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* ExactWords: When Eliot's editor tells him he wants "something in my computer" by the end of the day, Eliot climbs on the desk and puts his foot through it.
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* BlatantLies: (Drunken) security guard Pendick, being questioned by Officer Walter Kramitz:
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* BlatantLies: (Drunken) security guard Pendick, being questioned by Officer Walter Kramitz:the officers:
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'''Pendick:''' Nooo, absolutely not!\\
'''Pendick:''' Nooo, absolutely not!\\
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'''Pendick:'''
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''Walter:''' Have you been drinking tonight, sir?\\
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-->'''Walter:''' Is this your gun, sir?\\
'''Pendick:''' Yes. ''(beat)'' No.\\
''Walter:''' Have you been drinking tonight, sir?\\
'''Pendick:''' Yes. ''(beat)'' No.\\
''Walter:''' Have you been drinking tonight, sir?\\
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* BlatantLies: (Drunken) security guard Pendick, being questioned by Officer Walter Kramitz:
-->'''Walter:''' Have you been drinking tonight, sir?\\
'''Pendick:''' Nooo, absolutely not!\\
''Cue whiskey bottle falling out of his pocket and smashing; Pendick runs away with Walter in pursuit''
-->'''Walter:''' Have you been drinking tonight, sir?\\
'''Pendick:''' Nooo, absolutely not!\\
''Cue whiskey bottle falling out of his pocket and smashing; Pendick runs away with Walter in pursuit''
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* BringTheAnchorAlong: When Walter and Arthur end up [[spoiler:handcuffed to a large metal entertainment unit, they end up dragging the damn thing through the house and using it to crash through a glass sliding door. An mid-credits scene shows Arthur, ''still'' cuffed to the thing, dragging it down the street.]]
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* BringTheAnchorAlong: When Walter Monica and Arthur end up [[spoiler:handcuffed to a large metal entertainment unit, they end up dragging the damn thing through the house and using it to crash through a glass sliding door. An mid-credits scene shows Arthur, ''still'' cuffed to the thing, dragging it down the street.]]
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* MeaningfulName: Would-be manly man Jack Pendick.
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* MeaningfulName: MeaningfulName:
** Would-be manly man JackPendick.Pendick.
** Arthur Herk, whose surname is how "jerk" would parse in Spanish.
** Would-be manly man Jack
** Arthur Herk, whose surname is how "jerk" would parse in Spanish.
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** Monica, seeing her partner running naked through the airport lounge and yelling her name, calmly says, ''"And with that, I say goodnight."''
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* ActingForTwo: Creator/AndyRichter plays both security guard Jack Pendick and his (slightly) smarter brother, Ralph, the head of Miami International Airport's security force.
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* MuggingTheMonster: In both the book and the film, Henry is making a call to his client from a payphone when a trio of gang toughs approach him slowly. He pretends to drop a piece of paper with the client's phone number, bends down to pick it up, and draws his backup gun from an ankle holster. The gang members back off, acknowledging the smoothness of his move.
-->'''Henry''': Not right now, okay?\\
'''Gang Leader''': It's cool, man.
-->'''Henry''': Not right now, okay?\\
'''Gang Leader''': It's cool, man.
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* ApocalypseAnarchy: Detective Baker asks FBI Agent Greer, if there's a nuclear bomb in Miami, why don't they inform the police, or at least evacuate the suspect area? Agent Greer's response:
-->''If word gets out, which it would, that there's a nuclear bomb practically in fucking downtown, what do you think would happen to this city? Do you think there would be an orderly evacuation? Women and children first? Cooler heads prevailing? You think that's how the citizenry of Miami would react? What would happen is that every idiot in this town who owns a gun, which is basically every idiot in this town, would grab his gun, jump into his car, or somebody else's car, and lay rubber for I-95. Inside of ten minutes the city is gridlocked and what happens next makes Iwo Jima look like a maypole dance. This whole town turns into the end of a Creator/StephenKing novel.''
** As a veteran Miami policeman, Detective Baker can't really argue the point.
-->''If word gets out, which it would, that there's a nuclear bomb practically in fucking downtown, what do you think would happen to this city? Do you think there would be an orderly evacuation? Women and children first? Cooler heads prevailing? You think that's how the citizenry of Miami would react? What would happen is that every idiot in this town who owns a gun, which is basically every idiot in this town, would grab his gun, jump into his car, or somebody else's car, and lay rubber for I-95. Inside of ten minutes the city is gridlocked and what happens next makes Iwo Jima look like a maypole dance. This whole town turns into the end of a Creator/StephenKing novel.''
