Line #221 Film/KickAss2


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3	The 2013 sequel to ''Film/KickAss'', the sequel adapts the second volume of [[ComicBook/KickAss the comic book]] and the ''Hit-Girl'' interquel.
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5	It's three years after Dave Lizewski (Creator/AaronJohnson) hung up his tights as Kick-Ass, and 15-year old Mindy [=McCready=] (Creator/ChloeGraceMoretz) is starting highschool at Dave's school...in theory. In reality, whilst Mindy's guardian is trying to give her a normal life, she's skipping school every day to train and fight criminals as Hit-Girl. Dave, bored with his life after retiring from superheroics, begs her to take him on as a sidekick. After Dave gets back in the tights, he soon learns that he and Hit-Girl are no longer the only costumed vigilantes in New York, and joins Justice Forever, a group of like-minded individuals led by Colonel Stars-and-Stripes (Creator/JimCarrey).
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7	Meanwhile, Chris D'Amico (Creator/ChristopherMintzPlasse) is still seeking revenge on Kick-Ass for the death of his father, and suddenly finds himself in a position to do something about it.
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9	While the majority of the cast returns, Jeff Wadlow replaces Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman as director and writer, whilst Vaughn remains co-producer. The film opened in August 2013.
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12	!!''Kick-Ass 2'' provides examples of:
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14	* AchillesInHisTent: Mindy, in order to keep a promise to her dad, stops fighting crime as Hit-Girl for most of the movie. [[spoiler: She comes back for the final battle.]]
15	* ActorAllusion: Dr. Gravity saying "I'm not really a doctor." [[Series/{{Scrubs}} Well, not nearly.]]
16	* AdaptationalUgliness: While not ''ugly'' per se, in the comics Remembering Tommy were a young couple in fairly revealing Medieval knight-inspired costumes. In the film they're an older couple in much less intimidating matching outfits.
17	* AdaptationDistillation: Adapts both the second volume of ''Kick-Ass'' and the ''Hit-Girl'' interquel.
18	* AdaptationExpansion: In the comics, Chris learnt Kick-Ass's secret identity during the climax of Volume 1. Because that didn't happen in the first film, [[spoiler:Todd lets slip that it was Dave's father who was arrested for being Kick-Ass and not Dave himself]]. Another by-product of this, is that [[spoiler:the Toxic Mega Cunts didn't attack the neighborhood where Katie's family lived so they could attack Kick-Ass through her, and he instead goes after Night-Bitch of Justice Forever, a bit-part character in the comics]].
19	* AdaptationNameChange: Colonel Stars-and-Stripes' dog is named Eisenhower, as opposed to Sophia in the comic, with an extended scene has the Colonel explain that Eisenhower is her hero name and that Sofia is her secret identity. Furthermore, Colonel Stars-and-Stripes was simply Colonel Stars in the comic, whilst he had a brother named Lieutenant Stripes.
20	* AdaptedOut: Several of the Motherfucker's most horrific actions in the second volume of the comic, such as [[spoiler:raping Katie and killing Colonel Stars' dog]]. In the film, he [[spoiler:''tries'' to rape Miranda Swendlow/Night Bitch, but he can't get an erection, and when he's actually asked by one of the Toxic Mega Cunts members if he wants to kill Colonel Stars-and-Stripes' dog, he says that he's "not ''that'' evil."]]
21	* AdvertisedExtra: [[spoiler:Colonel Stars-and-Stripes only has almost 8 minutes of screentime (according to Website/IMDb) before being killed by Mother Russia. But, hey, it's Creator/JimCarrey, after all, so naturally his name is on the poster, and he is present in the majority of the promo materials.]]
22	* AgeLift: Hit-Girl[=/=]Mindy [=McCready=] is aged to 15, as opposed to remaining 12 as in the comic.
23	* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The Toxic Mega Cunts trashing Justice Forever's HQ.
24	* AlphaBitch: Brooke, in ''spades''.
25	* AndThisIsFor: Kick-Ass during the FinalBattle.
26	* AndYourLittleDogToo: Subverted. The Motherfucker specifically refuses to kill Col. Stars-and-Stripes' dog, saying he was "not ''that'' evil." In the comics, he actually ''did'' have the dog killed.
27	* TheAtoner: Colonel Stars-And-Stripes shows shades of this: he's a mob enforcer turned superhero/born-again Christian.
28	* AxCrazy: Chris D'Amico evolves into a raving violent psychopath.
29	* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: While Chris delightfully [[spoiler: witnesses the death of Colonel Stars-And-Stripes]], Mother Russia offers to kill his dog. Chris however doesn't want the dog to die claiming [[EvenEvilHasStandards he's not that evil]] and leaves the dog spared.
30	* BattleCouple:
31	** Remembering Tommy.
