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'''''Hawaii Five-0''''' (with a zero) is a [[The Remake|re-imagining]] of the 1968-1980 series ''[[Hawaii Five O (TV)|Hawaii Five -O]]'' (with an "O"), started airing in Fall 2010.

Starring [[Alex O'Loughlin]] as (Steve McGarret), [[Scott Caan]] as (Danny Williams), [[Grace Park]] as (Kono Kalakaua), [[Daniel Dae Kim]] as (Chin Ho Kelly), [[Jean Smart]] as (Governor Pat Jameson), and [[Masi Oka]] as (Max Bergman). In the new setting, McGarrett is a Navy SEAL whose father is murdered by an international terrorist he had been tracking, triggering the formation of what becomes the Five-0 unit, a special police force that operates above the normal state jurisdictions.

Put character tropes in the [[Hawaii Five -0 (TV)/Characters|Character Tab]], please.

** Danno, responding to an offer of whiskey from a helicopter pilot played by [[Jimmy Buffett (Music)|Jimmy Buffett]]: "I'm more of a margarita guy myself."

** [[Masi Oka|Max]] begins an episode talking about the plausibility of time-travel. In another episode, he asks an ICE agent (played by Greg Grunberg) if they've met before. Both were on ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''.

{{quote| '''Surfer:''' Ho, brah, where you eat it?<br />

'''Danno:''' I'm sorry, what?<br />

'''Surfer:''' Da kine, brah.<br />

'''Danno:''' I'm sorry, are you speaking English?<br />

'''Surfer:''' Hey no need for get agro.<br />

'''McGarrett:''' He caught it on land, brah... Danno don't surf.<br />

'''Surfer:''' Shoots.<br />

* [[Anti -Villain]]

* [[Bulletproof Vest]]: The team is VERY''very'' consistent about putting these on when shooting is likely.

* [[By the -The-Book Cop]]: Danno tries to be this but it's tough when the [[Cowboy Cop]] is the boss and has been given license by the governer to basically do whatever the hell he wants.

* [[Canon Dis ContinuityDiscontinuity]]: Doubles as a [[Retcon]]. In "Kalele", August March tells Steve that a "young officer" that was ALSO''also'' named McGarrett arrested him 30 years ago. Steve nods and acknowledges that the other McGarrett is his father, the same father who died in the pilot episode. Apparently, this show wants us to forget that Steve's father was named "John" and now wants us to pass him off as "Steve McGarrett Sr.".

** Actually, March says he was arrested by a cop named [[Mc Garrett]]McGarrett and no first name is mentioned. In fact this August March is NOT the same character as the one from the original since it has been repeatedly established that this is a new Hawaii Five-0 universe. Just think of this August March as a parallel universe character.

* [[Cool Guns]]: Not exactly fancy, but Steve has a tactical light attached to his handgun. [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_flashlightTactical flashlight|It allows the marksman to simultaneously illuminate, blind, and aim the target.] ]

{{quote| '''McGarrett:''' Thought I told you to lie low.<br />

{{quote| '''Danno:''' If you're going to be one of those "shoot first, ask questions later" types, I would like to be consulted, ''so I'll know when to duck!''}}

** Though normally a [[By the -The-Book Cop]], Danny crosses over into [[Cowboy Cop]] territory whenever [[ItsIt's Personal|it gets personal]] ("Mana'o" and "E Malma").

* [[Crossover]]: With ''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]'', which puts it and the original (thanks to Ed Asner's reprisal of August March) into the ''[[JAG (TV)|JAG]]''-[[The Verse|verse]].

* [[Dating Catwoman]] & [[Star -Crossed Lovers]]: Kono and {{spoiler|Adam Noshimuri}} in "Ua Hopu".

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: In the snark-infested waters of ''Hawaii Five-0'', Danno is the undisputed champ, but pretty much everybody gets their turn. See the [[Hawaii Five -0 (TV)/Quotes|quotes page]] for multiple examples.

