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Con Air

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Con Air	label	Con Air
Con Air	page	ConAir
Con Air	comment	Con Air is an action movie made in 1997, released by Touchstone Pictures and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.Army Ranger Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) loves his wife, Tricia (Monica Potter). Just ask the drunk he killed in the course of defending her when she was pregnant, earning him seven to ten years in prison. He loves his daughter Casey (Landry Allbright), too, taking time every day in prison to communicate with both of them and making sure that he leaves prison a better man than he entered. Cameron Poe is now on parole, and on his way home to see his family. It will be his daughter's seventh birthday.Cameron Poe is a Nice Guy. Just don't threaten his family. And especially don't try to keep him from them.Unfortunately, some criminals are about to learn this the hard way, because Poe and his best friend, the diabetic Mike "Baby-"O'Dell (Mykelti Williamson), are put on the Jailbird, a Fairchild C-123 that is not only transporting Poe home, but is also being used by U.S. Marshal Vince Larkin (John Cusack) to transport a number of notorious criminals to a new supermax prison. These include: Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom (John Malkovich), the "poster child for the criminally insane" and Evil Genius masterminding the plot to hijack the plane to escape to a non-extradition country. Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones (Ving Rhames), a black supremacist who bombed an NRA meeting saying, "They represented the basest negativity of the white race," then wrote a New York Times bestseller from prison that apparently is getting a movie adaptation starring Denzel Washington. William "Billy Bedlam" Bedford (Nick Chinlund), who caught his wife cheating on him, and in response, he drove four towns over to her family's house and slaughtered her parents, her brothers, her sisters, and even her dog. Johnny "23" Baca (Danny Trejo), a Serial Rapist with 23 counts, though he claims he'd be "Johnny 600" if they knew the truth. Joe "Pinball" Parker (Dave Chappelle), arsonist, armed robber, dope fiend, and a "nice guy who just got caught." Francisco Cindino (Jesse Borrego), a treacherous South American drug lord bankrolling the vacation once the cons are home free. Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi), a.k.a. "The Marietta Mangler", a Serial Killer with at least 30 victims who disturbs even the hardcore cons because of his body count and the depravity of the crimes.Unbeknownst to them, there's an undercover DEA agent (JosÃ© ZÃºÃ±iga), under the command of his Jerkass Boss (Colm Meaney).These criminals are about to learn a hard lesson: Don't. Mess. With Cameron Poe. They don't know Poe from Adam.And never, ever threaten the bunneh.◊Not to be confused with the Conair Corporation, which primarily sells hair care appliances.The characters sheet.
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Con Air / int_1305f045	type	Vanity License Plate
Con Air / int_1305f045	comment	Vanity License Plate: AZZ-KIKR for Malloy's car.
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Con Air / int_131e6871	type	Crazy Sane
Con Air / int_131e6871	comment	Crazy Sane: Garland's speech comparing the 'insanity' of his murders to working 50 years and dying in a retirement home without the dignity to take a piss seems to imply he believes himself to be this.
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Con Air / int_132d93f1	type	Human Shield
Con Air / int_132d93f1	comment	Human Shield: Discussed and applied by Cyrus during the shootout between him and the Agent Sims on board.
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Con Air / int_13992073	type	Rasputinian Death
Con Air / int_13992073	comment	Rasputinian Death: The ultimate fate of Cyrus the Virus. Wait - I think he just twitched in that rock crusher...
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Con Air / int_141f6a73	type	Artistic License â€“ Martial Arts
Con Air / int_141f6a73	comment	Artistic License â€“ Martial Arts: This movie was one of the first works to feature the idea that you can kill someone with a palm strike to the nose because it will make his nose stab his brain. In real life, palm strikes are surprisingly effective blows and you can absolutely knock people out with them (Japanese Mixed Martial Arts used to showcase a lot, as they disallowed closed-fisted punching to the face), but you will rarely kill someone the way described. The human nose is too small and easily deformable to pierce its way to the brain, and even if it did, the latter would need much more damage to be irreversibly destroyed.
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Con Air / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Con Air / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Poe briefly enters one after being forced to kill Bedlam to maintain his cover.
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Con Air / int_146f8df0	type	Situational Sexuality
Con Air / int_146f8df0	comment	Situational Sexuality: The escaped convicts all throw Wolf Whistles at Sally-Can't-Dance after s/he's found a dress at the abandoned airfield. Cyrus even stuffs a rifle magazine into the Victoria's Secret Compartment while instructing Sally to guard the hostages.
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Con Air / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Con Air / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: It's discussed what a brilliant idea it was to put all of the most dangerous criminals in the country on the same plane. Larkin's assistant hopes nothing goes wrong. He replies that the plane is a well-oiled machine. He was frankly asking for it.
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Con Air / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Con Air / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: The movie was inspired by a newspaper article about a plane that transports convicts.
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Con Air / int_16c3b640	type	Apple of Discord
Con Air / int_16c3b640	comment	Apple of Discord: Poe attempts this when asking why a militant black man like Diamond Dog is taking orders from a skinhead white guy. It fails when Diamond Dog explicitly says he's The Starscream.
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Con Air / int_182b7511	type	Lunatic Loophole
Con Air / int_182b7511	comment	Lunatic Loophole: At the end, when all the other convicts have either been arrested or killed, Garland Greene just walks away.
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Con Air / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Con Air / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Upon taking over the plane, Cyrus gets on the intercom and announces, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. I have the only gun on board. Welcome to Con Air!"
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Con Air / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
Con Air / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: Some of the cons dress as guards during the stop in Nevada, as they need to keep up the pretense of everything being fine so they can pick up Cindino, who's funding the effort, and Swamp Thing, who knows how to disable the locator beacon.
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Con Air / int_19d336a4	type	Human Weapon
Con Air / int_19d336a4	comment	Human Weapon: Mentioned by the Hanging Judge who sentences Poe to justify throwing the book at him. It's as stupid as it sounds.
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Con Air / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
Con Air / int_1c6ded94	comment	Cyrus speaking Spanish to Johnny-23.
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Con Air / int_1c7da7f6	type	The Slow Walk
Con Air / int_1c7da7f6	comment	The Slow Walk: Poe's trademark. Even when he tries to outrun an explosion, the scene gets a lot of slow-mo.
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Con Air / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Con Air / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Cyrus dies by being chained to the ladder of a speeding fire engine, hurled through a bridge and onto some electrical wires, and finally getting his head crushed in a rock crusher. Johnny 23 dies when one or both of his handcuffed arms are torn from the rest of his body. Garland Greene was particularly fond of these, bragging about sawing a woman's head off and wearing it as a hat for days.
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Con Air / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
Con Air / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: The prisoner Pinball lit on fire to begin the hijacking of the prison plane is named Warlock. He is also sub-credited by the nickname Pinball gave him, "Cochise".
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Con Air / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Con Air / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Malloy's car, which he leaves behind at the office. Vincent jacks it to get to Lerner on time.Â´ Minor version, but still bears mention: the tiny pistol Malloy hands over to Simms is the one Cyrus uses to Shoot Out the Lock of the Jailbird's weapons locker.
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Con Air / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Con Air / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Casey's letter.
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Con Air / int_243c8078	type	Spontaneous Human Combustion
Con Air / int_243c8078	comment	Spontaneous Human Combustion: Mentioned; after Pinball intentionally sets a fellow prisoner on fire in order to create a distraction for the other more dangerous prisoners about to attempt to hijack the plane, in the middle of all the confusion Pinball shouts that it was an act of spontaneous combustion.
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Con Air / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
Con Air / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: Cyrus "the Virus" Grissom.
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Con Air / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
Con Air / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The bulk of the movie takes place on July 14, 1997, the day of Poe's parole.
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Con Air / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Con Air / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus:
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Con Air / int_29c480a3	type	Good News, Bad News
Con Air / int_29c480a3	comment	Good News, Bad News: Pinball is dispatched to find three white convicts named Carl, Benson, and Popovich, because they need to deliver them to the unsuspecting guards below to keep up the ruse that nothing is wrong on the plane. The goods news is that he found all of them. The bad news is that they're all dead because they were shot during the initial takeover of the plane or during Willie Sims's attempt to retake it, making them three men short and forcing them to send out the guards in their place.
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Con Air / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Con Air / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Cyrus, Diamond Dog, Johnny-23 and the rest of the cons on the plane are ruthless, murderous thugs who have caused countless death and destruction. Yet every single one of them is scared out of their minds when Garland Greene comes onto the plane. Dog, in particular, is terrified to even go near a guy half his size.
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Con Air / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
Con Air / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: Cyrus told Larkin (via radio) that the Agent Sims pissed his pants after he shot him.
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Con Air / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Con Air / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Johnny-23 is a serial rapist and quite proud of it. His entire sub-plot revolves around him trying to rape Guard Sally Bishop, even if everybody else (even his fellow convicts) don't want him to. Cyrus "the Virus" brags that he's killed more men than cancer. During the film itself, he is personally responsible for almost 30 deaths, most being prison guards and National Guard soldiers.
