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Reservoir Dogs is a 1992 crime film which most notably marked the debut of Quentin Tarantino as a director and a screenwriter.The film largely takes place in the aftermath of a jewelry heist gone wrong. After the robbery (which we never see on camera) is interrupted by the police, the surviving criminals — all of whom are using color-based pseudonyms, and none of whom knew the others before this job — escape to an abandoned warehouse and try to work out what went wrong, eventually deducing that there must be an undercover cop in their midst.Frequent flashbacks give the backstory of several of the characters and fill in the details of the crime, telling the story in a non-linear fashion, which would go on to become Tarantino's Signature Style. In fact, the movie contains a lot of elements Tarantino would use in later films, such as brutal violence, profanity, and Seinfeldian Conversations (though not at the same time).A licensed video game was produced that followed the plot of the movie and allowed the player to actually commit the heist that was only alluded to in the film. On a similar note, Lionsgate collaborated with Overkill Software on December 2017 to create a free update to PAYDAY 2 which paid Whole-Plot Reference homage to this film, and stars a few of the characters to boot!note Mr. Pink, Mr. Blonde, and Mr. Brown, with a pissed-off Cabot being mentioned. The heist also reverses the day order, keeping in tune with the non-chronological nature of the film.
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Anyone Can Die
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Anyone Can Die: And they all do, except for Mr. Pink.
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Creator Cameo
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Creator Cameo: Quentin Tarantino plays Mr. Brown, and producer Lawrence Bender plays one of the cops chasing Mr. Pink.
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Human Shield
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Human Shield: Mr. Pink escapes the shootout by using a cop as one; the same cop Mr. Blonde later tortures.
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Insists on Being Suspected
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Insists on Being Suspected: Mr. Pink tries explaining this to Mr. White about there being a mole in the gang.
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Never Trust a Trailer
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Never Trust a Trailer: The previews make it look like an action-packed thrill ride, but in actuality it's a very slow drama that barely has any action.
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: Quentin Tarantino plays Mr. Brown, who doesn't last very long. A better example would be Eddie Bunker (Mr. Blue), who has even fewer lines and less screen time. He is even occasionally omitted from promo materials. Even the tagline at the top describes the caper crew as having five members, when there are actually six men. Steven Wright is the voice of the disk jockey. Using the lowkey-to-the-point-of-coma Wright to play a DJ has to be a joke.
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The Caper
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The Caper: The movie does an interesting subversion by completely skipping the caper itself. Instead, all we see are some of the preparations and the disastrous aftermath.
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The Stoic
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The Stoic: Deconstructed with Mr. Blonde. He's an unflappable, perma-cool stoic… because he's also a psychopath. Mr. Blue fits this, considering he barely has any lines.
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Fingore
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Fingore: Mr. White advises Mr. Orange to do this if ever faced with an uncooperative civilian during a robbery.
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Cult Soundtrack
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Cult Soundtrack: As with most of Tarantino's soundtracks. "Little Green Bag" by the George Baker Selection and "Stuck In The Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel especially gained new popularity and even Pop-Cultural Osmosis thanks to this picture.
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Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
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A better example would be Eddie Bunker (Mr. Blue), who has even fewer lines and less screen time. He is even occasionally omitted from promo materials. Even the tagline at the top describes the caper crew as having five members, when there are actually six men.
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Brutal Honesty
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Brutal Honesty: Mr. Blonde explains to Marvin why he's torturing him, which is that he feels like it.
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Man: Mr. Pink spends a lot of time playing this role ("Am I the only fucking professional here!?") as things get more heated between the other thieves. As a reward for his sanity, he's the only one who lives, though it doesn't save him from the cops.
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Funny Background Event: During the tense standoff between Mr. White and Mr. Blonde, when Mr. Blonde repeats his remark of "Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite?", Mr. Pink facepalms at the overwhelming display of testosterone.
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog: In the end, not only do the police show up, everyone involved in the heist (besides Mr. Pink) is killed, rendering both the mission of the police (to bring in Joe Cabot and potentially get more information from him in addition to taking him out of the crime syndicate) and the mission of the criminals (to steal the diamonds and get paid) completely moot. All the effort is completely wasted, and the whole thing goes down the toilet.
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Extremely Short Timespan
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Extremely Short Timespan: The majority of the movie is set during the scant few hours immediately following the heist.
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Ax-Crazy
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Ax-Crazy: Mr. Blonde's trigger-happy behavior leads to Mr. Pink's realization that they were set up when the cops show up early. He's the only member of the team that Pink declares that he absolutely trusts not to be a rat —- "He's too damn homicidal to be working with the cops!" And, well, just in case some of the viewers might be inclined to dismiss all that as hearsay, he finally gets to prove himself onscreen...
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Psycho for Hire
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Psycho for Hire: Mr. Blonde is described as having gone berserk during the robbery, and the other robbers take him to task for being a "psychopath" instead of a "professional." The "ear" scene is one of the most twisted scenes in film history, and during it, he even managed to disturb his own actor, thanks to an ad-lib by his victim. Ultimately deconstructed, as the fact that Blonde is pretty Ax-Crazy leads to far too many problems for his employers than they can handle, and his associates would never have done a job with him if they knew, because someone who enjoys what he does that much is just inherently unpredictable.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: Though both are hardened criminals who will kill people if they have no other option, both White and Pink are disgusted by Blonde's pointless killing spree and consider him a psychopath. Subverted by Nice Guy Eddie; while he's quite angry that the robbery turned into a bullet festival, he barely has any reaction when told that his friend Mr. Blonde is the cause of the shooting spree. Upon discovering that Blonde sadistically tortured the cop he kidnapped, he casually executes the cop. Most of the crew are also disgusted at Mr. Pink's refusal to tip the waitress; even Mr. Blonde, the guy who kills and tortures purely for fun, calls him out on it.