** The ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' costumed guy in the [[Brand X|Spectacucon]] comic convention calls himself "''Commander'' Sisko" from ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV)|Deep Space Nine]]'', but he's wearing the uniform of the late series, after Sisko was promoted to Captain. He's also wearing Captain insignia and has a [[Bald Black Leader Guy|shaved head]] and goatee, also of the latter half of ''DS9'''s run. Also, a fan would probably not be so dismissive of [[Star Trek: theThe Original Series (TV)|Uhura]].

* [[Did You Actually Believe?]]: Wo Fat uses this when he meets Steve for the second time. Now Steve knows who Wo Fat actually is, he holds the Chinese under gunpoint. Wo Fat not-so-subtly implies that a CIA analyst will have a "car accident" if Steve shoots him. Steve, being the good guy here, concedes.

* [[Did You Just Have Sex?]]: McGarrett in "Nalowale".

* [[Distressed Damsel in Distress]]

* [[Driving Question]]: Who is Shelburne? Answered, apparently, in the second season finale, "Ua Hala":{{spoiler|1=McGarrett's mother, whom he (and we) thought had died years ago in a car bombing}}.

* [[Do Not Taunt Cthulhu]]: In "Powa Maka Moana", a [[Added Alliterative AppealAlliteration|bitchy stolen goods buyer barricades himself behind bulletproof bars]]. Steve gives him five seconds to come out peacefully and talk about the case. [[What an Idiot!|Danny literally begs that guy to yield, but he still refuses]]. Steve then opens the bars -- with a ''hand grenade.''

{{quote| '''Sang Min:''' What kind of cops are you?<br />

** Averted in part: the pilot episode had a number of Ford Products. Danno drove a Ford Mustang, and the Honolulu Police Department used Ford Crown Victorias.

** Averted once again in the Season 2 finale, where the HPD garage is full of...[http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_502861-Ford-Crown-Victoria-P71-2006.html Ford Crown Victorias!!]

* [[Fake -Out Make -Out]]: Danno and Kono in "Malma Ka Aina".

* [[False -Flag Operation]]

{{quote| '''Danno:''' I'm going to talk to these models.<br />

'''<nowiki>McGarrett:</nowiki>''' Okay, well just stay with the questions that relate to the case.<br />

'''Danno:''' What's that supposed to mean?<br />

'''<nowiki>McGarrett:</nowiki>''' That means I know you. Just stick to the case.<br />

'''Danno:''' Hey. Hey. They're just women.<br />

{{quote| '''Danno:''' ...this pineapple-infested hellhole.<br />

'''<nowiki>McGarrett:</nowiki>''' You don't like the beach?<br />

'''Danno:''' I don't like the beach.<br />

'''<nowiki>McGarrett:</nowiki>''' Who doesn't like the beach?<br />

* [[Fun Withwith Subtitles]]: Notice that in the first three episodes Five-0's headquarters is subtitled "Governor's Task Force headquarters" as the team hasn't come up with a name yet.

{{quote| '''<nowiki>McGarrett:</nowiki>''' Billy, so help me God, you answer incorrectly one more time, I gonna put those scrubs on you myself and then drop you in general population. How long do you think you'll last there?}}

** In "Mana'o," Danno ''ties a suspect to the hood of his car'', then proceeds to drive around the streets of Honolulu like a madman to get information out of him.

{{quote| '''<nowiki>McGarrett:</nowiki>''' Just for the record, if I pulled something like this, [[What the Hell, Hero?|you would be reading me the riot act on proper police procedure]].<br />

'''Danno:''' No. I'd probably just arrest you.<br />

'''<nowiki>McGarrett:</nowiki>''' Compared to this, hanging a guy off a roof and throwing a guy in a shark tank is pretty tame.<br />

'''Danno:''' You know what? I disagree. Shark cage is way worse.<br />

** In "Alaheo Pauʻole", Chin and Danno discover a small cache of weapons in a murder suspect's home. When the suspect tells them that the grenades in the cache are fakes, Danno makes him hold one and takes the pin out, which immediately makes the suspect start talking. Also elicits a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] from Chin:

{{quote| '''Chin:''' You've been hanging out with McGarrett too long!}}

{{quote| '''Catherine:''' ''(answering her cellphone)'' What do you need?<br />

'''McGarrett:''' Why can't I just be calling to say "hello?"<br />

'''Catherine:''' Theoretically it's possible, sure. But you never have before and it's an odd time to start.<br />

* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: Danny is good; Steve is bad. It goes the other way around when the case's about Danny's family, however.

