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* LargeHam: Volkin (Patrick Kilpatrick) is basically orgasming while draining scanners of their life force.
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After the events of the first ''Film/ScannerCop'', Sam Staziak is still working for the LAPD, using his abilities to better stop criminals. He is also looking for any remaining blood relatives, thinking his biological mother might still be alive. Carl Volkin (Creator/PatrickKilpatrick), a psychopathic scanner whom Staziak put away years ago for going on a murder spree with his brother has returned to target Staziak. Being weaker than his enemy, Volkin starts to resort to draining other scanners of their powers, going on another murder spree to become the most powerful psychic in the world.
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After the events of the first ''Film/ScannerCop'', Sam Staziak (Daniel Quinn) is still working for the LAPD, using his abilities to better stop criminals. He is also looking for any remaining blood relatives, thinking his biological mother might still be alive. Carl Volkin (Creator/PatrickKilpatrick), a psychopathic scanner whom Staziak put away years ago for going on a murder spree with his brother has returned to target Staziak. Being weaker than his enemy, Volkin starts to resort to draining other scanners of their powers, going on another murder spree to become the most powerful psychic in the world.
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* {{Gorn}}: It's a ''Film/{{Scanners}}'' film, what else do you expect? The [[YourHeadAsplode head explosions]] were synonymous with the series by this point.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The film avoids the LighterAndSofter direction that movie sequels often tended to go in during the 90s. The villain is another psychopath seeking revenge on the protagonist like in the first film, though in this case he's a scanner, which makes him more dangerous.
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* FilmNoir: It has it all: Volkin wears a black trenchcoat; most of the film is shot at night with atmospheric lighting; there's a transition to black-and-white flashbacks in one scene; and the final showdown takes place in the dusty attic of a retirement home.
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* SerialKiller: Carl Volkin systematically kills other scanners so he can steal their life energy, and therefore, their powers.
* {{Technopath}}: Scanners use their minds to control personal computers.
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* {{Technopath}}: Scanners use their minds to control personal computers.
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PsychicNosebleed: Happens whenever a person is scanned.
* SerialKiller: Carl Volkin systematically kills other scanners so he can steal their life energy, and therefore, theirpowers.
powers. It's also implied that he and his brother would gang rape and kill young women during house invasions.
* {{Technopath}}: Scanners use their minds to control personal computers. Staziak even melts some hostage takers' ears by scanning through their headsets.
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* {{Handwave}}: In the very first scene, two cops discuss how Sam is taking "a new form of Ephemerol" so he has all his Scanner powers and none of the complications.
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* AvengingTheVillain: Carl Volkin was committing home invasions and rapes together with his equally psychotic brother util Sam Staziak stopped them both and killed the younger Volkin. After getting out of prison Carl vows to get revenge on Staziak.
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* AvengingTheVillain: Carl Volkin was committing home invasions and rapes together with his equally psychotic brother util until officer Sam Staziak stopped them both and killed the younger Volkin. After getting out of prison Carl vows to get revenge on Staziak.
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* MasterOfIllusion: During the final battle Staziak repeatedly creates a diversion by making Volkin attack an illusory projection of himself, causing Volkin to waste energy trying to kill Staziak.
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* AvengingTheVillain: Carl Volkin was committing home invasions and rapes together with his equally psychotic brother util Sam Staziak stopped them both and killed the younger Volkin. After getting out of prison Carl vows to get revenge on Staziak.
* EvilWearsBlack: Volkin is notably the only villain in this entire series to go around entirely in black.
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* LifeEnergy: Volkin devours the lifeforce of other scanners to add to his own power. Staziak even compares him to a vampire at one point.
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''Scanner Cop II'' (also known as ''Scanners: The Showdown'') is the last movie in the ''Film/{{Scanners}}'' series, released in 1995.
After the events of the first ''Film/ScannerCop'', Sam Staziak is still working for the LAPD, using his abilities to better stop criminals. He is also looking for any remaining blood relatives, thinking his biological mother might still be alive. Carl Volkin, a psychopathic scanner whom Staziak put away years ago for going on a murder spree with his brother has returned to target Staziak. Being weaker than his enemy, Volkin starts to resort to draining other scanners of their powers, going on another murder spree to become the most powerful psychic in the world.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* BigBad: Carl Volkin.
* BigYes: Volkin gives one after he absorbs the psychic energy from his first two victims.
* DuelToTheDeath: Staziak and Volkin hold a scanner duel at the end of the film.
* EarAche: At the beginning, Staziak causes a hostage taker's ear to melt off by scanning through his earpiece.
* HeroicSuicide: [[spoiler:Staziak's real mother kills herself by jumping off a balcony, to prevent Volkin from absorbing her power so he can use it against her son.]]
* LifeEnergy: Volkin devours the lifeforce of other scanners to add to his own power. Staziak even compares him to a vampire at one point.
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler:Volkin kills an orderly at the psychiatric institution he escaped from by forcing him to shoot himself, and later directs a police officer to stand in front of an oncoming car.]]
* PsychicNosebleed
* SerialKiller: Carl Volkin. He systematically kills other scanners so he can steal their life energy, and therefore, their powers.
* {{Technopath}}: Scanners use their minds to control personal computers.
* TitleDrop:
-->'''Volkin:''' I'm waiting for you, Scanner Cop!
* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler:This is how Staziak kills Volkin at the end.]]
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After the events of the first ''Film/ScannerCop'', Sam Staziak is still working for the LAPD, using his abilities to better stop criminals. He is also looking for any remaining blood relatives, thinking his biological mother might still be alive. Carl Volkin, a psychopathic scanner whom Staziak put away years ago for going on a murder spree with his brother has returned to target Staziak. Being weaker than his enemy, Volkin starts to resort to draining other scanners of their powers, going on another murder spree to become the most powerful psychic in the world.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* BigBad: Carl Volkin.
* BigYes: Volkin gives one after he absorbs the psychic energy from his first two victims.
* DuelToTheDeath: Staziak and Volkin hold a scanner duel at the end of the film.
* EarAche: At the beginning, Staziak causes a hostage taker's ear to melt off by scanning through his earpiece.
* HeroicSuicide: [[spoiler:Staziak's real mother kills herself by jumping off a balcony, to prevent Volkin from absorbing her power so he can use it against her son.]]
* LifeEnergy: Volkin devours the lifeforce of other scanners to add to his own power. Staziak even compares him to a vampire at one point.
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler:Volkin kills an orderly at the psychiatric institution he escaped from by forcing him to shoot himself, and later directs a police officer to stand in front of an oncoming car.]]
* PsychicNosebleed
* SerialKiller: Carl Volkin. He systematically kills other scanners so he can steal their life energy, and therefore, their powers.
* {{Technopath}}: Scanners use their minds to control personal computers.
* TitleDrop:
-->'''Volkin:''' I'm waiting for you, Scanner Cop!
* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler:This is how Staziak kills Volkin at the end.]]
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