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The 2011 film ''Hobo With A Shotgun'' started out as a [[RealTrailerFakeMovie fake movie trailer]] in ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', but thanks to independent filmmakers from [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Dartmouth, Nova Scotia]], it became the second ''[=Grindhouse=]'' trailer (after ''Film/{{Machete}}'') to get converted into a feature-length film.
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The 2011 film ''Hobo With with A Shotgun'' started out as a [[RealTrailerFakeMovie fake movie trailer]] in ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', but thanks to independent filmmakers from [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Dartmouth, Nova Scotia]], it became the second ''[=Grindhouse=]'' trailer (after ''Film/{{Machete}}'') to get converted into a feature-length film.
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The film's is a broad [[{{Gorn}} and grotesque]] pastiche of the VigilanteJustice sub-genre of exploitation cinema (represented by films such as ''Film/DeathWish''), with some surprisingly subtle flourishes mixed into the outlandish mayhem.
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The film's is a broad [[{{Gorn}} and grotesque]] pastiche of the VigilanteJustice sub-genre SubGenre of exploitation cinema (represented by films such as ''Film/DeathWish''), with some surprisingly subtle flourishes mixed into the outlandish mayhem.
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* CrazyHomelessPeople: Oddly enough, ''[[SubvertedTrope subverted.]]'' The Hobo is a bit of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and not very well-spoken, but he doesn't seem to be outright mentally ill so much as just ''odd,'' and not only is he portrayed more positively than nearly anyone else in the movie, he's TheHero.
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* CrazyHomelessPeople: Oddly enough, ''[[SubvertedTrope subverted.]]'' {{subverted|Trope}}. The Hobo is a bit of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and not very well-spoken, but he doesn't seem to be outright mentally ill so much as just ''odd,'' and not only is he portrayed more positively than nearly anyone else in the movie, he's TheHero.
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* IronicName: The city of Hope Town... which is a cesspool of corruption, violence, and extreme depravity.
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* KillThePoor: {{Invoked}} by the villains as a means to kill the vigilante hobo. They incite the [[TorchesAndPitchforks public to do the dirty work]], under the promise that not doing so will result in the villains [[WouldHurtAChild killing a lot of children]].
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* KillThePoor: {{Invoked}} by the villains as a means to kill the vigilante hobo. They incite the [[TorchesAndPitchforks public to do the dirty work]], under the promise threat that not doing so will result in the villains [[WouldHurtAChild killing a lot of children]].
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* MilkingTheGiantCow: Drake does this a lot.
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* MilkingTheGiantCow: Drake does this gesture a lot.
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* WouldHurtAChild: One of the pawnshop robbers is ready to shoot a baby and one of the hobo-killing townsfolk throws a molotov into a dumpster where a homeless child is living. But Slick takes the cake when he [[spoiler:burns a busload]]. He then threatens to wipe out every child in the city if the Hobo isn't killed.
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* WouldHurtAChild: One of the pawnshop robbers is ready to shoot a baby and one of the hobo-killing townsfolk throws a molotov into a dumpster where a homeless child is living. Then there's the disgusting pedophile Santa Claus who openly loiters outside schools. But Slick takes the cake prize when he [[spoiler:burns a busload]]. He busload of little children]], then threatens to wipe out every child in the city if the Hobo isn't killed.
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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: What kind of a pawn shop keeps a loaded shotgun where anyone can grab it? [[MST3KMantra Then again, considering the type of movie this is.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: What kind of a pawn shop keeps a loaded shotgun where anyone can grab it? [[MST3KMantra [[invoked]][[MST3KMantra Then again, considering the type of movie this is.]]
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* RainOfBlood: A woman [[{{Squick}} strips and dances in it.]] And it's in the first seven minutes!
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* RainOfBlood: A woman [[{{Squick}} [[invoked]][[{{Squick}} strips and dances in it.]] And it's in the first seven minutes!
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: Just what are Rip and Grinder exactly? We never get an answer.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: Just what are Rip and Grinder exactly? Humans? Demons? [[DemonOfHumanOrigin Humans who somehow became demons?]] We never get an answer.
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* BadassBiker: The Plague drive motorcycles.
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* BadassBiker: The Plague both drive motorcycles.
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* BookEnds: One of the very first things we hear in the film is a train whistle. It’s also the very last thing we hear right before the end credits start.
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* TheDulcineaEffect:Tthe Hobo steadfastly refuses to get involved in any of the crime that is going on on the streets of the WretchedHive of Scum Town, until he sees Slick attempting to abduct Abby, when he steps up and makes a stand.
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* TheDulcineaEffect:Tthe TheDulcineaEffect: The Hobo steadfastly refuses to get involved in any of the crime that is going on on the streets of the WretchedHive of Scum Town, until he sees Slick attempting to abduct Abby, when he steps up and makes a stand.
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* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: [[spoiler:We're taking a car ride to hell, ''and you're riding shotgun!'']]
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* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: [[spoiler:We're [[spoiler:"We're taking a car ride to hell, ''and you're riding shotgun!'']]shotgun!''"]]
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: The Plague have apparently been behind multiple historic deaths dating all the way back to ''Jesus Christ''.
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* OffWithHisHead: The Drake decapitates his brother Lloyd using a barbed wire noose attached to Slick and Ivan's car.
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* OffWithHisHead: The Drake decapitates his brother Lloyd Logan, played by Rob Wells of ''Series/TrailerParkBoys'' fame, using a barbed wire noose attached to Slick and Ivan's car.
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%%* WeaponOfChoice: Come on, take a guess.
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* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: The Hobo is using the titular shotgun to blast the audience's heads off.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: The Hobo, after chewing glass.
