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{{quote|"''Hi! I'm being blackmailed into robbing the Vatican by a [[Mega Corp|psychotic American corporation]] and the [[The Government|C.I.A.]]!''"|'''[[Character Title|Hudson Hawk]]'''}}
''[[Hudson Hawk]]'' is a 1991 film starring [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]] while he was still making the transition from comedy roles like ''[[Moonlighting]]'' to his current [[Action Hero]] typecasting. Older tropers experienced with the actor's pre-''[[
[[Gentleman Thief]] extraordinaire Eddie "Hudson Hawk" Hawkins has just gotten out of prison, and all he really wants is a cappuccino and an honest job. However, his parole officer has teamed up with [[The Mafia|two Italian brothers]] with the surname "[[Super Mario Brothers|Mario]]" to force him to do [[One Last Job
Before it's over, Eddie will hurtle down a freeway on a gurney, unknowingly flirt with a nun, burgle the Vatican with fifty bucks worth of seemingly random items, discover Leonardo da Vinci's secret formula for turning lead into gold, battle candy-bar codenamed CIA agents (and one ''damned'' annoying [[Groin Attack|crotch-biting]] dog), and if he survives all of this, ''then'' he can have his coffee.
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* [[Confessional]] - "Hit me with your best shot." ''yawns''.
* [[Cover Drop]] - For the rope-swinging one.
* [[Cut His Heart Out
* [[Deadly Dodging]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
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* [[I Want Them Alive]] - "Really? Don't hurt him?"
* [[Knuckle Tattoos]] - Kit Kat has them.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]] - "The guy on the donkey is just [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]] - Don't insult [[God|the Big Guy]] when Anna's around. Just don't.
* [[Look Behind You!]] - "You don't expect me to fall for that old gag."
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* [[Offhand Backhand]] - "I'll kick your Centrally Intelligent ass up one side of the piazza and down the other!" ''Elbow-to-the-face''.
* [[Offstage Villainy]]: The third robbery takes place offscreen by the main villians after Hawk is arrested {{spoiler|when Tommy fakes his death as part of their plan to escape the Mayflowers.}}
* [[Off
* [[Only Known
** We never learn the real names of the Candy Bars.
* [[Overly Long Gag]]
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* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]
* [[Sword Sparks]]
* [[Tap
* [[The Butler Did It]] - Quoted by Eddie when telling Tommy {{spoiler|about Gates' death at the hands of Alfred, who ''is'' a butler.}}
* [[Theme Naming]] - The CIA people are code-named after candy bars; apparently before that, they tried diseases.
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* [[Why Won't You Die?]] - Butterfinger.
* [[Window Pain]]
* [[World of Ham]] - The ''entire cast'' seems to be engaging in a scenery-chewing competition, especially [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]] and [[Richard E. Grant]].
* [[You Fail Economics Forever]] - The Mayflowers want to make the world currency market collapse by making so much gold that it turns all of the stuff into [[Worthless Yellow Rocks]]. That might have worked in, say, 1965. However, ever since [[Richard Nixon]] took the US off the gold standard in 1971, no currency has any significant links whatsoever to gold, and making lots and lots of gold would only collapse the gold market. Enough to send shockwaves through the global economy? Probably. Enough to destroy it? Never.
** The idea that their own fortune would be unaffected also falls short.
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