32	** [[spoiler: Dave and Mindy seem to have formed one by the end of the film]].
33	* BigBadWannabe: Uncle D'Amico tries to invoke this to get the Motherfucker to lay low. He's in prison, but the warden's a friend, and he pretty effortlessly has [[spoiler:Javier]]'s throat slit. [[KickTheDog While it plays over the phone]]. Still, it only seems to [[LetsGetDangerous harden his resolve]].
34	* BitchInSheepsClothing:
35	** Brooke is nice to Mindy until she regards Mindy as a threat.
36	** Katie is also retroactively revealed to be one, as she reveals she was cheating on Dave all along before breaking up with him over a misunderstanding, without giving him any chance to explain.
37	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Motherfucker along with the Toxic Mega Cunts are defeated, and Mindy and Dave share a kiss. However, costumed heroes are now outlawed and Mindy's on the run from the police after killing six criminals who kidnapped Dave. Despite the outlaw, Dave plans on continuing as Kick-Ass while upgrading his costume, having accepted that superheroes can't exist in the real world "[[TheRealHeroes because the real world needs real heroes.]]"]]
38	* BlackComedyRape: [[LaughablyEvil The Motherfucker]] tries to rape [[spoiler:Night Bitch]], but since he can't get an erection, he turns around to play with himself to try and get one, but fails.
39	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: In the context of [[spoiler:the final battle, Black Death being Hit-Girl's first fatality counts.]]
40	* BondOneLiner:
41	** Hit-Girl, to [[spoiler:Mother Russia, ''and in Russian to boot'']], after stabbing [[spoiler:her]] to death with glass shards:
42	--->'''Hit-Girl:''' I thought a cunt like you could handle all those little pricks.
43	** Hit-Girl again, early in the film, right after she cuts off the hand of a thug once the thug tries to grab his switchblade after promising Hit-Girl he'd never commit a crime again. This one is even lampshaded by Hit-Girl, who promptly asks Dave what he thought of her line, and even saying that she had written a whole bunch of them for use.
44	--->'''Hit-Girl:''' Pants on fire.
45	* BrawnHilda: Mother Russia is a strong, mannish Russian (well, duh) woman who's the main muscle of the Toxic Mega Cunts.
46	* BrickJoke:
47	** A somewhat literal one: During the training montage, the female half of Remembering Tommy places a brick in a purse as a weapon. In the final fight she beats up people with said purse.
48	** A straighter example happens when we see the "sick stick" devices Mindy uses on the popular bitches, making them vomit and void their bowels against their own will. That also comes back during the final fight.
49	** The shark, and whether it's alive or dead. [[spoiler:Alive, as Motherfucker finds out.]]
50	** When Mindy leaves to go on her first date, she mentions that she can "kill a man with his own finger". [[spoiler: She later proves this on Black Death.]]
51	** One of Dave's schoolmates in an early scene is rude to Dave, and is said to be a Website/{{Twitter}} follower of Motherfucker. The character later shows up as one of the horde of Toxic Mega Cunts in the finale, identifiable by his haircut.
52	* BreakTheCutie: Attempted by Brooke against Mindy whom she thinks is innocent and fragile. It works for that evening.
53	* BrownNote: The "sick stick" device, judging by its effects, is based on this urban legend.
54	* BulletTime: [[spoiler:Hit-Girl after being injected with adrenaline during her fight with Mother Russia.]]
55	* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:Hit-Girl leaves New York City at the end of the film after killing some mooks with a cop's Glock 17 while saving Dave.]]
56	* CallBack: The following exchange between Dave and Marty, when Marty finds out Dave is Kick-Ass, is pretty much word-for-word with one that happens between Dave and Katie when she finds out he's Kick-Ass.
57	-->'''Marty:''' Dave, Why are you dressed as Kick-Ass?\
58	'''Dave:''' I am Kick-Ass.
59	* TheCameo: Former UFC champion Chuck Liddell as Chris' personal trainer.
60	* CaptainEthnic: Genghis Carnage and [[RefugeInAudacity Black Death]], as named by D'Amico. Javier calls him out on them. There's also Mother Russia.
61	-->'''Javier:''' You gotta stop with the racial stereotyping.\
62	'''Chris:''' They're ''archetypes''.
63	* CaptainPatriotic:
64	** Col. Stars-and-Stripes is parody of the archetype. Eisenhower, Col. Stars-and-Stripes' dog, is wearing a mask with the US flag.
65	** Battle Guy too; his costume is almost entirely a cheap ComicBook/CaptainAmerica knockoff, complete with a shield.
66	** Mother Russia is also a CaptainPatriotic of sorts, judging by her supervillain name and the Soviet hammer-and-sickle emblem on her bra and eyepatch. Helps that she was a former member of the KGB.
