History Series / BulletInTheFace

-->'''Racken:''' Seriously. I got lots of black guys in my mob. You may not know this, I was the first guy to recruit kids from low-test-score schools. It was like, it was like no-no juvenile delinquent left behind. It was a hell of a program.

Despite this, Racken is very sensitive about being an equal-opportunity employer.

* FantasticRacism: Rachen is prejudiced against the French, preferring American snails to French escargot.

* FantasticalRacism: Rachen is prejudiced against the French, preferring American snails to French escargot.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Braden had this with Gunter because of his new face, but he doesn’t feel the same way about her at all. [[HetIsEw Neither did the face’s original owner]].

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 (Creator/EddieIzzard) 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.

%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * CaptainObvious: Hagerman again

''Bullet in the Face'' is an ultraviolent, [[BlackComedy blackly comedic]] Canadian-American television series created by Alan Spencer (''Series/SledgeHammer'') 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.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * CaptainObvious: Hagerman again

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 Creator/JohnWoo films (particularly ''Film/FaceOff'') and [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] graphic novels such as ''ComicBook/SinCity''.

-->'''Gunter:''' Using GilbertAndSullivan for genocide is ''very'' creative.

* GangOfHats: A group of thespians-turned-prostitutes who [[spoiler: kill gangsters in revenge for their theater falling into ruin]] employ ''TheMikado'' as their gimmick.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Gunter's look is some kind of unholy combination of KlausKinski and a J. Crew model.

* {{Expy}}: Tannhäuser's agoraphobia is inspired by [[CitzenKane Charles Foster Kane]], as hinted by his snowglobe obsession.

* WomenInRefrigerators: The fate of [[spoiler: Tannhäuser's henchwoman]].

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 (EddieIzzard) 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.

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 (particularly ''Film/FaceOff'') and [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] graphic novels such as ''SinCity''.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Gunter. Though, ironically, he originally has black hair before the surgery.

* AgentPeacock: Hagerman and his old "partner" bonded over a mutual taste for musical theater and crochet. Gunter's loft is full of BarryManilow and ''{{Xanadu}}'' [=CDs=], and a flashback reveals Braden trying (and failing miserably) to stimulate his transplant donor sexually. Nevertheless, Gunter's victim seems, from what little we see of him, to have been an inordinately badass detective.

* TheLoad: 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 turns 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.

* GenreSavvy: Tannhäuser. 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.

* CaptainObvious: Hagerman again

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 (particularly ''Film/FaceOff'') and [[TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] graphic novels such as ''SinCity''.

''Bullet in the Face'' is an ultraviolent, [[BlackComedy blackly comedic]] Canadian-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.