Recap / Film Reroll The Fifth Element

The Fifth Element takes a hard right turn! Scott punches the ceiling! Andy goes for a swim! Joz drives a car!

Episode 151- of Film Reroll. Based on the 1997 English-French sci-fi action cult classic.

In the year 1914, Professor Picoli and reporter Billy discover a series of ancient ruins in an Egyptian temple, talking about a series of five elements that, when brought together, will create a weapon that is the only means of destroying some great evil that will befall the world every 5000 years. And despite the desires of a local priest of an ancient order to keep this secret, the point quickly becomes moot as a race of aliens, Mondoshawans, arrive. War is coming, and Earth can no longer be trusted with the elements; they vow to return with the elements, the fifth stowed away in a mysterious sarcophagus, when the time is right.

And that time occurs in 2263. A mysterious giant flaming entity is on its way to Earth, and it seems that the only means of destroying it lie in acquiring the five elements before it is too late.

And it appears that our hope lies in the latest priest to have joined the ancient order, a jaded taxi driver who had left a life in the military, and a clone of the organism in the sarcophagus.

...maybe not so much the second one.

Starring Andy Hoover as Father Vito Cornelius, Scott Aiello as Korben Dallas, David and Ka'el, Joz Vammer as Leeloo and Paulo Quiros as the Dungeon Master.

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Tropes:

• Actor Allusion: As Andy points out in his intro, he last played Ian Holm back when he ran “Alien”.
• Adaptational Heroism: Downplayed: As opposed to the movie, where he immediately jumps to poisoning the two, the local priest Father Chenzira tries to talk Professor Pacoli and Billy into leaving the temple, and that it would be for the best to keep their discovery secret. It's only when they insist on making their discovery public that he decides he needs to poison them, but even then, he has difficulty pouring it, and winds up spilling the vial.
  Father Chenzira: Alright, how do I feel about murder, let's find out...
• A God Am I: invoked Parodied: When Scott decides that David Duchovny is from the "Fhloston Paradise Duchovnys", Paulo immediately shoots that down, much to Scott's annoyance:
  Scott: You don't know that! You don't know me or my life!
  Paulo: (bluntly) I do, this is my world.
  Scott: Oh shit.
  Andy: Oh no.
  Joz: (matter-of-factly) That's exactly what a dictator would say.
  • It only gets worse later on: When the players mistakenly assume the limo driver is Korben Dallas, Paulo shoots that down, clarifying that Korben hadn't deviated from his portion of the plot yet to justify that^note and also because they are in a government limo, not a taxi cab, causing Scott to petulantly state Paulo doesn't know that:
    Scott: You don't know that, Paulo, this is not your world...
    Paulo: I am! This is my world!
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: After Father Vito tries to get the general to put his gun down by lying and saying Leeloo is threatening their lives if she is impeded in getting them to the river, David (realizing what she actually said) admits to the truth and practically pleads with the general to not shoot her. And it's only because Scott succeeded by Diplomacy by one that the general puts the gun away, in exchange for David talking Leeloo into letting him drive.
  David: (near-hysteria) Look, she's obsessed with the river, she's not gonna crash us, but she has to take us to the river, you have to understand that we have to do what woman says 'cause we need her, if you shoot her, you're gonna kill everyone! All of Earth, all of the galaxy, please don't shoot her, please don't shoot her, just let her go to the river, she wants to go to the river, just let her go!
• Almost Famous Name: Paulo decides on the spot that David's last name is "Duchovny".
• Amazon Chaser: David and Ka'el are both profoundly impressed by Leeloo's slaying of the Muntawa, with David in particular loudly singing her praises and declaring his love for her as she pulls off greater and greater stunts.
• The Apunkalypse: On the lowest level of the Layered Metropolis of 2263 New York, roving gangs of toughs with strange hair, midriff-baring leather jackets and a propensity for Chain Pain prowl the mud, waiting to capture any 'topworlders' and hold them for ransom.
• Artistic License – Geography: The mere fact that the Hudson River exists in 2263. Luc Besson has gone on record that in the world of The Fifth Element, Earth's water had been exported for colonization purposes. The closest this gets to being explained in the movie itself is a brief shot of the Manhattan skyline when the passenger ship takes off, revealing that the sea level had become very low, to the point where Manhattan rested on a mesa.^note However, it could be argued that this is a result of Billy's accidental Mondoshawan-domino chain almost fucking up the future.
