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Three the Hard Way

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Three the Hard Way	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })1974's Three the Hard Way is an Allied Artists Blaxploitation film, in which three men have to stop a genocidal maniac from killing all of the blacks in three American cities.A black man (Junero Jennings), whose name we discover later is House, escapes from some sort of prison-like facility, and is shot in the process. He forces a couple of Make-Out Kids from a vacant lot nearby to drive him to see Jimmy Lait (former Cleveland Browns fullback Jim Brown), a wealthy friend who takes him to a hospital (still using the Make-Out Kid's car!). Jimmy's girlfriend Wendy Kane (Sheila Frazier) persuades him to go back to his recording studio; she promises to watch House and call Jimmy if anything changes. It turns out House was being held at the private armed compound of a wealthy man, not a prison. Some henchmen go to the hospital, use a cherry picker to sneak into his room undetected, and assassinate him. Wendy walks into his room just after he's killed, and the men kidnap her.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Jimmy goes to Chicago, visits his friend Jagger Daniels (Fred Williamson) to ask for help, and is ambushed by more of the men from the compound. They go to New York City to get a third friend named Mister Keyes (Jim Kelly) for more assistance, and are attacked a third time. This round, one of the henchmen survives long enough to be interrogated.Eventually the protagonists discover that House escaped from the compound of Monroe Feather (Jay Robinson), a rich white-supremacist who has hired a scientist to develop a chemical that can be released into the public water supply, that will kill anyone who is "black, brown or tan." The white supremacist is targeting three cities: Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Detroit; all cities with very high black populations.It's indeed three the hard way: three men, three cities, and a race to stop a genocidal attack before it's too late. Oh yeah, and get Wendy back from Feather.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })
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Three the Hard Way / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: When Feather discovers The three men have found his compound and are approaching, he orders his scientist to destroy all of his records and notes so that there will be no evidence of his attempts to commit genocide.
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Three the Hard Way / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Three the Hard Way / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: As noted in the above, Jimmy admits that this is the situation, "Three The Hard Way": three men to stop three teams of mooks in three cities.
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Three the Hard Way / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Three the Hard Way / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: After the three heroes each stop the mooks from poisoning the three water supplies, Jimmy meets Keyes and Jagger with a van delivered by cargo plane. Open the back and it's got more weapons and ammo than a good-sized gun store.
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Three the Hard Way / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Three the Hard Way / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: Two full-sized cars full of mooks are chasing Jimmy through a parking garage. They hit a lot of other cars, but are still able when they get to the top floor to smash through a cinder-block wall and plummet to the ground. One of the cars explodes just from crossing over the wall, the other explodes when it hits the ground. The first car has a second, even bigger explosion when it hits the ground. Jimmy is tricked into visiting a phone booth on a vacant lot, and some mooks run him down (destroying the steel and glass booth) with a dump truck. He survives, climbs over the top and throws the passenger mook out the door, while the driver is shooting at the door and roof. The dump truck rolls up a ramp, and explodes when it hits the cardboard front of a billboard.
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Three the Hard Way / int_43c4e0c5	type	The Man Is Keeping Us Down
Three the Hard Way / int_43c4e0c5	comment	The Man Is Keeping Us Down: White supremacist Feather has had a scientist develop a race-targeted poison and is going to use it to commit genocide upon blacks.
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Three the Hard Way / int_50c7749f	type	Dead Man's Trigger Finger
Three the Hard Way / int_50c7749f	comment	Dead Man's Trigger Finger: One goon karate-chopped in the DC water plant fires a burst into an ally behind him while falling over.
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Three the Hard Way / int_510e5a9	type	Sassy Black Woman
Three the Hard Way / int_510e5a9	comment	Sassy Black Woman: Wendy does not take shit from Feather, despite being his hostage.
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Three the Hard Way / int_5fc3eff4	type	Time Bomb
Three the Hard Way / int_5fc3eff4	comment	Time Bomb: Feather is going to pollute the water supply of three American cities with an ethnically selective poison. They have to stop him before it's too late.
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Three the Hard Way / int_76788531	type	Just for Pun
Three the Hard Way / int_76788531	comment	Just for Pun: White Supremacist Feather introduces himself as "I'm Mr. Feather. You're probably thinking, light as a feather." Although nothing about his name is actually a pun.
