History Film / DeathWarrant

* FanDisservice: Burke is shown naked, but the context makes it unappealing, as he's been confined to solitary under suspicion of having killed his cellmate.
** Amanda is shown getting undressed at one point, but it’s for a forced strip search by prison guards and is presented as the unpleasant encounter that it is.

* VillainCred: The Sandman is a renowned figure in the prison due to his love for killing cops; when he's first brought to the prison, the other cons give him a huge ovation. He has no problem finding allies among them.

* VillainCred: The Sandman is a renowned figure in the prison due to his love for killing cops; when he's first brought to the prison, the other cons give him a huge ovation.

* ImplacableMan: The Sandman seems to be superhumanly durable. He is shot once, but keeps trying to kill Burke. Multiple gunshot wounds are just a temporary inconvenience. He even survives being set on fire.

* PrisonRape: When Burke first enters his own cell, his bunk mate threatens to rape him. The muscular Burke, unimpressed, quickly shows him who's boss by beating him up. [[EasilyForgiven They become buddies afterwards]].

** The two cons who worked together with the warden to kill prisoners and silence anyone who might expose seem to be in it more out of sadism than any profit.

In the Harrison State Prison in California, prisoners are mysteriously dying in increasing numbers. Detective Burke (Van Damme) is called in on a state task force to investigate the deaths, going undercover as a new inmate pretending to be an old friend of one of the recently deceased. He soon discovers that a massive organ harvesting operation is taking place under the warden's eye and after repeated attempts to kill Burke and cover it up fail, Burke's old nemesis, a SerialKiller known as "the Sandman" (Patrick Kilpatrick), is also transferred to the prison to take out Burke.

* VillainousBreakdown: The man behind the plot to harvest prisoner organs, moments after intending to dispose of the person who discovered his role in this, is turned into a whimpering mess when he is interruped [[spoiler:his wife]], whom he now has to tell just how he bought her a few more years of life.

In the Harrison State Prison in California, prisoners are mysteriously dying in increasing numbers. Detective Burke (Van Damme) is called in on a state task force to investigate the deaths, going undercover as a new inmate pretending to be an old friend of one of the recently deceased. He soon discovers that a massive organ harvesting operation is taking place under the warden's eye and after repeated attempts to kill Burke and cover it up fail, Burke's old nemesis, a SerialKiller known as "the Sandman", is also transferred to the prison to take out Burke.

In the Harrison State Prison in California, prisoners are mysteriously dying in increasing numbers. Detective Burke (Van Damme) is called in on a state task force to investigate the deaths, going undercover as a new inmate pretending to be an old friend of one of the recently deceased. He soon discovers that a massive organ harvesting operation is taking place under the warden's eye and after repeated attempts to kill Burke and cover it up fail, Burke's old nemesis, a SerialKiller known as "the Sandman", is also transferred to the prison to take out Burke.

* HiddenVillain: It's clear that the Warden and his buddies are evil, but they're backed by a mysterious agent. [[spoiler:It turns out to one of the men who assigned Burke on the task force to begin with, Amanda's boss Tom Vogler.]]

* {{Badass}}: Louis Burke, as typical for a Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme character. He's a trained martial artist who easily beats up most of his opponents, though not always without taking a few hits himself.

* FanDisservice: Burke is shown naked, but the context makes in unappealing, as he's been confined to solitary under suspicion of having killed his cellmate.

In the Harrison State Prison in California, prisoners are mysteriously dying in increasing numbers. Detective Burke (Van Damme) is called in on a state task force to investigate the deaths. Burke goes undercover as a new inmate pretending to be an old friend of one of the recently deceased. He soon discovers that a massive organ harvesting operation is taking place under the warden's eye. After repeated attempts to kill Burke and cover it up fail, Burke's old nemesis, a SerialKiller known as "the Sandman", is also tranferred to the prison to take out Burke.

* AmoralAttorney: [[spoiler:The organ harvesting operation in the prison was masterminded by Califora's Attorney General Tom Vogler.]]

* MuggingTheMonster: In the opening, a couple of gangbangers try to rob the hero cop Louis Burke (Jean-Claude Van Damme). He hasn't got time for them, being in the neighborhood solely to avenge his dead partner by catching his killer, so he quickly dispatches them and gets on with his mission.
* OrganTheft: Corrupt prison officials in Death Warrant have prisoners killed to sell their organs for profit.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The Warden and the rest of his guards are blatantly racist. At one point he hunts down one of Burke's allies to kill him, claiming that he "can smell niggers".

* SerialKiller: The Sandman killed several people before he was tracked down and shot by Burke, including Burke's partner. In prison, he happily goes on another rampage.
* VillainCred: The Sandman is a renowned figure in the prison due to his love for killing cops. When he's first brought to the prison, the other cons give him a huge ovation.
* WardensAreEvil: The Warden agrees with corrupt state officials to kill his prisoners to harvest their organs. Unlike the mastermind behind this scheme, his own motive is just profit. He's also a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain violent racist]] and a sadistic bully.

* PrisonRape: When Burke first enters his own cell, his bunk mate threatens to rape him. The muscular Burke, unimpressed, quickly shows him who's boss by beating him up. They become buddies afterwards.

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* AmoralAttorney: [[spoiler:The organ harvesting operation was masterminded by Califora's Attorney General Tom Vogler.]]

* PrisonRape: When Burke first enters his own cell, his bunk mate threatens to rape him. The muscular Burke, unimpressed, quickly shows him who's boss.

* WardensAreEvil: The Warden agrees with corrupt state officials to kill his prisoners to harvest their organs. Unlike the mastermind behind this scheme, his own motive is just profit He's also a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain violent racist]] and a sadistic bully.