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Under Siege
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Die Hard ON A BOAT!! One of Steven Seagal's greatest films. It was released in 1992.Casey Ryback (Seagal) is a valued cook on the USS Missouri, which is undergoing one last party in Pearl Harbor before it goes to San Francisco to be decommissioned. The captain of the ship wanted Ryback to show up in his dress whites with full decorations, but he refused; he eventually said that the captain's birthday was tomorrow and he needed to make bouillabaisse for it, which lets him off the hook.The captain's birthday is coming, and a surprise party is arranged. Food will be flown in, and so the pesky cook has to be Locked in a Freezer — though not before the bouillabaisse is spat in and he decks Commander Krill (Gary Busey), the XO making the plans. He is guarded by someone on orders not to let him out or listen to him. He isn't let out.Anyhow, this is an elaborate surprise party. There is a band featuring Tommy Lee Jones and a cake containing Miss July 1989, Jordan Tate. Everyone is allowed off shift — though the captain didn't want that. And there's a clown car's worth of mercenaries ready to take over the ship once everyone's had enough champagne. That's right — a hijacking!The captain and operations officer are killed; most of the rest of the crew is locked into the forecastle, and a few other sailors get locked in the engine room. The hijackers now have control of a ship with nukes on it. It occurs to them that the kitchen, where our cook is, is not blocked off from the weapons room, so they send two men in to finish off the pesky cook.Of course, the pesky cook kills them first, and leaves a bomb in a microwave when he finally escapes. He sneaks up to the captain's room, finds him dead, and finds the cake with Miss July in it, unopened. She's alive, but she's missed everything. She's also a self-proclaimed pacifist and never handled a gun.The XO then finds the cook's service record, which had been locked in the Captain's "eyes only" safe. When they do find it, they learn that he was a Navy SEAL, one of the best ever, who, after a mission in Panama went wrong, lost his security clearance, leaving him only qualified to be a yeoman — or a cook. Unfortunately for them, he still has the skills of a SEAL.They try to stick to the plan anyway — the plan being to transfer the nukes to a sub that the CIA thought had been destroyed by mercenaries. The leader of the mercenaries in question is the band leader helping with the hijacking.Good triumphs eventually, but it triumphs messily.It has a sequel, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995). | |
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Overranked Soldier | |
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Overranked Soldier: Commander Krill is a mix of type IV–V, harassing and provoking crew members he doesn't like for no real reason, often in ways that blatantly violate Navy regulations. To be fair, Captain Adams had noticed his XO's instability, and after the terrorists take the Missouri, they find he had prepared a performance review for Krill that would have torpedoed Krill's career had Adams lived to reach San Francisco and file it. | |
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Gatling Good | |
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Gatling Good: The Phalanx CIWS, consisting of a series of radar-controlled, 20mm M61 Vulcan rotary cannon. Used to shoot down the F-18 sent to reconnoiter the Missouri. | |
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Dragon-in-Chief | |
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Dragon-in-Chief: Implied in both films, with Krill in the first and Penn in the second successfully intimidating their employers with threats when the operation is threatening to fall behind schedule. | |
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I Will Show You X! | |
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I Will Show You X!: When Krill spits in Ryback's soup, Ryback shoves him and one of Krill's entourage shouts that it's striking an officer (a crime under the UCMJ). Ryback's response: | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: Though the audience likely would have suspected (this is a Seagal movie, after all), the trailer revealed that Rybeck formerly served as a SEAL. | |
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Underestimating Badassery | |
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Underestimating Badassery: Even after witnessing Ryback's first victims in Strannix's team, Krill insists that Ryback is just a cook who got lucky until he manages to access Ryback's secured personnel file. | |
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The Brute | |
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The Brute: Doumer | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Kane Hodder as a mook that Ryback beats up. | |
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Villain Ball | |
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Villain Ball: Averted, both Krill & Strannix are pragmatic, focused & intelligently respond to the threat once they find out about Ryback. The two worst decisions in the first part are when Krill provokes Rybeck and throws him in the meat locker, and when Strannix ignores Krill offer to relieve the Marine guard and take Ryback himself with more than two men for backup. To be fair, neither of them had found out about Rybeck's past yet. Krill & Strannix's orders during the mission are logical and an appropriate response to the danger Ryback poses: Krill comes up with the idea of the trap which likely would have worked without the backup Ryback had on his side. Strannix orders roving patrols, and tells them not to play hero, to stay in areas they control, to report in regularly and immediately call for backup should anything happen. He also tells them to switch to a pre-arranged alternate communications frequency at this point, cutting Ryback off from listening in on their communications (which he was doing). The sub has backup anti-air weapons used to take out the SEAL Team. Ryback is noticed during his sabotage of the submarine, and while he isn't killed, he is injured. It's only after Strannix has his plan ruined that he drops his guard, capturing & not killing Ryback, but by that point he only cared about hitting Hawaii with the Nuclear Tomahawks. | |
