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* MisaimedFandom: In-universe example. Agent Ron Fox tells NeilPatrickHarris that ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' is what inspired him to work for the government hunting terrorists.
However, ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' is actually a ''satire'' of jingoistic fearmongers like Fox.

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* MisaimedFandom: In-universe example. Agent Ron Fox tells NeilPatrickHarris that ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' is what inspired him to work for the government hunting terrorists. \n However, ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' is actually a ''satire'' of jingoistic fearmongers like Fox.

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* DisneyVillainDeath: The BigBad jumps out of a plane without a parachute.

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* DisneyVillainDeath: The BigBad jumps out of a plane [[TooDumbToLive without a parachute.parachute]].


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* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Dr. Beecher to Ron Fox]].
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* MisaimedFandom: In-universe example. Agent Ron Fox tells NeilPatrickHarris that ''StarshipTroopers'' is what inspired him to work for the government hunting terrorists.
However, ''StarshipTroopers'' is actually a ''satire'' of jingoistic fearmongers like Fox.

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* MisaimedFandom: In-universe example. Agent Ron Fox tells NeilPatrickHarris that ''StarshipTroopers'' ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' is what inspired him to work for the government hunting terrorists.
However, ''StarshipTroopers'' ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' is actually a ''satire'' of jingoistic fearmongers like Fox.
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* GeniusDitz: The unnamed DHS translator that Ron Fox uses to 'translate' to Harold's parents. He speaks fluent Korean and English, but he can't understand that Harold's parents are also fluent in English. He just says that "they're using some strange dialect [he's] never heard before".
-->'''Ron:''' They're supposed to be in prison! That is where terrorists belong! These fuckers are going down. Dead or alive. [to the translator] Tell them that in their fake ching-chong language.
-->'''Translator''': ''(starts to say something in Korean)''
-->'''Harold's Dad''': We know what he said!
-->'''Translator''':...I don't know what that means, but fuck you.

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* MisaimedFandom: In-universe example. Agent Ron Fox tells NeilPatrickHarris that ''StarshipTroopers'' is what inspired him to work for the government hunting terrorists. However, ''StarshipTroopers'' is actually a ''satire'' of jingoistic fearmongers like Fox.

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* MisaimedFandom: In-universe example. Agent Ron Fox tells NeilPatrickHarris that ''StarshipTroopers'' is what inspired him to work for the government hunting terrorists.
However, ''StarshipTroopers'' is actually a ''satire'' of jingoistic fearmongers like Fox.Fox.
* MissingWhiteGirlSyndrome: When questioned agent Fox picks up a picture of a little blonde white girl and questioning Beecher if he wants any harm to come to her. He even states that she is a christian and white, which in his eyes is the only kind of people who matter.
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''Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay'' is the 2008 sequel to ''HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle''.

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''Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay'' is the 2008 sequel to ''HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle''.
''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle''.
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* {{Malaproper}}: Ron Fox.
-->''Look chief, I ain't gonna argue sublantics with you.''
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** The movie takes it to another level when the stereotypes turn out to be somewhat true, A random black guy watching the grape soda be spilled says "Ask if he got any kool-aid!" and Goldstein starts grabbing the coins off the table after Fox leaves.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: The BigBad jumps out of a plane without a parachute.
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** Ron Fox claims to be a brazen patriot... and at one point in the film he [[spoiler: literally wipes his ass with the Fifth Amendment.]]
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* RapeIsFunnyWhenItIsMaleOnMale: A marine at Guantanamo Bay attempts to force the characters to give oral sex.

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* RapeIsFunnyWhenItIsMaleOnMale: DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: A marine at Guantanamo Bay attempts to force the characters to give oral sex.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Averted. The scenes in Amsterdam were actually shot in Amsterdam.
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* {{Seme}}: Rapist guards in Guantanamo Bay see themselves as this while the prisoners are {{Uke}}. This means that only the prisoners are gay because, [[ValuesDissonance while it's not gay to have your dick sucked it ''is'' gay to suck dick.]]
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* FloweryInsults - Kumar calls an AmbiguouslyBrown security guard "Matthew Perry" and the guard seriously takes offense to that.

