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* CoolGuns: When silver bullets fail against the new werewolf, [[spoiler:silver tipped LAW rockets do the trick]].
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* ForScience: Miller uses this justification for things as the project gets progressively more immoral. Subverted with the actual scientists, who are uncomfortable with even working on a corpse they don't know the origin of and are flat out horrified by the realization the 'corpse' they experimented on isn't dead. They only continue due to the leverage Miller has.
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* NighInvulnerable: After gaining the metallic skin, the Metalbeast becomes immune to nearly everything that can be thrown at him. [[spoiler:It took getting shot with a silver tipped LAW rockets to meaningfully damage and kill him.]]

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* NighInvulnerable: After gaining the metallic skin, the Metalbeast becomes immune to nearly everything that can be thrown at him. [[spoiler:It took takes getting shot with a silver tipped LAW rockets to meaningfully damage and kill him.]]
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* CameBackStrong: By the time the werewolf comes back to life, he's already had metal artificial skin implanted throughout his body. The end result is a NightInvulnerable werewolf.


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* NighInvulnerable: After gaining the metallic skin, the Metalbeast becomes immune to nearly everything that can be thrown at him. [[spoiler:It took getting shot with a silver tipped LAW rockets to meaningfully damage and kill him.]]

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* BackFromTheDead: The soldier who later becomes the Metalbeast was shot in the chest several times with silver bullets when he was a normal werewolf, making him clinically and medically dead for over two decades. Soon as the bullets were out however he didn't take long to revive.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: ZigZagged. While not the first person to die in the movie, the first of the doctors to get mauled is the only black one.
* CoolGuns: When silver bullets fail against the new werewolf, [[spoiler: silver tipped LAW rockets do the trick.]]

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\n* AssholeVictim: Miller, the amoral scumbag of a supervisor of both projects, gets cornered by the Metalbeast and it seems to take its time killing him. While the other victims were taken out in one or two swipes or bites, here it takes the time to toss him around the room, claw up his face, bite his jaw; and then ram its hand through his chest.
* BackFromTheDead: The soldier who later becomes the Metalbeast was shot in the chest several times with silver bullets when he was a normal werewolf, making him clinically and medically dead for over two decades. Soon as the bullets were out however out, however, he didn't take long to revive.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: ZigZagged.[[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]]. While not the first person to die in the movie, the first of the doctors to get mauled is the only black one.
* CoolGuns: When silver bullets fail against the new werewolf, [[spoiler: silver [[spoiler:silver tipped LAW rockets do the trick.]]trick]].



* EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler: Miller]] is just as bad as the Metalbeast and the monster has it out for him while also mauling anyone else it sees.

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* EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler: Miller]] [[spoiler:Miller]] is just as bad as the Metalbeast and the monster has it out for him while also mauling anyone else it sees.



* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Werewolf]]: Once he wolfs out after getting the metallic skin, the Metalbeast is slowed down some but nothing can make him stop.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Miller, the amoral scumbag of a supervisor of both projects, gets cornered by the Metalbeast and it seems to take its time killing him. While the other victims were taken out in one or two swipes or bites, here it takes the time to toss him around the room, claw up his face, bite his jaw; and then ram its hand through his chest.

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* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Werewolf]]: ImplacableMan: Once he wolfs out after getting the metallic skin, the Metalbeast is slowed down some some, but nothing can make him stop.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Miller, the amoral scumbag of a supervisor of both projects, gets cornered by the Metalbeast and it seems to take its time killing him. While the other victims were taken out in one or two swipes or bites, here it takes the time to toss him around the room, claw up his face, bite his jaw; and then ram its hand through his chest.
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* SuperSoldier: The reason the government wanted werewolf blood was to create a line of these, but the project was canned when Donald Butler took it into his own hands and turned into a monster.

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* SuperSoldier: The reason the government wanted werewolf blood was to create a line of these, but the project was canned when Donald Butler took it into his own hands and turned into a monster.monster.
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* FromBadToWorse: Each step just gets worse! Trapped in a compound with a psychotic escaped patient you thought was dead? Bad. Said patient is an amoral soldier who killed and raped even as a normal man? Bad! The murder also turns out to be a werewolf? Worse. Aforementioned werewolf now has bulletproof skin? [[UpToEleven Oh God, no!]]

