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Escape from L.A.

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Escape from L.A.	comment	Escape from L.A. is the 1996 sequel to John Carpenter's Escape from New York.In 2013, America has become even more dystopian than it was in the earlier film: A theocratic fundamentalist Christian President (Cliff Robertson) has taken over control of the country, and Los Angeles has become a penal colony/no man's land/landfill/roach motel after breaking off of the US thanks to The Big One. As the film begins, an airplane escape pod has crash-landed in Los Angeles; this pod carried the President's daughter, Utopia (A. J. Langer), who has since sided with revolutionary Cuervo Jones and taken the United States' super weapon — a device that controls "The Sword of Damocles" satellite system, which would let the President disable any country in the world with an electromagnetic pulse — with her. He drafts Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) into entering Los Angeles, retrieving the device, and executing his daughter for treason. His reward for a successful mission will be a full pardon...as well as an antidote to a virus injected into him to ensure his compliance, of course.Left with no options, Snake enters the heavily fortified city of Los Angeles; like New York before it, the city has become a prison with no guards and precious little order. As Plissken makes his way through ruins of what was once a vibrant and lively city, he both gains and loses allies and fights off loads of bad guys.
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Escape from L.A. / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Escape from L.A. / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: The President starts freaking out the second things go off-plan, and has to be snapped back to reality by his Dragons.
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Escape from L.A. / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
Escape from L.A. / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: Really, the Shining Path and the US Government are absolutely no different in terms of how evil they are — both the President, a fascist fundamentalist, and Cuervo Jones, a vicious power-hungry terrorist, want the "Sword of Damocles" to use against the other's empire. And Snake, naturally, is trapped between 'em, and ultimately decides to just destroy them both.
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Escape from L.A. / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Escape from L.A. / int_1777688d	comment	During the mission briefing, Snake's captors use these to project themselves into his cell, knowing better than to go in there with a dangerous killer.
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Escape from L.A. / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Escape from L.A. / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The Boom! Studios comic series fills in a number of details left unaddressed by the film, including the explanation of what happened in Cleveland (Snake steals the U.S. Bill of Rights from a Federal Reserve), how he ended up in New Vegas and the general state of the world going into this film.
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Escape from L.A. / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Escape from L.A. / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: About a third of the way into the film this is Played for Laughs when Snake encounters a cult of plastic surgery-addicted murderers led by the "Surgeon General of Beverly Hills"
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Escape from L.A. / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Escape from L.A. / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: During the opening narration.
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Escape from L.A. / int_191a164	type	"No Talking or Phones" Warning
Escape from L.A. / int_191a164	comment	"No Talking or Phones" Warning: One trailer for the film has a demented version of this, starting pretty normally. "No talking, no smoking". Then it goes into "no red meat", followed by "no freedom of religion" and "all marriages must be approved by the Department of Health". Failure to obey these rules results in loss of citizenship, and deportation to L.A.
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Escape from L.A. / int_1a5bba2b	type	Artistic License â€“ Geology
Escape from L.A. / int_1a5bba2b	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geology: The movie's introduction explains that L.A. was hit by a 9.6 earthquake. While not impossible, it is incredibly unlikely that a magnitude greater than 9 could be reached along that particular fault. It is heavily implied however that the President had a hand in it given just how conveniently timed his prophetic speech was.
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Escape from L.A. / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Escape from L.A. / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Snake's short, but memorable Shirtless Scene when he changes his clothes.
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Escape from L.A. / int_1ba09c9d	type	Human Resources
Escape from L.A. / int_1ba09c9d	comment	Human Resources: The plastic surgery freaks, who must regularly kidnap prisoners and harvest them for body parts in order to keep themselves alive.
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Escape from L.A. / int_1c263b9f	type	The Purge
Escape from L.A. / int_1c263b9f	comment	The Purge: In the opening narration, it's stated that the President's first act is Directive 17: Americans who are found "unfit" to live in the new, "moral" America are stripped of their citizenship and deported to L.A. Don't want to go? There's always the electric chair.
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Escape from L.A. / int_1d91d828	type	Deadly Game
Escape from L.A. / int_1d91d828	comment	Deadly Game: Basketball becomes a life-or-death Impossible Task in this movie. According to Cuervo, no one before Snake has ever walked off the court alive.
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Escape from L.A. / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
Escape from L.A. / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: Subverted. A neo-Nazi skinhead attempts to throw a knife into Snake's back as he's walking away. Snake turns around and riddles him with bullets from his BFG before continuing on his path.
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Escape from L.A. / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Escape from L.A. / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: At the very end of the film, Snake finds a pack of American Spirit cigarettes in the forest, with one cigarette left. As he lights up the cigarette, he pauses and stares straight at the camera, blowing smoke as the screen goes black with Snake claiming "Welcome to the human race".
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Escape from L.A. / int_1fd2efc9	type	Byronic Hero
Escape from L.A. / int_1fd2efc9	comment	Byronic Hero: Snake's a pretty cold son of a bitch when it comes to killing his enemies. But he is deeply if subtly enraged by injustice; When Taslima dies, he's visibly shocked and upset at the death of about the only person who hasn't either turned on him or outright manipulated him for their own ends. When the President sends his daughter Utopia to the electric chair, he's deeply disgusted. And when he shuts down the world with the Sword of Damocles, he may say, "The name is Plissken", but he means, "This is for the forgotten."
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Escape from L.A. / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Escape from L.A. / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Los Angeles, reduced to an lawless dog-eat-dog hellhole, is described by one of its residents as "the only free zone left in the world" and something of a dark paradise by Snake himself when compared to the police state of America and the rest of the world in general.
