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* {{Qurac}}: Both the Republic of Sardun (peaceful, powerless, asks for the Megaforce's help) and Gamibia (which is more in line with the ColdWar "revolutionary" type and has raised a lot of hell on Sardun with Guerrera's leadership of the military).
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* {{Qurac}}: Both the Republic of Sardun (peaceful, powerless, asks for the Megaforce's help) and Gamibia (which is more in line with the ColdWar UsefulNotes/ColdWar "revolutionary" type and has raised a lot of hell on Sardun with Guerrera's leadership of the military).
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* TheMountainsOfIllinois: The entire film was shot on the Nevada Desert, standing in as itself and the desert countrysides of Sardun and Gamibia (which are on the other side of the world).
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* ItsRainingMen: The Megaforce's vehicles are capable of being air-dropped... while the driver's on it. Yes, ''even the bikes''. This ability is used to put the team on the ground to start "Operation Hook, Line and Sinker".
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* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: The first scene (the latest of the raids from Guerrera's army on Sardun) has a Gamibian political officer reading a speech about revolution and liberation... [[EpicFail from a college notebook... and reading the punctuation out loud]]. Guerrera gets so fed up that he skips straight to the StuffBlowingUp part of the raid.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: Pretty much ''every single blue-screen scene on this movie''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1NpZxn860M Here is an example]].
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: Pretty much ''every single blue-screen scene on this movie''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1NpZxn860M Here is an example]]. The Sardunian "power plant" and APC that are blown up at the beginning are also clearly mock-ups.
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Tennesee-born Michael Beck's Southern/Texan accent for Dallas is a bit... hit-and-miss.
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Tennesee-born Tennessee-born Michael Beck's Southern/Texan accent for Dallas is a bit... hit-and-miss.
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* RunningTheBlockade: The final battle scene.
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---> '''Dallas''': Ranks? Over here the only one with a rank is the Commander, but we call him "Hunter"!
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---> '''Dallas''': Ranks? Over here the only one with a rank is the Commander, but [[LastNameBasis we call him "Hunter"!"Hunter"]]!
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* BadassArmy: The titular "Megaforce". Guerrera's army is [[InformedAbility apparently]] once, considering that it constantly makes incursions into the Republic of Sardun and wrecks the place with little problem.
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* BadassArmy: The titular "Megaforce". Guerrera's army is [[InformedAbility apparently]] once, one, considering that it constantly makes incursions into the Republic of Sardun and wrecks the place with little problem.
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* MultinationalTeam: The Megaforce. They explicitly say that all of the firepower they have (that is, aside from the ones they built themselves) [[FellOffTheBackOfATruck fell off the back of the proverbial truck]], with the governments' blessings.
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* MildlyMilitary: Also the Megaforce:
---> '''Dallas''': Ranks? Over here the only one with a rank is the Commander, but we call him "Hunter"!
* MultinationalTeam: The Megaforce. They explicitly say that all of the firepower they have (that is, aside from the ones they built themselves) [[FellOffTheBackOfATruck fell off the back of the proverbial truck]], with the governments'blessings.blessings, and every member is a volunteer.
---> '''Dallas''': Ranks? Over here the only one with a rank is the Commander, but we call him "Hunter"!
* MultinationalTeam: The Megaforce. They explicitly say that all of the firepower they have (that is, aside from the ones they built themselves) [[FellOffTheBackOfATruck fell off the back of the proverbial truck]], with the governments'
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* HeyItsThatGuy: So [[FanNickname Ass]][[Film/RockyHorrorPictureShow hole]] TookALevelInBadass, [[Film/TheWarriors Swan]] decided to play war (with a Southern accent), and they were asked by [[Series/KnightRider Devon]] to deal with [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Bane]]. [[RunningGag Well]], [[WebOriginal/CinemaSins that beats my fan-fiction all to hell]].
