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America has become even more {{dystopia}}n than it was in the earlier film, having been taken over by a [[ChurchMilitant theocratic]] [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist Christian]] President (Cliff Robertson). An airplane escape pod has crash landed into the [[WretchedHive penal colony/no man's land/landfill/roach motel]] that is LosAngeles [[AfterTheEnd post-The Big One]]. It had [[ThePresidentsDaughter the President's daughter]] Utopia (A. J. Langer) on it, and now she has sided with [[BigBad Cuervo Jones]], taking the film's MacGuffin super weapon with her. The President drafts Snake into retrieving said MacGuffin and, if necessary, eliminating his daughter. His reward, should he succeed, will be a full pardon and the antidote to a virus that has been injected into him.
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** Cuervo Jones -> The Duke
** Map To The Stars Eddie -> Cabbie
** Carjack Malone/Hershey Las Palmas -> Brain
** Malloy -> Bob Hauk
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** Map To The Stars Eddie -> Cabbie
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* ForcedPrizeFight: In a variation, Snake has to win a steel-cage basketball game in order to escape. The danger coming from the fact that if he doesn't make enough goals, he gets shot to pieces.
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America has become even more {{dystopia}}n than it was in the earlier film, having been taken over by a [[ChurchMilitant theocratic]] [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist Christian]] President (Cliff Robertson). An airplane escape pod has crash landed into the [[WretchedHive penal colony/no man's land/landfill/roach motel]] that is LosAngeles [[AfterTheEnd post-The Big One]]. It had [[ThePresidentsDaughter the President's daughter]] Utopia (A. J. Langer) on it, and now she has sided with [[BigBad Cuervo Jones]], taking the film's MacGuffin super weapon with her. The President drafts Snake into eliminating her and retrieving said MacGuffin. MacGuffin and, if necessary, eliminating his daughter. His reward, should he succeed, will be a full pardon and the antidote to a virus that has been injected into him.
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-->'''Snake''': Dying.
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Snake Plissken (KurtRussell) is back, in this 1996 sequel to JohnCarpenter's ''EscapeFromNewYork''.
America has become even more {{dystopia}}n than it was in the earlier film, having been taken over by a [[ChurchMilitant theocratic]] [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist Christian]] President (Cliff Robertson). An airplane has crash landed into the [[WretchedHive penal colony/no man's land/landfill/roach motel]] that is LosAngeles [[AfterTheEnd post-The Big One]]. It had [[ThePresidentsDaughter the President's daughter]] Utopia (A. J. Langer) on it, and now she has sided with [[BigBad Cuervo Jones]], taking the film's MacGuffin super weapon with her. The President drafts Snake into eliminating her and retrieving said MacGuffin. His reward, should he succeed, will be the antidote to a virus that has been injected into him.
And so he enters the fortified and barbwired city of Los Angeles, a prison with no guards and precious little order. He makes his way through the slums (it's all slums), he gains and loses allies and...
The ending to this film is incredibly defiant and shocking for an action film -- even for people for whom ItWasHisSled.
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!!'''This film provides examples of:'''
* AfterTheEnd
* TheAlcatraz: Los Angeles, which has been separated from the mainland US by a massive earthquake and is now a prison for those deemed "unfit" to live in the new theocratic America. A Great Wall is built along the shoreline and the United States Police Force is encamped along it preventing anyone from escaping back to the US.
* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame
* AntiHero: Snake [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes is a mix of type IV and type V.]] Also counts as a DesignatedHero.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Surfing on a Tsunami through the dilapidated ruins of L.A. chasing a Cadillac speeding on a high road...and catching it.
* BadassBiker: Snake when he rides a motorcycle.
* BadassLongcoat: Snake wears it.
* BadassNormal: Snake Plissken is a {{Badass}} human with ImprobableAimingSkills.
* BigBad: Either Cuervo Jones, or the President. It's kind of [[NotSoDifferent hard to tell]], at times.