67	* CheapCostume: Almost all superheroes and supervillains in the movie wear shoddy makeshift costumes.
68	* ChekhovsGun: The "last resort" needles. [[spoiler:Which turn out to be adrenaline.]]
69	* ChekhovsLecture: Colonel Stars-and-Stripes teaches his fellow heroes to use open-palm strikes when aiming for the face, as a closed fist is likely to result in self-injury. [[spoiler:When he forgets this against Mother Russia, she is unharmed and he recoils in pain. Of course, this being Mother Russia, he could have done it the right way and probably wouldn't have fared any better.]]
70	* CurbStompBattle:
71	** Any time Hit-Girl takes somebody on in the film, except for [[spoiler:Mother Russia]].
72	** Any time Mother Russia gets her hands dirty in the film, including single-handedly taking out a squad of ten cops [[spoiler:and wiping the floor with Hit-Girl. Hit-Girl is forced to trick her into injecting her with adrenaline to get the upper hand and then Mother Russia winds up receiving a curbstomping of her own]].
73	* DarkMessiah: [[LaughablyEvil The Motherfucker]] tries to invoke this with mixed results. He calls himself an "evil Jesus" before he [[spoiler:falls off the roof, and about midway through the fall he realizes his mistake, and falls into a shark tank, where his pet shark bites off his legs and penis.]]
74	* DarkerAndEdgier: [[invoked]] Chris D'Amico ditches the [[EvilCostumeSwitch orange version of the Red Mist suit seen at the end of the first film]] and adopts a new costume that is literally bondage gear while rechristening himself "The Motherfucker".
75	* DanceBattler: Inverted when Mindy uses her combat skills to try out for the cheerleading squad.
76	* DavidVersusGoliath: Hit-Girl vs. the enormous Mother Russia. [[spoiler:Hit-Girl wins.]]
77	* DeadStarWalking: [[spoiler:Jim Carrey, as Colonel Stars-and-Stripes is KilledOffForReal in the middle of the film.]]
78	* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Angie D'Amico is killed early in the film when her son accidentally breaks her tanning bed while she's inside it]].
79	* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Hit-Girl kills [[spoiler:Mother Russia]] with multiple pieces of glass.
80	* {{Deconstruction}}: The sequel is more consistent than the first installment (that had DeconReconSwitch moments) in showing how superheroism would (not) work in a real-life setting. [[spoiler:It still ends with Dave deciding to continue as a costumed hero, though]].
81	* DemotedToExtra: Katie's screentime is drastically reduced compared with the first film, almost to the extent of being a SequelNonentity. But then again, she barely appears in the ''Kick-Ass 2'' comic, [[spoiler:even when you account for the [[AdaptedOut rape scene]]]].
82	* DesignatedGirlFight: Downplayed and justified. Both Hit-Girl and Mother Russia are shown fighting, and severely wounding/killing several male mooks early in the movie. When it comes to the climax, they face off against each other. Both are clearly the most competent fighters on either side.
83	* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:When Motherfucker purposely allows himself to fall from his HQ's roof (an action that he hilariously regrets during his fall) he lands safely on his shark tank... And of course, only to be eaten by said shark seconds later. TheStinger shows he survived, albeit with his legs and dick bitten off by the shark.]]
84	* DistractedByTheSexy: Hit-Girl, a total of three times. The first time is when [[spoiler:Dave starts changing into pimp clothing]] early in the film, the second time is when she's shown a [[ProductPlacement Union J music video]], and the third time is when [[spoiler:[[ShirtlessScene Dave takes his shirt off]] right before the climax]].
85	* DirtyCop: Some prison guards accept bribes from The Motherfucker, leaving the area where Dave's father is being held and letting in some thugs to kill him.
86	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Dave CantStayNormal despite having a happy life, and decides to go back into the hero field with Mindy's help. This leads to Dave losing his girlfriend, his friendship with Mindy briefly, and [[spoiler:his father to the Motherfucker]]. Dave may very well be a metaphor for a soldier with PTSD who without help loses the important relationships in his life.
87	* TheDragon: Mother Russia is the Motherfucker's strongest and by far deadliest minion. Not only does she take out ten police officers by herself, but she's the one who takes on Hit-Girl during the final fight.
88	* EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler:The "last resort" adrenaline shot is this for Hit-Girl, allowing her to completely turn the tables on Mother Russia.]]
89	* EqualOpportunityEvil: Despite being blatantly racist and sexist, the Motherfucker's QuirkyMinibossSquad still includes a black guy, an Asian guy, and a Russian woman.
90	* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Though Chris D'Amico's always bickering with his mom, [[spoiler:when he inadvertently kills her]] he's very distraught. He clearly did care about her, even if the two did not get along.
