Line #30 Film/HoboWithAShotgun


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2	[[caption-width-right:275:[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin That's about it.]]]]
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4	->''"I used to be like you, a long time ago. All brand new and perfect; no mistakes, no regrets. People look at you and think of how wonderful your future will be. They want you to be something special, like a doctor or a lawyer. I hate to tell you this, but if you grow up here, you're more likely to wind up selling your bodies on the streets or shooting dope from dirty needles in a bus stop. And if you're successful, you'll make money selling junk to crackheads, and won't think twice about killing someone's wife, because you won't even know it's wrong in the first place. Maybe… you'll end up like me. A [[TitleDrop hobo with a shotgun]]. I hope you can do better. You are the future."''
5	-->-- '''The Hobo''', to a group of newborn babies
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7	The 2011 film ''Hobo with A Shotgun'' started out as a [[RealTrailerFakeMovie fake movie trailer]] in ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', but thanks to independent filmmakers from [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Dartmouth, Nova Scotia]], it became the second ''[=Grindhouse=]'' trailer (after ''Film/{{Machete}}'') to get converted into a feature-length film.
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9	An elderly, nameless hobo (Creator/RutgerHauer) arrives in the city of Hope Town, a run-down dystopian sprawl. The Hobo only wants to eke out a humble life in the city, but thanks to The Drake (the depraved crime boss who [[IOwnThisTown controls the city]]), urban decay runs rampant and violence has become a way of life. Tension builds as The Hobo tries to co-exist with the city-wide corruption, but when circumstances push him over the edge, he picks up a twelve-gauge and delivers bloody justice to the city's criminals.
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11	The film's is a broad [[{{Gorn}} and grotesque]] pastiche of the VigilanteJustice SubGenre of exploitation cinema (represented by films such as ''Film/DeathWish''), with some surprisingly subtle flourishes mixed into the outlandish mayhem.
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14	!! ''Hobo with a Shotgun'' enacts his justice on the following tropes:
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16	* AbnormalAmmo: One of the members of the Plague, Grinder, carries a spear gun that fires a short spear up into the ceiling, pulling along a short rope tied around any of their unfortunate victims' necks that quickly strangles them to death, essentially being a "gallows gun".
17	* AbusiveParents: Drake to Ivan.
18	* AerithAndBob: Drake's sons, Ivan and Slick.
19	* AffectionateParody: Of exploitation films, especially those focusing on revenge stories.
20	* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: Slick, who gleefully maims a kid who owes him money, but then ''shoves the poor kid's face into a pile of cocaine''. That Slick would casually wander around with such a big pile of cocaine is, of course, yet another of the over-the-top touches that make this film what it is.
21	* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:Slick]] tries to placate the Hobo when he's got his shotgun pointing [[GroinAttack at his crotch]]. Doesn't work.
22	* AlasPoorVillain: Slick gets a surprisingly emotional send-off when he [[spoiler:calls his father begging for help, and they end up comforting each other before he dies. However, this is a downplayed example, considering that we just saw him torch a whole bus full of children]].
23	* AmbiguouslyHuman: Just what are Rip and Grinder exactly? Humans? Demons? [[DemonOfHumanOrigin Humans who somehow became demons?]] We never get an answer.
24	* AntiHero: The hobo is an UnscrupulousHero, of the PayEvilUntoEvil variety.
25	* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: What kind of a pawn shop keeps a loaded shotgun where anyone can grab it? [[invoked]][[MST3KMantra Then again, considering the type of movie this is.]]
26	* AssholeVictim: The bum fight guy, the pimp, the pedophile Santa, the DirtyCop, [[spoiler:Slick, Ivan and Drake]].
27	* BadassBiker: The Plague both drive motorcycles.
28	* BadassBoast: The hobo is a fountain of these.
29	** "Put the knife away, kid, or I'll use it to cut welfare checks from your rotten skin."
30	** "I'm gonna sleep in your bloody carcasses ... tonight!"
31	* BadassBystander: Subverted by a random doctor, who flips out and opens fire on the Plague when they first burst into his hospital. He gets gutted for his troubles, but at least he had the balls to attack TheDreaded head-on.
