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* AlwaysKnowAPilot: Among her other skills, Alexa is a helicopter pilot: a fact the audience doesn't learn until she rents a chopper so she can get to the private estate of her target, the Hermit. It comes in handy later in the film when Drew is stranded on the beach while the Kahuna is escaping in his yacht. Alexa stll has the rented chopper and is able to pick Drew up so he can continue his pursuit.

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* AlwaysKnowAPilot: Among her other skills, Alexa is a helicopter pilot: a fact the audience doesn't learn until she rents a chopper so she can get to the private estate of her target, the Hermit. It comes in handy later in the film when Drew is stranded on the beach while the Kahuna is escaping in his yacht. Alexa stll still has the rented chopper and is able to pick Drew up so he can continue his pursuit.



* ChopperOnStandby: Among her other skills, [[AlwaysKnowAPilot Alexa is a helicopter pilot]]: a fact the audience doesn't learn until she rents a chopper so she can get to the private estate of her target, the Hermit. It comes in handy later in the film when Drew is stranded on the beach while the Kahuna is escaping in his yacht. Alexa still has the rented chopper and is able to pick Drew up so he can continue his pursuit.



* FlareGun: Cowboy uses a flare gun to blow uo Kimo's limo after first dousing it in gasoline.

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* FlareGun: Cowboy uses a flare gun to blow uo up Kimo's limo after first dousing it in gasoline.
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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: Ed has a kung fu battle with Mr. Chen that ends with him killing Chen by [[DestinationDefenestration throwing him through the penthouse window]]. He then unbars the door and confronts Chen's two bodyguards. The first one attacks him hand-to-hand and is quickly smacked down. The second one draws and sword and makes a series of flashy moves. Ed calmly draws a guns and shoots him. (While this scene is nearly identical to the more famous one in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', it predates ''Raiders'' by at least 2 years.)

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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: Ed has a kung fu battle with Mr. Chen that ends with him killing Chen by [[DestinationDefenestration throwing him through the penthouse window]]. He then unbars the door and confronts Chen's two bodyguards. The first one attacks him hand-to-hand and is quickly smacked down. The second one draws and a sword and makes a series of flashy moves. Ed calmly draws a guns and shoots him. (While this scene is nearly identical to the more famous one in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', it predates ''Raiders'' by at least 2 years.)
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* HulaAndLuaus: The film hits most of the highlights of Hollywood Hawaii. One of the murders occurs at tiki show, complete with hula dancers; Cowboy kills his target at a surfing competition; the Kahuna marks his victims fir death with a yellow lei; etc. However, it also includes some less commonly seen locales, like the tropical rain forest and metropolitan Honolulu.

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* HulaAndLuaus: The film hits most of the highlights of Hollywood Hawaii. One of the murders occurs at tiki show, complete with hula dancers; Cowboy kills his target at a surfing competition; the Kahuna marks his victims fir for death with a yellow lei; etc. However, it also includes some less commonly seen locales, like the tropical rain forest and metropolitan Honolulu.

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* NiceHat: Cowboy never goes anywhere without his trademark ten-gallon hat.


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* SignatureHeadgear: Cowboy never goes anywhere without his trademark ten-gallon hat.

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* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Jenny spends almost the entire movie in a succession of different bikinis (sometime changing between them on camera); occasionally supplemented by [[WhoWearsShortShorts a very short pair of denim cutoffs]].
* WhoWearsShortShorts: WalkingSwimsuitScene Jenny, who occasionally puts on a pair of extremely abbreviated denim cutoffs over her bikini bottoms: seemingly so she can take them off again later.

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* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Jenny spends almost the entire movie in a succession of different bikinis (sometime changing between them on camera); occasionally supplemented by [[WhoWearsShortShorts a very short pair of denim cutoffs]].
* WhoWearsShortShorts: WalkingSwimsuitScene Jenny, who occasionally puts on a pair of extremely abbreviated denim cutoffs over her bikini bottoms: seemingly so she can take them off again later.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When the Kahuna's faithful driver Charlie is wounded during their getaway, the Kahuna's shoots him and shoves him off the side of the boat.

