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* UnnecessaryRoughness: The film opens with a star football player getting high on PCP and SHOOTING 3 defenders so he can score the winning touchdown.
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* UnnecessaryRoughness: The film opens with I'm pretty sure that there's nothing in the playbook to describe the illegal play in which you get a star football player getting high on PCP and SHOOTING 3 have him shoot three defenders so he can to reach the endzone and score the winning touchdown.
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'''''The Last Boy Scout''''' is a 1991 action film starring BruceWillis Creator/BruceWillis as a former Secret Service agent, now working as a private detective, and Damon Wayans as a retired professional football player. The two join forces to solve the murder of Wayans' character’s girlfriend (played by the then-obscure Creator/HalleBerry). The entire film consists of often violent action scenes and an endless parade of one-liners.
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* AntiHero: Joe Hallenbeck is a type III or possibly a IV. Aside from being a [[HeroicSelfDeprecation self loathing]], [[TheCynic pessimistic]], [[SmokingIsCool chain smoking]], borderline [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero misogynistic]] bastard ("...and then some."), he also gives a [[BadAssBoast sinister death threat]] to two of the badguys. He doesn't lie, something the badguys learnt the hard way.
** Still, compared to the people he's fighting, he's [[TitleDrop 'The Last Boy Scout']]
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* AntiHero: Joe Hallenbeck is a type III or possibly a IV. Aside from being a [[HeroicSelfDeprecation self loathing]], [[TheCynic pessimistic]], [[SmokingIsCool chain smoking]], borderline [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero misogynistic]] bastard ("...and then some."), he also gives a [[BadAssBoast sinister death threat]] to two of the badguys. He doesn't lie, something the badguys learnt the hard way. \n** Still, compared to the people he's fighting, he's [[TitleDrop 'The Last Boy Scout']]
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* DeadpanSnarker: Hallenbeck always win the snarking contest against other characters. [[CaptainObvious See below]].
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* DeadpanSnarker: DeadpanSnarker:
** Hallenbeck always win the snarking contest against other characters. [[CaptainObvious See below]].
** Hallenbeck always win the snarking contest against other characters. [[CaptainObvious See below]].
* MyFistForgivesYou: Hallenbeck (Bruce Willis) finds his wife having an affair with his best friend after he pulls his gun out. Outside, he gives the friend the offer "Head or gut?", and the friend chooses gut.
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'''''The Last Boy Scout''''' is a 1991 action film starring BruceWillis as a former Secret Service agent, now working as a private detective, and Damon Wayans as a retired professional football player. The two join forces to solve the murder of Wayans' character’s girlfriend (played by the then-obscure HalleBerry).Creator/HalleBerry). The entire film consists of often violent action scenes and an endless parade of one-liners.
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* {{Gorn}}: Brutal moments punctuated by humor. There is a scene where Bruce Willis ''punches a guy's nose through brain''. Also the infamous helicopter scene.
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* {{Gorn}}: Brutal moments punctuated by humor. There is a scene where Bruce Willis ''punches a guy's nose through brain''.his brain'' (said guy is a young Creator/KimCoates in a very early example of his career as a ChronicallyKilledActor). Also the infamous helicopter scene.
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* UnnecessaryRoughness: The film opens with a star football player getting high on PCP and SHOOTING 3 defenders so he can score the winning touchdown.
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* StuffedInTheFridge: Cory. An especially egregious example when you condsider that Joe and Jimmy spend the rest of the movie tossing out flippant one-liners.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Hallenbeck comes home after a very hard day...then looks at the just-used bedroom toilet with the seat up and immediately surmises his wife's been cheating on him. Then after accusing her of cheating, he aims his gun at the closet, counts to 3, and gets his wife to confess to cheating with his friend Mike Matthews (who was, naturally, in the closet). The sequence displays both his brilliant deductive reasoning and his unhinged mind.
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* NothingPersonal: The Jamaican hitman who leads Joe Hallenbeck into a dark alley to finish him off.
-->'''Hitman:''' Wrong time wrong place, nothing personal.
-->'''Joe:''' That's what you think. I screwed your wife last night.
-->'''Hitman:''' Wrong time wrong place, nothing personal.