** As a veteran Miami policeman, Detective Baker can't really argue the point.
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* HumansAreMorons: Detective Baker asks FBI Agent Greer, if there's a nuclear bomb in Miami, why don't they inform the police, or at least evacuate the suspect area? Agent Greer's response:
-->''If word gets out, which it would, that there's a nuclear bomb practically in fucking downtown, what do you think would happen to this city? Do you think there would be an orderly evacuation? Women and children first? Cooler heads prevailing? You think that's how the citizenry of Miami would react? What would happen is that every idiot in this town who owns a gun, which is basically every idiot in this town, would grab his gun, jump into his car, or somebody else's car, and lay rubber for I-95. Inside of ten minutes the city is gridlocked and what happens next makes Iwo Jima look like a maypole dance. This whole town turns into the end of a Creator/StephenKing novel.''
** As a veteran Miami policeman, Detective Baker can't really argue the point.
-->''If word gets out, which it would, that there's a nuclear bomb practically in fucking downtown, what do you think would happen to this city? Do you think there would be an orderly evacuation? Women and children first? Cooler heads prevailing? You think that's how the citizenry of Miami would react? What would happen is that every idiot in this town who owns a gun, which is basically every idiot in this town, would grab his gun, jump into his car, or somebody else's car, and lay rubber for I-95. Inside of ten minutes the city is gridlocked and what happens next makes Iwo Jima look like a maypole dance. This whole town turns into the end of a Creator/StephenKing novel.''
** As a veteran Miami policeman, Detective Baker can't really argue the point.
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* FatBastard: Bruce, Elliot's obnoxious client.
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* FatBastard: Bruce, Elliot's Eliot's obnoxious client.
* HumansAreMorons: Detective Baker asks FBI Agent Greer, if there's a nuclear bomb in Miami, why don't they inform the police, or at least evacuate the suspect area? Agent Greer's response:
-->''If word gets out, which it would, that there's a nuclear bomb practically in fucking downtown, what do you think would happen to this city? Do you think there would be an orderly evacuation? Women and children first? Cooler heads prevailing? You think that's how the citizenry of Miami would react? What would happen is that every idiot in this town who owns a gun, which is basically every idiot in this town, would grab his gun, jump into his car, or somebody else's car, and lay rubber for I-95. Inside of ten minutes the city is gridlocked and what happens next makes Iwo Jima look like a maypole dance. This whole town turns into the end of a Creator/StephenKing novel.''
**As a veteran Miami policeman, Detective Baker can't really argue the point.
* HummerDinger: FBI Agents Greer and Seitz's rush to Miami International Airport is delayed by a traffic jam, and their attempt to squeeze into a side lane is blocked by a Humvee in their path:
-->''Humvees are a common sight in Miami. They're especially popular with wealthy trend-followers who like to cruise the streets in these large, impractical pseudomilitary vehicles, as though awaiting orders to proceed to Baghdad.''
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: In the epilogue:
-->''[Anna] and Eliot had agreed that they would not jump into anything, that they would take it slow and be really sure. They were married four days later.''
-->''If word gets out, which it would, that there's a nuclear bomb practically in fucking downtown, what do you think would happen to this city? Do you think there would be an orderly evacuation? Women and children first? Cooler heads prevailing? You think that's how the citizenry of Miami would react? What would happen is that every idiot in this town who owns a gun, which is basically every idiot in this town, would grab his gun, jump into his car, or somebody else's car, and lay rubber for I-95. Inside of ten minutes the city is gridlocked and what happens next makes Iwo Jima look like a maypole dance. This whole town turns into the end of a Creator/StephenKing novel.''
**As a veteran Miami policeman, Detective Baker can't really argue the point.
* HummerDinger: FBI Agents Greer and Seitz's rush to Miami International Airport is delayed by a traffic jam, and their attempt to squeeze into a side lane is blocked by a Humvee in their path:
-->''Humvees are a common sight in Miami. They're especially popular with wealthy trend-followers who like to cruise the streets in these large, impractical pseudomilitary vehicles, as though awaiting orders to proceed to Baghdad.''
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: In the epilogue:
-->''[Anna] and Eliot had agreed that they would not jump into anything, that they would take it slow and be really sure. They were married four days later.''
* IWasNeverHere: FBI Agents Greer and Seitz both hammer into Miami Detective Harvey Baker that once they retrieve the suitcase bomb, that is the end of the affair and ''"none of this happened."''
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** Bruce (Elliot's client at the ad agency) and Elliot's former boss at the newspaper also qualify. Not to mention Snake and Eddy.
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** Bruce (Elliot's (Eliot's client at the ad agency) and Elliot's Eliot's former boss at the newspaper also qualify. Not to mention Snake and Eddy.
