History Film / UniversalSoldier

* CrapsackWorld: The government [[spoiler: is now creating Unisols in the lab, cloning them from existing Unisols, creating perfect killers from the get-go, and implanting them with false memories and lives, transforming them into sleeper agents that can be deployed at whim. Devereaux is amassing a great army of liberated Unisols, so that they can wage war on their oppressors, who have robbed them of their free will using memory clearance drug, and establish a new world order and take over.]]

** in Day of Reckoning [[spoiler: the cloning technology for the Unisols has gone rampant, as they are able to clone multiple Unisols, clone other deceased people and use the clones as sleeper agents.]]

* Gorn: Regeneration had one scene with this in it, whereas Day of Reckoning is awash in it. Special notice [[spoiler: for Magnus' attack on the Unisol Brothel, the hotel fight between Magnus and John, John's discovery of his friend Issac, and John's special surgery, and John's subsequent fight throughout the Unisol HQ.]]

Yet another RetCon came in the form of ''Universal Soldier: Regeneration'', released direct-to-DVD in 2010. This film brings back Dolph Lundgren as Andrew Scott and reunites him with Van Damme as Devreaux. Devreaux, in therapy after the events of the first film, is called on to defuse a hostage situation at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where a more advanced [=UniSol=] is under control of a group of Russian terrorists. ''Regeneration'' received decent reviews, and plans to make a fourth film, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (in 3D, no less!) are underway.

* AIIsACrapshoot: SETH in ''Return''.

* CrapsackWorld: The government [[spoiler: is now creating Unisols in the lab, cloning them from existing Unisols, creating perfect killers from the get-go, and implanting them with false memories and lives, transforming them into sleeper agents that can be deployed at whim. Devereaux is amassing a great army of liberated Unisols, so that they can establish a new world order and take over.]]

* DarkMessiah: Luc Devereaux becomes this in Day of Reckoning.

* FlashBackEcho

* Gorn: Regeneration had one scene with this in it, whereas Day of Reckoning is awash in it. Special notice for Magnus' attack on the Unisol Brothel, the hotel fight between Magnus and John, John's discovery of his friend Issac, and John's special surgery, and John's subsequent fight throughout the Unisol HQ.

* HollywoodCyborg: With the exception of the headset and the blackbox, installed in the thighs of the Unisols, there really isn't a whole lot of cybernetics in a Unisol's body. [[spoiler: It's implied that there are additional bone and muscle augmentations for the Unisols, to add to their MadeofIron and SuperStrength capabilities. In Regeneration, it is shown that the NGU has some sort of retina implant that is tied into his nervous system, preventing him from attacking those who are chipped with beacons that indicate that they are not to be fired upon or attacked. Scott has the same chip in the back of his head, which helps keep him in line, which he later removes forcefully with a knife. In Day of Reckoning, John has this implant in his body that is compelling him to join Devereaux and his Unisol Army. It's also mentioned that sleeper Unisols can be triggered at will by an implant in their brains, which dissolves their fake memories and identities and switches them on for operations.]]

* MadeofIron: Because of their increased pain tolerance and their increased rate of recovery and healing, coupled with additional systems in place, Unisols are incredibly tough. They are able to shrug off injuries that would kill regular Humans, such as sustaining multiple gunshot wounds to vital areas without dying, and aren't affected by high falls and harsh impacts. Coupled with the body armour systems they wear, the average Unisol is incredibly hard to kill. In Universal Soldier, Devereaux uses this ability to smash through walls. In Regeneration, Devereaux and Scott use this to barrel through many walls during their fistfight. [[spoiler: Special mention goes out to the NGU, who not only sustains multiple gunshot wounds that would drop an elephant, but likes to make use of jumping down from really high places, as a means of ambushing his enemies and evading their efforts to shoot him. He also shrugs off having a grenade go off near him, which only served to slow him down.]] In Day of Reckoning, Magnus [[spoiler: gets the crap kicked out of him by John during their sporting goods store brawl, including multiple impacts from an aluminum bat, a weight from a weightlifting set and other injuries. They slow him down, but deal no lasting damage]]

* SuperStrength: Without the Muscle Booster and gene therapy, A Unisol is [[spoiler: strong enough to push a 2-ton jeep on empty and reach speeds of 35+ mph while running, swim a mile and a half upriver in under four minutes, barrel through thick walls like they were made from wet paper, lift incredible weights, and manhandle full-grown adults like they were children, and without showing any strain. With the Muscle Booster, Scott was able to throw Devereaux around like he was a toy and flatten a barn door. When Devereaux got a hold of it, He was able to dropkick Scott with enough force to throw him through a wall. With gene therapy, Unisols like the NGU are now capable of hitting metal structures with enough force to crumple them upon impact and kill another Unisol with his superhuman thigh strength.]] In Day of Reckoning [[spoiler: Magnus does severe amounts of damage to the apartment He and John are fighting in, smashing John into a bathroom counter with enough force to demolish the entire counter. Later on, during their sportings good brwawl, John uses his SuperStrength in combination with a metal baseball bat, to decapitate the weakened and injured Magnus, the Unisol sent after him by Devereaux and Scott. He also proceeds to kill a Unisol with a hammer, and another one by stomping on him.]]

