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Last Action Hero

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Released on June 18th, 1993note , but released five days earlier in Westwood, California, Last Action Hero is one of the few movies whose genre is accurately described as "other".An early-'90s-era Genre Savvy young action movie fan is sucked into the latest film of his favourite hero, Jack Slater, and proceeds to lampshade all manner of tropes. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays an action movie hero played by Arnold Schwarzenegger (who gets to enter the real world and meet Arnold Schwarzenegger himself!).It was directed by John McTiernan, previously known for such films as Die Hard (1988), The Hunt for Red October (1990) and Medicine Man (1992) and written by Shane Black, most notable for penning Lethal Weaponnote He also served as script doctor for Predator while acting in it., and would later go on to write and direct Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.This was not only Schwarzenegger's first film after Terminator 2: Judgment Day, but also the debut of the Sony Dynamic Digital Sound (SDDS) system. Made to appeal to a bigger family audience than most of his films had been up to that point, the wave of hype promised that it would be, as the trailers put it, "The big ticket for '93!" However, it was released the weekend after the opening of Jurassic Park, which turned out to be a far bigger hit than Columbia Pictures expected, and thus it failed to live up to the hype at the box office. While it was eventually profitable, the film was widely regarded as a bomb, but it's become something of a Cult Classic for its freewheeling send-ups of action movie tropes.
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"Have a Nice Day" Smile: One of Benedict's glass eyes has this in place of the pupil, which he pulls down his glasses to reveal when he meets with Jack for the first time. He even punctuates it with a "Have a nice day" to see them off.
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Adam Westing
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Adam Westing: Taken to meta-levels. Arnold plays himself in the real world as a flighty celebrity led around by his wife.
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Gatling Good
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Gatling Good: The black van with the sawed-off minigun in the door. And two of these are mounted on the helicopter at the funeral. And naturally, none of them sounds like it's shooting at a realistic firing rate.
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Friendly Target
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Friendly Target: Parodied when, in the movie-within-the-movie, they kill the hero's favorite second cousin. After four or five sequels, he was just running out of significant family members...
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Bloodless Carnage
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Bloodless Carnage: Even when Whiskers shoots Practice. It makes sense: despite More Dakka, Jack Slater IV is still a PG-13 film.
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Card-Carrying Villain
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Card-Carrying Villain: Benedict. He even boasts that if God was evil, he would be that God.
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Kinder and Cleaner
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Kinder and Cleaner: In-Universe with Jack Slater 4 — the film happens to be PG-13 instead of the R of the series' previous installations. As a result, when Danny Madigan enters the film and tries to prove to Slater that it's a movie, he tries to make Slater say the F-word (or some other "hard" insult) and then points out Slater's reluctance as proof (PG-13 movies by law can only say "fuck" 4 times or less, but it's an unwritten rule in the industry that it must only be uttered once). In the final act, Arnold Schwarzenegger himself appears in the world premiere of the film and cheerfully reassures some reporters that this movie has a smaller body count than the previous entry in the series.
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Dragon-in-Chief
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Dragon-in-Chief: Mr. Benedict is introduced as Vivaldi's right-hand-man. However, he turns on his employer immediately after finding much better prospects. Apparently, he didn't notice until he found the ticket.
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Darker and Edgier
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Darker and Edgier: Jack Slater III is implied to been this to the Slater franchise, given it featured a terrifying axe murderer and the death of Slater's son. Jack Slater IV seems lighter-hearted with the villains snarky mob goons, as a likely studio response to fans hating the forced Downer Ending of the previous film.
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Villain Team-Up
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Villain Team-Up: Between Benedict and the Ripper.
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Power Cable Attack
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Power Cable Attack: Slater dispatches the Ripper by using the Ripper's axe to chop a set of power lines, causing them to fall onto the wet rooftop that they're fighting on and electrify the roof.
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Genre Savvy
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The Genre Savvy protagonist tries to exploit the rules of the action-movie universe he's trapped in to his advantage, playing chicken with the bad guy's car on his bicycle. Just in time, he realizes he's the Plucky Comic Relief, not the hero, and swerves out of the way.
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: Averted. The teacher refers to Hamlet as one of the first action heroes.
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Poirot Speak
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Poirot Speak: Vivaldi has a thick Italian accent and frequently butchers idioms, much to Benedict's annoyance.
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And This Is for...
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And This Is for...: Jack smacks the shit out of Benedict with a bunch of "And this is for!" statements - except for his ex-wife's home, which he gives a little slap on the wrist for.
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Celebrity Resemblance
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Celebrity Resemblance: Jack Slater goes after the Ripper in what people assume to be a studio-authorized stunt and is tackled by Arnold Schwarzenegger. After getting off him, Arnold praises him as the best celebrity lookalike he'd ever seen and starts offering him appearance gigs.
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Soft Glass: Lampshaded. While in the real world, Jack notes that his hand really hurts after punching through a car window.
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: As Danny walks into the LAPD police station for the first time, Catherine Trammell and the T-1000 can be seen walking out. The officer that shouts "Hey Slater! It's your ex-wife on two!" when Slater and Danny show up at the police station is played by Mike Muscat, who had previously played Moshier in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, as the Cyberdyne Systems security guard who calls the police to say, "I think it's that guy from the mall. Him and the woman" when Miles Dyson shows up with the Terminator and Sarah Connor in tow. Muscat was also Edward Furlong's (John Connor) acting coach. The Jack Slater IV premiere apparently desires to showcase as many celebrity cameos as possible, including a few who have connections to Schwarzenegger: Little Richard, Entertainment Tonight host Leeza Gibbons, James Belushi (who starred with Schwarzenegger in Red Heat), Damon Wayans, Chevy Chase, Timothy Dalton (the James Bond actor at that time) and Jean-Claude Van Damme (who worked with John McTiernan on Predator as the original Predator before dropping out), who delivers a Bilingual Bonus joke. Joan Plowright, Laurence Olivier's wife, is the teacher who introduces his version of Hamlet and says the kids might recognize him as Zeus from Clash of the Titans and some Polaroid camera commercials. In a blink-or-you'll-miss-it cameo, Tina Turner plays the Mayor at the climax of Jack Slater III. Sir Ian McKellen plays Death from The Seventh Seal. Danny DeVito as the voice of Whiskers. Professor Toru Tanaka, who appeared in The Running Man, appears as Tony Vivaldi's butler. One of the henchmen trying to shoot Slater during the first Car Chase, one with long hair and a mustache, is played by the same actor who played one of Hans Gruber's henchmen in Die Hard.
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Visual Pun: Audio pun, anyway. All of the incidental music is revamped classical music, such as "Moonlight Sonata". How does Benedict trigger the bomb hidden on Louie the Fart? He pulls his finger.
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Wicked Cultured: Benedict, who is way more worldly than any other character, especially Vivaldi.
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Self-Parody: For co-writer Shane Black, director John McTiernan, and above all else the star Arnold Schwarzenegger, all of whom were spoofing the action movies they made their names with.
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Diabolus ex Machina
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Diabolus ex Machina: In-universe, at the end of Jack Slater III. Lampshaded by Jack.
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Angrish
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Angrish: Slater's captain. In fact, you can probably count on one hand the times where it is possible to make out what he is saying.
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Stealth Pun
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Stealth Pun: There's a ton of metal versions of Mozart in the soundtrack.
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Stripperiffic: Parodied with the female police officers' Custom Uniforms.
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Dirt Forcefield
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Dirt Forcefield: Jack Slater is spotless within seconds of crawling out of the La Brea Tar Pits; naturally this is Lampshaded by Danny.
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Danny realizes almost too late that he's just the Plucky Comic Relief to Jack, so the bad guy car won't swerve out of the way of the kid playing chicken with it on a bicycle. Benedict actually. He's under the impression he can control the ticket, and tries to use it to warp out when he's about to lose. Unfortunately for him, the ticket only does things when it wants to.
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Cult Soundtrack
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Cult Soundtrack: The soundtrack, full of new tracks by well-known rock bands (Ac Dc's "Big Gun" even has Arnold appearing in the music video), was better received than the movie upon its release.
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Danny's encounter with the burglar, which leaves a Chekhov's Gun (the key to the handcuffs) and gives Danny and Jack an explanation for the latter's presence to his mom.
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Ironic Echo: Danny tries to make one out of John Practice's Character Catchphrase ("How do you get to Carnegie Hall?"), with little success. When Benedict escapes from the movie, Danny suggests leaving after him. When Jack asks if he has a way to get back, Danny tells him he can't nitpick every single little thing. Upon reaching the real world, they find that Benedict's nowhere to be found, and Danny promptly wonders how Jack can get back. "That's a good question. But we wouldn't want to nitpick."
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Subverted Catchphrase: Early on, when Jack still doesn't believe he's in a movie. And later in the same film:
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Genre Blindness
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Also when Danny and Slater enter the real world, Slater's acts of Genre Blindness are initially played off for laughs. The duo chase Benedict through New York in stolen cars, ending up in a back-alley where they are challenged to a game of chicken. The scene is tense, Danny warns Slater he could die, but Slater drops off Danny and speeds off. However neither vehicle manages to build much speed (unlike in the movie world). Compared to all the things Slater has survived up to this point, as well as what most action heroes survive, most viewers won't be expecting much of a crash, even if it is the real world. Cue the actual crash at around 40 kPh which causes the cars rears to lift off the ground. It does not help that Slater's taillights go out and one of the car horns goes off.
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Different World, Different Movies
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Different World, Different Movies: Mixed with Celebrity Paradox. Because Slater is played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, the main character of Terminator franchise is played by Sylvester Stallone. Apparently Robert Patrick is still the T-1000 in Judgment Day since he has a cameo.
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Captain Ersatz
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This works in the movie world that Jack Slater, a Captain Ersatz of John McClane, inhabits, but not in the real world. Except it does work because Slater wisely chooses a car with airbag protection, unlike his opponent.
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Red Right Hand
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Red Right Hand: Benedict's glass eye, which he usually changes and has a lot of custom eye designs including one with a powerful bomb and one with a bull's-eye.
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Apathetic Citizens
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Apathetic Citizens: In the film's real world New York, Benedict conducts an experiment: When a citizen tells him to shut up, Benedict's Aside Glance and Evil Grin says it all.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away: Double subversion in the opening. The (literally) Ax-Crazy serial killer takes Schwarzenegger's son hostage and orders him to drop his weapon. Schwarzenegger drops his gun (or rather, his arsenal)... and also drops a frag grenade at the villain's feet. The villain, knowing that Schwarzenegger isn't crazy enough to frag his own son, figures the grenade is a fake and orders the kid to pick it up. Turns out the grenade is really a trick knife, which the kid uses to stab the villain. Unfortunately, the kid still dies, as the falling bad guy manages to drag the kid with him.
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Funny Background Event
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Funny Background Event: After Slater has momentarily escaped the villains by ramping his convertible through the air and landing safely, while he and Danny have a leisurely chat about the fruits of life, we watch as the black minivan that was chasing them attempts to copy Slater's stunt, fails, and crashes in a massive fireball behind them. Neither notices. When Jack and Danny are driving to the funeral they are conversing in his car. In the background you see cars crashing the entire time, most likely because of Jack's driving.
