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* CultClassic: While originally a SleeperHit, the first movie gained then a cult following due to the perfect balance between cheap schlock, NarmCharm and competent film-making.

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* CultClassic: While originally a SleeperHit, the first movie then gained then a cult following due to the perfect balance between cheap schlock, NarmCharm and competent film-making.



** Van Damme performing his trademark split to lay an ambush on a mook in a narrow, dark sewer.

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** Van Damme performing his trademark split to lay an ambush on a mook in a narrow, dark sewer. The specific shot from it even used to populate the covers of various home media releases.
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* CultClassic: While originally a SleeperHit, the first movie gained then a cult following due to the perfect balance between cheap schlock, NarmCharm and competent film-making.



** ''Cyborg 3'''s subtitle: ''The Recycler''.

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** ''Cyborg 3'''s subtitle: ''The Recycler''.Recycler''.
* SignatureScene: ''Two''. And despite the premise of both being ridiculous, the visuals make up for that:
** Van Damme performing his trademark split to lay an ambush on a mook in a narrow, dark sewer.
** Gibson getting a very literal CrucifiedHeroShot and ''saving himself'' by repetitively kicking the mast he's tied to, until it breaks.
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* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Man, who would've thought that a [[https://i.imgur.com/qwlBfUe.jpg happy-go-lucky]] [[https://i.imgur.com/n5unzrK.jpg surfer from New Zealand]] could not only look as [[https://i.imgur.com/IwoGo3U.jpg physically impossing as Van Damme in his prime]] but be [[https://thelongtakedotnet.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/cyborg-1989-movie-review-fender-tremolo-pirate-ending-fight-knives-vincent-klyn.jpg fucking terrifying]] as well?

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* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Man, who would've thought that a [[https://i.imgur.com/qwlBfUe.jpg happy-go-lucky]] [[https://i.imgur.com/n5unzrK.jpg surfer from New Zealand]] could not only look as [[https://i.imgur.com/IwoGo3U.jpg physically impossing imposing as Van Damme in his prime]] but be [[https://thelongtakedotnet.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/cyborg-1989-movie-review-fender-tremolo-pirate-ending-fight-knives-vincent-klyn.jpg fucking terrifying]] as well?
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* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Man, who thought that a [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/filter/overlay?src0=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F747597433_1280x960.jpg&src1=https%3A%2F%2Ff.vimeocdn.com%2Fimages_v6%2Fshare%2Fplay_icon_overlay.png happy-go-lucky]] [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/553393169.jpg?mw=800&mh=600 surfer from New Zealand]] could not only look as physically impossing as Van Damme in his prime but be [[https://thelongtakedotnet.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/cyborg-1989-movie-review-fender-tremolo-pirate-ending-fight-knives-vincent-klyn.jpg fucking terrifying]] as well?

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* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Man, who would've thought that a [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/filter/overlay?src0=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F747597433_1280x960.jpg&src1=https%3A%2F%2Ff.vimeocdn.com%2Fimages_v6%2Fshare%2Fplay_icon_overlay.png imgur.com/qwlBfUe.jpg happy-go-lucky]] [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/553393169.jpg?mw=800&mh=600 imgur.com/n5unzrK.jpg surfer from New Zealand]] could not only look as [[https://i.imgur.com/IwoGo3U.jpg physically impossing as Van Damme in his prime prime]] but be [[https://thelongtakedotnet.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/cyborg-1989-movie-review-fender-tremolo-pirate-ending-fight-knives-vincent-klyn.jpg fucking terrifying]] as well?
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* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Man, who thought that a [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/filter/overlay?src0=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F747597433_1280x960.jpg&src1=https%3A%2F%2Ff.vimeocdn.com%2Fimages_v6%2Fshare%2Fplay_icon_overlay.png happy-go-lucky]] [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/553393169.jpg?mw=800&mh=600 surfer from New Zealand]] could not only [[https://cdn1us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/2016/09/cyborg-movie-van-damme.jpg look as physically impossing as Van Damme in his prime]] but be [[https://thelongtakedotnet.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/cyborg-1989-movie-review-fender-tremolo-pirate-ending-fight-knives-vincent-klyn.jpg fucking terrifying]] as well?

