Line #25 Film/TheGrayMan2022


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3	''The Gray Man'' is a [[SpyFiction spy]][=/=][[ActionGenre action]] film directed by Creator/TheRussoBrothers, based on the 2009 novel by Mark Greaney, centered on Courtland Gentry a.k.a. "Six", the titular "Gray Man": a CIA black ops operative who, after uncovering incriminating secrets about the agency, becomes subject to a manhunt by international assassins led by Lloyd Hansen, a psychopathic former colleague.
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5	Creator/RyanGosling and Creator/ChrisEvans play Six and Hansen, respectively, leading an AllStarCast that includes Creator/AnaDeArmas, Creator/RegeJeanPage, Creator/JessicaHenwick and Creator/BillyBobThornton. Frequent Russo collaborator Creator/CallanMulvey plays a key role kicking off the plot, while Creator/JuliaButters plays the MoralityPet for our protagonists.
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7	''The Gray Man'' was released in theaters on July 15, 2022, a week ahead of its July 22 release on Creator/{{Netflix}}. A sequel is in development as well as a spin-off.
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9	!!''The Grey Man'' includes examples of:
10	* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Six's dad was this, beating Six's brother to the point where Six killed him. It's also the reason he was in prison until Fitzroy pulled him out.]]
11	* ActorAllusion:
12	** During the shootout in Prague, Lloyd says, "Extra $10 million to the first guy to put a bullet in this Ken Doll's brain". Ryan Gosling was set to play Ken in the ''Franchise/{{Barbie}}'' movie.
13	** Creator/JuliaButters [[Film/OnceUponATimeInHollywood once again]] plays a little girl who is captured by a villain completely willing to hurt her, although the situation is very much real this time around.
14	* AdvertisingByAssociation: The trailer would like to remind you that this is from the directors of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', and ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.
15	* AllForNothing: The plot was kicked off by Dining Car/[[spoiler:Sierra Four]] trying to expose the crimes of [[spoiler:Denny, whose dirt is coded in an encrypted drive]], hoping that Sierra Six takes over the hunt instead by appealing to his sense of morality. By the end, despite the massive trail of bodies all over the world, [[spoiler:Denny and Suzanne were able to retrieve the very same disk and destroy it, keeping the former's dirty laundry secret]].
16	* ArmedWithPepperSpray: In their first face-off, Lloyd uses a can of pepper spray to momentarily blind Six. Later, when Six and Miranda are using a hospital's computer database to [[spoiler:track down Claire's pacemaker]], Miranda notes that he can type with more than the one finger he's using, to which Six points out that he's had several bottles of pepper spray sprayed into his eyes.
17	* AxCrazy: Lloyd, who isn't above putting innocent civilians and cops in harm's way just to kill Six.
18	* BadassInDistress: At one point in the movie, Six remarks on the fact that Miranda has had to save his life multiple times.
19	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Six spends the entire movie getting punched, shot and thrown to the ground but the only damage to his face is a single stylish gash above one eye. [[spoiler: Gender inverted in that Miranda comes out of the final show down looking far worse off than her male counterpart.]]
20	* BadBoss:
21	** Lloyd shoots one of his pilots when he explains he can't land in Vienna without losing his license. He later regularly threatens all of his subordinates.
22	** [[spoiler:Denny Carmichael]] is this, given the fact they used the agency and their operatives as a hit squad to carry out their own orders.
23	* BittersweetEnding: While [[spoiler:Suzanne manages to leverage Six and Miranda to cooperate with her in pinning the blame for all the body count on the dead Lloyd, this does mean they were able to retrieve and dispose of Denny's black ops dirt encrypted drive. At the same time, despite nominally keeping Six on a leash, he manages to escape and once again rescue Claire, with them RidingIntoTheSunset--either for this or a SequelHook]].
24	* BlackmailBackfire: Sierra Four found evidence of [[spoiler:Denny]]'s crimes and tried to blackmail him. It got him labelled as a black market dealer targeted for elimination by Sierra Six.
25	* BoringInsult: Lloyd repeatedly calls Fitzroy "boring" when he tortures him. [[spoiler: Before he sacrifices himself by blowing himself up in the climax, Fitzroy calls Lloyd the same thing.]]
