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* HandCannon: Tony's Desert Eagle.
** Tommy's enormous revolver as well. Except the gun would do more damage if you fed it to someone.
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* HandCannon: HandCannon:
** Tony's Desert Eagle.
** Tommy'senormous revolver enormous, broken revolver. Boris even notes that it's really heavy as well. Except the gun would do more damage if you fed it to someone.a selling point.
** Tony's Desert Eagle.
** Tommy's
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** Supposedly Pitt proved incapable of learning to speak with a 'proper' British accent, so Guy Ritchie decided to go with that instead.
* FakeUltimateHero: Possibly Bullet-Tooth Tony. He has a reputation for being MadeOfIron due to supposedly having survived being shot six times at one sitting, but [[spoiler:Avi kills him stone dead with a single stray shot]].
** Of course, Tony survived being shot by a small compact pistol, not a [[HandCannon Desert Eagle]]. Guess the guy who wanted to kill him simply needed bigger bullets.
** Supposedly Pitt proved incapable of learning to speak with a 'proper' British accent, so Guy Ritchie decided to go with that instead.
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**accent]]. Supposedly Pitt proved incapable of learning to speak with a 'proper' British accent, so Guy Ritchie decided to go with that instead.
* FakeUltimateHero: Possibly Bullet-Tooth Tony. He has a reputation for being MadeOfIron due to supposedly having survived being shot six times at one sitting, but [[spoiler:Avi kills him stone dead with a single stray shot]].
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* FakeUltimateHero: Possibly Bullet-Tooth Tony. He has a reputation for being MadeOfIron due to supposedly having survived being shot six times at one sitting, but [[spoiler:Avi kills him stone dead with a single stray shot]].
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The main Traveller who isn't Mickey or Mickey's mam is played by Jason Flemyng, who was Tom in ''Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels''. In the DVD commentary, the filmmakers joke about how much screen time Flemyng managed to nab for himself in what was supposed to be a cameo.
** Avi is [[LawAndOrder Detective Fontana]], [[FightClub Tyler Durden]] is getting into fights again, and Tommy looks an awful lot like both [[BoardwalkEmpire Al Capone]] ''and'' [[PublicEnemies Baby Face Nelson]].
** The random informant that Bullet Tooth Tony drags through the street by his tie while driving is [[Literature/{{Trainspotting}} Spud]].
** Avi is [[LawAndOrder Detective Fontana]], [[FightClub Tyler Durden]] is getting into fights again, and Tommy looks an awful lot like both [[BoardwalkEmpire Al Capone]] ''and'' [[PublicEnemies Baby Face Nelson]].
** The random informant that Bullet Tooth Tony drags through the street by his tie while driving is [[Literature/{{Trainspotting}} Spud]].
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Sol, Vinnie and Tyrone.
** If you consider them to be villains. This troper considers them to be the protagonists in their little part of the story.
** Cousin Avi might count. He's clearly a ruthless criminal and not an incredibly nice man, but the movie takes what would normally be a pretty clear-cut villain (the ruthless mob boss who gets something stolen from him and goes on a quest to get it back by any means necessary) and instead sends him blundering through an increasingly humiliating and exasperating comedy of errors until you kind of want him to get the diamond since it's sort-of supposed to be his anyway.
** If you consider them to be villains. This troper considers them to be the protagonists in their little part of the story.
** Cousin Avi might count. He's clearly a ruthless criminal and not an incredibly nice man, but the movie takes what would normally be a pretty clear-cut villain (the ruthless mob boss who gets something stolen from him and goes on a quest to get it back by any means necessary) and instead sends him blundering through an increasingly humiliating and exasperating comedy of errors until you kind of want him to get the diamond since it's sort-of supposed to be his anyway.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Turkish. Completely. Tony also has more than a touch of it.Many characters.
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** "You show me how to control a wild fucking Pikey, and I'll show you how to control an UNHINGED, pig-feeding gangster!"
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** Let's face it, [[WorldOfSnark most characters in this film qualify]].
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* ActorAllusion: More like a writer/director allusion - Tony hears Madonna's "Lucky Star" on the radio and comments, "I love this track!" Guy Ritchie and Madonna, well, you know the story.
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* ActorAllusion: ActorAllusion:
** More like a writer/director allusion - Tony hears Madonna's "Lucky Star" on the radio and comments, "I love this track!" Guy Ritchie and Madonna, well, you know the story.
** More like a writer/director allusion - Tony hears Madonna's "Lucky Star" on the radio and comments, "I love this track!" Guy Ritchie and Madonna, well, you know the story.
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* SkewedPriorities: While Rosebud is bleeding profusely, Avi is screaming at Doug to find him a ''Jewish'' doctor.
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* CurbStompBattle: ''Every'' fight Mickey gets into. A good trait in a boxer? Not if he's supposed to be throwing them...
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* StrayShotsStrikeNothing: Averted. When Avi is trying to shoot [[spoiler:the dog with the diamond in him]], he ends up accidentally killing [[spoiler:Bullet-Tooth Tony]].
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* StupidCrooks: Sol, Vinny, and Tyrone. Apparently, everything they do was inspired by stories shared on late night talk show monologues.
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* StupidCrooks: Sol, Vinny, and Tyrone. Apparently, everything they do was inspired by stories of real life stupid criminals shared on late night talk show monologues.
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* FakeBrit: Brad Pitt. (with [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent a bizarre version of the Traveller accent]]; type "Irish traveller" into Website/YouTube if you want to know what he should sound like)
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* FakeBrit: FakeIrish: Brad Pitt. (with [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent a bizarre version of the Traveller accent]]; type "Irish traveller" into Website/YouTube if you want to know what he should sound like)
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* CoolGuns: Sol tries to rob the bookie's with a sawed-off SPAS-12.
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* ChekhovsGunman The dog. Though he's initially introduced in the movie for some comic relief between Sol and Vinny, [[spoiler: swallowing the diamond in the back of Sol and Vinny's shop sets up Turkish and Tommy to recover the diamond when they find the dog in the abandoned pikey camp at the end of the movie, connecting the two stories together.]]
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* {{BFG}}: "That's a fucking anti-aircraft gun, Vincent!"
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* {{BFG}}: "That's a fucking anti-aircraft gun, Vincent!"Vincent!" Also, Bullet-Tooth Tony's "Desert Eagle. Point-five-oh."
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Mickey. He's consistently used and abused for the benefit of the other characters, but they learn to their cost that he's been busy making his own plans ever since [[spoiler:[[YouKilledMyFather Brick Top killed his mam]].]]
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** Averted when Sol fires the replica gun in the car to prove they work. It damn near deafens everyone in the car and it bursts all the windows. Hell, if they fired those replicas off near Tony's ear, they probably could have stolen his gun.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: Runs the gamut from 'dodgy but basically okay AntiHero' to 'CompleteMonster'.
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* SteelEardrums: Both averted and played straight: Boris puts in earplugs before shooting [[spoiler:Frankie Four-Fingers]], but no one else bothers with ear protection and they don't seem to suffer any ill effects.
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** Tommy looks a little bit concerned after Mickey knocks Gorgeous George out cold with one punch and it looks like he's dead. More specifically, he looks like he's holding back tears of pure panic and a desperate urge to scream "Oh God, please don't kill me as well."
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** Killing people also appears to be Bricktop's preferred solution to problems as well.
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* MurderIsTheBestSolution: The dilemma faced by Tommy after Gorgeous George is laid out with one punch by Mickey at the Travellers' campsite. As Turkish's narration points out, given that the Travellers are nomads anyway there's absolutely no reason for them to hang around and answer awkward questions from the authorities about why a man died in their campsite when they can just bury two people and disappear to another campsite never to be seen again. Fortunately for both, George is seriously injured but alive, but for a moment there, [[OhCrap Tommy looks rather concerned]].