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* HeyItsThatGuy: So [[FanNickname Ass]][[Film/RockyHorrorPictureShow hole]] TookALevelInBadass, [[Film/TheWarriors Swan]] decided to play war (with a Southern accent), and they were asked by [[Series/KnightRider Devon]] to deal with [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Bane]]. [[RunningGag Well]], [[WebOriginal/CinemaSins [[WebVideo/CinemaSins that beats my fan-fiction all to hell]].
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* HeyItsThatGuy: So [[FanNickname Ass]][[Film/RockyHorrorPictureShow hole]] TookALevelInBadass, [[Film/TheWarriors Swan]] decided to play war (with a Southern accent), and they were asked by [[Series/KnightRider Devon]] to deal with [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Bane]].
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* HeyItsThatGuy: So [[FanNickname Ass]][[Film/RockyHorrorPictureShow hole]] TookALevelInBadass, [[Film/TheWarriors Swan]] decided to play war (with a Southern accent), and they were asked by [[Series/KnightRider Devon]] to deal with [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Bane]]. [[RunningGag Well]], [[WebOriginal/CinemaSins that beats my fan-fiction all to hell]].
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* HeyItsTheGuy: So [[FanNickname Ass]][[Film/RockyHorrorPictureShow hole]] TookALevelInBadass, [[Film/TheWarriors Swan]] decided to play war (with a Southern accent), and they were asked by [[Series/KnightRider Devon]] to deal with
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* HeyItsTheGuy: HeyItsThatGuy: So [[FanNickname Ass]][[Film/RockyHorrorPictureShow hole]] TookALevelInBadass, [[Film/TheWarriors Swan]] decided to play war (with a Southern accent), and they were asked by [[Series/KnightRider Devon]] to deal with [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Bane]].
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* HeyItsTheGuy: So [[FanNickname Ass]][[Film/RockyHorrorPictureShow hole]] TookALevelInBadass, [[Film/TheWarriors Swan]] decided to play war (with a Southern accent), and they were asked by [[Series/KnightRider Devon]] to deal with
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* CoolVsAwesome: A collection of dune buggies and dirt bikes outfitted with ''[[MoreDakka a lot]]'' of guns, FrickinLaserBeams and a veritable MacrossMissileMassacre vs. a ''really big'' bunch of ''[[TankGoodness tanks]]''.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: Pretty much ''every single blue-screen scene on this movie''.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: Pretty much ''every single blue-screen scene on this movie''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1NpZxn860M Here is an example]].
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* MagicComputer: Megaforce has one on its headquarters, capable of intercepting and insta-decrypting/translating transmissions from all over the world, as well as having a rather thorough OmniscientDatabase.
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* MagicComputer: MagicalComputer: Megaforce has one on its headquarters, capable of intercepting and insta-decrypting/translating transmissions from all over the world, as well as having a rather thorough OmniscientDatabase.
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* StabTheScorpion: The introduction of Dallas is him shooting a rattlesnake that was going to attack Major Zara and General Byrne-White.
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* StabTheScorpion: The introduction of Dallas is him shooting a rattlesnake that was going to attack Major Zara and General Byrne-White.Byrne-White.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Tennesee-born Michael Beck's Southern/Texan accent for Dallas is a bit... hit-and-miss.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Tennesee-born Michael Beck's Southern/Texan accent for Dallas is a bit... hit-and-miss.
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Not to be confused with ''PowerRangersMegaforce''.
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* {{Qurac}}: Both the Republic of Sardun (peaceful, powerless, asks for the Megaforce's help) and Gamibia (which is more in line with the ColdWar "revolutionary" type and has raised a lot of hell on Sardun with Guerrera's leadership of the military).
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* MultinationalTeam: The Megaforce. They explicitly say that all of the firepower they have (that is, aside from the ones they built themselves) [[FellOffTheBackOfATruck fell off the back of the proverbial truck]], with the governments' blessings.
