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''Snatch'' is the second film by British director and recovering [[Madonna]] enthusiast [[Guy Ritchie]]. Like his first film, ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]'', ''Snatch'' is a humorous crime caper featuring a trainwreck of villains in a cartoonish London underworld.

 

 

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* [[Actor Allusion]]: More like a writer/director allusion - Tony hears Madonna's "Lucky Star" on the radio and comments, "I love this track!" Guy Ritchie and Madonna, well, you know the story.

** Bullet Tooth Tony is introduced doing exactly the same thing as Big Chris is in ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]''.

* [[Anyone Can Die]]

* [[Ask a Stupid Question]]

'''Tony:''' I'm driving down the street with your head stuck in my window. What do you think I'm doing, you pen-arse? }}

* [[Badass Bystander]]: The girl behind the counter at Brick Top's betting shop. She stares down some flunky robbers and manages to shoot at them with their own gun before escaping.

* [[Smitten Teenage Girl]]: Tommy seems to have quite the soft spot for Mickey's mam...

* [[Call Back]]: The Madonna track that Tony hears on the radio and gushes over is the same song that was playing when he got shot in flashback.

** Avi is waiting to explode into them at any time.

'''Avi''': So? Who the fuck wants to see 'em? }}

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aoPYFD9Eno Just watch this DVD extra].

* [[The Chessmaster]]: Of all people, {{spoiler|Mickey. There's a reason he kept winning those fights. He wanted to}}.

* [[Critical Research Failure]]: In-universe. Tommy repeats the common myth that drinking milk is 'not in sync with evolution' and that the human digestive system 'hasn't gotten used to it yet', which [[wikipedia:Lactase persistence|is complete nonsense where Europeans are concerned]]. Turkish's reaction says it all, really.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Turkish. Completely. Tony also has more than a touch of it.

** Tommy is panicking about what to do if any of the countless things that can go wrong with the plan they're forced into go wrong. Turkish has no trouble working out the right thing to do but Tommy doesn't seem too happy with a plan involving "get murdered before we leave the building and I imagine we get fed to the pigs."

** "You show me how to control a wild fucking Pikey, and I'll show you how to control an UNHINGED, pig-feeding gangster!"

** Bullet-Tooth Tony and Avi spend most of their part in the proceedings dealing with things via copious amounts of heavy sarcasm as well.

'''Bullettooth Tony''': ...Because he [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|dodges bullets]], Avi. }}

** "Anything to declare?" "Yeah -- don't go to England!"

** Brick Top's very ''detailed'' description of how to [[Fed to Pigs|feed a body to pigs]].

** Lincoln points out that "bad boy yardies" generally ''create'' the bodies without thought of ''erasing'' the bodies.

* [[Evil Old Folks]]: Brick Top.

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]:

'''Tony:''' ...Because he dodges bullets, Avi. }}

** Also Bullet Tooth Tony, so named because of his false teeth which are bullets set in gold (bullets he was shot with no less)

** Of course, Tony survived being shot by a small compact pistol, not a [[Hand Cannon|Desert Eagle]]. Guess the guy who wanted to kill him simply needed bigger bullets.

* [[Fat Bastard]] / [[Fat Idiot]]: Tyrone

* [[Fixing the Game]]: Brick Top runs crooked boxing matches. Turkish does not.

* [[Forced Prize Fight]]

* [[Genre Busting]]

* [[Gilligan Cut]]:

'''Rosebud:''' You gotta get me to a doctor! Shoot that fuck! And ''then'' get me to a doctor! }}

* [[Groin Attack]]: Suffered by Tommy when he attempted to complain to Boris about the defective firearm he'd been sold. Boris had recently been run over and was in no mood to listen.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Turkish and Tommy.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: The main Traveller who isn't Mickey or Mickey's mam is played by Jason Flemyng, who was Tom in ''Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels''. In the DVD commentary, the filmmakers joke about how much screen time Flemyng managed to nab for himself in what was supposed to be a cameo.

** The random informant that Bullet Tooth Tony drags through the street by his tie while driving is [[Trainspotting|Spud]].

* [[Humiliation Conga]]: Basically what Avi is subjected to over the course of the movie.

** And Rosebud, Avi's henchman, accidedently stabs himself.

* [[Implacable Man]]: Tony and Boris both.

* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Sol, Vinnie and Tyrone.

** If you consider them to be villains. This troper considers them to be the protagonists in their little part of the story.

* [[Irish Travellers]]

* [[Ironic Nickname]]: Brick Top probably received his nickname ''before'' his hair went grey.

* [[Irony]]: To such a degree that 'Ironic Situations' could be a replacement title for the movie. Some notable examples include:

** {{spoiler|Tommy and Turkish, the only two main characters who were not involved in the diamond plot and had no idea it even existed, end up acquiring and profiting from it.}}

* [[Kick the Dog]]: There's no real reason to dislike Avi until he gives a certain command involving a dog. Bricktop is also seen killing two [[Mooks]] and brutalizing dogs early in the film to establish him as a villain amongst villains. When he order the burning of Mickey's caravan with his mother still inside, he crosses a [[Moral Event Horizon]].

* [[Knuckle-Cracking]]: Tony does this, but Mickey takes the cake. He spends most of the fight against Gorgeous methodically cracking his entire skeleton, before [[Curb Stomp Battle|laying him out with one punch]].

* [[Not with the Safety On, You Won't]]: Bullet Tooth Tony, when being threatened with replica guns.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Several moments: Bad Boy Lincoln when he recognizes Bricktop, Turkish and Tommy's reaction when Mickey knocks out Bricktop's fighter (both times).