-->'''Turkish:''' Tommy -- the tit -- is praying. And if he's not, he fuckin' should be.
** {{Foreshadowing}} is at work here; [[spoiler: the Travellers end up doing just this, just to Bricktop's gangsters instead.]]
-->'''Turkish:''' Tommy -- the tit -- is praying. And if he's not, he fuckin' should be.
** {{Foreshadowing}} is at work here; [[spoiler: the Travellers end up doing just this, just to Bricktop's gangsters instead.]]
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** The random informant that Bullet Tooth Tony drags through the street by his tie while driving is [[{{Trainspotting}} Spud]].
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-->'''[[ThoseTwoBadGuys John and Errol]]:'''"Ah. Tyrone. You silly fat bastard."
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* BlatantLies: Boris telling people that the weight of any weapon he sells them is a sign or reliability.
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* SmittenTeenageGirl: Tommy seems to have quite the soft spot for Mickey's mam...
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* [[JerkAss Jerkasses]]: Everyone. Cousin Avi and Brick Top in particular.
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* BatterUp: Turkish uses what looks like a [[InfinityPlusOneSword lead-cored baseball bat]] to take out two similarly-armed thugs during the attack on his arcade.
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At this point we're introduced to Turkish and Tommy, who are the closest thing the film has to main characters. The two are shady but basically decent entrepreneurs who dabble in unlicensed boxing and slot machines. Turkish, who has a reputation for running honest fights, is being forced by circumstances to work with Brick Top, a monstrous local gangster, on a fixed fight. Gorgeous George (Turkish's leading fighter) is set to go down in the 4th round against one of Brick Top's fighters. There's just one problem: on a completely unrelated errand Gorgeous George gets knocked out and damn near killed by Mickey, a bareknuckle boxing IrishTraveller. When Turkish recruits Mickey as a replacement, Brick Top attempts to force him to take the same dive Gorgeous George was going to, but Mickey has plans of his own.
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At this point we're introduced to Turkish and Tommy, who are the closest thing the film has to main characters. The two are shady but basically decent entrepreneurs who dabble in unlicensed boxing and slot machines. Turkish, who has a reputation for running honest fights, is being forced by circumstances to work with Brick Top, a monstrous local gangster, on a fixed fight. Gorgeous George (Turkish's leading fighter) is set to go down in the 4th round against one of Brick Top's fighters. There's just one problem: on a completely unrelated errand Gorgeous George gets knocked out and damn near killed by Mickey, a bareknuckle boxing IrishTraveller.[[UsefulNotes/IrishTravellers Irish Traveller]]. When Turkish recruits Mickey as a replacement, Brick Top attempts to force him to take the same dive Gorgeous George was going to, but Mickey has plans of his own.
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* TakeAThirdOption: Apparently trying to back the IrishTravellers into a corner is a ''really'' bad idea.
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* TakeAThirdOption: Apparently trying to back the IrishTravellers UsefulNotes/IrishTravellers into a corner is a ''really'' bad idea.
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** Attempted, poorly, by a wannabe badass, but it might have been better if it weren't aimed at [[MemeticBadass Vinnie Jones]].
** "All. Bets. Are. Off."
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** Attempted, poorly, by a wannabe badass, but it might have been better if it weren't aimed at [[MemeticBadass Vinnie Jones]].
** "All. Bets. Are. Off."
** Attempted, poorly, by a wannabe badass, but it might have been better if it weren't aimed at [[MemeticBadass Vinnie Jones]].
** "All. Bets. Are. Off."
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-->'''Avi:''' Why do they call him the bullet-dodger?
-->'''Tony:'''({{Beat}}) Because he dodges bullets, Avi.
-->'''Avi:''' Why do they call him the bullet-dodger?
-->'''Tony:'''({{Beat}}) Because he dodges bullets, Avi.
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The film opens with Jewish gangster and expert thief Frankie "Four Fingers" stealing a huge 86 karat diamond in Antwerp. With the help of a section of [[TheMafiya the Russian Mob]] that his boss is working with, Frankie is able to smuggle the diamond onto a plane, but his gun is taken by the Russians so as to not cause problems. Frankie is advised to see Boris, a local fence in London, if he wants a new gun. The Russian Gangster who took Frankie's gun, (who is actually Boris' brother) and Boris immediately begin conspiring on how to steal the diamond from Frankie before Frankie heads back home to America, without the deed leading back to them.
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The film opens with Jewish gangster and expert thief Frankie "Four Fingers" stealing a huge 86 karat diamond in Antwerp. With the help of a section of [[TheMafiya the Russian Mob]] that his boss is working with, Frankie is able to smuggle the diamond onto a plane, but his gun is taken by the Russians so as to not cause problems. Frankie is advised to see Boris, a local fence in London, if he wants a new gun. The Russian Gangster who took Frankie's gun, (who is actually Boris' brother) and Boris immediately begin conspiring on how to steal the diamond from Frankie before Frankie heads back home to America, without the deed leading back to them.
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''Snatch'' is the second film by British director and recovering {{Madonna}} enthusiast GuyRitchie. Like his first film, ''LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', ''Snatch'' is a humorous crime caper featuring a trainwreck of villains in a cartoonish London underworld.
The film's plot is essentially broken down into two mostly separate plot threads, both of which feature [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters large ensemble casts]].
The film opens with Jewish gangster and expert thief Frankie "Four Fingers" stealing a huge 86 karat diamond in Antwerp. With the help of a section of [[TheMafiya the Russian Mob]] that his boss is working with, Frankie is able to smuggle the diamond onto a plane, but his gun is taken by the Russians so as to not cause problems. Frankie is advised to see Boris, a local fence in London, if he wants a new gun. The Russian Gangster who took Frankie's gun, (who is actually Boris' brother) and Boris immediately begin conspiring on how to steal the diamond from Frankie before Frankie heads back home to America, without the deed leading back to them.
At this point we're introduced to Turkish and Tommy, who are the closest thing the film has to main characters. The two are shady but basically decent entrepreneurs who dabble in unlicensed boxing and slot machines. Turkish, who has a reputation for running honest fights, is being forced by circumstances to work with Brick Top, a monstrous local gangster, on a fixed fight. Gorgeous George (Turkish's leading fighter) is set to go down in the 4th round against one of Brick Top's fighters. There's just one problem: on a completely unrelated errand Gorgeous George gets knocked out and damn near killed by Mickey, a bareknuckle boxing IrishTraveller. When Turkish recruits Mickey as a replacement, Brick Top attempts to force him to take the same dive Gorgeous George was going to, but Mickey has plans of his own.
Boris decides that the best way to go about getting the diamond without seeming to be involved is to prey on Frankie's gambling addiction. Boris gives Frankie a tip about how the upcoming fight with Brick Top's fighter is supposed to be fixed, which sends Frankie off to the bookie to place a bet on it. Boris then hires a pair of pawnbrokers (Sol and Vincent) to ambush him at Brick Top's bookie. When Frankie disappears, his boss and New York crime kingpin Avi heads to London and recruits the enforcer-for-hire Bullet-Tooth Tony to find Frankie and the diamond.
[[HyperlinkStory The two threads parallel each other and converge in surprising ways before the dust finally settles]].
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'''This film contains examples of:'''
* ActorAllusion: More like a writer/director allusion - Tony hears Madonna's "Lucky Star" on the radio and comments, "I love this track!" Guy Ritchie and Madonna, well, you know the story.
** Bullet Tooth Tony is introduced doing exactly the same thing as Big Chris is in ''LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels''.
