History Film / TheManFromNowhere

* DropDeadGorgeus: Hyo-jeong's corpse is found naked in a car's trunk.

* RecycledInSpace: The movie has elements of ''Film/{{Taken}}'', ''Film/ManOnFire'', ''Film/TheTransporter'', and of course, ''Film/TheProfessional''. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools That doesn't diminish the merits of the film.]]

%%* BadassBoast:%%Quotes alone are not acceptable context.
%%** Tae-Sik:
%%--->''You guys only live for tomorrow, don't you? You don't stand a chance against a guy living for today. I only live for today. I will show you how fucked up it's going to be.''
%%** To [[spoiler: Man-Seok, before the climactic final battle]]:
%%--->''How many cavities do you have? I run a pawnshop. I take gold teeth. I'll keep the gold teeth... And I'll chew up everything else.''

* BattleDiscretionShot: For the first half of the film, most of Tae-Sik's fights is offscreen, his first onscreen fight is between him and Ramrowan.

* BewareTheQuietOnes: Tae-Sik doesn't talk much, but you'd better listen when he does.
** Ramrowan has even fewer lines, and is equally dangerous.

* BullyingADragon: It's bad enough that the Seok brothers manipulate Tae-Sik to be their fall guy and lead him around in his search for So-Mi. The fact that they relentlessly mock and deride him along the way makes his RoaringRampageOfRevenge all the more appropriate.

* CoversAlwaysLie: Most of the posters show a gun-wielding Tae-Sik with So-Mi standing behind/ next to him. This never happens in the movie.

* FaceOfAThug: So-Mi thinks that Tae-Sik during their conversation in that he was hiding, because he did something bad.

* GratuitousEnglish: Ramrowan speaks unaccented English throughout the film, apparently because he's Thai and uses it as a lingua franca.

* LaserGuidedKarma: The mook accompanying Bear spikes the drink of a girl to have sex with her. Two scenes later he [[spoiler: got stabbed by his own knife and shot down in the restroom after having sex with the girl.]]

* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Jong-Seok is incredibly stylish in every appearance, and is usually seen entertaining multiple women with drinks.
* NobleDemon: Ramrowan is plenty violent and serves the Seok brothers, but clearly develops a respect for Tae-Sik, noticing his skill and resolve early on when the other thugs are writing him off. He clearly relishes their fights, and [[spoiler: during the final battle, waits for Tae-Sik to finish the mooks before engaging him one on one in a knife fight, despite having a gun.]] It's also hinted that [[spoiler: he has a soft spot for kids, trying to protect So-Mi from seeing her mother being tortured, bringing her snacks in the ant's nest and ultimately saving her from getting her eyes removed by 500, going so far as disobeying and lying to his boss.]]

* PsychoForHire: [[PetTheDog Played around with]] by Ramrowan. He obviously [[DissonantSerenity enjoys his job]], but he avoids harming innocent bystanders and children (see his reaction to accidentally killing the drugged girl at the nightclub) if he can help it. He's fine with letting the evil people go about their business, but when he's put in charge of [[spoiler: ripping So-Mi's eyes out, he kills the surgeon instead.]]
* TheRemake: Bollywood has done a remake called ''Rocky Handsome''.

* WorthyOpponent: Ramrowan sees Tae-Sik as this. During the final fight, as Tae-Sik butchers the other mooks, he [[VillainousValor refuses to shoot him]], instead challenging him to a one on one knife fight.

* PeekABangs: This being Korea, Tae-Sik's BeardOfSorrow takes the form of a shaggy head of hair that always falls over one eye. His ImportantHaircut signals his return to focus.

* AnAxToGrind: Hatchets appear in the hands of mooks during some action sequences, and one is featured in an early interrogation scene. Hatchets and cleavers are [[TruthInTelevision commonly used]] by the real TriadsAndTongs.

* BadBoss: Mr. Oh. His first scene shows him beating Man-Seok for losing his product. When he learns that [[spoiler: the police are surrounding the golf course, he tells none of his mooks and leaves them to stall the cops as he escapes.]]
** Man-Seok counts too, since he has [[spoiler: Bear]] murdered as a fall guy, and beats a wounded mook for not loading money fast enough.
* BadassBoast: Tae-Sik
--> ''You guys only live for tomorrow, don't you? You don't stand a chance against a guy living for today. I only live for today. I will show you how fucked up it's going to be.''
** To [[spoiler: Man-Seok, before the climactic final battle]]:
--> ''How many cavities do you have? I run a pawnshop. I take gold teeth. I'll keep the gold teeth... And I'll chew up everything else.''

** [[spoiler: Ramrowan, a KnifeNut, is killed by Tae-sik's knife.]]

* KnifeNut: Ramrowan's weapon of choice is a curved knife