* BlackAndBlackMorality: Really, the Shining Path and the US Government are absolutely no different in terms of how evil they are. They're just fighting over who gets to be in control.
* BoxedCrook: As in the [[EscapeFromNewYork previous film.]]
* CaliforniaCollapse: a portion of the California coast has become separated from the mainland by a quake that flooded San Fernando Valley.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The holo-cam]], to an amazing degree of awesome.
** To a lesser extent, Snake getting his hand cut by the guard walking by him. It's revealed only a few minutes later what it was.
* CombatPragmatist: "Nobody draws until this hits the ground."
* CoolGuns: The "Coreburner" assault rifle plus Snake's own [[GunsAkimbo pair]] of [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolvers]].
* CrapsackWorld[=/=]DayOfTheJackboot
* CutTheJuice: What the Sword of Damocles does.
* DeadlyGame: ''Basketball'' becomes a life-or-death situation in this movie.
* DeadpanSnarker: Guess who? He was in the first film...
** It's probably safe to say he's even ''more'' of a DeadpanSnarker in this one.
* DelusionsOfGrandeur: The President. During the climax, [[spoiler: when he sentences his daughter to be executed]], he corrupts one of the Bible's most recognized verses, putting himself in The Almighty's place (of course, given that he's President For Life of a theocratic dictatorship, it'd probably be surprising if he ''didn't'' develop a God complex).
-->'''President:''' [[spoiler: "For he so loved his country, he gave his only seditious child."]]
-->'''Original Verse:''' "For God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten son (...)" [John 3:16]
* TheDragon / CoDragons: Both Cdr. Malloy and Lt. Brazen fill this role for the President.
* {{Dystopia}}
* EvilVersusEvil: Both the President, a fascist fundamentalist, and Cuervo Jones, a vicious power - hungry terrorist, want the "Sword of Damocles" for their own evil purpose. And Snake, naturally, is trapped between 'em.
* ExactTimeToFailure: Subverted. Snake's watch reaches zero seconds after he demands the cure for the Plutoxin 7 virus. [[spoiler: Luckily, it turns out that Plutoxin 7 is just a fast, hard-hitting case of the flu.]]
* ExpandedStatesOfAmerica: Bangkok, Thailand (where Snake has been at some point between 1997 and 2013) is mentioned as being United States territory.
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: A running joke with characters meeting Snake in the film.
* EyeScream: Snake ''very'' narrowly averts this.
** Since it happened to him [[EyepatchOfPower once already]], it would've been a real bummer.
* FanService: Snake's short, but memorable ShirtlessScene when he changes his clothes.
* ForcedPrizeFight: In a variation, Snake has to win a steel-cage basketball game in order to escape. The danger coming from the fact that if he doesn't make enough goals, he gets shot to pieces.
* FourthWallPsych: "Welcome to the human race!".
* TheFundamentalist: The President, a mixture of RonaldReagan and Jerry Falwell, who has turned America into a theocracy.
** And for an added joke, he's played by a guy named [[TheSevenHundredClub Robertson]].
* GenreSavvy: "That's why the first clip is loaded with blanks."
* {{Hell}}: The opening narration refers to LA as an "island of the damned."
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[EvilDead Ash]] is the Surgeon General of Beverly Hills.
** Also, [[Film/{{Spiderman}} Uncle Ben]] is the President.
** And [[ReservoirDogs Mr. Pink]] is "Map To The Stars" Eddie.
** [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Ensign Ro Laren]] is Lt. Brazen.
* HumanResources: The plastic surgery freaks, who must regularly kidnap prisoners and harvest them for body parts in order to keep themselves alive.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Snake and a few other instances in the movie.
* IronicEcho: "Catches on quick doesn't s/he?"
* InferredHolocaust
* InsistentTerminology / DoNotCallMePaul: In both ''EscapeFromNewYork'' and ''EscapeFromLA'', the U.S. government is on a LastNameBasis with protagonist Snake Plissken, to which he consistently replies, "Call me Snake". However, during the respective climaxes of both movies, when one of the government's men finally does call him Snake, he reverses his previous attitude with the reply "The name's Plissken".
