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* [[HoYay Les Yay]]: Tank Girl and Jet Girl, mostly on Tank Girl's part.
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* BadBoss: Kesslee, UpToEleven. [[spoiler:He kills a loyal minion/doctor because she couldn't repair his face. So, downloading him into a holographic projection of his head is somehow an IMPROVEMENT?!]]

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* BadBoss: Kesslee, UpToEleven. [[spoiler:He He kills a loyal minion/doctor because she couldn't repair his face. So, downloading him into a holographic projection of his head is somehow an IMPROVEMENT?!]]IMPROVEMENT?!
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* TwoWordsObviousTrope: "I got two words for you...Brush your teeth!"

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Both [[SpiceGirls Posh Spice and Baby Spice]] tried out for the role of Tank Girl (and formed their band soon after meeting). Imagine either of them getting the lead.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Both [[SpiceGirls WhatCouldHaveBeen:
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Posh Spice and Spice, Baby Spice]] and [[Music/NoDoubt Gwen Stefani]] each tried out for the role of Tank Girl (and formed their band soon after meeting). Imagine either of them getting the lead.Girl.
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It doesn\'t qualify as bestiality because it\'s an anthropomorphic character, not an animal.


* [[ButYouScrewOneGoat But You Screw One Kangaroo]]: In the end, out of nowhere Tank Girl makes out with Booga and it shows a few animated sequences of them together. This would be sweet if it weren't for the fact that it's ''kind of'' [[UnfortunateImplications bestiality.]] It doesn't help that Booga's character in the film is mentally retarded.
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A 1995 film based on the notorious comic book series ''TankGirl'', starring [[ALeagueOfTheirOwn Lori Petty]] as Tank Girl, NaomiWatts as Jet Girl and... rapper Ice T as a mutant kangaroo. Some people consider it a [[GuiltyPleasures Guilty Pleasure,]] but YourMileageMayVary.


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A 1995 film based on the notorious comic book series ''TankGirl'', starring [[ALeagueOfTheirOwn Lori Petty]] as Tank Girl, NaomiWatts as Jet Girl and... rapper Ice T as a mutant kangaroo. Some people consider it a [[GuiltyPleasures Guilty Pleasure,]] but YourMileageMayVary.

kangaroo.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids
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* IdiotBall: Tank Girl, Jet Girl, and Sam probably could have gotten clear of Liquid Silver without much trouble, but instead Tank Girl decides to stop for a musical number and Sam is easily recaptured by W&P.

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* IdiotBall: Tank Girl, Jet Girl, and Sam probably could have gotten clear of Liquid Silver without much trouble, but instead Tank Girl decides deciding to stop for a musical number and Sam is easily recaptured by W&P.in Liquid Silver instead of escaping.
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* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: The title girl's tells Kesslee "I'm gonna hit you so hard, your children will be born bruised!"

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* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: The title girl's character tells Kesslee "I'm gonna hit you so hard, your children will be born bruised!"
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* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: The title girl's tells Kesslee "I'm gonna hit you so hard, your children will be born bruised!"
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* [=~Sorry, I'm Gay~=]

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* [=~Sorry, I'm Gay~=]SorryImGay



* [=~What Do You Mean, It's Not For Kids?~=]

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* [=~What Do You Mean, It's Not For Kids?~=]WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids
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* HypercompetentSidekick: Tank Girl is fairly competent on her own, but her sidekick Jet Girl is significantly saner and somewhat more practical, meaning that because of her most of Tank Girl's schemes don't end with her dead.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Tank Girl


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* IdiotBall: Tank Girl, Jet Girl, and Sam probably could have gotten clear of Liquid Silver without much trouble, but instead Tank Girl decides to stop for a musical number and Sam is easily recaptured by W&P.
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X Just X... Is it even an example of the trope?


* CompensatingForSomething
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Male Gaze-y and not needed.


** The rest of us, however...
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** The rest of us, however...
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* ExecutiveMeddling: Quite a bit.
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* ShoutOut: to ''TheWizardOfOz'' - the bucket of water falling on Kesslee's head and killing him.

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* ShoutOut: to ''TheWizardOfOz'' ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' - the bucket of water falling on Kesslee's head and killing him.

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* TankGoodness



* VanityLicensePlate: The tank has the license plate "TANK" on the back and "KNAT" on the front.

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* VanityLicensePlate: The tank has the license plate "TANK" "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin TANK]]" on the back and "KNAT" on the front.
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* ArtShift: The movie is interspersed with images drawn in the comic book style, as well as a few somewhat related animated sequences.
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** At one time or another, StevenSpielberg and JamesCameron both expressed interest in directing.
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* StanWinston: Designed and created the Rippers.
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* InterspeciesRomance: Human/Mutant-kangaroo-that-was-formerly-a-dog.
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* PineappleSurprise: How Tank Girl kills a random mook

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The musical number.



* CharacterDerailment: Booga, while a bit slow in the comics, is not ''stupid''. '''This''' version apparently was dropped on his head, then had boulders chucked at his skull as a child.
** Jet Girl got transformed from a rather odd sun glasses wearing badass to a British HotLibrarian who acts as the [[OnlySaneMan only sane character]].



* GuiltyPleasures: If you had never heard of the comics prior to watching it, it's still a pretty hilarious wacky movie. It's just that it's not like the comics at all.



* {{Ham and Cheese}}: Malcolm [=McDowell=] plays Kesslee, the director of Water and Power. He ''knows'' he's just there to make fun of the whole crazy mess of a movie. [[ThisIsSparta WATER! IS! POWER!]]



* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The scene where Kesslee first uses his water draining device to suck one of his goons dry of water, and then proceeds to '''drink''' said water.



* NightmareFuel: Well, maybe not unless you're claustrophobic, but being hung upside down in a narrow pipe that's slowly filling with water...



* RetroactiveRecognition: NaomiWatts as Jet Girl
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* SpitefulSpit: Tank Girl to a Water & Power trooper when she's captured.
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the trope now only applies to in-universe examples


* AdaptationDecay
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Eh, keep it as it is.


* [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Big Lipped]] [[strike:Alligator]] [[TheNostalgiaCritic Starving Children Moment]]: The musical number.

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* [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Big Lipped]] [[strike:Alligator]] [[TheNostalgiaCritic Starving Children Moment]]: BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The musical number.
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* [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Big Lipped]] [[strike:Alligator]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext Starving Children Moment]]: The musical number.

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* [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Big Lipped]] [[strike:Alligator]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext [[TheNostalgiaCritic Starving Children Moment]]: The musical number.

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