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-->-- ''Death Wish V: The Face of Death''

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* TheWoobie: Paul Kersey obviously. His wife was killed, daughter was raped (on two different movies), traumatized, and then committed suicide. Cops are always after him, and most women he becomes involved with get killed off [[spoiler:save for the ShallowLoveInterest in ''Death Wish II'']] and the fact we had to mark that in spoiler tags is even sadder.

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* TheWoobie: Paul Kersey obviously. His wife was killed, daughter was raped (on two different movies), traumatized, and then committed suicide. Cops are always after him, and most women he becomes involved with get killed off [[spoiler:save for the ShallowLoveInterest in ''Death Wish II'']] and the fact that we had to mark ~~that~~ the latter in spoiler tags is even sadder.

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"DeathWish" is a series of movies starring CharlesBronson as architect-gone-vigilante Paul Kersey. After his family gets killed in the beginning of the first movie the TechnicalPacifist and conscientious objector Kersey becomes a {{badass}} {{vigilante}} thanks to the gun training he enjoyed as a kid, because his father was a gun nut. After receiving a gun as a gift from a Arizonan client, who happens to be a gun nut, all hell breaks loose. The cops find out who the mysterious vigilante is, but instead of arresting him on sight, they decide to let him run, in order to not let the media turn him into a hero/martyr. The four sequels follow the same pattern, except for the murdered family of course.

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~~"DeathWish"~~ --> "Who the fuck are you?"
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-->-- ''Death Wish V: The Face of Death''

'''''DeathWish''''' is a series of movies starring CharlesBronson as architect-gone-vigilante Paul Kersey. After his family gets killed in the beginning of the first movie the TechnicalPacifist and conscientious objector Kersey becomes a {{badass}} {{vigilante}} thanks to the gun training he enjoyed as a kid, because his father was a gun nut. After receiving a gun as a gift from a Arizonan client, ~~who happens to be a gun nut,~~ all hell breaks loose. The cops find out who the mysterious vigilante is, but instead of arresting him on sight, they decide to let him run, in order to not let the media turn him into a hero/martyr. The four sequels follow the same pattern, except for the murdered family of course.

The original film was denounced by critics as advocating vigilantism and unlimited punishment to criminals, but it was seen as echoing a growing mood in the United States as crime rose during the 1970s.

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* Death Wish (1974)
* Death Wish II (1982)
* Death Wish 3 (1985)
* Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
* Death Wish V: The Face of Death (1994)

'''Fun Fact:''' the first Death Wish is also the Big Screen debut of JeffGoldblum. He plays one of the {{Mook}}s (actually billed as "Freak #1")
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* ~~Death Wish~~ ''Death Wish'' (1974)
* ~~Death~~ ''Death Wish II II'' (1982)
* ~~Death~~ ''Death Wish 3 3'' (1985)
* ~~Death~~ ''Death Wish 4: The ~~Crackdown~~ Crackdown'' (1987)
* ~~Death~~ ''Death Wish V: The Face of Death (1994)

'''Fun Fact:''' the first Death Wish is also the Big Screen debut of JeffGoldblum. He plays one of the {{Mook}}s (actually billed as "Freak #1")
<<|{{Film}}|>>Death'' (1994)

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* {{Badass}}: Paul. By the series end he's a BadassGrandpa too.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Paul is a pacifist, but he learned to use guns in his younger age (and it shows).

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* CultClassic: ''Death Wish 3''.
* DisposableWoman: One of the series most notorious traits. Actually, if you're female and hang around Paul Kersey you're pretty much screwed.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Daphne Moon's ex-fiance appears as a lawyer in ''Death Wish V''. [[JurassicPark Ian Malcom]] is one of the criminals who kills Paul's wife. Laurence Fishburne plays a hoodlum in the 2nd film. [[StarTrek Counselor Troi]] gets raped and killed in ''Death Wish 3''. Cummings, from ''Mitchell'' is Paul's old war buddy.

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* ~~HeyItsThatGuy:~~ EveryCarIsAPinto
* FilmOfTheBook
* HandCannon: His friend "Wildey" (more specifically, the .475 Wildey Magnum. Currently the most powerful semiautomatic handgun in the world.)
* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: Daphne Moon's ex-fiance appears as a lawyer in ''Death Wish V''. [[JurassicPark Ian Malcom]] is one of the criminals who kills Paul's wife. ~~Laurence Fishburne~~ LaurenceFishburne plays a hoodlum in the 2nd film. [[StarTrek Counselor Troi]] gets raped and killed in ''Death Wish 3''. Cummings, from ''Mitchell'' is Paul's old war buddy.

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* ~~RapeAsDrama~~MoreDakka: In ''Death Wish 3'' and ''Death Wish 4'', Kersey uses a .30 caliber M1919 and a M16 with an M203 respectively.
* NewYorkSubway
* NumberedSequels: Alternates between normal and Roman numbers.
* PreMortemOneLiner
* RapeAsDrama: Kersey's daughter was raped when his wife killed, all for drama and motivation. Also the rape/murder is played for exploitation turn-on, which makes all of the subsequent action seem more than a bit hypocritical.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: Kersey carries around a revolver for most of the films
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge

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* TheWoobie: Paul Kersey obviousy. His wife was killed, daughter was raped, traumatized, and then committed suicide. Cops are always after him, and most women he becomes involved with get killed off (save for the ShallowLoveInterest in Death Wish II).

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* UnfortunateImplications: Kersey seems to kill mostly black men but movie itself seems to lampshade this. "What do you want, racial equality among muggers?"
* UnwittingPawn: Paul becomes one in ''The Crackdown''.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the third movie, Kersey's friend leaves in the middle of a town-wide gunfight to reload his zip gun. He doesn't appear again. He's probably deader than a doornail.
* TheWoobie: Paul Kersey obviously. His wife was killed, daughter was raped (on two different movies), traumatized, and then committed suicide. Cops are always after him, and most women he becomes involved with get killed off [[spoiler:save for the ShallowLoveInterest in ''Death Wish II'']] and the fact we had to mark that in spoiler tags is even sadder.

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* CrusadingWidower: Paul Kersey.

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* CaliforniaDoubling: ''Death Wish 3'' takes place in New York, but was filmed in London.

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** As such a long-running series (five films spread out across twenty years), ''Death Wish'' features of a number of appearances by then-unknown actors who would go on to star in bigger and better roles. In addition to those listed above, {{Machete}}, [[XFiles Director Skinner]], {{Mulan}}'s father, and [[StarTrekVoyager Lieutenant Tuvok]] all appear as henchmen in ''Death Wish IV''. [[BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure Bill S. Preston]] appears as a {{Mook}} in ''Death Wish III''.

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* CrapsackWorld

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