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Wild Wild West
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Wild Wild West is a 1999 Cattle Punk film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld from a story by Jim and John Thomas (the brothers who created Predator), starring Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh and Salma Hayek. It is the film adaptation of the TV show The Wild Wild West (technically, anyway).The plot, taking place in America during the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, concerns government agents Jim West (Smith) and Artemus Gordon (Kline) attempting to prevent a renewal of the Civil War by amputee Southern scientist Dr. Arliss Loveless (Branagh), who's deviced a number of Steampunk war machines to serve his nefarious plans. | |
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One Bullet Left | |
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One Bullet Left: Artemus Gordon's derringer has only one bullet and he uses it to disable Loveless' spider legs. | |
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Rasputinian Death | |
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Rasputinian Death: McGrath is shot and thrown into a river before slowly bleeding to death. | |
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Instantly Proven Wrong | |
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Instantly Proven Wrong: When the Spider Tank is first revealed, Gordon confidently boasts that it will never be able to maneuver past the rock formations outside Spider Canyon. Cue the explosives easily knocking down said obstructions, along with a silent glare from West. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: The nature of Loveless' ultimate weapon is kept a secret through most of the movie, but anyone who's seen the trailers knows it's a giant steam-powered Spider Tank. | |
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Theme Tune Rap: Sung by Will Smith. And Sisqo! | |
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Rescue Romance | |
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Rescue Romance: Appears to be occurring with Jim, Artemus and Rita Escobar. Subverted when it turns out that she's already married. | |
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Villain Opening Scene | |
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Villain Opening Scene: It starts with General McGrath and the death of scientist Thaddeus Morton. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: When Gordon and West see the Tarantula Spider Tank for the first time, its path is blocked by a set of columns and West says he's trapped. Cue the nitro cannon that's used to blow the columns out of its way | |
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Exactly What I Aimed At | |
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Exactly What I Aimed At: | |
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Not-So-Harmless Villain | |
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Not-So-Harmless Villain: While Loveless has never been harmless as he's a Diabolical Mastermind and the responsible behind the New Liberty massacre he at least seems at first to be no physical match being confined in a wheelchair. Then it turns out he can turn his wheelchair into some sort of four-legged mechanical spider and use it to brutally beat anyone who crosses his path as Jim West finds out at his own expense. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: President Grant, as exemplified here. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The novelization includes a few more minor details the film left out. Mr. Hudson is a Native American representative working for Loveless on the promise that Manhattan will be return to their control under Loveless' plan. The film implies this is part of the plan with a few references to Manhattan, but doesn't make it explicit. Additionally, he isn't killed in the train attack, it's a random Mook, and he's alive and addressed when Loveless reveals his plan. In the novelization, Jim survives his fall from the spider when his Native American friend comes to him in a vision and heals him. In the film West survives thanks to Gordon's proto-type bulletproof vest, creating a minor Continuity Snarl when Gordon claims to be wearing it not long after, even though he was only ever shown making one and wasn't sure it would work. The novelization includes a minor detail when West and Gordon attack Loveless' spider; the gatling guns on the front weren't designed to be able to shoot up. Loveless takes a moment to figure a way around this by making the spider itself raise its head up on an angle to compensate. The film just doesn't bring this up and the guns are able to shoot up just fine. Rita pretty much admits in the end that she played up the Femme Fatale angle to convince West and Gordon to bring her with them, because she knew they might not if she told them she was looking for her husband; the film implied this but never confirmed it. | |
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Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony | |
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Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony: President Grant hammering in the Golden Spike. | |
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Visionary Villain | |
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Visionary Villain: Loveless dreams about the United States become divided amongst their enemies. He even admits that he's a visionary himself during the finale of the film. | |
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Full-Frontal Assault | |
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Full-Frontal Assault: In the opening of the film, Jim West is forced to fight a bunch of guys while nude. That is until his clothes are tossed down to him. | |
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A Father to His Men | |
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A Father to His Men: General McGrath draws a gun on Loveless and then tries to kill him when he annihilates all of McGrath's men with his tank, and his last words to West include him calling said soldiers "my boys". | |
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Say My Name | |
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Say My Name: Gordon goes into a rant-inducing slight after escaping Loveless' Deadly Discs. At the end of the film, Dr. Loveless screams "WEEEEEEEST!!!!" as he falls to his death. | |
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Balls of Steel | |
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After Jim West tries several attempts to hurt the iron mook, he attempts to kick his groin, with no luck. | |
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Calling Card | |
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Calling Card: Loveless sends President Grant a marzipan cake shaped like the White House. Live tarantulas emerge whenever the lid is lifted. | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil: Jim West's insulting Dr. Loveless about his amputee status. | |
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Deadly Disc | |
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Gordon goes into a rant-inducing slight after escaping Loveless' Deadly Discs. | |
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I Surrender, Suckers | |
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I Surrender, Suckers: Jim West to Loveless' cyber mook. | |
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Stand-In Portrait | |
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Stand-In Portrait: Loveless' mooks hiding in the paintings. As West leaves, one of the portraits shows a literal cut-out of where the Mook was. | |
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Deep South | |
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Deep South: Loveless has a southern accent befitting of a former Confederate soldier. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: During the slaughter of General McGrath's soldiers, Miss Lippenreader uses a pair of bionoculars to observe their deaths. The incredibly blasé tone she uses to express their horrified last words is unintentionally hilarious. | |
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Between My Legs | |
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Between My Legs: Jim West's legs, as he's standing naked in front of three men after falling out of a water tank. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: All of Gordon's inventions (West's boot blade, "Impermeable" bullet-proof vest, railway car devices, his flying bicycle, etc.). Some are implemented rather awkwardly, as Gordon presents some, such as the bicycle, a mere scene before they actually became useful; even West compliments Gordon as he uses the boot blade and the impermeable vest to defend himself from several of Loveless's mooks. Gordon's disguises also count as well as he went as a prostitute, a pioneer, and even President Grant to fool most people as part of his job. Even when West stated earlier that he hates wearing costumes in general, he forced himself to use one of Gordon's costumes to disguise himself as an African belly dancer in order to stop Loveless from executing Gordon and the other captives. The spider and the wasp, which motivated Gordon to build a flying machine to fight Loveless' mechanical spider. Loveless' magnet collars as they allowed Gordon and West to find Loveless' private track leading to Spider Canyon. In the original script, the focus on Miss East's butt as she seduced West wasn't *just* Male Gaze - due to a series of comical mishaps, her derriere ended up with an imprint of the map West was searching for. Or rather, it served as an opportunity for a lot of vaguely justified fanservice rather than a single moment of Male Gaze. | |
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Super Wheelchair | |
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Super Wheelchair: A Steampunk, walking, shotgun armed, wheel chair for Dr Loveless. | |
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Fire-Forged Friends | |
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Fire-Forged Friends: Jim and Gordon start out hating and undermining each other, but being forced to work together to take down Loveless and repeatedly saving the other's life turns them into genuine friends by the end. Gordon in particular promises Jim that he will help him get payback for losing his parents in the New Liberty massacre. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Jim West's use of modern slang, such as "boobies" and "booty". | |
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Alliterative Title | |
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Alliterative Title | |
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The Film of the Series | |
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The Film of the Series: The film is an adaptation of the TV series. | |
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Trap Door | |
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Trap Door: On the command deck of Loveless' giant spider. | |
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Hurricane of Puns | |
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Hurricane of Puns: Jim West's and Dr. Loveless' Volleying Insults. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: When Gordon starts up his Nitro-Cycle, he says "Avanti!", which is Italian for forward. | |
