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Shooter	comment	Shooter is a 2007 film directed by Antoine Fuqua, based on the 1993 novel ''Point Of Impact'' by Stephen Hunter, although it does deviate from the source material in several parts.Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg) is a former Marine Scout Sniper who was disillusioned with the government after he was left behind enemy lines during a mission, only escaping on his own terms.Yet because he is the best at what he does, he is recruited by the government to help track down a potential sniper, only to become the scapegoat as part of a Government Conspiracy. Swagger goes on the run but knows he has to fight back, with the help of allies like rookie FBI agent Nick Memphis (Michael PeÃ±a) and his deceased best friend's wife Sarah Fenn (Kate Mara). What they find reveals new details about the mission where Bob was trapped behind enemy lines.Meanwhile, the widow of Bob's sniper partner is also dragged into the events, and Bob has to save her, though she is not a traditional Damsel in Distress, either.Shooter enjoyed moderate box office success and mediocre critiques, with a 48% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In its genre, it is a conspiracy thriller and rides on the paranoia of the Bush years. It also owes a lot to The Bourne Series (including the general resemblance between Wahlberg and Matt Damon), although the sniper angle and being rated R works in separating itself from other Follow the Leader types.Mark Wahlberg is also involved in the television adaptation of Shooter, which is being aired under USA Network.
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Shooter / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
Shooter / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety: Significantly averted, as Swagger's religious care of his own rifle is a major plot point later in the film. At least two examples of this become significant plot points; see Chekhov's Gun.
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Shooter / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Shooter / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Many believe that the corrupt US Senator played by Ned Beatty was intended by the director to be a stand-in for Dick Cheney.
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Shooter / int_14d633ed	type	If I Wanted You Dead...
Shooter / int_14d633ed	comment	Swagger is a top-notch sniper capable of impossible shots, and there is no way he wouldn't have hit the President (the assumed target) in the conditions at the time.
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Shooter / int_14e1f6b2	type	Assassins Are Always Betrayed
Shooter / int_14e1f6b2	comment	Assassins Are Always Betrayed: This is mentioned in the film, with a man claiming that the real killers of JFK were themselves killed and buried in the desert within hours of the assassination. The actual conspiracy plays with it: The real assassin is high ranking enough to avoid this happening immediately, but when leads on Swagger dry up he's bluntly informed he'll be used as bait to draw him out (he has after-all outlived his usefulness). Whether or not he survives this is uncertain, "that's the danger of bait after all".
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Shooter / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Shooter / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: An innocent man made a scapegoat for an assassination attempt on a President while the actual shooter was somewhere else entirely? Sounds a lot like Who Shot JFK?.
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Shooter / int_1f8cdb5c	type	Who Shot JFK?
Shooter / int_1f8cdb5c	comment	Who Shot JFK?
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Shooter / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Shooter / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: In the book, Johnson/Shreck and Meechum are more Knight Templars than the corrupt men portrayed in the film.
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Shooter / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
Shooter / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: After getting a strong hint from the AG to assassinate the bad guys, Swagger goes rambo on them at an alpine retreat, killing everyone with a pistol, then planting the pistol in Johnson's cold dead hands. Then he knocks a gas valve loose and lets the fireplace do the rest. Given that the Attorney General "hinted" for Swagger to do this, it's also likely the FBI will not work too hard investigating this anyway.
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Shooter / int_225d4412	type	PlayedStraight
Shooter / int_225d4412	comment	Played Straight with the assassination shot that starts up the plot. The Technical Advisor for the film said in reality, that shot should have made Ludicrous Gibs of the poor guy. But this would have been more graphic than the filmmakers wanted.
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Shooter / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Shooter / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: We see Bob doing something to his rifle just before he leaves for the mission. It turns out that he installed an incorrect firing pin in it, preventing it from firing and he does this to all his guns. This proves that the bullet that killed Mutumbo did not come from Bob's gun. When Swagger and the government team are in place, preparing to apprehend the alleged assassin. Swagger notices the cop in the room has his service pistol unsecured and points it out.
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Shooter / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
Shooter / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: One of the three assassins sent after Nick Memphis has one.
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Shooter / int_2bfb1856	type	Beard of Evil
Shooter / int_2bfb1856	comment	Beard of Evil: The other two assassins sent after Memphis sport these.
