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3 | ->''"A British fighter pilot pursues the German ace that shot down his friend [[{{Determinator}} across sky and country]]... with [[{{Revenge}} murder in mind]]. But he discovers it's not so easy to kill a man [[FacelessGoons when you have to look them in the eye.]]"'' |
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5 | ''The German'' is a 2008 Irish short war film written and directed by Nick Ryan, starring Creator/TobyKebbell and Christian Brassington. |
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7 | It follows a [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships Royal Air Force]] fighter pilot during a tense air to air duel with a German foe during the Battle of Britain. Locked in a fight to the death, neither pilot knows how the war will end for them... |
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9 | !!''The German'' includes examples of the following tropes: |
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11 | * AcePilot: |
12 | ** Both pilots are supremely skilled, each getting the edge on the other repeatedly in a back-and-forth running battle. |
13 | ** Red Leader's NoseArt indicates that he has been credited with four and a half kills, just shy of the five needed to be an Ace (and he splashes his fifth early in the dogfight). |
14 | * AllThereInTheManual: All characters' names are only given in the credits. Red Three is listed as Squadron Leader AC Barton. The German is listed simply as "The German". |
15 | * AntagonistTitle: [[NoNameGiven The German.]] |
16 | * ChekhovsGunman: The man on the ground who watches both planes fly overhead. |
17 | * CloserThanTheyAppear: Red Leader catches sight of The German in his fighter's rear-view mirror, shortly before the first burst of machine gun fire neatly bullseyes the mirror. |
18 | * CombatBreakdown: A dogfight between two fighter planes turns into a running duel with HandGuns, before devolving to a desperate fistfight in the woods. |
19 | * ComeOutComeOutWhereverYouAre: Red Leader, stalking The German in the woods. |
20 | -->'''Red Leader:''' It's no use. There's a truck there now, they'll send another five. The whole town saw us come down. You can't stay out here forever. |
21 | * {{Determinator}}: Red Leader, by far. |
22 | * DramaticGuncock: Red Leader, due to using a revolver, does this before each shot. |
23 | * HonorBeforeReason: Red Leader's guns end up jamming or running out of ammo. Rather than let the damaged German plane escape, he proceeeds to fly alongside him and [[RammingAlwaysWorks clip wings to force the other plane down, at the expense of his own.]] |
24 | * InstantDeathBullet: Red Three's plane takes multiple hits, but it's clear that the one bullet through the cockpit is what kills him. |
25 | * IronicEcho: "I'm afraid this war is over for [[spoiler: both of you.]]" |
26 | * KilledMidSentence: Red Three. |
27 | * MoreDakka: Both the Bf-109 and the Supermarine Spitfire both mount multiple machine guns, though special mention goes to the Spitfire's battery of 8 .303 machine guns mounted in the wings. |
28 | * NoNameGiven: The German. |
29 | * NoseArt: Red Leader's Spitfire, aside from the iconic (and possibly ironic) RAF bullseye roundel, has four German crosses painted on it to show his kills. |
30 | * TheRadioDiesFirst: Early into the fight, a machine gun round flies through the cockpit and hits the English pilot's radio. |
31 | * RealityHasNoSubtitles: All of The German's dialogue is untranslated. |
32 | * RedShirts: The German's wingman, and Red Three. Plus the multitude of other aviators involved in the briefly glimpsed much larger battle who are all OutOfFocus. |
33 | * {{Revenge}}: Red Leader's motivation. |
34 | * RammingAlwaysWorks: How Red Leader takes the German pilot down. Both manage to survive the resulting crash. |
35 | * TheReveal: [[spoiler: The pilots crash landed in neutral Ireland, and will both be interned for the duration.]] |
36 | * SacrificialLamb: Red Three, who is killed early in the dogfight, after getting in a few lines of dialogue. |
37 | * ShaggyDogStory: After the fight is finally over, [[spoiler: both pilots are revealed to have crashed in the neutral Republic of Ireland, and are interned for the duration of the war.]] |
38 | * WhamLine: After Red Leader has [[spoiler: captured The German]] and brought him to the troops at the edge of the woods. |
39 | -->'''Father:''' [[spoiler: Welcome to Ireland, gentlemen.]] |
40 | * WhereDoYouThinkYouAre: [[spoiler: "Welcome to Ireland, gentlemen."]] |
41 | * WingMan: Red Three, who is given a brief reprieve by Red Leader before he is killed by The German. |
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