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* {{Narm}}: The UFC audience is depicted as chanting "kapow!" to a beat, even after SID throws a man to his death, gets his fingers blown off by a shotgun, and later [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight leaps into the UFC octagon with superhuman ability]].

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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: When SID hijacks a televised debate, he rips the nametag patch off the maintenance uniform he stole and replaces it with one with his own name, with no explanation as to how he got it.

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** SID jumps into the UFC octagon and manages to freak out Wrestling/KenShamrock out of all people by showing him his disfigured hand while laughing.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Sid standing in the middle of the Ultimate Fighting Championship ring with his arms raised above his head becomes a lot funnier when five years later Creator/RussellCrowe found himself in a similar scene in ''Film/{{Gladiator}}''. The only thing missing is Sid/Crowe yelling "Are You Not Entertained?!"

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** Creator/RussellCrowe and Creator/KevinJOConnor both later appeared in modern remakes of ''Film/TheMummy1932''. Connor, who plays Clyde, the poor bloke who gets his neck broken by Sid, would four years later after appearing in this movie play Beni Gabor in ''Film/TheMummy1999'', while Crowe, who plays Sid, would later appear in ''Film/TheMummy2017'' as Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde (the latter of the infamous SplitPersonality MadDoctor from Creator/RobertLouisStevenson's [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde book]] would share similarities with Sid from this film).
** Originally, Creator/RobertDowneyJr was supposed to play Sid until Creator/RussellCrowe replaces him, thirteen years later, Downey would later helm the Academy Award-nominated role of method actor Kirk Lazarus, which is said that Crowe was one of the inspirations behind him, in ''Film/TropicThunder''.

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** Creator/RussellCrowe Russell Crowe and Creator/KevinJOConnor both later appeared in modern remakes of ''Film/TheMummy1932''. Connor, who plays Clyde, the poor bloke who gets his neck broken by Sid, would four years later after appearing in this movie play Beni Gabor in ''Film/TheMummy1999'', while Crowe, who plays Sid, would later appear in ''Film/TheMummy2017'' as Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde (the latter of the infamous SplitPersonality MadDoctor from Creator/RobertLouisStevenson's [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde book]] would share similarities with Sid from this film).
** Originally, Creator/RobertDowneyJr was supposed to play Sid until Creator/RussellCrowe Russell Crowe replaces him, thirteen years later, Downey would later helm the Academy Award-nominated role of method actor Kirk Lazarus, which is said that Crowe was one of the inspirations behind him, in ''Film/TropicThunder''.''Film/TropicThunder''.
** Crowe and Washington would later star in ''Film/AmericanGangster'', only with Crowe as the hero and Washington playing the villain.
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* MemeticMutation: Sidson[[labelnote:Explanation]]A Soyjak variant created by Creator/VinluvHandesbukia which was based on a frame of SID 6.7 with a strange expression.[[/labelnote]]

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* MemeticMutation: Sidson[[labelnote:Explanation]]A Sidson [[labelnote:Explanation]]A Soyjak variant created by Creator/VinluvHandesbukia which was based on a frame of SID 6.7 with a strange expression.[[/labelnote]]
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* MemeticMutation: Sidson[[labelnote:Explanation]]A Soyjak variant created by Creator/VinluvHandesbukia which was based on a frame of SID 6.7 with a strange expression.[[/labelnote]]
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* FoeYay: Sid really likes committing crimes more when Parker is the one trying to stop him.
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** The oddly [[SoundtrackDissonance dissonant]] grunge rock song that plays when Barnes escapes from the prison truck.

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** The oddly [[SoundtrackDissonance dissonant]] grunge rock song song[[note]]"White Discussion" by Music/{{Live}}[[/note]] that plays when Barnes escapes from the prison truck.
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* CompleteMonster: [[FameThroughInfamy Matthew Grimes]], while still alive, was an attention-seeking political [[WesternTerrorists terrorist]], known for [[MadBomber bombing populated areas]]. Developing an obsession with police officer Parker Barnes, Grimes [[IHaveYourWife took his wife and daughter hostage]] in a kidnapping that killed them both before Parker shot him dead. Uploaded as one of the psychopathic personalities in the [[DigitalAbomination SID 6.7 program]], Grimes' influence returns to influence SID to take a nightclub hostage, terrifying and killing patrons at his leisure, before aiming to climb higher and higher in infamy while taking every opportunity to continue tormenting Parker.

