History StealthPun / Film

* In ''Film/{{Gifted}}'', when Frank rhetorically asks, "Do I look gifted to you?" with reference to his intellectual ability, Bonnie looks down at him with probably a different idea of [[BiggerIsBetterInBed "gifted"]] in mind.
* The film ''Film/{{Raazi}}'' appears to have a NonIndicativeTitle...until you figure out that the title and the protagonist's name (Sehmat) both mean "willing" in Hindi.
* ''Film/RogueOne'' has a profoundly annoyed Darth Vader Force-choke the ambitious Director Krennic, telling him, "Be careful not to choke on your aspirations". Given the medical definition of aspiration...
** Vader enjoyed these even when he was still Anakin. In ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', he cuts off Count Dooku's arms and calls him an "unarmed" prisoner not three seconds later.
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'' has this. Davy Jones' heart was locked in a locker…which can also be called a chest—''his'' chest.
** Also, one of his crew is a very short man who's mutating into a crustacean. In other words, the guy's a shrimp.
* In the middle of ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'', Nick asks Russ where he learned [[KissOfLife artificial respiration]] after he delivers it to Amy. Russ replies, [[DudeShesLikeInAComa "In French class"]]. Nick doesn't get it and the build-up is left unfinished... then, [[CallBack at the very end of the movie]], right after the FadeToBlack, Nick [[LateToThePunchline suddenly gets it]] and laughs hysterically.
* In ''Film/EvanAlmighty'', Evan's wife is Joan. And the movie is about building an ark.
** This one may also count as a GeniusBonus. When God shows up in the back of Evan's car and scares the pants off him, God replies "Let it out, son. It's the beginning of wisdom." Proverbs 1:7 states "The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom"
** Noah had a son named Ham. Evan has a son named Ryan, or Ry. [[spoiler: Ham and Rye.]]
** You can barely see it, but when God appears before Joan as a server at the restaurant, his name-tag reads "Al Mighty".
* In ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', the meal the characters have been eating is suddenly revealed to be the remains of Eddie, played by the singer Music/MeatLoaf. The audience traditionally fills in the joke: [[spoiler:"Not Meatloaf again!"]]
** [[spoiler:"That's a rather tender subject."]]
*** [[spoiler:"That's a rather tasteless joke."]]
** And don't forget the well-hung speakers.
** Meat Loaf also made an appearance on ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt''. Take a wild guess at what happened to his character.
* In ''Film/ScotlandPA'', an adaptation of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', it is casually mentioned that Donald (Donalbain in ''Macbeth'') and Malcolm's father, Duncan, made most of his money through donut sales. [[spoiler:Duncan Donuts.]] Later, Donald takes over the restaurant, which had been renamed to [=McBeth's=], and calls it, well, guess what... [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/McDonalds, of course.]]
* In ''Film/StarTrek2009'', the alien in the bar that sits between Uhura and Kirk has elongated features. [[spoiler:So why didn't the bartender say "Why the long face?"]]
** [[spoiler:Podcast/RiffTrax did it.]]
*** [[spoiler:The character was credited as "Long Face".]]
* In yet another ''Franchise/StarTrek'' film, the commanders of a Klingon vessel give the order of "Fire at will." There is an immediate cut to the bridge of their target, the ''Enterprise'', currently commanded by Commander Riker. Will Riker.
** Picard did the same thing in the series during a training exercise.
** And in a ''Literature/StarTrekNewFrontier'' novel, we get "[[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat I've been wanting to say this for ages]]...Fire at Will."
** That joke was done in ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' too, but the order was followed by a volley of gunfire and the line, [[DontExplainTheJoke "Do not fire at Will, he is my second mate. Fire at the Sea Duck!"]]
** This same joke is also in ''Film/IndependenceDay''. During the scene of the first assault on one of the megaships, the pilots are given the command "Fire at will." Guess whose character is leading this assault? [[spoiler:Creator/WillSmith]]
* ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'': The guy at the beginning of the movie, who tells the four drivers about [[spoiler:the treasure buried under a big W]], kicks a bucket with his foot as he dies.
* Similarly, the point in ''Film/HotToTrot'' when Don's father dies is marked by the sound of a bucket being kicked. It's a little easier to miss this one because the scene occurs in a barn: a natural place for metal buckets to be located.
* In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', the police convoy is diverted by a large vehicle that had been set ablaze. When you see the vehicle up close, you realize what it is and the stealth pun indicates it as one of the Joker's jokes. [[spoiler:It's a fire engine]].
** [[spoiler: And by the end of the second act, the Batmobile has lost a wheel (well, two, but whatever) and the Joker got away.]]
** And Two-face's accident happens on 250 52nd street. The street is a palindrome

