Ace Ventura: Difference between revisions

The entire gimmick of Ace Ventura is that he's a modern-day [[Sherlock Holmes]]... mixed with [[Tarzan]] and [[Doctor Dolittle]]. Using these "skills", Ace becomes a Pet Detective, finding and saving animals. In the first movie he appears as nothing more than a local nut helping people find their lost cats and whatnot, but being the only Pet Detective in the area (and possibly existence), he gets roped into a high-profile investigation. Possibly due to this, he's become pretty well known in the second movie, where he is hired to recover a sacred bat stolen from two African tribes before war erupts between them.

* [[Bat Out of Hell]]: "DIE, DEVIL BIRD!!!

* [[Battle-Interrupting Shout]]: At the end of ''When Nature Calls'', Ace prevents a war between the two neighboring African tribes by running between the armies with their sacred bat in his hands, shouting its name (which according to the tribes' traditions, requires all who hear it to kneel).

** It's left to the viewers' imagination whether Ouda is actually a bad translator, or if he's working to keep Ace alive with his mistranslations; the Wachootoo don't seem like peace-loving people, and might take fatal offense to Ace's cowardice.

* [[The Can Kicked Him]]: "Do ''not'' go in there!" (it's not in the actual bathroom, but Ace has to pretend it is)

* [[Cranky Landlord]]: Mr. Shickadance from the movie and video game, is a cranky old man who hates animals. Despite his warnings for Ace not to bring any work home, Ace secretly keeps more than a dozen housepets in his room, having trained the animals to hide when the landlord appears.

* [[Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon]]: "If curse of Shikaka not lifted by tomorrow sun at top of sky, Wachootoo kill all Wachati, and smash your head on a rock."

* [[Generation Xerox]]: An episode of ''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'' shows Ace Ventura's medieval ancestor as a pet detective, Guado's ancestor as a corrupt sheriff, and Woodstock's ancestor as the informer of Ace's ancestor (complete with a steampunk computer).

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Ace Ventura is a send-up of this sort of character, whether intentionally or otherwise. He literally talks out of his backside, is inherently immature and even sociopathic, but losing someone he was trying to save drives him into seclusion in a monastery. Said someone was a raccoon...

* [[GPS Evidence]]: In ''When Nature Calls'', Ace gets shot by multiple darts and suspects the darts are being shot by the Wachootoo tribe. After the scene with the tribe, he gets shot again and finds out the Wachootoo dart didn't match the original darts. Ace discovers the original dart was carved from a "red, fungus-bearing acala" which is grown only in one area in the jungle where the bat-nappers are hiding.

{{quote|'''Ace:''' All right...''that's it!'' This "White Devil" thing has gone far enough. ''[[Punctuated for Emphasis|Nobody! Messes! With the 'do!]]''}}

* [[Large Ham]]: "Do NOT... go in there! ''WHOOO!''" Also, when he punches out the Monopoly Guy and wears him like a stole.

* [[Mobile Shrubbery]]: Ace holds a palmetto frond in front of himself in order to sneak past his landlord's window. Then he throws away the frond, onto the pile of fronds from all the previous times he snuck past.

** And involves a story based on their real-life archrivals, the Buffalo Bills, losing Super Bowl 25 on a missed field goal.

* [[Punctuated for Emphasis]]: Ace has several of these in the second film:

* [[Scarily Competent Tracker]]: Subverted in the Ace Ventura animated series: Ace finds a footprint and gives a detailed description of the owner's age, size, health, and appearance. Turns out the guy dropped a drivers' license next to the footprint.

* [[So Much for Stealth]]: Ace sneaks into the mental hospital's storage room and accidentally steps on bubble wrap (but doesn't get caught).

* [[Theme Tune Rap]]: Tone Loc contributed a rap for the credits of ''Ace Ventura Pet Detective.''

* [[Transformation Trinket]]: In the ''Ace Ventura'' cartoon series episode "Howl Of The Weremoose", the original weremoose Drew Talbit has a moose talisman he uses to change into his weremoose form; he is able to transform at will but everyone he bites becomes as Ace puts it...his mindless weremoose slaves. It is also revealed that smashing the talisman will break the curse and turn everyone back to normal. Unfortunately Ace doesn't read the fine print which says he who destroys the tailsman gets the antlers of the grand high moose himself. Ace ends up with moose antlers; it is also said that the antlers can be removed by rubbing moosebane on them- to which Ace exclaims..."Where are we going to get moosebane in Miami!?"

* [[Trash Landing]]: ''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'', Ace falls and land on his back on a pile of garbage from a roof of a two story building when trying to catch the rare albino pigeon.

* [[Who Shot JFK?]]: In ''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'', Ace loudly explains "I CAME TO CONFESS! I was the second gunman on the grassy knoll!" when his (unwanted) presence at the police station is questioned.