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* ChekhovsGun: Befitting his status as a "White Trash Q", Babyface creates a few gadgets for the mission in Holland: [[CommLinks communicator watches]], a BulletProofVest, and a [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a suit button]]. We learn what that last one does only at the end of the film.

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* ChekhovsGun: Befitting his status as a "White Trash Q", Babyface creates a few gadgets for the mission in Holland: [[CommLinks communicator watches]], a BulletProofVest, and a [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a suit button]].button. We learn what that last one does only at the end of the film.
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Original Italian title ''New York chiama Superdrago'' (New York Calls Superdragon)\\

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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.



-->'''Super Dragon:''' ''(Shows Ross, the bowling alley owner, part of his "special" gum stash.)'' "Now, uh, what's ''this''?"
-->'''Ross:''' "Nothing! It's just a... different brand, that's all!" (Super Dragon backhands him)

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-->'''Super Dragon:''' ''(Shows Ross, the bowling alley owner, part of his "special" gum stash.)'' "Now, uh, what's ''this''?"
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"Nothing! It's just a... different brand, that's all!" (Super Dragon backhands him)
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Rembrandt 13, who is already an unwilling pawn thanks to a PoisonAndCureGambit, turns on her master's at the end of the film and saves Super Dragon from another Mook. However in the ensuing fight to rescue Agent Fulton she's accidentally shot while Super Dragon and the resident TortureTechnicial are fighting over a gun.]]

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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Rembrandt 13, who is already an unwilling pawn thanks to a PoisonAndCureGambit, turns on her master's at the end of the film and saves Super Dragon from another Mook. However in the ensuing fight to rescue Agent Fulton she's accidentally shot while Super Dragon and the resident TortureTechnicial TortureTechnician are fighting over a gun.]]
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* TheChick: Agent Fulton. (Super Dragon calls her "Comfort" but her name on IMDB is "Cynthia.")
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* TheChick: Agent Fulton. (Super Dragon calls her "Comfort" in the first scene but her name on IMDB is "Cynthia.")

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* TheChick: Agent Fulton. (Super Dragon calls her "Comfort" in the first scene but her name on IMDB is "Cynthia.")
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* CommLinks: Babyface builds a couple of ComicStrip/DickTracy-esque wristwatches for himself and Super Dragon. It's unknown if they contain actual radios or just an SOS beacon; but Super Dragon uses it twice -- once to warn Baby off from stealing a priceless coin display, and again to warn him off from drinking drugged wine.

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* CommLinks: Babyface builds a couple of ComicStrip/DickTracy-esque wristwatches for himself and Super Dragon. It's unknown if they contain actual radios or just an SOS beacon; but Super Dragon uses it twice -- once to warn Baby Babyface off from stealing a priceless coin display, and again to warn him off from drinking drugged wine.
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* TheChick: Comfort Fulton

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* TheChick: Comfort FultonAgent Fulton. (Super Dragon calls her "Comfort" in the first scene but her name on IMDB is "Cynthia.")



* ElectricTorture: "Have you ever taken a bath in... electricity?" The bad guys try torturing Comfort this way (after stripping her down to a teddy) before Super Dragon saves her. The two proceed to torture the surviving evil lab technician the same way to find out where the BigBad fled.

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* ElectricTorture: "Have you ever taken a bath in... electricity?" The bad guys try torturing Comfort Agent Fulton this way (after stripping her down to a teddy) before Super Dragon saves her. The two proceed to torture the surviving evil lab technician the same way to find out where the BigBad fled.



* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Rembrandt 13, who is already an unwilling pawn thanks to a PoisonAndCureGambit, turns on her master's at the end of the film, and saves Super Dragon from another Mook. However in the ensuing fight to rescue Comfort she's accidentally shot while Super Dragon and the resident TortureTechnicial are fighting over a gun.]]