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Brains and Bondage | |
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Brains and Bondage: Holy crap, look at the rig in Loveless' bedroom! Then again... The man is missing everything below the waist, which limits his options somewhat. | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
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Awesome, but Impractical: The fighting style of one of Loveless' minions, who demonstrates an impressive knowledge of kung fu. Compare and contrast Jim West's Boring, but Practical response of knocking him out with a shovel to the face. Another mook resembles the image for Crippling Overspecialization: two knives, no hands. | |
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Beard of Evil | |
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Beard of Evil: Dr. Loveless sports an impossibly complex Vandyke style beard, and he is completely evil. | |
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Catapult Nightmare | |
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Catapult Nightmare: West flinging himself up from a bad dream in the "Wild Wild West" music video. | |
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Raised by Natives | |
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Raised by Natives: Jim West, by Native Americans. | |
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Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back | |
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Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back: "Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, revolve a Mexico." | |
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America Is Still a Colony | |
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America Is Still a Colony: Part of Arliss Loveless' plan for the U.S. surrender and dividing the country was to return the original 13 colonies to the U.K., minus Manhattan which will go back to the Native Americans, Florida (but not the former parts of Mexico) to Spain, and what was more or less the Louisiana Territory to the French. A corner in the Northwest was reserved for "Loveless Land". There was a valid reason for this beyond just a desire on Loveless' part to rip America apart: those countries were financing his experiments and superweapons. | |
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Phallic Weapon | |
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Phallic Weapon: Loveless' rather phallic disc blade launcher. | |
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Narcissist | |
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Narcissist: Arliss Loveless. He even jokes about it. | |
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Insufferable Genius | |
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Insufferable Genius: Gordon. | |
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In-Universe Factoid Failure | |
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In-Universe Factoid Failure: Gordon says that Leonardo da Vinci invented a flying machine in 1540. Leonardo died in 1519. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: General "Bloodbath" McGrath is hardly a pleasant man, but he is haunted and horrified by Dr. Loveless' murderous inventions and his willingness to test them on human subjects, even before Loveless massacres McGrath's men with his tank. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_32d0784e | type |
Stop, or I Will Shoot! | |
Wild Wild West / int_32d0784e | comment |
Stop, or I Will Shoot!: When Gordon in disguise pulls his perfume weapon on one of McGrath's henchmen, he says "Stop, or I'll squeeze." At the end of the film, Gordon says "Stop, or I'll shoot." while pointing his derringer at Loveless, who is attempting to crush West with his spider legs. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_32d0784e | |
Wild Wild West / int_339f6950 | type |
Paid Harem | |
Wild Wild West / int_339f6950 | comment |
Paid Harem: Dr. Loveless' extremely bizarre bodyguards: Amazonia (the muscle), Munitia (the rear gunner, hint hint), Miss Lippenrieder (the mouth-reader; basically acts as the intelligence agent) and Miss East (Bai Ling in a corset, enough said). | |
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Wild Wild West / int_339f6950 | |
Wild Wild West / int_3517000d | type |
Mad Scientist | |
Wild Wild West / int_3517000d | comment |
Mad Scientist: Dr Loveless. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_3517000d | |
Wild Wild West / int_362461f6 | type |
Sex Slave | |
Wild Wild West / int_362461f6 | comment |
Sex Slave: Both invoked and subverted. Loveless has a quartet of gorgeous henchwomen who are utterly devoted to him and eventually recruits Rita to join them (oddly for a white supremacist he has no problem with his harem being mixed race?). Yet with the lower half of his body missing he can't actually do anything with any of them, Kenneth Branagh commenting they are actually a bizarre form of self torture for him. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_362461f6 | |
Wild Wild West / int_392372f9 | type |
Actor Allusion | |
Wild Wild West / int_392372f9 | comment |
Actor Allusion: A character played by Kevin Kline is the doppelgänger of a U.S. president, and even impersonates said president at one point... now, are we talking about Artemus Gordon, or Dave Kovic? | |
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Wild Wild West / int_392372f9 | |
Wild Wild West / int_39b8d3d6 | type |
Boring, but Practical | |
Wild Wild West / int_39b8d3d6 | comment |
Boring, but Practical: When Gordon is trying to figure out a clue from Morton's head, he supposes the blurring is due to mortification of the acqueous humor; West solves the problem by just putting a pair of glasses on. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_39b8d3d6 | |
Wild Wild West / int_3c0a4666 | type |
Noodle Incident | |
Wild Wild West / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: The New Liberty incident that gave General "Bloodbath" McGrath his nickname. Though it's eventually explained. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_3c0a4666 | |
Wild Wild West / int_3cb1d38d | type |
Bad Boss | |
Wild Wild West / int_3cb1d38d | comment |
Bad Boss: Loveless murders General "Bloodbath" McGrath and his men (who seem to represent most of Loveless' mooks) as a weapons demo. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_3cb1d38d | |
Wild Wild West / int_3cb9ed4d | type |
Bulletproof Vest | |
Wild Wild West / int_3cb9ed4d | comment |
Following his successful capture of President Grant and Gordon, Loveless attempts to get Munitia to execute Gordon in order to force Grant to surrender the country. Just like West, Gordon too is wearing bullet-proof body armor and requests that he be shot in the heart. However, Loveless refuses and instead orders for Gordon to be shot in the head for good measure. Fortunately, West (posing as an exotic belly dancer) came to the rescue before that could ever happen. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_3cb9ed4d | |
Wild Wild West / int_3db4ce23 | type |
And Then I Said | |
Wild Wild West / int_3db4ce23 | comment |
And Then I Said: Artemus, while discussing Rita Escobar. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_3db4ce23 | |
Wild Wild West / int_3dd3951e | type |
Cowboy Cop | |
Wild Wild West / int_3dd3951e | comment |
Cowboy Cop: Jim West. Bonus points for him being a cowboy. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_3dd3951e | |
Wild Wild West / int_3f71b00e | type |
Point Defenseless | |
Wild Wild West / int_3f71b00e | comment |
Point Defenseless: Actually averted with the Tarantula - it had Gatling guns on board, which make handy anti-aircraft weapons... | |
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Wild Wild West / int_3f71b00e | |
Wild Wild West / int_3fe2b13f | type |
Ungrateful Bastard | |
Wild Wild West / int_3fe2b13f | comment |
Ungrateful Bastard: Downplayed. After Jim and Gordon save him from Loveless President Grant takes their train. He justifies it by saying they let Loveless blow up his. However, Grant happily promotes both Jim and Gordon as the first two agents of the Secret Service; even entrusting them to to use Loveless' spider robot to ride back to Washington. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_3fe2b13f | |
Wild Wild West / int_3fff5717 | type |
Genius Cripple | |
Wild Wild West / int_3fff5717 | comment |
Genius Cripple: Dr. Loveless is a Mad Scientist missing the lower half of his body. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_3fff5717 | |
Wild Wild West / int_405f7e7b | type |
Armed Legs | |
Wild Wild West / int_405f7e7b | comment |
Armed Legs: Jim West's blade-equipped shoes. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_405f7e7b | |
Wild Wild West / int_4160410d | type |
Damsel in Distress | |
Wild Wild West / int_4160410d | comment |
Damsel in Distress: Rita Escobar. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_4160410d | |
Wild Wild West / int_41914bb3 | type |
Blade Below the Shoulder | |
Wild Wild West / int_41914bb3 | comment |
Blade Below the Shoulder: A mook has knives that snap out of his wrists. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_41914bb3 | |
Wild Wild West / int_438ed383 | type |
The Name Is Bond, James Bond | |
Wild Wild West / int_438ed383 | comment |
The Name Is Bond, James Bond: "Mr..." "West. Jim West" | |
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Wild Wild West / int_438ed383 | |
Wild Wild West / int_4482e1ef | type |
Divided States of America | |
Wild Wild West / int_4482e1ef | comment |
Divided States of America: Dr. Loveless' plan for the U.S. It seems he didn't love the South quite enough to not see it handed over to foreign powers as well. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_4482e1ef | |
Wild Wild West / int_45a559cf | type |
Wardrobe Malfunction | |
Wild Wild West / int_45a559cf | comment |
Wardrobe Malfunction: The bottom flap falls out of Rita's pajamas, exposing her bare butt to West and Gordon. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_45a559cf | |
Wild Wild West / int_45d0c643 | type |
Intimidation Demonstration | |
Wild Wild West / int_45d0c643 | comment |
Intimidation Demonstration: Happens twice during Jim West's battles with Dr. Loveless' mooks inside the giant spider robot. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_45d0c643 | |
Wild Wild West / int_46ec76fb | type |
Working the Same Case | |
Wild Wild West / int_46ec76fb | comment |
Working the Same Case: It turns out that West and Gordon's investigations (West's pursuit of General McGrath, Gordon's tracking of disappeared scientists) are both connected to McGrath's dealings with Dr. Loveless. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_46ec76fb | |
Wild Wild West / int_4766ca14 | type |
Volleying Insults | |
Wild Wild West / int_4766ca14 | comment |
Volleying Insults: West and Loveless do this at every opportunity; Loveless with a racist tone and West ridiculing Loveless' lack of legs and newfound shortness. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_4766ca14 | |
Wild Wild West / int_479d4e5a | type |
Would Hurt a Child | |
Wild Wild West / int_479d4e5a | comment |
Would Hurt a Child: Loveless was willing to murder children when he was at New Liberty. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_479d4e5a | |