-->'''Joe:''' That's what you think. I screwed your wife last night.
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* AssholeVictim: Mike, in the beginning of the film.
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* FireForgedFriends: Joe and Jimmy started out rather ruff but they quickly becomes friends as the movie goes.
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* NotInTheFace: Whenever someone does something that irritates Bruce Willis' character:
-->'''Hallenbeck:''' ''(to the friend his wife is having an affair with)'' Head or gut?\\
'''Matthews:''' Gut. ''(cue the punching)''
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-->'''Hallenbeck:''' ''(to the ingrate Senator whose life he helped save)'' Head or gut?\\
'''Sen. Baynard:''' Huh? ''(gets punched in the face ''and'' the gut)''
-->'''Hallenbeck:''' ''(to the friend his wife is having an affair with)'' Head or gut?\\
'''Matthews:''' Gut. ''(cue the punching)''
:: And at the end of the movie...
-->'''Hallenbeck:''' ''(to the ingrate Senator whose life he helped save)'' Head or gut?\\
'''Sen. Baynard:''' Huh? ''(gets punched in the face ''and'' the gut)''
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** Still compared to the people he's fighting, he's [[TitleDrop 'The Last Boy Scout']]
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* AntiHero: Joe Hallenbeck is a type III or possibly a IV. Aside from being a self loathing, pessimistic, chain smoking, borderline misogynistic, bastard ("...and then some."), he also gives a [[BadAssBoast sinister death threat]] to two of the badguys. He doesn't lie, something the badguys learnt the hard way.
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* AntiHero: Joe Hallenbeck is a type III or possibly a IV. Aside from being a [[HeroicSelfDeprecation self loathing, pessimistic, loathing]], [[TheCynic pessimistic]], [[SmokingIsCool chain smoking, smoking]], borderline misogynistic, [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero misogynistic]] bastard ("...and then some."), he also gives a [[BadAssBoast sinister death threat]] to two of the badguys. He doesn't lie, something the badguys learnt the hard way.
**Still compared to the people he's fighting, he's [[TitleDrop 'The Last Boy Scout']]
**Still compared to the people he's fighting, he's [[TitleDrop 'The Last Boy Scout']]
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* AntiHero: Joe Hallenbeck is a type III verging on IV. Aside from being a self loathing, pessimistic, chain smoking, borderline misogynistic, bastard ("...and then some."), he also gives a warning to two of the badguys: "If you touch me again, I'll kill ya." He doesn't lie.
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* AntiHero: Joe Hallenbeck is a type III verging on or possibly a IV. Aside from being a self loathing, pessimistic, chain smoking, borderline misogynistic, bastard ("...and then some."), he also gives a warning [[BadAssBoast sinister death threat]] to two of the badguys: "If you touch me again, I'll kill ya." badguys. He doesn't lie.lie, something the badguys learnt the hard way.
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* BedroomAdulteryScene: Bruce Willis' character is introduced as the cuckolded husband in this scene... and as a cop, he correctly sniffs out that the other guy is hiding in the closet and nearly shoots him.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Gives us the EstablishingCharacterMoment for Joe (the cuckoldee), Sarah (the wife), and Mike (the other guy). Joe is willing to put a bullet in his closet on the mere suspicion that Sarah is cheating...and he's right.
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* HonorBeforeReason: Hallenbeck, who for all his world-weary self-loathing cynicism has an unflinching titanium core of honor deep within. At one point Jimmy lampshades this by pointing out that he is currently risking his life and his liberty to save the life of a man who unjustly got him fired and to avenge the death of a man who was sleeping with his wife and most likely tried to get him killed.
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** And done again during the puppet scene.
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-->'''Jimmy:''' I use this shit to get by.
-->'''Hallenbeck:''' I don't use it. I get by.
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** Jimmy's no slouch himself, and as this is a WorldOfSnark everyone else gets off a few zingers as well, but Hallenback's the unquestioned master of the snark.
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* BribeBackfire: Subverted: [[spoiler: The Senator rejects the villain's offer of a bribe and threatens to go to the police... because the bribe isn't large enough. The villain ends up deciding it'd just be cheaper to kill him.]]