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Everyone Is a Suspect: A villainous version. Mr. Pink deduces that the diamond job was a set-up, and starts asking the real important questions: who tipped off the police to the heist? The only person he can rule out is himself.
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Kick the Dog: Mr. White, Mr. Pink, and Mr. Brown's brutal beatdown of Marvin the cop.
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Cluster F-Bomb: It's a Tarantino film, what did you expect? One representative gem:
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: There are a few moments where you can really tell Tim Roth is not American (pay attention to the way he says 'dog' in the commode story), but it becomes very obvious whenever Mr. Orange is in enough agony for it to alter his speech.
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Flipping the Bird: How Mr. Pink plays the World's Smallest Violin just for the waitresses he refuses to tip —- an eagle-eyed viewer will notice that he rubs his thumb and middle finger together as he does so.
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Actor Allusion: Eddie Bunker appears as Mr. Blue. Bunker was a former criminal who wrote a semi-autobiographical crime book titled Little Boy Blue. After the film, he wrote a follow-up titled Mr. Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade. Joe, played by veteran actor Lawrence Tierney, says at one point that Mr. Blue is "as dead as Dillinger". Tierney's first major film role was playing John Dillinger in Dillinger (1945).
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Face Death with Dignity: Averted. Mr. Orange, Mr. White, and the cop break down into hysterics when shot or tortured. Not that anyone could blame them.
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Team Power Walk: The opening credits intercalate the gang walking with closeups of the characters, to the tune of "Little Green Bag". This is probably one of the most famous images from the movie.
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Story Within a Story: Even as Mr. Orange is relating his story about running into four cops in the bathroom with a bag full of drugs, one of the cops in the story is talking about how he nearly blew away someone who was reaching for his license and registration. Both of which are in a story that Mr. Orange is telling… which is in the Mr. Orange story… which is part of the Reservoir Dogs story.
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Noodle Incident: We see the planning and we see the aftermath, and we get plenty of hints about what went down, but the actual heist itself goes unseen.
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Pistol-Whipping: Pink uses the butt of his pistol to smash the window of a car and pull the driver out through the window.
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
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Averted with Mr. Brown, who takes a bullet to the head. In an unusually realistic manner, he lives long enough to drive away from the scene of the crime with blood streaming down his face. The wound is clearly playing havoc with his perception and/or cognitive processes, but he does okay until he crashes into another car.
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Captain Obvious: When Mr. Blonde is asked about Mr. Blue's fate.
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World's Smallest Violin
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World's Smallest Violin: Mr. Pink plays the world's smallest violin for the underpaid waitresses he refuses on principle to tip.
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Torture Always Works: Averted; despite being beaten and having petrol poured on him, uniformed officer Marvin Nash doesn't give away that Mr. Orange is an undercover police officer. Nash knew who Orange was and recognized him on sight, having met him before at another police officer's party. This also gets discussed prior by Nice Guy Eddie when he points out that even if the guys do get the cop to talk, he'll start telling them outright nonsense if they beat him enough just to get a break.
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Fluffy the Terrible
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Fluffy the Terrible: Nice Guy Eddie. Also, all of the robbers have names like "Mr. Pink" and "Mr. Blonde".
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Killed Offscreen: Of the two robbers who are revealed to have been killed in the fallout of the jewel store robbery gone wrong, one of them was witnessed by two others (and shown in flashback), but nobody has any clue what happened to Mr. Blue until the end of the movie, when Joe confirms that Blue was killed by the cops.
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Cold-Blooded Torture
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Cold-Blooded Torture: The infamous scene where Mr. Blonde slices the bank cop's ear off and slashes his face.
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Tranquil Fury
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Tranquil Fury: In spite of being a psychopath, Mr. Blonde never raises his voice, and has a perpetually casual, yet irritated air about him. He was relaxed enough after the botched robbery to stop for a post-shootout snack with a cop in his trunk.
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Ask a Stupid Question...
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Ask a Stupid Question...: When Mr. White badgers "Nice Guy" Eddie to get some medical help for Mr. Orange.
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Butt-Monkey
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Butt-Monkey: Marvin. He's brutally tortured by Mr. Blonde for no other reason than the fact he's a cop and then shot dead by Eddie mere minutes after Mr. Orange saved him.
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Funetik Aksent
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"Coconut" playing over the final credits. Going from "PUT THE GUN DOWN ON THE GROUND!" BAMBAMBAM to Put da lime in da coconut is very strange indeed. It may be an intentional joke, as Mr. Orange has something of a bellyache throughout most of the movie. Further, White has a gun pressed to Orange's head and very obviously pulls the trigger before he's shot down by police and it fades to black, which might be darkly joking that White's bullet was the lime, put into Orange's head (the coconut), and being fatally shot, Orange's bellyache from his bullet wound is officially cured.
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Gory Discretion Shot: The camera pans away and looks at the ramp while Mr. Blonde torturously cuts off Marvin's ear. However, the aftermath is shown somewhat frequently.
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: After the Establishing Character Moment, the opening credits shows all actors with their names, "and Tim Roth" at the end, hinting that he is not like the others.
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I Have a Family
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Downer Ending: All of the sympathetic characters have died by the end, including the entire caper crew except for possibly Mr. Pink.
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Wham Line
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Wham Line: "Listen to me, Marvin Nash. I'm a cop."
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Chesterfield cigarettes, a real brand, appear instead of the fictional Red Apple brand that is the go-to cigarette brand in all of Tarantino's later works. Also, no foot shots in this movie.
