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Shank (Video Game)

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Shank is a 2D Beat 'em Up video game released on the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network on August 25, 2010, and on PC on October 26 of the same year. It was developed by Klei Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts.Betrayed by the only family he ever knew and left for dead, Shank feels the need to seek revenge for the death of his beloved at the hands of the underworld's deadliest assassins. Utilizing his knowledge of gang warfare and weaponry, Shank must battle his way through the criminal underground in order to seek revenge against the people who brought his world crashing down around him.A sequel, Shank 2, was released on February 7, 2012. Shank's attempts to settle down and leave his criminal past behind him are abruptly ended when a power vaccuum was created after Shank destroyed the cartel, forcing a military intervention. Unfortunately, this only caused them to take over the operations and create a new crime group called The Militia, ending up threatening the lives of those closest to him. Now, Shank has to once again take up his weapons and take the fight to the enemy, with assistance from the local resistance and an old friend.Click on the following links for the E3 Animatic, Gameplay, Co-Op Launch and Accolades trailers of the first game.Click on the following links for the Announcement, Combat and Launch trailers of the sequel.
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Gatling Good
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Gatling Good: Big enemies sometimes carry miniguns. These can be picked up and used by the playable characters. The Final Boss fight against Magnus in the sequel features two minigun turrets that spawn midway through the fight. They shoot at the player whenever they reach their range and can be destroyed, although doing so isn't necessary to defeat Magnus.
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Katanas Are Just Better
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Katanas Are Just Better: The katana is the final weapon that Shank gets in the first game. Cassandra's weapon of choice is a katana.
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Conflicting Loyalty
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Conflicting Loyalty: Shank's choice of Eva vs. the cartel, where no matter what choice he made, he'd be betraying someone he cared for.
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: A guy left for dead by the gang he worked for, comes back to seek revenge on said members. Hmmm. Mexploitation-based design and setting, complete with a main character named after his bladed weapon of choice.
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Sinister Shiv
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Sinister Shiv: Shank's signature (and namesake) weapon is a pair of irregular, jagged, menacing shards of metal with makeshift tape grips. They're sharp enough to decapitate a person.
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All There in the Manual
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All There in the Manual: Some of the backstory for Shank 2 is contained in the interquel comic and the Rebel Intels found in-game.
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Boss Arena Recovery
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Boss Arena Recovery: Every boss fight in the first game has this, except the last boss in co-op mode.
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Wicked Cultured
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Wicked Cultured: Cesar lives in a fancy mansion decorated with antiques, wears an ascot, and fights with pearl-handled knives, a saber, and a pair of flintlock dueling pistols.
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Back-to-Back Badasses
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Back-to-Back Badasses: Shank and Falcone in one of the promotional artworks.
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Palette Swap
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Palette Swap: Just about every other playable character besides Shank in both games are basically reskins of Shank, since they reuse all of his weapons, moves and playstyle. Downplayed in the Survival Mode of Shank 2, where they have different stats.
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Not in This for Your Revolution
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Not in This for Your Revolution: Shank only reluctantly joins the Rebels in Shank 2 because he needs their support to save Elena.
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Bag of Spilling
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Bag of Spilling: A variation; at the start of the second game, Shank starts off with a pair of machetes (likely the same pair he used in the first game) as his "heavy" weapon, and throwing knives for ranged attacks. He eventually gets his starting combo from the first game (a pair of pistols and a chainsaw) as he progresses.
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Use Their Own Weapon Against Them
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Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: The counter-attacks in Shank 2 involve this, having Shank deal heavy damage to an enemy by using their weapons on them.
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More Dakka
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More Dakka: From SMGs to freaking miniguns!
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Awesome, but Impractical
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Awesome, but Impractical: The katana's grapple move, while visually pleasing, does little damage and leaves you open during the animation.
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Grenade Launcher
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Grenade Launcher: Big and fat enemies sometimes carry these.
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Distaff Counterpart
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Distaff Counterpart: Arguably Corina to Shank in the sequel, since she uses most of the same weapons as him.
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Co-Op Multiplayer
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Co-Op Multiplayer: The first game has it, serving as a How We Got Here prequel to the events of the 1P campaign. The trophy for completing it is even called "Backstory."