26	* BoxedCrook: All six of the Sierra project field agents were criminals that Fitz recruited out of prison. If Denny is to be believed, all of them except for Six reverted back to their criminal behaviors and had to be killed or returned to prison, with Six's going rogue being covered up as him inevitably following in the footsteps of his fellows.
27	* BoyishShortHair: Suzanne has this style of hair, which Lloyd mocks as making her "look like a bitch".
28	* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:During the hospital fight, Six throws Miranda an unloaded gun and she assumes its loaded and runs off. When she protests, he notes that 'no one throws a loaded gun'. When Lloyd is holding Claire at flare gun point, he demands that Six throw him a gun. Six unloads the gun and throws it. When Lloyd protests, Six replies that 'no one throws a loaded gun']].
29	* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Claire laments "Just another Thursday" after her pacemaker has acted up and forced her to be rushed to a hospital. Six returns the line a couple of minutes later after — almost casually — [[spoiler: defeating an assassin in the Fitzroy house.]] Six also repeats this to her [[spoiler: before his climactic fight against Lloyd.]]
30	* TheCameo: Joe Russo of Creator/TheRussoBrothers, the directors, cameos as a [[spoiler:government official reviewing the events of the film]].
31	* CharacterTitle: The agents of the Sierra program are referred to as Grey Men, with [[spoiler:Six serving as the titular single "Gray Man" due to the others getting wiped out]].
32	* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Claire]] has a pacemaker which is mentioned to have a tracking chip in it so that EMT responders can be summoned in an emergency. Six later tracks [[spoiler:her]] down after [[spoiler:she]] is kidnapped by sneaking into a hospital and using their pacemaker tracking app.
33	* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Suzanne]] is a last-minute example. [[spoiler:Watching Lloyd and Six fight, she realizes she can use Lloyd as a scapegoat for all the events of the film and explains as much to Six after shooting Lloyd. She also threatens Claire's life if Six doesn't become a CIA operative, though this backfires later as he escapes and reunites with Claire, escaping the agency's grasp]].
34	* ClassifiedInformation: A rare inversion of the classic “heavily redacted file”. Six’s file is ''[[UnPerson blank]]'', and it is implied the same goes for all the other Sierra operatives. Later on we see a more standard example when [[spoiler:Six and his allies see the contents of the encrypted hard drive,]] revealing a document completely covered in black ink to highlight [[spoiler:just how much Denny’s allies are able to cover up]].
35	* ConvenientMisfire: Six claims as much during the opening mission, though it's clear that he didn't fire due to the presence of civilians near his target.
36	* CorruptBureaucrat: Denny Carmichael is this ''so hard'' it even drives Suzanne, his fellow conspirator and another dirty CIA administrator, up the wall in frustration with just how “everything is a nail, and I only do hammers” his approach to things is.
37	* CreativeClosingCredits: The credits have metal statues reenacting of scenes of the movie, entering VideoCredits when the cast comes through specific ones for each actor.
38	* CreditsGag: Earlier in the pursuit, Lloyd gets disabled by Miranda by shooting a tranq round in his ass. Later on, Creator/ChrisEvans's listing in the CreativeClosingCredits focuses on Lloyd's ass with the round too. Possibly also doubling as an ActorAllusion, especially considering how [[Characters/MCUCaptainAmerica his biggest role]] was subject to MemeticMutation in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.
39	* CueTheSun: [[spoiler: As the final battle between Six and Lloyd begins, the sun slowly starts to rise.]]
40	* DeadpanSnarker: Practically everyone is this. Not surprising, given Creator/TheRussoBrothers tenure at [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Marvel]]. [[spoiler:Chief among them, Claire, as shown during a flashback of Six babysitting her]].
41	* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: PlayedForDrama. Suzanne Brewer has this reaction when [[spoiler:Lloyd's squad causes the death of Margaret Cahill, the former head of the UK agency]].
42	* DoNotGoGentle: Possibly doubling as both [[spoiler:Margaret and Fitzroy's motivations for their HeroicSacrifice: with the former dying of cancer and the latter already bleeding out from a stray gunshot, they decided to go out on their own terms]].
43	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Both the leads immediately show what kind of people they are in their first missions shown on screen.
