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The Shadow

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The Shadow	comment	A 1994 Universal live-action film directed by Russell Mulcahy and based off the pulp hero The Shadow, the movie follows the adventures of Lamont Cranston (Alec Baldwin), who uses his psychic powers as the Shadow to hunt criminals in New York City to make up for the atrocities he committed in the past. But all is not well in the Big Apple - Shiwan Khan (John Lone), the last descendant of Genghis Khan and fellow psychic, has come to finish his great-grandscestor's work, and he's not about to let anyone stand in his way. Margo Lane, Lamont's love interest, was played by Penelope Ann Miller, while her father, physicist Reinhardt Lane, was played by Ian McKellen.There was a novelization by James Luceno that valiantly tries to tie the movie into the pulps and radio series. The makers were hoping to start an entire new superhero film franchise but the film performed poorly at the box office and the franchise was stillborn.No relation to the Hans Christian Andersen story of the same name.
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The Shadow / int_135d58f9	type	Man of Wealth and Taste
The Shadow / int_135d58f9	comment	Man of Wealth and Taste: Both Lamont and Shiwan Khan are wealthy and classy. Khan admires Lamont so much he even buys the same brand of suit and tie.
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The Shadow / int_14d633ed	type	If I Wanted You Dead...
The Shadow / int_14d633ed	comment	If I Wanted You Dead...: Shiwan Khan (initially) has this attitude towards Lamont.
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The Shadow / int_173909	type	Brainwashed and Crazy
The Shadow / int_173909	comment	Brainwashed and Crazy: When Margo goes to her father's lab to find him, Shiwan puts her in a trance and sends her after Lamont. When he later confronts him about it, he tells him that he sent Margo to be killed, which would set Lamont back on the road to evil.
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The Shadow / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
The Shadow / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Khan and indeed Lamont before his Heel–Face Turn.
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The Shadow / int_1b010521	type	Diesel Punk
The Shadow / int_1b010521	comment	Diesel Punk: Of the Diesel Noir sub-genre with its Art Deco stylings, heightened technology and grimy noir detective story.
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The Shadow / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
The Shadow / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Lamont is quite dapper in his expensive suits and well-attended hair.
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The Shadow / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
The Shadow / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Shiwan loves the finer things in life and is knowledgeable about fine art.
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The Shadow / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
The Shadow / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: Shiwan sends Farley Claymore, a Non-Action Guy and the only person who can build more atomic bombs for him, to fight the Shadow, whom he has no chance against.
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The Shadow / int_1cfd9ec9	type	Never Recycle a Building
The Shadow / int_1cfd9ec9	comment	Never Recycle a Building: Inverted - Shiwan made everyone believe that the building got torn down, though no one can remember when. Or if.
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The Shadow / int_1e7f218c	type	Drowning Pit
The Shadow / int_1e7f218c	comment	Drowning Pit: Farley shoots the Shadow, locks him in a pressure testing chamber at his lab and starts filling it with water.
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The Shadow / int_1ebbebc5	type	Source Music
The Shadow / int_1ebbebc5	comment	Source Music: During the scene where Ying Ko is brought in to meet the Tulku, the dramatic percussion music and chanting is coming from a host of monks lining the sides of the Tulku's hall.
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The Shadow / int_22a65646	type	Not Brainwashed
The Shadow / int_22a65646	comment	Not Brainwashed: Farley Claymore, who signed up with Khan in exchange for power.
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The Shadow / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Shadow / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Shiwan asking where Lamont got his tie is a spoof of the product placement used in the radio show. Mrs. Tam thinks The Shadow was made up to make people listen to the radio more. Well, it was a radio show...
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The Shadow / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Shadow / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: In the first scene where Li Peng takes Wu as a hostage, the joke is not subtitled or translated. In Thai, Ying Ko says "But too much like my father."
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The Shadow / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
The Shadow / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Llama cigarettes, an obvious parody of Camel right down to a period-appropriate slogan - "I'D WALK A MILE FOR A CAMEL" becomes;
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The Shadow / int_2bdb6280	type	The Big Rotten Apple
The Shadow / int_2bdb6280	comment	The Big Rotten Apple: The narration over the Time Skip ends with "Thus armed, Cranston returned to his homeland, that most wretched lair of villainy we know as... New York City". We see that this statement rings true as the Shadow intervenes on some gangsters.
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The Shadow / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
The Shadow / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Lamont goes through this twice as he gets a premonition of a coming rival psychic and a reminder of the darkness that lays underneath him.
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The Shadow / int_31f7c194	type	Super Window Jump
The Shadow / int_31f7c194	comment	Super Window Jump: Shiwan escapes the Chinese restaurant by jumping out a window after breaking the glass with his powers. Farley later dives through a glass mural, after the Shadow made him think it was an exit, with less pleasant results.
