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Not-so-massive example crosswicking. I brought as many suitable examples to the page as possible... which isn't saying much. XD The reall challenge was doing this while having to reconnect 100+ times to Internet (and yes, I finally figured out the problem, but it'll take me some time to solve it)
* SixIsNine: The Number of the Beast [[spoiler:is really 999.]]
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* BigApplesauce: The end of days does not take place in the Holy Land or in Rome but...in New York.
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* BigApplesauce: The end film's basic premise is that the apocalypse would come at the stroke of days does not take place midnight on New Year's Eve in the Holy Land or year 1999... but only after the ball drops in Rome but...in Times Square. It even gets a LampshadeHanging:
-->"So, the Prince of Darkness wants to conquer the Earth, but has to wait until an hour before midnight on NewYork.Year's Eve? Is this Eastern time?"
-->"So, the Prince of Darkness wants to conquer the Earth, but has to wait until an hour before midnight on New
* CometOfDoom: The appearance of a comet above the full moon is known as "the Eye of God" by Vatican astronomers, and it's the sign of the prophesied birth of the woman that will give birth to the anti-Christ.
* CruelMercy: After Satan successfully acquires the girl whom he needs to sire his child and dispatches Jericho, he leaves him alive and crucifies him to a building solely so he can lament his failure and personally witness TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
* DestinationDefenestration: Jericho flings [[BigBad Satan]] out of a window after rejecting his WeCanRuleTogether deal.
* EvilStoleMyFaith: Jericho Cane stopped believing in God after [[CynicismCatalyst contract killers murdered both his wife and their daughter.]]
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** Satan acts witty and charming and is good at pretending to care about people, but he's rotten to the core.
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* ForTheEvulz: Satan does a few evil things just for the Hell of it.
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* ForTheEvulz: Chicago suggests to Jericho that they cast their lot with Satan does a few evil things just for under the Hell reasoning that their long careers as mercenaries meant they had no chance of it."going upstairs" anyway, so they might as well have fun while alive. Chicago having been set on fire and being offered a way out of getting burned to a crisp from the Devil was also fairly persuasive.
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* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: NewYearHasCome.
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* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: NewYearHasCome.The movie follows the attempts to prevent Satan from conceiving the Antichrist before the year 2000.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: While Satan at the end is finally defeated and sent beck to hell most of his followers are apparently still at large.]]
* KillTheHostBody: Jericho tries to kill the Devil by throwing him in front of a subway train. This proves fatal for the guy he's possessing, but the Devil leaves the body [[spoiler:so he can possess Jericho's instead]].
-->'''Satan:''' ''How do you expect to defeat me when you are but a man, and I am FOREVER!''
* KillTheHostBody: Jericho tries to kill the Devil by throwing him in front of a subway train. This proves fatal for the guy he's possessing, but the Devil leaves the body [[spoiler:so he can possess Jericho's instead]].
-->'''Satan:''' ''How do you expect to defeat me when you are but a man, and I am FOREVER!''
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: While Satan at the end is finally defeated and sent beck to hell Hell, most of his followers are apparently still at large.]]
*KillTheHostBody: KillTheHostBody:
** Jericho tries to kill the Devil by throwing him in front of a subway train. This proves fatal for the guy he's possessing, but the Devil leaves the body [[spoiler:so he can possess Jericho's instead]].
-->'''Satan:''' --->'''Satan:''' ''How do you expect to defeat me when you are but a man, and I am FOREVER!''FOREVER!''
** Jericho does it again when [[spoiler:he regains enough control from Satan to throw himself onto a statue of Michael's sword, denying the Devil a host before the deadline to conceive the Antichrist passes.]]
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** Jericho tries to kill the Devil by throwing him in front of a subway train. This proves fatal for the guy he's possessing, but the Devil leaves the body [[spoiler:so he can possess Jericho's instead]].
** Jericho does it again when [[spoiler:he regains enough control from Satan to throw himself onto a statue of Michael's sword, denying the Devil a host before the deadline to conceive the Antichrist passes.]]
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* LargeHam: Satan
* [[LikeASonToMe Like a Daughter to Me]]: Not explicitly stated, but little moments like Jericho observing that his daughter had a similar music-box to the one owned by Christine suggests that he sees her as a substitute for his own lost daughter.
