History TakeThat / FIlm

* The Hallmark Channel made-for-TV movie ''The Santa Incident'' is just one big take that at [[LawfulStupid Homeland Security]].

* In Part 1 of ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', there is a moment where a wizard is reciting a "short" list of dead or missing witches and wizards. Among them is a witch named "Ebony Raven," who any Harry Potter fan could recognize as part of the name of Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way, a Mary Sue of epic proportions that served as the protagonist of the bad fanfiction ([[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation or]] ''[[PoesLaw satire]]'' [[TrollFic of bad fanfiction]]) ''Fanfic/MyImmortal''.

* ''Film/OfficeSpace'' did this with a character named Michael Bolton. When Samir asks Bolton why he doesn't change his name if he's dissatisfied with [[NamesTheSame sharing a name]] with the singer-songwriter, Bolton says that the other guy should change ''his'' name because he makes such bad music (the real Bolton supposedly thought the exchange was ActuallyPrettyFunny):

** The only way Ricky "Jupe" Park can [[spoiler:process his trauma]] is describing the ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' skit portraying the [[spoiler: Gordy incident]], and there was also apparently a ''[[{{Magazine/Mad}} MAD Magazine]]'' parody of what happened as well. This calls out how satirical platforms frequently try to make comedy out of [[DudeNotFunny real tragedies where real people were hurt or even killed]]. (Antlers Holst briefly mentions the tiger mauling that happened to Siegfried & Roy, and ''SNL'' [[TruthInTelevision did indeed parody this incident shortly after it happened, with Alec Baldwin as victim Roy Horn]].) Ricky, who is Asian, also mentions that he himself was played in the sketch by guest host Creator/ScottWolf (who is White) -- something else true to life, as ''SNL'' has had a long track record of blackface, brownface, and especially yellowface, and has often faced criticism for being insensitive to the races of the people that they're portraying. [[note]]Creator/JordanPeele himself is a former MadTV cast member, and was slated to play Barack Obama on SNL before contract disputes prevented him from doing so. Obama was eventually portrayed that season by Creator/FredArmisen (who is of German, Asian, and Venezuelan descent), which offended Peele so much he later felt he dodged a bullet.[[/note]]

* One of the opening scenes of ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' has a dog chewing on a toy Godzilla. ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'' was another big blockbuster the same summer.

* In ''Film/{{Twins}}'', Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's character compares his bicep to a poster for ''Rambo'' and smirks in triumph.

* The entire film ''Film/AnAmericanCarol'' was meant to be one big long TakeThat against Creator/MichaelMoore.

* The Hong Kong movie ''High Risk'' had the character Frankie Lone, an overt TakeThat by the director at Creator/JackieChan's expense -- portraying him as a boozing, womanizing fraud whose stunts were really done by the main character, played by Creator/JetLi. However, Jet Li did publicly apologize for his involvement later.

** In ''Delhi Belly'', the lead actor trio walk towards a compact car owned by one of them. One of them tells the one who owns that car that it's a really ugly vehicle, and is born when a donkey has intercourse with a rickshaw (three-wheeled minicab in India). This vehicle was a hideously modified Hyundai Santro (known as Atos abroad)- and truly looked like a product of some such incident. Hyundai did not take it lying down and got after the film's producers, in court.
** In ''Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara'' (Life doesn't come again), one of the actors says he's invested a lot of money to buy a Ferrari. He says if the investment doesn't work out, he'll be forced to settle with a Ford Fiesta. Ford did nothing.

* The Creator/{{CBS}} MadeForTVMovie ''Spring Break Shark Attack'' began with thin analogues of the entire cast of ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' being eaten by a shark. Just in case the viewers still didn't get it, a newspaper headline read "Desperate Search For Missing Housewives Continues." The film first aired opposite that show.

* One of the tidal wave scenes from ''Film/DeepImpact'' shows the water wiping out an offshore oil drilling rig, which was a TakeThat against ''Armageddon''. ''Armageddon'' didn't consider ''Film/DeepImpact'' enough of a threat to TakeThat; they took their shot at ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}'' instead.