* In the original ''ComicStrip/FlashGordon'' the aliens have ray guns that fire gauntlets/armored gloves which strangle and throw people. That's right, the aliens have [[spoiler: HAND-guns.]]
** It's also a case of "{{throwing down the gauntlet}}" (i.e. challenge) to the good guys.
* In ''Film/JeepersCreepers'', the two main characters are nearly run off the road by a truck with a VanityLicensePlate which says "BEATNGU". Darry guesses it just meant "beating you", but it's never stated what it really meant: [[spoiler:"be ''eating'' you", as the driver is really the man-eating monster.]]
* The nature of the Creator/MelBrooks film ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' means there are plenty of Stealth Puns, and not always due to DoubleEntendre:
** One instance where the joke gets explained. ''Spaceball One'''s radar dish is ''literally'' jammed (as in a huge jar of jam is launched at it). It eventually oozes onto the radar screen and Dark Helmet takes a taste and identifies it as raspberry jam. This makes him realize Lone Starr is behind this because only he would dare "[[BlowingARaspberry give him the raspberry]]".
** At one point a Spaceball guard yells at the character Barf, "That son of a..." after Barf [[FlippingTheBird flips the bird]] at him. Since Barf is a [[HalfHumanHybrid Mawg]] (half man, half dog) [[spoiler: we can only assume that the canine genes come from his mother: an actual bitch.]] Although since we learn [[spoiler: he may be of royal lineage, at the end, his father might be a Sire]], so the guard might have stopped short for not being sure.
* In ''Film/BigGame'', one of Oskari's neighbors is shown reading a newspaper article about president Moore's impending visit to Helsinki. The text is in Finnish apart from the headline, which reads "We Want Moore". [[spoiler:Cross out one "o".]]
* For the first shot of the villain in ''Film/TheNeverendingStory II'', she has no face until she takes a swipe of some mystical glowing gunk on her hands and swipes it over her face. [[spoiler:Guess she just had to put her face on]].
** Either that or it's [[spoiler: Face creme.]]
* The title of the excellent German short film ''Film/{{Schwarzfahrer}}'' means fare dodger, though it could literally be interpreted (with some license) as "black rider". It features a black man sitting on a tram next to a RacistGrandma who puts him through racial abuse, including saying all black people had AIDS. When the conductor comes round to collect the tickets, the black man [[spoiler: eats her ticket, making her a lawbreaking type of schwarzfahrer. For added irony, a biker onlooker who never had a ticket gets let off.]]
* This may or may not be a stretch, but after the makers of ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' ran out of money, they just [[AntiClimax had the film end with everyone being arrested by the police]] for [[ChekhovsGag the death of a historian earlier in the film]]. In other words, [[spoiler:the ending is a ''cop''-out]].
* In ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'', a segment where a married couple in their forties visit a Medieval dungeon-themed restaurant is appropriately named [[spoiler:"Middle Age"]].
* The Bride's exchange with O-Ren Ishii in ''Film/KillBill Vol. 1'' could count, since (unless you were able to get a good look at her passport when she flew to Japan) we don't learn until Vol. 2 that her name is [[spoiler: Beatrix Kiddo]]:
-->'''O-Ren Ishii:''' You didn't think it was gonna be that easy, did you?\\
'''The Bride:''' You know, for a second there, yeah, I kinda did.\\
'''O-Ren Ishii:''' Silly rabbit.\\
'''The Bride:''' Trix are...\\
'''O-Ren Ishii:''' ...for kids.
** A possible double bonus: So you're saying that they called a woman named [[WesternAnimation/TheWorldOfPeterRabbitAndFriends Beatrix]] a "rabbit"?
* In ''Film/{{Clue}}'', Professor Plum: "I work for U.N.O., the United Nations Organization. I work for a special branch, the World Health Organization." (I.e., he works for UNO [you know] WHO.)
** "Mr. Boddy won't be staying with us for very long. In fact, he's just [[CastingGag Lee Ving]]."
* In ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', the T-800 chases John Connor through a mall carrying a [[Music/GunsNRoses box of flowers with a shotgun inside]]. The [[Music/GunsNRoses Guns 'N Roses]] song "You Could Be Mine" appeared in the movie, and was also played over the credits.
* In ''Film/AeonFlux'', when breaking into Trevor's estate, Aeon's partner shows off her new genetically modified feet, altered into hands for added utility. When Aeon asks how they're working out, she replies, "Useful". In other words, [[spoiler: "Handy"]].
* In ''Film/MeanGirls'', Janis Ian ([[ShoutOut named for a lesbian folk singer]]) has been hounded throughout high school by rumors that she's gay. While hating her former best friend for starting the rumors and causing her to be ostracized, she never actually denies liking girls, and at times it seems the movie is teasing us with the question. Then at the end, she winds up in a relationship with Kevin, after he comes up to her to find out if she fits his policy of "only dating women of color":
-->'''Kevin:''' You Puerto Rican?\\
'''Janis:''' ''Lebanese''.\\
'''Kevin:''' I feel that.
* The end credits for ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'' include a few visual puns. For instance, the credit for the casting director has a couch underneath it.
* The title character of ''Film/BubbaHoTep'' yells vulgarities in hieroglyphics during the final confrontation. [[spoiler:The mummy's curse.]]