* MyEyesAreUpHere: Before addressing Matt, Jenny tells Andrew not to stare at her boobs. He dutifully raises his eyes (though he freely admits he ogles her ass as she walks away).
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Believing that the suitcase bomb is heading for Miami International Airport, Agent Greer calls the airport and orders all planes grounded until further notice. This precaution makes perfect sense, but the delays only increase the chaos inside the airport terminals and generate several distractions that make it harder for the agents, or the other protagonists, to locate Snake or the bomb, before he commandeers a plane and orders the pilots at gunpoint to take off.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In his paranoia, Snake insists that the heavy metal suitcase, which he's sure must contain drugs or emeralds, be loaded into the cabin of the plane instead of the luggage compartment. Had he not done so, it would have been impossible for the plane's other occupants (Eddie in the novel, Eliot in the film), to shove it out of the plane before the IncrediblyObviousBomb inside detonates.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In his paranoia, Snake insists that the heavy metal suitcase, which he's sure must contain drugs or emeralds, be loaded into the cabin of the plane instead of the luggage compartment. Had he not done so, it would have been impossible for the plane's other occupants (Eddie in the novel, Eliot in the film), to shove it out of the plane before the IncrediblyObviousBomb inside detonates.
* OnlyInMiami: The word-for-word reaction of city residents who read the news story about a bevy of goats escaping near the airport.
* PointyHairedBoss: Dave Barry and Creator/CarlHiaasen seem to have developed the same credo to describe the management of daily newspapers: "Those who can, write; those who can't, edit." Ken Deeber, Eliot's managing editor at the Miami ''Herald'' worked (very) briefly as a reporter before rapidly ascending up the career ladder thanks to assiduous networking and forcing the newspaper's staff to work on "consequential" stories that win journalism awards, instead of stories the public might actually want to read.
-->''The only reason Deeber's car ignition hadn't been wired to a bomb before now is that reporters have poor do-it-yourself skills.''
-->''The only reason Deeber's car ignition hadn't been wired to a bomb before now is that reporters have poor do-it-yourself skills.''
* RageBreakingPoint: Eliot decides enough is enough when his editor dismisses his story about a Cuban fisherman training cormorants to assassinate UsefulNotes/FidelCastro as stupid, and orders him to work on the latest "mega-turd" (the staff's nickname for "consequential" stories). In the film, Eliot elaborates that he also happened to find out that day that his wife was screwing her tennis instructor.
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** Elliot drives a Geo. And it will be noted/mocked constantly.
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** Elliot Eliot drives a Geo. And it will be noted/mocked constantly.
* {{Ruritania}}: The fictitious "Soviet Socialist Republic of Grzkjistan", where Ivan and Leonid were posted before becoming arms dealers, appears to be an {{expy}} of one or more of the former Soviet Republics in Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, or Turkmenistan).
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* SexForProduct: Elliot and his ad for Hammerhead turns into this. "You have a guy in a boat with a girl, she's in a bikini, she has big tits, they're on a boat, and they're getting hammered! With Hammerhead! The feeling of this ad is, somebody's gonna get laid! In the background swimming around is a shark! The girl has REALLY big tits!" Poorly photoshopped-in really big tits, as it turns out, not that the client can tell.
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* SexForProduct: Elliot Eliot and his ad for Hammerhead turns into this. "You have a guy in a boat with a girl, she's in a bikini, she has big tits, they're on a boat, and they're getting hammered! With Hammerhead! The feeling of this ad is, somebody's gonna get laid! In the background swimming around is a shark! The girl has REALLY big tits!" Poorly photoshopped-in really big tits, as it turns out, not that the client can tell.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the book's WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, Arthur recovers from the toad poison and tries to squeal on his employer; but the authorities find no evidence, and Arthur dies a few weeks later in a suspicious "fishing accident." In the film, Arthur is last seen dragging his home's entertainment unit down the street, still pleading to the heavens to save his soul from his dog (who has Martha Stewart's face grafted on).
* StartXToStopX: ''Bufo marinus'' (the cane toad) originated in Latin America, but has become common in South Florida after ''"its introduction in the 1940's by well-meaning idiots who hoped that Bufo would control sugarcane pests… Before long, '''they''' had become the pests."''
* StartXToStopX: ''Bufo marinus'' (the cane toad) originated in Latin America, but has become common in South Florida after ''"its introduction in the 1940's by well-meaning idiots who hoped that Bufo would control sugarcane pests… Before long, '''they''' had become the pests."''
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* WritingAroundTrademarks: The book pokes fun at Elliot [[TheAllegedCar for driving a Kia]]. The movie changed this to an already-out-of-production Geo.
