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I think we'd need "word of god" that this was an inspiration, since the characters have little to do with the TV/film "A-Team" and the phrase "A-team" existed before the TV series and it's original definition matches the assassins in the film perfectly.
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* ShoutOut: The team composed by Hilde, Sindy, Facundo, Karl and Alexei is called Series/TheATeam.
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He is not portrayed as unintelligent or as a "ditz" at all - in fact, the protagonist goes to him for advice.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[spoiler:Porter appears to be a decrepit old man whose glory days as a ProfessionalKiller are long gone, yet he's able to capture Vizla alive when the entire A-Team was unable to kill him.]]
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''Polar'' is a film adaptation of the action noir comics series of the same name. It is directed by Jonas Åkerlund and stars Creator/MadsMikkelsen, Music/VanessaHudgens, Creator/KatherynWinnick and Matt Lucas.
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''Polar'' is a film adaptation of the action noir comics series of the same name. It is directed by Jonas Åkerlund and stars Creator/MadsMikkelsen, Music/VanessaHudgens, Creator/KatherynWinnick and Matt Lucas.Creator/MattLucas.
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** Justified in this case: [[spoiler:Their interest was conditional on Blut successfully turning a liability into an asset (by murdering all the retired assassins he owes pensions to). Since Blut fails to do that, we can assume the buyers simply walked away. And that's not mentioning the fact that Blut, his best assassins, and hordes of his mooks all end up dead, meaning there's not much of a company left to buy.]]
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* TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction: Justified; the first time she's posing as a hooker, then when she has sex with Vizla she acts like she's bored and there's literally nothing else to do to pass the time.
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* TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction: Justified; the first time she's Sindy is posing as a hooker, then when she has sex with Vizla she acts like she's bored and there's literally nothing else to do to pass the time.
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* TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction: Justified; the first time she's posing as a hooker, then when she has sex with Vizla she acts like she's bored and there's literally nothing else to do to pass the time.
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* ComplexityAddiction: The A-Team’s FatalFlaw. Their idea to use Sindy as a HoneyTrap sounds fine on paper (have the target killed while she’s distracting them with sex), except the targets (with the exception of Vizla) don’t know they’re being hunted, and Sindy is laughably incompetent at anything ''other'' than being a distraction, meaning the rest of the team has to move in anyway to keep her from getting killed if Facundo misses… which he does in the intro.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: The A-Team. They are considered Blut’s best killers… except killing is all they’re (relatively) good at. They have a bad case of ComplexityAddiction, are not ''nearly'' as good as they think they are (Facundo doesn’t score a kill shot on Michael in the opening scene despite ideal conditions, Alexei and Hilde shoot him up close, and he ''still'' doesn’t die until Hilde shoots him point-blank in the head) and they aren’t the least bit subtle, going in and roughing up the tenants in Vizla’s properties before killing them after the fact. When they go up against Vizla himself, a killer with decades of experience who is considered a LivingLegend, he dispatches them to a man inside five minutes.
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An Axe To Grind is no longer a trope
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* AnAxeToGrind: Duncan dispatches [[spoiler:Sindy]] with a hatchet to the forehead, and decapitates [[spoiler: Mr. Blut]] with an antique battle-axe.
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* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: The A-Team to Damocles' old assassins, when push comes to shove they are comically inept in comparison.
** Sindy's only ability [[HoneyTrap seems to be pretty and distracting]].
** Facundo only manages to hit targets when they're stationary and distracted by Sindy.
** Alexei decides to drag along a drug addled girl he's having sex with [[SkewedPriorities in the hunt for, possibly, the most dangerous man in the world]]. Said girl then reveals his plan to Duncan
** The rest of the team manages to get offed by Vizla, [[FullFrontalAssault while he's naked and wielding an axe]].
** Sindy's only ability [[HoneyTrap seems to be pretty and distracting]].
** Facundo only manages to hit targets when they're stationary and distracted by Sindy.
** Alexei decides to drag along a drug addled girl he's having sex with [[SkewedPriorities in the hunt for, possibly, the most dangerous man in the world]]. Said girl then reveals his plan to Duncan
** The rest of the team manages to get offed by Vizla, [[FullFrontalAssault while he's naked and wielding an axe]].
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* RealityEnsues: One of the A-Team's targets tries to escape by DestinationDefenestration. Unfortunately, he doesn't have enough force and just bounces off. At the end of the scene when the team leaves, the window breaks.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: One of the A-Team's targets tries to escape by DestinationDefenestration. Unfortunately, he doesn't have enough force and just bounces off. At the end of the scene when the team leaves, the window breaks.
