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--> '''Librarian:''' "Hey...Fuck it"
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--> '''Librarian:''' "Hey...Fuck fuck it"
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* CatchAndReturn: The undercover mercenary teacher Jon Shale gets a soda can thrown at the back of his head by one of the rowdy students. He turns around, catches it in time, and throws it straight in the guy's face. He declares that he had to grow eyes in the back of his head during his time in Vietnam.
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--> '''Lacas:''' "When this is over i'm gonna make you right 'I'm Sorry' 100 times..."
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--> '''Lacas:''' "When this is over i'm gonna make you right write 'I'm Sorry' 100 times..."
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* ShutUpHannibal:
--> '''Lacas:''' "When this is over i'm gonna make you right 'I'm Sorry' 100 times..."
--> '''Shale:''' "Shhhh...no talking in the library"
--> '''Lacas:''' "When this is over i'm gonna make you right 'I'm Sorry' 100 times..."
--> '''Shale:''' "Shhhh...no talking in the library"
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* PlayingAgainstType: Friendly, avuncular Ernie Hudson plays the villainous principal.
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Shale is saved ''twice'' right before he is about to be executed by a bad guy. The first time Jerome saves Shale by killing Juan Lacas. The second time Hollan saves Shale by killing Johnny Glades (right before dying himself).
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Shale is saved ''twice'' right before he is about to be executed by a bad guy. The first time Jerome saves Shale by killing Juan Lacas. The second time Hollan saves Shale by killing Johnny Glades (right before dying himself).]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Shale is saved ''twice'' right before he is about to be executed by a bad guy. The first time Jerome saves Shale by killing Juan Lacas. The second time Hollan saves Shale by killing Johnny Glades (right before dying himself).
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* DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:Hollan uses his dying breath to warn Shale that he's walking into a trap.]]
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* DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:Hollan uses his dying breath [[spoiler:A critically-wounded Hollan radios Shale to warn Shale him that he's walking into a trap.trap. A few minutes later, Hollan saves Shale's life by killing Johnny Glades right before dying himself.]]
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* DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:Hollan uses his dying breath to warn Shale that he's walking into a trap.]]
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Hollan uses his dying breath to warn Shale that he's walking into a trap.]]
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Hollan uses his dying breath to warn Shale that he's walking into a trap.]]
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* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Shale ''really'' hates drugs and drug dealers; turning down a high-paying job working for a drug cartel and later throwing a briefcase full of cocaine into the ocean.
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* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: Roller and the Kings of Destruction have been taken down, but everyone in Shale's mercenary team is dead except for himself and Joey Six.]]
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* ManlyTears: [[spoiler:Joey Six sheds some at the end of the movie after learning that he and Shale are the only survivors of their mercenary team.]]
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* BadassCrew: Shale's team of mercenaries.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: Someone is kneecapped while Mungo Jerry's "In The Summertime" is playing
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Crosswicking.
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* TheManBehindTheMan: Principal Rolle, who is revealed to be pulling Lucas's strings.
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* TheManBehindTheMan: Principal Rolle, Roller, who is revealed to be pulling Lucas's strings.Lacas's strings.
* MuggingTheMonster: Two inner-city high school students pick a fight with the new substitute teacher early on in his new assignment. The "teacher" is actually a Vietnam veteran and mercenary who is undercover to investigate the conspiracy leading to his girlfriend's attack.
* MuggingTheMonster: Two inner-city high school students pick a fight with the new substitute teacher early on in his new assignment. The "teacher" is actually a Vietnam veteran and mercenary who is undercover to investigate the conspiracy leading to his girlfriend's attack.
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* OhCrap: Every time Shale calmly walks into the school after he's supposed to have been killed, Principle Rolle's reaction gets more entertaining to watch.
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* OhCrap: Every time Shale calmly walks into the school after he's supposed to have been killed, Principle Rolle's Principal Roller's reaction gets more entertaining to watch.
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Crosswicking.
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* WhiteMansBurden: The film is an action movie take on the "white teacher challenges the inner-city kids." He's actually a mercenary who's investigating the attack on his teacher girlfriend, but along the way he manages to knock some sense into his class and helps take down the black principal's drug ring.
