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* DisguisedInDrag: Bernard dresses up as a woman to impersonate Michaël's mother.

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* GenerationXerox: Like his father in the first film, Michaël tries to please his racist future father-in-law.



* LikeFatherLikeSon: Like his father in the first film, Michaël tries to please his racist future father-in-law.
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* TakeThat: The guy who rents trailers says that Creator/GerardDepardieu's trailer is full of liquor bottles. Then, the three brothers have to use the trailer of ''Series/JosephineAngeGardien'', where everything is small and pink.

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* TakeThat: The guy who rents trailers says that Creator/GerardDepardieu's trailer is full of liquor bottles. Then, the three brothers have to use the trailer of ''Series/JosephineAngeGardien'', Mimie Mathy (the main actress of ''Series/JosephineAngeGardien''), where everything is small and pink.
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Bernard thinks that he is Sarah's father. Then Sarah's mother says that she was already pregnant when she met the three brothers, so the real father is someone else. During the end credits, it is revealed that Sarah has the same DistinguishingMark as the three brothers, so she must be the daughter of one of them.
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* DoesntKnowTheirOwnChild: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. Bernard hesitates about his daughter's name. Didier does not know that his son is of age, whereas he is 23.


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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Like his father in the first film, Michaël tries to please his racist future father-in-law.


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* ParentalNeglect:
** Bernard does not care much about his daughter Sarah. It seems that he has met her very rarely up to now.
** Didier does not care much about his son Michaël. He lives away from him and meets him rarely. Michaël also says that his mother does not care more about him.
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* GangBangers: Modeglue, Sarah ex-boyfriend, is a violent drug dealer. He is the leader of a gang.

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* GangBangers: Modeglue, Sarah Sarah's ex-boyfriend, is a violent drug dealer. He is the leader of a gang.
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* SignsOfDisrepair: In Pascal's bank, there is a poster that says "Chez nous vraiment, le client est dans un cocon". When the employee is sitting just in front of the poster, she hides some letters and the poster says "Chez nous vraiment, le client est un con". In Didier's bank, there is a poster that says "Ici, on vous communique les taux 24h/24". When the employee is sitting just in front of the poster, he hides some letters and the poster says "Ici, on vous nique 24h/24".

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* SignsOfDisrepair: In Pascal's bank, there is a poster that says "Chez nous vraiment, le client est dans un cocon". cocon" ("With us, really, the customer is in a cocoon"). When the employee is sitting just in front of the poster, she hides some letters and the poster says "Chez nous vraiment, le client est un con". con" ("With us, really, the customer is a bloody idiot"). In Didier's bank, there is a poster that says "Ici, on vous communique les taux 24h/24". 24h/24" ("Here we pass on the rates to you 24 hours a day"). When the employee is sitting just in front of the poster, he hides some letters and the poster says "Ici, on vous nique 24h/24".24h/24" ("Here, we screw you 24 hours a day").
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* SignsOfDisrepair: In Pascal's bank, there is a poster that says "Chez nous vraiment, le client est dans un cocon". When the employee is sitting just in front of the poster, she hides some letters and the poster says "Chez nous vraiment, le client est un con". In Didier's bank, there is a poster that says "Ici, on vous communique les taux 24h/24". When the employee is sitting just in front of the poster, he hides some letters and the poster says "Ici, on vous nique 24h/24".
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[[TheDanza Didier, Bernard and Pascal]] were born to an unknown father and their mother abandoned them. Each of them has followed different paths: Didier is a security guard in a supermarket, Bernard is homeless and Pascal is a manager in a communication company. The three half-brothers meet each other for the first time when [[PlotTriggeringDeath their mother dies]] and the notary informs them that they will [[UnexpectedInheritance inherit her fortune]].

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[[TheDanza Didier, Bernard and Pascal]] were born to an unknown father and their mother abandoned them. Each of them has followed different paths: Didier is a security guard in a supermarket, Bernard is homeless and Pascal is a manager in a communication company.agency. The three half-brothers meet each other for the first time when [[PlotTriggeringDeath their mother dies]] and the notary informs them that they will [[UnexpectedInheritance inherit her fortune]].
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A {{Sequel}}, ''Les Trois Frères, le retour'' (English: ''The Three Brothers are back'') was made in 2014.

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A {{Sequel}}, ''Les Trois Frères, le retour'' (English: ''The Three Brothers are back'') was made [[SequelGap in 2014.
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* MeaningfulName: The name of the lawyer, ''Vaselin'', is obviously realted to ''Vaseline''. His company is named ''Shark & Co''. There is also a bank called ''NIC'' (''niquer'' means "to screw" in French).

