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* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: Sort of. Penelope eventually gets fed up and starts pounding Michael's back, but it isn't taken too seriously. However, it should be noted that the lack of reaction to it seemed less to do with gender, and more to do with the fact that (A) he was being ''really'' annoying, and (B) he is much bigger and more solidly built than her, and didn't seem to be in any pain from it.
* ActorAllusion: Possibly unintentional, but this is not the first time we've seen Christoph Waltz [[InglouriousBasterds in a long dark Gestapo-ish coat.]]
* ActorAllusion: Possibly unintentional, but this is not the first time we've seen Christoph Waltz [[InglouriousBasterds in a long dark Gestapo-ish coat.]]
* EnemyMine: One of the main points of the film is the constantly shifting alliances between the four, even though none of them really like each other that much.
* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Jerkasses Have Standards]]: Nancy is married to an amoral attorney who will calmly discuss severe problems happening to humans over the phone, yet she is absolutely disgusted to find out that [[spoiler: Michael abandoned his hamster on the street.]]
** Also, despite not wanting them to come over, once he has been forced to accept that he can't avoid it, Michael goes out of his way to make them feel welcome because "Guests are guests".
* FreakOut: They all have one at some point, though the most spectacular one has got to be Alan after [[spoiler: his wife kills his all-important phone.]]
** Nancy's reaction to [[spoiler: Penelope throwing her handbag across the room]] is also pretty extreme.
* {{Hypocrisy}}: All of them on some matter or other.
* ItGotWorse: TheMovie. It says a lot about a deteriorating situation when throwing up in someone else's house ''isn't'' the worst of it.
* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Jerkasses Have Standards]]: Nancy is married to an amoral attorney who will calmly discuss severe problems happening to humans over the phone, yet she is absolutely disgusted to find out that [[spoiler: Michael abandoned his hamster on the street.]]
** Also, despite not wanting them to come over, once he has been forced to accept that he can't avoid it, Michael goes out of his way to make them feel welcome because "Guests are guests".
* FreakOut: They all have one at some point, though the most spectacular one has got to be Alan after [[spoiler: his wife kills his all-important phone.]]
** Nancy's reaction to [[spoiler: Penelope throwing her handbag across the room]] is also pretty extreme.
* {{Hypocrisy}}: All of them on some matter or other.
* ItGotWorse: TheMovie. It says a lot about a deteriorating situation when throwing up in someone else's house ''isn't'' the worst of it.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Alan is quite transparently this right from the start, but all four of them reveal varying levels of this when certain buttons get pushed.
* KickTheDog: Michael starts off seeming quite nice, but even before this persona has really cracked, he reveals that he [[spoiler: abandoned his hamster on the street]].
** Much of the reason why the situation deteriorates so much is because none of them can resist making snide, petty remarks on various matters that will inevitably cause offense.
* LadyDrunk: Two of them, eventually. The two men also drink, but not as heavily.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Nancy]] mocks Alan for being so distraught after [[spoiler:she]] has killed his mobile phone. Not long after, a similar incident leaves[[spoiler:Nancy]] [[spoiler: Nancy]] equally distraught.
* KickTheDog: Michael starts off seeming quite nice, but even before this persona has really cracked, he reveals that he [[spoiler: abandoned his hamster on the street]].
** Much of the reason why the situation deteriorates so much is because none of them can resist making snide, petty remarks on various matters that will inevitably cause offense.
* LadyDrunk: Two of them, eventually. The two men also drink, but not as heavily.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Nancy]] mocks Alan for being so distraught after [[spoiler:she]] has killed his mobile phone. Not long after, a similar incident leaves
* OneHeadTaller: Michael and Penelope.
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* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Oh, so much. At least until the "passive" goes completely out the window.
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* SacredHospitality: Mild version. Michael did not want Alan and Nancy to come over, but nonetheless made a real effort to make them welcome, and lasts for quite a long time before losing it.
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* StrawmanPolitical: Sort of: usually with this trope, a political view is oversimplified for the sole purpose of discrediting it, and thus making the alternative more credible. All four of them have opposing views that are shown to be severely flawed in some way (and thus might be considered discredited), but since none of them are ultimately suggested to be right, the usual purpose behind a StrawmanPolitical is averted.
* StrawMisogynist: Both Alan and Michael have some very sexist views, that clearly paint them in an even more negative light. It should be noted that the women are not presented as being much better, so it's more a case of everyone being wrong.
* TitleDrop: The play on which it is based is called "The God of Carnage", which Alan references by name when discussing his open nihilism.
