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* HateSink: None of the scammers are remotely likable people, as they're almost exclusively populated by sleazy, overconfident techbros who seem to actively delight in draining innocent people dry of their money. It makes Clay utterly destroying their organization all the more cathartic.

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* HateSink: None of The people managing the scammers entire conspiracy are not remotely likable people, as they're almost exclusively populated by likable, being nothing more than a bunch of sleazy, overconfident techbros shysters who seem to actively delight in draining innocent people dry of their money. money and are nothing more than [[DirtyCoward Dirty Cowards]] when finally faced with someone their security can't handle. It makes Clay utterly destroying their organization them all the more cathartic.
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* HateSink: None of the scammers are remotely likable people, as they're almost exclusively populated by sleazy, overconfident techbros who seem to actively delight in draining innocent people dry of their money. It makes Clay utterly destroying their organization all the more cathartic.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: During a briefing with his elite operatives, Westwyld makes it clear that Clay outmatches each of them by leagues and that their only real chance against him is superior numbers. [[spoiler:Clay also proves to be more than a match for his successor in the Beekeeper organisation.]]


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* DiscOneFinalBoss: After a request from the CIA, [[spoiler:Anisette, the current active Beekeeper]], is dispatched to take out Clay. He kills her in short order and her superiors resolve to [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere remain neutral for the rest of the conflict.]]
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* CIAEvilFBIGood: Downplayed but the FBI is generally seen trying to uphold the law and bring in the bad guys whereas one of Danforth’s top advisors is a former CIA director and isn’t above reaching out to his old contacts in the organisation to put a hit out on Clay.


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* GoodIsNotNice:
** Clay may be firmly on the side of justice so he spares innocent people’s lives when going after the bad guys but that doesn’t mean he won’t break a few heads if people get in his way.
** FBI agent Verona Parker is a self-confessed asshole but still firmly on the side of good, despite her CowboyCop tendencies.


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* OhCrap: The general reaction of anyone who knows about the Beekeepers and finds out that they’re dealing with one is this.


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* SmugSnake: Most of the villains, particularly the management types, are extremely arrogant and tend to sneer at Clay, right up until [[OhCrap they realise who they’re dealing with.]]
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->"''We have to kill him. Before he kills his way to the top his way to the top."''

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''The Beekeeper'' is an upcoming 2024 action thriller film written by Kurt Wimmer (''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'', ''Film/{{Ultraviolet|2006}}'') and directed by Creator/DavidAyer. It stars Creator/JasonStatham, [[Creator/EmmyRaverLampman Emmy Raver-Lampman]], Creator/JoshHutcherson, Bobby Naderi, Creator/MinnieDriver, Creator/PhyliciaRashad, and Creator/JeremyIrons.

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''The Beekeeper'' is an upcoming a 2024 action thriller film written by Kurt Wimmer (''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'', ''Film/{{Ultraviolet|2006}}'') and directed by Creator/DavidAyer. It stars Creator/JasonStatham, [[Creator/EmmyRaverLampman Emmy Raver-Lampman]], Creator/JoshHutcherson, Bobby Naderi, Creator/MinnieDriver, Creator/PhyliciaRashad, and Creator/JeremyIrons.
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* CreditsGag: Every instance of the letter "O" in the opening credits is shaped like the hexagon of a honeycomb.

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Statham plays Mr. Clay, an unassuming beekeeper whose close friend and neighbor (Rashad) is driven to suicide after being caught in a malicious phishing scam. What the scammers do not know is that for Clay, beekeeping doesn’t just mean collecting honey - it means he’s a former member of a covert organization working outside the chain of command seeking to protect the innocent. Clay soon sets off on a path of revenge against the scammers that threatens to expose a conspiracy reaching to the highest corporate and governmental levels. The film will premiere January 12, 2024.

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Statham plays Mr. Clay, an unassuming beekeeper whose close friend and neighbor (Rashad) is driven to suicide after being caught in a malicious phishing scam. What the scammers do not know is that for Clay, beekeeping doesn’t just mean collecting honey - it means he’s a former member of a covert organization working outside the chain of command seeking to protect the innocent. Clay soon sets off on a path of revenge against the scammers that threatens to expose a conspiracy reaching to the highest corporate and governmental levels. The film will premiere was released January 12, 2024.

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* {{Fingore}}: Clay does this to the scammer leader during a shootout scene when he severs the scammer’s fingers with a bandsaw.

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* {{Fingore}}: {{Fingore}}:
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Clay does this to the scammer leader during a shootout scene when he severs the scammer’s fingers with a bandsaw.bandsaw.
** After [[spoiler:killing another Beekeeper who was sent after him, Clay cuts off her index finger so that he can access her own compound via fingerprint scanner]].