32	* BadSanta: The pedophile in the Santa suit, who the hobo kills early on.
33	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[spoiler:Abby gets a nasty neck wound after she's almost decapitated, and later she loses a hand.]] Her face doesn't suffer one bit.
34	* BeenThereShapedHistory: The Plague have apparently been behind multiple historic deaths dating all the way back to ''Jesus Christ''.
35	* BerserkButton: The hobo doesn't like people calling Abby a prostitute, having deluded himself into believing,''"SHE'S A TEACHER!"''
36	* BigBad: Drake.
37	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Hobo gives his life to kill Drake and ensure that the citizens who have come to his aid fire the first shots on the corrupt police force. Abby is alive but has lost a hand and spends the end of the film hysterically screaming, and the remaining Plague member claims she'll become a member of them soon [and in the alternate ending included on the Blu-Ray, she does]. The town may live or die in the ensuing violence, but either way the tyranny of Drake's crime family has ended.]]
38	* BlasphemousBoast: Drake claims to know more about suffering than God, because when God's son died, He came back after a few days. The Hobo's response:
39	-->You're a shitty father.
40	* BloodBath: One of Drake's groupies showers in the spray of blood from a decapitated neck, while writhing ecstatically.
41	%%* BloodFromTheMouth: The Hobo, after chewing glass.
42	* BloodIsTheNewBlack: When Logan has [[OffWithHisHead his head ripped]], a bikini-clad girl showers in the [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank seemingly never ending]] spray of HighPressureBlood that fountains from his neck: rubbing the blood all over her body as she does so.
43	%%* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Oh, Abby.
44	* BlownAcrossTheRoom: Happens often whenever the Hobo blasts someone with his shotgun.
45	* BodybagTrick: When the Hobo kills the DirtyCop who is attempting to rape Abby, his shots draw the attention of the mob who are hunting the homeless. Abby runs past them, looking convincingly panicked, with the cop's body in a shopping trolley. She yells to the mob that HeWentThatWay and they head off in pursuit. After they have gone, the Hobo emerges from the shopping trolley where he has been hidden under (and partially inside) the cop's corpse.
46	* BookEnds: One of the very first things we hear in the film is a train whistle. It’s also the very last thing we hear right before the end credits start.
47	* BottomlessMagazines: We never see the Hobo buy any shells, yet he never seems to run out. We do see him reload... once.
48	* BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: Rip, one of the armored quasi-immortal thugs called the Plague, wields a brutal-looking machete with a flat tip, making it look more like an oversized meat cleaver.
49	* BuildingIsWelding: Abby breaks into the pawn shop and constructs a bunch of weaponry from the pawn shop inventory to rescue the Hobo. She is shown using both an arc welder and an oxyacetylene torch while doing this.
50	* BusFullOfInnocents: Slick [[spoiler:torches a bus full of elementary school children with a flame thrower]] as a way of declaring war on the Hobo. [[spoiler:[[CrossesTheLineTwice Then brings the charred skeleton of one of them onto the evening news]] to make the declaration directly.]]
51	* BulletproofVest: Rip and Grinder's homemade armor apparently made them immune to point-blank pistol fire.
52	%%* TheBrute: Ivan.
53	%%* TheCaligula: Drake.
54	* CameraAbuse: There's a huge blood splatter left on the lens for a few seconds after Logan [[OffWithHisHead gets his head torn off]] in the opening scene.
55	* CanadaDoesNotExist[=/=]WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The film is Canadian and shot in Canada. However, we never learn where Hope Town is, the currency is nondescript, the police symbols aren't quite clear, and so forth.
56	* CaneFu: The Hobo does quite well with his walking stick before buying his shotgun.
57	* CardCarryingVillain: With the exception of Drake, almost all the major antagonists are this. Rip and Grinder's collective name, the Plague, speaks for itself. Also see DirtyCop below.
58	--> '''Slick:''' "But I love murder."
59	%%* ChekhovsGun: The Lawnmower, of all things.
60	%%* ChekhovsGunman: The Plague.
61	* ChildrenAreInnocent: When Slick asks the school bus full of children if they like things like school and hobos, the kids cheer enthusiastically.
