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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Driver gets taunted by a man in the holding cell shortly after arriving in El Pueblito. That night, he follows the same man into the bathrooms and ambushes him, knocking him out and stealing his gun, money and Rolex.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Driver gets taunted by a man in the holding cell shortly after arriving in El Pueblito. That night, he follows the same man into the bathrooms and ambushes him, knocking him out and stealing his gun, money and Rolex.
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Also titled ''How I Spent My Summer Vacation'', this 2012 prison-set action thriller film sees Creator/MelGibson returning to the style of his earlier works, such as ''Film/MadMax'' and ''Film/{{Payback}}'', to such an extent that it gets called the SpiritualSuccessor of ''Payback'' on Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}.
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Also titled ''How I Spent My Summer Vacation'', this 2012 prison-set action thriller film sees Creator/MelGibson returning to the style of his earlier works, such as ''Film/MadMax'' and ''Film/{{Payback}}'', to such an extent that it gets called the SpiritualSuccessor of ''Payback'' on Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The Driver buys a taco [[spoiler:on his way to kill Frank]], and is shown to the microwave, but he then says he isn't going to eat it. [[spoiler:He stuffs it in the exhaust of the car on his tail, so that when the car has to stop, he is able to pick off the car's occupants.]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: The Driver buys a taco gas station hamburger [[spoiler:on his way to kill Frank]], and is shown to the microwave, but he then says he isn't going to eat it. [[spoiler:He stuffs it in the exhaust of the car on his tail, so that when the car has to stop, he is able to pick off the car's occupants.]]
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* AdultFear: [[spoiler:Understandably, the Kid's mother is very worried because she never knows when Javi will come for her son. And then, she reacts just the way you'd expect during her ElectricTorture scene when he shows up and attempts to kill himself, just so Javi can't get his liver.]]
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* BigBad: Javi.
* BiggerBad: Frank Fowler, who the Driver and his [[RedShirt associate]] stole the money from before the film started.
* BiggerBad: Frank Fowler, who the Driver and his [[RedShirt associate]] stole the money from before the film started.
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* BiggerBad: Frank Fowler, who the Driver and his [[RedShirt associate]] stole the money from before the film started.
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* RunForTheBorder: At the start of the film, the Driver and his partner-in-crime try to escape their pursuers by driving their car through the wall at the American-Mexican border only to end up totalling their vehicle.
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* RunForTheBorder: At ''Get the start of Gringo'' begins with the film, the Driver gringo and his partner-in-crime try dying partner driving for the Mexican border after a robbery, with the authorities in hot pursuit. He makes it across the border but crashes in the process and is quickly picked up by Mexican border patrol officers. Those officers are prepared to escape their hand the protagonist back over to his American pursuers by driving their car through without a fuss, before noticing all of the wall at money in his car, stealing it, and taking the American-Mexican border only gringo to end up totalling their vehicle.a Mexican prison.
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* SiblingsInCrime: Carcas and Javi (with their cousin thrown in for good measure).
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* SiblingsInCrime: Carcas and Javi run the prison (with their cousin thrown in for good measure).
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* InfantImmortality: Double-subverted by [[spoiler: the Kid, who attempts to kill himself but fails and is saved.]]
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* InfantImmortality: ImprobableInfantSurvival: Double-subverted by [[spoiler: the Kid, who attempts to kill himself but fails and is saved.]]
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* ActionPrologue: The film opens with the Driver's RunForTheBorder, while being shot at.
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* FailedASpotCheck: While having a drink to deal with the chaos of the riot, the warden fails to see the Driver is sitting right next to him.
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* SiblingsInCrime: Carcas and Javi (with their cousin thrown in for good measure).
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Vasquez and Romero mention that two of the cops who were with them were kidnapped tortured and murdered by the gangsters after the money, but never mention their third partner, and he isn't with them when they get caught themselves.
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Also titled ''How I Spent My Summer Vacation'', this 2012 prison-set action thriller film sees Creator/MelGibson returning to the style of his earlier works, such as ''Film/MadMax'' and ''Film/{{Payback}}'', to such an extent that it gets called the SpiritualSuccessor of Payback on wikipedia.
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Also titled ''How I Spent My Summer Vacation'', this 2012 prison-set action thriller film sees Creator/MelGibson returning to the style of his earlier works, such as ''Film/MadMax'' and ''Film/{{Payback}}'', to such an extent that it gets called the SpiritualSuccessor of Payback ''Payback'' on wikipedia.
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** Grenades. The Driver uses one of Frank's goons own grenades to kill him. [[spoiler:He later uses two grenades to kill Frank's associate and Frank himself.]]
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** Grenades. The Driver uses one of Frank's goons goons' own grenades to kill him. [[spoiler:He later uses two grenades to kill Frank's associate and Frank himself.]]
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* BilingualBonus: Some Spanish words are left untranslated, such as when Bill calls Vazquez "cabron" in an early scene. By the way, that translates to "asshole",
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* BilingualBonus: Some Spanish words are left untranslated, such as when Bill calls Vazquez "cabron" in an early scene. By the way, that translates to "asshole","asshole".
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* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Vazquez tells Bill at the beginning that both Mexican and American cops are corrupt, but at least Mexican cops are honest about it. [[SarcasmMode As if that's any better]].
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* BilingualBonus: Some Spanish words are left untranslated, such as when Bill calls Vazquez "cabron" in an early scene. By the way, that translates to "asshole",
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* CampingACrapper: Non-lethal example. Driver knocks out the man who had earlier taunted him while he (the man) is sitting on the toilet.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Javi has his brother, Caracas, and his Aunt Flor (Carnal's mother). Subverted with Carnal himself, as the Kid says Javi and Caracas hate him. [[spoiler:Apparently so much so that after Driver kills Carnal, Javi furiously smacks Carnal's corpse in the face.]]
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Driver gets taunted by a man in the holding cell shortly after arriving in El Pueblito. That night, he follows the same man into the bathrooms and ambushes him, knocking him out and stealing his gun, money and Rolex.
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* NobodyPoops: Averted. The man who taunts Driver in the holding cell early on is later seen going to the bathroom, which is where Driver ambushes him.
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* OneHitKill: [[spoiler:How Carnal is killed. Driver bursts in while Carnal is about to rape the Kid's mother and kills him with a single shot to the chest.]]
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* ShoeSlap: The Driver does this with his own shoes shotly after first arriving in ''El Pueblito''.
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* ShoeSlap: The Driver does this with his own shoes shotly shortly after first arriving in ''El Pueblito''.