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Lawful Stupid | |
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Lawful Stupid: Private Nash continually refuses to listen to Ryback's attempts to make logical arguments about why he should ignore Krill's orders to keep him locked up, to the extent that he believes Krill's claim that gunshots were actually party poppers. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: At the beginning of the movie we see Ryback showing off his skills with a throwing knife, which is left stuck in a target. Later, when the ship has been taken over and Ryback has to escape from the kitchen, he uses that same knife to silently dispose of a mook. And later on, when Strannix and his henchmen find the bodies in the kitchen, this knife gives Strannix the first sign that the cook may be more threatening than they thought, prompting him to search for the personnel file on Ryback. | |
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Cutlass Between the Teeth | |
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Cutlass Between the Teeth: Ryback disarms Strannix during their fight by using his teeth to pull the knife out of his hand. | |
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SteelEardrums | |
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Steel Eardrums: Averted. Strannix's eardrums burst due to being in close proximity of the Missouri's 16" guns firing. His hearing has only partially recovered by the end. | |
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Microwave Misuse | |
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Microwave Misuse: A non-humorous example. Ryback wants to prepare a warm welcome for the terrorists who have taken over the battleship, so he puts a can containing combustible material inside a microwave and turns it on. When the terrorists arrive in the kitchen, the can inside the microwave explodes. | |
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Performer Guise | |
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Performer Guise: Some of the terrorists infiltrating the Missouri dress up and perform as musicians during a party for the ship's captain. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Krill is not exactly the most stable guy around, which even the captain had noted long before he is inevitably murdered. Strannix too, but not half as much as Krill. He at least tries to be professional for most of the film. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: Jordan turns out to have more guts than most of the crew. | |
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Hero with Bad Publicity | |
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Hero with Bad Publicity: Krill tries to make Ryback a victim of this (before he even knows what Ryback is capable of) by informing newly-transferred Private Nash that Ryback is a psychopath who hates officers and Americans to discourage Nash from listening to Ryback's attempts to convince Nash to let him out. | |
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Stuff Blowing Up | |
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Stuff Blowing Up: The fighter jet that investigates the ship, the helicopter that Strannix's team arrived on, a satellite relay facility, the strike team helicopters, the two launched tomahawk missiles and the North Korean submarine. | |
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Kinda Busy Here | |
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Kinda Busy Here: Casey Ryback is shooting it out with the hijackers when he gets a call from Admiral Bates, and his female sidekick answers. | |
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Impromptu Tracheotomy | |
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Impromptu Tracheotomy: An unfortunate terrorist suffers this fate when Casey pulls out a chunk of his throat with his bare hands. We later see Casey throw the small chunk of flesh he removed from his victim's throat aside. | |
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"Die Hard" on an X | |
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"Die Hard" on an X: First movie: Boat! Second movie: Train! | |
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RealMenCanCook | |
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Real Men Can Cook: In addition to being a Navy SEAL, Casey is an excellent chef, and is only questioned by Krill. Truth in Television: Naval Special Warfare ratings didn't exist at the time, so enlisted SEALs retained whatever rating (Bosun's Mate, Radioman, Machinist's Mate, etc.) they had prior to completing BUD/S. This also meant they had to maintain at least some proficiency in their rating, as they still had to compete for promotion in that rating.note The Navy has since recognized that this is kind of ridiculous, which is why ratings like Special Warfare Operator were created. Ryback was busted back to being a cook because that's the job he had before he became a SEAL. | |
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Rule of Cool | |
