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The movie stars Creator/RebBrown, Creator/CatherineHickland, Creator/MassimoVanni, Creator/RomanoPuppo, Creator/ClaudioFragasso, Creator/MaxLaurel, Creator/JimGaines, Creator/JohnPDulaney, and Creator/MelDavidson.
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The movie stars Creator/RebBrown, Creator/CatherineHickland, Creator/MassimoVanni, Creator/RomanoPuppo, Creator/ClaudioFragasso, Creator/MaxLaurel, Creator/JimGaines, Creator/JohnPDulaney, Catherine Hickland, Massimo Vanni, Romano Puppo, Claudio Fragasso, Max Laurel, Jim Gaines, John P. Dulaney, and Creator/MelDavidson.
Mel Davidson.
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* WasOnceAMan: One of the few plot points not lifted from ''Predator'' but instead from ''Film/{{Robocop}}''. Omega One is made from the remains of Martin Woodrie, Marphy's old war buddy from 'Nam.
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* WasOnceAMan: One of the few plot points not lifted from ''Predator'' but instead from ''Film/{{Robocop}}''.''Film/RoboCop1987''. Omega One is made from the remains of Martin Woodrie, Marphy's old war buddy from 'Nam.
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* {{Codename}}: Most the Big Ass Motherfuckers are given nicknames that the filmmakers must have thought sounded extremely cool. Namely: Major Murphy (Marphy?) "Killzone" Black, Pvt. Larry "Diddybop" Guarino, Alfred "Papa Doc" Bray, and Sonny "Blood" Peel. Quang is an ambiguous case; we're told we was "renamed" that after previous going by Nung Quo, but it's unclear why. Corporal Neil Corey is the one clear-cut exception, having no codename or alias at all.
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* {{Codename}}: Most the Big Ass Motherfuckers are given nicknames that the filmmakers must have thought sounded extremely cool. Namely: Major Murphy (Marphy?) "Killzone" Black, Pvt. Larry "Diddybop" Guarino, Alfred "Papa Doc" Bray, and Sonny "Blood" Peel. Quang is an ambiguous case; we're told we was "renamed" that after previous previously going by Nung Quo, but it's unclear why. Corporal Neil Corey is the one clear-cut exception, having no codename or alias at all.
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A 1988 Sci-Fi action horror directed by Creator/BrunoMattei (under the pseudonym of Vincent Dawn) that follows a group of commandos being stalked by a robot and trying to survive. It was co-written by Mattei and the husband-and-wife team of Claudio Fragasso and Rosella Drudi, best known for making ''Film/Troll2'' a few years later.
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A 1988 Sci-Fi action horror ActionHorror movie directed by Creator/BrunoMattei (under the pseudonym of Vincent Dawn) that follows a group of commandos being stalked by a robot KillerRobot and trying to survive. It was co-written by Mattei and the husband-and-wife team of Claudio Fragasso and Rosella Drudi, best known for making ''Film/Troll2'' a few years later.
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* CharacterAsHimself: Implied, possibly unintentionally, by the end credits. Much like ''Film/{{Predator}}'', the film ends with a CreditsMontage, with each actor's name and character displaying over a clip of them (although Peel and Guarino are mixed up, and a few of the names are spelled wrong). After crediting all the human characters, the title "Robowar" appears over a shot of the robot, suggesting this trope.
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* CharacterAsHimself: Implied, possibly unintentionally, by the end credits. Much like ''Film/{{Predator}}'', the film ends with a CreditsMontage, with each actor's name and character displaying over a clip of them (although Peel and Guarino are mixed up, and a few of the names are spelled wrong). After crediting all the human characters, the title "Robowar" appears over a shot of the robot, suggesting this trope. It's actually Claudio Fragasso wearing the robot suit, though.
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** DeathByDisfigurement: Peel steps in a foot trap a few scenes earlier, leaving him with a limp for the remaineder of his scenes.
* CameraAbuse: When Omega One kills Corey, we get a close-up shot of him spewing blood into the lens of the camera from his mouth.
