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Darkman

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119 feature instances
77 referencing feature instances

Darkman	type	TVTItem
Darkman	label	Darkman
Darkman	page	Darkman
Darkman	comment	A decade before Sam Raimi brought a certain web-head to the big screen, he created his own superhero in this 1990 film. It stars Liam Neeson as Peyton Westlake, a scientist who has invented synthetic skin that, at its current stage of development, will disintegrate after 99 minutes of exposure to sunlight. His girlfriend, Julie (Frances McDormand), runs afoul of gangster Robert G. Durant (Larry Drake) and his thugs, who have him nearly killed. Peyton, now horrifically burned, uses his own invention against the crooks as his new alter-ego, Darkman.Two sequels not starring Liam Neeson were made, Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1995) and Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996).The film was adapted to a Licensed Game by Ocean Software in 1991, which was released on Nintendo Entertainment System, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Game Boy, ZX Spectrum and Atari ST.In 1993, Marvel Comics published a 6-issue limited series written by Kurt Busiek. In 2006, Dynamite Entertainment produced a four-part Intercontinuity Crossover miniseries Darkman vs. Army of Darkness, which sees Darkman teaming up with Ash Williams from the Evil Dead franchise, written again by Busiek in addition to Roger Stern.
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Darkman / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Darkman / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: Not only does it show exactly what is going to happen to the helicopter that chases after Darkman, it also clearly depicts Strack as the Man Behind the Man, which is treated as a twist in the actual film.
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Darkman / int_16178c64	type	Gratuitous Spanish
Darkman / int_16178c64	comment	Gratuitous Spanish: Guzman, Durant's Mexican goon, indulges in this.
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Darkman / int_16bbbd7c	type	This Is What the Building Will Look Like
Darkman / int_16bbbd7c	comment	This Is What the Building Will Look Like: Strack has a glass model of his planned "City of the Future" in his office that he fawns over.
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Darkman / int_16d14f03	type	Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks
Darkman / int_16d14f03	comment	Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks: Being a scientist, Westlake has tons of beakers, flasks, test tubes and the like, most of which gets trashed. As Darkman, he salvages what he can to continue his work. Interestingly, during a Montage depicting him working, Raimi makes the interesting stylistic choice to have beakers and test tubes fly by to indicate the passage of time.
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Darkman / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Darkman / int_1843bf38	comment	Visionary Villain: Strack's desire to build the "City of the Future" and revitalize the city's economy, and in particular (as he sees it) save the grungy waterfront district from crime and decay. He just happens to be willing to bribe, cheat and murder to get the necessary building permits.
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Darkman / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Darkman / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Darkman can enunciate English quite clearly despite the fact that he has no lips.
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Darkman / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
Darkman / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: WESTLAAAAAAAAAKE!!! JUUUUUULLLLLLIIIIIEEEE!!!
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Darkman / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Darkman / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Director John Landis as a burn ward doctor and American Werewolf co-star Jenny Agutter as the nurse that gives the Lecture as Exposition about the surgeries on Peyton's body. Bruce Campbell as the final mask Westlake puts on at the end of the movie. According to Bruce Campbell, The Coen Brothers are driving Raimi's '73 Oldsmobile that Darkman yells "Watch out!" to as he's hanging from Durant's chopper. However, the two occupants look nothing like the Coen Brothers if you freeze the frame, so it might be a tall tale.
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Darkman / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
Darkman / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: Strack doesn't really seem like a guy stupid enough to just leave the one document that incriminates him lying openly on his desk, particularly when the person he got it from is a frequent guest in his office. But Julie had to learn the truth some way.
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Darkman / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Darkman / int_1e7487cd	comment	Another one occurs when Peyton dons Durant's disguise and frames him for a robbery. He stares directly into a security camera, and then we seamlessly cut to Durant in the exact same pose and vicinity but with his doorstep behind him, as he's being confronted by the police.
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Darkman / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Darkman / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Durant has sliced off a lot of fingers. It turns out that he collects them. Peyton folds back the carney's fingers like they're rubber. During Peyton's mutilation, we actually see the skin stripped from his fingers when he's forced onto the electrodes by Durant's men.
