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3->''"Hi! I'm being blackmailed into robbing the Vatican by a psychotic American corporation and the CIA!"''
4-->-- '''Hudson Hawk'''
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6''Hudson Hawk'' is a 1991 action comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann and starring Creator/BruceWillis in the title role, with a supporting cast that includes Creator/DannyAiello, Creator/AndieMacDowell, Creator/JamesCoburn, Creator/RichardEGrant, and Creator/SandraBernhard.
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8GentlemanThief extraordinaire Eddie "Hudson Hawk" Hawkins has just gotten out of prison, and all he really wants is a cappuccino and an honest job. However, his parole officer has teamed up with [[TheMafia two Italian brothers]] with the surname "[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]" to force him to do OneLastJob that leads to a madcap series of capers that do all they can to defy summation.
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10Before it's over, Eddie will hurtle down a freeway on a gurney, unknowingly flirt with a nun, burgle the Vatican with fifty dollars' worth of seemingly random items, discover Creator/LeonardoDaVinci's secret formula for turning lead into gold, battle candy-bar codenamed CIA agents (and one ''damned'' annoying [[GroinAttack crotch-biting]] dog), and if he survives all of this, ''then'' he can have his coffee.
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12The film was made at a time when Bruce Willis was still making the transition from comedy roles like ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}'' to his ActionHero typecasting. Older tropers experienced with the actor's pre-''Film/DieHard'' career will know this means he [[LargeHam mugs a lot]] and does just about [[RuleOfFunny anything for a laugh]]. And he still has hair (well, mostly ... reportedly, a significant part of why the film went over budget was that Willis insisted on [[https://moneyhoesandclothes.wordpress.com/tag/cgi-hair-replacement/ CGI to hide his thinning hairline]]).
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14It was Creator/WilliamConrad's final film appearance before his death in 1994.
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17!!This film provides examples of:
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19* TheEighties: {{Bookend|s}}ed by the fact that at the start and end of the film, after being released from prison after several years, Eddie has no idea what "playing Creator/{{Nintendo}}" is.
20* ActorAllusion:
21** [[Film/TheLastBoyScout Willis mentions a reindeer goat-cheese pizza]].
22** Hudson tells Anthony Mario, "Directions even your brother can understand", which doubles as a dig at Frank Stallone's [[Creator/SylvesterStallone brother]].
23* ActuallyPrettyFunny: While Eddie is being threatened by the Mayflowers, Darwin tells Hawk "I'll torture you so slowly you'll think its a career. I'll kill your friends, your family and the bitch you took to the prom!" Eddie responds with "Betty Jo Biarsky? [[ThreatBackfire I can get you an address on that if you want]]." to which George Kaplan can't help but grin and salute Hawk for.
24* AffablyEvil: George Kaplan; picture an evil version of [[Film/OurManFlint Derek Flint]].
25-->'''Kaplan:''' The last time you saw me, [[MasterOfDisguise I was bald, with a beard and no mustache, and I had a different nose.]] So if you don't recognize me, I won't be offended.
26* AfraidOfNeedles: Cesar Mario's reaction to his brother's face in the ambulance.
27* AlliterativeName: Eddie's nickname: '''H'''udson '''H'''awk.
28* AlliterativeTitle: Due to AlliterativeName-type ProtagonistTitle.
29* AlmostKiss: After their date, Eddie and Anna go back to her apartment, where she gives him a backrub. He says he needs to whisper something to her, their faces come together and Eddie tries to kiss her. She pulls away, breaking the moment.
30* AmusinglyAwfulAim: While Eddie and the butler are fighting, Anna Baragli tries to shoot the butler but misses, hitting Eddie's belt buckle instead.
31-->Eddie: [[UnwantedAssistance Stop helping me!]]
32-->Anna: Sorry!
33* AndStarring: The opening cast roll ends with "and Creator/JamesCoburn."
34* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: Hudson Hawk is given a brick of gold and a brick of lead while blindfolded, to demonstrate that they are indistinguishable. Gold is 70% denser than lead, and the weight difference would be easily noticed. The gold brick would weigh about 30 pounds, but they handle it as if it weighs a couple of pounds. Minerva also states that gold and lead differ by one proton on the periodic table of elements. The difference is actually 3 protons not to mention 8 neutrons (on average). Perhaps most blatantly, gold is a far better heat sink than lead; Hawk should have noticed the lead brick warming in his hand almost instantly while the gold one stayed cold.
35* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: The Mayflowers' plan has this by the bucketful.
36** They want to make the world currency market collapse by making so much gold that it turns all of the stuff into WorthlessYellowRocks. That might have worked in, say, 1965. However, ever since UsefulNotes/RichardNixon took the US off the gold standard in 1971, no currency has any significant links whatsoever to gold, and making lots and lots of gold would only collapse the gold market - though the shockwaves from ''that'' will do a lot of damage.
