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Mystery Men
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The (very loose) 1999 film adaptation of an offshoot of the Flaming Carrot comics, Mystery Men tells the story of a bunch of loser superheroes, constantly overshadowed by the big-name, big-ego Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear). While the Trio of Blue Raja (Hank Azaria), Mr. Furious (Ben Stiller) and The Shoveler (William H. Macy) try desperately to get themselves taken seriously, Captain Amazing laments how his career is stalling with no more high-profile villains left to defeat.But after Super Villain Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush) gets released from a mental institution — thanks to the machinations of Captain Amazing himself, who is rapidly losing his corporate sponsors due to his crime-free city — it's no time at all before he's gathered the local gang leaders (including Eddie Izzard), built himself a super weapon, the Psycho-frakulator, and captured Amazing.The not-exactly-kinda-eponymous characters are left needing to recruit Champion City's other underdog supers, including The Bowler (Janeane Garofalo), The Spleen (Paul Reubens) and Invisible Boy (Kel Mitchell), train under the enigmatic tutelage of the Sphinx (Wes Studi), using weapons created by Mad Scientist/Gadgeteer Genius Dr. Heller (Tom Waits) in order to save the day.Mystery Men is an Affectionate Parody of superhero/vigilante stories, with bizarre, mostly minimal powers, and an odd look at (and much Lampshade Hanging on) various conventions of the genre, and how they would fit into normal life. | |
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Proverbial Wisdom | |
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Proverbial Wisdom: The Sphinx, who serves as a mentor to the main characters, always speaks in proverbs and aphorisms. | |
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Secret Identity | |
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Secret Identity: Played straight with Captain Amazing and the Sphinx, but played with concerning the rest of the Mystery Men - they don't wear masks, but are still fairly secretive about their real names. The Shoveler (Eddie), the Blue Raja (Jeffrey) and Mr. Furious (Roy) use first names fairly freely when not in battle, the Bowler's (Carol) is said only once, and we don't hear their full names or learn Invisible Boy, Spleen or the Sphinx's real names at all. | |
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Victory Is Boring | |
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Victory Is Boring: And unprofitable. After putting away every supervillain in the city, Captain Amazing is left with only incompetent gangs of thugs, which prompts him to get Casanova Frankenstein released. | |
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Creator Cameo | |
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Creator Cameo: Director Kinka Usher makes a brief cameo as "Moe". | |
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Card-Carrying Villain | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: All the bad guys. Frankenstein lists off all their nasty deeds at his party and they cheer each time. | |
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Heroic BSoD: After his romantic interest tries to convince him to be himself rather than conform to his 'angry' theme, Mr. Furious takes this to mean that he has no powers. This leads something of an existential crisis as his friends are preparing for battle. He eventually snaps out of it when he gets angry for real. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Blue Raja's coming out as a superhero to his mother is phrased as if it was a coming out of a different sort. His mother even remarks that she was saving her mother's cutlery for his wedding, but that that day looks to be far off. | |
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Comedic Work, Serious Scene | |
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Comedic Work, Serious Scene: This is an Affectionate Parody of superhero movies. The scene where Roy/Mr. Furious walks Monica home and has a heart-to-heart conversation with her is genuinely heartwarming. | |
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Title Drop: See Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering??, above, where the reporter says "these mystery men". | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: Captain Amazing had Casanova Frankenstein released simply so he could fight a capable adversary. Turns out Frankenstein was so capable, he was able to capture Amazing and go through with his doomsday plan nearly unopposed. | |
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Never Trust a Trailer | |
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Never Trust a Trailer: In one HBO trailer, as the narrator starts with saying something evil is brewing, we get to see a creepy closeup of a man screaming or laughing in the midst of some vortex. It must be important! Nah, it's just the Spleen caught in the demonstration of Heller's tornado in a can, which is never used after that. | |
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Diesel Punk | |
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Diesel Punk: Among other things, there's the Herkimer Battle Jitney. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: When Casanova Frankenstein gathers the various gangs of Champion City together in an attempt to unite them, the leader of "The Frat Boys" is played by Michael Bay. "The Waffler" from the superhero tryout scene is played by a pre-fame Dane Cook. Pencil Head is played by Doug Jones. The gang "The Not-So-Goodie Mob" is played by... the Goodie Mob. Cee Lo Green being the most recognizable member. Dana Gould as Squeegee-Man. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Literally, when Captain Amazing gives confusing instructions on how to deactivate the deathtrap he's in, causing the group to slowly devolve into Seinfeldian Conversation and eventually activate it by accident after Amazing starts screaming at them to stop being so stupid. | |
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Superhero Capital of the World | |
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Superhero Capital of the World: Champion City is a city overrun with various Hatted Gangs and positively swimming in Z-grade wannabe superheroes, Captain Amazing eclipsing every single one of them as Champion City's chief defender. | |
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Wicked Cultured | |
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Wicked Cultured: Casanova Frankenstein's mansion and sense of fashion, although bizarrely and brilliantly mixed with Everything's Funkier With Disco. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Captain Amazing's death by psycho-frakulation is gross and horrifying. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: The Spleen's name makes no sense until you remember the phrase "venting one's spleen." | |
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Dare to Be Badass | |
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Dare to Be Badass: The Shoveler rallies the team just before the climax, going through each member in turn, as seen under Rousing Speech. | |
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Milking the Giant Cow | |
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Milking the Giant Cow: Mr. Furious whenever he tries to invoke his Unstoppable Rage. | |
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My Name Is Inigo Montoya | |
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My Name Is Inigo Montoya: The Bowler's confrontation of Tony P, starts with introducing herself. It comes complete with You Killed My Father. | |
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Engineered Heroics | |
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Engineered Heroics: The impetus of the plot; Captain Amazing gets Casanova Frankenstein released so that Amazing has a real villain to fight and stops losing corporate sponsors. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: "I don't think he's gonna pull through." | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Near the start of the film, Mr. Furious is instructed to tear down an old armored Herkimer at the auto yard where he works. We don't hear about it for the rest of the film until just before the final battle when heroes repair and upgrade it to bust into Casanova's mansion and to not only withstand his goons' initial assault, but strip them of their guns as well, making their suicide mission much more feasible. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Mr. Furious is the only one who realizes that Lance Hunt is Captain Amazing. He's also the only one who sees that the Sphinx just makes up his "mysterious" sayings by rearranging the words. | |
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Ascended Fanboy | |
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Ascended Fanboy: Invisible Boy. At the start, he's part of a network of super wannabes that gravitates around a costume store catering to people like them. | |
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Companion Cube | |
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Companion Cube: Carmine's skull-in-a-ball. He argues with his daughter constantly but no one else can hear him. | |
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Cardboard Prison | |
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Cardboard Prison: Averted, since what kickstarts the plot is the lack of free-roaming supervillains for Captain Amazing to fight. A couple are mentioned as being out of action for good... so he invokes the trope and gets one released — one potent enough to give him a fight worthy of publicizing... one who kicks his ass, leaving the Mystery Men to save the day. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: The movie is implied to be set in 1999, the year of its release (Lance says "let us set the tone for the new millennium", the Blue Raja mentions the British Raj having ruled India "until the early part of this century"), but still takes place in a futuristic super-metropolis with thousand-floor skyscrapers, ever-present zeppelins, billboards cowritten in English and various Asian languages, strange money (the big bills are red, the coins have square holes in them) and bizarre advanced gadgets. All of this is deliberately invoked to parody the conventions of The Dark Age of Comic Books, the contemporary Schumacher Batman films and alternate-history superhero fiction like Watchmen. | |