44	** Six directly disobeys orders from his superior and jeopardizes his mission’s success for the sole reason that a civilian child ''might'' be in the line of fire. A HitmanWithAHeart who very much stuck to his recruiting pitch of only going after the "bad guys".
45	** Lloyd [[ColdBloodedTorture electro-tortures a man]] with jumper cables ''attached to his face'', waxing faux-philosophical between charges, and referring to the torture in creepily semi-sexual terms when he takes a call from Carmichael. All in all, a sadistic, ruthless, gleefully amoral monster who's in it for the power trip as much as the paycheck.
46	* EvenEvilHasStandards:
47	** [[spoiler:Lone Wolf]] noticeably grows conflicted when he learns that [[spoiler:Lloyd was preparing to kill a young girl. It later serves as the reason for his HeelFaceTurn, handing the drive to Miranda while saying that Lloyd is not honorable]].
48	** PlayedForLaughs when Lloyd protests to [[spoiler:Six's attack on the mansion/castle]], expressing annoyance at the fact they're destroying such an ancient historical site.
49	* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler:Fitz]] asks one of their operatives to make the assassination of Six painless [[spoiler:after getting forced to call the hit by Lloyd, who has his niece hostage]].
50	* EvilIsHammy: Creator/ChrisEvans absolutely hams it up playing Lloyd Hansen.
51	* ExactWords: Miranda questions Six about what Four gave to him before he died. Six replies that it's an encrypted drive, yet he again makes himself clear that it ''cannot'' be accessed when she demands to know its contents.
52	-->'''Miranda:''' What did he give you?\
53	'''Six:''' An encrypted drive.\
54	'''Miranda:''' What's on it?\
55	'''Six:''' ''It's encrypted''.
56	* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Lloyd Hansen is a raging psychopath willing to commit horrific acts of violence to achieve his goals. He's also a grade-A {{Hunk}}, with a LanternJawOfJustice and a sculpted physique. In the finale, he uses his innocent-looking blue eyes to beg Claire not to shoot him point-blank, and it works: Claire hesitates long enough that he disarms her and takes her hostage (again).
57	* FamilyOfChoice: When babysitting Claire, Six says that Fitzroy is the closest thing he has to family, which Claire responds to by saying that that makes them family too.
58	* FauxAffablyEvil: Lloyd is cordial toward both [[spoiler:Fitzroy and Claire]], while holding them hostage and threatening them every step of the way. He [[spoiler:loses semblance of an affable persona after the disaster of a Prague mission and when Suzanne chews him out]].
59	* {{Fingore}}:
60	** Lloyd uses a pair of pliers to torture [[spoiler:Fitzroy]] by tearing off several of his fingernails.
61	** During the final battle, [[spoiler: Six gets into a grapple with Lloyd, blowing off Lloyd's left pinkie and ring fingers when Lloyd gets a grip on Six’s handgun.]]
62	* FireForgedFriends: Six and Miranda don't get along very well at first. Miranda is mad at Six for jeopardizing the original mission and only helps him to restore her own reputation and career, but she grows to trust him (especially when she learns that a child's been put in harm as a result of the mess that her and Six caused) and saves his life multiple times, and eventually he's able to open up to her about his past.
63	* ForTheEvulz: Lloyd all but states that gratuitous cruelty is his sole motivation in general.
64	-->'''Lloyd:''' That's the beauty of the private sector: I don't care about reasons.
65	* GoryDiscretionShot: During the pliers-to-the-fingernails torture scene, we don't actually see the nails get ripped out, or the bloody fingers afterward. There is, however, a close-up of the bloodied nails after the fact.
66	* HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler:Lloyd loses several of his fingers just before the final fight.]] He's still very deadly but the impairment is remarked on by Six.
67	* IHaveYourWife: Lloyd kidnaps Six's loved ones so that he can bait Six into giving up the MacGuffin, said loved ones being his mentor/surrogate father Fitzroy and Fitzroy's niece Claire.
68	-->'''Lloyd:''' You know I can't find him, [[{{Unperson}} 'cause his file doesn't exist]]. But ''your'' file? Well, that's chock-full of nuggets, some of which might make you rethink your fussy attitude. ''[shows Fitzroy a picture on his phone of a masked gunman pointing a gun at a tied up Claire]'' Now, I tried to get her to smile, but, uh…you know, kids.