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: While working for the cartel, Shank still had a few lines he wouldn't cross. He was unflinchingly loyal and kind to his girlfriend after she sees him and his partner trying to kill the Deputy Mayor, and had to restrain himself from attacking Angelo when he casually shoots a priest. Cesar has a hint of this when Shank reveals that Eva was pregnant when they killed her, telling Shank, "Had I known she was with child, that would have changed things..."
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Martial Arts Headband
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Martial Arts Headband: Shank has a red one on his forehead. It used to be white before the Butcher hit him hard enough that his head started bleeding and gave the headband its current color, as seen in flashbacks and the co-op campaign.
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Dies Wide Open
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Dies Wide Open: Most bosses remain their eyes open upon their death. Shank leaves them like that most of the time, but he closes Cesar's eyes.
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Overdrawn at the Blood Bank
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Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: And how! Pretty much everyone bleeds profusely with no regard for the laws of biology. Exaggerated when Mello gets his arm sliced off by Shank and is then told to go give Angelo a warning during nighttime. By the time he gets there, it's already morning and he's still bleeding!
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Impossible Hourglass Figure
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Impossible Hourglass Figure: Pretty much standard for any female character in the game.
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Undead Counterpart
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Undead Counterpart: Zombie variants of the typical enemy types appear in a specific wave from time to time in Shank 2's Survival Mode. They're faster and deal more damage than their normal counterparts, but have the same amount of health.
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Throw a Barrel at It
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Throw a Barrel at It: The boss fight against the Butcher in the first game's 2-player campaign has Exploding Barrels on the corners of the aren. If he sustains enough damage, he will retreat to the corners and start chucking barrels at Shank and Falcone, both of whom can shoot the barrels so it'll hurt the Butcher instead.
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Guttural Growler
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Guttural Growler: Shank has a very gravelly voice.
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Advancing Boss of Doom
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Advancing Boss of Doom: One of the segments in Shank 2's final level features a construction truck with a saw on its front to escape from. Destroying it is entirely optional, and even then it's notably weaker than most mooks.
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Lag Cancel
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Lag Cancel: Holding the block button while using the shotgun will make it fire more quickly. In the sequel, most actions can be cancelled by rolling - including pouncing on somebody.
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Drop the Hammer
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Drop the Hammer: The last weapon you get in Shank 2 is a Sledgehammer. It's somewhat slow, but packs quite the punch.
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Booze-Based Buff
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Booze-Based Buff: Shank doesn't get drunk, he gets healthy.
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Machete Mayhem
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Machete Mayhem: As a reference to the movie that heavily influenced the game, Shank gets two of them in both games. The sequel even has them being his starting "heavy" weapons.
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Sleeves Are for Wimps
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Sleeves Are for Wimps: In the first game, Shank wears a light grey shirt with ripped sleeves. Averted in the second game, where he wears a red T-shirt, though it does have small tears on the sleeves.
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Pretty Little Headshots
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The female bosses have much less violent deaths than the male ones. Cassandra in the first game gets a hole in the forehead, despite that Shank shot her at point blank and the bullet should have punched a big chunk of her brains out of the back of her skull (that said, the blood pool under her skull is massive), and Roselle in Shank 2 gets Eaten Alive by wolves offscreen.
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Blasting It Out of Their Hands
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Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Shank does so with Cassandra's sword in a flashback from the first game.
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Rated M for Manly
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Rated M for Manly: It's fundamentally a game about a muscular, gravelly-voiced badass named "Shank" tearing through hordes of Mooks with shivs, so this is a given, though there are still plenty of badass women.
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Improvised Weapon
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Improvised Weapon: Shank can wear chains around his hands to pulverize and strangle enemies. Some of the dropped weapons in Shank 2 count as this, such as a kitchen sink and a fish.
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Kung-Fu Sonic Boom
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Kung-Fu Sonic Boom: A classic example at the end of the fight with Cesar.
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Wham Line
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Wham Line: In a flashback during the final battle of the first game, which explains why Shank is even angrier than most on a quest of revenge: Eva telling him "I carry your son" just before she was killed.
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Do Not Call Me "Paul"
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Do Not Call Me "Paul": Shank's real name, according to one of the Rebel Intels in Shank 2, is Robert Torres, but even those closest to him, such as Corina and Elena, still refer to him by his nickname.