91	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Invoked by The Motherfucker. D'Amico remorselessly orders Mother Russia to [[spoiler:kill Colonel Stars and decapitate him, but he is taken aback when Mother Russia asks him if he wants the Colonel's dog killed.]]
92	-->'''Motherfucker:''' Jesus ''Christ'', I'm not that evil!
93	* EvilDetectingDog: Eisenhower figures out [[spoiler:the Toxic Mega Cunts are ambushing Colonel Stars-and-Stripes]] before the man himself does. [[spoiler:It doesn't help.]]
94	* EvilIsHammy: After becoming a full-fledged supervillian, Chris D'Amico starts chewing scenery by the truckload.
95	%%* EvilIsPetty: Oh so very much.
96	* EyePatchOfPower: Mother Russia sports one.
97	* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Black Death, courtesy of Hit-Girl.]]
98	* ExactWords: Mindy uses this during the scene of Dave's training shown at the start of the film. After shooting him in the chest (whilst wearing a bullet-proof vest) when he said he wasn't ready for it, she goes for a higher-calibre gun to try again. He tells her not to do the same thing and shoot him in the chest anyway and she promises not to. He then turns around and she shoots him in the back instead.
99	* FanserviceExtra: Two naked, well-endowed prostitutes in Chris D'Amico's pool.
100	* FedToTheBeast: This is Motherfucker's plan for Kick-Ass, to feed him to an imported shark. [[spoiler:[[LaserGuidedKarma It happens to him instead]].]]
101	* FirstKiss: [[spoiler:Mindy's is with Dave at the end of the movie.]]
102	* ForTheEvulz: The Motherfucker's primary motivation besides getting revenge.
103	* FrothyMugsOfWater: Hit-Girl uses an adrenaline shot that re-energizes her for a HeroicSecondWind against Mother Russia. Compare this to the comic book version of Hit-Girl, who snorts '''cocaine''' for a similar situation.
104	* GangstaStyle: Motherfucker holds his Para-Ordnance Nite-Tacs on an elderly man, who warns him about the guns having a kick if fired sideways. He fires anyways and receives the recoiled frame straight to the head.
105	* GratuitousRussian: Hit-Girl's one-liner in the final battle. The movie subtitles it as, "I would've thought a cunt like you could handle all those pricks." What she actually says (in barely-comprehensible Russian) is, "You can't handle it when they take you from all sides."
106	* GroinAttack: Eisenhower, Col. Stars-and-Stripes' dog, is specifically trained to attack men's lower parts.
107	* HappyEndingOverride: Dave had a loving girlfriend and Mindy had a bright future at school? Not anymore! Katie is now a cheating jerk, and Mindy is an outcast at school.
108	* HeroInsurance: Subverted; as Hit-Girl notes, vigilantes don't get a free pass.
109	* HollywoodLaw: The police "detain" all masked superheroes in New York City, but most aren't shown committing any crimes.[[note]]Marcus actually ask why the Justice Forever group are even in the list, as their activities mostly consisted in social services.[[/note]] Dave's dad even explicitly says he has to be released because of this. In reality, the cops would not do this because it could result in the city being sued for false arrest, which might cost millions. The Justice Forever members also say they're "on parole" in the funeral scene after their release, though there it may be a joke.
110	* HuskyRusskie: Mother Russia is a very rare female example.
111	* {{Hypocrite}}: Katie is furious at Dave's alleged cheating (which he wasn't), despite the fact that she has been cheating on him for some time.
112	* IdiotBall: When the Motherfucker goes looking for Night Bitch after discovering that she's Kick-Ass' girlfriend, he comes across one Miranda Swendlow. When one of his fellow Toxic Mega Cunts asks him how he's sure that she's Night Bitch while going to her house, the Motherfucker says that she posted on Facebook that she's in a relationship with Kick-Ass.
113	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Hit-Girl tries this for most of the movie, but realizes that fighting evil is a responsibility she can't ignore.
114	* ImAHumanitarian: Mother Russia ate her cellmate during her time in a gulag.
115	* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The police during the funeral scene.
116	* ImprobableWeaponUser:
117	** Mother Russia does heavy damage with a propane canister, a car door, and a lawn mower to name a few.
118	** The Tumor is also shown to have killed two guys with a broken pool cue.
119	** Hit-Girl manages to kill [[spoiler:Mother Russia]] with [[spoiler:shards of glass.]]
120	* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Genghis Carnage. Named after a Mongolian, yet appears to be of Chinese descent.
121	* JerkassHasAPoint: In the opening, Katie noticeably misses Dave when he starts cutting classes to train with Mindy. Despite the fact that they're a couple, he's hanging out with another girl younger than they are, and engaging in dangerous activity. Katie is mean during their breakup, but she calls out Dave more for not being there for her. He doesn't seem that distraught at losing his girlfriend.
