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* YouNoTakeCandle: Kam is the only Asian character to not use [[IAmVeryBritish Refined Pronunciation]].


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* YouNoTakeCandle: Kam is the only Asian character to not use [[IAmVeryBritish Refined Pronunciation]].

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* WeAreEverywhere: Josh goes on the run in Hong Kong, but keeps getting attacked out of nowhere by various goons, providing an excuse for many martial arts scenes. He finally finds a place to hide only to get called on the phone there.
-->'''Ramandi:''' By now you know that my network is inescapable.


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* YouCanRunButYouCantHide: Josh goes on the run in Hong Kong, but [[WeAreEverywhere keeps getting attacked out of nowhere]] by various goons, providing an excuse for many martial arts scenes. He finally finds a place to hide only to get called on the phone there.
-->'''Ramandi:''' By now you know that my network is inescapable.
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* YouNoTakeCandle: Kam is the only Asian character to not use Refined Pronunciation.

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* YouNoTakeCandle: Kam is the only Asian character to not use [[IAmVeryBritish Refined Pronunciation.Pronunciation]].
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* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: Josh tries to hide the two attractive women with him in a cathouse. [[WeAreEverywhere It doesn't work]].

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* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: Josh tries to hide the two attractive women with him in a cathouse.[[TheOldestProfession cathouse]]. [[WeAreEverywhere It doesn't work]].
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* WeAreEverywhere: Josh goes on the run in Hong Kong, but keeps getting attacked out of nowhere by various goons, providing an excuse for many martial arts scenes. He finally finds a place to hide only to get called on the phone.

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* WeAreEverywhere: Josh goes on the run in Hong Kong, but keeps getting attacked out of nowhere by various goons, providing an excuse for many martial arts scenes. He finally finds a place to hide only to get called on the phone.phone there.
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* KnowWhenToFoldThem: Josh is attacked by a numchuck-wielding goon making KungFoley sounds. Josh just produces his pistol from behind his hat and the goon quietly slinks off.

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* KnowWhenToFoldThem: Josh is attacked by a numchuck-wielding nunchuck-wielding goon making KungFoley sounds. Josh just produces his pistol from behind his hat and the goon quietly slinks off.
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* WeAreEverywhere: Josh goes on the run in Hong Kong, but keeps getting attacked out of nowhere by various goons, providing an excuse for many martial arts scenes. He finally finds a place to hide only to get called on the phone there by the BigBad.

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* WeAreEverywhere: Josh goes on the run in Hong Kong, but keeps getting attacked out of nowhere by various goons, providing an excuse for many martial arts scenes. He finally finds a place to hide only to get called on the phone there by the BigBad.phone.
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* {{Swirlie}}: Josh tries to bump off a GiantMook this way, only to [[TheCanKickedHim get the entire toilet thrown at him]].
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* LockAndLoadMontage: A different version where instead of tooling up with weapons, Josh instead dresses in his old Airborne uniform with BlingOfWar.
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* KnowWhenToFoldThem: Josh is attacked by a numchuck-wielding goon making KungFoley sounds. Josh just produces his pistol from behind his hat and the goon quietly slinks off.
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* RecklessGunUsage: Josh lends his girlfriend his pistol when he has to leave her alone, but she's so nervous she puts a bullet through the door the moment he calls out to her on returning. Josh then delivers AnAesop: "''Never'' let your girl handle your piece."

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* RecklessGunUsage: Josh lends his girlfriend his pistol when he has to leave her alone, but she's so nervous she puts a bullet through the door the moment he calls out to her on returning. Josh then delivers AnAesop: "''Never'' "Note: ''Never'' let your girl handle your piece."
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* RecklessGunUsage: Josh lends his girlfriend his pistol when he has to leave her alone for a while, but she's so nervous she nearly blows his head off when he comes back. Josh then delivers AnAesop: "Never let your girlfriend hold your piece."