37** The idea that their own fortune would be unaffected also falls short especially in that light; they're basically planning on causing an economic apocalypse, and they're investing in non-gold stocks instead of canned food and shotguns. They aren't even doing the "smart" financial move if you know that the price of a commodity is about to drop sharply, i.e. trying to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_(finance) short]] that commodity (in this case, gold).
38** There's some implications that "most of" their fortune is in physical commodities and properties whose relative value would be unchanged... Which doesn't explain how they can throw around money like it's ''already'' worthless pieces of paper.
39* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The horse Da Vinci made out of clay is the target of a heist in the film...but said horse shouldn't even ''exist'', since it never got further than a clay model (a ''full-size'' one), and said model was destroyed in 1499 by French soldiers, who used it as a target for archery practice. Similarly, Leonardo's flying machine exists as a drawing only, not as an actual model (let alone functioning one).
40** And unless it's a [[ViewersAreGeniuses sophisticated joke]], "Sforza" is the last name of the patron duke of Milan who funded the sculpture, not of the horse itself (which is referred to by art historians as, well, [[ADogNamedDog "Horse"]]).
41** Also, the entire plot is centered around Da Vinci’s machine that somehow acts like the Philosopher’s Stone ... but Da Vinci wasn’t an alchemist and didn’t have a high opinion of the craft.
42* {{Auction}}: While Eddie and Anna Baragli are at an auction for the statue of a horse, the Mayflowers kill the auctioneer with a bomb placed in his gavel to disrupt the auction.
43%%* AxeBeforeEntering
44%%* BadassBoast: "We blow up space shuttles for breakfast. You and your friend Tommy are nothing more than a mid-afternoon Triscuit."
45%%* BadassLongcoat: Eddie wears it at the end.
46* BallCannon: During the movie, the Mayflowers' evil dog Bunny performs a GroinAttack on Hudson Hawk and bites the neck of Hawk's girlfriend Anna Baragli. Eddie eventually gets his revenge, using a tennis ball launching machine to fire a ball at Bunny and knock her out a window and over a cliff to a DisneyVillainDeath.
47* BarSlide: A bartender at the Five-Tone sends Eddie a cappuccino this way. Unfortunately, it’s shot out of his hand by Antony Mario.
48* BattleButler: Alfred, the Mayflowers' butler who's a knife expert with a BladeBelowTheShoulder; "A cross between Alistair Cooke and a Cuisinart."
49* BecomingTheMask: Anna falls in love with Hudson after seducing him for the Vatican.
50* BerserkButton: Caution: Do not insult God in front of a nun. [[OneHitKill One-Hit Kills]] can occur.
51* BigBadDuumvirate: Darwin and Minerva Mayflower are the main antagonists of the film. They plot to use Da Vinci's secret machine for world domination.
52* BilingualBonus: The prologue sequence with Da Vinci is in Italian.
53* BloodFromTheMouth: Butterfinger’s mouth drips with blood when Minerva shoots him down with arrows.
54* BlowGun: Used by UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} agents, who should logically have something better, with explicit mention of curare, which is treated as a temporary paralyser. Because it was improperly prepared, the victims recover sooner than anticipated.
55* BondOneLiner
56** After Alfred slits Gates' throat: "So much for his cut."
57** Also, after [[spoiler:Eddie decapitates Alfred:]] "You won't be attending that hat convention in July!"
58* BrakeAngrily: While Eddie is being driven to the bar after being let out of prison, he tells Tommy Five-Tone about Gates' attempt to blackmail him into doing a job. Tommy angrily slams on the brakes, [[RunningGag spilling Eddie's cappuccino]].
59* BreakingTheFourthWall: In the final shot, Eddie smiles in triumph at the camera after [[spoiler:finally getting to drink a cappuccino.]]
60** PlayedWith in-universe when Mayflower facetiously translates an Italian term "for those at home."
61* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Leonardo da Vinci's 500 year old flying machine, which Eddie and Anna use to escape from the castle.
62* BrickJoke:
63** The duo sings songs to time (and synchronise) their capers. Each time, the song ends before the caper is over. At that very moment, they invariably get caught.
64** "Will you play Nintendo with me?"
65** [[spoiler: Hudson Hawk deliberately sabotaging the assembly of the crystal causes Minerva to be coated in bronze, which was the machine's original purpose in the prologue]].
66* TheButlerDidIt: Quoted by Eddie when telling Tommy [[spoiler:about Gates' death at the hands of Alfred, who ''is'' a butler.]]
67* CameraSpoofing: The "play back old footage" version is used in the auction house robbery. Unfortunately, two of the guards just saw an overweight colleague break a chair, which shows up intact on the spoofed images and reveals the trick.
68* {{Camp}}: It's basically a LiveActionCartoon.
69* CaptainObvious:
70** Butterfinger: "Hey coach, it looks bad. I think those Mayflowers set us up..."
71** The Playmate of the Year riding the car next to Hudson as he's rolling on a stretcher: "Hey mister! You gonna die?"
