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* ArtifactTitle: Despite this film being called Missing In Action, there are no [=POWs=]. In fact, this film pretty much [[CanonDiscontinuity seems to ignore the previous two MIA films]], since Braddock couldn't possibly have witnessed the Fall of Saigon if he was being held prisoner by the NVA.
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* TheLancer: Tuck in MIA 1, Cpl. Opelka and Lt. Mazilli in MIA 2
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* TheLancer: Tuck in MIA 1, Cpl. Opelka and Lt. Mazilli in MIA 2
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* LoopholeAbuse: Braddock's first lines of dialogue to Yin is telling him the Geneva Convention forbids having [[=POWs=]] after a war has ended. Yin's response? They're not [[=POWs=]], but war criminals. He spends a good portion of the movie trying to coerce Braddock to sign a false confession in order to give his abuses a veneer of legality.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Braddock's first lines of dialogue to Yin is telling him the Geneva Convention forbids having [[=POWs=]] [=POWs=] after a war has ended. Yin's response? They're not [[=POWs=]], [=POWs=], but war criminals. He spends a good portion of the movie trying to coerce Braddock to sign a false confession in order to give his abuses a veneer of legality.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Braddock's first lines of dialogue to Yin is telling him the Geneva Convention forbids having [[=POWs=]] after a war has ended. Yin's response? They're not [[=POWs=]], but war criminals. He spends a good portion of the movie trying to coerce Braddock to sign a false confession in order to give his abuses a veneer of legality.
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* BadassMoustache: Braddock, in the prologues of MIA 2 and MIA 3.
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* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: [[spoiler: Gen. Trau]] dies when Braddock lands his knife into his stomach.
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* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks Throwing Your Knife Always Works]]: [[spoiler: Gen. Trau]] dies when Braddock lands his knife into his stomach.
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: "The answer you give me will determine whether you live... or die".
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: "The answer you give me will determine decide whether you live... or die".
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* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: [[spoiler: Gen. Trau]] dies when Braddock lands his knife into his stomach.
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* TheLostLenore: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig Zagged]]. Braddock had a wife in Vietnam, whom he thought died during the Fall. She turns out to be alive, prompting Braddock to return to Vietnam to see her again. [[spoiler:Then Gen. Quoc murders her in cold blood, fulfilling this trope.]]
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** Also, he has a Vietnamese wife he thought dead during the Fall. In MIA 2, it's mentioned Braddock has a wife, but she's not only NOT presumed dead, it's implied she lives in America and Colonel Yin, in one of his numerous KickTheDog moments, told Braddock she was about to remarry.
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* {{BFG}}: When assaulting the camp where the orphaned children ([[AndYourLittleDogToo and his son]]) are being held hostage, Braddock carries with him a H&K [=G3A4=] assault rifle with a ''rotary six-shot underslung grenade launcher''. It even has a retractable bayonet!
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* {{BFG}}: When assaulting the camp base where the orphaned children ([[AndYourLittleDogToo and his son]]) are being held hostage, Braddock carries with him a H&K [=G3A4=] assault rifle with a ''rotary six-shot underslung grenade launcher''. It even has a retractable bayonet!
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* {{BFG}}: When assaulting the NVA camp where the orphaned children ([[AndYourLittleDogToo and his son]]) are being held hostage, Braddock carries with him a H&K [=G3A4=] assault rifle with a ''rotary six-shot underslung grenade launcher''. It even has a retractable bayonet!
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* {{BFG}}: When assaulting the NVA camp where the orphaned children ([[AndYourLittleDogToo and his son]]) are being held hostage, Braddock carries with him a H&K [=G3A4=] assault rifle with a ''rotary six-shot underslung grenade launcher''. It even has a retractable bayonet!
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* {{BFG}}: When assaulting the NVA camp where the orphaned children ([[AndYourLittleDogToo and his son]]) are being held hostage, Braddock carries with him a H&K G3A4 assault rifle with a ''rotary six-shot underslung grenade launcher''. It even has a retractable bayonet!
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* {{BFG}}: When assaulting the NVA camp where the orphaned children ([[AndYourLittleDogToo and his son]]) are being held hostage, Braddock carries with him a H&K G3A4 [=G3A4=] assault rifle with a ''rotary six-shot underslung grenade launcher''. It even has a retractable bayonet!
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* {{BFG}}: When assaulting the NVA camp where the orphaned children ([[AndYourLittleDogToo and his son]]) are being held hostage, Braddock carries with him a H&K G3A4 assault rifle with a ''rotary six-shot underslung grenade launcher''. It even has a retractable bayonet!
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Littlejohn, who tried to persuade Braddock from travelling to Vietnam, leading to the BadassBoast above.
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In the decade of action films, the ''Missing In Action'' series is a trilogy of action films (one a prequel and the other a sequel) starring Creator/ChuckNorris playing the role of Colonel James Braddock, a {{Vietnam}} vet.
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In the decade of action films, the ''Missing In Action'' series is a trilogy of action films (one a prequel and the other a sequel) sequel [[CanonDiscontinuity of sorts]]) starring Creator/ChuckNorris playing the role of Colonel James Braddock, a {{Vietnam}} vet.
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: "The answer you give me will determine whether you live... or die".
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Of Braddock's squad, only Franklin and Nestor die. Both are black.]]
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Of Braddock's squad, only Franklin and Nestor Nester die. Both are black.]]
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* FrenchJerk: Francois.
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* FrenchJerk: Francois.François.
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* KickTheDog: Col. Yin and his men spend the whole movie doing this, until the DogBitesBack hard at the end.
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* KickTheDog: Col. Yin and his men spend the whole movie doing this, until the DogBitesBack TheDogBitesBack hard at the end.
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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Despite working together, it's clear that both Colonel Yin and Francois doesn't get along well. [[spoiler:This ultimately ends with the latter getting killed by the former]].
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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Despite working together, it's clear that both Colonel Yin and Francois François doesn't get along well. [[spoiler:This ultimately ends with the latter getting killed by the former]].
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* AndThisIsFor: Happens at the end in which Braddock puts the beatdown on Colonel Yin for killing Lester (with a slight [[NeckSnap neck snap]]) and Frankie (belly punch and grabbing his stomach). And finally finishes him off by detonating a bomb in the cabin, blowing him up. "And this is for me."
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* AndThisIsFor: Happens at the end in which Braddock puts the beatdown on Colonel Yin for killing Lester Nester (with a slight [[NeckSnap neck snap]]) and Frankie Franklin (belly punch and grabbing his stomach). And finally finishes him off by detonating a bomb in the cabin, blowing him up. "And this is for me."
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Dou Chou meets his end when Mazarelli sticks a makeshift bamboo spear through his guts.]]
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Dou Chou meets his end when Mazarelli Mazilli sticks a makeshift bamboo spear through his guts.]]
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* TheQuisling: Nestor. [[spoiler:He pulls a HeelFaceTurn at the end.]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:When Mazarelli is captured, Nestor, who had been kissing [[BigBad Col. Yin]]'s butt the whole movie, looks like he's about to execute him. He instead shoots the guards holding Mazarelli, and gets killed in response]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:When Mazarelli is captured, Nestor, who had been kissing [[BigBad Col. Yin]]'s butt the whole movie, looks like he's about to execute him. He instead shoots the guards holding Mazarelli, and gets killed in response]].
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* TheQuisling: Nestor.Nester. [[spoiler:He pulls a HeelFaceTurn at the end.]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:WhenMazarelli Mazilli is captured, Nestor, recaptured, Nester, who had been kissing [[BigBad Col. Yin]]'s butt the whole movie, looks like he's about to execute him. He instead shoots the guards holding Mazarelli, Mazilli, and gets killed in response]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:When
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* BavarianFireDrill: An Australian spy sent to take photographic proof of the presence of [=POWs=] in Vietnam bluffs about being a pointman of a major rescue operation. [[spoiler:Subverted, as it ultimately fails]].
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Of Braddock's squad, only Franklin and Nestor die. Both are black.]]
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Of Braddock's squad, only Franklin and Nestor die. Both are black.]]
* TheDragon: Dou Chou, the skinny moustache wearing guard.
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* KickTheDog: Col. Yin spends the whole movie doing this.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Dou Chou meets his end when Mazarelli sticks a makeshift bamboo spear through his guts.]]
* KickTheDog: Col. Yinspends and his men spend the whole movie doing this.
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*{{Prequel}}{{Prequel}}: This film is about Braddock's time as a POW before the events of the first Missing In Action movie.
* TheQuisling: Nestor. [[spoiler:He pulls a HeelFaceTurn at the end.]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:When Mazarelli is captured, Nestor, who had been kissing [[BigBad Col. Yin]]'s butt the whole movie, looks like he's about to execute him. He instead shoots the guards holding Mazarelli, and gets killed in response]].
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* TheQuisling: Nestor. [[spoiler:He pulls a HeelFaceTurn at the end.]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:When Mazarelli is captured, Nestor, who had been kissing [[BigBad Col. Yin]]'s butt the whole movie, looks like he's about to execute him. He instead shoots the guards holding Mazarelli, and gets killed in response]].
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* GiantMook: One of the guards is played by Prof. Toru Tanaka, so obviously he's huge.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Col. Yin always refers to Braddock by his rank and speaks to him in a courteous manner, but it's clear he enjoys tormenting Braddock and his fellow POWs.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Col. Yin always refers to Braddock by his rank and speaks to him in a courteous manner, but it's clear he enjoys tormenting Braddock and his fellow POWs.[=POWs=].
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* KickTheDog: Col. Yin spends the whole movie doing this.
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* AffablyEvil: Trau is spiteful towards Braddock and is intentionally covering up the existence of America [=POWs=], but he is unfailingly courteous to the other diplomats that come with Braddock to Vietnam.
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** Note:It was just a nightmare Braddock had, not an actual event.
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** Note:It Note: It was just a nightmare Braddock had, not an actual event.
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* VietnameseWithKalashnikovs
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* TheVietnamWar
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* CrapsackWorld: As seen in the film's prologue, Saigon during the Fall wasn't the happiest of places.
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* ActionEpilogue: The film begins with a DreamSequence where Braddock relives his experiences in Vietnam.
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* ActionEpilogue: ActionPrologue: The film begins with a DreamSequence where Braddock relives his experiences in Vietnam.
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* ActionEpilogue: The film begins with a DreamSequence where Braddock relives his experiences in Vietnam.
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* MoreDakka: Braddock uses a M60 light machinegun to mow down a gunship and its crew during the climax.
