History Film / HotShots

* TemptingFate: Mocked with Dead Meat, who [[https://youtu.be/3JkBKGttM_U meets his beautiful wife on the tarmac]] and has a black cat cross his path as she informs him that they've just closed on their dream home. Additionally, he strolls under a ladder as they're talking, he's carrying the [[WhoShotJFK critical evidence about JFK in his pocket]], came up with a solution for global warming, and tries to sign a life insurance policy before climbing in the cockpit... but his pen is out of ink. Oh, well, there'll be plenty of time for that later...

* LadyInRed: Ramada in her musical scene.
* LeaveHimToMe: Mocked.

* ShesGotLegs: Ramada.
-->'''Topper:''' Nice legs.\\
'''Ramada:''' Thanks, I just got them lengthened. Now they go all the way up.

InAWorld full of serious action movies, filled with [[StuffBlowingUp huge explosions]], [[MsFanservice improbably hot women]], and [[TroubledButCute angsty, tortured heroes with tragic backgrounds]], one man stood up against the status quo and said, "No more! We don't have to sit here and endure the same plot over and over again! We deserve something more! Something better!" And he took the same plot we had seen over and over again, and made us see it '''yet again''', only this time, it was different... it was ''funny''. It was... ''Hot Shots!'' (1991)

Creator/CharlieSheen stars as Topper Harley, an ex-Navyman who left the armed services to [[Film/DancesWithWolves live with the Native Americans]] after the tragic death of his father. He is called back into service by Admiral Benson (Creator/LloydBridges) to help save a mission that is being sabotaged by a greedy weapons manufacturer. In the meantime, he must locate UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein's cache of nukes and, more importantly, win the heart of his therapist, Ramada Thompson (Valeria Golino), away from a rival pilot, Kent Gregory (Creator/CaryElwes).

-->'''Topper:''' My uncle used to tell me that not playing to win is like [[IncestIsRelative sleeping with your sister]]. Sure, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial she's a great piece of tail with a blouse full of goodies]], but it's... it's just illegal... Then you get into that whole inbred thing. Kids with no teeth [[Film/{{Deliverance}} who play the banjo]], eat applesauce through a straw, [[BestialityIsDepraved pork farm animals]]... I hope you get my point, sir.

* SpicyLatina: Ramada. Not Spanish (the actress playing her was half-Italian and half-Greek), but damn close.

* OwMyBodyPart: When Kent meets Ramada at the bar, he picks her up and spins her around. Her handbag hits a waitress, causing a seeming [[DisasterDominos chain of collisions]] leading to somebody yelling, "Ow, my eye!"

* OwMyBodyPart: When Kent meets Ramada at the bar, he picks her up and spins her around. Her handbag hits a waitress, causing a seeming chain of collisions leading to somebody yelling, "Ow, my eye!"

** Kent asks Ramada is she's involved with another woman, saying he couldn't compete with that. She agrees that he couldn't.

** GeniusBonus: Benson's clarification of "the one without the Indians" actually excludes both, due to the presence of Navajo Code Talkers at Okinawa

* TemptingFate: Mocked with Dead Meat, who [[https://youtu.be/3JkBKGttM_U meets his beautiful wife on the tarmac]] and has a black cat cross his path as she informs him that they've just closed on their dream home. Additionally,he's carrying the [[WhoShotJFK critical evidence about JFK in his pocket]], came up with a solution for global warming, and tries to sign a life insurance policy before climbing in the cockpit... but his pen is out of ink. Oh, well, there'll be plenty of time for that later...

'''Sid:''' Sir, we didn't have dinner the other night.\\

* InsaneTrollLogic: No explanation is given as to why the villains think that a mission failing because of a pilot cracking under pressure will convince the Navy that they need knew planes.

* ImAHumanitarian: pilot Dominic "Mailman" Farnham was accidentally killed by a hunter, and used as a meal for the hunter's family. If it makes you feel any better, Washout didn't have seconds.

* FalseReassurance: Kent is shocked to learn that Washout is now on the radar team.
-->'''Washout''': From now on I'll be your eyes on the ground!

* FamousLastWords
-->'''Dead Meat:''' I'm in a hospital! [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong What could go wrong]]?\\
''[hard cut to Dead Meat's funeral]''

* BiTheWay: We get hints of this with Ramada, as she responds "Of course you couldn't" when Kent asks if it's another woman, and says "You can do her, too" when Topper asks about her nosy landlady.

'''Ramada:''' Don't worry, you can do her, too.

** When Topper leaves his Native American tribe at the beginning of the film, the chief asks him to bring back new batteries for his Walkman. In the epilogue scene, when Topper returns, he hands over the batteries.
--->'''The Chief''': [''subtitled''] It's about fucking time!

-->'''The Chief''': [''subtitled''] About fucking time!

* DodgeByBraking: Harley leads pursuing jets into a canyon, and then ''slams on the brakes'', complete with [[BrakeAngrily brake-screeching noises]].

* EpiphanyTherapy: Played mostly straight. Topper suffers panic attacks every time he is compared to his disgraced father who was also a pilot. At the end of the movie, in the middle of one of these attacks he is told the truth, that his father was a hero. Suddenly Topper is ready to fly circles around the enemy.

''[cut to Dead Meat's funeral]''

** The batteries for the chief's Walkman. At the end of the introduction scene, the chief asks for new batteries from Topper. In the epilogue scene, Topper returns to living with the Native Americans. He brings with him the batteries, and the chief comments that it was about time.
** Also, Topper asks Kent, towards the end of the film, what a "chafing dish" is. Something Kent had taken from Ramada's house roughly a half-hour of screen-time before.

** Ramada receives the new name "Little Sizzling Belly", in reference to a sex scene much earlier in the film.

** Near the end of the movie, when Topper's plane is limping back from the mission and Washout is trying to help him land safely, Topper begins reporting various system failures. First his landing gear is busted, then the radar goes, then he runs out of fuel, then a wing falls off, and then [[ExaggeratedTrope the other wing falls off]]. What is left of the plane then lands vertically on the deck, like a stone. Topper is just fine, of course.