Wild Wild West / int_4843f922 | type |
Dragon Lady | |
Wild Wild West / int_4843f922 | comment |
Dragon Lady: Miss East serves as Loveless' second-in-command. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_4843f922 | |
Wild Wild West / int_4977d7b8 | type |
Body Double | |
Wild Wild West / int_4977d7b8 | comment |
When Loveless goes to abduct President Grant, Gordon uses his Body Double guise to try and pull a Bait-and-Switch while West climbs up to confront Loveless. However, Loveless refuses to waste time to determine which one is the real Grant, so instead, he springs out a net to trap both Gordon and Grant while getting Munitia to shoot West. Fortunately, West was wearing Gordon's bullet-proof body armor to avoid being killed by the shot. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_4977d7b8 | |
Wild Wild West / int_49bde8a | type |
Traintop Battle | |
Wild Wild West / int_49bde8a | comment |
Traintop Battle: Between James West and Loveless' Native American henchman. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_49bde8a | |
Wild Wild West / int_49d18492 | type |
Scenery Gorn | |
Wild Wild West / int_49d18492 | comment |
Scenery Gorn: The scenographic town of Silverado (built for the eponymous film) was destroyed for the scene the spider tank attacks it. Doubles as Actor Allusion, as Kevin Kline had appeared in Silverado (the director of which even received a Shout-Out). | |
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Wild Wild West / int_49d18492 | |
Wild Wild West / int_49f20c6a | type |
Gory Discretion Shot | |
Wild Wild West / int_49f20c6a | comment |
Gory Discretion Shot: In The Teaser, Morton's death by the saw blade is heard offscreen. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_49f20c6a | |
Wild Wild West / int_4d1ac25b | type |
Villains Want Mercy | |
Wild Wild West / int_4d1ac25b | comment |
Villains Want Mercy: When Loveless gets shot by Gordon to free West, he asks him to show some mercy. West, however, isn't having any of it, forcing an enraged Loveless to stand his ground by reeling himself back into his wheelchair in a last attempt to shoot him. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_4d1ac25b | |
Wild Wild West / int_4e34d653 | type |
See You in Hell | |
Wild Wild West / int_4e34d653 | comment |
See You in Hell: When McGrath tries to kill Loveless for murdering his men for a weapon test. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_4e34d653 | |
Wild Wild West / int_5037b961 | type |
Et Tu, Brute? | |
Wild Wild West / int_5037b961 | comment |
Et Tu, Brute?: General McGrath's reaction to Loveless murdering his men is outrage. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_5037b961 | |
Wild Wild West / int_504a1991 | type |
Body Horror | |
Wild Wild West / int_504a1991 | comment |
Body Horror: Alongside Dr. Loveless, who is missing the lower half of his body, the four Mooks that West fights in the Spider Tank's engine room have some deformity or another. One has had his hands removed and replaced with knives, another has a large metal spike in his skull, a third has had the upper part of his skull exposed and covered with metal, and the fourth has a lazy eye. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_504a1991 | |
Wild Wild West / int_508d91a2 | type |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
Wild Wild West / int_508d91a2 | comment |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: After West overpowers Loveless' blade-wielding henchmen and ties him to some chains, he says "That's it. No more Mr. Knife Guy." He then kicks him out of the Tarantula with his boot. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_508d91a2 | |
Wild Wild West / int_519c2e3a | type |
Trashcan Bonfire | |
Wild Wild West / int_519c2e3a | comment |
Trashcan Bonfire: The former Confederate soldiers have some at their meeting place at Malheureux Point. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_519c2e3a | |
Wild Wild West / int_51beab21 | type |
Good Old Fisticuffs | |
Wild Wild West / int_51beab21 | comment |
Good Old Fisticuffs: West smashes a wanna-be martial artist silly on the climax with a shovel and punches people in the face, in contrast with Gordon's more fancy "dancing" fighting style (once used as misdirection so he'll trigger a gadget on West, once used as Deadly Dodging). | |
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Wild Wild West / int_51beab21 | |
Wild Wild West / int_51ed5fb9 | type |
Straw Hypocrite | |
Wild Wild West / int_51ed5fb9 | comment |
Straw Hypocrite: Doctor Arliss Loveless once fought for the Confederacy along with General McGrath, and murders the General as revenge for surrendering his forces after Gettysburg. However, this appears to be a smokescreen for his real self-serving objectives, since rather than reviving the Confederate States or starting another Civil War, Loveless draws up a plan to sell off the land to several foreign powers and keep a big chunk as his personal fiefdom. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_5230d420 | type |
Cosmopolitan Council | |
Wild Wild West / int_5230d420 | comment |
Cosmopolitan Council: Dr. Loveless' foreign backers | |
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Wild Wild West / int_52d1f46e | type |
Not What It Looks Like | |
Wild Wild West / int_52d1f46e | comment |
Not What It Looks Like: Coleman is disturbed when he overhears Artemus and Jim touching each other's "breasts." | |
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Wild Wild West / int_52d1f46e | |
Wild Wild West / int_561dab6b | type |
Mistaken for Gay | |
Wild Wild West / int_561dab6b | comment |
Mistaken for Gay: The whole "touch my breast" scene. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_56264c27 | type |
Campy Combat | |
Wild Wild West / int_56264c27 | comment |
Campy Combat: When the flamboyant US Marshal Artemis Gordon fight Dr. Loveless' Bodyguard Babes at the climax, he uses dance moves to avoid their attacks (and causing one to fall off the Spider Tank). | |
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Wild Wild West / int_56515a39 | type |
Artistic License – History | |
Wild Wild West / int_56515a39 | comment |
Artistic License – History President Grant didn't actually attend the joining of the railroads, let alone hammer in the golden spike. According to the movie, President Grant created the U.S. Secret Service in 1869 to protect the President. It was actually created in 1865 to combat counterfeiting, and wasn't tasked with protecting the President until 1901, after the assassination of William McKinley. When West arrives in D.C., the Capitol dome is shown under construction in the background. This image is taken from a famous photo of the Dome's expansion during President Lincoln's inauguration in 1861. The expansion of the Capitol dome, which began in 1855, was unofficially finished in 1863 when the Statue of Freedom was placed on top, and officially completed in January 1866 when all interior scaffolding, for the fresco Apotheosis of Washington, was removed. By 1869 when the film is set, construction of the dome was long over. African Americans were in the Union Army, but never could become commissioned officers at that time. The first one to get an officer's commission was Henry Ossian Flipper, about two decades later. When Grant drives the stake in at the ceremony, a US flag is shown with 50 stars. At the time of the film, the US had 37 States, so therefore the flag would have had 37 stars. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_59103508 | type |
Deadly Environment Prison | |
Wild Wild West / int_59103508 | comment |
Deadly Environment Prison: After Loveless captures Jim and Gordon, he places them in a small unguarded entrapment in the middle of nowhere. They can leave whenever they want, but doing so will activate a device that sends a Deadly Disc after their magnetic collars. Jim being Jim, he triggers it without even thinking. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_59103508 | |
Wild Wild West / int_5bdcc85a | type |
Disney Villain Death | |
Wild Wild West / int_5bdcc85a | comment |
Disney Villain Death: Dr. Loveless and nearly all of his henchmen and women fall off the Tarantula to their deaths towards the ending. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_60fa92ac | type |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
Wild Wild West / int_60fa92ac | comment |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: General "Bloodbath" McGrath, the Butcher of New Liberty, and his boss, Doctor Arliss Loveless. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_60fa92ac | |
Wild Wild West / int_613ecc2d | type |
Riding into the Sunset | |
Wild Wild West / int_613ecc2d | comment |
Riding into the Sunset: Parodied by Jim West and Artemus Gordon in the last scene. They appear to be riding horses, until the camera zooms out to reveal that they're actually piloting the 80-foot Spider Tank they took from Loveless. Plus, since they're headed to Washington DC from Utah, they're presumably riding into the sunrise. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_61881f59 | type |
Demoted to Dragon | |
Wild Wild West / int_61881f59 | comment |
Demoted to Dragon: We find this out about Bloodbath McGrath, when he is killed by the real Big Bad. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_61881f59 | |
Wild Wild West / int_62700738 | type |
Ear Trumpet | |
Wild Wild West / int_62700738 | comment |
Ear Trumpet: General McGrath has one, implanted to his skull, and the General tips out accumulated ear wax at one point for disgusting effect. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_62700738 | |
Wild Wild West / int_63d861f8 | type |
Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
Wild Wild West / int_63d861f8 | comment |
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Subverted. Loveless seems genuinely shocked and horrified when his weapons master Munitia is sent plummeting to her death. He gets over it pretty quickly and by the next scene is offering a job to the people who killed her. | |
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Black Vikings | |
Wild Wild West / int_64a5e4f | comment |
Black Vikings: Jim West as a U.S. Army captain in 1869. Noted to be highly unusual - many black soldiers did serve in the Civil War Union Army in real life, though mostly in the lower ranks. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_658f7193 | type |
Lack of Empathy | |
Wild Wild West / int_658f7193 | comment |
Lack of Empathy: When General McGrath furiously demands Loveless to stop his soldiers' massacre (Loveless is using them as target practice) the latter very nonchalantly orders to drill the gunners as he hears "too much time between screams." | |
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Wild Wild West / int_69fb91e8 | type |
Chewing the Scenery | |
Wild Wild West / int_69fb91e8 | comment |
Chewing the Scenery: West has a few moments. Loveless, however, surpasses him by several orders of magnitude. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_6bd689ca | type |
Meaningful Echo | |
Wild Wild West / int_6bd689ca | comment |
Meaningful Echo: Gordon tells West and Rita that they need to have a plan to stop Loveless. After rescuing Gordon from Loveless' clutches towards the end of the film, West tells Gordon, "Right now, we need a plan." and suggests to add wings to his Nitro-Cycle. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
