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Platoon

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Platoon	label	Platoon
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Platoon	comment	Platoon is an acclaimed war film written and directed by Oliver Stone based on his experiences as an American soldier in The Vietnam War. It was released in 1986 and won the Academy Award for Best Picture. This is also his first film about the war, followed by Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven & Earth. These three films are often said to form a "trilogy", although they merely share subject matter and do not take place in a shared continuity.The film follows a new recruit named Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) as he gets thrown into the humid, alien and deadly jungles of war and gives a frank look at the toll the war took on the men that fought, lived and died in the jungle. The main conflict is the murder of innocent civilians causing a rift in the platoon while Chris tries to find the correct thing to do in a war with ambiguous morals. Willem Dafoe plays Sergeant Elias Grodin, the platoon's moral compass and Taylor's first mentor, while Tom Berenger plays Elias' counterpart, Staff Sergeant Robert Barnes, the platoon's merciless, combat-loving driving force.It is generally considered a milestone in war films in that the battles are far from glamorized and it is not afraid of showing just how hellish it can be; this makes it come closer to defeating Do Not Do This Cool Thing than many other films.The film is especially notable for debuting a mountain of actors who would later become Household Names. Keith David plays King, a heavy gunner and Taylor's other mentor. John C. McGinley plays O'Neill, another sergeant and Barnes' smarmy, unlikable second-in-command. Mark Moses plays Lt. Wolfe, the cowardly nominal leader of the platoon who mostly just scuttles meekly after Barnes. Forest Whitaker, Kevin Dillon, and a 23-year-old Johnny Depp all play supporting soldiers in the platoon.Not to be confused with Splatoon.
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Platoon / int_11d671f6	type	Stopped Caring
Platoon / int_11d671f6	comment	Stopped Caring: By the final battle, many of the soldiers have checked out.
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Platoon / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Platoon / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Sgt. O'Neill, who goes as far as to hide under the corpse of one of his comrades to survive the end of the Final Battle - understandable in the moment as he was about to be surely killed and had no other way to live. Junior also, such as when he sprays bugspray on his feet to make it look like he has jungle rot. He also bolts during the final battle, leaving Bunny to be killed (Though given that Bunny had beaten an elderly Vietnamese villager and her disabled son to death, it's hard to feel bad about that.) Junior is bayonetted to death not long after. His cowardice is so over-the-top that even fellow Dirty Coward O'Neill is disgusted by him.
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Platoon / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Platoon / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: And at any moment, just like in war.
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Platoon / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Platoon / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Oliver Stone as the company commander who gets bombed to oblivion by an NVA sapper.
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Platoon / int_13e3985d	type	Crucified Hero Shot
Platoon / int_13e3985d	comment	Crucified Hero Shot: One of the most popular examples. Since this became the main poster/video box/DVD cover image, this rather builds up expectations of the film. The closing narration doesn't help. The image is a homage to the famous 1968 photograph by Art Greenspon.
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Platoon / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Platoon / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Thrice with Taylor, to the point of becoming Ax-Crazy.
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Platoon / int_15c0289	type	Bullet Dancing
Platoon / int_15c0289	comment	Bullet Dancing: Taylor does this to a one-legged Vietnamese villager.
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Platoon / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Platoon / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: Each level has different gameplay changes. You even get to fight and kill Barnes in a grenade-throwing duel.
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Platoon / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
Platoon / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: And below. And left, right, front, and back. Though to be fair, this trope occurs literally in the form of Huey helicopters and an F-5 Freedom Fighter airstrike.
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Platoon / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Platoon / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: A Vietcong soldier sadistically murders Bunny in the Final Battle, and, considering what a monster he was, it's hard to feel any sympathy for him.
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Platoon / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Platoon / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: The village the platoon burns down is almost certainly being used as a supply cache for the Vietcong, but how willing the villagers were to do it (or if they had a say at all, even) is left up in the air.
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Platoon / int_1f6ec528	type	Would Not Shoot a Civilian
Platoon / int_1f6ec528	comment	Would Not Shoot a Civilian: Averted terribly during the village scree, where Barnes riles up the soldiers into burning down a Vietnamese village after finding Manny dead and several soldiers start executing random civilians, out of suspicion of them being members of the Vietcong.
