History Film / BatteriesNotIncluded

* GladIThoughtOfIt: Right at the beginning, Mason is showing a representative from City Hall the building, hoping to persuade them to put a preservation order on the building due to its' architectural/artistic merits. She doesn't buy it. At [[BrickJoke the end of the film]], the representative is back, with a journalist in tow. She's enthusing about the exact same features that Mason pointed out to her as the reason why they have to preserve the building.

* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: Carlos, attempts a flurry of punches to Harry's midsection to no avail. A bad idea, considering that Harry was already more than a little upset about Carlos shoving him down a flight of stairs earlier. Harry flashes Carlos a satisfied grin just before knocking the crap out of him and tossing him out the front door.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Mr. Lacey's toady Kovacs tries bribery, intimidation, vandalism, [[spoiler:and eventually arson]] to get the tenants out. It's unknown whether or not Lacey got punished for these acts, while the guy hired to burn down the Rileys' place gets roughed up by Carlos and flees, his fate also unknown. The only one confirmed to get any real retribution is Mr. Kovacs, whom Lacey fires for his failure.

* CuteMachines: The visitors.

* DramaticAlienVTOL: With [[spoiler:an army of "Fix-Its".]]

* GentleGiant: Harry.

* HigherTechSpecies: The "Fix-Its"

* InnocentAliens: The "Fix-Its"

* MrFanservice: Mason

** Carlos himself gives quite a beating to Kovacs' hired arsonist, first for [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou butting into his business]], and then finding out [[EvenEvilHasStandards he set the place alight with people still inside]] and won't go back to undo it. The arsonist has to feign a serious injury to distract Carlos when it starts turning into a near literal curb stomp.

* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:The arsonist, after he and Carlos are ordered to burn the building. When they realize Faye is still inside, Carlos orders the goon to go inside and stop the bomb. When he refuses, Carlos starts to rough him up until he agrees. He then starts screaming that Carlos broke his leg and he will have to go defuse the bomb himself. As soon as Carlos darts inside the building, he runs to his car and drives off, perfectly fine.]]

* DoWrongRight: [[spoiler: When Carlos finds the arsonist trying to burn down the building, he insists on being the one to do so and starts breaking the gas lines open with his axe. The arsonist yells him to stop, not because he's having second thoughts, but because damaged gas lines are an obvious sign of arson and he wants to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident with his elaborate chemical reaction detonator and flammable balloons hanging from the ceiling that're much harder to trace. As he's packing his things and trying to make a run for it, he's angrily muttering about Carlos' sloppiness afterwards.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even though he's a hired thug, Carlos is bothered by Lacey's willingness to burn down the apartment, especially when there are people still inside.

* TheAllegedHouse: The plot of revolves around the villains trying to tear down the old apartment, but from the state of it, they may as well have just waited for it to fall down. [[spoiler:Fortunately, the [[InnocentAliens Fix-Its]] end up restoring it as good (or maybe better) than new.]]

** Carlos himself gives quite a beating to Kovacs' hired goon, first for [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou butting into his business]], and then finding out [[EvenEvilHasStandards he set the place alight with people still inside]] and won't go back to undo it. The arsonist has to feign a serious injury to distract Carlos when it starts turning into a near literal curb stomp.

* PunchClockVillain: Lacey's construction workers are shown to be a standup crowd just doing their jobs, stopping in to have a meal at the cafe and [[spoiler:refusing to move in on the apartment rubble until a HeroicBSOD Harry moves from what's left of the front steps]]. One even openly mocks Lacey's goons when [[spoiler: The building is miraculously fixed and the tenants have won.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Mr. Lacey tries bribery, intimidation, vandalism, [[spoiler:and eventually arson]] to get the tenants out. It's unknown whether or not he got punished for these acts, while the guy hired to burn down the Rileys' place gets roughed up by Carlos and flees, his fate also unknown. The only one confirmed to get any real retribution is Mr. Kovacs, whom Lacey fires for his failure.

* SpeaksInShoutOuts: Harry.

* DramaticAlienVTOL: With [[spoiler:an army of "Fix-Its"]]

* FirstContact

* GentleGiant: Harry

* MagicalNegro: Harry

* TheQuietOne: Harry speaks very seldom. When he does, he's watched so much T.V. that he speaks in commercial catch phrases.

* DownerBeginning: Within the first few minutes of the movie the residents of the apartment building are in dire straits as they are harassed and then assaulted into moving out by Carlos and his goons. Frank’s cafe is destroyed and his longtime friends move out, leaving him alone to take care of Faye. Mason’s girlfriend dumps him and delivers a scathing ReasonYouSuckSpeech over his aspirations as an artist. Marisa is pregnant and alone, having not heard from her boyfriend Hector in a while. And Harry, having already been a victims of Carlos’s attacks, is attacked again in his own home.