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'''''The Substitute''''' is a 1996 action-crime-thriller film Starring Tom Berenger as Jonathan Shale, a Mercenary who poses as a substitute teacher and goes undercover at his wife's school after she is attacked by a gang.
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''The Substitute'' is a 1996 action-crime-thriller
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* BigBad: Juan Lacas is initially portrayed this way.
** BiggerBad: Principal Rolle, who is eventually revealed to be part of a...
** BigBadEnsemble: with Indian drug lord Johnny Glade.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: The first major character to die is the Black teacher friend, Mr. Sherman, is the first to die. The first commando to die is also the Black member of the team, Wellman.
** BiggerBad: Principal Rolle, who is eventually revealed to be part of a...
** BigBadEnsemble: with Indian drug lord Johnny Glade.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: The first major character to die is the Black teacher friend, Mr. Sherman, is the first to die. The first commando to die is also the Black member of the team, Wellman.
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* BigBad: Juan Lacas is initially portrayed this way.
** BiggerBad:way, until it's revealed that he's only TheDragon to [[TheManBehindTheMan Principal Rolle, who is eventually revealed to be part of a...
** BigBadEnsemble: withRoller]].
* BigBadDuumvirate: Principal Roller and Indian drug lord Johnny Glade.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: The first major character to die is the Black teacher friend, Mr.Sherman, is the first to die.Sherman. The first commando to die is also the Black member of the team, Wellman.
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** BigBadEnsemble: with
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: The first major character to die is the Black teacher friend, Mr.
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* BringMyBrownPants: Shale scares someone so bad they crap their pants, they later blame it on "The Fiber"
* CrapsackWorld: Takes place in Miami in the mid 90s
* EvilTeacher: The Principal who turns out to be the leader of the gang
* CrapsackWorld: Takes place in Miami in the mid 90s
* EvilTeacher: The Principal who turns out to be the leader of the gang
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* BringMyBrownPants: Shale scares someone so bad they crap their pants, they later blame it on "The Fiber"
Fiber".
* CrapsackWorld: Takes place in Miami in the mid90s
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* EvilTeacher: ThePrincipal Principal, who turns out to be the leader of the ganggang.
* CrapsackWorld: Takes place in Miami in the mid
* EvilTeacher: The
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* KneeCapping: Shale's girlfriend is kneecapped by a street gang, setting the plot in motion
* NeverLearnedToRead: Juan Lacas as evidenced when he has to write "I'm Sorry" 100 times and spells it "Im sorey"
* NeverLearnedToRead: Juan Lacas as evidenced when he has to write "I'm Sorry" 100 times and spells it "Im sorey"
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* KneeCapping: Shale's girlfriend is kneecapped by a street gang, setting the plot in motion
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* TheManBehindTheMan: Principal Rolle, who is revealed to be pulling Lucas's strings.
* NeverLearnedToRead: JuanLacas Lacas, as evidenced when he has to write "I'm Sorry" 100 times and spells it "Im sorey"sorey".
* TheManBehindTheMan: Principal Rolle, who is revealed to be pulling Lucas's strings.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Juan
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* PrecisionFStrike: From the elderly librarian
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* PrecisionFStrike: From the elderly librarianlibrarian:
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Shale clearly has some hangups about Vietnam and uses his experiences to discipline students. "You had to be RESOURCEFUL in Vietnam!" - Said after injuring a student with a soda can
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* SaveOurStudents: These movies are a rather dark and action-y take on the old formula, as the main character's approach to violent gang-bangers invading the school isn't so much to instill them with a passion for academics as it is to smash them in the face and then throw them out a 3rd-story window. Not terribly inspirational, but perhaps more fun to watch.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Shale clearly has some hangups about Vietnam and uses his experiences to discipline students. "You had to be RESOURCEFUL in Vietnam!" - Said after injuring a student with a sodacancan.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Shale clearly has some hangups about Vietnam and uses his experiences to discipline students. "You had to be RESOURCEFUL in Vietnam!" - Said after injuring a student with a soda
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* BigBad: Juan Lacas is initially portrayed this way.
