History Film / RamboFirstBloodPartII

* ElectricTorture: Effectively shows just ''how'' {{Badass}} Rambo is by having him take hours of an ''entire camp's'' electricity and still be alive afterward.

* ActionizedSequel: Higher body count, explosion count, and bullets spent than the first movie.

* CaliforniaDoubling: The film was entirely shot in Mexico, doubling for Thailand and Vietnam.

* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: The whole sub-plot between Rambo and Co is this. Of interest is the scene where Rambo calls himself as "expendable" and explains the term to Co, and she answers that he is ''not''.

* HonorBeforeReason: After Rambo finds a reason to fight once more in the second movie, he practically ''embodies'' this trope.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge[=/=]{{Retirony}}: [[spoiler: Co's fate in the second movie.]]

* KickTheDog: Even though he was well over the MoralEventHorizon by that point, Murdock apparently didn't feel like he was rubbing enough salt into Rambo and Trautman's wounds, because when Trautman continues to insist on finding those lost [=POWs=] after Rambo escapes the prison camp, he quickly finds himself under arrest on Murdock's orders and confined to the base.

* [[EveryCarIsAPinto Every Boat Is a Pinto]]: In the riverboat scene, Rambo leaps off just as the two boats have a head-on collision and explode. Makes even less sense than for a car -- both because of the relatively slow speed, and because boats have their engines and fuel tanks ''in the rear''.

* LockAndLoadMontage: Rambo prepping up to kick Viet Cong ass is the second film is ''the'' definitive version of this trope in action.
* MarketBasedTitle / OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: The original title is an example of the latter. Some markets (such as Latin America) retitled it to "Rambo II: The Mission".
* MissingBackblast: Rambo destroys the enemy M-24 Hind by firiing an an M72 LAW from the cockpit of his own helicopter, which was full of American prisoners of war he was evacuating. In real life, firing the LAW would probably have injured or killed most or all of the people behind him

* DisposableWoman: Co's death is pretty much to [[ItsPersonal give Rambo a reason]] to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

** It is worth mentioning that the boat that does the ramming is aflame, thanks to a well-placed RPG from Rambo; it's possible that any leftover ordinance on the boat Rambo dives from was detonated as a result of the collision.

* RareGuns: Lifer pulls a SIG Sauer P226 on Trautman when he tells him not to be a hero. What makes it rare is the fact it had just hit the market at the time of the film's release and appears to be unconverted to blank fire, suggesting it was a prototype or early production model on loan by [=SIGArms=], since it was not available at the time of production, making it the first ''ever'' appearance of a P226 in a motion picture.

* AFatherToHisMen: Trautman to Rambo. He arranges his release from prison for the initial mission, then has to be locked away to prvent him from saving him.

* AFatherToHisMen: Trautman to Rambo. He arranges his release from prison for the initial mission, then has to be locked away to prvent him from saving him.

* [[EveryCarIsAPinto Every Boat Is A Pinto]]: In the riverboat scene, Rambo leaps off just as the two boats have a head-on collision and explode. Makes even less sense than for a car -- both because of the relatively slow speed, and because boats have their engines and fuel tanks ''in the rear''.

* MarketBasedTitle / ElectricBoogaloo: The original title is an example of the latter. Some markets (such as Latin America) retitled it to "Rambo II: The Mission".

* TenMinuteRetirement: Rambo was ready to leave the POW's in part 2 behind and take Co with him to America. [[MoodWhiplash Then she gets shot]].

* AntiHero: Guess who
* ColonelBadass: we don't see it in this film, but it's plain to see that Trautman isn't a Special Forces colonel for nothing.

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