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What ensues is a surreal, gritty bloodbath set at the intersection of ''Film/TheCrow'' and ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', brought to you by Creator/{{Necrostorm}} and starring Creator/EmanueleDeSanti, who also wrote the screenplay and makes up most of the production crew.

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What ensues is a surreal, gritty bloodbath set at the intersection of ''Film/TheCrow'' ''Film/TheCrow1994'' and ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', brought to you by Creator/{{Necrostorm}} and starring Creator/EmanueleDeSanti, who also wrote the screenplay and makes up most of the production crew.
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* CreepyCoolCrosses: The inverted cross is all over this film, from the one etched into Denny's mask to the one scarred into Adam's right shoulder as a sign of his demonic pact. At one point Adam's cross scar spurts blood against a wall to form another once, just before he lays into the police inspector.

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* CreepyCoolCrosses: CreepyCrosses: The inverted cross is all over this film, from the one etched into Denny's mask to the one scarred into Adam's right shoulder as a sign of his demonic pact. At one point point, Adam's cross scar spurts blood against a wall to form another once, cross, just before he lays into the police inspector.
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* ShowerScene: After his rampage in the subway and police station leaves him literally drenched in blood, Adam gets a weirdly fanservicey shower scene to clean himself off, completely with closeups of his chest and abs.
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* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Adam eventually names his demon Derek, after one of his kills.

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* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Adam eventually names his demon Derek, after one of his kills.while looking at the man himself, still impaled and screaming.
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* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Adam eventually names his demon Dennis.

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* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Adam eventually names his demon Dennis.Derek, after one of his kills.

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* CarCushion: After beating Mike to a pulp, Adam chucks him out a window, where he hands on Ben and Derek's car hard enough to collapse the engine block. Weirdly, the car is still driveable.



* DirtyCoward: After the brothers' attempt to send Mike after Adam fails, Ben drives off, leaving Derek behind, and then tries to tell Denny that Derek fled on foot, rather, than, you know, stay in the car, being blind and all.



* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: One of the later kills (Dennis's son?) is impaled on a flagpole with minimal effort.

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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: One of the later kills (Dennis's son?) kills, Derek, is impaled on a flagpole with minimal effort.



* MonochromaticEyes: Adam’s eyes turn solid white while he is under the demon’s influence.

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* MonochromaticEyes: Adam’s eyes turn solid white while he is under the demon’s influence. Additionally, Derek, who is blind, has solid black eyes.

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* DirtyCop: It’s implied that the entire police force is in Dennis’s pocket

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* DirtyCop: It’s implied that the entire police force is in Dennis’s pocketpocket.


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* EvilSoundsDeep: Played with; Dennis's voice is low and guttural, and Adam often dips into VoiceOfTheLegion due to his demonic pact, but the demon itself has a high, raspy voice.
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* CreepyCoolCrosses: The inverted cross is all over this film, from the one etched into Denny's mask to the one scarred into Adam's right shoulder as a sign of his demonic pact. At one point Adam's cross scar spurts blood against a wall to form another once, just before he lays into the police inspector.


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* PoliceBrutality: Apparently standard operating procedure in Heaven Valley, though Adam is unaffected by a couple butt strikes from a shotgun during his own interrogation. It ends badly for everyone else involved.
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* SplatterHorror: A rare version here, where all the carnage is wrought by the protagonist.

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* SplatterHorror: A rare version here, where all the carnage is wrought by the protagonist. Because of all the over-the-top gore and violence during even the most incidental fights, it is billed as "the bloodiest movie ever".
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* WalkingShirtlessScene: Adam spends almost the entire movie shirtless, wearing at most and open leather jacket on his upper half, to give the audience a nice look at his muscular chest and abs. Any fanservice may be blunted by the carnage he instigates while so clad...

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* WalkingShirtlessScene: Adam spends almost the entire movie shirtless, wearing at most and an open leather jacket on his upper half, to give the audience a nice look at his muscular chest and abs. Any fanservice may be blunted by the carnage he instigates while so clad...
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* WalkingShirtlessScene: Adam spends almost the entire movie shirtless, wearing at most and open leather jacket on his upper half, to give the audience a nice look at his muscular chest and abs. Any fanservice may be blunted by the carnage he instigates while so clad... [[FetishFuel unless you're into that.]]