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* FromBadToWorse: Each step just gets worse! Trapped in a compound with a psychotic escaped patient you thought was dead? Bad. Said patient is an amoral soldier who killed and raped even as a normal man? Bad! The murder also turns out to be a werewolf? Worse. Aforementioned werewolf now has bulletproof skin? [[UpToEleven Oh God, no!]]no!
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* BlackGuyDiesFirst: ZigZagged. While not the first person to die in the movie, the first of the doctors to get mauled is the only black one.

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* BlackGuyDiesFirst: BlackDudeDiesFirst: ZigZagged. While not the first person to die in the movie, the first of the doctors to get mauled is the only black one.



* EvilVsEvil: [[spoiler: Miller]] is just as bad as the Metalbeast and the monster has it out for him while also mauling anyone else it sees.
* FromBadToWorse: Each step just gets worse! Trapped in a compound with a psychotic escaped patient you thought was dead? Bad. Said patient is an amoral soldier who killed and raped even as a normal man? Bad! The murder also turns out to be a werewolf? Worse. Aforementioned werewolf now has bulletproof skin? [[UpToEleven Oh god no]]!

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* EvilVsEvil: EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler: Miller]] is just as bad as the Metalbeast and the monster has it out for him while also mauling anyone else it sees.
* FromBadToWorse: Each step just gets worse! Trapped in a compound with a psychotic escaped patient you thought was dead? Bad. Said patient is an amoral soldier who killed and raped even as a normal man? Bad! The murder also turns out to be a werewolf? Worse. Aforementioned werewolf now has bulletproof skin? [[UpToEleven Oh god no]]!God, no!]]
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So basically it's werewolf movie with an upgraded lycanthrope who's ImmuneToBullets, even the silver kind. It's typical B-movie fare, though not ''that'' bad.

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So basically it's a werewolf movie with an upgraded lycanthrope who's ImmuneToBullets, even the silver kind. It's typical B-movie fare, though not ''that'' bad.

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* ConcussionFrags: Averted. Setting off an explosion indoors ''will'' result in a lot of shrapnel and building material like rebar can be deadly projectiles.



* RealityEnsues: Setting off an explosion indoors ''will'' result in a lot of shrapnel and building material like rebar can be deadly projectiles.
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Project: Metalbeast (also titled "Project Metalbeast: DNA Overload" or just "Metalbeast") is a 1995 horror/science fiction film, directed by Alessandro De Gaetano and starring Creator/BarryBostwick, Creator/KaneHodder, Kim Delaney, and Musetta Vander, with a screenplay by Roger Steinmann. The basic plot is about a cold-war era military project using samples taken from a werewolf resulted in the soldier who injected himself with the samples going berserk and being put on ice after being shot with silver bullets. Twenty years later another project involving metallic artificial skin for medical applications is given the a John Doe "cadaver" to test the skin on. When the doctors find the bullets lodged in his chest they remove them and unknowingly revive the corpse. Healing its wounds, the werewolf's body adapts to the artificial skin and gives it a metallic outer coating.


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Project: Metalbeast ''Project: Metalbeast'' (also titled "Project ''Project Metalbeast: DNA Overload" Overload'' or just "Metalbeast") ''Metalbeast'') is a 1995 horror/science fiction film, directed by Alessandro De Gaetano and starring Creator/BarryBostwick, Creator/KaneHodder, Kim Delaney, and Musetta Vander, with a screenplay by Roger Steinmann. The basic plot is about a cold-war era military project using samples taken from a werewolf resulted in the soldier who injected himself with the samples going berserk and being put on ice after being shot with silver bullets. Twenty years later another project involving metallic artificial skin for medical applications is given the a John Doe "cadaver" to test the skin on. When the doctors find the bullets lodged in his chest they remove them and unknowingly revive the corpse. Healing its wounds, the werewolf's body adapts to the artificial skin and gives it a metallic outer coating.

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So basically it's werewolf movie with an upgraded lycanthrope who's ImmuneToBullets, even the silver kind. It's typical B-movie fair, though not ''that'' bad.

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So basically it's werewolf movie with an upgraded lycanthrope who's ImmuneToBullets, even the silver kind. It's typical B-movie fair, fare, though not ''that'' bad.
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* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Werewolf]]: Once he worfs out after getting the metallic skin, the Metalbeast is slowed down some but nothing can make him stop.

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* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Werewolf]]: Once he worfs wolfs out after getting the metallic skin, the Metalbeast is slowed down some but nothing can make him stop.
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* RealityEnsues: Setting off an explosion indoors ''will'' result in a lot of shrapnel and building material like rebar can be deadly projectiles.
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* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Werewolf]]

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* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Werewolf]]Werewolf]]: Once he worfs out after getting the metallic skin, the Metalbeast is slowed down some but nothing can make him stop.

