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Taken

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Taken	comment	Taken is a series of French action thriller films starring Liam Neeson and produced and written by Luc Besson; the first movie, released in 2008, was directed by Pierre Morel, and the sequels by Olivier Megaton.Neeson plays Bryan Mills, an American ex-government agent (his former position is never clarified) who starts the series having taken up the job of bodyguard to help pay the bills and attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter Kim (Maggie Grace), who lives with her remarried-to-a-millionaire mother Lenore (Famke Janssen).Kim is kidnapped by Albanian sex traffickers on a trip to Paris on her 17th birthday. Afterwards, Bryan gives his daughter's captors the famous courteous warning depicted in the page quote via phone call, advising them to let her go and avoid the horrible fate he has in store for them. They ignore his warning.Unfortunately for them, Bryan was not bluffing when he claimed to be frighteningly skilled, as he proves to be an old warrior whose viciousness would make Jason Bourne seem like a pussycat in comparison. Hell hath no fury like a father protecting his daughter, as the underworld of Paris soon learns the hard and painful way. At times, Bryan's exacting of revenge turns the film into an inadvertent Black Comedy, albeit of an extremely sadistic kind.In the first sequel released in 2012, Taken 2, the stage is moved to İstanbul, with the families of the first movie's band of sex slave traders seeking revenge by kidnapping Bryan and Lenore while they are on a vacation there with Kim. Neeson was then paid $20 million to come back for Taken 3, which came out in January 2015.A prequel TV series to the movies, with the same title as the first movie, began airing in 2017, starring Clive Standen as a replacement for Neeson and dealing with Bryan's past in the US government. It lasted for two seasons before being cancelled in mid-2018.Not related to the Alien Abduction Miniseries Steven Spielberg Presents Taken. Or with the Taken from Alan Wake or Destiny. Or with Tekken (or with its film adaptation).
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Taken / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
Taken / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Bryan is a former CIA operative and this is where his particular set of skills come from.
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Taken / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Taken / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: The young "recruiter" guy, Peter.
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Taken / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Taken / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: Being a PG-13 action flick, several characters get shot without much blood. Even the scene of Lenore's corpse, which involved a Slashed Throat, doesn't have as much blood as there would've been in real life.
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Taken / int_149ff4b0	type	HilarityEnsues
Taken / int_149ff4b0	comment	Hilarity Ensues: Marko twitching like a cockroach hit by a slipper when Bryan turns on the power. What did that moron expect to happen when he spat at a man who has just slammed two long and rusty nails into his thighs attached to a fuse box? TWICE!!
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Taken / int_14a8e0a2	type	Villain Opening Scene
Taken / int_14a8e0a2	comment	Villain Opening Scene: The second and third movies open with Murad Hoxha visiting the funeral of his son and his associates and vowing revenge, and with Oleg Malankov killing a man after finding an empty safe, respectively.
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Taken / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Taken / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Once Lenore got her throat sliced, there should have been far more blood on her corpse than there was in the movie, considering that the jugular would've pumped a lot of it out all over her clothes. Except that, as we learn later, Lenore was not killed in his apartment, but killed elsewhere then her body was planted by the Russians. We can assume that when they killed her they positioned her in a manner where the blood wouldn't spill all over her. That and too much blood might have taken away the PG-13 rating.
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Taken / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
Taken / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: Even after proving that he's essentially a One-Man Army, nobody takes Bryan's threats seriously. In the first movie, Bryan tells a number of people that he just wants his daughter back to no avail. First to Marko, to whom he issues a simple and straightforward demand that doesn't work. Then he tells Jean-Claude that he won't leave Paris without his daughter. Finally, he offers Patrice a get-out clause if he just gives him Kim. In Taken 2, the Albanians certainly took Bryan too lightly by applying lenient security measures after kidnapping him. In Taken 3, those cops should've listened when they were told that Bryan doesn't screw up.
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Taken / int_1b5fa24a	type	The Brute
Taken / int_1b5fa24a	comment	The Brute: One of the most prominent Albanians aside from Murad is a big guy named Suko, who does much of the physical work, including torturing both Jean-Claude and Bryan. He takes Lenore with him at Murad's order and proves to be nearly Bryan's match later in the climax.
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Taken / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Taken / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Bryan does this a lot. In fact, the films' general message is that sometimes it's necessary for The Hero to do bad things to bring down bad people.
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Taken / int_1de5c038	type	Too Happy to Live
Taken / int_1de5c038	comment	Too Happy to Live: Bryan's family.
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Taken / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Taken / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: If you mess with his daughter he will look for you, he will find you, and he will kill you.
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Taken / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Taken / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Patrice Saint-Clair tries to paint himself this way, but fails to convince Bryan.
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Taken / int_21f60711	type	Good Is Not Soft
Taken / int_21f60711	comment	Good Is Not Soft: Hart's team will go to some pretty extreme lengths to protect the US from any threats, starting with the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique and going up from there.
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Taken / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
Taken / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: Suko's name is only stated in the film's casting credits.
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Taken / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
Taken / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: At the beginning of the film, Kim is having a difficult time passing her driver's test. During the epilogue, there is a closeup of a distressed Bryan, which is meant to suggest he or his family is in peril again. Then the film cuts to a wide angle shot to discover he's just watching Kim parallel park for her driver's test.
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Taken / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Taken / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Jean-Claude gives Bryan his card to show that he now works a desk job. Bryan later uses the card to impersonate Jean-Claude when he infiltrates the Albanians' hideout.
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Taken / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Taken / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Bryan's threat gets another one in the form of Stuart's explanation to Bryan about why Malankov's mob is after him.
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Taken / int_24aae752	type	Try and Follow
Taken / int_24aae752	comment	Try and Follow: Done semi-successfully by one of the mooks Bryan tracks down.
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Taken / int_251bbe0e	type	Genre Blindness
Taken / int_251bbe0e	comment	Genre Blindness: Despite having a pretty good idea of what Bryan is capable of, Murad still insists on prolonging his suffering and explaining what he intends to do to Bryan's family, then proceeds to not have a few dozen mooks with guns trained on him at all times. This turns out to be exactly as bad a plan as it sounds.
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Taken / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
Taken / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Sheik Raman didn't actually want to buy Kim (Bryan forced Ali to do that for the Sheik so he could get the opportunity to save her), but he's more than happy to keep her for himself after the fact.
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Taken / int_26fa627a	type	Elephant in the Living Room
Taken / int_26fa627a	comment	Elephant in the Living Room: In the trailer, Dotzler recaps Bryan's background to his agents, pointing out that he's a trained sniper and explosives expert, and his service record comes to a strange dead end, which itself is quite telling. It would hopefully tip him off to the fact that Bryan wouldn't be stupid enough to kill Lenore using a knife with his fingerprints on it, in their house. If not, then it'd be this trope.
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Taken / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Taken / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: Bryan shoots Jean Claude's innocent wife in the shoulder (non-lethally) to get information about Saint-Clair out of him.
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Taken / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Taken / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: We don't know Sam's fate after the films' events. Last we see him, he's unconscious after having been shot by Stuart, and while a cop says he's still alive when they find him, we never found out if he survived.
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Taken / int_29d26001	type	Spoiled Sweet
Taken / int_29d26001	comment	Spoiled Sweet: Kim is certainly spoiled by her stepfather, but she doesn't short Bryan on some love and hugs at her birthday party (her scream of joy at Stuart's pony gift was louder, but she wasn't faking with Bryan's karaoke machine). This is also in contrast to her mom trying to trivialize his presence.
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Taken / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
Taken / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: According to Liam Neeson, nobody gets taken this time. Although depending on how you interpret the story, Lenore is "taken" from Bryan when she is murdered. Stuart does kidnap Kim in the climax and Bryan has to go rescue her.
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Taken / int_2c628d38	type	Worf Had the Flu
Taken / int_2c628d38	comment	Worf Had the Flu: Bryan starts to run on fumes by the end (in addition to his hurry to finally get to Kim), which results in some tougher fights. Despite getting hurt a bit more, he doesn't stop. The same goes for the sequel.
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Taken / int_2ce97e0c	type	Prove I Am Not Bluffing
Taken / int_2ce97e0c	comment	Prove I Am Not Bluffing: Bryan demonstrates that he is willing to do anything to get his daughter back by shooting the wife of his French police contact and threatening to kill her if he won't cooperate.
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Taken / int_2cf282ea	type	She Is All Grown Up
Taken / int_2cf282ea	comment	She Is All Grown Up: Kim. The film opens with a home movie of her 5th birthday, and then fast-forwards to her as a 17-year-old (sort of). Plus, this is no doubt what made her so appealing to the sex trafficking scout.
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Taken / int_2d4d16d9	type	I Know You Know I Know
Taken / int_2d4d16d9	comment	I Know You Know I Know: Dotzler is so highly intelligent that he's able to predict what Bryan is doing at that moment (like he knows that it would be useless to follow the GPS on the cellphone just seconds after Bryan puts it on a bus), and Bryan in turn predicts what the cops are going to do and works it into his plans.
