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* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: The whole play is based on comparing the soldiers' first-hand experiences to what the public sees of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror in the news. This trope is pointedly parodied in a scene where a group of miners are recruited to fight in the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI First World War]] with promises of travel, guns, football and exotic women.
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* RecruitersAlwaysLie: The whole play is based on comparing the soldiers' first-hand experiences to what the public sees of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror in the news. This trope is pointedly parodied in a scene where a group of miners are recruited to fight in the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI First World War]] with promises of travel, guns, football and exotic women.
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* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:After the wagon gets stuck, the Sergeant pulls Fraz and Kenzie off to come with him and the translator on a stop-and-search. When the action switches back to the pub with the researcher, Cammy tells him that all four men were killed by an IED.]]
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* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:After the wagon gets stuck, the Sergeant pulls Fraz and Kenzie off to come with him and the translator interpreter on a stop-and-search. When the action switches back to the pub with the researcher, Cammy tells him that all four men were killed by an IED.]]
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* MirroringFactions: In one of his letters home, the officer says that the Army had failed to understand that suicide bombers were motivated by a desire for glory, which is also shown to have been a factors in recruits' desire to join the Black Watch.
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* MirroringFactions: In one of his letters home, the officer says that the Army had failed to understand that suicide bombers were motivated by a desire for glory, which is also shown to have been a factors factor in recruits' desire to join the Black Watch.
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* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:After the wagon gets stuck, the Sergeant pulls Fraz and Kenzie off to come with him and the translator on a stop-and-search. When the action switches back to the pub with the researcher, Cammy tells him that all four men were killed by an IED.]]
* EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: Although there isn't much pipe music in the play itself, the regiment's specific piping traditions get a mention.
* EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: Although there isn't much pipe music in the play itself, the regiment's specific piping traditions get a mention.
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* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:After the wagon gets stuck, the Sergeant pulls Fraz and Kenzie off to come with him and the translator on a stop-and-search. When the action switches back to the pub with the researcher, Cammy tells him that all four men were killed by an IED.]]
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* BilingualBonus: A gaelic song plays after [[Fraz, Kenzie and the Sergeant are killed by an IED]].
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* BilingualBonus: A gaelic song plays after [[Fraz, [[spoiler:Fraz, Kenzie and the Sergeant are killed by an IED]].
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* BilingualBonus: A gaelic song plays after [[Fraz, Kenzie and the Sergeant are killed by an IED]].
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* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:After the wagon gets stuck, the Sergeant pulls Fraz and Kenzie off to come with him and the translator on a stop-and-search. When the action switches back to the pub with the researcher, Cammy tells him that all four men were killed by an IED.]]
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* EverythingLouderWithBagpipes: Although there isn't much pipe music in the play itself, the regiment's specific piping traditions get a mention.
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* EverythingLouderWithBagpipes: EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: Although there isn't much pipe music in the play itself, the regiment's specific piping traditions get a mention.
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2006 play by Gregory Burke based on a series of interviews conducted with soldiers from the Black Watch regiment about their [[RippedFromTheHeadlines 2004 deployment]] [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror to the "Triangle of Death" in southern Iraq.]]
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2006 play by Gregory Burke based on a series of interviews conducted with soldiers from the Black Watch regiment about their [[RippedFromTheHeadlines 2004 deployment]] [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror to the "Triangle of Death" in southern Iraq.]]
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* EverythingLouderWithBagpipes: Although there isn't much pipe music in the play itself, the regiment's specific piping traditions get a mention.
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* GayBravado: One of the games the soldiers play to pass the time is "toby tig", which involves slapping each other in the face with their dicks.
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* MirroringFactions: In one of his letters home, the officer says that the Army had failed to understand that suicide bombers were motivated by a desire for glory, which is also shown to have been a factors in recruits' desire to join the Black Watch.
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* OrgasmicCombat: After an argument sparks off between Kenzie and one of the other soldiers in the wagon, the Sergeant gives them ten seconds to fight it out. When calls time he declares that it was a rubbish fight and that he had to stop it before one of them came.