* CameraAbuse: When Omega One kills Corey, we get a close-up shot of him spewing blood into the lens of the camera from his mouth.
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** DeathByDisfigurement: Peel steps in a foot trap a few scenes earlier, leaving him with a limp for the remaineder remainder of his scenes.
* CameraAbuse: When Omega One kills Corey, we get a close-up shot of him spewing blood into the lens of thecamera from his mouth.camera.
* CameraAbuse: When Omega One kills Corey, we get a close-up shot of him spewing blood into the lens of the
* FailedASpotCheck: Corey steps out of cover to reclaim the detonator from Mascher's corpse, telling the rest of the surviving Big Ass Motherfuckers to cover him. Despite this, Omega One appears right behind Corey and kills him, with no warning from the other guys.
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** Possibly a spelling error, but Reb Brown's character is credited as "Marphy Black" but his name is always pronounced as "Murphy".
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** Possibly a spelling error, but Reb Brown's character is credited as "Marphy Black" but his name is always pronounced as "Murphy". Likewise, Catherine Hickland's character is credited as "Virgin" but all the dialogue refers to her as "Virginia".
* MercyKill: In a flashback to 'Nam, Marphy Black remembers his [[AlmostDeadGuy badly-wounded friend]] Woodrie begging him to "finish me off", but he can't do it. At the climax of the movie, he eventually does, though: see ICannotSelfTerminate above.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Mascher, the DirtyCoward who endangers the Big Ass Motherfuckers, refers to Quang as a "gook", infuriating Maj. Black.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Mascher, the DirtyCoward who needlessly endangers the Big Ass Motherfuckers, refers to Quang as a "gook", infuriating Maj. Black.
* WasOnceAMan: One of the few plot points not lifted from ''Predator'' but instead from ''Film/{{Robocop}}''. Omega One is made from the remains of Martin Woodrie, Marphy's old war buddy from 'Nam.
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* YouNoTakeCandle: Quang's dialogue is in broken English. It's not quite AsianSpeakeeEngrish but still kind of silly.
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* YouNoTakeCandle: Quang's dialogue is in broken English. It's not quite AsianSpeakeeEngrish AsianSpeekeeEngrish but still kind of silly.
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* AbandonedHospital: Black and Virginia hole up in one toward the end of the movie. She had worked there as a volunteer doctor, before the hospital had to be evacuated because of guerilla attacks.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: The heroes come upon a group of armed guerillas in trucks, chasing down some unarmed civilians, including the beautiful Virginia. Mascher tells them not to get involved and to focus on the mission (although he has made a point of telling them [[ClassifiedInformation absolutely nothing]] about what they ''are'' supposed to be doing), but they are pretty unanimous in their decision to "start settling some accounts" and [[MoreDakka relentlessly mow down]] the guerillas, though Virginia is the only person they're able to save. Later, they ignore Mascher's orders again when Virginia asks them to rescue some children being held hostage by some other guerillas, though this time they are too late and the children are already dead.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: The heroes come upon a group of armed guerillas in trucks, chasing down some unarmed civilians, including the beautiful Virginia. Mascher tells them not to get involved and to focus on the mission (although he has made a point of telling them [[ClassifiedInformation absolutely nothing]] about what they ''are'' supposed to be doing), but they are pretty unanimous in their decision to "start settling some accounts" and [[MoreDakka relentlessly mow down]] the guerillas, though Virginia is the only person they're able to save. Later, they ignore Mascher's orders again when Virginia asks them to rescue some children being held hostage by some other guerillas, though this time they are too late and the children are already dead.
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* HungryJungle: Peel observes that "I've seen some heavy greens but this takes the cake." Most of the film was shot on location in the Philippines.
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* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Virginia, the kind-hearted woman who came to [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield whatever country this is set in]] to work as a volunteer doctor, is blonde. Could also apply to Maj. Black, the brave and noble action hero played by the blond-haired Reb Brown.
