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* IWillPunishYourFriendsForYourFailure: Rambo is captured by the Soviet "advisors" to the Communist Vietnam commanding officer. The advisor takes Rambo's knife and puts it into the charcoal fire heating his tea. When Rambo won't divulge the information requested, the advisor threatens to stick the now-glowing tip into the eye of the American POW with whom Rambo was captured.
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* IWillPunishYourFriendsForYourFailure: IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: Rambo is captured by the Soviet "advisors" to the Communist Vietnam commanding officer. The advisor takes Rambo's knife and puts it into the charcoal fire heating his tea. When Rambo won't divulge the information requested, the advisor threatens to stick the now-glowing tip into the eye of the American POW with whom Rambo was captured.
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--> '''Rambo:''' The Second Battalion was at Kud Sank. You're the only one I trust.
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--> '''Rambo:''' The Second Battalion was at Kud Sank.Khe Sanh. You're the only one I trust.
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* BigBad: [[DirtyCommunists Lieutenant Colonel Podovsky]], Soviet militari liaison in Vietnam, appearing to interrogate captured Rambo.
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* BigBad: [[DirtyCommunists Lieutenant Colonel Podovsky]], Soviet militari military liaison in Vietnam, appearing to interrogate captured Rambo.
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* BigBad: [[DirtyCommunists Lieutenant Colonel Podovsky]], commander of the P.O.W. camps in Vietnam that Rambo has been tasked to investigate.
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* BigBad: [[DirtyCommunists Lieutenant Colonel Podovsky]], commander of the P.O.W. camps Soviet militari liaison in Vietnam that Rambo has been tasked Vietnam, appearing to investigate.interrogate captured Rambo.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Rambo was ready to leave the [=POWs=] behind and take Co with him to America. [[MoodWhiplash Then she gets shot.]]
* ArmchairMilitary: Marshall Murdock is an armchair general. However, he has direct orders that the mission is ''supposed'' to fail.
* BigBad: [[DirtyCommunists Lieutenant Colonel Podovsky]], commander of the P.O.W. camps in Vietnam that Rambo has been tasked to investigate.
* CartwrightCurse: The female lead is gunned down within seconds after their first kiss.
* CoverIdentityAnomaly: Rambo ''immediately'' notices a hole in Murdock's backstory and points it out to Colonel Trautman:
--> '''Rambo:''' Remember Murdock said he was with the Second Battalion, Third Marines in Kon Tum in '66?
--> '''Trautman:''' Yeah.
--> '''Rambo:''' The Second Battalion was at Kud Sank. You're the only one I trust.
* CrewOfOne: Rambo is apparently able to drive, fire, and load a Soviet tank with his head sticking out the front hatch.
* DeathWail: Averted by editing. After [[spoiler: Co is shot and dies in Rambo's arms]], Rambo originally lets out a wail. When a test screening was met with laughter, the crew quickly decided to cut the scene.
--> '''Rambo:''' Remember Murdock said he was with the Second Battalion, Third Marines in Kon Tum in '66?
--> '''Trautman:''' Yeah.
--> '''Rambo:''' The Second Battalion was at Kud Sank. You're the only one I trust.
* CrewOfOne: Rambo is apparently able to drive, fire, and load a Soviet tank with his head sticking out the front hatch.
* DeathWail: Averted by editing. After [[spoiler: Co is shot and dies in Rambo's arms]], Rambo originally lets out a wail. When a test screening was met with laughter, the crew quickly decided to cut the scene.
* DirtyCommunists: This movie gave John Rambo the [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan]]-esque patriotism that the previously disenchanted with America character has since become famous for.
* DistressedDude: Rambo gets captured by the bad guys and has to be rescued by his teammate [[ActionGirl Co]].
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* ForeShadowing: So much about Murdock that there's no way to believe he was ever on the level. He claims to have served and lost men during Vietnam, but Rambo quietly warns Trautman that the unit Murdock claimed to have served in wasn't in that area at that time. He also notes that he's never felt anything like the heat in the area, which he would have had he been in Vietnam during the war. He insists that Rambo not engage any Vietnamese forces and only take pictures with the expectation that the camp would be empty anyway, and has to be talked into even sending a chopper to the planned extraction point when the drop goes bad. He even remarks that Vietnam "wasn't [his] war" when speaking with Trautman. Sure enough, he freaks out when Rambo actually finds something and turns out to be a spineless weasel of a bureaucrat.
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* ForeShadowing: FiringInTheAirALot: Rambo does this occasionally, most notably in the scene when he shoots up Murdock's computers at the end.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: So much about Murdock that there's no way to believe he was ever on the level. He claims to have served and lost men during Vietnam, but Rambo quietly warns Trautman that the unit Murdock claimed to have served in wasn't in that area at that time. He also notes that he's never felt anything like the heat in the area, which he would have had he been in Vietnam during the war. He insists that Rambo not engage any Vietnamese forces and only take pictures with the expectation that the camp would be empty anyway, and has to be talked into even sending a chopper to the planned extraction point when the drop goes bad. He even remarks that Vietnam "wasn't [his] war" when speaking with Trautman. Sure enough, he freaks out when Rambo actually finds something and turns out to be a spineless weasel of abureaucrat.bureaucrat.