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* SeinfeldianConversation: How the soldiers pass the time
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* SeinfeldianConversation: How the soldiers pass the timetime while they're stuck in the wagon.
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* PretentiousPronunciation: Being a Scottish aristocrat with an English accent, Lord Elgin tried to recruit local men into the regiment to fight by regaling them of tales of the Battle of "Byannackba[[TrrrillingRrrs rrr]]n".
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* PretentiousPronunciation: Being a Scottish aristocrat with an English accent, Lord Elgin tried to recruit local men into the regiment to fight by regaling them of tales of the Battle of "Byannackba[[TrrrillingRrrs rrr]]n".rrr]]n".
* SeinfeldianConversation: How the soldiers pass the time
* SeinfeldianConversation: How the soldiers pass the time
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* CurbStompBattle: Cammy concedes that the difference in equipment and firepower meant it wasn't much of a fair fight between them and the Iraqis they were up against.
-->"After a while it's more bullying than fighting."
* FramingDevice: The plot is based around a researcher interviewing a group of soldiers who've returned home from Iraq with the possibility of turning their stories into a play. This leads to a conversation about which famous actors might play them.
-->"After a while it's more bullying than fighting."
* FramingDevice: The plot is based around a researcher interviewing a group of soldiers who've returned home from Iraq with the possibility of turning their stories into a play. This leads to a conversation about which famous actors might play them.
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2006 play by Gregory Burke based on a series of interviews conducted with soldiers from the Black Watch regiment about their [[RippedFromTheHeadlines 2004 deployment]] [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerro to the "Triangle of Death" in southern Iraq.]]
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2006 play by Gregory Burke based on a series of interviews conducted with soldiers from the Black Watch regiment about their [[RippedFromTheHeadlines 2004 deployment]] [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerro [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror to the "Triangle of Death" in southern Iraq.]]
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2006 play by Gregory Burke based on a series of interviews conducted with soldiers from the Black Watch regiment about their deployment to the "Triangle of Death" in southern Iraq.
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2006 play by Gregory Burke based on a series of interviews conducted with soldiers from the Black Watch regiment about their deployment [[RippedFromTheHeadlines 2004 deployment]] [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerro to the "Triangle of Death" in southern Iraq.
Iraq.]]
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* HaveWeMet: Once he's got him pinned down, Fraz asks Gav, the embedded journalist, if he knows him from Burntisland.
* LocalSoundtrack: The play includes [[PublicDomainSoundtrack folk songs]] like ''The Gallant Forty Twa'' and ''The Forfar Soldier,'' which mention place names in the Tayside and Fife region where the regiment is based.
* LocalSoundtrack: The play includes [[PublicDomainSoundtrack folk songs]] like ''The Gallant Forty Twa'' and ''The Forfar Soldier,'' which mention place names in the Tayside and Fife region where the regiment is based.
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* PretentiousPronunciation: Being a Scottish aristocrat with an English accent, Lord Elgin tried to recruit local men into the regiment to fight by regaling them of tales of the Battle of "Byannackba[[TrrrillingRrrs rrr]]n".
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The play includes folk songs like ''The Gallant Forty Twa'' and ''The Forfar Soldier.''
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The play includes folk songs like ''The Gallant Forty Twa'' and ''The Forfar Soldier.''
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* PretentiousPronunciation: Being a Scottish aristocrat with an English accent, Lord Elgin tried to recruit local men into the regiment to fight by regaling them of tales of the Battle of "Byannackba[[TrrrillingRrrs rrr]]n". \n* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The play includes folk songs like ''The Gallant Forty Twa'' and ''The Forfar Soldier.''
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* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The play includes folk songs like ''The Gallant Forty Twa'' and ''The Forfar Soldier''
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* MommasBoy: Cammy doesn't want the journalists who've come to cover the regiment's deployment to film him smoking because his mum will kill him.
