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Black Hawk Down

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Black Hawk Down	comment	Black Hawk Down is a 2001 war film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, directed by Ridley Scott, and based on the nonfiction book of the same title by Mark Bowden. The film depicts the Battle of Mogadishu, a 1993 raid integral to the United States' effort to capture Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The movie features Josh Hartnett, Tom Sizemore, Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, Kim Coates, Ewen Bremner, William Fichtner, Sam Shepard, Jason Isaacs, Glenn Morshower, and Orlando Bloom among many, many others.In a raid, a task force of Delta Force soldiers, Army Rangers, and Special Operations Aviation Regiment attempt to capture two of Mohammed Farah Aidid's senior subordinates in the Bakaara Market neighborhood of Mogadishu. The mission is led by Major General William F. Garrison and was supposed to take no more than one hour. The extraction by the Delta team is successful, but the Somali militia, armed with RPGs, shot down two Black Hawk helicopters, and the resulting rescue extends the mission to over 15 hours.
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Black Hawk Down / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
Black Hawk Down / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License – Gun Safety: Discussed early in the film when Steele chides Hoot for carrying his carbine with the safety off, only for Hoot to respond that his trigger finger is the safety. Somewhat subverted as the book explains that Hoot had previously cleared the weapon and dropped the hammer. AR pattern rifles actually can’t be put on safe with their hammers down.
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Black Hawk Down / int_128e4ba8	type	Gatling Good
Black Hawk Down / int_128e4ba8	comment	Gatling Good: The Little Bird and Black Hawk choppers are both equipped with miniguns, which basically shred their targets into meaty ribbons.
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Black Hawk Down / int_170128e9	type	Right Behind Me
Black Hawk Down / int_170128e9	comment	Right Behind Me: SGT Pilla is entertaining a group of Rangers by pacing back and forth, mock-lecturing them in the style of Captain Steele. Suddenly all of the men stop laughing.
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Black Hawk Down / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Black Hawk Down / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Although some of the things done by the American forces in the movie seem stupid or absurd, they make more sense in the book where the author explains that, up to that point, typical missions lasted no more than an hour. For example, the Rangers dumped the weight of armor plates and water in favor of more ammo because they would be pulling security (and thus have a man guarding their rear at all times) and be riding on helicopters to the objective, not exactly an intense activity. It was a case of falling into habits after a long deployment.
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Black Hawk Down / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Black Hawk Down / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Courtesy of LTC Gary Harrell : "Black Hawk down, we have a Black Hawk down."
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Black Hawk Down / int_19df659c	type	Gone Horribly Wrong
Black Hawk Down / int_19df659c	comment	Gone Horribly Wrong: The mission was supposed to last thirty minutes (technically, it does- the objective is completed early in the film. The problem is the chaos that results from that objective).
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Black Hawk Down / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
Black Hawk Down / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: In the book, after the bodies of a helicopter crew are mutilated after crashing, a fellow Black Hawk crewman vowed that he would scream one of their names each time he killed a Somali. "The D-boys in back kept looking up at him, wondering what he was doing."
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Black Hawk Down / int_1bf47ada	type	The Medic
Black Hawk Down / int_1bf47ada	comment	The Medic: Two of them during the battle, one of whom, notably, was an Air Force Pararescueman in Real Life.
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Black Hawk Down / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
Black Hawk Down / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: The MH-6 Little Bird helicopters, which make gun and rocket attacks that kill literally dozens of militia.
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Black Hawk Down / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Black Hawk Down / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Nelson and Twombly are rarely seen apart and provide some much needed comic relief.
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Black Hawk Down / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
Black Hawk Down / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Of particular note, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare features two levels highly reminiscent of the film: in one, the player and his fellow US Marines are deployed via Blackhawk helicopters (despite the Blackhawk not being part of the Marine's TO&E), and another, where the player must rescue a downed helicopter pilot from an enraged militia group; for bonus points there's a similar line ("We have a Cobra down, we have a Cobra down"), she's even armed with an MP5, and this also ends in a Senseless Sacrifice for everyone.
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Black Hawk Down / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Black Hawk Down / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Gallentine almost loses his thumb and just tapes it to his hand to keep it in place.
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Black Hawk Down / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Black Hawk Down / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: General Garrison wanted light armor and gunship supportnote notably an AC-130 for his men, but the request was denied so they were stuck with Humvees, Black Hawks and Little Birds.note In reality it was bureaucrats at the Pentagon itself who, having initially assigned some guships to the UN operation, pulled them out again before they had done more than blow up a few warehouses and driven Aidid underground. The Quick Reaction Force is portrayed this way in the movie, when, upset that they were not informed of the raid, it takes them a little longer than it should to get all their forces assembled. In Real Life, they were informed of the raid, and were scrambling to get to both crash sites the second they were called (which was mere minutes after the first crash), but due to the Somalian Militia blocking off roads and setting up ambushes, they had to go all the way around the city, which took several hours. They were truly distressed that they weren't able to get to either crash site sooner.
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Black Hawk Down / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Black Hawk Down / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: How Nelson and Twombly wind up separated from the rest of the Rangers and Deltas. They were supposed to hold a corner and then exit with the Humvees. However when the convoy leaves the target building, Nelson and Twombly are forgotten. When Nelson, Twombly, and Yurek leave the vicinity of the target building to go to the Super Six One crash site, they apparently don't hear Galentine trying to raise them on coms. note In real life, the chalk's radioman was PFC Jason Moore, who couldn't talk to anybody on his backpack radio. When he fast-roped from the helicopter, Moore unknowingly had the wire to his radio mike between his rifle stock and the rope, and friction burned it through. Zigzagged in a deleted scene, in which a Ranger machine gunner does notice armed men moving inside a nearby building and opens fire... nearly hitting Sanderson and his fellow Delta operators, who were the source of said movement.
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Black Hawk Down / int_2470d8fd	type	Steel Ear Drums
Black Hawk Down / int_2470d8fd	comment	Steel Ear Drums: Averted. Nelson is left mostly deaf for the rest of the movie after a 5.56mm M249 squad automatic weapon is fired from within a foot from his head. Subverted at another point in the film; Grimes barely dodges a Somali RPG and is knocked off his feet and partially buried by the dirt churned up by the blast. When a Delta digs him up, the viewer sees things from Grimes' perspective, including temporarily distorted audio due to the blast momentarily deafening him.
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Black Hawk Down / int_2473b050	type	Fast-Roping
Black Hawk Down / int_2473b050	comment	Fast-Roping: The first sign there's something wrong occurs when a green squad member attempts this trope but misses because the chopper had to dodge an RPG. In the book the film's based on, there's no RPG and no swerve, he just has a hand/eye coordination moment.
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Black Hawk Down / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Black Hawk Down / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: The Rangers tend to use "hooah" almost as a punctuation mark, which is Truth in Television, as "Hooah" can, depending on context and tone, mean anything and everything except "No."
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Black Hawk Down / int_278a8f2b	type	ChildSoldier
Black Hawk Down / int_278a8f2b	comment	A Child Soldier who tries to shoot Yurek winds up shooting his father when Yurek slips and falls while walking through a doorway.