* AntiHero: Turkish is definitely a shady character, and hardly a nice guy, but he's by far the most decent of the bunch. On account of being the only one who's not a violent criminal. Or a complete idiot.
* AnyoneCanDie
* AskAStupidQuestion
-->'''Mullet:''' What the fuck are you doin', Tone?
-->'''Tony:''' I'm driving down the street with your head stuck in my window. What do you think I'm doing, you pen-arse?
* BadAssBystander: The girl behind the counter at Brick Top's betting shop. She stares down some flunky robbers and manages to shoot at them with their own gun before escaping.
* BatterUp: Turkish uses what looks like a [[InfinityPlusOneSword lead-cored baseball bat]] to take out two similarly-armed thugs during the attack on his arcade.
* {{BFG}}: "That's a fucking anti-aircraft gun, Vincent!"
* BlackAndGrayMorality: Runs the gamut from 'dodgy but basically okay AntiHero' to 'CompleteMonster'.
* BlackComedy
* BlackGuyDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Inverted. Sol, Vinnie and Tyrone are on the very short list of people who ''don't'' die, although Sol and Vinnie get nicked.]]
* BlatantLies: Boris telling people that the weight of any weapon he sells them is a sign or reliability.
* BloodSport: The various unlicensed boxing events as well as Brick Top's dogfighting racket and the pikeys' hare coursing.
* SmittenTeenageGirl: Tommy seems to have quite the soft spot for Mickey's mam...
* {{Callback}}: The Madonna track that Tony hears on the radio and gushes over is the same song that was playing when he got shot in flashback.
* ClusterFBomb:
** Avi is waiting to explode into them at any time.
-->'''Doug the Head''': Avi!
-->'''Avi''': Shut up and sit down, you big bald fuck. I don't like leaving my country, Doug, and I especially don't like leaving it for anything other than white sandy beaches and drinks with little straw hats.
-->'''Doug the Head''': We've got sandy beaches, Avi.
-->'''Avi''': So? Who the fuck wants to see 'em?
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aoPYFD9Eno Just watch this DVD extra]].
** Avi's tendency to drop a ClusterFBomb at any moment isn't too surprising when you consider that he's played by the same guy who brought us [[GetShorty Ray Bones]].
** According to IMDB the word "fuck" is said 163 times in the movie. The movie is 104 minutes long so it's said about one and half times per minute.
* ChekhovsGun: Turkish mocks Tommy for buying a gun, then mocks him further when the gun turns out to be defective, but Tommy successfully uses it to hold off Brick Top's {{Mooks}} and secure their escape.
* TheChessmaster: Of all people, [[spoiler: Mickey. There's a reason he kept winning those fights. He wanted to]].
* CriticalResearchFailure: In-universe. Tommy repeats the common myth that drinking milk is 'not in sync with evolution' and that the human digestive system 'hasn't gotten used to it yet', which [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence is complete nonsense where Europeans are concerned]]. Turkish's reaction says it all, really.
-->'''Turkish:''' Well, fuck me. What ''have'' you been reading?
* DeadpanSnarker: Turkish. Completely. Tony also has more than a touch of it.
** "Well, c'mon. Before ''ze Germans'' get here."
** Tommy is panicking about what to do if any of the countless things that can go wrong with the plan they're forced into go wrong. Turkish has no trouble working out the right thing to do but Tommy doesn't seem too happy with a plan involving "get murdered before we leave the building and I imagine we get fed to the pigs."
** "You show me how to control a wild fucking Pikey, and I'll show you how to control an UNHINGED, pig-feeding gangster!"
** Bullet-Tooth Tony and Avi spend most of their part in the proceedings dealing with things via copious amounts of heavy sarcasm as well.
---> '''Bullettooth Tony''': Boris the Bullet-Dodger?\\
'''Avi''': Why do they call him that?\\
'''Bullettooth Tony''': ...Because he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin dodges bullets]], Avi.
** "Anything to declare?" "Yeah -- don't go to England!"
** Let's face it, [[WorldOfSnark most characters in this film qualify]].
* DisposingOfABody:
** Brick Top's very ''detailed'' description of how to [[FedToPigs feed a body to pigs]].
** Lincoln points out that "bad boy yardies" generally ''create'' the bodies without thought of ''erasing'' the bodies.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Upon learning that Mickey won't fight unless his mother is bought a new caravan, Brick Top's response is to set fire to Mickey's mother's existing caravan... while she's still asleep inside of it. And plans to wipe out Mickey's entire clan if he doesn't throw the fight. [[spoiler: Which means that Mickey's own revenge on Brick Top in fact comes across as pretty well deserved.]]
* TheDitz: Sol, Vinnie and Tyrone, as well as Tommy.
* DramatisPersonae
* TheDreaded: Brick Top.
* EpicFail: Anything attempted by Sol, Vince, or Tyrone. The bookie robbery deserves special mention.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** Brick Top ordering a pair of {{Mooks}} tasered and suffocated to death with plastic bags...in full view of witnesses, whom he then effortlessly intimidates into silence.
** Bullet-Tooth Tony repeatedly slamming a man's head in a car door, then pausing to answer his car phone with a jaunty, "Bonjour!"
** The credits montage that opens the movie is essentially catching every single character in the middle of a split-second establishing moment.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Tony's reaction to Avi's command to "look in the dog."
** "What do you ''mean'' 'LOOK IN THE DOG'?!"
* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: ?????
* EvilOldFolks: Brick Top.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
-->'''Avi:''' Why do they call him the "bullet dodger"?
-->'''Tony:''' ...Because he dodges bullets, Avi.
** Also Bullet Tooth Tony, so named because of his false teeth which are bullets set in gold (bullets he was shot with no less)
* ExtremeOmnivore: The dog.
* FakeBrit: Brad Pitt. (with a bizarre version of the Traveller accent; type "Irish traveller" into YouTube if you want to know what he should sound like)
** Supposedly Pitt proved incapable of learning to speak with a 'proper' British accent, so Guy Ritchie decided to go with that instead.
* FakeUltimateHero: Possibly Bullet-Tooth Tony. He has a reputation for being MadeOfIron due to supposedly having survived being shot six times at one sitting, but [[spoiler:Avi kills him stone dead with a single stray shot]].
** Of course, Tony survived being shot by a small compact pistol, not a [[HandCannon Desert Eagle]]. Guess the guy who wanted to kill him simply needed bigger bullets.
* FatBastard / FatIdiot: Tyrone
-->'''[[ThoseTwoBadGuys John and Errol]]:'''"Ah. Tyrone. You silly fat bastard."
* FixingTheGame: Brick Top runs crooked boxing matches. Turkish does not.
* ForcedPrizeFight
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Bricktop wears gigantic old fart glasses.
* GambitPileup: Including attempted ones done by people who are ''really'' bad at [[TheChessmaster chess]].
* TheGamblingAddict: Frankie Four Fingers
* GenreBusting
* GilliganCut:
-->'''Rosebud:''' I hate Russians. I'll take care of him.
-->'''Tony:''' He's all yours, Rosebud, me old son.
-->'''Rosebud:''' Not a problem.
-->[''cut to Rosebud bleeding from his scalp'']
-->'''Rosebud:''' You gotta get me to a doctor! Shoot that fuck! And ''then'' get me to a doctor!
* GroinAttack: Suffered by Tommy when he attempted to complain to Boris about the defective firearm he'd been sold. Boris had recently been run over and was in no mood to listen.
* HandCannon: Tony's Desert Eagle.
** Tommy's enormous revolver as well. Except the gun would do more damage if you fed it to someone.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Turkish and Tommy.