* ''Film/HotShots Part Deux'' has the rescue action take place in a {{Qurac}} country (albeit one with a sufficient enough jungle backdrop to allow parodies of the Vietnam set ''Rambo: First Blood: Part 2''). They actually show it on a map by fashioning it out of the Iranian side of the Iran/Iraq border. Presumably due to the upheavals which lead to this split, Iran is labelled simply as A Hard Place. [[spoiler: In other words, it was placed between Iraq and A Hard Place.]]
** Same movie has Topper Harley reading "Great Expectations". When he asked what he thought about it, he replied that it's not what he hoped for.
* In ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'', twice Tallahassee guns down zombies whilst [[spoiler:riding a rollercoaster]]. In other words it's [[spoiler: an ''on-rail shooter'']].
* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons'' has the villain knock the hero to the ground and shout "not so [[Film/TheTalentedMrRipley talented now, are you Mister Ridley?]].
* In ''Film/{{Inception}}'', during Yusuf's dream, in the first level, Cobb accidentally creates a locomotive in the middle of the street. He was probably thinking about his dead wife, Mal. [[spoiler: In other words, it was his train of thought.]]
** And also the moment their plan [[spoiler: goes off the rails.]]
*** It also tells us that the relationship [[spoiler: turned into a real trainwreck]]
*** Seems like his reason for doing that is he's [[spoiler: going crazy, or that he has a loco motive.]]
* In ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' Doc Brown warns about meeting yourself from another time, thus creating a paradox. Near the end, you actually have Doc Brown meeting up with himself; thus creating [[spoiler: a "pair o' Docs".]] For those observant enough, the joke ''is'' explained (sorta) in the soundtrack, where the name of the track that plays during this scene has the punch line as its name.
* In ''Film/LandOfTheLost'' (2009) it's telling that the place with an above average tachyon flow is one decidedly lacking in taste.
* Riddled throughout ''Film/HotFuzz'', normally in the form of a Stealth BondOneLiner. For example, Creator/SimonPegg and Creator/TimothyDalton have [[spoiler:a stand down in a small model town.]] The pun? [[spoiler:This town isn't big enough for the both of us.]]
** Also lampshaded when [[spoiler:a swan causes the villain to crash his car during his escape.]] with this exchange:
--->'''Nicholas Angel:''' I feel like I should say something smart.
--->'''Danny Butterman:''' You don't have to say anything at all.
** [[spoiler:I guess you could say it was his swan song.]]
* When Larry finds what he needs to place in the action figures in ''Film/SmallSoldiers'', he triumphantly exclaims, "[[Film/GoodbyeMrChips Hello, Mr. Chips!]]"
* ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''
** In Black Widow's first appearance, she defeats her "kidnappers" with technically eight limbs - four of her own and four of the chair's legs she was tied to.
** Also, Tony Stark (Iron Man) spends much of the film wearing a Music/BlackSabbath t-shirt.
* ''Film/IronMan3'': How would you describe Tony Stark's official girlfriend when she's wearing the Iron Man armor? Iron Potts. Also, how would you describe her [[spoiler:when she is infected with Extremis]]? [[spoiler:A hot pepper.]]
* In ''Film/TheatreOfBlood'', in which a ThemeSerialKiller murders the critics who panned his performances with methods lifted from the plays of Creator/WilliamShakespeare, Inspector Boot mentions that one of the plays, ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'', involves "an old queen" being forced to [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies eat her children baked in a pie]]. A few scenes later, when the killer reenacts that particular murder, his victim of choice is the CampGay critic.
* There is a brief scene in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' in which [[DamselOutOfDistress Marian Ravenwood]] knocks out a sword-wielding kidnapper with a frying pan...proving that "the ''pan'' ['pen'] is mightier than the sword." (This gag was then done more literally and {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''The Last Crusade''.)
* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' has a stealth pun in the White Supremacist Rally scene. The Rally speaker refers to their party as the American Socialist White People's Party, or, if you were to initialize it, ASWPP. The Neo-Nazis are [=ASsWiP(P)es=].
* ''Film/IronMan2'': If you are acquainted with some of the more advanced notions in physics and have a quick eye, you'll notice that on the last page of Howard Stark's notebook there's a reference to an "Abnormal Zeeman Effect", which any [[GeniusBonus nerd can tell you]] is a magnetic equivalent of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_effect Stark]] effect.
** And, Rhodey and Stark fight in iron man armour in a wrestling wring. Remind anyone of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_%27Em_Sock_%27Em_Robots This]]?
* In Film/JohnDiesAtTheEnd Fred toasts to "All the kisses I've snatched, and vice-versa"
* ''Film/HomeAlone'' has Kevin getting in deep trouble with his relatives for spilling milk all over their plane tickets. So they're all "crying over spilled milk".
* In ''Film/ManOfSteel'' Zod attacks Superman with an I-beam. Supes parries with an EyeBeam.
