Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 79,80 (click to see context) from:
* PoliceAreUseless: The NYPD doesn't come off very well here; first the two detectives trying to find the guys who hurt Erica and killed her boyfriend have a very going through the motions attitude about it, with one even getting annoyed at Erica when she struggles to remember the attack. Then when she tries to get an update about the case weeks later after not being able to get ahold of them on the phone, she finds out they're not even there, and the desk sergeant can't even find her file. They don't even come close to discovering Erica's actions, even though outside of snatching a security camera video tape, does nothing to cover up her spree, even trying to confess at one point, but the officer she tries to tell is only half listening to her, causing her to walk out of the building.
* PreMortemOneLiner: "I want my dog back!" *BoomHeadShot*
* PreMortemOneLiner: "I want my dog back!" *BoomHeadShot*
to:
* PoliceAreUseless: The NYPD doesn't come off very well here; first the two detectives trying to find the guys who hurt Erica and killed her boyfriend have a very going through the motions attitude about it, with one even getting annoyed at Erica when she struggles to remember the attack. Then when she tries to get an update about the case weeks later after not being able to get ahold of them on the phone, she finds out they're not even there, and the desk sergeant can't even find her file. They don't even come close to discovering Erica's actions, actions even though outside though--outside of snatching a security camera video tape, tape--she does nothing to cover up her spree, spree. Erica even trying tries to confess at one point, but the officer she tries to tell is only half listening to her, causing her to walk out of the building.
*PreMortemOneLiner: PreMortemOneLiner:
** "I want my dog back!" *BoomHeadShot*
*
** "I want my dog back!" *BoomHeadShot*
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 21 (click to see context) from:
* AntiHero: [[spoiler: Erica as the film goes on, goes from clearly defending herself to actively seeking out the bad guys.]]
to:
* AntiHero: [[spoiler: Erica as the film goes on, goes from clearly defending herself to actively seeking out the bad guys.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Changed line(s) 43 (click to see context) from:
* CrusadingWidower: Erica becomes a vigilante after her fiancé is killed.
to:
* CrusadingWidower: CrusadingWidow: Erica becomes a vigilante after her fiancé is killed.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
A 2007 film directed by Creator/NeilJordan.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 83 (click to see context) from:
* RevolversAreForAmateurs: Sandy, the store shooter, uses a snub nosed revolver. When he starts hunting Erica down, he does so with both hands on the gun in a manner that would seriously injure himself if he fired the gun (while most of the gases, fire and discharge goes down the barrel with the bullet, enough comes out the sides that it can sever a finger. It's this reason silencers don't work on revolvers).
to:
* RevolversAreForAmateurs: RevolversAreForAmateurs:
** Sandy, the store shooter, uses a snub nosed revolver. When he starts hunting Erica down, he does so with both hands on the gun in a manner that would seriously injure himself if he fired the gun (while most of the gases, fire and discharge goes down the barrel with the bullet, enough comes out the sides that it can sever a finger. It's this reason silencers don't work onrevolvers).revolvers).
** Erica however has no experience with firearms whatsover but uses a Kahr automatic. She does however get instruction on how to load and fire it; plus that model has an internal safety device, not a safety catch [[NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont that she might forget to release]] which is one of the advantages of a revolver for an inexperienced shooter.
** Sandy, the store shooter, uses a snub nosed revolver. When he starts hunting Erica down, he does so with both hands on the gun in a manner that would seriously injure himself if he fired the gun (while most of the gases, fire and discharge goes down the barrel with the bullet, enough comes out the sides that it can sever a finger. It's this reason silencers don't work on
** Erica however has no experience with firearms whatsover but uses a Kahr automatic. She does however get instruction on how to load and fire it; plus that model has an internal safety device, not a safety catch [[NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont that she might forget to release]] which is one of the advantages of a revolver for an inexperienced shooter.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* BurnBabyBurn: At one point, Detective Mercer burns a picture of himself and his ex-wife as a symbol of finally accepting that they will never reconcile, much to his chagrin.
Changed line(s) 43 (click to see context) from:
* DeadpanSnarker: Maercer's partner, Vitale. He's making at least one smartass remark in almost every scene he's in.
to:
* DeadpanSnarker: Maercer's Mercer's partner, Vitale. He's making at least one smartass remark in almost every scene he's in.
