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The Gentlemen

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The Gentlemen	comment	The Gentlemen is a crime comedy film directed by Guy Ritchie starring Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Henry Golding, Eddie Marsan, Colin Farrell and Hugh Grant.Raymond Smith (Hunnam) is a wealthy suburbanite living a life of quiet luxury. He also happens to be The Consigliere to American expat-turned-drug lord Mickey Pearson (McConaughey), whose highly profitable marijuana empire comes under threat when word comes out he's looking to leave the business. Ray has been working to watch Mickey's back and ensure his retirement comes without incident â€” but that all changes when a sleazy private detective named Fletcher (Grant) suddenly shows up at his house one night with an elaborate tale to spin, and an offer he can't refuse...The Gentlemen is considered to be Ritchie's return to the style of his earlier Evil Brit gangster/crime films, most notably those in the Black Comedy genre, such as Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.. It was released by STX Entertainment on January 24, 2020 in the United States and Canada.Plenty of this film's most hilarious moments are mentioned in the trope examples below, but click here for a further lowdown.A TV Sequel Series was released on Netflix on March 7th, 2024.
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The Gentlemen / int_117d2e1f	type	Fauxshadowing
The Gentlemen / int_117d2e1f	comment	Fauxshadowing: Fletcher approaching Raymond instead of Mickey himself (combined with the opening scene) are likely meant to indicate that Mickey is dead and Raymond took over. This could not be further from the truth.
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The Gentlemen / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Gentlemen / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Dry Eye talks a big game, and is very happy to smuggle, kill and rape people, but the second he realises he miscalculated and is now in immediate danger himself he is clearly terrified and folds immediately.
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The Gentlemen / int_12dc4d97	type	Greedy Jew
The Gentlemen / int_12dc4d97	comment	Greedy Jew: Matthew Berger. Lampshaded in their first meeting by Rosalind, who, telling her husband to "trust this Jew about that Jew" she recognises there's going to be "blood and feathers everywhere" if that fox gets in the henhouse. So greedy, in fact, that he tips off the location of one of Mickey's weed farms to Dry Eye just so Dry Eye can raid it and Berger will then be justified in demanding a much lower offer for the whole enterprise. Ironically, should he just pick the first offer, he would easily make a pretty penny on it without a hitch. Instead, he ends up 270 million dollars and a literal pound of his flesh short, gaining nothing.
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The Gentlemen / int_171e14be	type	London Gangster
The Gentlemen / int_171e14be	comment	The chavs who try to take selfies of themselves with Aslan's body while four irate London Gangsters (or rather, one irate London gangster and his three mooks) are trying to clean up the mess.
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The Gentlemen / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The Gentlemen / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Fletcher, to a minor extent. He does tell the story as it is, for the most part, but he's not as omniscient as he'd like to think, and occasionally makes wrong guesses about how events went down (or deliberately spices them up for story-telling purposes), and occasionally deliberately delays a reveal such as Dry Eye and Matthew's alliance by moving on to something else.
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The Gentlemen / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
The Gentlemen / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: The morning after some of Mickey's farmers are beaten up by the Toddlers, one of them notes with a respectful tone "whoever trained them knew what he was doing. Just saying".
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The Gentlemen / int_196ccd94	type	NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters
The Gentlemen / int_196ccd94	comment	Neighborhood-Friendly Gangsters: Downplayed. Mickey still deals drugs, sure, but he focuses on marijuana and looks down upon those that deal rougher drugs like heroin, calling it "the destroyer of worlds." Also deconstructed. Sure, Mickey cares about the nobles whose homes he looks after â€” but this started as purely Pragmatic Villainy â€” his loyalty to them came later. In addition, this attitude leads to a lot of trouble down the line.
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The Gentlemen / int_19fc58a2	type	A Lighter Shade of Black
The Gentlemen / int_19fc58a2	comment	A Lighter Shade of Black: Mickey is a gangster, but he has a personal sense of honor and takes pride in the fact that the merchandise of his criminal empire, marijuana, doesn't kill people without good reason. Coach says he's done gangster stuff in his past and is willing to do so again, but it's only to shield the young men he's looking after so that they don't fall into a life of crime themselves.
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The Gentlemen / int_1badfbbb	type	The Heavy
The Gentlemen / int_1badfbbb	comment	The Heavy: Despite appearing to be a simple (and fair) buyer for Mickey's marijuana empire, Matthew's subsequent scheme to devalue the empire and buy it out cheap ends up setting up a massive chain of events that causes essentially ALL of the other schemes, and the many deaths that result, to occur.
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The Gentlemen / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Gentlemen / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Inverted, with poor communication-saving Mickey's life when the Toddlers kill the hitmen whoâ€™d just abducted him. They were looking to clear Coachâ€™s debt to Mickey, but it is unclear if they meant to do it by killing Mickey himself or repay it by killing the associates of the man whoâ€™d tried to kill him in the restaurant. Either way, they did not know that Coach was just talking with Raymond about having already cleared his debt with the work that theyâ€™d done so far.
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The Gentlemen / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Gentlemen / int_1e1afc1b	comment	The Framing Device is Raymond allowing Fletcher to be this in as vivid of detail as possible in order to find and destroy any evidence he may have.
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The Gentlemen / int_1ea248b4	type	Neat Freak
The Gentlemen / int_1ea248b4	comment	Neat Freak: This is Ray's defining characteristic. He's very particular about his home. The one time he loses his temper on Fletcher is when Fletcher tries to smoke inside. When Fletcher returns inside, Ray insists that he remove his shoes (though this turns out to be a ploy). Ray also strongly resists doing a job for Mickey because it will be dirty.
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The Gentlemen / int_1f17e9fe	type	High-Altitude Interrogation
The Gentlemen / int_1f17e9fe	comment	High-Altitude Interrogation: While trying to retrieve the phone with the incriminating footage on it, Dave holds one of the chavs off the side of an overpass until he gives up the phone.
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The Gentlemen / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Gentlemen / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Naturally. A literal example: a certain 'paperweight.' The death of the Russian addict midway through the film sets up the climax. Paying close attention to Fletcher's absurd demands, as they explain how badly Raymond screws him over.
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The Gentlemen / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
The Gentlemen / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: Mickey has Lord George's tea poisoned, then leaves him with the antidote; the point having been to demonstrate that he could get to Lord George anywhere.
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The Gentlemen / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Gentlemen / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Coach is this to the Toddlers. And it's not just him being a mentor for bunch of troubled kids, they really should know better. He spends most of his screen time trying to save their lives for the ungodly retribution that might otherwise fall on them.
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The Gentlemen / int_247228a9	type	Subverted Catch-Phrase
The Gentlemen / int_247228a9	comment	Subverted Catchphrase: Meta example. The line "There's only one rule in this jungle! When the lion is hungry, he eats!" is featured very prominently in the trailers and various promotional material. The only time it actually appears in the film is in an Indulgent Fantasy Segue by an Unreliable Narrator.
