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* DarkerAndEdgier:While not as dark compared to it's successor. The whole film is overall is bleaker than the Goofy Universal Soldier The Return. With the serious and depressing atmosphere, More graphic violence, barely any laughs and jokes to be found. [[spoiler: And dont get me started about the ending. Most of the heroes are dead with the Protagonist Luc having lost every bit of humanity in him.]]
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* DarkerAndEdgier:While DarkerAndEdgier: While not as dark compared to it's successor. The whole film is overall is bleaker darker than the Goofy Universal Soldier The Return. LighterAndSofter ''Film/UniversalSoldierTheReturn''. With the a more serious and depressing atmosphere, More graphic violence, barely any laughs and jokes to be found. [[spoiler: And dont get me started about Dont forget the ending. Most of the heroes are dead with the Protagonist Luc having lost every bit of humanity in him.]]BittersweetEnding
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* DarkerAndEdgier:While not as dark compared to it's successor. The whole film is overall is bleaker than the Goofy Universal Soldier The Return. With the serious and depressing atmosphere, More graphic violence, barely any laughs and jokes to be found. [[spoiler: And in dont get me started about the end.ending. Most of the heroes are dead with the Protagonist Luc having lost every bit of humanity in him.]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Captain Burke.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:All the terrorists are dead and their plan is thwarted, but most of the good guys are dead as well. Also, it is heavily implied that “reactivating” Deveraux erased the last bit of humanity left in him and made his rehabilitation back into society impossible, not to mention that the [=UniSol=] project will probably cause more problems in the future (which is exactly what happens in the sequel).]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Captain Burke.]]
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* ImplacableMan: The scene in which the NGU slaughters an entire company of soldiers and then merely shrugs off ''being blown away by an explosion'' is a prime example of this trope.
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* WorfEffect: All four of the older, obsolete [=UniSols=] get promptly beaten by the more powerful NGU.
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''Universal Soldier: Regeneration'' is a sequel to ''Film/UniversalSoldier'', which brought back both Van Damme as Deveraux and Lundgren as Andrew Scott. Set after the events of the first film, Deveraux is undergoing therapy when he is called on to defuse a hostage situation at the UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}} Nuclear Power Plant, where a more advanced [=UniSol=] is under the control of a group of Russian terrorists.
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* SequelGoesForeign: All other ''Universal Soldier'' films take place in the United States. This one takes place in Eastern Europe (Ukraine, specifically).
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* OperationBlank: The original Universal Soldier project that revived Deveraux is shown on the InfoDump explaining the NGU to have had the code name "White Tower", with the "new and improved" version of it that created the NGU code-named "Black Tower".
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!!This film provides examples of:
* BadassNormal: Captain Burke holds his own against the General's forces, although he doesn't fare as well against the NGU later on.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: The NGU sports one. He uses it twice to kill two of the four [=UniSols=] sent after him, and attempted to use it against Deveraux. He did use it against Captain Burke, stabbing him hard after Burke made a feeble attempt to take him down.
* CameraAbuse: Blood splatters the lens when Deveraux kills a mook.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: The chip used to control the NGU makes him into a remorseless killer, unable to disobey orders given to him by his handlers. [[spoiler: Once Commander Topov's men are chipped with failsafes, he is unable to attack them or harm them. Scott removes this from his head after he kills the Doctor]].
* EvilIsHammy: Dr. Colin has his moments, being the MadScientist of the terrorist army.
* FailsafeFailure: Scott. The Doctor [[spoiler: tries to attribute it to a failure in temperature regulation. It doesn't stop Scott from pulverizing his head with his bare hands]].
* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: To prevent anyone from tampering with the [=UniSols=] and issuing other commands, these newer headsets are bolted into their skulls using high-powered bolters to secure them in place. The last first-generation [=UniSol=] to fight against the NGU during the initial attack on Chernobyl gets hit by the NGU so hard that it removes the headset from the Unisol's head, leaving bloody head wounds in the process. Ouch.
* HollywoodCyborg: It is shown that the NGU has a retina implant that is tied into his nervous system, preventing him from attacking those who are chipped with beacons that indicate that they are not to be fired upon or attacked. Scott has the same chip in the back of his head, which helps keep him in line, which he later removes forcefully with a knife. This also prevents his handlers from wiping out his memories and sedating him in the process.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: One of the first-gen Unisols gets impaled on a large metal hook that is generally used to transport heavy objects across factories. The NGU gets impaled through the neck with rebar. Of course, this does nothing to stop the NGU, merely slow him down.
