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* CoolTeacher: Jane Hetzko, Shale's girlfriend, is loved enough by the students (the ones that are not crooks, that is) that when they hear about her having her leg broken they arrive to see if she is okay. Mr. Sherman is another example [[spoiler:and is lamented by the students when Rolle kills him]]. Shale becomes one [[BadassTeacher by putting down the law in his classroom]].
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* HeroicSacrifice: After CoolTeacher Mr. Sherman lets host student Lisa stay late after school to avoid some sexual harassers outside, the two witness Rolle conducting a drug deal as they leave. [[spoiler:Mr. Sherman has Lisa hide and makes a racket while running in the opposite direction from her, allowing Lisa to escape at the cost of being cornered and murdered himself .]]
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The middleman hiring mercenaries for Rolle lies about a family emergency so he has an excuse to leave town after being threatened by Smith.
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* SheepInSheepsClothing: Sissy is a local waitress who is friendly to everyone from the academy and becomes intimate with conflicted potential Neo-Nazi recruit Ted Teague, but she has a camera in her bedroom that records him when he visits. It turns out that her father is BigBad Colonel Brack. However, Sissy is no DaddysLittleVillain, genuinely likes Ted, feels rotten spying for her father (whose beliefs she doesn’t share) and skips town to get away from the whole mess.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: From the bad guy's perspective. When Shale says that a McJob is better than a gang funeral and asks how many of those the kids have been to, Lacas' {{Dragon}} Rodriguez simply says [[{{Tearjerker}} "Too many... Too fuckin' many."]]
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* JerkassHasAPoint: From the bad guy's perspective. When Shale says that a McJob is better than a gang funeral and asks how many of those the kids have been to, Lacas' {{Dragon}} [[TheDragon Dragon]] Rodriguez simply says [[{{Tearjerker}} [[TearJerker "Too many... Too fuckin' many."]]
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* StockNinjaWeaponry: Shale knows how to use shuriken (ninja throwing stars), and they even come in handy in one scene.
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* BullyingADragon: A couple of students try to mess with Shale, not realizing that their substitute teacher is a battle-hardened Vietnam vet and a mercenary. It doesn't end well for them.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Shale may be a mercenary, but he has nothing but contempt for drug dealers and refuses to work for them.
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* NeckSnap: How Shale finishes off [[spoiler:Rolle]]; an open-palm strike to the face that breaks his neck.
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* {{Doublespeak}}: When Wolfson the lawyer interviews Shale, he claims his client is shipping "South American goods," and is hiring mercenaries to guarantee the shipments, while "dealing decisively" with anyone who interferes, including their competitors and government agencies. Shale cuts through his bullshit and turns the job down without a second thought.
--> '''Shale:''' So what you're looking for is someone to protect your drug shipments, possibly kill any rival dealers? And maybe even government agents if they happen to get in the way.
--> '''Shale:''' So what you're looking for is someone to protect your drug shipments, possibly kill any rival dealers? And maybe even government agents if they happen to get in the way.
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Not related to the 1993 movie of the same name. That one had an EvilTeacher, not a BadassTeacher.
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* RunningGag: Lacas' "Im sorey" writing remains on the blackboard throughout the whole film [[spoiler:and one of Janus' last words before Shale blows him (and the blackboard) away is him reading the line aloud with the obvious question of who the hell wrote this dangling in the air.]]
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* RunningGag: RunningGag:
** Lacas' "Im sorey" writing remains on the blackboard throughout the whole film [[spoiler:and one of Janus' last words before Shale blows him (and the blackboard) away is him reading the line aloud with the obvious question of who the hell wrote this dangling in the air.]]]]
** Rolle tries repeatedly to get rid of Shale and gets increasingly disturbed as Shale continues to arrive to the school after said attempts (especially one that [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated makes the news]]).
** Lacas' "Im sorey" writing remains on the blackboard throughout the whole film [[spoiler:and one of Janus' last words before Shale blows him (and the blackboard) away is him reading the line aloud with the obvious question of who the hell wrote this dangling in the air.
** Rolle tries repeatedly to get rid of Shale and gets increasingly disturbed as Shale continues to arrive to the school after said attempts (especially one that [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated makes the news]]).
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* ActorAllusion: Shale, a character played by Tom Berenger, is [[Film/{{Platoon}} a Vietnam War veteran]].