72* CardCarryingVillain: The Mayflowers. "What can I say? I'm the villain!"
73* CatchPhrase: Tommy has one. Can you ''believe'' it?!
74* CharacterTitle: "Hudson Hawk"
75* CheckPlease: While Eddie and Anna are in a café, Anna says that [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys knowing he was in prison excites her]]. Eddie: "Check please!"
76* ChristianityIsCatholic: The Vatican itself is involved - Anna is secretly an intelligence agent for the Holy See. She's also a nun, veering close enough to NaughtyNun territory that her superior (an unnamed Cardinal) warns her about getting too close to Hawk.
77-->'''Cardinal:''' Remember, sister, you have your oath to God, as well as your mission to the world.
78* ChekhovsGun:
79** Leonardo da Vinci's castle is a ChekhovsArmory. The opening with Leonardo's lab would make Tom Servo declare "Foreshadowing!"
80** Tommy and Hawk's game of rattling off a song's playing time takes on a whole new meaning during the first robbery.
81** There's a reason why we need to see the otherwise forgettable security guards taunting "Big Stan."
82** "Bunny, ball ball!"
83** The Pope's postal subway.
84* ChurchPolice: or in this case, more like Church Counterespionage; the "Vatican Organization" that Anna works for, which is ostensibly working with Kaplan's team to ''prevent'' the Mayflowers' plans [[spoiler: later discovering that Kaplan & co. are ''in on it.'']]
85* CodeName: The Candy Bars, as their name indicates, are codenamed after famous candy bars: Snickers, Butterfinger, Kit Kat, and Almond Joy.
86-->'''Almond Joy:''' Candy bars. Well, it's better than when we first started out. Our code names were diseases. You know what it's like being called Chlamydia for a year?!?
87* CoDragons: George Kaplan and Alfred both serve as the Mayflowers' principal henchmen.
88%%* ComedicSociopathy
89* ConcealingCanvas: The auction house Eddie and Tommy break into hides its safe behind a large painting. The safe holds the "Sforza", the horse statuette that they're there to steal.
90* {{Confessional}}: Anna gives a confessional to her priest, who is also her spy handler.
91* CoolCar: The Mayflower's [[https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_28941-Imperial-Crown-Imperial-Limousine-1955.html 1955 Imperial Crown Imperial Limousine]] definitely qualifies as one of the coolest and prettiest stretch limos to grace the silver screen.
92* CoverDrop: For the rope-swinging one.
93* CrazyPrepared: Kit Kat communicates solely through pre-printed notecards, of which somehow he has one ready for every occasion he encounters.
94* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: "I will torture you so slowly you'll think it's a career!"
95* DamselInDistress: Anna needs rescuing a few times, though she knows she doesn't make a very good one.
96%%* DeadlyDodging
97* DeadpanSnarker: Hudson Hawk's even better at this than cat-burglary.
98* DeathByRacism: Eddie's corrupt parole officer Gates gets his throat cut by Alfred after he starts berating him for being British.
99* DeathEqualsRedemption: Kit Kat, after being betrayed and pumped full of arrows, uses his last breath to loosen the ropes on Anna, allowing her to escape.
100* DelayedExplosion: After Snickers' time bomb on his head counts down to zero and is delayed for a few seconds, Eddie and Tommy escape as the bomb ''then'' explodes.
101* DeliberatelyBadExample: The CIA guys were already well-shown to be villains throughout the episode, but they also show that they don't have any of Hawk's scruples or care when their (off-screen) Louvre heist involves performing a terrorist attack that damages the museum and kills a lot of people so they can nab Da Vinci's artifact in the confusion.
102%%* DisneyDeath: Twice! To the same character!
103* DisneyVillainDeath:
104** [[spoiler: Kaplan]] falls to his death along with the exploding limousine.
105** Since he was in the backseat of the limo, so does [[spoiler: Tommy, except it's subverted, thanks to Mayflower's preparedness - the backseat had airbags and a sprinkler system!]]
106** The evil dog Bunny performed a GroinAttack on Eddie and went for Anna Baragli's throat. Eddie uses a tennis-ball-firing device to knock her out a window and she falls to her death.
107* DistantPrologue: The film opens with a scene of Leonardo da Vinci creating the transmutation device.
108* DivingSave: During the auction, the auctioneer' gavel explodes, causing a giant sculpture to swing down toward Anna Baragli. Seeing her in danger, Hudson dives toward her and pulls her out of the way just in time.
109* DragonHisFeet: Hawk kills [[UnholyMatrimony the Mayflowers]] by [[spoiler:sabotaging the Gold Machine]], but their BattleButler Alfred was far enough away from it that Hawk has to beat him in a hand-to-hand fight before he goes down.
110* DressesTheSame: Kit Kat wears is own regular suit at the auction of the fake Sforza. After that, every time he appears he's either dressed the same as another character in the scene, or an object in the room.
