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-->'''Lauren''': I trusted you.
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''This Means War'', starring Creator/ChrisPine and Creator/TomHardy, directed by [=McG=] and produced by Creator/WillSmith, is a 2012 action romantic comedy about two CIA agents who accidentally start dating the same girl.
The two agents, Tuck (Tom Hardy) and FDR (Chris Pine) are scouting out a party for a target. This introduces us to the two main characters and their dynamic, which is a typical but adorable pair of good friends. Tuck is much more polite and sweet while FDR is roguish and impulsive. Their targets are two brothers and when a fiery shootout hits, one of the Heinrich brothers, Jonas, is accidentally killed, causing the other, Karl (Creator/TilSchweiger), to swear revenge on the two friends.
The two agents, Tuck (Tom Hardy) and FDR (Chris Pine) are scouting out a party for a target. This introduces us to the two main characters and their dynamic, which is a typical but adorable pair of good friends. Tuck is much more polite and sweet while FDR is roguish and impulsive. Their targets are two brothers and when a fiery shootout hits, one of the Heinrich brothers, Jonas, is accidentally killed, causing the other, Karl (Creator/TilSchweiger), to swear revenge on the two friends.
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''This Means War'', starring Creator/ChrisPine and Creator/TomHardy, directed by [=McG=] and produced by Creator/WillSmith, is a 2012 action romantic comedy RomanticComedy about two CIA agents who accidentally start dating the same girl.
The two agents, Tuck(Tom Hardy) (Creator/TomHardy) and FDR (Chris Pine) (Creator/ChrisPine) are scouting out a party for a target. This introduces us to the two main characters and their dynamic, which is a typical but adorable pair of good friends. Tuck is much more polite and sweet while FDR is roguish and impulsive. Their targets are two brothers and when a fiery shootout hits, one of the Heinrich brothers, Jonas, is accidentally killed, causing the other, Karl (Creator/TilSchweiger), to swear revenge on the two friends.
The two agents, Tuck
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* {{Fanservice}}: Chris Pine FDR getting shirtless, {{shirtless|Scene}}, and later naked, for the girls (and some guys); Reese Witherspoon Lauren in her undies for the guys (and some girls). And Tom Hardy's Tuck's arms in general make him borderline fanservice too.too.
* FlexibilityEqualsSexAbility: When Trish makes Lauren's online dating profile, she makes sure to have Lauren's picture in a keg stand so as to show off Lauren's flexibility.
-->'''Trish:''' You're flexible. Guys wanna know that you're flexible and good at gymnastics!
* FlexibilityEqualsSexAbility: When Trish makes Lauren's online dating profile, she makes sure to have Lauren's picture in a keg stand so as to show off Lauren's flexibility.
-->'''Trish:''' You're flexible. Guys wanna know that you're flexible and good at gymnastics!
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* InternalReveal. Katie and Joe discover what Tuck actually does when footage of the car chase is broadcast on the news.
** [[spoiler:TheRevealPromptsRomance: Katie invites Tuck to dinner, and the final scene confirms that they're back together.]]
%%* IronicEcho: [[BullyingADragon Pain is weakness leaving the body.]]
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* [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife The Masquerade Will Kill Your Married Life]]: Implied to be the reason things didn't originally work out between Tuck and Katie. [[spoiler:She warms up to him a lot once she realizes he's not a travel agent.]]
* MeaningfulEcho: [[spoiler:Would you like to have dinner... as a family?]]
** IronicEcho: [[BullyingADragon Pain is weakness leaving the body.]]
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Meanwhile, a lonely woman named Lauren (Creator/ReeseWitherspoon) has gotten tired of the single life and her best friend Trish (Creator/ChelseaHandler), makes her a profile on a dating site. Similarly, Tuck has had little luck in love as he is divorced and has a child to take care of and so he decides to try the same dating site. He and Lauren meet up on a blind date and hit it off while FDR hangs out in a video store nearby just in case the date goes south and Tuck needs an escape. However, Lauren goes to the video store and FDR, clueless that it’s the same girl Tuck had just gone out with, becomes interested in her as well. Tuck and FDR meet up later at their office only to discover they are dating the same girl. Both men offer to break it off with her because they are friends and do not want to lose their friendship over a girl, but their pride gets the better of them and it becomes a competition to see who Lauren chooses. As their tempers flare, their friendship starts to fall apart as they get more and more aggressive about trying to get Lauren to fall in love with one of them. All the while, the enraged Karl is closing in and looking for a way to hurt the boys for the death of his brother.
