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4''"Crocodile" Dundee'' is a 1986 {{Action|Genre}}-{{Adventure}} {{Romantic Comedy}} film directed by Peter Faiman, starring Creator/PaulHogan in the title role and co-starring Creator/LindaKozlowski.
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6[[IntrepidReporter Sue Charlton]] (Kozlowski) travels to [[LandDownUnder Australia]] to do some research on a story she'd heard about a man who survived a vicious crocodile attack in the bush. Who she finds is [[AwesomeAussie Mick "Crocodile" Dundee]] (Hogan), a quick-witted bushman who, it turns out, did ''not'' lose his leg to the vicious croc--but who seems to have an uncanny symbiosis with the Australian Outback. When Sue must return to UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, she invites Mick to accompany her, and HilarityEnsues when he becomes the FishOutOfWater who is not so accustomed to the city as to the bush. Ultimately, she falls in love with the charismatic Australian, but must decide whether to go with him back to Australia or remain with her current boyfriend, Richard Mason (Creator/MarkBlum).
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8''"Crocodile" Dundee'' is most notable for being the highest-grossing movie to come out of Australia generally and the MediaNotes/AustralianNewWave specifically. The film's popularity in the United States and elsewhere is credited with spreading the image of the AwesomeAussie across the world, and with providing an immense boost to the Australian tourism industry thanks to its lavish depiction of the Outback.
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10A sequel, ''Crocodile Dundee [[NumberedSequel II]]'', followed in 1988. It has Mick, now living in New York, running afoul of a gang of vengeful Colombian drug dealers. After humiliating them on their home turf, he's told by the police to go into witness protection, but instead leads them back to Australia where his superior knowledge of the Outback will prove to be advantageous.
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12A third film, ''Crocodile Dundee in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles'', was released in 2001. Mick and Sue are together but unmarried and have a son: Mikey Charlton (Devon Fitzgerald). They live in the Australian Outback, where Mick is wrestling crocodiles for a living. When Sue is offered a major position in a Los Angeles newspaper, she jumps at the opportunity and Mick and Mikey follow her. But all is not right. Her predecessor was murdered, and the case remains unsolved. The Dundees have to perform their own investigation.
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14Before [[UsefulNotes/SuperBowl Super Bowl LII]], there were trailers for ''Dundee: The Son of a Legend Returns Home'' circulating around. Trailers featuring [[Creator/ChrisHemsworth Chris Hemsworth]] as one of the stars went around. [[RealTrailerFakeMovie These turned out to be fake]] and were the set up for commercials for Australian Tourism.
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16However, in the wake of those commercials, talks for a real movie started and the production of ''The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee'' began five months later. Rather than playing "Crocodile" Dundee, Hogan plays a fictionalized version of himself but repeatedly falls victim to ActorRoleConfusion. Trailers for ''The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee'' started making their rounds in March of 2020 and the movie was supposed to hit theaters on April 30. [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID-19]] scuttled the theatrical release, and the film ended up [[ChannelHop/COVID19PandemicRelatedExamples going direct-to-streaming]], specifically [[Creator/PrimeVideo Amazon Prime Video]], on July 17.
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26* EightiesHair: In the first act of the film, Sue treks through the Australian Outback with her gloriously feathered mane ''completely intact''.
27* AngryGuardDog: There are two on the estate belonging to Sue's father that apparently get loose and harass guests fairly often. Mick is able to pacify them with the technique he had used on a buffalo earlier -- though they still growl when Gus amiably approaches them.
28* AwesomeAussie: Mick Dundee, the {{trope codifier}}. Downplayed by way of MilesGloriosus. Michael J. Dundee's famous claims turn out to have been substantially exaggerated, and he's a bit clueless when out of his element. However, what's left when the tall tales have been scraped away is still a tough-as-nails bush-ranger who traps live crocodiles for a living, is a crack shot at knife throwing and can outsmart an armed-to-the-teeth Columbian drug cartel on his own.