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Disappeared Dad
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Disappeared Dad: Danny's father died sometime before the events of the movie.
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Law of Inverse Recoil: Played straight naturally in the Movie world. In the real world, Jack fires his Desert Eagle pointed up and is knocked down.
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Bilingual Bonus: Jean-Claude Van Damme's line "I would never miss the premiere for a second" note  In French, "première" means "first".
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Post-Kiss Catatonia
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Post-Kiss Catatonia: A mild version—Danny becomes quite...introverted after Whitney mistakenly kisses him, complete with stumbling walk and goofy smile, "reminding" himself that it all goes downhill from there....
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Lampshade Hanging
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Lampshade Hanging: More lampshades than a Shriner Convention. Mostly by Danny pointing out how crazy the film world is.
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Revolvers Are Just Better
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Revolvers Are Just Better: Used to maximum effect by Benedict. Not only is his a Hand Cannon, but in the climax he's able to get the drop on Slater by leaving a chamber empty and making him think he ran out of ammo.
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Plot Armor
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Plot Armor: Lampshaded. When Slater is shot in the real world, part of the post-climax is getting him back into the movie world, making this a rare case where the trope is actually invoked!
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Limited Wardrobe
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Limited Wardrobe: While not pointed out in dialogue, the brief look in Slater's closet during the once-a-movie "shoot the assassin hiding in the closet" sequence has a line of identical outfits (complete with an entire shelf of Desert Eagle pistols).
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Damsel out of Distress
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Damsel out of Distress: Whitney easily beats up the goon Benedict orders to beat her up when they're alone in her room, frees herself and comes to help her dad with his gun.
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More Dakka
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More Dakka: At Leo The Fart's funeral, when Jack steals the corpse, every single guest, even the priest, the nuns and several little old ladies pull out military grade automatic weapons. Then again, it was a Mafia funeral. The goons in the black van shoot at Slater with a Gatling gun. How about the helicopter that shoots through an entire building? Jack's glove compartment contains an arsenal of handguns.
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The Big Rotten Apple
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The Big Rotten Apple: The depiction of New York City in the real world, at least the part where Danny and his mom's apartment and the movie theater are. Run-down, crime-ridden, and dirty.
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Beard of Evil
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Beard of Evil: Benedict has a well-maintained beard that, red as it is, just makes him look more Satanic.
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Ax-Crazy
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Ax-Crazy: The Ripper. He's a Serial Killer who hacks people up with an ax.
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Perp Sweating
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Perp Sweating: After Danny has demonstrated to both Jack Slater and Lt. Dekker that he knows quite intimate details of their lives and friendship, they drag him into an interrogation office and grill him on who he is and how he could know those things. Neither of them believe his tale by the end, but Dekker makes Danny into Jack's new partner at the end all the same.
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Hidden Depths
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Hidden Depths: Jack Slater. He's leading a pitiful life that even his screenwriters didn't expect. Danny's adoration of Slater is due to Jack being all he has for a father figure. Jack is also apparently very charming when not having to exercise action movie tropes 24/7 - and pleased to realize it, too. Lt. Dekker (Da Chief) spends most of his screen time screaming his lungs out and chewing out Slater for the excessive amounts of carnage his Cowboy Cop antics leave behind... and in one of the previous films, one of the sub-plots was his marriage going through a rocky state and Jack helping him. Dekker even called Jack "his best friend" at that time, which probably explains why Dekker has given Jack his badge back every time he takes it Once an Episode (In-Universe). When Danny brings this up, Dekker turns to Jack and gets angry because they were going to keep it a secret between them.
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It Works Better with Bullets
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It Works Better with Bullets: Subverted when the Big Bad Benedict tries to shoot Jack Slater (Ahnuld), only to hear the familiar *click*. Slater and the Big Bad have had trouble adjusting to the real world; Slater thinks he's forgotten that guns don't have unlimited ammo here, and calls him out on it. Benedict tells him that he simply left one chamber empty and shoots him.
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Car Meets House
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Car Meets House: Jack Slater drives a huge 4x4 truck into the Big Bad's ocean-view mansion.
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Elevator Failure
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Elevator Failure: Slater falls from a broken elevator.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: After Benedict arrives in the real world, he's propositioned by an underage junkie prostitute in downtown New York. Even a bonafide Card-Carrying Villain from Movie Land such as he is disturbed by this, and voices his disgust by asking her how old she is. Seconds later, he's similarly shocked that a homeless man was murdered by two others for his shoes. This makes sense - Benedict is the villain of a PG-13 action movie, where such things are unimaginable.
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Stuff Blowing Up
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Stuff Blowing Up: With several Lampshade Hangings, such as when Danny insists that the trouble at Leo Le Fart's funeral can't possibly be "just" another explosion, because the Slater film has had several explosions already.
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Destination Defenestration
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Destination Defenestration: In the Arnie as Hamlet sequence, Schwarzenhamlet picks up Claudius and throws him through a stained glass window.
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Hollywood Healing
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Hollywood Healing: Parodied when the titular hero gets shot in the Real World... and rapidly goes into shock from massive blood loss. The Genre Savvy sidekick manages to save him by bringing him back into the world of movies, where he gets right up and shrugs it off since it's only a slight flesh wound according to action movie tropes.
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I Wish It Were Real
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I Wish It Were Real: The movie subverts this trope by showing how the "real" and "fictional" worlds may be entirely too different from each other for their inhabitants to cope. Though Danny has issues of his own.
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Blade Brake
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Blade Brake: The Reaper does the "stab the sail" with his scythe at the movie premiere.
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Off on a Technicality
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Off on a Technicality: In Jack Slater III the Reaper mentions he got only ten years in prison after his bloody ax was ruled inadmissible since Jack found it due to an illegal search, which presumably would have put him away for far longer otherwise.
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Never Recycle Your Schemes
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Never Recycle Your Schemes: Discussed in-universe, where Slater suspects Benedict planted a bomb inside the gangster called "The Fart" to kill the other mobsters attending his funeral. Danny points out that it wouldn't be a regular bomb, since they've already had a lot of explosions in the movie. An annoyed Slater tells him not to start the "movie talk" again, then recalls a break-in at a chemical factory, and believes that Benedict planted a gas bomb inside "The Fart".
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Recursive Reality
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Recursive Reality: There are movies in Jack Slater's universe, making them movies within a movie ... within a movie.
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Murder by Mistake
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Murder by Mistake: Played with. A gunman supposedly attempting to murder the head of the Tortelli crime family missed and struck the very large Leo the Fart instead. However Slater realizes that if the gunman sent by Vivaldi was the surgically-precise Benedict, there was no way he would have missed his intended target. This, combined with a break-in at the morgue where Leo's body was being prepared, and the recent theft of poison gas from a military convoy, leads Slater and Danny to piece together Vivaldi's intent to assassinate the entire Tortelli family.
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It Is Not Your Time
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It Is Not Your Time: In Danny's encounter with the Grim Reaper, he worriedly asks if he's going to die soon. The Grim Reaper says no, he'll die as a grandfather.
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Accidental Passenger
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Accidental Passenger: During a Car Chase Shoot-Out in the movie Danny is watching, the golden ticket is activated, making a pack of lit dynamite sticks tossed by the bandits fall from the screen. When Danny notices it, he screams and runs in panic, but is caught by the explosion and everything goes white. He wakes up into Jack Slater's car while the latter is still being pursued.
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You Are Already Checked In
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You Are Already Checked In: Played with when the fictional villain "The Ripper" shows up to a movie premiere (of a later movie in the same series) and is briefly interviewed by a reporter, who thinks it's Tom Noonan (the real-life actor) dressed up as the villain. Then, the real Tom Noonan appears, dressed as himself, confusing the heck out of the reporter.
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Sequel Escalation
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Sequel Escalation: Jack moans that his adventures seem to get more and more difficult to deal with. Danny tells him that the sequels have to get harder and more exciting. Jack's not amused. By the time we get to Jack Slater IV, it seems many of Jack's immediate family have already been killed; the first casualty that will apparently do the most damage to Jack is his "favourite second cousin".
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Actor Allusion
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Actor Allusion: This was Bridgette Wilson-Sampras' first film role.
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Fourth-Wall Observer
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Fourth-Wall Observer: When Jack finally gets home, he still remembers that he's a film character. He deliberately lampshades the nearest comedy trope character (his boss), then winks at the audience.
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All in the Eyes
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All in the Eyes: Light encompasses Jack Slater's eyes right before he flashes back to his son's death
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Deadly Gas
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Deadly Gas: Benedict and Vivalid plot to unlease nerve toxin against a rival mafia group at a funeral so they can wipe out them in one go. Jack and Danny manage to foil it though.
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Double Meaning
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Double Meaning: A reference to both Mr Benedict's glass eye and the the practice in commercial aviation of catching a flight late at night / early morning.
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Schizo Tech
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Schizo Tech: Danny's Hamlet starring Arnold fantasy starts out with Hamlet throwing skulls at people and slashing them up with a sword before he whips out a submachine gun, slaughters everyone in the castle and then blows the castle up.
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Acme Products
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Acme Products: The guys in the red pick-up truck have a crate of Acme Dynamite. There are ACMEâ„¢ products all over the place, including in the Real World.
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Save Both Worlds
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Save Both Worlds: The second half of the movie has Danny returning to the real world and bringing fictional action movie hero Jack Slater with him. Unfortunately, Benedict is there as well, and he's got the ticket to travel between movies and the real world to bring through anything he wants.
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Closet Shuffle
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Closet Shuffle: Mooks hide in Slater's closet to ambush him so often that he shoots his closet every time he comes home just in case.
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Cowboy Cop
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Cowboy Cop: The character of Jack Slater plays with this trope. Within barely a minute of his introduction, it's exaggerated to a comical degree; he punches the Lieutenant Governor in the face ("When the Governor gets here, call me."), launches a hapless SWAT officer into the air with a kick to the gonads after he attempts to stop Slater from entering the crime scene, and then threatens to do worse to any other officers Dekker might send after him. This is how he treats the good guys.
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Musical Gag
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Musical Gag: After Danny says, "They always look dead. In Die Hard, a guy is hung and at the end of the movie, he comes back.", the soundtrack plays a few notes from the Die Hard score. Both films were composed by Michael Kamen. After Frank's home is blown up at the opening of Jack Slater IV, one of the Red Shirt cops (an old man that resembles Danny Glover) lives long enough to say he was two days from retirement before expiring. Right as he does, a saxophone riff from Lethal Weapon plays.
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Every Car Is a Pinto
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Every Car Is a Pinto: Parodied, also by taking it to the extreme. Later, Deconstructed and averted as they go to the real world. A particularly egregious example is when a henchman gets shot, flies through the air, and through the windshield of an ice cream truck... which inexplicably explodes with no obvious source of fuel. One could blame it on the dynamite he was holding at that moment, but still...