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* MoodWhiplash: The final scene takes the movie from over-the-top action to high drama.
* MookHorrorShow: Duncan has three. [[spoiler:By the time a fourth appears imminent, the remaining mooks are smart enough to cut and run.]]
* MookHorrorShow: Duncan has three. [[spoiler:By the time a fourth appears imminent, the remaining mooks are smart enough to cut and run.]]
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* MoodWhiplash: The final scene takes the movie from over-the-top action to high drama.
* MookHorrorShow: Duncan has three. [[spoiler:By the time a fourth appears imminent, the remaining mooks are smart enough to cut and run.]]
* MookHorrorShow: Duncan has three. [[spoiler:By the time a fourth appears imminent, the remaining mooks are smart enough to cut and run.]]
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* MoodWhiplash: The final scene takes the movie from over-the-top action to high drama.
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* The47Society: According to Vivian, Vizla was on the phone for [[PhoneTraceRace 47 seconds too long]].
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* ChickMagnet: Subverted at every instance. Despite being middle-aged, Duncan Vizla is a ruggedly good-looking and virile badass and has several female acquaintances throughout the film. However, the first woman is simply a prostitute he frequents in Minsk. The second is [[spoiler: Sindy, who has wild sex with Vizla to take him off his guard to be assassinated, and is dispassionately killed by him for it; it's implied that he only gave into her advances to take ''her and her team off guard.'']] He and Vivian are implied to have a history, but we only see their relationship through a strictly mercenary perspective and Vizla goes out of his way to distance himself from her. Near the end of the film, he visits Jasmine, an old flame of his. But only as a last resort when he needs shelter and weapons; Jasmine laments that he isn't there for her, but he doesn't acknowledge her attraction. He cares for and fights to save Camille, the woman he is closest to in the film, but there is nothing romantic or sexual about their relationship.
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* ChickMagnet: Subverted at every instance. Despite being middle-aged, Duncan Vizla is a ruggedly good-looking and virile badass and has several female acquaintances throughout the film. However, the first woman is simply a prostitute he frequents in Minsk.Minsk, who later rejects him completely for putting her life in danger. The second is [[spoiler: Sindy, who has wild sex with Vizla to take him off his guard to be assassinated, and is dispassionately killed by him for it; it's implied that he only gave into her advances to take ''her and her team off guard.'']] He and Vivian are implied to have a history, but we only see their relationship through a strictly mercenary perspective and Vizla goes out of his way to distance himself from her. Near the end of the film, he visits Jasmine, an old flame of his. But only as a last resort when he needs shelter and weapons; Jasmine laments that he isn't there for her, but he doesn't acknowledge her attraction. He cares for and fights to save Camille, the woman he is closest to in the film, but there is nothing romantic or sexual about their relationship.
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Dewicking per TRS decision.
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* BiTheWay: Vivian. In one scene she is [[VillainsOutShopping enjoying the services of a couple of female strippers]]. On the other hand, Porter and Vizla discuss having slept with her.
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** When Sindy sets her HoneyTrap, it seems like she had plenty of time to shoot him herself before her team mates arrive as his guard seemed to be down for a lot of that time. Perhaps she just likes the sex...
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** And again in the warehouse, if the mooks had just come out of their cars blasting while he was out in the open, rather than let Vivian go over to talk to him, he would have never had a chance to set off his Laser guided machine guns.
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** And again in the warehouse, if the mooks had just come out of their cars blasting while he was out in the open, rather than let just standing there while Vivian go over to talk talked/gloated to him, he would have never had a chance to set off his Laser guided machine guns.
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** And again in the warehouse, if the mooks had just come out of their cars blasting while he was out in the open, rather than let Vivian go over to talk to him, he would have never had a chance to set off his Laser guided machine guns.
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* ShoutOut: The team composed by Hilde, Sindy, Facundo, Karl and Alexei is called Series/TheATeam.
