History Trivia / MissingInAction

* BackedByThePentagon: Like many other Vietnam War movies shot in the Philippines, the series received assistance from the U.S. Armed Forces, who lent the military vehicles used in the movies.

* BackedByThePentagon: Like many other Vietnam War movies shot in the Philippines, the series received assistance from the Armed Forces, who lent the military vehicles used in the movies.

* SequelFirst: ''Missing in Action 2: The Beginning'' was actually made (under the title ''Battlerage'') before ''Missing in Action'', but Cannon decided the latter was a case of an EvenBetterSequel and released that one first. This is why the writing credits for the first film have a "Based on characters created by..." credit.

* SequelFirst: ''Film/MissingInAction2TheBeginning'' was actually made (under the title ''Battlerage'') before ''Missing In Action'', but Cannon decided the latter was a case of an EvenBetterSequel and released that first. This is why the writing credits for the first film have a "Based on characters created by..." credit.

* FatalMethodActing: During a production shoot on location in the Philippines for the third film, a Philippine Air Force helicopter hired by the Cannon Film Group crashed into Manila Bay killing four Filipino soldiers and wounding five other people, including a member of the film crew.
* SequelFirst: ''Missing In Action 2: The Beginning'' was actually made (under the title ''Battlerage'') before ''Missing In Action'', but Cannon decided the latter was a case of an EvenBetterSequel and released that first. This is why the writing credits for the first film have a "Based on characters created by..." credit.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The premise of the film, as with the film it ripped off (''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII''), was inspired by a conspiracy theory - widely believed in the 1980s - that there were many American soldiers from the Vietnam War who were still being kept prisoner and tortured by the Vietnamese. After several Congressional investigations into the matter in the decades since, it's now generally believed to be a myth.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The premise of the film, as with the film it ripped off (''RamboFirstBloodPartII''), was inspired by a conspiracy theory - widely believed in the 1980s - that there were many American soldiers from the Vietnam War who were still being kept prisoner and tortured by the Vietnamese. After several Congressional investigations into the matter in the decades since, it's now generally believed to be a myth.

* SequelFirst: ''Missing In Action 2: The Beginning'' was actually made (under the title ''Battlerage'') before ''Missing In Action'', but Cannon decided the latter was a case of an EvenBetterSequel and released that first. This is why the writing credits for the first film, in perhaps the ultimate case of TheyJustDidntCare, have a "Based on characters created by..." credit.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina David Lo Pan]] becomes a Vietnamese general.
** Colonel Yin in MIA 2 is [[Disney/{{Mulan}} Fa Zhou]].
** General Quoc in MIA 3 is played by Aki Aleong of [[Creator/{{Nigahiga}} Agents of Secret Stuff]] fame.

* BackedByThePentagon: Like many other Vietnam War movies shot in the Philippines, the series received assistance from the Armed Forces, who lent the military vehicles used in the movies.

* BackedByThePentagon: Like many other Vietnam War movies shot in the Philippines, this movie received assistance from the Armed Forces, who lent the military vehicles used in the movies.