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Black Hawk Down / int_2c3e4769	type	No-Harm Requirement
Black Hawk Down / int_2c3e4769	comment	No-Harm Requirement: Both the book and the movie detail an effort by Army Rangers and Airborne Ops to capture alive two Elite Mooks of a Somali warlord. The good news: they bag the two objectives intact. The bad news: Airborne unit Six-One goes down, and a simple extraction mission goes From Bad to Worse.
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Black Hawk Down / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Black Hawk Down / int_336c1a31	comment	Kinda Busy Here:
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Black Hawk Down / int_34260591	type	Impromptu Tracheotomy
Black Hawk Down / int_34260591	comment	Impromptu Tracheotomy: Sgt. Dominick Pilla becomes the first American fatality when he gets shot in the throat while manning a Humvee turret.
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Black Hawk Down / int_37707f7a	type	It's Cuban
Black Hawk Down / int_37707f7a	comment	It's Cuban: While being interrogated by Army Intelligence to learn where insurrectionist warlord Muhammad Aidid is hiding, Osman Ali Atto calmly smokes a cigar which he mentions is a genuine Cuban, given to him by Castro's emissaries for keeping the renegade factions supplied with weapons.
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Black Hawk Down / int_3909db4f	type	Failed State
Black Hawk Down / int_3909db4f	comment	Failed State: The film dramatizes the US Army's effort to remove violent warlords from Somalia, where bands of thugs are hoarding relief supplies meant for the sick and starving people. As was true in real life, the government of Somalia exists pretty much in name only, with the rival warlords having carved up the country into fiefdoms, with their armed militias imposing thug law on the helpless masses.
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Black Hawk Down / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Black Hawk Down / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: The Delta operators all wear off-the-shelf hockey helmets instead of the kevlar helmets the Rangers use because their missions usually involve raiding houses; the main threat to their heads is bumping them on the low doorways, the hockey helmets are more comfortable, and they're lighter. However, they are also not bulletproof. The Somali militia knows that the troops are coming by simply having a kid sit at an overlook of the airport and call on a cell phone when he sees the helicopters have taken off.
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Black Hawk Down / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Black Hawk Down / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: If you've read about the battle, you already know who's going to die and who's going to survive, and that the UN mission overall will fail.
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Black Hawk Down / int_3cb9ed4d	type	Bulletproof Vest
Black Hawk Down / int_3cb9ed4d	comment	Bulletproof Vest: Played straight. Armored plating only works if you wear it. In one tragic case recounted in the book, this would prove to be the death of one Ranger who had been trying to emulate a Delta's method of taking cover without understanding the why of the method - causing the Ranger to expose his unprotected back. In the film, this overconfident Ranger is Joyce.
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Black Hawk Down / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
Black Hawk Down / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: The Pentagon pressured the screenwriter to give this to Ewan McGregor's character, SPC John "Grimsey" Grimes, who was based on SPC John Stebbins. The real-life Stebbins was sentenced to thirty years in prison for raping his six year old daughter.
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Black Hawk Down / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Black Hawk Down / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: One of the helicopters unleashes a hail of minigun fire to ward off some Somalis on a rooftop. Unfortunately Eversmann is crouching directly underneath the helicopter and receives superficial burns from the spent shell casings; it takes fire to shoot a gun.
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Black Hawk Down / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Black Hawk Down / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The battle went horribly wrong (and caused Bill Clinton to take the troops out of Somalia), but the Rangers and Deltas still managed to get out of Mogadishu by the next day, preventing more losses on either side.
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Black Hawk Down / int_40da7cc9	type	Urban Warfare
Black Hawk Down / int_40da7cc9	comment	Urban Warfare: One of the few modern depictions of this trope prior to works based on the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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Black Hawk Down / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Black Hawk Down / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: The strategy employed by the lightly armed mobs, who were only nominally under warlord control. The paramilitary forces (none of the warlords had access to a real, regular army) controlled directly by the warlords were better equipped, trained, and led, if only by comparison, and were responsible for the downings of the Blackhawks and most of the pressure put on Eversmann's strongpoint throughout the night. Gordon and Shughart are elite Delta Force snipers, career soldiers who are the absolute best of the best. But they're still two guys who, alongside the wounded and immobile Durant, are fighting an armed mob with hundreds of people in it. It's clear that they don't last particularly long defending the crash site, and even before the two of them are gunned down, they're almost completely out of ammo. All they had was their service rifles and sidearms, plus whatever could be salvaged from the crash site itself. The real Mike Durant said in a lecture he gave that the mob overran them in about fifteen minutes.
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Black Hawk Down / int_446c5792	type	Villainous Rescue
Black Hawk Down / int_446c5792	comment	Villainous Rescue: After Durant is captured, the Somalis look ready to finish him off. Just then, members of Aidid's militia show up and claim him before they can kill him, firing a warning burst of gunfire to order the mob to stand down and back off. Granted, it's just so they can have a hostage to negotiate with, but it beats the certain death Durant would've faced otherwise.
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Black Hawk Down / int_44bd31e2	type	Trope Codifier
Black Hawk Down / int_44bd31e2	comment	Trope Codifier: Set the image of modern warfare for virtually every movie or video game that came after it.
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Black Hawk Down / int_454fd2d	type	Bang, Bang, BANG
Black Hawk Down / int_454fd2d	comment	Bang, Bang, BANG: Averted. The sound of the minigun is accurately portrayed (its actual rate of fire and lethality, however, are grossly inferior to the real thing). The latter is actually fairly common in films and television, as a real minigun's barrels spin so fast a camera wouldn't be able to register their motion, and they'd appear completely stationary.
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Black Hawk Down / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Black Hawk Down / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Captain Steele tends to be a bit of a Jerkass, giving condescending lectures to Delta Operators who he considers Mildly Military. At the same time, it's obvious that he acts out of concern for his men's well being, and he tends to come off as A Father to His Mennote The book makes it clear that Delta's methods do not work with the more traditional infantry role that the Rangers fulfill. He was trying to discourage his Rangers from doing the same sorts of things that Delta Operators did, because while Delta was extremely effective in their missions and seriously elite, the Rangers had a different mission to perform. The Delta force also tended to be older soldiers with combat experience whilst many of Steele's Rangers were teenagers straight from training. Hoot in particular stands out as he seems more than a little callous about the whole conflict, and about the lives lost, not to mention his disregard for firearms safety. However, he is just hyper-professional, and encourages Eversmann not to doubt himself or how he handled the mission. In his last scene, he more or less says that the reason he fights is for the sake of the guy next to him. And then he puts the jerkass demeanour invoked back on, telling an (obviously exhausted and strung-out) Eversman not to try and go back out with him, because he works better alone.
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Black Hawk Down / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Black Hawk Down / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn
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Black Hawk Down / int_49d5dd74	type	"Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate
Black Hawk Down / int_49d5dd74	comment	"Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate: A heated argument between soldiers near the beginning of the movie over whether or not "limo" is a real word, regardless of its presence or absence in the dictionary, and therefore legal to use in a game of Scrabblenote in case you're wondering, "limo" is legal to play in the game.
