Line #48 Characters/SamuraiCop


1	!!Joe "Samurai Cop" Marshall
2	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5202648_960.jpg]]
3	[[caption-width-right:350:He's telling all you son of a bitches.]]
4	-> Played by Matt Hannon (Credited as Matthew Keredas in the sequel)
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6	* InformedAbility: We're told that the protagonist speaks fluent Japanese, but he never speaks a word of it and seems to struggle with pronouncing Japanese names.
7	* InvincibleHero: ''So much''. He never loses a single fight in the entire film, or even takes any serious injuries. It's continued on in the sequel.
8	* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Jennifer]].
9	* MrFanservice: [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/d2/a1/aa/d2a1aa1c29439141831478d383eb96ca.jpg Yes]] [[https://supercultshow.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/rby5q3m4finjw7eetnsnlc3kgyv.jpg?w=1200 sir]] [[http://imgur.com/1jQ6Q0V indeed]]. He wears a black thong featured in a few scenes in the movie (including a beach scene) and promotional shots, and the man sports amazingly good looks even well into the sequel made ''[[http://www.cinecutre.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Samurai-Cop-2-D.jpg 25 years later!]]''
10	* PoliceAreUseless: Averted, as Joe basically does absolutely everything ''except'' proper police work. This includes: [[spoiler: having sex with virtually all of his female coworkers, never filling out any paperwork after being involved in half a dozen shootouts or chopping a guy's arm off, and going to stalk and flirt with a critical witness in this case ''at her church''.]]
11	* {{Pseudonym}}: In the sequel, Frank discovers him under the name Yetsuhiro Morakawa.
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13	!!Frank Washington
14	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/samurai_cop_mark_frazer.jpg]]
15	[[caption-width-right:350:75% of his appearances are filmed from the neck up.]]
16	-> Played by Mark Frazer
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18	* ByTheBookCop: Revealed to be this in the sequel. Following [[spoiler:Jennifer's death]] in 1991, Frank refused to help out Joe as the process would go against his methods as a textbook, model cop.
19	* CombatPragmatist: With the exception of [[TheDragon Yamashita]], any guy trying to attack Joe with a katana gets shot by Frank before he can even get close. In fact, Frank gets a surprising number of kills by just raising his gun and actually aiming (unlike everyone else in the movie). [[spoiler: He's also the only person in the movie who thought of wearing a BulletproofVest.]]
20	* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Frank is shot by Fujiyama and collapses, but it turns out he was wearing a bullet-proof vest under his clothing. He quickly rises again and shoots Fujiyama dead.]]
21	* PungeonMaster: After he and Joe pass a fence with Frank going under while Joe went over.
22	-->'''Joe''': "Why'd you go under?"
23	-->'''Frank''': "'Cause I'm an undercover cop."
24	* SoulBrotha: He's as cool as any crimefighting partner a guy could ask for.
25	* TallDarkAndSnarky: You'd never know how tall he is though, since he's always filmed from the neck up.
26	* WalkingShirtlessScene: The same scene in which a mook threatens to castrate his "gift." His ''black'' "gift."
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28	!!Yamashita
29	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/091f0b158156814deb3f2e3821ff0c88.jpg]]
30	[[caption-width-right:350:Gives his adversary ''way'' more credit than he deserves.]]
31	-> Played by Robert Z'Dar
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33	* BadBoss: Not the boss of the Gang, but in an attempt to kill Joe and Frank, he shoots up his henchmen trying to hit the detectives, killing them all. [[spoiler:He fails miserably in getting them.]]
34	* BeardOfEvil: He's in the Katana Clan, after all.
35	* CruelMercy: Serves one up to Peggy.
36	* TheDragon: To Fujiyama.
37	* DragonTheirFeet: Yamashita is Marshall's final opponent, with Fujiyama going down at Frank's hands surprisingly easily one scene before.
38	* FakeNationality: Played by the very, very white Robert Z'Dar. Who doesn't even remember to squint most of the time.
39	* KickTheDog: Yamashita ordering one cop's wife raped and torturing a different cop with boiling oil.
40	* LanternJawOfJustice: A villainous example. In real life, Robert Z'Dar was afflicted with a rare genetic disorder known as cherubism that significantly enlarged his jaw.
41	* ProfessionalKiller: He's a very crafty assassin. Laundry baskets are not beyond his thinking.
