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* ImprobableAimingSkills: As [=McQuade=] showers bandits with bullets from a [[CoolGuns Mac-10]], he somehow manages not to hit their horses and hostages.

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* ImprobableAimingSkills: As [=McQuade=] showers bandits with bullets from a [[CoolGuns Mac-10]], Mac-10, he somehow manages not to hit their horses and hostages.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: As [=McQuade=] showers bandits with bullets from [[CoolGuns Mac-10]], he somehow manages not to hit their horses and hostages.

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* ImprobableAimingSkills: As [=McQuade=] showers bandits with bullets from a [[CoolGuns Mac-10]], he somehow manages not to hit their horses and hostages.



* NewOldWest: The soundtrack is pure Western goodness, the open horizon of the border is an important location, and [=McQuade=] is pretty much a man BornInTheWrongCentury who enjoys racing around in his souped-up truck and cold beer as much as he does kicking criminal ass.

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* NewOldWest: The soundtrack is pure Western goodness, the open horizon of the border is an important location, and [=McQuade=] is pretty much a man BornInTheWrongCentury who enjoys cold beer and racing around in his souped-up truck and cold beer as much as he does kicking criminal ass.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: The movie ends with [=McQuade=] heading off to stop a robbery just when he's about to spend some quality time with his ex-wife and daughter.
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* VillainOfAnotherStory: [=McQuade=] briefly wrestles with Falcon, the crippled dwarf boss of an arms smuggling operation. He's ''not'' the main villain or the target of [=McQuade=]'s revenge; that role belongs to Falcon's rival Rawley Wilkes (David Carradine's character), another ArmsDealer who both tried to murder [=McQuade=]'s daughter after she was witness to a major arms deal and has a hold over [=McQuade='s LoveInterest Lola. Falcon shows up again after Wilkes has been disposed of, but [=McQuade=] steals his helicopter and leaves Falcon behind for the Mexican Federales.

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* VillainOfAnotherStory: [=McQuade=] briefly wrestles with Falcon, the crippled dwarf boss of an arms smuggling operation. He's ''not'' the main villain or the target of [=McQuade=]'s revenge; that role belongs to Falcon's rival Rawley Wilkes (David Carradine's character), another ArmsDealer who both tried to murder [=McQuade=]'s daughter after she was witness to a major arms deal and has a hold over [=McQuade='s [=McQuade=]'s LoveInterest Lola. Falcon shows up again after Wilkes has been disposed of, but [=McQuade=] steals his helicopter and leaves Falcon behind for the Mexican Federales.
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* VillainOfAnotherStory: [=McQuade=] briefly wrestles with Falcon, the crippled dwarf boss of an arms smuggling operation. He's ''not'' the main villain or the target of [=McQuade=]'s revenge; that role belongs to Falcon's rival Rawley Wilkes (David Carradine's character), another ArmsDealer who both tried to murder [=McQuade=]'s daughter after she was witness to a major arms deal and has a hold over [=McQuade='s LoveInterest Lola. [=McQuade=] still leaves Falcon behind for the Mexican Federales.

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* VillainOfAnotherStory: [=McQuade=] briefly wrestles with Falcon, the crippled dwarf boss of an arms smuggling operation. He's ''not'' the main villain or the target of [=McQuade=]'s revenge; that role belongs to Falcon's rival Rawley Wilkes (David Carradine's character), another ArmsDealer who both tried to murder [=McQuade=]'s daughter after she was witness to a major arms deal and has a hold over [=McQuade='s LoveInterest Lola. Falcon shows up again after Wilkes has been disposed of, but [=McQuade=] still steals his helicopter and leaves Falcon behind for the Mexican Federales.
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* VillainOfAnotherStory: [=McQuade=] briefly wrestles with Falcon, the crippled dwarf boss of an arms smuggling operation. He's ''not'' the main villain or the target of [=McQuade=]'s revenge; that role belongs to Falcon's rival Rawley Wilkes (David Carradine's character), another ArmsDealer who both tried to murder [=McQuade=]'s daughter after she was witness to a major arms deal and has a hold over Wilkes's LoveInterest Lola. [=McQuade=] still leaves Falcon behind for the Mexican Federales.

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* VillainOfAnotherStory: [=McQuade=] briefly wrestles with Falcon, the crippled dwarf boss of an arms smuggling operation. He's ''not'' the main villain or the target of [=McQuade=]'s revenge; that role belongs to Falcon's rival Rawley Wilkes (David Carradine's character), another ArmsDealer who both tried to murder [=McQuade=]'s daughter after she was witness to a major arms deal and has a hold over Wilkes's [=McQuade='s LoveInterest Lola. [=McQuade=] still leaves Falcon behind for the Mexican Federales.
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''Lone Wolf [=McQuade=]'' is an action film from 1983, starring Creator/ChuckNorris and David Carradine.

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''Lone Wolf [=McQuade=]'' is an action film from 1983, starring Creator/ChuckNorris and David Carradine.
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* {{Leitmotif}}: Rawley has a particular, recurring synth motif that tends to crop up when he's onscreen, such as his murder of Dakota and, most prominently, in the final battle where it goes hand-in-hand with the OminousPipeOrgan.
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* EvilLaugh: Falcon isn't the BigBad, but he lets out a laugh that puts anything out of Rawley's mouth to shame when taunting [=McQuade=] that Snow "won't live through the night."

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* HeroesLoveDogsHeroesLoveDogs: And thus the bad guys decide to kill the poor thing for the sake of trying to make [=McQuade=] back off. Big mistake...