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* RecklessGunUsage: Josh lends his girlfriend his pistol when he has to leave her alone for a while, alone, but she's so nervous she nearly blows his head off when puts a bullet through the door the moment he comes back. calls out to her on returning. Josh then delivers AnAesop: "Never "''Never'' let your girlfriend hold girl handle your piece."

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* WeAreEverywhere: Josh goes on the run in Hong Kong, but keeps getting attacked out of nowhere by various goons.

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* WeAreEverywhere: Josh goes on the run in Hong Kong, but keeps getting attacked out of nowhere by various goons.goons, providing an excuse for many martial arts scenes. He finally finds a place to hide only to get called on the phone there by the BigBad.
-->'''Ramandi:''' By now you know that my network is inescapable.
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* RecklessGunUsage: Josh lends his girlfriend his pistol when he has to leave her alone for a while, but she's so nervous she nearly blows his head off when he comes back. Josh then delivers AnAesop: "Never let your girlfriend hold your piece."
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* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: Josh tries to hide the two attractive women with him in a cathouse. [[WeAreEverywhere It doesn't work]].


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* ScarSurvey: Josh's scars being catalogued by the police doctor after he's arrested.


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* WeAreEverywhere: Josh goes on the run in Hong Kong, but keeps getting attacked out of nowhere by various goons.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Josh's Urban Cowboy threads, Kam's PornStache, and a narration that wonders [[VideoGame/SleepingDogs what Hong Kong will be like after it returns to Chinese sovereignty]] all conspire to put the film in this category.
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* KickTheDog: Pretty much everything Osiris does, but specific mention goes to [[spoiler: Kam killing Leroy with a backbreaker, ensuring that he will live long enough to [[StuffedInTheFridge see what happens to Josh's girlfriend]], and be helpless to stop it]].

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* KickTheDog: Pretty much everything Osiris does, but specific mention goes to [[spoiler: Kam killing Leroy with a backbreaker, backbreaker during the attack on his warehouse, ensuring that he will live long enough to [[StuffedInTheFridge see what happens to Claire, Josh's girlfriend]], and be helpless to stop it]].



* StuffedInTheFridge: [[spoiler:Not only is Leroy killed in sadistic fashion during the attack on his warehouse, but poor Claire is raped and killed]].

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* StuffedInTheFridge: [[spoiler:Not only [[spoiler:Claire, Josh's girlfriend, is Leroy raped and killed in sadistic fashion by Kam during the attack on his Leroy's warehouse, but poor Claire is raped and killed]].after Kam breaks Leroy's back so that he will die after being ForcedToWatch]].
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* StuffedInTheFridge

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* StuffedInTheFridgeStuffedInTheFridge: [[spoiler:Not only is Leroy killed in sadistic fashion during the attack on his warehouse, but poor Claire is raped and killed]].

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'''''Forced Vengeance''''' is an action film from the year 1982.

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'''''Forced Vengeance''''' [[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/246bf620d69429577cb0a5c2868d0242.jpg]]

''Forced Vengeance''
is an action film from the year 1982.



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* YouNoTakeCandle: Kam is the only Asian character to not use Refined Pronunciation.

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* YouNoTakeCandle: Kam is the only Asian character to not use Refined Pronunciation.Pronunciation.
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: [[TheSyndicate Osiris]]. Formed by a [[OrcusOnHisThrone not so retired]] Triad leader who named it after an Egyptian god. The Triad leader's half-British illegitimate son is the public face of the organization, their chief legbreaker is Japanese, their HKPD [[TheMole Mole]], and they have many European and American mercenaries as hired muscle.

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* EqualOpportunityEvil: [[TheSyndicate Osiris]]. Formed by a [[OrcusOnHisThrone not so retired]] Triad leader who named it after an Egyptian god. The Triad leader's half-British illegitimate son is the public face of the organization, their chief legbreaker is Japanese, their HKPD [[TheMole Mole]], and they have many European and American mercenaries as hired muscle.


