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* ItsPersonal: Thomasson nearly throttles [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Buckner]] because of it.
-->'''Thomasson:''' Thousands of people in this country died fighting a war against assholes like you. Some of them were in my family.
-->'''Thomasson:''' Thousands of people in this country died fighting a war against assholes like you. Some of them were in my family.
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* GoOutWithASmile: Hollan.
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->''"I'm in charge of this class. I'm the warrior chief. I'm the merciless god of anything that stirs in my universe. You fuck with me, and you will suffer my wrath."''
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->''"I'm in charge of this class. I'm the warrior chief. I'm the merciless god of anything that stirs in my universe. You fuck FUCK with me, and you will suffer my wrath."''
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: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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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Roller [[spoiler:Rolle 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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* BringMyBrownPants: Shale scares someone so bad they crap their pants, they later blame it on "The Fiber".
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* BringMyBrownPants: Shale scares someone so bad they crap their pants, they later blame it on "The Fiber".fiber".
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* KilledMidsentence: How Hollan goes out.
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* KilledMidsentence: How Hollan goes out.
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* SherlockScan: Shale and Rolle perform a quick version of this on each other shortly after meeting. Rolle notes that the extensive scars on Shale's hands are somewhat incongruous with his stated background as a bureaucrat with a 'standard liberal arts education'. Shale, for his part, immediately zeroes in on the expensive watch that Rolle wears despite working in a school and area with heavy gang activity.
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* SherlockScan: Shale and Rolle perform a quick version of this on each other shortly after meeting. Rolle notes that the extensive scars on Shale's hands are somewhat incongruous with his stated background as a bureaucrat with a 'standard liberal arts education'. Shale, for his part, immediately zeroes in on the expensive expensive-for-an-inner-city-teacher gold watch that Rolle wears despite working in a school and area with heavy gang activity.
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* SherlockScan: Shale and Rolle perform a quick version of this on each other shortly after meeting. Rolle notes that the extensive scars on Shale's hands are somewhat incongruous with his stated background as a bureaucrat with a 'standard liberal arts education'. Shale, for his part, immediately zeroes in on the expensive watch that Rolle wears despite working in a school and area with heavy gang activity.
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--> '''Lacas:''' "When this is over i'm gonna make you write 'I'm Sorry' 100 times..."
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--> '''Lacas:''' "When this is over i'm I'm gonna make you write 'I'm Sorry' 100 times..."
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* CrapsackWorld: The first film takes place in Miami in the mid 90s.
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* CrapsackWorld: The first film takes place in Miami in the mid 90s.90s, and the inner-city school in which all of the action takes place is a perfect definition of the term "hell-hole" [[spoiler:''without'' taking into account that it's being used as a base for drug dealers.]]
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* IntimidationDemonstration: Principal Rolle shows Shale a thing he does at the beginning of every year to show new students (and the hoodlums among them) that [[BadassTeacher he's not a principal to be fucked with]]: he shatters a solid paddle (about the size of a cricket bat) with a single judo chop.
-->'''Principal Rolle''': Power perceived is power achieved.
* IronicEcho: When Rolle gets on Shale's case about hitting one of his students in the face with a thrown soda can (which actually was Shale tossing it back at the student trying to bean him InTheBack), Shale explains that he was just defending himself and establishing dominance over his classroom, and repeats Rolle's line of "power perceived is power achieved". Rolle visibly seems to regret having said that.
-->'''Principal Rolle''': Power perceived is power achieved.
* IronicEcho: When Rolle gets on Shale's case about hitting one of his students in the face with a thrown soda can (which actually was Shale tossing it back at the student trying to bean him InTheBack), Shale explains that he was just defending himself and establishing dominance over his classroom, and repeats Rolle's line of "power perceived is power achieved". Rolle visibly seems to regret having said that.
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Went on to spawn a series of sequels, with Treat Williams replacing Berenger as the titular substitute and fighting more gangsters, steroid-addled college athletes, and white supremacists, in that order.
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Went on to spawn a series of sequels, with Treat Williams Creator/TreatWilliams replacing Berenger as the titular substitute and fighting more gangsters, steroid-addled college athletes, and white supremacists, in that order.
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* FanserviceExtra: Shale meets Joey Six at a strip club to talk business; the camera lingers on the topless dancers around the place, and even Joey himself gets distracted.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: John Janus' video advertising his skills as a mercenary list his proficiency in five or six different types of martial arts before saying that he's good at killing with his bare hands.
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* RunningGag: Lacas' "Im sorey" writing remains on the blackboard throughout the whole film [[spoiler:and one of Janus' last words before Shale blows him (and the blackboard) away is him reading the line aloud with the obvious question of who the hell wrote this dangling in the air.]]
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* DrugsAreBad: The third movie deals with performance-enhancing drugs being peddled at a high school.
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* DrugsAreBad: The third movie deals with performance-enhancing drugs being peddled at a high school.state college.
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* AirVentPassageway: The janitor helps Thomasson deal with a bunch of mooks he fought in the lavatory by hiding their bodies in the air vents.
* BackupBluff: Thomasson and one of his mercenary friends intimidate a gang by walking right up to them and rigging a device to point multiple {{Laser Sight}}s at their chests, claiming them to be a whole group of snipers.
* LaserSight: Invoked to intimidate a group of gang-members by making them believe they are being covered by a like-number of hidden snipers, they are actually being covered by a single man with a gimbal-rig holding several laser-pointers.
