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First Blood

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First Blood	comment	First Blood is the first film in the Rambo franchise, released in 1982. It is based on the 1972 novel of the same name written by David Morrell.The film deals with John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) struggling to overcome the trauma he experienced during the Vietnam War. Having just learned his only remaining squadmate is dead, Rambo visits a small Washington State town for a bite to eat. However, the sheriff, Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy), doesn't appreciate "drifters" in his orderly town which he apparently treats as private property, so he drives Rambo out to the town limits to send him on his way. When Rambo turns and heads back, Teasle arrests him for "vagrancy" among other false charges after thinking he was trying to trespass into his town and orders him cleaned up for his trial. Police Brutality ensues as the deputies rough him up while doing so, dredging all of Rambo's war trauma back to the surface.Ultimately, a flashback to being tortured as a POW results in Rambo escaping from custody, becoming a fugitive from the law. Thus begins a small-scale war with the town police, which escalates to include not only the state police but the National Guard. This attracts the attention and assistance of Colonel Sam Trautman (Richard Crenna), Rambo's ex-commander, who knows what kind of killing machine he trained Rambo to be and hopes to capture him alive. The police would do well to heed his advice, because Trautman knows just how much damage Rambo is prepared to do if pushed too far...Thanks to it being based on an anti-war novel from the early '70s and being produced and released during the tail end of the New Hollywood era, First Blood is notable for being completely different in tone, genre and feel from the rest of the franchise, being an anti-war Psychological Thriller that deals with the hefty subject of the dehumanization and mistreatment of Vietnam War veterans, complete with a famous speech on the subject. The One-Man Army Rambo is known as today would not surface until the Actionized Sequel Rambo: First Blood Part II put him back in the battlefield (thus missing the point of this film a considerable amount).
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First Blood / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
First Blood / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety: John Rambo could've just as easily sat back and let the sheriff and his deputies kill each other in friendly fire accidents. They keep fingers on triggers, sweep muzzles through heads and chests, and so on.
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First Blood / int_1285edb8	type	Fugitive Arc
First Blood / int_1285edb8	comment	Fugitive Arc: This trope drives the film when top soldier John Rambo runs afoul of local law enforcement, who discover the hard way that they are horribly outclassed.
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First Blood / int_12c1a10e	type	Reusable Lighter Toss
First Blood / int_12c1a10e	comment	Reusable Lighter Toss: After knocking over some fuel pumps with his stolen truck, Rambo tosses a lighter on the puddle of gas.note It is hard to see it is a lighter until he tosses it, then it makes the very distinctive metalic sound of a Zippo hitting the ground.
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First Blood / int_13e1c444	type	Plot-Triggering Death
First Blood / int_13e1c444	comment	Plot-Triggering Death: Rambo would have never come to the area had he known his squadmate Delmar Barry had died.
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First Blood / int_1484dba1	type	Foreshadowing
First Blood / int_1484dba1	comment	Foreshadowing: in his final breakdown Rambo comments that he can fly a helicopter gunship and drive a tank, something he does in the next Rambo films.
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First Blood / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
First Blood / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The first film is considerably bleaker in tone than the sequels that followed it (with the exception of Last Bood). Focusing less on action, and more on the grim, psychological aspects.
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First Blood / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
First Blood / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Teasle is performing his duty defending the wellbeing of his town, after all, and still genuinely believes so as he goes about at the expense of Rambo. Subverted since he's also The Bully and something of a Dirty Cop, as the reason Rambo goes on his rampage in the first place is because of how he and his deputies mistreated him for no good reason, and when Rambo accidentally kills Galt and tries to surrender, Teasle instantly tries to shoot Rambo dead instead of arrest him.
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First Blood / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
First Blood / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: The Movie. Initially writing Rambo off as a persistent vagrant, Teasle and his men get more than they bargained for when the war veteran outwits them at multiple opportunities. Even after being given an out by Trautman, in the form of allowing Rambo to "slip through the gap" and pick him up quietly in a nearby city after putting out an APB for his arrest, Teasle continues to pursue Rambo, culminating in the latter unleashing his own "private war" on the the town of Hope and its police station.
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First Blood / int_17122cfd	type	Put on a Prison Bus
First Blood / int_17122cfd	comment	Put on a Prison Bus: Rambo is placed into handcuffs, arrested, and put into the back seat of a police car at the end of the film. The original ending, like the book, was for the character to be Mercy Killed by Colonel Trautman, but Sylvester Stallone didn't like that and had the ending re-written to allow the character to live.
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First Blood / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
First Blood / int_17ce80aa	comment	Galt himself is a fellow military veteran according to the film's DVD's Survival Mode, except he had never seen combat unlike the above-mentioned three characters. He himself in the film became a worse Jerkass Green-Eyed Monster Dirty Cop then Teasle as he did most of the sadistic abuse towards Rambo presumably out of rancorous jealousy for being a vet who had seen actual combat, while Galt did not.
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First Blood / int_18cb78a2	type	You Are Already Dead
First Blood / int_18cb78a2	comment	You Are Already Dead: John Rambo describes the death of one of his fellow soldiers this way to his commanding officer, after learning that exposure to Agent Orange gave him cancer. "Got himself killed in 'Nam, didn't even know it."
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First Blood / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
First Blood / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Twice in one scene.
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First Blood / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
First Blood / int_19d06ef7	comment	Colonel Trautman is level-headed, practical and wants to spare both his protege's life and the lives of the policemen. Justified as he's also A Father to His Men.
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First Blood / int_19fc58a2	type	A Lighter Shade of Black
First Blood / int_19fc58a2	comment	A Lighter Shade of Black: In contrast to the sequel Big Bads and The Dragon Art Galt, the Starter Villain Teasle is by far ranked the least terrible and villainous out of the major foes that Rambo faced.
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First Blood / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
First Blood / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: Teasle would almost be justified in disregarding Trautman's seemingly-overblown warnings of just how dangerous Rambo is, were it not for the fact that both Teasle and his deputies were just expertly taken down shortly before by Rambo, who made it very clear that they were only alive because he didn't want them dead.
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First Blood / int_1b465242	type	Conditioned to Accept Horror
First Blood / int_1b465242	comment	Conditioned to Accept Horror: Rambo, to the point he has no idea what he's supposed to do with his life now that the war is over.
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First Blood / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
First Blood / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Teasle's Irrational Hatred of Rambo is fueled by the fact he is a Vietnam veteran stealing attention away from Korean War veterans like Teasle himself.
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First Blood / int_1eda7a32	type	I Own This Town
First Blood / int_1eda7a32	comment	I Own This Town: Will Teasle seems to think that his position as sheriff gives him the authority keep anyone who he views as undesirable out of his town, even if they hadn't done anything. When Teasle meets John Rambo and puts him through hell, this comes back to bite him in the ass rather quickly.
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First Blood / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
First Blood / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: With the exception of Teasle's vile dragon Galt, most of the deputies such as Mitch and Lester and the National Guardsmen are just regular guys doing their jobs and are not really bad people (except possibly Deputy Ward, for his willingness to go along with and turning a blind eye to Galt's abuse of Rambo back at the station and even taunting Rambo not to struggle unless he wants to get his throat cut as he prepares to dry shave him, leading to his escape).
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First Blood / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
First Blood / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: While Teasle was still a bit of a jerk in the novel, he was also a far more complex character and more of a Jerkass Woobieinvoked and a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. The novel goes into great detail on his motives, his relationships with his family and other members of the town, and acknowledges several similarities between him and John. He arguably comes off as more sympathetic than Rambo and even reveals himself to be a Reasonable Authority Figure when he drives Rambo to a diner to have something to eat before taking him to town limits. The film, despite having a few downplayed Pet the Dog moments, makes him into a clear-cut asshole who the audience has no trouble rooting against. The other cops count as well, most particularly Galt. In the novel, they were, while not the nicest people around, still very sympathetic characters. In the film, the cops, with the exception of Mitch, are all insufferably unlikable douchebags. Due to the despicable portrayal of the sheriff's department, it makes the town Hope they defend a Crapsaccharine World unlike the book's depiction of Madison, Kentucky, where Teasle's police force was stationed instead.
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First Blood / int_23568a2a	type	Adaptational Job Change
First Blood / int_23568a2a	comment	Adaptational Job Change: In the novel, Teasel was Chief of Police. In the film, he's a sheriff.
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First Blood / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
First Blood / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Mitch Rogers, the young red-haired cop, is the only one to express dismay when Galt starts messing with Rambo. He's the lowest ranking officer, though, so no one listens to him. For his part, he does get off lighter than the rest of the cops, as Rambo disables Mitch by simply stabbing him in a non-vital area (the thigh) that's mostly healed by the next time we see him. Colonel Trautman is also the only one who understands the gravity of the situation.
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First Blood / int_24aae752	type	Try and Follow
First Blood / int_24aae752	comment	Try and Follow: Pursued through the woods, Rambo escapes the on-foot policemen by jumping from a small cliff, using a tall tree's branches to soften his fall. It still hurts, though.
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First Blood / int_25afd4a3	type	Good Guns, Bad Guns
First Blood / int_25afd4a3	comment	Good Guns, Bad Guns: The deputies, state troopers and National Guardsmen carry M16s. Justified as they are the official "good" guys. Rambo uses these and an M60 too, so he's using the Good Gun. Teasle uses an Heckler and Koch G3, which is justified as he is both an authority figure but not necessarily good, so it shows he can be viewed either way. Trautman has a holstered M1911 on his person which is usually well hidden by his coat or the camera.
