History Film / DeathWish4TheCrackdown

-->''Nathan White'': "I've been in Europe for the last three months!"

---> '''Ed Zacharias:''' I don't even know the girl!\\
---> '''[[PapaWolf Paul Kersey:]]''' [[PreMortemOneLiner I do.]] (Gives Zacharias a CoupDeGrace)

* BigBad: Nathan White.

* ForkliftFu: Reversed; Kersey rides around in a forklift shooting, then moves out of sight. The forklift then comes on a kamikaze course for the gang of thugs only for them to realise at the last minute it's just full of boxes instead this time.

* AFistfulOfRehashes: Variant: Kersey's plan of attack is to kill top members of both gangs in order to make the surviving leadership meet and discuss what to do... and so Kersey has a better shot at killing them all on one fell swoop. As mentioned on WhatMightHaveBeen, this movie had a more straight use of this trope on an early draft.
* AttemptedRape: In the beginning scene, a group of thugs try to sexually assault a woman in a parking lot, but Kersey appears just in time to prevent the deed.
* BittersweetEnding: It ends with Paul having killed the bastard who manipulated him into doing his dirty work, but having lost both his girlfriend--again--and her daughter in the bargain. What's especially bad is that despite the dangerous situation, it looks as though his girlfriend might make it, only to be killed off at literally the last minute. This could apply to ''all'' the films, as Paul emerges victorious, but inevitability loses someone he loves in the course of the story.

* DirtyCop: Phil Nozaki. He is a police detective who investigates the vigilante case. But he is revealed to be in the pocket of drug lord Ed Zacharias.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Frank Bauggs, a high-ranking gang member, faces Kerney and ends up falling from a building to his death.
* DreamIntro: The film starts with the vigilante protagonist offing two bad guys, only to discover that one of them has his face. Then he wakes up, and the implications of his dream are never brought up again.
* DrugsAreBad: Drugs play a big part.

-->'''White''': "I told you...I warned you I'd kill her! I warned you! I'd kill her..." [Paul fires a grenade which obliterates White]
* MayDecemberRomance: Charles Bronson (Paul Kersey) was 32 years older than Kay Lenz (Karen Sheldon)

* MoreDakka: Kersey uses a M16 with an M203.

-->'''Mugger:''' "Who the fuck are you?"\\
'''Paul Kersey:''' "Death."

-->'''Paul Kersey:''' "Do whatever you have to."

* TooDumbToLive: Similar to {{Tempting Fate}}, the fake Nathan White at the end proves to be this when he kills Kersey's girlfriend, and then fails to do a good job at not getting killed by taunting Kersey by saying that he had [[IWarnedYou warned him]]. [[WhatAnIdiot Rubbing it in]] after killing Kersey's girlfriend definitely was not going to make him put the gun down, and it was even dumber to say this while not at least firing at Kersey with the machine gun that's clearly aimed at him.

--> '''Nathan White:''' "As long as Kersey's ''breathing,'' he's dangerous."
* UnwittingPawn: Paul becomes one. He gets some much needed help in wiping two rival gangs who deal in drugs. But his benefactor ends up being the head of a third criminal faction. Kersey has unwittingly cleared up the way for his benefactor to take over their combined turfs.

* WretchedHive: A version of Los Angeles where organized crime controls the drug trade, relatively innocent youth die of overdoses, and the police features a mix of corruption and ineffectuality.

* TemptingFate: At the end, Kersey's [[CartwrightCurse girlfriend gets killed]], and all the fake [[BigBad Nathan White]] can say is that [[IWarnedYou he warned him that he would do it]]. It was not a smart thing to kill Kersey's girlfriend and then [[TooDumbToLive rub it in his face by saying that he had warned him he would kill her]]. It was even dumber to say this while not at least firing at Kersey with the machine gun that's clearly aimed at him. [[LudicrousGibs You can guess what Kersey does next]].
* TooDumbToLive: Similar to {{Tempting Fate}}, the fake Nathan White at the end proves to be this when he kills Kersey's girlfriend, and then fails to do a good job at not getting killed by taunting Kersey by saying that he had [[IWarnedYou warned him]]. [[WhatAnIdiot Rubbing it in]] after killing Kersey's girlfriend definitely was not going to make him put the gun down.
** He really should have known better, I mean this is the guy who said:

* TemptingFate: At the end, Kersey's [[CartwrightCurse girlfriend gets killed]], and all the fake [[BigBad Nathan White]] can say is that [[IWarnedYou he warned him that he would do it]]. It was not a smart thing to kill Kersey's girlfriend and then [[TooDumbToLive rub it in his face by saying that he had warned him he would kill her]]. [[LudicrousGibs You can guess what Kersey does next]].

--> '''Nathan White:''' As long as Kersey's ''breathing,'' he's dangerous.

Kersey returns to Los Angeles. The vigilante is unleashed again after the daughter of Paul Kersey's current girlfriend dies of a cocaine overdose, and her boyfriend is brutally stabbed by the pusher who sold her the coke. After gunning down the pusher, Kersey is approached by a publisher who knows of the guy's death and wants to hire him to wipe out the drug trade by taking down two drug gangs. Kersey does what he does best and blasts both gangs to hell, but is betrayed by the publisher, who it turns out is actually an ambitious drug dealer under a false identity who is seeking to take over the local drug business and has tricked him into doing the dirty work for him. Kersey's girlfriend is kidnapped by the BigBad's men, and the stage is set for a final showdown.

Kersey returns to Los Angeles. The vigilante is unleashed again after the daughter of Paul Kersey's current girlfriend dies of a crack overdose, and her boyfriend is gunned down by the pusher who sold her the crack. After gunning down the pusher, Kersey is approached by a publisher who knows of the guy's death and wants to hire him to wipe out the drug trade by taking down two drug gangs. Kersey does what he does best and blasts both gangs to hell, but is betrayed by the publisher, who it turns out is actually an ambitious drug dealer under a false identity who is seeking to take over the local drug business and has tricked him into doing the dirty work for him. Kersey's girlfriend is kidnapped by the BigBad's men, and the stage is set for a final showdown.

* AttemptedRape: In the beginning scene, a group of thugs try to sexually assault a woman in a parking lot, but Kersey appears just in time to prevent the deed.

* AFistfulOfRehashes: Variant: Kersey's plan of attack is to kill top members of both gangs in order to make the surviving leadership meet and discuss what to do... and so Kersey kills them all.

%%* DirtyCop: Phil Nozaki
%%* DisneyVillainDeath: Bauggs.

* WretchedHive

* SequelEscalation

%%* UnwittingPawn: Paul becomes one.

''Death Wish 4: The Crackdown'' (1987) is a movie in the ''Film/DeathWish'' series starring Creator/CharlesBronson.

* UnwittingPawn: Paul becomes one.