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New York cop Sgt. Harry Griswald, after being dragged to a kabuki show, suddenly finds himself possessed by the spirit of a great Japanese warrior, Kabukiman. Now, he must use his new found powers to stop the resurrection of an ancient demon, known only as "The Evil One".
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New York cop Sgt. Harry Griswald, after being dragged to a [[KabukiTheatre kabuki show, show]], suddenly finds himself possessed by the spirit of a great Japanese warrior, Kabukiman. Now, he must use his new found powers to stop the resurrection of an ancient demon, known only as "The Evil One".
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* KabukiTheatre: New York cop Sgt. Harry Griswald, after being dragged to a kabuki show, suddenly finds himself possessed by the spirit of a great Japanese warrior, Kabukiman.
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* Kabukiman himself. He is considered a hero in New York, even when many of his punishments are clearly disproportionate.
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* AllCrimesAreEqual: For Kabukiman, being a prostitute or pimp is enough to be executed.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Seriously, Kabukiman? You diced a Pimp and Prostitute into THREE Sushi Rolls?
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* CharacterOverlap: Kabukiman and a MirrorUniverse EvilCounterpart appear in ''[[Film/TheToxicAvenger Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV]]''
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: A nurse who's job allows her to increase the dosage of morphine on a patient should know how much morphine it takes to kill someone. If this were RealLife, it is likely she would run it by the doctor first when she noticed the dosage, thus ruining Rembrandt's plan in killing Connie.
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* {{Chickification}}: Lotus goes from Hard-As-Nails DrillSergeantNasty while training Harry, to screaming DamselInDistress in the finale.
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* {{Chickification}}: Lotus goes from Hard-As-Nails DrillSergeantNasty who knows karate while training Harry, to screaming DamselInDistress in the finale.
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* MessyMaggots: Reginald Stuart's TransformationSequence into the Evil One starts with him ''vomitting maggots''.
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* MessyMaggots: Reginald Stuart's TransformationSequence into the Evil One starts with him ''vomitting ''vomiting maggots''.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: The premise of the Kabukiman itself is completely centered around a character that embodies every Japanese stereotype you could think of ''and [[{{Yellowface}} the current iteration is a white guy]].'' Considering this is set in the [[WorldOfHam extended Troma Universe]] (and the film was filmed in the late eighties and came out in 1990, so political correctness was not mainstream yet), no one really bats an eye at it.
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This film is also known on [=TVTropes=] for the sheer amount of Video Examples from this film.
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This film is also known on [=TVTropes=] for the sheer amount of Video Examples from this film.
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* TheDragon: Reverend Snipes.
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* TheDragon: CoDragons: Reverend Snipes.Snipes, Reginald's number one drug-dealer, and Rembrandt, his AxCrazy hitman.
* DefrostingIceQueen: At first, Lotus is bitter that the kabuki spirit winds up getting past on to Harry, a white guy that only got the spirit because he was a man who just happened to be there when her grandfather died, became TheChosenOne instead of her. She confronts him, frustrated that he won't acknowledge his destiny (despite the fact that it all sounds crazy to an outsider) and seems to [[TrainingFromHell take more pleasure than she should training him]]. As Harry gets the hang of using his powers, she slowly warms up to him and eventually becomes his lover.
* DefrostingIceQueen: At first, Lotus is bitter that the kabuki spirit winds up getting past on to Harry, a white guy that only got the spirit because he was a man who just happened to be there when her grandfather died, became TheChosenOne instead of her. She confronts him, frustrated that he won't acknowledge his destiny (despite the fact that it all sounds crazy to an outsider) and seems to [[TrainingFromHell take more pleasure than she should training him]]. As Harry gets the hang of using his powers, she slowly warms up to him and eventually becomes his lover.
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* ThePowerOfLove: It is implied both by the theme song during the OnPatrolMontage and [[TheDragon Rembrandt]] that Lotus and his love for her (and vice versa) is what gives Kabukiman his strength.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Reginal Stuart's AxCrazy hitman Rembrandt is seen in almost every scene he's in indulging in sno balls.
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* JapaneseTourist: Invoked. After giving a thorough beating to Reverend Snipes' thugs, Kabukiman whips out a giant polaroid camera and turns them into wienies. It MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Kabukiman vomits as he flies overhead on a pair of corrupt lawyers just as they were bragging about getting a guilty man ruled innocent for profit at the public's expense.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Kabukiman vomits as he flies overhead on a pair of corrupt lawyers just as they were bragging about getting a guilty man ruled innocent for profit at the public's expense.
