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Death Race

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Death Race	label	Death Race
Death Race	page	DeathRace
Death Race	comment	Death Race is a 2008 American action thriller film produced, written, and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.Jensen Ames (Jason Statham) finds himself in prison, forced to compete in the Death Race, a brutal three-day closed-course pay-per-view event. The race features armored cars with machine guns, flamethrowers, missiles, oil slicks, smokescreens and everything else a group of prison thug grease-monkeys can think to attach to a vehicle...A much Darker and Edgier film than the original Death Race 2000, which was more of a grisly comedy. The 2008 version did away with everything in the original except the theme of a killer car race, the names of the two champions (Frankenstein and Machine Gun Joe) and the fact that Frankenstein was not the original, but another driver in the same mask. As a quick tribute, David Carradine, who was Frankenstein in the old film, voiced "Old Frank" in this one (for a couple of lines).A Direct to Video prequel, Death Race 2: Frankenstein Lives was released in 2010, and a DTV sequel to the prequel, Death Race 3: Inferno was released in 2013. The prequels follow Carl "Luke" Lucas (Luke Goss), a bookie and bank robber who becomes Death Race's first champion and the original Frankenstein. Most recently, an actual sequel to the 2008 film, Death Race: Beyond Anarchy, released in 2018, picks up the story some years after Jensen's tenure as Frankenstein.For the Rooster Teeth-created web series of the same name, see the page for its parent series DEATH BATTLE!
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Death Race / int_1397e10d	type	Rage Against the Reflection
Death Race / int_1397e10d	comment	Rage Against the Reflection: During the ending in Death Race 2, Frankenstein punches the mirror after watching his face disfigured.
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Death Race / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Death Race / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The film is this compared to the original. The original played the concept for Black Comedy, whereas the 2008 film and its sequels played it as a gritty action movie.
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Death Race / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Death Race / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate:
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Death Race / int_16ccd84b	type	The Old Convict
Death Race / int_16ccd84b	comment	The Old Convict: Coach. His sentence was actually over years ago, but he stays in prison because he has nowhere else to go. Played by Ian McShane! Baltimore Bob in the fifth movie.
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Death Race / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Death Race / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Done by the "promos" in the first film.
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Death Race / int_19d8d325	type	Darkest Africa
Death Race / int_19d8d325	comment	Darkest Africa: The setting of the third movie, with the inmates residing at a prison in the Kalahari desert. The prisoners work in mines and the guards keep hyenas as guard dogs. During the races, local bandits even fulfill the classic "angry/savage natives" role. Interestingly, it was shot on location, and Satana, the guards, and all of the new drivers are played by local talent.
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Death Race / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
Death Race / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: Hennessy's plans fail because she was so confident in her control of the situation that she never even considered the idea that Jensen would come up with a clear plan to fight back, allowing Jensen and others to get out of the prison with everything he needs to regain custody of his daughter while leaving her to be destroyed by a bomb she tried to plant on Frankenstein's car.
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Death Race / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Death Race / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Jason Statham in the first film. A naked Luke Goss in the prequel.
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Death Race / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Death Race / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: David Carradine makes a cameo voice-over as the previous Frankenstein.
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Death Race / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
Death Race / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: York grasps it with a firm hand throughout the third film, consistently trying to screw over not just Frank and crew, but every character he interacts with personally, firing both his Beleaguered Assistant and The Dragon of the film, along with Weyland, consequently, all of them team up and the film ends with them mangling York so he can't be recognized and him becomin the new Frankenstein, just in time for the cold open of the first Death Race, in which we know he dies.
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Death Race / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Death Race / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Frankenstein doesn't talk to the other drivers to preserve the mystique.
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Death Race / int_1e4a1e0e	type	I Owe You My Life
Death Race / int_1e4a1e0e	comment	I Owe You My Life: Exploited by Luke in the second film by saving 14K from another racer: 14K's Triad has a "life for a life" code and this way he has a favor to cash in later. He does so by asking 14K to send someone to kill his old boss Marcus Kane.
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Death Race / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Death Race / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: After Coach detonates the bomb that kills Hennessey, he looks straight to the camera and says "I love this game."
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Death Race / int_21768d3f	type	Seduction-Proof Marriage
Death Race / int_21768d3f	comment	Seduction-Proof Marriage: Due to his relationship with Katrina, Luke doesn't sleep with Amber when she's sent over specifically to have sex with him in the third film.
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Death Race / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Death Race / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: In the first film Hennessey has her Dragon wire Frankenstein's car to blow, and he does so by... ordering his pit crew out of the space during prep time and sticking a simplistic and very obvious bomb to the car's undercarriage. The car belonging to a head mechanic so attached to the vehicle he remains in prison voluntarily. How did he think it wouldn't be found and disarmed?
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Death Race / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
Death Race / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: The seat ejector. First used in the prologue by Case to escape the "Monster" before Machine Gun Joe blows it up with the old Frankenstein still in it, then used in the first race to toss the napalm canister out of the car, and this alongside the lighter sets one of the racers on fire. The third time it becomes important is in the second race, when Jensen threatens to use it to hurl Case out of the car (with a high chance of her getting splattered on the low ceiling they're racing under) unless she confesses that she sabotaged the old Frankenstein.
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Death Race / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Death Race / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The cigarette lighter. First presented as a gag ("the most important part of the car") then used alongside the napalm to set a racer on fire. When Grimm crashes, his car is smashed partway through the wall before falling to the raceway again. Coach looks at the footage and sees the bridge directly behind that wall, so Jensen uses Machine Gun Joe's rockets to blast a hole there so they can escape.
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Death Race / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Death Race / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Jensen gives one of these to Pachenko, for good reason.
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Death Race / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Death Race / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Aside from the character nicknames, Frankenstein runs over a race official at the beginning of a race: Lucas killing September Jones in revenge for declaring him dead and forcing him to be Frankenstein.
