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1	* BillingDisplacement: The film advertising prominently places Creator/SiennaMiller with Creator/DanielCraig, even though she plays a minor character in the film.
2	* BreakthroughHit: For Creator/MatthewVaughn as director.
3	* CastTheRunnerUp: Louis Emerick (Trevor) was originally intended to play Morty, but his Liverpool accent was a barrier.
4	* TheDanza: The Dragon ''Dragan'' is played by the Serbian actor Dragan Mićanović.
5	* ExecutiveVeto: In the novel, in the scene where X tries to use the Sniper to kill one of the RuthlessForeignGangsters, an American tourist is mistaken for the target, and is killed by the Sniper. This is partially PlayedForLaughs, because when the actual target runs away, the Sniper refuses to shoot him, as he was only paid for one killing that day. It's indicated that the death is spun as a casualty of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror. When the film was made, distributors thought that this wouldn't go over well, especially in America, so it instead became a scene where the Sniper got killed by a ScopeSnipe.
6	* FakeNationality: The Serbians are played by Romanians who, [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign when not speaking English, speak Romanian]]. Made even more amusing as their boss invokes a perfect ''Dutch'' accent when speaking English.
7	** Even more perplexingly, Marcel Iureș (Slavo) CAN actually speak Serbo-Croat, as demonstrated in ''Film/ThePeacemaker''.
8	* FocusGroupEnding: The original ending, which Sony Pictures wanted Creator/MatthewVaughn to use, shows XXXX [[RidingIntoTheSunset driving off into the sunset]] with his new girlfriend. Vaughn secretly recorded the alternate ending, showing XXXX being shot by Sidney to the screening audience and ended up using it based on popular vote, stating "It was not like other American movie endings".
9	* PropRecycling: The Duke's severed head is the same prop as used in ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}''.
10	* RealitySubtext: The actor who plays the Duke, Jamie Foreman, is the son of an actual LondonGangster, Freddie Foreman, who was an associate of the Kray Twins.
11	* StarMakingRole: This is the film that put Creator/DanielCraig on the map, which led to him being noticed by producer Creator/BarbaraBroccoli, who cast him as Film/JamesBond in ''Film/{{Casino Royale\|2006}}''. The rest is history.
12	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
13	** Creator/GuyRitchie was originally set to direct, but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.
14	** According to Creator/MarkMillar, Creator/MatthewVaughn wanted Creator/PeterWyngarde for a role, but was wrongly told that he had died.

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