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Near the end of the movie, Strannix gets the drop on Ryback by sneaking up behind him, but doesn't shoot him, seemingly because he had already broken down and lost his cool, and perhaps because they recognised each other from previous work they'd done together. The actual reason is quite obviously the idea of having them talk about how similar they are and then finishing things with a knife fight between the two of them is awesome. | |
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Standard Evil Organization Squad | |
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Standard Evil Organization Squad: Big Bad: Strannix The Dragon: Cmdr. Krill The Brute: Doumer Evil Genius: Pitt | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: How and when Ryback and Strannix met previously. | |
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Captain Obvious | |
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Captain Obvious: Admiral Bates declaring "We gotta lot of trouble on that ship" when he's just finished talking with Ryback in the middle of a heated gunfight is certainly redundant. | |
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Point Defenseless | |
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Point Defenseless: Averted when the CIWS easily takes out the F/A-18 on its recon mission. Justified when Tackman's and Ryback's sabotage cripples the Missouri's electronics before they can shoot down the SEAL team's choppers, then subverted when they get shot down anyway by a pair of missileers on the submarine armed with Stingers. | |
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Head Smashes Screen | |
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Head Smashes Screen: The movie's final battle between Casey Ryback and Big Bad Strannix ends with Ryback stabbing Strannix in the scalp, before shoving Strannix head-first into the USS Missouri's radar monitor screen (which shatters and fizzles, of course) for good measure. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: The person who is on the USS Missouri's radio responding to the F/A-18 before they shoot him down with the CIWS minigun. | |
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Darkened Building Shootout | |
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Darkened Building Shootout: More like Darkened Ship Interior shootout, but the same principle applies. | |
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Stock Sound Effects | |
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Stock Sound Effects: The booby-trapped microwave seems to make an elevator 'ding' sound right before it explodes. | |
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Race Against the Clock | |
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Race Against the Clock: Ryback has to save the rest of the crew in the fo'c's'le before it floods. | |
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Big Good | |
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Big Good: Admiral Bates is presented as this in both films. He's of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and takes control of HQ for the good guys. In the first film, he's already there, and in the second he is the first senior person of authority called. | |
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Pretty Little Headshots | |
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Pretty Little Headshots: While there is some brutal violence, the headshots (most notably in the first film) are clean and leave small, relatively bloodless holes. | |
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Everyone Knows Morse | |
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Everyone Knows Morse: In the first movie, Ryback is able to rescue a group of survivors trapped behind a welded-shut hatch who just happened to be broadcasting Morse code as he was nearby. Somewhat justified in that the people involved are all professional sailors. | |
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Spiteful Spit | |
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Spiteful Spit: In his first scene, Krill shows his contempt towards Ryback by spitting in the bouillabaisse he was preparing. Ryback doesn't take it well and punches Krill right in the mug. | |
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Rated M for Manly | |
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Rated M for Manly: Steven Seagal, firefights, explosions, hammy villains, Erika Eleniak's boobs... | |
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Bond One-Liner | |
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Bond One-Liner: "Keep the faith, Strannix." | |
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Invincible Hero | |
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Invincible Hero: Ryback disposes everyone, mooks, The Dragon, the Big Bad without breaking a sweat or losing his cool, which makes sense given his stature as a highly experienced Navy SEAL fighting the aggressive & intelligent adversaries that are Strannix and Krill. The closest Ryback gets to being hurt is when he's scraped by a boat hook while disabling the submarine. It's also averted in the climax of the final where he could have been killed by Strannix, but instead he finally clutched the Villain Ball and let Ryback live. | |
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I Resemble That Remark! | |
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I Resemble That Remark!: As Commander Krill reads through his now-dead superior's report on him, he notices that he pegged Krill for being psychologically unstable. Krill, in drag, asks Strannix if he looks like he needs a psychological evaluation. | |
