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* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: Hinted at when at the end, the Gang decides to make an eighth film. Mac, who played Murtaugh in their previous films, asks to play Murtaugh again, after being disappointed in their choices in this film.
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* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Dennis reveals he went through three bad dates in the third half, which gave him the inspiration for his idea of handing the creative control for Lethal Weapons 7 over to "Don Cheadle".
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* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Dennis reveals he went through three bad dates in the third half, part, which gave him the inspiration for his idea of handing the creative control for Lethal Weapons 7 over to "Don Cheadle".
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* PaperThinDisguise: Very few people at the screening of ''White Saviors'' notice that "Don Cheadle" barely looks like the real guy.
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* RealitySubtext: Frank's complaining about ''Lethal Weapon 5'' and ''6'' getting pulled from "the library" is a riff on how most streaming services removed certain episodes of the show in the name of racial sensitivity.
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* RealitySubtext: Frank's complaining about ''Lethal Weapon 5'' and ''6'' getting pulled from "the library" is a riff on how most streaming services removed certain episodes of the show in the name of racial sensitivity.
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* BlatantLies: During one of his dates with young women, Dennis claims to be 26 despite clearly being ''much'' older.
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* BlatantLies: During one of his dates with young women, Dennis claims to be 26 despite clearly being ''much'' older. To underscore this, the scene is filmed in bright sunlight, which makes the wrinkles on his face appear more pronounced.
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** The American film industry's pervasive cynical, performative PR grabs with heavily tokenized "diverse" casting choices and superficially progressive plotlines and characterizations is also relentlessly mocked. The Gang's choice to hand the film over to "Don Cheadle" and his subsequent retool of the film into a documentary on the Gang's sheer bigotry, ignorance, arrogance, and narcissism serves as the logical conclusion of this.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: Discussed, while trying to make a new villain, Dennis explains why they chose Karen White. According to Dennis, entitled white women are the only group they can vilify for their movie but the gang finds her too "cunty" for their movie and decide to switch Karen with a flood to avoid controversy. Instead, they now find the movie terrible and switch it to a documentary about white saviors.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: The gang are confused when Artemis alludes to herself as a diversity hire of a woman of colour, explaining that (like the actress) she's Iranian.
* BaitAndSwitch: In TheTeaser, when the Gang tries to convince Frank to move on from the fact that the library removed Lethal Weapons 5 and 6, it looks like they are trying to persuade him to be the bigger person...Nope! They decide to make Lethal Weapon 7.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: The gang are confused when Artemis alludes to herself as a diversity hire of a woman of colour, explaining that (like the actress) she's Iranian.
* BaitAndSwitch: In TheTeaser, when the Gang tries to convince Frank to move on from the fact that the library removed Lethal Weapons 5 and 6, it looks like they are trying to persuade him to be the bigger person...Nope! They decide to make Lethal Weapon 7.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: Discussed, while trying to make a new villain, Dennis explains why they chose Karen White. According to Dennis, entitled white women are the only group they can vilify for their movie but the gang finds her too "cunty" for their movie and decide to switch Karen with a flood to avoid controversy. Instead, they now find the movie terrible character unlikable and switch it to eventually make "Don Cheadle" the director, who turns the film into a documentary about white saviors.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: The gang are confused when Artemis alludes to herself as a diversity hire of a woman ofcolour, color, explaining that (like the actress) she's Iranian.
* BaitAndSwitch: InTheTeaser, the ColdOpening, when the Gang tries to convince Frank to move on from the fact that the library removed Lethal Weapons 5 and 6, it looks like they are trying to persuade him to be the bigger person...Nope! They decide to make Lethal Weapon 7.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: The gang are confused when Artemis alludes to herself as a diversity hire of a woman of
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* HereWeGoAgain: After the Gang's attempt to make ''Lethal Weapon 7'' gets turned into a documentary about white saviors by Don Cheadle, they decide to make ''Lethal Weapon 8'' with Mac campaigning to play Murtaugh again.
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* HereWeGoAgain: After the Gang's attempt to make ''Lethal Weapon 7'' gets turned into a documentary about white saviors by Don Cheadle, "Don Cheadle", they decide to make ''Lethal Weapon 8'' with Mac campaigning to play Murtaugh again.
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* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Dennis reveals he went through three bad dates in the third half, which gave him the inspiration for his idea of handing the creative control for Lethal Weapons 7 over to Don Cheadle.
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* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Dennis reveals he went through three bad dates in the third half, which gave him the inspiration for his idea of handing the creative control for Lethal Weapons 7 over to Don Cheadle."Don Cheadle".
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* AllegoricalCharacter: Discussed, while trying to make a new villain, Dennis explains why they chose Karen White. According to Dennis, entitled white women are the only group they can vilify for their movie but the gang finds her too "cunty" for their movie and decide to switch Karen with a flood to avoid controversy. Instead, they now find the movie terrible and switch it to a documentary about white saviors.