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Darkman / int_1efdc00d	type	TheAppleFallsFar
Darkman / int_1efdc00d	comment	The Apple Falls Far: 650 feet, to be precise.
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Darkman / int_1f137e42	type	Artificial Limbs
Darkman / int_1f137e42	comment	Artificial Limbs: Skip (one of Durant's henchmen) has a fake leg... which hides a machine pistol.
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Darkman / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Darkman / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The coffee-cup ring Peyton accidentally leaves on one of Julie's documents.
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Darkman / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
Darkman / int_25b5600	comment	Captain Ersatz: Darkman is an amalgamation of The Spider, The Shadow and Batman. He also might be an amalgamation of several Batman villains; namely, Two-Face, Man-Bat & Clayface.
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Darkman / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
Darkman / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: The "Dark" part of "Darkman" doesn't really apply to anything throughout the first movie. At first the viewer is meant to believe that it refers to the fact that the cells used in the synthetic skins are at their most stable in the dark, but Peyton only ever uses his disguises in the daytime, limiting himself to 99 minutes for each operation or date. The only time he operates in the dark is at the end.
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Darkman / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
Darkman / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: Durant throws Pauly out his apartment window without bothering to open it first; resulting in a fatal Car Cushion.
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Darkman / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
Darkman / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Darkman has Robert G. Durant, the thug who disfigured him.
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Darkman / int_34c67518	type	Save the Day, Turn Away
Darkman / int_34c67518	comment	Save the Day, Turn Away: Dr. Westlake won the Pink Elephant, defeated the villains, and saved the girl. But due to his transformation into a hideous berserker of faceless justice, Peyton must abandon his desire of a life with Julie. He must walk the path of the hero alone, in the darkness.
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Darkman / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Darkman / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Durant's habit of collecting fingers from people he brutalizes.
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Darkman / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Darkman / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: Why does Eddie Black have his goons burst out of boxes in cars and drive in circles around the warehouse during a gunfight? So we can watch it.
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Darkman / int_3b570d13	type	Eyes Are Unbreakable
Darkman / int_3b570d13	comment	Eyes Are Unbreakable: With all the severe facial damage Westlake gets, including being on the point-blank range of an explosion and being dipped head-first in a big vat of acid, it's impressive that he didn't get any ocular damage.
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Darkman / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Darkman / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: The treatment which made him super-humanly strong, agile, and impervious to pain also amplified his emotions to the point that he's in a near-constant state of uncontrollable rage and despair. Also, he apparently has no sense of touch due to surgery that cut off that sense so he wouldn't suffer constant agony from the burns covering his body. This in turn caused his brain to amplify his emotional responses to fill in the void left by that lack of external stimulus.
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Darkman / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Darkman / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Strack indirectly kills his own Mook in the final battle, then just shrugs indifferently and goes back to trying to kill Darkman.
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Darkman / int_3dc1e273	type	Not Enough to Bury
Darkman / int_3dc1e273	comment	Not Enough to Bury: As we learn from this exchange during Peyton's funeral:
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Darkman / int_405f7e7b	type	Armed Legs
Darkman / int_405f7e7b	comment	Armed Legs: Skip has a micro Uzi concealed in his artificial leg.
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Darkman / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Darkman / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Darkman got his revenge on the criminals who ruined his life, and Julie even wants to remain with him, but he is now a creature of the night who can never return to the normal world... or her.
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Darkman / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Darkman / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Julie gets kidnapped in the second act turning point, leaving her to be rescued by Darkman.
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Darkman / int_437820dc	type	Villainous Crush
Darkman / int_437820dc	comment	Villainous Crush: Strack has a real thing for Julie. Even after she confronts him about killing her boyfriend, he tries to coax her into forgetting about it and becoming his girlfriend.
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Darkman / int_43c77dd9	type	Hellish Copter
Darkman / int_43c77dd9	comment	Hellish Copter: How Durant meets his fate: his chopper is dragged by a truck and rammed right onto an overpass (and probably dragged a few feet into the tunnel as well).
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Darkman / int_47325888	type	Latex Perfection
Darkman / int_47325888	comment	Latex Perfection: Darkman's masks. Justified in that they are made of synthetic human skin and Westlake's devices to create them, even if looking hodgepodge, are state of the art.
