It's justified as his primary method of resetting time is dying by headshot. Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: After Cage gets used to his time shifting powers, he rejects the helmet when the armorer tries to put one on him.Genius Bruiser: Not only does the constant fighting he does on the loops makes him stronger, he also been able to memorize nearly every single detail on the past loop and use it to advance further in the current loop.Feel No Pain: As a result of the time loops, he becomes considerably more numb to pain.He becomes more of a Cowardly Lion through repeated loops and eventually a bonafide badass. Other characters even call him this outright. Tries to weasel and blackmail his way out of the front lines, and even tries running away several times on his first loop. He snaps out of it once he realises the visions of his target are in fact a trap. Even letting people die he'd saved in previous loops, Rita included. Despair Event Horizon: After losing Rita one too many times he resigns himself to killing the Omega in a solo effort and caring about nothing else.Whilst he is, technically, a deserter, it soon becomes obvious that the only person he's dangerous to is himself. Dangerous Deserter: Treated as one initially thanks to the faked documents.The Chosen Zero: The look of utter contempt on General Brigham's face perfectly mirrors the audience's feelings for the worthless turd Cage is at the beginning of the movie.Charles Atlas Superpower: Reliving the same events over and over makes both him and Rita into superhuman fighters, as well as being able to (from the viewpoint of other characters) predict the future and read minds.Particularly notable, as this is the result of Cage literally getting 'Stop Being A Douchebag' beaten into him very, very slowly. Character Development: He begins the story as an arrogant, cowardly Jerkass, and across the story evolves to a much more heroic figure.He can't even get a good afternoon drunk going. The Call Knows Where You Live: Cage can't escape dying and being reborn every day.Butt-Monkey: Is this for J Squad, until he manages to earn their respect.Boom, Headshot!: Being shot in the head becomes the go-to 'reset' method.The beginning of the film quickly puts an end to that notion. He makes no secret of the fact he thinks the frontlines are Someone Else's Problem. Break the Haughty: Cage is rather content with his current position and station.The subsequent Many Deaths of You montage as he tries to reach Rita further shows how lucky he was to survive as long as he did in the first time loop.But then he does one even better when sheer luck lets him kill an Alpha with a claymore mine and, well, the reset is history. But when he finally manages to find the safety release he actually manages to gun down an attacking Mimic right away, which considering how badly humanity is getting mauled is almost enough to count as a Curb-Stomp Cushion in its own right. For most of the first battle Cage is pathetically useless, with no idea of how to operate his Jacket, screaming for anyone to tell him at least how to take the safety off his weapons.Which makes the After-Action Patch-Up scene, where he casually fixes Rita's shoulder wound, a subtle but powerful milestone of his Character Development. Afraid of Blood: Mentions this to his defense when the general commands him to go filming with the first wave.It's from there that he begins to become more of a badass. Action Survivor: He graduates from New Meat to this early on, at least once he starts to figure out how to avoid dying immediately.This gets him sprayed with an Alpha's blood - and allows him to get their Save Scumming power. Achievements in Ignorance: He clearly did not know what the claymore mines Skinner carried around would do, and yet he used one as a last resort against one of the Mimics.

When he kills an especially powerful Mimic by pure chance, he accidentally gets the power to loop back to the day before the invasion, allowing him to find a way to turn the tables on the aliens. The film starts with him getting sent on the frontlines to film the invasion when he tries to blackmail his way out of it, he is instead demoted to private and sent straight into the grinder. Dubbed By: Jean-Philippe Puymartin (European French)Īn Armchair Military major in the USAF, who is mostly just a PR guy.

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