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Soldier

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Soldier	comment	Soldier is a 1998 science-fiction action adventure film directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and starring Kurt Russell and Jason Scott Lee as a pair of futuristic soldiers who do battle on a decaying planet.Sergeant Todd (Russell) was raised from birth to become a new breed of soldier, and leads an elite commando unit on Earth. Along with his fellow soldiers, Todd has received extreme mental and physical conditioning to become an instrument of war. However, his commanding officer, Colonel Mekum (Jason Isaacs) develops a new group of genetically-augmented soldiers with superior physical abilities and a complete lack of emotions. In the ensuing transfer of control to the new soldiers, Captain Church (Gary Busey) orders a contest between the "old" soldiers and the genetically-modified ones, led by Caine 607 (Lee).Todd is seemingly killed during the ensuing test (but is actually unconscious) and his body is dumped on the surface of Arcadia 234, a waste mining planet. Although badly injured, Todd manages to make his way to a colony of humans who crash-landed on the planet many years earlier and built their own society. Todd and the colonists begin to work together to survive, but they are interrupted by the arrival of the genetically-modified soldiers, who are taking part in a training exercise and intend to kill the settlers. Together with the colonists, including healer Sandra (Connie Nielsen) and her son Nathan, Todd decides to fight back and protect his new allies.The film was written by David Webb Peoples, and was intended to be a sidestory/Spiritual Successor to Blade Runner (to the point that multiple references to Runner are seen throughout the film).Not to be confused with the 1980s movie The Soldier.
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Soldier / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Soldier / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Col. Mekum. He's an arrogant bastard that orders his genetically enhanced troops to murder civilians as a training exercise. When Todd wipes the floor with them, he decides to Nuke 'em. When he's finally confronted by Todd and in a position of danger, he pathetically begs for his life and loses control of his bladder. Very un-soldier like, indeed.
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Soldier / int_128e4ba8	type	Gatling Good
Soldier / int_128e4ba8	comment	Gatling Good: One of the next-gen soldiers was armed with a backpack version. Todd liberates him from the weight.
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Soldier / int_132d93f1	type	Human Shield
Soldier / int_132d93f1	comment	Human Shield: Not so much averted as nuked from orbit. Todd excels in training by shooting through the "civilian" silhouette to hit the target behind, and then does it again for real in combat during his mission montage.
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Soldier / int_13c1fec8	type	Dragon-in-Chief
Soldier / int_13c1fec8	comment	Dragon-in-Chief: Caine is the commander of the squad of new soldiers. While Mekum is a Non-Action Big Bad, Caine is able to provide Todd his biggest challenge.
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Soldier / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Soldier / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Todd to his unit. Once he reunites with them (as they're arming the Time Bomb), they immediately stop what they're doing, salute him and fall in line behind him. For the rest of the film, they follow his orders without question. Downplayed by Captain Church, who initially goes along with Colonel Mekum's orders but still cares for the Veterans and speaks very highly of them. He is absolutely disgusted when Mekum simply wants to abandon them after things go south on Arcadia and gets killed when he refuses to obey his order.
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Soldier / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Soldier / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The official trailer included a short sequence that involved 20-30 starships doing battle around a planet. The final film features no such scene, and was apparently the remnant of a planned flashback that would have shown the Battle of TannhÃ¤user Gate.
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Soldier / int_1b4ead2d	type	Soft Glass
Soldier / int_1b4ead2d	comment	Soft Glass: Brings us a Super Window Jump and Dynamic Entry. As the three-man fireteam assaults the colony, Todd jumps through one of the skylights to land behind a flamethrower-wielding soldier and slit his throat.
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Soldier / int_1c380f52	type	Landfill Beyond the Stars
Soldier / int_1c380f52	comment	Landfill Beyond the Stars: The main setting of the movie is a junkyard planet.
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Soldier / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
Soldier / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: Todd quite literally jumps down on the very first next-gen soldier he kills.
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Soldier / int_1c4adce1	type	The Siege
Soldier / int_1c4adce1	comment	The Siege: Against a peaceful village by people who want to drive them out.
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Soldier / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Soldier / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Todd hardly speaks, and sticks to terse statements when he doesnote In fact, Kurt Russell spoke just 104 words throughout the entire film.
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Soldier / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Soldier / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Mace is this to little boy, Nathan.
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Soldier / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Soldier / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: A mild version. Todd's cutting carrots, cuts his finger, and keeps cutting carrots.