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Con Air / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Con Air / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Diamond Dog. He's a Malcolm Xerox without the glasses or the soapbox. Strangely, he's one of the most well-spoken characters in the entire movie, and wrote a New York Times bestseller in jail. And was interviewed by Geraldo. And there was talk in-story about a movie being made about him, with Denzel being cast to play him.
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Con Air / int_30982a39	type	Shipped in Shackles
Con Air / int_30982a39	comment	Shipped in Shackles: Garland Greene was introduced while restrained in a manner similar to Hannibal Lecter, complete with mask. This was likely intentional.
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Con Air / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Con Air / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Cyrus Grissom's killed more people than cancer, and he hates rapists. And while (as noted in Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil below) he's turning a blind eye to Johnny-23's particular rap sheet, he makes clear that he will not tolerate Johnny engaging in that kind of behavior during the hijacking, and stops him from doing so with Guard Bishop. Diamond Dog is scared out of his mind by Garland Greene and doesn't like having to be the one to release him from his restraints. After Cyrus coldly ignites Cindino for backstabbing and walks away, DD looks at Cindino, then looks at Cyrus, stunned.
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Con Air / int_31fcc258	type	Training Montage
Con Air / int_31fcc258	comment	Training Montage: In the title sequence we see Nicolas Cage's character working out in his prison cell.
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Con Air / int_3255968b	type	Implied Death Threat
Con Air / int_3255968b	comment	Implied Death Threat: Cyrus warns Johnny 23 not to rape anybody, otherwise "you jump out of this plane".
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Con Air / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
Con Air / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: The film is probably the single most egregious case of Hollywood Law ever devised. Cameron Poe had an airtight case for self-defense, and the judge's reasoning of Poe being a "human weapon" for throwing the book at him despite a guilty plea should've been laughed out of an appeals court. But that would've ruined the film, now, wouldn't it? Murder is a state crime, so the trial should have occurred in an Alabama court, and Poe should have been sent to an Alabama state prison. The judge says due to Poe's military skills he's a "deadly weapon" and thus not subject to the same laws as others when provoked. Not so — people with military skills retain the same rights to self-defense as anyone else. The fact some thugs were Bullying a Dragon is their bad luck. Diamond Dog's story about getting a book deal would be incredibly unlikely in America, due to the Son of Sam laws that some states have that keep convicted criminals from profiting off their crimes. On a lesser note, they do not transport convicts this way in real correctional systems. The movie shows us why. A prison housing some of the most twisted, violent, ruthless, and cunning criminal geniuses in the world would probably keep these types isolated from one another to prevent them from devising exactly this sort of scheme. Parole has been abolished in the federal prison system since 1984 except for some circumstances that don't apply here, although they can earn time off for good behavior and be under supervised release. Federal prison guards wear jackets reading "Department of Prisons", when they work for the Bureau of Prisons (but the correct name is, oddly, still on the prison bus).
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Con Air / int_337b9528	type	The Worf Barrage
Con Air / int_337b9528	comment	The Worf Barrage: When Malloy finally gets his Cobra to start shooting up the plane, there is a patently absurd sequence where sustained bursts of 20mm Gatling gun rounds just bounce off the ramp and otherwise bounce around like they are little more than small arms rounds. When in reality, the cannon shells would blow straight through one side of the plane and out the other turning it into a fireball in a handful of seconds.
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Con Air / int_353f2b06	type	"Die Hard" on an X
Con Air / int_353f2b06	comment	"Die Hard" on an X: Die Hard on a plane taken over by the countryâ€™s most dangerous criminals. Poe even spends much of the film in a white vest, although it doesn't get as dirty as John McClane's.
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Con Air / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Con Air / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Everyone but Poe and his family are liberal in their use of swears.
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Con Air / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Con Air / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: What you get when you cast Nic Cage as a Southern former Army Ranger.
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Con Air / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Con Air / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: When he realized Warlock wasn't going to stop the plane so he could get on, Pinball flips him off before getting run over and pulled into the wheel well. Warlock just laughs.
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Con Air / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Con Air / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Colm Meaney's keychain has a Starfleet badge on it.
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Con Air / int_3c111ce6	type	Pistol-Whipping
Con Air / int_3c111ce6	comment	Pistol-Whipping: After Cyrus' failed attempt to Shoot Out the Lock, he drops the empty rifle. Sally Bishop picks it up and calls out "Cyrus!" He turns around with an angry "What?", and she slams him in the head with the rifle butt.
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Con Air / int_3c8be88f	type	Bird-Poop Gag
Con Air / int_3c8be88f	comment	Bird-Poop Gag: A man is seen complaining that he always gets bird poop on his car just after he washes it; trying to wipe it off the window makes him miss the light and delays him enough so that Pinball's body lands on his car.
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Con Air / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Con Air / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Malloy concealing a gun into Sims' ankle gets him killed when he tries to take over the plane. Francisco Cindino is a leader of The Cartel and the one footing the bill for the jailbreak operation because he is one of the prisoners that were going to go to the new prison. Poe manages to prevent Grissom from allowing the hostages to be killed by reminding him that Cindino is a backstabbing bastard, doing things like blowing up a car bomb while his own cousin was in it.. and sure enough, Cindino and his Cartel goons were planning on leaving without anybody else.
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Con Air / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
Con Air / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Duncan Malloy.
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Con Air / int_3dec5d4e	type	Reminiscing About Your Victims
Con Air / int_3dec5d4e	comment	Reminiscing About Your Victims: Garland Greene does this. It's how we know he killed a girl and used her head as a hat.
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Con Air / int_3eb8ba12	type	Description Porn
Con Air / int_3eb8ba12	comment	Description Porn: Larkin gives detailed backgrounds on Billy Bedlam, Diamond Dog and Cyrus the Virus, but skimps when it comes to Poe. This makes sense, as Poe is a parolee whose crimes are hardly worth noting, while the other three are lifers with national recognition, at least in Diamond Dog's case.
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Con Air / int_401089da	type	Offstage Villainy
Con Air / int_401089da	comment	Offstage Villainy: Garland Greene is presented as one of the most horrific and prolific serial killers who ever lived, and is certainly feared by the other criminals, but all his crimes occurred before his introduction. He boasts of killing a little girl and wearing her face as a Genuine Human Hide, yet he thankfully refrains from killing a girl he runs into. The end rather implies that he's gone good, but his past crimes still make him an extreme Karma Houdini.
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Con Air / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Con Air / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies:
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Con Air / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
Con Air / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: The fate of the pilot of the Jailbird by Cyrus, who shoots him after radioing into traffic control; despite claiming to spare him if he didn't say anything out of line. Whether the pilot did inform control about the situation in full or if Cyrus simply lied about sparing him to begin with is left up in the air.
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Con Air / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Con Air / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Cameron Poe is a former Army Ranger, and refuses to leave a fallen man behind and a female prison guard to be raped and tortured by Johnny-23, even if keeping quiet would mean freedom. Poe specifically states that he couldn't face his daughter if he didn't act this way. "Never will I fail my comrades" and "I will never leave a fallen comrade behind to fall into the hands of the enemy" are explicitly part of the Ranger Creed that all prospective Army Rangers must memorize as part of their training.
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Con Air / int_463da046	type	Ambiguous Gender Identity
Con Air / int_463da046	comment	Ambiguous Gender Identity: It isn't clear whether Sally Can't Dance is a camp gay man who wears a dress or a trans woman. Considering this movie was made in The '90s, one could potentially chalk this up to ignorance on the filmmakers' part.
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Con Air / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Con Air / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Before the plane crashes in Vegas, Cyrus angrily tells Poe that the last thing that his daughter will ever get to smell â€œwill be my stinking breathâ€� Poe doesnâ€™t give him the chance to get anywhere near little Casey.
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Con Air / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Con Air / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: After the fade to black, Garland Greene is shown having a drink at the Craps tables.
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Con Air / int_48f7d7a3	type	Sleeves Are for Wimps
Con Air / int_48f7d7a3	comment	Sleeves Are for Wimps: Poe, who spends most of the movie in a tank top.
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Con Air / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
Con Air / int_4b1afa0d	comment	Spiteful Spit: Inmate Popovich spits at guard Falzon and tells him "Fuck you, pig". While celebrating the escape from the boneyard, the skinny black inmate and Viking can be seen spitting the guard hostages.
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Con Air / int_4bc2e65e	type	Surrender Backfire
Con Air / int_4bc2e65e	comment	Surrender Backfire: Non-lethal example. Poe's entire situation occurs, or at least was exacerbated, by him following the advice of his lawyer to plead guilty to his charges and let the judge show mercy, not knowing that his case was being presided by a Hanging Judge.
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Con Air / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
Con Air / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: Guns, cops, cons, a lot of shirtless scenes, stuff exploding, male virtues like honor, etc.
