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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Lyon may be highly skilled with his kicks, but it can have limits. When the two French Foreign Legion corner him in the tight space of an alleyway, they're able to come at him from different angles and reduce his space to work with. His kicks can't help him at all when one of the officers pulls him into a small a cement pit behind an apartment building, and Lyon receives several punches to his ribs. The doctor who treats him afterwards lampshades it in a way that's played for humor, by urging him to take Karate lessons so guys don't mess with him again.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Lyon may be highly skilled with his kicks, but it can have limits. When the two French Foreign Legion officers corner him in the tight space of an alleyway, they're able to come at him from different angles and reduce his space to work with. His kicks can't help him at all when one of the officers pulls him into a small a cement pit behind an apartment building, and Lyon receives several punches to his ribs. The doctor who treats him afterwards lampshades it in a way that's played for humor, by urging him to take Karate lessons so guys don't mess with him again.
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** Sonny finishes his fight with his first opponent by delivering a cruel GroinAttack. Moments later, Lyon opens his fight with Sonny with a savage GroinAttack that inmediatly settles the match.
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* SaltAndPepper: Lyon and Joshua. Their friendship doesn't survive the events of the movie.
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* HuntingTheRogue: A soldier in the French Foreign Legion learns that his brother was attacked by drug thugs, and is in critical condition. When Lyon's request for a pass is declined, he deserts to visit his brother. Two legionnaire enforcers are sent to retrieve him by any means necessary. The two men hound Lyon "Lionheart" Gaultier through the seedy world of underground FightClubbing.
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* BlackBestFriend: Joshua is a street hustler who helps Lyon get into the world of underground martial arts. Part of this is motivated by greed (Joshua knows what Lyons is capable of) but also because he likes the guy.
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* GameBreakingInjury: Lyon sustains an injury to his side during a fight. In the final tournament, his opponent uses this to his advantage.
* ManInAKilt: Discussed when Lyon and Joshua mock a Scottish fighter for his "skirt" and wonder if he's a true Scotsman.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Lyon "Lionheart" Gaultier.
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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: The movie looks like it's going to have one of these with Lyons dragged off by the French Foreign Legion for court martial and disgrace but the officers are so disgusted by Cynthia's behavior as well as moved by Lyons' actions (fighting for his family), they let him go.
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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: The movie looks like it's going to have one of these with Lyons Lyon dragged off by the French Foreign Legion for court martial and disgrace but the officers are so disgusted by Cynthia's behavior as well as moved by Lyons' Lyon's actions (fighting for his family), they let him go.
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* WindowPain: Lyon strikes his fourth opponent through a window.
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When Lyon finally reaches LA, he is unfortunately too late as Francois is dead. Initially unwilling to continue fighting after reaching LA, he is soon persuaded by Cynthia to continue getting into increasingly dangerous bouts so that he can help support Francois' widow and young daughter. Unfortunately someone like Cynthia doesn't help people for no reason, and the investigators sent by the Legion to bring him back are relentlessly closing in on Lyon...
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When Lyon finally reaches LA, he is unfortunately too late as Francois is dead. Initially unwilling to continue fighting after reaching LA, he is soon persuaded by Cynthia to continue getting into increasingly dangerous bouts so that he can help support Francois' widow and young daughter. Unfortunately someone like Cynthia doesn't help people for no reason, and the investigators sent by the Legion to bring him back are relentlessly closing in on Lyon...
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* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: Cynthia's position at the end isn't quite as bad as it could be because she deliberately manipulated the odds to favor Lyons, so Atilla was the underdog despite being a super strong killer. Then again, she's still implied to have bet an unreasonable chunk of change on him.
* BigBad: Cynthia is a underground fighting promoter who has made a fortune arranging BloodSport entertainment for the rich and powerful. This would merely make her no different from our protagonists, who are also involved in blood sports, if not for the fact she takes advantage of Lyons breaking a rib so she can send him to his possible death against Atilla. Even if Lyons survives, she also intends to hand him over to the French Foreign Legion.
* BigBad: Cynthia is a underground fighting promoter who has made a fortune arranging BloodSport entertainment for the rich and powerful. This would merely make her no different from our protagonists, who are also involved in blood sports, if not for the fact she takes advantage of Lyons breaking a rib so she can send him to his possible death against Atilla. Even if Lyons survives, she also intends to hand him over to the French Foreign Legion.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Joshua loses all of the money he placed on Atilla as an "insurance policy." Which is a fair punishment for the fact he didn't warn him about Cynthia until the end.
** Cynthia is implied to have bankrupted herself by betting everything on Atilla.
** Cynthia is implied to have bankrupted herself by betting everything on Atilla.
* MonsterHeel: Atilla is a martial arts movie example of this as he's portrayed as a barely human super strong powerhouse who cripples or kills his opponents in the ring. Notably, this is played down in-universe as Cynthia wants to make him seem like the underdog in the ring so people will bet heavily on Lyons when she expects Atilla to murder him in the ring.
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* ShirtlessScene: It wouldn't be a Jean Claude Van Damme movie if not for one of these.