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Taken / int_2de7bbf1	type	Nominal Hero
Taken / int_2de7bbf1	comment	Nominal Hero: Bryan may actually be a step below Anti-Hero, considering that he is motivated purely by the rescue of his daughter, and is completely willing to do whatever it takes to save her, including torturing Jean-Claude's wife and threatening to make his children orphans. He only seems mildly disturbed by the sex ring itself and rescues a sex slave from it to get info. Chances are the utter carnage Bryan left behind gives a trail for French authorities to save them. Based on the conversations with his friends about his CIA past, he may have done some outright villainous things in his career, though that is left to speculation.
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Taken / int_2df1c354	type	Facepalm of Doom
Taken / int_2df1c354	comment	Bryan spares Murad's life so that he won't have to continue fighting off his vengeful family. How does he respond? By trying to shoot Bryan as he leaves his gun and has his back turned. How does Bryan respond? He opens his palm to reveal that he popped the last bullet in the gun, then grabs Murad by the face and impales his head into a wall hook, killing him.
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Taken / int_2f187e89	type	It Works Better with Bullets
Taken / int_2f187e89	comment	It Works Better with Bullets: In one of the trope's finest-ever uses, the abductors shoot a random hotel guest. Bryan pulls this trick on Murad.
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Taken / int_2f95aaf0	type	Father's Quest
Taken / int_2f95aaf0	comment	Father's Quest: Bryan has to go on a mission to rescue his daughter from a human trafficking ring that had taken her and her friend on their trip to Europe. Being a CIA agent with a "particular set of skills" certainly helps.
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Taken / int_2fbab42f	type	Wrongful Accusation Insurance
Taken / int_2fbab42f	comment	Wrongful Accusation Insurance: Bryan commits a massive number of crimes in the course of trying to clear his name and later rescue Kim again. Some probably couldn't be proven, and others the police might not pursue (such as those against Russian gangsters). Others, however, were against them: attacking the officers who tried to arrest him, breaking into the LAPD database, hijacking a police car and kidnapping the officer inside, etc. Yet the only one of these which is even mentioned is the breaking into the database (probably the most minor of them) and he's let off completely on all of them. It's very unlikely the police would let crimes against them slide so easily. Then again, he does help them catch the real murderer and take out part of the local Russian mob for them, so that's probably why Dotzler lets him go.
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Taken / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Taken / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: He appears just long enough to get his ass completely kicked by Bryan (though he manages to escape, unlike his partner Peter, leaving his fate over whether he was able to get away or not ambiguous). Also one of the mooks; he's the only mook on Sheik Raman's boat to give Bryan any trouble before the fight with Ali.
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Taken / int_306b9de9	type	Electric Torture
Taken / int_306b9de9	comment	Electric Torture: Played terrifyingly straight when Bryan does it to Marko. It also averts the trope association of there not being any visible wounding, as the electric current is ran into Marko by nails shoved directly into his thighs. And the scene was edited and censored for the American theatrical release, so the movie would have a comfortable PG-13 rating.note Namely, the jumper cables' place of attachment was changed to the metal of the chair. The original version was restored for the extended edition DVD and Blu-ray releases.
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Taken / int_3184dfaa	type	Revenge Myopia
Taken / int_3184dfaa	comment	Revenge Myopia: Murad explicitly says he doesn't care what his son did to invite Bryan's wrath, only that Bryan killed him. Worse yet, he intends to finish what his son started and outright tells this to Bryan, knowing it will more than likely press the latter's Berserk Button.
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Taken / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
Taken / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: Much more so than in the first movie.
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Taken / int_31cd5fe7	type	Apologetic Attacker
Taken / int_31cd5fe7	comment	Apologetic Attacker: After coercing Jean-Claude to get information for him by invading his family's home and shooting his wife in the arm, Bryan asks him to convey his apologies to Jean-Claude's wife. The request apparently struck a nerve, as Jean-Claude attempts to attack Bryan, who merely smacks him with a pistol right as the scene cuts.
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Taken / int_3548fa0b	type	Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You
Taken / int_3548fa0b	comment	Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: When he loses the final fight to Bryan, Malankov allows the latter to kill him off, even saying that he deserves to die.
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Taken / int_362461f6	type	Sex Slave
Taken / int_362461f6	comment	Sex Slave: The purpose of the trafficking ring is kidnapping girls to turn into these.
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Taken / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Taken / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: When Bryan takes down one of the warehouses harbouring kidnapped women, while searching for his daughter and finding a girl wearing Kimmy's jacket; he takes the time to flip off the remaining bad guys and the French Police department investigating the explosion, while driving.
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Taken / int_374c339d	type	I'll Kill You!
Taken / int_374c339d	comment	I'll Kill You!: Bryan swears to kill the sex traffickers, and for damned good reason.
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Taken / int_37daf5c5	type	Not a Game
Taken / int_37daf5c5	comment	Not a Game
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Taken / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Taken / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Bryan is proven absolutely right in every way to have tried forbidding his daughter from traveling overseas. As well, the conditions he sets when he finally allows her to go (regular phone calls and such) are the only reason they had any sort of chance of rescuing her. Liam Neeson has stated that the movie caused some cases of this in real life. People have come up to him and told him they will never send their kids to Europe, which he's not too happy about.
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Taken / int_3b7ba342	type	Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy
Taken / int_3b7ba342	comment	Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy: The direct abductors are lowlife thugs from the Albanian mafia, but as Bryan carves his way through Paris to find his daughter, he discovers they're just part of a much wider network existing at all levels of society, including the police and high-placed city officials, with one of its clients being a wealthy Arab oil sheik.
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Taken / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
Taken / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: For once justified: Kimmy and Amanda are targeted by the Albanians because they're hot and can fetch a lot of money as Sex Slaves.
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Taken / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Taken / int_3bc88a7f	comment	To be fair about that exchange, though, Bryan immediately points out that he'll kill those two sons too. Whether said third movie would have had the involvement of Besson was another story altogether. Ironically, this hook wasn't followed up on in the actual Taken 3, which ended up having Besson on board once again.
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Taken / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Taken / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Bryan cleans house with the mooks (barring The Dragon). Considering who he is, it makes sense.
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Taken / int_3d69ca47	type	AmicablyDivorced
Taken / int_3d69ca47	comment	Amicably Divorced: Continuing the trend from the end of the first movie, Bryan and Lenore have this dynamic. Predictably, they get a Relationship Upgrade. Based on trailers, you would've been forgiven for thinking that it had already happened.
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Taken / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
Taken / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: Bryan administers one to Murad. He fails.
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Taken / int_3fb6b526	type	Delayed Reaction
Taken / int_3fb6b526	comment	Delayed Reaction: At the living room where several Albanians are watching soccer on TV, the Albanian who decides to exit takes a while to properly react to Bryan suddenly appearing with a gun at his face, only walking back while dropping his things, then screaming just before Bryan shoots him dead and the other Albanians realize they're in danger right at that moment.
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Taken / int_4061b99	type	Water Torture
Taken / int_4061b99	comment	Water Torture: The waterboarding variant is how Bryan interrogates Stuart after capturing him.
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Taken / int_40b1c664	type	The Patriarch
Taken / int_40b1c664	comment	The Patriarch: Murad.
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Taken / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Taken / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Kim in the first movie, and Lenore in the sequel, both being the relatives of Bryan kidnapped by the respective films' antagonists (aside from Bryan himself in the latter case).
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Taken / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Taken / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: When Bryan impersonates Jean-Claude, no one questions why a French policeman has an Irish accent, let alone why one is speaking English. Patrice Saint-Clair's name would suggest he's French, but his accent is distinctly American. Oddly enough, he's played by a Frenchman.
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Taken / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Taken / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Bryan Mills doesn't do "screaming berserker". Even when he's threatening people, he talks loud, but rarely outright shouts. He lets the violence he inflicts speak for him.
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Taken / int_4548e6d9	type	Innocent Bystander
Taken / int_4548e6d9	comment	Innocent Bystander: In the first film, Bryan shoots and wounds Jean-Claude's wife, even though she had nothing to do with Kim's kidnapping. In the sequel, one of the mooks murders a random hotel guest after barging into the wrong room.
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Taken / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Taken / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sheerah. See Rich Bitch.
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Taken / int_48309ad4	type	Screaming Woman
Taken / int_48309ad4	comment	Screaming Woman: A single woman at the chapel screams in horror at the sight of Patrice Saint-Clair's corpse, which had reached the public floor by then.
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Taken / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
Taken / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: Sam tells Bryan that he has a window of only 96 hours to find Kim before he never sees her again.
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Taken / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Taken / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The shots of Istanbul and the cemetery in Albania.
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Taken / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Taken / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Let's see: aiming for the nuts 90% of the time, playing dead in a shoot-out, shooting someone in the back, shooting someone who let their guard down for one microsecond just to talk, aiming for the head in a hostage standoff, the list goes on...Bryan takes every advantage and dirty trick.
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Taken / int_4c1f77ca	type	Third Time's The Charm
Taken / int_4c1f77ca	comment	Third Time's The Charm: Kim passes her driving test on the third try.
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Taken / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Taken / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Lenore.
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Taken / int_4d1ac25b	type	Villains Want Mercy
Taken / int_4d1ac25b	comment	Villains Want Mercy: Murad after failing Bryan's Secret Test of Character, subtly enough. His feared expression had "plead for mercy" written all over it. Bryan doesn't give the bastard time to beg for his life and kills him.
