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7	->''"Can everyone stop getting shot?"''
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9	''Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels'' is a 1998 British crime caper and black comedy written and directed by Creator/GuyRitchie, in his feature film debut.
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11	The plot concerns four bottom-rung English grifters who hatch a plan for a big payday that inadvertently sets off a GambitPileup involving two antique shotguns, a bagload of banknotes, a huge marijuana stash, and virtually every criminal gang in London's East End.
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13	Produced on a shoestring, the film was a huge success and launched the film careers of Ritchie as well as producer Creator/MatthewVaughn and costars Creator/JasonStatham and Creator/VinnieJones.
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15	The film was later adapted into the television series ''Series/LockStock''.
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17	!!This film provides examples of;
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19	* AccidentalKidnapping: The TrafficWarden in the van.
20	* ActionDad: Big Chris. Made the mistake of threatening his son, Little Chris? Big Chris is going to have to introduce you to a car door.
21	* AffablyEvil: For a LoanShark's enforcer, Big Chris doesn't seem like that bad of a guy. Just lay off the kid. No, REALLY, lay off his kid...
22	* AfroAsskicker: Rory Breaker is a short-statured man with an afro, but he's a formidable gangster.
23	* AgonyOfTheFeet:
24	** Gary likes to put bits of paper between his victims' toes and light it on fire. J gets his toes blasted off.
25	** Dog shows that he's not messing around during the robbery by blowing J's toes off with his shotgun.
26	* AllThereInTheScript:
27	** According to the screenplay, Bacon got his name because as a youth he spent so much time in police stations that people thought he was one of them.
28	** The poor sods who get robbed and killed by Dog in his first scene are named Gordon (the one being hanged upside down) and Slick (the one with a golf tee in his mouth).
29	** The man Big Chris chases up in the tanning salon is named John O'Driscoll.
30	** Winston and co. live and operate at Sloanes' House.
31	** Creator/DannyJohnJules' character, who tells Tom the story about Rory Breaker, is called Barfly Jack.
32	* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: We never see Little Chris' mother at any point.
33	* AndStarring: Music/{{Sting}} (JD) gets the 'and' in the closing credits.
34	* AngryChef: Soap, although he's more grouchy and pessimistic than he is angry.
35	-->OI. Keep your fingers out of my soup.
36	* AntiVillain: Big Chris. He is a loving father, and takes time at the end of the movie to inform the protagonists that their guns are worth a fortune. He even checks to see if they are ok with genuine concern after crashing his car into theirs, only taking the money off them after working out they had stolen it back off his employer.
37	* AnyoneCanDie: To the point that Ed's friends twice in a row enter a place only to find it riddled with corpses.
38	* ArmsDealer: Eddie speculates that Nick the Greek might be one in his spare time.
39	-->'''Eddie:''' What do you do when you're not buying transistors from us, Nick, finance revolutions?
40	* AskAStupidQuestion: Several due to most of the characters being deadpan snarkers, including the following.
41	-->'''Eddie:''' They're armed.\
42	'''Soap:''' What was that? Armed? What do you mean armed? Armed with what? \
43	'''Eddie:''' Err, bad breath, colorful language, feather duster... what do you think they're gonna be armed with? Guns, you tit!
44	* AssholeVictim: Most of the deaths after the first three or four are experienced by people who really had it coming sooner or later, though there are a couple of exceptions.
45	* AsYouKnow: The rules of three-card brag are spelled out for the players, who really ought to already know about the game they're buying into for a hundred grand. Then again, when you're playing for a hundred grand a head and some fairly shady characters are involved, making sure everyone is playing by the same rules isn't a bad idea.
46	* ATeamFiring: John when unloading his Bren gun on Winston's group. Granted, he doesn't know exactly where they are, but he is carrying a BFG and firing in their general direction in a fairly small room. The POV shot of his intended targets indicates he got nowhere near. [[spoiler:Also Gloria with the same Bren gun, who blows John to kingdom come and destroys the entire room but leaves everyone else unscathed.]]
47	* AwesomeButImpractical: A World War II-era Bren gun is an absolutely '''bonkers''' choice of weapon to take to a robbery - it's intimidating for sure but also heavy, cumbersome in confined spaces, almost impossible to conceal, and you need ear protection to fire it indoors without nearly blowing your eardrums. Though according to [[BewareTheNiceOnes Soap]], all guns are impractical compared to knives - as he explains, a big knife is actually more valuable than a gun as WeaponForIntimidation because being silent imparts the dread that the knife is [[ToThePain more likely to be used]]. Not to mention this is set in the UK, a country with [[DoesntLikeGuns some of the most strict and zero-tolerance gun control laws in the world.]] Big Chris also declines Harry's offer to take a gun for the money collection job, apparently thinking they're more trouble than they are worth.
48	-->'''Soap''': Guns for show. Knives for a pro.
49	* BadBoss: Dog to his men, Barry to the Scousers (although to be fair, he's only hiring them for a one-off job) and Rory to the cannabis growers (given that he has to all intents and purposes left them to sort out the security arrangements for themselves).
50	* BadassAndChildDuo: Big Chris and his son Little Chris. It even gives the former [[ThinkOfTheChildren an excuse to be extra cruel]], as shown when he beats a tanning man twice, first for swearing, then for blasphemy.
51	%%* BaldOfEvil: Barry the Baptist, in contrast to Chris and Harry's full heads of hair.
52	* BerserkButton:
53	** Big Chris is a very cool customer as long as you don't threaten his son.
54	** Don't disturb Rory Breaker when he's watching his footer.
55	** Everyone ''fucking hates'' traffic wardens.
56	* BewareTheSillyOnes: The characters acknowledge that Rory Breaker's short stature and afro make him look rather comical, but he is not one to mess with.
57	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Soap, the sensible one, is shown to have [[BladeEnthusiast a proclivity for sharp objects]], and during the robbery is the first one to break cover, holding one of the gang members at knifepoint [[SuddenlyShouting whilst bellowing in his face]].
58	* {{BFG}}: John brings a Bren light machine gun to hold up the pot growers. The gun is so loud that Dog threatens to kill him if he fires it again. Ultimately, Gloria grabs the gun and unloads the thing on Dog's crew. In slow-motion, the shells hitting the ground sound like oil drums.
59	* BigBad: Hatchet Harry.
60	* BigBadEnsemble: Dog and Rory Breaker both serve as secondary antagonists who are unconnected to each other or Hatchet Harry.
61	* BilingualBonus: During Rory Breaker's English-Greek mixed tirade about Nick the Greek, he uses the word "pesevengi". This is the same as "pezevenk" in Turkish (just one of the many words, traditions, dances, drinks and cuisine etc. that the Turks and the Greeks have in common historically). It means pimp, or to be more specific, "a man who doesn't care if his wife sleeps with other men." While this may not be much of a curse word in some western societies, in Turkey (and probably in Greece as well) it's one of the worst insults one could make.
62	* BingeMontage: After Ed's crew manages to steal a truly epic amount of money and high grade cannabis from Dog, they proceed to celebrate in this fashion.
63	* BlackAndGreyMorality: The main characters are a group of street hustlers, con men, and gamblers. There are two groups of less sympathetic characters: the underworld bosses that cheat them in a card game, and whose entire purpose for this is to get the father of the character that they cheated to sell his pub so they can buy it cheap, and a group of brutal crooks who steal from, torment, and shoot the pot head marijuana growers who trust them.
64	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: That poor drug merchant who Dog dispatches with a thrown knife to his stomach at the start is the first person to die in the film. Also, Rory Breaker the Yardie is the first main villain to die, and he's the only black one.
65	* BladeEnthusiast:
66	** Soap reveals that he has a collection of large knives ("big fuck-off shiny ones"), and delivers a speech about how they're more practical than guns because they're quiet ("guns for show, knives for a pro"). The rest of the gang is creeped out. As the sole member of the group with an honest trade, this is both ironic and fitting. His job as a chef would presumably make him comfortable with knives and butchering.
