History Recap / LoveDeathAndRobotsShapeShifters

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The ending differs from the short story. After defeating the Afghani werewolf, Decker is simply sent back to Bagram on a helicopter by the captain. During the fly, Decker tears his reenlistment form. In this episode, Decker deserts the army and takes Sobieski's body to bury him. The episode also leaves out Decker [[WorthyOpponent treating his ennemy with respect after killing him]], even burying him under a pile of rocks and pointing the grave toward Mecca and refusing to reveal the location to his superior who might desecrate the body.

* AdaptationTitleChange: The episode is titled "On the Use of Shape-shifters in Warfare."

* FantasticRacism: The other marines aren't too pleased to be working alongside werewolves, even officers are open in their hate.

* SemperFi: The central unit is a marine corp, that also has werewolves.

* BittersweetEnding: One step from a {{Downer|Ending}}. Decker feels tired of keeping up with humans and the non-stop FantasticRacism he faces and decides to abandon human world for good. His revange for Sobieski [[VengeanceFeelsEmpty doesn't provide any sort of satisfaction or comfort]]. But at least he could avenge his friend and can finally do what he wants to, rather than what he's told.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The Werewolves shown here have hightened senses of smell, hearing and sight, even in human form. Their werewolf forms are of the antrophomorphic kind; clearly wolf-looking, but they're still able to run on just their hind legs. The transformation involves, among other things, ripping off their skin, and evidently can be interrupted before it's completed.

* BashBrothers: The American Werewolves Decker and Sobieski, not those [[Film/AnAmericanWerewolfinLondon American Werewolves]], are depicted as very close. though we never get to see them fight together, before Sobieski dies.

* BadassGrandpa: The elder Afghani werewolf is quite the force to reckon with, unlike his younger companion.

* FantasticSlurs: "Dog Soldiers", an insult used by the other soldiers when referring to the werewolves in their midst.

* HealingFactor: Werewolves can regenerate their injuries, something the other soldiers consider unnatural. In particular, Decker gets his arm stripped down to the ''bone'' in a fight, but it is just fine afterward.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The Werewolves shown here have hightened senses of smell, hearing and sight, even in human form. Their werewolf forms are of the antrophomorphic kind; clearly wolf-looking, but they're still able to run on just their hind legs. The transformation involves, among other things, ripping off their skin.

* TragicBromance: Decker and Sobieski, brothers in arms and fellow werewolves ostracized by the rest of their unit. After Sobieski dies, Decker avenges his death and then deserts the military.

* HealingFactor: Werewolves can regenerate their injuries, something the other soldiers consider unnatural.

* CurbstompBattle: The assault by the enemy werewolves on [[spoiler: Sobieski's]] unit, nobody's left alive and it's evident they were taken completely by surprise.

* HiddenInPlainSight: The older enemy werewolf keeps going about his life even after [[spoiler: Sobieski's death]] - and probably because of it - knowing full well that Decker won't rat him out [[spoiler:expecting correctly that Decker will want to take him on by himself]].
* ItsPersonal: Decker's superiors want the enemy werewolf alive, which won't do for him as they [[spoiler:kill his best friend/only pack mate]].

* PatrioticFervor: Sobieski is clearly proud of belonging to the Marines and fighting for his country even in spite of the FantasticRacism he suffers. Decker is far more subdued [[spoiler:and at the end abandons both entirely]].

* HidingInPlainSight: The older enemy werewolf keeps going about his life even after [[spoiler: Sobieski's death]] - and probably because of it - knowing full well that Decker won't rat him out [[spoiler:expecting correctly that Decker will want to take him on by himself]].

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After killing the enemy werewolves, Decker abandons the military and disappears off into the wilderness.

* DeliberateInjuryGambit: Decker takes a non-fatal shot from a sniper so he can figure out where the sniper is hiding, giving the rest of the squad a target to shell into oblivion.

* BulletTime: Used when Decker fist dodges a bullet.

* FantasticRacism: The other soldiers aren't too pleased to be working alongside werewolves.

An American Marine stationed in Afghanistan tries to sniff out an enemy.