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* [[Acting for Two|Acting for Three]] - [[Cheech and Chong|Cheech Marin]] plays three distinctly different characters; the border cop, the announcer at the bar, and the Mexican mafia dude who shows up at the end.
* [[All Asians Are Alike]]: Seth is dumbfounded to learn that Scott is Jacob Fuller's son, pointing out that Jacob doesn't look Japanese. Jacob retorts that Scott doesn't either, because he's ''Chinese''. Seth "apologizes" for this mistake with [[Jerkass|"Well, excuse me all to hell."]]
* [[Exclusively Evil]]: Whereas vampires in many other movies are often played up as the twisted, tormented former humans they actually are, here the bloodsuckers are depicted as either this trope or mindless animals who roar and snarl. (Satanico is the only one of these creatures who retains more than a modicum of her humanity, and then only in the intellectual sense - and ''certainly'' [[Complete Monster|not in the moral sense]].)
* [[Anyone Can Die]] - And boy howdy do they by the 2nd half of the flick.
* [[Author Appeal]] - Quentin Tarantino's famous foot fetish reaches new heights.
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* [[Badass Preacher]] - Jacob Fuller becomes one of these.
* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]] - [[Ambrose Bierce]] appears in the third film, which missed its opportunity for a [[Genius Bonus]] by ''not'' explaining the author's [[Real Life]] disappearance this way.
* [[Big Bad]] - Strange, semi-subverted example. Satanico clearly seems to be the leader of the vampires but [[Incredibly Lame Pun|she bites it]] half way through and the situation becomes one more similar to a zombie movie (only with vampires) with the vampires as a mob of faceless undead monsters.
* [[Black and Grey Morality]] - The Gecko brothers are a bunch of scoundrels worthy of being hanged, drawn, and quartered, but, when compared to diabolical bloodsucking monsters, they are the guys you want to root for.
* [[Body Horror]]: Some of the victims once they turn. Most notable Sex Machine {{spoiler|after he gets his head pulled off. This doesn't kill him rather it activates a whole new mutation in what can be described as a skinless oversized rat.}}
* [[Bond One-Liner]] - When he's about to be turned into a vampire (almost), and being told, "Welcome to slavery!" Seth remarks, "No thanks; [[Take That|I already have a wife]]."
* [[Book Ends]] - The song "Dark Night" plays as the main characters drive away from a thoroughly destroyed building.
** The same Aztec-style pyramid, partially embedded in a cliff, is revealed in the last shot of both the first and the third film.
* [[Camp]] - The flick thoroughly revels in its cheesiness.
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''Mexicans.'' }}
* [[Chainsaw Good]] - A version of this with the pneumatic stake.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]] - Most notably Chet Pussy's sales pitch, but nearly all of the characters swear profusely on at least one occasion.
* [[Colliding Criminal Conspiracies]]
* [[Continuity Nod]] - Sex Machine's crotch gun can be seen in another [[Robert Rodriguez|Rodriguez]] flick - [[Desperado]]. [[Salma Hayek|Carolina]] pulls it out of [[Antonio Banderas|El Mariachi's]] guitar case o' weapons, and El awkwardly replies that it's saved his life on a number of occasions.
** If you get a good look at the burger bags Seth brings back to the motel room, the restaurant logo says they came from [[Pulp Fiction|Big Kahuna Burger]].
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* [[Evil Versus Evil]] - A duo of robbers and murderers versus bloodsucking undead.
* [[Fan Service]] - The staff of the Titty Twister, especially Salma Hayek. Rapidly changes to [[Fan Disservice]] when they turn into a bunch of monsters and start eating everyone.
** Also, a 37 years old George Clooney in his most attractive forms.
* [[Feather Boa Constrictor]] - Ladies and gentlemen, behold the world's luckiest snake.
* [[Foot Focus]] - Tarantino film, nuff said.
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* [[Hot as Hell]] - Not [[Satan]] herself but Satanico Pandemonium fits to a T.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: "I didn't say 'Do what I do.' I said 'Do what I say.' "
* [[I'm Melting]] - Vampire bodies dissolve into a sickly green goo shortly after death.
* [[Imagine Spot]]: "Richie, will you do me a favor and eat my pussy for me? Pleeease?"
* [[Improvised Weapon]] - Quite literally by the truckload.
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* [[Off with His Head]]: {{spoiler|Jacob and Sex Machine in the first movie. Though it takes two shot to bring down the former (as Scott only blew off half his face the first shot) and it doesn't kill the latter (See Body Horror).}} The third movie has an undead mook who has this happen but he just replaces the head with a cobra before that ends up getting shot off.
* [[Oh Crap]] - {{spoiler|Sex Machine}}, after realizing that he's been turned into a vampire - and that his former friends will kill him as soon as they find out.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]
** Cheech Marin in all three of his roles.
** [[Salma Hayek]] has all of ten minutes screentime half way through the movie and is one of the most memorable things in it.
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* [[Stealth Parody]] - Of both horror and heist films.
* [[Tattooed Crook]] - Seth.
* [[Took a Level
* [[The Virus]] - How vampirism is treated with a hint of [[Hive Mind]].
* [[Trunk Shot]] - The script was written by [[Quentin Tarantino]], so it's a given that one of these was included in the movie.
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