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Dual Wielding
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Dual Wielding: Shank always has at least two shanks and two pistols in his hands. One of his "heavy" weapons is a pair of machetes.
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Fat Bastard
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Fat Bastard: Quite a few of them to go around. The sequel features regular Mooks of this kind, most of whom attack by charging at you and have the same amount of health as normal big enemies. Among the bosses in both games are the Butcher, Denny (the prequel co-op campaign reveals that even before he was turned into a gimp, he was quite the bastard) and Oblong.
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Guns Akimbo
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Guns Akimbo: You start off with two pistols in the first game as your first ranged weapon. They return in Shank 2, although their place as the starting ranged weapon is taken by the new throwing knives instead.
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A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil
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A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: Inverted. Cesar was Shank's martial arts mentor, and he used to consider Shank as one of his cartel's most honored members, until he turned the whole cartel against Shank after the latter proved unwilling to go through with the rite of passage of killing Eva.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_598c4d8a
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Shank (Video Game) / int_598c4d8a
 Shank (Video Game) / int_5a08d0ae
type
Back Stab
 Shank (Video Game) / int_5a08d0ae
comment
Back Stab: No matter what you hit an enemy with, as long as their back is turned it's a One-Hit Kill.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_5a08d0ae
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1.0
 Shank (Video Game) / int_5a08d0ae
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Shank (Video Game) / int_5a08d0ae
 Shank (Video Game) / int_5bdcc85a
type
Disney Villain Death
 Shank (Video Game) / int_5bdcc85a
comment
Disney Villain Death: The levels' maps tend to contain parts with bottomless or hazardous pits, which both enemies and Shank himself can fall into and die instantly.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_5bdcc85a
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1.0
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Shank (Video Game) / int_5bdcc85a
 Shank (Video Game) / int_5caef4ca
type
Chainsaw Good
 Shank (Video Game) / int_5caef4ca
comment
Chainsaw Good: Shank's weapon of choice next to his shivs is obviously his chainsaw; it's even referred to as his "signature weapon" in Shank 2. On the enemies' side, General Magnus has dual chainsaw knives!
 Shank (Video Game) / int_5caef4ca
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1.0
 Shank (Video Game) / int_5caef4ca
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Shank (Video Game) / int_5caef4ca
 Shank (Video Game) / int_5f4097ba
type
Not Distracted by the Sexy
 Shank (Video Game) / int_5f4097ba
comment
Not Distracted by the Sexy: Shank doesn't even blink whenever he sees a woman in skimpy clothing, and their attempts to grab his attention for nefarious purposes never really work.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_5f4097ba
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Shank (Video Game) / int_5f4097ba
 Shank (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac
type
Names to Run Away from Really Fast
 Shank (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac
comment
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Shank. He certainly does.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac
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Shank (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac
 Shank (Video Game) / int_61b9028c
type
Sinister Scythe
 Shank (Video Game) / int_61b9028c
comment
Sinister Scythe: Not exactly sinister, but Corina obtains and uses one in the sequel.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_61b9028c
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Shank (Video Game) / int_61b9028c
 Shank (Video Game) / int_651a8540
type
Indy Escape
 Shank (Video Game) / int_651a8540
comment
Played for laughs in the second game, where at the start of an Indy Escape sequence, the Boss Subtitle is given to the giant boulder that starts rolling towards Shank.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_651a8540
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Shank (Video Game) / int_651a8540
 Shank (Video Game) / int_66a52e25
type
Bullfight Boss
 Shank (Video Game) / int_66a52e25
comment
Bullfight Boss: Several in the first game, including: El Raton/The Fake Butcher. Giant Mook from nowhere Toro. The Mayor's Bodyguard from the co-op campaign, who serves as its Final Boss.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_66a52e25
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Shank (Video Game) / int_66a52e25
 Shank (Video Game) / int_68f6e811
type
Made of Plasticine
 Shank (Video Game) / int_68f6e811
comment
Made of Plasticine: According to the cutscenes in the second game, it's entirely possible to tear out a shark's jaws from its mouth with bare hands, chop someone into multiple pieces by entangling them in a chain that has blades only on its tip and pulling it taut just once, punch a grenade through someone's sternum into their chest, and cleanly decapitate someone with the blunt edge of a shank barely as long as a person's neck is wide. Granted however, as all of these things are done by Shank.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_68f6e811
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Shank (Video Game) / int_68f6e811
 Shank (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a
type
And Your Reward Is Clothes
 Shank (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a
comment
And Your Reward Is Clothes: Completing certain side objectives will get you new costumes. Downplayed in Shank 2, though: while skins do nothing in the main game, each one of them has different stats in Survival Mode.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a
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Shank (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a
 Shank (Video Game) / int_77b03c0a
type
Remember the New Guy?
