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The Green Hornet

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The Green Hornet is an action-comedy directed by Michel Gondry and starring Seth Rogen (who also co-wrote the script), Jay Chou and Christoph Waltz. It adapts the classic character and brings him into the modern world with a more comedic and slapstick style.As for its Super Hero Origin, Britt Reid is the spoiled and lazy son of a newspaper tycoon and he is given a wake-up call when his dad dies and the responsibility is passed on to him. Now completely lost without the opportunity to piss off his dad, he strikes up a friendship with Gadgeteer Genius and martial arts master Kato. This leads to a night of drunken vandalism when they end up foiling a late-night robbery/rape attempt.Feeling a sense of accomplishment for the first time in their lives, they set out as vigilantes to track down the criminal underworld, with their particular angle being that they are acting as rival criminals. Britt uses the resources of his father's paper and the intelligence of his secretary, Lenore Case, to unknowingly further their mission. This catches the attention of the underground kingpin Benjamin Chudnofsky, who wants them dead.
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Sure, Let's Go with That
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Sure, Let's Go with That: A version that's non-verbal for one side. Bloodnofsky wears a gas mask to look scary. When Green Hornet surprises him with knock-out gas, he proclaims himself ungassable as if he had worn the mask for that reason all along.
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Miles Gloriosus
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Miles Gloriosus: Britt is essentially this type of hero for most of the film until the very end where he starts to gain some competence.
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Goggles Do Nothing
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Goggles Do Nothing: An odd example. The gas mask worn by Chud... BLOODNOFSKY is useful when the heroes throw knockout gas around. Then it hinders him when the lenses get fogged up. Both situations were completely unexpected, though he was only wearing it to look scary. He never thought of an actual function for it to have.
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Vanity License Plate
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Vanity License Plate: the Black Beauty has a rotating one to switch from a normal plate to one that just says 'HORNET'.
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Card-Carrying Villain
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Card-Carrying Villain: Chudnofsky. Cares a lot about people being scared of him. Takes great pride in his double barreled handgun. Later gives himself a supervillain name and comes up with a very bad Catchphrase / Pre-Mortem One-Liner. Invoked deliberately with the Green Hornet, with literal cards and an email address.
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Heroic BSoD
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Heroic BSoD / My God, What Have I Done?: Britt's reaction after the massacre of innocent guys wearing green.
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Metallicar Syndrome
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Metallicar Syndrome: Subverted; the car should be conspicuous, but turns out at the end to have camouflage technology that lets it hide from a police pursuit.
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Genre Savvy
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Genre Savvy: When Britt thinks of spinning the Green Hornet as a villain to avoid common superhero pitfalls, he explicitly discusses that something that happens in many superhero stories is the Big Bad getting wind of the hero's identity and who his loved ones are and deciding to pull an "I Have Your Wife" / "And Your Little Dog, Too!" gambit.
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ManBehindTheMan
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Man Behind the Man: Lenore, a hilarious subversion as even she doesn't know that she's effectively masterminding Britt and Kato's activities.
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Lesser Star
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The Garfunkel: Britt Reid is basically useless in the first few fights, gets himself in situations he can't handle all the time (he's a pretty competent one-on-one fighter, but he tends to get entire gangs after him at once), he's a glory-hogging egotist and his major contribution to the Black Beauty is suggesting ejector seats. In contrast, Kato builds all of their toys and is an expert martial artist who can take out entire gangs at once. Eventually lampshaded when Britt accuses Kato of being this instead during their big fight. Britt gets better in the final fight.
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Visual Pun
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Visual Pun: The lights on the ceiling of Britt's office at The Sentinel are contained in hexagonal tubes and stuck to the ceiling; just like a hornet's nest.
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The Rival
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The Rival: Shockingly, with Kato at times. But they're still partners that are there for each other in the long run.
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Heterosexual Life-Partners
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Britt and Kato. Two orphans together on an adventure. Naturally, the writers play up the Ho Yay as much as possible.
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Cruel and Unusual Death
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Chudnovsky gets speared through both eyes with two halves of an office desk leg, courtesy of Kato.
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Stealth Pun
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Stealth Pun: Kato's had it up to here with being referred to as the sidekick - and yet which of Bruce Lee's trademark moves does he replicate at least once?
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No Hero to His Valet
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No Hero to His Valet: James Reid is beloved by his city and employees but both Britt and Kato thought he was a bit of a dick.