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* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Oh, Abby.
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* BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: Rip, one of the armored quasi-immortal thugs called the Plague, wields a brutal-looking machete with a flat tip, making it look more like an oversized meat cleaver.
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* TheBrute: Ivan.
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* ChekhovsGun: The Lawnmower, of all things.
* ChekhovsGunman: The Plague.
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** The hobo's [[IceCreamKoan borderline-nonsensical]] parable to Abby about bears clawing the faces off people who get too close. [[spoiler:It wasn't actually torn off, but...]]
*** Possibly inspired by the Kipling poem "The Truce of the Bear".
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** The hobo's [[IceCreamKoan borderline-nonsensical]] parable to Abby about bears clawing the faces off people who get too close. [[spoiler:It wasn't actually torn off, but...]]
*** Possibly]] possibly inspired by the Kipling poem "The Truce of the Bear".
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* HopeSpot: About halfway through the film Abby and the Hobo make plans to leave town and start a lawnmower business. Yeah, [[FromBadToWorse that doesn't work out]].
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** About halfway through the film Abby and the Hobo make plans to leave town and start a lawnmower business. Yeah, [[FromBadToWorse that doesn't work out]].
** About halfway through the film Abby and the Hobo make plans to leave town and start a lawnmower business. Yeah, [[FromBadToWorse that doesn't work out]].
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* NoNameGiven: The hobo.
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* {{Pun}}: One newspaper headline reads "Hobo stops begging - demands change."
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* TakeThat: The Hobo degrades himself for a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumfights Bumfights]]-style videographer and later gets revenge on the man for his sleazy, exploitative antics.
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** The scene of Abby in the pawn shop customizing the shotgun is filmed like a similar scene in ''Film/EvilDead2'', complete with the usage of a vice. Her slap bands replace Ash’s shotgun strap, the lawnmower for the chainsaw. And then she loses her right hand, finishing the Ash reference.
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* WretchedHive: Hopetown is an impossibly violent and depraved place.
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* WretchedHive: An ExaggeratedTrope: Hopetown is an impossibly violent and depraved place.and violent small town full of murderers, rapists and thugs, a crime lord and his sons are essentially the local government, and [[TheBadGuysAreCops the cops are all in on it]].
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* ForcedOrgasm: During a fight with the Hobo, Slick gets electrocuted with a toaster. When it's over he sits up sparking and smoking, and screams "You made me COME!" It's that kind of movie.
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* BulletproofVest: Rip and Grinder's homemade armor apparently made them immune to point-blank pistol fire.
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* ForTheEvulz: If the obvious fear that the woman at the reception desk showed was any indication, Rip and Grinder didn't HAVE to kill anyone while searching for the hobo, so that narrows down their reasons for doing it anyway.
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* ForTheEvulz: If the obvious fear that the woman at the reception desk showed was any indication, Rip and Grinder didn't HAVE to kill anyone while searching for the hobo, so that narrows down earn their reasons for doing it anyway.moniker "the Plague" by killing multiple hospital staff. [[BadassBystander the first of whom is a doctor who tries to shoot them,]] the rest of whom are terrified and running away.
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Two pairs. Ivan and Slick, the Drake's sons and enforcers; and Rip and Grinder, the possibly-supernatural mercenaries who call themselves "the Plague".
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* RemakeCameo: David Brunt, who played the Hobo in the original fake trailer, appears as a dirty cop.
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* AntiHero: The hobo is a SociopathicHero, of the PayEvilUntoEvil variety.
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* AntiHero: The hobo is a SociopathicHero, an UnscrupulousHero, of the PayEvilUntoEvil variety.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouPYQlhempw end credits]] music is from an [[WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons '80s Canadian cartoon sitcom]].
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* SoundtrackDissonance: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouPYQlhempw end credits]] music is from an [[WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons '80s Canadian cartoon sitcom]].sitcom about talking raccoons]].
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* CombatSadomasochist: Ivan seems to be ''really'' insistent on getting the hobo to put up a good fight with him. And once he electrocutes him with a toaster?
-->'''Ivan:''' ''HE MADE ME CUM!''
-->'''Ivan:''' ''HE MADE ME CUM!''
* CoolOldGuy: The hobo. Rutger Hauer was 67 years old when he took up the role.
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* WorldOfHam: Rivals ''Film/{{Machete}}'' in this area. There's this gem, for one instance
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* BodybagTrick: When the Hobo kills the DirtyCop who is attempting to rape Abby, his shots draw the attention of the mob who are hunting the homeless. Abby runs past them, looking convincingly panicked, with the cop's body in a shopping trolley. She yells to the mob that HeWentThatWay and they head off in pursuit. After they have gone, the Hobo emerges from the shopping trolley where he has been hidden under (and partially inside) the cop's corpse.
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* IOwnThisTown: This is the attitude of The Drake, whose control of Hope Town is so complete that he can commit murder in the middle of the street in broad daylight and suffer no consequences.
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* BadassGrandpa: The hobo, of course. Hauer was 67 years old when he performed this role.
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* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: In keeping with the film's source material, this trope is in constant use. Perhaps most obvious when [[OffWithHisHead Logan has his head ripped off]], and the blood sprays from his severed neck [[HighPressureBlood at a ludicrous velocity]] for several ''minutes'' without any decrease in volume or speed.
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* BloodIStheNewBlack: When Logan has [[OffWithHisHead his head ripped]], a bikini-clad girl showers in the [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank seemingly never ending]] spray of HighPressureBlood that fountains from his neck: rubbing the blood all over her body as she does so.
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