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* Shirtless Scene: When the twins awaken from the vision/dream they get one of these.
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* BadassCreed: The Family Prayer (see the page quote).
** From the end of the first movie: "Never shall innocent blood be shed, yet the blood of the wicked shall flow like a river. The three shall spread their blackened wings and be the vengeful, striking hammer of God."
** From the end of the first movie: "Never shall innocent blood be shed, yet the blood of the wicked shall flow like a river. The three shall spread their blackened wings and be the vengeful, striking hammer of God."
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* {{Bookends}}: The movie opens with a priest telling the story of Kitty Genovese, while in the trial at the end of the movie, Papa Joe's alibi to an unspecified charge is that he was at the ''genovese'' (the butcher shop) with his mother.
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Spanish, the movie is known as ''Los Santos del Infierno'', or "The Saints of Hell."
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Spanish, the movie is known as ''Los Santos del Infierno'', or "The Saints of Hell."Hell", in German it's "Der Blutige Pfad Gottes", meaning "The Bloody Path of God".
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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: When he decides to kill [[spoiler: Rocco]], Papa Yakaveta dramatically snaps his revolver cylinder shut by flipping his wrist. With swing-out cylinder revolvers, doing this can bend the cylinder arm, misaligning the cylinder, and leading to a [[CriticalFailure misfire]], [[StuffBlowingUp potentially blowing the gun apart.]]
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not how Mr Fanservice works.
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-->-- '''Connor and Murphy [=MacManus=]''', delivering the family prayer before executing someone.
''The Boondock Saints'' was an independent film directed by Troy Duffy in 1999 about two [[{{Oireland}} Irish Catholic]] brothers from [[{{Southies}} South Boston]], Connor and Murphy [=MacManus=] (played by Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus), who become [[VigilanteMan vigilantes]] on a "MissionFromGod" after they are almost killed by Russian mobsters following a barroom brawl on St. Patrick's Day.
''The Boondock Saints'' was an independent film directed by Troy Duffy in 1999 about two [[{{Oireland}} Irish Catholic]] brothers from [[{{Southies}} South Boston]], Connor and Murphy [=MacManus=] (played by Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus), who become [[VigilanteMan vigilantes]] on a "MissionFromGod" after they are almost killed by Russian mobsters following a barroom brawl on St. Patrick's Day.
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-->-- '''Connor and Murphy [=MacManus=]''', [=McManus=]''', delivering the family prayer before executing someone.
''The Boondock Saints'' was an independent film directed by Troy Duffy in 1999 about two [[{{Oireland}} Irish Catholic]] brothers from [[{{Southies}} South Boston]], Connor and Murphy[=MacManus=] [=McManus=] (played by Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus), who become [[VigilanteMan vigilantes]] on a "MissionFromGod" after they are almost killed by Russian mobsters following a barroom brawl on St. Patrick's Day.
''The Boondock Saints'' was an independent film directed by Troy Duffy in 1999 about two [[{{Oireland}} Irish Catholic]] brothers from [[{{Southies}} South Boston]], Connor and Murphy
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* BadassLongcoat: Il Duce and Rocco. The [=MacManus=] twins are {{Badass}} ''Pea''coats; which, considering Boston in March, is a lot more practical. Detective Eunice Bloom in the sequel imagines herself as a GunTwirling cowgirl wearing a duster during one of her summations of the Saints' hits.
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* BadassLongcoat: Il Duce and Rocco. The [=MacManus=] [=McManus=] twins are {{Badass}} ''Pea''coats; which, considering Boston in March, is a lot more practical. Detective Eunice Bloom in the sequel imagines herself as a GunTwirling cowgirl wearing a duster during one of her summations of the Saints' hits.
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* CatchPhrase: The [=MacManus=] family prayer, as well as Greenly's "Thanks for coming out!"
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* MrFanservice: Multilingual vigilante twins with Irish accents? ''Yes, please.''
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* GunsAkimbo: The [=MacManus=] brothers, Rocco, and especially Il Duce. In the sequel, almost everyone uses this trope.
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* MotivationOnAStick: Detective Greenley humorously suggests that the only way they're going to catch the MacManus brothers is by "...dangling a potato on a string" -- of course, they walk in just as he's saying this.
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* BarBrawl: The [=MacManuses=] throw down with the Russian mob dudes early on in the movie and sets the events of the film in motion.
* BondVillainStupidity: Papa Joe shoots [[spoiler:Rocco]], but leaves [[spoiler:the [=MacManuses=]]] bound. May be justified by him wanting to question [[spoiler:the brothers]] some more and thinking of [[spoiler:Rocco]] as dead weight.
* BondVillainStupidity: Papa Joe shoots [[spoiler:Rocco]], but leaves [[spoiler:the [=MacManuses=]]] bound. May be justified by him wanting to question [[spoiler:the brothers]] some more and thinking of [[spoiler:Rocco]] as dead weight.
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* BarBrawl: The [=MacManuses=] [=McManuses=] throw down with the Russian mob dudes early on in the movie and sets the events of the film in motion.
* BondVillainStupidity: Papa Joe shoots [[spoiler:Rocco]], but leaves [[spoiler:the[=MacManuses=]]] [=McManuses=]]] bound. May be justified by him wanting to question [[spoiler:the brothers]] some more and thinking of [[spoiler:Rocco]] as dead weight.
* BondVillainStupidity: Papa Joe shoots [[spoiler:Rocco]], but leaves [[spoiler:the
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* DumbassHasAPoint: Greenly. He manages to correctly state the motive behind the MacManus brothers' murders ("They were all bad guys. Now, they're dead bad guys.") as well as the number of hitmen sent after them ("What if it was one guy with six guns?"), only to have his conclusions immediately shot down by Smecker.
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* DumbassHasAPoint: Greenly. He manages to correctly state the motive behind the MacManus McManus brothers' murders ("They were all bad guys. Now, they're dead bad guys.") as well as the number of hitmen sent after them ("What if it was one guy with six guns?"), only to have his conclusions immediately shot down by Smecker.
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* GenreSavvy: The [=MacManus brothers=] and Agent Smecker both repeatedly comment on their exploits whenever they resemble TV or action movies.
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* TheConspiracy: The Roman has been playing the [=MacManus=] clan against the Mafia to further his own standing for decades. [[spoiler:Also, the Catholic Church appears to be taking a more... proactive role in the fight against Evil.]]
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* TheConspiracy: The Roman has been playing the [=MacManus=] [=McManus=] clan against the Mafia to further his own standing for decades. [[spoiler:Also, the Catholic Church appears to be taking a more... proactive role in the fight against Evil.]]
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* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Romeo speaks Spanish to his uncle to ask his uncle not to embarrass him in front of the [=MacManus=] brothers. Subverted in that he doesn't realize they know Spanish too.
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* UnfortunateNames: Special Agent Kuntsler.
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''In Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti."''\\
-- Connor"''
-->-- '''Connor and Murphy[=MacManus=], [=MacManus=]''', delivering the family prayer before executing someone.
-- Connor
-->-- '''Connor and Murphy
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* BillingDisplacement: [[Film/EasyRider Peter]] [[GhostRider Fonda]] doesn't appear until the last 20 minutes of ''All Saint's Day'', yet still got billed over Billy Connolly (Il Duce [[spoiler:and the father of Connor and Murphy]]).
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* BillingDisplacement: [[Film/EasyRider Peter]] [[GhostRider [[Film/GhostRider Fonda]] doesn't appear until the last 20 minutes of ''All Saint's Day'', yet still got billed over Billy Connolly (Il Duce [[spoiler:and the father of Connor and Murphy]]).
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* EvillyAffable: The Saints, concerning their actual targets. When dealing with innocents they fall under AffablyEvil or AntiVillain.
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* EvillyAffable: FastRoping: Lampshaded by Connor and ends up being accidentally invoked by the Saints. In the sequel they play it straight... in an over-the-top way.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The Saints, concerning their actual targets. When dealing with innocents they fall under AffablyEvil or AntiVillain.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The Saints, concerning their actual targets. When dealing with innocents they fall under AffablyEvil or AntiVillain.
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It Got Worse de-wicking.
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* KnightOfCerebus: Whenever Il Duce gets called in around the halfway mark, [[ItGotWorse things get serious]]. Which is ''very'' odd seeing as Il Duce is played by ''BillyConnolly''.
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** In the first movie, Rocco returns in a panic after the Lakeview Restaurant shooting, telling the brothers to "Pack your shit!" so that the three of them could flee. One of the items Rocco packs (after brandishing it at Connor while shouting) is the iron that they later use to cauterize their wounds.
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* ProfessionalKiller: Rocco drives a "sick fuck" hitman to his job, where he proceeds to [[CompleteMonster wipe out an entire family]]. The three face another, more {{Badass}} hitman in the form of Il Duce shortly after finishing off the first.
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* HollywoodHealing: Connor's wounds from the handcuffs are pretty much gone in about three or four days, and don't scar at all. Same for Murphy's cauterized arm.
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* BillingDisplacement: [[EasyRider Peter]] [[GhostRider Fonda]] doesn't appear until the last 20 minutes of ''All Saint's Day'', yet still got billed over Billy Connolly (Il Duce [[spoiler:and the father of Connor and Murphy]]).
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* BillingDisplacement: [[EasyRider [[Film/EasyRider Peter]] [[GhostRider Fonda]] doesn't appear until the last 20 minutes of ''All Saint's Day'', yet still got billed over Billy Connolly (Il Duce [[spoiler:and the father of Connor and Murphy]]).