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* MeaningfulName: The name of the lawyer, ''Vaselin'', is obviously realted related to ''Vaseline''. His company is named ''Shark & Co''. There is also a bank called ''NIC'' (''niquer'' means "to screw" in French).
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* StarvingArtist: Bernard is a would-be actor, but he is homeless.


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* WaitingForABreak: Bernard tries to become an actor, but he works as a stallhorder.
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* GoldDigger:
** Pascal is in a relationship with Moss and he tries to persuade her to marry him because she is very rich and so he can live comfortably and do nothing.
** Didier's mother-in-law is also rich and he married Viviane primarily because he hopes to inherit her fortune.
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* TemptingFate: When the three brothers have to sleep together in a trailer, Pascal says that he cannot image how the situation could get worse. Just as he says that, Sarah knocks on the trailer's door and brings more problems.

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* TemptingFate: When the three brothers have to sleep together in a trailer, Pascal one of them says that he cannot image how the situation could get worse. Just as he says that, Sarah knocks on the trailer's door and brings more problems.
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* TakeThat: The guy who rents trailers says that Creator/GerardDepardieu's trailer is full of liquor bottle. Then, the three brothers have to use the trailer of ''Series/JosephineAngeGardien'', where everything is small and pink.

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* TakeThat: The guy who rents trailers says that Creator/GerardDepardieu's trailer is full of liquor bottle.bottles. Then, the three brothers have to use the trailer of ''Series/JosephineAngeGardien'', where everything is small and pink.
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** Once again, the three brothers are called together because of the succession of their mother, their fragile social situation soon collapses and they are forced to live together.


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* TakeThat: The guy who rents trailers says that Creator/GerardDepardieu's trailer is full of liquor bottle. Then, the three brothers have to use the trailer of ''Series/JosephineAngeGardien'', where everything is small and pink.
* TemptingFate: When the three brothers have to sleep together in a trailer, Pascal says that he cannot image how the situation could get worse. Just as he says that, Sarah knocks on the trailer's door and brings more problems.
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* RightInFrontOfMe: At the party at Moss's, Bernard tells three random guys that a TV show is crap. One of the guys immediately goes away. Another one tells Bernard that this was the host of the TV show. Bernard then explains that he did not want to critize the host and that the real stupid people are the bosses of the TV channel. He second guy suddenly goes away: he was the boss of the channel.
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* UnexpectedInheritance: {{Inverted|Trope}}. The three brothers thought that the succession of their mother was settled, but they are surprised to hear that they actually have to ''pay'' an extra amount.
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Sarah is insolent and selfish. She is also involved in drug trafficking. Her attitude is somewhat justified by the behavior of her totally irresponsible father.


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* PaidForFamily: Michaël planned to pay actors to impersonate his parents. The actors ran away with the pay before playing their role.
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* SiblingTriangle: Both Didier and Pascal were in love with Sabrina. Finally, they discover that Bernard had a relationship with her too.

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* AttractiveBentGender: When Bernard impersonate Michael's mother, Dany finds him very attractive, to the point that he assaults him.

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* AttractiveBentGender: When Bernard impersonate Michael's Michaël's mother, Dany finds him very attractive, to the point that he assaults him.



** Michael, Didier's son, is now in a similar situation to the one of his father in the first film: he tries to please his future father-in-law, who is a racist prick.

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** Michael, Michaël, Didier's son, is now in a similar situation to the one of his father in the first film: he tries to please his future father-in-law, who is a racist prick.



* ContinuityNod: When Michael explains that his future father-in-law makes a lot of money, Didier repeats his iconic line from the first film: "Cent patates..."
* DistantSequel: The story is set years after the events of the first film: Michael was a kid in the first film. Now he is 23. Bernard has now a teenage daughter.

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* ContinuityNod: When Michael Michaël explains that his future father-in-law makes a lot of money, Didier repeats his iconic line from the first film: "Cent patates..."
* DistantSequel: The story is set years after the events of the first film: Michael Michaël was a kid in the first film. Now he is 23. Bernard has now a teenage daughter.


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* MrsRobinson: Moss, Pascal's girlfriend, is much older than him. As soon as she dumps him, she starts dating another young black man.
* RightBehindMe: Pascal tells Bernard and Didier how horrible his relationship with Moss is. Moss is just behind him and hears everything.
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* AmoralAttorney: Maître Vaselin, the lawyer who forces the brothers to sign an acknowledgement of debt.