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First Blood / int_278a8f2b	type	ChildSoldier
First Blood / int_278a8f2b	comment	Child Soldier: Rambo at the end of the film tears up describing how Joe Danforth was killed by one (implied to be sent by the Viet Cong) with a shoeshine box booby-trap bomb.
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First Blood / int_27be0280	type	Porn Stache
First Blood / int_27be0280	comment	Porn Stache: Rambo's flashbacks shows he had this.
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First Blood / int_29292e6d	type	Walking the Earth
First Blood / int_29292e6d	comment	Walking the Earth: Rambo is wandering around the United States, unable to mesh with society. The later films usually give him a home, which is portrayed as being somewhere in Thailand.
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First Blood / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
First Blood / int_2a7b0247	comment	Could Say It, But...: John Rambo is arrested by Teasle for vagrancy for choosing to walk into Hope after being told he is not welcomed, which is basically trespassing in Teasle's eyes in all but name, as there is no such thing as trespassing into a public town.
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First Blood / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
First Blood / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Most of the police and national guardsmen who are hunting Rambo are scared shitless of him.
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First Blood / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
First Blood / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: After Rambo overpowers the posse during the manhunt initially with just Teasle and his deputies, Rambo pins the sheriff to a tree with a knife at his throat and was able to paralyze the arrogant sheriff with fear upon warning him what Rambo's capable of and telling him to leave him alone while he still has the chance. After departing, Teasle just sinks down sobbing.
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First Blood / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
First Blood / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Teasle serves as a Hero Antagonist to capture fugitive-from-justice Rambo, but internally just to prove that Korean War vets such as Teasle are more badass than Vietnam War vets such as Rambo and to avenge the death of Art Galt, who's a despicable character to begin with, accidentally killed by Rambo. In general, despite doing his hardest to uphold the law and bring in his brand of justice, it turned him into a viciously prejudiced Dirty Cop and Rabid Cop in order to do so in his view.
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First Blood / int_2cd9889	type	No Place for a Warrior
First Blood / int_2cd9889	comment	No Place for a Warrior: The movie is about John Rambo, a Vietnam vet struggling with severe PTSD issues, who makes the mistake of drifting through a small town where the sheriff doesn't like drifters. The entire situation is best summed up in one line:
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First Blood / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
First Blood / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Rambo mistakes a kid out hunting game for one of the officers pursuing him and Rambo has to force himself to let the kid go. Col. Trautman himself lampshades this during the climax where he accuses Rambo of having wanted to initiate a fight from the beginning.
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First Blood / int_2d6f00e4	type	Psycho for Hire
First Blood / int_2d6f00e4	comment	Psycho for Hire: Galt's sadistic and brutal when it comes to treating Rambo in incarceration and reckless when it comes to hunting him.
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First Blood / int_2de7bbf1	type	Nominal Hero
First Blood / int_2de7bbf1	comment	Nominal Hero: Rambo's only fighting to survive and rather brutal with his methods (despite refusing to kill his enemies).
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First Blood / int_2f94135c	type	Thou Shalt Not Kill
First Blood / int_2f94135c	comment	Thou Shalt Not Kill: Rambo himself tries to avoid killing anybody, as the majority of the opposition are Hero Antagonists.
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First Blood / int_2fef0c01	type	Twisted Christmas
First Blood / int_2fef0c01	comment	Twisted Christmas: The movie involves Rambo coming home from Vietnam looking for a friend, only to find that he died of Agent Orange following the war. When Rambo tries to go to a diner, Sheriff Will Teasle drives him away but Rambo tries to go back to town, only to be arrested. Rambo eventually snaps while at prison and goes on a one-man war against Teasle and the police. In the end, after Rambo severely wounds Teasle in a gunfight, Rambo is confronted by his former commander Col. Trautman and he is told to surrender. Rambo breaks down and cries as he tells Trautman about what happened in Vietnam and when he returned home, before surrendering to Trautman and put into state custody while Teasle is carried to the hospital. All of this happened on Christmas.
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First Blood / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
First Blood / int_319e4a2f	comment	Played with Teasle in the movie. While it is mostly averted in regards to his general despicable behavior, treatment of Rambo and his lust for vengeance for Galt's death, especially in comparison to State Police Captain Kern, his deputies Mitch and Lester and Colonel Trautman (who all play this role straight unlike Teasle), he still cares for the welfare of his town and his deputies and did show some respect towards Trautman despite the latter being Rambo's associate and a Vietnam vet. Also, he proved that he had the basic decency to be able to acknowledge that he may have been in the wrong, and was more misguided and overzealous than actively malicious until Galt's death, whereupon he was emotionally compromised and was clearly acting irrationally.
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First Blood / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
First Blood / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: Rambo spectacularly blows up half the town during the final onslaught.
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First Blood / int_32785419	type	Redemption Rejection
First Blood / int_32785419	comment	Redemption Rejection: After thinking Rambo is dead, Teasle mellows down and meets with Trautman to apologize for being a Jerkass Rabid Cop about the ordeal and confessing his desire to kill Rambo to him, making it seem he is preparing to walk away from his personal manhunt to Took a Level in Kindness, but when he hears Rambo is still alive and Trautman still tries to reason with Teasle, Teasle aggressively rebuffs Trautman's attempts to take on the chance to achieve his own ends by killing Rambo.
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First Blood / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
First Blood / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: In the police station breakout, one of the random police officers gets kicked out of a window by Rambo.
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First Blood / int_329a19a0	type	Hollywood Healing
First Blood / int_329a19a0	comment	Hollywood Healing: Averted. Rambo gives each of the deputies an incapacitating, but non-lethal injury. Each are in excruciating pain and are out of action for the rest of the movie. Played straight with Rambo who suffers a multitude of significant injuries throughout the film. However, it is lampshaded by Trautman that he has been trained to ignore pain and fight on.
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First Blood / int_32d0784e	type	Stop, or I Will Shoot!
First Blood / int_32d0784e	comment	Stop, or I Will Shoot!: Galt tries repeatedly to shoot a fleeing suspect armed with only a knife, using a hunting rifle at that. Later, Teasle threatens to fire upon Rambo from a cliff if he makes a move, while Rambo is (again) only armed with a knife and has his hands up. A couple steps back and the whole unit follows through.
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First Blood / int_34031fd2	type	Cruelty by Feet
First Blood / int_34031fd2	comment	Cruelty by Feet: Galt reveals himself to be a sadistic bully when he hits Rambo in the back with his baton, and then kicks him while he's on the ground in pain. The other cop present, Mitch, is clearly disturbed by it.
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First Blood / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
First Blood / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Art Galt tortures Rambo for no reason, triggering his PTSD-induced rampage in the first place. Then he decides to kill Rambo in cold blood for beating him up.
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First Blood / int_37cee864	type	Real Award, Fictional Character
First Blood / int_37cee864	comment	Real Award, Fictional Character: Rambo is identified as a Medal of Honor recipient. Teasle also has a Silver Star, a Purple Heart, and a Distinguished Service Cross on display in his office. According to the novel and its author's commentary, he served in the Korean War.
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First Blood / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
First Blood / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Teasle was a veteran of the Korean War, his actor Brian Dennehy had played an M.P. named Ernie Connors in an episode of the Korean War-set television series MAS*H (which was based on the movie of the same name where Rambo's actor Stallone said he was an extra in). Interestingly enough, Ernie Connors had the rank of Sergeant First Class, whilst Teasle in the novel was stated to have been a Marine master sergeant.
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First Blood / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
First Blood / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: Hope, Washington, seems to be your average quiet little town (and boring, as quoted by Teasle early in the movie). However, little do most of the townspeople know that behind the doors of the sheriff's department they entrust are a Wretched Hive of Dirty Cops led by two Fat Bastards Sheriff Teasle and Sgt. Galt, who are bigoted against Vietnam veterans and drifters and are willing to torture them under their incarceration out of superficial bigotry.
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First Blood / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
First Blood / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Repeatedly dealt to the Sheriff's department by Rambo. First, in the holding cells against the deputies who try Police Brutality against Rambo. Again, in the wood when he ambushes them easily. And finally, in the town battle.
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First Blood / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
First Blood / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Rambo only "goes Rambo" with the M60 for the last few scenes of the film. For most of the film, he uses stealth, his knowledge of the forest terrain and his survival training to avoid or outmaneuver and neutralize the police officers one-by-one. They'll kill him in short order if he tries to take them on directly, and he is aware of this. Later on, when he manages to get a rifle and the National Guard get involved, Rambo has the clear edge over the weekend warriors in terms of experience and training, but because there's a lot of them and only one of him, he spends most of the time running away. He barely manages to avoid getting killed several times. But then again, the National Guard know that they're dealing with a fugitive ex-special forces fighter and are rightly terrified of him, which impacts their own ability to deal with him.
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First Blood / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
First Blood / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Rambo was a much darker character in the book. The novel puts more emphasis on the fact that the whole situation mostly happens because of Rambo's own Pride, and Teasle actually gives him several chances to leave the town peacefully, as opposed to the movie where he arrests him after coming back once. Rambo's actions also seem more like vengeance and he eventually realizes he is fighting because he likes it, whereas in the movie his actions seem more like self-defense. And while in the film he only kills one person by accident, in the book he slaughters dozens of people, including almost the entire police force and is basically like an evil version of what the character would become in later films, and more or less serves as the Big Bad of the story.
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First Blood / int_40b98588	type	Adaptational Location Change
First Blood / int_40b98588	comment	Adaptational Location Change: The book and the film take place in a fictional small town called Hope, though the book was set in Kentucky and the film is set in Washington.
