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* TooDumbToLive: Special note goes to Riggs in ''Retribution'' who recorded a conversation he had with [[spoiler: Temple]] on a tape recorder that involved the assualt on Temple Tower and [[spoiler: killing Redwater]] as insurance in case [[spoiler: Temple]] ever went back on the deal. However, he didn't find it important enough to take the recorder with him and just left it on a desk where anyone could pick it up. Jack later finds it as evidence and has [[spoiler: Redwater]] listen to it. It didn't end well for Riggs.
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* TooDumbToLive: Special note goes to Riggs in ''Retribution'' who recorded a conversation he had with [[spoiler: Temple]] on a tape recorder that involved the assualt assault on Temple Tower and [[spoiler: killing Redwater]] as insurance in case [[spoiler: Temple]] ever went back on the deal. However, he didn't find it important enough to take the recorder with him and just left instead ''left it on a desk where anyone could pick it up.up''. Jack later finds it as evidence and has [[spoiler: Redwater]] listen to it. It didn't end well for Riggs.
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* IntellectualAnimal: Lampshaded in ''Retribution''. Shadow is ''extremely'' smart even for a wolf-malamute mix as he is able to outwit armed henchmen, correctly identify key cards for security gates, and deactivate electric generators (by [[UrineTrouble urinating]] on them). Since he is controlled by a human player, it is assumed that he has ''human intelligence''.
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* IntellectualAnimal: Lampshaded in ''Retribution''. Shadow is ''extremely'' smart even for a wolf-malamute mix as he is able to outwit armed henchmen, [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy henchmen]], correctly identify key cards for security gates, and deactivate electric generators (by [[UrineTrouble urinating]] on them). Since he is controlled by a human player, it is assumed that he has ''human intelligence''.
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* MightyGlacier: The third last boss of the original game ([[spoiler: Mayor Pinnacle]]) might as well be the Kingpin from Marvel Comics. He's an absurdly huge man [[BadassInANiceSuit in a nice suit]] who can pound you into the dust. The final boss is actually a letdown after that.
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* MightyGlacier: The third last boss of the original game has ([[spoiler: Mayor Pinnacle]]) might as well be the Kingpin from Marvel Comics. He's who is an absurdly huge man [[BadassInANiceSuit in a nice suit]] who with bowling ball-sized fists that can pound you into the dust. The final boss is actually a letdown after that.dust.
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* IntellectualAnimal: Lampshaded in ''Retribution''. Shadow is extremely ''extremely'' smart even for a wolf-malamute mix as he is able to outwit armed henchmen, correctly identify key cards for security gates, and deactivate electric generators (by [[UrineTrouble urinating]] on them). Since he is controlled by a human player, it is assumed that he has ''human intelligence''.intelligence''.
--> '''Jack:''' I swear that dog understands English. It's damn spooky.
--> '''Jack:''' I swear that dog understands English. It's damn spooky.
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* TooDumbToLive: Special note goes to Riggs in ''Retribution'' who recorded a conversation he had with [[spoiler: Temple]] on a tape recorder that involved the assualt on Temple Tower and [[spoiler: killing Redwater]] as insurance in case [[spoiler: Temple]] ever went back on the deal. However, he didn't find it important enough to take the recorder with him and just left it on a desk where anyone could pick it up. Jack later finds it as evidence and has [[spoiler: Redwater]] listen to it. It didn't end well for Riggs.
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*IntellectualAnimal: Shadow is extremely smart even for a wolf-malamute mix as he is able to outwit armed henchmen, correctly identify key cards for security gates, and deactivate electric generators (by [[UrineTrouble urinating]] on them). Since he is controlled by a human player, it is assumed that he has ''human intelligence''.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Averted in ''Retribution''. Shadow is [[IntellectualAnimal extremely smart]] even for a wolf-malamute mix as he is able to outwit armed henchmen, correctly identify key cards for security gates, and deactivate electric generators (by [[UrineTrouble urinating]] on them). Since he is controlled by a human player, it is assumed that he has ''human intelligence''.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Averted in ''Retribution''. Shadow is [[IntellectualAnimal extremely smart]] even for a dog as he is able to outwit armed henchmen, correctly identify key cards for security gates, and deactivate electric generators (by [[UrineTrouble urinating]] on them). Since he is controlled by a human player, it is assumed that he has ''human intelligence''.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Averted in ''Retribution''. Shadow is [[IntellectualAnimal extremely smart]] even for a dog wolf-malamute mix as he is able to outwit armed henchmen, correctly identify key cards for security gates, and deactivate electric generators (by [[UrineTrouble urinating]] on them). Since he is controlled by a human player, it is assumed that he has ''human intelligence''.
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** The same goes for Shadow. He's extremely fast on his paws while able to body slam enemies and tear through their body armor, and is just as tall, if not taller, than Jack when he stands on his hind legs.
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** The same goes for Shadow. He's extremely fast While being just as tall as Jack when he stands on his paws while hind legs, he is still as fast as any other dog his size, he is able to body slam enemies and tear through their body armor, and is just as tall, if not taller, than Jack when he stands on his hind legs.and .
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* TooDumbToLive: Special note goes to Riggs in ''Retribution'' who recorded a conversation with [[spoiler: Temple]] on a tape recorder that involve involved the assualt on Temple Tower and [[spoiler: killing Redwater]] as insurance in case [[spoiler: Temple]] ever when went back on the deal. However However, he didn't find it important enough to take it the recorder with him and just leaves left it on a desk where anyone could pick it up, including [[spoiler: Redwater]].up. Jack later finds it as evidence and has [[spoiler: Redwater]] listen to it. It didn't end well for Riggs.
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* TakingTheBullet: Downplayed in ''Retribution''. Shadow tackles Redwater and prevents him from mowing down Jack with a gun turret, but not without getting beaten into submission for it. This only [[UnstoppableRage pisses off]] Jack even more.
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* TakingTheBullet: Downplayed in ''Retribution''. Shadow tackles Redwater and prevents him from mowing down Jack with a gun turret, but not without getting beaten into submission for it. This only [[UnstoppableRage pisses off]] Jack [[PapaWolf Jack]] even more.