* [[Groin Attack]]: Kono subdues a criminal by taking advantage of that strategy. The other (male) members of the team are shocked and insist it would have been better just to [[Pistol -Whipping|pistol whip him across the face.]]

{{quote| '''McGarrett:''' What makes you think I won't kill you right here in this restaurant?<br />

'''Wo Fat:''' "The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." Old Chinese proverb.<br />

'''McGarrett:''' "[[Scarface (Film)|Say hello to my little friend.]]" ''([[Click. "Hello."|cocks pistol under the table]])'' Old American proverb. }}

* [[Halloween Episode]]: "Ka Iwi Kapu". Five-0 investigates the murders of two college kids out [[First Person Camera|shooting video]] for a [[The Blair Witch Project (Film)|documentary]] on [[Army of the Dead|legendary Hawaiian ghost warriors]] in an [[Ancient Tomb|ancient Hawaiian graveyard]] at [[Tempting Fate|midnight]] on [[All HallowsHallow's Eve|Halloween]].

* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: McGarrett and Danno catch a suspect putting a roofie into a girl's drink. They force ''him'' to drink it before carting him off. [[Captain Obvious|He passes out.]] They then awaken him with an air horn.

* [[I Call HerIt "Vera"]]: Sam Hanna dubs Danno's Camaro "Winifred". "Winnie" for short.

* [[ItsIt's Personal]]

** McGarrett describes [[Book Em'em, Danno|the series' most famous phrase]] as [http://www.cbs.com/primetime/hawaii_five_0/video/?pid=PlOPy7FcbIW3m3CV3NhwXTCNbpLsteVS "catchy"] when pressed by Danno himself.

{{quote| '''Convict:''' How long have you two been married?}}

** Victor Hesse (revealed at the end of "Hana'a'a Makehewa")

{{quote| '''Danno:''' I am really happy you are not afraid of anything, okay? I'm glad you have that [[G.I. Joe (Franchise)|G.I. Joe]] thousand-yard stare from chasing shoe bombers around the world, okay? But in civilized society, we have rules, all right? It is the unspoken glue that separates us from jackals and hyenas, all right?}}

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: The boys of the Five-0 team. [[In -Universe]], too: Kensi Blye apparently got a little hot and bothered when Danno and Chin Ho showed up in L.A. in part two of the big crossover.

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Said almost word by word from a victim's parent during one episode. In the episode, college students partying on a boat are captured by pirates. When the Hawaii Five-0 team informs the parents that negotiating with the pirates' demands is a surefire way to get their children killed, one kid's father doesn't listen and secretly gives the pirates 400K to spare his son, despite his wife's reluctance to disobey the Five-0 team. When the pirate group's leader got impatient with the Five-0 team not complying with the ransom demands, he kills a kid and dumps him onto the beach. [[Irony|Guess who's the slain kid?]] The other students? They eventually get rescued, and were unharmed.

** The big black '74 Mercury Marquis sedan McGarrett senior had in his garage is one of the cars Jack Lord drove in the original series. (See [http://www.staradvertiser.com/hawaiifive0/20100919_Hawaii_Five-0_back_on_the_beat.html this article] under "The Ride", and [https://web.archive.org/web/20131125171444/http://www.carlustblog.com/2011/02/the-cars-of-five-o.html this one in a car blog.]) Steve decides to finish restoring it, and this was a minor [[Story Arc]] ("He Kane Hewa'ole", "Powa Maka Moana"). By the end of the first season, in "Oia'i'o," Steve has finished the restoration and the Mercury may even be his daily driver. (He drives it to Kamekona's place to obtain {{spoiler|a gun}} for use in his {{spoiler|[[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]}}.)

