Film / The Raid 2: Berandal

A sequel to 2011's The Raid, Indonesian martial-arts action movie The Raid 2: Berandal (meaning "Thug") was released worldwide at the end of March 2014. The film follows the main character's journey right after the end of the first movie. This was originally director Gareth Evans' dream project before budget limitations forced him to create a simpler movie. Therefore, while the first one was a small-scale Bottle Episode of a movie set over a few hours, The Raid 2 is a grand, expansive underworld opera set over several years.

After surviving the ambush at Tama's apartment, Rama (Iko Uwais) seeks protection for himself and his family from an honest police officer recommended by his outlaw brother, Andi. But his family's safety has a heavy price: his own freedom. Rama abandons his wife and son to go undercover, looking for evidence of corruption within the police force. But when the gang he infiltrate faces the threats of conspiring rivals, Rama gets caught within the conflict and has to fight his way out through the worst the underworld has to offer.

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The Raid 2 contains examples of the following tropes:

• Acoustic License: Averted during the prison riot scene. When two inmates try to climb the fence and are promptly dropped by a sniper, the first shot is heard just after it punches through the first con's chest.
• Action Hero: Rama, much like the previous film. The climax of the film is preceded by a character telling him that the only way to solve his problem is to kill all of the parties responsible.
• Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene:
  • Rama calling his wife, Isa.
  • Prakoso goes from beating up an entire group of henchmen and killing his intended target... to talking with his estranged wife in a ritzy restaurant.
• Action Dad: Both Rama and Prakoso are engaged in dangerous activities in order to take care of their families.
• Actionized Sequel: While the first film took place in a single building, the sequel expands it to the entire city and has a much higher body count, including casualties in a prison riot, car chases, a mob war and a One-Man Army raid on the Big Bad's restaurant in the climax. Is notable, unlike most examples, in that because of the films much longer run-time, that we still also get more character and plot development alongside the increase in action.
• Actor Allusion: The undercover name of Iko Uwais' character is Yuda, which is the name of his character in Merantau.
• Agony of the Feet: Hammer Girl attempts to smash Rama's feet during her and Baseball Bat Man's fight against him.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Prakoso, who dies at the hands of the Assassin.
• All There in the Manual: According to the producer, Hammer Girl and Baseball Bat Man had an abusive father and they killed him, but it wasn't explained in the film itself.
• Ambition Is Evil: The film's Central Theme. Uco, Bejo, the Japanese, even Lt. Bunawar are all guilty of it, albeit in different ways. Bejo discusses ambition and limitation with Andi, but proves to be a massive Hypocrite by being overly ambitious himself. Bangun even makes a point to tell Rama "I've seen many a man fall before they should. They could have lasted a little longer... had they known when to stop." Indeed, Bangun doesn't take advantage of any of Uco and Bejo's schemes to aim higher, instead opting for diplomacy and respect. Uco and Bejo themselves are both extremely ambitious, and it blows up in their faces spectacularly.
• Anyone Can Die: And how. The movie begins with Andi being captured and executed by the film's Big Bad (and depending on whether a deleted scene is canon, Bowo dies soon after as well). By the end of the film, the only major character still standing is Rama.
• Anti-Hero: Lt. Bunawar has an "ends justify the means" mentality. Although he wants to root out corruption in the city, he is willing to kill whoever could rat them out. His Establishing Character Moment has him nonchalantly unload an entire clip of bullets into Lt. Wahyu.
• Anti-Villain:
  • Bangun is a very wise man by villain standards. Though he has no problem getting rid of problematic elements in the city or his organization, he is extremely fair and appreciative to the soldiers who work for him. When a war very nearly breaks out with Goto's syndicate, Bangun breaks the tension by being apologetic and offering a "peace package" to the latter.
  • Likewise, his Dragon Prakoso is incredibly lethal and yet seems to work for Bangun solely out of a combination of loyalty and a need to provide for his estranged wife and son. He goes out of his way to avoid unnecessary killing, and appears to act as a sort of surrogate uncle to Uco. Bangun and he seem to have a very close, respectful relationship, too, leading many fans to assume they're in some way related.
  "All 'Koso ever cared for in the world was his wife and kid. He had no time for making things personal."
