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** The film would seem to be both played straight and subverted. On the one hand, the rapists themselves play this deadly straight. On the other, {{spoiler|we never see the rapists again and}} while the rest of the hillbilly town is set up to be creepy and/or evil, they never really do anything, good or bad. Especially subverted in the case of the mentally challenged banjo player (probably the most famous character in the film), whose banjo playing provides a creepy soundtrack but who is otherwise benevolent. |
** The film would seem to be both played straight and subverted. On the one hand, the rapists themselves play this deadly straight. On the other, {{spoiler|we never see the rapists again and}} while the rest of the hillbilly town is set up to be creepy and/or evil, they never really do anything, good or bad. Especially subverted in the case of the mentally challenged banjo player (probably the most famous character in the film), whose banjo playing provides a creepy soundtrack but who is otherwise benevolent. |
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** For particularly creepy hillbillies, expect to hear [[Deliverance|"Dueling Banjos"]]. (This is a conflation of the two [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"|things people generally know about the film]]- that song and rapist hillbillies. In the actual film, they had nothing to do with one another.) |
** For particularly creepy hillbillies, expect to hear [[Deliverance|"Dueling Banjos"]]. (This is a conflation of the two [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"|things people generally know about the film]]- that song and rapist hillbillies. In the actual film, they had nothing to do with one another.) |
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* ''[[Tank]]'': Major Zak Carey |
* ''[[Tank]]'': Major Zak Carey (played by James Garner) gets on the bad side of one of these, who ends up framing his son for drug possession and cheating him out of his retirement money. Garner's character, however, is a Sergeant Major in the Army—literally almost a [[Retired Badass]]- - and owns a fully restored, fully ''armed'' WWII Sherman tank. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. |
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* Reno Smith from ''[[Bad Day At Black Rock]]''. |
* Reno Smith from ''[[Bad Day At Black Rock]]''. |
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* Herod of ''[[The Quick and the Dead]].'' Also an example of [[Asskicking Equals Authority]], since Herod is nigh unbeatable in a straight up fight {{spoiler|and is only blindsided and killed by someone who he thought was already dead}}. |
* Herod of ''[[The Quick and the Dead]].'' Also an example of [[Asskicking Equals Authority]], since Herod is nigh unbeatable in a straight up fight {{spoiler|and is only blindsided and killed by someone who he thought was already dead}}. |
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** Played straight with Tex Richman from [[The Muppets (film)|''The Muppets 2011'']], however. |
** Played straight with Tex Richman from [[The Muppets (film)|''The Muppets 2011'']], however. |
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* [[Chuck Norris]] battles one of these in ''Breaker! Breaker!'' |
* [[Chuck Norris]] battles one of these in ''Breaker! Breaker!'' |
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== Literature == |
== Literature == |
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