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The Expendables

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The Expendables	comment	The Expendables is a 2010 American action film that spawned a modest franchise. The film and its sequels intentionally contain pretty much every trope associated with action movies of The '80s and early '90s. After the success of Rocky Balboa and Rambo IV, Sylvester Stallone became interested in making a film that brought together as many action stars he could get with careers ranging from the '80s to modern day.The basic premise goes along with some grizzled mercenaries based out of New Orleans who call themselves "The Expendables". Stallone leads them as Barney Ross, with Jason Statham as Lee Christmas, his closest friend. Rounding out the rest of the team is Jet Li as Ying Yang, Dolph Lundgren as Gunnar Jensen, Randy Couture as Toll Road and Terry Crews as Hale Caesar. And, most famously, Stallone's old box-office rival Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Barney's Friendly Enemy Trench, who leads a rival team. Outside of that core group, many other stars have come and gone through the various movies, some as new allies and others as villains.The actual plot starts with a mission to deal with boat hijackers, Gunnar is expelled from the team for his unpredictable behavior. Ross gets a new job from the mysterious Mr. Church (Bruce Willis). He hires the team to go into a Banana Republic and single-handedly take down a dictator's (David Zayas) regime. After a disastrous scouting mission, they learn Church is connected to the CIA and their real job is to upset the profiteering from a rogue CIA agent James Munroe (Eric Roberts), who has a particularly nasty bodyguard named Paine ("Stone Cold" Steve Austin). They initially agree to walk away from a likely suicide mission and from doing the CIA's dirty work, but their contact Sandra (Giselle Itie) is captured by Munroe and they feel obligated to rescue her, and Gunnar is not happy with being rejected from the team.While unabashedly masculine action movies, they also attempt to show just how depersonalized the body count can be to a mercenary, along with a few quiet moments of reflection and the struggles of aging soldiers staying relevant while feeling their age.Two sequels quickly followed, roping in ever more Hollywood action veterans: The Expendables 2 (2012) and The Expendables 3 (2014). There is also an original comic story set between the second and third movies. After a lengthy gestation Expend4bles was eventually Saved from Development Hell, produced in 2021, and released in 2023.This series is the closest we'll probably get to TV Tropes, the Movie◊.An all-female Spin-Off was pitched and pretty much every actress who had ever played an Action Girl was suggested, though the project does not seem to have made it past "What if all women, and a stupid pun [The Expendabelles] for the name?".note (The fact that the supposed plot was a fairly misogynistic "Male team gets killed, female team gets recruited to infiltrate as prostitutes" probably didn't help.) Meanwhile, Stallone confirmed the fourth film would be his final appearance in the series, with potential future installments to feature Statham as the lead.
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The Expendables / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
The Expendables / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Apparently, Tool (Rourke) has retired from mercenary stuff, but can still easily hit a bull's eye with a knife.
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The Expendables / int_119f77c0	type	Snowy Screen of Death
The Expendables / int_119f77c0	comment	Snowy Screen of Death: The footage of the custom office's CCTV when Barney shoots the camera.
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The Expendables / int_12575a9f	type	Friendly Sniper
The Expendables / int_12575a9f	comment	Billy: Sniper Rifle
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The Expendables / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Expendables / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: Gunnar is clearly seen lifting Ying over his head and over a sharp spike, which makes it obvious from the beginning he betrays the team. They try cheating by making his face blurrier and speeding up the action, but it doesn't work.
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The Expendables / int_153299b4	type	Boisterous Bruiser
The Expendables / int_153299b4	comment	Boisterous Bruiser: Everyone to some degree, but in particular Hale Caesar and Gunnar.
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The Expendables / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
The Expendables / int_1616e13	comment	IN the first one Munroe has Sandra mercilessly water-boarded in an attempt to make her confess "What the Americans want." Whether the use of water-boarding was intended to be a topical statement on the unsavory intelligence gathering methods of the US Government or an attempt at invoking recent news events that the audience might recognize isn't clear.
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The Expendables / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
The Expendables / int_1649e053	comment	Your Mom: Let it not be said that Stallone is not down with what the kids are into.
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The Expendables / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Expendables / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Averted. While the name "Expendables" appears on weapons and motorcycle decals, the name of the group is never actually spoken. Some countries call the film The Mercenaries, and that term shows up a lot. Played straight in the third movie. Where the name of the team is brought up repeatedly.
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The Expendables / int_1a74b900	type	World of Badass
The Expendables / int_1a74b900	comment	World of Badass: Everyone but the girl fits in the first film; the girl is totally included—in both sequels.
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The Expendables / int_1b3b48f3	type	David Versus Goliath
The Expendables / int_1b3b48f3	comment	David Versus Goliath: Yang (Li) vs. Gunnar (Lundgren), who is about 1.5 times taller and at least twice as heavy. Subverting the norm, Gunnar would have killed Yang if Ross hadn't intervened. Used tactically by Yang during the fight. By moving the fight under a walkway where Gunnar can barely stand up straight.
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The Expendables / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Expendables / int_222dc873	comment	In the second one, one scene stands out. After one battle, there's a single mook remaining. When he pops out, one of the Expendables shouts a warning, and all of them immediately and hilariously turn and fill him with about 200 rounds.
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The Expendables / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
The Expendables / int_225b682	comment	Throw-Away Guns: Sometimes to ditch extra weight, sometimes out of necessity. Special mention goes to Yang in the second movie, who throws his not-working gun at a mook to knock them out before grabbing the frying pans.
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The Expendables / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Expendables / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Caesar's FRAG-12 rounds. How do you make an armored guard tower explode? Fire a few miniature warheads at it. His shaving knife is also used to save Ross from being shot in the back near the end of the finale. Gunnar giving Christmas his bowie knife. Christmas later gives it to Munroe. Ross and Lee's Quickdraw contest at the beginning. Played straight and averted with Sandra's drawings - they look almost intended to be tattoos, but nobody let Tool have a look at 'em. At the same time, the General is shown to share his daughter's appreciation for art, and designs his soldiers' warpaint at the end. Caesar describing the psychological effect of the sound of guns. He mentions that shotguns in particular scare the shit out of people. Later, when a couple of the team are pinned down... Gunnar's degree in Chemical Engineering (which the real actor actually has, too) has been brought up early in the sequel. So when they get stuck inside a caved-in mineshaft, he uses his knowledge to concoct an explosive to blow up an escape route. Then it went pfft, and the crew gets rescued by Trench instead.... In 3, Gunner mocks Thorn for using a wrist computer, but then begrudgingly decides to wear it during the mission to rescue the captured members. It later saves the group when Thorn uses the computer to disable the explosives in the abandoned hotel before the final battle.
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The Expendables / int_2470d8fd	type	Steel Ear Drums
The Expendables / int_2470d8fd	comment	Steel Ear Drums: Averted hard. Virtually all guns are loud, even suppressed ones. However, the team learns just how loud they can really be when Caesar starts mowing down bad guys with a fully-automatic AA-12 shotgun in a narrow, confined tunnel that serves to reflect and concentrate the gun's report, leaving everyone reeling at how ridiculously loud it is and leaving Caesar temporarily deafened by it.note Of course, in reality, having a firefight in an enclosed place like that without hearing protection would likely rupture the eardrums of everyone in the tunnels, even without an AA-12 pounding away.
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The Expendables / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Expendables / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog:
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The Expendables / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
The Expendables / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: This could easily be seen as a modern reimagining of Commando, especially the grand finale.