62	* ClusterFBomb: Everyone swears to the point of absurdity. Even emergency room nurses are screaming, "Live, you fucking whore!"
63	* ColorCodedCharacters: Drake and his sons wear only black and white.
64	* CombatPragmatist: As a person who is forced to make do with whatever he can find every day, Hobo has a talent for this. He wields his own walking stick as an effective bludgeon, [[spoiler:weaponizes his savings in a sock and incapacitates Ivan by electrocuting him with a toaster]].
65	* CombatSadomasochist: Ivan seems to be ''really'' insistent on getting the hobo to put up a good fight with him. And once he electrocutes him with a toaster?
66	-->'''Ivan:''' ''HE MADE ME CUM!''
67	* CoolCar: Drake's sons drive around in a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricklin_SV-1 Bricklin SV-1]]. Bonus points for managing to apply this trope to a vehicle that was [[TheAllegedCar the exact opposite]] in real life.
68	* CoolOldGuy: The hobo. Rutger Hauer was 67 years old when he took up the role.
69	* CrapsackWorld: Hope Town is a crime-ridden hellhole where literally every cop but one is dirty, the most sadistic mob boss is the one on top, all the non-criminals are junkies and prostitutes and the only chance of real success is getting into crime.
70	* CrazyHomelessPeople: Oddly enough, {{subverted\|Trope}}. The Hobo is a bit of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and not very well-spoken, but he doesn't seem to be outright mentally ill so much as just ''odd,'' and not only is he portrayed more positively than nearly anyone else in the movie, he's TheHero.
71	* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon:
72	--> '''Ivan:''' That's funny, because I promised myself. I'm gonna bash your fucking teeth in and make a chainsaw out of them.
73	* DeadLineNews: Drake and his sons invade a news broadcast, murder the newscaster, and wave a charred corpse at the camera before demanding that all the town's homeless be killed.
74	* DirtyCop: There is exactly one non-corrupt cop in the movie (played by Scott Vrooman of ''Series/PicnicFace'' fame). [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in lines that made it in from the fake trailer:
75	-->'''Rookie Cop''': At least he's only killing the dirty cops.\
76	'''Dirty Cop''': We're ''all'' dirty cops!
77	* DisproportionateRetribution: The hobo blasts a guy for stealing newspapers.
78	* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Judging from the DraggedOffToHell trope above, this is what happens to Slick when he dies, as he’s dragged to his damnation by the bus load of kids he murdered.]]
79	* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler:Slick, in the school bus he set on fire]].
80	* TheDragon: Though at first they seem like CoDragons, Slick quickly proves more pivotal to the plot, wanting to become a DragonAscendant.
81	* DragonTheirFeet: Rip is still alive when Drake gets his come-uppance. In fact, he's never seen again after walking off during the climax.
82	* TheDulcineaEffect: The Hobo steadfastly refuses to get involved in any of the crime that is going on on the streets of the WretchedHive of Scum Town, until he sees Slick attempting to abduct Abby, when he steps up and makes a stand.
83	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Drake to Slick. Not so much for [[TheUnfavourite Ivan]], though.
84	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The eponymous hobo is never named; He even shows up in the credits as "hobo."
85	* EvilDuo: Slick and Ivan. Then later, the hitmen Rip and Grinder, a.k.a. The Plague.
86	* EvilIsHammy: Drake and sons, as best exemplified in the first seven minutes wherein they execute Drake's brother in broad daylight with a passionate speech. Afterward?
87	--> '''Ivan:''' Go the fuck home everyone! And don't forget to wash your dicks!
88	* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Hope Town police, [[DirtyCop who are mostly corrupt]], were angered when Drake destroys Abby’s hand.
89	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: He's a hobo... with a shotgun.
90	* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: [[spoiler:"We're taking a car ride to hell, ''and you're riding shotgun!''"]]
91	* TheFaceless: Rip and Grinder, aka the Plague, whose faces are never seen beneath their metal armor.
92	* FauxAffablyEvil: The chief of police seems like a nice enough guy when the hobo meets with him to discuss cleaning up the city. [[spoiler:Then he shows his true colors.]]