* FranchiseDrivenRetitling: This was the movie that gave the name to the ''Rambo'' franchise, since the first movie was only known as ''First Blood''.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: So much about Murdock that there's no way to believe he was ever on the level. He claims to have served and lost men during Vietnam, but Rambo quietly warns Trautman that the unit Murdock claimed to have served in wasn't in that area at that time. He also notes that he's never felt anything like the heat in the area, which he would have had he been in Vietnam during the war. He insists that Rambo not engage any Vietnamese forces and only take pictures with the expectation that the camp would be empty anyway, and has to be talked into even sending a chopper to the planned extraction point when the drop goes bad. He even remarks that Vietnam "wasn't [his] war" when speaking with Trautman. Sure enough, he freaks out when Rambo actually finds something and turns out to be a spineless weasel of a
* FranchiseDrivenRetitling: This was the movie that gave the name to the ''Rambo'' franchise, since the first movie was only known as ''First Blood''.
* ILetGwenStacyDie: Rambo falls in love with his female contact Co, but she is later shot in the back. This sparks his RoaringRampageOfRevenge at the end of the film.
* IWillPunishYourFriendsForYourFailure: Rambo is captured by the Soviet "advisors" to the Communist Vietnam commanding officer. The advisor takes Rambo's knife and puts it into the charcoal fire heating his tea. When Rambo won't divulge the information requested, the advisor threatens to stick the now-glowing tip into the eye of the American POW with whom Rambo was captured.
* PrisonersWork: Rambo is shown doing the "making big rocks into little rocks" bit with a sledgehammer for his stunts in ''Film/FirstBlood''.
* PrisonsAreGymnasiums: At the beginning of the movie, John Rambo is released from prison and he's even more muscular than he was in the first film. The inmates work in a rock quarry, breaking up rocks with sledgehammers. This constant exercise allowed Rambo to both bulk up and cut body fat.
* PrisonsAreGymnasiums: At the beginning of the movie, John Rambo is released from prison and he's even more muscular than he was in the first film. The inmates work in a rock quarry, breaking up rocks with sledgehammers. This constant exercise allowed Rambo to both bulk up and cut body fat.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Rambo starts out on a mission into a prison camp where he was held to rescue [=POWs=]. His partner on the mission is a Vietnamese woman named Co. In the course of the journey they fall in love, and just after they decide to go back to America together as husband and wife, she is brutally shot down. Rambo goes fucking insane. In the first half he only killed when necessary, but after his love is killed, he hunts down and brutalizes every mook he can get his knife in. His memento is a headband fashioned from her dress. An already personal mission is made even more personal, and he completes it after killing every single mook.
* SequelGoesForeign: The [[Film/FirstBlood first film]] is set in the Northwestern United States. This film sends him ([[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar back]]) to Vietnam,
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Rambo was ready to leave the [=POWs=] behind and take Co with him to America. [[MoodWhiplash Then she gets shot.]]
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Rambo was ready to leave the [=POWs=] behind {{Tagline}}: "They sent him on a mission and take Co set him up to fail. But they made one mistake. They forgot they were dealing with him to America. [[MoodWhiplash Then she gets shot.]]Rambo."
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* KarmaHoudini: Out of the two CIA mercenaries, it was Lifer, who was actively enforcing Murdock's order (being ready to shoot Trautman), while Ericson was ready to discuss said order with Trautman and reluctantly steered the helicopter away, when Lifer showed his true colors. However, it was Ericson who got himself beaten up by Rambo. Meanwhile, Lifer was cowardly hiding among rescue personnel and got no comeuppance.
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* KarmaHoudini: Out of the two CIA mercenaries, it was Lifer, who was actively enforcing Murdock's order (being ready to shoot Trautman), while Ericson was ready to discuss said order with Trautman and reluctantly steered the helicopter away, when Lifer showed his true colors. However, it was Ericson who got himself beaten up by Rambo. Meanwhile, Lifer was cowardly hiding among rescue personnel and got no comeuppance. comeuppance beyond a perfunctory glare from Rambo.
* NothingPersonal: The gist of Murdock begging for mercy as Rambo is advancing on him with a knife.
-->'''Murdock:''' Rambo, I don't make the orders, I take 'em, just like you. ''[as Rambo draws his knife]'' I swear to God, I didn't know it was supposed to happen like this! It was just supposed to be another assignment!
-->'''Murdock:''' Rambo, I don't make the orders, I take 'em, just like you. ''[as Rambo draws his knife]'' I swear to God, I didn't know it was supposed to happen like this! It was just supposed to be another assignment!
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* SpringtimeForHitler: Murdock sends Rambo on the mission not expecting him to find evidence of [=POWs=] so the United States government can sweep the whole issue under the rug. Rambo does, however, so Murdock strands him in Vietnam to prevent the truth from getting out, going as far as to put Trautman under arrest to prevent a rescue.
