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If Looks Could Kill
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Mostly forgotten 1991 film in which (barely) high school graduate Michael Corben (Richard Grieco) of Detroit goes on a class trip to France and winds up being mistaken for an American CIA agent of the same name who is killed at the airport. Upon arrival he is immediately shanghaied into service by British Intelligence and partners with Mariska (Gabrielle Anwar), daughter of a former British operative, to stop Diabolical Mastermind Augustus Steranko (Roger Rees) from conquering all of Europe.The film was written by Darren Star (pre-both Sex and the City and Beverly Hills, 90210), from a story by Fred Dekker (The Monster Squad, Night of the Creeps) and directed by William Dear (Harry and the Hendersons).Has nothing to do with the song by band Heart. | |
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Creator Cameo | |
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Creator Cameo: Director William Dear as a scientist testing out a bomb-proof suit. | |
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Man of Wealth and Taste | |
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Man of Wealth and Taste: Steranko wears some nice suits. | |
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Eiffel Tower Effect: The Eiffel Tower can be seen both during the car chase after Michael first leaves British Intelligence's secret headquarters and outside his hotel room window later, even though both locations are miles apart. | |
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Artificial Limbs | |
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Artificial Limbs: Zigesfeld's golden robotic hand. | |
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Loves Only Gold | |
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Loves Only Gold: Steranko, to the point that Ilsa doesn't even have a chance when Steranko is forced to decide between her and the gold in order to make his helicopter lighter in order to escape, and when Corben shoots the chopper's underside and the gold starts to fall off, he tries to stop this even if it means falling off the chopper himself (or keeping his hands on the controls). | |
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Terrifying Pet Store Rat: That scorpion used to try and kill Michael at the hotel? It's a harmless emperor scorpion. They're sold in pet stores across the world. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Vendetta Galante presents Michael with a tuxedo fitted with "standard hands-up protection." Later, upon being cornered by two of Steranko's Mooks while in the tux, Michael is told, "Put up your hands." He complies. Hilarity Ensues as knockout gas sprays from the armpits of the tux. | |
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Ordinary High-School Student | |
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Ordinary High-School Student: What Michael really is. By the time the movie ends, he graduates with honors from the Action Survivor academy. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: Both Michael's father and Steranko scold Michael for having "No follow-through." In a moment of high tension, Michael tells Steranko that he'll nail his ass to the wall, a threat Steranko scoffs at. In a later scene, Steranko puts the threat back to Michael before the final fight. | |
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Trojan Gauntlet | |
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Trojan Gauntlet: Corben struggling to open the metal tube of COMBAT CONDOMS, unaware the woman he wants to sleep with is actually an assassin. It saves him from getting blown up by Ziegsfeld, though. | |
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Ax-Crazy:Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
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French Jerk | |
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French Jerk: The doorman at the casino. Averted with most of the other French characters however. Generally except for the casino doorman most of the French people encountered in the film are quite nice. | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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Scary Black Man: Agent Kramer is presented in this manner. | |
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Super Window Jump | |
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Super Window Jump: Done rather impressively by Blade at the beginning after fighting his way through Steranko's Mooks. | |
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Fearsome Foot | |
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Fearsome Foot: When Michael is climbing the cliff to the chateau, and Zigesfeld's feet come into frame. | |
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Dies Wide Open | |
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Dies Wide Open: Happens to British superspy Blade at the beginning. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: You would think the people managing Michael's school would have warned him that he's not gonna graduate because he failed French long before he had to go through the ceremony and open his diploma to see the huge "INCOMPLETE" stamp on it. | |
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Gratuitous French | |
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Gratuitous French: Unsurprising, considering it's mostly set in France and is about a French class. Mrs. Grober in particular loves speaking French whenever she can find an excuse. | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy: Michael is consistently shown to be a bright and clever young man, however never lives up to his full potential due to his desire to slack off. Even the film's Big Bad, Augustus Steranko, tells Michael to his face that while he (Michael) might have "good intentions", he doesn't "follow through". | |
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Gratuitous German | |
