Line #50 Film/TheLibrarian


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3	''The Librarian'' films are an action-adventure/fantasy series of TV movies made for the TNT cable network in the United States. The concept is fairly simple: all the world's greatest and most dangerous treasures (including the literal Goose That Laid the Golden Egg, Creator/HGWells' time machine, the Golden Fleece, [[TheLanceOfLonginus the Spear of Longinus]] and the real ''[[Art/TheMonaLisa Mona Lisa]]'' (yes folks, the one in the Louvre is apparently a very good fake) are kept in a secret and generally highly secure library, hidden behind a secret door in the Metropolitan Public Library (previously the Library at Alexandria, Egypt, but later moved to the United States), and guarded by the world's smartest and most knowledgeable person... known, of course, as The Librarian.
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5	Very light and tongue-in-cheek but with a surprisingly high budget for a TV movie (they're heavy on both stunts and special effects), the movies take the world's biggest geek, and make him into a bumbling but surprisingly capable action hero who must often travel the world in search of secret or stolen treasures, and retrieve them for The Library, of which he is also the chief guardian. Typically the adventures of course feature a large number of traps and other situations that require ridiculously obscure knowledge and good perception in order to beat or bypass... such as figuring out that an arrow-spewing trap is in time to a waltz (causing the hero and heroine to dance their way across the ancient Mayan death trap), or exactly where they are in the gigantic Amazon rain forest based entirely on the fact that they're within view of a particular endangered species of condor's territory (after they escape by parachute from a commercial passenger plane and land in it... which happens right after Carsen figures out how to read an ancient text after translating the long-lost Language of the Birds in a matter of hours in-flight).
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7	The films are, in short, action-adventure comedy that parodies action adventure movies, with the world's biggest nerd as the action hero. Basically, ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' meets ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}''.
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9	''Series/{{ER}}'' veteran Creator/NoahWyle stars as the title character, Flynn Carsen, a sort of cute but very geeky boy-next-door who lives with his mother in New York, and is a perpetual student with over two dozen degrees; precisely why he's offered the job in the first movie. He's accompanied in each movie by a tough-as-nails companion, who's always an attractive woman in a deliberate subversion of the "brawny man, weak woman" stereotype (Carsen himself can't fight worth a damn when it comes to throwing kicks and punches). Due to actresses' schedules (the one who played the bodyguard Nicole Noone in the first movie took a job as a regular cast member on ''Series/BostonLegal'' around the same time), the female companion seems to change in every film, from a bodyguard appointed for his first year, to an archaeologist who happened to be searching for the same thing, to a woman that he was drawn to by destiny. This ends up giving the movies a sort of subversion of a BondGirl who ends up ''at least'' as competent as the Librarian at the action.
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11	The first film (subtitled ''Quest for the Spear'') covers [[UsefulNotes/HolyLance the Spear of Longinus]]. The second (subtitled ''Return to King Solomon's Mines'') covers the lost mines of Solomon (specifically the magic tome at their heart), and the third (subtitled ''Curse of the Judas Chalice'') involves Dracula and the goblet supposedly made after Judas Iscariot hanged himself, using the 30 silver coins he was paid with. The second and third films were directed by Creator/JonathanFrakes, who also has very short cameos in each.
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13	The story continued with ''[[Series/TheLibrarians2014 The Librarians]]'', which has Wyle reprising his role (initially in a recurring capacity) and is led by Creator/RebeccaRomijn as his Guardian, Eve Baird. The series premiered in 2014 and ended in 2018.
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15	!!Tropes include:
16	* ActionGirl: Carsen's companions. All of them. Also, the hot henchwoman from the first movie.
17	* AdventurerArchaeologist: Flynn Carsen.
18	* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Excalibur acts like a guard dog, then becomes a friendly dog, then whimpers and hides behind Judson when Flynn looses his temper in the third movie.
19	* AllMythsAreTrue: Excalibur, Longinus, the Golden Goose, Pandora's Box...
20	* ArrowsOnFire: After surviving TheWallsAreClosingIn, Flynn and Nicole encounter a corridor of arrows, pendulum blades, and these.
