History Film / BloodAndIceCreamTrilogy

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->''"Want anything from the shop?"''\\
''"Cornetto."''

The ''Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy'' (a.k.a. the ''Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy'', or just the ''Cornetto Trilogy'') is a series of films directed by Creator/EdgarWright and starring Creator/SimonPegg and Creator/NickFrost. Pegg and Wright also serve as the writers for all three films; the movies are all distributed by Creator/{{Universal}} (or former sub-label Rogue Pictures), and produced through their British subsidiary Working Title (previously a part of Creator/PolygramFilmedEntertainment).

The films do not [[SharedUniverse share a universe]], instead functioning as a ThematicSeries; this ranges from a recurring ProductionPosse, numerous {{Mythology Gag}}s, and [[GenreMashup the smashing of two film genres together]] to the appearance of ''Cornetto'' brand frozen ice creams that give the series its name.

The individual films are:
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* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' (2004), a RomanticComedy/Horror film about a hapless retail worker, his ex-girlfriend, and their idiot friends surviving a sudden [[ZombieApocalypse zombie outbreak]].
* ''Film/HotFuzz'' (2007), an Action/Thriller [[BuddyCopShow Buddy Cop]] Comedy about a hardboiled supercop who gets reassigned to a [[TownWithADarkSecret seemingly perfect town]] in [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere dull, rural England]].
* ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' (2013), a [[ScienceFiction Sci-Fi]] Comedy about a group of old friends who decide to reconnect with a nostalgic pub crawl, only to discover signs of an AlienInvasion.
[[/index]]

