History Film / MajorPayne

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Payne decides that the best way to handle a domestic violence situation during a police academy training scenario would be to smack the alleged violator into unconsciousness. Not only does he get thrown out of the academy, he ends up arrested on assault charges and his CO has to bail him out.

* KukrisAreKool: Payne is seen messing around with a kurki while reading the book Emily gave him.

** It's always important to note that when fighting a killin' machine, if he says he's going to kick you in the face, did he say ''when''? One sucker punch to the throat and kick to the groin later. We then have this exchange:

---> '''Payne''': What, you calling me a liar? *''boots him in the face''*

* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: in the final scene, Major Payne uses his field knife to shave the service dog of a blind cadet to prepare him for ROTC training. It's bad to shave double-coated dog breeds such as German Shepherds unless absolutely necessary, as losing their protective double coat can make them vulnerable to skin irritation, bug bites, heat stroke, and other medical conditions.

* VictoryByIntimidation: In the opening battle sequence, Payne gets the drop on the leader of the terrorists and the latter tells Payne that he is surrounded. Payne acknowledges that, then [[TakingYouWithMe threatens to take the leader with him]] by [[AssShove emptying the leader's own gun up his ass]]. Cut to Payne marching all of the terrorists to prison.

* MarriedToTheJob: Mayor Payne lives, breathe and eats the Corps and has great disdain for civilian life (at first that is) and longs for a chance to get back in the Corps and when he does get his chance to go back in and help out in Bosnia during the YugoslavWars [[ChangedMyMindKid he eventually realizes how much the boys have grown on him and that he wouldn’t mind settling down and living a normal life so he ends up changing his mind.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: Payne tries to do his broken finger trick on Tiger, when the later is afraid to get a shot. However, in his messed up mind, he was just trying to help the boy. There's also the strenuous drills and exercises that he puts the cadets through. Despite all of this, Payne does ''not'' condone intentional child abuse, as shown in the scene [[spoiler:with Alex's stepfather]]

* SmugSnake: Dawson is the initial squad leader, but spends almost all his screentime shouting and being something of a sycophant assistant to Payne and not much time actually ''leading''. [[BrilliantButLazy Alex]] leads all the attempts to get rid of Payne (the majority of which are without Dawson's involvement or even ''knowledge''), and when Payne acknowledges this leadership ability by promoting Alex to the new squad leader, Dawson refuses to take part in the planned heist at Wellington Academy by saying "you want to make me look bad?" and that he called his dad to leave "the stupid school". He then ends up on one of the opposing teams at the games and even crippling Alex on the final leg of the obstacle course race simply because he didn't want to risk losing to him.

* {{Fartillery}}: The unforeseen result of a LaxativePrank instead provides Major Payne with a different sort of ordinance to fire at his unruly cadets.

* OverrankedSoldier: The commandant of a JROTC detachment would typically be an NCO such as a Staff Sergeant or Gunnery Sergeant, not a commissioned officer. A Major would more likely be a company commander or battalion XO in charge of several hundred Marines. But then, Gunny Payne doesn't have the same punny appeal, and [[FriendOnTheForce General Decker]] does tell Payne that he had to make some calls to get Payne this in back to the Corps, plus it was only meant to be a temporary assignment anyways until he could find a more fitting post for Payne's talents.

** At the end, he calls the blind boy's dog Literature/{{Cujo}}.

** The threat that Payne gives the biker is verbatim to one given by ''Film/BillyJack''. The biker even lampshades it by saying "I'm not scared with that ''Billy Jack'' bullshit!" before trying to fight Payne... and then gets to terribly regret it.

---> '''Payne''': You calling me a liar?! *''boots him in the face''*

[[caption-width-right:300:''He's looking for a few good men... or a few guys old enough to shave.'']]