21	* ArtifactCollectionAgency: The Metropolitan Public Library.
22	* AscendedFanboy: Flynn Carsen.
23	* AsYouKnow: Flynn pulls this a lot in general. Emily from the second movie frequently gets annoyed with him as she is usually ''more'' informed about the historical subject in question. Simone interrupts Flynn's explanation about the pirate Lafitte because [[spoiler:she was ''there'', she knew the man personally]].
24	* AskAStupidQuestion: When Flynn leads Edward to the last piece of the Spear, it's locked behind the puzzle of "What is the name of God?". Edward demands he open it.
25	-->'''Flynn:''' It's the name of God! It's the ultimate puzzle! People have been trying to figure it out for the last 4000 years and you want me to answer it in 15 seconds?\
26	'''Edward:''' [cocks gun, points it at Nicole's head]
27	* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Flynn passes his interview to be Librarian not by answering incredibly obscure questions, but by figuring out a lot about his interviewer thanks to observational skills.
28	-->'''Charlene:''' Don't waste my time. What can you tell me that nobody else out there can tell me?\
29	'''Flynn:''' You have mononucleosis, your marriage broke up two months ago,you broke your nose when you were four, and you live with three cats. [{{beat}}] Is that what you had in mind? Swollen parajugular lymph nodes and distended eyelids are clearly mono, it takes about three months for an indentation on the ring finger to completely disappear; yours is approximately two-thirds gone, your plastic surgeon gave you a terminus paralateral scar, which is usually only given to children under the age of six, and I can clearly see three distinct types of cat hair: a white Himalayan, a tortoise shell, and an orange-striped tabby.\
30	'''Charlene:''' I didn't break my nose 'til I was five.
31	** He pulls the same on Nicole. Her response? "I could do the same to you. ... Nerd."
32	* TheBGrade: Flynn is unsurprised to learn that his former teacher, Prof. Harris, is a member of the Serpent Brotherhood, because he once gave Flynn an A-minus.
33	* BadassBookworm: Flynn Carsen.
34	** Also, generally a requirement for the post of the Librarian. The movies seem to be pointing out that there's plenty of badasses, and plenty of bookworms, but not everyone can be both and still be a good guy.
35	* BadassNormal: Arguably most of the characters, in a weird sort of way. The Librarians rely entirely on brainpower and observational skills, which are absurdly good, but still technically humanly possible, one would suppose; the bodyguard, Nicole Noone is tough and capable, but not ''magically'' tough and not as clever as her charge, etc. Meanwhile, Bob Newhart's character is a man who has inexplicable powers like walking through dreams, solid objects, reality, etc. He's one of the few folks with outright supernatural powers in the films. [[spoiler: He is also the warrior librarian from thousands of years earlier who first founded the Library.]]
36	* BluffTheImposter: Flynn thinks Emily is doing this to him. He's wrong.
37	-->'''Emily:''' "Where did you say you're from again?"\
38	'''Flynn:''' "I'm from the Geological Institute"\
39	'''Emily:''' "So you must know John Binder over there, tell me how's old John doing these days?"\
40	'''Flynn:''' "Very good. It's a trick question, there is no John Binder."\
41	'''Emily:''' "He's the head of the institute"
42	* BodyguardCrush: Nicole starts out as Flynn's bodyguard and falls for him. She also loved the previous librarian.
43	* BondVillainStupidity: Instead of killing Flynn and Emily right away, Samir just locks them in a cystern and starts flooding it. Then the ceiling covered with spikes starts to come down...
44	* BookSmart: This is Flynn's (and by extension the rest of the Librarians) defining characteristic. They have to be the OmnidisciplinaryScientist.
45	* BrickJoke: Flynn's mother, trying to set him up with three random girls at a café says he could be so much more than a Librarian, he just needs the right woman to "give him a push". Yeah, Nicole pushed him out of an airplane and off a cliff.
46	* BusmansHoliday: The third movie, Flynn is supposed to be on holiday. A dream from the GirlOfTheWeek, however, leads him to something much more exciting.