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First Blood / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
First Blood / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: Rambo manages to hide by lying flat on the ground in a forest, and is almost completely invisible until he jumps up to ambush a cop.
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First Blood / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
First Blood / int_424c9a9b	comment	One of the most famous depictions of post-traumatic stress disorder in film. Rambo was a POW in the Vietnam War who endured Cold-Blooded Torture at the hands of the NVA, and is the Sole Survivor of his unit (he learns at the beginning the only other survivor is dead). He ends up abused in police custody, bringing all his memories of the war back, which soon includes a memory of said torture that triggers an extreme fight-or-flight response, setting off the action.
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First Blood / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
First Blood / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: While talking to Colonel Trautman by radio, Rambo defends himself by saying the conflict wouldn't be happening had Sheriff Teasle let him eat at a restaurant and left him alone. Trautman replies that Rambo did plenty of "pushing" back.
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First Blood / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
First Blood / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: While his manhunt for Rambo and his refusal to back down is driven by his Revenge Before Reason desire to avenge Galt's death, it's also driven by Teasle's dislike of Vietnam vets and to prove that Korean War vets like him are as efficient as any other soldier who fought in combat and is willing to Face Death with Dignity rather than retreat, grovel or cry like some Dirty Coward if Rambo ever does get the upper hand.
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First Blood / int_4548e6d9	type	Innocent Bystander
First Blood / int_4548e6d9	comment	Galt is downright sadistic and brutal when he mistreats Rambo and reckless during the manhunt for him when he doesn't give a second thought to an Innocent Bystander being in the way when trying to kill Rambo or Teasle's orders to capture Rambo alive.
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First Blood / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
First Blood / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Rambo. Fully justified in that this is precisely what all soldiers are trained to be, particularly Special Operations personnel. There are no fancy spin kicks, back flips, artful dodging, or extended fight scenes in this movie. Rambo deals with each opponent very quickly and relies on groin attacks, targeting weak spots such as the eyes and nose, knocking people down and incapacitating them while they are struggling to get up, etc. Mitch, being pretty much the only cop who was actually smart enough to add up all the pieces into a very coherent big picture, is aware that there is much more to Rambo than meets the eye, but his observations fall on deaf ears.
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First Blood / int_4b5e821a	type	Trespassing Hero
First Blood / int_4b5e821a	comment	Trespassing Hero: Rambo is viewed as one by Teasle, who thought Rambo was trying to trespass into his town of Hope that Teasle seemingly treats as private property and arrested him for it with the charge of vagrancy as a more likely substitute for it due to no such charge as trespassing into a town that in general is usually a public area.
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First Blood / int_4dd42a04	type	Self-Surgery
First Blood / int_4dd42a04	comment	Self-Surgery: Rambo sewing up his wounds in the tunnels.
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First Blood / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
First Blood / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Rambo tells Trautman how traumatic civilian life is for him, breaks down and is arrested. Teasle is grievously wounded, and Hope has been torn apart. Nobody wins. The original ending was much worse, as Rambo has Trautman shoot him to commit Suicide by Cop.
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First Blood / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
First Blood / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Col. Trautman delivers an epic one:
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First Blood / int_4e9fe57d	type	Trauma Button
First Blood / int_4e9fe57d	comment	Trauma Button: Rambo's escape from custody is set off when the deputies try to forcefully shave him, which triggers a Vietnam War flashback to being strung up and tortured with a knife as a POW.
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First Blood / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
First Blood / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Needless to say, this film is unlike the One-Man Army action flicks that make up the rest of the Rambo franchise. Here, the action-packed blockbuster scenarios that the following franchise is known for is Played for Horror. It also happens to be the best-reviewed in the series. Notably, in stark contrast to the pop-culture image of an invincible screaming Rambo gunning down hordes of enemies, here he kills exactly one person on-screen, and even then only by accident.
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First Blood / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
First Blood / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Art Galt. The guy loves leering over people he considers beneath him, and kisses up to Teasle so he can abuse his power, but once Rambo gets the upper hand on him, he absolutely loses his shit, and even has the brilliant idea to try to snipe Rambo while unbuckled in a moving helicopter. It ends about as well you would expect.
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First Blood / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
First Blood / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set: Rambo ultimately wrecks the town's police station, pumping several hundred rounds of M16 ammo into the place in an attempt to kill Teasle.
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First Blood / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
First Blood / int_50b05d30	comment	While arresting Rambo for vagrancy seems like Disproportionate Retribution today, it was legitimately a criminal offense in the post-Vietnam years and Teasle was just fulfilling what other officers in America were commonly doing at the time towards the homeless vets. The novel includes a "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer in the foreword of more recent editions.
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First Blood / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
First Blood / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: While not exactly fat and more big-boned, Teasle has an imposing physique and described by Rambo to be "king shit".
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First Blood / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
First Blood / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The film begins and ends with details about members of Rambo's old squad and how they died.
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First Blood / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
First Blood / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: While Teasle was Faux Affably Evil towards Rambo initially when they first met, he can also be considered to be this due to actually caring for his town and his deputies under his command and is more civilized than his top henchman and best friend Art Galt. Despite having a dislike for Trautman for also being a Vietnam vet, he does have respect for him with one of the presumed factors being that Trautman is also a fellow Korean War vet like him to confide to, prompting him to Pet the Dog towards Trautman at the town's bar and nearly considered to take Trautman's advise to drop his vendetta against Rambo before doing a Redemption Rejection at the climax.
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First Blood / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
First Blood / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Chief deputy Art Galt, who oversees the brutal interrogation of Rambo, and even attempts to shoot him before falling to his death from the police helicopter.
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First Blood / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
First Blood / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: A minor example. In his climactic speech, Rambo mentions that, upon returning to the United States, he was met with protesters at the airport who were protesting HIM, even spitting at/on him. While it's possible that some incidents like this did occur in real life, they had to have been few and far between (soldiers flew home individually on regular commercial flights, so any protestors who were big enough assholes to be willing go that far would have had to wait around the terminal for quite a while to find some soldiers to harass). Most anti-war protesters of the time sympathized with the soldiers sent to fight in Vietnam because they knew the majority of returning soldiers were draftees who had no choice. In fact, many returning soldiers became protesters themselves. There's an entire book, Spitting Image, by Jerry Lembcke, looking at this specific idea - Lembcke concludes that, as far as he can tell, it never happened in real life.
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First Blood / int_580be152	type	Adaptational Modesty
First Blood / int_580be152	comment	Adaptational Modesty: Rambo's escape from jail happens after getting hosed, and putting on some clothes. In the novel, he did this completely in the nude.
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First Blood / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
First Blood / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Mitch thinks he and his fellow officers are in way over their heads in this and feels they should leave the matter of capturing Rambo to the state police professionals, but Teasle stubbornly refuses to accept this fact.
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First Blood / int_5aa2b7c8	type	Powder Trail
First Blood / int_5aa2b7c8	comment	Powder Trail: Rambo blows up a sporting goods store by tossing cartons of bullets and cans of lighter in a pile, then dousing it with gunpowder and laying a powder trail to make a fuse.
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First Blood / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
First Blood / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Art Galt falls to his death out of a helicopter. Since this isn't Disney, however, we see his body soon after, and the results aren't pretty.
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First Blood / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
First Blood / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Rambo has this with rats, likely due to his war experience. While not outright stated, he reacts in horror to the rats in the cave when they get on him even though they're not attacking him at all.
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First Blood / int_60b166be	type	Reformed Criminal
First Blood / int_60b166be	comment	Reformed Criminal: According to the DVD's Survival Mode easter egg trivia, Mitch was once a car stereo and speaker thief who did marijuana. For all of that he was busted and became a deputy out of performing community service. By the time of the film, Mitch became a better person in contrast to his aforementioned criminal record, and his leniency towards Rambo was likely due to knowing out of personal experience of being an ex-con himself and wanting to make sure that Rambo would be treated fairly, possibly out of Mitch being similarly mistreated by authorities following his own past conviction.
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First Blood / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
First Blood / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Pausing the film at the right moment during the scenes in Teasle's office reveals he has a collection of war medals, similar to Rambo's. In the novel, it's suggested that Teasle and Rambo are the same, as the former was also a Korean War veteran, albeit one who has a chip on his shoulder due to not getting the same kind of attention as Vietnam-deployed counterparts.
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First Blood / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
First Blood / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Teasle in the first act increasingly loses his patience with Rambo, starting with Rambo returning to Hope, then his refusal of going through the process of being booked while in police custody before finally culminating in Galt's death that really pushed Teasle over the edge.
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First Blood / int_63b12059	type	Villainous Friendship
First Blood / int_63b12059	comment	Villainous Friendship: Galt has one with Teasle. However, it seemingly appears to be one-sided and hollow that was oblivious to Teasle as Galt ignores Teasle's orders on the radio to take Rambo alive and tries to gun down Rambo in cold blood, which would lead to his death.
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First Blood / int_63f9d3d2	type	Falsely Reformed Villain
First Blood / int_63f9d3d2	comment	Falsely Reformed Villain: Galt left behind a considerable criminal record and had been arrested in the past according to the DVD's Survival Mode easter egg trivia, yet unlike Mitch who is a Reformed Criminal who became a deputy out of community service and genuinely became a better person, Galt hasn't learned a thing from his crimes and abuses his position as a deputy sergeant up to his death. It can also be presumed he may have manipulated Teasle and used their so-called friendship to get him a job to act out his violent tendencies with no consequences as long as Teasle backed him up.
