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Iron Eagle
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Iron Eagle is an action film series that lasted just under ten years, from 1986 to 1995. They follow the exploits of the United States Air Force Colonel (later Brigadier General) Charles "Chappy" Sinclair (Louis Gossett Jr.) in his seemingly never-ending battles against hostile foreign regimes, drug smugglers, terrorists, and rogue government agents. The films were directed by Sidney J. Furie, with the exception of the third entry which was helmed by John Glen. The films are known for their spectacular aerial action sequences, over-the-top soundtracks, and jingoistic political sentiments - the latter courtesy of screenwriter Kevin Alyn Elders and whichever government was helping produce the film.The first film was not a financial success nor was it critically well-received, but it performed well-enough on the home video and cable TV market to spawn several sequels, with the continuity character oddly being Chappy instead of Doug. Iron Eagle II even goes so far as to kill Doug off in the first five minutes.With their focus on High-Altitude Battles and Old-School Dogfights, the films have inevitable drawn comparisons with Top Gun, with the first film often being perceived as a cash-in attempt off its unprecedented success. In fact, the first Iron Eagle entered production before Top Gun, was released first, and had a slightly higher budget. This hasn't stopped it from being referred to as "the poor man's Top Gun", a fact not helped by the increasingly preposterous and cheap sequels. That many of the films were produced in Canada or Israel helps add to "foreign ripoff" perception.There have been four installments in the Iron Eagle film series to date, with the last coming out in 1995. They are: | |
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Fat Slob | |
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Fat Slob: Downs' hygiene, exercise regimen, and appearance aren't that military. | |
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Creator Cameo: The leader of The Cavalry is played by the film's co-writer/executive producer Kevin Elders. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: This is the only Iron Eagle movie not directed by Sidney J. Furie and is also the only movie to be rated R. | |
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Ripped from the Headlines | |
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Ripped from the Headlines: The exposition Colonel Blackburn gives Doug about his father's mission accurately summarizes the disputes between the United States and Libya about the limits of Libya's territorial waters at the time the movie was released.note International law states that a country's territorial waters extend to twelve miles off coast. Under certain circumstances, a country may claim an entire gulf as part of their territorial waters, which according to the Libyan position entitled them to claim the entire Gulf of Sidra. However, for this to apply, the two edges of the gulf have to be much closer to each other than is the case in Sidra. This led to the United States conducting "freedom of navigation exercises" in the disputed area to ensure that it remained free for the passage of non-Libyan ships, which is what Ted Masters was doing when he was attacked - as indeed happened twice to American fighters, in 1981 and 1989. However, in real life, this was done by Navy fighters operating from an aircraft carrier, not Air Force fighters flying over from California. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: Chappy, an Air Force colonel who plans strike missions while jamming out to Blues music and takes it upon himself to look after a cocky young pilot he meets in passing. | |
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Say My Name | |
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Say My Name: Doug's good at these. "CHAPPYYYYYYYYYYY!" *boom* . And after the sniper guns down Col. Masters, "DAAAADDD!" | |
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Anti-Air | |
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Anti-Air: A battery of guns open up during the raid on the first air base. Chappie gets tagged by one and goes down in the Med. | |
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Bloodier and Gorier | |
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Bloodier and Gorier: Considering its R-rating, this is also the most violent of the Iron Eagle series, culminating in Kleiss getting brutally impaled on a booby trap. | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: The U.S. government spends the first half of the movie under the misapprehension that the Quracis are hanging onto Ted Masters so that they can ransom him back to the U.S. in exchange for lifting sanctions or some other material reward. In reality, the Quracis simply intend to execute him, in retaliation for the U.S. failing to heed their previous "warnings." | |
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Dead Man Writing | |
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Dead Man Writing: Chappy records several taped messages for Doug in the event he goes down. They obviously get used. | |
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Ironic Fear | |
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Ironic Fear: Major Bush is a competent soldier and pilot but suffers from crippling claustrophobia attacks. This is Played for Drama. | |
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Fire-Forged Friends | |
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Fire-Forged Friends: Cooper and Yuri Lebanov initially clash a lot for being rival hot-shot pilots, and for Lebanov having been one of the pilots who shot down Doug (and Cooper having crippled Lebnaov's wing mate in the same battle) but they eventually bury the hatchet and learn to work well. | |