 Shank (Video Game) / int_77b03c0a
comment
Remember the New Guy?: Shank 2 opens with a cutscene of Shank reminiscing over a photo of him with two women (Elena and Corina). When he finds them, they act as if they've known him for a long time, and according to a Rebel Intel, they were his family of sorts as he grew up in an orphanage. Of course, none of this was evident in the first game.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_77b03c0a
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Shank (Video Game) / int_77b03c0a
 Shank (Video Game) / int_78313bf7
type
Handwraps of Awesome
 Shank (Video Game) / int_78313bf7
comment
Handwraps of Awesome: Fitting his nature as an enforcer and blade-wielding brawler, Shank's hands up to his forearms are wrapped in bandages/boxing tape to protect them when he gets up close and personal.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_78313bf7
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Shank (Video Game) / int_78313bf7
 Shank (Video Game) / int_78540917
type
Like Brother and Sister
 Shank (Video Game) / int_78540917
comment
Like Brother and Sister: Shank and Corina were raised in an orphanage where every child was treated as siblings to each other, and thus have this relationship.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_78540917
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Shank (Video Game) / int_78540917
 Shank (Video Game) / int_7bf14666
type
And Now for Someone Completely Different
 Shank (Video Game) / int_7bf14666
comment
And Now for Someone Completely Different: The second game has you play as Corina for an entire level of the main story.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_7bf14666
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 Shank (Video Game) / int_7bf14666
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Shank (Video Game) / int_7bf14666
 Shank (Video Game) / int_7d9941ee
type
Simple Rescue Mechanic
 Shank (Video Game) / int_7d9941ee
comment
Simple Rescue Mechanic: In Shank 2, after dealing with all the enemies in a place, the player often has to rescue trapped hostages in order to move on to the next part of the level. All the player has to do to free a hostage from their restraints is hold a key while in front of them. The hostage then jumps out of the screen after a brief run.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_7d9941ee
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Shank (Video Game) / int_7d9941ee
 Shank (Video Game) / int_7f6c8e4f
type
Reverse Grip
 Shank (Video Game) / int_7f6c8e4f
comment
Reverse Grip: How Shank usually holds his shivs.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_7f6c8e4f
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Shank (Video Game) / int_7f6c8e4f
 Shank (Video Game) / int_7fbb2a3
type
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
 Shank (Video Game) / int_7fbb2a3
comment
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: By the events of Shank 2, Cesar's death ignited a gang war that became big enough to require an entire extragovernmental militia to stop it. Said militia then overthrew the government. Nice one, Shank!
