![]() According to Pamela Anderson, filming the fight scenes while wearing a corset and heels was extremely challenging. Of Corsets Sexy: Barb spends much of the movie wearing a corset that enhances her already-buxom figure.Navel-Deep Neckline: The neckline in Barb's outfit is so low that her breasts look like they would topple out of her outfit at any time.Naked on Arrival: Barb isn't exactly fully clothed during the credits when the audience first sees her and later, she meets her ex-husband's fiance' just after getting out of the bath.Lock-and-Load Montage: After Barb decides to help out the Resistance, she gets one of these.Groin Attack: Barb orders a dog to do a "Package check," which means the dog bites the guy on the groin.Fanservice: It's a whole movie with Pamela Anderson in either tight, revealing clothing or none at all, what else would you expect?.Evil Laugh: Barb Wire hears the villain do it for at least two minutes as he tries to kill her with a forklift!.Disney Villain Death: Colonel Pryzer, when Barb drops his forklift.Disproportionate Retribution: Barb once shot a person for calling her a "babe.".Pryzer: Goddammit Willis, I'm gonna rip you in half! Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Colonel Pryzer ( Steve Railsback) is good at these.Technically this can also cross with Badass Adorable and Little Miss Badass Cute Bruiser: Barb and also the young leader of the resistance within Steel City.And also, she throws one in a guy's head. Combat Stilettos: While not doing as much hand-to-hand combat as usual for this trope, she does enough fighting in them to justify it.Captain Obvious: Police Chief Willis deliberately does this near the end of the film: "Look out, she's got a grenade!".Call-Back: Being a blonde curvy girl, riding a motorbike and using the Catchphrase "Don't call me babe!" are the only references to the original comic book and nothing else.Bury Your Disabled: Barb's blind brother Charlie is tortured to death by the villains. ![]() Berserk Button: "Don't call me Babe!" (Which led to many jokes about talking pigs.).She then gets up out of the tub (being covered by Censor Suds) and asks him to throw her a Modesty Towel before they talk. She promptly grabs a gun she kept within reach and threatens to shoot him, but he pacifies her. Bathtub Scene: Barb is taking a bubble bath in her house, but it turns into an Interrupted Bath when her ex Axel comes in.Badass Biker: Movie!Barb provides the page image, though she doesn't appear all that often in that outfit.Evidently, the writers didn't know retinas are at the back of the eyeball. Artistic License – Biology: A character fools a retina scanner using colored contact lenses, which actually might've worked if it had been an iris scanner.He doesn't agree with the murder of Barb's blind brother, and at the end he saves them all by not handcuffing Barb and giving her a grenade to use. For one thing, he knows his men are thugs and idiots, but they're still his men. He may be a corrupt, lying asshole who makes Barb's life difficult, and a pawn of the oppressors, but he's not actually evil. Adaptational Curves: Pam's breasts were actually larger in the movie than the original comic character.Action Girl: No matter how much of Pam got showed off, Barb Wire is definitely a hard-up, bad-ass action girl to be proud of.Not only that, but Pamala Anderson is probably the only woman who could pull off the look of a female NAH, with very large breasts and barely-there clothing. '90s Anti-Hero: Barb Wire is a Dark Action Girl with a gritty two-word name that sounds like “barbed wire,” who is entirely motivated by selfish reasons-whether it be personal profit or revenge-and only looks better by comparison because the villains of the story are worse.The failure of the movie also effectively ended Pamela Anderson's dream of becoming a mainstream film star, and it would be 19 years before any more Barb Wire comics would be printed. The film is based on the eponymous series printed by Dark Horse Comics during their attempt at creating a shared comic book universe, Comics' Greatest World, which resulted in an In Name Only compared with the source.īarb Wire was panned by critics and bombed at the box office (making less than $4 million). The Chief of Police raids her club because he is looking for a scientist who has information about a superweapon. Released in 1996, the movie stars Pamela Anderson Lee as a nightclub owner/mercenary/ Bounty Hunter in 2017 during the Second American Civil War.
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