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* TakingTheBullet: Downplayed in ''Retribution''. Shadow tackles Redwater and prevents him from mowing down Jack with a gun turret, but not without getting beaten into submission for it, and since Redwater [[spoiler: murdered Jack's father and ordered an attempt on Faith's life]], this only pisses off Jack even more before the Final Boss.
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* TakingTheBullet: Downplayed in ''Retribution''. Shadow tackles Redwater and prevents him from mowing down Jack with a gun turret, but not without getting beaten into submission for it, and since Redwater [[spoiler: murdered Jack's father and ordered an attempt on Faith's life]], this it. This only [[UnstoppableRage pisses off off]] Jack even more before the Final Boss.more.
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* WeHardlyKnewYe: In the first we have the very ecentric Patch, an assassin that frames Jack for the murder of Augie Blatz, he only gets the introduction, next time he is fought while you are riding a news chopper and is vaporized from the resulting Car Explosion.
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* TooDumbToLive: Special note goes to Riggs in ''Retribution'' who recorded a conversation with [[spoiler: Temple]] on a tape recorder that involve the assualt on Temple Tower and [[spoiler: killing Redwater]] as insurance in case [[spoiler: Temple]] ever when back on the deal. However he didn't find it important enough to take it with him and just leaves it on a desk where anyone could pick it up, including [[spoiler: Redwater]]. Jack later finds it as evidence and has [[spoiler: Redwater]] listen to it. It didn't end well for Riggs.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: In the first we have the veryecentric eccentric Patch, an assassin that frames Jack for the murder of Augie Blatz, he only gets the introduction, next time he is fought while you are riding a news chopper and is vaporized from the resulting Car Explosion.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: In the first we have the very
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* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Surprisingly averted. There are three named female characters in the game, [[spoiler: they all die.]]
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Averted in ''Retribution''. Shadow is extremely smart even for a dog as he is able to outwit armed henchmen, correctly identify key cards for security gates, and deactivate electric generators (by [[UrineTrouble urinating]] on them). Since he is controlled by a human player, it is assumed that he has ''human intelligence''.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Averted in ''Retribution''. Shadow is [[IntellectualAnimal extremely smart smart]] even for a dog as he is able to outwit armed henchmen, correctly identify key cards for security gates, and deactivate electric generators (by [[UrineTrouble urinating]] on them). Since he is controlled by a human player, it is assumed that he has ''human intelligence''.
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* TakingTheBullet: Downplayed in ''Retribution''. Shadow tackles Redwater and prevents him from mowing down Jack with a gun turret, but not without getting beaten into submission. This only pisses off Jack even more before the Final Boss.
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* TakingTheBullet: Downplayed in ''Retribution''. Shadow tackles Redwater and prevents him from mowing down Jack with a gun turret, but not without getting beaten into submission. This submission for it, and since Redwater [[spoiler: murdered Jack's father and ordered an attempt on Faith's life]], this only pisses off Jack even more before the Final Boss.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Averted with Shadow in ''Retribution''. He is extremely smart even for a dog as he is able to outwit armed henchmen and correctly identify key cards for security gates. Since he is controlled by a human player, it is assumed that he has ''human intelligence''.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Averted with Shadow in ''Retribution''. He Shadow is extremely smart even for a dog as he is able to outwit armed henchmen and henchmen, correctly identify key cards for security gates.gates, and deactivate electric generators (by [[UrineTrouble urinating]] on them). Since he is controlled by a human player, it is assumed that he has ''human intelligence''.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Averted with Shadow in ''Retribution''. He is extremely smart even for a dog, dog as he is able to outwit armed henchmen and since correctly identify key cards for security gates. Since he is controlled by a human player, it is assumed that he has ''human intelligence''.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Averted with Shadow in ''Retribution''. He is extremely smart even for a dog, and since he is controlled by a human player, it is assumed that he has ''human intelligence''.
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** In ''Retribution'' Jack gives his badge number as B-263-54, the same as [[Film/BladeRunner Rick Deckard's]]. Also, detonating the yellow pack on the GAC Tank earns you the achievement: [[{{Jaws}} "Smile, you son of a...".]]
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** In ''Retribution'' Jack gives his badge number as B-263-54, the same as [[Film/BladeRunner Rick Deckard's]]. Also, detonating the yellow pack on the GAC Tank earns you the achievement: [[{{Jaws}} [[{{Film/Jaws}} "Smile, you son of a...".]]
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** In ''Retribution'' Jack gives his badge number as B-263-54, the same as [[Film/BladeRunner Rick Deckard's]].
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** In ''Retribution'' Jack gives his badge number as B-263-54, the same as [[Film/BladeRunner Rick Deckard's]].
**Deckard's]]. Also, detonating the yellow pack on the GAC Tank earns you the achievement achievement: [[{{Jaws}} "Smile, you son of a...".]]
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* LightningBruiser: The designers of Retribution sports Jack with a powerful upper body and an agile lower body, and as such, Jack is pretty fast for a 6-foot 200-pound man and can [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom punch enemies away with ease]].
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** The same goes for Shadow. He's extremely fast on his paws while able to body slam enemies and tear through their body armor, and is just as tall, if not taller, than Jack when he stands on his hind legs.
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* SuicidalOverconfidence: In ''Retribution'', unarmed enemies will run towards you even when you are ''shooting at them''.
* TakingTheBullet: Downplayed in ''Retribution''. Shadow tackles Redwater and prevents him from mowing down Jack with a gun turret, but not without getting beaten into submission. This only pisses off Jack even more before the Final Boss.
* TakingTheBullet: Downplayed in ''Retribution''. Shadow tackles Redwater and prevents him from mowing down Jack with a gun turret, but not without getting beaten into submission. This only pisses off Jack even more before the Final Boss.
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VERY inmature piece of natter. Don\'t do it again, please
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** Hello? Jack Slate anyone?
