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* SignatureScene: The moment where Hancock shoves one prisoner's head up another's ass.
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* RomanticPlotTumor: The first half of the film makes it look like the plot is going to revolve around Hanock slowly improving both as a superhero and a person. Then suddenly him and Mary are making out and the film does a hard swerve from a BlackComedy {{Deconstruction}} to a dramatic tragic love story. As described above in BrokenBase, this did ''not'' sit well with a large portion of the viewer-base, who felt this sudden MoodWhiplash was dragging the movie down. It doesn't help that Mary is pretty much a SatelliteLoveInterest and that she and Hancock don't even get together at the end of the movie, making the whole affair feel pointless.

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* RomanticPlotTumor: The first half of the film makes it look like the plot is going to revolve around Hanock slowly improving both as a superhero and a person. Then suddenly him and Mary are making out and the film does a hard swerve from a BlackComedy {{Deconstruction}} DeconReconSwitch to a dramatic tragic love story. As described above in BrokenBase, this did ''not'' sit well with a large portion of the viewer-base, who felt this sudden MoodWhiplash was dragging the movie down. It doesn't help that Mary is pretty much a SatelliteLoveInterest and that she and Hancock don't even get together at the end of the movie, making the whole affair feel pointless.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The infamous scene in the prison where Hancock beats two inmates in a fight by '''''[[AssShove shoving one's head up the other's ass]]'''''. Even for a darkly humorous fantasy comedy, it's bizarre and silly to the point of being ''cartoonish'', it's a brief gag with no effect on the plot whatsoever, and it makes absolutely zero sense. (How does having ''{{super strength}}'' make it any easier to neatly fit a human head into a human rectum?)

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The infamous scene in the prison where Hancock beats two inmates in a fight by '''''[[AssShove shoving one's head up the other's ass]]'''''. Even for a darkly humorous fantasy comedy, it's bizarre and silly to the point of being ''cartoonish'', it's a brief gag with no effect on the plot whatsoever, and it makes absolutely zero sense. (How does having ''{{super strength}}'' make it any easier to neatly fit a human head into a human rectum?)rectum without breaking anything?)
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* UncertainAudience: The movie bills itself as a superhero comedy, and it very much plays out like one in the first half. The second half is where it shifts into being a straight superhero drama that appears to be tonally incompatible with the first half.

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* UncertainAudience: The movie bills itself as a superhero comedy, and it very much plays out like one in the first half. The second half is where it shifts into being a straight superhero drama that appears to be tonally incompatible with the first half. This makes the movie hard to figure out who it is meant for, since the swapping tone makes it seem like it wants to tell two different stories.

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* HilariousInHindsight: [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Ray bandies the word "change" in his Allheart pitch, in a 2008 movie with a black dude as superhero.]] [[note]]Bonus points for Obama specifically tagging [[Creator/WillSmith this movie's lead]] as the guy he would want to play him in a future biopic.[[/note]]

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[[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Ray bandies the word "change" in his Allheart pitch, in a 2008 movie with a black dude as superhero.]] [[note]]Bonus points for Obama specifically tagging [[Creator/WillSmith this movie's lead]] as the guy he would want to play him in a future biopic.[[/note]]
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The infamous scene in the prison where Hancock beats two inmates in a fight by '''''[[AssShove shoving one's head up the other's ass]]'''''. Even for a darkly humorous fantasy comedy, it's bizarre and silly to the point of being ''cartoonish'', it's a brief gag with no effect on the plot whatsoever, and it makes absolutely zero sense. (How does having ''{{super strength}}'' make it any easier to neatly fit a human head into a human rectum?)
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* SignatureScene: The AssShove mentioned elsewhere on this page is far and away the most memorable part of the film.
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* RomanticPlotTumor: The first half of the film makes it look like the plot is going to revolve around Hanock slowly improving both as a superhero and a person. Then suddenly him and Mary are making out and the film does a hard swerve from a BlackComedy {{Deconstruction}} to a dramatic tragic love story. As described above in BrokenBase, this did ''not'' sit well with a large portion of the viewer-base, who felt this sudden MoodWhiplash was dragging the movie down. It doesn't help that Mary is pretty much a SatelliteLoveInterest and that she and Hancock don't even get together at the end of the movie, making the whole affair feel pointless.
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* CreatorCameo: Akiva Goldsman and Creator/MichaelMann, two of the movie's producers, are among the executives Ray pitches All Heart to.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/JohnnyGalecki makes a very brief appearance at the restaurant scene greeting Hancock. Although a recurring character on ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'', this is before becoming a lot more well-known from his role in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' just the year prior. He's even [[BillingDisplacement billed ninth in the credits]] as "Jeremy."

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* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/JohnnyGalecki makes a very brief appearance at the restaurant scene greeting Hancock. Although he had been a recurring character on ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'', this is was before becoming a lot more well-known from his role in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' which had started just the year prior. He's even [[BillingDisplacement billed ninth in the credits]] as "Jeremy."" Apparently he had more scenes in the early version of the script that he auditioned for, but by the released version they were cut and he was little more than an extra.

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