* HateSink: Mascher's role in the story is equivalent to Dillon's in ''Predator'', but with none of Dillon's redeeming traits (or the inherent likability of Creator/CarlWeathers). Not only does he endanger BAM by not telling them what he knows, he's a DirtyCoward, a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]], and is generally TheLoad throughout the film. Corey routinely suggests [[JustEatGilligan they kill him]], and Black only shoots down the suggestion because they still need information from him, making it very clear that he has no moral objections at all.
* HungryJungle: Peel observes that "I've seen some heavy greens but this takes the cake." Most of the film was shot on location in the Philippines. Ultimately downplayed, as aside from a scene in which Bray is swept away by a river, the environment serves mainly as a backdrop and does little to impact the story.
* HateSink: Mascher's role in the story is equivalent to Dillon's in ''Predator'', but with none of Dillon's redeeming traits (or the inherent likability of Creator/CarlWeathers). Not only does he endanger BAM by not telling them what he knows, he's a DirtyCoward, a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]], and is generally TheLoad throughout the film. Corey routinely suggests [[JustEatGilligan they kill him]], and Black only shoots down the suggestion because they still need information from him, making it very clear that he has no moral objections at all.
* HungryJungle: Peel observes that "I've seen some heavy greens but this takes the cake." Most of the film was shot on location in the Philippines. Ultimately downplayed, as aside from a scene in which Bray is swept away by a river, the environment serves mainly as a backdrop and does little to impact the story.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Mascher, the DirtyCoward who endangers the Big Ass Motherfuckers, refers to Quang as a "gook", infuriating Maj. Black.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's extremely unclear where the movie is set. It's a tropical country that is going through some kind of civil war, and there's a reference to a town called San Pedro so presumably it's somewhere that had, at some point, been a colony of Spain, but that's really all we get.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Quang's dialogue is in broken English. It's not quite AsianSpeakeeEngrish but still kind of silly.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Quang's dialogue is in broken English. It's not quite AsianSpeakeeEngrish but still kind of silly.
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* ClassifiedInformation: In order to keep the Omega One project a secret, Mascher decides it's best to tell BAM absolutely nothing at all about the mission before sending them out. All they know is that they have to "beach two rafts" on "an island". Naturally, they are utterly unprepared to face a KillerRobot and nearly everyone is killed.
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* KillerRobot: Omega One, the main antagonist of the movie.
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* RoboCam: There are a lot of POVCamera shots from Omega One's perspective. Apparently it perceives everything as a pixelated mass of brown. A rare case where a robot's "enhanced" vision makes everything much harder to see.
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* RoboCam: There are a lot of POVCamera POVCam shots from Omega One's perspective. Apparently it perceives everything as a pixelated mass of brown. A rare case where a robot's "enhanced" vision makes everything much harder to see.
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* {{Robocam}}: There are a lot of POVCamera shots from Omega One's perspective. Apparently it perceives everything as a pixelated mass of brown. A rare case where a robot's "enhanced" vision makes everything much harder to see.
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* {{Robocam}}: RoboCam: There are a lot of POVCamera shots from Omega One's perspective. Apparently it perceives everything as a pixelated mass of brown. A rare case where a robot's "enhanced" vision makes everything much harder to see.
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A 1988 Sci-Fi action horror directed by Creator/BrunoMattei that follows a group of commandos being stalked by robots and trying to survive.
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A 1988 Sci-Fi action horror directed by Creator/BrunoMattei (under the pseudonym of Vincent Dawn) that follows a group of commandos being stalked by robots a robot and trying to survive.
survive. It was co-written by Mattei and the husband-and-wife team of Claudio Fragasso and Rosella Drudi, best known for making ''Film/Troll2'' a few years later.
The film is mainly notable for being a truly shameless knockoff of ''Film/{{Predator}}''.
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* CameraAbuse: The movie includes a scene where the titular war machine kills a man who, in close-up, spews blood into the lens of the camera from his mouth.
* CharacterAsHimself: The eponymous war machine is credited as "Robowar as himself".
* CharacterAsHimself: The eponymous war machine is credited as "Robowar as himself".