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The Expendables / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
The Expendables / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: Back and forth. On the one hand, despite being called "The Expendables" only one team member dies in the first two movies. Doc, however, points out that the current team, made up of six members, is only a shadow of what the team was at its height, which was twenty-two. Barney keeps a collection of the dog tags of each member of the team killed in action in the past.
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The Expendables / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Expendables / int_2a090d00	comment	In the second movie, the bad guys are largely an army of poorly-trained East European militia and gangsters who aren't terribly accurate at best, and are getting mowed down constantly, often before being able to return fire. Also played somewhat for comedy when the group encounter a village where the menfolk had been taken away and the only ones left to defend the place was a handful of untrained civilian women who starts shooting on them. Christmas even jokes that the safest place to be is right in front of their guns.
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The Expendables / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
The Expendables / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: About 60% of the film is pure dakka. Hale's AA-12 makes up 59.9% percent of that dakka. In the second one, one scene stands out. After one battle, there's a single mook remaining. When he pops out, one of the Expendables shouts a warning, and all of them immediately and hilariously turn and fill him with about 200 rounds.
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The Expendables / int_2e5ada89	type	Grenade Launcher
The Expendables / int_2e5ada89	comment	Gunnar: Huge Bowie knife, Grenade Launcher.
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The Expendables / int_2f50c5bf	type	Theme Music Power-Up
The Expendables / int_2f50c5bf	comment	Theme Music Power-Up: the Extended Cut of the movie has Shinedown's "Diamond Eyes" blaring as the crew storms the courtyard.
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The Expendables / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Expendables / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Garza turns on Munroe because of this, and the fact Munroe isn't keeping his promises. Munroe alludes to it, saying that he was raised not to hit a woman...but he employs people who don't have "that moral dilemma."
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The Expendables / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
The Expendables / int_31a2a33c	comment	Road: Explosives.
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The Expendables / int_32821ceb	type	The Unintelligible
The Expendables / int_32821ceb	comment	The Unintelligible: Stallone, Statham, Li, Lundgren and Schwarzenegger are all known for sometimes being rather hard to understand either due to their accent or just kind of growling out their words. Put them together in the same movie and it's even more noticeable. In the third movie, Drummer hilariously keeps calling Lee out for this.
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The Expendables / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The Expendables / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb - Church really likes swearing. Even when he's in a church.
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The Expendables / int_3684532f	type	Never Heard That One Before
The Expendables / int_3684532f	comment	Never Heard That One Before: Tool clearly gets a kick out of taunting Lee by mentioning "Christmas time".
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The Expendables / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
The Expendables / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: The entire series is to evoke the graitious coolness of 80s action hero films. Special mentions go to: Stallone's character uses a single-action revolver which he fires in bursts by fanning the hammer. Badass? Yes. Homage to classic Westerns? Probably. Utterly illogical? Who gives a fuck?! note Fanning is something a trained shooter could do. Taking down several targets in the process? Not so much. Ross and Caesar blow up a chopper by throwing a shell and then setting it off in midair, by shooting at it. Wait, aren't those things, like, built to make sure stuff like that doesn't happen? Fuck that! Who needs physics when you've got HSQ?
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The Expendables / int_37b5c1b0	type	Big Badass Battle Sequence
The Expendables / int_37b5c1b0	comment	Big Badass Battle Sequence: The assault on Garza's mansion in the first movie. The airport shootout in the second movie. The abandoned hotel attack in the third movie. The assault on Rahmat's ship in the fourth movie.
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The Expendables / int_38b48685	type	Born in the Wrong Century
The Expendables / int_38b48685	comment	Born in the Wrong Century: Gunnar seems to think he should have been a Viking warrior. Or at least, his Ax-Crazy interpretation of what Vikings were like.
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The Expendables / int_391aa30b	type	You ALL Look Familiar
The Expendables / int_391aa30b	comment	You ALL Look Familiar: The soldiers' black war paint allowed the director to keep re-using the same stuntmen and actors in close-up fights. Knowing bad 80s movies, this was intentional.
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The Expendables / int_391d6577	type	Sequel Escalation
The Expendables / int_391d6577	comment	Sequel Escalation: How do they top the previous movie's cast? Add Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris and Arnold Schwarzenegger back in action plus weapons grade plutonium as the MacGuffin. 3 has the entire cast of Expendables from the first film (minus Caesar, who's sidelined because of a near fatal injury), new recruits Doc and Galgo, plus the new, younger group of Expendables, and Harrison Ford flying air support while Schwarzenegger and a returning Jet Li fire out of a helicopter.
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The Expendables / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Expendables / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Lots: Christmas's girlfriend not knowing what he does—and him promptly showing her—is a reference to Crank, another Jason Statham movie. "Give this job to my friend here, he loves playing in the jungle, right?" Said to Bruce Willis, who also had a battle-in-the-jungle film of his own. Then followed by this quip: "What's his problem?" "He wants to be president". This is a clear reference on Schwarzenegger's political career and the old buzz about him running for president. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone are regarded as the best in their field; two musclebound action heroes and leading men who seem to be stuck in a friendly rivalry with each other; it's a mystery to everyone why they don't just work together. That's just their characters in the movie of course. In the real world that was only true in the eighties. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin has his climactic fight showing nothing but wrestling moves, fighting mixed martial artist and Greco-Roman wrestler (as well as a fellow classically trained pro wrestler) Randy Couture. While the car chase with Stallone driving a classic yet modified vehicle is similar to the one in Cobra. In the chase scene, Dolph Lundgren wields one of the prop guns Thomas Jane used in The Punisher, a role he had previously played. Dolph Lundgren's character Gunnar was studying to be a chemical engineer before dropping out. In real life, Dolph Lundgren has a master's degree in chemical engineering. Not the first time Jet Li and Jason Statham worked together to take down the bad guys. Granted the fate of The Multiverse isn't involved.
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The Expendables / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
The Expendables / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: Munroe is the support behind Gaza, who depends on such support to prop up his rule
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The Expendables / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Expendables / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: The Expendables talk between themselves about previous adventures in well-known hot spots of the Eighties and Nineties. It's subverted in the case of Mickey Rouke's character - he describes a woman he could have saved in Bosnia. In the sequel, Billy the Kid talks about his prior tour of duty in Afghanistan. Mauser and Ross seem to hate each other due to a Noodle Incident, judging from their exchange in front of Church in the first movie.
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The Expendables / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Expendables / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Christmas against Lacy's abusive boyfriend and his basketball team. Guess who walks out without a scratch?
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The Expendables / int_3eba1249	type	"Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation
The Expendables / int_3eba1249	comment	"Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation: Barney shoots the team traitor Gunnar. He asks Barney if he's going to die. Barney just tells him that the shot hit him two inches above the heart. He takes that as a yes. However, he shows up alive and healthy at the end of the film.
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The Expendables / int_3f1aadeb	type	Strictly Formula
The Expendables / int_3f1aadeb	comment	Strictly Formula: If you have seen any action movie ever, you already know how the plot of every instalment in the franchise goes. Then again, you're probably not watching it for the story anyway.
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The Expendables / int_4061b99	type	Water Torture
The Expendables / int_4061b99	comment	Water Torture: Munroe waterboards Sandra in one scene.
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The Expendables / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
The Expendables / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Sandra's captured by the bad guys early on in the film and rescuing her motivates the Expendables into action. Lacy becomes this to Lee when her latest boyfriend proves to be a jerk.
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The Expendables / int_416a2a0d	type	Torture Always Works
The Expendables / int_416a2a0d	comment	Torture Always Works: Subverted. Sandra is waterboarded for information on the Expendables but does not give in. Instead, Monroe needs to get his information from Gunnar. Played straight in the second one, with Maggie and her set of surgical instruments.