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Meanwhile, a lonely woman named Lauren (Creator/ReeseWitherspoon) has gotten tired of the single life and her best friend Trish (Creator/ChelseaHandler), makes her a profile on a dating site. Similarly, Tuck has had little luck in love as he is divorced and has a child to take care of and so he decides to try the same dating site. He and Lauren meet up on a blind date and hit it off while FDR hangs out in a video store nearby just in case the date goes south and Tuck needs an escape. However, Lauren goes to the video store and FDR, clueless that it’s the same girl Tuck had just gone out with, becomes interested in her as well. Tuck and FDR meet up later at their office only to discover they are dating the same girl. Both men offer to break it off with her because they are friends and do not want to lose their friendship over a girl, but their pride gets the better of them and it becomes a competition to see who whom Lauren chooses. As their tempers flare, their friendship starts to fall apart as they get more and more aggressive about trying to get Lauren to fall in love with one of them. All the while, the enraged Karl is closing in and looking for a way to hurt the boys for the death of his brother.
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* KarmaHoudini: FDR and Tuck. They break into Lauren's apartment, tap her phone, set up cameras everywhere, and place trackers on her. Neither of them face serious consequences for their actions.
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[[caption-width-right:299:For women everywhere!]]
''This Means War'', starring Creator/ChrisPine and Creator/TomHardy, directed by [=McG=] and produced by Creator/WillSmith, is a 2012 action romantic comedy about two CIA agents who accidentally start dating the same girl.
The two agents, Tuck (Tom Hardy) and FDR (Chris Pine) are scouting out a party for a target. This introduces us to the two main characters and their dynamic, which is a typical but adorable pair of good friends. Tuck is much more polite and sweet while FDR is roguish and impulsive. Their targets are two brothers and when a fiery shootout hits, one of the Heinrich brothers, Jonas, is accidentally killed, causing the other, Karl (Creator/TilSchweiger), to swear revenge on the two friends.
Meanwhile, a lonely woman named Lauren (Creator/ReeseWitherspoon) has gotten tired of the single life and her best friend Trish (Creator/ChelseaHandler), makes her a profile on a dating site. Similarly, Tuck has had little luck in love as he is divorced and has a child to take care of and so he decides to try the same dating site. He and Lauren meet up on a blind date and hit it off while FDR hangs out in a video store nearby just in case the date goes south and Tuck needs an escape. However, Lauren goes to the video store and FDR, clueless that it’s the same girl Tuck had just gone out with, becomes interested in her as well. Tuck and FDR meet up later at their office only to discover they are dating the same girl. Both men offer to break it off with her because they are friends and do not want to lose their friendship over a girl, but their pride gets the better of them and it becomes a competition to see who Lauren chooses. As their tempers flare, their friendship starts to fall apart as they get more and more aggressive about trying to get Lauren to fall in love with one of them. All the while, the enraged Karl is closing in and looking for a way to hurt the boys for the death of his brother.
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!! This film contains examples of:
* AcronymAndAbbreviationOverload: The head of FDR's surveillance team relays a text message Lauren sent to Trish, and spends the rest of the brief scene spelling everything in chat speak until FDR tells him to S-H-H-H-H.
* ActorAllusion:
** At two different parts of the movie, FDR claims to be [[Film/StarTrek2009 captain of a cruise ship]].
** It's the first reply that justifies the trope: [[spoiler:"Permission to come aboard, Captain?"]]
** Nana's been taking care of FDR after he lost both parents at a young age. [[Film/SpiderMan1 Hardly the first time either.]]
** In one scene, the Music/BeastieBoys song "Sabotage" is playing in the background [[LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand until Tuck shoots FDR with a tranquilizer dart]]. "Sabotage" was prominently featured in the ''[[Film/StarTrek2009 Star Trek]]'' reboot films that Pine stars in.
* AgentsDating: The movie is pretty much centered around this. Lauren decides to have sex with two different spies who are pursuing her, to see which one of them is better in bed. After they found they've been sleeping with the same woman, they wage an epic battle against one another.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Accidentally implied with [[spoiler:Lauren's choice to date FDR instead of Tuck]].