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* AssholeVictim: Derek Danforth is responsible for [[spoiler:hacking CIA software to steal money from people nobody would care about to finance his mother's presidential campaign without her knowledge]]. In the end, basically nobody cares enough about Derek to save his life directly.

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* AssholeVictim: AssholeVictim:
** Mickey Garnett, the head of the call center that gleefully scammed Eloise, [[spoiler:meets his end when Clay straps him to a truck and drives it off a bridge, taking Mickey with it.]]
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Derek Danforth is responsible for [[spoiler:hacking CIA software to steal money from people nobody would care about to finance his mother's presidential campaign without her knowledge]]. In the end, basically nobody cares enough about Derek to save his life directly.
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"''We have to kill him. Before he kills his way to the top his way to the top."''

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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Clay notes that Eloise is basically the only person he ever knew who tries to take care of ''him'', inspiring him to go to significant lengths to avenge her death.



* TheDeterminator: Clay is willing to go to any lengths to punish the people responsible for Eloise's suicide.



* DrivenToSuicide: Rashad’s character shoots herself in the head after losing her savings to the scammers.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Notably, Clay never kills anyone who's just trying to protect the Danforths because they're doing their jobs, whether they be police, FBI or Secret Service, inflicting enough damage to put them down without inflicting fatal damage. By contrast, he has no problem delivering fatal damage to people who were directly employed by Danforth and his associates.

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* DrivenToSuicide: Rashad’s character Eloise Parker shoots herself in the head after losing her savings to the scammers.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Notably, Clay never kills anyone who's just trying to protect the Danforths because they're doing their jobs, whether they be police, FBI or Secret Service, inflicting doing enough damage to put take them down out of the immediate fight without inflicting fatal damage.injuries. By contrast, he has no problem delivering fatal damage to people who were directly employed by Danforth and his associates.



* NoodleIncident: One of the people hired by the Danforths killed a Beekeeper in the past, but he makes it clear that he knows he only won that fight because he got lucky, and it still cost him a leg.

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* NoodleIncident: One of the people hired by the Danforths killed a Beekeeper in the past, but he this man makes it clear that he knows he only won that fight because he got lucky, and it still cost him a leg.

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* AnArmAndALeg: The only person known to have killed a Beekeeper lost a leg in the process.
* AssholeVictim: Derek Danforth is responsible for [[spoiler:hacking CIA software to steal money from people nobody would care about to finance his mother's presidential campaign without her knowledge]]. In the end, basically nobody cares enough about Derek to save his life directly.



* DrivenToSuicide: In the trailer, Rashad’s character shoots herself in the head after losing her savings to the scammers.
* {{Fingore}}: In the trailer, Clay does this to the scammer leader during a shootout scene when he severs the scammer’s fingers with a bandsaw.
* GatlingGood: In the trailer, Clay finds himself under attack from a moon with a large, car-mounted gatling gun.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In the trailer, after his friend is driven to suicide after being scammed, Mr. Clay travels to the scammer’s headquarters, attacks them, douses them in gasoline, and blows up the building.
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* DrivenToSuicide: In the trailer, Rashad’s character shoots herself in the head after losing her savings to the scammers.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Notably, Clay never kills anyone who's just trying to protect the Danforths because they're doing their jobs, whether they be police, FBI or Secret Service, inflicting enough damage to put them down without inflicting fatal damage. By contrast, he has no problem delivering fatal damage to people who were directly employed by Danforth and his associates.
* EvilCounterpart: At one point, [[spoiler:another Beekeeper is dispatched to try and kill Clay, with this Beekeeper being described as a psychopath who should have been retired years ago]].
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{{Fingore}}: In the trailer, Clay does this to the scammer leader during a shootout scene when he severs the scammer’s fingers with a bandsaw.
* GatlingGood: In the trailer, Clay finds himself under attack from a moon [[spoiler:another Beekeeper]] with a large, car-mounted gatling gun.
* NoodleIncident: One of the people hired by the Danforths killed a Beekeeper in the past, but he makes it clear that he knows he only won that fight because he got lucky, and it still cost him a leg.
* PresidentEvil: President Danforth's son [[spoiler:funded her campaign using money stolen as part of his phishing scams. Subverted as she didn't know he went this far in his support]].
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RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In the trailer, after After his friend is driven to suicide after being scammed, Mr. Clay travels to the scammer’s headquarters, attacks them, douses them in gasoline, and blows up the building.
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building. He then sets off to track the money all the way back to the person behind the whole scam, [[spoiler:the son of the newly-elected President of the United States]].
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: The Beekeepers as an organisation agree to send an operative after Clay at first, but after that operative is killed they make it clear that they will be adopting a neutral stance on Clay's efforts.
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* DirtyCoward: The scammer leader doesn’t confront Clay directly; instead he has his men [[CurbStompBattle attempt]] to fight him.
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* Fingore: In the trailer, Clay does this to the scammer leader during a shootout scene when he severs the scammer’s fingers with a bandsaw.

