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* ActorAllusion: Harry performs a [[GunTwirling gun twirl]] like the [[Film/DollarsTrilogy Man With No Name]].
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* DubNameChange: Harry was renamed Harry Callaghan for the Italian release because the local distributor thought it sounded better.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: While spotting Quan weightlifting, Harry becomes distracted by a woman working out, hilarity ensues as Quan get stuck under the barbell.
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* ShoutOut The chase scene with the explosive [=RC=] car, is a shout out to The Chase Scene in ''Film/{{Bullitt}}''.
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* ShoutOut ShoutOut
** The chase scene with the explosive [=RC=] car, is a shout out to The Chase Scene in''Film/{{Bullitt}}''.''Film/{{Bullitt}}''.
** The "calling for an ambulance in advance" stunt is from ''The New Centurions''.
** The chase scene with the explosive [=RC=] car, is a shout out to The Chase Scene in
** The "calling for an ambulance in advance" stunt is from ''The New Centurions''.
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* GoodLuckCharm: Quan's tattoos, which his grandfather insisted he get after hearing he was Harry's partner. Harry tells him a bulletproof vest would be more practical. Fortunately Quan's grandfather also told him, "When your partner gives you advice, take it."
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* GenreSavvy: Aware of the fate of Harry's previous partners, Quan wears a BulletproofVest. He survives with only a few broken ribs after the remote-car bomb goes off.
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* GenreSavvy: Aware of the fate of Harry's previous partners, Quan wears a BulletproofVest. He survives with only a few broken ribs after the remote-car bomb goes off. The only other partner of Harry's to survive was Chico from the first movie, also thanks to his vest.
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* GenreSavvy: Aware of the fate of Harry's previous partners, Quan wears a BulletproofVest. He survives with only a few broken ribs after the remote-car bomb goes off.
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* RedHerring: For most of the film it looks like egotistical horror director Peter Swan is the Dead Pool killer, but at the end the real killer turns out to be Harlan Rook, a crazed fan of Swan's.
** Also, 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.
** Also, 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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* RedHerring: RedHerring:
** For most of the film it looks like egotistical horror director Peter Swan is the Dead Pool killer, but at the end the real killer turns out to be Harlan Rook, a crazed fan of Swan's.
**Also, before 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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** Also, 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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* RedHerring: For most of the film it looks like egotistical horror director Peter Swan is the Dead Pool killer, but at the end the real killer turns out to be Harlan Rook, a crazed fan of Swan's.
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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." Something about this woman seems to rub directors the wrong way (probably her habit of [[YouKeepUsingThatWord indiscriminately throwing around the term "fascist"]] to describe things she doesn't like, as well as her well-earned reputation of being a proto-{{hipster}}), since she got another TakeThat in ''Film/{{Willow}}''.
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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." Something about this woman seems to rub directors the wrong way (probably her habit of [[YouKeepUsingThatWord indiscriminately throwing around the term "fascist"]] to describe things she doesn't like, as well as her well-earned reputation of being a proto-{{hipster}}), since she got another TakeThat in ''Film/{{Willow}}''.
fascism.
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* CallBack: Early in the movie Harry walks past a series of memorial plaques to police officers of San Francisco killed in the line of duty. They are the same plaques featured in the opening of ''Film/DirtyHarry''.
* 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.
* 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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* 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 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 That means you're 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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* 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: {{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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* BondOneLiner: [[spoiler: After killing Rook by impaling him with a harpoon gun, Harry says to Capt. Donnelly, "He's hanging out back there."]]
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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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Released in 1988, ''The Dead Pool'' is the last film in the ''Film/DirtyHarry'' pentalogy.
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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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Unrelated to ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}''.
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* DontExplainTheJoke The female reporter notes how Harry is having his 15 minutes. Then has to explain to Harry how Andy Warhol said everyone would be famous for 15 minutes, a well-known comment Harry is clearly old enough to have heard before.
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* ActorAllusion: Harry performs a [[GunTwirling gun twirl]] like the [[Film/DollarsTrilogy Man With No Name]].
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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]''
-->'''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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* ManOnFire: Harry, with the help of Samantha, defuses a situation where a guy demands cameras to film him setting himself on fire.
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* PreemptiveDeclaration: The film has this during the Chinatown restaurant robbery scene:
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* SelfImmolation: Harry, with the help of Samantha, defuses a situation where a guy demands cameras to film him setting himself on fire.
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* ExorcistHead: Appears in the film that Swan is directing. When the effect causing it malfunctions, Squares, fed up, accuses Swan for ripping off ''Film/TheExorcist''.
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* ExorcistHead: Appears in the film that Peter Swan is directing. When the effect causing it malfunctions, Johnny Squares, fed up, accuses Swan for ripping off ''Film/TheExorcist''.