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The Expendables / int_42299519	type	Same Story, Different Names
The Expendables / int_42299519	comment	Same Story, Different Names: The story has invited comparisons to The Dogs of War and Dolph Lundgren's earlier film Men of War.
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The Expendables / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Expendables / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: IN the first one Munroe has Sandra mercilessly water-boarded in an attempt to make her confess "What the Americans want." Whether the use of water-boarding was intended to be a topical statement on the unsavory intelligence gathering methods of the US Government or an attempt at invoking recent news events that the audience might recognize isn't clear. The second one had Maggie do this offscreen to a couple of Sang mooks.
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The Expendables / int_44ba9580	type	The Snark Knight
The Expendables / int_44ba9580	comment	The Snark Knight: Christmas. Exaggerated in the sequels.
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The Expendables / int_4508b16b	type	The Guards Must Be Crazy
The Expendables / int_4508b16b	comment	The Guards Must Be Crazy: Munroe calls Garza's men out on this, for letting Ross and Lee into the country. Special mentions go to the soldier tasked with guarding Munroe and the General. He lets Gunnar walk in with a shotgun (!) because "He wouldn't let me take it from him."
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The Expendables / int_454fd2d	type	Bang, Bang, BANG
The Expendables / int_454fd2d	comment	Bang, Bang, BANG: Happens with all the gunfire, but particularly Caesar's automatic shotgun. He lays out why he loves his automatic shotgun, and it includes that hearing a shotgun spitting out 250 rounds a minute will scare the shit out of the enemy. Sure enough, after he uses it, he comments that the gun is frigging loud.
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The Expendables / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
The Expendables / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: Sylvester Stallone's character has insanely chiseled abs.
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The Expendables / int_4704d87e	type	The Generalissimo
The Expendables / int_4704d87e	comment	The Generalissimo: The Expendables' mission is to eliminate one such general. He is slightly more sympathetic than the usual examples.
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The Expendables / int_498ddf27	type	Psycho Party Member
The Expendables / int_498ddf27	comment	Psycho Party Member: Gunnar is called unpredictable.
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The Expendables / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
The Expendables / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: All of the Expendables display a realistic disregard for the Marquis of Queensbury rules, making liberal use of Groin Attack, drawing pistols during protracted CQC bouts and teaming up on outnumbered foes.
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The Expendables / int_4b0ef86e	type	Advertised Extra
The Expendables / int_4b0ef86e	comment	Advertised Extra: Commercials for the first film paid special attention to the scene between Stallone, Willis and Schwarzenegger, as it was the first time the trio had appeared on-screen together. Of course, that's the only scene that Willis and Schwarzenegger appear in. The sequel included more action scenes for them. On the other hand, there's the example under Put on a Bus.
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The Expendables / int_4b2500a1	type	This Means Warpaint
The Expendables / int_4b2500a1	comment	This Means Warpaint: Garza has his men's faces painted for the Final Battle.
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The Expendables / int_4d45aa06	type	Banana Republic
The Expendables / int_4d45aa06	comment	Banana Republic: Zigzagged. Vilena is ruled by an at-first stereotypical evil generalissimo with a brutal army, and there's the classic determined rebel group fighting them. However, the movie does go back to the trope's real-world historical roots: the island's regime is actually controlled by an American profiteer, which was very often Truth in Television when the Banana Republic trope originated in the late 19th century. The generalissimo is actually a reluctant dictator who only accepted American money to help his country and got caught up in the power and dependent on their support. The determined rebels turn out to only be remotely effective because they are led by the general's daughter, and once he stops treating her easily the rebels pretty much evaporate. See also the Meaningful Name section.
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The Expendables / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
The Expendables / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: Look at the cast! It's like a singularity of manliness! Just see this fan-made trailer. A review shown in the trailer outright calls it the manliest movie ever made. The Dirty Dozen + The Magnificent Seven X Every 80s Action Movie ever made = The Expendables. My testicles ran out and killed a wild boar! And ate it! - Chester A. Bum on The Expendables.
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The Expendables / int_5029c444	type	Audible Sharpness
The Expendables / int_5029c444	comment	Audible Sharpness: Just about every time any blade is drawn or moved slightly through the air, there's always that familiar zzing sound.
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The Expendables / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
The Expendables / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Barney to Munroe: "I didn't come for you, dip-shit. I came for her!" shoots Munroe
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The Expendables / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
The Expendables / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: "Now we can see whatâ€™s inside of him. And I see lies." In 2: "Rest in pieces!" In 3: "I am the Hague."
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The Expendables / int_519f108a	type	Throwing Your Sword Always Works
The Expendables / int_519f108a	comment	Throwing Your Sword Always Works: If several .45 bullets doesn't end Munroe's life, a huge honking Bowie knife clear through the heart will.
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The Expendables / int_5300b1de	type	Invincible Hero
The Expendables / int_5300b1de	comment	Invincible Hero: The Expendables are infallible, indestructible ubermensch. They are not, however, Boring. Not so invincible in the second movie, where due to heavy fog, the Sangs are able to get the drop on them and take Billy the Kid hostage. The scene ends as a total failure for them, with the prized item lost and Billy dead. Caesar gets shot twice by the Big Bad near the beginning of the third movie. He spends the rest of the movie, barring the epilogue, in the hospital.
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The Expendables / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Expendables / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The Expendables entering, and later, leaving on Cool Bikes.
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The Expendables / int_5501256b	type	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
The Expendables / int_5501256b	comment	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Gunnar, assumed to be killed after being shot by Barney, is revealed to be alive at the end of the movie.
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The Expendables / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Expendables / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Trench, who is implied (and in the sequel, stated) to have his own team in the same manner as the Expendables .
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The Expendables / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
The Expendables / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Lacy's new boyfriend got a little carried away with his jealousy.
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The Expendables / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
The Expendables / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Ross and Trench have this rivalry going. By the second film they have clearly come to respect, if not actually like each other. By the third one theyâ€™re in extremely good terms and Trench offers his assistance multiple times.
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The Expendables / int_5bdffefe	type	Jitter Cam
The Expendables / int_5bdffefe	comment	They cut down on it somewhat in the sequel, and dispensed with Jitter Cam altogether, reportedly due to the fan complaints.
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The Expendables / int_5c99b642	type	War for Fun and Profit
The Expendables / int_5c99b642	comment	War for Fun and Profit: Ultimately averted by the end of the first movie, finally going in to kick ass because an innocent woman's going to get murdered if Barney doesn't save her. Initally played straight for the rest of the team, since a $5 million paycheck made goo-goo eyes at them. And Barney was highly considering not rescuing the girl until he talks to Tool and realizes he'll get to deal with the guilt of not rescuing her for the rest of his life. Also averted in the sequel. Church accuses Barney of stealing the $5 million and threatens to make them disappear from the face of the earth unless they do another job to make up for it. Later, they decide to chase down Vilain to avenge Billy. Played straight with Villain, though, who's only interested in selling the plutonium. In the third movie Stonebanks claims their differing approaches to these trope is what led to his original falling out with Barney.
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The Expendables / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
The Expendables / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: Toll knocks down Paine with a flying punch while Paine is on fire.
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The Expendables / int_6023a9bc	type	Bloody Hilarious
The Expendables / int_6023a9bc	comment	Bloody Hilarious: Many of the casualties in the first two movies, but any victim of Omaya Kaboom takes the cake.