• Ask a Stupid Question...: Once everyone is in the conference room, the general asks Father Vito why he feels the need to be in the room with the others^note as, even though he was at the facility due to the President, this had become a military operation. Once Father Vito points out he speaks Leeloo's language, the general drops the matter. David, meanwhile, is given the pass due to being Father Vito's assistant.
• Attack Its Weak Point: Leeloo's Super-Scream knocks loose one of the Muntawa's scales, exposing un-armored flesh that all the spear-throwers take aim at. Although ultimately, Leeloo ends up defeating the beast via another common weak point.
• Attack the Mouth: Leeloo deals a killing blow to the Muntawa by anticipating its movements and lining up a shot to send a spear straight through its open jaws, dealing what Paulo claims was an anticlimactic death blow to the beast.
• Body Horror: Discussed: When Leeloo manages to kick one of the Neo-Whigs, and Joz lands a damage roll of 16, Paulo narrates that she misjudged the strength of "these flesh things", and that once struck, the tough crumpled to the ground in a state that makes it unclear if they died.
  Paulo: Yeah, you broke him a little bit.
• The Bus Came Back: After being relegated to a cameo at the end of Part 2, Part 4 sees Korben Dallas finally be brought into the plot of the campaign when the General reaches out to him for his assistance.
• Butterfly of Doom: As Paulo explains to everyone, if Billy's Crit Fail tackle causes the Mondoshawans to drop the elements, they would be drastically altering the future. Luckily, the domino chain doesn't go that far.
• Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": It's decided that the closest equivalent to "burrito" in Leeloo's divine language is "wrapped animal".
• Call-Back:
  • When the prospect of Billy needing to roll Scrounge to try and find the bottle of Grapa is broached, everyone brings up how Paulo developed an obsession with it in one of the Clue recordings.
  • As Father Vito and David are doing research in a small bunker, Paulo asks clarification if they were staying in there the whole time, causing Andy to accuse him of pulling a "regular door" deal.
  • invoked Joz handing David over to Scott mid-Fright Check fail causes Paulo to draw the connection to Leonard Shelby. Scott, however, feels he is more representative of "the Verne/Chunk genre".
    • As they float down the river into the ocean, Scott openly draws a comparison to Chunk floating behind the boat.
• Car Fu: After everyone spends a couple minutes deciding if a pacifist would have enough moral justification to do so, it's ultimately decided via a successful Will roll that David is going to run over the tough trying to disable the limo... and kills him. And once Scott is told to roll a Fright Check, and he fails, he gets stunned for 8 seconds. The problem? He was still driving, straight towards the river.
• Cannot Talk to Women: A failed Fright Check in regards to seeing Leeloo wake up causes David to gain the quirk of blushing uncontrollably when talking to any woman, while also needing to avoid making an ass of himself whenever talking to any woman.
• Car Hood Sliding: As everyone makes their moves back to the limo, Joz has Leeloo grab the general, only for Paulo to point out he's on the other side of the vehicle; this causes Joz to pivot, and decide Leeloo grabbed Father Vito, and then went around the limo once he was inside. Due to a pretty good Dex roll, Paulo decides that means she slides across the hood to get to the general.
• Character Development: invoked Discussed: In response to all of the crazy shit Leeloo was managing to pull off in Part 2, Scott makes a point to acknowledge how Joz finally learned to roll first before deciding on her actions^note or, as Joz admits, she learned restraint, and that in turn, Paulo kindly was allowing them to happen.
• City on the Water: After drifting out to sea, our protagonists discover a floating village populated by tribals and beset by a ravenous Sea Monster called the Muntawa.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Downplayed: Paulo accidentally says the campaign opens in 1913; he's one year off.
• Creator Thumbprint: Due to the Perception roll fiasco^note getting a Crit Fail, followed by an immediate Crit Success, Scott says that describes every action movie role Bruce Willis has ever played.
• Crisis of Faith: Actually meeting the Supreme Being and having to wrestle with her unique quirks seems to be wearing on Father Vito's faith, given a few throwaway comments by Andy.