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Byronic Hero
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Byronic Hero: Britt is this trope personified: Ungrateful, deluded, ungrateful, egomaniacal, self-centered, ungrateful, immature, and stupid. He is not shown to have one decent or redeeming quality about him - even after he manages to drive away Kato, until his extravagant efforts to promote the Hornet as a menace resulted in the deaths of seven innocents who just happened to be wearing green. His horror at the consequences of his selfishness is the first time we get to see a decent and heroic side to him, and he gets better from there.
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Parents as People
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Parents as People: James Reid is a classic example: a well-respected publisher who believes in the freedom of the press a belief that costs him his life. Britt, however grew into a lazy playboy who will find any opportunity to spite him. Part of Britt's development is growing to admire his father for what he stood for, while still accepting the fact that his dad wasn't a nice guy.
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Adaptational Villainy
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Adaptational Villainy: In the original series, D.A. Frank Scanlon was an ally of the Green Hornet. In this film, he's one of the main villains and was responsible for the death of Britt's father.
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Good Is Not Nice
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Good Is Not Nice: The protagonists. Britt and Kato's initial motivation for becoming vigilantes was boredom, and Britt still acts like a jerk as he gets more into the act. They also have few scruples when it comes to taking the lives of criminals (They outright murder DA Scanlon) or wounding the police if the situation calls for it. They're not mean or cynical though, they just don't care because they (in their minds) really have nothing at stake and nothing to lose.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: Kato's adrenaline reaction skill. Also, ejector seats. Also, Britt's dad's death.
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Mythology Gag
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Mythology Gag:After the climactic battle Britt Reid's wound and Lenore Case's idea for getting Reid medical help without drawing suspicion is lifted from an homage to the TV series episode "Bad Bet on a 459-Silent". In the T.V show the district attorney was called Scanlon, although he worked with the Green Hornet. In the film, he's the bad guy. One of Kato's sketches is of Bruce Lee, Jay Chou's predecessor of the role. Jay Chou even replicates Bruce Lee's best known moves, like the one-inch punch and pushing side kick. The entire subplot of Kato being annoyed at being treated as Britt's sidekick is that basically before Bruce Lee had the role, Kato was literally just the Hornet's driver. The original show theme (and graphic) play at the end of the film. The control panel on Kato's espresso machine resembles the one in Reid's garage in the TV series that controls access to the Black Beauty. Britt's unintended first costume, with a green bandana and brown trenchcoat, is the Hornet's original costume, and also the one in the Year One series. Britt has a poster of The Lone Ranger, who in the original continuity was his great-uncle. Kato says he's from Shanghai to which Britt responds "I love Japan." On the surface it seems like he's an idiot, but it's actually a shout out to two things. Kato's original actor Bruce Lee being chinese, while playing a character who is of Japanese ethnicity. Upon being informed that the Black Beauty's upgrades have been complete, Britt excitedly pulls the tarp off of a covered car expecting the fully-upgraded Black Beauty, but is disappointed to find out that the covered car is actually a 1937 Lincoln Zephyr◊ which was the Green Hornet and Kato's hero car in the 1940 Green Hornet film serial from Universal.◊
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Funny Background Event
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Funny Background Event: When Kato "carries out" the hit on Britt in the Japanese restaurant, one of the dozens of panicky yells from around them is actually "it's the Green Hornet's sidekick!"
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Gas Mask Mooks
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Gas Mask Mooks: Lampshaded. Chudnofsky starts wearing one as part of his new persona. When he and his minions end up in a situation where gas masks are actually useful, Scanlon demands to know why no one else was issued one.
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Disappeared Dad
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Disappeared Dad: James. He was physically present only when it was time to say how much of a disappointment to him Brit was. Otherwise, he had 750 employees to take care of and too bad about Brit missing his departed mother.
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Bilingual Bonus
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Bilingual Bonus: Kato actually says "I spent three months" in Mandarin before correcting himself and switching to English. "I spent three weeks..." And for the record, he's ranting "that idiot will be the death of me" after his argument with Britt leads to Lenore hitting him as well.
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Lampshade Hanging
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Lampshade Hanging "Aw man, now we're in a car chase." Chudnofsky's first scene involves him asking someone if he knew how hard it was for him to get his double-barreled gun made.
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More Dakka
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More Dakka: The Black Beauty has guns everywhere. Hood, suicide doors, trunk... The bad guys also bring a heavy machinegun when they attempt to destroy it later.
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Ice-Cream Koan
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Ice-Cream Koan:
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Awesome, but Impractical
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Awesome, but Impractical: BLOODNOFSKY's gas-mask ensemble makes a lot of sense as the villainous antithesis to Britt's Green Hornet. That said, it interferes a lot with visibility, fogs up the longer he wears it due to condensation, and his mooks complain when they realize he didn't bother giving them their own masks especially when their enemy specializes in attacking with knockout gas.