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The Shadow / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
The Shadow / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: If you keep an eye on the background characters hands, you can see the ring on their hands and realize they are an agent of Shadow before it is revealed minutes later.
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The Shadow / int_38f3321	type	Compelling Voice
The Shadow / int_38f3321	comment	Compelling Voice: Lamont Cranston in Shadow mode has a deep and slightly echoing voice. Shiwan Khan has a similar voice when he puts people under his control.
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The Shadow / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Shadow / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Peter Boyle as a Taxi Driver.
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The Shadow / int_3c078184	type	Visible Invisibility
The Shadow / int_3c078184	comment	Visible Invisibility: The Shadow's body is invisible to the minds of his victims but his shadow is always visible along with wet footsteps and displaced water when he is standing knee deep in a water tank.
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The Shadow / int_405f6f52	type	Recycled Soundtrack
The Shadow / int_405f6f52	comment	Recycled Soundtrack: Despite the subtitle (and its lyrical suitability), Taylor Dayne's "Original Sin (Theme from 'The Shadow')" was originally written in the early '80s for the ultimately unsuccessful girl group attempt Pandora's Box- and then only a few years after this film, the melody became the leitmotif for Classical Movie Vampire Graf von Krolock in Tanz Der Vampire, with new lyrics and a new title ("Gott ist tot"- "God Is Dead"). Since then, the melody seems to have become firmly property of Tanz, barring the occasional cover.
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The Shadow / int_434a6d40	type	Evil Sorcerer
The Shadow / int_434a6d40	comment	Evil Sorcerer: Technically a duel between Evil Sorcerers, as the Shadow himself would be the first to admit he's a piece of work. But Shiwan Khan — the last descendant of Genghis Khan, who was taught by the same teacher (whom Shiwan then killed) as Lamont — actually makes it his ambition to top him. In the end, Lamont proves himself more than a match for Shiwan and has a surgeon friend remove Shiwan's Psychic Powers through brain surgery.
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The Shadow / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
The Shadow / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Margo wears a white fox wrap to a club.
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The Shadow / int_454e6cf5	type	Hypnotic Eyes
The Shadow / int_454e6cf5	comment	Hypnotic Eyes: Lamont and Shiwan have these, invoked with contact lenses, and changes in the lighting. The Shadow has metallic gray eyes while Shiwan's are black.
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The Shadow / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
The Shadow / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: Shiwan kills one of his warriors hypnotized by Lamont.
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The Shadow / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
The Shadow / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: Played with. A museum receives a silver sarcophagus from a mysterious source, with an inscription on it saying it's the coffin of Genghis Khannote Itself a bit of a joke: to this day (circa 2020), the resting place of Genghis Khan is unknown. A museum getting his coffin should either be heralded with a parade or suspicion, not bland interest. When the security guard is left alone with it the coffin starts to shake around and eventually opens up to reveal a man in the dress of a Mongol warrior, who telepathically forces the security guard to shoot himself. However, it turns out it's not actually Genghis Khan, but a modern-day descendant who smuggled himself into America by hiding inside it, and he unseals it himself from within.
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The Shadow / int_4aa24ad9	type	I Have a Family
The Shadow / int_4aa24ad9	comment	I Have a Family: Dr. Tam tries this on his would-be murderers. The leader just scoffs.
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The Shadow / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
The Shadow / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: For Farley Claymore, the "mad" part is quite literal. By the time the Shadow finishes with him, Claymore doesn't have a shred of sanity left, and pretty much all he can do is laugh. And drool. Subverted with the Shadow himself: his laughter is just as mad-sounding as Claymore's, but as with his radio counterpart, it's just an act intended to fool and frighten his opponents.
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The Shadow / int_4bfe435c	type	Lobotomy
The Shadow / int_4bfe435c	comment	Lobotomy: At the end Shiwan is lobotomized in such a way that all he has lost is his psychic powers.
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The Shadow / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Shadow / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Lamont's work as the Shadow is so he can atone for the suffering he caused as the ruthless drug lord Ying Ko.
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The Shadow / int_4f9ba3e2	type	Single Line of Descent
The Shadow / int_4f9ba3e2	comment	Single Line of Descent: Shiwan Khan is somehow the "last descendant of Genghis Khan". Genghis Khan was a prolific shagger with more wives than you can shake a stick at. The world is filled with his descendants (some estimates put 1 out of every 200 people on Earth today in his family tree), so Khan would presumably have to kill millions of people around the world, even if we were only talking about male lineage alone. Then again, in his arrogance, Khan might have just pretended he was the last to sound cool, or he may believe he's the only one who deserves the name. note The movie came out several years before science showed that Khan had so many descendants, furthermore it is set in the 1920s, so the filmmakers probably didn't know and the character (who was created in the 20s) was even less likely to, though it would be in-character for him either to be speaking metaphorically or just be that delusional either way.