 Shank (Video Game) / int_7fbb2a3
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Shank (Video Game) / int_7fbb2a3
 Shank (Video Game) / int_86af7ab0
type
Badass Biker
 Shank (Video Game) / int_86af7ab0
comment
Badass Biker: As shown in the co-op prequel, Denny was the former leader of a biker gang, and definitely shows why he was. He also had a partner named Dusty, who could hold his own. Unfortunately for him, after Shank and Falcone were done with him and his gang, they left him at the mercy of Cassandra.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_86af7ab0
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Shank (Video Game) / int_86af7ab0
 Shank (Video Game) / int_87ab7f69
type
Sharp-Dressed Man
 Shank (Video Game) / int_87ab7f69
comment
One of the designs for big enemies in the first game features a luchador mask accompanied by a formal suit.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_87ab7f69
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Shank (Video Game) / int_87ab7f69
 Shank (Video Game) / int_8a07e085
type
Denser and Wackier
 Shank (Video Game) / int_8a07e085
comment
Denser and Wackier: The first game is about a realistic, gritty revenge story of an ex-mobster. The second game, as well as being somewhat lighter with the plot, has numerous bizarre elements, like a cannibal jungle with a rolling boulder, or a deadly kung-fu doctor with his nurse minions.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_8a07e085
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Shank (Video Game) / int_8a07e085
 Shank (Video Game) / int_8a888e34
type
Exploding Barrels
 Shank (Video Game) / int_8a888e34
comment
Exploding Barrels: The boss fight against the Butcher in the first game's co-op campaign has him grab explosive barrels from the corners of the boss arena and throw them at Shank and Falcone.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_8a888e34
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Shank (Video Game) / int_8a888e34
 Shank (Video Game) / int_8a8decda
type
Mini Mook
 Shank (Video Game) / int_8a8decda
comment
Mini Mook: Shank 2 features Small enemies who are shorter than normal ones, making them harder to hit. The game's Survival Mode features a variant of them known as Bombers, who plant bombs in supply stations to destroy them.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_8a8decda
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Shank (Video Game) / int_8a8decda
 Shank (Video Game) / int_8b606a51
type
There Is No Kill Like Overkill
 Shank (Video Game) / int_8b606a51
comment
There is No Kill Like Overkill: You can continue to beat up enemies even after they've died.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_8b606a51
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Shank (Video Game) / int_8b606a51
 Shank (Video Game) / int_8ebd7403
type
Action Commands
 Shank (Video Game) / int_8ebd7403
comment
Action Commands: Quite a few to go around, usually used for bosses or countering attacks.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_8ebd7403
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Shank (Video Game) / int_8ebd7403
 Shank (Video Game) / int_902fa0b4
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Giant Space Flea from Nowhere
 Shank (Video Game) / int_902fa0b4
comment
Giant Mook from nowhere Toro.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_902fa0b4
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Shank (Video Game) / int_902fa0b4
 Shank (Video Game) / int_90d44f44
type
Karmic Death
 Shank (Video Game) / int_90d44f44
comment
Karmic Death: If Shank kills somebody major, it's always justified (and ironic).
 Shank (Video Game) / int_90d44f44
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Shank (Video Game) / int_90d44f44
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9245d989
type
Sinister Minister
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9245d989
comment
Sinister Minister: Angelo dresses like this, although he's not really one, since he killed a priest and has been posing as him afterwards.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9245d989
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Shank (Video Game) / int_9245d989
 Shank (Video Game) / int_93f0fc43
type
Hooks and Crooks
 Shank (Video Game) / int_93f0fc43
comment
Hooks and Crooks: When fighting The Butcher in the meatpacking plant, he naturally makes use of a meat hook attached to a chain to fight Shank.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_93f0fc43
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Shank (Video Game) / int_93f0fc43
 Shank (Video Game) / int_96ecc67e
type
Shotguns Are Just Better
 Shank (Video Game) / int_96ecc67e
comment
Shotguns Are Just Better: Judging by how Shank pumps it, it's probably a lever-action shotgun, even though there's a pretty obvious absence of a lever.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_96ecc67e
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Shank (Video Game) / int_96ecc67e
 Shank (Video Game) / int_991912ca
type
Combos
 Shank (Video Game) / int_991912ca
comment
Combos: Specifically for hits given to enemies.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_991912ca
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Shank (Video Game) / int_991912ca
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9cd24d8a
type
Locomotive Level
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9cd24d8a
comment
Locomotive Level: Consisting of one long Traintop Battle, as Shank rides one to get to the meat packing district. Naturally there's not only a boss on the train engine (a couple of goons riding a jeep) but it also crashes, when beating said boss.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9cd24d8a
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Shank (Video Game) / int_9cd24d8a
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9d17b859
type
Made of Iron
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9d17b859
comment