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Platoon / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Platoon / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: The platoon fractures into an idealist group loyal to Elias and a survivalist group loyal to Barnes. However, the stoners in Elias' group are far from saints. Elias and Taylor are the most moral of the entire platoon, and they do a lot of drugs, cursing, and starting fights.
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Platoon / int_25afd4a3	type	Good Guns, Bad Guns
Platoon / int_25afd4a3	comment	Good Guns, Bad Guns: Played with. The Americans and the briefly-seen ARVN troops use NATO firearms, while the NVA use Chinese Type 56s and B-40 RPGs, the former of which is also used by both Barnes and Taylor late in the film. Pretty much Truth in Television as discussed in the trope page.
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Platoon / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Platoon / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: The M60 machine guns used by King, Tex, Morehouse, and Huey helicopter door gunners.
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Platoon / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Platoon / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Whenever Taylor snaps, he becomes this.
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Platoon / int_2da1421	type	Booby Trap
Platoon / int_2da1421	comment	Booby Trap: Be careful picking up that box of documents, guys. The odd thing is, just before lifting the box, he was telling his comrade to be careful about where he stepped and what he touched because of... well, y'know. Why didn't he just grab the papers from within the box? The Idiot Ball, that's why.
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Platoon / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Platoon / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: In a sense, since even though Barnes pays for murdering Elias in the end, he successfully goads Chris into killing him, in keeping with his ethos that conflict is the true nature of man. Chris rejects this philosophy at the end, but also states that Barnes will always be a part of him the same as Elias will be.
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Platoon / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Platoon / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: When Junior sprays a can of bugspray onto his feet and claims he has jungle rot and can't walk, Barnes doesn't think too highly of his pathetic lies or his blatant cowardice, threatening to stick a centipede in his crotch and 'see if he can walk.' Bunny and Red are equally disgusted, especially when Junior promptly wusses out and declares he can walk. Wolfe is a completely useless officer who allows Barnes to walk all over him and get away with whatever he wants, but when Chris calls out to the others that Elias has been left behind, Wolfe does make an effort to try to go back and save him. Sgt O'Neill may be a sarcastic jerk, but is noticeably disturbed by Bunny's murder of the disabled villager. He also never commits any major war crimes (that we know of) apart from his role in the village scene. Even that was under Staff Sgt. Barnes' orders and his later response (unlike Bunny's suggestion to frag Elias) was simply to enquire whether there would be a court martial in relation to Barnes' actions. Barnes gives Wolfe a devastating "Reason You Suck" Speech when his incompetence ends up calling down friendly artillery fire on his own men's positions, assailing him while laying into him over how many men he just got blown to hell. It gets so bad Barnes and Elias team up to try and salvage the clusterfuck their lieutenant has made of the situation. Barnes and Bunny both take the loss of Manny hard and personal. It doesn't suggest that they or the other members of the platoon aren't necessarily racist (indeed black Junior is incredibly racist towards white soldiers and Barnes utters the N-Word Privileges) but it does indicate comradeship.
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Platoon / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
Platoon / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: From booby traps, a village, a forest, to an entire military base.
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Platoon / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Platoon / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Elias when he finds out what Barnes did at the village. So bad that even career soldiers thought it was over-the-top.
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Platoon / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Platoon / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: On the cynical side. Very much so.
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Platoon / int_3c111ce6	type	Pistol-Whipping
Platoon / int_3c111ce6	comment	Pistol-Whipping: Elias starts his fight with Barnes in the village by striking him in the face with the stock of his rifle.
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Platoon / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Platoon / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Chris survives the war and goes home, but he doesn't really escape the consequences of the war.
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Platoon / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Platoon / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: The final attack of the NVA.
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Platoon / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Platoon / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sgt. O'Neill is petty, cowardly, and a bit of an asshole, but he more or less begs Bunny not to kill the Vietnamese civilians.