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Gratuitous German: The German finance minister says some stock German phrases, as does the guy left to guard Michael and Mariska in the dungeon (things like "Mach schnell!" and so forth). | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse: What Ilsa has Zigesfeld do to Areola for her. | |
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The Smart Guy | |
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The Smart Guy: Mariska helps explain Steranko's plan to Michael. | |
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Psychopathic Manchild | |
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Psychopathic Manchild: Zigesfeld. He's very feral and violent and rarely speaks except to growl, but also behaves like a simple little boy around Ilsa, who he seems to regard as some kind of mother figure. | |
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Board to Death | |
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During the Board to Death scene at the beginning, Steranko and French finance minister Lafevre have this exchange, leading to the latter's demise: | |
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Hellish Copter | |
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Hellish Copter: Michael machine guns the bottom right out from under it during the Short-Lived Aerial Escape, sending all of its gold cargo ( and Steranko, who ends up being crushed to death by said gold) dropping to the roof before falling down itself (and then the propeller rips itself off and chases after Michael and Mariska). | |
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Utopia Justifies the Means | |
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Utopia Justifies the Means: Steranko believes that, with him in charge, Europe will become an even greater superpower than it is now. All it needs be done is kill everybody that gets in the way... | |
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LateToTheParty | |
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Late to the Party: The British military shows up at the end after the villains have already been defeated. | |
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Combat Pragmatist | |
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Combat Pragmatist: Subverted. When confronted by Zigesfeld, Michael initially attempts to retrieve a gun from a dead Mook rather than face his opponent hand to hand. This fails, though, when Zigesfeld grabs him from behind. | |
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Improvised Weapon: A tea tray is used to murder the French finance minister. | |
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Trying to get the guard to step on the exploding gum: "Double your pleasure, double your fun!" While shooting at the helicopter: "Time to cash it in, Steranko!" Mrs. Grober while stopping Steranko's party: "The bar's closed!" | |
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Spy Fiction | |
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Spy Fiction: Of the Martini variety (with some bathroom Gin), often veering into Affectionate Parody at times. | |
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Bond One-Liner | |
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Bond One-Liner: After the guard in the dungeon as been blown up with the exploding chewing gum, leaving just his boots: "Looks like he stepped out." After Steranko has been buried in his own horde of gold coins: "Keep the change." | |
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Not What It Looks Like | |
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Not What It Looks Like: A beautiful female assassin is sent to kill Corben, but while he's run off to get condoms she accidentally drops the scorpion she was going to kill him with down her dress. Meanwhile a rival assassin peeks through the keyhole and sees her bouncing up and down on the bed trying to shake the scorpion off. Assuming she's having sex with his target, he decides to blow them both up with a rocket launcher. | |
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Jumped at the Call | |
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Initially, Michael is your typical teenager in such a situation - scared and confused and hesitant to cooperate with the agents. He flatly refuses to do what they say... until he sees the Cool Car, that is. Then he's all too happy to go on the mission. | |
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The Dragon | |
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The Dragon: Ilsa. Interestingly, she loved killing people for Steranko and tries to use that to keep Steranko from killing her. | |
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Coolest Club Ever | |
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Coolest Club Ever: Almost too cool for Michael, as he needed to go get changed into a tuxedo before he was allowed in. | |
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Animal Assassin | |
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Animal Assassin: A scorpion is used in an attempt to kill Michael. | |
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Hero of Another Story | |
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Hero of Another Story: While the main hero is Michael, Mariska has been trailing Steranko for some time and explains his entire plot to him. | |
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Letting the Air out of the Band | |
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Letting the Air out of the Band: Happens to the band playing "Pomp and Circumstance" in the opening scene when Michael opens his diploma to find a huge "INCOMPLETE" stamp and a text explaining that he didn't pass French class on it. | |
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Air-Vent Passageway | |
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Air-Vent Passageway: How Michael and Mariska get from the dungeon to the gold foundry. | |
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Mistaken for Badass | |
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Mistaken for Badass: The whole plot, in a nutshell. Not only does Michael Corben get mistaken for American superspy Michael Corben, but Mrs. Grober is somehow assumed to be a top-notch agent code-named "The French Teacher" by all sides. | |