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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Rembrandt 13, who is already an unwilling pawn thanks to a PoisonAndCureGambit, turns on her master's at the end of the film, film and saves Super Dragon from another Mook. However in the ensuing fight to rescue Comfort Agent Fulton she's accidentally shot while Super Dragon and the resident TortureTechnicial are fighting over a gun.]]

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* BiggusDickus: Averted strongly by Super Dragon.

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* BiggusDickus: BiggerIsBetterInBed: Averted strongly by Super Dragon.



* JerkAss: Super Dragon.[[note]]'''Crow:''' Secret Agent Super ''Rude''.[[/note]]
* McGuffin: The drug "Synchron-2". More accurately, its antidote, aptly called "Anti-Synchron".

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* JerkAss: {{Jerkass}}: Super Dragon.[[note]]'''Crow:''' Secret Agent Super ''Rude''.[[/note]]
* McGuffin: LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The seductive jazz number playing when Super Dragon and Rembrandt 13 are about to kiss [[LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand comes to a sudden, distorted halt]] as [[MomentKiller the power goes off in their hotel room]].
* MacGuffin:
The drug "Synchron-2". More accurately, its antidote, aptly called "Anti-Synchron".



* TheMole: [[spoiler:Charity Farrell, aka Rembrandt 13]]

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* TheMole: [[spoiler:Charity Farrell, aka Rembrandt 13]]13.]]



* SorryILeftTheBGMOn: The seductive jazz number playing when Super Dragon and Rembrandt 13 are about to kiss [[LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand comes to a sudden, distorted halt]] as [[MomentKiller the power goes off in their hotel room]].
* SoundtrackDissonance: A xylophone (!!) announces the start of a fight scene.


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* SoundtrackDissonance: A xylophone (!!) announces the start of a fight scene.
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* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: At least in the title.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When Super Dragon asks if Rembrandt 13 is a natural redhead she quips back about not showing him.[[note]]As in, letting him see if the carpets match the drapes.[[/note]]

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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When Super Dragon asks if Rembrandt 13 GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is a natural redhead she quips back about not showing him.[[note]]As in, letting him see if on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the carpets match future, please check the drapes.[[/note]]trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

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* TheCharmer: It's what they were going for with Super Dragon, but... well, see the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E04SecretAgentSuperDragon MST3K recap's]] RunningGag entry.
* ChekhovsGun: Befitting his status as a [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 "White Trash Q"]], Babyface creates a few gadgets for the mission in Holland: [[CommLinks communicator watches]], a BulletProofVest, and a [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a suit button]]. We learn what that last one does only at the end of the film.

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* TheCharmer: It's what they were going for with Super Dragon, but... well, see the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E04SecretAgentSuperDragon MST3K recap's]] RunningGag entry.
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* ChekhovsGun: Befitting his status as a [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 "White Trash Q"]], Q", Babyface creates a few gadgets for the mission in Holland: [[CommLinks communicator watches]], a BulletProofVest, and a [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a suit button]]. We learn what that last one does only at the end of the film.



* CyanidePill: The BigBad takes one at the end just so Super Dragon can't get the secret of Anti-Synchron out of him; Super Dragon just lets him know that he'd photographed the formula already.[[note]]'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Servo]]''' ''(as Super Dragon)'': [[AllForNothing So you're killing yourself for nothing]]! [[JerkAss Nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah]]![[/note]]

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* CyanidePill: The BigBad takes one at the end just so Super Dragon can't get the secret of Anti-Synchron out of him; Super Dragon just lets him know that he'd photographed the formula already.[[note]]'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Servo]]''' ''(as Super Dragon)'': [[AllForNothing So you're killing yourself for nothing]]! [[JerkAss Nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah]]![[/note]]



* DyeHard: InUniverse. Agent Fulton cattily makes this accusation about Rembrandt 13's vivd red hair. Even Super Dragon comments on it.

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* DyeHard: InUniverse. Agent Fulton cattily makes this accusation about Rembrandt 13's vivd vivid red hair. Even Super Dragon comments on it.