Wild Wild West / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: All of Loveless' Paid Harem Bodyguard Babes: Munitia the weapons expert, Miss Lippenrieder the lip-reader, Amazonia the warrior, and Miss East the... Asian woman. Loveless himself too: full of lust, but lacking in love. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_6de71c57 | type |
Disc-One Final Boss | |
Wild Wild West / int_6de71c57 | comment |
Disc-One Final Boss: At first it seems that General McGrath is the main villain, until Dr. Loveless makes his entrance, and dispatches him and his henchmen to test a weapon. | |
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The Teaser | |
Wild Wild West / int_6e8b95dc | comment |
The Teaser: The film opens with Professor Thaddeus Morton being pursued and eventually killed by Loveless' saw blade. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_6e8b95dc | |
Wild Wild West / int_6ef6417b | type |
Disney Death | |
Wild Wild West / int_6ef6417b | comment |
Disney Death: Jim West. He takes a point-blank gunshot to the chest and falls 80 feet to the desert floor but survives because he was wearing one of Artemus Gordon's "Impermeable" bullet-proof vests. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_71384f0e | type |
Two-Person Pool Party | |
Wild Wild West / int_71384f0e | comment |
Two-Person Pool Party: Jim and a buxom lady in a water tower. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
Wild Wild West / int_7286e96d | comment |
Idiot Ball: When West and Gordon are being chased by the saw blades, they run into the easily-cut corn field, as opposed to taking refuge by the large metal train that would surely stop the blades. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_729c69f3 | type |
Politically Incorrect Villain | |
Wild Wild West / int_729c69f3 | comment |
Politically Incorrect Villain: The strongly racist Dr. Loveless. Nevertheless one of his henchmen is a Native American, and his landclaim restoration plan references the (inaccurate) account of Manhattan being purchased from the Native Americans unfairly for beads, a trade which the novelization elaborates would be reversed. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_729c69f3 | |
Wild Wild West / int_7431b974 | type |
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show | |
Wild Wild West / int_7431b974 | comment |
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The film has an over-the-top nature, but it takes a turn for the serious and dramatic whenever Dr. Arliss Loveless is onscreen. His massacre of an entire village of freed slaves is horrifying. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_7570a10c | type |
Bond Villain Stupidity | |
Wild Wild West / int_7570a10c | comment |
Bond Villain Stupidity: After Loveless captures West and Gordon, he fits their necks with the blade-attracting magnets that the professor in the opening was also killed with. Then he leaves before ensuring their demise. Loveless frequently pushes West's buttons by casually using racist slurs at him during conversations. As Loveless himself found out the hard way in the climax, racism can end up having deadly consequences. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_792e11ec | type |
Dance Battler | |
Wild Wild West / int_792e11ec | comment |
Dance Battler: Gordon shows off some balletic moves while fighting Loveless' ladies. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_792e11ec | |
Wild Wild West / int_7c0bfb83 | type |
Obviously Evil | |
Wild Wild West / int_7c0bfb83 | comment |
Obviously Evil: Downplayed with McGrath; he's ugly, dirty, rude, a bigot, and a nasty person overall, and he's clearly evil; but he's a lesser evil compared to Loveless. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_7c0bfb83 | |
Wild Wild West / int_7e6c0522 | type |
Off with His Head! | |
Wild Wild West / int_7e6c0522 | comment |
Off with His Head!: Loveless' collars contain powerful magnets that can attract the saw blade to the wearer's neck, thus decapitating them. Just ask Thaddeus Morton, who gets decapitated at the beginning of the film. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_7e74d66f | type |
Politically Correct History | |
Wild Wild West / int_7e74d66f | comment |
Politically Correct History: Mostly averted, actually. Contrary to popular misconception, the US Army had quite a few black officers during the Civil War. Official Army records list 186,097 black soldiers, 7,122 of whom were officers. How many of these achieved the rank of captain is not clear (one suspects most black officers were very junior). Even further, Jim gets himself in a lot of trouble for misbehaving at a party full of white people. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_7fbb13bf | type |
Unfriendly Fire | |
Wild Wild West / int_7fbb13bf | comment |
Unfriendly Fire: Mae Lee East is accidentally shot dead by one of the Stand-In Portrait mooks. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_7fbb13bf | |
Wild Wild West / int_816a4e80 | type |
Star Wars (Franchise) | |
Wild Wild West / int_816a4e80 | comment |
That spider walker looks and sounds a lot like an AT-AT walker from Star Wars. The first glimpse of the Loveless train looks like the opening of A New Hope. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_816a4e80 | |
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Large Ham | |
Wild Wild West / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: Loveless and Gordon can be quite dramatic. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_823c6e3e | |
Wild Wild West / int_830b0ac9 | type |
Final Battle | |
Wild Wild West / int_830b0ac9 | comment |
In the Final Battle, West says, "Shoot... him... Gordon!" shortly before Gordon fires his derringer at Loveless' spider legs. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_830b0ac9 | |
Wild Wild West / int_86eea0e5 | type |
World of Pun | |
Wild Wild West / int_86eea0e5 | comment |
World of Pun: Particularly the scenes where James West (black) and Arliss Loveless (has no legs) throw double entendre insults on each other's conditions. A Call-Back occurs when they're stuck dangling over a canyon at the end. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_86eea0e5 | |
Wild Wild West / int_88384522 | type |
Reflective Eyes | |
Wild Wild West / int_88384522 | comment |
Reflective Eyes: West narrowly avoids an ambush in Loveless' office thanks to Ms. East's eyes showing his would-be killer. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_88384522 | |
Wild Wild West / int_88e5066d | type |
Trigger-Happy | |
Wild Wild West / int_88e5066d | comment |
Trigger-Happy: Jim West. Actually lampshaded by the President: "And you, West. Not every situation calls for your patented approach of shoot first, shoot later, shoot some more, and then when everybody's dead try to ask a question or two." | |
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Wild Wild West / int_88e5066d | |
Wild Wild West / int_88e7f8b8 | type |
Batman Cold Open | |
Wild Wild West / int_88e7f8b8 | comment |
Batman Cold Open: Jim West and Artemus Gordon vs. General McGrath in the saloon... at least, that's how it was written in the script. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_88e7f8b8 | |
Wild Wild West / int_8a16409a | type |
Shovel Strike | |
Wild Wild West / int_8a16409a | comment |
Shovel Strike: During the final battle, Jim faces a man who does a number of flashy martial arts moves and brags that he learned them from a Chinaman. Jim knocks the man out with a shovel to the face and counters that he just made that up. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_8a16409a | |
Wild Wild West / int_8b442f50 | type |
Did Not Get the Girl | |
Wild Wild West / int_8b442f50 | comment |
Did Not Get the Girl: Neither Jim or Gordon get to hook up with Rita, because it turns out she's already married. Instead, they get something arguably more awesome: Loveless' 80-foot Spider Tank! | |
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Wild Wild West / int_8b442f50 | |
Wild Wild West / int_8c52888c | type |
What a Drag | |
Wild Wild West / int_8c52888c | comment |
What a Drag: Gordon, holding his high-powered magnet collar, is pulled toward a railroad track and dragged through the desert sands on the way. They soon realize that the tracks lead to Dr. Loveless' laboratory. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_8c52888c | |
Wild Wild West / int_8e0075dc | type |
I Would Say If I Could Say | |
Wild Wild West / int_8e0075dc | comment |
I Would Say If I Could Say: When Loveless reveals that he wasn't actually killed in the Civil War, he declares himself "alive and kicking!" Being Half the Man He Used to Be, he then corrects himself: "well, alive, anyway!" | |
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Wild Wild West / int_8e0075dc | |
Wild Wild West / int_8e7835b3 | type |
Wunza Plot | |
Wild Wild West / int_8e7835b3 | comment |
Wunza Plot: He's a Trigger Happy black U.S. Army captain who was raised by Native Americans! He's a US Marshal who's a Master of Disguise and a Gadgeteer Genius! They Fight Crime! | |
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Wild Wild West / int_8e7835b3 | |
Wild Wild West / int_8fe78cef | type |
Enhanced Interrogation Techniques | |
Wild Wild West / int_8fe78cef | comment |
Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: Jim West uses a Dramatic Gun Cock on "President Grant". | |
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Wild Wild West / int_8fe78cef | |
Wild Wild West / int_90769dd0 | type |
Evil Genius | |
Wild Wild West / int_90769dd0 | comment |
Evil Genius: Loveless has nefarious plans, and his inventions make him well ahead of his time. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_90769dd0 | |
Wild Wild West / int_9080e641 | type |
Diabolical Mastermind | |
Wild Wild West / int_9080e641 | comment |
Diabolical Mastermind: Dr. Loveless is re-imagined as a steampunk Blofeld on a white supremacist kick. Contrary to what he says, the Doctor has put aside his Confederate past and is conspiring with British, Mexican, and Spanish agents to divvy up the United States between them all. His reasoning is that, since the CSA "betrayed" him by surrendering to the Yankees, he owes them nothing. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_9080e641 | |
Wild Wild West / int_90b66e22 | type |
Femme Fatale | |
Wild Wild West / int_90b66e22 | comment |
Rita pretty much admits in the end that she played up the Femme Fatale angle to convince West and Gordon to bring her with them, because she knew they might not if she told them she was looking for her husband; the film implied this but never confirmed it. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_90b66e22 | |
Wild Wild West / int_91697559 | type |
Half the Man He Used to Be | |
Wild Wild West / int_91697559 | comment |
Half the Man He Used to Be: Occurs in Dr. Loveless' Backstory, but he survives. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_91697559 | |
Wild Wild West / int_919eaa09 | type |
Black-Tie Infiltration | |
Wild Wild West / int_919eaa09 | comment |
Black-Tie Infiltration: Jim West and Artemus Gordon infiltrate a post-Civil War Southern costume ball dressed as an armed cowboy and a French mountain man, respectively. Problem: the other attendees are white racist former slave owners, and Jim West is black. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_919eaa09 | |
Wild Wild West / int_928ca2cc | type |
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