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* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Man, who thought that a [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/filter/overlay?src0=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F747597433_1280x960.jpg&src1=https%3A%2F%2Ff.vimeocdn.com%2Fimages_v6%2Fshare%2Fplay_icon_overlay.png happy-go-lucky]] [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/553393169.jpg?mw=800&mh=600 surfer from New Zealand]] could not only [[https://cdn1us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/2016/09/cyborg-movie-van-damme.jpg look as physically impossing as Van Damme in his prime]] prime but be [[https://thelongtakedotnet.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/cyborg-1989-movie-review-fender-tremolo-pirate-ending-fight-knives-vincent-klyn.jpg fucking terrifying]] as well?

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** ''Film/Cyborg1989'': [[ScaryBlackMan Fender Tremolo]] makes the most of a world AfterTheEnd where he can do whatever he wants. The [[BigBad leader]] of a group of vicious marauders called The Pirates, Fender seems to want nothing so much as to wipe out every survivor he can. Fender murdered the girlfriend of [[TheProtagonist Gibson Rickenbacker]] and her son, kidnapping her daughter as a pet and servant. He kills nearly everyone he comes across and takes special delight in tormenting Gibson himself. When he finally captures Gibson, he crucifies him on a mast. While he wants to cure himself of the plague that's infected so many, Fender has no compunction slaughtering everyone else and scenes set before show he was [[AxCrazy just as evil before the widespread plague hit]]; he just needed something to set him loose.

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** ''Film/Cyborg1989'': [[ScaryBlackMan Fender Tremolo]] makes the most of a world AfterTheEnd where he can do whatever he wants. The [[BigBad leader]] of a group of vicious marauders called The Pirates, Fender seems to want nothing so much as to wipe out every survivor he can. Fender murdered the girlfriend of [[TheProtagonist hero Gibson Rickenbacker]] Rickenbacker and her son, kidnapping her daughter as a pet and servant. He kills nearly everyone he comes across and takes special delight in tormenting Gibson himself. When he finally captures Gibson, he crucifies him on a mast. While he wants to cure himself of the plague that's infected so many, Fender has no compunction slaughtering everyone else and scenes set before show he was [[AxCrazy just as evil before the widespread plague hit]]; he just needed something to set him loose.

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* {{Narm}}: Some of the dialogue is mind blowing. And the studio cut significantly toned it down from the director's version, where Fender seems to be a full blown [[TheAntichrist Antichrist]] with a ReligionOfEvil.

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* {{Narm}}: {{Narm}}:
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Some of the dialogue is mind blowing. And the studio cut significantly toned it down from the director's version, where Fender seems to be a full blown [[TheAntichrist Antichrist]] with a ReligionOfEvil.
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* FridgeHorror: Just what kind of horrors Hayley must have witnessed or even been through before she was reunited with Gibson?! Especially to render her as nothing but an EmptyShell.

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* FridgeHorror: Just what kind of horrors Hayley must have witnessed or even been through before she was reunited with Gibson?! Especially to render her as nothing but an EmptyShell. Some thoughts about what [[SexSlave Fender and the other pirates]] might have done to her over the course of her time with them is pretty horrifying.
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* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Man, who thought that a [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/filter/overlay?src0=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F747597433_1280x960.jpg&src1=https%3A%2F%2Ff.vimeocdn.com%2Fimages_v6%2Fshare%2Fplay_icon_overlay.png happy-go-luck]] [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/553393169.jpg?mw=800&mh=600 surfer from New Zealand]] could not only [[https://cdn1us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/2016/09/cyborg-movie-van-damme.jpg look as physically impossing as Van Damme in his prime]] but be [[https://thelongtakedotnet.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/cyborg-1989-movie-review-fender-tremolo-pirate-ending-fight-knives-vincent-klyn.jpg fucking terrifying]] as well?