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The Gentlemen / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Gentlemen / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Raymond retrieves Laura from the drug den and brings her back to her parents, but she still overdoses and presumably dies at their home.
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The Gentlemen / int_27ba9b64	type	What Did I Do Last Night?
The Gentlemen / int_27ba9b64	comment	What Did I Do Last Night?: Big Dave gets kidnapped by Coach and the Toddlers, drugged, and wakes up in the back of their van naked under a blanket, in close proximity to a pig. What he sees on the video they've recorded horrifies him about as much as it does everyone else.
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The Gentlemen / int_286eaf85	type	Dragon Ascendant
The Gentlemen / int_286eaf85	comment	Dragon Ascendant: Downplayed with Dry Eye: He kills and overtakes Lord George, taking his place as head of the Triads in the area, but he himself is still a patsy for another ringleader.
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The Gentlemen / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
The Gentlemen / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Pretty much Dry Eye's defining trait; he firmly believes that it's his time to rule, and doesn't realise that being a young up-and-coming hotshot, even a promising one, doesn't give him the clout to be considered an equal by his vastly more experienced elders.
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The Gentlemen / int_2969dda7	type	Nightmare Fetishist
The Gentlemen / int_2969dda7	comment	Nightmare Fetishist: Part of what makes Fletcher so creepy; he mentions he might even like being subjected to Cold-Blooded Torture, hell, he might even get off to it.
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The Gentlemen / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Gentlemen / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Fletcher is doing it continuously, as the Framing Device is him telling the story of all the events, first to Raymond, then to a Miramax executive, as if pitching a script for a film. When Raymond and Coach are discussing the blackmail tape they've got with drugged Big Dave having sex with a pig, they name-drop Nightmare Fuel and how this can't be unwatched once seen.
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The Gentlemen / int_2e8875f0	type	Misplaced Retribution
The Gentlemen / int_2e8875f0	comment	Misplaced Retribution: Matthew's second punishment at the end is in retaliation for the assault on Mickey's wife, something that (while the instigator of the conflict) Matthew had no direct involvement with or way to predict - other than starting the chain of events leading to that act, that is.
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The Gentlemen / int_301c4238	type	Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal
The Gentlemen / int_301c4238	comment	Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal: A variant with Coach, who insists that the Toddlers are good lads in a bad situation, even as they deliberately embroil themselves in crime and he almost literally has to beat it into them to aim for better things.
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The Gentlemen / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Gentlemen / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Mickey, ruthless gang-boss and marijuana provider, holds heroin dealers in contempt, and it's one of the sticking points between him and Dry Eye. Played for Laughs with a certain blackmail video, where both Coach and Raymond are comically disgusted by what the Toddlers did, to the point of slight amazement.
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The Gentlemen / int_356b1efb	type	Hammerspace
The Gentlemen / int_356b1efb	comment	Hammerspace: Ray pulls out an enormous, silenced submachinegun from his coat, which almost certainly would have been obvious through the last several scenes if it had been there the whole time. When he slips it back underneath his coat, the barrel is still visible below.
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The Gentlemen / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
The Gentlemen / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Since it's ultimately Mickey and Ray that come out on top, everyone else has to have their plans fail for one reason or another: Matthew's scheme to sabotage Mickey's business to lowball him on the cost fails thanks to Fletcher ratting him out as part of his blackmail scheme. As if that weren't bad enough, Matthew's chosen patsy Dry Eye's Attempted Rape of Mickey's wife ends up making the consequences of the scheme's failure far worse than they would have otherwise been. Big Dave is quickly taken out of the picture by Raymond ordering the Toddlers to drug him and film him committing bestiality with a pig to make him go away. Lord George's efforts to assert his authority and make Dry Eye back off of Mickey ends with him dead at Dry Eye's command, thanks to a Bodyguard Betrayal. Dry Eye draws Mickey's very personal wrath by going after his wife Rosalind, all the way up to attempting to rape her; he earns three bullets in the skull for his trouble. Coach and the Toddlers peacefully resolve their beef with Mickey, with Coach doing dirty work for Mickey to repay his debt, and cemented when they each end up saving Ray and Mickey's lives, respectively, at the end of the film. Finally, Fletcher loses his first insurance policy thanks to In Vino Veritas allowing Ray to track down and remove all of his evidence cache backups, and the bullet point directly above this one leads to his second insurance policy, siccing The Mob on Mickey and Ray, failing, as well. He runs for his life, and seemingly gets away, opting to pen the script of the whole ordeal as a movie and profit off that. Then he realizes that the driver of his cab is Not My Driver...
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The Gentlemen / int_38bbe8c3	type	Carrying the Antidote
The Gentlemen / int_38bbe8c3	comment	Carrying the Antidote: Mickey has Lord George's tea poisoned, then leaves him with the antidote: the point having been to demonstrate that he could get to Lord George anywhere.
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The Gentlemen / int_38d12399	type	Teens Are Monsters
The Gentlemen / int_38d12399	comment	Teens Are Monsters: The teenage chav gang who attempt to stab Coach at the snack bar merely for telling them to wait in line, and the other teenage chav gang Ray deals with to obtain their phones which contain condemning evidence. Given who they're up against, neither gang has a chance.
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The Gentlemen / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Gentlemen / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Laura Pressfield is described as being a singer with a good voice and dabbles in different pop genres. Lauraâ€™s actor Eliot Sumner has been performing music professionally for over 16 years.
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The Gentlemen / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Gentlemen / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: When Mickey realises he's in a car with Not My Driver and is being held at gunpoint on his way to a likely execution, he is very composed about it.
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The Gentlemen / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
The Gentlemen / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Ray, who virulently hates dealing with junkies and chavs, brings along a submachine gun hidden under his coat to the council estate that saves him from a gang of teen chavs planning to rob him.
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The Gentlemen / int_3efb1d35	type	Social Media Before Reason
The Gentlemen / int_3efb1d35	comment	Social Media Before Reason: The chavs on the council estate are closing in on Too Dumb to Live territory when they hang around to take selfies with a dead body that's just fallen from a tower block while four irate London Gangsters are trying to clear up the scene. The Toddlers try to become viral celebrities by filming and uploading their MMA raid on Mickey's weed farm (complete with a rap video). Coach has to stick his neck out for them to make the problem go away.
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The Gentlemen / int_3fb6b526	type	Delayed Reaction
The Gentlemen / int_3fb6b526	comment	Delayed Reaction: When Ros shoots one of Dry Eye's goons straight in the head, it takes a while for him to process that he's been shot and a little while longer for his brain to stop functioning.
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The Gentlemen / int_41d5f145	type	Fluffy the Terrible
The Gentlemen / int_41d5f145	comment	Fluffy the Terrible: The local gang of MMA-fighting Chavs is called "the Toddlers". They're a hell of a lot tougher than you'd expect from the name. Raymond employs a massive, intimidating, heavily muscled Mook called... Bunny.
