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* BrickJoke: At the beginning of the movie, Brian and Stephen mention using cases of scotch to bribe Chief Fitzgerald to affect Brian's station assignment. Later, we get to see Chief Fitzgerald's retirement party.
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* AnimalMotifs: Stephen "Bull"(headed) McCaffery, tying in with MeaningfulName. Helps that he has the logo of the Chicago Bulls basketball team on the back of his helmet.

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* AnimalMotifs: Stephen "Bull"(headed) McCaffery, [=McCaffery=], tying in with MeaningfulName. Helps that he has the logo of the Chicago Bulls basketball team on the back of his helmet.

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* AnimalMotifs: Stephen "Bull"(headed) McCaffery, tying in with MeaningfulName. Helps that he has the logo of the Chicago Bulls basketball team on the back of his helmet.



* MeaningfulName: Stephen "Bull"(headed) McCaffery. Helps that he has the logo of the Chicago Bulls basketball team on the back of his helmet.
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* MeaningfulName: Stephen "Bull"(headed) McCaffery. Helps that he has the logo of the Chicago Bulls basketball team on the back of his helmet.
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* UnflinchingWalk: When Brian realizes the arsonist is [[spoiler: Adcox]], he walks out of the shower straight toward Brian without saying a word, only stopping on the way out of the locker room to glare at Brian before getting ready for the call.
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* NauseaFuel: The burned bodies of the victims, especially during the morgue scene. Not helped when the body Brian is holding expelled some gas after being handled.
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''Backdraft'' is a 1991 American action-drama film directed by Creator/RonHoward and written by Gregory Widen. The film stars Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/WilliamBaldwin, Creator/RobertDeNiro and Creator/ScottGlenn. Creator/DonaldSutherland, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/RebeccaDeMornay, Jason Gedrick, Hardy Patel, Brian Jaramillo and Creator/JTWalsh co-star in the film.

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''Backdraft'' is a 1991 American action-drama film directed by Creator/RonHoward and written by Gregory Widen.Widen (''Film/{{Highlander}}'', ''Film/TheProphecy''). The film stars Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/WilliamBaldwin, Creator/RobertDeNiro and Creator/ScottGlenn. Creator/DonaldSutherland, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/RebeccaDeMornay, Jason Gedrick, Hardy Patel, Brian Jaramillo and Creator/JTWalsh co-star in the film.
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* FirefighterArsonist: Brian [=McCarthy=] and arson investigator Donald "Shadow" Rimgale team up to investigate several suspicious fires that resulted in backdrafts which killed several city officials and businessmen. It eventually turns out that veteran firefighter [[spoiler:[[FallenHero John "Axe" Adcox]]]] is responsible. Having discovered that [[CorruptPolitician Alderman Swayzak]] and his associates have been shutting down numerous fire stations, using fabricated reports to claim they are unneeded, so that he can award lucrative contracts to his business supporters and pave his way into the mayor's office, endangering the lives of numerous civilians and firefighters, he is now on the [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge warpath]] after everyone responsible.

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* FirefighterArsonist: Brian [=McCarthy=] [=McCaffrey=] and arson investigator Donald "Shadow" Rimgale team up to investigate several suspicious fires that resulted in backdrafts which killed several city officials and businessmen. It eventually turns out that veteran firefighter [[spoiler:[[FallenHero John "Axe" Adcox]]]] is responsible. Having discovered that [[CorruptPolitician Alderman Swayzak]] and his associates have been shutting down numerous fire stations, using fabricated reports to claim they are unneeded, so that he can award lucrative contracts to his business supporters and pave his way into the mayor's office, endangering the lives of numerous civilians and firefighters, firefighters (and costing at least three of the former and unspecified numbers of the latter), he is now on the [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge warpath]] after everyone responsible.
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* InternalReveal: [[spoiler:In the sequel, Brian tells Stephen's Sean about Adcox being the arsonist.]]

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* InternalReveal: [[spoiler:In the sequel, Brian tells Stephen's son Sean about Adcox being the arsonist.]]
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* InternalReveal: [[spoiler:In the sequel, Brian tells Stephen's Sean about Adcox being the arsonist.]]
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