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Hidden Depths
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Hidden Depths: Averted with Britt, aside from his being able to take some punishment and his 5-minute jaunt into truth-o-visionnote note that the conclusion he arrived at goes beyond what Scanlon told him, but mostly consisted of him staring into space like an idiot. Amusingly, Kato is entirely this.
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Two Guys and a Girl
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Two Guys and a Girl: this movie essentially sets up our heroes as this for future sequels. Only time will tell if they can solidify into a team of three.
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
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Thou Shalt Not Kill: Mostly Averted. If you're a criminal, and you try to kill them, the Green Hornet and his trusted chauffeur will kill you right back. Afterwards, they'll probably drink some coffee and eat fruit salad. That said, Black Beauty does have beanbag rounds, the Green Hornet does have his gas gun, and Kato (probably) can pull his punches - but the plot mostly throws out situations where these aren't the most effective response.
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Scary Black Man
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Scary Black Man: Chili
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Hero with Bad Publicity
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Hero with Bad Publicity: Intentional on Britt's part. He wants to get in with the criminals who corrupted the city, so he uses the Sentinel to make the Green Hornet more of a perceived menace. Britt specifically brings up a number of problems with being a 'hero' and concludes that appearing as a 'villain' will give him more freedom to act. Interestingly, at least initially this could be justified as a desire to find the man who desecrated his father's grave — and then he becomes an 'actual' menace.
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I Just Want to Be Badass
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I Just Want to Be Badass: Chudnofsky wanted to be feared. When he felt he was being upstaged by the Green Hornet, he lost it and became BLOODNOFSKY, sacrificing pragmatism for theatrics.
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TrailersAlwaysLie
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Trailers Always Lie: The trailers hinted that Kato built the Black Beauty for Reid Sr. and that Britt became the Green Hornet to avenge his father. In the actual film, none of those implications amount to fact. The trailers also made it look like Kato was against crimefighting wheres in the movie he's just as enthusiastic as Britt (after just a little convincing).
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Engineered Public Confession
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Engineered Public Confession: Britt manages to get Scanlon to confess to his father's murder and various crimes as part of a Breaking Speech, which he records onto a flash drive. Well, he thought he did anyway, before Britt realized it was completely blank. Oops.
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Actor Allusion
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Actor Allusion: Kato singing along to "Gangstas' Paradise"; Jay Chou is primarily a hip-hop/R&B artiste, with alleged gang connections simply from the production values of his concept videos and the nature of his initial fanbase. Then there's him playing the piano when he sees Lenore behind Britt's back. As for the mention of nunchucks... More of irony than allusion, but Jay's breakout role in his native Taiwan also involved hard-and-fast driving in a Live-Action Adaptation, as Takumi in Initial D. The scene with Kato playing with a basketball also alludes to Jay's earlier movie, Kung Fu Dunk. And the massacre of several gangsters just for wearing green parallels a plot point from Curse of the Golden Flower. This is basically Meet Jay Chou: The Movie. James Franco as a meth dealer. What was his last movie with Seth Rogen? Pineapple Express.
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Properly Paranoid
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Properly Paranoid: Kato mentions that Britt's father ordered him to cover many of his cars in gadgets and gizmos for the last few years... and not without reason. Granted, those seem to have been cosmetic or defensive in nature - the machine guns and missiles were put in after he died.
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Bad Boss
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Bad Boss: Chudnofski plays this chillingly straight.
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NoKillLikeOverKill
 The Green Hornet / int_3d29fed
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No Kill like Overkill: The Black Beauty can pretty much demolish several city blocks with its full loadout. And does. How about destroying a traffic camera with a missile launcher? Hilariously, the car also has non-lethal bean bag ammo, but uses it all of once during the movie.
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Ungrateful Bastard
 The Green Hornet / int_3fe2b13f
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Ungrateful Bastard: Britt. Good lord, Britt. Kato eventually quits due to this. He gets better, of course.
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 The Green Hornet / int_443b78cd
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Tranquil Fury
 The Green Hornet / int_443b78cd
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Tranquil Fury: When it becomes clear that Danny Clear is deliberately pretending not to understand how to pronounce Chudnofsky's name.
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Not This One, That One
 The Green Hornet / int_45eed9a5
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Not This One, That One: An inversion of this happens when Kato shows Britt their Cool Car. Britt sees an ordinary car, but then Kato shows the actual car: the Black Beauty.