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The Dragon | |
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The Dragon: Cmdr. Krill | |
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Villain Respect | |
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Villain Respect: Both Strannix and Daumer at different times note their respect for Ryback and his abilities as he makes a mess of their plan. Albeit mixed with exasperation and anger for how he is continually derailing their plans. | |
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Redshirt Army | |
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Redshirt Army: The navy SEAL team sent to retake the ship is wiped out when their helicopter is shot down. Any other crewman trying to be a hero other than Ryback and his companions doesn't get to survive for long, either. | |
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Reassigned to Antarctica | |
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Reassigned to Antarctica: Ryback was a highly decorated navy SEAL until he lost his security clearance for punching his commanding officer after some of his team members were killed on a mission due to faulty intelligence. After this, he retrained to be a cook and was taken on the Missouri's captain so he could finish his navy career and retire honorably. | |
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Bring It | |
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Bring It: Strannix to Chief Ryback during their knife fight. | |
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Psycho Supporter | |
| Under Siege / int_5f3d3c83 | comment |
Psycho Supporter: Krill is the crazier of the two in command of the takeover... at least up until he dies. | |
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Spanner in the Works | |
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Spanner in the Works: The villains have carefully planned this entire thing out, prepared to take on everything from Navy reinforcements to rebellion among the crew... but never considered how the cook might just be the most capable warrior on the entire ship. | |
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Villainous Friendship | |
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Villainous Friendship: Strannix, Commander Krill, and Daumer all seem to have a fun time together. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: Glen Morshower's Ensign Taylor seems to have a feud with Ryback but seems to get on well with the rest of the crew and points out that they can't check with the Captain to confirm his own surprise party or it wouldn't be a surprise. At the end when Ryback has saved the day he applauds him along with everyone else. | |
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Mugging the Monster | |
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Mugging the Monster: Krill is constantly making trouble for Ryback, which proves to be a foolish mistake on his part when he learns only after the killing has started that Ryback is indeed a professional killing machine as Strannix suspected. | |
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Almighty Janitor | |
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Almighty Janitor: A US Navy Ship hijacking is almost single-handedly thwarted by... said ship's cook. Well, he used to be a Navy SEAL, but still. Lampshaded by Ryback just to mess with Jordan when they first meet, until he demonstrates he's MUCH more than just a ship's cook. Midway through the film, Ryback is aided by a small group of sailors who had been assigned to mundane tasks before the takeover (such as running ships laundry service) and had minimal combat training. They take out Krill and his sub with no effort. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: Welcome to the revolution! | |
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Last Resort Takeout | |
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Last Resort Takeout: To avoid attending a ceremony, Ryback warns the captain about having to do the cheeseburger routine if he doesn't allow him to skip the ceremony and finish preparing the bouillabaisse for the captain's birthday party. | |
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Pineapple Surprise | |
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Pineapple Surprise: A variant. Ryback twice uses grenades with the pin removed but the lever wedged under something to use grenades as traps. | |
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BFG | |
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BFG: The 16" guns of the Missouri. We get to see them fired twice, both at the submarine as it's moving off from the Missouri. First one misses but the gun's report blows Tommy Lee Jones off his feet and bursts his ear drums. The second one fired gives Gary Busey's character an Oh, Crap! moment before the submarine he's on is hit and sunk by the Missouri's 16" shell. | |
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Creepy Crossdresser | |
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Creepy Crossdresser: At the Captain's birthday party, Krill comes into the party in drag, much to the surprise of his crewmates. Turns out he's in on the hijacking. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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Truth in Television: Naval Special Warfare ratings didn't exist at the time, so enlisted SEALs retained whatever rating (Bosun's Mate, Radioman, Machinist's Mate, etc.) they had prior to completing BUD/S. This also meant they had to maintain at least some proficiency in their rating, as they still had to compete for promotion in that rating.note The Navy has since recognized that this is kind of ridiculous, which is why ratings like Special Warfare Operator were created. Ryback was busted back to being a cook because that's the job he had before he became a SEAL. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Ryback frees a handful of sailors who are instrumental in saving the day, but they don't quite reach Five-Man Band status. Disgraced Navy SEAL Ryback is aided in thwarting the villains by his assistant cook, a party stripper, a loudmouthed laundry worker, a retired World War II gunner who is only visiting the ship for the decommissioning, an electrician, and two junior officers. | |