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Death Race / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Death Race / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Most likely The Warden in the 2008 film, who in public appears to be an affable businesswoman, but shows to be ruthless when it comes to keep the Death Race. Definitely September Jones in the Direct to Video prequel, who really went out of her way to make Carl Lucas' life miserable.
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Death Race / int_2767953f	type	Blood Sport
Death Race / int_2767953f	comment	Blood Sport: The glorious, gory idea behind the Death Races themselves: a race on an island prison, where the competitors are death row inmates racing for their freedom.note The movie's introduction makes it clear that the private prison industry started with classic gladiator games, which worked fairly well until the public got bored.
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Death Race / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Death Race / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: In the second movie its unclear if Sheikh and Apache's navigators survived or not. Sheikh's car crashed messily after he was killed, but it was still in one piece and not in flames, and Apache survived his car rolling over before he got run down anyway, so his navigator might have too.
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Death Race / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Death Race / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: 14K. Especially his dying words (in English, translated with an equivalent Chinese phrase in the subtitles).
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Death Race / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Death Race / int_2a090d00	comment	Pretty much all of Machine Gun Joe's navigators. Lampshaded by Ames' pit crew when they say that Joe had lost so many female navigators, it squicked out even Death Race's target audience and they started giving him male navigators instead. One poor bastard is smart enough about it that he had to be forced into Joe's truck kicking and screaming.
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Death Race / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Death Race / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: Averted; given that Machine Gun Joe is Frankenstein's rival and is presented as something of an asshole who regularly kills off his navigators, it seems apparent that he will die in the climatic final race with Jensen. Instead they team up and even run off to Mexico together (though Case turns up to reassure the audience about Jensen's sexuality).
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Death Race / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
Death Race / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: Travis Colt turns out to be this. A little more attention is paid to him in the promos, and it's mentioned he's a record-holding ex-NASCAR driver which makes him "technically the best" out of the group. They set him up to be a long-runner, and he gets napalmed in the first race. 14K and Grimm also fall under this trope.
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Death Race / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Death Race / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Warden Hennessey is a female correctional officer presiding over a prison filled with murderers and rapists. Her first scene has her take an unguarded walk through the yard, with not a single convict daring to lay a hand on her. One of them declares to his buddy his love for how ruthless she is.
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Death Race / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Death Race / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: This happens to the Warden, to the point where she starts swearing... and "foul language is an issue" for her.
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Death Race / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Death Race / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: Machine Gun Joe's rig is likely the best example, with four .30 caliber machine guns on the hood and two 20 mm autocannons mounted to the sides of the truck bed. For the record, those last two are typically mounted on fighter planes and helicopters. He even steps it up a notch for the last race by kitting the roof out with multiple RPG-7 rocket launchers. Taken up a step with the Dreadnought. At least six .50 BMG M2 machine guns, two M134 miniguns, a double-barrel flamethrower, and a goddamn tank turret mounted to the back.
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Death Race / int_2b9affed	type	Dirty Business
Death Race / int_2b9affed	comment	Dirty Business: Case is in prison because she killed a cop... a cop that was a lousy husband of hers, that is.
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Death Race / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
Death Race / int_2d363f63	comment	Frame-Up: Jensen didn't kill his wife; Hennessey had Pachenko do it for her so she could get Jensen to be Death Race's new star.
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Death Race / int_2da1421	type	Booby Trap
Death Race / int_2da1421	comment	A rare non-videogame example. The cars' weapons are initially locked and must be activated by running over magnetically-active pads with simple symbols: sword for offensive, shield for defensive and such. But the skull pads activate a Booby Trap.
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Death Race / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Death Race / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Machine Gun Joe. Inmates are terrified of him. Weyland in the prequels, by virtue of being played by the hulking Ving Rhames. Big Bill in 2, the most dangerous fighter in Death Match.
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Death Race / int_317f259c	type	Urban Hellscape
Death Race / int_317f259c	comment	Beyond Anarchy has The Sprawl, a sealed-off abandoned Urban Hellscape not unlike Manhattan Penitentiary. Prisoners are just dumped there and left to die at the hands of the gangs the more blood-thirsty surviving prisoners have formed.
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Death Race / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Death Race / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Pachenko pretends to be this; he tells the prisoners in the chow hall that Jensen was a wife-killer and a "kiddie rapist." This from an Aryan White Supremacist and mass murderer, who killed Jensen's wife on the Warden's orders. In the third movie, everyone is really creeped out by Psycho, who makes everything uncomfortably sexual, and it's implied he's in prison for sex crimes in the first place.
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Death Race / int_322f6b34	type	Angsty Surviving Twin
Death Race / int_322f6b34	comment	Angsty Surviving Twin: Joker's navigator in the third movie is one of a pair of serial killer twins. Her sister dies in her arms during the "Navigator Wars" competition, and she's very brooding and antisocial afterwards.
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Death Race / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Death Race / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: The Warden, at the end. Who despises profanity.
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Death Race / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Death Race / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: Sole reason this is fun. Well, that and Case.
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Death Race / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Death Race / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: The Warden, while clearly in control, walks a very dangerous line. If Frankenstein wins, she is rid of Machine Gun Joe, activates the bomb, and finds herself a new Frank. If Joe wins, she is rid of Jensen, finds herself a new Frank, and disposes of Joe during his fifth race. If Frankenstein agrees to stay on board after his fifth win, she's guaranteed a long and continuous payday. One thing prevents it from being a Xanatos Gambit. The fail condition? If Jensen reveals her "dirty little secret" to anyone. That gave him an incredible amount of power that he ultimately decided not to use, and instead escaped and had her blown sky high.