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Repeatedly occurs in-universe. The entire second half of the film revolves around both Slater and Benedict realizing that the rules of their world don't coincide with that of the real world. Slater discovers that his gunfire won't automatically blow up a vehicle, that his hand hurts when he punches a window out, and that car crashes are much more dangerous than he thinks. Meanwhile, Benedict discovers that he can kill with impunity and no one notices. This also applies to Jack's world in a rather unusual way. While all the action movie tropes are firmly set in place, reality still ensues as well as possible within the confines of the said tropes. Jack's cool action hero behaviour? Only a facade to distract others from his PTSS and loneliness. His sexy Action Girl daughter? Yes, she is an Action Girl and enjoys it, but she misses out on basically everything else in life, so it will haunt her later on in life. His never-seen ex-wife? She actually doesn't give two patoots about Jack, and Jack just has someone call him to pretend she's his wife so he can keep a brave face at the precinct. They are both shown that the women in the real world aren't anything like the movie in their world. In Slater's case he's more at ease in just having a conversation with Danny's mom, who, though not unattractive (being played by Mercedes Ruehl), but hardly the supermodels he normally meets, while Benedict was caught off guard by the appearance of a very young prostitute, coming from a PG-13 world.
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Adaptational Heroism
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Adaptational Heroism: Death from the The Seventh Seal appears in this movie, but rather than the conniving Big Bad he is in his source material, here he's portrayed more as a kindly grandfatherly figure who helps the heroes in the climax.
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Men Are Tough
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Men Are Tough: Parodied. After returning to the real world, Danny wakes up to find that Jack has been spending time talking with his mother, he enjoys the Mozart music playing in the background, and he joins her in lecturing him for going to the theater that night.
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Wretched Hive
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Wretched Hive: The New York City of the real world is portrayed this way. Two people are shot dead in the middle of a public street, with bystanders visible in the background, and one of the shooters takes the time to shout to the rooftops that he did it and wants to confess. The only reaction is someone yelling at him to shut up.
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Damsel in Distress
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comment
Damsel in Distress: Parodied like everything else in this film. Slater's daughter is attacked by a bunch of thugs and screams in terror..... while actually being the one kicking their asses. At one point she breaks one of their necks right before letting out another scream.
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Malaproper
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comment
Malaproper: Vivaldi, who keeps mixing metaphors and getting idioms wrong, which finally gets him killed by an exasperated Benedict. In the opening scene of Jack Slater IV he even raises his thumb instead of his index finger when claiming himself to be "Number One."
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The Alleged House
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comment
The Alleged House: Danny and his mother live in a pretty normal-looking apartment in a very downbeat part of New York. The robber who gets in the Madigans' apartment thinks this trope is played straight, as in there is nothing in the apartment worth taking, and leaves. In strict comparison to the house owned by his ex-wife, Jack's apartment is this. It's utterly Spartan with only a few items of furniture, Jack's closet with his reserve guns and lots of similar clothes (and assassins always trying to hide there so Jack spends a fortune constantly paying for replacement doors), and a "nice" view of the highway.
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent
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comment
Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Lampshaded and mocked. Danny points out that Slater's thick Austrian accent is weird for a native Angeleno. Slater's response? "Egghcent? Vaht egghcent?"
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Bang, Bang, BANG
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Bang, Bang, BANG: Subverted. The bad guy walks in "our world", shoots a man and is surprised the noise didn't attract police or passers-by. Maybe justified in that it was a crapsack neighborhood and most likely a Crapsack World.
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Would Hurt a Child
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Would Hurt a Child: Ripper takes a bunch of them hostage, kills Jack's son then attempts to recreate the murder with Danny, and Benedict seriously threatens and brutalizes Danny several times throughout the movie.
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Screaming Woman
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comment
Screaming Woman: Played with with Whitney when Benedict assigns one of his mooks to beat her up in a separate room. Initially, it looks like she's screaming with terror... until she whispers "Big mistake" after the guy hits her. She then proceeds to beat the crap out of him, screaming all the while so that as far as Benedict and all the other henchmen in the next room can tell, it'll seem like the mook is continuing to beat and terrify her, and not that she's snapped his neck, grabbed his gun, and is about to go back out and ambush the rest of the bad guys.
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I Just Want to Be Normal
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comment
I Just Want to Be Normal: Jack. During a conversation with Danny, he admits that all he really wants is to be a good cop, and hates how he keeps getting tangled up in "crazy adventures". He also desires this for Whitney, unnerved by how his lifestyle has affected her.
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Artistic License – Paleontology
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Artistic License – Paleontology: There were no dinosaurs trapped by the La Brea tar pits, only mammals from 11,000 years ago.
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Power Perversion Potential
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Power Perversion Potential: In-universe, upon learning that the ticket actually works, Nick considers the possibility of visiting Greta Garbo and Jean Harlow.
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Explosion Propulsion
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Explosion Propulsion: Slater is propelled into the air while attempting to outrun a Time Bomb.
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Downer Ending
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comment
Downer Ending: While this is averted by the actual film, it applies in-universe to Jack Slater III, which ends with Slater managing to take down the Ripper, but the Ripper managing to pull a Taking You with Me that ends up killing Slater's young son.
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First-Name Ultimatum
 Last Action Hero / int_4f0ac7b6
comment
First-Name Ultimatum: Parodied when the police captain always shouts out Slater's name whenever he does something to piss him off (which is usually the case).
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Fisher Kingdom
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Fisher Kingdom: The different rules of the movie universe change the characters to fit; for instance, Slater gets a deadly gunshot wound in the real world which becomes Only a Flesh Wound when he returns to the movie universe.
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "No sequel for you."
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Dead Man's Trigger Finger
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comment
Dead Man's Trigger Finger: Parodied. In the middle of the shootout at his ex-wife's house, Jack Slater takes cover behind a chair in which a dead mook is sitting, rips out a power cord from a nearby light, and shocks the goon's arm with it, and the jolt makes the man twitch spasmodically, blasting three nearby goons with the SMG he was holding.
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Bond One-Liner
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Bond One-Liner: Yep, the bad puns go flying thick and fast. Lampshaded and taken to the most absurd extreme in several cases, most notably a scene in the car chase where Slater kills a henchman with an ice cream cone and says, "I iced that guy... to cone a phrase!"
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The Dragon
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If you're going to employ a Dragon, don't pick a guy named Benedict! There's also the Pandora Theater. And stay away from gangsters named "The Fart".
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Guns Akimbo
 Last Action Hero / int_548bd053
comment
Guns Akimbo: Jack does the Matrix version with dual SMGs.
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Improbable Infant Survival
 Last Action Hero / int_550754dc
comment
Improbable Infant Survival: Averted in Jack's world, played straight in Danny's.
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type
Theory of Narrative Causality
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Theory of Narrative Causality: The Genre Savvy protagonist tries to exploit the rules of the action-movie universe he's trapped in to his advantage, playing chicken with the bad guy's car on his bicycle. Just in time, he realizes he's the Plucky Comic Relief, not the hero, and swerves out of the way. One of the villains kills the manager of a convenience store and expects the police to arrive immediately. When they do not, he is puzzled.
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit
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comment
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Benedict orders a thug to take Whitney aside and slap her around; she turns the tables on him easily, but continues screaming as if she's the one being attacked, letting her get the drop on Benedict. Later on in the real world, Benedict smacks Danny into a nearby wall; Danny starts crying over a broken arm the treatment gave him, and Benedict turns his attention back to Slater, letting Danny then resume rushing him.
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To Create a Playground for Evil
 Last Action Hero / int_56b8fabd
comment
To Create a Playground for Evil: Benedict finds the playground over the course of the film: It's called the real world. Now he wants to invite all the cool kids (villains from various movies) in.
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Fantastic Racism
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Fantastic Racism: Jack accuses Danny of this after he points out that Whiskers the cat shouldn't be a police detective because he's a cartoon.
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Metalhead
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Metalhead: Slater's music of choice is heavy metal. Late in the film, Danny actually reacts with dismay when he witnesses Slater enjoying classical music (which does not exist in Slater's world).
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The Un-Reveal
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The Unreveal: Danny wrote something on a notepad and tells Jack to say the word. Jack doesn't say it nor do we see what was written. But it's presumably a F-word, which Danny uses as another "movie proof". Jack refuses to say it for that reason and thinks it's childish, but Danny thinks Jack is unable to say it because the movie is PG-13 (which only allows "shit" at its strongest).
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Eyepatch of Power
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comment
Eyepatch of Power: Benedict sports various brightly coloured (and occasionally explosive) glass eyes to good dramatic effect. The fact that his eye collection appears to be made of a stack of spoons hints to Eye Scream in his past.
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Extended Disarming
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Extended Disarming: During the opening scene, Jack is told to disarm. The Ripper (having apparently heard of some of Jack's exploits), isn't satisfied with him just dropping the pistol in his hand, and insists on seeing the rest of it. Jack takes quite some time removing his knife, and then the rest of his pistols, and the Ripper is only duly impressed after double-checking whether that really was all of it. Slater tells him it is.... unless a "grenade" with a blade that pops out of it counts.
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Soulless Bedroom
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comment
Soulless Bedroom: Jack Slater's apartment is almost totally empty. Thanks to the life of an action hero cop driving away his wife, killing his son, and taking up all his time, he no longer has a life outside of work, and the apartment is little more than a place where he sleeps. The regular repair bills for shooting the mob hitmen in his closet through the door don't help.
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Bullet-Proof Fashion Plate
 Last Action Hero / int_5e9d35b
comment
Bulletproof Fashion Plate: Played with: Jack falls into a tar pit, comes out completely covered in tar, and begins to wipe himself off. The camera cuts away briefly, and when it cuts back he's completely clean. Danny remarks, "You know, tar actually sticks to some people."
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Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
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Can't Get Away with Nuthin': This is how the film world works. When the villain enters the real world, he slowly realizes he can get away with anything because the rule no longer applies. He tests this by randomly killing someone and waiting for the police to show. In the film world, this would be instantaneous, while in the real world, nothing happens, and when the villain starts gloating about it, nearby people only yell at him to shut up.
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Public Domain Soundtrack
 Last Action Hero / int_5f70322e
comment
Public Domain Soundtrack: The soundtrack has plenty of bits from real classical music. Most notably Mozart.
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Time Bomb
 Last Action Hero / int_5fc3eff4
comment
Time Bomb: Played with. Slater realizes a bomb is about to go off when a series of cards show decreasing numbers counting down.
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Parody Assistance
 Last Action Hero / int_60c53080
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Parody Assistance: A film originally written as a parody of the kinds of action movies that Shane Black wrote and John McTiernan directed wound up with Black doing rewrites on the script and McTiernan directing it.
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Game of Chicken
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Game of Chicken: Parodied: This works in the movie world that Jack Slater, a Captain Ersatz of John McClane, inhabits, but not in the real world. Except it does work because Slater wisely chooses a car with airbag protection, unlike his opponent. Danny at one point attempts this on the villains car... on a bike. He tries to rationalize it that since this a movie and he's a good guy, it has to work. He then realizes (almost too late) that he's not The Hero, he's the Plucky Comic Relief so it won't work.