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Three the Hard Way / int_777c0033	type	Technical Pacifist
Three the Hard Way / int_777c0033	comment	Technical Pacifist: Mister Keyes will kill, but only with his bare hands, feet, etc. If for some reason he finds a gun, he will discard it.
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Three the Hard Way / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
Three the Hard Way / int_7815ba15	comment	N-Word Privileges: Some of the (white) henchmen refer to blacks with the N-word (among other slurs), but of course they work for a white supremacist, what do you expect?
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Three the Hard Way / int_7a08e8d1	type	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
Three the Hard Way / int_7a08e8d1	comment	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Keyes' first name really is Mister.
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Three the Hard Way / int_8d189cee	type	Nothing Can Stop Us Now!
Three the Hard Way / int_8d189cee	comment	Nothing Can Stop Us Now!: Feather makes a speech announcing this, not knowing the three heroes each stop the mooks from poisoning the three water supplies and are coming to destroy his ability to repeat the attempt, and put a couple hundred caps in his ass. Oh yeah, and get Wendy back.
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Three the Hard Way / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Three the Hard Way / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The mooks are typically using fully automatic machine guns or semi-automatic pistols at near point-blank range, and the mooks almost always miss.
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Three the Hard Way / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
Three the Hard Way / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: We have no idea what the third woman on a motorcycle (see Torture Technician below) has in her bag, but when her and the other women use it to make a mook talk, he's only able to talk for a few minutes before he dies of a heart attack. The ladies are disappointed that the fun they planned to have with the guy was cut short.
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Three the Hard Way / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Three the Hard Way / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: The good guys' weapons kill instantly and seldom miss, even when fired wildly on full-automatic.
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Three the Hard Way / int_bf051ba3	type	Don't Ask
Three the Hard Way / int_bf051ba3	comment	Don't Ask: When Keyes questions one of the women (see Torture Technician below) what she is carrying in her bag, she looks at him like he's crazy, and says, "Don't Ask."
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Three the Hard Way / int_c10d1dcb	type	California Doubling
Three the Hard Way / int_c10d1dcb	comment	California Doubling: Jimmy and Jagger chase a mook out of a Chicago "L" train station and around the corner into an arcade. The arcade is actually located in The Pike, an arcade and amusement park that existed in Long Beach, California from the 1930s until early 1990s.
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Three the Hard Way / int_c1d1d6ad	type	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
Three the Hard Way / int_c1d1d6ad	comment	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Mister Keys is stopped by a police officer who demands to see his driver's license, leading to this exchange:
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Three the Hard Way / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
Three the Hard Way / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: Keyes does it to a mook with his bare hands, and another using his feet.
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Three the Hard Way / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
Three the Hard Way / int_c36cba70	comment	Mooks: A cornucopia of classic Blaxploitation foes, including hicks, corrupt racist cops, evil businessmen and neo-Nazis.
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Three the Hard Way / int_db38d6ca	type	Torture Technician
Three the Hard Way / int_db38d6ca	comment	Torture Technician: The three chicks on motorcycles are going to have some fun with a mook (see Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique above) but have to leave the guy able to talk. Keyes notices that the last woman has a large shoulder bag (see Noodle Implements above). He asks her to tell him what's in it. (To find out what she tells him, see "Don't Ask" above.)
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Three the Hard Way / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Three gorgeous chicks on motorcycles (see Fanservice above) show up to have some fun with one of Feather's mooks. When Keyes asks Jagger if he's dated any of them or if these women might be worth dating, even Jagger admits to him, "they are strictly business; you do not want to know these ladies socially." The women's idea of "fun" so terrifies the mook that he starts talking (see Torture Technician below). Only problem is they kind of scare him into cardiac arrest, and the women are disappointed that their fun ends early.
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Three the Hard Way / int_e2e80e71	type	Ass-Kicking Pose
Three the Hard Way / int_e2e80e71	comment	Ass Kicking Pose: Mister Keyes uses this before he beats up the crooked cops who tried to frame him.
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Three the Hard Way / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: The police plant drugs in Mister Keyes' car, then attempt to bust him. The police end up painfully regretting the attempt to frame him.
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Three the Hard Way / int_f0f03464	comment	The '70s: Leisure suits, leather pants, huge afros, even bigger cars.
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