29* BladeEnthusiast:
30** Mick is rarely without his gigantic bowie knife. He's also ''really'' good with it, as shown in the mugging scene where he cuts a long slash in the mugger's jacket sleeve without cutting the skin.
31** The question of why Mick even needs a knife that big is answered perfectly when he uses it to save Sue from a crocodile attack in the Outback.
32* TheBogan: Mick Dundee plays with this -- while he's a NiceGuy and even a KnightInShiningArmor, a lot of the humor in the films revolves around how, as someone [[TheCityVsTheCountry who's grown up in the Australian Outback]], he's [[BrutalHonesty direct]], sometimes InnocentlyInsensitive and in a few occasions even violent and the city folk (who are highly sensitive at best and at worst are heavily two-faced) get blind-sided as a result.
33* BrokenHeel: Inverted when Sue is running to catch Dundee in the subway, but slowed by her high heels. She kicks them off and starts ''sprinting''.
34* CameraObscurer:
35-->'''Neville Bell:''' Oh no, you can't take my photograph.\
36'''Sue Charlton:''' Oh, I'm sorry, you believe it will take your spirit away.\
37'''Neville Bell:''' No, you got lens cap on it.
38* CrotchGrabSexCheck: In the bar scene, a patron tells Dundee that an attractive woman he's flirting with is "a guy". Dundee walks up to them and grabs their genitals, causing them to run off in embarrassment and the bar to burst out laughing.
39** It comes back to bite him at a party when Sue introduces Mick to a VERY masculine-seeming friend of hers. Mick does the crotch grab again, and not only learns she's genetically female but also succeeds in getting her attention.
40* CyclicNationalFascination: In the 1980s, America obsessed about crazy Australians. Thank goodness it came to its senses in the 1990s, when... [[Series/CrocodileHunter wait, what?]]
41* DamselInDistress: Sue in the Australian bush. She tries filling her canteen in a swamp with it still slung on her neck and a crocodile grabs the canteen, forcing Dundee to stab the crocodile in the head to save her. In the second movie, though, she TookALevelInBadass and seems quite at home in the bush.
42%% * DistinctionWithoutADifference: The knife scene.
43* DistractedByTheSexy: A rather serious example. While in the Outback, Sue convinces Mick to let her go out for a walk alone to prove to him that she can. He follows along from a short distance, because he doesn't think it's safe. Eventually, Sue gets a little careless and spellbound by the scenery, and strips down to her thong bathing suit by a pool, and Mick is a little distracted, bumping his head on a branch. (But fortunately not ''too'' distracted, as his concern turns out to be truer than he thought; a crocodile tries to grab at her, and he has to leap to her rescue.)
44* EvilPoacher: The kangaroo poachers in the first movie.
45* {{Fanservice}}: Linda Kozlowski's swimsuit scene in the first movie. Caused quite a stir at the time, as one-piece thong swimsuits were rather uncommon in 1986 America, particularly in a movie you might take the kids to see.
46* FeigningIntelligence: Before Mick and Sue head out into the bush, Mick looks at the sun and tells her the exact time... after covertly checking Wally's watch a few seconds earlier.
47* FishOutOfWater:
48** All scenes in the first movie with Dundee in New York and most scenes with Sue in the Outback. From the second movie on, Mick intentionally plays this up in order to fool people into thinking he's dumber than he actually is.
49** Neville Bell (an Aboriginal), stumbling over tree roots/wildlife/rocks in the dark: "I hate the bush!"
50* ForeignQueasine:
51** Subverted:
52--->'''"Crocodile" Dundee:''' ''[a goanna is sizzling over a fire. Sue looks ill]'' How do you like your goanna? Medium? Well done?\
53'''Sue Charlton:''' You don't really expect me to eat that?\
54'''"Crocodile" Dundee:''' Yeah, it's great. Yeah, try some of these yams, try the grubs and the sugar ants. Just bite the end off, they're really sweet. Black fellas love 'em.\
55'''Sue Charlton:''' ''[tentatively tries a yam]'' What about you, aren't you having any?\
56'''"Crocodile" Dundee:''' Me?\
57''[Mick starts working on a tin with his knife]''\
58'''"Crocodile" Dundee:''' ...Well, you can live on it, but it tastes like shit.
