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* MsFanservice: Two of the three female characters fit the bill to varying degrees. Iris is the precinct's beautiful, sensual SexySecretary who enjoys talking about her sex life and wears a short dress, heeled boots and net stockings in every single scene she's in. Alex had a New Year's Eve party set up and is dressed for the occasion.
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* AntiVillain: Well, as far as {{Corrupt Cop}}s can get. Captain Duvall aims to kill the Mafia don inside before he can testify to keep his fellow police officers' "honor" preserved. Taken further in a deleted scene, in which he {{Mercy Kill}}s a very badly burnt SWAT officer after he promises to make sure his family will be taken care of and unaware of the nature of his death.
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* EvilOldFolks: [[spoiler:Jasper, whose senior age was constantly brought up until his FaceHeelTurn.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Jasper, after he loses patience with Jake's plans and switch sides.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Jasper, after he loses patience with Jake's plans and switch sides.]]
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* FatBastard: Jasper, played by [[Film/FirstBlood "king-shit"]] Brian Dennehy, [[spoiler:especially when he is revealed to be TheMole]].
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* DecoyProtagonist: Alex Sabian is established to be Roenick's girlfriend and is led to be believed to be the film's female protagonist. [[spoiler:Then she gets killed by Duvall in the middle of the film. The actual female protagonist is eventually revealed to be Iris, who survives the film.]]
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Dr. Sabian gets a bullet in the head from the BigBad.]]
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* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler: Jasper sells everybody out to save his own skin.]]
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* RealityEnsues: No badass LastStand here. [[spoiler: When it's only Roenick, Bishop, Iris, Jasper, and Capra left, they realize that escape is their only possible means of survival.]]
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* ZergRush: Invoked, as once the protagonists are down to [[spoiler: five]] people, they realize the villains can just storm the place and wipe them out the ''moment'' they actually piece that together.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Only Bishop, Iris, Roenick, and Capra make it to the end, all of them have been shot or otherwise badly injured, and Bishop makes his getaway. Roenick promises to be the one who finds him.]]
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A notorious underworld boss of UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} is finally captured by the police on the day of [[NewYearHasCome New Year's Eve]]. On his way to another prison, thick snow storms force the bus carrying him, three other criminals and several police officers to take shelter at the now-decommissioned Precinct 13. Over the course of the night, mysterious assailants, [[spoiler: eventually revealed to be {{Corrupt Cop}}s who were in league with the gang boss before his capture]], attack the precinct, forcing officers and criminals alike to band together to survive.
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!!This remake contains examples of:
* AntiHero: Guess who?
* AntiVillain: Well, as far as {{Corrupt Cop}}s can get. The cop leading the SWAT team aims to kill the Mafia don inside before he can testify to keep his fellow police officers' "honor" preserved. Taken further in a deleted scene, in which he {{Mercy Kill}}s a very badly burnt SWAT officer after he promises to make sure his family will be taken care of and unaware of the nature of his death.
* ArmorIsUseless: Averted and played straight depending on what the plot calls for. The SWAT gear protects the bad guys from the handgun caliber return fire they're facing from the precinct holdouts, but against commandeered assault rifles, molotov cocktails and a confiscated samurai sword it doesn't do a bit of good. However this is an example of TruthInTelevision.
* ClusterFBomb: Being made in the 2000s means that the criminals and officers alike are a lot fouler-mouthed than those in the original.
* CorruptCop: The antagonists this time around, trying to take out Fishburne's character to ensure they don't get exposed.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: Alex Sabian]]
--> '''Marcus Duvall:''' [Kneels in front of a kneeling [[spoiler: Sabian]]] How many are inside?
--> [[spoiler: '''Alex Sabian:''']] [Thinking] Uh... 100. [There are actually 5].
--> '''Marcus Duvall:''' Answer the question.
--> '''Kahane:''' [shakes [[spoiler: Sabian]]] Answer, bitch!
--> [[spoiler: '''Alex Sabian:''']] [stares at Duvall]
--> '''Marcus Duvall:''' You're a brave woman. [Stands up and shoots [[spoiler: Sabian]] point blank in the head].
* UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}: The setting is changed from Los Angeles to Detroit.
* HollywoodAtheist: Type 1 for Laurence Fishburne.
* InNameOnly: Other than the basic idea of a near-abandoned police station under siege by criminals and forcing cops and other criminals to fight side-by-side, the remake essentially is nothing like the original.
** In a weird variant of RaceLift, the characters of Bishop and Napolean Wilson are basically switched around; the black man becomes the criminal leader and the white man becomes the cop who has to work with the crime lord, whereas in the original Bishop was the cop and he was aided by a white criminal.
** There are a lot more people inside the station when it gets beseiged, including a third (female) criminal
** The station is beseiged by [[spoiler: {{CorruptCop}}s who want to cover up that they were taking bribes from the crime boss currently taking shelter there]], whereas the original had the Street Thunder gang besieging the station because they wanted to generally crack some cop skulls in revenge for the death of six of their members.
** There are three female characters; a secretary, a lawyer and a criminal. Of these, the secretary lives to the end, whereas the secretary in the original got shot fairly early on.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: These are police marksmen?
* LeaveNoWitnesses: The reason everyone other than Bishop is in the firing line.
* TheMafia: Fishburne's character ran some sort of organization like this.