67	-->'''Soap''': I think knives are a good idea. [[WeaponForIntimidation Big, fuck-off shiny ones]]. Ones that look like they could skin a crocodile. Knives are good, because they don't make any noise, and the less noise they make, the more likely we are to use them. Shit 'em right up. Makes it look like we're serious. Guns for show, knives for a pro.
68	-->'''Tom''': Soap, is there something we should know about you?
69	-->'''Bacon''': I'm not sure what's more worrying. The job, or your past.
70	** Dog seems to favour a switchblade, killing a victim with one and threatening Willie and Little Chris with one.
71	* BlandNameProduct: The antique guns are due to be sold at an auction house called Botherby's.
72	* BlastOut: The gangs of Rory Breaker and Dog stumble upon each other with guns drawn, both expecting to find the protagonists. They start shooting anyway.
73	* BlatantLies: Ed's father catches wind of his son's plans to play in Harry's card game. Ed denies it, clearly without expecting anyone to buy it.
74	* BoozeFlamethrower: Rory Breaker does this. Take Barfly Jack's quote: "Rory gobs out a mouthful of booze covering fatty; he then flicks a flaming match into his bird's nest [[note]] chest[[/note]] and the man's lit up like a leaky gas pipe."
75	* BottomlessMagazines: Zig-zagged when Gloria fires the Bren gun. The magazine only holds 30 bullets, yet she seemingly fires hundreds of them... before they run out.
76	* BrickJoke: The ManOnFire in an early scene is actually the punchline from a scene we won't get to see until later.
77	* BritsLoveTea: Ed fortifies himself with a cuppa before the big heist.
78	-->'''Soap''': What are you doing, Ed?
79	-->'''Ed''': Making tea, d'you want one?
80	-->'''Soap''': No, I fucking don't. You cannot make a cup of tea, Edward.
81	-->'''Eddie''': The entire British Empire was built on cups of tea.
82	-->'''Soap''': Yeah, and look what happened to that.
83	-->'''Ed''': And if you think I'm going to war without one you're mistaken!
84	* BullyingADragon:
85	** That poor bastard who tried to intimidate Rory Breaker into leaving a pub by turning his precious football game off.
86	** Dog makes the worst mistake of his entire life by intimidating Big Chris by threatening his son.
87	** Dog and his crew inadvertedly do this by robbing the people who grow weed for an unhinged gangster like Rory Breaker.
88	* TheCameo:
89	** Irish boxing legend Steve Collins plays one of the bouncers minding the card game.
90	** Creator/DannyJohnJules is Barman Jack, who tells Tom the rhyming-slang infused story about Rory Breaker.
91	* CaperCrew: Ed is The Mastermind who comes up with idea of robbing the neighbours, Bacon is The Muscle, Tom is The Acquirer and Soap is The Driver. That said, Bacon also spies on the neighbours and Soap provides balaclavas.
92	* CardSharp: It's card sharp vs. card shark when card sharp Eddy goes up against "Hatchet" Harry. Harry has Barry spying on Eddy.
93	** Ed's father JD is an even better card sharp than his son. He was able to successfully fake helpless crying long enough to trick Harry into losing their card game.
94	* CheatersNeverProsper: Averted (initially at least) by Hatchet Harry, who cheats his way to victory in his high stakes three-card brag game against Ed. [[spoiler:Although it does set off a chain of events that leads to Harry being killed.]]
95	* ChekhovsGunman:
96	** The traffic warden, who [[spoiler:gets the protagonist group off the hook as he only remembers Dog's gang as the ones who stole the drugs and beat him up.]]
97	** It's also hard to judge Rory Breaker's importance from his first scene, watching a football match in a pub.
98	* ChekhovsLecture: Dog misses out on ''two'' of these, to his cost. He wasn't present to hear either Harry telling Barry that [[spoiler:your days are numbered should you dare threaten Little Chris]], or Big Chris telling Little Chris about the importance of [[spoiler:fastening your seatbelt]].
99	* CherryTapping: Hatchet Harry is said to have apparently bludgeoned one of his employees to death with a large black dildo.
100	* TheChewToy: The traffic warden, who thanks to being an Acceptable Professional Target gets beaten up by Dog's gang ''and'' the lads.
101	* ChromosomeCasting: There are only two female speaking parts in the film -- Tanya and Gloria. And the latter only speaks once. Supermodel Laura Bailey had a part as Ed's girlfriend which ended up on the cutting room floor.
102	* ClickHello: Dog sits at the desk and Bacon surprises him from behind with the shotgun.
103	* CloseCallHaircut: The fatter of the two Scousers takes a shotgun blast to the perm. He is not pleased.
104	* ClusterFBomb: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjzMuiux7cs There's barely a scene without one. Or many.]]
105	* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: The plot follows the intersection of four small-time criminals trying to pay off a gambling debt, a group of thugs stealing from a black gang's pot-growing operation, and a crimelord ordering the theft of some valuable shotguns.
106	* ColourWash: The film uses mainly shades of yellow, brown and grey, as if the colour film stock were old and weathered.
107	* TheCon: In the opening, Bacon and Ed are selling stolen goods in the street. Ed, playing the shill, triggers the audience's enthusiasm by saying "Did you say ten pounds? That's a bargain! I'll take one."
108	* ContrivedCoincidence: A lot of the "comedy of errors" plot is fueled by coincidences to keep the hijinks flowing.
109	* CoolCar:
110	** [[spoiler:The 1962 Shelby Cobra Mark III that Big Chris buys at the end of the film with the stolen money.]]
111	** Tom drives a 1972 Rover 3.5 Litre Coupé.
112	** JD drives a 1966 Mercedes-Benz 250 SE.
113	* CountryMatters: It's a British movie with a lot of cursing, so expect the C-word a few times.
114	* CreatorCameo: Producer Creator/MatthewVaughn is the yuppie whose car is stolen by Dog.
115	* CreepyChild: Little Chris is foul-mouthed and eagerly assists his father in collecting money from late payers, sometimes violently. That said, Big Chris doesn't like him being rude.
116	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Rory Breaker, subverted in that he's neither particularly quirky (look aside) nor dim - he's the first to smell a rat when Nick shows him his own skunk.
117	* CruelAndUnusualDeath:
118	** According to Bacon, Harry once beat a man to death with a dildo. He notes that it was seen as a pleasant way to go.
119	** Dog's death at the hands of Big Chris: having his head beaten to a pulp by having a car door slammed on it. But boy, does he deserve it for threatening to kill Little Chris.
120	* TheCynic: Soap is the most dour and pessimistic of the four lads. The screenplay even describes him as "a stroppy sod, but he's got more balls than a golfer".
121	* DangerTakesABackseat: Dog does this to Big Chris by threatening Little Chris. It does not end well for Dog.
122	* DeadMansTriggerFinger: When Rory turns Plank's body over, his shotgun is pointed at him. Rory shoots him and is then promptly killed by the shotgun, due to the movement of the corpse.
123	* DeathGlare: Plank tells Dog that the dealers keep money in a pile of shoeboxes, only for Dog to discover that it's empty. To quote the script, "If looks could kill, Plank would be pushing up the daisies".
124	* DescriptionCut: Gary lives down to Harry's expectations.
125	-->'''Harry:''' I don't care who you use, as long as they're not complete muppets.\
126	''[cut]''\
127	'''Gary:''' Shotguns? You mean, like, guns that fire shot?
128	* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Big Chris visits JD to break the news of Ed's debt. JD refuses to sell and tells Harry to go fuck himself.
129	* DirtyCoward: Dog, ultimately. When he sees his gang and Rory Breaker's gang shooting one another, he escapes out the window, taking the guns, drugs and money with him. And when Big Chris mugs him afterwards, instead of confronting him directly, he sneaks into his car and holds a dagger to Little Chris' throat. [[spoiler:It doesn't end well for him.]]
