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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While initially coming across as cold and willing to sell out his own agents like a typical spymaster, Augustus Gibbons is ultimately this. Gibbons believes in Xander’s skill enough to get the intel on Ahab and Silent Night, and is willing to send him home and let the sweepers clean things up. When Xander goes above and beyond to take down Ahab after it launches early, Gibbons trusts him enough to call off an air strike and let Xander finish it. When it appears (briefly) that Xander died, he is clearly upset by the death and still offers Yelena asylum despite having no incentive to do so, saying he’s “a man of his word”.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While initially coming across as cold and willing to sell out his own agents like a typical spymaster, Augustus Gibbons is ultimately this. Gibbons believes in Xander’s skill enough to get the intel on Ahab and Silent Night, and is willing to send him home and let the sweepers clean things up. When Xander goes above and beyond to take down Ahab after it launches early, Gibbons trusts him enough to call off an air strike and let Xander finish it. When it appears (briefly) that Xander died, he is clearly upset by the death it and still offers Yelena asylum despite having no incentive to do so, saying he’s “a man of his word”.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While initially coming across as cold and willing to sell out his own agents like a typical spymaster, Augustus Gibbons is ultimately this. Gibbons believes in Xander’s skill enough to get the intel on Ahab and Silent Night, and is willing to send him home and let the sweepers clean things up. When Xander goes above and beyond to take down Ahab after it launches early, Gibbons trusts him enough to call off an air strike and let Xander finish it. When it appears (briefly) that Xander died, he is clearly upset by the death and still offers Yelena asylum despite having no incentive to do so, saying he’s “a man of his word”.
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* 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.
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* 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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** 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 JumpAtTheCall, 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 JumpAtTheCall, JumpedAtTheCall, even if they have the skills for the job.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Quite a few throughout the film:
** The NSA agent seen in the infamous opening scene pulls off his SpyCatsuit to reveal a pristine tux to blend in while running from the bad guys. He then runs smack-dab into the mosh pit of a Rammstein concert where he’s immediately spotted and killed; when you’re trying to blend in, it’s a good idea to make sure your outfit matches the place you’re going to be.
** 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 JumpAtTheCall, even if they have the skills for the job.
** The movie in general goes out of its way to subvert IKnowMortalKombat, despite Xander’s reassurances to Shavers. He doesn’t know about the safety on his assault rifle and takes multiple full-auto bursts to hit Yorgi (with realistic recoil issues to boot). He also has to have the heat-seeker rocket set up for him; without proper training, real life advanced weapon systems aren’t always going to be user-friendly.
** While spying on the construction of Ahab, Xander witnesses the mass murder of the scientists by nerve gas and the utter inhuman disregard by Anarchy 99. Does he have NervesOfSteel? Nope, he has a full-on ''panic attack'' complete with open tears. Despite being a thrill-seeker, watching a group of people suffer an agonizing death while they beg for their lives is enough to break trained soldiers, much less a civilian.
** The NSA agent seen in the infamous opening scene pulls off his SpyCatsuit to reveal a pristine tux to blend in while running from the bad guys. He then runs smack-dab into the mosh pit of a Rammstein concert where he’s immediately spotted and killed; when you’re trying to blend in, it’s a good idea to make sure your outfit matches the place you’re going to be.
** 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 JumpAtTheCall, even if they have the skills for the job.
** The movie in general goes out of its way to subvert IKnowMortalKombat, despite Xander’s reassurances to Shavers. He doesn’t know about the safety on his assault rifle and takes multiple full-auto bursts to hit Yorgi (with realistic recoil issues to boot). He also has to have the heat-seeker rocket set up for him; without proper training, real life advanced weapon systems aren’t always going to be user-friendly.
** While spying on the construction of Ahab, Xander witnesses the mass murder of the scientists by nerve gas and the utter inhuman disregard by Anarchy 99. Does he have NervesOfSteel? Nope, he has a full-on ''panic attack'' complete with open tears. Despite being a thrill-seeker, watching a group of people suffer an agonizing death while they beg for their lives is enough to break trained soldiers, much less a civilian.
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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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* OhCrap: The giant henchman's face when he sees Cage holding the detonator to a bomb on the bike he is riding.
** 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.
** 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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* OhCrap: The giant henchman's face when he sees Cage holding the detonator to a bomb on the bike he is riding.
