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* HilariousInHindsight: "Sparkly eyes technique" sounds an awful lot like ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''.
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* HilariousInHindsight: "Sparkly eyes technique" sounds an awful lot like ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.

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* HilariousInHindsight: "Sparkly eyes technique" sounds an awful lot like ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: While it's most likely no coincidence that Ewan [=McGregor=] constantly talks about Jedi, the real organization covered actually did use Star Wars references.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The movie was released shortly before the Fort Hood shootings, making the scene where Pendleton fires a gun wildly at soldiers in a base significantly harsher.
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** Except for the MindRape torture.

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** Except for the MindRape torture.torture -- and making a soldier kill himself while trying MK-ULTRA brainwashing with LSD.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome[=/=]EarWorm: The use of Boston's "More Than A Feeling" at the end.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome[=/=]EarWorm: SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The use of Boston's "More Than A Feeling" at the end.

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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The Silence of the Goats.



* HilariousInHindsight: "Sparkly eyes technique" sounds an awful lot like ''{{Twilight}}''.

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* HilariousInHindsight: "Sparkly eyes technique" sounds an awful lot like ''{{Twilight}}''.''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.



** Except for the MindRape torture.

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** Except for the MindRape torture.
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* CrowningMomentofFunny: The Silence of the Goats.

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* CrowningMomentofFunny: CrowningMomentOfFunny: The Silence of the Goats.



* StrawmanHasAPoint: Bill Django searches for a way to "make their gentleness their strength" and learn how to blend peace and non-violence into the military, and minimize the killing and violence of war. Toward this goal, he builds a disorganized, cloistered, mostly ineffective idiosyncratic mess. Then the horrible and nasty [[BigBad Hooper]] steps in, takes control of the unit away from him, and creates from it a company which.. uses psychological research, propaganda techniques, and gadgetry to devise non-violent and peaceful methods to minimize the killing and violence of war. Hooper's work seemed much more promising toward keeping people from being senselessly killed and terrorized, and seemed very close to many of the ideals that had been expressed by Lyn.

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* StrawmanHasAPoint: Bill Django searches for a way to "make their gentleness their strength" and learn how to blend peace and non-violence into the military, and minimize the killing and violence of war. Toward this goal, he builds a disorganized, cloistered, mostly ineffective idiosyncratic mess. Then the horrible and nasty [[BigBad Hooper]] steps in, takes control of the unit away from him, and creates from it a company which..which... uses psychological research, propaganda techniques, and gadgetry to devise non-violent and peaceful methods to minimize the killing and violence of war. Hooper's work seemed much more promising toward keeping people from being senselessly killed and terrorized, and seemed very close to many of the ideals that had been expressed by Lyn.
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** Except for the MindRape torture.
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** If by "non-violent and peaceful methods," you mean "torture and brainwashing," (not to mention [[DrivenToSuicide driving a cadet into killing himself]]), then, yes, he uses such methods.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Colonel Quaritch from Film/''{{Avatar}}''.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: Colonel Quaritch from Film/''{{Avatar}}''.''Film/{{Avatar}}''.
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** If by "non-violent and peaceful methods," you mean "torture and brainwashing," (not to mention [[DrivenToSuicide driving a cadet into killing himself), then, yes, he uses such methods.

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** If by "non-violent and peaceful methods," you mean "torture and brainwashing," (not to mention [[DrivenToSuicide driving a cadet into killing himself), himself]]), then, yes, he uses such methods.
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** If by "non-violent and peaceful methods," you mean "torture and brainwashing," then, yes, he uses such methods.

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** If by "non-violent and peaceful methods," you mean "torture and brainwashing," (not to mention [[DrivenToSuicide driving a cadet into killing himself), then, yes, he uses such methods.
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* HilariousInHindsight: "Sparkly eyes technique" sounds an awful lot like ''{{Twilight}}''.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: Bill Django searches for a way to "make their gentleness their strength" and learn how to blend peace and non-violence into the military, and minimize the killing and violence of war. Toward this goal, he builds a disorganized, cloistered, mostly ineffective idiosyncratic mess. Then the horrible and nasty [[BigBad Hooper]] steps in, takes control of the unit away from him, and creates from it a company which.. uses psychological research, propaganda techniques, and gadgetry to devise non-violent and peaceful methods to minimize the killing and violence of war. Hooper's work seemed much more promising toward keeping people from being senselessly killed and terrorized, and seemed very close to many of the ideals that had been expressed by Lyn.

