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1Works in this franchise with their own Trivia pages:
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3* ''Trivia/FirstBlood''
4* ''Trivia/RamboFirstBloodPartII''
5* ''Trivia/RamboIII''
6* ''Trivia/RamboIV''
7* ''Trivia/RamboLastBlood''
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10!!The Franchise in general:
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12* ActorSharedBackground: Creator/RichardCrenna playing military character relates to Crenna having served in the military in real life during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
13* BeamMeUpScotty: The EliteMooks who show up near the end of 2014's ''Rambo: The Video Game'' are often remembered as shouting the phrase "Come on comrades, he's a man, not a god!" [[BrokenRecord over and over again]]. The actual line in the game is "Fight harder comrades, he's a man, not a god!" -- the commonly-remembered version is what [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]] repeatedly shouted out as a MadnessMantra during his playthrough, likely mishearing the actual line through the gunfire and explosion sound effects.
14* TheCharacterDiedWithHim:
15** Trautman died off screen in the fourth movie because Creator/SylvesterStallone felt it wouldn't feel right replacing the late Creator/RichardCrenna. As he himself put it: "Trautman died the day my friend Richard died."
16** Despite surviving the events of the first film, according to the [[http://rambo.wikia.com/wiki/Rambo_Wiki Rambo Wiki]], there's a possibility Teasle could have died afterwards from natural causes exacerbated from the injuries he sustained in the climax in one's speculation and considering the fact that his actor Creator/BrianDennehy [[HarsherInHindsight would]] [[LifeImitatesArt later on pass away from natural causes as well in 2020]], out of meta-SympathyForTheDevil respect, some could perceive Teasle died the day Dennehy died of the same cause of natural causes.
17* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/SylvesterStallone named ''Film/FirstBlood'' as his favourite entry, followed by ''Film/RamboIV'', then ''Film/RamboIII'', with ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII'' being his least favourite.
18* DawsonCasting: In reality, Creator/SylvesterStallone was born in 1946 making him slightly too old to be drafted to fight in the Vietnam War (arguably his partial facial paralysis sustained during a difficult birth would have precluded him anyway).
19* DivorcedInstallment: For the ''Rambo'' Master System game, Sega's license was only applicable for the American version, so when it ended up being released in Japan and Europe, it was relabeled ''Ashura'' and ''Secret Commando'' respectively, with all use of Rambo imagery and theme music taken out.
20* FakeRussian: Both Podovsky and Zaysen were played by an Englishman (Creator/StevenBerkoff) and a Frenchman (Marc de Jonge), respectively.
21* FriendshipOnTheSet: Creator/SylvesterStallone and Creator/RichardCrenna became good friends following the first three films. So much that Stallone refused to recast the role of Col. Trautman following Crenna's death.
22* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/SylvesterStallone also wavered a bit on whether he would be part of the TV series about Rambo mentoring his son, before ultimately opting out.
23* In Japan, where ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'' was indeed very popular, the word "rambo" can be translated as "senseless violence"
24** Likewise, in Finland, "Rambo" has become a generic word to describe a commando of any sort. So much so that many younger people are surprised to find out the word comes from the movies instead of the other way around.

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