* HeyItsThatGuy: The main Traveller who isn't Mickey or Mickey's mam is played by Jason Flemyng, who was Tom in ''Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels''. In the DVD commentary, the filmmakers joke about how much screen time Flemyng managed to nab for himself in what was supposed to be a cameo.
** Avi is [[LawAndOrder Detective Fontana]], [[FightClub Tyler Durden]] is getting into fights again, and Tommy looks an awful lot like both [[BoardwalkEmpire Al Capone]] ''and'' [[PublicEnemies Baby Face Nelson]].
** The random informant that Bullet Tooth Tony drags through the street by his tie while driving is [[{{Trainspotting}} Spud]].
* HumiliationConga: Basically what Avi is subjected to over the course of the movie.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Avi is rather easily excitable.
** And Rosebud, Avi's henchman, accidedently stabs himself.
* ImplacableMan: Tony and Boris both.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Sol, Vinnie and Tyrone.
** If you consider them to be villains. This troper considers them to be the protagonists in their little part of the story.
** Cousin Avi might count. He's clearly a ruthless criminal and not an incredibly nice man, but the movie takes what would normally be a pretty clear-cut villain (the ruthless mob boss who gets something stolen from him and goes on a quest to get it back by any means necessary) and instead sends him blundering through an increasingly humiliating and exasperating comedy of errors until you kind of want him to get the diamond since it's sort-of supposed to be his anyway.
* InformedFlaw: Doug's view of Bullet-Tooth Tony as 'a liability' doesn't seem entirely fair, since he's pretty much a paragon of [[TheAce efficient,]] [[TheStoic understated]] [[BadAss badassery]] throughout the film. Yes, in real life you'd probably get pulled in for driving along with an informant's head trapped in your car window or drawing a Desert Eagle in a pub - but [[PoliceAreUseless in a universe where one can apparently limp freely through London flourishing an assault rifle and muttering to oneself in Uzbek,]] that's not really relevant.
* IrishTravellers
* IronicNickname: Brick Top probably received his nickname ''before'' his hair went grey.
* {{Irony}}: To such a degree that 'Ironic Situations' could be a replacement title for the movie. Some notable examples include:
** Sol, Vincent and Tyrone are hired by Boris to rob Frankie as he's putting a bet on at the bookies under cover of robbing the entire establishment. They sit outside for hours waiting for him to show up... completely unaware that he was in the van they rear-ended as they arrived and was knocked unconscious by the collision.
** [[spoiler: Tommy and Turkish, the only two main characters who were not involved in the diamond plot and had no idea it even existed, end up acquiring and profiting from it.]]
* [[JerkAss Jerkasses]]: Everyone. Cousin Avi and Brick Top in particular.
* KickTheDog: There's no real reason to dislike Avi until he gives a certain command involving a dog. Bricktop is also seen killing two {{Mooks}} and brutalizing dogs early in the film to establish him as a villain amongst villains. When he order the burning of Mickey's caravan with his mother still inside, he crosses a MoralEventHorizon.
* KnuckleCracking: Tony does this, but Mickey takes the cake. He spends most of the fight against Gorgeous methodically cracking his entire skeleton, before [[CurbStompBattle laying him out with one punch]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: By the end of the film, [[spoiler:Turkish and Tommy, the only people who didn't try anything more criminal or morally questionable than ''surviving'' and who didn't even know the diamond existed, end up profiting from it. Everyone else is either dead, arrested, or suffered a severe loss.]]
** Except [[spoiler: Mickey, who actually out-gambitted everyone. [[DownerEnding Although his mom was killed]]...]]
*** Also, [[spoiler:it's implied that Avi will get the diamond, and therefore a big profit, which probably goes a long way toward making up for the losses of Frankie and Rosebud]].
* LaughablyEvil: Even for a Guy Ritchie movie, Brick Top is truly a complete monster, brutalizing dogs and people both, committing multiple cold blooded murders and threatening to wipe out an entire Traveller clan. He's also ''really'' funny, and gets many of the best lines in the movie.
* LawOfInverseRecoil: A Desert Eagle .50 Action Express doesn't seem to have a lot of recoil when fired one-handed by both Tony and Cousin Avi.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Boris' theme music plays every single moment that he is on screen. At one point he walks into a house and we can hear his theme song muffled through the walls.
* LikesOlderWomen: Tommy seems to have quite the soft spot for Mickey's mam...
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* LondonGangster: Brick Top, and several others.
* MacGuffin: The 86 carat diamond. Several characters spend much of the film trying to get the diamond, [[spoiler:however by the end of the film, most of the bad guys end up in jail or dead. The diamond gets swallowed by a dog which in turn is adopted by Turkish and Tommy, the only main characters who were not involved with the diamond plot.]]
* MadeOfIron: Tony having survived getting shot six times (in one sitting) in the past automatically qualifies him. Boris earned his nickname "The Bullet-Dodger" by, well, dodging bullets [[spoiler:and it takes a full magazine from Tony's Desert Eagle .50 to lay him out for good]]. And Mickey, who gives his first opponent about 8 free hits before laying him out.
* TheMafiya: Boris isn't actually a "sneaky fuckin' Russian," but a sneaky fuckin' Uzbek[[strike:istanian]].
* MeaningfulName: Played with. Boris' two nicknames (Boris the Blade and Boris the Bullet Dodger) actually aren't all that accurate. He's only seen using a blade once in the entire movie, and he doesn't dodge bullets so much as absorb them. His third name "Boris the sneaky fucking Russian" is a bit more accurate (although technically he's an Uzbekistanian).
* NotSoDifferent: Sol and Vincent are essentially a slightly more dodgy and violent (and in Sol's case, slightly less smart) version of Turkish and Tommy.
* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: Bullet Tooth Tony, when being threatened with replica guns.
* OhCrap: Several moments: Bad Boy Lincoln when he recognizes Bricktop, Turkish and Tommy's reaction when Mickey knocks out Bricktop's fighter (both times).
--> '''Turkish''' Now, we are fucked.
** Sol, Vince and Tyrone's reactions to Bullet Tooth Tony's Desert Eagle, and Avi's reaction to [[spoiler: accidentally killing Bullet Tooth Tony.]]
*** Bricktop gets a retroactive one; at the climax, he see him hang up his phone with a troubled expression on his face. It's only after a flashback that we realize it's because his plan to teach Mickey a lesson by killing his entire clan has gone badly wrong.
** The guy who tried to shoot Tony six times in flashback also looks rather anxious when Tony [[WhyWontYouDie refuses to 'fucking die']] and comes at him with a sword.
** Mickey gets one in the last fight in the movie, when he almost knocks the other fighter out in the first round. [[spoiler: He's worried because he knows that his friends haven't had enough time to take care of Brick Top's men, and if he won the fight that early, they'd all be fucked. [[RunningGag Proper fucked]].]]
* OnlySaneMan: Turkish seems to be the only main character in the film who is not too greedy, crazy, or stupid.
* PlethoraOfMistakes
* PoliceAreUseless: The only time we even ''see'' any policemen comes after all the action is over and all the bad guys are dead.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Avi constantly refers to Boris as a "Cossack."
* PreemptiveShutUp: Brick Top, to Errol:
--> '''Errol''': ''[to Turkish]'' Oi, fuckface, was he talking to you?
--> '''Turkish''': Fuckface, huh? I like that. I'll have to remember that next time I'm crawling off [[YourMom your Mum]].
--> '''Brick Top''': ''[to Errol]'' Not now.
* PreMortemOneLiner: The Traveller played by Jason Flemyng delivers a pretty good one to Brick Top before he blows away one of Bricktop's men:
--->'''Brick Top''': ''[On mobile]'' Pete, talk to me.
