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The film was followed by ''Rambo: First Blood Part II'', which was released in 1985 and was an enormous success. In the film, Rambo is released from prison by Marshall Murdock and sent on a mission to find American POWs in Vietnam. When he does, Murdock orders that Rambo be abandoned and all evidence of the mission be destroyed. Rambo manages to escape from Vietnam, returns to Murdock's command center, destroys it with a machine gun, and threatens Murdock with a knife to get the POWs out of Vietnam. In the end, Rambo tells Trautman that he and other war veterans want their country to love them as much as they love it, and that he would gladly die for his country.
The third film, which was simply titled ''Rambo III'' and released in 1988, begins with Trautman tracking down Rambo and asking him to join him on a mission to Afghanistan to assist the Afghan [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters|freedom fighters]] who are [[Fighting
After a twenty-year hiatus, Stallone returned to the franchise with the fourth film in the series, titled simply ''Rambo'' (the film's original production title was ''John Rambo'', partially because of Stallone's other major franchise sequel, ''Rocky Balboa''). Living alone near the Burmese border, Rambo is asked by a group of American missionaries to take them to Burma on a humanitarian effort. While transporting them, they are ambushed by pirates. When negotiations fail, Rambo kills all the pirates, which disturbs the missionaries, but doesn't fully dissuade them from going to the village in Burma - where they end up being captured during an attack. After ten days, Rambo is asked by a pastor associated with the missionaries to lead a group of mercenaries on a rescue mission, to which he reluctantly agrees.
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* [[Asshole Victim]]: Chances are any villain will be one.
* [[An Asskicking Christmas]]: First movie.
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Say it out loud: John. RAMBO. This name oozes pure testosterone and has been widely adapted as a synonym for raging [[Badass]]. It also helps that in Japanese (乱暴, ''rambou'') it means ''[[Meaningful Name|violent, rough, lawless.]]''. The character was named after a breed of [
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: Rambo's home-made knife in the fourth movie.
* [[Badass Bandolier]]: Rambo has worn a lot of them.
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* [[Broken Aesop]]: ''First Blood'' - two hours illustrating and condemning the dehumanization of soldiers. The sequels - two hours of gleeful carnage by a [[One-Man Army]].
** In addiction, as said in a [[Cracked]] article: "''First Blood is a poignant tale about the American institutions' failure to reintegrate war veterans into society, and about how we shouldn't chase them with dogs and helicopters for absolutely no reason. We agree, movie!''"
* [[But Thou Must!]]: At the beginning of the NES version, Commander Trautman gives Rambo a mission that may be difficult. If the player chooses, "I feel safer in prison," the commander won't take no for an answer and will keep repeating that until the player chooses, "I'm not afraid of death."
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[Conditioned to Accept Horror]]: Rambo himself. As you could probably guess from the chart, this is played for tragedy in the first movie but quickly sidelined in the rest.
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* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Part 4. The missionaries only call Rambo "John", after Sarah asks what his name is. The mercenaries know him as "the boatman".
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Murdock for Troutman.
* [[Fighting
* [[Flanderization]]: John Rambo killed precisely one guy in the first film. From II onward, Rambo was a [[Badass]] who made lots of bodies out of anyone in his way. Plus, the first film's kill is accidental and arguably [[Karmic Death]] as well, since Galt, the guy who was killed, was going out of his way to antagonize Rambo.
* [[Flesh Versus Steel]]: Part 3 had the Afghans on horseback vs. the mechanized Soviets.
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* [[Gorn]]: The fourth film, just the fourth film... Specifically the ending battle scene. It's on par with the likes of ''[[Saw]]'', ''[[Hostel]]'' and ''[[Kill Bill|Kill Bill: Vol. 1]]''. That's not to say that the prior three films didn't contain violence, but they were nowhere near as bloody as this one is. Many critics felt it was a bit excessive. Stallone said that the toned-up violence was to emphasize the badness of the situation in Myanmar.
** As for complaints about the "excessive" violence, see [[Reality Is Unrealistic]] below.
* [[The Great Politics Mess
** Not necessarily so: The warriors whom Rambo fought besides were ''[[Church Militant|mujihadeen]]''; many but by no means all joined the Taliban after the end of the Cold War; some would instead join the drug-dealing Uzbek warlords and the communist remnant that the Taliban fought and had almost defeated. Not every ''mujihad'' is part of the Taliban, just as not every Talib is a ''mujihad''. Ironically, the Uzbek warlords and the communists would later be portrayed as heroes, once they proved to be useful as a U.S. proxy army.
* [[The Gunslinger]]: One of the most famous examples of the type B.
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* [[Punctuated for Emphasis]]: Murdoch... '''I'M.COMING.TO.GET.YOU!!'''
* [[Railing Kill]]: Third film.
* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]: As noted with the image up top, this tends to increase with each sequel; notably, ''First Blood ''was not particularly [[Testosterone Poisoning|testosterone-poisoned]].
* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: Lots of people rolled their eyes at the "exaggerated" carnage at the climax of ''Rambo'', not realizing that a .50 BMG round really will do that sort of stuff to a human body. (It's revealed in DVD bonus features that a soldier in the US military wrote the filmmakers to say how impressed he was with the [[Shown Their Work|realistic depiction of the gun.]])
** Same with the Tall-Boy exploding. As for why he wasn't poisoned by nuclear fallout, as [[Did Not Do the Research|many internet snarkers expected a cookie for pointing out]], it's because the Tall-Boy ''wasn't'' a nuclear bomb; any big enough bomb, even massive explosions like battleship Yamato blowing up, will form a mushroom cloud.
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* [[Tank Goodness]]: Prominent in the third film.
* [[Ten Minute Retirement]]: Rambo was ready to leave the POW's in part 2 behind and take Co with him to America. [[Mood Whiplash|The she gets shot]].
* [[Testosterone Poisoning]]: Known for being one of the most [[Rated "M" for Manly|male-oriented]] action films.
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: That poor Burmese army jeep driver whose death kick-starts the climatic battle of part 4 comes to mind; let's not even get started on the [[Stuff Blowing Up|gratuitous explosions.]]
* [[Title Drop]]: In the first film, twice in one scene.
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