One Riot, One Ranger: Difference between revisions

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'''Captain Bill MacDonald''' (Texas Ranger): Well, there's only one riot, isn't there? }}

 

** In the fourth film, right near the beginning, there is an a choice between hiring an entire team of mercenary veterans festooned with guns or hiring Rambo with just a bow and arrows, and a knife. The employer chooses Rambo, and only hires the mercenary team when it looks like Rambo might not be coming.

* At the beginning of ''[[Judge Dredd]]'', two young Judges get caught in a shootout and call for backup. They get Dredd. Just Dredd. It's enough.

'''Judge Dredd''': ''It's here''. }}

* Stated in the [[David Mamet]] film ''[[Spartan]]'' by Bobby Scott, who is sent in to recover the President's kidnapped daughter. The title of the film is a reference to a historical example: King Leonidas I (of Thermopylae fame) sent a single Spartan soldier to a neighboring city-state that requested aid.

* In Marty Robbin's "Big Iron", a town that has been run by an outlaw that has killed 20 men who came to arrest him is finally saved by a single Arizona Ranger.

* [[Steve Earle]]'s "Justice in Ontario":

They said "Send us Corporal Terry Hall." }}