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The Shadow / int_5103ab7b	type	Sexy Backless Outfit
The Shadow / int_5103ab7b	comment	Sexy Backless Outfit: Margo has a lovely white dress that she wears to a fancy club and on her impromptu date with Lamont.
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The Shadow / int_52fbbe7	type	Yellow Peril
The Shadow / int_52fbbe7	comment	Yellow Peril: Fortunately averted. While the villains are Mongols, Dr. Tam and the Tulku are also Asian. Inverted with Dr. Claymore, who is white, and Lamont, also white, before his redemption. As Ying Ko, Lamont was a drug-lord who was terrorizing Tibet and its people.
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The Shadow / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Shadow / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Margo's early frustration with her father's forgetfulness with red or green comes to a head when disarming the atomic bomb. Lamont is asked a couple of times how he will know where to find someone:
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The Shadow / int_538273bd	type	Adaptational Superpower Change
The Shadow / int_538273bd	comment	Adaptational Superpower Change: While the radio and pulp Shadow's power was a simple Perception Filter ("clouding men's minds so that they cannot see him"), this version has a larger arsenal of Psychic Powers at his disposal. Lamont conceals his real face with an illusory one, has prophetic dreams, can control people with hypnosis, can telepathically communicate with other active or latent telepaths, and eventually achieves control over the phurba. In the finale, he graduates to telekinesis, shattering dozens of mirrors and then driving a dagger-sized shard of glass into Shiwan's head.
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The Shadow / int_53f8ebb4	type	The Driver
The Shadow / int_53f8ebb4	comment	The Driver: Moe Shrevnitz is one of Lamont's most trusted associates and is a speed freak behind the wheel of his cab. His customers are glad to be out of the cab.
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The Shadow / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
The Shadow / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: While the Shadow doesn't use his twin pistols very much, when he does use them he always draws both at the same time.
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The Shadow / int_55f92df9	type	Wire Dilemma
The Shadow / int_55f92df9	comment	Wire Dilemma: When Dr. Lane first tries to disarm the bomb, he accidentally makes the timer go to warp speed and fixing it leaves him with only two minutes. Finally, he decides that it's "usually green"... and goes for the red wire.
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The Shadow / int_560e8d61	type	Deceptive Disciple
The Shadow / int_560e8d61	comment	Deceptive Disciple: The Tulku tried to save Shiwan like he did with Lamont, but ended up getting killed for his troubles.
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The Shadow / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
The Shadow / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Farley gets hypnotized by the Shadow into jumping through a window to his demise.
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The Shadow / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
The Shadow / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: The first time is a warning about Shiwan's arrival, the second time is a nightmare about him pulling his face off, revealing Shiwan underneath, and the third time is a Flashback Nightmare of his time as Ying Ko.
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The Shadow / int_5f4097ba	type	Not Distracted by the Sexy
The Shadow / int_5f4097ba	comment	Not Distracted by the Sexy: Played for Laughs between Lamont and his uncle when they're discussing the well-dressed and stunningly beautiful Margot Lane, who is sitting at a nearby table in the Cobalt Club:
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The Shadow / int_608bf5a0	type	Shoot the Hostage
The Shadow / int_608bf5a0	comment	Shoot the Hostage: This establishes Ying Ko's ruthlessness.
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The Shadow / int_635e1bff	type	Sycophantic Servant
The Shadow / int_635e1bff	comment	Sycophantic Servant: Farley Claymore sucks up to Khan at every turn and isn't even brainwashed.
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The Shadow / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
The Shadow / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: Shiwan is subjected to this trope when the Shadow drives a glass shard into his brain and then has the doctor who saves Shiwan's life (who is actually one of his agents) complete the lobotomy, removing his psychic powers.
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The Shadow / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
The Shadow / int_68068108	comment	Khan gives similar evil laughs, squeals with delight over his foe's misfortunes and shouts and proclaims more than speaks.
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The Shadow / int_68da6712	type	Canon Welding
The Shadow / int_68da6712	comment	Canon Welding: The novelization by James Luceno attempts to reconcile the differences between the pulps and the radio series while placing the film in continuity with both series.
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The Shadow / int_69391768	type	Expecting Someone Taller
The Shadow / int_69391768	comment	Expecting Someone Taller: Shiwan Khan's first words to Lamont, formerly Ying Ko, The Butcher of Lhasa, are "I saw you as taller."
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The Shadow / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
The Shadow / int_6e60e40a	comment	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: For all his hamminess, Shiwan Khan is a competent, genuinely dangerous villain. However, the oily, smarmy, syncophantic Farley Claymore can't do anything right. His attempts to flirt with Margo fail completely. His interactions with Professor Lane, though intended to demonstrate his jealousy and hatred of the older man, are closer to Poke the Poodle than Kick the Dog. Finally, he's a blatant coward, and the Shadow sends him Laughing Mad with almost no effort at all. His only moment of competence - when he traps and nearly kills the Shadow in his rapidly flooding lab - is so out of character that it feels like the scene was written for a different character, and given to him when that other character was cut.
