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Cindy: You steal my auto, y'all rip the seat out, you kidnap me, you inquire me to help yous find your daughter, which I very kindly do, then you get me involved in a shoot out where people are dying and there's blood spurting all over the place, and and then I watch you lot rip a phone booth out of a wall, swing from the ceiling like Tarzan, and and then at that place'southward a cop that'due south going to shoot y'all and I salve y'all and they start chasing me! Are you going to tell me what's going on or what?!
Matrix: No.

A 1985 motion-picture show directed by Mark L. Lester, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in his nigh unintentionally homoerotic work, topping the shut second of Predator, and the showtime brandish of Schwarzenegger's distinctive tongue-in-cheek action film humor (as opposed to Conan the Barbarian and The Terminator, who were both The Stoic).

Commando tells the story of John Matrix (Arnie), a retired special forces colonel whose girl (Alyssa Milano) is kidnapped. To get her back, he must assassinate the president of fictional Due south American country Val Verde, at the bidding of The Generalissimo that he deposed. Naturally, he simply decides to ignore these demands and just sets out to kill them all and rescue her instead.

In 2008, a Russian remake of the movie was released chosen "День Д" (D-Twenty-four hours), starring Russian superstar Mikhail Porechenkov in the lead role as former paratrooper Ivan * which is the Russian equivalent of "John". Roughly fourscore% of the motion-picture show is a shot-for-shot recreation of the original version, though some scenes were altered to better lucifer both the updated time period and Russian civilisation * specifically, the chase against the Sully stand-in happens while he is enjoying himself at a water park instead of a mall so he has a plausible reason to not have a cell phone on him, and Ivan obtains his guns from a secret stash instead of breaking into a military surplus store due to heavy Russian restrictions on private firearms buying. The concluding fight against not!Bennett is likewise quite different from the original.

Non to Be Confused with the long-running British Comic Book Commando, which is a piddling more sedate in its overall narrative. Does not involve Going Commando, either. Or the Capcom arcade/console game note Known as "Senjou no Ookami" (officially translated equally "Wolf of the Battleground") in Japan., for that matter (or its bionic counterpart note Which is known as "Top Secret" in Japan.).

Commando provides examples of the post-obit tropes:

  • Actor Allusion: At least 3 of Arnie'south lines are things he said in The Terminator. His one-word respond, "Wrong," before blasting away his first mook, his Catchphrase "I'll be dorsum" (of form), and the line, "Fuck you, asshole!" all of which are spoken in the same order as the erstwhile movie. This was his start large moving picture after The Terminator and his first leading role with a substantial amount of dialogue.
  • An Arm and a Leg: A random soldier had his arm hacked off by Matrix during the toolshed scene.
  • An Axe to Grind: One of the soldiers in the toolshed sequence gets an axe slammed into his crotch by Matrix.
  • Angrish: In the fight with Bennett. Matrix convinces him to allow Jenny out of his clutches, goading him into a knife fight. Bennett takes the bait, but not before responding with a line that gets less and less coherent equally it progresses.

    Bennett: I can shell you! I don't need the girl! I don't need the daughter! I don't demand the gun, John. I can beat you lot...I DON'T Need NO GUN! IMGONNAHKILLYEOUWNAAAAAAAOOOOOO!!!!

  • Arch-Enemy: Bennett to Matrix.
  • Armor Is Useless:
    • Bennett wears a chain mail vest, for any reason, and it's hilariously pointless, given that he gets himself electrocuted and impaled by a large pipe during the final fight.
    • Matrix's flak belong is an disfavor, as the wound he receives from a grenade might accept been much worse had he non been wearing it.
  • Artistic License – Gun Prophylactic: Averted when Matrix is shown to store his firearms in a proper gunsafe, non subconscious effectually the house equally usual in action movies. The fact that he has a kid no doubt has a lot to practice with this. (Dramaturgically speaking, it likewise gives Matrix a plausible plot reason to leave her lone while he rushes to get a weapon.)
    • Played directly with Cindy who despite challenge to have read the instructions on the M202 Flash rocket launcher fires it backwards earlier using information technology to free Matrix from police custody.
    • Not quite gun safety, but Matrix later straps M67 grenades to his vest when gearing up to assault Arius' compound. The dangerous matter is that he strings the grenades to his vest by looping paracord through the grenade pins. Equally anybody with whatever sense will tell you, this is the worst fashion to carry grenades on a belong; grenades have some weight, and they're swinging around on a belong; all it takes is i harsh impact or movement and the grenades can dislodge and autumn to the ground equally live explosives, leaving their pins backside.
    • When Bennett is down to his micro-Uzi, he racks the commodities with his finger on the trigger. Though knowing how Ax-Crazy Bennett is, this isn't too far out of graphic symbol.
  • Authority Equals Asskicking: Though he doesn't get involved in combat until late in the movie, Arius ends up presenting a more than formidable obstacle to Matrix than his entire army did.
  • Awesome Aussie: Granted, he doesn't take an awesome personality, but Bennett is actually Australian, judging by his emphasis and the nationality of his actor, and he poses more of a challenge to Matrix than any of the rest of the Mooks.
  • Awesome Mc Coolname: John Matrix. The script reveals his center name, which makes information technology fifty-fifty more awesome - John Alexander Matrix.
  • Ax-Crazy: Bennett, and how! He downright looks pleased that Matrix is violently storming the compound at the end, and he'due south even coaxed into dropping his gun for a pocketknife fight by appealing to his deranged sadism.
  • Badass Avowal
    • From Cooke to Matrix:

      Cooke: This Green Beret's going to kick your big donkey.
      Matrix: I consume Green Berets for breakfast! And right at present I'm very hungry!