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* LoonyFan: Rook is an obsessed fan of Peter Swan. Out of touch from reality, he accuses Swan of stealing ideas from him and tries frame him with the Dead Pool murders.
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* LoonyFan: Harlan Rook is an obsessed fan of Peter Swan. Out of touch from reality, he accuses Swan of stealing ideas from him and tries frame him with the Dead Pool murders.
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Released in 1988, ''The Dead Pool'' is the last film in the ''DirtyHarry'' pentalogy.
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* ActorAllusion: Harry performs a similar [[GunTwirling gun twirl]] like the [[Film/DollarsTrilogy Man With No Name]].
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* ActorAllusion: Harry performs a similar [[GunTwirling gun twirl]] like the [[Film/DollarsTrilogy Man With No Name]].
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Harry is tasked to solve a string murders related to a game based on a list of celebrities that are predicted to die next: The Dead Pool. The case makes him a small celebrity too, and he becomes a target as well. To make matters worse, Harry is also hounded by the mob.
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Det. Harry Callahan is tasked to solve a string murders related to a game based on a list of celebrities that are predicted to die next: The Dead Pool. The case makes him a small celebrity too, and he becomes a target as well. To make matters worse, Harry is also hounded by the mob.
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Harry is tasked to solve a string murders related to a game based on a list of celebrities that are predicted to die next: The Dead Pool. The case makes him a small celebrity too, and he becomes a traget as well. To make matters worse, Harry is also hounded by the mob.
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Harry is tasked to solve a string murders related to a game based on a list of celebrities that are predicted to die next: The Dead Pool. The case makes him a small celebrity too, and he becomes a traget target as well. To make matters worse, Harry is also hounded by the mob.
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* PrimaDonnaDirector: Creator/LiamNeeson as an egotistical horror film director Peter Swan.
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* PrimaDonnaDirector: Creator/LiamNeeson as an The egotistical horror film director Peter Swan.
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* LoonyFan: Rook is an obsessed fan of Peter Swan. Out of touch from reality, he accuses Swan of stealing ideas from him and tries frame him with the Dead Pool murders.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Harlan Rook, whose surname is bird which is a part of the same family as crows and ravens.
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Released in 1988, ''The Dead Pool'' is the last film in the ''DirtyHarry'' pentalogy.
Harry is tasked to solve a string murders related to a game based on a list of celebrities that are predicted to die next: The Dead Pool. The case makes him a small celebrity too, and he becomes a traget as well. To make matters worse, Harry is also hounded by the mob.
!!This film has the examples of:
* ActorAllusion: Harry performs a similar [[GunTwirling gun twirl]] like the [[DollarsTrilogy Man With No Name]].
* BadassBoast:
-->'''Harry:''' Fuck with me, buddy, I'll kick your ass so hard you'll have to unbutton your collar to shit.
* BatmanColdOpen: The film opens with mob hitmen out to kill Harry.
* BigBad: Harlan Rook, The Dead Pool Killer.
* 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 That means you're shit out of luck"]] before [[spoiler:[[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling]] him through a wall with a harpoon gun]].
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The [[{{BFG}} enormous]] HarpoonGun from the film shoot]].
* ContinuityNod: One of the collected headlines in Samantha's notebook about Harry reads "[[Film/DirtyHarry Scorpio Killer Captured]]".
* DoubleStandard: A female journalist blackmails Harry into going to dinner with her. Imagine what would happen if a male journalist did that to a female cop.
* ExorcistHead: Appears in the film that Swan is directing. When the effect causing it malfunctions, Squares, fed up, accuses Swan for ripping off ''Film/TheExorcist''.
-->'''Swan:''' This is not a rip-off. It's a {{homage}}, you stupid...
* ManOnFire: Harry, with the help of Samantha, defuses a situation where a guy demands cameras to film him setting himself on fire.
* PreemptiveDeclaration: The film has this during the Chinatown restaurant robbery scene:
-->'''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]''
** 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.
* PrimaDonnaDirector: Creator/LiamNeeson as an egotistical horror film director Peter Swan.
* 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.
* RuleOfThree: While investigating the death of a drug-abusing rocker, Harry's partner Al Quan states his personal belief that celebrities always die in threes.
* ShoutOut The chase scene with the explosive [=RC=] car, is a shout out to The Chase Scene in ''Film/{{Bullitt}}''.
* 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." Something about this woman seems to rub directors the wrong way (probably her habit of [[YouKeepUsingThatWord indiscriminately throwing around the term "fascist"]] to describe things she doesn't like, as well as her well-earned reputation of being a proto-{{hipster}}), since she got another TakeThat in ''Film/{{Willow}}''.
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