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| 3 | !Cast |
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| 5 | [[folder:Tugg Speedman]] |
| 6 | !!Tugg Speedman |
| 7 | [[quoteright:262:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tugg_speedman.png]] |
| 8 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/BenStiller\ |
| 9 | '''Voiced by:''' Creator/EnzoFortuny (Latin-American Spanish dub), Creator/KenyuuHoriuchi (Japanese dub) |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Compared to a young Creator/SylvesterStallone, Tugg was the highest-paid and highest-grossing action film star ever due to his ''Scorcher'' franchise. His career has stalled since, and he now has a reputation for appearing in nothing but box office bombs. After a failed attempt at portraying a serious role in ''Simple Jack'', he takes the role of Four Leaf Tayback in an attempt to save his career. |
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| 13 | |
| 14 | * TheAhnold: He's a parody of action stars, specifically ones struggling to break out of typecasting. |
| 15 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: "Or are you a dude who has no idea what dude he is, and claims to know what dude he is, by playing other dudes?" Basically, Speedman is pointing out that Kirk [[MethodActing method acts]] so hard that he loses his true self. |
| 16 | * BadassAndBaby: A key part of his ''Scorcher'' franchise. |
| 17 | * BigNO: PlayedForLaughs [[spoiler:when he kills a panda.]] |
| 18 | * BriefAccentImitation: Tugg mocks Cockburn, still under the impression [[spoiler: that Cockburn isn't decapitated.]] |
| 19 | * BuddyCopShow: During the ET segment, you can see a poster for such a film starring Speedman and Creator/MartinLawrence. |
| 20 | * CareerResurrection: InUniverse. The film's success revitalizes his career. |
| 21 | * ChasedByAngryNatives: [[spoiler:As he escapes the Laotian drug-manufacturing compound and runs to the helicopter.]] |
| 22 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: |
| 23 | -->'''Tyra Banks:''' Someone close to you said "One more flop and it's over."\ |
| 24 | ''[{{beat}}]''\ |
| 25 | '''Speedman:''' Someone said they were close to me? |
| 26 | * CrucifiedHeroShot: He does it in the movie-within-a-movie, and then looks ridiculous as he overreacts getting repeatedly shot. |
| 27 | * DefiantToTheEnd: When captured by the Flaming Dragons, he still keeps a brave demeanor. Probably justified, because he thought he was still acting according to the script. |
| 28 | * FatalFlaw: Stubbornness, as well as his insecurity and desire to be seen as a great actor. These combined flaws cause him to make some really stupid decisions as the film moves along, and not listening to Kirk or Kevin when they suspect something is wrong. |
| 29 | * GoingNative: After being taken by Flaming Dragon, it doesn't take much for Tugg to start enjoying his time there because he's so appreciated for ''Simple Jack''. |
| 30 | * GreenEyedMonster: Feels a lot of animosity toward Kirk Lazarus for having the prestigious acting career that he wants, though he also clearly wants his recognition as an actor. [[spoiler:By the end of the movie, he gets both.]] |
| 31 | * SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: InUniverse, he wins an Oscar for his performance at the end as part of his career resurrection. |
| 32 | * HeroicBSOD: He loses it after he [[spoiler:kills a panda, an animal he loves more than anything else in the world.]] |
| 33 | * IceCreamKoan: Subverted. Speedman tells Kirk, "Or are you a dude who has no idea what dude he is, and claims to know what dude he is, by playing other dudes?" which to the other actors sounds like gibberish, but describes Kirk so well that he breaks down into tears. |
| 34 | * ImColdSoCold: [[spoiler:Somehow parodied for "real". Tugg claims to not be able to feel his legs while they're trying to escape from the drug compound. Turns out it's just that he's sitting in a pool of cold, muddy water.]] |
| 35 | * InspirationallyDisadvantaged: His role in ''Simple Jack'' was meant to be this, but he overplayed it. Lazarus tells him the truth of it in an [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments unforgettable monologue]]. |
| 36 | -->'''Lazarus:''' Check it out. Creator/DustinHoffman, ''Film/RainMan'', look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Count toothpicks, cheat at cards. Autistic, sure. Not retarded. You know Creator/TomHanks, ''Film/ForrestGump'', Slow, yes. Retarded, maybe. Braces on his legs. But he charmed the pants off Nixon and won a ping-pong competition. That ain't retarded. Peter Sellers, ''Being There''. Infantile, yes. Retarded, no. You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You don't buy that? Ask Creator/SeanPenn, 2001, ''Film/IAmSam''. Remember? Went full retard, went home empty-handed... |
| 37 | * InUniverseFactoidFailure: Tugg confuses the Teen Choice Awards with the Kids Choice Awards by saying that Kevin would be slimed. |
| 38 | * IChooseToStay: He eventually believes he is already at home with the Flaming Dragons and refuses to go back home. [[spoiler:It doesn't last long.]] |
| 39 | * IronicEcho: "I can't feel my legs." First as part of the film within a film, and then [[spoiler:said during the final escape sequence. Except that Tugg's able to cry and can't feel his legs because he's sitting on a cold puddle.]] |
| 40 | * IronicHell: Ends up in one when nabbed by Flaming Dragon, who force him to [[spoiler:perform ''Simple Jack'' over and over]]. |
| 41 | * KindheartedSimpleton: As ''Simple Jack''. |
| 42 | * TheLeader: The five actors eventually form a FiveManBand, and they have Tugg as their leader until he gets captured. |
| 43 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: "I think I know a prop head when I see one!" says Tugg as he hefts what is an obvious prop head, seeing as Cockburn's actor is still alive... |
| 44 | * LostInCharacter: Not to the extent of Kirk, but Tugg attempted to reach similar extremes in his roles; offhand he uses prostethetic hands when off-set to get into character as Four-Leaf. In an earlier film he mentioned attempting to be mentally disabled so closely he was afraid he'd gone too far and "flushed too much out." |
| 45 | * MetaCasting: {{Averted|Trope}}. Ben Stiller plays mostly comedic roles, not action heroes. Though he gets a handful of funny moments in the movie, his role is one of the most serious. |
| 46 | * MeanCharacterNiceActor: Downplayed. Despite playing a gravelly-voiced ActionHero, Tugg himself is a good-natured, slightly timid man who loves pandas (funding charities for their preservation) and once co-authored a children's book. |
| 47 | * MindScrew: Kirk trying to get Speedman out of his HeroicBSOD promptly backfires. |
| 48 | -->'''Tugg:''' Or are you a dude who has no idea what dude he is, and claims to know what dude he is, by playing other dudes? |
| 49 | * NemeanSkinning: [[spoiler:Does this to a panda.]] |