    • Also:
  • Bald of Evil: Cooke has a shiny bald head.
  • Banana Commonwealth: Val Verde.
  • BFG: The quad butt rocket launcher, an M202 FLASH (which technically is a shoulder-fired incendiary rocket launcher, non something that launches explosive rockets, but that doesn't brand it any less cool). It'due south one of the nigh memorable things of this flick.
  • Large Bad: Arius, but the real threat is Bennett.
  • Big Good: Full general Franklin Kirby.
  • Claret Knight: Bennett. One of the reasons Matrix threw him out of his unit of measurement was because he liked killing too much.
  • Bodyguarding a Badass: Full general Kirby assigns ii of his soldiers to protect Matrix, who is a One-Man Army.
  • The Bogan: Bennett the Australian is constantly swearing, losing his temper, and being murderously violent. No wonder his own men are frightened of him.
  • Bail One-Liner: Schwarzenegger has always been good at these, just Commando contains some of his greatest efforts.
    • Subsequently killing a human on a plane and disguising him as if he'southward comatose, he turns to a stewardess and says: "Don't disturb my friend. He's dead tired."
    • After dropping Sully off a cliff, and then being asked where he has gone: "I let him become."
    • After throwing a length of pipe clean through Bennett and into a boiler, releasing a jet of steam: "Let off some steam, Bennett."
  • Bottomless Magazines
    • The belt of ammo hanging from Matrix'due south M60 gets longer and longer with each cut.
    • The Valmet M78 car gun Matrix carries in the final assault shoots 20 times more than ammo from its 30-round box magazine than it can realistically behave, and is never shown being reloaded.
    • Averted, though, with the rocket launcher, which fires exactly four times over the grade of the film before Matrix discards it.
    • Also averted with Cooke'southward revolver during the motel room fight. You can easily count the gunshots, and then you know that Cooke's gun is empty before he does.
    • Inverted with Matrix's Desert Eagle, which fires half dozen shots earlier he discards information technology, ii or three shots less than the magazine's capacity (given the film's time frame it would have carried 8 or nine shots depending on the caliber).
  • Leap and Gagged: Jenny is presented this way to Matrix by the bad guys, in order to become him to comply.
  • Brick Joke: "You're a funny guy, Sully, I like you. That's why I'yard going to kill you last". Viewers unaware of this film may accept forgotten well-nigh that line, when Matrix finally catches Sully and they discover he lied.
  • Bullying a Dragon:
    • Sully mocks and taunts Matrix as he'southward about to board the plane, implying they'll accept fun with his daughter while he's away. This is what prompts the famous "You're a funny guy, Sully. I like yous." line.
    • Henriques tells Matrix "open your rima oris again, and I'll nail it close" when he calls him his carry-on luggage. He finds himself on the wrong end of a Neck Snap not seconds later on.
  • Catchphrase: Later on John Matrix is dropped off at the airport, he promises Bennett, "I'll exist back!" Bennet calls out as Matrix is lead away by his goons, "I'll be set, John."
  • Cannon Fodder: Arius' entire army is little more than target practice for Matrix. Lampshaded early on by Bennet, who states they're nothing and is amused by their attempts to talk and act tough.
  • Can't Impale You, Nonetheless Need You: Sully tries to invoke this during the High-Altitude Interrogation, saying Matrix needs him to find his daughter. When Matrix presses him, Sully then admits he doesn't know exactly where she is, only Cooke does and that he'll take him where he'south supposed to come across him next. Unfortunately for him, Matrix already found the Plot Coupon on Sully that tells him where that would exist. Sully is left whimpering even earlier Matrix reminds him near the whole You Will Be Spared speech and saying I Lied.
  • Car Fu: Cooke kills Forrestal in the beginning of the motion-picture show by running him over with the car he's selling.
  • The Cavalry Arrives Late: General Kirby and his army arrives at Arius' base after Matrix has already cleared it out.

    Kirby: Get out anything for us?
    Matrix: But bodies.