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Taken / int_4d28eee2	type	Roofhopping
Taken / int_4d28eee2	comment	Roofhopping: Done by Kim and two Albanians coming after her during a rooftop chase scene. One of said Albanians accidentally hits a hanging wire and falls to the ground in his attempt.
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Taken / int_4d3827ef	type	Not Quite Saved Enough
Taken / int_4d3827ef	comment	Not Quite Saved Enough: Despite Bryan dispatching a few dozen Mooks to rescue her in the second movie, Lenore is murdered in the third movie. Downplayed as both events are independent from each other.
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Taken / int_506bf16a	type	Sex Signals Death
Taken / int_506bf16a	comment	Sex Signals Death: Kim is a virgin, as the plot goes out of its way to note. Amanda apparently isn't, and was looking forward to having fun abroad. Guess who dies?
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Taken / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Taken / int_50b05d30	comment	Lenore can come across this way at the beginning. She has good reason for not liking Bryan, mainly that he wasn't around due to his career taking out very bad people in the CIA, but she winds up looking spiteful and manipulative instead. She repeatedly tries to distance her daughter from Bryan (thankfully unsuccessful) and flaunt the fact that her new husband is richer and can afford nicer things for Kim. This invokes Disproportionate Retribution when you consider the fact that the woman yells at Bryan for trying to give his daughter a gift on her birthday (an Abusive Parent might deserve that treatment, not a guy who simply worked odd hours). And then children of divorce often play one against the other, so their daughter likely played off the tension to get more out of both of them.
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Taken / int_50d2ca43	type	The Coats Are Off
Taken / int_50d2ca43	comment	The Coats Are Off: Bryan at the end.
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Taken / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Taken / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: It comes as part of Bryan's job as a bodyguard to always have the necessary equipment needed to make sure that he can get out of any situation, but this film is where it's really shown. For the trip to Istanbul, he brings himself a suitcase full of recording equipment, cash and passports accessible at a moment's notice, plus a hidden cell phone and even a couple hand grenades just in case. These preparations prove handy when Kim tells him that strange men have entered the hotel she's in.
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Taken / int_51c28ba3	type	Non-Action Big Bad
Taken / int_51c28ba3	comment	Non-Action Big Bad: Much like his son in the first movie, pistols are the only means of fighting that Murad uses. Plus, arguing with Bryan is all he directly does against him, and he attempts to fight in the wrong time and situation for him.
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Taken / int_52b36340	type	What Measure Is a Mook?
Taken / int_52b36340	comment	What Measure Is a Mook?: While Bryan kills or knocks out most of the Albanian Mooks without mercy, he offers Murad a second chance in their post-climactic confrontation.
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Taken / int_5300b1de	type	Invincible Hero
Taken / int_5300b1de	comment	Invincible Hero: Throughout the whole entire movie, it seems Bryan's a badass who never gets hit once and everything's going in his favor. However, he does get attacked from behind, gets knocked out, and gets stuck in a trap — from which he quickly escapes and kills everyone there. He does finally meet an opponent with only slightly inferior skills to his own, and beating him finally earns him a good number of scratches and bruises.
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Taken / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Taken / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: There are plenty of them made by reusing footage from the first movie. Later, there's also a few from earlier scenes in the film itself.
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Taken / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Taken / int_53f5119f	comment	Considering the type of movie this is, this trope is unavoidable, but there is one particularly bad case of it at the movie's climax: The Dragon (armed with a sub-machine gun) unloads countless of rounds point blank at Bryan, and all but one bullet miss.
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Taken / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
Taken / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: Conspicuously subverted, in keeping with the movie's overall practical and grounded approach to combat. Brian acquires a pair of handguns in the climactic gunfight, but he tucks the second one into his waistband and does not draw it until after the first pistol has been emptied and discarded.
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Taken / int_5785db6e	type	Driving Stick
Taken / int_5785db6e	comment	Driving Stick: Guess what kind of car is used in the aforementioned chase.
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Taken / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Taken / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: It's mentioned that in the past, Bryan left a mission to attend Kim's fifth birthday party (filmed in the video he watches at the beginning of the movie) and got reassigned to Alaska for his actions.
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Taken / int_586db75d	type	My Girl Is Not a Slut
Taken / int_586db75d	comment	My Girl Is Not a Slut: Kim's virginity is friggin' plot armor.
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Taken / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Taken / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: All the French cops are depicted as being inept, complicit with the sex traffickers, or both.
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Taken / int_5b39f849	type	Workplace-Acquired Abilities
Taken / int_5b39f849	comment	Workplace-Acquired Abilities: "But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you."
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Taken / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Taken / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: In the climax, Bryan takes advantage of the multi-floor balconies around him by dropping Mooks from them, whether it be by shooting them down or throwing them off.
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Taken / int_5bdffefe	type	Jitter Cam
Taken / int_5bdffefe	comment	Jitter Cam: Thankfully not to the extent of The Bourne Series, but yeah.
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Taken / int_5c2aea32	type	Hot Pursuit
Taken / int_5c2aea32	comment	Hot Pursuit: Lampshaded. Bryan had to shoot a cop just to ensure that Kim and himself could even get away from the bad guys' hideout, and he flat-out says it. On top of that, the cab they were driving was stolen.
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Taken / int_5fdf73bc	type	Photographic Memory
Taken / int_5fdf73bc	comment	Photographic Memory: Bryan takes this trope to truly frightening levels. He was able to trace his steps back to where he and Lenore were held by the kidnappers in spite of being blind-folded on their first ten minute long trip, by remembering the sounds he heard on the way and how far/long the spaces are between each sound. Eek.
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Taken / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Taken / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: Technically, she's his ex-wife, but the trope still applies.
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Taken / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Taken / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: In spite of Luc Besson claiming that there will be no more Taken movies at the time of Taken 2's release, someone else in the production (likely Olivier Megaton or the executives) HAD to leave an opening for a third movie: To be fair about that exchange, though, Bryan immediately points out that he'll kill those two sons too. Whether said third movie would have had the involvement of Besson was another story altogether. Ironically, this hook wasn't followed up on in the actual Taken 3, which ended up having Besson on board once again.
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Taken / int_6366f900	type	Old Soldier
Taken / int_6366f900	comment	Old Soldier: It's never specified how old Bryan is, but Liam Neeson was pushing 60 in the first film, and was 63 by the time Taken 3 came out; Bryan's age is mentioned to be a factor, but he can still waste a dozen villains half his age without breaking a sweat, and it's only near the very end of the movie that he starts visibly feeling the strain.
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Taken / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Taken / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Uh oh, Bryan, did we mention that the kidnappers you killed have families and friends in Albania, and they're VERY angry with you now?
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Taken / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
Taken / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Lenore can come across this way at the beginning. She has good reason for not liking Bryan, mainly that he wasn't around due to his career taking out very bad people in the CIA, but she winds up looking spiteful and manipulative instead. She repeatedly tries to distance her daughter from Bryan (thankfully unsuccessful) and flaunt the fact that her new husband is richer and can afford nicer things for Kim. This invokes Disproportionate Retribution when you consider the fact that the woman yells at Bryan for trying to give his daughter a gift on her birthday (an Abusive Parent might deserve that treatment, not a guy who simply worked odd hours). And then children of divorce often play one against the other, so their daughter likely played off the tension to get more out of both of them. Pop star Sheerah initially seems like this when, upon being asked by Bryan if she can give his aspiring-to-be-singer daughter any tips, she responds, "Tell her to pick another career." It's later revealed after Bryan saves Sheerah from an attacker that she meant it as a warning, as a lucrative career in the music industry is "not what everyone thinks it is". She ends up giving the number of her vocal coach and her manager to Bryan when he simply responds, "That's what she wants."
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Taken / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
Taken / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Murad shows Bryan photographs of the men he killed in the previous film. The only one he can remember is Murad's son, the one he tortured to death by electrocuting him through nails in his legs.
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Taken / int_675056e4	type	Signature Move
Taken / int_675056e4	comment	Signature Move: A punch or chop to the throat is how Bryan likes to operate.
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Taken / int_67792344	type	Grievous Bottley Harm
Taken / int_67792344	comment	Grievous Bottley Harm: Used in the first film's climactic fight on Sheik Raman's boat, where Bryan and Ali resort to hitting each other with a variety of bottles and glasses from a cupboard. In the sequel's living room fight, one of the Albanians throws a bottle he was drinking from at Bryan.
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Taken / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Taken / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: The scene with the background check joke segues directly into Bryan arriving at the house of Kim's boyfriend Jamie.
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Taken / int_6860368a	type	Mook Horror Show
Taken / int_6860368a	comment	...which typically results in a Mook Horror Show as Mills hunts them down one by one.
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Taken / int_687c78ff	type	Railroad Tracks of Doom
Taken / int_687c78ff	comment	Railroad Tracks of Doom: In the car chase scene, the second of two Albanian drivers going after the taxi Kim and Bryan are on is tricked into passing through a railroad track just in time to get crushed by an incoming train.