--->'''Traveller''': ''[On Pete's phone]'' If you want yer friend to hear ye, ye'll have to talk a lot louder than that. ''[BANG]''
* PsychoSerum: Turkish attributes both Boris' [[MadeOfIron near-invulnerability]] and his [[AxCrazy extreme]] [[BunnyEarsLawyer kookiness]] to "one too many disco-biscuits".
* RapidFireComedy: It's best to watch this film on DVD so you can pause it to crack up laughing without missing another joke in the process. They're "blink and you'll miss it" at times.
* RareGuns: The two most prominent firearms in the film is a Franchi [=SPAS-12S=] shotgun ("That's a fucking anti-aircraft gun, Vincent!") and Tony's Desert Eagle "Point Five-Oh".
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Boris, appropriately.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Bullet Tooth Tony delivers [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome a magnificent one]] to Sol, Vinny, and Tyrone when they attempt to get the diamond back.
-->'''Tony''': So. You're obviously the big dick. And the men on either side of you are your balls. There are two types of balls. There are big brave balls and there are little mincy faggot balls.
-->'''Vinny''': These are your last words so make them a prayer.
-->'''Tony''': Now dicks have drive and clarity of vision, but they're not clever. They smell pussy and they want a piece of the action. And you thought you smelled some good ole pussy and have brought your two little mincy faggot balls along for a good ole time. But you've got your parties muddled up. There's no pussy here. Just a dose that'll make you wish you were born a woman. Like a prick, you're having second thoughts. You're shrinking. And your two little balls are shrinking with you. And the fact that you've got 'Replica' written down the side of your guns...''[they look in horror at their guns]'' and the fact that I've got ''Desert Eagle, point-five-oh'' written on the side of mine ''[They look at his with even more horror]'' should precipitate your balls into shrinking, along with your presence. Now... ''[he sips his drink]'' ...Fuck off.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: "It had previously occurred to me that the pikey had taken the demise of his mother rather lightly. But for every action, there's a ''re''action. And a pikey reaction...is quite a fucking thing."
* RobbingTheMobBank: Or in this case, the mob bookie.
-->"Do you know who this bookies belongs to?"
* RunningGag: Mostly just repeated phrases like "sneaky fuckin' Russian", "Franky fuckin' Four Fingers", "I fucking hate pikeys", "proper fucked", and "ze Germans".
** People keep getting killed in the back of Sol and Vincent's shop. The killers keep leaving Sol and Vincent to deal with the bodies.
* [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Pretty much said word-for-word by Sol after witnessing a massive shoot out which they only just managed to survive.
--> 'Fuck it, we're outta here.'
* ShirtlessScene: Brad Pitt as a bareknuckle boxer spends a lot of time with his shirt off, exposing his numerous gypsy tats and chiseled abs.
* ShoutOut: Bullet Tooth Tony is introduced in a scene where he is continuously banging a car door off the head of some random Mook in the same manner as Big Chris (Also played by Vinnie Jones) does in ''LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels''.
* SophisticatedAsHell
-->'''Brick Top:''' Do you know what Nemesis means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by a 'orrible cunt. Me.
* SpiritualSuccessor: For ''LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels''. Similar tone, subject matter, and some crossover in cast and crew. Vinnie Jones is shown crushing someone's head in a car door in both films.
* StealthPun: Brad Pitt's character first appears performing the act that 'Brad Pitt' is [[http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/brad_pitt rhyming slang]] for.
* StupidCrooks: Sol, Vinny, and Tyrone. Apparently, everything they do was inspired by stories shared on late night talk show monologues.
* TakeAThirdOption: Apparently trying to back the IrishTravellers into a corner is a ''really'' bad idea.
* ThisIsSPARTA:
** Attempted, poorly, by a wannabe badass, but it might have been better if it weren't aimed at [[MemeticBadass Vinnie Jones]].
** "All. Bets. Are. Off."
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: John and Errol, Brick Top's two main henchmen.
* ThoseWackyNazis: Referenced. When Tommy reveals he has bought a gun "for protection", Turkish replies "Who from? Ze Germans?"
* ThrowingTheFight: Mickey is asked to do this twice. He's not too keen on the idea.
* TookALevelInBadass: Tommy, Turkish's timid little sidekick, grows a pair of giant BrassBalls before the movie is over. [[spoiler:He saves Turkish's ass by walking in with his defective HandCannon and facing down a half-dozen of Brick Top's mooks armed with various bladed and blunt weapons. When [[TheDragon Errol]] advances on him, does he back down, knowing his gun won't fire? Nope. He steps forward, shoves the gun in Errol's face and ''dares'' him to try anything.]]
* ToThePain: Brick Top describing [[FedToPigs "the best way"]] to dispose of a body to Sol and Vinnie.
* TranquilFury: For Brick Top, "loud and aggressive" is his default mode. When he gets ''really'' angry, he gets very quiet.
* TheUnintelligible: The Pikeys, Mickey in particular. [[FunWithSubtitles The subtitle feature of the DVD reads "???????" at a certain point.]]
* UnusualEuphemism:
** Minerals (fancy way of saying "stones").
** Tony shouting to Avi "Pull your socks up!" as a way to warn him to duck, before he shoots through the wall.
* VillainousBreakdown: For a given value of 'villain' (he's certainly not nearly as bad as some in this movie), Avi spends most of the movie getting more and more edgy and irate with things until he's eventually reduced to firing a gun wildly at a dog. One gets the feeling he'd been wanting to shoot something/one for a while by that point.
-->'''''I HATE FUCKING DOGS!'''''
* WeaponForIntimidation: Despite Tommy's revolver being defective, he successfully uses it to hold up Brick Top's mooks when they have Turkish surrounded.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Tyrone's fate is not immediately clear; he appears to survive the showdown at the pub unscathed, and we last see him running off, but nothing more is mentioned of him.
* [[WhyWontYouDie Why Won't You Fuckin' DIE?]]: Screamed at Tony in a flashback.
* TheYardies: Lincoln (played by Goldie) is described as "a bad boy Yardie."
* YouHaveToHaveJews: Doug the Head obviously believes this, because he ''pretends'' to be Jewish thinking it's good for business, "because when you're in the diamond trade... it ''is'' good business".
* YourMom:
-->'''Errol''': Oy, fuckface. Was he talking to you?
-->'''Turkish''': Fuckface, huh? I like that. I'll have to remember it next time I'm crawling off your Mum.
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''Snatch'' is the second film by British director and recovering {{Madonna}} enthusiast GuyRitchie. Like his first film, ''LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', ''Snatch'' is a humorous crime caper featuring a trainwreck of villains in a cartoonish London underworld.
The film's plot is essentially broken down into two mostly separate plot threads, both of which feature [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters large ensemble casts]].
The film opens with Jewish gangster and expert thief Frankie "Four Fingers" stealing a huge 86 karat diamond in Antwerp. With the help of a section of [[TheMafiya the Russian Mob]] that his boss is working with, Frankie is able to smuggle the diamond onto a plane, but his gun is taken by the Russians so as to not cause problems. Frankie is advised to see Boris, a local fence in London, if he wants a new gun. The Russian Gangster who took Frankie's gun, (who is actually Boris' brother) and Boris immediately begin conspiring on how to steal the diamond from Frankie before Frankie heads back home to America, without the deed leading back to them.
At this point we're introduced to Turkish and Tommy, who are the closest thing the film has to main characters. The two are shady but basically decent entrepreneurs who dabble in unlicensed boxing and slot machines. Turkish, who has a reputation for running honest fights, is being forced by circumstances to work with Brick Top, a monstrous local gangster, on a fixed fight. Gorgeous George (Turkish's leading fighter) is set to go down in the 4th round against one of Brick Top's fighters. There's just one problem: on a completely unrelated errand Gorgeous George gets knocked out and damn near killed by Mickey, a bareknuckle boxing IrishTraveller. When Turkish recruits Mickey as a replacement, Brick Top attempts to force him to take the same dive Gorgeous George was going to, but Mickey has plans of his own.