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Escape from L.A. / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Escape from L.A. / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The film is full of them. When Snake first arrives at the processing center, a guard scratches his hand as she walks by. It's revealed only a few minutes later what it was. When Malloy gives Snake his tools for the mission, he hands him a holo-camera that can project his image up to a kilometre away, and tells him to save it for when he needs it the most. Snake stuffs it in his coat, which he subsequently loses to one of Cuervo's thugs after he's captured. He recovers the coat just before he escapes the island, and decides to use the holo-cam as part of his Stolen Macguffin Reveal to fool Malloy and the President during the climax of the film. Similarly, Malloy and Brazen show off a dart that can be administered to the enemy like a blowgun. As Snake goes through his Lock-and-Load Montage, he looks at the device and places it in the shoulder fold of his shirt. Later, when he and Taslima are captured by the Surgeon General, he is able to retrieve it and use it on him before the latter cuts his eye out. Just before they utilize the hang-gliders to travel to Happy Kingdom, Eddie uses Hershe's nail polish to replicate the marking that denotes the real Sword of Damocles arming device, intending to use it to fool Cuervo. He subsequently loses it to Snake, who recovers it during the final battle and takes it along on the chopper. The fake arming device is later used in the Stolen Mc Guffin Reveal when he tricks Malloy and the President, via planting the fake device in Utopia's pocket. When Eddie goes for his final meeting with Cuervo, he glides into the Happy Kingdom plaza on one of Hershe's gliders, crashing it into a storefront as he lands. When Eddie is forced to bail out of the government chopper Snake is flying (when Cuervo fires a missile at it), he is ironically saved by the same glider, which acts as a landing pad. Subverted with the matches. Malloy calls attention to them ("never know when you're going to need them"), but their only function is to light up a cigarette at the end of the film.
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Escape from L.A. / int_23153741	type	Suddenly Significant City
Escape from L.A. / int_23153741	comment	Suddenly Significant City: After a President Evil rises to power in post-World War III and post-California Collapse America, he moves the capital to his hometown of Lynchburg, Virginia.
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Escape from L.A. / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Escape from L.A. / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: "Catches on quick doesn't s/he?"
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Escape from L.A. / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Escape from L.A. / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Snake appears like this, especially at the end.
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Escape from L.A. / int_25a6c734	type	Not in This for Your Revolution
Escape from L.A. / int_25a6c734	comment	Not in This for Your Revolution: Snake absolutely despises the authorities who literally have to coerce him into working for them with a tailor-made "kill you in 10 hours" virus in his body or he'd just bail on them in a heartbeat.
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Escape from L.A. / int_26f41623	type	Kill Sat
Escape from L.A. / int_26f41623	comment	Kill Sat: The Sword of Damocles is a satellite system that will cause blackouts via EMP.
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Escape from L.A. / int_28104b90	type	Bag of Spilling
Escape from L.A. / int_28104b90	comment	Bag of Spilling: Snake can't seem to hold onto any gun for very long: He loses the Coreburner rifle while trying to off Cuervo early on, quickly loses the shotgun he replaces that with soon after, hands over a pistol he takes from the Surgeon General to Taslima, has his signature revolvers taken from him when captured, loses a rifle he swipes when Map To The Stars Eddie shoots him in the leg, is forced to hand over Eddie's gun to Hershe's men, and finally loses the submachine gun he uses in the final battle with Cuervo. There is a subversion to this trope as well; Snake loses his Badass Longcoat, which happens to have the holocam in one of the pockets, only to swipe the coat back from the Mook who stole it.
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Escape from L.A. / int_28d73447	type	Regional Redecoration
Escape from L.A. / int_28d73447	comment	Regional Redecoration: The entire situation began on August 23, 2000, when a massive earthquake hit Los Angeles. The San Fernando valley flooded, turning everything between Malibu and Anaheim into an island. The future President Evil uses this as part of his campaign platform, saying L.A. has been punished by God.
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Escape from L.A. / int_2991089a	type	Oppressive States of America
Escape from L.A. / int_2991089a	comment	Oppressive States of America: While Escape from New York was set in a crime-ridden Fallen States of America setting, this movie turns America into a full-on Police State.
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Escape from L.A. / int_2a3006e5	type	State Sec
Escape from L.A. / int_2a3006e5	comment	State Sec: The United States Police Force, who despite their name is well armed and equipped.
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Escape from L.A. / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Escape from L.A. / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Surfing on a Tsunami through the dilapidated ruins of L.A. chasing a Cadillac speeding on a high road...and catching it.
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Escape from L.A. / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Escape from L.A. / int_2ec71371	comment	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back: The Shining Path has taken over all of Latin America and is about to launch an invasion of the United States. They want a bit more than Texas...
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Escape from L.A. / int_2f75473	type	Number of the Beast
Escape from L.A. / int_2f75473	comment	Number of the Beast: "666" is the world code for the controller for the Sword of Damocles.
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Escape from L.A. / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Escape from L.A. / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: It seems the President, despite his religious bigotry and fascist nature, doesn't seem to like Nazis, as there is a large contingent on Los Angeles Island
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Escape from L.A. / int_329a19a0	type	Hollywood Healing
Escape from L.A. / int_329a19a0	comment	Hollywood Healing: Averted. Snake is shot in the leg by Eddie partway through the movie and spends the rest of the film with a noticeable limp.
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Escape from L.A. / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
Escape from L.A. / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: With the United States already speeding down Crapsack World Lane in 1998, an earthquake measuring 9.6 on the Richter Scale devastates Los Angeles in 2000 and happens to fulfill the prophecy of an Activist Fundamentalist presidential candidate who is awarded a lifetime term of office.
