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* Rosemary Fenton: [[The Ingenue]], [[The Ditz]], a [[Damsel in Distress]] who seeks the aid of...
* Captain Hugh "[[Punny Name|Bullshot]]" Crummond: [[The Cape (trope)]], [[Ace Pilot]], [[Comedic Hero]], [[Destructive Saviour]], and [[Arch Enemy]] of...
* Count Otto von Bruno: a [[Fatherland|Notorious Hun]] and [[Master of Disguise]]; who along with the evil...
* Fraulein Lenya: a [[Femme Fatale]], carry out the dastardly kidnapping of...
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(Note that this page has nothing to do with the [[Video Games|video game]] publisher practice of [[Trailers Always Lie|releasing doctored screenshots]] as "gameplay" screenshots - such screenshots are often referred to as "[[Portmanteau|bullshots]]".)
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* [[Applied Phlebotinum]] (also [[Homemade Inventions]] and [[Mad Scientist Laboratory]]): Various devices for creating [[Truth Serum|Involuntary Lingual Slippage]], Vocal Reiteration (voice mimicking), Converse Forcefield (immobilisation beam), and Gaseous Particle Propellant (marijuana dispenser).
* [[Bald of Evil]]. Otto's boast that Bullshot will soon be out of his hair earns him a puzzled look from his henchman Crouch.
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* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Bullshot [[The Coats Are Off|takes off his jacket]] to engage in [[Good Old Fisticuffs]], whereupon Otto [[Groin Attack|kicks him in the groin]] while his arms are immobilised.
* [[Death Trap]]: Bullshot escapes from several 'inescapable' deathtraps via a combination of outrageous luck, arcane knowledge, and all-round awesomeness. His [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] is related here:
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* [[Double Entendre]]: Plenty of 'em.
* [[Education Through Pyrotechnics]]: When Professor Fenton's clumsy daughter causes an explosion in his lab he exclaims: "I told you ''never'' to do that! That's how we lost Mummy!"
* [[The End - or Is It?]]: Otto's plane crashes at the end of the movie, though they [[Never Found the Body]], and we conclude with a [[Photo Montage]] from Rosemary and Bullshot's marriage. The last photograph shows a scowling Otto disguised as their chauffeur.
* [[Evil Laugh]] (naturally)
* [[General Failure]]: Bullshot keeps running into former members of his WW1 regiment "The Royal Loamshires" who've been mutilated due to his incompetence. They include an aircraft mechanic who had his hand amputated when Bullshot started the propeller while he was checking the oil, 'Hawkeye' McGillicuddy who was blinded when Bullshot sent him down a hole to see if some ammunition was live, and Crouch -- the short, ugly henchman of von Bruno, who was a handsome six-footer until the day Bullshot ran over him in a tank. The opening scene (set in [[WW 1]]) has Bullshot giving a practical demonstration on why smoking at night will get you killed, which results in one of his men getting shot by a sniper.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: [[Big Monster Cute Name|Myra]] the [[Giant Squid|giant octopus]] reaches into some extremely personal places.
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'''Rosemary''': "It's so...big!"
'''Bullshot''': "Never mind that! Beat it off!" }}
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Crouch}}
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: In an aerial duel in [[World War
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: "By rapidly calculating the pigeon's angle of elevation in the reflection of your monocle, then subtracting the refractive index of its lens, I positioned myself at a complementary access...and fired. It was no challenge at all."
* [[I Resemble That Remark]]
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'''Rosemary:''' "How dare you! I've done [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome|pwetty]] well without bwains so far!" }}
* [[It Will Never Catch On]]: Bullshot scoffs at the idea that England could ever be run by a woman, or that the future world economy will be based on oil. The movie was made when Margaret Thatcher was in power, and a decade after the OPEC oil crisis.
* [[Lantern Jaw of Justice]]: Spoofed by having Bullshot thrusting out his jaw when he walks on-screen.
* [[Last
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'''Professor Fenton''': "She's not my beloved Rosemary, she's a pain in the ARRRRRRGH!" }}
* [[Lethal Chef]]: Rosemary's rock-hard scones are a [[Running Gag]].
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* [[Sherlock Scan]]: Bullshot has amazing powers of observation and deduction, but fails to notice when the villains are right under his nose.
* [[Something They Would Never Say]]: Despite a [[Failsafe Failure|hilarious malfunction]] of the Vocal Reiteration device that forces Otto to talk at a sped-up rate, Rosemary doesn't suspect when her father tells her "I want you to London the formula bring." Only Bullshot realises than an Oxford man would never use a split infinitive, and so it must be a trap!
* [[Stock Sound Effects]]: [[
* [[Tempting Fate]]: "Oh you Scotland Yard chaps see spies behind every bush. What could possibly happen out here in the English countryside?" Cue dramatic music as we see the villains lurking in the bushes. After they've successfully kidnapped the Professor, Otto boasts "[[Nothing Can Stop Us Now|No-one can stop us now!]]" Cue dramatic music as Bullshot strides into view, his [[Lantern Jaw of Justice]] out-thrust.
* [[Unholy Matrimony]]: Lenya and Otto.
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* [[The Vamp]]: Lenya finds Bullshot very attractive, and enjoys letting Otto know it. After Otto bites the dust she turns her attentions toward Professor Fenton.
* [[Un Entendre]]: Bullshot is shocked by the apparently rude nature of Rosemary's pro-feminist speech.
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'''Bullshot''' (gulps): "Please! That's trench language!"
'''Rosemary''': "Not the soft words of the flapper or the housewife, but the exposed words of a new woman, a naked woman. Soon to be joined in her march to freedom by her sisters, who will eat and [[Girls Love|sleep together]], and drive twactors for a living! Who needs a man's crutch? Your sex is all washed up!" }}
* [[
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: In the play Bullshot suffers from vertigo, whilst in the film he over-reacts dramatically to the killer spider. The [[Screaming Woman|ever-screaming Rosemary]] is calm on both occasions.
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* [[Acting for Two|Acting for Seven]]: The show is meant to be performed by only five actors, one of whom plays seven characters -- Professor Fenton, Crummond's friend Algy, a country policeman, a waiter in a hotel restaurant, a one-armed Scotland Yard Inspector (actually Wolfgang Schmidt, [[Master of Disguise]]), and Bolshevik thug Marovitch. The actor playing Otto also plays Salvatore Scalicio (a Chicago gangster) in a quick-change scene where he repeatedly switches between Otto and Salvatore.
* [[Cliff Hanger]]: The end of Act One. "Does this mean the end of Captain Crummond?"
* [[Good Guns, Bad Guns]]
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'''Professor Fenton''': "That means you're Hun! You're both Huns!" }}
* [[Ho Yay]]: Between Bullshot and Algy.
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* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Restaurant Waiter (on seeing Bullshot [[Wig, Dress, Accent|dressed as a pipe-smoking Arab]]): "[[Servile Snarker|May I hang your disguise in the cloakroom, sir?]]"
* [[Red Right Hand]]: Marovitch has a hunchback, a patch over one eye, a large scar and walks with a limp.
* [[Special Effects Failure]] ([[In
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