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Darkman / int_48309ad4	type	Screaming Woman
Darkman / int_48309ad4	comment	Screaming Woman: A woman on the street screams after Pauly falls into a car in front of her. She screams again when she sees Darkman disguised as Pauly sitting at a bench behind her.
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Darkman / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Darkman / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Westlake had just proposed to marry his girlfriend. It seems like she was going to say 'yes' too.
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Darkman / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Darkman / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Done right before Darkman lifts Rick up a manhole onto the incoming traffic. Also, always said by Darman before crashing Durant's helicopter.
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Darkman / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
Darkman / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Pauly is usually eating, and when he isn't, he's got sauce residue in the corner of his mouth.
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Darkman / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Darkman / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: Durant is prone to these. As is Darkman.
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Darkman / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Darkman / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Durant is basically a hired crime lord to do all of Strack's dirty work.
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Darkman / int_554063c6	type	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!
Darkman / int_554063c6	comment	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Subverted. As mentioned above, Strack tries to save himself by invoking this trope. But Darkman is okay with that. The villains in the sequels are under the assumptions that Darkman doesn't kill. Darkman himself also seems to be under that delusion that he doesn't kill bad guys, even though he lethally disposes of every villain he comes across.
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Darkman / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Darkman / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: Peyton becomes a disfigured and slightly unstable individual following his accident and surgeries, and hides his face in bandages and wears black trench coat and fedora hat, but he's still our protagonist who wants vengeance against the normal looking but murderous corporate Big Bad Strack.
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Darkman / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
Darkman / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: Peyton finds a stray Russian Blue cat when he moves his equipment to the abandoned factory, which reacts to his approaching with a swipe and hiss. Despite this, probably due to being deprived of any other company, Peyton still keeps it around and feeds it as if it were his pet.
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Darkman / int_5963b221	type	Eviler than Thou
Darkman / int_5963b221	comment	Eviler than Thou: Durant is a lot more vicious than the gang leader at the beginning.
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Darkman / int_5b6e57e	type	Required Secondary Powers
Darkman / int_5b6e57e	comment	Required Secondary Powers: Since Darkman is missing roughly 40% of his skin, he pretty much needs a Healing Factor, or he'd keel over from various horrible diseases and the injuries he sustains in battle.
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Darkman / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Darkman / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Strack dies by plummeting from the skyscraper.
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Darkman / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Darkman / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: The side effect of the surgeries Darkman undergoes to allow him to do anything without feeling crippling amounts of pain.
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Darkman / int_649f5bec	type	Creepy Souvenir
Darkman / int_649f5bec	comment	Creepy Souvenir: Durant uses his cigar cutter to cut fingers off of his victims. He keeps a collection of these fingers in a cigar box.
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Darkman / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
Darkman / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: Peyton's severely burnt face. Only the upper left part of his face survived, he has no lips thus fully revealing his teeth and part of his skull.
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Darkman / int_67792344	type	Grievous Bottley Harm
Darkman / int_67792344	comment	Grievous Bottley Harm: Yakitito is knocked out when Durant's thugs smash a laboratory flask over his head.
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Darkman / int_67a70f33	type	Creepy Circus Music
Darkman / int_67a70f33	comment	To top it all off, "Carnival From Hell" is quite the Creepy Circus Music that starts off normal and gradually turns more chaotic and menacing as Peyton is losing it.
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Darkman / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
Darkman / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: Most of the villains just love being evil. They'll crack huge grins and guffaw as they're firing guns, shooting rivets, or torturing scientists. Darkman himself isn't immune.
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Darkman / int_6858aca8	type	Punctuated Pounding
Darkman / int_6858aca8	comment	Punctuated Pounding: Darkman shouts "You have been a bad boy!" at Smiley and punctuates each word with a punch.
