Line #12 Film/TheDungeonmaster


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3	->'''Mestema:''' In a future reality, I shall destroy you!\
4	'''Paul Bradford:''' Well, I reject your reality and I substitute my own!
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6	A sci-fi/fantasy film from 1984, divided into seven distinct story segments, each written and directed by a different person (including one segment by its producer, [[Creator/FullMoonFeatures Charles Band]]).
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8	Paul Bradford (Jeffrey Bryon) is a super smart, but underpaid, tech worker who's having trouble with his girlfriend, Gwen (Leslie Wing), over the feeling he likes his work more than her.
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10	One night an evil wizard named Mestema (''Series/NightCourt''[='=]s Creator/RichardMoll) pulls them into another world, to challenge Paul to save Gwen's life and his own. All Paul has to help him is his computer system, [=X-CaliBR8=], now turned into a SuperWristGadget.
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12	This film is also known by several alternate titles, most prominently ''Ragewar: The Challenges of Excalibrate'' and ''Digital Knights''. In spite of its most popular name, it has no connection to the game ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.
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15	!!Tropes:
16	* TheAllSolvingHammer: Paul realizes pretty quickly that he can solve the challenges by just shooting everything in them with lasers. It earns him a WhatTheHellHero when he shoots his way past a challenge he was meant to treat as a riddle, but otherwise works perfectly.
17	* AsHimself: One segment takes place at a Music/{{WASP\|Band}} concert, with the band playing the villains.
18	* BigBad: Mestema, the EvilSorcerer forcing Paul into the challenges.
19	* TheEighties: Came out in 1984.
20	* ChallengeSeeker: Mestema has been seeking a worthy opponent, finally finding it in Paul.
21	* DepravedDwarf: The first danger Paul faces is having his [=X-CaliBR8=] stolen by two dwarfs. Later he encounters another dwarf leading a band of bandits in a post-apocalyptic airplane graveyard.
22	* EvilSorcerer: Mestema
23	* HackTheTrafficLights: In an early scene, Paul is out jogging while [=X-CaliBR8=] resets the traffic lights in his favor.
24	* HighCollarOfDoom[=/=]MysticalHighCollar: Mestema wears one.
25	* IRejectYourReality: TropeNamer. [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample Not actually an example]], though.
26	* KickTheDog: Mestema relates a story about how, as a boy, he once covered a cat in tar and lit it on fire to watch it become "a howling torch."
27	* LivingStatue: Paul fights one on the first world he gets sent to.
28	* MagicalComputer: Even before the sorcery gets involved, Paul's devices can change traffic signals and hack [=ATMs=], and are mounted on his glasses. Apparently he created it by accident and could never replicate it. After it gets turned into a SuperWristGadget, it can shoot laser beams, create solid energy bars, and create dragons, just like a Green Lantern Ring.
29	* MeaningfulName: The [=X-CaliBR8=] system is a play on the name of the sword {{Excalibur}}.
30	** Mestema's name is almost identical to that of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastema Mastema]], a Hebrew angel who often antagonizes mortals, and who depending on the work can be a FallenAngel or even {{Satan}} outright.
31	* NerdActionHero: Paul.
32	* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: Paul gets Mestema to fight him hand to hand when he tells him that only someone who faces danger can know true satisfaction.
33	* {{Sadist}}: Mestema, an EvilSorcerer who has spent the centuries kidnapping random people and holding their families hostage to make them fight him because he's bored.
34	* TheThreeTrials: Well, seven here. But the principle's the same.

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