93	* FeetFirstIntroduction: Drake is introduced stepping out of his limo as Logan is begging the hobo for help. The first things seen are his perfectly polished black shoes and his immaculate white trousers: which mark him as an anomaly on the grime-ridden streets of Scum Town.
94	* {{Fingore}}: Severely to [[spoiler: Abby]] near the end of the film. It's more like the [[spoiler:entire hand...]]
95	* FireBreathingWeapon: Slick uses a flamethrower to [[WouldHarmAChild to torch a busload of school children]].
96	* ForcedOrgasm: During a fight with the Hobo, Slick gets electrocuted with a toaster. When it's over he sits up sparking and smoking, and screams "You made me COME!" It's that kind of movie.
97	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
98	** The hobo's [[IceCreamKoan borderline-nonsensical]] parable to Abby about bears clawing the faces off people who get too close. [[spoiler:It wasn't actually torn off, but...]] possibly inspired by the Kipling poem "The Truce of the Bear".
99	** When Slick hassles the kid for the money he owes him, he's playing an arcade game called ''The Plague''. Footage of gameplay has the player controlling Grinder.
100	* ForgingScene: Also involving the lawnmower.
101	* ForTheEvulz: Rip and Grinder earn their moniker "the Plague" by killing multiple hospital staff. [[BadassBystander the first of whom is a doctor who tries to shoot them,]] the rest of whom are terrified and running away.
102	* GenreThrowback: To old 1970s and 1980s ExploitationFilm.
103	* GroinAttack: Repeatedly. Perhaps most notably when the hobo does this to Slick: [[spoiler:he kills him by shooting his prick off]].
104	--->'''[[spoiler: Slick]]:''' [[spoiler: "[[LargeHam HE SHOT MY DICK OFF!]]"]]
105	* {{Gorn}}: Everywhere. ''Everywhere''.
106	* HarpoonGun: Rip's choice of weapon, used to great effect when they storm the hospital.
107	* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:The Hobo is gunned down by the corrupt police after killing the Drake.]]
108	* HeroicSacrifice: At the end, [[spoiler:the Hobo shoots the Drake, [[SuicideByCop knowing full well that he'll be killed by the corrupt policemen]], but his death gives the citizens of Hopetown a chance to fight back against the corruption in their city]].
109	* HiddenDepths: When [[spoiler:Slick]] is bleeding to death, he calls [[spoiler: the Drake, (who normally treats him like a favorite employee rather than a son)]] and the two say heartfelt goodbyes in a shockingly human moment for both of them.
110	* HighPressureBlood: Used constantly, in keeping with the over-the-top nature of the film. Used very prominently, and combined with OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank, when Logan [[OffWithHisHead has his head ripped off]], and seemingly never-ending spray of blood fountains from his neck; with enough pressure that a girl in a bikini can happily shower in it.
111	* HomelessHero: He's homeless and just wants to find a way to make money at first but then ends up doing something more.
112	* {{Hobo}}: With a shotgun.
113	* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Abby, who apparently took to prostitution due to lack of opportunities in her crapsack town.
114	* HopeSpot:
115	** About halfway through the film Abby and the Hobo make plans to leave town and start a lawnmower business. Yeah, [[FromBadToWorse that doesn't work out]].
116	** The police chief sounds like he's actually willing to follow through with the hobo's request. [[spoiler:He's not.]]
117	* HumanoidAbomination: The Plague are strongly implied to be [[spoiler:demons]], and even when one of them is being [[spoiler:vivisected by a lawnmower]], we still never see anything besides his armor. They don't even have red blood.
118	* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Zigzagged through the film: the Hobo manages to save the crying baby in the Pawn Shop holdup, but [[spoiler:the children in the film usually get set on fire, as the anti-homeless rioters set a homeless mom and her baby on fire, and Slick torching a bus of children after they declare their support for the hobo.]]
119	* ImprobableWeaponUser: Ivan uses ice skates as both a thrown weapon and attached to his feet for kicking. Yes, it's a Canadian film all right.
120	* ImprovisedWeapon: Abby uses [[spoiler:her ''arm bone'' against Drake, after her hand is shredded off]].
