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* SociopathicSoldier: He bathes in ice cold water, threatens to kill Colquhoun multiple times even before he realizes he is the killer, and he at one point threatens to kill Boyd for making noise while walking through the cave (although to be fair he did think that there might be a cannibal in there who it was absolutely vital to sneak up on).

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* SociopathicSoldier: He bathes in ice cold water, threatens to kill Colquhoun multiple times even before he realizes he is the killer, and he at one point threatens to kill Boyd for making noise while walking through the cave (although cave. (Although to be fair he did think that there might be a cannibal in there who it was absolutely vital to sneak up on).on). Deleted scenes also show that he was once an officer but was demoted and transferred to Fort Spencer because he not only refused to order a retreat in a bad situation but also shot a fellow officer who suggested doing so.
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* AdvertisedExtra: The admittedly inaccurate trailers and the posters make it look like he has a much larger role than he actually has.

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* AdvertisedExtra: The [[NeverTrustATrailer admittedly inaccurate trailers and the posters posters]] make it look like he has a much larger role than he actually has.has, likely due to him being played by Creator/DavidArquette.
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* BigBad: Ives is the ultimate antagonist of the film, having eaten five people in the mountains (and who knows how many more elsewhere) and attempts to establish a CannibalClan at Fort Spencer so that he can have a never-ending supply of human meat to choose from the settlers passing through.

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* BigBad: Ives is the ultimate antagonist of the film, having eaten five six people in the mountains (and who knows how many more elsewhere) and attempts to establish a CannibalClan at Fort Spencer so that he can have a never-ending supply of human meat to choose from the settlers passing through.

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* CannibalismSuperpower: After Ives ate his colleagues to survive, he's granted Super-Strength, a HealingFactor, and it cures disease as well. It also acts as a drug that makes heroin seem about as addictive as artificial sweetener.

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* BigBad
BigBad: Ives is the ultimate antagonist of the film, having eaten five people in the mountains (and who knows how many more elsewhere) and attempts to establish a CannibalClan at Fort Spencer so that he can have a never-ending supply of human meat to choose from the settlers passing through.
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After Ives ate his colleagues to survive, he's granted Super-Strength, a HealingFactor, and it cures disease as well. It also acts as a drug that makes heroin seem about as addictive as artificial sweetener.



* TheDeterminator: To horrific extremes.

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* ManlyMan: A very dark example. Ives is an incredibly strong, ruggedly handsome and charismatic fellow, but he got all of it by [[ImAHumanitarian eating more than a half-dozen other people]], something the subtext of the film uses to draw a connection between him and the idea that RealMenEatMeat.
* RealMenEatMeat: He is a stealth criticism of this mindset. Ives ''literally'' becomes stronger the more people he eats, to the point where his morality has vanished and he considers humans as livestock for him to feast upon. This is meant to draw a dark parallel between Ives' reprehensibility and [[WhatMeasureIsaNonHuman the dehumanization of nonhuman animals (especially those that we eat) in real life]].




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* CassandraTruth: No-one believes Boyd'd story, which leads to much death.


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* DeadpanSnarker: Though he's revealed to be more StepfordSnarker in the end. When he first runs down the personnel situation at Fort Spencer to Boyd, (telling him how the drunken Major Knox is the one who plays doctor if they need someone to do so, and Cleaves the stoner is the local chef) he gives us this gem:
-->"My advice to you: don't get sick. I'd say don't eat, but then again most of us have to."


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* TookALevelinBadass: In his first scene, Hart cracks walnut shells under a giant book, but in a later scene, is able to crush them with his bare hands.]] All through the magic of cannibalism.


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* CannibalismSuperpower: After Ives ate his colleagues to survive, he's granted Super-Strength, a HealingFactor, and it cures disease as well. It also acts as a drug that makes heroin seem about as addictive as artificial sweetener.
** Ives also implies that cannibals become sexually potent, though that might just be him making up for lost time after regaining his health. He was in bad shape (as in, on death's door due to tuberculosis) before he started eating people.
* ColonelBadass: An evil version. But, Ives is one hell of a fighter.
* TheDeterminator: To horrific extremes.


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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: More like "[[TheDeterminator Determinator]] Cannot Comprehend Coward". Ives is visibly shocked that Boyd would [[spoiler: jump to seemingly certain death]] rather than stay and try to fight for his only real chance at survival. Note that Boyd really ''was'' [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled committing suicide]], and the fact that he lived was pure luck.
* EvilColonialist: When Ives's true plan is revealed, Manifest Destiny ends up morally equated with cannibalism. He compares America's unerring expansion westward as a HorrorHunger that the country needs to sate in order to survive.
* EvilTastesGood: Ives certainly thinks so, especially given his state before he turned to the dark temptations.
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:Ives is surprisingly graceful and complimentary when he realizes that Boyd has lured him into a fatal trap.]]
--> That was... '''really'''... sneaky.
* HemoErotic: Ives has a thing for blood, and doesn't mind it being splashed all over him (including his face) at all.


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* AxCrazy: Reich is more than a little unstable.


