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Never Back Down 2	comment	Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown is 2011's direct-to-DVD follow-up to 2008's Never Back Down.Mike Stokes (Dean Geyer) is a college wrestler with daddy issues AND anger management issues. Zack Gomes (Alex Meraz) is a cocky up-and-coming boxer forced to retire due to an eye injury. Tim Newhouse (real-life UFC fighter Todd Duffee) struggles to make ends meet for his family following the death of his father. And Justin Epstein (Scottie Epstein) is a bullied comic book store clerk with poor self-esteem. These four young men are all set to take part in the Beatdown, an underground mixed martial arts tournament now promoted by college student Max Cooperman (Evan Peters), Jake Tyler's best friend in the first film. But first, they need to truly learn the sport of Mixed Martial Arts, emphasis on mixed, with former MMA fighter/ex-convict Case Walker (Michael Jai White) as their trainer. Walker is stern, strict, and largely humorless, and the trainees can't stand each other, but they eventually develop respect for their mentor, and the respect and friendship of one another.Well, except one of them, though we'll get to that later.The film marks White's directorial debut, and a third movie in the series, also starring and directed by White, began filming in June 2015.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Never Back Down 2 / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Again, played straighter than Robin Hood's arrows.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
Never Back Down 2 / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: Justin, after he shaves his head, likely to emulate Case.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Never Back Down 2 / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Much like popular Jerkass Ryan from the first film, loser-turned-psychopath Justin takes pleasure in tormenting his opponents when they're down, may they be street thugs or his opponents in the Beatdown.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
Never Back Down 2 / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: Tim. Soft-spoken, humble, wouldn't hurt a fly (outside training and the Beatdown, that is). Just don't mess with his mom and her unfortunate occupation.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
Never Back Down 2 / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Justin. At first, he overcompensates for still being a pushover by making juvenile taunts and wisecracks, but gradually progresses into a remorseless villain out for revenge against everyone who wronged him.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Never Back Down 2 / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Zack. He starts out the film as being too arrogant for his own good, and even withdraws from the Beatdown, partly due to his bad eye, partly due to hubris. But as he realizes the importance of Case's training and develops respect for Mike and Tim, he learns to humble himself.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Never Back Down 2 / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: All the central characters, more or less, especially Stern Teacher Case Walker. He softens a bit after seeing the makeshift gym his students put together for him and sincerely thanks them.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_4e0f7320	type	Misfit Mobilization Moment
Never Back Down 2 / int_4e0f7320	comment	Misfit Mobilization Moment: After Case gets kicked out from the vacant lot he's training at, the team gets together to turn Tim's (father's) old warehouse into a dojo where they can keep training without drawing attention from the cops.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Never Back Down 2 / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Early in the film, a group of knife-wielding thugs decide to assault Justin, who seems like easy pickings. Despite training with Case and becoming quite a capable MMA fighter, the bullying and teasing often directed Justin's way makes him less and less mentally stable as the film goes on. This climaxes when he decides to get revenge and waste the thugs. After breaking some bones with his MMA skills, he tops it off by grabbing a metal rod from one of the guys and using it to beat another one of the thugs to a bloody pulp. After being kicked out of training, Justin gets back at Case by planting a gun in his trailer to frame him up and send him back to jail for violating his parole.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
Never Back Down 2 / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Zack, who makes no attempt to hide his being a player with the ladies, and even dumps Eve via text message.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
Never Back Down 2 / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: Sanguine (Mike), Choleric (Zack), Melancholic (Justin), and Phlegmatic (Tim).
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Never Back Down 2 / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Never Back Down 2 / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: When Justin goes mental on the three thugs who had mugged him earlier in the film, and brags about annihilating them to an unimpressed, eventually disgusted Case, who promptly kicks him out of training.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_830ceec9	type	Inevitable Tournament
Never Back Down 2 / int_830ceec9	comment	Inevitable Tournament: Not surprisingly, all four of Case's trainees make it to the semifinals in the 16-man Beatdown tournament. At first, Tim has no reason to join the Beatdown, while Zack, initially interested, backs out when he realizes he doesn't want to risk going blind from his retina injury. They ultimately decide to join (or in Zack's case, rejoin) in order to avenge their mentor Case, who was framed up by Justin and sent back to jail.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
Never Back Down 2 / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: Mike's dad, who left his family for another man.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Never Back Down 2 / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: After Justin and Zack get into an argument during training and start trading fists, Justin is seen reaching for a metal pipe.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Never Back Down 2 / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Averted when one of the crooked cops calls Case by his real name, Elijah. His father's name, however, is Casey, which does justify the nickname somehow.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Never Back Down 2 / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: Justin. Awkward and only mildly annoying at first, he's often the butt of his fellow trainees' jokes. But as his new-found MMA skills â€” and the teasing â€” get to his head, he shaves his head and eventually evolves into a full-blown psychopath.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Never Back Down 2 / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Between Mike, Zack, and Eve.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Never Back Down 2 / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Like Jake from the first film, Mike has daddy and anger issues, but this time, his father is alive and well, but having recently left his family for another man. Hinting at this makes Mike testy, and mentioning it outright often makes him snap. Tim, while preparing for his Beatdown semifinal match against Justin. Otherwise the Gentle Giant of the four trainees, he finally loses his temper at Justin at the Beatdown, when Justin taunts him about his mom working in a strip club. And gets his leg whacked by Justin as a result, forcing him to forfeit their semifinals fight.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Never Back Down 2 / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Plenty of 'em in here, like in the first film. When recruiting Mike to join the Beatdown, Max says the likes of Fedor Emelianenko, Anderson Silva, and Alistair Overeem have all heard of Case Walker, even if younger fans like Mike have no idea who he is. One scene in the locker room has the boys dropping a plethora of MMA mainstays' names, including Mirko Cro Cop, Bas Rutten, Michael McDonald, and that "buff, blond brother" whom none of them can remember, until Case appears from out of nowhere and says it's Kevin Randleman. Walker is even referred to have had a classic rivalry with Rutten (maybe in this film's continuity Rutten is not undefeated).
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Never Back Down 2 / int_cb92ce71	type	DefeatEqualsFriendship
Never Back Down 2 / int_cb92ce71	comment	Defeat Equals Friendship: Although they finally put their differences behind them prior to their semifinal match, this is further underscored when Zack and Mike hug it out after the latter beats the former.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_d67e900a	type	Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
Never Back Down 2 / int_d67e900a	comment	Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job: Tim's Struggling Single Mother, who takes a job as a strip club waitress following her husband's death.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Never Back Down 2 / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: The racist police officers who keep harassing Case while he's on probation.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_ece6f910	type	Moment Killer
Never Back Down 2 / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: Mike's college roommate Kurt walks in while Eve surprises a recuperating Mike in his dorm room, wearing an arguably Stripperific outfit best suited for the club, not the campus. Far from being pissed-off at Kurt for telling everyone about his daddy issues earlier, Mike deadpans that she already has a boyfriend.
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Never Back Down 2 / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Never Back Down 2 / int_f5a3e496	comment	Like Jake from the first film, Mike has daddy and anger issues, but this time, his father is alive and well, but having recently left his family for another man. Hinting at this makes Mike testy, and mentioning it outright often makes him snap.
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