History Film / HotFuzz

* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Danny takes a load of buckshot to the chest when the NWA head shows up in the epilogue to kill him.]]

** Also when [[spoiler:Skinner]] happens to drive by two of the [[spoiler:'accidents']]. On passing by [[spoiler:Eve Draper and Martin Blower's 'traffic collision', "Romeo and Juliet" by the Dire Straits is playing on Skinner's car radio. On passing by George Merchant's exploded house, "Fire" by Arthur Brown is playing.]]

*** And, of course, Angel's skill with guns, having served with [=CO19=]. [[spoiler:Useful when he starts a shootout with the NWA... or a friendly game of carnival air rifle.]]

* BadAssDriver: Nick improved his skill base with courses in advanced driving and advanced cycling. These skills (at least the first ones) come in very handy later, as he is embroiled in several high-speed car chases. Danny later gets in on the act after constantly irritating Angel with questions about high-speed chases.

* BadBadActing: The ''Romeo and Juliet'' tribute. [[spoiler:The reason why the leading actors involved are killed.]]

*** With the person impaled having earlier [[spoiler: pushed the spire off the real church to impale/crush Messenger's head.]]

** Most of the other coppers don't hit a thing with the shotguns Nicholas gave them. One can only assume they were loaded with rock salt so as not to accidentally kill anyone.

** PunchPunchPunchUhOh: "It's not your village anymore"

* RareGuns: [[spoiler: Tom Weaver]] decides to attack Angel with a blunderbuss which is an early type of shotgun that was obsolete by the mid 19th century. A modern day shotgun probably would have been [[RuleOfCool cheaper...]]
* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: Nicholas throws a bunch of underage drinkers who lied about their real age out of the bar.

* ReturningToTheScene: Skinner always shows up to the scene of the murders, despite having no business being there. This is just one of the reasons Angel believes him to be the killer [[spoiler: and in the end, he's half right]]

** They also sat through dozens upon hundreds of cop movies and assorted subgenres, making sure they got all the cliches just right.

* SmallReferencePools: Throughout the film, Inspector Frank Butterman tells stories to Sergeant Angel about a predecessor, Sergeant Popwell, who had died prior to the events of the film. The name "Popwell" is a reference to Albert Popwell, an actor who had different roles in four films of the DirtyHarry franchise, most famously as the robber at the receiving end of the "Do I feel lucky?" speech. Interestingly, Albert Popwell also had a role in a 1972 American movie simply called, of all things, ''Fuzz''. The 1972 ''Fuzz'' was also a police procedural action comedy with the same tagline/CatchPhrase as this film ("Here come the Fuzz.") that involved the investigation of a murder-extortion racket. Does this make Hot Fuzz a loose remake?

* StealthHiBye: Skinner has a tendency to pop up in unexpected places, surprising Angel everytime.

* StormingTheCastle

* SurroundedByIdiots: How Angel feels about his new police team.

* CaptainObvious: Combines with AskAStupidQuestion when Angel asks P.I. Staker what the swan looks like. [[spoiler:It's a swan.]]
* TheCavalryArrivesLate: Complete with a Creator/MichaelBay-style shot of a helicopter flying overhead.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The Sanford Police Service pull themselves together for the final battle.

* DeconReconSwitch

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Everything in the first 3/4 of the movie is foreshadowing. Everything.

* LockAndLoadMontage: Nick takes very nearly the police station's ''entire'' safe full of contraband weapons. so much that when he stomps out he sounds like he's wearing PoweredArmor; the rest of the officers get the rest later.

** Not to mention he don't even carry a gun with him.
* LeapAndFire

* WindowPain: Nicholas tosses his billy club through a storefront window, then crashes through the still-intact ''door'' in order to chase a black-robed suspect.

Second part of Wright's planned "Three Colours Cornetto" trilogy, preceded by ''ShaunOfTheDead'' and followed by the in=production ''World's End''.

Second part of Wright's planned "Three Colours Cornetto" trilogy, preceded by ''ShaunOfTheDead'' and followed by the yet-to-be-made ''World's End''.