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* [[ArtisticLicense Artistic License - Mythology]]: [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]], because it depends on which region of Greece you're learning from, but Smecker says in Greek mythology, people had to pay the toll to cross the river, and that's where the coins on the eyes comes from. In actuality, only some believed that, while most believed that only the living had to pay to cross the river to the Underworld, and even in those that believed it, the coin went in the mouth, not on the eyes.
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* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Romeo speaks Spanish to his uncle to ask his uncle not to embarrass him in front of the MacManus brothers. Subverted in that he doesn't realize they know Spanish too.
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* BillingDisplacement: [[EasyRider Peter]] [[GhostRider Fonda]] doesn't appear until the last 10 minutes of ''All Saint's Day'', yet still got billed over Billy Connolly (Il Duce [[spoiler:and the father of Connor and Murphy]]).
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* DawsonCasting: Not that it's obvious, but Sean Patrick Flanery is a year and a half older than Norman Reedus, and they're supposed to be twins.
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** And on top of that, both were in their mid-thirties, and playing 27 year olds.
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* Spoonerism: "[[TeenyWeenie Paul Smecker]]"? Well, talk about GettingCrapPastTheRadar.
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the back of the head]].]]
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** Later, one of the two Russian gangsters gets a toilet dropped directly on his cranium. There are many, many other examples. Let's just say that this film ties with ''TropicThunder'' in the [[RefugeinAudacity Hilarious Carnage department]].
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** Later, one of the two Russian gangsters (the same one, in fact) gets a toilet dropped directly on his cranium. There are many, many other examples. Let's just say that this film ties with ''TropicThunder'' in the [[RefugeinAudacity Hilarious Carnage department]].
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* CareerKillers: Rocco drives a "sick fuck" hitman to his job, where he proceeds to wipe out [[CompleteMonster an entire family]]. The three face another, more {{Badass}} hitman in the form of Il Duce shortly after finishing off the first.
* ProfessionalKiller: Rocco drives a "sick fuck" hitman to his job, where he proceeds to [[CompleteMonster wipe out an entire family]]. The three face another, more {{Badass}} hitman in the form of Il Duce shortly after finishing off the first.
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* ShippedInShackles: Il Duce (who provides the page image for this trope) is moved from his cell to the ground floor for a parole hearing. He is cuffed hand and foot, chained to a rolling platform, and wheeled down to the parole board. The entire prison is put on high-alert, with shotgun-wielding guards on every floor, all to move one man down a few flights of stairs. Once he's there, they even put him inside a metal cage to protect the parole board.
* ShurFineGuns: Rocco's Beretta 92, which goes off just from slamming his fists on the table it's laying on.
* ShurFineGuns: Rocco's Beretta 92, which goes off just from slamming his fists on the table it's laying on.
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* ShippedInShackles: Il Duce (who provides the page image for this trope) is moved from his cell to the ground floor for a parole hearing. He is cuffed hand and foot, chained to a rolling platform, and wheeled down to the parole board. The entire prison is put on high-alert, with shotgun-wielding guards on every floor, all to move one man down a few flights of stairs. Once he's there, they even put him inside a metal cage to protect the parole board.
board. All this serves to establish him as probably the biggest {{Badass}} of the movie.
* ShurFineGuns: Rocco's Beretta 92, which goes off just from slamming his fists on the table it's layingon.on, with bad results for his girlfriend's cat.
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* [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic What Do You Mean Its Not Symbology]]
* YouGetMeCoffee: Whenever Detective Greenly would say something stupid or mouth off to Agent Smecker, he would be dispatched to fetch coffee and bagels.
* YouGetMeCoffee: Whenever Detective Greenly would say something stupid or mouth off to Agent Smecker, he would be dispatched to fetch coffee and bagels.
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Symbology]]?
* YouGetMeCoffee: Whenever Detective Greenlywould say says something stupid or mouth mouths off to Agent Smecker, he would he'll be dispatched to fetch coffee and bagels.
* YouGetMeCoffee: Whenever Detective Greenly
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* DidNotDoTheResearch[=/=]FridgeBrilliance: An Irishman (Il Duce) would not have been able to succeed so far in the Sicilian mafia. However: [[spoiler:Il Duce was never in a position of authority. He simply liked killing mobsters, and attacked specific ones at the behest of his friend Louie (who ''is'' Italian, and rose to a position of power after killing off all his rivals)]].
** [[TookALevelInDumbass Romeo]] offers up proof of his Mexican {{Badass}}itude by pointing out that his people invented Tabasco sauce. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabasco_sauce So, uh, what part of Mexico does the [=McIlhenny=] family hail from]]?
** [[TookALevelInDumbass Romeo]] offers up proof of his Mexican {{Badass}}itude by pointing out that his people invented Tabasco sauce. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabasco_sauce So, uh, what part of Mexico does the [=McIlhenny=] family hail from]]?
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* {{Overcrank}}: Nearly every action scene uses this to combine [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome hilarity]] with {{Badass}}itude. When it stops being used, [[CerebusSyndrome things get serious]].
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* {{Overcrank}}: Nearly every action scene uses this to combine [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome hilarity]] hilarity with {{Badass}}itude. When it stops being used, [[CerebusSyndrome things get serious]].
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The brothers kill the mobsters and then turn themselves into the police, though they are quickly released on their self-defense plea. They learn the location of the syndicate's leaders, then kill them all. They are quickly joined by their best friend David Della Rocco (played by an actor who [[TheDanza shares the name]]), a package boy for the local Italian mafia, who enlists their help in taking down his former syndicate after he is sold out by his bosses Papa Joe and Vincenzo.
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The brothers kill the mobsters and then turn themselves into in to the police, though they are quickly released on their self-defense plea. They learn the location of the syndicate's leaders, then kill them all. They are quickly joined by their best friend David Della Rocco (played by an actor who [[TheDanza shares the name]]), a package boy for the local Italian mafia, who enlists their help in taking down his former syndicate after he is sold out by his bosses Papa Joe and Vincenzo.
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->''"And shepherds we shall be, for Thee, my Lord, for Thee.''\\
''Power hath descended forth from Thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command.''\\
''So we shall flow a river forth to Thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be,''\\
''In Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti."''\\
-- Connor and Murphy [=MacManus=], delivering the family prayer before executing someone.
''The Boondock Saints'' was an independent film directed by Troy Duffy in 1999 about two [[{{Oireland}} Irish Catholic]] brothers from [[{{Southies}} South Boston]], Connor and Murphy [=MacManus=] (played by Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus), who become [[VigilanteMan vigilantes]] on a "MissionFromGod" after they are almost killed by Russian mobsters following a barroom brawl on St. Patrick's Day.
The brothers kill the mobsters and then turn themselves into the police, though they are quickly released on their self-defense plea. They learn the location of the syndicate's leaders, then kill them all. They are quickly joined by their best friend David Della Rocco (played by an actor who [[TheDanza shares the name]]), a package boy for the local Italian mafia, who enlists their help in taking down his former syndicate after he is sold out by his bosses Papa Joe and Vincenzo.
FBI Agent Paul Smecker (played by Willem Dafoe) is on the case of the vigilantes, and as the bad guy body count continues to rise and the brothers become local heroes, Smecker has to decide whether he wants to catch the killers or join them.
Everything comes to a head when the Italians, tired of being picked off like flies, call in the mysterious hitman Il Duce (played by comedian Billy Connolly in one of his rare dramatic roles) to kill Rocco, who they believe is responsible for the killings. When the three Saints and the Duke collide, all hell quickly breaks loose; and when it is finally learned just who Il Duce is, the stage is set for a final reckoning that will bring the South Boston mob to its knees.
''The Boondock Saints'' ran for all of a week in only a few theaters because no major distributor would touch the film after Duffy's falling out with his initial executive producer Harvey Weinstein. (The recent crackdown on violent action and horror movies and media in general following the school shooting at UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} High School earlier that year [[TooSoon didn't help things either]].) But when it was released several years later on FOX DVD, the movie became a ''massive'' [[CultClassic cult success]]. Fans compare the film to QuentinTarantino's classics ''ReservoirDogs'' and ''PulpFiction'', and RobertRodriguez's ''{{Desperado}}''. A sequel called ''The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day'' was rumored for years (the first film ends on one hell of a cliffhanger) and was finally released on October 30, 2009.
The film ''Overnight'' details Troy Duffy's [[SmallNameBigEgo inflation of ego]] during the making of the film. He kinda [[PrimaDonnaDirector went off the rails]], a bit. While he has tried to [[http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/10/28/the-filmcast-interview-troy-duffy-director-of-the-boondock-saints-2-all-saints-day/ apologize for his past behavior]], if you watch the doc you'll get a better idea of why we had to wait ''ten years'' for the sequel.
It is especially popular for St. Paddy's Day drinking games, where if you sip every time someone curses, you're hammered by 30 minutes in. Because of this, some people have never seen the whole movie, nor seen it sober.
Has a [[Characters/TheBoondockSaints Character Sheet]] that is in desperate need of more love.
Not to be confused with ''TheBoondocks''.
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* AnachronicOrder: One of the reasons it is compared to QuentinTarantino. The majority of the movies show investigators poring over the fight scenes first, and [[HowWeGotHere figuring out what happened.]] Their narration may or may not be correct due to [[UnreliableNarrator missing something, or outright lying]].
* AntiVillain: Everyone on the side of the brothers.
* AsHimself: David Della Rocco.
* AsTheGoodBookSays
* AudienceParticipation: Mostly for the first one, but its cult status has led to some fan screenings, including a few in 2009 on the tenth anniversary of the film's release.