• Cutting the Knot: Upon noticing one of the toughs trying to disable the limo, Father Vito asks David to do something to stop him. Since by this point, David was pounding the steering wheel in distress, it's decided he proceeds to smash his head into the horn. This only mildly surprises the tough.
  Scott: invoked Yeah, if it was Scott behind the wheel, we would run this guy over, but David's a- David's a pacifist, I can't- I can't do it...
• Dark and Troubled Past: Upon spotting the thugs that are approaching the limo after they stop at the Hudson River, David clocks them as being Neo-Whigs, alluding to having once been in that gang.
• Death by Adaptation: Unlike in the movie, Billy was inside the temple when it closed; everyone agrees that means he's gonna die in there.
• Death Faked for You: Father Vito ultimately decides that the best course of action is to let the limo sink into the river, and let the toughs think he, David and Leeloo drowned.
• Didn't Think This Through: Zig-zagged: After both an out-of- and in-character debate about the moral reasons surrouding it, David decides that despite being a pacifist, he has a moral obligation to mow down the tough trying to disable the limo. But, due to this killing the tough, David^note due to a failed Fright Check gets stunned for 8 seconds. To make matters worse, he was driving straight towards the river, meaning the limo goes into the water... and the doors were still open.
• Eye Scream: Due to a Crit Failed Perception roll just as he's about to leave his apartment, Paulo narrates that when he was feeding his cat, Korben had unknowingly gotten some of the cat food on his fingers, and when he was rubbing his eyes to wake up, he got cat food in his eyes, and they start to burn. But then, because his next (penalized) Perception roll was a Crit Success, Paulo is forced to declare that his eyes cleared up quick.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: Downplayed: After David manages to take Leeloo into giving him control of the limo so he can take it to the river, Paulo points out that due to the speed of the vehicle, by the time this conversation happened, they were already at the river.
• Final First Hug: As Leeloo takes the limo down into the Hudson River, David (assuming they are going to die) opts to just give Father Vito a hug and close his eyes. Father Vito then reassures him they will soon be embraced with the Almighty.
• Finding the Bug: Leeloo immediately clocks the presence of a hidden camera within the limo, and promptly rips it out. This just causes everyone else in the limo be put more on edge.
• Flippant Forgiveness: After David reports that the river broke the limo's engine, Father Vito decides to do some "gentle ribbing":
  Father Vito: David, it's quite alright. You're a better murderer than you are a car mechanic.
• Foreshadowing: The description for Part Two explicitly mentions how they take "a hard right turn". This winds up being the exact direction Leeloo takes when hijacking the limo in order to go to the Hudson River.
• Genre Savvy: After getting chewed out by his mom for winning a trip to Fhloston Paradise that he has no knowledge of, Korben Dallas gets visited by the General and some other military personnel. One successful Intelligence roll causes him to connect the dots.
• A Good Name for a Rock Band: While going over their plan for how to deal with the subway wolves, Paulo utters the phrase 'one door towards the wolf-time', which Scott remarks would make a great title for an Isaac Asimov novel.
• Guile Hero: When the general threatens to shoot Leeloo if she doesn't stop her hijacking of the limo, she promises (in the Divine Language) that she isn't going to harm everyone, and she has to get them to the river. Father Vito, for whatever reason, decides to "translate" that she's threatening their lives if the general doesn't put his gun down.
  Scott: (near pleading) Why would you tell him that?!
• Grievous Harm with a Body: Discussed: Due to the toughs having the handler, the general's assistant, and the "science guy" wrapped up in chains, Joz toys with having Leeloo grab two of the chains, and use the humans as nunchucks to take out the rest of the toughs. Paulo proceeds to point out that, due to Leeloo's strength, that would just result in her ripping the chains out of the toughs' hands.
• Heroic BSoD: Eventually, the situation with the Neo-Whigs causes David to just outright have an emotional breakdown, openly sobbing and pounding the steering wheel of the limo.
• Hidden Depths: The fishing village's scout Mika'el turns out to have a working knowledge of train operation from his time spent exploring the ruins, thanks to a Crit Success from Andy.