* AllWorkVsAllPlay: Nicholas is All Work and Danny and the rest of the station are All Play, until the shit hits the fan.

--> The idea of [[spoiler:there being multiple killers responsible for murder]] is inspired by Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (1974). Apologies for the spoiler. It has been out for 33 years.

* ActingForTwo: Bill Bailey playing both Sgt. Turners

* DirtyOldMan: PC Walker doesn't say much but the stuff he does are pretty dirty. [[spoiler:Tits! Cocks!]]

* FiringInTheAirALot: Mocked and then played straight, in a homage to PointBreak (which was even shown in the friggin' film...)

* GlassesPull: Janine yanks off her goggles dramatically while arguing with Angel, probably as a deliberate poke at CSIMiami. For added hilarity, she's part of a CSI unit investigating a murder.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: [[spoiler: Everyone murdered in Sanford was killed for petty reasons like having an awful laugh, lots of typos in the newspaper, or having an ugly house.]] And let's not get started on [[spoiler: the drunk kids, that shoplifter, those ''crusty jugglers'', and '''THE LIVING STATUE.''']]
** [[spoiler: Let's not forget a woman was murdered for trying to move and the NWA didn't want her sharing her gardening talents with another community. It turns out she was NWA also, but still. Then there were the Traveling Irish. The NWA even killed dogs for pooping in the streets instead of just sending them to the pound. Brutal.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: Skinner tries to use a kid as a human shield.

** Nicholas, while his attitude is certainly understandable and even admirable, is also very unpleasant to be around due to his by the book attitude and general humorlessness. He appears to be different by the end of the film, however.

* [[{{Badass}} Badass in general]]: Angel. Only Angel.

* [[spoiler: MercifulMinion: Danny fakes stabbing Nick in order to prevent the Neighborhood Watch Alliance from killing him for real.]]

* TheCavalryArrivesLate: Complete with a MichaelBay-style shot of a helicopter flying overhead.

Nick [[FishOutOfWater doesn't fit in at all]]. His duties are extremely banal, he immediately clashes with the laid-back cops there, and he is saddled with Danny Butterman, a rather fat young police '''[[InsistentTerminology officer]]''' who desperately wants to be a CowboyCop like in the movies (in ''BadBoys II'' and ''PointBreak'', to be precise).

Written by EdgarWright (who directed), starring {{Simon Pegg}} (who co-wrote) and co-starring Nick Frost (who plays Danny), this is a top-notch comedy action thriller that [[IndecisiveDeconstruction references plenty of tropes and ends up using them]] in the brilliant final act, which is possibly the most epic fight scene ever seen in a comedy, after Nicholas [[LampshadeHanging specifically says how wrong they are]]. It's also filled to the brim with HoYay -- to the point where the creators indulged in writing slashfic on Twitter a while later, just to toy with the characters some more.

Compare ''TheOtherGuys''.

* BadSanta: The appropriately-named Nicholas is stabbed by an evil Father Christmas (played by PeterJackson).

--> '''Nicholas''': ''Get us back to the station. Now!''

* BrickJoke:

* TheCameo: CateBlanchett as Nick's ex-girlfriend, and PeterJackson as a homicidal Santa Claus (both uncredited - and Blanchett is masked!). Edgar Wright, the director and co-writer, also has a brief moment as a supermarket worker pushing a trolley, at the supermarket where he used to work. The exteriors were shot in the director's home town.

* ChekhovsSkill:

* CloseOnTitle: The title card does not appear until the very end of the film.

* EvilOldFolks: [[spoiler: The NWA.]]

* {{Headdesk}}: Nicholas does this at one point.

** Yes, he in fact takes offense on both. ''Including'' the latter, strangely enough.

* LockAndLoadMontage: Nick takes very nearly the police station's ''entire'' safe full of contraband weapons. so much that when he stomps out he sounds like he's wearing PoweredArmor; the rest of the officers get the rest later.

