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*** Harry isn't trying to taunt the robber into grabbing the gun so he can shoot him; he's bluffing him into giving it up because ''Harry's gun is empty''.
** In fact, Harry never once, throughout the entire series, ever kills a person illegally. ''Every'' time he puts a bullet in someone it is a perfectly justified police shooting, by the normal law enforcement rules of engagement. The only reason he gets hassled by the system over it so much is because his boss is an asshole.
*** Also because Harry has many ''non''-lethal uses of force that are not justified and often qualify as outright police brutality, thus casting a suspicious context over any other actions Harry takes -- even the legal ones. Harry might be scrupulously clean about killing people but he's far less clean about when and how he roughs them up a little, and that creates no end of problems for him.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Scorpio seems to suffer it every time his plans are thwarted, like when he is caught and shot in the leg by Callahan in the stadium.
* [[Wag the Director]]: Eastwood apparently took over a lot of the directorial duties on ''Magnum Force'' after the director that they originally hired turned out not to be up to the job.
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