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''"Welcome to the Xander Zone!"''

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''"Welcome to the Xander Zone!"''
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* LetsGetDangerous: Crossed with OOCIsSeriousBusiness. In the first half of the movie, Xander goes out of his way not to kill anyone - he may be an anti-hero who rebels against authority but he’s not AxeCrazy. He pulls a guard off the cliff into the water below, tranquilizes another, and generally avoids the others on his way into the castle’s underlevels. Then he sees just how evil Anarchy 99 is when they gas an entire room of people with a nerve agent. Following this, he blows up Kolya without flinching, causes an avalanche that wipes out a dozen men, and eventually kills Victor himself.

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* LetsGetDangerous: Crossed with OOCIsSeriousBusiness. In the first half of the movie, Xander goes out of his way not to kill anyone - he may be an anti-hero who rebels against authority but he’s not AxeCrazy.AxCrazy. He pulls a guard off the cliff into the water below, tranquilizes another, and generally avoids the others on his way into the castle’s underlevels. Then he sees just how evil Anarchy 99 is when they gas an entire room of people with a nerve agent. Following this, he blows up Kolya without flinching, causes an avalanche that wipes out a dozen men, and eventually kills Victor himself.
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* ShootTheBuilder: The BigBad kills all the scientists with his bioweapon after they finished building his submarine. While it serves as a pretty good KickTheDog moment, it also raises FridgeLogic questions since he's planning to bomb ''every'' major city but they've only built one for him.

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* ShootTheBuilder: The BigBad Yorgi kills all the scientists with his bioweapon nerve agent after they finished finish building his submarine. While it serves as a pretty good KickTheDog moment, it also raises FridgeLogic questions since he's planning to bomb ''every'' major city but they've only built one for him.submarine.
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->''"Stop thinking Prague police and start thinking UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation}}. Blow shit up!"''

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->''"Stop thinking Prague police and start thinking UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation}}.Platform/PlayStation. Blow shit up!"''

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* AgonyOfTheFeet: Discussed as a plot point. Xander sees through the diner trap when he notices the waitress is wearing highheels, which would be quite painful for someone really working a whole day on her feet.



* DubNameChange: In the Russian dub, a lot of information about the antagonists has been re-written, such as their organization being known as "Anarchy 16", all of its members being Czech, and Kolya and Kirill are renamed to Zoltan and JiÅ™í.

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* DubNameChange: In the Russian dub, a lot of information about the antagonists has been gets re-written, such as their organization being known as "Anarchy 16", all of its members being Czech, and renamed from Anarchy 99 to Anarchy 16, Kolya and Kirill are renamed to Zoltan and JiÅ™í.JiÅ™í, and the band being now fully Czech rather than Russian with some Czech members.


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* FiringOneHanded: Kolya briefly does this with a FN P-90, which is small enough to do this believably.
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* DubNameChange: In the Russian dub, a lot of information about the antagonists has been re-written, such as their organization being known as "Anarchy 16", all of its members being Czech, and Kolya and Kirill are renamed to Zoltan and JiÅ™í.
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That was a Corvette Diesel's character stole in the film


** Skateboarder [[VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater Tony Hawk]] is Xander Cage's getaway driver after stealing and crashing the Ferrari, and is present in the afterparty congratulating Xander's stunt and also [[ActorAllusion shown skating on some ramps in the loft]].

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** Skateboarder [[VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater Tony Hawk]] is Xander Cage's getaway driver after stealing and crashing the Ferrari, Corvette, and is present in the afterparty congratulating Xander's stunt and also [[ActorAllusion shown skating on some ramps in the loft]].
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* BondOneLiner: After using a heat seeking round to lock onto the Anarchy 99 henchman's cigarette, Xander says "I told him that cigarette will kill him one day".
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Tagline}} A new breed of secret agent]].'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Tagline}} A new breed New Breed of secret agent]].'']]
Secret Agent.]]'']]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Welcome to the Xander zone!'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Tagline}} A new breed of secret agent]].'']]
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Kick The Dog is when a villain goes out of their way to hurt someone/something just because they can. Not because it serves them.


* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Yorgi, Kolya, Victor, and Kiril actively mock the scientists and the other mooks as they murder them, displaying not the slightest bit of sympathy, unlike Yelena.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Welcome to the Xander Zone!'']]