111** Also, Igg and Ook, twin henchmen
112* DrivingIntoATruck: The ambulance carrying Eddie and Tommy Five-Tone away from the Mayflowers drives up a ramp into a truck.
113* DumbMuscle: Butterfinger is not a very bright henchman.
114* EmbarrassingSlide: The Mayflowers document their robbery with a slide show, but their S&M play gets accidentally included in the presentation. "Damned Fotomat assholes!"
115* EveryCarIsAPinto: The safety features on ambulances are apparently disabled by the presence of stupid mobsters. In the chase scene, an ambulance driven by the bad guys hits a mound of dirt, drives off a ramp, flips over and explodes in ''mid-air'' for ''no reason whatsoever''.
116* EvilIsHammy: The Mayflowers are perhaps the most ludicrously hammy villains of all time.
117* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: When they're introduced, all Candy Bars are eating or displaying a candy bar of their CodeName's sort.
118* FantasticCatholicism:
119** The "Vatican Organization" that Anna works for, a pseudo-CIA for the Church.
120** Also, [[NunsAreSpooky "Catholic girls are scary."]]
121* FastRoping: This is how Kit Kat makes his first appearance.
122* FauxAffablyEvil: Darwin and Minerva Mayflower.
123-->'''Darwin''': What can I say? ''I'm'' the villain.
124%%* FelonyMisdemeanor: "([[ForeignCussWord long Italian curse]]) Messed around? Messed around?! ...Seventeen Hail Marys."
125* TheForeignSubtitle: Varied versions of "The Master Thief" were added to the title abroad.
126* FourEyesZeroSoul: Snickers, the bespectacled CIA agent, has fewer AffablyEvil moments than his companions and is happy to try and incapacitate Hawk and let him know a time bomb is about to kill him.
127%%* GoToYourRoom: Followed by a [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcan Neck Pinch]].
128* GrievousBottleyHarm: Tommy smashes a bottle of champagne over the head of one of the Mario Brothers when they try to rough up Hawk in a BarFight.
129* GroinAttack
130** While Eddie is secured to a chair, an aggressive dog bites his crotch.
131** After Eddie is knocked down by Butterfingers inside a phone booth, he kicks him in the groin. Butterfingers is fine a minute later.
132** Alfred the Butler presses his blade against Eddie's genitals as a threat.
133-->'''Darwin:''' Come to think of it, there is a part of your body that you won't be needing for your next job.
134** And towards the end, Eddie kicks Alfred in the groin just before [[spoiler:he decapitates the latter]].
135%%* GuiltyPleasures
136* {{Hammerspace}}: One of the villains cuts open the cover of Da Vinci's codex to reveal that the book cover, which was approximately a quarter inch thick, contains a piece of the gold machine reflector which is about the size of a billiard ball.
137* {{Handwave}}: [[spoiler:Tommy]] survives being inside of a limousine that was set on fire and tossed down a very tall cliff by telling that it had air bags and fire extinguishers. He even says a very surprised "can you believe it!?" and Hawk's face, as he says, "yeah, I believe it" reads definitely "I don't"[[note]]Not only was Tommy originally meant to be killed, the editors also cut Hawk saying a line that said something in the vein of "even for this movie, your survival's too contrived, dude"[[/note]]
138* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Once Kit Kat is shot by the Mayflowers, he unties Anna and gives her a card saying "I always liked you" before he dies.
139* HeterosexualLifePartners: Eddie and Tommy seem to be a [[MayDecemberRomance May-December]] version of this.
140* HighVoltageDeath: Darwin gets electrocuted when [[spoiler:Hawk short-circuits the machine's control panel]].
141* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
142** Snickers's second time bomb gets stuck on his head and soon explodes. "He's about to have a bad migrane," indeed.
143** Eddie blows Almond Joy's paralyzing dart into her throat.
144** Alfred gets [[spoiler:decapitated by his own knives]].
145** Cesar and Antony Mario, after setting up the explosion at the auction house, die in a fiery explosion when their ambulance flips over.
146** Darwin and Minerva Mayflower both die from the gold machine they have been spending all film trying to make work.
147* HollywoodGlassCutter: While breaking into the auction house, Eddie uses a suction cup device to cut out a hole in a glass door. It's large enough that he and Tommy Five-Tone can slip inside.
148* HollywoodNuns: Inverted, as we only see Anna in a habit once. Because she's undercover as... [[PaperThinDisguise a chaste Catholic girl who works at the Vatican]].
149* HumanMail
150** Eddie wakes up in a packing material shipping crate in another country after being rendered unconscious.
151** Hawk later uses this to [[spoiler: sneak into the Vatican Museum for the second robbery.]]
152* ImprobableAimingSkills: Eddie manages to toss exact change into a toll road meter while careening down the highway on a gurney.
153* ImprovisedZipline: While robbing the Vatican, Eddie throws a rope (with a grappling hook on the end) from the top of a building across a street. He then slides down the rope to escape.