• Arrested for Heroism: Rama zigzags this trope. He chooses to get arrested in order to help Bunawar's investigation, via beating up the son of a politician. However, he ends up in prison for three years instead of a few months.
• Artifact Title: There isn't a police raid central to this movie, although there is an unofficial one, as Rama leads a One-Man Army raid against Bejo's restaurant.
• Artistic License – Geography
  • The snow in Jakarta during Prakoso's death scene. The only snow-covered location in Indonesia is on Puncak Jaya mountain.
  • The Car Chase scene jumps between locations nowhere close to each other in real life.
• Asshole Victim: Wahyu. Considering that he was the one who conducted the first film's eponymous raid at the apartment and threw his own team to the wolves just so he could save his own skin, no one's gonna mourn for him after Bunawar puts a bullet in his sorry ass.
• Ax-Crazy: Uco becomes this by the end of the movie, after realizing Bejo tried to kill him.
• Back for the Dead: Andi shows up in the beginning, only to be unceremoniously killed by the Big Bad.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: Rare villainous example: Hammer Girl and Baseball Bat Man against Rama.
• Badass Crew: Bejo employs a trio of assassins (Hammer Girl, Baseball Bat Man, and the Assassin) who all carry signature weapons, all have unique fighting styles and could each be considered a one man/woman army on their own.
• Badass Driver: Eka, who can shoot one-handed while driving and execute precision maneuvers to take out pursuing attackers with his vehicle. Bejo's men count too.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: The second-to-last chase scene has Eka racing to save Rama, while still sporting his full suit and wielding several weapons as he drives.
• Batter Up!: Not only does the titular "Baseball Bat Man" wield a steel bat, but he is able to hit baseballs with exact precision in order to kill targets.
• Big Bad: Bejo is set as one early on by murdering Andi.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: Bejo and Reza, the police commissioner responsible for the events of the first film. Surprisingly, Reza gets very little screen time, and seems to be a bit of a Living MacGuffin.
• Bad Boss:
  • Uco abuses an innocent bathroom worker who tries to give him tissues, alongside two hostesses, one of whom he threatens to rape.
  • In a way, Bunawar is this too, since he constantly refuses to tell Rama critical information regarding his investigation. Undercover, this translates to near death situation.
• Barbarian Long Hair: Prakoso has this and is one of the reasons why his wife doesn't want him to see his son.
• Becoming the Mask: Eka, the other undercover cop, who decides to be Bangun's loyal man after his failure.
• Benevolent Boss: By all accounts, Bangun is this for a mob boss. Goto and his son don't seem too bad, either.
• Berserk Button: Based on his reaction to Joanna at the karaoke bar, implying or outright stating that Uco is far lower than he thinks he deserves to be is one. Trying to rectify it ends up being his downfall.
• Bittersweet Ending: Though Rama has gotten his revenge on Uco and Reza, the deaths of Bangun and Bejo have left a power vacuum in the city, with Goto's organization having free reign. Additionally, it is unclear what happens to Rama in the ending after he confronts Keiichi and Ryuichi in the final shot.
• Bolivian Army Cliffhanger: The ending shows Rama bleeding from multiple wounds, standing opposite the Japanese mob, and saying, "No... I'm done".
• Boom, Headshot!: Both Bangun and Bejo gets killed by being shot in the head.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Rama may be a kind, quiet man who cares for his comrades and family, but he will still kick your ass to next Tuesday if you get on his bad side.
• Blood Knight: The Assassin is delighted at the opportunity to square off with Rama a few times in barehanded combat. Only once he starts losing does he resort to using his knives.
• Bookends:
  • The film starts with Andi getting shot in the head with a shotgun. In the end, Bejo receives the same fate.
  • Rama receives another cut to the face from a bladed weapon, this time on the opposite cheek.
• Bludgeoned to Death: Hammer Girl, who uses a pair of prying hammers.
• Born Winner: Uco and Keiichi; their dads have authority and they are feared for it. See Foil below for more.
• Boom, Headshot!: How Andi, Bangun and Bejo meet their ends.
• Break Them by Talking: Uco does this to the karaoke hostess.
• Brother–Sister Team: Hammer Girl and Baseball Bat Man.
• Bloodier and Gorier: This one is bloodier, gorier, and even more violent than the first one.
• Call-Back:
  • When attacked by crooked cops, Rama uses a broken bottle to slice up one's leg, exactly like he did against a henchman in the first film.