69	* HedgeMaze: [[spoiler:The final fight takes place in one located near a Prague mansion.]]
70	* HeroicSacrifice: Doing triple-duty with MentorOccupationalHazard and TakingYouWithMe, no less:
71	** [[spoiler:Margaret]] chooses to stall for time to let Six and Miranda get away [[spoiler:by blowing up her own flat through a gas leak, taking the mercenaries that perforated her flat with her]].
72	** Later, [[spoiler:Fitzroy, already bleeding out from a stray shot]], also chooses to [[spoiler:stay behind and attempt to blow up Lloyd and his goons with a grenade. While Lloyd still survives this, this definitely helps to injure and wind him down enough for the later fights]].
73	* HitmanWithAHeart: Six [[spoiler:and later revealed, Lone Wolf,]] as a stark contrast to the PsychoForHire Hansen. Both are completely unwilling to harm children, to the point of [[spoiler:jeopardizing their standing with their employers]]. The former explicitly tries to clear out (not just minimise, clear out) civilian casualties from danger, while the film never shows the latter killing non-combatants.
74	* HomageShot: Six was shot at with high-calibre automatic gun inside a tram while holding a protective shield. It's an ironic, near shot-by-shot [[ActorAllusion replication of Chris Evans' bus scene]] in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. Of course, the latter plays the antagonist who ''orders'' the attack in this movie.
75	* HonorBeforeReason: In the finale, [[spoiler: Six refuses to bait Lloyd into Miranda's line of fire, instead intentionally disarming himself so the pair can have a fistfight. Though, it's also implied to be because he also [[ItsPersonal got pissed]] against Lloyd when he fired the flare gun close enough to Claire's face, as a demonstration of his utter willingness to [[WouldHurtAChild kill her on a dime]], to give her a minor burn]].
76	* HuntingTheRogue: Sierra Six, a CIA asset, is ordered to kill another former asset who has proof of corruption within the organization. Though he follows through, he refuses to hand over the evidence, causing his former handlers to order his assassination.
77	* HyperCompetentSidekick: Two versions for the villains:
78	** Suzanne proves herself repeatedly to be more suited to work as a CIA black ops administrator than Denny, who’s sloppy enough to be blackmailed by Sierra 4, continually relies on the obvious liability of [[PsychoForHire Lloyd]] for dirty work, and who overall comes off like the DumbMuscle version of a CorruptBureaucrat. Suzanne, in comparison, manages to wrap things ups very tidily once Six has torn through Lloyd and his men, and finally starts threatening Denny back when he tries to reassert himself as the dominant partner.
79	** The Lone Wolf mercenary proves to be more effective, surgical, and successful than either Lloyd or his entire entourage of thugs and goons. While they get killed left right and center or personally beat down by Six even when cheating in one-on-one combat, the Lone Wolf successfully steals the drive from both Six and Miranda and takes them both on in hand-to-hand combat at the same time.
80	* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: After Six fatally wounds Dining Car in a fight, he gives Six a drive containing incriminating evidence involving the CIA.
81	* ImpaledPalm: During the fight at the hospital, Lone Wolf stabs Six's right palm with a knife.
82	* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Lampshaded by Lloyd during the street shootout in Prague. To emphasise it, Six is currently in the middle of a shootout between hired mercenaries and armed SWAT police and ''handcuffed to a bench'', which should logically make him a sitting duck:
83	-->'''Lloyd:''' My God, how hard is it to shoot somebody?
84	* ImprobableAimingSkills: Demonstrated countless times by both Six and Miranda. The former performs near-miracles with handguns aimed solely through ''reflections'' or through split-second improbably-small targets, while the latter waves around an ''RPG'' like it's a ''sniper rifle''.
85	* IronicEcho: When Lloyd is [[spoiler:torturing Fitzroy by ripping off his fingernails]], he replies with “Boring” whenever he doesn’t get the answers he wants. [[spoiler:Just before Fitzroy dies later on, he tells Lloyd “Boring” when he and his goons have him cornered at gunpoint, and Fitzroy blows them all up (minus Lloyd) with a grenade.]]
