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* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Well, dark action-comedy, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU3hVZf3Vo4 Martin and a baby]] having a deep and profoundly spiritual conversation about life using only FacialDialogue really stands out for how sweet and moving it is.

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* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Well, dark action-comedy, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU3hVZf3Vo4 Martin and a baby]] baby(Katelyn And Zoey Rosen(who previously portrayed Matilda as a newborn baby in [[Matilda]]]] having a deep and profoundly spiritual conversation about life using only FacialDialogue really stands out for how sweet and moving it is.
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* HeadSmashesScreen: [[spoiler:Grocer]] gets dispatched by a TV set to the face that's thrown above a kitchen counter. Electricity is heard and the body twitches before it stops moving.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Martin receives an offer to target a Greenpeace boat, that happens to be worded in French.
-->'''Martin''': ''(crumpling up the fax)'' No way! I have scruples.

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--> "It was supposed to look like a heart attack! It was supposed to look like the guy died in his sleep!"
--> "Well, he moved."

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--> "It -->'''Marcella''': It was supposed to look like a heart attack! It was supposed to look like the guy he died in his sleep!"
--> "Well,
sleep!\\
'''Martin''': Well,
he moved."



-->'''Debi:''' You're a psychopath.
-->'''Martin:''' No, no. Psychopaths kill for no reason. I kill for ''money''. It's a ''job''... That didn't sound right.

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-->'''Debi:''' You're a psychopath.
-->'''Martin:'''
psychopath.\\
'''Martin:'''
No, no. Psychopaths kill for no reason. I kill for ''money''. It's a ''job''... That didn't sound right.


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* ViewersAreGeniuses: Martin and Grocer's conversation about "the good old days" contains a boatload of references that assume the audience is well-read on recent history:
-->'''Grocer''': Remember Burma?\\
'''Martin''': Yeah, I do.\\
'''Grocer''': That nut General Kwang? You were like a colonel in that army, weren't you?[[note]]In the 1980's, the CIA acted covertly in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) to eradicate a heroin growing operation founded after the Korean War by Chinese Nationalist General Li Mi.[[/note]]\\
'''Martin''': Yeah, yeah, he sold you all those tanks, you shipped 'em to Alabama...[[note]]The Anniston Army Depot in Bynum, Alabama, is the major production facility for the U.S. Army's motorized vehicles, including Abrams tanks.[[/note]]\\
'''Grocer''': T-34s, I took a bath on that...[[note]]The T-34 was the medium tank produced in greatest numbers by the Soviet Union during World War II, after which they were sold or leased in large numbers to Soviet allies and communist-sympathetic countries.[[/note]]\\
'''Martin''': Yeah, that was fun.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Subverted. When Martin tells his secretary that he's retiring and has left something in the office for her, she thinks that he's having her killed, but it's actually a [[PetTheDog retirement fund for her]].

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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Subverted. When Martin tells his secretary that he's retiring and has left something in the office for is coming to get her, she thinks that he's having her killed, coming to kill her, but it's he's actually left a [[PetTheDog retirement fund for her]].her]], and is coming to pick her up.
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-->'''Martin''': Is there going to be meetings?
-->'''Grocer''': ...Well, yeah!
-->'''Martin''': (mutters) No meetings. (''keeps firing'')

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-->'''Martin''': Is Will there going to be meetings?
-->'''Grocer''': ...Well, yeah!
Of course!
-->'''Martin''': (mutters) No meetings. (''keeps firing'')
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Boo on "'Live and Let Die'-getic". BOO I SAY!


* DiegeticSwitch: In this case, "Film/LiveAndLetDie"-getic. Switches from the Music/GunsNRoses cover to an easy-listening instrumental version when Martin walks into the convenience store.

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* DiegeticSwitch: In this case, "Film/LiveAndLetDie"-getic."Film/LiveAndLetDie"[[IncrediblyLamePun -getic]]. Switches from the Music/GunsNRoses cover to an easy-listening instrumental version when Martin walks into the convenience store.
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** The game the gas station clerk is playing ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' in an arcade cabinet. However, there is no actual arcade version of ''Doom''.

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** The game the gas station clerk is playing is ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' in an arcade cabinet. However, there is no actual arcade version of ''Doom''.

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