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Finger in the Mail | |
| Under Siege / int_8e0ceaf5 | comment |
Finger in the Mail: Strannix recounts a tale of how he sent his CIA superior the fingers of two assassins who were sent to kill him. | |
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Evil Genius | |
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Evil Genius: Pitt | |
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Karmic Death | |
| Under Siege / int_90d44f44 | comment |
Karmic Death: Commander Krill being blown to kingdom come by the guns of the ship whose crew he betrayed can be considered this. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: Strannix goes completely insane after Krill is killed and his eardrums burst due to the enormous noise and muzzle blast from Missouri's 16" guns firing. He proceeds to launch two Tomahawk missiles at Honolulu while babbling about cartoon characters and badly singing the Star-Spangled Banner. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Faux Affably Evil: Strannix is very much this, before his Villainous Breakdown. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Strannix | |
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Cut Himself Shaving | |
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Cut Himself Shaving: Commander Krill says he cut himself shaving as an explanation for Ryback slashing his face. It was a better story than saying that he put Ryback in the kitchen storage. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
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"Not So Different" Remark: Flipped around, from Seagal's protagonist to Jones' antagonist. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Took a Level in Badass: Jordan Tate changes from The Load to an Action Girl when she pulls a Bait-and-Switch Gunshot to save Ryback's life. | |
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Knife Fight | |
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Knife Fight: The climax has a knife fight between Strannix and Ryback, which quickly turns into a Curb-Stomp Battle, with Strannix only getting one lucky scratch, before Ryback gouges his eye out with his bare hand, before stabbing him through the head and smashing his head through a piece of equipment, electrocuting him. And that's after owning him in the knife fight. | |
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A Nuclear Error | |
| Under Siege / int_9cc7c9fe | comment |
A Nuclear Error: Averted when it's stated that hitting nukes with high explosives won't set them off. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
| Under Siege / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: Captain Adams to Ryback: "You know, if I had your ribbons, I'd wear 'em to bed," hinting that there's much more than meets the eye here (as if his being the main character didn't already). And we see at the end that Ryback's broad chest is indeed laden with decorations. When the TV news commentator is talking about how the Missouri is on its last cruise to San Francisco for decommissioning, he remarks that "her awesome weaponry will be removed and dismantled, probably never to be fired again." By the end of the film, just about all of her major weapons systems (20mm CIWS, 5" and 16" guns, and Harpoon and Tomahawk missiles) have been fired at least once. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Gunshot | |
| Under Siege / int_a0a838fe | comment |
Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: As Doumer is about to shoot Chief Ryback, several shots ring out and Daumer falls to the deck dead. Behind him is standing Jordan Tate, Ryback's Love Interest, with a gun in her hands. | |
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Nerves of Steel | |
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Nerves of Steel: Ryback is completely unflappable. | |
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Eye Scream | |
| Under Siege / int_a2b38d3b | comment |
Eye Scream: Ryback gouges out Strannix's eye before killing him off. | |
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The Chosen Zero | |
| Under Siege / int_a3049ac6 | comment |
The Chosen Zero: Ryback is a hilarious subversion. He's just the ship's cook, and very honest about it... but he used to be one of the greatest SEALs the Navy had ever seen. | |
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Da Chief | |
| Under Siege / int_a4be7043 | comment |
Da Chief: Averted by Admiral Bates in the first film. Upon finding out that Ryback has ignored his orders to avoid contact if possible and is busy trying to kill all the terrorists himself, the Admiral's response is thus: | |
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Gender-Blender Name | |
| Under Siege / int_a536f3a3 | comment |
Gender-Blender Name: Steven Seagal's character is named Casey Ryback, and his Love Interest is called Jordan Tate, both of which are unisex names. | |
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Motive Misidentification | |