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Death Race / int_3a4898fb	type	Power-Up
Death Race / int_3a4898fb	comment	Power-Up: A rare non-videogame example. The cars' weapons are initially locked and must be activated by running over magnetically-active pads with simple symbols: sword for offensive, shield for defensive and such. But the skull pads activate a Booby Trap. The second and third movies both have cage fights (which were the predecesors of the Death Race) where fighters step on sword panels to get weapons, as well. The third movie switches it up — there are no defensive power-ups or traps, and to get your weapons activated you have to drive through a gate rather than over a pad. And some of the gates can only be used once.
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Death Race / int_3a552069	type	Kill Tally
Death Race / int_3a552069	comment	Kill Tally: Joe carves a mark with a razor on his cheek for every life he takes on the track as a penance for breaking the "Thou Shalt Not Kill" commandment.
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Death Race / int_3b39c254	type	Dystopia
Death Race / int_3b39c254	comment	Dystopia: High crime and unemployment rates, and a high-rated television program is people murdering each other.
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Death Race / int_3eb8ba12	type	Description Porn
Death Race / int_3eb8ba12	comment	Description Porn: Nearly everything Lists describes gets this treatment, such as the RPG-7s on Machine Gun Joe's truck and the other drivers.
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Death Race / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Death Race / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: Of course. It's a car movie so there are cars exploding all over the place. Considering the entire point of the titular race, the cars may have been altered to invoke this trope, or some of the weapons the cars house might cause it to happen. It doesn't explain how many civilian cars outside the prison are Pintos, though.
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Death Race / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Death Race / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: The Warden in the 2008 film. Markus Kane, and especially, September Jones in the 2010 prequel.
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Death Race / int_453f4b1	type	Condemned Contestant
Death Race / int_453f4b1	comment	Condemned Contestant: The drivers of the Death Race are convicts that are promised freedom if they can win five events but the people running Death Race have no intention of letting anyone get to that point.
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Death Race / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
Death Race / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: Machine Gun Joe is shown to play this straight with all his male navigators.
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Death Race / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Death Race / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger:
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Death Race / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Death Race / int_49f20c6a	comment	The precise reason why Machine Gun Joe gets male navigators. Also played straight with the drivers. The women are used as body fodder just as much as the men, but it's only fully averted when 14K's navigator dies up close. The rest of the girls get a Gory Discretion Shot.
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Death Race / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
Death Race / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: It's a film about a modern gladiator game where prisoners, all badass racers with nicknames such as "Frankenstein" and "Machine Gun Joe," compete in a race in which track is littered with all kinds of deadly traps while accompained by hot babes as navigators. Oh, and the first film's protagonist is Jason Statham, and one of his crew is Ian McShane. The sequels didn't bring them back, but brough Danny Trejo and Ving Rhames for compensation. Can you feel it, dudes?!
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Death Race / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Death Race / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Hennessey, all the way. She thinks of herself as The Chessmaster, which she would be, if her methods weren't so overt, which eventually brings her to a foul-mouthed Villainous Breakdown before her demise.
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Death Race / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Death Race / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Played straight and subverted multiple times, but most notably:
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Death Race / int_52ae74d	type	Undercover Cop Reveal
Death Race / int_52ae74d	comment	Undercover Cop Reveal: Connor and Gipsy Rose in the fourth movie.
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Death Race / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Death Race / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: Everybody initially gets the wrong idea when Jensen tells Case to get on his lap, including an uncomfortable Case.
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Death Race / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Death Race / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The second movie starts with an unnamed but attractive woman swimming in Marcus Kane's swimming pool at his mansion. Within a few minutes of the end, we go back to said pool, only this time, thanks to Triad honour, Kane's body is floating in it while the gunman puts a few extra bullets into him just to be sure.
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Death Race / int_5327b609	type	Badass Driver
Death Race / int_5327b609	comment	Badass Driver: Frankenstein and Machine Gun Joe. The other drivers would be... if they lasted longer. 14K becomes one in the prequels, he's also the last of the other drivers to die.
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Death Race / int_53b39668	type	Reality Show
Death Race / int_53b39668	comment	Reality Show: Type III: The participants are filmed intensively in an enclosed environment while competing to win a prize.
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Death Race / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Death Race / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Mr. Ulrich the head guard to Hennessy.
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Death Race / int_547196be	type	Broad Strokes
Death Race / int_547196be	comment	Broad Strokes: Word of God says it's a prequel to Death Race 2000 and not a remake despite being set 12 years later.
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Death Race / int_54cc6b24	type	Le Parkour
Death Race / int_54cc6b24	comment	Le Parkour: Pretty Boy puts up a decent running chase while being pursued by a missile following his tracker.
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Death Race / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Death Race / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Case implies her husband was one, leading her to kill him. Jensen is framed as one, and Coach mentions at one point that he's met "his share" of them.
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Death Race / int_59aa1d0b	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Death Race / int_59aa1d0b	comment	Recycled IN SPACE!: The Running Man with A Car Race, with other prisoners as the enemies instead of 'stalkers' - at first. In the second race, the Dreadnought comes out, which is basically the equivalent of the entire stalker stable in one chassis.
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Death Race / int_5a963d1c	type	False Reassurance
Death Race / int_5a963d1c	comment	False Reassurance: Hennessey gives Frankenstein signed release papers, telling him all he he has to do now is survive and win. She never mentions she's changed the rules by planting a bomb or messing with the track, as she doesn't intend for him to do either.
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Death Race / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
Death Race / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: Colt gets napalmed in the first race of the film movie. Psycho dies from fire in the third movie, ironically inches away from a lake.
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Death Race / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Death Race / int_6116ca8d	comment	Hellhole Prison: Terminal Island is as ugly and dreary as prisons go without taking into account the Deadly Game and the Kalahari Desert prison in Inferno is even worse — it's inside of a mine and all of the inmates' cells we see are partially flooded, for starters.
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Death Race / int_615a96fb	type	Immoral Reality Show
Death Race / int_615a96fb	comment	Immoral Reality Show: Prison inmates killing each other in gladiator-style combat and when that started to bring less audiences, in Twisted Metal-style Vehicular Combat.