86	* ItsAllAboutMe: After Carmichael assumed she was covering for him and got suspended as a result, Miranda initially took it upon herself to turn Six over to the CIA in order to salvage both her career and reputation. However, she has a change of heart when Six manages to convince her otherwise.
87	-->'''Miranda:''' They pulled me from field duty. They think I'm into whatever you're into. You're gonna tell them I'm not.\
88	'''Six:''' What gives the impression they care what I think?\
89	'''Miranda:''' This is my career, you understand? You're just an asset, but it's ''my career, my reputation''.
90	* ItsPersonal: Lloyd openly acknowledges his opportunity to have walked away from the conflict at any time, but by the end he ''must'' [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen prove he is better than Six]] for all the trouble the latter caused him. It's implied that Six reciprocates at the end, both because [[spoiler:[[PapaWolf Lloyd burned Claire with a flare gun]] right in front of him to force him to drop his weapon, and his mentor/father figure just pulled a HeroicSacrifice against Lloyd's pursuit not long before. Lloyd's implied similarities to Six's similarly macho [[AbusiveParents father]] are implied to have a hand in it as well]].
91	* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Denny and Suzanne]] appear to suffer no punishment by the end of the film. Their boss, known only as "The Old Man", [[GreaterScopeVillain isn't even identified]], much less brought to justice, only alluded to as the probable reason they have been able to pull off such brazen monopolisation of the agency's assets.
92	* LadyInAPowerSuit: Miranda wears a gaudy and extravagant suit in the opening mission, lampshaded by Six. Played straight with Suzanne, which makes sense given the fact she works for the CIA.
93	* LargeHam: Lloyd. Creator/ChrisEvans seems to be almost channeling Creator/NicolasCage at times. He is clearly relishing his chance to play a no-holds-barred (but pretty cheerful) psychopath, after years of playing Captain America.
94	* LaughablyEvil: Lloyd is a sardonic, oddly cheerful sociopath who never lets up on the wisecracking even when he's torturing and murdering people.
95	* LightningBruiser: Six, Hansen, Miranda, and Lone Wolf take copious amount of abuse and get back up the very next second. Special mention to Lone Wolf because [[spoiler:he ''took an RPG to the face'' and comes out not much worse afterwards.]]
96	* MadeOfIron: And ''how''! Six suffers from a massive fall, multiple close-range explosions, and multiple major stab wounds – along with the standard hand-to-hand beating all the other characters get throughout the movie. He still manages to not only complete his objectives to satisfaction, but [[spoiler:keeps enough awareness and recovers fast enough to fake unconsciousness, breaking out of a heavily-secured military hospital the first chance he gets]].
97	* TheManBehindTheMan: Denny's atrocious track record is being covered up by ''someone'' very highly-placed, but we never find out who that is or why they think it's worth covering for Denny.
98	* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler:Fitzroy, Six's mentor and surrogate father, gets severely wounded and dies, though not before taking a few of Lloyd's men with him.]]
99	* {{Nephewism}}: After the death of his brother and his brother's wife, Fitzroy took in their daughter Claire and raised her as his own. Claire explicitly says that Fitzroy is the only family she has left, [[FamilyOfChoice at least until Six comes along]].
100	* NeverHurtAnInnocent: A hit squad hired by Lloyd are sent to the square that Six has been held up in with orders to shoot anyone in the way. Six, knowing that these mercenaries will not hesitate to harm the civilians gathered in the square, asks the police guarding him to clear the place, but they just ignore him, so he steals one of the cops' guns and fires it into the air so that everyone will leave before the real shooting starts.
101	* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Denny during his interactions with Miranda, which she calls him out on.
102	* NotSoDifferentRemark: During their final confrontation, Lloyd tells Six that they are very much alike, aside from his sense of morality and his cheap haircut.
103	* OhCrap: Suzanne has one when she sees [[spoiler:Miranda aiming a rocket launcher at the room she's in]].
104	* OnlySaneMan: Suzanne acts as this for the villains, existing in a state of perpetual exasperation and anxiety about Denny and Lloyd’s sloppiness and contempt for basic covert-ness in their covert operations.