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* MoralDissonance: Most pronounced in ''Retribution'', where Jack in the cutscenes repeatedly claims to be a "good cop" and stresses the the importance of arresting and interrogating criminals, despite the fact that he in gameplay kills practically every single criminal he comes across, and even does so in pretty sadistic ways. Most jarring in this department his first encounter with the GAC, where he expresses his disgust for their JudgeJuryAndExecutioner methods, without any hints of {{irony}}, ''[[{{Hypocrite}} at all]]''.
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* MoralDissonance: Most pronounced in ''Retribution'', where Jack in the cutscenes repeatedly claims to be a "good cop" and stresses the the importance of arresting and interrogating criminals, despite the fact that he in gameplay kills practically every single criminal he comes across, and even does so in pretty sadistic ways. Most jarring in this department is his first encounter with the GAC, where he expresses his disgust for their JudgeJuryAndExecutioner methods, without any hints of {{irony}}, ''[[{{Hypocrite}} at all]]''.
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** Comes across even more hilariously in the Slowbeef/Diabetus LetsPlay, where shortly after the "Judge, jury and executioner all in one" speech, Jack busts into a room and one of the GACs raises his hands in a very obvious gesture of surrender. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Jack immediately shoots him in the face.]]
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** Comes across even more hilariously in the Slowbeef/Diabetus LetsPlay, where shortly after the "Judge, jury and executioner all in one" speech, Jack busts into a room and one of the GACs GAC cops raises his hands in a very obvious gesture of surrender. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Jack immediately shoots him in the face.]]
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** Played straight in the same level - once Jack reaches the top floor of the building, the temprature gauge inexplicably goes away - despite fighting a boss with a flamethrower on the roof.
--> '''Slowbeef''': "Ah, the temprature does not exist on this floor."
--> '''Diabetus''': "Yes, the safest place to be in a burning building in on the top floor."
--> '''Slowbeef''': "Ah, the temprature does not exist on this floor."
--> '''Diabetus''': "Yes, the safest place to be in a burning building in on the top floor."
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** Played straight in the same level - once Jack reaches the top floor of the building, the temprature temperature gauge inexplicably goes away - despite fighting a boss with a flamethrower on the roof.
--> '''Diabetus''': Apparently the temperature on this floor does not exist.\\
'''Slowbeef''':"Ah, Oh hey, you're right ... Once you're on the temprature does not exist on this floor."
--> '''Diabetus''': "Yes,top floor of a burning building, that's the safest place to be in a burning building in on the top floor."be.
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--> '''Diabetus''': "Yes,
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* FollowTheLeader: The original ''DeadToRights'' was an attempt to copy ''VideoGame/MaxPayne,'' with limited success. It was, in turn, followed by ''TrueCrimeStreetsOfLA,'' which actually had a superior take on the idea of a snarky cop on the edge who mixed martial arts with gunplay, but somehow less memorable overall.
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** Subverted with Faith in ''Retribution'', who gets shot by a GAC sniper halfway through the game, yet manages to survive to the end.
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* BigFriendlyDog: In ''Retribution'', Shadow acts like this towards anybody who isn't an enemy
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* {{Hypocrite}}: The plot in ''Retribution'' focuses on stopping G.A.C., again, but this time because they've taken on the roles of judge, jury, and executioner. However, ''Jack does the same exact thing''. Of ''all'' the enemies in the game, you only arrest ''one''. The rest you just blatantly kill while being a complete asshole. ''Including shooting '''surrendering''' enemies''. Even the BloodierAndGorier entry notes that Jack's just murdering his enemies in the most sadistic ways possible. It's honestly surprising that G.A.C. didn't recruit Jack. Or that he's not the villain of the game.
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* OurWeaponsWillBeBoxyInTheFuture: The weapons used by the GAC in ''Retribution'' are all boxy.
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* GiantMook: The GAC Tanks and Heavy Support from ''Retribution''.
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->''I'm Jack Slate, bitch!''
-->-- '''Jack Slate'''
A series of third-person shooter games, published by Creator/{{Namco}} and developed by Namco [=HomeTek=] that combined (or tried to) gunplay and hand-to-hand combat.
The first game from 2002 follows the story of Jack Slate, a tough-as-nails CowboyCop with a canine companion, who delves deeply into Grant City's criminal underbelly after his father's murder and his subsequent arrest for killing the guy who did it (he was framed). What follows is a mad-cap adventure filled with snark as Jack fights his way through an entirely corrupt system full of strange, quirky bosses.
The next installment in the series came out in 2005, but despite bearing the name ''Dead To Rights II'', it was actually a {{Prequel}}. Shortly thereafter ''Dead to Rights: Reckoning'', a prequel to the prequel, was released for the PSP.
The franchise received an obligatory DarkerAndEdgier ContinuityReboot in the form of ''Dead To Rights: Retribution'' by Volatile Games in 2010, and, aside from a couple of {{Mythology Gag}}s, it features a completely different story from the original.
[[Characters/DeadToRights Has a Characters page.]]
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!! This video game series provides examples of:
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: [[spoiler: Hennessy and Pinnacle. Pinnacle deserves special mention for essentially being a cross between [[{{Acrofatic}} the Kingpin]] and an evil version of [[FinalFight Mike Haggar.]]]]
* AwesomeMcCoolname: One of the end-level bosses is named ''Longshoreman X''.
** Hello? Jack Slate anyone?
* BigBadEnsemble: The first game has [[spoiler: Mayor Pinnacle, Prince Fahook, and Police Chief Hennessy]] as the head figures in the conspiracy behind the death of Jack's father and the demise of pretty much every single one of Jack's allies over the course of the game. All three are in cahoots, but have their own separate agendas.
* BloodierAndGorier: ''Retribution'', oh so very much. The original was mostly BloodlessCarnage and Jack's takedowns while still violent are more designed to imitate the graceful gunplay of JohnWoo movies. Retribution's takedowns on the other hand are downright sadistic, from Jack shooting a guy's kneecaps and then executing him after he begs for his life to Shadow mauling an enemy violently and ripping off his scrotum. Blood and gore is anywhere. Case in point: a still of Jack vaporizing a thug's face with a gunshot is the ''[[http://lparchive.org/Dead-to-Rights-Retribution/Images/3-brightness.jpg brightness adjustment screen]]''.