Added DiffLines:
* TakenOffLifeSupport: What [[spoiler:Erica is told happened to David after she awakens from her coma. His injuries are implied to not be survivable and his mother made the heartbreaking decision while also being unsure if Erica would survive too.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 16 (click to see context) from:
* ActorAllusion: Creator/JodieFoster plays a vigilant woman out for revenge in a city gone wrong. Her first big role was in Film/TaxiDriver, where Creator/RobertDeNiro plays a vigilant man out for blood in a city gone wrong.
to:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: When Erica's show is turned into a call-in show, with the first topic about the vigilante, one of them, a woman, talks about how she finds the vigilante sexy. Erica hangs up on her.
* ActorAllusion: Creator/JodieFoster plays avigilant vigilante woman out for revenge in a city gone wrong. Her first big role was in Film/TaxiDriver, where Creator/RobertDeNiro plays a vigilant vigilante man out for blood in a city gone wrong.
* ActorAllusion: Creator/JodieFoster plays a
* BrooklynRage: A couple of the call-in guests who support Erica's vigilante actions naturally sound like they come from the Red Hook neighborhood.
Changed line(s) 102 (click to see context) from:
* WouldHitAWoman: The three thugs that attacked Erica and David, the convenience store shooter, the pimp, and Mortell all have no issue with attacking or trying to kill women.
to:
* WouldHitAWoman: WouldHitAGirl: The three thugs that attacked Erica and David, the convenience store shooter, the pimp, and Mortell all have no issue with attacking or trying to kill women.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* WouldHitAWoman: The three thugs that attacked Erica and David, the convenience store shooter, the pimp, and Mortell all have no issue with attacking or trying to kill women.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* CrusadingWidower: Erica becomes a vigilante after her fiancé is killed.
Changed line(s) 63 (click to see context) from:
* MajorInjuryMinorReaction: Chloe, the girl Erica rescues winds up with a broken leg after being run over with a car. She's so drugged up however, she doesn't even notice.
to:
* MajorInjuryMinorReaction: MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Chloe, the girl Erica rescues winds up with a broken leg after being run over with a car. She's so drugged up however, she doesn't even notice.
Added DiffLines:
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: All but two people killed in the film is a man, and their deaths don't get near as much invisigation as the women do.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Erica, especially at the beginning, is a sweet, madly in love talk radio host. She winds up killing eight men.
* BigShutUp: [[spoiler: What Erica screams as she executes the last of her attackers.]]
Changed line(s) 27 (click to see context) from:
* BrokenBird: Erica is deeply traumatized by the attack, and can no longer feel safe in a city she once loved.
to:
* BrokenBird: Erica is deeply traumatized by the attack, at one point saying doesn't even care if she gets cancer from smoking, and can no longer feel safe in a city she once loved.loved.
Changed line(s) 33 (click to see context) from:
* CompromisingCall: Erica's cell phone goes off almost immediately after Sandy (the convenience store shooter) shoots he ex-wife.
to:
* CompromisingCall: Erica's cell phone goes off almost immediately after Sandy (the convenience store shooter) shoots he his ex-wife.
Added DiffLines:
* InTheBack: How Erica kills the street thug that filmed her attack.
Added DiffLines:
* MajorInjuryMinorReaction: Chloe, the girl Erica rescues winds up with a broken leg after being run over with a car. She's so drugged up however, she doesn't even notice.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* IWasNeverHere: [[spoiler:What Mercer does for Erica at the end, claiming the three thugs she killed were going around killing people before turning on one another.]]
Added DiffLines:
* ItGetsEasier: Erica is troubled by how easy she is able to kill another human being as the film goes on. So much so that when she actually goes out to kill someone as opposed to defending herself, she calls herself "sick".
Added DiffLines:
* MuggingTheMonster: Everyone seriously underestimates Erica, a dainty little woman who had never fired a gun before. This winds up being their last mistake.
Added DiffLines:
* RevolversAreForAmateurs: Sandy, the store shooter, uses a snub nosed revolver. When he starts hunting Erica down, he does so with both hands on the gun in a manner that would seriously injure himself if he fired the gun (while most of the gases, fire and discharge goes down the barrel with the bullet, enough comes out the sides that it can sever a finger. It's this reason silencers don't work on revolvers).
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 26,27 (click to see context) from:
* {{Foreshadowing}}: While attending an art show showing the front of business's throughout the city, Erica sees one of a gun store. She goes to that same store to try and buy a gun later.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: During her assault, Erica gets a bottle smashed over her head.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: During her assault, Erica gets a bottle smashed over her head.
to:
* {{Foreshadowing}}: While attending an art show showing the front BoomHeadshot: Three of business's throughout the city, Erica sees one of a gun store. She goes to that same store to try and buy a gun later.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: During her assault, Erica gets a bottle smashed over her head.Erica's kills go down this way.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: During her assault, Erica gets a bottle smashed over her head.