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Con Air / int_4de1544	type	Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook
Con Air / int_4de1544	comment	Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook: Larkin and Malloy argue about the prison system's effectiveness since this tends to happen. Cyrus the Virus is the biggest example.
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Con Air / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Con Air / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "Cy..." "...onara!"
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Con Air / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Con Air / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution/Misplaced Retribution: Paraphrased from the movie: Billy Bedlam caught his wife in bed with another man. He left them alone, but drove four towns over to his wife's family's house. He proceeded to kill her parents, her brothers, her sisters, and even her dog.
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Con Air / int_50f50a5e	type	Donut Mess with a Cop
Con Air / int_50f50a5e	comment	Donut Mess with a Cop: During the chase scene finale, two Red Shirt cops join in, dropping their donuts to do so.
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Con Air / int_51589353	type	The Cartel
Con Air / int_51589353	comment	Francisco Cindino is a leader of The Cartel and the one footing the bill for the jailbreak operation because he is one of the prisoners that were going to go to the new prison. Poe manages to prevent Grissom from allowing the hostages to be killed by reminding him that Cindino is a backstabbing bastard, doing things like blowing up a car bomb while his own cousin was in it.. and sure enough, Cindino and his Cartel goons were planning on leaving without anybody else.
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Con Air / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Con Air / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: After Poe kills Billy Bedlam - "Why couldn't you put the bunny back in the box?"
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Con Air / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Con Air / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: For a black nationalist who believes that white people are inherently evil, Diamond Dog is one of the friendliest people on the plane and cracks some good natured jokes towards Poe. Swamp Thing is such a jolly, good-humored sort that you almost forget that he's an integral part in a scheme to bust out a planeload of mass murderers, terrorists, and gangsters. He's a drug smuggler himself, but even his actor defends him, pointing out that he didn't kill anyone or get in their faces... Steve Buscemi's Garland Greene. Sure, he killed 30 people in a way that "makes the Manson Family look like The Partridge Family" and recalls with a Creepy Monotone about how he "drove through three states wearing her head as a hat." But he's an intelligent and philosophical Deadpan Snarker, has a quite touching scene with a child, sings a cheery song while the plane crashes, and seems sane as he joins a craps table in the end.
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Con Air / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Con Air / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones.
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Con Air / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
Con Air / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: Diamond Dog briefly dual-wields pistols during the shootout with the National Guard.
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Con Air / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
Con Air / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: It seems like Garland Greene, who is touted as a horrific serial killer, is about to kill the little girl he runs into near the abandoned airfield, but he doesn't.
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Con Air / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
Con Air / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero: The prison guard in charge of transporting the prisoners says to Pinball "Boy, you are one skinny Negro."
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Con Air / int_59619fac	type	Head Crushing
Con Air / int_59619fac	comment	Head Crushing: Incorrigible criminal Cyrus Grissom ends up with his head positioned beneath a working pile driver, after a bizarre set of circumstances. He can only rage in futility as the large weight drops onto his face, liquifying his head.
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Con Air / int_5a6ccc79	type	Profane Last Words
Con Air / int_5a6ccc79	comment	Profane Last Words: Non-verbal version. Pinball's last act before being killed by the Jailbird's landing gear is to give the convict he set on fire (and is the only one who noticed he's running alongside the plane) the finger.
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Con Air / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Con Air / int_5d753b19	comment	Johnny-23 is a serial rapist and quite proud of it. His entire sub-plot revolves around him trying to rape Guard Sally Bishop, even if everybody else (even his fellow convicts) don't want him to.
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Con Air / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
Con Air / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: The hijacking begins when Pinball pulls a small tube of oil and matches out of his mouth, squeezes the oil out on Warlock, and lights him on fire. Warlock is burned, but ultimately survives. (At least, he survived longer than Pinball.) The commotion from the fire permits Pinball to swipe Guard Bishop's keys and free Diamond Dog and Cyrus. Cyrus casually flicks his lit cigarette into the mix of avgas and gasoline that Francisco Cindino is standing in after the jet crashes into the gas pumps, turning him into a human torch.
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Con Air / int_5da37ab5	type	Triumphant Reprise
Con Air / int_5da37ab5	comment	Triumphant Reprise: Has two. "How Do I Live?" is first heard when Poe comes home from the army to find his wife Tricia and their unborn daughter Casey. It is heard again in the end when he finally meets Casey in person. "Sweet Home Alabama" is heard first when the cons escape the boneyard, then again in the end when we see Garland Greene is still at large.
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Con Air / int_5e0776c3	type	Vapor Trail
Con Air / int_5e0776c3	comment	Vapor Trail: Cyrus casually flicks his lit cigarette into the mix of avgas and gasoline that Francisco Cindino is standing in after the jet crashes into the gas pumps, turning him into a Man on Fire.
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Con Air / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Con Air / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: Garland Greene, though he might actually be on anti-psychotics at the time.
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Con Air / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Con Air / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Cyrus the Virus.
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Con Air / int_67dfa28	type	Planning with Props
Con Air / int_67dfa28	comment	Planning with Props: Cyrus demonstrates the plan to surround the police convoy using soda cans, engine parts and debris. The rock doesn't mean anything, though.
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Con Air / int_6858aca8	type	Punctuated Pounding
Con Air / int_6858aca8	comment	Later, Cyrus threatens Johnny 23 to at least wait until they are out of the country before doing such shenanigans with Bishop. And when he actually does try something with Bishop on board and Cameron Poe gets hold of him, well...see Punctuated Pounding above.
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Con Air / int_689b05f2	type	I'm Going to Disney World!
Con Air / int_689b05f2	comment	I'm Going to Disney World!: When Larkin asks Cyrus what he's doing with the plane, he shouts out "We're going to Disneyland!"
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Con Air / int_691de918	type	Death by Looking Up
Con Air / int_691de918	comment	Death by Looking Up: Cyrus Grissom vs. rock crusher.note Though considering he was lying on his back, it was more like 'Death By Brief Moment of Ocular Focus'. A more straightforward example occurs during the shootout in the boneyard, when one of the cons has an entire plane fall onto him, and rather than move, he just looks up and screams.
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Con Air / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Con Air / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: When the plane's about to crash, Malloy points out that civilian casualties could be enormous, which could've been avoided had they shot the plane down in the desert, and considering the plane crashes right in the middle of the Las Vegas strip... yeah, a lot of people would definitely be dead. Larkin sarcastically acknowledged that letting the plane crash land made a mess.
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Con Air / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Con Air / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Poe is called "That guy" by the two most important people in his life; Tricia (in reference to his Dark and Troubled Past) and Baby-O (to remind him he's not a soldier anymore).
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Con Air / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Con Air / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Johnny 23, so named because he was convicted of 23 counts of rape. He claimed to have raped more than 23 women, though.
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Con Air / int_6c46615c	type	Talking through Technique
Con Air / int_6c46615c	comment	Talking through Technique: Apparently, the inmates communicated with another through stencils.
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Con Air / int_6ce41758	type	Mistaken for Junkie
Con Air / int_6ce41758	comment	Mistaken for Junkie: In the midst of the explosive chaos at the desert airfield, Poe dives under a car only to find an old mechanic already hiding there. After assuring the old man that he means no harm, he asks for a syringe. The old man tells him he shouldn't be using, but Poe clarifies he needs a first aid kit.
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Con Air / int_6e5c03dc	type	Parking Payback
Con Air / int_6e5c03dc	comment	Parking Payback: Set up by the universe. Malloy parks his car in a handicapped space early in the film, before everything goes to hell. Larkin steals the car to get to Lerner Airfield fast early in the third act, and it gets completely smashed shortly after he gets there.
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Con Air / int_6ffe0ae4	type	Wild Goose Chase
Con Air / int_6ffe0ae4	comment	Wild Goose Chase: When the convicts remove the plane's tracking device and places it on a scenic tours flight.
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Con Air / int_70af5e15	type	Anthropic Principle
Con Air / int_70af5e15	comment	Anthropic Principle: The only reason Poe ends up on the titular plane in the first place is because his trial is overseen by the dumbest goddamned judge in cinematic history, because if the case of a trained military man and war hero defending his pregnant wife against a belligerent drunk and accidentally killing him in the process was tried by a realistic court, there would be no movie.
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Con Air / int_70f7063d	type	Unflinching Walk
Con Air / int_70f7063d	comment	Unflinching Walk: Played with. The cons are walking away from a burning plane, and when it explodes, Cyrus doesn't react and keeps walking, but everyone else flinches or turns around to look. Poe walks towards a gun-toting con after the plane crashes and is on fire, taking a bullet in the shoulder without pausing.
