...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
The Dictator
- 275 statements
- 53 feature instances
- 34 referencing feature instances
| The Dictator | type |
TVTItem | |
| The Dictator | label |
The Dictator | |
| The Dictator | page |
TheDictator | |
| The Dictator | comment |
A 2012 movie starring Sacha Baron Cohen doing what he does best — pretending to be a guy from another country (this time ethnically non-specific) who makes fun of other people's ignorance regarding ethnic stereotypes.In this film Sacha plays Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen of the Republic of Wadiya, a fictional country in North Africa. Aladeen is pretty much the worst head of state this side of Pol Pot (in a funny way of course), but to him it's just everyday life. However when he's invited to give a speech at the United Nations in New York, his Treacherous Advisor Tamir (Ben Kingsley) arranges to have him kidnapped and murdered. Though Aladeen escapes, his captor shaved off his iconic beard, making him unrecognizable.Now penniless and without status, Aladeen finds himself picked up by Zoey (Anna Faris), a kindly grocery store manager who offers him a job. Hilarity Ensues as Aladeen tries to find a way back to his throne, prevent a 'democratic' constitution being signed by a body double (part of Tamir's plans to sell Wadiya's oil to the highest bidder), and build weapons of mass destruction, all at once.Not to be confused with the Charlie Chaplin film The Great Dictator, or an aborted TV show concept from the late 80s called "The Dictator" starring Christopher Lloyd. | |
| The Dictator | fetched |
2024-03-17T12:46:05Z | |
| The Dictator | parsed |
2024-03-17T12:46:05Z | |
| The Dictator | processingComment |
Dropped link to AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| The Dictator | processingComment |
Dropped link to thedailyshow: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
| The Dictator | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| The Dictator / int_120d0e3f | type |
Adam Westing | |
| The Dictator / int_120d0e3f | comment |
Adam Westing: Megan Fox as a celebrity who prostitutes herself to powerful world leaders. | |
| The Dictator / int_120d0e3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_120d0e3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_120d0e3f | |
| The Dictator / int_19ebe383 | type |
Never Trust a Trailer | |
| The Dictator / int_19ebe383 | comment |
Never Trust a Trailer: The trailers got a lot of mileage out of this exchange between Megan Fox and Aladeen (which never made the final film): | |
| The Dictator / int_19ebe383 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_19ebe383 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_19ebe383 | |
| The Dictator / int_1b65dfad | type |
The Cameo | |
| The Dictator / int_1b65dfad | comment |
The Cameo: Lots. Megan Fox sleeps with Aladeen in the beginning. John C. Reilly has a two-scene role as Clayton. Garry Shandling as the health inspector. Fred Armisen as the restaurant owner. Again. Chris Elliott as hotel security. Aasif Mandvi as the Wadiyan doctor. Gad Elmaleh as a protestor. In a huge Brick Joke payoff, Edward Norton is heavily implied to have committed homosexual acts for money. | |
| The Dictator / int_1b65dfad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_1b65dfad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_1b65dfad | |
| The Dictator / int_1be3af98 | type |
||
| The Dictator / int_1be3af98 | comment |
"Nations of the World" Montage: There is one when Aladeen is going to sign a democratic constitution. The people of the world are watching the signature ceremony live on TV. | |
| The Dictator / int_1be3af98 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_1be3af98 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_1be3af98 | |
| The Dictator / int_20860a0e | type |
Punch-Clock Villain | |
| The Dictator / int_20860a0e | comment |
Punch-Clock Villain: Nadal has no real love for Aladeen: he just wants to help his boss return to power to get his more dignified job in Wadiya back. | |
| The Dictator / int_20860a0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_20860a0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_20860a0e | |
| The Dictator / int_21d70919 | type |
Crapsack World | |
| The Dictator / int_21d70919 | comment |
Crapsack World: Wadiya is so worthless that the European colonial powers all played hot potato with one another for the ownership of the country because none of them wanted the hassle of actually running it. First the Italians claimed it, but they then they traded it to the Swiss for a truckload of cheese, who then outright bribed Imperial Germany to take it off their hands. The Germans then had to trick the people of Wadiya into declaring independence to be rid of it. | |
| The Dictator / int_21d70919 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_21d70919 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_21d70919 | |
| The Dictator / int_222dc873 | type |
Black Comedy | |
| The Dictator / int_222dc873 | comment |
Black Comedy: Tons. Many of the horrible things Aladeen does, like executing people for slight offenses, is Played for Laughs. | |
| The Dictator / int_222dc873 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_222dc873 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_222dc873 | |