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Black Hawk Down / int_4cbc7f95	type	Blasting It Out of Their Hands
Black Hawk Down / int_4cbc7f95	comment	Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Happens to Specialist Gallentine, who practically loses a thumb in the process (it's only hanging on by a shred of skin).
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Black Hawk Down / int_54433ca1	type	The Idealist
Black Hawk Down / int_54433ca1	comment	The Idealist: SGT Eversmann. He receives some good-natured ribbing from his fellow Rangers over his being a dyed-in-the-wool believer in America's mission to help the Somali people.
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Black Hawk Down / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Black Hawk Down / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: Has its own page.
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Black Hawk Down / int_5a8f3057	type	Hand Signals
Black Hawk Down / int_5a8f3057	comment	Hand Signals: To be expected in a film like this. Special mention goes to Hoot's coordinating the takedown of a technical gunner with an elaborate series of hand signals.
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Black Hawk Down / int_5bad2ab4	type	Military Maverick
Black Hawk Down / int_5bad2ab4	comment	Military Maverick: Special Forces units. The book details how these could cause friction with more conventional units... which ended up having some negative consequences in the field.
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Black Hawk Down / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Black Hawk Down / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: The politics of war and armed conflict are irrelevant in the face of life and death, these things are endemic to the human condition, and real heroism doesn't come from medals or glory, but rather fighting to defend something.
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Black Hawk Down / int_5f60b45a	type	In Harm's Way
Black Hawk Down / int_5f60b45a	comment	In Harm's Way:
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Black Hawk Down / int_6056f853	type	Homoerotic Subtext
Black Hawk Down / int_6056f853	comment	Homoerotic Subtext: Invoked by two Blackhawk pilots as Wolcott and Durant argue over the legitimacy of the word "Limo" in a game of Scrabble:
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Black Hawk Down / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Black Hawk Down / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: Sanderson tells Grimes to "stay off the walls" with no explanation. If you are leaning against a wall in a firefight, two things might happen: bullets striking the wall at a shallow angle might end up traveling along the wall and hit you, or an explosion will go off nearby and the wall will shake hard enough from the recoil to violently smash into you.
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Black Hawk Down / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Black Hawk Down / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart, the two Delta operators that go to help Durant take him from the chopper and place him in a nearby building, then go back to defend the chopper. This doesn't make much sense until you realize they didn't have enough men to guard the building. They were drawing the militia fighters away from Durant by using themselves as bait. However, it does almost end up becoming a Senseless Sacrifice, considering Durant got captured by the Somali militia anyway. Almost, in that they thinned out the armed crowd and it ended up mainly being unarmed Somalis who beat on Durant. He was then spared by Aidid's propaganda minister who decided to take him as a hostage. He was also helped by not being armed at the time of his abduction. In the book, it becomes significantly more clear that they knew exactly what they were doing by going in on foot. They didn't have a chance of extraction by helicopter, and they were aware that the pilot (Durant) was unable to move fast enough to be extracted by foot. They went in knowing that there was a good chance they would be overrun by the hundreds of militia members they could see from their vantage point in the helicopter, and they did it anyway. There's a reason they were both awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions.
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Black Hawk Down / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Black Hawk Down / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Near the end of the film, one of the Deltas is loading up to go back out to try to rescue those still out there (such as Durant) and Eversmann starts to do the same only to be stopped by the Delta who tells him he works better alone. As the Delta soldier walks away, the stress of battle finally hits Eversmann and he weeps visibly.
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Black Hawk Down / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Black Hawk Down / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: A rare non-comedy example. An officer from the 10th Mountain Division tells Colonel McKnight that between the 10th Mountain and the UN troops, the relief force will have more than enough manpower to get to the crash sites and retrieve the Rangers. McKnight's men don't need to go back out into the city. The very next shot is McKnight climbing into a Humvee at the head of the convoy, before rolling back out, passing the UN tanks standing guard at the entrance to the stadium.
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Black Hawk Down / int_68333a8b	type	Elite Army
Black Hawk Down / int_68333a8b	comment	Elite Army: 18 Americans died. Contrast that with the 1000-2000 Somalis killed.
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Black Hawk Down / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Black Hawk Down / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: During the battle, Grimes manages to make some coffee and gives it to Sgt. Sanderson. After the battle, Sanderson tries to return the favor but can only find tea. Before they leave on the mission, Eversmann tells Smith he needs him to watch his back out there, Smith replies with "It's nothing." When Smith is about to bleed to death during the battle later on, he assures Eversmann with the same phrase.
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Black Hawk Down / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Black Hawk Down / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Eversmann, The Everyman. Surprisingly shallow in any character building details, never been in a firefight, somewhat more thoughtful about culture and the war in Somalia than his fellow Rangers. His main role in the movie is to give the audience someone they can relate to who interacts with most of the film's other characters. Similarly, the commander back at the headquarters is named Garrison. Of course, both people were Real Life participants in the battle.
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Black Hawk Down / int_6ec1393a	type	Mission Creep
Black Hawk Down / int_6ec1393a	comment	Mission Creep: The film is set during the Battle of Mogadishu, which was a Trope Namer for Mission Creep when journalist Jim Hoagaland described the term when covering the conflict, and it's tragically illustrated in a film about soldiers finding a reality that severely complicates and compromises their brief. The film displays dramatically the manner in which a seemingly normal mission quickly gets severely complicated.
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Black Hawk Down / int_6fbe85e6	type	Adaptation Personality Change
Black Hawk Down / int_6fbe85e6	comment	Adaptation Personality Change: The real Tommy McKnight has noted that he doesn't smoke and rarely shouts or swears, unlike how Tom Sizemore portrayed him in the film. He also didn't go out for the final extraction as he'd been ordered to stay put due to the severity of his neck wound rather than stubbornly insisting on being deployed.
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Black Hawk Down / int_70f7063d	type	Unflinching Walk
Black Hawk Down / int_70f7063d	comment	Unflinching Walk: Everytime McKnight's convoy stops, he gets out and strolls around, apparently oblivious to the bullets flying past his head, to find out what's wrong.
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Black Hawk Down / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
Black Hawk Down / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: At the very end of the film, Hoot is grabbing a bite to eat and gearing up to go back into the city on another mission, presumably to look for Durant, the helicopter pilot who was taken prisoner.
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Black Hawk Down / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
Black Hawk Down / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Rangers' helmets are PASGT helmets with desert camo covers, while Delta helmets are black sports helmets. Likewise, Rangers have olive drab or woodland green gear and Delta has black tactical vests.
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Black Hawk Down / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Black Hawk Down / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Nothing" / "It's nothing," and possibly "Don't go without me" are repeated throughout the movie.
