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** TheBigGuy: Sam, despite her small stature. She's the biggest advocate in the group for just punching through the siege. She's able to engage with with the Red Laces several times and escape unscathed, thanks to her clever use of a fire extinguisher. [[spoiler: She's the last of the band to die.]] She also pushes Pat to step up and actually sing [[DeadKennedys "Nazi Punks, Fuck Off"]] when he starts having second thoughts.

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** TheBigGuy: Sam, despite her small stature. She's the biggest advocate in the group for just punching through the siege. She's able to engage with with the Red Laces several times and escape unscathed, thanks to her clever use of a fire extinguisher. [[spoiler: She's the last of the band to die.]] She also pushes Pat to step up and actually sing [[DeadKennedys [[Music/DeadKennedys "Nazi Punks, Fuck Off"]] when he starts having second thoughts.
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* KilledMidSentence: When confronted by [[spoiler: Pat and Amber, [[TheDragon Clark]] only manages to say the word "Listen--" before being blasted with the shotgun by Amber]].
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* {{Bookends}}: The first word of the movie is "shit," and the last word of the movie is also "shit" with a line "Tell somebody who gives a shit."

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* {{Bookends}}: The first word of the movie is "shit," and the last word of the movie is also "shit" with a line "Tell somebody someone who gives a shit."
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Lo-fi [[PunkRock punk band]] the Ain't Rights are on tour, and it isn't going terribly well. When they're offered the chance to play a show at a venue near Portland, they jump at the chance to make enough money to get them back home. But after discovering that the club is owned by neo-Nazi {{Skinheads}}, and witnessing a murder, the band is forced to fight for their lives.

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Lo-fi [[PunkRock punk band]] the Ain't Rights are on tour, and it isn't going terribly well. When they're offered the chance to play a show at a venue near Portland, they jump at the chance to make enough money to get them back home. But after discovering that the club is owned by neo-Nazi {{Skinheads}}, UsefulNotes/{{Skinheads}}, and witnessing a murder, the band is forced to fight for their lives.
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: As with many cinematic representations of neo-Nazi skinheads, the political beliefs of the skinheads are almost entirely incidental to the plot of the film and really only serve to make them less sympathetic and scarier.

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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: As with many cinematic representations of neo-Nazi skinheads, the political beliefs of the skinheads are almost entirely incidental to the plot of the film and really only serve to make them scarier and less sympathetic and scarier.sympathetic.
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* ThePiratesWhoDon'tDoAnything: As with many cinematic representations of neo-Nazi skinheads, the political beliefs of the skinheads are almost entirely incidental to the plot of the film and really only serve to make them less sympathetic and scarier.

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* ThePiratesWhoDon'tDoAnything: ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: As with many cinematic representations of neo-Nazi skinheads, the political beliefs of the skinheads are almost entirely incidental to the plot of the film and really only serve to make them less sympathetic and scarier.

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* BadGuyBar: Darcy's music venue- because, well, it's a white supremacist punk bar.

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* BadGuyBar: Darcy's music venue- venue - because, well, it's a white supremacist punk bar.



* FourEyesZeroSoul: Darcy

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* FourEyesZeroSoul: DarcyDarcy.


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* ThePiratesWhoDon'tDoAnything: As with many cinematic representations of neo-Nazi skinheads, the political beliefs of the skinheads are almost entirely incidental to the plot of the film and really only serve to make them less sympathetic and scarier.
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* AcceptableTargets: No one in the audience is really going to mind seeing neo-Nazi skinheads get mown down in the course of the film.
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* AcceptableTargets: No one in the audience is really going to mind seeing neo-Nazi skinheads get mown down in the course of the film.
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** He is also always calm and polite when addressing the main characters and [[BlatantLies claims]] to be trying to find a peaceful resolution to the stalemate.
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* {{Bookend}}: The first word of the movie is "shit," and the last word of the movie is also "shit" with a line "Tell somebody who gives a shit."

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* {{Bookend}}: {{Bookends}}: The first word of the movie is "shit," and the last word of the movie is also "shit" with a line "Tell somebody who gives a shit."
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* BrickJoke: [[spoiler: Only at the very end does Pat think of his Desert Island Band. Amber suggests he tell someone who gives a fuck.]]