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Platoon / int_4aa98555	type	Evil All Along
Platoon / int_4aa98555	comment	Evil All Along: You could argue Barnes is Obviously Evil because of the scar on his face and his mannerisms, but that's all superficial and you could easily take him for a battle-hardened platoon sergeant with an incompetent lieutenant on his hands who's just being as brutal as he feels he has to be in order to get himself and the load of draftees that make up his platoon out of the war alive. Then he shoots a civilian woman in the head with a rifle for yelling at him, and puts his sidearm to a little girl's head to get her father to 'admit' he's really VC.
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Platoon / int_4dcfdb68	type	It's the Only Way to Be Sure
Platoon / int_4dcfdb68	comment	It's the Only Way to Be Sure: Cpt. Harris orders an F-5 Freedom Fighter to destroy his own base during the Final Battle in a last-ditch attempt to stop the NVA attack.
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Platoon / int_4ebc2ce5	type	Opposed Mentors
Platoon / int_4ebc2ce5	comment	Opposed Mentors: Wide-Eyed Idealist Chris is torn between two Sergeants about how he should conduct himself in Vietnam. As his closing monologue goes" The war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days. As I'm sure Elias will be, fighting with Barnes for what Rhah called "possession of my soul".
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Platoon / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
Platoon / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: Barnes has a nasty scar that zig-zags all up and down the right side of his face. Chris earns a classic "good" scar on his cheek from his fight with Barnes. As Chris leaves on the chopper after killing Barnes, he has a deep cut on his face almost identical to Barnes'.
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Platoon / int_554063c6	type	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!
Platoon / int_554063c6	comment	Chris earns a classic "good" scar on his cheek from his fight with Barnes. As Chris leaves on the chopper after killing Barnes, he has a deep cut on his face almost identical to Barnes'.
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Platoon / int_5617a782	type	All Asians Wear Conical Straw Hats
Platoon / int_5617a782	comment	All Asians Wear Conical Straw Hats: Many of the Vietnamese civilians.
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Platoon / int_572249f0	type	Straight Edge Evil
Platoon / int_572249f0	comment	Straight Edge Evil: Barnes is seen drinking whiskey, but he expresses contempt for drug users.
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Platoon / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Platoon / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Played straight with Crawford who declares early in the movie that he's got less than 100 days to go. After the Time Skip Crawford gets shot when he would've had at most a couple of weeks to go. However it is implied that he survives.
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Platoon / int_6366f900	type	Old Soldier
Platoon / int_6366f900	comment	Old Soldier: Captain Harris, who looks old enough to have served as far back as World War II.
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Platoon / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Platoon / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: Sergeant Barnes, before revealing himself as a killing machine.
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Platoon / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Platoon / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Chris weeps at the end of the film.
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Platoon / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Platoon / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Basically, Chris is Oliver Stone. Like Chris, Oliver Stone came from the upper class (his father was a stockbroker) and like Chris, Stone dropped out of college (Yale) to volunteer to fight in Vietnam. His commentary on the film reveals that just about everything is taken from his time in Vietnam, and he occasionally talks like he really is the character.
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Platoon / int_68cf9795	type	Ironic Nickname
Platoon / int_68cf9795	comment	Ironic Nickname: You'd think a soldier named "Bunny" would be docile and harmless. He's anything but.
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Platoon / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Platoon / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Barnes is a pretty horrible human being, but he's shown to be right about the village serving another purpose when they uncover a Vietcong ammo depot hidden amongst the crates. And then he puts a handgun to a little girl's head.
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Platoon / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
Platoon / int_6b6556ee	comment	King manages to survive multiple death flag tropes such as Mentor Occupational Hazard and Retirony, and makes it home safe and in one piece right before the final battle wipes out most of what remains of the platoon.
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Platoon / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Platoon / int_7286e96d	comment	The odd thing is, just before lifting the box, he was telling his comrade to be careful about where he stepped and what he touched because of... well, y'know. Why didn't he just grab the papers from within the box? The Idiot Ball, that's why.
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Platoon / int_73f7b5a5	type	Total Party Kill
Platoon / int_73f7b5a5	comment	If you forget to get the explosives and put them on the bridge, a single enemy kills you with a flamethrower and performs a Total Party Kill.