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 The Green Hornet / int_49fb5ccb
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Combat Pragmatist
 The Green Hornet / int_49fb5ccb
comment
Combat Pragmatist: When Britt and Kato have their big argument and fight, Kato dismisses Britt as incapable of even touching him. While Kato was certainly the superior fighter, Britt was unafraid of using cheap tactics such as playing hurt or a surprise Groin Attack.
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
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Zeerust Canon
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Zeerust Canon: That a single newspaper has Batman levels of wealth is rather unbelievable in 2011. But it is part of the backstory. Which is lampshaded by Lenore in her interview "the Sentinel is the only newspaper not part of a large conglomerate". It was referred to, very briefly, as the spearhead of a "vast media empire". Presumably there's a lot more.
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 The Green Hornet / int_4bc2095b
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One Head Taller
 The Green Hornet / int_4bc2095b
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Being One Head Taller and about a hundred pounds heavier probably helped too.
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 The Green Hornet / int_4de1a4f7
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Improvised Weapon
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Improvised Weapon: Both Britt and Kato during their brawl in Britt's mansion. Britt swings around an office chair's five-point wheels in the final fight... just before tripping. Kato nails Chudnofsky with both halves of a table leg.
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Live-Action Adaptation
 The Green Hornet / int_504ca25a
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More of irony than allusion, but Jay's breakout role in his native Taiwan also involved hard-and-fast driving in a Live-Action Adaptation, as Takumi in Initial D. The scene with Kato playing with a basketball also alludes to Jay's earlier movie, Kung Fu Dunk. And the massacre of several gangsters just for wearing green parallels a plot point from Curse of the Golden Flower. This is basically Meet Jay Chou: The Movie.
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner
 The Green Hornet / int_508d91a2
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Chudnofsky makes one when he decides to become Bloodnofsky, but he never has a chance to use it AND kill his target. Chudnofsky had a flair for these even before that (and far better luck):
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Not Wearing Tights
 The Green Hornet / int_520680ca
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Not Wearing Tights: Kato specifically mentions he will have no part of that side of super-heroics. Chudnofsky, on the other hand, does consider it.
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 The Green Hornet / int_52b36340
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What Measure Is a Mook?
 The Green Hornet / int_52b36340
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What Measure Is a Mook?: The film zigzags with this trope. While the film has a surprisingly high number of deaths (some fairly horrific ones at that), the trope is averted with a minion when Chudnofsky has a funeral for him and is shown to be pretty broken up by it. Of course, in the next scene, he kills a high-level minion when he suggests that changing his name to Bloodnofsky is the dumbest idea ever. When the gas gun is revealed, Britt's first complaint is that he should get a real gun. This is immediately justified as he mentions that they will be facing people with real guns.
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Affably Evil
 The Green Hornet / int_537dd8fe
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Affably Evil: Chudnofsky doesn't really like to be very aggressive in his attitude. Unless people tell him they aren't afraid of him...
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The Dragon
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The Dragon: Popeye
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Guns Akimbo
 The Green Hornet / int_548bd053
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Guns Akimbo: Chudnofsky is most known (before his reinvention) for his double-barreled Hand Cannon. It can even spread the barrels apart to fire at different targets.
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Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure
 The Green Hornet / int_564caaae
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Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: The falling out between Britt and Kato over who gets the girl and who the real hero is. It culminates with an argument over whether they're a boss and employee, or friends. They make up in time to face off with the Big Bad Duumvirate.
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Britt pulls one off at the end in order to receive proper medical treatment without giving away his secret identity. Having Kato pretend to shoot him during a public appearance so it looks like the Green Hornet tried to assassinate him, and he has to be driven to the hospital for a bullet wound that nobody else knows was already there.
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Science Cocktail
 The Green Hornet / int_5798ba23
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Science Cocktail: Kato makes apparently extremely good coffee with this big scientific industrial looking machine that he made and only he knows how to use.
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Eviler than Thou
 The Green Hornet / int_5963b221
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Eviler than Thou: See Zero-Approval Gambit.
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Zero-Approval Gambit
 The Green Hornet / int_599c74ea
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Zero-Approval Gambit: Britt's plan is to appear as a rival villain to keep the real villains from thinking he's a hero and thus killing innocent people to force him to quit. Which backfires at least once, when Chudnovsky's attempt to put out a "hit" on the Green Hornet gets seven innocent people killed for wearing green. It DOES shake Britt up.
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Disney Villain Death
 The Green Hornet / int_5bdcc85a
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Disney Villain Death: Played with. Scanlon falls to his death out of a window of the Sentinel building, but only because Kato rams him with the Black Beauty. And then the Black Beauty lands on him.