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* CompleteMonster: [[FameThroughInfamy Matthew Grimes]], while still alive, was an attention-seeking political [[WesternTerrorists terrorist]], known for [[MadBomber bombing populated areas]]. Developing an obsession with police officer Parker Barnes, Grimes [[IHaveYourWife took his wife and daughter hostage]] in a kidnapping that killed them both before Parker shot him dead. Uploaded as one of the psychopathic personalities in the [[DigitalAbomination SID 6.7 program]], Grimes' influence returns to influence causes SID to take a nightclub hostage, terrifying and killing patrons at his leisure, before aiming to climb higher and higher in infamy while taking every opportunity to continue tormenting Parker.

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* CompleteMonster: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr.]] Darrel Lindenmeyer created [[BigBad SID 6.7]] to serve as a training program for the act of taking down criminals. After SID ([[FunWithAcronyms Sadistic, Intelligent, Dangerous]]) overwrites the failsafe and causes a person using the training program to die, people decide to shut SID down. Unwilling to let his work be shut down, Lindenmeyer brings SID into the real world and allows him to go on a murderous rampage throughout the city. Lindenmeyer watches SID's rampage on the news, and is impressed at SID's crimes. When SID kidnaps Dr. Madison Carter's daughter, Karin, and straps a bomb to her, Lindenmeyer taunts Madison. When [[TheHero Lt. Parker Barnes]] destroys SID's physical body, Lindenmeyer mocks Barnes over the fact that there is no one who can reveal Karin's location before the bomb detonates. When Barnes and Madison send SID's AI back into the virtual world to try and get information from him, Lindenmeyer kills Barnes's friend, Cochran, and traps Barnes in the virtual world, leaving him to be killed by SID and Karin to be [[WouldHurtAChild killed]] when the bomb goes off.

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* CompleteMonster: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr.]] Darrel Lindenmeyer created [[BigBad [[FameThroughInfamy Matthew Grimes]], while still alive, was an attention-seeking political [[WesternTerrorists terrorist]], known for [[MadBomber bombing populated areas]]. Developing an obsession with police officer Parker Barnes, Grimes [[IHaveYourWife took his wife and daughter hostage]] in a kidnapping that killed them both before Parker shot him dead. Uploaded as one of the psychopathic personalities in the [[DigitalAbomination SID 6.7]] 7 program]], Grimes' influence returns to serve as influence SID to take a training program for the act of nightclub hostage, terrifying and killing patrons at his leisure, before aiming to climb higher and higher in infamy while taking down criminals. After SID ([[FunWithAcronyms Sadistic, Intelligent, Dangerous]]) overwrites the failsafe and causes a person using the training program every opportunity to die, people decide to shut SID down. Unwilling to let his work be shut down, Lindenmeyer brings SID into the real world and allows him to go on a murderous rampage throughout the city. Lindenmeyer watches SID's rampage on the news, and is impressed at SID's crimes. When SID kidnaps Dr. Madison Carter's daughter, Karin, and straps a bomb to her, Lindenmeyer taunts Madison. When [[TheHero Lt. Parker Barnes]] destroys SID's physical body, Lindenmeyer mocks Barnes over the fact that there is no one who can reveal Karin's location before the bomb detonates. When Barnes and Madison send SID's AI back into the virtual world to try and get information from him, Lindenmeyer kills Barnes's friend, Cochran, and traps Barnes in the virtual world, leaving him to be killed by SID and Karin to be [[WouldHurtAChild killed]] when the bomb goes off.continue tormenting Parker.
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* MoralEventHorizon: To prove how [[CompleteMonster irredeemably evil he really is]], Lindemeyer crosses this when he sends SID 6.7 to the real world, who then snaps Clyde's neck.

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* MoralEventHorizon: To prove how [[CompleteMonster irredeemably evil he really is]], Lindemeyer crosses this it when he sends SID 6.7 to the real world, who then snaps Clyde's neck.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The computer graphics used to create SID are very dated.
** SID wears a very baggy, double-breasted suit and round tea shades, all fashion trends that died in the 90s.
** Barnes needs to explain what an emoticon is. In the film, it's because they fell out of favor by 1999, but in the real world, it's because the filmmakers didn't trust everyone in the audience to know what they are.
*** This happens with most of the internet/computer references. Clearly the filmmakers largely expected internet culture to stagnate or even die out like a fad, as was a prevalent belief in the eighties and early nineties. There's zero effort to imagine it as having flourished and become ubiquitous.
** The film's version of the UFC is very inaccurate and sensationalized, obviously coming from the "dark age" of UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts when the sport was considered an unsavory, underground spectacle and not widely understood.
** The oddly [[SoundtrackDissonance dissonant]] grunge rock song that plays when Barnes escapes from the prison truck.
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** Creator/RussellCrowe and Kevin J O’Connor both later appeared in modern remakes of ''Film/TheMummy1932''. Connor, who plays Clyde, the poor bloke who gets his neck broken by Sid, would four years later after appearing in this movie play Beni Gabor in ''Film/TheMummy1999'', while Crowe, who plays Sid, would later appear in ''Film/TheMummy2017'' as Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde (the latter of the infamous SplitPersonality MadDoctor from Creator/RobertLouisStevenson's [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde book]] would share similarities with Sid from this film).