| 50 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's a parody of a young Creator/SylvesterStallone: a guy best-known for action schlock with a dozen sequels who's desperately trying to break into something more weighty, and who does have some decent chops but tends to shoot above his limits. |
| 51 | * OscarBait: Tried and failed with ''Simple Jack'', a movie about a mentally disabled farmhand who talks to animals. |
| 52 | * OutrunTheFireball: [[spoiler:Subverted. Tugg does this near the end, when the bridge to his helicopter's landing spot is rigged with explosives. He isn't quick enough, but he's alright afterwards.]] |
| 53 | * PlayingAgainstType: In-universe, he tried to pull this off by going from a popular action star to a dramatic actor. It backfired horrendously. The movie he's filming now is a more lateral shift; while still a serious drama rather than a dumb popcorn flick, it's a war film with a lot of special effects, which is much closer to Tug's wheelhouse than ''Simple Jack''. |
| 54 | * {{Pluralses}}: |
| 55 | -->'''Tugg:''' Chill! All right? Just chill it. Now, let's go get those Vietcongs.\ |
| 56 | '''Alpa:''' "Vietcong"!\ |
| 57 | '''Tugg:''' What?\ |
| 58 | '''Alpa:''' It's "Vietcong." There's no "S." It's already plural. You wouldn't say "Chineses." |
| 59 | * ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: In the river scene, he says he is going to "Exterior, rain forest, dusk. Smash cut to Four Leaf, who treks alone through a frightening jungle." |
| 60 | * SanitySlippage: After he accidentally [[spoiler:kills a panda]] he starts losing his mind. By the time Kirk finds him he's convinced he's found his true people among the Flaming Dragons since they appreciate his acting (specifically as the titular protagonist of ''Simple Jack''). |
| 61 | * {{Sequelitis}}: Parodied InUniverse. Tugg Speedman's ''Scorcher'' series received no less than five sequels. The 6th one, ''Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown'', turned the concept of the Earth, being a giant fireball in the previous movies, to a frozen wasteland because the previous films had exhausted the previously mentioned concept. |
| 62 | -->"Here we go again. Again..." |
| 63 | * TomHanksSyndrome: He attempted to invoke this in-universe with ''Simple Jack''. It ends up regarded as the worst film ever made, and Tyra Banks, on her talk show, told him that if ''Tropic Thunder'' fails, it will be the end of his career. Later, in the story proper, when they are formulating a rescue plan, Alpa and Kirk see Speedman playing out ''Simple Jack'' for the Golden Triangle gang, and Alpa tells Kirk he "thought the movie was bad." |
| 64 | * UnableToCry: He can't cry on set, leading to a rift between him and the "award winner" Kirk Lazarus. |
| 65 | * WhiteDwarfStarlet: Tugg is on the verge of becoming this according to Les, who actually uses the term "white dwarf". |
| 66 | [[/folder]] |
| 67 | |
| 68 | [[folder:Kirk Lazarus]] |
| 69 | !!Kirk Lazarus |
| 70 | [[quoteright:268:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kirk_lazarus.png]][[caption-width-right:268:[[labelnote:Click here to see him out of character]]:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kirk_unmasked.jpg]][[/labelnote]] |
| 71 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/RobertDowneyJr\ |
| 72 | '''Voiced by:''' Creator/BernardGabay (European French), Dafnis Fernández (Latin-American Spanish dub), Creator/TakuyaKirimoto (Japanese dub) |
| 73 | |
| 74 | ->''"I know who I am! I'm a dude playin' a dude, disguised as another dude!"'' |
| 75 | |
| 76 | An immensely talented Australian method actor, Lazarus had a controversial "pigmentation alteration" surgery to darken his skin for his portrayal of the black character Sergeant Lincoln Osiris. Lazarus refuses to break character while filming and only speaks in his character's Black English. |
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| 78 | |
| 79 | * AbusiveParents: His father was abusive and alcoholic, and in one of the spoof adverts, Lazarus believes that growing up in an abusive household helped him develop his skills as an actor. |
| 80 | -->'''Kirk:''' Every day that I wake up, I thank my father for being an abusive alcoholic, telling me I was nothing, and that he was going to kill me, because it was that exact kind of environment, that I find makes great talent. |
| 81 | * TheAce: By the start of the movie, he's one of the most acclaimed actors in the world and has built up a wide range of skills from all the years he's spent immersively preparing for roles. |
| 82 | * AllAsiansWearConicalStrawHats: He ends up wearing one when he disguises himself as an Asian farmer. |
| 83 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Tugg's attempts at churning out a career-defining performance in ''Tropic Thunder'' are repeatedly undermined by Lazarus upstaging him. |
| 84 | * AwesomeAussie: It's suggested that he keeps this attitude outside of the films. |
| 85 | * BadassBoast: '''I'M A LEAD FARMER, MOTHERFUCKA!''' |
| 86 | * BecomingTheMask: Kirk Lazarus will get so involved in his characters that he promises he won't break character 'til he's done the DVDCommentary. True to his word, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Robert Downey Jr. does the film's DVD commentary in character as Kirk Lazarus.]] |
| 87 | ** He gets so into his character he has to be reminded at one point that he is Kirk Lazarus. |
| 88 | * BerserkButton: The closest he comes to breaking character was when Alpa Chino starts mocking his Australian heritage. |
| 89 | * {{Blackface}}: When acting as Lincoln Osiris. Played for [[CrossesTheLineTwice horribly offensive hilarity]] but also [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] as it leads to an actual black man getting offended and calling him out for taking the only major African-American role in the film. |
| 90 | * BondOneLiner: '''I'M A LEAD FARMER, MOTHERFUCKA!''' |
| 91 | * BrokenAce: He is a talented actor who played in many OscarBait films and is a master at MethodActing. Yet, he believes his true self is a pathetic loser. |
| 92 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite going to extreme lengths to perform a role while acting, Kirk Lazarus is respected amongst his peers as an actor and is viewed as a great actor by many in the film industry and has won multiple Academy Awards for acting. |
| 93 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Him going to extreme lengths to perform his method acting shows that he is not completely sane. |
| 94 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Considering he spends almost all of the movie LostInCharacter as a ScaryBlackMan, it's rather surprising that he is ''also'' one of the most consistently competent and levelheaded members of the group. |
| 95 | * DudeNotFunny: His reaction to Alpa Chino taking mockery of his Australian heritage to the point of making fun of the Chamberlain case. |
| 96 | -->'''Kirk:''' Y'know, that's a true story? Lady lost her kid. You 'bout to cross some fuckin' lines! |