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The Shadow / int_6e91fa0b	type	Symbology Research Failure
The Shadow / int_6e91fa0b	comment	Symbology Research Failure: In Tibetan Buddhism, a phurba is a dagger-shaped artifact intended for certain kinds of religious rituals, often involving the symbolic "stabbing" or "slaying" of an evil spirit. However, its role as a weapon is only symbolic. Its point and three edges are blunt - more like a tent stake than a fighting knife. Furthermore, Tibetan Buddhism is possibly the most strictly pacifistic of all major Earthly religions. The idea of a phurba being made and used as an actual weapon goes against pretty much everything that Tibetan Buddhists believe.
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The Shadow / int_73418f96	type	Psychic-Assisted Suicide
The Shadow / int_73418f96	comment	Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Shiwan uses his powers to off a museum guard who saw him in Genghis's coffin, a cab driver who took him to his lair, and a marine who insulted his fashion sense. The Shadow later uses his powers to make Farley Claymore jump through a third-story window.
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The Shadow / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
The Shadow / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: Duke roars "You don't scare me! You son of a-" before The Shadow, still laughing, gives him another round of punches to the face.
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The Shadow / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
The Shadow / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: Shiwan Khan makes it clear that his view of the USA is 'Murica the Boorish: That said, he does admire its fashion, and has a taste for bourbon.
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The Shadow / int_7c5960bf	type	Hall of Mirrors
The Shadow / int_7c5960bf	comment	Hall of Mirrors: The Shadow chases Shiwan into a storage area full of mirrors, and ultimately uses his powers to shatter them.
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The Shadow / int_7dbfa45b	type	Spy Speak
The Shadow / int_7dbfa45b	comment	Spy Speak: The Shadow's agents use the code sign "The sun is shining, but the ice is slippery" whenever they meet to help establish that they’re working for him.
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The Shadow / int_8071af62	type	Don't Think, Feel
The Shadow / int_8071af62	comment	Don't Think, Feel: During his training with the Tulku, Lamont was never able to gain mastery over the Phurba. According to Shiwan, he always tried to make it submit to brute force rather than controlling it as an extension of himself. The turning point in the final confrontation between the Shadow and Khan comes when he finally masters it and turns it against Khan.
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The Shadow / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Shadow / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Taylor Dayne's "Original Sin (Theme From The Shadow)" over the end credits - "Produced, Written And Arranged By Jim Steinman." It is not a subtle piece.note Just three years later, it became Graf von Krolock's leitmotif in Tanz Der Vampire! Lamont as the Shadow gives out epic laughter and withering one liners. Khan gives similar evil laughs, squeals with delight over his foe's misfortunes and shouts and proclaims more than speaks. Farley after his mental breakdown is turned into a raving and frothing mess. Then again, he is played by Tim Curry, making it inevitable he'd be this.
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The Shadow / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Shadow / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Numerous. As an example, Lamont whispering from the shadows at some mobsters about to murder a witness:
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The Shadow / int_86c192f4	type	Badass Creed
The Shadow / int_86c192f4	comment	Badass Creed: Shiwan Khan does this during his Large Ham announcement of his right to rule.
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The Shadow / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
The Shadow / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: Primarily Telepathy, controlling others' actions, mind-induced invisibility, and the Shadow eventually manages to achieve Mind over Matter.
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The Shadow / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
The Shadow / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Lamont knows he's a bad person and struggles with his dark side, which he channels when he becomes The Shadow, who does bad things for good reasons. This is a foil to Shiwan Khan who is a brutal megalomaniac bent on total world domination.
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The Shadow / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
The Shadow / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: A slightly understated instance. The Shadow has no special vehicle but is driven about in Shrevvy's cab, a real 1936 Cord 810, the toy version of which received a full arsenal of weapons.
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The Shadow / int_90984c54	type	Glamour Failure
The Shadow / int_90984c54	comment	Glamour Failure: The Shadow "clouds men's minds", making them unable to see him. However, he still leaves signs of a physical presence. This is used against him twice, both times ending with him getting shot.
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The Shadow / int_92264449	type	Jabba Table Manners
The Shadow / int_92264449	comment	Jabba Table Manners: Shiwan messily eats with his hands in the Chinese restaurant.
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The Shadow / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Shadow / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: With Farley Claymore's assurance that he can make copies, Shiwan Khan leaves Dr Lane in the hotel to die with his own bomb.
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The Shadow / int_938e9bc0	type	Absent-Minded Professor
The Shadow / int_938e9bc0	comment	Absent-Minded Professor: Margo's father, Dr. Reinhardt Lane, is brilliant but is either color blind or can't quite keep what is red or green straight. He also can't pay proper attention to conversations.
