* {{Applicability}}: The movie can be seen as having an [[UsefulNotesObjectivism objectivist]] moral. Angel is persecuted for being better than the other police officers in London and sent away, but he continues persisting and saves everyone in the end.
** Except as a police officer he's almost terminally selfless and is absolutely determined to help everyone whatever the cost to his personal life might be, not to mention that he learns in the end that he doesn't need to be the best all the time. Simply put, a police officer dedicates his or her life to serving people they don't even know, with no ulterior motive other than "because it's the right thing to do". That's the antithesis of Objectivism.
** Nah, Objectivism allows that some folk are going to feel their highest and best purposes lay in something that appears "altruistic" (like the full-time mother in ''Atlas Shrugged''); but since they're doing it because it fulfills an inner desire, that's okay. (Though there's a definite implied sense that only non-geniuses are going to be drawn to such lowbrow things as motherhood and police work — the True Elite have ''better'' things to do...)
* CrossesTheLineTwice: [[spoiler:Timothy Dalton's character getting his chin impaled on the spire of a model church]]: gross and disturbing. [[spoiler:Timothy Dalton then whining in pain and asking for ice cream]]: hilarious.
** Angel finding [[spoiler: the corpses of the NWA's victims]] is pretty frightening and worthy of a slasher movie. However, finding [[spoiler: the corpse of the Living Statue over-acting his own death]] is just too intentionally ridiculous to keep the horror going.
** [[spoiler:Taking out James Reaper's old mother with a jump kick to the face]] also qualifies.
* [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: The final shoot out.
** [[spoiler:"FASCIST! BAKKABAKKABAKKABAKKA]]
*** [[spoiler: BANG! TING! CRUNCH! "HAG."]]
** For those viewing the trailer for the first time, Sgt. Angel vaulting a wall to kick a shotgun-toting granny in the face.
** "It's not your village anymore!" (''uppercut'')
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion wrote the "Here Comes The Fuzz" theme which appears regularly throughout the film
** And kicks as much ass as Nicholas himself.
* EndingFatigue: While the big shootout at the end is a tribute to cop movies, it can seem like an OverlyLongGag to some. then after the shootout we are treated to the station exploding, a graveside scene, and back in action.
** While the fatigue might not have been intentional, the producers note in the commentary that the effect was; they were partly influenced by ''BadBoys2'', and particularly the moment where it all seems to be ending, but then Martin Lawrence declares "This shit just got ''real''," and the movie keeps on going. It is, of course, down to the individual viewer whether this was a wise thing to be inspired by.
** Plus, by the end Angel seems just as ready as the audience for the action to end. "Pack it in, [[spoiler:Frank]], you silly bastard!"
* FridgeHorror: The underage boys Nicholas takes to the station near the beginning [[spoiler:later turn up dead when he uncovers the NWA's secret. Without realizing it, he actually sent those boys to their deaths.]]
** Also might apply to the farmer; [[spoiler:he had numerous guns stored in a barn on his property which Nicolas confiscated, where his body is then seen with the previous victims of the NWA. The gun cache could've been a stockpile the NWA had setup for themselves, and in the blink of an eye, is gone due to the bumbling of the farmer. Frank unfortunately couldn't touch the lot due to Angel being around and the paperwork trail involved.]]
* GeniusBonus[=/=]ShownTheirWork: The filmmakers interviewed a lot of police officers with regards to how to make the film accurate. They noted that most PoliceProcedural depictions skip all the paperwork that's involved in criminal investigations.
--> '''Angel''': Sorry, not right now. We've got a tremendous amount of paperwork to do.
** For example, Sandford is the name of the fictional town traditionally used in UK police training exercises.
* HarsherInHindsight: [[http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/21/mesquite.murder.suicide/index.html?hpt=hp_c1 Read this.]]
* HoYay: Insinuated by the Andys, and the protagonists. According to the trivia track, this is largely because the script once included a love interest named Victoria for Angel. After the character was cut, much of her dialogue was instead given to Danny, often without edits. For example, after getting drunk at the pub, Danny and Angel have a ''really'' HoYay conversation about Angel's inability to "disconnect" with work (Danny is using lines meant for Veronica). As the conversation gets more and more homoerotic-sounding, Danny suggest he knows a way for Angel to disconnect, doing said suggestion in an extremely HoYay tone... only to reveal his DVD collection of action films.
** "Well, this is me. Fancy a coffee?"
** Then the writers and actors went and wrote a whole series of [[SlashFic slash]] {{drabble}}s. [[http://www.edgarwrighthere.com/2009/10/the-steamy-hot-fuzz-slash-fiction-tweets-october-19th-2009/ On Twitter.]] Wright comments there "We wrote some Nick/Danny slash once. It was called ''Hot Fuzz''."
** The outtakes on the DVD end with {{Fake Out Make Out}}s during the HoYay bits. And some dry humping.
* HolyShitQuotient: [[spoiler:The last fifteen minutes ratchet up the action.]]
* LawfulGood: Nicholas is the spitting image of this trope, especially given the story about his uncle. [[spoiler: Even though he was [[DrugsAreBad a drug dealer.]]]]
* NauseaFuel: [[spoiler:The reporter's death. Just...''ew''.]]
* NightmareFuel:
** [[spoiler: The scene where Nicholas discovers all the bodies stashed underground.]]
** [[spoiler:Moreover, the concept of the town in general, where everything is run by a shady organization more than willing to kill for absurd, petty reasons.]]
** [[spoiler:Skinner rushing at a defenseless Angel, boxcutter in hand, with ''pure, blind rage'' in his eyes. Let's face it: it was pure luck that saved Angel's life, there.]]
* OneSceneWonder: There are quite a few cameos and every actor is hilarious. But special mention must go to Bill Nighy as Kenneth, the chief inspector and Martin Freeman and Steve Coogan in the opening scene.