History Film / JohnnyEnglish

* AndYourLittleDogToo: [[spoiler:Literally-Sauvage forces Queen Elizabeth II to cede the crown to him by threatening her corgis.]]

--> '''Johnny''': " Not so fast Savauge! You may have taken me but you will never take England! Not as long as I have breath in my body or a bullet in my gun!"\\

'''Sauvage'': "You know, Mr. English, I'm going to miss you dearly. You're ''very'' entertaining. I thank you. Take them away!"

* SoMuchForStealth: Johnny and Lorna managed to infiltrate Sauvage's mansion, only for Johnny to accidentally press his back into a loudspeaker while ''discussing their plans to hijack Sauvage's plans'', out loud. Cue Sauvage making a FacePalm at Johnny's idiocy.

* SoMuchForSteath: Johnny and Lorna managed to infiltrate Sauvage's mansion, only for Johnny to accidentally press his back into a loudspeaker while ''discussing their plans to hijack Sauvage's plans'', out loud. Cue Sauvage making a FacePalm at Johnny's idiocy.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The sewer pipe to Sauvage's castle is wide enough for English to shimmy his way up in and conveniently leads directly to the staff bathroom. However, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome English's path leaves him covered in exactly the kinds of things found in a sewer]], Lorna uses a convenient ladder just to the right of the pipe.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: As England prepares for Sauvage's coronation, a radio announcer calls him "our first French king since the year 1066". In fact, of the four kings that followed William the Conqueror, three were French by birth (the exception being Henry I, who was most likely born in Yorkshire). Indeed, it wouldn't be until 1399 that England had a king whose native language was English rather than French.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] Unlike most examples of this trope, it's ''very'' understandable why everyone would be so quick to dismiss Johnny as an incompetent misfit who has no place in the field. However, both the antagonists of the films and even the {{MI7}} themselves have learnt the hard way that Johnny English, for all his [[IdiotBall obvious]] [[TheKlutz flaws]], is NOT someone to be taken lightly.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] Unlike most examples of this trope, it's ''very'' understandable why everyone would be so quick to dismiss Johnny as an incompetent misfit who has no place in the field. However, both the antagonists of the films and even the =[MI7]= themselves have learnt the hard way that Johnny English, for all his [[IdiotBall obvious]] [[TheKlutz flaws]], is NOT someone to be taken lightly.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] Unlike most examples of this trope, it's ''very'' understandable why everyone would be so quick to dismiss Johnny as an incompetent misfit who has no place in the field. However, both the antagonists of the films and even the MI7 themselves have learnt the hard way that Johnny English, for all his [[IdiotBall obvious flaws]], is NOT someone to be taken lightly.

* BritainIsOnlyEngland: Throughout the film, various characters consistently refer to "England" rather than "Britain". In particular they talk of Sauvage being "King of England", even though that title was abolished in 1707, when England and Scotland were united. The most straight example is when Sauvage describes his plan to "turn England into the largest prison in the history of the world", when the accompanying graph shows the whole of Britain highlighted.

* HollywoodLaw: With respect to the (albeit unwritten) Constitution and the power of the Crown. In RealLife, you could ''not'' get the Queen to abdicate with the stroke of a pen,[[note]]It requires an Act of all Parliaments in nations where she is head of state.[[/note]] and whilst the bit where [[spoiler: all land in the country is technically the possession of the Crown and can be confiscated at will]] needs clarification,[[note]]It would probably violate international human rights law/treaties.[[/note]] the monarch has very little actual power, which is ''de facto'' exercised by their government. It also ignores historical precedent concerning [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England#Execution what happens to monarchs who try to exercise too much personal power]]. Of course all of this is (thankfully?) ignored in favor of RuleOfFunny and a good story (see below).

* BikerBabe: Lorna is one. We find out that she rides a bike at the start of the UnconventionalVehicleChase, and Johnny notes her attractiveness when he first sees her in the Tower.

* BritainIsOnlyEngland: Throughout the film, various characters consistently refer to "England" rather than "Britain". In particular they talk of Sauvage being "King of England", even though that title was abolished in 1707, when England and Scotland were united.

