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* TheAlcoholic: All of the vets appear to be heavy drinkers, and they drink throughout the hyper invasion. Fred is apparently the worst. He starts drinking in the morning and drinks the equivalent of around 10 to 12 shots of liquor through the hyper invasion alone.
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* BigGuyRodeo: Lizard jumps on Tanks back and stabs him.
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* DeathByIrony: Tank is introduced killing a hyper by smashing his knee into the man's face. He dies by getting his own face smashed by knees.
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* DrowningMySorrows: When all seems lost, Fred retires to the closet with a bottle of liquor.
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* ExtremelyShortTimeSpan: The film takes place over 24 hours, beginning in the morning and ending at dawn.
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* HellBentForLeather: Boz wears a studded leather jacket over a bare chest.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: The vets are largely armed with weapons they made or scavenged from the bar, such as a hockey stick and a barstool leg with nails hammered into it.
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* RetiredBadass: All of the vets are former badass soldiers who can still kick butt in their golden years.
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* TheBrute: Tank, who breaks open the VFW door by smashing a hyper's head against it.
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* RedShirt: [[spoiler:Thomas]], who dies during the first attack on the VFW before getting any real characterization.
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* WeHaveReserves: Boz is unconcerned with the waves of hypers he lets get slaughtered in the VFW.
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* ZergRush: The hypers attack in large waves
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* TheDragon: Gutter is Boz's right-hand woman and quickly establishes herself as his most dangerous minion. She's killed before the final confrontation with Boz.
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Both Boz and the vets pass up on several opportunities to simply shoot at each other, most noticeably during the pre-climax faceoff, when Deadeye could have easily killed Boz and decapitated the gang.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Gutter]] gets impaled through the back, then through her mouth, leaving her pinned to the floor in a sitting position.
* ItsPersonal: The first person the vets kill is Boz's brother. Lizard points out that he won't let any of them live even if they give back the drugs.
* KickTheDog: Gutter hacks into the head of a hyper who crawls into Boz's lair just for kicks. Then Boz tricks Lizard's sister into killing herself also out of pure malice.
* ItsPersonal: The first person the vets kill is Boz's brother. Lizard points out that he won't let any of them live even if they give back the drugs.
* KickTheDog: Gutter hacks into the head of a hyper who crawls into Boz's lair just for kicks. Then Boz tricks Lizard's sister into killing herself also out of pure malice.
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* ToughSpikesAndStuds: Boz wears a leather jacket covered in spikes. Gutter wears a bikini top with studs on it.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted and inverted. [[spoiler:Abe]] is the last of the veterans to die and even then his death is left ambiguous, and [[spoiler:Shaun]] survives the entire film.
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* CardCarryingVillain: Deconstructed by Boz. He engages in pointless and cruel actions like murdering Lizard's sister for no reason and he gleefully admits that he's a violent and cruel sadist, but this results in him causing unnecessary and easily avoided problems for himself that could have been avoided had he decided to indulge in PragmaticVillainy.
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* BladeEnthusiast: Gutter carries a massive machete on her back rather than a gun.
* CardCarryingVillain:Deconstructed by Boz. He Boz engages in pointless and cruel actions actions, like murdering Lizard's sister for no reason reason, and he gleefully admits that he's a violent and cruel sadist, but this results in him causing unnecessary and easily avoided problems for himself that could have been avoided had he decided to indulge in PragmaticVillainy.sadist.
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* CrapsackWorld: The film takes place in an America that has been overrun by drugs and gangs.
* DarkActionGirl: Gutter is Boz's right-hand woman and mixes it up with a giant machete.
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* DarkActionGirl: Gutter is Boz's right-hand woman and mixes it up with a giant machete.
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* ProtectThisHouse: The main characters are barricaded in their VFW bar against wave after wave of lunatics.
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Just typical grousing of old men. The Millennial in the cast is unlike their descriptions.
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* AuthorTract: Lots of complaining about millennials and how sensitive and wussy they are in comparison to their grizzled, stoic elders.
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''VFW'' is a 2020 American action-horror film starring Creator/StephenLang, Creator/WilliamSadler, Creator/MartinKove, Creator/SierraMcCormick, Creator/FredWilliamson, Creator/GeorgeWendt, Creator/DavidPatrickKelly, and Creator/TomWilliamson.
At a rundown VFW, a bunch of grizzled veterans are celebrating bartender Fred Parras (Lang) when a desperate young woman named Lizard ([=McCormick=]) runs in after stealing a massive shipment of a new, highly addictive drug named Hype from local drug dealer Boz (Travis Hammer). Boz and his gang of punks pursue her, and the veterans must defend her and themselves with every weapon and tactic at their disposal.
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''VFW'' is a 2020 American action-horror ActionHorror film starring Creator/StephenLang, Creator/WilliamSadler, Creator/MartinKove, Creator/SierraMcCormick, Creator/FredWilliamson, Creator/GeorgeWendt, Creator/DavidPatrickKelly, and Creator/TomWilliamson.
At a rundownVFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars hall, a bunch of grizzled veterans are celebrating bartender Fred Parras (Lang) when a desperate young woman named Lizard ([=McCormick=]) runs in after stealing a massive shipment of a new, highly addictive drug named Hype from local drug dealer Boz (Travis Hammer). Boz and his gang of punks pursue her, and the veterans must defend her and themselves with every weapon and tactic at their disposal.
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* BadassGrandpa: The vets have no problem fending off an onslaught of thugs and psychotic addicts.