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Death Race / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
Death Race / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: In Death Race 2, Lists tells Carl Lucas about 14K and some of the other prisoners much like he did with Jensen in the first movie. This makes no sense, because he was seen being transported to the prison on the same bus as Carl, meaning Lists shouldn’t know any of that information (unless he watches the show where those people fight each other).
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Death Race / int_63be4131	type	Pretty Boy
Death Race / int_63be4131	comment	Pretty Boy: One of the drivers in the third movie is nicknamed Pretty Boy, and looks the part. He's a coward who leaves his navigator for dead after his car flips. Luke is called "Pretty Boy" by Katrina in the prequel. Later, as Frankenstein, he asks if she was expecting another pretty boy.
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Death Race / int_68424916	type	Eating the Eye Candy
Death Race / int_68424916	comment	Eating the Eye Candy: Case mentions that Jensen looks better than the old Frank. Also played straight with several men scoping out the navigators, including Gunner and Lists. At one point in the third movie, Lists stares as if mesmerized at Katrina's cleavage.
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Death Race / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Death Race / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Jensen Ames, like the car (Jensen Interceptor). Also, Hector Grimm, who of course takes up the moniker of "Grimm Reaper."
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Death Race / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Death Race / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Tyrese Gibson was in another racing situation like this before and was all about living it up in Miami. Robin Shou had previously survived a tournament to the death. In the prequels, real life ex-con Danny Trejo was probably in his element during the prison scenes.
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Death Race / int_71038217	type	Wrench Wench
Death Race / int_71038217	comment	Wrench Wench: The female navigators are all brought in to help run the cars. Played straight with Case, who wields an actual wrench to fix to guns at one point.
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Death Race / int_722a6ef4	type	Game Show
Death Race / int_722a6ef4	comment	Game Show: A particularly lethal one at that, with a clever mechanic to simulate the collection of power-ups that are seen in some racing video games.
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Death Race / int_7784e19b	type	Spiked Wheels
Death Race / int_7784e19b	comment	Spiked Wheels: The Dreadnought is equipped with these on the wheel hubs, using them to skewer 14K's navigator.
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Death Race / int_77d494f0	type	Not Used to Freedom
Death Race / int_77d494f0	comment	Not Used to Freedom: Coach did not want to leave the prison isle, not because used to be free but he doesn't have any places to go.
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Death Race / int_79b5990c	type	Mr. Vice Guy
Death Race / int_79b5990c	comment	Mr. Vice Guy: Jensen, who realizes that he's not a perfect person and therefore not a perfect father, but he loves his daughter and he's not going to let go of his "chance at something else, something better." He also genuinely loved his wife.
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Death Race / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Death Race / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Frankenstein is supposed to be this.
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Death Race / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Death Race / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Hennessey pulls a couple out on Jensen.
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Death Race / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Death Race / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Big Bill's rapsheet reads "Robbery, Assault, Arson, Sexual Abuse, Income Tax Evasion, Kidnapping, Possession."
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Death Race / int_81c0e175	type	An Ass-Kicking Christmas
Death Race / int_81c0e175	comment	An Ass-Kicking Christmas: The first film happens, apropos of nothing, during Christmas. They even lampshade it by using "Merry Christmas, asshole!" as a Pre-Mortem One-Liner when Frankenstein sets Travis Colt on fire.
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Death Race / int_84a1984d	type	Legacy Immortality
Death Race / int_84a1984d	comment	Legacy Immortality: Up to a certain point. The "Frankenstein" identity has been held by several convicts over the course of Death Race, with replacements coming in every time one of them dies. In the third movie, Psycho incorrectly assumes that this has already been happening for some time, and inadvertently gives Lucas the idea of replacing Frankenstein in the first place.
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Death Race / int_89fab6b	type	Desires Prison Life
Death Race / int_89fab6b	comment	Desires Prison Life: Coach actually completed his sentence years before, but stays in prison anyway because he doesn't have anywhere else to go.
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Death Race / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Death Race / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Though never outright stated, the films do this for the very concept of Weaponized Car. Want to kit out that sports car with some hidden guns? Turns out that any guns good for mounting to vehicles are also really freaking big, and to put them inside the car would require removing a lot of vital components, up to and including the engine. The cars in the film are equipped with almost "enuff Dakka" but are shown to have quite a few exterior modifications to accommodate the weight and mechanics of the gun platforms they're fielding.
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Death Race / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
Death Race / int_8c1ad82f	comment	Proud Warrior Race Guy: 14K is described as one in the second movie, following a code of honor alien to most of the characters.
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Death Race / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
Death Race / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: The reason for the navigator, and the pit crew having a radio-connection to the driver, is basically so they can explain things to Jensen who's never done the Death Race before.
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Death Race / int_8d80bc0d	type	Private Profit Prison
Death Race / int_8d80bc0d	comment	Private Profit Prison: Private prisons are a fixture the entire franchise. The prison runs titular the DeathRace specifically to make the most money off of its convicts, and the prequels reveal they used to do gladiator-style bloodsports until the ratings dropped enough they were no longer sufficiently profitable.
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Death Race / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Death Race / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Most of the other drivers who end up becoming Red Shirts through the films have no redeeming qualities.
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Death Race / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Death Race / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Hennessy straps a bomb under Jensen's car before the final race, but Coach removes it in time. He later sends it back to her gift-wrapped and detonates it in her office, killing her and The Dragon.
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Death Race / int_913089c2	type	Screwed by the Network
Death Race / int_913089c2	comment	Screwed by the Network: In-universe, the network builds a massive death tank tractor trailer train to screw their cast, sometimes literally.
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Death Race / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Death Race / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When one of Joe's navigators incorrectly identifies a deactivated Sword panel as being litnote Which is more due to it being active, then deactivated right before the car passes over it, Joe angrily tells him to get out of the car and then proceeds to kick him out and into steel railing. Hennessey attempts to do this with Jensen.