59** Sue gets her revenge in New York when she buys Mick a Hot Dog with everything from sauerkraut to ketchup.
60* ForestRanger: His home turf is more semi-arid shrubland than a literal forest, but Mick otherwise fits the archetype to a tee.
61* TheGadfly:
62** Mick is a master of this and takes pleasure in (gently) messing with people.
63* GenreShift: The first movie is pretty much a RomCom at its core. ''II'' switches things up and makes it more of an action-adventure.
64* GreatWhiteHunter: Mick Dundee is an example of the "earthy" version.
65* GroinAttack: Near the end of the first movie, Sue rushes to the subway in an attempt to stop Dundee from leaving New York. During her sprint, she runs into a lascivious street hobo who refuses to let her pass, forcing Sue to quickly knee him in the groin so that she can continue on her way.
66* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The first half of the first movie is Sue in Australia being a FishOutOfWater, then the second half has them go to New York and Mick be the fish out of water.
67* HeartIsWhereTheHomeIs: Inverted with American Sue Charlton choosing the Australian main character over her stateside boyfriend.
68* {{Hypocrite}}: The man who accuses Mick of being a poacher is discovered to be one himself when Mick and Sue encounter him and a gang of drunken hunters shooting at fleeing kangaroos out in the bush.
69* HypocriticalHumor: In the first film, Mick attacks the man in the Walkabout Creek bar who accuses him of being a "bloody croc poacher" because he "won't have anyone using bad language in front of a lady", yet he has absolutely no qualms with saying "bastard" and "shit" when it's just Sue and himself.
70* IllTakeTwoBeersToo: In a high-class restaurant, Richard orders "two vodka martinis" for himself and Sue. Dundee cheerfully adds, "Yeah, I'll have two o' those, and a beer, thanks!"
71* ImprovisedWeapon: As Mick is beaten up by thugs, Gus stops them by using the limo's TV antenna ''as a boomerang'', knocking them down.
72* InnocentlyInsensitive: Mick asks Gus the limo driver what tribe he is from, assuming he's an Aboriginal like those he knows back home (the term blackfella is a Australian colloquialism for Aboriginals). Gus is offended at first, but seems to take it in stride, as Mick is nothing but kind to and admiring of him. Later he confirms his "tribal" nature by telling Mick that he is part of the Harlem Warlords gang.
73* InsultBackfire:
74-->'''Phil:''' Jeez, Mick, were you born in a cave?\
75'''Mick:''' Yeah! How did you know that?\
76'''Phil:''' ... Never mind.
77* IntrepidReporter: Sue Charlton is willing to go to the Australian outback in the first movie for a story, even before her CharacterDevelopment.
78* LandDownUnder: The likeliest originator. Note that this movie was made by Australians (and gave their tourism industry one ''hell'' of a boost). They played up the bush culture on purpose.
79* MagicalCamera: {{Subverted}}:
80-->'''Neville Bell:''' Oh no, you can't take my photograph.\
81'''Sue Charlton:''' Oh, I'm sorry, you believe it will take your spirit away.\
82'''Neville Bell:''' No, you got lens cap on it.
83* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Dundee is practically a hyper-masculine spear counterpart to the trope.
84* MarketBasedTitle: Downplayed. Notice that the U.S. release poster pictured above puts quotation marks around ''Crocodile''? That's because Paramount's marketing department wanted to clarify that the movie wasn't about an animal. If this seems silly, keep in mind that the North American release was in September 1986, and in the immediate wake of movies that actually ''did'' involve animals -- namely ''Film/TheFly1986'' and ''Film/HowardTheDuck''. This marketing alteration also was used for the first sequel, but dropped for the second.