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zone!'']]
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* EvilVersusOblivion: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Xander tells the agent he works for "when you hire somebody to save the world, make sure they like the world the way it is."

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* EvilVersusOblivion: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Xander tells the agent he works for "when you hire somebody to save the world, make sure they like the world the way it is."" It zigzags back to straight since Xander is horrified when he later witnesses Yuri [[BadBoss murder dozens of his own scientists]] to test his new super-virus, and leads the effort to stop him before it can reach Prague.
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''[=xXx=]'' (spoken as "Triple X") is a 2002 action film directed by Creator/RobCohen from a script by Rich Wilkes. The film stars Creator/VinDiesel as the rebellious GeniusBruiser Xander Cage, a fugitive stuntman pressed into service by NSA agent Augustus Gibbons (Creator/SamuelLJackson). What follows is a series of action-movie-setting "tests" of Xander to see if he is ready for the mission for which he has been recruited: the infiltration of anarchistic terrorist group "Anarchy 99". The group's leader Yorgi (Creator/MartonCsokas) is a former KGB agent, trained to sniff out American spies, which means that the vast majority of regular, less x-treme NSA agents have been deemed unfit.

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''[=xXx=]'' (spoken as (pronounced "Triple X") is a 2002 action film directed by Creator/RobCohen from a script by Rich Wilkes. The film stars Creator/VinDiesel as the rebellious GeniusBruiser Xander Cage, a fugitive stuntman pressed into service by NSA agent Augustus Gibbons (Creator/SamuelLJackson). What follows is a series of action-movie-setting "tests" of Xander to see if he is ready for the mission for which he has been recruited: the infiltration of anarchistic terrorist group "Anarchy 99". The group's leader Yorgi (Creator/MartonCsokas) is a former KGB agent, trained to sniff out American spies, which means that the vast majority of regular, less x-treme NSA agents have been deemed unfit.
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* DunkingTheBomb: It's revealed that the villain's chemical weapon breaks down in deep water. So, in the climatic scene, with the first rocket about to launch and wipe out Prague, Xander takes the rocket, flips it upside down, shouts out a catchprase, and bails out. The upside down rocket pushes the entire sub deep into the river where everything explodes.

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* DunkingTheBomb: It's revealed that the villain's chemical weapon breaks down in deep water.water (actually TruthInTelevision for organophosphate-based nerve agents, which Silent Night appears to be). So, in the climatic scene, with the first rocket about to launch and wipe out Prague, Xander takes the rocket, flips it upside down, shouts out a catchprase, and bails out. The upside down rocket pushes the entire sub deep into the river where everything explodes.
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* DunkingTheBomb: It's revealed that the villain's bioweapon breaks down in deep water. So, in the climatic scene, with the first rocket about to launch and wipe out Prague, Xander takes the rocket, flips it upside down, shouts out a catchprase, and bails out. The upside down rocket pushes the entire sub deep into the river where everything explodes.

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* DunkingTheBomb: It's revealed that the villain's bioweapon chemical weapon breaks down in deep water. So, in the climatic scene, with the first rocket about to launch and wipe out Prague, Xander takes the rocket, flips it upside down, shouts out a catchprase, and bails out. The upside down rocket pushes the entire sub deep into the river where everything explodes.
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* NiceToTheWaiter: A deleted scene showed Xander humoring a young boy on his flight to Prague who had wandered back to ask about his "video game".[[note]]It was actually a digital mission briefing.[[/note]] Notably, the scene was cut in part ''because'' of this trope - it was felt that seeing Cage being nice to the kid would have painted him as a hero rather than an antihero too early in the film.
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* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: "Triple X", anybody?

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* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: "Triple X", anybody? It's rumored that the title was meant to make life harder for would-be pirates: if you type "xxx movie" on a file sharing website, your results are probably going to be flooded with [[TheInternetIsForPorn a different type of triple-x movie]].
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The film has at its core the outright rejection of many of the TuxedoAndMartini tropes (for better or worse), and an extended sequence at the beginning (where a tux-clad NSA agent completely fails at his mission and gets killed at a heavy metal concert) is clearly a TakeThat to the Film/JamesBond franchise.