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Death Race / int_933576c8	type	Mighty Glacier
Death Race / int_933576c8	comment	Mighty Glacier: The Dreadnought in the first film. A big rig and tanker-trailer converted to be heavily armored, covered in spikes, and armed with everything up to and including a tank turret. However, it weighs as much as that suggests, meaning it can barely keep up with racers and can't maneuver at all, to the point it needs to use off-track shortcuts to bypass parts of a fairly simple circuit. In fact it's so lumbering two cars manage to force it into a course hazard with basic coordination.
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Death Race / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Death Race / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Jensen and Machine Gun Joe team up and escape rather than try to kill each other. In the third movie, Lucas and Satana work together on an elaborate escape that also functions as a revenge plot against the power-mad Niles York, rather than keep playing by York's rules.
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Death Race / int_95713538	type	Outside Ride
Death Race / int_95713538	comment	Outside Ride: Apache does this during the first race of the second movie. He has his navigator take the wheel as he climbs to the roof of his car, leaps onto another car, and stabs its driver in the neck. He then hops back onto, and in, his own car.
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Death Race / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Death Race / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: When Jensen and Joe break out of the track's confines and head for freedom, Hennessey starts shouting and swearing.
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Death Race / int_95ff52c7	type	Guns Do Not Work That Way
Death Race / int_95ff52c7	comment	Guns Do Not Work That Way: Or rather, they do, but they shouldn't have been chosen in the first place. Pachenko's ride is kitted out with two Ppsh-41 submachine guns and four MG 34 machine guns. This would be pretty decent choices... except every car is explicitly armored in 3/4 inch thick steel plates (at least), meaning those guns can barely make a dent in what they're shooting at. Everyone else has reasonable armaments that either make up for low calibers with extremely high fire rates or have much bigger guns altogether.
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Death Race / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Death Race / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Claire Hennessey, the ruthless prison warden who is also the host of Death Race.
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Death Race / int_974b47a7	type	Men Are the Expendable Gender
Death Race / int_974b47a7	comment	Men Are the Expendable Gender: The precise reason why Machine Gun Joe gets male navigators. Also played straight with the drivers. The women are used as body fodder just as much as the men, but it's only fully averted when 14K's navigator dies up close. The rest of the girls get a Gory Discretion Shot. In-universe, only Frankenstein's pit crew seem to play this trope straight, as theirs is the only car shown to be equipped with an ejector seat for its navigator. In the third movie, Psycho's navigator Amber is the only survivor of the Death Race outside of Frankenstein, 14K, and their navigators and pit crews. Granted, it's also the only movie with a female driver, Olga, who also has a female navigator.
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Death Race / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
Death Race / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Not counting anything before the first race, Siad fits the bill.
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Death Race / int_98f22e5f	type	Wardens Are Evil
Death Race / int_98f22e5f	comment	Wardens Are Evil: Warden Hennessey of Terminal Island Prison is a cold-hearted bitch which shanghais Jensen Ames (in more ways than one) into taking part of the titular Deadly Game (and plans to either keep him racing forever or kill him as soon as his usefulness as the season's Frankenstein is over-not that she had a plan to have anybody win). The Prequel movies also retroactively show that she had some amount of Small Name, Big Ego-she says on the first movie that she was the creator of Death Race, but in reality it was the Mega-Corp she works for, and they knew she would take credit around anybody who could buy it.
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Death Race / int_9eeb5455	type	Evil Virtues
Death Race / int_9eeb5455	comment	Evil Virtues: 14K has fourteen deaths on his record and is a Triad member, but in a showing of Honour, he abides by the code of the Triads in the sequel - when Lucas saves his life, he owes Lucas a life in return. When Lucas is believed killed on the orders of his old boss, 14K calls in a few favours and gets a Triad gunman to leave said boss's bullet-riddled body in his own fancy pool. Weyland is a Corrupt Corporate Executive, but the man believes in honoring his deals. He has quite a problem with York wanting to screw over the Death Race to keep Frankenstein running indefinitely and allows Luke to go and live a new life when his plan to get rid of York works (making York the new Frankenstein).
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Death Race / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Death Race / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Machine Gun Joe really hates Frankenstein.
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Death Race / int_a18042f1	type	Left the Background Music On
Death Race / int_a18042f1	comment	Left the Background Music On: Early in the last race of the third movie, a cool rap song starts playing. Then Psycho tells his navigator to change the station, and as soon as she does, the background music is replaced with a driving techno track.
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Death Race / int_a19cce82	type	Merchandise-Driven
Death Race / int_a19cce82	comment	Merchandise-Driven: In-universe, Death Race is this. According to York in the third movie, Weyland makes around 8 million dollars a week on Frankenstein merchandise alone. As York points out, even though Frankenstein is one race away from freedom, he can't afford to just let him go.
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Death Race / int_a4d8473b	type	Stealth Sequel
Death Race / int_a4d8473b	comment	Stealth Sequel: Anderson says in the commentary that he thinks of this as a prequel to the original Death Race 2000. There must be some Broad Strokes involved as it's set 12 years later.
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Death Race / int_a5155fa	type	Spectator Casualty
Death Race / int_a5155fa	comment	Spectator Casualty: Coach has to pull Lists into cover on a couple of occasions; but a couple of Red Shirts standing behind them get hit by stray shots.
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Death Race / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Death Race / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: 14K was one of the dead-meat drivers in the first movie, but his roles in the prequels makes him the only driver to appear in all three.
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Death Race / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Death Race / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: As a prequel to the first movie it was obvious that it was still going to happen, but in the epilogue of Inferno Weyland invokes this and brings the Death Race back to Terminal Island because York's attempt at shaking things up by filming in the Kalahari Desert ended in a clusterfuck partially caused by Weyland's own manipulations that ended with York getting killed or rather with his death faked and then forced to become a new Frankenstein, and he even says that "audiences don't like change".