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Con Air / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Con Air / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: The pilot of the plane, learning that there was a fire and a probable disturbance on his plane, does the right thing and trips the alarm and alerts Carson City (their next stop) of a problem on board. What does he do next? Instead of locking the cockpit door where they would be safe (the inmates were extensively searched for any and all weapons) and landing ASAP, the pilot tells the co-pilot to get a gun and check it out. One wonders how Cyrus's ingenious escape plan would have fared without this error in judgment. Even more so with the fact that until Cyrus got the gun, the guards were on the verge of getting the situation with the cons under control again which would have left an unarmed Cyrus against all of them. His entire plan seemed to hinge on him getting someomne to bring the gun out to him and that he would be able to overpower them and not get shot...not exactly a genius plan. And for reasons that are entirely unclear, the two heavily armed Cobra gunships LAND when they reach Lerner Airfield, which they would never do in a combat situation, meaning that rather being able to simply blast the plane on the ground as it tried to take off, they just sit helplessly on the ground. Let's also hear it for the guards in Cyrus' prison. When they realize that he's been planning an escape attempt that is almost certainly now underway, they summon Larkin. Larkin swiftly inspects the cell, realizes where Cyrus is going, and runs out of the cell in a panic, telling them firmly "Don't touch anything!" What does one of the guards do? He immediately sits down, picks up a box with a piece of masking tape on the lid saying DO NOT OPEN, and he opens it, right after another guard tells him not to.note One possible explanation; he was looking for evidence, like he had just seen Larkin doing. Even though that's not the guard's job or training. Boom. The explosion nearly impales and decapitates Larkin, which would've been great for Cyrus. Really, the entire movie happens due to law enforcement holding the idiot ball tight and not letting go. A plane full of psychotic and dangerous convicts is watched over by only a couple police officers and not, say, the military or a whole squadron of officers, Malloy nearly shoots down a tourist plane because he was so gung-ho about shooting down the plane full of convicts, and Poe gets sentenced to prison for five years despite protecting his then-pregnant wife from sexual assault/attempted rape.
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Con Air / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Con Air / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Both members of the Big Bad Duumvirate are notable racists. Cyrus the Virus says a lot of racist comments toward Pinball and Baby-O, later clarifying to Pinball that he meant it. Diamond Dog is a black supremacist terrorist who believes that all white people are inherently evil. However, both of them are still pragmatic enough to team up with each other, if only for the time being.
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Con Air / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Con Air / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: Garland Greene is a serial killer who killed dozens of people along the East Coast in what's implied to be unusually horrific ways (the only thing he says is he'd wore one of his victims head as a hat). Even many other hardened cons fear him, though he never harms so much as a fly in the film, even sweetly having tea with a young girl. At the end, it's implied he's cured of his homicidal impulses somehow.
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Con Air / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
Con Air / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The prisoners: Normal inmates get Blue, the really scary ones get Orange, and the pants-wettingly scary Steve Buscemi gets White.
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Con Air / int_758c4e2c	type	Prison Riot
Con Air / int_758c4e2c	comment	Prison Riot: A part of the montage following Cameron Poe's imprisonment shows him reading his daughter's letters in his cell as other prisoners riot. The hijacking of the Jailbird starts off with one of these by way of Pinball setting Warlock on fire before attacking the guard dragging him away and freeing his fellow prisoners.
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Con Air / int_758cbe0c	type	Prison Ship
Con Air / int_758cbe0c	comment	Prison Ship: The airplane is a prison transport.
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Con Air / int_784a71d0	type	Crime of Self-Defense
Con Air / int_784a71d0	comment	Crime of Self-Defense: Cameron Poe, the (sympathetic) main character, is put in prison for accidentally killing someone in defense of his pregnant wife because A) one of the three scumbags who was trying to assault him got rid of the knife his late buddy pulled, B) his idiot lawyer advised him to plead guilty, C) the Hanging Judge on the case says that as an inactive soldier with expert combat training, he should have been more careful since his assailants were unarmed — even though there were three of them. This one is especially bad since it relies hugely on Hollywood Law. It's quite unlikely he'd even be prosecuted (his wife witnessed the entire thing), and he would have a very good chance at trial if they did, so it's unlikely his lawyer would advise a guilty plea. Additionally, it was shown to be a federal case despite no indication the deaths occurred in federal jurisdiction. Plus, a judge giving a defendant a harsher sentence because he's a veteran would be career suicide for the latter and an easy appeal for the former.
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Con Air / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
Con Air / int_7969f21e	comment	No One Gets Left Behind: Cameron Poe is an awesome Rambo Jesus that way. He was an Army Ranger, who have this as part of their creed, so Poe refuses to leave his friend behind, nor the female prison guard.
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Con Air / int_79f9249	type	Horrifying the Horror
Con Air / int_79f9249	comment	Horrifying the Horror: Even most of the other criminals are scared of Garland Greene.
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Con Air / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Con Air / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question
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Con Air / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
Con Air / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: During the final chase scene, Larkin tosses his gun onto the road when it runs dry. On the one hand, he should have brought spare magazines to a firefight and on the other, no U.S. Marshal would carelessly discard their weapon for someone to pick up.
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Con Air / int_7e577db	type	Slashed Throat
Con Air / int_7e577db	comment	Slashed Throat: Diamond Dog slits a guard's throat with his cuffs during the initial takeover.
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Con Air / int_7e84a642	type	Serial Rapist
Con Air / int_7e84a642	comment	Johnny 23 of course as a Serial Rapist who was convicted of 23 counts of it and tries several times to have his way with Bishop, even going so far as to make her number 24. Poe takes it as well as expected when he sees this.
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Con Air / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Con Air / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Poe winds up in prison because three general lowlifes attack a soldier who is wearing Ranger tabs. The thought process there probably involved a tremendous amount of alcohol. For the best, really.
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Con Air / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Con Air / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: "Nice work, son. Not only did you not save this dude's life, you done made best friends with Cyrus the damn Virus." Larkin convinces Malloy not to shoot down the plane in the desert and it crashes into the Vegas strip.
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Con Air / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Con Air / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment Molloy parking his car on a handicap space before Larkin could finish talking to him. Cyrus speaking Spanish to Johnny-23.
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Con Air / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Con Air / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham/World of Ham: Everyone. Cage is in good company here.
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Con Air / int_82b039b7	type	ArtisticLicenceLaw
Con Air / int_82b039b7	comment	Artistic Licence â€“ Law: The whole reason Poe was in prison in the first place relies completely on Hollywood Law. Even if the thugs hid their dead friend's knife, Poe had a witness (his wife, whom he was also defending from said thugs), and self-defense does in fact cover defense of another, especially when in response to a deadly threat. Even if discounting the heaps upon heaps of bad luck and incompetence plaguing Poe's court defense, it shouldn't even have made it to court if the investigating officers were any semblance of competent.
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Con Air / int_848153ef	type	Viva Las Vegas!
Con Air / int_848153ef	comment	Viva Las Vegas!: Where the bad guys plan to land in, and where the plane crashes.
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Con Air / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Con Air / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: Averted. Cameron survives the movie despite constantly mentioning the daughter he's never met, and even having a photo of her he's obsessed with. But then again, he's The Hero.
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Con Air / int_889cff96	type	Quirky Miniboss Squad
Con Air / int_889cff96	comment	Quirky Miniboss Squad: Viking, Curly and Sally guard the way to the cockpit. Poe disposes of them easy.
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Con Air / int_8947140b	type	Significant Reference Date
Con Air / int_8947140b	comment	Significant Reference Date: Cameron Poe's daughter's birthday note and the day Poe would meet her for the first time was July 14, the anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille, an historical event that foreshadows what happens onboard the "Jailbird" (it's taken hostage by convicts). note About 1000 people participated in the 1789 event, with seven prisoners said to be imprisoned there at the time. The number of named prisoners onboard at the beginning of the film? Seven: Pinball, Odell, Billy Bedlam, Johnny 23, Diamond Dog, Cyrus, and Cameron Poe.
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Con Air / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Con Air / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Malloy's car, a silver Corvette Stingray convertible with "AZZ KIKR" as a Vanity License Plate. When Larkin finds out where the convicts are going to land and change planes, a mechanic tells him that he could make it there in time if he had "a fast car". Cue Larkin looking at Malloy's parking spot.
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Con Air / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Con Air / int_8a817c2a	comment	While Cyrus considers Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil. He has no problems killing Bishop once his plans have been ruined and to draw out the â€œtraitorâ€� whoâ€™s been feeding information to the authorities. She's also slammed in the head by Pinball during the initial hijacking.
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Con Air / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
Con Air / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License â€“ Medicine: Raise your hand if you've ever seen a first aid kit with a hypodermic needle in it. Also, someone going through severe diabetic shock would be completely incapable of attempting to prevent a rape, no matter how feebly. Probably the most egregious depiction of a diabetic in cinema. If Baby-O is sweating profusely and "near death", then that means he's hypoglycemic (his blood sugar is too low and need to consume carbs/sugar to raise it at acceptable levels), and an insulin shot (which lowers blood sugar) is the last thing he needs.