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Escape from L.A. / int_33fbdabc	type	Forced Prize Fight
Escape from L.A. / int_33fbdabc	comment	Forced Prize Fight: In a variation, Snake has to win a steel-cage basketball game in order to escape. If he misses a shot or lets the shot clock run out, he gets shot to pieces.
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Escape from L.A. / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Escape from L.A. / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: Just after escaping from the failed parade chase, Snake passes a sign for the city of Beverly Hills that has an additional message underneath — "Quiet, Surgical Zone". Less than a minute later, he's caught (along with Taslima) by the Surgeon General of Los Angeles' lackeys.
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Escape from L.A. / int_39de664a	type	Mad Doctor
Escape from L.A. / int_39de664a	comment	Mad Doctor: The Surgeon General of Beverly Hills, a plastic surgery freak who regularly has people kidnapped, then dissects them so he can recycle their body parts for him and his brethren.
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Escape from L.A. / int_3b4f620a	type	No Fourth Wall
Escape from L.A. / int_3b4f620a	comment	No Fourth Wall: In-Universe. After the President making a live broadcast using a podium, background, and US flag making it look like he's speaking from the White House in Lynchburg, while he's actually in the middle of the woods, finds out that Snake switched the disc on the Sword of Damocles control pad with a fake, he orders Snake's execution on live television. When it's pointed out to him that they're broadcasting live, he just says "Good! Let them watch!", the United States Police Officer working the camera turns it around from the fake background towards Snake! This is also invoked in the final shot, where Snake lights the one remaining "American Spirit" cigarette and looks directly at the camera before it fades out, before delivering the final line of the film.
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Escape from L.A. / int_3bbecc8b	type	Hell-Bent for Leather
Escape from L.A. / int_3bbecc8b	comment	Hell-Bent for Leather: Snake's old worn out leather coat makes a return, until he trades up for a Badass Longcoat. In fact, during the opening incarceration shot, Snake's entire wardrobe makes a return since Russell informed Carpenter that he still had his original outfit from Escape from New York hanging in his closet.
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Escape from L.A. / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Escape from L.A. / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Whatever happened in Cleveland.
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Escape from L.A. / int_3dca91d7	type	Plastic Bitch
Escape from L.A. / int_3dca91d7	comment	Plastic Bitch: The Beverly Hills plastic surgery freaks, who have had so many implants and face-lifts that they need to harvest and implant fresh body parts into themselves in order to keep themselves alive.
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Escape from L.A. / int_419545ad	type	Desperation Attack
Escape from L.A. / int_419545ad	comment	The ending of the film relies entirely on this. Snake's hijacked helicopter takes a hit from Cuervo Jones's hail-mary rocket, but since it was only grazed by it, it allows him to temporarily maintain flight instead of being blown out of the sky; he then uses the crash as a diversion. He plants a decoy mini-disk player on Utopia knowing she would be caught, it would be found, and would be thought the real Sword of Damocles. Plus, while Snake's use of the holo-cam is rather ingenious, the ruse would have been blown if anyone had decided to touch his projection prior to The Reveal, something that comes very close to happening in casual conversation.
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Escape from L.A. / int_42299519	type	Same Story, Different Names
Escape from L.A. / int_42299519	comment	Same Story, Different Names: Escape from L.A. is basically an act-for-act rehash of Escape from New York, even down to some very unlikely coincidences for Snake, such as his meeting a sympathetic female character that happens to die shortly after they meet, being forced to compete in a Deadly Game for his freedom, or the person that helps him escape the prison being someone he worked with before, and also someone that double-crossed him and is going by another identity, complete with Insistent Terminology regarding their new name. It even has the same ending, wherein Snake uses the MacGuffin to double-cross the Big Bad after his Exact Time to Failure is rendered moot.
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Escape from L.A. / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Escape from L.A. / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Cuervo interrogates Snake (who is still feeling the effects of the Plutoxin virus) by forcing him to run handcuffed to a treadmill, nearly fainting all the while.
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Escape from L.A. / int_4389e368	type	Actionized Sequel
Escape from L.A. / int_4389e368	comment	Actionized Sequel: The film has more action and bigger setpieces than Escape from New York.
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Escape from L.A. / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Escape from L.A. / int_469e3e2f	comment	In-Universe. After the President making a live broadcast using a podium, background, and US flag making it look like he's speaking from the White House in Lynchburg, while he's actually in the middle of the woods, finds out that Snake switched the disc on the Sword of Damocles control pad with a fake, he orders Snake's execution on live television. When it's pointed out to him that they're broadcasting live, he just says "Good! Let them watch!", the United States Police Officer working the camera turns it around from the fake background towards Snake!
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Escape from L.A. / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Escape from L.A. / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Snake was more or less this since Escape from New York. However in this movie is a bit less anti-heroic as you would expect - it is shown when he spares The President's daughter's life when he had the order to kill her on sight. Although that may be equally due to Snake's utter contempt for the men who ordered him to do it.
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Escape from L.A. / int_48f7d7a3	type	Sleeves Are for Wimps
Escape from L.A. / int_48f7d7a3	comment	Sleeves Are for Wimps: Once again, Snake (at least when he isn't wearing his Badass Longcoat).
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Escape from L.A. / int_4921aad7	type	Expanded States of America
Escape from L.A. / int_4921aad7	comment	Expanded States of America: Bangkok, Thailand (where Snake has been at some point between 1997 and 2013) is mentioned as being United States territory.
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Escape from L.A. / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
Escape from L.A. / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: Similar to the first film of the series, Snake has a limited amount of time to complete his mission, due to the Plutoxin 7 virus he's been infected with. He is given a wrist-timer, conveniently large for the audience, indicating how much time he has left before total failure.