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The Gentlemen / int_4733b5a5	type	Saying Too Much
The Gentlemen / int_4733b5a5	comment	Saying Too Much: Ros telling Dry Eye that her gun only has two bullets, right before she's forced to use both of them on his henchmen, which leaves him confident enough to attack her.
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The Gentlemen / int_485d09ab	type	Creator In-Joke
The Gentlemen / int_485d09ab	comment	Creator In-Joke: When Michael returns to his pub a Gritchie Brewery van can be seen outside. Gritchie Brewing Company is owned by Guy Ritchie.
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The Gentlemen / int_48cbd223	type	Machete Mayhem
The Gentlemen / int_48cbd223	comment	Machete Mayhem: The flashback explaining the 'bad things' Mickey did to carve out his place in the underworld shows him wiping out a gang of rival dealers with a machete. A gang of teen chavs later on also are wielding machetes.
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The Gentlemen / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Gentlemen / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Fletcher describes a lot of the plot in cinema terms and has written the film's plot into a screenplay that he tries to sell to a filmmaker with Guy Ritchie's own The Man from U.N.C.L.E. on his wall.
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The Gentlemen / int_4ab9c868	type	Pretty Little Headshots
The Gentlemen / int_4ab9c868	comment	Pretty Little Headshots: Given the caliber of the gun used to inflict those, somewhat plausible.
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The Gentlemen / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Gentlemen / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Matthew is full of condescension towards Mickey as he constantly tries to point out reasons to cut down on how much he should pay Mickey despite how good of a deal heâ€™s getting. The Reveal only emphasizes this, as does the implication that Mickey was onto him from the start. Dry Eye is also pretty full of himself, believing that Mickey is going soft and that he will be easy prey. Ultimately, that doesn't go all that well for him. The Framing Device is Raymond allowing Fletcher to be this in as vivid of detail as possible in order to find and destroy any evidence he may have.
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The Gentlemen / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Gentlemen / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Mickey doesn't accept Big Dave's hand for a shake in front of the gentry crowd...so he hires Fletcher to dig up some juicy dirt on him to ruin his life and operation. It doesn't work out too well in his favor...or Fletcher's, for that matter.
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The Gentlemen / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Gentlemen / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Fletcher has a certain greasy charisma to him despite his unpleasant comments and the nature of his visit and story, such that even Ray, who is the target of his manipulation, can't help but find him slightly endearing â€” at least enough to accept his request for steak and wine. Averted, as the steak and wine were all part of Ray's plan to turn the tables. Played straight with Mickey and his organisation. While they clearly operate outside of the law and are not in the slightest hesitant to do some unsavory things, Mickey makes it a point of refusing to sell "hard" drugs, calling them "destroyers of worlds", and generally tries to be fair, civil and reasonable in his business dealings. If you push him too far, however, all bets are off.
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The Gentlemen / int_543a0278	type	Villain Respect
The Gentlemen / int_543a0278	comment	Villain Respect: Mickey's mooks are actually impressed that the Toddlers can wipe the floor with them.
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The Gentlemen / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
The Gentlemen / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: Used 26 times by multiple characters, in very colourful ways. Raymond seems to be particularly fond of this one.
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The Gentlemen / int_572249f0	type	Straight Edge Evil
The Gentlemen / int_572249f0	comment	Straight Edge Evil: Lord George, the leader of the Chinese crime syndicate, refers to horse betting as his "only vice". Even though he runs a heroin empire, he refuses to partake in his own product. Mickey calls him out on this, claiming that spreading something as deadly as heroin makes him very much complicit in the vice he's facilitating.
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The Gentlemen / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Gentlemen / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: So useless, in fact, that they're completely absent from the entire film. In all the various characters' criminal dealings (many of them committed in broad daylight in fairly busy areas), at no point does anyone even mention having to evade, bribe or threaten the police, implying they're a total non-factor. The only exception is Matthew stating that the police will eventually act on the YouTube video showing one of Mickey's farms - though even here he's only doing it to drive the price down, and it's possible that Mickey doesn't disagree only because of the way he's planning to turn the tables on Matthew himself.
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The Gentlemen / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
The Gentlemen / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: Fletcher's final fate after being surprised by Ray in his taxi is never revealed. Given that their last interaction involved Fletcher admitting he sold Ray and Mickey out to the mob to save his own hide, something that they both only survived due to outside intervention, followed by Fletcher fleeing for his life after barely escaping from a metal container he's been locked in ... and that Fletcher is now trying to pen a movie script of the film's events, his future isn't looking too bright. The last we see of Matthew is him being locked in a shipping crate with one of Mickey's cronies, with a choice: both wire an obscene amount of money to Mickey (for the damages to Mickey's empire that Matthew's schemes caused), AND cut off "a pound of flesh", (as payback for Matthew's underling Dry Eye causing Mickey's wife's Near-Rape Experience), or else freeze to death in the below-freezing temperatures of the container. We never see the outcome.
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The Gentlemen / int_5abc8612	type	Unholy Matrimony
The Gentlemen / int_5abc8612	comment	Unholy Matrimony: Mickey and Rosalind have a happy marriage, and also both happen to be hardened criminals with zero hesitation in getting their hands dirty.
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The Gentlemen / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Gentlemen / int_5ca80293	comment	Also deconstructed. Sure, Mickey cares about the nobles whose homes he looks after â€” but this started as purely Pragmatic Villainy â€” his loyalty to them came later. In addition, this attitude leads to a lot of trouble down the line.
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The Gentlemen / int_5d6db368	type	Four Eyes, Zero Soul
The Gentlemen / int_5d6db368	comment	Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Downplayed (and subverted in Raymondâ€™s case, despite his grim, stoic demeanor), but Fletcher and Matthew are both bespectacled, smug men with criminal habits who are eventually revealed to be even more amoral than they seem on the surface.
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The Gentlemen / int_5f410c2c	type	Blood Is Squicker in Water
The Gentlemen / int_5f410c2c	comment	Blood Is Squicker in Water: And beer. The opening sequence ends with a gunshot that sprays blood into a glass of beer; slowly staining the beer a darker colour. This then bleeds (literally) into the opening credits.
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The Gentlemen / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Gentlemen / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Fletcher himself ends up being this to Matthew, as Fletcher's blackmail ended up blowing the whistle on Matthew's schemes to undermine Mickey's empire, ensuring its failure (Mickey won't sell if he knows the buyer is screwing him on the price). In a twist of fate, Coach and the Toddlers end up being this to Fletcher himself. After his first insurance plan fails (after Ray tracks down all of his stashed copies of his evidence), his backup backup plan, selling Ray and his crew out to the mob for the Accidental Murder of a Russian oligarch's son, fails entirely because Coach saves Ray in an act of altruism, and the Toddlers gun down Mickey's assassins (in what is implied to be an attempted hit on Mickey himself). Thus, despite all his preparation, Fletcher is left as meat on the plate due to pure coincidence.