** BiggerBad: Principal Rolle, who is eventually revealed to be part of a...
** BigBadEnsemble: with Indian drug lord Johnny Glade.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: The first major character to die is the Black teacher friend, Mr. Sherman, is the first to die. The first commando to die is also the Black member of the team, Wellman.
** BiggerBad: Principal Rolle, who is eventually revealed to be part of a...
** BigBadEnsemble: with Indian drug lord Johnny Glade.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: The first major character to die is the Black teacher friend, Mr. Sherman, is the first to die. The first commando to die is also the Black member of the team, Wellman.
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* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Hollan.]]
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* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Hollan.]]
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* OhCrap: Every time Shale calmly walks into the school after he's supposed to have been killed, Principle Rolle's reaction gets more entertaining to watch.
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* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Hollan.]]
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* KneeCapping: Shale's wife is kneecapped by a street gang, setting the plot in motion
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* KneeCapping: Shale's wife girlfriend is kneecapped by a street gang, setting the plot in motion
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* ActorAllusion: Shale is a Vietnam vet, which may be a reference to [[Film/{{Platoon}} one of Tom Beringer's most famous roles.]]
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* ActorAllusion: Shale is a Vietnam vet, which may be a reference to [[Film/{{Platoon}} one of Tom Beringer's Berenger's most famous roles.]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Joey Six is [[Film/ClearAndPresentDanger Domingo Chavez.]]
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* ActorAllusion: Shale is a Vietnam vet, which may be a reference to [[Film/{{Platoon}} one of Tom Beringer's most famous roles.]]
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Shale clearly has some hangups about Vietnam and uses his experiences to discipline students. "You had to be RESOURCEFUL in Vietnam!" - Said after injuring a student with a soda cancan
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The Substitute is a 1996 action-crime-thriller film Starring Tom Berenger as Jonathan Shale, a Mercenary who poses as a substitute teacher and goes undercover at his wife's school after she is attacked by a gang.
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'''''The Substitute''''' is a 1996 action-crime-thriller film Starring Tom Berenger as Jonathan Shale, a Mercenary who poses as a substitute teacher and goes undercover at his wife's school after she is attacked by a
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The Substitute is a 1996 action-crime-thriller film Starring Tom Berenger as Jonathan Shale, a Mercenary who poses as a substitute teacher and goes undercover at his wife's school after she is attacked by a gang.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Shale clearly has some hangups about Vietnam and uses his experiences to discipline students. "You had to be RESOURCEFUL in Vietnam!" - Said after injuring a student with a soda can
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Page was empty, its a cool movie
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* BringMyBrownPants: Shale scares someone so bad they crap their pants, they later blame it on "The Fiber"
* CrapsackWorld: Takes place in Miami in the mid 90s
* EvilTeacher: The Principal who turns out to be the leader of the gang
* KneeCapping: Shale's wife is kneecapped by a street gang, setting the plot in motion
* NeverLearnedToRead: Juan Lacas as evidenced when he has to write "I'm Sorry" 100 times and spells it "Im sorey"
* PrecisionFStrike: From the elderly librarian
--> '''Shale:''' "Sorry about the windows"
--> '''Librarian:''' "Hey...Fuck it"
* ShellShockedVeteran: Shale clearly has some hangups about Vietnam and uses his experiences to discipline students. "You had to be RESOURCEFUL in Vietnam!" - Said after injuring a student with a soda can
* CrapsackWorld: Takes place in Miami in the mid 90s
* EvilTeacher: The Principal who turns out to be the leader of the gang
* KneeCapping: Shale's wife is kneecapped by a street gang, setting the plot in motion
* NeverLearnedToRead: Juan Lacas as evidenced when he has to write "I'm Sorry" 100 times and spells it "Im sorey"
* PrecisionFStrike: From the elderly librarian
--> '''Shale:''' "Sorry about the windows"
--> '''Librarian:''' "Hey...Fuck it"
* ShellShockedVeteran: Shale clearly has some hangups about Vietnam and uses his experiences to discipline students. "You had to be RESOURCEFUL in Vietnam!" - Said after injuring a student with a soda can
