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* DoomedDefeatist: during the big escape scene, [[strike:Stiggs]] panics and decides to surrender. He slowly rises from behind cover, hands first, and is shredded by bullets.
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** However, it is notable that later on Poe was [[spoiler:revealed to be a cyborg, and he explicitly concurred with Karen's statement that he can't have sex, therefore it seems that Poe's motivations are not so much sexual but rather emotionally possessive]].
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* HellholePrison: The titular Fortress, where prisoners routinely suffer physical and mental torture for the most trivial things, such as as having a wet dream.
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* HellholePrison: The titular Fortress, where built inside a mining facility with NoOSHACompliance, massively overcrowded, petty criminals are thrown together with murderers and rapists, and prisoners routinely suffer physical and mental torture for the most trivial things, such as as having a wet dream.
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* PrivateProfitPrison: The prison is run by the Men-Tel Corporation, which asserts that the prisoners are its property.
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* LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler:Warden Poe's fate, courtesy of an ion cannon controlled by Zed-10]].
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* DystopianEdict: Having one than more child is punished with a life sentence in a corporate-owned HellholePrison.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Zed-10 is really the one in charge of the futuristic prison, not the cybernetic warden-[[spoiler:whom it even disposes off after he outlives his usefulness]]. When the heroes escape the prison it downloads itself into other mobile systems so it can keep pursuing them.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Zed-10 is really the one in charge of the futuristic prison, not the cybernetic warden-[[spoiler:whom warden- [[spoiler:whom it even disposes off of after he outlives his usefulness]]. When the heroes escape the prison it downloads itself into other mobile systems so it can keep pursuing them.
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* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: Zed-10 uses the same phrases on Poe as he does on the prisoners when he is fired.]]
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* KillSat: What the Warden of the second movie's prison was working to turn it into. Fired twice: once to destroy a [[KickTheSonOfABitch shuttle full of escaping (backstabbing) prisoners]] and the second time [[spoiler: fired by Brennan to overload the prison's solar panels and destroy the prison itself]].
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* KillSat: What the Warden of the second movie's prison was working to turn it into. Fired twice: once to destroy a [[KickTheSonOfABitch shuttle full of escaping (backstabbing) prisoners]] and the second time [[spoiler: fired [[spoiler:fired by Brennan to overload the prison's solar panels and destroy the prison itself]].
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* TorsoWithAView: [[spoiler: Maddox]], after getting blasted with an Ion Cannon.
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* AllCrimesAreEqual: In the dystopian future, everyone is sent to a high-security Alcatraz-esque prison for crimes varying from homicide, breaking the pregnancy statute, or bouncing checks.
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* AllCrimesAreEqual: In the dystopian future, everyone is sent to a high-security Alcatraz-esque prison for crimes varying ranging from homicide, breaking the [[PopulationControl pregnancy statute, statute]], or bouncing checks.
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* TheOldConvict: Abraham has been in the prison so long that he's become a 'trustee', a privileged inmate who is entrusted with some responsibilities by the guards. Brennick tries to ask him for help, but he's so jaded that he would rather keep his head down. He does eventually aid the heroes when he realizes that he'll never be allowed to leave by the prison director.
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* SacrificialLion: There's a nervous guy in the opening when Brennick gets sent to prison who is just there to demonstrate the prison's security systems by getting his stomach blown up.
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* YouAreNumberSix: John Brennick is assigned the number 95763 when he arrives at TheAlcatraz. Leading to the following exchange:
-->'''Prison director Poe:''' Sit down 95763.\\
'''John:''' My name is Brennick.\\
'''Prison directo Poe:''' ''Of course it is.''
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'''John:''' My name is Brennick.\\
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* WardensAreEvil: The wardens in both movies are more than happy to oversee a prison where the inmates are treated like cattle. However, the first movie provided a subversion where the Prison A.I. was revealed to be the one really in control.
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* TheAlcatraz: The titular Fortress, located on a bunker deep underground, with [[ExplosiveLeash Explosive Leashes]], automated [[SentryGun Sentry Guns]] and heavily-armed MechaMooks. The second movie ups the ante by having the prison placed ''in orbit''.