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Con Air / int_8e04fdd7	type	Dragon with an Agenda
Con Air / int_8e04fdd7	comment	Dragon with an Agenda: Cameron Poe asks black supremacist Diamond Dog why he's content to be second in command to white Big Bad Cyrus Grissom. Dog replies that while his long term agenda is vastly different from that of Cyrus, he needs to escape before he can get back to it — going along with Cyrus is "a means to an end".
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Con Air / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Con Air / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The drunken, lecherous redneck asshole who tried to assault the Poes and kill Cameron with a switchblade is only lamented because his death is the reason Cameron is in jail. Cindino. After cowardly betraying Cyrus and clumsily attempting to bail the convicts without them noticing, an enraged Cyrus burns him alive. Nobody likes Johnny 23, nobody questions why the hell is he handcuffed to a door and beaten up after they take off from Lerner Airfield, and the only reason the policemen who find his body are appalled at finding his corpse is because of what happened to his corpse.
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Con Air / int_8f9f71a8	type	Crazy Enough to Work
Con Air / int_8f9f71a8	comment	Crazy Enough to Work: Larkin makes clear at one point that the idea of convicts actually being able to take over the plane (or at least the level of preparation to accomplish this that Cyrus and the others are currently showing) was never foreseen.
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Con Air / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Con Air / int_90d44f44	comment	The hijacking begins when Pinball pulls a small tube of oil and matches out of his mouth, squeezes the oil out on Warlock, and lights him on fire. Warlock is burned, but ultimately survives. (At least, he survived longer than Pinball.) The commotion from the fire permits Pinball to swipe Guard Bishop's keys and free Diamond Dog and Cyrus.
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Con Air / int_928e13b9	type	He's Dead, Jim
Con Air / int_928e13b9	comment	He's Dead, Jim: The barkeeper checking on the switch-knife punk Poe killed in melee.
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Con Air / int_94d295c0	type	The Precious, Precious Car
Con Air / int_94d295c0	comment	The Precious, Precious Car: Malloy's car is a vintage Corvette Stingray that he makes clear he considers incredibly precious. Larkin steals it and it gets smashed as the convicts escape Lerner Airfield in the third act, and Malloy gets utterly pissed when it comes crashing down five feet away from him.
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Con Air / int_9536245b	type	Redundant Rescue
Con Air / int_9536245b	comment	Redundant Rescue: Most of the surviving guards make it off the plane on their own power.
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Con Air / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Con Air / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Cyrus, usually very composed and in control, standing on the open ramp of the plane in flight, holding a pistol to the head of the bunny, yelling at an assault chopper.
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Con Air / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Con Air / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Cyrus "the Virus" Grissom.
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Con Air / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
Con Air / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Pinball is the first of the named convicts to die. Averted in a couple of the white nameless convicts die in the inital take over. Averted in the case of Baby-O but he gives it a good shot by first nearly dying of diabetes and then getting a gunshot wound after being saved with a shot of insulin.
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Con Air / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Con Air / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Garland compares Poe to other famous serial killers which infuriates him.
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Con Air / int_99c3dd05	type	Lifesaving Misfortune
Con Air / int_99c3dd05	comment	Lifesaving Misfortune: The movie has a gag where a man is saved from being crushed by a falling corpse because he has to clean up pigeon crap on his windshield.
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Con Air / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Con Air / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Poe's heroism in refusing to just escape at his friend's expense was foreshadowed with him being an Army Ranger, who have No One Gets Left Behind as a part of their creed (even recited at the beginning of the film).
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Con Air / int_a16aeb99	type	Genuine Human Hide
Con Air / int_a16aeb99	comment	Genuine Human Hide: Garland Greene claims he once killed a little girl and then drove through the state wearing her face as a hat.
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Con Air / int_a1d48853	type	Stupid Crooks
Con Air / int_a1d48853	comment	Stupid Crooks: When the new inmates get on the plane in Carson City and see the plane has been taken over by their fellow inmates, one of them inmediatly starts yelling in cheer and has to be silenced by Pinball as the plane is still surrounded by local law enforcement and could easily hear him.
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Con Air / int_a3eae597	type	Award-Bait Song
Con Air / int_a3eae597	comment	Award-Bait Song: "How Do I Live" by Trisha Yearwood, who covered the first cut by LeAnn Rimes. As a footnote, Rimes' version did better on Adult Contemporary radio, while Yearwood's version did better on the country charts. Both lost the Oscar to "My Heart Will Go On". It was also nominated for both an Academy Award for Best Song and a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Song. (The latter was lost to the entire score for The Postman.)
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Con Air / int_a414c3f0	type	One-Hit Kill
Con Air / int_a414c3f0	comment	One-Hit Kill: During the initial takeover, Cyrus hits one of the guards very hard in the face as he charges the cockpit. The guard is later seen being dragged by his feet, something not recommended with someone who's still alive. Poe ends up accidently killing one of the men who attack him and Trisha in the beginning of the movie with a palm strike to his nose.
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Con Air / int_a6c99b08	type	Shoot Out the Lock
Con Air / int_a6c99b08	comment	Shoot Out the Lock: How Cyrus opens the gate to the plane's front section. It does take an entire magazine from an assault rifle to do it, though.
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Con Air / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Con Air / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Garland Greene, though all his villainy is in his backstory. During the movie Garland instinctively realizes Poe is a good guy pretending to be a hard con, and has a lengthy dialogue about ironic situations about how a good man has to act evil to survive. The fact that Garland intentionally leaves a little girl alive during the plane refueling hints that by the end of the movie Garland has decided to act good.
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Con Air / int_a7acd9aa	type	ChekhovsLecture
Con Air / int_a7acd9aa	comment	Chekhov's Lecture: When the cons skid to a halt at Lerner Airfield, Diamond Dog is about to execute three prison guards. Poe tries to reason with Diamond Dog not to kill them until the cons board the second plane with Cindino, the cons' contact at the airfield. Poe argues that Cindino may not be one to be trusted based on what Poe knows of Cindino's history. Diamond Dog is unconvinced until Cyrus interrupts the exchange. Poe tries the same argument with Cyrus and convinces him. Cyrus orders Diamond Dog to stand down and for the cons to dig and pull their plane out from the dirt. Its relevance to the story seems minimal until it turns out that Poe was right; Cindino planned to double-cross the cons all along. This scene was clever in hindsight because Poe was simply trying to save the guards' lives, and may have actually made up his Cindino story in an attempt to break the partnership, and thus prevent the cons from escaping to Mexico before the authorities show up.
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Con Air / int_a80ad52c	type	Hanging Judge
Con Air / int_a80ad52c	comment	Hanging Judge: A mild example with the judge that oversees Poe's Crime of Self-Defense. After Poe declares himself guilty (because his attorney told him that the judge would grant mercy if he did so because of apparent lack of evidence for his defense), the judge decides instead to declare Poe a "living weapon" because of his military training and that he should be held to "different standards" than non-military men, and gave him seven-to-ten years in prison. The speech makes it pretty clear that the judge held a prejudice against the military, and the extenuating circumstances (Poe defending his pregnant wife) didn't matter, which in reality would have likely gotten him off completely.
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Con Air / int_a8556a04	type	Video Credits
Con Air / int_a8556a04	comment	Video Credits: With everyone happy and laughing with "Sweet Home Alabama" as BGM.
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Con Air / int_a89efdf8	type	Wife-Basher Basher
Con Air / int_a89efdf8	comment	Wife-Basher Basher: Cameron Poe becomes one when he catches Johnny trying to rape a female guard. See Punctuated Pounding, wherein he slams the bastard's head repeatedly into a bulkhead while teaching him Chivalry 101. The very reason he was in jail in the first place was to defend his wife from being attacked by three drunken idiots.
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Con Air / int_ab1659d5	type	Hero Stole My Bike
Con Air / int_ab1659d5	comment	Hero Stole My Bike: Poe and Larkin steal Las Vegas police bikes to chase down the remaining escaped cons.
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Con Air / int_ab17e948	type	Don't Touch It, You Idiot!
Con Air / int_ab17e948	comment	Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: Larkin orders the guards that are with him at Cyrus Grissom's cell to not touch anything as he races to try to warn that the convicts have made plans to take over the plane. One guard picks up a lunch box that has "Do Not Open" written on it, and another guard reminds him that they have orders to not touch anything. He opens it. It was a bomb.
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Con Air / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
Con Air / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: Some of the cons have nasty-sounding nicknames applied to them. Cyrus "the Virus" is just one of them.
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Con Air / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Con Air / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Pinball falls off the plane to the tune of "A Summer Place". Also Garland Greene singing "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" while the plane crashes.
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Con Air / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Con Air / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: Near the ending, Poe walks towards the Big Bad who destroyed his peaceful ride home. A nearby con raises his gun and shoots at the striding Poe, who gets hit in the upper arm. He just keeps walking and kicks the con's ass.