* MistakenForPrankCall: When Nicholas gets a call from one 'Peter Ian Staker' about a missing swan, he assumes it's a prank call (Peter Ian Staker = P.I. Staker = piss taker). It's not. That's his real name, and his swan really is missing.

* PreMortemOneLiner[=/=]BondOneLiner: JamesBond himself frequently indulges in these.

* ShoppingCartAntics: two huge chains of shopping carts were used as a BatteringRam.

** They also sat through dozens upon hundreds of cop movies and assorted subgenres, making sure they got all the cliches just right.

* SinisterMinister: [[spoiler: Reverend Shooter.]]

** Which is also a subtle [[ShoutOut shout out]] to ''Shaun of The Dead'', where Shaun does a [[SpitTake spit take]] when he and Ed are discussing another woman's exploits.

* ThemeNaming: Most of the town have names that derive from traditional rural, working-class occupations and activities, such as Cartwright and Wainwright. Most of them (and a couple besides that don't fit that pattern) end in "-er," including Cooper, Porter, Turner, Skinner, Draper, Shooter, Prosser, Hatcher, Paver, Brother, Fisher, Walker, Thatcher, Weaver, Roper, Reaper, Staker, Messenger, Treacher, Cocker, Blower... Some of them are an 'old-world' echo of the modern professions these characters follow, e.g. Tim Messenger the journalist, Dr Hatcher who 'brought Danny into this world'.

* ThouShaltNotKill: Unlike most violent cop films that this film parodies, [[spoiler: Nicholas Angel and his allies in the climatic action finale never shoot to kill. All the villains survived to be holed up in jail, even though the final showdown with the villain was pretty gory.]]

* VillainousBreakdown:

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The only villain to fall in this category is [[spoiler: Inspector Butterman, whose wife loved Sandford and worked so hard to make it the "Best Village". But the day before the judges came, a gypsy family showed up and they lost. She then went insane and killed herself. Since then, Butterman started killing for the "great good of the village."]]

* VillainousValour: After the shootdown on the city centre, the polices storm the supermarket. And what the workers of the supermarket do? They fight a police squad clad in riot gear by trowhing miscallenous products and knives at them.

* MercifulMinion: Danny fakes stabbing Nick in order to prevent the Neighborhood Watch Alliance from killing him for real.

*** And according to the DVD commentary, Eve Draper's name comes from the word ''[[PunnyName eavesdropper]]'', that being what she is in her private life, and fiance Blower is a solicitor, which means he ''[[AWorldwidePunomenon blows]]'' a lot of hot air.

** Nicholas, while his attitude is certainly understandable and even admirable, is also very unpleasant to be around due to his by the book attitude and general humorlessness.

* DualWielding: Employed impressively early, ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome with pens]]'', And later played straight with handguns.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: This movie features [[GunsAkimbo dual-wielding]] ''pens'', dramatic paperwork, dramatic hitting-somebody-over-the-head-with-a-peace-lily, dramatic traveling-across-England-on-the-M4, dramatic leaving-the-apartment, dramatic putting-change-on-a-counter, dramatic saying "Cornetto", dramatic saying "Pub?", all with plenty of WhipPan. Naturally, all intentional.
** The dramatic pint-pouring.
** And piss-taking.
** And swan encounters.
** And jittercam suspect-booking montages.
** "Oh, Sergeant Angel? Someone from London called for you." ''(dramatic turning around with dozens of guns strapped to his body)'' "....I'll tell 'em you'll ring them back."
** Lampshaded when Blower gets pulled over for speeding in possible the shortest high speed car chase ever.
--->'''Danny''': That was brilliant.

* OneSceneWonder: There are quite a few cameos and every actor is hilarious. But special mention must go to Bill Nighy as Kenneth, the chief inspector and Martin Freeman and Steve Coogan in the opening scene.

* HypocriticalHumor: [[spoiler:The priest pulling two guns then shouting "Jesus Christ!" after being shot down. This was proceeded by him yelling for Angel to stop the violence, then saying '[[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]'.]]