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First Blood / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
First Blood / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: The end result of Rambo finally opening up about his Mangst.
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First Blood / int_6860368a	type	Mook Horror Show
First Blood / int_6860368a	comment	Mook Horror Show: Rambo's ambush of Teasle and his deputies in the woods is played like this. In a matter of minutes, five of them are on the ground with painful but non-lethal wounds crying out in pain and fear, as a thunderstorm rages around them. Even Teasle is left sobbing after Rambo pounces on him with a knife to the throat.
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First Blood / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
First Blood / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: Downplayed spectacularly to the point of almost being averted entirely. While the film is already a bleak and grisly movie even without him, (the film opens with Rambo finding out his friend from Vietnam is dead, with sad music playing in the background no less, and then he gets harrassed by Teasle) Galt fulfilled this role of sorts due to being more vile and lawless than Teasle through his cruelty towards Rambo and then his attempt to kill him in retribution for assaulting him after Galt tormented him. The music that plays during his intense scene when he tries to shoot Rambo in cold blood before meeting his death reflects on this trope Galt borders on and can feel like it came straight out of a horror film.
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First Blood / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
First Blood / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: While the manhunt is driven by Teasle's dislike of Vietnam vets and Rambo's Accidental Murder of Galt, he is not wrong that Rambo should not be let off that easy after committing what Teasle thought was first-degree murder (Rambo was also responsible for destruction of property). Furthermore, when he first arrested Rambo, he was correct that Rambo should not be carrying a dangerous combat knife in public which makes it at least one (possibly the only) good reason to prosecute him for. To make matters worse, Rambo was probably carrying it without a license as he could not afford one due to his inability to have gainful employment. It also does not help that Rambo was not giving out a straight clear answer when Teasle, who had already worn out his patience by Rambo's return, first questions him over it. However, the penalty Rambo received was harsher than the crime itself, thanks to the other charges for vagrancy and resisting arrest. Also subverted as Teasle only found the knife when he searched Rambo's bag without Probable Cause, a violation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution's Bill of Rights (unlawful search and seizure) that would have resulted in any judge throwing the case out of court for police misconduct. While arresting Rambo for vagrancy seems like Disproportionate Retribution today, it was legitimately a criminal offense in the post-Vietnam years and Teasle was just fulfilling what other officers in America were commonly doing at the time towards the homeless vets. The novel includes a "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer in the foreword of more recent editions. Ultimately, in the film this trope is subverted as Rambo wouldâ€™ve turned himself in peacefully had he gotten the chance to calm down. Teasle was the one escalating the conflict and pushing an obviously traumatized individual too far.
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First Blood / int_6dec2f19	type	Swiss-Army Weapon
First Blood / int_6dec2f19	comment	Swiss-Army Weapon: Rambo's knife has a variety of additional functions. In the weapons department, he can tie it to a stick (there are holes in the hilt to thread the cord through) and make a spear. It also has a compass, thread and needle for stitches, fishing hooks for fishing, waterproof matches, and two screwdrivers (which form the hilt).
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First Blood / int_6f619fab	type	Let's Split Up, Gang!
First Blood / int_6f619fab	comment	Let's Split Up, Gang!: Sheriff Teasle orders his deputies to do this in a fifty feet apart skirmish line he learned in Korea whilst hunting Rambo in the woods, despite losing two of them to Rambo moments earlier because they were separated from the group.
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First Blood / int_6fc192ef	type	Jerkass Woobie
First Blood / int_6fc192ef	comment	While Teasle was still a bit of a jerk in the novel, he was also a far more complex character and more of a Jerkass Woobieinvoked and a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. The novel goes into great detail on his motives, his relationships with his family and other members of the town, and acknowledges several similarities between him and John. He arguably comes off as more sympathetic than Rambo and even reveals himself to be a Reasonable Authority Figure when he drives Rambo to a diner to have something to eat before taking him to town limits. The film, despite having a few downplayed Pet the Dog moments, makes him into a clear-cut asshole who the audience has no trouble rooting against.
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First Blood / int_701c45bb	type	Played for Horror
First Blood / int_701c45bb	comment	Played for Horror: Not only the typical action adventure plot is Played for Drama, it is also this that makes this film's situation a nightmare for the Action Hero.
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First Blood / int_71328ed7	type	Weapon Grip Failure
First Blood / int_71328ed7	comment	Weapon Grip Failure: Every single cop Rambo fights in the forest drops their gun as soon as Rambo so much as touches them.
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First Blood / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
First Blood / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: John Rambo had no first name in the original novel.
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First Blood / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
First Blood / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: The National Guardsmen (who are just average Joes who never expected to be called into service in their quiet town) fire wildly at Rambo's general direction while chasing him down, hooting and hollering like 19th century cowboys... until he returns fire, nearly hitting every single one of them, scaring them into cover. They're so terrified that they refuse to even peek out of cover. The film is kicked off by one of these. Teasle attempts to bully Rambo and throw him out of town, completely unaware that Rambo is a highly-trained Green Beret. When Rambo finally has enough, he easily beats down an entire station worth of cops and escapes on a motorcycle.
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First Blood / int_72ce3f54	type	Adaptation Relationship Overhaul
First Blood / int_72ce3f54	comment	Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Colonel Trautman is a close friend of Rambo. In the novel, Rambo barely remembers Trautman and is not friends with him.
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First Blood / int_73194909	type	Would Not Shoot a Good Guy
First Blood / int_73194909	comment	Would Not Shoot a Good Guy: Rambo goes out of his way to avoid deliberately killing any of the policemen, instead trying to take them down non-lethally. The only exception was a complete accident (and would qualify as self-defense given the circumstances even if it wasn't accidental).
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First Blood / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
First Blood / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: Quite likely attempted when in the end Rambo decides to face down the National Guard with an M16, even though he's completely surrounded.
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First Blood / int_733ca2f8	type	Noble Bigot with a Badge
First Blood / int_733ca2f8	comment	Noble Bigot with a Badge: Though Teasle is extremely prejudiced against Vietnam War vets, he is more respectful towards Colonel Trautman, likely due to Trautman being not only a Vietnam War vet but also a Korean War vet like Teasle, which is the only thing that prevents Teasle from being as hostile towards him as he was to Rambo. Even earlier, when Rambo first escapes from custody, he initially wanted to take in Rambo alive as part of police protocol despite his prejudice against him for his background unlike Galt, who just wanted to kill him for petty reasons. It's only after his friend Galt is killed that Teasle loses all moral restraints against killing Rambo to avenge him.
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First Blood / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
First Blood / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: Galt and the other deputies are ordered to get Rambo cleaned up for his trial. Apparently, this involves spraying him with a fire hose, striking him full-force with a baton when his back is turned, and restraining him in order to shave him dry. When Rambo escapes, Galt tries to shoot at him with a hunting rifle as he flees armed with only a knife, against orders to capture him alive and uncaring about whether innocent bystanders are in the way. He doesn't stop there, either.
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First Blood / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
First Blood / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: The novel by David Morrell had Trautman killing dying Rambo with a shotgun. However, due to Rambo's more sympathetic portrayal in the film, the ending was changed to Rambo being arrested instead. Teasle was also killed in the book, but spared in the film. In fact all the other cops also died except the guy whose nose Rambo breaks, and that's only because Rambo hit him so hard he blinded him, so he is effectively out of commission and doesn't accompany his comrades on the hunt.
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First Blood / int_747e6b7f	type	Harmony Versus Discipline
First Blood / int_747e6b7f	comment	Harmony Versus Discipline: Rambo just wants to be left alone and is more than capable of living off the land. Teasle wants a nice, quiet, orderly town.
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First Blood / int_7860d036	type	Get It Over With
First Blood / int_7860d036	comment	Get It Over With: After being badly wounded by Rambo, Teasle, defeated, but Defiant to the End, goads Rambo to kill him by shouting, "Go on, you crazy son of a bitch, finish it!".
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First Blood / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
First Blood / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser: Unlike in later Rambo movies, John doesn't get a hold of a gun and has to use Nam-style mantraps against his pursuers.
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First Blood / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
First Blood / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: One of the most famous depictions of post-traumatic stress disorder in film. Rambo was a POW in the Vietnam War who endured Cold-Blooded Torture at the hands of the NVA, and is the Sole Survivor of his unit (he learns at the beginning the only other survivor is dead). He ends up abused in police custody, bringing all his memories of the war back, which soon includes a memory of said torture that triggers an extreme fight-or-flight response, setting off the action. This also comes up in Rambo's monologue at the end, in which he recalls the death of his friend from a bomb in a shoe-shine box, which ended with "pieces of him all over me" - as Rambo speaks, he rips the ammo bandolier from his chest in a panic, clearly reliving that moment.
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First Blood / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
First Blood / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: The town of Hope embodies the traits of Type 2, due to the police force there being mostly Dirty Cops who bare unwarranted hostility against Vietnam veterans and drifters. In addition, it indicates the overall United States is Type 2 in terms of the veterans' mistreatment after returning home: Vietnam veterans like Rambo in this film are portrayed as mostly traumatized wrecks who are shunned by society, while Korean War vets like Teasle are also shunned by society. The latter take their frustrations out on the more mistreated Vietnam vets, who erased the Korean War conflict, making vets like Teasle so rancorously jealous that it blinded their judgment. This depiction of America is a complete contradiction to the more optimistic pro-America Type 1 depiction in the sequels.
