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* [[Mugging the Monster]]: If the robbers had only known how dangerous Tom was... |
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: If the robbers had only known how dangerous Tom was... |
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** Also, to a lesser extent, the two bullies who tried to intimidate Jack in school, and found themselves hospitalized. |
** Also, to a lesser extent, the two bullies who tried to intimidate Jack in school, and found themselves hospitalized. |
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* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Jack gives one of these to a [[Jerk Jock]] who had been making his life hell after he learns more about who his father might be. He ends up hospitalizing the poor [[Asshole Victim|jackass]]. |
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* [[Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here]]: Doubly subverted / deconstructed; Millbrook is initially presented as idyllic precisely ''because'' [[Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here|nothing exciting ever happens there]]; when the bodies start piling up it's more upsetting and disturbing than it is exciting. |
* [[Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here]]: Doubly subverted / deconstructed; Millbrook is initially presented as idyllic precisely ''because'' [[Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here|nothing exciting ever happens there]]; when the bodies start piling up it's more upsetting and disturbing than it is exciting. |
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* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Tom, repeatedly. |
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Tom, repeatedly. |
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** Plus the fact that he just killed a man. Even if the jock thought it was his father who killed the man, picking on the son of a man who has killed at least three men who were visibly thugs would make him [[Too Dumb to Live]]. |
** Plus the fact that he just killed a man. Even if the jock thought it was his father who killed the man, picking on the son of a man who has killed at least three men who were visibly thugs would make him [[Too Dumb to Live]]. |
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* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]: When {{spoiler|Tom says he used to be Joey,}} Edie responds by running into the bathroom and vomiting. |
* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]: When {{spoiler|Tom says he used to be Joey,}} Edie responds by running into the bathroom and vomiting. |
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* [[Wham Line]]: {{spoiler|'''Tom:''' (to Fogerty) I should've killed you back in Philly.}} |
* [[Wham! Line]]: {{spoiler|'''Tom:''' (to Fogerty) I should've killed you back in Philly.}} |
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* [[Wire Fu]]: Brutally, brutally averted. Tom Stall is obviously extremely well-versed in HTH combat, but he sticks entirely to [[Boring but Practical]] moves. They're very bloody practical. Cronenberg bloody practical. |
* [[Wire Fu]]: Brutally, brutally averted. Tom Stall is obviously extremely well-versed in HTH combat, but he sticks entirely to [[Boring but Practical]] moves. They're very bloody practical. Cronenberg bloody practical. |
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** Fogarty's face confirms that he is still [[Incredibly Lame Pun|an expert practitioner of wire fu]] |
** Fogarty's face confirms that he is still [[Incredibly Lame Pun|an expert practitioner of wire fu]] |
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[[Category:Films of the 2000s]] |
[[Category:Films of the 2000s]] |
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[[Category:A History Of Violence]] |
[[Category:A History Of Violence]] |
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[[Category:Trope]] |
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