Trancers

A 1985 film about a cop from 300 years in the future who is sent back to 1985 to protect the ancestors of his leaders from a psychic killer. Released in Australia and possibly some other areas as "Future Cop".

A total of six films were released, the final five were direct-to-video.

Tropes in the first film:

• Awesome McCoolname: Jack Deth
• Fish Out of Temporal Water: The first film has some interesting nods.
• Future Food Is Artificial: Implied.

Jack Deth: I'm from another time, another world. I don't even know what you people eat for lunch.

• Hey, It's That Guy!: A 22 year old Helen Hunt, 10 years before her Academy Award.
  • The star is Tim Thomerson, who never made it big, but was a charismatic actor who was often proclaimed to be the king of B-movies (in competition with Bruce Campbell).
• It's a Small World After All: Jack hops into his ancestor who had just met and slept with a girl who he promised to take to work in the morning, and at her work it turns out the Mall Santa she worked with was a trancer! What are the odds!?
• Mind Control Conspiracy: Whistler has been in the past long enough and his ancestor was in a high enough position in the police department that the police could not be trusted.
• Mind Control Eyes: Not eyes but skin, in this case.
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Taken the wrong way by the man Jack Deth is trying to save.

"Your name is 'Death'? Forget it, I'm not going up there!"

• Perma-Stubble: Jack Deth. Interestingly, the reason for that was shown in-universe. Jack's ancestor had his face lathered up and was about to shave when Jack jumped into his body. Since Jack didn't know anything about twentieth-century shaving methods, he just wiped the foam off his face and went unshaven for the rest of the movie.
• Plucky Comic Relief: The homeless ancestor they pick up.
• Reality Ensues: Build a receptacle into the handle of a gun to hold two uncushioned glass vials of the drug needed to return to the future, and firing the gun or tossing it around is probably going to break one of them.
• She's All Grown Up: The little girl that Mc Neely jumped into in the first movie returns as a teenager in the second.
• Tagline: "His name is Deth. He hunts Trancers. Even in the 20th Century."
• Terminator Twosome: Jack Deth and Whistler
• Time Stands Still: The time-slowing watch which stretches one second into ten.
• Underwater Ruins: Before he goes to the past, Jack does scuba-diving in the old city of "Lost" Angeles.

Leena: But you don't know the way!
Jack: Yeah I do - I used to swim through here.
Lenna: What?