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Alliterative Title | |
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Captain Ethnic | |
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Captain Ethnic: White Flight and the Black Menace. ("They work together.") | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Captain Amazing acts like The Cape for the press but he's truly a selfish jerkass. Only his publicist sees this side of him. | |
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Nice Character, Mean Actor | |
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Nice Character, Mean Actor: Captain Amazing. Which is to say that the "real" Captain Amazing is an asshole, despite his heroic reputation. | |
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It's What I Do | |
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It's What I Do: Also, why shovels are the Shoveler's weapon; shoveling is what he does best. Captain Amazing says this word for word when asked how he knew about the Red-Eyes' attack on the nursing home. | |
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Non-Indicative Name | |
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Non-Indicative Name: The Blue Raja doesn't wear blue. And while he has a long explanation about why a white man with a totally fake British accent is dressing as an Indian prince — it has to do with the British occupation of India in the early 20th century — he never gets around to explaining why he exclusively throws forks, which has nothing to do with anything else he's got. The Spleen; an organ which acts as a blood filter and doesn't really have anything to do with flatulence. (Beyond possibly alluding to the phrase "Venting his spleen".) | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Demonstrated with the weapon choices of Tony P's disco gang and lampshaded by the heroes. | |
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Ice-Cream Koan | |
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Ice-Cream Koan: Most of The Sphinx's teachings are suspiciously predictable word play. The pinnacle: And then some: | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
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Awesome, but Impractical: The Blue Raja's entire deal is that he is the "Master of Cutlery" (exclusively with forks) and has an Historical In-Joke gimmick, but he is constantly criticized by not using knives (which would make a more effective weapon), his use of forks are either poorly aimed or impractically used and no one gets the reference. He gets better while under the Sphinx's tutelage. | |
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Cool, but Inefficient | |
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Cool, but Inefficient: Blue Raja can throw silverware with unerring accuracy, but only when he is trained to give up on theatrics that keep throwing off his aim. And even then, no knives, only forks or spoons. Maybe a pie server if he was really pressed. | |
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I Know You Know I Know | |
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I Know You Know I Know: Supplies the page quote. | |
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You Can See Me? | |
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You Can See Me?: Unfortunately, Invisible Boy, yes. We can. EVERYTHING, too. | |
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Cursed with Awesome | |
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Cursed with Awesome: A mixed blessing with Spleen, who cut the cheese and blamed it on an old gypsy woman who was walking by. She cursed him with farts of amazing potency and accuracy. | |
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Rummage Sale Reject | |
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Rummage Sale Reject: Not just the Mystery Men; all the wannabes wear mismatched or dirty equipment. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Dr. Leek is clearly fed up and disgusted with the antics of Casanova's gangster henchmen at their reunion banquet. | |
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Dresses the Same | |
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Dresses the Same: Two women at the superhero audition get in a fight over their matching costumes; both are dressed like Wonder Woman. | |
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Heart Is an Awesome Power | |
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Heart Is an Awesome Power: "Farting" sounds like a lame power but Spleen can selectively knock out everyone in a diner and is able to do it at will. In fact, it's probably the most consistently useful superpower the heroes have. Even being invisible when nobody can see you turns out to have its uses. | |
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup | |
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Dr. Heller is a mad genius, but not that mad. | |
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Mad Scientist | |
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Mad Scientist: Dr. Heller combines mad science with a Technical Pacifist attitude. | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: The British Eddie Izzard playing the (kinda) Brooklyn accented Tony P. It's almost unbearable. Subverted with Geoffrey Rush, an Australian, portraying Casanova Frankenstein with a very well done German/Austrian accent, though he is an acclaimed stage actor as well. | |
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RealityWarping | |
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Reality Warping: The Psycho-frakulator seems to be a weaponized form of this. It warps its target until they die. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: Possibly unintentional. Janeane Garofalo's father's name is actually Carmine. Eddie Izzard's character makes a reference to "the god of haircare". In her Stand-Up Comedy routine, she mentions that the Romans previously had crappy gods, like Simon, the God of Hairdos. Captain Amazing's agent objects to Amazing's recent activities, complaining, "I'm not a magician!" The actor, Ricky Jay, really was in fact a famous card magician. When the Blue Raja sits on the fork he shouts 'Claven' - the catchphrase of Professor Frink, also voiced by Hank Azaria. And depending on your interpretation, there could be something significant about Michael Bay being cast as the leader of the Fratboys gang ("Can we bring the brewskies?") Dr. A. Heller, when met for the second time, is making bizarre noises with objects, for eerie effect. Tom Waits has used the same noises in his music and poetry. When the Mystery Men are coming up with a name for their group, Kel Mitchell's character, Invisible Boy, proposes they be called the "Superdudes". Superdude was a Superman parody played by Kenan Thompson on All That where Kel was repertory player. | |
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The Smart Guy | |
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The Smart Guy: Dr. Heller is the Gadgeteer Genius who made their gear and transport. The Blue Raja has vast array of specialized forks, a well-researched back story and is a rather knowledgeable history buff. | |
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Boring, but Practical | |
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Boring, but Practical: The Shoveler's whole deal? He has a shovel. Oddly enough, it probably makes him the most effective in a fight compared to the other two (the shovel making an effective blunt weapon), though he doesn't reach full effectiveness until after his training under the Sphinx. Demonstrated with the weapon choices of Tony P's disco gang and lampshaded by the heroes. | |
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Team Power Walk | |
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Team Power Walk: Played straight on the way to Casanova's Mansion, then parodied as Mr. Furious doesn't feel powerful enough to continue, and turns around. The two nearest just hook him under the arms and keep walking, dragging him along without even turning their heads. | |
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Dark Age of Supernames | |
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Dark Age of Supernames: Parodied when Roy tries to pretend his name is Phoenix Dark (neé Dirk Steel), only to give in and say his real name. | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: Casanova Frankenstein, who at one point kills a couple of his own henchmen just to make a point to the heroes. | |
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Fur and Loathing | |
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Fur and Loathing: The gang called "The Furriers", a bunch of femme fatales wearing leather and fur. | |
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Invisible Streaker | |
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Invisible Streaker: When Invisible Boy turns invisible, his (visible) clothes fall off. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Captain Amazing's rogues gallery are all retired, permanently incarcerated, or dead. Joker Immunity doesn't exist in real life. Amazing's biggest problem isn't the fact he can't handle the crime, but he handles it too well. As a result, sponsors are pulling out, since he's boring as an Invincible Hero and with less and less super villains to fight. | |
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A Side Order of Romance | |
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A Side Order of Romance: Roy/Mr. Furious has a crush on Monica, a waitress at the restaurant he and his wannabe superhero friends frequent. He tries to impress her by acting "cool" and playing up the superhero angle, but she isn't interested until he begins to drop the bravado. | |
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Malaproper | |
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Malaproper: Mr. Furious. He doesn't appreciate being called on it. | |
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Exotic Weapon Supremacy | |
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Exotic Weapon Supremacy: Everyone uses these, except for the Disco Boys, who use boring old guns. For added flavor there's a weapon designer (Tom Waits!) who specializes in these. | |
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The Magnificent Seven Samurai | |
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The Magnificent Seven Samurai: Played for Laughs, with lovable loser superheroes. The Magnificent Seven even gets a tiny shout-out. | |
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What a Piece of Junk | |
