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Considered to be one of the most controversial films of the 1990s, ''Natural Born Killers'' is a film by [[Oliver Stone]]. It derives from a screenplay written by [[Quentin Tarantino]], who conceived it as an exploitation thriller, but Stone extensively rewrote it to the point where Tarantino had his name taken off the credits. Stone turned the story into a satire of [[If It Bleeds, It Leads|the incestuous relationship between crime, the media and pop culture]], and how the latter two glorify the former and turn mass murderers into cult heroes. The film tells the tale of Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory Knox ([[Juliette Lewis]]), who captivate the world with a cross-country murder spree. Despite being sadistic and largely unrepentant murderers, the media (led by a tabloid journalist played by [[Robert Downey, Jr.]]) turns them into pop culture icons.
While the equally corrupt detective who arrested them (Tom Sizemore) and the warden ([[Tommy Lee Jones]]) at the prison holding the two plot to have Mickey and Mallory killed while transporting them to a mental institution for psychiatric testing, Mickey uses a post-Super Bowl special interview to stage a riot in the prison and escapes with his bride to freedom, leaving a trail of carnage in their wake as the entire prison goes up in flames and the staff is savagely slaughtered by the prisoners.
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Mallory's parents, and maybe Mickey's, too.
** Well, maybe not abusive, but as a child, Mickey did see {{spoiler|his father kill himself.}}
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Mallory's father and Jack Scagnetti.
* [[Badass Beard]]: Wayne Gale.
* [[Bald of Evil]]: Mickey towards the end.
* [[Berserk Button]]: The only person who calls Mallory "You stupid bitch" and lives is Mickey.
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* [[Broken Aesop]]: Debatable, but Stone does make the life of crime seem pretty attractive at times...
* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: Wayne Gale, of course, and Mc Cluskey, with his [[Signature Laugh|"horrific fucking laugh"]]
* [[Cult Soundtrack]]: The [[Nine Inch Nails
* [[Deranged Animation]]: During some of the more psychedelic scenes, we're treated to random frames of Mickey running down a hallway and a perverse [[Felix the Cat]] attacking Mallory and getting shot.
* [[Diner Brawl]]: Or a Diner Massacre anyway.
* [[Dirty Cop]]: Jack Scagnetti and the prison warden.
* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]: Arguably the whole point of the movie, and a vicious satire of it.
* [[The Family That Slays Together]]: {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|Subverted]]. Mickey and Mallory end their killing sprees after they decide to settle down and have kids.}}
* [[The Farmer and
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Mickey and Mallory both had abusive fathers, with Mallory's dad molesting her and Mickey's dad killing himself in front of his son.
** Scagnetti had a similar excuse, as his mother was killed by a spree killer.
* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted HARD]], possibly in staunch defiance of the trope played straight.
* [[Hollywood Healing]]: For someone who has just bitten by a rattle snake, Mickey didn't have a problem engaging in a shootout.
* [[If It Bleeds, It Leads]]: A ruthless satire of this trope.
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* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|In a deleted scene, instead of [[Karma Houdini|running away and raising a family]], Mickey and Mallory are killed by the same serial killer that helped them escape the prison, because [[Word of God|Stone said]] that the best comeuppance for the two was to be killed by "their own ilk".}}
* [[Mood Dissonance]]: All the frakkin' time.
* [[Outlaw Couple]]: Mickey and Mallory.
* [[The Plan]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in that Mickey and Mallory didn't actually plan the riot. They instead attribute their miraculous escape to "fate."
* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Mickey's glasses.
* [[Slasher Smile]]
* [[Strawman News Media]]: Type 4.
* [[Title Drop]]: "Shit, man. I'm a Natural Born Killer."
* [[Villain Protagonist|Villain Protagonists]]▼
* [[What the Hell, Hero?|What The Hell, Villain?]]: {{spoiler|When Mickey accidentally kills the Indian, Mallory really lays into him.}}
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Kalifornia]]'' meets ''[[Network]]''.▼
▲* [[Villain Protagonist|Villain Protagonists]]
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Mallory's mother has purple hair, mostly a [[Shout
▲* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Kalifornia]]'' meets ''[[Network]]''
▲* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Mallory's mother has purple hair, mostly a [[Shout Out]] to Alex's mother in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (Film)|A Clockwork Orange]]''.
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