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* FloweryInsults - FloweryInsults: Kumar calls an AmbiguouslyBrown security guard "Matthew Perry" and the guard seriously takes offense to that.
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* FloweryInsults - Kumar calls an AmbiguouslyBrown security guard "Matthew Perry" and the guard seriously takes offense to that.
-->'''Kumar''': Compared to me, you look like Matthew Perry.\\
'''Security guard''': Hey, who you calling 'Matthew Perry,' [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!\\
'''Kumar''': I'm calling YOU 'Matthew Perry,' [[BuffySpeak you Matthew Perry-looking bitch]].
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* ChekovsGun: Kumar's "Square Root of 3" poem.

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* ChekovsGun: ChekhovsGun: Kumar's "Square Root of 3" poem.
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* AngryBlackMan: Subverted. Harold and Kumar's car breaks down in a nieghborhood that the two think is filled with angry black men and run off before a bunch of guys roll out equipment to help fix their car.
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* ChekovsGun: Kumar's "Square Root of 3" poem.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In universe: The DVD shows several scenario with "Dude Change the movie" feature. The most different "Harold and Kumar Go to Amsterdam" which is initiated by Kumar not lighting bong. It is a short film with the duo narrating while no one speaks. Harold finds Maria and Kumar [[spoiler:ends up marrying a girl named Ellie whose boyfriend was murdered. The two end up staying in Amsterdam

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In universe: The DVD shows several scenario with "Dude Change the movie" feature. The most different "Harold and Kumar Go to Amsterdam" which is initiated by Kumar not lighting bong. It is a short film with the duo narrating while no one speaks. Harold finds Maria and Kumar [[spoiler:ends up marrying a girl named Ellie whose boyfriend was murdered. The two end up staying in Amsterdam
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In universe: The DVD shows several scenario with "Dude Change the movie" feature. The most different "Harold and Kumar Go to Amsterdam" which is initiated by Kumar not lighting bong. It is a short film with the duo narrating while no one speaks. Harold finds Maria and Kumar [[spoiler:ends up marrying a girl named Ellie whose boyfriend was murdered. The two end up staying in Amsterdam
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Kumar's ex [[OneTreeHill Rachel Gatina]] is getting married to [[BrothersAndSisters Jason McCallister]] while they are being chased by a [[TheDailyShow Daily Show correspondant]]. Oh and [[TheHangover Stu Price]] isn't very good at Korean.
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'''Kumar''': So just because of the color of my skin, you assume that [[SarcasticConfession I have illegal drugs]] on me?\\

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'''Kumar''': So just because of the color of my skin, you assume that [[SarcasticConfession I have illegal drugs]] on me?\\me?
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* ImprovisedMicrogravityManeuvering: When Harold and Kumar are in freefall, and Kumar has to "swim" to Harold.
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* {{Flanderization}}: Harold got a lot more uptight, Kumar became more of an idiot with a bid drug problem.


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* TheMillstone: Kumar. Starting wiht bringing a bong on a plane, and not getting any better from there.

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* DeathByRacism: Ron Fox, an evil white-supremacist government agent [[spoiler: falls out of an aeroplane ''without'' a parachute]] after 90 minutes of brutalizing and terrorizing ethnic minorities.

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Ron Fox, an evil white-supremacist government agent [[spoiler: falls out of an aeroplane ''without'' a parachute]] after 90 minutes of brutalizing and terrorizing ethnic minorities.



** [[spoiler: Turns out Jesus didn't like competition and had God revive him.]]



* SweetHomeAlabama: The movie has its fair share of negative DeepSouth stereotypes, most notably the Ku Klux Klan, but there is also a sophisticated, sympathetic Southern couple that helps Harold and Kumar hide from the government.
** But the couple is still pretty stereotypical. They're an [[BrotherSisterIncest incestuous]] couple with a deformed son.

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* SweetHomeAlabama: The movie has its fair share of negative DeepSouth stereotypes, most notably the Ku Klux Klan, but there is also a sophisticated, sympathetic Southern couple that helps Harold and Kumar hide from the government.
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government. The couple is still pretty stereotypical. They're an [[BrotherSisterIncest incestuous]] couple with a deformed son.
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* MuggedForDisguise: Harold and Kumar beat up two Klansmen and steal their uniforms so they can sneak through a rally.
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* FreeFallFight: [[spoiler: Agent Fox leaps out of an airplane without wearing a parachute just so he can shoot at the title heroes on the way down.]]
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* CreepyBasement: Harold and Kumar end up hiding in a [[DeepSouth Texan couple's]] dark, dingy basement. Earlier the couple had been joking about keeping their deformed incest baby locked up in there, which doesn't help. [[spoiler: [[DoubleSubverted Turns out they weren't joking.]]]]

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