| 97 | * {{Gayngst}}: In ''Satan's Alley'', he is a gay monk who struggles with his love for another monk in a monastery. |
| 98 | * GunsAkimbo: [[spoiler:Lazarus revealing his guns on the drug compound guards after his cover his blown attempting to sneak in.]] |
| 99 | * HeroicBSOD: Kirk has a breakdown after [[spoiler:Tugg convinces him that he's having an identity crisis while Kirk is trying to get Tugg to snap out of the role he's immersed in.]] |
| 100 | * IceCreamKoan: When asked by Sandusky if he read the script, he responds with this: |
| 101 | -->'''Kirk:''' I don't read the script, script reads me. |
| 102 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: He's so committed to the idea of being LostInCharacter that he genuinely doesn't realise how appallingly racist his interpretation of an African American man is. |
| 103 | * InopportuneImpersonationFailure: [[spoiler:Kirk disguises himself as a farmer in order to get onto the BigBad's compound. The ruse almost works, until he mistakenly says he has a poppy farm when earlier in that same conversation he claimed to have a rice paddy.]] |
| 104 | * {{The Lancer}}/{{Number Two}}: He seems to act as this when Tugg gets captured. Plus, they have meaningful stances on how to act for the movie, which leads to some disagreement between them. |
| 105 | * InelegantBlubbering: His attempt to cry at the beginning footage of the film is very overblown. |
| 106 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's infamous in the media for his reckless off-camera antics and sees no problem with doing {{Blackface}} for a role, but he offers Tugg constructive criticism for his critically reviled performance as ''Simple Jack'' (rather than punch him down for it as others do) and gives a sincere (though rightfully unaccepted) apology to Alpa when it finally sinks in to him that what he's doing is offensive. [[spoiler:He's also clearly very happy to give Tugg an Academy Award at the end of the movie.]] |
| 107 | * LargeHam: Kirk goes to... extremes. |
| 108 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: |
| 109 | ** Is it Kirk Lazarus playing the dude disguised as another dude (Kirk Lazarus as Lincoln Osiris as [[spoiler:lead-farming Indochinese infiltrator]]) or [[Creator/RobertDowneyJr Robert Downey, Jr]]. (as all of the above)? |
| 110 | ** In real life, Robert has brown eyes. In the movie, Kirk Lazurus has blue eyes. Kirk had to put in brown colored contacts to play Osiris while Robert had to put in blue colored ones to play Kirk. In reality, Robert didn't need to put in colored contacts to play Osiris. |
| 111 | * LostInCharacter: This is a frequent problem for him. The result of playing Neil Armstrong found him "in an alley in Burbank trying to re-enter the earth's atmosphere in an old refrigerator box." |
| 112 | * MagicPlasticSurgery: Kirk's transformation from white to black in itself is not that impressive. What's really impressive is that [[spoiler:it "wears off" over time.]] |
| 113 | * MalcolmXerox: He tries to play into this type of characterisation with Osiris especially when talking to Alpa Chino. |
| 114 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Reportedly, his attitude is based on Creator/RussellCrowe, in his somewhat crazy behavior, Australian origin, and great level of talent. Meanwhile, his LostInCharacter habits and nigh-psychotic method acting is based on Creator/DanielDayLewis. |
| 115 | * NWordPrivileges: Averted. When Alpa calls him a nigga, he slaps him in the face, and [[RefugeInAudacity lectures him on the dangers of the use of the word]]. |
| 116 | * OnlySaneMan: Zigzagged. On the one hand Kirk, along with Sandusky, is the only actor with a measure of intelligence and common sense, and he takes command of the group after Tugg leaves. On the other hand his absolute refusal to break character makes it clear he has his own problems. |
| 117 | * OscarBait: He seems to exclusively act in films that are pure OscarBait; ''Moonshot'' (a biography of Neil Armstrong), ''Satan's Alley'' (a heavy-handed ''Film/BrokebackMountain''-esque film about gay monks) and others. |
| 118 | * PragmaticPansexuality: Being the hardcore method actor he is, he is willing to go gay for a role, as he did when he was playing a gay monk. |
| 119 | * PreAssKickingOneLiner: '''HERE'S MY MOTHERFUCKIN' FARM!''' |
| 120 | * PrecisionFStrike: He doesn't go overboard with cussing, but he always strikes some F words here and there. |
| 121 | * QuestionableCasting: This is more in-universe for the movie within the movie. Having a blond haired blue eyed Australian playing a black man? |
| 122 | ** The joke was even carried to his Oscar nomination, as Cuba Gooding Jr. cut off halfway through his praise of Downey's risk in taking the role with "What the hell were you thinking, man?" |
| 123 | * RacialTransformation: He undergoes surgery that allows him to convincingly play a black character. |
| 124 | * RussianReversal: His BadassBoast. |
| 125 | -->'''Kirk:''' I don't read the script, script reads me. |
| 126 | * ScaryBlackMan: He tries to make Osiris come across as this. |
| 127 | * SeriousBusiness: Australia all the way, especially ''Crocodile Dundee'' and the woman whose baby got eaten by dingoes (which is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Azaria_Chamberlain not]] an urban myth, by the way). |
| 128 | -->'''Alpa Chino:''' ...they had one good role for a black man, and they gave it to Crocodile Dundee!\ |
| 129 | '''Kirk Lazarus:''' ''[[[BerserkButton stops smiling]]]'' Pump your brakes, kid, that man's a national treasure. |
| 130 | * ShapeShifterSwanSong: Near the end of the movie, Lazarus briefly cycles through some of his previous roles before finally breaking character and assuming his own identity. |
| 131 | * SoulBrotha:Kirk invokes this trope while playing Osiris being laid back at time and always ready to defend himself in action and he surprisingly can do it pretty well. |
| 132 | * SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: |
| 133 | -->'''Portnoy:''' How the hell do you know Chinese?\ |
| 134 | '''Lazarus:''' ''Land of Silk and Money'' with Creator/GongLi. Second Globe, third Oscar. Prepped for that one by working in a Beijing textile factory for 8 months. |
| 135 | ** [[spoiler:...Which [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels turns into gibberish]], much to the consternation of the guards.]] |
| 136 | * TomatoInTheMirror: When Tugg reminds him of who he is, he looks at himself in the mirror, breaks it and falls to the ground sobbing, shocked to realize he isn't the characters he played. |
| 137 | * UncleTomfoolery: aside from the blackface, Kirk's performance as a black man is highly stereotypical, using slang incorrectly and [[WaxingLyrical quoting the themesong for]] ''Series/TheJeffersons'' as an inspirational speech. In the opening scene, he also refers to Alpa Chino's Motown as "Detroit Jukebox Jheri Curl ass", when Jheri curl as a hairstyle wouldn't be invented until the 1980's, long after the Vietnam war. |