121	* IOwnThisTown: This is the attitude of The Drake, whose control of Hope Town is so complete that he can commit murder in the middle of the street in broad daylight and suffer no consequences.
122	* IronicName: The city of Hope Town... which is a cesspool of corruption, violence, and extreme depravity.
123	* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:By the end, Rip has walked away without paying for any of the gruesome murders he's perpetrated. It's even worse in the Alternate Ending, where Abby is turned into the promised replacement.]]
124	* KillThePoor: {{Invoked}} by the villains as a means to kill the vigilante hobo. They incite the [[TorchesAndPitchforks public to do the dirty work]], under the threat that not doing so will result in the villains [[WouldHurtAChild killing a lot of children]].
125	* LargeHam: Drake's loud, insane, theatrical style of speech qualifies him as this.
126	* LegacyCharacter: In the end, it's revealed that [[spoiler:you have to replace a member of the Plague if you kill him. This explains how the Plague seems responsible for taking out historical personalities like Lincoln and Jesus]].
127	* LockAndLoadMontage: Rip and Grinder get a lock and load montage after The Drake calls them and hires them to take out the Hobo. Later, Abby gets one when she breaks into the pawn shop and arms herself with items from its stock, [[spoiler:including the lawnmower]].
128	%%* MacheteMayhem: Rip has a rectangular one.
129	* MadeOfIron:
130	** Ivan survives getting electrocuted so badly that his chin and entire right hand become charred.
131	** The Hobo is able to chew glass without much reaction and barely seems to notice getting a word carved deeply into his chest. He gives a rambling explanation that he can just tell the pain to go away.
132	* MilkingTheGiantCow: Drake does this gesture a lot.
133	* MolotovCocktail: When the homeless are being hunted down, one of the hunters finds a woman and her baby hiding in a dumpster and kills them with a Molotov cocktail.
134	* MoneyMauling: The Hobo smashes Slick in head with a sock full of loose change while rescuing Abby.
135	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Rip and Grinder. [[SarcasmMode It gets better]]: the two are collectively nicknamed "The Plague".
136	* NoNameGiven: The hobo is only ever referred to by what he is rather than any name.
137	%%* NoWomansLand: To a ''serious'' degree.
138	* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Drake shoots Ivan when Abby tries to take him hostage.]]
139	* OffWithHisHead: The Drake decapitates his brother Logan, played by Rob Wells of ''Series/TrailerParkBoys'' fame, using a barbed wire noose attached to Slick and Ivan's car.
140	* OneHandedShotgunPump: In the original trailer.
141	* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: In keeping with the film's source material, this trope is in constant use. Perhaps most obvious when [[OffWithHisHead Logan has his head ripped off]], and the blood sprays from his severed neck [[HighPressureBlood at a ludicrous velocity]] for several ''minutes'' without any decrease in volume or speed.
142	* [[PedoHunt Pædo Hunt]]: One of the rogues gallery of scum Hobo puts down is a ludicrously disgusting man dressed in a SantaClaus costume who openly preys upon and kidnaps small children in broad daylight.
143	* ParentalFavoritism: Exaggerated; Drake makes it clear that he favors Slick over Ivan, even telling both boys to their faces that only Slick has the potential to succeed him. [[spoiler:Notably, while he is heartbroken over Slick's death and demands vengeance, he blithely shoots Ivan himself the instant he becomes a hostage and an inconvenience to enacting that revenge.]]
144	* PetTheDog: Rip lights a match for the Hobo to have a smoke during his confinement by The Plague.
145	* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: The Hobo is a good man with good intentions, but he derogatorily refers to the jail inmates as "sodomites", which could suggest he has some homophobic tendencies.
146	* ProtagonistTitle: Combined with ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, the movie is named after the eponymous hobo with a shotgun.
147	* {{Pun}}: One newspaper headline reads "Hobo stops begging -- demands change."
148	* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
149	** "I'm making a Citizen's Arrest."
150	** ''"I'm gonna sleep in your bloody carcasses TONIGHT!"'''
151	* PreMortemOneLiner: Actually not very common in the movie, but used to great effect in the finale.