85* MathematiciansAnswer: When asked how old he is, Mick admits he honestly doesn't know and that he doesn't even know what year it is to Sue's astonishment. Walter explains that the Aboriginals don't keep traditional calendars and that Mick once asked his tribal elder when he was born. The elder replied "In the summertime".
86* MightyWhitey: Dundee tries to play himself up as a MightyWhitey, with all of the survival skills of the bushmen and all the cosmopolitan skills of the white world. In reality, the bushmen are just as modern as Sue is, and Mick's pretty out of touch with actual big city culture.
87* MistakenForMisogynist: Sue interprets Mick’s scoffing at the idea of her being in the outback alone because of her gender, rather than the fact that she is from the city and is therefore not familiar with the dangers of the Australian outback. Even after saving her from a crocodile he doesn’t dismiss her capability and even commends the fact that she lives in the city, which he says sounds far more dangerous than the wilderness.
88* MistakenFromBehind: Mick runs after what he thinks is his friend Sue, but as the person turns it's really just a man with long blond hair and rather feminine clothing.
89* MsFanservice: Linda Kozlowski, particularly between the one-piece thong and the different [[VaporWear fancy dresses]] she wears throughout the first movie.
90* MobstacleCourse: Ultimately, Mick takes the high road.
91* ModernMinstrelsy: The series plays up a lot of stereotypes of Australian culture, but just as often to subvert or parody them as to play them straight.
92* MuggingTheMonster: The "''That's'' a knife" scene is perhaps the best-remembered scene of the series. It's ''so'' memorable, in fact, it serves as the page image.
93* NationalStereotypes: The directors of the first movie were ''kidding''. Mostly.
94* NiceToTheWaiter: Mick is friendly towards the hotel staff and various drivers, particularly the limo driver, Gus.
95* NoAntagonist: The first film is very much a FishOutOfWater RomCom for Sue in Australia and Mick in New York, it has no real antagonist to speak of. The crocodile, kangaroo poachers, New York muggers and the Gang members are all one-scene minor threats without much plot importance. The second and third movies do have antagonists however (Drug Dealers and Art Thieves).
96* ObfuscatingStupidity: For all his country-boy naivete, Mick does a lot of this. It's even more apparent in the second and third movies which kind of helps to ruin the FishOutOfWater vibe that helped make the first so popular.
97* OncePerEpisode: Mick runs into street criminals in each movie.
98-->'''Mick:''' I keep getting mugged. I must look rich.
99* RaceForYourLove: The end of the first movie.
100* RaisedByNatives: Dundee was raised by Aboriginals.
101-->'''Arthur:''' My people have ways of talking that no white man can understand.\
102''[Arthur pulls out a mobile phone and starts talking to his mate]''\
103'''Dundee:''' Ah, I think we just found out which one of us is the white man.
104* RefugeInAudacity: How Mick gets away with some of his antics, perhaps most notably blast fishing in the Hudson and then offering the police one of his catches when they investigate (part of it is also that the Officer In Charge who responds knows Mick already).
105* SceneryPorn: The first and second movies have lots of beautiful shots of the Australian landscape.
106* ShoutOut: "[[Series/SkippyTheBushKangaroo Good one, Skippy]]."
107* ShowSomeLeg: In the first film, Sue brings towels to Mick in a sexy manner.
108* StealthHiBye: Mick and all the Aboriginals can do this while in the bush. Gets used extensively in the second movie as Mick plays mind-games with the gangsters who are hunting him.
109%%* ThereWillBeToiletPaper: Subverted and Parodied.
110* ThinkerPose: Mick sees a bidet in his hotel room and asks what the thing is for. Sue is embarrassed to tell and says he will figure it out. He sits on it and ponders, rubbing his chin.
111* TooDumbToLive: Offended by Mick's apparent sexism about the Outback being "man's country", Sue travels off on her own. She is then nearly eaten by a crocodile. She later admits to Mick that she's out of her element.
112* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Crocodile Dundee learns about {{Drag Queen}}s... although the "drag queen" Gwendolyn that Mick almost spends the night with is actually played by ''actress'' [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137592/ Anne Carlisle]].