  • Charles Atlas Superpower:
    • The start fourth dimension Matrix ever appears in the movie, he'southward carrying past himself a whole tree torso he just cut down. Using only one arm.
    • Early on, Matrix is trying to chase some bad guys but the power to his truck is cut, and so he pushes it and drives information technology downwards a colina. Then there's the plane escape.
    • Ripping a car seat out of the machine with his bare easily.
    • A more than subtle i: Matrix is impeded by a padlock and bondage, and so he only rips them off.
    • Ripping a phone booth out of the basis and hoisting information technology over his with Sully yet within.
    • Righting Sully'southward flipped car.
    • Nailing soldiers with perfect headshots while hip firing.
    • Holding Sully over the edge of a cliff with one outstretched arm, which he (potentially sarcastically) claims is his "weak arm".
    • Bennett too has his moments, such as ripping the hatch off a boiler furnace or torso-slamming through a boarded up window.
  • Chewing the Scenery: Vernon Wells, the thespian who plays Bennett, practically uses the climactic knife fight as chewing gum! His lines "Y'all're a expressionless man, John!", or "What's it feel to be a dying human?" too count. Even his understated lines like "I said I'd do it for nothing." chew the scenery.
  • Ceiling Cling: The method used by Matrix when cornered in a shed by enemy soldiers. A grouping of soldiers fills the shed with lead, then throws the doors open, fully expecting to notice Matrix dead, but for Matrix to drib from its ceiling and eliminate the guards using the tools he can become his hands on.
  • Cold War: Matrix grew up in East Frg, and General Kirby mentions the Russians as one of the possible enemies out to go him. Presumably Arius was not i of the pro-US South American dictators operating at the time.
  • Colonel Badass: John Matrix.
  • Conservation of Ninjutsu: Dozens, if not hundreds of soldiers, and not ane of them can take a decent aimed shot against the guy standing in the middle of a broad open garden shooting at them with a automobile gun that should be braced on its bipod in order to burn accurately — no problem for Matrix. The wussy dominate bad guy takes several minutes of dodging and burn down-trading before he makes the kill. The Dragon well-nigh kills Matrix himself. Oh, and by the end of the film, Matrix's obviously killed everybody on the island. Foreshadowed early by The Dragon himself, who states between the two of them he and Matrix could Impale 'Em All "in a glimmer of an centre".
  • Construction Vehicle Rampage: Matrix uses a tracked loader to break into an army surplus store for equipping himself with armed forces weaponry.
  • Contrived Coincidence:
    • Sully just happened to park his car very shut to the machine belonging to the totally random flight bellboy he tries to striking on.
    • There simply happens to be a tracked loader right next to the gun shop Matrix wants to suspension into, with the keys in the ignition, apparently.
    • Cooke only so happens to have a re-create of a receipt for airplane fuel in the glove compartment of his car, which tin help Matrix and Cindy detect Arius's island compound.
    • The part at the very starting time where the human being is shot by the villains pretending to be garbage-men says "I thought you'd missed me" as a ready-upward for them to pull out guns and antiphon "Don't worry, we won't." Firstly, most people would say "I thought I missed you lot" if they were worried about not putting the trash out. Secondly, what is the purpose for disguising themselves every bit garbage-men in the first place, much less ones who seem to be leaving when their mark comes out the door. Did they just happen to know that he hadn't put his trash out yet AND would come running out the door to brand certain he got his garbage out on fourth dimension?
    • Cindy simply happens to exist a trainee airplane pilot, allowing her to fly Matrix to the villains' lair in a stolen aeroplane. In that location is some level of foreshadowing to this considering the fact she first appeared at the drome and is wearing a accommodate implying she was more just a random tourist, but a offset-time viewer would probable not consider these details relevant.
  • Creepy Monotone: Arius. He's very calm even when threatening Matrix and his daughter Jenny.
  • Adjourn-Stomp Battle: Matrix confronting Arius' ground forces at the end of the film.
  • Damsel in Distress: Jenny, but hardly a hopeless instance of the trope. Using her ain resourcefulness she'due south able to complimentary herself from her confinement — if non, Bennett would have cut her pharynx before Matrix even got near her.
  • Deadly Disc: Matrix kills two of Arius' soldiers by throwing circular saw blades at them.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Yous know the "Yous're a funny guy, Sully. I similar y'all" line? That comes right after Sully taunted Matrix virtually his daughter existence potentially gang-raped.
  • Expiry by Childbirth: The extended cut has a scene where Matrix revealed that his wife died giving birth to Jenny while he was stationed in Laos.
  • Destination Defenestration: Arius' fate, later getting round afterward round from Matrix's shotgun pumped through his torso, at which point he is sent flying through a side window of his mansion.
  • Disney Villain Decease: Sully.
  • The Dragon: Bennett.
  • Dragon-in-Principal: As quoted above, Bennett claims (correctly) that he'due south a bigger threat to John than Arius' and his regular army.
  • Dragon Their Feet: The Big Bad is Arius, not Bennett. He gets his ain dose of buckshot before Matrix deals with Bennett, though.
  • Dragon with an Calendar: Bennett, again. He cares picayune about Arius or him coming dorsum to ability. All he really cares about is killing Matrix.
  • Dramatic Ammo Depletion: During the motel fight, Cooke has Matrix dead to rights with a revolver aimed directly at his head and afterward a Pre-Mortem I-Liner pulls the trigger only for a loud "click" to occur and he realizes he's out of rounds. Matrix promptly finishes him by impaling him on a handy fleck of cleaved furniture.
  • Elite Mooks: Cooke boasts near existence a former Green Beret. Matrix is unimpressed, but in fairness to Cooke he gives Matrix probably his toughest fight in the movie bated from Bennett and Arius.
  • Enemies Equals Greatness: When Matrix asks Kirby who has been killing his men, Kirby points out that it could exist anybody due to the fact that Matrix has made enemies all over the earth. A few possibilities that Kirby mentions are the Syrians, the South Americans (the continent, non the land), the Russians, and various terrorist groups.
  • Every Auto Is a Pinto: Matrix's 4x4 crashes and rolls, and so bursts in to flames and explodes after he gets out.
  • Evil Counterpart: Bennett to Matrix.
  • Verbal Words:
    • When Cindy asks about Sully:

      Cindy: What did you do with him?
      Matrix: I let him get.