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* FreudianExcuse: A lot of Jimmy's issues can be traced to the fact that his pregnant wife was hit and killed by a drunk driver, killing both her and the baby, while Jimmy was away playing one of his best games.
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Now that\'s more professional.
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* {{Gorn}}: Brutal moments punctuated by humor. There is a scene where Bruce Willis punches a guy's NOSE through HIS BRAIN!!!! Also the infamous helicopter scene.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Hallenbeck distracts the man about to execute him by making him laugh at his "fat wife" jokes.
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* EmbarrassingMiddleNameEmbarrassingMiddleName: After Jimmy tells him that "Danger is his middle name", Joe tells in turn that his middlename is Cornelius.
-->'''Hallenbeck:''' You tell anybody, I'll kill you.
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-->'''Hallenbeck:''' This ain't no game, flash. Real guns, real bullets. It's dangerous.
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-->'''Hallenbeck:''' This ain't no game, flash. Real guns, real bullets. It's dangerous.
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->"This is the '90s. You don't just go around punching people. You have to say [[RuleOfCool something cool]] first."
-->-- '''Joe Hallenbeck'''
''The Last Boy Scout'' is a 1991 action film starring BruceWillis as a former Secret Service agent, now working as a private detective, and Damon Wayans as a retired professional football player. The two join forces to solve the murder of Wayans' character’s girlfriend (played by the then-obscure HalleBerry). The entire film consists of often violent action scenes and an endless parade of one-liners.
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* BadAssBoast: "You touch me again and I'll kill ya."
* BigBad: Sheldon Marcone.
* BondOneLiner - The final scene of the movie has the Damon Wayans and Bruce Willis discussing future use of Bond One-Liners.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Darian. However, she comes from an extremely troubled home so it's understandable (mostly).
* CardCarryingVillain: Milo
-->'''Joe:''' You're the bad guy.
-->'''Milo:''' I am the bad guy.
* ChekhovsGun: The duo comes across a box of shotgun shells. Later, Jimmy uses one to help Joe, Darian and himself escape Marcone.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment
-->'''Milo:''' Just once, I would like to hear you scream in pain.
-->'''Joe Hallenbeck:''' Play some rap music.
* CrapsackWorld: Taken almost to parodic heights.
** "Nobody likes you. Everybody hates you. You're gonna lose."
* DeadpanSnarker: Hallenbeck always win the snarking contest against other characters. [[CaptainObvious See below]].
* TheDragon: Milo.
* DrugsAreBad: Manages to do this in a reasonably subtle way, contrasting Joe's zero tolerance with justifying Jimmy's addiction through his tragic backstory.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName
* EurekaMoment: Overlaps with OhCrap with Joe, as Jimmy hints that the supposed key he tossed into Marcone's fireplace is "the kind that Shred."
* FauxAffablyEvil: Marcone and Milo. Both lose their niceness VERY quickly.
* FriendToAllChildren: Despite his drug problems and short temper, Jimmy is remarkably good with kids, if Darian is any indication because they quickly bond with each other after a little friction.
* {{Gorn}}: Brutal moments punctuated by humor. There is a scene where Bruce Willis punches a guy's NOSE through HIS BRAIN!!!! Also the infamous helicopter scene.
* HelicopterBlender
* IfWeSurviveThis
-->'''Joe Hallenbeck:''' "I swear to Christ that if I survive this fucking case I'm gonna dance a jig." [[spoiler:He does.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Joe. However, it's buried pretty deep under a cover of sarcasm and self-loathing so it's nearly a HiddenHeartOfGold at certain points.
* LittleMissBadass: Darian Hallenbeck.
* LoveHurts: "I wish the sky wasn't blue. I wish that water wasn't wet. And I wish I didn't still love my wife."
* MetaphorIsMyMiddleName
* OneHitKill
-->"Told ya."
* PreAssKickingOneLiner - quote on top of the page
** "Touch me again and I'll kill you."
* PrivateDetective: Joe Hallenbeck.
* PunctuatedPounding
** "I told ya [BIFF!] if you touch me again [BAM!] I'll KILL YA! [POW!]"
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness - Milo
** As well as Scrabble Man
*** "The envelope, very smart. See, Jake, here's a man who knows when a situation is untenable."
* StuffedInTheFridge: Cory. An especially egregious example when you condsider that Joe and Jimmy spend the rest of the movie tossing out flippant one-liners.
