History Film / TheBraveOne

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Erica wants to kill those who do wrong, [[spoiler: get revenge on the thugs that killed her husband and get her dog back.]]

%%* DespairEventHorizon

* BlackMarket: Erica goes to buy a gun, but is told there's a thirty day waiting limit. A customer notices her look of desperation and approaches her outside the store, offering a Kar K-9 automatic for a thousand dollars, throwing in a box of ammunition and an impromptu instruction on how to load and fire it. There's a noticeable lack of GunPorn compared to the gun buying scenes in ''Film/TaxiDriver'' and ''Film/DeathSentence''.

A touching and painful variation of the well-known VigilanteMan subgenre (''Film/TaxiDriver'', ''Film/DeathWish''), due only in part to the vigilante not being a man at all.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking - Erica wants to kill those who do wrong, [[spoiler: get revenge on the thugs that killed her husband and get her dog back.]]

* BlackAndGreyMorality: Presents a more nuanced version of vigilantism than the usual revenge porn.

* DeadAir - When New York DJ Erica Bane resumes her first radio broadcast after her vicious attack (and subsequent vigilante slaying), she falls silent in the middle of reading her opening monologue. Her savvy producer decides to let the scene play out, and a few seconds later Erica starts over with a raw and emotional impromptu dialogue about how terrifying the once familiar city can become after being victimized for the first time.

* {{Determinator}} - Erica is hellbent on killing those who do wrong, [[spoiler: along with the thugs who killed her husband and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking getting her dog back.]]]]
* DuelingMovies - With ''Film/DeathSentence'', released two weeks earlier.
* GenderInvertedTrope - It's a very typical "good man gone vigilante" story, only from a female perspective, focusing more on emotion.

* MightMakesRight - Erica REALLY tries not to subscribe to this.... and is repeatedly left with few other options.
* PreMortemOneLiner - "I want my dog back!" *BoomHeadShot*
* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou - The DVD cover, as shown above. However, in yet another subversion of the genre, her stare is far more focal than the barrel of the gun.

* [[ShowWithinAShow Show Within A Film]] - Erica hosts [[TalkShow a radio call-in one.]]
** It only became a call in show after her killings gained notoriety.
* SmokingGunControl - To Erica's disbelief when it comes to both her enemies, and later herself.

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* BlackMarket: Erica goes to buy a gun, but is told there's a thirty day waiting limit. A customer notices her look of desperation and approaches her outside the store, offering a Kar K-9 automatic for a thousand dollars, throwing in a box of ammunition and an impromptu instruction on how to load and fire it. There's a noticeable lack of GunPorn compared to a similar scene in ''Film/DeathSentence''.

* BlackMarket: Erica goes to buy a gun, but is told there's a thirty day waiting limit. A customer notices her look of desperation and approaches her outside the store, offering a Kar K-9 automatic for a thousand dollars, throwing in a box of ammunition and an impromptu instruction on how to load and fire it. There's a noticeable lack of GunPorn compared to a similar scene in ''Film/TaxiDriver''.

* BlackMarket: Erica goes to buy a gun, but is told there's a thirty day waiting limit. A customer notices her look of desperation and approaches her outside the store, offering a Kar K-9 automatic for a thousand dollars.

%%* BlackAndGreyMorality

%%* CastingGag - JodieFoster, given her role in ''Film/TaxiDriver''.

* RapeAndRevenge - Averted, somewhat. It's more along the lines of [[spoiler: "Beaten and Revenge."]]

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: FAR on the cynical end.

* AntiHero
** You could even say "Anti Victim".

* BigAppleSauce
* BlackAndGreyMorality
* CastingGag - JodieFoster, given her role in ''Film/TaxiDriver''.
* TheCityNarrows
* CityNoir
* ADarkerMe - Erica's even acutely aware of the concept.

* DespairEventHorizon

* IDidWhatIHadToDo - Reluctantly.
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy

* SociopathicHero - Subverting this is the point of the film.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight

** And arguably Naveen Andrews as well, since he played the consummate BadAss on ''Series/{{Lost}}''--even [[spoiler:coming BackFromTheDead at one point, although not [[CameBackWrong in a good way]]]], and in this he [[spoiler:dies very early on.]]

* [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou Jodie Foster Is About To Shoot You]] - The DVD cover, as shown above. However, in yet another subversion of the genre, her stare is far more focal than the barrel of the gun.

* NewYorkSubway - You bet.

* DuelingMovies - With ''DeathSentence'', released two weeks earlier.

Erica Bain (Creator/JodieFoster) is a confident, content, reasonably left-wing radio host, madly in love with [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity the city of New York]] and her fiancee David (Creator/NaveenAndrews). Sadly, [[spoiler:he is killed and she is beaten within an inch of her life by a gang of thugs in Central Park one night]]. Emotionally shattered and incapable of feeling safe in the city she once adored, Erica buys a gun and attempts to move on. Fate has other plans, however, as she begins to encounter situation after situation that leave her with no choice but to blow somebody away. As the reputation of the mysterious vigilante begins to rise, Erica is torn between genuine disgust at her reluctant actions and the savage pleasure of dealing out first-hand justice to the blatantly deserving.

Erica Bain (Creator/JodieFoster) is a confident, content, reasonably left-wing radio host, madly in love with [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity the city of New York]] and her fiancee David (Naveen Andrews). Sadly, [[spoiler:he is killed and she is beaten within an inch of her life by a gang of thugs in Central Park one night]]. Emotionally shattered and incapable of feeling safe in the city she once adored, Erica buys a gun and attempts to move on. Fate has other plans, however, as she begins to encounter situation after situation that leave her with no choice but to blow somebody away. As the reputation of the mysterious vigilante begins to rise, Erica is torn between genuine disgust at her reluctant actions and the savage pleasure of dealing out first-hand justice to the blatantly deserving.

* DuelingMovies - With DeathSentence.

* Determinator - Erica is hellbent on killing those who do wrong, [[spoiler: along with the thugs who killed her husband and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking getting her dog back.]]]]

* RapeAndRevenge

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism

* CompleteMonster: The thugs who kill Erica's boyfriend and Murrow.

Erica Bain (JodieFoster) is a confident, content, reasonably left-wing radio host, madly in love with [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity the city of New York]] and her fiancee David (Naveen Andrews). Sadly, [[spoiler:he is killed and she is beaten within an inch of her life by a gang of thugs in Central Park one night]]. Emotionally shattered and incapable of feeling safe in the city she once adored, Erica buys a gun and attempts to move on. Fate has other plans, however, as she begins to encounter situation after situation that leave her with no choice but to blow somebody away. As the reputation of the mysterious vigilante begins to rise, Erica is torn between genuine disgust at her reluctant actions and the savage pleasure of dealing out first-hand justice to the blatantly deserving.

* [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou Jodie Foster Is About To Shoot You]] - [[http://shaunmusco.com/images/Printed/T/The_Brave_One.jpg The DVD Cover]](the especially spoiler-sensitive should avoid the blurb on the back there), although in yet another subversion of the genre, her stare is far more focal than the barrel of the gun.

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