Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery



Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a 2022 film on Netflix starring Daniel Craig as Detective Benoit Blanc. It is the sequel to Knives Out. Other actors joining the cast include Leslie Odom Jr., Janelle Monae, and Edward Norton.

A group called the Disruptors receive a puzzle box, delivered to their homes in the middle of the 2020 start of the pandemic. Entrepreneur and Alpha founder Mile Bron invites them for a vacation in Greece, where the guests will solve his murder over a fun weekend. The Disruptors include the Connecticut governor Claire Debella, fashion designer/influencer Birdie Jay and her Beleaguered Assistant Peg, Twitch MRA gamer named Duke and his girlfriend Whiskey, Miles's top physicist Dr. Lionel Toussaint, and Alpha co-founder Cassandra Brand. Everyone is surprised that Cassandra, Andi for short, showed up, because Miles recently cut her out of the company in a high-profile case.

Another surprise guest arrives: detective Benoit Blanc. The man hasn't had a case since the pandemic started, and looks forward to the challenge. He tells Miles that he received the same box and invitation, assuming that he is part of the murder mystery game. Miles, nonplussed, informs Benoit that only his friends were invited but extends Benoit a formal request to stay and have fun, since having a real detective should add to the atmosphere. Benoit relates to Miles that he finds mystery invitations suspicious, and will make sure no one dies for real. That promise breaks within a few hours, as one dead body after another piles around the fancy Glass Onion, Miles's vacation home and test subject for a new renewable fuel he calls Klear.

Every Disruptor has skeletons in their closet, it turns out, and reasons to either get rid of Miles or protect him. Andi may hold the answers about who is really in danger, but she has her own secrets to keep.