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The Expendables / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Expendables / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: General Garza starts having second thoughts when it's his own daughter being tortured by Munroe and Paine. Pity Garza turns his back on Munroe to speak to his soldiers... One of the rarest characters in film is the sympathetic South American Generalissimo.
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The Expendables / int_6366f900	type	Old Soldier
The Expendables / int_6366f900	comment	Old Soldier: Kind of the point of the series is show action-hero style actors in the role of mercenaries who have been doing the shooting-and-exploding thing for a long time. One of the first images of the movie was a shot of Stallone's character, barechested and covered in tattoos. Nearly everyone was slack-jawed, saying, "That guy is over 60?!" The series also stars 47-year-old (in the first film) Randy Couture, then-actively competing mixed martial artist and MMA's original tough old man. Chuck Norris is 72, and looks no older than 40-50. Jean-Claude Van Damme still looks every bit as capable at 53 as he did in his prime. Mel Gibson is 58, but is equal to the task of being an action villain in 3. He isn't in Lethal Weapon shape anymore, but his Final Battle with Ross is brutal and physical. After a four-year prison sentence, Wesley Snipes emerges at 52 looking like he hasn't lost anything. Jet Li sure doesn't look like he's nearly 50 in the first movie either, does he? Could convincingly pass for lower 30s.
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The Expendables / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
The Expendables / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Tool lets out a few near the end of the story he tells to Ross, who can't see his face but the audience can. Most of the members during Billy's funeral.
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The Expendables / int_68cf9795	type	Ironic Nickname
The Expendables / int_68cf9795	comment	Ironic Nickname: Church, who curses up a storm and is generally un-church-like.
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The Expendables / int_697b1af	type	Jump Cut
The Expendables / int_697b1af	comment	The use of Jump Cut in every fight scene means that the protagonists appear to fight like Nightcrawler.
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The Expendables / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
The Expendables / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: Monroe's final speech.
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The Expendables / int_6a1cbf28	type	Rebellious Princess
The Expendables / int_6a1cbf28	comment	Rebellious Princess: Sandra, General Garza's daughter, leads the rebels against him.
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The Expendables / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
The Expendables / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: Averted. Lacey's cheating isn't portrayed sympathetically at all, but Lee does take her back after beating down her abusive boyfriend.
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The Expendables / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Expendables / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: A pretty obscure one. Lee Christmas was a mercenary during the real-life Banana Wars. Genius Bonus for history buffs, and a huge hint that the name is really an alias. The team's name "Expendables", given the plot of the movie, although it also borders on Non-Indicative Name. The CIA considered them expendable, but they showed themselves to be a badass crew of invincible supermen. They are called the Expendables because Barney has become so jaded and dark over the years, that he believes the world would be no better off if he lives or dies. Tool manages to convince him to change this. Is Mauser as a last name merely a cliched stock reference... or a portmanteau of 'Mars' and 'Hauser'? James Munroe could well be a reference to James Monroe, the U.S. president most known for formulating the "Monroe Doctrine", which served as a justification for U.S. meddling in Latin American affairs. Barney Ross was the name of an American boxer from the 1930s. His name could be a reference to the fact that one of Sylvester Stallone's best known characters is a boxer. The Big Bad of The Expendables 2 crosses the line into Speed Racer levels of naming ridiculousness. He's a villain played by Jean-Claude Van Damme, and his name is...Jean Vilain. The reference to sheep, and the fact that the name might allude to a "farm hand" could put this in Punny Name territory for vocabulary geeks.
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The Expendables / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The Expendables / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Toll Road, Hale Caesar, Yin Yang. In the sequel, the villain's name is... Vilain.
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The Expendables / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
The Expendables / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: Not saving a woman attempting suicide in Bosnia is one to Tool. His telling the tale to Ross motivates him to go back to Vilena and save Sandra.
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The Expendables / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
The Expendables / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Gunnar appears to die late in the movie.
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The Expendables / int_7098892d	type	Weapon-Based Characterization
The Expendables / int_7098892d	comment	Weapon-Based Characterization - An interesting case in that each character has their preferred weapon, but all characters switch between guns and fists/knives to fit the situation - or are forced to drop them due to situation change. Ross: Handguns or pistols, most notably a pair of M1911s and a Colt Single Action Army. Lee: Throwing knives. Gunnar: Huge Bowie knife, Grenade Launcher. Yang: His fists. More apparent in the sequel. Caesar: Automatic shotgun with explosive rounds, straight razor. Road: Explosives. Billy: Sniper Rifle
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The Expendables / int_713d994b	type	Token Romance
The Expendables / int_713d994b	comment	Token Romance: Averted. Nothing between Stallone and Sandra, which is nice considering how tempting it must have been. And while Statham also has a Love Interest, most of their interactions concern the fact that she dislikes his lifestyle. Similarly averted in the sequel. It hints that Maggie has a crush on Barney and they have a verbally affectionate parting by the end, but nothing more. Galgo shows an interest in Luna in the third one, but is not reciprocated.
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The Expendables / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Expendables / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Tool? Suited up and ready to roll out with the team? Riiiiight. The bad photoshopping should have tipped you off there. Some posters even add Steve Austin and Bruce Willis to the lineup, but that's a lesser case. One should note that Tool and Church (Mickey Rourke and Bruce Willis, respectively) aren't in combat-appropriate uniforms. The sequel had Jet Li appear like they always do, but he's Put on a Bus at the end of the intro.
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The Expendables / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
The Expendables / int_7360a6b6	comment	Noble Demon: General Garza, though he's a dictator, he would rather be ruling peacefully than having to grow drugs for his CIA dealer. He even admits that his daughter is who he should have been.
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The Expendables / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Expendables / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Yin who is present only for the opening mission of the second movie. He air drops out of the cargo plane with the rescued hostage after the mission and is never seen for the rest of the film. When asked when he'll be back, he replies "Maybe soon...maybe never. Maybe start a new life." Jet Li reportedly asked for a reduced role himself. The Bus Came Back in the third movie. Church is explained by Drummond as having retired prior to the events of the third movie. Like Li, this was motivated by Bruce Willis' attitude and salary demands prior to filming, which led to him being removed from the project altogether.
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The Expendables / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
The Expendables / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: Munroe seems to be a Combat Pragmatist, but falls into stupidity anyway. After getting Barney to disarm himself via Hostage Situation, Munroe wisely shoots him. After noting that he is still alive, Munroe abstains from shooting him again and instead yells at him for ruining his plans long enough for Barney to get back up and for Lee to flank his position and is promptly killed as a result.
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The Expendables / int_758c3034	type	Prison Rape
The Expendables / int_758c3034	comment	Prison Rape: Sandra almost falls victim to this from she is thrown to a table by inmates, but is saved by Ross.
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The Expendables / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
The Expendables / int_7969f21e	comment	No One Gets Left Behind: Double Subverted. Sandra is left at Vilena because she insists on staying, but then Ross goes back for her. She still doesn't seem to leave, though.
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The Expendables / int_7a3dd888	type	Real Men Wear Pink
The Expendables / int_7a3dd888	comment	Real Men Wear Pink: Tool's obsession with "decorating" pretty much anything, whether it's Lee's head with a tattoo or a guitar he plans to smash once it's completed. One of the first things Doc mentions after being freed is his desire to put on some â€œfine threadsâ€�
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The Expendables / int_7aa989ea	type	Token Evil Teammate
The Expendables / int_7aa989ea	comment	Token Evil Teammate: Gunnar in the first movie...mostly. Not so much in the sequels, where he's become like the rest of the crew.
