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Never Back Down

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Never Back Down	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Never Back Down is a 2008 martial arts film directed by Jeff Wadlow and starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, and Djimon Hounsou.Jake Tyler is your average boy from Iowa. Except that his dad is dead and as a result, Jake is angry all the time and expends his excess energy by beating the crap out of anyone who makes the slightest comment involving his lack of ongoing male adult influence. His kid brother is a budding tennis star who gets a scholarship to a good tennis school in Florida. As Jake is in severe trouble at home in Iowa, this is a good move for all involved. Once he arrives in Florida, he finds something new and unexpected: Mixed Martial Arts. Seemingly the entire school is involved in an unofficial MMA club. Yes, the whole school, even the ladies, has a singular obsession with MMA.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })As things progress, Jake gets beaten senseless by Ryan McCarthy, the school's resident Jerkass, in a fight that was unwanted by Jake and instigated by Ryan's innate ability to sense his opponent's Berserk Button and proceed to mash it repeatedly. This fight is Jake's first lesson in MMA. His friend then gets him into formal MMA training, where Jean Roqua teaches Jake how to defeat any opponent. Many matches later, Jake ends up facing Ryan in a one-on-one fight to determine, once and for all, who the better fighter is.The film was followed by two sequels, (Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown and Never Back Down: No Surrender), both directed by and starring Michael Jai White as ex-MMA phenom and martial arts master, Case Walker.
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Never Back Down / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Never Back Down / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son!" Guy: Ryan.
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Never Back Down / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Never Back Down / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Delivered by Roqua during his Rousing Speech.
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Never Back Down / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
Never Back Down / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: Jake's first Beatdown opponent gives him a handshake after losing.
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Never Back Down / int_19d1c1ae	type	Always Someone Better
Never Back Down / int_19d1c1ae	comment	Always Someone Better: Roqua mentions he had a younger brother named Joseph, who was a professional fighter like him but "Joseph was truly great"
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Never Back Down / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Never Back Down / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Played straighter than Robin Hood's arrows.
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Never Back Down / int_2cb9b1a9	type	Cool, but Inefficient
Never Back Down / int_2cb9b1a9	comment	Cool, but Inefficient: The Capoeira fighter shows off with fancy flips and spinning kicks apparently forgetting he is in a fight, so Ryan finishes him with a single punch.
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Never Back Down / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Never Back Down / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Ryan doesn't simply just believe in beating his opponents in a fight. He believes in kicking them when they are down.
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Never Back Down / int_41ea9cf2	type	Privileged Rival
Never Back Down / int_41ea9cf2	comment	Privileged Rival: Jake lives in an apartment with his Struggling Single Mother. Ryan drives a Cool Car and lives in a Big Fancy House complete with a swimming pool.
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Never Back Down / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Never Back Down / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Roqua will not allow any of his students to fight outside the gym, whatever the reason. He kicks out Jake the first time and lets him back in after he apologizes. Before the Beatdown, he threatens to throw out Jake for good but relents after Jake explains his reasons for going.
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Never Back Down / int_4e4ea654	type	Workaholic
Never Back Down / int_4e4ea654	comment	Workaholic: Roqua keeps the Combat 365 open every single day, all year long. This is because he is running from his life issues.
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Never Back Down / int_6156eafa	type	So Last Season
Never Back Down / int_6156eafa	comment	So Last Season: In their first fight, Ryan weakens Jake with kicks to the legs before finishing him off. He tries the same on his opponent in the Beatdown who brushes it off and during their final fight, Jake successfully defends against it.
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Never Back Down / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Never Back Down / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: The description above isn't exaggerating much about how obsessed the kids at Jake's new school are with MMA. To be popular with a majority is one thing, but it strains Willing Suspension of Disbelief when the movie makes it seem as though a second common interest simply does not exist among the student body.
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Never Back Down / int_6fed1be4	type	Raw Eggs Make You Stronger
Never Back Down / int_6fed1be4	comment	Raw Eggs Make You Stronger: Played for Laughs. Jake and Max are shown drinking eggs during a training montage, but Max immediately chucks them back up.
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Never Back Down / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Never Back Down / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "This is my fight. Everyone's got one."
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Never Back Down / int_7796aabe	type	Boxing Battler
Never Back Down / int_7796aabe	comment	Boxing Battler: Jake in the beginning knows how to throw some punches but is quickly outclassed by more versatile mixed martial artists before he too learns to "mix it up"
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Never Back Down / int_830ceec9	type	Inevitable Tournament
Never Back Down / int_830ceec9	comment	Inevitable Tournament: The Beatdown is mentioned, but Jake says he doesn't want to fight in it. Guess what he ends up doing. However, it's subverted when Ryan ends up disqualified and Jake taps out intentionally from his own semi-final having nothing to prove. When a fight between Jake and Ryan happens outside at the parking lot, the crowd is more interested in their fight than the actual final.
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Never Back Down / int_83d37e5d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
Never Back Down / int_83d37e5d	comment	Attack Its Weakpoint: Jake is on the receiving end of this after taking a kick to the ribs from Dak-Ho. This injury gets exploited by Dak-Ho and Ryan.
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Never Back Down / int_863fac26	type	Jerk Jock
Never Back Down / int_863fac26	comment	Jerk Jock: Ryan.
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Never Back Down / int_8bb79fdf	type	Designated Girl Fight
Never Back Down / int_8bb79fdf	comment	Designated Girl Fight: Played With. We first see two girls fighting it out at a party. Moments later, we see "The Battle of the Exes", with a girl kicking the crap out of a guy twice her size.
