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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Fast and the Furious... WITH MOTORCYCLES!Torque is a 2004 action film directed by Joseph Kahn.Martin Henderson plays Badass Biker Cary Ford. 6 months prior to the events of the film, Henry James (Matt Schulze), the leader of a biker gang called the Hellions requested he look after some bikes. When trying to move them, however, Ford found crystal meth in the fuel tanks. Ford hid the bikes and fled to Thailand, where has has been for six months, leading the police to believe he is a drug dealer and Henry to believe he stole his bikes. Now Ford's returned to the states to reconcile with his girlfriend Shane (Monet Mazur). Henry's still pissed, so he frames Ford for the murder of the younger brother of Trey (Ice Cube), the leader of a rival biker gang called the Reapers. Motorcycle chases ensue...Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Rule of Fun | |
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Rule of Fun: The most likely justification for the overwhelming unrealisticity. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: When Shane and Ford argue in her shop, she angrily tells another customer they're closed. The other customer is Jesse James from Monster Garage. | |
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Just Train Wrong | |
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Just Train Wrong: The entire train scene. See the trope page for details. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Dalton cuts the chain off Henry's bike. Said chain is used by Henry to murder Junior and frame Ford for said murder. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Captain Ersatz: "Man, Tom Cruise sure did look badass doing those motorcycle stunts in that Mission: Impossible II movie. Martin Henderson looks sort of like a scruffy Tom Cruise, let's cast him and do a lot of the same sort of badass shots that Cruise did in MI." | |
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Rule of Cool | |
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Rule of Cool: There are scenes that use CGI to achieve what stuntmen couldn't do because physics doesn't work that way in real life. | |
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Every Car Is a Pinto | |
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Every Car Is a Pinto: Every Motorbike Is Filled With Dynamite! | |
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Recycled IN SPACE! | |
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Recycled INSPACE: The Fast and the Furious... WITH MOTORCYCLES! | |
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Vapor Trail | |
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Vapor Trail: Probably one of the most ridiculous examples ever shown in film. The fire can chase down a bike said to have a top-speed of 200 mph. | |
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Railroad Tracks of Doom | |
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Railroad Tracks of Doom: Trey gets caught in his own bike in the middle of the tracks and Ford rescues him right before the two jump out of the way just in time for the train to close in and run over the bike, causing it to explode. | |
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Wrench Wench | |
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Wrench Wench: Shane. | |
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Small Role, Big Impact | |
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Small Role, Big Impact: Junior's murder in the hands of Henry is what kick-starts the whole plot. | |
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Badass Biker | |
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Badass Biker: Who would have thought that this movie would bear this trope? | |
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Designated Girl Fight | |
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Designated Girl Fight: Three guesses as to whether Shane and Henry's black leather-clad girlfriend engage in a uproariously unrealistic duel with their bikes. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Junior. You have to admit. He was a complete Jerkass throughout the beginning of the film who kind of have it coming after trying to get his gang to sell drugs. Henry, Luther, China, and McPherson also count. | |
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Speed Demon | |
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Speed Demon: Cary Ford is basically Dominic Toretto with a preference for bikes over cars due to the former being smaller and easier to maneuver. | |
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Karmic Death | |
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Karmic Death: Luther is hung with a chain- the same method he used to kill Junior, Trey even Lampshades this by saying "Ain't that ironic"? | |
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Racing the Train | |
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Racing the Train: Happens when the chase scene between Trey and Ford is taken from top of a train to the front of it. | |
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Nitro Boost | |
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Nitro Boost: The Y2K has this in full effect. | |
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Made of Iron | |
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Made of Iron: Coming off a Y2K at 400+ km/h with no helmet and surviving with NO injuries? What's unrealistic about that? | |
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Stealth Parody | |
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Stealth Parody: According to Joseph Kahn himself and to recent interviews with Adam Scott (who plays an FBI agent), the movie was mostly intentional in its ridiculousness. Kahn assumes 75% of the movie he wanted to make was in the final effort and that the lack of physics and the general over-the-top nature was entirely intended. | |
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Knight Templar Big Brother | |
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Knight Templar Big Brother: The reason Trey and his gang go after Ford. Of course, Ford is able to convince Trey that Henry was the one who committed the murder. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: At one point The Fast and the Furious is directly referenced/insulted. Ford borrows Vin Diesel's line, "I live my life a quarter-mile at a time," to which Shane replies, "That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard." The film seems to just have it at cars. At the beginning of the film, just after Ford outruns two cars (which look like having come out of a Fast and Furious film), the gush of wind made by his bike's high speed makes a sign street address spin in a way that it's made to look as if it reads "Cars Suck." | |
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Jive Turkey | |
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Jive Turkey: Ice Cube is in this movie, and he's the leader of an African American biker gang. | |
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Cool Bike | |
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Cool Bike: Almost every bike in the film, most notably the Y2K. | |
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BikerBabe | |
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Biker Babe: Or this? | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: At one point you can see a red Valiant drive by and then a large filthy tanker truck drives a biker off the road. | |
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Ballroom Blitz | |
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Ballroom Blitz | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Junior, McPherson, Henry, and the rest of the Hellions. | |
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All Bikers are Hells Angels | |
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All Bikers Are Hells Angels: And how! | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: Check out the Pepsi and Mountain Dew signs during the Designated Girl Fight. | |
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Camping a Crapper | |
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Camping a Crapper: Henry instigates a brawl at a club, which causes Junior to hightail it inside a bathroom, where he is confronted and killed by Henry. | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
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Artistic License – Physics: Here's a tip: whenever the camera goes into Vertigo Effect or otherwise replaces the background with CGI, assume that all laws of physics (other than some residual gravity effects) have taken a cigarette break. | |
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