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Darkman / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Darkman / int_685a6461	comment	Circus of Fear: The carnival that Peyton and his girlfriend attend starts developing these vibes when Peyton starts to lose it to rage, rushing to get away before his mask dissolves and some apropos overheard advertising ("A freak, gentlemen! He's a freak!"). The carnival also has funhouse mirrors, in which the spectators' distorted reflections seem to be mocking Peyton. Also not helping is the carnival barker unveiling a deformed freak that was the result of a lab accident ("He's a freak!"), right when Peyton was about to tell Julie the truth. This caused him to chicken out at the last minute. To top it all off, "Carnival From Hell" is quite the Creepy Circus Music that starts off normal and gradually turns more chaotic and menacing as Peyton is losing it.
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Darkman / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Darkman / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Eddie Black is the only black character with any dialogue. Skip has a wooden leg and has to hop around whenever it's been taken off.
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Darkman / int_756ec016	type	Construction Zone Calamity
Darkman / int_756ec016	comment	Construction Zone Calamity: The climax of the film takes place at the top of one of Strack's buildings under construction. It's justified in that Strack is very agile and has a better sense of balance since he's been around construction zones of his dad's projects as a kid, resulting in him having the upper hand on Darkman for most of the final battle.
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Darkman / int_773b0523	type	Impaled Palm
Darkman / int_773b0523	comment	Impaled Palm: Darkman gets a rivet shot into his hand during the climax, pinning him to the beam behind him.
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Darkman / int_7860d036	type	Get It Over With
Darkman / int_7860d036	comment	Get It Over With: Strack while Darkman is dangling him, combined with You Wouldn't Shoot Me via Evil Gloating. Unfortunately for him, he picked a wrong moment to think Peyton is The Cape...
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Darkman / int_79e07b47	type	Lecture as Exposition
Darkman / int_79e07b47	comment	Lecture as Exposition: The speech given to the medical students about Peyton's condition, explaining the procedure that was done to him to eliminate his capacity to feel pain and the side-effects (inhuman strength, turning the patient into an emotionally unbalanced berserker) that ensue.
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Darkman / int_7ef9fa03	type	Expanded Universe
Darkman / int_7ef9fa03	comment	Expanded Universe: There are two sequels, a Novelization, which started a short-lived series by the same author, a Comic-Book Adaptation, a Comic Book miniseries by Kurt Busiek, a television pilot, a video game, and a comic book crossover with Evil Dead, also co-written by Busiek.
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Darkman / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Darkman / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: For Durant when using the cigar cutter.
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Darkman / int_8448fdd0	type	Superhero
Darkman / int_8448fdd0	comment	Super Hero: A rare example that is native to the film medium.
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Darkman / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Darkman / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Skip disappears after Durant's death. There was a scene of Darkman killing him with his own prosthetic leg. With the scene cut, Skip avoids any retribution.
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Darkman / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
Darkman / int_87ede6fc	comment	That Man Is Dead: "Peyton is gone."
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Darkman / int_889cff96	type	Quirky Miniboss Squad
Darkman / int_889cff96	comment	Quirky Miniboss Squad: Durant's crew. To a lesser extent, his replacement crew in the sequel.
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Darkman / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
Darkman / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License â€“ Medicine: The spinothalamic tract is stated to transmit pain and vibration. It actually transmits pain and temperature. Also, this tract only conveys such sensory information from the neck down. Peyton should still be in considerable agony from his burned face, which transmits its sensations to the brain via the trigeminal nerves. And we know those couldn't have been cut as well, because he can still open and close his mouth. The synthetic skin cells are stated to have a membrane potential of 122 megavolts. Human cell membrane potential is measured in millivolts, making this off by a factor of a billion. Having the muscles on the fingers burnt down to the bone as shown with Westlake would render them almost completely immobile. The skin on and around Darkman's right eyelid is completely burned, but he still has eyelashes. Julie's hands would have been ripped off if she'd gotten her handcuffs stuck after falling a dozen stories.
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Darkman / int_934937b2	type	Bluff the Impostor
Darkman / int_934937b2	comment	Bluff the Impostor: Strack makes a reference to Durant's children, and Durant asserts that they look up to him. Strack then reveals that Durant doesn't actually have any kids, exposing him as Darkman in disguise.
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Darkman / int_94cc2c28	type	Exact Time to Failure
Darkman / int_94cc2c28	comment	Exact Time to Failure: 99 minutes of sunlight exposure until the synthetic skin breaks down. This is extended in the second movie by further research and development, but restored in the third film when Darkman loses some of his research.
