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Ricochet

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Ricochet is a 1991 thriller film directed by Russell Mulcahy and starring Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T, and Kevin Pollak.Nick Styles (Washington) is a young cop who is studying to become a lawyer so that he can help make his neighborhood better. Earl Talbot Blake (Lithgow) is a hitman who is taking a job to make it into the big leagues. Chance pits these two men against each other, and Styles walks away as a hero and having achieved the career he has sought while Blake is sent to prison with nothing. This leads to Blake becoming obsessed with Styles, and as he climbs the ladder of success, Blake follows every step, plotting his revenge. Years later, Styles has risen to become a star Assistant District Attorney. Blake finally escapes from prison and then starts a campaign to destroy his life.
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Crucified Hero Shot
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Crucified Dragon Shot: Kim, Blake's right-hand man, after Blake shoots him.
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Hero Antagonist
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Hero Antagonist: Wiley (the DA's right-hand man), who doesn't seem to like Nick very much to begin with. And Gail Wallens.
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Character Overlap
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Character Overlap: The film appears to take place in the continuity of the Die Hard films, with which it shares a writer and producer. Journalist Gail Wallens, played by Mary Ellen Trainor, reappears from the first Die Hard.
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Genre Savvy
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Genre Savvy: Nick knows the police can't be trusted to protect his family, but Odessa and company can.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Obstructive Bureaucrat: The DA and her right-hand man Wiley are this to Styles once they viewed him as a Broken Pedestal to them after Blake's Gaslighting made the latter appear to be a Hero with Bad Publicity undergoing Sanity Slippage, resulting in Styles's suspension.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: The metal tower.
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Answers to the Name of God
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Answers to the Name of God: When Nick sees Blake again.
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If It Bleeds, It Leads
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If It Bleeds, It Leads: Coverage of Blake's demise, with no censorship of his condition, or Kim's.
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Red Right Hand
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Red Right Hand: Blake's milky eye, and perhaps his bright red hair.
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Shoot the Dog
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Shoot the Dog: When he escaped, Blake killed the bookmobile guy, who was harmless.
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Non-Indicative Name
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Non-Indicative Name: Ricochets don't come into play at all. It's not immediately obvious, but the name probably refers to the fact that Styles's actions (taking down Blake) rebounded on him later.
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Frame-Up
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FrameUp: Part of Blake's plan. First, he makes it appear like Styles is a child molester and stole the money raised for a children's center. Then he kills Styles's former partner, throwing the gun to him so his prints are on it.
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Hero with Bad Publicity
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Hero with Bad Publicity: Styles, courtesy of Blake's Roaring Rampage of Revenge torment.
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Embarrassing Nickname
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Embarrassing Nickname: In-universe. The DA is called "Priscilla the Hun." Nick himself is "PK" (Preacher's Kid), but, in his case, the trope is subverted, as he feels that it's a badge of honor.
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Super Window Jump
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Super Window Jump: Blake performs one, which leads to his initial meeting with Styles.
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Not Helping Your Case
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Not Helping Your Case: Nick rambles on and on to his wife about what he did or didn't do to keep the prostitute away, comes running out of the house like a madman upon seeing Blake's video, pulls a gun in front of a bunch of kids, assaults a clown, and goes on a stammering tirade after the DA confronted him about the sex tape and the assault on the clown (watch Priscilla's face as Nick talks about "water in the pool"). He's paranoid, stressed out, intoxicated, and should be laying low during the DA's office investigation, but noooo...
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Stalker without a Crush
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Stalker Without a Crush: Blake.
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Hostage Situation
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Hostage Situation: During Styles's and Blake's first meeting.
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Worthy Opponent
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Worthy Opponent / Pet the Dog: Blake shows some sympathy to Styles when he eavesdrops on his live call to the talk show.
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Would Hurt a Child
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Would Hurt a Child: Blake goes into Nick's house disguised as a power company technician, drugs the babysitter, takes Nick's sleepy daughters to bed, then shoots a video of himself threatening the little girls. When Nick sees the video, he goes paranoid quickly. Of course, that's just the reaction Blake wanted.
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Bond One-Liner
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Bond One-Liner: "You got the point now, don't you, Blake?"
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The Dragon
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The Dragon: Kim to Blake.
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IntercontinuityCrossover
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Intercontinuity Crossover: News anchor Gail Wallens.
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FriendlyRival
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Friendly Rival: Odessa, to Nick.
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Sword Fight
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Sword Fight: Members of the Aryan Brotherhood arrange a swordfight between Blake and Chekowski in prison.
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Sacrificial Lion
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Sacrificial Lion: Larry Doyle, Nick's partner.
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But for Me, It Was Tuesday
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But for Me, It Was Tuesday: A rare heroic example. At first, Styles doesn't remember who Blake is.
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Room Full of Crazy
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Room Full of Crazy: Blake's cell has a wall covered with Styles's pictures and clippings from newspapers and magazines.
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Those Wacky Nazis
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Those Wacky Nazis: The Aryan Brotherhood, whom Blake makes a deal with to escape prison.
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Gaslighting
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Gaslighting: Blake uses a form of this on Nick with the sex video and the swimming pool.
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Hidden Weapons
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Hidden Weapons: Blake keeps a blade in his shoe.
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Shared Universe
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Shared Universe: Mary Ellen Trainor reprises her role as Gail Wallens from Die Hard, with which the film shares a writer and producer.
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Large Ham
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Large Ham: Both The Hero and the Big Bad.
