History Trivia / HotFuzz

* QuoteSource: This film provides the page quote for:
** EveryoneIsArmed
** FiringInTheAirALot
** LeapAndFire
** ReallySeventeenYearsOld
** ShutUPKirk

* HeyItsThatSound: At the very beginning of the film, Thomas and Percy's whistles from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' can be heard in a high pitch in the Universal logo. Though this is largely because the opening is a sound collage of the various whistles / sirens that the British police service has employed throughout the ages, and a police whistle was employed for the sound effects in the earlier show.

* HeyItsThatSound: At the very beginning of the film, Thomas and Percy's whistles from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' can be heard in a high pitch in the Universal logo.

* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/SimonPegg normally plays lazy slackers, but his character here doesn't even crack a smile until an hour in.

* HeyItsThatSound: At the very beginning of the film, Thomas's whistle from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' can be heard in a high pitch in the Universal logo.

* PromotedFanboy: Creator/JimBroadbent was a big fan of ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' and asked them for a role in Creator/SimonPegg and Creator/EdgarWright's next film. They wrote the part of Inspector Butterman for him.

* FanPreferredCutContent: The various deleted scenes following the "hoodies" are well-liked, and most fans agree that there are multiple good reasons they should have been kept. Those scenes set up how they help Nicholas in the climax, provide more {{Foreshadowing}} about how [[spoiler:there can be a group of identically-dressed miscreants working together]] and [[spoiler:make the [=NWA=] seem even more creepy with their willingness to target a member's grandson.]]

* Hot Fuzz is one of the [[https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-complete-list-of-movies-and-tv-shows-on-the-interna-1782918945 533 listed movies and Tv shows on board the International Space Station.]]

* Hot Fuzz is one of the 533 listed movies and Tv shows on board the International Space Station.

* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/JimBroadbent was a big fan of ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' and asked them for a role in Creator/SimonPegg and Creator/EdgarWright's next film. They wrote the part of Inspector Butterman for him.

* StillbornFranchise: Simon Pegg himself was considering an idea for a Hot Fuzz sequel where Danny Butterman has to deal with big city criminals, a reversal of how Nicholas Angel had to deal with small town criminals.

** When Angel confronts Skinner the first time, he lists his motive as involving a land ownership scheme involving most of the victims which Tim Merchant had uncovered. Originally the RedHerring was a far bigger subplot, with many scenes of Angel investigating the victims to come up with with that motive for their death. But as this was never meant to be more than a RedHerring, it was felt it padded the movie too much and most of the scenes were cut, reducing the plot a quick montage of Angel decrypting Tim Messengers' typos, and a speech Leslie Tiller gives to Angel shortly before her death, leaving it to feel like Angel sort of came up with the reasons Skinner killed so many people out of nowhere.

* ActorAllusion: There are multiple references to Simon Pegg and Nick Frost playing the leads of ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''.
** "What are you thinking?" "...Pub?"
** The Cornettos.
** "Yeeeeeaaaah boy!"
** Unlike Shaun, Angel knows what "exacerbate" means.
** "What's the matter? Haven't you ever take a shortcut before?"
** Danny ''almost'' points out to Nicholas that he's got red on him; Nicholas stops him from speaking.
** Just before dying, [[Creator/EdwardWoodward Tom Weaver]] mutters "Oh god", just as he did in ''Film/TheWickerMan1973''.

* CastingGag: In addition to Creator/TimothyDalton, several key members of the [=NWA=] were cast because their actors had famously played the bad guy at one point, thus hinting at their true nature in the film:
** Billie Whitelaw (Mrs. Cooper) was the sinister Satanist nanny of Damien in ''Film/TheOmen''.
** Stuart Wilson (Dr. Hatcher) was the corrupt cop/gun-runner in ''Film/LethalWeapon3''.
** Paul Freeman (Rev. Shooter) was Franchise/IndianaJones's rival archaeologist Belloq in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.
** And while not quite a bad guy, Creator/EdwardWoodward (Professor Weaver) famously played [[Film/TheWickerMan1973 another overly-straitlaced cop who found himself investigating sinister doings revolving around a fanatical cult of small villagers]].

* CastingGag: In addition to Creator/TimothyDalton, several key members of the [=NWA=] were cast because their actors had played the bad guy in a big Hollywood production, thus hinting at their true nature in the film:

* PlayingWithCharacterType: The gag of the main villain[[spoiler:s is that they're all played by old Shakespearean actors and BBC fodder, the last group of people you would expect to be the gun-toting action movie villains. Creator/JimBroadbent normally plays warm avuncular characters, not the BigBad of a murder ring.]]

* PlayingWithCharacterType: Creator/JimBroadbent normally plays warm avuncular characters. [[spoiler:He appears to be one of these but is actually the BigBad.]]

** When Angel confronts Skinner the first time, he lists his motive as involving a land ownership scheme involving most of the victims which Tim Merchant had uncovered. Originally the RedHerring was a far bigger subplot, with many scenes of Angel investigating the victims to come up with with that motive for their death. But as this was never meant to be more than a RedHerring, it was felt it padded the movie too much and most of the scenes were cut, reducing the plot a quick montage of Angel decrypting Tim Messengers' typos, and a speech Leslie Tiller gives in the background to Danny shortly before her death, leaving it to feel like Angel sort of came up with the reasons Skinner killed so many people out of nowhere.

* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/Jim Broadbent was a big fan of ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' and asked them for a role in Creator/SimonPegg and Creator/EdgarWright's next film. They wrote the part of Inspector Butterman for him.

** Just before dying, [[Creator/EdwardWoodward Tom Weaver]] mutters "Oh god", just as he did in ''Film/TheWickerMan1973''.

** ShutUpKirk

* RealLifeRelative: The two female Village of the Year judges are played by Creator/EdgarWright's and Creator/SimonPegg's mothers. The DVDCommentary confirms this.