History Film / Colombiana

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

* BadassMustache: Marshall Warren, whose arriving to transfer the first person we see Catelyna kill.

* DirtyCoward: Don Luis just quakes and trembles as he fears Catelyna kill his men.

* GenreSavvy: Catelyna's father quickly realizes that Don Luis is [[ResignationsNotAccepted going to try to have him killed after seemingly giving him permission to quit]] because Don Luis was being far too calm about such a significant and somewhat insulting request from one of his men.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Cutting to the outside of the van, [[spoiler: which is rocking back and forth as Cataleya's dogs eat the cartel head]]

* HeroesLoveDogs

* ImpaledPalm

* 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 movment, it tells the FBI exactly where she is.

* NotStayingForBreakfast

* 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.]]

** Her uncle Emilio apparently went on one of his own after his son was killed, and admits that VengeanceFeelsEmpty.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: A friend of Danny's trying to help him find out more about Catelyna to further their romance sends her picture to a relative who works in a police station to find out more about her. Her photo going through the database alerts Ross and blows her cover.

''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 are 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.

** Her uncle Emilio apparently went on one of his own after his son was killed, and admits that RevengeFeelsEmpty.

* 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, send an RPG round through the front door and storms the place guns blazing.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: A friend of Danny's trying to help him find out more about Catelyna to further their romance sends her picture to a relative who works in a police station to find out more about her. Her phot going through the database alerts Ross and blows her cover.

* 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''.

* 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 mentor Leon, 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''.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The movie began life as a sequel to ''Leon Film/TheProfessional'' and mainly centered around a grown up Mathilda Lando, 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''.

* SympatheticInvestigatorAntagonist: Ross and his team.

** It isn't that no one cares. It was that a 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.

* SpiritualSequel: Apparently, the movie began life as a sequel to ''Leon Film/TheProfessional'' and mainly centered around Mathilda, but was changed into something else over the years. The changes came about presumably because [[WordOfGod Natalie Portman would have cost too much to hire]].

* DesignatedLoveInterest: Danny

* SolemnEndingTheme: Music/JohnnyCash's cover of [[Music/NineInchNails "Hurt"]] plays over the end credits.

''Colombiana'' is a 2011 action movie starring Creator/ZoeSaldana, written and produced by Luc Besson. The film follows Cataleya Restrepo, daughter of a member of a Colombian cartel. Her parents are 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.

* ArcWords: "Never forget...Never forget where you came from."

''Colombiana'' is a 2011 action movie starring ZoeSaldana, written and produced by Luc Besson. The film follows Cataleya Restrepo, daughter of a member of a Colombian cartel. Her parents are 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.

* AnachronismStew: 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...

* CaliforniaDoubling: The scene in which the cop car gets crashed into was filmed in Metairie, LA, a suburb of New Orleans. This occurs seconds after the message flashes on the screen, "[[InvertedTrope Los Angeles]], present day."

* AnachronismStew: SD cards and ''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...

* {{Badass}}: Cataleya.

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

* AntiHero: Cataleya herself.

* ActionGirl: Cataleya herself.

* KarmaHoudini: Cataleya.

* KickTheDog: Cataleya does this by killing a gangster and framing a police guard for it.