Added DiffLines:
* CarFu: The pimp Erica rescues Chloe from tries to run them both down, but only succeeds in hitting Chloe completely by accident after Erica blew his brains out.
Added DiffLines:
* CrowbarCombatant: Mortell and Erica hit each with the same crowbar when she goes to kill him.
Added DiffLines:
* {{Foreshadowing}}: While attending an art show showing the front of business's throughout the city, Erica sees one of a gun store. She goes to that same store to try and buy a gun later.
Added DiffLines:
* GrievousBottleyHarm: During her assault, Erica gets a bottle smashed over her head.
Added DiffLines:
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Erica is horrified the first time she kills a man, and continues to be horrified the next time she does it, unable to get over how her hands don't even shake. By the time she kills Mortell, she's sickened by how she wanted to kill him.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* NeverSuicide: Mortell's wife, who was going to testify against him is suddenly found dead with a gun in her hand. No one on the force believes it to be legit.
Added DiffLines:
* OhCrap: Erica, after her cell goes off right after Sandy Combs kills his wife.
* OnlyAFleshWound: [[spoiler:When Mercer concocts a plan to cover up Erica's actions, he has her give him one to make his tale more believable.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: The NYPD doesn't come off very well here; first the two detectives trying to find the guys who hurt Erica and killed her boyfriend have a very going through the motions attitude about it, with one even getting annoyed at Erica when she struggles to remember the attack. Then when she tries to get an update about the case weeks later after not being able to get ahold of them on the phone, she finds out they're not even there, and the desk sergeant can't even find her file. They don't even come close to discovering Erica's actions, even though outside of snatching a security camera video tape, does nothing to cover up her spree, even trying to confess at one point, but the officer she tries to tell is only half listening to her, causing her to walk out of the building.
* OnlyAFleshWound: [[spoiler:When Mercer concocts a plan to cover up Erica's actions, he has her give him one to make his tale more believable.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: The NYPD doesn't come off very well here; first the two detectives trying to find the guys who hurt Erica and killed her boyfriend have a very going through the motions attitude about it, with one even getting annoyed at Erica when she struggles to remember the attack. Then when she tries to get an update about the case weeks later after not being able to get ahold of them on the phone, she finds out they're not even there, and the desk sergeant can't even find her file. They don't even come close to discovering Erica's actions, even though outside of snatching a security camera video tape, does nothing to cover up her spree, even trying to confess at one point, but the officer she tries to tell is only half listening to her, causing her to walk out of the building.
Added DiffLines:
* ScarsAreForever: Erica is left with a jagged scar above her left eyebrow after the attack in the park.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 30 (click to see context) from:
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Erica takes to smoking after her attack. She quits after the second shooting. Ordinarily, that would be a good thing, but she instead starts shooting people as a stress reliever.
to:
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Erica takes to smoking after her attack. She quits after the second first shooting. Ordinarily, that would be a good thing, but she instead starts shooting people as a stress reliever.
Added DiffLines:
* HarmfulToMinors: The two thugs who, in front of a young boy, assault and rob a teen, calling him a faggot, then curse out and assault the boy's father by grabbing his head and pantomiming him giving them oral sex.
Added DiffLines:
* INeedAFreakingDrink: After Mercer's ex-wife tells him she not only can't help him, but ''won't'', he proceeds to shotgun his scotch and immediately orders a second one, which he also downs.
Added DiffLines:
* TookALevelInBadass: Erica, throughout the course of the film, as she kills more and more, goes from scared and horrified the first time & missing a few shots, to hitting every shot but unable to keep her lunch down, to rescuing a kidnapped girl and confidently standing and firing as the guy she shoots tries to run her down, to beating a guy with a crowbar before dumping him off the roof of a parking garage, to actively hunting down those who hurt her while spitting out one liners.
* UseYourHead: When Erica tries to draw her gun on Mortell, he slashes her with a crowbar then stands over the top of her, so she gives him the ol' Scottish kiss to get him to back off.
* UseYourHead: When Erica tries to draw her gun on Mortell, he slashes her with a crowbar then stands over the top of her, so she gives him the ol' Scottish kiss to get him to back off.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* TheLostLenore: David. Him and Erica were about to get married (with him even pushing for them to just go to city hall have a judge wed them right away) when he's killed.