Made of Iron: All enemies, as well as Shank himself. Enemies can easily get up and start shooting you again even after you've rammed a chainsaw into their stomach multiple times. The Big ones can take several grenades to the face and still come charging after you. Big enemies in the second game have different Counter-Attack animations depending on whether the attack finishes them off. When Shank counters by snatching their weapons and ramming them into their chests, that's the non-finishing animation. They'll be momentarily delayed after Shank pulls the weapon out of their chest, but will be fighting fit otherwise.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9d17b859
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Shank (Video Game) / int_9d17b859
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9dab0a6e
type
Continuity Nod
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9dab0a6e
comment
Continuity Nod: In Shank 2: Some of the unlockable skins make Shank look like his design in the first game, Falcone, and even Cesar. There's a picture of Shank and Falcone located in the Hotel level.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9dab0a6e
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Shank (Video Game) / int_9dab0a6e
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9e8aa11e
type
Friendly Fireproof
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9e8aa11e
comment
Friendly Fireproof: Zig-zagged. Enemies' attacks don't usually damage each other, but Shank 2 allows you to use grabbed enemies as meat shields, which makes them vulnerable to attacks from their fellows, and the fire from molotovs thrown by Small enemies can damage other enemies upon contact.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9e8aa11e
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Shank (Video Game) / int_9e8aa11e
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9e943076
type
One-Man Army
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9e943076
comment
One-Man Army: Shank. By the end of your first run in either game, he would have amassed at the very least 500 kills.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9e943076
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Shank (Video Game) / int_9e943076
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9fe35833
type
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9fe35833
comment
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Elena's not really his mother, she just ran the orphanage where he grew up, and is the closest thing he had to a maternal figure in his life.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_9fe35833
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Shank (Video Game) / int_9fe35833
 Shank (Video Game) / int_a195310a
type
Red Is Heroic
 Shank (Video Game) / int_a195310a
comment
Red Is Heroic: For a certain definition of heroic in the first game, Shank wears a red headband. In flashbacks and the co-op prequel, it was originally white until The Butcher fractured his skull, which led to the resulting blood coat the headband and give it its current color. In the second game, Shank wears a red T-shirt to go along with the headband, which is fitting since he's now actively fighting for a more heroic cause (albeit reluctantly).
 Shank (Video Game) / int_a195310a
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Shank (Video Game) / int_a195310a
 Shank (Video Game) / int_a1a1491e
type
Homage
 Shank (Video Game) / int_a1a1491e
comment
Homage: To the bloody B-level action movies of the 1970s, most likely, a la Machete.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_a1a1491e
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Shank (Video Game) / int_a1a1491e
 Shank (Video Game) / int_a3823742
type
Meteor Move
 Shank (Video Game) / int_a3823742
comment
Meteor Move: Type A can be done in Shank 2.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_a3823742
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1.0
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Shank (Video Game) / int_a3823742
 Shank (Video Game) / int_a8826e1e
type
Giant Mook
 Shank (Video Game) / int_a8826e1e
comment
Giant Mook: Big enemies are large men who are the second type of regular Mooks introduced in both games. They can belong to any faction, and are stronger than average enemies. In the first game, they're also immune to grapple and pounce attacks.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_a8826e1e
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Shank (Video Game) / int_a8826e1e
 Shank (Video Game) / int_a8a4b41e
type
Not So Stoic
 Shank (Video Game) / int_a8a4b41e
comment
Not So Stoic: Unlike in the first game, the sequel has Shank sometimes display a range of different emotions beside anger. He's still pretty unflappable in Shank 2, except when he kills the Cannibal King Obleng and sees his fellow cannibals eating his corpse. He looks at the scene with a clearly freaked out face.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_a8a4b41e
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Shank (Video Game) / int_a8a4b41e
 Shank (Video Game) / int_ab6e01e
type
Clean Cut
 Shank (Video Game) / int_ab6e01e
comment
Clean Cut: In cutscenes and when used to deal the final blow in the second game, the machetes can cleanly sever limbs. Done egregiously in a cutscene in the second game when the shank is used to sever someone's head in one stroke.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_ab6e01e
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Shank (Video Game) / int_ab6e01e
 Shank (Video Game) / int_ad4a45be
type
Final Boss
 Shank (Video Game) / int_ad4a45be
comment
The Final Boss fight against Magnus in the sequel features two minigun turrets that spawn midway through the fight. They shoot at the player whenever they reach their range and can be destroyed, although doing so isn't necessary to defeat Magnus.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_ad4a45be
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Shank (Video Game) / int_ad4a45be
 Shank (Video Game) / int_b2c737e8
type
Klingon Promotion
 Shank (Video Game) / int_b2c737e8
comment
Klingon Promotion: According to the interquel comic, this is one of the cartel's rules.
