History Film / TheOldGuard

Turns out, living in the modern era is a challenge none of the four envisioned, and staying hidden is becoming increasingly difficult as records become more comprehensive and social media becomes omnipresent. Tired from nearly endless fighting, Andy reluctantly agrees to do a second job for a former contact (Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor), intending to take some time off afterward. But things are not what they seem, and the old warrior has to deal with unexpected fallout, as well as the awakening of a new immortal (Kiki Layne), the first in nearly two hundred years.

* MookHorrorShow: The fight at the church. Andy pretty much massacres multiple teams of soldiers, leaving Copley and Keane staring in horror at the camera footage the dead. It's at that point that they decide to cut their losses and run for it.

* ImmortalHero: The immortals intervene in different conflicts trying to do good and have had an immeasurable impact on the world. The villains are regular mortals trying to harness immortality for their own purposes.

* TheOlderImmortal: Andy is much older than the rest of the immortals, though she won't give her exact age.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: InUniverse. In centuries past, it was easier for the team to fly below the radar. The twenty-first century, however, has led to an increase in the ubiquity of modern surveillence systems and record-keeping, not to mention smartphones. Andy at one point offers to take a photo of a group of vacationers so she can delete the picture one of them just took which had her in the background. On the plus side, it takes the immortals about thirty seconds to piece together who Nile is and where she has awakened from their vision just by how much they know of current geo-politics and cultures when they previously needed years to find each other.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Copley's wife died of amytrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease). He thought that if the team's abilities could be studied and replicated, it might save other people in the future. Merrick's attitude of "locking them up for years if that's what it takes" is a bridge too far for him, and he not only helps Nile break them out, but agrees to help them stay hidden in the future.]]

** Copley and Merrick have no idea that [[spoiler:Nile, a new immortal, has just come on the scene. Nile evades capture because she decides to go home instead of raiding Copley's house, meaning she evades capture and is free to rescue the others.]]

* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Nile is the youngest immortal, only experiencing her first death at the beginning of the film. Booker, who fought under Napoleon, previously held this position.

* ColdSniper: Nicky, who is the team's most soft-spoken and level-headed member, takes out [[spoiler:two guards with one bullet.]] Overlaps with FriendlySniper below.

** Anya is shown taking a lengthy drink straight from a vodka bottle, showing her disillusioned character at that stage in the movie.

* GunAndSword: Most notably during Anya's fight scene in the church; but Nicky and Joe also carry their swords from the Crusades into battle along with more modern weapons.

* TheKindnapper: Anya just walks into a Coalition military base, knocks out Nile and drives off with her in a stolen Hummer. When she tries jumping out of the Hummer, Anya shoots her in the head as well.

** Andy does this by shooting the pilot of the cargo plane she and Nile are on, [[HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrierafter telling him in Russian to play dead]]. [[spoiler: Andy and Nile use the same trick on Merrick during their fight later in the film, with Andy being the one who pretends to be dead]].

** Andy does this by shooting the pilot of the cargo plane she and Nile are on and after telling him in Russian to play dead. [[spoiler: Andy and Nile use the same trick on Merrick during their fight later in the film, with Andy being the one who pretends to be dead]].

* OneWomanArmy: Andy goes up against several ''teams'' of heavily armed soldiers, and mows through them like grass.

* DrowningMySorrows: Implied. [[spoiler: Booker deeply regrets his betrayal of the team and dreads his century-long exile. Before he's left alone, he has an emotional goodbye with Andy knowing that he will never see her again because she's no longer immortal. In his next scene, six months later, he stumbles home drunk and upset, giving the impression that he has spent the whole time drinking to numb his guilt, loneliness, and grief]].

* BottomlessMagazines: Averted. The team spends a lot of of the final battle passing each other new magazines.

* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Had Andy not traded her pistol (which was unloaded by Booker before the raid) for the [=SMG=] she had given to her, Nile wouldn't have figured out Booker's treachery and gone back home to her family unaware of the danger Andy and the other immortals were in for Merrick's experimentation]].