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The Gentlemen / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
The Gentlemen / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: In-Universe, Fletcher suggests this as the reason to leave Mickey's fate ambiguous after the Russian hitmen holding him at gunpoint are gunned down by the Toddlers, in the script version of the movie's events he's panning to a film executive. Averted by the movie itself; Mickey is not only shown to have survived the hit and come out on top, but Fletcher himself is implicitly killed in the ending, as well. Mickey does have a few loose ends on his plate; the Russian oligarch who controlled the hitmen is still alive, Matthew may be coming back to take his revenge and Dry Eye was taking orders from a shadowy figure in a limousine at Lord George's funeral, who may retaliate for his death. But for Mickey, that's just another day in paradise.
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The Gentlemen / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Gentlemen / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Mickey and Matthew are both happily married, and the Russians are motivated by the death of their boss's son.
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The Gentlemen / int_65efc6dc	type	Appeal to Force
The Gentlemen / int_65efc6dc	comment	Appeal to Force: Ray tries to simply buy a cellphone with critical evidence off its owner. The owner opts to try to mug Ray with a machete instead. So, Ray wearily pulls out a submachine gun...
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The Gentlemen / int_683bb900	type	Last Disrespects
The Gentlemen / int_683bb900	comment	Last Disrespects: After first telling him that he is going to piss on his grave, Dry Eye shoots Lord George dead and then pisses on his corpse.
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The Gentlemen / int_6a0b03a6	type	One Last Job
The Gentlemen / int_6a0b03a6	comment	One Last Job: Coach insists his help is "one time only" and once he's made amends, he's out of there. Despite this, he ends up saving Ray's life from Russian hitmen near the end of the film, after stating they were already square.
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The Gentlemen / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Gentlemen / int_6b2b3b59	comment	Matthew is full of condescension towards Mickey as he constantly tries to point out reasons to cut down on how much he should pay Mickey despite how good of a deal heâ€™s getting. The Reveal only emphasizes this, as does the implication that Mickey was onto him from the start.
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The Gentlemen / int_6bb25af4	type	Gratuitous Rape
The Gentlemen / int_6bb25af4	comment	Gratuitous Rape: Dry Eye's attempted rape of Rosalind has no particular build-up, and mostly serves to heighten the dramatic tension between him and Mickey (and afterward, Mickey and Matthew), even though Dry Eye kidnapping Rosalind as planned would be reason enough for Mickey to put a bullet in his head. What makes it especially stupid on Dry Eye's part is that he wastes time attempting to do the deed in Rosalind's office when he should be escorting her to a secure location from which he can safely negotiate with Mickey later. As a result, Mickey has a window of opportunity to come to the rescue.
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The Gentlemen / int_6c75e0e4	type	Beware the Silly Ones
The Gentlemen / int_6c75e0e4	comment	Beware the Silly Ones: The Toddlers. Goofy name, goofier videos, a source of comic relief... mixed martial artists good enough to take on gangsters and win, skilled enough to ambush the The Mafiya goons coming for Mickey before Mickey knew they were coming, cruel enough to kidnap a media mogul and drug him into fornication with a pig for blackmail material...
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The Gentlemen / int_72778cf	type	Luxurious Liquor
The Gentlemen / int_72778cf	comment	Luxurious Liquor: Fletcher is enamored by Raymond's 150-year-old Scotch and is quite happy to accept the drinks Raymond keeps pouring for him.
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The Gentlemen / int_72e0023f	type	Invoked Trope
The Gentlemen / int_72e0023f	comment	When Raymond and Coach are discussing the blackmail tape they've got with drugged Big Dave having sex with a pig, they name-drop Nightmare Fuel and how this can't be unwatched once seen.
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The Gentlemen / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
The Gentlemen / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs with a certain blackmail video, where both Coach and Raymond are comically disgusted by what the Toddlers did, to the point of slight amazement.
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The Gentlemen / int_792e11ec	type	Dance Battler
The Gentlemen / int_792e11ec	comment	Dance Battler: The Toddlers incorporate breakdance moves with boxing and jujitsu in their fighting style.
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The Gentlemen / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
The Gentlemen / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: Exploited by Mickey. In return for the money needed to maintain their crumbling estates, Mickey receives the space and privacy he needs to run his drug empire.
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The Gentlemen / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
The Gentlemen / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: The only American representative in the almost entirely British cast is expatriate main character Mickey Pearson (played by Matthew McConaughey)
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The Gentlemen / int_7ad2c23d	type	ShoutOutToShakespeare
The Gentlemen / int_7ad2c23d	comment	Shout-Out to Shakespeare: Michael demanding a pound of flesh from Matthew, who like Shylock is Jewish, is a clear reference to The Merchant of Venice.
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The Gentlemen / int_7b35cd92	type	Land Poor
The Gentlemen / int_7b35cd92	comment	Land Poor: Discussed Trope. Mickey explains to Matthew that while Britain's aristocrats may still have plenty of property, they have to sink a lot of cash into maintaining it, which is where he comes in. He rents the land at top dollar to use for his weed empire. He and Britain's patricians all make bank and become good friends in the process.
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The Gentlemen / int_7b4cb802	type	Bodyguard Betrayal
The Gentlemen / int_7b4cb802	comment	Lord George's efforts to assert his authority and make Dry Eye back off of Mickey ends with him dead at Dry Eye's command, thanks to a Bodyguard Betrayal.
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The Gentlemen / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
The Gentlemen / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: Fletcher at one point stands in front of a very large, very obvious poster of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., also directed by Guy Ritchie and which Hugh Grant himself featured in.
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The Gentlemen / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
The Gentlemen / int_7d53bc0b	comment	In the opening scene, we see a man come up behind Mickey with a gun, followed by the sound of a gunshot and a spray of blood hitting Mickey's beer. The fact that the man is holding a gun with a large Hollywood Silencer on it, and the gunshot we hear is the standard "bang" you'd expect from an un-silenced gun, is a clue that it wasn't Mickey that got shot.
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The Gentlemen / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
The Gentlemen / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Toyed with every which way. A couple of chavs try to cut in line in front of Coach, and eventually pull a knife on him, ending in their humiliation. Lampshaded in that they didn't realize it was Coach until after the fight, and seem almost honored to be beaten by him. The Toddlers break into one of Mickey's weed farms... it doesn't end well for Mickey's farmers, who very much thought they were the dragons in this situation until the Toddlers break out the mixed martial arts and wipe the floor with them. Later a Defied Trope by Coach, who recognizes that this is a smaller part of a larger organisation, and offers to make amends with Mickey to prevent the inevitable out-of-scale retaliation. You can count the number of times that junkies, Chavs, and no-name low-level gangsters pick fights with or try to intimidate someone way above their grade, and it almost always ends as expected. Fletcher himself, arguably; he's just a lone Private Detective with no army, no money, and no real support network (that we know of) trying to blackmail one of the most powerful drug kingpins in the UK. Somewhat averted, as Fletcher knows this and has multiple safety nets in place. Once they're all gone by the end of the movie, the last one by pure, stupid luck, Fletcher is fully aware that he's hosed.
