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* ICannotSelfTerminate: The Mandroid explains to Hunter early in the third act that [[WasOnceAMan he loathes what he has been turned into]] and would like to kill himself but his self-preservation programming prevents him from doing that, so he asks Hunter to kill him. Hunter talks him out of it, [[spoiler:but he, [[HeroicSacrifice in a way]], accomplishes what he wanted in the last minutes of the film.]]
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A cyborg (ok, ''Mandroid''), a GratuitousNinja, a LoveableRogue, a RobotBuddy and TheChick (who is a ColonelBadass).
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A cyborg (ok, ''Mandroid''), a GratuitousNinja, a LoveableRogue, a RobotBuddy and TheChick TheSmurfettePrinciple (who is a ColonelBadass).
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* TheJuggernaut: Mandroid!Reeves, using a perfected frame, is completely unstoppable and pulls a CurbStompBattle by his lonesome on the team. They are only saved by BondVillainStupidity (leaving them alone so he can start his time jump), [[spoiler:and not checking whether the Mandroid (the only member outside the forcefield) is ''completely'' dead]].
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* TheWallsAreClosingIn: Mandroid!Reeves shoots a forcefield at the team, which threatens to shrink and crush them. [[spoiler:Until the Mandroid pulls his HeroicSacrifice]].
* TheJuggernaut: Mandroid!Reeves, using a perfected frame, is completely unstoppable and pulls a CurbStompBattle by his lonesome on the team. They are only saved by BondVillainStupidity (leaving them alone so he can start his time jump), [[spoiler:and not checking whether the Mandroid (the only member outside the forcefield) is ''completely'' dead]].
* TheJuggernaut: Mandroid!Reeves, using a perfected frame, is completely unstoppable and pulls a CurbStompBattle by his lonesome on the team. They are only saved by BondVillainStupidity (leaving them alone so he can start his time jump), [[spoiler:and not checking whether the Mandroid (the only member outside the forcefield) is ''completely'' dead]].
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* TheWallsAreClosingIn: Mandroid!Reeves shoots a forcefield at the team, which threatens to shrink and crush them. [[spoiler:Until the Mandroid pulls his HeroicSacrifice]].
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.* EnergyWeapon: The Mandroid comes equipped with these.
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* MuggingTheMonster: Two random carjackers smash Hunter's car window and try to steal her backpack (which contains SPOT) right out of her hands. [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting It]] [[ToyotaTripwire doesn't ends]] [[KickChick well]] [[FrickinLaserBeams for]] [[StuffBlowingUp them]].
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* MuggingTheMonster: Two random carjackers smash Hunter's car window and try to steal her backpack (which contains SPOT) right out of her hands. [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting It]] [[ToyotaTripwire doesn't ends]] [[KickChick well]] [[FrickinLaserBeams [[EnergyWeapon for]] [[StuffBlowingUp them]].
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* AndIMustScream: Reeves' final fate.
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* AndIMustScream: Reeves' final fate. [[spoiler:Stuck in a prehistoric era where the only other living thing is bacteria, it's all he can do.]]
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* LoveableRogue: Harry.
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* LoveableRogue: Harry.Harry is essentially a (more-) BMovie, modern-day swamp-dweller Han Solo wanna-be.
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* WalkingTechbane: [[spoiler:Harry accidentally makes Reeves' time-travel machinery go haywire by hitting a random keyboard, which causes Reeves' NearVillainVictory to end up [[AndIMustScream badly]].]]
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A cyborg (ok, ''Mandroid''), a GratuitousNinja, a LoveableRogue, a RobotBuddy and TheChick (who is a ColonelBadass).
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''Eliminators'' is a ScienceFiction film from 1986 directed by Peter Manoogian, starring [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Denise Crosby]], and featuring:
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''Eliminators'' is a 1986 ScienceFiction film from 1986 directed by Peter Manoogian, starring [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Denise Crosby]], and featuring:
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''Eliminators'' is a ScienceFiction film from 1986 with [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Denise Crosby]], featuring:
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''Eliminators'' is a ScienceFiction film from 1986 with directed by Peter Manoogian, starring [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Denise Crosby]], and featuring:
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Colonel Nora Hunter (Denise Crosby) is approached by a [[InsistentTerminology mandroid]] who needs her help to stop a MadScientist from traveling back in time and becoming GodEmperor of Rome.
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Colonel Nora Hunter (Denise Crosby) (Crosby) is approached by a [[InsistentTerminology mandroid]] who needs her help to stop a MadScientist from traveling back in time and becoming GodEmperor of Rome.
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* GratuitousNinja: The reason Kuji is in the movie.
