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** [[Dragon-in-Chief]]: As quoted above, Bennett claims (correctly) that he's a bigger threat to John than Arius' and his army.
* [[Elite Mooks]]: Cooke boasts about being a former Green Beret. Matrix is unimpressed.
* [[Expy]]: General Kirby is basically [[Rambo (Franchise)|Colonel Trautman]]. Matrix himself is basically a tongue-in-cheek version of Rambo.
* [[Faking the Dead]]: Bennett is apparently blown up in his boat by Cooke in the pre-title sequence, but it's only to mislead Kirby.
* [[Follow That Car!]]:
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*** Maybe Matrix '''[[Overprotective Dad|really hated]]''' that "more time with your daughter" crack Sully made at the airport?
* [[I Have Your Daughter]]: Subverted in that when the bad guys kidnap Matrix's daughter to blackmail him into working for them, he doesn't even pretend to play along; he ignores their demands and just kills them all.
* [[Impaled Withwith Extreme Prejudice]]: [[You Have Been Warned|spoilers]].
* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: With an army that shoots like ''that'', no '''wonder''' Matrix could take on 87 men and still win.
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: The other reason Matrix could take on the army presented and win.
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** He lied.
* [[Lock and Load Montage]]: Complete with enough weaponry to kill a small army. [[Hilarity Ensues|And I'm not talking hypothetically here.]]
** Interestingly, Matrix puts all the equipment on, including his vest and then puts camo paint on his arms and face. Later, he loses the vest and now he has camo paint on his manly chest. Which means, after the [[Lock and Load Montage|lock and load montage]], he must have taken all the equipment '''off''' again to paint it on, as he was obviously ''planning'' to lose his shirt later.
* [[Mandatory Unretirement]]
* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]: Yes, '''Bennett''' of all people has an actor who is a very nice person off camera, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjkp-Qtq2Ss as Arnie himself recalls].
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* [[More Dakka]]: Most of the movie revolves around dakka exchange between fighting parties: trimming bushes with machine gun fire, entire squad [[No One Could Survive That|dakka-venting the barn with The Ahnold inside]], et cetera, et cetera.
* [[Nice Job Guiding Us Hero]]
* [[Not Even Bothering Withwith the Accent]]: Justified (or handwaved, at any rate) by mentioning early in the film that Matrix hails from East Germany.
* [[One-Man Army]]: Hoo, boy, is Matrix ever.
** Could have been called [[One-Man Army]]: [[The Movie]].
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* [[Unhand Them, Villain!]]: Arnold does this to Sully.
* [[Unnecessary Combat Roll]]: It actually proves useful. Matrix is in a gun fight with Arius, and the two take turns shooting at each other and taking cover. After a few rounds of this, Matrix rolls out from his cover as Arius tries to shoot him, only for Matrix to shoot Arius at the end of the roll.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: This was originally offered to John McTiernan of ''[[Predator]]'' and ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'' fame. Now watch the first half hour of ''Predator'' and ask... [[Sincerity Mode|which is more awesome]]?
** ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'' was originally intended to be a sequel to ''Commando''.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: EVERYTHING, from walking through a mall to getting into an airplane.
** And getting off of one.
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