History Film / StraightOuttaCompton

* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Eazy's response to discovering he tested [[spoiler:HIV positive]] is to affirm that he wasn't gay.

** '''Dr. Dre:''' [[spoiler:Formed Aftermath records, signed Music/{{Eminem}} and Music/FiftyCent to his label, and had his headphones Dr. Dre Beats be bought by [[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Apple]].]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Jerry Heller appears to be a reasonable man who has the crew's best interests at heart. As the film goes on, however, he proves himself to be an unscrupulous sleazeball who's been withholding money from them from the start.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Jerry Heller appears to be a reasonable man who has the crew's best interests at heart. As the film goes on, however, he proves himself to be an unscrupulous sleazeball who he has been withholding money from them from the start.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Jerry Heller appears to be a reasonable man who has the crew's best interests at heart. As the film goes on, however, he proves himself to be unscrupulous, as he has been withholding money from them from the start.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Jerry Heller appears to be a reasonable man who has the crew's best interests at heart. As the film goes on, he proves himself to be a unscrupulous man who has been withholding money from them from the start.

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* ArcWords: The film begins and ends with a sound byte from the real Dr. Dre- specifically "You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge. These are also the words that begin the record/album "Straight Outta Compton."

* HistoricalVillainDowngrade: Most individuals involved with Death Row Records attest Suge Knight's AxCrazy persona is underplayed in the movie and the writers left many of Suge's more insane real-life antics out. [[RealityIsUnrealistic Perhaps because they thought no one would believe them to be real.]][[note]]He actually ran over and killed a man and injured another after getting into an argument with them on the set of this very movie. He was sentenced to 28 years in prison in 2018.[[/note]]

* PetTheDog: Jerry Heller is one of the antagonists but his outrage over the NWA's treatment by the police is sincere. It's also clear he has genuine fatherly feelings toward Eazy-E. [[SubvertedTrope It just may not be enough to keep him from ripping him off.]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: Ice Cube and Dr. Dre, although still morally complex, are portrayed as more heroic and altruistic than their real-life counterparts, ''especially'' Dre[[note]]who is most infamously known for being a woman beater[[/note]]. This was mainly due to Ice Cube and Dre themselves being a part of the production crew; hence, they would want to remove or at least tone down their biggest misdeeds for the motion picture.

* BullyingADragon: After Ice Cube leaves the group and outsells them with his solo album ''[=AmeriKKKa's=] Most Wanted'', the remaining members of N.W.A attack him on the album "100 Miles And Runnin'" by calling him "Benedict Arnold". This proves to be a poor decision on their part as Cube, furious that they dissed him after he went out of his way not to do so with his solo music, writes and releases "No Vaseline".

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Being produced by Dre and Cube themselves, the film has been accused of glossing over some of the group's negative aspects:

** The film makes no mention of several high profile cases of Dr. Dre beating women (his beating of Dee Barnes was in the original script, but had to be cut for time).

* UncleTomfoolery: The black DirtyCop who harasses them makes nasty remarks like "You heard what your master said,...boy" when Jerry sends them inside the studio.

* WartsAndAll: Part of the point of the movie; while the impact that N.W.A made on music and society is important, the film reminds us that they were still human and were far from perfect. Examples include Eazy's promiscuity, and even referring to (if not showing) Dr. Dre's assault of Dee Barnes.

* TheNapoleon: Eazy-E is short but dangerous. Also a visionary.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Actually a "The Reason You Suck Song" with "No Vaseline" being used to rebuttal the N.W.A's own lyrical attacks on Ice Cube. Ice Cube's ability with rhymes and writing turns their feud to be a CurbStompBattle in terms of diss-rap--something the surviving members all agree on.

---> '''Eazy-E:''' "All publicity is good publicity."

** This also applies to Ice Cube, but to a slightly lesser degree than Knight. While we may never know how much his FreakOut inside [[spoiler:Bryan Turner's office]] was dramatized for the movie, he shows up there again a few scenes later with his wife, and is strongly implied to have not gotten any jail time whatsoever for [[spoiler:destroying everything inside the office weeks (presumably) earlier[[note]]In actuality, Ice Cube was nearly arrested as soon as he walked out the building, but Priority's CEO intervened, and basically made Bryan give Cube what he promised almost immediately after the incident[[note]].]]