History Film / Hancock

* HalfwayPlotSwitch: As laid out under GenreShift, "PR problem" shifts to "villain attack".

* AnimalMotifs: Hancock often finds himself surrounded by subtle or prominent imagery of an Eagle, waking up on a bench with an eagle painted on it, wearing a hat bearing a logo of an eagle on the front, scrawling eagles on the walls of his cell, etc. Ray seems to have noticed this recurring motif and purposely put an Eagle on Hancock's brand new suit as his symbol. His reintroduction to the public has him walk past a prominent metal statue of one, he appears to have a drawing of a bird in his trailer, and finally, Hancock is shown watching over New York whilst sitting next to one.

* WhamShot: When a drunken Hancock tries to kiss Mary, [[spoiler:she grabs him and throws him out of the house without breaking a sweat. This reveals to the audience that Mary is a superpowered being like him]].

* WouldHurtAChild: Played with. The 10-year-old French kid who bullies Ray's son is stupid enough to repeatedly call Hancock an asshole. Hancock tosses him at least a mile in the air in retaliation, but catches him on the way down so he's not seriously hurt (just scared shitless). Ray is visibly shaken, [[JerkassVictim but not many viewers cared]].

''Hancock'' is a 2008 film directed by Peter Berg. It serves as a DeconstructiveParody of the {{superhero}} genre, following a superpowered individual who ''very much'' doesn't fit the standard heroic archetype.

* CaughtUpInARobbery: Hancock heads to a liquor store to drown his sorrows, fed up with trying to be a superhero. He's unaware at the time that two armed thugs are robbing the place: one ambles along an aisle like a shopper, the other is crouching behind the counter. The shopkeeper manages to discretely signal his distress to Hancock, who makes a quick assessment of the situation, then makes very short work of the criminals. He ends up taking two bullets to the stomach, which typically isn't a problem as he's NighInvulnerable, [[spoiler:but as the blood pours from his wounds, he quickly learns he's no longer super durable, kicking off the film's final act]].f

* WhamShot: When a drunken Hancock tries to kiss Mary, [[spoiler:she grabs him and throws him out of the house without breaking a sweat. This reveals to the audience that Mary is a superpowered being, like him]].

Set in Los Angeles, the film follows the titular Hancock (Creator/WillSmith), a homeless, alcoholic {{jerkass}} who happens to be an [[InvincibleHero invincible]] FlyingBrick. While he does catch criminals, the city's patience with him has completely run out -- his heroics often resemble drunken rampages more than anything, frequently inflicting massive property damage and causing endless inconveniences. Unfortunately, even with public opinion so arrayed against him, there's nothing anyone can really do to ''stop'' him.

* RacialFaceBlindness: Upon lifting the car that's chased by the police at the beginning, Hancock says "Kon'nichiwa!" to the (visibly Asian-American) thugs in it. One of them is quick to respond that they aren't Japanese.

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->''"Call me an asshole...one more time."''
-->-- '''Hancock'''

!!Provides Examples Of:

--> '''Hancock''': That was already like that when I got here.
--> '''Ray''': I live here... I know what the street looks like.

--> '''Hancock''': What are we then?
--> '''Mary''': We're brother and sister.
--> '''Hancock''': No! That is a lie. Besides, A brother would not kiss a sister like you kissed me!

-->'''Hancock''': ''[scoffs]'' I don't even remember that...
-->'''Ray''': ...Greenpeace does. Walter does.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the TV programs has someone insisting that Hancock should move to New York. [[spoiler:He does in the end.]]

--> '''Mary''': Did he just take the whiskey bottle to the bathroom?
--> '''Ray''': Do you want him to kill us all?

-->'''Hancock''': You and I, we're the same.\\
'''[[spoiler:Mary]]''': No, I'm stronger.\\
'''Hancock''': Really?\\
'''[[spoiler:Mary]]''': *smugly* Oh yeah.

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* PowerOfTheStorm‎: When Hancock pisses [[spoiler:Mary]] off, she creates a hurricane and several tornadoes.

* AnArmAndALeg: Red, the ringleader of the bank robbery halfway through the film, tries to coerce Hancock into helping him with a spring-loaded "dead-man's switch". Hancock's solution, cut his hand off and keep it closed around the detonator. [[spoiler: At the climax, he's holding a gun to a depowered Hancock, and Ray chops his other hand off with an ax before hitting him in the head with it, though it's hard to tell whether he struck with the blade or the flat to knock him out.]]