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* BrickJoke: [[spoiler: Only at the very end does Pat think of his Desert Island Band. Amber suggests he tell someone "someone who gives a fuck.shit".]]
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I find that coincidence hilarious, whether it's intentional or not. So I added in.

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* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler: Darcy]] is terrifying, dangerous and commands the loyalty of a band of trained killers. [[spoiler: those trained killers are also DECADES younger than he is, and Pat and Amber have a much easier time killing a [[VillainousBreakdown stunned]] [[EvilOldFolks septuagenarian]] than they had facing his goons.]]



* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: Reece]] is the most martially competent and ruthless of the band, so he's probably got the best chance of lasting against the Red Laces, right? [[spoiler: Wrong. When the dogs kill Tiger, Reece]] panics and flees to the kitchen. [[spoiler: he's]] able to escape out a window, but [[spoiler: there's a Red Lace waiting outside and he immediately stabs Reece numerous times.]] It's slightly [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] because [[spoiler: the stabbing does not immediately kill him, and he bleeds to death sometime during the night.]]

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* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: Reece]] is the most martially competent and ruthless of the band, so he's probably got the best chance of lasting against the Red Laces, right? [[spoiler: Wrong. When the dogs kill Tiger, Reece]] panics and flees to the kitchen. [[spoiler: he's]] He's]] able to escape out a window, but [[spoiler: there's a Red Lace waiting outside and he immediately stabs Reece numerous times.]] It's slightly [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] because [[spoiler: the stabbing does not immediately kill him, and he bleeds to death sometime during the night.]]
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''Green Room'' is a 2016 horror thriller written and directed by [[BlueRuin Jeremy Saulnier]] and starring Creator/AntonYelchin and Creator/PatrickStewart.

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''Green Room'' is a 2016 horror thriller written and directed by [[BlueRuin Jeremy Saulnier]] and starring Creator/AntonYelchin Creator/AntonYelchin, Creator/ImogenPoots and Creator/PatrickStewart.

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** TheChick: Tiger, the band's lead singer and the main reason they stick together despite how badly their tour is going. He becomes [[TheMedic a makeshift medic]] for Pat [[after the Red Laces mutilate his arm.]]. He's also the only one of the band [[whose "desert island band" choice in the interview was genuine.]]

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** TheChick: Tiger, the band's lead singer and the main reason they stick together despite how badly their tour is going. He becomes [[TheMedic a makeshift medic]] for Pat [[after [[spoiler: after the Red Laces mutilate his arm.]]. He's also the only one of the band [[whose [[spoiler: whose "desert island band" choice in the interview was genuine.]]]]
** TheSixthRanger [[spoiler: Daniel]] who [[HeelFaceTurn stops trying to kill the band]] when [[spoiler: he learns that they didn't murder Emily]].


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** And then again with [[spoiler: [[TheSixthRanger Daniel]]]], a trained killer who knows the club inside and out and who [[spoiler: knows to find the bar's shotgun]]. [[spoiler: [[YourHeadAsplode which doesn't do much good when someone else got to the shotgun first and has the drop on you.]]]]

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Revising the group dynamic a bit.


* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler: Darcy]] is terrifying, dangerous and commands the loyalty of a band of trained killers. [[spoiler: those trained killers are also DECADES younger than he is, and Pat and Amber have a much easier time killing a [[VillainousBreakdown stunned]] [[EvilOldFolks septuagenarian]] than they had facing his goons.]]



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Clark, Darcy's right-hand man, is more than happy to train dogs to fight and kill. He also genuinely cares for them on some level, and [[LetThemDieHappy asks the last Red Laces to let a mortally wounded dog die fighting.]] [[spoiler: After Clark's death, that same dog finds his body and [[UndyingLoyalty lies down to die next to him.]]]]



** TheLeader: Reece
** TheLancer: Amber
** TheSmartGuy: Pat, though after [[spoiler: Reece and Tiger's deaths]] he gets promoted to TheLeader.
** TheBigGuy: Tiger
** TheChick: Sam