• Honor Before Reason: When the remains of the Mondoshawans' ship arrives back at the facility, and the military has begun taking over the operation, Father Vito and David find themselves needing to get back inside, but are getting stonewalled. Joz briefly considers having David try and hack the door to get back inside, she concludes (after Paulo mentions he'd get in trouble) that David is more of a rule-follower, and wouldn't do that.
• Hope Spot: Effectively, the whole of Part 1 became this for the campaign: Barring some extraneous circumstances^note Billy almost fucking up the future by tackling the Mondoshawans, and Korben Dallas basically getting sidelined after his first scene, it seemed like things were actually going smoother than the movie, due to Leeloo managing to be talked down from trying to escape, and the whole reality of the situation regarding the five elements being explained to the higher brass. And then early into Part 2, David accidentally causes Leeloo to hijack a limo.
• Hostage Situation: The leader of the Neo-Whigs makes it clear that they won't hurt the group since they landed in their "spot of tea"... but will be holding them hostage for a ransom payment from their superiors from the upper part of the city. Cue Leeloo beating them up.
• I Meant to Do That: Vito and David start doing this on Leeloo's behalf when she starts tearing apart their limo out of paranoia, trying to pass off her violence as the fulfillment of prophecy. "As it was foretold" fits somewhere between a Running Gag and a Madness Mantra for Vito as he slowly surrenders to how completely things have gotten out of hand.
• Improvised Weapon: Due to the driver having Nerves of Steel, rather than be intimidated by the Neo-Whigs trying to accost him, he fights some off with his jacket.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: Variation: After the fiasco with the hijacking, once at the river, the limo driver decides to pop out for a smoke break.
• Innocently Insensitive: Because Billy mishears him say "vanquishes" as "banquet" due to his accent, Professor Pacoli proceeds to sarcastically congratulate him for pointing out he's not good with English.
• Insistent Terminology: While David IDed the gang that was accosting the others being the "Neo-Whigs", Paulo fell into a habit of referring to them as "toughs". This soon starts getting picked up by the others.
• Instant Expert: Leeloo has the perk Wild Talent, which allows her to instantly gain a new skill five times per session if she succeeds on a roll (which her insane stats basically guarantee). Thus far she's a master at Acrobatics, Piloting (Flying Car), Swimming, Singing, Banshee, Spear Throwing, Climbing, Intimidation, Stealth, Scrounging and Diplomacy.
• Kick the Dog:
  • After David causes the limo to drive off into the river, putting himself and Father Vito at risk of the water, Leeloo decides to abandon the rest of the limo's passengers to the toughs, as the only two people she can talk to are of higher importance. And ultimately, Andy and Scott agree the best course of action is to just outright abandon them, and go out to sea.
  • invoked During his intro in Part 3, Scott mentions how some fans of the show recently attended a performance of Richard III he was in, but wound up missing; he wound up learning about it when his wife mentioned it on Instagram. In response, Andy decides for some reason to float the possibility that, similar to the play, his wife was lying to him.^note Not helping matters is that Scott had mentioned, in an attempt to try and meet with those fans, that the bar at the theater he was performing in would be opened "February 9th"... when this episode came out March 3rd.
  Andy: Like, a scheme of just, like- "Here's some ghosts that like your podcast, go seek them fruitlessly".
• Know When to Fold 'Em: After a point, Father Vito gives up trying to stop Leeloo from hijacking the limo, and opts to see how it plays out.
• Locked Out of the Loop:
  • For a brief moment, David freaking out about the prospect of bees causes Leeloo to get hung up about the concept (due to it being several thousand years since she had seen any).^note This gives Father Vito the opportunity to briefly admit how lucky they were that the bee population still exists.
    Leeloo: What does bees?!
  • While getting his lunch, Korben Dallas has to take a phone call from his mom, where she chews him out for winning a ten-day trip for two to Fhloston Paradise and not telling her... something that confuses him, since he didn't enter anything to get that. Apparently, they were blaring his name on the radio. And then someone knocks on the door...
• Loophole Abuse: After Scott toys with the idea of running over the tough trying to disable the limo, he acknowledges that David is too much of a pacifist to do it. However:
  • Father Vito clarifies that all he's doing is nudging him out of the way. "And if you nudge a little too hard, God will forgive you, alright?"
  • And, while the GURPS rules defines pacifism as not bringing harm to innocent people no matter what, Scott and Andy point out that doesn't apply to the toughs.