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From Beyond the Fourth Wall
 Last Action Hero / int_62453cf7
comment
From Beyond the Fourth Wall: There's a boy who travels into films. The major theme of this film is how different the film world is to our own. This is a borderline example but it counts because he is an audience member affecting the outcome of a film.
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Did You Just Have Sex?
 Last Action Hero / int_639aa0cd
comment
Did You Just Have Sex?: Played rather subtly, this being a PG-13 movie, but Danny's usually bitter and world-weary widowed mother is awfully cheerful the next morning after meeting this Jack Slater guy her son has just befriended. Very likely subverted, however, in that Jack later remarks how happy he was to spend time just talking with a woman for a change.
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Shoot the Fuel Tank
 Last Action Hero / int_63b3597
comment
Shoot the Fuel Tank: Subverted. When Jack Slater enters the real world, he chases Benedict until Benedict hops into a taxi. When Slater shoots at the cab, he's surprised to find that it doesn't explode.
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Vot Ocksent?
 Last Action Hero / int_642ec379
comment
Vot Ocksent?: A boy enters an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Trying to convince him that this world is actually a work of fiction, Danny points out that Arnie's character, Jack Slater, has a thick Austrian accent that's quite weird for a native Angeleno. Slater replies "Egghcent? Vaht egghcent?"
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Replacement Goldfish
 Last Action Hero / int_643618e5
comment
Replacement Goldfish: The movie incorporates Danny into the plot by turning him potentially into this for Jack.
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Life Will Kill You
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Life Will Kill You: The Grim Reaper from the Seventh Seal movie appears in the real world and does what the Grim Reaper tends to do. When he confronts the protagonist he tells him that he will die. For one moment, the kid thinks he is going to be reaped, but the Grim Reaper just tells him he'll die as a grandfather.
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But for Me, It Was Tuesday
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comment
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Played with. Danny warns Slater not to trust Practice, because he's played by F. Murray Abraham, who killed Mozart. When Slater later repeats the accusation, misremembering it as "you killed Moe Zart," Practice is confused, but concedes it's possible: "I kill a lot of people. I can't remember half of them."
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Other Me Annoys Me
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comment
Other Me Annoys Me: Jack Slater, the character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the ''Jack Slater'' film series, comes into the real world, meets the real Arnold Schwarzenegger, and can't stand him.
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Rooftop Confrontation
 Last Action Hero / int_67101c52
comment
Rooftop Confrontation: Three of them: two Hostage Situation moments that bookend the film and a rooftop "running away from trigger-happy Mob shooters" moment in the middle.
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Gun Porn
 Last Action Hero / int_67e53056
comment
Gun Porn: Both the protagonist and antagonist carry a Hand Cannon. At the Ripper's behest in the opening scene, Slater is forced to drop his Desert Eagle, and then continues to fish out and discard about six other pieces hidden on his person. When Danny is transported into the movie and ends up in Slater's car, he opens the glove box - which is overflowing with handguns. Later in the film when Slater returns to his apartment, a glimpse of the closet reveals his "wardrobe," which consists of the same outfit: snakeskin cowboy boots, suede jacket, jeans, red t-shirt, and his signature Desert Eagle. The closet holds about ten of these identical outfits, including a fresh Eagle for each change of clothes.
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Trapped in TV Land
 Last Action Hero / int_6ba2b94f
comment
Trapped in TV Land: Happens to Danny for approximately half of the film.
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type
Meaningful Name
 Last Action Hero / int_6bda9a30
comment
Meaningful Name: If you're going to employ a Dragon, don't pick a guy named Benedict! There's also the Pandora Theater. And stay away from gangsters named "The Fart". Oddly, while the Pandora is a real theater in Los Angeles - and the film was shot in it - there is no Pandora Theater in New York.
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Last Action Hero / int_6bda9a30
 Last Action Hero / int_6d7026fa
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Punny Name
 Last Action Hero / int_6d7026fa
comment
Punny Name: Lampshaded, as both Jack and Practice both make jokes on the latter's last name.
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Last Action Hero / int_6d7026fa
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type
I Am Not Leonard Nimoy
 Last Action Hero / int_6de63fe4
comment
I Am Not Leonard Nimoy: In-universe: The opening credits of Jack Slater IV give an And Introducing credit to Meredith Caprice, the fictional actress who plays Whitney. When he actually meets her, Danny keeps accidentally calling her Meredith. Actor Allusion: This was Bridgette Wilson-Sampras' first film role.
 Last Action Hero / int_6de63fe4
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Last Action Hero / int_6de63fe4
 Last Action Hero / int_6de71c57
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Disc-One Final Boss
 Last Action Hero / int_6de71c57
comment
Disc-One Final Boss: At first it seems that Vivaldi, the mob boss, will be the main antagonist (He is, after all, the main antagonist of Jack Slater 4), with Benedict as The Dragon; however, when Benedict, far more competent than his boss, realizes what's going on, he shoots his boss and becomes the real threat.
 Last Action Hero / int_6de71c57
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Last Action Hero / int_6de71c57
 Last Action Hero / int_71329e49
type
Turn in Your Badge
 Last Action Hero / int_71329e49
comment
Turn in Your Badge: Complete with smoke coming out the ears. Also during the opening of the film, Slater willingly tosses his badge to his Captain before taking on The Ripper. Jack and Da Chief also note Whiskers is back on the force after some Noodle Incident forced him to turn in his badge.
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Last Action Hero / int_71329e49
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The Grim Reaper
 Last Action Hero / int_7142b38a
comment
The Grim Reaper: Plucked by the magic ticket from The Seventh Seal. And played by Sir Ian McKellen, no less! Instead of being another fictional character, he's indicated to be the real Grim Reaper. He even knows when Danny will die, and when he touches a man in the street, said man starts coughing.
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type
Idiot Ball
 Last Action Hero / int_7286e96d
comment
Idiot Ball: "You're a very brave young man. Unfortunately, you're not very bright. If I were you... I might be looking for the other half of the ticket."
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Last Action Hero / int_7286e96d
 Last Action Hero / int_72b90e98
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The World as Myth
 Last Action Hero / int_72b90e98
comment
The World as Myth: The premise is that all movies exist in parallel fictional universes.
 Last Action Hero / int_72b90e98
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Last Action Hero / int_72b90e98
 Last Action Hero / int_72cdfc33
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Big Bad Ensemble
 Last Action Hero / int_72cdfc33
comment
Big Bad Ensemble: Benedict, who's become the Big Bad of Slater IV (and Last Action Hero itself), and Ripper, the apparent Big Bad of Slater III, are both loose in the real world running amok in the final act.
 Last Action Hero / int_72cdfc33
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Last Action Hero / int_72cdfc33
 Last Action Hero / int_735e71c2
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Recursive Canon
 Last Action Hero / int_735e71c2
comment
Recursive Canon: Subverted. Danny is sucked into his favorite movie where he ends up befriending detective Jack Slater, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in Danny's universe (and ours), and when they go into a video store together, Danny sees a poster for The Terminator, starring Sylvester Stallone.
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Last Action Hero / int_735e71c2
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type
High-Voltage Death
 Last Action Hero / int_76c0e85d
comment
High-Voltage Death: How Slater dispatches the Ripper. While on a rainy rooftop together, the Ripper throws an axe at him; Jack takes the axe and uses it to chop open a nearby powerbox, then climbs onto the side of the building and pushes the cut power lines into the puddles the Ripper is standing in.
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Last Action Hero / int_76c0e85d
 Last Action Hero / int_77315f4f
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You Have to Believe Me!
 Last Action Hero / int_77315f4f
comment
You Have to Believe Me!: Danny desperately tries to tell Slater and anyone else listening that they live in a movie world by pointing out certain things. Of course, they either miss the point, make Logic Bombs, or think he's nuts. Danny gets annoyed and frustrated.
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Last Action Hero / int_77315f4f
 Last Action Hero / int_777baed3
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Out-of-Character Alert
 Last Action Hero / int_777baed3
comment
Out-of-Character Alert: Danny warned Jack that Practice is The Mole. After telling him of Benedict's plan, Practice says they should take the side entrance, which alerts Jack because...
 Last Action Hero / int_777baed3
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Last Action Hero / int_777baed3
 Last Action Hero / int_77b03c0a
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Remember the New Guy?
 Last Action Hero / int_77b03c0a
comment
Remember the New Guy?: At the end of Jack Slater III, Jack's son Andrew is killed. Jack Slater IV introduces Whitney, Jack's daughter who has been living with his ex-wife. Oddly, this is never lampshaded, aside from her And Introducing Meredith Caprice credit. This trope is probably in play with Practice, as the friend Slater has but never seen before makes him the perfect mole.
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Last Action Hero / int_77b03c0a
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Mistaken for Racist
 Last Action Hero / int_796bffea
comment
Mistaken for Racist: When Danny attempts to use a cartoon cat and a black-and-white Bogart stand-in being on the police force as evidence that the world is a movie, Jack takes it as him being prejudiced against them and believing they can't be good cops.
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Last Action Hero / int_796bffea
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Instant Emergency Response
 Last Action Hero / int_7a6e47f6
comment
Instant Emergency Response: Lampshaded in that same scene. Benedict is shocked to discover that you can steal a car in the real world without police sirens instantly sounding. To test this new situation, he walks up to a man and shoots him, then waits for the sirens. When that doesn't work, he yells that he's just shot and killed someone and wants to confess, to which the only response is someone off-screen yelling at him to quit making a racket. Cue the Aside Glance and Evil Grin.
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Celebrity Paradox
 Last Action Hero / int_7b8b3def
comment
Celebrity Paradox: Averted when Danny finds a poster for Terminator 2: Judgment Day with Sylvester Stallone as the T-800, presumably meaning Arnold Schwarznegger doesn't exist in the Jack Slater universe. Danny's teacher does a presentation on Laurence Olivier's version of Hamlet, without acknowledging the fact that she's played by Olivier's real-life third and last wife. Played with when the The agent of the actor who plays The Ripper meets the real Ripper after the latter is brought over from Jack Slater's universe, and thinks he is the actor, and proceeds to scold him for being in costume during the premiere (fearful it will lead to Typecasting). He is soon disabused of the notion, in gruesome fashion.
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
 Last Action Hero / int_7d89315b
comment
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Danny gives one to Death as he approaches Slater. Seems like he hasn't gotten over his father dying.
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Big Bad Friend
 Last Action Hero / int_7ef70048
comment
Big Bad Friend: John Practice. Danny even lampshades that Practice is Obviously Evil by virtue of the fact the man who portrays him gets these kind of roles often.
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Wall of Weapons
 Last Action Hero / int_7f413791
comment
Wall of Weapons: Jack's car's glove compartment is full to the brim with guns, to Danny's surprise. Jack also holds about a dozen spare Desert Eagles inside of his apartment's closet.
