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The trouble starts when one JC and his gang bring their motorcycles to be repaired by the film's hero, Rommel. The topic of conversation turns to "sidehacking", which is basically a motorcycle race with sidecars (ostensibly for balance while turning). Rommel invites them all to his ranch to see a demonstration of this sidehacking; and JC gets totally into it, desiring to form a partership of sorts. Rommel, for reasons unspecified, is not too keen on this idea, and JC gives us a first glimpse at his [[Berserk Button|hair-trigger temper]] (further developed in a later scene in which JC [[Domestic Abuse|beats up his girlfriend Paisley]]).

It all leads to a final showdown in an old rock quarry, with the two gangs essentially wiping each other out and leaving JC and Rommel to have a climactic one-on-one. Rommel narrowly defeats his nemesis; but just as the police are finally arriving to arrest JC, [[Downer Ending|JC shoots Rommel dead]].

 

 

 

* [[Berserk Button]]: Any time JC doesn't get his way.

* [[Brick Joke]]: ''Very'' poorly executed. A biker is telling a joke involving prisoners shouting numbers at random. The numbers stand for jokes the prisoners already know. The next guy after him starts to tell a joke, but the first one stops him and tells him he knows that one already. [[Memetic Mutation|"That's a number 5!"]]

* [[Downer Ending]], bordering on [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]].

* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: JC. Ain't that right? WELL? AIN'T IT?! AIN'T IT RIGHT?!

* [[Exploitation Film]]

* [[False Rape Accusation]]

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Averted in that Nero was never a bad guy. He helps Rommel because he's sick of JC's abuse.

** Even worse, he was hiding in his hotel for ''ten days'' before moving to the rock quarry.

* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: JC

** There's also [[Nightmare Fuel|Rita's murder]].

* [[Revenge]] drives most of the film, either one way or the other.

* [[Strength Equals Worthiness]]: How Rommel recruits bodybuilder "Big Jake" to his gang - kinda.

* [[Technical Pacifist]]: Rommel won't allow his Vengeance Gang to use guns, even though he knows JC's men will. His gang feels differently.

* [[Together in Death]]: Rommel and Rita...ev-evidently? What ''was'' that?

* [[Token Minority]]: Nero.

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[[Category:Mystery Science Index 3000]]

[[Category:The Sidehackers]]