History Film / DeathstalkerIIDuelOfTheTitans

* DenserAndWackier: This film takes itself the least seriously in the series, preserving the typical fantasy adventures while also embracing the goofy cheese the series would be known. The titular Deathstalker is less of a [[TheStoic stoic]] BarbarianHero and more of a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] LoveableRogue, and the script has plenty of one-liners and anachronistic [[ShoutOut references]] to go around.

* KillAndReplace: A secondhand version is attempted as part of Jarek's plot to replace Princess Evie with a clone loyal to her. He can't kill the original immediately since [[{{Synchronization}} that would destroy the clone]], but around the third act, he creates a potion that severs the link. Fortunately, this allows the real Evie to get the drop on her clone.

* ButNowIMustGo: Sultana leaves partway through the final battle. Literally, she tells Jarek that she's done working for him and just walks out of the castle. Reportedly, the actress playing Sultana had an earlier flight than the rest of the American cast and they couldn't think of any other way to get her out of the movie without killing her (which they had already done once!) so they just decided to let her get fed up and leave. [[RuleOfFunny Because it's funny!]]

** The Amazons have a modern wrestling ring and - for some reason - ring girls with clearly printed cards for announcing the rounds.

* AttemptedRape: Reena has to be rescued twice from being raped, first by Deathstalker and then by the Amazons.

* BarBrawl: One breaks out in a tavern when Deathstalker punches out a soldier who's slapping Reena around

* ButNowIMustGo:
** Sultana leaves partway through the final battle. Literally, she tells Jarek that she's done working for him and just walks out of the castle.
** WordOfGod has it that the actress playing Sultana had an earlier flight than the rest of the American cast and they couldn't think of any other way to get her out of the movie without killing her (which they had already done once!) so they just decided to let her get fed up and leave. [[RuleOfFunny Because it's funny!]]

-->'''Reena The Seer:''' In my kingdom, a man would delight to know that his wife was with child!

* TheCavalry: When Reena and Deathstalker are surrounded by the enemy army, the Amazons arrive to even odds and to do final battle.

* CrystalBall: Evie does have a crystal she uses to see the future, but it's not a perfect sphere (actually, WordOfGod says that it was a crystalline doorknob).

* DarkChick: Sultana, who aided in Jarek to overthrow Reena, and wants revenge on Deathstalker for stealing her stuff.
* DenserAndWackier: This film takes itself the least seriously in the series, preserving the typical fantasy adventures while also embracing the [[NarmCharm goofy cheese]] the series would be known. The titular Deathstalker is less of a [[TheStoic stoic]] BarbarianHero and more of a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] LoveableRogue, and the script has plenty of one-liners and [[ShoutOut references]] to go around.

---> '''Reena The Seer:''' Deathstalker?!
---> '''Deathstalker:''' Uh-huh.
---> '''Reena The Seer:''' Is that your first name or your last name?

---> '''Reena The Seer:''' The princess is being imprisoned by Jarek, The evil sorcerer!
---> '''Deathstalker:''' Are there any other kind?

* EvilTwin: Evil Evie - the magical vampire clone of Princess Evie created by Jarek.

%%* LampshadeHanging: A lot of the humor depends upon it.

-->'''Reena the Seer:''' Oh, so you rob from the rich and give to the poor?

* ShovelStrike: When rescuing Reena for the first time, Deathstalker picks up a shovel from the ground, throws dirt on a soldier's face and then knocks him out with it.

* SpikesOfDoom: An AdvancingWallOfDoom sprouts these after Deathstalker taunts the EvilSorcerer, asking why he couldn't come up with anything better than "the old crushing wall routine".

* TitleDrop: Almost. ''"I'll have my revenge...and Deathstalker too!"'' Cue title card.

---> '''Deathstalker:''' Me and my big mouth.

* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Evie at the end, when she becomes Queen.

* ButNowIMustGo: Sultana leaves partway through the final battle. Literally, she tells Jarek that she's done working for him and just walks out of the castle.

* GrievousBottleyHarm: During the the tavern brawl, Deathstalker encounters a stronger opponent to whom fists do nothing against, but smashing a bottle of wine to the head manages to knock him out instantly.

* {{Pun}}: Deathstalker escape Sultana's clutches! A sulking Sultana turns to the camera as says that she will have her revenge - [[TitleDrop and Deathstalker, t(w)oo!]]

* StockFootage: Several brief scenes from the original ''Film/{{Deathstalker}}'' are used to pad out the tavern scenes. Some of the people who appear are people who died during the first's movie's tournament.

* StockFootage: Several brief scenes from the original ''Film/{{Deathstalker}}'' are used to pad out the tavern scenes.

* {{Pun}}: Deathstalker and Evie escape Sultana's clutches! A sulking Sultana turns to the camera as she screams to have Evie brought to her - [[TitleDrop and Deathstalker, t(w)oo!]]

%%* DeadpanSnarker: Jarek.

* LighterAndSofter: This film is much more lighthearted than the first ‘’Film/{{Deathstalker}}’’, with comedic elements galore and almost no rape present.

** A literal AmazonBrigade becomes TheCavalry in [[ThisIsTheFinalBattle The Final Battle]].
* AnachronismStew: Numerous examples, but all of them are justified by The RuleOfFunny.

---> '''Reena The Seer:''' In my kingdom, a man would delight to know that his wife was with child!
---> '''Head Guard:''' But not by another man.
* TheCavalry: The Amazons.
* TheChosenZero: Deathstalker. He isn't incompetent but he is a GraveRobbing HandsomeLech and a JerkWithAHeartofGold, who doesn't act like TheHero.

