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--->'''Harry Callahan:''' You forgot your fortune cookie.
--->'''Lead Robber:''' ''[turns]'' WHAT?
--->''[Harry gives a smug grin, and pulls out a fortune]''
--->'''Harry Callahan:''' It says, "You're shit out of luck." ''[shoots the lead robber]''

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Has no relation whatsoever to ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}''.

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Has no relation whatsoever to ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}''.''Franchise/{{Deadpool}}''.



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* SharedFateUltimatum: "Dirty" Harry Callahan has, through the course of the film, been the subject of two different assassination plots, one by a mob boss he busted, and another involving the titular list. Figuring to put a kibosh on at least one, Harry bribes a large convict to stand at the end of a corridor and look menacing. He then tells the mob boss a story about the convict being a renowned killer.
--> '''Harry:''' I'm going to be sending him a letter once a week, and I'm going to be telling him how I'm gonna be looking in on his sick mother, and how I'm trying to get him special privileges here at the prison. And you know what's the interesting part? The interesting part is if anything happens to me, and Hicks doesn't get his letter, he's going to be really pissed off, and he's going to come down here and see you because you're the mail man. In fact he'll probably come down here to this post office and cancel your ass like a stamp. So you'd better ensure prompt, courteous delivery, and pray that nothing happens to me.
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* GottaKillThemAll: An unusual example. Peter Swan is revealed to have a "dead pool" (list of celebrities that he bets will die soon) going on with other members of his film crew, and Harlan Rook is going around murdering the people on the list hoping that once the police find out about the dead pool they will suspect Swan. Of course, there is the huge SpannerInTheWorks that is Harry Callahan being on that list…
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* {{BFG}}: Harry's Magnum, obviously. Dialed UpToEleven after the BigBad takes Harry's gun from him; [[spoiler:Harry grabs a harpoon gun to finish him off.]]

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* {{BFG}}: Harry's Magnum, obviously. Dialed UpToEleven Exaggerated after the BigBad takes Harry's gun from him; [[spoiler:Harry grabs a harpoon gun to finish him off.]]
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* TheCameo: Music/GunsNRoses make uncredited cameo appearances at the funeral of Johnny Squares. They also appear during filming of a "nightmare scene" at the docks, where Music/{{Slash}} fires a harpoon gun through a window and is berated by Swan.

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* TheCameo: Music/GunsNRoses make uncredited cameo appearances at the funeral of Johnny Squares. They also appear during filming of a "nightmare scene" at the docks, where Music/{{Slash}} Music/{{Slash|Musician}} fires a harpoon gun through a window and is berated by Swan.
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[[caption-width-right:330:''"You're shit outta luck."'']]

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* EvilBrit: Rook speaks with a British accent.

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* EvilBrit: Rook speaks with a British accent. He more likely counts as an in universe FakeBrit, as he's taken on Peter Swan's persona due to his psychological condition.
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* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Kwan takes down one of the gunmen in Chinatown with a flurry of punches, followed up with an impressive spinning heel kick.
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Released in 1988, ''The Dead Pool'' is the last film (preceded by ''Film/SuddenImpact'') in the ''Film/DirtyHarry'' pentalogy.

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Released Directed by Buddy Van Horn and released in 1988, ''The Dead Pool'' is the last film (preceded by ''Film/SuddenImpact'') in the ''Film/DirtyHarry'' pentalogy.
pentalogy, starring Creator/ClintEastwood as Harry Callahan for the last time.
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* DeadlyRemoteControlToy: Rook kills talk show host Nolan Kennard, another person on the dead pool list, using a radio-controlled car filled with C4 explosive under the victim's vehicle. Dirty Harry Callahan finds a toy car wheel at the crime scene, and later sees another toy car following him and Quan. Recognizing the threat, they flee through the city pursued by the toy car and Rook himself controlling it from his car.
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* RealityEnsues: In a rare instance for the series, the corpses of men that Harry shoots to get out of a sticky situation are actually shown being removed after the incident.
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* VillainOpeningScene: Before we see Harry, we first see Rook in his apartment, watching the news and reading a Rolling Stone magazine while making the Dead Pool list, though his face is obscured during the scene.
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* GrandFinale: The end of the line for Dirty Harry. Eastwood retired the character after this movie, stating that his age would make him a parody.
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Unrelated to ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}''.

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Unrelated Has no relation whatsoever to ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}''.
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* PlagiarismInFiction: [[spoiler:Subverted. Harlan Rook rages that Peter Swan stole the ideas of his films from Rook, and so his killing spree is justified revenge, but it's quickly revealed that Rook is [[LoonyFan just plain delusionally nuts]].]]
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Creator/LiamNeeson and Creator/JimCarrey, both on the cusp of becoming big stars, each appear in supporting roles.

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* PreemptiveDeclaration:
** The film has this during the Chinatown restaurant robbery scene:

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** Callahan gets two mafia mooks to back off by asking a woman to call for an ambulance, describing the mooks and listing their potential injuries.
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* FameThroughInfamy: One of the random threats that Harry has to deal with is a man who calls saying he wants to confess the Dead Pool murders and he's going to set himself on fire... and when he's getting interviewed by Samantha, the man admits that he just made that call to have reporters come to the scene because he wanted to commit suicide by [[SelfImmolation setting himself on fire]] and become remembered for it. Samantha manages to discourage him by turning off the camera and saying that nobody will air his death.
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* BottomlessMagazines: Averted at the end of the film when the BigBad takes Harry's revolver. Harry knows how many rounds are left and when the villain has fired off the last round, Harry says, [[CountingBullets "You're out of bullets]]. [[PreMortemOneLiner And you know what that means. You're shit out of luck"]] before [[spoiler:[[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling]] him through a wall with a harpoon gun]].

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* BottomlessMagazines: Averted at the end of the film when the BigBad takes Harry's revolver. Harry knows how many rounds are left and when the villain has fired off the last round, Harry says, [[CountingBullets "You're out of bullets]]. [[PreMortemOneLiner And you know what that means. means]]. [[MeaningfulEcho You're shit out of luck"]] before [[spoiler:[[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling]] him through a wall with a harpoon gun]].
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* LargeHam: Johnny Squares. Its a given when you're played by Creator/JimCarrey.
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* EvilBrit: Rook speaks with a British accent.
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** Before the talk show host is murdered via car bomb, a man recently fired by Swan is seen at a hardware store wearing a ''Hotel Satan'' jacket, watching him on some in store TVs and buying some stuff that could be used to make a bomb.

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** Before the talk show host is murdered via car bomb, a man recently fired by Swan is seen at a hardware store wearing a ''Hotel Satan'' jacket, watching him on some in store TVs [=TVs=] and buying some stuff that could be used to make a bomb.
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** Before the tennis player is murdered via car bomb, a man recently fired by Swan is seen at a hardware store wearing a ''Hotel Satan'' jacket and buying stuff that could be used to make a bomb.

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** Before the tennis player talk show host is murdered via car bomb, a man recently fired by Swan is seen at a hardware store wearing a ''Hotel Satan'' jacket jacket, watching him on some in store TVs and buying some stuff that could be used to make a bomb.
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* TakeThatCritics: Molly Fisher, the film critic who becomes the second murder victim is based on Pauline Kael, in response to her accusing the first film of promoting fascism.

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* TakeThatCritics: Molly Fisher, the film critic who becomes the second murder victim is based on Pauline Kael, Creator/PaulineKael, in response to her accusing the first film of promoting fascism.

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