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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Wait, you [[spoiler:slept with the wife of]] General 'Kill 'em all and let God sort it out' Richardson?"

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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Wait, you [[spoiler:slept with the wife of]] Mention is made of General 'Kill 'em all and let God sort it out' Richardson?"Richardson.
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--> "I've got it! The elephant is a symbol of the America Republican party!"

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--> "I've got it! The elephant is a symbol of the America American Republican party!"



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* ScrewThisImOuttaHereScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the flatbed truck breaks down, Poole, fed up, tries to walk out on the rest of them.

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* DidntThinkThisThrough



* [[KickTheDog Shoot the Elephant]]:

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere
* [[KickTheDog Shoot the Elephant]]: Elephant]]:
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* MoneyDearBoy: Dennis Leary has said the reason he, Danny Glover, and Ray Liotta did the picture was because they had property the wanted to buy. Filming took so long and got so bad they all started carrying around pictures of that property and looking at them to get them through the shooting.

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* MoneyDearBoy: Dennis Denis Leary has said the reason he, Danny Glover, and Ray Liotta did the picture was because they had property the they wanted to buy. Filming took so long and got so bad they all started carrying around pictures of that property and looking at them to get them through the shooting.
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''Operation Dumbo Drop'' is a 1995 Creator/{{Disney}} live-action film set during the Vietnam war. In it, Capt. T.C. Doyle (Ray Liotta), a hard-nosed Green Beret, is assigned to a local village to keep watch on the Ho Chi Mihn trail. There he meets up with with Capt. Sam Cahill (Danny Glover). While the two are out scouting the trail, the Vietcong raid the village, discovering a chocolate bar wrapper, meaning the villagers were harboring American troops. As punishment, they shoot their prized elephant.

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''Operation Dumbo Drop'' is a 1995 Creator/{{Disney}} live-action film set during the Vietnam war. In it, Capt. T.C. Doyle (Ray Liotta), a hard-nosed Green Beret, is assigned to a local village to keep watch on the Ho Chi Mihn Minh trail. There he meets up with with Capt. Sam Cahill (Danny Glover). While the two are out scouting the trail, the Vietcong raid the village, discovering a chocolate bar wrapper, meaning the villagers were harboring American troops. As punishment, they shoot their prized elephant.
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* PetTheDog: The bad guys get Bo Tat in their gunsights... [[EvenEvilHasStandards and do not fire]]. The call not to fire was made by [[ChekovsGunman Lt. Quang]], who was ordered to shoot the first elephant [[TheAtoner but never wanted to]].

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* PetTheDog: The bad guys get Bo Tat in their gunsights... [[EvenEvilHasStandards and do not fire]]. The call not to fire was made by [[ChekovsGunman [[ChekhovsGunman Lt. Quang]], who was ordered to shoot the first elephant [[TheAtoner but never wanted to]].
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* PetTheDog: The bad guys get Bo Tat in their gunsights... [[EvenEvilHasStandards and do not fire]]. The call not to fire was made by [[TheDragon Lt. Quang]], who was ordered to shoot the first elephant [[TheAtoner but never wanted to]].

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* PetTheDog: The bad guys get Bo Tat in their gunsights... [[EvenEvilHasStandards and do not fire]]. The call not to fire was made by [[TheDragon [[ChekovsGunman Lt. Quang]], who was ordered to shoot the first elephant [[TheAtoner but never wanted to]].
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* DisneyDeath: Surprisingly Averted in a Disney film. [[spoiler: The strap to Bo Tat's Parachute is severed and it doesn't open, but Cpt. Doyle jumps down to save the day.]]
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* DisneyDeath: Surprisingly Averted in a Disney film. [[spoiler: The strap to Bo Tat's Parachute is severed and it doesn't open, but Cpt. Doyle jumps down to save the day.]]
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** The V.C. officer who forced his lieutenant to shoot the village's first elephant.
** the jerk pilot of the C-123 Provider, who wanted to shoot Bo Tat when she woke up and started moving around while they were in flight, though her weight moving around was throwing off the balance of the plane, nearly making them crash.

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** The V.C. officer Col. Nyugen who forced his lieutenant to shoot the village's first elephant.
** the The jerk pilot of the C-123 Provider, who wanted to shoot Bo Tat when she woke up and started moving around while they were in flight, though her weight moving around was throwing off the balance of the plane, nearly making them crash.

