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** Conversely, it's Bishop's [[FirstDayFromHell first night on the job]] as a newly-promoted CHP lieutenant.
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* BloodOath: The "cholo", taken by the Street Thunder members as a pledge of revenge against the city after the police gun down six of their members at the start of the film.

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* BloodOath: The "cholo", "Cholo", taken by the Street Thunder members as a pledge of revenge against the city after the police gun down six of their members at the start of the film.
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->''"Anybody got a smoke?"''

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* CatchPhrase: Wilson's is up there. "Anybody got a smoke?"

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* CatchPhrase: Wilson's is up there. "Anybody got "Got a smoke?"



* RunningGag: "Anyone got a smoke?"

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* RunningGag: "Anyone got "Got a smoke?"
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* OffhandBackhand: "Hey, this isn't vanilla twist..."

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* OffhandBackhand: "Hey, this isn't "I wanted vanilla twist..."twist!"
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* BloodOath: The "cholo", taken by the Street Thunder members as a pledge of revenge against the police for gunning down six of their members at the start of the film.

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* BloodOath: The "cholo", taken by the Street Thunder members as a pledge of revenge against the city after the police for gunning gun down six of their members at the start of the film.
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* DaylightHorror: The ice cream truck scene.
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* BloodOath: The "''cholo''", taken by the Street Thunder members as a pledge of revenge against the police for gunning down six of their members at the start of the film.

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* BloodOath: The "cholo", taken by the Street Thunder members as a pledge of revenge against the police for gunning down six of their members at the start of the film.

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* BloodOath: The "cholo", taken by the Street Thunder members as a pledge of revenge against the police for gunning down six of their members.

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* BloodOath: The "cholo", taken by the Street Thunder members as a pledge of revenge against the police for gunning down six of their members.members at the start of the film.
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* BloodOath: The "cholo", taken by the Street Thunder members at the beginning of the film.

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* BloodOath: The "cholo", taken by the Street Thunder members at as a pledge of revenge against the beginning police for gunning down six of the film.their members.
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* BloodOath: The "cholo", taken by the Street Thunder members at the beginning of the film.
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* RunningGag: "Anyone got a smoke?"
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* RealityEnsues: after all the buildup, the first proper shootout with the gangbangers is both awesome and cathartic. It also leaves our heroes with eight bullets between them.
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*** [[spoiler: Wasn't the gun emptied into the guy who'd shot Lawson's daughter...?]]
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* ForTheEvulz: There doesn't seem to be any other reason for murdering an ice cream truck driver in broad daylight.
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* KarmaHoudini: A sizable number of the gangbangers flee into the night when the cops show up, and they don't even seem to give chase or even notice.

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* KarmaHoudini: A sizable number of the gangbangers flee into the night when the cops show up, and they the latter don't even seem to give chase or even notice.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Wilson, aside from being a world class asshole and murderer, actually does his best to help the people trapped in the station. Wells, who is snippy and snarky but has his heart in the right place.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Wilson, who aside from being a world class asshole and murderer, actually does his best to help the people trapped in the station. Also Wells, who is snippy and snarky but has his heart in the right place.
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->''"[[SmokingIsCool Anybody got a smoke?]]"''

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-->-- '''Napoleon Wilson'''
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* KarmaHoudini: A sizable number of the gangbangers flee into the night when the cops show up, and they don't even seem to give chase or even notice.

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* EnemyMine: Stoker is forced to rely on the assistance of two prisoners (one of them a ''convicted murderer of six people'') in defending the precinct.

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* EnemyMine: Stoker Bishop is forced to rely on the assistance of two prisoners (one of them a ''convicted murderer of six people'') in defending the precinct.


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* SaltAndPepper: Bishop and Wilson can be seen as a version of this.
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* NoBudget: The film had a very small budget, witnessed by the copyright owner is listed as "CKK Corporation" which is short for the initials of Carpenter and his two associates (co-producers) J.S. Kaplan and Joseph Kaufman, who financed the film out of their own pockets.
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* [[spoiler: RainOfBlood]]: As a ShoutOut to the scene [[spoiler: with the wounded gunman]] in RioBravo

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* [[spoiler: RainOfBlood]]: As a ShoutOut to the scene [[spoiler: with the wounded gunman]] in RioBravo''Film/RioBravo''.
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* EnemyMine: Stoker is forced to rely on the assistance of two prisoners (one of them a ''convicted murderer of 6 people'') in defending the precinct.

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* EnemyMine: Stoker is forced to rely on the assistance of two prisoners (one of them a ''convicted murderer of 6 six people'') in defending the precinct.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Napoleon Wilson, despite being on his way to death row, lives by a code and will not abandon the defenders of the police station to their fate. Wells also shows shades of this as he is genuinely appalled by the lack of respect that the gang have for innocent lives.



* EvenEvilHasItsStandards: Napoleon Wilson, despite being on his way to death row, lives by a code and will not abandon the defenders of the police station to their fate. Wells also shows shades of this as he is genuinely appalled by the lack of respect that the gang have for innocent lives.



