History Film / Surrounded

* TheSavageIndian: A few Comanche men appear in the film, who attack Tommy and Mo for straying into their land. She kills them defending herself. With that said, Mo is sympathetic to them, having left the US Cavalry as she didn't want to fight Native people since they're not much lighter than her as she's black.

* TheSavageIndian: A few Comanche appear in the film, who attack Tommy and Mo for straying into their land. She kills them defending herself. With that said, Mo is sympathetic to them, having left the US Cavalry as she didn't want to fight Native people since they're not much lighter than her as she's black.

* ThePromisedLand: Mo views Colorado Territory this way, as she's got a deed for land there, which is a Godsend to her as a former slave. She's devastated when it gets destroyed.

* {{Foil}}: Tommy Walsh is one for Mo. Like her, he's suffered greatly in the past, including losing relatives. Unlike her though, he uses his past sufferings as justification to rob and murder people, feeling that the world owes him with a clear chip on his shoulder. Mo does kill people, but only when they try to murder her (or once as MercyKill). She specifically says that Tommy's sufferings [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse are no excuse for what he's done]].

* {{Foil}}: Tommy Walsh is one for Mo. Like her, he's suffered greatly in the past, including losing relatives. Unlike her though, he uses his past sufferings as justification to rob and murder people, feeling that the world owes him with a clear chip on his shoulder. Mo does kill people, but those tried to murder her. She specifically says that Tommy's sufferings [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse are no excuse for what he's done]].

* {{Foil}}: Tommy Walsh is one for Mo. Like her, he's suffered greatly in the past, including losing relatives. Unlike her though, he uses his past sufferings as justification to rob and murder people, feeling that the world owes him with a clear chip on his shoulder. Mo does kill people, but those tried to murder her. She specifically says Tommy's sufferings [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse are no excuse for what he's done]].

* CassandraTruth: Tommy, who's had past dealings with Will Clay, knows that he's a ruthless, evil man. He warns Mo repeatedly how his kind attitude is an act. At first she doesn't believe it, but he turns out to be right. It doesn't help that Tommy is a wanted outlaw himself. Mo also had wanted to trust Clay, as he reminded her of her father.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Will Clay acts like a friendly man, even paternal to Mo (saying he had a daughter her age once etc). He turns out to be a very ruthless bounty hunter who will kill anyone in his way, and his kindness is just an act.

* BankRobbery: Tommy Walsh is known and wanted for stealing $40,000 dollars in a past bank robbery, which he hid to get later.

''Surrounded'' is a 2023 Western film following Mo, a SweetPollyOliver former Buffalo soldier in 1870 who is traveling to claim an inheritance when her stagecoach is robbed by a gang of outlaws, and she finds herself having to guard a PoisonousCaptive in the dangerous territory while being unsure about who deserves her trust or sympathy.

* CassandraTruth: Tommy, who's had past dealings with Will Clay, knows that he's a ruthless, evil man. He warns Mo repeatedly how his kind attitude is an act. At first she doesn't believe it, but he turns out to be right.

* PromisedLand: Mo views Colorado Territory this way, as she's got a deed for land there, which is a Godsend to her as a former slave. She's devastated when it gets destroyed.

* SlaveLiberation: Mo relates that at the end of the American Civil War she, along with her family, were declared free by the Union Army and left plantation where they had been enslaved.
* SweetPollyOliver: Mo is a young black woman who's dressed as a man and presented this way to others. Tommy Walsh sees through it, while Most people simply think she's younger because of her soft voice and slim build.

* PromisedLand: Mo views Colorado Territory this way, as she's got a deed for land there, which is a Godsend to her as a former slave.

''Surrounded'' is a 2023 Western film following Mo, a SweetPollyOliver former Buffalo soldier in the late 1860s who is traveling to claim an inheritance when her stagecoach is robbed by a gang of outlaws, and she finds herself having to guard a PoisonousCaptive in the dangerous territory while being unsure about who deserves her trust or sympathy.

* LetsSplitUpGang: In the aftermath of the failed stagecoach robbery, Wheeler goes to the county seat to fetch the sheriff and a posse while sending Curly to take the inured Mr. Fields to a doctor and have Mo stay behind to guard the captured outlaw leader, something which makes sense to do but doesn't go well for everyone who sets out to follow that plan.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Downplayed. Most of the people who die in the movie are racists and/or criminals, but Curly's assistant stagecoach driver Andy sells Mo a ticket without insisting that she give up her gun or ride on the running board the same way his boss does, bravely fights against the outlaws attacking the coach, and still dies from an AgonizingStomachWound. [[spoiler:This is also downplayed with Mr. Fields, whose racial views are more ambiguous, but who is at least a polite BadassBystander who is also badly wounded during the robbery and later apparently killed by Clay.]]