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* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: The reason Kuji is in the movie.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Writer version: the movie was written by Paul [=DeMeo=] and Danny Bilson, who among other things created ''Series/TheFlash1990'' TV series (and wrote a few arcs for the comic book as well) and ''Series/{{Viper}}''.
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* UpgradeVsPrototypeFight: Mandroid vs. the more advanced Mandroid!Reeves. Unfortunately, the result is a CurbStompBattle on Reeves' favor, even with the rest of the team providing support.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: The Mandroid gets jolted dead by a forcefield when he disrupts it to save the rest of the team]].
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: The Mandroid gets jolted dead by a forcefield when he disrupts it to save the rest of the team]].team. SPOT also managed to obtain the information on how to infiltrate Reeves' lab, and shows it to the team before shutting down for good]].
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* WeCanRebuildHim: John was a pilot who crashed and was ([[UnwillingRoboticization unwillingly]]) rebuilt by Reeves as a cyb... [[InsistentTerminology Mandroid]].
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* WeCanRebuildHim: John was a pilot who crashed and was ([[UnwillingRoboticization unwillingly]]) rebuilt by Reeves as a cyb... [[InsistentTerminology Mandroid]].Mandroid]].
* YouKilledMyFather: Kuji's dad (a ReluctantMadScientist forced to be Reeves' assistant) is killed early in the movie helping the Mandroid escape.
* YouKilledMyFather: Kuji's dad (a ReluctantMadScientist forced to be Reeves' assistant) is killed early in the movie helping the Mandroid escape.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Writer version: the movie was written by Paul [=DeMeo=] and Danny Bilson, who among other things created the 1990's ''Series/TheFlash1990'' TV series (and wrote a few arcs for the comic book as well) and ''Series/{{Viper}}''.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Writer version: the movie was written by Paul [=DeMeo=] and Danny Bilson, who among other things created the 1990's ''Series/TheFlash1990'' TV series (and wrote a few arcs for the comic book as well) and ''Series/{{Viper}}''.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Writer version: the movie was written by Paul De Meo and Danny Bilson, who among other things, created the 1990's ''TheFlash'' TV series (and wrote a few arcs for the comic book as well) and ''Series/{{Viper}}''.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Writer version: the movie was written by Paul De Meo [=DeMeo=] and Danny Bilson, who among other things, things created the 1990's ''TheFlash'' ''Series/TheFlash1990'' TV series (and wrote a few arcs for the comic book as well) and ''Series/{{Viper}}''.
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* ColonelBadass: Colonel Nora Hunter: KickChick, good with a gun, BrainyBruiser with an expertise in robotics.
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* ColonelBadass: Colonel Nora Hunter: KickChick, good with a gun, BrainyBruiser GeniusBruiser with an expertise in robotics.
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* WeCanRebuildHim: John was a pilot who crashed and was ([[UnwillingRoboticization untillingly]]) rebuilt by Reeves as a cyb... [[InsistentTerminology Mandroid]].
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* WeCanRebuildHim: John was a pilot who crashed and was ([[UnwillingRoboticization untillingly]]) unwillingly]]) rebuilt by Reeves as a cyb... [[InsistentTerminology Mandroid]].
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* EleventhHourPartyMember: Kuji doesn't appears until the team is having trouble with the Neanderthals (at about the fifty-minute mark out of an hour and a half).
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* EleventhHourPartyMember: EleventhHourRanger: Kuji doesn't appears until the team is having trouble with the Neanderthals (at about the fifty-minute mark out of an hour and a half).
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The coordinates of John's crashed plane (26°32′ N, 81°14′ W) map to a point in south Florida and not Mexico.
* AnachronismStew: Robots, Romans, Neanderthals... justified with Reeves being an OmnidisciplinaryScientist looking to become an EmperorScientist by the use of TimeTravel.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The coordinates of John's crashed plane (26°32′ N, 81°14′ W) map to a point in south South Florida and not Mexico.
* AnachronismStew: Robots, Romans, Neanderthals... justified with Reeves beingan OmnidisciplinaryScientist a MadScientist looking to become an EmperorScientist by the use of TimeTravel.
* AnachronismStew: Robots, Romans, Neanderthals... justified with Reeves being
* BulletTime: BMovie version. Used by Kuji to cross the DeadlyRotaryFan.
* ColonelBadass: Colonel Nora Hunter: KickChick, good with a gun, BrainyBruiser with an expertise in robotics.
* ColonelBadass: Colonel Nora Hunter: KickChick, good with a gun, BrainyBruiser with an expertise in robotics.
* EleventhHourPartyMember: Kuji doesn't appears until the team is having trouble with the Neanderthals (at about the fifty-minute mark out of an hour and a half).
