Divorce Is Temporary: While averted in the first film, this trope is in full force in the sequels between Bryan and his ex-wife Lenore.And that's just the last action sequence. Determinator: By the end of the first movie, Bryan has a bullet wound, multiple knife wounds, been beaten in fisticuffs pretty badly by the sheik's Dragon, and most likely has a broken ankle, and still manages to massacre every Mook on the yacht.Curb-Stomp Battle: Bryan cleans house with the mooks ( barring The Dragon).
Combat Pragmatist: Let's see: aiming for the nuts 90% of the time, playing dead in a shoot-out, shooting someone in the back, shooting someone who let their guard down for one microsecond just to talk, aiming for the head in a hostage standoff, the list goes on.Bryan takes every advantage and dirty trick.He then reveals that he has memorized the voice, and makes a special point to kill that one last. When he finds the Albanian slavers, he pretends to be someone in cahoots with them, and asks them to if they maybe could help translate a Albanian phrase for him, which just so happens to mean "Good luck".
At the time, it just seems like an obsession. Chekhov's Gun: When Bryan is on the plane to France, he is shown listening to the "Good luck" line over and over again.His opponents are sex-slavers, a profession not exactly known for being all that sympathetic.