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* WritingAroundTrademarks: The book pokes fun at Elliot Eliot [[TheAllegedCar for driving a Kia]]. The movie changed this to an already-out-of-production Geo.
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* ActorAllusion: While watching the events unfold in the Hurk residence, Henry at one point refers to Snake and Eddie as 'Moron Number One' and 'Moron Number Two'. The gangster played by Denis Farina in ''Film/MidnightRun'' also used these exact terms to refer to two of his employees.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the book Walter Kramitz is harrassing his partner despite both being married, and only does right things for very selfish reasons. Although in the movie he's still married and still hits on his partner, he does get a substantial attitude upgrade to the point of being dutifully heroic.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the book Walter Kramitz is harrassing his partner despite both being married, and only does right things for very selfish reasons. Although in the movie he's still married and still hits on his partner, he does get a substantial attitude upgrade to the point of being dutifully heroic.
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* ActorAllusion: ActorAllusion:
** While watching the events unfold in the Hurk residence, Henry at one point refers to Snake and Eddie as 'Moron Number One' and 'Moron Number Two'. The gangster played byDenis Farina Creator/DennisFarina in ''Film/MidnightRun'' also used these exact terms to refer to two of his employees.
** After commandeering Bruce's Humvee, FBI Agent Greer tosses his country music CD out the window and replaces it with "Big Trouble" by [[Music/HeavyD Heavy D & The Boyz]].
*AdaptationalHeroism: AdaptationalHeroism:
** In the book Walter Kramitz isharrassing harassing his partner despite both being married, and only does the right things for very selfish reasons. Although in In the movie he's still married and still hits on his partner, he does get a substantial attitude upgrade to the point of being dutifully heroic.heroic.
** The BigDamnHeroes moment in the climax of the book is shared between Officer Monica Ramirez and Matt Arnold, who sneak aboard the plane and try to overpower Snake and rescue Jenny, and Eddie, who rebels against Snake and shoves the suitcase bomb out of the plane. In the film, Eliot boards the plane, knocks Eddie out, shoves the suitcase out of the plane, and, when Snake tries to pull it back in, pulls the emergency release lever, dumping Snake and the suitcase into the ocean; the pilot, Justin, also contributes by banking the plane, briefly knocking Snake unconscious, and relaying Agent Greer's message to get the suitcase off the plane immediately. Jenny gets to keep her role in attacking Snake and distracting him for long enough to allow the pilot to put his radio back on and contact the tower.
* AdaptationalJerkass: In the book, Eliot and his wife have divorced after drifting into [[DeadSparks the painful but mutual realization that they have nothing left in common]]. In the film, they divorce after Eliot finds out she has been having an affair.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the book, Jenny Herk is a fairly typical high school ditz and, in the climax, a DamselInDistress. In the film, she is much more of a DeadpanSnarker, a natural fit for any character played by Creator/ZooeyDeschanel.
** While watching the events unfold in the Hurk residence, Henry at one point refers to Snake and Eddie as 'Moron Number One' and 'Moron Number Two'. The gangster played by
** After commandeering Bruce's Humvee, FBI Agent Greer tosses his country music CD out the window and replaces it with "Big Trouble" by [[Music/HeavyD Heavy D & The Boyz]].
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** In the book Walter Kramitz is
** The BigDamnHeroes moment in the climax of the book is shared between Officer Monica Ramirez and Matt Arnold, who sneak aboard the plane and try to overpower Snake and rescue Jenny, and Eddie, who rebels against Snake and shoves the suitcase bomb out of the plane. In the film, Eliot boards the plane, knocks Eddie out, shoves the suitcase out of the plane, and, when Snake tries to pull it back in, pulls the emergency release lever, dumping Snake and the suitcase into the ocean; the pilot, Justin, also contributes by banking the plane, briefly knocking Snake unconscious, and relaying Agent Greer's message to get the suitcase off the plane immediately. Jenny gets to keep her role in attacking Snake and distracting him for long enough to allow the pilot to put his radio back on and contact the tower.
* AdaptationalJerkass: In the book, Eliot and his wife have divorced after drifting into [[DeadSparks the painful but mutual realization that they have nothing left in common]]. In the film, they divorce after Eliot finds out she has been having an affair.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the book, Jenny Herk is a fairly typical high school ditz and, in the climax, a DamselInDistress. In the film, she is much more of a DeadpanSnarker, a natural fit for any character played by Creator/ZooeyDeschanel.
* AdaptedOut: Miami Police Detective Harvey Baker, whose role in the book is fulfilled by Officer Monica in the film.
