- Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Anna is insanely attractive, intelligent and not completely helpless from a physical standpoint.
Removed this, because the trope is about having a trio, with each girl (or guy) defined by one of these aspects. Not, one girl who is the full package.
At one point Foy says "Challenge Accepted" like Barney Stinson. Not sure if that's more actor allusion or shout out.
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Neither. It's a coincidence - the "challenge accepted" is a very general formula and not tied to a specific work.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Given that he says it in the exact same delivery as he does Barney Stinson, I don't think it's a coincidence. Or at the very least he made it into an actor allusion.
I believe Anyone Can Die is used incorrectly both as an example and in the description of the movie. Yes, the setting is one in which death is commonplace- but none of the major characters die until the finale of the film. In fact, Anyone Can Die is utterly averted in this film. I would change this myself, but my writing skills are haphazard, at best, and I'd rather not screw it up.
Saw the movie on Wednesday and was wondering is Corpsing is an appropriate trope. There are a couple of times when Charlize Theron doubles over due to jokes told by Seth Mac Farlane. The mind reading prairie dog was good.
Also a couple of instances of Mood Whiplash, mostly when Clinch turns up the movie turns from a comedy into a rather dark western.