* LastOfHisKind: The Next Generation Unisol, the NGU; is the only Series 7 Unisol we get to see in action. It is presumed all of the others have been destroyed, and Dr. Colin saved him before they could terminate him. All of the other Unisols we get to see, including the Scott clones, are presumed to be earlier Series Unisols that have been improved upon for current operation parameters.
* MadeOfIron: Devereaux shrugs off multiple gunshot wounds and close-range explosions during his direct attack on Chernobyl. Deveraux and Scott used their augmented bodies to barrel through many walls during their fistfight. The NGU not only sustains multiple gunshot wounds that would drop an elephant, but likes to make use of jumping down from really high places as a means of ambushing his enemies and evading their efforts to shoot him. He also shrugs off having a grenade go off near him, which only served to slow him down.
* MadScientist:
** [[spoiler: Dr. Porter]] is rather amoral, viewing ordinary soldiers with disdain and highly praising the efficiency and deadliness of the NGU. As a middle finger to Burke, who had stated his intense dislike for the [=UniSols=], he is cloned at the end of the movie and made into a [=UniSol=].
** Dr. Colin is also an InsufferableGenius; he stole the NGU from the US Government used the NGU as a gun-for-hire as well as equipping Topov's fledgling terrorist army [[spoiler: with a nasty surprise in the form of Andrew Scott 2.0]].
* MoreDakka: The NGU gets in on the action, with a heavily modified AK variant loaded with double-stack magazine, which he has no problem unloading a ridiculous amount of lead downrange in the process.
* MurderousThighs: The NGU uses his superhuman strength augmented thighs to kill another Unisol. Mind you, when He did it, He was using it not only to break the Unisol's neck, but his collarbone, spine and parts of his upper ribcage. To make it even crazier, Unisols are MadeofIron. It was like He was using his thighs to break a column of reinforced concrete. Yikes.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: They begin using gene therapy to make Super [=UniSols=] and cloning to make more of them and to grow replacement parts for them when they sustain massive damage. These Super [=UniSols=] are controlled by chips implanted in their heads, that also are used for memory clearance.
* OneManArmy: Devereaux becomes one at the climax. He manages [[spoiler: to wipe out the company-sized force that the General brought with him to occupy Chernobyl, without much resistance, and does so with a combination of small arms fire, knife work, and lots of good ol' fashioned hand-to-hand combat. Earlier in the film, the NGU was shown to be capable of wiping out an entire security detail by himself, along with an incredible amount of Ukrainian Police, in an effort to kidnap the children of the Ukrainian Prime Minister. He later wipes out a company of soldiers by himself.]]
* TheOner: The movie features several long tracking shots, but the best example is when Deveraux infiltrates Chernobyl at the end.
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* SceneryPorn: Ukraine during the winter time is hauntingly beautiful, from what glimpses of it the audience gets. The same with Chernobyl.
* ShoutOut:
** The film's soundtrack to it is very evocative of the synthesizer music that Creator/JohnCarpenter used for his earlier works, and the works of Tangerine Dream.
** The film invokes Film/BladeRunner, when Scott 2.0 loses his shit after killing Topov, and proceeds to crush Dr. Colin's head in with his hands, while questioning the meaning of life.
** Luc's MandatoryUnretirement is eerily similar to VideoGame/MetalGearSolid.
* SmugSnake: Dr. Colin is extremely condescending with chunks of InsufferableGenius, almost to the point that [[spoiler:his death at the hands of Scott 2.0]] is of no surprise.
* SuperSpeed: The NGU, being augmented with gene therapy, is able to move so quickly that the first-generation [=UniSols=] sent after him couldn't get a lock on him long enough to hit him outside of close-quarter ranges. Unaugmented humans like Burke couldn't even manage to get a shot on him even when he was charging at the latter and engaging him in a fistfight. Once Deveraux was reactivated and upgraded, he was able to go toe to toe with the NGU, but was still a magnitude slower by comparison.
* SuperStrength: With gene therapy, [=UniSols=] like the NGU are capable of hitting metal structures with enough force to crumple them upon impact and kill another [=UniSol=] with superhuman thigh strength.
* ThirdTimesTheCharm: It takes Deveraux three tries to finally convince NGU to fight him.
* VillainousValor: The terrorist leader, Commander Topov. [[spoiler: He takes over Chernobyl and is threatens to detonate the radioactive materials in the remaining reactors if the Ukrainian government does not free his comrade-in-arms, who is being imprisoned by the Ukrainian government. He is carrying on his father's legacy]].
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