* AmicablyDivorced: Seems to be the case between Tuck and his ex. She's not his biggest fan, but she isn't nasty to him at any point when she comes to pick up their son. It is further enforced by [[spoiler: her agreeing to go out to dinner with him after Lauren chooses FDR.]]
* AndTheAdventureContinues: FDR and Tuck talking about FDR's encounter with Tuck's wife (before the couple met) as they begin their next mission.
* BadLiar: Tuck and FDR accuse each other of being this when their attempts at keeping their surveillance of Lauren secret from each other fail.
* BashBrothers: FDR and Tuck.
* BelligerentSexualTension: How Lauren and FDR's relationship starts out.
* BettyAndVeronica: Lauren is torn between the sweet Tuck and the flirtatious FDR.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:After Karl kidnaps Lauren and Trish, the boys steal a Jeep and go after them, completely ignoring Karl's demand for them to meet him at an abandoned warehouse.]]
* BlatantLies: Every excuse Tuck and FDR use to convince the surveillance crews to help them spy on Lauren.
* BottomlessMagazines: Averted. Tuck runs out of ammo in two fight scenes. Both times, FDR passes him a magazine. The second time, he scolds Tuck for not carrying extra magazines like he does.
* BoyfriendBluff: How Lauren and FDR eventually reconcile their differences enough to actually date.
* BrosBeforeHoes: [[spoiler: In an alternate ending, both Tuck and FDR decide their friendship is more important than who ends up with Lauren.]]
* BullyingADragon: The over-aggressive father at Tuck's son's karate class. Seriously, who talks shit to Creator/TomHardy about his kid?
* TheCharmer: FDR. Tuck is gorgeous, but not as flirtatious as FDR so he doesn't get noticed as much.
* ChekhovsSkill: Lauren's extensive knowledge of consumer products pays off when [[spoiler:when she tells the boys to shoot the headlamps of a (otherwise bulletproof) car, thereby triggering the airbags.]] Also, Tuck trusts her to drive the Jeep because he took her driving on one of their dates.
* CockFight: Tuck and FDR try to avoid this for the most part, but the more emotionally invested they become in Lauren, the more they argue [[spoiler:and eventually get into a fist fight.]]
* CurbStompBattle: When Tuck decides to try out paintball, he completely demolishes everybody on the field [[OneManArmy all by himself]].
* CynicismCatalyst: The death of Karl Heinrich's brother Jonas sets him off on revenge.
* DaChief: Played, oddly enough, by ''Angela freaking Bassett.''
* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:Lauren when Karl catches up to her. Trish too because she happens to be in the same car at the time of the kidnapping.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Both the boys, but FDR moreso than Tuck.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Tuck. Though he reconciles with his ex and they are together at the end.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: Jonas is killed this way in a fight with FDR.
* EnhanceButton: Played straight when FDR has one of the techs do magic enhancing to reveal the bad guy stalking Tuck.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Karl Heinrich is seeking revenge for the death of his younger brother Jonas.
* ExactWords: During their first date, Lauren asks Tuck if he's ever killed someone with his bare hands. He says no... not this week.
* {{Expy}}: FDR is unnervingly similar to Chris Pine's portrayal of Jim Kirk in J.J. Abrams' ''Star Trek'' reboot.
* FakeOutMakeOut: Lauren pulls one with FDR to make her ex jealous. It works. Hilariously.
* {{Fanservice}}: Chris Pine getting shirtless, and later naked, for the girls (and some guys); Reese Witherspoon in her undies for the guys (and some girls). And Tom Hardy's arms in general make him borderline fanservice too.
* FlippingTheBird: Tuck flips off FDR's surveillance drone.
--> "Did he just give our bird the bird?"
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:FDR's parents died in a car accident when he was a kid, and "he was never the same since."]]
* GroinAttack: Completely accidental, but Lauren shoots Tuck in the crotch with a paintball gun.
* HandsomeLech: FDR, in spades.
* HeadTiltinglyKinky: The agents watching FDR and Lauren imply that the two put on quite a show.
* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler: The film ends with Tuck and FDR, now engaged to Lauren, on another mission as they prepare to parachute out of a helicopter. FDR confesses to having slept with Katie before she even met Tuck, but no longer feels guilty about it because Tuck had sex with Lauren. Tuck, however, reveals that they did not go all the way and angrily tackles FDR out of the helicopter.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Tuck and FDR. Of course, them ending up dating the same woman puts a significant damper on their relationship, but they eventually manage to patch things up during the climax.
