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* IWasQuiteALooker: Shows up as part of a FreezeFrameBonus, when Shane leafs through database of the Plummer family, including one for their wizened Bulgarian nanny, Helga. Who used to be a Miss Bulgaria participant in the 80s.



* TookALevelInBadass: The Plummer kids become more confident in their abilities over the course of the movie, in addition to learning discipline and self-defense under Shane's tutelage. [[spoiler:This allows them to escape when they're held captive by Mr. Chun and knock him out on their own with relatively little difficulty]].



* IWasQuiteALooker: Shows up as part of a FreezeFrameBonus, when Shane leafs through database of the Plummer family, including one for their wizened Bulgarian nanny, Helga. Who used to be a Miss Bulgaria participant in the 80s.
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* AnyLastWords: At the climax, [[spoiler:Bill]] has Shane dead to rights at the entrance to Howard's safe and asks if he has any last words. Shane replies with the safe's activation phrase, "Say goodnight, Peter Panda"; the safe door flies open and smacks [[spoiler:Bill]] in the face, knocking him out cold.
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* IWasQuiteALooker: Shows up as part of a FreezeFrameBonus, when Shane leafs through database of the Plummer family, including one for their wizened Bulgarian nanny, Helga. Who used to be a Miss Bulgaria participant in the 80s.
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* LingerieScene: Seth walks around the house in his underwear and a shirt throughout the house in the mornings. Although briefs would be the more practical option and offer more needed support for wrestling, Seth chooses to wear boxers instead.
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* LingerieScene: Seth walks around the house in his underwear and a shirt throughout the house in the mornings. Although briefs would be the more practical option and offer more needed support for wrestling, Seth chooses to wear boxers instead.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* DeathTrapTango: Shane makes his way through GHOST's impressive series of death traps by following the steps of the Peter Panda dance.
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* EnemyMine: It's implied that Zoe and Seth do not get along, but when the first morning without their mother goes miserably, the two team up together to try and get rid of Shane.
-->'''Zoe''': You know I would never ask you for your help. But he has ''got'' to go.
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* ChildCareAndBabysittingStories: The film opens with lieutenant Shane being tasked with protecting the five Plummer kids from the enemies of their recently deceased father. The kids are a lot to handle as they dislike him at first, but they slowly warm up to their new guardian.
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After a rescue mission to save government scientist Howard Plummer ends with the scientist dead and Navy SEAL Lt. Shane Wolfe (Diesel) in the hospital, Shane is sent to protect the deceased scientist's family while their mother Julie (Creator/FaithFord) and Shane's superior Captain Bill Fawcett (Creator/ChrisPotter) go to Zurich, Switzerland, to retrieve a deposit box her husband had left there. Initially, the five kids, {{Alpha Bitch}} wannabe Zoe (Creator/BrittanySnow), rebel without a cause Seth (Creator/MaxThieriot), [[ScoutOut Firefly Scout]] Lulu (Morgan York), toddler Peter, and baby Tyler, cannot stand their new guardian and do everything they can think of to get him out. In response, Shane treats the family to some military style discipline.

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After a rescue mission to save government scientist Howard Plummer ends with the scientist dead and Navy SEAL Lt. Shane Wolfe (Diesel) in the hospital, Shane is sent to protect the deceased scientist's family while their mother Julie (Creator/FaithFord) and Shane's superior Captain Bill Fawcett (Creator/ChrisPotter) go to Zurich, Switzerland, to retrieve a deposit box her husband had left there. Initially, the five kids, {{Alpha Bitch}} wannabe Zoe (Creator/BrittanySnow), rebel without a cause Seth (Creator/MaxThieriot), [[ScoutOut Firefly Scout]] Lulu (Morgan York), (Creator/MorganYork), toddler Peter, and baby Tyler, cannot stand their new guardian and do everything they can think of to get him out. In response, Shane treats the family to some military style discipline.
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* McNinja: The two ninjas who Shane fights off are revealed to have come from North Korea.
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* RefreshinglyNormalLifeChoice: While Shane initially does not take well to being a manny in suburban Maryland, especially since the kids are all difficult in their own ways, he grows to love them and love being involved in a mundane life. After foiling the evil plot so that the family is safe, he retires from the Navy to become the high school's wrestling coach.

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* CurbStompBattle: No matter how tough a wrestling coach might be, he has nowhere near the amount of combat skill and experience as a Navy Seal.



* HateSink: Vice Principal Murney.

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* MacGuffin: The GHOST disc.

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: No matter how tough a wrestling coach might be, he has nowhere near the amount of combat skill and experience as a Navy Seal.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: No matter how tough a wrestling coach might be, he has nowhere near the amount of combat skill and experience as a Navy Seal.
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* PomPomGirl: Zoe is seen energetically practicing with the cheer squad in one scene. While she acts like a BrattyTeenageDaughter at home, she's really just depressed over the death of her father and doesn't seem to be mean or entitled toward her classmates.
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* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: There is over a decade in age between the two oldest Plummer children and their two youngest siblings.

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