* InvadedStatesOfAmerica: A united, [[DirtyCommunists Shining Path]]-led Latin America is on the verge of invading the US.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Snake cannot be persuaded to give a shit about anything but his own interests. Considering there is [[BlackAndGrayMorality no particularly good side]] for him to be on, one can hardly blame him.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Snake was more or less this since ''EscapeFromNewYork''. However in this movie is a bit less anti-heroic as you would expect - it is shown when he spares The President's daughter life when he had the order to kill her on sight.
** Although that may be equally due to Snake's utter contempt for the men who ordered him to do it.
* KillSat: The Sword of Damocles.
* LockAndLoadMontage
* MacGuffin: The controller, [[spoiler:which activates the "Sword Of Damocles" defense system, an EMP cannon designed to destroy enemy nation's weaponry]].
* MexicoCalledTheyWantTexasBack: The Shining Path has taken over all of Latin America and is about to launch an invasion of the United States. They want a bit more than Texas...
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The US President, a politician who takes advantage of a depressed, war-torn country to attain absolute power, and then proceeds to eliminate any and all "undesirables" from his new regime. He even uses the term, "Final Solution", near the end.
* NinetiesAntihero: Snake exemplifies this. He was even this [[EscapeFromNewYork before the nineties began]], making him one of the progenitors of this trope.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever happened in Cleveland.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: And how! Snake absolutely despises the authorities who literally have to coerce him into working for them with a tailor-made "kill you in 10 hours" virus in his body or he'd just bail on them in a heartbeat.
* NumberOfTheBeast: "666" is the world code for the controller for the Sword of Damocles.
* OhCrap: Snake, upon realizing what the cut on his hand is. [[spoiler: And to a even bigger extent when the government officers realize that Snake can be within a half miles radius, and knows the world code.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Snake appears like this, especially at the end.
* PresidentEvil: Hoo, boy.
* ThePresidentsDaughter
* ThePurge: In the opening narration, it's stated that the President's first act is Directive 17 - Americans who are found "unfit" to live in the new, "moral" America are stripped of their citizenship, deported to LA and may never come back.
* RealLifeRelative: One of the orphans seen early on in the film is, in fact, KurtRussell's own son, Wyatt.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: The Sword of Damocles
* [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black]] [[{{Transsexual}} Tranny]]: Hershe Las Palmas.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: You know that band of misfits that helps Snake escape? They all get incinerated. You can even hear Hershe scream while she burns to death. In fact, everyone who helps Snake dies a horrible death, and it's implied Utopia will be killed anyway even though the chair is gone. Only "Map To The Stars" Eddie survives, and he has ChronicBackstabbingDisorder.]]
** [[spoiler: The "Every one of Snake's allies gets killed"]] is a sort of RunningGag holdover from the previous movie.
*** EVERY aspect of this movie is sort of a holdover from the previous movie.
* SinisterMinister: The US President is part this and part PresidentEvil.
* SociopathicHero: If Snake gives even a fraction of a damn about the people who die helping him, he certainly doesn't show it.
* StateSec: The ''United States Police Force'', who despite their name is well armed and equipped.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: The plastic surgery freaks ''really'' want Snake's body...
* StrawmanPolitical: And how.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Cuervo is about to shoot the chopper that Snake, Hershe, Eddie, and Utopia are escaping in with a rocket. He gets shot by Eddie but still manages to get the rocket off before dying.]]
* TitleDrop: During the opening narration.
--> The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped along the shoreline, making any escape from LA impossible.
* TooAwesomeToUse: Snake's revolvers. In the two scenes he demands them back (when being sent into L.A. and when escaping from the Surgeon General of Beverly Hills), he is carrying other guns (The Coreburner issued to him by the government and the Colt 1911 he takes from the Surgeon General), which he resorts to using first. Even after losing the Coreburner, he divests a mook of his shotgun and uses that. He only gets to use his revolvers once, showing off his ImprobableAimingSkills and loses them when captured.