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What a Piece of Junk: The Herkimer Battle Jitney. Roy explains to his boss earlier in the film (because he works at the junkyard the Jitney is in) that the thing is armored to the point that a bomb can't damage it and she insists that he must tear it apart with a piddly crowbar, which is effectively impossible. When Roy brings up the Jitney in the third act Heller tells him how great it is, and it demonstrates why after being restored at the climax. | |
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Metaphorgotten | |
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Metaphorgotten: Constantly by Mr. Furious. Lampshaded by the Bowler when she's trying to rile him up: | |
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Becoming the Boast | |
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Becoming the Boast: Mr. Furious supposedly has the superpower of rage-induced super-strength, but, when called on it near the end of the film, he reveals it's all an actnote He'd managed to do it once before, and his Hot-Blooded act was his attempt at invoking his superpower again. However, when rescuing the Love Interest from the clutches of the Big Bad, he becomes genuinely furious, genuinely gains rage-induced super-strength, and starts kicking ass. He actually does have super-strength when he legitimately gets enraged, instead of posturing or consciously trying to rile himself up. | |
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Magical Native American | |
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Magical Native American: The Sphinx is a complicated, rather parodic example. He's played by a Native actor, but his powers, code name, and costume are not Native themed, he works at a Mexican restaurant and can be summoned by ordering the right combo meal, and his "wise" advice is basically nonsense. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: If you liked Blade Runner's futuristic Los Angeles, you'll love this. | |
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All Periods Are PMS | |
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All Periods Are PMS: one of the potential recruits is the "PMS Avenger" but states she can only superhero 3 days a month. | |
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Misfit Mobilization Moment | |
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Misfit Mobilization Moment: The charge on Casanova Frankenstein's mansion is when the Mystery Men transition from goofballs to heroes. | |
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The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much | |
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The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: Carmine The Bowler's death was officially ruled as an accident. | |
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The Big Guy | |
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The Big Guy: The Mystery Men have a number of heavy hitters. Spleen's gas attack is "silent but deadly". Dr. Heller has an arsenal of non-lethal weaponry Bowler's bowling ball is like a guided missile and returns when she throws it. When he's truly angry, Mr. Furious is a formidable fighter. | |
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Audible Sharpness | |
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Audible Sharpness: Blue Rajah's forks and spoons make stereotypical blade "whoosh" noises. | |
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Sassy Black Woman | |
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Sassy Black Woman: Lucille, The Shoveler's wife, sasses and nags him about his superheroing. | |
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Bond One-Liner | |
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Bond One-Liner: "Fraku-later, Frankenpuss." | |
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Invincible Hero | |
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Amazing's biggest problem isn't the fact he can't handle the crime, but he handles it too well. As a result, sponsors are pulling out, since he's boring as an Invincible Hero and with less and less super villains to fight. | |
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Jumped at the Call | |
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Jumped at the Call: The whole movie is a reconstruction. Some who jump at the call are not really cut out for heroism, and sometimes they pull it off anyway. | |
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The Dragon | |
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The Dragon: Tony P, the leader of the Disco Boys, is Casanova's main muscle and closest associate. Tony P has his own Dragon, Tony C, within the Disco Boys itself. | |
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Politically Incorrect Hero | |
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Politically Incorrect Hero: Carmine is apparently this: | |
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If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him! | |
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If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: The Bowler cites this as the reason she won't kill Tony P. Her father, however, has no such reservations. | |
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Let's Get Dangerous! | |
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Mr. Furious is constantly trying to come up with these, but as the Bowler accurately points out "your wit is a hindrance, so nothing is provocative — it's all mixed metaphors." He does, however, come up with a pretty good one when he finally gets dangerous: | |
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Likes Older Women | |
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Likes Older Women: Heller frequents the retirement home to pick up chicks. | |
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Spandex, Latex, or Leather | |
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Spandex, Latex, or Leather: One of the most eclectic mixtures in any medium, involving a bit of just about everything - Captain Amazing's costume is molded rubber and chrome armor covered in sponsored ads, while supervillain Casanova Frankenstein displays a taste for multiple velvet outfits and strange gold jewelry. The Mystery Men themselves all sport low-budget, piecemeal "costumes": The Shoveler wears mining equipment, a catcher's chest pad and jeans, the Blue Raja a thrift-store quality Indian ensemble, Mr. Furious a black leather motorcycle outfit with a black fake-leather Badass Longcoat over it, etc. After meeting the Sphinx (who wears a vinyl cowl and billowing black velvet robes, later revealed to have dazzling blue and silver spandex hidden beneath), they sew proper costumes, which incorporate spandex (Spleen and Sphinx), leather (Furious and the Bowler), silver mail (Shoveler), ornately colorful jewel-covered fabrics (the Blue Raja) and what appears to be an elaborately painted mural of Champion City (the Invisible Boy). | |
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Ain't Too Proud to Beg | |
| Mystery Men / int_5b1a2f4e | comment |
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Captain Amazing, who has the best reputation of all heroes, actively bargains to be the villain's assistant upon being captured and locked into a death trap. | |
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Disney Villain Death | |
| Mystery Men / int_5bdcc85a | comment |
Disney Villain Death: Casanova is sent plummeting into his doomsday device by Mr. Furious. Though the machine itself kills him instead of the fall. | |
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Gang of Hats | |
| Mystery Men / int_5bf69547 | comment |
Gang of Hats: The Disco Boys are most obvious, but all the gangs in Champion City appear to have some quirk. | |
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The Berserker | |
| Mystery Men / int_5c300c3b | comment |
The Berserker: Subverted with Mr. Furious who acts like one but really isn't. It's just an act. Until the ending, where he truly fits the role. | |
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Civvie Spandex | |
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Civvie Spandex: Most of the group wears their "costumes" all the time (The Shoveler even using his uniform from his job as a sewer excavator), especially Invisible Boy, who until the end doesn't even come close to having a costume. | |
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AwesomeMcCoolName | |
| Mystery Men / int_5d103ea8 | comment |
When Mr. Furious tries to pretend that he has an Awesome Mc Cool Name in order to impress his Love Interest, he claims his name is "Phoenix Dark." | |
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Awesome McCoolname | |
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Awesome McCoolname: Casanova Frankenstein. In fact, according to the DVD extras, he was chosen because he had a cool-sounding name. Mr. Furious briefly attempts to convince his crush that his name is Phoenix Dark, before admitting that his name is actually Roy. It's part of his super hero 'image' as a Hot-Blooded brawler. | |
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Dark Mistress | |
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Dark Mistress: Dr. Anabel Leek, Cassanova's psychiatrist and then lover. | |
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The Smurfette Principle | |
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The Smurfette Principle: Carol the Bowler is the only woman on the team. She's also the only woman in the film who's a main character, or has more than a few scenes or lines. | |
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One-Book Author | |
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One-Book Author: The film's financial failure, coupled with his displeasure while working on it, made this the only feature film to be directed by commercial director Kinka Usher. | |
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Intrepid Reporter | |
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Intrepid Reporter: Becky Beaner, the one covering the super hero activities, would probably be Captain Amazing's love interest in a happier world. | |
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The Leader | |
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The Leader: The Shoveler gives the Rousing Speech. Interestingly, when he says "Leadership, it's what we've been missing." He was looking at Mr.Furious as if disappointed that he didn't live up to this role. | |