-->'''FDR''': I missed you!\\
'''Tuck''': Missed you, too!\\
'''FDR''': I love you, man!\\
'''Tuck''': Love you, too!\\
'''FDR''': We're back!
* HiddenDepths: Late in the film, Trish [[spoiler:while helping her son with something, tells Lauren how much she loves her husband, and that she shouldn't choose the better man, but rather should pick the man who makes her a better woman.]]
* HomosocialHeterosexuality: Pretty much the entire plot.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: FDR is almost an entire head taller than Lauren[[note]]Chris Pine is an average height at 6' tall, but Reese Witherspoon is only 5'1"[[/note]].
* INeedAFreakingDrink: When Lauren believes that Tuck and FDR are meeting for the first time, she [[INeedToGoIronMyDog makes some lame excuse to leave for a moment]], and then asks them to order her a drink. Something in a shot.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: PlayedForLaughs. FDR and Tuck are shown engaging in a rather childish argument over Lauren as they prepare to torture one of Karl's associates with pliers.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: FDR comes across as this to Lauren. The viewers know he's a lot sweeter than he lets on, but he doesn't show his nicer side to Lauren until later in the movie.
* KarmaHoudini: FDR and Tuck. They break into Lauren's apartment, tap her phone, set up cameras everywhere, and place trackers on her. Neither of them face serious consequences for their actions.
* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: During a date with Lauren, FDR is trans-darted by Tuck, and the background music ("Sabotage" by the Music/BeastieBoys) starts getting slower, and slower, and slower until finally FDR falls unconscious.
* LoveTriangle: The entire plot of the film, basically.
* MadeOfExplodium: During the chase scene, [[spoiler:the boys shoot out the SUV's headlights, detonating the airbag and causing the SUV to slam into a stationary object and blow right the Hell up in a fiery explosion.]] Ford Exploder indeed.
* [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife The Masquerade Will Kill Your Married Life]]: Implied to be the reason things didn't originally work out between Tuck and Katie. [[spoiler:She warms up to him a lot once she realizes he's not a travel agent.]]
* MeaningfulEcho: [[spoiler:Would you like to have dinner... as a family?]]
** IronicEcho: [[BullyingADragon Pain is weakness leaving the body.]]
* MrFanservice: Tom Hardy. Chris Pine. In one movie. ''AT THE SAME TIME.''
* NoodleIncident: Whatever happened in Kandahar, mentioned briefly during a fight.
** Also, whatever happened in Bangladesh.
* TheObiWannabe: Lauren most likely wouldn't be in this mess if she weren't following Trish's horrible excuse for guidance.
* TheOner: The scene with the boys setting up their surveillance cameras in Lauren's home while she dances in and out of the room is all one take.
* OnlyKnownByInitials: FDR Foster, obviously. Also somewhat of a ShoutOut to former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was also known by that moniker (his full name is "Franklin Delano Roosevelt Foster"... you'd call yourself FDR too).
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: A very odd example with Tuck; Tom Hardy uses his native British accent throughout the film, but once he starts yelling at FDR in the final scene his accent goes completely off the rails and becomes almost unintelligible. There are also a couple of other brief moments throughout the film where he slips into the fake American accent that he's used in other films for a word or two.
* PlayingDrunk: The boys try this to catch a bad guy who knows Karl Heinrich.
* PairTheSpares: [[spoiler:Tuck and his ex get back on good terms by the end of the film after Lauren chooses FDR.]]
** Alternately, in one of the alternate endings, [[spoiler:FDR gets back with his flight attendant female friend... and her female co-worker.]]
* TheReveal: In-universe. Katie and Joe discover what Tuck actually does when footage of the car chase is broadcast on the news.
** [[spoiler:TheRevealPromptsRomance: Katie invites Tuck to dinner, and the final scene confirms that they're back together.]]
* RunningGag: "Stop repeating everything that I say!"
* ShirtlessScene: Chris Pine has a couple, but oddly, Tom Hardy does not.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Trish, played by Chelsea Handler, takes over every scene she's in and makes it hard to realize Lauren is even there. This is mostly due to Handler's outrageously over-the-top lines.