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Black Hawk Down / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
Black Hawk Down / int_7969f21e	comment	No One Gets Left Behind: The movie's Catchphrase: "Leave No Man Behind", and accurately depicted as the Real Life policy of the Special Forces. Played With in the book, however. The book records several soldiers wondering about the wisdom of this policy as the efforts to free a dead pilot threatened to delay departure past sunrise, when the shooting would kick back in to high gear. Also, Aidid's fighters were banking on this tendency in the Americans. Yousuf Dahir Mo'alim told Bowden, for the book, that they felt the best way to hurt the Americans was to somehow shoot down one of the helicopters, which would make them rush to the scene where they could be attacked.
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Black Hawk Down / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
Black Hawk Down / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser: We occasionally see the Somalis' low-tech tactics. To neutralize the speed advantage of helicopters, they'd just have a kid hang around near the American base with a cell phone, who would call someone when a large group left, and then that person would have people start lighting tire fires, to act as a warning to Aidid's militia throughout the rest of the city that they were about to have company.
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Black Hawk Down / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
Black Hawk Down / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: The Dragon sarcastically claims that all Americans are Type 1, who don't drink, don't smoke, and live long, healthy, uninteresting lives.
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Black Hawk Down / int_7a7ec1e8	type	Violence is the Only Option
Black Hawk Down / int_7a7ec1e8	comment	Violence is the Only Option: "The only way to negotiate is to kill."
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Black Hawk Down / int_7b4cbce1	type	Headbutt of Love
Black Hawk Down / int_7b4cbce1	comment	Headbutt of Love: Non-romantic example. At the end of the movie, two Rangers who have just returned safely to their base do this as a sort of manly, utterly exhausted alternative to a hug. In real life, when done with helmets on, this is known as "Turtle Fucking".
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Black Hawk Down / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Black Hawk Down / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Twombly's attempt to gun down a trio of militiamen who sneak up on him and Nelson saves their lives but costs him in the long term. How? When Twombly, Yurek, and Nelson reach Eversmann's position, Nelson doesn't hear Twombly's instruction to turn back and cover him as he attempts to cross. The militiamen see them, Twombly's ammo bag gets shot burning him, Smith attempts to help Twombly, and receives fatal gunshot wounds.
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Black Hawk Down / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Black Hawk Down / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: The first thing CPT Steele does after catching SGT Pilla doing imitations of him is to acknowledge to the other Rangers of how funny it was. The second thing he does is put Pilla into a headlock and walk off with him explaining why he shouldn't undermine his authority like that.
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Black Hawk Down / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Black Hawk Down / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Captain Steele, to the point where one of his men is able to amuse a whole bunch of his men by doing imitations of him lecturing them for various perceived wrongs.
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Black Hawk Down / int_82f5ced1	type	Conservation of Ninjutsu
Black Hawk Down / int_82f5ced1	comment	Conservation of Ninjutsu: Justified because they're a Delta squad. Later subverted when the two Delta marksmen are finally overrun. Overall demonstrated with the casualty count of the battle in Real Life: The Americans took relatively light casualties compared to the Somali militias, largely because they had better training and air support. By the end of the fighting, the UN forces had lost 21 men (19 Americans, one Malaysian, one Pakistani), while the Somalis suffered over 1000 militia and civilians killed.
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Black Hawk Down / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Black Hawk Down / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: Two are featured in the film: A recoiless anti-tank rifle used by the militia and later by Delta Force, and the M2 .50 caliber machine guns on the Humvees, affectionately known to the US armed forces as the "Ma Deuce".
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Black Hawk Down / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Black Hawk Down / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: People have pointed out that the soldiers never use the downed helicopters' mounted miniguns to defend the crash sites. Miniguns do not work without electricity, making them functionally useless (although Shughart did use their ammunition to reload his M14).
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Black Hawk Down / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Black Hawk Down / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: Subverted with Mike Durant, who survives the conflict as a Somali hostage.
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Black Hawk Down / int_85c7446b	type	Collateral Damage
Black Hawk Down / int_85c7446b	comment	Collateral Damage: One of the Somali militiamen accidentally shoots his comrade with an RPG while trying to shoot Strucker's Humvees. A Child Soldier who tries to shoot Yurek winds up shooting his father when Yurek slips and falls while walking through a doorway. Another militiaman accidentally shoots one of the hostages while firing on the Lost Convoy. Narrowly averted when Nelson mistakes Yurek for a Somalian militiaman and nearly shoots him before Yurek can call out to them.
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Black Hawk Down / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Black Hawk Down / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Subverted/Mocked. Just about every character that makes one gets screwed by it. The Rangers in the hangar (preparing for takeoff) tell Grimes to leave his night vision goggles and canteens behind since they're not going to be gone long enough to need them; the strike force is so tough that no possibility of mission failure enters their minds. (Granted that the mission as planned was supposed to take only 30 minutes, but military planning is supposed to be about preparing for the worst-case scenario.) They also tell him to leave the rear ballistic plate out of his kevlar flak vest; supposedly he will only need it if he is running away from the enemy. The Rangers spend much of the movie surrounded and taking fire from all sides. The very worst Badass Boast comes from Private Blackburn, who tells Grimes, "I'm here to kick some ass." This is completely subverted as he misses the fast-rope after an RPG forces the Blackhawk to juke, falls from the helicopter, breaks his back, and is evacuated on a Hum-Vee without firing a single shot in battle.
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Black Hawk Down / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Black Hawk Down / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: The film is based on true events, so every trope depicted is pretty much true.
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Black Hawk Down / int_8c431fe4	type	Band of Brothers
Black Hawk Down / int_8c431fe4	comment	Hoot in particular stands out as he seems more than a little callous about the whole conflict, and about the lives lost, not to mention his disregard for firearms safety. However, he is just hyper-professional, and encourages Eversmann not to doubt himself or how he handled the mission. In his last scene, he more or less says that the reason he fights is for the sake of the guy next to him. And then he puts the jerkass demeanour invoked back on, telling an (obviously exhausted and strung-out) Eversman not to try and go back out with him, because he works better alone.
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Black Hawk Down / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Black Hawk Down / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Joyce gleefully boasts that he doesn't need the kevlar plate in the back of his vest since he "doesn't plan on getting shot in the back running away." It didn't work out so well for him...
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Black Hawk Down / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
Black Hawk Down / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: One of the Somali militiamen accidentally blows off the upper half of one of his comrades while trying to shoot one of Struecker's humvees with an RPG. Delta operator Wex, who loses the lower half of his body to an RPG.
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Black Hawk Down / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Black Hawk Down / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: After the offensive, General Garrison notices a pool of blood in the ground, tries to clean it up and makes it worse. A clear metaphor of how the US Military's actions just managed to escalate a bad situation, killing a whole bunch of people in the process.
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Black Hawk Down / int_931ac452	type	Color Animal Codename
Black Hawk Down / int_931ac452	comment	Color Animal Codename: The eponymous Black Hawk is a type of military helicopter that the US army used in the battle the film is about.