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Escape from L.A. / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Escape from L.A. / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: "Nobody draws until this hits the ground." BLAM! BLAM!* "...Draw."*
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Escape from L.A. / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Escape from L.A. / int_4a02a75e	comment	The Theocracy: The President Evil turns the United States into a virtual theocracy. He makes Christianity mandatory across the country and religious heterodoxy punishable by death, all while enforcing a set of new moral laws for the "new America".
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Escape from L.A. / int_4a58592a	type	California Collapse
Escape from L.A. / int_4a58592a	comment	California Collapse: A portion of the California coast has become separated from the mainland by a quake that flooded San Fernando Valley.
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Escape from L.A. / int_4c554daf	type	President Evil
Escape from L.A. / int_4c554daf	comment	President Evil: The theocratic-President-for-life, among other things, sentences his daughter to death.
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Escape from L.A. / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Escape from L.A. / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: In spite of the ending's attempt to come off as more "bittersweet", it really is something of a downer: Snake shuts down the whole world's electricity, instead of turning control of the world over to the President or Cuervo/the Shining Path, which all but surely caused the deaths of billions and turned the world into one big third-world country.
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Escape from L.A. / int_50cc01e1	type	Do Not Call Me "Paul"
Escape from L.A. / int_50cc01e1	comment	Do Not Call Me "Paul": Hershe doesn't like Snake calling her by the name she used as a man when they first met, "Carjack".
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Escape from L.A. / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Escape from L.A. / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Snake's presence in the film is bracketed by a pair of appearances he makes on television — in the opening, a news crew films him as he is taken from a transport vehicle and marched into the detention center, and in the ending, the President's camera crew film him as he activates the world code on the Sword of Damocles.
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Escape from L.A. / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
Escape from L.A. / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero: Snake persists in calling the transgender Hershe her old (male) name of "Carjack" despite Hershe's insistence otherwise.
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Escape from L.A. / int_5c5d0032	type	Eyepatch of Power
Escape from L.A. / int_5c5d0032	comment	Eyepatch of Power: His picture is even displayed on the page of this trope.
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Escape from L.A. / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
Escape from L.A. / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: Taslima's character starts out by looking like Snake's potential love interest and moral guidance. She gets shot in the back quite suddenly for no particular reason — other than showing just how bleak the future is.
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Escape from L.A. / int_6221949c	type	Doomed Predecessor
Escape from L.A. / int_6221949c	comment	Doomed Predecessor: Snake is ordered to rendezvous with the only known survivor of the previous strike team once he makes it to L.A. island. He eventually finds the soldier's corpse in a Den of Iniquity being used for target practice by a gang of Neo-Nazis.
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Escape from L.A. / int_62ec4b15	type	Cast of Expies
Escape from L.A. / int_62ec4b15	comment	Cast of Expies: Most of the major characters in this are fulfilling a role similar to that in Escape from New York. Cuervo Jones -> The Duke Map To The Stars Eddie -> Cabbie Carjack Malone/Hershe Las Palmas -> Brain Malloy -> Bob Hauk In fact, the only major character who isn't an Expy is Snake.
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Escape from L.A. / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
Escape from L.A. / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: The drive-by done by the Korean Dragon gang that kills Taslima seems to consist of a number of kids between ten and fifteen. Probably justified given the hellhole they were born in.
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Escape from L.A. / int_6651bba7	type	Bio-Augmentation
Escape from L.A. / int_6651bba7	comment	Bio-Augmentation: Played for Laughs when Snake encounters a cult of plastic surgery-addicted murderers led by the "Surgeon General of L.A."
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Escape from L.A. / int_69391768	type	Expecting Someone Taller
Escape from L.A. / int_69391768	comment	Expecting Someone Taller: A running joke with characters meeting Snake in the film.
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Escape from L.A. / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
Escape from L.A. / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: When Snake is looking for the original soldier sent into Los Angeles to retrieve the Sword of Damocles, he runs into a bunch of Neo-Nazis using the guy's corpse for target practice. When they try to kill Snake over an insult, he shoots one of them with his machine gun, looking nearly bored.
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Escape from L.A. / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Escape from L.A. / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The Sword of Damocles. It's an expression, based on an ancient anecdote, used to express an impending doom that can befall a person or, in the original tale, a tyrant, at any moment. Snake drops the sword on everyone in the end. Carjack is transgender and uses the name Hershe without a "y" on the end ("her" + "she").
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Escape from L.A. / int_6c019508	type	Demanding Their Head
Escape from L.A. / int_6c019508	comment	Demanding Their Head: After Map to the Stars Eddie emerges from a sewer, following a cave-in, and claims to have killed Snake Plissken, a skeptical Cuervo Jones demands that Eddie bring him Plissken's head as proof.
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Escape from L.A. / int_722171e7	type	Straw Character
Escape from L.A. / int_722171e7	comment	Straw Character: Played on both ends, as Snake finds himself in the middle of a presidential Knight Templar in control of a national, overly-militarized police force and a Well-Intentioned Extremist uniting terrorists against him; both are presented as equally terrible options, and Anti-Hero Snake refuses to side with either of them.
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Escape from L.A. / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Escape from L.A. / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: The American President is a religious fascist who turned his country into a police state and is willing to destroy entire countries if necessary to maintain his supremacy. Meanwhile, Cuervo Jones runs the largest gang in Los Angeles and has united Latin America under the Shining Path to invade the United States and get that power for himself.
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Escape from L.A. / int_73f0c42a	type	I Just Want to Be Free
Escape from L.A. / int_73f0c42a	comment	I Just Want to Be Free: Arguably Snake's entire motivation. He just wants to get away and be left alone to his own devices.