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* EverybodyLaughsEnding: [[the film ends right after the team reprograms Reeves' time travel capsule to overshoot its destination and Hunter giving a BondOneLiner everybody (who is still alive) chuckles at]].
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* EverybodyLaughsEnding: [[the [[spoiler: the film ends right after the team reprograms Reeves' time travel capsule to overshoot its destination and Hunter giving a BondOneLiner everybody (who is still alive) chuckles at]].
* LoveableRogue: Harry.
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* WeCanRebuildHim: John was a pilot who crashed and was ([[UnwillingRoboticization untillingly]]) rebuilt by Reeves as a cyb... Mandroid.[[InsistentTerminology Mandroid]].
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* MuggingTheMonster: Two random carjackers smash Hunter's car window and try to steal her backpack (which contains SPOT). [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting It doesn't ends]] [[KickChick well]] [[FrickinLaserBeams for]] [[StuffBlowingUp them]].
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* MuggingTheMonster: Two random carjackers smash Hunter's car window and try to steal her backpack (which contains SPOT). SPOT) right out of her hands. [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting It It]] [[ToyotaTripwire doesn't ends]] [[KickChick well]] [[FrickinLaserBeams for]] [[StuffBlowingUp them]].
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* AnachronismStew: Robots, Romans, Neanderthals...
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* AnachronismStew: Robots, Romans, Neanderthals... justified with Reeves being an OmnidisciplinaryScientist looking to become an EmperorScientist by the use of TimeTravel.
* AndIMustScream: Reeves' final fate.
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:SPOT and the Mandroid don't make it to the end of the movie]].
* AndIMustScream: Reeves' final fate.
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:SPOT and the Mandroid don't make it to the end of the movie]].
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* [[DeusExMachina Deus ex Mandroid]]: The Mandroid keeps [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands pulling out new features]] throughout the movie to get them out of sticky situations. KnockoutGas! [[HollywoodMagnetism Magnetic hands]]! Torpedoes! [[ArtificialGill Underwater breathing]]! Water jets!
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* [[DeusExMachina Deus ex Mandroid]]: The Mandroid keeps [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands pulling out new features]] throughout the movie to get them out of sticky situations. KnockoutGas! [[HollywoodMagnetism Magnetic hands]]! Torpedoes! [[ArtificialGill Underwater breathing]]! Water jets!jets! GrapplingHookPistol!
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* EverybodyLaughsEnding: [[the film ends right after the team reprograms Reeves' time travel capsule to overshoot its destination and Hunter giving a BondOneLiner everybody (who is still alive) chuckles at]].
* FateWorseThanDeath: How the team stops Reeves' NearVillainVictory: by making Reeves overshoot his time travel target, ending all the way back to 20 million B.C.-where there's not even ''dinosaurs'', let alone humans, to rule over... and his machine gets wrecked on arrival.
* FateWorseThanDeath: How the team stops Reeves' NearVillainVictory: by making Reeves overshoot his time travel target, ending all the way back to 20 million B.C.-where there's not even ''dinosaurs'', let alone humans, to rule over... and his machine gets wrecked on arrival.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: The Mandroid gets jolted dead by a forcefield when he disrupts it to save the rest of the team]].
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* MuggingTheMonster: Two random carjackers smash Hunter's car window and try to steal her backpack (which contains SPOT). [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting It doesn't ends]] [[KickChick well]] [[FrickinLaserBeams for]] [[StuffBlowingUp them]].
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* ShooOutTheClowns: Or more like [[ShootTheDog shoot dead]] the clowns: cute RobotBuddy SPOT is asked to do recon on Reeves' base and then an action scene happens... and he comes back on the scene after that reprogrammed by Reeves to kill the crew, forcing Kuji to smash it. Things get a bit grimmer for the crew right after that.
* ShoutOut:
--->"Relax! [[Film/FromRussiaWithLove I saw this in a movie once]]."
* TheWallsAreClosingIn: Mandroid!Reeves shoots a forcefield at the team, which threatens to shrink and crush them. [[spoiler:Until the Mandroid pulls his HeroicSacrifice]].
* TheJuggernaut: Mandroid!Reeves, using a perfected frame, is completely unstoppable and pulls a CurbStompBattle by his lonesome on the team. They are only saved by BondVillainStupidity (leaving them alone so he can start his time jump), [[spoiler:and not checking whether the Mandroid (the only member outside the forcefield) is ''completely'' dead]].
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--->"Relax! [[Film/FromRussiaWithLove I saw this in a movie once]]."