* VillainousValor: The terrorist leader in ''Regeneration'', Commander Topov. [[spoiler: He is taken Chernobyl and is threatening to detonate the radioactive materials in the remaining reactors, if the Ukrainian government does not free his comrade-in-arms, who are being imprisoned by the Ukrainian government. He is carrying on his father's legacy.]]

* CrapsackWorld: From what can be gathered from Day of Reckoning, inbetween the time of Regeneration and Day of Reckoning, the government has collapsed or is on the verge of collapsing, anarchy and lawlessness is rampant, and in the midst of all of this,[[spoiler: Devereaux is amassing a great army of liberated Unisols, so that they can establish a new world order and take over. To make matters worse, there are sleeper Unisols among the general populace, and these sleeper Unisols not only have fake identities, but fake memories as well, and they can be activated at the flip of a switch.]]

** From what is shown on the trailers for "Day of Reckoning", [[spoiler: the cloning technology for the Unisols has gone rampant, and Devereaux is strengthening and increasing the size of his army, by not only gathering soldiers and converting them, but by also cloning existing Unisols and improving upon them as well.]]
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Semi-averted. The only thing that keeps the Unisols under control, is a memory clearance drug, which once it wears off, causes the UniSol to revert back to their former personalities. [[spoiler: A lack of temperature regulation outside of the memory clearance drug, causes the Unisols to go berserk.]] It is shown that the Muscle Booster that they take to augment their performance even further, makes it harder and harder for the memory clearance drug to be effective. In Regeneration, the chip used to control the NGU makes him into a remorseless killer, unable to disobey orders given to him by his handlers. [[spoiler: Once Commander Topov's men are chipped with failsafes, He is unable to attack them or harm them. Scott removes this from his head after he kills the Doctor.]] In Day of Reckoning, [[spoiler: the sleeper Unisols are outfitted with a similar chip, that dissolves their false memories and false identity when they are activated.]]

* FailsafeFailure: Scott in ''Regeneration''. The Doctor tries to attribute it to a failure in temperature regulation, among other things. It doesn't stop Scott from pulverizing his head with his bare hands.

* GogglesDoSomething: With the exception of the NGU, the first generation of Unisols in both Universal Soldier and Universal Soldier Regeneration wear head-mounted eyepieces. The Unisols in Universal Soldier had removable versions, with a boom mike and an earpiece, that allowed for their handlers to monitor their activities, see things from their point of view, and instruct the Unisols to do things. In Regeneration,[[spoiler: to prevent anyone from tampering with the Unisols and issuing other commands, these newer headsets are bolted into the skulls of the Unisols, using high-powered bolters to secure them in place. The last first-generation Unisol to fight against the NGU during the initial attack on Chernobyl, gets hit by the NGU so hard that it removes the headset from the Unisol's head, leaving bloody head wounds in the process.]] Ouch.

* HealingFactor: Because of their augmented thyroid, Unisols have an increased metabolism, which in turn, fuels their bodies accelerated rate of recovery. The augmented metabolism, coupled with the nutritional supplement, allows for their bodies to produce newer cells at an accelerated rate, letting them heal and recover from injuries quicker. However, due to their augmented metabolisms, their bodies overheat rather quickly. In order to balance this out, the Unisols are placed into cool environments, in order to heal quicker without overheating. [[spoiler: Because of gene therapy, later Unisols are able to do this, without needing to be cooled down as much. Despite their HealingFactor, the Unisols are unable to regenerate damaged or lost limbs and organs. However, thanks to cloning and advanced cloning techniques, they are now able to replace damaged or lost limbs and organs for the Unisols.]]

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Done four times in ''Regeneration''. First, [[spoiler: it was done against one of four Unisols sent in to take down the NGU. It ended with the NGU sticking his Blade Below the Shoulder into the helpless Unisol's head, twice. The second time, was against one of the other unnamed [=UniSol=] involving a giant industrial hook, again against [[spoiler: Andrew Scott, and finally against the NGU, once involving an iron rebar rod to the throat, and the other time involving the explosives detonator. It doesn't work the first time, but the detonator did take care of that.]] In Day of Reckoning, [[spoiler: After disarming Scott of his guns, John and Scott 3.0 get into a heated fight with a combat knife and a machete. It ends with John stabbing Scott 3.0 in the hand and then burying his machete into Scott's head, stabbing him through the base of his jaw and out of the top of his head. Later, John takes on Devereaux and takes a machete to the arm, and ends up stabbing Devereaux in the chest with his machete. Devereaux gets in on the action and stabs John in the collarbone/neck with a knife.]]
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: All the unimportant [=UniSols=] graduated at the top of their class. [[spoiler: In Regeneration, one of the four Unisols sent into take down the NGU at the beginning of the movie, manages to get off a few shots in close-quarters against the NGU, only for it to do absolutely nothing to the NGU. Another Unisol in the group, attempts to get a lock on the NGU with its assault rifle, only for the NGU to outrun the Unisol's attempts to shoot it down. In Day of Reckoning, Magnus the Plumber, the Unisol sent after the Unisols living in a brothel at the beginning and later sent after John, has no problems with hitting his targets with the pump-action shotgun He uses.]]

