History Film / TheLastBoyScout

->''"This is TheNineties. You don't just go around punching people. You have to say something cool first."''

* CardCarryingVillain: Milo

%%* TheDragon: Milo.

''The Last Boy Scout'' is a 1991 action film, directed by Creator/TonyScott and written by Creator/ShaneBlack, starring Creator/BruceWillis as a former Secret Service agent, now working as a private detective, and [[Creator/TheWayansFamily 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.

* StuffedInTheFridge: Cory. An especially egregious example when you consider that Joe and Jimmy spend the rest of the movie tossing out flippant one-liners.

* FamousLastWords:
** "Ain't life a bitch?" Billy Cole, who then shoots himself in the head.
** "Can't you fucking drive?!" [[spoiler:Cory (Jimmy's girlfriend), who then gets machine-gunned by the people in the car.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Marcone and Milo. Both lose their niceness VERY quickly.

** "No more heroes."

%%* BigBad: Sheldon Marcone.

* ArcWords: "Life sucks."

* AntiHero: Joe Hallenbeck is Unscrupulous with some Nominal moments. Aside from being a [[SelfDeprecation self loathing]], [[TheCynic pessimistic]], [[SmokingIsCool chain smoking]], borderline [[SirSwearsALot misogy]][[PoliticallyIncorrectHero nistic]] bastard ("...and then some."), he also gives a [[BadassBoast sinister death threat]] to two of the badguys. He doesn't lie, something the bad guys learnt the hard way. Still, compared to the people he's fighting, he's [[TitleDrop 'The Last Boy Scout']]

* UnnecessaryRoughness: There's probably nothing in the playbook to describe the illegal play in which you get a star football player high on PCP and have him shoot three defenders to reach the endzone and score the winning touchdown.

* WhamLine: [[spoiler:A police detective walks up to the car where Milo and his mook have Hallenbeck knocked out in the back seat. The policeman asks the driver if there is anything wrong. Very politely, Milo says, "Yes, officer, there is a problem. Apparently there are too many bullets in this gun." After lightening its load, Milo puts Hallenbeck's fingerprints on the gun, then carefully tosses it on top of the dead detective, and drives off, saying to (the still unconscious) Hallenbeck, "Naughty, naughty, Joseph, you just killed a policeman."]]

--->'''Hallenbeck:''' ''(to the ingrate Senator whose life he helped save)'' Head or gut?\\

** Joe's wife, Sarah cheats on him and says that [[NeverMyFault "she was lonely"]] as an excuse for her cheating.

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness:
%%** Milo.
** As the two heroes are getting pummeled by an unusually verbose Mook's large companion, Jimmy exclaims, "Shit, we're being beat up by the inventor of Scrabble!"

* UnnecessaryRoughness: I'm pretty sure that there's nothing in the playbook to describe the illegal play in which you get a star football player high on PCP and have him shoot three defenders to reach the endzone and score the winning touchdown.

** As the two heroes are getting pummeled by an unusually verbose Mook's large companion, Joe exclaims, "Shit, we're being beat up by the inventor of Scrabble!"

* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Darian, However, she comes from an extremely troubled home so it's understandable (mostly), and she only behaves this way with [[{{Jerkass}} Joe]].

* BlatantLies: When Joe demands car keys from the home owner who they just crashed another car in his pool, Joe puts a gun against Darian's head threatening to kill her. The pool owner isn't really convinced, especially when Darian calls Joe "Dad" but relents anyway.

* DysfunctionalFamily: Oh, were to begin, Joe is a misogynistic [[TheCynic cynic]], Sarah cheats on Joe with his best friend Mike Matthews, and Darian is a [[MissSwearsALot dirty-mouthed]] [[BrattyTeenageDaughter brat of a daughter]].

* 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.
** Noticeably, the cheating itself wasn't what pissed him off most - it was her lying to his face about it.

* AntiHero: Joe Hallenbeck is a type III with some Type V moments. Aside from being a [[SelfDeprecation self loathing]], [[TheCynic pessimistic]], [[SmokingIsCool chain smoking]], borderline [[SirSwearsALot misogy]][[PoliticallyIncorrectHero nistic]] bastard ("...and then some."), he also gives a [[BadassBoast sinister death threat]] to two of the badguys. He doesn't lie, something the bad guys learnt the hard way. Still, compared to the people he's fighting, he's [[TitleDrop 'The Last Boy Scout']]

* WhamLine: [[spoiler:A police detective walks up to the car where Milo and his mook have Hallenbeck knocked out in the back seat. The policeman asks the driver if there is anything wrong. Very politely, Milo says, "Yes, officer, there is a problem. Apparently there are too many bullets in this gun." After lightening its load, Milo puts Hallenbeck's fingerprints on the gun, then carefully tosses it on top of the dead detective, and drives off, saying to (the still unconscious) Hallenbeck, "Naughty, naughty, Joseph, you just killed a polceman."]]