* BackToBackBadasses: The [=MacManus=] brothers occasionally do this.
* BadassGrandpa: Il Duce. [[spoiler:Turns out to be the Saints' daddy. Technically, he isn't a grandpa though.]]
* BadassLongcoat: Il Duce and Rocco. The [=MacManus=] twins are {{Badass}} ''Pea''coats; which, considering Boston in March, is a lot more practical. Detective Eunice Bloom in the sequel imagines herself as a GunTwirling cowgirl wearing a duster during one of her summations of the Saints' hits.
* BerserkButton: Go on. Just [[TemptingFate try]] to bring harm to either of the brothers. Chances are the last thing you'll see is a [[UndignifiedDeath toilet crashing down on your head.]]
* BilingualBonus: Particularly in the sequel, not all of the foreign languages are subtitled.
* BillingDisplacement: Willem Dafoe is ''not'' the main character.
* {{Bromance}} [[RomanceOnTheSet On The Set]]: Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus remained friends throughout the eight-year gap between movies. This is especially obvious in interviews, where Norman is often the subject of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO8KMZZjUwE#t=2m13s much fraternal ribbing]].
* ButtMonkey: Greenly and, to a lesser extent, Dolly and Duffy. Rocco and Romeo have their moments too.
* CaliforniaDoubling: Both films are set in Boston, but apart from the flyover establishing shots, were filmed in Toronto. The CN Tower and Toronto Dominion bank locations can be seen in various shots.
* CatchPhrase: The [=MacManus=] family prayer, as well as Greenly's "Thanks for coming out!"
* CerebusSyndrome: Both films refuse to take themselves seriously... until [[KnightOfCerebus Il Duce]] gets called in.
* ChekhovsGun: While gearing up, the brothers mock each other for getting some rope and a large bowie knife, just in case. Both items end up getting used [[spoiler: during the hotel scene]], the knife while they are carrying out the execution of the Sick Mob Man and [[spoiler:killing one of Yakavetta's men after they get free]]. The rope even makes a reappearance in the second movie.
** In the second movie, RussianRoulette.
* ChristianityIsCatholic: Justified, in that almost all of the characters who are shown to be religious are Irish, Italian, or Mexican.
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Spanish, the movie is known as ''Los Santos del Infierno'', or "The Saints of Hell."
* DevelopmentHell: The second film took ''ten years'' to make due to a lack of funding and Troy Duffy's ego. The third film, thus far, seems to be in the same position. Duffy has said if negotiations go through, the story may be continued in a TV series, but the progress seems to be going slowly.
* DidNotDoTheResearch[=/=]FridgeBrilliance: An Irishman (Il Duce) would not have been able to succeed so far in the Sicilian mafia. However: [[spoiler:Il Duce was never in a position of authority. He simply liked killing mobsters, and attacked specific ones at the behest of his friend Louie (who ''is'' Italian, and rose to a position of power after killing off all his rivals)]].
** [[TookALevelInDumbass Romeo]] offers up proof of his Mexican {{Badass}}itude by pointing out that his people invented Tabasco sauce. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabasco_sauce So, uh, what part of Mexico does the [=McIlhenny=] family hail from]]?
* DueToTheDead: Played straight for the most part, particularly with the Saints' victims.
** Hilariously {{averted}} in the sequel when the Saints visit [[spoiler: Rocco]]'s grave and see that they used his mugshot for his memorial.
* MrFanservice: Multilingual vigilante twins with Irish accents? ''Yes, please.''
* EvillyAffable: The Saints, concerning their actual targets. When dealing with innocents they fall under AffablyEvil or AntiVillain.
-->Rocco: We could kill ''everyone''. (meaning, everyone in the South Boston Mafia)
-->Murphy: What do you think of that?
-->Connor: I'm strangely comfortable with it.
* FastRoping: Lampshaded by Connor and ends up being accidentally invoked by the Saints. In the sequel they play it straight... in an over-the-top way.
* FightingIrish
* FloatingHeadSyndrome: One of the most awkward examples ever.
* FreudianSlip: "Fag man" instead of "fat man," though Smecker takes it in stride. During a pep talk, Rocco has one during his RatedMForManly speech.
-->'''Rocco''': You think that the men who built all this had it easy?
-->'''Murphy''': Hard men!
-->'''Connor''': Doing hard shit!
-->'''Rocco''': And that gives me a hard-on! *RecordScratch* But not in a gay way or anything like that.
* FriendlySniper: Connor and Murphy would be friendly even if they ''weren't'' on a mission from God to shoot evil people in the head.
* GunsAkimbo: The [=MacManus=] brothers, Rocco, and especially Il Duce. In the sequel, almost everyone uses this trope.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: What we see of Il Duce's past heavily alludes to this, though it took place roughly twenty-five years prior.
* HitmanWithAHeart: Il Duce, who has a very Leon-esque code about "no women, no kids."
** The brothers as well. [[spoiler:Fitting, seeing that they are his sons]].
* HolyHitman: The twins always recite their family prayer before executing someone.
* HollywoodSilencer: The Saints almost always wield silenced pistols.
* IconicItem: The pennies that the Saints [[DueToTheDead place on their victim's eyes]], as well as Il Duce's [[MoreDakka vest full of guns.]]
** Romeo is able to figure out who they are quickly in the sequel, since not only do they ''talk'' about [[ExactEavesdropping matching their police sketches and dying their hair to reduce the risk of being recognized]], but they are a pair of Irish guys carrying a bunch of pennies.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: A toilet in the first film, as well as a billiard ball. In the second, a tattoo pen for minor comic relief.
* InspectorLestrade: Greenly. Until Smecker arrives.
* InvisibleAdvertising: As mentioned, the film was all ready to be released, but unfortunate timing meant it had to be released quietly.
** The second movie was set up this way at first, but positive reception among the fans gave it two wider releases.
* KnightOfCerebus: Whenever Il Duce gets called in around the halfway mark, [[ItGotWorse things get serious]]. Which is ''very'' odd seeing as Il Duce is played by ''BillyConnolly''.
* KnightTemplar: The brothers definitely don't play this straight, but they do occasionally exploit it to screw with people.
* LamarckWasRight: [[spoiler:This might explain how a pair of multi-lingual Irish twins who spent their lives praying, living in a broken apartment, and working at a meat plant are so good at killing off mobsters with pairs of pistols.]] TheManBehindTheMan in the sequel even lampshades it.
* {{Lampshading}}: The brothers and Smecker like to do this.
* LargeHam: Smecker, whenever he is re-enacting one of the shootouts. As well, his protegee Eunice Bloom. Connor, in general.
* ALighterShadeOfGray: "We urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the bounds and cross over into true corruption, into our domain. For if you do, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three, and on that day, ''you will reap it!''"
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Il Duce]].
* TheMafia: Italian and [[TheMafiya Russian mob.]]
* {{Malaproper}}: Doc, the bartender at [=McGinty=]'s.
* [[ManChild Men Children]]: When they're not shooting people in the head, Connor and Murphy bicker and tussle like ten year old boys.
* MissingMom: The condition of Murphy and Connor's mother [[spoiler: (and, presumably, Il Duce's estranged wife or possibly ex-wife)]] is never touched on in the released films. A deleted scene from the first film has the twins receiving an ill-timed phone call from her, but how that scene fits into canon is debatable.
* MissionFromGod
* MoralDissonance: The brothers' moral compass is a bit loose. They give Rocco a free pass, despite him having a career in the Mafia which failed only because of his own incompetence, because he's a good drinking buddy. And they are perfectly willing to buy all their guns from a man ''heavily'' implied to be [[TheTroubles IRA]]. Not to mention they seem to have no qualms about stealing from the mobsters they kill even before they receive their MissionFromGod. Also Connor [[spoiler: somehow seems to know what heroin tastes like]] in the sequel.
** Lampshaded by Rocco.
-->'''Rocco''': "Anybody ''you'' think is evil?"
-->'''Connor''': "Aye."
-->'''Rocco''': "Don't you think that's a little weird, a little psycho?"
* MotivationOnAStick: Detective Greenley humorously suggests that the only way they're going to catch the MacManus brothers is by "...dangling a potato on a string" -- of course, they walk in just as he's saying this.
-->'''Murphy:''' You'd probably have better luck with a beer.
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: All the Saints, although they did tase that housewife in the first film after getting access to her husband's poker game ([[AssholeVictim said husband and his poker buddies are all mobsters]]). But as knocking her out meant she wouldn't get in the way and inadvertently be killed in the crossfire, this is likely justified.
* NoNameGiven / UnnamedParent: One is more likely to survive in this film ''without'' a name. The brothers' names are Connor and Murphy -- which is rarely mentioned in either film while every other character gets a pause and a brief caption that literally spells out their identity. Il Duce [[spoiler:their father]] gets a caption that reveals absolutely nothing and is only addressed by his real name, [[spoiler:Noah]], in the second film. The Roman as well only gets a proper name during the last third of the second film.
* OminousLatinChanting / SoundtrackDissonance: Many of the beautiful choral hymns play over gorier scenes.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: The brothers, often.
** Justified by their {{Omniglot}} status; the brothers learned their languages well enough that their accents have been rendered about as battered as Connor MacLeod's.
** By the second movie, it seems their accents are almost intentionally bad. Julie Benz' accent is also overdone for comic effect.
* {{Omniglot}}: The brothers speak at least a half-dozen languages fluently.