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Seinfeldian Conversation
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Seinfeldian Conversation: The film opens on one about the meaning of "Like a Virgin" and why Mr. Pink doesn't tip waitresses, among other things. Those first two conversations are loaded with double meanings and Foreshadowing, however.
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Undercover Cop Reveal: Mr. Orange gets two: one just after killing Mr. Blonde, and again after Mr. White gets shot and seriously wounded defending Mr. Orange from accusations of being the rat.
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What Measure Is a Mook?: Mr. Pink asks Mr. White if he had to kill anyone. White admits to killing a few cops, to which Pink replies, "Any real people?" The response: "No, just cops."
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Flashback: Several, for most of the main characters. Denied by Tarantino, who claims to hate these scenes being referred to as flashbacks, and prefers to think of it as a particular order that the audience will receive information in, similar to reading a novel. Lending credence to this is the fact that none of the flashback scenes are preceded by a character reminiscing about past events.
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Guns Akimbo
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Guns Akimbo: Mr. White has a scene where he uses a pair of pistols to shoot some policemen through the windshield of their cruiser.
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Minimalism: The movie doesn't actually show the jewel heist, nor in fact does it show much of anything. With the vast majority of the film set in an empty warehouse that is serving as the gangsters' hideout, we don't get to see the elaborate planning, how exactly it went wrong, or much of the shootouts that ensued; instead, what we get to see is the crooks sitting around discussing the aftermath. The film also has no orchestral score, relying instead on select songs to carry the audience through quiet passages. In fact, it's easy to imagine this as a play.
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Meaningful Background Event
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Meaningful Background Event: Mr. Pink's arrest. It takes place off-screen at the exact moment that Mr. Orange confesses to Mr. White that he's an undercover cop. In the scene where Eddie talks on the phone in the car, an orange balloon passes by. That actually wasn't in the script.
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Pragmatic Villainy: Mr. Pink expresses outrage over Mr. Blonde's killing spree, but it's mostly because the murders weren't "professional," having no practical purpose to getting them closer to their goals. Mr. White expresses his Opposition along more overtly moral grounds.
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Awesome McCoolname: Discussed. Joe actively avoids this, on the grounds that the groups working for him always gets hung up on who gets to be "Mr. Black" if he lets them choose their own code names. And then subverted, both as a trope and within the group, by a discussion about being named "Mr. Pink", as Mr. Pink immediately gets into an argument with Joe about it, saying he might as well be "Mr. Pussy". Joe points out why he picks the names for them in the first place, and tells Mr. Pink that he should be glad he's not Mr. Yellow.
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Agonizing Stomach Wound: Mr. Orange is slowly bleeding out from being gut-shot and spends a lot of his on-screen time screaming and moaning. It's bad enough that when the cop is sobbing after having his ear cut off, Mr. Orange screams at him that his pain's worse.
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Mr. Blonde jokingly offers to shoot Mr. White for not returning Joe his notebook, hinting at his eventual reveal as a violent psychopath, and establishing his laid-back personality… which he keeps even as he brutally tortures a cop.
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"Nice Guy" Eddie initially seems to live up to his nickname, but is in fact as ruthless as Mr. Blonde. His reaction to the others telling him that Mr. Blonde jeopardized the heist by going Off the Rails is basically a "So what?" In addition, when Mr. Orange tells Eddie that Mr. Blonde tortured a cop and nearly set him on fire, as justification for shooting Mr. Blonde, his reaction is to shoot the cop Blonde maimed without a second thought. There's a reason he and Blonde were best friends.
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Bottle Episode: Quentin Tarantino has said he wrote the script like this to keep the costs down so it would be more likely to be filmed. The majority of the movie takes place in the warehouse, while Mr. Orange's apartment and Joe's office were located in the same building. The building was a former funeral home, which is why there was a hearse and coffins inside.
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Nice Guy Eddie and Joe clearly do love each other, and Eddie flips out when Mr. White points his gun at Joe near the end. Eddie also seems to care about Mr. Blonde too. When Eddie sees Blonde's dead body on the floor, he is noticeably upset and almost on the verge of tears.
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Four-Temperament Ensemble: The four main gangsters: Choleric: Mr. Pink, the obsessive perfectionist. Melancholic: Mr. Blonde, the stone-cold, introverted badass with a psychopathic streak. Leukine: Mr. Orange, the naive rookie who remains trusting when he gets in over his head. Sanguine: Mr. White, the charismatic veteran who sticks up for the rookie.
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Wild Mass Guessing: In-universe, Mr. Brown expounds upon his unique perspective on "Like a Virgin"; specifically, his theory that it's actually about how the pain the main character of the song, a sex maniac, feels during her recent act of sex is the same as the first time she had sex. "Hence, 'Like a Virgin'."
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Ironic Nickname: Nice Guy Eddie is most definitely not actually nice.
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Gay Bravado
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Gay Bravado: Between Mr. Blonde and Nice Guy Eddie in the former's introductory chapter.
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Jerkass Has a Point: Mr. Pink may not be the nicest guy in the world, but he is the first one to point out that the robbery was a set-up, and in general is right about a lot of other things, such as pointing out to Mr. White that he shouldn't have given his name to Mr. Orange on the off chance he is the rat. Mr. Orange is later revealed to be an undercover cop, proving him right. The entire "tipping argument" is this for Mr. Pink. While his beliefs on the issue are rather callous, he's completely right to point out how arbitrary the system is (since it's what allows employers to pay waitresses so poorly, and doesn't apply to other people working in similar jobs).
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The Reveal
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The Reveal: The undercover cop is Mr. Orange.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name/Bilingual Bonus: Joe and 'Nice Guy Eddie' Cabot. Cabot is a slang word for 'dog' in French. See the Word Salad Title entry.