* FriendlyEnemy: Lt. Bishop and Napoleon Wilson. Before the attack, Bishop is the only cop that converses with Wilson as a person, and is genuinely concerned for the safety of everyone in the station. Wilson seems to appreciate this and during the attack defers to the officer, exhibits signs that he will take Bishop's side in a fight when Wells rebels, and thanks Bishop for saving his life, even though Bishop is unaware Wilson was on his way to execution. [[spoiler: at the end, Bishop shoves another cop away who tries to put Wilson in cuffs, and tells Wilson he would be honored if he would accompany Bishop out of the station.]]

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* FriendlyEnemy: Lt. Bishop and Napoleon Wilson. Before the attack, Bishop is the only cop that converses with Wilson as a person, and is genuinely concerned for the safety of everyone in the station. Wilson seems to appreciate this and during the attack defers to the officer, exhibits signs that he will take Bishop's side in a fight when Wells rebels, and thanks Bishop for saving his life, even though Bishop is unaware Wilson was on his way to execution. [[spoiler: at the end, Bishop shoves another cop away who tries to put Wilson in cuffs, [[FireForgedFriends and tells Wilson he would be honored if he would accompany Bishop out of the station.]]]]]]



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Wells, who is snippy and snarky but has his heart in the right place.

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* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: When Wells turns his gun on the other survivors in a bid to escape, Leigh stands in front of him and gives an impassioned speech on why he will fail. She bravely reaches out to take his weapon and she facepalms when she realizes...
--> "I go through all that, and his gun isn't even loaded."
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Wilson, aside from being a world class asshole and murderer, actually does his best to help the people trapped in the station. Wells, who is snippy and snarky but has his heart in the right place.


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--> "This is a ''siege!'' We're under goddamn siege!"

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* CatchPhrase: Wilson's is up there.

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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: Averted. Wells is the last victim of the attack, and Lt. Bishop survives to the end.]]
* CatchPhrase: Wilson's is up there. "Anybody got a smoke?"



* CutPhoneLines: Besides the silencers, the other reason why the Precinct cannot call fo rbackup.

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* EvenEvilHasItsStandards: Napoleon Wilson, despite being on his way to death row, lives by a code and will not abandon the defenders of the police station to their fate. Wells also shows shades of this as he is genuinely appalled by the lack of respect that the gang have for innocent lives.


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* FriendlyEnemy: Lt. Bishop and Napoleon Wilson. Before the attack, Bishop is the only cop that converses with Wilson as a person, and is genuinely concerned for the safety of everyone in the station. Wilson seems to appreciate this and during the attack defers to the officer, exhibits signs that he will take Bishop's side in a fight when Wells rebels, and thanks Bishop for saving his life, even though Bishop is unaware Wilson was on his way to execution. [[spoiler: at the end, Bishop shoves another cop away who tries to put Wilson in cuffs, and tells Wilson he would be honored if he would accompany Bishop out of the station.]]


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* NurseryRhyme: Wells and Wilson play an altered version of "Potatoes" to see who goes on a suicide run to get help.


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* OhCrap: Several:
** When the defenders in the station see the first wave of gang members coming across the parking lot.
** In a fit of desperation, Bishop throws a Wilson a loaded shotgun. After Wilson blows away several gang members coming through a door, he turns back to look at Bishop, who looks back with the stunned realization he just gave a convicted murderer a loaded weapon.
** Wells, when he hears about "the Cholo."
** The patrol officers when they discover the source of the "rain" drops on their rooftop.
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* CutPhoneLinesCutPhoneLines: Besides the silencers, the other reason why the Precinct cannot call fo rbackup.



* KickTheDog: The bad guys not only shoot an ice cream truck driver, but also shoot a little girl in the head after she comes back to complain that he gave her the wrong ice cream, marking this lot as even worse than the other gangs of the city.

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* KickTheDog: The bad guys not only shoot an ice cream truck driver, but also shoot a little girl in the head after she comes back to complain that he gave her the wrong ice cream, marking this lot as even worse than the other gangs of the city. Worse, the shooter did it as an afterthought.
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* KickTheDog: The bad guys shoot a little girl in the head after complaining about her ice cream, marking this lot as even worse than the other gangs of the city.

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* KickTheDog: The bad guys not only shoot an ice cream truck driver, but also shoot a little girl in the head after complaining about she comes back to complain that he gave her the wrong ice cream, marking this lot as even worse than the other gangs of the city.
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->''"[[SmokingIsCool Anybody got a smoke?]]"''

'''''Assault on Precinct 13''''' is a 1976 action/suspense film by Creator/JohnCarpenter.

The story is essentially ''Film/RioBravo'' transported to TheSeventies. When a soon-to-be-abandoned police station in a UsefulNotes/LosAngeles ghetto finds itself under siege from a violent [[GangBangers street gang]], a cop must enlist the aid of a secretary and two convicts to hold off the attackers until help arrives.