154* IndecisiveParody: Though the film was pitched as a parody of action and heist movies, the end product doesn't really specifically parody all that many tropes of these genres and just goes for a generally wacky and over-the-top approach, resulting in the few occasional bits of actual parody (such as the deliberately lame BondOneLiner that Eddie gives after killing Alfred) feeling jarringly out of place.
155* InstantSedation
156** Eddie drops like a sack of potatoes just seconds after [[spoiler:drinking a cappuccino that tastes [[SlippingAMickey a bit too much like]] ethyl chloride]].
157** Anna, Eddie and Tommy are paralyzed instantly by Almond Joy's curare-tipped blowgun darts. Subverted by [[spoiler:Eddie and Tommy, who [[HollywoodHealing somehow recover within minutes]] and paralyze Almond Joy.]]
158* IntergenerationalFriendship: Tommy and Eddie are some of the closest friends imaginable despite the former clearly being much older than the latter.
159* IntimidationDemonstration: Just before Eddie's final battle against Alfred the butler, Alfred snaps out his blades and swings them around in a threatening manner to let Eddie know just what he's up against.
160* IronicEcho: "Bunny...ball ball." Said by Hawk as a PreMortemOneLiner as he gets ready to blast the villains' dog out a window with a tennis ball launcher.
161* IWasJustJoking: Darwin jokes about killing two of their goons, causing Minerva to immediately execute them. They laugh it off by dancing.
162%%* IWantThemAlive: "Really? Don't hurt him?"
163%%* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: "Oh, and we kind of messed around."
164* KickTheDog:
165** Hawk gets his [[RunningGag second attempt at trying a capucchino]] [[YankTheDogsChain ruined]] by one of the Mario Brothers blasting the cup to pieces with a silenced pistol and playfully taunting him when he looks around to see what did that.
166** Darwin leaves Tommy to die towards the end of the film and taunts Eddie over it.
167* KnuckleTattoos: Kit Kat has them.
168%%* LampshadeHanging: "The guy on the donkey is just [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a guy on a donkey]]."
169* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When Darwin translates "Macchine d'Oro" into English, he adds a sarcastic "for those at home."
170* LookBehindYou: Averted: "Now, George, you don't expect me to fall for that old gag, do you?"
171* MasterOfDisguise: Kit Kat is known to use disguises to impersonate other citizens.
172* MasterOfUnlocking: Hawk is an expert at this, which is why all of the bad guys try their damnedest to force him to steal for them.
173* MeaningfulName: The Candy Bars -
174** Butterfinger is clumsy.
175** Snickers constantly chuckles under his breath.
176** Almond Joy takes great pleasure at the misfortune of others.
177** Kit Kat always looks like someone else in the room. Like Kit Kat bars look like every other Kit Kat in the pack.
178* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Minerva shoots two goons after Darwin jokes about killing them.
179* {{Narrator}}: Creator/WilliamConrad narrates the film.
180* NaughtyNuns: Not ''that'' naughty, but Anna, a nun, certainly thinks flirting with Eddie is a guilty pleasure.
181* NeutralFemale: Subverted. Anna ''does'' free herself. And, during the fight with Alfred at the end, she ''does'' try to help Eddie. Unfortunately, her aim ''sucks'', but, to be fair, she ''is'' a nun, and therefore probably not particularly experienced in the operation of firearms.
182* NobodyHereButUsStatues: Kit Kat disguises himself as a Greek statue in the castle.
183* NoodleIncident: Captain Bob's steering wheel.
184** Also, the story that Tommy and Hudson are telling Anna the night they stay over at her place.
185---> '''Hudson:''' He had this look on his face when we caught him. He was like, "bee bee bee beep, bee bee bee beep." I never saw a look like it.
186** The job in which Hudson first met Kaplan.
187---> "I'm the guy who tricked you into robbing a government installation and then had you sent to prison for it."
188*** Also Kaplan's former appearance in that job.
189---> "The last time you saw me I was bald with a beard and no moustache, and I had a different nose."
190** Hudson's evidently ''memorable'' prom-date with Betty Jo Biarski.
191* NoSell:
192** Almond Joy is not afraid of Anna with a gun.
193** Hudson is almost unfazeable.
194-->'''Darwin:''' I'll kill your friends, your family, ''and'' that bitch you took to the prom!\
195'''Hudson:''' Betty Jo Biarsky? I can get you an address on that one.
196** Butterfinger, when Minerva shoots him with the double crossbow. He looks mostly just confused. Confounded, she shoots him again, but he spits out a little blood, then walks out into the hallway to talk to Kaplan before finally collapsing.
197** Butterfinger handles a fight with Hawk pretty well until the latter resorts to a GroinAttack.
198%%* NotTheFallThatKillsYou
199* {{Novelization}}: By Geoffrey Marsh. Shockingly, for a novelization of a film that was being rewritten as it was made, the book is incredibly faithful to the final product, aside from including the deleted subplot about Kaplan killing Hawk's pet monkey Little Eddie.