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* ShoutingShooter: Rambo, after shooting up Murdock's command center as he's emptying the rest of the belt into the ceiling. He also yells at some PAVN from his helicopter while attacking the POW camp.
* SpringtimeForHitler: Murdock sends Rambo on the mission not expecting him to find evidence of [=POWs=] so the United States government can sweep the whole issue under the rug. Rambo does, however, so Murdock strands him in Vietnam to prevent the truth from getting out, going as far as to put Trautman under arrest to prevent a rescue. Notably, the communications and monitoring crew he has with him seem to have no idea that the idea is not to find anyone - he immediately clears their operation center when it's reported Rambo found someone so he can order the helicopter crew to leave Rambo behind, and they all celebrate when he calls in and reports he's landing with the rescued men onboard.
* SpringtimeForHitler: Murdock sends Rambo on the mission not expecting him to find evidence of [=POWs=] so the United States government can sweep the whole issue under the rug. Rambo does, however, so Murdock strands him in Vietnam to prevent the truth from getting out, going as far as to put Trautman under arrest to prevent a rescue. Notably, the communications and monitoring crew he has with him seem to have no idea that the idea is not to find anyone - he immediately clears their operation center when it's reported Rambo found someone so he can order the helicopter crew to leave Rambo behind, and they all celebrate when he calls in and reports he's landing with the rescued men onboard.
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* ForeShadowing: So much about Murdock that there's no way to believe he was ever on the level. He claims to have served and lost men during Vietnam, but Rambo quietly warns Trautman that the unit Murdock claimed to have served in wasn't in that area at that time. He also notes that he's never felt anything like the heat in the area, which he would have had he been in Vietnam during the war. He insists that Rambo not engage any Vietnamese forces and only take pictures with the expectation that the camp would be empty anyway, and has to be talked into even sending a chopper to the planned extraction point when the drop goes bad. Sure enough, he freaks out when Rambo actually finds something.
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* ForeShadowing: So much about Murdock that there's no way to believe he was ever on the level. He claims to have served and lost men during Vietnam, but Rambo quietly warns Trautman that the unit Murdock claimed to have served in wasn't in that area at that time. He also notes that he's never felt anything like the heat in the area, which he would have had he been in Vietnam during the war. He insists that Rambo not engage any Vietnamese forces and only take pictures with the expectation that the camp would be empty anyway, and has to be talked into even sending a chopper to the planned extraction point when the drop goes bad. He even remarks that Vietnam "wasn't [his] war" when speaking with Trautman. Sure enough, he freaks out when Rambo actually finds something.something and turns out to be a spineless weasel of a bureaucrat.
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* RockBeatsLaser: Rambo uses a bow to defeat Lt. Tay, who is armed with an automatic rifle and a pistol.
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* RockBeatsLaser: Rambo uses a bow to defeat Lt. Tay, who is armed with an automatic rifle and a pistol. Rambo hints at this mentality earlier, quietly replying "I've always believed that the mind is the best weapon" to Murdock's bragging that they have the most advanced weapons in the world available.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The Russian pilot of the Huey Rambo hijacks jumps out in midair rather than deal with an angry Rambo coming at him with a knife.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The Russian pilot of the Huey Rambo hijacks jumps out in midair rather than deal with an angry Rambo coming at him with a knife.
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* ForeShadowing: So much about Murdock that there's no way to believe he was ever on the level. He claims to have served and lost men during Vietnam, but Rambo quietly warns Trautman that the unit Murdock claimed to have served in wasn't in that area at that time. He also notes that he's never felt anything like the heat in the area, which he would have had he been in Vietnam during the war. He insists that Rambo not engage any Vietnamese forces and only take pictures with the expectation that the camp would be empty anyway, and has to be talked into even sending a chopper to the planned extraction point when the drop goes bad. Sure enough, he freaks out when Rambo actually finds something.
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* MissingBackblast: Rambo shoots down the Soviet Mi-24 Hind helicopter with a rocket launcher by shooting it through the windshield of his own damaged helicopter in a WoundedGazelleGambit. In reality, doing this would have not only finished the job of wrecking his aircraft, it would have also killed all of the [=POWs=] in the passenger bay.
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* MissingBackblast: Rambo shoots down the Soviet Mi-24 Hind helicopter with a rocket launcher by shooting it through the windshield of his own damaged helicopter in a WoundedGazelleGambit. In reality, doing this would have not only finished the job of wrecking his aircraft, it would have also killed all of the [=POWs=] in the passenger bay. Likewise, he earlier hits a patrol boat with an RPG fired from inside the cabin of another boat. While it might not have destroyed the boat entirely (as the door from the other side of the cabin was open behind him), Rambo certainly wouldn't have walked away from that.
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* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: The point of the film, focusing on the plight of American [=POWs=] left in Vietnam a full decade after the war ended.
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* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: The point of the film, focusing on the plight of American [=POWs=] left in Vietnam a full decade after the war ended. Murdock dismisses them as "a couple of forgotten ghosts," but both Trautman and Rambo are willing to go to extraordinary lengths to get them out.
