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== Pursuit Force ==
== The Cop/ The Commander ==

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]
* [[Heroic Mime]]: He doesn't speak at all in the original and [[The Quiet One|only rarely]] in the second.

== The Chief ==
* [[Da Chief]]
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]


== Capelli Family ==
* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Even after getting thrown all over his limo after you defeat him, the Don still comes out uninjured and his white suit is still clean. 
* [[Career Killers]]: Stefano "Deadeye" De Tomaso, the Don's [[The Dragon|right-hand man]], is a professional hitman. You encounter him when you foil his assassination attempt on the governor. 
* [[Cool Car]]: Their fleet of cars consist entirely of Rolls Royce and Ferrari [[Expy|expies]] painted in black and gold liveries.
** The Don's 6-wheeled stretch limo. Its even got a [[Gatling Good|minigun]] in the boot!
* [[Difficult but Awesome]]: The Revolver may have very limited ammo and fires slowly, but it does pack a punch. Perfect for boss fights.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Johnny Leone, a former Capelli made-man who sides with the cops in exchange for protection from his former gang. You have to escort him to safety in the very first mission of the game. 
* [[Names to Run From Really Fast]]: It ain't Deadeye if he doesn't get spot-on [[Boom! Headshot!|headshots]] with that sniper rifle.
* [[The Don]]: Don Capelli
* [[The Dragon]]: Deadeye
* [[The Mafia]]: They're portrayed more like 1930s gangsters. 

== Warlords ==

== The General ==
* [[Cool Ship]]: His gunboat. It was armed with fuel barrels turned into [[Improvised Weapon|mines]], two rapid firing tri-barreled mortars and a [[Macross Missile Massacre|Hellfire missle turret]].
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]
* [[Killed Off for Real]]:After you defeat him, The General gets sniped by the Viper Squad lieutenant ( {{spoiler|who is actually Ashley}}) after he attempted to drop the nuke over the city.

== Gang members and hardware ==
* [[Homage]]: The fifth mission in ''Pursuit Force'' is a big homage to the movie ''[[Speed]]''. The Warlords have rigged a bus with a bomb. Should the bus's speed decreases below 100mph, the bomb starts ticking and will eventually blow up. The difference between this and the movie is that the bad guy lets you try to safe the commuters. But with traffic getting in your way while you try to line up the bus with the ranger's jeep without slowing down and only having little distance to spare, [[That One Level|its not that easy]], especially if you're trying for an A grade.
* [[Reds with Rockets]]: The bulk of the Warlords in ''Extreme Justice'' is made up of russian mercenaries who were in the Spetsnaz. They have an arsenal of [[Cold War]] era weapons. Ironically, they're blue most of the time. 
* [[Semper Fi]]: In ''Pursuit Force'', the Warlords are made up of renegade US Marines.
* [[The Dragon]]: Lieutenant Davis in the first game, Yuri "The Fury" Andreov in the second game. 
* [[Western Terrorists]]: Ironicly and ''disturbingly'' made up of rogue [[Semper Fi|US Marines]] in the first game. Ironic, considering whats going on [[War On Terror|in real life]]. Disturbing, considering the fact that they are highly trained marines and are ''very well-equipped''.
** The second game had The General resort to using russian mercenaries.

== Convicts ==

== Hard Balls ==
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: His reign of terror finally ends in ''Extreme Justice'' after you defeat him.
* [[Scary Black Man]]

== Billy Wide ==
* [[Axe Crazy]]
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]
* [[Pyromaniac]]