* {{Overcrank}}: Nearly every action scene uses this to combine [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome hilarity]] with {{Badass}}itude. When it stops being used, [[CerebusSyndrome things get serious]].
* PapaWolf: --> [[spoiler: Il Duce]]: ''Easy boys... Daddy's working.''
* PayEvilUntoEvil
* PlayingAgainstType: Il Duce, the [[TheStoic stone-cold]] veteran [[HitmanWithAHeart hitman]], is played by ''Billy Connolly'' of all people. He's done serious roles before, but not like ''this.''
* PreMortemOneLiner: The family prayer that the brothers recite before executing someone.
* RatedMForManly: Both movies. The dream sequence in the sequel underlines this, though most people generally agree that the scene where Connor ''rips a toilet out of the floor'' is the best example in the first.
* RuleOfCool: Basically the entire franchise relies on this.
* {{Southies}}: Oh my yes. The film is quite inaccurate on the subject, [[MST3KMantra though it doesn't matter]]. Interestingly, the film's cult fandom is not especially large around South Boston.
* ShooOutTheClowns: At key points in parts 1 and 2, the plot gets more serious, the stakes get higher and the joking stops cold.
* SiblingTeam: The [=MacManus=] twins.
* SmokingIsCool: The Saints all smoke, [[EverybodySmokes as do many other characters]]. WordOfGod says that during the Il Duce firefight in the first film, they needed to put a cigar in Billy Connolly's mouth because he [[TriggerHappy would not stop smiling.]]
* ThrowAwayGuns: Il Duce's signature gun vest.
* TourettesShitcockSyndrome: The bartender Doc. There has been some attempt at realism here, though. Doc has motor tics as well as verbal ones, and his verbal tic is preceeded by a period of stuttering.
* TwinTropes: Connor and Murphy are fraternal twins, though they don't fit many TwinTropes besides TwinTelepathy (which is the only way they could have the same dream in both the first film and the sequel, and a mild variant of PolarOppositeTwins.
* UltimateJobSecurity: Arguably Detective Greenly, who is somewhat incompetent compared to Smecker (and even Dolly and Duffy to an extent). However, he is only shown as being bad at making theories, not at ''everything''. Also, Greenly claims in the second film that he, Dolly, and Duffy have put away half the guys that are in prison. While he was obviously exaggerating, the other characters wouldn't hesitate to [[DudeWheresMyRespect take the piss out of him]] if it was a total lie.
* VigilanteMan: What the brothers become.
* WallOfWeapons: The underground storage bunker that they get their stock from.
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* AirVentPassageway: Subverted and Lampshaded - the brothers use an air vent to get into the Russian Mobster's meeting, but get lost. They only end up in the right place because they start fighting each other and cause the vent to break through the ceiling, dumping them right into the correct room. Later, Smecker lampshades this, noting that they're amateurs because [[AirVentPassageway Air Vent Escapes]] only happen on TV and no pro would try it.
* AlmightyJanitor: In dealing with the Saints, Yakavetta turns to retired mobster Augustus DiStephano, who works as a bathroom attendant. He is apparently well-connected enough to get Il Duce out of prison.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: {{Invoked}}; the end credits show a reporter interviewing people on their wildly varying views on the Saints.
* AmusingInjuries: They tie a Russian gangster to a bar top and [[RumpRoast set his ass on fire]].
** Later, one of the two Russian gangsters gets a toilet dropped directly on his cranium. There are many, many other examples. Let's just say that this film ties with ''TropicThunder'' in the [[RefugeinAudacity Hilarious Carnage department]].
* {{Angrish}}: Loads and loads. Of note is Rocco's reaction to the Copley Plaza massacre is one of these involving a ClusterFBomb.
-->'''Rocco''': Fucking... what the fucking fuck... who the fuck fucked this fucking... how did you two fucking fucks... FUCK!
-->'''Connor''': Well, that certainly illustrates the ''diversity'' of the word.
* ApatheticCitizens: "Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men."
* AssholeVictim: Just about every one of the Saints' victims, but Vincenzo, the Sick Mob Man, and Papa Joe himself in particular.
* BarBrawl: The [=MacManuses=] throw down with the Russian mob dudes early on in the movie and sets the events of the film in motion.
* BondVillainStupidity: Papa Joe shoots [[spoiler:Rocco]], but leaves [[spoiler:the [=MacManuses=]]] bound. May be justified by him wanting to question [[spoiler:the brothers]] some more and thinking of [[spoiler:Rocco]] as dead weight.
* CassandraTruth: The ButtMonkey detectives of the Boston Police are so wildly wrong in the first part of the movie that when they finally start getting it right later on, Smecker doesn't believe them.
* CareerKillers: Rocco drives a "sick fuck" hitman to his job, where he proceeds to wipe out [[CompleteMonster an entire family]]. The three face another, more {{Badass}} hitman in the form of Il Duce shortly after finishing off the first.
* ClusterFBomb: See Angrish, above. According to IMDB, the word is dropped 246 times.
* {{Confessional}}
* CouldntFindALighter: One of the brothers lights a cigarette using the flame from his gas stove.
* CreativeClosingCredits
* CreatorCameo: Duffy is seen in the bar, wearing overalls.
* TheDanza: Carmine Distephano plays Augustus Distephano, a retired mob boss. Also, a man named David Della Rocco is played by none other than David Della Rocco.
* DareToBeBadass: In a way, the priest's sermon in the beginning of the film:
-->''Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men. ''
* DumbassHasAPoint: Greenly. He manages to correctly state the motive behind the MacManus brothers' murders ("They were all bad guys. Now, they're dead bad guys.") as well as the number of hitmen sent after them ("What if it was one guy with six guns?"), only to have his conclusions immediately shot down by Smecker.
* {{Flashback}}: All the hits except the last are shown like this, usually involving Agent Smecker working out what happened. Eventually Smecker and the Saints are shown in the same scene, showing how Smecker now identifies with them.
* FreudWasRight: One of the detectives [[FreudianSlip accidentally]] says "fag man" instead of "fat man" in front of Agent Smecker (who even comments that "[[TropeNamer Freud was right]]").
* GenreSavvy: The [=MacManus brothers=] and Agent Smecker both repeatedly comment on their exploits whenever they resemble TV or action movies.
* GoryDiscretionShot: As soon as the McManus brothers [[spoiler:and their father Il Duce]] have finished with their prayer during the last scene of the movie, they [[spoiler:blow off Don Yakavetta's head with two silenced Beretta 92's [[YourHeadASplode AND]] a Franchi PA3/215 shotgun]]. Obviously, we don't see the carnage, as it cuts to a shot showing Smecker's horrified expression before he closes his eyes and turns away
** Note that he only shuts his eyes a split second AFTER the shotgun fired, meaning that he saw what we didn't in that scene.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: The scene with the cat.
** An aversion can be seen in that same scene. Even though Murphy and Connor are hammered out of their minds and play around with their guns for most of the scene, neither of them have a magazine fed into their weapons. Rocco having his gun loaded and chambered is explained by him being "kind of an idiot".
* LzheRusskie: Fat Man is the only Russian played by actual Russian.
* OhCrap: After Smecker infiltrates Don Yakavetta's home, and comes across a mook with his throat cut. [[spoiler:Il Duce then comes up behind Smecker and gives him a TapOnTheHead, [[WholesomeCrossdresser having mistaken him for a woman]].]]
** Earlier in the same film, after Yakavetta's men have [[spoiler:captured the Saints, and realized that Il Duce, whom they hired to kill the Saints and loves killing Mafiosos ''isn't going to stop until he's killed somebody'']].
* PantsPositiveSafety: Rocco.
* PaperThinDisguise: Willem Dafoe makes as convincing a woman as [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Bugs Bunny]] does. And like Bugs, he has extreme good fortune to "seduce" the one guy on earth [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy thick enough]] to be fooled by his getup.
* RoomDisservice: Rocco's attempted hit on the Russians.
* ShippedInShackles: Il Duce (who provides the page image for this trope) is moved from his cell to the ground floor for a parole hearing. He is cuffed hand and foot, chained to a rolling platform, and wheeled down to the parole board. The entire prison is put on high-alert, with shotgun-wielding guards on every floor, all to move one man down a few flights of stairs. Once he's there, they even put him inside a metal cage to protect the parole board.
* ShurFineGuns: Rocco's Beretta 92, which goes off just from slamming his fists on the table it's laying on.
* ShoutOutInNameOnly: "[[TheMafia Yakavetta]]" is the last name of one of Troy Duffy's best friends.
* SuspiciouslySpecificSermon: A monsignor delivers a sermon referencing the Kitty Genovese case, saying "now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men." The brothers [=McManus=], after leaving the church, feel called to action and spend the rest of the movie killing off various heavyweights of Boston's organized crime world.
* VigilanteExecution: Inside a courtroom no less.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Saints as a whole.
* [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic What Do You Mean Its Not Symbology]]
* YouGetMeCoffee: Whenever Detective Greenly would say something stupid or mouth off to Agent Smecker, he would be dispatched to fetch coffee and bagels.
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* ArtShift: The envisioned attack on the Asian drug gang is shot like a grindhouse film, with an appropriate soundtrack.
* BadBoss: Concezio Yakevetta, he breaks the jaw of one of his subordinates just because he corrected his pronunciation of a word.
* BillingDisplacement: [[EasyRider Peter]] [[GhostRider Fonda]] doesn't appear until the last 10 minutes of ''All Saint's Day'', yet still got billed over Billy Connolly (Il Duce [[spoiler:and the father of Connor and Murphy]]).