* BondOneLiner: Jack tries to use these in the original games, usually with less then stellar results.
* BulletproofHumanShield: Jack can grab a man to use as a shield. Okay, morally questionable, but within the boundaries of 1980s action movie logic. Unfortunately, there's no "knock out the bad guy" or "handcuff the bad guy" option. Instead of releasing them, Jack just casually shoots them in the back of the head.
** ''Retribution'' lets him cuff perps and use them as mobile shields, then kick them away. Oddly enough, if they don't die, the cuffs disappear and they try to beat Jack up hand-to-hand.
* BullFightBoss: In the original, [[spoiler:Hennessy's first phase has him charge you with an electrified riot shield.]]
* CameraScrew: The camera in the original game tends to point at the least useful position after a cutscene, especially bad when said cutscene is immediately followed by a shooting segment.
* CanineCompanion: Shadow. In the original game, he wasn't a "partner" so much as a special move you could activate to instantly kill a bad guy and retrieve his gun. In ''Dead To Rights: Retribution,'' Shadow follows you around during fights and can sneak around to rip into enemies.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Inverted in the first game, where Jack's allies are betraying him left and right.
* ClusterFBomb: F-bombs are all over the place in ''Retribution''.
* CreepyTwins: A pair of them in the original game as part of a timed boss fight.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Averted in the first game. A building that Jack is in is set on fire at one point, and he has to leave before the air gets too hot to breathe.
** Played straight in the same level - once Jack reaches the top floor of the building, the temprature gauge inexplicably goes away - despite fighting a boss with a flamethrower on the roof.
--> '''Slowbeef''': "Ah, the temprature does not exist on this floor."
--> '''Diabetus''': "Yes, the safest place to be in a burning building in on the top floor."
* CoolPlane: Fahook has a bar, a discotheque, a ''pool'' and a harem room full of attack prostitutes on his cargo plane. Does this guy even own a house or does he just live in the plane?
* CowboyCop: Jack Slate don't play by the rules, bitch.
** Oddly enough, in all of the GCPD, he's probably the most honest and uncorrupted cop of them all as well.
* DaChief: Capt. Inness in ''Retribution''.
* DeadpanSnarker: Jack quips a ''lot.'' Whether or not any of his flippant remarks are actually funny is another matter.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Redwater]] in ''Retribution''.
** Earlier, in the PSP game ''Reckoning'', the final boss ([[spoiler: the so-called female hostage]]), tries to escape from Slate by diving into the ocean from a lethal height, not to mention the jagged rocks below the cliff.
* DisposableWoman: ''Every'' female character in the first game. One character, an ActionGirl hitwoman, gets unceremoniously back-stabbed exactly one chapter after she was introduced, and at the end of your EscortMission for her, too. Two others betray Jack out of desperation only to be killed soon after in rather-too-conveinent examples of KarmicDeath. The game took fridging to a whole new level.
** There's also [[spoiler: Ruby]] in the second game, and the unnamed kidnapped girl in ''Reckoning''.
* DistractedByTheSexy: The purpose of the Stripper minigame of the first game is for Jack's stripper friend to distract guards so that he can sneak into the building without anyone noticing.
* EscortMission: One in the original game, way too many in ''Retribution''
* ExcusePlot: In contrast to the first game, which had an actual plot with various twists and developments, the second game has essentially an Arcade Game plot which is essentially "Go kill Boss A, who tells you about Boss B. Go kill Boss B, who tells you about Boss C. Etc, until you get to the final boss." The game even lampshades this, with the Judge whose death kicks off the plot being named Judge MacGuffin.
* FanService: The Stripper minigame.
** Subverted, most reviews and the general reaction was met with quite the opposite results.
* {{Fauxreigner}}: Jack theorizes that Fat Chow isn't even actually Asian -- though the fact that he can't tell just by looking at the guy casts a little doubt on the assertion.
* GroinAttack: Shadow is way too fond of biting people's crotches.
** There's even an [[BraggingRightsReward achievement]] for killing a man by ripping off their balls. It's called "[[VideoGame/MortalKombat Scrotality]]".
* HeyItsThatVoice: In ''Retribution''. One has to wonder why [[spoiler: [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Squidward]]]] would have [[Franchise/MetalGear Colonel]] killed.
* HotBlooded: Jack in ''Retribution''.
* {{Hypocrite}}: The plot in ''Retribution'' focuses on stopping G.A.C., again, but this time because they've taken on the roles of judge, jury, and executioner. However, ''Jack does the same exact thing''. Of ''all'' the enemies in the game, you only arrest ''one''. The rest you just blatantly kill while being a complete asshole. ''Including shooting '''surrendering''' enemies''. Even the BloodierAndGorier entry notes that Jack's just murdering his enemies in the most sadistic ways possible. It's honestly surprising that G.A.C. didn't recruit Jack. Or that he's not the villain of the game.
* ILied: Jack pulls this on [[spoiler:Julian Temple]] in ''Retribution'', after promising to let him walk if he revealed where [[spoiler:Redwater]] was hiding.
* InformedAttribute: Multiple characters in ''Retribution'' refer to Jack as "a good cop." One assumes they've never actually seen Jack [[YourHeadASplode on]] [[GroinAttack the]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill job]].
* InsurmountableWaistHighFence: In the first game, the dance club in level two has no way for Jack to get through the single velvet rope between the entrance hallway and the dance floor. Not even bullet-time jumping over it works, as Jack hits an InvisibleWall. (When Jack gets access to the dance floor by pulling the fire alarm, the velvet ropes disappear.)
* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: In ''Retribution'' Jack says this about GAC, as an example of [[AndThatsTerrible why they clearly are evil]]. Jack himself, however, also qualifies.
* JustAStupidAccent: Many characters feature a thick foreign accent for no reason and not a single one is believable. Fat Chow's "Jack Suraate!" and Diggs' Cockney accent aside, the prison gym seems to be an ethnic melting pot.