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Shooter / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Shooter / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: Attorney General Russert gets a great line about why Colonel Johnson must stay for the proceedings. Possibly doubles as Badass Bureaucrat:
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Shooter / int_2fbab42f	type	Wrongful Accusation Insurance
Shooter / int_2fbab42f	comment	Wrongful Accusation Insurance: As soon as Bob was able to prove that the FBI's evidence against him was fake, he was free to go. This is in spite of his merciless slaughter of henchmen, soldiers, and military snipers. Sure, it was in self defense and in defense of Memphis, but his high-influence political enemies had no reason not to nail him for it. It really helps, however, that everyone he killed did not legally exist; The henchmen who tortured Memphis had been declared legally dead years before; the army that ambushed him at the cabin were an American-trained Chilean death squad mercenary unit who weren't even authorized to be in the US, let alone carrying state-of-the-art weapons and flying a helicopter gunship; and the snipers on the mountain were just more mercenary henchmen. If The Government came down on Swagger, they'd be acknowledging the existence of an entire organization of state-sponsored terrorists, a scandal that would make Watergate look like the President was hit by a pie. They probably were planning to "neutralize" Bob themselves, but he drew first. Of course, Swagger murdering the heads of the conspiracy, including a senator, in cold blood after traveling to their lodge might be a little harder to explain away, but he covered his tracks pretty well on that one.
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Shooter / int_31fcc258	type	Training Montage
Shooter / int_31fcc258	comment	Training Montage: Nick Memphis goes from rookie FBI agent to a sniper thanks to a lesson by Bob.
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Shooter / int_329a19a0	type	Hollywood Healing
Shooter / int_329a19a0	comment	Hollywood Healing: Averted. Swagger switches to shooting left handed after Sarah patches him up when he notes that his right shoulder is a bit stiff.
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Shooter / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Shooter / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: The conspirators shoot Bob's dog when they retrieve one of his rifles from his house.
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Shooter / int_3577923b	type	Murder by Mistake
Shooter / int_3577923b	comment	Murder by Mistake: Inverted. The conspirators choose to assassinate their target when he is standing next to the US President, knowing that everyone will assume it was a botched attempt on the president's life and the victim wasn't the intended target.
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Shooter / int_36999dd	type	This Means War!
Shooter / int_36999dd	comment	This Means War!: Swagger got upset when they framed him for trying to kill the President and tried to kill him. But he really declared war when they killed his dog!
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Shooter / int_39ed1c8a	type	Conspiracy Theorist
Shooter / int_39ed1c8a	comment	Conspiracy Theorist: Swagger, though he knows they're more than just theories. Memphis becomes one as his investigation into the shooting makes him question his own agency and he finds out about the mass murder of innocent civilians over a US-owned pipeline. Exaggerated with Mr. Rate, the conspiracy expert that Bob and Nick visit:
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Shooter / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Shooter / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Bob Lee Swagger is this in spades, as evidenced by the Chekhov's Gun entry. Let's expand that a bit: Taking the firing pins out of his rifles when he puts them away would be just as effective at preventing accidents or unauthorized use. But Bob goes the extra mile and replaces them with custom-modified pins that will not fire - every time he leaves home. The only reason for this would be to fool someone who was deliberately trying to frame him. Which means he planned for that exact scenario. The book makes it clear that while he agrees to work with the government to stop the assassination, he doesn't trust them, and decides to prepare for specific eventualities.note In the book, he doesn't even do this regularly, but modifies the existing pin in the same manner after noticing his employers gathering his spent shell casings. Interestingly, the book mentions he's regularly offered assassination contracts, which he rejects both for moral and pragmatic reasons - Assassins Are Always Betrayed, and the fake firing pins would make perfect sense as a means of defending his innocence.
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Shooter / int_3f6d2c98	type	Cold Sniper
Shooter / int_3f6d2c98	comment	Cold Sniper: Bob fits this, though he does show moments of kindness. However, Sandor is downright sadistic, and is wheelchair-bound, as when his location was discovered during a battle, his opponents took no chances and targeted him with artillery. note Tanks have been used in the counter-sniper role in Iraq, and artillery shelling has been done to snipers since at least World War One. They don't like it and it reduces life expectancy.