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* TheAllegedCar: Elliot's oft-mocked Geo. Largely subverted, though, as it performs well enough throughout the whole movie and never lets its occupants down when it matters.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Elliot is considered one by his teenage son, although it's limited to the kind of car he drives and taste in music.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Elliot is considered one by his teenage son, although it's limited to the kind of car he drives and taste in music.
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* TheAllegedCar: Elliot's Eliot's oft-mocked Geo. Largely subverted, though, as it performs well enough throughout the whole movie and never lets its occupants down when it matters.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents:Elliot Eliot is considered one by his teenage son, although it's limited to the kind of car he drives and taste in music.music.
* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: After firing his gun in a drunken haze at a teenager with a squirt gun, "Jack Pendick, crimefighter", asks the police detective if he'll get it back after he's sobered up.
-->'''Detective Baker''': Of course you do! Just as soon as we run a couple of tests, and a giant talking marshmallow is elected President.
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: After firing his gun in a drunken haze at a teenager with a squirt gun, "Jack Pendick, crimefighter", asks the police detective if he'll get it back after he's sobered up.
-->'''Detective Baker''': Of course you do! Just as soon as we run a couple of tests, and a giant talking marshmallow is elected President.
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: At the end of the film, the two FBI agents tell Eliot that they would like to present him with a Congressional Medal of Honor for preventing a rogue nuclear weapon from leveling Miami. The Medal of Honor is a military decoration, and Eliot would be ineligible to receive it (though his actions would certainly qualify him for a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest possible award for civilians). Although the Medal of Honor has, on rare occasions, been awarded to civilians for outstanding acts of bravery that aid the U.S. military, the last instances occurred during the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar, after which Congress tightened the rules to limit awards to members of the military. Charles Lindbergh received the Medal in 1927 for his trans-Atlantic flight, but he was a reserve member of the Army Air Corps, and the award required a special act of Congress.
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** There's also Bruce, Elliot's client, also a large {{Jerkass}}. [[spoiler:He has his finger broken by Henry to teach him some manners, then he is carjacked by the FBI agents when he refuses to let them through a traffic jam.]]
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* AuthorAvatar: Elliot had the same job as Dave Barry before he quit, and is made into the movie's main protagonist rather than just part of the ensemble.
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* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Andrew, in the film:
-->'''Jenny''': You, don't stare at my ass as I walk away.
-->'''Andrew''': I can't make that promise.
* AuthorAvatar:Elliot Eliot had the same job as Dave Barry before he quit, and is made into the movie's main protagonist rather than just part of the ensemble.ensemble.
* BeingGoodSucks: At the end of the film, the two FBI agents tell Eliot that he's entitled to a Congressional Medal of Honor for preventing a rogue nuclear weapon from leveling Miami, but since [[IWasNeverHere none of this happened]], the best they can do is an autographed cowboy hat and pair of boots. Subverted in that Eliot is much more rewarded by winning the respect of his son, and the lasting admiration of Anna and her daughter.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Henry asks four other diners, in the most polite, respectful way, to extinguish their cigars so he can enjoy his $30 steak without the taste being ruined by fumes. The diners laugh this off, and one even blows smoke in his face - and stops laughing when Henry breaks his fingers and douses his cigar in his brandy. The other three quickly follow suit.
-->'''Jenny''': You, don't stare at my ass as I walk away.
-->'''Andrew''': I can't make that promise.
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* BeingGoodSucks: At the end of the film, the two FBI agents tell Eliot that he's entitled to a Congressional Medal of Honor for preventing a rogue nuclear weapon from leveling Miami, but since [[IWasNeverHere none of this happened]], the best they can do is an autographed cowboy hat and pair of boots. Subverted in that Eliot is much more rewarded by winning the respect of his son, and the lasting admiration of Anna and her daughter.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Henry asks four other diners, in the most polite, respectful way, to extinguish their cigars so he can enjoy his $30 steak without the taste being ruined by fumes. The diners laugh this off, and one even blows smoke in his face - and stops laughing when Henry breaks his fingers and douses his cigar in his brandy. The other three quickly follow suit.
* BigGuyLittleGuy: FBI Agents Greer and Seitz, described as such in the book, and portrayed in the film by [[Music/HeavyD Dwight "Heavy D" Meyers]] and Creator/OmarEpps.
* CIAEvilFBIGood: FBI Agents Greer and Seitz explain to Detective Baker that they had already identified the terrorist who was supposed to pick up the suitcase bomb in New York City, and wouldn't need to be in Miami at all if ''"some dickwad secret agents from a certain federal agency that I will not identify here except by the initials C, I, and A... [[JurisdictionFriction which don't even have fucking jurisdiction]]"'' hadn't also been following the terrorist, mistakenly concluded that he was planning to flee the country, and decided to grab him before he got to the airport.
