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Soldier Boyz
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Soldier Boyz is a 1995 action film starring Michael Dudikoff and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.Ex-Marine major Howard Toliver (Dudikoff), head of a Los Angeles detention center, is approached by billionaire CEO James Prescott to go and rescue the man's daughter Gabrielle, who has been taken as a hostage from a United Nations supply plane that had landed in Vietnam; her captors are rebel fighters led by the cruel military leader Vinh Moc (Tagawa).With little time to spare before the demanded ransom is delivered or Gabrielle is executed, Toliver decides to take six of the center's toughest inmates and head into Vietnam to extract her...but the group's constant clashing with one another, plus previously-existing rivalries among their members, will make the mission that much more difficult.This film is also somewhat notorious for its CD-ROM tie-in PC game that was headed by none other than Darren Aronofsky. | |
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A Father to His Men | |
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A Father to His Men: Toliver, mainly toward Lamb. | |
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POW Camp | |
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POW Camp: Where Gabrielle is being held. Getting to the camp to rescue her is the goal of Toliver's group. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: After Monster gets gunned down by a helicopter, Butts worries constantly about it. When Toliver's rescue plan doesn't have a contingency for it, he takes a moment to deal with it on his own. | |
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Semper Fi | |
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Semper Fi: Toliver. | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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Scary Black Man: Monster plays it straight. | |
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Stuff Blowing Up | |
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Stuff Blowing Up: During the final battle, when the group storms the rebel army's stronghold. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: As if we didn't already know that Vinh Moc is not supposed to be a nice guy from his introduction, halfway through the movie he and his forces drive into the village where Toliver's group is staying, then Vinh Moc himself grabs a little girl and threatens to shoot her if the Americans don't show themselves. The girl's mother tries to defend her daughter—and Vinh Moc shoots her instead. Watching all this from the house where they're hidden, the heroes visibly wince. | |
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Ungrateful Bastard | |
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Ungrateful Bastard: Brophy after the village incident. | |
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Damsel in Distress | |
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Damsel in Distress: Gabrielle. | |
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Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting | |
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Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: Played for Laughs during Lamb's introduction, where after he successfully manages to fight off a group of guards, Toliver asks him where he learned how to do that. | |
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Race Against the Clock | |
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Race Against the Clock: The team has three days to learn the ropes of combat and save Gabrielle. | |
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Land Mine Goes "Click!" | |
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Land Mine Goes "Click!": Lamb accidentally steps on a land mine at one point. Fortunately for him, it doesn't blow up immediately, but he has to keep his weight on it while Toliver works on disarming the bomb. | |
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Insert Grenade Here | |
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Insert Grenade Here: During the final battle. Butts slips a timed explosive into Vinh Moc's helicopter, and blows it up when Vinh Moc's chasing the group one scene later. | |
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Rape as Backstory | |
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Rape as Backstory: Vasquez was frequently molested by different men. Her chopping her last abuser to pieces is the reason she's at the detention center. | |
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Vasquez Always Dies | |
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Vasquez Always Dies: Subverted—Vasquez lives. | |
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The Smurfette Principle | |
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The Smurfette Principle: Vasquez is the only girl in the titular group. | |
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Drill Sergeant Nasty | |
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Drill Sergeant Nasty: Toliver: Justified in that his charges are, with one exception, hardened convicts who have to learn to obey his orders when previously they were all about looking out for themselves and not taking orders from anyone else. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Brophy gets himself killed distracting a group of rebels from the rest of the group. Also Gabrielle, the woman who the rebels kidnapped and try to ransom her father for weapons tries to pull this by telling her father not to give them the weapons and let her go, knowing that they will just use the weapons to kill more people. This doesn't work. | |
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Rebel Leader | |
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Rebel Leader: Vinh Moc. | |
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Spicy Latina | |
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Spicy Latina: Vasquez. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Idiot Ball: Handled several times by the recruits, though it may be justified by the fact that they're not used to certain aspects of armed military combat. One of the more egregious moments of this is when Lamb steps on a land mine—moments after it's been established that land mines are in the area when Butts inadvertently sets one off by throwing his bag on it and AFTER Toliver had just told them not to move following the detonation of said first land mine. | |
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Self-Made Orphan | |
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Self-Made Orphan: Lamb was accused of murdering his own parents, hence the reason he was at the center. However, Lamb himself insists he did not kill them. | |
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Bullying a Dragon | |
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Bullying a Dragon: Zig-zagged. At one point, to stop the infighting and establish his authority, Toliver challenges Lamb to fight him, even shoving him to try and provoke him; however, Lamb refuses to be baited. Satisfied, Toliver turns to pick up his gear...then Monster steps forward and slugs Toliver in the face. Cue a vicious curb-stomping of the misfits by Toliver, while Lamb sits by quietly and shakes his head sympathetically after the beat-down ends. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Brophy sneaking away from the group during their rest-stop at a local village leads to the rebel army torching the village and the deaths of Lopez and Monster. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Toliver's recruits include two gang-bangers, a sociopath, an abused girl, a Scary Black Man, and a Martial Pacifist. | |
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Token Good Teammate | |
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Token Good Teammate: Aside from Toliver leading the squad as their warden, Lamb is the most stable member of the group. While other squadmates like Butts and Vasquez are played sympathetically, they admit that they're guilty of their crimes, while Lamb furiously denies he actually did the act that got him in the detention center (the film never confirms one way or the other). He also shows one of the better grasps on martial pacifism, defending himself with just a mop even as guards try to kick his ass. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Vinh Moc. | |
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Black Dude Dies First | |
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Black Dude Dies First: Subverted. Monster dies second, and Butts survives to the end of the movie. | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname: We never do find out the convicts' real or full names. | |
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Xtreme Kool Letterz | |
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Xtreme Kool Letterz: The title, naturally. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Numerous times. It's an R-rated film, after all. | |
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Win Your Freedom | |
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Win Your Freedom: The convicts are offered full pardons if they survive the mission. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Butts holds Brophy at knife-point over the Nice Job Breaking It, Hero incident above. | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds: The group gradually becomes this. Special mention goes to Butts and Lopez, who were members of rival gangs prior to the events of the movie and who are, for much of the film, at each others' throats. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Vasquez. | |
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Ship Tease | |
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Ship Tease: There are hints of an attraction between Lamb and Vasquez throughout the movie. | |
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Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth | |
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Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: When the rebels try to execute Monster by putting a bag with a boa constrictor over his head, it ends with Monster spitting a large chunk of the snake's flesh in the executioner's face. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: Butts is threatened with, uh, dismemberment by Vasquez when he makes an unwanted pass at her. Later, he gets a very painful ball-squeezing from Toliver prior to the team's training montage. | |
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Martial Pacifist | |
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Martial Pacifist: Lamb has some impressive fighting abilities—when first introduced, he's able to take out a couple of guards using a mop—but he's the nicest guy of Toliver's six recruits and won't fight needlessly if he can avoid it. | |
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Attempted Rape | |
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Attempted Rape: Monster tries to force himself on a prostitute. Vasquez and Lamb enter the room in the nick of time, but he manages to rebuff their assaults on him before Toliver enters and stops the brawl. | |
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Angry White Man: Brophy is a very angry white guy. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Brophy is caustic, callous and a bigot, but he shares his water canteen with Lamb at one point (after refusing it to him one scene earlier) and later pulls a Heroic Sacrifice to draw enemy fire away from the group. | |
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