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Black Hawk Down / int_96475bb6	type	Awesome Personnel Carrier
Black Hawk Down / int_96475bb6	comment	General Garrison wanted light armor and gunship supportnote notably an AC-130 for his men, but the request was denied so they were stuck with Humvees, Black Hawks and Little Birds.note In reality it was bureaucrats at the Pentagon itself who, having initially assigned some guships to the UN operation, pulled them out again before they had done more than blow up a few warehouses and driven Aidid underground.
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Black Hawk Down / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Black Hawk Down / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Not many, but a notable one is Hoot comforting Sgt. Eversmann after they were unable to save Smith. Likewise, the scene where Aidid's propaganda minister gives Durant a thoughtful lecture on the nature of the conflict they're fighting is a real standout.
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Black Hawk Down / int_96b8e726	type	StockShoutOut
Black Hawk Down / int_96b8e726	comment	Stock Shout-Out: It's hard to find a First Person Shooter in a modern setting that doesn't have a reference to this movie somewhere. Of particular note, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare features two levels highly reminiscent of the film: in one, the player and his fellow US Marines are deployed via Blackhawk helicopters (despite the Blackhawk not being part of the Marine's TO&E), and another, where the player must rescue a downed helicopter pilot from an enraged militia group; for bonus points there's a similar line ("We have a Cobra down, we have a Cobra down"), she's even armed with an MP5, and this also ends in a Senseless Sacrifice for everyone. Resident Evil 5 of all games also features a few nods to the film; most easily recognized is the Agitator, a sunglasses wearing mid-level enemy whose primary purpose is to use a megaphone to incite riots among the region's population. At one point the two player characters are also tasked with rescuing a downed Blackhawk pilot.
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Black Hawk Down / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Black Hawk Down / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Aidid's propaganda minister tells Mike Durant this about Americans and Somalis. According to him, despite the differences of the political systems of the United States and Somalia, they're both militaristic nations who use violence to solve their problems, and they'll always use it, no matter how much they both want peace.
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Black Hawk Down / int_9b6cc16b	type	No Range Like Point-Blank Range
Black Hawk Down / int_9b6cc16b	comment	No Range Like Point-Blank Range: Randy Shughart is finally killed when he receives 12 pistol rounds to the chest at two feet away.
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Black Hawk Down / int_9dd2329c	type	Camera Abuse
Black Hawk Down / int_9dd2329c	comment	Camera Abuse: Blood splatters onto the camera when Sgt. Pilla is shot dead.
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Black Hawk Down / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Black Hawk Down / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: McKnight has more than a bad gut feeling about the mission.
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Black Hawk Down / int_9e447c8c	type	Suspiciously Apropos Music
Black Hawk Down / int_9e447c8c	comment	Suspiciously Apropos Music: As the helicopters fly out a version of Voodoo Child is performed by Stevie Ray Vaughan, who died in a helicopter accident just a couple of years before the events of this film. The final titles feature a version of 'The Minstrel Boy', a tune written by Irish composer Thomas Moore. A keen abolitionist he served in the British Admiralty whose Royal Navy squadrons crushed the African/Arabic slave trade, the centre of which was Mogadishu.
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Black Hawk Down / int_9ebd9c33	type	UnPerson
Black Hawk Down / int_9ebd9c33	comment	Un-person: The character of Grimes was created to replace John Stebbins. They renamed that character, since Stebbins is serving 30 years for raping his own pre-teen daughter.
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Black Hawk Down / int_a0f6ab07	type	Nicknaming the Enemy
Black Hawk Down / int_a0f6ab07	comment	Nicknaming the Enemy: The Somalians are referred to as "Skinnies" by the Rangers, as they apparently were in real life. While many assume that this refers to the malnutrition of the locals, it's a reference to Starship Troopers, which is a popular book among the battalion and on the reading list at West Point.
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Black Hawk Down / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Black Hawk Down / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: A Somali boy and his father attack a Ranger from both sides. The Ranger slips and falls, and the boy (shooting from the hip) shoots his own father.
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Black Hawk Down / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Black Hawk Down / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Maddox, one of the Humvee drivers, gets an faceful of glass when a Somalia shoots an RPG that shatters the windshield of his Humvee. Granted, his vision isn't completely destroyed, just heavily impaired.
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Black Hawk Down / int_a32dcd7f	type	Desk Jockey
Black Hawk Down / int_a32dcd7f	comment	Desk Jockey: Grimes; his rare (at the time) ability to type makes him more valuable manning a desk than doing anything else.
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Black Hawk Down / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Black Hawk Down / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: The Little Bird pilot who pulls the Delta operator out of the first downed Black Hawk is played by Chief Warrant Officer Keith Jones, who did the exact same thing during the real Battle of Mogadishu.
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Black Hawk Down / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
Black Hawk Down / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: Smoke grenades, strobe lights, and other beacons used for marking positions for friendly aircraft, like the IR strobe Eversman threw onto the roof of a Somali-occupied building to mark it for a strafing run, are actually used to mark friendly positions. This avoids the possibility of an enemy picking up the beacon and throwing it back - note that one of the Somalis does in fact pick up the strobe in puzzlement, but is killed immediately afterwards.
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Black Hawk Down / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
Black Hawk Down / int_a754fa9a	comment	Instant Death Bullet: Subverted. The bullets used by both Delta and the Rangers were a new "penetrator" type, essentially light armor-piercing rounds. They had a particular tendency to not kill people who were hit by them, as the bullet wounds ended up being through-and-throughs, instead of the rapidly expanding or tumbling effects usually observed by full-metal-jacket rounds. According to the book, it was extremely common to shoot three guys, only for two of them to get up and drag the third out of the combat zone.
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Black Hawk Down / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Black Hawk Down / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The Somalis keep their AKs on full-auto and tend to not aim all that much, whereas Delta Force and the Rangers take decently aimed single shots most of the time. The sheer number of Somalis makes this "spray & pray" strategy more effective than it would be otherwise.
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Black Hawk Down / int_a839608e	type	Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
Black Hawk Down / int_a839608e	comment	Trapped Behind Enemy Lines: All of them, especially Durant, who is taken prisoner.
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Black Hawk Down / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Black Hawk Down / int_a8559a9f	comment	The Quick Reaction Force is portrayed this way in the movie, when, upset that they were not informed of the raid, it takes them a little longer than it should to get all their forces assembled. In Real Life, they were informed of the raid, and were scrambling to get to both crash sites the second they were called (which was mere minutes after the first crash), but due to the Somalian Militia blocking off roads and setting up ambushes, they had to go all the way around the city, which took several hours. They were truly distressed that they weren't able to get to either crash site sooner.
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Black Hawk Down / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
Black Hawk Down / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: Several notable things were changed for the movie, most concerning Eversmann. In real life he jumped on the convoy as it was pulling out the first time, and when it eventually returned to base, so did he. Upon arrival, he found the airport almost completely undefendednote Luckily the Somalis never noticed. If they had, they would've quickly overrun the base and the Rangers would've been thoroughly screwed and immediately went to work correcting that. He did not participate in most of the combat depicted in the film, and his lieutenant, DiTomasso, was more important at the first crash site (DiTomasso plays a significantly smaller role in the film and is played by an unknown actor). Also, PFC Grimes is a fictional composite. The real PFC Stebbins on whom "Grimes" is based was later convicted of a distasteful crime and is rightfully considered a disgrace by the Army in general and the 75th Rangers in particular. The Pentagon requested that Stebbins not be mentioned in the film. However, his actions during the battle were too important to omit, so the fictional character of Grimes was created to replace him. Both the studio and the Army were subsequently accused of either glorifying a sexual predator or whitewashing his crimes - sometimes you just can't win.