Wild Wild West / int_928ca2cc | comment |
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Loveless kills off a large number of his men, including General McGrath, because they were at Appomattox when General Lee surrendered to the Union army while Loveless lost half his body in defense of the Confederacy. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_928ca2cc | |
Wild Wild West / int_933576c8 | type |
Mighty Glacier | |
Wild Wild West / int_933576c8 | comment |
Mighty Glacier: The metal-headed Mook West fights in the Spider Tank’s engine room. He can take several strikes from a wrench and punches West across the room, but he moves very slowly. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_933576c8 | |
Wild Wild West / int_95265081 | type |
Leeroy Jenkins | |
Wild Wild West / int_95265081 | comment |
Leeroy Jenkins: West constantly ignores Gordon's planning and runs right into battle. Only after he causes them to run for their lives and runs out of other options does he ask for Gordon to work out a plan. Gordon doesn't take it too well. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_95265081 | |
Wild Wild West / int_957e5fc2 | type |
Villainous Breakdown | |
Wild Wild West / int_957e5fc2 | comment |
Villainous Breakdown: Loveless loses his Faux Affably Evil demeanor when Gordon disables his spider legs to rescue West. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_957e5fc2 | |
Wild Wild West / int_95b7c400 | type |
Faux Affably Evil | |
Wild Wild West / int_95b7c400 | comment |
Faux Affably Evil: Dr. Loveless acts polite and well-mannered, but it barely hides the mind of an Ax-Crazy psychopath. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_96e01893 | type |
Bodyguard Babes | |
Wild Wild West / int_96e01893 | comment |
Loveless' Bodyguard Babes could count as both this and Fanservice Extra (essentially this is THE movie for you if you like women in corsets). | |
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Wild Wild West / int_9951519 | type |
Water Tower Down | |
Wild Wild West / int_9951519 | comment |
Water Tower Down: At the beginning of the movie, one of these is knocked out in the middle of an arrest attempt. Things go badly from there. It's also how Jim West meets some former Confederate soldiers. | |
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Cyborg | |
Wild Wild West / int_99a12edd | comment |
Cyborg: Loveless and some of his Mooks are steampunk cyborgs. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_9aaf8eca | type |
Crippling Overspecialization | |
Wild Wild West / int_9aaf8eca | comment |
Another mook resembles the image for Crippling Overspecialization: two knives, no hands. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_9aaf8eca | |
Wild Wild West / int_9b54d536 | type |
Evil Counterpart | |
Wild Wild West / int_9b54d536 | comment |
Evil Counterpart: Dr. Loveless acts as one to both West and Gordon — he's just as murderous and vengeful over the Civil War as West is, and he's just as brilliant and eccentric an inventor as Gordon. In the novelization Loveless lampshades that he feels like he's the middle ground between the two, West being willing and able to take a life but being a fool, and Gordon being able to create amazing gadgets but refuses to use them to hurt people. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_9b54d536 | |
Wild Wild West / int_9be7c205 | type |
Giant Spider | |
Wild Wild West / int_9be7c205 | comment |
Giant Spider: See Spider Tank below. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_9be7c205 | |
Wild Wild West / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
Wild Wild West / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: During Loveless' part in New Orleans, a musical group dressed in costume plays inside a framework of a giant painting. Later, Jim West shoots a group of assassins, each of whom is pretending to be a figure in a giant painting. After West accidentally finds the knife Gordon installed in his shoe without telling him, he complains that Gordon had better not have made any other secret modifications to his outfit. Gordon's response indicates that he definitely has made at least one — and much later in the film, West survives a bullet to the chest because of the Bulletproof Vest he didn't know he had. Played With. While Jim West and Artemus Gordon are in the desert, they see a tarantula hawk (wasp) attack a tarantula. Later on, Gordon uses this as an inspiration to create a flying bicycle to use against Loveless' giant mechanical spider. Except they don't have time or patience to complete the invention, so they just take horses. Later still, they actually follow through with the idea. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_9d12bbc1 | |
Wild Wild West / int_9d17b859 | type |
Made of Iron | |
Wild Wild West / int_9d17b859 | comment |
Made of Iron: Jim West falls 80 feet (5 stories) to the ground, and lands on his back. The film seems to try to justify this by Jim being knocked out and severely bruised up when he wakes but the fact still stands. He should be dead. | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
Wild Wild West / int_9dfb8296 | comment |
This Is Gonna Suck: After Jim West attempts to leave the unguarded entrapment in Loveless' camp, he inadvertently activates the Deadly Disc trap. Gordon's response? "And now we have to run." | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
Wild Wild West / int_9e0c3153 | comment |
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: While discussing with Gordon about what Morton saw during his final days alive, he says, "That... is a man's... head." In the Final Battle, West says, "Shoot... him... Gordon!" shortly before Gordon fires his derringer at Loveless' spider legs. | |
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U.S. Marshal | |
Wild Wild West / int_9eaffefb | comment |
U.S. Marshal: Artemus Gordon. Also Coleman, the engineer of the Wanderer. | |
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Imposter Forgot One Detail | |
Wild Wild West / int_a04fe73e | comment |
Imposter Forgot One Detail: Artemis Gordon has a nearly foolproof disguise as President Grant (the fact that Kevin Kline plays both helps) but West quickly knows it's not Grant because he was wearing the wrong school ring. It doesn't help that "Grant" keeps going on and on about how great an agent Gordon is. | |
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It's Personal | |
Wild Wild West / int_a0db7803 | comment |
It's Personal: West's unit was the one that found the aftermath of the massacre at New Liberty, and since then, he's been itching for a chance to dust the man responsible. His birth parents were among the victims. At first, West believed that McGrath was the one who caused the massacre, but learns from a dying McGrath that Loveless himself is responsible for it. He even lampshades this as he calls out a defeated Loveless an animal for such a heinous action, an act that made Loveless extremely angry. | |
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Overly Long Gag | |
Wild Wild West / int_a188ac4b | comment |
Overly Long Gag: See Volleying Insults | |
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Hand-or-Object Underwear | |
Wild Wild West / int_a18a7c01 | comment |
Hand-or-Object Underwear: West's hat in the opening scene. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_a3385649 | type |
In-Joke | |
Wild Wild West / int_a3385649 | comment |
In-Joke: The "DO NOT PUSH" train button is an obvious nod to Sonnenfeld's previous venture, Men in Black. | |
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Too Clever by Half | |
Wild Wild West / int_a3a4a800 | comment |
Too Clever by Half: President Grant's personal opinion of Gordon. He's not wrong, either. | |
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I Know Karate | |
Wild Wild West / int_a4ad4fe5 | comment |
I Know Karate: A mook tries this on Jim West. And then proceeds to get a shovel in the face. | |
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Cool Train | |
Wild Wild West / int_a632f7fa | comment |
Cool Train: The Wanderer, used by West and Gordon. Loveless' beats it. An armed, armored doodlebug (powered car) with both a slot for his War Wagon and spider legs. | |
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General Ripper | |
Wild Wild West / int_a67b86a7 | comment |
General Ripper: Ironically enough, West to General "Bloodbath" McGrath. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_a6cda066 | type |
Rule of Three | |
Wild Wild West / int_a6cda066 | comment |
Rule of Three: West says "That is a man's head" three times while observing Gordon trying to find clues from Professor Morton's head. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_a7b324e | type |
Handicapped Badass | |
Wild Wild West / int_a7b324e | comment |
Handicapped Badass: Loveless is confined in a wheelchair having lost half of his body during the civlian war. Despite this he's a brilliant weapons manufacturer, a criminal genius and in the climax we see he can turn his wheelchair into a sort of mechanical spider which he uses to inflict a quite brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Jim West. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_a88f0b93 | type |
Thong of Shielding | |
Wild Wild West / int_a88f0b93 | comment |
Thong of Shielding: Miss East gives the audience a very close up view of hers when she sits down on Loveless' desk in her attempt at seducing West (or rather leave him open to be shot by the living painting behind him). | |
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Wild Wild West / int_a88f0b93 | |
Wild Wild West / int_a91078ea | type |
Adaptational Jerkass | |
Wild Wild West / int_a91078ea | comment |
Adaptational Jerkass: Dr. Loveless on the show was still a villain, but also genuinely was the sort of Well-Intentioned Extremist that movie Loveless is only pretending to be. Movie Loveless is also racist and willing to turn on his own men; exactly the kind of person that Show Loveless would have hated. The two are further separated by being given different names - Arliss Loveless in the movie, Miguelito Loveless on the show - and having different disabilities - Miguelito had dwarfism, Arliss lost his legs. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_aa96059e | type |
Disabled in the Adaptation | |
Wild Wild West / int_aa96059e | comment |
Disabled in the Adaptation: Rather "disability change". In the original series, Loveless was a man with dwarfism and the use of all four limbs (played by Michael Dunn). Here, he's a normal-size man who lost both legs. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_ab83cedf | type |
Nitro Express | |
Wild Wild West / int_ab83cedf | comment |
Nitro Express: At the beginning of the film, Captain Jim West jumps on a wagon carrying cases of nitro (with only hay for padding) for a renegade regiment of the former Confederacy. | |
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Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha! | |
Wild Wild West / int_abf19ef6 | comment |
Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!: The giant spider. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_ac09dc0f | type |
Alas, Poor Villain | |
Wild Wild West / int_ac09dc0f | comment |