105	* PoliceAreUseless: Inverted, actually; during the shootout in Prague, the police end up being a formidable third faction against Lloyd’s goons, even as shocked and outgunned as they are. A SWAT team and their armored vehicle proves particularly destructive to Lloyd’s three hit teams before being taken out
106	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Denny comments on Miranda's attractiveness, invades her personal space in a way not justified by trying to get her to give up information and later calls her "clever girl", seemingly for no other reason than to highlight that he's a prick.
107	* PornStache: Lloyd's facial hair, appropriately dubbed a "trash-stache" by Six.
108	* PragmaticVillainy: Suzanne repeatedly disapproves of Lloyd's actions, because they are splashy, destructive, and counterproductive for a government organization that is supposed to handle things ''quietly''.
109	* PsychoForHire: Lloyd is referred to as such repeatedly, a sadistic sociopath who's able to indulge his bloodlust by selling his services through a [[PrivateMilitaryContractors private military company]].
110	* PsychopathicManChild:
111	** Lloyd acts very much like an immature middle-school football player who switched out his pads for guns and henchmen (and in actuality is someone who went ''to Harvard'' to ''play [[SkewedPriorities football]]''), and even whines like he’s still in 6th Grade.
112	** Denny isn’t any better; while less outwardly psychotic and staying well away from the action, his undisciplined and reckless command style is basically just a decaffeinated version of Lloyd's. He adds to it by acting like a spoiled rich kid who employs Lloyd in the first place.
113	* PunkInTheTrunk: Six is forced to get into Miranda's trunk at one point, much to his displeasure.
114	* RedOniBlueOni: In an interesting inversion, the protagonist Six is the calm, almost emotionless ImplacableMan, while the antagonist Lloyd is the boisterous PsychopathicManChild. The former is an ex-convict [[spoiler:who killed his own abusive father calmly,]] while the latter is a CIA dropout who gets rejected after his emotional instability was apparent since the start.
115	* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler:Six's aide who betrays him in Vienna is rewarded with a few gunshots to the chest, courtesy of Lloyd]].
116	* RunningGag:
117	** Six falls asleep in nearly every vehicle he ends up in, whether it be via his own volition or due to being unconscious.
118	** Miranda's obsession with [[MoreDakka high-calibre, high-explosive weaponry.]]
119	* TheScapegoat: Denny threatens to do this to Suzanne to escape the blame for all his actions. In the end, [[spoiler:Suzanne]] decides to cover her and the CIA's ass by [[spoiler:blaming all of Denny's rogue operations on Lloyd, a clearly out of control outside contractor.]]
120	* ShotInTheAss: Miranda shoots Lloyd there with a tranquilizer dart, much to his consternation.
121	-->'''Suzanne:''' Why are you walking like that?\
122	'''Lloyd:''' [[LargeHam 'Cause I got]] ''[[LargeHam SHOT IN THE ASS]]'', [[LargeHam SUZANNE!]]
123	* ShoutOut: Six namedrops [[Franchise/JamesBond 007]] when questioned on his alias.
124	* SinisterSpyAgency: The CIA with Denny Carmichael at the helm is being used as a death squad for reasons unknown by those above him and he has no qualms at all hiring Lloyd Hansen, who was kicked out of the Agency after five months because [[EvenEvilHasStandards he was too psychotic even for them]].
125	* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: [[spoiler:The presence of Fitzroy's niece, Claire, and her significance to the story is barely shown in promotional material]].
126	* SmallNameBigEgo: Not only does Denny have all the qualities listed in his SmugSnake entry, but when [[spoiler: he and Suzanne discover that Six escaped, Suzanne immediately starts giving orders which the soldiers obey without checking with him even though he's her nominal superior,]] suggesting that he's not respected by any of his subordinates.
127	* SmugSnake: Denny is totally confident in his own abilities, boasts about how his rapid rise is due to him not letting himself be compromised by the weakness of others, and later tells [[OnlySaneMan Suzanne]] that thinking for herself could be risky. The entire film is one long parade of his misjudgements and mistakes, and the protagonists figure out quite early on that the only thing that's kept him out of prison for his long history of excessive force is because he's being protected by someone ''very'' highly-placed.