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* GoodOlBoy: Dallas is a Southie and proud of it, wearing the Confederate flag on his bike and as a shoulder patch. Still pretty much a NiceGuy.
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* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The Megaforce headquarters, a bunker deep in the Nevada desert built to withstand a direct hit from a 25-megaton nuke, with all the necessary elements for training and maintaining and leading the Megaforce, and with a CoolGarage full of extensive military hardware (and Dallas then mentions that said garage is ''just'' the one for the ground vehicles, as well as joking about needing $25,000 worth of floor wax to keep the place neat).
* GoodOlBoy: Dallas is a Southie and proud of it, wearing the Confederate flag on his bike and as a shoulderpatch.patch (while everybody else wears their respective countries'). Still pretty much a NiceGuy.
* GoodOlBoy: Dallas is a Southie and proud of it, wearing the Confederate flag on his bike and as a shoulder
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* SpecialEffectsFailute: Pretty much ''every single blue-screen scene on this movie''.
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* ActionGirl: Major Zara... allegedly. She manages to pass Megaforce qualification training, but [[AbortedArc besides her best desires, doesn't gets to go on the mission]].
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* CommandingCoolness: [[TheAce Ace]] Hunter.
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* CommandingCoolness: [[TheAce Ace]] Hunter.Hunter.
* GoodOlBoy: Dallas is a Southie and proud of it, wearing the Confederate flag on his bike and as a shoulder patch. Still pretty much a NiceGuy.
* ImpossibleMissionCollapse: "Operation Hook, Line And Sinker" manages to go smoothly on its first two steps (demolish Guerrera's main ammo depot and go to a designated rendezvous point for refueling and rearming), but the rest of the operation completely goes to Hell when the Gamibian government denounces the ammo depot raid as an act of war and the Sardun government closes its borders, [[TrappedBehindEnemyLines trapping the Megaforce behind enemy lines]].
* RunForTheBorder: The entire third act-one way or another, the Megaforce is leaving the place.
* OperationBlank: "Operation Hook, Line And Sinker", Hunter's plan to make Guerrera go through the Gamibia/Sardun border and right into the arms of Sardun justice.
* StabTheScorpion: The introduction of Dallas is him shooting a rattlesnake that was going to attack Major Zara and General Byrne-White.
* GoodOlBoy: Dallas is a Southie and proud of it, wearing the Confederate flag on his bike and as a shoulder patch. Still pretty much a NiceGuy.
* ImpossibleMissionCollapse: "Operation Hook, Line And Sinker" manages to go smoothly on its first two steps (demolish Guerrera's main ammo depot and go to a designated rendezvous point for refueling and rearming), but the rest of the operation completely goes to Hell when the Gamibian government denounces the ammo depot raid as an act of war and the Sardun government closes its borders, [[TrappedBehindEnemyLines trapping the Megaforce behind enemy lines]].
* RunForTheBorder: The entire third act-one way or another, the Megaforce is leaving the place.
* OperationBlank: "Operation Hook, Line And Sinker", Hunter's plan to make Guerrera go through the Gamibia/Sardun border and right into the arms of Sardun justice.
* StabTheScorpion: The introduction of Dallas is him shooting a rattlesnake that was going to attack Major Zara and General Byrne-White.
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* CoolCar: The Mega-Destroyer dune buggy and the TAC-COM vehicle, both packing ''[[MoreDakka significant]]'' firepower, including ''[[FreakinLaserBeams laser cannons]]'' and ''disintegration beams''.
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* CoolCar: The Mega-Destroyer dune buggy and the TAC-COM vehicle, both packing ''[[MoreDakka significant]]'' firepower, including ''[[FreakinLaserBeams ''[[FrickinLaserBeams laser cannons]]'' and ''disintegration beams''.