200%%* OffhandBackhand: "I'll kick your Centrally Intelligent ass up one side of the piazza and down the other!"
201* OffstageVillainy: The third robbery takes place offscreen by the main villians after Hawk is arrested [[spoiler:when Tommy fakes his death as part of their plan to escape the Mayflowers.]]
202* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Alfred gets sliced by his own knives after Hudson outsmarts him]].
203* OhCrap:
204** Eddie and Tommy when Almond Joy and Snickers inform them that they have 5 seconds to defuse the time bombs after their paralysis wears off and later when they realize that the time bomb on Snickers's forehead is about to explode.
205** Kit Kat when he gets shot by the Mayflowers.
206** Kaplan and Tommy have a collective moment of horror when they are about to be sent over the cliff along with the exploding limousine. [[spoiler:Tommy makes it alive, while Kaplan doesn't]].
207** Eddie in the auction house, when he realizes he just accidentally called Anna a [[ItMakesSenseInContext constipated warthog]].
208** Eddie again, while Anna is inspecting the fake Sforza and makes a face.
209* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname:
210** Eddie Hawkins, who's called "Hudson Hawk" by everyone except Tommy Five-Tone.
211** We never learn the real names of the Candy Bars.
212%%* OverlyLongGag
213%%* OverlyLongName: In a sense, with Gates' description of Alfred.
214* PercussiveMaintenance: The Pope's attempt to fix a malfunctioning TV by hitting it -- with the Staff of the Papal Office, no less.
215%%* PlayingDrunk: Anna in the castle.
216* PoisonedWeapons: Almond Joy's curare-tipped blowgun darts, which she uses to knock out Anna, Hudson and Tommy.
217* PokemonSpeak: The only sounds that Igg and Ook make in the film is when they die, when they groan "Igg!" and "Ook!", respectively.
218* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Igg and Oook receive them.
219* PsychopathicManchild: Butterfinger is a murderous CIA agent with the mind of a child.
220* PunctuatedPounding: Tommy Five Tone to Darwin Mayflower.
221* PutTheirHeadsTogether: During the auction house robbery, Eddie and Tommy Five-Tone are surprised by two guards. After Tommy uses a rope to trip them, Eddie knocks their heads together to render them unconscious so he can handcuff them.
222* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The Candy Bars, Kaplan's mooks who have candy bar-themed codenames.
223* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: Of the overlapping kind: Tommy and Anna talk over each other after the Tommy-Hudson fight scene.
224* RealityHasNoSubtitles
225** The DistantPrologue takes place in Leonardo da Vinci's castle workshops during a day in his life. Plenty of Italian is spoken, along with a few other languages from other workers including English - mostly exclaiming surprise that the Bronze Machine is actually producing "GOLD!". None of it is subtitled.
226** While Hudson is making a phone call in Italy, the operator speaks to him in Italian several times before turning him over to the AT&T overseas operator. None of her statements are translated.
227** While Hudson is ordering food at a restaurant he speaks in Italian. At the end of the order he asks for some ketchup and the waiter walks away complaining about the uncultured American. None of their Italian dialogue is subtitled.
228* RealityIsUnrealistic: The "Da Vinci Codex" is a misnomer, as there are at least 5 codices of Da Vinci's. The one in the film is neither; it is a composite of two recognizable Da Vinci works: the Vitruvian Man on one side, which was never in a codex, and the Study on Muscles on the other, which are among the Windsor Folios. No such codex exists. Nor is there a Da Vinci codex in the Vatican Museum.
229* RedundantRescue: Anna. "I got bored, so I saved myself."
230* ReligionIsMagic: Spoofed.
231-->'''Hawk:''' The Vatican! I'm robbing the freaking Vatican! The Sisters at St. Agnes' predicted this.
232%%* RhetoricalRequestBlunder
233* RogueAgent: Kaplan and his minions are ex-CIA agents who went rogue.
234* RuleOfCool: When Eddie and his partner have to synchronize their actions to pull off a heist, do they use their wristwatches? No ... they sing ''show tunes.'' While sneaking around inside an occupied building.
235* RuleOfFunny: This movie runs with it and the tank is filled baby!
236* RuleOfThree: Hudson takes on three heists.
237** Subverted: Only two of Hudson's heists are with Tommy, thus only two capers have the "trademark" synchronized singing. Meanwhile, a fourth heist is done offscreen by Kaplan's crew.
238* RunningGag
239** Eddie can't get an unadulterated [[TrademarkFavoriteFood cappuccino]] to save his life. [[spoiler: At least, not until the very end. By that point, [[EarnYourHappyEnding he's earned it]].]]
240*** Tommy comes to prison to pick him up with a cappuccino in a take-away cup. Before he can have a taste, Tommy has to slam on the brakes, spilling the drink.
241*** At the Five-Tone, Eddie gets one [[BarSlide bar-slid to him]]... only to have it shot out from under his nose by one of the Mario Brothers.
