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* FullFrontalAssault: During the raid on the Surf Thugs' house, one of the FBI agents is attacked by a naked woman who had been taking a shower when the raid began.

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* FullFrontalAssault: During the raid on the Surf Thugs' house, one of the FBI agents Johnny is attacked by a naked woman who had been taking a shower when the raid began.



* GoneHorriblyWrong: The last bank robbery.

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* GoneHorriblyWrong: The Ex-Presidents' last bank robbery.robbery. Instead of just hitting the registers, Bodhi decides to go for the safe. This gives one of the hostages time to draw a gun and shoot Bodhi in the chest and [[spoiler: Grommet]] in the throat. The hostage and a security guard are gunned down and [[spoiler: Bodhi clubs Johnny in the head and leaves him for the police]].



* HandCannon: Bodhi's main weapon is a Freedom Arms Model 83 [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolver]] in the [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} .454 Casull]].

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* HandCannon: Bodhi's main weapon is a Freedom Arms Model 83 [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolver]] in the [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} .chambered in .454 Casull]].Casull.
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* DarkActionGirl: The girl in the shower at the drug dealer house who first kicks the shit out of Johnny and then repeatedly stabs a FBI agent before finally taken down, all while being naked.
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Samsara, Tyler's {{Expy}}, in the 2015 remake while Pappas is instead SparedByTheAdaptation.]]



* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Pappas in the 2015 remake while Samsara, Tyler's {{Expy}}, instead gets DeathByAdaptation.]]
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Shes Got Legs is a disambig and no longer a trope. Also, let's calm down on the perversion a bit.


* MsFanservice: When Johnny meets her at Bodhi's house party, Tyler's wearing a ludicrously short minidress that's basically a just tight shirt barely pulled down over her butt, nicely [[ShesGotLegs showing off her well-toned stems]].

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* MsFanservice: When Johnny meets her at Bodhi's house party, Tyler's wearing a ludicrously short minidress that's basically a just tight shirt barely pulled down over her butt, nicely [[ShesGotLegs showing off her well-toned stems]].stems.
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* MsFanservice: When Johnny meets her at Bodhi's house party, Tyler's wearing a ludicrously short minidress that's basically a just tight shirt barely pulled down over her butt, nicely [[ShesGotLegs showing off her well-toned stems]].
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** It is not a good idea to deliberately make a landing on water when solid earth is nearby[[note]]not because the landing itself is dangerous, but because after you land, your chute lands on top of you, and you are in danger of drowning, either from being unable to free yourself from the chute's connecting lines, or it drags you down. And even if neither of those happen, the chute is very heavy to swim with, a lot harder to carry when you make it to land, and now you have to wait for it to dry out before you can properly fold and re-stow it[[/note]].

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** It is not a good idea to deliberately make a landing on water when solid earth is nearby[[note]]not because the landing itself is dangerous, but because after you land, your chute lands on top of you, and you are in danger of drowning, either from being unable to free yourself from becoming tangled in the chute's connecting lines, or it drags you down. And even if neither of those happen, the chute is very heavy to swim with, a lot harder to carry when you make it to land, and now you have to wait for it to dry out before you can properly fold and re-stow it[[/note]].

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** The sequence at the end with Johnny jumping out to get to Bodhi goes on for about 90 seconds when it’d actually only take about 31 seconds for someone who jumped out of a plane at that altitude to hit the ground.



** The sequence at the end with Johnny jumping out to get to Bodhi goes on for about 90 seconds when it’d actually only take about 31 seconds for someone who jumped out of a plane at that altitude to hit the ground.
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Not true, none of the FBI agents die in the raid.


* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Agent Babbitt]] dies in the raid on the drug dealing surfers.

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* BaitAndSwitch: The scene where Bodhi tells his gang he knows what to do about Johnny since finding out he's an FBI agent. The very scene is Johnny asleep with a gun aimed at him, implying Bodhi was going to kill him. It turned out to be Tyler also finding out he's FBI.



* {{Fanservice}}: Uh, yeah. The film opens with Creator/KeanuReeves soaked to the skin and wearing a tight fitting shirt while demonstrating his weapon prowess, and he has multiple shirtless scenes (one which includes a quick shot of his naked butt) throughout the rest of the film. There's also a number of scantily clad women, a woman taking a shower during a raid, plus the surfing scenes in general.

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* {{Fanservice}}: Uh, yeah. The film opens with Creator/KeanuReeves soaked to the skin and wearing a tight fitting shirt while demonstrating his weapon prowess, and he has multiple shirtless scenes (one which includes a quick shot of his naked butt) throughout the rest of the film. There's also a number of scantily clad women, a woman taking a shower then kicking Johnny 's ass (without getting dressed) during a raid, plus the surfing scenes in general.
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IUEO now


* AwesomeMcCoolName: Johnny Utah. WordOfGod says that they wanted to give him a memorable name similar to football legend Johnny Unitas.
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This is unnecessary. Films that reference this film shouldn't be here


* FiringInTheAirALot: The scene where Utah empties his gun into the air instead of shooting Bodhi. This was referenced in ''Film/HotFuzz''.

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* FiringInTheAirALot: The scene where Utah empties his gun into the air instead of shooting Bodhi. This was referenced in ''Film/HotFuzz''.
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** Johnny reports to Angelo on Bodhi's movements that day. He comments on how he ate lunch at Patrick's Roadhouse, which is an actual restaurant in LA. It might also be construed as a reference to Creator/PatrickSwayze's movie ''Film/RoadHouse''.

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** Johnny reports to Angelo on Bodhi's movements that day. He comments on how he ate lunch at Patrick's Roadhouse, which is an actual restaurant in LA. It might also be construed as a reference to Creator/PatrickSwayze's movie ''Film/RoadHouse''.''Film/RoadHouse1989''.
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* ArtisticLicenseLawEnforcement: Johnny and Pappas' boss ignores their very logical conclusions based on what little evidence they have (considering they have nowhere else to look, why ''not'' look there?). Not only that, most directors in his position would be ''overjoyed'' to have agents who not only keep up their normal caseload, but work another case on their own time. The biggest offender, however, is Johnny using his real name while going "undercover" on the beach. This would be dumb enough under normal circumstances, but Johnny is a former college football star who blew out his knee in a big game, and he was well-known enough that years later people still remember him. Even in the pre-internet era, all it would take is one big college football fan in the group following his life after the injury to know that the famous Johnny Utah became an FBI agent after he couldn't play any more, and the whole operation is blown.
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** It is not a good idea to deliberately make a landing on water when solid earth is nearby.

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** It is not a good idea to deliberately make a landing on water when solid earth is nearby.nearby[[note]]not because the landing itself is dangerous, but because after you land, your chute lands on top of you, and you are in danger of drowning, either from being unable to free yourself from the chute's connecting lines, or it drags you down. And even if neither of those happen, the chute is very heavy to swim with, a lot harder to carry when you make it to land, and now you have to wait for it to dry out before you can properly fold and re-stow it[[/note]].
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Dewicked trope


* KnifeNut: Subverted by [[spoiler:Rosie, who is revealed to get killed in a knife fight in Mexico]].
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* ExtremeSportExcusePlot: A very well-known example.
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[[caption-width-right:310:''[[{{Tagline}} 100 percent pure adrenaline.]]'']]

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[[caption-width-right:310:''[[{{Tagline}} 100 percent pure adrenaline.100% Pure Adrenaline.]]'']]
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* KilledOffscreen: In the epilogue, set nine months after the rest of the film, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Rosie died in a completely unconnected knife fight in Mexico.]]

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