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Taken / int_6ac3af76	type	Divorce Is Temporary
Taken / int_6ac3af76	comment	Divorce Is Temporary: While averted in the first film, this trope is in full force in the sequels between Bryan and Lenore.
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Taken / int_6ad1eeb8	type	Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality
Taken / int_6ad1eeb8	comment	Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality: The films fall firmly on Level 3 of the scale, unusually for an action film series spanning between the late 2000s and mid-2010s. The vast majority of male characters are the only ones involved in the fighting and drive most of the plot, with the very few relevant femalesnote Mainly in the first movie, as Kim and Lenore are actually the two remaining females from Taken 2 onwards. taking the role of Damsel in Distress, Disposable Woman, or both. By Taken 2, Kim is the only female who outgrows this position, and even then she just provides non-offensive support to Bryan, while merely trying to dodge the bad guys rather than at least fighting them back briefly with the means she has in hand (to say nothing of the fact that she returns to damsel status in Taken 3). Of particular mention is the fact that plenty of Albanian women are seen mourning for their relatives at the opening funeral scene in Taken 2, yet none of them appear in the Albanian families' mission to get revenge on Bryan afterwards.
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Taken / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Taken / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Lenore wasn't killed by any of Bryan's enemies from the previous films; it was all arranged by her husband Stuart St. John in order to get 12 million dollars in insurance money.
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Taken / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Taken / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Apparently, sex slaver Marko values keeping the location of our protagonist's daughter secret more than his own life. He's probably worried that his colleagues would do worse if they found out. Oooooh boy, is he wrong.
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Taken / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Taken / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Paris, a Middle East city and freaking Los Angeles get turned upside down in Bryan's rampages and he absolutely refuses to stop until he gets what he wants.
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Taken / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Taken / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Lenore. In the first film, she's "lost" in that they're divorced and she's remarried. In the sequel, she's kidnapped and Bryan must rescue her. In the third, she's murdered.
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Taken / int_70c73c20	type	TheUnseen
Taken / int_70c73c20	comment	The Unseen: The entirety of Amanda's family. Her parents are never seen, mentioned or even spoken to via phone; and she says her cousins in Paris have gone on holiday for months, leaving the apartment for her and Kim. This applies even after Bryan finds Amanda's dead corpse, so it's entriely possible that by the end of the film her family still haven't noticed she's missing.
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Taken / int_713d994b	type	Token Romance
Taken / int_713d994b	comment	Token Romance: Bryan and Asha. They are quickly thrown together at the start of season 1 and their romance is definitely the B plot to Bryan gaining his 'skills'. Plus, even before the cast shakeup prior to season 2, we know they won't last since this series is a prequel to the film series - therefore we know Bryan still has to meet Lenore so they can have Kim.
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Taken / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Taken / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: It's a wonder social services didn't come around to take Kim away from Lenore. It takes a particular kind of parental incompetence to encourage your (recently turned) 17-year-old daughter to travel overseas across another continent with only one person she knows along with others she's not even the slightest bit familiar with and call out her overprotective father for even mentioning how this could go wrong.
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Taken / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Taken / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "I will find you," which, after the first movie, is mentioned with variations in the next two ("We will find him," "You would find them," etc.).
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Taken / int_75c33176	type	Saved by Canon
Taken / int_75c33176	comment	Saved by Canon: Being a prequel exploring Mills' life prior to the Taken films, he is going to survive whatever is thrown at him.
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Taken / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Taken / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Kim clearly isn't over getting kidnapped in the first movie, and she has a flashback the instant she hears Bryan telling her that he and her mother are going to be taken.
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Taken / int_7a2d9301	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure
Taken / int_7a2d9301	comment	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Subverted.
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Taken / int_7cbba5d3	type	Ruthless Foreign Gangsters
Taken / int_7cbba5d3	comment	Ruthless Foreign Gangsters: The Albanian gangsters in the first two films are doubly foreign — the ring from the first one operate in Paris and prey on Western people.
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Taken / int_7e577db	type	Slashed Throat
Taken / int_7e577db	comment	Slashed Throat: How Lenore is killed.
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Taken / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Taken / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: The bad guys know for a fact that Bryan, on his own, cut his way through their sex slavery ring like a hot knife through butter leaving a trail of bodies behind him that would make a serial killer blush. This is the man they intentionally want to antagonize. Vengeance is one thing, but this borders on suicidal recklessness. They started it because they were hurt at their loss after having lost several people from the village. They lost a lot more people than that in their foolish revenge scheme.
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Taken / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Taken / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: The first half hour makes it very clear with several things. 1) Bryan loves his daughter more than anything else. 2) Bryan is a stickler for details and does everything with a precise edge to it. 3) He has a past life of undisclosed international field work that leaves him one of the most lethal people on the planet. The rest of the movie is showing what happens when someone takes away the first point.
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Taken / int_801a35a5	type	Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending
Taken / int_801a35a5	comment	Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending: Subverted so you don't feel worried about the sex traffickers' victims. Bryan took out several major figureheads along the way of finding Kim, so it's fair to say the entire organization has suffered a heavy blow by the end of the film.
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Taken / int_828a5ca8	type	Roaring Rampage of Rescue
Taken / int_828a5ca8	comment	Roaring Rampage of Rescue: Both of the first two films have this as its premise, as Bryan tears through every bastard in his way to rescue his daughter (in the first film) and his ex-wife (in the second film).
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Taken / int_8319aaea	type	Compensating for Something
Taken / int_8319aaea	comment	Compensating for Something: When Bryan and Stewart are arguing, before Bryan has revealed Kim has been kidnapped, and is asking Stewart questions about his business to determine if it had anything to do with Kim being kidnapped, Stewart starts playing the rich guy card, and Bryan yells, "Now's not the time for dick measuring, Steeart!"
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Taken / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
Taken / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: Most real life Human Traffickers avoid targeting women from rich countries, such as Kim and Amanda, because it would attract too much media and police attention. Rather, they target poor and destitute women from developing countries, including Albania, and traffick them to richer countries.
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Taken / int_83f0971b	type	Mexican Standoff
Taken / int_83f0971b	comment	Mexican Standoff: The brief fight with several Albanians that leads up to Bryan and Lenore's kidnapping ends up in this situation for a moment, until another Albanian squad comes in to solve the conflict in the Albanians' favor.
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Taken / int_84fa1d7d	type	Disposable Woman
Taken / int_84fa1d7d	comment	Disposable Woman: The first film's whole plot revolves around this; the reason Kim exists is so that she can be kidnapped, giving Bryan an excuse to show what a badass he is. Meanwhile, Amanda's purpose is to be killed in order to show that the bad guys are monsters and thus how important it is for Bryan to find Kim ASAP. Lenore lives until Taken 3, wherein her murder is what sends Bryan on a third and last quest for vengeance. The TV series has Bryan's younger sister Cali, who's killed in the very first episode.
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Taken / int_85b5dc7	type	Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight
Taken / int_85b5dc7	comment	Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight: The post-climax confrontation. Sheik Raman has a knife and is holding it to Kim's throat. Bryan has a gun pointed at the Sheik's head. Guess who dies?
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Taken / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Taken / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: We're not quite sure what becomes of Stuart after he's arrested. Bryan promises him that he'll come for him after he inevitably gets acquitted or a short jail sentence because of his connections, but it's not clear if Stuart would later pull a Better to Die than Be Killed to avoid whatever Bryan has planned for him, if Bryan winds up killing him eventually, or even if he ends up executed (another outcome that's implied here).
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Taken / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Taken / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: And not just Bryan's iconic threat on phone from the first film! When Bryan talks to Jean-Claude: From the sequel:
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Taken / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Taken / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Bryan is an ex-special forces soldier who tortured people in the past (which is where he learned his "technique"), is merciless toward his enemies, and carries through threats on innocent people on more than one occasion (especially in Taken 3). His main opponents include sex-slavers and terrorists, a pair of professions not exactly known for being all that sympathetic.
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Taken / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
Taken / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: Bryan comes off this way, as he initially appears to care only about his daughter and doesn't help any of the other victims. Somewhat justified, as he only has a 96-hour window to find his daughter, and stopping to help some of the other girls could cost him valuable time. It's also eventually more or less subverted by the fact that, during the course of the search, Bryan managed to kill off most of the figureheads behind the slaving ring, likely destroying the entire setup.
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Taken / int_89937faf	type	Watching the Sunset
Taken / int_89937faf	comment	Watching the Sunset
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Taken / int_8b38b6b9	type	Anywhere but Their Lips
Taken / int_8b38b6b9	comment	Anywhere but Their Lips: After Bryan defends Sheerah against a Loony Fan who tried to kill her, she thanks him afterwards by giving him a talent scout's name for Kim and kisses him on the cheek. While she's slightly older than Bryan's actual daughter, he's still old enough to be her father. In the previous scene, she already cried into his chest the way a distressed daughter might and Kim herself also does later on.
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Taken / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Taken / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Stuart, who helped secure a private flight for Bryan in the first film, abruptly cancels the family spring break trip.
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Taken / int_8fcb5843	type	The Hunter Becomes the Hunted
Taken / int_8fcb5843	comment	The Hunter Becomes the Hunted
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Taken / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Taken / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Possibly good luck for the Dirty Coward, since as we see later, it prevented him from being 'interrogated'.
