Trancers

A 1985 film about a cop from 300 years in the future who is sent back to 1985 to protect the ancestors of his leaders from a psychic killer. Released in Australia and possibly some other areas as Future Cop.

It spawned a series, and a total of six films were released; the final five were direct-to-video.

"Jack Deth: I'm from another time, another world. I don't even know what you people eat for lunch."
 * Awesome McCoolname: Jack Deth
 * Fish Out of Temporal Water: The first film has some interesting nods.
 * Future Food Is Artificial: Implied.

""Your name is 'Death'? Forget it, I'm not going up there!""
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: A 22 year old Helen Hunt, 10 years before her Academy Award.
 * The star is Tim Thomerson, who never made it big, but was a charismatic actor who was often proclaimed to be the king of B-movies (in competition with Bruce Campbell).
 * It's a Small World After All: Jack hops into his ancestor who had just met and slept with a girl who he promised to take to work in the morning, and at her work it turns out the Mall Santa she worked with was a trancer! What are the odds!?
 * Mind Control Conspiracy: Whistler has been in the past long enough and his ancestor was in a high enough position in the police department that the police could not be trusted.
 * Mind Control Eyes: Not eyes but skin, in this case.
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Taken the wrong way by the man Jack Deth is trying to save.

"Leena: But you don't know the way! Jack: Yeah I do - I used to swim through here. Lenna: What?"
 * Perma-Stubble: Jack Deth. Interestingly, the reason for that was shown in-universe. Jack's ancestor had his face lathered up and was about to shave when Jack jumped into his body. Since Jack didn't know anything about twentieth-century shaving methods, he just wiped the foam off his face and went unshaven for the rest of the movie.
 * Plucky Comic Relief: The homeless ancestor they pick up.
 * Reality Ensues:
 * She's All Grown Up: The little girl that Mc Neely jumped into in the first movie returns as a teenager in the second.
 * Tagline: "His name is Deth. He hunts Trancers. Even in the 20th Century."
 * Terminator Twosome: Jack Deth and Whistler
 * Time Stands Still: The time-slowing watch which stretches one second into ten.
 * Underwater Ruins: Before he goes to the past, Jack does scuba-diving in the old city of "Lost" Angeles.