* VigilanteMan: In rare female case, Erica. And unlike most examples, who are either ex-military or cop, current military or cop, or just lived a hard life, Erica could hardly be more privileged, working as a radio host, living in a nice apartment in a nice neighborhood, with a doctor boyfriend. This makes her case all the more shocking and disturbing for her.
Changed line(s) 76 (click to see context) from:
* WorkingWithTheEx: Mercer tries to get his ex-wife to make the little girl in the Mortell case a ward of the court, but as she points out, this would be a conflict of interest,
to:
* WorkingWithTheEx: Mercer tries to get his ex-wife to make the little girl in the Mortell case a ward of the court, but as she points out, this would be a conflict of interest, and she isn't interested in ''pro bono'' cases anymore anyway.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* CompromisingCall: Erica's cell phone goes off almost immediately after Sandy (the convenience store shooter) shoots he ex-wife.
Added DiffLines:
* TheShutIn: Erica becomes one after the attack, it takes weeks for her to leave her apartment again and even then it's an ordeal.
Added DiffLines:
* WorkingWithTheEx: Mercer tries to get his ex-wife to make the little girl in the Mortell case a ward of the court, but as she points out, this would be a conflict of interest,
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 22 (click to see context) from:
* BigAppleSauce: The film takes place in New York, with the attack that sets the plot in motion happening in Central Park.
to:
* BigAppleSauce: The film takes place in New York, with the attack that sets the plot in motion happening in Central Park. This leads too...
* BigRottenApple: Erica hates that she now fears the city she once loved after her attack.
* BigRottenApple: Erica hates that she now fears the city she once loved after her attack.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Erica takes to smoking after her attack. She quits after the second shooting. Ordinarily, that would be a good thing, but she instead starts shooting people as a stress reliever.
Changed line(s) 42 (click to see context) from:
* FanDisservice: As David and Erica are being wheeled through the ER, a sex scene between the two is intersped, as the actions David is doing with Erica a similar action is shown by the doctors and nurses (such as David running his hand down her spine in a loving caress, a nurse is checking her vertebra for fractures).
to:
* FanDisservice: As David and Erica are being wheeled through the ER, a sex scene between the two is intersped, as the actions David is doing with Erica action between the two lovers a similar action is shown by the doctors and nurses (such as David running his hand down her spine in a loving caress, a nurse is checking her vertebra for fractures).
Added DiffLines:
* HeroesLoveDogs: Erica's Belgian Malinois named Curtis.
Added DiffLines:
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: You know the thugs that nearly kill Erica (and do kill David) are truly vile when one of them repeatedly gropes Erica. Then the two hoods who Erica shoots on the subway are shot immediately after one, while dragging a knife down her chest, asks if she's ever been fucked by a knife. Then there's the pimp she rescues Chloe from, who may be the most unsavory character in the film.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* AttackTheMouth: Erica kills one of her assailants by shooting him in the mouth whilst also shrieking at him to shut up as he [[VillainousBreakdown pathetically begs for his life.]]
Deleted line(s) 51 (click to see context) :
* OffingTheMouth: Erica kills one of her assailants by shooting him in the mouth whilst also shrieking at him to shut up as he [[VillainousBreakdown pathetically begs for his life.]]
Changed line(s) 64 (click to see context) from:
* TheStoner: One of the witness's to Erica's shooting on the subway. He gets dragged into to try and draw up a sketch of her when Vitale catches him smoking a blunt in a park.
to:
* TheStoner: One of the witness's to Erica's shooting on the subway. He gets dragged into the police station to try and draw up a sketch of her when Vitale catches him smoking a blunt in a park.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* CassandraTruth: In much the same way that the cyclops told his fellow cyclops that "Nobody blinded me" in Literature/TheOdyssey, Chloe tells Mercer that nobody (what Erica referred to herself as) saved her.
* CountryMatters: The pimp that Erica rescues Chloe from calls her a "super cunt" when she puts her gun to his head, she follows up by telling him she'll be the last super cunt he ever sees if he doesn't unlock his car doors.
* ExactWords: Erica tells Chloe that she's "nobody" when the latter asks who she is. Then later, when she's visiting her in the hospital with Mercer, who is asking her who saved her, Chloe states that "Nobody saw me."
* MeaningfulName: Erica Bain really is a bane to the criminal element.