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Peel, the sole black team member, is the first named character to die.
** DeathByDisfigurement: Peel steps in a foot trap a few scenes earlier, leaving him with a limp for the remaineder of his scenes.
* CameraAbuse:The movie includes a scene where the titular war machine When Omega One kills Corey, we get a man who, in close-up, spews close-up shot of him spewing blood into the lens of the camera from his mouth.
* CharacterAsHimself:The eponymous war machine Implied, possibly unintentionally, by the end credits. Much like ''Film/{{Predator}}'', the film ends with a CreditsMontage, with each actor's name and character displaying over a clip of them (although Peel and Guarino are mixed up, and a few of the names are spelled wrong). After crediting all the human characters, the title "Robowar" appears over a shot of the robot, suggesting this trope.
* {{Codename}}: Most the Big Ass Motherfuckers are given nicknames that the filmmakers must have thought sounded extremely cool. Namely: Major Murphy (Marphy?) "Killzone" Black, Pvt. Larry "Diddybop" Guarino, Alfred "Papa Doc" Bray, and Sonny "Blood" Peel. Quang is an ambiguous case; we're told we was "renamed" that after previous going by Nung Quo, but it's unclear why. Corporal Neil Corey is the one clear-cut exception, having no codename or alias at all.
--->'''Mascher''': Why do they have nicknames?\\
'''Commanding Officer''': You should know what the group is called: BAM.
* HungryJungle: Peel observes that "I've seen some heavy greens but this takes the cake." Most of the film was shot on location in the Philippines.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Omega One eventually decides it's had enough of killing people in the jungle, and gives its detonator to Major Black so he can finally put it out of its misery. Unfortunately, [[DefeatEqualsExplosion it then explodes]], forcing Black to jump off a waterfall (yes, exactly like in ''Predator'') to escape the blast.
* ItsPronouncedTroPay:
** No one can agree on whether Quang's name is pronounced to rhyme with "gang" or with "gong".
** Possibly a spelling error, but Reb Brown's character is credited as"Robowar "Marphy Black" but his name is always pronounced as himself"."Murphy".
* MoreDakka: There are a ''lot'' of scenes of the Big Ass Motherfuckers all firing their guns in a straight line and yelling.
** DeathByDisfigurement: Peel steps in a foot trap a few scenes earlier, leaving him with a limp for the remaineder of his scenes.
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* CharacterAsHimself:
* {{Codename}}: Most the Big Ass Motherfuckers are given nicknames that the filmmakers must have thought sounded extremely cool. Namely: Major Murphy (Marphy?) "Killzone" Black, Pvt. Larry "Diddybop" Guarino, Alfred "Papa Doc" Bray, and Sonny "Blood" Peel. Quang is an ambiguous case; we're told we was "renamed" that after previous going by Nung Quo, but it's unclear why. Corporal Neil Corey is the one clear-cut exception, having no codename or alias at all.
--->'''Mascher''': Why do they have nicknames?\\
'''Commanding Officer''': You should know what the group is called: BAM.
* HungryJungle: Peel observes that "I've seen some heavy greens but this takes the cake." Most of the film was shot on location in the Philippines.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Omega One eventually decides it's had enough of killing people in the jungle, and gives its detonator to Major Black so he can finally put it out of its misery. Unfortunately, [[DefeatEqualsExplosion it then explodes]], forcing Black to jump off a waterfall (yes, exactly like in ''Predator'') to escape the blast.
* ItsPronouncedTroPay:
** No one can agree on whether Quang's name is pronounced to rhyme with "gang" or with "gong".
** Possibly a spelling error, but Reb Brown's character is credited as
* MoreDakka: There are a ''lot'' of scenes of the Big Ass Motherfuckers all firing their guns in a straight line and yelling.
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* PostMortemOneLiner: The scene in ''Predator'' where Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger kills a bad guy with a thrown knife, fatally pinning him to a wall, and then quips "Stick around" is reenacted, except it's pretty clear the Italian screenwriters didn't actually understand Arnold's pun, leaving poor Reb with the very lame "Don't move".