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* DeadSparks: Eliott and his wife Patty, in the novel.
* EveryoneHasStandards: After "commandeering" an obnoxious driver's Humvee to bypass a traffic jam and get to the airport, Agent Greer stops the vehicle, pulls out the CD the driver was blasting on the sound system, drops it to the ground and steps on it. In the film, Greer drives the Humvee over the median towards the airport, tossing the driver's (Bruce) country music CD out the window. He also takes a moment to turn off the blinking lights on Bruce's naked woman dashboard ornament.
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* FailsafeFailure: All the doors of a Miami prison were made with over-the-counter garage door openers. When a thunderstorm struck (hardly a rare event in Miami) after the jail went online, every door in the prison opened.
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** All the doors of a Miami prison were made with over-the-counter garage door openers. When a thunderstorm struck (hardly a rare event in Miami) after the jail went online, every door in the prisonopened.opened.
** Detective Baker asks whether the morons who have inadvertently gotten hold of a suitcase bomb could actually set it off; according to Agent Greer, the nuclear warhead inside has been modified so that any failsafes have been removed and the bomb is intentionally easy to trigger.
** All the doors of a Miami prison were made with over-the-counter garage door openers. When a thunderstorm struck (hardly a rare event in Miami) after the jail went online, every door in the prison
** Detective Baker asks whether the morons who have inadvertently gotten hold of a suitcase bomb could actually set it off; according to Agent Greer, the nuclear warhead inside has been modified so that any failsafes have been removed and the bomb is intentionally easy to trigger.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Detective Baker. After Officers Ramirez and Kramitz fail to report in from the Herk house, Baker drives out there to check on them himself, and, seeing two FBI agents leaving in a hurry, draws his gun on them and demands to know where his officers are.
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* TheGamblingAddict: Arthur Herk, who has embezzled $55,000 from his crooked employers to pay off a gambling debt, skimming it from the cash bribes he is supposed to deliver to various crooked politicians, and hoping ''"with the irrational hope of the true loser that somehow the money would not be missed, or that it's loss would be blamed on somebody else."''
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* HeroicWannabe: Matt's second attempt to "kill" Jenny is interrupted by "Jack Pendick, crimefighter", whose lifelong dream is to be a police officer, but was turned down twice by the Miami Police for being "in layperson's terms, stupid." Firing a gun wildly at Matt and Jenny drives them away in a panic, but he trips and falls over his own feet and loses his gun. The fact that he's drunk off his ass doesn't help his coordination or his judgment.
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* Soundtrack Dissonance: Considering an atomic bomb is about to detonate, the lively mariachi music can feel a bit jarring.
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* Soundtrack Dissonance: Considering an atomic bomb is about to detonate, the lively mariachi music can feel a bit jarring.
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* EvilInc: Mostly Type 3, but flirting with Type 2. (And in the novel, Type 1.) Penultimate Corporation (Penultra in the film) is mostly a construction company, but as corrupt as the day is long, willfully incompetent to the point of cartoonishness, but so well connected that they still keep raking in contracts. In the novel, Penultimate's main shadow goal is to overthrow Castro. The film dumps this angle and [[UpToEleven turns up the evil caricature to the max]]. How? Well, for starts, there's an M1919 machine gun ''on the boardroom table.''
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* EvilInc: Mostly Type 3, but flirting with Type 2. (And in the novel, Type 1.) Penultimate Corporation (Penultra in the film) is mostly a construction company, but as corrupt as the day is long, willfully incompetent to the point of cartoonishness, but so well connected that they still keep raking in contracts. In the novel, Penultimate's main shadow goal is to overthrow Castro. The film dumps this angle and [[UpToEleven [[ExaggeratedTrope turns up the evil caricature to the max]]. How? Well, for starts, there's an M1919 machine gun ''on the boardroom table.''
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Even the movie poster needs a diagram. It helps that characters are almost always seen in pairs.
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* FailsafeFailure: All the doors of a Miami prison were made with over-the-counter garage door openers. When someone drove by and pressed their own garage door opener, every cell in the prison opened.
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* FailsafeFailure: All the doors of a Miami prison were made with over-the-counter garage door openers. When someone drove by and pressed their own garage door opener, a thunderstorm struck (hardly a rare event in Miami) after the jail went online, every cell door in the prison opened.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: In the book Walter Kramitz is harrassing his partner despite both being married, and only does right things for very selfish reasons. In the movie neither is married, he is a mostly nice guy, and Monica does fall for him when he changes profession.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: In the book Walter Kramitz is harrassing his partner despite both being married, and only does right things for very selfish reasons. In Although in the movie neither is married, he is a mostly nice guy, he's still married and Monica still hits on his partner, he does fall for him when he changes profession.get a substantial attitude upgrade to the point of being dutifully heroic.