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Escape from L.A. / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Escape from L.A. / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
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Escape from L.A. / int_776a06eb	type	All Myths Are True
Escape from L.A. / int_776a06eb	comment	All Myths Are True: Hershe calls attention to the latest conspiracy theories that she has heard over the past few years, including one (when Snake brings up how he's been infected by Plutoxin-7) that it's "rumor control... government propaganda." At the end of the film, Hershe is proven correct, as Snake discovers that the virus is a manmade version of the flu.
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Escape from L.A. / int_77a495f1	type	Historical Badass Upgrade
Escape from L.A. / int_77a495f1	comment	Historical Badass Upgrade: The real-life Shining Path has virtually no influence outside Peru while the Shining Path depicted in this film has conquered Latin America and preparing for an invasion of the US.
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Escape from L.A. / int_794095d7	type	Boxed Crook
Escape from L.A. / int_794095d7	comment	Boxed Crook: As in the previous film, Snake is drafted by the President into entering Los Angeles to retrieve a MacGuffin.
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Escape from L.A. / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Escape from L.A. / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: "Maps to the Stars" Eddie switches sides constantly.
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Escape from L.A. / int_7d561d58	type	Too Awesome to Use
Escape from L.A. / int_7d561d58	comment	Too Awesome to Use: Snake's revolvers. In the two scenes where he demands them back (being sent into L.A. and escaping from the Surgeon General of Beverly Hills), he is carrying other guns (the Coreburner issued to him by the government and the Colt 1911 he takes from the Surgeon General), which he resorts to using first. Even after losing the Coreburner, he divests a mook of his shotgun and uses that. He only gets to use his revolvers once, showing off his Improbable Aiming Skills, and loses them when captured.
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Escape from L.A. / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
Escape from L.A. / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: There is (thankfully) no way in hell that the President's tyrannical rules would be considered constitutional, particularly the outlawing of all religions other than Christianity. Also, the President doesn't make laws in the first place (that's what Congress does), although it's implied he was given some kind of special powers after the earthquake (as a sort of Hand Wave).
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Escape from L.A. / int_86af7ab0	type	Badass Biker
Escape from L.A. / int_86af7ab0	comment	Badass Biker: Snake when he rides a motorcycle.
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Escape from L.A. / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Escape from L.A. / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: The film follows much of the same plot beats from the original, but with a few twists. For instance, when Snake is captured and forced into the local gladiator games, we see a muscular guy brutalizing some schmucks like in the first film... and a deadly game of basketball, which is what the story goes with.
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Escape from L.A. / int_87e661e8	type	Absurdly Spacious Sewer
Escape from L.A. / int_87e661e8	comment	Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: Used by Snake as an escape route following one of the many shoot-outs in the film.
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Escape from L.A. / int_88f4f763	type	Stolen MacGuffin Reveal
Escape from L.A. / int_88f4f763	comment	When Malloy gives Snake his tools for the mission, he hands him a holo-camera that can project his image up to a kilometre away, and tells him to save it for when he needs it the most. Snake stuffs it in his coat, which he subsequently loses to one of Cuervo's thugs after he's captured. He recovers the coat just before he escapes the island, and decides to use the holo-cam as part of his Stolen Macguffin Reveal to fool Malloy and the President during the climax of the film.
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Escape from L.A. / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Escape from L.A. / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: After witnessing the depths to which the President has plunged American society (with most actions being outlawed, as per the President's goal of having a Christian theocracy), and after cutting the juice on the world's electricity via the Sword of Damocles, Snake discovers a pack of "American Spirit" cigarettes with one left, and lights it while musing on the state of the world.
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Escape from L.A. / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Escape from L.A. / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: The US President is part this and part President Evil.
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Escape from L.A. / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Escape from L.A. / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: During Cuervo and Eddie's final encounter, the latter once again tries to trick his boss by stealing the arming device back. Cuervo recognizes the ploy, takes the device back and tells Eddie "you've crossed (me) for the last time" and points a gun at him before The Cavalry arrives.
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Escape from L.A. / int_94cc2c28	type	Exact Time to Failure
Escape from L.A. / int_94cc2c28	comment	Exact Time to Failure: Subverted. Snake's watch reaches zero seconds after he demands the cure for the Plutoxin 7 virus. Luckily, it turns out that Plutoxin 7 is just a fast, hard-hitting case of the flu.
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Escape from L.A. / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Escape from L.A. / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Faced with the world being just moments from a clash between fascistic fundamentalists and equally violent terrorists, Snake smugly uses the Sword of Damocles EMP satellite network to shut down the entire planet, returning the entire mess to a clean slate.
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Escape from L.A. / int_9600368d	type	Behind the Black
Escape from L.A. / int_9600368d	comment	Behind the Black: Snake is told to rendezvous with the one soldier from the first rescue team who is supposedly alive. A Wham Shot reveals that the guy's corpse is being used for target practice, but since it's in the center of a massive room, Snake should have already long seen it.
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Escape from L.A. / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Escape from L.A. / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: The ending of the film relies entirely on this. Snake's hijacked helicopter takes a hit from Cuervo Jones's hail-mary rocket, but since it was only grazed by it, it allows him to temporarily maintain flight instead of being blown out of the sky; he then uses the crash as a diversion. He plants a decoy mini-disk player on Utopia knowing she would be caught, it would be found, and would be thought the real Sword of Damocles. Plus, while Snake's use of the holo-cam is rather ingenious, the ruse would have been blown if anyone had decided to touch his projection prior to The Reveal, something that comes very close to happening in casual conversation. The government's blackmailing plan. Infecting Snake with the flu put a needless handicap on his ability to function in combat. In the movie he shrugs these symptoms of the flu off, but in real life they could easily have gotten him killed or incapacitated. Alternatively, he could also have just run out the clock and discovered the bluff, leaving him with no incentive whatsoever to return the device.
