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[[File:Hobo_with_a_shotgun_8079.jpg|frame|That's about it]]
{{quote|''"I used to be like you, a long time ago. All brand new and perfect; no mistakes, no regrets. People look at you and think of how wonderful your future will be. They want you to be something special, like a doctor or a lawyer. I hate to tell you this, but if you grow up here, you're more likely to wind up selling your bodies on the streets or shooting dope from dirty needles in a bus stop. And if you're successful, you'll make money selling junk to crackheads, and won't think twice about killing someone's wife, because you won't even know it's wrong in the first place. Maybe…you'll end up like me. A [[Title Drop|hobo with a shotgun]]."''|'''The Hobo''', to a group of newborn babies}}
The 2011 film '''''Hobo With A Shotgun''''' started out as a [[Real Trailer, Fake Movie|fake movie trailer]] in ''[[Grindhouse]]'', but thanks to independent filmmakers from [[
An elderly, nameless hobo (Rutger Hauer) arrives in the city of Hope Town, a run-down dystopian sprawl somewhere in America. The Hobo only wants to eke out a humble life in the city, but thanks to The Drake (the depraved crime boss who controls the city), urban decay runs rampant and violence has become a way of life. Tension builds as The Hobo tries to co-exist with the city-wide corruption, but when circumstances push him over the edge, he picks up a twelve-gauge and delivers bloody justice to the city's criminals.
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* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: One of the members of the Plague, Grinder, carries a spear gun that fires a short spear up into the ceiling, pulling along a short rope tied around any of their unfortunate victims' necks that quickly strangles them to death, essentially being a "gallows gun".
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Drake to Ivan.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: The original actor who played the hobo in the ''Grindhouse'' trailer wields a shotgun in the final confrontation (he's a crooked cop now).
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of exploitation films, especially those focusing on revenge stories.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: One of The Plague members uses a harpoon gun as a weapon, which, given the outstanding amount of guns available in the market, would be quite an impractical choice in itself. As an added bonus, he doesn't actually stick the harpoon into people and prefers to use it to hang them.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: the titular shotgun.
* [[Badass]]: The Hobo.
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* [[Blood Spattered Innocents]]: Oh, Abby.
* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: We never see the Hobo buy any shells, yet he never seems to run out. We do see him reload... once.
* [[Bus Full of Innocents]]: Slick {{spoiler|torches a bus full of elementary school children with a flame thrower}} as a way of declaring war on Hobo. {{spoiler|Then brings the charred skeleton of one of them onto the evening news to make the declaration directly.}}
** The same bus {{spoiler|comes for him as he's dragged off to Hell.}}
* [[The Brute]]: Ivan.
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* [[Defictionalization]]: Started as a trailer in ''[[Grindhouse]]''.
* [[Dirty Cop]]: There is exactly one non-corrupt cop in the movie, which is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in lines that made it in from the fake trailer:
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'''Dirty Cop''': We're all dirty cops! }}
* [[Dragged Off to Hell]]: {{spoiler|Slick}}.
* [[The Dragon]]: Though at first they seem like [[Co-Dragons]], Slick quickly proves more pivotal to the plot, wanting to become a [[Dragon Ascendant]].
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: Drake to Slick. Not so much for [[The Unfavourite|Ivan]], though.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The eponymous hobo is never named; He even shows up in the credits as "hobo."
* [[Evil Duo]]: Slick and Ivan. Then later, the hitmen Rip and Grinder, a.k.a. The Plague.
* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: Drake and sons, as best exemplified in the first seven minutes wherein they execute Drake's brother in broad daylight with a passionate speech. Drake even ''dances'' on occasion.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: He's a hobo... with a shotgun.
* [[Facing the Bullets One-Liner]]: {{spoiler|We're taking a car ride to hell, ''and you're riding shotgun!''}}
* [[The Faceless]]: Rip and Grinder, aka the Plague, whose faces are never seen beneath their metal armor.
* [[Finger Damage]]: Severely to {{spoiler|Abby}} near the end of the film.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: The hobo's [[Ice Cream Koan|borderline-nonsensical]] parable to Abby about bears clawing the faces off people who get too close. {{spoiler|It wasn't actually torn off, but...}}
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* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: One newspaper headline reads "Hobo stops begging - demands change."
