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Why did Master Sergeant Farell deny being an American?
According to this interview, it was more about attitude than location:
Tom also told me that Christopher McQuarrie wrote Master Sergeant
Farrell with you in mind.
Yeah, Chris came in, and me ...
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What did the soldiers mean when they replied "exactly" to Tom Cruise's question "Where is the safety"?
The conversation actually goes like this:
Cruise: "Listen, man. I could hurt someone with this..."
Soldier: "Not with the safety on. you won't."
Cruise: "Wait. Where's the safety?"
Soldier: "...
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How come the Omega remains dead after time is reset at end of Edge of Tomorrow?
Cage is the one who resets the day after he kills the Omega.
There are many Mimics, only a few Alphas and only one Omega.
The first time Cage gets some of the alien power is when he is covered in ...
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Why do Alphas fight when there's the possibility of passing the time reset power to a human?
In the source graphic novel, the Blue Mimics use this power to reset their own death and change their behaviour that causes it. The transference is a freak accident. If it was easy to replicate, the ...
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Why did Master Sergeant Farell deny being an American?
This is actually something of a trope, and may well derive from a specific type of military humor.
There is an oft-times repeated story of a U.S. Army major visiting the wounded in a WWI French ...
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What did the soldiers mean when they replied "exactly" to Tom Cruise's question "Where is the safety"?
First of all, Tom Cruises' character is not a soldier and is therefore not used to warfare, guns, etc.
Secondly, in a lot of warfare, friendly fire can cause a lot of casualties.
So, explaining ...
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What did the soldiers mean when they replied "exactly" to Tom Cruise's question "Where is the safety"?
We need to summarize the battle initiation dialogue of character Master Sergeant Farell just before the helicopter explodes. All along, this character is shown not to have high hopes from Cage, that ...
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What happened after Rita stopped resetting?
Your confusion seems to stem from misunderstanding what is looping and resetting.
The war is not what is being reset - it is the personal timelines of Rita and then Cage. Their looping is because ...
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Why do Alphas fight when there's the possibility of passing the time reset power to a human?
If you watch it again and listen carefully, they explain that the purpose of the Alphas fighting is specifically so if they get killed then their day resets. That's an Alpha power. Then the "...
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What happens in the ongoing timeline when Cage dies?
Everything should be reset. The power resides on one of the aliens, and when it senses it is loosing one of the captains, it turns back time. It's not Cage's power, it's the alien. This alien would be ...
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In Edge of Tomorrow, what is Tom Cruise's exosuit saying when he can't turn his safety off? (Japanese)
The first two characters are Anzen (安全) or "Safety". The last two characters (オン) are just a transliteration of the English word "On", as in "switched on".
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Why couldn't Cage and Rita take a military helicopter to reach the dam?
Most of the loops that Cage is doing in the beginning results in him gaining combat skills.
After that, based on what Rita says, they are trying to get to the Omega to kill it and end the war.
The ...
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What happened after Rita stopped resetting?
You kind of answered your own question: the war didn't stop. It couldn't have, since it was still happening when Cage got sent to it.
The movie doesn't tell us clearly what happened between Rita's ...
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What happens in the ongoing timeline when Cage dies?
There is no evidence for or against a Many Worlds Interpretation of time Theory in the film. We can assume, if the MWI is valid, that the majority of what we saw results in doomed time lines, but with ...
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How come the Omega remains dead after time is reset at end of Edge of Tomorrow?
Not going to do too much to say who I thought was right or wrong. I’ll just say I agreed with most of you. I think multiple points of view are fun. I just wanted to add a couple of things, regarding ...
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