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The Gentlemen / int_7f38c0cd	type	An Offer You Can't Refuse
The Gentlemen / int_7f38c0cd	comment	Fletcher has a certain greasy charisma to him despite his unpleasant comments and the nature of his visit and story, such that even Ray, who is the target of his manipulation, can't help but find him slightly endearing â€” at least enough to accept his request for steak and wine. Averted, as the steak and wine were all part of Ray's plan to turn the tables.
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The Gentlemen / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Gentlemen / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Coach has the clearest one. He's introduced at a carry-out restaurant scolding a group of knife-wielding young ruffians and then beating them up. When they learn who he is, they all react in fear and run away (though not until they express almost excitement that it was Coach who beat them.) Fletcher has one as well. Raymond finds him sitting in the shadows of his house, uninvited, sipping on his very expensive scotch. Fletcher then proceeds to smugly demand 20 million pounds (which is "just uncomfortable enough to make everybody comfortable"), and presenting the information he has that is worth said price in cinematic detail, trolling Raymond all the while by flirting with him.
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The Gentlemen / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Gentlemen / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The film stars with Mickey sitting down for a drink and a pickled egg in the pub, before he gets shot in the head. Except it turns out it was a Bait-and-Switch Gunshot, thanks to Raymond. We then cut to the Framing Device.
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The Gentlemen / int_83445b04	type	Pun
The Gentlemen / int_83445b04	comment	Pun: Coach slips up when he's talking to Phuc, whose name sounds like the 'f-word': "Alright, Phuc, calm the Phuc down."
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The Gentlemen / int_8741b74	type	Playing with a Trope
The Gentlemen / int_8741b74	comment	The Toddlers break into one of Mickey's weed farms... it doesn't end well for Mickey's farmers, who very much thought they were the dragons in this situation until the Toddlers break out the mixed martial arts and wipe the floor with them.
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The Gentlemen / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
The Gentlemen / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: This is a gangster film, and there are very few altruists. Mickey himself at least has some standards, but is still a ruthless criminal mastermind; Coach is at least well-meaning, cares about his pupils, and wants to keep his criminal involvement to a minimum, but is still shown to have some shady elements to him. Then you have Dry Eye, a murdering, rapist piece of trash, and between all of these, it can be hard to decide who to root for.
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The Gentlemen / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Gentlemen / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: A bunch of young hoodlums in silly ski masks break into Mickey's operation, having no clue what they're doing. They're confronted by a growing crowd of stone-faced hard men, ready to throw down. The film then cuts away, and you'd assume that Mickey's thugs trounced the young hoodlums. When it cuts back, however, it turns out that the hoodlums are a bunch of elite MMA prospects who so completely annihilate Mickey's thugs that they edit the footage into a music video.
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The Gentlemen / int_87ab7f69	type	Sharp-Dressed Man
The Gentlemen / int_87ab7f69	comment	Sharp-Dressed Man: Mickey and Ray both dress in immaculate and stylish suits at all times. Berger dresses in fashionable clothing as well, but with more variety than Mickey and Ray. Mickey compliments his style.
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The Gentlemen / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
The Gentlemen / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: Mickey is definitely from the Southern United States, but his usage of British phrases and slang warps his accent into a mixture between the two. Then again, he did spend most of his life in the UK, so the mix is more than expected.
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The Gentlemen / int_8928fe5f	type	Dead Man's Chest
The Gentlemen / int_8928fe5f	comment	Dead Man's Chest: Raymond is keeping Aslan's body in his freezer. Just under the steaks.
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The Gentlemen / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Gentlemen / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Mickey and his crew, naturally. Arguably Fletcher as well, in the sense that he serves as the point-of-view character in the Framing Device.
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The Gentlemen / int_8bb8fb46	type	Trenchcoat Warfare
The Gentlemen / int_8bb8fb46	comment	Trenchcoat Warfare: While doing business in sketchy areas, Raymond carries a sub-machinegun under his expensive cashmere trench coat. This comes as a nasty surprise to the gang of chavs who attempt to intimidate him with a machete.
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The Gentlemen / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
The Gentlemen / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License â€“ Medicine: Shigellosis causes fever, dehydration and diarrhea, none of which happen to Lord George. Projectile vomiting, not so much.
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The Gentlemen / int_8e20b0f7	type	Private Detective
The Gentlemen / int_8e20b0f7	comment	Private Detective: Fletcher (Hugh Grant) is one... and is less than heroic, being both comically sleazy and wanting a multi-million payout from the gangsters for not going to the press with his information.
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The Gentlemen / int_921cdca8	type	Nothing Personal
The Gentlemen / int_921cdca8	comment	Nothing Personal: Matthew smugly reassures Mickey that this is the case when he tries to buy him out with a lowball offer after encouraging Dry Eye to wreck his business. Mickey doesn't disagree, but loudly informs him that it became personal when Dry Eye attempted to rape his wife and that only a literal pound of flesh can satisfy that debt.
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The Gentlemen / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
The Gentlemen / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: After being poisoned by Mickey, Lord George rather graphically projectile vomits over the table. Multiple times.
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The Gentlemen / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Gentlemen / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Matthew has a silent, but very visible one once he springs the culmination of his scheme and tries to lowball Mickey on his business, only for Mickey to flip the script and provide evidence that he knows Matthew was responsible... as well as detailing exactly what he's going to do as a result.
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The Gentlemen / int_96d2ce42	type	In Vino Veritas
The Gentlemen / int_96d2ce42	comment	Finally, Fletcher loses his first insurance policy thanks to In Vino Veritas allowing Ray to track down and remove all of his evidence cache backups, and the bullet point directly above this one leads to his second insurance policy, siccing The Mob on Mickey and Ray, failing, as well. He runs for his life, and seemingly gets away, opting to pen the script of the whole ordeal as a movie and profit off that. Then he realizes that the driver of his cab is Not My Driver...
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The Gentlemen / int_9cad69bf	comment	Depraved Homosexual: Played for Laughs with Fletcher, whose come-ons are mostly done to piss off Raymond rather than any real interest.
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The Gentlemen / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Gentlemen / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In the opening scene, we see a man come up behind Mickey with a gun, followed by the sound of a gunshot and a spray of blood hitting Mickey's beer. The fact that the man is holding a gun with a large Hollywood Silencer on it, and the gunshot we hear is the standard "bang" you'd expect from an un-silenced gun, is a clue that it wasn't Mickey that got shot. In the opening credits, you've got a stylized shot of the Toddlers performing a drive-by. The ending is far less surprising if you remember that detail. Dry Eye's dialogue right after the attempt on Mickey's life indicates that heâ€™s going to use Rosalind as a hostage against Mickey, providing an early hint that he wasnâ€™t the one trying to kill him.
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The Gentlemen / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: Coach is both horrified and frustrated when he learns that 1) his students just stole a lot of marijuana, 2) they used his van for the robbery and are unloading the dope at his gym, 3) they posted a video of the crime on YouTube, and 4) that the stolen gear belongs to Mickey Pearson, the biggest and most notorious pot dealer in the entire country. Those four moments are drawn out over two nonconsecutive scenes, but it's clear that he's aware of how badly this is likely to turn out from the very beginning.