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Amazonian Beauty | |
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Amazonian Beauty: Anna is attractive and very muscular. Her introductory escape features a lengthy close up of her toned physique as she lifts her body up by the chains restraining her. | |
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Damsel out of Distress | |
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Damsel out of Distress: Anna escapes on her own at one point while being held prisoner. | |
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Artifact Title: The term "iron eagle" refers an American military officer who has attained the rank of colonel but will not be promoted to the rank of general. In the first film, the term refers to Chappy who retired as a Colonel, but it's rendered irrelevant by the fact he's promoted to Brigadier General in the second and maintains it for the rest of the series. | |
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Hollywood Hacking | |
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Hollywood Hacking: Averted. The heroes hack the Air Force base's computers to fake mission orders for two fully armed F-16s to be prepared for Doug and Chappy to take them to the Middle East. However, all of the hacking takes the form of Milo and one or two other of the Eagles wandering the base (where they're a normal sight, given that their parents work there) and taking advantage of (staged) distractions and accidents to access unattended work stations. It also doesn't hurt that Milo's father is the base's chief intelligence officer, which means he knows exactly what's going on and what to look for. | |
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Theme Music Power-Up | |
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Theme Music Power-Up: Doug literally cannot fly well without his music. But crank up the Queen, and he can score perfect hits. So when the rock starts rolling, you know ass is about to be kicked. In fact, at one point, it is implied that Doug's music causes the jets to fly faster. After the taped Rousing Speech, Doug turns on the music to "Give Me Some Lovin'" by The Spencer Davis Group during his initial strikes. | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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What cargo does he want handled safely? Bleach and window cleaner, on the justification that if you mix them together, you get poison gas. The poor convoy commander got the third degree from Chappie for this too. | |
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Demolitions Expert | |
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Demolitions Expert: Downs, who happily admits that; | |
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Rank Scales with Asskicking | |
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Rank Scales with Asskicking: Justified, since rank is supposed to indicate flying experience and proficiency. However, it's also subverted, as Doug, with no rank at all and zero combat experience, outflies everyone. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Col. Nakesh orders his snipers to kill Doug's father as soon as Doug's plane touches down on the runway. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: Kleiss is played by Paul Freeman, who also portrayed another character working for the Nazis. Simms is portrayed by the late Mitchell Ryan. Previously, he did another corrupt retired general who dealt with drugs. | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
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Face Death with Dignity: Major Pierce allows himself to be shot down by Doug during the final dogfight rather than eject from his plane, despite Doug's pleas. | |
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Tomboyish Ponytail | |
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Tomboyish Ponytail: the spirits Kitty Shaw has a pretty long one. | |
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Skewed Priorities | |
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Skewed Priorities: Doug skips school to practice flying, hoping to sharpen his skills so he can follow in his father's footsteps as an Air Force pilot. Problem is, the Air Force Academy isn't interested in a juvenile delinquent who skips school and he should have realized that. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: The damage to the Big Bad's country and air force is inflicted by a mere two F-16s in the hands of one combat veteran and one very skilled amateur pilot. Mostly the amateur pilot. | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
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Tranquil Fury: Doug is frustrated at how slow the progress is in trying to get his dad out of the Quraqi prison. Chappie tries to reassure him, only for Doug to accuse him of not caring what happens to Doug's dad. Chappie glares at Doug and responds: | |
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Ace Custom | |
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Ace Custom: Technically, all of the heroes are flying Ace Customs, but the Big Bad has a one-of-a-kind WWII vintage prototype German jet fighter. | |
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Emergency Cargo Dump | |
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Emergency Cargo Dump: In a variant, the climax has Peter struggling to do this after boarding the bad guys plane, not to lighten the load of the plane, but to keep the gas canisters from reaching Cuba. | |