* UngratefulBastard: Averted. While other citizens yell at Hancock for derailing the train, and Ray himself does agree that he could have just lifted the car up into the air, Ray is nonetheless thankful towards Hancock for saving his life.

Enter Ray (Creator/JasonBateman), an idealistic marketing executive whose life Hancock saves. Seeing something more in the would-be hero, Ray comes up with a plan to reinvent his image into that of a proper crimefighter. In the process, Hancock opens up about his MysteriousPast and the reasons for his behavior, slowly bonding with Ray and his wife, Mary (Creator/CharlizeTheron). But every hero has a weakness, and for Hancock to learn what his is, he'll have to delve into [[SuperHeroOrigin his forgotten past]]...

Set in Los Angeles, the film follows the titular Hancock (Creator/WillSmith), a homeless, alcoholic {{jerkass}} who happens to be an [[InvincibleHero invincible]] FlyingBrick. While he does a decent job at catching criminals, the city's patience with him has completely run out -- his heroics often resemble drunken rampages more than anything, frequently inflicting massive property damage and causing endless inconveniences. Unfortunately, even with public opinion so arrayed against him, there's nothing anyone can really do to ''stop'' him.

''Hancock'' is a 2008 film directed by Peter Berg. It serves as a DeconstructiveParody of the superhero genre, following a superpowered individual who ''very much'' doesn't fit the standard heroic archetype.

Set in Los Angeles, the film follows the titular Hancock (Creator/WillSmith), a homeless, alcoholic {{jerkass}} who happens to have be an [[InvincibleHero invincible]] FlyingBrick. While he does a decent job at catching criminals, the city's patience with him has completely run out -- his heroics often resemble drunken rampages more than anything, frequently inflicting massive property damage and causing endless inconveniences. Unfortunately, even with public opinion so arrayed against him, there's nothing anyone can really do to ''stop'' him.

Set in Los Angeles, the film follows the titular Hancock (Creator/WillSmith), a homeless, alcoholic {{jerkass}} who happens to have be an [[InvincibleHero invincible]] FLyingBrick. While he does a decent job at catching criminals, the city's patience with him has completely run out -- his heroics often resemble drunken rampages more than anything, frequently inflicting massive property damage and causing endless inconveniences. Unfortunately, even with public opinion so arrayed against him, there's nothing anyone can really do to ''stop'' him.

Set in Los Angeles, the film follows the titular Hancock (Creator/WillSmith), a homeless, alcoholic {{jerkass}} who happens to have the powers of a FlyingBrick superhero. While he does a decent job at catching criminals, the city's patience with him has completely run out -- his heroics often resemble drunken rampages more than anything, frequently inflicting massive property damage and causing endless inconveniences. Unfortunately, even with public opinion so arrayed against him, there's nothing anyone can really do to ''stop'' him.

''Hancock'' is a 2008 superhero film starring Creator/WillSmith.

Set in Los Angeles, the film follows the titular Hancock (Creator/WillSmith), a homeless, alcoholic {{jerkass}} who happens to have the powers of a FlyingBrick superhero. While at first people found the novelty of having a superhuman crimefighter exciting, the city's patience with him has completely run out -- his heroics often resemble drunken rampages more than anything, frequently inflicting massive property damage and causing endless inconveniences. Unfortunately, even with public opinion so arrayed against him, there's nothing anyone can really do to ''stop'' him.

''Hancock'' is a 2008 superhero film starring Creator/WillSmith as the titular [[AntiHero hero]].

The movie is about a drunken {{jerkass}} superhero (played by Creator/WillSmith) who has been stopping crime in Los Angeles for years. He is incredibly clumsy and careless and has absolutely zero HeroInsurance, and every time he stops crime, something gets horribly wrecked, only annoying the city's denizens more and more. Each additional crime he stops raises the level of enmity the Angelenos have for him, and it isn't helped by the fact that they're all aware he cannot be restrained.

While he still opts to fight the bad guys, there is absolutely no public support for him... until he saves the life of Ray (Creator/JasonBateman), an idealistic marketing executive. Ray convinces him to clean up his act: to change his image from being a clumsy {{jerkass}} with no care for property damage to actually acting and dressing the part of a superhero, so that the people he saves will actually be ''happy'' to see him. Creator/CharlizeTheron stars as Mary, Ray's wife, who is one of the Angelenos who dislike Hancock.

Soon Hancock opens up about himself, where he came from, and why he is constantly pissed off. It delves into his SuperHeroOrigin and there is a constant worry that everyone has a weakness, and Hancock doesn't know what his is.

* RiddleOfTheAges: [[spoiler:Where did Hancock and Mary's kind come from?]]