History Film / WhiteHouseDown

* CameraFiend: Emily, with her own YouTube channel.

* FiveBadBand:
** BigBad -- [[MoleInCharge Martin Walker]]
** TheDragon -- [[FallenHero Emil Stenz]]
** TheEvilGenius -- [[TheCracker Skip Tyler]]
** TheBrute -- [[TheSociopath Carl Killick]] and [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong Vadim]]
** TheDarkChick -- [[MookLieutenant Motts]]
** TheManBehindTheMan -- [[spoiler:[[CorruptPolitician Eli Raphelson]]]]

!!This film contains Examples of:

* MrFanservice: Channing Tatum. In a sleeveless shirt. Covered in sweat. ''Yeaaah.''

* CrusadingWidower: [[spoiler: Walker's son was killed in a covert op that Sawyer authorized, and he's determined not only to get revenge for his son's death, but to also ensure that no other Americans die in the Middle East... by wiping out the entire region with Sawyer's nuclear briefcase commands]]. Interestingly, [[spoiler: his wife, when called in to try and talk him out of it, only encourages him upon hearing his justification]].

-->'''Reporter''': [[ItMakesSenseInContext Oh my God, that's President Sawyer! He has a rocket launcher!]]\\

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: A tank fires at the terrorists on the roof of the White House. Not only do they survive the massive explosion without a scratch and return fire within seconds, [[RuleOfDrama their piddly little RPG-7 manages to accurately fire upon and completely mission-kill an M1 Abrams tank]].

* WritersCannotDoMath: The Vice President is sworn in as the 47th President, which makes Sawyer the 46th. The movie takes place in 2014, and it is Sawyer's first term (meaning he was elected in 2012, took office in 2013), in order for this to work, the 43, 44 and 45th Presidents all would have to had have served one term.

* TwentyMinutesInTheFuture: The film takes place about year from its release, on October 4, 2014 (which can be seen in a FreezeFrameBonus on the White House passes in the beginning). President Sawyer mentions it is his first time, indicating he took office in 2013.

* WritersCannotDoMath: The Vice President is sworn in as the 47th President, which makes Sawyer the 46th. The movie takes place in 2014, and it is Sawyer's first term (meaning he was elected in 2012, took office in 2013), in order for this to work, the 43, 44 and 45 Presidents all would have to had have served one term.

* BattleInTheRain: The final fight with Stenz took place in a room where sprinklers have gone off.

* BigNo: [[spoiler: Stenz, before Cale blows him up.]]

-->'''[[spoiler: Walker to Carol: "Killing Hope was the second hardest thing I had to do."]]'''

** Roger Skinner is an expy of RushLimbaugh. He's a right-wing blowhard who is hyper-critical of the liberal president, and liberalism in general. He even looks like a younger, skinnier Rush. He gets a moment to shine when he defends Emily, though, so the portrayal isn't overtly negative.

-->'''Reporter''': [[ItMakesSenseInContext It's the president! He has a rocket launcher!]]
-->'''Reporter 2''': That's not something you see every day.

-->'''Reporter''': [[ItMakesSenseInContext It's the president! He has a rocket launcher!]]\\

'''Agent Kellerman''': Well, that's not something you see every day.

** However, her acts of encouragement in the situation could be registered as a corroboration of national terrorism. Carol herself mentioned that after the encouragement that she could have had Muriel detained in a federal prison for the rest of her as a threat to Martin.

** However, her acts of encouragement in the situation could be registered as a corroboration of national terrorism.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Skip Tyler's backstory reveals he was once a star hacker for the NSA, but was decommissioned after he tried to reroute misses towards the Apple Company because he disagreed with their music sharing policies. [[spoiler: One could argue Walker's whole plan to destroy the Middle East is this since his son died in combat knowing the risk, while the others he has and would have killed would have been ignorant bystanders.]]

* ButNotTooEvil: At least two of the terrorists are described as white supremacists, but neither of them makes a single racist statement throughout the film.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Sawyer seems to express guilt after killing a mook while saving Cale, but Cale assures him he had no choice.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: In a conversation with the Speaker early on, the President blames continued hostilities in the Middle East on defense industries that profit off the conflict. [[spoiler:It's likely they're helping bankroll the takeover of the White House.]]

* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Most of the mercenaries.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: The loss of Martin Walker's son led Martin to starting off a plan that not only led to dozens of deaths in the Presidential Staff but the death of his own men by his hand and if succeeded, the death of thousands of civilians in the Middle East. When his wife found out his plan, she only voiced her support and tried to encourage his plan.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: All of them except Cale

** Another reporter/analyst says "there's ''no way'' the attackers could be anyone but Arabs" [[spoiler: which works out just fine for the attackers until Emily's video is broadcast]].
* PsychoForHire: Most of the named mercenaries are psychopaths, though one of them seems to be more of a PunchClockVillain and gets disturbed at how far the others are willing to go.

"It's a '''shitstorm''' in there!"

* PatrioticFervor: Can't get more patriotic than having a badass fighting President, except [[MetalWolfChaos letting him ride in a Humongous Mecha]].

* {{Expy}}:
** President Sawyer is clearly an expy of UsefulNotes/BarackObama: A young, black, liberal-leaning U.S. President who wants to pull the military out of the Persian Gulf, is hated by the right-wing talking heads, idolizes Lincoln, and is an ex-smoker, who remade the presidental limo into something akin to a tank.
** Roger Skinner is an expy of RushLimbaugh. He's a right-wing blowhard who is hyper-critical of the liberal president, and liberalism in general. He even looks like a younger, skinnier Rush. He gets a moment to shine when he defends Emily, though, so the portrayal isn't overtly negative.
** Several of the villains are expies of characters from ''Film/DieHard'', such as TheDragon with [[ItsPersonal a personal beef with the hero]] (Karl/Stenz) and the fast-talking egotistical hacker (Theo/Tyler).

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Skip Tyler]] is killed by the bomb down in the White House tunnels because his ID card didn't to disarm it. Most likely Raphelson rigged it that way to ensure he, like Walker and everyone else, wouldn't get out alive.