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The Shadow / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Shadow / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Farley Claymore has an excellent one. First he realizes that the Shadow, a man he thinks he left to die, is stalking him. Next he tries shooting at ... well, at the Shadow's shadow, apparently not realizing that shooting up at the huge shadow on the wall isn't going to hit a man who is standing on the same floor you are. All this time he's laughing, sweating and obviously scared out of his mind. Then he runs out of ammunition. He tries to boost his ego by demanding the Shadow come out of hiding and "fight like a man." Then the room goes dark, slowly, bit by bit... When the Shadow actually does appear, Claymore is reduced to a giggling, stuttering, drooling madman. Fortunately, he doesn't live long.
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The Shadow / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Shadow / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Shiwan Khan appears polite and civil at first, trading compliments and drinks with even his enemies, but this is all a facade: he's ready to drop it at a moment's notice when someone annoys him - and he's quite easy to annoy.
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The Shadow / int_97b88de9	type	Arrested for Heroism
The Shadow / int_97b88de9	comment	Arrested for Heroism: This is averted early on in the film, when Lamont's uncle, the Police Commissioner, tells him that he intends to put a task force on The Shadow for "meddling in police affairs". Lamont hypnotises him into dismissing the issue.
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The Shadow / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Shadow / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Shiwan tells Lamont that this is the case between the two of them. Lamont's dream, in which he rips his own face off like a mask to reveal Shiwan's underneath.
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The Shadow / int_985d6d7f	type	Master of Illusion
The Shadow / int_985d6d7f	comment	Master of Illusion: Both Shiwan and the Shadow, but Shiwan is such a master that he clouds the minds of everyone in New York at the same time. Specifically, he hides a hundred-story five-star hotel — smack-dab in the middle of the city — just to have a luxurious lair for himself.
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The Shadow / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
The Shadow / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: One of Shiwan's guards willingly falls to his death rather than be captured by The Shadow.
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The Shadow / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
The Shadow / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: The sailor who Shiwan hypnotizes into jumping off the Empire State Building. Even though we only see the jump from a long distance, we also clearly see him hit part of the building on the way down. At the end of the film, Farley dies when the Shadow hypnotically influences him to jump through a window.
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The Shadow / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
The Shadow / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Shiwan Khan serves as this to The Shadow by having the same source of powers and skill set as The Shadow but is unrepentent to his power-mad ways.
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The Shadow / int_9cde2df1	type	Hand Cannon
The Shadow / int_9cde2df1	comment	Hand Cannon: The Shadow wields a pair of customized M1911A1 pistols with an extended barrel and slide.
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The Shadow / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Shadow / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The Tulku's ability to hide his temple in the prologue clearly sets up Shiwan Khan's use of his powers to hide the building that he's using as his headquarters.
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The Shadow / int_9e1beee3	type	90% of Your Brain
The Shadow / int_9e1beee3	comment	90% of Your Brain: When Shiwan Khan awakes from the surgery that removes his powers, he is told that the surgeons removed a part of the brain that no one ever uses.
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The Shadow / int_9fbe06a5	type	Badass in a Nice Suit
The Shadow / int_9fbe06a5	comment	Badass in a Nice Suit: Both Lamont and Khan although Khan's is a little too small for him, showing his lack of familiarity with Western culture.
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The Shadow / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
The Shadow / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: The cab driver who drove Shiwan Khan after his arrival in New York drives straight into a fuel truck.
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The Shadow / int_a3eea2ea	type	Cop Killer
The Shadow / int_a3eea2ea	comment	Cop Killer: The gangster Duke murdered a policeman in front of Dr. Tam. His attempt to silence the witness draws the attention of The Shadow.
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The Shadow / int_a7e47a11	type	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame
The Shadow / int_a7e47a11	comment	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Lamont feels this when Shiwan makes his We Can Rule Together offer.
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The Shadow / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
The Shadow / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: At the end, Shiwan Khan tries to mind-control a doctor at the hospital where he wakes up in restraints. It seems to work for a few seconds, only for the doctor - one of Cranston's civilian contacts, and the guy who surgically erased Khan's psychic powers while treating his head injury - to burst out laughing at the attempt.
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The Shadow / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Shadow / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: More like Chekhov's Disability. Dr. Lane's red-green colorblindness leads to him nearly cutting the wrong wire in a Wire Dilemma purely by accident. Lamont can be invisible, but he can't hide his Shadow, which lets his enemies know where he is. So when he goes to fight Claymore who does have knowledge of that weakness, he uses his clouding ability to make multiple false shadows giving Claymore the impression that he overcame that weakness.
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The Shadow / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Shadow / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Shiwan Khan is so confident of his final victory, and so contemptuous of his opponent, that he tells Lamont the secret to controlling the phurba. In their final confrontation, Lamont uses that knowledge to master the phurba and turn it against Shiwan.
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The Shadow / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The Shadow / int_adfd3165	comment	A slight subversion as Shiwan's idea of ruling is sharing half the world with Lamont so that they can go to war with one another for kicks.