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* EveryoneHasStandards: Reich, despite being a hardened and ruthless soldier, is visibly horrified when he sees the remains of Ives's victims.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: He has a tendency to hum at inappropriate times and occasionally goes mute.
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The film's protagonist, a veteran of the Mexican-American war who's plagued by PTSD, cowardice and general combat incompetence.

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The film's protagonist, a veteran of the Mexican-American war War who's plagued by PTSD, cowardice and general combat incompetence.
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In the war, he gets a MedalOfDishonor after playing dead and subsequently capturing the enemy command post. His "reward" for his behavior in battle is [[ReassignedToAntarctica reassignment to the skeleton crew in the remote Fort Spencer.]]

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In the war, he gets a MedalOfDishonor after playing dead and subsequently capturing the enemy command post. His The "reward" for his behavior in battle is [[ReassignedToAntarctica reassignment to the skeleton crew in the remote Fort Spencer.]]
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The film's protagonist, a veteran of the Mexican-American war plagued by PTSD PTSD, cowardice and general combat incompetence. He incompetence.

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The film's protagonist — a veteran of the Mexican-American war, who gets a MedalOfDishonor after playing dead and subsequently capturing the enemy command post. His "reward" for his behavior in battle is [[ReassignedToAntarctica reassignment to the skeleton crew in the remote Fort Spencer.]]

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The film's protagonist — protagonist, a veteran of the Mexican-American war, who war plagued by PTSD and combat incompetence. He gets a MedalOfDishonor after playing dead and subsequently capturing the enemy command post. His "reward" for his behavior in battle is [[ReassignedToAntarctica reassignment to the skeleton crew in the remote Fort Spencer.]]



* BeingEvilSucks: Coward he may be, but a bad man he is not.

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* BeingEvilSucks: Coward A coward he may be, but a bad man he is not.
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A soldier who, after playing dead during a battle, was suddenly struck by bravery and captured the enemy command post. However, the battle has left him with severe PTSD and General Slauson [[ReassignedToAntarctica quickly “rewards” him by transferring him to Fort Spencer.]]

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A soldier who, The film's protagonist — a veteran of the Mexican-American war, who gets a MedalOfDishonor after playing dead during a battle, was suddenly struck by bravery and captured subsequently capturing the enemy command post. However, the His "reward" for his behavior in battle has left him with severe PTSD and General Slauson is [[ReassignedToAntarctica quickly “rewards” him by transferring him reassignment to the skeleton crew in the remote Fort Spencer.]]

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* BeingEvilSucks: Coward he may be, but a bad man he is not.
* BuriedInAPileOfCorpses: The ploy that lets Boyd get into TrappedBehindEnemyLines prior to the film's start.
* ClassicalAntiHero: His major flaw is his cowardice.
* DirtyCoward: Boyd knows it and the people around him know it.
* DyingAsYourself: He chooses to die instead of eating Ives and continuing the cycle of cannibalism.


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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Boyd, who has to become a cannibal for a chance to defeat Ives.
* MedalOfDishonor: As Boyd quips, his medal is "for cowardice".


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* TakingYouWithMe: This is how Boyd is finally able to kill Ives.
* TookALevelInBadass: Boyd spends the entire film as the designated wimp (even admitting that he won his medal for cowardice), but in the end he decides to fight Ives, using all of his new cannibal superpowers.
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* {{Adorkable}}: His weird mannerisms and excitability make him weirdly adorable.
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* ClosestThingWeGot: He is the doctor at Fort Spencer because he has the most medical experience out of all the men. Unfortunately, it happens that horses fall more under his area of expertise than horses do.

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* ClosestThingWeGot: He is the doctor at Fort Spencer because he has the most medical experience out of all the men. Unfortunately, it happens that horses fall more under his area of expertise than horses people do.



* MoralityPet: Toffler seems to be the only person in the platoon he truly cares about.

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* TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled: The only soldier at Fort Spencer who takes his military duties seriously is taken out by Ives with a hatchet and a tumble off a cliff.

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* TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled: The only soldier at Fort Spencer who takes his military duties seriously is easily taken out by Ives with a hatchet thrown knife and a tumble off a cliff.
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* MinionWithAnFInEvil: After being force-fed flesh and converted into cannibal, he is utterly disgusted by what he's become and half-hearted in his service to Ives.
* ReasignedToAntarctica: The circumstances are unclear, but he bitterly notes that being sent to Fort Spencer wasn't exactly a reward for him.

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* MinionWithAnFInEvil: After being force-fed flesh and converted into into cannibal, he is utterly disgusted by what he's become and half-hearted in his service to Ives.
* ReasignedToAntarctica: ReassignedToAntarctica: The circumstances are unclear, but he bitterly notes that being sent to Fort Spencer wasn't exactly a reward for him.

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* BenevolentBoss: He's a fairly kind, and encouraging commander and leads his men into the field.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: After being force-fed flesh and converted into cannibal, he is utterly disgusted by what he's become and half-hearted in his service to Ives.
* ReasignedToAntarctica: The circumstances are unclear, but he bitterly notes that being sent to Fort Spencer wasn't exactly a reward for him.



* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He knocks Boyd out with one punch after thinking he'd killed Cleaves.