| 138 | [[/folder]] |
| 139 | |
| 140 | [[folder:Jeff Portnoy]] |
| 141 | !!Jeff Portnoy |
| 142 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jeff_portnoy.jpg]] |
| 143 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/JackBlack\ |
| 144 | '''Voiced by:''' Christian Strempler (Latin-American Spanish dub), Takeshi Maruyama (Japanese dub) |
| 145 | |
| 146 | ->''"Let me tell you something. A lot of people are disrespecting me. They say that the movie's just about farts. It's about family, and fuck you. You can't do what I do."'' |
| 147 | |
| 148 | A drug-addicted comedian/actor well-known for [[ActingForTwo portraying multiple parts]] in films that rely on ToiletHumor, particularly jokes about flatulence. In the film-within-a-film, he plays a raspy-voiced soldier named "Fats." |
| 149 | ---- |
| 150 | |
| 151 | * ActingForTwo: InUniverse. ''The Fatties: Fart 2'', a parody of ''Film/{{The Nutty Professor|1996}}'', starring [[OverlyLongGag Jeff Portnoy, Jeff Portnoy, Jeff Portnoy, and Jeff Portnoy]] as America's favorite obese family. |
| 152 | * AssShove: [[spoiler:Portnoy hides a handgun up his rear during the climactic raid. He spends so long trying to pull it out that the action's already over by the time he finally manages.]] |
| 153 | * BerserkButton: Would ''really'' like for everyone to stop laughing ''at'' him and his farts. |
| 154 | * TheBigGuy: As the fattest of the team and the PluckyComicRelief, but he's easily the most physical of them: he manhandles the BigBad and two of his goons and effortlessly carries a wounded Tugg. |
| 155 | * BigShutUp: After getting tired of Sandusky's praise of Creator/RennyHarlin. |
| 156 | -->'''Jeff:''' SHUT THE FUCK UP! |
| 157 | * ButtMonkey: Suffers more physical abuse than anyone else in the movie and tends to be ignored by the other characters. |
| 158 | * ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: Jeff Portnoy is ''not'' in good shape when he finds out they're stumbling upon an opium farm. |
| 159 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: Implied why Portnoy joined the movie. |
| 160 | -->''"They only laugh at my farts!"'' |
| 161 | * DumbBlonde: He has blond hair and says/does some foolish things throughout the movie. |
| 162 | * FreudianExcuse: It's implied that his chemical dependencies and confrontational behavior are partially born out of insecurity in his career, ashamed at the ToiletHumor that made him a household name compared to more respected actors like Speedman and Lazarus. |
| 163 | ** His biography on the [[http://jeffportnoy.com/ now-defunct promotional website]] states that his drug addiction may have stemmed from having spent the first seven months of his life under heavy sedation in an incubator following a disastrous surgery to correct his birth defects. |
| 164 | * FunctionalAddict: ''Barely'', and it's pretty obvious. |
| 165 | * {{Gasshole}}: The type of character he plays in his movies. |
| 166 | * HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:He's fully aware his comedy films are subpar ToiletHumor and hates that he's a laughing stock for them and his drug problems.]] |
| 167 | * TheMillstone: His withdrawal symptoms kick in at the worst time. Funnily enough, he's actually ''aware'' that he's this and preemptively demands to be tied to a tree before he makes things worse (which, of course, he does anyway). |
| 168 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A blonde, beloved, heavyset comedian with low self-esteem and drug addiction issues is reminiscent of Creator/ChrisFarley, while his films (a whole lot of VulgarHumor and ActingForTwo) seem to reference the later career of Creator/EddieMurphy. |
| 169 | * NoMatterHowMuchIBeg: One scene has Portnoy going through withdrawal, and he asks to be tied to a tree until he "gets it out of his system." He tells the others not to untie him, no matter how much he begs. Predictably, he does, even going as far as to promise [[spoiler:recently outed]] Alpa Chino a blowjob. |
| 170 | * PlayingAgainstType: InUniverse. He's a comedy actor who is cast in an action film. |
| 171 | * PluckyComicRelief: His role is one of the least serious. Comedy is his biggest purpose in the movie. |
| 172 | * SadClown: He's mostly billed as an actor for light-hearted comedies, yet he seems to be the most miserable member of the cast. Especially when his "jellybeans" wear off. |
| 173 | * ShirtlessScene: At one point in the movie. FanDisservice, however. |
| 174 | * StoutStrength: Fires an M60 while running, among other things. |
| 175 | * TalkativeLoon: As his "vitamins" and "jelly beans" wear off. |
| 176 | * ToiletHumor: Most of his movies run on this. |
| 177 | ** VulgarHumor: Jeff's usual fare. At a premiere, he tries to deliver a TakeThatCritics with regards to this, but drug-addled as he is, it isn't effective. |
| 178 | * TrouserSpace: With [[FanDisservice Jack Black's pistol]], implied to have been up his bum. Played with, as it takes him until the end of the gunfight he's standing in the midst of to actually retrieve it. |
| 179 | * WouldHurtAChild: Albeit the child leader of a criminal gang who spends several seconds attacking him first, but still. |
| 180 | * ZanyScheme: [[TaughtByTelevision Having seen it done in]] a Zany SexComedy he starred in, suggests a plan to infiltrate the camp using a giant catapult made from underwear. He gets stared at for five seconds before [[OnlySaneMan Kevin]] reaffirms a much saner plan, based on the book's own assault on a similar compound. |
| 181 | [[/folder]] |
| 182 | |
| 183 | [[folder:Alpa Chino]] |
| 184 | !!Alpa Chino |
| 185 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alpa_chino.jpg]] |
| 186 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/BrandonTJackson\ |
| 187 | '''Voiced by:''' Javier Olguín (Latin-American Spanish dub), Creator/FuminoriKomatsu (Japanese dub) |
| 188 | |
| 189 | A rapper who is attempting to cross over into acting, portraying a soldier named "Motown," while promoting his "Bust-A-Nut" candy bar and energy drink "Booty Sweat." |
| 190 | ---- |
| 191 | |
| 192 | * ArmoredClosetGay: [[spoiler:He released a song called ''I Love Tha Pussy'' while in the closet. He's over-compensating a great deal, and if his reaction to Sandusky's reference to his girls is any indication, he seems to be getting tired of it. It's likely that he's come out by the end of the movie.]] |
| 193 | * AscendedFanboy: He said he watched the first ''Scorcher'' 20 times in 8th grade. Now he gets to act alongside the lead actor. |
| 194 | * BriefAccentImitation: Chino throws this on for Kirk Lazarus, who pisses him off with his ignorance, UncleTomfoolery and offensive portrayal of a black character as a stereotypical ScaryBlackMan. |
| 195 | -->'''Lazarus:''' All right, fellas, we're gonna make camp, rest up. Y'all might be in for a treat. You know, back before the war broke out, I was a saucier in San Antone. I bet I could collar up some of them greens, yeah, some crawfish out the paddy, yo'! Ha! I'm makin' some crabapples for dessert now, yah! Hell yeah, ha!\ |