  • Excuse Plot: Not unexpected existence that it's part of the Schwarzenegger oeuvre, but a particularly notable instance — the flick doesn't fifty-fifty pretend it'due south going to have anything to practise with the whole "impale the leader of Val Verde to get your daughter back" stuff. This has the rather amusing result that pretty much every scene with Arius before the climax basically involves him sitting around waiting for Matrix to show up and impale him fifty-fifty if he doesn't realize it.
  • Expy:
    • General Kirby is blatantly inspired by Colonel Trautman.
    • Matrix himself is essentially 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 just to mislead Kirby.
  • Fatal Flaw: Matrix exploits Bennett's bloodlust to coax him into a concluding fight and ultimately defeat him.
  • Father'south Quest: Matrix is a retired Commando quietly raising his girl, Jenny. When mooks kidnap Jenny, a spokesman for the thugs explains that his services are required to phase a insurrection d'etat in The Generalissimo'southward homeland. Matrix makes short piece of work of well-nigh of these thugs, but still had to venture to Central America to rescue Jenny. At to the lowest degree until he jumps out of the aeroplane as it's lifting off then that he can rails down the rest of the thugs and find his daughter.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Sully is very communicative with Matrix as he'due south beingness walked through the airdrome and slips him some money for a few beers. At showtime, the audition may exist forgiven in thinking that Sully is a really decent Dial-Clock Villain who isn't so bad. Just then he tells Matrix the beers are and so that Arius'south men can have "more than time with [his] daughter".
  • Follow That Car:

    Matrix: Follow him.
    Cindy: Oh, I knew you were going to say that...

  • Foreshadowing: During the opening titles, we see Matrix didactics his daughter martial arts. While she never actually uses said martial arts, this is a subtle hint that she'due south not quite equally helpless equally she seems, as demonstrated at the climax of the film when she manages to break out of the room she's been locked in without anyone noticing.
  • Freddie Mercopy: Bennett, of course.
  • From Camouflage to Criminal: Information technology's unsubtly implied that most of Arius's American henchmen are fabricated up of former, perchance all disgraced U.Southward. soldiers (Bennett was a member of Matrix's unit who was dishonorably discharged for his brutality, Cooke was a Green Beret and Sully himself states while escorting Matrix to the airport that he and Henriques were in the service while commenting on Matrix and Bennett's human relationship).
  • Gardening-Variety Weapon: The first Mook killed in the toolshed sequence is stabbed with a pitchfork past Matrix.
  • Groin Attack: Quite a few.
    • During the mall fight Matrix hits a security guard in the groin, followed past possibly grabbing Sully by the balls when he picks him up.
    • Afterwards Matrix grabs Cooke by the groin, complete with a shut up of Cooke's face equally he lets out an exaggerated moan of pain.
    • During the cabin fight, and another possibly off-screen groin assail when Matrix takes out a mook at the bad guy'due south secret hideout.
    • Finally, a mook catches an axe between the legs in the extended toolshed scene.
    • Bennet tries to make one against John with a sidearm during his Villainous Breakdown.

    Bennett: John, I'm not going to shoot you lot between the eyes. I'grand going to shoot yous between the assurance!

  • Guns Akimbo: When he finally faces off against Arius, Matrix goes up against him with an assault rifle in one paw and a shotgun in the other. When the assail rifle runs dry, he just uses the shotgun until he takes out Arius.
  • Hand Cannon: Among the diverse weapons Matrix brought to the island is a Desert Eagle pistol. In an inversion of Abysmal Magazines, he fires it six times from a eight or ix-round magazine before it runs dry and switches to a shotgun.
  • Harmless Electrocution: During the climactic fight, Matrix throws Bennett into a high voltage generator, which sparks and goes haywire equally our victim who is wearing a mail vest screams like a little girl. Almost viii seconds after, however, Bennett immediately bounces back in the fight and is arguably fighting better than he did before the electrocution.
  • The Heavy: Bennett.
  • Hero Insurance: During the course of the picture, Matrix steals and/or damages several vehicles, breaks into a gun shop, steals an arsenal of firearms, escapes from constabulary custody, beats up a bunch of mall security guards and kidnaps an innocent bystander, and kills two unarmed villains, one in front end of a witness. It's hard to imagine rescuing a family member as a sufficient legal defence force to cover all of that.
  • Heroic Neutral: Matrix just wants to be left alone with his girl, and turns down the Army's offer at the finish of the motion picture to do just that. He kept his give-and-take besides: there never was a sequel.
  • "Hey, You!" Haymaker: Matrix delivers one to Cooke.
  • Loftier-Distance Interrogation: Matrix dangles Sully above a cliff to make him talk. And and so...