47	* TheCameo: From Jonathan Frakes (who directs the second and third movies). In the second film he's the scowling ex-con fiance of the girl Flynn's mom tried to set him up with in the first movie, and in the third movie he's a trombone player that Flynn and Simone walk past.
48	** The cameo in the third movie also counts as a ShoutOut to ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' - Riker played trombone!
49	* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Repeatedly invoked by Flynn to keep the bad guys from killing him.
50	* {{Catfight}}: Between the aforementioned hot henchwoman and Nicole Noone in the first movie.
51	* ChekhovsGun: The replica of the Pyramid of Giza in the first movie.
52	* TheChosenOne: Excalibur allows Flynn to draw it from the stone at the end of the first film.
53	* ComesGreatResponsibility: The previous Librarian before Carsen is the baddie of the first film, who uses his brains for selfish gain... and subsequently gets outwitted and defeated by the new Librarian.
54	** Flynn's bosses are adamant about not using artifacts for personal gain. They won't even use the Philosopher's Stone to help their budgeting issues.
55	* ConnectedAllAlong: Simone turns out to have known Professor Lazlow the whole time. [[spoiler:He's actually Dracula, and the vampire who turned her.]]
56	* ConvectionSchmonvection: in ''Return to King Solomon's Mines'' the heroes have to traverse a bridge over a lava river, fed by a lava waterfall. It's high over the lava, but they should still be dead.
57	* CoolSword: Flynn gets swordfighting lessons from Excalibur.
58	* TheCorruption: The Chalice of Judas in the third film is like catnip to vampires. It's difficult, but not impossible to resist.
59	* CreepyBlueEyes: The vampires of the third film have glowing blue eyes.
60	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Samir hunts Emily in the dark through King Solomon's Mine, holding up a lighter to see. She splashes him with liquor, lighting him on fire. After some screaming, he manages to remove his flaming jacket and swear he's going to kill her (weren't you already going to do that, bud?), he gets swarmed by vampire bats. He doesn't survive that.
61	* CuteLittleFangs: [[spoiler:Simone]] briefly sports some after TheReveal.
62	* CrystalSkull: Flynn retrieves one (a lost treasure of Atlantis, apparently) at the beginning of the second movie.
63	* DeadpanSnarker: Flynn and ScaryLibrarian Charlene who hires him. Flynn's mom also snarks at him, asking him if the books tell him to set fires.
64	* DeadlyDodging: Flynn doesn't even try to fight Edward. He spends the entire fight barely avoiding Edward's attacks with the Spear, baiting him into smacking various support stones out of place, causing the pyramid to destabilize enough that the capstone falls, crushing Edward.
65	* DeathTrapTango: In ''Quest for the Spear'', Flynn and Nicole find themselves trapped in a Mayan temple, the only exit at the end of a hallway full of arrow-shooting walls. When Flynn picks up on the perfect rhythm the arrows are moving, the two of them manage to waltz their way through. Literally.
66	* DesignatedGirlFight: Between Nicole and the villain's [[TheDragon Dragon]] in the first film. Lana has a VillainousCrush on Flynn and tries to offer him a WeCanRuleTogether, only for Nicole to show up and start the fight.
67	-->'''Nicole:''' Get your own geek.
68	* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: In the second film, a set of self-playing pan pipes started playing the film's theme while Judson was scolding Flynn.
69	* DirtyCommunists: They're the main antagonists in the third movie.
70	* DisposableLoveInterest: The lead seems to always get a new love interest for each movie with the previous woman disappearing for no reason other to just have him find a new girlfriend.
71	* {{Expy}}: Nicole Noone, snarky, world-hopping, British-accented ActionGirl. [[Franchise/TombRaider Hmm....]]
72	* EqualOpportunityEvil: The cobra brothers have members of all races and genders.
73	* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: A concise as possible example in ''Curse of the Judas Chalice'' (when Flynn was aiming at a steam pipe behind the bad guy).
74	-->'''Baddie:''' Missed.\
75	'''Flynn:''' Didn't.
76	* {{Excalibur}}: A magical self-aware flying sword who's Flynn's best friend.