** "Yaaa Jack Slate you wan, Here's your Siggarets."
* LetsPlay: [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Dead%20to%20Rights/ One]] done of the first game by LetsPlay/{{Slowbeef}} and Diabetus of WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}, where the {{Narm}} is consistently lampshaded and Shadow is portrayed as a MemeticBadass for his status as a living SwissArmyWeapon.
** [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Good news, everyone!]] Slowbeef and Diabetus are now doing ''[[http://bd.baldurk.org/lp/103 Dead to Rights: Retribution]]''. And yes, the lampshading and MSTing continues. Updates include Jack's portrayal as a pathetic man desperately seeking his father's approval.
* {{Macguffin}}: Dead to Rights 2 starts with Jack trying to rescue Judge Macguffin. Later on he tries to find Macguffin's "files" which contain evidence that would implicate certain city officials. Yes, you're actually trying to find Macguffin's Macguffin.
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Surprisingly averted. There are three named female characters in the game, [[spoiler: they all die.]]
* MightyGlacier: The third last boss of the original game ([[spoiler: Mayor Pinnacle]]) might as well be the Kingpin from Marvel Comics. He's an absurdly huge man [[BadassInANiceSuit in a nice suit]] who can pound you into the dust. The final boss is actually a letdown after that.
* MonsterClown: In the original game, Jack is attacked by soldiers wearing clown masks, in a graveyard. Why, yes, it ''was'' a strange game.
** In ''Retribution'', the Triads have an inexplicable clown motif as well - possibly because they take the place of the Clowns from the original thematically.
* MoodWhiplash: The original game was very odd. Betrayal and death follow Jack around, and he even tries to angst a few times, but he's right back to the irreverent quips like nothing happened moments later.
** Most notable is the scene where [[spoiler: Hildi dies]] right afterwards you pick up some explosives and Jack is notcibly excited about it.
** In Retribution Shadow is a Sadistic killer ripping apart any thugs in his way. For some reason this dosen't stop the developers from trying to make him as cute and frendly as possible in cutscenes.
* {{Mooks}}: Nearly all enemies in the games come in huge hordes.
* MoralDissonance: Most pronounced in ''Retribution'', where Jack in the cutscenes repeatedly claims to be a "good cop" and stresses the the importance of arresting and interrogating criminals, despite the fact that he in gameplay kills practically every single criminal he comes across, and even does so in pretty sadistic ways. Most jarring in this department his first encounter with the GAC, where he expresses his disgust for their JudgeJuryAndExecutioner methods, without any hints of {{irony}}, ''[[{{Hypocrite}} at all]]''.
** Also played in the first very breifly, in the escape you kill the Warden by having him switch places with you in the electric chair during the blackout. Try to non-leathaly take out the prision guards however nets you a game over for an unexplained reason.
** Comes across even more hilariously in the Slowbeef/Diabetus LetsPlay, where shortly after the "Judge, jury and executioner all in one" speech, Jack busts into a room and one of the GACs raises his hands in a very obvious gesture of surrender. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Jack immediately shoots him in the face.]]
*** Oh, he eventually reflects on his killing spree and vows to act more like his father, by bringing [[spoiler:Temple]] in instead of just flat out assassinating him like he did the whole game till now. Jack does this by slaughtering is way through [[spoiler:Temple]]'s bodyguards and using him as a human shield against the heavily armed GAC troops specifically there to kill his hostage.
**** But there is also the problem that Frank Slate's morals is also quite questionable. His definition of "good police work" seems to be running around a poor neighborhood with his son and dog in tow, and killing everyone who puts up any resistance with his bare hands. His sole attempt at diplomacy seems to prompted by suddenly running into criminals that are carrying guns.
* MurderByCremation: You defeat the FinalBoss by pushing him into a furnace.
* MurderInc: Mayhem Inc in the original game.
* MythologyGag: As well as GAC returning as antagonists, Pinnacle is briefly mentioned in Retribution though is apparently not the mayor. The ending also features a cameo by Preacherman, and mentions that the mayor is now Gloria Exner, Pinnacle's opposing candidate from the original.
* NoIndoorVoice: In Retribution, Jack often ''screams'' his taunts as loud as possible, most notably a very emphasized '''[+FUCK YOU!+]'''
** Dont forget: You have the right to remain '''[+SILENT+]'''!
* ObviousBeta: Fahook's plane. The inexplicable scene of the prisoners Jack just rescued trying to kill him, Fahook running around shirtless with incredibly glitchy animation, your clearly being meant to end the fight with him with some kind of special move that doesn't seem to exist (luckily, shooting him works too), and having a 50/50 chance of Jack getting stuck running into the cockpit doorframe after the cutscene there.
* OneManArmy: Jack Slate, though it's more like One-Man-and-a-dog Army.
* OperationGameOfDoom: Bomb-defusing sequences required the player to pull bombs out of cylinders in this way. Each bomb had a small pin which ran inside a channel on the inside of the cylinder. Touching the pin to the side of the channel had a predictable effect.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: From ''Retribution'':
--> '''Jack:''' TELL! ME WHY! MY DAD! IS DEAD!
* PuttingOnTheReich: The GAC squad, an elite (and corrupt) anti-crime unit wear body armor and gas masks that make them look like the freakin' [[WarhammerFortyThousand Death Korps of Krieg]]. It's kind of silly, actually.
* PyrrhicVictory: ''Dead to Rights'': [[spoiler: Jack has avenged his father's murder, but his girlfriend Hildy, his fellow assassin friend Eve, and both candidates running for mayor are dead, and the struggle for power will only continue in the city.]]
** ''Dead to Rights II'': [[spoiler: Congratulations, Jack! You killed [[BigBad Blanchov]]! But your girlfriend is dead, the judge you were trying to save all along is dead, and you have no idea where his files are.]]
* RatedMForManly: To a ridiculous extent. Jack Slate himself crosses straight into TestosteronePoisoning, complete with [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 Chris Redfield-like physique]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: At the end of the first game (which is chronologically the last), [[spoiler: Jack, after killing pretty much everyone that screwed him over, decides that he can't deal with Grant City anymore, and leaves the city to rot.]]
* SeeYouInHell: The end credits sequence for the original Dead to Rights has every villain in the game (all of whom he killed) shouting, "See you in hell, Jack Slate!"
