This would have been the case in the original script, where Arianne would fight Etain. The Roman side lacks an Action Girl, with the film's only female warriors, Etain and Aeron, fighting for the Picts. Quintus wonders repeatedly how she has managed to track them so skillfully, implying this may be by magic, despite his dismissal of the idea. There is something supernatural about her, to the point that other characters speak about her as if she's a demon. Dark Magical Girl: Etain's motivations are entirely personal, and special emphasis is placed on her being an Innocence Lost character.She's one of the most violent and sadistic fighters on the Pict side. Dark Action Girl: Aeron doesn't appear to have any personal grudges against the Romans and just fights for the sheer love of brutality.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. Unlike most examples, however this only results in their tactics backfiring and the Picts proceeds to slaughter the Romans for doing so. Call That a Formation?: The Romans never seem to fight in formation and instead battle in Hollywood-friendly one on one duels.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.Blade on a Stick: Etain's main weapon is a spear, with several Spikes of Villainy.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.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.
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