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Iron Eagle

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Iron Eagle	label	Iron Eagle
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Iron Eagle	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_1133e720	type	Fat Slob
Iron Eagle / int_1133e720	comment	Fat Slob: Downsn hygiene, Ex Heroes regimen, and appearance aren't that military.
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Iron Eagle / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Iron Eagle / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: The leader of The Cavalry is played by the film's co-writer/executive producer Kevin Elders.
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Iron Eagle / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Iron Eagle / int_14beeefd	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Iron Eagle / int_1616e13	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Iron Eagle / int_17501df2	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
Iron Eagle / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: Doug's good at these. "CHAPPYYYYYYYYYYY!" boom* . And after the sniper guns down Col. Masters, "DAAAADDD!"*
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Iron Eagle / int_1eed1d03	type	Anti-Air
Iron Eagle / int_1eed1d03	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
Iron Eagle / int_1f963842	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Iron Eagle / int_20a14df0	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_2310dacb	type	Dead Man Writing
Iron Eagle / int_2310dacb	comment	Dead Man Writing: Chappy records several taped messages for Doug in the event he goes down. They obviously get used.
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Iron Eagle / int_23747fd7	type	Ironic Fear
Iron Eagle / int_23747fd7	comment	Ironic Fear: Major Bush is a competent soldier and pilot, but sufferrs from crippling claustrophobia attacks. This is Played for Drama.
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Iron Eagle / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Iron Eagle / int_2493b31d	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_2a3e0069	type	Amazonian Beauty
Iron Eagle / int_2a3e0069	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_2b49eaf	type	Damsel out of Distress
Iron Eagle / int_2b49eaf	comment	Damsel out of Distress: Anna escapes on her own at one point while being held prisoner.
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Iron Eagle / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
Iron Eagle / int_2b7d29e1	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_2be271c7	type	Hollywood Hacking
Iron Eagle / int_2be271c7	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_2f50c5bf	type	Theme Music Power-Up
Iron Eagle / int_2f50c5bf	comment	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.
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Iron Eagle / int_3036a16e	type	Scary Black Man
Iron Eagle / int_3036a16e	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_33fd5904	type	Demolitions Expert
Iron Eagle / int_33fd5904	comment	Demolitions Expert: Downs, who happily admits that;
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Iron Eagle / int_3441859b	type	Rank Scales with Asskicking
Iron Eagle / int_3441859b	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Iron Eagle / int_34dcfc96	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Iron Eagle / int_392372f9	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Iron Eagle / int_396e1c2a	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_39e41f39	type	Tomboyish Ponytail
Iron Eagle / int_39e41f39	comment	Tomboyish Ponytail: the spirits Kitty Shaw has a pretty long one.
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Iron Eagle / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Iron Eagle / int_3d2c6d30	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Iron Eagle / int_3d699462	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Iron Eagle / int_443b78cd	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_49f8c18f	type	Ace Custom
Iron Eagle / int_49f8c18f	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_4c8e67e4	type	Emergency Cargo Dump
Iron Eagle / int_4c8e67e4	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Iron Eagle / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: When it looks like one of Downs’ bombs has failed and he's being criticized.
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Iron Eagle / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Iron Eagle / int_50f66629	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_51589353	type	The Cartel
Iron Eagle / int_51589353	comment	The Cartel: Kleiss runs a drug cartel in Peru.
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Iron Eagle / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Iron Eagle / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: After the C-130 pilot falls out of the plane in the climax:
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Iron Eagle / int_51c28ba3	type	Non-Action Big Bad
Iron Eagle / int_51c28ba3	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_51c7574c	type	Abandon Ship
Iron Eagle / int_51c7574c	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Iron Eagle / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: General Simms, who provides the main opposition in the air battles.
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Iron Eagle / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Iron Eagle / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: One of the Russians, Koshkin, once spent five years on disciplinary duty in Siberia.