  • Rama defeats the Assassin the same way he and Andi defeated Mad Dog: slashing his throat.
  • "Yuda" is used as Rama's undercover name. Remember Merantau's main character, also played by Iko Uwais? His name was Yuda.
  • The fight at the pornographer's den kicks off with a weapon hidden on the underside of a table, much like one of Tama's goons had in the first movie.
  • When Bejo delivers Uco's prison enemies to him as a gift, they are trussed up, on their knees, in a row, and shot one by one. This recalls Tama's Establishing Character Moment from the first film. There's also a similiar scene in the same director's next film, Apostle.
• The Cameo:
  • Pong Harjatmo as the chief of police, seen briefly towards the beginning with Reza.
  • Hengky Solaiman as Andi and Rama's father.
  • Fikha Effendi as Isa, Rama's wife.
• Car Fu: In the car chase, as well as when Rama launches his assault on Bejo's restaurant.
• Carnival of Killers: Bejo employs three assassins with unique fighting styles: Baseball Bat Man, Hammer Girl, and the Assassin.
• Catchphrase: "Throw me the ball!" by Baseball Bat Man to his victims as he moves in for the kill. When one of his dying targets pettily throws the ball away, it presses a Berserk Button.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Rama, Prakoso, and the Assassin. They all have different levels of superhuman durability from practicing martial arts.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Throughout the movie, Uco betrays his father's most faithful henchman, his own father, and his fellow conspirator, Bejo. He does all that in the name of ambition and revenge.
  • Reza starts out by allying with Bangun, then switching with Goto behind the former's back, and finally with Bejo himself.
• Cold Sniper: The prison guard on the roof who mercilessly shoots anyone who tries to escape.
• Confusion Fu: In contrast with the technically impeccable rest of silat practitioners from the films, Prakoso's fighting style looks chaotic and improvised to an extent, especially during the club brawl, in which he throws furniture and attacks while screaming.
• Cradling Your Kill: Rama hugs the Assassin and Uco before killing them.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: The vast, vast majority of the characters suffer this. Including, but not limited to:
  • Throat slashed with broken glass bottle.
  • Head smashed repeatedly against ground until it turns into a tomato.
  • Anything involving Baseball Bat Man and Hammer Girl.
  • Face held against against scalding stove.
  • Hitting another car whilst dangling outside of moving vehicle.
  • Jaws pulled apart with bare hands.
  • Being slashed 12 times with a karambit before having your throat ripped out.
  • Pickaxe to the head.
• Cultured Badass: The Assassin, who uses an Indonesian weapon called a karambit.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: The Assassin killing the already-wounded Prakoso easily with his karambits.
• The Dragon: Being Bejo's best henchman, the Assassin is this to him. Prakoso is this to Bangun, though downplayed, since he and the hero never come into conflict, or even meet.
• Dark Action Girl: Hammer Girl.
• Darker and Edgier: Much darker than the first film and delves into the underworld of sleaze, corruption, and bloodshed.
• Death Faked for You: Rama is listed as MIA from the ill-fated raid in the first movie. It allows him to pretend to be a convict and befriend Uco in prison.
• Decoy Protagonist: Rama is a bit more of a background character as far as the narrative goes. Most of the story is about Uco and Bejo, and Rama mostly stays in the background as a fighter since he's attempting to infiltrate the gang as an undercover agent. By the end, he does step up front and center as he goes One-Man Army on everyone.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: There's many of these. Eka’s epic Car Fu, after being shot, is perhaps the most notable example.
• Does Not Like Guns: Rama, who assaults Bejo's compound with absolutely no weaponry other than his fists.
• Establishing Character Moment
  • The moment Bejo kills Andi shows just how bad he is.
  • The Assassin's first fight against Rama shows how he's one of the most dangerous fighters in the movie.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones
  • Bangun is plunged deep in his dirty business as mob boss, but very much loves his son, Uco, and doesn't want him to be in danger.
  • Prakoso is a Professional Killer who wants nothing more than to reunite with his estranged son.
  • Hammer Girl and Baseball Bat Man have cared very much for each other since their troubled childhood years. When Rama kills Hammer Girl, Baseball Bat Man loses it and starts beating the bejeezus out of Rama, nearly overpowering him in blind rage.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Baseball Bat Man fights with a baseball bat and Hammer Girl with her trusty hammers.
