Does anyone remember all the great zako from the movie "Troma's War"? (My ancient post on it is
here.)
Well, the Toxic Avenger movies are from the same company, so I decided to look into them a bit further.
The great scene wj1905 showed is not the only zako scene in the movie, although it may be the best one. But there is a bit more even to this scene.
Here is my zako review of Toxic Avenger 2:
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Well, the movie is cheesy in the extreme and it is disappointing in terms of the action the zako have, but the main zako group, called simply the "Bad Girls," are some real hotties with great zako style. They work for the evil corporation "Apocalypse Inc.", and it seems their job is to strut around and act as petty bullies towards the townspeople, as this purple-haired hottie does here:
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Or as this group does here:
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Near the end of the movie several of them try to invade the trailer home of the Toxic Avenger's girlfriend. I wonder how that will turn out for them?
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For the first half of the movie the "Bad Girls" mostly stand around listening to speeches from the boss baddies, but at least they look good doing it. Here are a few gifs showing some of the zako ladies that, unfortunately, don't show up elsewhere in the movie. I would have loved to see these zako confront the heroes and, of course, lose in a decisive and humiliating manner:
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Anyway, the baddies concoct a plan to get Toxie to travel to Japan while they take over his town.
While Toxie is in Japan, a trio of street punks accost his lady friend, and he goes berserk on them. One of the street punks is female, and while she is not the most attractive, she does have a decent "punk" style and her fate is both harsh and humiliating (in other words, a perfect fate for a zako).
She never once tries to fight Toxie. Instead, she only screams and runs away from him, but he chases her down and finally corners her in a recording studio. Then he ties her up and, while she screams and shakes, he turns her into a "human transmitter":
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Meanwhile, because Toxie is preoccupied in Japan, Apocalypse Inc. and the "Bad Girls" are able to take over his hometown. We see the purple-haired hottie again, this time playing a female member of the Apocalypse work crew. I do love when the ladies wear a uniform similar to that of the men, but modified with a few feminine touches (leggings instead of pants, a bit of skin showing, more feminine boots, or just a more snug fit to the same uniform):
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We also see my personal favorite of the "Bad Girls" zako getting in on the action. This blonde wearing the leopard-skin leggings is just incredible, in my opinion:
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Meanwhile, in Japan, our hero is fighting some Japanese thugs, including the lady from wj1905's post. In the movie's credits her role is "chain sickle girl". She tries to ambush Toxie with a chain sickle from a rooftop, but he pulls her down and she lands hard. However, she jumps back up and continues to fight, at which point Toxie cuts off her clothing and his lady friend bashes her head from behind.
However, this is not the end of this zako's appearance in the movie. She actually staggers off and ends up falling limp into the lap of the same guy who was present when Toxie dealt with the previous zako.
He is ecstatic that a near-naked, beautiful woman has just fallen into his lap. Once she has awoken, it is shown that she seems smitten with him as well, although she is still dazed and staggering.
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I do love the idea of rescuing the completely defeated, completely helpless zako after their encounter with the heroes, so I really like this scene. I've included all the scenes with this zako in the video at the end of this post.
Finally, our hero returns to his hometown, just as the "Bad Girls" are invading his girlfriend's trailer home.
This does result in some decent zako action and the defeat of the "Bad Girls", but it is mostly tongue-in-cheek and all of the "Bad Girls" are allowed to escape. Such a disappointment. I was hoping for some more decisive defeats, perhaps even a pile of defeated "Bad Girls." Oh well.
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Here is the link to the full video of all the zako scenes I found in my watch of the movie. There may be a few I missed.
Toxic Avenger 2 Zako
Later this week I will upload a zako review of Toxic Avenger 3 and Sgt. Kabukiman, NYPD (another cheesy Troma movie).
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