152	* PsychoForHire: The Plague, a pair of contract killers who encase themselves in metal armor, live in a castle and have some sort of giant tentacle monster as a pet. They also apparently killed Abraham Lincoln, Joan of Arc, Charles Darwin, and ''Jesus''.
153	* {{Psychopomp}}: [[spoiler:As Slick succumbs to his wounds, he sees the burnt-out, blackened husk of the school bus he torched roll up in front of him to take him to Hell, and it's implied that the children were the ones who shoved him inside.]]
154	* PsychoSupporter: Drake has a gang of groupies who run around in bikinis and enjoy violence just as much as he does. One girl dances in the RainOfBlood caused by Drake's execution of his brother, and later, they cheerfully beat on a human pinata Drake was holding prisoner. With [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill a razor-studded]] baseball bat, no less.
155	* RainOfBlood: A woman [[invoked]][[{{Squick}} strips and dances in it.]] And it's in the first seven minutes!
156	* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: A particularly nasty DirtyCop [[AttemptedRape tries to rape Abby]], and is interrupted by the Hobo. See ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill below.
157	* RecycledSoundtrack: The opening credits music, "Liebesthema", was used forty years earlier as the theme to the film ''Film/MarkOfTheDevil'', and the end credits music, "Run with Us", was first used as the credits theme to ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons''.
158	%%* RefugeInAudacity: Hoo boy.
159	* RemakeCameo: David Brunt, who played the Hobo in the original fake trailer, appears as a dirty cop.
160	* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: The Hobo is using the titular shotgun to blast the audience's heads off.
161	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: After the Hobo tells Rip that Abby ain't going nowhere... Rip just leaves.]]
162	* SignatureSoundEffect: Grinder's robotic hum, sounding a bit like, "Oing!"
163	* ShamingTheMob: Done by Abby when facing down a mob that had been torching hobos and killing them earlier. [[spoiler:They come back to destroy the police force in the ending.]]
164	* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: As the hobo's hell-raising antics demonstrate.
165	* ShootTheHostage: Drake shoots [[spoiler: his own son Ivan after Abby threatens to mulch him with a lawnmower]].
166	* ShoutOut:
167	** The Plague dragging a coffin behind their bikes is similar to [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} Undertaker's schtick]] and before that, the {{spaghetti Western}} ''Film/{{Django}}''.
168	** Many of the villains, such as the Plague gang, Ivan, and Slick, are named after characters from ''Videogame/RiverCityRansom''.
169	** The scene of Abby in the pawn shop customizing the shotgun is filmed like a similar scene in ''Film/EvilDead2'', complete with the usage of a vice. Her slap bands replace Ash’s shotgun strap, the lawnmower for the chainsaw. And then she loses her right hand, finishing the Ash reference.
170	* SinisterShades: Slick and Ivan wear Rayban Wayfarer sunglasses at almost all times to match their general retro look.
171	* SkeletonGovernment: One can wonder why the National Guard hasn't arrived to evacuate everyone and burn the city to the ground.
172	* SoundtrackDissonance: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouPYQlhempw end credits]] music is from an [[WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons '80s Canadian cartoon sitcom about talking raccoons]].
173	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Drake does this.
174	* SpitefulSpit: The hobo spits on the face of a pedophile dressed as Santa Claus in his car before blasting his brains out.
175	* StylisticSuck:
176	** The film as a whole is a [=grindhouse=] tribute. The hobo often goes on nonsensical {{ice cream koan}}s, dramatic scenes have bizarre, overwrought, terrible dialogue, and... interesting faces are made during ridiculously implausible situations.
177	** ''The Plague'' videogame is a retro BeatEmUp.
178	* TakeThat: The Hobo degrades himself for a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumfights Bumfights]]-style videographer and later gets revenge on the man for his sleazy, exploitative antics.
179	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The DirtyCop who commits the fatal mistake of pressing the Hobo's BerserkButton (see above), gets half a dozen shotgun shells pumped in his head and torso, until his upper body is reduced to a pile of blood and meat.
180	--> '''Hobo''': SHE'S A TEACHER!
181	* TitleDrop: ''"Maybe you'll end up like me, a hobo with a shotgun. Maybe you'll do better. You are the future."''