• Eye Scream: There's a reason why Hammer Girl wears those shades. It ain't pretty.
• Evil Cripple: Bejo must walk with a cane and Hammer Girl is deaf.
• Evil Genius:
  • Bangun; he can't be fooled so easily.
  • Also Bejo, considering he's a Manipulative Bastard.
• The Evil Prince: Uco is a mob version of this, the spoiled and cowardly son of the boss, and is ultimately a patsy for the Manipulative Bastard Bejo. Yakuza heir Keiichi could also qualify - he's definitely not a good guy, but we never see him being pointlessly cruel like Uco.
• Evil Versus Evil: The plot is propelled by the ambitions of two rival gangs, plus a third party trying to force a war so they can take over.
• Face–Heel Turn: Eka, Uco's right hand man, was a cop in undercover mission who changed his allegiance out of desperation and disillusionment.
• Facial Horror: The mook who ends up face-to-face with a stove. Later, Rama's beating of the Assassin leaves the latter's face a bloody, red, and swollen mess, while Hammer Girl shows she has a deformed eye under her sunglasses.
• Fake Shemp: Wahyu in his one scene is never shown clearly to hide that the actor didn't return for a greatly diminished role that saw his character killed off with no last words.
• Fan Disservice: The woman with the huge strap-on at the porn den.
• Fallen Hero: Eka, a former undercover cop who disgraced the police force and decided to be part of the gang for real.
• False Flag Operation: Bejo's plan to pit the two crime families against each other.
• Fatal Family Photo: Prakoso's photo of his son.
• Foil:
  • Uco and Keiichi are both heirs to major crime families, but with different temperaments. Uco is impulsive, impatient to inherit, and a huge disappointment to the father he ultimately murders, while Keiichi is measured, eager to learn from his father, and loyal: everything a mob kingpin could hope for in a son.
  • Rama and the Assassin are both master silat fighters, work for ambitious crime middle bosses, and wear-blue close-fitting jackets with short hair. Their fight reveals eerily similar symmetry, especially once Rama gets one of the Assassin's knives.
  • Bangun and Bunawar serve as differing authority figures for Rama. Even though he's a crime boss, Bangun generally treats his men well and makes sure they're taken care of, which earns Rama's respect. Meanwhile, Bunawar constantly withholds or neglects to tell Rama critical information, slowly eroding Rama's trust in him.
• Friendly Enemy: Bangun and Goto have a rather shaky but peaceful truce after years of fighting.
• Gambit Pile Up: It involves one Indonesian gang trying to overthrow another, one yakuza family wanting to secure their position, a corrupt police force trying to make a profit from the conflict, and a lone undercover cop attempting to bring them all to justice.
• Girl with Psycho Weapon: Dual carpenter hammers.
• Good Is Not Soft: Bunawar, who coldly executes Wahyu for knowing too much.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Rama has a scar on his cheek from being cut in the previous movie. Hammer Girl's right eye is terribly scarred, forcing her to wear sunglasses to cover it up.
• Gorn: This movie exceeds the first one in this department. Yes, really.
  • A highlight includes Rama killing Baseball Bat Man with his own bat. The bat stays lodged in his mouth, even after he falls over.
  • And Uco impales Benny's throat with Bejo's box cutter.
  • The goriest moment by far would be Bejo's head being blown open by a shotgun blast.
  • Zig-zagged, if anything; while the sheer number of horrifically violent acts is turned up to eleven, the film noticeably lingers on them for less time than the first film. Word of God has stated that frames did have to be cut to avoid an NC-17 rating in America, which, frankly, makes sense (it's honestly shocking that the first film didn't receive such treatment).
• Gory Discretion Shot: There are quite a couple in this film. One example is Andi's execution, where the movie cuts immediately to the title right after he gets shot.
• Gratuitous English: Uco, Goto, and Goto's son very briefly converse in English while discussing Prakoso's murder by the Assassin.
• Gratuitous Japanese: Bangun apologizes to Goto in Japanese instead of speaking English or Indonesian like usual, to show he means it. Uco sees it as cowardice.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Whoever Reza's superiors are. To an extent, Goto and Keiichi also qualify. Evans has said that if he were to do a third film (and he probably won't), Goto and Keiichi would be upgraded to villain protagonists (or perhaps Anti Heroes).