| 196 | '''Alpa:''' [''mocking Kirk''] Hell yeah! Ha! That's how we all talk? We all talk like dis, "suh"? Yes suh, ha! Yeah mmm-hmm get some crawfish, and some ribs, ha! Ye-aah. [''normal voice''] You're Australian! Be Australian! Excuse me, ''Film/KangarooJack''! |
| 197 | * HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: The lyrics to his song ''I Love Tha Pussy'' reek of this. [[spoiler:He outs himself later in the movie.]] |
| 198 | * HiddenDepths: He actually donates millions from his "Booty Sweat" deal to his community and is a very profficient tailor, which demonstrates he isn't all glitter. [[spoiler:He also has a thing for ''Lance'']]. |
| 199 | * HypocriticalHumor: He gets fed up with Lazarus' racist portrayal of a black man... and reels off every Aussie joke he can think of to him. |
| 200 | ** Also, Lazarus' particular use of "Hell yeah!" is what made Alpa call bullshit on him. This is the same expression he uses in the lyrics to his song. |
| 201 | * KayfabeMusic: Seems to be more down-to-earth than his persona would indicate. |
| 202 | * NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: InUniverse. Guess who he is referencing with [[Creator/AlPacino his name.]] |
| 203 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Seems to channel elements of at the time-relevant rapper Music/SouljaBoy. His promotion for "Booty Sweat" and "Busta Nut" also parallel the Vitamin Water ad campaign with rapper Music/FiftyCent, who would also enter acting around the late 2000's. |
| 204 | * OnlySaneMan: A bit more subtle than Sandusky; as shown above, his main purpose in the plot is to call bullshit on Lazarus' blackface, but once he's actually on "set" and not acting in his capacity as a rap mogul, it becomes clear that he's fairly well-adjusted. |
| 205 | * ProductPlacement: One of the biggest reasons he's in the movie is to "discreetly" sell his energy drink "Booty Sweat," which he would often pull out and start drinking during takes [[AnachronismStew even though the film takes place decades before its release.]] |
| 206 | * SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: Alpa Chino says he's seen Tugg Speedman's first ''Scorcher'' movie twenty-four times when he was in 8th Grade. |
| 207 | * ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: He does this when [[spoiler:Tugg kicks Damien's decapitated head like a soccer ball]]. |
| 208 | * StartXToStopX: His idea of calling out Lazarus on a racist performance is to rapidly fire off racist remarks about Australians, including the old [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore "dingo ate your baby"]] crack. |
| 209 | * StopBeingStereotypical: One of his main qualms with Lazarus' portrayal of a black man. |
| 210 | * StraightGay: [[spoiler:You wouldn't know he's gay if he hadn't come out.]] |
| 211 | * YouKnowImBlackRight: Not only he plays it straight, he also inverts it for Lazarus. |
| 212 | -->'''Kirk:''' [''to Tugg''] Huh? What do you mean ''you people''?\ |
| 213 | '''Alpa:''' [''to Kirk''] What do '''you''' mean ''you people''? |
| 214 | [[/folder]] |
| 215 | |
| 216 | [[folder:Kevin Sandusky]] |
| 217 | !!Kevin Sandusky |
| 218 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kevin_sandusky.jpg]] |
| 219 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/JayBaruchel\ |
| 220 | '''Voiced by:''' Creator/VictorUgarte (Latin-American Spanish dub), Noboru Yamaguchi (Japanese dub) |
| 221 | |
| 222 | A respectful novice actor, he is the only cast member to have read the script and book, and attended the assigned boot camp before the film. Sandusky plays a young soldier named "Brooklyn" in the film-within-a-film. |
| 223 | ---- |
| 224 | |
| 225 | * AccidentalMisnaming: He is victim from this a couple of times. Lazarus gets his last name wrong twice, and Tugg calls him "Kyle", instead of Kevin. Alpa calls him "Candisky" once as well. Tugg gets his name right at the end of the movie, however. |
| 226 | * AscendedFanboy: He reveals that he is a big fan of Kirk Lazarus, and that he was the reason Kevin got into acting on the first place. The two have lead roles on the movie. |
| 227 | * BrooklynRage: Averted. Since he plays the young soldier "Brooklyn", it is suggested he comes from there, yet he is very timid and nice. |
| 228 | * ForgettableCharacter: By virtue of being a rookie actor, no one on set can ever remember his name. |
| 229 | * HypercompetentSidekick: As the only unknown among the five actors, he is naturally seen as a follower by the group, himself included. Despite this, he is also the only one with the knowledge and experience needed to actually survive their situation and is more often than not the one pulling them out of trouble. To his credit, Lazarus seems to recognize this early on and tries to get him to be in charge of reading the map, only for Tugg to refuse to hand it over. |
| 230 | * InfoDump: Twice. He explains the split of the studios regarding DVD and Blu-Ray and later he praises Creator/RennyHarlin. Both times he is shut down. |
| 231 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Everyone else in the cast has traces of NoCelebritiesWereHarmed but with newcomer and up and coming actor Sandusky, its not hard to see that character as a stand in for Creator/JayBaruchel himself. |
| 232 | * NaiveNewcomer: Subverted. Though he has no prior acting experience, he knows more about the film and the situation than the other actors, since he's the only one who actually prepared for his role by reading the script and original book and going through the actors' boot camp. |
| 233 | * NiceGuy: Generally tries his best to mediate between the group and shows admiration for what each of the other four have accomplished across their careers at various points. He isn't without his limits, however. |
| 234 | * OnlySaneMan: The only character in the movie who doesn't have any baggage as a person or an actor; he's basically a normal {{geek}} who got a part he auditioned for, nothing more. |
| 235 | * TheSmartGuy: He's arguably a {{Geek}}, and he is the one who creates the Wet Offensive infiltration on the enemy base. |
| 236 | * TookALevelInBadass: He starts the movie as an in-over-his-head dirt-poor novice actor, and ends it with a successful enemy base infiltration and escape. Those two weeks of boot camp paid off, it seems. |
| 237 | * TookTheBadFilmSeriously:[[invoked]] He seems to be the only cast member who actually cares about his performance -- for instance he's the only one who attended the actors boot camp and read the book it's based on. |
| 238 | * YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: This is how he breaks Lazarus out of his self-loathing: by reminding him of how great he is, and that he is the reason Kevin decided to become an actor. |
| 239 | [[/folder]] |
| 240 | |
| 241 | !Crew |
| 242 | |
| 243 | [[folder:Four Leaf Tayback]] |
| 244 | !!John "Four Leaf" Tayback |
| 245 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/four_leaf_9.jpg]] |