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Taken / int_921cdca8	type	Nothing Personal
Taken / int_921cdca8	comment	Nothing Personal: Malankov tells Bryan that Lenore was just part of a business deal, "like many before her."
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Taken / int_937c30b9	type	No "Police" Option
Taken / int_937c30b9	comment	No "Police" Option: The movie's plot operates under the idea that the cops had a small window of opportunity after Kim was kidnapped, with Bryan doing the whole job in tracking her down. Bryan does consult some friends in the Paris government for help, only to find some pushback in legal matters as well as their engagement in internal corruption.
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Taken / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Taken / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Murad. There's a trope-defining scene where Lenore is talking to him, and Murad mentions how he admires her, how he thinks she's a innocent woman who had nothing to do with his son's death, and then he says for such respect he'll send her back home... in pieces.
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Taken / int_962ffef6	type	ISO-Standard Urban Groceries
Taken / int_962ffef6	comment	ISO-Standard Urban Groceries: Bryan uses a bag as camouflage to get into the Paris apartment. Jean-Claude also carries home a baguette for dinner.
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Taken / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Taken / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Right after an intense car chase in Istanbul and crashing through a checkpoint to get to the US Embassy, Bryan and Kim share a moment in the car (in which they are waiting for Bryan's friend Sam to call someone else up at the embassy to make sure they don't get shot at) where Kim asks what happened to Lenore, to which Bryan replies that Lenore wasn't able to, though she is still alive and is likely to be tortured for information. Bryan then reassures Kim that he's going to find the people that are after them and make sure they don't bother him or anybody else in their family for the rest of their lives.
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Taken / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Taken / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: At first, it seems to be Russian mafia boss Oleg Malankov, but it's later revealed that Stuart's been pulling the strings and had Lenore killed to collect her life insurance to pay off Malankov. That said, Malankov still serves as the villain of the climactic fight.
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Taken / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Taken / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: Murad was really Bullying a Dragon. Had he quietly restarted the trafficking ring and kept under Bryan's radar rather than seeking vengeance, he might have avoided all this.
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Taken / int_9ae0ead1	type	Villains Out Shopping
Taken / int_9ae0ead1	comment	Villains Out Shopping: In one of the rooms where the Albanians operate at, several members are initially seen watching a soccer match on television while eating and drinking. They prefer to keep doing that when Murad notifies them that he's going outside due to the trackers being unable to find Kim. Bryan later shows up just in time to interrupt their fun with a fight.
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Taken / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Taken / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Murad comes off as something of an evil Bryan with his Papa Wolf characterization, as well as sporting a similar Badass Longcoat once.
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Taken / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Taken / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Kim reacts rather rationally to the kidnapping of her mother, roofhops in Istanbul, faces an Albanian at gunpoint, performs combat driving that would make Jason Statham wince; and most importantly of all, gaining the courage to rescue her parents alone rather than running to the safety of the American Embassy and letting them die, in spite of not possessing any combat training herself. Only time will tell if she will live up to her father's legacy as a warrior.
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Taken / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Taken / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: The resigned look on Bryan's face when he tells Kim that she is going to be taken.
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Taken / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Taken / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: The main character goes through an underground sex-trafficking crime ring (and their relatives in the sequel) the same way Leon Kennedy goes through a Spanish peasant village. It's practically a meme these days to call this film "that movie where Liam Neeson kills half of Europe". Explained a bit with Bryan's backstory: He served with the CIA as a "Preventer" (apparently some sort of well-trained CIA spook) and special forces prior to that.
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Taken / int_a0ccd559	type	Last Chance to Quit
Taken / int_a0ccd559	comment	Last Chance to Quit: Mills gives the kidnappers a chance to release his daughter without further consequences.
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Taken / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Taken / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: This exchange from the first movie: In Taken 2: Did Bryan seriously think that the Albanians he saw as complete scumbags in the first film wouldn't have families who would want to avenge their deaths? And the other way around too: Did said families believe that Bryan simply takes things lying down? That he won't rip through all of the Mooks just to find Lenore?
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Taken / int_a11f8240	type	Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop
Taken / int_a11f8240	comment	Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: Pretty much the whole force seen in the film, though it could be that the "incompetent" cops are merely overshadowed by Bryan's awesome. The "incompetent" part is easily understood if you compare a regular, day-to-day cop and lazy bodyguards to an ex-CIA agent whose life was black-ops.
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Taken / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Taken / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: "We can negoti—" BANG
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Taken / int_a47340fe	type	One Riot, One Ranger
Taken / int_a47340fe	comment	One Riot, One Ranger: Justified due to Bryan's very narrow window of opportunity against the various antagonists, and the particular set of skills that he possesses. That said, he does get specialized assistance from time to time, such as the Albanian translator or Stuart hiring the jet to get him to Paris.
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Taken / int_a4e3759e	type	You Don't Look Like You
Taken / int_a4e3759e	comment	You Don't Look Like You: Due to his switch in actors who look nothing alike between his two appearances, Stuart looks very different in the third movie from the first one. On top of lacking facial hair, he looks a lot younger.
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Taken / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Taken / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Bryan used to be neglectful to Kim because he was busy in the CIA, which is why Lenore divorced him, though it's clear that he does feel guilty about it.
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Taken / int_a5f5b4e0	type	Playing the Victim Card
Taken / int_a5f5b4e0	comment	Playing the Victim Card: Bryan impersonates a corrupt French police officer to ascertain the identities of his daughter's kidnappers under the pretense of visiting the Albanian gang of sex slavers to discuss future bribes. One of the men has the gall to accuse Bryan of trying to extort them because they're immigrants. Mills immediately shuts this down:
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Taken / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Taken / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: After defeating Suko, The Brute of the Albanians, Bryan appears to close his eyes in respect for the toughest fight of his life, though it's not visually clear.
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Taken / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Taken / int_a70223	comment	He appears just long enough to get his ass completely kicked by Bryan (though he manages to escape, unlike his partner Peter, leaving his fate over whether he was able to get away or not ambiguous).
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Taken / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
Taken / int_a754fa9a	comment	Instant Death Bullet: The victim in the opening scene dies instantly after a shot to the guts.
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Taken / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Taken / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Considering the type of movie this is, this trope is unavoidable, but there is one particularly bad case of it at the movie's climax: The Dragon (armed with a sub-machine gun) unloads countless of rounds point blank at Bryan, and all but one bullet miss. Earlier, the Albanians at the construction site unload dozens of rounds into Bryan's vehicle, without a single one hitting him or his passenger.
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Taken / int_a90df178	type	Guyliner
Taken / int_a90df178	comment	Guyliner: One of the Sheikh's men on the boat has this, and he proves to be the toughest of them during his fight with Bryan before he finally goes down.
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Taken / int_a9667a3b	type	Hero Insurance
Taken / int_a9667a3b	comment	Hero Insurance: In all three movies, Bryan causes a considerable amount of death and property destruction. In the first film, he tortures and/or murders a few unarmed bad guys in cold blood; he also shoots an innocent woman just to get information from her husband. In the third film, he escapes from police custody and abducts a motorist on a roadway at gunpoint for a ride into town.
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Taken / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
Taken / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: The security officers at the hotel.
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Taken / int_ac9af088	type	Relationship-Salvaging Disaster
Taken / int_ac9af088	comment	Relationship-Salvaging Disaster: Though Bryan remains divorced from his ex-wife, his heroics in this film put him on much better terms with her and their daughter for the remainder of the franchise.
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Taken / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
Taken / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: When Brian finally allows Kim to travel to Paris, Lenore asks him if it would have been easier to just sign the foreign travel consent form when he was first asked. Brian then asks if it would have been so hard for him and Lenore to discuss Kim going on the trip instead of dropping it on him out of nowhere, to which Lenore has no response.
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Taken / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Taken / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Finding people.
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Taken / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Taken / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Bryan makes a deal with Murad to end this war between him and Murad's family. Murad goes back on it and immediately comes to the realization that it was a very bad idea.
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Taken / int_adf2910	type	Human Traffickers
Taken / int_adf2910	comment	Human Traffickers: The Albanian sex traffickers who kidnap Kim. As Bryan later finds out, however, the Albanians are just part of a larger prostitution ring that also includes corrupt French and Swiss officials, and has an Arab Oil Sheikh as one of its customers.
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Taken / int_ae372576	type	I Warned You
Taken / int_ae372576	comment	The look on Marko's face when Bryan says to him "I told you I would find you." He immediately reaches for his gun, but Bryan slams his face into the table first.
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Taken / int_af5f2180	type	Avenging the Villain
Taken / int_af5f2180	comment	Avenging the Villains: The film's premise is the families of the Albanian kidnappers from the first movie attempting to get revenge on Bryan for killing them.