* TakeMeOutAtTheBallGame
* VitriolicBestBuds: Joe and Jimmy.
* WhatWouldXDo:
--> '''Jimmy:''' What would Joe do...''({{beat}})'' He'd kill everyone, and then smoke some cigarettes.
* WorldOfSnark: The WHOLE movie is flooding with [[UpToEleven this]].
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->"This is the '90s. You don't just go around punching people. You have to say [[RuleOfCool something cool]] first."
-->-- '''Joe Hallenbeck'''
''The Last Boy Scout'' is a 1991 action film starring BruceWillis as a former Secret Service agent, now working as a private detective, and Damon Wayans as a retired professional football player. The two join forces to solve the murder of Wayans' character’s girlfriend (played by the then-obscure HalleBerry). The entire film consists of often violent action scenes and an endless parade of one-liners.
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* BadAssBoast: "You touch me again and I'll kill ya."
* BigBad: Sheldon Marcone.
* BondOneLiner - The final scene of the movie has the Damon Wayans and Bruce Willis discussing future use of Bond One-Liners.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Darian. However, she comes from an extremely troubled home so it's understandable (mostly).
* CardCarryingVillain: Milo
-->'''Joe:''' You're the bad guy.
-->'''Milo:''' I am the bad guy.
* ChekhovsGun: The duo comes across a box of shotgun shells. Later, Jimmy uses one to help Joe, Darian and himself escape Marcone.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment
-->'''Milo:''' Just once, I would like to hear you scream in pain.
-->'''Joe Hallenbeck:''' Play some rap music.
* CrapsackWorld: Taken almost to parodic heights.
** "Nobody likes you. Everybody hates you. You're gonna lose."
* DeadpanSnarker: Hallenbeck always win the snarking contest against other characters. [[CaptainObvious See below]].
* TheDragon: Milo.
* DrugsAreBad: Manages to do this in a reasonably subtle way, contrasting Joe's zero tolerance with justifying Jimmy's addiction through his tragic backstory.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName
* EurekaMoment: Overlaps with OhCrap with Joe, as Jimmy hints that the supposed key he tossed into Marcone's fireplace is "the kind that Shred."
* FauxAffablyEvil: Marcone and Milo. Both lose their niceness VERY quickly.
* FriendToAllChildren: Despite his drug problems and short temper, Jimmy is remarkably good with kids, if Darian is any indication because they quickly bond with each other after a little friction.
* {{Gorn}}: Brutal moments punctuated by humor. There is a scene where Bruce Willis punches a guy's NOSE through HIS BRAIN!!!! Also the infamous helicopter scene.
* HelicopterBlender
* IfWeSurviveThis
-->'''Joe Hallenbeck:''' "I swear to Christ that if I survive this fucking case I'm gonna dance a jig." [[spoiler:He does.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Joe. However, it's buried pretty deep under a cover of sarcasm and self-loathing so it's nearly a HiddenHeartOfGold at certain points.
* LittleMissBadass: Darian Hallenbeck.
* LoveHurts: "I wish the sky wasn't blue. I wish that water wasn't wet. And I wish I didn't still love my wife."
* MetaphorIsMyMiddleName
* OneHitKill
-->"Told ya."
* PreAssKickingOneLiner - quote on top of the page
** "Touch me again and I'll kill you."
* PrivateDetective: Joe Hallenbeck.
* PunctuatedPounding
** "I told ya [BIFF!] if you touch me again [BAM!] I'll KILL YA! [POW!]"
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness - Milo
** As well as Scrabble Man
*** "The envelope, very smart. See, Jake, here's a man who knows when a situation is untenable."
* StuffedInTheFridge: Cory. An especially egregious example when you condsider that Joe and Jimmy spend the rest of the movie tossing out flippant one-liners.
* TakeMeOutAtTheBallGame
* VitriolicBestBuds: Joe and Jimmy.
* WhatWouldXDo:
--> '''Jimmy:''' What would Joe do...''({{beat}})'' He'd kill everyone, and then smoke some cigarettes.
* WorldOfSnark: The WHOLE movie is flooding with [[UpToEleven this]].
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