77	* ExplainExplainOhCrap: In the first movie, after the Serpent Brotherhood get the final piece of the Spear of Destiny, Judson explains that the only way to reforge said spear is with a high-powered [=EM=] Pulse, the likes of which would only occur from the light of a peak full moon striking the capstone of the Pyramid of Giza, and since the Egyptian government had said capstone removed and refuse to replace it, Flynn thinks they don't have a problem... until he remembers how the museum now has a scale replica of the Pyramid, ''complete with capstone''.
78	* ExtranormalInstitute: Particularly in the third movie, when the magic of working in the Library has ''completely'' worn off for Flynn. Also Creator/JaneCurtin's character throughout all three--her most pressing concern is that Flynn saves his receipts while he's off saving the Crystal Skull or whatever he's been sent to retrieve.
79	* FailedASpotCheck: The Russians in the third movie note that several of their men have disappeared after they kidnapped Flynn, but it never occurs to them to be concerned. They're just annoyed that they can't get reliable minions.
80	* FeetFirstIntroduction: Nicole reveals she's Flynn's bodyguard by kicking the syringe out of the baddy's hands.
81	* {{Flynning}}: The sword fight in the third film, IncrediblyLamePun aside.
82	* ForTheEvulz: After gaining the power of the intact Spear of Destiny, Edward stabs TheDragon, absorbs his life force, then throws him into the full power of the moon channeled through capstone of the Great Pyramid to be disintegrated.
83	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Flynn tells Judson to call in the marines. No need, Flynn, you just did.
84	** In the third movie, Simone is introduced singing a love ballad where she talks about wanting to feel the sun on her face again. Then, as they escape the Russians in the monastery, she effortlessly leaps across an alley. [[spoiler:She's a vampire.]]
85	* FreezeFrameBonus: At the auction in the opening of ''Curse of the Judas Chalice'', who else is seen standing next to Flynn but [[http://postimg.org/image/erbgy0anl/ Matt Frewer]], who would go on to play Dulaque, head of the Serpent Brotherhood in ''[[Series/TheLibrarians2014 The Librarians]]''!
86	* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires: [[spoiler: Simone]] from the third movie.
87	* GaussianGirl: Nicole shows up this way in the first film with curtains thrown open with a dramatic flair of light and saxophone.
88	* GeniusesHaveMultiplePhDs: Flynn starts the first movie with 22 degrees. His professor kicks him out (with six months before he can start another program) by giving him his 23rd.
89	* {{Ghostapo}}: According to Judson, having one third of the Spear of Destiny contributed to Hitler's rise to power.
90	* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler: Dracula in the third movie. After Flynn shanks him with a yew branch, he seems more impressed by Flynn's knowledge of history than pissed at his own demise.]]
91	* HairFlip: Flynn's mother finally meets "the mysterious Nicole" when the latter rides a motorcycle over a wall, brakes by their table, pulls off her helmet, and shakes her hair loose. Sorry to interrupt, Flynn, but the Deadly Scorpion Gang have gotten hold of H. G. Wells's Time Machine.
92	* HatesBeingTouched: Charlene stiffly removes herself from Flynn's group hug at the end of the first movie.
93	* HeroicSacrifice: After Kubichek [[spoiler:is turned into a vampire by Dracula]], his main henchman kills him and himself with a grenade.
94	* HijackedByGanon: Sergei Kubicheck is the one chasing Flynn around in the third movie, planning on resurrecting and controlling Count Dracula. [[spoiler: Sergei ends up bitten and controlled by Dracula, who turns out to be the old, crippled professor that Sergei had dragged along with them after kidnapping him near the beginning of the movie to help find the Judas Chalice.]]
95	* HistoricalInJoke: A number of them, mostly in the form of the objects kept safe in The Library, but also notable is the retconning of the Library at Alexandria into the original Library where ancient treasures were stored, until [[RenegadeSplinterFaction the Seprent Brotherhood]] rallied the mob that burnt it down.
96	* HotLibrarian: Noah Wyle. As a librarian. Duh.
97	** And very good with the ladies - he ends up sleeping with all three of his companions. In one case on the first night they meet!