| The Dictator / int_294ed981 | type |
Bilingual Bonus | |
| The Dictator / int_294ed981 | comment |
Bilingual Bonus: As in Borat, "Wadiyan" is actually Hebrew. The greeting "Jachnoon" is actually a type of Yemenite Jewish pastry. Also, the description Aladeen gives of himself as like the mafrum fruit – which is actually a Libyan Jewish mincemeat dish – ("hard and spiky on the outside, but soft and really mushy on the in") is the same as the "Sabra" stereotype of Israelis. | |
| The Dictator / int_294ed981 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_294ed981 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_294ed981 | |
| The Dictator / int_29c480a3 | type |
Good News, Bad News | |
| The Dictator / int_29c480a3 | comment |
Good News, Bad News: After Aladeen changes numerous words to "Aladeen", even if they are contradictory, we get this conversation between a doctor and his patient: | |
| The Dictator / int_29c480a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_29c480a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_29c480a3 | |
| The Dictator / int_2d6f00e4 | type |
Psycho for Hire | |
| The Dictator / int_2d6f00e4 | comment |
Psycho for Hire: Clayton, Aladeen's kidnapper and (almost) executioner, is upfront about wanting to torture Aladeen before killing him. | |
| The Dictator / int_2d6f00e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_2d6f00e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_2d6f00e4 | |
| The Dictator / int_3ae6199a | type |
Psychopathic Manchild | |
| The Dictator / int_3ae6199a | comment |
Psychopathic Manchild: Aladeen's ideas on how bombs work comes from watching Daffy Duck cartoons. | |
| The Dictator / int_3ae6199a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_3ae6199a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_3ae6199a | |
| The Dictator / int_40e993f4 | type |
"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization | |
| The Dictator / int_40e993f4 | comment |
"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: Discussed between Aladeen and Nadal. Aladeen, being an idiot, is proven wrong. | |
| The Dictator / int_40e993f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_40e993f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_40e993f4 | |
| The Dictator / int_434d893c | type |
Funny Foreigner | |
| The Dictator / int_434d893c | comment |
Funny Foreigner: Cohen's preferred shtick, it would seem. | |
| The Dictator / int_434d893c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_434d893c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_434d893c | |
| The Dictator / int_4704d87e | type |
The Generalissimo | |
| The Dictator / int_4704d87e | comment |
The Generalissimo: Aladeen embodies the exaggerated version of this. | |
| The Dictator / int_4704d87e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_4704d87e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_4704d87e | |
| The Dictator / int_47fea76b | type |
Butt-Monkey | |
| The Dictator / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: The Wadiyan people, who all live in an impoverished Third World country run by a brutal dictator who cares more about their allegiance than their economic and physical well-being. | |
| The Dictator / int_47fea76b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_47fea76b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_47fea76b | |
| The Dictator / int_4856ac40 | type |
Stock Footage | |
| The Dictator / int_4856ac40 | comment |
Stock Footage: Stock footage of Barack Obama is used to introduce the fact that the world is worried about the nuclear programme of Wadiya. | |
| The Dictator / int_4856ac40 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_4856ac40 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_4856ac40 | |
| The Dictator / int_4977d7b8 | type |
Body Double | |
| The Dictator / int_4977d7b8 | comment |
Body Double: The movie also reveals that Osama bin Laden used a body double that was killed by Seal Team 6; the real Osama is living in Aladeen's guest house. | |
| The Dictator / int_4977d7b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_4977d7b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_4977d7b8 | |
| The Dictator / int_537dd8fe | type |
Affably Evil | |
| The Dictator / int_537dd8fe | comment |
Affably Evil: Guess who? Clayton, Aladeen's would-be torturer and executioner, is both extremely personable and upfront about being a paid killer. | |
| The Dictator / int_537dd8fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_537dd8fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_537dd8fe | |
| The Dictator / int_5be919ae | type |
Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario | |
| The Dictator / int_5be919ae | comment |
Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: Aladeen and Zoey get closer and closer. Aladeen finally confesses that he loves her and just after that he is the dictator Aladeen. Because of the latter confession, Zoey rejects him. In the end, Aladeen sees Zoey in the crowd as he is going to reject the democratic constitution. This makes him change his mind and he declares that he embraces democracy, so Zoey falls for him. | |
| The Dictator / int_5be919ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_5be919ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_5be919ae | |
| The Dictator / int_6dec83b9 | type |
Five-Aces Cheater | |
