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** [[spoiler:After the victory over the mimics, Cage wakes up with no cuffs on his wrists and a full officer's uniform, complete with badges and headgear, a sign that now he truly deserves his rank of Major.]]

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** [[spoiler:After the victory over the mimics, Cage wakes up with no cuffs on his wrists and a full officer's uniform, complete with badges and headgear, a sign that now he truly deserves his rank of Major.Major; to drive it home, the soldiers that had once stared at or mocked him derisively now salute him on-sight.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: On the bitter side of things, [[spoiler:Cage, Rita, and Dr. Carter are going to be [[TheGreatestStoryNeverTold the only people who know]] that they and J Squad are responsible for defeating the invasion; as far as everyone else is concerned, Cage is a PR hack, J Squad is a load of misfits, Dr. Carter is a crank, and the Mimics mysteriously vanished one day]]. On the bright side though, [[spoiler:the Mimics are defeated, nobody has to be vivisected, and Cage has a chance at building a relationship with Rita in peace.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: On the bitter side of things, [[spoiler:Cage, Rita, and Dr. Carter are going to be [[TheGreatestStoryNeverTold the only people who know]] that they and J Squad are responsible for defeating the invasion; as far as everyone else is concerned, Cage is a PR hack, J Squad is a load of misfits, Dr. Carter is a crank, and the Mimics mysteriously vanished one day]].day. Plus, the war's still razed a large portion of Europe and killed who knows how many millions of innocents that weren't saved by the looping]]. On the bright side though, [[spoiler:the Mimics are defeated, nobody has to be vivisected, and Cage has a chance at building a relationship with Rita in peace.]]
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* DeathByAdaptation: Well... sort of. Rita never once kills Cage in the original novel, for a very important reason.

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* DeathByAdaptation: Well... sort of. Rita never once kills Cage in the original novel, for a very important reason. In addition, crossing with SparedByTheAdaptation, she dies a whole lot of time while her [[Literature/AllYouNeedIsKill Light Novel/Manga counterpart]] only died once. However, the many deaths of Movie!Rita are retconned when the time resets and she lives at the end while LN!Rita's only death was [[KilledOffForReal permanent.]]

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** The omega's core consists of a spinning sphere, probably representing the HiveMind's brain.

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** The omega's Omega's core consists of a spinning sphere, probably representing the HiveMind's brain.



* SuggestiveCollision: Cage and Rita roll off a CarCushion to escape falling debris, Rita ending on top of Cage. As per this trope, they have their FirstKiss / LastKiss shortly after.

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* SuggestiveCollision: Cage and Rita roll off a CarCushion to escape falling debris, Rita ending on top of Cage. As per this trope, they have their FirstKiss / LastKiss [[FirstKiss first]] and [[LastKiss last kiss]] shortly after.



** Rita mentioning that she'd forgotten to unhook the caravan is the prompt for a bunch of mimics to jump right out of it and attack them.

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** Rita mentioning that she'd forgotten to unhook the caravan is the prompt for a bunch of mimics Mimic to jump burst right out of it and attack them.



* ThreePointLanding: As a way of showing how Cage progressed in his combat training, we see him land in this position after another drop-off on the beach.
* ThreePointLanding: Cage when dropped off at the beach on the third iteration.

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* ThreePointLanding: As a way of showing how Cage progressed in his combat training, we see him land in this position after another drop-off on the beach.
* ThreePointLanding: Cage when dropped off at the beach on the third iteration.iteration, showing how he's starting to get the hang of things.
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* RageHelm: Rita's squad decorate their helmets with skulls.

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* RageHelm: Rita's squad decorate their helmets with skulls.skulls, to contrast them with Rita who always goes helmetless.

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** On a couple of occasions when Rita gets killed, Cage just sits there staring at her corpse while ignoring a Mimic charging towards him.



* MistakenForInsane: After Cage is killed by a Mimic and gets the ability to time loop by being covered in its blood, he tries to warn Farell of the invasion, who puts a duct tape on his mouth.

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* MistakenForInsane: The CassandraTruth version. After Cage is killed by a Mimic and gets the ability to time loop by being covered in its blood, he tries to warn Farell of the invasion, who puts a duct tape on his mouth. Carter mentions ending up in the psych ward when she tried to warn her superiors while Carter was ReassignedToAntarctica due to psychiatric problems.
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* DeathMontage: How Cage's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu0lghnPtck many deaths]] are depicted in some scenes.

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* DeathMontage: How Cage's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu0lghnPtck many deaths]] are depicted in some scenes. When Rita starts dying alongside him in another montage, it's not played for laughs.
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** Cage's situation is reminiscent if a computer game. He can memorise the patterns of the baddies and figure things out through trial and error with each death requiring him just to try again.
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* FantasyConflictCounterpart: Major battles against the Mimics take place in [[UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 Normandy]] and [[UsefulNotes/WorldWar1 Verdun]].
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-->-- '''Master Sergeant Farell''' to William Cage

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-->-- '''Master Sergeant Farell''' to William Cage
'''William Cage'''









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