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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Ron O'Neal was offered a role, but he was tired of being typecasted at the time so he turned it down. He did go on to regret it, but he did appear in the spin-off pilot ''Hammer, Slammer, & Slade''.
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
** Germany and Austria: ''Ghetto Busters''
** Finland: ''Revenge Lives''
** Italy: ''Run Away, Run Away... Then I'll Catch You!''
** Japan: ''Golden Hero: Last Holy War''
** Spain: ''Gold Overdose''
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* ActorAllusion: At one point, Slammer asks Jack Spade what qualifies him to be a black hero, and Spade retorts, "I'm an ex-football player." In real life, Jim Brown was, of course, one of the leading running backs in NFL history.
** Bernie Casey (John Slade) was also a professional football player in the NFL
** Kalinga's wife and two children are blonde and white. When they come out the TV in the other room is playing the theme to ''Series/TheBradyBunch''. Kalinga's wife is played by Eve Plumb, Jan Brady.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/JohnCusack shot a cameo as a delivery guy in a scene that ended up being cut from the film. The whereabouts of this scene are unknown.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: DeletedRole: Creator/JohnCusack shot a cameo as a delivery guy in a scene that ended up being cut from the film. The whereabouts of this scene are unknown.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: A veritable who's who of {{Blaxploitation}} movie stars from Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown, Antonio Fargas and Bernie Casey come out of retirement to save the streets.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the big reveal of [[TheMan Mr. Big]] -- John Vernon! -- who points out how a lot of big-name white actors played villains in {{Blaxploitation}} films back in TheSeventies.
** A good chunk of the cast went on to be in InLivingColor (Five Wayans siblings, Davis Alan Grier, Anne-Marie Johnson, and Chris Rock). Kadeem Hardison and Dawnn Lewis went on to star in Series/ADifferentWorld.
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** A good chunk of the cast went on to be in InLivingColor (Five Wayans siblings, Davis Alan Grier, Anne-Marie Johnson, and Chris Rock). Kadeem Hardison and Dawnn Lewis went on to star in ADifferentWorld.

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** A good chunk of the cast went on to be in InLivingColor (Five Wayans siblings, Davis Alan Grier, Anne-Marie Johnson, and Chris Rock). Kadeem Hardison and Dawnn Lewis went on to star in ADifferentWorld.Series/ADifferentWorld.
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Could potentially double as Retroactive Recognition since this movie was a few years before many of the cast hit it big.

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** A good chunk of the cast went on to be in InLivingColor (Five Wayans siblings, Davis Alan Grier, Anne-Marie Johnson, and Chris Rock). Kadeem Hardison and Dawnn Lewis went on to star in ADifferentWorld.
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* ActorAllusion: At one point, Slammer asks Jack Spade what qualifies him to be a black hero, and Spade retorts, "I'm an ex-football player." In real life, Jim Brown was, of course, one of the leading running backs in NFL history.
** Bernie Casey (John Slade) was also a professional football player in the NFL
** Kalinga's wife and two children are blonde and white. When they come out the TV in the other room is playing the theme to ''Series/TheBradyBunch''. Kalinga's wife is played by Eve Plumb, Jan Brady.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: JohnCusack shot a cameo as a delivery guy in a scene that ended up being cut from the film. The whereabouts of this scene are unknown.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: JohnCusack Creator/JohnCusack shot a cameo as a delivery guy in a scene that ended up being cut from the film. The whereabouts of this scene are unknown.

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