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Politically Incorrect Villain: Ethnic slurs abound, and several characters, both sympathetic and unsympathetic, display casual racism and sexism in conversation. They are all Villain Protagonists, after all.
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Covers Always Lie
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Covers Always Lie: "Five total strangers team up for the perfect crime." There are actually six of them: White, Orange, Blonde, Pink, Blue, and Brown. Not to mention Joe and Nice Guy Eddie, who technically bring the count to eight.
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Noble Demon
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Noble Demon: Mr. White may be the most honorable of the bunch, but he's still a ruthless criminal who will shoot any "dumb motherfucker" in his way to get out clean.
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Mirror Monologue
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Mirror Monologue: Orange has one before going to meet the group, pumping himself up and assuring himself that the others have no idea he's a cop.
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The Comically Serious
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The Comically Serious: The voice-over of the K-BILLY DJ. His lines are written like the typical radio jive, but — played as he is by Steven Wright — the DJ sounds bored out of his brains delivering them. Which is the joke.
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Protectorate
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Protectorate: Mr. White is very keen on protecting Mr. Orange, and this strong desire is what leads to a Mexican Standoff, the subsequent deaths of Joe and Nice Guy Eddie, and Mr. White himself getting shot in what appears to be an eventually fatal wound.
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Heroic Bloodshed
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Pretty much the entire plot is lifted from a Heroic Bloodshed film called City on Fire. The code names are lifted from The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.
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Celebrity Paradox: During the famous opening scene where the guys have a Seinfeldian Conversation about the true meaning of Madonna's "Like a Virgin", nobody seems to notice that Madonna's former brother-in-law is sitting at the table sipping coffee; Nice Guy Eddie is played by Chris Penn, the younger brother of Madonna's ex-husband Sean Penn.
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The Infiltration: Mr. Orange is a cop who has infiltrated Joe's organization.
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Orbital Shot: The opening scene at the diner, where the protagonists are having a Seinfeldian Conversation while the camera spins around the table.
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Establishing Character Moment: We learn everything we need to know about the main four criminals in the opening diner scene. Mr. Pink refuses to tip the waitress, and explains he'd only do so if she did a fantastic job, showing that he's self-centered, a perfectionist, and has little sympathy for others. He's also very high-strung; he guzzles coffee like a fish, prompting Nice Guy Eddie to tease him that coffee is "the last thing you need." Mr. White gets angry at Mr. Pink's stinginess and passionately explains why waitresses need tips, showing that he's good-natured, a bit of a hot-head who'll go to bat for others, and sympathetic. He's also no-nonsense, cracking that all he retained from the previous Seinfeldian Conversation is "Madonna's big dick coming out of my left ear," and he's the most likely to stand up to Joe; he grabs Joe's notebook away and refuses to give it back. Mr. Blonde jokingly offers to shoot Mr. White for not returning Joe his notebook, hinting at his eventual reveal as a violent psychopath, and establishing his laid-back personality… which he keeps even as he brutally tortures a cop. When Joe asks the crew which one of them didn't tip, Mr. Orange immediately rats Mr. Pink out —- foreshadowing the revelation that he's an undercover cop. Earlier, he's the only one to change his mind and ask for his dollar back after Mr. Pink's ranting. To add to this, both Mr. Brown, and especially Mr. Blue, speak the least of the six characters, fitting their minimal role in the plot. Notably, what part they do have in the conversation is completely irrelevant: Mr. Blue casually makes a mention of Vicki Lawrence's "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia," and Mr. Brown goes on a long, ranting, rambling deconstruction of Madonna's "Like a Virgin."
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AM/FM Characterization: The pairing of Mr. Blonde's Torture Porn with "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel is the perfect complement for how seriously he doesn't take the situation.
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It Amused Me
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It Amused Me: "It amuses me to torture a cop."
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Oblivious Guilt Slinging: Kinda taken to the next level. White takes a bullet trying to convince Joe that Orange is not the rat. Orange feels indebted... problem is, he actually is the rat.
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Mexican Standoff
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When Eddie gets involved in the Mexican Standoff between himself, his dad, and Mr. White, his composure slowly breaks down, and finally he screams at Mr. White to stop pointing his gun at his dad before shooting him.
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Reality Is Unrealistic: The fact that Mr. Brown was able to drive a car some distance and get in some last words after being shot clear through his brain isn't as remarkable as it seems at first; though the bullet played a key part in his demise, any medical professional will tell you it was a lack of medical attention that did him in.
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Mr. Pink makes off with the suitcase, and we never learn what happened to him, although background noises as Mr. White cradles Mr. Orange suggest he is shot and possibly arrested. The mysterious suitcase in Pulp Fiction was originally supposed to have contained a cache of diamonds, which has led many fans to speculate that it's the same suitcase as in this movie (which would mean that someone managed to sell the diamonds sometime after the robbery, or Mr. Pink did manage to escape the cops and sold off the diamonds).
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The Big Board
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The Big Board: One showing the layout of the diamond wholesaler is set up behind Joe in the code-name assigning scene.
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Villain Protagonist
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Villain Protagonist: Pretty much everybody, as the main characters display Black-and-Gray Morality at best, although White is a Noble Demon and Orange is arguably good, being a cop.