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I Take Offense to That Last One | |
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I Take Offense to That Last One: Of all the insults the team delivers attempting to get Furious fired up for battle, the only one he really reacts to is Sphinx's "You dress in the manner of a male prostitute." | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer | |
| Mystery Men / int_61b8f9e2 | comment |
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The Bowler is arguably the most powerful member of the team, and would likely be far more efficient if she didn't come off as so... spacey sometimes. (Her father does talk to her, but the others find it very hard to realize that at first, and she presents an attitude that seems sort of crazy.) | |
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BadassNormal | |
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Badass Normal: The original trio. After the Training Montage they upgrade to Weak, but Skilled. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: It seemed that Carmine was going to do this at the climax of the movie. Subverted in that A.) He was already dead (a fact that was lampshaded) and B.) It turns out at the end that he 'survived', somewhat to the annoyance of the hero wielding him. | |
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I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder | |
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I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: When Capt. Amazing complains to his PR rep Vic about losing his sponsorships, Vic tells him that he's "a publicist, not a magician." note Ricky Jay, who plays Vic, was actually a magician in Real Life and able to throw playing cards with such deadly accuracy it would make The Blue Raja proud. | |
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That Poor Cat | |
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That Poor Cat: Happens while The Blue Raja is using a dartboard for target practice. | |
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Negate Your Own Sacrifice | |
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Negate Your Own Sacrifice: The Bowler throwing her ball (containing the spirit of Carmine the Bowler) into the Psycho-frakulator. | |
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Hot-Blooded | |
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Mr. Furious briefly attempts to convince his crush that his name is Phoenix Dark, before admitting that his name is actually Roy. It's part of his super hero 'image' as a Hot-Blooded brawler. | |
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Huddle Shot | |
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Huddle Shot: "Group hug!" | |
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Improbable Weapon User | |
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Improbable Weapon User: The Shoveler, The Bowler, and a fork-flinger, and that's just from the heroes. Casanova Frankenstein attacks with his one long pinkie nail, and the cast react just as if it were a full set of claws. | |
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Trick Bomb | |
| Mystery Men / int_6acf5c50 | comment |
Trick Bomb: A tornado in a can. | |
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Zeppelins from Another World | |
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Zeppelins from Another World: A few can be seen floating over Champion City. | |
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Unstoppable Rage | |
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Unstoppable Rage: This is supposed to be Mr. Furious' power but he's defeated by stress balls and can't get it to actually work. It finally works in the end. | |
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Deconstructive Parody | |
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Deconstructive Parody: Of the standard super-hero world. If you have a truly successful superhero, eventually they're going to run out of villains. Also, having a superpower and heroic desire is not enough to be a superhero and it's not a glamorous life. On another level, it does this to celebrity-loving culture — what it does to the people who seek it, and the people who have it. Above all, it makes fun of both aspects. | |
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Calling Shot Gun | |
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Calling Shotgun: When the gang is piling into the Shoveler's station wagon. | |
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Perplexing Plurals | |
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Perplexing Plurals: Captain Amazing comments to Casanova Frankenstein that they have always been each other's greatest "nemisises..nemisi..." (It's "nemeses".) | |
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Shot in the Ass | |
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Shot in the Ass: Spleen takes a bullet to the rear during the climactic battle. Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have an impact on his powers. | |
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Clark Kenting | |
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Clark Kenting: Lampshaded with Lance Hunt as Captain Amazing. Mr. Furious has apparently tried to convince his teammates that Hunt is Captain Amazing enough times that the other two treat the idea like a worn-out conspiracy theory. | |
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Performance Anxiety | |
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Performance Anxiety: Invisible Boy can only turn invisible when no one is looking at him. | |
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Vigilante Militia | |
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Vigilante Militia: The Mystery Men are composed of three Z-list superheroes: Mister Furious, Blue Raja and The Shoveler. When Captain Amazing gets taken out by the villain, these three recruit The Bowler, Invisible Boy and The Spleen to the cause of taking down Casanova Frankenstein. | |
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Shoe Phone | |
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Shoe Phone: Played with in the scene where Captain Amazing initially confronts Casanova Frankenstein and tells him to deactivate a variety of weapons hidden in normally benign objects, only to be snared by a portable enticement snare that looks like a remote detonator. | |
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Deducing the Secret Identity | |
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Deducing the Secret Identity: Mr. Furious manages to (correctly) deduce that oligarch lawyer Lance Hunt is the Secret Identity of Captain Amazing, but his friends shoot him down because "Lance Hunt wears glasses." | |
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Token Minority | |
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Token Minority: Invisible Boy and The Sphinx are the only people of color on the team. The Bowler is the only woman among them. | |
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Vile Villain, Saccharine Show | |
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Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Casanova Frankenstein is a very serious and menacing villain in an otherwise comedic film. | |
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"Anger Is Healthy" Aesop | |
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"Anger Is Healthy" Aesop: Parodied. Mr. Furious, whose power is he gets stronger when he's angry, is advised that he needs to learn how to channel it properly. It doesn't help much as he already knows this. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
| Mystery Men / int_75987da9 | comment |
Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits: One of the definitive film examples and intentionally so. A guy who thinks he's the Hulk. A married man with a shovel. A Momma's Boy who throws forks. A shy teen with pointless invisibility powers. A Legacy Character looking for revenge. Somebody with supernaturally-induced gas. Their Sixth Ranger is a guy whose superpower is that he's "Terribly mysterious" (and can cut guns in half with his mind). | |
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Embarrassing Superpower | |
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Embarrassing Superpower: "The Spleen" has Fartillery powers. While his powers can be effective, he compounds the issue by being a socially awkward and unattractive. | |
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Just for Pun | |
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Just for Pun: The Blue Raja drops a couple of fork and spoon-related puns during the course of the movie. He even practices some in front of a mirror. Tony P. manages to combine Evil Gloating, a bad pun, and a disco-era movie reference. | |
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The Comically Serious | |
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The Comically Serious: The Shoveler can talk about comic weirdness with a pitch-perfect straight-faced delivery from William H. Macy. | |
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All Myths Are True | |
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All Myths Are True: The Shoveler's comment that he heard that the Sphinx could, like, cut guns in half with his mind is obviously supposed to be a wild rumor (Blue Raja even expresses disbelief at it). Turns out it's true. | |
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Technical Pacifist | |
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Technical Pacifist: Doctor Heller, who designs nonlethal weapons, such as the "Shrinker" (which causes the target's clothing to contract painfully tight) and the "Blame-thrower" (which starts arguments). | |
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Amusing Injuries | |
| Mystery Men / int_78c895c8 | comment |
Amusing Injuries: A lot of damage below the belt in this one. Blue Raja is given a super wedgie by the Red-Eye gang; later he accidentally sits on one of his own forks (points up); Mr. Furious, trying to start his motorcycle, misses the kick starter and lands full force on his naughty bits ("Testicles... rising! Can't... breathe!"); Spleen gets Shot in the Ass during the final battle; and those are just the main examples. There's also Roy getting an accidental shovel to the face. | |
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ShoutOutToShakespeare | |
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Shout-Out to Shakespeare: The Shoveler's Rousing Speech is reminiscent of the 'band of brothers' speech. "We will show our scars with pride" indeed, making this Older Than Steam. | |