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The film has at its core the outright rejection of many of the TuxedoAndMartini tropes (for better or worse), and an extended sequence at the beginning (where a tux-clad NSA agent Jim [=McGrath=] completely fails at his mission and gets killed at a heavy metal concert) is clearly a TakeThat to the Film/JamesBond franchise.

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Clarifying, since the tux-clad NSA agent did have a name.


* OhCrap: When the tux-clad NSA agent in the intro sneaks into a building to evade pursuit, we get a brief, silent reaction shot when he realizes he's walked into a heavy metal concert, and may stick out just a tad.

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When the tux-clad NSA agent in the intro Jim [=McGrath=] sneaks into a building to evade pursuit, we get a brief, silent reaction shot when he realizes he's walked into a heavy metal concert, and may stick out just a tad.
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''[=xXx=]'' (spoken as "Triple X") is a 2002 action film starring Creator/VinDiesel as the rebellious GeniusBruiser Xander Cage, a fugitive stuntman pressed into service by NSA agent Augustus Gibbons (Creator/SamuelLJackson). What follows is a series of action-movie-setting "tests" of Xander to see if he is ready for the mission for which he has been recruited: the infiltration of anarchistic terrorist group "Anarchy 99". The leaders of this group are former KGB agents, trained to sniff out American spies, which means that the vast majority of regular, less x-treme NSA agents have been deemed unfit.

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''[=xXx=]'' (spoken as "Triple X") is a 2002 action film starring directed by Creator/RobCohen from a script by Rich Wilkes. The film stars Creator/VinDiesel as the rebellious GeniusBruiser Xander Cage, a fugitive stuntman pressed into service by NSA agent Augustus Gibbons (Creator/SamuelLJackson). What follows is a series of action-movie-setting "tests" of Xander to see if he is ready for the mission for which he has been recruited: the infiltration of anarchistic terrorist group "Anarchy 99". The leaders of this group are group's leader Yorgi (Creator/MartonCsokas) is a former KGB agents, agent, trained to sniff out American spies, which means that the vast majority of regular, less x-treme NSA agents have been deemed unfit.

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* SpottingTheThread: Xander Cage spotting the fake diner hold-up and critiquing everyone in on it due to all the dangling threads he spotted within a minute:

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* SpottingTheThread: SpottingTheThread:
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Xander Cage spotting the fake diner hold-up and critiquing everyone in on it due to all the dangling threads he spotted within a minute:

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* EvilVersusEvil: Invoked and discussed by Gibbons by way of explaining his reasoning for recruiting criminals, although it's actually more BlackAndGrayMorality in that the proper villains are ''far'' more evil than Xander, who's more of a low level underground figure who never sets out to hurt anyone directly. The only crime we see him commit onscreen is stealing and crashing the car of a zealous MoralGuardian [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets politican]].

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* EvilVersusEvil: Invoked and discussed by Gibbons by way of explaining his reasoning for recruiting criminals, although it's actually more BlackAndGrayMorality in that the proper villains are ''far'' more evil than Xander, who's more of a low level underground figure who never sets out to hurt anyone directly. The only crime we see him commit onscreen is stealing and crashing the car of a zealous MoralGuardian [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets politican]].politican.

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Remove potential speculation. Also the James Bond-style spy had a name.


* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The movie is rumored to have come about after Columbia couldn't get the ''Film/JamesBond'' rights. See the TakeThat at James Bond in the main page.



** The opening has a Film/JamesBond-style spy, Cage's predecessor, who is killed when he stands out like a sore thumb in a Rammstein concert because he's wearing a [[IconicOutfit tuxedo]].

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** The opening has Jim [=McGrath=], a Film/JamesBond-style spy, spy and Cage's predecessor, who is killed when he stands out like a sore thumb in a Rammstein concert because he's wearing a [[IconicOutfit tuxedo]].



* TuxedoAndMartini: Subverted in the beginning where we see a James Bond style spy doing his spy thing, and failing because he didn't realize he was heading into a heavy metal concert. The rest of the film follows the basic tenets of the trope (absurd gadgetry, over-the-top villains, et al), it is just more… anarchic about it.