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* DistantSequel: The story is set years after the events of the first film: Michael was a kid in the first film. Now he is 23. Bernard has now a teenage daughter.
* FictionalCounterpart: The bank NIC is a transparent copy of real-life bank CIC (the logo is the same).
* GangBangers: Modeglue, Sarah ex-boyfriend, is a violent drug dealer. He is the leader of a gang.
* MeaningfulName: The name of the lawyer, ''Vaselin'', is obviously realted to ''Vaseline''. His company is named ''Shark & Co''. There is also a bank called ''NIC'' (''niquer'' means "to screw" in French).
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!!''The Three Brothers are back'' provides examples of:
* AttractiveBentGender: When Bernard impersonate Michael's mother, Dany finds him very attractive, to the point that he assaults him.
* CallBack:
** Didier and Bernard take drugs, like in the first film.
** Michael, Didier's son, is now in a similar situation to the one of his father in the first film: he tries to please his future father-in-law, who is a racist prick.
** During the end credits, it is revealed that Sarah has the same DistinguishingMark as the three brothers, so she must be the daughter of one of them.
* ContinuityNod: When Michael explains that his future father-in-law makes a lot of money, Didier repeats his iconic line from the first film: "Cent patates..."
* WorldOfJerkass: Many other unpleasant characters are introduced: an AmoralAttorney, an insolent and selfish teenager, GangBangers, a racist millionaire...
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* ClearMyName: Didier, Bernard and Pascal are wrongly accused of kidnapping Michaël. At the same time, they are justly accused of several minor offences.

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* ClearMyName: Didier, Bernard and Pascal are wrongly accused of kidnapping Michaël.Michaël (technically they ''did'' kidnap him, but it's more as a result of being on the run, and not out of any malice). At the same time, they are justly accused of several minor offences.
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* ConMan: The three brothers engage in several short cons to get food, drinks and cigarettes for free (like pretending to have won the lottery or pretending that Michaël is choking on a bit in a restaurant).

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* ConMan: The three brothers engage in several short cons to get food, drinks and cigarettes for free (like pretending to have won the lottery or pretending that Michaël is choking on the pit of a bit fruit in a restaurant).
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* ConMan: The three brothers engage in several short cons to get food, drinks and cigarettes for free (like pretending to have won the lottery or pretending that Michaël is choking on a pit in a restaurant).

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* ConMan: The three brothers engage in several short cons to get food, drinks and cigarettes for free (like pretending to have won the lottery or pretending that Michaël is choking on a pit bit in a restaurant).
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* ConMan: The three brothers engage is several short cons to get food, drinks and cigarettes for free (like pretending to have won the lottery or pretending that Michaël is choking on a pit in a restaurant).

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* ConMan: The three brothers engage is in several short cons to get food, drinks and cigarettes for free (like pretending to have won the lottery or pretending that Michaël is choking on a pit in a restaurant).
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* ElectrifiedBathtub: The debt collector who comes at Pascal's flat ends up victim of this, slipping and crashing into the bathroomand grabbing a plugged-on hair dryer in his fall after getting pushed around and insulted by the trio. He ends up in the (filled) bathtub and gets electrocuted. Fortunately for the three brothers, he doesn't die of it.

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* ElectrifiedBathtub: The debt collector who comes at Pascal's flat ends up victim of this, slipping and crashing into the bathroomand grabbing this as a plugged-on hair dryer in his fall after result of getting pushed around and insulted by the trio.trio. He slips, crashes into the bathroom and grabs a plugged-on hair dryer in his fall. He ends up in the (filled) bathtub and gets electrocuted. Fortunately for the three brothers, he doesn't die of it.
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* ElectrifiedBathtub: The debt collector who comes at Pascal's flat ends up victim of this, crashing into the bathroom and grabbing a plugged-on hair dryer and ending up in the (filled) bathtub after getting pushed around and mocked by the trio. Fortunately for the three brothers, he doesn't die of it.

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* ElectrifiedBathtub: The debt collector who comes at Pascal's flat ends up victim of this, slipping and crashing into the bathroom and bathroomand grabbing a plugged-on hair dryer and ending up in the (filled) bathtub his fall after getting pushed around and mocked insulted by the trio.trio. He ends up in the (filled) bathtub and gets electrocuted. Fortunately for the three brothers, he doesn't die of it.
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* TheNineties: With the Super Nintendo, the Game Boy, Pascal's laptop... you know for sure in which decade you are, and in which it was filmed.

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* TheNineties: With the a [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Nintendo, the Game Boy, Nintendo]], a UsefulNotes/GameBoy, Pascal's laptop... you know for sure in which decade you are, and in which it was filmed.

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