 Last Action Hero / int_7f413791
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Last Action Hero / int_7f413791
 Last Action Hero / int_7febc23b
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Establishing Character Moment
 Last Action Hero / int_7febc23b
comment
Establishing Character Moment: Slater is characterized as a parody of a Cowboy Cop by the fact that he enters the scene of a hostage situation ignoring his superior officer and throwing his badge in his face when ordered to stand down. He keeps walking as the mayor tries to dissuade him by bringing in the Lieutenant Governor, whom he punches in the face, and then beating down the officer the chief ordered to keep him from entering the building. This is generally par the course for his behavior, but in his case it's because his son is the hostage in this situation.
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Last Action Hero / int_7febc23b
 Last Action Hero / int_81c0e175
type
An Ass-Kicking Christmas
 Last Action Hero / int_81c0e175
comment
An Ass-Kicking Christmas: Parodied, as the climax of Jack Slater 3 is explicitly noted as taking place around Christmas.
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Last Action Hero / int_81c0e175
 Last Action Hero / int_823c6e3e
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Large Ham
 Last Action Hero / int_823c6e3e
comment
Large Ham: The chief of police and Benedict. The chief apparently can only talk in incoherent angrish.
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Last Action Hero / int_823c6e3e
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Motor Mouth
 Last Action Hero / int_82518cf7
comment
Motor Mouth: Da Chief. At one point, he starts speaking so fast and so angrily that smoke literally starts coming out of his ears and Danny and Jack actually ask each other if they can get what he's saying.
 Last Action Hero / int_82518cf7
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Last Action Hero / int_82518cf7
 Last Action Hero / int_82da9d46
type
Mundane Fantastic
 Last Action Hero / int_82da9d46
comment
Mundane Fantastic: The Jack Slater series is apparently more over the top than its premise as action films would suggest. When Danny points out a cartoon cat and black and white officer on the force, Jack doesn't think anything of it besides Danny sounding discriminatory.
 Last Action Hero / int_82da9d46
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Last Action Hero / int_82da9d46
 Last Action Hero / int_83445b04
type
Pun
 Last Action Hero / int_83445b04
comment
Pun: Lampshaded. The movie delivers them by the truckload.
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Last Action Hero / int_83445b04
 Last Action Hero / int_83a903f6
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Stepford Smiler
 Last Action Hero / int_83a903f6
comment
Stepford Smiler: Under Jack's cool attitude and action hero behaviour lies a broken man who is still suffering from PTSS, resulting from his son's death.
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If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...
 Last Action Hero / int_84609623
comment
If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: Invoked when Danny growls at Benedict when he has Whitney in his clutches, "If you harm one hair on her—" Benedict interrupts, "Stop!", deliberately plucks a hair out of her head, then snaps it in front of Danny, daring him to finish his threat.
 Last Action Hero / int_84609623
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Last Action Hero / int_84609623
 Last Action Hero / int_85557b38
type
Reality Is Unrealistic
 Last Action Hero / int_85557b38
comment
Slater, at least in the movies. When he arrives in the real world, he's genuinely shocked that punching out a car window with his bare hand hurts. A case of Reality Is Unrealistic subverts this, unique to Schwarzenegger — he famously punched out a real car window by mistake in True Lies, and didn't notice.
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Last Action Hero / int_85557b38
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type
What Happened to the Mouse?
 Last Action Hero / int_863fa679
comment
What Happened to the Mouse?: The Grim Reaper advises Danny to use the other half of the ticket to bring Jack Slater back to his movie, and then walks out. Does the Reaper keep the first half of the ticket and use it to return to The Seventh Seal from which he was accidentally taken from? The movie doesn't tell us.
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Last Action Hero / int_863fa679
 Last Action Hero / int_86a57f29
type
Evil Learns of Outside Context
 Last Action Hero / int_86a57f29
comment
Evil Learns of Outside Context: After Danny Madigan is given a magical movie ticket, he finds himself unexpectedly transported inside the movie, Jack Slater IV. Unfortunately the ticket ends up in the hands of the villain, Benedict, who after learning that he's actually a movie character, escapes into the real world. Worse, he quickly learns that here, the bad guys can win, and plans to recruit other movie villains to wreak havoc.
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Last Action Hero / int_86a57f29
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Badass Boast
 Last Action Hero / int_86b21114
comment
Badass Boast: A genuine one by Jack Slater.
 Last Action Hero / int_86b21114
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Last Action Hero / int_86b21114
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Parental Bonus
 Last Action Hero / int_86daf505
comment
Parental Bonus: Sharon Stone has a brief cameo as the same character she played in Basic Instinct.
 Last Action Hero / int_86daf505
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Last Action Hero / int_86daf505
 Last Action Hero / int_875615dd
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Truth in Television
 Last Action Hero / int_875615dd
comment
In the film's real world New York, Benedict conducts an experiment:
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Last Action Hero / int_875615dd
 Last Action Hero / int_87572663
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Wrong Side of the Tracks
 Last Action Hero / int_87572663
comment
Danny and his mother live in a pretty normal-looking apartment in a very downbeat part of New York. The robber who gets in the Madigans' apartment thinks this trope is played straight, as in there is nothing in the apartment worth taking, and leaves.
 Last Action Hero / int_87572663
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Last Action Hero / int_87572663
 Last Action Hero / int_87c62ade
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Deadly Dodging
 Last Action Hero / int_87c62ade
comment
Deadly Dodging: Slater dodged the bullets from the helicopter which then kill the mooks behind him.
 Last Action Hero / int_87c62ade
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Last Action Hero / int_87c62ade
 Last Action Hero / int_884e513b
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Medium Awareness
 Last Action Hero / int_884e513b
comment
Medium Awareness: Danny, justified as he is literally trapped in a movie. However, this only extends to the Jack Slater movie he finds himself in; he never shows any awareness of his "real world" being a movie from our perspective.
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Last Action Hero / int_884e513b
 Last Action Hero / int_8ace85ef
type
Audience Surrogate
 Last Action Hero / int_8ace85ef
comment
Audience Surrogate: Danny is a literal one. Naturally, like everything else in the film, this is lampshaded.
 Last Action Hero / int_8ace85ef
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Last Action Hero / int_8ace85ef
 Last Action Hero / int_8ae880f7
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Deconstruction
 Last Action Hero / int_8ae880f7
comment
Deconstruction: A fascinating form of it: While most action tropes are simply lampshaded to the point of lunacy when Danny is dropped into "Jack Slater IV", when the characters are turned loose into the Real World, things go nasty. In one moving scene, still inside the movie world, Jack Slater reveals that under his Deadpan Snarker typecasting he's mostly just tired after repeatedly surviving implausible, stressful scenarios while everyone around him dies. Among other things, he's got a cashier at his drug store calling him at the police station so that his colleagues think he has a life and make everyone think his ex-wife still cares about him (she's remarried and moved on), and he's deeply depressed that his Action Girl daughter Whitney skipped her prom to field-strip an AK-47 (he fears she'll grow up alone or die at a young age). This is a side of Slater that Danny was shocked to see, but nevertheless, he was able to get him out of this funk to continue the action of the movie.
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Last Action Hero / int_8ae880f7
 Last Action Hero / int_8b67aba7
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Cerebus Retcon
 Last Action Hero / int_8b67aba7
comment
Cerebus Retcon: Jack reveals later in the film that most of his wisecracking exterior is all a ploy. His supposed clingy and talkative ex-wife is really a convenience store clerk that he pays to call him, just so that his coworkers think that she still cares about him. He is still suffering Heroic BSoD from his son dying, and he fears that his daughter is so obsessed with being an Action Girl that she's going to die alone.
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Last Action Hero / int_8b67aba7
 Last Action Hero / int_8c5f5c97
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The Movie Buff
 Last Action Hero / int_8c5f5c97
comment
The Movie Buff: Danny
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Mr. Exposition
 Last Action Hero / int_8cb844c6
comment
Mr. Exposition: Jack's favorite second cousin, Frank, who conveniently expires after delivering a Red Herring.
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When Dimensions Collide
 Last Action Hero / int_8d53c6d2
comment
When Dimensions Collide: Although Jack Slater loses his action-hero resistance to pain when he visits the real world, Death is not so restricted, apparently carrying the laws of his home reality with him. Perhaps because in his home universe Jack is only an exceptionally athletic man, while Death is a powerful supernatural being by the standards of his universe.
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Last Action Hero / int_8d53c6d2
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Asshole Victim
 Last Action Hero / int_8ed5c6e4
comment
Asshole Victim: Being a crime family The Torelli gang would have just as much blood on their hands as Vivaldi if not more.
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Last Action Hero / int_8ed5c6e4
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IKEA Weaponry
 Last Action Hero / int_90141f06
comment
IKEA Weaponry: The Ripper's axe.
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Last Action Hero / int_90141f06
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type
Pop-Star Composer
 Last Action Hero / int_91b55fe
comment
Pop-Star Composer: Buckethead teamed up with Michael Kamen to score the film (Buckethead did the guitar solos while Kamen composed everything else).
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Last Action Hero / int_91b55fe
 Last Action Hero / int_928ca2cc
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
 Last Action Hero / int_928ca2cc
comment
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Benedict does this to Vivaldi after he learns of the magic ticket's power.
 Last Action Hero / int_928ca2cc
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Last Action Hero / int_928ca2cc
 Last Action Hero / int_95af2c0c
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Standard Cop Backstory
 Last Action Hero / int_95af2c0c
comment
Standard Cop Backstory: Parodied and implied with Jack saying that he's been friends with Practice ever since they served together in Vietnam.
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Bullet Sparks
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Bullet Sparks: Played. When in the real world, Jack Slater, Cowboy Cop, fires his gun at the escaping bad guy's car, which only serves to put bullet holes in the side of the car. After the car does not burst into flames, like in his movies, Jack looks at the gun like something is wrong with it.
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Big Bad
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Continuing the above point, Jack's son being dragged to his death by the Big Bad as he falls off the rooftop in Jack Slater 3 references what happens to the daughter of The Hero in Nothing Lasts Forever (the book the first Die Hard is based from).
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555
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555: Lampshaded when Danny brings it up to Jack Slater to try to point out that they're inside a movie. Naturally, it doesn't convince him.
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Medium Blending
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Medium Blending: Danny sees an animated cat interacting with regular people once he's within the film, as well as a digitized black-and-white image of Humphrey Bogart.
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: The real world. Benedict comes to like it because it means he can go kill-crazy and "win".
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Villains Blend in Better
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Villains Blend in Better: Cowboy Cop Jack Slater and hitman Mr. Benedict are action movie characters who end up in real world New York City. Jack has difficulty understanding why cars don't explode when you shoot them and becomes despondent after about five minutes of exposure to "our" Crapsack World, whereas Mr. Benedict (after spending a similar period being bemused that murdering people in the streets has no immediate consequences) is elated to have found a world where "the bad guys can win!" The Ripper, who Benedict later brings into the real world from his own movie, also has no trouble blending into a movie premiere wearing his freakish villain costume consisting of a yellow raincoat, dirty long hair and a collapsible axe, but only because he's mistaken for his actor showing up in character, and even then he's quickly pulled aside by the actual actor's agent, who chastises him for his behaviour and attempts to order an emergency tuxedo for him.