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A 1982 movie directed by [[Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit Hal]] [[Film/TheCannonballRun Needham]] starring [[Film/RockyHorrorPictureShow Barry]] [[Series/SpinCity Bostwick]], [[Film/TheWarriors Michael Beck]], [[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture Persis Khambatta]], [[Series/KnightRider Edward Mulhare]], George Furth, Evan C. Kim, Ralph Wilcox, Robert Fuller and Henry Silva.
The film follows the titular "Megaforce", an [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous elite]] [[MultinationalTeam multi-national]] "[[NoSuchAgency phantom]] [[BadassArmy army]]", equipped with "the most powerful weapons science can devise" and which mission is "to preserve freedom and justice, battling the forces of tyranny and evil on every corner of the globe".
Led by [[TheHero Commander Ace Hunter]] (Bostwick) and [[TheLancer his friend]] [[GoodOlBoy Dallas]] (Beck), the Megaforce is sent to help a small (fictional) country in Africa address border incursions from its (equally fictional) neighbor, who has hired an old acquaintance of Hunter's, Duke Guerrera (Silva).
The film was a [[BoxOfficeBomb critical and commercial failure in its release]] and was nominated for three Razzie Awards, Worst Picture, Worst Director and Worst Supporting Actor (Michael Beck), [[StillbornFranchise plus killing any chances of a projected sequel, titled "Deeds Not Words", from seeing the light of day]].
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The film features the following tropes:
* AffablyEvil: Guerrera to Hunter. Probably a bit ''[[FoeYay too]]'' affable.
*BadassArmy: The titular "Megaforce". Guerrera's army is [[InformedAbility apparently]] once, considering that it constantly makes incursions into the Republic of Sardun and wrecks the place with little problem.
* CoolCar: The Mega-Destroyer dune buggy and the TAC-COM vehicle, both packing ''[[MoreDakka significant]]'' firepower, including ''[[FreakinLaserBeams laser cannons]]'' and ''disintegration beams''.
* CoolBike: The "Delta Mark 4 Megafighter", with [[MoreDakka triple-barreled machine guns on the nose]], [[MacrossMissileMassacre multiple missiles]], and ''the ability to fly''.
* CommandingCoolness: [[TheAce Ace]] Hunter.
The film follows the titular "Megaforce", an [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous elite]] [[MultinationalTeam multi-national]] "[[NoSuchAgency phantom]] [[BadassArmy army]]", equipped with "the most powerful weapons science can devise" and which mission is "to preserve freedom and justice, battling the forces of tyranny and evil on every corner of the globe".
Led by [[TheHero Commander Ace Hunter]] (Bostwick) and [[TheLancer his friend]] [[GoodOlBoy Dallas]] (Beck), the Megaforce is sent to help a small (fictional) country in Africa address border incursions from its (equally fictional) neighbor, who has hired an old acquaintance of Hunter's, Duke Guerrera (Silva).
The film was a [[BoxOfficeBomb critical and commercial failure in its release]] and was nominated for three Razzie Awards, Worst Picture, Worst Director and Worst Supporting Actor (Michael Beck), [[StillbornFranchise plus killing any chances of a projected sequel, titled "Deeds Not Words", from seeing the light of day]].
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The film features the following tropes:
* AffablyEvil: Guerrera to Hunter. Probably a bit ''[[FoeYay too]]'' affable.
*BadassArmy: The titular "Megaforce". Guerrera's army is [[InformedAbility apparently]] once, considering that it constantly makes incursions into the Republic of Sardun and wrecks the place with little problem.
* CoolCar: The Mega-Destroyer dune buggy and the TAC-COM vehicle, both packing ''[[MoreDakka significant]]'' firepower, including ''[[FreakinLaserBeams laser cannons]]'' and ''disintegration beams''.
* CoolBike: The "Delta Mark 4 Megafighter", with [[MoreDakka triple-barreled machine guns on the nose]], [[MacrossMissileMassacre multiple missiles]], and ''the ability to fly''.
* CommandingCoolness: [[TheAce Ace]] Hunter.