Alas, Poor Villain: Despite General McGrath's involvement in the New Liberty massacre, it's hard not to show sympathy for him when he, his men and their horses are used by Loveless as target practice; even West himself is horrified seeing the corpses of McGrath's men and their horses while showing some pity towards the dying McGrath when the latter informed him that Loveless is responsible for initiating the New Liberty massacre. | |
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Knockout Gas | |
Wild Wild West / int_adf58b7a | comment |
Knockout Gas: Artemus Gordon's sleeping gas billiard balls, except for one. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
Wild Wild West / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Will Smith as Jim West and Kevin Kline as Artemus Gordon. They frequently engage in various Snark-to-Snark Combat. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_af2547c9 | type |
Informed Flaw | |
Wild Wild West / int_af2547c9 | comment |
Informed Flaw: Jim West is treated as trigger-happy Dumb Muscle by Gordon, President Grant, and the narrative of the film itself. However, he shows himself in multiple scenes to be quite intelligent, clever, and perceptive. His flaw is more that he's impetuous and prefers to think on his feet instead of being subtle and forming a plan first. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_b032e4ed | type |
Ms. Fanservice | |
Wild Wild West / int_b032e4ed | comment |
Ms. Fanservice: Rita Escobar, especially in her corset. (Well, it was Salma Hayek.) Loveless' Bodyguard Babes could count as both this and Fanservice Extra (essentially this is THE movie for you if you like women in corsets). The girl West is skinny dipping with at the very beginning. | |
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Tap on the Head | |
Wild Wild West / int_b1a7cd14 | comment |
Tap on the Head: Jim West to General "Bloodbath" McGrath with a punch. Played more realistically than usual since McGrath was only down for a few seconds. | |
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Quizzical Tilt | |
Wild Wild West / int_b30dd522 | comment |
Quizzical Tilt: When the dog looks at Bloodbath McGrath's ear trumpet. Serves as a Shout-Out to the RCA logo◊, even referred to as such in the script. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_b47d95be | type |
No OSHA Compliance | |
Wild Wild West / int_b47d95be | comment |
No OSHA Compliance: The cockpit for Loveless' Spider Tank is missing a big chunk of railing after West and Gordon rip them away with their flying machine. Sure enough, one of his own henchwomen falls to her death when startled by the heroes. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_b5597166 | type |
Soul Brotha | |
Wild Wild West / int_b5597166 | comment |
Soul Brotha: Jim West. Parodied and lampshaded on occasion, whenever Gordon suggests he act stereotypically black. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_b5914444 | type |
Noodle Implements | |
Wild Wild West / int_b5914444 | comment |
Noodle Implements: Loveless' suite. Yikes. | |
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Briar Patching | |
Wild Wild West / int_b6287eff | comment |
Briar Patching Subverted. Artemus attempts to have Dr. Loveless capture him, dressed as Ulysses S. Grant, to lure him away from the real Ulysses. Loveless takes them both. Also, when Artemus is caught and about to be executed, he begs to be "shot in my heart, which has loved this country so much" because he is wearing his prototype for a bullet proof vest. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_b669e7ec | type |
Verbal Salt in the Wound | |
Wild Wild West / int_b669e7ec | comment |
Verbal Salt in the Wound: When Arliss begins making not-so-subtle racist jabs against Jim West, West counters with a series of jibes mocking Loveless' severed lower body: | |
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Wild Wild West / int_b9918c48 | type |
Nobody Here but Us Statues | |
Wild Wild West / int_b9918c48 | comment |
Nobody Here but Us Statues: Loveless' mooks hiding in the paintings. After Miss East gives it away by looking at one, West quickly kills that mook, and then shoots every other picture. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_b99bed67 | type |
No-Nonsense Nemesis | |
Wild Wild West / int_b99bed67 | comment |
No-Nonsense Nemesis: Dr. Loveless is sometimes prone to Bond Villain Stupidity, but is far from being subjected to it as he is more clever than he looks in many moments: When Loveless callously orders the slaughter of McGrath's men for target practice with his new tank, McGrath furiously attempts to shoot him down in revenge, only for Loveless to play wise by activating his hidden guns inside his wheelchair to fatally shoot McGrath. When Loveless goes to abduct President Grant, Gordon uses his Body Double guise to try and pull a Bait-and-Switch while West climbs up to confront Loveless. However, Loveless refuses to waste time to determine which one is the real Grant, so instead, he springs out a net to trap both Gordon and Grant while getting Munitia to shoot West. Fortunately, West was wearing Gordon's bullet-proof body armor to avoid being killed by the shot. Following his successful capture of President Grant and Gordon, Loveless attempts to get Munitia to execute Gordon in order to force Grant to surrender the country. Just like West, Gordon too is wearing bullet-proof body armor and requests that he be shot in the heart. However, Loveless refuses and instead orders for Gordon to be shot in the head for good measure. Fortunately, West (posing as an exotic belly dancer) came to the rescue before that could ever happen. When Loveless goes on a rampage decimating a town with his mechanical spider while still holding President Grant prisoner, Gordon and West use their flying machine to attack the spider with nitroglycerin bombs and kill Munitia. However, this only infuriates Loveless to have his remaining mistresses to shoot down the flying machine, sending both Gordon and Jim to fall into the spider, where they end up being taken prisoner alongside Grant by Loveless and his remaining mistresses. | |
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Shiny New Australia | |
Wild Wild West / int_bb98e39a | comment |
Shiny New Australia: Loveless wants most of the U.S. Northwest to retire on. | |
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Spies Are Lecherous | |
Wild Wild West / int_bc07ffe3 | comment |
Spies Are Lecherous: It's shown early on that Jim West is a man with "a girl in every port", so to speak, and the Love Triangle between West, Gordon and Rita Escobar has several scenes that show both men are perfectly okay with perving on Rita in their own way (Gordon compares Rita's (that is Salma Hayek's) bosom with that of a Boticelli painting at one point without having noticed that Rita was tossed into the room by one of his inventions and is hearing everything), while part of the Running Gag between West and Loveless (of constantly tossing racist and ableist insults at each other) includes pointing out that Jim can still please a woman the natural way while Loveless requires "mechanical aides", so to speak. | |
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Berserk Button | |
Wild Wild West / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Don't call Doctor Loveless an animal. Loveless himself pushes West's button by casually throwing racial slurs at him, the last straw being the climax where Loveless calls West a "boy" as both are hanging for dear life above the cliff. The slur gives West the perfect excuse to push Loveless off the cliff to his death. | |
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Eye Remember | |
Wild Wild West / int_bd6d90d9 | comment |
Eye Remember: Retinal Terminus Theory. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_be239f55 | type |
Noble Confederate Soldier | |
Wild Wild West / int_be239f55 | comment |
Noble Confederate Soldier: Downplayed. While General McGrath wants to bring back the Confederacy and everything that entails and took part in the New Liberty massacre of runaway slaves, he is still appalled that Doctor Loveless would so callously sacrifice his men to demonstrate the deadliness of his new tank prototype. Loveless shoots him and dumps his body in a river when he objects. | |
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Brief Accent Imitation | |
Wild Wild West / int_be6f7ae7 | comment |
Brief Accent Imitation: Rita repeating what she overheard from Miss Lippenreider. | |
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I Have You Now, My Pretty | |
Wild Wild West / int_bfad4265 | comment |
I Have You Now, My Pretty: Dr. Loveless and his crew kidnap the luscious Rita and leave Jim and Gordon for dead in the middle of nowhere. When Jim tries to make fun of Loveless being an impotent cripple, he sneers that he'll simply invent something that will allow him to have his way with her. Though in the end, nothing really comes of it, mostly because Loveless has more urgent priorities such as taking over the damn country first. | |
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That Makes Me Feel Angry | |
Wild Wild West / int_bfc2ec8a | comment |
That Makes Me Feel Angry: When West calls Loveless out as an animal. | |
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With Due Respect | |
Wild Wild West / int_c00afbbd | comment |
With Due Respect: When President Grant tells West and Gordon that they're going to be working together, they both start to protest while using the phrase "With all due respect". Grant tells them that they will do whatever their Commander-in-Chief orders them to do, and they both back down. | |
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Evil Cripple | |
Wild Wild West / int_c0afd51a | comment |
Evil Cripple: Not only is Dr. Loveless the Big Bad, but he lost his lower body during the Civil War, forcing him to use a wheelchair that can use guns and can transform into his One-Winged Angel four-legged, miniature version of his Spider Tank. | |
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Of Corsets Sexy | |
Wild Wild West / int_c0c7a82e | comment |
Of Corsets Sexy: Pretty much every female character's costume for most of the film (except for Garcelle Beauvais, who went without.) | |
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Neck Lift | |
Wild Wild West / int_c2c80ef | comment |
Neck Lift: The last of Dr. Loveless' mooks Jim West battles inside the giant spider robot does this to him. | |
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Cue the Falling Object | |
Wild Wild West / int_c32b5a03 | comment |
Cue the Falling Object: After Jim West manages to dodge an assassin (which was concealing himself as a "living artwork" in the office of Loveless, and kills Miss East at the same time), he pulls out his gun and shoots every piece of artwork in the room that is man-sized. After he does so and walks away, we find out that said artwork included an assassin on the roof when he crashes down to the floor. | |
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Mooks | |
Wild Wild West / int_c36cba70 | comment |
Jim West punches one of Loveless' mooks in the groin while in combat on the giant spider's engine deck. | |
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No, You | |
Wild Wild West / int_c37a7fd9 | comment |
No, You: When McGrath accuses Loveless of betraying him by using his men for target practice, Loveless snarls back that the Confederates paid back his sacrifices to their cause by surrendering to the Union; in his view, the Confederates betrayed him first. | |
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Evil Redhead | |
