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* CorruptHick: The hunters after the squad, who seem to work on their on set of local rules. {{Token Evil Teammate}}s Stuckey and Reece are ones too, with the former being referred as a redneck by his associates.

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* ArmiesAreEvil: Downplayed, but the Guard here are corrupt for stealing boats and badly disciplined.

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* ArmiesAreEvil: Downplayed, but the National Guard here are corrupt for stealing badly disciplined and steal civilian boats and badly disciplined.just to get to a rendezvous with some whores.



* BearTrap: The hunters hounding the squad leave seven obviously placed bear traps on the trail of the remaining eight members, signaling that one of them is going to die soon.

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* BearTrap: The hunters hounding the squad leave seven obviously placed bear traps on the trail of the remaining eight members, signaling that one of them is going to die soon. Sure enough, after they trip these obvious traps a better-concealed one kills [[spoiler:Cribbs]]



* GreyAndGreyMorality: The soldiers are badly disciplined and decide to steal boats so they can sneak off to a brothel while on duty. The hunters employ sadistic psychological tactics against them, but as far as they knew the soldiers were robbing and shooting at them (blanks, but they had no way of knowing that).

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* GreyAndGreyMorality: The soldiers are badly disciplined and decide to steal boats so they can sneak off to a brothel while on duty. The hunters employ sadistic psychological tactics against them, and do their best to kill the soldiers, but as far as they knew the soldiers were robbing Guardsmen robbed and shooting shot at them (blanks, first (with blanks, but they had no way of knowing that).



* LanguageFluencyDenial: The squad's trapper prisoner pretends to only understand French. After he breaks free, he reveals that he is perfectly fine with English.

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* LanguageFluencyDenial: The squad's trapper prisoner pretends to only understand speaks and responds to French. After [[spoiler:After he breaks free, he reveals that he is perfectly fine with can speak English.]]



* TheNeidermeyer: Sgt. Casper, due to his inexperience and treating his commanding position like being an ObstructiveBureaucrat. Reece and Stuckey also counts, due to the former being the aggressive WildCard and the latter being the undisciplined and flippant member of the platoon.
* NeverMyFault: Stuckey is TheMillstone for firing blanks at the hunters that leads to Poole's death and his platoon being stalked, but he is reluctant to take responsibility for his mistake, initially attempted to shift the blame to Bowden for panicking that tipped the canoes that caused the loss of their gear, trying to excuse as just pulling a prank and when he confides to Reece if he thinks it's his fault, Reece reassures him it is not, encouraging him to border on this trope.
* PoisonousCaptive: The Guardsmen capture a one-armed French-only speaking local Cajun hunter and trapper, whom they suspect of being one the Cajuns who are threatening them. They attempt to talk to him but he only speaks French. Nevertheless, just his presence is enough to poison the group.

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* TheNeidermeyer: Sgt. Casper, due to his inexperience and treating his commanding position like being an ObstructiveBureaucrat. Reece and Stuckey also counts, count, due to the former being the aggressive WildCard and the latter being the undisciplined and flippant member of the platoon.
* NeverMyFault: Stuckey is TheMillstone for firing blanks at the hunters that leads to Poole's death and his platoon being stalked, but he is reluctant to take responsibility for his mistake, initially attempted to shift the blame to mistake. Initially he blames Bowden for panicking that tipped and tipping the canoes that caused cause the loss of their gear, trying tries to excuse his action as just pulling a prank prank, and when he confides to Reece if he thinks it's his fault, Reece reassures him it is not, encouraging him to border on this trope.
* PoisonousCaptive: The Guardsmen capture a one-armed French-only speaking local Cajun hunter and trapper, whom they suspect of being one the Cajuns who are threatening them. They attempt to talk to him but he only speaks responds to French. Nevertheless, just his mere presence is enough to poison the group.



* QuicksandSucks: [[spoiler:Stuckey]] meets his demise in sinking quicksand when chases after the helicopter sent looking for the missing squad.

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* QuicksandSucks: [[spoiler:Stuckey]] meets his demise in sinking quicksand when he chases after the helicopter sent looking for the missing squad.



** Spencer sort of qualifies as well. Even though he is flippant about soldiering and was willing to steal the canoes, he at least displays cool reassurance for his shaken squadmates (especially in the face of Casper's incompetence), doesn't mistreat their prisoner, and tries to use his street smarts constructively.



* TooDumbToLive: Stuckey, who has the bright idea to frighten the armed locals by firing at them.

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* TooDumbToLive: Stuckey, who has the bright idea to frighten the of frightening visibly armed locals by firing at them.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: The one-armed Cajun trapper the soldiers take captive. It's constantly in question as to whether he's one of the guys hunting them or just some poor schmuck they took captive on a fit of paranoia, especially since he can only speak French. [[spoiler:It turns out he was in on it and he''can'' speak English, [[HeelFaceTurn but he helps the last two survivors escape.]] ''[[DoubleSubverted But]]'' [[DoubleSubverted he also killed Bowden.]] [[AmbiguousSituation Maybe.]]]]

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* AmbiguouslyEvil: The one-armed Cajun trapper the soldiers take captive. It's constantly in question as to whether he's one of the guys hunting them or just some poor schmuck they took captive on a fit of paranoia, especially since he can only speak French. [[spoiler:It turns out he was in on it and he''can'' he ''can'' speak English, [[HeelFaceTurn but he helps the last two survivors escape.]] ''[[DoubleSubverted But]]'' [[DoubleSubverted he also killed Bowden.]] [[AmbiguousSituation Maybe.]]]]

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* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:Did Bowden kill himself, or did the Cajun Hunter do it?]]

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* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:Did Bowden kill himself, or did the Cajun Hunter trapper do it?]]it?]]
* AmbiguouslyEvil: The one-armed Cajun trapper the soldiers take captive. It's constantly in question as to whether he's one of the guys hunting them or just some poor schmuck they took captive on a fit of paranoia, especially since he can only speak French. [[spoiler:It turns out he was in on it and he''can'' speak English, [[HeelFaceTurn but he helps the last two survivors escape.]] ''[[DoubleSubverted But]]'' [[DoubleSubverted he also killed Bowden.]] [[AmbiguousSituation Maybe.]]]]
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* TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled: The first to die is [[spoiler:Poole]], the only soldier with any combat experience.
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In DeepSouth, a National Guard exercise is being held at the Louisiana bayou, and a squad of nine men are send on a patrol. During the patrol, a misunderstanding between the Guardsmen and a team of local Cajun hunters sparks a deadly chase across the wetlands.

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In DeepSouth, a National Guard exercise is being held at in the Louisiana bayou, and a squad of nine men are send sent on a patrol. During the patrol, a misunderstanding between the Guardsmen and a team of local Cajun hunters sparks a deadly chase across the wetlands.
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* TheCavalry: In the end, the survivors are rescued by the National Guard arriving in a jeep and helicopter. Strangely, their arrival is played ominously, as they arrive in slow motion while the survivors regard them dubiously.

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* TheCavalry: In [[spoiler:In the end, the survivors are rescued by the National Guard arriving in a jeep and helicopter. Strangely, their arrival is played ominously, as they arrive in slow motion while the survivors regard them dubiously. ]]

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* TheCavalry: In the end, the survivors are rescued by the National Guard arriving in a jeep and helicopter. Strangely, their arrival is played ominously, as they arrive in slow motion while the survivors regard them dubiously.



* DeepSouth

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* DeepSouthDeepSouth: The Louisiana bayou, where some people might not even speak English.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted: [[spoiler:Cribbs is the second to die]].

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