History Film / Colombiana

& BathroomBreakOut: After the FBI fly her to the US in exchange for the information her father gave her, Cataleya gives them the slip by pretending she needs the bathroom. By the time the agent who was escorting her realises she's taking too long and goes to check on her, she's already long gone.

* AgeAppropriateAngst: Young Cataleya, after watching her parents killed in front of her, sheds a single tear. She doesn't really cry until much later when she gets to Tio Emilio. {{Justified}} in that she had other things to worry about at the moment. Years later though, Cataleya breaks into sobs immediately after seeing her grandmother's body.
* AntiHero: Cataleya herself is either a Type IV or a Type V, being a professional assassin, albeit one with sympathetic motivations.
* ArcWords: "Never forget... Never forget where you came from."

** SD cards and ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' did not exist in 1992. But since it would have been harder to explain to viewers who [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] is, as well as try to find a way to get Cataleya to eat a CD...

* {{BFG}}: Try a Blaser R93 Sniper Rifle.

* CallBack:
** Emilio, in his EstablishingCharacterMoment, is seen beating a man to death. [[spoiler: Cataleya finds his body with evidence that he too suffered the same fate.]]
** When Cataleya feeds the dogs early in the movie, they didn't move to eat until she commands them to "eat." [[spoiler: Later, she feeds Sandoval to them.]]

* TheCartel: Cataleya declares war on them after they kill her family.
%%* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Cataleya's dogs, who eat the cartel head.]]
%%* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:Eating on cue.]]
%%* CombatPragmatist: Cataleya. Then again, these are bad guys that WouldHitAGirl.

%%* DangerTakesABackSeat
%%* TheDeterminator: Cataleya, and she stays one for more than 15 years!

* DramaticDrop: Cataleya drops her pistol when she sees Emilio's body.

* FanserviceExtra: Willie, the Ponzi scheme guy, has a PaidHarem of four lingerie-clad women. Subverted in that it's played for FanDisservice as he's an overweight, middle-aged man.

%%* GirlsWithGuns
* GoryDiscretionShot: Cutting to the outside of the van, [[spoiler: which is rocking back and forth as Cataleya's dogs eat the cartel head.]]
%%* HeroAntagonist: The FBI and the police.
%%* HeroesLoveDogs: And they make for good [[remote-trigger cartel boss killers, too.]]
%%%* HollywoodSilencer

* ImprovisedWeapon: The climax manages to do this with a towel and toothbrushes. And it's awesome.
* InsecurityCamera: PlayedStraight in her first hit, as she's trying to frame a guard. Subverted later, since when she shoots out some cameras to hide her movement, it tells the FBI exactly where she is.

* LaserSight: The red dot helps to let the target know she's not bluffing.

* MsFanservice: Cataleya. Just count the number of times she's naked, partially naked, wet or wearing skintight clothing.
%%* NobleDemon: Cataleya is one.
* NotStayingForBreakfast: Cataleya always leaves her boyfriend Delaney early on the mornings after they have sex.

** With a healthy side of MoreDakka and a light garnishing of GunsAkimbo. Taken up to eleven after her last remaining relatives are killed. She dispenses with her ninja tactics, sends an RPG round through the front door and storms the place guns blazing.

%%* SmallGirlBigGun: Especially that giant sniper rifle.

%%* SpyCatsuit: The prison sequence.

%%* UnscrupulousHero: Cataleya.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Emilio, in an attempt to scare Cataleya [[spoiler: out of wanting to be an assassin, casually pulls out a gun and takes potshots at a passing car. In broad daylight. In the middle of Chicago. ''In front of a school.'']] ''No one'' cares that he did this.
%%Which is it? This entry shouldn't talk to itself.** It isn't that no one cares. It was that shooting in such a situation was so unexpected that Emilio and Cataleya went unnoticed in the resulting chaos. He waited until no one was watching them to start shooting and then acted completely casual as they were leaving.

* WaifFu: [[spoiler: Cataleya does plenty of this against TheDragon.]]

%%* AntiHero: Cataleya herself is either a Type IV or a Type V.

%%** Danny's phone is an iPhone 3G.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The movie began life as a sequel to ''[[Film/TheProfessional Leon: The Professional]]'' and mainly centered around a grown-up Mathilda Lando becoming a "cleaner" much like her deceased mentor Leon Montana as well as [[CanonWelding being set in the same universe]] as ''[[Film/{{Nikita}} La Femme Nikita]]'', but was changed into something else over the years due to Gaumont holding the intellectual rights to the property and Luc Besson leaving the company after the failure of 1998's ''Film/TheMessengerTheStoryOfJoanOfArc''.

* AirVentPassageway: Cateleya sneaks through the ventilation system of the jail to get to her target. Somewhat subverted, as despite her slender frame the vents are still claustrophobically small and she has to improvise a way past a fan. Later, she uses the vents in her building to escape the FBI raid on her house.

* AssholeVictim: Ross notes that all of Catelyna's victims are scumbag criminals.

