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* HarsherInHindsight: The film (and the book it was based on) basically forsaw the coming of reality TV. May also count as FridgeHorror.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The film (and the book it was based on) basically forsaw foresaw the coming of reality TV. May also count as FridgeHorror.
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* MoralEventHorizon: The book makes it clear throughout that the cops in ''Running Man's'' world are not exactly very nice people, but what sends them clean over this is when they [[spoiler: try to take down both Richards and the innocent civilian woman in the car with him. One who was just ''begging them not to shoot'']]
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* MoralEventHorizon: The book makes it clear throughout that the cops in ''Running Man's'' world are not exactly very nice people, but what sends them clean over this is when they [[spoiler: try to take down both Richards and the innocent civilian woman in the car with him. One who was just ''begging them not to shoot'']]shoot'']]
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: The book mocks reality television show like ''Hard Copy'' that demonize people to make the audience hate them. (And keep in mind, this was written nearly 20 years before ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' and ''BigBrother'' spared a boom in just that type of reality game show.)
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: The book mocks reality television show like ''Hard Copy'' that demonize people to make the audience hate them. (And keep in mind, this was written nearly 20 years before ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' and ''BigBrother'' spared a boom in just that type of reality game show.)
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** People getting their kicks off human suffering reality TV style (see HarhserInHindsight).
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** At one point Arnold, a long time supporter of the Republican Party, jokes "I'm not into politics, I'm into survival." A little less than 20 years later he was Governor of California.
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** [[spoiler:Buzz-Saw's high pitched girly screams when he gets killed from having his own chainsaw shoved up his crotch in one Hell of a nasty GroinAttack may smack as this.]]
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** The movie may have been an escapist action flick starring The Governator, but it (in its own way) taught about the negative aspects of completely turning off your brain in favor of pure, violent escapism, how soul-destroying humanity's bloodlust can be, and the need to question the version of reality that TV presnts. It also teaches about the value of tenacity and standing up for yourself.
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** The movie may have been an escapist action flick starring The Governator, but it (in its own way) taught about the negative aspects of completely turning off your brain in favor of pure, violent escapism, how soul-destroying humanity's bloodlust can be, and the need to question the version of reality that TV presnts. It also teaches about the value of tenacity and standing up for yourself. As well as to not believe everything you see on TV.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The ending where [[spoiler:Richards flies the plane straight into the Games Building brings up some unforunate connotations for those reading the book post September 11th.]]
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* HarsherInHindsight: The ending where [[spoiler:Richards flies the plane straight into the Games Building brings up some unforunate unfortunate connotations for those reading the book post September 11th.11th, 2001.]]
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The movie may have been an escapist action flick starring The Governator, but it (in its own way) taught about the negative aspects of completely turning off your brain in favor of pure, violent escapism, how soul-destroying humanity's bloodlust can be, and the need to question the version of reality that TV presnts. It also teaches about the value of tenacity and standing up for yourself.
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** The movie may have been an escapist action flick starring The Governator, but it (in its own way) taught about the negative aspects of completely turning off your brain in favor of pure, violent escapism, how soul-destroying humanity's bloodlust can be, and the need to question the version of reality that TV presnts. It also teaches about the value of tenacity and standing up for yourself.
** The movie may have been an escapist action flick starring The Governator, but it (in its own way) taught about the negative aspects of completely turning off your brain in favor of pure, violent escapism, how soul-destroying humanity's bloodlust can be, and the need to question the version of reality that TV presnts. It also teaches about the value of tenacity and standing up for yourself.
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* WTHCastingAgency: The leader of the underground resistance movement is played by... Mick Fleetwood. Of FleetwoodMac fame. Unexpected choice.
** Presumably they really wanted to add [[CastingGag the scene where he complains that his music was banned for being too political...]]
** Presumably they really wanted to add [[CastingGag the scene where he complains that his music was banned for being too political...]]
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* WTHCastingAgency: The leader of the underground resistance movement is played by... Mick Fleetwood. Of FleetwoodMac fame. Unexpected choice.
**choice. Presumably they really wanted to add [[CastingGag the scene where he complains that his music was banned for being too political...]]
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* HilariousInHindsight: The fistfight between leotard-wearing Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger is much funnier, knowing that they have each since become U.S. Governors.
** There's one minor character named [[MortalKombat Sub-Zero]]. Good luck listening to Arnold say "[[MemeticMutation Here is Sub-Zero...now plain Zero!]]" without thinking of the ice-manipulating [[MortalKombat Lin Kuei warrior]].
*** While on Sub-Zero, consider this: [[Film/BatmanAndRobin Arnold and a foe skating on ice]].
** There's one minor character named [[MortalKombat Sub-Zero]]. Good luck listening to Arnold say "[[MemeticMutation Here is Sub-Zero...now plain Zero!]]" without thinking of the ice-manipulating [[MortalKombat Lin Kuei warrior]].
*** While on Sub-Zero, consider this: [[Film/BatmanAndRobin Arnold and a foe skating on ice]].
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** The fistfight between leotard-wearing Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger is much funnier, knowing that they have each since become U.S. Governors.