Boris decides that the best way to go about getting the diamond without seeming to be involved is to prey on Frankie's gambling addiction. Boris gives Frankie a tip about how the upcoming fight with Brick Top's fighter is supposed to be fixed, which sends Frankie off to the bookie to place a bet on it. Boris then hires a pair of pawnbrokers (Sol and Vincent) to ambush him at Brick Top's bookie. When Frankie disappears, his boss and New York crime kingpin Avi heads to London and recruits the enforcer-for-hire Bullet-Tooth Tony to find Frankie and the diamond.
[[HyperlinkStory The two threads parallel each other and converge in surprising ways before the dust finally settles]].
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'''This film contains examples of:'''
* ActorAllusion: More like a writer/director allusion - Tony hears Madonna's "Lucky Star" on the radio and comments, "I love this track!" Guy Ritchie and Madonna, well, you know the story.
** Bullet Tooth Tony is introduced doing exactly the same thing as Big Chris is in ''LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels''.
* AntiHero: Turkish is definitely a shady character, and hardly a nice guy, but he's by far the most decent of the bunch. On account of being the only one who's not a violent criminal. Or a complete idiot.
* AnyoneCanDie
* AskAStupidQuestion
-->'''Mullet:''' What the fuck are you doin', Tone?
-->'''Tony:''' I'm driving down the street with your head stuck in my window. What do you think I'm doing, you pen-arse?
* BadAssBystander: The girl behind the counter at Brick Top's betting shop. She stares down some flunky robbers and manages to shoot at them with their own gun before escaping.
* BatterUp: Turkish uses what looks like a [[InfinityPlusOneSword lead-cored baseball bat]] to take out two similarly-armed thugs during the attack on his arcade.
* {{BFG}}: "That's a fucking anti-aircraft gun, Vincent!"
* BlackAndGrayMorality: Runs the gamut from 'dodgy but basically okay AntiHero' to 'CompleteMonster'.
* BlackComedy
* BlackGuyDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Inverted. Sol, Vinnie and Tyrone are on the very short list of people who ''don't'' die, although Sol and Vinnie get nicked.]]
* BlatantLies: Boris telling people that the weight of any weapon he sells them is a sign or reliability.
* BloodSport: The various unlicensed boxing events as well as Brick Top's dogfighting racket and the pikeys' hare coursing.
* SmittenTeenageGirl: Tommy seems to have quite the soft spot for Mickey's mam...
* {{Callback}}: The Madonna track that Tony hears on the radio and gushes over is the same song that was playing when he got shot in flashback.
* ClusterFBomb:
** Avi is waiting to explode into them at any time.
-->'''Doug the Head''': Avi!
-->'''Avi''': Shut up and sit down, you big bald fuck. I don't like leaving my country, Doug, and I especially don't like leaving it for anything other than white sandy beaches and drinks with little straw hats.
-->'''Doug the Head''': We've got sandy beaches, Avi.
-->'''Avi''': So? Who the fuck wants to see 'em?
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aoPYFD9Eno Just watch this DVD extra]].
** Avi's tendency to drop a ClusterFBomb at any moment isn't too surprising when you consider that he's played by the same guy who brought us [[GetShorty Ray Bones]].
** According to IMDB the word "fuck" is said 163 times in the movie. The movie is 104 minutes long so it's said about one and half times per minute.
* ChekhovsGun: Turkish mocks Tommy for buying a gun, then mocks him further when the gun turns out to be defective, but Tommy successfully uses it to hold off Brick Top's {{Mooks}} and secure their escape.
* TheChessmaster: Of all people, [[spoiler: Mickey. There's a reason he kept winning those fights. He wanted to]].
* CriticalResearchFailure: In-universe. Tommy repeats the common myth that drinking milk is 'not in sync with evolution' and that the human digestive system 'hasn't gotten used to it yet', which [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence is complete nonsense where Europeans are concerned]]. Turkish's reaction says it all, really.
-->'''Turkish:''' Well, fuck me. What ''have'' you been reading?
* DeadpanSnarker: Turkish. Completely. Tony also has more than a touch of it.
** "Well, c'mon. Before ''ze Germans'' get here."
** Tommy is panicking about what to do if any of the countless things that can go wrong with the plan they're forced into go wrong. Turkish has no trouble working out the right thing to do but Tommy doesn't seem too happy with a plan involving "get murdered before we leave the building and I imagine we get fed to the pigs."
** "You show me how to control a wild fucking Pikey, and I'll show you how to control an UNHINGED, pig-feeding gangster!"
** Bullet-Tooth Tony and Avi spend most of their part in the proceedings dealing with things via copious amounts of heavy sarcasm as well.
---> '''Bullettooth Tony''': Boris the Bullet-Dodger?\\
'''Avi''': Why do they call him that?\\
'''Bullettooth Tony''': ...Because he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin dodges bullets]], Avi.
** "Anything to declare?" "Yeah -- don't go to England!"
** Let's face it, [[WorldOfSnark most characters in this film qualify]].
* DisposingOfABody:
** Brick Top's very ''detailed'' description of how to [[FedToPigs feed a body to pigs]].
** Lincoln points out that "bad boy yardies" generally ''create'' the bodies without thought of ''erasing'' the bodies.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Upon learning that Mickey won't fight unless his mother is bought a new caravan, Brick Top's response is to set fire to Mickey's mother's existing caravan... while she's still asleep inside of it. And plans to wipe out Mickey's entire clan if he doesn't throw the fight. [[spoiler: Which means that Mickey's own revenge on Brick Top in fact comes across as pretty well deserved.]]
* TheDitz: Sol, Vinnie and Tyrone, as well as Tommy.
* DramatisPersonae
* TheDreaded: Brick Top.
* EpicFail: Anything attempted by Sol, Vince, or Tyrone. The bookie robbery deserves special mention.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** Brick Top ordering a pair of {{Mooks}} tasered and suffocated to death with plastic bags...in full view of witnesses, whom he then effortlessly intimidates into silence.
** Bullet-Tooth Tony repeatedly slamming a man's head in a car door, then pausing to answer his car phone with a jaunty, "Bonjour!"
** The credits montage that opens the movie is essentially catching every single character in the middle of a split-second establishing moment.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Tony's reaction to Avi's command to "look in the dog."
** "What do you ''mean'' 'LOOK IN THE DOG'?!"
* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: ?????
* EvilOldFolks: Brick Top.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
-->'''Avi:''' Why do they call him the "bullet dodger"?
-->'''Tony:''' ...Because he dodges bullets, Avi.
** Also Bullet Tooth Tony, so named because of his false teeth which are bullets set in gold (bullets he was shot with no less)
* ExtremeOmnivore: The dog.
* FakeBrit: Brad Pitt. (with a bizarre version of the Traveller accent; type "Irish traveller" into YouTube if you want to know what he should sound like)
** Supposedly Pitt proved incapable of learning to speak with a 'proper' British accent, so Guy Ritchie decided to go with that instead.
* FakeUltimateHero: Possibly Bullet-Tooth Tony. He has a reputation for being MadeOfIron due to supposedly having survived being shot six times at one sitting, but [[spoiler:Avi kills him stone dead with a single stray shot]].
** Of course, Tony survived being shot by a small compact pistol, not a [[HandCannon Desert Eagle]]. Guess the guy who wanted to kill him simply needed bigger bullets.