* SequelHook: Rather oddly, despite Jack ending the first game with a big speech about how he's still going to do his part to fight injustice, there has never been an actual sequel, just a prequel and an alternate continuity.
** Retribution ends in a equally vague way, Jack has seemingly planned to take a much more honest path as a cop, much like his father, but there is no plans for a sequel and considering the sales and reception, there might never be.
* ShoutOut: Fat Chow in the original game is a thinly veiled reference to Chow Yun Fat, a Shout Out to the game's heavy JohnWoo influences.
** In ''Retribution'' Jack gives his badge number as B-263-54, the same as [[Film/BladeRunner Rick Deckard's]].
* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy: From the original game:
--> '''Jack:''' He walked in like he owned the place... which suggested he probably did.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Mayhem Inc's plan to assassinate a single woman? Blow up the ''entire stadium'' where her mayoral debate is being held while swarming the building with a horde of ''several hundred hitmen'' [[TooDumbToLive at the very same time]].
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePjTUjopxDk What was his name, again?]]
* ThrowawayGuns: Jack doesn't have time to reload. He just tosses his pistols aside and draws new ones.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: In the first we have the very ecentric Patch, an assassin that frames Jack for the murder of Augie Blatz, he only gets the introduction, next time he is fought while you are riding a news chopper and is vaporized from the resulting Car Explosion.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Redwater in ''Retribution''. And arguably, Jack.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Lampshaded in the second game. ''Twice.'' You know you're doing something wrong if ''the BigBad'' tells you to just shoot him the first chance you get.
* ZergRush: The usual strategy of every single Mook faction in the game which is especially jarring for the assassins of Mayhem Inc and the elite SWAT-like unit GAC. By the end of the game, you've probably killed a small town's worth of both.
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-->[[WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} ...Dead to rights.]]
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->''I'm Jack Slate, bitch!''
-->-- '''Jack Slate'''
A series of third-person shooter games, published by Creator/{{Namco}} and developed by Namco [=HomeTek=] that combined (or tried to) gunplay and hand-to-hand combat.
The first game from 2002 follows the story of Jack Slate, a tough-as-nails CowboyCop with a canine companion, who delves deeply into Grant City's criminal underbelly after his father's murder and his subsequent arrest for killing the guy who did it (he was framed). What follows is a mad-cap adventure filled with snark as Jack fights his way through an entirely corrupt system full of strange, quirky bosses.
The next installment in the series came out in 2005, but despite bearing the name ''Dead To Rights II'', it was actually a {{Prequel}}. Shortly thereafter ''Dead to Rights: Reckoning'', a prequel to the prequel, was released for the PSP.
The franchise received an obligatory DarkerAndEdgier ContinuityReboot in the form of ''Dead To Rights: Retribution'' by Volatile Games in 2010, and, aside from a couple of {{Mythology Gag}}s, it features a completely different story from the original.
[[Characters/DeadToRights Has a Characters page.]]
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!! This video game series provides examples of:
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: [[spoiler: Hennessy and Pinnacle. Pinnacle deserves special mention for essentially being a cross between [[{{Acrofatic}} the Kingpin]] and an evil version of [[FinalFight Mike Haggar.]]]]
* AwesomeMcCoolname: One of the end-level bosses is named ''Longshoreman X''.
** Hello? Jack Slate anyone?
* BigBadEnsemble: The first game has [[spoiler: Mayor Pinnacle, Prince Fahook, and Police Chief Hennessy]] as the head figures in the conspiracy behind the death of Jack's father and the demise of pretty much every single one of Jack's allies over the course of the game. All three are in cahoots, but have their own separate agendas.
* BloodierAndGorier: ''Retribution'', oh so very much. The original was mostly BloodlessCarnage and Jack's takedowns while still violent are more designed to imitate the graceful gunplay of JohnWoo movies. Retribution's takedowns on the other hand are downright sadistic, from Jack shooting a guy's kneecaps and then executing him after he begs for his life to Shadow mauling an enemy violently and ripping off his scrotum. Blood and gore is anywhere. Case in point: a still of Jack vaporizing a thug's face with a gunshot is the ''[[http://lparchive.org/Dead-to-Rights-Retribution/Images/3-brightness.jpg brightness adjustment screen]]''.
* BondOneLiner: Jack tries to use these in the original games, usually with less then stellar results.
* BulletproofHumanShield: Jack can grab a man to use as a shield. Okay, morally questionable, but within the boundaries of 1980s action movie logic. Unfortunately, there's no "knock out the bad guy" or "handcuff the bad guy" option. Instead of releasing them, Jack just casually shoots them in the back of the head.
** ''Retribution'' lets him cuff perps and use them as mobile shields, then kick them away. Oddly enough, if they don't die, the cuffs disappear and they try to beat Jack up hand-to-hand.
* BullFightBoss: In the original, [[spoiler:Hennessy's first phase has him charge you with an electrified riot shield.]]
* CameraScrew: The camera in the original game tends to point at the least useful position after a cutscene, especially bad when said cutscene is immediately followed by a shooting segment.
* CanineCompanion: Shadow. In the original game, he wasn't a "partner" so much as a special move you could activate to instantly kill a bad guy and retrieve his gun. In ''Dead To Rights: Retribution,'' Shadow follows you around during fights and can sneak around to rip into enemies.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Inverted in the first game, where Jack's allies are betraying him left and right.
* ClusterFBomb: F-bombs are all over the place in ''Retribution''.
* CreepyTwins: A pair of them in the original game as part of a timed boss fight.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Averted in the first game. A building that Jack is in is set on fire at one point, and he has to leave before the air gets too hot to breathe.
** Played straight in the same level - once Jack reaches the top floor of the building, the temprature gauge inexplicably goes away - despite fighting a boss with a flamethrower on the roof.
--> '''Slowbeef''': "Ah, the temprature does not exist on this floor."
--> '''Diabetus''': "Yes, the safest place to be in a burning building in on the top floor."
* CoolPlane: Fahook has a bar, a discotheque, a ''pool'' and a harem room full of attack prostitutes on his cargo plane. Does this guy even own a house or does he just live in the plane?
