History NightmareFuel / EdgeOfTomorrow

** Many brain surgeries occur while the patient is still fully awake and aware, but suitably anesthetized.
** She could have overheard her captors talking about what they planned to do, thus allowing her to carry that memory forward with her.

** Cage deliberately drowns himself in the dam to reset the loop after his gun and grenades are taken away.

** They don't even appear to have a solid shape, always vibrating and moving around so they're blurry and out-of-focus to the human eye unless they're not moving (and even then they're still vibrating). The blue alpha mimic is even worse in its [[UncannyValley uncanniness]]. It doesn't blink and its mouth is constantly agape so it looks like it's in the midst of roaring.

* The Mimics' invasion of London.

*** What's truly terrifying is that, had he simply bled out, it would have been a permanent death: The alien's power is in his blood. Death by exsanguination '''[[FinalDeath sticks]]'''.

* Cage probably died many many more times than hundreds considering [[spoiler: Rita watched a friend of hers die over 300 times. The implication being that she also die more time than that in loops where she did not watch her friend die.]] Considering that Rita was already a soldier with some amount of combat training, all she had to do to learn was increase her knowledge base to include mimic killing tactics. Cage on the otherhand had zero combat skills and not only had to learn to do basic combat but also how to specifically kill mimics, so he probably died thousands if not tens of thousands of times.

* Rita had to watch a good friend (implied to be her lover) die every time she looped... all ''three hundred times''. [[spoiler: It also foreshadows that Cage has also watched Rita die many times over, and this is what finally causes him to snap and go on a one-man rampage across Europe to find the Omega alone. Not to mention how he learned about her... every piece of info he learned about her personal life was at the moment of her death. Also tearjerking.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:One of MANY deaths Cage will unfortunately suffer throughout the film.]]

** Many brain surgeries occur while the patient is still fully awake and aware, but suitably anaesthetised.
** She could have overheard her captors talking about what they planned to do, thus allowing her to carry that memory forward with her.

* Cage probably died many many more times than hundreds considering [[spoiler: Rita watched a firend of hers die over 300 times. The implication being that she also die more time than that in loops where she did not watch her friend die.]] Considering that Rita was already a soldier with some amount of combat training, all she had to do to learn was increase her knowledge base to include mimic killing tactics. Cage on the otherhand had zero combat skills and not only had to learn to do basic combat but also how to specifically kill mimics, so he probably died thousands if not tens of thousands of times.

* Rita had to watch a good friend (implied to be her lover) die every time she looped... all ''three hundred times''. [[spoiler: It also foreshadows that Cage has also watched Rita die many times over, and this is what finally causes him to snap and go on a one-man rampage across Europe to find the Omega alone. Not to mention how he learned about her... every piece of info her learned about her personal life was at the moment of her death. Also tearjerking.]]

* Rita had to watch a good friend (implied to be her lover) die every time she looped... all ''three hundred times''. [[spoiler: It also foreshadows that Cage has also watched Rita die many times over, and this is what finally causes him to snap and go on a one-man rampage across Europe to find the Omega alone.]]

*** This is however left ambiguous by the movie. Its not word-by-word adamptation as demonstrated by many tropes, and when Cage gets behind the lines, we see no traces of terraforming at all, Europe is left in exact same state as it was left by humans.

** The eerily quite and very effective SceneryGorn when they first reach Paris.

*** What's truly terrifying is that, had he simply bled out, it would have been a permanent death: The alien's power is in his blood. Death by exsanguination '''[[FinalDeath is final]]'''.

*** What's truly terrifying is that, had he simply bled out, it would have been a permanent death: The alien's power is in his blood. Death by exsanguination [[FinalDeath '''is final''']].

*** What's truly terrifying is that, had he simply bled out, it would have been a permanent death: The alien's power is in his blood. Death by exsanguination [[FinalDeath ''sticks'']].

*** What's truly terrifying is that, had he simply bled out, it would have been a permanent death: The alien's power is in his blood. Death by exsanguination is PermaDeath.

** Many brain surgeries occur while the patient is still fully awake and aware, but suitably anaesthetised.

* The Omega Mimic is disturbingly eerie due how [[EldritchAbomination incomprehensible]] it is, specially in Cage's visions.

** The light novel actually has an explanation for the Mimics: terraforming organisms genetically engineered by an alien civilization. The Mimics' adaptability as well as the time-manipulating ability is written in their genes. This means that sometime in the future, the actual colonizer will arrive and who knows what they will do when they find the humans.

* Rita had to watch a good friend (implied to be her lover) die every time she looped... all ''three hundred times''. [[spoiler: It also foreshadows that Cage has also watched Rita die many times over, and what finally snaps him and cause him to go on a one-man rampage across Europe to find the Omega alone.]]