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Motive Misidentification: The Pentagon thinks Strannix has gone insane and is planning to just launch the ship's missiles at random thanks to his act. It takes Ryback's phone call for them to realize Strannix is quite sane and is planning to steal and sell the nuclear arsenal on the black market. | |
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Doesn't Like Guns | |
| Under Siege / int_aaf19fae | comment |
Doesn't Like Guns: Casey claims he doesn't like guns and so does Jordan, but both end up using firearms. Casey is generally more at home using knives. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: One of the crewmembers that Ryback recruits to help him happens to be a Gunner's Mate. This becomes very useful when it comes time to take out the sub, since he knows how to operate the ship's 16-inch guns. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
| Under Siege / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: Seal Team 5 when faced with a heatseeker-wielding mook aiming at their helicopter. Ryback and his gang watching the same scene from too far away to assist. Also a couple of Strannix's men when they realize Ryback is a former SEAL. Krill's face is priceless when he realizes the last shell fired from the Missouri is going to hit the submarine he's in. As Ryback and his crew are celebrating and watching the submarine burn, their grins and laughter are instantly replaced with looks of horror when a pair of Tomahawks blast off of their launchers. | |
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Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind | |
| Under Siege / int_ae050352 | comment |
Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind: Combined with Bait-and-Switch Gunshot when Jordan saves Ryback from Doumer. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: We are introduced to Jordan when she jumps out of a cake in a thong and naval officer's coat which she quickly strips off to reveal her breasts shamelessly. Reputedly contemporary video shops had to keep replacing their VHS copies of the film as this scene was continually worn out from being constantly rewatched. | |
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Klingon Promotion | |
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Klingon Promotion: Invoked by Commander Krill. Once he has The Captain taken out, he starts wearing his rank markings once the ship's hijacking has been completed. It's put down to his Limited Advancement Opportunities, so he's shown to be hugely upset that he is unlikely to actually become a Captain legitimately. | |
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Sit Rep | |
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Sit Rep: Chief Ryback does this twice, talking with Admiral Greer in Washington. The first time, he gives Greer information about the terrorists in control of the ship and what they're doing. The second time, Greer calls him while Ryback is fighting the terrorists so they can't talk for long. | |
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Obfuscating Insanity | |
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Obfuscating Insanity: Strannix uses this when dealing with the brass monitoring the hijacking to misdirect them from his true motives. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: The marine assigned to guard Ryback in the meat locker fails to recognize numerous warning signs the ship is under attack, despite Ryback pointing them out, until it's too late. | |
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Sentry Gun | |
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Sentry Gun: The Phalanx CIWS aboard the Missouri. | |
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Ammunition Conservation | |
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Ammunition Conservation: When Jordan makes it clear she's staying with Ryback rather than hiding out and hoping she's not found by the terrorists, Ryback arms her with an MP5. As she's a civilian and a novice, Ryback informs her that he's going to put it into semi-auto select-fire, wanting her to focus on one shot at a time and making them count rather than possible blind, panic fire. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: It's not really a good idea to spit in Ryback's soup. He takes it kind of personally. | |
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Jumping Out of a Cake | |
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Jumping Out of a Cake: Jordan at the beginning. | |
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Chef of Iron | |
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Chef of Iron: And how! Seagal's character is obviously not to be messed with. | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? | |
| Under Siege / int_bce16d24 | comment |
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Two instances. Daumer correctly anticipates that Ryback survived placing a bomb on the sub and tracks him down to where he re-boards the ship, getting him at gunpoint. Subverted in that he is about to shoot him, but pauses for a moment to note his genuine admiration of his abilities before he does so, which gives Jordan time to shoot him in the back. Near the end of the movie, Strannix gets the drop on Ryback by sneaking up behind him, but doesn't shoot him, seemingly because he had already broken down and lost his cool, and perhaps because they recognised each other from previous work they'd done together. The actual reason is quite obviously the idea of having them talk about how similar they are and then finishing things with a knife fight between the two of them is awesome. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Under Siege / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Strannix and the submarine crew use names like "Roadrunner" and "Wile E. Coyote" as codenames, referencing the classic Warner Bros. cartoons. Guess which studio Under Siege is from. Strannix's​ ramblings about shrimp coming to save a lobster from 'the Swedish cook' are a reference to The Muppet Show. The War Room was designed to resemble the one from Dr. Strangelove. | |