98	** The apprentice librarians of the show are also all gorgeous.
99	* HunterOfHisOwnKind: In the third movie, [[spoiler:Simone has spent centuries hunting the vampire who turned her. With him dead, she allows herself to die.]]
100	* IHateYouVampireDad: With the vampire who sired her dead, [[spoiler:Simone]] feels at peace and watches one last sunrise.
101	* IdiotBall: When Flynn picks it up, he starts jumping up and down on an unstable bridge of made of rotted wood.
102	** Or mixes his own gunpowder out of old damp materials to use a 200-year-old cannon and Newton's Third Law to bust down a thick reinforced door... as opposed to going out the perfectly ordinary glass windows we can see right behind him.
103	** After surviving TheWallsAreClosingIn and another DurableDeathtrap, Nicole just about grabs the second piece of the Spear and objects strongly when Flynn stops her, even though "These things are always trapped.".
104	* IMinoredInTropology: Flynn has studied just about everything you can imagine and everything he could possibly need to know (plus a good deal that he presumably doesn't need). He refers to Master's and [=PhD=] theses, rather than the more standard "I minored in 'X'" line, but the principle's the same.
105	** Justified, as Flynn is in his thirties, and has been a perpetual college student for long enough to have a total of 22 degrees, 12 bachelors, 6 Masters, and 4 [=PhDs=] according to King Solomon's Mines, but who's counting .
106	* INeedAFreakingDrink: Flynn is all too eager to hit the sauce when his mother not only springs a surprise birthday party on him (one that includes karaoke), but also tries hooking him up with his own ''3rd cousin''.
107	* INeverSaidItWasPoison: At the end of the second movie, Flynn asks Judson if he inserted himself into the vision that he'd experienced earlier. Judson denies having the power to such things... but he mentions a detail of the vision in the process. Flynn notices this immediately.
108	* IOweYouMyLife: Flynn and Emily rescue Jomo from where he's buried in the sand. In return, he proclaims a life debt to them. They send him away after he saves them from the hippos, claiming the debt is paid despite his arguments. [[spoiler:He comes back in the Mines to rescue them from a death trap, and then claims that his debt really is paid.]]
109	* JungleOpera: This is something of a satire of this.
110	* KnowsAGuyWhoKnowsAGuy: In the third movie, we get Andrew, a taxi driver who has a cousin for everything.
111	* LargeHam: Creator/KyleMacLachlan, the villain in the first movie, is clearly having a lot of fun. Coincidentally, the movie gets ''considerably'' [[SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness sillier]] as soon as he shows up.
112	* LeapOfFaith: At least for the ActionGirl - but not for Flynn, who calculates exactly ''where'' they have to jump.
113	* LivingWeapon: Excalibur can fly and won't accept just anyone as Librarian.
114	* LovableNerd: Flynn Carsen, the eponymous Librarian. Having 23 degrees is only enough to get you an interview; you need a lot more to get the job. And the girl. And the next one. And the one after that.
115	* MagicalLibrary: Not only does it contain legendary and magical books, but also all the world's greatest and most dangerous treasures.
116	** It's also mentioned at one point that the Library is as "large as it needs to be."
117	* MakeMeWannaShout: An incident in the 3rd movie, where Carsen uses the acoustics of a specific room in conjunction with a High C from his vocalist companion as a weapon.
118	* TheMatchmaker: Flynn's mother is constantly trying to set him up with a girl because of his sheltered awkwardness, to the point she even tries to hook him up with his ''3rd cousin''.
119	* MistakenForBadass: One member of the Serpent Brotherhood keeps thinking Flynn is impossibly awesome, when really it's Nicole pushing him out of an airplane without a parachute or pulling him off a cliff into a river.
120	* MonsterProgenitor: [[spoiler: Judas to all Vampires]].
121	* MsFanservice: All of Flynn's companions are gorgeous, but Simone is introduced as a lounge singer in a skimpy dress, who starts... caressing herself when Flynn walks in and removes a key from under her garter a few minutes later, taking her time to do so.