• Handicapped Badass: Hammer Girl is deaf, mute, and apparently half-blind. She still kills countless mooks.
• Happy Ending Override: While the first movie didn't exactly end on a high note, Andi and Rama come to some sort of understanding, and him and Bowo came out alive from the raid. Then Andi gets killed in the intro to the sequel, and, depending of whether the deleted scenes are canon or not, Bowo might have been killed as well.
• Hidden Wire: Rama uses this to spy on Uco.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Eka bleeds out in the abandoned city after taking many shots from saving Rama.
• He Knows Too Much: Bunawar's reason to kill Wahyu.
• Heroes Fight Barehanded: The most noticeable example is Rama. Other characters often use melee weapons, or, though not as prevalent, guns. Contrast with the first film where Rama freely used his knife and baton. The only time Rama uses weapons are when he gets them off of Bejo's trio of killers and dispatches them with their own tools. He keeps the Assassin's karambits to take down Bejo since the last few bad guys are armed with guns.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: All three of Bejo's assassins are killed with their own weapons.
• How We Got Here: The film starts by intercutting Rama in prison and flashbacks to what led him there.
• Human Shield: Prakoso’s first victim attempts to callously use his date as one. It doesn't work.
• Identical Stranger: Prakoso is played by the same actor as Mad Dog from the first movie, Yayan Ruhian. It's never acknowledged or justified.
• It's Personal: Rama's reason to hunt Bejo, the murderer of his brother.
• Improbable Weapon User: Baseball Bat Man. Not everyone can hit baseballs hard and accurate enough to kill a man, but he does, and if he does not, he still has his trusted bat.
• Improv Fu: Widely used by Rama and Prakoso to take large numbers of enemies.
• Improvised Weapon: Practically required in a film this brutal. One noticeable example is the broom handle Rama uses in the mud fight.
• I Can Still Fight!: With all his injuries, Rama decides to infiltrate Bejo's hideout and miraculously win against everybody in it. It's worth noting that Rama has at the start of the day been attacked by corrupt cops and takes, aside from punches, two nasty cuts to an arm and a leg. He barely has time to treat them before being called to Bangun's office, where he fights and is knocked out by the Assassin. He then fights four guys in the brutal car chase. It's only a few hours later that he launches his Roaring Rampage of Revenge, still injured. And then he keeps taking injuries as he progresses through Bejo's lair. It's no wonder his final line of the movie (and possibly his life) is "No, I'm done."
• Irony: Bejo's very first words in the film are rife with it. He spends the entire time lecturing Andi about the problems with ambition and limitation, admonishing Andi for trying to rise too far too fast, unlike Tama. He then spends the entire rest of the film doing everything to rise beyond his own position, attempting a power grab for the entire city's criminal underworld. Needless to say, it backfires hard.
• Jerkass: Uco, who doesn't take kindly to people insulting him.
• Just Got Out of Jail: Rama, two years later.
• Just Hit Him: A variation; Rama in his fight against the Assassin tends to prolong the fight by not delivering the finishing blow even when he had multiple opportunities to do so.
• Kiai: Same as the first film, lots of them.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: Andi get shot in the head while pleading for mercy from Bejo.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Hammer Girl in the subway fight.
• Kick the Dog: Uco's treatment of the karaoke hostesses really emphasizes that, on top of being a ruthless gangster, he's also just a total piece of shit.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Bejo's head get's blown up at the end of the movie, just like when he commanded his men to do the same to Andi.
• Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: The Assassin has karambit (Indonesian traditional weapons) on his utility belt, but he chooses to fight Rama bare-handed. Then subverted, he uses his karambit later after Rama starts to gain the advantage. Ironically, Rama manages to use one of his own weapons against him, which leads to his death. This is clear from the opening of the fight: each of them gets into a fighting stance, then they shuffle a little closer together before a single punch is thrown.
• Lightning Bruiser: Rama, Prakoso, and the Assassin are all capable of dishing out lots of pain while moving incredibly fast, and they can swallow a lot of punishment too.
• Living MacGuffin: Rama's primary objective in going undercover is to find incriminating evidence on Reza, the police commissioner, making Reza technically one of the main villains, but he only appears in a single scene, doesn't leave much of an impact, and it isn't personal with him the way it is with Bejo.
