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{{quote|''"You're always going to be tearing away at yourself until you come to terms with what you are. Until you come full circle"''
|'''Col. Trautman'''}}
{{quote|''"NOTHING IS OVER! NOTHING!!''
|'''Rambo'''}}
A series of action/drama films starring [[Sylvester Stallone]] as [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|emotionally troubled]] [[Vietnam War]] veteran John Rambo, who was a former member of the United States Army Special Forces, a Green Beret, and a recipient of the Medal of Honor. ''First Blood'', released in 1982 and the first film in the series, was based on the 1972 David Morrell novel of the same name.
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Prior to ''Rambo'', however, a cute and heartwarming [[Gaiden]] of sorts was created in 2008 by British director Garth Jennings called [[Son of Rambow]]. The film details the misadventures of two boys in 1982 who tried to remake ''First Blood'' with a bulky VHS-Camera and the vibrant imagination of ten year olds. [[Sylvester Stallone]] himself is said to have loved the film.
In 2019, the fifth film titled ''Rambo: Last Blood'' was released. Taking place 10 years after the fourth film, Rambo is living a peaceful life on his father's horse ranch with, Maria an old friend of his father and her granddaughter Gabrielle, whom Rambo develops a parental bond with. When a friend of Gabrielle's, Gizelle, claims that she has found Gabrielle's biological father in Mexico, she ventures there against Rambo's wishes. The result gets her abducted by a brother duo of human traffickers named Victor and Hugo Martinez. Prompting Rambo to abandon the happy life he helped build and go on a rampage to find her. The movie was heavily criticized and accused of glorifying xenophobia, due to its release coinciding with American President [[Donald Trump]]'s anti-Mexico propaganda. However it's also considered the darkest chapter of the series since ''First Blood'', due to the excessive and creative use of violence within the film.
Both the films and the character have enjoyed massive success and popularity, and - alongside the ''Rocky'' series - catapulted Stallone to the position of a major action hero and film star. After the release of the first three ''Rambo'' films, Morrell went on to write the novelizations of the first two ''Rambo'' sequels because he wanted to include characterization that he felt wasn't in said sequels. There was also [[Animated Adaptation|a 1986 animated TV series]] called ''Rambo : the Force of Freedom'' that lasted 65 episodes and spawned a line of toys; [[Comic Book Adaptation|a few comic books starring the character]]; a soundtrack for all films except ''Rambo III'' and the animated series; and many video games including the NES version of ''Rambo'' and the Sega Master System versions of ''Rambo: First Blood Part II'' and ''Rambo III''. Rambo appeared as a [[Guest Fighter]] for ''[[Mortal Kombat 11]]'', with Stallone reprising his role.
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* [[Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene]]: In ''First Blood'', Rambo's breakdown and monologue in the end. In ''Rambo: First Blood Part II'', the scene with Rambo and Co on the boat where he tells her he's "expendable". There are several in ''Rambo IV'' between Rambo and Sarah, most notably her pointing out "Maybe you're right, maybe we won't change anything. But trying to save a life isn't wasting your life." Unfortunately, many of these were cut.
* [[Action Girl]]: Co.
* [[Animated Adaptation]]: ''Rambo: The Force of Freedom'', a [[Sixty-Five-Episode Cartoon]] which aired in 1986 alongside a [[Merchandise-Driven|tie-in toyline]] which was basically a ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' clone with Rambo as the lead character.
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* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Colonel Trautman in the first three movies (especially the third). Rambo himself became one in the fourth movie, since Stallone was 62 without showing it.
* [[Bald of Awesome]]: One of the mercenaries in Part 4. Has a penchant for headbutting.
* [[Baleful Polymorph]] / [[
* [[BFG]]: among others, the 50-cal machine gun that Rambo uses to slaughter the military in the fourth movie, thoroughly wrecking a truck and a patrol boat in the process.
** The anti-material sniper rifle, coincidentally running on the same rounds as the machine gun, which Schoolboy so expertly uses to blast enemy soldiers in half and to vaporize heads.
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* [[The Cavalry]]: Afghan rebels in the third movie, literally; Karen rebels in the fourth.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: [[Sarcasm Mode|Oh, I'm sure]] that unexploded ordnance won't be important later.
** Another one in ''Rambo: Last Blood''. In the beginning of the film, Rambo was using his forge to make a letter opener as a present for Gabrielle, in celebration of her getting into college. It was unfinished when Rambo first showed it and he mentioned planning on adding some white handles for decoration. When Gabrielle was kidnapped {{spoiler|and later killed, Rambo uses it to sneak into Victor's compound. It is last scene with Victor's headless corpse pinning a picture of Gabrielle to his chest with it. It is easily recognized by the white handles.}}
* [[Colonel Badass]]: Colonel Sam Trautman. He gets more play in the books, and {{spoiler|in the first book, he's actually the man who kills Rambo -- [[Boom! Headshot!|blowing his old student's head off]] with a ''shotgun.''}}
** You'll need to wait until ''Rambo III'' to see him kick any ass in the movies, however.
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*** Then there was that boy who was ripped away from his mother and thrown into a burning hut.
* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]: Frequently used on Rambo: by the police in the first movie, the Cong in the second, etc.
* [[Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life]]: Invoked in ''First Blood''. Rambo gets picked up by the police for 'Vagrancy', which leads to them messing with him and dredging up his Vietnam-war trauma, which leads to rapidly escalating troubles, which leads to a dead cop and, eventually, Rambo working a prison-quarry. Towards the end of the movie, during the police's [[Hope Spot]] when they ''think'' they've managed to kill him, Rambo's old general has this to say:▼
{{quote|'''Trautman:''' Vagrancy, wasn't it? That's gonna look real good on his grave stone in Arlington: Here lies John Rambo, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, survivor of countless incursions behind enemy lines. Killed for vagrancy in Jerkwater, USA.}}▼
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Banks("You're man. Don't be a hero.") in Rambo II.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Police brutality directed toward Rambo in the first film triggered his rampage.
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* [[Lock and Load Montage]]: Rambo prepping up to kick Viet Cong ass is the second film is ''the'' definitive version of this trope in action.
* [[Made of Explodium]]: One of the police cars in the first film crashes into another car, and both cars explode.
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▲{{quote|'''Trautman:''' Vagrancy, wasn't it? That's gonna look real good on his grave stone in Arlington: Here lies John Rambo, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, survivor of countless incursions behind enemy lines. Killed for vagrancy in Jerkwater, USA.}}
* [[Mamet Speak]]: This exchange from Part 4:
{{quote|"Let's move!
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* [[More Dakka]]: Rambo practically thrives on this.
* [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]: The Burmese army from the fourth film.
* [[Never My Fault]]: Teasle never takes responsibility for his role in making Rambo snap. Insisting that the Vagrancy charge he has arrested Rambo for, was the right thing to do, despite what the audience has seen otherwise.
* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: Especially the point of the second movie (focusing on the plight of American POWs in Vietnam).
* [[Not Even Bothering with the Accent]]: Potovski in the second film is a major offender; he sounds more like a stereotypical Nazi interrogator, complete viz ze inability to pronounce a "th" sound.
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