-->'''Super Dragon:''' (Shows Ross, the [[strike:drugstore]] bowling alley owner, part of his "special" gum stash) "Now, uh, what's ''this''?"

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-->'''Super Dragon:''' (Shows ''(Shows Ross, the [[strike:drugstore]] bowling alley owner, part of his "special" gum stash) stash.)'' "Now, uh, what's ''this''?"



* PoisonAndCureGambit:
** The entire purpose of the villainous organization's plans... [[MissingStepsPlan Maybe.]]
** This is how the BigBad controls [[spoiler:Rembrandt 13]]: By poisoning them with Synchron-2, and holding the antidote over their head.

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* PoisonAndCureGambit:
** The entire purpose of the villainous organization's plans... [[MissingStepsPlan Maybe.]]
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PoisonAndCureGambit: This is how the BigBad controls [[spoiler:Rembrandt 13]]: By poisoning them with Synchron-2, and holding the antidote over their head.
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Rembrandt 13 isn't much of a Heel to begin with, since [[PoisonAndCureGambit she's only working fpr the villains by force]]. She ultimately betrays her masters to save Super Dragon at a critical moment. Unfortunately for her RedemptionEqualsDeath...]]

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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Rembrandt 13 isn't much of a Heel heel to begin with, since [[PoisonAndCureGambit she's only working fpr for the villains by force]]. She ultimately betrays her masters to save Super Dragon at a critical moment. Unfortunately for her RedemptionEqualsDeath...]]

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* TenMinuteRetirement: Super Dragon, aka Brian Cooper, has retired happily at the beginning of the movie. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment It doesn't last.]]



* DyeHard: InUniverse. Agent Fulton cattily makes this accusation about Rembrandt 13's vivd red hair. Even Super Dragon comments on it.



* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When Super Dragon asks if Rembrandt 13 is a natural redhead she quips back about not showing him.[[note]]As in, letting him see if the carpets match the drapes.[[/note]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Rembrandt 13 isn't much of a Heel to begin with, since [[PoisonAndCureGambit she's only working fpr the villains by force]]. She ultimately betrays her masters to save Super Dragon at a critical moment. Unfortunately for her RedemptionEqualsDeath...]]



* PoisonAndCureGambit:
** The entire purpose of the villainous organization's plans... [[MissingStepsPlan Maybe.]]
** This is how the BigBad controls [[spoiler:Rembrandt 13]]: By poisoning them with Synchron-2, and holding the antidote over their head.



* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Rembrandt 13, who is already an unwilling pawn thanks to a PoisonAndCureGambit, turns on her master's at the end of the film, and saves Super Dragon from another Mook. However in the ensuing fight to rescue Comfort she's accidentally shot while Super Dragon and the resident TortureTechnicial are fighting over a gun.]]



* TenMinuteRetirement: Super Dragon, aka Brian Cooper, has retired happily at the beginning of the movie. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment It doesn't last.]]

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* TenMinuteRetirement: Super Dragon, aka Brian Cooper, has retired happily at the beginning of the movie. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment It doesn't last.]]
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* BulletProofVest: Given a ChekhovsGun moment, but it never becomes important.

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* BulletProofVest: Given Provided by Babyface; incorporates (somehow) a ChekhovsGun moment, but it never becomes important.pistol. The vest saves Super Dragon from a knife to the back at one point.



* ChekhovsSkill: Super Dragon's meditation stance

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* ChekhovsGun: Befitting his status as a [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 "White Trash Q"]], Babyface creates a few gadgets for the mission in Holland: [[CommLinks communicator watches]], a BulletProofVest, and a [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a suit button]]. We learn what that last one does only at the end of the film.
* ChekhovsSkill: Super Dragon's meditation stancestance, seen in the first scene of the film, is how he escapes a DeathTrap toward the end.