    Matrix: Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?
    Sully: That's right Matrix! You did!
    Matrix: I lied. (drops Sully)

  • Hilarity Ensues: From this point on in the moving-picture show, it's all a barrel of laughs:
  • I Have Your Married woman: The bad guys kidnap Matrix'southward daughter to blackmail him into working for them. It instead inspires him to murder them all. So, information technology backfired.
  • I'll Kill You!:

    Bennett: I can beat y'all. I don't need the girl. I don't need the girl! I don't need the gun, John! I can beat you! I DON'T Need NO GUN! I'Yard GONNA Kill YOU At present!!!!!

  • I Lied: Matrix when he said he would impale Sully last.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Bennett and Cooke.
  • Regal Stormtrooper Marksmanship University: With an ground forces that is that incapable of striking the broad side of a barn, no wonder Matrix could accept on 122 men and still win.
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  • Improbable Aiming Skills: The other reason Matrix could take on the army presented and win.
  • Instant Sedation: Bennett using a sprint gun to knock out Matrix. Information technology must have had a very loftier dosage to knock out someone equally huge equally Matrix that fast.
  • Interrupted Intimacy: Happens during the ball betwixt Matrix and Cooke.
  • It'southward Personal with the Dragon: The rivalry between Matrix and Bennett is far more personal and important than annihilation going on with Arius, the actual Big Bad.

    Matrix: How much are they paying you, Bennett?
    Bennet: They offered me a hundred m. Yous want to know something? When I found out I'd go my hands on you, I said I'd do it for nothing.

  • Juggling Loaded Guns / Had the Silly Matter in Opposite: Afterwards Matrix gets locked up in a police van, Cindy tries to gratuitous him with an M202 "Flash" iv-barrel rocket launcher. Unfortunately she points the wrong end at the target and blows up the shops behind her. Remember to read which finish is the front when handling heavy weapons such as rocket launchers * Likewise pay attending to what they're firing. The M202'south rockets weren't explosive: they were white phosphorous warheads. The van Arnie was in would have been incinerated. That would be bad..
  • Karma Houdini: The 2 unnamed henchmen who alert Arius Matrix's presence on Val Verde in the climax are left unaccounted for.
  • Pocketknife Fight: Between Matrix and Bennett at the end of the movie. Minutes later both of them lost their knives, engaging in a fistfight instead.
  • Lame Comeback: After being shot down past Cindy later on he (very sleazily) tries to chat her up, Sully'south response... is to petulantly snarl "You fuckin' whore!" and stomp off in a huff.
  • Large Ham: Bennett.
  • Lock-and-Load Montage: Consummate with enough weaponry to kill a pocket-sized army. Interestingly, Matrix puts all the equipment on, including his belong and so puts camo pigment on his arms and confront. Later, he loses the vest and now he has camo pigment on his manly breast. Which means, after the montage, he must have taken all the equipment off again to paint information technology on, as he was obviously planning to lose his shirt later.
  • Machete Commotion: In the toolshed sequence, the last remaining soldier has his arm chopped off by a machete.
  • Mandatory Unretirement: Matrix just wanted to leave conflict backside and alive a quiet life rising his girl... Until some jackass former dictator and his goons decided it was a fantastic thought to kidnap said girl. Large mistake.
  • Friction match Cut: The Seaplane Matrix and Cindy is on makes its landing nigh Arius' Island hideout... just equally the other plane Matrix was supposed to be on board lands in Val Verde airport.
  • Missing Mom: In the Managing director'south Cut, information technology's revealed that Jenny's female parent died when she gave birth to Jenny and at the time of her expiry, Matrix was stationed with the US Army in Lao people's democratic republic. Therefore Jenny gets to keep her dad all for herself which is useful when she is kidnapped equally he is the well-nigh macho man in the earth.
  • Mook Horror Evidence: Especially the toolshed sequence.
  • Mooks: Lampshaded hard past Bennett himself, who calls them a bunch of nix play soldiers trying to talk tough and that if it came down to a fight he and Matrix could Kill 'Em All "in a blink of an eye". Sure enough, Matrix wipes them all out himself at the climax with the only harm sustained beingness the nearby explosion of a lucky grenade.
  • More Dakka: Nigh of the motion picture revolves around dakka substitution between fighting parties: trimming bushes with machine gun fire, entire squad dakka-venting the barn with The Ahnold inside, et cetera, et cetera.
  • Mr. Fanservice: Matrix spends most of the picture show in a henley shirt to bear witness off his pecs, and prior to gearing up for his assault on Bennett'south island, is seen wearing simply a Speedo. He likewise goes into the final boxing wearing a sleeveless belong, which he ditches later a couple of minutes before spending the rest of the motion picture shirtless. Downplayed, since the hook that got Arnold interested in the film was that Matrix doesn't spend the entire film in a state of undress, significant that the audience's attention would be on his interim and not on his physique.
  • Mundane Made Crawly: Everything, from walking through a mall to getting into an aeroplane. And getting off of one, every bit well.
  • Muscles Are Meaningful: Matrix is played past the most famous body builder of all fourth dimension, and he's a Showy Invincible Hero. Cooke is played past the physically imposing Bill Knuckles, and he'south one of the merely two villains to nowadays Matrix with a serious claiming.
  • Muscles Are Meaningless: Bennett is a little flabby and lacking in musculus mass, but he'south almost Matrix's equal when it comes to paw-to-hand combat.
  • My God, What Accept I Done?: Afterward Cindy botches Matrix'due south attempt to tail Sully undetected, resulting in cops almost killing Matrix and Sully virtually succeeding to call in the impale guild on Jenny, she has a alter of eye and starts to help him. After she jumps dorsum in the auto with him, she starts freaking out over everything that only happened, as seen in the page quote.
  • Cervix Snap: How Matrix dispose of Henriques on the plane.

