History Film / Doomsday

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Various fight scenes run on this. The cannibals that the team initially run into would in other movies overwhelm them easily. Here they're cut down in droves, and only their sheer numbers and the possibility of being surrounded forces the group to retreat. Sinclair's fights against Viper and the big knight in Kane's castle are also this, mainly because they're a cannibal and a medieval-style knight that have never been in a fight against a trained soldier in their lives and fairly easy for her to bear. For obvious reasons, the film completely avoids FriendlyFireproof too.

* FauxActionGirl: Viper, who for all her looks and attitude, goes down pretty easy against Eden.
** Justified, as Eden is a trained and experienced soldier where as Viper would be unlikely to have received any combat training worth mentioning and lets her fellow cannibals do the fighting.

* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer lets on that this is an after-the-plague serious film. It only takes a half an hour of watching the film when you can check off every scene you saw in the trailer and things just get downright silly.

* SchizoTech: Knights in armour, longbows, steam trains, Film/MadMax-inspired death machines, [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier APCs]], video camera glass eyes, sword fights...

* WaifFu: While Creator/RhonaMitra is not exactly a waif, she pummels her way through a lot of much larger opponents throughout the film, including a seven-foot killer in full plate armour.
** [[JustifiedTrope Though it's considerably more realistically used than the norm]]: Mitra's character is a FragileSpeedster who dodges the attacks of bigger opponents, and uses weapons to even the score.

%%* TrainEscape

* TrainEscape

* AnAxeToGrind

* RareGuns: [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/File:Vektor-cr21-1.jpg Vektor CR-21]], a futuristically looking model of old-fashioned Galil assault rifle, is used as the main weapon by the group. They are further weighted down with all [[GunAccessories the shiny, tacticool toys]].

* RuleOfCool: Cyber-eyed badass, foam grenades, "Good Thing", cannibal BBQ, medieval castle renovated and put back into good working order in the future, random Bentley having a car chase with punk-built mutant cars and then the punks climb on the Bentley and fight while everyone's still driving, MadeOfExplodium, nude chick with shotgun, exploding bunny, random gimp, the [[http://img22.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vlcsnap5023426.png Gimpmobile!]], a severed head crashing into the camera, and the [[spoiler:cyber-eyed badass going back to Glasgow and becoming the cannibal punk's leader by tossing their former leader's aforementioned severed head in front of them and telling them [[CallBack "If you're hungry, try a piece of your friend"]].]] And just about everything else in between those moments.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Eden Sinclair.

* {{Fanservice}}: The first action sequence features a random nude woman with a shotgun. Then about halfway through the film come the strippers, and for some reason all the punks have this strange aversion to being fully clothed in ''Scotland''...

* NormalFishInATinyPond

* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: Britain sealed off Scotland to prevent the Reaper Virus from spreading by rebuilding the Hadrian Wall and shooting anything and anybody who approached it. At first it was with snipers, but by the time the plot picks up the government has switched to [[SentryGun automated machine guns]].

* MadScientist: Creator/MalcolmMcDowell as Dr. Marcus Kane. But then, with [[NameOfCain a name like Kane]], what do you expect? Also his son Sol, which is presumably short for SolomonKane.

** There is also a bit of ''Film/ResidentEvil'' in there.

* RealityEnsues: Various fight scenes run on this. The cannibals that the team initially run into would in other movies overwhelm them easily. Here they're cut down in droves, and only their sheer numbers and the possibility of being surrounded forces the group to retreat. Sinclair's fights against Viper and the big knight in Kane's castle are also this, mainly because they're a cannibal and a medieval-style knight that have never been in a fight against a trained soldier in their lives and fairly easy for her to bear. For obvious reasons, the film completely avoids FriendlyFireproof too.

* HarsherInHindsight: Current British politics and an ever-growing rift between Scotland and England that may result in Scottish independence and a hard border. Each side is getting more and more exasperated with the other and harsh words have been said.

* BadBoss: Sol. He punches and knocks out cold one of his own men after [[spoiler: Eden and the remaining members of the group manage to escape via the train]].

* OneDimensionalThinking: While being chased by an entire bus full of cannibals, Sterling and Norton run in a straight path, never considering simply jumping over or sliding under a rail fence separating two roadways, which would at least make it difficult for the bus to follow them.

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: The cannibal gang party before they feast is set to music of the Fine Young Cannibals.

* [[FiveManBand Four Man Band]]: Eden ({{The Hero}}ine), Norton (TheLancer and TheBigGuy), Stirling (TheSmartGuy) and Cally (TheChick).

* AdvertisedExtra: [[spoiler: You would think Viper would play some bigger role in the plot or just show up more. She's in ''two scenes'' and has ''single'' line of bit dialogue before being effortlessly taken out by Eden. [[BlackComedy Her corpse has almost the same amount of screen-time]]]].