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Darkman / int_95680e79	type	Cardboard Box Home
Darkman / int_95680e79	comment	Cardboard Box Home: Westlake takes shelter in a cardboard box after escaping from the hospital. When the box blows away during a storm, he is driven to seek out the remains of his old laboratory.
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Darkman / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Darkman / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Durant gets increasingly rattled by Darkman, shooting at him in broad daylight and eventually blowing up a police helicopter.
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Darkman / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Darkman / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Strack. Durant and Rooker make up for the sequel films respectably.
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Darkman / int_98c80fe5	type	Hour of Power
Darkman / int_98c80fe5	comment	Hour of Power: Darkman's masks last exactly 99 minutes from the moment of first exposure to any kind of bright light. Peyton's quest for them lasting longer for so much as a minute is a constant sub-plot throughout the entire franchise.
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Darkman / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Darkman / int_9ae85487	comment	Dr. Jerk: The surgeon who performed the operation on Peyton. While she did save his life, it's evident she did it more For Science! than out of altruism, and sees him as more of an experiment than a person. She stabs him to demonstrate to her students that he can't feel pain and even callously jokes that she doesn't think he has much of a chance for rehabilitation or survival.
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Darkman / int_9af54b9d	type	Double Take
Darkman / int_9af54b9d	comment	Double Take: When the woman sees Darkman-disguised-as-Pauly, she looks back at the real Pauly's dead body, and back at Darkman, and then she starts screaming.
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Darkman / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
Darkman / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: Durant sets the lab to explode using a drinking bird. Later, Darkman does the same with his makeshift lab to Durant's mook Smiley. Smiley tries to stop it but it's a hologram. He keeps trying to grab it, and finds out too late that touching the hologram enough times sets off the real bomb very quickly.
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Darkman / int_9c6da41b	type	Spot the Imposter
Darkman / int_9c6da41b	comment	Spot the Imposter: Happens when Darkman is imitating one of the gangsters. Darkman's tumbled when his face starts to melt.
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Darkman / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Darkman / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Darkman can get hurt, but since he can't feel pain and has lost all sense of touch, tends to ignore it. It's driven home at one point when he accidentally lights his hand on fire while working... and doesn't notice for several seconds. The Mooks that were hooked on the Psycho Serum that Rooker had created in Die Darkman Die, because they have "Darkman's superhuman DNA".
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Darkman / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Darkman / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Our main character is a serial Mood-Swinger, and many scenes reflect this. A fine example is the carnival scene. It starts off wholesome with Peyton and Julie enjoying themselves, then it goes South when a carnie refuses to give Peyton a stuffed elephant toy prize for not staying behind the line, Peyton's patience deteriorates while the score becomes an increasingly intense Creepy Circus Music... until it gets hilarious when Peyton finally grabs the jerk's fingers and breaks them, with a silly extreme close-up Reaction Shot of the guy screaming in pain, Peyton screaming in rage, Julie screaming in horror, and topped with Liam Neeson at his hammiest angrily commanding her "Take the fuckin' elephant!" right as his mask bubbles and begins its decay, at which point the next scene becomes more somber/tragic when he's forced to run and hide from her.
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Darkman / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Darkman / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: In the opening sequence, Durant and his men just stand in the middle of a whole bunch of goons with guns pointed at them. A big firefight erupts, and when the dust settles, they're all still standing and all the goons are dead.
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Darkman / int_aa87556f	type	Orange/Blue Contrast
Darkman / int_aa87556f	comment	Orange/Blue Contrast: The film's poster has it, as shown at the top of the page. Made before it became common in movie posters.
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Darkman / int_aac4eeae	type	Same Language Dub
Darkman / int_aac4eeae	comment	Same Language Dub: Bruce Campbell dubbed Liam Neeson in some scenes. Especially when he meets Julie on the street and says "JUUUUUUUULLLLIIEEEEE! IT'S MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
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Darkman / int_ab176783	type	Nail 'Em
Darkman / int_ab176783	comment	Nail 'Em: Strack wields a rivet gun in the construction site battle that concludes the original film.