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The Expendables / int_7b20b8d2	type	Alternative Foreign Theme Song
The Expendables / int_7b20b8d2	comment	Alternative Foreign Theme Song: The Japanese version uses the song "Kizuna" by Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi.
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The Expendables / int_7c4f6612	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
The Expendables / int_7c4f6612	comment	Comic-Book Adaptation: Chuck Dixon write one for Dynamite Entertainment.
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The Expendables / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Expendables / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Sandra stops Garza from killing Munroe. Two seconds later, Munroe proceeds to kill Garza.
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The Expendables / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Expendables / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Most everyone gets one, but Gunnar's in the opening scene really sets the tone for the entire movie. "Warning shot!" "It's good to hang pirates!" The new addition to the team, Billy the Kid, gets his by rescuing Barney and Lee from six mooks, sniping them in unison with Barney's pantomimed hand pistol. The third one gives one of these to every new addition to the team, as Barney and Bonaparte recruit each one.
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The Expendables / int_820ac351	type	It Amused Me
The Expendables / int_820ac351	comment	Played to the hilt from the very first scene. When Gunnar attempts to lynch the pirate for the lulz, Yang suddenly appears next to him after silently traversing his way between the cargo hold fifty feet below to the deck of the ship in under three seconds and engages him in a short CQC fight. Seconds later when Yang is at Gunnar's mercy, Barney follows suit, making the same trip just as silently and almost as quickly.
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The Expendables / int_8344209e	type	BFG
The Expendables / int_8344209e	comment	Caesar: Automatic shotgun with explosive rounds, straight razor.
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The Expendables / int_83f0971b	type	Mexican Standoff
The Expendables / int_83f0971b	comment	The guys standing around arguing as to who should kill who in the middle of a Mexican Standoff.
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The Expendables / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Expendables / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: In the first one: Barney's "We are the shadow, the smoke in your eyes, the ghosts that hide in the night", which only appears in the trailers, and is the first line in the song "Diamond Eyes" by Shinedown, which was commissioned by Stallone himself. Too bad the song doesn't appear in the film, either (The extended cut fixes both issues, however). "We will kill this American disease!" "If you fuck with us in any way... my people will come and get your people." In the second one: "If she returns any different from the way she went, you and your bunch of psychotic mercenary cur will never be seen again in the face of the Earth." "Are you afraid of me?" "No, Iâ€™m not!" "You really should be."
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The Expendables / int_86ee8070	type	World of Ham
The Expendables / int_86ee8070	comment	World of Ham: Considering it's a movie with Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and Arnold Schwarzenegger, this trope was pretty much unavoidable. The sequels are even worse in that regard!
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The Expendables / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
The Expendables / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: While they refuse to hurt civilians The Expendables are a group of mercenaries who don't have many qualms about killing enemy combatants for money and many of them have shady pasts. The people they fight, however, are usually out and out psychopaths who, unlike the Expendables, don't have any standards.
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The Expendables / int_882380c9	type	Immortal Iconic Car
The Expendables / int_882380c9	comment	Immortal Iconic Car: Though the island of Vilena is a fictional country, it's intended to emulate a stereotypical Banana Republic, and all the cars there are very old and dilapidated, even though many of such countries that are not Cuba would have people drive far newer cars - indeed, during various overhead shots that are not carefully crafted for this effect (filmed in Brazil), one can spot much newer cars more realistically likely to be found in such a country.
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The Expendables / int_8879db82	type	Badass Crew
The Expendables / int_8879db82	comment	Badass Crew: The Expendables are a formidable mercenary outfit.
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The Expendables / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
The Expendables / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Barney's pickup truck. The Smart car in 2, by virtue of its passengers being Schwarzenegger and Willis shoulder to shoulder, though it had to lose its doors to contain that much manliness.
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The Expendables / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Expendables / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Invoked; the two soldiers who try to rape Sandra receive among the most violent deaths in the movie.
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The Expendables / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
The Expendables / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The guys' motto, it seems. A memorable moment in the second has the team finishing off a platoon of mooks and while standing together Barney calls out "One more!" and the entire team empties their collective arsenal into a solitary gunman. Stonebank pulls all the stops in the third one to take out the team. Itâ€™s still not enough.
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The Expendables / int_8c431fe4	type	Band of Brothers
The Expendables / int_8c431fe4	comment	Band of Brothers: Why Gunnar is still with the crew at movie's end.
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The Expendables / int_8dff7e48	type	Stealth Expert
The Expendables / int_8dff7e48	comment	Stealth Expert: All the Expendables, as seen in the first and final fight, despite Barney running around with a high beam torch waving all over the place. Averted by Toll in the final fight, who just beats the shit out of all the guys he runs into.
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The Expendables / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
The Expendables / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: Gunnar's "warning shot" to the pirate leader. It's worth noting that the victim of this single shot has his legs fall off and his upper body launched fifteen feet backwards into a wall rather than being horizontally bisected at the waist, which might have made sense by comparison. It does however set the tone for the rest of the film rather nicely; not to mention establish his character.
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The Expendables / int_921cdca8	type	Nothing Personal
The Expendables / int_921cdca8	comment	Gunnar is accepted back into the team after being ejected for his unpredictability. Even after trying to kill Barney and Yang, which was apparently Nothing Personal.
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The Expendables / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Expendables / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Gunnar gets upset with the Mook he's stuck with during his high-speed ambush of Ross and Yang, up to the point he crushes the Mook's head against the dashboard with his boot. Munroe, to General Garza after the dictator decides to kick his ex-CIA partners as well as the Expendables out of his country. In 2, Vilain does this to his laborers, shooting a few and leaving the rest entombed in the uranium vaults. In 3, Stonebanks shoots a military general and tech operator after getting frustrated that the Expendables are mowing through the army he sent to kill them.
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The Expendables / int_95265081	type	Leeroy Jenkins
The Expendables / int_95265081	comment	Leeroy Jenkins: Gunnar is kicked off the team for being unpredicable.
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The Expendables / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
The Expendables / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: In the first film, Tool (Mickey Rourke) has a scene regarding a woman he could have saved in Bosnia, and the personal cost of not doing so. He laments that if he saved her, he could have saved what remained of his soul. His story inspires Barney Ross (Stallone) to go back to Vilena. It's probably the most powerful moment of the film. In 2, the scene where Billy the Kid tells the story of losing several of his comrades during a firefight in Afghanistan, then returning to base to discover that a stray dog he'd adopted had been shot due to the base commander deciding to disallow animals on base. Billy's funeral also counts, with Barney reading the letter Billy had written to his girlfriend, then asking aloud why so many people who deserve to live get killed, while people who deserve to die survive repeatedly.
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The Expendables / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Expendables / int_970c790a	comment	The look on the Big Bad's face when his escape helicopter explodes is priceless.
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The Expendables / int_97522514	type	Heel–Face Revolving Door
The Expendables / int_97522514	comment	Heelâ€“Face Revolving Door: Gunnar is a particularly indecisive version of this. First, he's kicked off the team for being psychotic, is promptly hired by Munroe to kill Barney, and nearly impales Yang. During the chase scene, he also seems to be trying to run down his allied mooks and also kills his overseer. Then he gets shot by Barney, and... is back on the team, having been forgiven. It's suggested he's been known to have problems with drugs and so long as he stays sober they trust him.
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The Expendables / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Expendables / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Munroe attempts to make Ross believe that they are both mercenaries who are "dead inside." Stonebanks claims that the only difference between himself and Barney is that Barney still has a conscience.