* CrystalBall: Evie does have a crystal she uses to see the future, but it's not a perfect sphere.
** Actually, WordOfGod says that it was a crystalline doorknob.

* DarkChick: Sultana.
* DeadpanSnarker: Jarek.

* GraveRobbing: Deathstalker takes a break from the Noble Quest to indulge in this.
* HandsomeLech: Deathstalker, naturally.
* HeManWomanHater: Averted. Deathstalker plays at being this when he confronts the guards harassing Evie, but his sympathies are clearly with her.

---> '''Guard One:''' Did you see the face on her?!
---> '''Guard Two:''' Too bad. Nice body, though!

* KleptomaniacHero: Deathstalker. He puts the quest to rescue a princess on hold so that he can loot a tomb, on the odd chance it might have something valuable inside it.
* LampshadeHanging: A lot of the humor depends upon it.
* LighterAndSofter: This film is much more lighthearted than the first ‘’Deathstalker’’, with comedic elements galore and no rape present.

---> '''Reena The Seer:''' Oh, so you rob from the rich and give to the poor?
---> '''Deathstalker:''' No, I rob from the rich and pretty much keep it.

* OracularUrchin: Evie in her guise as Reena The Seer.

* PungeonMaster: For an EvilSorcerer, Jarek is surprisingly fond of puns. For example, he informs Deathstalker, caught in the midst of breaking into a mausoleum, that "GraveRobbing caries a ''stiff'' penalty". He also tells Deathstalker that he's arranged ''a pressing engagement'' for him... just before the AdvancingWallOfDoom starts to close in.

* SignsOfDisrepair: Deathstalker and Evie stumble a signpost that gives directions and mileage for various destinations, but the one they need has been broken off the sign.

* StockFootage: Several brief scenes from [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Deathstalker the original Deathstalker]] are used to pad out the tavern scenes.

** A signpost that Deathstalker and Evie consult for directions to her country has markers pointing to other imaginary lands such as [[Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian Cimmeria]], [[MarxBrothers Freedonia]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_in_fiction Altair]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria Lemuria]].

** Deathstalker is assured that if he helps Evie, he'll wind up in the legends "right up there with [[ConanTheBarbarian Conan]]".

** A signpost that Deathstalker and Evie consult for directions to her country has markers pointing to other imaginary lands such as [[ConanTheBarbarian Cimmeria]], [[MarxBrothers Freedonia]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_in_fiction Altair]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria Lemuria]].

* [[AllAmazonsWantHercules All Amazons Want Deathstalker]]: Deathstalker is put on trial by local Amazons for his "crimes against womanhood". None of them finds his attempts at flirting amusing at first but after he wins his DuelToTheDeath, the amazon queen takes a liking to him and starts planning their wedding for the next day.

* [[AllAmazonsWantHercules All Amazons Want Deathstalker]]: Averted and Then Played Straight. Deathstalker is put on trial by local Amazons for his "crimes against womanhood". None of them finds his attempts at flirting amusing at first but after he wins his DuelToTheDeath, the amazon queen takes a liking to him and starts planning their wedding for the next day.

* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny: John Terlesky freely admits that his idea for the character of Deathstalker was based around the question "What if Bugs Bunny were staring in a ConanTheBarbarian movie?"
** The direction and dialogue reflect this, with there being extreme close-ups on Deathstalker as he says says ''YIPE!'', ''Mother!'' and ''Me and my big mouth!''

The second of the movies in the [[Film/{{Deathstalker}} Deathstalker Series]], this film is known as "the funny one". Or at least "the one that was trying to be funny on purpose".

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Sultana literally walks out of the final battle, having suddenly become fed up with Jarek for no readily apparent reason.

** Having stabbed Sultana to death a few scenes ago, Deathstalker is surprised to meet her alive and blurts out, "I thought you wuz dead." Sultana replies, "Not hardly," in a shout-out to ''BigJake''.

* ExecutiveMeddling: On the commentary track on the DVD, Director Jim Wynorski points out several pieces of StockFootage from other fantasy movies which were edited into the final cut of the movie without his permission. Chief among these were scenes from [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Deathstalker the original Deathstalker]] which were used to pad out the two tavern scenes.
** As was footage of a topless belly dancer in the first tavern scene. The dancer is clearly not on the same set as the rest of the actors.

* WordOfGod: Director Jim Wynorski did a commentary track on the DVD, where he explained that a lot of the problems with the movie - and ultimately the decision to shoot the movie as a comedy - were due to a poor script and the set looking like a landfill.
** They also had to shoot most of the exterior scenes at night, due to the noise generated by a nearby airport and freeway during the day.

---> '''Reena The Seer:''' The princess is being imprisoned by Jarek, The EvilSorcerer!

Faced with all of these difficulties and left with only two weeks to finish the film, director Jim Wynorski decided to [[JustForFun just have fun with it]] and created an AffectionateParody of all the cliches of the sword and sorcery genre. Much of the film was heavily improvised, with Director Wynorksi and actor John Terlesky writing out a broad outline based in equal parts on the original script and BugsBunny cartoons.

* BugsBunny: John Terlesky freely admits that his idea for the character of Deathstalker was based around the question "What if Bugs Bunny were staring in a ConanTheBarbarian movie?"

** Deathstalker quotes BugsBunny quite frequently.

* LoveableRogue: This version of Deathstalker, who is more of a DungeonsAndDragons style Rogue than a BarbarianHero.

* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitleskikbgy4psco Screw This! I'm Going Home!]]: Sultana literally walks out of the final battle, having suddenly become fed up with Jarek for no readily apparent reason.

---> '''Sultana:''' Talk to me, Chin. What have you got for me?

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