces are desegregated in 1944 (In real life the US military was desegregated on July 26, 1948) or could be set in an Alternate universe where the [[Video Game / Wolfenstein: The New Order Axis Powers are winning World War II]], and vice president Harry S. Truman managed to successfully convince President Franklin D. Roosevelt to desegregated in a will of manpower.

* AlternateHistory: The film is apparently set in an Alternate 1940s where the US Armed Forces are desegregated in 1944 (In real life the US military was desegregated on July 26, 1946) or could be set in an Alternate universe where [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder|the Axis Powers are winning WWII]], and vice president Harry S. Truman managed to successfully convince President Franklin D. Roosevelt to desegregated in a will of manpower.

''Overlord'' is a WWII-set supernatural Alternate History ActionHorror movie released November 3, 2018, starring Creator/JovanAdepo, Creator/PilouAsbaek, Creator/WyattRussell, and Creator/BokeemWoodbine, from [[Creator/{{Paramount}} Paramount Pictures]], produced by Creator/JJAbrams and directed by Julius Avery.

* Alternate History: The film is apparently set in an Alternate 1940s where the US Armed Forces are desegregated in 1944 (In real life the US military was desegregated on July 26, 1946) or could be set in an [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder|Alternate universe where the Axis Powers are winning WWII]], and vice president Harry S. Truman managed to successfully convince President Franklin D. Roosevelt to desegregated in a will of manpower.

''Overlord'' is a WWII-set supernatural [[Alternate History]] ActionHorror movie released November 3, 2018, starring Creator/JovanAdepo, Creator/PilouAsbaek, Creator/WyattRussell, and Creator/BokeemWoodbine, from [[Creator/{{Paramount}} Paramount Pictures]], produced by Creator/JJAbrams and directed by Julius Avery.

* Alternate History: The film is apparently set in an Alternate 1940s where the US Armed Forces are desegregated in 1944 (In real life the US military was desegregated on July 26, 1946) or could be set in an Alternate universe where the Axis Powers are winning WWII, and vice president [[Harry S. Truman]] managed to successfully convince President Franklin D. Roosevelt to desegregated in a will of manpower.

''Overlord'' is a WWII-set supernatural ActionHorror movie released November 3, 2018, starring Creator/JovanAdepo, Creator/PilouAsbaek, Creator/WyattRussell, and Creator/BokeemWoodbine, from [[Creator/{{Paramount}} Paramount Pictures]], produced by Creator/JJAbrams and directed by Julius Avery.

Not to be confused with a completely different film, ''Film/{{Overlord|1975}}'' (1975), the light novel LightNovel/Overlord2012, or with any other work named after Operation Overlord.

''[[caption-width-right:350:"A thousand-year Reich, needs thousand-year soldiers."]]''

* LandMineGoesClick: The squad is slowly traversing through the woods toward their objective, talking about their plans after they go back home. [[KilledMidSentence 
 CLICK]]! And there is one less of them.

''Overlord'' is a WWII-set supernatural ActionHorror movie released November 3, 2018, starring Jovan Adepo, Creator/PilouAsbaek, Creator/WyattRussell, and Creator/BokeemWoodbine, from [[Creator/{{Paramount}} Paramount Pictures]], produced by Creator/JJAbrams and directed by Julius Avery.

''Overlord'' is a WWII-set supernatural ActionHorror movie released November 3, 2018, starring Jovan Adepo, Pilou Asbæk, Creator/WyattRussell, and Creator/BokeemWoodbine, from [[Creator/{{Paramount}} Paramount Pictures]], produced by Creator/JJAbrams and directed by Julius Avery.

* ActionGirl: Chloe, especially during the climax, where she manages to get her hands on a flamethrower and starts kicking some serious ass. But even before that, she's a resourceful, no-nonsense member of LaResistance, perfectly capable of fending for herself in the war-torn countryside: it's the paratroopers depending on her for their safety and success of their mission, not her being a damsel to rescue or defend.

* ActionGirl: Chloe, especially during the climax, where she manages to get her hands on a flamethrower and starts kicking some serious ass. But even before that, she's a resourceful, no-nonsense member of LaResistance, perfectly capable of fending for herself in the war-torn countryside.

* Action Girl: Chloe, especially during the climax, where she manages to get her hands on a flamethrower.

%%* Action Girl: Chloe, especially during the climax.

* ActionGirl: Chloe, especially during the climax.

* AdultFear: [[spoiler:All thanks to young Paul being a fairly wide-eyed, innocent little kid living in a Nazi-occupied village where horrific scientific experiments are taking place. The fear gets cranked up when he's taken hostage by Wafner and the next time we see him, he's strapped to a lab table, meaning Schmidt was definitely planning to do some terrible things to the poor kid. Then shortly afterwards, he runs through an active battlefield trying to get back to his house]].

* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Rensin is shot dead by German soldiers despite being unarmed.

* ActorAllusion: [[spoiler:After injecting himself with s SuperSerum in the climax, American paratrooper Creator/WyattRussell becomes a SuperSoldier like he was when he played a {{TykeBomb}} in ''Film/{{Soldier}}''.]]

''Overlord'' is a WWII action-supernatural-horror movie released November 3, 2018, starring Jovan Adepo, Pilou Asbæk, Creator/WyattRussell, and Creator/BokeemWoodbine, from [[Creator/{{Paramount}} Paramount Pictures]], produced by Creator/JJAbrams and directed by Julius Avery.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The US Armed Forces were segregated during World War II, and African-American soldiers fought in all-black units like the Tuskegee Airmen or the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/761st_Tank_Battalion_(United_States) 761st Tank Battalion]]. This means that Boyce, Dawson, and Rensin who are all black, would very much ''not'' be in an Airborne unit in Europe, and Rensin certainly wouldn't be leading a combat jump over Normandy. There was only one regiment of black paratroopers during the war, the 555th Parachute Infantry, who were barred from combat and instead spent the war fighting forest fires sparked by Japanese balloon bombs in the Pacific Northwest.

* CollapsingLair: Boyce's escape from the lab and the church at the end of the movie.

* FeelNoPain: Anyone injected with the Serum.[[spoiler: Demonstrated with disturbing results by Chase after he is brought back.]]

* {{Hate Sink}}: Wafner is a vicious psychopath with no redeeming qualities. It's not hard to see why he was put in the command of the village operation.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Ford's decision to torture Wafner for information is frowned upon by Boyce, but it's impossible to feel bad for the facist bastard as Chloe stabs him in the leg and Ford wails on him, especially after Wafner attempted to rape Chloe again and taunts her about her dead family.]]

* MeaningfulName: The movie's title comes from Operation Overlord, the real-world codename for the Battle of Normandy.

* OutsideContextProblem: The commandos were just supposed to knock out a German radio tower, and are as taken aback by the human experimentation (and ''worse)'' occurring in the village as you might expect them to be.

* RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: This appears to be one of the three effective ways of killing the zombies, apart from being burned to death or blown apart.

* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: Sergeant Ford]]. It's also the reason why he remains so oddly calm while on openly suicidal mission - as he puts it in the end, he "was never getting back".