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Artistic License – Law Enforcement
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Artistic License – Law Enforcement: In Mr. Orange's story about encountering several police officers, one of whom has a canine with him, he talks about how he has to play it cool when the dog starts growling and getting aggressive towards him (implying it's a narcotics dog and he's carrying drugs). In reality, dogs that are trained to sniff out narcotics, explosives and contraband do not behave this way. It's a very bad idea, as it would make a tense situation even worse. In reality, such dogs are trained to simply sit down next to the person or object where they've detected something. This is an extremely common trope in movies and television. Mr. Orange's story is entirely made up and he's actually an undercover cop, so he may actually be relying on this common misconception to fool the criminals he's talking to. None of them call him out on it, hinting that these robbers don't have much experience in the drug business.
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Asshole Victim
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Asshole Victim: Many characters are this. Mr. Blonde botched the heist by starting a shootout in the jewelry store, killing several cops and innocent bystanders; Mr. White and Mr. Pink note that one civilian was barely twenty years old. Furthermore, Blonde is a sadist who tortures and nearly immolates a cop for no reason whatsoever. Only "Nice Guy" Eddie is saddened by his death. Mr. White, despite being the most likeable of the lot, hates cops to the point that that he immediately turns on his protegé Mr. Orange when the latter reveals his true identity as an undercover cop and (possibly) shoots him in cold blood. Mr. Pink also falls under this, although, unlike Mr. White, who antagonizes Mr. Blonde at every turn and tries to rein him in, Pink's overall spinelessness keeps him under Blonde's radar, allowing him to escape the Mexican Standoff near the finale alive (albeit in police custody). "Nice Guy" Eddie initially seems to live up to his nickname, but is in fact as ruthless as Mr. Blonde. His reaction to the others telling him that Mr. Blonde jeopardized the heist by going Off the Rails is basically a "So what?" In addition, when Mr. Orange tells Eddie that Mr. Blonde tortured a cop and nearly set him on fire, as justification for shooting Mr. Blonde, his reaction is to shoot the cop Blonde maimed without a second thought. There's a reason he and Blonde were best friends.
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The Penance
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The Penance: It only really becomes clear after watching it a second time, but by the end of the movie, it's clear that the robbers are actively being injured according to who they've hurt/killed: Mr. Pink is shown shooting a cop in the arm during his escape and is shot non-fatally off-screen. Mr. White kills three cops (including Mr. Orange) and is shot three times. Mr. Blonde (off-screen) goes on a homicidal rampage, killing several innocents, and is shot 12 times by Mr. Orange. Mr. Orange shoots and kills a woman and Mr. Blonde. He is shot twice. Nice Guy Eddie, while not a robber, shoots and kills Marvin Nash. He is shot once by Mr. White. Joe Cabot shoots Mr. Orange once, and is also shot once by Mr. White.
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Karmic Death
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Karmic Death: The robbers held a jewellery store hostage and got many people killed. All of them save for one die after the fact. Special emphasis goes to Mr. Blonde's Multiple Gunshot Death, as he had the highest body count.
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Rule of Symbolism
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Rule of Symbolism: The bulk of the main story takes place in an old funeral home. None of the main characters, save for Mr. Pink, make it out alive.
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Death by Disfigurement
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Death by Disfigurement: The cop is killed after he receives facial scars and loses an ear, even pointing out that he's "deformed" before he's killed.
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Cowardly Yellow
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Cowardly Yellow: "Mr. Pink" objects to the color he gets for a codename, saying it makes him sound like a pussy. Joe Cabot, his boss, retorts that he should be thankful he's not "Mr. Yellow".
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Villainous Breakdown
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Villainous Breakdown: When Eddie gets involved in the Mexican Standoff between himself, his dad, and Mr. White, his composure slowly breaks down, and finally he screams at Mr. White to stop pointing his gun at his dad before shooting him. Mr. White when he finds out that his newfound friend —- for whom he just killed a well-trusted friend and defended to the very last —- was actually a policeman all along.
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Faux Affably Evil: Mr. Blonde cheerfully cuts off a struggling cop's ear while dancing to "Stuck in the Middle with You." This only serves to amp up how much of a psychopath he is.
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Let Me Get This Straight...
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Let Me Get This Straight...: Nice Guy Eddie does this twice: First when he discovers that Mr. Pink doesn't believe in tipping: Later, when he refuses to believe Mr. Orange's explanation for why he had to shoot Mr. Blonde:
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Word Salad Title
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Word Salad Title: "Reservoir Dogs" comes from Tarantino's video store boss referring to Au revoir les enfants as "that reservoir dogs movie." Tarantino simply liked the phrase, and it has no official meaning in regards to the film, which features zero real dogs (the only one we see is in a false recollection by Mr. Orange) and zero reservoirs. Unless you count it as a pun on "dam(n) sons of bitches".
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: Orange's faked flashback foreshadows the ending: in it, a cop repeatedly tells a suspect that he's going to blow him away if he keeps moving to apparently draw a weapon. Another cop tells White the exact same thing as he pulls out his gun to kill Orange. During the dining scene, Orange snitches on Pink by telling Joe Cabot about his philosophy on tipping (that is, "he don't tip"), to the point where Joe straight up tells him to shut up as Pink can talk for himself. Guess who ends up being the rat?.
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "I. Won't. Tell. Them. Anything!"
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Badass in a Nice Suit
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Badass in a Nice Suit: Most of the cast, complete with Cool Shades.
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Whip Pan
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Whip Pan: One is used when Mr. Orange is telling his bathroom anecdote (encountering the cops in a restroom while he's toting marijuana).
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My God, What Have I Done?
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My God, What Have I Done?: We also see a flash of this on Orange's face after he kills the woman who was defending herself against their carjacking. She shot him first, but still, he's a cop who just killed a civilian in the heat of the moment. In the scene where Mr. White kills two policemen, Mr. Orange clearly feels remorse for not being able to stop him.