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner: When it looks like one of Downs’ bombs has failed and he's being criticized. | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
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Crazy-Prepared: Chappy records a tape full of pointers, reminders, and encouragements for Doug in the event that he's shot down. When this does happen, the tape is useful beyond his wildest dreams, to the point of a couple The Tape Knew You Would Say That moments. | |
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The Cartel | |
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The Cartel: Kleiss runs a drug cartel in Peru. | |
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Bond One-Liner | |
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Bond One-Liner: After the C-130 pilot falls out of the plane in the climax: | |
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Non-Action Big Bad | |
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Non-Action Big Bad: Unlike Nakesh and Kleiss, Kettle does not partake in the action or fly a fighter jet, leaving all the heavy lifting to his men or his Co-Dragons Pierce and Osgood, although he does hold Chappy at gunpoint during the climax. | |
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Abandon Ship | |
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Abandon Ship: Colonel Masters is forced to punch out over the Mediterranean in the film's opening, kicking off the plot. Chappie is revealed to have bailed out of his own jet at the last second and survived. One of the Quraqi pilots, seeing the F-16 that is about to bomb the runway he is taxiing on, wisely hops out and takes off running. | |
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The Dragon | |
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The Dragon: General Simms, who provides the main opposition in the air battles. | |
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Reassigned to Antarctica | |
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Reassigned to Antarctica: One of the Russians, Koshkin, once spent five years on disciplinary duty in Siberia. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
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Enemy Mine, Divided We Fall: The Russian and American pilots do not get along well, even when forced to work together. The finally bury the hatchet after a Rousing Speech from Chappy, and the knowledge that if they don't complete their mission, thousands will die. | |
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Ace Pilot | |
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Ace Pilot: Cooper and Lebanov, both of whom have the skills and the stereotypical attitudes. The attitude part is deconstructed, a bit, as both are apparently viewed as too reckless, especially together, by some of their superiors which is why they were both assigned to the task force in the first place and it is mentioned that Lebanov has been "three times reprimanded by the party", | |
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Can't Get Away with Nuthin' | |
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Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Doug's gotten in enough trouble for fighting that one more incident will get him jailed or kicked out of school. Knotcher takes full advantage of this. | |
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Run for the Border | |
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Run for the Border: Shortly after being placed under Chappy's care, Wheeler and Rudy make an attempt to steal a plane and fly to Mexico. He puts a stop to this fairly easily. | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill: Chappie pulls off a two-stage one: First he puts on his old uniform and sets up a checkpoint, stopping a military convoy for inspection, then he declares that he will accompany them onto the base to make sure their cargo is handled properly, passing himself off to the gate guards as the convoy commander. What cargo does he want handled safely? Bleach and window cleaner, on the justification that if you mix them together, you get poison gas. The poor convoy commander got the third degree from Chappie for this too. | |
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Ejection Seat | |
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Ejection Seat: How Chappy survives, not to mention Colonel Masters in the beginning of the film. | |
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Shoot the Fuel Tank | |
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Shoot the Fuel Tank: One of the mission objectives is to bomb the enemy's oil refineries if they refuse to return Col. Masters. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Horikoshi kills himself and General Simms by using a kamikaze attack on his plane. | |
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Artistic License – Military | |
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Artistic License – Military: Nobody would ever be allowed to get away with the insubordinate behavior of some of these misfits. Which is sort of the point since the mission was set up to fail. | |
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My Greatest Failure | |
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My Greatest Failure: Chappy never got over the loss of his comrades in the war, many of whom are implied to have been younger recruits that he'd been responsible for. This is implied to be why it took him so long to come around to helping Doug. | |
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Disney Death | |
Iron Eagle / int_6ef6417b | comment |
Disney Death: Doug apparently dies in the first two minutes, a fact the promotional material "accidentally" omits; however, for some reason he's back for the fourth film. | |
