History Film / MacheteKills

* AffablyEvil: Luthor Voz is by all means a friendly bad guy, even when his plan is destroying most of the world with a couple of nukes, though later becomes FauxAffablyEvil. Also El Cameleón, who politely apologises before killing innocent bystanders who've seen his face (though the facade starts to crack after a while).

* GagBoobs: Enhanced by the wonders of movie technology! When Miss San Antonio strips off, a message on the screen advises the audience to put on their 3D glasses now.

* BareYourMidriff: Luz again; also Desdemona and her hench women.

-->'''Voz''': You cannot defeat me, because I know your every move!
-->'''Machete''': ''Nobody'' knows Machete!
** Also:
-->'''Luz''': I can't see you, but I can still kick your ass!

** El Cuerpo means "the body."
** Blanca Vasquez's first name means "white." She's blonde, green-eyed and doesn't look Latina. She's played by the very much not Latina Amber Heard.

* BuxomIsBetter: Enhanced by the wonders of movie technology! When Miss San Antonio strips off, a message on the screen advises the audience to put on their 3D glasses now.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Contrasting from the previous film, [[spoiler: Zarors and Osiris turn into LudicrousGibs when they die, most of the Network members get killed by one Zaror in the final battle while the surviving ones get captured and taken to Voz's space station for slave labor, Luz is 100% blind and trapped in carbonite, and Mendez's backstory reveals that his wife and daughter were tortured to death, unlike how Machete's wife just got beheaded and their daughter killed offscreen in the previous film]].
** On the other hand, this film got a 15 rating in the UK, compared to 18 for the original.

* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Luz loses her one good eye while fighting Miss San Antonio. For no real reason besides Rule Of Cool, she turns Blind Weapon Master and wins the battle anyway.]]

* [[AThreesomeIsHot A Foursome Is Hot]] / RoyalHarem: The President of the United States gets a late night phone call from our hero. The phone is picked up by a sleepy yet [[HotConsort hot female White House intern]], who hands it to another female intern in the bed beside her, who hands it to ''[[OverlyLongGag another]]'' female intern, who hands the phone to the President.

* {{Gorn}}
* GroinAttack: Desdemona says that as a child, she bit off her abusive father's balls when he tried to rape her.

* HeelFaceTurn[=/=]HeelFaithTurn: [[spoiler: After killing Machete's brother in the first movie, Osiris has become a man of the cloth. It later becomes a RedemptionEqualsDeath.]]

* LatexPerfection: El Camaleón. Repeatedly.
* LawOfInverseRecoil

* MasterOfDisguise: El Camaleón.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Miss San Antonio]]

** El Camaleón's WeaponOfChoice is a [[Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun golden gun]].

* MacheteMayhem: The hero's namesake WeaponOfChoice, of course. This time he gets several upgrades.

** A senator John [=McLaughlin=] poster could be seen hanging in a Arizona police department, while two officers try to hang Machete.

* ThirdPersonPerson: Machete don't refer to himself in the first-person.

* PhallicWeapon: Desdemona's strap-on is a gun that she fires (somehow) via vigorous hip thrusting. RealityEnsues when her aim is abysmal, as should be the case for a weapon fired with hip thrusts.

* NerdInEvilsHelmet: Voz confesses to be a ''Franchise/StarWars'' fan, as is evident by his [[spoiler:clone armies, landspeeder, donning a mask after getting his face roasted like Darth Vader, trapping Luz in carbonite, and the Palpatine-esque decor on his ship. Furthermore, if the trailer for ''Machete Kills Again ...In Space'' is to be believed, he will wear a Darth Vader-esque outfit]]. See ShoutOut below. He also fights Machete with a [[Franchise/StarTrek bat'leth]].

** In one scene, a bar serves only Tequila and Chango. Chango is the fictional beer found in the ''El Mariachi'' series.

** President Rathcock's re-election campaign commercial has him noting "For me, ''winning'' is only the beginning." "Winning!" was something of a catchphrase of Creator/CharlieSheen's for a while, there....
* SleazyPolitician: The President is a hedonistic, self-absorbed douchebag.

* SpaceX: Loads in the trailer for ''Machete Kills Again...In Space!'', including ContentWarnings about the movie containing 'space violence'.
* SplitPersonality: As it turns out, [[spoiler:Mendez had at least three personalities: the calm and reasonable revolutionary, the evil and batshit insane cartel leader, and the ''badass'' secret agent. When Machete asks how many personalities he has, the Agent says "That's classified."]]
* StockParody: ''Franchise/StarWars'' gets spoofed in the fake trailer.

* ThirdPersonPerson: Machete usually is.

-->"I didn't recruit you for your sense of compassion! ''Machete kills!..'' That's what he does!"

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Thanks to the trailer for the next film we see at the beginning of this film, we know who survives the film itself. Subverted in the case of [[spoiler: the Chameleon]], who dies. The trailer does acknowledge this, however, by specifying [[spoiler: "Lady Gaga as, whoever she wants to be."]]

* WillReturnCaption: The film ends with a promise that Machete will return in ''Machete Kills Again...InSpace''.
* WireDilemma: Referenced by Luz when Machete refuses to take along her bomb expert, [[spoiler: Osiris Amanpour]]. Luz says she heard it's always the blue wire anyway. [[spoiler: Later Osiris gets shot and Machete must disarm the missile by himself anyway. It ends up Luz was absolutely right.]]

-->'''Mendez''': With a capitol "C", muchacho!

* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Creator/CharlieSheen is a dickish President who doesn't believe in gun control, enforces anti-illegal immigration policies, legalized marijuana for the tax money, and sleeps with four women in the same bed.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Not outright stated, but it is hinted that the reason why Machete can't die is because Machete is Vengeance itself.