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* TuxedoAndMartini: Subverted in the beginning where we see a James Bond style spy Bond-style spy, Jim [=McGrath=], doing his spy thing, and failing because he didn't realize he was heading into a heavy metal concert. The rest of the film follows the basic tenets of the trope (absurd gadgetry, over-the-top villains, et al), it is just more… more... anarchic about it.
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Expanding.


''[=xXx=]'' (spoken as "Triple X") is a 2002 action film starring Creator/VinDiesel as the rebellious GeniusBruiser Xander Cage, a fugitive stuntman pressed into service by the NSA chief Creator/SamuelLJackson. What follows is a series of action-movie-setting "tests" of Xander to see if he is ready for the mission for which he has been recruited: the infiltration of anarchistic terrorist group "Anarchy 99". The leaders of this group are former KGB agents, trained to sniff out American spies, which means that the vast majority of regular, less x-treme NSA agents have been deemed unfit.

The film has at its core the outright rejection of many of the TuxedoAndMartini tropes (for better or worse), and an extended sequence at the beginning (where a tux-clad NSA agent completely fails at his mission and gets killed at a heavy metal concert) is clearly a TakeThat to Film/JamesBond.

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''[=xXx=]'' (spoken as "Triple X") is a 2002 action film starring Creator/VinDiesel as the rebellious GeniusBruiser Xander Cage, a fugitive stuntman pressed into service by the NSA chief Creator/SamuelLJackson.agent Augustus Gibbons (Creator/SamuelLJackson). What follows is a series of action-movie-setting "tests" of Xander to see if he is ready for the mission for which he has been recruited: the infiltration of anarchistic terrorist group "Anarchy 99". The leaders of this group are former KGB agents, trained to sniff out American spies, which means that the vast majority of regular, less x-treme NSA agents have been deemed unfit.

The film has at its core the outright rejection of many of the TuxedoAndMartini tropes (for better or worse), and an extended sequence at the beginning (where a tux-clad NSA agent completely fails at his mission and gets killed at a heavy metal concert) is clearly a TakeThat to Film/JamesBond.
the Film/JamesBond franchise.
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* AssholeVictim: Arguably the Russian scientists hired by Anarchy 99. They willingly provide the organization with a horrific chemical weapon and build them a delivery vehicle for it. While it’s unlikely they knew the ''exact'' reason Anarchy 99 wanted it, a group typically doesn’t have altruistic reasons for ordering enough chemical payloads to wipe out several major cities. Their deaths come across more as HoistByTheirOwnPetard rather than anything tragic.
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** Xander passes the diner test more out of necessity than anything (they were pointing guns at him after all), and when offered a job by Gibbons, he ''immediately'' says he wants no part of it. He’s then shipped out of the country (while unconscious) and thrown into the middle of a Colombian cartel’s territory. He ''still'' refuses - not everyone is going to [[JumpedAtTheCall jump at the call]], even if they have the skills for the job and ''especially'' when the person giving you the offer put you through a “test” that almost got you killed.

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** Xander passes the diner test more out of necessity than anything (they were pointing guns at him after all), and when offered a job by Gibbons, he ''immediately'' says he wants no part of it. He’s then shipped out of the country (while unconscious) and thrown into the middle of a Colombian cartel’s territory. He ''still'' refuses - not everyone is going to [[JumpedAtTheCall jump at the call]], even if they have the skills for the job and ''especially'' when the person giving you them the offer put you them through a “test” that almost got you them killed.
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** Xander passes the diner test more out of necessity than anything (they were pointing guns at him after all), and when offered a job by Gibbons, he ''immediately'' says he wants no part of it. He’s then shipped out of the country (while unconscious) and thrown into the middle of a Colombian cartel’s territory. He ''still'' refuses - not everyone is going to JumpedAtTheCall, even if they have the skills for the job.

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** Xander passes the diner test more out of necessity than anything (they were pointing guns at him after all), and when offered a job by Gibbons, he ''immediately'' says he wants no part of it. He’s then shipped out of the country (while unconscious) and thrown into the middle of a Colombian cartel’s territory. He ''still'' refuses - not everyone is going to JumpedAtTheCall, [[JumpedAtTheCall jump at the call]], even if they have the skills for the job.job and ''especially'' when the person giving you the offer put you through a “test” that almost got you killed.

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