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Black Hawk Down / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
Black Hawk Down / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: Durant is the only member of Super Six-Four's flight crew to survive the battle. Gordon and Shughart (who are both killed-in-action defending him) manage to keep him safe long enough for Aidid's men to take him prisoner, (and he is eventually released) but the mob that descends upon the crash site murders the other survivors (if they weren't killed when the chopper crashed).
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Black Hawk Down / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Black Hawk Down / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Grimes gripes about being given desk duty because his skill at typing makes him too valuable to put him in the action. In 1993, basic computer literacy was much more valuable than in 2001. Today, any adult is automatically assumed to know his way around a computer.
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Black Hawk Down / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Black Hawk Down / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The look on Mo'alim, the Aidid militia officer's face, when he realizes Delta has commandeered his recoil-less rifle and are pointing it at him while he was distracted ordering his men to reload the machine gun he was using, before they finally kill him for all the grief he's caused them over the course of the battle.
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Black Hawk Down / int_ad7c058f	type	Headlock of Dominance
Black Hawk Down / int_ad7c058f	comment	Headlock of Dominance: After catching Pilla performing his comical imitation of him, and acknowledging that it was Actually Pretty Funny, Captain Steele asks to have a word, before putting Pilla into a headlock and walking off with him in tow.
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Black Hawk Down / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Black Hawk Down / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: McKnight. The USAF Pararescueman working on the crew-chief of Super Six One If anything, the movie failed to capture some of Wilkinson's best lines. From the book: Bonus points, he's played by Ty Burrell.
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Black Hawk Down / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Black Hawk Down / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Despite the Little Birds managing to find and extricate Busch from the first crash site, he sustained a gunshot wound while defending the crash and eventually died from it.
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Black Hawk Down / int_affbcbb	type	Cool Helmet
Black Hawk Down / int_affbcbb	comment	Cool Helmet: While the Rangers wear the US Army's standard issue helmet, the Delta operators and the Air Force pararescuemen all wear sleeker looking hockey-style helmets. Ultimately subverted in the source material, where it's noted that the special helmets offered no protection from bullets or shrapnel - which likely contributed to at least one Delta member's death.
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Black Hawk Down / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Black Hawk Down / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "Hoo-ah!" In Army usage (and to a lesser degree in the Air Force), the word can be taken to mean anything and everything except for "No."
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Black Hawk Down / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Black Hawk Down / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Grimes complains about sitting at a desk during major US Ranger conflicts. He finally gets his chance to go into combat... and gets hit by an RPG blast a few minutes in for his troubles. It only gets worse for him from there.
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Black Hawk Down / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Black Hawk Down / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Averted. Limited ammunition is stated and shown multiple times as being a major concern for the trapped soldiers. As is the fact that the entire operation was supposed to be over in about an hour and the soldiers did not ride out fully equipped for what is to become an entire day's worth of fighting.
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Black Hawk Down / int_b6e1d40b	type	Acceptable Breaks from Reality
Black Hawk Down / int_b6e1d40b	comment	Acceptable Breaks from Reality: Many elements were added to make the action sequences more exciting for cinematic audiences. In the DVD commentary, some of the soldiers involved in the Battle of Mogadishu gave these embellishments (particularly the scene with the recoilless rifle) their approval because of how cool they were. Little Birds are depicted as having advanced head-mounted targeting systems during the nighttime gun runs. This was done because audiences were going to have a hard time believing that Little Bird pilots were actually aiming using a simple mark drawn onto their windscreens with a grease pencil.
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Black Hawk Down / int_b80fe68e	type	Warm Place, Warm Lighting
Black Hawk Down / int_b80fe68e	comment	Warm Place, Warm Lighting: The film tints a war-torn Somalia in yellow and grayish-green...except for the American bases which are lit in a cooler blue.
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Black Hawk Down / int_bd39588d	type	Desecrating the Dead
Black Hawk Down / int_bd39588d	comment	Desecrating the Dead: There's a brief glimpse of the mob lifting Randy Shughart's body out of Durant's helicopter and carrying it like a trophy; he has already had his shirt ripped off. This hints at the real life events, where Shughart's and the bodies of the other dead at the crash site were stripped and dragged through the city. This was eventually broadcast on American television and resulted in popular opinion turning against the Somalia mission.
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Black Hawk Down / int_bddb820f	type	Must Have Caffeine
Black Hawk Down / int_bddb820f	comment	Must Have Caffeine: A group of Rangers and Delta operators are bunkered up inside of a building, besieged by Aidid's militia. Grimes copes with the stress of the situation by finding a coffee pot somewhere and brewing some coffee, which he offers to one of the Deltas. Doubles as an actually useful thing to do (rather than just something for Grimes to do to keep busy), as tired soldiers in a combat situation can definitely use a small hit of caffeine to keep their edge, especially if things stay quiet long enough for them to start crashing/coming down from the adrenaline high.
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Black Hawk Down / int_c1105f41	type	Hold the Line
Black Hawk Down / int_c1105f41	comment	Hold the Line: Eversmann tells Nelson and Twombly to hold a corner at one end of the street to cover the rest of the Rangers and Delta who were still loading the prisoners. Later on, as the Lost Convoy heads back to base, Eversmann tells his chalk that they will hold the strong point until the convoy arrives.
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Black Hawk Down / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Black Hawk Down / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Eversmann does this twice, first when Blackburn falls out of the helicopter and when Jamie runs out to help Twombly, leading to Jamie receiving fatal gunshot wounds.
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Black Hawk Down / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Black Hawk Down / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Gordon is killed when a militiaman sprays his rifle into the cockpit, with one bullet catching him in the head.
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Black Hawk Down / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
Black Hawk Down / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Captain Steele and Sergeant Sanderson don't get along well. The Sarge steps up once when the Captain is being indecisive.
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Black Hawk Down / int_c3c0768c	type	Soldiers at the Rear
Black Hawk Down / int_c3c0768c	comment	Soldiers at the Rear: One soldier has always been away from the fighting, a fact he says isn't his fault. It's because he has a rare and valuable skill beloved by the infantry that keeps him busy: he can type. note Although this might seem absurd to modern viewers, remember that in the early 90's, personal home computers were a relatively new thing and not everyone knew how to type or use those archaic, command line-based data entry systems. Inverted when the rescue convoy is gearing up to fight its' way to the downed helicopters and rear echelon soldiers grab their rifles and jump onboard.