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Soldier / int_1fe13afb	type	Dirt Forcefield
Soldier / int_1fe13afb	comment	Dirt Forcefield: Sandra. This corresponds not only to regular life on Arcadia, but also the siege in the end, where everyone and everything but her is covered in blood, dirt and mud.
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Soldier / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Soldier / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Colonel Mekum mocks the old soldiers as 'obsolete' in the first act, and Todd sends the exact same message right back to him on the radio in the climax after killing all his super soldiers single handed.
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Soldier / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
Soldier / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: A Landfill Beyond the Stars called Arcadia.
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Soldier / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Soldier / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Implied in one of Todd's flashbacks, when he recalls an instance where he had been shooting civilians, and had stopped to reload. We see a young girl kneeling by the bodies of (presumably) her family, and Todd looking down (again presumably) at her expressionlessly as he reloads. Once he gets the new magazine inserted into his rifle, he pulls the trigger immediately, aiming at whatever he had been staring at the whole time. During the training montage, one of Todd's fellow candidates (implied to be 12 years old) can't keep pace with the others and is shot off-screen.
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Soldier / int_2745f935	type	Gas Mask Mooks
Soldier / int_2745f935	comment	Gas Mask Mooks: The ground troops that attack the settlement all wear gas masks.
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Soldier / int_278a8f2b	type	ChildSoldier
Soldier / int_278a8f2b	comment	During the training montage, one of Todd's fellow candidates (implied to be 12 years old) can't keep pace with the others and is shot off-screen.
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Soldier / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Soldier / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: A sidestory to Blade Runner, which is arguably the Citizen Kane of science fiction films. This actually isn't as crazy as it sounds at first glance: it's not just a film the studio wanted to cram into the Blade Runner universe; the scriptwriter David Webb Peoples was actually one of the two scriptwriters on Blade Runner itself. So if anyone could justifiably make a side-story in the same universe, he can (also it's not just a rip-off of Blade Runner - there are some tonal similarities and Shout Outs in the background but they don't hit you over the head with it).
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Soldier / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
Soldier / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: None of the next-gen soldiers have any hair on the tops of their heads.
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Soldier / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
Soldier / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: Mekum soils himself when he sees the supposed-to-be-dead Todd standing in front of him.
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Soldier / int_2fd5d26d	type	Dramatic Deadpan
Soldier / int_2fd5d26d	comment	Dramatic Deadpan: When Sandra sees Todd loading several weapons before he engages the bombardment troops:
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Soldier / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Soldier / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Captain Church has reservations about treating anyone they find on the planet as hostile, but does his best to support Mekum's decision. He even agrees with Mekum's plan of blasting the planet from orbit to wipe out its inhabitants. However, when Mekum chooses to go through with this even if it means forsaking the lives of Church's unit, Church objects so strongly that Mekum executes him for defying his order.
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Soldier / int_31fcc258	type	Training Montage
Soldier / int_31fcc258	comment	Training Montage: The entire opening sequence, starting with Todd being selected as an infant to participate in the Adam Project, and then shows all the grueling training he went through in the first 20 years of his life.
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Soldier / int_329a19a0	type	Hollywood Healing
Soldier / int_329a19a0	comment	Hollywood Healing: Todd falls from a great height, then gets dumped from a ship at a great height, then gets flung several yards into a set of steps during a windstorm, and is no worse for wear after a day of rest. Slightly averted: Todd is dropped onto the planet by a ship, and is later told that they visit the planet every 20 or 30 days. When told this, it is the first time that he has left the safety of the settlement (so about 3 weeks of recuperation) and still isn't fully healed.
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Soldier / int_35a24c16	type	Geo Effects
Soldier / int_35a24c16	comment	Geo Effects: The junkyard planet has very intense winds.
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Soldier / int_3848c28a	type	Name of Cain
Soldier / int_3848c28a	comment	Name of Cain: A new Super-Soldier who becomes Todd's arch-enemy is named Cain.
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Soldier / int_38a57680	type	Flying Car
Soldier / int_38a57680	comment	The wreckage of a Spinner (from Blade Runner) can be seen in one of the piles of trash when Todd first arrives on the planet.
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Soldier / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Soldier / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Todd's dossier (seen on a computer monitor) lists some of his commendations, including the Plissken Patch, MacReady Cross and O'Neill Ring Award.
