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* SurprisinglyAproprosMusic: Jody and Jojo listen to the song “Just a Baby Boy” as they ride in the car near the beginning.
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* GreenEyedMonster: The whole love triangle is guilty of this. Jody believes that [[spoiler:Yvette is replacing him with Rodney now that he's out of jail and in her apartment (uninvited)]]. Yvette is incredibly insecure and paranoid since Jody regularly cheats with other women behind her back, even having a daughter from another relationship, which makes her overanalyze just about anything Jody does or says he's going to do, believing he's banging another girl. Rodney quickly gets bad blood with Jody once he bickers with Jody over the phone, even prior to the events of the movie as he heard that Jody hooked up with Yvette as he was locked up, even having a baby by her.
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* Hypocrite: Subverted with Jody. While at about the midpoint of the movie, Jody has stopped cheating, even turning down advances from other women, Jody's reaction towards the implication that [[spoiler:Yvette is cheating on him with Rodney is paradoxical considering all of the times Jody has cheated on her]].
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Subverted with Jody, as he sees Jojo in the house with [[spoiler:Rodney and his goons, [[HarmfulToMinors smoking, drinking, and neglecting him]]]], and gets particularly upset with Yvette. However, [[spoiler:Rodney forced his way into the apartment, which Yvette repeatedly attempts to stop]].
** Melvin, while sometimes clearly trying to mess with Jody, is entirely justified for wanting Jody to finally grow up, as he is unemployed, doesn't have his own car, has two children, is constantly sleeping around on his girlfriend, and continuously acts condescending towards Melvin for the crime of being his mother's new boyfriend.
** [[spoiler:Rodney]] also uses a few of these points to humiliate Jody and convince Yvette to leave him.
** Melvin, while sometimes clearly trying to mess with Jody, is entirely justified for wanting Jody to finally grow up, as he is unemployed, doesn't have his own car, has two children, is constantly sleeping around on his girlfriend, and continuously acts condescending towards Melvin for the crime of being his mother's new boyfriend.
** [[spoiler:Rodney]] also uses a few of these points to humiliate Jody and convince Yvette to leave him.
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** [[spoiler:Jody kicking Yvette, who came to pick up Jojo, in the pouring rain since he believes she's leaving him for Rodney]].
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:Rodney repeatedly attempts to murder Jody over him hooking up with Yvette in his absence. Thankfully, [[LaserGuidedKarma he ends up being brutally murdered himself]] by Sweetpea]].
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Jody comes to Yvette's apartment to pick up Jojo and [[spoiler:sees Rodney and his goons lounging around, who then threaten him as he leaves]]. Considering this happens not too long after [[spoiler:he finds out that Yvette wrote and spoke to Rodney in prison, even asking for money from Jody to fund this]], Jody's reaction is pretty justified, but [[spoiler:Rodney actually forced his way into the apartment and refuses to leave, especially with his new vendetta against Jody]].
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* OldFlame: Rodney is Yvette's ex-boyfriend whom she left for Jody as he was locked up. [[spoiler:He still has feelings for her and therefore takes up the initiative to force his way into her apartment once he's out and [[MurderTheHypotenuse try to get rid of Jody]]]].
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* ArcWords: Doubles as a TitleDrop. Several characters (namely Sweetpea and Melvin) refer to Jody as “baby boy”, a not-too-subtle reference to Jody’s immaturity and refusal to grow up, likening him to a child. He also listens to the song “Just a Baby Boy” by [[Music/SnoopDogg Snoop]] [[CelebrityParadox Dogg, Tyrese]], and Mr. Tan while in the car with his son Jojo.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Rodney]]Rodney]].
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* SurprisinglyAproprosMusic: Jody and Jojo listen to the song “Just a Baby Boy” as they ride in the car near the beginning.
** Melvin and Juanita dance to the song “Just To Keep You Satisfied” by Marvin Gaye, which plays over [[spoiler:Jody kicking Yvette off of the porch, as he thinks Rodney opening up shop in Yvette’s house uninvited means she’s leaving him for a “real man”]].