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Distinction Without a Difference | |
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Distinction Without a Difference: The Bowler sneaks one in. | |
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Gasshole | |
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Gasshole: The Spleen (see Fartillery above). | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
| Mystery Men / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Captain Amazing, in his civilian persona of Lance Hunt, decides to free Casanova potentially putting countless civilians in danger so he could have a real villain to fight, and to boost his ratings. Bad idea. When half the team kill Captain Amazing during a rescue attempt but Amazing gets the blame for giving such poor instructions. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The Bowler, trying to find and activate Furious's Berserk Button, unsuccessfully runs down the list of his character flaws. She then enlists the other heroes to help, but the best they come up with is- | |
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Star Wars (Franchise) | |
| Mystery Men / int_816a4e80 | comment |
"May the forks be with us!" | |
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Super Team | |
| Mystery Men / int_844e7033 | comment |
Super Team: The film is essentially the origin story for the titular Mystery Men. They start out with just three heroes — Mr. Furious, the Blue Raja and the Shoveler — and they add various members and allies as the story goes, coming into their own when they stop Casanova Frankenstein. | |
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Superhero | |
| Mystery Men / int_845789b0 | comment |
Superhero: Parodies the genre. The only ones with genuine superpowers are Spleen, Sphinx, and Invisible Boy. Bowler skirts the issue with her 'artifact of power'. | |
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Comeback Tomorrow | |
| Mystery Men / int_855841f5 | comment |
Comeback Tomorrow: In a parody of the usual superhero's witty banter, Mr. Furious's comebacks tend to be either bad, unintelligible or seriously delayed. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| Mystery Men / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Dr. Annabelle Leek joins Casanova as his evil concubine, then vanishes without a trace halfway through the movie. DVD supplemental materialsinvoked say there were originally some very funny bits with her that got cut out. According to the script on IMDB, she angrily tries to shoot Casanova when he's having an I Have You Now, My Pretty moment with Monica, accusing him of living up to his name as The Casanova. Casanova turns on the charm, convincing Anabel to drop the gun, then tells her You Have Outlived Your Usefulness and tosses her out a window to her death. The heroes when scaling the building later see her fall and hear her inevitable thud. | |
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Badass Creed | |
| Mystery Men / int_86c192f4 | comment |
Badass Creed: The Mystery Men Oath, a deleted scene which is on the soundtrack album. | |
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City Noir | |
| Mystery Men / int_86e12b9a | comment |
City Noir: Parodied. Roy thinks he's in one of these but the others think he's lame. | |
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Alas, Poor Yorick | |
| Mystery Men / int_86e17259 | comment |
Alas, Poor Yorick: Carol carries Carmine's skull around with her in a bowling ball. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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Truth in Television: Shovel fighting was taught to most infantry through the end of World War II. The reasoning was that infantry were often responsible for digging their own foxholes, and their enemies were unlikely to honor a call of "Time out!" while they went to fetch their gun or bayonet. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
| Mystery Men / int_8797239c | comment |
Bait-and-Switch: During the superhero auditions, up walks a dark-costumed muscular man In the Hood and mask with a serious, brooding expression, getting the character's hopes up... he then introduces himself as "Ballerina Man" complete with pink tutu underneath the flowing cloak. At the end of the movie, the team hasn't come up with a name, so the reporter only refers to them as "mystery men". Sphinx immediately speaks up, making us believe he's buying the name, except he actually came up with a different one. | |
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Cheap Costume | |
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Cheap Costume: Everyone. | |
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Abhorrent Admirer | |
| Mystery Men / int_88cee6e2 | comment |
Abhorrent Admirer: The Spleen for The Bowler. She turns him down quite gracefully, considering how persistent he is. | |
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Shovel Strike | |
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Shovel Strike: The Shoveler shovels very well. He also has a trowel. | |
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Cool Car | |
| Mystery Men / int_8a295a46 | comment |
Cool Car: The Herkimer Battle Jitney. The "finest non-lethal military vehicle ever made!" Casanova's limo, a converted Corvette. Limos don't get any cooler than this. | |
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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time | |
| Mystery Men / int_8abe13b6 | comment |
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Captain Amazing released Casanova Frankenstein from the asylum so he can have a high-profile supervillain to fight again. It backfires badly. | |
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Menstrual Menace | |
| Mystery Men / int_8e3567ad | comment |
Menstrual Menace: The PMS Avenger only works four days a month. | |
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Evil Genius | |
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Evil Genius: Casanova was able to build the Psycho-frakulator, something that was said to be impossible to build. Combines this with Mad Scientist. | |
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Karmic Death | |
| Mystery Men / int_90d44f44 | comment |
Karmic Death: This film loves 'em: Casanova is ultimately killed when he is thrown into his own doomsday device. Tony P. is killed by the "ghost" of Carmine The Bowler - whom he murdered. Captain Amazing is killed as a direct result of freeing Casanova just for the good publicity of catching him again. | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In the climax, the Big Bad kills a group of Mooks expressly to demonstrate to the heroes that, unlike them, he can sacrifice his allies if he has to, or, y'know, if he feels like it. | |
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Big Bad | |
| Mystery Men / int_970c790a | comment |
When Casanova Frankenstein gathers the various gangs of Champion City together in an attempt to unite them, the leader of "The Frat Boys" is played by Michael Bay. | |
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Parodied Trope | |
| Mystery Men / int_97514bef | comment |
Parodied Trope: So many superhero tropes are spoofed here. | |
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Momma's Boy | |
| Mystery Men / int_97ee273 | comment |
A Momma's Boy who throws forks. | |
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Our Founder | |
| Mystery Men / int_98f19e68 | comment |
Our Founder: A gigantic neon-lit statue of Captain Amazing. | |
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom | |
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Captain Amazing's publicist inadvertently gave him the idea to release Casanova Frankenstein, setting up the events of the film. | |
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Crippling Overspecialization | |
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Crippling Overspecialization: The Blue Raja only works with non-bladed cutlery. | |
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The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In | |
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The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In: Initially, Blue Raja's forks bounce off everything, until the Sphinx teaches him to concentrate on the throwing itself rather than stylizing the throws, and then they always strike point-first (hard enough to be used as climbing spikes). | |
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Death by Cameo | |
| Mystery Men / int_9b6e33f3 | comment |
Death by Cameo: Michael Bay portrays the leader of the Frat Boys. Casanova kills them later to show how evil he can be. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
| Mystery Men / int_9bcd82c0 | comment |
Took a Level in Badass: Everyone, after meeting The Sphinx. This was the point of finding him. | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
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This Is Gonna Suck: The last words of Captain Amazing are a grousing "Uh-oh, wrong switch." | |
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Mr. Fixit | |
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Mr. Fixit: Heller. He restores the Herkimer Battle Jitney, for starters. | |
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Evil Is Not a Toy | |
| Mystery Men / int_9fb2452d | comment |
Evil Is Not a Toy: Captain Amazing only wants a better villain to fight, but Casanova Frankenstein quickly gets the upper hand. | |
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Sarcastic Confession | |
| Mystery Men / int_a036d3df | comment |
Sarcastic Confession: As the team is trying to free Captain Amazing from Casanova's machine, the Shoveler asks him if he knows Lance Hunt. Captain Amazing admits to being him, then after a moment claims he was joking and says he always wanted to say that. | |
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Failure Hero | |
| Mystery Men / int_a03b1d9f | comment |
Failure Heroes: The Team is this until their final confrontation with the Big Bad. The police mock them after a C-string villain team beat the crap out of them. | |
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Left the Background Music On | |
| Mystery Men / int_a18042f1 | comment |
Left the Background Music On: When some of the group enter Dr. Heller's lair in an abandoned amusement park, eerie music adds to the creepy atmosphere. Turns out Dr. Heller is playing eerie music. | |
