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[[File:patriot_ver2.jpg|frame|<small>Watch out men, it's [[Mel Gibson (Creator)|Mel Gibson]]'s [[Floating Head Syndrome|giant face]]!</small> ]]
 
{{quote| '''Benjamin Martin''': "Before this war is over, I'm going to kill you."<br />
'''Colonel Tavington''': "Why wait?" }}
 
2000 war epic starring [[Mel Gibson (Creator)|Mel Gibson]] and [[Heath Ledger]], set during [[The American Revolution]]. The movie isn't about the actual founding fathers (ie Washington) but is instead about some of the biggest and most brutal engagements that were waged in the southern colonies, as seen through an Officer turned Farmer turned Officer again. Mel Gibson is Benjamin Martin, a [[Old Shame|veteran of the]] French And Indian War who was changed by the horrors he has seen (and committed). South Carolina had just voted to join the war, but Ben said he would not. His eldest son Gabriel decides to go anyway. He isn't seen again until two years later, when he staggers home, wounded and carrying dispatches between two rebel leaders.
 
This is where Colonel Tavington comes in. The commander of the elite Green Dragoon forces, Tavington orders the deaths of the rebel wounded, has the Martins' house burned down, and takes Gabriel in as a spy to be hanged. Thomas, his next oldest son, tries to intervene, and gets a bullet in the back for his trouble. This sparks Benjamin Martin's decision to join the Revolution to fight the Redcoats (and to ambush and slaughter the British detachment).
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** Also, the ambush can be considered as both a [[Roaring Rampage of Rescue]] to save Gabriel and a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] as mentionned above.
* [[Running Gag]]: Gabriel and Anne have -- and continue to -- slip ink into one another's tea. Both are seen at one point or another smiling with ink-stained teeth)
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Aa Nuke]]: Col. Tavington in his introductory scene. When Martin tries to reason with him about his brutal conduct by citing the Rules of War, Tavington responds by aiming a pistol at his head (an unarmed civilian, natch) and asks him if he would like a lesson in the rules of war. [[Kick the Dog|Then he points it at Martin's children]].
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: [[Even the Guys Want Him|As if their wasn't enough reason to like Tavington...]]
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]
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