122	* JumpedAtTheCall: All the costumed heroes in the city. [[spoiler:Even in the climax, after they've been outlawed, they still arrive as reinforcements when Kick-Ass and Mindy need to fight the Toxic Mega Cunts]].
123	* JumpScare: A more comical one, but after Colonel Stars-and-Stripes' crew beat up and restrain members of the prostitution ring, the last guy tries to run for it, only for the Colonel himself to leap from off screen and tackle him down.
124	* JustDesserts: [[spoiler:Motherfucker gets eaten by his own shark at the end.]]
125	* JuxtapositionGag: In a serious moment, showing Hit-Girl in uniform on a pink bed in a very girly room.
126	* KarmaHoudini:
127	** [[spoiler:Todd[=/=]Ass-Kicker reveals to the Motherfucker that the man who was arrested for being Kick-Ass was actually Dave's father. Despite being remorseful, he doesn't get any comeuppance from Dave or any of the other Justice Forever members.]]
128	** Ralph D'Amico never gets punished for [[spoiler:making the Motherfucker go AxeCrazy]] or for [[spoiler:ordering one of his thugs to kill Javier]].
129	* KickTheDog:
130	** [[spoiler:The Motherfucker ordering Dave's father killed and sending a picture of his murder to him]]. Notably, though, he refuses to kill [[spoiler:Eisenhower, the Colonel's dog]].
131	** Brooke publicly humiliating Mindy in the forest out of pure spite. Her fate afterwards was totally deserved.
132	--->'''Brooke:''' Poor Mindy. What did you think? The cool kids saw something special in you and invited you to your first party, where you'd sip your first beer and finally suck face for the first time? Newsflash, you're not special. Fuck with the queen bee, and you're gonna get stung.
133	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Colonel Stars-and-Stripes, played by Creator/JimCarrey. Bet you didn't see that coming, unless of course, you've read the comic book, in which case it is a ForegoneConclusion.]]
134	* LaserGuidedKarma:
135	** [[AlphaBitch Brooke]] gets hit with the "Sick Stick" by Mindy.
136	** [[spoiler:Chris gets mauled by the sharks he was planning to use against Dave himself.]]
137	* LastMinuteHookup: [[spoiler:After several people believing that Mindy and Dave were in a relationship, at the end of the film Mindy kisses Dave before leaving New York.]]
138	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: As part of the film's comic-motif and ThisIsReality theme, Dave tries to talk some sense into The Motherfucker by saying that there won't be a sequel if he dies. The film is unlikely to receive a sequel.
139	* LegionOfDoom: Purposefully invoked by the Motherfucker, who recruits the toughest crooks he can find and gives them supervillain names and costumes.
140	* LemmingCops: The police units just keep coming to get killed by Mother Russia one by one while Motherfucker tries to rape Miranda, without any kind of normal police procedure for an armed and dangerous criminal, such as setting up a perimeter and keeping out of her immediate reach.
141	* LighterAndSofter: A rather odd example in two cases.
142	** The film is much more toned down from the comics as both the filmmakers and even Chris D'Amico's actor were opposed to doing a straight adaptation. Case in point, the comic features [[spoiler:Motherfucker raping Katie, shooting several children, killing Colonel Stars-and-Stripes' dog and ''placing the head on the Colonel's corpse'', and outright bombing every comic book shop in New York]], none of which occurs in the film. The ending alone sees [[spoiler:Kick-Ass, Battle Guy and Ass-Kicker wanted and Hit-Girl arrested for being vigilantes, with Marcus being arrested for knowingly sheltering a vigilante; and Motherfucker thrown from a building and in a broken mess in an alley]] as opposed to the film [[spoiler:having Kick-Ass resolving to become the hero New York needs, Hit-Girl kissing Dave then leaving New York to avoid being sent to prison, and Motherfucker being comically eaten by his shark]].
143	** It cuts back on the swears and violence of the first movie as well. There's less emphasis on gore and scenes of murder are mercifully cut short. Though there is a certain gross out scene you should watch out for if you're squeamish.
144	%%* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Battle Guy's
145	* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Kick-Ass and Night Bitch have sex in the bathroom -- twice.
146	* MaleGaze: Night Bitch's costume shows a substantial amount of cleavage. Mother Russia's costume has about the same coverage of a bikini. Topless female extras appear in one scene. The Toxic Mega Cunts watch a stripper perform in their VIP section.
147	* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler:Colonel Stars-and-Stripes.]]
148	* MistakenForMasturbating: Dave's father thinks he's doing this when he's trying to put his long-unused Kick-Ass costume on since the zipper's stuck and he attempts to jiggle it up and down.
149	* MistakenForPedophile: Happens to David after he starts hanging out with Mindy more.
150	* MoralMyopia: Katie is furious when she thinks Dave is cheating on her with Mindy and dumps him, despite the fact that she has been cheating on him for some time herself, which she shows no remorse for.