* ChaseScene: He briefly starts one by leading Boyd in pursuit of Ives/Colquhuon (as well as trying to rescue Toffler, who has been chased into the forrest by the cannibal).



* SociopathicSoldier: He bathes in ice cold water, threatens to kill Colquhoun multiple times even before he realizes he is the killer, and he at one point threatens to kill Boyd for making noise while walking through the cave.

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* OhCrap: He is horrified when, while counting the number of bodies in the cave, he realizes that there's one more than Colquhoun claimed, and that Colquhoun is the cannibal.
* SociopathicSoldier: He bathes in ice cold water, threatens to kill Colquhoun multiple times even before he realizes he is the killer, and he at one point threatens to kill Boyd for making noise while walking through the cave.cave (although to be fair he did think that there might be a cannibal in there who it was absolutely vital to sneak up on).
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* {{Adorkable}}: His weird mannerisms and excitability make him weirdly adorable.
* AmbiguousDisorder: He has a tendency to hum at inappropriate times and occasionally goes mute.
* MoralityPet: To Reich.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: The only religious soldier at Fort Spencer.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Benjamin Franklin once said, ‘eat to live, don’t live to eat.’"'']]

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* FakeUltimateHero: He won a medal for bravely fainting in the face of danger

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* ShellShockedVeteran: His experiences in the Mexican-American War, particularly him being buried under a mountain of corpses, have clearly left him with severe PTSD.


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* BigBad
* FauxAffablyEvil: Ives is an irredeemable cannibalistic monster, but he’s very charismatic and weirdly likable.
* LaughablyEvil: Whenever he’s not making the audience scream, he’s making them laugh.


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* AdvertisedExtra: The admittedly inaccurate trailers and the posters make it look like he has a much larger role than he actually has.
* KilledOffscreen: Colonel Hart cuts him open while everyone else is distracted and sticks him on top of the fort.
* TheStoner: He spends all of his screentime stoned out of his mind.


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* TheAlcoholic: As Colonel Hart puts it, he never met a bottle he didn’t like.
* ClosestThingWeGot: He is the doctor at Fort Spencer because he has the most medical experience out of all the men. Unfortunately, it happens that horses fall more under his area of expertise than horses do.


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* DeadpanSnarker: Boyd’s incompetence tends to bring this out in him.
* DisneyVillainDeath: He falls off a cliff after Ives hits him with a hatchet, though he lives for a short while afterwards.
* MoralityPet: Toffler seems to be the only person in the platoon he truly cares about.
* SociopathicSoldier: He bathes in ice cold water, threatens to kill Colquhoun multiple times even before he realizes he is the killer, and he at one point threatens to kill Boyd for making noise while walking through the cave.
* TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled: The only soldier at Fort Spencer who takes his military duties seriously is taken out by Ives with a hatchet and a tumble off a cliff.
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!!Captain John Boyd
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/GuyPearce

A soldier who, after playing dead during a battle, was suddenly struck by bravery and captured the enemy command post. However, the battle has left him with severe PTSD and General Slauson [[ReassignedToAntarctica quickly “rewards” him by transferring him to Fort Spencer.]]

* FakeUltimateHero: He won a medal for bravely fainting in the face of danger
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[[folder:Colonel Hart]]
!!Colonel Hart
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/JeffreyJones

The cynical, world-weary commander of Fort Spencer.

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[[folder:Reverend Colquhoun]]
!!Reverend F.W. Colquhoun
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/RobertCarlyle

A Scottish priest who was part of the ill-fated expedition headed by Colonel Ives. For more information on his true persona, see Ives's folder.

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[[folder:Colonel Ives]]
!!Colonel Ives
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/RobertCarlyle

A soldier suffering from an untreatable case of tuberculosis, Ives was told about the legend of the Wendigo by a Native American Scout. Ives thanked the scout by eating him, and seeing that the legend was true, used an expedition to claim plenty more victims. Ives then turned his eyes to Fort Spencer, hoping to set up a clan of cannibals there with him as their leader.

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[[folder:Private Cleaves]]
!!Private Cleaves
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/DavidArquette

A perpetually stoned soldier who serves as the chef.

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[[folder:Major Knox]]
!!Major Knox
--> '''Played By:''' Stephen Spinella

The alcoholic resident doctor at Fort Spencer.

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[[folder:Private Reich]]
!!Private Reich
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/NealMcDonough

A disturbed soldier who takes his duties very seriously. Perhaps a little ''too'' seriously.

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[[folder:Private Toffler]]
!!Private Toffler
--> '''Played By:''' Creator/JeremyDavies

A religious soldier who longs to create a new religious hymn.

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[[folder:George]]
!!George
--> '''Played By:''' Joseph Runningfox

A local Native American who lives at Fort Spencer along with his sister Martha, and spends most of his time getting high with Cleaves.

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[[folder:Martha]]
!!Martha
--> '''Played By:''' Sheila Tousey

A quiet local Native American who lives at Fort Spencer along with her brother George.

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[[folder:General Slauson]]
!!General Slauson
--> '''Played By:''' John Spencer

A decorated general who occasionally pokes his head around Fort Spencer when circumstances require it.

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