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Platoon / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
Platoon / int_7815ba15	comment	Barnes and Bunny both take the loss of Manny hard and personal. It doesn't suggest that they or the other members of the platoon aren't necessarily racist (indeed black Junior is incredibly racist towards white soldiers and Barnes utters the N-Word Privileges) but it does indicate comradeship.
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Platoon / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
Platoon / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: One of the movie posters has an image of an upside-down soldier's helmet with the words "When I die, bury me upside down so the world can kiss my..." written on it.
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Platoon / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
Platoon / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: Let's just say Barnes is exactly as nice as he looks...
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Platoon / int_7c1207c1	type	Weapons Understudies
Platoon / int_7c1207c1	comment	Weapons Understudies: Colt Model 653 carbines stand in for CAR-15/XM-177's. An F-5 Freedom Fighter stands in for either an F-4 Phantom or an F-105 Thunderchief, which would've been more accurate for the air support role. F-5s were used in Vietnam by the USAF, but only sparingly so for combat evaluations and unlikely for the situation in the movie.
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Platoon / int_7fbb13bf	type	Unfriendly Fire
Platoon / int_7fbb13bf	comment	Unfriendly Fire: And more than once. The only time Barnes is talked out of it, there are multiple witnesses.
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Platoon / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Platoon / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: In the first scene with the platoon on patrol, Chris cringes at a snake and faints at the sight of an NVA corpse, marking him as a newbie. Barnes mocks Chris's weakness and barks out insults at him and the other soldiers. Elias offers to carry some of the stuff in Chris's overloaded pack, marking him as a nice guy.
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Platoon / int_80ed8406	type	Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough
Platoon / int_80ed8406	comment	Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough: Taken to an extreme with mild-mannered, meek Lt. Wolfe, and the hardass battle-scarred Blood Knight Barnes. In fact, Barnes is the real leader of the unit and easily pushes Lt. Wolfe around.
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Platoon / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
Platoon / int_830b0ac9	comment	The Final Battle ends with an F-5 Freedom Fighter dropping napalm on the whole base.
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Platoon / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Platoon / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: Gardner shows Chris some pictures of his girlfriend before their first night in the bush. He's the first member of the platoon to die, that very night when the platoon is ambushed by the enemy.
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Platoon / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Platoon / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast:
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Platoon / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Platoon / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: Ask any Vietnam veteran what the war was like.
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Platoon / int_878d235d	type	Couldn't Find a Lighter
Platoon / int_878d235d	comment	Couldn't Find a Lighter: One of the characters lights his cigarette from a villager's burning hut that the American soldiers have just torched.
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Platoon / int_89499ccf	type	Dolled-Up Installment
Platoon / int_89499ccf	comment	Dolled-Up Installment: The Real-Time Strategy game was originally going to be just, well, a generic Vietnam War-themed strategy game. That is, until the publisher got the rights to the film, and the game's story was retooled to fit the film.
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Platoon / int_8a2d8868	type	Not Afraid to Die
Platoon / int_8a2d8868	comment	Not Afraid to Die: Bunny, because as he says, "When you're dead you don't know it".
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Platoon / int_8e0430ab	type	Non-Standard Game Over
Platoon / int_8e0430ab	comment	Non-Standard Game Over: What happens if you kill way too many civilians. If you forget to get the explosives and put them on the bridge, a single enemy kills you with a flamethrower and performs a Total Party Kill.
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Platoon / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Platoon / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Junior also, such as when he sprays bugspray on his feet to make it look like he has jungle rot. He also bolts during the final battle, leaving Bunny to be killed (Though given that Bunny had beaten an elderly Vietnamese villager and her disabled son to death, it's hard to feel bad about that.) Junior is bayonetted to death not long after. His cowardice is so over-the-top that even fellow Dirty Coward O'Neill is disgusted by him.
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Platoon / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Platoon / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Chris frags Barnes with three rounds in the upper-right torso, exactly how Barnes shot Elias. Bunny is jumped and executed by a Vietcong soldier, fitting retribution for his brutality toward the Vietnamese villagers. Junior is bayonetted to death by another Vietcong soldier, given that he's a gutless coward who runs off during the fight at the base and was part of the group in the village about to rape an underaged Vietnamese girl, it was well deserved.