    "Don't disturb my friend. He's DEAD tired".

  • Nice Task Breaking It, Hero: Almost, by Matrix. Him calling out to Jenny at the end tips off Bennett where she is and allows him to seize her first.
  • Nice Chore Guiding Us, Hero: The villains track down Matrix by killing some of his former squadmates and faking Bennett'south murder, knowing Kirby will have to inform Matrix of these developments, and and so following Kirby's helicopter.
  • No, You lot: "Fuck you, asshole." (Click!) "Fuck you, asshole."
  • Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Justified (or excused, at any rate) past mentioning early on in the film that Matrix hails from East Germany.
  • Offscreen Villainy: Arius, the Big Bad, is a powerful dictator who used to dominion the fictional country of Val Verde with an iron fist, who had tortured and killed hundreds of people... years earlier the pic even started. Nosotros as the audition never get to see near of his evil deeds, save for those related to his grudge against Matrix.
  • One-Man Regular army: Hoo, male child, is Matrix always. Could have been called One-Man Army: The Moving picture.
  • Simply a Flesh Wound:
    • Averted. When Matrix is shot in the shoulder by Bennett, his right arm is by and large out of the fight, he even comments on it and can't use it for much bated for holding impromptu shields and weapons. It seems fine by the terminate though.
    • Played completely straight throughout with Matrix's leg and abdomen wounds, suffered after a beingness a picayune to close to a alive grenade.
  • But I Name: With the exceptions of John Matrix and Franklin Kirby, every grapheme only has their beginning name or surname revealed.
  • Pants-Positive Safety: Early in the film, Matrix is shown keeping his Beretta sidearm in his pants.
  • Papa Wolf: Yous harmed his little girl? You're DOOMED.
  • Peek-a-Boo Corpse: Matrix has to leave Jenny and the wounded soldier to fetch a rifle so he tin can defend them. When he rushes dorsum to Jenny's bedroom and opens the door, the corpse of the soldier falls out, and he finds Diaz waiting for him within instead of Jenny.
  • Percussive Maintenance: How Matrix starts the amphibious plane.

    John Matrix: Come on (WHACK!) you lot piece of shit! (WHACK!) Fly or dice! (WHACK! the engine starts) Works every time...

  • Pipe Pain: Twice in the final fight with Bennett.
    • Bennett picks up a pipe which he uses as a bludgeon.
    • Matrix picks another, bigger piping which he uses to kill Bennett.
  • Pistol-Whipping:
    • When Matrix has his first fight with the goons who kidnapped Jenny, i of them hits Matrix with the stock of his rifle to stun him.
    • During the Final Battle, Matrix uses the stock of his shotgun to bludgeon one of the Mooks before facing off with Arius.
  • Plot Armor:
    • In ane the all-time examples on could always find of this trope, Martix fights an entire army while standing out in the open, yet none of the enemy soldiers are able to shoot him.
    • There is also the part where Matrix jumps out of a moving plane hundreds of feet in the air and is unharmed simply because he lands in a few anxiety of h2o.
  • Plot Coupon: After leaping from the plane to Val Verde, a good portion of the film's second deed involves Matrix having to find items that clue him in to the next location. The near egregious instance of this is probably later on Cooke is killed without him revealing to Matrix whatever relevant data, requiring Matrix and Cindy to search his car until they detect a helpful inkling.
  • Police force Are Useless:
    • The cops who abort Matrix at the army surplus shop don't fifty-fifty bother to put him in handcuffs, and they somehow fail to notice Cindy on the shop grounds. They also dismiss Matrix'due south requests to get in impact with General Kirby as crazy talk, and when Cindy pulls up alongside the police paddy wagon in a Cadillac convertible with a ton of stolen military-grade weapons in the back seat, a cop just assumes that she's a prostitute.
    • Ditto at the mall earlier. All of the mall's security focuses their entire attention on dog piling an unarmed Matrix fifty-fifty as Sully was shooting people left and right. However, 1 cop manages to kill Sully's money man. Peradventure Sully had invisibility superpowers?
  • The Power of Trust: As Arius says, the reason he wants Matrix to assassinate Val Verde's president is because the man trusts him and would never doubtable ill intentions of the "hero of the revolution" until it was too late. Compare that to Bennett, who didn't leave about as positive an impression during his time at that place.
  • Pre-Mortem Ane-Liner:
    • Matrix beginning does this when he was nigh to drop Sully off a cliff.

      Matrix: "Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill y'all last?
      Sully: That'due south right, Matrix. You did!
      Matrix:I Lied."

