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* NightmareFuel: The final fight against Mr. Big's giant noggin. And then his giant skull. Then some giant roaches that come out his giant skull. For such an aggressively anti-drug plot, [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs this boss fight seems to have been the direct result of someone ingesting many, many different types of mood-altering substances]]. Which is why its "anti-drug" message has a very tongue-in-cheek flavor.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Irony of ironies... Between the giant skull final boss, a pornographer clown, and the sheer [[RefugeInAudacity audacity]] of solving drug crimes with rocket launchers (and the glittering shrapnel from blown-up enemies), it's safe to say that this trope is in effect.

* SoOkayItsAverage: The 2005 remake is rather competent in its gameplay, despite its subpar presentation being less over-the-top than the original.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: This is a game that could only have been made in TheEighties, when [[YouCanPanicNow the moral panic around drugs and crime]] reached a fever pitch and punitive anti-drug laws had mainstream support across the political spectrum.

!!The video game
* AccidentalInnuendo: Sometimes when you bust someone, the cops will say, "Spread ‘em!"

!!The film

* ValuesDissonance: This game is basically the height of the War on Drugs during TheEighties distilled into video game form, where it was perfectly acceptable to mow down drug dealers and user ''en masse'' with no one batting an eye[[note]]While the game did attract controversy for its violence, it was more for simply being violence, rather than because it was directed against drug dealers. Still, it failed to attract the same controversy that ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' and ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' later did, which is telling.[[/note]]. These days, with more people being sympathetic to drug users and addicts, and critical of harsh drug policies and especially PoliceBrutality, it's hard to imagine this game getting made today. Notably, the remake made during the TurnOfTheMillennium made the drugs into power-ups.

* UncannyValley: See the above trope.

* ValuesDissonance: This game is basically the height of the War on Drugs during TheEighties distilled into video game form, where it was perfectly acceptable to mow down drug dealers and user ''en masse'' with no one batting an eye[[note]]While the game did attract controversy for its violence, it was more for simply being violence, rather than because it was directed against drug dealers. Still, it failed to attract the same controversy that ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' and ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' later did, which is telling.[[/note]]. These days, with more people being sympathetic to drug users and addicts, and critical of harsh drug policies and especially PoliceBrutality, it's hard to imagine this game getting made today. Notably, the remake made during the TurnOfTheMillennium made the drugs into power-ups.

* HilariousInHindsight: The plot of this movie is probably closer to the video game ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' than the actual ''Film/MaxPayne'' movie adaptation was.

* HolyShitQuotient: The final boss. Especially when he explodes into a skull on an extending spine.
-->'''WebVideo/JonTron:''' I've never seen a game go from a perfect 0 to a perfect 10 so quickly.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: As noted above, this is a game that could only have been made in TheEighties, when [[YouCanPanicNow the moral panic around drugs and crime]] reached a fever pitch and punitive anti-drug laws had mainstream support across the political spectrum.

* HarsherInHindsight: Blowing up drug dealers might sound fine, but real world police and government attitudes towards drug dealers was actually a bit lax overall, until the 1996 murder of Veronica Guerin in Ireland not only pushed the Irish government to fight drug cartels harder, but other world governments as well.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Irony of ironies...Between the giant skull final boss, a pornographer clown, and the sheer [[RefugeInAudacity audacity]] of solving drug crimes with rocket launchers (and the glittering shrapnel from blown-up enemies), it's safe to say that this trope is in effect.

* HilariousInHindsight: The plot of this movie is probably closer to the video game ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' than the actual ''Film/MaxPayne'' movie adaptation was.

* HilariousInHindsight: The plot of this movie is probably closer to the video game VideoGame/MaxPayne than the actual Max Payne movie adaptation was.

--->'''WebVideo/JonTron:''' I've never seen a game go from a perfect 0 to a perfect 10 so quickly.

* HellIsThatNoise: The buzzing of deadly giant roaches. [[StalkedByTheBell Don't try to fight them off]], just run to the exit before they can suck all your lives away!

* HilariousInHindight: Mr. Big's multiple forms wouldn't be the [[VideoGame/SmashTV last]] [[VideoGame/TotalCarnage time]] a boss [[CreatorThumbprint turns into a giant head in a Eugene Jarvis game]].

--->'''JonTron:''' I've never seen a game go from a perfect 0 to a perfect 10 so quickly.

!![[The video game]]

!![[The film]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Irony of ironies...Between the giant skull final boss, a pornographer clown, and the sheer [[RefugeInAudacity audacity]] of solving drug crimes with rocket launchers (and the glittering shrapnel from blown-up enemies), it's safe to say that this trope is in effect.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Irony of ironies...Between the giant skull final boss, a pornographer clown, and the sheer UpToEleven of solving drug crimes with rocket launchers (and the glittering shrapnel from blown-up enemies), it's safe to say that this trope is in effect.