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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When the Kahuna's faithful driver Charlie is wounded during their getaway, the Kahuna's Kahuna shoots him and shoves him off the side of the boat.
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* AlohaHawaii: The film is set in Hawaii and trailing the mob bosses involves the heroes checking out a lot of the tourist hotspots. Beaches, tropical jungles and hula dancers abound.
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* RichReclusesRealm: The Hermit lives on his huge mountain estate which he never leaves.

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* TheMole: Mailei is actually working for Harris and reporting on the plans of TheSyndicate to take over Hawaii. However, when she is sent to help the Seven, she reveals her true colours as a SixthRangerTraitor.



* ReverseMole: Mailei is actually working for Harris and reporting on the plans of TheSyndicate to take over Hawaii. However, when she is sent to help the Seven, she reveals her true colours as a SixthRangerTraitor.



* SixthRangerTraitor: Mailei reveals herself to a ReverseMole inside TheSyndicate: providing to information to Harris and the feds on their plans to take over Hawaii, and then sent to help the Seven to stop them. However, she later turns out to be a double agent, providing TheSyndicate with information about how much the feds know, and tries to kill Cowboy.

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* SixthRangerTraitor: Mailei reveals herself to a ReverseMole [[TheMole mole]] inside TheSyndicate: providing to information to Harris and the feds on their plans to take over Hawaii, and then sent to help the Seven to stop them. However, she later turns out to be a double agent, providing TheSyndicate with information about how much the feds know, and tries to kill Cowboy.
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* HulaAndLuaus: The film hits most of the highlights of Hollywood Hawaii. One of the murders occurs at tiki show, complete with hula dancers; Cowboy kills his target at a surfing competition; the Kahuna marks his victims fir death with a yellow lei; etc. However, it also includes some commonly seen locales, like the tropical rain forest and metropolitan Honolulu.

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* HulaAndLuaus: The film hits most of the highlights of Hollywood Hawaii. One of the murders occurs at tiki show, complete with hula dancers; Cowboy kills his target at a surfing competition; the Kahuna marks his victims fir death with a yellow lei; etc. However, it also includes some less commonly seen locales, like the tropical rain forest and metropolitan Honolulu.
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* HulasAndLuaus: The film hits most of the highlights of Hollywood Hawaii. One of the murders occurs at tiki show, complete with hula dancers; Cowboy kills his target at a surfing competition; the Kahuna marks his victims fir death with a yellow lei; etc. However, it also includes some commonly seen locales, like the tropical rain forest and metropolitan Honolulu.

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* HulasAndLuaus: HulaAndLuaus: The film hits most of the highlights of Hollywood Hawaii. One of the murders occurs at tiki show, complete with hula dancers; Cowboy kills his target at a surfing competition; the Kahuna marks his victims fir death with a yellow lei; etc. However, it also includes some commonly seen locales, like the tropical rain forest and metropolitan Honolulu.
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* HulasAndLuaus: The film hits most of the highlights of Hollywood Hawaii. One of the murders occurs at tiki show, complete with hula dancers; Cowboy kills his target at a surfing competition; the Kahuna marks his victims fir death with a yellow lai; etc. However, it also includes some commonly seen locales, like the tropical rain forest and metropolitan Honolulu.

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* HulasAndLuaus: The film hits most of the highlights of Hollywood Hawaii. One of the murders occurs at tiki show, complete with hula dancers; Cowboy kills his target at a surfing competition; the Kahuna marks his victims fir death with a yellow lai; lei; etc. However, it also includes some commonly seen locales, like the tropical rain forest and metropolitan Honolulu.
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* HulasAndLuaus: The film hits most of the highlights of Hollywood Hawaii. One of the murders occurs at tiki show, complete with hula dancers; Cowboy kills his target at a surfing competition; the Kahuna marks his victims fir death with a yellow lai; etc. However, it also includes some commonly seen locales, like the tropical rain forest and metropolitan Honolulu.
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* CardboardPal: Drew uses the Professor's sex doll to make it look there are two people in his car, and throw the Kahuna's men off his trail. Skater is shocked when he shoots 'her' with a shotgun and 'she' explode.