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** TheLeader: Reece
Reece - The most level-headed of the band when the siege starts and the best fighter among them.
** TheLancer: Amber
Amber - A skinhead forced to ally with the band out of necessity. She knows Darcy's methods and is perhaps the single most dangerous of the heroes.
** TheSmartGuy: Pat, though after [[spoiler: Reece and Tiger's deaths]] he gets promoted to TheLeader.
TheLeader. He negotiates with Darcy during the initial stand-off [[spoiler: and alongside Amber, comes up with a plan that successfully traps the last two Red Laces.]] Before the carnage begins, he's the one to explain the band's ethos in the interview.
** TheBigGuy: Tiger
Sam, despite her small stature. She's the biggest advocate in the group for just punching through the siege. She's able to engage with with the Red Laces several times and escape unscathed, thanks to her clever use of a fire extinguisher. [[spoiler: She's the last of the band to die.]] She also pushes Pat to step up and actually sing [[DeadKennedys "Nazi Punks, Fuck Off"]] when he starts having second thoughts.
** TheChick: SamTiger, the band's lead singer and the main reason they stick together despite how badly their tour is going. He becomes [[TheMedic a makeshift medic]] for Pat [[after the Red Laces mutilate his arm.]]. He's also the only one of the band [[whose "desert island band" choice in the interview was genuine.]]


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* HeelFaceTurn: Several. [[spoiler: Daniel and Emily]] were planning on running away together [[spoiler: with evidence that could tie Darcy and his men to a murder.]] Amber turns out of anger and necessity after [[spoiler: Emily]] is murdered and everything goes to hell. [[spoiler: Daniel]] turns again when he learns that [[spoiler: the Ain't Rights didn't murder Emily.]] Finally, [[spoiler: Gabe]] turns when [[spoiler: he realizes that Pat and Amber have killed the remaining Red Laces and he's had to spend a night witnessing the full extent of Darcy's evil.]]


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* RefugeInAudacity: Pat attempts to give a pep talk about the time a friend of his single-handedly wiped out a team of ex-marines in paintball by [[LeeroyJenkins just outright charging them]]. Reece cuts him off. Later, at Amber's request, Pat finishes the story. [[spoiler: By that point they're the last survivors of the night and trapped in the green room. With the skinheads' arrival imminent, Amber [[DressingAsTheEnemy shaves Pat's head and gives him her jacket]] while she hides in the sofa. When the skinheads break in, Pat's skinhead impersonation puts the killers off-guard long enough for him to bait them into a trap.]]


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* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: Reece]] is the most martially competent and ruthless of the band, so he's probably got the best chance of lasting against the Red Laces, right? [[spoiler: Wrong. When the dogs kill Tiger, Reece]] panics and flees to the kitchen. [[spoiler: he's]] able to escape out a window, but [[spoiler: there's a Red Lace waiting outside and he immediately stabs Reece numerous times.]] It's slightly [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] because [[spoiler: the stabbing does not immediately kill him, and he bleeds to death sometime during the night.]]


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* TheUnfought: Werm, the big, creepy leader of the club's resident band [[spoiler: kicks everything off by murdering Emily.]] He's last seen [[spoiler: eating noodles next to the corpses of his fellow bandmates. Amber wants to track him down, but hasn't by the film's end.]]
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''Green Room'' is a 2016 horror thriller written and directed by [[BlueRuin Jeremy Saulnier]] and starring Creator/AntonYelchin.

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Creator/AntonYelchin and Creator/PatrickStewart.
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* FluffieTheTerrible: The monstrous white supremacist whom all the other Neo-Nazis hold in awe? Darcy.

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* FluffieTheTerrible: FluffyTheTerrible: The monstrous white supremacist whom all the other Neo-Nazis hold in awe? Darcy. ''Darcy.''

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* AffablyEvil: Darcy.

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* AffablyEvil: Darcy.Darcy, who has a gentle, almost grandfatherly approach to the young Skinheads.


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* BrickJoke: [[spoiler: Only at the very end does Pat think of his Desert Island Band. Amber suggests he tell someone who gives a fuck.]]


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* FluffieTheTerrible: The monstrous white supremacist whom all the other Neo-Nazis hold in awe? Darcy.


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* GrumpyOldMan: In just about every scene, Darcy gives the impression he'd rather be doing anything other than this.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Now. Whatever you saw or did. Is no longer my concern. But let's be clear. [[{{Understatement}} It won't end well]].]]

Green Room is a 2016 horror thriller written and directed by [[BlueRuin Jeremy Saulnier]] and starring Creator/AntonYelchin. Lo-fi [[PunkRock punk band]] the Ain't Rights are on tour, and it isn't going terribly well. When they're offered the chance to play a show at a venue near Portland, they jump at the chance to make enough money to get them back home. But after discovering that the club is owned by neo-Nazi {{Skinheads}}, and witnessing a murder, the band is forced to fight for their lives.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Now.[[caption-width-right:350:''"Now. Whatever you saw or did. Is no longer my concern. But let's be clear. [[{{Understatement}} It won't end well]].well]]"''.]]