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Escape from L.A. / int_99b1a6c5	type	Post-Adventure Adventure
Escape from L.A. / int_99b1a6c5	comment	Post-Adventure Adventure: Numerous passing references are made to an unseen adventure Snake Plissken had in Cleveland that took place sometime before the events of this film but after the movie's predecessor, Escape from New York. It is in this adventure he met Hershe Las Palmas (albeit before she transitioned).
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Escape from L.A. / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Escape from L.A. / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Snake since Escape from New York. In that film, he was an ex-Green Beret with pretty decent combat skills. In this one, he's able to achieve Man With No Name style quickdrawing, shoot rifles and shotguns one handed from a motorcycle with no significant effects from recoil, take a round to the leg from a Desert Eagle and still walk with only a limp. This while being infected with the Plutoxin 7 virus (granted, it turns out to be the flu, but still).
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Escape from L.A. / int_9c47b23b	type	Dirty Communists
Escape from L.A. / int_9c47b23b	comment	Dirty Communists: The Shining Path has taken over Latin America, and are now poised to invade the US.
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Escape from L.A. / int_9c63834f	type	BoringYetPractical
Escape from L.A. / int_9c63834f	comment	Boring Yet Practical: Snake is given an array of weapons and gadgets going into LA... Among which is a simple box of matches. He uses them twice — once to destroy a car, and the other to light up a cigarette at the end of the film.
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Escape from L.A. / int_9f7769a2	type	The Gunslinger
Escape from L.A. / int_9f7769a2	comment	The Gunslinger: Snake has become a Type D in the intervening years.
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Escape from L.A. / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Escape from L.A. / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Both Cuervo's goons at the Happy Kingdom and the USPF surrounding Snake at the end of the film fire guns in a complete circle around their target. It's a wonder no one is killed in the crossfire. Invoked by Snake during the motorbike chase. With a shooter to his left and right, he speeds up out of the way so they shoot each other's tires.
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Escape from L.A. / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Escape from L.A. / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Snake very narrowly averts this. Since it happened to him once already, it would've been a real bummer.
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Escape from L.A. / int_a612bb6c	type	Ironic Last Words
Escape from L.A. / int_a612bb6c	comment	Ironic Last Words: "Once you figure out this place, it's really not so bad." Spoken by Taslima, just before she dies in a drive-by shooting. She'd been in L.A. long enough to know about all the gangs and their turf, but she let her guard down around Snake and paid for it.
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Escape from L.A. / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
Escape from L.A. / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: A surprising and realistically brief example.
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Escape from L.A. / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Escape from L.A. / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The controller, which activates the "Sword of Damocles" defense system, an EMP cannon designed to destroy enemy nation's weaponry.
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Escape from L.A. / int_ab511101	type	Old Friend, New Gender
Escape from L.A. / int_ab511101	comment	Old Friend, New Gender: Hershe Las Palmas is a trans woman and an old associate of Snake's originally named "Carjack" Malone.
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Escape from L.A. / int_ab544088	type	Net Gun
Escape from L.A. / int_ab544088	comment	Net Gun: The plastic surgery cult uses a net gun to trap Snake Plissken.
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Escape from L.A. / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Escape from L.A. / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Snake, upon realizing that the cut on his hand he received in the hall infected him with the Plutoxin-7 virus. And to a even bigger extent when the government officers realize that Snake confronted them via holocam, meaning that he could be anywhere within a half-mile radius, has the real remote for the Sword of Damocles, knows the world code, and was in full-blown '90s Anti-Hero mode before they sent him into LA at gunpoint. They get a long minute to realize that their world's about to end and there's not a damn thing they can do to stop it.
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Escape from L.A. / int_adf84dea	type	What Beautiful Eyes!
Escape from L.A. / int_adf84dea	comment	What Beautiful Eyes!: The Surgeon General of Beverly Hills is simply mesmerized by Snake's eye...
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Escape from L.A. / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Escape from L.A. / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: It's probably safe to say Snake's even more of a snarker in this one.
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Escape from L.A. / int_ae6adc36	type	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming
Escape from L.A. / int_ae6adc36	comment	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: The Sword of Damocles.
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Escape from L.A. / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Escape from L.A. / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Utopia is first seen in LA in just a bra and panties and a short jacket. For the rest of the film, she's in leather hot pants and a cleavage-baring top.
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Escape from L.A. / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Escape from L.A. / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Deportation to LA is considered this, to the point that on-site executions are offered for those who would prefer death.
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Escape from L.A. / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Escape from L.A. / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: The bald knife thrower attempts to throw a knife at Snake when he walks away from him. Yeah, good luck with that. The Mooks in the "Bangkok rules" scene - awesome though it is - go along with Snakes game instead of doing the sensible thing and riddling him with bullets before he even finishes making his offer.
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Escape from L.A. / int_b6c94487	type	Invaded States of America
Escape from L.A. / int_b6c94487	comment	Invaded States of America: A united, Shining Path-led Latin America is on the verge of invading the US, combined with most of the Third World. Uganda is the only non-Latin country specifically mentioned.
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Escape from L.A. / int_b8d3f642	type	Illegal Religion
Escape from L.A. / int_b8d3f642	comment	Illegal Religion: The new extreme right-wing President who takes over the United States outlaws all religions other than Christianity as well as atheism. It is punishable by death through deportation to the hellish, crime-ridden Los Angeles Penitentiary Island. Taslima, one of the inhabitants, tells Snake that she was an American Muslim before she was shipped off to L.A.
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Escape from L.A. / int_b905c10c	type	The Alcatraz
Escape from L.A. / int_b905c10c	comment	The Alcatraz: Los Angeles, which has been separated from the mainland US by a massive earthquake, is now a prison for those deemed "unfit" to live in the new theocratic America. A Great Wall is built along the shoreline and the United States Police Force is encamped along it to prevent anyone from escaping back to the US.