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Soldier / int_3c85bc3e	type	Grave Clouds
Soldier / int_3c85bc3e	comment	Grave Clouds: Part of Arcadia's "charm" is the sky, being almost always covered in thick, red clouds, with the sunlight barely scrapping through them.
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Soldier / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Soldier / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: The "chain" fight with Caine versus Todd and three of the old school soldiers. Even three on one, Todd's crew are no match for Caine in a straight fight, and the only real injury Caine suffers before putting all three of them down is losing an eye to Todd.
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Soldier / int_414a1901	type	Untrusting Community
Soldier / int_414a1901	comment	The basis of the Untrusting Community's perspective is based largely on Todd's background as a soldier, and that his violent tendencies are such that he cannot be integrated as a member.
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Soldier / int_420081bf	type	Alien Sky
Soldier / int_420081bf	comment	Alien Sky: Arcadia has a dull, brown sky with two suns circling it.
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Soldier / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Soldier / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: When Mace realizes that Todd was not uncaring about the venomous snake close to their son, but had rather been trying to teach the boy to defend himself (and Nathan uses this lesson to save his parents from another snake), Mace immediately runs out to find Todd and bring him back.
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Soldier / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
Soldier / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: When Todd is being cared for by Sandra. Also results in The Reveal of his service history and scars.
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Soldier / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Soldier / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: When offered assistance in repelling the next-gen soldiers, Todd simply says "Soldiers deserve soldiers, sir." This is either a belief that soldiers deserve to be killed by other soldiers, not mere civilians, or that he didn't think the civilians had a chance in hell of winning.
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Soldier / int_465780af	type	Facial Markings
Soldier / int_465780af	comment	Facial Markings: Todd and his fellow super-soldiers have tattoos detailing their major service history and personal information.
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Soldier / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Soldier / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Todd takes this mindset to the point where he shoots through hostages, just to continue his charge and eliminate the enemy on the flank.
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Soldier / int_4b2500a1	type	This Means Warpaint
Soldier / int_4b2500a1	comment	This Means Warpaint: Todd paints his face with black stripes during the Lock-and-Load Montage and answering Sandra's questions. It actually does help him blend in in the dark and catch the soldiers by surprise.
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Soldier / int_4c1f77ca	type	Third Time's The Charm
Soldier / int_4c1f77ca	comment	Third Time's The Charm: The first time Todd goes up against Caine, he gets the crap beaten out of him and is assumed to be dead. The second time, Todd destroys Caine's armored vehicle and assumes he's dead. The third time, Todd finally kills Caine after a protracted hand-to-hand battle.
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Soldier / int_4ca752e1	type	Deadly Dust Storm
Soldier / int_4ca752e1	comment	Deadly Dust Storm: The waste planet has one powerful enough to blow a human away. Todd is nearly killed by it at the beginning of the film, later, when Todd is going One-Man Army against the Super Soldiers, it appears again, this time, Todd is more prepared, while the Super Soldiers are not, and are blown away by it.
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Soldier / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
Soldier / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: So manly it barely needs any words. Literally — see The Quiet One.
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Soldier / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
Soldier / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: Todd has a long scar on the right side on his face that arguably makes him look even more badass. Caine's facial scars, inflicted by Todd during their first fight, completely disfigure his face.
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Soldier / int_5028baf2	type	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?
Soldier / int_5028baf2	comment	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: A montage of Todd interacting with Sandra (highlighting Connie Neilsen's beauty) paints the picture of Todd having very strange and powerful feelings awoken within him by this woman's presence, emotions he has absolutely no idea how to process. To a lesser extent, the way Mace and Sandra treat him almost like family, and commonality with Nathan, sees Todd latch on to them with great devotion and loyalty.
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Soldier / int_508ef715	type	The Bridge
Soldier / int_508ef715	comment	The Bridge: Mekum and rest of the commanding officers are discussing plans of battle while sitting in the bridge of their dropship.
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Soldier / int_51c28ba3	type	Non-Action Big Bad
Soldier / int_51c28ba3	comment	Non-Action Big Bad: Mekum is a Dirty Coward who prefers to lead from the safety of the rear, but his command of the soldiers and sheer ruthlessness nevertheless make him a great threat.
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Soldier / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Soldier / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: A serious example with Todd, Nathan, and the snake. Having failed to observe him teaching Nathan to kill it, only walking in when Todd is just standing there while it slithers up to Nathan, the colony decides he's too violent to fit in with them. Todd's own stoic nature and refusal to speak prevents him from rectifying the error.