113* VagueAge: Mick doesn't know how old he is.
114-->'''Dundee:''' I asked one of the village elders once when I was born. He said "in the summertime".
115* VaporWear: Sue's red party dress -- and to a lesser extent her backless light blue dress in the nice restaurant -- in the first movie.
116* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The inspiration for Mick Dundee and his antics in New York were (perhaps somewhat shamelessly) inspired by the recounts of one Rod Ansell, an Australian bushman who was stranded in the Australian outback after an accident sank his river boat. Rod's inherent charisma and his tendency to "embellish" how he survived eventually landed him on a national talk show and from there the character of Mick Dundee was created. Rod's eventual fate compared to Mick's, however, was [[AddledAddict somewhat different]].
117* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: At the end of the film, Sue leaves Richard for Mick. However, he is still her boss at the paper. So what happens there?
118** Although her father is still apparently the Editor-In-Chief, so it's also reasonable to ask this ''of'' Richard.
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124* ActionizedSequel: The second movie has more of a plot, involving the rescue of Sue from a drug cartel and a hide-and-seek manhunt in the bush.
125* AwesomeMcCoolname: Subverted, One of Mick's friends is an alleged gangster named Leeroy Brown, a la the Music/JimCroce [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad,_Bad_Leroy_Brown song]]. It turns out that his persona is all an act, to live up to people's expectations that someone with a name like that ''must'' be a badass.
126* BadassBystander: The two Japanese tourists in the subway that mistake Mick him for Creator/ClintEastwood and help him get rid of a killer.
127* {{Badbutt}}: Leeroy Brown. He has a reputation at the community bar for his tough-guy demeanor and for selling what the bartender maintains is illicit substances. Turns out the "heavy shit" he regularly sells is nothing worse than simple office supplies, and his gangsteresque persona is just an act to live up to the pop-cultural reputation of his name. However, he ''does'' have connections with genuine tough guys who he enlists to help Mick rescue Sue.
128* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: Inverted. Mick prepares to throw his knife at one of the drug dealers' minions but flips it before throwing it so that the handle hits first, knocking the guy unconscious.
129* BoobyTrap: Mick uses a nonlethal version against one of the druglord's minions in 2. He also [[VisualPun baits it with Sue's bra]].
130* CapturedByCannibals: The sequel plays with it. When Mick is capturing the drug dealers, one of his Aborigine friends asks the other if they get to eat these men, but they are just toying with the crooks.
131-->'''Diamond:'''' ''*speaking Australian Aboriginal*''\
132'''Charlie:''' No, mate. We just hold 'em.\
133'''Sue:''' What did he say?\
134'''Charlie:''' He wants to know if we're allowed to ''eat'' these men.\
135'''Captives:''' ''SweatDrop''\
136'''Charlie:''' (''*facing Sue*'') ''[[SecretMessageWink Winks and smirks]]''\
137'''Sue:''' ''*turns away*''\
138'''Captive:''' (''*begins to pray*'')
139* TheCartel: The main antagonists of the second movie.
140* ChekhovsGun: Sue convinces Mick to buy some fancy aftershave, which Mick decides to send to Wally as a gift. Later, when Wally gets kidnapped by the drug dealers, Mick is able to track them by the scent of Wally's aftershave.
141* ClickHello: Done twice in the later part of the movie, but with bladed weapons. First by some of Mick's spear-wielding Aborigine friends to Erskine, one of Rico's mooks, then later by Mick to Rico himself, with his knife.
142* DareToBeBadass:
143-->'''Dundee:''' Leroy here tells me you lot are the coolest gang in New York.\
144''[the gang makes noises of appreciation]''\
145'''Rat:''' That's the word.\
146'''Dundee:''' ...what did you do last night?\
147'''Gang member:''' We didn't do nothin'. We was here all night.\
148'''Dundee:''' And that's what you call cool, is it?\
149''[Rat says nothing, but has a thoughtful look on his face]''\
150'''Dundee:''' Tomorrow, if someone asks the same question, you can say, "We didn't do nothin.'" Or you can say, "We went out to Long Island and helped this lunatic storm a fortress."