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** Bruce (Elliot's client at the ad agency) and Elliot's former boss at the newspaper also qualify. Not to mention [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Snake and Eddy]].
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** Bruce (Elliot's client at the ad agency) and Elliot's former boss at the newspaper also qualify. Not to mention [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Snake and Eddy]].Eddy.
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys:
** Snake and Eddy, two dumbasses who really should have stuck to busking in the streets.
** Also John and Leo (real names Ivan and Leonid), former Russian {{Scrounger}}s who moved up to gun smuggling.
** Technically Henry and Leonard, who are after all hitmen. But their target in this movie is a would-be AssholeVictim and Henry and Leonard themselves, while not exactly good or nice, are among the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Men]] of the movie.
** Snake and Eddy, two dumbasses who really should have stuck to busking in the streets.
** Also John and Leo (real names Ivan and Leonid), former Russian {{Scrounger}}s who moved up to gun smuggling.
** Technically Henry and Leonard, who are after all hitmen. But their target in this movie is a would-be AssholeVictim and Henry and Leonard themselves, while not exactly good or nice, are among the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Men]] of the movie.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Both in the book and the movie.
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* TakeThat: Snake [[ShootTheTelevision shoots a television]] that's playing a ''[[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow Jerry Springer]]'' episode. Another character comments that it's about time.
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** Snake [[ShootTheTelevision shoots a television]] that's playing a ''[[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow Jerry Springer]]'' episode. Another character comments that it's abouttime.time.
** Among John and Leo's ''many'' customers for illegal weapons in the Miami market are hunters ''"who, judging by the rifles they bought, were after deer that traveled inside armored personnel carriers"'', and professional drug cartel enforcers ''"who wanted guns that shot thousands of rounds per minute to compensate for the fact that their aim was terrible."''
** The famously chaotic Miami International Airport: ''"It was the standard airport-security operation, which meant it appeared to have been designed to hassle law-abiding passengers just enough to reassure them, while at the same time providing virtually no protection against criminals with an IQ higher than celery."''
** Snake [[ShootTheTelevision shoots a television]] that's playing a ''[[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow Jerry Springer]]'' episode. Another character comments that it's about
** Among John and Leo's ''many'' customers for illegal weapons in the Miami market are hunters ''"who, judging by the rifles they bought, were after deer that traveled inside armored personnel carriers"'', and professional drug cartel enforcers ''"who wanted guns that shot thousands of rounds per minute to compensate for the fact that their aim was terrible."''
** The famously chaotic Miami International Airport: ''"It was the standard airport-security operation, which meant it appeared to have been designed to hassle law-abiding passengers just enough to reassure them, while at the same time providing virtually no protection against criminals with an IQ higher than celery."''
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* {{Bowdlerization}}: TheMovie. Which is unfortunate, since many of the book's [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments funniest scenes]] don't translate well to a PG-13 rating. Likely done because MoodWhiplash on such a grand scale probably doesn't translate well to the screen. The book is a rapid-fire comedy that suddenly turns dark and disturbing for bits near the end before going right back to comedy. The movie just goes with comedy all the way.
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* {{Bowdlerization}}: TheMovie. Which is unfortunate, since many of the book's [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments funniest scenes]] don't translate well to a PG-13 rating. Likely TheFilmOfTheBook. It was likely done because MoodWhiplash on such a grand scale probably doesn't translate well to the screen. The book is a rapid-fire comedy that suddenly turns dark and disturbing for bits near the end before going right back to comedy. The movie just goes with comedy all the way.
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* ClusterFBomb: The book more than TheMovie.
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* ClusterFBomb: The book more than TheMovie.TheFilmOfTheBook.
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** After Snake takes several main characters hostage, their plight is suddenly played completely straight and gets pretty disturbing when he starts threatening rape. These threats don't happen in TheMovie.
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* OurProductSucks: Played with. One character's in advertising and designs a logo for a beer company called Hammerhead. He puts a picture of a Hammerhead with a caption saying, "Ugly Fish. Good Beer." (In TheMovie, this was changed to an eel.) The client hates it, and the ad changes to a more traditional beer commercial with models. The client's suggested slogan? "Get hammered with Hammerhead".