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* TheAlcatraz: The titular Fortress, located on a bunker deep underground, with [[ExplosiveLeash Explosive Leashes]], automated [[SentryGun Sentry Guns]] and heavily-armed MechaMooks. The second movie ups the ante by having the prison placed ''in orbit''.''[[PrisonShip in orbit]]''.
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* PrisonShip: ''Fortress 2''. In the first film, TheAlcatraz was built inside a mine in the desert. In the sequel, it's revealed to be a satellite orbiting the Earth.
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In a dystopian future, in order to [[PopulationControl control the overpopulation]], the law dictates that only one child is allowed per woman. John (Christopher Lambert) and Karen (Loryn Locklin) Brennick end up in [[TheAlcatraz a futuristic prison]] for being "breeders", people who violate said law. Now it's up to John to break them both out.
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In a dystopian future, in order to [[PopulationControl control the overpopulation]], the law dictates that only one child is allowed per woman. John (Christopher Lambert) (Creator/ChristopherLambert) and Karen (Loryn Locklin) Brennick end up in [[TheAlcatraz a futuristic prison]] for being "breeders", people who violate said law. Now it's up to John to break them both out.
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* ArmCannon: The cyborg guards' machinegun-flamethrower. Brennick rips a dead cyborg's one and uses it to kick ass in the climax.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Brennick and his wife are captured and locked in a future Alcatraz for [[SarcasmMode the horrible crime]] of "breeding" a second child. Bonus points for the first child being a ''stillbirth'', which makes the sentence utterly nonsensical, even InUniverse.
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* RunForTheBorder: Film opens with Karen and John trying to make it to Canada.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Zed-10 is really the one in charge of the futuristic prison, not the cybernetic warden-whom it even disposes off after he outlives his usefulness. When the heroes escape the prison it downloads itself into other mobile systems so it can keep pursuing them.
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* ThoughtCrime: The "unauthorized thought processes", i.e. erotic fantasies.
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* SaveTheVillain: At the end of Brennick and Maddox's fight to the death, Brennick tries to save Maddox from falling to his death but Maddox is then [[TorsoWithAView gorily eliminated]] by the prison security system on the Warden's orders.
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* TraumaticCSection: Preganant female "breeders" are subjected to it when their child is taken away - it is also fatal.
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'''''Fortress''''' is a 1992 scifi film by Stuart Gordon.
In a dystopian future, in order to [[PopulationControl control the overpopulation]], the law dictates that only one child is allowed per woman. John (Christopher Lambert) and Karen (Loryn Locklin) Brennick end up in [[TheAlcatraz a futuristic prison]] for being "breeders", people who violate said law. Now it's up to John to break them both out.
A sequel was released in 2000, in which John Brennick ends up in another prison, which is in space this time.
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!!The ''Fortress'' films have examples of:
* TheAlcatraz: The titular Fortress, located on a bunker deep underground, with [[ExplosiveLeash Explosive Leashes]], automated [[SentryGun Sentry Guns]] and heavily-armed MechaMooks. The second movie ups the ante by having the prison placed ''in orbit''.
* BigNo: Brennick yells out one just before Stiggs gets shot.
* BlindWithoutEm: After losing his glasses, D-Day can only flail his arms helplessly and call out for Brennick.
* CameraSpoofing: Used in the sequel.
* CatchPhrase: Zed-10's "crime does not pay".
* DeadlyDodging: Just before an ion cannon shoots D-Day, Brennick dives in to rescue him, and a cyborg guard gets blasted instead.
%%* DoomedDefeatist
* ExplosiveDecompression: Wonderfully averted in the sequel.
* ExplosiveLeash: The Intestinators, which are put into prisoners when they arrive and are designed hurt or kill them as necessary.
* EyeScream: When Brennick is subjected to the mindwipe, he sees a vision of himself ripping his eyes out. A cyborg also gets a pickaxe to their eyepiece later, though it's unclear if there is an actual eye behind it.
* FireBreathingWeapon: Cyborg guards' guns double as [[SwissArmyGun machine guns, gas launchers and flamethrowers]].
