Line #14 Film/BarbWire


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6	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/barb_wire_ver1.jpg]]
7	[[caption-width-right:300: No clothes either.]]
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9	{{The Film Of The\|Book}} {{Comic Book\|s}}.
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11	Released in 1996, the movie stars [[Creator/PamelaAnderson Pamela Anderson Lee]] as a nightclub owner[=/=]mercenary[=/=]BountyHunter in 2017 during the Second American Civil War. The Chief of Police raids her club because he is looking for a scientist who has information about a superweapon.
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13	The film is based on the [[ComicBook/BarbWire eponymous series]] printed by Creator/DarkHorseComics during their attempt at creating a shared comic book universe, ''ComicBook/ComicsGreatestWorld'', which resulted in an InNameOnly compared with the source.
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15	''Barb Wire'' was panned by critics and bombed at the box office (making less than $4 million). The failure of the movie also effectively ended Pamela Anderson's dream of becoming a mainstream film star, and it would be 19 years before any more ''Barb Wire'' comics would be printed.
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18	!!"Don't Call Me Trope":
19	* NinetiesAntiHero: Barb Wire is a DarkActionGirl with a gritty two-word name that sounds like “barbed wire,” who is entirely motivated by selfish reasons--whether it be personal profit or revenge--and only looks better by comparison because the villains of the story are worse. Not only that, but Pamala Anderson is probably the only woman who could pull off the look of a female [=NAH=], with [[MostCommonSuperPower very large breasts]] and [[{{Stripperific}} barely-there clothing]].
20	* ActionGirl: No matter how much of Pam got showed off, Barb Wire is definitely a hard-up, bad-ass action girl to be proud of.
21	* AdaptationalCurves: Pam's breasts were actually larger in the movie than the original comic character.
22	* AntiVillain: Police Chief Willis. He may be a corrupt, lying asshole who makes Barb's life difficult, and a pawn of the oppressors, but he's not actually ''evil.'' For one thing, he knows his men are thugs and idiots, but they're still ''his men''. He doesn't agree with the murder of Barb's blind brother, and at the end he saves them all by not handcuffing Barb and giving her a grenade to use.
23	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: A character fools a retina scanner using colored contact lenses, which actually might've worked if it had been an ''iris'' scanner. Evidently, the writers didn't know retinas are at the ''back'' of the eyeball.
24	* BadassBiker: Movie!Barb provides the page image, though she doesn't appear all that often in that outfit.
25	* BathtubScene: Barb is taking a bubble bath in her house, but it turns into an InterruptedBath when her ex Axel comes in. [[CantBatheWithoutAWeapon She promptly grabs a gun she kept within reach and threatens to shoot him]], but he pacifies her. She then [[SexySurfacingShot gets up out of the tub]] (being covered by CensorSuds) and asks him to throw her a ModestyTowel before they talk.
26	* BerserkButton: "Don't call me ''Babe''!" (Which led to many jokes about [[Film/{{Babe}} talking pigs]].)
27	* BuryYourDisabled: Barb's blind brother Charlie is tortured to death by the villains.
28	* CallBack: Being a blonde curvy girl, riding a motorbike and using the CatchPhrase "Don't call me babe!" are the only references to the original comic book [[InNameOnly and nothing else]].
29	* CaptainObvious: Police Chief Willis deliberately does this near the end of the film: "Look out, she's got a grenade!"
30	* CombatStilettos: While not doing as much hand-to-hand combat as usual for this trope, she does enough fighting in them to justify it. And also, [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice she throws one in a guy's head.]]
31	* CuteBruiser: Barb and also the young leader of the resistance within Steel City. Technically this can also cross with BadassAdorable and LittleMissBadass
32	* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Colonel Pryzer (Creator/SteveRailsback) is good at these. He makes two threats.
33	-->'''Pryzer:''' Let me make this perfectly clear. If Cora D escapes, I will personally rip your heart out of your ass, and shove it back down your throat.
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35	-->'''Pryzer:''' Goddammit Willis, I'm gonna rip you in half!
36	* DisproportionateRetribution: Barb once shot a person for calling her a "babe."
37	* DisneyVillainDeath: Colonel Pryzer, when Barb drops his forklift.
38	* EvilLaugh: Barb Wire hears the villain do it for at least two minutes as ''[[ImprobableWeaponUser he tries to kill her with a forklift!]]''
39	%%* {{Expy}}:
40	%%** Since the plot completely rips off ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', pretty much everybody is an Expy of somebody. The most obvious though, is the corrupt but on-the-side-of-good Police Chief Willis as Captain Louis Renault.
41	%%** The Fat Man is played by.... a really fat man!
42	%%* ExtendedDisarming: Barb has one of these sequences when she and her friends get caught.
43	%%* EyeRemember: Stupidly attempted on a ''blind man''.
44	* {{Fanservice}}: It's a whole movie with Creator/PamelaAnderson in either tight, revealing clothing or none at all, what else would you expect?
45	%%* FatBastard: Big Fatso.
46	%%* FeministFantasy: Almost a parody of one. {{Fanservice}}-style.
47	%%* ForkliftFu: Pryzer does this to Barb in the final battle.
48	%%* GenderFlip: Several of the Expys.
49	* GroinAttack: Barb orders a dog to do a "Package check," which means the dog bites the guy on the groin.
50	%%* GunsAkimbo: Barb on a couple of occasions.
51	%%* IBrokeANail
52	%%* InNameOnly: So far that it's an interesting existential question whether this movie can be considered based on the Dark Horse comic book at all.
53	* LockAndLoadMontage: After Barb decides to help out the Resistance, she gets one of these.
54	%%* MadeOfExplodium: Things blow up very easily.
55	%%* MsFanservice: Guess who?
56	* NakedOnArrival: Barb isn't exactly fully clothed during the credits when the audience first sees her and later, she meets her ex-husband's fiance' just after getting out of the bath.
57	* NavelDeepNeckline: The neckline in Barb's outfit is so low that her breasts look like [[TheissTitillationTheory they would topple out of her outfit]] at any time.
58	* OfCorsetsSexy: Barb spends much of the movie wearing a corset that enhances her already-buxom figure. According to Creator/PamelaAnderson, filming the fight scenes while wearing a corset and heels was extremely challenging.
59	%%* PuttingOnTheReich: Colonel Pryzer.
60	* RecycledInSpace: ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' in a semi-apocalyptic Detroit; With Boobage.
61	* SecondAmericanCivilWar: The film is set during a Second American Civil War between ultra-nationalists and conservatives.
62	* ShoutOut: A villain named Big Fatso, an obvious allusion to [[Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941 "The Fat Man"]] played by Creator/SydneyGreenstreet.
63	* SlipIntoSomethingMoreComfortable: The gentleman in question decides to slip into something ''less'' comfortable; a gimp suit. However for Barb this pretty much seems to be wearing almost nothing at all.
64	* ThatManIsDead: "Miss Kopetski died in the War. I'm Barb Wire."
65	%%* TooKinkyToTorture
66	* UnscrupulousHero: On the one hand, Barb Wire just wants to run her nightclub. On the other, she's a mercenary and BountyHunter during a Civil War, which means she has to do anything she can to survive.
67	%%* VictoriasSecretCompartment
68	%%* VillainousGlutton: Big Fatso
69	%%* WholePlotReference: ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''. One can make a DrinkingGame on pointing out references to the 1941 film -- if they wanted to be passed out on the floor by the end.

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