182	* TookALevelInBadass: Abby, who [[spoiler: singlehandedly kills Grinder ''and '' nearly puts the BigBad down for the count, and saves the hobo just before he's decapitated... with her goddamn forearm bone.]]
183	* TorchesAndPitchforks: The mob of citizens hunting and killing the homeless are carrying torches and a wide variety of improvised weapons, including pitchforks.
184	* TotalitarianGangsterism: Hope Town is portrayed as a WretchedHive where every manner of horrible acts run wild and free under the thumb of the Drake and his sons, a crime family who has every cop paid off to let them get away with every horrible deed imaginable in public and duly punish anyone who so much as says anything bad about them. They are so [[CartoonishSupervillainy cartoonishly]] [[CardCarryingVillain evil]], their EstablishingCharacterMoment involved the Drake brutally killing ''his own brother'' in broad daylight in front of civilians just to make an example out of him.
185	* TragicHero: The Hobo lives an incredibly harsh life and is cruelly abused by society, despite being a genuinely kind and responsible man. His bouts of vigilante justice may come across as being deranged at times [[spoiler: but he makes the ultimate sacrifice in the name of justice and protecting those he cares for]].
186	* TheUnfavorite: Ivan just doesn't measure up to Slick [[spoiler: even when he's the only one left, and he gets executed by his father for it, unwittingly getting the Hobo a short reprieve]].
187	* VaderBreath: Grinder, of The Plague.
188	* VerbThis: [[PreMortemOneLiner "Jerk on this,]] ''[[PreMortemOneLiner you child molesting shitlicker!]]''"
189	* VigilanteMan: The Hobo is so disgusted by the violence around him that he sacrifices his dream of starting a lawnmowing company to purchase a shotgun and go on a thug-murdering rampage.
190	* WellDoneSonGuy:
191	** Slick wants his father's approval and to be a fitting heir to his legacy. Drake fully encourages this.
192	** Ivan, TheUnfavorite, who is constantly demeaned, wants to be a fitting replacement for Slick in his father's eyes.
193	* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Hobo is ultimately a good man who only wants the best for [[WretchedHive Hopetown]], but he's clearly mentally unstable and goes pretty overboard with his vigilanteism at times.
194	* WhatTheHellHero: The pawn shop robber protests that he hasn't actually hurt anyone just before the Hobo blows his head off.
195	* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Well, shotgun in this case.
196	--> '''Abby''': You can't solve all the world's problems with a shotgun!
197	--> '''Hobo''': It's all I know.
198	* WhenLifeGivesYouLemons: Drake spins the phrase in his own hideous idiom to encourage his son.
199	--> '''Drake''': When life gives you razor blades... you make a baseball bat. Covered in razor blades!
200	* WorldGoneMad: Or at least, the ''entire fucking city.''
201	* WorldOfHam: Rivals ''Film/{{Machete}}'' in this area. There's this gem, for one instance:
202	--> '''Orderly:''' (after seeing the Plague) ''THAAAAAAT'S IIIIIT!'' (throws a chair and whips out a revolver, starts shooting at Rip) I am ''SICK!'' And ''TIRED!'' Of you ''FUCKING JUNKIES!''
203	* WouldHurtAChild: One of the pawnshop robbers is ready to shoot a baby and one of the hobo-killing townsfolk throws a molotov into a dumpster where a homeless child is living. Then there's the disgusting pedophile Santa Claus who openly loiters outside schools. But Slick takes the prize when he [[spoiler:burns a busload of little children]], then threatens to wipe out every child in the city if the Hobo isn't killed.
204	* WretchedHive: An ExaggeratedTrope: Hopetown is an impossibly depraved and violent small town full of murderers, rapists and thugs, a crime lord and his sons are essentially the local government, and [[TheBadGuysAreCops the cops are all in on it]].
205	* YourHeadASplode: Happens to everyone who the Hobo shoots in the head.
206	* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: [[spoiler:After Abby kills Grinder, Rip says she has to take his place. The Hobo tells him he won't be doing that, and he walks off without a word. However, in the alternate ending, she's converted into Grinder's replacement.]]

Context Film / HoboWithAShotgun