130	* DisproportionateRetribution: Rory's response to someone changing the channel when he's watching a football match is to ''set the man on fire''.
131	* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Bacon's stolen goods.
132	-->'''Bacon:''' These haven't been stolen, they just haven't been paid for. And we can't get 'em again, they've changed the bloody locks.
133	* DoesntLikeGuns: Harry offers Big Chris a gun, but Chris says that they're "not his thing". Given that Chris is a debt collector and not a hitman, this makes sense.
134	* TheDragon: Barry the Baptist, to Harry. Also Big Chris because he's seen getting most of the work done, making it a case of CoDragons.
135	* DragonWithAnAgenda: Big Chris [[spoiler:at the end has no intention of further dealings with the protagonists, now that his boss is dead]]. He just wants to give his son a good life.
136	* DramaticIrony: In a lot of the scenes, the humor/tension comes from the fact that the characters are oblivious to something that the audience knows is happening.
137	* TheDreaded: Hatchet Harry and Rory Breaker are both high-level gangsters feared by everyone else.
138	* DrinkBasedCharacterization: Rory, a badass Yardy gangster, likes frothy drinks of the UmbrellaDrink type. On one occasion, he does order a cocktail with a very high alcohol content, but that was only so he could spit it on someone who annoyed him and set them on fire.
139	* DrowningMySorrows: Bacon states that Ed spent two days at the bottom of a bottle as a result of having lost the card game.
140	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Much of the cast are given one:
141	** The Director's Cut opens with Ed explaining the rules of poker to a pair of police officers.
142	** Bacon is introduced flogging stolen jewelry on a street corner.
143	** Tom is introduced selling a stero to Nick the Greek out of the back of his shop, the latter complaining about the price.
144	** Soap is introduced working in a kitchen and complaining about the fruit salad he got from Tom.
145	** Big Chris is introduced intimidating a man behind on his payment and chastising his son for swearing.
146	** Rory Breaker is introduced being glued to the football game on television in the pub.
147	** The dealers are introduced idly getting stoned and Winston chastising them for their lack of common sense.
148	** Dog and his crew are introduced robbing a pair of men of their goods and Dog casually murdering them in a manner that shocks his henchmen.
149	* EstablishingCharacterMusic:
150	** Big Chris is introduced to Music/JamesBrown's "The Boss", establishing him as a badass.
151	** The dealers are introduced to "Police and Thieves" by Music/JuniorMarvin, the joke being that they grow weed and listen to reggae.
152	* EvenEvilHasStandards:
153	** Dog's men are visibly disgusted by his EstablishingCharacterMoment.
154	** Big Chris doesn't like to hear Little Chris swear, or anyone else swearing in front of Little Chris.
155	* EvilCounterpart: Dog's gang to Ed's. They live right next door to each other and are both engaged in low scale criminal activities, but Ed and his mates are [[NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters only a little worse]] than anyone in ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' when it comes to street hustling, whereas Dog is a disgusting brute of a man.
156	* EvilIsHammy: Barry is just waiting to go into explosive shouting fits when threatening people.
157	* EvilIsPetty: The Director's Cut reveals that Hatchet Harry is trying to force JD into selling his pub out of bitterness because JD cheated him of it in the first place.
158	* EvilOldFolks: Hatchet Harry is an older man but still a formidable gangster and loan shark.
159	* EvilSoundsDeep: Barry's voice makes him sound a lot more threatening than his boss, Harry.
160	* EvilSoundsRaspy: Plank, Dog's right-hand man. Possibly on account of all the drugs he takes when he's visiting the weed-growers.
161	* EvilVsEvil: Dog's gang vs. Rory Breaker's gang.
162	* ExposedEmbarrassingPurchase: One of Tom's moneymaking schemes is setting up a fake company that sells dildos and then returning the buyer's cheques, the idea being that they'd be too embarrassed to cash them.
163	* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: Big Chris gets a hold of Dog after endangering his son in a crash after his failed carjacking.
164	* {{Facecam}}: Used to express Ed's devastation after losing a high-stakes card game.
165	* FailedASpotCheck: As Dean and Gary enter Harry's place, they fail to notice his name on the entrance. Had they done so, the climax would have been a lot less messy.
166	* {{Fainting}}: J. passes out when Plank pulls a gun on him during the robbery. This is just the first of many things that go wrong during the robbery.
167	* FatAndSkinny: Gary and Dean, the two Scousers.
168	* FatBastard: Dog is pretty hefty and a vicious gangster. So too is Barry the Baptist. Also, Gary the Scouser is the fatter of the two, and the more vindictive. Subverted by Nick the Greek, who is a criminal, but not a vicious one.
169	* FatIdiot: Gary the Scouser is not all that clever.
170	* FatalFlaw:
171	** Dog's aggression and violent nature lead him to threaten the wrong person - the son of someone much tougher than he is, which ends in him getting killed.
172	** The Scousers' stupidity and lack of common sense leads to a great deal of trouble - from them inadvertently selling the very thing they were supposed to be stealing to them storming a place without even bothering to check who lives there first, which ends very messily.
173	* FauxAffablyEvil: Barry is a lot less genuinely friendly than Big Chris as an enforcer, as shown when he cheerfully tells a nervously sick Eddie what he'll do to him and his friends if he can't repay the loan. Most of the time, he's just flat out rude and abusive.
174	* FeelingTheirAge: In the director's cut, Hatchet Harry had a heart attack after JD tricked him into losing a three-card brag tournament. Big Chris warns JD not to repeat this when confronting him in his pub.
175	* FightUnscene: The shoot-out that wipes out Dog's and Rory Breaker's gang is never actually seen, we just see debris, windows shattering, etc. Presumably, this was because the filmmakers didn't have the budget for a large-scale action sequence.
176	* FightingIrish: Hatchet Harry's two bouncers are Irish, and they're pretty terse when preventing Ed's friends from joining him in the gambling den.
177	* {{Fingore}}:
178	** As well as drowning people, Barry's other method of debt enforcement is to take a finger from the debtor's hand for each day without payment.
179	** The script reveals that Charles loses a finger as a result of trying to attack Mick, who is armed with a Bren gun, with a machete.
180	* FixingTheGame: Harry's brag game is rigged so he can cheat Ed out of not only his money, but his dad's bar. The Director's Cut reveals that Harry cheated at cards in a game with Ed's dad, but J.D. managed to beat him and Harry wants revenge.
181	* FootballHooligans: Rory Breaker. Interrupt him when he's watching the football on the pub TV, and at best he'll tell you to fuck off. At worst, he'll set fire to you.
182	* ForWantOfANail: The climax could have gone differently if Dean and Gary had noticed Harry's name on the entrance to his building or if Barry had called them to say that the guns had been recovered.
183	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
184	** Harry instructs Barry not to tell the Scousers how much the guns are worth.
185	** Dog angrily tells Mick that he's a dead man if he fires his Bren gun again.
186	* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: Soap is the Cynic, Ed is the Optimist, Tom is the Realist and Bacon is the Apathetic.
187	* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The four main lads:
188	** Ed is Sanguine - eager, optimistic and naive.
189	** Bacon is Phlegmatic - straightforward, laid-back and sensible.
190	** Soap is Melancholic - pessimistic, anxious and fussy.
191	** Tom is Choleric - opportunistic, business-minded and impulsive.
192	* FriendshipMoment: Gary's reaction to Dean's death is actually kind of touching.
193	* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Little Chris is pretty cheeky and foul-mouthed, much though his father doesn't want him to be. Still, pretty bold of him to insult Barry the Baptist to his face.
194	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The RunningGag of Nick being served his drink at Rory's headquarters concludes with this. At the third go, the henchmen stops just behind Nick, glass in hand. Registers that Rory is ''this'' close to going completely AxCrazy at Nick, but really, anyone will do at this point. Very slowly, very carefully, backs out of frame, glass still in hand.
