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* At the end of ''[[Universal Soldier]]'', Van Damme and Lundgren are having their big showdown, but Lundgren is just too tough. When Lundgren starts beating up Van Damme's girlfriend, he rallies and fights even harder, but he's still not strong enough. Then Van Damme grabs some more super-soldier serum and shoots up, giving him the strength to defeat Lundgren. So we learn is that if you want to get stronger, your personal willpower and the drive to succeed aren't enough. You need drugs...then again his opponent was an undead super soldier killing machine, outmassed him by at least 30 kilos, was taller by at least 40 cm and most had been injecting himself with the exact same drugs for half the movie. So...
** 'If your opponent has superpowers, your odds of beating him go a lot better if you have superpowers too' might not be a perfect message, but it is a
* The Irish short film "What Would You Do" has all the good characters with definite pronounced Irish names (Saoirse, Sean, Aoife, Roisin) while the evil [[Alpha Bitch]] has an English name (Jessica).
* In ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men: First Class]]'' the two non-American good guys (Irish Banshee and Scottish Moira McTaggart) are turned into Americans while the non-American bad guy (Magneto) gets to stay non-American.
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