As he does, Mike riffs out "Sort this, deliver that, I'll make 'em all pay", treating him as this kind of person. In the film This Island Earth, a deliverman (played by Coleman Francis!) heads towards Cal Meachim's laboratory, shuffling through some packages. Played With in Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie.He's beaten to the punch by his co-worker, but ends up killing the co-worker with the gun he brought himself and is unexpectedly hailed as a hero by his bosses. He Was a Quiet Man: Maconel was planning to do this at the beginning.Eventually, Foster becomes the villain of his own story, has a massive Heel Realization after Prendergast easily cuts down his whining and justifications, and eventually commits Suicide by Cop when he realizes the damage he's done. His character is contrasted against the Hero Antagonist Prendergast, an aging police sergeant who faces the same problems on the job but deals with them with maturity and empathy. He accumulates a number of weapons through chance and goes on a rampage of destruction through Los Angeles. Granted, he doesn't exactly do it on the job, as he was fired a month before the plot kicks off, but the film is a story about William "D-Fens" Foster, a recently divorced and fired white-collar worker going through a nervous breakdown, letting out his feelings of anger and alienation against what he sees as a cruel, feckless world, and the Jerkasses who inhabit it. The film itself doesn't have anything to do with the trope, and is closer to an inversion: a man who has made it his mission to deliver the mail in a post-apocalyptic future to help rebuild society. This trope led to people mocking advance trailers for The Postman, so new trailers were made without any scenes of Kevin Costner giving the Title Drop.note "Disgruntled" was the media's preferred euphemism for going postal at the time. While Frank is (dreaming about) dealing with a ridiculous number of threats (the scene itself a parody of the staircase shootout scene in The Untouchables (1987)), someone screams "Oh my god, look! It's disgruntled postal workers!" and he sees a small army of mailmen firing assault rifles storming the building. Parodied in the third The Naked Gun movie. Myron: That was a real bomb?!? THIS IS A SICK WORLD WE LIVE IN!!! SICK!! The scarier part is that, while the first time he tried it he used a random package that contained a Christmas present, the second time he was unknowingly handling a real bomb package.
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