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* OurProductSucks: Played with. One character's in advertising and designs a logo for a beer company called Hammerhead. He puts a picture of a Hammerhead with a caption saying, "Ugly Fish. Good Beer." (In TheMovie, TheFilmOfTheBook, this was changed to an eel.) The client hates it, and the ad changes to a more traditional beer commercial with models. The client's suggested slogan? "Get hammered with Hammerhead".
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* TooDumbToLive: The two thieves are told to turn on their "garbage disposal" at airport security and promptly do so. It never dawns on them that they just activated a time bomb. It's even more blatant in the movie, where the countdown starts before they even close the lid. Snake, in particular, is so convinced that the contents of the suitcase are his ticket to "kingpin" status, [spoiler:that he insists on holding on to it as it is pushed out of an airplane and plunges with it into the ocean, with less than a minute left on the timer.]
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* TooDumbToLive: The two thieves are told to turn on their "garbage disposal" at airport security and promptly do so. It never dawns on them that they just activated a time bomb. It's even more blatant in the movie, where the countdown starts before they even close the lid. Snake, in particular, is so convinced that the contents of the suitcase are his ticket to "kingpin" status, [spoiler:that [[spoiler:that he insists on holding on to it as it is pushed out of an airplane and plunges with it into the ocean, with less than a minute left on the timer.]timer]].
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* JerkassHasAPoint: When Arthur confronts his boss at Penultimate over the fact that the bosses "are planning to have [him] whacked!", the boss points out that not only are those decisions made way above his pay-grade, but that in stealing money from a massively corrupt corporation that is only transparently a cover for some kind of massive criminal operation, Arthur probably should have seen this coming as a possibility.
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* ToadLicking: Why Arthur spends a significant portion of the book believing that his dog now has the head of Elizabeth Dole and wants to eat his soul. (Technically it was an AccidentalKiss, but the effect's the same.) In the film version, this is changed to Martha Stewart.
* TooDumbToLive: The two thieves are told to turn on their "garbage disposal" at airport security and promptly do so. It never dawns on them that they just activated a time bomb. It's even more blatant in the movie, where the countdown starts before they even close the lid.
* TooDumbToLive: The two thieves are told to turn on their "garbage disposal" at airport security and promptly do so. It never dawns on them that they just activated a time bomb. It's even more blatant in the movie, where the countdown starts before they even close the lid.
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* ToadLicking: Why Spotlighted by the author, who briefly explains the cane toad's proliferation throughout South Florida, and notes, ''"some people have been known to lick these toads to get high. Sometimes these people die. You could argue they deserve to."'' Also why Arthur spends a significant portion of the book believing that his dog now has the head of Elizabeth Dole and wants to eat his soul. (Technically it was an AccidentalKiss, but the effect's the same.) In the film version, this is changed to Martha Stewart.
* TooDumbToLive: The two thieves are told to turn on their "garbage disposal" at airport security and promptly do so. It never dawns on them that they just activated a time bomb. It's even more blatant in the movie, where the countdown starts before they even close the lid. Snake, in particular, is so convinced that the contents of the suitcase are his ticket to "kingpin" status, [spoiler:that he insists on holding on to it as it is pushed out of an airplane and plunges with it into the ocean, with less than a minute left on the timer.]
* TooDumbToLive: The two thieves are told to turn on their "garbage disposal" at airport security and promptly do so. It never dawns on them that they just activated a time bomb. It's even more blatant in the movie, where the countdown starts before they even close the lid. Snake, in particular, is so convinced that the contents of the suitcase are his ticket to "kingpin" status, [spoiler:that he insists on holding on to it as it is pushed out of an airplane and plunges with it into the ocean, with less than a minute left on the timer.]
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* PlanesTrainsAndImbeciles: {{Inverted}} in Big Trouble, where the airport worker (a single mother working a tiring job for a dubious company possibly about to be shut down by the FBI, with a sick baby and a broken-down car) is portrayed sympathetically. When Snake (accompanied to two other creeps and a young woman clearly no in her right mind) just throws money at her to speed things up, she takes the money and then some for her garage and babysitter bills, but lets them through, even after Snake just tells her all four of them are named John Smith.
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* CompositeCharacter: Monica is combined with Detective Baker (the cop who accompanies the FBI agents in the book).
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** Monica is combined with Detective Baker (the cop who accompanies the FBI agents in thebook).book).
** Elliot's obnoxious client Bruce, the restaurant customer Henry injures for smoking, and the owner of the car Greer and Seitz commandeer are combined into one ButtMonkey in the movie.
** Monica is combined with Detective Baker (the cop who accompanies the FBI agents in the
** Elliot's obnoxious client Bruce, the restaurant customer Henry injures for smoking, and the owner of the car Greer and Seitz commandeer are combined into one ButtMonkey in the movie.
