Johnny English: Difference between revisions

 

{{quote|'''Roger:''' Hair colour? <br />

'''Pegasus:''' Orange?<br />

'''Johnny English:''' Mmm. And curly. Well, frizzy, actually. Frizzy sort of thing.<br />

[[Character Title|Johnny English]] is a film about the eponymous [[Clueless Detective]]-style [[Idiot Hero]] and his semi-[[Butt Monkey]] [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]] Bough and their adventures working for MI7. They form a unique team similar to the [[Straight Man and Wise Guy]], only with levels of competence instead of seriousness. Oftentimes Johnny's juggling act with the [[Idiot Ball]] gets Bough, himself, or both of them, into troublesome or injurious situations, causing [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity]] or [[Reality Ensues|reality to ensue]].

 

 

The plot is mainly focused around Johnny's attempts at rescuing Britain from the evil schemes of [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] [[Big Bad]] [[French Jerk|Pascal Sauvage]]. Sauvage has set in motion a complex [[Plan]], starting with the assassinations of all the spies in Britain with [[Kick the Dog|a bomb planted at a funeral]]. Fortunately, Johnny was a safe distance away, so now he finds himself promoted from a cheap low level agent to [[Designated Hero]]!

* [[Chase Scene]]

** Johnny and Bough attempt to catch Sauvage's [[Mooks]] after discovering them {{spoiler|attempting to make off with the stolen Crown Jewels}}

* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: In the second movie, {{spoiler|Johnny's training in withstanding [[Groin Attack|Groin Attacks]] comes in handy}}.

* [[Commander Contrarian]]: Pegasus spends a good portion of the movie dismissing Johnny's insistent claims that Sauvage is behind the plot.

* [[Cool Car]]: The tricked out spy car that Johnny and Bough drive during the chase scene actually comes armed with a miniature Rocket Launcher... which would have gotten towed had Johnny and Bough not been able to commandeer the tow truck to chase down the mooks (see [[Chase Scene]] entry above). The rocket launcher comes in handy when a traffic camera takes a picture of the car (still suspended from the crane arm on the tow truck, incidentally) running a red light, and Johnny promptly blows up the camera.

* [[Da Chief]]: Pegasus

* [[Dartboard of Hate]]: Johnny uses one with a picture of Pascal Sauvage after being demoted.

* [[Idiot Ball]]: Johnny seems to be the exclusive carrier, though sometimes other characters take turns.

* [[I Meant to Do That]]: He covers up his bungles with one of these more than once.

* [[Johnny McCoolname]]: Guess who?

* [[Latex Perfection]]: Sauvage's Plan A involved {{spoiler|creating a fake Archbishop of Canterbury to crown him king using a very fancy looking mask}}.

* [[Cool Car]]: The Rolls-Royce Phantom that is given to Johnny upon his return to MI7.

** Even cooler -- that car is owned by Rowan Atkinson in real life. (Sans rocket launcher, regrettably)

* [[Cunning Linguist]]: Johnny speaks eight languages, including Mandarin -- the only problem is he [[Fun With Subtitles|doesn't speak it well]].

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: People actually die, the stakes are higher, and while there is still comedy, the whole backdrop gives it that serious feeling.

* [[Did the Earth Move For You Too]]: At the end of the movie, our hero blows up the villain in a big explosion; his [[Love Interest]] sees this and sighs, "Oh, Johnny!"

* [[Evil Old Folks]]: The killer cleaner woman. She tries to kill Johnny English {{spoiler|thrice}}.

* [[Fake Nationality]]: Johnny, already distressed at seeing MI7 outsourced to Toshiba, might have flipped if he knew his superior was played by an American (Gillian Anderson).

* [[Hero Stole My Bike]]: Johnny in the motorised wheelchair {{spoiler|1=after getting set up by the actual traitor Ambrose, and shot in the leg by MI7, then forced to jack his crippled friend's ride.}}

* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Tucker follows Bough in this department, though not all the time. He displays in some scenes more competence then English, such as correctly pointing the right person to English, only for English to go to the wrong person; identifying the bulletproof umbrella as actually being a rocket launcher, and figuring out that Ambrose was the double agent. But in other scenes, he's even more incompetent than English. Talking on the phone to his mum, and not noticing that a sniper was meters away from him, about to kill their only lead, multiple times letting a enemy agent simply run past him before calling to English, rather then try and stop the agent himself.

* [[Legacy Character]]: Pegasus. While this movie provides a [[Gender Flip]] for the character, both Pegasuses have the same function in both movies.

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: {{spoiler|Upon proving that [[Death Is Cheap]], Johnny takes the whole [[Took a Level In Badass]] trope and pushes it to the extreme, proving his true potential.}}

* [[Mistaken Identity]]: Johnny English mistakes {{spoiler|Pegasus' mother and the Queen of England for an assassin. [[Hilarity Ensues]].}}

* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Simon Ambrose.}}

* [[Under the Truck]]: Johnny pulls one off on a motorised wheelchair.

* [[We Named the Monkey Jack]]: Pegasus' cat is named Philby, presumably as a [[Take That]] against Kim Philby who was one member of the group of [[Double Agent|double agents]] known as the Cambridge Five.

 

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