History Film / ThePurgeElectionYear

''The Purge: Election Year'' is the third film in ''[[Film/ThePurge The Purge]]'' series. Set in 2040, seventeen years after the previous film, Leo Barnes (Creator/FrankGrillo) is now head of security for U.S. Senator Charlene Roan (Creator/ElizabethMitchell), who is running for President with a pledge to eliminate the Purge. The New Founding Fathers want to prevent this and plan to have her assassinated on the Purge night before the election.

** The prologue takes place in 2022 concurrently on the same Purge night as [[Film/ThePurge the first movie]]. The rest of the film jumps TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture to the year 2040; 17 years after ''Film/ThePurgeAnarchy'' (set in 2023).

''The Purge: Election Year'' is the third film in ''[[Film/ThePurge The Purge (Franchise)]]''. Set in 2040, seventeen years after the previous film, Leo Barnes (Creator/FrankGrillo) is now head of security for U.S. Senator Charlene Roan (Creator/ElizabethMitchell), who is running for President with a pledge to eliminate the Purge. The New Founding Fathers want to prevent this and plan to have her assassinated on the Purge night before the election.

%%* GigglingVillain: Harmon James.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Kimmy, the leader of the teenage girl purgers, antagonized Joe's store just because he prevented her from stealing a candy bar. This goes UpToEleven on Purge Night as she mentions when she breaks into the store, she will not only take her candy bar but kill everyone in the store and set it ablaze! Did we mention she killed her parents?

* SequelHook: [[spoiler: We see protests in the midst of Roan’s electoral victory, meaning there are those who wish for the Purge to continue, setting up the next chronological installment, ''The Forever Purge''.]]

* TeensAreMonsters: Kimmy and her friends are a group of psychotic teenage purgers who think not being allowed to shoplift a candy bar is justification to burn the store down and murder the owner come Purge night. For bonus points, Kimmy even brags she murdered her own parents. [[spoiler: She thankfully gets run over and shotgunned without remorse.]]
* TemptingFate: Kimmy is just asking to get purged with her constant bragging about she can do what she wants on Purge night. [[spoiler:Laney obliges.]]
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: After killing the AxCrazy schoolgirls, Laney says this:

''The Purge: Election Year'' is the third film in ''[[Franchise/ThePurge The Purge Franchise]]''. Set in 2040, seventeen years after the previous film, Leo Barnes (Creator/FrankGrillo) is now head of security for U.S. Senator Charlene Roan (Creator/ElizabethMitchell), who is running for President with a pledge to eliminate the Purge. The New Founding Fathers want to prevent this and plan to have her assassinated on the Purge night before the election.

''The Purge: Election Year'' is the third film in ''[[Franchise/ThePurge The Purge Franchise]]''. Set seventeen years after the previous film, Leo Barnes (Creator/FrankGrillo) is now head of security for U.S. Senator Charlene Roan (Creator/ElizabethMitchell), who is running for President with a pledge to eliminate the Purge. The New Founding Fathers want to prevent this and plan to have her assassinated on the Purge night before the election.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Leo's looking pretty considering it's been 17 years since the previous film.

''The Purge: Election Year'' is the third film in ''Film/ThePurge'' series. Set seventeen years after the previous film, Leo Barnes (Creator/FrankGrillo) is now head of security for U.S. Senator Charlene Roan (Creator/ElizabethMitchell), who is running for President with a pledge to eliminate the Purge. The New Founding Fathers want to prevent this and plan to have her assassinated on the Purge night before the election.

* CommieNazis: Purgers in the film tend to represent several facets of political evil. The New Founding Fathers use a gang of neo-Nazis as thugs, gangs fly Confederate flags, while the "murder tourists" are mostly Russians. The American purgers themselves mostly act like hedonists as well.

* AffablyEvil: * The unseen Purgers manning the PendulumOfDeath almost kill Roan and Leo with it, but when they get by it successfully, the Purgers make no further attempts to harm them and [[GracefulLoser even wish them good luck]].

* AffablyEvil: Danzinger. Sure, he and his men are [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain politically incorrect]] neo-Nazis, but he's also AFatherToHisMen who orders medical treatment for a severely injured but alive one, becomes enraged when he learns that two of his men are ambushed and killed, and it's even slightly hinted that, despite his racism, he's something of a PunchClockVillain who doesn't seem to like the Purge all that much.
** The unseen Purgers manning the PendulumOfDeath almost kill Roan and Leo with it, but when they get by it successfully, the Purgers make no further attempts to harm them and [[GracefulLoser even wish them good luck]].

* GlasgowGrin: [[spoiler: Leo gives one of these to Danziger with a push dagger, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath: right before planting it between his shoulder blades.]]]]