History Film / MyBoyfriendsBack

* AxCrazy: Chuck Bronski Jr. tries to kill Johnny with a fire axe, [[spoiler: only to accidentally killself with it when he winds up for the final blow and ends up stabbing himself in the brain with the pick end]].

* HoistByHisOwnPetard[=/=]AssholeVictim: Chuck Bronski, Jr. (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) who's tormented and bullied Johnny his whole life, impales himself with an axe he tried to kill Johnny with. Desperate to stay alive for tomorrow's prom, Johnny reluctantly eats part of him.

%%* NotWhatItLooksLike: When Johnny eats part of Chuck.

* FakeDangerGambit: Johnny tries this by having his friend Eddie gear up to pretend to rob the convenience store where his crush works but is unaware that an actual robber shows up until it's too late..

* FakeDangerGambit: Johnny tries to save Missy from a pretend holdup he staged with his friend Eddie.

* EngineeredHeroics: Johnny tries to save Missy from a pretend holdup he staged with his friend Eddie.

* AdultFear: 'Big Chuck' Bronski finds that Marge unknowingly kidnapped his youngest son 'Little Chuck' for the purposes of feeding Johnny, [[spoiler:even though the kid goes unharmed]]. That and also finding his oldest son Chuck Jr. not only dead, but having been partially eaten.
** Also, to Mr. and Mrs. Dingle, with Johnny getting shot and all.
** [[TheSheriff Sheriff]] [=McCloud=] concerned about his daughter, Missy spending time with a zombie.

* MsFanservice: Missy at times.
* NiceGuy: Johnny, with traces of {{Adorkable}}.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: When Johnny eats part of Chuck.

* HistoryRepeats: Johnny isn't the first person to come back from the dead. Local legend has it the late husband of Maggie, The Zombie Expert came back to her as a zombie 15 years prior.

* HelloNurse: Missy definitely qualifies.

* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Johnny's staged stick-up somehow ended up having a real robber taking Eddie's mask, coming in and accidentally killing Johnny.

** [[spoiler: Towards the end, we learn from an angelic Judge that the divine powers-that-be who maintain everyone's destinies occasionally "screw up" and try to rectify the error by reanimating them which accounts for the occasional zombie. As a SecretTestOfCharacter, their actions as a zombie determine their place in the afterlife.]]

--> '''Marge''' (to Big Chuck Bronski): Now get out of my house...or I'll clip your manhood.

->''"This was it. This was the beginning of a dream come true. I picked her up early. I had all the right moves. I was like Creator/TomCruise...only dead."''

* TheSheriff: Officer McCloud, Missy's dad.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The adversity Johnny faces as a zombie from the townspeople somewhat parallels what minorities may have experienced during the American CivilRightsMovement.

->''"This was it. This was the beginning of a dream come true. I picked her up early. I had all the right moves. I was like TomCruise...only dead."''

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'''''My Boyfriend's Back''''' is a 1993 romantic BlackComedy film about a young man named Johnny Dingle, who has always pined for his childhood friend Missy [=McCloud=] and would want nothing more than to express his feelings and take her to prom. In a misguided attempt to impress her by saving her from a pretend robbery he staged with his friend, he ends up shot dead by a real shoplifter who happened to be stopping by. Not long afterwards, Johnny comes back - ''as a [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombie]]!'' And of course, HilarityEnsues.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: See Reset Button below for details.]]

* ResetButton: [[spoiler: Of a divine variation. After Johnny dies for a second time, he learns from an angelic Judge that he wasn't actually supposed to die the night he got shot. He's then given a second chance at life and is sent back to when he was in the convenient store just moments before he got shot. He still takes the bullet for Missy, however this time, the [[PocketProtector bullet struck the necklace pendant]] he was wearing that he'd been wanting to give to Missy since the first grade. In short, he survives and Missy goes as his prom date feeling she definitely owes him one.]]

* ResetButton: [[spoiler: Of a divine variation. After Johnny dies for a second time, he learns from an angelic Judge that he wasn't actually supposed to die the night he got shot. He's then given a second chance at life and is sent back to when he was in the convenient store just moments before he got shot. He still takes the bullet for Missy, however this time, the bullet struck the necklace pendant he was wearing that he'd been wanting to give to Missy since the first grade. In short, he survives and Missy goes as his prom date feeling she definitely owes him one.]]

* AdultFear: 'Big Chuck' Bronski finds that Marge unknowingly kidnapped his youngest son 'Little Chuck' for the purposes of feeding Johnny, even though the kid goes unharmed. That and also finding his oldest son Chuck Jr. not only dead, but having been partially eaten.

* [[spoiler:DyingDeclarationOfLove: When Johhny dies again during his dance with Missy.]]

* [[spoiler: ResetButton: Of a divine variation. After Johnny dies for a second time, he learns from an angelic Judge that he wasn't actually supposed to die the night he got shot. He's then given a second chance at life and is sent back to when he was in the convenient store just moments before he got shot. He still takes the bullet for Missy, however this time, the bullet struck the necklace pendant he was wearing that he'd been wanting to give to Missy since the first grade. In short, he survives and Missy goes as his prom date feeling she definitely owes him one.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Sheriff [=McCloud=] shows himself to be this even though he to isn't initially partial to Johnny.

* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Johnny's staged stick-up resulted in a real robber taking Eddie's mask, coming in and accidentally killing Johnny.

* GiveGeeksAChance: Missy

* NiceGuy: Johnny, with large traces of {{Adorkable}}.

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Film/WarmBodies'', very loosely.

* TragicVillain: Big Chuck Bronski has it in the most for Johnny, although it's somewhat understandable since he believes Johnny killed his son.