42	* {{Seppuku}}: [[spoiler:After Yamashita is defeated by Joe in a duel, he guts himself with a knife]].
43	* SwordFight: After most of the mooks run out, Yamashita challenges Joe into a final fight with katanas.
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45	!!Jennifer/[[spoiler:Milena Roberts]]
46	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2a9e9839cfbdeaf5b34591bbb8922e79.jpg]]
47	[[caption-width-right:350:Pictured on the left, mind you.]]
48	[[caption-width-right:255:[[labelnote:Click here to see Milena]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/milena.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
49	-> Played by Janis Farley, Kayden Kross in the sequel
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51	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Killed by a troubled teen in the beginning of the second film. It turns out to be Linton Kitano, her brother. It also turns out she's not dead.]]
52	* MsFanservice: [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/39/fc/2d/39fc2d013a52b0d7b920fe7f11b37032.jpg Indeed]], notably during a beach scene in the movie and promotional material where she dons a black bikini. Exaggerated in the sequel.
53	* SecretIdentity: After all these years, turns Jennifer is actually [[spoiler:Milena Roberts, faking her death as "Jennifer" in order to provoke Joe into killing the other members of the Katana Clan. Kitano is her brother.]]
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55	!!Fuj Fujiyama
56	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maxresdefault_107.jpg]]
57	[[caption-width-right:350:Sporting the hottest damn mullet you've ever ''seen.'']]
58	-> Played by Cranston Komuro
59
60	* EightiesHair: He sports a thick mullet.
61	* AmoralAttorney: He has a lawyer in his clan for... some reason.
62	* AssholeVictim: Shoots [[spoiler:Frank]] dead, [[spoiler:but Frank's revealed to alive all this time (wearing a bulletproof vest), and quickly shoots and kills Fujiyama.]]
63	* BackFromTheDead: He [[UnexplainedRecovery somehow]] comes back to life in the sequel, hellbent on destroying the Samurai Cop for good.
64	* BigBad: The leader of Katana.
65	* CoolShades: How he's first introduced... taken away in the next shot since the lens reflected the film crew.
66	* DemandingTheirHead: He orders to have one of his own men, who was a badly burned and hospitalized following a police chase, be executed and have his head displayed on a piano to remind all remaining gang members of their code of silence.
67	* DiesWideOpen: After Frank gets one over on him in the first film.
68	* LargeHam: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgy7hrEk9dU Hammy as]] ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgy7hrEk9dU hell.]]''
69	* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Dies ''again'' (and rather abruptly) by Joe in the sequel.
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71	!!Okamura
72	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bkj.PNG]]
73	[[caption-width-right:350:Ohama-yamaha...whatever his name is.]]
74	-> Played by Gerald Okamura
75
76	* TheDanza
77	* MrFanservice: [[http://imgur.com/zrdBX3d Okamura]] counts, in the beginning of one particular scene in the movie.
78	* TheReveal: While on chase, he carries a briefcase that carries ''important'' secrets. [[spoiler:A small gun with two bullets.]]
79	* SuperWindowJump: Does this in order to get away from his pursuers in one scene.
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81	!!Peggy
82	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ogjh.PNG]]
83	[[caption-width-right:350:Queen of unnecessarily awkward flirting.]]
84	-> Played by Melissa Moore
85
86	* AllWomenAreLustful: Nearly every time she talks to someone, ''it's gonna get sexual.'' Also has sex with Joe ''right'' after they have an actual conversation with in her in the helicopter and again with him ''on ground level.''
87	* ReallyGetsAround: Apparently has slept with most of the precinct.
88	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never see Peggy again after the scene where the Katana thugs torture her by pouring hot grease on her crotch. [[TheBusCameBack She makes a return in the sequel though, alive and well.]]
89
90	!!Dogge Sakamoto
91	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jhbkj.PNG]]
92	-> Played by Bai Ling
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94	* DarkActionGirl
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97	!!Linton Kitano
98	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maxresdefault_13.jpg]]
99	-> Played by Creator/TommyWiseau
100	* NoIndoorVoice: He yells ''alot'' during his fight with Joe.
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102	!!Captain Rohmer
103	-> Played by Dale Cummings
104
105	* DaChief: It's (apparently) a BuddyCopShow, after all.
106	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he's still a short-tempered and abrasive police captain, he's still willing to stand by his subordinates, like kicking Fujiyama's lawyer out of his office.

Context Characters / SamuraiCop