* SoMuchForStealth: The boys are really not good with keeping their missions covert. Averted with the scene of them setting up surveillance in Lauren's house, as she walks past them multiple times but remains blissfully unaware of their presence.
-->'''[[DaChief The Chief]]''': ''[brings a picture of a body [[CarCushion resting on a crushed car]] up on a screen]'' This was supposed to be a ''covert'' mission.
* StalkerWithACrush: Both of the men vying for Lauren dance into this trope.
* TwoScenesOneDialogue: The scene of the boys giving orders to their respective surveillance crews.
* UptightLovesWild: [[spoiler:Ultimately reflected with Lauren's choice.]]
* WasItAllALie: [[spoiler:Lauren doesn't know what to think when she finds out Tuck and FDR are best friends.]]
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[[caption-width-right:299:For women everywhere!]]
''This Means War'', starring Creator/ChrisPine and Creator/TomHardy, directed by [=McG=] and produced by Creator/WillSmith, is a 2012 action romantic comedy about two CIA agents who accidentally start dating the same girl.
The two agents, Tuck (Tom Hardy) and FDR (Chris Pine) are scouting out a party for a target. This introduces us to the two main characters and their dynamic, which is a typical but adorable pair of good friends. Tuck is much more polite and sweet while FDR is roguish and impulsive. Their targets are two brothers and when a fiery shootout hits, one of the Heinrich brothers, Jonas, is accidentally killed, causing the other, Karl (Creator/TilSchweiger), to swear revenge on the two friends.
Meanwhile, a lonely woman named Lauren (Creator/ReeseWitherspoon) has gotten tired of the single life and her best friend Trish (Creator/ChelseaHandler), makes her a profile on a dating site. Similarly, Tuck has had little luck in love as he is divorced and has a child to take care of and so he decides to try the same dating site. He and Lauren meet up on a blind date and hit it off while FDR hangs out in a video store nearby just in case the date goes south and Tuck needs an escape. However, Lauren goes to the video store and FDR, clueless that it’s the same girl Tuck had just gone out with, becomes interested in her as well. Tuck and FDR meet up later at their office only to discover they are dating the same girl. Both men offer to break it off with her because they are friends and do not want to lose their friendship over a girl, but their pride gets the better of them and it becomes a competition to see who Lauren chooses. As their tempers flare, their friendship starts to fall apart as they get more and more aggressive about trying to get Lauren to fall in love with one of them. All the while, the enraged Karl is closing in and looking for a way to hurt the boys for the death of his brother.
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!! This film contains examples of:
* AcronymAndAbbreviationOverload: The head of FDR's surveillance team relays a text message Lauren sent to Trish, and spends the rest of the brief scene spelling everything in chat speak until FDR tells him to S-H-H-H-H.
* ActorAllusion:
** At two different parts of the movie, FDR claims to be [[Film/StarTrek2009 captain of a cruise ship]].
** It's the first reply that justifies the trope: [[spoiler:"Permission to come aboard, Captain?"]]
** Nana's been taking care of FDR after he lost both parents at a young age. [[Film/SpiderMan1 Hardly the first time either.]]
** In one scene, the Music/BeastieBoys song "Sabotage" is playing in the background [[LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand until Tuck shoots FDR with a tranquilizer dart]]. "Sabotage" was prominently featured in the ''[[Film/StarTrek2009 Star Trek]]'' reboot films that Pine stars in.
* AgentsDating: The movie is pretty much centered around this. Lauren decides to have sex with two different spies who are pursuing her, to see which one of them is better in bed. After they found they've been sleeping with the same woman, they wage an epic battle against one another.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Accidentally implied with [[spoiler:Lauren's choice to date FDR instead of Tuck]].
* AmicablyDivorced: Seems to be the case between Tuck and his ex. She's not his biggest fan, but she isn't nasty to him at any point when she comes to pick up their son. It is further enforced by [[spoiler: her agreeing to go out to dinner with him after Lauren chooses FDR.]]
* AndTheAdventureContinues: FDR and Tuck talking about FDR's encounter with Tuck's wife (before the couple met) as they begin their next mission.
* BadLiar: Tuck and FDR accuse each other of being this when their attempts at keeping their surveillance of Lauren secret from each other fail.
* BashBrothers: FDR and Tuck.
* BelligerentSexualTension: How Lauren and FDR's relationship starts out.
