History Film / RamboLastBlood

* PoliceAreUseless: Brought up as the explanation for why only Rambo can rescue Gabriela; the American police can't cross the border and the Mexican police, as he puts it, "don't do shit!" cause they're on the human traffickers' payroll.
** Downplayed with the American police in the alternate opening of the film, as they show respect towards Rambo. They also thanked him for volunteering in searching and saving the sole hiker from a flood, even comforting him over his failure to rescue the other two hikers, saying that he did what he could.

* DropTheHammer: When Rambo makes another attempt to rescue Gabriela, he's armed with an ordinary hammer. Which of course, in the hands of John Rambo, is something to be terrified of. Especially if he decides to go for a GroinAttack with it.

* TooDumbToLive: Martinez and his men just saw that Rambo has booby trapped his ranch with explosives, decide its a good idea to follow him into a network of tunnels. [[spoiler:Every last one of them dies as a result.]]

* ActorAllusion:
** Gabriela's forename is likely a nod to Rambo's actor Stallone's role Gabriel "Gabe" Walker from ''Film/{{Cliffhanger}}''.
** In the Japanese dub, this is not the first time we hear Creator/KikukoInoue (Carmen) [[Anime/GunXSword voicing another character with that name]].
** [[Film/ActsOfVengeance2017 This also isn't the only time]] Creator/PazVega helped a character avenge the death of a loved one.

* BreakTheCutie: Almost everything involving Gabriela. She heads to UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} without telling anybody, only to be abducted and forced into a horrendous new life she has no hope from escaping from. When Rambo fails to rescue her, Hugo tells him that he'll make an example of her and certainly delivers on that end. [[spoiler: When John does manage to pull her out, she's already been abused, beaten, drugged up, and raped to the point where she reacts to Rambo's presence with pure terror. And sadly, she doesn't last the ride back home]].

** Downplayed with the American police in the opening of the film, as they show respect towards Rambo. They also thanked him for volunteering in searching and saving the sole hiker from a flood, even comforting him over his failure to rescue the other two hikers, saying that he did what he could.

* AdultFear: Almost everything involving Gabriela. She heads to UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} without telling anybody, only to be abducted and forced into a horrendous new life she has no hope from escaping from. When Rambo fails to rescue her, Hugo tells him that he'll make an example of her and certainly delivers on that end. [[spoiler: When John does manage to pull her out, she's already been abused, beaten, drugged up, and raped to the point where she reacts to Rambo's presence with pure terror. And sadly, she doesn't last the ride back home]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: More bitter than sweet. If not an outright DownerEnding. Rambo gets his revenge and completely destroys a ruthless gang of HumanTraffickers, including their leaders Hugo and Victor, but Gabriela is still dead, his home is destroyed, and Rambo's peaceful life has come to a permanent end even if the man himself is still alive. Not to mention, he only stopped the Martinez brothers' organization, which is just a ''small'' one out of ''many'' working under [[GreaterScopeVillain Don Miguel]]'s massive sex trafficking ring that continues to operate with nobody to stop them, meaning that there are still a lot more girls out there who shared Gabriela's fate.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: More bitter than sweet. Rambo gets his revenge and completely destroys a ruthless gang of HumanTraffickers, including their leaders Hugo and Victor, but Gabriela is still dead, his home is destroyed, and Rambo's peaceful life has come to a permanent end even if the man himself is still alive. Not to mention, he only stopped the Martinez brothers' organization, which is just a ''small'' one out of ''many'' working under [[GreaterScopeVillain Don Miguel]]'s massive sex trafficking ring that continues to operate with nobody to stop them, meaning that there are still a lot more girls out there who shared Gabriela's fate.]]

* HappyEndingOverride: The last film ended on an optimistic note, with Rambo moving past his bitterness and cynicism to rejoin his family and society as a whole. [[spoiler:While he did find peace and happiness, it was only temporary as his new life is completely destroyed by the human traffickers and he's resigned himself to WalkingTheEarth as an outcast once more.]]