Shank (video game): Difference between revisions

* [[And Now for Someone Completely Different]]: The second game has you play an entire level of the main story using Corina.

* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: Completing certain side objectives will get you new costumes. Semi-averted in Shank 2, though: while skins do nothing in the single-player game, every skin has different stats in Survival Mode.

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The katana's grapple move, while visually pleasing, does little damage and leaves you open during the animation.

* [[Back Stab]]: No matter what you hit an enemy with, as long as their back is turned it's a one hit kill.

* [[Dies Wide Open]]: Most bosses. Shank leaves them like that most of the time, but he closes {{spoiler|Cesar's}} eyes.

* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: Arguably Corina in the sequel.

** [[Machete|Also, a Mexploitation based design and setting, complete with a main character named after his bladed weapon of choice.]]

* [[Do Not Call Me Paul]]: {{spoiler|Shank's real name, according to one of the Rebel Intels, is Robert Torres, but even those closest to him, such as Corina and Elena, still refer to him by his nickname.}}

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Even while working for the cartel, Shank still had a few lines he wouldn't cross. He's unflinchingly loyal and kind to his girlfriend {{spoiler|after she sees him and his partner trying to kill the Deputy Mayor}}, and has to be restrained from attacking Angelo after he casually shoots a priest. Even {{spoiler|Cesar}} has a hint of this when Shank reveals that {{spoiler|Eva was pregnant when they killed her}}, telling Shank, "Had I known she was {{spoiler|with child}}, that would have changed things..."

* [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]]: Not literally, but something greatly resembling it as Shank {{spoiler|escapes from the catacombs beneath a church, having just killed [[Sinister Minister]] Angelo via an electric chair. [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|Probably symbolic of... something.]]}}

** [[Big Bad|The Big Bad]] - {{spoiler|Cesar}}

** [[The Dragon]] - {{spoiler|Angelo}}

* [[Left for Dead]]

* [[Locomotive Level]]: Consisting of one long [[Traintop Battle]].

* [[Made of Iron]]: All enemies, as well as Shank himself. Enemies can easily get up and start shooting you again even after you've rammed a chainsaw into their stomachs. The big guys can take ''several grenades to the face'' and still come charging after you.

* [[Masked Luchador]]: Many [[Giant Mook|Giant Mooks]] from the first game are this.

* [[Mirror Boss]]: {{spoiler|Cesar}} is more-or-less this for Shank, fighting in almost the same manner. {{spoiler|Including pouncing on you near the end of the fight.}}

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Shank. [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|He certainly does.]]

* [[No Kill Like Overkill]]: You can continue to beat up enemies even after they've died.

* [[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank]]: And how. Pretty much everyone bleed profusely with no regard for the laws of biology.

* [[Palette Swap]]: Shank's partner, Falcone {{spoiler|who is Cesar's son.}}

* [[Reverse Grip]]: How Shank holds his knives.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: In its purest form.

* [[That One Level]]: "Bombs and Bells". It wouldn't be so bad if not for the fact that {{spoiler|Angelo takes an RPG and shoots rockets at you every 5 seconds, making the level a LOT harder than it needed to be.}}

* [[Sinister Minister]]: {{spoiler|Angelo}}

* [[Sinister Scythe]]: Not exactly sinister, but Corina obtains and uses one in the sequel.

* [[Shotguns Are Just Better]]

* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Cesar lives in a fancy mansion decorated with antiques, wears an ascot, and fights with pearl-handled knives, a saber, and a pair of dueling pistols.

* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Gender matters not to Shank.