* BettyAndVeronica: Lauren is torn between the sweet Tuck and the flirtatious FDR.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:After Karl kidnaps Lauren and Trish, the boys steal a Jeep and go after them, completely ignoring Karl's demand for them to meet him at an abandoned warehouse.]]
* BlatantLies: Every excuse Tuck and FDR use to convince the surveillance crews to help them spy on Lauren.
* BottomlessMagazines: Averted. Tuck runs out of ammo in two fight scenes. Both times, FDR passes him a magazine. The second time, he scolds Tuck for not carrying extra magazines like he does.
* BoyfriendBluff: How Lauren and FDR eventually reconcile their differences enough to actually date.
* BrosBeforeHoes: [[spoiler: In an alternate ending, both Tuck and FDR decide their friendship is more important than who ends up with Lauren.]]
* BullyingADragon: The over-aggressive father at Tuck's son's karate class. Seriously, who talks shit to Creator/TomHardy about his kid?
* TheCharmer: FDR. Tuck is gorgeous, but not as flirtatious as FDR so he doesn't get noticed as much.
* ChekhovsSkill: Lauren's extensive knowledge of consumer products pays off when [[spoiler:when she tells the boys to shoot the headlamps of a (otherwise bulletproof) car, thereby triggering the airbags.]] Also, Tuck trusts her to drive the Jeep because he took her driving on one of their dates.
* CockFight: Tuck and FDR try to avoid this for the most part, but the more emotionally invested they become in Lauren, the more they argue [[spoiler:and eventually get into a fist fight.]]
* CurbStompBattle: When Tuck decides to try out paintball, he completely demolishes everybody on the field [[OneManArmy all by himself]].
* CynicismCatalyst: The death of Karl Heinrich's brother Jonas sets him off on revenge.
* DaChief: Played, oddly enough, by ''Angela freaking Bassett.''
* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:Lauren when Karl catches up to her. Trish too because she happens to be in the same car at the time of the kidnapping.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Both the boys, but FDR moreso than Tuck.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Tuck. Though he reconciles with his ex and they are together at the end.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: Jonas is killed this way in a fight with FDR.
* EnhanceButton: Played straight when FDR has one of the techs do magic enhancing to reveal the bad guy stalking Tuck.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Karl Heinrich is seeking revenge for the death of his younger brother Jonas.
* ExactWords: During their first date, Lauren asks Tuck if he's ever killed someone with his bare hands. He says no... not this week.
* {{Expy}}: FDR is unnervingly similar to Chris Pine's portrayal of Jim Kirk in J.J. Abrams' ''Star Trek'' reboot.
* FakeOutMakeOut: Lauren pulls one with FDR to make her ex jealous. It works. Hilariously.
* {{Fanservice}}: Chris Pine getting shirtless, and later naked, for the girls (and some guys); Reese Witherspoon in her undies for the guys (and some girls). And Tom Hardy's arms in general make him borderline fanservice too.
* FlippingTheBird: Tuck flips off FDR's surveillance drone.
--> "Did he just give our bird the bird?"
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:FDR's parents died in a car accident when he was a kid, and "he was never the same since."]]
* GroinAttack: Completely accidental, but Lauren shoots Tuck in the crotch with a paintball gun.
* HandsomeLech: FDR, in spades.
* HeadTiltinglyKinky: The agents watching FDR and Lauren imply that the two put on quite a show.
* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler: The film ends with Tuck and FDR, now engaged to Lauren, on another mission as they prepare to parachute out of a helicopter. FDR confesses to having slept with Katie before she even met Tuck, but no longer feels guilty about it because Tuck had sex with Lauren. Tuck, however, reveals that they did not go all the way and angrily tackles FDR out of the helicopter.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Tuck and FDR. Of course, them ending up dating the same woman puts a significant damper on their relationship, but they eventually manage to patch things up during the climax.
-->'''FDR''': I missed you!\\
'''Tuck''': Missed you, too!\\
'''FDR''': I love you, man!\\
'''Tuck''': Love you, too!\\
'''FDR''': We're back!
* HiddenDepths: Late in the film, Trish [[spoiler:while helping her son with something, tells Lauren how much she loves her husband, and that she shouldn't choose the better man, but rather should pick the man who makes her a better woman.]]
* HomosocialHeterosexuality: Pretty much the entire plot.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: FDR is almost an entire head taller than Lauren[[note]]Chris Pine is an average height at 6' tall, but Reese Witherspoon is only 5'1"[[/note]].
