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* Johnny "23" Baca (Creator/DannyTrejo), a serial rapist with 23 counts, though he claims he'd be "Johnny ''600''" if they knew the truth.

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* Johnny "23" Baca (Creator/DannyTrejo), a serial rapist SerialRapist with 23 counts, though he claims he'd be "Johnny ''600''" if they knew the truth.
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* SpitefulSpit:
** Inmate Popovich spits at guard Falzon and tells him "Fuck you, pig".
** While celebrating the escape from the boneyard, the skinny black inmate and Viking can be seen spitting the guard hostages.
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* StupidCrooks: When the new inmates get on the plane in Carson City and see the plane has been taken over by their fellow inmates, one of them inmediatly starts yelling in cheer and has to be silenced by Pinball as the plane is still surrounded by local law enforcement and could easily hear him.

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* DieHardOnAnX: Die Hard on a plane taken over by the country’s most dangerous criminals.

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* DieHardOnAnX: Die Hard on a plane taken over by the country’s most dangerous criminals. Poe even spends much of the film in a white vest, although it doesn't get as dirty as John [=McClane=]'s.

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* AloneWithThePsycho: Subverted. The creepy serial killer Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi) is having a one-on-one session with a little girl. After a cutaway, we see him [[EmpathyDollShot walk off with the girl's doll]], implying that she's dead. But a subsequent scene shows her well off.

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* AloneWithThePsycho: Subverted. The creepy serial killer Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi) is having a one-on-one session with a little girl. After a cutaway, we see him [[EmpathyDollShot walk off with the girl's doll]], implying that she's dead. But a subsequent scene shows that he left her well off.unharmed.


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* ImpliedDeathThreat: Cyrus warns Johnny 23 [[EvenEvilHasStandards not to rape anybody]], otherwise "you jump out of this plane".
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*BirdPoopGag: A man is seen complaining that he always gets bird poop on his car just after he washes it; trying to wipe it off the window makes him miss the light and delays him enough so that Pinball's body lands on his car.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Poe has this moment after killing Billy Bedlam.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Poe is shown working out religiously in prison, including numerous pull-ups and even handstand push-ups. This comes in ''very'' handy when he finds himself hanging from the ladder of a speeding fire engine at the end of the movie, and is able to hang on with one arm and protect himself from Cyrus’ attack with the other arm, eventually ramming a wooden spike through Cyrus’ ankle.
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** When Baby-O's been shot (non-fatally) and Poe has finally had enough.
-->'''Cameron Poe:''' What do you think I'm gonna do? I'm gonna save the fuckin' day.

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** When Baby-O's been shot (non-fatally) and begins lamenting that there might not be a god. Needless to say, Poe has finally had enough.
-->'''Cameron Poe:''' What do you think I'm '''''I’m gonna do? I'm gonna save the fuckin' day.show you God does exist.'''''
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* JurisdictionFriction: Despite the prison flight being handled by the US Marshals, it became a DEA case by DEA Agent Malloy after DEA Agent Sims was shot dead by Cyrus.
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** Really, the entire movie happens due to law enforcement holding the idiot ball tight and not letting go. A plane full of psychotic and dangerous convicts is watched over by only a couple police officers and not, say, the military or a whole squadron of officers, Malloy nearly shoots down a tourist plane because he was so gung-ho about shooting down the plane full of convicts, and Poe gets sentenced to prison for five years despite protecting his then-pregnant wife from sexual assault/attempted rape.
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* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: This movie was one of the first works to feature the idea that you can kill someone with a palm strike to the nose because it will make his nose stab his brain. In real life, palm strikes are surprisingly effective blows and you can absolutely knock people out with them (Japanese UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts used to showcase a lot, as they disallowed closed-fisted punching to the face), but you will rarely kill someone the way described. The human nose is too small and easily deformable to pierce its way to the brain, and even if it did, the latter would need much more damage to be irreversible destroyed.

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* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: This movie was one of the first works to feature the idea that you can kill someone with a palm strike to the nose because it will make his nose stab his brain. In real life, palm strikes are surprisingly effective blows and you can absolutely knock people out with them (Japanese UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts used to showcase a lot, as they disallowed closed-fisted punching to the face), but you will rarely kill someone the way described. The human nose is too small and easily deformable to pierce its way to the brain, and even if it did, the latter would need much more damage to be irreversible irreversibly destroyed.
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** Pinball is the first of the convicts to die.

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** Pinball is the first of the named convicts to die.die. Averted in a couple of the white nameless convicts die in the inital take over.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The OldCon onboard the plane volunteers to take one of the dead convicts place, saying that he’s ‘too old for this shit.’
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* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: This movie was one of the first works to feature the idea that you can kill someone with a palm strike to the nose because it will make his nose stab his brain. In real life, palm strikes are surprisingly effective blows and you can absolutely knock people out with them (Japanese UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts used to showcase a lot, as they disallowed closed-fisted punching to the face), but you will rarely kill someone the way described. The human nose is too small and easily deformable to pierce its way to the brain, and even if it did, the latter would need much more damage to be irreversible destroyed.
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** Johnny 23 of course as a SerialRapist who was convicted of 23 counts of it and tries several times to have his way with Bishop, even going so far as to make her number 24. Poe takes it [[NoHoldsBardedBeatdown as well as expected]] when he sees this.

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** Johnny 23 of course as a SerialRapist who was convicted of 23 counts of it and tries several times to have his way with Bishop, even going so far as to make her number 24. Poe takes it [[NoHoldsBardedBeatdown [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown as well as expected]] when he sees this.

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