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First Blood / int_7aa989ea	type	Token Evil Teammate
First Blood / int_7aa989ea	comment	Token Evil Teammate: While Teasle wants Rambo just as bad he's still willing to go by the book on apprehending him but Galt is not only the most corrupt of the town's law enforcement he was willing to do whatever it takes to bring Rambo down, to the point of attempting to open fire on him in the middle of a crowded sidewalk, with no regard for the pedestrians he could have hit (Teasle stops him at the last second).
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First Blood / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
First Blood / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Teasle and Galt's mistreatment of Rambo is what led to Rambo to snap and flee and his attempt to summarily execute him personally is what led to Galt's death.
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First Blood / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
First Blood / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: The opening of the movie shows Rambo walking down the road, by himself, as a hauntingly somber instrumental version of "It's a Long Road" plays in the background, followed immediately by Rambo finding out that the last man from his former special ops unit is dead, to which he simply walks off with barely a word. This tells us everything we need to know about Rambo: he's a lone soldier, on his own without friends, family or purpose now that the war is over.
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First Blood / int_81c0e175	type	An Ass-Kicking Christmas
First Blood / int_81c0e175	comment	An Ass-Kicking Christmas: Rambo's capture, escape and counterattack takes place around Christmas time.
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First Blood / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
First Blood / int_830b0ac9	comment	Final Battle: The movie involves a cat-and-mouse game between Rambo and Teasle after the small town of Hope has been evacuated.
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First Blood / int_83308c12	type	Spikes of Doom
First Blood / int_83308c12	comment	Spikes of Doom: Rambo constructs traps intended to impale enemy soldiers.
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First Blood / int_8344209e	type	BFG
First Blood / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: The M60 machine gun. It helps Rambo a lot during the climax.
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First Blood / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
First Blood / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: This should probably go without saying, but a Sheriff does not have the legal authority to kick anyone out of a town. A town is public property that any citizen is allowed to enter. The only way this could happen is if someone commits a major offense and is found guilty in court. Granted this is Teasle we're talking about so this is probably the case of an Invoked Trope, as this exchange suggests:
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First Blood / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
First Blood / int_83f3983b	comment	Necessarily Evil: Teasle is a Knight Templar Dirty Cop driven mostly by hatred against drifters and Vietnam veterans, but believes his methods are the way to bring justice.
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First Blood / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
First Blood / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Col. Trautman gives one in his introductory scene. Overlaps with Blasphemous Boast. After Rambo incapacitates all of the remaining deputies (Galt having died falling from the helicopter), he ambushes Teasle and holds a knife to his throat:
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First Blood / int_8763fb60	type	Iwo Jima Pose
First Blood / int_8763fb60	comment	Iwo Jima Pose: A group of National Guardsmen are seen reenacting this pose briefly.
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First Blood / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
First Blood / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: In the eyes of the town of Hope, Teasle is their sheriff hunting for an escaped fugitive and a Hero Antagonist after all. In addition, according to the DVD's Survival Mode, Teasle had many affiliations in the Hope area and was a beloved member of the community, as shown in the film when he seemed to know everyone who walked past. Teasle at one point won the Hope Little League Coach of the Year award, as well as the Kiwanis Service Award in 1968, a Hope community service award in 1973 and a Mayor's Circle award in 1978. He was a member of the local Hope Kiwanis and Elks Clubs, the Fraternal Order of Police and the National Rifle Association. However, if the ending is any indication, this trope will end for him once the truth about what happened to Rambo that led to his escape and rampage through town gets out.
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First Blood / int_87c62ade	type	Deadly Dodging
First Blood / int_87c62ade	comment	Deadly Dodging: In the hunting scene, Rambo steps out of the way when Balford is about to shoot, which leads to Ward getting shot in the arm.
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First Blood / int_884c48a6	type	Non-Answer
First Blood / int_884c48a6	comment	Non-Answer: When Rambo is asked what he hunts with his huge knife, he responds simply, "Game."
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First Blood / int_8cb4ea46	type	By-the-Book Cop
First Blood / int_8cb4ea46	comment	Deputy Mitch Rogers also counts, due to abiding by his responsibility as a police officer in contrast to the unhinged and power-mad Teasle and Galt as well as his Jerkass colleagues, knowing from the get-go back at the station that mistreating Rambo was a bad idea and against usual police protocol, which includes that inmates should deserve fair treatment no matter what, while also correctly expressing concern for Rambo's wellbeing after witnessing his physical battle scars from 'Nam. However, he is of lower rank and most of his advice is ignored by his superiors.
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First Blood / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
First Blood / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Nobody but Teasle cried when Galt fell out of the helicopter to his death.
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First Blood / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
First Blood / int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: Lester doesn't take part in Rambo's torture, and when Mitch confesses the truth, that it was Galt's torment that set Rambo off, Lester comes and relays this information to Teasle. He seems ashamed of what was done even though he didn't take part in it.
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First Blood / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
First Blood / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: After abusing and tormenting Rambo and then going against orders to kill the man himself, during which he neglects his own safety and threatens the helicopter pilot to land the fatal shot, Galt is sent plummeting to his death when Rambo is forced to defend himself against the helicopter. His death may have been accidental on Rambo's part, but certainly not what one can call undeserved given his recklessness and sadism.
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First Blood / int_9298d265	type	Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life
First Blood / int_9298d265	comment	Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life: Invoked. Rambo gets picked up by the police for "vagrancy," which leads to them messing with him and dredging up his Vietnam War trauma, which leads to rapidly escalating troubles, which leads to a dead cop and, eventually, Rambo working a prison quarry. Towards the end of the movie, during the police's Near-Villain Victory Hope Spot when they think they've managed to kill him, Rambo's old commander has this to say:
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First Blood / int_945c8d7d	type	War Hero
First Blood / int_945c8d7d	comment	Teasle, as a Korean War veteran like in the novel (and technically a fellow military vet in general like Rambo and Trautman), was presumably responsible for many noble actions on the battlefield to be hailed a War Hero and awarded a Silver Star, Purple Heart and ADSC for his services that all reside in his office back in the station. The trend of Vietnam veterans being the talk of the town that make the Korean War a forgotten conflict has reduced him to a Jerkass Green-Eyed Monster Dirty Cop with an Irrational Hatred of Vietnam veterans by the time of the film.
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First Blood / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
First Blood / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Galt absolutely loses his cool after Rambo assaulted him, making him intent on killing him in retaliation, even if he has to disobey police protocol and his own best friend Teasle and threatens the helicopter pilot to fly straight. After Rambo threw a rock in self-defense at the helicopter Galt was in while trying to gun him down, Galt pathetically screams in terror as he falls to his death.
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First Blood / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
First Blood / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: When Teasle and Rambo first met, Teasle at first seemed to be courteous to a man on a cold December morning and offered him a ride. Teasle's true colors then show when he casually tells Rambo that because he is a scruffy and long-haired drifter, he is not wanted in the town of Hope. According to a deleted scene with Kern and Teasle, this trope is probably what Teasle meant when he said he initially and very briefly treated him as "one of (his) neighbor's kids". Galt has a carefree attitude to the horrible acts he regularly commits. In his debut, he channels his ability to demonize those lesser than him through condescendingly putting on a laid-back and somewhat jovial veneer, but when he loses his patience, his true colors show. Even when mistreating Rambo, he acts as mostly a Soft-Spoken Sadist. Then during the manhunt, when trying to get a bead on Rambo, he cheerfully and sadistically shouts "Hey soldier boy!" to him just for him to stick his head out to blow away.
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First Blood / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
First Blood / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: According to Stallone in the DVD commentary, the names of the people on Rambo's team in Vietnam (as read by Col. Trautman) are actually names of various people of the film's crew, including make-up artist Michael Westmore and costume designer Tom Bronson.
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First Blood / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
First Blood / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: Downplayed, unlike future Rambo villains where they play this trope straight by fighting to the very end, Teasle does accept defeat after getting gunned down, but eggs Rambo to Get It Over With and Finish Him! after being wounded in battle, knowing that his death at Rambo's hands would be something of a posthumous victory for Teasle as killing Teasle would damn Rambo in the public's eyes.
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First Blood / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
First Blood / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: The ending shows Rambo break down at the end and remember that his friends in Vietnam are now all gone.
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First Blood / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
First Blood / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Sheriff Will Teasle, whose harassment of Rambo sets off the plot.
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First Blood / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
First Blood / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Teasle does not care that his and his department's mistreatment of Rambo is what caused him to go bonkers in the first place, never accepting responsibility for it. In a deleted scene from Teasle's and Trautman's initial encounter, Trautman tells Teasle that he picked the wrong man to push (referring to the mistreatment he and his deputies gave to Rambo), but Teasle argues Rambo picked the wrong man (likely referring to Rambo trying to deliberately walk into town to Teasle's opposition that led to Rambo's arrest): Zig-Zagged by Rambo himself, who insists that he only did what he had to do to win like he's been trained since "they drew first blood, not [him]." Trautman is more sympathetic, knowing of Rambo's PTSD, but also points out that Rambo "did some pushing of [his] own" by both deliberately walking back into town and stubbornly stone-walling with the deputies before he finally snaps from mistreatment when he could have just walked away and avoided it all. He could have even walked away after the National Guard failed to blow him up and bury him since almost everyone but Trautman wrote him off as dead, but he decided to start his "private war" by attacking the town of Hope.
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First Blood / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
First Blood / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: Teasle is far more interested in killing Rambo for the death of Galt than he is about things like the damage Rambo is doing to the town and his men. Galt himself was so determined to get a shot on Rambo that he sat on the edge of a moving helicopter, up in the air, with no safety harness. After Galt's death Rambo wants to deescalate the situation. After the National Guard almost buries him alive in a cave he changes his mind. Even though he's presumed dead and basically free to escape the area, he chooses to return to Hope, destroy the town and kill Teasle, which leads to his arrest.