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Soldier / int_54616909	type	Cavalry Betrayal
Soldier / int_54616909	comment	Cavalry Betrayal: Mace sees the military ship land and excitedly starts to wave, believing it to be a rescue party. He is promptly corrected by Todd with a firm, "Stay with me, sir!"
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Soldier / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
Soldier / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: Played With. Todd uses dual SMG's in part of the prelude. At a later point, it appears that he is using dual assault rifles to mow down several of the bombardment troops. The troops then launch a counterattack and move up on his supposed position (all while the guns are firing), only to find that he's rigged them up on the corpse of a dead soldier.
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Soldier / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
Soldier / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: On Arcadia, adults are gunned down mercilessly during the advance team attack and bombardment siege, yet no child ever suffers more than being frightened.
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Soldier / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
Soldier / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: As children, Todd and his fellow Super-Soldier trainees are forced to watch a pack of dogs attacking a wild boar during their training.
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Soldier / int_5fc3eff4	type	Time Bomb
Soldier / int_5fc3eff4	comment	Time Bomb: And a nuclear one, at that. Which is set off, blowing up the waste disposal planet along with it.
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Soldier / int_608bf5a0	type	Shoot the Hostage
Soldier / int_608bf5a0	comment	Shoot the Hostage: The Shooting Gallery scene above foreshadows a bit in Todd's combat montage where he fatally shoots a hostage to kill the enemy combatant using her as a human shield. He does this with absolutely no sign of hesitation or remorse.
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Soldier / int_638b65bc	type	Armor Is Useless
Soldier / int_638b65bc	comment	Armor Is Useless: The genetically-modified troops are mowed down easily by weapons fire and melee weapons. Although the armor stands up pretty well against the civilian weapons.
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Soldier / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Soldier / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Todd is one (absurdly prepared, experienced and mentally honed) guy against twenty genetically-enhanced troops with better weapons and armor. He wipes the floor with all of them.
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Soldier / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Soldier / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: After the junkyard community casts him out, Todd - trained from birth to kill, oblivious to what emotions are supposed to be - is surprised to find a tear sliding down his cheek. He wipes it and frowns in astonishment, not sure what to think of it.
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Soldier / int_66bee5ea	type	Shooting Gallery
Soldier / int_66bee5ea	comment	Shooting Gallery: An important part of Todd's training in the opening sequence involves a shooting gallery, in which he shoots straight through the civilian being used as a shield by the dummy representing an assailant.
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Soldier / int_6860368a	type	Mook Horror Show
Soldier / int_6860368a	comment	Mook Horror Show: Todd doles this out to the invading super soldiers, slaughtering them without most of them getting a good look at him. By the end the people on board the command ship are thinking it's some far bigger group of soldiers wiping out their men.
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Soldier / int_6a4c6ec0	type	The Promised Land
Soldier / int_6a4c6ec0	comment	Todd's violence allows him to defend the community from the invading next-gen soldiers bent on eradicating them, and subsequently lead them to the The Promised Land.
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Soldier / int_6fb4d332	type	Invulnerable Knuckles
Soldier / int_6fb4d332	comment	Invulnerable Knuckles: Todd repeatedly beats a steel punching bag for several hours straight, so exhausted that he is barely able to stand, and only gets mildly bloodied knuckles for his effort.
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Soldier / int_788b4436	type	I Like Those Odds
Soldier / int_788b4436	comment	I Like Those Odds: Mekum initially objects to Church's request for Todd to face Caine one-on-one. Mekum then asks Church to bring two more soldiers to face Caine, and Church replies that he likes the suggestion.
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Soldier / int_7994c93a	type	Violence Really Is the Answer
Soldier / int_7994c93a	comment	Violence Really Is the Answer: The basis of the Untrusting Community's perspective is based largely on Todd's background as a soldier, and that his violent tendencies are such that he cannot be integrated as a member. By teaching the mute, otherwise-coddled child Nathan necessary violence, the boy is later able to save his parents' lives. Todd's violence allows him to defend the community from the invading next-gen soldiers bent on eradicating them, and subsequently lead them to the The Promised Land.