195	* FunWithSubtitles: In play when Barfly Jack recounts a story involving Rory Breaker in an almost impenetrable block of (partly made-up) Cockney rhyming slang, with English subtitles.
196	-->'''Jack:''' He then proceeds to order an Aristotle of the most ping-pong tiddly in the nuclear sub.
197	-->'''Subtitles''': He then orders a bottle of the strongest drink in the pub.
198	** In the same scene, the language is [[TactfulTranslation toned down]] in the subtitles -- "that's fucking it" becomes "I've had enough".
199	* [[DuctTapeForEverything Gaffer Tape for Everything]]: The lads use it to tie up Dog and his gang.
200	* GambitPileup: The plot involves antique shotguns, a pile of cash, and a van full of quality marijuana. Almost none of the four factions know the shotguns are incredibly valuable.
201	* GenerationXerox:
202	** Ed's father JD played Hatchet Harry at cards and won, despite Harry's attempts to cheat him. Ed inherited this trait from his dad, but failed to repeat his dad's success against Harry.
203	** In the Director's Cut, Harry tells Barry that Big Chris comes from a long line of debt collectors - his father collected debts and his father before him and his father before him and Little Chris will follow him in that line.
204	* GenericEthnicCrimeGang: Nick "The Greek" is, well, a Greek gangster.
205	* GenreRelaunch: There hadn't been a really successful British gangster film since ''Film/MonaLisa'', back in 1986. This film changed that.
206	* GetOut: Dog to his men, once he loses his temper with them.
207	* GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply: Winston's crew spend most of the time lounging around smoking the weed they grow.
208	* GolfClubbing: Dog raids a pair of small-time drug dealers and tortures the whereabouts of their stash out of them by pelting golf balls at one while using the other's mouth as a tee.
209	* GoryDiscretionShot: Three of them: Mick getting attacked with a machete; the shootout between Rory's and Plank's gangs; and Dog getting his head beaten to a pulp with a car door by Big Chris.
210	* {{Greed}}:
211	** Hatchet Harry not only cheats at brag, but he would rather steal a pair of antique shotguns that hand over money at an auction. Not only does his greed drive the plot, it gets quite a few people killed.
212	** It's implied that Plank sells out Winston and co. to Dog is so that Dog will give him a better share on their next robbery. This sets off the chain of events that gets them all killed.
213	* GunsAkimbo:
214	** Rory wields a pair of pistols.
215	** Dean bursts into Harry's office with two pistols pointed upwards, but it doesn't end well for him because Harry is already pointing a shotgun directly at him.
216	* HateSink: In a story filled with criminals ranging from low-level grifters to proper gangsters, Dog stands out as the single worst person in the film due to his violent, aggressive nature and the fact that he robs, threatens and kills people, even children, with no regard for anyone other than himself.
217	* HiddenInPlainSight: Gloria, who lies very still on the couch cushions while wearing similarly patterned clothes, gets completely overlooked twice.
218	* HowWeGotHere: The Director's Cut opens with Ed explaining the rules of poker to two men who are later revealed to be police officers. It's later revealed that he's in custody.
219	* HyperlinkStory: The gambling plot, the weed-growing plot, the gun-stealing plot and the robbery plot all end up connected.
220	* HypocriticalHumor: Big Chris swearing when he's beating Dog to death, since he doesn't like his son (who's witnessing the whole thing) swearing.
221	* IllKillYou: Rory means business.
222	-->'''Rory Breaker:''' If you hold back anything, I'll kill you. If you bend the truth, or I think you're bending the truth, I'll kill you. If you forget anything, I'll kill you. In fact, you're going to have to work very hard to stay alive. Do you understand everything I've said? Because if you don't, I'll kill you.
223	* IllPretendIDidntHearThat: Big Chris, charitably, after hearing Eddie's dad's reaction to Harry's offer to cancel Eddie's debt in exchange for the deed to the pub.
224	-->'''JD:''' You do have a reputation. So I choose my words very carefully. You tell Harry ... to go fuck himself.\
225	'''Big Chris:''' Now, I'll put that down to shock. Only once. Only once can I, or shall I, let you get away with that.
226	* IWillFindYou: Dog vows that he will find the people who are robbing him:
227	-->'''Dog:''' I'll find you.\
228	'''Bacon:''' What do you think this is, fucking hide and seek?
229	* ImpliedDeathThreat:
230	-->'''Harry "The Hatchet":''' You must be Eddie, JD's son.\
231	'''Eddie:''' ''(insolently)'' You must be Harry. Sorry, I never knew your father.\
232	'''Harry "The Hatchet":''' Don't worry, son. You might meet him soon enough, if you carry on like that.
233	* ImprovisedWeapon: In a flashback, "Hatchet" Harry kills a man with a sex toy, specifically a 15-inch black rubber penis.
234	* InTheBack: Barry the Baptist kills Gary by throwing a hatchet into his back, right after Gary shoots his boss before him.
235	* InformedAttribute:
236	** Creator/JasonStatham described Bacon as the muscle of the group, but outside of the robbery, he doesn't display much of this. Ironic, given that Statham would forge a career as an action star.
237	** Tom is frequently called fat. This was originally supposed to be true, and Steven Marcus (Nick the Greek) was originally considered for the role, but when the rail-thin Creator/JasonFlemyng got the role, this became a RunningGag. Tom is constantly confused by his friends' ribbing. The narrator even gets in on it, saying that for a skinny man, Tom is quite fat.
238	** We're told that Eddie is a master card-player who can read his opponents like a book, but he has no idea that Harry has a superior hand (both have a pair, but two sevens beats two sixes). Or that he's cheating, come to think of it.
239	* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: Tom suggests opening a company named "Arse Tickler's Faggot Fan Club", selling non-existent gay sex toys via mail order and then returning the buyer's cheques, the idea being that they'd be too embarrassed to cash them. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassing_cheque This is actually based on a real scam.]]
240	* InsistentTerminology: Barkeep Joe is ''very'' specific and particular over the fact that he runs a ''Samoan'' pub, not a regular one. In fact, the conversation is the TropeCodifier and featured on its page.
241	* InsufferableGenius: Winston. He's right about pretty much everything he voices an opinion about, but he does it in such an obnoxious way that no one bothers to listen to him.
242	* IronicEchoCut:
243	** This example:
244	--->'''Narrator:''' Ed would hate to admit it, but he could have kissed the old bastard for that. If he said he'd wanted to settle the debt on his own, it would have been a lie.\
245	''[cut]''\
246	'''Eddie:''' [[BlatantLies ...and I wish to Christ he would have let me settle the debt on my own.]]
247	** There's also the Scousers and Barry repeating a simple question whose significance really is not matched by what is going on: "What the fuck are you doing here?!" To which Barry responds "What the fuck are ''you'' doing here?!"
248	* KarmaHoudini:
249	** Despite planning a robbery, the main characters never actually get around to doing anything seriously ''bad''. They get let off their more minor offences [[OffOnATechnicality On A Technicality]], and as for revenge from the proper gangsters...
250	--->'''Eddie:''' [[EverybodysDeadDave Everyone's dead, Dad!]] That's about as in-the-clear as it gets!
251	** The weed-growers escape the shootout with their product back and survive pretty much intact [[spoiler:aside from J missing a chunk of his toes and Willie possibly dying of shock, depending on how many shots of the Bren Mick got in him. They're also technically freelance as Rory, their employer, is killed.]]
252	* KarmicThief: The crew robbing the much nastier gang of thieves who happen to live to next door to them -- the cash they plan to steal itself being stolen from a group of drug dealers.
253	* KickTheDog: Dog murdering the dealer after torturing the information out of him. Also, when Gary lights a fire under the feet of his burglary victim, he suddenly drops several notches down the SlidingScaleOfAntagonistVileness.