== Gang members and hardware ==
* [[Always Chaotic Evil]]
* [[Axe Crazy]]: A good majority of them. Also more specifically, [[Axe Crazy|Billy]] [[Pyromaniac|Wilde]].
* [[Continuity Nod]]: In ''Extreme Justice'', one of their [[Mooks]] is a former Killer 66 member (the guy with the [[Anime Hair|spiky red hair]] and always wearing a [[Cool Mask|ninja mask]]). He also does say about avenging Monster Toshima.
* [[Expy]]: Of [[Warhammer 40000|da Orkz]], most noticeable with their [[Mad Max]]-styled vehicles and their [[Always Chaotic Evil]] personality.
* [[Molotov Cocktail]]: They make heavy use of these. Throwing these is also Billy Wilde's only form of attack in''Pursuit Force''.
* [[Nail'Em]]: The Nailgun, which is a very weak weapon. Does not do much damage and fires slowly. Only advantage is it's rather large clip size. A car filled with Nailgun-armed [[Mooks]] [[Lethal Joke Weapon|can be very dangerous]]. In ''Extreme Justice'', It [[Took a Level In Badass]] and became something akin to a submachinegun.
* [[Oh Crap]]: "Its a modified earthmover. The Convict must've bought it from The Syndicate. Is that Hard Balls driving it? GET OUT OF THERE NOW!!"
* [[Revenge]]: The reason they're working with the [[Villain Team-Up]] in ''Extreme Justice'' is to just get back on Pursuit Force for throwing them back in jail.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: In ''Extreme Justice'', Billy Wilde used two vehicles in his rampages. They're both firetrucks which were armed with flamethrowers.
* [[Sawn Off Shotgun]]: One of two of their weapons used in ''Pursuit Force''.

== Vixens ==
* [[Amazon Brigade]]: They absolutely '''hate''' men.
{{quote|  Vixen [[Mooks|mook]]: "You men are only good for one thing: target practice!"}}
* [[Animal Motifs]]: A vixen is a female fox. Foxes are known to be sly and cunning, just like this gang. Also since the gang is made entirely of [[Amazon Brigade|girls...]]
* [[Batman Gambit]]: The third mission (mid-boss level) has you driving a truck said to carry valuable items that has caught the interest of [[The Dragon|The Fox]].  {{spoiler|The truck is empty, its just a dud}}. After holding off the Vixen hijackers long enough, The Fox appears and tries to steal it. You then promptly jump out off the truck, jack the nearest Vixen car and proceed to chase down and shoot her off her chopper.
* [[Dark Action Girl]]
* [[Death From Above]]: Both [[The Dragon|The Fox]] and [[Big Bad|Whiplash]] use helicopters in their respective boss fights, Fox's a Little Bird armed with a minigun and Whiplash's a Pavelow that fires rockets from it's [[Did Not Do Research|fuel tanks]].
* [[Evil Is Sexy]]
* [[Fragile Speedster]]
* [[Gatling Good]]: One of their guns is the Chainpistol, a [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|chaingun reduced to the size of a pistol]]. Its still pretty large though and functions like a submachinegun.
* [[Kill It with Fire]]: The only way to inflict damage on Whiplash for the first part of the her boss fight is to damage the car she's on until it's hood starts to catch fire, burning her. 
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: They're obviously a [[Ms. Fanservice]] gang.
* [[Whip It Good]]: Whiplash's [[Weapon of Choice]] is an electrified whip that disables your car for a short time if it hits. Doubles as [[Meaningful Name]].
* [[The Dragon]]: The Fox

