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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Their restaurant orders. Helps that the cook was an ex-bandmate.

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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Their restaurant orders.orders (dry white toast for Elwood, four fried chickens and a Coke for Jake) immediately identify them to the restaurant's owner. Helps that the cook was an ex-bandmate.



* SwornBrothers: According to the liner notes on the ''The Blues Brothers'' album, Jake and Elwood swore an oath of Blood Brotherhood by cutting their fingers with an E-string allegedly from Elmore James's guitar, essentially adopting each other. The book ''Blues Brothers: Private'' reveals that they also had their names legally changed in 1962, taking the same last name and taking each other's first names as their middle names.



!!Jakes Blues

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!!Jakes !!Jake Blues



* BusCrash: After Creator/JohnBelushi died in 1982 the character was also killed off. Film/BluesBrothers2000 begins with Elwood being informed of Jake's passing.

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* BusCrash: After Creator/JohnBelushi died in 1982 the character was also killed off. Film/BluesBrothers2000 ''Film/BluesBrothers2000'' begins with Elwood being informed of Jake's passing.



* AscendedExtra: Doesn't do much in the first film, but he's a major part in ''2000''.

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* AscendedExtra: Doesn't do much in the first film, but he's a major part in ''2000''.''2000'', where he runs a bar and gives Elwood a job after his release from prison.



* AscendedExtra: In the first film, she only appears in one scene, where her role is mostly to give exposition. Her role is a bit larger in the second film.

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* AscendedExtra: In the first film, she only appears in one scene, where her role is mostly to give exposition. Her role is a bit larger in the second film.film, as she introduces Elwood to Buster and spends the rest of the film trying to track them down, either via the police or showing up at the final concert herself.



* SternNun: She and the other nuns taught the boys and other orphans from a young age, and she's known for whacking both Jake and Elwood with her ruler (and later what looks like a metal switch) for swearing and otherwise misbehaving.



!!!'''Played by:''' Shotgun Britton

A random guy from Elwood's apartment building, who apparently knows Elwood well enough to ask him to get Cheez Whiz for him.
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* NoNameGiven: He's referred to in the credits only as "The Cheez Whiz".



* ActorAllusion: When she fires off her rocket-launcher, it makes the same noise as the blaster weapons in Franchise/StarWars, which of course [[Creator/CarrieFisher her portrayer]] starred in.

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* ActorAllusion: When she fires off her rocket-launcher, it makes the same noise as the blaster weapons in Franchise/StarWars, ''Franchise/StarWars'', which of course [[Creator/CarrieFisher her portrayer]] starred in.



* NoNameGiven: Jake only addresses her as "honey", and the credits never give her a name.

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* NoNameGiven: Jake only addresses her as "honey", and the credits never give her a name.name, referring to her only as "Mystery Woman".



* WomanScorned: Her motivation. Well, ''one'' of her motivations. Jake left her standing at the altar of an incredibly elaborate wedding ceremony, and she's dedicated herself to hunting him down and killing him.

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* WomanScorned: Her motivation. Well, ''one'' ''One'' of her motivations. motivations -- Jake left her standing at the altar of an incredibly elaborate wedding ceremony, and she's dedicated herself to hunting him down and killing him.
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* HamAndDeadpanDuo: Jake is the hammy one; Elwood is more serious.
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* CoolShades: And they pretty much almost naver take them away. Even ''during the night''.

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* CoolShades: And they pretty much almost naver never take them away.off. Even ''during the night''.
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[[folder: Steve "The Colonel" Cropper]]

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[[folder: Steve [[folder:Steve "The Colonel" Cropper]]



[[folder: Donald "Duck" Dunn]]

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[[folder: Donald [[folder:Donald "Duck" Dunn]]



[[folder: George "Murphy" Dunne]]

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[[folder: George [[folder:George "Murphy" Dunne]]



[[folder: Willie "Too-Big" Hall]]

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[[folder: Willie [[folder:Willie "Too-Big" Hall]]



--> So, Jake! You're out! You're rehabilitated! Where are you going to go? What are you going to do? Do you have the money you owe us, motherfucker?

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--> So, -->So, Jake! You're out! You're rehabilitated! Where are you going to go? What are you going to do? Do you have the money you owe us, motherfucker?



-->'''Jake''': Look at you guys in those candy-ass outfits. And I thought I had it bad in Joliet.
-->'''Willie''': Least we got a change of clothes. You're still wearin' the same shit you had on three years ago, sucker!

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-->'''Jake''': -->'''Jake:''' Look at you guys in those candy-ass outfits. And I thought I had it bad in Joliet.
-->'''Willie''':
Joliet.\\
'''Willie:'''
Least we got a change of clothes. You're still wearin' the same shit you had on three years ago, sucker!



[[folder: Tom "Bones" Malone]]

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[[folder: Tom [[folder:Tom "Bones" Malone]]



[[folder: "Blue" Lou Marini]]

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[[folder: "Blue" [[folder:"Blue" Lou Marini]]



[[folder: Matt "Guitar" Murphy]]

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[[folder: Matt [[folder:Matt "Guitar" Murphy]]



[[folder: Alan "Mr. Fabulous" Rubin]]

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[[folder: Alan [[folder:Alan "Mr. Fabulous" Rubin]]



[[folder: Sister Mary Stigmata]]

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[[folder: Sister [[folder:Sister Mary Stigmata]]



[[folder: Curtis]]

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[[folder: Curtis]][[folder:Curtis]]



[[folder: The Cheez Whiz]]

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[[folder: The [[folder:The Cheez Whiz]]



[[folder: Reverend James]]

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[[folder: Reverend [[folder:Reverend James]]
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* AxCrazy: A pretty legit beef with Jake, once she reveals it, but her method of getting him back is excessive and violent. Not to mention that she is also willing to kill Elwood despite him not having done anything to wrong her.

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* AxCrazy: A pretty legit beef with Jake, once she reveals it, but her method of getting him back is excessive and violent. Not to mention that she is also willing to kill Elwood despite him not having done anything to wrong her.her aside from being associated with Jake.
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* [[invoked]]TheDanza: None of the band members appears under a fake name. Played with in the case of Alan Rubin, who is only addressed using his real-life nickname of "Mr. Fabulous" during the film.

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* [[invoked]]TheDanza: None of the band members appears under a fake name. Played with in the case of Alan Rubin, who is only addressed using his real-life nickname of "Mr. Fabulous" during the film.film, though his prison outfit gives his actual name.

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