Green Room ''Green Room'' is a 2016 horror thriller written and directed by [[BlueRuin Jeremy Saulnier]] and starring Creator/AntonYelchin. Creator/AntonYelchin.

Lo-fi [[PunkRock punk band]] the Ain't Rights are on tour, and it isn't going terribly well. When they're offered the chance to play a show at a venue near Portland, they jump at the chance to make enough money to get them back home. But after discovering that the club is owned by neo-Nazi {{Skinheads}}, and witnessing a murder, the band is forced to fight for their lives.



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* TemptingFate: Playing "[[DeadKennedys Nazi Punks Fuck Off]]" to a band full of [[{{Skinheads}} Nazi punks]]... might not be a great idea.
* ThoseWackyNazis: The villains.

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* TemptingFate: Playing "[[DeadKennedys "[[Music/DeadKennedys Nazi Punks Fuck Off]]" to a band full of [[{{Skinheads}} Nazi punks]]... might not be a great idea.
* ThoseWackyNazis: The villains.villains.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Gabe]], who survives the film despite playing a large part in the massacre of the band. And, y'know, being a Nazi. This is probably thanks to his [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn]].

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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Gabe]], who survives the film despite playing a large part in the massacre of the band. And, y'know, being a Nazi. This is probably thanks to his [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn]]. Though he does state that [[spoiler: he wants to go to prison after seeing how catastrophic things have gone]].
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** Also doubles as a StealthPun- the villains are literal [[GrammarNazi Grammar Nazis]].
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* KarmaHoudini: Gabe, who [[spoiler: survives the film]] despite playing a large part in the massacre of the band. And, y'know, being a Nazi. This is probably thanks to his [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn]].

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* KarmaHoudini: Gabe, who [[spoiler: Gabe]], who survives the film]] film despite playing a large part in the massacre of the band. And, y'know, being a Nazi. This is probably thanks to his [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn]].
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Green Room is a 2016 horror thriller written and directed by [[BlueRuin Jeremy Saulnier]] and starring Creator/AntonYelchin. Lo-fi [[PunkRock punk band]] the Aren't Rights are on tour, and it isn't going terribly well. When they're offered the chance to play a show at a venue near Portland, they jump at the chance to make enough money to get them back home. But after discovering that the club is owned by neo-Nazi {{Skinheads}}, and witnessing a murder, the band is forced to fight for their lives.

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Green Room is a 2016 horror thriller written and directed by [[BlueRuin Jeremy Saulnier]] and starring Creator/AntonYelchin. Lo-fi [[PunkRock punk band]] the Aren't Ain't Rights are on tour, and it isn't going terribly well. When they're offered the chance to play a show at a venue near Portland, they jump at the chance to make enough money to get them back home. But after discovering that the club is owned by neo-Nazi {{Skinheads}}, and witnessing a murder, the band is forced to fight for their lives.



* TheAllegedCar: The Aren't Rights' van is in pretty bad shape, and they're doing so poorly financially that they've resorted to siphoning gas to try to finish their tour.

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* TheAllegedCar: The Aren't Ain't Rights' van is in pretty bad shape, and they're doing so poorly financially that they've resorted to siphoning gas to try to finish their tour.



* MyNaymeIs: The band's name is spelled without the apostrophe (the 'Arent Rights') on the sign for the venue, leading a few characters to pronounce their name as the "are-ENT rights"- much to the band's chagrin.

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* MyNaymeIs: The band's name name- the Ain't Rights- is spelled without the apostrophe incorrectly (the 'Arent Rights') on the sign for the venue, leading a few characters to pronounce their name as the "are-ENT rights"- much to the band's chagrin.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Pat and Amber survive]], but almost everyone else dies, and [[spoiler: Pat's mutilated arm]] means that he'll probably never play guitar again.