* {{Robocam}}: There are a lot of POVCamera shots from Omega One's perspective. Apparently it perceives everything as a pixelated mass of brown. A rare case where a robot's "enhanced" vision makes everything much harder to see.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Virginia is the only woman in the film.
* TheSquad: [=BAM=], or Big Ass Motherfuckers, are supposedly an elite team of commandos, most of whom are Vietnam vets. One member, Quang, is himself Vietnamese.
--->'''Mascher'': Sort of like, get to it and go get fucked, like in 'Nam.
* YouShallNotPass: Quang decides to stop running and face Omega One head-on, buying Black and Virginia some time. Again, the scene is lifted directly from Billy's big moment on the bridge in ''Predator''.
* {{Robocam}}: There are a lot of POVCamera shots from Omega One's perspective. Apparently it perceives everything as a pixelated mass of brown. A rare case where a robot's "enhanced" vision makes everything much harder to see.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Virginia is the only woman in the film.
* TheSquad: [=BAM=], or Big Ass Motherfuckers, are supposedly an elite team of commandos, most of whom are Vietnam vets. One member, Quang, is himself Vietnamese.
--->'''Mascher'': Sort of like, get to it and go get fucked, like in 'Nam.
* YouShallNotPass: Quang decides to stop running and face Omega One head-on, buying Black and Virginia some time. Again, the scene is lifted directly from Billy's big moment on the bridge in ''Predator''.
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* OneWordTitle: ''Robowar''.''Robowar''.
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* NoWaterproofingInTheFuture: Played straight, as the villain is an escaped high-tech cyborg. The robot is nigh-invulnerable but somehow can be paralyzed when Virgin spills a pail of water on it, shorting it out long enough for Black to deliver a killing blow. [[spoiler: Or so it seems]]...
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* NoWaterproofingInTheFuture: Played straight, as the villain is an escaped high-tech cyborg. The robot is nigh-invulnerable but somehow can be paralyzed when Virgin spills a pail of water on it, shorting it out long enough for Black to deliver a killing blow. [[spoiler: Or so it seems]]...seems]]...
* OneWordTitle: ''Robowar''.
* OneWordTitle: ''Robowar''.
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A 1988 Sci-Fi action horror directed by Creator/BrunoMattei that follows a group of commandos being stalked by robots and trying to survive.
The movie stars Creator/RebBrown, Creator/CatherineHickland, Creator/MassimoVanni, Creator/RomanoPuppo, Creator/ClaudioFragasso, Creator/MaxLaurel, Creator/JimGaines, Creator/JohnPDulaney, and Creator/MelDavidson.
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* CameraAbuse: The movie includes a scene where the titular war machine kills a man who, in close-up, spews blood into the lens of the camera from his mouth.
* CharacterAsHimself: The eponymous war machine is credited as "Robowar as himself".
* NoWaterproofingInTheFuture: Played straight, as the villain is an escaped high-tech cyborg. The robot is nigh-invulnerable but somehow can be paralyzed when Virgin spills a pail of water on it, shorting it out long enough for Black to deliver a killing blow. [[spoiler: Or so it seems]]...
The movie stars Creator/RebBrown, Creator/CatherineHickland, Creator/MassimoVanni, Creator/RomanoPuppo, Creator/ClaudioFragasso, Creator/MaxLaurel, Creator/JimGaines, Creator/JohnPDulaney, and Creator/MelDavidson.
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!Tropes for the film:
* CameraAbuse: The movie includes a scene where the titular war machine kills a man who, in close-up, spews blood into the lens of the camera from his mouth.
* CharacterAsHimself: The eponymous war machine is credited as "Robowar as himself".
* NoWaterproofingInTheFuture: Played straight, as the villain is an escaped high-tech cyborg. The robot is nigh-invulnerable but somehow can be paralyzed when Virgin spills a pail of water on it, shorting it out long enough for Black to deliver a killing blow. [[spoiler: Or so it seems]]...
