History Film / KnightAndDay

* AffectionateParody: Cruise plays Roy Miller as basically the loonier side of Film/JerryMaguire (think "help me help you!") crossed with the tireless secret agent [[Film/MissionImpossible Ethan Hunt]].

* UndressingTheUnconscious: After being [[InstantSedation sedated]] by Roy, June wakes up in a bikini on a tropical island. She confronts him about it, pointing out that he must have undressed her to do this to her at one point.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Subverted.
--> "Sorry, reflex. Hit me again; I won't dodge this time."

* BottomlessMagazines: June fires off an MP7 for a ridiculously long time when Roy surprises her during a firefight.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The movie ends with [[spoiler: June apparently having driven Roy from the US to somewhere in South America, with them continuing on to Cape Horn]]. It is infamously impossible to drive from North America to South America, due to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3%A9n_Gap Darien Gap]].

** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], but not at first. The Zephyr is presented as a true perpetual motion machine: it will ''never'' run out of energy, ever. However, over the course of the film, the battery slowly builds up heat and [[spoiler:eventually explodes, taking out the villain in his moment of triumph]].

* ActionGirl: [[spoiler: June, by the end of the movie]].

* ActionSurvivor: June, for most of the movie.

* {{Angrish}}: June's reactions in much of the first half of the movie.

* BigDamnHeroes: Roy, in Seville.

* CasualDangerDialogue: Roy personifies this.
* ChekhovsGag: Almost everything Roy says to June, funny or not.

%%* EscapeConvenientBoat: An Escape Convenient Plane

* InstantSedation: The repeated drugging of June

* NiceGuy: Roy, when he isn't brutally fighting his assailants that is. This becomes a little clearer later on when he seems to have stopped using excessive force in tough situations. He also doesn't curse or swear at all throughout the entire movie.
** In one of the heartwarming moments of the film, Roy has left June a note saying he was happy to have met her, and a second, reminding her to 'Eat a good breakfast, June'. He'd left her an omelette.

* ALoadOfBull: Because you cannot set an action film in Spain without a San Fermín encierro causing a chase.

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Rodney, for a man going for lieutenant, you're more dense than a concrete training building.

* BrokenRecord: "We'll keep you safe, June."

* RealityEnsues: In a rare twist given how tongue-in-cheek the film and its tone are, most of June's reactions in the first half of the movie are completely realistic to how a normal person would react to the utterly violent, crazy shenanigans that happen around Roy. Especially her being terrified enough for panic fire and screaming her head off when Roy surprises her during one of the firefights.

* AffectionateParody: Cruise plays Roy Miller as basically the loonier side of Film/JerryMaguire (think "help me help you!") crossed with the tireless CrazyAwesome secret agent [[Film/MissionImpossible Ethan Hunt]].

%%* SicEm
* SoCalization: UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}-based June says "the I-93."