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Parental Neglect | |
| Mystery Men / int_a54534a0 | comment |
Parental Neglect: Invisible Boy tells his father "Hey dad, I'm taking three strange men into my room" when he has The Blue Raja, The Shoveler and Mr. Furious over in a testing tone. His dad doesn't even appear to notice any of it (his son or the three men), indicating this is a long-running feature of their relationship. | |
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Naked People Are Funny | |
| Mystery Men / int_a58e5ad7 | comment |
Naked People Are Funny: Invisible Boy. | |
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Joker Immunity | |
| Mystery Men / int_a6cbef9a | comment |
Captain Amazing's rogues gallery are all retired, permanently incarcerated, or dead. Joker Immunity doesn't exist in real life. | |
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Super-Strength | |
| Mystery Men / int_a8c6a317 | comment |
Super-Strength: Mr. Furious, but only when his Unstoppable Rage truly kicks in. It's stated he once lifted a city bus all on his own to save people trapped under it (despite him making excuses due to presently suffering a Heroic BSoD at the time). Proven when triggered at the end, which allows him to manhandle Casanova. | |
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Odd Friendship | |
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Odd Friendship: Blue Raja and Bowler get rather chummy over the course of film. | |
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The Law of Power Proportionate to Effort | |
| Mystery Men / int_a9dcf07 | comment |
The Law of Power Proportionate to Effort: Inverted. The harder Mr. Furious tries to get angry to invoke his rage-induced super-strength, the farther he seems to get from the genuine anger he needs. It gets bad enough that leading up to the climactic battle, he begins to doubt whether he ever actually had powers at all. Being threatened by villains doesn't make him angry because he wants to fight bad guys. Seeing the woman he loves being threatened does make him extremely angry. Turns out he does have powers... he just needs to let them activate naturally instead of trying to force them. | |
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Rousing Speech | |
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Rousing Speech: Perhaps the best example concerning a sandwich. | |
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Doesn't Like Guns | |
| Mystery Men / int_aaf19fae | comment |
Doesn't Like Guns: Apparently using a gun is hilariously gauche in the world of Mystery Men. The heroes openly mock the Disco Boys for using guns instead of using some kind of disco-themed weaponry. The Blue Raja has been 'crystal clear' about refusing to use guns. Dr. Heller only makes non-lethal weapons. Even the heroes seem dismissive of that and actually start going back to their car, until he shows off his canned tornadoes and blame-thrower. Sphinx is able to cut them in half with his mind, though he isn't seen cutting anything else in half. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
| Mystery Men / int_acecb17d | comment |
Chekhov's Skill: Just about everything The Sphinx teaches the heroes (that stayed through training) is useful at the end, including the group hug. The one exception is the watermelons on the feet but Sphinx doesn't remember telling Roy to do that. | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
| Mystery Men / int_acf33d00 | comment |
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Casanova threatening Furious' girlfriend ultimately snaps him out of his Heroic BSoD and allows him to finally awaken his Unstoppable Rage for real. | |
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Bling-Bling-BANG! | |
| Mystery Men / int_affa0e5d | comment |
Bling-Bling-BANG!: Tony P and Tony C both have very nice looking pistols modified to look disco-like. | |
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City of Adventure | |
| Mystery Men / int_b408c009 | comment |
City of Adventure: Champion City was obviously one in its prime, but the overwhelming success of Captain Amazing has reduced the adventure level quite a bit. | |
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Super Zeroes | |
| Mystery Men / int_b4b811ac | comment |
Super Zeroes: Of the "zero to hero" kind. They're all very, very silly heroes—the Blue Raja throws forks and spoons but not anything bladed, which might be useful—but they prove effective fighters and they save the day. When they hold auditions at the Shoveler's home, they find themselves swamped by superheroes who are even lamer than they are. | |
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Empathic Weapon | |
| Mystery Men / int_b7e1dcc8 | comment |
Empathic Weapon: Carmine can only be successfully wielded by his daughter, who argues with him more often than not. | |
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Jive Turkey | |
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Jive Turkey: Dropped by, of course, the disco gang. | |
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Storming the Castle | |
| Mystery Men / int_b9f472b | comment |
Storming the Castle: The attack on Casanova's mansion and driving straight through the gate. | |
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Cool Mask | |
| Mystery Men / int_bb067aba | comment |
Cool Mask: Played straight with the Sphinx (who is "terribly mysterious") but oddly averted for the rest of The Team (Invisible Boy finally includes a pair of goggles when he makes his costume for the final act). | |
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Berserk Button | |
| Mystery Men / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Most of the characters. Mr. Furious is intentionally trying to invoke this trope, without much success. Even the villains are better at it: | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills | |
| Mystery Men / int_bcd27e37 | comment |
Improbable Aiming Skills: After training under the Sphinx, The Blue Raja is shown to have impeccable aiming skills that border on the superhuman. This is mainly due to his bad habit of flourishing his throws as opposed to concentrating on landing the shot. | |
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Slasher Smile | |
| Mystery Men / int_bd4264a3 | comment |
Slasher Smile: A heroic example, when Mr. Furious finally comes into his own, he has a scary rage smile. | |
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Shrouded in Myth | |
| Mystery Men / int_be8416ea | comment |
Shrouded in Myth: This is literally the Sphinx's main power. (Mind you, his other power is chopping guns in half with his mind.) | |
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Happily Married | |
| Mystery Men / int_bec0417c | comment |
Happily Married: The Shoveler and his wife, Lucille, may feud over his heroing, but they worry because they love each other. She outright tells them that he's "a good husband and father" but not a superhero. | |
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Evil Gloating | |
| Mystery Men / int_c0d598fe | comment |
Tony P. manages to combine Evil Gloating, a bad pun, and a disco-era movie reference. | |
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Retro Universe | |
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Retro Universe: There are traces of this here and there, especially with the reporters' fashion. As a whole, it seems to be a weird mesh of the 40s, the 70s and then-present day late 90s. | |
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Superheroes Wear Tights | |
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Superheroes Wear Tights: Mostly averted, as it primarily depicts the Darker and Edgier comic styles that were more about leather and combat gear, but played straight by the Sphinx and the Spleen in the final act (the Sphinx's boots imply that he was always wearing the tights under his robes of mystery). | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Invisible Boy actually can become completely transparent... but only when nobody, including himself, is looking directly at him. So he's already technically "invisible" even if he doesn't become transparent. It actually does have a use, though. Turns out electronic cameras and sensors don't count as anybody looking. "Deathman is dead." | |
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Bedlam House | |
| Mystery Men / int_c6c5ce4 | comment |
Bedlam House: The asylum that Casanova Frankenstein is locked up in is a dark and dreary place for psychos. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Mystery Men / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The scene where Casanova Frankenstein gathers the various gimmicked gangs of Champion City together at his mansion in an effort to unite them all under his rule, culminating with the rousing cry, "Can you dig it?" is a shout out to The Warriors. Roy does a Six Million Dollar Man slow-motion jump, complete with the iconic sound-effect. Roy also at one point counterquips Casanova with "Don't correct me. It sickens me." Also, when the team is exiting the bar, they can be heard discussing the pronunciation of "Sabotage." When Mr. Furious tries to pretend that he has an Awesome Mc Cool Name in order to impress his Love Interest, he claims his name is "Phoenix Dark." The metal fingernail appliances worn by Casanova are similar to those worn by Alan Moore. "May the forks be with us!" | |
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Mentor Archetype | |
| Mystery Men / int_c77ad743 | comment |
Mentor Archetype: The Sphinx trained them all. | |
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Rage Breaking Point | |
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Rage Breaking Point: Parodied throughout with Mr. Furious' desperate attempts to invoke the trope through a Minor Insult Meltdown, only to be laughably pathetic every time. At least until Casanova Frankenstein takes his girlfriend hostage, at which point he does hit this. | |
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Legacy Character | |
| Mystery Men / int_c9e5a0db | comment |
A Legacy Character looking for revenge. | |
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Glory Days | |
| Mystery Men / int_cbd2bfa3 | comment |
Glory Days: Captain Amazing hasn't had a decent battle in years. | |
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This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman | |
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This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Played with for Invisible Boy. He can only turn invisible when no one is looking at him, which seems useless until they encounter an automated defense system. Which is not exactly uncommon. | |