| 246 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/NickNolte\ |
| 247 | '''Voiced by:''' Creator/GabrielPingarron (Latin-American Spanish dub), Creator/AlainDorval (European French), Kousei Hirota (Japanese dub) |
| 248 | |
| 249 | The author of ''Tropic Thunder'', a memoir of his war experiences on which the film-within-a-film is based. He suggests the idea of dropping the actors in the middle of the jungle [[EnforcedMethodActing to get them looking and feeling like soldiers lost in a foreign land]]. |
| 250 | ---- |
| 251 | * TheAtoner: He tells Cody to hand him the flamethrower during [[spoiler:the climactic battle]] as way of making up for [[spoiler:letting him down on account how his "memoir" was faked,]] while Cody goes and [[spoiler:rigs up the explosive charges on the bridge.]] |
| 252 | * CowardlyLion: [[spoiler:Despite being a liar who has no real combat experience, when push comes to shove he's completely willing to fight off a drug cartel with a flamethrower in order to save the actors]]. |
| 253 | * HookHand: He has prosthetic hooks over both limbs. [[spoiler:In truth, his hands are completely functional]]. |
| 254 | * ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler:He never really lost his hands. It was all a part of his act as a phony veteran.]] |
| 255 | * PhonyVeteran: [[spoiler:He wasn't an Army infantryman but rather did laundry in the Coast Guard, and weakly tries to claim he wrote the book as a 'tribute' to the real heroes.]] |
| 256 | * ShellShockedVeteran: The book upon which ''Tropic Thunder'' is based is a memoir of his traumatic experiences in Vietnam. He sleeps out in a tent on the beach away from a hotel because of PTSD and is constantly shooting off gravelly-voiced one-liners about being a man or experiencing war or something similar. [[spoiler:Averted; he's faking it all.]] |
| 257 | * WalkingSpoiler: The fact that the man is [[spoiler:a fraud]] is a pretty major reveal. |
| 258 | [[/folder]] |
| 259 | |
| 260 | [[folder:Damien Cockburn]] |
| 261 | !!Damien Cockburn |
| 262 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/damien_cockburn.jpg]] |
| 263 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/SteveCoogan\ |
| 264 | '''Voiced by:''' Creator/RicardoTejedo (Latin-American Spanish dub), Hisashi Izumi (Japanese dub) |
| 265 | |
| 266 | The inexperienced British film director who is unable to control the actors in the film. |
| 267 | ---- |
| 268 | * ADayInTheLimelight: He's the main focus of the mockumentary [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UCEcgvDuLo Rain of Madness]] which reveals his history as an acclaimed Broadway director who was in way over his head when he bought the film rights to ''Tropic Thunder'', not realizing that directing a big budget Hollywood war movie would be a very different experience compared to a stage play. Throughout the experience he suffered increasing SanitySlippage thanks to a combination of Les Grossman's interference, the main actors' various problems, and his own denial that everything was not a disaster. |
| 269 | * AllPartOfTheShow: Nope. [[spoiler:Tugg Speedman thinks his death was an act, but it was real]]. |
| 270 | * BlasphemousBoast: [[spoiler:Right before getting blown to bits after stepping on a land mine.]] |
| 271 | -->This radio goes to the chopper and the chopper only! The chopper is {{God}}! And I am [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Jesus Christ]], His son! And you are my chosen disciples! |
| 272 | * ButtMonkey: ''Dear God''. He can't control his actors, his movie goes way over budget in little time, he is punched in the face at the request of Les Grossman and [[spoiler:he steps on a landmine and gets blown up]]. |
| 273 | * CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:He's killed by a land mine shortly into the movie.]] |
| 274 | * LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler:He steps on a land mine and gets blown to pieces.]] |
| 275 | * PrimaDonnaDirector: Inverted; it's the ''actors'' who are the prima donnas, and he's unable to control them. |
| 276 | * SacrificialLion: As the beleaguered director of the [[ShowWithinAShow movie in a movie]], he gets a lot of screentime and a decently RousingSpeech in before he's [[spoiler: gruesomely killed]]. |
| 277 | * WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:By virtue of the fact that he doesn't last long in the movie despite what the initial setup would imply.]] |
| 278 | [[/folder]] |
| 279 | |
| 280 | [[folder:Cody Underwood]] |
| 281 | !!Cody Underwood |
| 282 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cody_underwood.jpg]] |
| 283 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/DannyMcBride\ |
| 284 | '''Voiced by:''' Andrés García (Latin-American Spanish dub), Tomoyuki Shimura (Japanese dub) |
| 285 | |
| 286 | The film's explosives expert and helicopter pilot. He is a pyromaniac. |
| 287 | ---- |
| 288 | |
| 289 | * BadassBoast: "'''MOTHER NATURE JUST PISSED HER PANTSUIT!'''" as he gets to employ some of his special effects. |
| 290 | * DemolitionsExpert: He's a special effects guy who specializes in pyrotechnics. |
| 291 | * HeroWorshipper: Of Four-Leaf Tayback, outright calling the man's book "his ''[[Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye Catcher in the Rye]]''." [[spoiler:He's [[BrokenPedestal crushed]] upon learning of Tayback's fraudulence, but [[RebuiltPedestal regains some respect]] seeing him help the others escape.]] |
| 292 | * KillItWithFire: His general life philosophy. |
| 293 | * LargeHam: There isn't a scene in which he isn't shouting or acting like a maniac. |
| 294 | * MadBomber: Cody is on a personal mission to blow everything up that isn't already sufficiently blown up. |
| 295 | %%* MoreDakka |
| 296 | * NoodleIncident: He lost a finger during the filming of ''Film/DrivingMissDaisy'', and almost blinded Creator/JamieLeeCurtis on ''Film/FreakyFriday2003''. Neither of these films had any call for a pyrotech, so it's unclear why he was even on the set, let alone what happened. |
| 297 | * ScarsAreForever: One of his ears is scarred. |
| 298 | [[/folder]] |
| 299 | |
| 300 | !The Studio |
| 301 | |
| 302 | [[folder:Les Grossman]] |
| 303 | !!Les Grossman |
| 304 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/les_grossman.jpg]] |
| 305 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/TomCruise\ |
| 306 | '''Voiced by:''' Jorge Ornelas (Latin-American Spanish dub), Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (Japanese dub) |
| 307 | |
| 308 | The foul-mouthed, hot-headed studio executive producing ''Tropic Thunder''. |
| 309 | ---- |
| 310 | |
| 311 | * BadassBoast: His speech to Flaming Dragon is this. |
| 312 | -->'''Grossman:''' Oh, okay. Flaming Dragon. Fuckface. First, why don't you take a big step back and literally [[SuddenlyShouting FUCK YOUR OWN FACE]]?! I don't know what kind of pan-Pacific power play you're trying to pull here, but Asia, jack, is my territory. So whatever you're thinking, you better think again because otherwise I'm gonna have to head down there and rain down an ungodly fuckin' firestorm upon you! You're gonna have to get the fuckin' United Nations to sign a fuckin' binding resolution to keep me from utterly destroying you! I am talking scorched earth, motherfucker! I will massacre you! I WILL FUCK YOU UP!!! |