122	* MuseumOfTheStrangeAndUnusual: The Library. It's full of mysterious tomes and dangerous artifacts, like Excalibur and the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg (Flynn juggles some).
123	* NotStayingForBreakfast:
124	** Nicole disappears during the night after she and Flynn sleep together. Turns out she and the Spear were snagged by the Serpents without waking Flynn.
125	** Simone in the third movie. There is a reason for it. [[spoiler: She's a vampire]]
126	* OffScreenBreakup: Flynn breaks with Nicole at some point after the first movie, before the second one...
127	* Ohcrap: Flynn gets up to go to the airplane bathroom in the first film, only to get stopped by a Serpent. He recognizes the tattoo and has a moment. Then he looks around and sees that ''everyone around him'' has stood up and is staring at him. Honestly, he gets a lot of these.
128	* OneLiner: We see a lot of these, too.
129	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires in the third movie can get sick with human diseases. They also temporarily die when killed before coming back to life. They're also tied heavily in the tale of Judas, [[MonsterProgenitor who was the very first vampire]], which used to explain things like the traditional weaknesses to silver and a stake through the heart (it has to be aspen wood, the same type of tree Judas hung from).
130	* PhilosophersStone: Flynn recovers it at the beginning of "Curse of the Judas Chalice".
131	* PretenderDiss: When Edward discovers that the clue to the last piece of the Spear of Destiny is written in the Language of the Birds, he angrily notes that no one can read that. Nicole replies, "No one except a ''real'' Librarian.".
132	* PrimordialTongue: ''Quest for the Spear'' features a book written in "The Language of the Birds" which is stated to be the language spoken before the Tower of Babel.
133	* PublicDomainArtifact: The Library has a huge collection of these, including HG Wells' time machine, Jason's Golden Fleece, {{Excalibur}} (which is apparently a LivingWeapon), the HolyGrail, Poseidon's Trident, PandorasBox, TheArkOfTheCovenant, and a whole slew of others. Basically? You name it, they have it.
134	** Also among which is a working ''jetpack''. Apparently it's a rite of passage for each Librarian to come across it, try to use it, and spend the next several minutes chasing the thing down.
135	* PunnyName: In the first film, Nicole Noone = "no-one".
136	* PuttingOnTheReich: The Serpent Brotherhood crowd at the end of the first movie are wearing red armbands, have taken hold of the Spear of Destiny, and chant "Snake! Snake!" while just barely avoiding throwing the Nazi salute.
137	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Nicole Noone doesn't appear as a character in the second film because the actress was working on ''Boston Legal''.
138	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Jerry's eyes turn red when he's on the verge of gaining the power of Solomon.
139	* TheReveal: Each film sports one.
140	** In the first, we learn that Flynn's predecessor as Librarian [[spoiler:didn't pre-decease. He faked his death and wanted to use his knowledge to conquer the world]].
141	** In the second, [[spoiler:Uncle Jerry, Flynn's father's best friend, killed Flynn's father and wants to use the magic tome in the Mine to rewrite history so he got Flynn's mother himself]].
142	** In the third, [[spoiler:vampires are real, Simone is one, and the professor is actually ''Dracula'']].
143	* SeenItAll: Judson, to a degree. He doesn't seem surprised at half of the questions Flynn has, and notes that it normally takes a new Librarian a while to find the jetpack and set it off. Flynn did it in record time.
144	* SemperFi: Judson is a Marine and can handle an entire army of Serpent Brotherhood mooks on his own.
145	* SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains: The villain's henchwoman has a more midriff revealing outfit compared to Nicole's more practical one in the first movie.
146	** Swapped around in the second, where Emily spends nearly the entire movie with exposed midriff.
147	* TheShangriLa: The heroes (and villain) search for and visit Shangri-La in the Himalayas during their quest to find the other two missing parts of TheSpearOfDestiny.
148	* SherlockScan: This is part of how the main character gets his job - he scans his boss, determining that she was recently divorced from the depth of the ring-line on her finger and noting that she had three cats by being able to tell their hairs apart on her jacket. He occasionally does this to other characters as well.