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X-Ray Vision | |
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X-Ray Vision: Built into the sunglasses. He uses it to cheat at the casino to see the next card, before being told to stop looking degenerate. | |
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Image Song | |
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Image Song: an early non-anime example. If you listen carefully to the lyrics, the song that plays over the end credits, 'If Looks could Kill' is actually from Michael's POV and about his Character Development. | |
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Teen Superspy | |
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Teen Superspy: What everybody assumes Michael to be. The British lampshade this Trope via assuming that he's probably Older Than They Look. | |
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Thrown from the Zeppelin | |
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Thrown from the Zeppelin: During the Board to Death scene at the beginning, Steranko and French finance minister Lafevre have this exchange, leading to the latter's demise: A much more literal interpretation of this occurs when Steranko throws Ilsa out of their helicopter. | |
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Death by Looking Up | |
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Death by Looking Up: Or possibly Face Death with Dignity. Zigesfeld chooses to simply standing watching the cage dropping towards him instead of moving out of the way. | |
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The Only One | |
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The Only One: Michael is untrained and has no idea what he's doing. But past a certain point, he is literally the only person who can save everyone, and he rises to the challenge of being the teen super spy everyone thinks he is admirably. | |
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Scary Scorpions | |
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Scary Scorpions: Areola tries to kill Michael with one at the hotel. | |
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No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine | |
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No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: Steranko insists on eating dinner with Michael after he's been captured. | |
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Disney Death | |
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Disney Death: When Steranko's mansion blows up, everyone thinks Michael and Mariska have died. Poor Mrs. Grober wonders despairingly what she's going to tell Michael's mother, only to have the pair emerge from the fiery ruins unscathed. Cue the cheering. | |
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Pair the Spares | |
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Pair the Spares: Subtly implied with Kent and Melissa at the end. | |
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A Molten Date with Death | |
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A Molten Date with Death: Happens to Zigesfeld when the cage which had held the French class lands on him and knocks him into the vat of molten gold. | |
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United Europe | |
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United Europe: The ultimate aim of Steranko's Evil Plan is to create this with himself as its leader. | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension: Between Michael and Mariska, and to a lesser extent Kent and Melissa. | |
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Technical Pacifist | |
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Technical Pacifist: Steranko initially abhors killing and sends his henchmen to kill for him. By the end of the movie he subverts the trope and kills Ilsa himself. | |
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Whip It Good | |
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Whip It Good: Ilsa Grunt's weapon. When not in use, she wears it like an unassuming necklace. | |
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The Silent Bob | |
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The word "subtle" isn't in Zigesfeld's vocabulary - in fact, very little is in his vocabulary. For example, sent to kill Michael (and Areola) at his hotel, he just walks in and blows the place up with a rocket launcher. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: When Krupp defies Steranko, the Big Bad explicitly stops Ilsa from killing him and merely orders his guards to take Krupp away, but Krupp is never seen or mentioned again. Kelly disappears from the movie after being thrown off of the bus by Zigesfeld. | |
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Refusal of the Call | |
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Refusal of the Call: Initially, Michael is your typical teenager in such a situation - scared and confused and hesitant to cooperate with the agents. He flatly refuses to do what they say... until he sees the Cool Car, that is. Then he's all too happy to go on the mission. This is then inverted - once Steranko's assassins start trying to kill him, he Refuses The Call again and intends to back out and run off. It's only after he meets Mariska that he realizes the full scope of what's at stake, and agrees to help her avenge her father. | |
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Villain with Good Publicity | |
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Villain with Good Publicity: Steranko is one of the richest men in Europe and a high-class philanthropist, when in reality he wants to take over Europe. | |
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Cool Car | |
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Cool Car: The red Lotus Esprit. Once Michael sees it, he stops insisting that he's a high-school student. | |
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Not Afraid to Die | |