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* SoundtrackDissonance: Someone is kneecapped while Mungo Jerry's "In The Summertime" is playing
* TokenEvilTeammate: Hollan.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Hollan.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: Someone is kneecapped while Mungo Jerry's "In The Summertime" is playing
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* TeasingTheSubstituteTeacher: Well, the students try. But against Shale, [[BullyingADragon it becomes a huge mistake.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate:Hollan.Hollan is most definitely the most unhinged and mercenary of Shale's team, almost coming to blows over Shale destroying several million's worth of cocaine to deny it to Rolle and his goons.
* TeasingTheSubstituteTeacher: Well, the students try. But against Shale, [[BullyingADragon it becomes a huge mistake.]]
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[[folder:''The Substitute 4: Failure Is Not An Option'']]
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[[folder:''The Substitute 4: Failure Is Not An an Option'']]
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''The Substitute'' is a 1996 action-crime-thriller film.
Creator/TomBerenger stars as Jonathan Shale, a Mercenary who poses as a substitute teacher and goes undercover at his friend's school where she teaches after she is attacked by a gang.
Creator/TomBerenger stars as Jonathan Shale, a Mercenary who poses as a substitute teacher and goes undercover at his friend's school where she teaches after she is attacked by a gang.
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''The Substitute'' is a 1996 action-crime-thriller film.
Creator/TomBerenger stars asAmerican action thriller film directed by Robert Mandel and starring Creator/TomBerenger, Creator/ErnieHudson, Creator/DianeVenora, Glenn Plummer, Music/MarcAnthony, Creator/LuisGuzman and Creator/WilliamForsythe.
Berenger plays Jonathan Shale, aMercenary [[TheVietnamVet Vietnam vet]] and [[HiredGuns mercenary]] who poses goes undercover as a substitute teacher and goes undercover at his friend's school the Miami InnerCitySchool where she his girlfriend teaches after she is attacked by a gang.
Creator/TomBerenger stars as
Berenger plays Jonathan Shale, a
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When Shale is introducing the high school to the rest of his team, one of the other team members asks if the students there are not doing their homework. Shale laughs for a few seconds at that remark.
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-->'''Thomasson:''' Thousands of people in this country died fighting a war against assholes like you. Some of them were in my family.
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-->'''Thomasson:''' Thousands of people in this country died [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII fighting a war against assholes like you.you]]. Some of them were in my family.
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* InvoluntaryCharityDonation: After Shale ruins one of Rolle's drug exchanges and takes the money, we then cut to the following day with Rolle wondering who could have interfered with the exchange and a few seconds later he hears Shale's voice on the school's PA telling the students that the school just got a nice new donation from an "anonymous donor" of furniture, gym equipment, computers and there's pizza for everybody in the gym if they want it.
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* EvilTeacher: The Principal, who turns out to be the leader of the gang. Also turns out that he was a DirtyCop before becoming a principal, and sees good to have a more direct line for distributing the drugs directly to the kids.
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* EvilTeacher: The Principal, who turns out to be EvilPrincipal: Principal Rolle is first introduced as an outwardly genial ex-cop, now tasked with cleaning up a poor inner-city school plagued with gang and drug problems. In reality, Rolle himself is the leader mastermind behind most of the gang.drug trafficking going on at the school, using school buses to transport cocaine and storing it in the boiler room. He has no qualms about murder either; he tries to have Slade killed several times and personally murders another teacher who finds out about his scheme. Also turns out that he was a DirtyCop before becoming a principal, and sees good to have a more direct line for distributing the drugs directly to the kids.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: For a very loose definition of hero: Wellman. He calls minority enemies "boy", does an impromptu Indian war dance in the final fight, and threatens to scalp Johnny Glades.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: For a very loose definition of hero: Wellman.Holland. He calls minority enemies "boy", does an impromptu Indian war dance in the final fight, and threatens to scalp Johnny Glades.
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** Roller can't believe Shale is attacking the drug ring for any reason besides money.
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* GangstaStyle: Common enough among the non-merc gun wielders in the movie. Rolle uses it when executing Mr. Sherman.
* InelegantBlubbering: Wolfson as Shale performs a JackBauerInterrogationTechnique on him.
* InelegantBlubbering: Wolfson as Shale performs a JackBauerInterrogationTechnique on him.
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