History Film / KungFury

* BadassesWearBandanas: Fury picks up the kung fu master's headband when he transforms into his new persona.

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Triceracop, Hackerman, Thor, Barbarianna, and Katana all show up to help Kung Fury when he's wounded in his battle with Hitler.]]

* SuddenVideoGameMoment: After Kung Fury gets Hacked into {{Cyberspace}}, the screen [[MediumBlending shows him and his location as a pixelated video game world]].

* TimeTravelersDinosaur: Played for laughs. Kung Fury tries to travel back in time to WW2 to stop Hitler, but ends up overshooting it. He arrives at a rocky valley and is immediately attacked by a raptor... that shoots lasers from its mouth. Kung Fury is confused by this... because Lazer Raptors went extinct thousands of years ago. He is then saved by a minigun-wielding barbarian woman, who explains that he's arrived in the Viking age, which he thinks explains the presence of the Lazer Raptor.

* ArcSymbol: Parodied with the swastika, specifically when Kung Fury [[spoiler:notices that the Arcade Machine had one]]. He says that he knew he saw the symbol before, and there's pseudo-buildup as he recalls the other times he saw it. Anyone with even the slightest knowledge of history would immediately recognize what it is.

* BackToBackBadasses: The vikings gunning down the Nazi troops.

** From the music video: "Permit: Denied" after Hasselhoff killed some thugs who tried to blow up his car in response to him asking for gun permit.

* DeadlyDodging: Kung Fury allows one Mook to flying-kick right over him into another mook in the FoeTossingCharge.

* EnforcedPlug: When saying goodbye to the viking babes, Kung Fury also has enough time to advertise a brand new "Personal, transportable, cellular telephone" he just happened to have for them to use to call him...despite being on the edge of the lake in an age before electricity became a power source.

* HyperCompetentSidekick: Hackerman can hack time and space, bring people back to life and turn himself into a massive robot, all of that with old timey computer hardware and a Nintendo power glove

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Parodied. Kung Führer makes some not very convincing attempts at using this on Kung Fury.

* OffscreenTeleportation: Triceracop suddenly appears in DaChief's office when called for, even though he wasn't there a moment ago. In a rare moment for this movie, a rational explanation is hinted at -- the door to the Chief's office is right behind Kung Fury, and the sound of a door opening can be heard while the camera faces away from Kung Fury to allow Triceracop's 'teleportation'.

* TimeMachine: The vortexes which work as portals through time and space.
* TimeTravelersDinosaur: Played for laughs. Kung Fury tries to travel back in time to WW2 to stop Hitler, but ends up overshooting it. He arrives at a rocky valley and is immediately attacked by a raptor... that shoots lazers from its mouth. Kung Fury is confused by this... because Lazer Raptors went extinct thousands of years ago. He is then saved by a minigun-wielding barbarian woman, who explains that he's arrived in the Viking age, which he thinks explains the presence of the Lazer Raptor.

* WorldOfBadass: Street gangsters able to catapult a police cruiser dozens of feet through the air, living arcade cabinets with laser guns, viking babes with uzis and miniguns riding on dinosaurs, velociraptors with eye lasers, Kung Fu Hitler, a badass kung fu cop, and of course David Hasselhoff.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Kung Fury recovers from a machine gun-induced death thanks to Hackerman's abilities.]]
* BackToBackBadasses: The vikings gunning down the Nazi troops.

* TheEighties: Includes all the major themes of the 80s: fluffy hair, arcades, robots, he-man-style barbarians, {{ninja}}s, [[BadassesWearBandanas bandanas]], cops, [[CoolCar lamborghinis]], [[CowboyCop renegade cops]] that [[IWorkAlone work alone]] then [[TurnInYourBadge quit]], completely hokey computers [[MagicalComputer that can do anything]], synth soundtracks, a [[EnforcedPlug product placement infomercial]], corny {{pun}}s, [[DeliberateVHSQuality VHS tracking]], [[RatedMForManly hyper-violence]] and Creator/DavidHasselhoff.

* FiveFiveFive: Kung Fury's phone number is 555-4385. Call it using a revolutionary personal transportable cellular telephone.

* IWorkAlone: Kung Fury doesn't want to work with Triceracop due to his last partner being killed by the Kung Fu master.

* OffWithHisHead: Kung Fury kicks off a Nazi mook's head, and tears another out with his bare hands.

* StylisticSuck: The fight between Kung Fury and the arcade deathbot skips scenes because of "bad VHS quality". Anyone who remembers VHS tapes will recognize that horrid static anywhere. Can also count towards the intentionally bland acting and occasionally blatant chroma key scenes.

* TimeMachine: The vortexes which work as portals through time and space.

* TheDitz: The man who's talking on a telephone [[spoiler:which Hitler will steal]] happily announces he has done a blood test and the result is positive. (This is probably a reference to AIDS.) The woman he's talking to isn't happy to hear it.

* EEqualsMCHammer: The famous formula flashes by a few times on Hackerman's screens, including [[GeniusBonus in code form]].
* TheEighties: Includes all the major themes of the 80s: fluffy hair, arcades, robots, he-man-style barbarians, {{ninja}}s, [[BadassesWearBandanas bandanas]], cops, [[CoolCar lamborghinis]], [[CowboyCop renegade cops]] that [[IWorkAlone work alone]] then [[TurnInYourBadge quit]], completely hokey computers [[MagicComputer that can do anything]], synth soundtracks, a [[EnforcedPlug product placement infomercial]], corny {{pun}}s, [[DeliberateVHSQuality VHS tracking]], [[RatedMForManly hyper-violence]] and Creator/DavidHasselhoff.