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Never Back Down / int_97b4c1fd	type	Cut Himself Shaving
Never Back Down / int_97b4c1fd	comment	Cut Himself Shaving: Jake claims his injuries are due to him "running into a door." Lampshaded by Roqua when he forbids Jake from fighting outside the gym, "no matter how big the door."
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Never Back Down / int_9b73b497	type	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
Never Back Down / int_9b73b497	comment	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: After Ryan is disqualified, Jake forfeits his semifinal match because he was only in the tournament to beat Ryan.
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Never Back Down / int_9e1b9a0e	type	Camera Fiend
Never Back Down / int_9e1b9a0e	comment	Camera Fiend: Max just can't resist the urge to break out his camera when a fight breaks out. In fact, when Jake gets into a street fight, Max films the fight and uploads it to YouTube instead of helping him.
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Never Back Down / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Never Back Down / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Ryan performs an eye gouge on an opponent during the semifinal match at the Beatdown.
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Never Back Down / int_a43a691b	type	Finishing Move
Never Back Down / int_a43a691b	comment	The combo Jake first learned at the gym and repeatedly practiced becomes his finishing move against Ryan.
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Never Back Down / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Never Back Down / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill After Jake learns the Triangle choke, he uses it successfully against the more experienced fighters Miles (in the gym), Dak-Ho (in the tournament quarter-finals), then against Ryan with less success. The combo Jake first learned at the gym and repeatedly practiced becomes his finishing move against Ryan.
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Never Back Down / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Never Back Down / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Ryan's father.
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Never Back Down / int_b2c737e8	type	Klingon Promotion
Never Back Down / int_b2c737e8	comment	Klingon Promotion: A non-death example, but all of the characters in the movie see fighting this way. The only way to be the best is to beat all the rest.
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Never Back Down / int_b4de919d	type	Make an Example of Them
Never Back Down / int_b4de919d	comment	Make an Example of Them: After Jake declares that he's not going to the Beatdown, Ryan beats up Max to show what will happen if he still doesn't go.
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Never Back Down / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Never Back Down / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Everyone who participates in the Beatdown.
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Never Back Down / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Never Back Down / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Mentioning Jake's father or the events surrounding his father's death are two ways to make Jake leap at you with fists raised.
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Never Back Down / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
Never Back Down / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: What Roqua's dad told him after his brother was killed as a result of a brawl when they were out at a bar, leading to their estrangement for at least 7 years.
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Never Back Down / int_c1d1d6ad	type	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
Never Back Down / int_c1d1d6ad	comment	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Lampshaded by Baja as she suggests that her parents smoked a lot of weed.
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Never Back Down / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Never Back Down / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The film is basically a Whole Plot Reference to The Karate Kid, only with MMA instead of Karate. Max mentions Roqua having trained with the Gracie family, the main developers of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and the force behind the creation of Ultimate Fighting Championship in real life. This also serves to make him even more badass to the eyes of those who know about MMA history, because back then the Gracies rarely went to learn under outsiders to their family (and still rarely do; Georges Mehdi is possibly the only martial arts trainer that could boast of having taught the mainstream Gracies, and he was a veritable aged 74 Old Master at the time of the film). Realistically, Max might be specifically referring to the Carlson Gracie branch, whose members' fighting style also closely resembled Roqua's. The main character entering a tournament to get a revenge and forfeiting at the semifinals after learning his rival is not anymore in the card draws parallelisms with the real life run of Ken Shamrock at UFC 3, where he forfeited at the end when he learned Royce Gracie had forfeited too. Also, with his blond hair, hot girlfriend and Jerk Jock attitude, Ryan echoes Tito Ortiz, Shamrock's most famous nemesis aside from Royce. According to Hounsou, he based Roqua's demeanor on Royce Gracie himself.
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Never Back Down / int_caca21f7	type	Easily-Distracted Referee
Never Back Down / int_caca21f7	comment	Easily Distracted Referee: Averted. Ryan cheats by using an eye gouge on his opponent. The ref notices the resulting injury a few seconds later and disqualifies him on the spot.
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Never Back Down / int_cb92ce71	type	DefeatEqualsFriendship
Never Back Down / int_cb92ce71	comment	Defeat Equals Friendship: Ryan shows respect to Jake at the end of the film.
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Never Back Down / int_d66cd0e6	type	Training from Hell
Never Back Down / int_d66cd0e6	comment	Training from Hell: The Combat 365 gym. Jake is a football player and finds himself struggling to keep up (at least until the second Training Montage).
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Never Back Down / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Never Back Down / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: The referee at the Beatdown. He checks on Jake after he is injured during a match to make sure he is alright before going into the next round, and disqualifies Ryan on the spot when he uses a forbidden eye gouge during the semifinal match.
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Never Back Down / int_ddc4f035	type	Heroic Second Wind
Never Back Down / int_ddc4f035	comment	Heroic Second Wind: Jake multiple times when he manages to break free from a grappling hold.
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Never Back Down / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
Never Back Down / int_e303d198	comment	The film is basically a Whole Plot Reference to The Karate Kid, only with MMA instead of Karate.
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Never Back Down / int_ece6f910	type	Moment Killer
Never Back Down / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: Charlie, Jake's little brother, walks in on Jake and Baja making out on his bedroom floor. Baja lamely claims that they were "wrestling."
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Never Back Down / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Never Back Down / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Jake finally defeats Ryan, earning his respect and going steady with Baja. Meanwhile, Roqua closes the gym to go back to Brazil and reconcile with his estranged father.
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