See also: ''Series/{{Spaced}}'', the earlier series on which the team formed, though it differed in its own creative team by being co-created/written by Pegg and Jessica Hynes, with Wright having less input overall and Frost a supporting actor rather than in a starring role. Should not be confused with ''Film/{{Paul}}'', another film distributed by Universal, written by and starring Pegg & Frost, who play a pair of Brits that pick up an alien during a RoadTrip; the movie is in no way related to the series, and has no involvement with Edgar Wright.
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!!The series as a whole contains examples of:
* AffectionateParody
* AscendedExtra: Some of the ProductionPosse get more prominent roles in the following film.
** Creator/MartinFreeman was a nearly voiceless cameo in ''Shaun of the Dead'', a minor character as Angel's boss in ''Hot Fuzz'', and a lead as Oliver Chamberlain in ''The World's End''.
** Creator/RafeSpall is a minor character in ''Shaun of the Dead'', DC Andy Cartwright in ''Hot Fuzz'', and back to a minor character in ''The World's End''.
** Paddy Considine was a supporting character as DS Andy Wainwright in ''Hot Fuzz'' and a lead as Steven Prince in ''The World's End''.
** DemotedToExtra: Bill Nighy plays a major role as Phillip in ''Shaun of the Dead'', gets a brief appearance at the beginning of ''Hot Fuzz'', and appears as a voice-only role as The Network at the climax of ''The World's End''.
* AuthorAppeal: [[ManChild Man Children]]. See below for examples.
* BlackComedy
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: In each film, the Protagonist played by Creator/SimonPegg has a different colored hair:
** ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'': Shaun is the zombie-fighter with the stained office-shirt, and has a somewhat red-hair to keep the movie's color motif.
** ''Film/HotFuzz'' : Nicholas Angel, by-the-book Super-Cop sent from London to clean up Sandford, Gloucestershire, has a properly-trimmed [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold angelic-yellow hair]].
** ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'': Gary King, hopeless man-child, ''Music/TheSistersOfMercy'' Fanboy, has [[TallDarkAndSnarky dyed black hair]].
* BloodyHilarious: The trilogy is called '''Blood''' and Ice Cream, and each movie serves it up deliciously.
* BritainIsOnlyLondon: Averted in all three films.
** ''Shaun of the Dead'' takes place in London, but it's stated that the ZombieApocalypse is a nationwide crisis - the characters just happen to be in London.
** ''Hot Fuzz'' & ''The World's End'' both start in London, but soon relocate to rural towns of Sandford & Newton Haven respectively. Furthermore, [[spoiler:both involve underlying conspiracies, neither of which concern London; ''Hot Fuzz'' is focused entirely on Sandford, whereas ''The World's End'' is global.]]
* CallBack[=/=]{{Foreshadowing}}: Everything from the start of each film will be referenced or inverted later in the film. The films are TheLawOfConservationOfDetail UpToEleven.
* TheCameo: Loads and loads of famous British actors across all three films. The cameos increase in number in each film, so chances are you'll recognize at least one person.
* ChekhovsGag: Throughout the trilogy, jokes said early in the movie often come back in either a more dramatic or an even funnier form.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The colour of the Cornetto appearing in each film represents the genre of that film: respectively, strawberry red for blood, original blue for police, and mint green for aliens (though the aliens in the film aren't actually green).
* ComingOfAgeStory: The late bloomer variety for each main character and it shows their respective arc through the films.
** ''Shaun of the Dead'': [[spoiler: Shaun has to grow out of his stagnation in order to mature and find motivation without the safety net of his parents to fall back on. He also learns that his parents were never perfect as [[ParentsAsPeople they were people too and equally flawed]].]]
** ''Hot Fuzz'': [[spoiler: Nicholas Angel grew up too fast and never learned to relax and socialise with others, whereas his partner Danny still behaves like an immature child as he never emotionally left his father's side after the death of his mother. Through Nicholas, Danny learns to be responsible with his police work. While Nicholas learns to drop the pressure of police work that he built up for himself since he was a kid.]]
** ''The World's End'': [[spoiler: Gary King never let go of his past and drags his childhood friends back to Newton Haven to accomplish his dream of finishing the golden mile. He also learns to pick himself up from rock bottom after confronting the fact that everyone in his life has moved on without him and he has to break his coping mechanism of retreating into the past so he can live a healthier life.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Despite being the "Blood and Ice Cream" name, the movies get less BloodierAndGorier (and arguably less ice cream-ey) consecutively. However, despite the lesser bloodshed and body counts as the series goes on, do not assume this means the movies become LighterAndSofter.
* DistantFinale: Each film has a final vignette showing how the (surviving) characters are doing some time on. ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' includes a straight-out WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Every line in the first halves of these movies are pretty much hints to future events. ''Shaun of the Dead'' and ''The World's End'' especially since an entire line of dialogue in each summarizes the whole plot before they even start kicking.
* FreudianTrio: In all three films, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's characters both alternate and play-off between these three states.
** For Pegg:
*** Shaun: Ego
*** Nicholas Angel: Superego
*** Gary King: ID
** For Frost:
*** Ed: ID
*** Danny Butterman: Ego
*** Andy Knightley: Superego
* HeterosexualLifePartners:
** Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, [[RealLife really]]. All three of their characters in trilogy serves as this to one another in some capacity.
** ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'': Shaun & Ed
** ''Film/HotFuzz'': Detectives Andy Cartright & Andy Wainwright; Nicholas Angel & Danny Butterman become this as the film goes on [[HoYay (although some may beg to differ on the "heterosexual" part)]].
** ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'': The dynamic between Gary and Andy as grown-ups is of two people who were once this for each other, only for things to turn very sour.
* LighterAndSofter: ''Hot Fuzz'', but not in the traditional sense as it's just as violent and rude as the other films, but it's the only one in the trilogy [[spoiler:whose world doesn't succumb to an apocalyptic end]].
* ManChild: The main theme connecting the three films, besides the gore and the ice cream. [[{{Deconstruction}} All of them deal with the idea of a Man Child]]; the consequences, [[{{Reconstruction}} the benefits]], and the potentially unhealthy reasons for acting like one.
** ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'': Shaun & Ed, the latter to a far greater degree.
** ''Film/HotFuzz'': Danny Butterman.
** ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'': Gary King.
* MythologyGag:
** Simon Pegg's character takes a shortcut over garden fences in each movie: In ''Shaun of the Dead'', a single section collapses underneath Shaun. In ''Hot Fuzz'', Angel clears four fences easily, but Danny smashes through the first one. And in ''The World's End'', an entire fence topples under Gary's weight as he's fleeing an army of Blanks.
** Each movie has a scene involving Nick Frost and a ''Cornetto'' ice-cream: Strawberry in the first movie, which symbolises the gore; Blue Classico in the second, which matches the police's blue uniforms; and a mint one in the third for LittleGreenMen.
** Each movie involves at least one pub featuring the same fruit machine with an identical jingle: in the first, all they do is go to The Winchester, and the characters end up setting up foot in one; in the second, Danny and Nick always hang out at the Porters' pub [[spoiler:and even have a shoot-out there]]; and the third centres around performing a pub crawl.
** Identical duos appear in all three films: the zombie twins in ''Shaun of the Dead'', the two Andys and the Sgt Turners in ''Hot Fuzz'', and the twins in ''The World's End''.
*** The zombie twins also reappear as different characters in the following two movies. The "Blokes with the cutlery" in ''Fuzz'' and two of the pub patrons at the end of ''World's End''.
** Each movie has a scene where either Simon Pegg or Nick Frost's character drives, with Nick Frost (as Ed and Danny Butterman) driving twice and Simon Pegg (as Gary King) driving once.
** Several examples hark back to ''Series/{{Spaced}}''. For example, in ''Shaun Of The Dead'', the trolley from outside 23 Meteor Street appears outside Shaun and Ed's flat and Tyres later turns up as a zombie.
** Some form of InsistentTerminology crops up in all three movies. In ''Shaun of the Dead'', [[NotSayingTheZWord Shaun does not like the Z-Word]]. In ''Hot Fuzz'', Nicholas insists on using politically correct terms from the police service handbook. In ''The World's End'', there's an insistence on not calling the antagonists "robots".
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%% RunningGag examples for an entire series belong under "MythologyGag"
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* SequelEscalation: Zig-zagged. Each film is more ambitious than the last, but the on-screen body count actually gets lower in each subsequent film.[[note]]Not counting the Blanks in ''The World's End'', of course.[[/note]]
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Series/{{Spaced}}''. In fact, ''Shaun Of The Dead'' is based on the ''Spaced'' episode where Tim plays too much ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' and starts seeing zombies everywhere.
* ThematicSeries: The three films aren't set in the same universe but are connected thematically.
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* ''Film/HotFuzz'' (2007), a [[BuddyCopShow Buddy Cop]] Action/Thriller MurderMystery Comedy about a hardboiled supercop who gets reassigned to a [[TownWithADarkSecret seemingly perfect town]] in [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere dull, rural England]].

* ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' (2013), a [[ScienceFiction Sci-Fi]] Comedy about a group of old friends who decide to reconnect with a nostalgic pub crawl, only to discover an AlienInvasion.

* ''Film/HotFuzz'' (2007), a [[BuddyCopShow Buddy Cop]] Action/Thriller MurderMystery Comedy about an inner-city supercop who gets reassigned to a [[TownWithADarkSecret seemingly perfect town]] in [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere dull, rural England]].
* ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' (2013), a [[ScienceFiction Sci-Fi]] Comedy about a group of old friends who discover an AlienInvasion during a nostalgic pub crawl.

* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' (2004), a [[RomanticComedy Rom Com]] set during the ZombieApocalypse. A [=RomZomCom=], if you will.
* ''Film/HotFuzz'' (2007), a [[BuddyCopShow Buddy Cop]] Action/Thriller MurderMystery Comedy set in [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere dull, rural England]].

* ''Film/HotFuzz'' (2007), a [[BuddyCopShow Buddy Cop]] Action/Horror Mystery Comedy set in [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere dull, rural England]].
* ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' (2013), a [[ScienceFiction Sci-Fi]] Comedy about recreating a pub crawl, only to stumble upon an AlienInvasion.

** ''The World's End'': [[spoiler: Gary King never let go of his past and drags his childhood friends back to Newton Haven to accomplish his dream of finishing the golden mile. He also learns to pick himself up from rock bottom after confronting his childhood trauma and breaking his coping mechanism of retreating into the past.]]

** ''Hot Fuzz'': [[spoiler: Nicolas grew up too fast and never learned to relax and socialise with others, whereas his partner Danny still behaves like an immature child as he never emotionally left his father's side after the death of his mother. Through Nicolas, Danny learns to be responsible with his police work. While Nicolas learns to drop the pressure of police work that he built up for himself since he was a kid.]]