Wild Wild West / int_c3b40ab8 | comment |
Evil Redhead: Munitia, Loveless' henchwoman expert in weapons. She's presumably his top enforcer too. | |
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And Starring | |
Wild Wild West / int_c40c8b74 | comment |
And Starring: In one theatrical poster: "And Kenneth Branagh." | |
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We Can Rule Together | |
Wild Wild West / int_c420a553 | comment |
We Can Rule Together: After Jim and Gordon attack Loveless' spider tank with a flying machine, they're captured. Loveless then compliments them on their ingenuity, and offers them to come work for him. West tells him to shove it. | |
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Bulletproof Vest | |
Wild Wild West / int_c547cd6d | comment |
After West accidentally finds the knife Gordon installed in his shoe without telling him, he complains that Gordon had better not have made any other secret modifications to his outfit. Gordon's response indicates that he definitely has made at least one — and much later in the film, West survives a bullet to the chest because of the Bulletproof Vest he didn't know he had. | |
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Campfire Character Exploration | |
Wild Wild West / int_c633ea76 | comment |
Campfire Character Exploration: While traveling on foot to Dr. Loveless' base, Jim West and Artemus Gordon relax around a campfire. Jim West tells Gordon about his childhood and how his parents were among those murdered by Loveless at the free slave town of New Liberty. Gordon (who had been feuding with West up to this point) tells West he'll help him get Loveless. | |
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The Butcher | |
Wild Wild West / int_c70907c7 | comment |
The Butcher: General "Bloodbath" McGrath is also "The Butcher of New Liberty". | |
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Overcome Their Differences | |
Wild Wild West / int_c730d1f9 | comment |
Overcome Their Differences: Jim and Artemus. | |
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Shout-Out | |
Wild Wild West / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The scene when Loveless killed General McGrath imitates the painting on RCA's logo. That spider walker looks and sounds a lot like an AT-AT walker from Star Wars. The first glimpse of the Loveless train looks like the opening of A New Hope. Right before the spider destroys a chimney, it reads "Kasdan", as in Lawrence Kasdan, the director of Silverado, whose scenographic city is actually being razed in the movie. Silverado also featured Kevin Kline as well. Before killing Loveless' dual blade-wielding henchman West says ''That's it. No more Mr. Knife Guy. " The scene where West rides on a platform underneath a speeding train resembles a similar scene involving a speeding bus in Speed. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_c819533b | type |
Rage Breaking Point | |
Wild Wild West / int_c819533b | comment |
Rage Breaking Point: Gordon, who had withstood his rivalry with West through the film so far with aloof humor, finally loses it after West nearly gets them killed via Loveless' magnetic razor disks and asks Gordon to take of the collars around their necks because Gordon is "the master of this mechanical stuff". The resulting rant includes screaming at West and trying to smash West's collar with a rock, with hilariously ineffective results. | |
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The Alliance | |
Wild Wild West / int_c8c968c3 | comment |
The Alliance: Rare villainous example in the "Loveless Alliance," namely Loveless and his people plus Mexico, Spain, France and Great Britain, all planning to divide the United States amongst themselves. | |
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Spiders Are Scary | |
Wild Wild West / int_c92bd7ed | comment |
Spiders Are Scary: The giant mechanical spider. Earlier in the film, Gordon is terrified of the desert tarantula that is crawling up Jim's arm. Jim, unfazed, comments "he's just trying to get warm." Same goes for the tarantulas that are crawling all over the White House cake. | |
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Freudian Slippery Slope | |
Wild Wild West / int_ca03acbc | comment |
Freudian Slippery Slope: Many puns are made when Rita comes in with the rear flap of her pajamas unbuttoned. | |
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Taking You with Me | |
Wild Wild West / int_caf89e54 | comment |
Taking You with Me: The end has Arliss Loveless in a position where he could very well survive along with Jim West, but also has the option of pulling this on him, leaving him feeling genuinely conflicted about the issue (As he puts it, "On the one hand, I have the great love I have for myself, and on the other, the raw, seething hatred that I have for you"). West makes the choice for him (Loveless calling him a coward and a racial slur helps him decide), pulling the lever and sending both down into a very deep chasm. Only West has the option of grabbing a mook hanging by a chain he disposed earlier. | |
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Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh... | |
Wild Wild West / int_cd3a1755 | comment |
Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: Jim West while fighting a cyborg mook. | |
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Incoming Ham | |
Wild Wild West / int_ceabe589 | comment |
Incoming Ham: Loveless' introduction, as he explodes out of Lincoln's head as "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" plays in the background. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
Wild Wild West / int_ceec4df5 | comment |
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: West plots to avenge his parents' deaths at the hands of Loveless and eventually succeeds. | |
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Steampunk | |
Wild Wild West / int_cf6d4bad | comment |
Steampunk: The contraptions created by Dr. Loveless. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
Wild Wild West / int_d028e0da | comment |
An Arm and a Leg: During the war Loveless lost both his legs, a lung, spleen, bladder, thirty-feet of small intestine and the ability to reproduce - but heaven knows he hasn't lost his sense of humour. | |
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Funny Bruce Lee Noises | |
Wild Wild West / int_d2177863 | comment |
Funny Bruce Lee Noises: Artemus Gordon, while performing his Karate Kid impersonation. | |
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Offscreen Airplane Pull-up | |
Wild Wild West / int_d3636188 | comment |
Offscreen Airplane Pull-up: After West and Gordon take off from the top of a cliff in their bicycle/airplane, the flying machine falls quickly and goes out of sight, only to fly up from the bottom of the screen and continue on its way. | |
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Fake Boobs | |
Wild Wild West / int_d42626f9 | comment |
Fake Boobs: Artemus Gordon has some. | |
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Hypocrite | |
Wild Wild West / int_d52d28b6 | comment |
Hypocrite: Dr. Loveless's supposed commitment to the Confederate cause is shown to be hollow when he unveils his plan to carve up the States to the European colonial powers, keeping one state for himself while the Confederates get nothing in return. | |
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Shoot Everything That Moves | |
Wild Wild West / int_d6268c2e | comment |
Shoot Everything That Moves: President Ulysses S. Grant comments: "And you West, not every situation calls for your patented approach of shoot first, shoot later, shoot some more, and then when everybody's dead try to ask a question or two". | |
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Wild Wild West / int_d6618014 | type |
Last Request | |
Wild Wild West / int_d6618014 | comment |
Last Request: Artemus, disguised as President Grant, tries to get Loveless to kidnap him instead of the real Grant in the finale. It doesn't work as Loveless refuses to waste time to determine who's the real Grant, so he kidnaps them both. Done again when Loveless threatens Grant by shooting his men, starting with Gordon. Gordon, knowing he's wearing a bulletproof vest, ask that he be shot in the heart to symbolize the country he loved. Loveless, true to his name, refuses by ordering him to be shot in the head instead. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_d7c3ba61 | type |
Race Lift | |
Wild Wild West / int_d7c3ba61 | comment |
Race Lift: James West was white in the series (played by Robert Conrad), here he's black, played by Will Smith. There's also the issue of his dialect. No matter what race, West would not speak like he was, let's say, 1980s West Philadelphia, born and raised. As noted under Politically Correct History above, the Army did have black officers at the time, though it's uncertain if any ascended to Captain. | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds | |
Wild Wild West / int_d7fc9fd0 | comment |
Vitriolic Best Buds: Gordon and West become this. | |
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Interrogating the Dead | |
Wild Wild West / int_d88f0679 | comment |
Interrogating the Dead: Gordon is able to see a man's last sight by slapping his severed and presumably hollowed-out head to a light. | |
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…But He Sounds Handsome | |
Wild Wild West / int_d8afec40 | comment |
…But He Sounds Handsome: While impersonating President Grant, Gordon spends much of his time praising himself. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_d96bb569 | type |
Artistic License – Explosives | |
Wild Wild West / int_d96bb569 | comment |
Artistic License – Explosives: Nitroglycerin isn't transported by just sticking it in a wagon as vials, and West lampshades by shouting "This is not how you transport nitro!" Justified because Loveless, who later releases the wagon into a saloon, isn't really looking to be safe. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_da006328 | type |
Earn Your Title | |
Wild Wild West / int_da006328 | comment |
Earn Your Title: General "Bloodbath" McGrath, AKA "The Butcher of New Liberty". It later turned out that General McGrath was a decoy all along. | |
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Adaptation Name Change | |
Wild Wild West / int_dc057cf3 | comment |
Adaptation Name Change: Dr. Loveless goes from "Miguelito" in the series to "Arliss" here. | |
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Ear Ache | |
Wild Wild West / int_dc292b90 | comment |
Ear Ache: McGrath lost his ear at Chickamauga, which explains why he needs the Ear Trumpet. | |
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Universal Driver's License | |
Wild Wild West / int_dd797c1c | comment |
Universal Driver's License: Artemus Gordon has a Universal Pilot's License. Justified, since everything we see him driving was invented by him. The only exception is the Spider Tank, which he did not invent and is seen having severe trouble with the first time he tries to steer it. | |
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For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself | |
Wild Wild West / int_df33a778 | comment |
For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: For the costume party, West opts to use his own clothes as his "costume". | |
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Wild Wild West / int_df582b0b | type |