== Killer 66 ==
* [[AKA-47]]: The Punisher is a Desert Eagle and the SMG is an Uzi.
* [[And This Is For]]: Toshima yells one during his boss battle.
{{quote|  [[Big Bad|Monster Toshima]]: "This is for Sudeko!"}}
* [[Complete Monster]]: The fact that the Killer 66 ''sell drugs to schoolchildren'' probably makes them the most vile of all the gangs.
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Monster Toshima. He has been repeatedly referred to as "the head sumo" by the [[Da Chief|Chief]].
* [[Gratuitous Japanese]]: The [[Mooks]] are quite fond with bidding you sayonara (goodbye).
* [[Kill It with Fire]]: Toshima's [[Weapon of Choice]] is a flamethrower.
* [[Mook Maker]]: In his boss fight, after hurting Toshima enough, a shield closes up on him and cars start to roll off from his car transporter.
{{quote|  [[Da Chief|Chief ]](pointing out at the cars in the car transporter): "Beware of other Killer 66 cars."}}
* [[Names to Run From Really Fast]]: The "Monster" in Monster Toshima's name is pretty self-explanatory.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Killing [[The Dragon|Sudeko]] might just have been your biggest mistake...
{{quote|  [[Big Bad|Monster Toshima]]: "You killed Sudeko! Now, I make you tempura!" *pulls out [[Kill It with Fire|flamethrower]]*}}
* [[Rice Burner]]: Their entire fleet of cars plus their [[Cool Bike|superbikes]].
* [[The Dragon]]: Sudeko
* [[The Yakuza]]

== Raiders ==
* [[And This Is For]]: In his boss fight,
{{quote|  [[The Dragon|Travis Striker]]: "This is for my sister, pig!"}}
* [[Big No]]: Lockjaw as he was getting sucked into his hovercraft's main propulsion blade.
* [[Brother-Sister Team]]: The Striker Twins, Lockjaw's [[The Dragon|dragons]].
* [[Cool Ship]]: Lockjaw's pirate ship, the Swamp King, which is even equipped with [[Nitro Boost|boosters]].
** Technically however, its not a ship but a hovercraft.
* [[Deep South]]
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: The [[Cool Ship|Swamp King]] briefly appears twice in the second mission as a [[Mook Maker]] releasing squads of jetskis. You later encounter it later on as a boss fight against Lockjaw. Also in the same mission, the Striker Twins will be taunting you. You face off against them in the last mission of Act I.
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Upon defeating him, Lockjaw is thrown off his harpoon gun and hangs on for dear life as he was being sucked by his hovercraft's [[Helicopter Blender|main propulsion blade]]. He eventually loses grip, gets suck into and the next scene shows the main propulsion blade blowing up.
* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: Subverted. During his boss battle, Lockjaw attacks you by shooting a harpoon at you. However, it only knocks you off your feet. You do end up trying to pull yourself up from falling into one of his hovercraft's [[Helicopter Blender|propulsion blades]].
* [[No Name Given]]: We will never know Travis Striker's twin sister's name since you killed her ( {{spoiler|technically, she got herself ran over by that DUKW}}). Nice knowin' ya sis.
* [[Pirate]]: Complete with an insignia that resembles the standard skull and swords symbol of pirates of old.
* [[Press X to Not Die]]: Other than taking cover completely from his attacks, whenever Lockjaw is about to fire his harpoon gun, you will be prompt to press the button that flashes onscreen. If successful, you catch the harpoon and [[Hoist by His Own Petard|throw it back at him]].  {{spoiler|You need to do this in order to break open his shield}} and be able to shoot at him.

== The Syndicate ==
* [[Evil Brit]]
* [[Heel Face Mole]]: Somewhat subverted a bit. Lucy was never on their side; {{spoiler|She was spying on them for the MI 5}}. She does stick with Pursuit Force throughout the game after the commander blew her cover.
* [[Reverse Mole]]: The Syndicate lieutenant is actually a  {{spoiler|MI 5 agent tasked with spying on the gang}}
* [[The Syndicate]]: This ''is'' the gang's name. They're in the bank robbing business.

== Viper Squad ==
* [[Jerkass]]: Decker is pretty much this, constantly taunting at Pursuit Force that Viper Squad is better.
* [[Bigger Bad]]:  {{spoiler|Turns out that they've been working with (or using) The Warlords to stage a terrorist threat in which, with the (intended) disposal of Pursuit Force, they will come to save the day and win the hearts of many, making it easier to control the population of Capital State and turn it into a [[Police State]]. Seeing how they calmly disposed of [[Big Bad]] The General when he went rogue certainly qualifies them as this.}}

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