History Film / TheOldGuard

* BroughtDownToBadass: Each immortal knows that at one point or another, it will simply "switch off" and they'll die like anyone else. When [[spoiler: Andy keeps bleeding from a stab wound, she realises her time has come.]] They've still got centuries of combat experience, though, honed reflexes and coordination that give them stunning speed and power and an intuitive grasp of how to immediately neutralize any threat before them. As Booker says, Andy has "forgotten more ways to kill than entire armies will ever learn. [[spoiler: Andy takes point in the final fight, and at one point manages to deflect a bullet with an axe.]]

* ImmortalProcreationClause: Averted. Booker had three sons, with at least one of them being conceived after he was already immortal.

* Really700YearsOld: Andy, Joe, Nicky, Booker, and Quynh. Andy is by far the oldest, so old that she claims she can't remember her age[[note]]In the comics, she says she's 6,732[[/note]], Joe and Nicky are each around 950 or so, while Booker is around 240.

* AnAxeToGrind: Andy uses a labrys (a double-headed axe) in battle, in addition to her guns. When Merrick gets a hold of her labrys, she settles for using a regular fireman's axe to fight mooks until she gets it back.

* SlapSlapKiss: UpToEleven, as Nicky and Joe killed each other multiple times during the first crusade before falling in love.

* BroughtDownToNormal: Each immortal knows that at one point or another, it will simply "switch off" and they'll die like anyone else. When [[spoiler: Andy keeps bleeding from a stab wound, she realises her time has come.]]
** BroughtDownToBadass: They've still got centuries of combat experience, though. [[spoiler: Andy takes point in the final fight, and at one point manages to deflect a bullet with an axe.]]

* AudibleSharpness: Andy's ax, especially, sings when she wields it.

'''Andy:''' Nah. São Paolo '34.

* BlessedWithSuck: An immortal can survive virtually any form of injury or death, but they still ''feel'' the wound and recovery. And one day, their immortality may just stop working, meaning they die permanently.

* CycleOfVirtue: [[spoiler: As it turns out, despite Andy's disillusionment at her powerlessness, she has actually saved thousands of lives and staved off a nuclear apocalypse inadvertently. It takes Copley and two walls' worth of String Theory to show that her actions have had massive ripple effects. It's only due to a lack of reporting that no one could connect the dots till now.]]

* CycleOfVirtue: [[spoiler: As it turns out, despite Andy's disillusionment at her powerlessness, she has actually saved thousands of lives and staved off a nuclear apocalypse inadvertently. It takes Copley and three walls' worth of String Theory to show that her actions have had massive ripple effects. It's only due to a lack of reporting that no one could connect the dots till now.]]

* EyeAwaken: A variant; the first time Andy comes back to life, having [[DiesWideOpen died with her eyes open]], is shown by her pupils contracting as she focusses on the ground in front of her.

** At Ngô Thanh Vân's request when she was cast, Noriko was renamed Quynh and made Vietnamese, as Ngô is Vietnamese.

* RealityEnsues:
** As Andy is taking Nile out of Afghanistan, Nile correctly points out that she's now technically AWOL. By the end of the film, [[spoiler:Copley has set up a plan that will "prove" she was killed in action]].
** In the age of digital technology it's not easy for the group to keep their immortality a secret. Especially when they can be spotted when they least expect it.

* MassOhCrap: The soldiers who ambush the team have this reaction when they see the four people they just shot full of bullets getting back on their feet.

** The mercs in the "Killing Room" scene, having just emptied at least a hundred rounds into four people, have this reaction when those same four people get up and begin to attack, quite angry about having had at least a hundred rounds emptied into them.

* CombatPragmatist: The four senior team members are all exceptionally skilled in this; centuries upon centuries of experience have left them with unequaled hand-to-hand technique, along with muscle memory which can't be matched. Just witness the "Killing Room" scene, where you have such gems as Andy firing a pistol with the barrel pressed directly against several mercs body armor (thus ensuring the round has enough energy to penetrate anything short of a steel or ceramic-reinforced vest), then when she finally runs out of bullets, hittin one of the men in the face with it. Joe kills one merc with his shotgun, then instead of wasting time working the slide to chamber another round, draws his scimitar and starts carving them up leaving Nicky openings to shoot them.