• Machete Mayhem: Subverted in one fight; even though Prakoso holds his machete all along, he prefers to beat the target's goons with his empty hand, using the machete only against the main target, by stabbing him through a wooden wall.
• Made of Iron: Rama, Prakoso, and the Assassin can take a hell of a lot of hits.
• Manipulative Bastard: Bejo. He manipulates Uco into betraying Bangun, and according to the clues shown throughout the movie he has been doing it since the very beginning when Uco was in jail.
• Manly Tears: In the "Funeral" deleted scene, Rama's father visibly breaks down after looking at Andi's photo.
• Meaningful Echo: Eka to Rama: "We came from the same place". At first, this might just be a way to say that Eka used to be Bangun's grunt before making his way up, but later, with his dying breath, he revealed that he too was an undercover cop, like Rama.
• Men Are the Expendable Gender: Hammer Girl is the only woman who loses her life in this movie.
• Mob War: Bejo tries to start a gang war between the Bangun organization and the Goto family in order to take land from the Goto family
• The Mole:
  • Rama becomes this in order to expose the corruption rampant in the city.
  • Eka, the former cop that saves Rama during the car chase scene.
• More Dakka: Eka's solution to a gunman attacking him? Unload a machine pistol point blank in his face.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Realizing how hopeless his cause is, Rama decides to end the gang war once and for all by killing Bejo and Reza.
• Neck Snap: Happens multiple times.
• Nerves of Steel: Rama, who manages to handle his brother's death, two years in prison, and being a mole in Bangun's mob.
• Nice Guy: Rama refuses to do something with the karaoke hostess even though Uco tries to force him to. He even tries to defuse the argument Uco was having with the hostess.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Rama's killing of Uco, Bejo, and Reza leaves nobody to stand in the way of the Yakuza taking over the city, save for Rama himself.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Bejo really shouldn't have killed Andi. It gives Rama the motivation he needs to go undercover.
• Non-Action Big Bad: Bejo, whose only direct kill in the entire movie was one of his henchmen by mistake while trying to kill Rama. Uco, too, who clearly doesn't have much combat training.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Practically every fight scene in the film.
• No Name Given: Out of Bejo's assassins, only Hammer Girl has a proper name in the end credits. It's Alicia.
• Noodle Incident: Rama beats up a corrupt politician's son to get into prison. The movie doesn't show how he does it, or the events that lead up to it, although the former is actually in the deleted scenes.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Upon receiving his apartment from Bangun, Eka tells Rama that they're "not so different", indicating that they came from "the same place". It's revealed later on that Eka was a Cowboy Cop who betrayed the police force to join Bangun's syndicate. Eka repeats the same statement to Rama just before he dies.
• Not So Stoic: When Rama has Hammer Girl in position to kill her, Baseball Bat Man (her brother) loses his composure and begs him not to. Rama kills her anyway, leading Baseball Bat Man to snap and start attacking him recklessly.
• Oh, Crap!: A subtle one when Bejo orders his men to search for Rama and kill him, and his henchman sheepishly reports that Rama has already fought his way into the building.
• Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo: Unless you understand Indonesian. "Berandal" basically means "thug" or "hired goon", since that's Rama's new job in this movie.
• Old Cop, Young Cop: Bunawar is the old to Rama's young.
• One-Man Army: Rama, Prakoso, and Bejo's assassins.
• The Oner: An impressive example that involves a camera moving through a car which is currently speeding down a highway.
• Patricide: Uco killed Bangun.
• Pay Evil unto Evil:
  • Downplayed. Bunawar will go through extreme lengths just to root out every corruption within the precinct with just a gun.
  • At one point Bangun is so outraged with a particularly bad screwup from Uco that he smacks his son around a couple of times. Uco is a scumbag, no question, but it's an uncomfortable scene nonetheless, pointing to a possible reason why Uco is the way he is.
  • Bunawar killing Wahyu, as well. Wahyu's a hard guy to feel sorry for, but it's still a pretty shocking moment, and establishes Bunawar's moral ambiguity.
• The Pig-Pen: Prakoso, who lives in the streets and looks just as sleazy. Apparently a voluntary example, as most of his money goes to his estranged family and little to himself.