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Retirony | |
| Under Siege / int_c8a8c595 | comment |
Retirony: Captain Adams is at least implied to be on his final deployment when his XO murders him and takes over the ship. | |
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Taking You with Me | |
| Under Siege / int_caf89e54 | comment |
Taking You with Me: The terrorists plan to fire two Tomahawk missiles at Honolulu so as to destroy the military tracking station and cover their escape. When Krill dies and Strannix loses it, the latter knows his plan is already doomed, but he launches the Tomahawks anyway out of spite. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
| Under Siege / int_d9ffec82 | comment |
Curbstomp Battle: This is a Steven Seagal movie, so it has to end with one against the Big Bad. Though unlike some of his later movies, Steven Seagal is at least standing up while slaughtering Strannix and then ramming his head into electrical equipment. | |
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Action Girl | |
| Under Siege / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Jordan starts off as a quivering mess but evolves into this trope. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
| Under Siege / int_dca70c44 | comment |
Reasonable Authority Figure: Admiral Bates in 1 and 2. | |
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Didn't See That Coming | |
| Under Siege / int_dfa40c1b | comment |
Didn't See That Coming: The reaction of the bad guys when they discover the cook just happens to be a highly trained and decorated SEAL. Krill even lampshades it with "how Little Did I Know." | |
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Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight | |
| Under Siege / int_e54f93d5 | comment |
Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight: Unless you want Ryback to take it from you and shove it into your skull. | |
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Artistic License – Ships | |
| Under Siege / int_e652089c | comment |
Artistic License – Ships: In various scenes is perfectly clear, that ship is actually the USS Alabama standing-in for the Missouri, with its shorter hull and single stack. Radars on artillery directors is older model too. Also, on Iowa-class battleships the pilot house is located inside an armored conning tower; what appears as (and depicted in movie) a control room is just an enclosed gallery around said conning tower. | |
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The Load | |
| Under Siege / int_e68b72 | comment |
The Load: Jordan, although she shows Action Girl potential in the last 20 minutes of the film. She's also pretty clever. He tells her to stay back "where it's safe". Her reply: "The safest place on this ship is right behind you!" | |
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The Mole | |
| Under Siege / int_e70127 | comment |
The Mole: Krill, within the ship, until the takeover starts. | |
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Locked Out of the Loop | |
| Under Siege / int_f06b07ff | comment |
Locked Out of the Loop: Invoked by Krill when Strannix demands to know how he had no idea the cook was a former SEAL. Krill states that Ryback's file wasn't in the main records but in the captain's personal safe which Krill didn't have access to and thus, like everyone else, he thought Ryback was just a simple cook. | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
| Under Siege / int_f10d3363 | comment |
Distracted by the Sexy: Averted during a memorable sequence in which Jordan bursts out of a cake, topless, wearing a naval officer's coat and a thong. Although Ryback's attention is diverted, he's still in control of the situation and quickly takes charge. | |
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Died on Their Birthday | |
| Under Siege / int_f19b5fcf | comment |
Died on Their Birthday: Captain Adams of the USS Missouri is murdered on his birthday by his traitorous XO, Krill, who used preparations for the Captain's party as cover to bring his terrorist allies on board. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
| Under Siege / int_f64a9cf7 | comment |
Earn Your Happy Ending: A lot of good sailors die, but the heroes win and avert a national disaster. The film closes on the captain's funeral, but it's a triumphant scene as Ryback is in full uniform, restored to his full rank. | |
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MacGyvering | |
| Under Siege / int_fd5603b | comment |
MacGyvering: Ryback improvises explosives and other tools using a combination of everyday objects like paint thinner and military implements like gunpowder from a grenade. | |
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Evil Is Hammy | |
| Under Siege / int_fdf22cfd | comment |
Evil Is Hammy: Tommy Lee Jones (Strannix) and Gary Busey (Krill) look like they're having an absolute blast in the first movie. Jones in particular is complete over the top villainous awesome. | |
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Brick Joke | |
| Under Siege / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: Jordan Tate has a rule about killing. Actually, she has two rules: One, she does not date musicians, and Two, SHE DOES NOT KILL PEOPLE. Later, though, she saves Ryback's bacon with a Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind. | |
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