151	* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Mother Russia herself's the most formidable of D'Amico's henchmen, and kills cops to [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic a rock remix of the]] ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic theme.]]
152	* MsFanservice: Claudia Lee (Brooke), despite only being ''16'' at the time of filming[[note]]Claudia Lee was born on June 20, 1996. Principal photography took place between September and November of 2012[[/note]].
153	* MythologyGag:
154	** A few, with the most notable being Kick-Ass' costume for the final fight (armoured with Big Daddy's armour) looking almost identical to the costume of hero Silver Beetle from ''Hit-Girl''.
155	** Another one from ''Hit-Girl'': in the midquel, Hit-Girl dismisses Night Bitch as a serious superhero because her costume shows too much skin, and dismisses the superhero Tarantula for publishing his own secret identity on Facebook. Here, Night Bitch is Hit-Girl's rival in love (and Hit-Girl wondered if hers was a superhero codename or the title of a porn movie), and [[spoiler:the Toxic Mega Cunts visit her at home, attempt to rape her and beat her to a pulp due her bright idea of saying on her personal Facebook page she was in a relationship with Kick-Ass, thus allowing The Motherfucker to confirm her superhero identity]].
156	* NiceJobFixingItVillain:
157	** [[spoiler:Mother Russia injecting Hit-Girl with adrenaline, which then gives her the energy to kill Mother Russia. Mother Russia thought it was poison.]]
158	** Also, [[spoiler:Uncle Ralph forcing Chris to listen as Javier is murdered.]] His (eerily calm) response? "Thank you for that. I needed that to get through what comes next."
159	** The Motherfucker attacking Dave at his dad's funeral. Dave at that point wants to quit being Kick-Ass. [[spoiler:This not only gets him back, but brings Hit-Girl back too.]]
160	* NeverTrustATrailer: Mindy never says "Take your tampon out, Dave" in the film.
161	* NobodyPoops: Defied in a very graphic way (see VomitIndiscretionShot below).
162	* NotHyperbole:
163	** Hit-Girl claims to be able to kill a man with his own finger. During the final fight, she shows she wasn't kidding.
164	** She also says she'll cut off a mook's hand if he breaks his promise to give up crime; she wasn't kidding on that one either.
165	** Later she says she'll feed a guy his own dick [[RuleOfThree and we never see him again afterwards]].
166	* NotWhatItLooksLike: Dave and Mindy have an unfortunately timed and worded conversation about her departure from vigilantism in the middle of a crowded hallway at school.
167	* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Mother Russia does this to Colonel Stars-and-Stripes with a machete, who had already been fatally wounded by her.]]
168	* OneManArmy: Mother Russia. There's good reason she's the highest paid of The Motherfucker's gang.
169	-->'''Genghis Carnage:''' $50,000? She's worth it!
170	* OneSteveLimit: Referenced in-universe by Javier when Motherfucker gave Olga the name Mother Russia. Ultimately subverted when Motherfucker decided to keep her name intact, resulting in two "Mother"s in their team.
171	* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Subverted. Though it's the reason why most people join The Toxic Mega Cunts in the beginning, they all have way too much fun doing it to say it's true. Mother Russia gets paid more than the others ($50,000 a week plus expenses) but she certainly earns it.
172	* OutsideRide: Mindy atop the villains' van while she tries to rescue Dave.
173	* PimpDuds: Mindy has Dave dress up in garb that's certain to attract muggers. She has him don a flashy, all-white suit, fur-coat and hat and carry around several bags full of expensive-looking items.
174	-->'''Dave:''' I am the whitest pimp ever.
175	* PoliceAreUseless: It's hard to really empathize with Marcus' desire to see Mindy lead a normal life when you realize just how useless the police are. They're either completely corrupted or just plain incompetent. By taking Hit-Girl off the streets, he's indirectly responsible for several deaths.
176	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The Motherfucker is an unapologetic racist and sexist. Though he might have deliberately gone out of his way to be that way in order to be more "evil."
177	* PosthumousCharacter:
178	** [[spoiler:Big Daddy]], after his death in the first movie. Sure, he never shows up, but there's lots of lingering shots of his portrait, and his armor. [[spoiler:In the final fight, Kick-Ass wears Big Daddy's armor.]]
179	** Frank D'Amico, while being dead as well, is also shown in a portrait and his son Chris's desire to avenge D'Amico is what leads to Chris becoming The Motherfucker to begin with.
180	* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Hit-Girl as she makes her DynamicEntry to [[spoiler: save Dave after the funeral by jumping on top of the van he had just been kidnapped in.]]
181	-->'''Hit-Girl:''' Game on, cocksuckers.