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First Blood / int_99b1a6c5	type	Post-Adventure Adventure
First Blood / int_99b1a6c5	comment	Post-Adventure Adventure: Before the events of the story, where John Rambo is a poor drifter who runs afoul of a small town sheriff (in Kentucky in the novel, Washington State in the film), Rambo was part of an elite Green Beret unit during the Vietnam War, had a friend die in his arms, became a captured POW, escaped captivity with a surviving squadmate, and had received the Medal of Honor for actions above and beyond the call of duty. An extreme case of PTSD, developed from these experiences, is what triggers Rambo's escalating conflict with the local police.
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First Blood / int_9b7de69c	type	False Friend
First Blood / int_9b7de69c	comment	False Friend: It is implied that Galt's friendship between him and Teasle was fake from the get-go if not just one-sided that Teasle was oblivious of, given his despicable characterization that makes viewers wonder what Teasle and his wife see in him and Galt refusing to listen to Teasle's orders to take Rambo alive like a true friend should if not just a subordinate.
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First Blood / int_9b9d5657	type	Slow-Motion Fall
First Blood / int_9b9d5657	comment	Slow-Motion Fall: This happens when a character falls out of a helicopter to his death.
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First Blood / int_9ba53911	type	Stranger in a Familiar Land
First Blood / int_9ba53911	comment	Stranger in a Familiar Land: Rambo is shocked to find that he is treated like a villain when he returns from the war.
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First Blood / int_9da5ce24	type	Deceptively Simple Demonstration
First Blood / int_9da5ce24	comment	Deceptively Simple Demonstration: The deputies are astonished that Rambo's knife is so sharp it can cut paper edge-on. Most people would consider a blade that can't unacceptably dull.
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First Blood / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
First Blood / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: We won't see the full extent of this until the next film, but Colonel Trautman warns Teasle that Rambo is one of these. This is, of course, after Rambo has incapacitated Teasle's eight-man squad by himself, killed his chief deputy (by accident!), and had Teasle himself at knifepoint.
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First Blood / int_9eeb5455	type	Evil Virtues
First Blood / int_9eeb5455	comment	Evil Virtues: Teasle is a despicable Dirty Cop Big Bad, but in contrast to the later villains, he is more fleshed out in comparison due to being a Benevolent Boss towards his deputies, being more civilized than his dragon Galt, having Pet the Dog moments with the deleted scenes showing more of this aspect, having hints of him being a Tragic Villain and a Tragic Bigot for being a Korean War vet having to live in another's shadow, believing in Honor Before Reason for himself as a Korean War vet even if it overlaps with Revenge Before Reason for Galt's death, deciding to just use his infantry tactics and an M16 rifle for the showdown instead of a helicopter gunship that the Russians would use and finally choosing to Face Death with Dignity after accepting defeat by Rambo.
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First Blood / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
First Blood / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: Teasle genuinely cares for his deputies, heck, Galt's death is one of the main reasons why he chases after John. However, he is also a Pointy-Haired Boss, due to Galt's abuse of Rambo, being a Bad Boss towards the more rational Deputy Mitch Rogers by ignoring his advice and even grabbing him by his hair to show him Galt's corpse and vowing vengeance before finally failing to properly organize his deputies to capture Rambo that leads to them being easily overpowered.
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First Blood / int_a3eea2ea	type	Cop Killer
First Blood / int_a3eea2ea	comment	Cop Killer: Rambo kills sadistic policeman Art Galt in self-defense. Galt's death was accidental, falling from the helicopter after Rambo throws a rock at the windshield because he was leaning out the door with his seat harness unbuckled. Rambo at that point was unarmed, desperate, and looking for any way to return fire, and is visibly surprised when Galt falls to his death.
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First Blood / int_a61fc28e	type	Desperate Plea for Home
First Blood / int_a61fc28e	comment	Desperate Plea for Home: Rambo vividly recalls an incident in which a friend of his ended up getting blown in half by a Vietcong bomber while on leave in Saigon; the friend survived the initial explosion, and while Rambo was struggling to help gather up what was left of him, the man could only scream "I wanna go home!"
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First Blood / int_a621882	type	The Bad Guys Are Cops
First Blood / int_a621882	comment	The Bad Guys Are Cops: The primary antagonists are law enforcement, with Teasle and Galt being the most corrupt of the bunch.
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First Blood / int_a8660c25	type	Soft-Spoken Sadist
First Blood / int_a8660c25	comment	Galt has a carefree attitude to the horrible acts he regularly commits. In his debut, he channels his ability to demonize those lesser than him through condescendingly putting on a laid-back and somewhat jovial veneer, but when he loses his patience, his true colors show. Even when mistreating Rambo, he acts as mostly a Soft-Spoken Sadist. Then during the manhunt, when trying to get a bead on Rambo, he cheerfully and sadistically shouts "Hey soldier boy!" to him just for him to stick his head out to blow away.
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First Blood / int_a964c793	type	Mangst
First Blood / int_a964c793	comment	Mangst: Rambo's been tormented by the deaths of his squad in the Vietnam War and how he was treated when he returned home, and learns right at the start of the film that the one other surviving squadmate he knew of died of cancer. He doesn't show his feelings, however, for most of the film, apart from Rambo telling Col. Trautman over the radio about what became of his squad during their first talk. It's not until the end that he breaks down crying and lets out all of his anguish in a long speech.
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First Blood / int_aa2e07f1	type	Fire Hose Cannon
First Blood / int_aa2e07f1	comment	Fire Hose Cannon: One of the tortures the deputies subject Rambo to in the cells is blasting him with a high-pressure fire hose.
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First Blood / int_ab1659d5	type	Hero Stole My Bike
First Blood / int_ab1659d5	comment	Hero Stole My Bike: After being unlawfuly arrested and abused by the local police, Rambo snaps and steals a man's motorcycle in order to escape his aggressors.
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First Blood / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
First Blood / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: In a way, as everything Teasle tried to do was to prove what Korean War vets are made of after being shunned for so long and to uphold the law in his duty as a policeman, yet by the end he's wounded and in a pathetic state, having finally accepted bitter defeat and is about to take more flak than he's ever before imagined.
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First Blood / int_ac560dc4	type	Save the Villain
First Blood / int_ac560dc4	comment	Save the Villain: Trautman, when he makes his debut, tries to make sure both Rambo and Teasle make it out alive.
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First Blood / int_ac6ea68c	type	Near-Villain Victory
First Blood / int_ac6ea68c	comment	Near-Villain Victory: A badly wounded and injured Teasle goading Rambo to finish the job and kill him was this. Yes, it would have meant his death. However, such an act would have cemented Rambo's reputation as a deranged, murderous maniac (which, ironically, would have been similar to his portrayal in the novel), while Teasle would have been remembered as a noble lawman who gave his life to defend the town from Rambo. Instead, it's Trautman who gets Rambo to give up without any further violence, while Teasle is likely to face the music for starting the whole damn mess in the first place.
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First Blood / int_ad17a1ac	type	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse
First Blood / int_ad17a1ac	comment	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Teasle absolutely views Rambo as a dangerous fugitive criminal needing to be taken down while not caring if Galt's abuse and/or Rambo's PTSD started the whole mess. While Trautman is more sympathetic to Rambo as his friend and former commander, he also reminds Rambo that he's done as much to escalate the conflict as Teasle has, and by the climax outright accuses him of having done it deliberately so he could have his own "private war."
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First Blood / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
First Blood / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: Hope, Washington, in a way, whose own dark secret behind the facade of a quiet and boring little town is that the police force they entrust are led mostly by vicious Dirty Cops prejudiced against drifters and Vietnam veterans, treats the public town as their private property and have the tendency to mistreat their convicts.
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First Blood / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
First Blood / int_b17f6a27	comment	Zig-Zagged by Rambo himself, who insists that he only did what he had to do to win like he's been trained since "they drew first blood, not [him]." Trautman is more sympathetic, knowing of Rambo's PTSD, but also points out that Rambo "did some pushing of [his] own" by both deliberately walking back into town and stubbornly stone-walling with the deputies before he finally snaps from mistreatment when he could have just walked away and avoided it all. He could have even walked away after the National Guard failed to blow him up and bury him since almost everyone but Trautman wrote him off as dead, but he decided to start his "private war" by attacking the town of Hope.
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First Blood / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
First Blood / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Mitch is horrified when Art Galt strikes Rambo and knocks him to the floor before the cops start to clean him up:
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First Blood / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
First Blood / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Prior to his death Galt was sitting on the edge of a small helicopter with no seatbelt or safety harness. Even if Rambo hadn't thrown the rock that caused his death this was an incredibly stupid thing to do.
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First Blood / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
First Blood / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: First Blood by David Morrell, as mentioned above.
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First Blood / int_b9fd7929	type	Morality Chain
First Blood / int_b9fd7929	comment	Morality Chain: Trautman is able to talk Rambo out of going through with his massacre while he's been pushed, and not only lives, but even convinces him to surrender! Trautman also tries to be this towards Teasle, presumably as Teasle himself is not only a fellow military vet, but specifically a fellow Korean War vet like Trautman who likely understood how he felt. Unfortunately, Teasle does a Redemption Rejection towards Trautman's attempts to reason him that leads him to be severely wounded by Rambo in battle.