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Pat and Amber survive]], but almost everyone else dies, and [[spoiler: Pat's mutilated arm]] means that he'll probably never play guitar bass again.
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* CompleteMonster: Werm.
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Green Room is a 2016 horror thriller written and directed by [[BlueRuin Jeremy Saulnier]] and starring Creator/AntonYelchin. Lo-fi [[PunkRock punk band]] the Aren't Rights are on tour, and it isn't going terribly well. When they're offered the chance to play a show at a venue near Portland, they jump at the chance to make enough money to get them back home. But after discovering that the club is owned by neo-Nazi {{Skinheads}}, and witnessing a murder, the band is forced to fight for their lives.

[[{{Understatement}} Things don't go so great]] for our heroes.

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!! Green Room contains examples of:

* AffablyEvil: Darcy.
* TheAllegedCar: The Aren't Rights' van is in pretty bad shape, and they're doing so poorly financially that they've resorted to siphoning gas to try to finish their tour.
* AngryGuardDog: The pit bulls owned by [[TheDragon Clark]] that Darcy sets on the band.
* BadGuyBar: Darcy's music venue- because, well, it's a white supremacist punk bar.
* BaldOfEvil: Darcy.
** BeardOfEvil: Darcy, again.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Pat starts off as the quietest, most reserved member of the band, but transforms into a total {{Badass}}.
* BigBad: Darcy, the sadistic, neo-Nazi owner of the club- who is absolutely terrifying despite speaking softly and looking like a nice, glasses-wearing old man, due to being played by Creator/PatrickStewart.
** PlayingAgainstType: Again, [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Patrick]] [[Film/XMen Stewart]] is a murderous neo-Nazi.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Pat and Amber survive]], but almost everyone else dies, and [[spoiler: Pat's mutilated arm]] means that he'll probably never play guitar again.
* BoomHeadshot: How [[spoiler: Daniel]] dies.
* BreakTheCutie: Poor, poor Pat and Sam.
** HeroicBSOD: Sam has a minor one when they're first locked in the green room; Pat has one after his [[spoiler: hand is nearly cut off]].
* CompleteMonster: Werm.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: All of them.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters
* TheDragon: Gabe starts out seeming to be this to Darcy, but later turns out to be more of an IneffectualSympatheticVillain, with Clark better fitting the role.
* DrugsAreBad: The venue is a front for the fact that Darcy and co are [[spoiler: dealing heroin]].
* {{Fingore}}: The damage to [[spoiler: Pat's]] hand.
** AnArmAndALeg
* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Reece
** TheLancer: Amber
** TheSmartGuy: Pat, though after [[spoiler: Reece and Tiger's deaths]] he gets promoted to TheLeader.
** TheBigGuy: Tiger
** TheChick: Sam
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Darcy
* GoryDiscretionShot: Played straight and then {{Subverted}}: Initially we don't see what's happening to [[spoiler: Pat's arm]] when Darcy's goons are trying to take the gun from him, but once the others pull him away from the door, we see in graphic detail that [[spoiler: his hand has been hacked nearly clean off and is barely still attached to his arm]].
* GuttedLikeAFish: How Amber kills [[spoiler: Big Justin]].
* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: Pat]] ends the movie listening to the radio interview that the band recorded a few days previously.
* KarmaHoudini: Gabe, who [[spoiler: survives the film]] despite playing a large part in the massacre of the band. And, y'know, being a Nazi. This is probably thanks to his [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn]].
* MyNaymeIs: The band's name is spelled without the apostrophe (the 'Arent Rights') on the sign for the venue, leading a few characters to pronounce their name as the "are-ENT rights"- much to the band's chagrin.
* OhCrap: The look on Pat's face when he stumbles onto the scene of the murder.
* PetTheDog: When Darcy promotes Gabe to a [[{{Mook}} red-lace]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Darcy and the rest of the skinheads.
* PunkRock: The whole film is set within the punk scene, with the protagonist's band being an example of HardcorePunk, while the villains are a group of white-supremacist {{Skinheads}}.
* SchmuckBait: Yes, Pat, reach out into the hallway to give Darcy your gun. [[SarcasmMode Nothing bad]] [[HandInTheHole could possibly happen.]]
* TheSiege: The band, Amber, and one of the club's bouncers are trapped in the titular green room, trying to fight off the venue's owner and his neo-Nazi {{Mooks}} on the other side of the door.
* TemptingFate: Playing "[[DeadKennedys Nazi Punks Fuck Off]]" to a band full of [[{{Skinheads}} Nazi punks]]... might not be a great idea.
* ThoseWackyNazis: The villains.

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