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* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Man, who thought that a [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/filter/overlay?src0=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F747597433_1280x960.jpg&src1=https%3A%2F%2Ff.vimeocdn.com%2Fimages_v6%2Fshare%2Fplay_icon_overlay.png happy-go-luck]] happy-go-lucky]] [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/553393169.jpg?mw=800&mh=600 surfer from New Zealand]] could not only [[https://cdn1us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/2016/09/cyborg-movie-van-damme.jpg look as physically impossing as Van Damme in his prime]] but be [[https://thelongtakedotnet.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/cyborg-1989-movie-review-fender-tremolo-pirate-ending-fight-knives-vincent-klyn.jpg fucking terrifying]] as well?
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* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Man, who thought that a [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/filter/overlay?src0=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F747597433_1280x960.jpg&src1=https%3A%2F%2Ff.vimeocdn.com%2Fimages_v6%2Fshare%2Fplay_icon_overlay.png happy-go-luck]] [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/553393169.jpg?mw=800&mh=600 surfer from New Zealand]] could not only [[https://cdn1us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/2016/09/cyborg-movie-van-damme.jpg look as physically impossing as Van Damme in his prime]] but be [[https://www.picsofcelebrities.com/celebrity/vincent-klyn/pictures/large/vincent-klyn-gossip.png fucking terrifying while at it]] as well?

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* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Man, who thought that a [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/filter/overlay?src0=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F747597433_1280x960.jpg&src1=https%3A%2F%2Ff.vimeocdn.com%2Fimages_v6%2Fshare%2Fplay_icon_overlay.png happy-go-luck]] [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/553393169.jpg?mw=800&mh=600 surfer from New Zealand]] could not only [[https://cdn1us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/2016/09/cyborg-movie-van-damme.jpg look as physically impossing as Van Damme in his prime]] but be [[https://www.picsofcelebrities.com/celebrity/vincent-klyn/pictures/large/vincent-klyn-gossip.png [[https://thelongtakedotnet.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/cyborg-1989-movie-review-fender-tremolo-pirate-ending-fight-knives-vincent-klyn.jpg fucking terrifying while at it]] terrifying]] as well?
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* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Man, who thought that a [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/filter/overlay?src0=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F747597433_1280x960.jpg&src1=https%3A%2F%2Ff.vimeocdn.com%2Fimages_v6%2Fshare%2Fplay_icon_overlay.png happy-go-luck]] [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/553393169.jpg?mw=800&mh=600 surfer from New Zealand]] could not only [[https://cdn1us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/2016/09/cyborg-movie-van-damme.jpg look as physically impossing as Van Damme in his prime]] but be [[https://www.picsofcelebrities.com/celebrity/vincent-klyn/pictures/large/vincent-klyn-gossip.png fucking terrifying at while at it]] as well?

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* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Man, who thought that a [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/filter/overlay?src0=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F747597433_1280x960.jpg&src1=https%3A%2F%2Ff.vimeocdn.com%2Fimages_v6%2Fshare%2Fplay_icon_overlay.png happy-go-luck]] [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/553393169.jpg?mw=800&mh=600 surfer from New Zealand]] could not only [[https://cdn1us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/2016/09/cyborg-movie-van-damme.jpg look as physically impossing as Van Damme in his prime]] but be [[https://www.picsofcelebrities.com/celebrity/vincent-klyn/pictures/large/vincent-klyn-gossip.png fucking terrifying at terrifying while at it]] as well?
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* HeReallyCanAct: Man, who thought that a [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/filter/overlay?src0=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F747597433_1280x960.jpg&src1=https%3A%2F%2Ff.vimeocdn.com%2Fimages_v6%2Fshare%2Fplay_icon_overlay.png happy-go-luck]] [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/553393169.jpg?mw=800&mh=600 surfer from New Zealand]] could not only [[https://cdn1us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/2016/09/cyborg-movie-van-damme.jpg look as physically impossing as Van Damme in his prime]] but be [[https://www.picsofcelebrities.com/celebrity/vincent-klyn/pictures/large/vincent-klyn-gossip.png fucking terrifying at while at it]] as well?