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The Gentlemen / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
The Gentlemen / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: Dry Eye would be just in the middle of the general scale of evilness when it comes to all the characters... if not for his desire to be the top dog and stopping at nothing to achieve his goal.
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The Gentlemen / int_9e727954	type	Indulgent Fantasy Segue
The Gentlemen / int_9e727954	comment	Indulgent Fantasy Segue: A variant where it's done by proxy; Fletcher imagining an elaborate beating conducted by Mickey to Dry Eye for his attempts to buy him out, and is immediately corrected by Raymond, who would know the truth as he was there.
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The Gentlemen / int_9f87b4fb	comment	Little Useless Gun: Matthew gives Mickey a gold-plated derringer as a peace offering, of a caliber so small the bullets look like tic tacs. Mickey gives it to his wife Ros. When Ros eventually pulls it on Dry Eye when he invades her office, he is incredulous that it is even a gun. Ros demonstrates how effective it can be at point blank range by killing his two bodyguards with single-shot through each of their foreheads. Unfortunately for her, it only has two shots.
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The Gentlemen / int_9ff2b000	comment	The Consigliere: Raymond's position as this to Mickey is lampshaded by Coach, who actually refers to him as such.
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The Gentlemen / int_a0a838fe	type	Bait-and-Switch Gunshot
The Gentlemen / int_a0a838fe	comment	Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: A rather lengthy one. The film opens with Mickey sitting in his pub when a hitman appears behind him. There is a shot and the viewer sees Mickey's table and his drink splattered with blood. Much later, it is revealed that Ray had entered behind the hitman and shot him as he drew on Mickey; the blood on the table being the hitman's.
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The Gentlemen / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
The Gentlemen / int_a0db7803	comment	Dry Eye draws Mickey's very personal wrath by going after his wife Rosalind, all the way up to attempting to rape her; he earns three bullets in the skull for his trouble.
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The Gentlemen / int_a1a1491e	comment	Mickey being surprised by the Russians in the car is a direct homage to the ending of The Long Good Friday, right down to the eyes in the rear mirror. In fact, the film itself has the same premise as The Long Good Friday: A London based gangster attempting to go legitimate is trying to close an important deal with a millionaire only to have a mysterious antagonist try to destroy his empire and threaten the whole thing.
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The Gentlemen / int_a1e4de7	comment	Never Bring A Knife To A Gunfight: Ray chases one of the kids on the estate, trying to get his phone. The kid runs to a gang to back him up, and at which point Ray offers to buy the phone for a wad of cash. One of the gang pulls out a machete and says that they'll just take the cash and keep the phone. With a look of resignation, Ray pulls a submachine gun from under his coat and fires it in the air. The gang flees, while the kid throws Ray the phone and then bolts as well.
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The Gentlemen / int_aa245ded	type	Mob War
The Gentlemen / int_aa245ded	comment	Mob War: Mickey Pearson (Matthew McConaughey) winds up fighting one against Dry Eye (Henry Golding).
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The Gentlemen / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Gentlemen / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Coach upon getting a tip who exactly his boys robbed. His reaction is to instantly force them to pack everything up and personally go with a plea of unconditional servitude until the debt is paid just to save their skins. The look on Dry Eye's face when he hears Rosalind utter the words "Hello, babe", and he knows that Mickey has just arrived and discovered him about to rape his wife. Matthew has an epic one after his grand scheme blows up in his face, and what he expected to be a total victory turns into a worst-case scenario in a matter of minutes. Arguably counts as a Villainous Breakdown. Fletcher has one when he steps into the cab to get to Heathrow, only to find Raymond at the wheel and his door locked shut.
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The Gentlemen / int_ad54954f	type	Punk in the Trunk
The Gentlemen / int_ad54954f	comment	Punk in the Trunk: Coach delivers Phuc to Raymond Bound and Gagged in the boot of his car.
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The Gentlemen / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
The Gentlemen / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: At the end, Coach saves Raymond from the assassins he notices are coming for him, despite them posing no threat to him, and how he had nothing to gain by saving Raymond and in fact might have been saved some trouble in case Raymond ever did try to demand more from him. That being said, he does wordlessly emphasize that You Owe Me.
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The Gentlemen / int_affa0e5d	type	Bling-Bling-BANG!
The Gentlemen / int_affa0e5d	comment	Bling-Bling-BANG!: Matthew gives Mickey a good will gift: a derringer that has been gold-plated so it looks like a paperweight. Mickey gives to his wife Ros for her office, where it later becomes a literal Chekhov's Gun.
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The Gentlemen / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Gentlemen / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: The Toddlers get the bright idea to rob a random, well-hidden drug lab they only just learned the location of, with no knowledge of the owner or danger involved. They don't even go in armed. Their MMA skills downplay that last one, but still, bringing (well-trained and dangerous) fists against what could be armed guards wasn't the brightest move. That alone would be bad enough ... but then they record themselves whupping the asses of Mickey's Mooks, make a rap music video of it, complete with dramatic character introductions (some of which use their real names!), and then upload the music video to social media. They at least had the common sense to keep their masks on, but this brazen act of stupid boasting is what leads Coach to offer unconditional service to Ray and Mickey as a way of making amends. Aslan somehow thought it was a good idea to talk back to someone who is quite evidently a seasoned London Gangster and attack one of his massive Mooks with a hammer. The latter gets him almost immediately killed. The chavs who try to take selfies of themselves with Aslan's body while four irate London Gangsters (or rather, one irate London gangster and his three mooks) are trying to clean up the mess. Dry Eye's second bodyguard, who seconds after watching Ros put a bullet right between the eyes of his colleague, decides it's a good idea to attack her. Even though he knows she's only used up one of her two shots. She immediately kills him in the exact same manner. Dry Eye doesn't make the smartest decisions throughout the movie, (disrespectfully pressuring Mickey, Lord George and Matthew, in a betrayal of their previous agreement, into stepping aside and letting him take over, despite having no accomplishments under his belt that should make people at their level take him seriously) but his crowning achievement that leads to his death is trying to rape Mickey's wife, right there in her office, after his backup thugs are already dead, when he doesn't know where Mickey or his henchmen were at the time (and is assuming Mickey is alive and kicking since he was planning on using Rosalind as a hostage), but clearly heard her name him on the phone. For no particular reason other than being a cunt.
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The Gentlemen / int_b84491a3	type	Wrong Insult Offence
The Gentlemen / int_b84491a3	comment	Wrong Insult Offence: Ernie is furious at being called a "black cunt"...
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The Gentlemen / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Gentlemen / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Our protagonist is Mickey, a gangster with a marijuana empire who isn't afraid to kill people if they get in his way. However, he does have a sense of honor and is A Lighter Shade of Black than the other gangsters in London.
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The Gentlemen / int_c3fbac64	type	Bestiality Is Depraved
The Gentlemen / int_c3fbac64	comment	Bestiality Is Depraved: Coach and the Toddlers blackmail Big Dave with a video of him drugged out of his mind and having sex with a pig.