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted ''hard'', when Slick torches a school bus full of kids when they say they love hobos.
* [[It Got Worse]]: If at any point you think that this movie has gotten as offensive as it could possibly get, light up a cigarette 'cause unless the credits are rolling it's about to [[It Got Worse|get worse... a lot worse.]]
* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|By the end, Rip has walked away without paying for any of the gruesome murders he's perpetrated.}}
* [[Kill the Poor]]: [[Invoked]] by the villains as a mean to kill the vigilante hobo. They incites the [[Torches and Pitchforks|public to do the dirty work]], under the promise that not doing so will result in the villains [[Would Hurt a Child|killing a lot of children]].
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: The end credits are from a Canadian children's ''[[The Raccoons|cartoon]]''.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: It's a lot harder to see Slick as the [[Draco in Leather Pants]] after he {{spoiler|incinerates a bus full of children}}.
* [[Narm]]: Like all good grindhouse tributes, this is invoked. The hobo often goes on nonsensical [[Ice Cream Koan|ice cream koans]], dramatic scenes have bizarre dialogue, and... interesting faces are made.
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: The Plague apparently have a giant tentacled creature living in their castle.
* [[No Name Given]]: The hobo.
* [[Offing the Offspring]]: {{spoiler|Drake shoots Ivan when Abby tries to take him hostage.}}
* [[Pedo Hunt|Pædo Hunt]]: One of the rogues gallery of scum Hobo puts down is a ludicrously disgusting man dressed in a [[Santa Claus]] costume who openly preys upon and kidnaps small children in broad daylight.
* [[Parental Favoritism]]: By this point rather obviously, Drake favors Slick over Ivan.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Rip lights a match for the Hobo to have a smoke during his confinement by The Plague.
* [[Playing Against Type]]: Gregory Smith, who's best known for playing rebellious but good-intentioned teenagers (in ''[[Small Soldiers]]'' and ''Everwood'') as [[Complete Monster]] Slick.
* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]:
** "I'm making a Citizen's Arrest."
** ''"I'm gonna sleep in your bloody carcasses TONIGHT!"'''
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* [[Rain of Blood]]: A woman [[Squick|strips and dances in it.]] And it's in the first seven minutes!
* [[Recycled Soundtrack]]: The opening credits music, "Liebesthema", was used forty years earlier as the theme to the movie ''Mark of the Devil'', and the end credits music, "Run With Us", was first used as the theme to the cartoon ''[[The Raccoons]]''.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: A new trope needs to be invented for how far past the line this movie goes. Refuge in audactiy doesn't even begin to describe it.
* [[Refuge in Vulgarity]]: Yeah, that too. For example, Ivan getting fried alive by the hobo: "HE MADE ME CUM!!!"
* [[Shaming the Mob]]: Done by Abby when facing down a mob that had been torching hobos and killing them earlier. {{spoiler|They come back to destroy the police force in the ending.}}
* [[Shotguns Are Just Better]]: As the hobo's hell-raising antics demonstrate.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The Plague dragging a coffin behind their bikes is similar to [[
* [[Skeleton Government]]: One can wonder why the National Guard hasn't arrived to evacuate everyone and burn the city to the ground.
* [[Title Drop]]: ''"Maybe you'll end up like me, a hobo with a shotgun. Maybe you'll do better."''
* [[Took a Level
* [[Tragic Hero]]: Hobo lives an incredibly harsh life and is cruelly abused by society, despite being a genuinely kind and responsible man. His just yet deranged bouts of vigilante justice are heavily implied to be a result of Alzheimers, and {{spoiler|he makes the ultimate sacrifice in the name of justice and protecting those he cares for.}}
* [[The Unfavorite]]: Ivan just doesn't measure up to Slick {{spoiler|even when he's the only one left}}.
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*** Not only that, but Drake actually encourages Slick to be a bigger bad than him.
* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]]: Well, shotgun in this case.
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'''Hobo''': It's all I know. }}
* [[When Life Gives You Lemons]]: Drake spins the phrase in his own hideous idiom to encourage his son.
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** He then gleefully demonstrates this concept by eviscerating a prisoner with just such a weapon.
* [[World Gone Mad]]: Or at least, the ''entire the fucking city.''
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