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Il Duce dies, and the brothers get imprisoned, but Smecker and Bloom are going to bust them out.]]
* BondOneLiner: Parodied in the second film when Romeo ties up a janitor and threatens him into coming up with a cool thing for Romeo to say when the gunfire stops.
* BlingBlingBang: In the sequel, the brothers get Desert Eagles with modified suppressors while Romeo gets a pair of Colt M1911s with golden silencers and grips that look like the Mexican flag.
* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The cat]] from the first film walks by when the brothers see [[spoiler:Rocco]]. Also the rope.
* CallBack: Many.
* CameraAbuse: In-universe example: Gorgeous George is having a teleconference (of sorts) with Concezio, who screams at him so much that he covers his camera lens in spittle.
* TheConspiracy: The Roman has been playing the [=MacManus=] clan against the Mafia to further his own standing for decades. [[spoiler:Also, the Catholic Church appears to be taking a more... proactive role in the fight against Evil.]]
* DareToBeBadass: Rocco's opening narration, talking about how you are either a Talker, or a Doer.
* DawsonCasting: In the sequel, Judd Nelson plays the son of the BigBad of the first film (who was played by Carlo Rota). Judd Nelson was born on 1959 and [[PlayingGertrude Carlo Rota]] was born on 1961. Do the math.
* DistractedByTheSexy: ''Greenly''. He's even more retarded than usual around Special Agent Bloom.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In the sequel, Concezio's inner circle are all upset and uneasy about his [[spoiler:supposed]] hit on a local priest.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Once cornered, [[spoiler:Concezio]] merely crosses himself and says ''[[FamousLastWords "Vaffanculo"]]'' which is [[BilingualBonus Italian for "Fuck you"]]. Not to mention a call-back to [[spoiler:his father, who did the same thing before being executed by the Saints]].
* FeetFirstIntroduction[=/=]FootFocus: For nearly a minute, in slow motion, the camera tracks Eunice Bloom's ridiculously high stiletto heels as she strides to the church.
** This counts as a CrowningMomentOfFunny if you think it's going to turn out to be Agent Smecker, who was also introduced foot-first [[spoiler:while in drag]].
* ForkliftFu
* FreudianExcuse: When Il Duce was younger, [[spoiler:his father was murdered by mobsters before his eyes]], starting off his vigilante rampage.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent[=/=]NoodleImplement: When Bloom and the Detectives are in the briefing room with the police chief, a beat cop walks in carrying a dog. The Chief immediately tells him to get out.
* GilliganCut: [[spoiler:After the Saints' hit on the Chinese.]]
** Greenly says, "They're either on their way here, or they're already here." Just as we're expecting a BadAss Entry of the Saints doing the slow walk, we instead cut to them squeezed into a Volkswagon Beetle.
* GunTwirling: Eunice Bloom twirling a revolver as she recounts the attack on the Yakavettas.
* HandCannon: In the sequel, the brothers trade in their Berettas for [[RareGuns Desert Eagles]] but it is also subverted when Romeo asks for a handgun and the brothers give him a tiny pocket pistol.
* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Romeo speaks Spanish to his uncle to ask his uncle not to embarrass him in front of the MacManus brothers. Subverted in that he doesn't realize they know Spanish too.
* {{Homage}}: Flashback scenes showing an older character's origins in crime amongst Italians in the early 1900s. [[Film/TheGodfather Sound familiar?]]
* ImportantHaircut: {{Lampshaded}}. The brothers wonder why they cut their hair since they now match their police sketches, when previously they looked "like Jesus Christ."
* InsistentTerminology: ''Special'' Agent Bloom.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: [[spoiler:Greenly]]'s last words to the Saints.
* JurisdictionFriction: Played straight.
* {{Malaproper}}: Concezio Yakkaveta uses these constantly. [[BadBoss God help you, if you correct him]].
* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:The mysterious "Roman" who masterminded the hit on the priest is revealed to be Il Duce's childhood friend Louie. Louie reveals that he was only interested in rising up the ranks of the mafia and was using Noah/Il Duce to eliminate the competition, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness afterward giving him up to the police when he was done.]] The mafia cast him out as well, but he helped rebuild the Yakavetta family after Papa Joe's demise, and let the Saints take out the rest of the Mafia so Louie can take control.]]
* ManlyTears: Romeo is rather prone to these.
* MsFanservice: Special Agent Eunice Bloom, in the Old Western getup.
* TheNapoleon: Ottilio Panza. His terminal case of short-man's disease ends up leaving plenty of evidence for the police that otherwise wouldn't have been there. Bloom even ''calls'' him Napoleon.
* NomDeGuerre: The Roman.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis
-->'''Connor:''' He was kind of a badass though.
-->'''Murphy:''' Shades of [[ClintEastwood Eastwood]]...
-->'''Connor:''' [[Film/DeathWish Charlie Bronson]]...
-->'''Rocco:''' [[JohnWayne Duke. Fucking. Wayne.]]
-->'''Both Brothers:''' ''DUKE! FUCKING! WAYNE!''
* ReplacementGoldfish: Romeo replaces [[spoiler:Rocco]] and does a pretty good job at it.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In the sequel, the brothers avenge the murder of their childhood priest. Then there's Il Duce's case mentioned under FreudianExcuse.
* RussianRoulette: Il Duce combines this with MexicanStandoff and uses it as an interrogation technique. The brothers use this to determine whether or not to let a bad guy live.
* SequelHook: The ending of the second film.
* TapOnTheHead: When pistol whipping someone, it works better when you use a gun that's bigger then the size of your palm.
* TelevisionGeography: There is an establishing shot of downtown Boston early on in the film. However, it is obviously stock footage because the Central Artery is still going through downtown which the Big Dig replaced long before this movie was made.
* TestosteronePoisoning: Rocco's monologue runs dangerously close to this. Especially the part where he suffers a FreudianSlip partway through.
* UnreliableNarrator: Special Agent Eunice Bloom's re-enactment of the bar shootout subtly [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this during the slow-mo shot of the guys shooting each other. When she walks past the last pair of guys, she mimes shooting the guy on the right twice as he takes two bullets... ''before'' the guy opposite him raises his weapon and fires off the third shot that goes into the him. She even [[AsideGlance smirks at the camera]] when this happens.
* UnwittingPawn: Concezio Yakevetta religiously followed the orders of [[spoiler:the Roman]], completely unaware that [[spoiler: Louie was actually trying to bring the Saints and their father back so they could eliminate the Yakevetta family in revenge for casting him out.]]
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: The attack on the Chinese criminals. In theory, Romeo will knock out a forklift operater via a PistolWhip to the back of his head with a HandCannon, the twins will hide inside the crate on the forklift, Romeo will drive the forklift to the criminals, the brothers will pop out of the crate and shoot all the criminals, and then do a smooth flip over the crate. In practice, [[spoiler:Romeo doesn't have a gun so the brothers give him a pocket pistol which fails to knock out the forklift operator. After scaring off the operator the brothers hide in the crate, but start bickering. This, combined with Romeo's reckless driving, [[ContinuityNod causes the crate to clumsily fall off the forklift and smash on the floor right in front of the criminals.]]]]
* TheWarOnTerror: Otillio came into the country on a visa signed by a sponsor who didn't exist, two months after the September 11th attacks. Which meant that someone pushed his paperwork through during the highest security alert in the history of the United States of America.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Romeo. An approving pat on the hand from his uncle and clear father figure results in ManlyTears from Romeo as he reflects on it later. Naturally, the brothers tease him for it.
* WithDueRespect: Lampshaded.
-->'''Eunice''': "With all due respect... man, I hate it when people say that because it is inevitably followed by a disrespectful remark. Here let me give you an example: With all due respect, detective, this matter falls under whatever jurisdiction I fuckin' say it does."
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->''"And shepherds we shall be, for Thee, my Lord, for Thee.''\\
''Power hath descended forth from Thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command.''\\
''So we shall flow a river forth to Thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be,''\\
''In Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti."''\\
-- Connor and Murphy [=MacManus=], delivering the family prayer before executing someone.
''The Boondock Saints'' was an independent film directed by Troy Duffy in 1999 about two [[{{Oireland}} Irish Catholic]] brothers from [[{{Southies}} South Boston]], Connor and Murphy [=MacManus=] (played by Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus), who become [[VigilanteMan vigilantes]] on a "MissionFromGod" after they are almost killed by Russian mobsters following a barroom brawl on St. Patrick's Day.
The brothers kill the mobsters and then turn themselves into the police, though they are quickly released on their self-defense plea. They learn the location of the syndicate's leaders, then kill them all. They are quickly joined by their best friend David Della Rocco (played by an actor who [[TheDanza shares the name]]), a package boy for the local Italian mafia, who enlists their help in taking down his former syndicate after he is sold out by his bosses Papa Joe and Vincenzo.
FBI Agent Paul Smecker (played by Willem Dafoe) is on the case of the vigilantes, and as the bad guy body count continues to rise and the brothers become local heroes, Smecker has to decide whether he wants to catch the killers or join them.
Everything comes to a head when the Italians, tired of being picked off like flies, call in the mysterious hitman Il Duce (played by comedian Billy Connolly in one of his rare dramatic roles) to kill Rocco, who they believe is responsible for the killings. When the three Saints and the Duke collide, all hell quickly breaks loose; and when it is finally learned just who Il Duce is, the stage is set for a final reckoning that will bring the South Boston mob to its knees.