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Soldier / int_79e3e9a1	type	Decoy Hiding Place
Soldier / int_79e3e9a1	comment	Decoy Hiding Place: One of the next-gen soldiers is chasing group of children. He enters the room, looking directly at a group of children and single female covering them. Then Todd blindsides him. With a rocket launcher. Later, Todd uses this against Caine. After being severely beaten, he looks at a rusty sickle on the ground. Caine follows his gaze and decides to pick the sickle, since he's standing right next to it. Which Todd instantly uses for his real attack, as Caine positioned himself to get sliced with a chopper propeller.
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Soldier / int_79fa704c	type	Training the Peaceful Villagers
Soldier / int_79fa704c	comment	Training the Peaceful Villagers: Subverted. Despite not having any real combat experience prior to the military landing on the planet, most of the adult villagers already have weapons and training (although they're barred by Todd from fighting the enemy because he considers it something he has to do himself).
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Soldier / int_7aba8180	type	Job Title
Soldier / int_7aba8180	comment	Job Title: Todd is a soldier. Well, at least a former one.
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Soldier / int_7c7589af	type	Earth-Shattering Kaboom
Soldier / int_7c7589af	comment	The best has to when Colonel Mekum shoves Lieutenant Sloan out of the way when she can't remember the code to shut down the Planet Killer. He puts a code in with a smug grin, but her face is terrified. The Earth-Shattering Kaboom happens about two seconds later.
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Soldier / int_80b57bec	type	Super-Soldier
Soldier / int_80b57bec	comment	Super-Soldier: While the first generation of soldiers was all about training from the early childhood, the next-gen soldiers are genetically-enhanced and bred like clones.
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Soldier / int_81c0e175	type	An Ass-Kicking Christmas
Soldier / int_81c0e175	comment	An Ass-Kicking Christmas: Christmas is celebrated by the inhabitants of Arcadia 234, and shortly after the soldiers come in and invade the planet.
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Soldier / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
Soldier / int_830b0ac9	comment	Final Battle: Between Todd and Caine.
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Soldier / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Soldier / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: When Todd destroys Caine's Crawler during the bombardment attack, the ship's lieutenant radios for a status update. Also:
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Soldier / int_86f4f393	type	Stating the Simple Solution
Soldier / int_86f4f393	comment	Stating the Simple Solution: The moment that several of the new generation of soldiers are massacred by Todd, Church offers Mekum a simple counterattack plan that will take care of the enemy, no matter how many of them could be (they are freaking out so much that they say "for all we know it could be a couple of divisions out there!"): have the soldiers fall back, load up with the heaviest artillery they have on board, and bombard the "enemy base" to smithereens. The time it takes for the soldiers to do this is enough time for Todd to gather enough weapons and go on the counter-attack himself. Escalating further when a planet-destroying bomb is prepped and armed to both wipe out the enemy forces and cover all the tracks of the failed military exercises.
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Soldier / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Soldier / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Colonel Mekum's response to the news that entire team of his vaunted, genetically-enhanced Super Soldiers have been wiped out by an unknown adversary? Blow up the entire planet. And that thermonuclear, planet-killer warhead they use to achieve that? Should ever the need for even greater overkill arise, they have fifteen of them aboard. Why they would need that kind of firepower when only using it once would suffice is a mystery.
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Soldier / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Soldier / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Colonel Mekum, but also the two lieutenants. By the time they're thrown off the dropship, they had been complicit in war crimes and were content to abandon the older generation soldiers.
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Soldier / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Soldier / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Averted with the boys chosen for Project Adam, since they were trained from birth to show no emotion and become desensitized to violence by being forced to witness animals violently killing each other, trained in hand to hand combat, and to know how to uses firearms and explosives. Played straight with the children that were born on Arcadia, their parents were survivors whose ship crashed on an uninhabited planet, and raised them with the idea that in order to survive, they need to peacefully work together.
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Soldier / int_91c001	type	Cute Mute
Soldier / int_91c001	comment	Cute Mute: Nicholas is an innocent little boy that doesn't speak due to an accident in the past.
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Soldier / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Soldier / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Mekum once his soldiers start getting gunned down like animals. Once they're all dead, he goes into full-on "save my own ass" mode.
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Soldier / int_963d947b	type	It's Personal with the Dragon
Soldier / int_963d947b	comment	It's Personal with the Dragon: Todd doesn't particularly care about Colonel Mekum, but he does have a genuine rivalry with his opposite Caine 607 for replacing him as the new soldier of the future. This feeling is mutual, as Caine hates Todd for costing him an eye and gimping his combat readiness.
