Line #94 Film/Comic8


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2	[[caption-width-right:270:Ocean's Eleven + Tarantino + Comedy Gold.]]
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4	An Indonesian movie about eight men with various reasons and motives to do a bank robbery. There were robbed because of worries, Hobby, Fad, Adrenaline Sports, Rob, and some even to support orphanages and the poor.
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6	These eight Marauders are divided into three groups. Their Action was developed as a robbery that initially looks like a strange coincidence, besieged by police forces, until finally they must work together and find the answer to solve this puzzling case and look for the best solution to end everything.
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8	In Indonesia, this movie has a tight commercial rivalry against ''Film/TheRaid2Berandal''; both films have accumulated millions of viewers in a relatively short time.
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10	On July 15, 2015, the film received its sequel, Comic 8: Casino Kings Part 1, and its part two was released on March 3, 2016
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12	!!''Comic 8'' contains examples of:
13	%% * AccidentalHug: [[spoiler: Ernest and Mongol when a mouse appeared.]]
14	%% * AccidentalPervert: [[spoiler: Kemal, upon seeing one of his captives strip.]]
15	%% * {{Acrofatic}}: Fico Fachriza in one of the sequences.
16	%% * ActingUnnatural: Pandji Pragiwaksono. He was seen holding his laugh a lot of times.
17	%% * ActionDuo: Mudy Taylor and Mongol Stress, both are the weirdest of the group.
18	%% * ActionGirl: Nikita Mirzani and Nirina Zubir, both entering a DesignatedGirlFight.
19	%% * AntiVillain: The weird robber gang (dubbed Freaks) is robbing other robbers to help the orphanages.
20	* AsHimself: Nearly EVERYONE in this movie plays themselves.
21	%% * AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Indische-Netherland Incorporated.
22	%% * BadButt: Although this isn't a child movie, the villains are portrayed clumsily.
23	%% * BadCopIncompetentCop: Nearly every single cop in this movie - a metaphor for Indonesia's bad management of law.
24	%% * BalloonBelly: Fico's belly.
25	%% * BarbarianLongHair: Arie Kriting with his traditional NTT hair.
26	%% * {{BFG}}: Both Mudy's guitar and Violin case rocket launcher.
27	%% * BigBad: [[spoiler: Pandji Pragiwaksono, as the owner of the brainwashing hospital.]]
28	%% * BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: Panji teamed up with Cak Lontong, who acted as a mob boss one who funds Pandji's heist operation.]]
29	%% * BigGood: [[spoiler: Indro Warkop, the Gandalf of this film, the one who schemed the plan to catch Pandji, Nikita, Agung and Lontong]]
30	%% * TheBigGuy: Fico Fachriza, the biggest of all eight protagonists.
31	%% * BlackComedy
32	* {{Brainwashed}}: [[spoiler: Pandji brainwashed his patients to be robbers.]]
33	%% * BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Among all eight protagonists, Bintang Timur is the sanest one.]]
34	%% * BrakeAngrily: Nirina Zubir [[spoiler: upon seeing the criminals got away]]
35	%% * BreakThemByTalking: Mudy drove the axe gang's Leader and his entire men to bow at him by a mere lecture.
36	%% * TheBrute: Agung Hercules, as his name might suggest.
37	* BulletCatch: The axe gang leader shot Mongol, but Mudy catches the bullet WITH HIS BARE TEETH!
38	%% * TheCasanova: Agus Koncoro - more likely a Wannabe Casanova.
39	%% * ChaseScene: [[spoiler: the cops chasing the robbers delivering the money to Pandji]]
40	%% * ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Kemal's suicide bomb is later used by Nikita to blow the money safe]]
41	%% * CoDragons: If you count [[spoiler: Agung Hercules as Pandji's Dragon.]]
42	%% * ComicalOverreacting: Done multiple times.
43	%% * ContractualGag: This movie has many of these.
44	%% * CurbStompBattle: Mongol against six robbers on hand-to-hand combat.
45	%% * DeadpanSnarker: Fico Fachriza, Nuff Said.
46	%% * DesignatedGirlFight: Nirina Zubir vs Nikita Mirzani.
47	%% * TheDragon: [[spoiler: Nikita Mirzani to Pandji Pragiwaksono.]]