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Darkman / int_ac560dc4	type	Save the Villain
Darkman / int_ac560dc4	comment	Save the Villain: Awesomely subverted as Darkman holds Strack by the ankle over the edge of the rooftop.
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Darkman / int_aebe18ab	type	Pet Rat
Darkman / int_aebe18ab	comment	Pet Rat: Durant is Strack's enforcer.
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Darkman / int_affa0e5d	type	Bling-Bling-BANG!
Darkman / int_affa0e5d	comment	Bling-Bling-BANG!: Durant's henchman Rick carries a .380 automatic that is silvered with filigree work all over it.
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Darkman / int_b5c562be	type	Face Framed in Shadow
Darkman / int_b5c562be	comment	Face Framed in Shadow: Usually done to hide what remained of...
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Darkman / int_b901ef97	type	Forgotten Fallen Friend
Darkman / int_b901ef97	comment	Forgotten Fallen Friend: Peyton has a lab assistant, Yakky, with whom he seems to be fairly close. During the event that disfigures Peyton, Durant's men also kill Yakky in front of him, but Peyton doesn't bring him up at all during his Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Granted, considering Peyton's deteriorating mental state during the film it's possible he literally forgot.
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Darkman / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
Darkman / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: The movie makes it pretty clear that the only thing separating Westlake and his nemeses is that he's bumping off "bad" people. The That Man Is Dead speech in the finale underlines the point.
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Darkman / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Darkman / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: "Take the fucking elephant!"
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Darkman / int_be5ada51	type	Sniping the Cockpit
Darkman / int_be5ada51	comment	Sniping the Cockpit: Durant kills four gangsters during the opening by shooting two car drivers, who crash their cars, killing their friends riding shotgun.
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Darkman / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Darkman / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Darkman is a Pragmatic, frequently slipping into Unscrupulous.
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Darkman / int_c1df018f	type	Win Her a Prize
Darkman / int_c1df018f	comment	Win Her a Prize: While the main character Peyton and his girlfriend visit a carnival, he plays a game to try and win a pink elephant doll for her. However he argues with an employee over whether he rightly won the prize or not, which results in Peyton gruesomely twisting the carnie's fingers.
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Darkman / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
Darkman / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: Eddie Black's goons drive around in cars during a gunfight inside a warehouse. They run over a few people in the process but are largely ineffective.
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Darkman / int_c3245c20	type	I Lied
Darkman / int_c3245c20	comment	I Lied: Played with in this exchange:
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Darkman / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Darkman / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Originally a milquetoast personality, Peyton undergoes surgeries that remove the volume control knob from his emotions, turning him into a loud, violent rageaholic with Super-Strength whose heart is as big as his temper and just as sensitive. He still possesses the know-how from his days as a scientist, though.
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Darkman / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
Darkman / int_c36cba70	comment	The Mooks that were hooked on the Psycho Serum that Rooker had created in Die Darkman Die, because they have "Darkman's superhuman DNA".
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Darkman / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
Darkman / int_c54d550d	comment	The fate of Rick in the Novelization and Comic-Book Adaptation, after seeing Darkman's face and being interrogated by him. Possibly also his fate in the original story concept, as novelizations tend to be based on such things.
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Darkman / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Darkman / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Implied to be the fate of the Mook who falls down the building in the film's climax. The movie made a point of setting up those rebars at the bottom.
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Darkman / int_ca04edd6	type	Charles Atlas Superpower
Darkman / int_ca04edd6	comment	Charles Atlas Superpower: Darkman can imitate anyone, provided he has a sample of their voice and a lot of time to practice.
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Darkman / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Darkman / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Strack. Visionary Villain (he sees his projects as a window to the future and a revival of the district), but he's also power-mad ("I built it all!") and pretty willing to kill and seduce his way to the top (with a wife he himself killed as one of his first stepping stones).
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Darkman / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
Darkman / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title
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Darkman / int_cf48c17	type	Nightmare Face
Darkman / int_cf48c17	comment	Nightmare Face: Darkman's real face, after Durant's goons are done with him. Only one part of his skin remains without some burns and it's deadly pale, and on a couple of spots the burns are bad enough that you can see bone.
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Darkman / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Darkman / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: Protagonist Title.