| 313 | * BadBoss: He has no problem verbally abusing, cussing, and hitting his crew and employees. He's also willing to leave Tugg Speedman to die and collect his life insurance policy. |
| 314 | * BaitTheDog: His sudden, serious change in demeanor upon meeting Four-Leaf Tayback seemingly indicates he might not be all that bad a person deep down. However, it doesn't last. |
| 315 | -->'''Grossman:''' Oh, wow. You're a great American. This nation owes you a huge debt. Now SHUT THE FUCK UP and let me do my job!!! |
| 316 | * BaldOfEvil: It's Tom Cruise wearing a bald cap and being one greedy, disgusting asshole. |
| 317 | * BavarianFireDrill: He couldn't possibly pull off most of the stuff he claims he is capable of in his rant, but it is delivered with so much conviction that it seems to work! |
| 318 | * BeardOfEvil: More like a PermaStubble of greedy jerkassery. |
| 319 | * BeautyInversion: Tom Cruise had to wear a baldcap, a fatsuit and some large prosthetic hands to play this guy. |
| 320 | * BrutalHonesty: When Pecker asked him if he was bribing him into betraying his best friend Speedman, Grossman replies with a frank, flat "yes". |
| 321 | * ChewingTheScenery: It's Tom Cruise in a fat suit and bald mask cutting loose. |
| 322 | * ClusterFBomb: He really likes this trope, which is best shown in his BadassBoast. |
| 323 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: He is an executive producer, yet he doesn't care one bit about the safety of the actors, being only concerned with how much money he can make. |
| 324 | * DancePartyEnding: Tom Cruise performs a one-man Dance Party Ending over the credits. |
| 325 | * DeadpanSnarker: He can make some snarky comments here and there. |
| 326 | * DisproportionateRetribution: |
| 327 | ** He has director Cockburn brutally punched in the face by the key-grip because of the former's incompetence. |
| 328 | ** He also threatened to rip off secretary Helen's breast because she didn't have his staples. |
| 329 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first scene in the movie has him chewing out Cockburn for his failures, ordering a man to punch him in the face and telling Tayback to shut up. |
| 330 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He brings up his wedding ring, which shows he is married. Whether he is HappilyMarried is anyone's guess. |
| 331 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: He tries enticing Peck to abandon Speedman to his death ([[ItMakesSenseInContext and without his TiVo]]) by promising him lots of money and a G-5 airplane. [[spoiler: [[DidntThinkThisThrough It never crosses his mind]] (or he just doesn't care) that Peck would take the money and the G-5… to purchase the [=TiVo=] and go rescue Speedman.]] |
| 332 | * EvilIsHammy: Each of his asshole speeches are wonderfully over-the-top. |
| 333 | * FatBastard: Grossman is a big, fat {{Jerkass}}. |
| 334 | * FourEyesZeroSoul: Never seen without his glasses, except at the end. |
| 335 | * GreedyJew: He has a Jewish-sounding last name and is one greedy bastard. He also refers to a Jewish holiday, Shushan Purim, at one point, so it's not so much implied as it is [[InformedJudaism hammered down your throats]] without explicitly stating it. |
| 336 | -->'''Grossman:''' Let's face it, the kids aren't exactly dressing up as The Scorcher for Purim anymore. |
| 337 | * HairTriggerTemper: He's an aggressive, moody and temperamental BadBoss. |
| 338 | * HiddenDepths: He was blessed by the Pope at one point and apparently celebrated Purim. Implying that underneath his greed and bluster, he is a pretty spiritual guy in his private life. |
| 339 | * HotBlooded: He flies off the handle at the slightest provocation. He will vacillate between roaring inventive profanity at the top of his lungs and calmly taking care of business. |
| 340 | * {{Jerkass}}: Big time. He insults everyone and is only concerned with making money. |
| 341 | * KarmaHoudini: Never suffers any punishment for his actions, specifically leaving Speedman to die at the hands of the Flaming Dragon. By the end, his movie makes $400 million at the box office, wins several awards, and he gets credited for reviving Speedman's career. |
| 342 | * LargeHam: His rant to Flaming Dragon definitely qualifies him, but Les dominates pretty much every scene he's in. |
| 343 | * LaughablyEvil: While he's not really evil, he is a greedy and arrogant {{Jerkass}} who is perfectly fine with letting an actor die at the hands of a drug cartel. That said, he's so unbelievably hammy and over the top that it's impossible to actually hate him. |
| 344 | * MeaningfulName: ''Gross''man. |
| 345 | ** His personality throughout the movie lives up to his name. |
| 346 | ** "Gross" also references "box office gross," which is fitting for a movie studio executive. |
| 347 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: |
| 348 | ** It's speculated that Tom Cruise modeled his performance on Harvey Weinstein (whom Cruise allegedly had a low opinion of after their negotiations broke down over Weinstein trying to court him for the film ''Literature/ColdMountain'') - according to Ben Stiller, it was Cruise's idea to include a "gross" studio head as the secondary villain, and his physical appearance (big, fat, hairy, balding) as well as his hot temper, foul mouth, general obnoxious attitude and terrible treatment of his employees are all reminiscent of Weinstein's behaviour (Weinstein was also known for [[TrademarkFavoriteFood loving diet coke]]). Considering what Weinstein is mostly known for these days, it's almost a relief that Les wasn't a ''lot'' worse. |
| 349 | ** Grossman's violent temper is also heavily reminiscent of Scott Rudin, whom [[https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/scott-rudin-1.jpg?w=1000 physically resembles]] Grossman even more than Weinstein. |
| 350 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: |
| 351 | ** He wants to make a movie so he gets lots of money. He doesn't care one bit if the lead actor is kidnapped and can be killed. |
| 352 | ** When Pecker calls him out on the fact that he gave permission to the Flaming Dragon Gang to brutally murder Speedman, Grossman retorts that Speedman's career ended long ago, and when the death of Speedman leaks out, Grossman says he will start an acting program in Speedman's name, which will attract the attention, and money, of future investors. |
| 353 | * PetTheDog: His last scene with Rob. |
| 354 | * SirSwearsALot: Quite possibly the king of this trope, alongside Creator/SamuelLJackson and [[Series/TheThickOfIt Malcolm Tucker]]. Let's just say he's VERY fond of tossing out F-bombs. |
| 355 | * SmugSnake: Subverted. He is massively full of himself, yet it never backfires on him. |