* PhallicWeapon: Desdemona's strap-on is a gun that she fires via vigorous hip thrusting.

** [=SpaceX=], whose rockets are "top of the line," according to the President; complete with a cameo by founder Elon Musk.

* RunningGag: The "Machete don't text" gag from the first film gets reused as "Machete don't X".

* ShootTheBuilder: Mendez tells Machete that there is a DeadMansSwitch hooked up to his heart. If his heart stops beating, the stolen missile will be launched at Washington. He says that only two people know how to disarm the device. Doctor Villachez, his chief scientist, confirms this. Mendez then shoots Villachez and tells Machete there is no only person who knows how to disarm it, and they are in the US.

* TheNoseKnows: Luz is able to tell Machete slept with Miss San Antonio by sniffing him.

It will be followed by ''Machete Kills Again...[[RecycledInSpace In Space!]]'' ...[[DevelopmentHell Hopefully]].

* CartwrightCurse: Losing your wife (with daughter) was not enough to break Machete, so [[spoiler:Sartana dies too, and if the teaser for Machete Kills Again...In Space is to be believed, Luz will also be the unlucky one. He also casually sleeps with Miss San Antonio, who turns out to be evil and gets killed by Luz.]]

* FlippingTheBird: Luz defiantly flips Voz off [[spoiler:as she is frozen in carbonite.]]
* GangstaStyle: La Camaleón lets a victim choose how she should hold her gun when killing him, calling gangsta style "with flair." When the guy asks for the "coolest way," she flips the gun upside down and pulls the trigger with her pinky.

* GatlingGood: Desdemona has a special bra with built-in twin gatling guns.

* HeelFaceTurn[=/=]HeelFaithTurn: [[spoiler: After killing Machete's brother in the first movie, Osiris had become a man of the cloth. It later becomes a RedemptionEqualsDeath.]]
* HelicopterBlender: The film has a [[BlackComedy lot of fun with this one]]. First Machete guts Zaror, throwing his intestines into the rotor blades so he's reeled up into them. Then Machete is flying to safety when his helicopter is damaged by mooks in a powerboat. He leaps into the boat then, as the unmanned chopper spins wildly out of control overhead, fires a harpoon into it, attaching the other end to a mook who's pulled into the air and the rotor blades -- the mook gets [[CruelAndUnusualDeath shredded, then blown up with the helicopter]]. Later improved by Machete by attaching his grappling hook to the rotor and using his machete to decapitate mooks faster than the eye can see.

* {{Homage}}: While not a direct ShoutOut, the part where [[spoiler:Luz is blinded and must fight the Dark Action Girl is very similar to Rodriguez's previous film ''Film/OnceUponATimeInMexico'', where Agent Sands is blinded and must do the same]].
* HighlyVisibleNinja: In the opening scene, Machete and his partner creep around in black while the corrupt army personnel wear more practical desert cameo.
* HostileHitchhiker: La Camaleón stands on the side of the road and acts sexy to get a trucker to stop for her, then shoots him and boots the body out to claim the truck. Later, in a new disguise, El Camaleón gives Machete a lift intending to kill him.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: [[spoiler:Miss San Antonio]] accidentally reveals they are a double agent when they mention the missile being in Texas. Machete then asks how they knew the missile had been moved from Mexico.

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Miss San Antonio sells Machete out for a crown...on which she is subsequently ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice.]]

* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Luz vs. Miss San Antonio. The pageant queen throws off the sash, kicks off the sandals and does a showy move with her knife to slit the dress down the middle. The crown doubles as a shuriken.

* LeaveNoWitnesses: El Camaleón kills ''anybody'' who sees him, even when he's just walking down the street instead of performing an assassination.

* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: She appears to toy with Luz during the early stage of the fight, tossing aside her switchblade and resorting to fisticuffs. She only goes for the leg holster once Luz is dizzied and (apparently) helpless.
* MacheteMayhem: The hero's WeaponOfChoice, of course. This time he gets several upgrades.
* MadeASlave: Voz uses kidnapped immigrants as slave labor. [[spoiler:Later, he has Machete and Luz's teammates enslaved and taken to his space station.]]

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* MsFanservice: Music/LadyGaga as El Camaleón 3. Especially when she feels her boobs. Flips into FanDisservice when you hear [[spoiler: Cuba Gooding Jr's voice coming out of his/her mouth]].
* NeckSnap: Desdemona wraps a whip around a poor guy's neck and pulls until it breaks.
* NerdInEvilsHelmet: Voz confesses to be a ''Franchise/StarWars'' fan, as is evident by his [[spoiler:clone armies, landspeeder, donning a mask after getting his face roasted like Darth Vader, trapping Luz in carbonite, and the Palpatine-esque decor on his ship. And if the trailer for ''Machete Kills Again...In Space'' is to be believed, he will wear a Darth Vader-esque outfit]]. Also see ShoutOut below. He also fights Machete with a [[Franchise/StarTrek bat'leth]].

** Invoked and parodied. The pre-movie trailer for ''Machete Kills Again ...in Space'' bills Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio as "The Man in the Silver Mask". With [[FakeShemp no shots of his face]] and a disclaimer noting "[[TheOtherMarty actor subject to change]]". [[spoiler: Even this much is BlatantLies, since by the end of the film we've seen Voz become The Man in the Silver Mask.]]
** The trailer for ''Machete Kills'' implies that Desdemona and El Camaleón were Voz's henchmen, but they are actually independent bad guys.

* SequelHook: The trailer for ''Machete Kills Again...[[RecycledInSpace In Space!]]'' at the beginning of the film, plus a slightly different one after the ending which teases [[spoiler: Machete fighting his EvilTwin.]]

* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: ''Machete Kills Again...In Space!'' is done in the style of a Seventies ''Franchise/StarWars'' rip-off.