  • And ultimately, Paulo lets Scott roll Will for the matter, and with it being 7, it's decided that since the tough isn't innocent, there's a moral duty on his part to stop the toughs from impeding their duty to the Divine Being. Cue Scott flooring it.
• Money, Dear Boy: invoked Due to having lost his job earlier that day, and General George Monroe letting it slip that he's the only member of his unit still living, Korben Dallas forces a bribe out of him^note to the tune of 1,000,000 credits in order to go to Fhloston Paradise.
• My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: Unlike Father Cornelius (who speaks the Divine Language fluently), David has a much shakier grasp on how to talk to Leeloo, and has to make an Intelligence check every time he talks to her so he can make sure what he's saying is actually comprehensible. When he fails a check, Scott plays this out by substituting random words for what he intended to say, which Leeloo commits to without question.
• Never My Fault: Indirectly: David winds up freaking out when Leeloo insists on taking the limo to "the river", not knowing that he gave her the idea in the first place due to fucking up speaking the Divine Language.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Barely averted in Part 1: When Billy decides to slide tackle the Mondoshawans to stop them from taking the five elements, Joz winds up Crit Failing the necessary roll, causing Paulo to decide that means he trips over himself, falls into one of the Mondoshawans... which knocks him over, and causes a domino chain that, thankfully, manages to stop before taking out the ones carrying the elements.
• No Social Skills: Leeloo doesn’t quite seem to have regenerated her sense of nuance yet, and shows an almost negative amount of patience for the government machinations going on around her. She also trusts Father Vito and David implicitly, which causes problems when one of them isn’t as good at her language as she thinks.
• Not What It Looks Like: When Father Vito tries to claim that Leeloo ripping off the limo's partition was prophesied (as a means of per-emptively calming down those in the limo with guns), Paulo winds up briefly leaving from view of the video call, causing everyone to assume Andy's bit made him give up on the episode. In reality, he just needed an extra die.
• Oh, Crap!: The literal second Joz announces Leeloo is hijacking the limo, everyone else reacts in horror, in particular, Andy.
• Out of Focus: Korben Dallas's first scene in the campaign winds up being his only scene in the first episode; as the remainder of the episode is spent in the facility where Leeloo was recreated, and she's convinced to not escape, Scott instead plays David for the rest of the episode. Paulo makes a point of saying they may still need Korben, so he's not out of the campaign yet.
  • This only gets worse in Part 2, as the chaos of Leeloo hijacking her own limo takes up the entire episode. We cut to Korben Dallas for a single Driving roll at the very end when Joz asks what he's been up to, and when he fails that roll and loses the last point on his license, Scott starts listing off all the fantastic skills on Korben's sheet that he's being forced to ignore in favor of playing David.
• The Other Darrin: invoked Because Leeloo hadn't been recreated yet, Paulo allowed Joz to take over David so she had a character to play for the brunt of Part 1. Once she's able to play Leeloo, she hands him over to Scott. Funnily enough, this winds up benefiting him, as he too was in need of a character by that point.
• The Paranoiac: Downplayed: Because she wanted eyes on everyone in the limo, and she wanted to make sure the right people were informed about the location of the elements, Leeloo starts tearing apart the limo.
• Point of Divergence:
  • During the intro for Part 2, Paulo explicitly cites that Father Vito Cornelius deciding to stick around instead of leaving after the Mondoshawans' ship is shot down is when the plot of the movie started to derail, as he was able to help immediately deescalate things once Leeloo was reconstituted, and started her escape attempt.
  • Purely because of David fucking up a vital bit of Divine Language translation, Leeloo gets it in her head that she needs to hijack the limo everyone is riding in, and go to the Hudson River.
  • Because Korben Dallas never met Leeloo, and he wound up losing his job due to fucking up a fare, when the General shows up to ask for his assistance in retrieving the Elements from Fhloston Paradise, he proceeds to strong-arm a 1,000,000 credit bribe out of him.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: Father Vito is incredibly dismissive of the tribal people on the floating village, to the point where Andy starts resisting plot hooks gleaned from the tribe's storyteller because he can't justify Vito putting enough stock in them to care.
