History Film / TheyClonedTyrone

* TheManIsKeepingUsDown: [[spoiler:The conspiracy of the film is made up of white scientists running mind controlling experiments on the black population of the Glen with the ultimate goal of spreading their products nationwide and, over generations, suppress the physical attributes of black people. They use cloned pimps and drug dealers to keep the neighborhood in squalor so that people do not come investigating.]]
* OutOfCharacterAlert: Slick Charles begins to realize something's wrong with the fried chicken they're eating when he notices Fontaine laughing alongside him and Yo-Yo, as he verbally acknowledges that he's never seen Fontaine laugh or smile in the years he's known him.

* ArtifactTitle: Despite what the film's title says, nobody named Tyrone actually shows up in the film, and the main character dealing with the GovernmentConspiracy [[CloningBlues cloning him]] is named Fontaine. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted in TheStinger, where we finally see a clone of Fontaine named Tyrone, who is watching the news and learning about his clones.]]

* NeverTrustATitle: The name of the main character being cloned is Fontaine, not Tyrone. [[spoiler:Tyrone doesn’t show up until TheStinger.]]

* LeeroyJenkins: Fontaine is a very intelligent person and is ''usually'' the OnlySaneMan, but his FatalFlaw is his impulsiveness: once he finds a problem his immediate reaction is to barge in and get rid of it as hard as possible, damn the consequences. This is what [[spoiler: gets the first Fontaine we see killed: upon finding out someone else is selling drugs on his turn, he immediately drives over and hospitalizes the guy, earning the ire of the dealer's boss. Later, when he finds out about the existence of the lab, he's driven to rush in and storm the place to get the answers he wants even though the others note they have no idea what they're walking into.]]

* HiddenDepths: A part of Fontaine's general routine is to pass Frog, an older (implied to be homeless) man who sits outside the liquor store with a Styrofoam cup in which Fontaine will share part of whatever bottle he buys. [[spoiler:Several comments he makes, particularly to the third cloned Fontaine we see ("Got that new-car smell, youngblood") all but states that he's deduced at least part of the conspiracy himself, but is powerless to really do anything about it and just drinks instead.]]

* CowardlyLion: Slick is wily, very averse to any risky situation and would at first rather just leave everything be if they can. That doesn't mean he's unwilling to take care of himself and the others if things go down, however, and he starts increasingly putting himself at risk as he realizes that the others are being badly affected by what is going down.

* HiddenDepths: A part of Fontaine's general routine is to pass "Frog", an older (implied to be homeless) man who sits outside the liquor store with a Styrofoam cup in which Fontaine will share part of whatever bottle he buys. [[spoiler:Several comments he makes, particularly to the third cloned Fontaine we see ("Got that new-car smell, youngblood") all but states that he's deduced the conspiracy himself, but is powerless to really do anything about it and just drinks instead.]]

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* TenMinuteRetirement: After the enforcer demonstrates that [[spoiler: he can take control of them at any time, and that they're all expendable clones, Fontaine and Slick break down in self-loathing and give up, intending to just go back to their preordained lives, and leaving Yo-Yo to fight back alone. Fontaine is unable to go back after everything he's learned, however, and the both of them break out of their depression in time to save Yo-Yo and win the day together.]]

* AlmightyJanitor: Played for at first comedy and then drama with Yo-Yo. Yo-Yo's introduced as one of Slick's flighty hookers who just happened to see what happened to Fontaine, but as the story goes on she shows a competent Nancy Drew-esque knack for investigating. It eventually becomes clear that she's an incredibly talented intellectual with strong moral fiber who had dreams of becoming a reporter but was tragically unable to escape her environment. She spends a good chunk of the movie as a mix between TokenGoodTeammate and HypercompetentSidekick, before she starts forging out as TheHero in her own right in the second half as [[spoiler: Fontaine and Slick face [[FiveMinuteRetirement an existential meltdown]] at the revelation that they are clones.]]

* FiveMinuteRetirement: After the enforcer demonstrates that [[spoiler: he can take control of them at any time, and that they're all expendable clones, Fontaine and Slick break down in self-loathing and give up, intending to just go back to their preordained lives, and leaving Yo-Yo to fight back alone. Fontaine is unable to go back after everything he's learned, however, and the both of them break out of their depression in time to save Yo-Yo and win the day together.]]

* FiveMinuteForeshadowing: After the enforcer demonstrates that [[spoiler: he can take control of them at any time, and that they're all expendable clones, Fontaine and Slick break down in self-loathing and give up, intending to just go back to their preordained lives, and leaving Yo-Yo to fight back alone. Fontaine is unable to go back after everything he's learned, however, and the both of them break out of their depression in time to save Yo-Yo and win the day together.]]

* CloningBlues: A major part of the story is Fontaine's growing existential crisis over his status as a clone programmed with the memories and personality of the "real" Fontaine. [[spoiler:The matter only gets more complicated with TheReveal that there ''is'' no "real" Fontaine, as he was cloned from the head of the conspiracy and most of his memories are outright fabricated.]]

* AmbiguousTimePeriod: It's unclear what specific time period the movie takes place. The decor and technology appear to be from the '70s or '80s but some characters have cell phones, late 90s and early 2000s media like ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarePants'' and ''Film/HollowMan'' are referenced, and Yo-Yo references Bitcoin at one point.

* AmbiguousTimePeriod: It's unclear what specific time period the movie takes place. The decor and technology appear to be from the '70s or '80s but some characters have cell phones and Yo-Yo references Bitcoin at one point.

* BrickJoke: Early in the movie, Fontaine takes all of Slick Charles' savings after the latter misses a payment on his drugs. A little over an hour later we get this exchange while the two are asking around for Yo-Yo:

''[Fontaine rolls his eyes and pulls out his wallet]''

** A prisoner in the underground lab has her eyes forced open and is forced to watch footage with subliminal messages, which Slick Charles outright describes as them "''[[Film/AClockworkOrange Clockwork Orange]]''-in' niggas."

** A prisoner in the underground lab has her eyes forced open and is forced to watch footage with subliminal messages, which Slick Charles outright describes as them "[[Film/AClockworkOrange Clockwork Orange-ing]] niggas."

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The movie leaves it deliberately ambiguous what city, or even what part of the USA, the Glen is in. [[spoiler:In the final scene, where Tyrone sees the clone story breaking on national news, one of his friends starts loudly coughing right as CNN's reporter starts to mention where it is.]]

* BlandNameProduct: A fair number of these are scattered throughout the film in addition to real brands, with the strong implication that these are products developed by the conspiracy as part of their experiments. Examples include Somaaaah! lemon-lime soda, Samford & Hodges menthol cigarettes, and [[ShoutOut Anaconda Malt Liquor]].

** Similarly, the conspiracy's top enforcer at one point says that his boss is a lot like Fontaine, and that the two would "really hit it off." [[spoiler:Because the latter is a clone of the former.]]