* TheWallsAreClosingIn: Mandroid!Reeves shoots a forcefield at the team, which threatens to shrink and crush them. [[spoiler:Until the Mandroid pulls his HeroicSacrifice]].
* TheJuggernaut: Mandroid!Reeves, using a perfected frame, is completely unstoppable and pulls a CurbStompBattle by his lonesome on the team. They are only saved by BondVillainStupidity (leaving them alone so he can start his time jump), [[spoiler:and not checking whether the Mandroid (the only member outside the forcefield) is ''completely'' dead]].
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''Eliminators'' is a ScienceFiction film from 1986 with [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Denise Crosby]], featuring:
* Robots
* Ninjas
* Cavemen
* Mandroids
* Romans
* Mad scientists
* Gratuitous boat chases
* The kitchen sink
Colonel Nora Hunter (Denise Crosby) is approached by a [[InsistentTerminology mandroid]] who needs her help to stop a MadScientist from traveling back in time and becoming GodEmperor of Rome.
Just [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJgAeGUD2FU watch the trailer]] and try to remember that it's real and not a {{Retraux}} parody.
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* AirVentPassageway: How they get into Reeves' base.
* ArtificialGill: "Bio-fed oxygen transcribers"
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The coordinates of John's crashed plane (26°32′ N, 81°14′ W) map to a point in south Florida and not Mexico.
* AnachronismStew: Robots, Romans, Neanderthals...
* BarBrawl: How Harry ends up as the party's boat captain.
* {{Cyborg}}: The Mandroid.
* DeadlyRotaryFan: An obstacle in the AirVentPassageway in Reeves' base.
* [[DeusExMachina Deus ex Mandroid]]: The Mandroid keeps [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands pulling out new features]] throughout the movie to get them out of sticky situations. KnockoutGas! [[HollywoodMagnetism Magnetic hands]]! Torpedoes! [[ArtificialGill Underwater breathing]]! Water jets!
* EmperorScientist: Reeves' ambition.
* FunWithAcronyms: "Spot" is really an acronym for "Search, Patrol and Operational Tactician".
* ImmortalityInducer: Why Reeves turns himself into a mandroid as well.
* InsistentTerminology: "Mandroid" instead of "cyborg".
* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: The reason Kuji is in the movie.
* LampshadeHanging: See the page quote.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The Mandroid has had his memory wiped.
* MadScientist: Reeves.
* RobotBuddy: SPOT.
* TimeMachine: What Reeves has been building in his secret jungle base.
* WeCanRebuildHim: John was a pilot who crashed and was rebuilt by Reeves as a cyb... Mandroid.
''Eliminators'' is a ScienceFiction film from 1986 with [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Denise Crosby]], featuring:
* Robots
* Ninjas
* Cavemen
* Mandroids
* Romans
* Mad scientists
* Gratuitous boat chases
* The kitchen sink
Colonel Nora Hunter (Denise Crosby) is approached by a [[InsistentTerminology mandroid]] who needs her help to stop a MadScientist from traveling back in time and becoming GodEmperor of Rome.
Just [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJgAeGUD2FU watch the trailer]] and try to remember that it's real and not a {{Retraux}} parody.
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* AirVentPassageway: How they get into Reeves' base.
* ArtificialGill: "Bio-fed oxygen transcribers"
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The coordinates of John's crashed plane (26°32′ N, 81°14′ W) map to a point in south Florida and not Mexico.
* AnachronismStew: Robots, Romans, Neanderthals...
* BarBrawl: How Harry ends up as the party's boat captain.
* {{Cyborg}}: The Mandroid.
* DeadlyRotaryFan: An obstacle in the AirVentPassageway in Reeves' base.
* [[DeusExMachina Deus ex Mandroid]]: The Mandroid keeps [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands pulling out new features]] throughout the movie to get them out of sticky situations. KnockoutGas! [[HollywoodMagnetism Magnetic hands]]! Torpedoes! [[ArtificialGill Underwater breathing]]! Water jets!
* EmperorScientist: Reeves' ambition.
* FunWithAcronyms: "Spot" is really an acronym for "Search, Patrol and Operational Tactician".
* ImmortalityInducer: Why Reeves turns himself into a mandroid as well.
* InsistentTerminology: "Mandroid" instead of "cyborg".
* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: The reason Kuji is in the movie.
* LampshadeHanging: See the page quote.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The Mandroid has had his memory wiped.
* MadScientist: Reeves.
* RobotBuddy: SPOT.
* TimeMachine: What Reeves has been building in his secret jungle base.
* WeCanRebuildHim: John was a pilot who crashed and was rebuilt by Reeves as a cyb... Mandroid.