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***warrior]]. While on Sub-Zero, consider this: [[Film/BatmanAndRobin Arnold and a foe skating on ice]].
** The fistfight between leotard-wearing Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger is much funnier, knowing that they have each since become U.S. Governors.
** There's one minor character named [[MortalKombat Sub-Zero]]. Good luck listening to Arnold say "[[MemeticMutation Here is Sub-Zero...now plain Zero!]]" without thinking of the ice-manipulating [[MortalKombat Lin Kuei
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* FridgeHorror: The bodies of Whitman, Price, and Haddad ("Last season's winners? No, last season's ''losers''.")
** Could be an ''inversion'' of FridgeHorror, as it's unlikely that those three were innocent like Richards, who was an exception to the show's "no political prisoners" arrangement with the justice system. At least if they're ReleasedToElsewhere, they've ''not'' been set loose to resume whatever crimes got them the death penalty in the first place.
** One of the possible prizes is a "trial by jury" so we can infer that prisoners rarely if ever get a fair trial. It's also likely that even if the contestants actually got the prize, any jury would be biased against them and send them back to prison. Quite frankly, no one would ever get out even if the contest were fair.
** Could be an ''inversion'' of FridgeHorror, as it's unlikely that those three were innocent like Richards, who was an exception to the show's "no political prisoners" arrangement with the justice system. At least if they're ReleasedToElsewhere, they've ''not'' been set loose to resume whatever crimes got them the death penalty in the first place.
** One of the possible prizes is a "trial by jury" so we can infer that prisoners rarely if ever get a fair trial. It's also likely that even if the contestants actually got the prize, any jury would be biased against them and send them back to prison. Quite frankly, no one would ever get out even if the contest were fair.
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* FridgeHorror: The bodies of Whitman, Price, and Haddad ("Last season's winners? No, last season's ''losers''.")
** Could") could be an ''inversion'' of FridgeHorror, as it's unlikely that those three were innocent like Richards, who was an exception to the show's "no political prisoners" arrangement with the justice system. At least if they're ReleasedToElsewhere, they've ''not'' been set loose to resume whatever crimes got them the death penalty in the first place.
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* FridgeHorror: The bodies of Whitman, Price, and Haddad ("Last season's winners? No, last season's ''losers''.")
** Could be an ''inversion'' of FridgeHorror, as it's unlikely that those three were innocent like Richards, who was an exception to the show's "no political prisoners" arrangement with the justice system. At least if they're ReleasedToElsewhere, they've ''not'' been set loose to resume whatever crimes got them the death penalty in the first place.
** One of the possible prizes is a "trial by jury" so we can infer that prisoners rarely if ever get a fair trial. It's also likely that even if the contestants actually got the prize, any jury would be biased against them and send them back to prison. Quite frankly, no one would ever get out even if the contest were fair.
** Could be an ''inversion'' of FridgeHorror, as it's unlikely that those three were innocent like Richards, who was an exception to the show's "no political prisoners" arrangement with the justice system. At least if they're ReleasedToElsewhere, they've ''not'' been set loose to resume whatever crimes got them the death penalty in the first place.
** One of the possible prizes is a "trial by jury" so we can infer that prisoners rarely if ever get a fair trial. It's also likely that even if the contestants actually got the prize, any jury would be biased against them and send them back to prison. Quite frankly, no one would ever get out even if the contest were fair.
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* {{Woolseyism}}: The Mexican Spanish subbed version has the ''He was Sub-Zero, Now, just plain Zero!'' line changed. In that translation, that line was changed to ''Aqui esta Sub-Zero, Ahora es un cero a la izquierda'', Being ''cero a la izquierda'' a Spanish phrase meaning "worthless".[[note]]It literally means a ''zero to the left'', after the mathematical term to use a zero before a decimal point, who normally doesn't mean anything, hence the phrase[[/note]] The Mexican Spanish dub left the original phrase translated literally from English.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: '''CLAP IF YOU LOVE ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy8rT8oHCbI DYNAMO!!!]]''!!!!'''
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: '''CLAP IF YOU LOVE ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy8rT8oHCbI DYNAMO!!!]]''!!!!'''DYNAMO!!!]]'''''
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* HarsherInHindsight: The ending where [[spoiler:Richards flies the plane straight into the Games Building brings up some unforunate connotations for those reading the book post September 11th.]]
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Dynamo uses electricity as his gimmick, so naturally he sings the aria from Act III of ''Theatre/TheMarriageOfFigaro''.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Dynamo uses electricity as his gimmick, so naturally he sings the aria from Act III of ''Theatre/TheMarriageOfFigaro''.''Theatre/TheMarriageOfFigaro'' in his introduction.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Richards' video camera and blank tapes together weigh about ''six pounds''.
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** There's one minor character named [[MortalKombat Sub-Zero]]. Good luck listening to Arnold say "[[MemeticMutation He was Sub-Zero...now just plain Zero!]]" without thinking of the ice-manipulating [[MortalKombat Lin Kuei warrior]].
