Line #39 Film/Eliminators


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3	->''"What is this, anyway? Some kinda goddamned comic book? We got robots, we got cavemen, we got kung fu..."''
4	-->-- '''Harry'''
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6	''Eliminators'' is a 1986 ScienceFiction film directed by Peter Manoogian, starring [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Denise Crosby]], and featuring:
7	* Robots
8	* Ninjas
9	* Cavemen
10	* Mandroids
11	* Romans
12	* Mad scientists
13	* Gratuitous boat chases
14	* The kitchen sink
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16	Colonel Nora Hunter (Crosby) is approached by a [[InsistentTerminology mandroid]] who needs her help to stop a MadScientist from traveling back in time and becoming GodEmperor of Rome.
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18	Just [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJgAeGUD2FU watch the trailer]] and try to remember that it's real and not a {{Retraux}} parody.
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21	!!This movie contains examples of:
22	%%* AirVentPassageway: How they get into Reeves' base.
23	* ArtificialGill: "Bio-fed oxygen transcribers"
24	* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The coordinates of John's crashed plane (26°32′ N, 81°14′ W) map to a point in South Florida and not Mexico.
25	* AnachronismStew: Robots, Romans, Neanderthals... justified with Reeves being a MadScientist looking to become an EmperorScientist by the use of TimeTravel.
26	* AndIMustScream: Reeves' final fate. [[spoiler:Stuck in a prehistoric era where the only other living thing is bacteria, it's all he can do.]]
27	* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:SPOT and the Mandroid don't make it to the end of the movie]].
28	%%* BarBrawl: How Harry ends up as the party's boat captain.
29	* BulletTime: BMovie version. Used by Kuji to cross the DeadlyRotaryFan.
30	* ColonelBadass: Colonel Nora Hunter: KickChick, good with a gun, GeniusBruiser with an expertise in robotics.
31	%%* {{Cyborg}}: The Mandroid.
32	* DeadlyRotaryFan: An obstacle in the AirVentPassageway in Reeves' base.
33	* [[DeusExMachina Deus ex Mandroid]]: The Mandroid keeps [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands pulling out new features]] throughout the movie to get them out of sticky situations. KnockoutGas! [[HollywoodMagnetism Magnetic hands]]! Torpedoes! [[ArtificialGill Underwater breathing]]! Water jets! GrapplingHookPistol!
34	* EleventhHourRanger: Kuji doesn't appears until the team is having trouble with the Neanderthals (at about the fifty-minute mark out of an hour and a half).
35	* EmperorScientist: Reeves' ambition.
36	* EnergyWeapon: The Mandroid comes equipped with these.
37	* EverybodyLaughsEnding: [[spoiler: the film ends right after the team reprograms Reeves' time travel capsule to overshoot its destination and Hunter giving a BondOneLiner everybody (who is still alive) chuckles at]].
38	* FateWorseThanDeath: How the team stops Reeves' NearVillainVictory: by making Reeves overshoot his time travel target, ending all the way back to 20 million B.C.-where there's not even ''dinosaurs'', let alone humans, to rule over... and his machine gets wrecked on arrival.
39	* FunWithAcronyms: "Spot" is really an acronym for "Search, Patrol and Operational Tactician".
40	* GratuitousNinja: The reason Kuji is in the movie.
41	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: The Mandroid gets jolted dead by a forcefield when he disrupts it to save the rest of the team. SPOT also managed to obtain the information on how to infiltrate Reeves' lab, and shows it to the team before shutting down for good]].
42	* ICannotSelfTerminate: The Mandroid explains to Hunter early in the third act that [[WasOnceAMan he loathes what he has been turned into]] and would like to kill himself but his self-preservation programming prevents him from doing that, so he asks Hunter to kill him. Hunter talks him out of it, [[spoiler:but he, [[HeroicSacrifice in a way]], accomplishes what he wanted in the last minutes of the film.]]
43	* ImmortalityInducer: Why Reeves turns himself into a mandroid as well.
44	* InsistentTerminology: "Mandroid" instead of "cyborg".
45	* TheJuggernaut: Mandroid!Reeves, using a perfected frame, is completely unstoppable and pulls a CurbStompBattle by his lonesome on the team. They are only saved by BondVillainStupidity (leaving them alone so he can start his time jump), [[spoiler:and not checking whether the Mandroid (the only member outside the forcefield) is ''completely'' dead]].
46	* LampshadeHanging: See the page quote.
47	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The Mandroid has had his memory wiped.
48	* LoveableRogue: Harry is essentially a (more-) BMovie, modern-day swamp-dweller Han Solo wanna-be.
49	* MadScientist: Reeves.
50	* MuggingTheMonster: Two random carjackers smash Hunter's car window and try to steal her backpack (which contains SPOT) right out of her hands. [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting It]] [[ToyotaTripwire doesn't ends]] [[KickChick well]] [[EnergyWeapon for]] [[StuffBlowingUp them]].
51	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A cyborg (ok, ''Mandroid''), a GratuitousNinja, a LoveableRogue, a RobotBuddy and TheSmurfettePrinciple (who is a ColonelBadass).
52	* RobotBuddy: SPOT.
53	* ShooOutTheClowns: Or more like [[ShootTheDog shoot dead]] the clowns: cute RobotBuddy SPOT is asked to do recon on Reeves' base and then an action scene happens... and he comes back on the scene after that reprogrammed by Reeves to kill the crew, forcing Kuji to smash it. Things get a bit grimmer for the crew right after that.
54	* ShoutOut:
55	--->'''Harry''': "[[ExplodingBarrels Relax!]] [[Film/FromRussiaWithLove I saw this in a movie once]]."
56	* TimeMachine: What Reeves has been building in his secret jungle base.
57	* UpgradeVsPrototypeFight: Mandroid vs. the more advanced Mandroid!Reeves. Unfortunately, the result is a CurbStompBattle on Reeves' favor, even with the rest of the team providing support.
58	* WalkingTechbane: [[spoiler:Harry accidentally makes Reeves' time-travel machinery go haywire by hitting a random keyboard, which causes Reeves' NearVillainVictory to end up [[AndIMustScream badly]].]]
59	* TheWallsAreClosingIn: Mandroid!Reeves shoots a forcefield at the team, which threatens to shrink and crush them. [[spoiler:Until the Mandroid pulls his HeroicSacrifice]].
60	* WeCanRebuildHim: John was a pilot who crashed and was ([[UnwillingRoboticization unwillingly]]) rebuilt by Reeves as a cyb... [[InsistentTerminology Mandroid]].

Context Film / Eliminators