Changed line(s) 49 (click to see context) from:
** Before that there is Erica going after [[spoiler:the senator with a tire iron.]]
to:
** Before that there is Erica going after [[spoiler:the senator [[spoiler:Mortell with a tire iron.crowbar.]]
Changed line(s) 56 (click to see context) from:
* SickeninglySweethearts: Erica and David, to her art show good natured annoyance.
to:
* SickeninglySweethearts: Erica and David, to her art show friend's good natured annoyance.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* MoeGreeneSpecial: How Erica dispatches the hood who she tells "I want my dog back!"
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 42 (click to see context) from:
* InstantDeathBullet: Averted with the convivence store shooter, he is visibly twitching and audibly gurgling on his own blood after Erica shoots him in the throat.
to:
* InstantDeathBullet: Averted with the convivence convenience store shooter, he is visibly twitching and audibly gurgling on his own blood after Erica shoots him in the throat.
Added DiffLines:
* ShowerOfAngst: After the first time she kills a man, Erica jumps into her shower, still fully clothed.
Added DiffLines:
* VomitDiscretionShot: Erica, after the subway shooting, vomits in a toilet, but only sound is heard as the act is blocked by a sink.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* {{Foreshadowing}}: While attending an art show showing the front of business's throughout the city, Erica sees one of a gun store. She goes to that same store to try and buy a gun later.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: During her assault, Erica gets a bottle smashed over her head.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: During her assault, Erica gets a bottle smashed over her head.
Added DiffLines:
* FanDisservice: As David and Erica are being wheeled through the ER, a sex scene between the two is intersped, as the actions David is doing with Erica a similar action is shown by the doctors and nurses (such as David running his hand down her spine in a loving caress, a nurse is checking her vertebra for fractures).
Added DiffLines:
* NoHoldsBarredBeatDown: Erica and David are subjected to one at the beginning, and months later Erica still has injuries that haven't healed yet.
Added DiffLines:
* SickeninglySweethearts: Erica and David, to her art show good natured annoyance.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 33 (click to see context) from:
* DutchAngle: The more trobled Erica becomes, the more the camera follows her around in odd angles.
to:
* DutchAngle: The more trobled troubled Erica becomes, the more the camera follows her around in odd angles.angles.
* FacialCompositeFailure: When police ask one of the witnesses to the subway shooting to try and ID Erica, the result leaves a bit to be desired. Even the sketch artist explains that people will fill in missing details with the familiar.
--> '''Vitale:''' Great, it's Creator/JenniferAniston!
* FacialCompositeFailure: When police ask one of the witnesses to the subway shooting to try and ID Erica, the result leaves a bit to be desired. Even the sketch artist explains that people will fill in missing details with the familiar.
--> '''Vitale:''' Great, it's Creator/JenniferAniston!
Changed line(s) 37 (click to see context) from:
* InstantBulletDeath: Averted with the convivence store shooter, he is visibly twitching and audibly gurgling on his own blood after Erica shoots him in the throat.
to:
* InstantBulletDeath: InstantDeathBullet: Averted with the convivence store shooter, he is visibly twitching and audibly gurgling on his own blood after Erica shoots him in the throat.
Changed line(s) 44 (click to see context) from:
--> '''Erica:''' You wish.
to:
--> '''Erica:''' You wish.''wish''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:The last gang member is literally begging to be arrested when Mercer shows up to stop Erica from blowing his brains out.]]
Changed line(s) 36 (click to see context) from:
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: [[spoiler: What causes Erica to attack the guy who Mercer was investigating for killing his wife
to:
* InstantBulletDeath: Averted with the convivence store shooter, he is visibly twitching and audibly gurgling on his own blood after Erica shoots him in the throat.
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: [[spoiler: What causes Erica to attack Mortell, the guy who Mercer was investigating for killing hiswifewife.]]
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: [[spoiler: What causes Erica to attack Mortell, the guy who Mercer was investigating for killing his
Changed line(s) 41 (click to see context) from:
--> '''Scumbag:''' What are you, a cop?!
to:
--> '''Scumbag:''' '''Mortell:''' What are you, a cop?!
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* BrokenBird: Erica is deeply traumatized by the attack, and can no longer feel safe in a city she once loved.
* DeadpanSnarker: Maercer's partner, Vitale. He's making at least one smartass remark in almost every scene he's in.
* DutchAngle: The more trobled Erica becomes, the more the camera follows her around in odd angles.
Changed line(s) 33 (click to see context) from:
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy:
to:
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: [[spoiler: What causes Erica to attack the guy who Mercer was investigating for killing his wife
** Before that there is Erica going after [[spoiler:the senator with a tire iron.]]
--> '''Scumbag:''' What are you, a cop?!
