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This movie ditches the deritative teenkill-aproach from the previous film, and goes over the top with its presentation; [[BloodierAndGorier gore]], [[HotterAndSexier nudity]] and [[IncrediblyLamePun laughably bad puns]] are all over the place.

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This movie ditches the deritative teenkill-aproach from the previous film, and goes over the top with its presentation; [[BloodierAndGorier gore]], [[HotterAndSexier nudity]] and [[IncrediblyLamePun laughably bad puns]] {{pun}}s are all over the place.
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* DeathBySex: Tony and Chloe get killed together after being a pair of adulators.
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The sequel to ''Film/PsychoCop'', released in 1993, in which the ever-puntastic devil-worshipping cop-impersonator Joe Vickers continues to enact his special brand of law and justice.

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The sequel to ''Film/PsychoCop'', released in 1993, in which the ever-puntastic devil-worshipping cop-impersonator Joe Vickers (Creator/RobertRShafer) continues to enact his special brand of law and justice.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Sharon grabs a fire axe strikes Vickers with it, but he doesn't really mind it. He then takes the thing and starts chasing her with it.
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* SharpDressedMan: All for of the guys throwing the bachelor party give off some of this vibe.

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* SharpDressedMan: All for four of the guys throwing the bachelor party give off some of this vibe.
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* LingerieScene: Exaggerated, with the strippers spending pretty much the whole movie running around in thongs and bra's (and cowgirl leggings for one of them), something the trailers made sure to emphasize.

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* LingerieScene: Exaggerated, with the strippers spending pretty much the whole movie running around in thongs and bra's bras (and cowgirl leggings for one of them), something the trailers made sure to emphasize.
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* EyeScream: After accusing him about taking bribes, Vickers kills the night watchman Gus by stabbing him in the eye [[ThePenIsMightier with a pen]].

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* EyeScream: After accusing him about taking bribes, Vickers kills the night watchman Gus by stabbing him in the eye [[ThePenIsMightier with a pen]].pencil]].
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* YourCheatingHeart: Tony (a married man) and Chloe (a married woman) stay at the work after closing-hours for sex. Also, Gary is about to cheat on his upcoming wife with a stripper before he gets killed.
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* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Two of the strippers do this when one of them bends over and the other gets bending her and they make sex motions for the guys to watch for a while.

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* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Two of the strippers do this when one of them bends over and the other gets bending grinds her and they make sex motions for crotch against the first girls butt while the guys to watch for a while.watch.

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* FrenchMaidOutfit: One of the strippers is wearing one in the second film.

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* FrenchMaidOutfit: One of the strippers is wearing one.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Two of the strippers do this when
one in of them bends over and the second film.other gets bending her and they make sex motions for the guys to watch for a while.



* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: The bachelor party in the second movie.

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* OnlySaneMan: Brian is the bachelor party member to notice somethings up the most
* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: The bachelor party in the second movie.party.


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* {{Striptease}}: Each of the three strippers gets a decently prolonged one.
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* ButHeSoundsSoHandsome: Or rather, he sounds so formidable, with Vickers describing/bragging what he has done in the past while pretending to be TheCavalry.

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* ButHeSoundsSoHandsome: ButHeSoundsHandsome: Or rather, he sounds so formidable, with Vickers describing/bragging what he has done in the past while pretending to be TheCavalry.
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* BadassBystander: A whole crowd of them beat up Vickers outside of a bar in the climax as a bystander films them in a parody of the Rodney King incident.

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* ButHeSoundsSoHandsome: Or rather, he sounds so formidable, with Vickers describing/bragging what he has done in the past while pretending to be TheCavalry.



* DisposableSexWorker: None of the three strippers get much importance or characterization, and Vickers views them with ill-concealed disdain and targets them with the others.

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* DisposableSexWorker: None of the three strippers get much importance or characterization, and Vickers views them with ill-concealed disdain both before and targets them with the others.during his attempts to kill them.


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* InnocentBystander: Unlike everyone else, Sharon is caught in the middle of things just because she's stayed late to get some work done, while everyone else was partying and drew Vickers ire.
* LingerieScene: Exaggerated, with the strippers spending pretty much the whole movie running around in thongs and bra's (and cowgirl leggings for one of them), something the trailers made sure to emphasize.


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* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Sharon and Brian both do.
* SharpDressedMan: All for of the guys throwing the bachelor party give off some of this vibe.
* SmugSnake: Larry, whose the one throwing the while party, and takes a while to be convinced that there's a killer out there, can come across as this.


