History Film / TetsuoTheIronMan

* LivingWeapon: [[spoiler:Both the Salaryman and Yatsu in ''2''.]]
** [[spoiler:Anthony and his son(s)]] in ''The Bullet Man''. [[spoiler:Turns out Dr. Ride (his father) created a [[TitleDrop Tetsuo]] replica of his dying wife. Then, he inseminates it, resulting with Anthony]].

* WidgetSeries

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: All three movies take their titles to literal levels.

* SilenceIsGolden: As a nod to its ''{{Eraserhead}}'' influences, the movie has minimal dialogue.

* MindScrew: There's a reason why it is often compared to ''{{Eraserhead}}''.

* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler:In ''The Bullet Man'', Yatsu[=/=]The Metal Fetishist plants a bomb on Yuriko's necklace. He gives Anthony two choices: kill him or let her die. Anthony, realizing that either choices will drive him into destroying the world, ''forcefully absorbs'' Yatsu [[AndIMustScream into his body]], reverting him back to human form.]]

* LeFilmArtistique: The movies are black and white (except the sequels), has a small budget, uses unusual film techniques and the plot is full of MindScrew and [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory very open to interpretation]], [[WidgetSeries if we add that the movies are Japanese]] (foreign for most of us, English speakers) the series fit the trope perfectly.

* MadScientist: Yatsu in ''The Bullet Man''.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:In ''The Bullet Man'', Yatsu[=/=]The Metal Fetishist pulls this on both his {{mooks}} and the SWATTeam pursuing Dr. Ride]].

* TheRightHandOfDoom: Almost every character in the movie ends up sporting a big, clunky metal hand at one point or another.

* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: The protagonist and antagonist merge together to form one organism and they will use their combined power to destroy the world, due to the last lines of the film. Also, for the Salaryman, he seems to have become fully submissive and under the control of the Metal Fetishist (although he may just be pretending to act like that just to avoid more pain).]]

* DeliberatelyMonochrome.

* LeFilmArtistique: The movies are black and white, have a small budget, use unusual film techniques and the plot is full of mind screw and very open to interpretation, if we add that the movies are japanese (foreign for most of us, english speakers) the series fit the trope perfectly.

* LeFilmArtistique: The movies are black and white, have a small budget, use unusual film techniques and the plot is full of mindscrew and very open to imperpretation, if we add that the movies are japanese (forgein for most of us, english speakers) the series fit the trope perfectly.

** [[spoiler:Anthony]] in ''The Bullet Man''. [[spoiler:Turns out Dr. Ride (his father) created a [[TitleDrop Tetsuo]] replica of his dying wife. Then, he inseminates it, resulting with Anthony]].

* JitterCam: ''The Bullet Man''.