* FatBastard / FatIdiot: Tyrone
-->'''[[ThoseTwoBadGuys John and Errol]]:'''"Ah. Tyrone. You silly fat bastard."
* FixingTheGame: Brick Top runs crooked boxing matches. Turkish does not.
* ForcedPrizeFight
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Bricktop wears gigantic old fart glasses.
* GambitPileup: Including attempted ones done by people who are ''really'' bad at [[TheChessmaster chess]].
* TheGamblingAddict: Frankie Four Fingers
* GenreBusting
* GilliganCut:
-->'''Rosebud:''' I hate Russians. I'll take care of him.
-->'''Tony:''' He's all yours, Rosebud, me old son.
-->'''Rosebud:''' Not a problem.
-->[''cut to Rosebud bleeding from his scalp'']
-->'''Rosebud:''' You gotta get me to a doctor! Shoot that fuck! And ''then'' get me to a doctor!
* GroinAttack: Suffered by Tommy when he attempted to complain to Boris about the defective firearm he'd been sold. Boris had recently been run over and was in no mood to listen.
* HandCannon: Tony's Desert Eagle.
** Tommy's enormous revolver as well. Except the gun would do more damage if you fed it to someone.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Turkish and Tommy.
* HeyItsThatGuy: The main Traveller who isn't Mickey or Mickey's mam is played by Jason Flemyng, who was Tom in ''Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels''. In the DVD commentary, the filmmakers joke about how much screen time Flemyng managed to nab for himself in what was supposed to be a cameo.
** Avi is [[LawAndOrder Detective Fontana]], [[FightClub Tyler Durden]] is getting into fights again, and Tommy looks an awful lot like both [[BoardwalkEmpire Al Capone]] ''and'' [[PublicEnemies Baby Face Nelson]].
** The random informant that Bullet Tooth Tony drags through the street by his tie while driving is [[{{Trainspotting}} Spud]].
* HumiliationConga: Basically what Avi is subjected to over the course of the movie.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Avi is rather easily excitable.
** And Rosebud, Avi's henchman, accidedently stabs himself.
* ImplacableMan: Tony and Boris both.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Sol, Vinnie and Tyrone.
** If you consider them to be villains. This troper considers them to be the protagonists in their little part of the story.
** Cousin Avi might count. He's clearly a ruthless criminal and not an incredibly nice man, but the movie takes what would normally be a pretty clear-cut villain (the ruthless mob boss who gets something stolen from him and goes on a quest to get it back by any means necessary) and instead sends him blundering through an increasingly humiliating and exasperating comedy of errors until you kind of want him to get the diamond since it's sort-of supposed to be his anyway.
* InformedFlaw: Doug's view of Bullet-Tooth Tony as 'a liability' doesn't seem entirely fair, since he's pretty much a paragon of [[TheAce efficient,]] [[TheStoic understated]] [[BadAss badassery]] throughout the film. Yes, in real life you'd probably get pulled in for driving along with an informant's head trapped in your car window or drawing a Desert Eagle in a pub - but [[PoliceAreUseless in a universe where one can apparently limp freely through London flourishing an assault rifle and muttering to oneself in Uzbek,]] that's not really relevant.
* IrishTravellers
* IronicNickname: Brick Top probably received his nickname ''before'' his hair went grey.
* {{Irony}}: To such a degree that 'Ironic Situations' could be a replacement title for the movie. Some notable examples include:
** Sol, Vincent and Tyrone are hired by Boris to rob Frankie as he's putting a bet on at the bookies under cover of robbing the entire establishment. They sit outside for hours waiting for him to show up... completely unaware that he was in the van they rear-ended as they arrived and was knocked unconscious by the collision.
** [[spoiler: Tommy and Turkish, the only two main characters who were not involved in the diamond plot and had no idea it even existed, end up acquiring and profiting from it.]]
* [[JerkAss Jerkasses]]: Everyone. Cousin Avi and Brick Top in particular.
* KickTheDog: There's no real reason to dislike Avi until he gives a certain command involving a dog. Bricktop is also seen killing two {{Mooks}} and brutalizing dogs early in the film to establish him as a villain amongst villains. When he order the burning of Mickey's caravan with his mother still inside, he crosses a MoralEventHorizon.
* KnuckleCracking: Tony does this, but Mickey takes the cake. He spends most of the fight against Gorgeous methodically cracking his entire skeleton, before [[CurbStompBattle laying him out with one punch]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: By the end of the film, [[spoiler:Turkish and Tommy, the only people who didn't try anything more criminal or morally questionable than ''surviving'' and who didn't even know the diamond existed, end up profiting from it. Everyone else is either dead, arrested, or suffered a severe loss.]]
** Except [[spoiler: Mickey, who actually out-gambitted everyone. [[DownerEnding Although his mom was killed]]...]]
*** Also, [[spoiler:it's implied that Avi will get the diamond, and therefore a big profit, which probably goes a long way toward making up for the losses of Frankie and Rosebud]].
* LaughablyEvil: Even for a Guy Ritchie movie, Brick Top is truly a complete monster, brutalizing dogs and people both, committing multiple cold blooded murders and threatening to wipe out an entire Traveller clan. He's also ''really'' funny, and gets many of the best lines in the movie.
* LawOfInverseRecoil: A Desert Eagle .50 Action Express doesn't seem to have a lot of recoil when fired one-handed by both Tony and Cousin Avi.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Boris' theme music plays every single moment that he is on screen. At one point he walks into a house and we can hear his theme song muffled through the walls.
* LikesOlderWomen: Tommy seems to have quite the soft spot for Mickey's mam...
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* LondonGangster: Brick Top, and several others.
* MacGuffin: The 86 carat diamond. Several characters spend much of the film trying to get the diamond, [[spoiler:however by the end of the film, most of the bad guys end up in jail or dead. The diamond gets swallowed by a dog which in turn is adopted by Turkish and Tommy, the only main characters who were not involved with the diamond plot.]]
* MadeOfIron: Tony having survived getting shot six times (in one sitting) in the past automatically qualifies him. Boris earned his nickname "The Bullet-Dodger" by, well, dodging bullets [[spoiler:and it takes a full magazine from Tony's Desert Eagle .50 to lay him out for good]]. And Mickey, who gives his first opponent about 8 free hits before laying him out.
* TheMafiya: Boris isn't actually a "sneaky fuckin' Russian," but a sneaky fuckin' Uzbek[[strike:istanian]].
* MeaningfulName: Played with. Boris' two nicknames (Boris the Blade and Boris the Bullet Dodger) actually aren't all that accurate. He's only seen using a blade once in the entire movie, and he doesn't dodge bullets so much as absorb them. His third name "Boris the sneaky fucking Russian" is a bit more accurate (although technically he's an Uzbekistanian).
* NotSoDifferent: Sol and Vincent are essentially a slightly more dodgy and violent (and in Sol's case, slightly less smart) version of Turkish and Tommy.
* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: Bullet Tooth Tony, when being threatened with replica guns.
* OhCrap: Several moments: Bad Boy Lincoln when he recognizes Bricktop, Turkish and Tommy's reaction when Mickey knocks out Bricktop's fighter (both times).
--> '''Turkish''' Now, we are fucked.
** Sol, Vince and Tyrone's reactions to Bullet Tooth Tony's Desert Eagle, and Avi's reaction to [[spoiler: accidentally killing Bullet Tooth Tony.]]
*** Bricktop gets a retroactive one; at the climax, he see him hang up his phone with a troubled expression on his face. It's only after a flashback that we realize it's because his plan to teach Mickey a lesson by killing his entire clan has gone badly wrong.
