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Now they have his family. He's a dead man, but they'll let the family go if he gets the money back for them.
Its sequel, ''Kane and Lynch: Dog Days'' was released in late August 2010. After a [[Time Skip]] of 3 years, the plot focuses on the pair reuniting in Shanghai to oversee a black market arms deal. What initially seems to be an amiable if tepid
Not to be confused with ''Sleeping Dogs'', which was formerly ''[[True Crime]]: Hong Kong''.
There's a movie in the works, with [[Bruce Willis]] signed on as Kane and ''[[
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* [[And Now for Someone Completely Different]]: Subverted with "Reunion"—the entire opening (including the audio that plays during the loading screen) seems to indicate you'll be spending some time playing as Lynch, but unless you're Player 2 in a co-op game, it never happens.
* [[Anti-Hero|Anti Heroes]]: Kane is a borderline Type IV/V because at the root of it what he really wants is to rescue and reunite with his daughter. He was plenty rotten before, but in the game's narrative he has an understandable and sympathetic motive. Lynch is more of a straight-up [[Villain Protagonist]], depending on how sympathetic you are to his obvious mental illness; by the time the sequel rolls around he's a bit more likable.
* [[Arbitrary Gun Power]]: After the first few levels you're never going to use your pistol, ever.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Lynch.
* [[Bank Robbery]]: The Withdrawal level.
* [[Blood Knight]]: Lynch!
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Once again, Lynch.
* [[The Caper]]: The main focus of Fragile Alliance, the
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: ''Every'' character has one thing in common: a love of cursing. Although the situations they get themselves into don't leave much else to be said.
* [[Crapsack World]]: Oh so very much.
* [[Cryptic Background Reference]] / [[Canon Fodder]]: Kane's and Lynch's pasts intersect with quite a few of the other characters'.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Both of the protagonists have this in spades. We learn more about Kane's past than Lynch's, but you can get a pretty good summary of both if [[All There in the Manual|you go to the official site.]]
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Things will always go from bad to worse for the duo. The best example would be {{spoiler|the part where Kane's wife is shot in front of him. He freaks out and beats the shooter to death with a shovel.}} You can also count the part in the boat ending {{spoiler|where Jenny supposedly dies,}} or, [[Your Mileage May Vary|depending on your viewpoint,]] the short, purely auditory flashback in which Lynch finds his wife murdered and breaks down.
* [[Donut Mess with a Cop]]: The first mission has Kane gunning down waves of cops near - wait for it- a
* [[Double Caper]]: The bank robbery in which {{spoiler|only half the money is obtained}} leads to {{spoiler|the kidnapping of Retomoto's daughter in an attempt to get the other half.}} Might even qualify as a Triple Caper, since {{spoiler|the catastrophic failure of the hostage exchange eventually leads to the raid on Retomoto's office tower, where they finally get the remaining money back...but not for the original reason they needed it.}}
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|There are two endings in ''Dead Men'' - Damned If You Do, and Damned If You Don't. Note these are the ending achievements' ''official'' names. If you do, then Kane goes back and rescues as many as his men as he can from the church they're getting burned out of. However... they ditch him. His daughter gets wounded and dies. Lynch gets wounded and seems to be dying at the fade to black. That's how the game ends; alone on a boat with a corpse and someone who is about to become one. And if you don't... Kane takes his daughter and flees. The daughter vows to hate him forever. Lynch calls him a traitor. And that's it.}}
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** Subverted in ''Dog Days''. {{spoiler|After Hsing murders Xiu in front of him, Lynch simply tackles him to the ground and uses an armlock to asphyxiate him. Lynch does however stare directly into his eyes as he expires.}}
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: Even if you try to turn Kane into [[The Atoner]], the ending will kick you where it hurts.
* [[Fire-Forged Friends]]: Averted. They hate each other even more by the game's ending.
* [[Four Point Scale]]: A Gamespot editor was, rumor has it, ''fired'' over panning this game hard, while they were running ads on the site.
** Made worse by the fact that, while his video review did pan the game pretty hard, he gave the game a 6.0 overall. 6.0 isn't terrible- it means the game is average.
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* [[Psycho for Hire]]: The main characters, particularly Lynch who actually ''is'' schizophrenic with psychotic episodes, and thus prone to bloodthirsty rages.
** Lynch is a literal Psycho For Hire as of ''Dog Days'', finding work as a henchman in Shanghai.
* [[Punctuated Pounding]]:
{{quote|''' {{spoiler|"YOU SHOULD! HAVE LET! ME TALK TO THEM!"}}'''
'''Kane''', '' {{spoiler|while beating Mute to death with a shovel}}'' }}
* [[Race Lift]]: Lynch, the white schizophrenic, is played by Jamie Foxx, a black actor, in the movie.