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Rock Beats Laser | |
Iron Eagle / int_79974fb8 | comment |
Rock Beats Laser: Played with. Initially, the prop-driven trainers are able to get some cheap shots in on the F-16s sent after them because they fly too slow for the fast-moving jets to line up a shot on without overshooting. One of the pilots quickly figures out they are just using the wrong strategy, but gets shot down by Doug before he can apply what he had learned. | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
Iron Eagle / int_7a143509 | comment |
Shell-Shocked Veteran: Doug Masters, after his time as a POW. | |
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Weapons Understudies | |
Iron Eagle / int_7c1207c1 | comment |
Weapons Understudies: The Arab MiGs are played by Israeli and American jets, as well as Israeli F-16s standing in for American ones. The giveaway that the F-16s aren't American is that the Air Force has never used a desert camo pattern on the F-16s, instead painting them in a two-tone low-viz grey scheme. | |
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Ambiguous Time Period | |
Iron Eagle / int_7eb2bc15 | comment |
Ambiguous Time Period: It's unclear if it's meant to be set in 1992 (the year it came out) or some years earlier in the closer aftermath of the second movie, given that the actors are too young to be WWII veterans. | |
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Big Bad Friend | |
Iron Eagle / int_7ef70048 | comment |
Big Bad Friend: Kettle. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
Iron Eagle / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The plan was for Doug to drop a Hades bomb at the end of the runway his father was on, the blazing inferno of which will give him cover for a few minutes while he lands, picks him up, and takes off. For some reason, Doug forgets to do this on his first attempt, resulting in his father being hit by a sniper as soon as the plane touches down. If he'd simply dropped the Hades to begin with, the sniper couldn't have seen a thing and Ted would have been unharmed. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Rescue | |
Iron Eagle / int_828a5ca8 | comment |
Roaring Rampage of Rescue: Doug's mission is basically to blow away anything in the unnamed Arab country that gets in the way of rescuing his father, and after Chappy is shot down he takes out an oil refinery. | |
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Conservation of Ninjutsu | |
Iron Eagle / int_82f5ced1 | comment |
Conservation of Ninjutsu: The more enemy fighters there are, the easier they are to shoot down. | |
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Final Battle | |
Iron Eagle / int_830b0ac9 | comment |
The second is in the Final Battle, when Col. Nakesh realizes that the last missile Doug fired was an AIM-9 Sidewinder heat seeking missile. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
Iron Eagle / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Knotcher. He has Doug's Cessna sabotaged so the engine will seize, very nearly causing it to crash (all so he can win a race over nothing but bragging rights). Soon after Doug limps out of his plane and punches Knotcher in the face, we find out that Doug's dad has been shot down, and we never see or hear Knotcher again (in the movie's defense, Doug likely doesn't give a crap about Knotcher or what he did any more, and is completely focused on his father). | |
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Iron Eagle / int_8ad43dc9 | type |
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
Iron Eagle / int_8ad43dc9 | comment |
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Did we mention that it's a flight school for juvenile delinquents? Chappie runs the school as a sort of reform program to keep the kids out of jail. | |
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Took a Level in Jerkass | |
Iron Eagle / int_8cb1a369 | comment |
Took a Level in Jerkass: Doug, this time around, due to having been imprisoned in a Soviet camp for years after he was shot down. | |
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Karmic Death | |
Iron Eagle / int_90d44f44 | comment |
Karmic Death: Escovez blows up the village church to destroy the rebels, causing its' bell to fly through the air, which lands on his head, crushing it. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_91df3195 | type |
Military Brat | |
Iron Eagle / int_91df3195 | comment |
Military Brat: Doug has a whole group of True Companions composed of them, actually, who use their access via parents to assist in planning the rescue mission.. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_922df2dd | type |
Loved Ones Montage | |
Iron Eagle / int_922df2dd | comment |
Loved Ones Montage: Doug's inspiration to continue comes in large part from his buddies' spirit back home. | |
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The Squadette | |
Iron Eagle / int_93311f8e | comment |
The Squadette: Valeri Zuyeniko...despite the fact that the Soviet Union stopped using female combat pilots after World War II. Averted in that it's Valeri that makes the final trench run shot, not Cooper. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_9350a0b9 | type |
The Tape Knew You Would Say That | |
Iron Eagle / int_9350a0b9 | comment |
The Tape Knew You Would Say That: Chappy left detailed instructions, including answering a question Doug asked aloud in response to the previous recorded comment. | |
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Magic Feather | |
Iron Eagle / int_93a38c9b | comment |
Magic Feather: Doug's music is clearly this, but in an inversion of the usual trope, Chappy encourages Doug to use it when he learns how much better it makes him fly. | |