• Posthumous Character: Jaka and all of his squad (except Bowo and Rama) appear as dead bodies stacked in the police van.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Bangun prefers to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. Uco dismisses this as weakness.
• Product Placement: Rama's "Smartfren" phone card.
• Professional Killer: Prakoso and Bejo's assassins.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Hammer Girl and her brother Baseball Bat Man. According to supplementary material, they killed their abusive father and were taken in by the mob as children, which may explain their rather childlike behavior.
• Put on a Bus: Bowo leaves the film ten minutes in to recover from his injuries. In a deleted scene, he and his wife are murdered soon after.
• Punch Parry: A staple of the main martial art used in the film.
• Rasputinian Death:
  • The Assassin, who gets multiple cuts all over his body and is finally finished off with a slash pulling his larynx out.
  • Much like Mad Dog, it takes a lot to kill Prakoso. He fights off dozens of men and wins, stumbling out of the nightclub heavily wounded. Then the Assassin comes and finishes him.
  • Eka as well.
• Rated M for Manly: All of the fights, even the ones with Hammer Girl in them.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Rama and Uco. Rama is the stoic, patient one, while Uco is impulsive and jittery.
• Redemption Equals Death: Eka, who reveals himself to be a former undercover police officer, helps Rama escape from Bejo's men but dies soon afterward due to his wounds.
• The Reveal: Bejo is behind the failed assassination attempt on Uco in prison.
  • Also in-universe one, when Uco manages to figure out how he was played by Bejo near the end of the film.
• Rule of Cool: Why some of the characters don't die so quickly and why fights tend to go on longer than they should.
• Rugged Scar: Rama has a scar on his face from the first movie.
• Ruthless Foreign Gangsters:
  • The Japanese gang led by Goto in Indonesia. Bangun treats them very delicately. As far as we can see, though, they're not that bad, and the movie doesn't present them as any worse than Bangun's local crime syndicate, especially after Uco takes over.
  • Bejo, the primary villain, is explicitly stated to be half Arab.
• Sanity Slippage: Uco slowly goes over the edge as he crosses one line after another.
• Screaming Warrior: Similar to the first film where everyone is screaming to kill each other in all fight scenes but not as much as before.
• Serial Escalation: The scale of the story and action of this movie is much bigger than the first one.
• Self-Made Man: Bejo. Unlike Uco, his dad is just an ordinary working man.
• Sequel Escalation: The action is everything you love from the first movie and then some. It even extends to the cinematography, where the very first shot of the film is a far wider visual than anything from the first film.
• Shameful Strip: Rama is forced to take off his clothes in front of Uco and Bangun, in order to prove that he isn't wearing a wire. Rama is not happy at all about what happened, and and tells Lt. Bunawar as much.
• Shout-Out:
  • A sort-of-mobster storms the lair of an usurping crime boss, fighting his way through henchmen, getting injured, including a cut across his cheek, before killing the crime boss. He then slowly walks down stairs, clutching a wound at his abdomen, before saying a short, concise message to gathered criminals at the bottom. Are we talking about The Raid 2 or Cowboy Bebop?
  • The way Rama trains in prison (hitting a wall with the outline of a man written in chalk on it) is similar to that of the main character in Oldboy, which is by itself a Shout-Out to Riki-Oh.

• Sibling Team: Hammer Girl and Baseball Bat Man, obviously.
• Silent Antagonist: The Assassin, due to being the Voiceless. Hammer Girl too since she is deaf.
• Sliding Scale of Villain Threat: This film posthumously sets up Mad Dog from the first film as the most dangerous character in the series. It took both Andi and Rama to take down Mad Dog in the first film, while in this installment, the most dangerous villainous character is The Assassin, who Rama by himself outclasses in hand-to-hand before the karambits are taken out. Then again, Rama has been through a fair bit of training since the first film and Taken A Level In Badass.

• Snow Means Death: Prakoso dies under the falling snow in Jakarta.
• The Sociopath: Bejo, who sees everyone as a tool to further himself up the food chain and nothing more.
• Soft Glass: Played With. Glass breaks fairly easy, Rama kicks a man through a car window, and he and the assassins throw each other through glass walls. However, going through glass often results in people getting cut up and bloody by the shards.