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Con Air / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Con Air / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Poe is shown working out religiously in prison, including numerous pull-ups and even handstand push-ups. This comes in very handy when he finds himself hanging from the ladder of a speeding fire engine at the end of the movie, and is able to hang on with one arm and protect himself from Cyrusâ€™ attack with the other arm, eventually ramming a wooden spike through Cyrusâ€™ ankle.
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Con Air / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Con Air / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Diamond Dog asks Poe to help him fix the landing gear. This gives Poe the opportunity to get a message to Larkin to warn them of where the plane was really heading.
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Con Air / int_ae2ae3	type	I Won't Say I'm Guilty
Con Air / int_ae2ae3	comment	I Won't Say I'm Guilty: Averted. Poe pleads guilty at the advice of his idiot attorney, thinking he'll get a reduced sentence. The judge instead hits him with the full sentence under dubious pretenses.
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Con Air / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Con Air / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Garland Greene offers sarcastic commentary on the other prisoners' actions during the film.
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Con Air / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Con Air / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: A pair of guards are left to watch over Cyrus's prison cell, with clear orders from Larkin not to touch anything in the hidden compartment they just uncovered. One of them ignores him completely, opening a box with the words "DO NOT OPEN" written across the top. Kaboom. DEA agent Sims gets killed by Cyrus after blowing his cover and trying to take the plane back by himself while armed only with a very small pocket pistol. One of the drunken thugs in the opening ends up dead after attacking Poe. It must have been a prolific amount of alcohol to think attacking a soldier wearing Ranger tabs would end any way but badly. Unsurprisingly, bringing a gun on a flight proves to be the downfall of both the co-pilot and pilot of the Jailbird as Cyrus uses it to kill them both. Bonus points for Cyrus using it to hold the pilot hostage, then shooting him after radioing into traffic control anyway. Unlike the co-pilot, who is shot in the gut trying to kill Cyrus, we never see the specifics that set off the pilot's death.
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Con Air / int_b628db4c	type	"Hey, You!" Haymaker
Con Air / int_b628db4c	comment	"Hey, You!" Haymaker: After Cyrus' failed attempt to Shoot Out the Lock, he drops the empty rifle. Sally picks it up and calls out "Cyrus!" He turns around with an angry "What?", and she slams him in the head with the rifle butt.
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Con Air / int_b70b1e3b	type	Institutional Apparel
Con Air / int_b70b1e3b	comment	Institutional Apparel: Criminals in jumpsuits of some other color. See Colour-Coded for Your Convenience.
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Con Air / int_b77eb3b2	type	Revenge by Proxy
Con Air / int_b77eb3b2	comment	Revenge by Proxy: Billy Bedlam's revenge on his cheating wife.
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Con Air / int_b84491a3	type	Wrong Insult Offence
Con Air / int_b84491a3	comment	Wrong Insult Offence:
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Con Air / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
Con Air / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: Agent Sims when he gets shot in the torso by Cyrus.
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Con Air / int_bacf8e98	type	Preserve Your Gays
Con Air / int_bacf8e98	comment	Preserve Your Gays: Sally-Can't-Dance, who's trans or gay, is one of the few survivors.
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Con Air / int_bc252ea0	type	The Hero Doesn't Kill the Villainess
Con Air / int_bc252ea0	comment	The Hero Doesn't Kill the Villainess: Spoofed. Cameron Poe kills several of the criminals during the plane crash (and afterwards, Cyrus the Virus) until he runs into Camp Gay inmate Sally-Can't-Dance, who has been referred to and treated as female the entire time. Poe just knocks "her" aside with a simple slap to the cheek, leaving Sally as one of the few crash survivors.
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Con Air / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Con Air / int_bf8a2be2	comment	Isn't It Ironic?: As the inmates dance to "Sweet Home Alabama", Garland Greene defines irony as "a bunch of idiots dancing around on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash."
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Con Air / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
Con Air / int_c12f0c4	comment	Outrun the Fireball: Poe, jumping through a window to save himself from the exploding gas station.
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Con Air / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
Con Air / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: Poe, when he sees Duncan's sports car attached to the back of the plane he's in: "On any other day, that might seem strange."
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Con Air / int_c2676b00	type	Jurisdiction Friction
Con Air / int_c2676b00	comment	Jurisdiction Friction: Despite the prison flight being handled by the US Marshals, it became a DEA case by DEA Agent Malloy after DEA Agent Sims was shot dead by Cyrus.
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Con Air / int_c2d6bd47	type	Redemption Earns Life
Con Air / int_c2d6bd47	comment	Redemption Earns Life: Garland Greene again. At the end of the movie he is alive and probably free, too. He is the Karma Houdini, if we look at his past. But he refrains from killing the defenceless little girl, thus (in some way) redeeming himself and earning this karmic prize.
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Con Air / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
Con Air / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: Poe crashes a motorcycle into Diamond Dog.
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Con Air / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Con Air / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Notorious criminal Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom allegedly earned his juris doctorate while incarcerated. An advanced law degree earned by someone who'd gleefully break every law known to man.
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Con Air / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
Con Air / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: Garland Greene had supposedly killed more people than any convict on the plane, and had the absolute highest amount of security for transporting him. However, whilst he definitely alludes to having formerly killed people, we never really see any of his murderous aspects on-screen, to the point where it looks like he just might have been cured of them.
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Con Air / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Con Air / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Larkin is a walking thesaurus, quotes Fyodor Dostoevsky (whose literature speaks of life in prison), and personally sets out to apprehend the escaping convicts, even though he's alone, and knows he's horribly outnumbered.
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Con Air / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Con Air / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Cameron Poe. The crime that put him in jail was accidental, and happened because he was trying to defend his wife. The film implies that he wasn't so nice before becoming an Army Ranger ("you almost were... that guy again", from Trish, when the rednecks rile him up inside of the bar), though.
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Con Air / int_c578f42	type	The Last Thing You Ever See
Con Air / int_c578f42	comment	The Last Thing You Ever See: You know what? That makes Poe mad.
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Con Air / int_c5c79ad3	type	And Your Little Dog, Too!
Con Air / int_c5c79ad3	comment	And Your Little Dog, Too!: "Before I kill you, I'll let you know that the last thing that little Casey Poe will ever smell will be my stinking breath." Oh, it's on... While introducing the felons boarding the "Jail Bird:"
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Con Air / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Con Air / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Nathan Jones's nickname, Diamond Dog, is a reference to David Bowie's 1974 album with the same name.
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Con Air / int_c92a568	type	Family Extermination
Con Air / int_c92a568	comment	Family Extermination: Billy "Bedlam" Bedford is in prison for killing his wife's entire family after finding her in bed with another man.
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Con Air / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Con Air / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Billy Bedlam gets impaled on a broken strut in the cargo bay during his fight with Poe.
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Con Air / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Con Air / int_ccf46587	comment	Red Shirt Army: The National Guard sent to apprehend the con's at the boneyard, who come there in a rescue operation. Driving straight down through rows of junked airplanes that just screams "perfect spot for an ambush" they proceed to indeed get ambushed by forewarned cons, who kill a lot of them easily. Larkin has to bail them out using a bulldozer to provide cover for them to break through, although once through the ambush they pretty quickly force the Cons to fall back to the plane and retreat.
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Con Air / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Con Air / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Larkin: "A body fell from the sky with a note on it." Malloy and Larkin's boss just laugh him off.
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Con Air / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Con Air / int_d028e0da	comment	Nobody likes Johnny 23, nobody questions why the hell is he handcuffed to a door and beaten up after they take off from Lerner Airfield, and the only reason the policemen who find his body are appalled at finding his corpse is because of what happened to his corpse.
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Con Air / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
Con Air / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	A pair of guards are left to watch over Cyrus's prison cell, with clear orders from Larkin not to touch anything in the hidden compartment they just uncovered. One of them ignores him completely, opening a box with the words "DO NOT OPEN" written across the top. Kaboom.
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Con Air / int_d3f16712	type	Dramatization
Con Air / int_d3f16712	comment	Dramatization: There is a passenger jet service dedicated to the secure transport of convicted felons; the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System AKA "JPATS". Many actually do call it "Con Air." But notably? They use this movie as an example of what not to do; Inmates scheduled to fly are given little or no advance notice of their flights specifically to prevent any kind of escape plans. Every con onboard a flight gets the full loadout of handcuffs, ankle and waist chains. Things escalate from there to reinforced mittens and face masks.
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Con Air / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Con Air / int_d5c7b415	comment	Elites Are More Glamorous: Poe was an Army Ranger. Unlike in many examples, not only does this set up his combat skills, but also refusal to leave a friend behind (plus a sympathetic female guard) as it's part of the Ranger creed (even said via voiceover at the beginning).
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Con Air / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Con Air / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Cyrus, being the mastermind behind the hijacking.