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Slow-Motion Fall
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Slow-Motion Fall: Jack Slater's fall from the elevator.
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Hand Cannon
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Hand Cannon: Jack Slater's Desert Eagle and Benedict's Dan Wesson revolver.
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Badass and Child Duo
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Badass and Child Duo: Slater and Danny, respectively.
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Made of Iron
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Made of Iron: Slater, at least in the movies. When he arrives in the real world, he's genuinely shocked that punching out a car window with his bare hand hurts. A case of Reality Is Unrealistic subverts this, unique to Schwarzenegger — he famously punched out a real car window by mistake in True Lies, and didn't notice. Also, Danny, to an extent, as he manages to brush off falling off a rooftop and crashing through a house with little to no injuries.
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This Is Reality
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This Is Reality: And Benedict likes it. His Just Between You and Me speech is terrifying: Also weaponized by Jack at one point, showing he was getting almost as savvy as Benedict, in the chicken scene listed under Mood Whiplash. He realizes full well the dangers of a head-on collision in the real world, but also realizes the goon he's staring down doesn't. He explicitly points out (after the fact) the model vehicle he had was better designed for a head-on collision and he was wearing a seatbelt and had an airbag, while the bad guy wasn't and didn't. He just underestimated HOW MUCH it was going to hurt.
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Trope Telegraphing
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Trope Telegraphing: Lampshaded, as the in-universe action movie plot is Strictly Formula to its Genre Savvy young viewer. This continues to be brought up during his visit within the movie's universe.
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Fridge Logic
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Fridge Logicinvoked: A rare in-universe Invoked Trope. Death calmly comments that Danny is an idiot because he hadn't bothered to look for the other half of the magic ticket, which is still safely contained inside the locked ticket box in the theatre lobby. Danny gives himself a mental Face Palm.
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Suspiciously Apropos Music
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Suspiciously Apropos Music: When Benedict realizes the ticket is magic, the theme from The Twilight Zone plays on the television behind him.
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Weaker in the Real World
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Weaker in the Real World: When Slater escapes his over-the-top action movie world and lands in Danny's "real world" he finds that he's suddenly stripped of his Plot Armor, a lot of action movie cliches that he relies on (like blowing up a bad guy's car by shooting it or punching out a window) don't work, etc., and as a result he's far weaker than he is in his home dimension. However, this is inverted by Benedict, who finds that he's no longer held back by a lot of the tropes and cliches that favor the heroes in the movie, and as such he is much more dangerous in real life than the movie world.
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Counting Bullets
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Counting Bullets: Played With. Nobody does this in the Jack Slater films because Bottomless Magazines is in full effect. In the real world, however, the movie characters have to deal with the possibility of running out of bullets. In a turnaround, the villain Benedict exploits this, and pretends to lose count and hit an empty chamber... and when Jack taunts him about making the "movie mistake" of not counting his bullets, Benedict reveals that he intentionally left one of the chambers empty and since Jack has come out from behind cover, he's now a sitting duck for Benedict, who promptly shoots Jack.
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Evil Is Not a Toy
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Evil Is Not a Toy: After catching on quickly about the powers of the ticket (in addition to already having near-superhuman accuracy with a gun) Benedict realizes his skills make him vastly overqualified to be taking orders from his dumb and unappreciative boss, Vivaldi.
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Bait-and-Switch Gunshot
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Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: Parodied. Practice is about to make good on Danny's advice to just shoot him and Jack, but several gunblasts later, Practice falls over dead, with Whiskers the cartoon cat visible behind him.
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It's Personal
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It's Personal: Invoked in the Hamlet parody.
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Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop
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Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: The movie has this appear near the end, in the real world. The Big Bad realizes he can literally get away with murder because the cops don't immediately arrive on the crime scene like they do in his native movie world.
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Left the Background Music On
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Left the Background Music On: After a big car chase with heavy music playing, Jack Slatertakes a tape out of the car's stereo causing the BGM to stop and inserts a new tape with different BGM.
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The Beautiful Elite
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The Beautiful Elite: Lampshaded. Danny tries convincing Slater they're in a movie by pointing out that all the female passersby are insanely hot, and that there are no unattractive women in existence.
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Damsel Fight-and-Flight Response
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Damsel Fight-and-Flight Response: While invading Jack Slater's house, one of the bad guys takes Slater's daughter Whitney into another room to rough her up. Unfortunately for them, she's daddy's little ass-kicker, and proceeds to brutalize the poor Mook all while still screaming at the top of her lungs to fool the others into thinking she was on the receiving end of the sounds of violence.
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Award-Bait Song
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Award-Bait Song: Two Steps Behind by Def Leppard.
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Action Duo
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Action Duo: Jack and Danny, the action hero and the Kid Hero Trapped in TV Land.
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Glass Eye
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Glass Eye: Benedict has a collection of them, which he switches between on a whim: one of them even doubles as an example of Anatomy Arsenal, when a clueless cop picks up one that's he's left behind and twists it so that he can read the text on it, causing it to blow up, as described above.
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Blown Across the Room
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Blown Across the Room: Parodied. At one point Jack gets shot point-blank by a goon with a shotgun (a Bulletproof Vest saves him), which sends him across the kitchen of his ex-wife's house... and right into arm's reach of his gun, which he uses to blow the goon away.
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Da Chief
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Jack and Da Chief also note Whiskers is back on the force after some Noodle Incident forced him to turn in his badge.
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Mood Whiplash
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Also weaponized by Jack at one point, showing he was getting almost as savvy as Benedict, in the chicken scene listed under Mood Whiplash. He realizes full well the dangers of a head-on collision in the real world, but also realizes the goon he's staring down doesn't. He explicitly points out (after the fact) the model vehicle he had was better designed for a head-on collision and he was wearing a seatbelt and had an airbag, while the bad guy wasn't and didn't. He just underestimated HOW MUCH it was going to hurt.
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Did You Actually Believe...?
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Did You Actually Believe...?: An early scene has Slater at the police station when his ex-wife calls. He puts on a recording of himself as she rambles about alimony, their daughter and more as the tape just grunts an occasional "Yep" and "sure." Later, Danny tries to cheer up Slater by saying his ex-wife must still care if she keeps calling him.
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: The burglar since this is real life and not a movie; kind of a What Happened to the Mouse? example because he's about as petty as a crook can get (didn't even find much to steal) and far worse things were about to happen. Also, two petty thugs Benedict happened to see beating and possibly killing a man for his shoes, which was part of his education in how unresponsive police in some parts of our world are to crime.
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Instant Death Bullet
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Instant Death Bullet: Benedict's test kill is this. One of the few tropes in this movie played straight in the real world section (we don't see where he shoots the guy, but he was using a match-grade revolver at close range and might have aimed for the head).
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Full Moon Silhouette
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Full Moon Silhouette: Shown with Danny on a bicycle no less, shamelessly parodying E.T.
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Only Known by Their Nickname
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Only Known by Their Nickname: Lampshaded - since the screenwriter for Jack Slater IV never bothered to give the nerdy freshman "Skeezie" an actual name, he doesn't have one. "Skeezie" is the full name he gives on a police report (He doesn't even know how to finish spelling it. "I-E... no, 'Y'").
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The thugs in the beginning. Again, lampshaded as usual. Happens again later when the mooks use their machine guns on Slater as he escapes with the corpse.
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"Hell, Yes!" Moment
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"Hell, Yes!" Moment: Danny has one of these when Whitney escapes her captors and pulls a gun on the guys holding him. Everyone notices.
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Hero Insurance
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Hero Insurance: Lampshaded, of course in the scene where Slater is being chewed out by his hammy boss. Danny tells Slater, "He's only mad because you destroyed more of the city than usual..."
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Mob War
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Mob War: Sicilian mobster Vivaldi is plotting to kill off the Turelli Mob with a gas bomb, after making a fake peace with them.
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Hollywood Beauty Standards
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Hollywood Beauty Standards: A kid named Danny is transported into the action movie world of Jack Slater, who is played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and spends much of the time trying to convince him that they are really in a movie. One of the things he points out is that there are no unattractive women around; even the extras are tall, blonde bombshells. Slater, being a movie character himself, can't see the problem, brushing it off as "This is California."
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Noticing the Fourth Wall
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Noticing the Fourth Wall: Half the plot of the movie revolves around this, with fictional police officer Jack Slater not only having to face the repercussions of being transported to the real world, where the physics of his overblown action film world do not apply, but eventually even bumping into the actor who plays him. Hilarity Ensues. Naturally, Slater does not take any of it well.
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Red Shirt
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Red Shirt / Retirony: Lampshaded by an old cop that gets killed by Frank's house exploding, who was two days away from retiring. And just to cement the lampshade, a brief saxophone snippet from the Lethal Weapon soundtrack sounds off as he dies.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: Slater has a moment of this when clinging onto a piece of metal from the broken elevator which eventually gives in and let's him fall in slow motion.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Benedict throws out a few of these.
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Mage in Manhattan
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Mage in Manhattan: Benedict uses the magic ticket to leave his movie and enter the real world. He realizes that outside of movies bad guys can win and plans to take over the world by releasing villains from various horror films. Luckily the heroes stop him.
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High-Pressure Emotion
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High-Pressure Emotion: The police chief displays this during a Turn in Your Badge speech, his face rapidly becoming bloated and red with sweating streaming down it and steam pouring from his ears. By the end of the speech, he's essentially yelling garbled abuse at the main characters which neither can understand.
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Impressive Pyrotechnics
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Impressive Pyrotechnics: Every explosion features a far-larger-than-life fireball as if the exploding object was filled with gasoline.
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Bling-Bling-BANG!
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Bling-Bling-BANG!: In a blink-and-you-miss-it scene during Slater's and Danny's encounter with Vivaldi, the mobster briefly threatens Danny with a gold-plated, ornately engraved pistol.
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Ms. Fanservice
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Ms. Fanservice: Whitney, courtesy of skin-tight shirts and Leg Focus. It's probably why Danny is so moony-eyed when meeting her, since he's seen her actress in other media (it's implied she's a teen model.)
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Could Have Been Messy
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Could Have Been Messy: Lampshaded. Jack comes off a car crash in the real world hurting but when Danny berates that he would have been killed, Jack points out that the car he took (and then played chicken with) was a model with an airbag and the other car (a '52 Checker Cab) didn't had it. Sure enough, Benedict's Battle Butler was killed.
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Cosmic Plaything
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Cosmic Plaything: When Slater finally has a chance to confront Arnold Schwarzenegger in the real world, he gives the actor an angry rant about turning him (Slater) into one of these for the amusement of others without giving any consideration to how Slater might feel about having to go through so many ridiculous (and sometimes tragic) action movie situations.
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Just Between You and Me
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And Benedict likes it. His Just Between You and Me speech is terrifying:
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Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize
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Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize: In-universe, Danny pegs John Practice as The Mole based solely on the fact that he's being played by F. Murray Abraham, who played Salieri in Amadeus. He's right!