 Shank (Video Game) / int_b2c737e8
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1.0
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Shank (Video Game) / int_b2c737e8
 Shank (Video Game) / int_b2cdd776
type
Bottomless Magazines
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Bottomless Magazines: Played with in regards to Shank's firearms. While they have to be reloaded from time to time, Shank never seems to run out of reserve ammunition. Played straight with certain enemies' firearms, such as the miniguns carried by some big enemies and Cesar's flintlock pistols. Averted with the flamethrowers in Shank 2, which have limited ammo once the playable characters pick them.
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The Lad-ette
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The Lad-ette: Corina. She's just as tough and violent as Shank, and she'll down a bottle of booze just as fast.
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Left for Dead
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Left for Dead: Shank is left inside of a burning building presumed to have died in it. Unfortunately for them that wasn't the case and he's
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Crowbar Combatant
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Crowbar Combatant: Dusty from the co-op campaign, a Badass Biker who was partners with Denny before he was killed by Shank and Falcone.
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike: Swearing is less common in the second game than in the first. This allows Shank to emphasize with a curse that right before he executes Magnus, he is not happy.
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Averted. Shank does it to Cassandra in the cutscene after her boss fight.
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Blade Enthusiast
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Blade Enthusiast: Besides being his namesake, Shank uses two knife-like shivs as his weapon of choice, and has dual machetes and a chainshaw in both games. He also gets a katana in the first game, and has throwing knives as his starting ranged weapon in Shank 2. Cesar has a pair of shiny, engraved knives and a cutlass, fitting his role as a Mirror Boss to his former enforcer.
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Freeze-Frame Introduction
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Freeze-Frame Introduction: In their respective first appearances, Shank and most of the bosses are given this introduction with a red-tinted screen and a white text stating their name.
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Anti-Hero
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Anti-Hero: Trying to say Shank is a good guy is a bit of a stretch, but compared to the people he fights (a leader of a cartel and a dictator, more or less), he could be worse and at least does have moral boundaries. He gets better in Shank 2, though; while he's reluctant in joining the Resistance, he does go out of his own way to save civilians and appears to have some concern for them.
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Calling Parents by Their Name
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Calling Parents by Their Name: If it wasn't for the supplemental material, you wouldn't know Falcone was Cesar's son, considering Falcone always refers to Cesar by name. Granted, they do have a resemblance between one another, but that's about it.
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Mooks
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Mooks: Of all shapes and sizes.
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Ass Shove
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Ass Shove: If you decide to Counter-Attack a nearly-dying big enemy carrying a weapon. Shank proceeds to take the weapon and shove it up where the sun don't shine.
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With This Herring
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Some of the dropped weapons in Shank 2 count as this, such as a kitchen sink and a fish.
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Death Cry Echo
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Death Cry Echo: Happens a lot in both games when enemies are killed.
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Counter-Attack
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Big enemies in the second game have different Counter-Attack animations depending on whether the attack finishes them off. When Shank counters by snatching their weapons and ramming them into their chests, that's the non-finishing animation. They'll be momentarily delayed after Shank pulls the weapon out of their chest, but will be fighting fit otherwise.
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Lighter and Softer
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Lighter and Softer: The second game, relatively. While the gameplay is significantly Bloodier and Gorier and as manly as ever, its tone is subtly lighter than the first game's: Shank's side is much less morally ambiguousnote A rebellion against an oppressive military government, in contrast to the first game's cartel, which he intially works for in the co-op campaign and later seeks revenge against on his own in the main single player mode., the plot features less tension and tragic elements (despite the threat over the setting being far larger and more dangerous overall), and the cutscenes are much more exaggeratedSpoilers Compare Magnus' death from a grenade punched into his chest, to the lingering shot of Cesar as blood from his mortal wound spreads across his white shirt.. Swearing is also less frequent, and sexual themes are barely touched upon.
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In its purest form.
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Impossibly Cool Weapon
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On the enemies' side, General Magnus has dual chainsaw knives!
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Mirror Boss
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Mirror Boss: Cesar from the first game is more-or-less this to Shank, fighting with weapons that mirror his former enforcer's own, which include a pair of fancy knives as opposed to Shank's shivs, a cutlass that can be compared to Shank's katana, and flintlock pistols that are a great contrast to Shank's semi-auto pistols. He also pounces on Shank during his defeat cutscene. Arguably downplayed with Magnus from Shank 2, since his main weapons (so-called "chainsaw knives") are basically a combination of Shank's shivs and chainsaw, but his overall move set is unique otherwise.