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 The Green Hornet / int_6552b710
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The Syndicate
 The Green Hornet / int_6552b710
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The Syndicate: While not an actual syndicate per se, Chudnofsky has total control of all the underworld involvements in the city. Nobody is allowed to do anything without his permission.
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 The Green Hornet / int_658f7193
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Lack of Empathy
 The Green Hornet / int_658f7193
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Lack of Empathy: Once again, Britt.
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Only One Name
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Only One Name: The name on that resume Kato's filling out just says "Kato".
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Unflinching Walk
 The Green Hornet / int_70f7063d
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Unflinching Walk: Chudnofsky and his mooks after blowing up the nightclub at the beginning of the film.
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 The Green Hornet / int_713d994b
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Token Romance
 The Green Hornet / int_713d994b
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Token Romance: Subverted; at first, it looks like Lenore Case will be Britt's love interest, but it turns out to be completely one-sided. Kato doesn't get that much further with her either, and both get assaulted for being weird about it.
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Coat, Hat, Mask
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Coat, Hat, Mask: Oh, yes. "You said my suit looked 'pimp', which seemed a really odd thing for you to say, but I believed you!"
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 The Green Hornet / int_7276d0de
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Mugging the Monster
 The Green Hornet / int_7276d0de
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Mugging the Monster: Crystal Clear to Chudnofsky. He pays for it.
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 The Green Hornet / int_72e0023f
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Invoked Trope
 The Green Hornet / int_72e0023f
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Intentional on Britt's part. He wants to get in with the criminals who corrupted the city, so he uses the Sentinel to make the Green Hornet more of a perceived menace.
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 The Green Hornet / int_73641290
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The Strategist
 The Green Hornet / int_73641290
comment
The Strategist: Lenore. What's unique about her, though, is that she doesn't even know- Britt hires her as a secretary, has her theorize what the Green Hornet would do next...and then he follows her advice and does it.
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 The Green Hornet / int_73ef9ef3
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Almighty Janitor
 The Green Hornet / int_73ef9ef3
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Almighty Janitor: Kato, the car mechanic and coffee guy who could kick your ass five ways at once.
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 The Green Hornet / int_7784e19b
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Spiked Wheels
 The Green Hornet / int_7784e19b
comment
The Black Beauty gets Spiked Wheels, which Britt keeps referring to as "that Ben-Hur shit".
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Car Chase Shoot-Out
 The Green Hornet / int_79aa292e
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Car Chase Shoot-Out: The climax of the movie is one big long action scene that begins with the Green Hornet and Kato being chased by the Big Bad Duumvirate and their henchmen because they have a recording of his confession. While in pursuit on the highway, they're fired upon by villains, one of whom tries taking them out with a rocket launcher.
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Reckless Gun Usage
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Reckless Gun Usage: Britt is too dumb to ask Kato how to handle his new gas gun properly and promptly knocks himself out for eleven days.
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Suspect Is Hatless
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Suspect Is Hatless: Played for Horror in the third act: Chudnofsky orders his goons to kill the Green Hornet and he sends out a bounty for anybody who can kill the Green Hornet. He phrases it so vaguely that within hours, the criminal underground of L.A. is gleefully massacring everybody in the city they see wearing green. Britt has a moment of shocked realization at what his efforts have caused.
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Establishing Character Moment
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Establishing Character Moment: We already know what Chudnovsky is like and what he wants to do after the first ten minutes of the movie, as he kills one of his competitors by blowing up a nightclub filled with dozens and dozens of people.
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Large Ham
 The Green Hornet / int_823c6e3e
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Large Ham: Waltz seems to be having quite a bit of fun playing Chudnofsky.
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Logical Weakness
 The Green Hornet / int_83641c73
comment
Logical Weakness: The Black Beauty's hood machine guns are fixed in place. During the final chase, Chudnofsky BLOODNOFSKY attempts to take advantage of this by telling his men to drive to the side of the Beauty so they can't get shot. Subverted when Britt and Kato simply shoot them with the machine guns in the suicide doors, which can shoot to the side.
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Data Drive MacGuffin
 The Green Hornet / int_87109887
comment
Data Drive MacGuffin: In the final act of the film, Reid manages to record an Engineered Public Confession from D.A. Frank Scanlon that reveals he is The Man Behind the Man to Chudnofsky and he manipulated Reid's father to deliver fake news about the city's crime rate… and had him assassinated when he finally had enough and stopped reporting them. The (sushi-shaped) data drive of the digital audio recorder becomes the target of Scanlon and Chudnofsky for the final battle, as they unleash every single mook they have to chase the Green Hornet and Kate and kill them and get that drive before they can send the recording to the authorities. In an uncommon twist, Reid discovers as he tries to send the file that he screwed up the recording and the drive is empty. However, said final battle manages to kill all of the bad guys, especially Scanlon who is run over (and out a window) with the Black Beauty when he tries to escape.