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* CoolGuns: When silver bullets fail against the new werewolf, [[spoiler: silver tipped LAW rockets do the trick.]]



* FromBadToWorse: Trapped in a compound with a psychotic escaped patient you thought was dead? Bad. Said patient also turns out to be a werewolf? Worse. Aforementioned werewolf now has bulletproof skin? [[UpToEleven Oh god no]]!

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* FromBadToWorse: Each step just gets worse! Trapped in a compound with a psychotic escaped patient you thought was dead? Bad. Said patient is an amoral soldier who killed and raped even as a normal man? Bad! The murder also turns out to be a werewolf? Worse. Aforementioned werewolf now has bulletproof skin? [[UpToEleven Oh god no]]!



* RocketsMissilesAndGrenadeLaunchers: When silver bullets fail against the new werewolf, [[spoiler: silver tipped LAW rockets do the trick.]]
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Project: Metalbeast (also titled "Project Metalbeast: DNA Overload" or just "Metalbeast") is a 1995 horror/science fiction film, directed by Alessandro De Gaetano and starring Barry Bostwick, Creator/KaneHodder, Kim Delaney, and Musetta Vander, with a screenplay by Roger Steinmann. The basic plot is about a cold-war era military project using samples taken from a werewolf resulted in the soldier who injected himself with the samples going berserk and being put on ice after being shot with silver bullets. Twenty years later another project involving metallic artificial skin for medical applications is given the a John Doe "cadaver" to test the skin on. When the doctors find the bullets lodged in his chest they remove them and unknowingly revive the corpse. Healing its wounds, the werewolf's body adapts to the artificial skin and gives it a metallic outer coating.


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Project: Metalbeast (also titled "Project Metalbeast: DNA Overload" or just "Metalbeast") is a 1995 horror/science fiction film, directed by Alessandro De Gaetano and starring Barry Bostwick, Creator/BarryBostwick, Creator/KaneHodder, Kim Delaney, and Musetta Vander, with a screenplay by Roger Steinmann. The basic plot is about a cold-war era military project using samples taken from a werewolf resulted in the soldier who injected himself with the samples going berserk and being put on ice after being shot with silver bullets. Twenty years later another project involving metallic artificial skin for medical applications is given the a John Doe "cadaver" to test the skin on. When the doctors find the bullets lodged in his chest they remove them and unknowingly revive the corpse. Healing its wounds, the werewolf's body adapts to the artificial skin and gives it a metallic outer coating.

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* RocketsMissilesAndGrenadeLaunchers: When silver bullets fail against the new werewolf, [[spoiler: silver tipped LAW rockets do the trick.]]

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* RocketsMissilesAndGrenadeLaunchers: When silver bullets fail against the new werewolf, [[spoiler: silver tipped LAW rockets do the trick.]]]]
* SuperSoldier: The reason the government wanted werewolf blood was to create a line of these, but the project was canned when Donald Butler took it into his own hands and turned into a monster.

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* OffscreenTeleportation: Soon as any of the werewolves are offscreen they seem to show up just about anywhere, even in cases someone really should have noticed them.



* RocketsMissilesAndGrenadeLaunchers: When silver bullets fail against the new werewolf, [[spoiler: silver tipped LAW rockets do the trick.]]
* WhatAnIdiot: Miller's react to turning and seeing the Metalbeast advancing right behind him? Stop and say "Oh no no, it's me!", while he has plenty of space to run away and reminding the creature it's him just ticks it off more since it hates him.

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* RocketsMissilesAndGrenadeLaunchers: When silver bullets fail against the new werewolf, [[spoiler: silver tipped LAW rockets do the trick.]]
* WhatAnIdiot: Miller's react to turning and seeing the Metalbeast advancing right behind him? Stop and say "Oh no no, it's me!", while he has plenty of space to run away and reminding the creature it's him just ticks it off more since it hates him.
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* BackFromTheDead: The soldier who later becomes the metalbeast was shot in the chest several times with silver bullets when he was a normal werewolf, making him clinically and medically dead for over two decades. Soon as the bullets were out however he didn't take long to revive.

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* BackFromTheDead: The soldier who later becomes the metalbeast Metalbeast was shot in the chest several times with silver bullets when he was a normal werewolf, making him clinically and medically dead for over two decades. Soon as the bullets were out however he didn't take long to revive.



