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3 | ->'''Mestema:''' In a future reality, I shall destroy you!\ |
4 | '''Paul Bradford:''' Well, I reject your reality and I substitute my own! |
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6 | A sci-fi/fantasy film from 1984, divided into seven distinct story segments, each written and directed by a different person (including one segment by its producer, [[Creator/FullMoonFeatures Charles Band]]). |
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8 | Paul Bradford (Jeffrey Bryon) is a super smart, but underpaid, tech worker who's having trouble with his girlfriend, Gwen (Leslie Wing), over the feeling he likes his work more than her. |
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10 | One night an evil wizard named Mestema (''Series/NightCourt''[='=]s Creator/RichardMoll) pulls them into another world, to challenge Paul to save Gwen's life and his own. All Paul has to help him is his computer system, [=X-CaliBR8=], now turned into a SuperWristGadget. |
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12 | This film is also known by several alternate titles, most prominently ''Ragewar: The Challenges of Excalibrate'' and ''Digital Knights''. In spite of its most popular name, it has no connection to the game ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. |
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15 | !!Tropes: |
16 | * TheAllSolvingHammer: Paul realizes pretty quickly that he can solve the challenges by just shooting everything in them with lasers. It earns him a WhatTheHellHero when he shoots his way past a challenge he was meant to treat as a riddle, but otherwise works perfectly. |
17 | * AsHimself: One segment takes place at a Music/{{WASP|Band}} concert, with the band playing the villains. |
18 | * BigBad: Mestema, the EvilSorcerer forcing Paul into the challenges. |
19 | * TheEighties: Came out in 1984. |
20 | * ChallengeSeeker: Mestema has been seeking a worthy opponent, finally finding it in Paul. |
21 | * DepravedDwarf: The first danger Paul faces is having his [=X-CaliBR8=] stolen by two dwarfs. Later he encounters another dwarf leading a band of bandits in a post-apocalyptic airplane graveyard. |
22 | * EvilSorcerer: Mestema |
23 | * HackTheTrafficLights: In an early scene, Paul is out jogging while [=X-CaliBR8=] resets the traffic lights in his favor. |
24 | * HighCollarOfDoom[=/=]MysticalHighCollar: Mestema wears one. |
25 | * IRejectYourReality: TropeNamer. [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample Not actually an example]], though. |
26 | * KickTheDog: Mestema relates a story about how, as a boy, he once covered a cat in tar and lit it on fire to watch it become "a howling torch." |
27 | * LivingStatue: Paul fights one on the first world he gets sent to. |
28 | * MagicalComputer: Even before the sorcery gets involved, Paul's devices can change traffic signals and hack [=ATMs=], and are mounted on his glasses. Apparently he created it by accident and could never replicate it. After it gets turned into a SuperWristGadget, it can shoot laser beams, create solid energy bars, and create dragons, just like a Green Lantern Ring. |
29 | * MeaningfulName: The [=X-CaliBR8=] system is a play on the name of the sword {{Excalibur}}. |
30 | ** Mestema's name is almost identical to that of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastema Mastema]], a Hebrew angel who often antagonizes mortals, and who depending on the work can be a FallenAngel or even {{Satan}} outright. |
31 | * NerdActionHero: Paul. |
32 | * NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: Paul gets Mestema to fight him hand to hand when he tells him that only someone who faces danger can know true satisfaction. |
33 | * {{Sadist}}: Mestema, an EvilSorcerer who has spent the centuries kidnapping random people and holding their families hostage to make them fight him because he's bored. |
34 | * TheThreeTrials: Well, seven here. But the principle's the same. |
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