| The Dictator / int_6dec83b9 | comment |
Five-Aces Cheater: Aladeen's "Olympic Games" make no pretense of fairness, especially since he participates in the events. The only one we see, the hundred-meter dash, has him not only being the one to fire the starting pistol despite being a runner, but also shooting another competitor and even a few bystanders with it. | |
| The Dictator / int_6dec83b9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_6dec83b9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_6dec83b9 | |
| The Dictator / int_6fed1f70 | type |
The Thing That Would Not Leave | |
| The Dictator / int_6fed1f70 | comment |
The Thing That Would Not Leave: After Osama bin Laden's double got shot by SEAL Team Six, the real Osama moved into Aladeen's guesthouse and ruined his bathroom. Curiously, Aladeen never considered ordering bin Laden to be executed. | |
| The Dictator / int_6fed1f70 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_6fed1f70 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_6fed1f70 | |
| The Dictator / int_73f79f91 | type |
Released to Elsewhere | |
| The Dictator / int_73f79f91 | comment |
Released to Elsewhere: Inverted; while Aladeen thinks he's had hundreds of people executed for the most trivial reasons, the royal executioner is part of La Résistance and has actually been smuggling the condemned to America, where they've been living quite happily. | |
| The Dictator / int_73f79f91 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_73f79f91 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_73f79f91 | |
| The Dictator / int_742088d4 | type |
The Dictatorship | |
| The Dictator / int_742088d4 | comment |
The Dictatorship: The Republic of Wadiya does not have an overly long name, but it deserves a mention for just now blatantly undemocratic it is. From the official site: | |
| The Dictator / int_742088d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_742088d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_742088d4 | |
| The Dictator / int_780a078e | type |
Self-Made Orphan | |
| The Dictator / int_780a078e | comment |
The Republic of Wadiya website mentions that Aladeen appointed his father (who was obviously assassinated by his own son) to the position of "Eternal President", while "merely" bestowing upon himself the position of "Vice-President" under his deceased father. "Eternal President" is in fact the actual office currently "held" by the first dictator of North Korea, Kim Il-Sung. North Korea's laws even mandate that Il-Sung still be referred to in the present tense even though he died in 1994. | |
| The Dictator / int_780a078e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_780a078e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_780a078e | |
| The Dictator / int_7815ba15 | type |
N-Word Privileges | |
| The Dictator / int_7815ba15 | comment |
N-Word Privileges: Invoked and parodied, much like in Borat. | |
| The Dictator / int_7815ba15 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_7815ba15 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_7815ba15 | |
| The Dictator / int_795ebae2 | type |
Familiar Soundtrack, Foreign Lyrics | |
| The Dictator / int_795ebae2 | comment |
Familiar Soundtrack, Foreign Lyrics: After being shaved of his beard and abandoned by his cronies, Aladeen wanders New York to an Arabic-language cover of MC Rai's 'Everybody Hurts.' | |
| The Dictator / int_795ebae2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_795ebae2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_795ebae2 | |
| The Dictator / int_7a265daa | type |
Eagleland | |
| The Dictator / int_7a265daa | comment |
Eagleland: Aladeen makes no secret out of his disdain for the USA. The movie plays around with this trope. On the one hand, Aladeen gives a speech that is an (unintentional) indictment of America as a disguised dictatorship. On the other hand, Aladeen's victims have found refuge in the United States, so America's depiction as an asylum of liberty seems somewhat intact. | |
| The Dictator / int_7a265daa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_7a265daa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_7a265daa | |
| The Dictator / int_808cbaeb | type |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
| The Dictator / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Among MANY other examples of this, the list of previous dictators that Nadal recounts to Aladeen concludes with "Cheney." | |
| The Dictator / int_808cbaeb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_808cbaeb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_808cbaeb | |
| The Dictator / int_8d6d9535 | type |
Artistic License – Medicine | |
| The Dictator / int_8d6d9535 | comment |
Artistic License – Medicine: The birth scene. Soooo much wrong there. Though it is supposed to be funny, not medically accurate. | |
| The Dictator / int_8d6d9535 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_8d6d9535 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_8d6d9535 | |
| The Dictator / int_946a37a3 | type |
Ignored Aesop | |
| The Dictator / int_946a37a3 | comment |
Ignored Aesop: Played for Laughs at the end of the film. Aladeen is led by his Straw Feminist Love Interest to the conclusion that Democracy Is Flawed rather than Democracy Is Bad, and swears to draft a real constitution and hold elections. It then immediately shows him rigging the elections by using tanks to intimidate the voters. However, it's implied that he Took a Level in Kindness (at least slightly) and stopped trying to have people killed left and right. | |