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Not Afraid to Die: Michael tells himself this. Or at least he tries. | |
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Deconstruction | |
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Deconstruction: Of spy fiction. At first, Michael is ecstatic about the mission (once he finally does accept it). But it isn't long before he finds out being a spy isn't all fun and glamor like it is in the movies, and he understandably reacts by trying to back out after multiple attempts are made on his life. | |
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'80s Hair | |
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'80s Hair: Proof that the 80's briefly bled over into the 90's. | |
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Diabolical Mastermind | |
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Diabolical Mastermind: Augustus Steranko. The Evil Plan was all his idea. | |
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Femme Fatale | |
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Femme Fatale: Steranko's arm candy, Areola Canasta. | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Steranko does this to Ilsa at the end. | |
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Big Bad | |
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When Krupp defies Steranko, the Big Bad explicitly stops Ilsa from killing him and merely orders his guards to take Krupp away, but Krupp is never seen or mentioned again. | |
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As You Know | |
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As You Know: Parodied in Michael's conversation with his father, Herb. Herb begins to tell Michael some things he's heard many times before and is clearly tired of, interrupting Herb halfway through to ask, "Dad, is this the 'no follow-through' speech?" An oblivious Herb replies, "That's right," and promptly continues as though he hadn't been interrupted. | |
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Death by Cameo | |
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Death by Cameo: Singer Roger Daltrey appears as superspy Blade long enough to get his butt handed to him by Linda Hunt as Ilsa, who kills him using a necklace that unfurls into a whip. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Took a Level in Badass: Mrs. Grober. From meek schoolteacher who lets herself get bullied by Steranko, to grabbing an Uzi and crashing his party very noisily. She even captures several of his Mooks in the climax. | |
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check | |
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check: That sure is one advanced robotic hand Steranko got made for Zigesfeld. Such a device would revolutionize the prosthetic industry and make Steranko a zillion times richer than he already is, but he would rather steal gold from common market nations as part of a harebrained scheme to unite Europe under his rule. | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Steranko's Mooks. | |
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Red Baron | |
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Red Baron: "The French Teacher", super-secret agent, so top-secret that nobody has ever heard of her... in reality Mrs. Grober, an actual French teacher. It Makes Sense in Context. | |
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Drop Dead Gorgeous | |
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Drop Dead Gorgeous: Averted; Corben gets a Fan Disservice moment when the beauty he hoped to sleep with is turned into a charred corpse by a rocket explosion (Michael was in the bathroom looking for a condom). Though she was actually trying to kill him with a scorpion. | |
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Convection, Schmonvection | |
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Convection, Schmonvection: Mrs. Grober and the French class spend an awful long time hanging in a cage over a giant vat of molten gold, apparently without the heat or fumes bothering them at all. | |
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Bottomless Magazines | |
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Bottomless Magazines: Averted. Michael reloads his machine gun multiple times. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: Michael's classmates. They continually ignore their constantly changing bus drivers and ultimately wind up caged over a giant vat of molten gold. Additionally, the German finance minister, upon learning of Steranko's evil plan (because Steranko tells him), boldly threatens, "I'll tell the world!" While in Steranko's house. Surrounded by Steranko's Mooks. Small wonder he's last seen getting dragged off to an implied offscreen demise. | |
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Victimized Bystander | |
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Victimized Bystander: The snobby French doorman. | |
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Market-Based Title | |
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Market-Based Title: This movie is also known as Teen Agent in some places. Richard Greico said in promotional interviews that he preferred the original title, since it was more classic James Bond style. | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills: Michael fires around a corner without looking and hits one of Steranko's Mooks dead center in the chest. Somehow. | |
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Helicopter Blender | |
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Helicopter Blender: When Steranko's getaway chopper crashes, the rotor section detaches and chases after Michael and Mariska like a giant buzzsaw. | |
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Evil Gloating | |
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Additionally, the German finance minister, upon learning of Steranko's evil plan (because Steranko tells him), boldly threatens, "I'll tell the world!" While in Steranko's house. Surrounded by Steranko's Mooks. Small wonder he's last seen getting dragged off to an implied offscreen demise. | |