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"No More Holding Back" Speech
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"No More Holding Back" Speech: A villainous example:
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Bottomless Magazines
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Bottomless Magazines: Lampshaded, particularly in the climax. And played straight in the movie whenever possible, sometimes to ridiculous degrees.
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Real-World Episode
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Real-World Episode: From the point of view of filmography, this movie serves as one for Arnold Schwarzenegger, being chock-full of both Refugee from TV Land and This Is Reality.
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Touch of Death
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Touch of Death: Death can kill with a touch (complete with a tinkly "ding!" sound effect for extra Lampshade Hanging).
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Toon Physics
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Then double-inverted, as the bad guy does the exact same thing, except he actually gets shot, because the one who shot him is the previously-mentioned animated cat detective who is bound only to Toon Physics and Rule of Funny.
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Take That!
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Take That!: Part of the playful feud Arnold has with Sylvester Stallone is played out here; when Danny goes to the video store to show Jack the guy who played him in another movie, he finds an advertisement for Terminator 2: Judgment Day starring Stallone. The La Brea Tar Pits was a Take That to another 1993 film, Jurassic Park. The Take That was made during production of both films; Last Action Hero was assuming it would be a blockbuster hit as well, so it ended up as being the equivalent of the Star Wars "billboard" being blasted by Billy in Laserblast. The Hamlet parody, in addition to ribbing both the original play and Schwarzenegger movies, was also a potshot at Mel Gibson's Hamlet (1990), directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
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The Don
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The Don: Tony Vivaldi. The plot of the Jack Slater film Danny drops into involves him planning on killing all of the other Dons in Los Angeles so he will be number one.
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CrapSaccharineWorld
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Crapsaccharine World: In Jack Slater's world there are "no unattractive women", cartoon cats work for the police department and the good guys always win, but there is apparently no classical music, things blow up with the slightest bit of impact and the hero's son and favorite second cousin and regular uniform cops are killed just for the entertainment of people in the real world.
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Genius Bruiser
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Genius Bruiser: Jack Slater may be a muscle bound, gun toting movie cop, but he's also extremely intelligent. Even in the real world, he knows the makes and models of cars by year and knows that one car has an air bag and the other doesn't. He also is charming and witty when he's no longer bound by the conventions of an action film.
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Precision F-Strike: Subverted. Danny tries to get Slater to say a certain word - and he can't... because it's a PG-13 movie. Later Double Subverted when Danny gets an "Oh shit!" line. Then triple-subverted with Da Chief because in fact you can drop one F-bomb in a PG-13 movie.
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Plucky Comic Relief
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Danny realizes almost too late that he's just the Plucky Comic Relief to Jack, so the bad guy car won't swerve out of the way of the kid playing chicken with it on a bicycle.
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Lampshaded and inverted when John Practice turns against Jack; Danny's explanation of this trope is long enough for the bad guys to get the drop on him as well. ("You ain't no genius yourself, kid.") Then double-inverted, as the bad guy does the exact same thing, except he actually gets shot, because the one who shot him is the previously-mentioned animated cat detective who is bound only to Toon Physics and Rule of Funny.
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Accidental Kiss
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Accidental Kiss: Whitney kisses Danny when she believes he's the freshman she's been assigned to kiss when he comes to her door. Danny is more than pleased.
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Anti-Hero
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Anti-Hero: Parodied. Turns out that Jack Slater has some Hidden Depths that Danny never saw, but they are weird thanks to him being a film character.
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Better than a Bare Bulb
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Better than a Bare Bulb: Enough lampshades to open a shop.
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Hollywood Homely
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Hollywood Homely: In-universe. Danny explicitly points out how there are no "unattractive people" in Jack's world. Jack sees nothing unusual about it. Averted when Benedict gets to our world, on the other hand: he gets to see some of the real thing, particularly a young prostitute who rather half-heartedly tries to solicit him.
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Adrenaline Makeover
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Adrenaline Makeover/Anachronism Stew: Played for laughs during the Arnold as Hamlet dream sequence. It starts off with Hamlet killing people with thrown skulls and swords before responding to the line "Stay thy hand, fair prince" with a "Who says I'm fair?" and slaughtering an entire castle full of guards with a submachine gun before blowing the castle up.
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And Starring
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At the end of Jack Slater III, Jack's son Andrew is killed. Jack Slater IV introduces Whitney, Jack's daughter who has been living with his ex-wife. Oddly, this is never lampshaded, aside from her And Introducing Meredith Caprice credit.
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No Inner Fourth Wall
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No Inner Fourth Wall: Jack Slater finds out he's a movie character from his fan, Danny. Danny never finds out that he's a character from Last Action Hero.
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Driver Faces Passenger
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Driver Faces Passenger: Jack Slater turns around completely in his seat so that he is almost lying in the back seat and drives the car entirely with his feet, all so he can fire his gun more accurately backwards. He claims that you just need a lot of practice in a low traffic area.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: A visual gag referencing ET when Danny figures out that his attempt at playing chicken with Benedict won't work (there's your evidence that you're the comedy sidekick, kid). The two beat cops at the beginning are very reminiscent of Riggs & Murtaugh from Lethal Weapon, complete with saxophone riff and "three days 'till retirement". Jack's slow motion fall from a building is a direct visual reference to Hans Gruber's plummet in Die Hard. Continuing the above point, Jack's son being dragged to his death by the Big Bad as he falls off the rooftop in Jack Slater 3 references what happens to the daughter of The Hero in Nothing Lasts Forever (the book the first Die Hard is based from). Jack Slater IV is presented as "A Franco Columbu film". Columbu is a longtime personal friend and bodybuilding buddy of Arnold's, who also had bit parts in other Arnold movies. When Benedict is looking through newspaper movie listings to find new villains he can bring into the real world with him, all of the movie ads are for Columbia Pictures films.
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Chandler's Law
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Chandler's Law: Averted. Once Big Bad Benedict ditches Slater in the real world, he decides against giving him a new lead in the form of a hitman who'll almost definitely fail. He just executes his plan while Slater lampshades this, waiting for said killer to show up.
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Troperiffic
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Troperiffic: The whole point of the movie is lampshading, deconstructing, reconstructing, subverting and inverting as many action movie tropes as possible.
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Self-Deprecation
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Self-Deprecation: Aside from the Self-Parody of his films, Arnold shows up at the film premiere, answering questions and hamfistedly promoting his Planet Hollywood chain of restaurants, to the embarrassment of his real-life wife Maria Shriver.
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Outside-Context Problem
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Outside-Context Problem: Played with when the villain attempts to become this trope by escaping Jack Slater's world of Action Tropes for our own: one where the bad guys can actually win. For him, it's a mind-blowing concept and opportunity.
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Flesh and Bombs
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Flesh and Bombs: In a variation, Vivaldi and Benedict rig a nerve gas bomb inside of a dead mobster's body (who they murdered), so this will go off at his funeral, killing the rest of his mafia family.
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Lighter and Softer
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Lighter and Softer: In comparison to most of Schwarzenegger's other movies. It still manages to have its share of grim moments, due to several examples of Would Hurt a Child, with Slater's son being killed by the Ripper in the third movie and Danny put in danger a few times, including an encounter with a robber. The PG-13 world of the Jack Slater movies is this to the (unrated) "real world", to the point Benedict is initially shocked at the sight of underage women prostituting themselves and people being murdered for their shoes.
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Lonely Bachelor Pad
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Lonely Bachelor Pad: In the movie-within-a-movie, Jack Slater's apartment is unfurnished, and very unremarkable, besides the ninja hiding in the closet and the closet full of identical outfits.
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All Part of the Show
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All Part of the Show: Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Jack Slater IV premiere assumes this is the case with the Slater/Ripper fight in the balcony. When Slater runs out of the theater afterward, the throng of paparazzi assumes he is Schwarzenegger. Tom Noonan's agent thinks The Ripper is Tom. It gets him killed. Averted later in the film, when a whole theater of frightened people runs away from the Grim Reaper. The fact that they actually saw him walk out of the movie and into the theater probably helped a good deal.
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Cassandra Truth
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Cassandra Truth: At first, neither Jack Slater nor Da Chief believe Danny's claims that he's from outside the movie.
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Deliberately Monochrome
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Another cop gets teamed up with the black and white digitalization of Humphrey Bogart.
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GoshDangItToHeck
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Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Lampshaded, of course. Jack refuses to say any serious swear words; Danny points out that he can't because "this movie's only PG-13."
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Did I Mention It's Christmas?
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Did I Mention It's Christmas?: Spoofed with the in-universe film Jack Slater III, where it's explicitly pointed out that the action-packed events of the film are happening around Christmas even though it otherwise has no bearing on the plot. (The film is a parody of the films of Shane Black, who's a big fan of this trope and has multiple examples on this page, and who later rewrote the script himself.)
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Big "SHUT UP!"
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Big "SHUT UP!": Slater to Dekker at the end.
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Character Catchphrase
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Danny tries to make one out of John Practice's Character Catchphrase ("How do you get to Carnegie Hall?"), with little success.
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Non-Fatal Explosions
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Non-Fatal Explosions: Benedict's explosive eyeball wipes out Jack's ex-wife's home in a gigantic fireball. Cut to next scene and Jack and Danny have a lot of soot on them but they are otherwise perfectly okay.
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Blasphemous Boast
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Blasphemous Boast: As noted, if God were a villain then he would be Benedict.
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Close on Title
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Close on Title: The Last Action Hero title itself doesn't appear until the closing credits.
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ToiletHumor
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How does Benedict trigger the bomb hidden on Louie the Fart? He pulls his finger.
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The Unpronounceable
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The Unpronounceable: Arnold Schwarzenegger; Jack can't even pronounce the name of the actor who plays him, and ends up calling him "Arnold Braunschweiger" most of the time. Danny corrects him once, and Jack's response?
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Dramatic Ammo Depletion: Played with. Through a magic ticket, Cowboy Cop action hero Jack and the Big Bad Benedict of his Show Within a Show are transported to the "real" world. At one point, Benedict advances on the pinned down Jack while firing his revolver and giving a Hannibal Lecture, until his revolver goes "click". Jack comes out of cover and taunts him about forgetting that, in the real world, guns don't have Bottomless Magazines. Whereupon Benedict reveals he had remembered that and had left one chamber in his revolver empty to provoke exactly this reaction and shoots the now exposed Jack.
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While obviously sending up action films of the 1980s and early '90s, this film can't seem to decide what kind of spoof it is. The premise is a self-aware action comedy having fun with the Arnold Schwarzenegger formula (while also having its moments of seriousness and self-reflection), but it often goes into straight up farce that even the worst exploitation B-movie wouldn't have (as they wouldn't have the budget to include a cartoon cat or black and white Bogart). The movie bounces between the two approaches and suffers for it, a flaw most of its detractors point out, if they're even aware that it's a parody at all!
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…But He Sounds Handsome
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…But He Sounds Handsome: Inverted, as Danny's mom says to Jack that he's far more handsome than the real Arnold.
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Good Night, Sweet Prince: Parodied. If Arnold plays Hamlet, no one's going to tell this sweet prince goodnight!