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* OnPatrolMontage: After Harry masters his ability to transform, he proceeds to go on a crime-fighting spree, ranging from turning pimps, whores and drug-dealers into sushi (which, given this is Troma film, is okay for a police-officer superhero to do), to helping old ladies across the street and becoming New York's #1 superhero in the process
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* ToonPhysics: Kabukiman manages to reinflates himself after getting squashed flat by a truck.
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* TheChosenOne: {{Subverted|Trope}}. The heroes trained the real chosen one for decades to receive the power of Kabukiman and defeat The Evil One, only to have him and his entire family be murdered in their home by The Evil One's thugs just before the ceremony could occur. Later, the man who currently holds the powers is gunned down by those same thugs. Harry Griswald just happens to be there to receive the powers just before the man dies.
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* TheChosenOne: {{Subverted|Trope}}. The heroes trained the real chosen one for decades to receive the power of Kabukiman and defeat The Evil One, only to have him and his entire family be murdered in their home by The Evil One's thugs just before the ceremony could occur. Later, the man who currently holds the powers is gunned down by those same thugs. [[TheChosenZero Harry Griswald Griswald]] just happens to be there to receive the powers just before the man dies.
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* GenderRestrictedAbility: While Lotus is more than capable of being a hero and harboring the kabuki spirit (her grandfather ''was'' the previous Kabukiman, afterall), the title is "Kabuki'''''man'''''" and only a man can wield the power. Whether this is how the spirit works or if its sexist tradition isn't really elaborated, but she is ''very'' bitter about it.
* MessyMaggots: Reginald Stuart's TransformationSequence into the Evil One starts with him ''vomitting maggots''.
* MessyMaggots: Reginald Stuart's TransformationSequence into the Evil One starts with him ''vomitting maggots''.
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* TransformationHorror: The TransformationSequence where Reginald Stuart becomes the Evil One can best be described as long, grotesque and rather unsanitary.
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Moved to the Trivia tab.
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* DevelopmentHell: The story was pitched in 1989 and filmed in 1991 but wasn't released until 1997 due to some financial issues at Troma, which they've since recovered from.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The movie was supposed to get an AnimatedAdaptation aimed at children. All that exists is the promo [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SCQwfYCND8 here]].
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* Chickification: Lotus goes from Hard-As-Nails DrillSergeantNasty while training Harry, to screaming DamselInDistress in the finale.
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* Chickification: {{Chickification}}: Lotus goes from Hard-As-Nails DrillSergeantNasty while training Harry, to screaming DamselInDistress in the finale.
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* Chickification: Lotus goes from Hard-As-Nails DrillSergeantNasty while training Harry, to screaming DamselInDistress in the finale.
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* BroughtDownToBadass: Even when depowered by Rembrandt's ReasonYouSuckSpeech, Harry is still a marginally capable cop with a decent shot and not afraid to use it.
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* EatThat: Griswold is forced to eat live earthworms and whole raw mackerel, among other things, to complete his transformation.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: The camera dissolves from a flashing police beacon to Griswold's flashing clown nose. He says, deadpan, into the camera: "Nice dissolve, huh?"
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* {{Tokusatsu}}: One of the very first American tokusatsu projects.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The movie was supposed to get an AnimatedAdaptation aimed at children. All that exists is the promo [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SCQwfYCND8 here]].
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: A lot. Most notably, the show Harry goes to see at the beginning of the movie is a Kabuki version of ''TheOddCouple''
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: A lot. Most notably, the show Harry goes to see at the beginning of the movie is a Kabuki version of ''TheOddCouple''''Theatre/TheOddCouple''
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* StuffedInTheFridge: Connie [=LaRosa=], Harry's previous love interest. [[spoiler: The villains give the hospital a fake chart, tricking a nurse into killing her with an overdose of morphine.
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* StuffedInTheFridge: Connie [=LaRosa=], Harry's previous love interest. [[spoiler: The villains give the hospital a fake chart, tricking a nurse into killing her with an overdose of morphine.morphine]].