** Melvin and Juanita dance to the song “Just To Keep You Satisfied” by Marvin Gaye, which plays over [[spoiler:Jody kicking Yvette off of the porch, as he thinks Rodney opening up shop in Yvette’s house uninvited means she’s leaving him for a “real man”]].
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* MrFanservice: Jody and Melvin.
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* OedipusComplex: Melvin suggests that Jody suffers from this, given his evident resentment of Melvin's presence.
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* OedipusComplex: Melvin suggests that Jody suffers from this, given his evident resentment of Melvin's presence. The film makes it clear that Melvin is mostly right.
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''Baby Boy'' is a 2001 movie directed by John Singleton as a sort of follow-up to his smash ''Film/BoyzNTheHood'', and while it wasn't as acclaimed, it still received generally positive reviews.
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''Baby Boy'' is a 2001 movie directed by John Singleton Creator/JohnSingleton as a sort of follow-up to his smash ''Film/BoyzNTheHood'', and while it wasn't as acclaimed, it still received generally positive reviews.
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* RealMenCook: Jody is not pleased to encounter a half-naked Melvin in the kitchen, preparing breakfast for Juanita.
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* BeingEvilSucks: This is how Sweetpea feels, which is the reason why chose to get baptized.
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* BeingEvilSucks: This is how Sweetpea feels, which is the reason why chose to get baptized.
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** Also [[spoiler: DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale. Melvin gets sick of Jody's attitude and tells him in no uncertain terms what he would do to him if he were back in prison, but even at his darkest he's still the father figure in the movie and ultimately a positive influence on Jody's life. Rodney's attempted rape is his MoralEventHorizon.]]
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* ShoutOut: Tupac Shakur was originally going to star as Jody, but was infamously murdered before production got underway. The film pays homage to him to referring to him as Jody's older (and murdered) brother and having a huge picture of him hanging up in Jody's room as well as other family photos showing Tupac in this role.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Jody and Sweet Pea turn off the power to Yvette's house while Rodney is alone inside and ambush him when he comes out to check it, ultimately gunning him down in the streets. It's implied that Yvette was in on this scheme. None of them are shown facing any repercussions.]]
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* MommasBoy: Deconstructed. Juanita and Melvin both want Jody to grow up and stop being selfish. They also want him out of the house. HEck, Jody even gets mocked for living with his mother.
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* MommasBoy: Deconstructed. Juanita and Melvin both want Jody to grow up and stop being selfish. They also want him out of the house. HEck, Heck, Jody even gets mocked for living with his mother.
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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Juanita, but justified by the brief explanation that she had Jody while still a teenager.
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* TeenPregnancy: Juanita had Jody while still a teenager.
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* ScaryBlackMan: Juanita's new boyfriend Melvin appears like this to Jody for much of the film. Of course, he is played by VingRhames.
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* ScaryBlackMan: Juanita's new boyfriend Melvin appears like this to Jody for much of the film. Of course, he is played by VingRhames.Creator/VingRhames.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Sweetpea gives one of the thugs who robbed Jody at the liquor store one of these...with his belt.
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* ManChilf: Jody is around 20 years old, still lives with his mother, doesn't have his own car (he constantly drives Yvette's car).
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* MommasBoy: Deconstructed. Juanita and Melvin both want Jody to grow up and stop being selfish. They also want him out of the house. HEck, Jody even gets mocked for living with his mother.
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* PlayingAgainstType: ''Omar Gooding'' (normally a sitcom actor) as the dark, brooding, and somewhat sadistic Sweetpea.
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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Juanita, but justified by the brief explanation that she had Jody while still a teenager.
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* MrFanservice: Jody and Mevlin.Melvin.
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* LeanAndMean: Rodney. Kinda inevitable, considering he's played by Snoop Dogg.
* NWordPrivileges: Many of the characters have them, and they certainly use them. Now cook a nigga some food.Music/SnoopDogg.
