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** [[spoiler:Pvt. Sam Malloy]]: Mowed down by a Japanese fighter.

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** [[spoiler:Pvt. Sam Malloy]]: Mowed down by a Japanese fighter.fighter plane in a strafing run.



* TheKillerWasLeftHanded: Sgt. Dane remembers that Danny Burns, the murderer who ruined Dane's career, was a left-handed baseball thrower. One of the soldiers, Barney Todd, throws left-handed as shown when he and Dane blow up the bridge with grenades. Dane decides not to act on this information and [[spoiler:ultimately doesn't have to since Todd is killed in the FinalBattle]].

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* TheKillerWasLeftHanded: Sgt. Dane remembers that Danny Burns, the murderer who ruined Dane's career, was a left-handed baseball thrower. One of the soldiers, Barney Todd, throws left-handed as shown when he and Dane blow up the bridge with grenades. Dane decides not to act on this information and [[spoiler:ultimately doesn't have to since Todd is killed in the FinalBattle]].FinalBattle, though Todd admits his true identity as he dies]].
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* MookChivalry: At the very end, [[spoiler:the Japanese soldiers give Sgt. Dane enough time to bury his men (and dig his own grave) before attacking him.]]

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* AssInALionSkin: A prop example. The [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Bataan IMFDB]] page shows that Dane's Colt 1911 pistol is a mocked-up Colt Detective Special revolver.

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* AssInALionSkin: A prop example. The [[http://www.[[https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Bataan IMFDB]] page shows that Dane's Colt 1911 pistol is a mocked-up Colt Detective Special revolver.



* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Bentley's plane, which is used for a SuicideAttack late in the film.]]



* MookChivalry: At the very end, [[spoiler:the Japanese soldiers give Sgt. Dane enough time to bury his men (and dig his own grave) before attacking him.]]



* WeaponTombstone: Each soldier's grave is marked with his helmet and machete.

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* WeaponTombstone: Each soldier's As the soldiers are killed, each grave is marked with his helmet and machete.
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Kill Em All was renamed Everybody Dies Ending due to misuse. Dewicking


* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:The entire cast of the film is dead by the end of the film.]]
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Up To Eleven is a defunct trope


* HoldTheLine: The entire film is spent trying to keep the Japanese Army from crossing a ravine until General [=MacArthur=] can regroup. The last few minutes of the film escalate the situation into a LastStand, which is taken UpToEleven with Dane left all alone, digging his grave and firing away while surrounded by the Japanese as the credits roll.

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* HoldTheLine: The entire film is spent trying to keep the Japanese Army from crossing a ravine until General [=MacArthur=] can regroup. The last few minutes of the film escalate the situation into a LastStand, which is taken UpToEleven up to eleven with Dane left all alone, digging his grave and firing away while surrounded by the Japanese as the credits roll.
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Ill Boy has been changed to Delicate And Sickly. Example does not fit criteria for trope.


* IllBoy: Ramirez falls ill with malaria, which [[spoiler:claims his life halfway through the film]].
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%%* AnyoneCanDie [[spoiler:In fact they all do.]]

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