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Taken / int_affd30b0	type	Stupid Evil
Taken / int_affd30b0	comment	Stupid Evil: Oh, let's see, where to start... In the first film: The human trafficking organization runs on the premise that the best women are young girls with rich families that can send them on vacation and who have the diplomatic clout to demand investigations. Better yet, they operate at a post-9/11 airport so that they can be recorded by security cameras talking to the girls at their last known location. Even if Bryan hadn't made his roaring rampage of rescue, the families would be demanding answers, the news media would be having a field day, and the French government would have shut the whole thing down within a week (maybe). Human trafficking only works when nobody cares enough about the victims to look for them. The kidnappers didn't make sure that the SD card got broken along with the cell phone. A first piece of evidence for Bryan. Special mention goes to Marko, the guy on the receiving end of the Electric Torture. When someone has jammed three-inch nails into your legs, what you don't want to do is spit in their face, twice. It wouldn't have saved him anyway, but Patrice saying it wasn't personal to the father of one of the girls he sold off (whom he also held hostage) results in exactly what you think it would. In the sequel: The Albanians leave Bryan and Lenore restrained inside a locked room with an open window and no guard watching them inside at all (they only leave a guard outside who falls asleep once), not to mention that they didn't check if Bryan was carrying any hidden equipment that would help him break out. While Lenore doesn't get out until later (since she has no skill and stronger restraints), Bryan manages to escape without any sighting from the Albanians, on top of figuring out his location with help from Kim. A man just escaped from being tied up, he theoretically had no idea where he was being held, and had no less than seven guards within spitting distance. He proceeded to kill all of the guards and tear apart a good portion of the police force and cityside while getting to an American embassy. Is it really such a good idea to continue holding his ex-wife? Bryan spares Murad's life so that he won't have to continue fighting off his vengeful family. How does he respond? By trying to shoot Bryan as he leaves his gun and has his back turned. How does Bryan respond? He opens his palm to reveal that he popped the last bullet in the gun, then grabs Murad by the face and impales his head into a wall hook, killing him.
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Taken / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Taken / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Both Bryan and Kim end up committing numerous criminal offenses throughout Istanbul just to get Lenore back.Examples include Ditching a taxi cab without paying the cabbie, then stealing it; throwing hand grenades in a populated area (albeit at targets that are definitely unoccupied); shooting a police officer and evading the police; and, lastly, numerous counts of property damage. They were in the heat of the moment, so they didn't have much time to think about what they're doing. Nearly all of this would typically be handled by the US Embassy and they'd get off without much hassle, but Bryan has to call his buddy Sam to pull some strings at the embassy just to make sure the US military doesn't shoot them as they barrel their way inside.note The ground that embassies are built on is officially deemed part of its country. Any crimes committed by a US citizen in a US Embassy would be prosecuted as if they were committed stateside. Nearly killing US soldiers on US soil definitely counts.
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Taken / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Taken / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Subverted. The final fight is not filled with flashy moves and both sides end up getting really hurt. Suko actually dies because Bryan throws him down and makes him hit his head on a concrete corner.
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Taken / int_b1f4c5bb	type	Enhance Button
Taken / int_b1f4c5bb	comment	Enhance Button: One of the clues Bryan follows is a memory card from his daughter's broken cell phone. He finds a picture with a reflection of someone following them around. He doesn't zoom in much, but he is able to enhance it using a contrast & sharpen filter at a kiosk to get a good look at his face. More realistic than usual; most kiosks like that will show a lower-resolution version of the picture to save on loading time. When Bryan presses the "Process" button on the kiosk, it simply loaded the full-resolution picture.
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Taken / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Taken / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Especially during the car chase, Bryan fires his automatic pistol far more times than the magazine would allow and is never shown reloading. Averted later when Bryan gets his hands on an AK-47. He squeezes the trigger once for a few seconds into the gut of a mook before dropping the gun, the magazine spent. Also averted in the scene where mooks fire automatic weapons, as they need to reload the guns several times.
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Taken / int_b2e94341	type	Based on a Great Big Lie
Taken / int_b2e94341	comment	Based on a Great Big Lie: One William Hillar, who was eventually revealed to be a fraud who never even served in the military, said that this happened to him in Asia. In his version, it was the friend who survived, not his daughter.
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Taken / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
Taken / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: Invoked by Murad. Bryan killed his son, and that makes him the bad guy. The fact that Marko was practically a mass murderer to begin with, having condemned an unknown number of girls to a short life of sexual slavery, is irrelevant to the calculations. Murad even cheerfully tells Bryan that he intends to finish Marko's job of selling Kim as a sex slave.
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Taken / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Taken / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Kim and Amanda, but mostly Amanda, as Kim had reservations about all the information Amanda was sharing. Two young, pretty American women who don't speak much French go to Paris alone, they accept a car ride with a stranger, they let the stranger see the exact address where they are staying, they tell the stranger where in the building they will be staying, and that they will be alone in the apartment. It's as though they went down a checklist of things not to do when traveling. Amanda is literally too dumb to live and pays the ultimate price for stupidity. Kim, on the other hand, is merely drugged and roughed up, and by the second film she has learned her lesson, as she travelled abroad with both of her parents at the beginning.
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Taken / int_b5b4bd37	type	The Don
Taken / int_b5b4bd37	comment	The Don: Murad.
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Taken / int_b7042372	type	Cycle of Revenge
Taken / int_b7042372	comment	Cycle of Revenge: Discussed in the final confrontation between Bryan and Murad. Murad tells Bryan that if he kills him, then his other two sons will seek revenge too, to which Bryan ensures him that they'll die the same way. Bryan mentions, however, that Murad can instead go home and spend time with his sons and grandchildren; his killing of Marko is merely the price of being in a criminal business like human trafficking, and echoes the loss of all the lives Marko ruined.
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Taken / int_b77eb3b2	type	Revenge by Proxy
Taken / int_b77eb3b2	comment	Revenge by Proxy: Bryan killed their families? The Albanians will kill his ex-wife and sell his daughter like the last time.
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Taken / int_b79ff7b1	type	Forced Addiction
Taken / int_b79ff7b1	comment	Forced Addiction: The girls kidnapped by the Albanian sex trafficking ring are initially transported to a brothel where they're forcibly drugged. This is meant to make them more compliant and dependent once they're eventually sold onto the black market.
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Taken / int_b892dd2d	type	Girl of the Week
Taken / int_b892dd2d	comment	Girl of the Week: While it doesn't last long due to there being three movies, every film from Taken 2 onwards gives Kim a new boyfriend with little screentime.
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Taken / int_b901ef97	type	Forgotten Fallen Friend
Taken / int_b901ef97	comment	Forgotten Fallen Friend: No one really says anything about Amanda after her death, even Kim herself.
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Taken / int_b97c2cfb	type	Maybe Ever After
Taken / int_b97c2cfb	comment	Maybe Ever After: It's implied at the end that Bryan and Lenore will reunite as a couple, but they don't officially do so on screen.
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Taken / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
Taken / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: Two Papa Wolves square off over their children, both of them willing to break laws and endanger others if it gets them what they want.
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Taken / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Taken / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: As Bryan accuses to Murad, the Albanians' motivation for avenging their relatives is not out of a sense of justice (which is what Murad proclaims), but simply because their losses hurt them. For Murad's case, see Moral Myopia below.
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Taken / int_bbb150a8	type	Celebrity Is Overrated
Taken / int_bbb150a8	comment	Pop star Sheerah initially seems like this when, upon being asked by Bryan if she can give his aspiring-to-be-singer daughter any tips, she responds, "Tell her to pick another career." It's later revealed after Bryan saves Sheerah from an attacker that she meant it as a warning, as a lucrative career in the music industry is "not what everyone thinks it is". She ends up giving the number of her vocal coach and her manager to Bryan when he simply responds, "That's what she wants."
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Taken / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
Taken / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: Bryan is set up for the murder of Lenore.
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Taken / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Taken / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Most of the major villains suffer from this. Bryan doesn't.
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Taken / int_bd5e9702	type	His Name Is...
Taken / int_bd5e9702	comment	His Name Is...: CIA agent Clara Ward is killed right as she is about to tell Hart who killed the Senator.
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Taken / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Taken / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Bryan, who is an Unscrupulous Hero.
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Taken / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
Taken / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: Although he visibly looks horrified, Patrice St. Clair sounds rather relaxed and even kind of sleepy after Bryan wounds him and he attempts to plead for his life.
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Taken / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
Taken / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: With many enemies, it looks like they are dying from a simple touch administered by Bryan, thanks to the removal of the crisp "crunching" sound to secure a PG-13 rating.
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Taken / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
Taken / int_c36cba70	comment	Mooks and more mooks, and more mooks, and, just for a change of pace, even more mooks... Even more mooks from Albania in the sequel.
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Taken / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Taken / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Two very brief ones occurs in the film. When Kim is hiding under the bed, she sees the Albanians walking out of the room. She tells Bryan that they're leaving, until she's grabbed. Bryan finds Kim's jacket at the construction site, but not her.
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Taken / int_c48667d9	type	Backseat Driver
Taken / int_c48667d9	comment	Backseat Driver: Bryan guides Kim to the U.S. embassy in a "borrowed" cab. Given it's someone that without a license and an action movie, much havok is unleashed on Istanbul's streets.
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Taken / int_c515d358	type	America Saves the Day
Taken / int_c515d358	comment	America Saves the Day: An American Retired Badass puts a whole sex slavery ring operating in Paris on its knees in just three days, while several people from the French authorities are revealed to be complicit in the trafficking. Less of an example than most in that the grudge is personal, and bringing the ring down is more a side effect of Bryan's actual goal of rescuing his daughter. In the second film, the Turkish police are explicitly shown to be working with the Albanian criminals, or at least some of them are.