* MadeofIron: Because of their increased pain tolerance and their increased rate of recovery and healing, coupled with additional systems in place, Unisols are incredibly tough. They are able to shrug off injuries that would kill regular Humans, such as sustaining multiple gunshot wounds to vital areas without dying, and aren't affected by high falls and harsh impacts. Coupled with the body armour systems they wear, the average Unisol is incredibly hard to kill. In Universal Soldier, Devereaux uses this ability to smash through walls. In Regeneration, Devereaux and Scott use this to barrel through many walls during their fistfight. [[spoiler: Special mention goes out to the NGU, who not only sustains multiple gunshot wounds that would drop an elephant, but likes to make use of jumping down from really high places, as a means of ambushing his enemies and evading their efforts to shoot him. He also shrugs off having a grenade go off near him, which only served to slow him down.]]

* SuperStrength: Without the Muscle Booster and gene therapy, A Unisol is [[spoiler: strong enough to push a 2-ton jeep on empty and reach speeds of 35+ mph while running, swim a mile and a half upriver in under four minutes, barrel through thick walls like they were made from wet paper, lift incredible weights, and manhandle full-grown adults like they were children, and without showing any strain. With the Muscle Booster, Scott was able to throw Devereaux around like he was a toy and flatten a barn door. When Devereaux got a hold of it, He was able to dropkick Scott with enough force to throw him through a wall. With gene therapy, Unisols like the NGU are now capable of hitting metal structures with enough force to crumple them upon impact and kill another Unisol with his superhuman thigh strength.]] In Day of Reckoning [[spoiler: John uses his SuperStrength in combination with a metal baseball bat, to decapitate the weakened and injured Magnus, the Unisol sent after him by Devereaux and Scott]]

** The year in which the first Universal Soldier is set in, is still unclear, even though the movie was released in 1992.(I've watched the movie hundreds of times, and I don't ever recall the opening sequence stating that it was 1969) The canonical sequels, Regeneration and Day of Recknoning; further leave the specific date unknown.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Done four times in ''Regeneration''.[[spoiler: First, it was done against one of four Unisols sent in to take down the NGU. It ended with the NGU sticking his Blade Below the Shoulder into the helpless Unisol's head, twice. The second time, was against one of the other unnamed [=UniSol=] involving a giant industrial hook, again against [[spoiler: Andrew Scott, and finally against the NGU, once involving an iron rebar rod to the throat, and the other time involving the explosives detonator. It doesn't work the first time, but the detonator did take care of that.]] In Day of Reckoning, [[spoiler: After disarming Scott of his guns, John and Scott 3.0 get into a heated fight with a combat knife and a machete. It ends with John stabbing Scott 3.0 in the hand and then burying his machete into Scott's head, stabbing him through the base of his jaw and out of the top of his head. Later, John takes on Devereaux and takes a machete to the arm, and ends up stabbing Devereaux in the chest with his machete. Devereaux gets in on the action and stabs John in the collarbone/neck with a knife.]]

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Done four times in ''Regeneration''.[[spoiler: First, it was done against one of four Unisols sent in to take down the NGU. It ended with the NGU sticking his Blade Below the Shoulder into the helpless Unisol's head, twice. The second time, was against one of the other unnamed [=UniSol=] involving a giant industrial hook, again against [[spoiler: Andrew Scott, and finally against the NGU, once involving an iron rebar rod to the throat, and the other time involving the explosives detonator. It doesn't work the first time, but the detonator did take care of that.]] In Day of Reckoning, [[spoiler: After disarming Scott of his guns, John and Scott 3.0 get into a heated fight with a combat knife and a pair of machetes. It ends with John stabbing Scott 3.0 in the hand and then burying his machete into Scott's head, stabbing him through the base of his jaw and out of the top of his head. Later, John takes on Devereaux and takes a machete to the arm, and ends up stabbing Devereaux in the chest with his machete. Devereaux gets in on the action and stabs John in the collarbone/neck with a knife.]]

* OneManArmy: Devreaux becomes one at the climax of ''Regeneration''. [[ spoiler: He manages to wipe out the company-sized force that the General brought with him to occupy Chernobyl, without much resistance, and does so with a combination of small arms fire, knife work, and lots of good ol' fashioned hand-to-hand combat. Earlier in the film, the NGU was shown to be capable of wiping out an entire security detail by himself, along with an incredible amount of Ukrainian Police, in an effort to kidnap the children of the Ukrainian Prime Minister. He later wipes out a company of soldiers by himself.
** In Day of Reckoning, John becomes this, after he is captured by the Unisol Army. He proceeds to wipe the floor with a lot of Unisols attempting to stop him, and takes down both Scott and Devereaux in the process.]]