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Recycled Trailer Music | |
Iron Eagle / int_960810e8 | comment |
Recycled Trailer Music: The trailer uses "The Dream" from Total Recall (1990). | |
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Black Dude Dies First | |
Iron Eagle / int_9788e2b1 | comment |
Black Dude Dies First: Averted, and ultimately, inverted. Black dude gets shot down first, but turns out to have survived. He then goes on to be the star of three more movies. | |
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Better to Die than Be Killed | |
Iron Eagle / int_99298c71 | comment |
Better to Die than Be Killed: At the end, Kettle is last seen entering the contaminated chamber, implying he may rather die than be arrested and maybe humiliated. However, we don't see the rest of his fate, though it's implied he dies. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_9c4a7090 | type |
Springtime for Hitler | |
Iron Eagle / int_9c4a7090 | comment |
Springtime for Hitler: Although intended to fail, the mission succeeds anyway. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
Iron Eagle / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: The events of the first and second movie are mentioned in passing. | |
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Left the Background Music On | |
Iron Eagle / int_a18042f1 | comment |
Left the Background Music On: A Running Gag throughout the movie, as much of the music we hear turns out to be from Doug's walkman. During the flashback when Doug is taking an illicit training flight with his dad, it gets a Lampshade Hanging when a fellow pilot questions Col. Masters about "hearing music". | |
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General Ripper | |
Iron Eagle / int_a67b86a7 | comment |
General Ripper: Stillmore: Who is determined to sabotage any alliance with the Russians and use maximum force in the attack. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_a70223 | type |
Karma Houdini | |
Iron Eagle / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Luther, the drug dealer Wheeler hangs out with, unless you consider him blowing up his own money as his punishment. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_a8238745 | type |
"Hell, Yes!" Moment | |
Iron Eagle / int_a8238745 | comment |
"Hell, Yes!" Moment: Doug has one when The Cavalry arrive. | |
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Rousing Speech | |
Iron Eagle / int_aaece264 | comment |
After the taped Rousing Speech, Doug turns on the music to "Give Me Some Lovin'" by The Spencer Davis Group during his initial strikes. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
Iron Eagle / int_acecb17d | comment |
Chekhov's Skill: during Colonel Masters' "trial," the Defense Minister casually drops that he too is a fighter pilot. Guess who hops into a fighter plane at the end to take the fight to Doug personally... | |
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Iron Eagle / int_acf33d00 | type |
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
Iron Eagle / int_acf33d00 | comment |
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: On the other hand, if Colonel Nakesh had waited for Doug's plane to come to a stop and for Doug to step out, he could have killed them both and ended his problem then and there. Instead he's so eager that he orders the sniper to shoot Ted as soon as Doug's plane has touched down. This allows Doug to hit the gas and get back in the air immediately, coming back around and trying again after having first laid waste to what was left of the base. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
Iron Eagle / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: Several such moments occur. The first is on the ground, after the first stage of the rescue is successful. The second is in the Final Battle, when Col. Nakesh realizes that the last missile Doug fired was an AIM-9 Sidewinder heat seeking missile. The third is an implied Oh Crap on the part of the remaining enemy fighters when The Cavalry shows up. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
Iron Eagle / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Chappy. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
Iron Eagle / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: while in jail, Colonel Masters helpfully suggests to Colonel Nakesh that he have his "Beloved Leader" (see Expy above) visit him in his cell, with a colorful suggestion as to what he'll do to him. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_b9f472b | type |
Storming the Castle | |
Iron Eagle / int_b9f472b | comment |
Storming the Castle: In this case, Doug storms a whole nation in his quest to rescue his father. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_bc00493f | type |
Precision F-Strike | |
Iron Eagle / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: Doug delivers a pair of these to Col. Nakesh, the first being after Nakesh ordered the sniper to gun down Col. Masters on the runway during Doug's rescue attempt. The second one comes when Doug locks-onto Nakesh's fighter in the final battle: Not to mention the quick F-bomb that Chappie drops at the start of his "Twenty-two years" speech. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_c313d43a | type |
True Companions | |
Iron Eagle / int_c313d43a | comment |
True Companions: The "Eagles," the local Cessna flying club that's also Doug's high school friend circle. Most of them have parents or siblings that work at the local Air Force base, which is what enables them to hack the entire place so that Doug and Chappy can steal two of its F-16s. More specifically, Doug's closest friends Tony and Reggie are constantly there and supportive of him throughout the movie. | |