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Iron Eagle / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Iron Eagle / int_5989e3b6	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
Iron Eagle / int_5deb34da	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_5f6c6cc1	type	Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
Iron Eagle / int_5f6c6cc1	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_607d4ada	type	Run for the Border
Iron Eagle / int_607d4ada	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
Iron Eagle / int_62fd5552	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_6319dea1	type	Ejection Seat
Iron Eagle / int_6319dea1	comment	Ejection Seat: How Chappy survives, not to mention Colonel Masters in the beginning of the film.
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Iron Eagle / int_63b3597	type	Shoot the Fuel Tank
Iron Eagle / int_63b3597	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Iron Eagle / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Horikoshi kills himself and General Simms by using a kamikaze attack on his plane.
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Iron Eagle / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
Iron Eagle / int_6eb4e408	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Iron Eagle / int_6ee10e0	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_6ef6417b	type	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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Iron Eagle / int_79974fb8	type	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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Iron Eagle / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Iron Eagle / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Doug Masters, after his time as a POW.
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Iron Eagle / int_7c1207c1	type	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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Iron Eagle / int_7eb2bc15	type	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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Iron Eagle / int_7ef70048	type	Big Bad Friend
Iron Eagle / int_7ef70048	comment	Big Bad Friend: Kettle.
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Iron Eagle / int_7fbb2a3	type	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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Iron Eagle / int_828a5ca8	type	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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Iron Eagle / int_82f5ced1	type	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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Iron Eagle / int_830b0ac9	type	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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Iron Eagle / int_863fa679	type	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.
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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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Iron Eagle / int_8cb1a369	type	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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Iron Eagle / int_90d44f44	type	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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Iron Eagle / int_93311f8e	type	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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Iron Eagle / int_93a38c9b	type	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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Iron Eagle / int_960810e8	type	Recycled Trailer Music
Iron Eagle / int_960810e8	comment	Recycled Trailer Music: The trailer uses "The Dream" from Total Recall (1990).
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Iron Eagle / int_9788e2b1	type	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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Iron Eagle / int_99298c71	type	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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Iron Eagle / int_9dab0a6e	type	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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Iron Eagle / int_a18042f1	type	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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Iron Eagle / int_a67b86a7	type	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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Iron Eagle / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Iron Eagle / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Chappy's taped messages to Doug, intended to be played posthumously.
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Iron Eagle / int_acecb17d	type	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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Iron Eagle / int_c3a7dcab	type	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 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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Iron Eagle / int_ce1c73e2	type	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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Iron Eagle / int_ce767e6f	type	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.
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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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Iron Eagle / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Iron Eagle / int_d52d28b6	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_d6d26e96	type	Just a Kid
Iron Eagle / int_d6d26e96	comment	Just a Kid: Doug Masters gets this from Chappy.
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Iron Eagle / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Iron Eagle / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: DEA Agent Crawford and his men in the climax, with shades of a Gunship Rescue.
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Iron Eagle / int_dab2f3ee	type	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
Iron Eagle / int_dab2f3ee	comment	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Leichmann often has a pipe in his mouth.
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Iron Eagle / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Iron Eagle / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Anna.
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Iron Eagle / int_db1ab4b1	type	Just a Stupid Accent
Iron Eagle / int_db1ab4b1	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_dceca6f8	type	Missing Man Formation
Iron Eagle / int_dceca6f8	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_dded28f2	type	Playful Hacker
Iron Eagle / int_dded28f2	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_de66421f	type	Congruent Memory
Iron Eagle / int_de66421f	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
Iron Eagle / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: The main plot is to take down a cartel.
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Iron Eagle / int_e0222ff2	type	Buy Them Off
Iron Eagle / int_e0222ff2	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_e386dc9	type	Staying Alive
Iron Eagle / int_e386dc9	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Iron Eagle / int_e567510d	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_e6291d05	type	Percussive Maintenance
Iron Eagle / int_e6291d05	comment	Percussive Maintenance: Chappy's jukebox operates this way, rather than by actual coins.
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Iron Eagle / int_e663d3ef	comment	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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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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Iron Eagle / int_f1d6144a	comment	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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Iron Eagle / int_f8214d	comment	Cool Big Bro: Doug has a warm relationship with his two sisters.
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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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Iron Eagle / int_fd4f8299	comment	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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