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A 1985 film about a cop from 300 years in the future who is sent back to 1985 to protect the ancestors of his leaders from a psychic killer. Released in Australia and possibly some other areas as
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* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Jack Deth
* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: The first film has some interesting nods.
* [[Future Food Is Artificial]]: Implied.
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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: A 22 year old Helen Hunt, 10 years before her [[Academy Award]].
** The star is Tim Thomerson, who never made it ''big'', but was a charismatic actor who was often proclaimed to be the king of B-movies (in competition with Bruce Campbell).
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* [[Mind Control Eyes]]: Not eyes but ''skin'', in this case.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Taken the wrong way by the man Jack Deth is trying to save.
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* [[Perma-Stubble]]: Jack Deth. Interestingly, the reason for that was shown in-universe. Jack's ancestor had his face lathered up and was about to shave when Jack jumped into his body. Since Jack didn't know anything about twentieth-century shaving methods, he just wiped the foam off his face and went unshaven for the rest of the movie.
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: The homeless ancestor they pick up.
* [[Reality Ensues]]: {{spoiler|Build a receptacle into the handle of a gun to hold two uncushioned glass vials of the drug needed to return to the future, and firing the gun or tossing it around is ''probably'' going to break one of them.}}
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* [[Tagline]]: "His name is Deth. He hunts Trancers. Even in the 20th Century."
* [[Terminator Twosome]]: Jack Deth and Whistler
* [[Time Stands Still]]: The time-slowing watch which stretches one second into ten.
* [[Underwater Ruins]]: Before he goes to the past, Jack does scuba-diving in the old city of "Lost" Angeles.
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'''Jack:''' Yeah I do - I used to swim through here.
'''Lenna:''' [[Flat What|What?]] }}
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