**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.tad.
** Subverted when Kolya jumps the castle gate and sees Xander standing on the other side. Kolya doesn’t have time to realize what Xander’s doing before his bike explodes… and him with it.
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** Subverted when Kolya jumps the castle gate and sees Xander standing on the other side. Kolya doesn’t have time to realize what Xander’s doing before his bike explodes… and him with it.
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* InformedAttractiveness: All the men in the movie seem to treat Yelena as if she's Heidi Klum levels of beautiful, and while beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it's rather...debatable.
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* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Two of the higher ups in A 99 actively mock the scientists and the other mooks as they murder them, displaying not the slightest bit of sympathy, unlike Yorgi or Yelena.]]
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* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Two of the higher ups in A 99 [[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 Yorgi or Yelena.]]
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* GasChamber: The villain Yorgi uses a makeshift gas chamber to [[ShootTheBuilder eliminate the scientists]] who developed his gas-based bioweapon. While the scientists are celebrating, he has the device activated and the room sealed off so he can watch them suffocate to death from the other side of the glass doors.
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* GasChamber: The villain Yorgi uses a makeshift gas chamber to [[ShootTheBuilder eliminate the scientists]] who developed his gas-based bioweapon.chemical weapon Silent Night. While the scientists are celebrating, he has the device activated and the room sealed off so he can watch them suffocate to death from the other side of the glass doors.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In his introduction scene, Yorgi, upon learning that his men lost the agent, he exclaims [[spoiler: 'Zaraza!']], what is a common Russian swearword literally meaning [[spoiler: 'pestilence']]. Later he is revealed to plan the [[spoiler: terrorist strike using a biological weapon]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In his introduction scene, Yorgi, upon learning that his men lost the agent, he exclaims [[spoiler: 'Zaraza!']], what is a common Russian swearword literally meaning [[spoiler: 'pestilence']]. Later he is revealed to plan the [[spoiler: terrorist strike using a biological chemical weapon]].
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* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: The film has a few discrepancies in the script as to the exact nature of [[spoiler: Silent Night, the Soviet-era weapon that Yorgi and his crew plan to use in their worldwide strike. Gibbons mentions that the scientists hired by Yorgi are known to specialize and traffic in biological weapons (which would be things like weaponized bacteria, viruses, fungi, and insects) while Silent Night is shown (and stated by Gibbons) to be a binary nerve agent - a chemical weapon.]]
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* BlackTieInfiltration: Parodied: The first agent the NSA sends wears a tux... to a Music/{{Rammstein}} concert. He's immediately spotted and taken out, prompting Samuel L. Jackson to find someone who blends in better.
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* BlackTieInfiltration: Parodied: The first agent the NSA sends wears a tux... to a Music/{{Rammstein}} concert. He's immediately spotted and taken out, prompting Samuel L. Jackson Gibbons to find someone who blends in better.
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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:
--> '''Xander:''' You know, you almost had me going there for a while. I was a bit groggy before, then I started noticing things. Like, you got a stockbroker over here, all dressed up, reading the Financial Times on a Sunday morning when the market's closed. Unlikely, but okay, I can go with that. I can even go with the stick-up man packing a cop-issue Beretta. But you want to know where you blew it? With her. ''[points to the waitress]'' My aunt was in the restaurant business all her life. There's no way in hell a career waitress comes to work in high heels. She'd have blisters the size of pancakes before lunch. And if she ain't real, then this whole thing ain't real. That's how I knew this bozo over here wouldn't get a shot off even if we waited till St. Patrick's Day. ''[grabs and fires a loaded shotgun; it shoots a blank round]'' Because there's nothing but blanks in these guns. Oh, and no offense, but their performances were terrible.
** Subverted in the next scene when Xander assumes they are still playing with him after dumping him in Columbian drug cartel territory. He figures it out just before Danny Trejo goes to work on him with a machete.
--> '''Xander:''' You know, you almost had me going there for a while. I was a bit groggy before, then I started noticing things. Like, you got a stockbroker over here, all dressed up, reading the Financial Times on a Sunday morning when the market's closed. Unlikely, but okay, I can go with that. I can even go with the stick-up man packing a cop-issue Beretta. But you want to know where you blew it? With her. ''[points to the waitress]'' My aunt was in the restaurant business all her life. There's no way in hell a career waitress comes to work in high heels. She'd have blisters the size of pancakes before lunch. And if she ain't real, then this whole thing ain't real. That's how I knew this bozo over here wouldn't get a shot off even if we waited till St. Patrick's Day. ''[grabs and fires a loaded shotgun; it shoots a blank round]'' Because there's nothing but blanks in these guns. Oh, and no offense, but their performances were terrible.