* NWordPrivileges: Many of the characters have them, and they certainly use them. Now cook a nigga some food.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Jody is known for this. When confronted about this by Yvette, he admits to it but states that he ''fucks'' other women and makes love to her. [[SarcasmMode Yeah, that makes a lot difference]]. He had stopped cheating at that point but told her he still was since he figured she wasn't going to believe him anyway.
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->''There's this psychiatrist...a lady named Dr. Frances Cress Welsing. She has a theory about the black man in America. She says that because of the system of racism, the black man has been made to think of himself as a baby...a not yet fully formed human being who has not realized his full potential. To support her claim, she offers the following: First...what does a black man call his woman? Momma. Second, what does a black man call his closest acquaintances? His boys. And finally, what does a black man call his place of residence? The crib.''
-->-- Opening narration
''Baby Boy'' is a 2001 movie directed by John Singleton as a sort of follow-up to his smash ''BoyzNTheHood'', and while it wasn't as acclaimed, it still received generally positive reviews.
The movie concerns Joseph "Jody" Summers, a young, selfish, immature black man in South Central LA who wants to live large but doesn't have a job. He's got two children by two different women, Yvette and Peanut, and has been living with his mother Juanita for several years. As Jody deals with the increasing pressures of adult responsibility, he also contends with his troubled best friend Sweetpea and new adversary Rodney. And then there's his mother's new live-in boyfriend Melvin, a reformed gangsta who agrees with Juanita that her son should grow up, move out, and move on.
TupacShakur's "Hail Mary" plays in one scene and he was set to star in the movie [[ActorExistenceFailure before his murder]].
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* ComingOfAgeStory: In a way yeah, only the protagonist is over 20 years old.
* MrFanservice: Jody and Mevlin.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted in the first post-opening credits scene, in which Yvette aborts what would have been her second child with Jody. She's still treated sympathetically, as she's heartbroken during the procedure.
* HollywoodCalifornia: Specifically, Watts.
* HotMom: Jody's mother. No doubt helped by the fact that she was apparently very young when she had him, as evidenced by how young she still is.
* ImmodestOrgasm: The sex scenes in this movie are rather... '''loud'''.
* {{Jerkass}}: Jody has his moments early on, as does Melvin, but Rodney is a better example as the film's villain figure.
* KickTheDog: Or more accurately, Kick The Fort. Rodney kicks down his ex-girlfriend's son's pillow fort, to drive home that he is not at all a pleasant guy.
* NWordPrivileges: Many of the characters have them, and they certainly use them. Now cook a nigga some food.
* PlayingAgainstType: ''Omar Gooding'' (normally a sitcom actor) as the dark, brooding, and somewhat sadistic Sweetpea.
* RapeAsDrama: Late in the film, [[spoiler: Rodney attempts to rape Yvette, but only stops when her young son comes into the room.]]
** Also [[spoiler: DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale. Melvin gets sick of Jody's attitude and tells him in no uncertain terms what he would do to him if he were back in prison, but even at his darkest he's still the father figure in the movie and ultimately a positive influence on Jody's life. Rodney's attempted rape is his MoralEventHorizon.]]
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Jody was originally going to be portrayed by Tupac Shakur, who was gunned down before the film moved beyond pre-production. As such, Tupac was posthumously included in the film (via family photos and a large wall painting in Jody's room) as Jody's deceased older brother. Being that he was murdered shortly after Juanita's former boyfriend kicked him out of the house, it serves as major plot device for Jody's unwillingness to move out himself and his antagonism toward Melvin.
* ScaryBlackMan: Juanita's new boyfriend Melvin appears like this to Jody for much of the film. Of course, he is played by VingRhames.
** Rodney is definitely this toward Yvette and her/Jody's son, and to a lesser extent, Jody himself.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''BoyzNTheHood''.
* WallBangHer: In an early scene, Melvin does this to Juanita... but quickly ends up changing to "the African Squat Fuck", in which he ''squat-hops across the room, while he's screwing her.''
* YourCheatingHeart: Jody is known for this. When confronted about this by Yvette, he admits to it but states that he ''fucks'' other women and makes love to her. [[SarcasmMode Yeah, that makes a lot difference]]. He had stopped cheating at that point but told her he still was since he figured she wasn't going to believe him anyway.