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* CardboardPal: Drew uses the Professor's sex doll to make it look there are two people in his car, and throw the Kahuna's men off his trail. Skater is shocked when he shoots 'her' with a shotgun and 'she' explode.explodes.
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* DirtyOldMan: He travels with an inflatable sex doll, and hits on every attractive woman he meets. He is enough of a LoveableRogue, however, that he seems to have a reasonable success rate as a pickup artist.

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* DirtyOldMan: The Professor. He travels with an inflatable sex doll, and hits on every attractive woman he meets. He is enough of a LoveableRogue, however, that he seems to have a reasonable success rate as a pickup artist.
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* BondageIsBad: The Hermit--the most sadistic of the seven crime lords--is heavily into BDSM. When Drew is explaining to Alexa how the Hermit's weakness is women, the screen shows him flogging leather clad, bound women.
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* WhoWearsShortShorts: WalkingSwimsuitScene Jenny, who occasionally puts on a pair of extremely abbreviated denim cutoffs over her bikini bottoms: seeming so she can take them off again later.

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* WhoWearsShortShorts: WalkingSwimsuitScene Jenny, who occasionally puts on a pair of extremely abbreviated denim cutoffs over her bikini bottoms: seeming seemingly so she can take them off again later.
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* BarSlide: Ed slides Mr. Lee the length of his boardroom table and [[DestinationDefenestration out the penthouse window]].
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Cowboy is shoot Butterfly from on top of hill [[RevolversAreJustBetter using a six-shooter]] while Butterfly is several hundred yards away, in the ocean, on a surfboard. And kills him with a single shot.

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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Cowboy is able shoot Butterfly from on top of hill [[RevolversAreJustBetter using a six-shooter]] while Butterfly is several hundred yards away, in the ocean, on a surfboard. And kills him with a single shot.
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* BlackSpot: Kimo delivers a lei to his targets, so his hitmen will know who they aiming at.

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* BlackSpot: Kimo delivers a yellow lei to his targets, so his hitmen will know who they aiming at.
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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: Ed has a kung fu battle with Mr. Chen that ends with him killing Chen by [[DestinationDefenestration throwing him through the penthouse window]]. He then unbars the door and confronts Chen's two bodyguards. The first one attacks him hand-to-hand and is quickly smacked down. The second one draws and sword and makes a series of flashy moves. Ed calmly draws a guns and shoots him. (While this scene is nearly identical to the more famous one in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', it predates ''Raiders'' by at least 2 years.)
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* BrickBreak: Ed Parker's EstablishingCharacterMoment is him breaking boards in his wood shop to stay in shape when Drew turns up to recruit for the Seven.
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* SawedOffShotgun: Kincella uses a sawed-off double shotgun to kill Kimo and his bodyguard Skip.
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* AlwaysKnowAPilot: Among her other skills, Alexa is a helicopter pilot: a fact the audience doesn't learn until she rents a chopper so she can get to the private estate of her target, the Hermit. It comes in handy later in the film when Drew is stranded on the beach while the Kahuna is escaping in his yacht. Alexa stll has the rented chopper and is able to pick Drew up so he can continue his pursuit.
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* TheGunslinger: Cowboy has modelled himself after WildWest gunslingers and definitely fits the mold. Primarily a Trick Shot from the one serious example of his gunplay seen in the film, where he shoots and kills Butterfly with a single shot at extreme long range under extremely challenging conditions (his target was in the ocean; moving on a surfboard at the time).
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Cowboy is shoot Butterfly from on top of hill [[RevolversAreJustBetter using a six-shooter]] while Butterfly is several hundred yards away, in the ocean, on a surfboard.

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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Cowboy is shoot Butterfly from on top of hill [[RevolversAreJustBetter using a six-shooter]] while Butterfly is several hundred yards away, in the ocean, on a surfboard. And kills him with a single shot.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Cowboy is shoot Butterfly from on top of hill [[RevolversAreJustBetter using a six-shooter]] while Butterfly is several hundred yards away, in the ocean, on a surfboard.

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