*** Andy Knightly: Superego

** Creator/RafeSpall is a minor character in ''Shaun of the Dead'', DC Andy Cartwright in ''Hot Fuzz'', and back to a minor character in ''The World's End''

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: In each film, the Protagonist played by ''Creator/SimonPegg'' has a different colored hair:

The ''Blood and Ice Cream'' trilogy (aka ''Three Flavours Cornetto'' trilogy, or just the ''Cornetto'' trilogy) is a series of films directed by Creator/EdgarWright and starring Creator/SimonPegg and Creator/NickFrost. Pegg and Wright also serve as the writers for all three films; the movies are all distributed by Creator/{{Universal}} (or former sub-label Rogue Pictures), and produced through their British subsidiary Working Title (previously a part of Creator/PolygramFilmedEntertainment).

The films do not [[SharedUniverse share a universe]], instead functioning as a ThematicSeries; this ranges from a recurring ProductionPosse, numerous {{Mythology Gag}}s, and [[GenreMashup the smashing of two film genres together]] to the appearance of ''Cornetto'' frozen ice creams that give the series its name.

** Some form of InsistentTerminology crops up in all three movies. In ''Shaun of the Dead'', [[NotSayingTheZWord Shaun does not like the Z-Word]]. In ''Hot Fuzz'', Nicholas insists on using politically correct terms that's accept by the police force handbook. In ''The World's End'', there's an insistence in not calling the antagonists "robots".

** Creator/MartinFreeman was a nearly voiceless cameo in ''Shaun of the Dead'', a minor character in ''Hot Fuzz'', and one of the leads in ''The World's End''.
** Creator/RafeSpall was a minor character in ''Shaun of the Dead'' & one of the supporting cast in ''Hot Fuzz''. He went back to a minor character in ''The World's End''
** Paddy Considine was a supporting character in ''Hot Fuzz'' & one of the leads in ''The World's End''.
** DemotedToExtra: Bill Nighy plays a major role in ''Shaun of the Dead'', gets a brief appearance at the beginning of ''Hot Fuzz'', and appears as a voice-only role at the climax of ''The World's End''.

** Simon Pegg's character takes a shortcut over garden fences in each movie: In ''Shaun of the Dead'', a single section collapses underneath Shaun. In ''Hot Fuzz'', Angel clears it easily but Danny smashes through it. And in ''The World's End'', an entire fence topples under Gary's weight.

** Each movie involves at least one pub featuring the same fruit machine with an identical jingle: in the first, all they do is go to the pub, and the characters end up setting up foot in one; in the second, Danny and Nick always hang out at the pub [[spoiler:and even have a shoot-out there]]; and the third centres around performing a pub crawl.

The ''Blood & Ice Cream Trilogy'' (aka ''Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy'', or just ''The Cornetto Trilogy'') is a series of films directed by Creator/EdgarWright and starring Creator/SimonPegg and Creator/NickFrost. Pegg and Wright also serve as the writers for all three films; the movies are all distributed by Creator/{{Universal}} (or former sub-label Rogue Pictures), and produced through their British subsidiary Working Title (previously a part of Creator/PolygramFilmedEntertainment).

** ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'': The zombie-fighter with the stained office-shirt has a somewhat red-hair to keep the movie's color motif.
** ''Film/HotFuzz'' : The by-the-book Super-Cop sent from London to clean the town has a properly-trimmed [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold angelic-yellow hair]].
** ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'': The hopeless man-child, ''Music/TheSistersOfMercy'' Fanboy, has [[TallDarkAndSnarky dyed black hair]].

** Simon Pegg's character takes a shortcut over garden fences in each movie: ''Shaun of the Dead'' has it collapsing underneath Shaun, ''Hot Fuzz'' has Angel clear it easily (but Danny smashes through it), and in ''The World's End'' it topples under Gary's weight.

** Each movie involves at least one pub featuring the same fruit machine with an identical jingle: in the first, all they do is go to the pub, and the characters end up setting up fort in one; in the second, Danny and Nick always hang out at the pub [[spoiler:and even have a shoot-out there]]; and the third centres around performing a pub crawl.

* SequelEscalation: Zig-zagged. Each film is more ambitious than the last, but the on-screen body count actually gets lower in each subsequent film.[[note]]Not counting Blanks in ''The World's End'', of course.[[/note]]

The films do not [[SharedUniverse share a universe]], instead functioning as a ThematicSeries; this ranges from a recurring ProductionPosse, numerous {{Mythology Gags}}, and the smashing of two film genres together to the appearance of ''Cornetto'' frozen ice creams that give the series its name.

** Each movie has a scene where either Simon Pegg or Nick Frost's character drives, with Nick Frost driving twice and Simon Pegg driving once.