** The movie also includes an alien theme park called "Moron Mountain" -- possibly a self-parody of the Time-Warner owned Six Flags amusement parks, Magic Mountain.

** At one point in ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'', Charlie inserts a music cassette into Bumblebee, which is Music/RickAstley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". Bumblebee immediately spits it out toward a wall, breaking it.

* ''[[Film/TheOmegaCode Megiddo]]'' was, in large part, TBN's take-that to the mainstream media, which they constantly believed to be conspiring against them. In the film, the Antichrist is the owner of a major media outlet.

* Creator/RussMeyer's service as a combat photographer in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII led him to hate Nazis, why was why he used them as objects of ridicule in his movies.

** The first episode of the series after the movie also had a dim-witted skeptic recommend ''Film/MenInBlack''.
** ''Film/IndependenceDay'' also featured a frustrated Sat TV customer care employee saying to angry customer: "Yeah, I love ''Series/TheXFiles'' too..."

* Film/TheViewAskewniverse movies have varying levels of this in each movie, but it reached fever pitch in ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'', taking shots at pop culture, themselves, their audience, and everything in-between.

* The [[SoBadItsGood hilariously over-the-top]] biker movie ''Film/{{Torque}}'' featured an opening scene in which two cars are engaged in a drag race using camera cuts and CGI effects in an obvious reference to ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious''... only for the lead character, on a motorcycle, to swoop in and easily outrun both of them. A few minutes later, he beats them both up at a gas station, quipping about the obvious inferiority of guys who drive cars. Yeah....
** Don't forget the scene where the main character repeats the line from ''Fast And The Furious''-"I live my life a quarter-mile at a time" to which Shane replies-"[[StupidestThingIveEverHeard That's the stupidest thing i've ever heard!]]"

* ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'', Creator/SteveMartin does a bit near the climax where he unzips various disguises, one of them being UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan quoting "Let's do some drills" from this film. "This doesn't make a lick of sense," muses Daffy.

** WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck suggests that they call their basketball team "The Ducks". WesternAnimation/{{Bugs|Bunny}}' response: "What kind of WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse organization would call their team the Ducks?" Besides using "Mickey Mouse" as a pejorative term, this could be considered a slam against the Creator/{{Disney}} Pictures film series ''Film/TheMightyDucks'', the animated cartoon ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries'', ''and'' the then Disney-owned NHL hockey team The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.

** WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck suggests that they call their basketball team "The Ducks". WesternAnimation/{{Bugs|Bunny}}' response: "What kind of WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse organization would call their team the Ducks?" Besides using "Mickey Mouse" as a pejorative term, this could be considered a slam against both the Creator/{{Disney}} Pictures film series ''Film/TheMightyDucks'' and the then Disney-owned NHL hockey team The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.

* ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'': "Because, unlike [[Creator/KevinCostner some]] ''[[Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves other]]'' Myth/{{Robin Hood}}s, '''I''' can speak with an English accent..."

* ''Paparazzi'', from Icon Productions (Creator/MelGibson's company), depicts photographers as amoral assholes who would cause a manslaughter if it meant getting pictures, and requires Cole Hauser to kill them one by one. When writing about the director's DVDCommentary for ''Website/TheOnion'''s "Commentary Tracks Of The Damned," Nathan Rabin quipped that he was surprised to see the deleted scenes didn't include "footage of (paparazzi) clubbing baby seals or strangling nuns."

* ''Film/{{Neighbors|2014}}'': "Have you seen a Kevin James movie?"

* Early on in ''Film/MysteryMen'', The Shoveler pulls in to his driveway and runs over a [[Series/BarneyAndFriends plush purple T-Rex]], then rips it's head off for good measure. It's a ''little'' less out of nowhere than it sounds, because he then comes in complaining about his kids leaving their toys out, but still an obvious take that.