• Poor Communication Kills: Defied: After Leeloo wakes up and, assuming the worst, decides to make a break for it, dodging gunfire from the armed security forces, Father Vito and David manage to defuse the situation enough to convince everyone to take Leeloo to a conference room to just talk about what needs to happen.
  • Played straight in Part 2, where David's shaky grasp of the Divine Language leads to Leeloo hijacking their limousine and driving them into the Hudson River, where they are set upon by chain-wielding hoodlums.
• A Rare Sentence:
  • "Do I dare roll Fast Talk on my God?"
  • "And you still got your cool thing, but it was legal."
• Retcon: Downplayed: When cutting to Korben Dallas in Part 4, Paulo initially says he's being visited by the General. After a minute, Paulo checks something, and decides to restart the scene, saying he's instead getting his lunch delivered. It's only after that, and getting interrupted by a phone call from his mom, when Paulo announces the arrival of the General.
• Rummage Fail: Variation: Upon noticing it on his character sheet, Andy decides to have Father Vito pull out his revolver in order to intimidate the Neo-Whigs... only for Paulo to question that, as even though he put that on the sheet, that didn't mean he had it on him that day. And after briefly toying with the idea of arguing for it, Andy resigns himself to the fact he doesn't have it. In-character, this plays out as Father Vito going for the revolver, only to abruptly remember that, being a man of peace, he left it behind.
• Sanity Slippage: Discussed: After one too many instances of Word-Salad Humor, David comes to the conclusion that Leeloo wasn't put completely back together:
  Leeloo: David! No vegetables! I'll get you blue!
  David: (practically done with life) I don't know what she's talking about, Father, she's gone insane. Are we sure we put her-
  Father Vito: (cutting David off) David, most of this situation is your fault, and we'll talk about it later.
  David: Are you sure we put her back together right? Maybe they missed a piece, they put her back together from a glove, maybe they missed a piece, Father...
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
  • After having his burrito stolen by Leeloo, and being forced to hand over his lab coat to her, one of the scientists in the conference room opts to just leave.
  • After the Neo-Whigs grab the limo driver before he can return to the limo, David immediately decides to just jump into the driver's seat and take off without him. But thanks to Andy failing to resist on "Sense of Duty: Humanity", Father Vito opts to instead jump out to try and save the driver, and Leeloo refuses to leave him; the distraction causes Scott to resignedly discover David has his own sense of duty for Father Vito and the Church, and land the limo.
    • David manages to successfully pull this a second time after Leeloo handily takes out the Neo-Whigs, telling everyone to get back into the limo.
• Sea Monster: The Muntawa, a fifty-foot fish monster dwelling in the Hudson River that serves as the main antagonist for Part 3. Its name is a word in the Divine Language that means 'devourer', and it very nearly destroys the floating village.
• Shout-Out: Concerning the prospect of the General coming to visit Korben Dallas in Part 4^note this is before Paulo had to double-check his notes, and do a retcon, a flub on Scott's part causes Paulo to evoke Homer Simpson:
  Korben: (tired) Aw, Geezus Christ, I'm retired, go away!
  Joz: (delighted) "Geezus Christ..."
  Paulo: "Geezus..." (as Homer) Save me, Jebus!
• A Simple Plan: "All I wanted was to ask about the stones in a quiet room, my God, can we get out of here?"
• Sinister Subway: In their attempts to return topside after detouring through the fishing village, our heroes pass through the dilapidated and partially flooded remains of the New York City Subway, where they encounter terrifying red-eyed wolves that have adapted to the darkness.
• Spared by the Adaptation: An accidental variation: In the movie, Billy makes it clear that Professor Pacoli was actually killed by the Mondoshawans, not (as the shot of him collapsing implied) knocked unconscious. Here, Paulo says he just was made to fall asleep.
• Spoiler: During the intro of Part 2, Andy shit-talking Ancient Greece prompts Scott to spoil a plot point from the movie:
  Paulo: We are here, with The Fifth Element once again, we return to the world of... uh... elements. In which there's five. Uh, f-five elements. That's it.
  Andy: Take that, Ancient Greeks!
  Scott: (stage whisper) Spoiler alert, the fifth element is love.
• Spoof Aesop: "Kids, never get cat food in your eyes."