182	* PreMortemOneLiner: Mother Russia after two cops report eight men down:
183	-->'''Mother Russia:''' Make that ten.
184	* ProductPlacement:
185	** Midway through the film, Mindy is forced to watch a large portion of Union J's music video, a British boy band who had yet to release their debut album and were only known for coming from [[Series/TheXFactor the same TV show as]] Music/OneDirection.
186	** Dr. Gravity orders a diet Mountain Dew and racks of different flavors of Dew can be seen in the cooler when The Motherfucker robs a convenience store.
187	* PsychoForHire: Exploited by The Motherfucker, who recruits sadists and violent criminals for his LegionOfDoom.
188	* PsychopathicManchild: Chris D'Amico / The Motherfucker.
189	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Justice Forever are quite a motley crew, mostly composed of hero wannabes with big psychological problems.
190	* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Subverted. Sure, Motherfucker tries to rape [[spoiler:Night Bitch, but [[TheLoinsSleepTonight he can't get an erection.]] Cue a few seconds of awkwardly masturbating into his cape, before just giving up entirely.]]
191	* RealMenLoveJesus: The badass Col. Stars-and-Stripes is a born-again Christian.
192	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Because Creator/LyndsyFonseca was busy filming ''Series/{{Nikita}}'', she was demoted to extra after being the lead love interest in the previous film, appearing in just a couple brief scenes, one of which where she dumps Dave. Her character is also changed to be completely unsympathetic (in sharp contrast to her sweet persona in the first film), so audiences (and Dave) don't miss her absence (or at least notice the sudden change too).
193	* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl.]] [[MaybeEverAfter Maybe.]] It's left rather vague.
194	* ReligiousBruiser: Colonel Stars-and-Stripes is a former Mafia enforcer who became a born-again Christian and superhero. He now goes after the kind of people he once worked for.
195	* SacrificialLion:
196	** [[spoiler:Colonel Stars-and-Stripes.]] Also, perhaps, [[spoiler:Dave's dad.]]
197	** Also, on the villains' side, [[spoiler:Javier.]]
198	* SaveTheVillain: Kick-Ass tries to save [[spoiler:Motherfucker]] from falling through a glass roof. [[spoiler:He swats away his hand, to die a martyr, and plummets to his... shark tank. Then he finds out the shark's very much alive.]]
199	* SchoolGradeHacking: Mindy hacks the school to give herself perfect attendance so she could cut class and train as Hit Girl every day. It finally backfires when she's not there to receive her Perfect Attendance Award and her father is called.
200	* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Chris D'Amico]] (albeit by accident).
201	* SequelEscalation: Instead of just three, now there are dozens of real-world superheroes and supervillains running around.
202	* SequelHook: Mindy on the run from the police, but clearly intending to continue being Hit-Girl; Dave continuing to train himself while also donning a new Kick-Ass mask; Uncle Ralph being teased as a future villain and Chris/Motherfucker surviving the shark attack.
203	* SexualKarma: Kick-Ass and Night Bitch are shown to have pleasurable sex, contrast this with the Motherfucker who's [[TheLoinsSleepTonight impotent]] and can't even rape Night Bitch. And at the end [[spoiler: the Motherfucker suffers a CripplingCastration.]]
204	* ShipTease: The entire movie is this [[spoiler:for Mindy and Dave. But with Mindy being forced to leave the city at the end after kissing Dave, their future status is unknown.]]
205	* ShoutOut: The "sick stick" from ''Film/MinorityReport''.
206	* SlowMotionFall: Done with the Motherfucker falling into the water tank.
207	* SoftWater: The Motherfucker survives a fall from a warehouse roof by landing in a water tank. [[spoiler:The shark in the tank, however, is hungry.]]
208	* SparedByTheAdaptation:
209	** [[spoiler:Eisenhower, Colonel Stars-and-Stripes' dog.]]
210	** [[spoiler:Katie's parents, who died in the same scene as the Motherfucker's AdaptedOut rape of Katie.]]
211	* StopOrIWillShoot: Subverted. Colonel Stars-and-Stripes holds [[spoiler:Mother Russia]] at gunpoint with his unloaded Smith & Wesson 5946 when [[spoiler:The Toxic Mega Cunts ambush the Colonel while he's at the Justice Forever HQ. However, Mother Russia manages to take his gun away and tries to shoot him with it. She discovers that [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets the gun is empty]],(the Colonel never carris it loaded, for safety reasons) so she stabs him from behind with her machete before [[NeckSnap snapping his neck]] and [[OffWithHisHead decapitating him]].]]
212	* {{Stripperiffic}}: Night Bitch's costume is definitely intended to attract attention.
213	* SuperRegistrationAct: After a series of violent crimes by The Motherfucker and his gang, the police start rounding up all costumed vigilantes.