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Wax On, Wax Off | |
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Wax On, Wax Off: Parodied when the Sphinx trains the eponymous squad with a series of bizarre physical feats justified by odd wordplay, as seen in this exchange: | |
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Badass Longcoat | |
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Badass Longcoat: Mister Furious wears a black overcoat, drives a black motorcycle and refers to himself as the "lone wolf". | |
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Corporate-Sponsored Superhero | |
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Corporate-Sponsored Superhero: Captain Amazing may well be the Trope Maker, given the sponsorship decals and emblems on his uniform. The plot is kicked off because he suddenly lost the Pepsi sponsorship and is set to lose more sponsors without any real criminals to fight. He also provides the page image. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: Look at the Rousing Speech example below. Who knew making an Egg Salad sandwich could be so awesome? | |
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ToiletHumor | |
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Toilet Humor: A skunk humping the leg of a fart-powered superhero, just to name one example. | |
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Enlightenment Superpowers | |
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Enlightenment Superpowers: The Sphinx can cut guns in half with his mind because he's a "terribly mysterious" mystic. | |
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Superhero Packing Heat | |
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Superhero Packing Heat: The Disco Boys, to our heroes' great amusement, use non-disco guns. | |
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Parting-from-Consciousness Words | |
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Parting-from-Consciousness Words: Right after Captain Amazing asks whether what he just picked up is not evidence, it shoots out a cloud of pink smoke. Captain Amazing is told it'll knock him out and can only briefly protest: | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
| Mystery Men / int_d99a228f | comment |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Invisible Boy's power evolved from the way that everyone in his life ignored him, to the point that the following gets no reaction whatsoever: | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
| Mystery Men / int_d9ffec82 | comment |
Curbstomp Battle: When the Disco gang beats up the trio, they literally throw them on the ground and stomp them. The final fight between Casanova Frankenstein and Mr. Furious starts out with Casanova beating the crap out of him. Once he makes the mistake of triggering Furious' Unstoppable Rage, the tide turns in Furious' favor. | |
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'90s Anti-Hero | |
| Mystery Men / int_da9d2f16 | comment |
'90s Anti-Hero: Parodied. Roy/Mr. Furious wants to be one of these so very, very much, but the result is often quite lame because he's actually a meek, gentle guy and not the formidable rage monster he wants to be. | |
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Sixth Ranger | |
| Mystery Men / int_dabc7a46 | comment |
Their Sixth Ranger is a guy whose superpower is that he's "Terribly mysterious" (and can cut guns in half with his mind). | |
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Action Girl | |
| Mystery Men / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: The Bowler wipes out enemies by throwing a mystic bowling ball possessed by the soul of her father, the original Bowler. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
| Mystery Men / int_db2f3581 | comment |
All Girls Want Bad Boys: Parodied/inverted- Roy (a.k.a Mr. Furious) would very much like to be a bad boy, and struts around making a fool of himself acting like one in the hope of impressing Monica, the waitress on whom he has a crush. Monica, for her part, is never anything less than dismissive of him... until the point when he finally just starts acting like the sweet Nice Guy he ultimately at heart is, at which point she begins to warm to him. | |
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner | |
| Mystery Men / int_db4b76d1 | comment |
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Parodied constantly. The Blue Raja rehearses them in his room. Mr. Furious is constantly trying to come up with these, but as the Bowler accurately points out "your wit is a hindrance, so nothing is provocative — it's all mixed metaphors." He does, however, come up with a pretty good one when he finally gets dangerous: | |
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Malevolent Masked Men | |
| Mystery Men / int_db88b941 | comment |
Malevolent Masked Men: The Red-Eyes, even including a Gas Mask Mook. | |
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LethalJokeWeapon | |
| Mystery Men / int_dba5a4f8 | comment |
Lethal Joke Weapon: Dr. Heller's specialty. He's initially written off because all of his inventions are non-lethal, but then he starts showing off what his inventions can do, including subduing foes by shrinking their clothes, causing enemies to drop everything and start bickering with each other, and even tornado grenades. | |
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Insulted Awake | |
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Insulted Awake: Parodied. The team try this on Mr. Furious when he no longer feels furious, but their insults are so lame and he's become so mild-mannered due to falling in love that they can't even achieve a Minor Insult Meltdown: | |
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Color Character | |
| Mystery Men / int_dc9e682b | comment |
Color Character: The Blue Raja, who doesn't wear blue at all (though it makes perfect sense to him, given his supposed ancestry and nation's history). His friends enjoy pointing out the ridiculousness of this. However, in the end, he finally adds a blue shawl to his costume. | |
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Cat Fight | |
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Cat Fight: between the 2 Wonder Woman wannabes during the recruiting drive, much to the interest of all the Mystery Men. | |
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What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway? | |
| Mystery Men / int_dd3272bb | comment |
What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Everybody on the team, which is central to the premise but special mention goes to Invisible Boy who can only turn invisible when nobody is looking; this is only useful when trying to avoid electronic detection in a room where everybody is on his side and agrees not to look at him (he even has to close his eyes, since it also doesn't work when he's looking at himself). | |
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The Nudifier | |
| Mystery Men / int_ddac33c8 | comment |
The Nudifier: One of Heller's weapons causes fabric to shrink. When used on a gang of scantily-clad women, it incapacitates them... and makes Mr. Furious feel like his trousers are a little tight, too. | |
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Precision-Guided Boomerang | |
| Mystery Men / int_ddc15c81 | comment |
Precision-Guided Boomerang: The Bowler's Bowling Ball will always return to her hand when thrown. Justified due to being possessed by the soul of her dead father. | |
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Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? | |
| Mystery Men / int_de4d1d28 | comment |
Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?: Used to subvert a Title Drop, as they try to think up a team name. | |
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Decon-Recon Switch | |
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Decon-Recon Switch: Despite real life difficulties, the cast still becomes successful crimefighters in their own right. | |
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Please Put Some Clothes On | |
| Mystery Men / int_e0d0fb13 | comment |
Please Put Some Clothes On: The Bowler reacts to Invisible Boy's... "transparency" with this: | |
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The City | |
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The City: Champion City. | |
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Literal-Minded | |
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Literal-Minded: When the Blue Raja asks the Bowler if she really put her father's skull in her bowling ball, she assures him she didn't. "The guy at the Pro Shop did it." | |
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Ambiguously Gay | |
| Mystery Men / int_e34400ab | comment |
Ambiguously Gay: The Blue Raja. Not only is his mother discovering his superhero identity played like a coming-out story, when the two Wonder Woman-esque women start catfighting, all of the other men are staring with interest and he just sort of looks vaguely annoyed and confused. Upping the ambiguous ante, he seems to have some chemistry with the Bowler, who explicitly tells her father that he's not a "fruit" (or a commie). | |
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The Face | |
| Mystery Men / int_e39ce9 | comment |
The Face: Invisible Boy's biggest contribution to the team is his networking ability. "I know lots of super heroes." | |
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Fartillery | |
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Fartillery: "The Spleen," forevermore he who dealt it. | |
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11th-Hour Superpower | |
| Mystery Men / int_e5066b68 | comment |
11th-Hour Superpower: It turns out that Mr. Furious really does have rage-induced powers, he just doesn't have the hair-trigger temper he claims to have. | |
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Expy | |
| Mystery Men / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: To some degree, most of the characters have (or parody) the characteristics of certain trademarked super-heroes and villains. The Blue Raja is one of Hawkeye/Green Arrow (albeit with a different choice of weapon), and Mr. Furious wants to be one of Wolverine or the Hulk. Captain Amazing is a sort of pastiche of Captain America and Batman - with Clark Kent's glasses and Booster Gold's shallow attitude. Casanova Frankenstein is obviously strongly influenced by the Joker, although his gadgeteer tendencies invoke Lex Luthor or Dr. Doom. Also, the initial three members are based on the three classic members of the Justice Society of America: The Shoveler is Jay Garrick, original The Flash (the helmet, and the squeaky-clean personality), Blue Rajah is Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern (the flamboyant attireinvoked and not being dressed in the color he's named after), and Mister Furious is Ted Grant, aka Wildcat (the temper, the (albeit faux) gruff attitude). | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