* TookALevelInBadass: Snake since ''EscapeFromNewYork''. In that film, he was an ex-Green Beret with pretty decent combat skills. In this one, he's able to achieve [[TheGunslinger Man With No Name style quickdrawing]], shoot rifles and shotguns [[FiringOneHanded one handed]] from a motorcycle with no significant effects from recoil, take a round to the leg from a [[HandCannon Desert Eagle]] and still walk with [[OnlyAFleshWound only a limp]]. This while being infected with the Plutoxin 7 virus (granted, it turns out to be [[spoiler: the flu]], but still).
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Carried over from the first film.
* UsedFuture: But only in LA.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: The Surgeon General of Beverly Hills is simply ''mesmerized'' by Snake's eye...
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the original script Taslima was explicitly a BrainlessBeauty (''"the face of a Persian princess...and basically has an IQ of around 50"'' as the script puts it.)
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: "Map To The Stars" Eddie's reaction upon seeing Snake following him on the tsunami.
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Snake Plissken (KurtRussell) is back, in this 1996 sequel to JohnCarpenter's ''EscapeFromNewYork''.
America has become even more {{dystopia}}n than it was in the earlier film, having been taken over by a [[ChurchMilitant theocratic]] [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist Christian]] President (Cliff Robertson). An airplane has crash landed into the [[WretchedHive penal colony/no man's land/landfill/roach motel]] that is LosAngeles [[AfterTheEnd post-The Big One]]. It had [[ThePresidentsDaughter the President's daughter]] Utopia (A. J. Langer) on it, and now she has sided with [[BigBad Cuervo Jones]], taking the film's MacGuffin super weapon with her. The President drafts Snake into eliminating her and retrieving said MacGuffin. His reward, should he succeed, will be the antidote to a virus that has been injected into him.
And so he enters the fortified and barbwired city of Los Angeles, a prison with no guards and precious little order. He makes his way through the slums (it's all slums), he gains and loses allies and...
The ending to this film is incredibly defiant and shocking for an action film -- even for people for whom ItWasHisSled.
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!!'''This film provides examples of:'''
* AfterTheEnd
* TheAlcatraz: Los Angeles, which has been separated from the mainland US by a massive earthquake and is now a prison for those deemed "unfit" to live in the new theocratic America. A Great Wall is built along the shoreline and the United States Police Force is encamped along it preventing anyone from escaping back to the US.
* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame
* AntiHero: Snake [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes is a mix of type IV and type V.]] Also counts as a DesignatedHero.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Surfing on a Tsunami through the dilapidated ruins of L.A. chasing a Cadillac speeding on a high road...and catching it.
* BadassBiker: Snake when he rides a motorcycle.
* BadassLongcoat: Snake wears it.
* BadassNormal: Snake Plissken is a {{Badass}} human with ImprobableAimingSkills.
* BigBad: Either Cuervo Jones, or the President. It's kind of [[NotSoDifferent hard to tell]], at times.
* BlackAndBlackMorality: Really, the Shining Path and the US Government are absolutely no different in terms of how evil they are. They're just fighting over who gets to be in control.
* BoxedCrook: As in the [[EscapeFromNewYork previous film.]]
* CaliforniaCollapse: a portion of the California coast has become separated from the mainland by a quake that flooded San Fernando Valley.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The holo-cam]], to an amazing degree of awesome.
** To a lesser extent, Snake getting his hand cut by the guard walking by him. It's revealed only a few minutes later what it was.
* CombatPragmatist: "Nobody draws until this hits the ground."
* CoolGuns: The "Coreburner" assault rifle plus Snake's own [[GunsAkimbo pair]] of [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolvers]].
* CrapsackWorld[=/=]DayOfTheJackboot
* CutTheJuice: What the Sword of Damocles does.
* DeadlyGame: ''Basketball'' becomes a life-or-death situation in this movie.
* DeadpanSnarker: Guess who? He was in the first film...
