History Series / BulletInTheFace

* MagicPlasticSurgery: Gunter constantly ignores his surgeon's advice, refuses to take the standard rotation of meds to sustain his facial transplant, and is repeatedly shot point-blank in the forehead. He nevertheless seems no worse for wear. This is likely a jab at ''[=Face/Off=]'' and its protagonists' lack of need for such trivialities.

A police procedural with clown shoes, the story takes the BoxedCrook theme to its logical extreme: TheJoker being poached by law enforcement to help solve crimes. Just as ''Sledge Hammer'' was a pastiche of 80's cop shows, the jokes also draw inspiration from JohnWoo films and [[TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] comics such as ''SinCity''.

—Gunter, Bullet In The Face

* MagicPlasticSurgery: Gunter refuses to take the standard rotation of meds to sustain his facial transplant, is repeatedly shot point-blank in the forehead, and neglects to undergo dental surgery like his surgeon requires. He seems no worse for wear. This is likely a jab at ''FaceOff'' and the protagonists' lack of need for such trivialities.

A police procedural with clown shoes, the story takes the BoxCrook theme to its logical extreme: TheJoker being poached by law enforcement to help solve crimes.

* CrapsackWorld: Brüteville. It doesn't help that it gets worse as the show continues.

* {{Flanderization}}: Hagerman grows steadily more useless as the show progresses, culminating in his inability to ''cross a room'' correctly (on multiple occasions). It's apt that he finally decides to turn heel at the exact moment Gunter thinks to call "this city's only honest cop." He even fails at this, and instead empties his clip into the ceiling while screaming in classic ''PointBreak'' style... killing Gunter's upstairs neighbor in the process.
-->'''Gunter:''' Hagerman, only ''you'' could [[EpicFail fail at redemption!]]

* {{Geisha}}: A group of thespians-turned-prostitutes who [[spoiler: kill gangsters in revenge for their theater falling into ruin]] have this as their gimmick.

* MagicPlasticSurgery

* GigglingVillain
* GoodIsImpotent: Quite literally with Hagerman, who winds up traumatized as a result to a strip joint. Other than saving Gunter from killer masseuses, he contributes nothing to the proceedings besides shame.

* PerpSweating: Gunter fails at this. Over and over and over.

* CowboyCop: Gunter behaves in like fashion after he goes undercover, mostly by dint of being a complete psychopath who has no real interest in anything but getting his own face back.

* DaChief: Commissioner Braden

* TheNameless: The identity of the man Gunter killed and received the face of is never mentioned.

* TheAtoner: Averted so very, very hard.

* WhamEpisode: "Kiss Me Thrice" takes a more serious tone and cranks up the MythArc

* TeensAreMonsters: Gunter tries to encourage this mentality with a teenager in “Drug of Choice.” [[Spoiler: Averted when it turns out the drugs made him that way]]

* ChessMotif: The last three episodes in spades

Brüteville Police Commissioner Eva Braden (Jessica Steen) gives him an ultimatum: die or work for her undercover to take down the city’s powerful crime lords, Tannhäuser (Eddie Izzard) and Racken (Eric Roberts). Aided by Lt. Karl Hagerman (Neil Napier), the partner of the man whose face he now bears, Vogler must adapt to life as a cop if he wants revenge on those who betrayed him.

* WhamEpisode: "Kissed by Three Faces" takes a more serious tone, but "The World Stage" acts more like this.

* TeensAreMonsters: Gunter tries to encourage this mentality with a teenager in “Drug of Choice.”

* TheChessmaster: Tannhauser wishes he were this, given all the chess motifs he uses and the lessons in chess he's taking.

* CliffHanger: [[spoiler: Tannhauser barely escapes his apartment, and sets off a bomb that may have killed Commissioner Braden. Meanwhile, Martine dispatches Racken and his thugs with the submachine gun she has hidden in her fake belly, pointing her gun at Gunther. Finally, Hagerman tries to defuse a bomb in the basement of a hospital...the episode ends on a shot of chess pieces falling over, leaving all three threads hanging.]]

* GenreSavvy: Tannhauser. But since he's insane and believes he's destined for a tragic and operatic downfall, he doesn't use it to his advantage very much.

** Tannhauser ''revels'' in this.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Martine is not pregnant (and is hiding a machine pistol under her fake stomach).]]

* BattleCouple: Martine and Gunter are a very twisted example.

* CliffHanger: [[spoiler: Tannhauser barely escapes his apartment, and sets off a bomb that may have killed Commissioner Braden. Meanwhile, Martine dispatches Racken and his thugs with the submachine gun she has hidden in her fake belly. Hagerman tries to defuse a bomb in the basement of the hospital he, Gunther, and Martine are in, but it looks like it's about to go off...then cut to a chess piece falling over.]]

* AxeCrazy: Gunter Vogler. Though its more ''insanity'' then crazy.
* FacialHorror: Gunter is shot in the face, not once but a couple of more times over the course of the first three episodes of the series, and he looks like he's enjoying it. There's also the fact his face is not ready, as there are slips and cracks happening.

''Bullet in the Face'' is an ultraviolent, blackly comedic American television series created by Alan Spencer (''Sledge Hammer!'') that premiered on August 16, 2012 on IFC. It follows sociopathic criminal Gunter Vogler (Max Williams) who, after being shot by his lover and partner-in-crime Martine (Kate Kelton) during a botched jewel heist, wakes up in a hospital three months later with the surgically-transplanted face of the last man he killed. Brüteville Police Commissioner Eva Braden (Jessica Steen) gives him an ultimatum: die or work for her undercover to take down the city’s powerful crime lords, Tannhäuser (Eddie Izzard) and Racken (Eric Roberts). Aided by Lt. Karl Hagerman (Neil Napier), the partner of the man whose face he now bears, Vogler must adapt to life as a cop if he wants revenge on those who betrayed him.

''Bullet in the Face'' is an ultraviolent, blackly comedic American television series created Alan Spencer (''Sledge Hammer!'') that premiered on August 16, 2012 on IFC. It follows sociopathic criminal Gunter Vogler (Max Williams) who, after being shot by his lover and partner-in-crime Martine (Kate Kelton) during a botched jewel heist, wakes up in a hospital three months later with the surgically-transplanted face of the last man he killed. Brüteville Police Commissioner Eva Braden (Jessica Steen) gives him an ultimatum: die or work for her undercover to take down the city’s powerful crime lords, Tannhäuser (Eddie Izzard) and Racken (Eric Roberts). Aided by Lt. Karl Hagerman (Neil Napier), the partner of the man whose face he now bears, Vogler must adapt to life as a cop if he wants revenge on those who betrayed him.