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If anyone is wondering why Fake Nationality was removed: A) it\'s a Trivia trope. B) It doesn\'t apply. Kabukiman has japanese powers but no one involved with the movie ever claimed he WAS Japanese. It even says on the box, \"American As Apple Pie.\"
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* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler: Reginald Stuart. The monkey did ''not'' ride the jaguar, therefore the prophecy is left incomplete and, rather than gaining infinite power, he just explodes.]]
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* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler: Reginald Stuart. The monkey did ''not'' ride the jaguar, therefore the prophecy is left incomplete and, rather than gaining infinite power, he just explodes.]]
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* TheChosenOne: {{Subverted|Trope}}. The heroes trained the real chosen one for decades to receive the power of Kabukiman and defeat The Evil One, only to have him and his entire family be murdered in their home by The Evil One's thugs just before the ceremony could occur. Later, the man who currently holds the powers is gunned down by those same thugs. Harry Griswald just happens to be there to receive the powers just before the man dies.
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* TheDragon: Reverend Snipes
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Just about all of them.
** The BigBad, Reginald Stuart, is the head of a multinational megacorporation, and his "billionaire philanthropist" status allows him to get away with a lot, up to and including having his men shoot up a kabuki theatre, then convincing the police that his men were actually there to ''help'', and that they captured the real perp - some random guy who wasn't even present at the shooting.
** TheDragon, Reverend Snipes, also qualifies. He pretends to be a HotBlooded BadassPreacher, while he's actually paying dues to the mafia and selling drugs out of his youth centers. He has so much support that when his thugs are caught trying to murder a police officer in broad daylight in front of dozens of eyewitnesses, he's able to get them off by claiming that they're just down-on-their-luck poor kids being pushed around by the man. Not only does he get away with that, it gets him ''more'' support since he's now seen as a champion of the little guy.
** The BigBad, Reginald Stuart, is the head of a multinational megacorporation, and his "billionaire philanthropist" status allows him to get away with a lot, up to and including having his men shoot up a kabuki theatre, then convincing the police that his men were actually there to ''help'', and that they captured the real perp - some random guy who wasn't even present at the shooting.
** TheDragon, Reverend Snipes, also qualifies. He pretends to be a HotBlooded BadassPreacher, while he's actually paying dues to the mafia and selling drugs out of his youth centers. He has so much support that when his thugs are caught trying to murder a police officer in broad daylight in front of dozens of eyewitnesses, he's able to get them off by claiming that they're just down-on-their-luck poor kids being pushed around by the man. Not only does he get away with that, it gets him ''more'' support since he's now seen as a champion of the little guy.
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* DevelopmentHell: The story was pitched in 1989 and filmed in 1991 but wasn't released until 1997 (due to some financial issues at Troma, which they've since recovered from).
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* DevelopmentHell: The story was pitched in 1989 and filmed in 1991 but wasn't released until 1997 (due to some financial issues at Troma, which they've since recovered from).
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* BMovie
AmoralAttorney: Occurs as sort of a FunnyBackgroundEvent during the scene in which Harry first uses his flying powers. Two attorneys are seen joking about how they're going to intentionally let a guilty murderer go free in exchange for monetary kickbacks. A second later they get splattered with vomit thanks to a nauseous, acrophobic Kabukiman.
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* BigBad: Reginald Stuart
* CaptainEthnic: Kabukiman the Japanese warrior with the mystical powers of Japan! Even though his secret identity is actually a white American.
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* BigBad: Reginald Stuart
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* DevelopmentHell: The story was pitched in 1989 and filmed in 1991 but wasn't released until 1997
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* FakeNationality: New York cop becomes Japanese warrior. Yeah.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The show Harry goes to see is a Kabuki version of ''TheOddCouple''
* HowDoIShotWeb: The first time his powers manifest, he accidentally cartwheels into a light pole; later, he tries to become Kabukiman, but [[ItMakesSenseInContext somehow turns into a clown]]; even later, he learns he can fly, but due to not being used to it, he throws up, and it lands on an asshole lawyer below him.
* LickingTheBlade
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The show Harry goes to see is a Kabuki version of ''TheOddCouple''
* HowDoIShotWeb: The first time his powers manifest, he accidentally cartwheels into a light pole; later, he tries to become Kabukiman, but [[ItMakesSenseInContext somehow turns into a clown]]; even later, he learns he can fly, but due to not being used to it, he throws up, and it lands on an asshole lawyer below him.