* INeedAFreakingDrink: When Lauren believes that Tuck and FDR are meeting for the first time, she [[INeedToGoIronMyDog makes some lame excuse to leave for a moment]], and then asks them to order her a drink. Something in a shot.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: PlayedForLaughs. FDR and Tuck are shown engaging in a rather childish argument over Lauren as they prepare to torture one of Karl's associates with pliers.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: FDR comes across as this to Lauren. The viewers know he's a lot sweeter than he lets on, but he doesn't show his nicer side to Lauren until later in the movie.
* KarmaHoudini: FDR and Tuck. They break into Lauren's apartment, tap her phone, set up cameras everywhere, and place trackers on her. Neither of them face serious consequences for their actions.
* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: During a date with Lauren, FDR is trans-darted by Tuck, and the background music ("Sabotage" by the Music/BeastieBoys) starts getting slower, and slower, and slower until finally FDR falls unconscious.
* LoveTriangle: The entire plot of the film, basically.
* MadeOfExplodium: During the chase scene, [[spoiler:the boys shoot out the SUV's headlights, detonating the airbag and causing the SUV to slam into a stationary object and blow right the Hell up in a fiery explosion.]] Ford Exploder indeed.
* [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife The Masquerade Will Kill Your Married Life]]: Implied to be the reason things didn't originally work out between Tuck and Katie. [[spoiler:She warms up to him a lot once she realizes he's not a travel agent.]]
* MeaningfulEcho: [[spoiler:Would you like to have dinner... as a family?]]
** IronicEcho: [[BullyingADragon Pain is weakness leaving the body.]]
* MrFanservice: Tom Hardy. Chris Pine. In one movie. ''AT THE SAME TIME.''
* NoodleIncident: Whatever happened in Kandahar, mentioned briefly during a fight.
** Also, whatever happened in Bangladesh.
* TheObiWannabe: Lauren most likely wouldn't be in this mess if she weren't following Trish's horrible excuse for guidance.
* TheOner: The scene with the boys setting up their surveillance cameras in Lauren's home while she dances in and out of the room is all one take.
* OnlyKnownByInitials: FDR Foster, obviously. Also somewhat of a ShoutOut to former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was also known by that moniker (his full name is "Franklin Delano Roosevelt Foster"... you'd call yourself FDR too).
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: A very odd example with Tuck; Tom Hardy uses his native British accent throughout the film, but once he starts yelling at FDR in the final scene his accent goes completely off the rails and becomes almost unintelligible. There are also a couple of other brief moments throughout the film where he slips into the fake American accent that he's used in other films for a word or two.
* PlayingDrunk: The boys try this to catch a bad guy who knows Karl Heinrich.
* PairTheSpares: [[spoiler:Tuck and his ex get back on good terms by the end of the film after Lauren chooses FDR.]]
** Alternately, in one of the alternate endings, [[spoiler:FDR gets back with his flight attendant female friend... and her female co-worker.]]
* TheReveal: In-universe. Katie and Joe discover what Tuck actually does when footage of the car chase is broadcast on the news.
** [[spoiler:TheRevealPromptsRomance: Katie invites Tuck to dinner, and the final scene confirms that they're back together.]]
* RunningGag: "Stop repeating everything that I say!"
* ShirtlessScene: Chris Pine has a couple, but oddly, Tom Hardy does not.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Trish, played by Chelsea Handler, takes over every scene she's in and makes it hard to realize Lauren is even there. This is mostly due to Handler's outrageously over-the-top lines.
* SoMuchForStealth: The boys are really not good with keeping their missions covert. Averted with the scene of them setting up surveillance in Lauren's house, as she walks past them multiple times but remains blissfully unaware of their presence.
-->'''[[DaChief The Chief]]''': ''[brings a picture of a body [[CarCushion resting on a crushed car]] up on a screen]'' This was supposed to be a ''covert'' mission.
* StalkerWithACrush: Both of the men vying for Lauren dance into this trope.
* TwoScenesOneDialogue: The scene of the boys giving orders to their respective surveillance crews.
* UptightLovesWild: [[spoiler:Ultimately reflected with Lauren's choice.]]
* WasItAllALie: [[spoiler:Lauren doesn't know what to think when she finds out Tuck and FDR are best friends.]]
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