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Shooter / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Shooter / int_40bb59d0	comment	Somewhat justified in that Swagger could just as easily say that he was trying to get answers, and the other guys shot at him first, and thus he was defending himself. Obviously it's Blatant Lies, but, considering none of the individuals that tried to kill him are alive to counter the argument, but they don't exist anyway.
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Shooter / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Shooter / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Johnson, Meachum and their co-conspirators cannot be connected to killing Archbishop Mutumbo and cannot be held responsible for sacking the Ethiopian village since this crime occurred on another continent, but Swagger gets justice anyway by personally murdering them all and then blowing up the cabin their bodies are in. If he's able to destroy all the evidence connected to him, he won't have to go on the run and even if he does, he's prevented the group's next terrorist scheme in the process.
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Shooter / int_43e71a8c	type	Bluffing the Authorities
Shooter / int_43e71a8c	comment	Bluffing the Authorities: When Bob Lee shows up to Sarah's house, she calls 911 but immediately has a change of heart and hangs up. When they call back per procedure, she tells them that she got scared because an animal knocked over her trash cans.
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Shooter / int_4ab9c868	type	Pretty Little Headshots
Shooter / int_4ab9c868	comment	Pretty Little Headshots: Averted Played Straight with the assassination shot that starts up the plot. The Technical Advisor for the film said in reality, that shot should have made Ludicrous Gibs of the poor guy. But this would have been more graphic than the filmmakers wanted.
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Shooter / int_4cbc7f95	type	Blasting It Out of Their Hands
Shooter / int_4cbc7f95	comment	Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Swagger makes a long-range sniper shot to blow a gun in half Payne is using to threaten his hostage; it looks like shrapnel was propelled into his hand, possibly taking off part of his finger. Subverted seconds later when, while Payne expresses admiration at the first shot, Swagger fires again and blows off his arm just below the elbow.
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Shooter / int_4dd42a04	type	Self-Surgery
Shooter / int_4dd42a04	comment	Self-Surgery: Bob's initial patchup, though unusually he follows it up by seeking proper attention from a (semi-)trained nurse.
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Shooter / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Shooter / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Col. Johnson just can't resist rubbing it in.
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Shooter / int_50a33496	type	Trap Is the Only Option
Shooter / int_50a33496	comment	Trap Is the Only Option: The villains eventually leak the location of the real sniper as bait. Swagger only needs to take one look at the isolated ranch to know it's a trap, but decides he needs answers anyways. As predicted, a small army of fully-kitted mercenaries come for him, but Swagger in turn shows he's ready for them, with the copious amounts of homemade teargas, pipe bombs, and napalm he left dropped along the way.
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Shooter / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Shooter / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Bob's switching out of the firing pins on his rifles. Also the improvised explosives he sets up before he confronts Sandor.
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Shooter / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
Shooter / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Downplayed. In the book, Swagger is a forty-something man who is described as looking like Clint Eastwood (who isn't bad for his age). In the film, he's played by the younger and even more handsome Mark Wahlberg.
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Shooter / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
Shooter / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: What Swagger, Memphis, and eventually Sarah get stumbled into, and what Johnson is part of. A cover-up of an incident involving slaughtering Ethiopian villagers so that a US-owned pipeline could be constructed in the region, led by both Johnson and a corrupt US Senator.
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Shooter / int_5a94cbf6	type	Fake Assassination
Shooter / int_5a94cbf6	comment	Fake Assassination: A mysterious sniper attempted an assassination on the US President while he's doing a public speech. The President didn't get hit, but the news become engrossed in the "attempted president assassination". The twist is that later, the hero Bob finds out that the sniper's real target was the Bishop of Ethiopia (who was there with the President) all along, who was about to tell everyone about the war crimes that the real bad guy did in Ethiopia.
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Shooter / int_5dff009d	type	As Long as There Is Evil
Shooter / int_5dff009d	comment	As Long as There Is Evil: The conspiracy is a depressing modern equivalent.
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Shooter / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Shooter / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: In the book, Swagger was a Vietnam Shell-Shocked Veteran, meaning you'd need to cast Tommy Lee Jones to maintain his Action Hero status. Substituting the Gulf War enabled them to maintain the Present Day setting with a younger Swagger. The rest is translated faithfully... except the opening sequence where Swagger covers the evac of the operation Archbishop Mutumbo was killed to suppress.