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Escape from L.A. / int_ba0ff694	type	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
Escape from L.A. / int_ba0ff694	comment	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: "Map to the Stars" Eddie's reaction upon seeing Snake following him on the tsunami.
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Escape from L.A. / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Escape from L.A. / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Snake cannot be persuaded to give a shit about anything but his own interests. Considering there is no particularly good side for him to be on, one can hardly blame him. This applies to the President, too.
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Escape from L.A. / int_bb656150	type	Hostage MacGuffin
Escape from L.A. / int_bb656150	comment	Hostage MacGuffin: Snake Plissken is sent to rescue the president's daughter who voluntarily stole the codes to an EMP satellite to give to her terrorist paramour. Snake is sent to kill her, but can't bring himself to do it after she has a Heelâ€“Face Turn, and brings her with him.
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Escape from L.A. / int_bc452029	type	Strapped to an Operating Table
Escape from L.A. / int_bc452029	comment	Strapped to an Operating Table: The plastic surgery freaks really want Snake's body...
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Escape from L.A. / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Escape from L.A. / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Snake and a few other instances in the movie.
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Escape from L.A. / int_bd842706	type	Hologram
Escape from L.A. / int_bd842706	comment	Hologram: For his government-mandated mission to the future hellhole of Los Angeles island, Snake is given a device that projects a holographic image of himself to fool enemies. Notably, he uses it in the climax to fool the dictatorial U.S. President. During the mission briefing, Snake's captors use these to project themselves into his cell, knowing better than to go in there with a dangerous killer.
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Escape from L.A. / int_be9392d	type	The Quincy Punk
Escape from L.A. / int_be9392d	comment	The Quincy Punk: Virtually every character encountered on L.A. Island.
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Escape from L.A. / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
Escape from L.A. / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: The president made it clear that he disowned his daughter. In fact, he was annoyed that his daughter was alive, and prompted to execute her.
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Escape from L.A. / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
Escape from L.A. / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: The US President, a politician who takes advantage of a depressed, war-torn country to attain absolute power, and then proceeds to eliminate any and all "undesirables" from his new regime. He even uses the term, "Final Solution", near the end. Oddly enough, there is a large contingent of actual white supremacists on the island.
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Escape from L.A. / int_c253090a	type	Big Blackout
Escape from L.A. / int_c253090a	comment	Big Blackout: Snake does this by activating the Sword of Damocles with the world code engaged. This is treated as a good thing, as it supposedly allows humanity to restart.
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Escape from L.A. / int_c325f125	type	Ho Yay
Escape from L.A. / int_c325f125	comment	Ho Yay: An interesting variation; Snake is not only completely unfazed to find his former ally Carjack Malone is now a glamorous trans woman named Hershe Las Palmas, his first move is to reach into her skirt and grab the small-caliber pistol concealed in her thigh holster (after VERY suggestively running his hand up her stockinged leg).
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Escape from L.A. / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
Escape from L.A. / int_c36cba70	comment	The Mooks in the "Bangkok rules" scene - awesome though it is - go along with Snakes game instead of doing the sensible thing and riddling him with bullets before he even finishes making his offer.
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Escape from L.A. / int_c446f93c	type	Artistic License â€“ Nuclear Physics
Escape from L.A. / int_c446f93c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Nuclear Physics: Snake pilots a nuclear minisub to infiltrate the island, easily overloading the reactor by accelerating without causing a meltdown. The hologram projection device in his load-out also falls into this, as despite being the size of a hockey puck and equipped with a "mini-nuke battery", the battery only provides use for "about 8 minutes"
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Escape from L.A. / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Escape from L.A. / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: During his underwater journey to the L.A. mainland, Snake's submersible passes a shark that tries to eat him — right in front of the Universal Studios theme park, referencing the franchise of the same name and the associated thrill park ride. One of the broken taxi cabs in L.A. has the exact same title logo on its driver's side door as the TV show of the same name.
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Escape from L.A. / int_c95d6a1c	type	Evil States of America
Escape from L.A. / int_c95d6a1c	comment	Evil States of America: Even moreso than in its predecessor, as it's now a far-right Christian theocracy that uses the Sword of Damocles to enforce its hegemony over the world.
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Escape from L.A. / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Escape from L.A. / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Cuervo is about to shoot the chopper that Snake, Hershe, Eddie, and Utopia are escaping in with a rocket. He gets shot by Eddie but still manages to get the rocket off before dying.
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Escape from L.A. / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Escape from L.A. / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: L.A. has little of the grittiness of New York, and Snake is more of an Action Hero. Then again, L.A. does subvert it with a much bleaker ending where, instead of just trolling the president, Snake essentially shuts down the earth's electricity supply, plunging the world into darkness. Something that Snake doesn't really seem too choked up about because he's even more pissed at the government than he was the first time.
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Escape from L.A. / int_ce767e6f	type	Co-Dragons
Escape from L.A. / int_ce767e6f	comment	Co-Dragons: Both Cdr. Malloy and Lt. Brazen fill this role for the President.
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Escape from L.A. / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
Escape from L.A. / int_d01cffbc	comment	There is a subversion to this trope as well; Snake loses his Badass Longcoat, which happens to have the holocam in one of the pockets, only to swipe the coat back from the Mook who stole it.
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Escape from L.A. / int_d0b95b85	type	Used Future
Escape from L.A. / int_d0b95b85	comment	Used Future: But only in LA.
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Escape from L.A. / int_d1d670cc	type	Cut the Juice
Escape from L.A. / int_d1d670cc	comment	Cut the Juice: What the Sword of Damocles does.