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Broken Pedestal
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Broken Pedestal: Thanks to Blake's Gaslighting and Frame Ups, Styles's friends and family along with the rest of the public who once looked up to him began to quickly lose faith in him, the DA, and his wife Alice in particular. After clearing his name, he becomes a Rebuilt Pedestal at the end.
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Took a Level in Jerkass
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Took a Level in Jerkass: In her depiction in this film in contrast to her appearance in Die Hard, Gail Wallens becomes no different from the nosy Jerkass reporter colleague of hers Richard Thornburg, given she meddled with Styles for being a Hero with Bad Publicity similar to how Thornburg messed things up for John McClane in his appearances. The DA starts out as a Reasonable Authority Figure holds Styles in high regard, but once the latter ends up a Broken Pedestal to her for his publicized alleged Sanity Slippage and other Frame Ups caused by Blake, she swings to being an Obstructive Bureaucrat who suspends him.
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Artistic License – Medicine
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Artistic License – Medicine: After Styles is rescued after being drugged and kidnapped by Blake, he's informed about having gonorrhea due to his blood work. This is wrong on so many levels: first, the only STDs that show up on blood work are syphilis and HIV. Second, these are based on the body's antibody response, so it takes a while to turn positive, not overnight as in this scenario. Thirdly, doctors only run tests that are actually medically needed (or at least the ones they are sure they'll get paid for!). Since they didn't know he'd been raped or had unprotected sex, there would never have been a test for that (only whatever drugs he had).
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Villainous Breakdown
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Villainous Breakdown: Blake starts to have one when the crackhouse blows up. It continues when Kim calls him out at the end.
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Faux Affably Evil
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Faux Affably Evil: Earl Talbot Blake.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: Blake is the main bad guy of the movie.
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The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
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The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Blake to Nick.
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Homage
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Homage: The prison swordfight homages the last fight in Highlander. Both were directed by Russell Mulcahy.
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Malcolm Xerox
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Malcolm Xerox: Nick is watching a talk show on TV when a man argues with the host about an evil conspiracy that supposedly befell Styles and was meant to bring him down. Nick just chuckles. Funnier yet, considering who Denzel Washington would play about a year later...
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Slipping a Mickey
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Slipping a Mickey: Blake drugs Styles's nanny and Styles's kids's cocoa. Thankfully, he doesn't do anything to either.
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Pants-Positive Safety
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Pants-Positive Safety: Styles's hidden gun in his underwear.
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Obfuscating Insanity
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Obfuscating Insanity: Styles, as a ruse to bring Blake into the open and fight him.
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Clear My Name
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Clear My Name: This becomes Nick's goal after Blake re-enters the picture.
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Hood Film
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Hood Film: It's one of those 1990s films that is mostly set in the inner-city slums and crime-ridden streets and involves African-American characters.
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Used as a plot point in-universe. Part of Blake's plan involves drugging Nick and videotaping him being forcibly raped by a female prostitute...but when he leaks the tape to the media (with dubbed-over sound), people take it as evidence of an extramarital affair. Even Nick's wife initially refuses to believe that it wasn't consensual simply due to the fact that he got it up.
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Big "NO!"
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Big "NO!": Blake lets out one when he thinks that Styles has killed himself, which ruins his plans.
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Filth
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Filth: After killing Farris, Blake plants child pornography on his belongings to frame both him and Nick.
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Evil Redhead
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Evil Redhead: Blake has red hair and is VERY bad news.
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And Your Little Dog, Too!
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And Your Little Dog, Too!: Blake tells a probation officer that, after being released, he'd pay a visit to fuck the man's wife, his daughter, and maybe even his dog.
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Blake falls from a tower and is impaled.
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Cassandra Truth: Blake is alive and he did all those things to discredit Nick.
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Never Suicide: Farris's murder is staged to look like he killed himself, complete with a handwritten suicide note. Styles pretends to kill himself in front of Blake, complete with a laundry list of things he was accused of doing, to lure him into a trap.
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Gail was covering the explosion, oblivious to Blake, whom everybody thought was dead, standing next to her, ranting like a madman.
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Media Scrum: A gaggle of reporters is always ready to follow Styles around and hound him about alleged misconduct.
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Styles beats up an Aryan Brotherhood member to get information on Blake picking up passports at his bookstore.
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Cruel Mercy: Blake's response to Styles's question "Why don't you just kill me?" is a laugh and "I don't wanna kill you; I wanna kill your life!"
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Quip to Black: "News at eleven? Nahhh!" (switches video camera off). Subverted after the screen goes to black: "Styles, you can't do that, we're live!" "We're live now, huh? Good. Gail, kiss my ass!"
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Gunman with Three Names: Blake is always referred by his full name in media.
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It Was Here, I Swear!: Blake makes a video of Nick drugged in bed being raped by a prostitute, with audio added to make it sound consensual. The bed is at the bottom of a dry swimming pool. When Nick shows the pool to verify his innocence, he finds it filled up with water again. Making this an inverted trope: "It wasn't here, I swear!"
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Climbing Climax: Styles lures Blake onto the unfinished child center grounds for the climax, where they start climbing the thing while fighting.
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Groin Attack: Blake kicks Chekowski's groin during the fight, which happens when Blake becomes his cellmate.
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Intoxication Ensues
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Intoxication Ensues: Nick becomes a jittery, rambling mess of a man after Blake and Kim inject him with drugs.
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Faking the Dead: After escaping from prison, Blake fakes his death. Nick stages his own death at the end to draw Blake out.
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Strawman News Media: Gail Wallens. Consistent with media portrayals in that other picture she appeared in.
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