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First Blood / int_ba2f9dfe	type	The Paranoiac
First Blood / int_ba2f9dfe	comment	The Paranoiac: Teasle initially drove Rambo out of town and then arrested him when returning due to him being a drifter who Teasle believes would disrupt harmony in Hope. In the novel, however, Teasle is Properly Paranoid, due to Rambo being more of an irredeemable psycho than he is in the movie.
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First Blood / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
First Blood / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: Teasle intentionally ignores Trautman's advice on how to handle Rambo, despite the track record so far.
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First Blood / int_baab371c	type	Chopper on Standby
First Blood / int_baab371c	comment	Chopper on Standby: Averted. This small-town Sheriff's department isn't well-funded enough to have a helicopter, so they commandeer one from a local logging company in their pursuit of Rambo.
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First Blood / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
First Blood / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Teasle's always glad to drive drifters to the edge of town closest to their destination, but God help the drifter who dares come back and test his patience. Also, it's a bad idea to suggest letting the state police deal with the guy who unwittingly caused the death of his best friend. Just ask Mitch for details.
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First Blood / int_bdbc35e7	type	Blade Enthusiast
First Blood / int_bdbc35e7	comment	Blade Enthusiast: Rambo has an iconic knife, whose hilt is hollowed out to include a compass and self-suture equipment.
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First Blood / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
First Blood / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: John Rambo is a downplayed example, being an angry and bitter man who takes out his anger on society, while still avoiding causalities.
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First Blood / int_c181a846	type	Dies Differently in Adaptation
First Blood / int_c181a846	comment	Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the novel, Galt is killed when Rambo first escapes the police station when Rambo slices open his stomach with a straight razor. In the movie, he survives long enough to participate in the manhunt and is killed by falling out of the police helicopter.
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First Blood / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
First Blood / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: The first rough cut was over three hours, possibly three and a half hours long and according to Sylvester Stallone, it was so bad that it made him and his agent sick. Sylvester Stallone wanted to buy the movie and destroy it thinking that it was a career killer. After heavy re-editing, the film was cut down to 93 minutes; this version was ultimately released in theatres.
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First Blood / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
First Blood / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: Teasle is genuinely friends with Galt and wants to avenge his death, but not only was Galt a despicable piece of work not worth avenging, his so-called friendship with him appears to have been one-sided due to Galt's own selfish disloyalty towards Teasle at the time of his death.
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First Blood / int_c65b7731	type	Driver Faces Passenger
First Blood / int_c65b7731	comment	Driver Faces Passenger: Rambo climbs into the passenger seat of a military truck and holds the driver at knifepoint. When the driver stares at him Rambo tells him to look at the road and not at him (and for some reason he feels the need to spell out that not looking at the road causes accidents).
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First Blood / int_c6655b23	type	Fallen Hero
First Blood / int_c6655b23	comment	Fallen Hero: Some of the Dirty Cop antagonists were fellow military veterans like Rambo and Trautman: Teasle, as a Korean War veteran like in the novel (and technically a fellow military vet in general like Rambo and Trautman), was presumably responsible for many noble actions on the battlefield to be hailed a War Hero and awarded a Silver Star, Purple Heart and ADSC for his services that all reside in his office back in the station. The trend of Vietnam veterans being the talk of the town that make the Korean War a forgotten conflict has reduced him to a Jerkass Green-Eyed Monster Dirty Cop with an Irrational Hatred of Vietnam veterans by the time of the film. Galt himself is a fellow military veteran according to the film's DVD's Survival Mode, except he had never seen combat unlike the above-mentioned three characters. He himself in the film became a worse Jerkass Green-Eyed Monster Dirty Cop then Teasle as he did most of the sadistic abuse towards Rambo presumably out of rancorous jealousy for being a vet who had seen actual combat, while Galt did not.
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First Blood / int_cd23ee7d	type	Colonel Badass
First Blood / int_cd23ee7d	comment	Colonel Badass: Colonel Trautman of course.
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First Blood / int_cdad4b25	type	Toxic Friend Influence
First Blood / int_cdad4b25	comment	Toxic Friend Influence: Galt is a sadistic brute with a Villainous Friendship with Teasle, who is fellow Jerkass like Galt and its likely both characters encouraged each others' bad behaviors that made them Rabid Cops and Dirty Cops (Teasle however is a Knight Templar and a Well-Intentioned Extremist, but likely his reliance on his bad friend Galt may have play a part in Teasle going down the route of He Who Fights Monsters that makes him bad as Galt and even causing his fall from grace to his decorated Korean War veteran past). He even made a posthumous influence on Teasle after his death that prompts Teasle to misguidedly avenge his death against Rambo that further makes him goes down further into darkness.
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First Blood / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
First Blood / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title: in Italy, the movie is simply known as Rambo.
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First Blood / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
First Blood / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: While the film is Darker and Edgier than the sequels, (save for the last one) in the novel, Rambo kills at least a dozen people. In the movie he kills four people at most — one guy who falls out of a helicopter when Rambo throws a rock at it in self-defense, and two cops who he ran off the road (and who quite possibly survived) and Teasle if one assumes that he eventually dies of his injuries.
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First Blood / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
First Blood / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: John Rambo spends the first half of the movie pursued by crooked cops and the National Guard. He spends this portion of the movie camping in the woods, far out of reach of his enemies and plotting to escape them. However, once they barricade him in a mine shaft and leave him for dead, he escapes, hijacks a truck, and heads back into the town, where he takes out the entire main street with an M60.
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First Blood / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
First Blood / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Teasle is a Type III with aspects of Type II (but the latter is greatly emphasized in the novel). He may have been a Jerkass and something of a Dirty Cop, but everything he's done was to keep his town safe and to uphold the law as well as to put forgotten Korean War vets back in the light again.
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First Blood / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
First Blood / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: Trautman wears a fine example of this when he first enters.
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First Blood / int_d0c30f35	type	Did I Mention It's Christmas?
First Blood / int_d0c30f35	comment	Did I Mention It's Christmas?: Christmas decorations are visible throughout the movie, but nobody ever actually makes mention of the holiday.
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First Blood / int_d332bf54	type	Lampshaded
First Blood / int_d332bf54	comment	Lampshaded by Rambo just before his Heroic Breakdown:
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First Blood / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
First Blood / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: "You did everything to make this private war happen. You've done enough damage. This mission is over, Johnny, do you understand me? This mission is over!"
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First Blood / int_d3a4af1e	type	Sympathy for the Devil
First Blood / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: When Teasle walks in the bar to make amends with Trautman for his Rabid Cop nature, Trautman invites him and even buy a Wild Turkey drink for him before Teasle confesses his desire to kill Rambo to him, while Trautman attempts to reason with Teasle to walk away from his vendetta back to his wife, home and flower garden and appealing towards his status as a civilian now. Sadly, by the climax, Teasle does a Redemption Rejection.
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First Blood / int_d3f33049	type	Blasphemous Boast
First Blood / int_d3f33049	comment	Blasphemous Boast: There's this exchange between the Sheriff and Rambo's former commanding officer.
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First Blood / int_d4f281a3	type	Villainous Underdog
First Blood / int_d4f281a3	comment	Villainous Underdog: Teasle is a retroactive example, unlike future Big Bads in the sequels. He's no genocidal warlord or some Large Ham madman, just an Inspector Javert Hero Antagonist small town sheriff trying to apprehend an escaped fugitive with moments of being a Tragic Villain which drove him to have a bias towards Rambo, while he relies on his Korean War combat experience to fight the iconic One-Man Army. Ironically, the first film was a "cheer for the underdog" story with Rambo being the underdog, more so than Teasle himself if he applies as this trope.
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First Blood / int_d51158ee	type	Revised Ending
First Blood / int_d51158ee	comment	Revised Ending: The originally filmed ending was much closer to the novel by David Morrell, which had Trautman killing the dying Rambo with a shotgun. However, due to Rambo's more sympathetic portrayal in the film, a new ending was filmed which had Rambo being arrested instead. The original ending was played after a 2008 theatrical reissue, following the closing credits and a textual introduction.
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First Blood / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
First Blood / int_d5c7b415	comment	Elites Are More Glamorous: Rambo is clearly an elite soldier but his head is so fucked up that his life couldn't be called glamorous. He has presumably drifted from place to place since the war, clearly needs a good meal and a bath, and is psychologically hanging on by a thread. His escape and evasion are also hardly glamorous and demonstrate the difficulties of surviving in the wild with minimal gear. Also subverted in the novel with Teasle being a Jerkass but also a decorated veteran from the 1st Marine Division in the Korean War.
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First Blood / int_d6519b1b	type	Rabid Cop
First Blood / int_d6519b1b	comment	Rabid Cop: Teasle is a Jerkass cop who uses heavy-handed protocol against vagrants and gets other officers to do the rest of his dirty work for him at the station. Galt is downright sadistic and brutal when he mistreats Rambo and reckless during the manhunt for him when he doesn't give a second thought to an Innocent Bystander being in the way when trying to kill Rambo or Teasle's orders to capture Rambo alive.
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First Blood / int_db33bc7e	comment	This also comes up in Rambo's monologue at the end, in which he recalls the death of his friend from a bomb in a shoe-shine box, which ended with "pieces of him all over me" - as Rambo speaks, he rips the ammo bandolier from his chest in a panic, clearly reliving that moment.
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First Blood / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Full name only; the antagonist was named Wilfred Logan Teasle in the novel, but according to the Survival Mode on the film's DVD, he's William Wright Teasle. This name change is proper, considering the Adaptational Villainy and SchrÃ¶dinger's Cast makeover this film's Teasle received in contrast to the novel's Teasle.
