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* CoolGuns: Giulio and his cohorts wield [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sten STEN MK II]] submachine guns. Grandi carries a police-issue [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beretta_M1951 Beretta M1951]].



* VillainProtagonist: Giulio has little-or-no redeeming colleagues, and any sympathy the audience may have for him has vanished by the time he's [[spoiler:raped and murdered an entire family for kicks.]]

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* VillainProtagonist: Giulio has little-or-no redeeming colleagues, and any sympathy the audience may have for him has vanished by the time he's [[spoiler:raped and murdered an entire family for kicks.]]]]
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* NeverTrustATrailer: The American promotional campaign inexplicably tried to pitch the film as a horror movie.

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* NeverTrustATrailer: The 1980 American promotional campaign inexplicably tried to pitch the film as a horror movie.movie, with the tagline ''"There is a reason for every living creature... with one exception"'', and [[https://flxt.tmsimg.com/assets/p97055_p_v8_aa.jpg a bizarre rendering of Giulio with green skin and bulging, slitted eyes]].

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* UrbanHellscape: Milan is a gray, perpetually-overcast crime-ridden hellscape where murder, kidnapping, and robberies are everyday occurrences. TruthInTelevision, at least at the time.
* WouldHarmAChild: Giulio [[spoiler:shoots a child through a closed door.]] To be fair, it's a spur-of-the-moment reaction, and even he seems disgusted with himself afterward, the only time he shows any regret for his actions.
* VillainousBreakdown: Giulio has one whenever he gets called out or doesn't get his way.

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* UrbanHellscape: Milan is a gray, perpetually-overcast crime-ridden perpetually-overcast, crime-riddled hellscape where murder, kidnapping, and robberies are everyday occurrences. occurrences.
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TruthInTelevision, at least at the time.
time, when Milan had one of the highest ''per capita'' crime rates in Europe.
* WouldHarmAChild: Giulio [[spoiler:shoots a child through a closed door.]] To be fair, it's a spur-of-the-moment reaction, and even he seems disgusted with himself afterward, afterward. It's the only time he shows any regret for his actions.
* VillainousBreakdown: Like a petulant child, Giulio has one whenever he gets called out or doesn't get his way.
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* WouldHarmAChild: Giulio [[spoiler:shoots a child through a closed door.]] To be fair, it's a spur-of-the-moment reaction, and even he seems disgusted with himself afterward.

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* WouldHarmAChild: Giulio [[spoiler:shoots a child through a closed door.]] To be fair, it's a spur-of-the-moment reaction, and even he seems disgusted with himself afterward.afterward, the only time he shows any regret for his actions.
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* WouldHarmAChild: Giulio [[spoiler:shoots a child through a closed door.]] To be fair, it's shown to be an spur-of-the-moment reaction, and even he seems disgusted with himself afterward.

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* WouldHarmAChild: Giulio [[spoiler:shoots a child through a closed door.]] To be fair, it's shown to be an a spur-of-the-moment reaction, and even he seems disgusted with himself afterward.
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* WouldHarmAChild: Giulio [[spoiler:machine-guns a child through a closed door.]] To be fair, it's shown to be an spur-of-the-moment reaction, and even he seems disgusted with himself afterward.

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* WouldHarmAChild: Giulio [[spoiler:machine-guns [[spoiler:shoots a child through a closed door.]] To be fair, it's shown to be an spur-of-the-moment reaction, and even he seems disgusted with himself afterward.
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* FanDisservice: Topless women in an Italian exploitation movie? A-okay. Said women being tortured, raped, and hung from a chandelier only to be machine-gunned to death in a drug-induced rage? Not so much.

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* FanDisservice: Topless women in an Italian exploitation movie? A-okay. Said women being tortured, raped, and hung from a chandelier only to be chandelier, and machine-gunned to death in by a drug-induced rage? drug-fueled psychopath? Not so much.

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