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The Expendables / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
The Expendables / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Towards the end of the first movie Monroe berates Ross for doing the CIA's dirty business and says they are basically the same, mercenaries who are dead inside and have no allegiances. Unfortunately for him Ross' character arc in the movie was doing something good not simply for money. In the sequel, Vilain seems to think of him and his men to be this, and gives the team a speech about it. In fact, it's the reason he doesn't kill them when he has the chance.
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The Expendables / int_9b5516f0	type	Showy Invincible Hero
The Expendables / int_9b5516f0	comment	Showy Invincible Hero: It wouldn't be an old school movie throwback without action heroes enduring all kinds of bruises, running through hails of bullets and smacking down villains with style.
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The Expendables / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
The Expendables / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: None of the Expendables suffer meaningful injuries for the duration of the films. Gunnar gets shot just above the heart and is hale and hearty by his next scene.
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The Expendables / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
The Expendables / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: "Four and a half men" but close enough. Booker, who cements it in his entrance when he wipes out the entire force (including a main battle tank) that has the Expendables pinned down singlehandedly. The team also notes that he works alone. The others get their moments from time to time. Yang in particular made up for his lack of CQC scenes in the first movie by kicking the hell out of a squad of mooks alone in the sequel.
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The Expendables / int_9edbda07	type	Elite Mooks
The Expendables / int_9edbda07	comment	Elite Mooks: In the first movie, General Garza's special forces, identified by their red berets, jungle camouflage, and green-and-yellow facepaint. Notably, they're actually able to force the Expendables to seriously work to kill them, unlike the regular soldiers who they mow down with regularity. Dispensed with in the sequels, absolutely nobody but Vilain and Hector present any challenge to any of the team in the second one. The majority of Stonebanks' lackeys in the third movie are casually slaughtered, but the helicopter commandos, notable for their balaclavas, at times actually manage to be a serious threat.
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The Expendables / int_9f7769a2	type	The Gunslinger
The Expendables / int_9f7769a2	comment	Ross: Handguns or pistols, most notably a pair of M1911s and a Colt Single Action Army.
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The Expendables / int_9fde2eb1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
The Expendables / int_9fde2eb1	comment	Before Yin and Gunnar fight, Gunnar's Pre Ass Kicking One Liner is, "What do you wear, size 3? Bring it, Happy Feet!"
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The Expendables / int_a00eb8f9	type	Bare-Fisted Monk
The Expendables / int_a00eb8f9	comment	Yang: His fists. More apparent in the sequel.
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The Expendables / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
The Expendables / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: The movie is intended to be an homage to seventies and eighties action films, invoked with a thin story, ludicrous action and exploitative violence.
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The Expendables / int_a6275bef	type	Cool Sword
The Expendables / int_a6275bef	comment	Cool Sword: The General brandishes one when he finally stands up to Monroe. In the spirit of authority figures who demand respect at the point of a naked blade. Don't bring a knife to a swordfight, boyo.
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The Expendables / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
The Expendables / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Mr. Church devised his own nickname on the spot and suggests that Barney Ross (and possibly his entire team) is just an alias. Toll Road? Hale Caesar? Yin Yang? If those aren't aliases this might as well be called "A Boy Named Sue: The Movie"
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The Expendables / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
The Expendables / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The bad guys. Sometimes realistically, sometimes not. The climax of the first film does show this fairly realistically, as the Expendables open up by destroying the entire palace, and in the ensuing chaos they charge out and are constantly maneuvering and blowing up vehicles and setting things on fire, using speed, mobility, firepower, deadly accuracy, and intimidation to keep Garza's soldiers off-balance. In the second movie, the bad guys are largely an army of poorly-trained East European militia and gangsters who aren't terribly accurate at best, and are getting mowed down constantly, often before being able to return fire. Also played somewhat for comedy when the group encounter a village where the menfolk had been taken away and the only ones left to defend the place was a handful of untrained civilian women who starts shooting on them. Christmas even jokes that the safest place to be is right in front of their guns. The climax of the third movie takes this up to eleven when and entire battalion of the Azmenistani army, with tanks and air support still canâ€™t hit the good guys.
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The Expendables / int_a7defafd	type	Code Name
The Expendables / int_a7defafd	comment	Plays with it. An early scene implies that the team try to maintain completely professional relationships and nothing else, which is the reason behind their Code Names (Yang suggests he is in it only for the money, claiming he needs more to support his son). The only members who seem to be genuinely close friends are Barney, Lee and Tool. But in spite of that they trust each other with their lives and mid-way through the movie you see them rallying around Barney and his personal mission, the ending scene is everyone having drinks together. Becomes even more clear in the sequel when the entire team hangs out in a bar(even Lacy was there) together during their downtime, then shows again with them all being very visibly upset about Billy's death, with Gunnar even seeming to wipe a tear from his eye.
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The Expendables / int_a89efdf8	type	Wife-Basher Basher
The Expendables / int_a89efdf8	comment	Wife-Basher Basher: Yes, Lee's girlfriend left him for a violent drunk, but that doesn't mean he isn't going defend her honor by beating the absolute tar out of him and his fellow wife-bashing basketball-buddies in broad daylight for insulting and beating her.
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The Expendables / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Expendables / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: After the alarm is raised at the Garza's palace, the guys run into the entire army, and are forced to take cover and detonate the charges. The look on the Big Bad's face when his escape helicopter explodes is priceless.
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The Expendables / int_ad295cc3	type	Weaponized Car
The Expendables / int_ad295cc3	comment	Weaponized Car: A weaponized seaplane. With four machine guns hidden in the nosecone, and a fuel dump to ignite and use as a Fuel/Air Explosion. Very very good at spreading out a cushion of air that turns people's innards to jelly. In 2, they have a new (though very similar) plane with what appears to basically be a small hand-loaded howitzer in the nose. However, it's not especially accurate given it can only shoot at exactly what the plane is pointed at, so it acts more like a tank cannon.
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The Expendables / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Expendables / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Christmas in particular loves finding ways to work in some snark.
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The Expendables / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
The Expendables / int_af616e40	comment	At one point in 3, Barney mispronounces Galgo's name as "Golgo".
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The Expendables / int_affa0e5d	type	Bling-Bling-BANG!
The Expendables / int_affa0e5d	comment	Bling-Bling-BANG!: Gunnar wields a Bowie knife with golden hand guards. Despite fighting in night camo. On a similar note, Hale uses a shaving razor with a fluorescent green plastic handle as a melee weapon.
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The Expendables / int_b0ad6a1e	type	Wrestler in All of Us
The Expendables / int_b0ad6a1e	comment	Wrestler in All of Us: A lot of wrestling moves are used, even though only one actor is a (professional) wrestler.
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The Expendables / int_b2407a69	type	Talk to the Fist
The Expendables / int_b2407a69	comment	Talk to the Fist: Gunnar's attempts at speaking to Yang and Barney, after trying to kill them in an intense chase when the three of them ends up in a warehouse.
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The Expendables / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
The Expendables / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Subverted; everyone has run out of ammo for their main weapons, and even Barney's M1911s need reloading after a few shots, for obvious reasons. It should be noted, too, that Barney's 1911s are not fully automatic. He simply uses a technique (which Stallone apparently practiced for hours on the range) to very rapidly fire the pistols in semi-automatic. The shots of him laying down fire, dumping the magazine, reloading and resuming fire are not sped up - that's just how fast you can fire a 1911 with sufficient skill. (Also a testament to how tough the 1911 is.)
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The Expendables / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Expendables / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: This trailer. One could see the Austin/Couture fight as a Take That from MMA to pro wrestling.
