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Above the Law	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })This 1988 action thriller, directed by Andrew Davis, is best known nowadays as Steven Seagal's first movie.Nico Toscani (Seagal) is a Chicagoan of Sicilian descent who, at a young age, developed a fascination with martial arts and trained in it in Japan for several years before being recruited into the CIA and serving a tour in Vietnam. There, he made an undying enemy in the form of Kurt Zagon (Henry Silva), an interrogator who used the Vietnam war as an opportunity to make money in the drug trade, and after a scrupple between them, Nico left the CIA and returned to Chicago, wherein he got married and became a cop. Now, Nico and his partner Delores "Jax" Jackson (Pam Grier) have got information about an upcoming drug deal involving Salvadorian drug dealer Salvano. Upon and after busting it, however, several peculiar things happen. First, the deal, instead of drugs, turns out to involve plastic explosives. Then, Salvano and all others that were arrested are mysteriously pardoned by the government and let free. Then, a bomb is detonated at Nico's church, with the apparent goal of assassinating a priest. Then, Nico's status as a cop is removed and he is told not to stick his nose into things. What's going on? Could it all, by chance, be a part of Zagon's schemes to fund an invasion of Nicaragua and assassinate a senator who's trying to stop him?Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Not to be confused with the rap group or the 2017 Belgian-French film of the same name.
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Above the Law / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: For an R-rated film, it's surprising to mostly see action sequences without blood. This is averted with the fights and also the scene with the bomb at the church, with the visible blood stains of the dead victims.
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Above the Law / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: There's the "I'll get an 'A' for effort" line to intimidate some goons from attacking him, and then there's the speech that provides the Title Drop:
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Above the Law / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Zagon the eeeevvvviiiilll CIA secret agent that wants to invade Nicaragua and has no problem setting off a bomb in the middle of a packed Chicago church to try to silence a witness.
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