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* FakeNationality: New York cop becomes Japanese warrior. Yeah.
TheDragon: Reverend Snipes
* FunnyBackgroundEvent:The A lot. Most notably, the show Harry goes to see at the beginning of the movie is a Kabuki version of ''TheOddCouple''
* HowDoIShotWeb: The first time his powers manifest, he accidentally cartwheels into a light pole; later, he tries to become Kabukiman, but [[ItMakesSenseInContext somehow turns into aclown]]; even later, clown]]. Later still, he learns he can fly, but due to not being used to it, it he throws up, up and it lands on an asshole lawyer the AmoralAttorney standing below him.
*LickingTheBladeLickingTheBlade: Reginald Stuart and his hitman Rembrandt both do this.
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* StuffedInTheFridge: Connie [=LaRosa=], Harry's old "girlfriend".
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* StuffedInTheFridge: Connie [=LaRosa=], Harry's old "girlfriend".previous love interest. [[spoiler: The villains give the hospital a fake chart, tricking a nurse into killing her with an overdose of morphine.
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* StockFootage: The first appearance of {{Troma}}'s infamous "flipping car".
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* StockFootage: The first appearance of {{Troma}}'s Creator/{{Troma}}'s infamous "flipping car".
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[[caption-width-right:350:Fatal sushi, lethal chopsticks, and as American as apple pie!]]
->''Okay, I'm wearing a dress! First I'm kissed by a guy, now I'm wearing a dress! Fine!''
New York cop Sgt. Harry Griswald, after being dragged to a kabuki show, suddenly finds himself possessed by the spirit of a great Japanese warrior, Kabukiman. Now, he must use his new found powers to stop the resurrection of an ancient demon, known only as "The Evil One".
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* BMovie
* CaptainEthnic
* DevelopmentHell: The story was pitched in 1989 and filmed in 1991 but wasn't released until 1997 (due to some financial issues at Troma, which they've since recovered from).
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu
* FakeNationality: New York cop becomes Japanese warrior. Yeah.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The show Harry goes to see is a Kabuki version of ''TheOddCouple''
* HowDoIShotWeb: The first time his powers manifest, he accidentally cartwheels into a light pole; later, he tries to become Kabukiman, but [[ItMakesSenseInContext somehow turns into a clown]]; even later, he learns he can fly, but due to not being used to it, he throws up, and it lands on an asshole lawyer below him.
* LickingTheBlade
* OneWingedAngel: [[BigBad Reginald Stuart]] becoming [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Evil One]].
* StockFootage: The first appearance of {{Troma}}'s infamous "flipping car".
* StuffedInTheFridge: Connie [=LaRosa=], Harry's old "girlfriend".
* WhoAreYou
-->'''Mook:''' Who are you?\\
'''Kabukiman:''' ''*AsideGlance*'' I'm Kabukiman.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Fatal sushi, lethal chopsticks, and as American as apple pie!]]
->''Okay, I'm wearing a dress! First I'm kissed by a guy, now I'm wearing a dress! Fine!''
New York cop Sgt. Harry Griswald, after being dragged to a kabuki show, suddenly finds himself possessed by the spirit of a great Japanese warrior, Kabukiman. Now, he must use his new found powers to stop the resurrection of an ancient demon, known only as "The Evil One".
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* BMovie
* CaptainEthnic
* DevelopmentHell: The story was pitched in 1989 and filmed in 1991 but wasn't released until 1997 (due to some financial issues at Troma, which they've since recovered from).
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu
* FakeNationality: New York cop becomes Japanese warrior. Yeah.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The show Harry goes to see is a Kabuki version of ''TheOddCouple''
* HowDoIShotWeb: The first time his powers manifest, he accidentally cartwheels into a light pole; later, he tries to become Kabukiman, but [[ItMakesSenseInContext somehow turns into a clown]]; even later, he learns he can fly, but due to not being used to it, he throws up, and it lands on an asshole lawyer below him.
* LickingTheBlade
* OneWingedAngel: [[BigBad Reginald Stuart]] becoming [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Evil One]].
* StockFootage: The first appearance of {{Troma}}'s infamous "flipping car".
* StuffedInTheFridge: Connie [=LaRosa=], Harry's old "girlfriend".
* WhoAreYou
-->'''Mook:''' Who are you?\\
'''Kabukiman:''' ''*AsideGlance*'' I'm Kabukiman.
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