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The Expendables / int_b54fe3ce	type	Classically-Trained Extra
The Expendables / int_b54fe3ce	comment	Classically-Trained Extra: Not in the usual sense. General Garza's two bodyguards, who look mind-boggingly similar to one another? Twin MMA fighters Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, who currently compete in the UFC alongside Randy Couture. Sadly, they're not seen in any hand-to-hand combat.
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The Expendables / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Expendables / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: In order to accommodate the larger roles of Willis and Schwarzenegger, and the additional roles for Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Nan Yu and Liam Hemsworth, a lot of the returning Expendables got the shaft. In particular, Yin Yang vanishes after the first ten minutes and Toll Road barely has any lines in the entire film. Yang made up for it by giving us Jet Li's specialty before he left: a One-Man Army Good Old Fisticuffs beatdown for a good five minutes. This also occurs in the third film, as a result of Doc, Galgo, the new Expendables, Trench, Drummer and Yang all taking part in the final battle. Hale is nearly killed during the second mission and incapacitated until the last scene, while Toll Road and several others get next-to-no dialogue for most of the film.
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The Expendables / int_b9e0dbc3	type	Benevolent Dictator
The Expendables / int_b9e0dbc3	comment	Benevolent Dictator: General Garza, on the surface, appears to be The Generalissimo of a Latin American Police State who grows drugs for America. However, he's deeply unhappy with the role he's forced to play and would prefer to be ruling peacefully instead. Additionally, he's visibly uncomfortable with the atrocities that his supposed partner James Munroe is willing to carry out, finally deciding he's had enough when Roberts viciously tortures his daughter Sandra for information, and makes a Rousing Speech apologizing to his people and asking for their help in driving out the Americans.
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The Expendables / int_b9f472b	type	Storming the Castle
The Expendables / int_b9f472b	comment	Storming the Castle: Garza's palace is targeted by the Expendables. Not surprisingly, their plan involves blowing it up.
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The Expendables / int_bb0197af	type	Cool Bike
The Expendables / int_bb0197af	comment	Cool Bike: Every Expendables member has one, and there is a film bookend of them driving out on them. Also the Rokon (2-wheel drive motorcycle) from the second movie. However, the Rokon is painfully slow, so it would not have been capable of launching off a roof, clearing a 20-foot gap and taking down a helicopter
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The Expendables / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
The Expendables / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Toll Road is implied to be fairly well read, when the crew is heading back after their Opening Gambit doing something, most are maintaining their weapons or flying the plane while he is studiously reading a book. This occurs in both films, in fact. Gunnar has a degree in chemical engineering, just like Dolph Lundgren.
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The Expendables / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
The Expendables / int_bcd27e37	comment	Stallone's character uses a single-action revolver which he fires in bursts by fanning the hammer. Badass? Yes. Homage to classic Westerns? Probably. Utterly illogical? Who gives a fuck?! note Fanning is something a trained shooter could do. Taking down several targets in the process? Not so much.
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The Expendables / int_bcf69f60	type	Short-Range Shotgun
The Expendables / int_bcf69f60	comment	Short-Range Shotgun: Awesomely averted with the AA-12. Helps it's loaded with frag rounds meant to go farther than usual.
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The Expendables / int_bdbc35e7	type	Blade Enthusiast
The Expendables / int_bdbc35e7	comment	Lee: Throwing knives.
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The Expendables / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Expendables / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: The Expendables. Mostly pragmatic or unscrupulous heroes, (the "payback" types).
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The Expendables / int_bfaff026	type	Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy
The Expendables / int_bfaff026	comment	Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: "The Brit" is a bit of a dick. Also Lee (loves his knife-throwing a bit too much) and Yang ("I would have win!") are rare heroic examples. Doc in the third film, to the point of developing a rivalry with Christmas.
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The Expendables / int_c01027a6	type	Better than a Bare Bulb
The Expendables / int_c01027a6	comment	Better than a Bare Bulb: What were you expecting from an action film homage?
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The Expendables / int_c0d6d1a	type	Loud of War
The Expendables / int_c0d6d1a	comment	Loud of War: Hale Caesar mentions how the sound of the AA-12 automatic shotgun is just as effective as any weapon on the battlefield. Never mind that it fires shotgun shells at 250+ rounds per minute, according to Hale in his speech.
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The Expendables / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
The Expendables / int_c12f0c4	comment	Outrun the Fireball: Several times, someoneis running like heck away from an explosion. It's usually by the bad guys, and it sometimes works for them.
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The Expendables / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
The Expendables / int_c145f69b	comment	Gunnar's degree in Chemical Engineering (which the real actor actually has, too) has been brought up early in the sequel. So when they get stuck inside a caved-in mineshaft, he uses his knowledge to concoct an explosive to blow up an escape route. Then it went pfft, and the crew gets rescued by Trench instead....
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The Expendables / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Expendables / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Plays with it. An early scene implies that the team try to maintain completely professional relationships and nothing else, which is the reason behind their Code Names (Yang suggests he is in it only for the money, claiming he needs more to support his son). The only members who seem to be genuinely close friends are Barney, Lee and Tool. But in spite of that they trust each other with their lives and mid-way through the movie you see them rallying around Barney and his personal mission, the ending scene is everyone having drinks together. Becomes even more clear in the sequel when the entire team hangs out in a bar(even Lacy was there) together during their downtime, then shows again with them all being very visibly upset about Billy's death, with Gunnar even seeming to wipe a tear from his eye. The third film has the line "Everybody needs friends" thrown around a couple of times.
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The Expendables / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
The Expendables / int_c3585f4a	comment	Billy the Kid was able to fall six guards surrounding Barney and Lee with his sniper rifle within about 2 seconds. He apologized for the delay. Later, he was head-shotting mooks cruising by on boats.
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The Expendables / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
The Expendables / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: An extended Director's Cut of the film was temporarily available via On Demand and is on Blu-Ray (only. Sorry, DVD fans). In addition to containing a bit of extra character development and tightened CG effects, this cut also uses Shinedown's "Diamond Eyes", which was commissioned by Stallone specifically for use in the film, during the climax and again in the credits.
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The Expendables / int_c558da6a	type	Gunship Rescue
The Expendables / int_c558da6a	comment	Drummer, Trench and Yang pull a Gunship Rescue when the Expendables are in a particularly tight spot in the third one.
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The Expendables / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Expendables / int_c6538cc6	comment	The Dulcinea Effect: Part of Ross' motivation is saving Sandra, their contact for a mission they didn't want to do. He seems to realize that it doesn't make much sense. Christmas defending the honor of his cheating ex could be interpreted as this.
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The Expendables / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
The Expendables / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: Played to the hilt from the very first scene. When Gunnar attempts to lynch the pirate for the lulz, Yang suddenly appears next to him after silently traversing his way between the cargo hold fifty feet below to the deck of the ship in under three seconds and engages him in a short CQC fight. Seconds later when Yang is at Gunnar's mercy, Barney follows suit, making the same trip just as silently and almost as quickly. The use of Jump Cut in every fight scene means that the protagonists appear to fight like Nightcrawler.
