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* [[Lucy Liu]] played O-Ren Ishii in ''[[Kill Bill]]'', an assassin who is incredibly talented in kung fu and is codenamed "Cottonmouth" after the snake. "Cottonmouth" is translated into Chinese as ''Hundred-Step-Snake'' or ''Bai-Bu-She'', which is the term used for "viper". Four years later, that becomes the ''name'' of the character she voices in ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]''.
* One of the most remembered aspects of ''[[Spy Kids]] 3D'' was Elijah Wood's appearance as "The Guy", the [[Ultimate Gamer 386]] of the video game who ends up [[Negated Moment of Awesome|getting killed less than a minute after he appears]]. Everyone say it with me: [[I Wanna Be the Guy|GAME OVER - PRESS R TO TRY AGAIN]].
** ''Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams'' has a running gag about a "[[Shoe Phone|watch]]" gadget that can do nearly anything ''except'' tell time since the creators ran out of space. This was funny in 2002 when small electronics having clocks on them was a novelty, but now that ''everything'' has a clock and ''atomic'' clocks the size of a gain of rice exist, the ''in''ability to fit a clock into something is so absurd it works in gag's favor.
* In [[Frank Miller]]'s version of ''[[The Spirit (film)|The Spirit]]'', Officer Morgenstern is frequently told that she will "make detective in no time." Morgenstern was played by Stana Katic, who would later go on to play Detective Kate Beckett in ''[[Castle]]''.
* In ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'', Robert Downey Jr.'s character cautions against "going full-retard": playing a mentally challenged character who doesn't have special abilities because of it, and so turns off the [[Oscar Bait|Oscar voters]] you're trying to win over (he was nominated for an Oscar for his role). Robert Downey Jr.'s next film was ''[[Based on a True Story|The]] [[Oscar Bait|Soloist]]'', which featured his character befriending a man with mental problems played by Jamie Foxx (he wasn't nominated for an Oscar despite portraying a [[Real Life]] mentally challenged yet ridiculously gifted person).
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