254	* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Dog and his gang preparing to ambush the people who robbed them only to have the very dangerous people ''they'' robbed wander in instead]]. Barry and Harry getting [[spoiler: shot by the panicked thieves they'd left scared of suffering a brutal case of YouHaveFailedMe when they show up to retrieve the shotguns without realizing that Harry already has them]].
255	* LastBreathBullet: Once Rory turns around a wounded Plank, he shoots him dead.
256	* LateToTheTragedy: The protagonists [[RunningGag keep turning up]] minutes after a massive shootout has killed everyone off.
257	* {{Leitmotif}}: Ed and his friends have one, as do Dog and his gang. Ed's is a kind of funky bass riff, while Dog's is more hard rock. Harry has a jazzy theme, while Rory Breaker has a 70s-sounding funky one.
258	* LetMeGetThisStraight: Tom explains that he didn't get rid of the shotguns like he was supposed to.
259	-->'''Ed''': So, the only thing connecting us with the case IS IN THE BACK OF YOUR CAR WHICH IS PARKED OUTSIDE?
260	* LetMeTellYouAStory: Bacon tell the guys the story of Smithy Robinson, a old geezer beaten to death with a [[ImprovisedWeapon "15-inch black rubber cock"]] as a warning tale of what happens to the people that don't pay Hatchet Harry what they owe him.
261	* LittleNo: Rory Breaker's response to Bacon requesting him to turn the TV down. A much more civil response than the ManOnFire got.
262	* LittleUselessGun: Averted. Barry the Baptist winds up dying after a single shot to the gut from a pocket pistol.
263	** Also played with, as Tom is worried the shotguns he gets from Nick the Greek for the robbery won't be taken seriously, because they're too big.
264	** Played straight with the air rifle the weed growers attempt to use on Dog and his gang to [[MinorInjuryOverreaction little but hilarious effect]], with Rory confused about Winston dramatically claiming to have shot one of them in the neck yet he walked away alive.
265	-->'''Rory Breaker''': What did you shoot him with, an air rifle?\
266	'''Winston''': Look, we grow weed. We're not mercenaries.\
267	'''Rory Breaker''': You don't say.
268	* LoanShark: Hatchet Harry is an evil porn baron who wants to get revenge against Eddy's father, JD, for beating Harry at cards quite a few years previously. He's quite happy to give Eddy a debt of half a million pounds and one week to find it. If he fails, Harry will cut off a finger for every day that passes without payment.
269	* LockAndLoadMontage: When Dog and Rory's respective gangs prepare to ambush the lads, they tool up to the tune of [[Film/ZorbaTheGreek "Zorba's Dance"]]. Which speeds up when the gunfight gets going.
270	* LondonGangster: Many characters, naturally, "Hatchet" Harry Lonsdale being a classic.
271	* MacGuffin: The titular guns are a textbook example. Also the bags of high quality weed.
272	* AMacGuffinFullOfMoney The duffel bag with £1.3 million in cash in it.
273	* MacheteMayhem:
274	** Soap has a collection of giant knives. When Ed sarcastically asks if he has anything bigger, Soap whips out a machete from a scabbard. "Shit 'em right up!"
275	** Charles attacks Mick with one and in his words "He's nearly chopped my arm off".
276	* TheMagicPokerEquation: Notably averted. Not only does Ed, supposedly the more skilled card player, lose the game due to his opponent cheating, but he loses to a relatively unexceptional hand. And, of course, the game is not poker, but three-card brag.
277	* ManOnFire: Early in the film, a burning man suddenly and unexpectedly emerges from a pub, in what appears to be a BigLippedAlligatorMoment. However, the situation is explained later:
278	-->"Rory knows claret (bloodshed) is imminent, but he doesn't want to miss the end of the game; so, calm as a coma, he stands and picks up a fire extinguisher and he walks straight past the jam rolls (arseholes) who are ready for action, then he plonks it outside the entrance. He then orders an Aristotle (bottle) of the most ping pong tiddly (strong alcohol[[note]]tiddly-wink = drink[[/note]]) in the nuclear sub (pub) and switches back to his footer ([[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball football]]). 'That's fucking it,' says the guy. 'That's fucking what?' says Rory. Rory gobs out a mouthful of booze covering Fatty; he then flicks a flaming match into his bird's nest (chest) and the geezer's lit up like a leaky gas pipe. Rory, unfazed, turned back to his game. His team's won too. Four-nil."
279	* MexicanStandoff: Inadvertent since the characters don't quite realise it, but the principle applies. Rory's gang breaks into the protagonists' flat and runs into [[spoiler:Dog's crew]] who are in hiding. Both groups realise something isn't right and an awkward pause ("What the fuck is going on here?") occurs before Plank -- followed by everyone else -- starts firing.
280	* MinorInjuryOverreaction: When being shot at by Winston and his friends with an air rifle, Dog's gang react like they've been hit with real bullets.
281	* MisterBig: Rory Breaker, somewhat, though his shortness is exaggerated. And he does do the little-boss-with-huge-henchmen part.
282	* MuggingTheMonster: That idiot at the bar really should have known who Rory Breaker was; if he did, he wouldn't have been set on fire for interrupting his footer.
283	* MutualKill:
284	** [[spoiler:Barry]] throws a hatchet in [[spoiler:Kenny]]'s back. His last act is to turn and shoot him in the gut.
285	** Assuming [[spoiler:Rory Breaker]] killed him, a deceased [[spoiler:Plank]] manages to kill him.
286	* TheNapoleon: Rory Breaker. He's described as a "psychotic dwarf with an afro" who once lit a man on fire for changing the channel away from something he was watching. His short height is accentuated by his two mammoth bodyguards, whose faces are sometimes not even visible as they stand beside him.
287	* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: Though a case where a guy manages to nearly chop an arm off before getting riddled by bullets.
288	* NoEnding: Tom decides to dispose of the shotguns that are the only evidence of the crime he and the other protagonists have committed. As he prepares to dump them off a bridge into the Thames, his buddies discover that the weapons are rare antiques, each worth a fortune. The movie ends with Tom hanging over the side of the bridge, poised to drop the guns in the river, and his cell phone clutched between his teeth (put there to avoid it falling into the river while he is hanging over the edge) -- and it rings.
289	* NonIndicativeName:
290	** Or rather, nickname -- unless you've read the script (see above) you'll be puzzled as to why Bacon is called that.
291	** Harry is addressed as "Hatchet Harry", but we never see him kill someone with a hatchet on screen. Instead, he uses a rubber dildo and an illegally-obtained shotgun.
292	* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Stephen Marcus originally tried to act with a Greek accent, but it ended up sounding like [[Series/HarryEnfieldAndChums Harry Enfield's Stavros character]]. In the end, he played Nick without a Greek accent.
293	* NotSoStoic: When his son's life is threatened, Big Chris beats the person who did it to death with a car door, screaming abuse at him the whole time. Also counts as HypocriticalHumor, as Chris objects to swearing by or around his son, and he uses a lot of profanity during this scene.
294	* ObfuscatingInsanity: Tom's friend voices the opinion that Rory Breaker's BunnyEarsLawyer tendencies are an example of this.
295	* OhCrap: "Charles, get the rifle. We're being fucked."
296	** John has a silent moment of pure terror just before his MultipleGunshotDeath. In fact, [[MassOhCrap everyone in the room did]].
297	* OnceKilledAManWithANoodleImplement: "Hatchet" Harry beat a man to death with a 12-inch black rubber dildo. This anecdote is told specifically as a means of underline that "Hatchet Harry is a man you ''pay'', when you owe".
298	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Several characters - Bacon, Soap, Dog and Plank.
299	* OopNorth: Gary and Dean, two petty criminals from Liverpool with thick Scouse accents. The exchange they have with the [[UsefulNotes/{{London}} cockney]] Barry the Baptist pretty much sums up the whole North/South divide.