    • Cooke likewise delivers two while killing Matrix's old team:

      Lawson: I was afraid yous'd miss me.
      Cooke: Don't worry. Nosotros won't.
      (...)
      Cooke: You wanna know what I like best?
      Forrestal: What'south that?
      Cooke: The price.

  • Pretty Petty Headshots: Played straight to a caste that'due south nigh ridiculous when Matrix shoots Diaz only before chasing after Jenny's kidnappers; Matrix uses an HK 91 rifle, which fires 7.62mm rounds, at point blank range. The result is a forehead entrance wound most the size of a dime, with no trace of an leave wound.
  • Properly Paranoid: Matrix has a cache of weapons in his tool shed. Considering that he's fabricated then many enemies over the years, this was probably a wise decision.
  • Psycho for Hire: Bennett. Explicitly called out equally enjoying the killing, and he never even denies it.
  • Psycho Knife Nut: Bennett. Dude practically masturbates at the prospect of stabbing Matrix in the gut with his large weapon.
  • Psychotic Smirk: Bennett, when Arius gives him permission to kill Jenny upon finding out Matrix wasn't on the plane.
  • Race Against the Clock: After escaping the plane, Matrix has 11 hours to wrap things up before it lands and his escape is discovered. Arius learns that Matrix wasn't on the plane while Matrix is infiltrating his base. This is a bit of a plot hole, as there is no betoken in Latin America that would require an 11 hr non-stop flight from Los Angeles.
  • Railing Kill:
    • Mall cops shoot Sully's contact (credited as the Latin Man), causing him to fall over the mall railing.
    • Matrix shoots a Mook standing on a watchtower during the climax, causing him to fall through the railing several stories below.
  • Rare Guns: Sully's pistol is an ASP nine, a highly customized and rare version of the Smith & Wesson model 39. According to the Internet Movie Firearms Database, Commando is the merely picture show ever to characteristic this handgun.
  • Rash Equilibrium: Arius hints that Jenny's going to get killed (or worse) no matter what Matrix decides to do (though he doesn't count on Matrix killing every 1 of his men).
  • Rated M for Manly: Boy howdy. This movie will impregnate any unprotected female person viewers. And a few male person ones, too.
  • Cherry Oni, Blueish Oni: Cindy is reddish and Matrix is blue. For the villains, Bennett is crimson and Arius is bluish.
  • Ruby-red Shirt: General Kirby leaves behind two soldiers to protect Matrix and his daughter, describing them as "existent skillful, but not as practiced equally you". I of them are killed as presently as he flies off, while the other one gets desperately wounded, loses his weapon, and only has time to merchandise some lines with Matrix before he'south unceremoniously finished off off-screen.
  • Refuge in Audacity: You might recall it's ridiculous to be able to happen to notice some of the weapons Matrix finds in the army surplus store. The notable matter is that he breaks into the dorsum room, where they store weapons that y'all'd need a license to even possess. Admittedly, Matrix couldn't exactly await the 24-48 hours for the law check on his license...
  • Retired Badass: Matrix is a retired special forces soldier.
  • Revolvers Are Merely Improve: Averted. Cooke carries ane every bit a sidearm when he goes to meet with Sully and is attacked past Matrix. During the ensuing fight in the cabin, Cooke fires off vi shots, either missing Matrix or during the struggle for the gun. He manages to get Matrix in his sights, but pulls the trigger on an empty sleeping room. If he'd been carrying an automatic, Matrix would exist expressionless.
  • Rival Terminal Boss: Matrix kills Big Bad Arius but then has to fight Bennett who was once part of Matrix's team and claims to be a better fighter than Matrix.
  • Roaring Binge of Rescue: The Motion-picture show.
  • Dominion of Cool: And then, so much.
  • Scary Black Homo: Cooke, former Green Beret who racked upwardly a skillful portion of the kills of Matrix's old squad and the only person in the motion-picture show bated from Arius and Bennett who actually lasts longer than five seconds in a fight with Matrix. Subverted with Henriques, who despite his Bullying the Dragon statement is offed in two moves past Matrix with barely a struggle.
  • Sharp-Dressed Man: Cooke spends nearly of the film in a natty grey arrange.
  • Show Some Leg:
    • Matrix has Cindy pretend to be a hooker in Sully's hotel room. Doesn't quite work equally Cooke is still wary, but he still misses Matrix hiding behind the door until the "Hey, Yous!" Haymaker.
    • Later Cindy pulls this ploy off on her own initiative, pretending to be a hooker to distract a pair of cops taking John away in a constabulary truck.
  • Situational Hand Switch: Matrix has to apply his knife with his left mitt instead of his correct in the climax because Bennett shot him in the arm.
  • Slashed Throat: Happens to 1 of the Mooks early in the climax when Matrix catches him unawares while sneaking around.
  • Sociopathic Hero: John Matrix to some extent. He mercilessly kills any henchman he comes across, fights off the police instead of trying to ask them for help (even though he, of course, doesn't utilise lethal force against them) and even uses some Villain tropes like the famous I Lied.
  • Sociopathic Soldier: Bennett is indicated to take been ane of these even before he left, as Arius puts it, "under a cloud" from the service due to how much he enjoyed killing. His actions in the moving-picture show itself certainly don't prove whatsoever sign he improved.
  • Soft Glass: Played with. Matrix plays this straight, only his friend who ran the car dealership is badly cutting when he'southward driven through a window. It's possible the shards killed him, that or being hit by the car.
  • Soft Water: About three feet of information technology cushions Matrix'due south fall later he jumps from an airplane'due south landing gear.
  • Stealth Parody: The picture show is extremely natural language-in-cheek, and has a salubrious sense of humor about how ridiculous '80s activity films were while simultaneously embracing everything that made them awesome.
  • Super Senses: Matrix can smell 'em coming.
  • Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
    • Matrix uses a freakin' tracked loader to break into an army surplus store subsequently hours and load upwards on artillery. As soon as he gets everything he needs (read: all the absurd looking stuff), he turns to exit... and gets arrested. What did you think was gonna happen? Luckily, well... encounter Police Are Useless above.
    • Matrix forcibly tries to get Cindy to assistance him after explaining his situation by having her put on a honeypot routine in an endeavor to Sully, however Cindy doesn't believe Matrix'due south outlandish (nevertheless truthful) story like whatever normal person would (Seriously, how often does something as crazy as beingness forced to kill a South American president or risk losing your daughter happen in Real Life?) and the showtime take chances she gets, she asks a security guard to help her get abroad from Matrix, blowing his cover — information technology's not until Sully recognizes John and starts shooting at him that Cindy believes him and tries to help him.
  • Take That!: Very era-specific course of father rejecting his child'southward popular music equally Matrix scorns Boy George:

    Matrix: (Looking at one of Jenny'southward music magazines): "Why don't they simply call him 'Girl George'? Information technology would cut downwardly on all the confusion, I think."

    • Matrix'south Pre Donkey Kicking One Liner to Cooke is possibly i to Rambo:

    Matrix: I consume Dark-green Berets for breakfast. And correct at present, I'chiliad very hungry!

  • Testosterone Poisoning: Lampshaded past Cindy with the lines "I can't believe this macho bullshit!" and "these guys eat too much red meat!"
  • Throw-Abroad Guns: During the final battle, Matrix simply discards weapons he no longer has whatever use for.
  • Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Matrix convinces Bennett to let get of Jenny by playing to his inner Pocketknife nut. Since Bennett can't resist the possibility of sticking his knife in Matrix, it works.
  • Championship Driblet: "Commando" is Matrix's radio phone call sign.
  • Tranquilizer Dart: "Tranquilizers. I wanted to use the existent thing!"
  • Trope Codifier: This is the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.
  • Undying Loyalty: Arius recruits his Mooks (aside from Bennett and possible his other college-ups) on the basis of loyalty. Unfortunately this comes at the expense of competence.
  • Unhand Them, Villain!: Matrix does this to Sully.
  • Unnecessary Gainsay Curl: Information technology actually proves useful. Matrix is in a gun fight with Arius, and the two take turns shooting at each other and taking embrace. 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 whorl.
  • Villain Respect: Bennett candidly admits to his partners in criminal offence his respect for Matrix's skill as a warrior on multiple occasions, fully expecting him to escape and exact his revenge on them all.

    "Your soldiers are nothing; Matrix and I can kill every ane of them in the blink of an center; remember that."

    "Information technology is you lot that is agape, Mr. Bennett. Y'all are agape of Matrix."

    "Of form; I'1000 smart."

  • Walking Armory: In the final battle, Matrix carries an attack burglarize, a shotgun, an Uzi, a Desert Eagle, a rocket launcher, some grenades, mines and a huge combat pocketknife or three. During the said boxing, he pilfers a corpse for a machine gun and takes a couple rotary saw blades out of a toolshed.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: A handsome Val Verdan in a fur-lined jacket with a Goatee of Evil is introduced in a style that indicates he's The Dragon, taking function in the opening assassinations and shooting ane of Kirby's Red Shirts. He stays behind to evangelize the I Have Your Daughter ultimatum... until Matrix shoots him in the caput with his assault burglarize.
  • Worf Had the Flu: The only reason the bad guys grab Matrix is because he just climbed out of his own wrecked truck (only made possible because swerved his well-nigh uncontrollable descent from hitting the bad guys' vehicles out of fear of hurting Jenny) clearly hurt and dazed without his rifle.
  • Worthy Opponent: Bennett undeniably has a twisted sense of respect for Matrix as a fellow warrior, and was visibly happy that Matrix came guns blazing to rescue Jenny ("Welcome back, John!"), giving him ane last chance to put his skills and mettle to the ultimate test. Matrix uses this respect to catalyst him into dropping his gun (and letting go of Jenny) to engage him in a final pocketknife-fight to the death.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: Arius seems to recollect he's a Magnificent Bastard Big Bad in a serious Cold State of war action drama. He'southward really a Smug Snake Non-Action Large Bad in a Stealth Parody of '80s action movies.
  • You Will Be Spared: "You're a funny guy, Sully. I like you. That'southward why I'yard going to impale y'all terminal." He lied.
  • Zerg Rush: How many security guards does that mall have?

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