History Film / TheDeltaForce

* ActionPrologue: The Delta Force retreating after the EpicFail cluster-fuck that was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw Operation Eagle Claw ]]. Also a DownerBeginning.

* EnsembleCast: Creator/ChuckNorris, Creator/LeeMarvin, Creator/GeorgeKennedy, Creator/RobertVaughn, Joey Bishop, Martin Balsam, and Bo Svenson, to name a few.

* YouGotSpunk: Abdul's VillainRespect towards the purser for being brave.

* NobleDemon: The hijackers, they are maybe ruthless terrorists, but not without EvenEvilHasStandards scruples.

* AffablyEvil: Captain Abdul Rafai and TheDragon, while both are ruthless and anti-Semitic terrorists who brutalizes the hostages if they rebel or their demands are not met, but only out of fanatical devotion to their cause as freedom fighters (despite moments of hypocrisy) and it's so that they prove a point about how serious they are and not because they really find pleasure in it, both show some EvenEvilHasStandards moments including kindness towards a child hostage, care towards a PregnantHostage, being each a NobleBigot despite their anti-Semitism, releasing the women and children once they land and finally Abdul's VillainRespect towards the purser for being brave. As lowdown dirty they are shown at times, also are shown to perceive their cause as righteous and good as much as America, have loved ones and comrades they are fighting for, and that they are not merely just one note villains who do evil things for the sake of evil.

* RatedMForManly: The theme music alone and the fact that it stars Chuck Norris is what sells it.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Between the (named) terrorists, the hostages, and the titular Delta Force, there are quite a few characters in the movie.

* CatchPhrase: Pete has a fondness is saying "see ya when I see ya" instead of "goodbye" or "over and out". [[spoiler:He says it as his FamousLastWords.]]

* {{Brownface}}: Caucasian American Robert Forster as Lebanese Abdul Rafai.

* DeadpanSnarker: Whenever Robert Forster's character speaks with an indoor voice, he's this, showing some sarcastic sense of wit when taunting his hostages, in particular the diver hostages whom he addresses them as "heroes."
* EnsembleCast: Creator/ChuckNorris, Creator/LeeMarvin, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Joey Bishop, Martin Balsam, and Bo Svenson, to name a few.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: TheDragon has a PetTheDog moment with a girl who reminds him of [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes his own daughter]] [[NobleBigot even after finding out she and her father are Jewish Americans]], and the terrorists allow the children and female passengers to leave once the plane lands. [[NobleBigot While this happens they find the woman whose ring started them looking for Jews, but allow her to leave with the others]]. Also, not to mention Abdul's VillainRespect for the German stewardess for being brave as she releases her too.

* WouldntHurtAChild: TheDragon is more kind to the little girl on board.

* NobleBigot: The Arab hijackers absolutely hates Jews and even one exclaims the Nazis did not kill enough Jews, but they are at least humane enough to either show some kindness towards a little girl of Jewish American descent who reminds TheDragon of his daughter, releasing one woman whose Hebrew ring that began their Jew hunt from their captivity and TheDragon [[CondescendingCompassion seemingly reassuring a couple of Jewish hostages that despite their anti-semitism, they don't hate them, but their American government which was before]] [[EvilGloating gloating]] to drive a truck filled with explosives into the White House.

* AffablyEvil: Captain Abdul Rafai and TheDragon, while both are ruthless and anti-Semitic terrorists who brutalizes the hostages if they rebel or their demands are not met, but only out of fanatical devotion to their cause as freedom fighters (despite moments of hypocrisy) and it's so that they prove a point about how serious they are and not because they really find pleasure in it, both show some EvenEvilHasStandards moments including kindness towards a child hostage, care towards a PregnantHostage, being each a NobleBigot despite their anti-Semitism, releasing the women and children once they land and finally Abdul's VillainRespect towards the purser for being brave.

* BerserkButton: To the terrorists, Jewish people. TheDragon in particular loses his shit when he learns there are Jew folks in the plane. However, that doesn't stop them from being {{Noble Bigot}}s however in several PetTheDog moments. They don't like Christians, either--which becomes pretty tragic when the Delta Force's contact within Beirut, a Mossad deep-cover agent posing as a priest, gets exposed because his church was searched by the terrorists while he was communicating with his superiors (and thus was caught) for no good reason other than the terrorists' leader getting paranoid about having a Christian so close to his base. One of the hijackers even roughed up Father O'Malley, however, when the IrishPriest got up from his seat to join the Jewish American hostages, TheDragon couldn't pull the trigger despite having him at gunpoint to get him back to his seat was O'Malley ignored his threats, while the leader respects his decision to give himself up to be grouped amongst the Jewish hostages.

* BerserkButton: To the terrorists, Jewish people. TheDragon in particular loses his shit when he learns there are Jew folks in the plane. However, that doesn't stop from being {{Noble Bigot}}s however in several PetTheDog moments. They don't like Christians, either--which becomes pretty tragic when the Delta Force's contact within Beirut, a Mossad deep-cover agent posing as a priest, gets exposed because his church was searched by the terrorists while he was communicating with his superiors (and thus was caught) for no good reason other than the terrorists' leader getting paranoid about having a Christian so close to his base.

* BerserkButton: To the terrorists, Jewish people. TheDragon in particular loses his shit when he learns there are Jew folks in the plane. They don't like Christians, either--which becomes pretty tragic when the Delta Force's contact within Beirut, a Mossad deep-cover agent posing as a priest, gets exposed because his church was searched by the terrorists while he was communicating with his superiors (and thus was caught) for no good reason other than the terrorists' leader getting paranoid about having a Christian so close to his base.

* NobleDemon: The hijackers, they are maybe ruthless terroists, but not without EvenEvilHasStandards scruples.

* AffablyEvil: Captain Abdul Rafai and TheDragon, while both are ruthless and anti-Semitic terrorists who brutalizes the hostages if they rebel or their demands are not met, but only out of fanatical devotion to their cause as freedom fighters (despite moments of hypocrisy), both show some EvenEvilHasStandards moments including kindness towards a child hostage, care towards a PregnantHostage, being each a NobleBigot despite their anti-Semitism, releasing the women and children once they land and finally Abdul's VillainRespect towards the purser for being brave.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GdxOXSrQH4 "Ya Natir"]] plays on a TV in the background as McCoy [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats the crap out of Abdul]].