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Cradling Your Kill: Done with Etain after being stabbed in the stomach by Quintus.Macros is a champion runner and so Quintus knows that Thax is lying when he says Macros wasn't able to outrun the wolves. Tarak identifies death cap mushrooms early on and Brick sees them in the stew Arianne serves them, but it turns out he's wrong. After the fall of the legion, none of the survivors are ever shown using any kind of formation tactics. Call That a Formation?: The Ninth Legion tries to fight in formation, but the Pict strategy of rolling flaming boulders down a hill breaks their formation up, and then they attack before the Romans can reform.The Brute: Vortix, a large warrior with a really large axe.I am a soldier/fugitive of Rome, and this is neither the beginning nor the end of my story.' Book Ends / Ironic Echo: 'My name is Quintus Dias.Although it would be admittedly a long road, it would not be impossible for a local to end up in Roman territories. This one is semi-plausible, as odd as it might sound, as at the time, the Hindu Kush had some contact with the Eastern Mediterranean area through the large Parthian Empire. The same Roman unit also features Riz Ahmed playing Tarak, the company cook, who 'hails from the Hindu Kush' (which neatly matches Ahmed's own Pakistani ancestry).The writer had probably meant Nubia, the country in modern-day Sudan. Schoolboy error here: Numidia, modern-day Tunisia, was populated by light/brown-skinned Berbers and descendants of Phoenicians colonizers. The film features Noel Clarke, an English actor with Afro-Caribbean heritage playing 'Macros', a refugee from Numidia, and a legionary from the second cohort of the Ninth Legion.Bittersweet Ending: The 9th Legion is wiped out, and Quintus is a fugitive from Roman society, but he retires with his hot new girlfriend to an idyllic little cottage.Ax-Crazy: Aeron is especially sadistic in battle.

No record of the Pictish language exists, and the closest modern language to it is theorized to be Welsh, but Neil Marshall thought it would be too confusing to have a Scottish tribe speaking Welsh. As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The Picts speak Scots-Gaelic.

Dias has an excuse, he was trained by his father, a gladiator, who would have showy moves, but not the rest.

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Artistic License – Martial Arts: Our heroes' swashbuckling fighting styles would not have been used by Roman soldiers, who actually favored a Boring, but Practical short-ranged style based on Celtiberian sword fighting.

There are numerous shots of Picts killing Roman Legionaires without even having to bother with trying to find a chink in their armor, this despite the fact that Roman armor was quite advanced for its time and a noticeable advantage.

Armor Is Useless: Despite the obvious advantage of having heavy armor, the Romans don't seem to be getting much benefit from it.

Animal Motifs: Etain wears plenty of animal furs, particularly wolf pelts to illustrate how like a wolf she is herself.

Anachronism Stew: The name 'Hindu Kush' is mentioned here, yet historically, it was first used around 800 years later.

Alas, Poor Villain: Etain's eventual death at the hands of Quintus is played tragically, showing that she was just as much a victim of this conflict as everyone else.

The film explores the possible fate of the Legio IX Hispania, or the legendary Ninth Legion, that mysteriously disappeared from Roman records in the early second century AD, for no given reason. Centurion is a 2010 film written and directed by Neil Marshall, the director of Dog Soldiers, The Descent and Doomsday, and starring Michael Fassbender and Olga Kurylenko.

Centurion 2010 movie