History Film / Outlander2008

* SpaceMarine: Kainan is explicitly stated to be a soldier from beyond the stars.

%%* TheAtoner: Kainan.

%%* CollapsibleHelmet: Kainan wears one in the opening scene. It never shows up again.%%Wears what?

%%* DamselInDistress: Freya after she is abducted by the Moorwen.

%%* GenocideDilemma

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Tell me you didn't feel sorry for the Moorwen's species during Kainen's flashback. [[spoiler:Kainan also seems to come to this conclusion by the end, realizing that the Moorwens were always more than just mindless monsters, and that his people are the type to explore and take what they want, so he destroys his emergency beacon at the last minute, sending the incoming ship away, and staying behind with the viking people.]]

%%* JustFollowingOrders

%%* TroubledBackstoryFlashback

%%* LastOfHerKind: The Moorwen and its offspring.

%%* MonsterIsAMommy: The Moorwen.

%%* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The Moorwen's.

%%* SpaceMarine: Kainan.

%%* {{Unobtainium}}: Metal from the starship's hull.

%%* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The Moorwen. [[SympathyForTheDevil Even Kainan feels sympathy for it.]]

%%* HeroesWantRedheads

* AlluringAnglerfish: The Moorwen lures in its prey with multiple glowing spots and stripes on its skin and tail.

* TheAtoner: Kainan.
* BareYourMidriff: When we first see Freya, she is wearing a leather crop-top, and a fur miniskirt. She wears a dress for the rest of the film.

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The swords forged from the metal of Kainan's ship.
* ActionGirl[=/=]FauxActionGirl: We're shown Freya training near the beginning, and she does get to kill one of Gunnar's men and [[spoiler: the Moorwen cub]], but doesn't do much successful fighting otherwise and pretty much turns into a DamselInDistress for the last quarter of the film.
* AlienBlood: Bright green.

* BilingualBonus: The "alien" language Kainan speaks at the very beginning of the film is Old Norse. And then the "Old Norse" dialogue throughout the rest of the film is [[TranslationConvention modern English]]. Er, what?
** Brings a whole new level to "Double Dutch".
** It makes a certain degree of sense if you take both TranslationConvention and HumanAliens at face value.

* BoisterousBruiser: Boromir!
* ChekhovsSkill: Shield dancing.
* TheChiefsDaughter: Freya.
* ClarkesThirdLaw: [[spoiler:Freya mistook Kainan for a servant of the Gods at the end of the film.]]

* CollapsibleHelmet: Kainan wears one in the opening scene. It never shows up again.
* CombatTentacles / WhipItGood: The Moorwen's tail is deadly, whether it's used for slicing, impaling, or grabbing.

* DamselInDistress: Freya after she is abducted by the Moorwen.
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler: The baby Moorwen dies]].
* DeusExitMachina: Kainin has a pretty cool RayGun at the beginning of the film, which presumably would have made killing the Moorwen much easier. So, in the scene where Wulfric first attacks Kainin, the gun falls into a river and is never seen again.

* HotBlooded: Wulfric.

* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: At the end, a rescue ship arrives for Kainan, but he destroys his distress beacon, and the presumably automated ship leaves.]]

* JustFollowingOrders

* TheLancer: Wulfric.
* LastOfHerKind: The Moorwen and its offspring.
* MadeOfExplodium: Kainan's console at the end of the movie.

* MonsterIsAMommy: The Moorwen.
* OhCrap: Let's throw this torch into the darkness so we can get a better look.
* PetTheDog: Kainan befriending the orphan.
* PrecisionFStrike: Kainan's first words after learning Norse.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Hrothgar, in contrast to the hotheaded Wulfric.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The Moorwen's.

** To be even more fair, that's pretty much all the guy did when the same thing happened to him as well, he just died faster.

* ShownTheirWork: The Norweigan village is a pretty accurate depiction of a vendel age town. Althrough Heorot looks more like a stave church, it's still informed by the design of pre-christian Scandinavia.
** They also bothered to use accurate jargon for different peoples, like Rus and Franks, rather than simply calling everyone "viking". They use the word more like antithesis of a christian.
* SlapSlapKiss: Freya and Kainan.
* SpaceIsAnOcean: So much that Kainan [[FromACertainPointOfView is barely lying]] when he tells everyone how he’s from an “island” in the “north” and his ship crashed.
* SpaceMarine: Kainan.

* TroubledBackstoryFlashback
* {{Unobtainium}}: Metal from the starship's hull.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The Moorwen. [[SympathyForTheDevil Even Kainan feels sympathy for it.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: During his escape Kainan knocks Freya unconscious.

* HornyVikings: No horned helmets, thankfully.

* TranslationConvention: All but {{lampshaded}}.

* AnAxeToGrind

* CaliforniaDoubling: Set in Norway, filmed in Canada.

* HumanAliens: {{Justified|Trope}}; it's stated that Earth was colonized by Kainan's people and then abandoned.

* LastOfHisKind: The Moorwen and its offspring.

* GenocideDilemma

* HeroesWantRedheads

* InfantImmortality: Averted with [[spoiler: the baby Moorwen]].

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Tell me you didn't feel sorry for the Moorwen's species during Kainen's flashback.

* ShowTheirWork: The Norweigan village is a pretty accurate depiction of a vendel age town. Althrough Heorot looks more like a stave church, it's still informed by the design of pre-christian Scandinavia.