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Con Air / int_d6519b1b	type	Rabid Cop
Con Air / int_d6519b1b	comment	Rabid Cop: Malloy. Several deaths occur because he insisted on his undercover agent bringing a gun to the plane even when he's supposed to be a prisoner (and when Larkin puts his foot down and insists it won't happen, Malloy still manages to pass him a pistol secretly and remains completely unapologetic about it ("if I had known that the plane was going to be taken over, I WOULD HAVE GIVEN HIM AN UZI!!!")). He also constantly advocates just killing all of the prisoners, hostages and actually lawful prisoners playing mole be damned (when Larkin points out that they have hostages, Malloy answers that They Knew the Risks). And when the "Jailbird" is trying to take off from the field...
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Con Air / int_d78d5f96	type	Inconveniently Vanishing Exonerating Evidence
Con Air / int_d78d5f96	comment	Inconveniently Vanishing Exonerating Evidence: Poe is attacked outside a bar by a drunk with a knife and kills him. One of the drunk's friends grabs the knife before the police show up. This, combined with an incompetent lawyer and an anti-military judge results in Poe being sent to the Super Max which starts the plot.
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Con Air / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Con Air / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: No one cares that Poe cuffed Johnny-23. Upon seeing Malloy's car tethered to the plane:
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Con Air / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Con Air / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The Old Con onboard the plane volunteers to take one of the dead convicts place, saying that heâ€™s â€˜too old for this shit.â€™
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Con Air / int_d9e48d0	type	Company Cross References
Con Air / int_d9e48d0	comment	Company Cross References: Touchstone Pictures wasn't above sneaking in a few references to the company that owned them. Early in the movie, a prisoner calls one of the guards "lady", to which she responds "Lady is a dog in a Walt Disney movie. My name is Bishop." Later on, one of the prisoners says they're taking the hijacked plane to Disneyland.
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Con Air / int_da1f9864	type	Fake-Out Opening
Con Air / int_da1f9864	comment	Fakeout Opening: The film begins with a montage about the US Army Rangers.
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Con Air / int_dc47ceda	type	Hairpin Lockpick
Con Air / int_dc47ceda	comment	Hairpin Lockpick: Cyrus and Nathan use needles to unlock their handcuffs.
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Con Air / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Con Air / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Lampshaded in the page quote. Cameron Poe gets released from prison on his daughter's birthday, only to wind up on a plane hijacked by inmates, and is forced to stop them because his best friend is trapped on the plane will die if he doesn't get off and receive insulin. Of course this is just the tip of the iceberg...
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Con Air / int_dd6ce5db	type	Artistic License
Con Air / int_dd6ce5db	comment	Artistic License: Unlike the film's plane, with its harsh utilitarian design, real Con Air flights use standard airliners that are largely indistinguishable from typical passenger planes. Possibly justified in that the Jailbird was designed specifically to more or less be a flying "maximum security" prison, and as such did away with any comforts or non-essential fixtures that could be taken advantage of by the inmates.
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Con Air / int_dddbdc26	type	Monumental Damage
Con Air / int_dddbdc26	comment	Monumental Damage: Jailbird One smashes into some of the Vegas Strip's well known casinos.
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Con Air / int_dfe687c9	type	Alone with the Psycho
Con Air / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: Subverted. The creepy serial killer Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi) is having a one-on-one session with a little girl. After a cutaway, we see him walk off with the girl's doll, implying that she's dead. But a subsequent scene shows that he left her unharmed.
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Con Air / int_e2023325	type	StrawmanPolitical
Con Air / int_e2023325	comment	Strawman Political: Malloy keeps accusing Larkin of being this.
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Con Air / int_e2d7b14c	type	Made of Explodium
Con Air / int_e2d7b14c	comment	Made of Explodium: Trope Exemplar. Planes explode, cars explode, all of the windows on a bridge detonate when a couple of them are hit by Cyrus and part of a ladder, all bullets make a spark when they hit something metal no matter how flimsy, and the climactic shootout at the Lerner Field junkyard is full of fireballs that are only partially justified by the convicts placing propane tanks around to trap the cops and National Guardsmen coming to get them in a kill box.
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Con Air / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Con Air / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Apparently the plane crash in Vegas didn't kill off all the bad guys and they manage to escape with a fire truck.
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Con Air / int_e460b44e	type	The Radio Dies First
Con Air / int_e460b44e	comment	The Radio Dies First: When Larkin arrives at Lerner Field, he finds the air traffic controller dead and the control tower radio busted.
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Con Air / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Con Air / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Poe and Larkin are basically John Mason and Stanley Goodspeed (a grizzled convict with a military past and a pacifistic yet courageous Badass Bookworm) from Jerry Bruckheimer's previous film, The Rock. The difference is that Nicolas Cage played the nerdy Goodspeed there, and the manly Poe here.
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Con Air / int_e663d3ef	type	Only a Flesh Wound
Con Air / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: Poe piercing a wooden pole through Cyrus' leg causes some screaming but doesn't put him out of action.
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Con Air / int_e784bb8c	type	Accidental Truth
Con Air / int_e784bb8c	comment	Accidental Truth: Poe spins a story about Cindino being untrustworthy, purely as an argument to keep the surviving policemen alive, but it turns out Cindino really is double crossing them right at that moment.
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Con Air / int_e807c3ec	type	Levitating Lotus Position
Con Air / int_e807c3ec	comment	Levitating Lotus Position: Poe pulls this off by doing pushups in a Lotus Position during his montage.
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Con Air / int_e8ca5cb3	type	Freudian Slip
Con Air / int_e8ca5cb3	comment	Freudian Slip: Pinball meets a pretty girl, and pretends to be a prison guard.
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Con Air / int_e9ae8248	type	Prisons Are Gymnasiums
Con Air / int_e9ae8248	comment	Prisons Are Gymnasiums: The film featured Nicolas Cage's character doing this while in prison, though he seemed to be in good enough shape already.
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Con Air / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
Con Air / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: After Swamp Thing announces that they need to land the plane in Las Vegas, he says that they have to land on the Strip as the airport is too far away. They then fly over the Hard Rock Cafe, which is closer to McCarran International Airport than the Strip. Also, the Strip is only a couple of miles from the airport anyways. You can see it from the plane after you land.
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Con Air / int_ea2c8da6	type	Watch the Paint Job
Con Air / int_ea2c8da6	comment	Watch the Paint Job: Malloy's car doesn't survives the events of the movie. Even when he lets Larkin off the hook for its destruction, he still mentions that he loved it.
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Con Air / int_ea38ddd5	type	Sissy Villain
Con Air / int_ea38ddd5	comment	Sissy Villain: Sally Can't Dance, one of the villainous prisoners, is a camp gay guy in a dress, or trans woman (it isn't clear).
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Con Air / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Con Air / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: When Baby-O's been shot and begins lamenting that there might not be a god. Needless to say, Poe has finally had enough. Before this, Larkin saves Poe from Cindino's thugs. "Make a move and the bunny gets it." (Attack choppers suddenly appear behind Cyrus) Also, Diamond Dog to Cyrus, although Diamond explains that the relationship is merely one of convenience based on a common goal.
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Con Air / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Con Air / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: The judge who sentenced Poe to prison did so with an extremely flimsy reason. Agent Malloy is an unapologetic Rabid Cop who parks his Cool Car in a handicapped space right after he boasts how awesome it is (his first two lines in the film, even). Guard Falzon who takes away Poe's photo of Casey from him at the initial plane boarding and is generally an unlikable shithead. Interestingly, the only major convict who isn't this is Garland Greene, and he's a Hannibal Lecter rip-off.
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Con Air / int_ebaaf931	type	Giving Up on Logic
Con Air / int_ebaaf931	comment	Giving Up on Logic: Poe's reaction at seeing the Jailbird has somehow ended up dragging a Corvette Stingray as it's taking off in the third act is a deadpan "On any other day, that might seem strange."
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Con Air / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Con Air / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: Poe makes up an excuse about having another fifteen years to serve so he can stay on the plane instead of getting off in Nevada. Bedlam later confronts him, noting that Poe's supposed sentence would put him in North Block, where Bedlam was also housed, yet the two have never met. Poe dismisses their unfamiliarity as having no desire to interact with any of the 150+ prisoners on North Block, Bedlam included, but Bedlam remains suspicious of him from then on.
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Con Air / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Con Air / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Sally Bishop and Sally-Can't-Dance, though it's subverted due to the latter's birth name being Ramon.
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Con Air / int_eedee4d	type	The Starscream
Con Air / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Diamond Dog admits he is one of these to Poe, saying he'll go along with Cyrus and follow his orders until he doesn't need him anymore, and then "the Day of the Dog begins."
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Con Air	hasFeature	Con Air / int_eedee4d
Con Air / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Con Air / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Pinball meets a cute girl while stashing the transponder and forgets to get back on the plane.
Con Air / int_f10d3363	featureApplicability	1.0
Con Air / int_f10d3363	featureConfidence	1.0
Con Air	hasFeature	Con Air / int_f10d3363
Con Air / int_f178203a	type	Inspector Javert
Con Air / int_f178203a	comment	Inspector Javert: Malloy has trouble believing Poe (or any convict) is good. He also instantly calls for the plane being shot down from the sky even if there's still a few guards being kept as hostages on board, pointing out that the prisoners are just too dangerous to be given a chance for getting away and the hostages knew this was a risk on their line of work.