300	-->'''Barry the Baptist:''' Fucking Northern monkeys!\
301	'''Dean:''' I hate these fucking Southern fairies!
302	* OrphanedPunchline: A variant. We hear the beginning of the joke, cut to elsewhere, and then cut back to the ensuing laughter.
303	* PantsPositiveSafety: When talking to Ed in the pub, Soap pulls a large machete out of his trousers, with no indication it was stored in any sort of sheath. Made even worse by the fact that the sharpened edge ''was facing his groin'', meaning he could've castrated himself if he drew wrong.
304	* PapaWolf:
305	** Big Chris. Made the mistake of threatening his son, Little Chris? Big Chris is just about to have another moment with a car door.
306	** JD brutally averts this, refusing at every turn to help his son get out of his predicament.
307	* PaperThinDisguise: One of the Scousers attempts to cover his face with a fishnet stocking during the burglary.
308	* PetTheDog:
309	** Maybe it was just because they were rattled and in a hurry, but given the rest of their behavior, Dog and his crew leaving Winston and his friends alive after the fight they put up can feel like this.
310	** Big Chris's one moment of notable kindness to anyone besides his son is when he goes to ask if the other driver is alright after causing a car crash.
311	* PhallicWeapon:
312	-->'''Soap:''' I brought weapons as well.\
313	'''Eddie:''' What do you mean, weapons?\
314	'''Soap:''' ''[pulls a bundle from his coat and unrolls it, revealing large knives]'' These.\
315	'''Eddie:''' Jesus! ''[grabs the bundle and rerolls it]'' Let's keep them covered up, eh? Couldn't you get anything bigger?\
316	'''Soap:''' ''[[[TrouserSpace pulls a big ass machete from his trousers]]]'' What, like that? What do you think?\
317	'''Eddie:''' ...I think you need help.
318	* PlotSensitiveLatch: During the opening ChaseScene, Bacon's suitcase flies open in slow motion and all the money and valuable inside are scattered about.
319	* PoorCommunicationKills: The Scousers are a pair of StupidCrooks who are hired by Harry through his [[TheDragon Dragon]], Barry, to steal a gun collection, because Harry wants [[MacGuffin two antique guns]]. [[LockedOutOfTheLoop Barry gives the two limited information, not telling them the identity of their employer nor indicating that the purpose of the job was to procure those two guns]]. This results in a situation in which the Scousers attack Harry to get the guns back to their employer (unbeknownst to them, Harry himself) and don't realize their mistake/see Barry in the room until everyone has been fatally wounded.
320	* PrecisionFStrike: Winston uses this quite artfully.
321	* PinballProtagonist: Eddie's friends stumble on basically everyone else. Dead or alive.
322	* ProfessionalGambler: The narrator would have us believe that Eddie is one, but his [[IdiotBall lapse of judgement]] at the table suggests otherwise.
323	* PunBasedTitle: The name of the auction house on the catalogue Big Chris gives the guys is called 'Botherbys'. This is a combination of the real auction house - Sothebys, and 'bother' which is slang for trouble or getting into trouble.
324	* PunctuatedPounding: Big Chris slams Dog's head in a car door, enraged at him for threatening his son's life - "NEVER! EVER! HAS ANYONE! BEEN AS FUCKING RUDE! TO ME! AS YOU, DOG!"
325	* ReCut: Creator/GuyRitchie later released a Director's Cut that delves into the backstory between Harry and J.D. and explains why Harry wants the bar so much. More scenes / extensions that add little to the plot are included, and most of the sepia colour effect has been removed.
326	* RedBaron: Harry Lonsdale aka Hatchet Harry (a name he's quite partial to himself) and his enforcer Barry the Baptist, so named because he "drowns people for Harry".
327	* RefugeInAudacity: Ed's plan to rip off Dog's gang after they've just robbed the weed growers relies heavily on this, banking on it being the last thing they'd expect after the initial robbery and being above suspicion due to their limited interations as neighbours. When questioned over the logic of hiding the loot right next door to the people they stole it from, he notes that [[StatingTheSimpleSolution it's the only place available to store it]] and also [[HiddenInPlainSight the last place the gang would think to look]]. [[TemptingFate This ends up being their undoing.]]
328	* RevengeByProxy: The Director's Cut reveals that Harry cheats Ed during the card game so he can get revenge on his dad for beating him at cards years ago.
329	* RevisedEnding: The film's original ending had the four lads walking off with the money, with Big Chris and his son about to follow them to retrieve it. This was changed due to negative test screenings. According to Nick Moran, Creator/GuyRitchie scrambled a new ending on the back of a cigarette packet. The ending to the film was altered some time after filming had been completed which is why Tom is wearing a woolen cap pulled low down - Creator/JasonFlemyng had grown his hair in the intervening period and did not want to shave it short again.
330	* RiddleForTheAges: The Director's Cut has a Soap suggest a plan to get the money, but we only hear the start and end of his proposal. Whatever it was, it was bad enough for Tom to declare it bad enough to make Bacon's idea of betting on a horse look genius. Just what was Soap's plan?
331	* RobbingTheMobBank: Dog and his crew rob a group of marijuanah growers, who, unbeknownst to them, just happen to work for a Yardie gangster.
332	* RunningGag:
333	** Nick, with Rory's glass table.
334	** Tom's friends and associates and even the narrator calling the very lean Tom 'fat' as a way to mess with him. Originally Nick the Greek was meant to play Tom before being recast, but the script kept in the jokes about his weight.
335	* SadisticChoice: What sets the movie's plot in motion; after he learns Eddie has a shitty hand, Harry makes a bet Eddie can't match, then offers to loan him 500 grand to stay in the game and gives him a week to pay Harry back if he loses. Eddie can either fold and lose the 100 grand he and his friends put together to buy into the game, or accept the loan and potentially lose to a very dangerous LoanShark. Eddie knows he'd never be able to pay back the loan in time, but he's so confident in his hand that he accepts it anyway, having no idea the game is rigged in Harry's favour.
336	* SawedOffShotgun: Dog and his gang use these as their weapons. Except John, who uses a Bren gun.
337	* ScaryBlackMan: Rory Breaker is an unconventional variant. He's a Yardie who dresses stylishly, loves an UmbrellaDrink, and enjoys murdering people who interfere with his main pleasures in life. He's also five foot nine, considerably smaller than most of his massive bodyguards, and not a normal height for most candidates, but this doesn't affect his willingness to be the first on the scene for a murderous shoot-out. And just listen to his TranquilFury when threatening Nick the Greek for information on who stole his cannabis:
338	-->If you leave anything out, I'll kill you. If you bend the truth, or I think you're bending the truth, I'll kill you. If you forget anything, I'll kill you. In fact, you're going to have to work very hard to stay alive, Nick. Now do you understand everything I've said? Because if you don't, I'll kill you.
339	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
340	** Gloria obliterating John with his own Bren gun is the final straw for Dog.
341	-->''"That's it. Tie her up, we're out of here."''
342	** Nick the Greek, after Rory Breaker threatens him into revealing the protagonists' whereabouts, shuts down his shop and moves elsewhere.
343	** Winston, after Rory and Dog's gangs have finished shooting one another, apart from Rory himself. As soon as he leaves the apartment, Winston hears Rory and Plank shooting one another.
344	** When the guys return home to find a bunch of dead bodies and their goods gone, Soap suggests that they keep calm. Ed thinks differently:
345	-->I am panicking and I am off.
346	* TheScrooge:
347	** In Nick's first scene, he's haggling with Tom over £200 over a stereo system, despite having a lot of money on him. Tom says that he's "tighter than a duck's butt".
348	** Harry would rather hire goons to steal a pair of antique shotguns than pay for them. He could have saved himself and others a lot of trouble had he just paid up.