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* Fingore: {{Fingore}}: In the trailer, Clay does this to the scammer leader during a shootout scene when he severs the scammer’s fingers with a bandsaw.
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->''"I protect the hive. When the system is out of balance, I correct it."''
-->-- '''Mr. Clay'''



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''The Beekeeper'' is a 2024 action thriller film written by Kurt Wimmer (''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'', ''Film/{{Ultraviolet|2006}}'') and directed by Creator/DavidAyer. It stars Creator/JasonStatham, [[Creator/EmmyRaverLampman Emmy Raver-Lampman]], Creator/JoshHutcherson, Bobby Naderi, Creator/MinnieDriver, Creator/PhyliciaRashad, and Creator/JeremyIrons.

Statham plays Mr. Clay, an unassuming beekeeper whose close friend and neighbor (Rashad) is driven to suicide after being caught in a malicious phishing scam. What the scammers do not know is that for Clay, beekeeping doesn’t just mean collecting honey - it means he’s a former member of a covert organization working outside the chain of command seeking to protect the innocent. Clay soon sets off on a path of revenge agains the scammers that threatens to expose a conspiracy reaching to the highest corporate and governmental levels. The film will premiere January 12, 2024.

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''The Beekeeper'' is a an upcoming 2024 action thriller film written by Kurt Wimmer (''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'', ''Film/{{Ultraviolet|2006}}'') and directed by Creator/DavidAyer. It stars Creator/JasonStatham, [[Creator/EmmyRaverLampman Emmy Raver-Lampman]], Creator/JoshHutcherson, Bobby Naderi, Creator/MinnieDriver, Creator/PhyliciaRashad, and Creator/JeremyIrons.

Statham plays Mr. Clay, an unassuming beekeeper whose close friend and neighbor (Rashad) is driven to suicide after being caught in a malicious phishing scam. What the scammers do not know is that for Clay, beekeeping doesn’t just mean collecting honey - it means he’s a former member of a covert organization working outside the chain of command seeking to protect the innocent. Clay soon sets off on a path of revenge agains against the scammers that threatens to expose a conspiracy reaching to the highest corporate and governmental levels. The film will premiere January 12, 2024.
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* GattlingGood: In the trailer, Clay finds himself under attack from a moon with a large, car-mounted machine gun.

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* GattlingGood: In the trailer, Clay finds himself under attack from a moon with a large, car-mounted machine gun.
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* TheConspiracy: A mix of CorporateConspiracy and GovernmentConspiracy - in the trailer, Clay recognizes the scammer’s efforts as more than a mere phishing scam, with another character indicating that the money is going to high level individuals in finance and government.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In the trailer, after his friend is driven to suicide after being scammed, Mr. Clay travels to the scammer’s headquarters, attacks them, douses them in gasoline, and blows up the building.
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* AdvertisingByAssociation: The trailer bills the film as being from the director of ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'' and ''Film/{{Fury|2014}}''.
* DrivenToSuicide: In the trailer, Rashad’s character shoots herself in the head after losing her savings to the scammers.
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''The Beekeeper'' is a 2024 action thriller film written by Kurt Wimmer (''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'', ''Film/{{Ultraviolet|2006}}'') and directed by Creator/DavidAyer.

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''The Beekeeper'' is a 2024 action thriller film written by Kurt Wimmer (''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'', ''Film/{{Ultraviolet|2006}}'') and directed by Creator/DavidAyer. It stars Creator/JasonStatham, [[Creator/EmmyRaverLampman Emmy Raver-Lampman]], Creator/JoshHutcherson, Bobby Naderi, Creator/MinnieDriver, Creator/PhyliciaRashad, and Creator/JeremyIrons.

Statham plays Mr. Clay, an unassuming beekeeper whose close friend and neighbor (Rashad) is driven to suicide after being caught in a malicious phishing scam. What the scammers do not know is that for Clay, beekeeping doesn’t just mean collecting honey - it means he’s a former member of a covert organization working outside the chain of command seeking to protect the innocent. Clay soon sets off on a path of revenge agains the scammers that threatens to expose a conspiracy reaching to the highest corporate and governmental levels. The film will premiere January 12, 2024.

'''Previews:''' [[https://youtu.be/SzINZZ6iqxY?si=jz89fAAPi4trtTd2 Restricted Trailer]]
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