** Subverted in the next scene when Xander assumes they are still playing with him after dumping him in Columbian drug cartel territory. He figures it out just before Danny Trejo goes to work on him with a machete.
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* TuxedoAndMartini: Subverted in the beginning where we see a James Bond style spy doing his spy thing, and failing because of this trope.
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* TuxedoAndMartini: Subverted in the beginning where we see a James Bond style spy doing his spy thing, and failing because of this trope. he didn't realize he was heading into a heavy metal concert.
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* CanAlwaysSpotACop: Xander Cage can spot police in his native America but also in the eastern bloc countries he visits, going so far as to point them out to establish his bona fides with the Russian mafia. Of course, he was actually ''on a mission'' with said Czech agent; his cunning isn't in that he was able to spot the guy (although he does [[InvokedTrope invoke it]]), but having the foresight to realize his local handler was more useful as a tool to infiltrate the mob than as a partner.
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* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Augustus Gibbons is not bald but the rest fits. High-ranking NSA official, prefiguring his actor's future role as ComicBook/NickFury.
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* DressedInLayers: The againt from the opening takes out a mook in a well-equipped practical spy suit, before taking it off to reveal a pristine tux underneath.
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* DressedInLayers: The againt agent from the opening takes out a mook in a well-equipped practical spy suit, before taking it off to reveal a pristine tux underneath.
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-->'''Xander''': What’s funny is…this actually smells like real blood.
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-->'''Xander''': Actually...what's funny...is that smells...like real blood.
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-->'''Xander''': Actually...what's funny...is that smells...What’s funny is…this actually smells like real blood. blood.
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* ForeignFanservice: As Xander infiltrates a group of Eastern European criminals, we're treated to numerous attractive girls in nightclubs and swimming pools, the Russian spy Yelena, the Czech special agent Xander looks at trough his X-Ray binoculars...
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* ForeignFanservice: As Xander infiltrates a group of Eastern European criminals, we're treated to numerous attractive girls in nightclubs and swimming pools, the Russian spy Yelena, the Czech special agent Xander looks at trough through his X-Ray binoculars...
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* BigLittleBrother: Brothers Yorgi and Kolya are both members of Anarchy 99. Yorgi is explicitly the oldest of the two and their leader. Kolya towers over him and is one of Yorgi's muscle.
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Kolya is Yorgi's younger brother. He's also lot more immature than the reserved and sinister Yorgi, such as proudly fanboying over meeting Xander Cage and being super-giddy at the castle orgy scene, at least compared to Yorgi.
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* GasChamber: The villain Yorgi uses a makeshift gas chamber to [[ShootTheBuilder eliminate the scientists]] who developed his gas-based bioweapon. While the scientists are celebrating, he has the device activated and the room sealed off so he can watch them suffocate to death from the other side of the glass doors.
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* InformedAttractiveness: All the men in the movie seem to treat Yelena as if she's Heidi Klum levels of beautiful, and while beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it's rather...debatable.
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-->'''Xander:''' The things I'm gonna do for this country...
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-->'''Xander:''' The things I'm gonna do for this my country...
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* DressedInLayers: The againt from the opening takes out a mook in a well-equipped practical spy suit, before taking it off to reveal a pristine tux underneath.
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A third film titled ''[[Film/XxXReturnOfXanderCage xXx: The Return of Xander Cage]]'' was released in 2017, which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 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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A third film titled ''[[Film/XxXReturnOfXanderCage xXx: The Return of Xander Cage]]'' was released in 2017, which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 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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* IKnowMortalKombat: Subverted. Xander demonstrates an apparent weapons proficiency when he's issued his gear, saying he played a lot of first-person shooters while laid up with a leg injury. [[RealityEnsues Most of the time, his accuracy is generally poor and he doesn't seem to understand the concept of a safety.]]
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* IKnowMortalKombat: Subverted. Xander demonstrates an apparent weapons proficiency when he's issued his gear, saying he played a lot of first-person shooters while laid up with a leg injury. [[RealityEnsues Most of the time, his accuracy is generally poor and he doesn't seem to understand the concept of a safety.]]
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