** The guy who tried to shoot Tony six times in flashback also looks rather anxious when Tony [[WhyWontYouDie refuses to 'fucking die']] and comes at him with a sword.
** Mickey gets one in the last fight in the movie, when he almost knocks the other fighter out in the first round. [[spoiler: He's worried because he knows that his friends haven't had enough time to take care of Brick Top's men, and if he won the fight that early, they'd all be fucked. [[RunningGag Proper fucked]].]]
* OnlySaneMan: Turkish seems to be the only main character in the film who is not too greedy, crazy, or stupid.
* PlethoraOfMistakes
* PoliceAreUseless: The only time we even ''see'' any policemen comes after all the action is over and all the bad guys are dead.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Avi constantly refers to Boris as a "Cossack."
* PreemptiveShutUp: Brick Top, to Errol:
--> '''Errol''': ''[to Turkish]'' Oi, fuckface, was he talking to you?
--> '''Turkish''': Fuckface, huh? I like that. I'll have to remember that next time I'm crawling off [[YourMom your Mum]].
--> '''Brick Top''': ''[to Errol]'' Not now.
* PreMortemOneLiner: The Traveller played by Jason Flemyng delivers a pretty good one to Brick Top before he blows away one of Bricktop's men:
--->'''Brick Top''': ''[On mobile]'' Pete, talk to me.
--->'''Traveller''': ''[On Pete's phone]'' If you want yer friend to hear ye, ye'll have to talk a lot louder than that. ''[BANG]''
* PsychoSerum: Turkish attributes both Boris' [[MadeOfIron near-invulnerability]] and his [[AxCrazy extreme]] [[BunnyEarsLawyer kookiness]] to "one too many disco-biscuits".
* RapidFireComedy: It's best to watch this film on DVD so you can pause it to crack up laughing without missing another joke in the process. They're "blink and you'll miss it" at times.
* RareGuns: The two most prominent firearms in the film is a Franchi [=SPAS-12S=] shotgun ("That's a fucking anti-aircraft gun, Vincent!") and Tony's Desert Eagle "Point Five-Oh".
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Boris, appropriately.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Bullet Tooth Tony delivers [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome a magnificent one]] to Sol, Vinny, and Tyrone when they attempt to get the diamond back.
-->'''Tony''': So. You're obviously the big dick. And the men on either side of you are your balls. There are two types of balls. There are big brave balls and there are little mincy faggot balls.
-->'''Vinny''': These are your last words so make them a prayer.
-->'''Tony''': Now dicks have drive and clarity of vision, but they're not clever. They smell pussy and they want a piece of the action. And you thought you smelled some good ole pussy and have brought your two little mincy faggot balls along for a good ole time. But you've got your parties muddled up. There's no pussy here. Just a dose that'll make you wish you were born a woman. Like a prick, you're having second thoughts. You're shrinking. And your two little balls are shrinking with you. And the fact that you've got 'Replica' written down the side of your guns...''[they look in horror at their guns]'' and the fact that I've got ''Desert Eagle, point-five-oh'' written on the side of mine ''[They look at his with even more horror]'' should precipitate your balls into shrinking, along with your presence. Now... ''[he sips his drink]'' ...Fuck off.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: "It had previously occurred to me that the pikey had taken the demise of his mother rather lightly. But for every action, there's a ''re''action. And a pikey reaction...is quite a fucking thing."
* RobbingTheMobBank: Or in this case, the mob bookie.
-->"Do you know who this bookies belongs to?"
* RunningGag: Mostly just repeated phrases like "sneaky fuckin' Russian", "Franky fuckin' Four Fingers", "I fucking hate pikeys", "proper fucked", and "ze Germans".
** People keep getting killed in the back of Sol and Vincent's shop. The killers keep leaving Sol and Vincent to deal with the bodies.
* [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Pretty much said word-for-word by Sol after witnessing a massive shoot out which they only just managed to survive.
--> 'Fuck it, we're outta here.'
* ShirtlessScene: Brad Pitt as a bareknuckle boxer spends a lot of time with his shirt off, exposing his numerous gypsy tats and chiseled abs.
* ShoutOut: Bullet Tooth Tony is introduced in a scene where he is continuously banging a car door off the head of some random Mook in the same manner as Big Chris (Also played by Vinnie Jones) does in ''LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels''.
* SophisticatedAsHell
-->'''Brick Top:''' Do you know what Nemesis means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by a 'orrible cunt. Me.
* SpiritualSuccessor: For ''LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels''. Similar tone, subject matter, and some crossover in cast and crew. Vinnie Jones is shown crushing someone's head in a car door in both films.
* StealthPun: Brad Pitt's character first appears performing the act that 'Brad Pitt' is [[http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/brad_pitt rhyming slang]] for.
* StupidCrooks: Sol, Vinny, and Tyrone. Apparently, everything they do was inspired by stories shared on late night talk show monologues.
* TakeAThirdOption: Apparently trying to back the IrishTravellers into a corner is a ''really'' bad idea.
* ThisIsSPARTA:
** Attempted, poorly, by a wannabe badass, but it might have been better if it weren't aimed at [[MemeticBadass Vinnie Jones]].
** "All. Bets. Are. Off."
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: John and Errol, Brick Top's two main henchmen.
* ThoseWackyNazis: Referenced. When Tommy reveals he has bought a gun "for protection", Turkish replies "Who from? Ze Germans?"
* ThrowingTheFight: Mickey is asked to do this twice. He's not too keen on the idea.
* TookALevelInBadass: Tommy, Turkish's timid little sidekick, grows a pair of giant BrassBalls before the movie is over. [[spoiler:He saves Turkish's ass by walking in with his defective HandCannon and facing down a half-dozen of Brick Top's mooks armed with various bladed and blunt weapons. When [[TheDragon Errol]] advances on him, does he back down, knowing his gun won't fire? Nope. He steps forward, shoves the gun in Errol's face and ''dares'' him to try anything.]]
* ToThePain: Brick Top describing [[FedToPigs "the best way"]] to dispose of a body to Sol and Vinnie.
* TranquilFury: For Brick Top, "loud and aggressive" is his default mode. When he gets ''really'' angry, he gets very quiet.
* TheUnintelligible: The Pikeys, Mickey in particular. [[FunWithSubtitles The subtitle feature of the DVD reads "???????" at a certain point.]]
* UnusualEuphemism:
** Minerals (fancy way of saying "stones").
** Tony shouting to Avi "Pull your socks up!" as a way to warn him to duck, before he shoots through the wall.
* VillainousBreakdown: For a given value of 'villain' (he's certainly not nearly as bad as some in this movie), Avi spends most of the movie getting more and more edgy and irate with things until he's eventually reduced to firing a gun wildly at a dog. One gets the feeling he'd been wanting to shoot something/one for a while by that point.
-->'''''I HATE FUCKING DOGS!'''''
* WeaponForIntimidation: Despite Tommy's revolver being defective, he successfully uses it to hold up Brick Top's mooks when they have Turkish surrounded.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Tyrone's fate is not immediately clear; he appears to survive the showdown at the pub unscathed, and we last see him running off, but nothing more is mentioned of him.
* [[WhyWontYouDie Why Won't You Fuckin' DIE?]]: Screamed at Tony in a flashback.
* TheYardies: Lincoln (played by Goldie) is described as "a bad boy Yardie."
* YouHaveToHaveJews: Doug the Head obviously believes this, because he ''pretends'' to be Jewish thinking it's good for business, "because when you're in the diamond trade... it ''is'' good business".
* YourMom:
-->'''Errol''': Oy, fuckface. Was he talking to you?
-->'''Turkish''': Fuckface, huh? I like that. I'll have to remember it next time I'm crawling off your Mum.
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