It was [[Film/AssaultOnPrecinct132005 remade in 2005]] with LaurenceFishburne and Ethan Hawke starring.
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!!The film provides examples of:

* ActionGirl: Leigh. Even after getting shot in the arm, she still manages to take down several mooks.
* AffablyEvil: Napoleon Wilson, who is friendly (as a convict can be to his captors) and quiet.
* AntiHero[=/=]AntiVillain: Napoleon Wilson is Type III as AntiHero/Type IV as AntiVillain. We never learn what ''was'' his motivation for killing five men, but hey, he's still a criminal.
* ArmedAltruism
* BadHumorTruck: Hey, this isn't vanilla twist...
* CatchPhrase: Wilson's is up there.
* ChekhovsGun: Subverted, a lot.
** It looks as if Napoleon will reveal why he killed his victims to the overzealous cop accompanying him, but as the siege starts, the cop is killed quickly. Napoleon actually laments not getting the opportunity to do so.
** The phone booth in which Lawson takes cover in at first, and which [[spoiler:Wells tries to run to before getting blown away.]]
** [[spoiler: The gun Lawson took from the Ice Cream truck seems like it will come into play later on or that Lawson will do something useful. Ultimately he simply spends the entire film too traumatized to do anything]].
** [[spoiler:Finally played straight with the magnesium flares, but not used until the very second. Justified in that there's no flare gun for them to be useful... yet.]]
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: At different times Wilson is asked why he committed murder and why he's nicknamed "Napoleon". Both times he promises to explain later, but never does get around to it.
* DangerTakesABackSeat: [[spoiler:How Wells gets killed.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Wells and Napoleon Wilson. Even Leigh has her moments.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: At least Carpenter thinks so; on the commentary he regrets taking too long to get to the assault. The fans tend to disagree.
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:The patrol cops, searching for something completely unrelated (a missing phone company van dispatched to investigate cut phone wires), are the ones who call in backup before the station is completely overrun.]]
* DiabolusExMachina: Some weird inversion or whateversion of it -- Lawson kicks off the plot and a lot of deaths by running into the police station, he himself sent there by the white gang member who casually shoots up the ice cream truck and [[spoiler:Lawson's daughter]]. Both serve no purpose but to kick off the siege. Lampshaded by the secretary, who notes he was just some random somebody who brought Hell on the station.
* EnemyMine: Stoker is forced to rely on the assistance of two prisoners (one of them a ''convicted murderer of 6 people'') in defending the precinct.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: A radio announcer comments on the racial diversity of the gang, which would (then and now) be unusual in Los Angeles. This is lampshaded in-universe by the same announcer.
* ExcusePlot: In-universe, Lawson serves as this for why they target Precinct 13 in the first place; his killing [[spoiler: the gangbanger who shot his daughter]] and then running into that station was simply as convenient a way to choose which station to attack as any.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: All the action takes place over the course of a single night. Lampshaded by Ethan; after the initial hail of bullets, he comments that Lawson only came in about thirty minutes ago.
* FamousLastWords: See BadHumorTruck.
* GangBangers: The Street Thunder gang.
* GirlishPigtails: Worn by the little girl [[spoiler:who gets shot and killed after complaining that she wanted a vanilla twist.]]
* HarbingerOfImpendingDoom: Lawson.
* TheHero: Ethan Bishop.
* HeroicBSOD: Lawson, after arriving at the precinct.
* HollywoodSilencer: Plot point: the reason why the initial barrage goes unnoticed, and why the prison convoy detail is slaughtered after the station chief is shot. Why gangbangers have silencers on [=M16s=] is explained -- they stole a weapons shipment before the plot starts. Why they have silencers on ''revolvers'', on the other hand...
* InfantImmortality: [[AvertedTrope Blown away with a vengeance.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Wells, who is snippy and snarky but has his heart in the right place.
* ItsQuietTooQuiet
* NoBudget: The film had a very small budget, witnessed by the copyright owner is listed as "CKK Corporation" which is short for the initials of Carpenter and his two associates (co-producers) J.S. Kaplan and Joseph Kaufman, who financed the film out of their own pockets.
* NewOldWest: This was, after all, inspired by ''Film/RioBravo.''
* OffhandBackhand: "Hey, this isn't vanilla twist..."
* PhoneBooth: Twice - first where Lawson calls his ex-wife, second when one of the prisoners tries to make a run to it.
* PhotofloodLighting: The police station is lit with Hollywood bulbs until they all get shot out.
* [[spoiler: RainOfBlood]]: As a ShoutOut to the scene [[spoiler: with the wounded gunman]] in RioBravo
* RecycledInSpace: It's ''Film/RioBravo'' in TheSeventies. Or ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' with gang members.
* {{Retirony}}: The story takes place during the titular precinct's final night of operations.
* TheSiege: Lampshaded by Bishop.
* SweaterGirl: Leigh ''and'' Julie.
* TheVoiceless: The gang members, who do not speak a word.
* WhiteGangbangers: Actually noted in-universe, as a news report on Street Thunder notes their unusual interracial status.

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