History Film / TangoAndCash

* CoolCar: A fashionably-militarized 1988 Chevrolet Silverado 2500.
--->'''Cash''': Do you have ''any'' idea of what we're working with here?! This is a ''violent'' work of ''art''!
--->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Tango]]''': And who owns the pink slip? Satan?

* ChekhovsGun: Cash's backup weapon is used to frame him.

* RelativeError: Cash initially assumes Tango's sister to be his girlfriend. For that matter, so did probably most viewers, since it's never spelled out until Tango accidentally walks on on them. Which, when you think about it, unwittingly makes Cash far more of an asshole when he starts flirting with her behind Tango's back than he would [[MySisterIsOffLimits otherwise be]].

* ComplexityAddiction: Perret's plan is absurdly complicated and it's lampshaded as such by the other crime lords that hear it when he proposes it. Perret's response is that it's needed to make sure that Tango and Cash don't end up becoming martyrs amongst the other cops. The other crime lords end up agreeing as a result at the moment. When the titular duo manages to escape prison they tell Perret that they believe his plan didn't worked and are going to send assassins to find them, and Perret belts out a borderline-whiny BigNo in response that shuts them up and they never do it.

* ComplexityAddiction: Perret's plan is absurdly complicated and it's lampshaded as such by the other crime lords that hear it when he proposes it. Perret's response is that it's needed to make sure that Tango and Cash don't end up becoming martyrs amongst the other cops. The other crime lords end up agreeing as a result.

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* LargeHam: [[EvilIsHammy Perret]], played with much gusto by Jack Palance. He sees the StormingTheCastle CarChase on his office's screens and cheers for his henchmen like he was watching the SuperBowl!

* Troperrific: One of the last movies Hollywood released in the 1980s (it came out December 22nd, 1989) it seems out to cram every single '80s action movie moment into one movie, although it can swing wildly between [[Deconstruction]] and [[PlayingItStraight]], sometimes in the same scene.

** Cash sitting in a chair on the throat of a suspect, despite him having already asked for an attorney.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Tango's use of innuendo puts him in this category. It's never confirmed or denied.

* BilingualBonus: "Requin" is [[GratuitousFrench French]] for "Shark".

--->'''Cash''': Do you have ''any'' idea of what we're working with here?! This is a '''violent''' work of '''art'''!

* CowboyCop: Tango and Cash are this-Tango just [[BadassInANiceSuit rocks a fine suit while doing it]].

* EightiesHair: A massive afro-like mullet worn by Katherine, as played by Creator/TeriHatcher.

* InnocentInnuendo: The back massage scene (Cash and Katherine are working on putting one of Cash's shoulder plates back into place. The excited, pleased sounds and talking about how "I can feel it's almost in!" don't really make Tango any comfortable).

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Cash sitting in a chair on the throat of a suspect, despite him having already asked for an attorney.

* MySisterIsOffLimits: Tango's, see above.
--->'''Cash''': Look, all I'm saying is that I'm not going to approach her unless you give me your blessing.
--->'''Tango''' (with which he has been talking to before StormingTheCastle, and the banter has been pretty much a pre-emptive ItHasBeenAnHonor just in case): In '''that''' case... never.

* {{Sexophone}}: PlayedForLaughs during Cash's "drag scene".

* ShowerScene: Complete with SlipperySoap gag.

* RelativeError: Cash initially assumes Tango's sister to be his girlfriend. Which, when you think about it, unwittingly makes Cash far more of an asshole when he starts flirting with her behind Tango's back than he would [[MySisterIsOffLimits otherwise be]].

* BringMyBrownPants: Requin wets himself when Tango drops a grenade down his pants during an interrogation.

* FanService: Despite heavily targeting a male demographic, seeing the backsides of Stallone and Russell in the shower scene likely helped many a girlfriend sit through this film. Meanwhile, plenty of FanService is also provided for the male viewers, mainly in the form of several topless women and Teri Hatcher doing a strip dance in front of a giant fan (she's a stripper and her bar has some high-quality routines... ItMakesSenseInContext).
* EightiesHair: A massive afro-like mullet worn by Katherine, as played by Teri Hatcher.

* [[GoodCopBadCop Bad Cop, Worse Cop]]: Invoked with much relish by Tango and Cash while interrogating Requin. The "worse cop" part involves a grenade ''duct-taped to Requin's mouth'', by the way.

* DeadpanSnarker: Cash. Tango has his moments as well, most of them aimed at Cash (look up on CoolCar for an example). He later shoots one last dig at the fact that Owen was the inventor of Cash's "[[ShoePhone bazooka]]-[[ArmedLegs boots]]".

* BiggusDickus: InvertedTrope: Tango makes several jokes throughout the movie about the fact Cash's penis is smaller than his own (which they discover in the prison showers).

* DisguisedInDrag: Cash, when he gets away from the strip club that Katherine works in with Katherine in tow. [[MissedASpotCheck The cops don't look close enough (even when they are at point-blank range)]], mistaking Katherine and Cash for a pair of [[ButchLesbian Butch Lesbians]].

BadassBoast: When a character claims that Tango "[[ActorAllusion thinks he's]] Franchise/{{Rambo}}," Tango replies that "Rambo is a pussy." He stops just short of prefacing it with "compared to me."

* BadassBoast: When a character claims that Tango "[[ActorAllusion thinks he's]] Franchise/{{Rambo}}," Tango replies that "Rambo is a pussy." He stops just short of prefacing it with "compared to me."

--->'''Cash''': Do you have ''any'' idea of what we're working here?! This is a '''violent''' work of '''art'''!

* DeadpanSnarker: Cash. Tango has his moments as well, most of them aimed at Cash (look up on CoolCar for an example. He later shoots one last dig at the fact that Owen was the inventor of Cash's "[[ShoePhone bazooka-boots]]".
* DisguisedInDrag: Cash, when he gets away from the strip club that Katherine works in with Katherine in tow. The cops don't look close enough (even when they are at point-blank range), mistaking Katherine and Cash for a pair of [[ButchLesbian Butch Lesbians]].