• Sole Survivor: Assuming that the "Funeral" deleted scene is canon, Rama is the only survivor of the team that was involved in the events of the first film. Andi is executed by Bejo in the opening, and Bowo is killed (along with his wife) a short while later.
• The Speechless: Hammer Girl, who is incapable of talking.
• Spotting the Thread: When Uco sees a gang tattoo on Bejo's hand as the latter bends down to pick up his cane, he puts two-and-two together (remembering that Bejo had him execute the men who put the hit on him, who had the same tattoos) and realizes that Bejo tricked him into joining with him and killing his own father. This leads him to go Ax-Crazy during the final confrontation.
• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Andi is killed in the opening scene. Wahyu is killed not long thereafter. And, in the deleted scene, Bowo dies too.
• Super-Senses: One of Rama's main attributes (aside from his fighting skills) is his ability to discern key information incredibly quickly during tense situations. He immediately figures out that some of the inmates are going to try to kill Uco as soon as he sees one giving subtle glances to another prisoner. Later in the film, when he goes with Uco and Eko to the shakedown at the porn distributor, he realizes that one of the thugs has a shotgun hidden under the table as soon as his hands start to move.
• Sword Drag: It's not exactly a sword, but Baseball Bat Man does this in his first fight.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: You ask, "Wouldn't one shot/slash/punch to the throat be enough?" and the movie answers, "Nope."
• Took a Level in Badass: Rama was no doubt a badass, but he still had trouble fighting large numbers, and it took Andi's help to defeat Mad Dog. Here, he's even more badass. That retraining and two years in prison paid off.
• Tranquil Fury: Rama at the end, after having to leave Eka behind to die.

• Uncertain Doom: The film ends with a badly injured Rama facing down a score of armed Yakuza as the police are on their way, who ends a brief exchange with Keiichi saying, "No. I'm done." While Rama's chances look grim, we don't hear the rest of his and Keiichi's conversation, so it's left ambiguous if the Yakuza want to kill the man who effectively did their job for them.
• Underestimating Badassery: Bangun and Goto both don't make it a priority to deal with Bejo.
• Undying Loyalty: Prakoso, he served Bangun for thirty years and was still fighting for him until his death at the hands of the Assassin. He is also loyal to his family.
• Unorthodox Reload: During the car chase scene, Eka reloads his gun by putting it in his mouth and inserting the magazine, while at same time driving.
• Villain Respect: Goto's son, Keiichi, is impressed by Rama singlehandedly taking out Bejo, Reza, and all the henchmen protecting them. We can't actually hear Keiichi's question for Rama at the end of the movie, but it looks like he's offering him a job.
• The Voiceless: The Assassin never talks in the film.
• Weapon Specialization: Prakoso uses a machete, the Assassin wields a pair of karambits, and Hammer Girl and Baseball Bat Man use exactly the weapons you'd assume from their names.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Uco is constantly complaining that his father does not respect him enough to give him more authority in the organization.
• Wham Shot: Bejo having the same tattoo as the prisoner who was hell-bent on killing Uco.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Bunawar has Bowo (one of the surviving characters from the first film) taken off to have his injuries treated as soon as he meets the trio at the beginning of the film, with no further explanation as to the latter character's whereabouts or survival for the rest of the plot. There is a Deleted Scene where Bowo is executed by the crime syndicate, but it's unknown as to whether this is considered canon or not.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • When Rama is very nearly exposed due to Bunawar planting a wire in his clothing when he leaves the prison, he calls out the latter as soon as he has access to a clean phone.
  • Rama says the same thing to Bunawar later when he learns that Eka was a former cop who turned and decided to work for Bangun's crime syndicate. Would've been nice to know that earlier.
• The Worf Effect: The Assassin, in his first appearance, kills Prakoso quite quickly. He also knocks out Rama in a few hits in their first encounter.
• Worf Had the Flu:
  • Prakoso is already severely wounded when the Assassin catches up with him.
  • Rama for his part was too busy trying to attack Bejo that the Assassin kept blindsiding him. Interestingly averted in their second fight, where Rama wins despite being in worse shape than before.
• Would Hit a Girl:
  • Rama doesn't pull his punches against Hammer Girl. At all. Justified, of course.
  • Uco assaults a karaoke hostess when she takes offense to his insults.
• Your Head A-Splode: Bejo's face is nothing more than a bloodied cavern following a shotgun blast from Uco.

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