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Shooter / int_607a4594	type	Scope Snipe
Shooter / int_607a4594	comment	Scope Snipe: Obligatory, for a sniper movie. Happens during the mountaintop confrontation.
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Shooter / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Shooter / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: A non-wife variant happens when the bad guys kidnap Sarah, which makes Bob realize how much he cares for her.
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Shooter / int_63b3597	type	Shoot the Fuel Tank
Shooter / int_63b3597	comment	Shoot the Fuel Tank: A helicopter is taken down by shooting a propane tank it was hovering above.
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Shooter / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Shooter / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Anyone who knows about or is part of the Government Conspiracy and is no longer of use to the antagonists is to be dealt with. Swagger, Memphis, the policeman who shot Swagger, everyone for them is fair game.
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Shooter / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
Shooter / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: Memphis ends up compiling all of the intel related to Swagger's pastimes and achievements in his office in this manner.
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Shooter / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
Shooter / int_6c553873	comment	Private Military Contractors: Where the Mooks that aren't rogue members of the CIA come from.
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Shooter / int_6da4d56e	type	Conspicuously Public Assassination
Shooter / int_6da4d56e	comment	Conspicuously Public Assassination: As mentioned in the movie, what is the best moment to kill the archbishop of Ethiopia, who will expose the atrocities that the Government Conspiracy has done for the sake of continuing to line their pockets? By shooting him dead while he's standing right next to the President of the United States, and make people believe that the shooter missed his "real" target!
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Shooter / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
Shooter / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: The film can't seem to decide whether it wants to be grim, gritty and realistic or a flashy action movie. Purely in the first scene, we have A sniper team lying at the exact crest of a hill where their silhouette is easiest to spot. The spotter using notes in a notebook to guess the range rather than a laser rangefinder (it is however implied that he measured necessary reference points beforehand and put them on the notebook's drawing for quick reference). The team not immediately relocating after having served their purpose of area denial (i.e. everyone's stopped and looks for the sniper). That helicopter, after being hit in or under the motor, slowly descending in a classic movie helicopter crash rather than either locking up and tearing its rotor blades apart under the strain or killing everyone in the cockpit by shrapnel.
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Shooter / int_70f7063d	type	Unflinching Walk
Shooter / int_70f7063d	comment	Unflinching Walk: At the end when Swagger blows up Senator Meachum's cabin Though careful observation does show Wahlberg flinching slightly at the moment of detonation. Another example is when the mercenaries helicopter crashes, both Bob and Nick keep running without giving the explosion a glance.
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Shooter / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
Shooter / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Swagger is not pleased to find out he and Donnie were left behind in Ethiopia after covering the retreat of a convoy which, he later learns, had come back from slaughtering a village. And when Swagger is approached to supposedly plan how a sniper would assassinate the president.
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Shooter / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
Shooter / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: Justified as Swagger needs to improvise in order to save Memphis, reasoning that anything is better than nothing, but not specifically needing professional equipment. Though it is possible to make a homemade suppressor for a .22 rifle. The suppressor was also filled with water which would also dampen the gunshot.
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Shooter / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Shooter / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: We know Swagger's the best sniper because in the opening scene he snipes a helicopter down. Granted, the Barrett .50 cal anti-materiel rifle pretty much designed for this, but no one can doubt his marksmanship of sniping off a helicopter's swashplate while it is actively strafing him. Go down to Offscreen Karma to read another establishing moment for him.
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Shooter / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Shooter / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: Bob's Cheyenne Tactical M200 Intervention which he supposedly used to try assassinate the president, and hit the Ethiopian archbishop, Desmond Mutumbo. Even bigger is the Barrett .50 cal he uses against the helicopter in the opening scene.
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Shooter / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Shooter / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: Bob's spotter just had to show a picture of his wife before they were assaulted. It's like Antoine Fuqua wanted to step into the shot, wave at the viewers, and yell "this man is about to die!" though a megaphone. But considering the rest of the movie, it's understandable why they did it.