''The Boondock Saints'' ran for all of a week in only a few theaters because no major distributor would touch the film after Duffy's falling out with his initial executive producer Harvey Weinstein. (The recent crackdown on violent action and horror movies and media in general following the school shooting at UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} High School earlier that year [[TooSoon didn't help things either]].) But when it was released several years later on FOX DVD, the movie became a ''massive'' [[CultClassic cult success]]. Fans compare the film to QuentinTarantino's classics ''ReservoirDogs'' and ''PulpFiction'', and RobertRodriguez's ''{{Desperado}}''. A sequel called ''The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day'' was rumored for years (the first film ends on one hell of a cliffhanger) and was finally released on October 30, 2009.
The film ''Overnight'' details Troy Duffy's [[SmallNameBigEgo inflation of ego]] during the making of the film. He kinda [[PrimaDonnaDirector went off the rails]], a bit. While he has tried to [[http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/10/28/the-filmcast-interview-troy-duffy-director-of-the-boondock-saints-2-all-saints-day/ apologize for his past behavior]], if you watch the doc you'll get a better idea of why we had to wait ''ten years'' for the sequel.
It is especially popular for St. Paddy's Day drinking games, where if you sip every time someone curses, you're hammered by 30 minutes in. Because of this, some people have never seen the whole movie, nor seen it sober.
Has a [[Characters/TheBoondockSaints Character Sheet]] that is in desperate need of more love.
Not to be confused with ''TheBoondocks''.
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* AnachronicOrder: One of the reasons it is compared to QuentinTarantino. The majority of the movies show investigators poring over the fight scenes first, and [[HowWeGotHere figuring out what happened.]] Their narration may or may not be correct due to [[UnreliableNarrator missing something, or outright lying]].
* AntiVillain: Everyone on the side of the brothers.
* AsHimself: David Della Rocco.
* AsTheGoodBookSays
* AudienceParticipation: Mostly for the first one, but its cult status has led to some fan screenings, including a few in 2009 on the tenth anniversary of the film's release.
* BackToBackBadasses: The [=MacManus=] brothers occasionally do this.
* BadassGrandpa: Il Duce. [[spoiler:Turns out to be the Saints' daddy. Technically, he isn't a grandpa though.]]
* BadassLongcoat: Il Duce and Rocco. The [=MacManus=] twins are {{Badass}} ''Pea''coats; which, considering Boston in March, is a lot more practical. Detective Eunice Bloom in the sequel imagines herself as a GunTwirling cowgirl wearing a duster during one of her summations of the Saints' hits.
* BerserkButton: Go on. Just [[TemptingFate try]] to bring harm to either of the brothers. Chances are the last thing you'll see is a [[UndignifiedDeath toilet crashing down on your head.]]
* BilingualBonus: Particularly in the sequel, not all of the foreign languages are subtitled.
* BillingDisplacement: Willem Dafoe is ''not'' the main character.
* {{Bromance}} [[RomanceOnTheSet On The Set]]: Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus remained friends throughout the eight-year gap between movies. This is especially obvious in interviews, where Norman is often the subject of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO8KMZZjUwE#t=2m13s much fraternal ribbing]].
* ButtMonkey: Greenly and, to a lesser extent, Dolly and Duffy. Rocco and Romeo have their moments too.
* CaliforniaDoubling: Both films are set in Boston, but apart from the flyover establishing shots, were filmed in Toronto. The CN Tower and Toronto Dominion bank locations can be seen in various shots.
* CatchPhrase: The [=MacManus=] family prayer, as well as Greenly's "Thanks for coming out!"
* CerebusSyndrome: Both films refuse to take themselves seriously... until [[KnightOfCerebus Il Duce]] gets called in.
* ChekhovsGun: While gearing up, the brothers mock each other for getting some rope and a large bowie knife, just in case. Both items end up getting used [[spoiler: during the hotel scene]], the knife while they are carrying out the execution of the Sick Mob Man and [[spoiler:killing one of Yakavetta's men after they get free]]. The rope even makes a reappearance in the second movie.
** In the second movie, RussianRoulette.
* ChristianityIsCatholic: Justified, in that almost all of the characters who are shown to be religious are Irish, Italian, or Mexican.
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Spanish, the movie is known as ''Los Santos del Infierno'', or "The Saints of Hell."
* DevelopmentHell: The second film took ''ten years'' to make due to a lack of funding and Troy Duffy's ego. The third film, thus far, seems to be in the same position. Duffy has said if negotiations go through, the story may be continued in a TV series, but the progress seems to be going slowly.
* DidNotDoTheResearch[=/=]FridgeBrilliance: An Irishman (Il Duce) would not have been able to succeed so far in the Sicilian mafia. However: [[spoiler:Il Duce was never in a position of authority. He simply liked killing mobsters, and attacked specific ones at the behest of his friend Louie (who ''is'' Italian, and rose to a position of power after killing off all his rivals)]].
** [[TookALevelInDumbass Romeo]] offers up proof of his Mexican {{Badass}}itude by pointing out that his people invented Tabasco sauce. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabasco_sauce So, uh, what part of Mexico does the [=McIlhenny=] family hail from]]?
* DueToTheDead: Played straight for the most part, particularly with the Saints' victims.
** Hilariously {{averted}} in the sequel when the Saints visit [[spoiler: Rocco]]'s grave and see that they used his mugshot for his memorial.
* MrFanservice: Multilingual vigilante twins with Irish accents? ''Yes, please.''
* EvillyAffable: The Saints, concerning their actual targets. When dealing with innocents they fall under AffablyEvil or AntiVillain.
-->Rocco: We could kill ''everyone''. (meaning, everyone in the South Boston Mafia)
-->Murphy: What do you think of that?
-->Connor: I'm strangely comfortable with it.
* FastRoping: Lampshaded by Connor and ends up being accidentally invoked by the Saints. In the sequel they play it straight... in an over-the-top way.
* FightingIrish
* FloatingHeadSyndrome: One of the most awkward examples ever.
* FreudianSlip: "Fag man" instead of "fat man," though Smecker takes it in stride. During a pep talk, Rocco has one during his RatedMForManly speech.
-->'''Rocco''': You think that the men who built all this had it easy?
-->'''Murphy''': Hard men!
-->'''Connor''': Doing hard shit!
-->'''Rocco''': And that gives me a hard-on! *RecordScratch* But not in a gay way or anything like that.
* FriendlySniper: Connor and Murphy would be friendly even if they ''weren't'' on a mission from God to shoot evil people in the head.
* GunsAkimbo: The [=MacManus=] brothers, Rocco, and especially Il Duce. In the sequel, almost everyone uses this trope.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: What we see of Il Duce's past heavily alludes to this, though it took place roughly twenty-five years prior.
* HitmanWithAHeart: Il Duce, who has a very Leon-esque code about "no women, no kids."
** The brothers as well. [[spoiler:Fitting, seeing that they are his sons]].
* HolyHitman: The twins always recite their family prayer before executing someone.
* HollywoodSilencer: The Saints almost always wield silenced pistols.
* IconicItem: The pennies that the Saints [[DueToTheDead place on their victim's eyes]], as well as Il Duce's [[MoreDakka vest full of guns.]]
** Romeo is able to figure out who they are quickly in the sequel, since not only do they ''talk'' about [[ExactEavesdropping matching their police sketches and dying their hair to reduce the risk of being recognized]], but they are a pair of Irish guys carrying a bunch of pennies.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: A toilet in the first film, as well as a billiard ball. In the second, a tattoo pen for minor comic relief.
* InspectorLestrade: Greenly. Until Smecker arrives.
* InvisibleAdvertising: As mentioned, the film was all ready to be released, but unfortunate timing meant it had to be released quietly.
** The second movie was set up this way at first, but positive reception among the fans gave it two wider releases.
* KnightOfCerebus: Whenever Il Duce gets called in around the halfway mark, [[ItGotWorse things get serious]]. Which is ''very'' odd seeing as Il Duce is played by ''BillyConnolly''.
* KnightTemplar: The brothers definitely don't play this straight, but they do occasionally exploit it to screw with people.
* LamarckWasRight: [[spoiler:This might explain how a pair of multi-lingual Irish twins who spent their lives praying, living in a broken apartment, and working at a meat plant are so good at killing off mobsters with pairs of pistols.]] TheManBehindTheMan in the sequel even lampshades it.
* {{Lampshading}}: The brothers and Smecker like to do this.
* LargeHam: Smecker, whenever he is re-enacting one of the shootouts. As well, his protegee Eunice Bloom. Connor, in general.
* ALighterShadeOfGray: "We urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the bounds and cross over into true corruption, into our domain. For if you do, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three, and on that day, ''you will reap it!''"
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Il Duce]].
* TheMafia: Italian and [[TheMafiya Russian mob.]]
* {{Malaproper}}: Doc, the bartender at [=McGinty=]'s.
* [[ManChild Men Children]]: When they're not shooting people in the head, Connor and Murphy bicker and tussle like ten year old boys.
* MissingMom: The condition of Murphy and Connor's mother [[spoiler: (and, presumably, Il Duce's estranged wife or possibly ex-wife)]] is never touched on in the released films. A deleted scene from the first film has the twins receiving an ill-timed phone call from her, but how that scene fits into canon is debatable.
* MissionFromGod
* MoralDissonance: The brothers' moral compass is a bit loose. They give Rocco a free pass, despite him having a career in the Mafia which failed only because of his own incompetence, because he's a good drinking buddy. And they are perfectly willing to buy all their guns from a man ''heavily'' implied to be [[TheTroubles IRA]]. Not to mention they seem to have no qualms about stealing from the mobsters they kill even before they receive their MissionFromGod. Also Connor [[spoiler: somehow seems to know what heroin tastes like]] in the sequel.