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* ChekhovsGunman: Lt. Quang



* PetTheDog: The bad guys get Bo Tat in their gunsights... and do not fire.
-->'''Colonel Nguyen:''' I did not join this army to shoot elephants, especially ones that fly.

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* PetTheDog: The bad guys get Bo Tat in their gunsights... [[EvenEvilHasStandards and do not fire.
-->'''Colonel Nguyen:'''
fire]]. The call not to fire was made by [[TheDragon Lt. Quang]], who was ordered to shoot the first elephant [[TheAtoner but never wanted to]].
-->'''Lt. Quang:'''
I did not join this army to shoot elephants, especially ones that fly.
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->''I should be on a top secret mission with crack commandos but instead, I'm in an episode of McHalesNavy starring Disney/{{Dumbo}}, [[FamilyAffair Mr. French]], and TheThreeStooges!''

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->''I should be on a top secret mission with crack commandos but instead, I'm in an episode of McHalesNavy starring Disney/{{Dumbo}}, [[FamilyAffair [[Series/FamilyAffair Mr. French]], and TheThreeStooges!''Film/TheThreeStooges!''



''Operation Dumbo Drop'' is a 1995 {{Disney}} live-action film set during the Vietnam war. In it, Capt. T.C. Doyle (Ray Liotta), a hard-nosed Green Beret, is assigned to a local village to keep watch on the Ho Chi Mihn trail. There he meets up with with Capt. Sam Cahill (Danny Glover). While the two are out scouting the trail, the Vietcong raid the village, discovering a chocolate bar wrapper, meaning the villagers were harboring American troops. As punishment, they shoot their prized elephant.

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''Operation Dumbo Drop'' is a 1995 {{Disney}} Creator/{{Disney}} live-action film set during the Vietnam war. In it, Capt. T.C. Doyle (Ray Liotta), a hard-nosed Green Beret, is assigned to a local village to keep watch on the Ho Chi Mihn trail. There he meets up with with Capt. Sam Cahill (Danny Glover). While the two are out scouting the trail, the Vietcong raid the village, discovering a chocolate bar wrapper, meaning the villagers were harboring American troops. As punishment, they shoot their prized elephant.



* NamesToRunFromReallyFast: "Wait, you [[spoiler:slept with the wife of]] General 'Kill 'em all and let God sort it out' Richardson?"

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* NamesToRunFromReallyFast: NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Wait, you [[spoiler:slept with the wife of]] General 'Kill 'em all and let God sort it out' Richardson?"

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*BlackGuyDiesFirst: H.A. is scared shitless he's gonna die. [[spoiler: He survives the whole movie.]]



* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Deconstructed with Linh. At first, being an orphan seems like the simple reason he gets to go on all sorts of exciting adventures with the team. Then it's revealed he he had to watch his father get shot in front of his eyes.



* ImmuneToBullets: Averted with the village's first elephant, but played straight in Bo Tat's backstory.

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* ImmuneToBullets: Averted with the village's first elephant, but played straight in Bo Tat's backstory. She still carries scars from the bullets.


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* MoneyDearBoy: Dennis Leary has said the reason he, Danny Glover, and Ray Liotta did the picture was because they had property the wanted to buy. Filming took so long and got so bad they all started carrying around pictures of that property and looking at them to get them through the shooting.


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* RedOniBlueOni: A straight example found in the hot-headed Doyle and the much-calmer Cahill.
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*WarIsHell
-->Where's his (Linh) parents?
-->Dead.
-->In the war?
-->No. Killed by falling star. Yes, in war.
-->Which side?
-->It matter?
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->''I should be on a top secret mission with crack commandos but instead, I'm in an episode of McHalesNavy starring Disney/{{Dumbo}}, [[FamilyAffair Mr. French]], and TheThreeStooges!''
-->-'''Captain T.C. Doyle'''
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* {{Retirony}}: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] with H.A. who's about to go home, and certain he's going to bite the big one right before he does, but ultimately averted. Cahill is also on his last tour.

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* {{Retirony}}: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] with H.A. who's about to go home, and [[GenreSavvy certain he's going to bite the big one right before he does, does]], but ultimately averted. Cahill is also on his last tour.
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* RuleOfFunny


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* TheVietnamWar
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** Actually, the second one is averted slightly. We see Bo Tat open her mouth, then a cutaway, then a massive wave of vomit, then another cutaway to Denis Leary wincing, then we see the vomit hit the deck.
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* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: On the river, H.A. nearly drops a marking shell on the boat he's riding in. The V.C. laugh...until they realize that their boat is moving right into the spot H.A. just marked.