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Nice to the Waiter
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Nice to the Waiter: Subverted. The opinionated Mr. Pink (who later turns out to be one of the more levelheaded robbers) doesn't believe in tipping just because "society tells him to," but the rest of the criminals, some of them pretty rough customers, are all united in finding that behavior unacceptable, except an undercover cop.
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Cop Killer
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Cop Killer: None of the guys really care about a dead cop or two.
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Mutilation Interrogation
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Mutilation Interrogation: During a planning scene for the heist, Mr. White mentions this to Mr. Orange: Defied by Mr. Blonde in the torture scene. He starts cutting pieces off the cop he captured (Marvin Nash), but he specifically notes beforehand that he doesn't care at all about any information the cop might tell him; he's doing this just for fun.
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Died in Your Arms Tonight
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Died in Your Arms Tonight: Albeit with a twist. Mr. White, who is holding Mr. Orange, attempts to shoot Orange while he's holding him, though the movie ends before it becomes clear whether he succeeds or not.
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: Narrowly averted. If you listen closely, you can hear Mr. Pink get caught by the police.
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Instant Death Bullet
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Instant Death Bullet: Famously averted with Mr. Orange throughout the movie, and at the end, Mr. White. Averted with Mr. Brown, who takes a bullet to the head. In an unusually realistic manner, he lives long enough to drive away from the scene of the crime with blood streaming down his face. The wound is clearly playing havoc with his perception and/or cognitive processes, but he does okay until he crashes into another car.
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Sole Survivor
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Sole Survivor: Mr. Pink, though he does not escape justice.
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Dramatic Irony
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Dramatic Irony: After shooting down Mr. Blonde, Mr. Orange reveals to Marvin (and the audience) that he is an undercover cop. When he comes back to the warehouse, Mr. White goes to great lengths to protect Mr. Orange, and even finally kills an old, reliable friend to save him. Mr. Orange promises that he won't tell the cops about Mr. White if White gets him to a hospital. But Orange is an undercover cop. Mr. Pink keeps on saying that they should just get out of the warehouse and go into hiding, but goes along with Mr. White anyway. If he'd made good on this, he wouldn't have been arrested. Mr. Blonde went on a killing spree at the diamond store. He's never seen killing anyone onscreen. Marvin swears black and blue that he doesn't know about any setup, even when he's being doused with gasoline. He does know, and even recognises Mr. Orange.
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Soundtrack Dissonance
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Soundtrack Dissonance: "Stuck in the Middle" plays during the torture sequence◊. "Coconut" playing over the final credits. Going from "PUT THE GUN DOWN ON THE GROUND!" BAMBAMBAM to Put da lime in da coconut is very strange indeed. It may be an intentional joke, as Mr. Orange has something of a bellyache throughout most of the movie. Further, White has a gun pressed to Orange's head and very obviously pulls the trigger before he's shot down by police and it fades to black, which might be darkly joking that White's bullet was the lime, put into Orange's head (the coconut), and being fatally shot, Orange's bellyache from his bullet wound is officially cured.
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Character Filibuster
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Character Filibuster: The random talk at the diner early on, which involves a debate over Madonna's "Like a Virgin" and its true meaning, and whether or not one ought to tip their server.
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Punk in the Trunk
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Punk in the Trunk: Nash, the cop that Mr. Blonde grabs as a hostage during the robbery.
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Pyrrhic Victory
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Pyrrhic Victory: While Mr. Orange's undercover ploy succeeded in bringing down Joe, Eddie, and the rest of the robbers, it led not only to his own slow, agonizing death, but also to a violent botched robbery where multiple civilians and cops died in the process.
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For the Evulz
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For the Evulz: Mr. Blonde states bluntly that he's going to torture the cop purely because he enjoys it, and he doesn't give a damn about any information the cop may or may not have.
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Deadpan Snarker: Everybody gets their shot in at one point, but especially Mr. Pink (notably including the "world's smallest violin" bit).
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All for Nothing
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All for Nothing: Mr. Orange/Freddy kills Mr. Blonde to save Marvin's life, only for Nice Guy Eddie to shoot and kill Marvin anyway in a fit of rage.
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Moral Myopia
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Moral Myopia: Mr. White is sickened by the fact that Mr. Blonde killed random innocent civilians just because someone pulled the alarm, yet kills cops without remorse and claims he will easily shoot or harm anyone who gets in his way during an escape.
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All Issues Are Political Issues
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All Issues Are Political Issues: Mr. Pink does this at the beginning as he explains the political philosophy behind tipping.
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Power of Trust
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Power of Trust: Subverted and played horribly straight in the same action. Orange tells White that he's a cop, obviously upset and feeling indebted due to White having taken a bullet to defend his innocence. White, horrified at the revelation, points his loaded, cocked pistol at his head.
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Ten Little Murder Victims
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Ten Little Murder Victims: The film's main plot, after a fashion. A couple of criminals are holed up in a warehouse after their attempted robbery went horribly wrong thanks to a set-up, and they have to figure out which of them is the rat.
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Onscreen Chapter Titles
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Onscreen Chapter Titles: After the prologue, the film is divided into three chapters named after characters ("Mr. White", "Mr. Blonde", and "Mr. Orange").
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Color-Coded Characters: Played with; although each of the robbers has a colour-based codename (Mr. White, Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, Mr. Brown, Mr. Blue, and Mr. Blonde), they all wear identical black suits, shades, and have their (mostly dark) hair slicked back in order to make identification more difficult for witnesses.
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Berserk Button: Mr. Blonde really doesn't like alarms. While his reaction to the alarm is left off-screen, it's discussed at length by the other characters (he apparently began going on a rampage that involved unnecessarily shooting people), and is responsible for the situation everyone's in. Mr. White gets defensive every time someone questions Orange's loyalty or shows a lack of concern over his well-being. Likewise, Nice Guy Eddie clearly does not like the idea of suggesting Mr. Blonde/Vic would rip off him and his father because of their friendship to Vic and Vic's loyalty to Joe and Eddie.
