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=== This film contains examples of: ===
 
* [[Anti -Hero]]: Jensen is a Type IV.
* [[Armor -Piercing Question]]: Hennessey pulls a couple out on Jensen.
{{quote| '''Hennessey:''' "What would you do with your freedom? Go back to your daughter?"<br />
'''Jensen:''' "That's the idea."<br />
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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The cigarette lighter.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Hennessey has a way of placing pawns exactly where she needs them.
* [[Cluster F -Bomb]]: The Warden, at the end. Who despises profanity.
* [[Condemned Contestant]]
* [[Cool Mask]]: The production team went through several designs before they settled on the final one.
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* [[Description Porn]]: Nearly everything Lists describes gets this treatment, such as the RPG-7s on Machine Gun Joe's truck and the other drivers.
* [[Dirty Business]]: Case is in prison because she killed a good cop... good cop, lousy husband that is.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Frankenstein has a [[Friday the 13 th13th (Film)|Jason Vorhees]] vibe.
** More than a hint of Slipknot too – mask combined with a one-piece racing/boiler suit.
* [[Dystopia]]: High crime and unemployment rates, and a high-rated television program is people murdering each other.
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* [[Informed Ability]]: The other drivers are supposed to be supreme [[Badass|Bad Asses]], with five kills or more apiece on the track which means they had to have at least survived more than one race. They're offed quickly enough.
* [[In Name Only]]: Apart from the fact that it features characters named "Frankenstein" and "Machine Gun Joe" in a race that combines [[Blood Sport]] with [[Car Fu]].
* [[ItsIt's Personal]]: Machine Gun Joe ''really'' hates Frankenstein.
* [[Last -Name Basis]]: Hennessey has a first name (all we know is that it starts with 'C'), but everyone calls her "Ma'am" or by her last name.
* [[Male Gaze]]
* [[Made of Explodium]]: Apparently detached gasoline tanks are.
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* [[The Old Convict]]: Coach, played by Ian McShane!
* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]]: 14K, Pachenko, Lists, and Coach.
* [[Power -Up]]: A rare non-videogame example. The cars' weapons are intially locked and must be activated by running over magnetically-active pads with simple symbols: sword for offensive, shield for defensive and such. But the skull pads activate a [[Booby Trap]].
* [[Precision F -Strike]]: The inmates are not shy about their language, but to hear it comes from ''Joan Allen''?
* [[Pre -Mortem One -Liner]]: Played straight and subverted multiple times, but most notably:
{{quote| '''{{spoiler|Pachenko}}:''' "Let me go man. I'll do anything."<br />
'''Jensen:''' "You're gonna die here." }}
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* [[Tempting Fate]]:
{{quote| '''Grimm:''' "Fuckin' Reaper baby! Can't kill me. You can burn me... heh... you can fuckin' shoot me but you just can't motherfuckin' kill me!"}}
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: It sort of loses its punch after it's used so many times.
* [[Throw It In]]: One of the crashes staged for the film unexpectedly sent the empty stunt car much higher than intended, so it hung up on top of a wall rather than smashed into it. The resulting footage looked so cool that the filmmakers went back and equipped one of the other racers' vehicles with a ''rocket launcher'' suitable for blowing rival drivers sky-high, purely so they could justify using the clip.
* [[Title Drop]]
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* [[Villainous Breakdown]]
* [[Weaponized Car]]
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: Grimm and Pachenko survive crashes in their cars, but the fate of their navigators is never shown.
* [[Win Your Freedom]]
* [[Xtreme Sport Xcuse Plot]]
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