** Since [[spoiler: Krypton's codex (which contains the genetics for all to be created Kryptonians) is encoded in Kal-El's cells, he is ''[[LiteralMetaphor literally an everyman]]''.]]
* In ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' when [[spoiler:Peter]] is surrounded by Blanks, Andy threatens to "punch their lights out". At this point the Blanks are emitting light from their eyes and mouths.
* In ''Film/PacificRim'', there is the scene where Raleigh and Mako see and talk about the newly rebuilt Gipsy Danger and there is construction work causing sparks behind them. You could say [[spoiler: sparks are literally flying between them.]]
* There was a blue moon in ''Film/TheSmurfs'' that the Smurfs conjured up in order to get home, and there would have been one in ''Film/TheSmurfs2'' [[ThinkOfTheCensors if Grouchy was allowed to flash his butt]].
* In ''The Ward'', [[spoiler: Iris]] is killed off via a deliberately fatal lobotomy - there's an unspoken pun when you connect her name and the fact that [[EyeScream her eye is punctured by an ice pick]], since [[spoiler: the iris is a part of the eye.]]
* The title characters of ''Film/TheOogielovesInTheBigBalloonAdventure'' hang around with a sentient vacuum cleaner named J. Edgar. [[spoiler:He's named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover J. Edgar Hoover]] - "Hoover" also being the name of a popular vacuum cleaner manufacturer.]]
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** Michael Fassbender kept his natural auburn hair for his role as ComicBook/{{Magneto}} in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' and ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', which makes him...[[spoiler: Erik the Red.]][[note]] Bonus points for "Erik the Red" being the alias Cyclops used way back in the day to infiltrate an organization a robot double of Magneto was setting up. ....Comics are odd.[[/note]]
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': The temp score used in the Comic Con trailer is a Music/HansZimmer piece called "[[TimeTravel Time]]."
* In ''Film/ThePrestige'', Tesla's assistant is named '''Alley'''. Who owns a black '''cat'''. An alley cat.
* In ''Film/ManWithTheScreamingBrain'', William Cole (Creator/BruceCampbell) suffers severe trauma and has the damaged tissue repaired with the brain tissue of a former KGB agent. The Cole and the agent are able to hear each other's thoughts, when this first started happening Cole immediately asked where the KGB agent was, his response? "Where do you think?"
* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', Yondu opens a capsule expecting [[spoiler: the Infinity Stone]] but instead got [[spoiler: a troll doll]]. In other words, he got [[spoiler: {{Troll}}ed]].
** During the prison escape scene, the Pina Colada song plays. The song's real title? "Escape".
* In ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'', after the film's antagonists steal a parking space from Harold (played by John Cho) they yell, "Better luck, tomorrow!" While working as a line in the film, it's also a pun on the name of the [[Film/BetterLuckTomorrow indie film]] that introduced John Cho as an actor.
* ''Film/{{Annie 2014}}'': Daddy Warbucks' AdaptationNameChange is William Stacks, which means that he's informally known as [[spoiler:[[{{Fiction500}} Bill Stacks]]]].
* In ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', the code (2625) to get into the princess' cell? On a numeric keypad (phone) it can alternately spell [[spoiler: ANAL or COCK]].
** [[spoiler: Well... she DID offer...]]
* The soundtrack to ''Film/TheWickerMan1973'' is primarily in the style of European folk music, so "Cave Chase", a PsychedelicRock instrumental heard during a chase scene through a cave, definitely sticks out. As it turns out, it was meant as a pun about "rock" music.
* The theme song of the 2002 live-action ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' movie was performed by... Music/{{Shaggy}}. It was called "Shaggy, Where Are You?"
* ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' taught us all that the internal temperature of a Tauntaun is... [[spoiler: lukewarm]].
* In ''Film/TheAdventuresOfFordFairlane'', the title character's vintage car is in fact a 1957 Ford Fairlane.
* The climactic moment of ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'' has the students supporting John Keating by rising from their desks to quote "O Captain, My Captain" against their teacher's orders. Talk about your [[spoiler: student uprising]].
* ''[[Film/CheaperByTheDozen Cheaper by the Dozen 2]]'': Nora, the family's eldest daughter, is pregnant all throughout the film. She ends up having her baby at the tail end of her family's summer vacation - specifically on [[spoiler: Labor Day]].
* In ''Film/JumpinJackFlash'', Creator/WhoopiGoldberg's character is told that a spy's computer code key can be found in the eponymous Music/RollingStones song. She tries inputting every lyric she can think of, but nothing seems to work until she tries entering [[spoiler:the key of the song itself: B-Flat]].
* ''Film/KamenRiderGenerationsDrPacmanVsExAidAndGhostWithLegendaryRiders'' has people being infected with a virus spread by tiny creatures that resemble VideoGame/PacMan. They all literally have [[spoiler:PacManFever]].
* In the film ''Film/TheMuppets'', there's an ''epic'' case of GettingCrapPastTheRadar when Camilla and her fellow hens cluck out Music/CeeLoGreen's "Forget You," or as it's better known in its uncensored version, "[[ClusterFBomb F**k You]]". It's never spelled out anywhere, but put that all together and you realize the chickens are saying.... [[spoiler:"Cluck You"]].
* In the film ''Film/JusticeLeague'', Wonder Woman first appears standing on the statue of "Lady Justice."