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* HeReallyCanAct: SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Man, who thought that a [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/filter/overlay?src0=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F747597433_1280x960.jpg&src1=https%3A%2F%2Ff.vimeocdn.com%2Fimages_v6%2Fshare%2Fplay_icon_overlay.png happy-go-luck]] [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/553393169.jpg?mw=800&mh=600 surfer from New Zealand]] could not only [[https://cdn1us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/2016/09/cyborg-movie-van-damme.jpg look as physically impossing as Van Damme in his prime]] but be [[https://www.picsofcelebrities.com/celebrity/vincent-klyn/pictures/large/vincent-klyn-gossip.png fucking terrifying at while at it]] as well?
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* HeReallyCanAct: Man, who thought that a [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/filter/overlay?src0=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F747597433_1280x960.jpg&src1=https%3A%2F%2Ff.vimeocdn.com%2Fimages_v6%2Fshare%2Fplay_icon_overlay.png happy-go-luck]] [[https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/553393169.jpg?mw=800&mh=600 surfer from New Zealand]] could not only [[https://cdn1us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/2016/09/cyborg-movie-van-damme.jpg look as physically impossing as Van Damme in his prime]] but be [[https://www.picsofcelebrities.com/celebrity/vincent-klyn/pictures/large/vincent-klyn-gossip.png fucking terrifying at while at it]] as well?
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* FridgeHorror: Just what kind of horrors Hayley must have witnessed or even been through before she was reunited with Gibson?! Especially to render her as nothing but an EmptyShell.

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* CompleteMonster: [[ScaryBlackMan Fender Tremolo]] makes the most of a world AfterTheEnd where he can do what he wants. The leader of a group of vicious marauders called The Pirates, Fender seems to want nothing so much as to wipe out every survivor he can. Fender murdered the girlfriend of TheHero Gibson and her son, kidnapping her daughter as a pet and servant. He murders nearly everyone he comes across and takes special delight in tormenting Gibson himself. When he finally captures Gibson, he crucifies him on a mast. While he wants to cure himself of the plague that's infected so many, Fender has no compunction slaughtering everyone else and scenes set before show he was just as evil before the widespread plague hit: he just needed something to set him loose.

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** ''Film/Cyborg1989'':
[[ScaryBlackMan Fender Tremolo]] makes the most of a world AfterTheEnd where he can do what whatever he wants. The leader [[BigBad leader]] of a group of vicious marauders called The Pirates, Fender seems to want nothing so much as to wipe out every survivor he can. Fender murdered the girlfriend of TheHero [[TheProtagonist Gibson Rickenbacker]] and her son, kidnapping her daughter as a pet and servant. He murders kills nearly everyone he comes across and takes special delight in tormenting Gibson himself. When he finally captures Gibson, he crucifies him on a mast. While he wants to cure himself of the plague that's infected so many, Fender has no compunction slaughtering everyone else and scenes set before show he was [[AxCrazy just as evil before the widespread plague hit: hit]]; he just needed something to set him loose.loose.
**''Cyborg 3: The Recycler'' (1994 DirectToVideo InNameOnly sequel): [[BigBad Anton Lewellyn]] is a "Recycler", a bounty hunter of Cyborg parts. A sadist who regularly brutalizes prostitutes for fun, Lewellyn hunts down innocent cyborgs, mutilating and killing them before having his partner Jocko murder them. Even worse is that Jocko was a kind protector until Lewellyn captured him and had him {{brainwashed|AndCrazy}} into a killer just for extra muscle. Lewellyn [[CreepySouvenir keeps their eyes as trophies]] on a necklace he shows off to future victims to taunt them. Upon learning the cyborg Cash is miraculously pregnant and fleeing to the cyborg haven Cyworld, Lewellyn pursues them, raising an army to massacre every cyborg there and cull them for parts to feed his greed and sadism.
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* CompleteMonster: [[ScaryBlackMan Fender Tremolo]] makes the most of a world AfterTheEnd where he can do what he wants. The leader of a group of vicious marauders called The Pirates, Fender seems to want nothing so much as to wipe out every survivor he can. Fender murdered the girlfriend of TheHero Gibson and her son, kidnapping her daughter as a pet and servant. He murders nearly everyone he comes across and takes special delight in tormenting Gibson himself. When he finally captures Gibson, he crucifies him on a mast. While he wants to cure himself of the plague that's infected so many, Fender has no compunction slaughtering everyone else and scenes set before show he was just as evil before the widespread plague hit: he just needed something to set him loose.
* {{Narm}}: Some of the dialogue is mind blowing. And the studio cut significantly toned it down from the director's version, where Fender seems to be a full blown [[TheAntichrist Antichrist]] with a ReligionOfEvil.
** ''Cyborg 3'''s subtitle: ''The Recycler''.

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