 * Actually Pretty Funny: Birdie squeals in delight when learning that Miles planned for In the meantime, Andi,, looks amused the whole time especially with Miles being miffed.
 * An Aesop: Never underestimate the power of a simple solution. Andi, smashes the puzzle box in a mix of pragmatism and catharsis rather than join the Disruptors' group call.  While Benoit doesn't dismiss the possibility, he does say that  is the least likely suspect because surely no one is that stupid because ..
 * Badass Gay: It's revealed that Benoit is either gay, pan or bi, being in a partnership with a man named Philip who is cooking when they both receive the puzzle box.
 * Bare Your Midriff: Whiskey exposes her belly in her primary outfit.
 * Bittersweet Ending: Eventually, and Benoit uncovers the real criminal of the weekend.
 * Brick Joke: Benoit asks politely if the winner of the murder mystery weekend gets a prize like an iPad. Everyone is surprised by the question, but Miles says that he has an iPad if anyone wins..
 * Busman's Holiday: Benoit leaps at the opportunity to go on a vacation with a murder mystery game, hoping it will break his pandemic funk. He then fears this trope is in place when learning Miles didn't invite him, warning Miles that he has experience with anonymous invitations.
 * Crazy Enough to Work: This is why Benoit proposes that
 * Do Wrong Right: Lionel is baffled that
 * Dumb Muscle: Duke is a very stereotypical example: he looks like he took tons of steroids and can't figure out simple puzzles.
 * Even Evil Has Standards:
 * Lionel is visibly regretful when telling Benoit about how Miles cut out Andi from Alpha. That Miles is his boss and blackmailed him to commit perjury and claim that Miles came up with the company and the napkin does not excuse that he stabbed one of his oldest friends in the back to save his job.
 * The Disruptors each have morally ambiguous actions, with Birdie having the excuse of being The Ditz and Book Dumb that lead to her racially offensive mistakes. Lionel and Claire are concerned, however, about if Klear is safe given it's derived from hydrogen molecules in seawater, meaning that with improper development the gas form could turn a home into a walking explosion site. In the climax, they look downright horrified after Benoit helps them realize that.
 * Everyone Has Standards:
 * Whiskey actually doesn't like sexing up Miles and tells Andi while they walk to the pool that she thinks Duke's politics are distasteful.
 * Every Man Has His Price: The basis of the Disruptors' relationship to Miles. It's revealed that while Birdie is genuinely cordial with him, most of them depend on him for their income. Lionel has the most legitimate excuse as Miles is his boss, and he fully admits to Claire that he is in too deep to seek alternate employment.
 * Fiction 500: The Mona Lisa is valued to be at least on the range of dozens of billions of euros. Entrepeneur Stéphane Distinguin once even proposed use it to eliminate a good part of France's ridiculously huge national debt by the late 2010s by selling it, maybe to DaVinci's Italy. The concept a billionaire could even rent it out puts his fortune's size beyond any realistic estimate.
 * Horrible Judge of Character:
 * This is what killed
 * The Disruptors suspect something is up with Andi, but.
 * Hypocritical Humor: Benoit Blanc does make up words in the first movie, like "mistruthing," while pretending to be a bumbling Southern gentleman. One thing that he says clued him in to the real killer's identity was
 * Irony: Despite being a Great Detective, Benoit is terrible at mystery games like Among Us and Clue. The reason is that as he explains to, real-life doesn't have one person with a clear-cut motivation and a murder weapon; people are more complicated than that, which makes cases fascinating for him.
 * Ms. Fanservice: Being played by an attractive, young actress with a primary outfit who exposes both her legs and belly makes Whiskey those.
 * My God, What Have I Done?: Lionel in the climax has this expression when Benoit spells out that
 * No Party Given: Claire Debella is the governor of Connecticut but her party is never given.
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: Once again, Benoit puts on the veneer of the ignorant Southern gentleman with some pandemic stir-craziness to put the guests at ease. When Miles reveals he didn't invite Benoit, Benoit becomes serious and warns him that some foul play may occur on the island..
 * Obviously Evil: Miles' evil organization, who he calls "friends", are called "disruptors". He tries to hide his hand from Benoit by using a metaphor to portray them as rebels, but as Duke's disgusting views and past as snake oil salesman highlight, they're more about spreading chaos in a way benefits Miles than any good.
 * Occam's Razor: Benoit is outraged to realize that this is the answer to the case.
 * Once More, with Clarity:.
 * Polar Opposite Twins: were revealed to be this; one became an entrepreneur and TED speaker, while the other went into teaching elementary school. While  was ambitious, she also didn't judge her friends well as shown by the court case.
 * The Reveal: Comes out in the second half of the movie:
 * Sassy Black Woman:
 * A case where this works against Andi; she apparently spent years shedding her native Southern accent to become a TED speaker and entrepreneur, unafraid to show her smarts or courage. During her court case, she spoke out of order when Claire committed perjury on the stand and chose Miles over her, something that may have cost her the suit. On the island, she gets in digs about how everyone is holding onto Miles's "golden titties" and how none of them are self-made.
 * Subverted with.
 * Smarter Than You Look: Duke is not the brightest guy, as shown when his mother figures out the puzzle box before he does and contributes some of the answers without thinking much, but he is a pretty savvy opportunist. Turns out that Whiskey was not cheating on him;
 * Swiss Cheese Security: A plot point; the Mona Lisa is behind protective glass in Miles's living room, but Miles reveals an override switch hidden in a figurine that can slide the panels away. He presses it regularly.
 * Token Good Teammate:
 * According to, Andi was this out of the Disruptors: smart, ethical, and highly conscientious unlike smooth-talking Claire, misogynistic Duke, boot-licking Lionel, and opportunistic Miles. That was why she refused to approve Klear, saying that the math and chemistry meant that it was a dangerous experimental fuel. If Alpha backed it, they would be sponsoring a walking moral hazard..
 * While Peg's main job is putting out Birdie's literal and metaphorical fires, she's not a bad person. In fact, most of her screentime is calling out Birdie for how her stupidity makes both of their jobs harder, and confiscating her phones to keep her boss off Twitter. The only morally ambiguous action she has is advising Birdie strongly to ..
 * Whiskey is the seemingly ditzy Disruptor associate who doesn't have a malicious bone in her body. Manipulative yes, but not evil. She has a civil conversation with Andi, expressing her sympathy about how the Disruptors stabbed her in the back during the court case. . While she isn't willing to.
 * Villainous Breakdown: after . He stamps on the ground petulantly while calling  a baby and a child.
 * Villain Has A Point:
 * Duke is dumb and a jerk, but he makes one legit point to Andi when she demands the truth at the dinner party about why the Disruptors all stabbed her in the back; they all are dependent on Miles and he admits it, but Andi showed that not playing Miles's game means that she lost out on that tether. She couldn't have expected them to forget that Miles is essentially holding their income hostage.
 * but he makes some legit points in the climax:
 * Villain with Good Publicity: Miles is not only one but his primary purpose as leader of the disruptors is give them the publicity to achieve their dreams so he can attain even more power.
 * Who Wears Short Shorts: Whiskey's primary outfit during the plot is a pair of white shorts.
 * Xtreme Kool Letterz: Miles' supposedly clean fuel has a k instead of a c on the name apparently solely because of this trope.
 * Your Cheating Heart: While checking on Duke, Benoit himself watches Whiskey and Miles getting intimate, and Duke watching it and getting obviously pretty annoyed. He turns his eyes away in disgust.