| Mystery Men / int_e563bf09 | comment |
Insistent Terminology: The Blue Raja constantly corrects anyone who says that the Sphinx is mysterious — he's actually terribly mysterious. Mr. Furious insists on having his steak cooked very rare, then says it means "pink, not bloody". Except "very rare" means bloody and pink would be medium. | |
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Hate Sink | |
| Mystery Men / int_e5fd8bc2 | comment |
Hate Sink: Captain Amazing, real name Lance Hunt, is the superhero of Champion City. Unlike the genuinely heroic Mystery Men, however, Amazing is only in it for the fame and the money and has no respect for his fans or other superheroes. Amazing crosses the line when, in an attempt to keep his sponsors from pulling their endorsements due to his fights being boring without supervillains, he tricks the insane asylum staff in releasing his nemesis Casanova Frankenstein, counting on Casanova to wreak havoc. He does this instead of just quietly giving up the Captain Amazing gig since he loves the fame and money, not because he actually cares for the people of Champion City. After Casanova blows up the asylum, Amazing arrives to apprehend him (showing no concern for all the inmates, guards, and asylum staff who are all dead because of him), but is captured by Casanova instead, and fails to convince Casanova to release him despite promising to help with the evil plan. Considering he spends his final moments yelling at and insulting the Mystery Men, you will probably cheer at his accidental death by psycho-frakulation. | |
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Chain Pain | |
| Mystery Men / int_e6b3e4f2 | comment |
Chain Pain: One of the disco gang has a chain for a weapon. Mr. Furious hangs a lampshade on this when he asks why it isn't at least a gold chain. | |
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Plot Tailored to the Party | |
| Mystery Men / int_e71ad328 | comment |
Plot Tailored to the Party: The assault on Chez Casa Casanova. From invisibility to magic bowling balls to fork throwing etc., everyone's powers are used to solve some problem or obstacle. | |
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Freudian Trio | |
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Freudian Trio: The 'Big Three'. Shoveler as Ego; level-headed balancer. Blue Raja as Superego; obsessed with history and social conventions. Mr. Furious as Id; "I am a ticking time bomb of fury." | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: At Casanova Frankenstein's parole hearing, Dr. Leek assures everyone that Casanova is no more a danger to the city than she is. | |
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The Team | |
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The Team The Big Guy: The Mystery Men have a number of heavy hitters. Spleen's gas attack is "silent but deadly". Dr. Heller has an arsenal of non-lethal weaponry Bowler's bowling ball is like a guided missile and returns when she throws it. When he's truly angry, Mr. Furious is a formidable fighter. The Face: Invisible Boy's biggest contribution to the team is his networking ability. "I know lots of super heroes." The Leader: The Shoveler gives the Rousing Speech. Interestingly, when he says "Leadership, it's what we've been missing." He was looking at Mr.Furious as if disappointed that he didn't live up to this role. The Smart Guy: Dr. Heller is the Gadgeteer Genius who made their gear and transport. The Blue Raja has vast array of specialized forks, a well-researched back story and is a rather knowledgeable history buff. Mentor Archetype: The Sphinx trained them all. | |
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TV Never Lies | |
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TV Never Lies: Parodied during a conversation between Mr. Furious and Monica the waitress: | |
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Gratuitous Disco Sequence | |
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Gratuitous Disco Sequence: Casanova Frankenstein's mansion and main gang all revolve around disco, which is supposedly dead. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: There are a few: The Red-Eyes give Blue Raja an especially vicious wedgie. Roy inflicts one on himself while trying to start his motorcycle; he misses the lever and lands full on the gas tank, then spends the rest of the scene whimpering. Using the shrink-ray on the Furriers gives them, as the Bowler put it "a wedgie they won't soon forget". The Blond Wonder Woman punches the Brunette Wonder Woman down low after the latter punched the former in the face. | |
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Big Electric Switch | |
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Big Electric Switch: Several, and one must be careful about how many times one flips each one because otherwise you could kill someone. | |
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Disco Dan | |
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Disco Dan: The Disco boys are an entire Gang of Hats of them but "there's no theme at all" with their weapons. | |
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Aerosol Flamethrower | |
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Aerosol Flamethrower: Tony P. uses what appears to be a custom one of these in his final confrontation with the Bowler. | |
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Tornado Move | |
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Tornado Move: Dr. Heller has invented a "Tornado in a Can". He uses one to get the heroes' attention when they have decided he was a crackpot and go to leave. | |
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Emergency Weapon | |
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Emergency Weapon: The Shoveler, sans shovel, deflects an attack with a trowel. | |
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Evil Plan | |
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Evil Plan: Casanova Frankenstein plans to use the Psycho-frakulator on the city, which will fry their brains. No one knows why he wants to do this, but then again, he did spend the last thirty years in a nut house. | |
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Bizarro Apocalypse | |
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Bizarro Apocalypse: The Big Bad's doomsday weapon is the Psycho-Frackulator, a machine that physically and lethally warps reality into twisted and disturbing shapes. This is used on the imprisoned Captain Amazing with disturbing results, leaving a twisted and unrecognizable corpse. Later, it's turned on the city and causes mass destruction, though of a more mundane nature. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: In-universe, as Captain Amazing's costume is plastered in corporate logos. | |
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Why Don't You Marry It? | |
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Why Don't You Marry It?: The Bowler says this to The Shoveler about Mr. Furious, which turns into an Argument of Contradictions. | |
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Terrible Interviewees Montage | |
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Terrible Interviewees Montage: The audition sequence, in which the team goes through the likes of "The Waffler", "Ballerina Man", and "PMS Avenger". | |
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Weaponized Ball | |
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Weaponized Ball: The Bowler uses a bowling ball possessed by the spirit of her father (the original Bowler) as a weapon. | |
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Dude, Where's My Respect? | |
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Dude, Where's My Respect?: Mr. Furious throughout the film. Everyone from his boss, to the police, to his own teammates disrespect him. Of course his teammates get no respect either, except from their own families. | |
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Blame Game | |
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Blame Game: The Blame-Thrower. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: "Why don't you tell me?" "Why don't you tell me?" The heroes failing to agree on a name for their gang, leading to a subverted Title Drop at the end. | |
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I Call It "Vera" | |
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I Call It "Vera": Justified in the case of The Bowler, who calls her bowling ball Carmine because it's possessed by the spirit of her father, Carmine (and contains his skull). It talks back, although only she can hear it. | |
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You Killed My Father | |
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You Killed My Father: The Bowler. Downplayed by the fact it's her dead father who ultimately avenges himself. | |
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Gadgeteer Genius | |
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Gadgeteer Genius: Heller. He makes cutting edge nonlethal weapons in his trailer. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: This exchange between The Blue Raja and The Bowler. | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: "I guess tonight, the lone wolf... hunts... alone." | |
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Skyward Scream | |
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Skyward Scream: Mr. Furious does this when he's trying (and failing (and then succeeding)) to invoke Unstoppable Rage. | |
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Evil Is Hammy | |
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Evil Is Hammy: God yes. Geoffrey Rush clearly understood the assignment when told he would be playing a comic book villain. Eddie Izzard gets a few moments as well as Tony P. | |
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Fork Fencing | |
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Fork Fencing: The Blue Raja wields forks (not knives!). | |
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