* SuperSoldiers: [=UniSol=]s are a composure of BioAugmentation and {{Cyborg}}ing. Regeneration goes further then the original, and describes the process by which the [[ spoiler: original Unisols(Operation Black Tower) are created, using a combination of freezing the dead soldier, then repairing the body with surgery and then reheating the body with a combination of pituitary and thyroid augmentation, and deep tissue electrical shocks. The BioAugmentation grants them an increased metabolism, recuperative abilities and increased body temperature to match, and increased tolerance towards pain, exhaustion and fatigue. The high-concentrate nutritional supplement they are given, augments their physical performance even further and takes care of their dietary needs. A muscle booster they are given, takes this a step further, and drives their abilities to staggering superhuman heights, but at the cost of rendering them hard to control.
And this is all before they start incorporating gene therapy into the mix, in Regeneration; with Operation White Tower; which takes everything they created with Black Tower, fine tunes it on a cellular level, and then adds in bonuses of much quicker reflexes, higher levels of superhuman strength, speed and toughness, and an immunity to radiation. Operation White Tower, because of cloning technology; has even developed the means by which damaged limbs and organs in the Unisols, can be replaced, in order to extend their service-life.]]

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Done four times in ''Regeneration''.[[spoiler: First, it was done against one of four Unisols sent in to take down the NGU. It ended with the NGU sticking his Blade Below the Shoulder into the helpless Unisol's head, twice. The second time, was against one of the other unnamed [=UniSol=] involving a giant industrial hook, again against [[spoiler:Andrew Scott]], and finally against the NGU, once involving an iron rebar rod to the throat, and the other time involving the explosives detonator. It doesn't work the first time, but the detonator did take care of that.]]

* SuperStrength: Without the Muscle Booster and gene therapy, A Unisol is [[spoiler: strong enough to push a 2-ton jeep on empty and reach speeds of 35+ mph while running, swim a mile and a half upriver in under four minutes, barrel through thick walls like they were made from wet paper, lift incredible weights, and manhandle full-grown adults like they were children, and without showing any strain. With the Muscle Booster, Scott was able to throw Devereaux around like he was a toy and flatten a barn door. When Devereaux got a hold of it, He was able to dropkick Scott with enough force to throw him through a wall. With gene therapy, Unisols like the NGU are now capable of hitting metal structures with enough force to crumple them upon impact and kill another Unisol with his superhuman thigh strength.]]

** Correction: Burke did not do very well against the NGU, and all save one UniSol of the four sent after him, had trouble with the NGU. Burke barely managed to injure the NGU before He was stabbed repeatedly and left to die. Of the Four sent to deal with the NGU the first time around, the last surviving Unisol of that group actually managed to land several blows on the NGU, and wore the NGU down significantly. In the end, the NGU won by pulverizing the Unisol's skull and then breaking the Unisol's collarbone, neck and parts of his spine in a headlock. He was shown to be breathing heavily after he had taken down the last Unisol of that group.

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: The NGU in ''Regeneration'' sports one. He used it once to kill one of the four Unisols sent after him, and attempted to use it against Devereaux. He did use it against Captain Burke, stabbing him hard after Burke made a feeble attempt to take him down.

* CrapsackWorld: From what can be gathered from Day of Reckoning, inbetween the time of Regeneration and Day of Reckoning, the government has collapsed or is on the verge of collapsing, anarchy and lawlessness is rampant, and in the midst of all of this, Devereaux is amassing a great army of liberated Unisols, so that they can establish a new world order and take over. To make matters worse, there are sleeper Unisols among the general populace, and these sleeper Unisols not only have fake identities, but fake memories as well, and they can be activated at the flip of a switch.

** From what is shown on the trailers for "Day of Reckoning", the cloning technology for the Unisols has gone rampant, and Devereaux is strengthening and increasing the size of his army, by not only gathering soldiers and converting them, but by also cloning existing Unisols and improving upon them as well.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Semi-averted. The only thing that keeps the Unisols under control, is a memory clearance drug, which once it wears off, causes the UniSol to revert back to their former personalities. A lack of temperature regulation outside of the memory clearance drug, causes the Unisols to go berserk. It is shown that the Muscle Booster that they take to augment their performance even further, makes it harder and harder for the memory clearance drug to be effective. In Regeneration, the chip used to control the NGU makes him into a remorseless killer, unable to disobey orders given to him by his handlers. Once Commander Topov's men are chipped with failsafes, He is unable to attack them or harm them. Scott removes this from his head after he kills the Doctor. In Day of Reckoning, the sleeper Unisols are outfitted with a similar chip, that dissolves their false memories and false identity when they are activated.

* GogglesDoSomething: With the exception of the NGU, the first generation of Unisols in both Universal Soldier and Universal Soldier Regeneration wear head-mounted eyepieces. The Unisols in Universal Soldier had removable versions, with a boom mike and an earpiece, that allowed for their handlers to monitor their activities, see things from their point of view, and instruct the Unisols to do things. In Regeneration, to prevent anyone from tampering with the Unisols and issuing other commands, these newer headsets are bolted into the skulls of the Unisols, using high-powered bolters to secure them in place. The last first-generation Unisol to fight against the NGU during the initial attack on Chernobyl, gets hit by the NGU so hard that it removes the headset from the Unisol's head, leaving bloody head wounds in the process. Ouch.