%%* FlippingTheBird
%%* GreatEscape
* HeroicWillpower: Brennick stands against the mindwipe for three days, whereas other prisoners could only take it for an hour.
* HollywoodCyborg: The illegal babies that are taken from "breeders" are modified into enhanced beings which won't require food or sleep any more. [[spoiler:This includes Prison Director Poe.]]
* HollywoodHacking: D-Day does this to Zed-10. What makes it especially weird is that he does so using Poe's [[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish woefully insecure]] login details despite Zed-10 having just shown itself able to ignore Poe's commands, being well aware that the escaping prisoners were in the control room, and oh yeah, knowing that Poe couldn't be the one logging in because [[spoiler:''Zed-10 just killed him'']].
* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: Zed-10 uses the same phrases on Poe as he does on the prisoners when he is fired.]]
-->'''Zed-10:''' You are the property of the Men-Tel corporation.
-->[[spoiler:'''Poe:''' But I am the director of this institution!]]
-->'''Zed-10:''' [[spoiler:You will please leave Central Control.]] Crime does not pay.
* KillSat: What the Warden of the second movie's prison was working to turn it into. Fired twice: once to destroy a [[KickTheSonOfABitch shuttle full of escaping (backstabbing) prisoners]] and the second time [[spoiler: fired by Brennan to overload the prison's solar panels and destroy the prison itself]].
* MasterComputer: Zed-10. It's so extensive that when [[spoiler:D-Day infects it with his computer virus]], systems all over the fortress malfunction right down to the lifts falling down their shafts. Then again, this ''is'' a prison, so maintaining control over everything was likely a secondary priority to safety of the prisoners.
* MindRape: Very disobedient prisoners are subjected to a mindwipe, which leave them braindead.
* NerdGlasses: D-Day.
* NumberedSequels
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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Who'd have guessed that a prison director would've set his password to 'Crime Does Not Pay'? It's not like the computer takes every opportunity to repeat this phrase to the inmates as often as it can, or anything!
* PostClimaxConfrontation: After Brennick and co. escape from prison, Zed-10 takes over their escape vehicle to eliminate them.
* {{Prison}}: Duh.
* PrisonRape: Maddox's favourite pastime.
* RecycledInSpace: The sequel.
* RunForTheBorder: Film opens with Karen and John trying to make it to Canada.
* ScarpiaUltimatum: Karen agrees on one given by Poe, so he will release John from the mindwipe.
* ShovelStrike: Used against a cyborg guard.
* TakeMyHand: After Brennick manages to defeat Maddox in a one-on-one fight, Maddox is left hanging on a ledge. Poe then orders Brennick to finish the job. As a proverbial middle finger to Poe, Brennick offers Maddox his hand instead.
* TattooedCrook: Maddox has a very unconvincing tattoo of 187 -the murder statute- on his forehead, for the crime he's in for.
* ThoughtCrime: The "unauthorized thought processes", i.e. erotic fantasies.
* TorsoWithAView: [[spoiler: Maddox]], after getting blasted with an Ion Cannon.
* TraumaticCSection: Preganant female "breeders" are subjected to it when their child is taken away - it is also fatal.
%%* UseYourHead
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'''''Fortress''''' is a 1992 scifi film by Stuart Gordon.
In a dystopian future, in order to [[PopulationControl control the overpopulation]], the law dictates that only one child is allowed per woman. John (Christopher Lambert) and Karen (Loryn Locklin) Brennick end up in [[TheAlcatraz a futuristic prison]] for being "breeders", people who violate said law. Now it's up to John to break them both out.
A sequel was released in 2000, in which John Brennick ends up in another prison, which is in space this time.
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!!The ''Fortress'' films have examples of:
* TheAlcatraz: The titular Fortress, located on a bunker deep underground, with [[ExplosiveLeash Explosive Leashes]], automated [[SentryGun Sentry Guns]] and heavily-armed MechaMooks. The second movie ups the ante by having the prison placed ''in orbit''.
* BigNo: Brennick yells out one just before Stiggs gets shot.