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* WalkingShirtlessScene: Adam spends almost the entire movie shirtless, wearing at most and open leather jacket on his upper half, to give the audience a nice look at his muscular chest and abs. Any fanservice may be blunted by the carnage he instigates while so clad... [[FetishFuel unless you're into that.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: Although Adam is able to avenge his wife's murder, his infernal contract means that he will go to hell rather than join his wife in heaven.


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* SuperSpeed: In addition to the RapidFireFisticuffs mentioned above, Adam can move blindingly fast, to the alarm of a would-be robber at the beginning.

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* AntiHero: Adam.

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* AntiHero: Adam. While his motivations might be noble (avenging his wife's death), selling his soul to a demon and ripping people to pieces is a questionable means of doing so.


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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: One of the later kills (Dennis's son?) is impaled on a flagpole with minimal effort.


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* WalkingShirtlessScene: Adam spends almost the entire movie shirtless, wearing at most and open leather jacket on his upper half, to give the audience a nice look at his muscular chest and abs. Any fanservice may be blunted by the carnage he instigates while so clad... [[FetishFuel unless you're into that.]]
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* HighPressureBlood[=/=]OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: Blood sprays out with the force of a fire hose by the ‘’gallons’’ when Adam rips people apart.

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* HighPressureBlood[=/=]OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: Blood sprays out with the force of a fire hose by the ‘’gallons’’ ''gallons'' when Adam rips people apart.



* MadeOfPlasticine: The demon has given Adam supernatural strength and speed, meaning everyone he goes up against comes apart fairly easily. Amazingly, a character whose head has been virtually ‘’pulped’’ is still able to speak

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* MadeOfPlasticine: The demon has given Adam supernatural strength and speed, meaning everyone he goes up against comes apart fairly easily. Amazingly, a character whose head has been virtually ‘’pulped’’ ''pulped'' is still able to speak
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* {{Gonk}}: Pretty much everyone in Dennis’s gang, culminating with Dennis himself, who wears a black mask, appears to have no lips, and sports clear tubes pumping fluids from one part of his body to another'

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* {{Gonk}}: Pretty much everyone in Dennis’s gang, culminating with Dennis himself, who wears a black mask, appears to have no lips, and sports clear tubes pumping fluids from one part of his body to another'another.

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* DealWithTheDevil: Maybe not Satan himself, but at least ‘’a’’ devil.

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* DealWithTheDevil: Maybe not Satan himself, but at least ‘’a’’ ''a'' devil.
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When his wife Emily is brutally murdered by gangsters, Adam can’t trust the corrupt police to track down her killers, so he makes a deal with a demon: in exchange for his soul, the demon will give him the power to track down and kill everyone responsible, ending with their deformed boss, Dennis Richards.

What ensues is a surreal, gritty bloodbath set at the intersection of ''Film/TheCrow'' and ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', brought to you by Creator/{{Necrostorm}} and starring Creator/EmanueleDeSanti, who also wrote the screenplay and makes up most of the production crew.
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!!Tropes found in ''Adam Chaplin'':
* AntiHero: Adam.
* DealWithTheDevil: Maybe not Satan himself, but at least ‘’a’’ devil.
* DirtyCop: It’s implied that the entire police force is in Dennis’s pocket
* DisposableWoman: Emily only shows up in the opening scene to give Adam a reason to go after the gangsters.
* DisproportionateRetribution: When a thief takes Adam’s bag while he’s napping, he responds by ''ripping his arm off''.
* {{Gonk}}: Pretty much everyone in Dennis’s gang, culminating with Dennis himself, who wears a black mask, appears to have no lips, and sports clear tubes pumping fluids from one part of his body to another'
* HighPressureBlood[=/=]OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: Blood sprays out with the force of a fire hose by the ‘’gallons’’ when Adam rips people apart.
* KensingtonGore: The blood more closely resembles cherry Kool-Aid than any bodily fluid.
* MadeOfPlasticine: The demon has given Adam supernatural strength and speed, meaning everyone he goes up against comes apart fairly easily. Amazingly, a character whose head has been virtually ‘’pulped’’ is still able to speak
* ManOnFire: Emily is doused in gasoline and set ablaze because she owed Dennis money.
* MonochromaticEyes: Adam’s eyes turn solid white while he is under the demon’s influence.
* RapidFireFisticuffs: Adam’s typical method for beating down his enemies.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Adam carves a bloody swath through the criminal underworld on his way to the man responsible for Emily’s death.
* SplatterHorror: A rare version here, where all the carnage is wrought by the protagonist.
* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Adam eventually names his demon Dennis.
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