* HealingFactor: Because of their augmented thyroid, Unisols have an increased metabolism, which in turn, fuels their bodies accelerated rate of recovery. The augmented metabolism, coupled with the nutritional supplement, allows for their bodies to produce newer cells at an accelerated rate, letting them heal and recover from injuries quicker. However, due to their augmented metabolisms, their bodies overheat rather quickly. In order to balance this out, the Unisols are placed into cool environments, in order to heal quicker without overheating. Because of gene therapy, later Unisols are able to do this, without needing to be cooled down as much. Despite their HealingFactor, the Unisols are unable to regenerate damaged or lost limbs and organs. However, thanks to cloning and advanced cloning techniques, they are now able to replace damaged or lost limbs and organs for the Unisols.
* HollywoodCyborg: With the exception of the headset and the blackbox, installed in the thighs of the Unisols, there really isn't a whole lot of cybernetics in a Unisol's body. It's implied that there are additional bone and muscle augmentations for the Unisols, to add to their MadeofIron and SuperStrength capabilities. In Regeneration, it is shown that the NGU has some sort of retina implant that is tied into his nervous system, preventing him from attacking those who are chipped with beacons that indicate that they are not to be fired upon or attacked. Scott has the same chip in the back of his head, which helps keep him in line, which he later removes forcefully with a knife. In Day of Reckoning, John has this implant in his body that is compelling him to join Devereaux and his Unisol Army. It's also mentioned that sleeper Unisols can be triggered at will by an implant in their brains, which dissolves their fake memories and identities and switches them on for operations.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Done four times in ''Regeneration''. First, it was done against one of four Unisols sent in to take down the NGU. It ended with the NGU sticking his Blade Below the Shoulder into the helpless Unisol's head, twice. The second time, was against one of the other unnamed [=UniSol=] involving a giant industrial hook, again against [[spoiler:Andrew Scott]], and finally against the NGU, once involving an iron rebar rod to the throat, and the other time involving the explosives detonator. It doesn't work the first time, but the detonator did take care of that.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: All the unimportant [=UniSols=] graduated at the top of their class. In Regeneration, one of the four Unisols sent into take down the NGU at the beginning of the movie, manages to get off a few shots in close-quarters against the NGU, only for it to do absolutely nothing to the NGU. Another Unisol in the group, attempts to get a lock on the NGU with its assault rifle, only for the NGU to outrun the Unisol's attempts to shoot it down. In Day of Reckoning, Magnus the Plumber, the Unisol sent after the Unisols living in a brothel at the beginning and later sent after John, has no problems with hitting his targets with the pump-action shotgun He uses.

* LargeHam: Lundgren, once he regains his memory in the first film. His second clone keeps up the tradition in Day of Reckoning. Dr. Colin is Regeneration has his moments, being the MadScientist of the terrorist army.

* MadeofIron: Because of their increased pain tolerance and their increased rate of recovery and healing, coupled with additional systems in place, Unisols are incredibly tough. They are able to shrug off injuries that would kill regular Humans, such as sustaining multiple gunshot wounds to vital areas without dying, and aren't affected by high falls and harsh impacts. Coupled with the body armour systems they wear, the average Unisol is incredibly hard to kill. In Universal Soldier, Devereaux uses this ability to smash through walls. In Regeneration, Devereaux and Scott use this to barrel through many walls during their fistfight. Special mention goes out to the NGU, who not only sustains multiple gunshot wounds that would drop an elephant, but likes to make use of jumping down from really high places, as a means of ambushing his enemies and evading their efforts to shoot him. He also shrugs off having a grenade go off near him, which only served to slow him down.
* MadScientist: Dr. Gregor, the creator of Operation Black Tower, the original Universal Soldier program. Somewhat of TheAtoner, because of what he created. His successors, Dr. Porter and Dr. Colin, who headed Operation White Tower, which was responsible for the next-generation of Unisols. Dr. Porter is rather amoral, viewing ordinary soldiers with disdain and highly praising the efficiency and deadliness of the NGU. As a middle finger to Burke, who had stated his intense dislike for the Unisols; clones him at the end of the movie and makes him into a Unisol. Dr. Colin, combined with InsufferableGenius; has stolen the NGU from the US Government and is using the NGU and his services, as a gun-for-hire; equipping the fledgling terrorist army of Commander Topov with a Unisol and a nasty surprise in the form of Andrew Scott 2.0.

* OneManArmy: Devreaux becomes one at the climax of ''Regeneration''. He manages to wipe out the company-sized force that the General brought with him to occupy Chernobyl, without much resistance, and does so with a combination of small arms fire, knife work, and lots of good ol' fashioned hand-to-hand combat. Earlier in the film, the NGU was shown to be capable of wiping out an entire security detail by himself, along with an incredible amount of Ukrainian Police, in an effort to kidnap the children of the Ukrainian Prime Minister. He later wipes out a company of soldiers by himself.
** In Day of Reckoning, John becomes this, after he is captured by the Unisol Army. He proceeds to wipe the floor with a lot of Unisols attempting to stop him, and takes down both Scott and Devereaux in the process.

