History Series / SASRogueHeroes

** Jock Lewes is introduced stealing a load of parachutes from the docks at Tobruk, despite the crate being labelled with DANGEROUS REPTILES! to discourage this trope. They then get hold an airplane without authorisation, which backfires because it hasn't been modified for parachute jumping.

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Eoin McGonigal, Paddy's "close friend", dies early on in the series]]

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Guardsman Johnny Cooper, 19 years old, childish, looks like a scarecrow, marches up to Stirling like a stereotypical StiffUpperLip soldier. [[OneManArmy Proceeds to tell him he's killed 21 men since he got into the army, wants to increase that number and heard the SAS might be able to help]], to cap it off [[BloodKnight the reason he wants to fight in the desert is]] [[BadassBoast because the enemy will have a harder time hiding from HIM]]

* BuryYourGays: [[Eoin McGonigal, Paddy's "close friend", dies early on in the series]]

The cast includes Connor Swindells as David Stirling, Creator/JackOConnell as Paddy Mayne, Creator/AlfieAllen as Jock Lewes, Creator/SofiaBoutella as Eve Mansour, Creator/DominicWest as Dudley Clarke, Creator/TomGlynnCarney as Sergeant Mike Sadler, Amir El-Masry as Dr. Gamal and Theo Barklem-Biggs as Sergeant Reg Seekings.

* FrenchJerk: Inverted when it's Paddy Mayne as the mad jerkass instructor teaching the Free French.

** Stirling tries to enter the Allied Army Headquarters without authorization to speak to the Commander-in-Chief Middle East, General Claude Auchinleck. The guard at the front gate correctly stops him and tells him to return with proper orders. However, the gate post is undermanned so Stirling sneaks in while the guard is distracted. The guards realizes what happened and raises the alarm but once inside the building Sterling easily bluffs his way past multiple guard posts and is allowed to enter the office of Major-General Neil Ritchie before he's challenged. If Stirling was a German agent, he could done some serious damage including killing the top British generals in the theatre. However this act only helps his pitch.
** The German and Italian soldiers who defend the bases targeted by the SAS do not expect the enemy to walk in from the ImpassableDesert so their security is very lax. On the other hand, once an enemy base has been put on alert, even Paddy Mayne is not crazy to attack it.

* CassandraTruth: During a raid Lewes runs into an Italian sentry. The Italian soldier assumes that Lewes is a German. Lewes tells him that he is actually English but the guard thinks that it is a joke. The guard realizes that Lewes is telling the truth when Lewes stabs him to death.

** When Stirling proposes his raiding force, the generals inform him that there are no vehicles to spare. He informs them that they will steal their own--[[WeAreStrugglingTogether first from their allies]], then the Germans and Italians. He's not joking--after their disastrous first mission the unit needs a resupply, so rather than return to Cairo where they will likely be stood down, they raid a mostly deserted base for New Zealand base and steal weapons, trucks and booze. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And a piano.]]

** Stirling tries to enter the Allied Army Headquarters without authorization to speak to the Commander-in-Chief Middle East, General Claude Auchinleck. The guard at the front gate correctly stops him and tells him to return with proper orders. However, the gate post is undermanned so Stirling sneaks in while the guard is distracted. The guards realizes what happened and raises the alarm but once inside the building Sterling easily bluffs his way past multiple guard posts and is allowed to enter the office of Major-General Neil Ritchie. Ritchie sees past the ruse and stops Stirling from seeing Auchinleck directly. If Stirling was a German agent, he could done some serious damage including killing the top British generals in the theatre.