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Qurac | |
Iron Eagle / int_c3a7dcab | comment |
Qurac: Played with. The country is never given a fictional name, Colonel Blackburn's briefing maps show the actual coastline of Libya, and the explanation given for its hostility accurately describes the real life arguments between the U.S. and Libya over the Gulf of Sidra (see Ripped from the Headlines below). The flag of the country, however, is entirely fictional (and a very elaborate red, white, and black design, in amusing contrast to Libya's real life flag which at the time was literally just a field of green with no markings). | |
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Iron Eagle / int_c48a0fe6 | type |
Actually, That's My Assistant | |
Iron Eagle / int_c48a0fe6 | comment |
Actually, That's My Assistant: The Russian commander misidentifies Chappy in this manner, with obvious racial overtones (although to be fair, Bush was dressed in the most military fashion of the group). | |
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Iron Eagle / int_c4976d7c | type |
Vehicular Sabotage | |
Iron Eagle / int_c4976d7c | comment |
Vehicular Sabotage: Brillo loosens the oil cap for the engine of Doug's plane just before a race against the rival's motorcycle, resulting in the plane spilling oil once the loosened cap works the rest of the way off due to engine vibration. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
Iron Eagle / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The callsign for "Chappy" Sinclair was originally held (albeit with a slightly different spelling) by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_James,_Jr. Daniel James, Jr]], a US Air Force pilot who was the first four star African-American general. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_c93a6560 | type |
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice | |
Iron Eagle / int_c93a6560 | comment |
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Kleiss' ultimate fate, after accidentally triggering a booby trap. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_ca198bc3 | type |
Paintball Episode | |
Iron Eagle / int_ca198bc3 | comment |
Paintball Episode: When Chappy and his friends perform simulated dogfights at airshows, for some reason they use paint rounds instead of blanks. Nearly results in a Training "Accident" when Leichman's guns are secretly loaded with live ammo. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_cc7fae30 | type |
Outside-Context Problem | |
Iron Eagle / int_cc7fae30 | comment |
Outside-Context Problem: Paired with Dramatic Irony. The audience knows from the get-go that Doug's dad has been shot down, but he goes through most of the first act worrying about getting into the Air Force Academy with his lackluster grades, listening to loud music, hanging out with friends, engaging in dangerous airplane races, and even fighting the school bully before he receives the news and the focus shifts to the main plot. | |
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Just Plane Wrong | |
Iron Eagle / int_ce1c73e2 | comment |
Just Plane Wrong: F-4s and Kifirs as MIG stand-ins, but considering the era it would have been impossible to get actual MIGs. Top Gun suffered the same problem. | |
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Co-Dragons | |
Iron Eagle / int_ce767e6f | comment |
Co-Dragons: Major Pierce and Sergeant Osgood to Kettle. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_d013cd12 | type |
Lovable Rogue | |
Iron Eagle / int_d013cd12 | comment |
Lovable Rogue: Hickman is all but stated to have been transferred to the unit after being caught in some kind of criminal activity but is ultimately a reliable member. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_d40e1a9f | type |
Break Out the Museum Piece | |
Iron Eagle / int_d40e1a9f | comment |
Break Out the Museum Piece: All of the heroes' planes are fully functional World War II combat planes whose sole modification was the addition of equipment so they could fire laser-guided missiles (and also a Nitro Boost for Chappie's). The villain's plane is a rebuild of a prototype German jet fighter, sure, but it was also designed in the same time period. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_d485cb13 | type |
Psychotic Smirk | |
Iron Eagle / int_d485cb13 | comment |
Psychotic Smirk: Colonel Nakesh displays this when the sniper wounds Col. Masters in the climax. It soon changes to an Oh, Crap! expression after watching Doug easily evade the SAM missiles and blow up the launchers before aiming for the control tower where Nakesh was located with a furious Death Glare, causing Nakesh, his lieutenant, and the tower staff to quickly vacate it before Doug blows it to splinters. | |
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Iron Eagle / int_d49f90ea | type |
Western Terrorists | |
Iron Eagle / int_d49f90ea | comment |
Western Terrorists: All USAF officers, of course, the ones trying to use chemical weapons on Cuba just to eliminate communism. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite: Played for laughs with Chappy Sinclair. He repeatedly advises and at one point orders Doug to turn off his rock music while flying, believing that it's a distraction, until Doug proves to him that it's actually a Magic Feather. However, he himself plays funk music from a juke box while planning the operation. (Doug also qualifies for a second, as his initial reaction is to ask him how he can think with that music on). | |
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Just a Kid | |
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Just a Kid: Doug Masters gets this from Chappy. | |
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The Cavalry | |