| 356 | * SuddenlyShouting: Not only in his rant to the Flaming Dragons, but he does that in some early scenes as well. |
| 357 | * TakeThat: Reportedly Cruise based the actions and dialogue of this character off real life Paramount Studios executive Sumner Redstone, who had a falling out with Cruise two years earlier when he terminated the actor's contract prematurely. |
| 358 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Given that he is part of the making of the movie, he could be counted as a member of the team. Yet, most tropes above should explain why he qualifies for this. |
| 359 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: In his office, you can see a ''Forbes'' magazine with him on the cover and another photo shows him being blessed by the Pope. Interestingly enough, it says that he doesn't like actors or agents. Only money and power. And he has both. He actually [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this trope at one point when he admits that he is perfectly happy to let Tug Speedman be brutally murdered by Asian drug peddlers but claims that they "will weep for him... in the press". |
| 360 | * WouldHitAGirl: He threatens to rip off secretary Helen's breasts [[DisproportionateRetribution because she didn't have staples that he wanted]]. |
| 361 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:He decides to abandon Tugg to the Flaming Dragons on the basis that he's no longer a profitable actor and that his death could be easily exploited for PR and profit via insurance fraud]]. |
| 362 | [[/folder]] |
| 363 | |
| 364 | [[folder:Rick 'Pecker' Peck]] |
| 365 | !!Rick "Pecker" Peck |
| 366 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/matthew_mcconaughey_in_tropic_thunder_matthew_mcconaughey_29525832_500_281.jpg]] |
| 367 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/MatthewMcConaughey\ |
| 368 | '''Voiced by:''' Óscar Flores (Latin-American Spanish dub), Junpei Morita (Japanese dub) |
| 369 | |
| 370 | Tugg Speedman's extremely devoted agent and best friend. |
| 371 | ---- |
| 372 | |
| 373 | * AllMenArePerverts: In one scene, you can see him reading a book full of pictures of topless women. |
| 374 | * AmbiguouslyBi: He shows some lecherous traits about women, but he's also ''extremely'' loyal to Tugg and his ringtone for Tugg's number is the love song "Sometimes When We Touch". |
| 375 | * ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The [=TiVo=]. It is used as target to the rocket that would blow up the helicopter in which the film crew was escaping on.]] |
| 376 | * CrazyPrepared: When he thinks Speedman has killed a prostitute (actually a panda), he immediately begins instructing him on the proper way to dispose of a corpse. We don't hear all of it, but it involves a bathtub and "a shitload of lye." |
| 377 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Speedman, if their interactions are anything to go by. |
| 378 | * NiceGuy: While he is slightly perverted, he is otherwise a rather decent guy and especially loyal to Speedman. |
| 379 | * OfficeGolf: Takes this in a trendier direction with Office UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} Tennis. |
| 380 | * SeriousBusiness: He is determined to get Tugg his [=TiVo=] even when Tugg himself isn't the least bit concerned about it, and even takes the device with him to a hostage rescue. |
| 381 | * TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler:He uses the money and the G5 offered by Grossman to save Speedman from the Flaming Dragon.]] |
| 382 | * UndyingLoyalty: DoubleSubverted towards Tugg. [[spoiler:At first, it looks like Pecker ditched his friend for a G5. Then he uses the plane to rescue him, playing the trope straight.]] |
| 383 | [[/folder]] |
| 384 | |
| 385 | [[folder:Rob Slolom]] |
| 386 | !!Rob Slolom |
| 387 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bill_hader_08.jpg]] |
| 388 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/BillHader\ |
| 389 | '''Voiced by:''' Kaihiamal Martínez (Latin-American Spanish dub), |
| 390 | |
| 391 | Assistant and right-hand man to Les Grossman. |
| 392 | ---- |
| 393 | * ProfessionalButtKisser: This is basically his job. |
| 394 | * SycophanticServant: To Grossman. |
| 395 | [[/folder]] |
| 396 | |
| 397 | !Flaming Dragon |
| 398 | |
| 399 | [[folder:Tran]] |
| 400 | !!Tran |
| 401 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tran_tropic_thunder.jpg]] |
| 402 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/BrandonSooHoo\ |
| 403 | '''Voiced by:''' Bruno Coronel (Latin-American Spanish dub), Creator/FujikoTakimoto (Japanese dub) |
| 404 | |
| 405 | The young leader of the Flaming Dragon gang. |
| 406 | ---- |
| 407 | * BigBad: He's the most direct antagonist of the film. |
| 408 | * AChildShallLeadThem: He's a ''ten-year-old'' drug lord. |
| 409 | * EnfanteTerrible: His age doesn't make him any less evil. |
| 410 | * GenreSavvy: He never really fell for Lazarus' disguise. |
| 411 | * GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: InUniverse. He and the Laotian drug manufacturers are big fans of ''Simple Jack''. |
| 412 | * ImprobableAge: Tran is the ten-year-old leader of a dangerous criminal gang. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_and_Luther_Htoo Actually, this might not be that improbable...]] |
| 413 | * ImprobableInfantSurvival: [[spoiler: He falls some heights while grabbed by Jeff Portnoy and still goes on]]. |
| 414 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:He is never killed or arrested. The actors just escape, and his business probably goes on as usual.]] |
| 415 | * OlderHeroVSYoungerVillain: Being a child, it couldn't have been otherwise. |
| 416 | * SwitchToEnglish: After [[spoiler:Lazarus the "Indochinese poppy/rice/lead farmer"]] mixes up his cover story, Tran aims a rifle and starts questioning him in English. |
| 417 | --> "Where is your FARM?! AMERICAN!" |
| 418 | * TattooedCrook: sports a chest piece of a Buddhist demon |
| 419 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: He leads a criminal heroin gang, smokes cigars and has a massive tattoo on his chest. He's also ten years old. |
| 420 | [[/folder]] |
| 421 | |
| 422 | [[folder:Byong]] |
| 423 | !!Byong |
| 424 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flaming_dragon_byong.jpg]] |
| 425 | ->'''Played By:''' Creator/ReggieLee\ |
| 426 | '''Voiced by:''' Ricardo Mendoza (Latin-American Spanish dub) |
| 427 | |
| 428 | The second-in-command of the Flaming Dragon gang. |
| 429 | ---- |
| 430 | * TheDragon: To Tran. |
| 431 | * GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: InUniverse. As with the rest of Flaming Dragon, he loves ''Simple Jack'' and tells Speedman that he should have won an Oscar for it. |
| 432 | * PunchClockVillain: He has no problems offering Speedman a cup of tea out of genuine sincerity. Unfortunately, Speedman is too wrapped in his role to accept it. |
| 433 | [[/folder]] |
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