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Shooter / int_86c2950b	type	Murder by Suicide
Shooter / int_86c2950b	comment	Murder by Suicide: The antagonists employ a device that, when strapped to a victim's arm, uses a series of pulleys to force the victim to put a gun against their head and pull the trigger, literally physically forcing them to kill themselves. One of the operatives trying to force Memphis to "kill" himself tells him that it's worked very well before and the first thing Swagger says once he sees it is "what kind of sicko thought this up?"
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Shooter / int_8ad2077d	type	The Government
Shooter / int_8ad2077d	comment	The Government: Evil as usual. Parts of it. The scene at the end shows some of it is still working since Bob Lee shouldn't have been able to leave that quickly.
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Shooter / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
Shooter / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: Colonel Isaac Johnson and Senator Charles Meachum.
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Shooter / int_9a480050	type	Do Not Taunt Cthulhu
Shooter / int_9a480050	comment	Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Payne taunts Swagger, claiming that he has no shot on him (A headshot would have triggered a spasm that would have fired the shotgun pointed at Sarah). Swagger responds by shooting him in the hand, destroying the trigger. And follows up by blowing his arm off.
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Shooter / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Shooter / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Nick goes from befuddled FBI rook to a useful ally for Swagger. This was better-explained in the book, where Nick was an ex-sniper who'd quit after a Heroic BSoD. Partly justified, as he would have had some weapons training, there is a brief scene of Swagger training him, and Swagger does most of the heavy lifting anyway.
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Shooter / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Shooter / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Near the opening of the film, Johnson and his friends mention that the CIA guy overseeing the operation that hung Bob and his spotter out to dry died mysteriously shortly thereafter, though they never pinned anything on Bob. Guess what happens to those same men near the end of the film?
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Shooter / int_9f87b4fb	type	Little Useless Gun
Shooter / int_9f87b4fb	comment	Little Useless Gun: Averted. Swagger makes very effective use of a .22 when rescuing Memphis.
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Shooter / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Shooter / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal
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Shooter / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Shooter / int_a1b0c1c2	comment	Revealing Cover-Up: When the policeman who shot at Bob dies a few days later "in a botched robbery", Nick sees right through it.
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Shooter / int_a9dc0c29	type	The Moral Substitute
Shooter / int_a9dc0c29	comment	The Moral Substitute: Sometimes called a left-wing action movie. Bob is seen reading zmag.org and keeps a copy of the 9/11 commission report on his desk. In another scene, Nick is wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt. Bob's deep suspicion for all things government can be explained by him losing his best friend and being left to die behind enemy lines during a mission that will never be made public. This doesn't apply to Nick, a bright-eyed FBI agent who wears a Che Guevara t-shirt. True, he needed a change of clothes after his "session" with the Colonel's torture techs, so he had to wear what he could find in a hurry, but where does one find a Che Guevara shirt in rural Tennessee? Somewhat ironic since a whole chapter in the book is devoted to the media's reaction to the assassination and their twisting of the facts, which at least one columnist uses to push for a gun ban. Stephen Hunter refuses to pick a side. He thinks the bureaucracy is dumb, but is in favor of it to an extent. A good example is that though he is opposed to gun bans, he is a dedicated supporter of registration.
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Shooter / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Shooter / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Donnie mentions that his wife Sarah is about to enter Medical School in the opening. Now guess who Swagger goes to once he's framed...
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Shooter / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Shooter / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: The first live shot of Sarah on screen is of her in her kitchen, wearing a white pajama top with a noticeably thin weave. She spends the rest of the scene after letting in Bob Lee trying to keep her bathrobe on. She spends the majority of the movie disguised in a low-cut blouse and then in her bra, both tied up and not. Alourdes is briefly seen in her nightgown in one scene.
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Shooter / int_b0cbdcb1	type	Black Helicopter
Shooter / int_b0cbdcb1	comment	Black Helicopter: The Private Military Contractors use an unmarked, heavily-armed black helicopter in an attempt to kill Swagger.
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Shooter / int_b1ff5bba	type	Offscreen Karma
Shooter / int_b1ff5bba	comment	Offscreen Karma: One part of Bob Lee Swagger's Establishing Character Moment is when the men of the Government Conspiracy read through his dossier, mentioning that the bastard Intelligence agent who left him and his friend behind enemy lines to die was "mysteriously" killed and nobody was able to pin anything on Swagger, so they gave him a honorable discharge. They're smart enough to read between the lines ("I guess he didn't consider himself expendable")...and still underestimate him.