* [[LikeASonToMe Like a Daughter to Me]]: Not explicitly stated, but little moments like Jericho observing that his daughter had a similar music-box to the one owned by Christine suggests that he sees her as a substitute for his own lost daughter.
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* MadeOfIron: {{Averted|Trope}}. Unlike his usual roles, Arnold as Jericho cannot effortlessly shrug off harm.
** Toyed with as the final act begins; Jericho is crucified and left for dead by Satan, but after the better part of a day is barely hindered.
** Toyed with as the final act begins; Jericho is crucified and left for dead by Satan, but after the better part of a day is barely hindered.
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* MadeOfIron: {{Averted|Trope}}. Unlike his usual roles, Arnold as Jericho cannot effortlessly shrug off harm.
**Toyed with as the final act begins; Jericho is crucified and left for dead by Satan, but after the better part of a day is barely hindered.
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* NoHoldsBarredBreakdown: Jericho is betrayed by his partner[[note]]brought back to life to serve the BigBad[[/note]] and was then ambushed by a large mob of cultists, who proceed to beat Jericho to an inch of his life.
* NumberOfTheBeast: Played with. Apparently, people who saw the number of the beast in their dreams/visions didn't realize it was shown upside down, so the number of the beast was 999 instead of 666. The Devil will then try to return on the last day of the year, for every year ending in 999 (999, 1999, 2999, etc). except they used Roman Numerals back then.
* ShootTheHostage: Jericho puts a gun to Christine's head and threatens to do this in order to make [[BigBad Satan]], who needs her alive so she can be impregnated with the AntiChrist, to back off. Satan tries to call his bluff, but Jericho makes it pretty clear he's not kidding.
--> '''Satan:''' You're not gonna kill her.
--> '''Jericho:''' You said it yourself. ''[[GoodIsNotNice I have a dark heart]]''.
--> '''Satan:''' You're not gonna kill her.
--> '''Jericho:''' You said it yourself. ''[[GoodIsNotNice I have a dark heart]]''.
* ShutUpHannibal:
** "The Man" is giving Jericho Cane his [[TheFinalTemptation temptation speech]] (he is '''The Devil''' after all) and trying to convince him that a satanic apocalypse wouldn't be so bad after all.
--->'''The Man:''' Just tell me what you want.\\
'''Jericho Cane:''' I'll tell you what I want. I want you... to go to Hell.\\
'''The Man:''' Well, you see, the problem is...\\
''(grabs Cane and lifts him)''\\
'''The Man''': Sometimes Hell comes to YOU!
** Later in the film:
--->'''The Man''': Now you're making me angry. [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry You don't want to see me angry]].\\
'''Jericho Cane''': Oh, you think you're bad, huh? You're a fucking choir boy compared to me! A CHOIR BOY!
** "The Man" is giving Jericho Cane his [[TheFinalTemptation temptation speech]] (he is '''The Devil''' after all) and trying to convince him that a satanic apocalypse wouldn't be so bad after all.
--->'''The Man:''' Just tell me what you want.\\
'''Jericho Cane:''' I'll tell you what I want. I want you... to go to Hell.\\
'''The Man:''' Well, you see, the problem is...\\
''(grabs Cane and lifts him)''\\
'''The Man''': Sometimes Hell comes to YOU!
** Later in the film:
--->'''The Man''': Now you're making me angry. [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry You don't want to see me angry]].\\
'''Jericho Cane''': Oh, you think you're bad, huh? You're a fucking choir boy compared to me! A CHOIR BOY!
* {{Tagline}}: "Prepare"
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* ThreeWaySex: The Devil beds Dr. Abel's wife and daughter at the same time. [[GeniusBonus This is something that the Bible specifically mentions is a big no-no]]. Gets in Squick territory when the two women seem to be merged into one individual by him.
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* ThreeWaySex: The Devil beds Dr. Abel's wife and daughter at the same time. [[GeniusBonus [[ShownTheirWork This is something that the Bible specifically mentions is a big no-no]]. Gets in Squick naughty territory when the two women seem to be merged into one individual by him.
* UnflinchingWalk: Naturally, Jericho does this. Even if Arnold's character isn't as tough as usual, he still has this image.