** Lampshaded by Rocco.
-->'''Rocco''': "Anybody ''you'' think is evil?"
-->'''Connor''': "Aye."
-->'''Rocco''': "Don't you think that's a little weird, a little psycho?"
* MotivationOnAStick: Detective Greenley humorously suggests that the only way they're going to catch the MacManus brothers is by "...dangling a potato on a string" -- of course, they walk in just as he's saying this.
-->'''Murphy:''' You'd probably have better luck with a beer.
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: All the Saints, although they did tase that housewife in the first film after getting access to her husband's poker game ([[AssholeVictim said husband and his poker buddies are all mobsters]]). But as knocking her out meant she wouldn't get in the way and inadvertently be killed in the crossfire, this is likely justified.
* NoNameGiven / UnnamedParent: One is more likely to survive in this film ''without'' a name. The brothers' names are Connor and Murphy -- which is rarely mentioned in either film while every other character gets a pause and a brief caption that literally spells out their identity. Il Duce [[spoiler:their father]] gets a caption that reveals absolutely nothing and is only addressed by his real name, [[spoiler:Noah]], in the second film. The Roman as well only gets a proper name during the last third of the second film.
* OminousLatinChanting / SoundtrackDissonance: Many of the beautiful choral hymns play over gorier scenes.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: The brothers, often.
** Justified by their {{Omniglot}} status; the brothers learned their languages well enough that their accents have been rendered about as battered as Connor MacLeod's.
** By the second movie, it seems their accents are almost intentionally bad. Julie Benz' accent is also overdone for comic effect.
* {{Omniglot}}: The brothers speak at least a half-dozen languages fluently.
* {{Overcrank}}: Nearly every action scene uses this to combine [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome hilarity]] with {{Badass}}itude. When it stops being used, [[CerebusSyndrome things get serious]].
* PapaWolf: --> [[spoiler: Il Duce]]: ''Easy boys... Daddy's working.''
* PayEvilUntoEvil
* PlayingAgainstType: Il Duce, the [[TheStoic stone-cold]] veteran [[HitmanWithAHeart hitman]], is played by ''Billy Connolly'' of all people. He's done serious roles before, but not like ''this.''
* PreMortemOneLiner: The family prayer that the brothers recite before executing someone.
* RatedMForManly: Both movies. The dream sequence in the sequel underlines this, though most people generally agree that the scene where Connor ''rips a toilet out of the floor'' is the best example in the first.
* RuleOfCool: Basically the entire franchise relies on this.
* {{Southies}}: Oh my yes. The film is quite inaccurate on the subject, [[MST3KMantra though it doesn't matter]]. Interestingly, the film's cult fandom is not especially large around South Boston.
* ShooOutTheClowns: At key points in parts 1 and 2, the plot gets more serious, the stakes get higher and the joking stops cold.
* SiblingTeam: The [=MacManus=] twins.
* SmokingIsCool: The Saints all smoke, [[EverybodySmokes as do many other characters]]. WordOfGod says that during the Il Duce firefight in the first film, they needed to put a cigar in Billy Connolly's mouth because he [[TriggerHappy would not stop smiling.]]
* ThrowAwayGuns: Il Duce's signature gun vest.
* TourettesShitcockSyndrome: The bartender Doc. There has been some attempt at realism here, though. Doc has motor tics as well as verbal ones, and his verbal tic is preceeded by a period of stuttering.
* TwinTropes: Connor and Murphy are fraternal twins, though they don't fit many TwinTropes besides TwinTelepathy (which is the only way they could have the same dream in both the first film and the sequel, and a mild variant of PolarOppositeTwins.
* UltimateJobSecurity: Arguably Detective Greenly, who is somewhat incompetent compared to Smecker (and even Dolly and Duffy to an extent). However, he is only shown as being bad at making theories, not at ''everything''. Also, Greenly claims in the second film that he, Dolly, and Duffy have put away half the guys that are in prison. While he was obviously exaggerating, the other characters wouldn't hesitate to [[DudeWheresMyRespect take the piss out of him]] if it was a total lie.
* VigilanteMan: What the brothers become.
* WallOfWeapons: The underground storage bunker that they get their stock from.
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* AirVentPassageway: Subverted and Lampshaded - the brothers use an air vent to get into the Russian Mobster's meeting, but get lost. They only end up in the right place because they start fighting each other and cause the vent to break through the ceiling, dumping them right into the correct room. Later, Smecker lampshades this, noting that they're amateurs because [[AirVentPassageway Air Vent Escapes]] only happen on TV and no pro would try it.
* AlmightyJanitor: In dealing with the Saints, Yakavetta turns to retired mobster Augustus DiStephano, who works as a bathroom attendant. He is apparently well-connected enough to get Il Duce out of prison.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: {{Invoked}}; the end credits show a reporter interviewing people on their wildly varying views on the Saints.
* AmusingInjuries: They tie a Russian gangster to a bar top and [[RumpRoast set his ass on fire]].
** Later, one of the two Russian gangsters gets a toilet dropped directly on his cranium. There are many, many other examples. Let's just say that this film ties with ''TropicThunder'' in the [[RefugeinAudacity Hilarious Carnage department]].
* {{Angrish}}: Loads and loads. Of note is Rocco's reaction to the Copley Plaza massacre is one of these involving a ClusterFBomb.
-->'''Rocco''': Fucking... what the fucking fuck... who the fuck fucked this fucking... how did you two fucking fucks... FUCK!
-->'''Connor''': Well, that certainly illustrates the ''diversity'' of the word.
* ApatheticCitizens: "Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men."
* AssholeVictim: Just about every one of the Saints' victims, but Vincenzo, the Sick Mob Man, and Papa Joe himself in particular.
* BarBrawl: The [=MacManuses=] throw down with the Russian mob dudes early on in the movie and sets the events of the film in motion.
* BondVillainStupidity: Papa Joe shoots [[spoiler:Rocco]], but leaves [[spoiler:the [=MacManuses=]]] bound. May be justified by him wanting to question [[spoiler:the brothers]] some more and thinking of [[spoiler:Rocco]] as dead weight.
* CassandraTruth: The ButtMonkey detectives of the Boston Police are so wildly wrong in the first part of the movie that when they finally start getting it right later on, Smecker doesn't believe them.
* CareerKillers: Rocco drives a "sick fuck" hitman to his job, where he proceeds to wipe out [[CompleteMonster an entire family]]. The three face another, more {{Badass}} hitman in the form of Il Duce shortly after finishing off the first.
* ClusterFBomb: See Angrish, above. According to IMDB, the word is dropped 246 times.
* {{Confessional}}
* CouldntFindALighter: One of the brothers lights a cigarette using the flame from his gas stove.
* CreativeClosingCredits
* CreatorCameo: Duffy is seen in the bar, wearing overalls.
* TheDanza: Carmine Distephano plays Augustus Distephano, a retired mob boss. Also, a man named David Della Rocco is played by none other than David Della Rocco.
* DareToBeBadass: In a way, the priest's sermon in the beginning of the film:
-->''Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men. ''
* DumbassHasAPoint: Greenly. He manages to correctly state the motive behind the MacManus brothers' murders ("They were all bad guys. Now, they're dead bad guys.") as well as the number of hitmen sent after them ("What if it was one guy with six guns?"), only to have his conclusions immediately shot down by Smecker.
* {{Flashback}}: All the hits except the last are shown like this, usually involving Agent Smecker working out what happened. Eventually Smecker and the Saints are shown in the same scene, showing how Smecker now identifies with them.
* FreudWasRight: One of the detectives [[FreudianSlip accidentally]] says "fag man" instead of "fat man" in front of Agent Smecker (who even comments that "[[TropeNamer Freud was right]]").
* GenreSavvy: The [=MacManus brothers=] and Agent Smecker both repeatedly comment on their exploits whenever they resemble TV or action movies.
* GoryDiscretionShot: As soon as the McManus brothers [[spoiler:and their father Il Duce]] have finished with their prayer during the last scene of the movie, they [[spoiler:blow off Don Yakavetta's head with two silenced Beretta 92's [[YourHeadASplode AND]] a Franchi PA3/215 shotgun]]. Obviously, we don't see the carnage, as it cuts to a shot showing Smecker's horrified expression before he closes his eyes and turns away
** Note that he only shuts his eyes a split second AFTER the shotgun fired, meaning that he saw what we didn't in that scene.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: The scene with the cat.
** An aversion can be seen in that same scene. Even though Murphy and Connor are hammered out of their minds and play around with their guns for most of the scene, neither of them have a magazine fed into their weapons. Rocco having his gun loaded and chambered is explained by him being "kind of an idiot".
* LzheRusskie: Fat Man is the only Russian played by actual Russian.
* OhCrap: After Smecker infiltrates Don Yakavetta's home, and comes across a mook with his throat cut. [[spoiler:Il Duce then comes up behind Smecker and gives him a TapOnTheHead, [[WholesomeCrossdresser having mistaken him for a woman]].]]
** Earlier in the same film, after Yakavetta's men have [[spoiler:captured the Saints, and realized that Il Duce, whom they hired to kill the Saints and loves killing Mafiosos ''isn't going to stop until he's killed somebody'']].
* PantsPositiveSafety: Rocco.
* PaperThinDisguise: Willem Dafoe makes as convincing a woman as [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Bugs Bunny]] does. And like Bugs, he has extreme good fortune to "seduce" the one guy on earth [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy thick enough]] to be fooled by his getup.