* [[spoiler:TheMole: Jasper]]
* MythologyGag: Sergeant Jake Roenick is introduced using the undercover identity "Napoleon", a reference to the white murderer who was one of the protagonists of the original edition
** A black officer who looks a lot like Ethan Bishop, the cop hero of the original movie, is one of the first officers to die.
* NewYearHasCome
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: [[spoiler:Beck]]
* RaceLift: The two protagonists' races this time around are switched, and one of the prisoners is Mexican.
* ScaryBlackMan: Guys, it's Laurence Fishburne.
* SnowMeansDeath: And a LOT of death.
* TakeThat: Against ''the fans''. [[spoiler: Beck (John Leguizamo) was so popular that audiences were disappointed to see him killed off. The director took this as an advantage and shot a close up of Beck's body hit the snow with the bloody bullet wound through his forehead.]]
* VasquezAlwaysDies: Anna.
** Debatable, [[spoiler: Alex is more feminine than Iris. Alex dies while Iris lives.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The shotguns the bus guards came in with disappeared shortly before the assault on the precinct and were never seen again, despite there being no place for them to have gone.
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A notorious underworld boss of UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} is finally captured by the police on the day of [[NewYearHasCome New Year's Eve]]. On his way to another prison, thick snow storms force the bus carrying him, three other criminals and several police officers to take shelter at the now-decommissioned Precinct 13. Over the course of the night, mysterious assailants, [[spoiler: eventually revealed to be {{Corrupt Cop}}s who were in league with the gang boss before his capture]], attack the precinct, forcing officers and criminals alike to band together to survive.
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!!This remake contains examples of:
* AntiHero: Guess who?
* AntiVillain: Well, as far as {{Corrupt Cop}}s can get. The cop leading the SWAT team aims to kill the Mafia don inside before he can testify to keep his fellow police officers' "honor" preserved. Taken further in a deleted scene, in which he {{Mercy Kill}}s a very badly burnt SWAT officer after he promises to make sure his family will be taken care of and unaware of the nature of his death.
* ArmorIsUseless: Averted and played straight depending on what the plot calls for. The SWAT gear protects the bad guys from the handgun caliber return fire they're facing from the precinct holdouts, but against commandeered assault rifles, molotov cocktails and a confiscated samurai sword it doesn't do a bit of good. However this is an example of TruthInTelevision.
* ClusterFBomb: Being made in the 2000s means that the criminals and officers alike are a lot fouler-mouthed than those in the original.
* CorruptCop: The antagonists this time around, trying to take out Fishburne's character to ensure they don't get exposed.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: Alex Sabian]]
--> '''Marcus Duvall:''' [Kneels in front of a kneeling [[spoiler: Sabian]]] How many are inside?
--> [[spoiler: '''Alex Sabian:''']] [Thinking] Uh... 100. [There are actually 5].
--> '''Marcus Duvall:''' Answer the question.
--> '''Kahane:''' [shakes [[spoiler: Sabian]]] Answer, bitch!
--> [[spoiler: '''Alex Sabian:''']] [stares at Duvall]
--> '''Marcus Duvall:''' You're a brave woman. [Stands up and shoots [[spoiler: Sabian]] point blank in the head].
* UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}: The setting is changed from Los Angeles to Detroit.
* HollywoodAtheist: Type 1 for Laurence Fishburne.
* InNameOnly: Other than the basic idea of a near-abandoned police station under siege by criminals and forcing cops and other criminals to fight side-by-side, the remake essentially is nothing like the original.
** In a weird variant of RaceLift, the characters of Bishop and Napolean Wilson are basically switched around; the black man becomes the criminal leader and the white man becomes the cop who has to work with the crime lord, whereas in the original Bishop was the cop and he was aided by a white criminal.
** There are a lot more people inside the station when it gets beseiged, including a third (female) criminal
** The station is beseiged by [[spoiler: {{CorruptCop}}s who want to cover up that they were taking bribes from the crime boss currently taking shelter there]], whereas the original had the Street Thunder gang besieging the station because they wanted to generally crack some cop skulls in revenge for the death of six of their members.
** There are three female characters; a secretary, a lawyer and a criminal. Of these, the secretary lives to the end, whereas the secretary in the original got shot fairly early on.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: These are police marksmen?
* LeaveNoWitnesses: The reason everyone other than Bishop is in the firing line.
* TheMafia: Fishburne's character ran some sort of organization like this.
* [[spoiler:TheMole: Jasper]]
* MythologyGag: Sergeant Jake Roenick is introduced using the undercover identity "Napoleon", a reference to the white murderer who was one of the protagonists of the original edition
** A black officer who looks a lot like Ethan Bishop, the cop hero of the original movie, is one of the first officers to die.
* NewYearHasCome
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: [[spoiler:Beck]]
* RaceLift: The two protagonists' races this time around are switched, and one of the prisoners is Mexican.
* ScaryBlackMan: Guys, it's Laurence Fishburne.
* SnowMeansDeath: And a LOT of death.
* TakeThat: Against ''the fans''. [[spoiler: Beck (John Leguizamo) was so popular that audiences were disappointed to see him killed off. The director took this as an advantage and shot a close up of Beck's body hit the snow with the bloody bullet wound through his forehead.]]
* VasquezAlwaysDies: Anna.
** Debatable, [[spoiler: Alex is more feminine than Iris. Alex dies while Iris lives.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The shotguns the bus guards came in with disappeared shortly before the assault on the precinct and were never seen again, despite there being no place for them to have gone.
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