* DiabolusExNihilo: The original werewolf is just shown living in an old castle with no explanation of who it is or how the military found out about it.



* EvilVsEvil: [[spoiler: Miller]] is just as bad as the metalbeast and the monster has it out for him while also mauling anyone else it sees.

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* EvilVsEvil: [[spoiler: Miller]] is just as bad as the metalbeast Metalbeast and the monster has it out for him while also mauling anyone else it sees.



* KickTheSonOfABitch: Miller, the amoral scumbag of a supervisor of both projects, gets cornered by the metalbeast and it seems to take its time killing him. While the other victims were taken out in one or two swipes or bites, here it takes the time to toss him around the room, claw up his face, bite his jaw; and then ram its hand through his chest.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Subverted in a way. We see two cases of a normal werewolf and they are pretty standard horror movie lycanthropes with typical behavior and weakness. That changes however when the second werewolf gets metal skin.
* RocketsMissilesAndGrenadeLaunchers: When silver bullets fail against the new werewolf, [[spoiler: silver tipped LAW rockets do the trick.]]

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* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Werewolf]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Miller, the amoral scumbag of a supervisor of both projects, gets cornered by the metalbeast Metalbeast and it seems to take its time killing him. While the other victims were taken out in one or two swipes or bites, here it takes the time to toss him around the room, claw up his face, bite his jaw; and then ram its hand through his chest.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Subverted in a way. We see two cases of a normal werewolf and they are pretty standard horror movie lycanthropes with typical behavior and weakness. That changes however when the second werewolf gets metal skin.skin, making it slower but completely immune to anything save large explosions.
* RocketsMissilesAndGrenadeLaunchers: When silver bullets fail against the new werewolf, [[spoiler: silver tipped LAW rockets do the trick.]]]]
* WhatAnIdiot: Miller's react to turning and seeing the Metalbeast advancing right behind him? Stop and say "Oh no no, it's me!", while he has plenty of space to run away and reminding the creature it's him just ticks it off more since it hates him.
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* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: Donald Butler was already a cruel and uncaring man who sacrificed a photographer to draw out the first werewolf. And then he knowingly injects himself with werewolf blood...
* EvilVsEvil: [[spoiler: Miller]] is just as bad as the metalbeast and the monster has it out for him while also mauling anyone else it sees.
* FromBadToWorse: Trapped in a compound with a psychotic escaped patient you thought was dead? Bad. Said patient also turns out to be a werewolf? Worse. Aforementioned werewolf now has bulletproof skin? [[UpToEleven Oh god no]]!
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Project: Metalbeast (also titled "Project Metalbeast: DNA Overload" or just "Metalbeast") is a 1995 horror/science fiction film, directed by Alessandro De Gaetano and starring Barry Bostwick, Creator/KaneHodder, Kim Delaney, and Musetta Vander, with a screenplay by Roger Steinmann. The basic plot is about a cold-war era military project using samples taken from a werewolf resulted in the soldier who injected himself with the samples going berserk and being put on ice after being shot with silver bullets. Twenty years later another project involving metallic artificial skin for medical applications is given the a John Doe "cadaver" to test the skin on. When the doctors find the bullets lodged in his chest they remove them and unknowingly revive the corpse. Healing its wounds, the werewolf's body adapts to the artificial skin and gives it a metallic outer coating.


So basically it's werewolf movie with an upgraded lycanthrope who's ImmuneToBullets, even the silver kind. It's typical B-movie fair, though not ''that'' bad.

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* BackFromTheDead: The soldier who later becomes the metalbeast was shot in the chest several times with silver bullets when he was a normal werewolf, making him clinically and medically dead for over two decades. Soon as the bullets were out however he didn't take long to revive.
* BlackGuyDiesFirst: ZigZagged. While not the first person to die in the movie, the first of the doctors to get mauled is the only black one.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Miller, the amoral scumbag of a supervisor of both projects, gets cornered by the metalbeast and it seems to take its time killing him. While the other victims were taken out in one or two swipes or bites, here it takes the time to toss him around the room, claw up his face, bite his jaw; and then ram its hand through his chest.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Subverted in a way. We see two cases of a normal werewolf and they are pretty standard horror movie lycanthropes with typical behavior and weakness. That changes however when the second werewolf gets metal skin.
* RocketsMissilesAndGrenadeLaunchers: When silver bullets fail against the new werewolf, [[spoiler: silver tipped LAW rockets do the trick.]]

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