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** More ludicrous example happens in ''3'', when the car Kathryn is in slowly rolls down a hill, hits another car and they're both engulfed by huge explosions.
* [[Hand Cannon]]: Paul's friend "Wildey" (more specifically, the .475 Wildey Magnum) from ''3''. Currently the most powerful semiautomatic handgun in the world.
* [[Hey
* [[Karma Houdini]]: The three muggers and rapists from the first film, who start Kersey's road toward vigilantism, are never caught by the cops or killed by Kersey.
* [[Man On Fire]]: Three people burn to death in ''3'' during the climactic urban war between the criminals and the locals.
* [[May
* [[More Dakka]]: In ''Death Wish 3'' and ''Death Wish 4'', Kersey uses a .30 caliber M1919 and a M16 with an M203 respectively.
* [[New York Subway]]: In the first film, two muggers try to rob Paul on the subway. [[Foregone Conclusion|They do not survive]].
* [[Obstructive Vigilantism]]: Used by Paul in the second movie, when the cops show up to his house after the break-in.
* [[Pop Star Composer]]: [[Led Zeppelin|Jimmy Page]] did the score for the second film.
* [[Pre
{{quote| '''Paul Kersey:''' Do you believe in Jesus?<br />
'''Stomper:''' Yes I do.<br />
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* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Paul becomes one in ''The Crackdown''.
* [[Vigilante Man]]: ''Death Wish'' is probably the [[Trope Codifier]] for this character type in media.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: In the third movie, Kersey's friend Rodriguez leaves in the middle of a town-wide gunfight to reload his zip gun. He doesn't appear again. He's probably deader than a doornail.
* [[Wretched Hive]]: New York.
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