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Black Hawk Down / int_c4286511	type	For Doom the Bell Tolls
Black Hawk Down / int_c4286511	comment	For Doom the Bell Tolls: A tubular bell rings out when Hoot volunteers to take Pilla's place in the Humvee gunner's spot.
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Black Hawk Down / int_c4b8e2ae	type	One-Woman Wail
Black Hawk Down / int_c4b8e2ae	comment	One-Woman Wail
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Black Hawk Down / int_c515d358	type	America Saves the Day
Black Hawk Down / int_c515d358	comment	America Saves the Day: Inverted; the Americans are only able to get their men from the city when their UN allies finally arrive. Of course, the Pakistanis do their best to be as useless as possible, which is Truth in Television according to people who were there. There were also several Malaysian units involved, with the majority of the APCs in the relief column being Malaysian, but they make no appearance, despite taking more casualties than that Pakistanis.
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Black Hawk Down / int_c558da6a	type	Gunship Rescue
Black Hawk Down / int_c558da6a	comment	Gunship Rescue: During the gun battle at night, where AH-6J Little Birds were called in to provide fire support — shredding any unfortunate Somalis caught in their sights.
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Black Hawk Down / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
Black Hawk Down / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: "Convoy is encountering light resistance." Cut to the convoy getting shot and blown up every which way.
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Black Hawk Down / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
Black Hawk Down / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: According to the book, most of the men in the platoon were just married, intending to marry, intending to get a new job or a promotion, a new father, an expecting father, etc. Justified because marrying and having kids young is very common in the military for various reasons.
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Black Hawk Down / int_c914e68d	type	Cigar Chomper
Black Hawk Down / int_c914e68d	comment	Cigar Chomper: Osman Atto, a controversial figure during the Civil War in his own right is depicted as one. This is an example of a historical liberty, as the real Osman Atto never smoked cigars or cigarettes.
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Black Hawk Down / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Black Hawk Down / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Kowalewski is killed when he is shot with an RPG, which passes partway out the other side of his body without blowing up.
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Black Hawk Down / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
Black Hawk Down / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: One tries to shoot an American soldier, who conveniently slips at the right moment, causing the kid to shoot his own father who was standing on the opposite side of the doorway.
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Black Hawk Down / int_cadf2d2a	type	Death of a Thousand Cuts
Black Hawk Down / int_cadf2d2a	comment	Death of a Thousand Cuts: At the end of his Last Stand, Shughart is shot several times in the arms and back, before getting shot 11 times in the chest at point-blank range by one militiaman/civilian who emptied his entire pistol magazine into him.
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Black Hawk Down / int_cbd5e41a	type	Vehicular Turnabout
Black Hawk Down / int_cbd5e41a	comment	Vehicular Turnabout: A recoil-less gun mounted on a militia technical is taken over by Deltas and turned against the on-site commander, who had been causing them trouble all throughout the battle.
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Black Hawk Down / int_cd23ee7d	type	Colonel Badass
Black Hawk Down / int_cd23ee7d	comment	Colonel Badass: Colonel McKnight has a habit of walking round a war zone like bullets ain't flying all around him. Must be a symptom of the badass disease.
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Black Hawk Down / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Black Hawk Down / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: With the exception of Kurth, all the other American characters are white, in real life the Ranger company only having 2 black members.note The book explains that there are aren't many black rangers because few black candidates are able to pass the swimming requirements, a side-effect of American socioeconomics.
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Black Hawk Down / int_cffafc80	type	You, Get Me Coffee
Black Hawk Down / int_cffafc80	comment	You, Get Me Coffee: Grimes has spent most of his career making coffee for his fellow Rangers, due to being trapped in the office by his ability to type.
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Black Hawk Down / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Black Hawk Down / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: The recoilless rifle being used by Mo'alim, the Aidid militia commander seen through the movie, being turned on him by U.S. soldiers. The kid and his dad that try to ambush a soldier as he exits a building. He slides to the ground as he exits the (couple feet high) door and the kid shoots his own dad instead.
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Black Hawk Down / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Black Hawk Down / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: In the book, one USAF Pararescueman runs across a street to pick up IVs and medical supplies. Not once, not twice, but three times. While the Rangers and Somalis are trading fire. He doesn't get hit at all.
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Black Hawk Down / int_d54b9eb3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
Black Hawk Down / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: Between the Rangers and the Deltas. Steele outright accuses the Deltas of being undisciplined cowboys while Delta regards the Rangers as subpar (at least compared to the unquestionably elite Delta Force) soldiers hamstrung by conventional Army thinking. Most military viewers tend to side with Steele, trying to keep discipline in a unit of 100 mostly teenage soldiers who idolise the older and more experienced Delta operators who are given much more leeway to do things there own way.
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Black Hawk Down / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Black Hawk Down / int_d5c7b415	comment	Elites Are More Glamorous: The bulk of the American units shown in the film: 75th Rangers, 160th Special Operations Air Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, Air Force Pararescue, and Deltas.
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Black Hawk Down / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Black Hawk Down / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: The Pakistani and Malaysian (mentioned but not seen) troops who roll into the rescue with the heavy Armored Personnel Carriers necessary for such a hot zone.
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Black Hawk Down / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Black Hawk Down / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: The company clerk pressed into service as an infantryman is named "Grimes" in the film, as the actual Ranger who was in this situation was later sent to prison for rape and child molestation. The film takes great pains to make the audience aware of the character's new name. Many of the Delta operators also have different names from those given in the book, though in some cases they are actually Composite Characters.
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Black Hawk Down / int_dc0d80ee	type	High-Pressure Blood
Black Hawk Down / int_dc0d80ee	comment	High-Pressure Blood: In one gruesome scene, arterial blood sprays the faces of the team trying to treat it.
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Black Hawk Down / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
Black Hawk Down / int_dd082289	comment	A Million Is a Statistic: The massive amount of civilian casualties mentioned in the book are only depicted in the film by a single shot of a man carrying his dead child.
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Black Hawk Down / int_df35b851	type	Danger Deadpan
Black Hawk Down / int_df35b851	comment	Danger Deadpan: The pilots of Super Six-One calmly report that they're going down after the chopper is hit, and the co-pilot even manages to make a deadpan joke to the pilot. Mike Durant of Super Six-Four is portrayed as a lot more nervous, but his voice is still calm and even as he reports that the chopper is going down. Super Six-One wasn't as badly hit as Super Six-Four, where the helicopter was damaged, but then lost the tail rotor, while Six-One essentially had an engine get destroyed, but still had more control over the aircraft. Truth in Television, you don't get to be a professional pilot - much less a military pilot - if you panic easily, and pilots are specifically trained to stay as calm as possible and continue reporting the conditions as they change, to keep HQ aware of the situation.
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Black Hawk Down / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
Black Hawk Down / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: Lots, usually from the mouth of McKnight, Hoot or Steele. Late in the film, a pitched nighttime urban gunfight is going on as McKnight's convoy arrives. As he and Captain Steele meet:
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Black Hawk Down / int_e11e88b6	type	Thousand-Yard Stare
Black Hawk Down / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: Durant when Randy is killed.