** Sol, Vince and Tyrone's reactions to Bullet Tooth Tony's Desert Eagle, and Avi's reaction to {{spoiler|accidentally killing Bullet Tooth Tony.}}

*** Bricktop gets a retroactive one; at the climax, he see him hang up his phone with a troubled expression on his face. It's only after a flashback that we realize it's because his plan to teach Mickey a lesson by killing his entire clan has gone badly wrong.

** Mickey gets one in the last fight in the movie, when he almost knocks the other fighter out in the first round. {{spoiler|He's worried because he knows that his friends haven't had enough time to take care of Brick Top's men, and if he won the fight that early, they'd all be fucked. [[Running Gag|Proper fucked]].}}

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Turkish seems to be the only main character in the film who is not too greedy, crazy, or stupid.

* [[Police Are Useless]]: The only time we even ''see'' any policemen comes after all the action is over and all the bad guys are dead.

* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: Avi constantly refers to Boris as a "Cossack."

* [[Preemptive "Shut Up"]]: Brick Top, to Errol:

'''Brick Top''': ''[to Errol]'' Not now. }}

* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: The Traveller played by Jason Flemyng delivers a pretty good one to Brick Top before he blows away one of Bricktop's men:

'''Traveller''': ''[On Pete's phone]'' If you want yer friend to hear ye, ye'll have to talk a lot louder than that. ''[BANG]'' }}

* [[Psycho Serum]]: Turkish attributes both Boris' [[Made of Iron|near-invulnerability]] and his [[Ax Crazy|extreme]] [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|kookiness]] to "one too many disco-biscuits".

* [[Rare Guns]]: The two most prominent firearms in the film is a Franchi SPAS-12S shotgun ("That's a fucking anti-aircraft gun, Vincent!") and Tony's Desert Eagle "Point Five-Oh".

* [[Rasputinian Death]]: {{spoiler|Boris, appropriately.}}

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Bullet Tooth Tony delivers [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|a magnificent one]] to Sol, Vinny, and Tyrone when they attempt to get the diamond back.

'''Tony''': Now dicks have drive and clarity of vision, but they're not clever. They smell pussy and they want a piece of the action. And you thought you smelled some good ole pussy and have brought your two little mincy faggot balls along for a good ole time. But you've got your parties muddled up. There's no pussy here. Just a dose that'll make you wish you were born a woman. Like a prick, you're having second thoughts. You're shrinking. And your two little balls are shrinking with you. And the fact that you've got 'Replica' written down the side of your guns...''[they look in horror at their guns]'' and the fact that I've got ''Desert Eagle, point-five-oh'' written on the side of mine ''[They look at his with even more horror]'' should precipitate your balls into shrinking, along with your presence. Now... ''[he sips his drink]'' ...Fuck off. }}

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: "It had previously occurred to me that the pikey had taken the demise of his mother rather lightly. But for every action, there's a ''re''action. And a pikey reaction...is quite a fucking thing."

* [[Robbing the Mob Bank]]: Or in this case, the mob bookie.

* [[Running Gag]]: Mostly just repeated phrases like "sneaky fuckin' Russian", "Franky fuckin' Four Fingers", "I fucking hate pikeys", "proper fucked", and "ze Germans".

** People keep getting killed in the back of Sol and Vincent's shop. The killers keep leaving Sol and Vincent to deal with the bodies.

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Pretty much said word-for-word by Sol after witnessing a massive shoot out which they only just managed to survive.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Bullet Tooth Tony is introduced in a scene where he is continuously banging a car door off the head of some random Mook in the same manner as Big Chris (Also played by Vinnie Jones) does in ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]''.

* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: For ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]''. Similar tone, subject matter, and some crossover in cast and crew. Vinnie Jones is shown crushing someone's head in a car door in both films.

* [[Stupid Crooks]]: Sol, Vinny, and Tyrone. Apparently, everything they do was inspired by stories shared on late night talk show monologues.

* [[Take a Third Option]]: Apparently trying to back the [[Irish Travellers]] into a corner is a ''really'' bad idea.

** Attempted, poorly, by a wannabe badass, but it might have been better if it weren't aimed at [[Memetic Badass|Vinnie Jones]].

** "All. Bets. Are. Off."

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Referenced. When Tommy reveals he has bought a gun "for protection", Turkish replies "Who from? Ze Germans?"

* [[Throwing the Fight]]: Mickey is asked to do this twice. He's not too keen on the idea.

* [[To the Pain]]: Brick Top describing [[Fed to Pigs|"the best way"]] to dispose of a body to Sol and Vinnie.

* [[Tranquil Fury]]: For Brick Top, "loud and aggressive" is his default mode. When he gets ''really'' angry, he gets very quiet.

* [[The Unintelligible]]: The Pikeys, Mickey in particular. [[Fun with Subtitles|The subtitle feature of the DVD reads "???????" at a certain point.]]

** Minerals (fancy way of saying "stones").

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: For a given value of 'villain' (he's certainly not nearly as bad as some in this movie), Avi spends most of the movie getting more and more edgy and irate with things until he's eventually reduced to firing a gun wildly at a dog. One gets the feeling he'd been wanting to shoot something/one for a while by that point.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Tyrone's fate is not immediately clear; he appears to survive the showdown at the pub unscathed, and we last see him running off, but nothing more is mentioned of him.

* [[Why Won't You Die?|Why Won't You Fuckin' DIE?]]: Screamed at Tony in a flashback.

* [[The Yardies]]: Lincoln (played by Goldie) is described as "a bad boy Yardie."

* [[You Have to Have Jews]]: Doug the Head obviously believes this, because he ''pretends'' to be Jewish thinking it's good for business, "because when you're in the diamond trade... it ''is'' good business".

'''Turkish''': Fuckface, huh? I like that. I'll have to remember it next time I'm crawling off your Mum. }}

 

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