* SmugSnake: Scott in the original, Dr. Colin in Regeneration. Dr. Colin is much more smug then Scott, and extremely condescending, with chunks of InsufferableGenius, almost to the point that his death at the hands of Scott 2.0 is of no surprise.
* SuperSoldiers: [=UniSol=]s are a composure of BioAugmentation and {{Cyborg}}ing. Regeneration goes further then the original, and describes the process by which the original Unisols(Operation Black Tower) are created, using a combination of freezing the dead soldier, then repairing the body with surgery and then reheating the body with a combination of pituitary and thyroid augmentation, and deep tissue electrical shocks.

** The BioAugmentation grants them an increased metabolism, recuperative abilities and increased body temperature to match, and increased tolerance towards pain, exhaustion and fatigue. The high-concentrate nutritional supplement they are given, augments their physical performance even further and takes care of their dietary needs. A muscle booster they are given, takes this a step further, and drives their abilities to staggering superhuman heights, but at the cost of rendering them hard to control.

** And this is all before they start incorporating gene therapy into the mix, in Regeneration; with Operation White Tower; which takes everything they created with Black Tower, fine tunes it on a cellular level, and then adds in bonuses of much quicker reflexes, higher levels of superhuman strength, speed and toughness, and an immunity to radiation. Operation White Tower, because of cloning technology; has even developed the means by which damaged limbs and organs in the Unisols, can be replaced, in order to extend their service-life.
* SuperStrength: Without the Muscle Booster and gene therapy, A Unisol is strong enough to push a 2-ton jeep on empty and reach speeds of 35+ mph while running, swim a mile and a half upriver in under four minutes, barrel through thick walls like they were made from wet paper, lift incredible weights, and manhandle full-grown adults like they were children, and without showing any strain. With the Muscle Booster, Scott was able to throw Devereaux around like he was a toy and flatten a barn door. When Devereaux got a hold of it, He was able to dropkick Scott with enough force to throw him through a wall. With gene therapy, Unisols like the NGU are now capable of hitting metal structures with enough force to crumple them upon impact and kill another Unisol with his superhuman thigh strength.
* SuperSpeed: While not on level with other Super Speedsters, the Unisols are pretty damn quick on their feet. They are capable of conducting high-speed military operations much more quickly and efficiently then Humanly possible. Coupled with his SuperStrength, Devereaux was able to get a 2-ton jeep on empty up to 35 + mph while on foot. The NGU, being augmented with gene therapy, is able to move so quickly that the first-generation Unisols sent after him couldn't get a lock on him long enough to hit him outside of close-quarter ranges. Unaugmented Humans like Burke, couldn't even managed to get a shot on him even when He was charging at Burke and engaging him in a fistfight. Once Devereaux was reactivated and subsequently upgraded, He was able to go toe to toe with the NGU, but was still a magnitude slower by comparison to the NGU.

* VillainousValor: The terrorist leader in ''Regeneration'', Commander Topov. He is taken Chernobyl and is threatening to detonate the radioactive materials in the remaining reactors, if the Ukrainian government does not free his comrade-in-arms, who are being imprisoned by the Ukrainian government. He is carrying on his father's legacy.
* WeCanRebuildHim: using a combination of advanced surgery techniques, BioAugmentation, deep tissue electrical shocks, high-performance nutritional supplements, muscle boosters and a memory clearance drug. Later generations of Unisols benefit from all of those, along with gene therapy for extra measures and cloning, which extends the service life of a Unisol.

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: The NGU in ''Regeneration'' sports one. He used it once to kill one of the four Unisols sent after him, and attempted to use it against Devereaux. He did use it against Captain Burke, stabbing him repeatedly after Burke made a feeble attempt to take him down.

* LargeHam: Lundgren, once he regains his memory in the first film. His second clone keeps up the tradition in Day of Reckoning.

* SmugSnake

* SuperSpeed: While not on level with other Super Speedsters, the Unisols are pretty damn quick on their feet. They are capable of conducting high-speed military operations much more quickly and efficiently then Humanly possible. Coupled with his SuperStrength, Devereaux was able to get a 2-ton jeep on empty up to 35 + mph while on foot. The NGU, being augmented with gene therapy, is able to move so quickly that the first-generation UniSols sent after him couldn't get a lock on him long enough to hit him outside of close-quarter ranges. Unaugmented Humans like Burke, couldn't even managed to get a shot on him even when He was charging at Burke and engaging him in a fistfight. Once Devereaux was reactivated and subsequently upgraded, He was able to go toe to toe with the NGU, but was still a magnitude slower by comparison to the NGU.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Semi-averted. The only thing that keeps the Unisols under control, is a memory clearance drug, which once it wears off, causes the UniSol to revert back to their former personalities. A lack of temperature regulation outside of the memory clearance drug, causes the Unisols to go berserk. It is shown that the Muscle Booster that they take to augment their performance even further, makes it harder and harder for the memory clearance drug to be effective.