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Death Race / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Death Race / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: 14K, Pachenko, Lists, Gunner, and Coach. Extends to most of the drivers in the second and third movies, namely Sheik, Apache, Scarface, Hillbilly, Razor, Psycho, Joker, and Pretty Boy.
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Death Race / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
Death Race / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: Carson and Riggins, neither of whom actually appear except to be killed by the Dreadnought. They're not even mentioned when the team tells Jensen about the opposition. Siad is also one of these, but he at least gets a few seconds on screen. Pretty much all of Machine Gun Joe's navigators. Lampshaded by Ames' pit crew when they say that Joe had lost so many female navigators, it squicked out even Death Race's target audience and they started giving him male navigators instead. One poor bastard is smart enough about it that he had to be forced into Joe's truck kicking and screaming. Fury and Tazmanian Devil in the third movie, the only racers who have neither speaking lines or Boss Subtitles. Jackal is killed trying to escape before the race even starts.
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Death Race / int_ad1c3459	type	Big Badass Rig
Death Race / int_ad1c3459	comment	Big Badass Rig: The Dreadnought is a massively armored truck with multiple turrets and flamethrowers on top, weaponized wheel spikes, and other nasty surprises. As soon as it's introduced in the second race, every racer except for Jensen and Joe are rapidly killed in gruesome deaths. Joker and Nero drive absolutely massive trucks in 3, with a tank turret and an Anti-Air cannon as their respective weapons.
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Death Race / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Death Race / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Plenty of these scattered around. Two of the biggest in the first film are 14K about to be blown up by the Juggernaut's tank cannon and Henessey noticing that the bomb she ordered attached to the "Monster" is about to explode in her face.
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Death Race / int_ad295cc3	type	Weaponized Car
Death Race / int_ad295cc3	comment	Weaponized Car: Every car in the first film, part of the game rules of Death Race.
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Death Race / int_add931af	type	I Choose to Stay
Death Race / int_add931af	comment	I Choose to Stay: Lists when the team escaped in 3. He had been institutionalized, being more comfortable in prison society than that of a free man. Which is why he was in the first Death Race. Also Coach in the first film.
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Death Race / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Death Race / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Joker in the third movie makes snide remarks constantly, hence the name.
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Death Race / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Death Race / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: Brought up when Coach asks Jensen what he's in for; when he mentions the story that he killed his wife, Coach makes it clear that he doesn't believe that because no man who killed his wife could look at his daughter's photo the way Jensen does.
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Death Race / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Death Race / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: The female navigators; especially Case in the first movie, Katrina in the second and third, and Amber in the third. The third movie has a huge melee between female convicts to decide who gets to be a navigator, and it's made of this — resident pervert Psycho is panting and wheezing throughout the event. The second and third movies also have producers September Jones and Satana, respectively, who love tight, revealing clothes.
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Death Race / int_b151c937	type	The Mockbuster
Death Race / int_b151c937	comment	The Mockbuster: The 2008 film got a mockbuster, a similar movie named Death Racers.
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Death Race / int_b2279346	type	RetCon
Death Race / int_b2279346	comment	Retcon: A few things in the prequels seem to retcon stuff mentioned in the first movie. For instance, Hennessey claims she invented Death Race in the first movie; in 2, September Jones comes up with the "Death Race" concept, and later remarks that Terminal Island's new warden, Hennessey, would probably take credit for the whole thing if she weren't around. Sure enough, Jones isn't around because at the end of the second movie she's ran over by Frankenstein.
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Death Race / int_b4f56c5b	type	Epic Race
Death Race / int_b4f56c5b	comment	Epic Race: The Death Race is a NASCAR-style track race where part of the goal is to kill the other racers. 3 changes the race to a Baja 1000-inspired desert rally.
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Death Race / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
Death Race / int_b6de94d1	comment	Executive Meddling: In-universe, played completely straight by Hennessey's control of the races and her various attempts to rig them.
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Death Race / int_b905c10c	type	The Alcatraz
Death Race / int_b905c10c	comment	The Alcatraz: Terminal Island. Escape isn't even dreamed of; even if you're a Death Racer, there are electric killswitches on the cars and guns, the guard towers are all fortified and have bigger arms than the cars, and, of course, it's an island — only way in or out is the long bridge that connects it to the mainland. Kalahari Prison in the third movie. As one of the guards puts it, "You try to escape, the desert will kill you before we do!" Lucas, Katrina, and Goldberg manage to escape by the end of the movie, though they don't contend with the desert. Beyond Anarchy has The Sprawl, a sealed-off abandoned Urban Hellscape not unlike Manhattan Penitentiary. Prisoners are just dumped there and left to die at the hands of the gangs the more blood-thirsty surviving prisoners have formed.
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Death Race / int_ba44639	type	Killed Offscreen
Death Race / int_ba44639	comment	Killed Offscreen: In the original cut of the third movie, Razor is seen driving at Olga as she tries to run then her face is seen being added to the eliminated driver poll on the scorecard, but he isn't actually shown hitting her. However, Olga is specifically shown to be ran over by Razor in the unrated cut.
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Death Race / int_bb067aba	type	Cool Mask
Death Race / int_bb067aba	comment	Cool Mask: Frankenstein's mask is simple but cool. The production team went through several designs before they settled on the final one.
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Death Race / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Death Race / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: The inmates are not shy about their language, but to hear it come from Joan Allen?
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Death Race / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Death Race / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Jensen is a rough-and-tumble character mainly motivated by revenge who nonetheless has a slew of human qualities.
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Death Race / int_bebf0356	type	Mission Control
Death Race / int_bebf0356	comment	Mission Control: This is Coach, Goldberg, and Lists' function for Frankenstein, as they're his pit crew.
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Death Race / int_c1d9d74c	type	Win Your Freedom
Death Race / int_c1d9d74c	comment	Win Your Freedom: In the first film, if a racer wins 5 racers, he will be freed. Hennessey tries to make sure that doesn't happen.
