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=== Vincent Vega ===
=== Vincent Vega ===
{{quote| '''Played By:''' [[John Travolta]]}}
{{quote| '''Played By:''' [[John Travolta (Creator)]]}}
* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[Badass Long Hair]]
* [[Badass Long Hair]]
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* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: with Vincent .
* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: with Vincent .
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: But graduates to…
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: But graduates to…
** [[Anti Hero]]: Type III.
** [[Anti-Hero]]: Type III.
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=== Mia Wallace ===
=== Mia Wallace ===
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* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: She was part of a failed TV pilot called ''Fox Force Five'', where at [[The Stinger|the end of every episode]], she would tell one of these. We only get to hear the first one.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: She was part of a failed TV pilot called ''Fox Force Five'', where at [[The Stinger|the end of every episode]], she would tell one of these. We only get to hear the first one.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: When Vincent asks Mia about the story where Tony Rocky Horror was thrown out of a building for giving Mia a foot massage, Mia points out how stupid and [[Disproportionate Retribution|disproportionate]] this is.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: When Vincent asks Mia about the story where Tony Rocky Horror was thrown out of a building for giving Mia a foot massage, Mia points out how stupid and [[Disproportionate Retribution|disproportionate]] this is.
* [[Where Da White Women At]]: Married to Marsellus.
* [[Where Da White Women At?]]: Married to Marsellus.
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=== Butch Coolidge ===
=== Butch Coolidge ===
{{quote|'''Played By:''' [[Bruce Willis]]|''"[[Talking to Himself|That's how you're gonna beat 'em, Butch. They keep underestimating you.]]"''}}
{{quote|'''Played By:''' [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]]|''"[[Talking to Himself|That's how you're gonna beat 'em, Butch. They keep underestimating you.]]"''}}


* [[Anti Hero]]: Type III.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type III.
* [[Badass]]
* [[Badass]]
* [[Bald of Awesome]]
* [[Bald of Awesome]]
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* [[Badass in A Nice Suit]]
* [[Badass in A Nice Suit]]
* [[Cleanup Crew]]
* [[Cleanup Crew]]
* [[One Scene Wonder]]
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]
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=== Ringo AKA Pumpkin ===
=== Ringo AKA Pumpkin ===
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* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]
* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]
* [[The Big Bad]]: A rare cross between this and [[Villain Protagonist]] as he's behind all of Vincent and Jules's dirty dealings. Played straight in Butch's story.
* [[The Big Bad]]: A rare cross between this and [[Villain Protagonist]] as he's behind all of Vincent and Jules's dirty dealings. Played straight in Butch's story.
* [[Cold Blooded Torture]]: What he plans to do to the people who raped him.
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: What he plans to do to the people who raped him.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Subverted. Everybody thinks that Marsellus threw somebody out of a five story window for giving his wife a foot massage, but Mia denies it ever happened.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Subverted. Everybody thinks that Marsellus threw somebody out of a five story window for giving his wife a foot massage, but Mia denies it ever happened.
* [[The Don]]
* [[The Don]]
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* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: See [[Even Evil Has Standards]].
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: See [[Even Evil Has Standards]].
* [[Scary Black Man]]
* [[Scary Black Man]]
* [[Where Da White Women At]]: Married to Mia who is white .
* [[Where Da White Women At?]]: Married to Mia who is white .
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=== Captain Koons ===
=== Captain Koons ===
{{quote| '''Played By:''' [[Christopher Walken]]}}
{{quote| '''Played By:''' [[Christopher Walken]]}}
* [[One Scene Wonder]]: Naturally, since it's [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Christopher Walken]]
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Naturally, since it's [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Christopher Walken]]
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=== Lance ===
=== Lance ===
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* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Motor Mouth]]
* [[Motor Mouth]]
* [[N Word Privileges]]
* [[N-Word Privileges]]
* [[One Scene Wonder]]
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]


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Revision as of 05:07, 9 January 2014


Pulp Fiction

Vincent Vega

 Played By: John Travolta (Creator)

Jules Winnfield
Played By: Samuel L Jackson
—"If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions."

Mia Wallace
Played By: Uma Thurman
—"Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?"

Butch Coolidge
Played By: Bruce Willis (Creator)
—"That's how you're gonna beat 'em, Butch. They keep underestimating you."
  • Anti-Hero: Type III.
  • Badass
  • Bald of Awesome
  • Honor Before Reason
  • Jobber: Subverting this is what got him in trouble with Marsellus.
  • Meaningful Name: I'm American, honey. Our names don't mean shit.
  • Token Good Teammate: The only unambiguously good character working for Marsellus, or in the movie's cast (with the possible exception of Jules post character development). His only crime was ripping off a mob boss who he later saves even though it would be in his best interest not to.
    • He also beat a presumably innocent man to death in a boxing match, though that was an accident. Still, he never showed any remorse for it, dismissing it with a shrug and a quip.

Winston Wolf
Played By: Harvey Keitel
—"I think fast, I talk fast and I need you guys to act fast if you wanna get out of this."

Ringo AKA Pumpkin
Played By: Tim Roth
—"Yeah, well the days of me forgetting are over, and the days of me remembering have just begun."

Yolanda AKA Honey Bunny

 Played By: Amanda Plummer

  • Ax Crazy: Compared to Ringo. She's ready to blow people's heads off.
    • Alternate Character Interpretation: Since she and Pumpkin agree at the beginning they don't want to kill anyone, it's her act during the robbery to scare people into compliance. Note how, when Jules gets the drop on Ringo, she's panicky, crying, terrified and clearly out of her depth -- but despite apparently being utterly unstable and psychotic moments before, never pulls the trigger.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: When she's not waving a gun around psychotically screaming at people during a robbery, she seems quite bubbly, friendly and almost sweet.
  • Lady Swears A Lot
  • Nice to The Waiter: She's very pleasant to the waitress who serves her and 'Pumpkin' coffee in the diner. Then they hold the place up.
  • Outlaw Couple
  • Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Ringo.

Fabienne

 Played By: Maria de Madeiros

Marsellus Wallace
Played By: Ving Rhames
—"Fuck pride. Pride only hurts, it never helps."

Captain Koons

 Played By: Christopher Walken

Lance

 Played By: Eric Stoltz

Jody

 Played By: Rosanna Arquette

Marvin

 Played By: Phil La Marr

Jimmy

 Played By: Quentin Tarantino

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