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The Shadow / int_aec63727	type	Pragmatic Hero
The Shadow / int_aec63727	comment	Pragmatic Hero: It's hard to say just where this version of the Shadow lands on the hero scale, but this seems closest. Cranston is definitely on the side of Good, but some of his methods are far from heroic. He works as a vigilante by night, runs a network of secret agents who were forced to work for him, works around the police instead of with them, freely uses his Mind Control powers regardless of ethics, and doesn't hesitate to kill his enemies, sometimes in very brutal ways.
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The Shadow / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
The Shadow / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Lamont as Ying Ko dreams of the Tulku before he gets abducted to his temple, and later has a nightmare about Shiwan.
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The Shadow / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The Shadow / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Penelope Ann Miller as Margo, especially in her glamorous white dress.
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The Shadow / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Shadow / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: What the Shadow gives Shiwan Khan at the end. He destroys the villain's psychic abilities and then has him committed to an asylum by one of his minions which for someone as pompous as Khan would be Hell.
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The Shadow / int_b14ce563	type	Pinned to the Wall
The Shadow / int_b14ce563	comment	Pinned to the Wall: The invisible hero is pounding the tar out of some Mongol Warriors in a lab. One of them grabs a flashlight, scans the room, and finds him. A few well-placed arrows stick the Shadow to the wall... until the fully three-dimensional Shadow emerges from out of his own shadow, Guns Akimbo.
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The Shadow / int_b7e1dcc8	type	Empathic Weapon
The Shadow / int_b7e1dcc8	comment	Empathic Weapon: The Phurba is a dagger with a face and sharp teeth in its handle. It responds to the will and commands of a single strong master.
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The Shadow / int_ba0ff694	type	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
The Shadow / int_ba0ff694	comment	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: In their second encounter, Shiwan and Lamont both fire guns at each other at near point-blank range...and the bullets collide in mid-air and fall to the ground, fused together. Both men can only stare in open-mouthed disbelief.
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The Shadow / int_baeb2d6f	type	Glass-Shattering Sound
The Shadow / int_baeb2d6f	comment	Glass-Shattering Sound: Shiwan Khan does this twice, firstly to blast out a window so that he can safely jump out of it (avoiding Super Window Jump), and then inadvertently when he's wounded and screams out in pain, shattering every window around him. Although it's more likely the sound just coincides with him unleashing his telekinesis, rather than shattering it with sonic force.
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The Shadow / int_bbc8a85d	type	Reluctant Mad Scientist
The Shadow / int_bbc8a85d	comment	Reluctant Mad Scientist: Dr. Lane, helped along by Shiwan's mind control.
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The Shadow / int_bccb6703	type	Cement Shoes
The Shadow / int_bccb6703	comment	Cement Shoes: The Shadow saves a science professor from gangsters who were going to dump him in a river for accidentally witnessing a crime.
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The Shadow / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
The Shadow / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: Justified in that Shiwan is also there to test himself against Lamont, or even better, persuade him to change sides.
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The Shadow / int_c420a553	type	We Can Rule Together
The Shadow / int_c420a553	comment	We Can Rule Together: Shiwan offers to make Ying Ko his partner. A slight subversion as Shiwan's idea of ruling is sharing half the world with Lamont so that they can go to war with one another for kicks.
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The Shadow / int_c70907c7	type	The Butcher
The Shadow / int_c70907c7	comment	The Butcher: Ying Ko, The Butcher of Lhasa. Lamont spends the rest of his days atoning for this identity.
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The Shadow / int_cabd513c	type	Jedi Mind Trick
The Shadow / int_cabd513c	comment	Jedi Mind Trick: One of the Shadow's powers is to psychically convince people to take unwelcome actions such as surrendering their guns.
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The Shadow / int_cd0637d2	type	Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
The Shadow / int_cd0637d2	comment	Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: A paperboy shouts this on a street corner.
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The Shadow / int_cfe72499	type	Shoot the Bullet
The Shadow / int_cfe72499	comment	Shoot the Bullet: Happens by accident when Khan and Lamont confront each other in the Chinese restaurant. They're both visibly stunned at what just happened.
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The Shadow / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Shadow / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: A non fatal comical one: Lamont spends his first meeting with Margo wooing her using his telepathy to find her likes. Only to find out she is telepathic as well. So he tries to spend the remainder of the movie avoiding her so she doesn't find out he is The Shadow.
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The Shadow / int_d73f1bba	type	Enlightenment Superpowers
The Shadow / int_d73f1bba	comment	Enlightenment Superpowers: The Shadow received his powers while training to be redeemed. Shiwan Khan also received his powers this way but he was not at all redeemed.
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The Shadow / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
The Shadow / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Khan believes this fervently and his plans are nothing short of ruling the world.
