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* [[Badass Mustache]]: Just look at it. The padre has an awesome one as well.

* [[Badass Preacher]]: Played by Cheech Marin, too.

(gives it some thought, then shrugs) "I'll see what I can do..." }}

** And, of course

"God has mercy, [[Boom! Headshot!|I don't."]] }}

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: [[Michelle Rodriguez]] does this; [[Fan Service]] indeed.

* [[Batman Cold Open]]: The film opens three years earlier with Machete and a [[Dead Partner|sidekick Federal]] chasing down a woman kidnapped by Torres. {{spoiler|Too bad [[Obvious Trap|it's a trap]]!}}

* [[Beat Panel]]: A hilarious one from the guards:

* [[BFS]]: Machete holds [[One-Scene Wonder|(but doesn't use)]] a machete as big as he is in the climax.

* [[Big Bad]]: Torres. {{spoiler|1=Working with McLaughlin, Von Johnson, and Booth.}}

** An American politician who lives in Texas and affects a Texan accent but isn't even from the South? Hmmmm.

* [[Double Entendre]]

"My machete." }}

* [[The Dragon]]: Booth, Jackson, and Torres each have one, [[Dragon Their Feet|but neither seems particularly good at their job]].

** Not verbally, but Torres says to Machete that beheading him would be the honorable way to kill him, but Machete doesn't deserve to die honorably. {{spoiler|Torres later commits seppuku.}}

** The two guards bitching to the three hitmen Machete shoots during his escape from the assassination attempt.

** Booth says, "I'm sending you to a convent" to his daughter early in the film. She dons a habit before the film's climax.

** Von Jackson says "An eye for an eye" on shooting Luz. {{spoiler|She turns out to be [[Not Quite Dead]], but the [[Moe Greene Special|bullet took out her eye]].}}

** {{spoiler|With the machete still sticking in him, Torres appears to attempt a ritual disemboweling: knowing he was already dead, he tries going out like a [[Samurai]] but fails, much to his Asian girlfriend's disgust.}}

* [[Male Gaze]]: Used several times, notably with Luz (by Machete) and a nurse (by McLaughlin) McLaughlin gets yelled at for it.

* [[Masked Luchador]]: One of the assassins attacking Machete and Sartana wears a Lucha mask {{spoiler|to conceal the fact the Feds are now after Sartana}}.

* [[May-December Romance]]: 29-year-old Jessica Alba and 66-year-old Danny Trejo.

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Cheech Marin has only a couple of minutes of screen time, but manages to steal every scene.

* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]

* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Steven Seagal as Torres, which is almost certainly completely intentional. One hopes.

* [[The Other Darrin]]: Many of the actors from the fake trailer got replaced.

** [[So Bad It's Good|Refuge In So Bad Its Good]]: every [[What Happened to the Mouse?|plot hole]], [[Special Effects Failure]], awful delivery, [[Flat Character|poorly defined character]] and [[Conspicuous CG]] only make it a better homage to the schlock that codified these tropes.

* [[Retired Badass]]: Played straight with Padre. {{spoiler|Heavily implied with Luz.}}

* [[Right Man in the Wrong Place]]: The plot gets kicked off when Machete's framed for assassination of a racist senator - Booth has no idea he just hired the wrong Mexican.

* [[Right-Wing Militia Fanatic]]: Von Jackson and his border vigilantes.

* [[Rule of Fun]]: Robert DeNiro's reason for being here.

* [[Running Gag]] : Von Jackson's [[The Dragon|dragon]] throwing up after witnessing something violent. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Von Jackson himself.

** Torres saying "puñeta" every time he shows up. It's, sadly, a practically untranslatable Spanish curse word (the closest it can be translated to is "jerking off" used as an exclamation or adjective), [[Bilingual Bonus|but to any person familiar with Spanish, it's rolling-on-the-floor funny.]]

* [[The Savage South]]: insane Mexican mercenary runs amok in Texas.

* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: When Sartana gets pulled off the case, she decides to deliver all the evidence she has acquired from Machete to a news reporter.

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Upon encountering Machete ''again'' after getting getting shot in the legs during Machete's escape from the framing, a mook [[Know When to Fold'Em|immediately quits angrily.]]

* [[Sequel Hook]]: {{spoiler|"Machete... Will Return in... ''Machete Kills!'' And... ''Machete Kills Again!''"}}

* [[Take That]]: A ''Cinco De Mayo''-themed trailer was issued with "A [http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/05/05/machete-trailer-lohan/ special message]... to ARIZONA!" In response to an anti-illegal-immigrant law (SB 1070) that had just passed in that state.

* [[Taking You with Me]]: {{spoiler|Torres}} considers this as he's dying...

* [[Technical Pacifist]]: Machete, believe it or not. Sure, he kills ''a lot'' of people, but he goes out of his way to take out a lot through nonlethal means. Note the group of [[Mooks]] who live to encounter him a second time - only to survive again.

* [[Theme Naming]]: April and June.