''Colombiana'' is a 2011 action movie starring Creator/ZoeSaldana, written and produced by Creator/LucBesson. The film follows Cataleya Restrepo, daughter of a member of a Colombian cartel. Her parents were killed when she was 9, forcing her to flee to Chicago to live with her uncle. Using her uncle's tutelage and own intelligence, Cataleya becomes a beautiful and deadly assassin driven by vengeance for her parents' deaths.

* FiveFiveFive: Delaney's mobile number shown while it's being traced.

* AssholeVictim: Ross notes that all of Catelynas victims are scumbag criminals.

* PreciousPhoto: Emilio has one of his brother's (Cataleya's father) family. After passing it on to Cataleya, she treasures it a well.

* ProperlyParanoid: Cataleya empties the guns her target might use, searches an FBI agent's house for hidden cameras, and seems to have planned an air-vent escape from her apartment if it's ever raided.

** Her uncle Emilio apparently went on one of his own after his son was killed, and admits that [[VengeanceFeelsEmpty it did nothing for his grief.]]

* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks: [[spoiler:Cataleya offs a sleazy businessman (who got away with a huge Ponzi scheme) by dumping him in his own SharkPool.]]

* JustAStupidAccent[=/=]TranslationConvention: The Hispanic actors hardly ever speak Spanish, even in the scenes in Colombia, but they do make sure to pronounce Spanish words correctly.

* AirVentPassageway: Cateleya sneaks through the ventilation system of the jail to get to her target. Somewhat subverted, as the vents are claustrophobically small and she has to improvise a way past a fan. Later, she uses the vents in her building to escape the FBI raid on her house.

* FanserviceExtra: Willie, the Ponzi scheme guy, has a PaidHarem of four lingerie-clad women.

** With a healthy side of MoreDakka and a light garnishing of GunsAkimbo. Taken UpToEleven after her last remaining relatives are killed. She dispenses with her ninja tactics, sends an RPG round through the front door and storms the place guns blazing.

** SD cards and ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' did not exist in 1992. But since it would have been harder to explain to viewers who [[StreetFighter Chun-Li]] is, as well as try to find a way to get Cataleya to eat a CD...

* CIAEvilFBIGood: Agent Ross of the FBI continually comes to grips against Agent Williams of the CIA, who is actively stonewalling Ross' investigation to prevent him from discovering Agency's ties to the cartel boss who killed Cataleya's parents.

* PantsPositiveSafety: A nice bit of {{fanservice}} with Cataleya dancing in her apartment with a Beretta Storm shoved in the back of her [[WhoWearsShortShorts short shorts]]. Followed by a ShowerScene and OralFixation.

* NotStayingForBreakfast: She always leaves her "boyfriend" Delaney early in the morning.

* ProperlyParanoid: Cateleya empties the guns her target might use, searches an FBI agent's house for hidden cameras, and seems to have planned an air-vent escape from her apartment if it's ever raided.

* LittleMissBadass: Cataleya already showed extreme skills as a 9 year old, pinning a gangster's hand to the table then escaping his well-armed associates through LeParkour. She grew up to be quite the lovely ActionGirl assassin, too.

%%* Action Girl: Cataleya herself.
%%** Her mother Alicia knows how to handle {{BFG}} as well.

* AntiHero: Cataleya herself is either a Type IV or a Type V.

** Danny's phone is an iPhone 3G.

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Cataleya's dogs, who eat the cartel head]]
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:Eating on cue.]]

* CombatPragmatist: Cataleya. Then again, these are bad guys that WouldHitAGirl.

* DangerTakesABackSeat
* TheDeterminator: Cataleya, and she stays one for more than 15 years!

* TheDragon: Marco

* FlowerMotif: The "Cataleya" orchid. (also "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurothallis Colombiana]]" is a real kind of orchid).

* GirlsWithGuns

* HeroAntagonist: The FBI and the police.
* HeroesLoveDogs: And they make for good [[remote-trigger cartel boss killers, too.]]
* HollywoodSilencer

* LittleMissBadass: And she grew up to be quite the lovely ActionGirl, too.

* NobleDemon: Cataleya is one.

* PetTheDog: Cataleya looks to be going into DeathSeeker territory after they kill the last of her family, until she realises her dogs are family too, and brings them along. [[spoiler: They get a part in the action too.]]

* ProfessionalKiller: Cataleya.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: With a healthy side of MoreDakka and a light garnishing of GunsAkimbo. Taken UpToEleven after her last remaining relatives are killed. She dispenses with her ninja tactics, sends an RPG round through the front door and storms the place guns blazing.

* SmallGirlBigGun: Especially that giant sniper rifle.

* SpyCatsuit: The prison sequence.

* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Ross and his team.
* TemptingFate: On seeing a laser dot on his chest, the CIA JerkAss boasts that the window is armoured against a direct hit from a 57mm shell. Cue warning shot fired through the glass. Damn these government contractors...
* UnscrupulousHero: Cataleya.

** It isn't that no one cares. It was that shooting in such a situation was so unexpected that Emilio and Cataleya went unnoticed in the resulting chaos. He waited until no one was watching them to start shooting and then acted completely casual as they were leaving.