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Snarky Inanimate Object: The magic ticket that transports Danny into the movie is said as having a mind of its own. When Danny attempts to get it to take him back to the real world, it reverts to being inactive. Only after it falls into the hands of the film's villain does it decide to stay on all the time. Of course, it decides to momentarily turn off again at the exact moment Benedict needs it to escape being killed by Jack.
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Even in a loopy action film, it's bizarre to see 1) a talking animated cat, 2) Catherine Trammell and the T-1000 strolling around, 3) a black-and-white Humphrey Bogart, 4) steam literally coming out of a man's head when angry and 5) every woman with model looks. But being a live-action cartoon world, no one (but Danny) seems to even think it's slightly out of place.
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This also applies to Jack's world in a rather unusual way. While all the action movie tropes are firmly set in place, reality still ensues as well as possible within the confines of the said tropes. Jack's cool action hero behaviour? Only a facade to distract others from his PTSS and loneliness. His sexy Action Girl daughter? Yes, she is an Action Girl and enjoys it, but she misses out on basically everything else in life, so it will haunt her later on in life. His never-seen ex-wife? She actually doesn't give two patoots about Jack, and Jack just has someone call him to pretend she's his wife so he can keep a brave face at the precinct.
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: A rather nonsensical one: "You want to be a farmer? Here's a couple of acres."
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At Leo The Fart's funeral, when Jack steals the corpse, every single guest, even the priest, the nuns and several little old ladies pull out military grade automatic weapons. Then again, it was a Mafia funeral.
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A God Am I
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A God Am I: Benedict after discovering the magic ticket.
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Chekhov's Gunman
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Chekhov's Gunman: Whiskers shows up to save Slater and Danny when Practice handcuffs them again and attempts to kill them.
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Distant Reaction Shot: When the detective finds Benedict's missing glass eye, he turns it and it reads "Vengeance is Mine". Slater yells, "Don't touch it!" and the scene promptly cuts to a distant view of the hillside as a giant fireball appears.
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Played with when the The agent of the actor who plays The Ripper meets the real Ripper after the latter is brought over from Jack Slater's universe, and thinks he is the actor, and proceeds to scold him for being in costume during the premiere (fearful it will lead to Typecasting). He is soon disabused of the notion, in gruesome fashion.
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Decon-Recon Switch: The first half of the film makes light of action movies, straying it heavy deconstruction for the second half. But there some elements of reconstruction at the end, as Jack becomes savvy to the real world elements. In particular, he starts as an Invincible Hero and Anti-Hero to become more of a Dented Iron or Classical Anti-Hero.
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Standard Female Grab Area: Subverted. Slater's daughter gets grabbed by one of the Mooks and becomes little more than a screaming nuisance, but as soon as the mook takes her to another room she uses her screams to cover the sound of her dealing with him.
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Diegetic Switch: The movie may have lampshaded this. Slater interrupts a conversation to notice the background music on the radio. (Bringing closure to one of the movie's running gags, it's Mozart.) It hits crescendo at the following scene change. The hard rock playing during one of the chase scenes is coming from Slater's tape deck — and he changes the tape mid-chase!
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The Hero
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Danny at one point attempts this on the villains car... on a bike. He tries to rationalize it that since this a movie and he's a good guy, it has to work. He then realizes (almost too late) that he's not The Hero, he's the Plucky Comic Relief so it won't work.
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Normally, I Would Be Dead Now
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Normally, I Would Be Dead Now: Fatal wounds simply are not anymore if one crosses over to the Hollywood-Reality.
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Can't Get in Trouble for Nuthin'
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Can't Get in Trouble for Nuthin': The newly self-promoted Big Bad gets his hands on a magical ticket that lets him escape his movie into the "real" world. Soon after, he sees two kids mugging, possibly killing, a third to steal his shoes. Befuddled by this (and the fact that they weren't instantly arrested like in the Troperiffic movie he came from) he goes to a nearby garage and shoots the mechanic. Then twice more. Then loudly shouts through the streets of New York, "I have murdered a man and would like to confess!" Someone yells back "SHUT UP, we're trying to sleep!" Cue Aside Glance and an instantaneously hatched diabolical scheme.
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Only a Flesh Wound
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Only a Flesh Wound: Played with and lampshaded: Slater suffers a gunshot wound from Benedict in the real world, causing a race against time to get him back into the movie world, where the doctor "wouldn't even call it a flesh wound."
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The Mole
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This trope is probably in play with Practice, as the friend Slater has but never seen before makes him the perfect mole.
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Feet-First Introduction
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Feet-First Introduction: Although we've already seen him in the movie proper, Slater's first appearance in Jack Slater IV is his iconic snakeskin boots followed by a slow pan as he saunters onto the scene.
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Aside Glance The Grim Reaper looks at the audience before he comes out of The Seventh Seal. Benedict has a positively wicked look at the audience when he realizes that the rules of the Slater films don't apply in the real world.
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Wait Here
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Wait Here: Lampshaded when Jack tells Danny to stay in the car while he goes off to locate a bomb:
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Groin Attack When Jack Slater tries to enter a building to confront a criminal, a police officer tries to stop him. Slater kicks him in the balls. "You want to be a farmer? Here's a couple of achers!" During the attack at Jack's home, his daughter Whitney is slapped by one of the thugs in her bedroom. She says "big mistake" and kicks him in the groin, causing him to fly over her and crash to the floor. She then jumps on him and stomps him.
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Dirty Cop
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Dirty Cop: FBI agent John Practice, a friend of Jack's, is revealed as in league with Vivaldi, a sicilian mobster (being paid very well for it). He also says that he's killed so many people Practice simply can't remember them all.
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Match Cut
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Match Cut: Danny's Imagine Spot of the castle in Hamlet blowing up to a cartoon explosion in a Wile E. Coyote & Road Runner cartoon.
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The Starscream
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The Starscream: Benedict acts as The Dragon to the mob boss for most of the film, until he figures out what's going on and shoots his boss, becoming the new Big Bad.
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: In his monologue, Benedict randomly throws out Hitler as one of the villains he plans to fetch; justified somewhat in that he himself is new to traveling through movies and doesn't necessarily know some are based on real events.
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Once per Episode: Jack appears to randomly shoot into his closet when he comes home, but then a dead assassin falls out. Apparently there's always one in there. He then says it costs him a fortune in closet doors.
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Rage Against the Author
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Rage Against the Author: Slater's got some pretty understandable anger against the writers who killed off his son in the third movie. He also rips into Schwarzenegger when he finally meets him.
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Evil Brit
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Evil Brit: Benedict, played by a deliciously hammy Charles Dance.
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Aside Comment: One scene where The Starscream Benedict is declaring himself the new villain of the picture and ends with him staring at the camera and saying "If God were a villain, he'd be me."
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Everyone Is Armed
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Everyone Is Armed: The rooftop funeral scene. Fortunately for Jack, everyone there is also a graduate from the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy.
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You Bastard!
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You Bastard!: Slater doesn't particularly like being sucked into a new highly dangerous adventure each time the audience in the real world demands it. When he meets Schwarzenegger at the movie premiere, the character accuses his actor of being responsible for his suffering.
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Drives Like Crazy
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Sequence Breaking
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Sequence Breaking: Lampshaded as well. Danny's presence speeds the plot faster than the film had originally intended.
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Defensive Failure
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Defensive Failure: Danny repeatedly has villains at his mercy but can't pull the trigger. Understandable, since he's a scared kid, and we wouldn't want him to become a killer anyway.
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Brick Joke: It starts like this: Later, in the Real World...
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Spoofed when all Jack Slater needs to clean up after emerging from a tar pit is a few seconds with a towel.
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Dragon-in-Chief / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Dramatic Ammo Depletion / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Driver Faces Passenger / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Elevator Failure / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Every Car Is a Pinto / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Everyone Is Armed / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Evil Learns of Outside Context / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Explosion Propulsion / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Extended Disarming / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Films of 1990–1994 / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
First-Name Ultimatum / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Fisher Kingdom / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
555 / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Flesh and Bombs / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
From Beyond the Fourth Wall / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Full Moon Silhouette / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Furry Reminder / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Game of Chicken / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Gasshole / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Gatling Good / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Genre Blindness / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Genre Refugee / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Gesundheit / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Glass Eye / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Glass-Shattering Sound / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Good Night, Sweet Prince / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Gun Porn / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Hand Cannon / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
"Have a Nice Day" Smile / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
"Hell, Yes!" Moment / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Hero's Classic Car / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
High-Pressure Emotion / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
High-Voltage Death / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Hollywood Action Hero / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Hollywood Healing / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
I Am Not Leonard Nimoy / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
I Just Want to Be Normal / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
I Wish It Were Real / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Improbable Age / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Indecisive Parody / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Instant Emergency Response / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Instantly Proven Wrong / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Intrepid Fictioneer / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
It Is Not Your Time / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
It Works Better with Bullets / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Just Between You and Me / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Kid Sidekick / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Kinder and Cleaner / int_bdb0a080
 LastActionHero
seeAlso
Last Action Hero
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Left the Background Music On / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Life Will Kill You / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Limited Wardrobe / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Lonely Bachelor Pad / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Mage in Manhattan / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Medium Awareness / int_bdb0a080
 MichaelKamen
seeAlso
Last Action Hero
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Mob War / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Mundane Fantastic / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Murder by Mistake / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
My Greatest Second Chance / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
No Inner Fourth Wall / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
"No More Holding Back" Speech / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Normally, I Would Be Dead Now / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Not Even Bothering with the Accent / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Nothing Up My Sleeve / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Noticing the Fourth Wall / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Oh, No... Not Again! / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
One-Tract Mind / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Other Me Annoys Me / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Outside-Context Problem / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Plucky Comic Relief / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Power Cable Attack / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Power Perversion Potential / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Rage Against the Author / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Raincoat of Horror / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Rated M for Manly / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Recursive Reality / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Recycled Premise / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Redundant Parody / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Refugee from TV Land / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Remember the New Guy? / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Retirony / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Revolvers Are Just Better / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Role Swap AU / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Rooftop Confrontation / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Save Both Worlds / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Screaming Warrior / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Self-Parody / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Shoot the Fuel Tank / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Slow-Motion Fall / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Soft Glass / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Some Nutty Publicity Stunt / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Soulless Bedroom / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Standard Female Grab Area / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Subverted Catch-Phrase / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Supporting Protagonist / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
The Ahnold / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
The Alleged House / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
The Big Rotten Apple / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
The Grim Reaper / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
The Last Title / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
The Lopsided Arm of the Law / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
The Starscream / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
The Tape Knew You Would Say That / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
The "The" Title Confusion / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Theory of Narrative Causality / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
They Fight Crime! / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
This Is Reality / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Time Bomb / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Toon / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Touch of Death / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Trapped in TV Land / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Troperiffic / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Unexplained Accent / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Villains Blend in Better / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Voice-Only Cameo / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Vot Ocksent? / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Wait Here / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Weaker in the Real World / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
When Dimensions Collide / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
You Are Already Checked In / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
You Bastard! / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Friendly Target / int_bdb0a080
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bdb0a080