128	* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Six and Hansen indulge in this during a fight, with Six mocking Hansen’s mustache before a grenade is dropped.
129	* TheSociopath: Suzanne describes Lloyd as this. It's difficult to argue with her in that regard, especially after he [[spoiler:kidnaps and gleefully threatens a teenage girl]]. He's even introduced torturing a man by attaching jumper cables to his cheeks.
130	* StormingTheCastle: [[spoiler: Six and Miranda storming the mansion to take down Lloyd, recover the drive, and rescue Fitzroy and his niece.]]
131	* SurroundedByIdiots: Lloyd clearly doesn't think much of his subordinates or his supposed partner Suzanne, and treats them with barely disguised contempt.
132	--> '''Lloyd:''' ''[as he angrily beats a dead mook's corpse]'' MORONS!
133	* SWATTeam: Czech police deploy the Útvar rychlého nasazení (Rapid Response Unit) to confront Lloyd's men. However, most of them are outgunned since the latter has access to machine guns, grenade and rocket launchers.
134	* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Margret Cahill]] pulls this on a squad of Lloyd's mercenaries by flicking a lighter and setting off the gas on a stovetop. [[spoiler:Fitzroy later does this with a hand grenade to take down several of Lloyd's men after he is mortally wounded.]]
135	* TokenGoodTeammate: Suzanne is the only one to object to Denny and Lloyd's techniques. Then again, the only reason she protests is due to the concern that [[ItsAllAboutMe the turn of events would be blamed on her.]] [[spoiler:Pretty much subverted by the end, where despite the fact she executes Lloyd, she also threatens Claire to get Six to comply with her orders]].
136	* TranquillizerDart: In Vienna, Miranda saves Six by firing a dart at Lloyd's ass, [[InstantSedation putting him to sleep immediately]]. When Six is reluctant to get into her trunk shortly after, she shoots one at him as well.
137	* VillainousBreakdown: Lloyd was already mentally unhinged from the start, but he grows even more impatient and angry the more his men fail to take down Six, shooting and beating their corpses. [[spoiler:His fingers getting blown off by Claire just prior to his and Six's fistfight seems to be the point he decides he ''has'' to make all the trouble he's gone through worth it by beating Six to death, even when he lampshades that he does have the option to just walk away from it all regardless]].
138	* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Despite calling Six out for unintentionally getting her in trouble with Carmichael, Miranda nevertheless decides to help him out rather than bring him over to the CIA. If not for Six's words, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she could've made a big mistake, not only for having Six brought over and killed, but also for nearly endangering a kid's life caused by]] [[ItsAllAboutMe her own selfishness]].
139	* WorldOfSnark: As expected from a movie directed by Creator/TheRussoBrothers, there's no shortage of dialogue involving the protagonists and antagonists sniping at each other (be it about their competence or their shared history). Hell, even [[MoralityPet Claire]] and the dying Margaret gets in on it (admittedly to the people they trust).
140	* WouldHurtAChild:
141	** Lloyd kidnaps Fitzroy's young niece Claire in order to get him to comply with his demands, and on multiple occasions threatens to harm or kill her. [[spoiler:Him giving her a minor burn by firing a flare gun close to her face seems to [[TranquilFury piss off Six enough]] to the point he actually complies with Lloyd's insane wish for a fistfight to the death, despite having the option to just let Miranda shoot him with a rifle]].
142	** By the end of the film, Claire is a hostage for [[spoiler: Suzanne]] who has also threatened her, and she is being guarded by people who are not violently abusive, but are entirely aloof and uncaring for the traumatized and lonely child.
143	* WouldNotHurtAChild:
144	** The plot is set in motion by Six refusing to kill his target in the way originally ordered because a child would be collateral damage. He completes the job in a different way after the kid leaves, which leaves him face to face with the dying target, who turns out to be a fellow Sierra agent.
145	** [[spoiler: Lone Wolf, the Tamil mercenary, ultimately declines to kill Miranda and chooses to return the drive because he overhears Lloyd ordering his men to kill Claire, a line Lone Wolf would not cross.]]
146	* YouAreNumberSix: All agents in the Sierra program have an assigned number.
147	* YourMom: Fitzroy's answer when Lloyd starts to question him about the identity of Six's ally in Prague.

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