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* TheMole: Inspector Keck.

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* ButtMonkey: David Pascal, who essentially runs his father's business into the ground by making increasingly poor financial decisions, [[spoiler: then gets himself killed]].



* CoolBoat: Josh's houseboat in Aberdeen Harbour, and the villain's yacht fortress.



* EvilBrit: Ramondi and about half of his senior management. Their HKPD [[TheMole Mole]] appears to be South African.

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* EvilBrit: Ramondi and about half EqualOpportunityEvil: [[TheSyndicate Osiris]]. Formed by a [[OrcusOnHisThrone not so retired]] Triad leader who named it after an Egyptian god. The Triad leader's half-British illegitimate son is the public face of his senior management. Their the organization, their chief legbreaker is Japanese, their HKPD [[TheMole Mole]] appears to be South African.Mole]], and they have many European and American mercenaries as hired muscle.
* EvilBrit: Ramondi, though he is technically [[ReallyRoyaltyReveal half-British]].



* KickTheDog: Pretty much everything Osiris does, but specific mention goes to [[spoiler: Kam killing Leroy with a backbreaker, ensuring that he will live long enough to see what happens to Josh's girlfriend, and be helpless to stop it]].

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* KickTheDog: Pretty much everything Osiris does, but specific mention goes to [[spoiler: Kam killing Leroy with a backbreaker, ensuring that he will live long enough to [[StuffedInTheFridge see what happens to Josh's girlfriend, girlfriend]], and be helpless to stop it]].



* SmugSnake: Ramondi, big time.

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* ShamefulStrip: David and Josh catch a pit clerk stealing from their casino, and force him to walk out of the building in his underwear.
* SmugSnake: Ramondi, big time.Ramondi and Kam.



* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Josh's Urban Cowboy threads. Kam's PornStache. And a narration that wonders [[VideoGame/SleepingDogs what Hong Kong will be like after it returns to Chinese sovereignty]].

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Josh's Urban Cowboy threads. threads, Kam's PornStache. And PornStache, and a narration that wonders [[VideoGame/SleepingDogs what Hong Kong will be like after it returns to Chinese sovereignty]].sovereignty]] all conspire to put the film in this category.



* YouNoTakeCandle

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* YouNoTakeCandleYouNoTakeCandle: Kam is the only Asian character to not use Refined Pronunciation.
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* KickTheDog: Pretty much everything Osiris does, but specific mention goes to [[spoiler: Kam killing Leroy with a backbreaker, ensuring that he will live long enough to what happens to Josh's girlfriend, and be helpless to stop it]].

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* KickTheDog: Pretty much everything Osiris does, but specific mention goes to [[spoiler: Kam killing Leroy with a backbreaker, ensuring that he will live long enough to see what happens to Josh's girlfriend, and be helpless to stop it]].
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* FakeNationality: Michael Cavanaugh (Irish-American from New York) and Seiji Sakaguchi (Japanese) play a British-Chinese mob boss and his Chinese legbreaker.
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* TheDragon: Stan Ramondi runs the day to day operations for the Osiris gang, but Josh figures this out pretty early that he isn't the actual leader.

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* TheDragon: Stan Ramondi runs the day to day operations for the Osiris gang, but Josh figures this out pretty early that he isn't the actual leader.

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Josh Randall (Creator/ChuckNorris) is an ex-Special Forces Vietnam veteran who ends up in Hong Kong after the war, eventually becoming the head of security for the Lucky Dragon Casino, run by fellow American expatriate, Sam Pascal. When Sam is killed by an unscrupulous rival, Josh goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

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Josh Randall (Creator/ChuckNorris) is an ex-Special Forces Vietnam veteran who ends up in Hong Kong after the war, eventually becoming the head of security for the Lucky Dragon Casino, run by fellow American expatriate, Sam Pascal.[[SelfMadeMan Sam]] [[BenevolentBoss Pascal]]. When Sam is killed by an unscrupulous rival, Josh goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.