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Platoon / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Platoon / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Moorhouse is seen raping a young Vietnamese girl in the village scene. Later he is seen carted away dead in the aftermath of the forest fight. Bunny, Junior and Tony are all fellow participants in the rape. All are killed during the final ambush.
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Platoon / int_91df3195	type	Military Brat
Platoon / int_91df3195	comment	Military Brat: Chris comes from a military family - his father fought in World War II and his grandfather fought in World War I.
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Platoon / int_95dd3f2a	type	Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!
Platoon / int_95dd3f2a	comment	Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!: Barnes dares Taylor to kill him after the Final Battle, which he does.
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Platoon / int_96ecc67e	type	Shotguns Are Just Better
Platoon / int_96ecc67e	comment	Shotguns Are Just Better: Bunny. Averted during the Final Battle.
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Platoon / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Platoon / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: The soldiers that advocate killing everyone in the village, including the ones that claim that they're not doing anything wrong when they're trying to rape two girls. Earlier, Junior falls asleep during his shift, resulting in Viet Cong soldiers breaking into camp. Junior pins the blame of Taylor, who had been shot because of Junior's failure to stay awake.
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Platoon / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
Platoon / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Subverted; most of the platoon's black members were either wounded or came back home. and only a few of them killed. Warren was the first to go. King manages to survive multiple death flag tropes such as Mentor Occupational Hazard and Retirony, and makes it home safe and in one piece right before the final battle wipes out most of what remains of the platoon. Francis is also one of the few to survive the NVA assault on the base.
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Platoon / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Platoon / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Elias and Barnes function as this; Chris even compares his conflict between the good and evil inside of him to their conflict. Francis and Junior: Both are young, black soldiers that are understandable afraid of battle but while Junior hypocritically complains about racism constantly and runs from from his post like a coward, Francis cops his duty on the chin like a man, doesn't complain and remains with his comrade in battle. Guess which one lives.
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Platoon / int_9b6e33f3	type	Death by Cameo
Platoon / int_9b6e33f3	comment	Oliver Stone, in a cameo role is blown up by an NVA suicide bomber, along with Lerner.
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Platoon / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
Platoon / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: The platoon finds Manny's corpse upright, pinned to a tree by the NVA. This is what triggers the murders in the village that follow (although a sociopath like Barnes was probably just looking for an excuse to kill someone).
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Platoon / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Platoon / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: The Final Battle ends with an F-5 Freedom Fighter dropping napalm on the whole base. Oliver Stone, in a cameo role is blown up by an NVA suicide bomber, along with Lerner.
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Platoon / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Platoon / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In the immediate aftermath of the ambush battle at the beginning of the film, Barnes finds a wounded VC soldier, and mercilessly put him down by firing a couple rifle rounds into his chest. At the end of the film, Chris puts Barnes down in an identical situation, in a scene that is practically a mirror image of the prior one.
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Platoon / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Platoon / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Barnes had apparently been shot seven times prior to the events of the film and the rest of the platoon think he can't die as a result. Chris shoots him three times at close range to finish him off after he survives the airstrike.
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Platoon / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Platoon / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: The player, who is presumably Chris. His "lives" represent other members of the platoon.
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Platoon / int_a0ce7213	type	My Girl Back Home
Platoon / int_a0ce7213	comment	My Girl Back Home: Complete with wallet picture and all.
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Platoon / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Platoon / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Wolfe gets hit by shrapnel in the eyes during the Final Battle (you can see him staggering around covering his face) before being fragged in the head.
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Platoon / int_a67b86a7	type	General Ripper
Platoon / int_a67b86a7	comment	General Ripper: Zig-zagged with Captain Harris. He was willing to court-martial Barnes and Elias if he finds out an illegal killing took place. But during the Final Battle, he orders the air strike on the base which killed many of his own men and the NVA attackers. In fairness to him, final protective fire is an accepted desperation tactic when a position is overrun or about to be overrun, and he is in just as much danger from the air strike as everyone else, as he is literally calling it in on his own command post.