242*** After the auction-house job, Eddie decides to make one himself... and the machine shorts out.
243*** Eddie gets served one at Anna's place after their date... too bad it [[spoiler: tastes too much like [[SlippingAMickey ethyl chlorate.]]]]
244** The Candy Bars and Kaplan always appear out of nowhere, unexpected and wearing whatever ''weird'' clothes they thought about, sometimes trying to fit in, sometimes definitely not.
245** Kit Kat only "speaks" via pre-printed cards. He also often dresses as the other characters; once as Hudson, once as Anna, and he also disguised himself as a living statue in the castle.
246%%* SarcasticConfession
247* TheSeriesHasLeftReality: The film is realistic up to the point where Eddie and Tommy Five-Tone jump off the building and Eddie ends up [[SeamlessScenery falling into a chair in the Mario Brothers' apartment]] (Tommy ends up back at the bar), with no explanation whatsoever. After that, the action slowly grows more cartoony.
248* ShoutOut:
249** The locks on the Mayflowers' electronic handcuffs play the ring tone from the Flint Phone in ''Film/OurManFlint''. Considering James Coburn's in this one, not terribly inappropriate.
250** George Kaplan is the non-existent spy in ''Film/NorthByNorthwest''.
251** Before drinking [[spoiler:Anna's coffee with ethyl chloride]], Hudson quotes ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'':
252-->'''Hawk''': Here's looking at you, kid.
253** Repeated references to "playing {{Creator/Nintendo}}." Which doubles as an awkward DoubleEntendre as having been in prison during its craze, Hudson doesn't know what it is, and assumes it's innuendo.
254*** On top of that, Hudson's first antagonists are Antony Mario and Cesar Mario -- AKA, the [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario Brothers]].
255** The Pope is watching "Series/MisterEd." Dubbed in Italian.
256** Hudson references "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27ll_Be_a_Hot_Time_in_the_Old_Town_Tonight There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight]]" while rudely manhandling Minerva to push Darwin's buttons.
257** When interrogating Anna, Darwin likens Hudson to a "well-hung Characters/DudleyDoright."
258** In the same scene, Darwin calls a dolphin-calling Anna "{{Series/Flipper}}."
259** Hudson angrily calls Darwin an "[[Series/TheMunsters Eddie Munster]]-looking motherfucker."
260** Similarly, Gates refers to Alfred as, among many other things, as "[[Series/FamilyAffair Sebastian Cabot]]-looking."
261* SidekickSong: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in that the caper-timing songs double as these.
262* SignatureHeadgear: Eddie values it, as realizing that it has fallen off his head is what allows him to break free from the involuntary movements that Kaplan had him locked in.
263* SinisterSpyAgency: Kaplan and the Candy Bars are CIA and very much okay with being hired goons to the psychotic Mayflowers. Kaplan also fondly reminisces his glory days in one scene, pointing out to Hawk that they are standing in the place where he once carried out a memorable assassination.
264* SlashedThroat: The BattleButler dishes these out.
265* SlippingAMickey: ...Yeah.
266-->'''Hawk''': Hey, this doesn't taste like [[spoiler:cappuccino]].\
267'''[[spoiler:Anna]]''': Oh. I guess I put too much ethyl chloride in it.
268* SpeakOfTheDevil: When Gates is talking about Alfred, and the latter immediately enters. A subverted InadvertentEntranceCue. Also provides an AnswerCut. ([[AccidentalPun Pun not intended]].)
269* SprayingDrinkFromNose: In the scene where Eddie and Tommy are paralyzed by curare, they make a number of funny statements while one of their captors (named Butterfinger) is drinking something. He starts laughing and tells them "You made it come out of my nose."
270* StagedShooting: [[spoiler: Hawk shooting Tommy in a brawl.]]
271%%* StolenMacGuffinReveal
272%%* StuffBlowingUp
273%%* SwordSparks
274* TakenForGranite: During the finale, [[spoiler:Minerva gets turned into gold due to the machine's sabotage]].
275** [[spoiler: Minerva actually gets coated in bronze, making it a BrickJoke from the prologue (Hawk's sabotage of the crystal assembly makes the machine do what Da Vinci was actually trying to accomplish in the first place)]].
276* TapOnTheHead
277** When Eddie first meets the CIA Candy Bars, Kaplan punches him in the face and knocks him out. Eddie falls backward into a box full of styrofoam peanuts.
278** While Eddie and Tommy are infiltrating Leonardo da Vinci's castle, they lure two guards over to them and knock each of them out with one punch.
279* ThemeNaming: The CIA people are code-named after candy bars; apparently before that, they tried diseases.
280-->'''Almond Joy:''' Do you know what it's like to be called "Chlamydia" for a whole year?
281* ThemeTwinNaming: Eddie jokingly asks of the identical twin mooks tasked with following him around, "What do they call you guys? Igg and Ook?" They are credited as such.
282* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: Most of [[RunningGag Eddie's cappuccinos]] except for three:
283** One isn't even made in the first place.
284** One [[spoiler:[[SlippingAMickey knocks him out]]]], so "perfectly good" is a stretch.
285** He actually gets to drink the last one.
286* ThreatBackfire
287-->'''Darwin Mayflower:''' I'll kill your friends, your family, and the bitch you took to the prom!\
288'''Hudson Hawk:''' Betty Jo Biarski? I can get you an address on that if you want.
289* TimeBomb: The rockets, with one case of DelayedExplosion.
290* TimeForPlanB:
291** After Hawk and Tommy jump off a balcony:
292-->'''Minerva:''' Plan B, George.\
293'''Kaplan:''' ...Plan B!
294** Also when Kaplan and Butterfinger are trying to find a way out of the castle, but things keep blowing up each way they pick.
295%%* TrojanHorse: "The Pope takes his mail seriously."
296* TollBoothAntics: The titular character is in an out of control ambulance gurney. He manages to get one arm loose so he can toss change into the toll booth so he can keep careening out of control because the bad guys are after him.
297* TookALevelInBadass: Subverted when Anna gets the jump on the Candy Bars with a gun, but they know she's not going to use it, because [[spoiler: she's a nun]].
298* TripTrap: During the theft of the Sforza (horse statue), two guards go after Eddie and Tommy. Tommy runs to one side and pulls on a rope, causing the guards to trip on it and fall down.
299* TwoferTokenMinority: Almond Joy is the only African-American member of Kaplan's team, as well as the only woman on it.
300* UnexplainedRecovery: Lampshaded in the most hilarious way.
301-->'''Eddie:''' You're supposed to be all cracked up at the bottom of the hill!\
302'''Tommy:''' Air bags! Can you fucking believe it?\
303'''Eddie:''' You're supposed to be blown up into fiery chunks of flesh!\
304'''Tommy:''' Sprinkler system set up in the back! ''[[RefugeInAudacity can you fucking believe it]]!?''\
305'''Eddie:''' Yyyyeah! [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief That's...probably what happened!]]
306* UnholyMatrimony: The Mayflowers are a marriage of supercriminals.
307* UnwantedAssistance: Former {{Trope Namer|s}} for the old "Stop Helping Me!" trope: Anna decides to pick up a gun and help Hudson during his fight with Alfred. Unfortunately, she's not the best markswoman in the world.
308* UseYourHead: When Anna is kept prisoner by Minerva, she escapes by stomping her foot and headbutting her out cold.
309* VillainsDyingGrace: Kit-Kat helps Anna escape from her bindings after being betrayed and mortally wounded.
310* TheVoiceless:
311** Kit Kat only communicates through preprinted cards. "MY NAME IS KIT KAT THIS IS NOT A DREAM"
312** Also Igg and Ook [[spoiler:until they get shot whereupon for some reason [[PokemonSpeak each cries his own name]]]].
313* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell:
314** Given George Kaplan's ex-CIA, it's not surprising he's awfully bummed about it.
315-->'''George Kaplan:''' Ah, Rome. I did my first bare-handed strangulation here. Communist politician.\
316'''Hudson Hawk:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Why, George, you big softie.]]\
317'''George Kaplan:''' God, I miss communism. The Red Threat! People were scared, the Agency had some respect, and I got laid every night!
318** About his new, young crew:
319-->'''George Kaplan:''' Punks! They think that the UsefulNotes/{{Bay of Pigs|Invasion}} is a herbal tea, and the UsefulNotes/ColdWar has something to do with penguins.
320* WhyWontYouDie: Butterfinger gets nailed in the chest by three arrows [[spoiler:fired by Minerva, because the Mayflowers are double-crossing Kaplan]] and his reaction is [[TheDyingWalk to get out of the room to report to Kaplan before dying]]. While she doesn't say it out loud, [[spoiler:Minerva's wide-eyed reaction]] at Butterfinger not keeling over dead instantly implies she was thinking this.
321%%*WindowPain
322* WorldOfHam: The ''entire cast'' (sans James Coburn) seems to be engaging in a scenery-chewing competition, especially Creator/BruceWillis and Creator/RichardEGrant.
323** Actually, James Coburn has a few moments where he hams it up quite well.
324-->'''George Kaplan:''' MY PENSION!\
325'''George Kaplan:''' God, I miss communism. The Red Threat! People were scared, the Agency had some respect, and I got laid every night!
326* WritersCannotDoMath: The movie is very obviously meant to be set in the year it was released (1991), but is said to take place exactly 500 years after 1481.
327* WrongRestaurant: The Candy Bars are ordering dinner at a restaurant in Italy. Butterfinger, who is very stupid, orders a steakburger and french fries because he thinks they're in France.
328%%* YouHaveFailedMe
329* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Mayflowers kill off all of their goons, including the CIA agents.

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