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** Creator/RussellCrowe and Kevin J O’Connor Creator/KevinJOConnor both later appeared in modern remakes of ''Film/TheMummy1932''. Connor, who plays Clyde, the poor bloke who gets his neck broken by Sid, would four years later after appearing in this movie play Beni Gabor in ''Film/TheMummy1999'', while Crowe, who plays Sid, would later appear in ''Film/TheMummy2017'' as Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde (the latter of the infamous SplitPersonality MadDoctor from Creator/RobertLouisStevenson's [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde book]] would share similarities with Sid from this film).
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** During rooftop fight Parker keeps asking SID "where is the girl?" and years later [[Film/LAConfidential Crowe's character]] would do the same thing.

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* SpiritualAdaptation: This film would be the closest thing to an ActionizedSequel to Creator/WesCraven's ''Film/{{Shocker}}'', as SID shared some traits with Horace Pinker and the last time Pinker was seen, he was trapped in the TV world and SID escaping from the VR world to commit serial killings in the real world felt like a transposal of Pinker escaping from the TV world to do the same thing.

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This film would be the closest thing to an ActionizedSequel to Creator/WesCraven's ''Film/{{Shocker}}'', as SID shared some traits with Horace Pinker and the last time Pinker was seen, he was trapped in the TV world and SID escaping from the VR world to commit serial killings in the real world felt like a transposal of Pinker escaping from the TV world to do the same thing.thing.
** Due to the Film/DarkUniverse becoming a StillbornFranchise thanks to the poor reception of ''Film/TheMummy2017'', this film is retroactively the closest anyone would get to fill the void of seeing a spin-off that follows Creator/RussellCrowe's Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde whom the latter shared similarities with SID not to mention Crowe's penchant for EvilIsHammy in those AxCrazy roles.
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** Creator/RussellCrowe and Kevin J O’Connor both later appeared in modern remakes of ''Film/TheMummy1932''. Connor, who plays Clyde, the poor bloke who gets his neck broken by TheHeavy Sid, would four years later after appearing in this movie play Beni Gabor in ''Film/TheMummy1999'', while Crowe, who plays Sid, would later appear in ''Film/TheMummy2017'' as Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde (the latter of the infamous SplitPersonality MadDoctor from Creator/RobertLouisStevenson's [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde book]] would share similarities with Sid from this film).

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** Creator/RussellCrowe and Kevin J O’Connor both later appeared in modern remakes of ''Film/TheMummy1932''. Connor, who plays Clyde, the poor bloke who gets his neck broken by TheHeavy Sid, would four years later after appearing in this movie play Beni Gabor in ''Film/TheMummy1999'', while Crowe, who plays Sid, would later appear in ''Film/TheMummy2017'' as Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde (the latter of the infamous SplitPersonality MadDoctor from Creator/RobertLouisStevenson's [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde book]] would share similarities with Sid from this film).
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** Originally, Creator/RobertDowneyJr was supposed to play Sid until Creator/RussellCrowe replaces him, thirteen years later, Downey would later helm the Academy Award-nominated role of method actor Kirk Lazarus, which is said that Crowe was one of the inspirations behind him, in ''Film/TropicThunder''.

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** Creator/RussellCrowe and Kevin J O’Connor both later appeared in modern remakes of ''Film/TheMummy1932''. Connor, who plays Clyde, the poor bloke who gets his neck broken by TheHeavy Sid, would four years later after appearing in this movie play Beni Gabor in ''Film/TheMummy1999'', while Crowe, who plays Sid, would later appear in ''Film/TheMummy2017'' as Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde (the latter of the infamous SplitPersonality MadDoctor from Creator/RobertLouisStevenson's [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde book]] would share similarities with Sid from this film).



** "Matthew Grimes" is one of those actors who's been in everything, most notably as Dean Rivers in ''Series/{{Zoey 101}}''.

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** "Matthew Grimes" is one of those actors who's been in everything, most notably as Dean Rivers in ''Series/{{Zoey 101}}''.101}}'' (which happens to be owned by Creator/{{Paramount}} who distributes this movie).

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