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** There's one minor character named [[MortalKombat Sub-Zero]]. Good luck listening to Arnold say "[[MemeticMutation He was Here is Sub-Zero...now just plain Zero!]]" without thinking of the ice-manipulating [[MortalKombat Lin Kuei warrior]].
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The movie may have been an escapist action flick starring The Governator, but it (in its own way) taught about the negative aspects of completely turning off your brain in favor of pure, violent escapism, how soul-destroying humanity's bloodlust can be, and the need to question the version of reality that TV presnts. It also teaches about the value of tenacity and standing up for yourself.
** [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-the-running-man-teaches-you-about-life/ 4 Things 'The Running Man' Teaches You About Life]], courtesy of Website/{{Cracked}}.
** [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-the-running-man-teaches-you-about-life/ 4 Things 'The Running Man' Teaches You About Life]], courtesy of Website/{{Cracked}}.
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* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: Shows what will happen if Reality TV shows go that one extra step and actually start hurting people.... but probably directly inspired the British Game Show [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanted_%28game_show%29 Wanted]] and the Japanese Game RunForMoneyTousouchuu.
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** Presumably they really wanted to add [[CastingGag the scene where he complains that his music was banned for being too political...]]
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** Presumably they really wanted to add [[CastingGag the scene where he complains that his music was banned for being too political...]]]]
!The book:
* MoralEventHorizon: The book makes it clear throughout that the cops in ''Running Man's'' world are not exactly very nice people, but what sends them clean over this is when they [[spoiler: try to take down both Richards and the innocent civilian woman in the car with him. One who was just ''begging them not to shoot'']]
!The book:
* MoralEventHorizon: The book makes it clear throughout that the cops in ''Running Man's'' world are not exactly very nice people, but what sends them clean over this is when they [[spoiler: try to take down both Richards and the innocent civilian woman in the car with him. One who was just ''begging them not to shoot'']]
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*** While on Sub-Zero, consider this: [[Film/BatmanAndRobin Arnold and a foe skating on ice]].
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* SpiritualLicensee: The film has one in the form of the 2009 film ''[[{{Film/Gamer}} Gamer]]''.
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* SpiritualLicensee: The film has one in the form of the 2009 film ''[[{{Film/Gamer}} Gamer]]''.''Film/{{Gamer}}''.
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* WTHCastingAgency: The leader of the underground resistance movement is played by... Mick Fleetwood. Of 'Fleetwood Mac' fame. Unexpected choice.
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* WTHCastingAgency: The leader of the underground resistance movement is played by... Mick Fleetwood. Of 'Fleetwood Mac' FleetwoodMac fame. Unexpected choice.
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* WTHCastingAgency: The leader of the underground resistance movement is played by... Mick Fleetwood. Of 'Fleetwood Mac' fame. Unexpected choice.choice.
** Presumably they really wanted to add [[CastingGag the scene where he complains that his music was banned for being too political...]]
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** There's one minor character named [[MortalKombat Sub-Zero]]. Good luck listening to Arnold say "[[MemeticMutation He was Sub-Zero...now just plain Zero!]]" without thinking of the ice-manipulating Lin Kuei warrior.
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** There's one minor character named [[MortalKombat Sub-Zero]]. Good luck listening to Arnold say "[[MemeticMutation He was Sub-Zero...now just plain Zero!]]" without thinking of the ice-manipulating [[MortalKombat Lin Kuei warrior.warrior]].
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Dynamo uses electricity as his gimmick, so naturally he sings the aria from Act III of ''{{The Marriage of Figaro}}''.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Dynamo uses electricity as his gimmick, so naturally he sings the aria from Act III of ''{{The Marriage of Figaro}}''.''Theatre/TheMarriageOfFigaro''.
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** There's one minor character named [[MortalKombat Sub-Zero]]. Good luck listening to Arnold say "[[MemeticMutation He was Sub-Zero...now just plain Zero!]]" without thinking of the ice-manipulating Lin Kuei warrior.
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* WTHCastingAgency: The leader of the underground resistance movement is played by... Mick Fleetwood. Of 'Fleetwood Mac' fame. Unexpected.
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* SpiritualLicensee: The film has one in the form of the 2009 film ''[[{{Film/Gamer}} Gamer]]''.
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* SpiritualLicensee: The film has one in the form of the 2009 film ''[[{{Film/Gamer}} Gamer]]''.Gamer]]''.
* WTHCastingAgency: The leader of the underground resistance movement is played by... Mick Fleetwood. Of 'Fleetwood Mac' fame. Unexpected.
* WTHCastingAgency: The leader of the underground resistance movement is played by... Mick Fleetwood. Of 'Fleetwood Mac' fame. Unexpected.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Dynamo uses electricity as his gimmick, so naturally he sings the aria from Act III of ''The Marriage of Figaro''.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Dynamo uses electricity as his gimmick, so naturally he sings the aria from Act III of ''The ''{{The Marriage of Figaro''.Figaro}}''.