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->''There's this psychiatrist...a lady named Dr. Frances Cress Welsing. She has a theory about the black man in America. She says that because of the system of racism, the black man has been made to think of himself as a baby...a not yet fully formed human being who has not realized his full potential. To support her claim, she offers the following: First...what does a black man call his woman? Momma. Second, what does a black man call his closest acquaintances? His boys. And finally, what does a black man call his place of residence? The crib.''
-->-- Opening narration
''Baby Boy'' is a 2001 movie directed by John Singleton as a sort of follow-up to his smash ''BoyzNTheHood'', and while it wasn't as acclaimed, it still received generally positive reviews.
The movie concerns Joseph "Jody" Summers, a young, selfish, immature black man in South Central LA who wants to live large but doesn't have a job. He's got two children by two different women, Yvette and Peanut, and has been living with his mother Juanita for several years. As Jody deals with the increasing pressures of adult responsibility, he also contends with his troubled best friend Sweetpea and new adversary Rodney. And then there's his mother's new live-in boyfriend Melvin, a reformed gangsta who agrees with Juanita that her son should grow up, move out, and move on.
TupacShakur's "Hail Mary" plays in one scene and he was set to star in the movie [[ActorExistenceFailure before his murder]].
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* ComingOfAgeStory: In a way yeah, only the protagonist is over 20 years old.
* MrFanservice: Jody and Mevlin.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted in the first post-opening credits scene, in which Yvette aborts what would have been her second child with Jody. She's still treated sympathetically, as she's heartbroken during the procedure.
* HollywoodCalifornia: Specifically, Watts.
* HotMom: Jody's mother. No doubt helped by the fact that she was apparently very young when she had him, as evidenced by how young she still is.
* ImmodestOrgasm: The sex scenes in this movie are rather... '''loud'''.
* {{Jerkass}}: Jody has his moments early on, as does Melvin, but Rodney is a better example as the film's villain figure.
* KickTheDog: Or more accurately, Kick The Fort. Rodney kicks down his ex-girlfriend's son's pillow fort, to drive home that he is not at all a pleasant guy.
* NWordPrivileges: Many of the characters have them, and they certainly use them. Now cook a nigga some food.
* PlayingAgainstType: ''Omar Gooding'' (normally a sitcom actor) as the dark, brooding, and somewhat sadistic Sweetpea.
* RapeAsDrama: Late in the film, [[spoiler: Rodney attempts to rape Yvette, but only stops when her young son comes into the room.]]
** Also [[spoiler: DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale. Melvin gets sick of Jody's attitude and tells him in no uncertain terms what he would do to him if he were back in prison, but even at his darkest he's still the father figure in the movie and ultimately a positive influence on Jody's life. Rodney's attempted rape is his MoralEventHorizon.]]
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Jody was originally going to be portrayed by Tupac Shakur, who was gunned down before the film moved beyond pre-production. As such, Tupac was posthumously included in the film (via family photos and a large wall painting in Jody's room) as Jody's deceased older brother. Being that he was murdered shortly after Juanita's former boyfriend kicked him out of the house, it serves as major plot device for Jody's unwillingness to move out himself and his antagonism toward Melvin.
* ScaryBlackMan: Juanita's new boyfriend Melvin appears like this to Jody for much of the film. Of course, he is played by VingRhames.
** Rodney is definitely this toward Yvette and her/Jody's son, and to a lesser extent, Jody himself.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''BoyzNTheHood''.
* WallBangHer: In an early scene, Melvin does this to Juanita... but quickly ends up changing to "the African Squat Fuck", in which he ''squat-hops across the room, while he's screwing her.''
* YourCheatingHeart: Jody is known for this. When confronted about this by Yvette, he admits to it but states that he ''fucks'' other women and makes love to her. [[SarcasmMode Yeah, that makes a lot difference]]. He had stopped cheating at that point but told her he still was since he figured she wasn't going to believe him anyway.
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