Chuck: Difference between revisions

** In {{spoiler|Orion's}} case, [http://orionisnotdead.com/ some people beg to differ.] And [[Word of God|Word Of]] [http://twitter.com/TVTango/status/24494982740 God] is a little ambiguous on it, too.

* [[Knife Nut]]: Sarah's preferred weapons are throwing daggers, and will have a number of them hidden away in various places. She'll also use them to [[Mundane Utility|cut cheeseburgers]] and [[Ring Ring CRUNCH|mute her alarm clock]]. This was mostly dropped by the third season, where she defaults to guns instead of knives. Perhaps to align her more with classic spies to play up what she fears Chuck will become.

* [[Legacy Character]]: Played around with through the "Greta" character, who is played by a different guest star each time "Greta" shows up.

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]:

** The purpose of Intersect 2.0, but also in "Chuck Versus the Honeymooners", {{spoiler|Morgan turns out to have possibly the best unhoned espionage skills of the bunch.}}

** {{spoiler|Ellie, Morgan, and Devon}} at the beginning of the season 3 finale.

* [[Limit Break]]: {{spoiler|Laudanol}} allows the Intersect to work full blast for Chuck.

* [[Locked Out of the Loop]]: Awesome stumbled on the spy stuff near the end of season 2 and Morgan was told about it all in season 3 but Ellie, the person closest of all to Chuck, was kept in the dark about it all at long as they could. Even after she knew there was a [[Secret Legacy]] of spy work in the family she was led to believe that Chuck used to work for the CIA but quit because she was concerned for his safety.

* [[Lovable Jock]]: Captain Awesome. Despite being a musclebound extreme sports enthusiast who spends a lot of screen time [[Mr. Fanservice|shirtless and working out]], he's a skilled doctor, fluent in Spanish, and a pretty nice guy, even to Chuck and his nerdy friends.

* [[Luke, You Are My Father]]: Played thoroughly straight with {{spoiler|Casey and the fiancée he left behind.}}

* [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy]]: Chuck and Sarah, at least for the first two seasons.

* [[Non-Lethal KO]]: The tranq gun is Chuck's [[Weapon of Choice]].

* [[Not Even Bothering with the Accent]]: Alexei Volkoff, though apparently a Russian, retains [[Timothy Dalton]]'s English accent. Justified in "Chuck Versus Agent X"; {{spoiler|Volkoff has a British accent because he's actually Agent X, who was born in Somerset.}}

* [[Not Himself]]: {{spoiler|Morgan with the Intersect. Chuck recognises it when [[Something They Would Never Say|Morgan doesn't get an]] [[Indiana Jones]] reference. Even more heavily underlined for the audience in the final shot of the episode when Morgan asks who [[Star Wars|Luke Skywalker]] is.}}

** {{spoiler|Sarah gets the Intersect and her memory wiped}} in the series finale. {{spoiler|Small things like how she won't let him warm her feet with his in bed and forgetting to pack extra tranq darts}} are what tip Chuck off that something's not right.

*** Ahem. The real cue for Chuck was {{spoiler|not so much the absent tranq darts in themselves, but the pair of Intersect glasses that took their place}}.

* [[Not So Dire]]: Very common gag.

* [[Odd Couple]]: The moment {{spoiler|Morgan Grimes hired John Casey as Lieutenant Assistant Manager at the Buy More}} is the moment a new, hilarious [[Odd Couple]] was born. {{spoiler|This continues to be hilarious the moment John Casey inducts Morgan Grimes to the CIA and is assigned to train him.}}

{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Beckman:''' It was ''your'' idea to make him part of the team, it's ''your'' job to make him field-ready. He's a diamond in the rough... very, very rough... but I'm sure you'll make him... [[Sarcasm Mode|sparkle]]!}}}}

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Jeff and Lester

* [[Time Compression Montage]]: [[Subverted]] in 'Chuck Versus the Frosted Tips'. Devon [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|was surprised to find out]] that only an hour had passed.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Over the course of season 3, Chuck takes several levels in badass. In season 2 and earlier he was an [[Action Survivor]] or maybe [[Guile Hero]] at best. At the end of season 2 he gains the Intersect 2.0, which gives him access to [[Green Lantern Ring|a vast library of useful skills in addition to the knowledge that came standard with the Intersect]]. It took him most of season three to learn to use that [[Power Incontinence|reliably]] and [[My Skull Runneth Over|safely]]. Along the way he was given lots of field assignments that put him in harm's way and forced him to make tough choices. By the start of season four he's beating up a dozen guards at a time.

** Also {{spoiler|Morgan}} took a level in badass in a more quiet way. He's still not a fighter or even particularly clever, but Casey has complimented him on his bravery more than once. Morgan has lured a tiger into an apartment to trap it and, as of the end of season 3, is the only person other than Casey to break their own thumbs to get out of a pair of handcuffs.

** {{spoiler|Morgan gets the Intersect at the end of season 4.}}

* [[True Companions]]

** Team Bartowski, extending to Morgan, Ellie and Awesome; especially after {{spoiler|they all become [[Secret Keeper|Secret Keepers]]}}.

* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: Threats to national security show up within thirty feet of Chuck ''all the time''.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: FULCRUM is an entire organization of ultra patriots whose research into the Intersect is meant for creating better soldiers, moral qualms be damned.

* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Chuck and Sarah:

** Brutally [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by the bad guys of all people in "Chuck Versus the Fake Name."

{{quote|{{spoiler|'''General Beckman:''' And off the record? [[Lampshade Hanging|It's about damn time.]]}}}}

** A somewhat ambiguous example in the finale where the viewer is left to wonder {{spoiler|whether Chuck and Sarah actually do end up together when Sarah has no memory of their relationship. It's implied that she's getting her memories back and that the [[Sealed with a Kiss|final kiss]] means they're headed back to normalcy, but not everyone saw it that way.}}

* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Get Smart]]'' meets ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]''.

* [[You Look Familiar]]: The actor who played Yuri the Gobbler had also played one of La Ciudad's goons.