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Chekhov's Skill: Lightning learns a maneuver from Pretty Boy that he puts to good use in combat later.

Chekhov's Gun: Averted with Raygun's, well, raygun.

The Chains of Commanding: Easy, after Junior's capture and Lightning's death.

This is, of course, an excuse to cover not wanting to use blacks in combat out of simple racism.

Catch-22 Dilemma: What the pilots of the 332nd face at the start of the film: The higher-ups refuse to accept that black pilots are fit for air combat until they have achieved some air-to-air victories against the Germans, and they refuse to assign them anywhere they will run into the Luftwaffe until they can prove themselves fit for air combat.Junior is able to talk his way into averting this trope after he is half-blinded by shrapnel, and is shot down soon after. Career-Ending Injury: Deke gets sent home after his plane catches fire and he suffers third-degree burns over a significant portion of his body.Junior gets hit by a flak gun after declaring that he can get four at once. Calling Your Attacks: An odd example, with two pilots predicting how many German planes they can destroy on each pass.Book Ends: The first and last combat missions we see the Red Tails flying on end with Lightning attacking the target head-on.Blood from the Mouth: Lightning, mortally wounded by Pretty Boy's autocannon fire.

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The last onscreen death in the movie is Lightning's Mutual Kill with Pretty Boy. Black Dude Dies First: Inverted: the first deaths we see are of white B-17 crews.This works on the all-white escort group in the opening sequence, who were trained to go for as many kills as they can, but it fails to entice the Red Tails, who know they'll never fly escort duty again if they don't stay on-mission and get the bombers home safely. Batman Gambit: Pretty Boy's squadron uses decoy planes to draw American fighters off so they can pick off the bombers easily.The second time, after the squadron manages to escort a bomber group to and from the target with no bombers lost, the leader of the bomber group tells the bartender "they're with us" and buys them a round. The first time, Lightning goes in alone, gets told to leave, and blows his stack. "Awkward Silence" Entrance: Done twice when the Tuskeegee Airmen enter the officially whites-only officers' club.(For what it's worth, all three remaining Italian battleships were being interned in Egypt at the time of the attack on TA22.) Two P-51s making strafing runs could very well be catastrophic for a torpedo boat (as it was for TA22: she made it back to port but was judged damaged beyond repair and scrapped), but would be mildly annoying at best for the battleship.

However, the scene depicting this action has a TREMENDOUS problem: the ship that the studio chose to include as the "destroyer" isn't a destroyer, it's a Littorio-class battleship.

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Artistic License Ships: Two Tuskegee airmen really did successfully attack a German-crewed torpedo boat: TA22, formerly the Italian World War I-era Rosolino Pilo-class destroyer Giuseppe Missori which was seized and refitted by the Kriegsmarine after Mussolini's overthrow.

And Starring: The opening cast roll ends "with Cuba Gooding Jr.

His friend Lightning tries to get him to stop.

The Alcoholic: Easy relies on drink to get himself through the war.

Germans never painted their kill tally under the cockpit, but on the fin and/or rudder.

Pretty Boy, with dozens of kill markings painted undert the cockpit.

Ace Pilots: How else do you describe pilots who shoot down jet fighters with propeller planes?.

On another occasion, a pilot is too weak from his injuries to bail out, and is forced to attempt to land. The plane is promptly blown apart by a German fighter.

One bomber is badly damaged, and the pilot orders the crew to bail out. This technique is Truth in Television but particularly applies to the British Spitfire, whose cockpit was so narrow (thanks to the need for streamlining) that climbing out quickly was difficult.

Played straight a few times, notably with one pilot who escapes his burning plane simply by jettisoning the canopy, unbuckling from his seat, and rolling the plane inverted, which neatly drops him out of the plane so he can trigger his parachute.

Various aircraft end up badly damaged, requiring their crews to bail out. Abandon Ship: Of the aviation variety.Also, the more obvious aesops about the need to overcome racial prejudice and overcoming adversity. An Aesop: Put your duties and responsibilities to others before your own desires.Red Tails features examples of the following tropes: