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* HeelRealization: Chiu initially treats Chan with contempt, believing his overconfidence was responsible for the death of his team. Then he finds out [[spoiler:that Chan's team didn't die because Chan was careless but rather that Sam was blackmailed by Joe's gang into revealing Chan's raid, leading him to sit back with a look of silent shame.]]
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* HeelRealization: Chiu initially treats Chan with contempt, believing his overconfidence was responsible for the death of his team. Then he finds out [[spoiler:that Chan's team didn't die because Chan was careless but rather that Sam was blackmailed by Joe's gang into revealing Chan's raid, leading him to sit back with a look of silent shame.]] He makes up for it in the end by looking the other way when Chan and Frank "escape" their cells to catch Joe's gang.
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* AbusiveParents: Joe's old man is an asshole who treats his son like "trash", and according to a flashback, he has been doing so since Joe was a child. His mother is quite the opposite, but her only solution seems to be to give Joe money to take his mind off of his home life.
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* AbusiveParents: Joe's old man is an asshole who treats his son like "trash", and according to a flashback, he has been doing so since Joe was a child. His mother is quite the opposite, but her only solution to her son's very blatant mental scars seems to be to just give Joe money to take his mind off of his home life.
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* AbusiveParents: Joe's old man is an asshole who treats his son like "trash", and according to a flashback, he has been doing so since Joe was a child. His mother is quite the opposite, but she seems to completely overlook that what her husband is doing is textbook parental abuse.
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* AbusiveParents: Joe's old man is an asshole who treats his son like "trash", and according to a flashback, he has been doing so since Joe was a child. His mother is quite the opposite, but she her only solution seems to completely overlook that what her husband is doing is textbook parental abuse.be to give Joe money to take his mind off of his home life.
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* DomesticAbuse: Joe's father is not kind to either his son or wife. Joe gets both physically and verbally abused, while Joe's mother is constantly berated.
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* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Frank considers Joe's gang to be this, as they all come from privileged backgrounds. Deconstructed to a degree as Frank also believes that they're aware of how empty their lives are as a result of being born into wealth. Joe does have the additional excuse of being horribly abused by his father, but the whole gang's dangerous thrill-seeking seems to come from their general misery over being directionless due to their wealth.
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* HeelRealization: Chiu initially treats Chan with contempt, believing his overconfidence was responsible for the death of his team. Then he finds out [[spoiler:that Chan's team didn't die because Chan was careless but rather that Sam was blackmailed by Joe's gang into revealing Chan's raid, leading Chiu to change his tune regarding Chan.]]
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* HeelRealization: Chiu initially treats Chan with contempt, believing his overconfidence was responsible for the death of his team. Then he finds out [[spoiler:that Chan's team didn't die because Chan was careless but rather that Sam was blackmailed by Joe's gang into revealing Chan's raid, leading Chiu him to change his tune regarding Chan.sit back with a look of silent shame.]]
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* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:Sam, albeit for sympathetic reasons. He took some of the stolen money Joe's gang left behind in order to pay off his loan sharks. Then Joe's gang tracked him down and blackmailed him into revealing Chan's planned raid, which leads to the death of Chan's team. Joe quit the force shortly afterwards out of guilt.]]
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* HeelRealization: Chiu initially treats Chan with contempt, believing his overconfidence was responsible for the death of his team. Then he finds out [[spoiler:that Chan's team didn't die because Chan was careless but rather that Sam was blackmailed by Joe's gang into revealing Chan's raid, leading Chiu to change his tune regarding Chan.]]
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The slapstick is very toned down compared to the previous movies and straightforward gun fights are more frequent and fairly brutal. The execution of Chan's team in the first 30 minutes stands out in particular as being horrific.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The slapstick is very toned down compared to the previous movies and straightforward gun fights are more frequent and fairly brutal. The execution of Chan's team at the hands of Joe's gang in the first 30 minutes stands out in particular as being horrific.far more horrific than the crimes committed by the villains in the previous movie.
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* InelegantBlubbering: The movie has both a dramatic and comedic example of this. Chan completely falling apart as Joe's gang kill his team off two or three at a time is heart-wrenching. Two purse snatchers crying their eyes out in the police station (to the extent that Frank has to request tissues for them) after getting their butts handed to them by Chan and Frank is decidedly not.
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* HeroicBSOD: Chan's in a state of this at the start of the film after losing his entire team to Joe's gang in the DownerBeginning. Frank's aim at the start is to pull him out of this so that Chan can pursue Joe's gang again.
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* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: [[spoiler:Unfortunately, putting a bullet in the chamber of a handgun during assembly would only ensure that the bullet would fly out after the slide is pulled back, meaning Chan's tactic against Joe wouldn't have worked.]]
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* PsychopathicManchild: Joe's gang are addicted to high-risk stimulation, which they get from gleefully committing robberies and killing police officers. They even keep score of their crimes like they're players in a video game.
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* PsychopathicManchild: Joe's gang are addicted to high-risk stimulation, which they get from gleefully committing robberies and killing police officers. They even keep score of their crimes like they're players in a video game.
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* TeensAreMonsters: Joe's gang are addressed as youths, indicating that they're only in their late teens at most. And they treat committing robberies and killing cops like a game.
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* TeensAreMonsters: Joe's gang are addressed as youths, indicating that they're only in their late teens at most. And they treat committing robberies and killing cops like a game.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Averted, but the villains certainly think so. The fact that their leader's father has gotten away with abusing his son for years likely colored their views.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Averted, but the villains certainly think so. The fact that their leader's father is a high-ranking police officer who has gotten away with abusing his son for years likely colored their views.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Averted, but the villains certainly think so.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Averted, but the villains certainly think so. The fact that their leader's father has gotten away with abusing his son for years likely colored their views.
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* SpoiledBrat: [[spoiler:Joe's gang all come from wealthy backgrounds. While Joe has an abusive upbringing to explain his behavior, it's left ambiguous if the other members also have difficult home lives or if they're just rebellious thrill seekers [[LackOfEmpathy severely lacking empathy]].]]
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* SpoiledBrat: [[spoiler:Joe's Joe's gang all come from wealthy backgrounds. While Joe has an abusive upbringing to explain his behavior, it's left ambiguous if the other members also have difficult home lives or if they're just rebellious thrill seekers [[LackOfEmpathy severely lacking empathy]].]]
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* MalevolentMaskedMen: Joe's gang wears colorful [[MonsterClown clown masks]] that cover half their face whenever they're committing crimes.
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** SurvivorGuiltSurvivorGuilt: And this drives him to alcoholism in the opening sequence.
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* SpoiledBrat: [[spoiler:Joe's gang all come from wealthy backgrounds. While Joe has an abusive upbringing to explain his behavior, it's left ambiguous if the other members also have difficult home lives or if they're just rebellious thrill seekers [[LackOfEmpathy severely lacking empathy]].]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Joe's father falls to his knees in horror after Joe opts to commit SuicideByCop right in front of him, indicating that it's begun to sink in what his abuse has done to his son.]]
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* PantsPositiveSafety: Deconstructed; Chan is given a Glock 17 after escaping the police department and stores it in his waistband since he doesn't have a holster; later, he has to climb up a structure in the mall to chase after the gang members and [[RealityEnsues the gun falls out due to his rapid movements while climbing]], leaving him unarmed. Then, during a fight with a gang member, Chan ends the fight by [[ExploitedTrope grabbing at the thug's own Glock tucked in his pants]] and then [[CombatPragmatist firing the gun]], which wounds the guy [[JustAFleshWound in the leg]].
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* PantsPositiveSafety: Deconstructed; Chan is given a Glock 17 after escaping the police department and stores it in his waistband since he doesn't have a holster; later, he has to climb up a structure in the mall to chase after the gang members and [[RealityEnsues the gun falls out due to his rapid movements while climbing]], climbing, leaving him unarmed. Then, during a fight with a gang member, Chan ends the fight by [[ExploitedTrope grabbing at the thug's own Glock tucked in his pants]] and then [[CombatPragmatist firing the gun]], which wounds the guy [[JustAFleshWound in the leg]].
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* PantsPositiveSafety: Deconstructed; Chan is given a Glock 17 after escaping the police department and stores it in his waistband since he doesn't have a holster; later, he has to climb up a structure in the mall to chase after the gang members and [[RealityEnsues the gun falls out due to his rapid movements while climbing]], leaving him unarmed. Then, during a fight with a gang member, Chan ends the fight by [[ExploitedTrope grabbing at the thug's own Glock tucked in his pants]] and then [[CombatPragmatist firing the gun]], which wounds the guy [[JustAFleshWoundin the leg]].
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* PantsPositiveSafety: Deconstructed; Chan is given a Glock 17 after escaping the police department and stores it in his waistband since he doesn't have a holster; later, he has to climb up a structure in the mall to chase after the gang members and [[RealityEnsues the gun falls out due to his rapid movements while climbing]], leaving him unarmed. Then, during a fight with a gang member, Chan ends the fight by [[ExploitedTrope grabbing at the thug's own Glock tucked in his pants]] and then [[CombatPragmatist firing the gun]], which wounds the guy [[JustAFleshWoundin [[JustAFleshWound in the leg]].
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* PantsPositiveSafety: Deconstructed; Chan is given a Glock 17 after escaping the police department and stores it in his waistband since he doesn't have a holster; later, he has to climb up a structure in the mall to chase after the gang members and [[RealityEnsues the gun falls out due to his rapid movements while climbing]], leaving him unarmed. Then, during a fight with a gang member, Chan ends the fight by [[ExploitedTrope grabbing at the thug's own Glock tucked in his pants]] and then [[CombatPragmatist firing the gun]], which wounds the guy [[JustAFleshWoundin the leg]].