349	* SerendipitousSurvival: The lads go out and get drunk to celebrate their success. While they're out, Dog and his crew discover that they've been ripped off and Rory Breaker and his crew arrive heavily armed. Their decision to go out saved them from being killed.
350	* ShoutOut:
351	** The screenplay acknowledges that the shoot-out in Harry's office was inspired by ''Film/TaxiDriver''.
352	** The duel theme from ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'' plays when Dean and Harry face off.
353	** Two of Dog's gang are named [[Music/TheBeatles John and Paul]].
354	* SirSwearsALot: Inverted for Big Chris. He's the character with the cleanest mouth in the entire film, telling off other people for their profanity in his or his son's presence. He only ever swears four times, when he's unbelievably enraged. Basically, Big Chris is Sir Swears-Very-Little.
355	* SmallGirlBigGun: The petite and perpetually-stoned Gloria ends up with the [[{{BFG}} Bren gun]]. Carnage (and a strong contender for the film's crowning [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome moment]]) ensues.
356	* SmokingBarrelBlowout: Inverted; after the protagonists successfully steal the stolen money and marijuana from their neighbors, they're seen using the shotguns they used for the job as "a novelty smoking device for tobacco use only" during a party montage, thus ''breathing in'' the smoke, rather than blow it out.
357	* SophisticatedAsHell: A lot, especially from Winston. For example, "You don't look like your average horti-fucking-culturalist!"
358	* SoreLoser:
359	** Don, another young criminal attending Hatchet Harry's three-card brag meeting. When he starts losing, he furiously climbs on top of the table, whereupon Harry has him thrown out into the street, and he continues furiously cursing his gambling rivals out.
360	** The Director's Cut reveals that Harry fixed the card game so he can get back at J.D. for beating him at cards years ago, despite Harry cheating.
361	* SoundOnlyDeath: When Winston accompanies Rory Breaker to identify the thugs who robbed Rory's marijuana-growing operation. Once Winston has identified the primary culprit, as he hurries away with an armful of loot he hears gunfire.
362	* SoundtrackDissonance: A shootout that wrecks a flat and kills just about everyone involved is scored by [[Film/ZorbaTheGreek "Zorba's Dance"]].
363	* StealingFromThieves: This is how Eddie, Tom, Bacon, and Soap come up with the half a million pounds they owe to Harry: they plan on robbing their neighbors after they have themselves robbed a major cannabis grower.
364	* SteelEarDrums: Averted during the Bren gun sequence. It's fired in close proximity, deafening everyone else. John wears Peltors before he opens fire though.
365	* TheStoic: Big Chris, who pretty much never raises his voice or conveys much emotion until his BerserkButton is pressed.
366	* TheStoner: Winston's crew grow weed and fit the stoner stereotype - baggy clothes, unkempt appearance and lazy attitude. Plank buys weed off them and gets the idea to rob them. Of the four main lads, Bacon appears to be the only one who indulges in weed, as he takes a toke of the stash they've stolen and offers it to the others, who all refuse.
367	* StressVomit: Eddie's reaction to losing the match, and ending up owing a loan to Hatchet Harry.
368	* StupidCrooks: Just about every character qualifies one way or another. The film's tagline is even "A Disgrace to Criminals Everywhere." However, special note has got to be given to Dean and Gary, who are instructed by Barry the Baptist to retrieve antique shotguns from an estate home and keep anything else they can carry for themselves. Even in a mansion decorated with numerous expensive antiques, they rationalize that "old" must mean "worthless" (among other boneheaded decisions).
369	-->'''Dean:''' Can't you see these people haven't got any money? They can't even afford new furniture!
370	* SuddenMorbidMonologue: Soap delivers this charming monologue as the gang plan the robbery:
371	-->'''Soap''': Yeah, little bit of pain never hurt anybody. If you know what I mean. Also, I think knives are a good idea. Big, fuck-off shiny ones. Ones that look like they could skin a crocodile. Knives are good, because they don't make any noise, and the less noise they make, the more likely we are to use them. Shit 'em right up. Makes it look like we're serious. Guns for show, knives for a pro.
372	-->'''Tom''': Soap, is there something we should know about you?
373	-->'''Bacon''': I'm not sure what's more worrying, the job or your past.
374	* SuddenlyShouting:
375	** Dog, once he finally loses patience with the stupidity of his men, and when they're saying that getting the drugs and money they themselves stole stolen from them is "a problem".
376	-->'''Dog:''' I'd say it's more than a problem. I'd say it's the Mount fucking Everest of problems! And the reason it's such a MON-FUCKING-STROSITY OF A PROBLEM IS, YOU LOT DON'T HAVE THE FIRST CLUE WHO FUCKING DID IT, DO YOU?!
377	** Also, Barry's response to the two Scousers selling those guns that his boss wanted.
378	---> '''Dean''': We had to sell them, we needed the money!
379	---> '''Barry''': I'M NOT FUCKING INTERESTED!!! If you don't want to be counting the fingers ''you haven't got'', or sharing a bed with the Antichrist, THEN I WANT THOSE GUNS QUICK!!!
380	** Soap during the robbery.
381	** Ed when Tom reveals that he didn't get rid of the guns.
382	-->So, the only thing connecting us with the case IS IN THE BACK OF YOUR CAR WHICH IS PARKED OUTSIDE?
383	* SurroundedByIdiots:
384	** Winston is clearly the leader of the dealers because he's the only one with any common sense. He gets annoyed at Willie for not bothering to lock the security gate and for going around London with a stoned girl on one arm and a bag of fertiliser on the other when they grow weed.
385	** Dog gets so annoyed at the incompetence of his henchmen that he mutters that he's working with "fucking planks of wood". Funnily enough, one of his men is called Plank.
386	** Soap tends to be the most sensible of his group, including bringing balaclavas on his own initiative to hide their faces for the robbery, as Eddie was apparently planning to rob his next-door neighbours without a disguise.
387	* SuspiciousSkiMask: Eddie, Tom, Soap, and Bacon wear these along with identical brown long coats while robbing Mad Dog and his gang.
388	* TactfulTranslation: The subtitles that show up for the ManOnFire scene above zigzag this, as it starts out translating the story with curse words edited out, then puts one ''in'' when there wasn't one, before editing them out again.
389	* TakingYouWithMe: Plank's last act is to take Rory with him in a MutualKill. Also Gary, after taking a hatchet [[InTheBack from behind]] by Barry, spins around and shoots him with his two tiny handguns before he dies.
390	* TapOnTheHead: Dog and his gang are able to knock out Gloria and the traffic warden with a single blow, but the protagonists aren't as tough, and it takes all of them pounding on the traffic warden to put him out.
391	* TeamChef: Soap is an actual chef, though we never see him cook outside his first scene.
392	* ThereAreNoPolice: With all the crimes that take place, the police appear sparingly. A pair of coppers chase Ed and Bacon when they're flogging dodgy jewelry and the climax reveals that the surviving characters (apart from Tom and Big Chris) got arrested. The Director's Cut even shows Ed in custody.
393	* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs:
394	** In the Director's Cut, in the scene which introduces Big Chris, he insists that a debtor refers to Harry as "Mister Harry".
395	** Initially, Nick and his own mooks address Rory by his first name. After he finds he has been double-crossed, he angrily tells them, "That's Mr. Breaker. Today, MY name is Mr. Breaker!"
396	* TitleDrop: Half way done, with Barry's "Lock, stock, the fuckin' lot". The barrels of the titular guns are actually seen smoking later on, which may qualify as a visual title drop.
397	* ThoseTwoGuys: The Scousers.
398	* TokenGoodTeammate: Soap is the only one of the four main lads who has a legitimate profession (Ed's a card hustler, Bacon flogs goods on street corners and Tom deals in stolen goods from the back of his shop) and got his nickname because he likes to keep his hands clean of any unlawful activity. The only reason he goes along with the crime is because it's the only option.