* TheBrute: Kam, a GiantMook with BloodKnight tendencies.



* TheDragon: Stan Ramondi. Josh figures this out pretty early, though it takes a while for him to figure out who the true BigBad is.

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* TheDragon: Stan Ramondi. Ramondi runs the day to day operations for the Osiris gang, but Josh figures this out pretty early, though it takes a while for him to figure out who early that he isn't the true BigBad is.actual leader.



* GiantMook: Kam.



* RetiredBadass: Played straight with Sam. Simon Koo provides an evil variant.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Leroy]]

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* RetiredBadass: Played straight with Sam. [[TheDon Simon Koo Koo]] provides an evil variant.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Leroy]]Leroy]].

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* FakeNationality: Michael Cavanaugh (Irish-American from New York) and Seiji Sakaguchi (Japanese) play a British-Chinese mob boss and his Chinese legbreaker.



* MyFavoriteShirt: Leave Josh's cowboy hat alone, unless you're TooDumbToLive.



* WellDoneSonGuy: David is nowhere near as business savvy as Sam. Ramondi insists he has earned his place in his father's empire through his ruthlessness, not nepotism.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Josh's Urban Cowboy threads. Kam's PornStache. And a narration that wonders [[VideoGame/SleepingDogs what Hong Kong will be like after it returns to Chinese sovereignty]].
* WellDoneSonGuy: David is nowhere near as business savvy as Sam. Ramondi insists he has earned his place in his father's empire through his ruthlessness, not nepotism.nepotism.
* YouNoTakeCandle
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Josh Randall (Creator/Chuck Norris) is an ex-Special Forces Vietnam veteran who ends up in Hong Kong after the war, eventually becoming the head of security for the Lucky Dragon Casino, run by fellow American expatriate, Sam Pascal. When Sam is killed by an unscrupulous rival, Josh goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

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Josh Randall (Creator/Chuck Norris) (Creator/ChuckNorris) is an ex-Special Forces Vietnam veteran who ends up in Hong Kong after the war, eventually becoming the head of security for the Lucky Dragon Casino, run by fellow American expatriate, Sam Pascal. When Sam is killed by an unscrupulous rival, Josh goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
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'''''Forced Vengeance''''' is an action film from the year 1982.

Josh Randall (Creator/Chuck Norris) is an ex-Special Forces Vietnam veteran who ends up in Hong Kong after the war, eventually becoming the head of security for the Lucky Dragon Casino, run by fellow American expatriate, Sam Pascal. When Sam is killed by an unscrupulous rival, Josh goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

!!This film has examples of:
*AnyoneCanDie: And how.
*BlackBestFriend: Josh's Vietnam war buddy, Leroy.
*CombatPragmatist: When Josh learns that he has a bounty on his head, he immediately [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim asks for a gun]].
*TheDragon: Stan Ramondi. Josh figures this out pretty early, though it takes a while for him to figure out who the true BigBad is.
*EvilBrit: Ramondi and about half of his senior management. Their HKPD [[TheMole Mole]] appears to be South African.
*EvilCounterpart: Ramondi is this to Sam's son, David.
*GiantMook: Kam.
*KickTheDog: Pretty much everything Osiris does, but specific mention goes to [[spoiler: Kam killing Leroy with a backbreaker, ensuring that he will live long enough to what happens to Josh's girlfriend, and be helpless to stop it]].
*PostRapeTaunt: Kam pulls this on Josh before their final fight.
*ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Inspector Chen.
*RetiredBadass: Played straight with Sam. Simon Koo provides an evil variant.
*SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Leroy]]
*SmugSnake: Ramondi, big time.
*StuffedInTheFridge
*WellDoneSonGuy: David is nowhere near as business savvy as Sam. Ramondi insists he has earned his place in his father's empire through his ruthlessness, not nepotism.

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