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* LanguageFluencyReveal: Shannon goes on a reconnaissance mission where he leaves his local guide behind in the jungle and lets slip that he has training in guerilla warfare, thinking that the man only knows the [[{{Bulungi}} Zangaron]] language. After Shannon is imprisoned and tortured by the authorities and kicked out of the country, it turns out that the guide is proficient in English when he reveals to Shannon that he's a supporter of the Kimba regime and the one who reported him.
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* BilingualBackfire: Shannon goes on a reconnaissance mission where he leaves his local guide behind in the jungle and lets slip that he has training in guerilla warfare, thinking that the man only knows the [[{{Bulungi}} Zangaron]] language. After Shannon is imprisoned and tortured by the authorities and kicked out of the country, it turns out that the guide is proficient in English when he reveals to Shannon that he's a supporter of the Kimba regime and the one who reported him.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: One possible interpretation of why Shannon handled the country to Dr Okoye - the man tended to his wounds when they were both locked in a HellholePrison.
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* DatedHistory: The unnamed journalist dismisses French mercenary Robert Denard as a has-been, but he'd go on to become an unofficial agent of French national interests in Africa right through to TheNineties.
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* TooDumbToLive: Shannon notes this InUniverse over how Kimba's palace is surrounded by a big wall. Far from offering protection, all Kimba has done is confine himself and his PraetorianGuard inside a killing ground for the mortar attack Shannon is planning.
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The Screw The Money This Is Personal example was more suited to be with the movie tropes than the book tropes.
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* ScrewTheMoneyThisIsPersonal: While Shannon is a [[HiredGuns mercenary]] and willing to get as much money as he can out of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Sir James Manson]], it doesn't take much for Manson's [[TheDragon dragon]], Endean, to talk Shannon into leading the assault on Zangaro after the police [[ColdBloodedTorture beat the living crap out of him]] while he's doing recon (and has also seen first-hand [[TheCaligula what kind of monster President Kimba is]]). When he ends up facing off against Kimba on the climactic assault, Kimba goes into a VillainousBreakdown and offers him a small mountain of money to let him go. Shannon just shoots him, [[FullCircleRevolution and then goes on to screw over Sir Manson (who wasn't going to improve Zangaro with his puppet government anyway)]].
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* ScrewTheMoneyThisIsPersonal: While Shannon is a [[HiredGuns mercenary]] and willing to get as much money as he can out of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Sir James Manson]], it doesn't take much for Manson's [[TheDragon dragon]], Endean, to talk Shannon into leading the assault on Zangaro after the police [[ColdBloodedTorture beat the living crap out of him]] while he's doing recon (and has also seen first-hand [[TheCaligula what kind of monster President Kimba is]]). When he ends up facing off against Kimba on the climactic assault, Kimba goes into a VillainousBreakdown and offers him a small mountain of money to let him go. Shannon just shoots him, [[FullCircleRevolution and then goes on to screw over Sir Manson (who wasn't going to improve Zangaro with his puppet government anyway)]].
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* LifeImitatesArt: mercenary Simon Mann (ex-SAS like Derek) used this film as a blueprint in a failed attempt to seize power in the small African country of Equatorial Guinea.
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* LifeImitatesArt: mercenary Simon Mann (ex-SAS like Derek) used this film as a blueprint in a failed attempt to seize power in the small African country of Equatorial Guinea.
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* BloodKnight: all of the mercenaries, we only really see them come alive in the end battle scenes.
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* NeverHurtAnInnocent: in the heat of battle Drew storms into a room, submachinegun in hand, screaming his war cry. Only to be confronted with a mother and her young children. He turns and walks away [[spoiler: whereupon she shoots him in the back]].
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* ScrewTheMoneyThisIsPersonal: While Shannon is a [[HiredGuns mercenary]] and willing to get as much money as he can out of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Sir Manson]], it doesn't takes much from Manson to talk Shannon into leading the assault on Zangaro after the police [[ColdBloodedTorture beats the living crap out of him]] while he's doing recon (and has also seen first-hand [[TheCaligula what kind of monster President Kimba is]]). When he ends up facing off against Kimba on the climactic assault, Kimba goes into a VillainousBreakdown and offers him a small mountain of money to let him go. Shannon just shoots him, [[FullCircleRevolution and then goes on to screw over Sir Manson (who wasn't going to improve Zangaro with his puppet government anyway)]].
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* ScrewTheMoneyThisIsPersonal: While Shannon is a [[HiredGuns mercenary]] and willing to get as much money as he can out of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Sir James Manson]], it doesn't takes take much from Manson for Manson's [[TheDragon dragon]], Endean, to talk Shannon into leading the assault on Zangaro after the police [[ColdBloodedTorture beats beat the living crap out of him]] while he's doing recon (and has also seen first-hand [[TheCaligula what kind of monster President Kimba is]]). When he ends up facing off against Kimba on the climactic assault, Kimba goes into a VillainousBreakdown and offers him a small mountain of money to let him go. Shannon just shoots him, [[FullCircleRevolution and then goes on to screw over Sir Manson (who wasn't going to improve Zangaro with his puppet government anyway)]].
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* SelectiveSalughter: Drew, by far the most gung-ho of mercenaries and obviously revelling in the combat spares an African mother and her children. She promptly shoots him in the back!
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* SelectiveSalughter: SelectiveSlaughter: Drew, by far the most gung-ho of mercenaries and obviously revelling in the combat spares an African mother and her children. She promptly shoots him in the back!
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* MoreDakka: perhaps the ultimate example, a small force wielding extreme firepower and exploiting the element of surprise and violence of action is able to overwhelm a vastly superior opposition.
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* SelectiveSalughter: Drew, by far the most gung-ho of mercenaries and obviously revelling in the combat spares an African mother and her children. She promptly shoots him in the back!