399	* TortureForFunAndInformation:
400	** Dog tortures two drug dealers into telling him the location of their stash by pelting golf balls at one while using the other's mouth as a tee.
401	** When the Scousers break into the stately home, Gary puts burning paper between the Lord's toes to find out where his money is. Dean points out to him that he doesn't have any (hence why he's selling the guns).
402	* TrafficWarden: A recurring ButtMonkey played by Creator/RobBrydon. Notably, once a TapOnTheHead fails to knock him out, the whole group of protagonists decides to pummel him instead after Ed states his hatred for Traffic Wardens.
403	* TranquilFury:
404	** Dog is calmly threatening until things start going wrong, then he starts shouting.
405	** Rory Breaker is disturbingly calm after finding out that Eddie and his friends stole his cannabis, even while he's violently threatening Nick the Greek to find out their whereabouts.
406	** JD takes the news of Ed's debt and the threat of losing his bar very well. He confronts Ed by silently, yet crossly punching him in the face.
407	* TrappedByGamblingDebts: The plot is driven by Ed's need to pay off a massive gambling debt owed to Hatchet Harry. Harry's hoping to use the debt to force Ed's father to hand over his pub.
408	* TrappedInATanningBed: Our first introduction to Big Chris, [[LoanShark Hatchet]] [[LondonGangster Harry's]] debt collector, is when he captures John, a late debt-payer, using a tanning bed, and starts [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique interrogating him]] by repeatedly lifting the sunbeam and slamming it onto John's face when he says things Big Chris doesn't like- such as addressing Chris' boss as [[TheyCallMeMrTibbs "Harry" instead of "Mr Harry"]], or [[NotInFrontOfTheKid swearing and blaspheming in front of Big Chris' son Little Chris]]. Later on in the film, Big Chris meets John on the way to Harry's office, [[BrickJoke and he has visible burn marks on his skin]].
409	-->'''[[AffablyEvil Big Chris]]:''' Now tell me, John, how can you be concentrating on improving this lovely tan- [[SincerityMode and it IS a lovely tan, by the way]]- when you've got more pressing priorities at hand?
410	-->'''John:''' [[AintTooProudToBeg I don't suppose there's any chance of you lifting this sunbeam up, Chris, is there]]?
411	-->'''Big Chris:''' (''after taking John's money'') You can go home in a plastic bag tonight, John. You owe what you owe. And by the time this tan's faded, you wanna have paid. (''punches John'')
412	* UmbrellaDrink: Served at the Samoan pub to the incredulity of the protagonists. This is also the drink of choice for Rory, who not only favors that pub, but drinks those at his headquarters and serves them to guests. Like one of his other food preferences (ice cream bars), it's part of [[DrinkBasedCharacterization his characterization]] as [[BunnyEarsLawyer seemingly kind of goofy and ridiculous]] (but actually terrifyingly badass).
413	* UnstoppableRage: Big Chris, for all his ruthless coercion and threatening demeanor, is rather a reasonable chap...until Dog takes his son prisoner. He goes full PapaWolf on the man, smashing his head repeatedly in a car door while roaring incoherently.
414	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Bacon, Soap and Tom stroll up to Samoan Jo's pub when a man runs out of the pub on fire. The three watch the man run off screaming, then just turn and go into the pub anyway.
415	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom:
416	** Had Gloria not scared Plank and made him discover the weed growers had lots of stashed money, they wouldn't be targeted by his gang.
417	** Plank selling out Winston and co leads to his gang's downfall. Not only does this give Ed the idea to rob them, but Plank doesn't know that they grow weed for Rory Breaker.
418	* UpperClassTwit: The majority of the weed growers. Not Winston, though.
419	* UseTheirOwnWeaponAgainstThem: Gloria blasts John with his own Bren gun.
420	* UseYourHead: Big Chris disarms Dog of his guns by headbutting him.
421	* VillainousBreakdown: After he and his men are deprived of their illegally-obtained drugs and money, Dog reaches his RageBreakingPoint with his men, and he furiously screams at them and starts attacking them. He calms down after accidentally shoving Plank's head through a wall into Ed's apartment, giving him a good look at where the drugs and money went.
422	** Plank himself has one near the end when Dog's crew hides in Eddy's flat ready to ambush him and his guys. Instead, Rory Breaker and his mooks bust in armed to the teeth. Hiding under the bed, Plank starts sniveling and sobbing, wondering just what the fuck is going on before firing the first shot, triggering the infamous....[[BlastOut well, you know]].
423	* WallOfWeapons: Harry collects antique shotguns and has them displayed on the walls in his office.
424	* WallpaperCamouflage: Gloria blends right into the upholstery, allowing her to get the drop on people twice.
425	* WeakBossStrongUnderlings: Harry has Big Chris and Barry the Baptist at his disposal (but Harry's not above getting physical himself, even if the only weapon available is a 15-inch black rubber sex toy).
426	* WeaponForIntimidation: The two muskets are bought purely for intimidation. However, Soap asserts that knives are actually better for intimidation, since they can be used without drawing the police. "Guns for show, knives for a pro."
427	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The only characters whose fate is left unclear are Nick the Greek and Winston and his surviving friends. Last we see of any of them, Winston is fleeing with the weed in Rory's van. Alan says that "everyone else" (i.e. not Tom or Big Chris) got arrested, but it's unclear if this refers only to the other three protagonists, or every other character. Certainly, only the former are subsequently seen in custody.
428	* WhatIsGoingOn: Or rather, "What ''the fuck'' is going on?", when Dog's crew and Rory Breaker's gang, both sides fully tooled up, realise that they're confronting ''each other'' rather than the four main characters.
429	* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: Excellent example of this when Eddie realizes that his hand [[OhCrap isn't all that good.]]
430	* WorthlessYellowRocks: The eponymous shotguns get written off as useless and old by almost everyone who comes into their possession. At the end of the movie, they wind up in the hands of [[spoiler:the four main characters, who also deem them completely worthless and order Tom to dispose of them. Shortly after Tom leaves, they're handed a book that reveals the true worth of the guns to be up to £300,000]] before ending on one of the best CliffHanger endings out there.
431	* WouldHurtAChild: Dog holds a knife to Little Chris' throat to force his father to get the drugs and money back. Sadly, he fails to recognize whose son he's holding captive, and it costs him his life.
432	* XanatosGambit: When Hatchet Harry cons Ed by cheating in three-card brag and forcing Eddy to borrow money from him or else, Ed then gets in deep by owing a quarter of a million quid. This is all to get vengeance on Ed's dad, JD, for beating him in cards years ago. If Ed doesn't pay up and JD doesn't bail him out, he gets vengeance by killing Ed; Harry wins. If Ed doesn't pay up but JD ''does'' bail him out, that latter loses his pub, which he bought with the winnings he got off Harry; Harry wins. If Ed does pay up, he has earned a quarter of a million pounds, which will be in Harry's hands; Harry wins. Pity about the spanner in the works.
433	* TheYardies: Rory and co. However, they avert the typical "lower class thug" portrayal, instead [[BadassInANiceSuit dressing stylishly]] and having a swanky headquarters.
434	* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: The film pokes fun at London gangsters not realizing the origins of their slang when Tom assures Nick the Greek that a deal is "kosher as Christmas," to which Nick answers, "Jews don't celebrate Christmas!"
435	* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Variation: "What are we going to do, Rory?" "Mister Breaker. Today, my name is MISTER BREAKER."
436	* YouCanKeepHer: Big Chris offers JD the option of giving up his bar to cover the cost of Ed's debt...to which JD, replies:
437	-->'''JD:''' I do know your reputation. So I choose my words very carefully. You tell Harry... to go fuck himself.\
438	'''Big Chris:''' Careful, JD. You'll give Harry another heart attack. Now, I'll put that down to shock. Only once.
439	----
440	"There is one more thing. ''[beat]'' It's been emotional."

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