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''Six'' (stylized as SIX) is a 2017 TV military drama series produced by the History channel. Eight episodes are scheduled to air, with the first episode on January 18, 2017. It stars Barry Sloane, Kyle Schmid, Juan Pablo Raba and Creator/WaltonGoggins. The production crew mentions that the show is based on actual missions [=SEAL=] Team Six has participated in. Academy Award nominee and military special operations veteran David Broyles have created the series.

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''Six'' (stylized as SIX) is a 2017 TV military drama series produced by the History channel. Eight episodes are scheduled to air, with the first episode on January 18, 2017. It stars Barry Sloane, Kyle Schmid, Creator/KyleSchmid, Juan Pablo Raba and Creator/WaltonGoggins. The production crew mentions that the show is based on actual missions [=SEAL=] Team Six has participated in. Academy Award nominee and military special operations veteran David Broyles have created the series.
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** Downplayed in the second season. The team doesn't lose anyone, but the battles are much harder fought and they take a lot more injuries. [[spoiler: In the final fight in Azerbaijan, Armin gets shot in the back and is put out of commission for much of the fight. Trevor spends most of the final episode keeping him alive, and although he makes it home in one piece, it is likely he will be paralyzed.]]

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** Downplayed in the second season. The team doesn't lose anyone, but the battles are much harder fought and they take a lot more injuries. [[spoiler: In the final fight in Azerbaijan, Armin gets shot in the back and is put out of commission for much of the fight. Trevor spends most of the final episode keeping him alive, and although he makes it home in one piece, it is likely he will be paralyzed.]] [[spoiler: Last, but not least, Caulder is implied to have died from a brain aneurysm after suffering two brain concussions in the course of Season 2.]]

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* LiveActionEscortMission: With his training, Rip is able to escape from the Boko Haram and then helps the other hostages escape. On his own, he probably could have evaded pursuit and made it to safety. However, a group of children and injured adults is too slow and too visible to evade pursuit for long.



* RealityEnsues:
** The team gets away with almost everything they could possibly want to do in terms of operational freedom but Rip is kicked out when he executes an unarmed American (despite said American being a member of the Taliban).
** Disobeying your superiors and killing allies (even ones as awful as Boko Haram) will not win you points with an {{Expy}} of ISIS as Michael finds out.
** With his training, Rip is able to escape from the Boko Haram and then helps the other hostages escape. On his own, he probably could have evaded pursuit and made it to safety. However, a group of children and injured adults is too slow and too visible to evade pursuit for long.
** The [=SEAL=]s are superbly trained but they are not supermen. When they are forced to engage in a regular firefight with a well trained and armed enemy force, they are subject to the same battlefield luck as any other soldier. The [=SEAL=]s win because they have numerical and tactical advantage but a member of their team is killed in the battle.

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* RealityEnsues:
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NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The team gets away with almost everything they could possibly want to do in terms of operational freedom but Rip is kicked out when he executes an unarmed American (despite said American being a member of the Taliban).
** Disobeying your superiors and killing allies (even ones as awful as Boko Haram) will not win you points with an {{Expy}} of ISIS as Michael finds out.
** With his training, Rip is able to escape from the Boko Haram and then helps the other hostages escape. On his own, he probably could have evaded pursuit and made it to safety. However, a group of children and injured adults is too slow and too visible to evade pursuit for long.
** The [=SEAL=]s are superbly trained but they are not supermen. When they are forced to engage in a regular firefight with a well trained and armed enemy force, they are subject to the same battlefield luck as any other soldier. The [=SEAL=]s win because they have numerical and tactical advantage but a member of their team is killed in the battle.
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* BullyingADragon: When the team is trying and failing to comfort Buckley's widow, who's very upset, an armed civilian who doesn't fully understand the situation decides to step in to try and scare the [=SEALs=] away. The team then very matter-of-factly points out that he just threatened a group of stone-cold killers. The guy is savvy enough to immediately back down.
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''Six'' (stylized as SIX) is a 2017 TV military drama series produced by the History channel. Eight episodes are scheduled to air, with the first episode on January 18, 2017. It stars Barry Sloane, Kyle Schmid, Juan Pablo Raba and Walton Goggins. The production crew mentions that the show is based on actual missions [=SEAL=] Team Six has participated in. Academy Award nominee and military special operations veteran David Broyles have created the series.

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''Six'' (stylized as SIX) is a 2017 TV military drama series produced by the History channel. Eight episodes are scheduled to air, with the first episode on January 18, 2017. It stars Barry Sloane, Kyle Schmid, Juan Pablo Raba and Walton Goggins.Creator/WaltonGoggins. The production crew mentions that the show is based on actual missions [=SEAL=] Team Six has participated in. Academy Award nominee and military special operations veteran David Broyles have created the series.

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* DentedIron: Caulder has been in close proximity to too many explosions and suffers from constant ringing in the ears and dizziness in the second season. [[spoiler: After he collapses and Dharma takes him to a hospital, a neurologist informs him he has extensive brain damage and that this will kill him unless he avoids such situations, which means resigning from the military. He doesn't.]]



* FollowTheLeader: An in-universe version. Michael's original vision for the Ummah Movement was to utilize small teams of highly trained operators to carry out surgical strikes and assassinations in a blatant copy of how American special forces work, to distinguish them from other jihadist groups like Al-Qaida and ISIS who simply throw bodies at the enemy.

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* FollowTheLeader: An in-universe version. Michael's original vision for the Ummah Movement was to utilize small teams of highly trained operators to carry out surgical strikes and assassinations in a blatant copy of how American special forces work, to distinguish them from other jihadist groups like Al-Qaida Al-Qaeda and ISIS who simply throw bodies at the enemy.

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