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* [[{{Baltimore}} Baltimore Doubling]]: Washington DC's subway operator does not permit filming of movies involving violence in the subway system. The scene involving a firefight in the Metrorail was done in Baltimore, but made to look like it was done in the DC system.
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* TooDumbToLive: So you've decided to bribe the obviously wealthy and dangerous criminal that's hired you to build a base for his huge gun. He says he'll bring the money to a remote location where there's no one around to hear him test his giant gun. ... Sounds like fun!
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* MercyLead: See SteppingOutForAQuickCupOfCoffee below.
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* MercyLead: At the end, Preston tells Mulqueen to wait outside while Preston goes into a coffee shop and has a cup--with the unspoken understanding that he's giving Mulqueen a chance to get away.
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* MercyLead: At the end, Preston tells Mulqueen to wait outside while Preston goes into a coffee shop and has a cup--with the unspoken understanding that he's giving Mulqueen a chance to get away.
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* InNameOnly: To TheDayOfTheJackal.
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* InNameOnly: To TheDayOfTheJackal.''TheDayOfTheJackal''.
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* PlayingAgainstType: BruceWillis as The Jackal - it's his first (and only) role as a main villain character (TheSiege has his character gradually evolve into a bad guy but he isn't the main antagonist).
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* WilliamTelling: The Jackal tries out one of his new guns by having his "buddy" hold out a pack of cigarettes. He ends up blowing off a good chunk of the poor guy's arm.
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* OohMeAccentsSleeping: A particularly gruesome example. Sometimes Richard Gere sounds Irish, and sometimes he doesn't.
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* OohMeAccentsSleeping: OohMeAccentsSlipping: A particularly gruesome example. Sometimes Richard Gere sounds Irish, and sometimes he doesn't.
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* OohMeAccentsSleeping: A particularly gruesome example. Sometimes Richard Gere sounds Irish, and sometimes he doesn't.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: The guy selling the Jackal a yacht brags that it has a "cellular phone".
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** Because 1) it makes a bigger statement if it's an extremely gruesome shot, and the point was to make a statement and 2) the targeter had accuracy problems so the closer he zoomed it in the less likely it was to miss.
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** The Internet Movie Firearms Database lists it as an M2HB mocked up as a KPV.
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** The Internet Movie Firearms Database lists it as an M2HB [=M2HB=] mocked up as a KPV.
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**The Internet Movie Firearms Database lists it as an M2HB mocked up as a KPV.
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* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: During the film's climax, [[spoiler: the Jackal spends an awful lot of time zooming in the camera-scope on his massive gun, even zooming in so far as to quite literally fill the screen with the First Lady's eyes.]] Why? Why didn't you just center the scope and push the damn button, you idiot?
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* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: VillainBall: During the film's climax, [[spoiler: the Jackal spends an awful lot of time zooming in the camera-scope on his massive gun, even zooming in so far as to quite literally fill the screen with the First Lady's eyes.]] Why? Why didn't you just center the scope and push the damn button, you idiot?idiot?
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** FridgeBrilliance: He's getting sloppy. Between the enormity of what he's about to do, everything going against him, and him constantly thinking "All I've got to do is get through this job and I'm done forever", he's become unhinged and isn't up to his usual standards. Notice that he starts out as the ice-cold, composed strategist he's described as, but bit by bit through the movie it chips off until he's cackling and doing things ForTheEvulz.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: The Jackal doesn't seem to have any problems at all going into gay bars and seducing men. While this could have just been playacting, he's exceptionally casual about it with his target, implying he might have actually been intending to go along with it for awhile until the news broadcast stepped things up.
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[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1997-the-jackal_7343.jpg]]
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* SteppingOutForAQuickCupOfCoffee: [[spoiler: This is how Declan walks away a free man after the government denies him an early release and gives him minimum-security instead.]]
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* IdiotBall: The Jackal [[spoiler:kills JackBlack because he was trying to blackmail him into giving him more money for the plans for the mount of his BFG, but afterwards he just leaves behind the plans and Jack Blacks corpse for everyone to find.]]
* InformedAbility: The Jackal is supposed to be the best assassin in the world, but for some reason the good guys still have no problem following his every step. To be fair, how they catch up with his every step borders on telepathy, but using the weapon you plan to use for your assassination to rip a small time gunsmith to shreds still isn't very intelligent, even if he is trying to blackmail you. There must be at least a thousand ways to make him disappear without anyone getting suspicious.
* InformedAbility: The Jackal is supposed to be the best assassin in the world, but for some reason the good guys still have no problem following his every step. To be fair, how they catch up with his every step borders on telepathy, but using the weapon you plan to use for your assassination to rip a small time gunsmith to shreds still isn't very intelligent, even if he is trying to blackmail you. There must be at least a thousand ways to make him disappear without anyone getting suspicious.
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* {{Lzherusskie}}: Diane Verona as Major Koslova
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* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: During the film's climax, [[spoiler: the Jackal spends an awful lot of time zooming in the camera-scope on his massive gun, even zooming in so far as to quite literally fill the screen with the First Lady's eyes.]] Why? Why didn't you just center the scope and push the damn button, you idiot?
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* PlayingAgainstType: BruceWillis as The Jackal - it's his first (and only) role as a main villain character (TheSiege has his character gradually evolve into one but he isn't the main antagonist).
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* OneLastJob: Justified, as his contracted target is so high-profile, the Jackal literally has no choice but to ask Murad for a big enough payday to lay low for the rest of his life.
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** TheSiege doesn't count?
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* PlayingAgainstType: BruceWillis as The Jackal - it's his first (and only) role as a main villain character.
** TheSiege doesn't count?character (TheSiege has his character gradually evolve into one but he isn't the main antagonist).
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considering he was an imprisoned IRA sniper, I think Declan would count as an atoner
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* TheAtoner: Declan Mulqueen
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Not to be confused with [[Tropers/TheJackal the troper]] [[NamesTheSame of the same name]].
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* PlayingAgainstType: BruceWillis as The Jackal - it's his first (and only) role as a villain character.
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* ShootTheFuelTank: Averted. They shoot at the tank to make it leak gasoline, wait a couple of seconds for a sizable puddle to form, then they shoot at the ground to cause the spark that would make the minivan explode.
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Not to be confused with [[Tropers/TheJackal the troper]] [[NamesTheSame of the same name]].