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The Shadow / int_dc1c7647	type	Voice of the Legion
The Shadow / int_dc1c7647	comment	Voice of the Legion: The Tulku's commanding voice seems to come from everywhere at once.
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The Shadow / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Shadow / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The Shadow saves Dr. Tam from mobsters at the start of the film (after the prologue) in his Establishing Character Moment. Later in the film, Lamont shows up at Tam's house to make use of his knowledge to discover that Khan is building the world's first atomic bomb.
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The Shadow / int_ddc4aa51	type	Unobtanium
The Shadow / int_ddc4aa51	comment	Unobtanium: Bronzium, believed by the Chinese to be what the universe was made of, and what Shiwan uses for his bomb. It may actually be enriched uranium or even plutonium, though how you would get the latter with 1920's technology boggles the mind.
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The Shadow / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
The Shadow / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: In-universe. Farley Claymore can't seem to tear his eyes off Margo Lane's "clever neckline".
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The Shadow / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
The Shadow / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: Lamont coins the phrase for the bomb years ahead of schedule.
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The Shadow / int_dfe57573	featureConfidence	1.0
The Shadow	hasFeature	The Shadow / int_dfe57573
The Shadow / int_e0a8ebe5	type	The Shangri-La
The Shadow / int_e0a8ebe5	comment	The Shangri-La: This serves as the base of the Tulku who keeps its location secret by clouding men's minds.
The Shadow / int_e0a8ebe5	featureApplicability	1.0
The Shadow / int_e0a8ebe5	featureConfidence	1.0
The Shadow	hasFeature	The Shadow / int_e0a8ebe5
The Shadow / int_e19e68	type	Cruel Mercy
The Shadow / int_e19e68	comment	Cruel Mercy: This is Shiwan Khan's ultimate fate-he survives the final confrontation with Lamont, but is left without his powers in a place where nobody recognizes his supposed greatness, which is absolute hell for an egomaniac like him.
The Shadow / int_e19e68	featureApplicability	1.0
The Shadow / int_e19e68	featureConfidence	1.0
The Shadow	hasFeature	The Shadow / int_e19e68
The Shadow / int_e276cd	type	The Cowl
The Shadow / int_e276cd	comment	The Cowl: Definitely. If anything, this version of the Shadow plays this trope Darker and Edgier than other versions, considering Cranston's history as Ying Ko, drug lord and the "Butcher of Lhasa".
The Shadow / int_e276cd	featureApplicability	1.0
The Shadow / int_e276cd	featureConfidence	1.0
The Shadow	hasFeature	The Shadow / int_e276cd
The Shadow / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
The Shadow / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: Reinhardt Lane demonstrates this in one scene.
The Shadow / int_e2a41c3b	featureApplicability	1.0
The Shadow / int_e2a41c3b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Shadow	hasFeature	The Shadow / int_e2a41c3b
The Shadow / int_e3c20140	type	As Long as It Sounds Foreign
The Shadow / int_e3c20140	comment	As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Alec Baldwin doesn't speak Chinese but it doesn't stop him from ordering a Peking duck.
The Shadow / int_e3c20140	featureApplicability	1.0
The Shadow / int_e3c20140	featureConfidence	1.0
The Shadow	hasFeature	The Shadow / int_e3c20140
The Shadow / int_e407c172	type	Silk Hiding Steel
The Shadow / int_e407c172	comment	Silk Hiding Steel: Margo Lane. She's gorgeous in her expensive evening dresses, but she's not soft or helpless. To begin with, she's a latent telepath. When she seeks out Lamont's help, it's not for herself, but for her father. She resists the Shadow's hypnotic powers, insists on working with him against Shiwan Khan, and far from needing him to save her, when he is trapped in Claymore's lab, it's her who saves him. She's even the one who disables the atomic bomb and saves the entire city.
The Shadow / int_e407c172	featureApplicability	1.0
The Shadow / int_e407c172	featureConfidence	1.0
The Shadow	hasFeature	The Shadow / int_e407c172
The Shadow / int_e75d1aee	type	Friendly Local Chinatown
The Shadow / int_e75d1aee	comment	Friendly Local Chinatown: Lamont follows one of Shiwan's men into a restaurant within Chinatown.
The Shadow / int_e75d1aee	featureApplicability	1.0
The Shadow / int_e75d1aee	featureConfidence	1.0
The Shadow	hasFeature	The Shadow / int_e75d1aee
The Shadow / int_eb7a5313	type	Famous Ancestor
The Shadow / int_eb7a5313	comment	Famous Ancestor: Shiwan Khan claims to be the last descendant of Genghis Khan. Being a descendant is likely, being the last descendant is notnote Genghis was said to have bedded or raped thousands of women throughout his lifetime, and a 2003 study speculated that as many as one in 200 men may be able to trace their lineage back to him. Not one in 200 men of Asian descent - one in 200 men on Earth.
