History Film / CollateralDamage

* AnAxeToGrind: [[spoiler:El Lobo is finished off with an axe, which Gordon throws on his chest]].

* PapaWolf: Gordon. With his own son, he is out to kill the guy who killed him (with a side of CrusadingWidower, as well). With Selena's kid, he is willing to risk himself so the kid will not become collateral damage to his own RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

* TheCameo: Arnold's buddy Sven-Ole Thorsen appears briefly as a man smoking a cigarette right before the fateful explosion happens.

* BatterUp: Gordon, in his anguish, thrashes the Colombian embassy office with a baseball bat when he hears his family referred to as "[[TitleDrop collateral damage]]".
* BattleAmongstTheFlames: The final showdown.
* BigBad: Claudio Perrini, a.k.a. El Lobo (The Wolf).

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: How Brandt dies]]

* CharacterTic: The FARC spokesperson has a habit of ending their video by smacking their hands. [[spoiler: Gordon noticed Selena doing it at her son.]]
* ChekhovsGun: The video claiming the authority of the bombing.

* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler:Selena.]]

* TheDragon: [[spoiler: Selena.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: After Gordon kills Selena in self defence, Claudio's reaction is of similar anguish as Gordon had about him killing his own family.]]
* EvilVersusEvil: How the Colombian Conflict is portrayed.
* GenderIsNoObject: For the FARC.

* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler: Implied to be the case with Selena and El Lobo's son.]]

* NeckSnap: How [[spoiler: Selena kills the FBI agent watching her]]

** The Colombian spokesman points that the Los Angeles bombing is par of the course in Colombia, both by the FARC and anti-FARC factions supported by the United States.
** Claudio tries to invoke this with Gordon, citing his own PapaWolf-related StartOfDarkness. However - Gordon invokes ShutUpHannibal by stating that he has no intention of likewise becoming a full-blown terrorist, instead focusing his {{Revenge}} on just Claudio himself.

* AMillionIsAStatistic: The TitleDrop dismissal of the casualties of the bomb (including Gordon's family) as "collateral damage", less important overall next to the FARC's political statement.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Selena is the FARC spokesman.]]

* SmallReferencePools: Averted to some degree. While obviously a Hollywood action flick, the movie cares to differentiate between the Colombian government, the ''Guerrillas'' (FARC), the paramilitaries and the US government[=/=]CIA[=/=]DEA.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: What the Colombian diaspora in Los Angeles thinks of the FARC. The CIA is willing to do (covert) total war on the FARC as well, risking hurting innocents with carpet bombing, because they think going "KillEmAll" on a bunch of determined terrorists is better than the alternative.

* WesternTerrorists: The FARC. Based out of Colombia, get funding from drugs, destroy American lives.

* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: Self defence example. After she starts inflicting a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on him, Gordon elbows Selena and throws her headfirst into an electrical panel during the climax]]

* AlasPoorVillain: Brewer seems to have this reaction silently when seeing Felix is executed because of him, despite having been working with the guerrillas and producing drugs he had been quite friendly to him.

Originally set to be released in the October of 2001, the film had to pushed to early 2002 [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents due to the 9/11 attacks]].

* NotSoDifferent:

* OutrunTheFireball: In the climax, Gordon runs away from a massive explosion as the BigBad and TheDragon take aim at him while chasing him on a motorcycle.

* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: Gordon elbows Selena during the climax]]

-->'''[[spoiler:Selena]]: It's ''never'' over!

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler: "When were you going to kill me?"]]

After his family is killed in an explosion caused by Colombian terrorist El Lobo, Los Angeles fireman Gordon Brewer sets out to get him.

''Collateral Damage'' is an action thriller from 2002, directed by Andrew Davis and starring Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.

* LatinoIsBrown: Chocó, Colombia, where Gordon travels to is in real life almost completely inhabited by black people. However, not a single black person appears in the film.

* TheWarOnTerror: Code Red.

Originally set to be released in the October of 2001, the film had to pushed to early 2002 [[TooSoon due to the 9/11 attacks]].

** Claudio tries to invoke this with Gordon, citing his own PapaWolf-based StartOfDarkness. However - Gordon invokes ShutUpHannibal by stating that he has no intention of likewise becoming a full-blown terrorist, instead focusing his {{Revenge}} on just Claudio himself.

** Claudio tries to invoke this with Gordon, citing his own PapaWolf-related StartOfDarkness. However, Gordon invokes ShutUpHannibal by stating he has no intention of likewise becoming a full-blown terrorist, instead focusing his {{Revenge}} on just Claudio himself.

* ArcWords [=/=] CatchPhrase: El Lobo's "Sangre o Libertad" (meaning "blood or freedom").

* CaliforniaDoubling: Set in Colombia, filmed in Mexico.

%%* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler:Selena.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Selena left her son behind to die in the explosion because he doesn't support his parents' cause. Fortunately, Gordon gets rid of the bomb after realizing Selena was the FARC spokesperson.]]