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Shooter / int_b26cc887	type	Just Between You and Me
Shooter / int_b26cc887	comment	Just Between You and Me: Played with. When Swagger confronts Sandor, the villain's plan has already happened. Instead, Sandor explains what they did, why they did it, and the role Swagger played in it. Also justified, in that a heavily armed kill team was coming and Sandor had to delay him until they got there. Swagger would've known if he was lying, so he had to tell the truth.
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Shooter / int_b39b84ee	type	Fiery Coverup
Shooter / int_b39b84ee	comment	Fiery Cover-Up: Swagger does this at the end of the film, breaking the gas line in the Senator's cabin after shooting them all, presumably to disguise all the bullet wounds. Once the gas hits the open flame in the fireplace...
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Shooter / int_b6d3e6fc	type	Smokescreen Crime
Shooter / int_b6d3e6fc	comment	Smokescreen Crime: The main protagonist is framed for an assassination attempt on the U.S. President's life which resulted in the death of the Ethiopian archbishop, Desmond Mutumbo. It turns out that the archbishop was the real target all along, as he was threatening to expose a massacre in an Ethiopian village committed by the villains. Since killing Mutumbo would've resulted in an investigation as to why someone would want him dead, the villains made it look like he was an unintended victim in an attempt to kill the president.
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Shooter / int_b84adf36	type	By "No", I Mean "Yes"
Shooter / int_b84adf36	comment	By "No", I Mean "Yes": At the climax: Also heavily implied at the end by the Attorney General, who, despite giving Swagger the "this is the real world" speech about how he can't go around cleaning up the streets with gunfire, notes that in some cases that is exactly what is needed, and then lets Swagger go. Judging from Swagger's capabilities and what happened to the last guy who screwed him over, the AG had no doubts what Swagger would do if released, and more or less said, "I can't do anything about these assholes, but you can."
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Shooter / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
Shooter / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: Based off a book by Washington Post movie critic Stephen Hunter, fairly loosely.
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Shooter / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Shooter / int_bbfaa837	comment	In the book, Johnson/Shreck and Meechum are more Knight Templars than the corrupt men portrayed in the film.
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Shooter / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
Shooter / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: Swagger has to provide proof that he did not kill the Archbishop or else he will be running for the rest of his life - which the bad guys really wish to cut short.
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Shooter / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Shooter / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Well, yes. It's part of why Memphis believes Swagger didn't commit the assassination - how could someone with said skills miss by a good two feet?
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Shooter / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Shooter / int_c9868780	comment	Playing Possum: Swagger is badly wounded after being shot twice, but as a highly trained Marine Scout Sniper he is far from disabled. He plays up his injuries so FBI Agent Memphis will get close to him, then quickly disarms him and steals his car.
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Shooter / int_cd23ee7d	type	Colonel Badass
Shooter / int_cd23ee7d	comment	Colonel Badass/Retired Badass: Colonel (retired) Johnson. His role in the movie is more of a Smug Snake / Corrupt Bureaucrat, but at the beginning he shows Swagger a Medal of Honor. This is the highest combat decoration a US military member can receive, requires an act of Congress to issue, and it's very often awarded posthumously.
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Shooter / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
Shooter / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	And when Swagger is approached to supposedly plan how a sniper would assassinate the president.
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Shooter / int_d500b978	type	Adaptational Wimp
Shooter / int_d500b978	comment	Adaptational Wimp: In the source novel, Nick Memphis is an established FBI agent who served as a sniper for the bureau. In the film, he's downgraded to a rookie just a couple weeks out of the academy (although he does become much more confident and skillful over the course of the film.
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Shooter / int_dc3d9a68	type	Orgy of Evidence
Shooter / int_dc3d9a68	comment	Orgy of Evidence: The conspiracy's slew of clues to set-up Swagger as the killer is this, and it does drive the investigating agencies to believe that Swagger did it. The reason why Memphis doesn't believes it's Swagger at first is because: Swagger is a top-notch sniper capable of impossible shots, and there is no way he wouldn't have hit the President (the assumed target) in the conditions at the time. The evidence arrived to the government offices barely minutes after the shooting (while the crime scene was still closed and the pursuit for Swagger was still starting), making him suspicious of the absurd efficiency and speed of its delivery, compounded by the fact that nobody in his office knows where all the evidence came from. Not only did the cop that allegedly discovered Swagger provide a story that sounded a bit ridiculous to those with knowledge of sniper tactics, but the cop was shot dead in an alleged mugging just hours after giving his statement, which sounds even more suspicious.
