American ninja is entirely built on this trope, but I love how most of the films resolved by the heroes showing up to the Ninja compound with guns and killing them all.
2 in particular was my favorite for just being such a one sided slaughter. They had to put a bunch of token guys with guns next to the ninjas to make it seem fair. There's a dude decked out like Sargent slaughter alongside Steve James just shotgunning ninjas to death.
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4 doesn't have the US army, so our hero ( who has been acting like he has ninja PTSD the whole movie) recruits a bunch of random Mad Max raiders who just happened to be nearby with no buildup. Also the ninjas formed an alliance with Muslim terrorists. Its great.
* "You're a sexual sadist, you can't feel love", said while trying to negotiate with the most proliphic serial killer ever until like a season later.
* "Psychopaths get easily bored", don't remember the exact context but I use it constantly now.
* The way they treat Reid's schizofrenia and drug addiction, they remember it for a few episodes then completely forget about it.
* An otherwise great episode ends with the killer's sister he was taking care of being sent off to some relative, and one of the main characters says "hopefully they aren't as crazy as her brother and mother" only to cut to the sister answering the door and there's this 40-year-old dude with a demon head walking stick saying "I think it's time for you to come home now". There are a bunch of hanging threads like this that as far as I know never got tied up, and knowing the quality of the new shit I don't think I want them to. My head canon for the demon walking stick dude is that he's just an excentric /x/ shitposter who will take good care of her and will teach her that jewish demons rule the world.
* After a season long lamefest where they are trying to catch some retard taking pictures of them and copying other serial killers they end up getting out of his base that's due to explode by preventing a door from closing by getting some alcoholics anonymous coin stuck in that belonged to some fbi bureaucrat he killed we're meant to feel bad for.
* "He might be an incel" said in the most serious tone ever. Cracked me up on the spot. There's also an episode about a guy spraying acid on people and of course it's about incels, because we all know incels throw acids at women that misbehave.
* It's not funny, but I couldn't leave out criminal minds evolution. I could only get a few episodes in before giving up on it all. Tl;dr: there's a whole fucking network of serial killers who connected online during the lockdowns because of course they did and now they are all activated and are digging up these kill kits to kill people this guy randomly placed around who once gets called a cuck by some redneck anti DEI chud.
Of course, all these moments together don't stand even up to the knees of what must be the most pants on head retarded episode of criminal minds (of the mainline show at least) called mister Scratch.
We first find out that there are 3 separate cases of people randomly chimping out and stabbing people close to them. When they are interrogated none of them have any idea what's going on and say they were defending themselves against this taloned and beaked being that randomly came out of the closet. That's honestly a cool monster design and it's criminal that it got wasted on this cluster fuck of an episode.
It's clearly weird how these people who don't know each other and live miles away from one another had the exact same excuse for their crime. Even before the title credits roll however the main characters figure out they all got hit with some halucinogen that made them believe those things and it's all the work of some master killer.
The way it works is this: he puts some weird illusion gas and fucking sage in their vents, and when they get hit with the gas and the smell of sage it activates a shared memory they all had when they were little which makes them imagine the cool bird monster chase them and stab whoever they're living with. If you're struggling with what you just read, it gets worse.
Anyway, they figure out what the people with the illusions have in common, they were all kids at this daycare center or something like that which got hit with the satanic panic. And since this is a show about feds made by feds they make sure the boomer redditor character says how he was around back then and totally deboonked all the rumors and falsehoods and how there wasn't any satanic ritual abuse at those daycares totally trust me bro. In fact all of it was made up by this child psychologist who made children smell burning sage and told them about cool bird monster so they would repeat it later in court and destroy the lives of the people who ran the daycare. Yes, that's why fucking sage makes those people imagine the cool bird monster and makes them stab them.
And the name of the kid of the family whose life got ruined by the allogation? Albert Einstein! Well no, but he turned out to be an absolute mathematical genious. Like he went on to study at harvard, where you have 3 courses. There's math75 which is like baby maths for chumps, there's math50 which is kinda serious and you got to have brains, and then there's math25 that you need a very high iq to understand and most people don't actually finish it because the feds recruit them before they're dumb, that's how smart they are. And the kids was in math25, and he's a fed, and he's the killer.
I'm actively losing braincells just by thining about this clusterfuck of an episode and most of it was probably pushed into my subconscious for a good reason, so I will just mention some highlights of the rest of it.
* At some point the base gets hacked and as it always happens the hacker ends up fucking breaking everything and all the lights go out.
* The jewish agent gets a letter with some mysterious chemical that turns him into a violent schizo (or it could be the nigger agent, can't remember).
* They determine somehow the kid wants to kill the child psychologist that came up with the cool bird monster who is in witness protection for some reason, that he can just look into because he's a fed. When they come to her place she already got a letter with some chemical that made her sit there, call over the jewish agent, and then kill herself in front of the jewish agent.
* The jewish agent gets gassed by the kid He has all sorts of halucinations that he is meant to have bad consequences from but it gets dropped like every other piece of character history in this show.
* This happened way back in the episode, but one of the original gassed people imagined the cool bird monster raped them. Yes, the show runners made rule34 of their own monster while they were doing the episode (ok, they didn't actually show any of it, but an implication is good enough for me).
Manic pixie gets access to time machine and writer favoritism.
People like to compare her to Rose, if you ignore that Rose got two seasons and a dignified exit. Clara stuck around so long she beat Sarah Jane’s record and was still showing up like syphilis. Her skillset? Nonsense. Absolute Mad Libs. Her “split across all time and space” backstory is less a backstory and more a cheat code: one week she’s a nanny, the next she’s leading a military assault on Mars. Don’t ask how. Moffat didn’t.
She dies constantly, but it never matters! Death becomes her equivalent of a costume change. Entire arcs are rendered meaningless because the show is afraid to let her stay gone for more than an episode. And just to put a bow on it, Moffat retrofits her into the Doctor’s origin and gives her her own TARDIS. Being the longest-running companion, unkillable, and omnipresent across the Doctor’s timeline wasn’t enough.
American ninja is entirely built on this trope, but I love how most of the films resolved by the heroes showing up to the Ninja compound with guns and killing them all.
Ninja 3: Domination is a favorite of mine. Don't worry, it's not related to Ninja 1 or 2, so you don't have to watch those to not be able to understand it.
Wikepedia's "plot" summary:
Christie Ryder (Dickey), a telephone linewoman and aerobics instructor,[1] is possessed by the evil spirit of a fallen ninja warrior she encounters. The spirit uses her body to carry out his revenge on the police officers who killed him. One of them is Billy Secord (Bennett), who catches Christie's eye yet cannot explain her preoccupation with Japanese culture or help her with her sudden blackouts. Out of options, they turn to a Japanese exorcist, Miyashima (Hong), who manages to summon the ninja within her. The exorcist reveals that he cannot force the spirit out of Christie but that "only a ninja can destroy a ninja". Christie and Billy are forced to seek the aid of Goro Yamada (Kosugi), a ninja hunting the assassin within her for killing his clan. The three force the ninja out in a dangerous gambit that results in the spirit repossessing his own dead body and fighting Yamada to death, finally freeing all three of the curses of the black ninja.