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Alliterative Name
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Alliterative Name: Vic Vega, played by Michael Madsen.
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Torture Is Ineffective: According to Eddie, not that Mr. Blonde actually cares.
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Irony: The undercover cop is fatally wounded by a random civilian. Mr. Blue, the most professional-looking criminal is among the firsts to die, and the only one to kick the bucket offscreen.
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Boom, Headshot! What happens to Mr. Brown. Unlike many other movies, he doesn't immediately die from it, and it takes a few minutes before he succumbs to his wounds.
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Tuneless Song of Madness: Mr. Blonde's famous use of "Stuck In The Middle With You" while torturing the policeman, illustrating his utter psychopathy.
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And Starring
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And Starring: And Tim Roth. However, the poster and seemingly all of the promotional materials are: And Michael Madsen, giving Madsen the special billing credit everywhere but in the film itself.
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Internal Reveal: When Mr. Orange reveals to Mr. White that he is a cop.
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I Knew There Was Something About You: During the final standoff, Joe tells everyone that Mr. Orange was the one guy that he wasn't 100% on.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Mr. Brown has a crazy theory about the hidden message of "Like a Virgin" by Madonna. He also references Charles Bronson in The Great Escape during his explanation. Pretty much the entire plot is lifted from a Heroic Bloodshed film called City on Fire. The code names are lifted from The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Dillinger (1945): In the film, Joe Cabot mentions that Mr. Blue is "dead as Dillinger", and in the video game, it is revealed that he was gunned down in a movie theater (a reference to how John Dillinger was gunned down near a movie theater). Doubles as an Actor Allusion, as Lawrence Tierney (Joe) played Dillinger in a film by the same name in 1945. invoked Mr. Orange says that Joe looks like the Thing from the Fantastic Four. There are allusions to Pam Grier and Christie Love when the characters are driving. Hilarious in Hindsight, seeing that Grier would later star in another Tarantino movie, Jackie Brown. "Well, pretend like you're Don Rickles and tell a joke, all right?!" Mr. Blonde's torture of Officer Nash to music vaguely recalls Angel Eyes' torture of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, only much gorier.
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Seamless Spontaneous Lie: Mr. Orange is shown practicing tirelessly so that he'll be able to improvise answers when telling his fake bathroom anecdote. When it comes time to tell it and his audience asks for details, he answers their questions flawlessly.
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No Name Given: Mr. Pink, Mr. Brown, Mr. White, and Mr. Blue, although we find out that Mr. White's first name is "Larry". A deleted scene reveals Larry's last name is Dimmick. We also find out that Orange's name is Freddy Newandyke, and that Blonde's real name is Vic Vega.
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Monochrome Casting: The only non-white speaking role goes to a black cop that is not directly involved in the heist or its aftermath. The white robbers talk about characters of a variety of races, though entirely in slurs and stereotypes.
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Next Sunday A.D.: Quentin Tarantino has dropped a few hints that this takes place at least a little later in the '90s than when it was released. A notable example includes references in Pulp Fiction to the Vega Brothers having returned from Amsterdam, which had to have happened before Vic took the fall for a crime that sent him inside for a four-year stretch. Given that a 2nd-generation Ford Probe, which debuted in August 1992, appears in Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs cannot take place any earlier than late 1996.
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Security Cling: Mr. Orange begs Mr. White to hold him, 'cause he's so fucking scared. The latter complies several times.
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Red Herring: Mr. Blue disappears during the heist, and Mr. Pink straight-up questions if he's the rat. Nope, he's dead. Orange is the rat.
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Unfortunate Names
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And then subverted, both as a trope and within the group, by a discussion about being named "Mr. Pink", as Mr. Pink immediately gets into an argument with Joe about it, saying he might as well be "Mr. Pussy". Joe points out why he picks the names for them in the first place, and tells Mr. Pink that he should be glad he's not Mr. Yellow.
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Stock Scream: The infamous Wilhelm scream can be heard as Mr. Pink flees the scene of the crime.
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Decoy Protagonist: Mr. White is the clear protagonist of the first part of the film, but drops out of the story for a while, during which Mr. Orange seems to shift to the protagonist role. The climax of the film revolves around the two of them, and thus they share the spotlight.
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2 + Torture = 5
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This is proposed, but shot down by Nice Guy Eddie. See 2 + Torture = 5 above.
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Alone with the Psycho
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Alone with the Psycho: The cop being tortured by Blonde.
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: This is proposed, but shot down by Nice Guy Eddie. See 2 + Torture = 5 above. Referenced, but never practiced, by Mr. White:
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Geek: Mr. Orange. In a flashback, model painting kits and Silver Surfer posters can be seen in his apartment, and he is also knowledgeable about pop culture, like mentioning the Fantastic Four in one scene.
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Sympathetic P.O.V.: Intentionally utilized with the character of Mr. White. Most of the film's first half is told from his perspective, and he comes off as a much more sympathetic and heroic character than both Mr. Pink and Mr. Blonde as a result. Later on, however, we get to see flashbacks from other characters' perspectives that show him to be a cold-blooded killer and arguable misogynist. He's still more sympathetic than most of his accomplices, but it becomes clear that he is also not the straightforward Anti-Villain he was first presented as either.
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Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth
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Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Meta example — the film's violence caused Wes Craven to walk out in disgust.