* [[Real Is Brown]]: Both played straight and averted in the first game (the dance club had a lot of blue and green, while the Havana missions were mainly brown). Likewise in ''Dog Days'' you get to see all the
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Lynch is red, Kane is blue.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: In both games.
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* [[TV Genius]]: Lynch in the movie, as early scripts seem to indicate.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Both Kane & Lynch are [[Anti-Villain|interesting cases]]. The player is given a look at their motives, which are sympathetic, and neither are actively malicious...but they ''are'' criminals, through and through and they can and will go through anyone in their way, be they gangsters, cops or civilians, without much in the way of remorse.
** The7 are established to be more evil than the protagonists by {{spoiler|betraying Lynch}} and being willing to kill Kane's wife and daughter. Of course Kane is in this predicament in the first place because he betrayed The7, Lynch killed his wife and later ends up {{spoiler|killing Retomoto's daughter}}.
* [[Would Not Shoot a Civilian]]: ...yeah, they would actually. Frequently even.
** And in ''Dog Days'' executing a civilian (and headshots in general) will cause the victim's face to become digitally scrambled.
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* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: One of the few games where the AI can shoot the player character(s) in the head; let one get within point-blank range and there's a good chance they'll just execute you with a bullet to the head.
* [[Camera Abuse]]: In ''Dog Days'', the camera gets splattered with liquids, plagued with digital artifacts, and drops when you die.
* [[The Caper]]: The
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Albeit unintentionally. The phrase "I don't fucking believe this!" and its variations makes up maybe a fifth of the game's script.
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Being bled out by multiple box-cutter wounds{{spoiler|, and being made to watch your lover's own gruesome fate}}.
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* [[Elite Mooks]]: Shanghai Swat and Chinese soldiers, who have the best weapons in the game and body armor that lets them take more hits than the player can.
* [[Escort Mission]]: Despite being protected by Kane, Lynch, and his bodyguard/driver, Glazer can still be a bitch to protect.
* [[Evil Brit]]: Played straight by Glazer. An influential gang leader in the Shanghai underground and business associate to Lynch, {{spoiler|he betrays the protagonists to Shangsi to win
* [[Fan Disservice]]: Hell, even without their horrible box-cutter wounds, the pair wouldn't be much to look at naked.
* [[Fire-Forged Friends]]: By ''Dog Days'', Lynch seems to have warmed up to Kane, and even refers to him as "an old friend", though Kane doesn't show anything more than customary politeness to Lynch initially. {{spoiler|While it'd be a stretch to ever call them ''friends'', Kane is rather sympathetic following Xiu's death and they stick together to get out of Shanghai}}.
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* [[Only in It For the Money]]: The only reason Kane's in Shanghai is for the money that he's supposed to get from the arms deal.
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: To the point where you wonder if [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|the cameraman is an actual character]]. Hell, {{spoiler|possibly confirmed by the fact that one of the Chinese soldiers physically grabs the camera after Kane and Lynch hop on the train}}.
* [[Phrase Catcher]]: Each of the
* [[Screaming Warrior]]: Lynch, especially his epic "DON'T FUCK WITH ME!!!" in the Shangshi Tower climax.
* [[Sequel Escalation]]: Unusually for a big-budget action game, inverted. The first ''K&L'' game was a globe-trotting squad-based shooter set across three countries, having players pull off two large-scale heists ''and'' a Cuban revolution, spanning at least a week, story-wise, and with a pretty vast number of grenades and guns available for use by players. The second game is a brutal and short [[Shaggy Dog Story]] set in a single city over the course of a couple days, and eschews many of the first game's mechanics in favor of streamlining the gameplay.
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* [[Stuffed in The Fridge]]: {{spoiler|Xiu}}
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: To a truly epic degree.
* [[Sunglasses
* [[Talkative Loon]]: Lynch will often mutter to himself during firefights.
* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: No, the two aren't ''actually'' tailed by a news crew during their adventures, but you wouldn't know that from the ads. Promotional ads also showed Kane and Lynch organizing the heists seen in
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: In Dog Days civilians can see two heavily armed white guys, each packing two firearms at once, and sometimes completely fail to react. This is mainly noticeable after you enter the alleyway the restaurant, where a man will just kind of stand there with a bemused look on his face no matter what you do (up to and including shooting people in front of him).
** Lynch even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this later on {{spoiler|in Shangsi's tower}} by pointing out that two white guys with automatics ''will'' stand out quite a bit in Shanghai. This is mainly because by then they have raised five
* [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]?: Played stunningly straight by Shangsi. {{spoiler|After pursuing the boys all over Shanghai with hundreds of police officers operating under orders to shoot to kill, they suddenly decide to apprehend them rather than kill them, then escort them across the city in a military grade transport helicopter ''without even restraining them''. Which gives them the chance to steal said chopper and directly assault Shangsi's office. [[What an Idiot!]].}}
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