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Death Race / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
Death Race / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: How the drivers tend to kill each other.
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Death Race / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
Death Race / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: Happens to Pachenko. Lucas finishes off two attackers this way in very quick succession in the Kalahari mine fight.
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Death Race / int_c30f7c4a	type	Vehicular Combat
Death Race / int_c30f7c4a	comment	Vehicular Combat: Par of the course with armour-plated cars equipped with guns and caltrops.
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Death Race / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Death Race / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Lists is a subdued version, he manages to save Jensen from Pachenko though he is quickly overpowered. He manages to get a few moments in the sequel as well.
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Death Race / int_c48667d9	type	Backseat Driver
Death Race / int_c48667d9	comment	Backseat Driver: Joker's navigator in 3 is constantly bossing him around and criticizing his driving.
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Death Race / int_c58daf16	type	The Pen Is Mightier
Death Race / int_c58daf16	comment	The Pen Is Mightier: Lists stabs a thug in the back with his pen during a fight, providing the vital distraction that allows the hero to turn the tide of the fight.
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Death Race / int_c65b7731	type	Driver Faces Passenger
Death Race / int_c65b7731	comment	Driver Faces Passenger: Jensen can spend an awful long time looking at Case when they're talking for such a treacherous track and its deadly drivers.
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Death Race / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Death Race / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Frankenstein has a Jason Voorhees vibe with more than a hint of Slipknot too – mask combined with a one-piece racing/boiler suit. The prequels reveal that the Death Race was started by the Weyland Corporation, which doesn't sound too surprising, all things considered. Coach quipping "I guess he didn't like the oatmeal either" is similar to Hick's cornbread line in Aliens. Coach says, "Now that's entertainment." after the Dreadnought blows up.
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Death Race / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Death Race / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: The amount of co-ordination required for Joe and Jensen to take out the Dreadnought would have required a lot of radio discussion, but we never hear anything beyond "How about we play a little offence."
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Death Race / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Death Race / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error In the second movie, which is a prequel to the first, Lists mentions that 14K’s name comes from him having 14 kills. This is MORE kills than Lists mentioned 14K having in the first movie, which takes place AFTER the second. Also, during the ending of 2, Frank uses Call-Back phrases towards Katrina, all but confirming point blank he is Carl Lucas, Lists and Goldberg also suspect this, but, by the third movie, they act shocked and surprised when his mask is knocked off, revealing his identity to them, which they should already know because of the end of 2.
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Death Race / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Death Race / int_cbe687ab	comment	Weyland is a Corrupt Corporate Executive, but the man believes in honoring his deals. He has quite a problem with York wanting to screw over the Death Race to keep Frankenstein running indefinitely and allows Luke to go and live a new life when his plan to get rid of York works (making York the new Frankenstein).
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Death Race / int_cd809603	type	Tank Goodness
Death Race / int_cd809603	comment	Tank Goodness: The Dreadnought has a rear-mounted tank turret that's used to kill anyone snagged on its spike strips. It's not technically a tank, but Joker's massive truck in the third movie has a tank turret as its weapon. The gun extends through the cab, which obviously means the turret can't be rotated.
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Death Race / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
Death Race / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: The prisons become increasingly worse as the series goes on, from not being seemingly different from modern-day prisons except for the Deadly Games (Terminal Island Prison of Death Race 1&2) to Hellhole Prison placed in the middle of the Kalahari Desert (Inferno) to Urban Hellscape in the vein of Escape from New York (The Sprawl of Beyond Anarchy). The Death Races also escalate from three-lap racing a la NASCAR (except for the machine guns) of the first two films to rally-style racing in Inferno to Thunderdome on wheels in Beyond Anarchy, which is not even sanctioned by the government/corporations anymore — the prisoners illegally broadcast it.
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Death Race / int_cec8b87a	type	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
Death Race / int_cec8b87a	comment	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Many, many characters end a sentence with a "Bitch!" as a way of verbally making an exclamation point in dialog, though as it's played seriously, it sort of loses its punch after it's used so many times.
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Death Race / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Death Race / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: September Jones has one when she sees Lucas driving a car around the prison yard; that's where she got the idea of Death Race. Lucas has one in the third movie when Psycho asks if he's the first Frankenstein, and suggests that "Frankenstein" is a role that anyone could play. This gives him the idea of setting up Niles York to be mistaken for Frankenstein.
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Death Race / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Death Race / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Some of the ways the show tries to off their competitors tend to backfire, or take out the other ways it tries to off them. The tanker-truck behemoth is taken out by a Death Head option placed to take out the competitors and the Warden gets killed by the explosive she tried to kill Frankenstein with.
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Death Race / int_d5661a8c	type	The Dreaded Dreadnought
Death Race / int_d5661a8c	comment	The Dreaded Dreadnought: Rare non-naval example, the Big Badass Rig is called The Dreadnought, and does the name proud.
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Death Race / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Death Race / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Hennessey has a way of placing pawns exactly where she needs them.
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Death Race / int_db33bc7e	type	Ludicrous Gibs
Death Race / int_db33bc7e	comment	Ludicrous Gibs: Pretty Boy meets his end when he's blown up by a heatseeking missile. He wasn't in his car at the time, so you see bits of him flying well offscreen and easily a hundred feet into the air.
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Death Race / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
Death Race / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: When Jensen gets the upper hand on Pachenko, the latter protests he was acting on Hennessy's orders. Jensen is neither persuaded nor amused.
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Death Race / int_ddba8db1	type	The Unmasking
Death Race / int_ddba8db1	comment	The Unmasking: Luke loses his Frankenstein mask during a prison brawl when he first arrives at Kalahari in the third movie. This reveals his identity to his pit crew and navigator, who thought him dead after the events of the second movie. They remain bitter about being lied to until just about halfway through the film.