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Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life
 The Green Hornet / int_88472ef3
comment
Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Kato. How desperate? After a series of failed, if educational, careers (stuntman, chemist, engineer) he immediately jumps at the chance to go crimefighting with his dead boss' deviant of a son.
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Cool Car
 The Green Hornet / int_8a295a46
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Cool Car: The Black Beauty has never looked so good. Also, the suicide doors contain machine guns. Pretty much every inch of the car contains machine guns. Or rockets.
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Bullet Time
 The Green Hornet / int_8af25294
comment
Bullet Time: Kato's combat perspective (and subsequent ass-kicking) is rendered like this. Ironically, one of the more realistic elements of the film, as seasoned fighters' advanced reaction time (plus adrenaline) does make time seem to slow down and space to distort. (The best part is that Kato is drunk when he's doing this.) Parodied when Britt even tries it toward the end, though he has a hard time controlling his momentum and using an Improvised Weapon.
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Did Not Get the Girl
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Did Not Get the Girl: Given that both of the main characters compete for the same girl, this is a given. Neither one gets her.
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I Am Not Left-Handed
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I Am Not Lefthanded: The Black Beauty has one final gimmick for slipping away from the cops - color changing.
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Pint-Sized Powerhouse
 The Green Hornet / int_8f1450ba
comment
Pintsized Powerhouse: Kato.
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Cool Garage
 The Green Hornet / int_9151375
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Cool Garage: Britt uses it in the beginning to impress a date. Britt's dad doesn't like his garage being used for that.
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Villainous Breakdown
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Villainous Breakdown: Chudnovsky undergoes a slow, gradual one through pretty much the length of the whole film, starting in the second scene when Crystal Clear tells him he isn't scary. However, Bloodnofsky is just enough of a sociopath to gather his men around him. (The creators note that this is a combination of insecurities and a mid-life crisis.) Scanlon has an epic one, even though he gets the cops to shoot Reid, the cops still have their guns trained on him too. He pretty much not only tries to tell them who he is to keep them from arresting them, but also shoves the Sushi USB in his mouth to hide the evidence in front of them it's useless but still pretty damn funny. If you listen carefully he even tries to say the Green Hornet's real name, but it can't be made out because of said sushi in his mouth.
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Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?
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Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: Kato. He seemingly has a lot of connections from other engineers and car mechanics, as well as knowing the right companies to contact for serious hardware. The rest of the time, he builds with scrap.
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Never My Fault
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Never My Fault: Chudnofsky kills a subordinate who tells him about the Green Hornet raiding one of his meth labs and says it's the Green Hornet's fault that the subordinate is dead.
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Black Dude Dies First
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Black Dude Dies First: One of Bloodnofsky's Mooks is a black man, and is the first to die.
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Big Bad Duumvirate
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Big Bad Duumvirate: Chudnofsky and Scanlon.
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Dump Them All
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Dump Them All: In the end, Lenore is only interested in a working relationship with Britt and Kato, though both of them have been pursuing her romantically.
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Family-Unfriendly Death
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Family-Unfriendly Death: Scanlon is still recognizably intact even after falling more than ten stories while being crushed by half a car. Chudnofsky had none of his luck.
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Evil Costume Switch
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Evil Costume Switch: At the end of the film, Chud... BLOODNOFSKY feels he needs to begin to emulate the Green Hornet, dressing in fine, crimson suits. Funnily enough, this is exactly what Crystal Clear told him at the beginning of the film.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: one of the outfits Britt tries out for his Green Hornet thing is seen again on one of the hoodlums who get massacred later on.
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Made of Iron
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He can also take quite a bit of punishment. In his fight with Kato both land some extremely good hits. Justified for Kato, as he's a martial arts expert who has fought all his life, but Britt is a spoiled creampuff with no training. Apparently getting beat up so much in school taught him how to take a hit.
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Secret-Keeper
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Secret-Keeper: Lenore, eventually.
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The Summation
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The Summation: When Britt puts together what's been going on, we see a quick, surreal montage representing his thought processes, implied to be happening instantly. Then we get back to reality, and the guy he's sitting next to says Britt's been sitting there for five minutes with a dopey look on his face trying to put it together.
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
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Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: At the sushi bar.
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Mean Boss
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Mean Boss: Britt is a rare comedic example of this trope.
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Chudnofsky kills one of his minions when he pounds his gun on a table for emphasis. Britt shooting himself with the gas gun, actually in the face, too.