| The Dictator / int_946a37a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_946a37a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_946a37a3 | |
| The Dictator / int_9ae0cca6 | type |
Character Blog | |
| The Dictator / int_9ae0cca6 | comment |
Character Blog: The Republic of Wadiya site. | |
| The Dictator / int_9ae0cca6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_9ae0cca6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_9ae0cca6 | |
| The Dictator / int_abc55125 | type |
Character Filibuster | |
| The Dictator / int_abc55125 | comment |
Character Filibuster: Aladeen's final speech about America totally not resembling a dictatorship. | |
| The Dictator / int_abc55125 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_abc55125 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_abc55125 | |
| The Dictator / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
| The Dictator / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: A BIG one at the US, when Aladeen states everything that a tyrant state does, the US has been doing, leading, to Aladeen to say this at the end. Among MANY other examples of this, the list of previous dictators that Nadal recounts to Aladeen concludes with "Cheney." | |
| The Dictator / int_b53077b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_b53077b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_b53077b3 | |
| The Dictator / int_bb18a227 | type |
It's All About Me | |
| The Dictator / int_bb18a227 | comment |
It's All About Me: Aladeen madafakas! | |
| The Dictator / int_bb18a227 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_bb18a227 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_bb18a227 | |
| The Dictator / int_beb932ca | type |
Big Applesauce | |
| The Dictator / int_beb932ca | comment |
Big Applesauce: Justified, as Aladeen has a perfect reason to go to New York (giving a speech in the UN). | |
| The Dictator / int_beb932ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_beb932ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_beb932ca | |
| The Dictator / int_c0961831 | type |
Interrupted Suicide | |
| The Dictator / int_c0961831 | comment |
Interrupted Suicide: Nadal shows up when Aladeen is going to kill himself. He talks to him so that Aladeen gives up his project. | |
| The Dictator / int_c0961831 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_c0961831 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_c0961831 | |
| The Dictator / int_c3a7dcab | type |
Qurac | |
| The Dictator / int_c3a7dcab | comment |
Qurac: Wadiya. You can see at the beginning that Wadiya is where Eritrea should be. | |
| The Dictator / int_c3a7dcab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_c3a7dcab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_c3a7dcab | |
| The Dictator / int_c3b760ed | type |
ZigZaggedTrope | |
| The Dictator / int_c3b760ed | comment |
The movie plays around with this trope. On the one hand, Aladeen gives a speech that is an (unintentional) indictment of America as a disguised dictatorship. On the other hand, Aladeen's victims have found refuge in the United States, so America's depiction as an asylum of liberty seems somewhat intact. | |
| The Dictator / int_c3b760ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_c3b760ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_c3b760ed | |
| The Dictator / int_c5f0119c | type |
Insane Troll Logic | |
| The Dictator / int_c5f0119c | comment |
Insane Troll Logic: Aladeen ordered many civilians and his own scientists and generals to be executed for very selfish, trivial reasons (i.e. disagreements over what shape the nuclear warheads should be, jealousy over a cereal toy prize, blocking his path on a staircase) but he does nothing against Osama bin Laden for squatting at his guesthouse (let alone ruining the bathroom there) other than complain about it. | |
| The Dictator / int_c5f0119c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_c5f0119c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_c5f0119c | |
| The Dictator / int_cbe687ab | type |
Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
| The Dictator / int_cbe687ab | comment |
Corrupt Corporate Executive: The oil magnates ready to pounce upon Wadiyan oil. | |
| The Dictator / int_cbe687ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_cbe687ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_cbe687ab | |
| The Dictator / int_d848560f | type |
Unusual Euphemism | |
| The Dictator / int_d848560f | comment |
Crosses over with Unusual Euphemism with regard to why Katy Perry got a diamond watch, unlike Megan Fox. | |
| The Dictator / int_d848560f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_d848560f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_d848560f | |
| The Dictator / int_d8ea5bd1 | type |
Let the Bully Win | |
| The Dictator / int_d8ea5bd1 | comment |
Let the Bully Win: In the games he organized, Aladeen won all medals, but he is shown shooting some of his competitors (and random people) during a race. | |
| The Dictator / int_d8ea5bd1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_d8ea5bd1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_d8ea5bd1 | |