* HollywoodCyborg: With the exception of the headset and the blackbox, installed in the thighs of the Unisols, there really isn't a whole lot of cybernetics in a Unisol's body. It's implied that there are additional bone and muscle augmentations for the Unisols, to add to their MadeofIron capabilities. In Regeneration, it is shown that the NGU has some sort of retina implant that is tied into his nervous system, preventing him from attacking those who are chipped with beacons that indicate that they are not to be fired upon or attacked. Scott has a chip in the back of his head, which helps keep him in line, which he later removes forcefully with a knife. In Day of Reckoning, John has this implant in his body that is compelling him to join Devereaux and his Unisol Army. It's also mentioned that sleeper Unisols can be triggered at will by an implant in their brains, which dissolves their fake memories and identities and switches them on for operations.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: All the unimportant [=UniSols=] graduated at the top of their class. In Regeneration, one of the four Unisols sent into take down the NGU at the beginning of the movie, manages to get off a few shots in close-quarters against the NGU, only for it to do absolutely nothing to the NGU. Another Unisol in the group, attempts to get a lock on the NGU with its assault rifle, only for the NGU to outrun the Unisol's attempts to shoot it down.

* OneManArmy: Devreaux becomes one at the climax of ''Regeneration''. He manages to wipe out the company-sized force that the General brought with him to occupy Chernobyl, without much resistance, and does so with a combination of small arms fire, knife work, and lots of good ol' fashioned hand-to-hand combat. Earlier in the film, the NGU was shown to be capable of wiping out an entire security detail by himself, along with an incredible amount of Ukrainian Police, in an effort to kidnap the children of the Ukrainian Prime Minister. He later wipes out a two platoons of soldiers by himself.

* SuperStrength: Without the Muscle Booster and gene therapy, A Unisol is strong enough to push a 2-ton jeep on empty and reach speeds of 35+ mph, swim a mile and a half upriver in under four minutes, barrel through thick walls like they were made from wet paper, lift incredible weights, and manhandle full-grown adults like they were children, and without showing any strain. With the Muscle Booster, Scott was able to throw Devereaux around like he was a toy and flatten a barn door. When Devereaux got a hold of it, He was able to dropkick Scott with enough force to throw him through a wall. With gene therapy, Unisols like the NGU are now capable of hitting metal structures with enough force to crumple them upon impact and kill another Unisol with his superhuman thigh strength.

* HollywoodCyborg: With the exception of the headset and the blackbox, installed in the thighs of the Unisols, there really isn't a whole lot of cybernetics in a Unisol's body. It's implied that there are additional bone and muscle augmentations for the Unisols, to add to their MadeofIron capabilities. In Regeneration, it is shown that the NGU has some sort of retina implant that is tied into his nervous system, preventing him from attacking those who are chipped with beacons that indicate that they are not to be fired upon or attacked. Scott has a chip in the back of his head, which helps keep him in line, which he later removes forcefully with a knife.

* FailsafeFailure: Scott in ''Regeneration''.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Done three times in ''Regeneration''. Once against an unnamed [=UniSol=], again against [[spoiler:Andrew Scott]], and finally against the NGU. It doesn't work.

* MadeofIron: Because of their increased pain tolerance and their increased rate of recovery and healing, coupled with additional systems in place, Unisols are incredibly tough. They are able to shrug off injuries that would kill regular Humans, and aren't affected by high falls and harsh impacts. In Universal Soldier, Devereaux uses this ability to smash through walls. In Regeneration, Devereaux and Scott use this to barrel through many walls during their fistfight. Special mention goes out to the NGU, who not only sustains multiple gunshot wounds that would drop an elephant, but likes to make use of jumping down from really high places, as a means of ambushing his enemies and evading their efforts to shoot him. He also shrugs off having a grenade go off near him, which only served to slow him down.

* VillainousValor: The terrorist leader in ''Regeneration''. He is taken Chernobyl and is threatening to detonate the radioactive materials in the remaining reactors, if the Ukrainian government does not free his comrade-in-arms, who are being imprisoned by the Ukrainian government.
* WeCanRebuildHim

''UniversalSoldier'' is a 1992 action film directed by RolandEmmerich, starring [[JeanClaudeVanDamme Jean-Claude Van Damme]] and DolphLundgren. It kick-started a series that now encompasses five films([[CanonDiscontinuity but only three are canon]])

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: All the unimportant [=UniSols=] graduated at the top of their class. in Regeneration, one of the four Unisols sent into take down the NGU at the beginning of the movie, manages to get off a few shots in close-quarters against the NGU, only for it to do absolutely nothing to the NGU. Another Unisol in the group, attempts to get a lock on the NGU with its assault rifle, only for the NGU to outrun the Unisol's attempts to shoot it down.

* MadeofIron: Because of their increased pain tolerance and their increased rate of recovery and healing, coupled with additional systems in place, Unisols are incredibly tough. They are able to shrug off injuries that would kill regular Humans, and aren't affected by high falls and harsh impacts. In Universal Soldier, Devereaux uses this ability to smash through walls. In Regeneration, Devereaux and Scott use this to barrel through many walls during their fistfight. Special mention goes out to the NGU, who not only sustains multiple gunshot wounds that would drop an elephant, but likes to make use of jumping down from really high places, as a means of ambushing his enemies and evading their efforts to shoot him.