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Shooter / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Shooter / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: FBI Special Agent Alourdes Galindo, who is the only person at the FBI to listen to Memphis and help him explore his theory rather than going along with the official narrative. The attorney general at the end of the film. He puts Colonel Johnson in his place during the meeting, and is clearly furious that he doesn't have the jurisdiction to go after the colonel for crimes committed in other countries; he does, however, release Swagger, and imply that the only way to get justice in some cases is outside of the bounds of the law.
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Shooter / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Shooter / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Sarah, the wife of Swagger's late partner Donnie, who proves to be helpful to Swagger following the assassination.
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Shooter / int_e0113647	type	Decon-Recon Switch
Shooter / int_e0113647	comment	Decon-Recon Switch: The bad guys spend so much of their screen time gloating that they have the money and the power and whatever they do on other countries cannot affect them in America and one man with a gun cannot make a dent on this conspiracy that Swagger at the end admits they are right to a degreeâ€¦ but by the time the credits roll he still killed them all and no less a man than the Attorney General of the United States of America told Swagger in an indirect way that they all deserve it.
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Shooter / int_e0e8cce6	type	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!
Shooter / int_e0e8cce6	comment	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: This is implied towards the end of the film as the protagonist tries to bring down a corrupt senator, a colonel, and a group of Private Military Contractors. The film even includes the "This is the "real world" type of speech from the Attorney General towards Bob Lee Swagger. Of course, his Exact Words are...
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Shooter / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
Shooter / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: Especially in the shootout in the snowy mountains.
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Shooter / int_e663d3ef	type	Only a Flesh Wound
Shooter / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: Averted. Bob is shot in the shoulder and leg during the frame-up. He escapes, but moves with a limp. He's uses a first-aid kit to stop his bleeding. Later he makes a makeshift IV and dressing for his wounds. He still requires medical care to properly treat them, and get the bullets out. In fact, his shoulder never fully heals and he switches to shooting left handed for the rest of the film.
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Shooter / int_e7b1cb24	type	Old Master
Shooter / int_e7b1cb24	comment	Old Master: In order to answer some of his questions, Swagger enlists the help of an aging gunsmith (played by The Band drummer Levon Helm), who proceeds to steal the entire scene.
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Shooter / int_e7b73414	type	Sniper Rifle
Shooter / int_e7b73414	comment	Sniper Rifle: Being a former Marine Corps sniper, Swagger naturally owns and uses a number of rifles throughout the film. In fact, Swagger's religious care of his own Intervention Sniper rifle becomes a major plot point.
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Shooter / int_e86cf1cf	type	Gunman with Three Names
Shooter / int_e86cf1cf	comment	Gunman with Three Names: Bob Lee Swagger. Lee may be a reference to Lee Harvey Oswald. Swagger to military joke; bullet trajectory calculations are sometimes called "SWAG" — Sophisticated Wild-Ass Guess (or Scientific Wild-Assed Guess, as said by Carlos Hathcock). Swagger is the name of a man the author knew; he borrowed it for both Swaggers.
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Shooter / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Shooter / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: Nick Memphis is tipped off that something isn't quite right when the government investigation into the Ethiopian Arch-Bishop is too efficient. To be exact, despite the scene of the shooting still being locked down twelve minutes after the shooting - with FBI helicopters yet to begin pursuit, the ballistics report arrives just ten minutes later. The first thing that tips him off that something's wrong is that nobody has any idea where any of the massive amount of evidence he's been examining actually came from, simply that it showed up. Nick was also able to see right through Timmons' story of seeing a rifle barrel sticking out of a window. And correctly points out that no sniper does that. They instead, sit back further in the room, and shoot from there, which reduces the risk of getting hit by return fire from enemy soldiers. Although Nick does not mention it, there is a second reason for that: if the gun is far from the window, it reduces the sound that reaches outside, and helps conceal muzzle flash. Nick also correctly deduces that someone as highly skilled a sniper as Swagger simply couldn't miss by such a wide margin, since he's capable of shooting a silver dollar at 1000ft, with a maximum spread of 1 and a half inches. How does a man capable of that manage to miss by over 2 feet at 2000 yards?