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Platoon / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
Platoon / int_a754fa9a	comment	Instant Death Bullet: Averted with Elias, who gets shot twice in the chest but still has enough energy left to run a fair distance, only dying after getting riddled with bullets by his pursuers. Played straight with some of the various NVA mooks, who seem to go down immediately after one or two shots and don't get back up.
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Platoon / int_a90f0639	type	Entitled Bastard
Platoon / int_a90f0639	comment	Entitled Bastard: Barnes murders Elias, and tries to the same to Chris in a blood-crazed frenzy during the climatic battle, but a nearby bomb blast stops him and wounds them both. When Chris wakes up and has a gun trained on him, Barnes has the nerve to command Taylor to go and get him a medic.
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Platoon / int_aa70b926	type	Classic Villain
Platoon / int_aa70b926	comment	Classic Villain: Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes is Wrath, being a ruthless, remorseless Blood Knight to contrast the (relatively) more compassionate Chris and Elias.
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Platoon / int_ab1c1cca	type	Characters Dropping Like Flies
Platoon / int_ab1c1cca	comment	Characters Dropping Like Flies: Of the 31 men of the platoon, 15 die, 11 are wounded, and only 5 are left unscathed by the end of the film.
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Platoon / int_abe1e24e	type	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil
Platoon / int_abe1e24e	comment	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Despite the enmity in between them, and despite the ruthlessness and remorselessness Barnes had demonstrated... when Elias runs into Barnes in the jungle, it takes him a long while to realize one of them isn't walking away.
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Platoon / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Platoon / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: The Americans technically win at the end, but only after taking heavy losses and being forced to literally carpet bomb their own base.
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Platoon / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
Platoon / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: Basically the reason why Barnes and Bunny likes to go around killing people in war.
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Platoon / int_b214c6e1	type	Tunnel Network
Platoon / int_b214c6e1	comment	Tunnel Network: Elias infiltrates an underground VC tunnel at one point in the film.
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Platoon / int_b542cf17	type	Opposing Combat Philosophies
Platoon / int_b542cf17	comment	Opposing Combat Philosophies: Elias (laid-back/tactical) and Barnes (aggressive). Stone based them on two different sergeants he knew while he was in Vietnam. They never met but Stone wondered what would happen if two men of such opposing viewpoints were in the same platoon.
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Platoon / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Platoon / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Barnes is a frightening example. Very frightening example. Bunny as well, although he's in it more for the killing than the glory.
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Platoon / int_b85c06f2	type	Glowing Eyes of Doom
Platoon / int_b85c06f2	comment	Glowing Eyes of Doom: Barnes in Chris' hallucinogenic experience of the final battle.
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Platoon / int_bb48f8ba	type	Timed Mission
Platoon / int_bb48f8ba	comment	Timed Mission: The final mission, where you must find and kill Barnes before the F-5 Freedom Fighter drops the napalm.
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Platoon / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
Platoon / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: The M113 APC at the end of the film has a swastika flag tied to the antenna. According to Stone, APC soldiers during the war were notorious for displaying Nazi paraphernalia on their vehicles.
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Platoon / int_be30e493	type	Undignified Death
Platoon / int_be30e493	comment	Undignified Death: Junior gets bayoneted multiple times while trying to run away from the final battle. The goofy cross-eyed face he makes is just the icing on the cake.
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Platoon / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Platoon / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: Wolfe, the leader of the titular platoon. An incompetent coward who is unable to control his own soldiers, he lets Elias and Barnes do as they like (and the only order he gives is to burn down the village). US Army leadership classes have used Wolfe an example of how a junior officer should not behave.
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Platoon / int_becbd1d4	type	Jungle Warfare
Platoon / int_becbd1d4	comment	Jungle Warfare: The fighting in this film takes place deep in the Vietnamese jungle, complete with ambushes and patrols.
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Platoon / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
Platoon / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: Chris and Gardner, the new arrivals to the platoon. Chris has a panic attack upon seeing his first enemy corpse. Barnes mocks him, calling him a "cherry".
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Platoon / int_c18c22e8	type	Colonel Kilgore
Platoon / int_c18c22e8	comment	Colonel Kilgore: Barnes. He exists to live out his survivalist ideas, and he enjoys war to its fullest.