214	* SuperheroParadox: Dave's big dilemma in this movie: he spends a lot of it deciding whether the superhero wave he created is better or worse for the city. [[spoiler:In the end, the superheroes disband and become plain-clothes heroes, with the exceptions of Kick-Ass himself and Hit-Girl, while Hit-Girl's on the run from the police.]]
215	* SupervillainLair: The Motherfucker builds one for himself, complete with a shark tank and pole dancers.
216	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome : Much in keeping with the comic book, the movie highlights why exactly superheroes don't exist in real life. Turns out the police don't much appreciate vigilantes trying to do their jobs for them. [[spoiler:Also, a domino mask is a terrible disguise, as Nightbitch found out to her dismay. The Motherfucker is able to track her down via "not-facebook" once he saw a picture of her real face.]]
217	* SwearJar: Marcus has taken to using one on Mindy. She's even using bills instead of coins. In the ''first scene'' we see it, she's already filled it, and comments he'll need a bigger jar. Later in the movie, we see a second jar has been added. That one is full too.
218	* TakeThat:
219	** Hit-Girl's taunt about homophobic slurs making a [[ArmoredClosetGay thug sound really gay]] is a pretty obvious jab at Creator/MarkMillar's dialogue from the comic series.
220	** The Motherfucker's refusal to kill Col. Stars-and-Stripes' dog in the movie version (whereas he did in the comic series) is another jab at what's perceived as Mark Miller's tendency to use needless cruelty in his comics solely for the sake of shock value.
221	* TakingUpTheMantle: In the last battle, Kick-Ass wears the body armor from [[spoiler:Big Daddy's suit and in the end he also inherits Hit-Girl's base including its arsenal]].
222	* TenderTomboyishnessFoulFemininity: {{Downplayed\|Trope}}. Though violent and trigger-happy, Mindy is [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold a decent person at heart]] and is one of the main heroes. Brooke, on the other hand, is a spiteful AlphaBitch with absolutely no redeeming qualities.
223	* TimeSkip: Mindy and Dave are now 15 and 18 (nearly 19) respectively -- due to Creator/ChloeGraceMoretz' obvious aging between films.
224	%% * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Mindy vs. Brooke and her posse.
225	* TooDumbToLive: The leader of the muggers. After he and his group receive a major ass kicking from Hit-Girl, she offers to let him go if he promises to no longer mug people, otherwise she'd "go Saudi Arabia on your ass" and cut off one of his hands. He seemingly swears to, until he goes for his knife, at which his hand is then swiftly severed.
226	* TookALevelInBadass: Dave's much more competent in this film than the last. Marty and Todd also become superheroes.
227	* TookALevelInJerkass:
228	** Katie. However, this ''does'' have the benefit of putting her in-line with her comic counterpart's personality; her quick disassociation with Dave probably helps spare her from her fate from the comics.
229	** Dave took a level or two himself, but he mercifully snaps out of it towards the end.
230	* ThisIsReality: It's a recurring theme throughout the movie. Dave's father tells him that "this is the real world" and there are real consequences and responsibilities to being a costumed vigilante. Before the final fight, Mindy tells Dave that "this is not a comic book," which Dave echoes to The Motherfucker [[spoiler:when he is dangling over a pit, trying to slip out of Dave's hand and kill himself]].
231	* TranquilFury: When Mindy pays the mean girls back for humiliating her.
232	* {{Tritagonist}}: The film follows Dave, Mindy, and Chris's storylines concurrently with roughly even focus before they collide for the finale.
233	* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: In their first fight, Dave and Chris were evenly matched and performed a mutual KO. Dave's [[DisabilitySuperpower damaged nerve endings]] were the only reason he was able to help Mindy turn the tables on Frank. In their second fight Chris is clearly outmatched, reduced to throwing mooks at Dave and trying to take him by surprise once he realizes this.
234	* VomitIndiscretionShot: The effects of the "sick stick", a device that induces severe vomiting and diarrhea, are shown in the most graphic way possible.
235	* WallBangHer: Kick-Ass and [[spoiler:Night Bitch]] have sex in a bathroom stall.
236	* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Eisenhower wears an American flag print mask.
237	* WillTheyOrWontThey: The movie strings this in unexpectedly; from everyone thinking Dave and Mindy had been having a fling, to Mindy showing up in Dave's bedroom and crying on his shoulder, to Mindy reacting to Dave having his shirt off until finally resolving at the end of the film.
238	* WimpFight: Not even training by the [[RedBaron "Ice Man"]] Chuck Liddell can keep Chris from flopping around like an idiot.
239	* YouKilledMyFather: Kick-Ass and The Motherfucker exchange this trope.
240	--> '''Kick-Ass:''' You're gonna pay for what you did to my dad.\
241	'''Motherfucker:''' Your dad? You blew up mine with a bazooka.

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