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Passive-Aggressive Kombat
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Passive-Aggressive Kombat: Britt never directly confronted his dad, but he never missed a chance to disappoint him. When Britt talks to you, you cannot be sure if he is praising you or insulting you (he bluntly tells Kato he had no life and called Casey “old�). The obvious example is when Kato is hitting on Casey, Britt doesn’t like that and, instead of confronting his feelings, he humiliates Kato by asking for a coffee. When Kato confronted Britt (by punching a hole in the wall) , he manipulated Kato with guilt and convinced him that Kato misunderstood the situation and that it was all part of their cover. Kato takes this attitude with Britt when the direct approach doesn’t work: He goes on a date with Casey and lies to Britt about visiting his friend Tony. Does it not seem suspicious that the Hypercompetent Sidekick risks letting his Manchild employer near a gas gun?
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Eye Scream
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Eye Scream: Chud... BLOODNOFSKY tries to pull this on Kato with his double-barreled handgun. Kato returns the favor by stabbing two pieces of wood into his eye sockets.
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Blown Across the Room
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Blown Across the Room: Kato manages to One-Inch Punch a guy through the air and a window.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: The tone is rather lighthearted for most of the film, which makes the scene when it's revealed that after a hit is put out on the Green Hornet, seven innocent people were killed by mistake because they just happened to be wearing green at the time quite jarring to say the least. It mirrors Britt's view of heroics.
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Played straight and lampshaded by the main characters. Includes said main characters.
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: In the movie incarnation, Britt Reid isn't as suave, but there are times when he is able to more than hold his own. The end of the film basically showcases this as he becomes the Green Hornet most people know. If you look at the fights, Britt does pretty well in one on one situations when he isn't panicking (he can throw a pretty good hook). He can also take quite a bit of punishment. In his fight with Kato both land some extremely good hits. Justified for Kato, as he's a martial arts expert who has fought all his life, but Britt is a spoiled creampuff with no training. Apparently getting beat up so much in school taught him how to take a hit. Being One Head Taller and about a hundred pounds heavier probably helped too.
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Knockout Gas
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Knockout Gas: Britt's gas gun. When he first accidentally shoots himself, he is in a coma for 11 days. Kato subsequently adjusts the gas mixture to 1 hour. Britt promptly tests it by shooting Kato.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Kato is much more of a smart-ass this time around, and with good reason, being saddled with an idiot like Britt.
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Abusive Parents
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Abusive Parents: James Reid was a workaholic who always put his own business before his own son and was barely present for young Britt in his life. Whenever he was physically present for the kiddo, it was just to show him how much of a disappointment he was to him. When Britt is sent home from school because he tried to defend someone from bullies, James angrily scolds him and then snaps the head off Britt's superhero toy.
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Just Between You and Me
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Just Between You and Me: Scanlon's confession to Britt. In a crowded restaurant, no less, but only because he expected him to either cave in or die soon.
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Crazy Is Cool
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Crazy is Cool: In-universe, Britt's description of Kato basically boils down to this.
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Hyper-Competent Sidekick
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Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Kato in the 2011 movie. He built Black Beauty (and several duplicates), made all the toys he and Green Hornet use, fights like he came off the set of The Matrix, and did many of the things his partner is given credit for. Reid, by comparison, is a klutzy, stupid man with no combat training who leads mostly because Kato doesn't make the effort to. This is endlessly lampshaded and even deconstructed as it more or less becomes the basis to the film's conflicts.
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The Paralyzer
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The Paralyzer: The Green Hornet's gas gun makes a return, but getting the potency right so a person is merely knocked out, not put in a coma for 11 days, is shown to be a little tricky.
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It's All About Me
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It's All About Me: Britt.
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Britt getting a bad cup of coffee. Kato, in light of the following: being called a sidekick, getting poked, getting cheap-shotted in a fight, and being asked to make coffee, especially if asked by the one who told him not to waste his potential in making coffee. You also do not want to tell Chudnofsky that he's not scary.
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Must Have Caffeine
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Must Have Caffeine: Kato is a Master Barista, engineering his own espresso machine, and having an artistic flair for pouring lattes.
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Weaksauce Weakness
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Weaksauce Weakness: For all of his various talents, Kato cannot swim.
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Evil Gloating
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Evil Gloating: Chudnovsky spends too much time trying to recite his Pre-Mortem One-Liner to Kato rather than just shoot him.
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Car Fu
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Car Fu: Oh, boy, let us count the ways... We have the Black Beauty, three industrial trucks, a flying construction vehicle, a rolling cement tank, the replacement Black Beauty, various normal cars, the front half of the Black Beauty. And no motorcycles, even though this Kato owns a Cool Bike.