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* WildBachelorParty: Obviously, in the first half.
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* DisposableSexWorker: None of the three strippers get much importance or characterization, and Vickers views them with ill-concealed disdain and targets them with the others.
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* HeroicBystander: As Vickers pursues and attacks Sharon on the street, a group of men in a nearby bar notice what's going on and immediately run over and save Sharon by beating the hell out of Vickers.
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-->'''Vickers''': Seventh floor, going up. Linens, luxury, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick eviscareted women]].

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-->'''Vickers''': Seventh floor, going up. Linens, luxury, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick eviscareted eviscerated women]].
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* GrumpyOldMan: Mr. Stonecipher, the boss of the company where protagonists work. He ignores any pleasantries given his way, and hates brownnosers.

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* GrumpyOldMan: Mr. Stonecipher, the boss of the company where protagonists work. He ignores any pleasantries given his way, and hates brownnosers.[[note]]Amazingly, he ''DOESN'T'' die, leaving the film in its opening third and never being seen again.[[/note]]



* MadeOfIron: Vickers not only survived, as per his own recounting, six bullets and a branch through the stomach in the first film, but also an ax to the gut ([[CombatSadomasochist Which just seems to excite him]], having his face horribly burned, getting shoved down an elevator shaft, and a mob of people beating him with baseball bats for a good ninety seconds. Between this, his aforementioned seeming HealingFactor, and the indication that some kind of beasts aided him in the hospital, it's pretty clear that Vickers actually does seem to be aided by demonic forces.

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* MadeOfIron: Vickers not only survived, as per his own recounting, six bullets and a branch through the stomach in the first film, but also an ax to the gut ([[CombatSadomasochist Which just seems to excite him]], him]]), having his face horribly burned, getting shoved down an elevator shaft, and a mob of people beating him with baseball bats for a good ninety seconds. Between this, his aforementioned seeming HealingFactor, and the indication that some kind of beasts aided him in the hospital, it's pretty clear that Vickers actually does seem to be aided by demonic forces.
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* MadeOfIron: Vickers not only survived, as per his own recounting, six bullets and a branch through the stomach in the first film, but also an ax to the gut ([[CombatSadomasochist Which just seems to excite him]], having his face horribly burned, getting shoved down an elevator shaft, and a mob of people beating him with baseball bats for a good ninety seconds. Between this, his aforementioned seeming HealingFactor, and the indication that some kind of beasts aided him in the hospital, it's pretty clear that Vickers actually does seem to be aided by demonic forces.
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The film opens with Vickers hearing about a bachelor party from two office workers, which will be secretly held in an office building at late-hours, which is going to include booze, drugs and hookers. He then follows the two men to the party, locks the doors and starts killing everyone stuck inside with him.

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The film opens with Vickers hearing about a [[StagParty bachelor party party]] from two office workers, which will be secretly held in an office building at late-hours, which is going to include booze, drugs and hookers. He then follows the two men to the party, locks the doors and starts killing everyone stuck inside with him.
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-->'''Vickers''': Seventh floor, going up. Linens, luxury, eviscareted women.

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-->'''Vickers''': Seventh floor, going up. Linens, luxury, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick eviscareted women.women]].
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->''Something old, something new, something bloody... and the man in blue.''
-->-- '''Tagline'''

The sequel to ''Film/PsychoCop'', released in 1993, in which the ever-puntastic devil-worshipping cop-impersonator Joe Vickers continues to enact his special brand of law and justice.

The film opens with Vickers hearing about a bachelor party from two office workers, which will be secretly held in an office building at late-hours, which is going to include booze, drugs and hookers. He then follows the two men to the party, locks the doors and starts killing everyone stuck inside with him.

This movie ditches the deritative teenkill-aproach from the previous film, and goes over the top with its presentation; [[BloodierAndGorier gore]], [[HotterAndSexier nudity]] and [[IncrediblyLamePun laughably bad puns]] are all over the place.

!!This sequel has examples of:

* AerosolFlamethrower: Sharon defends herself with one, burning Vickers' face.
* AnAxeToGrind: Sharon grabs a fire axe strikes Vickers with it, but he doesn't really mind it. He then takes the thing and starts chasing her with it.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Sharon's face is shown to be black and bruised in the hospital where the film ends.
* BigNo: Brian's reaction to Vickers blowing Larry's brains out.
* ClosedCircle: The Stonecipher Enterpises office building in the sequel.
* ComeOutComeOutWhereverYouAre: Said by Vickers as he stalks after Sharon in the building, and immediately follows it with YouCanRunButYouCantHide.
* ContinuityNod: Vickers mentions the happenings of the first film as he recounts his own reputation to the cast.
* CreatorCameo: The film's producer and director appear as a bartender and a bystander with a video camera, respectively.
* CreepySouvenir: Vickers's patrol car is shown to be filled with body parts of his past victims.
* DeathBySex: Tony and Chloe get killed together after being a pair of adulators.
* DonutMessWithACop: While listening to Larry and Brian talking about the upcoming party in the opening, Vickers is shown drinking coffee and eating donuts... [[BulletTime in slow motion]].
* DoubleTake: Bartender's reaction when sees Vickers attacking Sharon outside his workplace.
* ElevatorFloorAnnouncement: Done by Vickers as he rides an elevator up the building.
-->'''Vickers''': Seventh floor, going up. Linens, luxury, eviscareted women.
* EvilElevator: Vickers sabotages the elevators in the building, and uses them mess around with Mike before killing him.
* ExactWords: Sharon has Vickers on her sights but he has one strippers as a meatshield. Then he promises that he won't shoot her if Sharon puts the gun down. She complies, and he snaps the stripper's neck because he only said that he wouldn't ''shoot'' her.
* EyeScream: After accusing him about taking bribes, Vickers kills the night watchman Gus by stabbing him in the eye [[ThePenIsMightier with a pen]].
-->'''Vickers:''' I'll be right back. Why don't you keep an eye out while I'm gone. Hahahaha!
* EyepatchOfPower: Vickers gets half of his face burnt while wearing sunglasses and is left with other half of his sunglasses covering his healthy eye
* FinalGirl: Averted with Sharon after Brian is revealed to have survived as well.
* FingerWag: Vickers wags his finger at Mike when he unknowingly evades him by climbing out of the stopped elevator
* GrievousBottleyHarm: Vickers hits himself on the head with a beer bottle when rampaging in the offices as he searches for Sharon.
* GrossUpCloseUp: Various body parts in Vickers' car are shown up close during the opening credits.
* FrenchMaidOutfit: One of the strippers is wearing one in the second film.
* GrumpyOldMan: Mr. Stonecipher, the boss of the company where protagonists work. He ignores any pleasantries given his way, and hates brownnosers.
* HealingFactor: Vickers evidently has it, as his burns are shown to have completely healed when he rips off his bandages in the ending.
* ILied
-->'''Vickers''': Remember what I said about not holding a grudge? I lied!
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Just after Tony opens a door to go look for Chloe's lost panties, Vickers comes rushing in and impales them both with a spear stolen from a statue.
* MenacingStroll: Vickers uses it, but has wisened up since the previous film and actually runs in the final ChaseScene.
* MickeyMousing: Done when Larry is shown paying the night watchman Gus to let the strippers inside the building; few musical notes accompany the each bill he hands him.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Vickers gets one in the sequel from a lynch mob, in a sequence that comes off as a weird inversion of the Rodney King assault, complete with videotaping bystander.
* NumberOfTheBeast: Vickers conveniently has the number 666 as part of his license plate. It is also his badge number.
* NumberedSequels: The film is also known as ''Psycho Cop 2''.
* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: The bachelor party in the second movie.
* PeekABooCorpse: Lampshaded in ''Returns'', where the bodies fall out of the ceiling instead of the expected cabinet.
* ThePenIsMightier: To stab people in the eye, that is.
* RainOfBlood: Just after Larry says that there isn't some crazy killer loose in the building, blood starts dripping from above and Gary's corpse soon follows.
* ReadingYourRights: Vickers shoots Gary [[BoomHeadshot on his forehead]], and starts reciting the MirandaRights to his corpse, putting his own spin on it.
-->'''Vickers:''' You have the right to remain dead!
* ShoutOut:
** ''[[Film/TheShining "Heeeeeere's Joey!"]]''
** "Give me a break, this is not ''Franchise/FridayThe13th Part Infinity'' here."
* SoundOnlyDeath: In the ending, two cops and nurses enter Vickers' room at the hospital, and they're all killed offscreen.
* SpikingTheCamera: The actress playing the stripper named Lisa briefly looks at the camera as Gary drunkenly tells Brian and Larry to stop being serious.
* SunglassesAtNight: Vickers wears his sunglasses as he stalks Sharon throughout the dark office building, and they are later burned into [[EyepatchOfPower a kind-of eyepatch]] covering half of his eyes.
* TrashLanding: Vickers drops one of the strippers into trash from the top floor of the office building.
-->'''Vickers''': You act like trash, you get treated like trash.
* VillainousBreakdown: As the film progresses, Vickers grows more and more psychotic, babbling semi-coherently, destroying random office furniture, and beating himself over the head with a bottle.
* YouLookLikeYouveSeenAGhost: Said to Brian after runs back upstairs after being spooked by the suspicious copy room and Vickers' laughter in the staircase.
* YourCheatingHeart: Tony (a married man) and Chloe (a married woman) stay at the work after closing-hours for sex. Also, Gary is about to cheat on his upcoming wife with a stripper before he gets killed.

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