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Darkman / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Darkman / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Julie was disturbed seeing Peyton's face mask dissolve. Then she calls out to him (who's hiding) that he should have told her the truth sooner and that she would have understood.
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Darkman / int_d4bcc4c5	type	I Can Live With That
Darkman / int_d4bcc4c5	comment	I Can Live With That: A memorable variation. Strack in the end tries to convince Darkman not to kill him by claiming the latter would be unable to live with himself. Darkman kills him anyway, quipping "I'm learning to live with a lot of things" as a Bond One-Liner.
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Darkman / int_d6b5863	type	Driven to Madness
Darkman / int_d6b5863	comment	Driven to Madness: Westlake's rebirth as a Super Hero is born from a massive trauma-induced mental breakdown. The fate of Rick in the Novelization and Comic-Book Adaptation, after seeing Darkman's face and being interrogated by him. Possibly also his fate in the original story concept, as novelizations tend to be based on such things.
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Darkman / int_d8d22bb0	type	Dutch Angle
Darkman / int_d8d22bb0	comment	Dutch Angle: Used frequently to give the film a wild, off-kilter aesthetic.
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Darkman / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Darkman / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: When Pauly crashes into the car roof, the shots of the screaming woman show bystanders reacting and gawking. In the shots of Darkman sitting beside her, the bystanders behind him aren't paying any attention.
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Darkman / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Darkman / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: When Darkman stumbles back home, he arrives just in time to see Julie walking down the sidewalk.
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Darkman / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
Darkman / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: It's implied that Durant and Ricky are a gay couple. Durant attends a fancy soiree with Ricky and offers to fetch him a cocktail, which Ricky warmly accepts. Ricky sports a gold and gem-encrusted gun that might be a gift from Durant. After killing Yakihito, Ricky seems shocked, implying that it's not something he's done before. Afterward, Durant grabs him and tells him he's proud of him. After Ricky goes missing, Skip says Durant is looking for him and "likes" him. All of this suggests that Durant has taken Ricky under his wing as a lover, or at least a protege. If Ricky were gay, it would also explain why Durant buys the idea that he's running away with Pauly. Durant is said to be married, but he also has no children.
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Darkman / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Darkman / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: The carney who refuses to give Peyton his prize and calls him "weirdo".
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Darkman / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
Darkman / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: One of the more brilliant: Julie watching the explosion slowly match cuts to her at Peyton's funeral. Another one occurs when Peyton dons Durant's disguise and frames him for a robbery. He stares directly into a security camera, and then we seamlessly cut to Durant in the exact same pose and vicinity but with his doorstep behind him, as he's being confronted by the police.
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Darkman / int_ee4286cd	type	Leave Him to Me!
Darkman / int_ee4286cd	comment	Leave Him to Me!: Darkman attempts to wave off the police helicopter chasing Durant, intent on killing Durant himself.
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Darkman / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
Darkman / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: The film reads like a Deconstruction of the '90s Anti-Hero, despite being made when the trope was just starting to take hold. Darkman himself embodies many of the trope's characteristics in that he's Covered in Scars, brooding and psychotic, uses lethal force, has a one word, gritty name, and has few heroic qualities; but also subverts it in that he's a scientist of average build instead of a macho guy, has no actual fighting skills, relies on ambushing and deceiving his enemies instead of weapons and brute force, and is generally more like a classic movie monster than a Super Hero. In addition, the film portrays him as a tragic figure instead of an awesome badass: The attack that scarred him also left him homeless and in deep despair, the treatment that gave him his powers made things worse by taking away his sense of touch and leaving him emotionally unstable, his quest for vengeance weighs on him greatly due to how morally compromising it is, and his one Hope Spot for getting Julie and his old life back fails because he has succumbed to He Who Fights Monsters, which he acknowledges to her at the end of the film.
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Darkman / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
Darkman / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Evil Plan: Louis Strack, Jr. seeks to wipe out the slums of his city and rebuild new, fancy buildings in the process. Seems reasonably well-intentioned, but he's willing to bribe and kill to do it.