* CowboyCop: Jack Slate don't play by the rules, bitch.
** Oddly enough, in all of the GCPD, he's probably the most honest and uncorrupted cop of them all as well.
* DaChief: Capt. Inness in ''Retribution''.
* DeadpanSnarker: Jack quips a ''lot.'' Whether or not any of his flippant remarks are actually funny is another matter.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Redwater]] in ''Retribution''.
** Earlier, in the PSP game ''Reckoning'', the final boss ([[spoiler: the so-called female hostage]]), tries to escape from Slate by diving into the ocean from a lethal height, not to mention the jagged rocks below the cliff.
* DisposableWoman: ''Every'' female character in the first game. One character, an ActionGirl hitwoman, gets unceremoniously back-stabbed exactly one chapter after she was introduced, and at the end of your EscortMission for her, too. Two others betray Jack out of desperation only to be killed soon after in rather-too-conveinent examples of KarmicDeath. The game took fridging to a whole new level.
** There's also [[spoiler: Ruby]] in the second game, and the unnamed kidnapped girl in ''Reckoning''.
* DistractedByTheSexy: The purpose of the Stripper minigame of the first game is for Jack's stripper friend to distract guards so that he can sneak into the building without anyone noticing.
* EscortMission: One in the original game, way too many in ''Retribution''
* ExcusePlot: In contrast to the first game, which had an actual plot with various twists and developments, the second game has essentially an Arcade Game plot which is essentially "Go kill Boss A, who tells you about Boss B. Go kill Boss B, who tells you about Boss C. Etc, until you get to the final boss." The game even lampshades this, with the Judge whose death kicks off the plot being named Judge MacGuffin.
* FanService: The Stripper minigame.
** Subverted, most reviews and the general reaction was met with quite the opposite results.
* {{Fauxreigner}}: Jack theorizes that Fat Chow isn't even actually Asian -- though the fact that he can't tell just by looking at the guy casts a little doubt on the assertion.
* GroinAttack: Shadow is way too fond of biting people's crotches.
** There's even an [[BraggingRightsReward achievement]] for killing a man by ripping off their balls. It's called "[[VideoGame/MortalKombat Scrotality]]".
* HeyItsThatVoice: In ''Retribution''. One has to wonder why [[spoiler: [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Squidward]]]] would have [[Franchise/MetalGear Colonel]] killed.
* HotBlooded: Jack in ''Retribution''.
* {{Hypocrite}}: The plot in ''Retribution'' focuses on stopping G.A.C., again, but this time because they've taken on the roles of judge, jury, and executioner. However, ''Jack does the same exact thing''. Of ''all'' the enemies in the game, you only arrest ''one''. The rest you just blatantly kill while being a complete asshole. ''Including shooting '''surrendering''' enemies''. Even the BloodierAndGorier entry notes that Jack's just murdering his enemies in the most sadistic ways possible. It's honestly surprising that G.A.C. didn't recruit Jack. Or that he's not the villain of the game.
* ILied: Jack pulls this on [[spoiler:Julian Temple]] in ''Retribution'', after promising to let him walk if he revealed where [[spoiler:Redwater]] was hiding.
* InformedAttribute: Multiple characters in ''Retribution'' refer to Jack as "a good cop." One assumes they've never actually seen Jack [[YourHeadASplode on]] [[GroinAttack the]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill job]].
* InsurmountableWaistHighFence: In the first game, the dance club in level two has no way for Jack to get through the single velvet rope between the entrance hallway and the dance floor. Not even bullet-time jumping over it works, as Jack hits an InvisibleWall. (When Jack gets access to the dance floor by pulling the fire alarm, the velvet ropes disappear.)
* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: In ''Retribution'' Jack says this about GAC, as an example of [[AndThatsTerrible why they clearly are evil]]. Jack himself, however, also qualifies.
* JustAStupidAccent: Many characters feature a thick foreign accent for no reason and not a single one is believable. Fat Chow's "Jack Suraate!" and Diggs' Cockney accent aside, the prison gym seems to be an ethnic melting pot.
** "Yaaa Jack Slate you wan, Here's your Siggarets."
* LetsPlay: [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Dead%20to%20Rights/ One]] done of the first game by LetsPlay/{{Slowbeef}} and Diabetus of WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}, where the {{Narm}} is consistently lampshaded and Shadow is portrayed as a MemeticBadass for his status as a living SwissArmyWeapon.
** [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Good news, everyone!]] Slowbeef and Diabetus are now doing ''[[http://bd.baldurk.org/lp/103 Dead to Rights: Retribution]]''. And yes, the lampshading and MSTing continues. Updates include Jack's portrayal as a pathetic man desperately seeking his father's approval.
* {{Macguffin}}: Dead to Rights 2 starts with Jack trying to rescue Judge Macguffin. Later on he tries to find Macguffin's "files" which contain evidence that would implicate certain city officials. Yes, you're actually trying to find Macguffin's Macguffin.
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Surprisingly averted. There are three named female characters in the game, [[spoiler: they all die.]]
* MightyGlacier: The third last boss of the original game ([[spoiler: Mayor Pinnacle]]) might as well be the Kingpin from Marvel Comics. He's an absurdly huge man [[BadassInANiceSuit in a nice suit]] who can pound you into the dust. The final boss is actually a letdown after that.
* MonsterClown: In the original game, Jack is attacked by soldiers wearing clown masks, in a graveyard. Why, yes, it ''was'' a strange game.
** In ''Retribution'', the Triads have an inexplicable clown motif as well - possibly because they take the place of the Clowns from the original thematically.
* MoodWhiplash: The original game was very odd. Betrayal and death follow Jack around, and he even tries to angst a few times, but he's right back to the irreverent quips like nothing happened moments later.
** Most notable is the scene where [[spoiler: Hildi dies]] right afterwards you pick up some explosives and Jack is notcibly excited about it.
** In Retribution Shadow is a Sadistic killer ripping apart any thugs in his way. For some reason this dosen't stop the developers from trying to make him as cute and frendly as possible in cutscenes.