* NewOldWest

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* NewOldWestNewOldWest: The soundtrack is pure Western goodness, the open horizon of the border is an important location, and [=McQuade=] is pretty much a man BornInTheWrongCentury who enjoys racing around in his souped-up truck and cold beer as much as he does kicking criminal ass.


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* TankGoodness: Downplayed, but still within the spirit of the trope: the final confrontation between [=McQuade=] and Rawley includes them charging at each other at one point, [=McQuade=] in a bulldozer and Rawley in a half-track.
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* DepravedDwarf: Falcon, a [[EvilCripple wheelchair-bound]] dwarf, plays with this. He's ''not'' the primary villain, being a rival arms dealer who enters an EnemyMine with Ranger [=McQuade=] after Rawley Wilkes betrays him. He's obviously amoral however, so in the end [[spoiler:[=McQuade=] doesn't kill him but still leaves him behind for the Mexican authorities to find.]]

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* DepravedDwarf: Falcon, Falcon is a [[EvilCripple wheelchair-bound]] dwarf, plays with this. He's ''not'' the primary villain, being head of an arms smuggling operation, and a rival arms dealer who enters an EnemyMine with Ranger [=McQuade=] after Rawley Wilkes betrays him. He's obviously amoral however, so in to the end [[spoiler:[=McQuade=] doesn't kill him but still leaves him behind for the Mexican authorities to find.]]main bad guy.
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* VillainOfAnotherStory: [=McQuade=] briefly wrestles with Falcon, the crippled dwarf boss of an arms smuggling operation. He's ''not'' the main villain or the target of [=McQuade=]'s revenge; that role belongs to Falcon's rival Rawley Wilkes (David Carradine's character), another ArmsDealer who both tried to murder [=McQuade=]'s daughter after she was witness to a major arms deal and has a hold over Wilkes's LoveInterest Lola. [=McQuade=] still leaves Falcon behind for the Mexican Federales.
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* OminousPipeOrgan: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmEtMKnKOAg "The Final Conflict"]], which plays in the final showdown between ChuckNorris and David Carradine in ''Lone Wolf [=McQuade=]''

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* OminousPipeOrgan: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmEtMKnKOAg "The Final Conflict"]], which plays in the final showdown between ChuckNorris [=McQuade=] and David Carradine in ''Lone Wolf [=McQuade=]''Rawley Wilkes.
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* DuelingStarsMovie: It's Creator/ChuckNorris vs. David Carradine. Most posters use a MirroredConfrontationShot to make this really obvious.

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* DuelingStarsMovie: It's Creator/ChuckNorris vs. David Carradine. The posters use a MirroredConfrontationShot to make this really obvious.

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* DuelingStarsMovie: It's Creator/ChuckNorris vs. David Carradine. The Most posters use a MirroredConfrontationShot to make this really obvious.

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* BerserkButton: You can beat him, shoot him, bury him alive, and shoot his dog and maybe survive, but if you hurt his daughter, [[ActionDad you will open the whole can of]] ChuckNorris [[PapaWolf whoopass]].


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* PapaWolf: You can beat him, shoot him, bury him alive, and shoot his dog and maybe survive, but if you hurt his daughter, you will open [[ActionDad the whole can of Chuck Norris whoopass]].

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* ArmsDealer: Rawley Wilkes is an arms dealer who raids U.S. military convoys so he can sell them to insurgents and terrorists.



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* DuelingStarsMovieDepravedDwarf: Falcon, a [[EvilCripple wheelchair-bound]] dwarf, plays with this. He's ''not'' the primary villain, being a rival arms dealer who enters an EnemyMine with Ranger [=McQuade=] after Rawley Wilkes betrays him. He's obviously amoral however, so in the end [[spoiler:[=McQuade=] doesn't kill him but still leaves him behind for the Mexican authorities to find.]]
* DuelingStarsMovie: It's Creator/ChuckNorris vs. David Carradine. The posters use a MirroredConfrontationShot to make this really obvious.


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* MenCantKeepHouse: After [=McQuade=] strikes up a romance with Lola, she shows up in his neglected house and proceeds to clean up after him and get him some decent food. He brushes her off at first, but when she takes it badly he apologizes for acting like a jerk.
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A lone wolf Texas Ranger finds himself at odds with a powerful drug lord. Lots of people get shot and beaten to bloody pulp.
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''Lone Wolf [=McQuade=]'' is an action film from 1983, starring Creator/ChuckNorris and David Carradine.

The film would later serve as an inspiration for ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger''.

!!This film has the examples of:

* BerserkButton: You can beat him, shoot him, bury him alive, and shoot his dog and maybe survive, but if you hurt his daughter, [[ActionDad you will open the whole can of]] ChuckNorris [[PapaWolf whoopass]].
* BigBad: Rawley.
* BuriedAlive: Rawley orders his mooks to bury the badly beaten [=McQuade=] alive, using his own truck as his coffin. But he manages to escape his earthly prison by showering himself with beer and engaging the NitroBoost in his car.
* DuelingStarsMovie
* HeroesLoveDogs
* ImprobableAimingSkills: As [=McQuade=] showers bandits with bullets from [[CoolGuns Mac-10]], he somehow manages not to hit their horses and hostages.
* KickTheDog: Rawley kills [=McQuade=]'s dog to spite him.
* MirroredConfrontationShot: Used on the poster.
* NewOldWest
* OminousPipeOrgan: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmEtMKnKOAg "The Final Conflict"]], which plays in the final showdown between ChuckNorris and David Carradine in ''Lone Wolf [=McQuade=]''
* ShootTheFuelTank: The fuel tank explosion is justified, as the opening scene has [=McQuade=] loading his sniper rifle from an ammunition case of 7.62mm Armor-Piercing Incendiary rounds.
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