** There's also the notion that Sauvage becomes King the moment the crown touches his head. In reality the coronation is just a ceremony: when a monarch's reign ends that of the next-in-line to the throne technically begins immediately (hence the saying "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_king_is_dead,_long_live_the_king The king is dead, long live the king]]"). Even in cases when it's unclear who the true heir is, the new monarch's reign doesn't begin when their claim to the throne is formally recognised; it means they're retrospectively considered to have been the monarch all along. Pascal would become King as soon as the abdication form was signed and Parliament has given consent.

* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: "May all your daughters be born with three bottoms." (BilingualBonus: the actual translation is "born with small breasts", though.)

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
-->'''Sauvage:''' But Mr. English, I'm gobsmacked! What an unexpected surprise!

* NewscasterCameo: Then-Capital FM morning DJ Chris Tarrant provides the voiceover as the host of the "London FM" breakfast show talking about the upcoming coronation, and ITN presenter Sir Trevor McDonald recaps the events afterwards as well as providing exposition [[spoiler:about Sauvage's arrest and upcoming trial]].

** Throughout the film, various characters consistently refer to [[BritainIsOnlyEngland "England" rather than "Britain"]]. In particular they talk of Sauvage being "King of England", even though that title was abolished in 1707, when England and Scotland were united.

** When Dieter Klein and Klaus Vendetta raise their concerns about English to Sauvage, he states that he (English) is of no threat to them, and that he bugged his flat. He then plays a video of English (badly) practicing karate in his under-clothes to ABBA's "Does Your Mother Know?". At the end of the film, after [[UnfortunateItemSwap English accidentally collects the wrong DVD from Sauvage's layer]], the audience at Sauvage's coronation are presented with a video of English dancing to the same tune in the same under-clothes.

** Johnny overhears the {{Big Bad}}'s plan to set up a fake bishop perform the coronation ceremony. Unfortunately, the villain finds out that Johnny is aware of their plans and scrapes off the fake bishop idea, instead forcing a real bishop to do the job. This leads to an unaware Johnny humiliating the bishop on live TV.

* PoisonRing: Johnny confuses his "sleeping draught" ring with his "{{truth serum}}" ring. HilarityEnsues.

** Throughout the film, various characters consistently refer to "England" rather than "Britain". In particular they talk of Sauvage being "King of England", even though that title was abolished in 1707, when England and Scotland were united.

* MickeyMousing

** There's also the notion that Sauvage becomes King the moment the crown touches his head. In reality the coronation is just a ceremony: when a monarch's reign ends that of the next-in-line to the throne technically begins immediately (hence the saying "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_king_is_dead,_long_live_the_king The king is dead, long live the king]]"). Even in cases when it's unclear who the true heir is, the new monarch's reign doesn't begin when their claim to the throne is formally recognised; rather, it means they're retrospectively considered to have been the monarch all along. Pascal would be king as soon as the abdication form was signed and Parliament has given consent.

** There's also the notion that Sauvage becomes King the moment the crown touches his head. In reality the coronation is just a ceremony: when a monarch's reign ends that of the next-in-line to the throne technically begins immediately (hence the saying "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_king_is_dead,_long_live_the_king The king is dead, long live the king]]"). Sometimes it's disputed who the true heir is, and it can take time for someone's claim to be granted legitimacy, but when that happens it doesn't mark the beginning of their reign; rather, it means they're retrospectively considered to have been the monarch all along. Pascal would be king as soon as the abdication form was signed and Parliament has given consent.

** There's also the notion that Mr. Sauvage only becomes King Pascal at the moment the crown touches his head, when actually (assuming that Elizabeth II's abdication and Pascal's claim to the throne are recognized), he would be monarch as soon as the abdication form was signed and Parliament has given consent. The coronation is just a ceremony.

** Johnny's boss is the absolute King of the IdiotBall, simply disregarding every single legitimate suspicious indication that Sauvage is the bad guy, even when everything that has happened so far just ''happened'' to lead to his coronation as King of England.

* PoisonRing: Johnny confuses his "sleeping draught" ring with his "[[TruthSerum truth serum]]" ring. HilarityEnsues.