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The Cavalry: DEA Agent Crawford and his men in the climax, with shades of a Gunship Rescue. | |
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Good Smoking, Evil Smoking | |
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Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Leichmann often has a pipe in his mouth. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Anna. | |
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Just a Stupid Accent | |
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Just a Stupid Accent: The Quraci characters all speak English at all times, regardless of whether they're addressing each other or the sole American. | |
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Missing Man Formation | |
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Missing Man Formation: Doug asks the fighters that rescued him if they could fly the formation for "Chappy" Sinclair, whose damaged fighter crashed into the ocean partway through the mission. He managed to eject and survived, but at the time no one knows that.. The USAF major in command of the flight responds that they were waiting for Doug to take the lead position. | |
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Playful Hacker | |
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Playful Hacker: Kitty, who sues her skills to save their lives and is a delinquent in the first place for inventive hacking in the name of protesting hoarding information (and to sell it). | |
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Congruent Memory | |
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Congruent Memory: Doug learned to fly in a flight simulator while listening to music. Now he can't fly without listening to music. | |
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Drugs Are Bad | |
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Drugs Are Bad: The main plot is to take down a cartel. | |
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Buy Them Off | |
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Buy Them Off: A heroic example, when the air force gives Stockman the air show promoter several mothballed modern fighters in order to keep him from rising a stink about his planes being lost or damaged in the final mission. | |
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Staying Alive | |
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Staying Alive: Doug survived his Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome from the second film. It turns out, he managed to eject and was a guest in a Soviet prison for the duration of the Cold War. | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: Doug. When the Air Force initially stonewalls his mother's attempts to find out what happened to his father, he blows right past the guard and into an Authorized Personnel Only section to chase down the man in charge and get an answer from him. When Chappy refuses to help him organize a mission to rescue his father, he reacts by getting his friends together to rob a military base blind of all the material he would need to plan the mission, then shows up at his home and ask him again. And of course, when a foreign government shoots down his father, he reacts by stealing a pair of fighters from the U.S. Air Force to fly out and rescue him personally. Taking no for an answer is not one of his habits. | |
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Percussive Maintenance | |
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Percussive Maintenance: Chappy's jukebox operates this way, rather than by actual coins. | |
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Only a Flesh Wound | |
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Only a Flesh Wound: Col. Masters gets shot in the shoulder by a sniper to hinder Doug's rescue. Aside from being in pain, he doesn't seem to suffer at all from the shock, loss of blood, etc. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
Iron Eagle / int_eb81c601 | comment |
Big Damn Heroes: Doug pulls this off twice: When one of the Minotaur pilots manages to shoot Malcolm during the final battle, he moves in for the kill until he is suddenly locked on. It turns out Doug had hijacked one of the F-16s back at the base, and promptly blows the pilot away. When Kettle realizes his plan has failed, he attempts to make an escape on his helicopter, but not before executing Chappy. Before he can, however, Doug flies in and shoots down Kettle's helicopter when Osgood tries to shoot Doug down, thwarting Kettle's escape and saving Chappy. | |
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War Is Hell | |
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War Is Hell: A big part of why none of the Air Force officers are in a hurry to push for an armed intervention. See Chappy's Tranquil Fury speech when Doug accuses him of wanting to avoid a fight out of apathy. Also lampshaded when Chappy sarcastically asks if Doug thinks the country should "launch some missiles, go to war over it" after his father's shot down, which even Doug thinks would be going too far. | |
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CoolBigBro | |
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Cool Big Bro: Doug has a warm relationship with his two sisters. | |
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Prepare to Die | |
Iron Eagle / int_fa4a59a3 | comment |
Prepare to Die: Colonel Nakesh says, "Time to die, Iron Eagle." Things didn't quite work out as he planned. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Kettle. He plans on using the chemical weapon Pandora on Cuba just to get rid of communism, though it would cost the lives of civilians in the process. | |
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