''UniversalSoldier'' is a 1992 action film directed by RolandEmmerich, starring [[JeanClaudeVanDamme Jean-Claude Van Damme]] and DolphLundgren. It kick-started a series that now encompasses five films([[CanonDiscontinuity but only two are canon]])

** The year in which the first Universal Soldier is set in, is still unclear, even though the movie was released in 1992. The canonical sequels, Regeneration and Day of Recknoning; further leave the specific date unknown.

* OneManArmy: Devreaux becomes one at the climax of ''Regeneration''. He manages to wipe out the company-sized force that the General brought with him to occupy Chernobyl, without much resistance, and does so with a combination of small arms fire, knife work, and lots of good ol' fashioned hand-to-hand combat.

* VillainousValor: The terrorist leader in ''Regeneration''. He is taken Chernobyl and is threatening to detonate the radioactive materials in the remaining reactors, if the Russian government does not free his comrade-in-arms, who are being imprisoned by the Russian government.

Yet another RetCon came in the form of ''Universal Soldier: Regeneration'', released direct-to-DVD in 2010. This film brings back Dolph Lundgren as Andrew Scott and reunites him with Van Damme as Devreaux. Devreaux, in therapy after the events of the first film, is called on to defuse a hostage situation at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where a more advanced [=UniSol=] is under control of a group of Russian terrorists. ''Regeneration'' received decent reviews, and plans to make a fourth film (in 3D, no less!) are underway.

** Correction: Burke did not do very well against the NGU, and all save one UniSol of the four sent after him, had trouble with the NGU. Burke barely managed to injure the NGU before He was stabbed repeatedly and left to die. Of the Four sent to deal with the NGU the first time around, the last surviving Unisol of that group actually managed to land several blows on the NGU, and wore the NGU down significantly. In the end, the NGU won by breaking the Unisol's collarbone, neck and parts of his spine in a headlock. He was shown to be breathing heavily after he had taken down the last Unisol of that group.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: All the unimportant [=UniSols=] graduated at the top of their class.

* LargeHam: Lundgren, once he regains his memory in the first film.

** Now, Burke did do well against the General's men, taking them down and getting into Chernobyl without much of an issue. It does help that Captain Burke is Special Forces, so doing so wouldn't be out of his ability to do so.

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: The NGU in ''Regeneration'' sports one.

* HandCannon: The [=UniSols'=] uses .357 Magnum Desert Eagles.
* HumanPopsicle

* MoreDakka: Courtesy of Andrew Scott and his M60 in the first film. The NGU in Regeneration gets in on the action, with a heavily modified AK variant loaded with double-stack magazine which He has no problem unloading a ridiculous amount of lead downrange in the process.

* OneManArmy: Devreaux becomes one at the climax of ''Regeneration''.

* SuperSoldiers: [=UniSol=]s are a composure of BioAugmentation and {{Cyborg}}ing. Regeneration goes further then the original, and describes the process by which the original Unisols(Operation Black Tower) are created, using a combination of freezing the dead soldier, then repairing the body with surgery and then augmenting the body with pituitary and thyroid augmentations, before reheating the body using deep tissue electrical shocks.

The BioAugmentation grants them an increased metabolism, recuperative abilities and increased body temperature to match, and increased tolerance towards pain, exhaustion and fatigue. The high-concentrate nutritional supplement they are given, augments their physical performance even further and takes care of their dietary needs. A muscle booster they are given, takes this a step further, and drives their abilities to staggering superhuman heights, but at the cost of rendering them hard to control.

And this is all before they start incorporating gene therapy into the mix, in Regeneration; with Operation White Tower; which takes everything they created with Black Tower, fine tunes it on a cellular level, and then adds in bonuses of much quicker reflexes, higher levels of superhuman strength, speed and toughness, and an immunity to radiation.

* VillainousValor: The terrorist leader in ''Regeneration''.

* SuperSoldiers: [=UniSol=]s are a composure of BioAugmentation and {{Cyborg}}ing. Regeneration goes further then the original, and describes the process by which the original Unisols(Project Black Tower) are created, using a combination of freezing the dead soldier, then repairing the body with surgery and then augmenting the body with pituitary and thyroid augmentations, before reheating the body using deep tissue electrical shocks.

And this is all before they start incorporating gene therapy into the mix, in Regeneration; with Project White Tower; which takes everything they created with Black Tower, fine tunes it on a cellular level, and then adds in bonuses of much quicker reflexes, higher levels of superhuman strength, speed and toughness, and an immunity to radiation.

* KillItWithFire: Van Damme does this in the first film. [=UniSols=] need their temperature to be monitored constantly: If it gets too high, they shut down.

* MoreDakka: Courtesy of Andrew Scott and his M60 in the first film.

* SuperSoldiers: [=UniSol=]s are a composure of BioAugmentation and {{Cyborg}}ing.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Done three times in ''Regeneration''. Once against an unnamed [=UniSol=], again against [[spoiler:Andrew Scott]], and finally against the NGU. [[IGotBetter It doesn't work]].