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Platoon / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Platoon / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Chris shouts this just as Barnes is about to kill him during the final battle by the end of the movie.
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Platoon / int_c2e2a445	type	Jade-Colored Glasses
Platoon / int_c2e2a445	comment	Jade-Colored Glasses: Unsurprisingly happens to Taylor as the film progresses.
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Platoon / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Platoon / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Red goes to Barnes to try to cash in on some leave before the Final Battle, because he has a strong premonition that he isn't going to make it out of this one alive, but Barnes rather pragmatically denies him as the platoon is already majorly shorthanded with all the casualties they've suffered by that point. Red is one of the only platoon members to come out completely unscathed, (mainly because he hid under a body for the entire battle) and as the only remaining sergeant left in the platoon, Captain Harris promptly gives him the newly-deceased Barnes' job as platoon sergeant.
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Platoon / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Platoon / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Bunny and Wolfe are killed this way in the Final Battle.
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Platoon / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Platoon / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Chris, Elias, King, and a couple of the mauve shirts like Lerner and Francis. Rhah is more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
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Platoon / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
Platoon / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: Subverted. After announcing that he's going home in a chopper in ten minutes with the final battle approaching, King (Keith David) actually does make it out alive. When the Sergeants and Lt. Wolfe are talking about who's going out on ambush Barnes specifically says that the short timers are staying behind so they can avoid this trope. Played straight with Crawford who declares early in the movie that he's got less than 100 days to go. After the Time Skip Crawford gets shot when he would've had at most a couple of weeks to go. However it is implied that he survives.
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Platoon / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Platoon / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: After abandoning a foxhole during the Final Battle, Junior manages to run straight into a Vietcong soldier's bayonet.
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Platoon / int_c9aea8c8	type	Armies Are Evil
Platoon / int_c9aea8c8	comment	Armies Are Evil: Both the US and Vietnamese soldiers perpetuate atrocities against civilians and each other.
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Platoon / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
Platoon / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: Eventually, the platoon gets torn between those who side with Elias or Barnes.
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Platoon / int_ce70175b	type	Sociopathic Soldier
Platoon / int_ce70175b	comment	Sociopathic Soldier: Quite a few of them, though somewhat understandably so. Barnes and Bunny would be the prime examples. The NVA soldiers were just as bad as them.
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Platoon / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Platoon / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: When Junior falls asleep on his watch, blowing an ambush and causing one platoon member to be killed, he immediately tells a bald-faced lie and says it was Chris. The others believe Junior unquestioningly since Chris is the rookie. Chris meekly tries to defend himself ("I didn't fall asleep. It was Junior.") but it falls on deaf ears. "Excuses are like assholes! Everybody has one!" However, if you pay close attention you will see that the two most experienced men (Barnes and Elias) are at least skeptical of Junior's claims. While Barnes growls at Taylor for supposedly sleeping on duty, it's Junior he gives a blistering death glare to when declaring that he'll make the next person asleep on ambush suffer. In addition, Elias pointedly orders Junior to help carry Gardner's corpse
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Platoon / int_d13e0db3	comment	Heartbeat Soundtrack: A thumping heartbeat can be heard as Chris, on watch during his first mission in the bush, sees enemy approaching. Chris freezes up and is still staring at the enemy soldiers when the firefight breaks out.
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Platoon / int_d2102da0	comment	Bad People Abuse Animals: While patrolling the village, Bunny shoots an innocent pig for no good reason.
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Platoon / int_d2ddb362	comment	Barnes gives Wolfe a devastating "Reason You Suck" Speech when his incompetence ends up calling down friendly artillery fire on his own men's positions, assailing him while laying into him over how many men he just got blown to hell. It gets so bad Barnes and Elias team up to try and salvage the clusterfuck their lieutenant has made of the situation.
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Platoon / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Barnes gives Elias' posse a rambling speech where he casually insults them all, calling them a bunch of potheads trying to escape from reality, whereas he 'is reality.' The entire time he's absolutely slugging Jack Daniels and is obviously hammered on the stuff.