149	* ShoutOut:
150	** The end of the second film, a goodbye kiss in front of a small airplane, is a shout out to ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', lampshaded by Flynn saying "Of all the gin joints in all the world, she had to walk into mine."
151	** Flynn's vacation to New Orleans was a love letter from the director to the restored city, severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina two years prior.
152	** Driving the point home, during a montage of Flynn and Simone's first evening together, exploring the delights of the French Quarter, briefly appears a musician on a trombone -- the movie's director, Creator/JonathanFrakes, (who does play the trombone in real-life), with a out-of-universe shout out to his character, Commander Riker, from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
153	** [[spoiler:The ending of ''King Solomon's Mines'' is a big one to the ending of]] ''{{Film/Casablanca}}''.
154	* TheSmartGuy: The ''entire premise'' is that the world's most important and dangerous position outright requires occupation by the ''ultimate'' Smart Guy, or on occasion, the ultimate Smart Girl.
155	* SoProudOfYou: Though Flynn objects that he can't be expected to answer the ultimate puzzle (The name of God) in fifteen seconds, he... does. ("'M - E'. 'Me'. God is in all of us."), the lead monk of the Buddhist monastery he's in smiles proudly and bows his head. A few minutes later, Judson expresses his shock that Edward, the former Librarian, faked his death and joined the Serpent Brotherhood, but is so glad that "We have a better one now.".
156	* SoftWater: In the first movie, Nicole and Flynn fall a few hundred metres down a cliff then seconds later down a waterfall without injury.
157	* SomethingElseAlsoRises: In the first movie, Nicole leans against a bathroom doorway in a robe and not much else. Flynn pops the champagne bottle he's holding.
158	* StagesOfMonsterGrief: [[spoiler:Simone]] hates having been made a vampire.
159	* StrongGirlSmartGuy: The default dynamic between Flynn and his [[AlwaysFemale Guardian]] - whoever she might be. The majority of gags from the first movie relied on how competent and resourceful Nicole Noone was vs. Flynn's great theoretical knowledge and utter lack of on-hand experience
160	* SucksAtDancing: Flynn broke the toes of every girl he danced with at his prom. Even his mother wouldn't dance with him. Too bad they're facing a rhythm-based puzzle that requires a waltz.
161	-->'''Nicole:''' You took your mum to prom?
162	* SuicideBySunlight: [[spoiler: Simone]] in the third movie.
163	* TastesLikePurple: In the third film, Flynn rushes into a London bar looking for his girlfriend. He describes her as blonde and American. The bartender clarifies the description as, "Would she have an air of lingering disappointment, like she just had to make a difficult, but necessary, decision?"
164	* TookALevelInBadass: In the second and third film Flynn is portrayed to be smarter and stronger than he was in the first movie, especially how he defeats his opponents.
165	* UnderestimatingBadassery: The Russians laugh when Simone tells them to leave before there's trouble, not realizing they're dealing with [[spoiler:a vampire]].
166	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Not only does no one in a hotel seem unduly surprised when Carsen walks up to the front desk in a bedsheet, but two gentlemen who are watching TV don't bat an eye when Judson pre-empts their program to have a two-way conversation with him via the lobby's television set.
167	* VillainousCrush: One of the Serpent Brotherhood in the first movie [[MistakenForBadass doesn't realize Flynn's best stunts are forced on him by Nicole]] and keeps talking about how amazing he is. When they finally meet, she gives him a shy smile and tells him "I love your work.".
168	* TheWallsAreClosingIn: When Flynn and Nicole fall into a Mayan death chamber, they're met by an advancing wall pushing toward a pit full of spikes.
169	* WeCanRuleTogether: The DarkActionGirl for the bad guys tries this on Flynn towards the end of the first movie. It was probably genuine, considering she spent much of the movie praising him as one heck of a Librarian to her fellow henchpersons (and at one point while Flynn is captured sitting next to him in a helicopter and smiling fondly at him).
170	* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Flynn's professor kicks him out (by giving him his 23rd degree) to force him get real world experience. It's the middle of the semester, so Flynn won't be able to sign up for another course for another six months.

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