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Soldier / int_96475bb6	type	Awesome Personnel Carrier
Soldier / int_96475bb6	comment	Awesome Personnel Carrier: The Crawler, which (at the time) was the biggest working vehicle ever constructed for a film. With the equipment on-board these vehicles, it might as well be a Military Mashup Machine.
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Soldier / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Soldier / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: The wreckage of a Spinner (from Blade Runner) can be seen in one of the piles of trash when Todd first arrives on the planet. Todd's tattoos include a listing of all the major military campaigns he's participated in - the second-last entry on his arm reads, "TannhÃ¤user Gate". Additionally, his computer dossier lists the "Shoulder of Orion" campaign.
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Soldier / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Soldier / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Somewhat justified. Todd is a single soldier taking on a twenty men strong unit, but he also has entire life of combat experience behind his belt, while also knowing local terrain and tactics of the enemy.
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Soldier / int_a26a101	type	Tannhäuser Gate
Soldier / int_a26a101	comment	Todd's tattoos include a listing of all the major military campaigns he's participated in - the second-last entry on his arm reads, "TannhÃ¤user Gate". Additionally, his computer dossier lists the "Shoulder of Orion" campaign.
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Soldier / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Soldier / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Todd does this to Caine 607 during their first encounter. Todd also stabs another Super-Soldier through the eyepiece of his helmet. Later on, it's strongly implied that another Super-Soldier is bitten in the eye by a snake.
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Soldier / int_a53f784f	type	Appeal to Familial Wisdom
Soldier / int_a53f784f	comment	Appeal to Familial Wisdom: Church spouts these all the time, always recalling what his dad used to say.
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Soldier / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
Soldier / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: In the opening, the original soldiers are shown just charging into situations, making no attempt to find cover. Slightly justified in some situations, as most of the battles they are fighting are against opponents with less refinement. Also discussed and averted later on. The next-gen soldiers are criticized as being powerful but untested, while the originals are battle-hardened and experienced. Indeed, the next-gen soldiers are eventually wiped out precisely because they are incapable of adapting to the guerrilla tactics of a single highly-experienced warrior who can use the local terrain to his advantage. After surviving the spray of a soldier's minigun, Todd emerges welding an RPG to retaliate. Rather than taking aim at his assailant, he shoots the wreckage above him, resulting in an improbable impalement.
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Soldier / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Soldier / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: Todd is born in 1996. By then, mankind is already capable of space travel to other planets and the world (or at least the US) is a dystopian society that selects babies from birth to become inhuman killing machines.
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Soldier / int_aa8fa208	type	Well-Trained, but Inexperienced
Soldier / int_aa8fa208	comment	Well-Trained, but Inexperienced: While the Next-Gen soldiers are unquestionably physically superior and well-trained, they have absolutely zero real battlefield experience and are led by a pompous Armchair Military officer who doesn't see the vulnerability this causes. During the climax of the movie, in the first real battle that the Next-Gen soldiers experience, they are unable to adapt or deal with a single "obsolete" soldier and a few trained villagers using guerilla tactics against them and an entire platoon gets wiped out.
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Soldier / int_aabdf2c6	type	Tyke-Bomb
Soldier / int_aabdf2c6	comment	Tyke Bomb: Adam Project. A group of infants selected and then raised to be perfect soldiers, with their entire lives dedicated to military training and extreme conditioning.
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Soldier / int_ab74122a	type	Wasteland Elder
Soldier / int_ab74122a	comment	Wasteland Elder: Played with. The elder seems to share leadership duties with Mace, and distrusts Todd. She never changes her stance on him, and ends up being killed during the attack by the advance team.
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Soldier / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
Soldier / int_ac320c0e	comment	Nuke 'em: What Mekum tries to do once the bombardment troops are wiped out.
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Soldier / int_ac5364fe	type	Chekhov's Hobby
Soldier / int_ac5364fe	comment	Chekhov's Hobby: Todd is listed on a computer as having ordinance training in BFG's. Later on, when the advance team attack the colony, Todd proves to be a capable shot with the dropped rocket launchers the genetically-modified soldiers were wielding.