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Shooter / int_eeb4a5eb	type	Anti-Climax
Shooter / int_eeb4a5eb	comment	Anti-Climax: Col. Johnson's death. The movie sets him as a properly badass anti-Swagger, but in the end he is easily dispatched by an unseen Swagger by being shot in the throat.
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Shooter / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
Shooter / int_f06b07ff	comment	Dobbler is ignorant of many of the worst actions committed by his employers and ultimately helps Bob in the book. In the film he doesn't.
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Shooter / int_f142296a	type	"Get Out of Jail Free" Card
Shooter / int_f142296a	comment	"Get Out of Jail Free" Card: In the end, Swagger is acquitted of the crime he was framed for, the assassination of Archbishop Desmond Mutumbo, by proving that the murder weapon could not have been used, thus he could not have fired it. This seems perfectly logical, but no one, not even the incognito Big Bad who was sitting right next to the war council, seems to address the fact that Swagger killed probably a bunch of men and caused untold amounts of property damage between the beginning of the film and now in his quest for vengeance. Somewhat justified in that Swagger could just as easily say that he was trying to get answers, and the other guys shot at him first, and thus he was defending himself. Obviously it's Blatant Lies, but, considering none of the individuals that tried to kill him are alive to counter the argument, but they don't exist anyway. There's also the fact that bad guys clean up after themselves. An FBI agent mentions that they found a downed helicopter, a lot of blood, and a shit ton of casings, but no bodies at the farmhouse shootout.
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Shooter / int_f1d7b320	type	Crazy Survivalist
Shooter / int_f1d7b320	comment	Crazy Survivalist: Bob after the Ethiopia mission.
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Shooter / int_f55f6e1d	type	Varying Competency Alibi
Shooter / int_f55f6e1d	comment	Varying Competency Alibi: One of the reasons Memphis realizes Swagger isn't guilty is because the latter would not have missed if he were truly aiming for the president. As it turns out, the Ethiopian Archbishop was the real target all along.
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Shooter / int_f6698528	type	Vigilante Execution
Shooter / int_f6698528	comment	Vigilante Execution: After his release, Swagger hunts down the villains, who have gotten away with everything, and kills them in their cabin â€” before making the entire thing look like a gas explosion. Bonus points for the Attorney General basically hinting that he should do that, knowing that there was no legal recourse, and knowing very well that if the protagonist were to be released from custody, he would almost immediately go after the villains.
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Shooter / int_fe3c75d4	type	Pull the I.V.
Shooter / int_fe3c75d4	comment	Pull the I.V.: Swagger does this to himself; he's been shot and knows he's going into shock from blood loss, so he improvises an IV set using aquarium tubing, plastic soda bottles, and a basting needle. Once he's bolused himself with a liter or so of homemade sugar-salt solution, he yanks the line out and continues on his merry badass way.
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Shooter / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Shooter / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Quite a few examples, most stemming from the semi-Backed by the Pentagon bits in the special features. In order we have: Snipers taking notes on ranges for their areas of operation to quickly figure out how far a potential target is. The CheyTac Intervention that Swagger shoots the can of soup with comes with a range computer to run the calculations needed for extreme range shots. In a blink-and-you-miss-it moment, you can see the computer next to Swagger when he shoots the soup can. In a deleted scene, Swagger chews out Memphis for trying to buy some Woodland BDUs at the store, pointing out that they don't really know the terrain that well, or the opposition, and that using store-bought camo would have no effect against trained killers. During the battle in the farm, Swagger not only shoots left handednote As Snipers are trained to do, but also performs a proper SPORTSnote Slap up on the Magazine, Pull the charging handle, Observe for ejection, Release the charging handle, Tap the forward assist, Squeeze the trigger on his commandeered M4 when it jams in the midst of the fire fight.
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Shooter / int_ffea0f47	comment	Situational Hand Switch: Bob, who's normally right handed, got his right shoulder wounded 1/3 into the movie, and has to resort to shooting with his left after that. Even after it's healed, his right shoulder becomes stiff, so he keeps using his left.
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