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Heroes: A variation with the cops staking out the warehouse. However, nobody had any intention of them being this until Mr. Blonde showed up with a kidnapped cop, at which point, for Mr. Orange, it becomes a game of keeping himself and the cop alive until Joe arrives and the cops arrive as planned to arrest the crew. They come too late to save said cop.
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All the robbers, save for Mr. Pink always tip their waitresses on principle. Even Grumpy Old Man Joe Cabot forces the stubborn Mr. Pink to throw in his dollar like everyone else.
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Mr. Orange/Freddy kills Mr. Blonde to save Marvin's life, only for Marvin to get killed anyway; see All for Nothing. It also leads Nice Guy Eddie to immediately become suspicious of Orange/Freddy. Orange basically wound up blowing his cover just to save Marvin.
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Defied Trope
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Defied by Mr. Blonde in the torture scene. He starts cutting pieces off the cop he captured (Marvin Nash), but he specifically notes beforehand that he doesn't care at all about any information the cop might tell him; he's doing this just for fun.
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Spotting the Thread
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Spotting the Thread: The fact that the cops showed up immediately when Mr. Blonde started shooting tipped Mr. Pink off that there's a mole in the group.
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Two Words: I Can't Count
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Two Words: I Can't Count: Mr. Pink says the line "Two words: learn to fucking type."
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Duct Tape for Everything
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Duct Tape for Everything: Here, it's specifically for restraining captured police officers.
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Surprisingly Sudden Death: Mr. Blonde gets ventilated as The Reveal that Mr. Orange is the cop.
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Trunk Shot
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Trunk Shot: This is the first movie Tarantino used it in, in fact. Here, it appears when Mr. Blonde reveals that he's kidnapped a cop and brought him along to the warehouse.
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Edgy Backwards Chair-Sitting
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Edgy Backwards Chair-Sitting: Mr. Pink does this during the team briefing scene.
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Beware the Nice Ones: The aptly-named "Nice Guy" Eddie (who is really only comparatively nice) is chubby, goofy, really doesn't look too threatening, especially when surrounded by cool criminals in suits and ties, and has a higher-pitched and lighthearted manner of speaking. When shit hits the fan and he gets really serious, however, his voice changes to something deep and more diabolical.
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Theme Naming
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Theme Naming: Mr. Orange, Mr. White, Mr. Pink, Mr. Brown... you get the idea. It's even lampshaded by Mr. Pink and Joe.
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Chromosome Casting: All of the characters are men, except for the unnamed carjacking victim and the woman that gets dragged out of the car that Mr. Pink steals.
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 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Finger Gun / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Gangster Fiction / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Gasoline Dousing / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Go Through Me / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Gut Feeling / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Happy Dance / int_8a95e28c
 HarveyKeitel
seeAlso
Reservoir Dogs
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
He Had a Name / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Hidden Depths / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Honor Among Thieves / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
I Have a Family / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
I Knew There Was Something About You / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
In Medias Res / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
In-Universe Soundtrack / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Inelegant Blubbering / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Insists on Being Suspected / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Instant Death Bullet / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Instant Emergency Response / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Invulnerable Knuckles / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Ironic Nickname / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
It Amused Me / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Just Got Out of Jail / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Kensington Gore / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Killed Offscreen / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Knee-capping / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Large Ham Radio / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Let Me Get This Straight... / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Lover and Beloved / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Mad at a Dream / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Meaningful Background Event / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Mentor Occupational Hazard / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Mexican Standoff / int_8a95e28c
 MichaelMadsen
seeAlso
Reservoir Dogs
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Minimalism / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Mirror Monologue / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Mister Strangenoun / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Moral Sociopathy / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Mutual Kill / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
My Way or the Highway / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Narrative Filigree / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Nested Story / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Noble Demon / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Oblivious Guilt Slinging / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Offstage Villainy / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Oh, and X Dies / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Only Sane by Comparison / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Orbital Shot / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Painless Death for a Price / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Pink Is for Sissies / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Power of Trust / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Prison Rape / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Production Foreshadowing / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Production Throwback / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Psycho for Hire / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Psycho Party Member / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Psycho Pink / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Public Secret Message / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Punk in the Trunk / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Real Time / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Recycled Premise / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
seeAlso
Reservoir Dogs
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Revolvers Are for Amateurs / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Seamless Spontaneous Lie / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Second-Hand Storytelling / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Seinfeldian Conversation / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet! / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Smoking Is Cool / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Soft-Spoken Sadist / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Sole Survivor / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Source Music / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Speech-Centric Work / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Split Diopter / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Standing Between the Enemies / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Suspiciously Apropos Music / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Team Power Walk / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Ten Little Murder Victims / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
The Brute / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
The Caper / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
The Irish Mob / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
The McCoy / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
The Oner / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
The Only One I Trust / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
The Snack Is More Interesting / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
The Spock / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Themed Aliases / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Thriller / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Torture Always Works / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Torture Is Ineffective / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Trunk Shot / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Tuneless Song of Madness / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Two-Hit Wonder / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
2 + Torture = 5 / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Two Words: I Can't Count / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Undercover Cop Reveal / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Wall Slump / int_8a95e28c
 WarlockGames
seeAlso
Reservoir Dogs
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
When It All Began / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Where da White Women At? / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Word Salad Title / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
World's Smallest Violin / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Would Not Shoot a Civilian / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Wring Every Last Drop out of Him / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
You Didn't Ask / int_8a95e28c
 Lie to Me
seeAlso
Reservoir Dogs
 WarlockGames
seeAlso
Reservoir Dogs
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Death Is Dramatic / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Law of Chromatic Superiority / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
Lennon Specs / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
The Infiltration / int_8a95e28c
 Reservoir Dogs
hasFeature
You All Meet in an Inn / int_8a95e28c