• Stating the Simple Solution: "WHY IS EVERYONE STILL FREAKING OUT, THIS IS REALLY, REALLY SIMPLE! WE JUST NEED A ROOM, WHERE WE CAN ALL STAND AROUND AND TALK, JUST LIKE THE FATHER SAID!"
• Strange Minds Think Alike: When opting to fake their deaths, Father Vito decides to have Leeloo take him and David to a wharf up the river to try and find some help. This causes Paulo to remark with mild delight that Andy managed to read his mind, as he did have a wharf in that area on the map, but he had no way of knowing that yet.
• Super-Scream: Drawing on real-world knowledge about sharks' sensitivity to sound, Joz decides to have Leeloo shout underwater to try and scare away the Muntawa. Thanks to her super-human physiology, she's able to acquire a Shouting skill that is not only loud enough to stun the Muntawa, but can even deal damage.
• Super-Strength: Leeloo's physical abilities are much more emphasized here, with her stats apparently being insanely high. She punches through glass like it's paper, tosses thugs forty feet in the air, and when she kicks open a car door the biggest concern is whether that door will remain attached. A highlight would be when she has to save Vito and David from drowning in a car, and she makes the Strength roll against a -9 (-8 with Extra Effort). Vito looks back to see the Supreme Being swimming backwards one-handed while dragging the car with her other hand.
• Take That!: Scott claims Bruce Willis' entire acting career can best be summarized by how he's roleplaying Korben Dallas waking up: An extended bit of confused groaning noises, sounding hung over.
• That Came Out Wrong: "Joz, let's have you slide into Leeloo. Oh God, that came out gross..."
• This Is Gonna Suck: During the intro to the campaign, everyone comes into agreement that they are working against the current in terms of actually doing the movie, given how a lot of how the plot came together boiled down to chance.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Discussed: It becomes determined that Leeloo prefers to eat burritos.
• Translation Convention: Due to Father Vito knowing the Divine Language, we get to hear Leeloo speaking in English even when others in the room can't understand her.
• Understatement: When Leeloo tries to overpower the limo driver in order to hijack it, Paulo has the two of them roll Strength. Paulo succeeds by 2 for the driver, while Joz succeeds by 8 for Leeloo. "Yeah, so, you kinda overpowered him."
• Wearing It All Wrong: When given a lab coat to wear so she has clothing instead of just the thermal bandages, Leeloo (not knowing what it is) puts her legs through the arm holes, and ties the remainder over a shoulder, turning it (per Andy's description) into a sarong.
• We Need a Distraction:
  • Due to a failed Fright Check, Billy develops a fear of things falling from the sky and hitting him. Father Chenzira exploits this to distract Billy while he converses with the Mondoshawans.
  • Downplayed: Korben manages to briefly distract the mugger outside his apartment by pointing out his gun's safety is on. When he goes to fix it, Korben busts out his own gun and manages to intimidate him into giving it over.
• Wham Line:
  • In a roundabout manner, the exact moment the campaign starts to properly go Off the Rails is early into Part Two, when David fucks up speaking the Divine Language in such a way, that the following happens:
    David: Father, are you out of your toaster?! Because there are bacon, and also different kinds of stools, running all throughout the river! We've got to get to the river, Father! The river is the most important part of the entire story!
    Joz: Okay!
    David: Jesus, I love commercials!
    Andy: I just look- I look at the Supreme Being, and shrug, I'm like, "I dunno-"
    Joz: [Leeloo jumps] through the window to take over the wheel of the car.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • By the time of Part 2's intro, Scott really starts to get annoyed with the fact that Joz has indirectly caused him to be stuck playing David.
  • After a point, Father Vito openly tells David the fiasco with the limo was his fault.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Andy quotes this directly when he discovers that Paulo gave Father Chenzira a ton of options for murder in his equipment.
• You Kill It, You Bought It: Leeloo accidentally becomes chief of the floating village, by virtue of being the one to slay the Muntawa.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!:
  • After Leeloo hijacks the limo, and Father Vito claims she's threatening to hurt everyone if she isn't allowed to do so, Scott realizes to his annoyance that he's become the pragmatist in this situation.
  • The longer the scene with the Neo-Whigs goes on, and more successful rolls Joz gets, the more Scott petulantly reminisces about the stats Korben Dallas had.

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