* WeAreEverywhere: The leader of the Satanic cult contacted by the Devil claims that "Our acts go unnoticed, unquestioned. We're everywhere." [[spoiler:Jericho gets a nasty surprise when his FriendOnTheForce turns out to be one of them.]] Whether they're all Satanic cultists or simply people the Devil can [[YourSoulIsMine control because they are evil]] is not entirely clear -- he's seen deterring a policeman from stopping him because he knows the policeman is a pedophile. Towards the end of the movie the Devil apparently influences a crowd to attack Jericho ''en masse''.
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* UnflinchingWalk: Naturally, Jericho does this. Even if Arnold's character isn't as tough as usual, he still has this image.
* WeAreEverywhere: The leader of the Satanic cult contacted by the Devil claims that "Our acts go unnoticed, unquestioned. We're everywhere." [[spoiler:Jericho gets a nasty surprise when his FriendOnTheForce turns out to be one of them.]] Whether they're all Satanic cultists or simply people the Devil can [[YourSoulIsMine control because they are evil]] is not entirely clear -- he's seen deterring a policeman from stopping him because he knows the policeman is a pedophile. Towards the end of the movie the Devil apparently influences a crowd to attack Jericho ''en masse''.
* WeAreEverywhere: The leader of the Satanic cult contacted by the Devil claims that "Our acts go unnoticed, unquestioned. We're everywhere." [[spoiler:Jericho gets a nasty surprise when his FriendOnTheForce turns out to be one of them.]] Whether they're all Satanic cultists or simply people the Devil can [[YourSoulIsMine control because they are evil]] is not entirely clear -- he's seen deterring a policeman from stopping him because he knows the policeman is a pedophile. Towards the end of the movie the Devil apparently influences a crowd to attack Jericho ''en masse''.
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Trope was cut/disambiguated due to cleanup
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* CoolGuns: Jericho storms the Satanists' headquarters at the end with an Hechler & Koch MP-5 with an ''underbarrel GrenadeLauncher''.
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* FanDisservice: Satan's threesome with a mother and her daughter, where the two women somehow fuse together during the act.
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* FanDisservice: Satan's threesome with a mother Dr. Abel's wife and her daughter, where the two women somehow fuse together during the their incestuous act.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: While Satan at the end is finally defeated and sent beck to hell most of his followers are apparently still at large.]]
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Schwarzenegger plays Jericho Cane, a retired police officer who tries to commit suicide because his wife and daughter are killed while he's doing his job. He gets a job of protecting a Wall Street banker (Creator/GabrielByrne). Unknown to him, the Wall Street banker is possessed by {{Satan}}, who plans to unleash chaos by having sex with Christine York (Creator/RobinTunney), TheChosenOne to bear [[TheAntiChrist his child]]. Now Jericho has to protect her from Satan in order to save the world.
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Schwarzenegger plays Jericho Cane, a retired police officer who tries to commit suicide suffers from depression because his wife and daughter are were killed while he's doing his job. he was on duty one day. He gets a job of protecting a Wall Street banker (Creator/GabrielByrne). Unknown Unbeknownst to him, the Wall Street banker is possessed by {{Satan}}, who plans to unleash chaos by having sex with Christine York (Creator/RobinTunney), TheChosenOne to bear [[TheAntiChrist his child]]. Now Jericho has to protect her from Satan in order to save the world.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Everyone who is a satanist gaslighting Christine, over-medicating her and acting loving and genuinely nice to her. Everyone on Jericho's police force as they too are revealed to be satanists. Christine's adoptive stepmother Mabel seems like a concerned loving parent to her but then shows her true colors as an angry manipulative satanist when Christine tries to leave]].
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* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Everyone who is a satanist Satanist gaslighting Christine, over-medicating her and acting loving and genuinely nice to her. Everyone on Jericho's police force as they too are revealed to be satanists. Christine's adoptive stepmother Mabel seems like a concerned loving parent to her but then shows her true colors as an angry manipulative satanist when Christine tries to leave]].
** Satan acts witty and charming and is good at pretending to care about people, but he's rotten to the core.
** Satan acts witty and charming and is good at pretending to care about people, but he's rotten to the core.