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* DownerBeginning: The film's first scene is a flashback depicting how Chan's entire team was massacred by Joe and his gang in an arrest attempt that screws up '''badly'''.
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* AbusiveParents: Joe's old man is an asshole who treats his son like "trash", and sccording to a flashback, he has been doing so since Joe was a child. His mother is quite the opposite, but she seems to completely overlook that what her husband is doing is tectbook parental abuse.
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* AbusiveParents: Joe's old man is an asshole who treats his son like "trash", and sccording according to a flashback, he has been doing so since Joe was a child. His mother is quite the opposite, but she seems to completely overlook that what her husband is doing is tectbook textbook parental abuse.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: It is never stated, but several scenes on Joe's daily life imply he has a nasty PTSD caused by his father's abuse.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: It is never stated, but several scenes on Joe's daily life imply flashbacks and reactions to his father's presence indicate he has a nasty PTSD caused by going due to his father's abuse.abuse. His neglecting of his day job, troubled sleep habits, overdependence on high-risk stimulation and emotionless demeanor when at home also imply he has clinical depression, which often comes together with PTSD in real life.
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* AbusiveParents: According to a flashback, Joe's old man is an asshole who treats his son like "trash".
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* AbusiveParents: According to a flashback, Joe's old man is an asshole who treats his son like "trash"."trash", and sccording to a flashback, he has been doing so since Joe was a child. His mother is quite the opposite, but she seems to completely overlook that what her husband is doing is tectbook parental abuse.
* AmbiguousDisorder: It is never stated, but several scenes on Joe's daily life imply he has a nasty PTSD caused by his father's abuse.
* AmbiguousDisorder: It is never stated, but several scenes on Joe's daily life imply he has a nasty PTSD caused by his father's abuse.
* BookDumb: [[spoiler:Frank is revealed to have failed his police exam. Given that he is shown to be pretty athletic and with good smarts, it is implied it was the studying part of the exam what took him down. Indeed, having a homeless father who could probably not get Frank schooled as a child is not the best recipe for a future student.]]
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* HypercompetentSidekick: Nicholas Tse's character Frank begins as this, but as Chan wakes up from his HeroicBSOD he overshadows Frank by a long shot.
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* HypercompetentSidekick: Nicholas Tse's character Frank begins as this, but as Chan wakes up from his HeroicBSOD he overshadows Frank by a long shot. shot.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: Frank and Sa Sa are occasionally seen flirting through the film, and their last scene has them joking about marrying [[spoiler:due to Chan's oncoming marriage]], implying they will start their own relationship.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: Frank and Sa Sa are occasionally seen flirting through the film, and their last scene has them joking about marrying [[spoiler:due to Chan's oncoming marriage]], implying they will start their own relationship.
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: [[spoiler: Frank turns out to be lying about being a police officer. However, his ruse is near-perfect for a police academy washout, considering Chan only caught on when his former chief says he never sent PC 138 to retrieve him.]]
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: [[spoiler: Frank turns out to be lying about being a police officer. officer, as he failed the police exams. However, his ruse is near-perfect for a police academy washout, considering Chan only caught on when his nobody in the station seemed to realize until Chan's former chief says he never sent PC 138 to retrieve him.him. It is implied Sa Sa had found about it at some point, though.]]
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* RedemptionRejection: [[spoiler:Chan tries to get Joe to stand down after losing pretty much his whole gang and is cornered at the roof of the mall. Joe instead shouts at Chan to shut up and challenges him to re-assemble a gun while Frank's life is on stake so he can earn himself another victory. When his father arrives on the scene, he attempts SuicideByCop, right in front of him.]]
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* SuicideByCop: The BigBad [[spoiler:Joe chooses to go out this way. Bonus points for doing it while Chan was there and knew he had no bullets, and for doing it in front of his father, also a cop. ]]
* SympathyForTheDevil: Chan, while still bitter about the deaths of his police squad, learns that Joe and his gang are just rebellious children of rich parents, arranges for them to meet up at a mall to get them to [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas face the realization on how far they've gone.]]
** [[spoiler:After defeating Tin Tin in combat and Joe accidentally shoots him, Tin Tin grabs a gun and aims it at Chan but drops it after Chan pleads to the police to get him sent to the hospital.]]
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* SympathyForTheDevil: Chan, while still bitter about the deaths of his police squad, learns that Joe and his gang are just rebellious children of rich parents, arranges for them to meet up at a mall to get them to [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas face the realization on how far they've gone.]]
** [[spoiler:After defeating Tin Tin in combat and Joe accidentally shoots him, Tin Tin grabs a gun and aims it at Chan but drops it after Chan pleads to the police to get him sent to the hospital.]]
** [[spoiler:Chan does this again with Joe, where he confronts him to get him to stand down and later tries to get the snipers to not shoot him when he commits SuicideByCop since he's holding an unloaded gun.]]