151* DaytimeDramaQueen: It becomes obvious that Mick needs to get out more when he starts caring about what happens on ''Series/DaysOfOurLives''.
152* DeadHatShot: Staged by Dundee (complete with a bite taken out of the brim) to stage a {{mook|s}}'s apparent death by crocodile.
153* DeepFriedWhatever: Well, cooked over a fire, but one of Mick's Aborigine friends is seen snacking on a bat.
154-->'''Walter:''' Are you really... enjoying that?\
155'''Diamond:''' ''[chewing]'' ...Nah. Needs garlic.
156* DidNotThinkThisThrough: When the gangsters follow Mick to Australia they hire a local guide at random, apparently not considering Mick's background. As soon as he finds out who they're following he simply walks off and disappears into the bush.
157* DisneyDeath: Featured in ''Crocodile Dundee II''.
158-->'''Charlie:''' Tell Mick if he want his clothes back, he can climb down there and get them his bloody self.
159* DisneyVillainDeath: Luis falls to his death after he is accidentally shot by Miguel.
160* DoorSlamsYou: Mick uses a statue as a battering ram to knock a door down onto Rico while rescuing Sue from the latter's fortress in Long Island.
161* FamedInStory: Mick actually is this, but Walter plays it up to try and intimidate Rico.
162->''Well, there's bushmen...and then there's Mick Dundee. He's more like...an Aborigine than a white man. He was raised by Aborigines. He had to undergo their...initiations. He knows about their magic. Their...black...magic. The Aborigines call him *speaking in Australian Aborigine*, which means "The Crocodile who Walks like a Man."''
163* ForcedTransformation: Mick tricks the drug dealers into thinking Luis Guzmán's character Jose got this treatment by tying Jose's bandana on a goanna that he leaves in their camp.
164* FreudianThreat: Mick threatens to emasculate the DEA agent following him with his knife. The agent turns out to be a cowardly fellow who doesn't need further persuasion beyond the threat.
165* TheGadfly: The whole second half of ''II'' is Mick screwing around with the drug lords as if he were WesternAnimation/BugsBunny.
166* HeroSecretService: Mick uses a bull roarer to summon some of his Aboriginal and Walkabout Creek friends to help him neutralize the drug dealers.
167* HeroicBystander: Two Japanese tourists help Mick take out a thug in the subway station with their camera and martial arts skills respectively.
168* HighAltitudeInterrogation: Mick performs one on a hitman.
169* ImAHumanitarian: Played with, in the scene when some Aboriginals are holding some of the drug lord's men prisoner.
170-->''[Aboriginal speaks in an unnamed Aboriginal language]''\
171'''Charlie:''' No mate we just hold them.\
172'''Sue:''' What did he say?\
173'''Charlie:''' ''[winking]'' He wants to know if we're allowed to eat these men.
174* JapaneseTourist: There's an entire group of them passing through the subway station where Mick encounters a thug. Two of them end up helping Mick take down said thug.
175* LookingBusy: One cop is following Mike who immediately figures it out. The cop pretends to be selling hot dogs to avoid suspicion. As soon as Mike is out of his sight, he hands the stuff to the real seller and pursues Mike. Later he also pretends to be looking at fruit and vegetables by a street stand.
176* MoodWhiplash: The second half of the second film. The drug lord and his men are deadly serious, and truly threatening, but Mick is basically playing games with them, and isn't taking the situation seriously. In his defense, he so thoroughly outclasses them in the bush that he doesn't really ''have'' to take them seriously (considering that he's able to kidnap one of them, unharmed, from right out of their camp in the middle of the night, it shows how incompetent they are - he could have cut all their throats in their sleep and ended it right then and there).