* {{Mooks}}: Nearly all enemies in the games come in huge hordes.
* MoralDissonance: Most pronounced in ''Retribution'', where Jack in the cutscenes repeatedly claims to be a "good cop" and stresses the the importance of arresting and interrogating criminals, despite the fact that he in gameplay kills practically every single criminal he comes across, and even does so in pretty sadistic ways. Most jarring in this department his first encounter with the GAC, where he expresses his disgust for their JudgeJuryAndExecutioner methods, without any hints of {{irony}}, ''[[{{Hypocrite}} at all]]''.
** Also played in the first very breifly, in the escape you kill the Warden by having him switch places with you in the electric chair during the blackout. Try to non-leathaly take out the prision guards however nets you a game over for an unexplained reason.
** Comes across even more hilariously in the Slowbeef/Diabetus LetsPlay, where shortly after the "Judge, jury and executioner all in one" speech, Jack busts into a room and one of the GACs raises his hands in a very obvious gesture of surrender. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Jack immediately shoots him in the face.]]
*** Oh, he eventually reflects on his killing spree and vows to act more like his father, by bringing [[spoiler:Temple]] in instead of just flat out assassinating him like he did the whole game till now. Jack does this by slaughtering is way through [[spoiler:Temple]]'s bodyguards and using him as a human shield against the heavily armed GAC troops specifically there to kill his hostage.
**** But there is also the problem that Frank Slate's morals is also quite questionable. His definition of "good police work" seems to be running around a poor neighborhood with his son and dog in tow, and killing everyone who puts up any resistance with his bare hands. His sole attempt at diplomacy seems to prompted by suddenly running into criminals that are carrying guns.
* MurderByCremation: You defeat the FinalBoss by pushing him into a furnace.
* MurderInc: Mayhem Inc in the original game.
* MythologyGag: As well as GAC returning as antagonists, Pinnacle is briefly mentioned in Retribution though is apparently not the mayor. The ending also features a cameo by Preacherman, and mentions that the mayor is now Gloria Exner, Pinnacle's opposing candidate from the original.
* NoIndoorVoice: In Retribution, Jack often ''screams'' his taunts as loud as possible, most notably a very emphasized '''[+FUCK YOU!+]'''
** Dont forget: You have the right to remain '''[+SILENT+]'''!
* ObviousBeta: Fahook's plane. The inexplicable scene of the prisoners Jack just rescued trying to kill him, Fahook running around shirtless with incredibly glitchy animation, your clearly being meant to end the fight with him with some kind of special move that doesn't seem to exist (luckily, shooting him works too), and having a 50/50 chance of Jack getting stuck running into the cockpit doorframe after the cutscene there.
* OneManArmy: Jack Slate, though it's more like One-Man-and-a-dog Army.
* OperationGameOfDoom: Bomb-defusing sequences required the player to pull bombs out of cylinders in this way. Each bomb had a small pin which ran inside a channel on the inside of the cylinder. Touching the pin to the side of the channel had a predictable effect.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: From ''Retribution'':
--> '''Jack:''' TELL! ME WHY! MY DAD! IS DEAD!
* PuttingOnTheReich: The GAC squad, an elite (and corrupt) anti-crime unit wear body armor and gas masks that make them look like the freakin' [[WarhammerFortyThousand Death Korps of Krieg]]. It's kind of silly, actually.
* PyrrhicVictory: ''Dead to Rights'': [[spoiler: Jack has avenged his father's murder, but his girlfriend Hildy, his fellow assassin friend Eve, and both candidates running for mayor are dead, and the struggle for power will only continue in the city.]]
** ''Dead to Rights II'': [[spoiler: Congratulations, Jack! You killed [[BigBad Blanchov]]! But your girlfriend is dead, the judge you were trying to save all along is dead, and you have no idea where his files are.]]
* RatedMForManly: To a ridiculous extent. Jack Slate himself crosses straight into TestosteronePoisoning, complete with [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 Chris Redfield-like physique]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: At the end of the first game (which is chronologically the last), [[spoiler: Jack, after killing pretty much everyone that screwed him over, decides that he can't deal with Grant City anymore, and leaves the city to rot.]]
* SeeYouInHell: The end credits sequence for the original Dead to Rights has every villain in the game (all of whom he killed) shouting, "See you in hell, Jack Slate!"
* SequelHook: Rather oddly, despite Jack ending the first game with a big speech about how he's still going to do his part to fight injustice, there has never been an actual sequel, just a prequel and an alternate continuity.
** Retribution ends in a equally vague way, Jack has seemingly planned to take a much more honest path as a cop, much like his father, but there is no plans for a sequel and considering the sales and reception, there might never be.
* ShoutOut: Fat Chow in the original game is a thinly veiled reference to Chow Yun Fat, a Shout Out to the game's heavy JohnWoo influences.
** In ''Retribution'' Jack gives his badge number as B-263-54, the same as [[Film/BladeRunner Rick Deckard's]].
* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy: From the original game:
--> '''Jack:''' He walked in like he owned the place... which suggested he probably did.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Mayhem Inc's plan to assassinate a single woman? Blow up the ''entire stadium'' where her mayoral debate is being held while swarming the building with a horde of ''several hundred hitmen'' [[TooDumbToLive at the very same time]].
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePjTUjopxDk What was his name, again?]]
* ThrowawayGuns: Jack doesn't have time to reload. He just tosses his pistols aside and draws new ones.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: In the first we have the very ecentric Patch, an assassin that frames Jack for the murder of Augie Blatz, he only gets the introduction, next time he is fought while you are riding a news chopper and is vaporized from the resulting Car Explosion.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Redwater in ''Retribution''. And arguably, Jack.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Lampshaded in the second game. ''Twice.'' You know you're doing something wrong if ''the BigBad'' tells you to just shoot him the first chance you get.
* ZergRush: The usual strategy of every single Mook faction in the game which is especially jarring for the assassins of Mayhem Inc and the elite SWAT-like unit GAC. By the end of the game, you've probably killed a small town's worth of both.
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-->[[WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} ...Dead to rights.]]
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