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Soldier / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Soldier / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Nathan is taught by Todd how to kill a venomous snake soon after he arrives at the colony. Later on, after the colony has kicked Todd out, Nathan uses this lesson to kill a snake that would have otherwise killed his parents. It also shows them that Todd was trying to teach their mute son (because he'd been bitten and almost died by one of those snakes as an infant) to defend himself, instead of not caring that the child was right next to a snake that could have killed him. When he arrives on Arcadia, Todd immediately has to hold onto a pipe to avoid being blown away in the midst of a massive duststorm. In the battle against the bombardment troops, he comes prepared with equipment to tether himself down, while the soldiers who don't know what they're up against get blown away (and one gets impaled by flying debris).
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Soldier / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Soldier / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Quite a few, with Mekum getting the lion's share of them. The best has to when Colonel Mekum shoves Lieutenant Sloan out of the way when she can't remember the code to shut down the Planet Killer. He puts a code in with a smug grin, but her face is terrified. The Earth-Shattering Kaboom happens about two seconds later.
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Soldier / int_afb088a5	type	Impressive Pyrotechnics
Soldier / int_afb088a5	comment	Impressive Pyrotechnics: The sheer amount of Stuff Blowing Up is just staggering, with numerous counts of outrunning the fireballs.
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Soldier / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
Soldier / int_b5171e10	comment	Tragic Villain: Todd's nemesis Caine 607 is probably even more of a victim of the indoctrination of the future military as Todd himself is, as he was not only trained from birth to be a soldier like Todd himself but also genetically modified to be completely obedient. When Caine loses an eye in a fight with Todd and is dismissed by his commanding officer as almost useless now ("He has no depth perception! All he can do is walk point and take the first hit."), it's clear that Caine himself will be coldly discarded when something better comes along, just as Todd was.
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Soldier / int_b64b1fc1	type	Left for Dead
Soldier / int_b64b1fc1	comment	Left for Dead: Todd, on a garbage disposal planet.
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Soldier / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
Soldier / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: Todd suffers this when he's knocked backwards during a duststorm after arriving at the colony, and during the second fist-fight with Caine.
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Soldier / int_bb53d08	type	Tear Jerker
Soldier / int_bb53d08	comment	Tear Jerker: In-Universe. When one of Todd's old squadmates is told by an officer that he's no longer a soldier and "You don't even have to salute anymore," the big guy looks like she just took away his teddy bear.
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Soldier / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Soldier / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Well, not exactly genius, but still — what Todd lacks in sheer strength and speed compared to genetically-enhanced soldiers he faces, he more than makes up for in combat experience, cleverness and tactical ingenuity. He exploits this brilliantly to his advantage, using traps, decoys and other guerilla warfare tactics to repeatedly outsmart ostensibly stronger enemies and kill them off one by one.
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Soldier / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Soldier / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: One of the few emotional reactions we see from Todd is clearly outraged anger after a colonist accuses him of desertion.
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Soldier / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
Soldier / int_bd0d6395	comment	No Social Skills: Sergeant Todd was raised from birth to be a completely obedient, emotionless soldier. When he is left for dead by his superiors, he tries to reintegrate into a small community, but ultimately can't due to his underdeveloped social skills. He barely talks and, except for some fleeting moments, is a paragon of stoicism. He is also dangerous to be around, as his conditioning constantly triggers violent self-defense. Inverted in his relationship with Nathan, who cannot speak due to a childhood injury. It is due to this connection between them and the manner in which Todd teaches Nathan to kill a dangerous snake that the boy is later able to save his family.
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Soldier / int_bd50ec63	comment	Battle in the Rain: Todd and Caine get a rain-soaked rematch.
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Soldier / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: Colonel Mekum is a smug, arrogant jerk who treats the people around him like crap.
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Soldier / int_bf72d5e8	comment	The Spartan Way: The original recruits are trained from a young age to act without emotion, to the point that they are subjected to constant drills and incredibly difficult training exercises as children. To top it off, it's demonstrated that children who are mentally or physically incapable of handling the training are quietly executed. Mekum does this to demonstrate the capabilities of the genetically-modified soldiers when he pits them in a "someone dies tonight" competition.
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Soldier / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: Todd does this to Caine at the end of their final confrontation.
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Soldier / int_c3c0768c	comment	Soldiers at the Rear: The West Point graduate leading the genetically modified super soldiers is a classic REMF (rear-echelon motherf*cker). Exemplified by his spotless dress uniform (the other officers are wearing fatigues) and pearl-handled revolvers. Todd's squad gets relegated to support duties, much to their disappointment.
