History Film / SASRiseOfTheBlackSwan

* WouldHurtAChild: Clements was perfectly fine with any children being killed in the Georgian massacre, even taunting Grace for failing to spot and kill a kid with a phone who recorded the whole thing.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Black Swans deliberately leave survivors of their massacre in Georgia to spread the tale in the hopes that they will spread the tale of what happened to anyone else who thinks to stonewall efforts to install the new gas pipeline. They do, but unfortunately for the Swans their tale includes legally actionable evidence of who did it, which they leak online.

* AppropriatedAppellation: When dialing up the SAS commander after being cited for crimes against humanity, Grace has the User Name "Warcrim".

* HonorBeforeReason: When Grace finds out that the SAS is coming to arrest (actually kill) them, she suggests to her father that they charter a private plane, flee home to the United States and take their chances there. Her father immediately shoots that suggestion down as he considers England their home. [[spoiler:His decision not to leave leads to his, his children's and their employee's deaths ( Not That He Cared ) .]]

* HonorBeforeReason: When Grace finds out that the SAS is coming to arrest (actually kill) them, she suggests to her father that they charter a private plane, flee home to the United States and take their chances there. Her father immediately shoots that suggestion down as he considers England their home. [[spoiler:His decision not to leave leads to his, his children's and their employee's deaths.]]

* DisguisedHostageGambit: The Swans attempt this by dressing in civilian clothes and slipping out with the hostages. [[spoiler:It doesn't work; SAS snipers are still able to identify the Swans and gun them down.]]

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: [=BritGaz=] and the UK Government could have avoided the entire mess if the company had actually ''bought'' the land they needed for their pipeline ''before'' starting construction or at least reach legally binding agreements with the owners and villagers for easements through their land. During the initial feasibility study alone, they would have known about the issues with the village militia months or even years ahead of time and avoid the last-minute construction delays seen at the beginning of the film.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: [=BritGaz=] and the UK Government could have avoided the entire mess if the company had actually ''bought'' the land they needed for their pipeline ''before'' starting construction or at least reach legally binding agreements with the owners and villagers for easements through their land. During the initial land survey alone, they would have known about the issues with the village militia months or even years ahead of time and avoid the last-minute construction delays at the beginning of the film.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: [=BritGaz=] and the UK Government could have avoided the entire mess if the company had actually ''bought'' the land they needed for their pipeline ''before'' starting construction or at least reach legally binding agreements with the land owners for easements. At the very least, they would have known about the issues with the village militia months or even years ahead of time and avoid the last-minute construction delays at the beginning of the film.

* HonorBeforeReason: When Grace finds out that the SAS is coming to arrest (actually kill) them, she suggests to her father that they charter a private plane, flee home to the United States and take their chances there. Her father immediately shoots that suggestion down as he considers England their home. [[spoiler:His decision not to leave leads to his death.]]

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The CEO of [=BritGaz=] is implied to be complicit in hiring the mercenary group to clear the village. That they ran into the trouble with the village militia in the first place and hired the Black Swans suggests major corner-cutting. As with any major infrastructure project, they should've known about and settled these sorts of problems long before the pipeline construction ever began.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: [=BritGaz=], the UK Government and the Black Swans could have avoided the entire mess if the company had actually ''bought'' the land they needed for their pipeline ''before'' ever starting construction or at least reach legally binding agreements with the land owners. At the very least, they would have known about the issues with the village militia months or even years ahead of time and avoided the construction delays at the beginning of the film.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The CEO of [=BritGaz=] is implied to be complicit in hiring the mercenary group to clear the village. That they ran into the trouble with the militia in the first place suggests major corner-cutting as they should've known before the pipeline construction ever began.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: [=BritGaz=], the UK Government and the Black Swans could have avoided the entire mess if the company had actually ''bought'' the land they needed for their pipeline ''before'' ever starting construction or at least reach legally binding agreements with the land owners. At the very least, they would have known about the issues with village militia months or even years ahead of time and avoided the construction delays at the beginning of the film.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: BritGas, the UK Government and the Black Swans could have avoided the entire mess if the company had actually ''bought'' the land they needed for their pipeline ''before'' ever starting construction or at least reach legally binding agreements with the land owners. At the very least, they would have known about the issues with village militia months or even years ahead of time and avoided the construction delays at the beginning of the film.

* StunGuns: As they are just supposed to be serving a red notice, the SAS team storming the Lewis mansion have revolver grenade launchers firing some kind of taser charge. Unfortunately the Swans aren't cooperating.

* JerkAssHasAPoint: What Grace and the Black Swans do is horrible. But she is not wrong when she points out what the true cost of energy is: namely their government willing to hire [=PMCs=] to intimidate and kill people who get in the way of a gas pipeline to reduce the average U.K. citizen's energy costs.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: In her video message posted on social media, Grace gives the U.K. citizens a scathing one for them being ignorant of the real cost of energy. She then proceeds to throw that cost in their faces.]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:In the end, it appears that Clements and the Prime Minister aren't going to answer for hiring the Black Swans or their own crimes.]]

* OhCrap: [[spoiler:The Prime Minister has his when Grace blows up the gas line and posts Clements' engineered public confession all over social media.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: In her video message posted on social media, Grace gives the U.K. citizens a brief but scathing one for people not knowing what the real cost of energy is. She then proceeds to throw that cost in their faces.]]

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Faced with the U.K. Government killing them rather than arresting and extraditing them to the Hague, Grace suggests enacting "the Safeguard." William points out that it's a big job and that they've already simulated it six times; each time with 100% causalities. Grace points out that they're about to be shot in the back and anything else is just a bonus. "The Safeguard" is meant to publicly expose Clements and the Prime Minister with an engineered public confession posted on social media and destroy the gas pipeline that was built on land that the Black Swans helped clear.]]

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Faced with the U.K. Government killing them rather than arresting and extraditing them to the Hague, Grace suggests enacting "the Safeguard." William points out that it's a big job and that they've already simulated it six times; each time with 100% causalities. Grace points out that they're about to be stabbed in the back and anything else is just a bonus. "The Safeguard" is meant to publicly expose Clements and the Prime Minister with an engineered public confession posted on social media and destroy the gas pipeline that was built on land that the Black Swans helped clear.]]

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Faced with the U.K. Government killing them rather than arresting and extraditing them to the Hague, Grace suggests enacting "the Contingency." William points out that it's a big job and that they've already simulated it six times; each time with 100% causalities. Grace points out that they're about to be stabbed in the back and anything else is just a bonus. "The Contingency" is meant to publicly expose Clements and the Prime Minister with an engineered public confession posted on social media and destroy the gas pipeline that was built on land that the Black Swans helped clear.]]