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* Ax-Crazy: The Hypers. They're so hooked on the drug that they'll kill anyone or even themselves in the hopes of getting their fix.
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* DrugsAreBad: Hype induces a simultaneous euphoric and aggressive stat in its users, turning them into deranged, bloodthirsty mutants who seem more like zombies than they do human beings.
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*GenreThrowback: To {{Exploitation Film}}s of TheEighties.
*{{Gorn}}: The VFW is pretty much drenched in blood and littered in body parts by the end.
*MadeOfPlasticine: People are dismembered, mutilated and beheaded with the greatest of ease.
*{{Gorn}}: The VFW is pretty much drenched in blood and littered in body parts by the end.
*MadeOfPlasticine: People are dismembered, mutilated and beheaded with the greatest of ease.
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* CardCarryingVillain: Decomstructed by Boz. He engages in pointless and cruel actions like murdering Lizard's sister for no reason and he gleefully admits that he's a violent and cruel sadist, but this results in him causing unnecessary and easily avoided problems for himself that could have been avoided had he decided to indulge in PragmaticVillainy.
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* CardCarryingVillain: Decomstructed Deconstructed by Boz. He engages in pointless and cruel actions like murdering Lizard's sister for no reason and he gleefully admits that he's a violent and cruel sadist, but this results in him causing unnecessary and easily avoided problems for himself that could have been avoided had he decided to indulge in PragmaticVillainy.
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* DoomedHurtGuy: Doug, who is severely injured during the punks' first attack, [[spoiler:[[RealityEnsues dies from a lack of medical treatment for his wounds.]]]]
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* DoomedHurtGuy: Doug, who is severely injured during the punks' first attack, [[spoiler:[[RealityEnsues [[spoiler: dies from a lack of medical treatment for his wounds.]]]]]]
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''VFW'' is a 2020 American action-horror film starring Creator/StephenLang, Creator/WilliamSadler, Creator/MartinKove, Sierra [=McCormick=], Fred Williamson, Creator/GeorgeWendt, and Tom Williamson.
At a rundown VFW, a bunch of grizzled veterans are celebrating bartender Fred Parras (Lang) when a desperate young woman named Lizard ([=McCormick=]) runs in after stealing a massive shipment of a new, highly addictive drug named Hype from local drug dealer Boz (Travis Hammer). Boz and his gang of punks pursue her, and the veterans must defend her and themselves with every weapon and tactic at their disposal.
!!This film includes examples of the following tropes:
* BadassBeard: Fred and Abe are total badasses who sport beards to boot.
* BigBad: Boz, the drug dealer and leader of the gang of punks.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted and inverted. [[spoiler:Abe]] is the last of the veterans to die and even then his death is left ambiguous, and [[spoiler:Shaun]] survives the entire film.
* CardCarryingVillain: Decomstructed by Boz. He engages in pointless and cruel actions like murdering Lizard's sister for no reason and he gleefully admits that he's a violent and cruel sadist, but this results in him causing unnecessary and easily avoided problems for himself that could have been avoided had he decided to indulge in PragmaticVillainy.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Downplayed. Walter and Doug are both pretty spacey and prone to some odd behaviors, but are normal guys for the most part.
* DirtyCoward: Subverted. Lou tries to convince the others to let the punks have Lizard and spends a good portion of the film panicking, [[spoiler:but he never acts on it, and even after going crazy the worst thing he does is try to negotiate with Boz to get him to spare his friends.]]
* DoomedHurtGuy: Doug, who is severely injured during the punks' first attack, [[spoiler:[[RealityEnsues dies from a lack of medical treatment for his wounds.]]]]
* RedShirt: [[spoiler:Thomas]], who dies during the first attack on the VFW before getting any real characterization.
At a rundown VFW, a bunch of grizzled veterans are celebrating bartender Fred Parras (Lang) when a desperate young woman named Lizard ([=McCormick=]) runs in after stealing a massive shipment of a new, highly addictive drug named Hype from local drug dealer Boz (Travis Hammer). Boz and his gang of punks pursue her, and the veterans must defend her and themselves with every weapon and tactic at their disposal.
!!This film includes examples of the following tropes:
* BadassBeard: Fred and Abe are total badasses who sport beards to boot.
* BigBad: Boz, the drug dealer and leader of the gang of punks.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted and inverted. [[spoiler:Abe]] is the last of the veterans to die and even then his death is left ambiguous, and [[spoiler:Shaun]] survives the entire film.
* CardCarryingVillain: Decomstructed by Boz. He engages in pointless and cruel actions like murdering Lizard's sister for no reason and he gleefully admits that he's a violent and cruel sadist, but this results in him causing unnecessary and easily avoided problems for himself that could have been avoided had he decided to indulge in PragmaticVillainy.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Downplayed. Walter and Doug are both pretty spacey and prone to some odd behaviors, but are normal guys for the most part.
* DirtyCoward: Subverted. Lou tries to convince the others to let the punks have Lizard and spends a good portion of the film panicking, [[spoiler:but he never acts on it, and even after going crazy the worst thing he does is try to negotiate with Boz to get him to spare his friends.]]
* DoomedHurtGuy: Doug, who is severely injured during the punks' first attack, [[spoiler:[[RealityEnsues dies from a lack of medical treatment for his wounds.]]]]
* RedShirt: [[spoiler:Thomas]], who dies during the first attack on the VFW before getting any real characterization.