** It's probably safe to say he's even ''more'' of a DeadpanSnarker in this one.
* DelusionsOfGrandeur: The President. During the climax, [[spoiler: when he sentences his daughter to be executed]], he corrupts one of the Bible's most recognized verses, putting himself in The Almighty's place (of course, given that he's President For Life of a theocratic dictatorship, it'd probably be surprising if he ''didn't'' develop a God complex).
-->'''President:''' [[spoiler: "For he so loved his country, he gave his only seditious child."]]
-->'''Original Verse:''' "For God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten son (...)" [John 3:16]
* TheDragon / CoDragons: Both Cdr. Malloy and Lt. Brazen fill this role for the President.
* {{Dystopia}}
* EvilVersusEvil: Both the President, a fascist fundamentalist, and Cuervo Jones, a vicious power - hungry terrorist, want the "Sword of Damocles" for their own evil purpose. And Snake, naturally, is trapped between 'em.
* ExactTimeToFailure: Subverted. Snake's watch reaches zero seconds after he demands the cure for the Plutoxin 7 virus. [[spoiler: Luckily, it turns out that Plutoxin 7 is just a fast, hard-hitting case of the flu.]]
* ExpandedStatesOfAmerica: Bangkok, Thailand (where Snake has been at some point between 1997 and 2013) is mentioned as being United States territory.
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: A running joke with characters meeting Snake in the film.
* EyeScream: Snake ''very'' narrowly averts this.
** Since it happened to him [[EyepatchOfPower once already]], it would've been a real bummer.
* FanService: Snake's short, but memorable ShirtlessScene when he changes his clothes.
* ForcedPrizeFight: In a variation, Snake has to win a steel-cage basketball game in order to escape. The danger coming from the fact that if he doesn't make enough goals, he gets shot to pieces.
* FourthWallPsych: "Welcome to the human race!".
* TheFundamentalist: The President, a mixture of RonaldReagan and Jerry Falwell, who has turned America into a theocracy.
** And for an added joke, he's played by a guy named [[TheSevenHundredClub Robertson]].
* GenreSavvy: "That's why the first clip is loaded with blanks."
* {{Hell}}: The opening narration refers to LA as an "island of the damned."
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[EvilDead Ash]] is the Surgeon General of Beverly Hills.
** Also, [[Film/{{Spiderman}} Uncle Ben]] is the President.
** And [[ReservoirDogs Mr. Pink]] is "Map To The Stars" Eddie.
** [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Ensign Ro Laren]] is Lt. Brazen.
* HumanResources: The plastic surgery freaks, who must regularly kidnap prisoners and harvest them for body parts in order to keep themselves alive.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Snake and a few other instances in the movie.
* IronicEcho: "Catches on quick doesn't s/he?"
* InferredHolocaust
* InsistentTerminology / DoNotCallMePaul: In both ''EscapeFromNewYork'' and ''EscapeFromLA'', the U.S. government is on a LastNameBasis with protagonist Snake Plissken, to which he consistently replies, "Call me Snake". However, during the respective climaxes of both movies, when one of the government's men finally does call him Snake, he reverses his previous attitude with the reply "The name's Plissken".
* InvadedStatesOfAmerica: A united, [[DirtyCommunists Shining Path]]-led Latin America is on the verge of invading the US.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Snake cannot be persuaded to give a shit about anything but his own interests. Considering there is [[BlackAndGrayMorality no particularly good side]] for him to be on, one can hardly blame him.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Snake was more or less this since ''EscapeFromNewYork''. However in this movie is a bit less anti-heroic as you would expect - it is shown when he spares The President's daughter life when he had the order to kill her on sight.
** Although that may be equally due to Snake's utter contempt for the men who ordered him to do it.
* KillSat: The Sword of Damocles.
* LockAndLoadMontage
* MacGuffin: The controller, [[spoiler:which activates the "Sword Of Damocles" defense system, an EMP cannon designed to destroy enemy nation's weaponry]].
* MexicoCalledTheyWantTexasBack: The Shining Path has taken over all of Latin America and is about to launch an invasion of the United States. They want a bit more than Texas...