* CommLinks: Babyface builds a couple of ComicStrip/DickTracy-esque wristwatches for himself and Super Dragon. It's unknown if they contain actual radios or just an SOS beacon; but Super Dragon uses it twice -- once to warn Baby off from stealing a priceless coin display, and again to warn him off from drinking drugged wine.



* DeathTrap:
** One mook garrottes Super Dragon and ties him to a machine rail, so that said machine's grinding wheel will crush his skull if he can't escape.
** Later Super Dragon is sealed in a coffin and dumped in the sea. His ChekhovsSkill saves him, and some balloons in his pockets allows the coffin to float so that Babyface can break him out.



* InformedAbility: Babyface doesn't look especially young, despite his nickname.

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* InformedAbility: Babyface doesn't look especially young, despite his nickname.making this an IronicNickname.



* MissingStepsPlan: Synchron will make people go batshit crazy - and from there, the villains will rule the world, somehow.

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* MissingStepsPlan: Synchron Synchron-2 will make people go batshit crazy - -- and from there, the villains will rule the world, somehow.somehow. One might surmise that, since Synchron-2 is untraceable and its antidote known only to a select few, the villains might attempt to drug the world's populace and barter for the antidote, but it's never made clear what exactly their overall strategy is.


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* OutGambitted: After all his other plans have been foiled, the villain bargains with Super Dragon: the formula for Anti-Synchron (and a sample), in exchange for a chance to escape. Unfortunately for Super Dragon, [[spoiler:the sample becomes chemically neutral (and thus useless) when in direct sunlight, and the formula is written in disappearing ink]]; oh, and he's locked in the building with the SelfDestructMechanism activated. [[spoiler:Super Dragon (who was clearly anticipating a double-cross) escapes, catches up with the villain and informs him he used his last ChekhovsGun (the suit button) to photograph the formula before it vanished]].


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* GadgeteerGenius: Babyface.\

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* GadgeteerGenius: Babyface.

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* GadgeteerGenius: Babyface.\
* InformedAbility: Babyface doesn't look especially young, despite his nickname.
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* CyanidePill: The BigBad takes one at the end just so Super Dragon can't get the secret of Anti-Synchron out of him; Super Dragon just lets him know that he'd photographed the formula already.[[note]]'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Servo]]''' ''(as Super Dragon)'': [[AllForNothingSo you're killing yourself for nothing]]! [[JerkAss Nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah]]![[/note]]

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* CyanidePill: The BigBad takes one at the end just so Super Dragon can't get the secret of Anti-Synchron out of him; Super Dragon just lets him know that he'd photographed the formula already.[[note]]'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Servo]]''' ''(as Super Dragon)'': [[AllForNothingSo [[AllForNothing So you're killing yourself for nothing]]! [[JerkAss Nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah]]![[/note]]
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* CyanidePill: The BigBad takes one at the end just so Super Dragon can't get the secret of Anti-Synchron out of him; Super Dragon just lets him know that he'd photographed the formula already.

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* CyanidePill: The BigBad takes one at the end just so Super Dragon can't get the secret of Anti-Synchron out of him; Super Dragon just lets him know that he'd photographed the formula already.[[note]]'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Servo]]''' ''(as Super Dragon)'': [[AllForNothingSo you're killing yourself for nothing]]! [[JerkAss Nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah]]![[/note]]
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For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E04SecretAgentSuperDragon episode recap page]].

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* FailOSuckyname: Super Dragon's name is Bryan Cooper. FacePalm.
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* JerkAss: Super Dragon.[[note]]'''Crow:''' Secret Agent Super ''Rude''.[[/note]]

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* MissingStepsPlan: Synchron will make people go batshit crazy - and from there, the villains will rule the world, somehow.