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The Shadow / int_eb7a5313	featureConfidence	1.0
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The Shadow / int_f0012631	type	Saved to Enslave
The Shadow / int_f0012631	comment	Saved to Enslave: The Shadow saves Dr. Tam's life and enlists him as one of his agents. It's apparently how he recruits all his minions.
The Shadow / int_f0012631	featureApplicability	1.0
The Shadow / int_f0012631	featureConfidence	1.0
The Shadow	hasFeature	The Shadow / int_f0012631
The Shadow / int_f288cf3	type	Innocent Innuendo
The Shadow / int_f288cf3	comment	Innocent Innuendo: Margo and Lamont have some fun banter.
The Shadow / int_f288cf3	featureApplicability	1.0
The Shadow / int_f288cf3	featureConfidence	1.0
The Shadow	hasFeature	The Shadow / int_f288cf3
The Shadow / int_f4d8c86f	type	Colorblind Confusion
The Shadow / int_f4d8c86f	comment	Color Blind Confusion: This leads Dr. Lane to cut the wrong wire on the nuclear bomb, making the timer go to warp speed. By the time he's reconnected that wire to fix it, he's gone from having hours to having about two minutes.
The Shadow / int_f4d8c86f	featureApplicability	1.0
The Shadow / int_f4d8c86f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Shadow	hasFeature	The Shadow / int_f4d8c86f
The Shadow / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
The Shadow / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: In a nod to the product placement in the radio show.
The Shadow / int_f511ea9b	featureApplicability	1.0
The Shadow / int_f511ea9b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Shadow	hasFeature	The Shadow / int_f511ea9b
The Shadow / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
The Shadow / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: Lamont never really gets under Shiwan's skin.
The Shadow / int_f6f2ff1	featureApplicability	1.0
The Shadow / int_f6f2ff1	featureConfidence	1.0
The Shadow	hasFeature	The Shadow / int_f6f2ff1
The Shadow / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
The Shadow / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Lamont gives Shiwan the name of a psychiatrist. Guess who takes custody of Shiwan in the end? Lamont gives Shiwan the name of his tailor. Later Shiwan is wearing a nice suit.
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The Shadow / int_fe0330fb	featureConfidence	1.0
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The Shadow / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Shadow / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The crew was able to acquire a real 1936 Cord 810 taxi for Moe, modified slightly for filming yet still keeping the front wheel drive.
The Shadow / int_ffad4e9f	featureApplicability	1.0
The Shadow / int_ffad4e9f	featureConfidence	1.0
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The Shadow	hasFeature	Absent-Minded Professor / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	All in the Eyes / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	And I'm the Queen of Sheba / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Bad Powers, Good People / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Badass Longcoat / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Baddie Flattery / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Bed Full of Women / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Blasting It Out of Their Hands / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Boring Insult / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Cement Shoes / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Colorblind Confusion / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Cool Sidecar / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Cyanide Pill / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	De-power / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Deadly Rotary Fan / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Deceptive Disciple / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Destination Defenestration / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Diesel Punk / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Drowning Pit / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	11th-Hour Superpower / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Empathic Weapon / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Enforced Plug / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Enlightenment Superpowers / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Evil Sorcerer / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Expecting Someone Taller / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Expospeak Gag / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Extra! Extra! Read All About It! / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Eye Colour Change / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Fearful Symmetry / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Films of 1990â€“1994 / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Flying Weapon / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Friendly Local Chinatown / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	From Shame, Heroism / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Genteel Interbellum Setting / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Glamour Failure / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Hall of Mirrors / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Human Shield / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	I Have a Family / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	If I Wanted You Dead... / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Invisibility Flicker / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Laughing Mad / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Lobotomy / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Mage in Manhattan / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Man of Wealth and Taste / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Mass Hypnosis / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Milkman Conspiracy / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Mistaken for Insane / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	My Significance Sense Is Tingling / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Napoleon Delusion / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Neck Lift / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Never Recycle a Building / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	90% of Your Brain / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	No-Sell / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Nonviolent Initial Confrontation / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Not Brainwashed / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Not Distracted by the Sexy / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Not Listening to Me, Are You? / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Not-So-Abandoned Building / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Parody Product Placement / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Pinned to the Wall / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Psychic-Assisted Suicide / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Psychic Stories / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Recruitment by Rescue / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Saved to Enslave / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Scarf of Asskicking / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Sealed Evil in a Can / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Sexy Silhouette / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Shiny New Australia / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Shoot the Bullet / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Single Line of Descent / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Sound-to-Screen Adaptation / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Spy Speak / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Super Window Jump / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Supernatural Gold Eyes / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Take Over the World / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Tear Off Your Face / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	The Board Game / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	The Driver / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	The Shadow Knows / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	The Shangri-La / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Throw-Away Guns / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Time Bomb / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Tube Travel / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Visible Invisibility / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Wire Dilemma / int_3638bab7
The Shadow	hasFeature	Yellow Peril / int_3638bab7

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