* BlindWithoutEm: After losing his glasses, D-Day can only flail his arms helplessly and call out for Brennick.
* CameraSpoofing: Used in the sequel.
* CatchPhrase: Zed-10's "crime does not pay".
* DeadlyDodging: Just before an ion cannon shoots D-Day, Brennick dives in to rescue him, and a cyborg guard gets blasted instead.
%%* DoomedDefeatist
* ExplosiveDecompression: Wonderfully averted in the sequel.
* ExplosiveLeash: The Intestinators, which are put into prisoners when they arrive and are designed hurt or kill them as necessary.
* EyeScream: When Brennick is subjected to the mindwipe, he sees a vision of himself ripping his eyes out. A cyborg also gets a pickaxe to their eyepiece later, though it's unclear if there is an actual eye behind it.
* FireBreathingWeapon: Cyborg guards' guns double as [[SwissArmyGun machine guns, gas launchers and flamethrowers]].
%%* FlippingTheBird
%%* GreatEscape
* HeroicWillpower: Brennick stands against the mindwipe for three days, whereas other prisoners could only take it for an hour.
* HollywoodCyborg: The illegal babies that are taken from "breeders" are modified into enhanced beings which won't require food or sleep any more. [[spoiler:This includes Prison Director Poe.]]
* HollywoodHacking: D-Day does this to Zed-10. What makes it especially weird is that he does so using Poe's [[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish woefully insecure]] login details despite Zed-10 having just shown itself able to ignore Poe's commands, being well aware that the escaping prisoners were in the control room, and oh yeah, knowing that Poe couldn't be the one logging in because [[spoiler:''Zed-10 just killed him'']].
* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: Zed-10 uses the same phrases on Poe as he does on the prisoners when he is fired.]]
-->'''Zed-10:''' You are the property of the Men-Tel corporation.
-->[[spoiler:'''Poe:''' But I am the director of this institution!]]
-->'''Zed-10:''' [[spoiler:You will please leave Central Control.]] Crime does not pay.
* KillSat: What the Warden of the second movie's prison was working to turn it into. Fired twice: once to destroy a [[KickTheSonOfABitch shuttle full of escaping (backstabbing) prisoners]] and the second time [[spoiler: fired by Brennan to overload the prison's solar panels and destroy the prison itself]].
* MasterComputer: Zed-10. It's so extensive that when [[spoiler:D-Day infects it with his computer virus]], systems all over the fortress malfunction right down to the lifts falling down their shafts. Then again, this ''is'' a prison, so maintaining control over everything was likely a secondary priority to safety of the prisoners.
* MindRape: Very disobedient prisoners are subjected to a mindwipe, which leave them braindead.
* NerdGlasses: D-Day.
* NumberedSequels
%%* OneWordTitle
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Who'd have guessed that a prison director would've set his password to 'Crime Does Not Pay'? It's not like the computer takes every opportunity to repeat this phrase to the inmates as often as it can, or anything!
* PostClimaxConfrontation: After Brennick and co. escape from prison, Zed-10 takes over their escape vehicle to eliminate them.
* {{Prison}}: Duh.
* PrisonRape: Maddox's favourite pastime.
* RecycledInSpace: The sequel.
* RunForTheBorder: Film opens with Karen and John trying to make it to Canada.
* ScarpiaUltimatum: Karen agrees on one given by Poe, so he will release John from the mindwipe.
* ShovelStrike: Used against a cyborg guard.
* TakeMyHand: After Brennick manages to defeat Maddox in a one-on-one fight, Maddox is left hanging on a ledge. Poe then orders Brennick to finish the job. As a proverbial middle finger to Poe, Brennick offers Maddox his hand instead.
* TattooedCrook: Maddox has a very unconvincing tattoo of 187 -the murder statute- on his forehead, for the crime he's in for.
* ThoughtCrime: The "unauthorized thought processes", i.e. erotic fantasies.
* TorsoWithAView: [[spoiler: Maddox]], after getting blasted with an Ion Cannon.
* TraumaticCSection: Preganant female "breeders" are subjected to it when their child is taken away - it is also fatal.
%%* UseYourHead
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