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Soldier / int_c446f93c	type	Artistic License â€“ Nuclear Physics
Soldier / int_c446f93c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Nuclear Physics: Although constructing a thermonuclear warhead powerful enough to blow up an entire planet is a theoretical possibility (how feasible it would be — that's another story), the device thus built would have to be much, much larger than this tiny ball they used in the movie. Basically, the strength of a thermonuclear warhead depends on how many phases of reaction are introduced, each of them requiring its own minimal mass and thus volume of it. If we're talking about planet-killer power levels, it would require a huge amount of phases, too many to be crammed within such small device.
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Soldier / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Soldier / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Todd has ordinance training in the MKIV BFG, the Illudium PU36 Explosive Space Modulator (used by Marvin The Martian in Looney Tunes) and the USCM Smartgun and M4A1 Pulse Rifle. Prior to the film, Todd fought in the Antares Maelstrom War. The Trinity Moons are located in ZZ9.Plurl.ZA, located near the "Slartibartfast" system. Todd is a highly decorated soldier, bearing Plissken Patch, MacReady Cross and O'Neill Ring Award, among others. The garbage piles on Arcadia 234 include a trashed F-117X Remora and a piece of the Lewis & Clark. As noted above, there are several references to Blade Runner. Justified as it was originally going to be a spin-off of sorts to Blade Runner.
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Soldier / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: When the wind appears a second time, a piece of debris pierces a Super-Soldier in the chest.
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Soldier / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: The original Super-Soldier squad. Later replaced by genetically-engineered troops, which the Veterans and officers accepted grudgingly.
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Soldier / int_ca04edd6	type	Charles Atlas Superpower
Soldier / int_ca04edd6	comment	Charles Atlas Superpower: The soldiers from Adam Project were selected as infants and then spend their entire childhood on extensive combat training and conditioning. By the time they are put in combat duty, each of them already has the capacity of One-Man Army. And it only goes from there as they do nothing else but combat and more training for next twenty-something years. Church specifically stresses the importance of training and experience when the next-gen soldiers arrive and compete against his veterans.
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Soldier / int_ca9c252f	comment	This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: Todd's "Soldiers deserve soldiers, sir" statement. Although in this case, it's less because the problem is entirely Todd's than because none of the settlers are badass enough to help him.
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Soldier / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Mace dies from blood loss when his leg is shot off.
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Soldier / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Mekum and his lieutenants are left behind on Arcadia, along with the Time Bomb he gleefully asked to be activated to destroy the colony.
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Soldier / int_d4c98786	type	Writing Around Trademarks
Soldier / int_d4c98786	comment	Writing Around Trademarks: While the film includes Shout-Outs to several Sci-fi properties, it was specifically envisioned as a spin-off of Blade Runner and the next-gen soldiers are essentially Replicants, just without any use of that term or references to their life-span or the Tyrell Corporation.
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Soldier / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
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Soldier / int_da9d2f16	comment	'90s Anti-Hero: Todd is a professional soldier, which in this setting means a killing machine who was raised from infancy to be devoid of hesitation, scruples, or remorse. In the opening moments of the story, it's made clear that Todd never questions orders and thinks nothing of slaughtering anyone who obstructs his mission. Yet he's the (heroic) protagonist of the story and the settlers' only hope of defeating the next-gen soldiers, who are morally even worse than Todd.
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Soldier / int_dda12cb3	comment	Cat Scare: With disastrous results. Todd gets spooked by one of the settlers, who just wanted to give him a friendly pat on shoulder. Being conditioned for his whole life to fight and defend himself, he almost murders the poor guy on instinct and ultimately gets exiled over this.
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Soldier / int_e50818aa	type	Normally, I Would Be Dead Now
Soldier / int_e50818aa	comment	Normally, I Would Be Dead Now: The only reason Todd survives his fall during the first encounter with Caine is due to him falling on the corpse of his fellow soldier. He simply goes unconscious from his injuries and is presumed to be dead.
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Soldier / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Soldier / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: When the usually quiet Todd speaks to any of the adult colonists, he calls them "Sir" due to spending his entire life in a military environment.
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Soldier / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: After the above mentioned incident, Mekum chastizes Caine for losing an eye in a fight against Todd and two other veterans of countless conflicts.
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Soldier / int_ecac4c42	comment	Why Won't You Die?: A nonverbal version between Todd and Caine in their final fight. Todd has been hammered badly but just keeps getting back up, and Caine looks at him with something between confusion and horror.
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