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Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh... | |
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Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: Let's just say that Michael wouldn't win in a straight-up fight against Ziegsfeld, and Michael discovers this the hard way. | |
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Sigil Spam | |
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Sigil Spam: Steranko's awesome-looking scorpion emblem is on literally everything associated with him, from the coins he mints to his helicopter. | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss: Averted. Michael and Mariska almost kiss after she hits him a couple of times, but they're interrupted by a Mook at the door. | |
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Short-Lived Aerial Escape | |
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Short-Lived Aerial Escape: Steranko attempts to leave in a helicopter at the end, but is shot down by Michael and Mariska using Uzis. | |
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Smoldering Shoes | |
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Smoldering Shoes: When the guard in the dungeon is killed with the exploding gum, only his smoking boots and Uzi are left behind. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Steranko, who ends up dying by being buried alive by the tons of gold coins he just had to overload his helicopter with. Areola ends up getting stung by her own pet scorpion, with which she tried to kill Michael. | |
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You're Insane! | |
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You're Insane!: After hearing about his plan to conquer Europe, Finance Minister Krupp declares that Steranko is mad. When Michael claims that Steranko is the villain, Richardson dismissively says that Michael is mad. Gadgeteer Genius Galante then asks "But what if he isn't? | |
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Right Hand Versus Left Hand | |
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Right Hand Versus Left Hand: A major theme of the movie is the good guys and bad guys not communicating properly, backstabbing one another, or just not cooperating. | |
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The Cavalry | |
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The Cavalry: Subverted; Richardson and the British army show up after the villains have all been dealt with and the mansion destroyed. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: About twenty minutes before Areola appears in person (and is shown to be in on Steranko's plan), she is seen in one of the pictures that Michael's handlers show him. The presence of two other bikini-clad women in the photo disguise her importance. | |
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Load-Bearing Boss | |
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Load-Bearing Boss: Ziegsfeld ends up falling on the vat full of molten gold during the Final Battle, and somehow this (and some amount of super-cooling) brings the melting mechanism so haywire than it blows up the whole mansion. | |
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The Mole | |
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The Mole: Kelly, one of the British Intelligence agents, is working for Steranko. | |
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Ambiguous Disorder | |
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Ambiguous Disorder: Zigesfeld. Something is clearly wrong with the guy. He is both childlike and violent, suggesting some sort of developmental disorder. | |
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Fictional Country | |
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Fictional Country: Orenbourg, which seems to be a slight Expy of any number of Germanic countries. Though there is a real Orenbourg, it's a Russian city. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
| If Looks Could Kill / int_ee7a60e9 | comment |
One-Steve Limit: Averted Trope, and it is this aversion that starts the whole plot. | |
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TheUNFavourite | |
| If Looks Could Kill / int_f19ff224 | comment |
The Un-Favourite: Michael's parents (his father especially) clearly prefer his younger brother Brad. However, they don't treat him badly and his father tells him he loves him and just wishes he'd be more productive. | |
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Billions of Buttons | |
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Billions of Buttons: On the Espirit. The gag is that none of them are labeled (apparently Intelligence followed a standardized design for them that the "real" Michael Corben would have known) and because of this Michael ends up accidentally triggering the car's weapons (saving him from Ziegsfeld) during the car Chase Scene (while looking for the one for the power windows). | |
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The Baroness | |
| If Looks Could Kill / int_f55d739f | comment |
Ilsa - an obvious nod to the Rosa Klebb variety of The Baroness - more than once tries to murder people at the slightest provocation. The first time, she's interrupted by the appearance of two airport security guards, and the second time, Steranko himself has to stop her. | |
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Dude, She's Like in a Coma | |
| If Looks Could Kill / int_f604f64b | comment |
Dude, She's Like in a Coma: Kent tries to lick Melissa's ear while she's asleep in the seat next to him. | |
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You Killed My Father | |
| If Looks Could Kill / int_fb6b207f | comment |
You Killed My Father: Said verbatim to Steranko by Mariska (although it was actually Ilsa who did it). | |
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Gadgeteer Genius | |
| If Looks Could Kill / int_fbba5e98 | comment |
When Michael claims that Steranko is the villain, Richardson dismissively says that Michael is mad. Gadgeteer Genius Galante then asks "But what if he isn't? | |
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