* RoomDisservice: Rocco's attempted hit on the Russians.
* ShippedInShackles: Il Duce (who provides the page image for this trope) is moved from his cell to the ground floor for a parole hearing. He is cuffed hand and foot, chained to a rolling platform, and wheeled down to the parole board. The entire prison is put on high-alert, with shotgun-wielding guards on every floor, all to move one man down a few flights of stairs. Once he's there, they even put him inside a metal cage to protect the parole board.
* ShurFineGuns: Rocco's Beretta 92, which goes off just from slamming his fists on the table it's laying on.
* ShoutOutInNameOnly: "[[TheMafia Yakavetta]]" is the last name of one of Troy Duffy's best friends.
* SuspiciouslySpecificSermon: A monsignor delivers a sermon referencing the Kitty Genovese case, saying "now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men." The brothers [=McManus=], after leaving the church, feel called to action and spend the rest of the movie killing off various heavyweights of Boston's organized crime world.
* VigilanteExecution: Inside a courtroom no less.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Saints as a whole.
* [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic What Do You Mean Its Not Symbology]]
* YouGetMeCoffee: Whenever Detective Greenly would say something stupid or mouth off to Agent Smecker, he would be dispatched to fetch coffee and bagels.
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* ArtShift: The envisioned attack on the Asian drug gang is shot like a grindhouse film, with an appropriate soundtrack.
* BadBoss: Concezio Yakevetta, he breaks the jaw of one of his subordinates just because he corrected his pronunciation of a word.
* BillingDisplacement: [[EasyRider Peter]] [[GhostRider Fonda]] doesn't appear until the last 10 minutes of ''All Saint's Day'', yet still got billed over Billy Connolly (Il Duce [[spoiler:and the father of Connor and Murphy]]).
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Il Duce dies, and the brothers get imprisoned, but Smecker and Bloom are going to bust them out.]]
* BondOneLiner: Parodied in the second film when Romeo ties up a janitor and threatens him into coming up with a cool thing for Romeo to say when the gunfire stops.
* BlingBlingBang: In the sequel, the brothers get Desert Eagles with modified suppressors while Romeo gets a pair of Colt M1911s with golden silencers and grips that look like the Mexican flag.
* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The cat]] from the first film walks by when the brothers see [[spoiler:Rocco]]. Also the rope.
* CallBack: Many.
* CameraAbuse: In-universe example: Gorgeous George is having a teleconference (of sorts) with Concezio, who screams at him so much that he covers his camera lens in spittle.
* TheConspiracy: The Roman has been playing the [=MacManus=] clan against the Mafia to further his own standing for decades. [[spoiler:Also, the Catholic Church appears to be taking a more... proactive role in the fight against Evil.]]
* DareToBeBadass: Rocco's opening narration, talking about how you are either a Talker, or a Doer.
* DawsonCasting: In the sequel, Judd Nelson plays the son of the BigBad of the first film (who was played by Carlo Rota). Judd Nelson was born on 1959 and [[PlayingGertrude Carlo Rota]] was born on 1961. Do the math.
* DistractedByTheSexy: ''Greenly''. He's even more retarded than usual around Special Agent Bloom.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In the sequel, Concezio's inner circle are all upset and uneasy about his [[spoiler:supposed]] hit on a local priest.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Once cornered, [[spoiler:Concezio]] merely crosses himself and says ''[[FamousLastWords "Vaffanculo"]]'' which is [[BilingualBonus Italian for "Fuck you"]]. Not to mention a call-back to [[spoiler:his father, who did the same thing before being executed by the Saints]].
* FeetFirstIntroduction[=/=]FootFocus: For nearly a minute, in slow motion, the camera tracks Eunice Bloom's ridiculously high stiletto heels as she strides to the church.
** This counts as a CrowningMomentOfFunny if you think it's going to turn out to be Agent Smecker, who was also introduced foot-first [[spoiler:while in drag]].
* ForkliftFu
* FreudianExcuse: When Il Duce was younger, [[spoiler:his father was murdered by mobsters before his eyes]], starting off his vigilante rampage.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent[=/=]NoodleImplement: When Bloom and the Detectives are in the briefing room with the police chief, a beat cop walks in carrying a dog. The Chief immediately tells him to get out.
* GilliganCut: [[spoiler:After the Saints' hit on the Chinese.]]
** Greenly says, "They're either on their way here, or they're already here." Just as we're expecting a BadAss Entry of the Saints doing the slow walk, we instead cut to them squeezed into a Volkswagon Beetle.
* GunTwirling: Eunice Bloom twirling a revolver as she recounts the attack on the Yakavettas.
* HandCannon: In the sequel, the brothers trade in their Berettas for [[RareGuns Desert Eagles]] but it is also subverted when Romeo asks for a handgun and the brothers give him a tiny pocket pistol.
* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Romeo speaks Spanish to his uncle to ask his uncle not to embarrass him in front of the MacManus brothers. Subverted in that he doesn't realize they know Spanish too.
* {{Homage}}: Flashback scenes showing an older character's origins in crime amongst Italians in the early 1900s. [[Film/TheGodfather Sound familiar?]]
* ImportantHaircut: {{Lampshaded}}. The brothers wonder why they cut their hair since they now match their police sketches, when previously they looked "like Jesus Christ."
* InsistentTerminology: ''Special'' Agent Bloom.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: [[spoiler:Greenly]]'s last words to the Saints.
* JurisdictionFriction: Played straight.
* {{Malaproper}}: Concezio Yakkaveta uses these constantly. [[BadBoss God help you, if you correct him]].
* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:The mysterious "Roman" who masterminded the hit on the priest is revealed to be Il Duce's childhood friend Louie. Louie reveals that he was only interested in rising up the ranks of the mafia and was using Noah/Il Duce to eliminate the competition, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness afterward giving him up to the police when he was done.]] The mafia cast him out as well, but he helped rebuild the Yakavetta family after Papa Joe's demise, and let the Saints take out the rest of the Mafia so Louie can take control.]]
* ManlyTears: Romeo is rather prone to these.
* MsFanservice: Special Agent Eunice Bloom, in the Old Western getup.
* TheNapoleon: Ottilio Panza. His terminal case of short-man's disease ends up leaving plenty of evidence for the police that otherwise wouldn't have been there. Bloom even ''calls'' him Napoleon.
* NomDeGuerre: The Roman.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis
-->'''Connor:''' He was kind of a badass though.
-->'''Murphy:''' Shades of [[ClintEastwood Eastwood]]...
-->'''Connor:''' [[Film/DeathWish Charlie Bronson]]...
-->'''Rocco:''' [[JohnWayne Duke. Fucking. Wayne.]]
-->'''Both Brothers:''' ''DUKE! FUCKING! WAYNE!''
* ReplacementGoldfish: Romeo replaces [[spoiler:Rocco]] and does a pretty good job at it.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In the sequel, the brothers avenge the murder of their childhood priest. Then there's Il Duce's case mentioned under FreudianExcuse.
* RussianRoulette: Il Duce combines this with MexicanStandoff and uses it as an interrogation technique. The brothers use this to determine whether or not to let a bad guy live.
* SequelHook: The ending of the second film.
* TapOnTheHead: When pistol whipping someone, it works better when you use a gun that's bigger then the size of your palm.
* TelevisionGeography: There is an establishing shot of downtown Boston early on in the film. However, it is obviously stock footage because the Central Artery is still going through downtown which the Big Dig replaced long before this movie was made.
* TestosteronePoisoning: Rocco's monologue runs dangerously close to this. Especially the part where he suffers a FreudianSlip partway through.
* UnreliableNarrator: Special Agent Eunice Bloom's re-enactment of the bar shootout subtly [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this during the slow-mo shot of the guys shooting each other. When she walks past the last pair of guys, she mimes shooting the guy on the right twice as he takes two bullets... ''before'' the guy opposite him raises his weapon and fires off the third shot that goes into the him. She even [[AsideGlance smirks at the camera]] when this happens.
* UnwittingPawn: Concezio Yakevetta religiously followed the orders of [[spoiler:the Roman]], completely unaware that [[spoiler: Louie was actually trying to bring the Saints and their father back so they could eliminate the Yakevetta family in revenge for casting him out.]]
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: The attack on the Chinese criminals. In theory, Romeo will knock out a forklift operater via a PistolWhip to the back of his head with a HandCannon, the twins will hide inside the crate on the forklift, Romeo will drive the forklift to the criminals, the brothers will pop out of the crate and shoot all the criminals, and then do a smooth flip over the crate. In practice, [[spoiler:Romeo doesn't have a gun so the brothers give him a pocket pistol which fails to knock out the forklift operator. After scaring off the operator the brothers hide in the crate, but start bickering. This, combined with Romeo's reckless driving, [[ContinuityNod causes the crate to clumsily fall off the forklift and smash on the floor right in front of the criminals.]]]]
* TheWarOnTerror: Otillio came into the country on a visa signed by a sponsor who didn't exist, two months after the September 11th attacks. Which meant that someone pushed his paperwork through during the highest security alert in the history of the United States of America.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Romeo. An approving pat on the hand from his uncle and clear father figure results in ManlyTears from Romeo as he reflects on it later. Naturally, the brothers tease him for it.
* WithDueRespect: Lampshaded.
-->'''Eunice''': "With all due respect... man, I hate it when people say that because it is inevitably followed by a disrespectful remark. Here let me give you an example: With all due respect, detective, this matter falls under whatever jurisdiction I fuckin' say it does."
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