History Film / XxX

* ReverseMole: [[spoiler:Yelena]] is actually another undercover spy.

* EvilVersusEvil: Invoked and discussed by Gibbons by way of explaining his reasoning for recruiting criminals, although it's actually more BlackAndGreyMorality 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]].

* BlackTieInfiltration: Parodied: The first agent the NSA sends wears a tux... to a Rammstein concert. He's immediately spotted and taken out, prompting Samuel L. Jackson to find someone who blends in better.

* DinerBrawl: Xander Cage is abducted from his home by government agents, and wakes up the next day in a busy road diner. Almost immediately there's a stick-up by two armed men, but Cage easily dispatches both of them. Agent Gibbons reveals himself and explains that this was a test which Cage passed, but asks why Cage was confident enough to just walk right up to the second gunman and grab his shotgun. Cage [[SherlockScan points out all the increasingly unlikely discrepancies he noticed]]; one of the gunmen packing a cop-issue Beretta and the other one dressed up as a broker on a Sunday when the stock market is closed he deemed unlikely, but still plausible; a career waitress coming to work in high heels however was beyond the realm of physical possibility, so he realized that if she was fake, then the whole setting was fake and the guns only had blanks.

If you're wondering about the title, it was so named to make it harder to find on [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil online piracy sites]], since they were [[TheInternetIsForPorn already flooded with things labeled "XXX"]].

* IKnowMortalKombat: Xander is apparently so good at weapons from his First Person Shooter experience. On the other hand, he doesn't seem to understand the concept of a safety. Perhaps that's why he was given a revolver?

A third film titled ''Film/XxXReturnOfXanderCage'' was released in 2017, which like the title implies would see the return of Xander Cage, who had seemingly been killed offscreen in the previous movie.

* ShootTheBuilder: The BigBad kills all the scientists with his bioweapon after they finished building his submarine.

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* AnarchyIsChaos: Yorgi built a criminal organization out himself and his former comrades, calling themselves named Anarchy 99 after the year their rebellion. They patterned themselves to be anarchists to cover their tracks.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw:
** Xander's stunt at the beginning couldn't trigger the Three Strikes law, as they cannot be three felonies from the same "transaction."[[note]]Unless he already has two, but that's not what Gibbons said.[[/note]] Also, they would be state crimes and he wouldn't be sent to Leavenworth (a federal prison). Of course, the chief could have just been saying that to pressure him into working for him.
** The NSA does ''not'' have agents in the field--they're strictly signals intelligence (phone calls, emails, that sort of thing). Non-military human intelligence is the CIA's business.

A third film titled ''Film/XxXReturnOfXanderCage'' is slated for 2017, which like the title implies would see the return of Xander Cage, who had seemingly been killed offscreen in the previous movie.

A third film titled ''[[Film/XxXReturnofXanderCage xXx: Return of Xander Cage]]'' is slated for 2017, which like the title implies would see the return of Xander Cage, who had seemingly been killed offscreen in the previous movie.

A third film titled ''xXx: The Return of Xander Cage'' is slated for 2017, which like the title implies would see the return of Xander Cage, who had seemingly been killed offscreen in the previous movie.

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