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Platoon / int_d99d9918	comment	The Captain: Subverted with Harris; he's not part of the platoon.
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Platoon / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Junior bolts for dear life when he realizes he and Bunny are completely overrun by the NVA. He doesn't make it. Not too much later, Francis pulls a variant of this, realizing that he's made it out of the final battle unhurt... and immediately remedying this by jabbing his trench knife into his thigh so he can be sent home.
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Platoon / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: It's implied that Barnes' power over life and death has gone to his head.
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Platoon / int_de3c879e	comment	Unnaturally Blue Lighting: Some of the movie's scenes are filled with a deep blue tint, as intended by cinematographer Robert Richardson. Said tint is omitted from Blu-ray/HD releases.
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Platoon / int_e061d153	comment	Sergeant Rock: Elias and Barnes, in their own ways.
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Platoon / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: Chris after he kills Barnes. And just as dramatically, when Chris first arrives in Vietnam, one of the soldiers boarding the plane back to the States sports a doozy of one. Captain Harris in the film's very last shot of him after the final battle. Dale Dye has said that this shot wasn't even planned or acted - Oliver Stone and the camera crew happened to film him in the middle of a legitimate flashback.
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Platoon / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Platoon / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The really big fight at the end is based on the New Years Day Battle of 1968 that Stone lived through.
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Platoon / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Bunny and Junior, with the former being a racist low-functioning psychopath and the latter being a pathetic, cowardly would-be-rapist.
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Platoon / int_e6df8814	comment	Screaming Warrior: All of the NVA soldiers during the Final Battle.
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Platoon / int_e9f79e23	comment	Screw the War, We're Partying: Subverted with Elias, a stoner with a relativist attitude to war who is still a complete badass and a more effective commander than Barnes. Although to be fair, there is a literal party scene at one point, complete with joints and a "Tracks of My Tears" singalong.
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Platoon / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Barnes, Bunny and Junior. Wolfe has his moments as well, especially towards the end.
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Platoon / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: Red O'Neill is given command of his own platoon at the end of the movie. Doubles as an Oh, Crap!.
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Platoon / int_ee9877ea	comment	Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Elias is shot and left to die by Barnes, and is gunned down by the NVA as his comrades look on helplessly.
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Platoon / int_f13a0451	comment	Suicide Attack: During the Final Battle, there's that one guy who runs straight into company command and suicide bombs it (taking the director with him).
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Platoon / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: This movie does not attempt balance: it is an all-out War Is Hell work. It contains war crimes including murder and attempted rape, graphic imagery of violent death and maiming, PTSD, drug use, mistaken fire on friendly units, and focuses on lethal infighting. note For the record, the drug use was generally one of the more positive elements the protagonist encountered. Stone's complete refusal of nuance arguably makes this one of the only Vietnam films not to accidentally make war look fun, as (to the ire of Stanley Kubrick) Full Metal Jacket most famously did.
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Platoon / int_f97b5d33	type	Shoo Out the Clowns
Platoon / int_f97b5d33	comment	Shoo Out the Clowns: King, who spends the film acting as Taylor's lighthearted, weed-smoking mentor, is sent home just before most of the platoon is obliterated.
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Platoon / int_fcd993bd	type	Video Game Cruelty Punishment
Platoon / int_fcd993bd	comment	Video Game Cruelty Punishment: In the game, the morale gauge decreases whenever you kill a civilian.
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Platoon / int_fec6ea72	type	BloodSplatteredInnocents
Platoon / int_fec6ea72	comment	Blood-Splattered Innocents: This happens to Taylor when Bunny sadistically murders the handicapped boy.
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Platoon / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Barnes of all people is the only member of the platoon comforting Gardner as Doc attempts to save his life (Although, considering he is more than willing to kill his own platoon, his sincerity here is questionable). Before Elias enters the bunker tunnel, he and Barnes share a friendly goodbye joke. When the platoon gets ambushed, Barnes' radioman gets some shrapnel in his back from friendly artillery fire after a shell lands too close and ends up blowing out his radio. Barnes tries to dig the searing shards out with his knife while calling out for a medic, so he's at least trying to save the guy.
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