--> '''Erica:''' You wish.
--> '''Scumbag:''' What are you, a cop?!
--> '''Erica:''' You wish.
Changed line(s) 39,40 (click to see context) from:
%%* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
* ShoutOut: The subway scene is almost identical to one from ''Film/DeathWish''.
* ShoutOut: The subway scene is almost identical to one from ''Film/DeathWish''.
to:
* ShoutOut: The subway scene is almost identical to one from
Added DiffLines:
* TheStoner: One of the witness's to Erica's shooting on the subway. He gets dragged into to try and draw up a sketch of her when Vitale catches him smoking a blunt in a park.
Added DiffLines:
* VitriolicBestBuds: Mercer can't help himself when the opportunity presents itself.
--> '''Vitale:''' ''(about the convivence store robber)'' Guy had a rap sheet longer than my dick.
--> '''Mercer:''' So no priors?
--> '''Vitale:''' ''(about the convivence store robber)'' Guy had a rap sheet longer than my dick.
--> '''Mercer:''' So no priors?
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 10,11 (click to see context) from:
Erica Bain (Creator/JodieFoster) is a confident, content, reasonably left-wing radio host, madly in love with [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity the city of New York]] and her fiancee David (Creator/NaveenAndrews). Sadly, he is killed and she is beaten within an inch of her life by a gang of thugs in Central Park one night. Emotionally shattered and incapable of feeling safe in the city she once adored, Erica buys a gun and attempts to move on. Fate has other plans, however, as she begins to encounter situation after situation that leave her with no choice but to blow somebody away. As the reputation of the mysterious vigilante begins to rise, Erica is torn between genuine disgust at her reluctant actions and the savage pleasure of dealing out first-hand justice to the blatantly deserving.
to:
Erica Bain (Creator/JodieFoster) is a confident, content, reasonably left-wing radio host, madly in love with [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity the city of New York]] and her fiancee fiancée David (Creator/NaveenAndrews). Sadly, he is killed and she is beaten within an inch of her life by a gang of thugs in Central Park one night. Emotionally shattered and incapable of feeling safe in the city she once adored, Erica buys a gun and attempts to move on. Fate has other plans, however, as she begins to encounter situation after situation that leave her with no choice but to blow somebody away. As the reputation of the mysterious vigilante begins to rise, Erica is torn between genuine disgust at her reluctant actions and the savage pleasure of dealing out first-hand justice to the blatantly deserving.
Changed line(s) 16,17 (click to see context) from:
%%* AntiHero
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Erica wants to kill those who do wrong, [[spoiler:get revenge on the thugs that killed her fiance and get her dog back]].
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Erica wants to kill those who do wrong, [[spoiler:get revenge on the thugs that killed her fiance and get her dog back]].
to:
* AntiHero: [[spoiler: Erica as the film goes on, goes from clearly defending herself to actively seeking out the bad guys.]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Erica wants to kill those who do wrong, [[spoiler:get revenge on the thugs that killed her
Changed line(s) 19 (click to see context) from:
%%* BigAppleSauce
to:
Changed line(s) 22,25 (click to see context) from:
%%* CastingGag - Creator/JodieFoster, given her role in ''Film/TaxiDriver''.
%%* TheCityNarrows
%%* CityNoir
%%* ADarkerMe - Erica's even acutely aware of the concept.
%%* TheCityNarrows
%%* CityNoir
%%* ADarkerMe - Erica's even acutely aware of the concept.
to:
* CityNoir: Erica's idealistic view of New York is shattered by her
%%* TheCityNarrows
%%* CityNoir
%%* ADarkerMe -
* ADarkerMe: Erica's even acutely aware of the
Changed line(s) 32,33 (click to see context) from:
%%* IDidWhatIHadToDo - Reluctantly.
%%* MaddenIntoMisanthropy
%%* MaddenIntoMisanthropy
to:
%%* MaddenIntoMisanthropy
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy:
Changed line(s) 38 (click to see context) from:
%%* SociopathicHero - Subverting this is the point of the film.
to:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 15 (click to see context) from:
!!Tropes:
to:
Changed line(s) 17 (click to see context) from:
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Erica wants to kill those who do wrong, [[spoiler: get revenge on the thugs that killed her fiance and get her dog back.]]
to:
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Erica wants to kill those who do wrong, [[spoiler: get [[spoiler:get revenge on the thugs that killed her fiance and get her dog back.]]back]].