* StepThreeProfit: Synchron will make people go batshit crazy - and from there, the villains will rule the world, somehow.
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-->'''BigBad:''' Whenever we choose to use [Synchron-2], then victory will be ours!\\

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-->'''BigBad:''' Whenever we choose to use [Synchron-2], then victory will be ours!\\ours!
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Super Dragon is a low-rent Film/JamesBond who, [[TenMinuteRetirement despite being retired]], is called back into action [[ItsPersonal when a colleague is killed]]. The case the colleague was working centers around a mysterious new drug which has been turning the student body of a small college town into a mindless mob; and the investigation leads Super Dragon on a trail of intrigue to Holland, several nice apartments, a charity art auction, a [[PricelessMingVase Ming vase]] smuggling ring, and tainted chewing gum (seriously) with which the bad guys plan to TakeOverTheWorld (seriously!). Along the way, Super Dragon will need the help of ever-loyal Agent Fulton, ex-con and GadgeteerGenius Babyface, smokin' Agent Rembrandt 13, an "attractive for her age" hotel proprietor, and all his wits.

For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E04SecretAgentSuperDragon episode recap page]].
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AlwaysMurder: The agent working the case prior to Super Dragon had an automobile accident. Super Dragon is suspicious from the outset.
* BiggusDickus: Averted strongly by Super Dragon.
* BulletProofVest: Given a ChekhovsGun moment, but it never becomes important.
* BumblingSidekick: Babyface.
* TheCharmer: It's what they were going for with Super Dragon, but... well, see the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E04SecretAgentSuperDragon MST3K recap's]] RunningGag entry.
* ChekhovsSkill: Super Dragon's meditation stance
* TheChick: Comfort Fulton
* CyanidePill: The BigBad takes one at the end just so Super Dragon can't get the secret of Anti-Synchron out of him; Super Dragon just lets him know that he'd photographed the formula already.
* ElectricTorture: "Have you ever taken a bath in... electricity?" The bad guys try torturing Comfort this way (after stripping her down to a teddy) before Super Dragon saves her. The two proceed to torture the surviving evil lab technician the same way to find out where the BigBad fled.
* ExaltedTorturer: See ElectricTorture.
* FailOSuckyname: Super Dragon's name is Bryan Cooper. FacePalm.
* GadgeteerGenius: Babyface.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: At least in the title.
* ItsPersonal: Implied; Super Dragon takes the case only after the previous agent dies under 'questionable' circumstances.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Involving drugged chewing gum, making the scene a little bit goofy.
-->'''Super Dragon:''' (Shows Ross, the [[strike:drugstore]] bowling alley owner, part of his "special" gum stash) "Now, uh, what's ''this''?"
-->'''Ross:''' "Nothing! It's just a... different brand, that's all!" (Super Dragon backhands him)
* McGuffin: The drug "Synchron-2". More accurately, its antidote, aptly called "Anti-Synchron".
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Charity Farrell, aka Rembrandt 13]]
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: the "Society Of Guys Who Can Make A W"
-->'''BigBad:''' Whenever we choose to use [Synchron-2], then victory will be ours!\\
* OurDoorsAreDifferent: The gauntlet of security at the "Plastifa(ce)" office, which triggers flashbacks to both ''Series/GetSmart'' and airport security...
* SorryILeftTheBGMOn: The seductive jazz number playing when Super Dragon and Rembrandt 13 are about to kiss [[LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand comes to a sudden, distorted halt]] as [[MomentKiller the power goes off in their hotel room]].
* SoundtrackDissonance: A xylophone (!!) announces the start of a fight scene.
* StepThreeProfit: Synchron will make people go batshit crazy - and from there, the villains will rule the world, somehow.
* TelevisionGeography: With regards to Fremont, Michigan; while they avoid exterior shots when Cooper is in town, the real Fremont isn't a college town as the film describes (it's actually the hometown of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerber_Products_Company Gerber Products Company]], best known for baby food and life insurance). Plus, the previous agent is described as having driven off a canyon road; [[TheMountainsOfIllinois there are no canyons anywhere near Fremont]].
* TenMinuteRetirement: Super Dragon, aka Brian Cooper, has retired happily at the beginning of the movie. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment It doesn't last.]]
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