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The Expendables / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Expendables / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The mercenaries posing as ornithologists for their recon is likely a reference to the film of The Dogs of War. Mickey Rourke still has Vanko's haircut and eye slant. The whole church scene when they're being briefed on their mission is lifted from another 80s action classic, The Killer (1989). "What've we got? Four and a half men?" Christmas acquiring a ruby from Burma. Alfred relates a similar tale, and closer to home Burma was the setting of the most recent Rambo film, starring...you know. Before Yin and Gunnar fight, Gunnar's Pre Ass Kicking One Liner is, "What do you wear, size 3? Bring it, Happy Feet!" The drilling vehicle that Trench (Arnold Schwarzenegger) uses to bust the Expendables out of the collapsed mine bears a STRIKING resemblence to the drilling vehicle that Quaid (also played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) shoves a drill into in Total Recall (1990). And of course, the homage to his actor's most beloved Catchphrase as soon as he appears: Trench wearing a Hawaiian shirt underneath his jacket during the final shootout at the airport could be a nod to The Running Man, in which Arnold's character Ben Richards also wore a Hawaiian shirt during a setpiece that took place at an airport. Lee Christmas punches a guy into an airplane propeller, killing him in a manner similar to a famous death scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Cemented as a Shout-Out by Lee's slightly Leaning on the Fourth Wall line afterwards (He was actually talking about his knuckledusters) In yet another shoutout to the series, in the end, upon seeing that the Expendables are to be taken back home in a very, very old Russian propeller plane: In 3, when the team is running to the extraction chopper, Trench implores everyone to "Run to da choppa!" Later, when asked why he said he was leaving the special ops life for good, he simply replies, "I lied." Barney is the Hague. The title of the movies is probably a reference to this Stallone's line in Rambo: First Blood Part II: "I'm expendable." At one point in 3, Barney mispronounces Galgo's name as "Golgo". In one scene in 3, several N7 jackets can be seen in the background.
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The Expendables / int_c89f0472	type	Troperiffic
The Expendables / int_c89f0472	comment	Troperiffic: This series is deliberately stuffed with as many action hero tropes as possible. It even provides the page image.
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The Expendables / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Expendables / int_ceec4df5	comment	Christmas's girlfriend not knowing what he does—and him promptly showing her—is a reference to Crank, another Jason Statham movie. "Give this job to my friend here, he loves playing in the jungle, right?" Said to Bruce Willis, who also had a battle-in-the-jungle film of his own. Then followed by this quip: "What's his problem?" "He wants to be president". This is a clear reference on Schwarzenegger's political career and the old buzz about him running for president. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone are regarded as the best in their field; two musclebound action heroes and leading men who seem to be stuck in a friendly rivalry with each other; it's a mystery to everyone why they don't just work together. That's just their characters in the movie of course. In the real world that was only true in the eighties. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin has his climactic fight showing nothing but wrestling moves, fighting mixed martial artist and Greco-Roman wrestler (as well as a fellow classically trained pro wrestler) Randy Couture. While the car chase with Stallone driving a classic yet modified vehicle is similar to the one in Cobra. In the chase scene, Dolph Lundgren wields one of the prop guns Thomas Jane used in The Punisher, a role he had previously played. Dolph Lundgren's character Gunnar was studying to be a chemical engineer before dropping out. In real life, Dolph Lundgren has a master's degree in chemical engineering. Not the first time Jet Li and Jason Statham worked together to take down the bad guys. Granted the fate of The Multiverse isn't involved.
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The Expendables / int_d139ffaf	type	Genre Throwback
The Expendables / int_d139ffaf	comment	Genre Throwback: If Stallone, Willis, and Schwarzenegger's involvement doesn't tell you anything. Stallone wrangled even more 80s action stars for the sequels.
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The Expendables / int_d27920f0	type	BulletDodge
The Expendables / int_d27920f0	comment	Bullet Dodge: Done by Yang. Played With, he jerks just in time as the bullet is fired, but still.
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The Expendables / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
The Expendables / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Inverted: Barney and Trench hate each other's guts, but talk as if they were old buddies. Surprisingly, Yang and Gunnar are like this in 2, after having no shortage of real anger at each other in the first film. When Yang departs the group, Gunnar even sounds a little sad when he says, "Who am I going to pick on now?"
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The Expendables / int_d91f1429	type	Rockers Smash Guitars
The Expendables / int_d91f1429	comment	Tool's obsession with "decorating" pretty much anything, whether it's Lee's head with a tattoo or a guitar he plans to smash once it's completed.
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The Expendables / int_da7be47b	type	Height Insult
The Expendables / int_da7be47b	comment	Height Insult: A Running Gag involves Yin Yang being mocked over his height, from his fight against the hulking Swede Gunnarnote "Bring it on, Happy Feet!" to a random discussion with the Scary Black Man Hale Caesar calling Yang "half a man". Eventually subverted by the third movie; Yang was revealed to have joined the rival mercenary team instead, and actually became besties with the other big guy, Trench.
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The Expendables / int_db33bc7e	type	Ludicrous Gibs
The Expendables / int_db33bc7e	comment	Ludicrous Gibs: Averted. Mooks are mutilated, blown apart and cut through like wet tissue paper, yet there is little blood in the wake of any firefight and their viscera seems to be composed of boneless Kool-aid.
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The Expendables / int_dba1f5b5	type	Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
The Expendables / int_dba1f5b5	comment	Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: invoked Basically the reason these films are made. In the first film there was specifically Dolph Lundgren vs. Jet Li and Sylvester Stallone vs. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. Surprisingly enough, Stallone and Li are playing the heroes and are clearly outmatched by Austin and Lundgren. The sequel promised Stallone vs. Van Damme early on. And the third? Rambo vs. Mad Max (or Judge Dredd vs. Martin Riggs)!
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The Expendables / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
The Expendables / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: The guys standing around arguing as to who should kill who in the middle of a Mexican Standoff. While General Garza barks orders to his men, Caesar remarks, "He's saying we're dead with an accent."
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The Expendables / int_e0c00a95	type	Absurdly Sharp Blade
The Expendables / int_e0c00a95	comment	Absurdly Sharp Blade: Ross chops off a guard's hand and beheads another with his knife.
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The Expendables / int_e5b5146c	type	Quick Draw
The Expendables / int_e5b5146c	comment	Ross and Lee's Quickdraw contest at the beginning.
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The Expendables / int_e5d8460d	type	Unexplained Recovery
The Expendables / int_e5d8460d	comment	Unexplained Recovery: Gunnar. Lampshaded by Barney.
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The Expendables / int_e71283f5	type	NeverBringAKnifeToAFistfight
The Expendables / int_e71283f5	comment	Never Bring A Knife To A Fistfight: The team kick much ass using real weapons in CQC. Mooks? Not so much.
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The Expendables / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Expendables / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Yang's fighting scenes will include several kicks to the balls. Used multiple times when Ross and Christmas take on a truckload of bad guys in the field. In the sequel, Maggie makes use of a groin kick during the team's ambush of the Sangs in the village.
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The Expendables / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Expendables / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Takes place once a movie: A truly, truly epic one in the first one when half the squad is pinned down in the tunnels under the palace. Enter Hale Caesar and suddenly all you hear is "BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM" and chunks of guards go flying across the screen. This is Chuck Norris' only role in the second one, including taking out a tank by himself! Drummer, Trench and Yang pull a Gunship Rescue when the Expendables are in a particularly tight spot in the third one.
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The Expendables / int_f1e68523	type	The Not-Love Interest
The Expendables / int_f1e68523	comment	The Not-Love Interest: Sandra to Ross. There seems to be some chemistry, but nothing ever comes of it - his primary reason for saving her is that she's a resistance leader. In the sequel, Maggie and Ross have even more chemistry than Sandra and Ross did. But Ross refuses to become involved with her because so many people who have gotten close to him have died. In the third movie Luna implies that if Barney was 30 years younger, sheâ€™d go after him.
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