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* [[KickTheDog Shoot the Elephant]]: the jerk pilot of the C1-23 Provider.

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* [[KickTheDog Shoot the Elephant]]: Elephant]]:
** The V.C. officer who forced his lieutenant to shoot the village's first elephant.
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the jerk pilot of the C1-23 Provider.C-123 Provider, who wanted to shoot Bo Tat when she woke up and started moving around while they were in flight, though her weight moving around was throwing off the balance of the plane, nearly making them crash.
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* [[ABoyAndHisX A Boy and his Elephant]]:Linh and Bo Tat.

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* [[ABoyAndHisX A Boy and his Elephant]]:Linh Elephant]]: Linh and Bo Tat.
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* MilitaryAlphabet: NATO.
-->'''H.A.''' (over radio): "Yeah, this is Hotel Alpha, who is this?"

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** TheTagalongKid: Linh
** TheTeamPet/TheHeart: Bo Tat

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** TheTagalongKid: Linh
** TheTeamPet/TheHeart:
TheHeart: [[TagalongKid Linh]] and [[TeamPet Bo TatTat]] are equally this.



* NamesToRunFromReallyFast: "Wait, you slept with the wife of General 'Kill 'em all and let God sort it out' Richardson?"

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* NamesToRunFromReallyFast: "Wait, you slept [[spoiler:slept with the wife of of]] General 'Kill 'em all and let God sort it out' Richardson?"
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* ByTheBookCop: Doyle is a by-the-book Green Beret.


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* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Cahill.
** TheLancer: Doyle, even though he's technically leading the operation.
** TheSmartGuy: Poole, the wheeling-and-dealing Requisitions Officer.
** TheBigGuy: Oddly enough, H.A., who works in artillery and saves the group's collective butts twice.
** TheChick: Farley
** TheTagalongKid: Linh
** TheTeamPet/TheHeart: Bo Tat

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* BigDamnHeroes: H.A. saving the team from the Vietcong.

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* BigDamnHeroes: H.A. saving the team from the Vietcong.Vietcong at the end.


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* MisfitMobilizationMoment: after hearing that their mission has been cancelled, Cahill decides to steal a vehicle and deliver Linh and Bo Tat anyway. Doyle stops him... to suggest they take a plane instead. Poole's down with it, as are Farley and H.A. A LockAndLoadMontage ensues.
* NamesToRunFromReallyFast: "Wait, you slept with the wife of General 'Kill 'em all and let God sort it out' Richardson?"
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* {{Retirony}}: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] with A.H. who's about to go home, and certain he's going to bite the big one right before he does, but ultimately averted. Cahill is also on his last tour.

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* {{Retirony}}: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] with H.A.H. who's about to go home, and certain he's going to bite the big one right before he does, but ultimately averted. Cahill is also on his last tour.



* [[KickTheDog Shoot the Elephant]]

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* [[KickTheDog Shoot the Elephant]]Elephant]]: the jerk pilot of the C1-23 Provider.
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* DoubleAgent: Goddard, a Frenchman who keeps portraits of Lyndon B Johnson and Ho Chi Minh in a double-sided pictureframe.
-->'''Goddard:''' What can I say? I love everybody.
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* PetTheDog: The bad guys get Bo Tat in their gunsights... and do not fire.
-->'''Colonel Nguyen:''' I did not join this army to shoot elephants, especially ones that fly.
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* OperationBlank
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''Operation Dumbo Drop'' is a 1995 {{Disney}} live-action film set during the Vietnam war. In it, Capt. T.C. Doyle (Ray Liotta), a hard-nosed Green Beret, is assigned to a local village to keep watch on the Ho Chi Mihn trail. There he meets up with with Capt. Sam Cahill (Danny Glover). While the two are out scouting the trail, the Vietcong raid the village, discovering a chocolate bar wrapper, meaning the villagers were harboring American troops. As punichment, they shoot their prized elephant.

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''Operation Dumbo Drop'' is a 1995 {{Disney}} live-action film set during the Vietnam war. In it, Capt. T.C. Doyle (Ray Liotta), a hard-nosed Green Beret, is assigned to a local village to keep watch on the Ho Chi Mihn trail. There he meets up with with Capt. Sam Cahill (Danny Glover). While the two are out scouting the trail, the Vietcong raid the village, discovering a chocolate bar wrapper, meaning the villagers were harboring American troops. As punichment, punishment, they shoot their prized elephant.

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