Doomsday
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The Extraction Team
Sinclair
Major Eden Sinclair
Played By: Rhona Mitra
"I'll tell you what I lost: I lost my bloody mind."
- Action Girl: Sinclair is a formidable warrior with Nerves of Steel who rarely shows fear. She can take down multiple assailants and even a knight in full armour.
- Brave Scot: She was one of the last refugees from Scotland before it was walled off.
- Deadpan Snarker: It comes with being a female version of Snake Plissken
- Expy / Distaff Counterpart: According to
Word of God, is supposed to be one to Snake Plissken. - Electronic Eyes: She has a cybernetic eye, which doubles as a camera.
- Eye Scream: One of her eyes was shot out when she was a child.
- Klingon Promotion: To leader of the cannibals after Sol is killed.
Norton
Sergeant Norton
Played By: Adrian Lester
- Sacrificial Lion: He's killed during the escape from Kane's castle, about twenty minutes before the end of the movie.
- Sergeant Rock: Norton is a veteran soldier with lots of combat experience who remains a reliable backup for Eden in most of the action scenes.
Stirling
Dr Ben Stirling
Played By: Darren Morfitt
"There's always hope."
- The Smart Guy: One of the two scientists in the team.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: As his quote illustrates.
Talbot
Dr Talbot
Played By: Sean Pertwee
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: As he's being dragged out and can you really blame him? Despite this, he manages to be Defiant to the End.
- Dying Curse: "Bitch!" (spits)
- Cruel and Unusual Death: He is graphically cooked alive by cannibals.
- Kill It with Fire: Cooked alive by cannibals.
- The Smart Guy: One of the two scientists on the team.
Miller
Miller
Played By: Chris Robson
- Shout-Out: His name is a reference to George Miller, an inspiration for the film.
Carpenter
Carpenter
Played By: Leslie Simpson
- Shout-Out: Her name is a reference to John Carpenter, an inspiration for the film.
Read
- Played By: Nora Jane Noone
- Awesome Personnel Carrier: Read drives a well-armed APC that provides some support to the ground team early on.
- Mauve Shirt: She takes an arrow through the throat barely ten minutes into the mission, despite having some impressive scenes earlier on.
United Kingdom Government
Nelson
Bill Nelson
Played By: Bob Hoskins
"You carry on the way you're going, you're going to wind up one seriously fucked up individual."
- Deadpan Snarker: It is Bob Hoskins, after all.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Even Canaris is impressed by his aim.
- Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Canaris compliments him on his aiming skills for a shot that accidentally splatters PM Hatcher with Reaper-infected blood. Nelson is apalled.
Hatcher
Prime Minister John Hatcher
Played By: Alexander Siddig
"...they'll be lining up to kiss my arse for that cure."
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: The resemblance between his name and "Thatcher" can't be accidental.
- Driven to Suicide: Kills himself after being infected with the Reaper Virus and quarantined.
- Puppet King: It's clear that Canaris is the one who really calls the shots.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: He greatly resembles Tony Blair.
Canaris
Michael Canaris
Played By: David O’Hara
"Leave the dying to die."
- Evil Sounds Raspy: Listen to him for five minutes and you'll want a glass of water for your sympathetic vocal cords.
- The Sociopath: He would let the Reaper Virus ravage London and not use the cure as a form of population control and for profit.
Scotland
Kane
Marcus Kane
Played By: Malcolm McDowell
"They started this fire. They can burn in it!"
- Abusive Parent: He tortures his own daughter with a hot iron.
- Name of Cain: His last name is Kane, rather fitting for a villain.
- Mad Scientist: Well, he used to be a scientist, but he is definitely mad.
- Large Ham: It is Malcolm McDowell, after all.
Sol
Sol Kane
Played By: Craig Conway
"This is our city! Whoever they send here, we're gonna catch 'em, we're gonna cook 'em, and we're gonna eat 'em!"
- Antagonistic Offspring: He turns against his father Marcus Kane.
- Ax-Crazy: He is utterly batshit insane, and beats people up for not talking to him, then beats them up for talking to him. He gets even worse in the climax, which he mostly spends roaring in fury.
- Large Ham: 'WE'RE GONNA CATCH 'EM! COOK 'EM! AND EAT 'EEEEEEEM!
- Violent Glaswegian: Scottish, and a violent homicidal lunatic.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Never puts a shirt on. Huh.
Viper
Viper
Played By: Lee-Anne Liebenberg
- Dark Action Girl: One of the most badass in all of cinema.
- The Quiet One: She only has one line during the movie, which somehow only manages to add to her awesome.
Cally
Cally Kane
Played By: MyAnna Buring
- Action Survivor: Cally isn't an Action Girl at the level of people like Eden, Viper, and Read, but she survives until the end of the film and does manages to help out in some fights, like by reaching through the bars of her cell to restrain Viper during her duel with Eden.
- White Sheep: Cally's father and brother are both brutal Wasteland Warlords, but she's a Nice Girl who wants the best for the people trapped behind the wall.