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Taken / int_c5c79ad3	type	And Your Little Dog, Too!
Taken / int_c5c79ad3	comment	And Your Little Dog, Too!: When the Albanians torture Jean-Claude, they show him his child's plush toy. Murad tells Bryan that they will find his daughter and sell her all over again, this time to the lowest bidder to be defiled until she is nothing but a piece of meat.
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Taken / int_c601fc37	type	Professional Killer
Taken / int_c601fc37	comment	At one point, Kim admits she was afraid to ask what he did, and all he told her was "a preventer." A "preventer" of the type known in the movies to inhabit Langley, Virginia would seem to be a safe assumption.
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Taken / int_c6074d96	type	I Am Spartacus
Taken / int_c6074d96	comment	I Am Spartacus: When Bryan asks the group of Albanian slavers who Marko is, one of them replies "We are all Marko". However, Bryan tricks the real Marko by asking him to read a note aloud and identifies him by his voice.
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Taken / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Taken / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: One late scene has Kim in a bikini. Of course, she is underagenote her actress wasn't, thankfully, she is drugged-up, she is being exhibited at a slave auction, and her father is technically being Forced to Watch.
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Taken / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Taken / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Murad ends up hanging by a towel hook impaled in his brain stem.
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Taken / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Taken / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In the third film, Lenore is murdered, prompting a final rampage of revenge.
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Taken / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
Taken / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: Whenever he goes outside while on the way to capture or check on someone, Murad is seen wearing a black trenchcoat.
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Taken / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Taken / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: The infamous frenetic cutting during Bryan's Chain-Link Fence climbing scene.
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Taken / int_d3510138	type	Right on the Tick
Taken / int_d3510138	comment	Right on the Tick: Bryan is giving his daughter a driving lesson at 2 PM and waits in the car until the exact second the clock strikes 2. Averted later on, when he deliberately waits an extra minute.
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Taken / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Taken / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: A mutual accusation between Bryan and Lenore regarding Kimmy's Paris trip. Lenore called him out for crushing her dream almost on the spot, while Bryan told her off for making it a double-team ordeal where he was the bad guy by default.
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Taken / int_d3c6cf4f	type	Unwilling Suspension
Taken / int_d3c6cf4f	comment	Unwilling Suspension: In the sequel, Lenore gets put in a painful-looking suspended hogtie by the Albanians. Definitely not the usual Fanservice example for a woman, as she's fully clothed, hooded, and bleeding to death.
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Taken / int_d47f35de	type	First Father Wins
Taken / int_d47f35de	comment	First Father Wins: Averted in the first movie. Bryan's disconnect with Kim is summed up in the opening scene, where he watches a Happier Home Movie of her, and he continues to largely stay away from her after all the following events. Bryan definitely wins in the sequels, though.
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Taken / int_d498390f	type	Fruit Cart
Taken / int_d498390f	comment	Fruit Cart: A few of them get smashed during the sequence where Bryan tries to get away from the Albanians going after him on car. Not just fruit carts either; bagels and a few other carts.
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Taken / int_d51158ee	type	Revised Ending
Taken / int_d51158ee	comment	Revised Ending: The film originally had a different ending than the one that ended up in cinemas. In the original ending, Bryan rescues Lenore from Murad's men before going to the Embassy and she is the one who gives Kim directions while Bryan shoots the cars chasing them. They crash into the Embassy, call Sam for help and cuddle as a family while they wait for the all clear. A representative comes to greet them and Bryan introduces Kim and Lenore with an awkward moment because he doesn't know how to describe his and Lenore's relationship. He decides to go after Murad and Lenore follows him, asking what he's going to do. Bryan replies, "What I do best," and turns to go. Lenore watches him leave before turning to comfort Kim. Bryan tracking and fighting Murad and his men is the same as the theatrical version only without Lenore's scenes. After this, the ending continues as it did in the theatrical cut with Kim passing her driving test and them going out for milkshakes with a surprise appearance by Jamie. Olivier Megaton felt that Bryan going after Murad and his men after Lenore and Kim were safe put his actions into a morally grey area that he was uncomfortable with, so he prolonged Lenore's rescue to make Bryan's actions more justifiable.
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Taken / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Taken / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: The Albanians want revenge on Bryan for killing their relatives and friends, and are totally unwilling to accept said relatives' own responsibility for the countless families they ruined in conducting their sex slavery operation, not to mention the fact that Bryan's actions were motivated by the exact same behavior the Albanians condemn him for.
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Taken / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Sam Gilroy was played by a white Leland Orser in the film series. In the show, he is played by Michael Irby who is mixed race.
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Taken / int_d7e68c39	comment	Bulletproof Human Shield: Bryan uses a thug he's fighting as a shield against another thug opening fire on him with an assault rifle, with the first thug's body easily stopping an entire magazine's worth.
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Taken / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
Taken / int_d839c530	comment	The Unfettered: Nothing is going to stop Bryan from finding his daughter, and there is no line he will not cross to find her. He even claimed to be willing to kill two old friends if they didn't help him achieve his goal. All of Bryan's actions in the movies indicate that he was not bluffing.
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Taken / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Taken / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: The team refers to the Mooks they encounter as "tourists".
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Taken / int_db69b32c	type	Newspaper-Thin Disguise
Taken / int_db69b32c	comment	Newspaper-Thin Disguise: Done by one of the Albanians while he watches after Bryan.
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Taken / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Taken / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: The one night Sam hires Mills for a temporary private security job guarding Sheerah just happens to be the one night a crazed fan tries to kill her. Bryan happens to be on the phone with Kim at the precise moment the Albanians break in to kidnap her and her friend; if he'd called her a bit earlier or tried to call a little later, the plot would have ended right there.
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Taken / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Taken / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Bryan's friend Sam first shows up for a buddy get-together at the beginning of the film. He is later called up to get some information about what happened to Kim and what their best options are.
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Taken / int_dfb77c08	type	Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation
Taken / int_dfb77c08	comment	Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation: It's never exactly stated what was Bryan's former occupation back when he was in the US government, even in the TV series. His conversations with his buddies and former co-workers implies any combination of wet work, special forces, or intelligence work. At one point, Kim admits she was afraid to ask what he did, and all he told her was "a preventer." A "preventer" of the type known in the movies to inhabit Langley, Virginia would seem to be a safe assumption. Bryan's friends also reference a previous mission where "the chief" went missing. "Chief" is sometimes short for Chief Petty Officer, an NCO rank in the Navy, suggesting that Bryan was a former Navy SEAL. Chief also means, well, chief; lots of intelligence agencies have a type of position called station chief or section chief. Given the reference to aforementioned Langley, it's arguable Bryan was part of the CIA's Special Activities Division.
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Taken / int_e08ada88	type	Famous-Named Foreigner
Taken / int_e08ada88	comment	Famous-Named Foreigner: So, can we conclude that Murad Hoxha is related to the late communist ruler of Albania? Hoxha originally was a Turkish title (Hoca).
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Taken / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Taken / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: Bryan Mills walks around Paris addressing people in English, including when he's impersonating a French officer. It's implied that he's really speaking French.
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Taken / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Taken / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Oh, the first movie's Electric Torture. The vengeful Albanians torture Jean-Claude this way in the sequel. In the third movie, after capturing Stuart, Bryan goes straight into waterboarding.
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Taken / int_e34ada78	type	Authority Equals Asskicking
Taken / int_e34ada78	comment	Authority Equals Asskicking: Sheik Raman's Dragon, Ali, is probably the only person in the entire film to be on equal footing with Bryan in a fightâ€¦ or the only person who lasts more than 30 seconds against him, anyway.
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Taken / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Taken / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: In the Pilot, Mike Hall tells Bryan that for the sake of not having to make the same choice Mike did, Bryan should avoid having children, especially a daughter. Considering Kim's existence, it's clear that Bryan is not going to take this to heart.
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Taken / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The first movie has been compared with 24. Bryan comes off very similar to Sam Fisher in Splinter Cell: Conviction, and the film was released in Ubisoft's native France in 2008, and the US in 2009. SCC came out the next year, and shares elements such as parts of the fighting style, and the plot of a Papa Wolf seeking his daughter and happening upon a major criminal plot on the way. The music used in the action scenes of the sequel sounds like John Powell's compositions for The Bourne Series.
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Taken / int_e54f93d5	type	Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight
Taken / int_e54f93d5	comment	Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight: In the first movie: The stalker who attempted to attack pop star Sheerah. Subverted when Ali, after bringing out a knife, is only defeated subsequent to wounding Bryan some. This is justified in that, unlike the aforementioned stalker, Ali used a special knife with tremendous skills. The toughest Albanian at the end of the sequel.
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Taken / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Taken / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: By the end of the first movie, Bryan has a bullet wound, multiple knife wounds, been beaten in fisticuffs pretty badly by the sheik's Dragon, and most likely has a broken ankle, and still manages to massacre every Mook on the yacht. And that's just the last action sequence. Adrenaline's a hell of a drug.