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Escape from L.A. / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
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Escape from L.A. / int_da9d2f16	comment	And to a even bigger extent when the government officers realize that Snake confronted them via holocam, meaning that he could be anywhere within a half-mile radius, has the real remote for the Sword of Damocles, knows the world code, and was in full-blown '90s Anti-Hero mode before they sent him into LA at gunpoint. They get a long minute to realize that their world's about to end and there's not a damn thing they can do to stop it.
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Escape from L.A. / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: Played with and subverted. The President's daughter runs off with revolutionary Cuervo Jones because she thinks he's doing the right thing by opposing her father's theocracy. However, once she actually witnesses him committing some very unfair, violent, and murderous deeds, she decides she wants no more to do with him and sides with Snake.
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Escape from L.A. / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: During the climax, when the President sentences his daughter to be executed, he corrupts one of the Bible's most recognized verses, putting himself in The Almighty's place. Of course, given that he's President For Life of a theocratic dictatorship, it'd probably be surprising if he didn't develop a God complex.
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Escape from L.A. / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: The arming device for the Sword of Damocles uses the exact same model as Eddie's narrated Hollywood tour guides. At one point, Eddie even paints one of his own devices to make it look functionally-identical to the former, and attempts to pilfer the real device from Cuervo when his attention is diverted. Snake later uses this fake device to trick Malloy and the President, as part of the Stolen Macguffin Reveal.
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Escape from L.A. / int_dc7d9864	comment	Virus and Cure Names: Subverted with the Plutoxin 7 virus. Its cure is nothing since it's just a common flu virus. Snake is tricked into believing otherwise.
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Escape from L.A. / int_df332911	comment	Hellish L.A.: Depicts Los Angeles the same way the last movie depicted New York, as a near-future extrapolation of all the city's worst tendencies in 1996 blown up to dystopian levels.
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Escape from L.A. / int_e54f93d5	comment	Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight: The final battle between Snake and Cuervo has Cuervo use a knife against Snake.
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Escape from L.A. / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: In both Escape from New York and L.A., the U.S. government is on a Last-Name Basis with protagonist Snake Plissken, to which he consistently replies, "Call me Snake". However, during the respective climaxes of both movies, when one of the government's men finally does call him Snake, he reverses his previous attitude with the reply, "The name's Plissken".
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Escape from L.A. / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: Hershe rattles off a list of government conspiracies when Snake meets her, including a claim that the government was able to develop short-term, manmade cases of the flu. It turns out that this is what Plutoxin-7 actually is. Snake figures this out as well, playing it up after he gets back from L.A. and meets Malloy again.
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Escape from L.A. / int_edb6dd67	comment	We Will Have Euthanasia in the Future: For those deportees who don't like their chances in LA, the deportation center offers the chance to "repent your sins" and be electrocuted on the spot.
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Escape from L.A. / int_f010eba7	comment	Plot-Irrelevant Villain: Snake is sent into L.A. to find the President's daughter (who has the key to a Doomsday Device) as World War III looms in the background. Along the way, he's captured by the Surgeon General of Beverly Hills, who wants to harvest him and his female ally for their organs. Despite the threat the Surgeon General faces to Snake and Taslima, he has nothing to do with the main conflict between the President Evil and the Shining Path terrorists. He's content to rule his own little corner of LA Island so he can conduct his experiments and the protagonists just happened to wander into his territory.
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Escape from L.A. / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: Carried over from the first film; the film being released in 1996 and being set in 2013.
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Escape from L.A. / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Malloy is a thinly-veiled Expy of Bob Hauk from the original film, right down to their surly demeanor and similar mannerisms. Interestingly, Hauk was planned to return in the earliest scripts written for the film, but due to script changes (and Lee Van Cleef passing away in 1989), his name was swapped to "Malloy" — but much of the same dialogue remained across all of the scripts. The "Happy Kingdom", a thinly-veiled knockoff of Disneyland. This was even invoked by the production team, who built the set to be an approximation of "Main Street, U.S.A." from the same park. It even has a similar version of Sleeping Beauty's Castle and the Matterhorn!
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Escape from L.A. / int_f6800554	comment	Battle Bolas: During Snake's attack on Cuervo Jones's parade, Cuervo manages to take him down with an expertly thrown bolas that knocks Snake off the top of a moving truck.
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Escape from L.A. / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
Escape from L.A. / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: The President, a mixture of Ronald Reagan and the duo of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, has turned America into a theocracy. For an added joke, he's played by a guy named Robertson.
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Escape from L.A. / int_fae64ace	comment	Heroic Neutral: Snake would rather not be helping but being infected by a virus forces his hand.
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Escape from L.A. / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Escape from L.A. / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: Perhaps too many to list, but here are a few: The big threatening MacGuffin in the movie is the "Sword of Damocles", a network of space EMPs that will send the world back to the stone-age. EMP works by causing any metal it passes through to generate an electrical charge, however the strength of that charge depends on the size and length of the metal the EMP hits. Systems connected to miles of copper wire would take extremely powerful voltage spikes, but smaller electronics such as cell phones, watches, and smaller computers are actually immune to an EMP because they don't contain large enough wires to attenuate enough of the pulse. In essence, only large, unshielded devices (like modern cars and some aircraft) would be sufficiently damaged by an EMP to be completely unusable. In other words, an EMP is not a reliable method of disabling electronics on a wide scale. Snake and Pipeline surf a tsunami. Given that even a normal wave can approach 100 mph and they were on land when the wave approached, it would simply envelop them rather than allow them to catch a ride. By real-world standards, the hang gliders used to ambush the movie's Che Guevara clone stay aloft far too long, evidently floating on Rule of Cool.
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