| The Dictator / int_dfe57573 | type |
Historical In-Joke | |
| The Dictator / int_dfe57573 | comment |
Historical In-Joke: SEAL Team Six did not shoot Osama bin Laden, but a double. The real one is hiding in Aladeen's guesthouse being a sloppy, freeloading guest who won't leave. | |
| The Dictator / int_dfe57573 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_dfe57573 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_dfe57573 | |
| The Dictator / int_e303d198 | type |
Whole-Plot Reference | |
| The Dictator / int_e303d198 | comment |
Whole-Plot Reference: The basic premise echoes Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator, although with a much larger focus on the dictator character. Aladeen's pro-dictatorship speech could also be seen as an ironic take on the climactic speech at the end of Chaplin's film. | |
| The Dictator / int_e303d198 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_e303d198 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_e303d198 | |
| The Dictator / int_e3c20140 | type |
As Long as It Sounds Foreign | |
| The Dictator / int_e3c20140 | comment |
As Long as It Sounds Foreign: When Aladeen and Nadal take their helicopter ride, they're speaking Hebrew, not "Wadiyan". Possibly a Stealth Pun, since Aladeen is virulently anti-Semitic (and also a Running Gag in Cohen's work). | |
| The Dictator / int_e3c20140 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_e3c20140 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_e3c20140 | |
| The Dictator / int_e90f8e37 | type |
Lady Looks Like a Dude | |
| The Dictator / int_e90f8e37 | comment |
Lady Looks Like a Dude: A Running Gag. Aladeen keeps comparing Zoey to a boy. | |
| The Dictator / int_e90f8e37 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_e90f8e37 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_e90f8e37 | |
| The Dictator / int_eb8ec7c8 | type |
Jerkass | |
| The Dictator / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: Double subverted. Aladeen eventually thinks he has become a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, at least. Nadal knows better. | |
| The Dictator / int_eb8ec7c8 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Dictator / int_eb8ec7c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_eb8ec7c8 | |
| The Dictator / int_f933e594 | type |
How the Mighty Have Fallen | |
| The Dictator / int_f933e594 | comment |
How the Mighty Have Fallen: Aladeen has gone from being a feared dictator to a poor refugee working at a grocery store. | |
| The Dictator / int_f933e594 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_f933e594 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_f933e594 | |
| The Dictator / int_f9876f7e | type |
Faking the Dead | |
| The Dictator / int_f9876f7e | comment |
Faking the Dead: The "Osama bin Laden" killed by Seal Team 6 was actually a Body Double. The real Osama is mooching off Aladeen and messing up his bathroom | |
| The Dictator / int_f9876f7e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_f9876f7e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_f9876f7e | |
| The Dictator / int_fc4f5f19 | type |
Go-Karting with Bowser | |
| The Dictator / int_fc4f5f19 | comment |
Go-Karting with Bowser: In the middle of kidnapping and torturing Aladeen, Clayton also has a genial conversation with him about Billy Elliot. | |
| The Dictator / int_fc4f5f19 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_fc4f5f19 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_fc4f5f19 | |
| The Dictator / int_fe0330fb | type |
Brick Joke | |
| The Dictator / int_fe0330fb | comment |
In a huge Brick Joke payoff, Edward Norton is heavily implied to have committed homosexual acts for money. | |
| The Dictator / int_fe0330fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_fe0330fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_fe0330fb | |
| The Dictator / int_ffad4e9f | type |
Shown Their Work | |
| The Dictator / int_ffad4e9f | comment |
Shown Their Work: The Republic of Wadiya website mentions that Aladeen appointed his father (who was obviously assassinated by his own son) to the position of "Eternal President", while "merely" bestowing upon himself the position of "Vice-President" under his deceased father. "Eternal President" is in fact the actual office currently "held" by the first dictator of North Korea, Kim Il-Sung. North Korea's laws even mandate that Il-Sung still be referred to in the present tense even though he died in 1994. Aladeen has ordered that a great number of words in the Wadyian language be replaced with "Aladeen", including contradictory terms like "positive" and "negative", and "open" and "closed", causing a lot of confusion. Crosses over with Unusual Euphemism with regard to why Katy Perry got a diamond watch, unlike Megan Fox. | |
| The Dictator / int_ffad4e9f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_ffad4e9f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_ffad4e9f | |
| The Dictator / int_name | type |
ItemName | |
| The Dictator / int_name | comment |
||
| The Dictator / int_name | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator / int_name | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dictator | hasFeature |
The Dictator / int_name | |
| The Dictator / int_name | itemName |
The Dictator |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.