* TroubledFetalPosition: Not quite, but Alan gets pretty close to one (see VillainousBSOD below).
* StrawMisogynist: Both Alan and Michael have some very sexist views, that clearly paint them in an even more negative light. It should be noted that the women are not presented as being much better, so it's more a case of everyone being wrong.
* TitleDrop: The play on which it is based is called "The God of Carnage", which Alan references by name when discussing his open nihilism.
* TroubledFetalPosition: Not quite, but Alan gets pretty close to one (see VillainousBSOD below).
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* VillainousBSOD: It's debatable whether he can be called a [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist villain]], (though he sure as hell can't be called [[HeroicBSOD "heroic"]]), but after [[FreakOut his initial reaction]], Alan collapses onto the floor and doesn't take part in the conversation for a while. [[spoiler: Unusually for this trope, when he does eventually start talking again, he is actually much calmer than before.]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: [[spoiler:Michael's mother]] happens to be taking the same exact pills whose possibly harmful side effects Alan, a lawyer to the pharmaceutical company that produces them, is discussing over the phone.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Nancy]] mocks Alan for being so distraught after [[spoiler:she]] has killed his mobile phone. Not long after, a similar incident leaves [[spoiler:Nancy]] equally distraught.
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* MenstrualMenace: Penelope quickly hides a package of tampons out of sight when she takes Alan into her apartment's bathroom. It can be assumed her emotional fragility is at least partially related to PMS.
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* ShaggyDogStory: The two kids [[spoiler: are playing together at the end of the film, making the whole meeting between the families utterly pointless.]]
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* RuinedForever: Okay, maybe it's not ''that'' severe, but critics who enjoyed the Tony-winning stage production with Hope Davis, James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, and Jeff Daniels seem to dislike this film.
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* FakeAmerican: KateWinslet (British) and Christoph Waltz (Austrian) playing an American couple.
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''Carnage'' is a 2011 DarkComedy film by RomanPolanski starring JodieFoster, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz and KateWinslet, based on the play ''God of Carnage'' by French playwright Yasmina Reza. Two couples, Penelope and Michael (Foster & Reilly) and Alan and Nancy (Waltz & Winslet) have met to work out an incident. After an argument in a public park, Alan and Nancy's son Zachary hit Penelope and Michael's son Ethan in the face with a stick, causing the latter to lose two front teeth. Hoping to discuss it like reasonable people, Alan and Nancy have come to Penelope and Michael's place. While all four start out acting in an immaculately polite fashion, [[HilarityEnsues things quickly deteriorate]] to a state of total chaos involving vomit, booze and a mobile phone.
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''Carnage'' is a 2011 DarkComedy film by RomanPolanski starring JodieFoster, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz and KateWinslet, based on the play ''God of Carnage'' by French playwright Yasmina Reza.
Two couples, Penelope and Michael (Foster & Reilly) and Alan and Nancy (Waltz & Winslet) have met to work out an incident. After an argument in a public park, Alan and Nancy's son Zachary hit Penelope and Michael's son Ethan in the face with a stick, causing the latter to lose two front teeth. Hoping to discuss it like reasonable people, Alan and Nancy have come to Penelope and Michael's place. While all four start out acting in an immaculately polite fashion, [[HilarityEnsues things quickly deteriorate]] to a state of total chaos involving vomit, booze and a mobile phone.
Two couples, Penelope and Michael (Foster & Reilly) and Alan and Nancy (Waltz & Winslet) have met to work out an incident. After an argument in a public park, Alan and Nancy's son Zachary hit Penelope and Michael's son Ethan in the face with a stick, causing the latter to lose two front teeth. Hoping to discuss it like reasonable people, Alan and Nancy have come to Penelope and Michael's place. While all four start out acting in an immaculately polite fashion, [[HilarityEnsues things quickly deteriorate]] to a state of total chaos involving vomit, booze and a mobile phone.
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''Carnage'' is a 2011 DarkComedy film by RomanPolanski starring JodieFoster, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz and KateWinslet, based on the play ''God of Carnage'' by French playwright Yasmina Reza. Two couples, Penelope and Michael (Foster & Reilly) and Alan and Nancy (Waltz & Winslet) have met to work out an incident. After an argument in a public park, Alan and Nancy's son Zachary hit Penelope and Michael's son Ethan in the face with a stick, causing the latter to lose two front teeth. Hoping to discuss it like reasonable people, Alan and Nancy have come to Penelope and Michael's place. While all four start out acting in an immaculately polite fashion, [[HilarityEnsues things quickly deteriorate]] to a state of total chaos involving vomit, booze.
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