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First Blood / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Colonel Trautman is level-headed, practical and wants to spare both his protege's life and the lives of the policemen. Justified as he's also A Father to His Men. Deputy Mitch Rogers also counts, due to abiding by his responsibility as a police officer in contrast to the unhinged and power-mad Teasle and Galt as well as his Jerkass colleagues, knowing from the get-go back at the station that mistreating Rambo was a bad idea and against usual police protocol, which includes that inmates should deserve fair treatment no matter what, while also correctly expressing concern for Rambo's wellbeing after witnessing his physical battle scars from 'Nam. However, he is of lower rank and most of his advice is ignored by his superiors. Deputy Lester too, despite getting his nose broken by Rambo; he still did what was right and recognized that Rambo was not entirely to blame, making him one of the only decent deputies other than Mitch in the film. Officer Kern of the State Police. Unlike the local Sheriff's Department, his ego isn't attached to the case and he's merely trying to bring Rambo in peacefully. He also gets extremely pissed when it comes to light how Rambo was mistreated by Teasle's deputies. Played with Teasle in the movie. While it is mostly averted in regards to his general despicable behavior, treatment of Rambo and his lust for vengeance for Galt's death, especially in comparison to State Police Captain Kern, his deputies Mitch and Lester and Colonel Trautman (who all play this role straight unlike Teasle), he still cares for the welfare of his town and his deputies and did show some respect towards Trautman despite the latter being Rambo's associate and a Vietnam vet. Also, he proved that he had the basic decency to be able to acknowledge that he may have been in the wrong, and was more misguided and overzealous than actively malicious until Galt's death, whereupon he was emotionally compromised and was clearly acting irrationally.
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First Blood / int_e0c3f8bf	comment	Punch-Clock Hero: The National Guardsmen are made up of the townspeople of Hope (such as the unit leader Lt. Clinton Morgan being the town's pharmacist) who only go into service part-time such as volunteering to help capture Rambo with inept results. However, they could also qualify as being Punch Clock Villains for being Mooks for Teasle.
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First Blood / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The movie's depiction of Teasle has more in common with the Batman comic book character Harvey Bullock than the novel's version of the character. As both Teasle and Bullock are a Fat Bastard Jerkass Dirty Cop who are willing to antagonize and arrest The Hero due to their backgrounds they loathed (Rambo is a Vietnam vet and a drifter which are both things Teasle despised, while Batman is a costumed vigilante who Bullock views as a freak). However, instead of a Fat Slob as Bullock was to a point he is compared to an unmade bed, Teasle was at least clean and well-groomed.
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First Blood / int_e5a9f2b9	comment	While You Were in Diapers: Sheriff Teasle does this to illustrate why he's so determined to find and kill Rambo after the latter had accidentally caused his asshole deputy's death:
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First Blood / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Galt really was there so that nobody would feel bad about Rambo killing him. Even if it was indirectly.
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First Blood / int_e7c671f3	comment	The National Guardsmen (who are just average Joes who never expected to be called into service in their quiet town) fire wildly at Rambo's general direction while chasing him down, hooting and hollering like 19th century cowboys... until he returns fire, nearly hitting every single one of them, scaring them into cover. They're so terrified that they refuse to even peek out of cover.
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First Blood / int_e8878c29	comment	Despair Speech: The final confrontation between John Rambo and Colonel Trautman ends with Rambo breaking down in despair at how his time in Vietnam left him traumatized for life and how everything since then has been a long downward spiral for him.
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First Blood / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Rambo's first attack during his escape is a groin kick against Deputy Ward. One especially unfortunate deputy named Balford also appears to suffer one of these when a wooden spike trap slams into him at the pelvic level.
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First Blood / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: The character of Art Galt in the novel is apparently split into two characters, the In Name Only Dirty Cop and Rabid Cop Asshole Victim and the young Mitch Rogers (who also appeared in the novel, but in the film also fulfills Galt's role as a young cop trying not to get in the way of Rambo in the book).
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First Blood / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: Thanks to his Actionized Sequels, Rambo is shorthand for a badass soldier who takes on whole armies and wins while suffering only minor setbacks at best, and when the average person thinks of his films, they think ultra-patriotic war movies in which the enemies of America are destroyed. With this, it's easy to forget that the first film was an anti-war film protesting the degree to which veterans of The Vietnam War were dehumanized and mistreated. Rambo here is a homeless man unable to keep a job thanks to his now-useless skill set, who is tormented daily by PTSD from the war and the fact that he is the only survivor of his squad (he learns right at the start that the only other survivor he knew of is dead), but keeps his feelings bottled up just to function as a human being. His enemies are not a foreign army, but local small-town policemen who abuse him for no good reason, symbolizing the civilian mistreatment of veterans returning from the war and how veterans felt about it.The one time Rambo is against a group of enemies, it is a single-digit number and he takes them on one at a time using stealth and cunning. When faced with 200, he backs down and surrenders with encouragement from Trautman, and his reign of terror ends in him suffering a mental breakdown where he lets out all his bottled-up feelings summarizing how tormented and unable to live as a civilian he's become. What's more is that throughout the film, he goes out of his way to not kill anybody because he just wants the abusive cops to leave him alone; the only exception is both a complete accident and a Karmic Death. That's not even getting into how the film was intended to end with Rambo killing himself because he can't adapt to civilian life, or how it was based on a novel where Rambo does kill lots of people but is portrayed as a villain! The overall impression one gets from the film is a deconstruction of Rambo's popular image—or it would be, if it weren't his debut.
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First Blood / int_f178203a	comment	Inspector Javert: Teasle stubbornly views himself as the police officer who holds the responsibility to stop criminals no matter the cost and views Rambo as the criminal needed to be caught.
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First Blood / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: The war will never end for those who fought it, as the Dirty Cops found out the hard way.
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First Blood / int_f51f4509	comment	Tagline: "One war against one man."
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First Blood / int_f818b637	comment	Dude, Where's My Respect?: It is implied (and the director's commentary mentions) that part of the reason Teasle is so hateful towards Rambo is because of the Korean War (where he served) being forgotten by the American people while Rambo (a Vietnam War vet) is a symbol of the controversial and easily remembered war. Explicit in the novel. Rambo himself:
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First Blood / int_f88f2449	comment	Downer Beginning: The film begins with Rambo visiting the house of Delmar, his friend and the only other surviving member of his squad from their time in the Vietnam War. His wife tells Rambo he died from cancer due to exposure to Agent Orange. Rambo gives her a photo of his with himself and leaves. The smile on his face is gone.
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First Blood / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When Trautman tries to explain to Teasle that Rambo would listen to him to stand down because he is not just his commanding officer, but also a trustworthy Parental Substitute, Teasle responds:
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First Blood / int_fb1c80c	comment	Photo Memento: After the town posse "kills" fugitive John Rambo in the woods with a rocket launcher (in the nick of time, he escaped into a cave below), they take a few victory pictures of themselves in front of the wreckage of Rambo's makeshift shelter. Of course, the town would be in for an unpleasant surprise later. Rambo has his own similar group photo of he and his company from Vietnam; the story opens with him learning he's the last one from the picture still alive.
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First Blood / int_fd497706	comment	While the manhunt is driven by Teasle's dislike of Vietnam vets and Rambo's Accidental Murder of Galt, he is not wrong that Rambo should not be let off that easy after committing what Teasle thought was first-degree murder (Rambo was also responsible for destruction of property).
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First Blood / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: The reason Galt wanted to kill Rambo was for his hatred of Vietnam veterans and to retaliate for being physically assaulted back in the station when Rambo first escaped from custody which was prompted by his mistreatment.
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First Blood / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Teasle is a police officer after all and these moments makes Teasle human and fallible. In a deleted scene, he shows remorse towards Galt's widow, who's grieving over Galt's corpse, and attempts to apologize to a deputy's wife for her husband's Rambo-induced injuries. He then justified his manhunt by listing out the devastation Rambo caused, ranging from his deputies' incapacitation to Galt's widow's grief. In the bar scene, he has a civil talk with Trautman (even started his talk with him by apologizing for being "out of line") after thinking Rambo was killed by the National Guard, confessing his desire to kill Rambo himself to him. In a deleted part of this scene, at the beginning of the scene, he returned the gesture of being congratulated for Rambo's "death," while at the end of the scene, he then offered Trautman a ride to the airport. During the manhunt, when Orval was wounded, he tends to Orval's wounds and then when Deputy Balford was wounded by a booby trap, he freed Balford. Also, just before his final showdown with Rambo, he alerts the townspeople to get off the streets and hide in their homes to be away from danger when Rambo arrives.This is lessened, however, in a deleted scene involving an argument with Kern where Teasle tries to justify his treatment of Rambo, claiming that he "tried to do him a favor" and treated him like "one of (his) neighbor's kids" (likely referring to Teasle's initial civil and jovial welcome to Rambo while trying to escort him out of town and trying to hold back his Irrational Hatred of Rambo being a 'Nam vet while being civil with him, before Rambo pushed his Berserk Button by purposely returning to town that prompts him to arrest and mistreat him out of said irrational hatred):
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First Blood / int_ffb55ae3	comment	Fauxshadow: Teasle asks Col. Trautman if he'd give Rambo a hug or blow his brains out, leaving Trautman to give the wish-washy answer "I couldn't decide until I met him face-to-face". This hints at the original ending in the book, where Trautman goes with blowing his brains out (Rambo and Teasle shot each other and it was a Mercy Kill at this point).
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