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Inner Monologue
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Inner Monologue: Britt has one when he finally pieces everything together in the Hibachi restaurant. This is lampshaded immediately afterward when he's told he had been sitting in his chair with the same dumb look on his face for the last 5 minutes.
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Apparently Powerless Puppetmaster
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Apparently Powerless Puppetmaster: Anyone who hears Britt Reid speak for five minutes realizes he is a buffoonish Manchild. His father left him the Sentinel, but obviously Britt is an Upper-Class Twit who cannot do anything for himself. Then you realize he doesn’t need to do anything for himself: he continuously and successfully manipulates people much more intelligent than him (Kato, Casey and Mike Axford) into doing exactly what Britt wants them to do. In the end, he also can do something on his own.
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Shout-Out
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The first time Britt and Kato get in a fight Kato is weaing a cheffuer's cap and goggles in a Shout-Out to Jet Li's Black Mask, who in turn was inspired by Kato.
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Kato doesn't even tell Britt what's going on before showing up to ostensibly assassinate him. And then there's the bit at the end.
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Freudian Excuse
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Freudian Excuse: As much as an unlikable jerk Britt may be, he gave up on trying to be a good person as a child when his workaholic prick of a father told him straight out that he should not bother trying because he fails at everything.
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Hyper-Competent Sidekick
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Kato takes this attitude with Britt when the direct approach doesn’t work: He goes on a date with Casey and lies to Britt about visiting his friend Tony. Does it not seem suspicious that the Hypercompetent Sidekick risks letting his Manchild employer near a gas gun?
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Mundane Made Awesome
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Mundane Made Awesome: Epic bottle-opening, courtesy of Kato!
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Theme Music Withholding
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Theme Music Withholding: The classic theme plays in the film's final moments.
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Decon-Recon Switch
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Decon-Recon Switch: Arguably of the Hero/Sidekick dynamic. Two people with strong enough personalities to dress up in costumes, fill multiple cars with enough guns to take out a small country, and spend their nights kicking criminals asses without a care to the police are not going to work effectively in that kind of partnership. Since the movie is a bit more optimistic than, say, The Dark Knight, Britt and Kato eventually learn how to work together.
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Dead Person Conversation
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Dead Person Conversation: Invoked and parodied when Britt spends five minutes, with a dumb look on his face, piecing the facts together in his head with his father after Scanlon practically spelled it out.
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Manchild
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Manchild: Seth Rogen can play this role in his sleep. This is one of the driving tropes behind his decision to become a hero — because it's childishly awesome.
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Indy Ploy
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Indy Ploy: Invoked by Britt, thinking he's gotten it down after the first time. Kato's luck is just a little better.
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The Oner
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The Oner: Multiple-camera split-screen version. The spread of information about the contract on the Green Hornet: Chudnofsky's henchman tells a madam, who sends out two women, who tell two other guys, who tell two other guys...
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Artistic License – Geography
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Kato says he's from Shanghai to which Britt responds "I love Japan." On the surface it seems like he's an idiot, but it's actually a shout out to two things. Kato's original actor Bruce Lee being chinese, while playing a character who is of Japanese ethnicity.
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Groin Attack
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Groin Attack: There's a lot of them in the film, mostly by Kato.
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Jerkass: Britt again. His father in the opening scene of the movie, he scolds his son for being sent home just because he was trying to protect someone at school then popping the head of the poor kid's action figure off. Even Kato admits that Reid Sr. was "a bit of a dick."
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Innocent Innuendo
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Innocent Innuendo: Britt says quite a few lines that have homosexual tones all throughout the whole film, but he's very clearly unaware of what he's saying. Kato is, on the other hand.
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Beleaguered Assistant
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Beleaguered Assistant: Kato at first, but he doesn't put up with much of it before putting Britt in his place.
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Dude, Where's My Respect?
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Dude, Where's My Respect??: Kato. Doesn't help that Britt keeps hogging it all.
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Gadgeteer Genius
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When Kato is trying to sneak out to go on a date with Lenore behind Britt's back, he says he's going to be visiting his friend "Tony." Now what other Gadgeteer Genius superheroes who've had their own film series over the past few years have that name?
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Theme Naming
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Theme Naming: Chudnofsky's two henchmen are called Popeye and Chilli - did they get their start in fast food?
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Brick Joke
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Brick Joke: Kato, are you a pervert? "Nunchuks? That was my idea!" Ejector seats.
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Pet the Dog
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Pet the Dog: Britt hiring Lenore comes off like this, despite any motives he had at the time.
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