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Taken / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Taken / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: The villains are a bunch of human traffickers, some of the most heinous criminals in the world. And their operations are shown in cold, nightmarish detail for a PG-13 movie.
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Taken / int_e81f5639	type	Moe Greene Special
Taken / int_e81f5639	comment	Moe Greene Special: Bryan performs this on one of the Mooks in the climax with one of the many bullet holes said mook and his partner (who calls him "Mirko") left following a barrage of shots through a wall.
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Taken / int_ea480f92	type	Simple, yet Awesome
Taken / int_ea480f92	comment	Simple, yet Awesome: Bryan's martial arts style is very abrupt and efficient, fully obeys the laws of gravity and physics, and involves no somersaults or fancy kicks — he even refuses to use Guns Akimbo when he has two pistols. His style basically consists of ramming hard things into people's heads, and ramming people's heads into hard things, and dammit, it works really well. Even regular kicking is avoided, which is a surprising bit of Shown Their Work for Hollywood. Many martial arts experts agree that kicking is mostly ineffective in a Real Life fight (especially in the close quarters most of the fight scenes take place).
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Taken / int_ea7e3be8	comment	Dramatic Gun Cock: Bryan's cue to duck before two mooks unleash a hail of assault rifle fire through the wall at him.
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Taken / int_ea92aeb0	type	Concealment Equals Cover
Taken / int_ea92aeb0	comment	Concealment Equals Cover: Averted when Bryan is shot at through a wall.
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Taken / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Taken / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Suko stabs Jean-Claude's genitals with scissors to torture him.
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Taken / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Taken / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: In addition to being brutal sex traffickers, many of the Albanian kidnappers in the first film are arrogant sods, especially in comparison to the slave sellers and buyers, or even the Albanians seen in Taken 2. Averted with Stuart — despite his stock role as the husband of the hero's arrogant ex, the filmmakers cleverly resisted the obvious choice of making him a berk, and in the first film he lends his hand to Bryan as best as he can with the situation, unlike Lenore. That's not to say he wasn't going to turn out evil, however. In Taken 3, Stuart is the one who orchestrates Lenore's murder, and he threatens to kill Kim as well.
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Taken / int_eb9afb9d	type	Evil Old Folks
Taken / int_eb9afb9d	comment	Evil Old Folks: Sheik Raman in the first movie. A good number of the Albanians seen in the second film are elders, given that many are mentioned to have adult children or grandchildren.
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Taken / int_f0897540	type	Letters 2 Numbers
Taken / int_f0897540	comment	Letters 2 Numbers: Though neither marketed nor actually titled as such, the film is stylized as Tak3n on its DVD and Blu-ray cover art.
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Taken / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
Taken / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Literally.
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Taken / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
Taken / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Evil Plan: In the first film, it was a routine sex trafficking operation that just happened to piss off a Papa Wolf. The plan from the second movie is about revenge on said Papa Wolf, and the third one involves framing him for a murder.
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Taken / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Taken / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Bryan is not afraid to shoot someone's innocent wife in order to get the information he needs. He does have the courtesy to give her a flesh wound instead of outright killing her, though.
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Taken / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Taken / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Bryan drives an Audi in the first film and commandeers a Mercedes in the second. Also, Kim is seen using an iPhone and Skype in the sequel. In the credits of Taken 2, there's a lengthy list of brands and products, some in logo form.
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Taken / int_f67171cc	type	Empathy Doll Shot
Taken / int_f67171cc	comment	Empathy Doll Shot: In their interrogation on Jean-Claude, one of the Albanians shows him his son's teddy bear to clarify that they're willing to kill not only him but also his family (although it's ambiguous whether they already did the latter or are threatening that they'll do it) if he doesn't give them any information about Bryan's whereabouts.
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Taken / int_f6b30338	type	Murder Is the Best Solution
Taken / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: There's 50 mooks between you and your daughter/ex-wife, better get started.
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Taken / int_f7bbd5b0	type	I Will Find You
Taken / int_f7bbd5b0	comment	I Will Find You: Bryan never says this to his daughter, and the search is on fast forward, but Bryan still tears Paris a new asshole in service of this trope. And he does the same in Istanbul to find his ex-wife.
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Taken / int_f8117297	type	Go-Go Enslavement
Taken / int_f8117297	comment	Go-Go Enslavement: With an unpleasantly appropriate justification.
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Taken / int_f81fb215	type	Choke Holds
Taken / int_f81fb215	comment	Choke Holds: Bryan puts a twist on this technique by using a mere pistol to choke an elderly Albanian against a wall
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Taken / int_f8394279	type	Happier Home Movie
Taken / int_f8394279	comment	Happier Home Movie: The movie starts off with Bryan watching a video of Kim's fifth birthday.
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Taken / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
Taken / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Subverted while playing it straight. Kim has failed her driver's license test twice now, yet she can drive perfectly when Bryan is giving her instructions. Guess who has to drive wildly through the streets of Istanbul while avoiding the police, and who's giving them the orders?
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Taken / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
Taken / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: Bryan says this almost word-for-word to Malankov: "You killed my ex-wife."
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Taken / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License – Physics
Taken / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: At one point, Bryan and Kim together triangulate his position over cellphone by having her set off a loud noise (in this case a grenade) and him counting how long it takes him to hear it through his phone versus through the air. The problem is, cell phone conversations are rarely instantaneous; there's typically a portion-of-a-second lag between transmission and reception. While it would be in-character for Bryan to be able to factor this into his calculations, such reasoning could easily lead to Fan Wank, so let us simply say that this issue was not addressed. For that matter, Bryan's calculations aren't even accurate. He counts off 4.5 seconds between Kim detonating a grenade to when he hears it, and so concludes that he is at a 4.5 miles radius from Kim, a 1 second to 1 mile ratio. However, the speed of sound in air is ~340 mps, so the correct calculation of Bryan's distance from Kim should have an approximate radius of 1.6 km, or just under one mile. It was a rough estimate. He didn't need down-to-the-meter precision, just a general sense - that is to say, "are you one mile away? two? ten?". Once he gets a rough estimate of distance, he realistically uses local landmarks to get an exact fix.
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Taken / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
Taken / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: Bryan finds Amanda dead the moment she's seen after getting kidnapped, but it's quite clear that this wasn't intended by the Albanians, as they were intending for her to be sold alongside Kim. Her cause of death could be excessive drug use on part of the Albanians.
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Taken / int_fd6e4c0d	type	Googling the New Acquaintance
Taken / int_fd6e4c0d	comment	Googling the New Acquaintance: When Bryan finds out that Kim has a new boyfriend named Jamie, the first thing he does is run a background check on the latter... just as he did with all her other previous boyfriends. Lenore tells him to not run a background check on Jamie, because she knows that he ALWAYS does this.
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Taken / int_fdf4572b	type	Dialogue Reversal
Taken / int_fdf4572b	comment	Dialogue Reversal: At least in the trailer. Dotzler warns Bryan over the phone that all of law enforcement will be coming after him. His response? "Good luck".
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Taken / int_fe793a63	type	Last-Second Chance
Taken / int_fe793a63	comment	Last-Second Chance: Bryan tries to offer Murad a chance to walk away in exchange for leaving them in peace. Murad blows it by going for Bryan's discarded gun.
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Taken / int_feadb064	type	Generic Ethnic Crime Gang
Taken / int_feadb064	comment	Generic Ethnic Crime Gang: The first two movies feature a pair of different Albanian organized crime rings, with the presence of relatives between them. The first one is a component of the larger sex trafficking ring in Paris, while the second one is more of a conglomerate.
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Taken / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Taken / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Even regular kicking is avoided, which is a surprising bit of Shown Their Work for Hollywood. Many martial arts experts agree that kicking is mostly ineffective in a Real Life fight (especially in the close quarters most of the fight scenes take place).
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Taken	hasFeature	Knight Templar Parent / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Last Chance to Quit / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Lawful Neutral / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Letters 2 Numbers / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Married to the Job / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Moe Greene Special / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Nature Adores a Virgin / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	No-Nonsense Nemesis / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	No "Police" Option / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Not a Game / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Not Even Bothering with the Accent / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Nothing Personal / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	One Riot, One Ranger / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Pipe Pain / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Playing the Victim Card / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Poor Man's Substitute / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Prove I Am Not Bluffing / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Race Against the Clock / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Relationship-Salvaging Disaster / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Rescue Equipment Attack / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Revenge Myopia / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Rewind, Replay, Repeat / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Roaring Rampage of Rescue / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Ruthless Foreign Gangsters / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Sequel Goes Foreign / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Sex Signals Death / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Sex Slave / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Shoot the Hostage Taker / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Short Run in Peru / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Simple, yet Awesome / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	So Beautiful, It's a Curse / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Starter Villain / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Talk to the Fist / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	The Last Thing You Ever See / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Toxic Friend Influence / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Two Decades Behind / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Unwilling Suspension / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Vacation Films / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Verbed Title / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Villain Opening Scene / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Virgin Tension / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Watch It for the Meme / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	Workplace-Acquired Abilities / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	You Just Told Me / int_baa79d8d
Taken	hasFeature	All Girls Like Ponies / int_baa79d8d

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