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* In the 2009 ''Film/StarTrek'' movie, the alien in the bar that sits between Uhura and Kirk has elongated features. [[spoiler:So why didn't the bartender say "Why the long face?"]]

* The film ''Film/{{Raazi}}'' gives the appearance of having a NonIndicativeTitle...until you figure out that the title and the protagonist's name (Sehmat) both mean "willing" in Hindi and Urdu.

* In the Indian espionage movie ''Film/{{Raazi}}'', the title, which means "willing" in Hindi and Urdu, appears to have little to do with anything...until you figure out that the name of the protagonist, Sehmat, also means "willing" in Hindi.

* In the Indian espionage movie ''Film/{{Raazi}}'', the title, which means "willing" appears to have little to do with anything...until you figure out that the name of the protagonist, Sehmat, also means "willing" in Hindi and Urdu.

* ''Film/XMen'':

** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': The temp score used in the Comic Con trailer is a Creator/HansZimmer piece called "[[TimeTravel Time]]."

* The theme song of the 2002 live-action ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' movie was performed by... music/{{Shaggy}}. It was called "Shaggy, Where Are You?"

** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
The temp score used in the Comic Con trailer is a Creator/HansZimmer piece called "[[TimeTravel Time]]."

* ''[[Film/CheaperByTheDozen Cheaper by the Dozen 2]]'': Nora has her baby on [[spoiler: Labor Day]].

* In ''Film/ManWithTheScreamingBrain'', William Cole (BruceCampbell)suffers severe trauma and has the damaged tissue repaired with the brain tissue of a former KGB agent. The Cole and the agent are able to hear each other's thoughts, when this first started happening Cole immediately asked where the KGB agent was, his response? "Where do you think?"

* ''Film/RogueOne''. Darth Vader says to Krennic "Be careful not to choke on your aspirations". Given the medical definition of aspiration...

* In ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', at one point a Spaceball guard yells at the character Barf, "You son of a..." before being cut off by a laser shot. Since Barf is a [[HalfHumanHybrid Mawg]] (half man, half dog) [[spoiler: we can only assume that the canine genes come from his mother.]]
** Actually, since we learn [[spoiler: he may be of royal lineage, at the end, his father might be a Sire]], so the guard might have been cut off for being wrong.