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* ShirtlessScene: It wouldn't be a Jean Claude Van Damme movie if not for one of these.
* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: The movie looks like it's going to have one of these with Lyons dragged off by the French Foreign Legion for court martial and disgrace but the officers are so disgusted by Cynthia's behavior as well as moved by Lyons' actions (fighting for his family), they let him go.
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* CurbStompBattle: Lyon ends his fight with Sonny by giving him [[GroinAttack a swift punch into his balls]].
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* GroinAttack: A particularly infamous and painful example where it looks like his genitals have been destroyed by Lyon's attack.
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* TranslationConvention: Everyone in Foreign Legion speaks English.
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* TranslationConvention: Everyone in the French Foreign Legion speaks English.
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Starring Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme as Lyon Gaulier, the movie begins in Los Angeles with a drug deal gone wrong, as Lyon's brother Francois tries to hustle some street thugs with sugar as cocaine. This leads him getting a gasoline bath, followed by a matchstick. His wife Hélène writes about this to Lyon, and Lyon promptly deserts from his position in The Foreign Legion and escapes to the USA, managing to get into UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity. Penniless, he participates in illegal streetfights in order to raise money so he get into LA and to his hospitalized brother. While doing this he meets Joshua, who promptly appoints himself Lyon's manager/trainer and Cynthia, a rich and influential player in the streetfights who quickly develops a financial interest in Lyon's fighting prowess.
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Starring Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme as Lyon Gaulier, the movie begins in Los Angeles with a drug deal gone wrong, as Lyon's brother Francois tries to hustle some street thugs with sugar as cocaine. This leads thugs, who set him getting a gasoline bath, followed by a matchstick.on fire. His wife Hélène writes about this to Lyon, and Lyon promptly deserts from his position in The Foreign Legion and escapes to the USA, managing to get into UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity. Penniless, he participates in illegal streetfights in order to raise money so he get into LA and to his hospitalized brother. While doing this he meets Joshua, who promptly appoints himself Lyon's manager/trainer and Cynthia, a rich and influential player in the streetfights who quickly develops a financial interest in Lyon's fighting prowess.
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Starring JeanClaudeVanDamme Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme as Lyon Gaulier, the movie begins in Los Angeles with a drug deal gone wrong, as Lyon's brother Francois tries to hustle some street thugs with sugar as cocaine. This leads him getting a gasoline bath, followed by a matchstick. His wife Hélène writes about this to Lyon, and Lyon promptly deserts from his position in The Foreign Legion and escapes to the USA, managing to get into UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity. Penniless, he participates in illegal streetfights in order to raise money so he get into LA and to his hospitalized brother. While doing this he meets Joshua, who promptly appoints himself Lyon's manager/trainer and Cynthia, a rich and influential player in the streetfights who quickly develops a financial interest in Lyon's fighting prowess.
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Starring JeanClaudeVanDamme as Lyon Gaulier, the movie begins in Los Angeles with a drug deal gone wrong, as Lyon's brother Francois tries to hustle some street thugs with sugar as cocaine. This leads him getting a gasoline bath, followed by a matchstick. His wife Hélène writes about this to Lyon, and Lyon promptly deserts from his position in The Foreign Legion and escapes to the USA, managing to get into NewYorkCity.UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity. Penniless, he participates in illegal streetfights in order to raise money so he get into LA and to his hospitalized brother. While doing this he meets Joshua, who promptly appoints himself Lyon's manager/trainer and Cynthia, a rich and influential player in the streetfights who quickly develops a financial interest in Lyon's fighting prowess.
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Starring JeanClaudeVanDamme as Lyon Gaulier, the movie begins in Los Angeles with a drug deal gone wrong wrong, as Lyon's brother Francois tries to hustle some street thugs with sugar as cocaine and ends up with cocaine. This leads him getting a gasoline bath bath, followed by a matchstick. His wife Hélène writes about this to Lyon, and Lyon promptly deserts from his position in The Foreign Legion and escapes to the USA, managing to get into NewYorkCity. Penniless, he participates in illegal streetfights in order to raise money so he get into LA and to his hospitalized brother. While doing this he meets Joshua, who promptly appoints himself Lyon's manager/trainer and Cynthia, a rich and influential player in the streetfights who quickly develops a financial interest in Lyon's fighting prowess.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[SledgeHammer Captain Trunk]] is Joshua.
** [[{{Dallas}} Sylvia "Sly" Lovegren]] is Cynthia.
** Young AshleyJohnson is Hélène's daughter Nicole.
** [[Film/MortalKombat Shao Kahn]] is Cynthia's bodyguard Russell.
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* SoBadItsGood: A great example.
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* MissedMomentOfAwesome: So wait, both [[Film/MortalKombat Shao Kahn]] ''and'' [[Film/StreetFighter Guile]] are in the same movie and they ''don't'' fight each other? What a bore.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: So wait, both [[Film/MortalKombat Shao Kahn]] ''and'' [[Film/StreetFighter Guile]] are in the same movie and they ''don't'' fight each other? What a bore.
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As with the other Jean-Claude's films in the early 90's, it recycles the plot from his older film, this time from ''{{Bloodsport}}''.
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