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Guest Fighter
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Guest Fighter: DeathSpank and Kratos.
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": In Shank 2, the Doctor's real name is Marco Gura, according to a Rebel Intel.
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Bulletproof Human Shield
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Bulletproof Human Shield: While Shank grabs a mook, he can use them as this.
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Shank surprisingly pulls this in Shank 2 when he sees the cannibals eating their own leader's corpse.
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: "Forgive me Father, for I will sin."
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Heroic Second Wind
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Heroic Second Wind: Exaggerated at the end of the first game. After Shank gets sucker-punched, stabbed in the gut and then shot at point-blank range by Cesar with two guns, he just gets up, effortlessly tanks every other attack, finishes the job, and walks away without so much as a limp.
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Bad Habits
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Bad Habits: As revealed in the co-op campaign, Angelo acted as a Sinister Minister after gunning down a priest, then posed as him because while people knew the priest was coming, no one knew what he looked like. When Shank enters the church Angelo took over in the single player campaign, it's also shown that one of his henchmen runs around crossdressing as a nun.
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Boss Subtitles
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Boss Subtitles: Most bosses in both games have their name shown either when first introduced or before the start of their fight. Shank himself gets one in the intro of the first game. Played for laughs in the second game, where at the start of an Indy Escape sequence, the Boss Subtitle is given to the giant boulder that starts rolling towards Shank.
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Authority Equals Asskicking
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Authority Equals Asskicking: Both Big Bads and Final Bosses of the two games. Cesar from the first game is the leader of the cartel and the one who taught Falcone and Shank everything they know in fighting. General Magnus, leader of the Militia in Shank 2, is pretty experienced in melee fighting with his so-called "chainsaw knives". According to his bio, he's also a world champion in bare-knuckled boxing.
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Determinator
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Determinator: Shank holds his own next to Max Payne for sheer iron plating; he's in potentially worse shape by the end of the first game, and is running on his own badassitude and booze.
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Combination Attack
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Combination Attack: Possible in the multiplayer.
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Chain Pain
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Shank can wear chains around his hands to pulverize and strangle enemies.
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Masked Luchador
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Masked Luchador: One of the designs for big enemies in the first game features a luchador mask accompanied by a formal suit. The Butcher in the first game, which is used to disguise that the first boss Shank fights isn't the actual Butcher from the cartel, but rather the Butcher's rival El Toro. The second game features this as a costume for Shank.
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Backstory
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Backstory: An interesting case where it's not only playable, but also only accessible by playing the co-op mode.
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Cain and Abel
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Cain and Abel: Cyclops' Rebel Intel in Shank 2 reveals him to be the Abel to Magnus and Inferno's Cain. He tried to assassinate Magnus for abusing his power, but was stopped by Inferno, whom he took an eye out in the process. He was then imprisoned in a tanker for a year, leading to his status by the game's events, but not before Inferno extracted his eye in return.
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Would Hit a Girl
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Would Hit a Girl: Gender matters not to Shank, which is first shown when he comes to Club Stardust in the first game. There, he fights the fourth boss, Cassandra, who is a woman, and after he kills her, he takes on numerous other working girls in the club. He has no problem busting up Roselle in the second game either.
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Ambidextrous Sprite
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Ambidextrous Sprite: Par for the course, but inexplicably also present in a cutscene in Shank 2 where Cyclops' eyepatch switches sides.
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Organ Theft
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Organ Theft: In Shank 2, the Doctor leads an organ theft business in the basement area of a disguised hotel.
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Deadly Doctor
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Deadly Doctor: Magnus' physician, the Doctor, serves as the penultimate boss of Shank 2, and he's tough as hell. Fittingly, he looks just like the Medic from Team Fortress 2.
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished: The aversion thereof is the motivation for Cassandra's vendetta against Shank. Played straight in the second game, in that you can cut arms and legs off male enemies but not female ones; you can still gib them, though. The female bosses have much less violent deaths than the male ones. Cassandra in the first game gets a hole in the forehead, despite that Shank shot her at point blank and the bullet should have punched a big chunk of her brains out of the back of her skull (that said, the blood pool under her skull is massive), and Roselle in Shank 2 gets Eaten Alive by wolves offscreen.
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