Con Air / int_f178203a	featureApplicability	1.0
Con Air / int_f178203a	featureConfidence	1.0
Con Air	hasFeature	Con Air / int_f178203a
Con Air / int_f1a14f34	type	All Muslims Are Arab
Con Air / int_f1a14f34	comment	All Muslims Are Arab: Subverted. Diamond Dog is a black American Muslim, who shouts "Allahu akbar" as he is released from his cage.
Con Air / int_f1a14f34	featureApplicability	-0.3
Con Air / int_f1a14f34	featureConfidence	1.0
Con Air	hasFeature	Con Air / int_f1a14f34
Con Air / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Con Air / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Half the Trope Namer. John Cusack's Marshal Vince Larkin:
Con Air / int_f1d3f0c9	featureApplicability	1.0
Con Air / int_f1d3f0c9	featureConfidence	1.0
Con Air	hasFeature	Con Air / int_f1d3f0c9
Con Air / int_f3fd818b	type	Dark Reprise
Con Air / int_f3fd818b	comment	Dark Reprise: Garland and a little girl sing "He's Got the Whole World In His Hands". He sings it again as the plane crashes into the Las Vegas strip.
Con Air / int_f3fd818b	featureApplicability	1.0
Con Air / int_f3fd818b	featureConfidence	1.0
Con Air	hasFeature	Con Air / int_f3fd818b
Con Air / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Con Air / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Quite a few of the prisoners are guilty of very violent crimes against women. Johnny 23 of course as a Serial Rapist who was convicted of 23 counts of it and tries several times to have his way with Bishop, even going so far as to make her number 24. Poe takes it as well as expected when he sees this. A couple of Billy Bedlamâ€™s victims were his wifeâ€™s mother and sisters. Garland Greene mentions to driving around three states wearing a girlâ€™s face as a hat and quite possibly had a few more female victims. While Cyrus considers Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil. He has no problems killing Bishop once his plans have been ruined and to draw out the â€œtraitorâ€� whoâ€™s been feeding information to the authorities. She's also slammed in the head by Pinball during the initial hijacking.
Con Air / int_f42f96fa	featureApplicability	1.0
Con Air / int_f42f96fa	featureConfidence	1.0
Con Air	hasFeature	Con Air / int_f42f96fa
Con Air / int_f67171cc	type	Empathy Doll Shot
Con Air / int_f67171cc	comment	Empathy Doll Shot: The doll of the little girl that Garland talks to, he takes with him as he walks back to the plane, setting up a Bait-and-Switch that he killed her off-screen.
Con Air / int_f67171cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Con Air / int_f67171cc	featureConfidence	1.0
Con Air	hasFeature	Con Air / int_f67171cc
Con Air / int_fb933192	type	Car Cushion
Con Air / int_fb933192	comment	Car Cushion: Pinball falls from the plane onto a moving car.
Con Air / int_fb933192	featureApplicability	1.0
Con Air / int_fb933192	featureConfidence	1.0
Con Air	hasFeature	Con Air / int_fb933192
Con Air / int_fc45bac0	type	Wouldn't Hit a Girl
Con Air / int_fc45bac0	comment	Wouldn't Hit a Girl: During his Foe-Tossing Charge, the last person on the line is Sally-Can't-Dance, who is — depending on your interpretation — either Camp Gay or a trans woman. Poe nearly punches Sally, hesitates, then slaps instead.
Con Air / int_fc45bac0	featureApplicability	1.0
Con Air / int_fc45bac0	featureConfidence	1.0
Con Air	hasFeature	Con Air / int_fc45bac0
Con Air / int_fd5b9124	type	There Is a God!
Con Air / int_fd5b9124	comment	There Is a God!: As Mike "Baby-O" O'Dell is dying on the plane, he tells Nicholas Cage's character that sometimes he wonders if there's a God. Cage's character tells him he'll show him there is one, and then starts kicking Con butt.
Con Air / int_fd5b9124	featureApplicability	1.0
Con Air / int_fd5b9124	featureConfidence	1.0
Con Air	hasFeature	Con Air / int_fd5b9124
Con Air / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Con Air / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: When the cons arrive at Lerner Airfield, they have a near collision with another pilot there. They spook him and he runs off into the desert. Later when they leave, he's still running through the desert. Garland Greene is unaccounted for after the ending plane crash. We don't see any of him until right before the credits... when he turns out to have made an absolute fortune gambling in Las Vegas.
Con Air / int_fe0330fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Con Air / int_fe0330fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Con Air	hasFeature	Con Air / int_fe0330fb
Con Air / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Con Air / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Cyrus backs up Cameron when the latter defends Bishop after Johnny 23 tries to rape her. It helps that Cyrus hates rapists.
Con Air / int_ff7f34c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Con Air / int_ff7f34c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Con Air	hasFeature	Con Air / int_ff7f34c5
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Con Air / int_name	comment
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Con Air / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
Con Air	hasFeature	Con Air / int_name
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Con Air	hasFeature	A Deadly Affair / int_7e0fd062
AcademyAwardForBestOriginalSong	seeAlso	Con Air
Con Air	hasFeature	Action Genre / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Ambiguous Gender Identity / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	And I'm the Queen of Sheba / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	And Your Little Dog, Too! / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Antiquated Linguistics / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Bird-Poop Gag / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Bros Before Hoes / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Car Cushion / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Cool Car / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Covered Up / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Creepy Uncle / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Crime of Self-Defense / int_7e0fd062
DannyTrejo	seeAlso	Con Air
Con Air	hasFeature	Death by Falling Over / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Death by Looking Up / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Decapitation Presentation / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Defiant Captive / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Description Porn / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	"Die Hard" on an X / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Dissonant Serenity / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Don't Celebrate Just Yet / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Donut Mess with a Cop / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Dragon-in-Chief / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Dragon with an Agenda / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Dutch Angle / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Elites Are More Glamorous / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Empathy Doll Shot / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Fair Cop / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Fake-Out Fade-Out / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Fake-Out Opening / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Family Extermination / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Films of 1995â€“1999 / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Foe-Tossing Charge / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Gasoline Dousing / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Genuine Human Hide / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Hairpin Lockpick / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Ham and Cheese / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Hanging Judge / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Head Crushing / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Head Hat / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	"Hey, You!" Haymaker / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Hidden Wire / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Hollywood Action Hero / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Hollywood Silencer / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Hollywood Tactics / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Horrifying the Horror / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Human Shield / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Human Weapon / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	I Won't Say I'm Guilty / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	I'm Going to Disney World! / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Improbable Infant Survival / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Inconveniently Vanishing Exonerating Evidence / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Indy Ploy / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Inferred Holocaust / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Institutional Apparel / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	"It" Is Dehumanizing / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	It Was a Gift / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Jade-Colored Glasses / int_7e0fd062
JohnCusack	seeAlso	Con Air
Con Air	hasFeature	Kill Tally / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Man on Fire / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Misplaced-Names Poster / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Mistaken for Junkie / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	More Despicable Minion / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	No-Sell / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Offstage Villainy / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Parking Payback / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Pater Familicide / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Pistol-Whipping / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Plea Bargain / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Politically Incorrect Hero / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Power of Trust / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Preserve Your Gays / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Prison Riot / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Prison Ship / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Prisons Are Gymnasiums / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Punctuated Pounding / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Pyrrhic Victory / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Ranger / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Rated M for Manly / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Redshirt Army / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Reminiscing About Your Victims / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Retired Monster / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Rhyming Names / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Same Content, Different Rating / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Serial Rapist / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Shipped in Shackles / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Shoot Out the Lock / int_7e0fd062
Sideways	seeAlso	Con Air
Con Air	hasFeature	Significant Reference Date / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Silly Love Songs / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Situational Sexuality / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Sleeves Are for Wimps / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Soft-Spoken Sadist / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Spanner in the Works / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Spiteful Spit / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Surrender Backfire / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Tattooed Crook / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	The Dreaded Pretend Tea-Party / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	The End... Or Is It? / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	The Hero Doesn't Kill the Villainess / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	The Last Thing You Ever See / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	The Precious, Precious Car / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	The Radio Dies First / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Theme Music Power-Up / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	They Knew the Risks / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	They Look Just Like Everyone Else! / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Triumphant Reprise / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	U.S. Marshal / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Unflinching Walk / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Vanity License Plate / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Vapor Trail / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Video Credits / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Viva Las Vegas! / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Vulnerable Convoy / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Watch It for the Meme / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Watch the Paint Job / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦ / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	While Rome Burns / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Wild Goose Chase / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	World of Ham / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Wrong Insult Offence / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Good News, Bad News / int_7e0fd062
Con Air	hasFeature	Planning with Props / int_7e0fd062

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