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Death Race / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Death Race / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Probably would be easier to count the moments in which the navigators aren't Gainaxing from the bumpy riding or the camera makes an emphasis on the racing harness bringing up their breasts or the fact that they wear tight jeans. Unlike most examples though this one gets a stated in-universe justification: it's all for the ratings.
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Death Race / int_e1aed0a9	type	Boss Subtitles
Death Race / int_e1aed0a9	comment	Fury and Tazmanian Devil in the third movie, the only racers who have neither speaking lines or Boss Subtitles. Jackal is killed trying to escape before the race even starts.
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Death Race / int_e1cc36	type	The Bait
Death Race / int_e1cc36	comment	The Bait: Case is this in the end, to allow Jensen to escape as amends to the old Frankenstein.
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Death Race / int_e26f04b4	type	Last of His Kind
Death Race / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: It's joked that Goldberg is "the last Mexican Jew", and that he "killed all the rest."
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Death Race / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Death Race / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Hennessey has a first name (all we know is that it starts with 'C'), but everyone calls her "Ma'am" or by her last name.
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Death Race / int_e2d7b14c	type	Made of Explodium
Death Race / int_e2d7b14c	comment	Made of Explodium: Apparently detached gasoline tanks are.
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Death Race / int_e399c1dd	type	Manly Gay
Death Race / int_e399c1dd	comment	Manly Gay: Machine Gun Joe. Although the reason he gets male navigators is not because he's gay but rather because they tend to get killed horribly (sometimes by his own hand) and them being male makes it less of a ratings destroyer.
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Death Race / int_e4ce314	type	The Triads and the Tongs
Death Race / int_e4ce314	comment	The Triads and the Tongs: 14K, tenth generation Triad.
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Death Race / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Death Race / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: Machine Gun Joe finally figures out who Frankenstein is when he hears him speak.
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Death Race / int_f15cad50	type	Deliberately Jumping the Gun
Death Race / int_f15cad50	comment	Deliberately Jumping the Gun: In Inferno, one of the racers tries to get a head start on the others by driving off before the race officially opens. He just ends up demonstrating how effective the prison's guided missile system is to punish anyone who might have ideas of leaving the planned route.
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Death Race / int_f32d85ab	type	20 Minutes into the Future
Death Race / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: The film is set in 2012, and was made in 2008. By the third movie, which is a prequel, this is reversed — it was made in 2012, released in early 2013, and set a year or two before the first one.
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Death Race / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Death Race / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Jensen coerces Case into confessing her sabotage of the races, and does absolutely nothing about it despite her having actively attempted to ruin his reunion with his daughter and accidentally getting his predecessor killed. Didn't even say a word. Possibly Justified in that she was doing exactly what everybody else was doing: trying to get her freedom. And he needed her for the rest of the race.
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Death Race / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Lucas in the prequels is this to Jensen. Doesn't make sense for Jensen (and thus Jason Statham) to be in a prequel? Just get a different white British guy with a shaved head and Perma-Stubble. There's a lot of key character differences, but it can't be a coincidence that they look and sound similar. Similarly, Katrina is the substitute Case, and Niles York is a substitute Markus Kane (the accents are almost identical).
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Death Race / int_f729e5bc	comment	Sequel Goes Foreign: Death Race 3: Inferno takes place in South Africa, especially around the Kalahari Desert, while most of the other films in the series take place in Terminal Island someplace in the United States (The Sprawl, in Beyond Anarchy, is never really said where the heck it is). This is an Invoked Trope by Miles York as well, who wanted to make a change to the Death Race in order to keep it fresh and bring more viewers, with the Kalahari race being a test for more international Death Races.
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Death Race / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Death Race / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Hennessy often seems to underestimate exactly how far Jensen is willing to push himself out of love for his daughter. At one point she tries to persuade him to stay in jail by arguing that other people might be more suitable parents for the girl, without recognising that Jensen loves his child enough to try to be better for her.
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Death Race / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Death Race / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Lucas' death is faked by September Jones in the second movie, to set him up as Frankenstein and assert control over him. In the third movie, Lucas fakes the deaths of Goldberg, Katrina, and Niles York as part of his escape plot.
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Death Race / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Joe's navigators and their grisly demises. The audience knows something is up towards the end when his newest navigator is happy to be there, as if he hasn't been paying attention to what's going on, before the final reveal.
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Death Race / int_fa73ee9d	type	Explosive Leash
Death Race / int_fa73ee9d	comment	Explosive Leash: How do you keep the prisoners from using their crazy cars to escape? Rig them to explode if they try! In the third movie the race has no boundaries, but straying off the intended course gets you an up-close and personal encounter with a heat-seeking missile.
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Death Race / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Death Race / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: In the third movie, Niles York's put-upon assistant Prudence keeps her mouth shut when a burned York is mistaken for Frankenstein and sent to Terminal Island. And his mistreated lover/number two Satana was Weyland's mole in the whole thing. In the second movie, Big Bill's navigator kills him in this manner.
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Death Race / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Death Race / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License – Physics: Two, both involving “The Tombstone”, the massive steel shield mounted on the back of The Monster. Based on the construction and size, with multiple steel plates welded one on top of the other, it would weigh just over 2 tons (for reference, that would be about the same weight as the rest of the car). The guns on the hood wouldn’t even come close to balancing the suspension, meaning even if the car could move with that much weight attached to the rear, it would pop wheelies at the slightest bump. During the first race, Lists mentions that “the Tombstone can’t take much more of this” when it’s being pelted with .50 BMG rounds from Travis Colt. That much steel would be basically impervious to anything that wasn’t an anti-tank rocket, which includes standard 50 BMG ammo (which is rated to penetrate approximately 12mm of steel plate).
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Death Race / int_fdb355db	type	Fun with Subtitles
Death Race / int_fdb355db	comment	Fun with Subtitles: 14K speaks in Cantonese with English subtitles. The one line he speaks in English is subtitled in Chinese.
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