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The Gentlemen / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
The Gentlemen / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: As evidenced by the poster at the top of the page, it's with Colin Farrell and Hugh Grant.
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The Gentlemen / int_c673210e	type	Informed Judaism
The Gentlemen / int_c673210e	comment	Informed Judaism: When introducing him, Fletcher mentions Matthew is Jewish. The only fact in-story which may reflect this are his bodyguards nicknamed "Mossad Crabs" (which may just be a joke from Fletcher). Mickey's wife Rosalind is also Jewish, but describes herself and Mickey as such only in passing.
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The Gentlemen / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Gentlemen / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Fletcher likens the surveillance he did on a conversation to be just like The Conversation, though he says he didn't like the film much. Mickey being surprised by the Russians in the car is a direct homage to the ending of The Long Good Friday, right down to the eyes in the rear mirror. In fact, the film itself has the same premise as The Long Good Friday: A London based gangster attempting to go legitimate is trying to close an important deal with a millionaire only to have a mysterious antagonist try to destroy his empire and threaten the whole thing.
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The Gentlemen / int_c772e7c5	type	Rags to Riches
The Gentlemen / int_c772e7c5	comment	Rags to Riches: Michael "Mickey" Pearson started out as American trailer trash, then got a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford in England, where he worked his way up from "low-level weed dealer with a wealthy clientele" to "kingpin of a thriving drug empire."
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The Gentlemen / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
The Gentlemen / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: Mickey's life heats up only when he starts working to get out of the game. Justified in that the man he's trying to sell to is deliberately antagonizing his empire in order to drive down his prices.
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The Gentlemen / int_cc7fae30	type	Outside-Context Problem
The Gentlemen / int_cc7fae30	comment	Outside-Context Problem: Aslan's father is a Russian mobster that didn't take lightly his first-born fell off a window. His enforcers are a serious disruption to the grand scheme of things and almost manage to kill Mickey twice without anyone even realizing who they are and why they are after everyone.
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The Gentlemen / int_ce6b54d9	type	Enemy Eats Your Lunch
The Gentlemen / int_ce6b54d9	comment	Enemy Eats Your Lunch: Ray arrives home to find Fletcher waiting for him, and casually drinking his 150-year-old scotch. Later during their very strange interaction, Fletcher asks Ray to cook a steak for him.
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The Gentlemen / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Gentlemen / int_ce9f550c	comment	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: Fletcher has a transcript of a lipread conversation in Cantonese involving one speaker who is not fluent in the language, that has then been translated into English. The results are unusual at times, including Matthew apparently saying that he does not want anything to "stroke his mouse fur". However, it is later revealed to be not the fault of the lip-reading or translation, but Matthew's horrible Cantonese, making it twice as funny â€” someone did read his lips properly and translated what he said, word by word.
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The Gentlemen / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
The Gentlemen / int_d028e0da	comment	The last we see of Matthew is him being locked in a shipping crate with one of Mickey's cronies, with a choice: both wire an obscene amount of money to Mickey (for the damages to Mickey's empire that Matthew's schemes caused), AND cut off "a pound of flesh", (as payback for Matthew's underling Dry Eye causing Mickey's wife's Near-Rape Experience), or else freeze to death in the below-freezing temperatures of the container. We never see the outcome.
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The Gentlemen / int_d34cbda2	type	Implausible Deniability
The Gentlemen / int_d34cbda2	comment	A literal example: a certain 'paperweight.'
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The Gentlemen / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
The Gentlemen / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Coach is, well, a boxing coach, and is only referred to as such in the dialog. And in the closing credits.
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The Gentlemen / int_d820f28	type	Reaction Shot
The Gentlemen / int_d820f28	comment	Reaction Shot: The video of Big Dave having sex with a pig is obviously never shown, but we've got his own terrified reaction upon watching it, and later, Raymond is somewhere between shocked and amused by it, commenting with Coach how this is something that's impossible to "unwatch once you've seen it".
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The Gentlemen / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
The Gentlemen / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: Mickey is abducted by a pair of Russians gangsters pulling a Not My Driver. As they are about to to shoot, a van swerves in front of the car. The back door opens and the Toddlers open up with automatic weapons, killing the Russians. An earlier conversation with Coach had made it sound as if they were planning to kill Mickey.
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The Gentlemen / int_db9940c4	type	Famed In-Story
The Gentlemen / int_db9940c4	comment	Famed In-Story: Coach is apparently well known among the denizens of his neighborhood. Mickey is also quite the society darling.
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The Gentlemen / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Gentlemen / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Mickey and Raymond are understanding of failures due to circumstances beyond their subordinate's control, with no trace of taking it out on them. It's one reason they are able to get honest information from them when it's critical. Raymond also notably takes full responsibility for the death of Aslan, despite the fact that it was actually one of his men and he wasn't even in the room at the time.
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The Gentlemen / int_dd050410	type	Defeat Means Respect
The Gentlemen / int_dd050410	comment	Defeat Means Respect: The Toddlers are initially dismissed by Mickey's goons as a bunch of punks with colorful masks before being trounced by the Toddlers in the ensuing fight. One of the goons reports this to Mickey, and, while still bloodied and bruised from said fight, praises the Toddlers for their fighting abilities.
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The Gentlemen / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
The Gentlemen / int_de9047ac	comment	Finally, Fletcher wants to blackmail Mickey and Raymond for an obscene amount of money, or else he'll make the combined Gambit Pileup of every party public knowledge. He has a backup plan; turn in Mickey to the Russian mob for one of his associate's Accidental Murder of a powerful Russian oligarch's son, leading to their almost-certain-assassinations. He loses his blackmail money... but he has a rough draft of a movie script based on the movie's own events ready to go, and hopes to profit off that, instead.
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The Gentlemen / int_df4f7a9b	type	Tiger Versus Dragon
The Gentlemen / int_df4f7a9b	comment	Tiger Versus Dragon: A Western variant, Lion vs Dragon, with Mickey as the Lion and Dry Eye as the Dragon, tying into their animal motifs and nationalities nicely.
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The Gentlemen / int_e029366d	type	Toyota Tripwire
The Gentlemen / int_e029366d	comment	Toyota Tripwire: The kid running away from Bunny on the estate is on a bike and keeps looking over his shoulder and shouting mocking comments. Until Ray opens the door of the Range Rover and slams him off the bike, that is.
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The Gentlemen / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
The Gentlemen / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: Big Dave's bodyguard makes an attempt to take a stand against the Toddlers, but quickly realized how outclassed he is and backs off.
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The Gentlemen / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
The Gentlemen / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Mickey as the Lion and the king of the jungle, naturally, and Dry Eye as the foreign Dragon seeking his territory.