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The US President, a politician who takes advantage of a depressed, war-torn country to attain absolute power, and then proceeds to eliminate any and all "undesirables" from his new regime. He even uses the term, "Final Solution", near the end.
* NinetiesAntihero: Snake exemplifies this. He was even this [[EscapeFromNewYork before the nineties began]], making him one of the progenitors of this trope.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever happened in Cleveland.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: And how! Snake absolutely despises the authorities who literally have to coerce him into working for them with a tailor-made "kill you in 10 hours" virus in his body or he'd just bail on them in a heartbeat.
* NumberOfTheBeast: "666" is the world code for the controller for the Sword of Damocles.
* OhCrap: Snake, upon realizing what the cut on his hand is. [[spoiler: And to a even bigger extent when the government officers realize that Snake can be within a half miles radius, and knows the world code.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Snake appears like this, especially at the end.
* PresidentEvil: Hoo, boy.
* ThePresidentsDaughter
* ThePurge: In the opening narration, it's stated that the President's first act is Directive 17 - Americans who are found "unfit" to live in the new, "moral" America are stripped of their citizenship, deported to LA and may never come back.
* RealLifeRelative: One of the orphans seen early on in the film is, in fact, KurtRussell's own son, Wyatt.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: The Sword of Damocles
* [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black]] [[{{Transsexual}} Tranny]]: Hershe Las Palmas.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: You know that band of misfits that helps Snake escape? They all get incinerated. You can even hear Hershe scream while she burns to death. In fact, everyone who helps Snake dies a horrible death, and it's implied Utopia will be killed anyway even though the chair is gone. Only "Map To The Stars" Eddie survives, and he has ChronicBackstabbingDisorder.]]
** [[spoiler: The "Every one of Snake's allies gets killed"]] is a sort of RunningGag holdover from the previous movie.
*** EVERY aspect of this movie is sort of a holdover from the previous movie.
* SinisterMinister: The US President is part this and part PresidentEvil.
* SociopathicHero: If Snake gives even a fraction of a damn about the people who die helping him, he certainly doesn't show it.
* StateSec: The ''United States Police Force'', who despite their name is well armed and equipped.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: The plastic surgery freaks ''really'' want Snake's body...
* StrawmanPolitical: And how.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Cuervo is about to shoot the chopper that Snake, Hershe, Eddie, and Utopia are escaping in with a rocket. He gets shot by Eddie but still manages to get the rocket off before dying.]]
* TitleDrop: During the opening narration.
--> The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped along the shoreline, making any escape from LA impossible.
* TooAwesomeToUse: Snake's revolvers. In the two scenes he demands them back (when being sent into L.A. and when escaping from the Surgeon General of Beverly Hills), he is carrying other guns (The Coreburner issued to him by the government and the Colt 1911 he takes from the Surgeon General), which he resorts to using first. Even after losing the Coreburner, he divests a mook of his shotgun and uses that. He only gets to use his revolvers once, showing off his ImprobableAimingSkills and loses them when captured.
* TookALevelInBadass: Snake since ''EscapeFromNewYork''. In that film, he was an ex-Green Beret with pretty decent combat skills. In this one, he's able to achieve [[TheGunslinger Man With No Name style quickdrawing]], shoot rifles and shotguns [[FiringOneHanded one handed]] from a motorcycle with no significant effects from recoil, take a round to the leg from a [[HandCannon Desert Eagle]] and still walk with [[OnlyAFleshWound only a limp]]. This while being infected with the Plutoxin 7 virus (granted, it turns out to be [[spoiler: the flu]], but still).
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Carried over from the first film.
* UsedFuture: But only in LA.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: The Surgeon General of Beverly Hills is simply ''mesmerized'' by Snake's eye...
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the original script Taslima was explicitly a BrainlessBeauty (''"the face of a Persian princess...and basically has an IQ of around 50"'' as the script puts it.)
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: "Map To The Stars" Eddie's reaction upon seeing Snake following him on the tsunami.
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