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''Kindergarten Cop'' is one of [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'s earlier comedic roles, following his comedy debut in ''[[Twins]]''.

While the film was not what everybody expected thanks to deceitful trailers, it helped to type-cast Arnold as an action-movie actor, and was a moderate success.

 

* [[Abusive Parents]]: One moody child that Kimble suspects of being Crisp's son turns out instead to have a father, and an abusive one at that. Kimble beats the living crud out of him. Crisp doesn't come off too well either, despite his claim to love his son, aggressively kidnapping his son, and then holding a gun to his head as a hostage.

* [[Action Hero Babysitter]]: [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] as a cop going undercover in a kindgergarten.

* [[Alliterative Name]]: Cullen Crisp, Dominic's criminal father.

* [[Badass Teacher]]

* [[Big Eater]]: Det. O'Hara. Done with extra humour as she's so small.

* [[Blown Across the Room]]

* [[Car Fu]]: Kimble's partner gets hit by Eleanor Crisp's car.

* [[Fish Out of Water]]

* [[Follow the Leader]]: Every movie in the past twenty years that pairs an action star with a bunch of annoyingly cute kids has this movie to thank for its existence.

* [[From the Mouths of Babes]]: The one kid in the class who keeps saying "Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina..."

** What about the twin girls?!

* [[Generic Cop Badges]]: When Kimble arrests Cullen in the beauty salon, he is not wearing a uniform. It's a total win for reality that the security guards ''call his badge in'' to verify its authenticity.

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Kimble, until the kids soften him up.

* [[Hero Insurance]]: Kimble evidently took out a bit of this due to his being an undercover cop.

** It does not matter if the Dad was abusing his wife and son - Kimble ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|punches him, unprovoked, in front of students and teachers]]''. He ''should'' have been suspended for behavior unbecoming of a school teacher. On the other hand, he's not really a teacher then, and he does release the man of his own accord.

* [[Large Ham]]: The titular character himself.

* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Cindy. The girl is a "Miss Exposition" delivering a very quick setup at the very beginning as the [[Red Shirt|guy]] pushes [[He Knows Too Much|her]] into the hiding place - he already knows what he's going to tell Cullen so there's really no reason she should be saying this to him [[Tropes Are Tools|except to fill the audience in]].

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The principal pretends to throw a punch herself, still bathing in the afterglow of John beating the crap out of the abusive father. It's a cute and funny scene and oh holy shit, did they just cut to a ''corpse's face?!'' The juxtaposition is jarring, to say the least.

** There's also the genuine joy on Crisp's face when he sees his son for the first time in ages, a stark contrast to the bastard we've been seeing throughout the film. Then the mood switches again later when he points a gun to his own son's head and any sympathy he got from you before flies out the window.

** And don't forget the ending of the movie, which is {{spoiler|Kimble's showdown with Cullen, which includes him kidnapping poor Dominic and Kimble going after him.}}

* [[Real Men Hate Sugar]]: John Kimble is visibly gargling at the taste of the sweet fruit jelly that the orderlies fed him as he lies bedridden in hospital. His visiting partner Phoebe [[Lampshade Hanging|points this out]] to the nurse.

** They fed him Jello, never mind the fact that ''his arms worked just fine''.

* [[Red Shirt]]: Danny, the informant at the start of the film.

* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: The ferret.

* [[Stern Teacher]]: Kimble finally settles on this as a teaching style. It works for him, being over six feet tall.

** [[Team Dad]]

* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: The trailer tries to fool you into thinking that there's just going to be a few introductionary action scenes to ensure you know Kimble's a tough guy, before a movie full of jolly japes about him being overwhelmed by 5-year-olds. It's not. The film is better described as an action-drama, with emotional scenes of Kimble missing his own son and falling for a teacher, and a violent drug-dealer wanting his son back at any costs.

 

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