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* StrawmanHasAPoint: Bill Django searches for a way to "make their gentleness their strength" and learn how to blend peace and non-violence into the military, and minimize the killing and violence of war. Toward this goal, he builds a disorganized, cloistered, mostly ineffective idiosyncratic mess. Then the horrible and nasty [[BigBad Hooper]] steps in, takes control of the unit away from him, and creates from it a company which.. uses psychological research, propaganda techniques, and gadgetry to devise non-violent and peaceful methods to minimize the killing and violence of war. Hooper's work seemed much more promising toward keeping people from being senselessly killed and terrorized, and seemed very close to many of the ideals that had been expressed by Lyn.Lyn.
** If by "non-violent and peaceful methods," you mean "torture and brainwashing," then, yes, he uses such methods.
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* WallBanger: [[spoiler:Redemption's all well and fine, but when your spirit-saving journey leads you to [[TooDumbToLive drug a platoon of highly armed soldiers who have no idea what to expect and who are in an active warzone,]] you've essentially committed a war crime. Thankfully, [[RealityEnsues reality did not ensue.]]]]
** Made more {{Egregious}} because the protagonist should have known the consequences ahead of time. [[spoiler:The first time LSD was used in the film, the JerkAss dark side Jedi used it on another soldier as part of an unsanctioned test. The soldier then freaked out, took his pistol, shot at hundreds of unarmed troops (which he miraculously missed,) and then committed suicide.]]

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* WallBanger: [[spoiler:Redemption's all well and fine, but when your spirit-saving journey leads you to [[TooDumbToLive drug a platoon CrowningMusicOfAwesome[=/=]EarWorm: The use of highly armed Boston's "More Than A Feeling" at the end.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The movie was released shortly before the Fort Hood shootings, making the scene where Pendleton fires a gun wildly at
soldiers who in a base significantly harsher.
* MoralEventHorizon: Hooper is shown to
have no idea what to expect and who are in an active warzone,]] you've essentially committed a war crime. Thankfully, [[RealityEnsues reality did not ensue.]]]]
** Made more {{Egregious}} because
crossed it when he [[spoiler:tested the protagonist should have known CIA MK ULTRA experiments on a young new recruit which led to the consequences ahead of time. [[spoiler:The first time LSD was used in the film, the JerkAss dark side Jedi used it on another soldier as part of an unsanctioned test. The soldier then freaked out, took his pistol, shot at hundreds of unarmed troops (which he miraculously missed,) man's suicide, and then committed suicide.]]let Bill take the blame]].
* StrawmanHasAPoint: Bill Django searches for a way to "make their gentleness their strength" and learn how to blend peace and non-violence into the military, and minimize the killing and violence of war. Toward this goal, he builds a disorganized, cloistered, mostly ineffective idiosyncratic mess. Then the horrible and nasty [[BigBad Hooper]] steps in, takes control of the unit away from him, and creates from it a company which.. uses psychological research, propaganda techniques, and gadgetry to devise non-violent and peaceful methods to minimize the killing and violence of war. Hooper's work seemed much more promising toward keeping people from being senselessly killed and terrorized, and seemed very close to many of the ideals that had been expressed by Lyn.
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** Made more {{Egregious}} because the protagonist should have known the consequences ahead of time. [[spoiler:The first time LSD was used in the film, the JerkAss dark side Jedi used it on another soldier as part of an unsanctioned test. The soldier then freaked out, took his pistol, shot at hundreds of unarmed troops (which he miraculously missed,) and then committed suicide.]]
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* WallBanger: [[spoiler:Redemption's all well and fine, but when your spirit-saving journey leads you to [[TooDumbToLive drug a platoon of ''highly armed soldiers who have no idea what to expect'' and who are ''in an active warzone'',]] you've essentially committed a war crime. Thankfully, [[RealityEnsues reality did not ensue.]]]]

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* WallBanger: [[spoiler:Redemption's all well and fine, but when your spirit-saving journey leads you to [[TooDumbToLive drug a platoon of ''highly highly armed soldiers who have no idea what to expect'' expect and who are ''in in an active warzone'',]] warzone,]] you've essentially committed a war crime. Thankfully, [[RealityEnsues reality did not ensue.]]]]

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