{{quote| '''McGarrett:''' How do you know cop shorthand?<br />

'''Mary:''' Um, because I had this incident once in L.A.<br />

'''McGarrett:''' What incident?<br />

{{quote| '''Wo Fat:''' [[Did You Actually Believe?|Did you really think I would come here without some assurance of my safety?]]<br />

* [[Origin Story]]

** In the 1968 original, the team was called "Five-O" from the very start, with no in-show explanation of how the name came about. The re-imagined version provides one. At the end of "Pilot", the characters are sitting around the office trying to come up with something better to call themselves than the prosaic "[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Governor's Task Force]]", but [[Averted Trope|can't think of anything.]] Two episodes later, at the end of "Malama Ka Aina", Kono derives the nickname from {{spoiler|1=McGarrett's high school football jersey number}}.

* [[Pre -Mortem One -Liner]]:

{{quote| '''<nowiki>McGarrett:</nowiki>''' There's something you should know about your brother.<br />

'''Hesse:''' What about him?<br />

{{quote| ''' Wo Fat:''' Everything is under control. ''(shoots {{spoiler|the Governor}})''}}

{{quote| '''Wo Fat:''' Tell John McGarrett that his son will be along soon enough. ''(tries to kill Joe White)''}}

** Early on in the first season numerous characters -- notably McGarrett -- own and prominently use iPhones. In one episode a father and son are seen talking to each other via FaceTime, a scene which eerily looks like an Apple commercial. Kono is also seen with a MacBook Pro numerous times. What makes this interesting is that after many episodes with extensive Apple product placements, in "Mana'o" Chin asks Kono to "Bing it", when she doubts his knowledge about a modern artist. Sure enough, Kono whips out her LG Optimus 7 and we get a close up of the phone's screen ''for almost 10 seconds''. Soon after this episode Danny gets a new Windows Phone 7, and the Apple logos on both Kono's laptop and McGarrett's iPhone are suspiciously covered up.

* [[Put Onon a Bus]]

{{quote| '''<nowiki>McGarrett:</nowiki>''' What are you doing? The guy is clearly a psychopath. You're trying to make friends with him. You're trying to ''connect?''<br />

'''Danno:''' He's standing right in front of us! He can hear you.<br />

'''<nowiki>McGarrett:</nowiki>''' I see he's standing right here, Danny. But you're a cop. You're not a therapist, you know?<br />

'''Danno:''' Hey hey hey! I've been trained for this kind of thing, okay?<br />

'''<nowiki>McGarrett:</nowiki>''' What -- what to bore people into submission?<br />

'''Danno:''' Don't listen to him, okay. His idea of communication is -- is he drops a witty one-liner and then shoots you in the face. Don't worry about it!<br />

'''<nowiki>McGarrett:</nowiki>''' You know what -- I might shoot this guy just so he doesn't have to listen to you talk.<br />

* [[Rewarded Asas a Traitor Deserves]]: {{spoiler|The Governor and Jena Kaye}}, both by Wo Fat.

* [[Ripped Fromfrom the Headlines]]: The plot of the episode "Kupale" is based partly on the real-life drama of the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Superferry:Hawaii Superferry|Hawaii Superferry]].

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: The Yakuza boss in "Ke Kinohi" is the state's primary benefactor. Averted in a sense, because while Steve cannot prove his involvement in his parents' death, {{spoiler|he manages to arrest the boss for breaking in to his house, kidnapping his sister, and stealing the Champ box}}.

* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: The whole point of the new unit.

{{quote| '''Governor Jameson:''' ...Your task force will have blanket authority to go after guys like Hesse, and ''get them the'' '''''HELL''''' ''off my island''. Your rules, my backing, no red tape....}}

** And this is being deconstructed slightly in Season 2, as the fallout from the Season 1 finale is coming back to haunt Five-0. The new Governor is keeping them on a much tighter leash, assigning them a team member of his choosing to keep an eye on them. And it turns out that Captain Fryer {{spoiler|used a full police investigation of Five-0's behavior as leverage to get Kono to work for him}}.