48	%% * EnemyMine: [[spoiler: All three robber groups unite after realizing that they are facing the same enemy: the cops]]
49	%% * EpicFail: Bintang Timur's attempt to craft a bomb ended in this.
50	* ExplosiveStupidity: The robbers pulled a grenade's pin but did not immediately throw it to the target, TWICE!
51	%% * {{Expy}}: The plot itself is a parody to ''Film/OceansEleven''.
52	%% ** The axe gang is an expy to the machete gang from ''Film/TheRaid''.
53	%% ** The chase scene is obviously a ripoff from ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious''.
54	%% ** Babe Cabiita's character is an expy to Indonesian dangdut singer and dancer, Rhoma Irama.
55	%% ** The car explosion scene is obviously mimicking those from Jason Statham movies.
56	%% ** Mongol's fighting technique is obviously a ripoff from ''Film/TheRaid''.
57	%% ** Joe P's character is an expy to Joe Taslim, Name parody indeed.
58	%% ** The crime analysis scene is again, obviously ripping off ''Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation''
59	%% ** [[spoiler: BigBad Cak Lontong is a very stereotypical mafia boss]]
60	%% * FatAndSkinny: Fico Fachriza is the fat one, Bintang Timur is the skinny one.
61	%% * FatIdiot: Fico Fachriza. [[spoiler: ironically he's the one who located the exit tunnel]]
62	%% * ForceAndFinesse: Agung's force to Nikita's finesse.
63	%% * FugitiveArc
64	* FunWithAcronyms: When each criminal group is planning their heist, they are constantly referring to "Bank INI" (Indonesian for "THIS Bank") as their target. We later find out that "INI" stands for "'''I'''ndonesian '''N'''etherlands '''I'''ncorporated".
65	%% * GatlingGood: Mudy's guitar gun, the fire rate is improbable.
66	%% * GoodIsNotSoft: The ideology of the cops.
67	* HarmlessElectrocution: [[spoiler: After delivering the money, Pandji electrocute all his eight brainwashed patients to unconscious and sent them to the police to frame his plan]]
68	%% * HeroAntagonist: The cops, doing their everyday job.
69	* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Neither the cops or the robbers can't shoot straight. [[spoiler: in the end, nobody dies, PlayedForLaughs indeed]]
70	%% * ImprobableWeaponUser:
71	%% ** Mudy Taylor + a guitar gun + a rocket launcher/violin case = nuff said.
72	%% ** Gear Twister.
73	* ImprovisedWeapon: When the gang is being chased by the cops, Bintang uses some chemicals that happen to be in their car to make a bomb. It doesn't work.
74	* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon:
75	** Mudy's arsenal: GUITAR MACHINE GUN and VIOLIN CASE/ROCKET LAUNCHER WITH A HELLO KITTY FACE AS IT'S TRIGGER...ehm, must be seen to be believed.
76	** Ge Pamungkas' axe can turn into a gun.
77	* InstrumentOfMurder: Mudy has a guitar that doubles as a machine gun, and the case ''doubles as a bazooka''.
78	%% * {{Jerkass}}: Joe P.
79	%% * LargeAndInCharge: Pandji Pragiwaksono as [[spoiler: The owner of the brainwashing hospital.]]
80	%% * LighterAndSofter: Compared to Ocean's Eleven and action movies in general.
81	%% * MadBomber: Kemal Palevi almost became this, phew.
82	%% * MadDoctor: [[spoiler: Pandji Pragiwaksono, who likes to brainwash his patients]].
83	%% * TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Cak Lontong, he's the one who funds Pandji's operation.]]
84	%% * MassHypnosis: The ending reveals that [[spoiler:Indro Warkop does this to the eight protagonists and transferred them to Pandji's mental hospital so Pandji's brainwashing scheme can be foiled]].
85	* TheMole:
86	** [[spoiler: Nikita Mirzani, disguised as one of the bank tellers to supervise the brainwashed heroes' heist operation so they can successfully deliver the money to Pandji.]]
87	** [[spoiler: Candil, who also supervised the brainwashed heroes' heist operation, but he is on Indro's side]]
88	** Also [[spoiler: Ge Pamungkas, who framed Pandji's conversation with Nikita]]
89	* MoreDakka: Mudy's guitar gun got an insanely high fire rate.