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[[folder:''The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All'']]
* DrugsAreBad: The third movie deals with performance-enhancing drugs being peddled at a high school.
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[[folder:''The Substitute 4: Failure Is Not An Option'']]
* MilitaryAcademy: This movie sees former ex-soldier Karl Thomasson (Treat Williams) return to teach at a military academy and dismantle a white supremacist cult in the school.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain, Karl Thomasson goes to a MilitaryAcademy to dismantle a white supremacist cult that is secretly run by the commanding officer.
* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: Karl Thomasson has a discussion about the Holocaust with Buckner, a student who is part of a Neo-Nazi cult at the MilitaryAcademy Thomasson is teaching at. Thomasson dismantles Buckner's rather pathetic attempt to downplay the figure from six million to five hundred thousand by pointing out that the violation of ThouShaltNotKill in itself is the issue, not the raw number.
-->'''Thomasson:''' Let's say it was a thousand. A thousand innocent people murdered, not for something they did, but for who they were. If that's not a holocaust, what the hell would you call it?
-->'''Buckner:''' [[KickTheDog I call it bad luck.]]
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* AirVentPassageway: The janitor helps Thomasson deal with a bunch of mooks he fought in the lavatory by hiding their bodies in the air vents.
* BackupBluff: Thomasson and one of his mercenary friends intimidate a gang by walking right up to them and rigging a device to point multiple {{Laser Sight}}s at their chests, claiming them to be a whole group of snipers.
* LaserSight: Invoked to intimidate a group of gang-members by making them believe they are being covered by a like-number of hidden snipers, they are actually being covered by a single man with a gimbal-rig holding several laser-pointers.
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[[folder:''The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All'']]
* DrugsAreBad: The third movie deals with performance-enhancing drugs being peddled at a high school.
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[[folder:''The Substitute 4: Failure Is Not An Option'']]
* MilitaryAcademy: This movie sees former ex-soldier Karl Thomasson (Treat Williams) return to teach at a military academy and dismantle a white supremacist cult in the school.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain, Karl Thomasson goes to a MilitaryAcademy to dismantle a white supremacist cult that is secretly run by the commanding officer.
* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: Karl Thomasson has a discussion about the Holocaust with Buckner, a student who is part of a Neo-Nazi cult at the MilitaryAcademy Thomasson is teaching at. Thomasson dismantles Buckner's rather pathetic attempt to downplay the figure from six million to five hundred thousand by pointing out that the violation of ThouShaltNotKill in itself is the issue, not the raw number.
-->'''Thomasson:''' Let's say it was a thousand. A thousand innocent people murdered, not for something they did, but for who they were. If that's not a holocaust, what the hell would you call it?
-->'''Buckner:''' [[KickTheDog I call it bad luck.]]
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* BigBad: Juan Lacas is initially portrayed this way, until it's revealed that he's only TheDragon to [[TheManBehindTheMan Principal Roller]].
* BigBadDuumvirate: Principal Roller and Indian drug lord Johnny Glade.
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* BigBad: Juan Lacas is initially portrayed this way, until it's revealed that he's only TheDragon to [[TheManBehindTheMan Principal Roller]].
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* BigBadDuumvirate: PrincipalRoller Rolle and Indian drug lord Johnny Glade.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Principal
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Shale asks the kids what good comes from a gang life and the kids start bragging about things like drugs, money, and clothing. He asks if that's what they want for their kids and they quiet down and say that it's different when talking about your kids.
* JerkassHasAPoint: From the bad guy's perspective. When Shale says that a McJob is better than a gang funeral and asks how many of those the kids have been to, Lacas' {{Dragon}} Rodriguez simply says [[{{Tearjerker}} "Too many... Too fuckin' many."]]
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* MortonsFork: Talking about his time in Vietnam, Shale mentions that his team would have to take the AK-47s from the Viet Cong forces to continue the fight. Listen carefully as Rolle is at the door and you can hear him say the distinct sound difference between that and the M-16 would make American forces fire at him and his men.
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* OddNameOut: Shale's undercover identity is "James Smith," which Rolle keeps forgetting. He says if his name was "Fedarooski" he'd remember it.
* OhCrap: Every time Shale calmly walks into the school after he's supposed to have been killed, PrincipalRoller's Rolle's reaction gets more entertaining to watch.
* OhCrap: Every time Shale calmly walks into the school after he's supposed to have been killed, Principal
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Roller can't believe Shale is attacking the drug ring for any reason besides money.
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** A similar scene ends hilariously when Shale turns down a job because it involves drugs.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: The movie ends with Shale and Joey Six walking away from the school (that got thrashed in the final shootout) and casually talking about probably moving to California to continue the "substitute" gig. In context, they were probably just talking to cut the tension [[spoiler:after the rest of the mercenary team has been killed off]], but considering that this film got various sequels...
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The film was followed by three sequels/spin-offs, with Tom Berenger replaced in the lead role by Treat Williams.
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* ActorAllusion: Shale is a Vietnam vet, which may be a reference to [[Film/{{Platoon}} one of Tom Berenger's most famous roles.]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Joey Six is [[Film/ClearAndPresentDanger Domingo Chavez.]]
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* PlayingAgainstType: Friendly, avuncular Ernie Hudson plays the villainous principal.