177* MuggingTheMonster:
178** In the second movie, where Mick combines it with some snark:
179--->'''Punk:''' ''[about Mick breaking into Rico's mansion/fortress]'' What's your chances?\
180'''Mick:''' Fair.\
181'''Punk:''' What's your chances of getting out of here with that jacket on?\
182'''Mick:''' [throws his knife across the room into the punk's mohawk] ''Better than average.''
183* NotAGame: Sue eventually gets fed up with Mick's flippant and playful mood and tactics in taking out the increasingly desperate and violent drug dealers.
184* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
185** The tracker Luis brings in to help them track Mick in the Outback. The second he learns that it's ''Dundee'' they're chasing, he immediately vanishes into the bush.
186** Denning and Erskine, two other locals hired by Luis, ''try'' to pull this in the climax once they realize how nuts Luis is, and how out of their depth they actually are. Nugget, Donk, and several of Mick's Aboriginal friends don't let them get far.
187* SecretlyWealthy: It turns out that Mick has claim on an ''enormous'' tract of land called Billongamick (translation: "Mick's Place"). He inherited it from his uncle, and it's so big that a person might need 3-4 days to walk across it. It's completely worthless except for a gold mine; he calls this the "Reserve Bank" and thinks of it as a retirement fund of sorts.
188* ShootTheHostage: Mic shoots Walter in the ear to save his life by making the drug lords think Mick feels he is too valuable to be allowed to livke.
189* SpannerInTheWorks: Sue doesn't think Mick is taking the drug dealers seriously enough. However, he's treating it as a game because they're so ludicrously incompetent compared to him that he ''can'' treat it as a game, and when she tries to help, she just ends up screwing up his plans (though things work out anyway).
190* StormingTheCastle: Well, storming the mansion of the drug lord that has my girlfriend hostage, anyway.
191-->'''Dundee:''' Leroy here tells me you lot are the coolest gang in New York.\
192''[the gang makes noises of appreciation]''\
193'''Rat:''' That's the word.\
194'''Dundee:''' ...what did you do last night?\
195'''Gang member:''' We didn't do nothin'. We was here all night.\
196'''Dundee:''' And that's what you call cool, is it?\
197''[Rat says nothing, but has a thoughtful look on his face]''\
198'''Dundee:''' Tomorrow, if someone asks the same question, you can say, "We didn't do nothin.'" Or you can say, "We went out to Long Island and helped this lunatic storm a fortress."
199* SuicideAsComedy: Mick talks to a guy who wants to jump from a skyscraper because LoveHurts. Mick pretends he just wants to walk past him to enjoy some fresh air and subtly tries to talk him out of it. The unhappy man is actually gay (or bi) which surprises Mick -- who almost falls down himself.
200* WontGetFooledAgain: Luis and Miguel when they realize they have to stop playing Mick's game.
201-->'''Luis:''' Think. When we were children, did you follow the snake into the cane field?
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204[[folder: ''Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles'']]
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207* BigEater: Mick and Jacko, as demonstrated when they go to Wendy's.
208* BouquetToss: After Mick and Sue are finally married at the end of the film, Sue tosses the bouquet only for it to be caught by the enormous crocodile Mick was trying to catch [[BrickJoke at the start of the film]].
209* ChekhovsGun: The chimp complains about the cage of the lions being bigger. Which lions? The ones that attack the villains in the final confrontation.
210* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Mikey tells his schoolteacher that Dundee hunts and kills crocodiles for a living, which she naturally assumes to be a lie. When she informs Dundee of this, he's shocked... because he would never ''kill'' a crocodile, since they're a protected species. He instead catches them alive.
211* MuggingTheMonster:
212** Brought to new levels in the third movie, where Dundee and a friend get accosted by a gang of thugs who drive up to them and threaten them at gunpoint.
213--->'''Dundee:''' Son, you have any idea how quick you have to be to catch a tiger snake?\
214''[Dundee ''grabs'' their guns, then he and his friend jump on top of their car and break the roof down on top of them; finally, they toss a huge garbage can on top of the car]''\
215'''Dundee:''' Who's getting mugged?
216* NewsMonopoly: The skunk sequence.
217[[/folder]]

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