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* CoolGuns: Kersey's favored firearm in the third movie is the .475 Wildey Survivor.
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[[folder:Kersey Family]]

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[[folder:Kersey Family]]!!Kersey Family

[[folder:Paul Kersey]]




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[[folder:Carol Kersey]]




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!!!'''Played By:''' Kathleen Tolan (''Film/DeathWish'') & Robin Sherwood (''Film/DeathWishII'')




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[[folder:The Law]]

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[[folder:The Law]]!!The Law

[[folder:Frank Ochoa]]




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!!!'''Played By:''' Vincent Gardenia



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[[folder:Villains]]!!Villains

[[folder:Manny Fraker]]




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[[folder:Nathan White]]




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[[folder:Tommy O'Shea]]




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* PacifismBreakingPoint: He was a conscientious objector during UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar, but after his wife was murdered and his daughter brutally gang raped, he turns into a nighttime urban vigilante shooting criminals in the streets of New York and other cities.
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* RevolversAreJustBetter: His weapon of choice in the first film is a .32 caliber nickel Colt Police Positive revolver, and he uses another evolver in the final film.

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* RevolversAreJustBetter: His weapon of choice in the first film is a .32 caliber nickel Colt Police Positive revolver, and he uses another evolver revolver in the final film.
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* BerserkButton: While Kersey kills all crooks equally, he gives far worse punishments to rapists, muggers and drug addicts, all of whom were responsible for his greatest tragedies.

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* BerserkButton: While Kersey kills all crooks equally, he gives far worse punishments to rapists, muggers and drug addicts, addicts/dealers, all of whom were responsible for his greatest tragedies.
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* ManlyFacialHair: Charles Bronson's famous, manly mustache remains ever present on Paul through the series, even as it turns a salt and pepper shade.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: A more AntiHero example. Started out a mild mannered liberal pacifist and conscientious objector who didn't like guns, until the rape of his daughter, murder of his wife and incompetence of the New York police. This ends up setting him on an escalating trajectory to ultimately becoming the [[TheDreaded scourge of God]] against America's criminal underworld as a famous, legendary VigilanteMan waging a one man war on crime and inspiring others to do likewise.

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* FromNobodyToNightmare: A more AntiHero example. Started out a mild mannered liberal pacifist and conscientious objector who didn't like guns, until the rape of his daughter, murder of his wife and the incompetence of the New York police. This and a business trip to Arizona, being reintroduced to guns and offered another perspective on them, ends up setting him on an escalating trajectory to ultimately becoming the [[TheDreaded scourge of God]] against America's criminal underworld as a famous, legendary VigilanteMan waging a one man war on crime and inspiring others to do likewise.
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* TheDreaded: What he becomes over the course of the first film, making even high level criminals frightened of running into him.

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* TheDreaded: What he becomes over the course of the first film, and taken to ever growing heights in the sequels, making even high level criminals frightened of running into him.

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* TheDreaded: What he becomes over the course of the first film, making criminals frightened of running into him.

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* TheDreaded: What he becomes over the course of the first film, making even high level criminals frightened of running into him.him.
-->'''Fake Nathan White:''' "As long as Kersey's ''breathing'' he's dangerous!"
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: A more AntiHero example. Started out a mild mannered liberal pacifist and conscientious objector who didn't like guns, until the rape of his daughter and murder of his wife and incompetence of the New York police. This ends up setting him on an escalating trajectory to ultimately becoming the [[TheDreaded scourge of God]] against America's criminal underworld as a famous, legendary VigilanteMan waging a one man war on crime and inspiring others to do likewise.

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* FromNobodyToNightmare: A more AntiHero example. Started out a mild mannered liberal pacifist and conscientious objector who didn't like guns, until the rape of his daughter and daughter, murder of his wife and incompetence of the New York police. This ends up setting him on an escalating trajectory to ultimately becoming the [[TheDreaded scourge of God]] against America's criminal underworld as a famous, legendary VigilanteMan waging a one man war on crime and inspiring others to do likewise.

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