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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 rendez-vous between the pair quickly escalates into a mounting crisis that threatens to either destroy them or the city itself. [[ItsIt's All About Me|And we all know which one]] ''[[Anti -Villain|they]]'' [[ItsIt's All About Me|will choose...]]
 
Not to be confused with ''Sleeping Dogs'', which was formerly ''[[True Crime]]: Hong Kong''.
 
There's a movie in the works, with [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]] signed on as Kane and ''[[WTH Casting Agency|Jamie Foxx]]'' [[Race Lift|as Lynch]].
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=== The first game contains the following tropes: ===
* [[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.
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* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Once again, Lynch.
* [[The Caper]]: The main focus of Fragile Alliance, the multiplayer mode for both games in the series.
* [[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'.
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* [[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.}}
** {{spoiler|Actually, the sequel reveals that Kane's daughter is alive and estranged from him. She is not as dead as you think.}}
* [[Dueling Games]]: ''Kane & Lynch: Dead Men'' was announced and released around the same time as the original ''[[Army of Two]]'', and had a similar premise (Automatic Cover-Based [[Third -Person Shooter]] set in a [[Darker and Edgier]] version of the real world with emphasis on [[Co -Op Multiplayer|Co-Op play]] between [[Grey and Grey Morality|snarky and morally repugnant protagonists]]). By odd coincidence both games had sequels set in Shanghai, although ''Dog Days'' was announced several months after ''Army Of Two: The 40th Day''.
** They also have the same basic plot--A job goes south, and the title characters have to get out of Shanghai. Both received average reviews--although ''Dog Days'' received more praise for its plot than ''The 40th Day''.
* [[Escort Mission]]: Pops up a few times.
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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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* [[Giant Mook]]: Scattered throughout the Retomoto Tower level in ''Dead Men'' are a handful of large, extra-tough goons armed with heavy machineguns and enhanced health.
* [[Groin Attack]]: Lynch gets one from Yoko.
* [[Hey ItsIt's That Voice]]: Kane is [[Silent Hill Homecoming|Alex Shepherd]] and the [[Fantastic Four (Film)|Silver Surfer]], and Lynch is [[Silent Hill|Dr. Michael Kaufmann.]]
* [[Hostage Situation]]: One of the most prominent set piece tropes in the series, seeing as our protagonists are career criminals to whom subtlety is anathema. Whenever this situation develops it turns out incredibly badly for them and quickly escalates events beyond their control.
* [[Hurricane of Excuses]]: Lynch gives these whenever he's accused of something.
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* [[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 technicolour shinyness of Shanghai's nightlife as well as the dull browns and grays of dock warehouses and apartment blocks.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Lynch is red, Kane is blue.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: In both games.
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: And it's a cruel one, indeed.
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* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: The franchise is arguably based around the premise of letting the player portray one half of this team dynamic while emulating the cinematic stylings of Michael Mann. In any other series the protagonists would probably being [[Mid Boss|mid bosses]] for a more heroic protagonist to take out before the end of the first act.
* [[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.
* [[Yank the DogsDog's Chain]]: The plot absolutely refuses to give Kane a break. Lynch doesn't fare too well in the second game, either.
** It's gotten to the point that you can figure out plot twists far in advance by just remembering that any [[Hope Spot]] will eventually turn into this.
 
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* [[The Caper]]: The multiplayer mode is a violent and bleak take on this trope. The cops are almost as bad as the robbers, and innocent civilians frequently get caught in the crossfire. The second half of a match will often devolve into a tense three-way tug-of-war over the cash between the [[Corrupt Cop|cops]], the [[Pragmatic Villainy|robbers who just want to get out alive with the money]], and [[Greed|robbers hell-bent on killing their teammates in order to get as much cash for themselves as possible]].
* [[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}}.
* [[Corrupt Cop]]: The Shanghai police department, to a truly astounding degree. Aside from being paid to personally kill Kane and Lynch, they're also not concerned with property damage or civilian casualties. Its SWAT team binding and gagging an entire restaurant staff in order to more effectively ambush the heroes is the ''least'' assholish thing they do.
* [[Cutscene Boss]]: {{spoiler|All of them.}}
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* [[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 favour and wash his hands of their actions. When he attempts to help them in reconciliation, one of Shangsi's snipers messily [[Your Head Asplode|ventilates his noggin.]]}}
* [[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}}.
* [[Five Stages of Grief]]: {{spoiler|After Xiu's death Lynch goes from incoherent babbling to homicidal rage to overwhelming despair, then resets back to normal. It's possible that he's falling into another schizophrenic episode due to stress, but it's hard to tell.}}
* [[Follow the Leader]]: '''March 2009''': ''[[Army of Two]]: The 40th Day'' is announced, and will feature Salem & Rios trying to get out of Shanghai after a job goes south. '''November 2009''': ''Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days'' is announced, and will feature Kane & Lynch trying to get out of Shanghai after a job goes south.
* [[Full Frontal Assault]]: The sixth chapter in ''Dog Days'', "A Thousand Cuts", has the duo running and gunning through the streets of Shanghai [[Squick|bloodied and naked]] after escaping a bout of torture.
* [[Hollywood Healing]]: Approximately half-way through ''Dog Days'', the "heroes" get [[Cold -Blooded Torture|carved up like turducken by box cutters]] and bleed out long enough for one of them to lose consciousness. Not only are they hale and hearty enough to engage in lengthy firefights with police across three blocks minutes later, but after an hour and a change of clothes they are ready to oversee an arms deal. Both make mention of the significant pain they're in, and Kane is adamant to oversee the deal and get his payment ([[A Simple Plan|optimistic of him]]), but the sheer amount of cuts would require them to be jacked up to the eyeballs on adrenaline just to stay conscious, because if they had fallen asleep they wouldn't have woken up for a week.
* [[How We Got Here]]: ''Dog Days'' commences with a short video depicting the protagonists being tortured and cuts out on Kane screaming with rage. The narrative then steps back two days to reveal why this is happening.
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Averted in ''Dog Days''. Kane and Lynch can only carry two weapons at a time, and any two-handed weapon will be strapped across their back when not in use. Additionally, they can only carry a few spare magazines for each weapon.
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* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: In ''Dog Days'', the final opponents fought in the game are a pair of dogs. Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation mocks this in his review of the game.
* [[Interface Screw]]: The shaky cam goes completely ''nuts'' during the final shootout in front of Shangsi's office, most likely to emphasize the breaking point of Lynch's degenerating mental state.
* [[Last -Name Basis]]: While everyone still calls Lynch by his last name, it seems a little odd that Xiu calls him that too. Of course, it's entirely possible Lynch prefers it this way.
* [[Madness Mantra]]: Lynch mumbles deranged, barely coherent nonsense during particularly intense shootouts in ''Dog Days''.
* [[Mooks but No Bosses]]
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** 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 flavours of hell, and even average civilians would be in on the manhunt.
* [[Viral Marketing]]: A rather bizarre marketing campaign played up the game's [[YouTube]]-ish [[Stylistic Suck]] to such a degree that you'd think Kane and Lynch were actually being tailed by the paparazzi.
* [[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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