* [[Shout -Out]]

** In "Palekaiko", Danno refers to a private investigator being interrogated as [[Magnum, PIP.I.|"Magnum"]].

** In "Powa Maka Moana", McGarrett tells Danno that [[Terminator (Filmfranchise)|he'll be back.]] Danno asks if he'll smash their car into the pawn shop just to get Lono to talk.

** In "Loa Aloha," Danny calls a charter service to get information on a fugitive's travel plans and, not wanting to identify himself as a cop, gives his name as "[[Bruce Springsteen (Music)|Clarence Clemons]]."

** In "Ua Hiki Mai Kapalena Pau", Gracie is seen explaining ''[[Angry Birds (Video Game)|Angry Birds]]'' to Danno.

** In "Kame'e", [[The Beatles (Musicband)|The Beatles]] get a mention:

{{quote| '''Danno:''' So, what, you’re not going to tell me about "Operation Strawberry Fields"?<br />

'''<nowiki>McGarrett:</nowiki>''' No.<br />

'''Danno:''' No, no. Of course, you’d have to kill me.... I’m just curious, though: Was there an "Operation Abbey Road"? Were you the walrus? ''(Joe White gives him a disapproving look)'' Time to shut up?<br />

** In "Ka Iwi Kapu", Max delivers a [[CSI: Miami|Horatio Cain]] [[GrissomQuip Oneto LinerBlack|one-liner]], complete with sunglasses.

** The episode's [[Cold Opening]] is a deliberate imitation of ''[[The Blair Witch Project (Film)|The Blair Witch Project]]''.

* [[Teeth -Clenched Teamwork]]: Steve and Danny have very different approaches to the law, though they establish something of an understanding over the course of the pilot.

* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: Invoked by Danny to Steve regarding ''Ms. [[Pac-Man (Video Game)|Pac-Man]],'' of all things:

{{quote| '''Steve:''' You ever make it to Double-Pretzel level?<br />

* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: Danny's competency as a cop is often overshadowed by Steve's extreme amounts of badassery, Chin's disgrace arc, and Kono's Fanservice and Badass. But in "He Kane Hewa'Ole", he is the first one who correctly deduces the culprit's plot. Lampshaded by Steve, who asks, "When did you get smart?"

{{quote| '''McGarrett:''' Okay, what about our John Doe #2?<br />

'''Danno:''' You mean Jack?<br />

'''McGarrett:''' You got an I.D.?<br />

'''Danno:''' No Ja -- his head was in a box. Jack.<br />

'''Chin Ho:''' [[Dude, Not Funny|That ain't right, bro.]]<br />

'''Danno:''' Too soon?<br />

{{quote| '''McGarrett:''' How'd you get her to talk?<br />

** And there is a [[Take That]] to ''[[Twenty Four (TV)24|Twenty Four]]'' in Ohana:

{{quote| '''Danny:''' If a suspect dies, he no longer has the ability to speak! Ergo, he's useless to us!<br />

'''Steve:''' ''([[High Altitude Interrogation|to guy he's hanging off roof]])'' You think anybody's gonna care? You just killed two people, buddy! I'd be doing the world a favor!]]<br />

'''Danny:''' [[What the Hell, Hero?|That's enough!]] }}

* [[Wham! Episode]]

* [[Wham! Line]]: In "Ua Hala":

{{quote| '''McGarrett:''' {{spoiler|Mom!}}}}

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Danno does this to Steve on regular basis. (Example: see the dialogue under [[Deadpan Snarker]] and [[Gene Hunt Interrogation Technique]] above.)

* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: In the ending of the first part of the second ''Hawaii Five-0''/''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]'' crossover, "Pa Make Loa", Danno, Chin Ho, Callen, and Sam managed to recover the Small-Pox vials from Dracul Comescu before he could sell them to Chechen terrorists in Hawaii. It seems that their case has been closed for good... {{spoiler|until Officer Kalakaua calls and reveals that the "vials" that they recovered had in fact contained saline, and that the ''real'' viruses were taken by the doctor who was allied with Comescu, who presumably betrayed him and was planning to release the virus in Los Angeles.}}