* EyeBeams: The Laser Raptors can shoot laser from their eyes.

* {{Foreshadowing}}

* GasMaskMooks: All the Nazi mooks are wearing gas masks.

* NeverBringAKnifeToAFistfight: The kung fu master charges the newly-empowered Kung Fury with a katana but gets beaten with fists and feet.

* NonIndicativeName: Viking babe Katana wields an Uzi.

* OneHandedIsCool: The three gangsters. Also, the Viking Babe with her [[MoreDakka Uzi]].

* PunnyName: {{Averted|Trope}} by Thor and Hackerman. Played straight by pretty much everyone else with a name — up to and including Kung Fury's car.

* {{Retraux}} / StylisticSuck: The entire film is given a deliberate chromatic aberration effect, and simulated VHS glitches and tracking errors are sprinkled throughout. Everybody overacts intentionally.

-->'''Kung Fury''': Open the doors, HOFF.\\

** The fight scenes against the Nazi hordes are an impressive replica of [[http://uploads.ungrounded.net/15000/15849_fight.swf Xiao Xiao 3.]]

* SoBadItsGood: Deliberately {{invoked}}. The entire thing is a throwback to 1980s action movie cliches, all of them turned up to eleven. Even the theme song gets in on this; "True Survivor" is nothing but Eighties-style lyrical cliches one after another, bordering on WordSaladLyrics.

* SssssnakeTalk: Subverted and parodied with Cobra who has a [[SpeechImpediment lisp]].

* StupidJetpackHitler: Parodied. In this movie, the Nazis experiment with [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetic engineering]] and [[WalkingTank bipedal mecha]] not to gain straight-up military advantage, but to gain insight into the art of kung-fu. The entirety of Nazi Germany also seems to have been transformed into a giant factory hangar, and every single soldier (except for the two guards outside) is wearing a gas mask.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The movie primes the audience into just accepting kung fu as being the be-all, end-all of combat, when Hitler reveals his secret gatling gun and fills an area with more bullets than oxygen molecules, the fact it [[spoiler: kills Kung Fury]] is played as a surprise. Of course, nothing that comes after this is remotely realistic, making the CombatPragmatist efficacy stand out all the more.

* TimeTravelersDinosaur: Played for laughs. Kung Fury tries to travel back in time to WW2 to stop Hitler, but ends up overshooting it. He arrives at a rocky valley and is immediately attacked by a raptor... that shoots lazers from its mouth. Kung Fury is confused by this... because Lazer Raptors went extinct thousands of years ago. He is then saved by a minigun wielding barbarian woman, who explains that he's arrived in the Viking age, which he thinks explains the presence of the Lazer Raptor.

* TurnInYourBadge: When DaChief tells Kung Fury to work with Triceracop or stop working on the case, Kung Fury surrenders his badge.

* ArtShift: After [[spoiler:Kung Fury is gunned down by Kung Fuhrer's hidden minigun]], the scene where [[spoiler:he is in Heaven facing his Spirit Animal Cobra]] is shot like a vintage 80s cartoon.

** ''(rips off a Nazi's arms)'' "I'm disarming you."

** Also averted by the arcade machine's lasers. At one point it runs out of credits and raids a nearby parking meter for quarters.

** Triceracop just carries a pistol; [[spoiler:in the battle against Hitler's army he uses it to shoot Nazis in the dick and ''only'' the dick. Needless to say it's pretty effective.]]

* CoolShades: Kung Fury wears sunglasses while speeding through the ''night'' in his Lamborghini.

*** Although this is {{Justified}}, as he's a [[TimeTravel time traveler]].

* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: The group breaks into hugs and friendly handshakes after the final fight, with Dinomite, Barbarianna's t-rex, delivering an important lesson about friendship and teamwork.

** The scene with the Nazi officers is spoken in a weird but hilarious mix between Swedish and a few poor attempts at German that are still basically Swedish words "German-ified". See also TheCameo.

* TheEighties: Electronic music, old-school video games, fluffy hair, and Creator/DavidHasselhoff.

* TeleportersAndTransporters: The vortexes which work as portals through time and space.

* TelephoneTeleport: Hitler can shoot through a telephone line, and uses this to massacre a police station.

* EnforcedPlug: When saying goodbye to the viking babes, Kung Fury also has enough time to advertise a brand new phone he just happened to have for them to use to call him...despite being on the edge of the lake in an age before electricity became a power source.

* ProductPlacement: Parodied. Kung Fury's last scene in the Viking age turns into him shilling a "Personal, transportable, cellular telephone" that could make it possible for [[TechnologyMarchesOn more and more people to have a phone in their car]].

* ArtShift: The heaven sequence after [[spoiler:Kung Fury dies.]]

* MediumBlending: After [[spoiler:Kung Fury is gunned down by Kung Fuhrer's hidden minigun]], the scene where [[spoiler:he is in Heaven facing his Spirit Animal Cobra]] is shot like a vintage 80s cartoon.