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* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The cast sing ''The Gallant Forty Twa'', ''The Forfar Soldier''
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* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The cast sing play includes folk songs like ''The Gallant Forty Twa'', Twa'' and ''The Forfar Soldier''
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* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: The whole play is based on comparing the soldiers' first-hand experiences to what the public sees of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror in the news. This trope is pointedly parodied in a scene where a group of miners are recruited to fight in the [[UsefulNotes/WordWarOne First World War]] with promises of travel, guns, football and exotic women.
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* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: The whole play is based on comparing the soldiers' first-hand experiences to what the public sees of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror in the news. This trope is pointedly parodied in a scene where a group of miners are recruited to fight in the [[UsefulNotes/WordWarOne [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI First World War]] with promises of travel, guns, football and exotic women.
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* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: The whole play is based on comparing the soldiers' first-hand experiences to what the public sees of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror in the news. This trope is pointedly parodied in a scene where a group of miners are recruited to fight in the [[UsefulNotes/WordWarI First World War]] with promises of travel, guns, football and exotic women.
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* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: The whole play is based on comparing the soldiers' first-hand experiences to what the public sees of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror in the news. This trope is pointedly parodied in a scene where a group of miners are recruited to fight in the [[UsefulNotes/WordWarI [[UsefulNotes/WordWarOne First World War]] with promises of travel, guns, football and exotic women.
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* JoinTheArmyTheySaid
* PretentiousPronunciation: Being a Scottish aristocrat with an English accent, Lord Elgin tried to recruit local men into the regiment to fight in the First World War by regaling them of tales of the Battle of "Byannackba[[TrrrillingRrrs rrr]]n".
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The cast sing ''The Gallant Forty Twa'', a RealLife folk song about the Black Watch.
* PretentiousPronunciation: Being a Scottish aristocrat with an English accent, Lord Elgin tried to recruit local men into the regiment to fight in the First World War by regaling them of tales of the Battle of "Byannackba[[TrrrillingRrrs rrr]]n".
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The cast sing ''The Gallant Forty Twa'', a RealLife folk song about the Black Watch.
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* JoinTheArmyTheySaid
JoinTheArmyTheySaid: The whole play is based on comparing the soldiers' first-hand experiences to what the public sees of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror in the news. This trope is pointedly parodied in a scene where a group of miners are recruited to fight in the [[UsefulNotes/WordWarI First World War]] with promises of travel, guns, football and exotic women.
* PretentiousPronunciation: Being a Scottish aristocrat with an English accent, Lord Elgin tried to recruit local men into the regiment to fightin the First World War by regaling them of tales of the Battle of "Byannackba[[TrrrillingRrrs rrr]]n".
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The cast sing ''The Gallant Forty Twa'',a RealLife folk song about the Black Watch.''The Forfar Soldier''
* PretentiousPronunciation: Being a Scottish aristocrat with an English accent, Lord Elgin tried to recruit local men into the regiment to fight
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The cast sing ''The Gallant Forty Twa'',
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2006 play by Gregory Burke based on a series of interviews conducted with soldiers from the Black Watch regiment about their deployment to the "Triangle of Death" in southern Iraq.
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* JoinTheArmyTheySaid
* PretentiousPronunciation: Being a Scottish aristocrat with an English accent, Lord Elgin tried to recruit local men into the regiment to fight in the First World War by regaling them of tales of the Battle of "Byannackba[[TrrrillingRrrs rrr]]n".
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The cast sing ''The Gallant Forty Twa'', a RealLife folk song about the Black Watch.
!!Provides examples of:
* JoinTheArmyTheySaid
* PretentiousPronunciation: Being a Scottish aristocrat with an English accent, Lord Elgin tried to recruit local men into the regiment to fight in the First World War by regaling them of tales of the Battle of "Byannackba[[TrrrillingRrrs rrr]]n".
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The cast sing ''The Gallant Forty Twa'', a RealLife folk song about the Black Watch.