90	%% * MsFanservice: Nikita Mirzani, there are so many tropes here to prove what a sexy woman she is.
91	%% * MumLooksLikeASister: Kiki Fatmala--Arie and Ernest mistake her for Kemal's girlfriend.
92	%% * TheMusketeer: The Axe gang leader uses a gun and an axe combo.
93	%% * NaughtyNurseOutfit: Nikita wears this to seduce Pandji.
94	%% * OddCouple: [[spoiler: Ernest and Mongol]]
95	%% * OddFriendship: Between Fico and the mice.
96	* OneManArmy: Mudy plays Rambo against a barricade of cops, while Mongol can beat six of the main cast in hand-to-hand combat alone.
97	%% * OnlySaneMan: Bintang Timur among all the robbers.
98	%% * OutlawCouple: [[spoiler: Nikita Mirzani and Pandji Pragiwaksono]]
99	* OutdatedOutfit: Babe's disco outfit - this isn't the 80s anymore.
100	%% * PunnyName: Joe P - really suggestive in English.
101	%% * RedOniBlueOni: Nirina Zubir and her Lancer, Boy William.
102	%% * SecurityCling: [[spoiler: Mongol did this to mice-terrified Ernest]]
103	%% * ShamefulStrip: [[spoiler: One of Kemal's captives did this]]
104	* ShoutOut: Joe P's quote "Hantam mereka" is the same thing Joe Taslim's character says in ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious The Fast And The Furious 6]]''.
105	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: [[spoiler: Nikita Mirzani is the only female member on Pandji's side]]
106	* SoulBrotha: Arie Kriting, he's a black man who grooves, swags, and kicks ass while talking slang.
107	%% * TheStoic: Ernest Prakasa - ironically his hair is skinhead, which is identical to angry kids.
108	%% * {{Stripperiffic}}: [[spoiler: Nikita Mirzani's assault outfit]]
109	* SuicideAttack: [[spoiler: Kemal Palevi]] hid a suicide vest behind his clothing.[[spoiler: he threatened to blow up the bank but was calmed by Indro, and the bomb was later used by Nikita Mirzani to blow the money safe]].
110	* SwissArmyWeapon: The Axe Gang leader's axe, it's an axe yet a gun.
111	%% * {{Symbolism}}: The entire movie is a metaphor to Indonesia's terrible law management.
112	%% * TagTeam: Mongol and Mudy, a Dynamic Duo.
113	* TakingTheBullet: Subverted, Mudy takes the bullet aimed at Mongol and he survives, twice as awesome since he caught the bullet with HIS BARE TEETH.
114	%% * TestosteronePoisoning: Agung Hercules and Ge Pamungkas.
115	%% * ThoseTwoGuys: Nirina Zubir and Boy William, both always appear together.
116	%% * TranslatorBuddy: Nikita Mirzani to Agung Hercules.
117	%% * {{Tsundere}}: Nirina Zubir To Boy William.
118	* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: the eight robbers are actually action heroes, led by Indro Warkop, who voluntarily got brainwashed so Pandji and Lontong's plan can be exposed to the public, also Candil and Agus Kuncoro are not dead, in fact, NOBODY DIES]].
119	%% * UselessSecurityCamera: Not all camera in INI bank is working.
120	%% * VillainProtagonist: The eight main cast. [[spoiler: Turn's out they are undercover heroes]]
121	%% * WeaponforIntimidation:
122	%% ** Fico Fachriza and Ence Bagus's Gear Twister.
123	%% ** Fico, Babe, and Bintang's gun is actually a water gun that looks like a real gun.
124	* WeaponSpecialization: Lots of unique cast with their unique weapon.
125	** Fico and Ence both use gear twister.
126	** Mongol choose to fight bare-handed.
127	** All The axe gang member uses...well that's obvious.
128	** Their leader uses a gun-axe hybrid.
129	** Arie Kriting is an expert in knives, but ironically never use any knife in the entire movie.
130	** Mudy is an interesting example: GUITAR MACHINEGUN AND ROCKET LAUNCHER VIOLIN CASE.
131	** Indro warkop relies on his [[spoiler: hypnosis skill]].
132	** The rest use handguns and machineguns.

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