Darkman / int_f2d8e3c2	featureApplicability	1.0
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Darkman	hasFeature	Darkman / int_f2d8e3c2
Darkman / int_f791e275	type	Roadside Wave
Darkman / int_f791e275	comment	Roadside Wave: In a 'blink and you'll miss it' moment, Westlake gets soaked by a car driving through a puddle as he is trying to cross the road after escaping the hospital.
Darkman / int_f791e275	featureApplicability	1.0
Darkman / int_f791e275	featureConfidence	1.0
Darkman	hasFeature	Darkman / int_f791e275
Darkman / int_f97ab6a5	type	Suicidal Overconfidence
Darkman / int_f97ab6a5	comment	Suicidal Overconfidence: Played with. Strack actually chooses his ground against Peyton quite well, as he has experience in skyscraper construction.
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Darkman	hasFeature	Darkman / int_f97ab6a5
Darkman / int_fada6ffa	type	Lost in a Crowd
Darkman / int_fada6ffa	comment	Lost in a Crowd: Peyton vanishes from Julie in this manner at the end...by turning into Bruce Campbell.
Darkman / int_fada6ffa	featureApplicability	1.0
Darkman / int_fada6ffa	featureConfidence	1.0
Darkman	hasFeature	Darkman / int_fada6ffa
Darkman / int_fb933192	type	Car Cushion
Darkman / int_fb933192	comment	Car Cushion: Pauly lands on a car, though it doesn't save his life.
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Darkman / int_fb933192	featureConfidence	1.0
Darkman	hasFeature	Darkman / int_fb933192
Darkman / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Darkman / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: Julie falls and gets her handcuffs stuck on a metal bar that would have bisected her before it caught between her cuffed wrists. Durant sets a time bomb by releasing gas and then setting a drinking bird beside a lighter, so that, after a few minutes, the drinking bird's beak dips low enough to spark the lighter and ignite the gas. However, the drinking bird's dipping motion would only get shallower over time rather than deeper.
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Darkman / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Darkman / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: In the climax, Strack says that it was "just him and the Indians" who worked on high steel construction. In fact, Native Americans of the Mohawk tribe really have had a disproportionate representation in the ironworking trade, with high steel construction in particular.
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Army of Darkness / Comicbook	seeAlso	Darkman
Darkman vs. Army of Darkness / Comicbook	seeAlso	Darkman
DarkMan	sameAs	Darkman
Darkman	hasFeature	Armed Legs / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Artistic License â€“ Medicine / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Bandaged Face / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Bling-Bling-BANG! / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Building Swing / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Came Back with a Vengeance / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Car Cushion / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Cardboard Box Home / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Cast the Runner-Up / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Character Title / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Chopper on Standby / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Climbing Climax / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Coat, Hat, Mask / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Combo Platter Powers / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Construction Zone Calamity / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Covered with Scars / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Creepy Souvenir / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Destination Defenestration / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Disguised Hostage Gambit / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Enhance Button / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Evil Plan / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Exact Time to Failure / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Expanded Universe / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Extended Disarming / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Eyes Are Unbreakable / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Face Framed in Shadow / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Faux Symbolism / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Feel No Pain / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Grenade Launcher / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Grievous Bottley Harm / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Hollywood Healing / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Hour of Power / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	I Am Not Leonard Nimoy / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Immunity Disability / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Kill Him Already! / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Kindhearted Cat Lover / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Latex Perfection / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Lawful Evil / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Leg Cannon / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Lost in a Crowd / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Low Clearance / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Magic Floppy Disk / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Masking the Deformity / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Master of Disguise / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Money Fetish / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Not Enough to Bury / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Orange/Blue Contrast / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Pet Rat / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Psycho Serum / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Punctuated Pounding / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Reed Richards Is Useless / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Save the Day, Turn Away / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Scale Model Destruction / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Scaramanga Special / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Science Is Bad / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Sense Loss Sadness / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Snap Back / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Something Person / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Spared by the Cut / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Spot the Imposter / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Superhero Horror / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	The Cameo / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	The Grotesque / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	This Is What the Building Will Look Like / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Uninhibited Muscle Power / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Visionary Villain / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Weirdness Censor / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	What Have I Become? / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Win Her a Prize / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Good News, Bad News / int_6138216a
Darkman	hasFeature	Mutilation Interrogation / int_6138216a

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