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Black Hawk Down / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Bash Brothers: Grimes and Sanderson develop this relationship. Twombly and Nelson are forced into it when the convoy leaves without them. And of course, the kings of this trope are the late Shughart and Gordon.
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Black Hawk Down / int_e43b42ea	type	We Need a Distraction
Black Hawk Down / int_e43b42ea	comment	We Need a Distraction: During Hoot and the Delta team's stealth attack on the militia's recoilless cannon, Seizmore—as the only non-Delta Force member of the team—is assigned a role as a momentary distraction to draw their attention right before Hoot and the Delta commandos use the opportunity to garrote the militia and hijack the cannon. Notable in that the entire scene is coordinated without a word being spoken: Hoot uses hand signals to lay out the plan.
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Black Hawk Down / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Black Hawk Down / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Several characters, but most prominently Eversmann, who was actually part of the "lost convoy" in real life. A number of the Delta operators are composites as well.
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Black Hawk Down / int_e4ba33fc	type	Disaster Dominoes
Black Hawk Down / int_e4ba33fc	comment	Disaster Dominoes: The convoy is being guided to the crash site by a surveillance plane overhead. However it does not speak directly to the convoy commander but to the headquarters then to the communications helicopter and then to Colonel McKnight. This causes a delay which means by the time they get the order to turn they have either missed the correct road or worse, turn down the wrong street entirely. Had the convoy been guided purely by the surveillance plane it could have secured the first crash site in time, freeing up other forces to head towards Durant's downed aircraft.
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Black Hawk Down / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
Black Hawk Down / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: All the time, considering the fact that war isn't pretty. Othic, in the middle of a firefight, comes across a fellow soldier's severed hand, and immediately blinks out of combat mode as he wonders what to do with it (he eventually stuffs it into a pocket). In the Real Life incident, Othic knew whose hand it was, and put it into the pocket of the soldier that had lost it, causing a bit of a ruckus back at the base later when an unprepared nurse found it and freaked out. One of the Deltas (Griz) is torn in half when an RPG hits the armoured car he's in. It doesn't kill him instantly.
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Black Hawk Down / int_e663d3ef	type	Only a Flesh Wound
Black Hawk Down / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: Averted, as a man who got shot in the leg dies painfully (both for him and the viewers; the scene where they try to stop him from bleeding out from the femoral artery is really graphic).
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Black Hawk Down / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Black Hawk Down / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Garrison goes out to one of the Black Hawks right before the start of the mission, Eversmann notices.
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Black Hawk Down / int_e8aa2b1d	type	Tactical Withdrawal
Black Hawk Down / int_e8aa2b1d	comment	Tactical Withdrawal: After Col. McKnight's convoy took one too many RPG hits on their way to pick up the surrounded Rangers and Deltas at the second crash site, he bluntly tells mission control that he's got too many dead and wounded on board to be useful and requests permission to withdraw, regroup, and rearm before trying to go back to the second crash site again. After his request is granted, McKnight's convoy heads back to Mogadishu airport, stranding the Rangers and Deltas behind enemy lines, though he returns several hours later with a convoy of Pakistani Army tanks and APCs'.
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Black Hawk Down / int_ea7e3be8	comment	Dramatic Gun Cock: Hoot racks the charging handle on the Ma Deuce after he takes the place of the Ranger who was just killed. A Justified Trope; US Soldiers are trained to cycle the weapon once when replacing a dead or wounded gunner to ensure the weapon is still functional and in a ready-to-fire state, making it one of those rare and wonderful moments that are both cool/dramatic and Truth in Television.
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Black Hawk Down / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Captain Steele tends to be a bit of a Jerkass, giving condescending lectures to Delta Operators who he considers Mildly Military. At the same time, it's obvious that he acts out of concern for his men's well being, and he tends to come off as A Father to His Mennote The book makes it clear that Delta's methods do not work with the more traditional infantry role that the Rangers fulfill. He was trying to discourage his Rangers from doing the same sorts of things that Delta Operators did, because while Delta was extremely effective in their missions and seriously elite, the Rangers had a different mission to perform. The Delta force also tended to be older soldiers with combat experience whilst many of Steele's Rangers were teenagers straight from training.
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Black Hawk Down / int_ed05cfee	type	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer
Black Hawk Down / int_ed05cfee	comment	Naïve Newcomer: Grimes has served behind a desk for his entire army career, and this is his first combat mission. This makes for plenty of opportunities for exposition.
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Black Hawk Down / int_ed2bbf8a	type	You Are in Command Now
Black Hawk Down / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: The Lieutenant responsible for Chalk 4 has a seizure on the eve of the battle, forcing Eversmann to lead his unit. Similarly, when Cpt. Steele's Rangers have too many wounded to continue to the crash site, Delta Sgt. Sanderson (RL Sgt. Howe) has to push on without him.
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Black Hawk Down / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Black Hawk Down / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: one of the Rangers hesitates to shoot a Somali woman who is picking up a rifle. His colleague kills her without hesitation.
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Black Hawk Down / int_f7cee9b	type	Last Stand
Black Hawk Down / int_f7cee9b	comment	Last Stand: Gordon and Shughart fight to the death to the defend the crash site of the second downed Blackhawk, going all the way down to their final few pistol rounds before they are overwhelmed. Busch is the only person onboard Super Six One who is in any shape to defend the crash site. Help eventually comes, but by then Busch has sustained fatal injuries.
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Black Hawk Down / int_f97b5d33	type	Shoo Out the Clowns
Black Hawk Down / int_f97b5d33	comment	Shoo Out the Clowns: The first American death is the Class Clown, SGT Pilla, who is killed early in the fighting.
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Black Hawk Down / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Black Hawk Down / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Grimes keeps getting shot with RPGs. Okay, so it's not a funny running gag. (In the actual campaign, Stebbins really did find himself near far too many explosions. Each time, his squadmates thought he was done, but each time he managed to survive somehow. He eventually makes it out of the combat zone with a badly injured foot; this is referenced when Sanderson asks Grimes about how his foot is.)
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Black Hawk Down / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Black Hawk Down / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: A kid is holding a cell phone up in the air so the militia officer on the other end of the connection can hear the sounds of the helicopters' engines as they fly over. One of the Black Hawk pilots sees him and thinks he's waving at them, unaware the kid was working for Aidid's militia and warned them of the helicopters coming.
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Black Hawk Down / int_fd32c5a1	type	Don't Make Me Destroy You
Black Hawk Down / int_fd32c5a1	comment	Don't Make Me Destroy You: When Specialist Mike Kurth sees a woman about to pick up a gun. He yells for her not to do it... and Struecker unhesitatingly shreds her when she does.
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Black Hawk Down / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Black Hawk Down / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Historical inaccuracies aside, the film was and remains one of the best portrayals of the US military in action, and of war in general.
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Black Hawk Down / int_ffb79066	comment	Chromosome Casting: No women are credited in the cast list. Giannina Facio, who plays Shughart's wife, picking up his phone call too late, was director Ridley Scott's partner (they married 14 years later, in 2015).
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