Continuity Snarl | |
Wild Wild West / int_df582b0b | comment |
In the novelization, Jim survives his fall from the spider when his Native American friend comes to him in a vision and heals him. In the film West survives thanks to Gordon's proto-type bulletproof vest, creating a minor Continuity Snarl when Gordon claims to be wearing it not long after, even though he was only ever shown making one and wasn't sure it would work. | |
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Male Gaze | |
Wild Wild West / int_dfb71617 | comment |
Male Gaze: This film has more jiggling orbs than a cardio ball fitness class. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_e0e52562 | type |
Loves the Sound of Screaming | |
Wild Wild West / int_e0e52562 | comment |
Loves the Sound of Screaming: For practical purposes, of course. Loveless makes a note to drill his gunners harder after the screams of their victims prove unsatisfactory. Then again considered the "sawed-off sadistic bastard" Loveless is this could be an extra reson. | |
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Thousand-Yard Stare | |
Wild Wild West / int_e11e88b6 | comment |
Thousand-Yard Stare: When West arrives at the campsite where Loveless killed General McGrath's men, all he can do is stare in silence at the dead bodies. | |
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Animal Motifs | |
Wild Wild West / int_e2ccee25 | comment |
Animal Motifs: Loveless is all about spiders. It's on his flag, his secret base is in Spider Canyon, and his ultimate weapon is a Spider Tank. | |
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Made of Explodium | |
Wild Wild West / int_e2d7b14c | comment |
Made of Explodium: What the hell was in those flying frisbees of death, anyway? | |
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Disguised in Drag | |
Wild Wild West / int_e37f19 | comment |
Disguised in Drag: Artie as "Dora" at Fat-Can Candy's Saloon near the film's beginning. Later, Jim West as a belly dancer, his beard hidden under a veil. | |
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Mister Big | |
Wild Wild West / int_e3c70df1 | comment |
Mister Big: Dr. Loveless. | |
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We Need a Distraction | |
Wild Wild West / int_e43b42ea | comment |
We Need a Distraction: In order to search Loveless' house undetected, Gordon incites a mob to hang Jim after the latter mistakes a buxom lady for him. Needless to say, Jim isn't pleased with Gordon, even though he rigged the hanging with a trick rope that wouldn't break Jim's neck. | |
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Wild Wild West / int_e4965307 | type |
Composite Character | |
Wild Wild West / int_e4965307 | comment |
Composite Character: The film version of Loveless is a Mad Scientist like his TV counterpart, but his backstory (a Confederate veteran embittered by being crippled in the war) is taken straight from another villain, Colonel Vautrain. (His Steampunk wheelchair also looks an awful lot like the one used by Mr. Braine.) The movie's version of James West has all the qualities of the TV Artemus Gordon that wouldn't work for the movie's Gordon, like his more jocular brand of Deadpan Snarkery and use of disguises. | |
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The Load | |
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The Load: Rita Escobar. She forces herself on the search by giving up information that is of little to no help (Loveless willingly informs the duo that he's after President Grant), is nothing more than a distraction to them on purpose, and tops it by getting them all captured when she triggers a sleeping gas billiard ball (which she had been told the purpose of) in a bizarre attempt to avoid exactly that fate. | |
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Played With. While Jim West and Artemus Gordon are in the desert, they see a tarantula hawk (wasp) attack a tarantula. Later on, Gordon uses this as an inspiration to create a flying bicycle to use against Loveless' giant mechanical spider. Except they don't have time or patience to complete the invention, so they just take horses. Later still, they actually follow through with the idea. | |
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Equal-Opportunity Evil | |
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Equal-Opportunity Evil: Subverted. While Loveless recruits several women including an Asian as his top lieutenants, a Native American as a henchman and even offering Jim West a job, it's clearly so he can lord over them rather then seeing them as equal to him. | |
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This Is as Far as I Go | |
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This Is as Far as I Go: The Wanderer's engineer and U.S. Marshal Coleman decides not to participate in the Final Battle with Loveless, but gives them explosives as farewell gifts. | |
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Dramatic Gun Cock: See Enhanced Interrogation Techniques below. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: After General "Bloodbath" McGrath chooses the prostitute "Dora" (Artemus Gordon), another man tries to take her. McGrath pulls out a gun and shoots him in the groin. The people nearby turn around to look, then go back to what they were doing. Jim West punches one of Loveless' mooks in the groin while in combat on the giant spider's engine deck. After Jim West tries several attempts to hurt the iron mook, he attempts to kick his groin, with no luck. | |
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Spotting the Thread | |
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Spotting the Thread: Jim determines that President Grant is really Artemis Gordon by the fact that he's wearing a Harvard class ring whereas Grant attended West Point. Though the fact he spent most of his time praising himself should have tipped him off too. | |
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Match Cut | |
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Match Cut: On their way to get to the Wanderer from the White House, Gordon uses his Nitro-Cycle to pass West. The steam fills up the screen, which eventually dissolves into the steam powered by the Wanderer. | |
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Southern-Fried Genius | |
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Southern-Fried Genius: Arliss Loveless. Confederate backstory, loud and proud Southern accent and mannerisms. Also invents the battle tank fifty years before World War One, plus the flying frisbees of death, and a steam-powered mechanical tarantula the size of an AT-AT. | |
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Spider Swarm | |
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Same goes for the tarantulas that are crawling all over the White House cake. | |
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Identical Stranger | |
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Identical Stranger: Artemus Gordon looks like President Grant without the beard. | |
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Underside Ride | |
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Underside Ride: Jim West does this, using a cart designed to let him move between the Wanderer and Loveless' train. Unfortunately, the rope connecting him breaks. | |
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Would Hit a Girl | |
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Would Hit a Girl: West and Gordon have no issue with killing Loveless's henchwomen, using them as human shields or throwing them to their deaths. | |
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us | |
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Loveless steals the Wanderer with Rita in tow so that he can get to his laboratory in Spider Canyon. | |
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The Remnant | |
Wild Wild West / int_f9c17447 | comment |
The Remnant: Played straight with General McGrath and his Confederate veterans early in the movie. Then subverted with his boss, Arliss Loveless, much to McGrath's chagrin. He doesn't care about the cause and joyfully guns down both McGrath and his men as a weapons demonstration for the foreign supporters with whom he intends to divide up the United States. Note that while he intends to claim a sizable piece of territory for himself, that territory isn't even in the South. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: You could make a drinking game out of all the times West draws his gun on anything that even remotely arouses his suspicion. | |
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Weird West | |
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Weird West: Of the "Steampunk super-tech" variety. | |
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Gadgeteer Genius | |
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Gadgeteer Genius: Artemus Gordon and Dr. Loveless. | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
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Artistic License – Physics: Pretty blatant with the collar trap device. First, the machine easily detects when someone steps over the copper "fence" — even without actually touching it and with no apparent connection between the two. Then the trap neck braces have some truly inconsistent magnetism (the braces only attract themselves after Gordon hits them with a stone, the buzz saws they're attracting rarely go in a straight line...) and the saws more or less have infinite angular momentum, mowing their way through entire cornfields without losing a bit of spin. Plus they explode when they run into each other! | |
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One-Winged Angel | |
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One-Winged Angel: Loveless gets out of his wheelchair and becomes a miniature version of his Spider Tank. | |
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Master of Disguise | |
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Master of Disguise: Artemus Gordon is known for having many disguises at his disposal, such as the saloon girl in the opening and President Grant, something which West himself finds to be quite dubious. Eventually, West forces himself to pose as a belly dancer to stop Loveless from executing Gordon. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: West and Loveless continue their Volleying Insults near the end. | |
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Dark and Troubled Past | |
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Dark and Troubled Past: Jim West had a rough upbringing. As a child, he grew up in slave plantations before he ran away and was found by Native Americans. He would eventually serve as a soldier of the U.S. Army's 9th Cavalry during the Civil War; one week before the war ended, Loveless murdered everyone at New Liberty, including his birth parents, with a primitive tank as part of a weapons test. He spent the next four years trying to exact revenge on General "Bloodbath" McGrath, blaming him and his soldiers rather than what he thought were wild tales. | |
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Spider Tank | |
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Spider Tank: The ultimate creation of Loveless is a eighty foot tall steampunk mechanical spider. | |
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