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The Gentlemen / int_e2f7ab99	type	Assassin Outclassin'
The Gentlemen / int_e2f7ab99	comment	Assassin Outclassin': The Russian enforcers end up routinely outclassed by pretty much whoever pops out and takes them out by complete surprise before they can do any harm. However, that doesn't make them any less dangerous, since up until the very finale, nobody knows their allegiance or goals, while they are very persistent in getting Mickey and his men wiped out.
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The Gentlemen / int_e4ba33fc	type	Disaster Dominoes
The Gentlemen / int_e4ba33fc	comment	Disaster Dominoes: The seemingly-unimportant task of Ray recovering the patrician's missing drug-addict daughter results in the Accidental Death of a seemingly-random Russian crackhead, which gives Fletcher his backup backup plan â€” to leak the events to the crackhead's father, The Don of the Russian mob, to get Mickey and Ray out of the picture. This would have led to their deaths, if not for the actions of the Toddlers and Coach, respectively. And to make it all worse, Laura dies of a drug overdose shortly thereafter, rendering the entire task to return her to her parents a sad waste of time and lives. Matthew also uses a direct dominoes analogy when pointing out all the damage the Toddlers raid could cause to Mickey's business and its profitability. Mickey counters by pointing out that he knocked over that first domino.
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The Gentlemen / int_e4ce314	type	The Triads and the Tongs
The Gentlemen / int_e4ce314	comment	The Triads and the Tongs: Dragon Head Lord George and his underboss Dry Eye, forming the antagonists of the movie. Well, one set of antagonists...
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The Gentlemen / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Gentlemen / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: The derringer Mickey is gifted by Matthew is jokingly referred to as a paperweight to acknowledge that being caught with a handgun in the UK comes with serious repercussions.
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The Gentlemen / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Dry Eye is an enforcer in the Chinese mob. Introduced receiving humans to potentially traffic for Lord George, Dry Eye gives a veiled threat to the seller when he does not have the money to pay him. The crime syndicate Dry Eye works for distributes heroin, which leads to the fatal overdosing of the teenager Laura Pressfield (and is explicitly stated by Mickey to much deadlier and more destructive than his own marijuana). Dry Eye also helps Matthew Berger to try to undermine Mickey Pearson's own cannabis business for a lower price, but threatens him when he decides he wants it only for himself instead. Dry Eye then has Lord George killed when he confronts him about his betrayal and then later threatens and attempts to rape Mickey's wife Rosalind when she fights back. Despite mob violence from others as well, Dry Eye is the coldest and most uncaring by comparison, and is also a Dirty Coward to boot.
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The Gentlemen / int_e7b1cb24	comment	A couple of chavs try to cut in line in front of Coach, and eventually pull a knife on him, ending in their humiliation. Lampshaded in that they didn't realize it was Coach until after the fight, and seem almost honored to be beaten by him.
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The Gentlemen / int_ea38ddd5	comment	Sissy Villain: Fletcher, who keeps flirting with an unappreciative Ray. Matthew Berger has an effeminate demeanor and is a noted fashion enthusiast, despite being married to a woman.
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The Gentlemen / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Mickey responds to Dry Eye's lowball offer for his empire by blowing his balls off with a handgun, then finishing him with a Boom, Headshot!. This turns out to be an invention of the Unreliable Narrator Fletcher, who was just embellishing for dramatic effect.
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The Gentlemen / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: Coach delivers Phuc to Ray as peace offering, bound and gagged with duct tape in the boot of his car.
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The Gentlemen / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Mentioned by name. Raymond's attempts to reclaim a patrician's wayward daughter leads to them gaining the attention of Fletcher, a chase with some of the chav witnesses, the death of an addict, and an assault by the Russian mob, including the father of that dead addict.
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The Gentlemen / int_ec02c97e	comment	Later a Defied Trope by Coach, who recognizes that this is a smaller part of a larger organisation, and offers to make amends with Mickey to prevent the inevitable out-of-scale retaliation.
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The Gentlemen / int_ecc8b108	comment	Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: Oh yeah. Notably, it's a rare modern example that doesn't end with Mickey's death, while still not making light of the downsides of life as a gangster.
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The Gentlemen / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: There's both Big Dave, Fletcher's boss, and Mickey's driver Dave.
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The Gentlemen / int_eef35d8d	comment	A Handful for an Eye: When one of the kids in the cafe attacks Coach in the cafe, Coach grabs a squeeze bottle of vinegar and squirts it in the kid's eye.
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The Gentlemen / int_f3f1a9e2	comment	Not My Driver: Mickey leaves the fish market and gets into the Range Rover, only to receive a text from Ray telling him not to get into the car; a few seconds too late. He looks up and finds his driver Dave has been replaced by a couple of Russian thugs. At the very end of the film, Fletcher gets in a black cab to go to the airport only to find that Ray is sitting in the driver's seat. And the back doors won't open...
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The Gentlemen / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Subtle, but it's there. That barbecue table that Fletcher was so fascinated with? Guy Ritchie customized it himself and sells it. Also, the opening scene in the pub is part of Ritchie's brewery.
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The Gentlemen / int_f70710ae	comment	Blackmail Backfire: Eventually attempted. It ends up becoming a subverted type-two, Raymond using Fletcher's story to locate the true Man Behind the Man and make sure Fletcher is Out-Gambitted... but Fletcher has a backup plan for his backup plan. However, this doesn't save him in the end, making it a Double Subversion.
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The Gentlemen / int_f85354eb	comment	Matthew's scheme to sabotage Mickey's business to lowball him on the cost fails thanks to Fletcher ratting him out as part of his blackmail scheme. As if that weren't bad enough, Matthew's chosen patsy Dry Eye's Attempted Rape of Mickey's wife ends up making the consequences of the scheme's failure far worse than they would have otherwise been.
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The Gentlemen / int_f8671289	comment	Trunk Shot: When Coach opens the boot of his car to show Ray the Bound and Gagged Phuc, the shot is from Phuc's POV of the two threatening individuals staring down at him.
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The Gentlemen / int_f93f10e	comment	Can't Stop The Signal: Fletcher is Genre Savvy enough to plan ahead and mention his "Insurance" to Raymond's face. Eventually Defied, as Raymond hunts down and destroys the other copies and has the editor Fletcher was going to talk to "dealt with".
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The Gentlemen / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
The Gentlemen / int_fd497706	comment	In a twist of fate, Coach and the Toddlers end up being this to Fletcher himself. After his first insurance plan fails (after Ray tracks down all of his stashed copies of his evidence), his backup backup plan, selling Ray and his crew out to the mob for the Accidental Murder of a Russian oligarch's son, fails entirely because Coach saves Ray in an act of altruism, and the Toddlers gun down Mickey's assassins (in what is implied to be an attempted hit on Mickey himself). Thus, despite all his preparation, Fletcher is left as meat on the plate due to pure coincidence.
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The Gentlemen / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: While compared to some of the people involved, Big Dave is practically a saint, he is out to destroy Mickey just because Mickey refuses to shake his hand at a party in front of a lot of Lords (due to Big Dave humiliating a gay friend of his with some nasty headlines). Even Raymond finds this a little hard to believe.
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