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* [[Annoying Laugh]]: Played straight as multiple characters points out that Eve Draper has an annoying laugh, {{spoiler|so much so that the NWA kills her because of it.}}

* [[Aside Glance]]: A particularly funny one, too. At the pub scene {{spoiler|just before the second "accident"}}, [[Timothy Dalton]] accidentally looks straight down the barrel of the camera. The director loved it so much, he put in the sound of a cash register to accompany it.

{{quote| ''"Action movie lore dictates that the ratio of bullets expended to targets hit is always disproportionately high."''}}

** [[Edgar Wright|Wright]] and [[Simon Pegg|Pegg]] even go so far in the commentary for the {{spoiler|pub shootout}} to jokingly claim they wanted to take the A-Team's record for most ammunition expended in a scene without anyone getting hit. Quote:

* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: {{spoiler|Rev. Shooter tries to talk Angel down then shoots him}}.

** Pretty much everyone in the NWA, minus [[Obviously Evil]] Skinner.

** Not just used, but lampshaded:

{{quote| '''Danny Butterman:''' How's Lurch?<br />

'''Nicholas''': You're thirty-seven?<br />

'''Underage boy''': [[Blatant Lies|Yeah...]]<br />

* [[Bloody Hilarious]]: This movie doesn't shy from bloodspray in the least. {{spoiler|Tim Messenger gets his ''[[Your Head Asplode|head]]'' smashed by the tip of a church spire in one of the goriest scenes ever seen in a comedy movie, and it's so over the top, it's bizarrely humorous.}}

** There's a reason they call it "the Blood and Cornettos Trilogy."

** May double as foreshadowing, but: "You wanna be a big cop in a small town? Fuck off up the model village." This is a succinct description of the ending.

* [[Broken Pedestal]]: Uncle Derrick. He inspired his nephew to be a cop...and later got arrested for selling drugs to students. Which makes for some nice {{spoiler|foreshadowing, since Danny also became a cop because of a close male relative (his father) and sees that role model go bad too.}}

* [[The Cameo]]: [[Cate Blanchett]] as Nick's ex-girlfriend, and [[Peter Jackson]] as a homicidal Santa Claus (both uncredited - and Blanchett is masked!). Edgar Wright, the director and co-writer, also has a brief moment as a supermarket worker pushing a trolley, at the supermarket where he used to work. The exteriors were shot in the director's home town.

** The Best Village judges are played by Simon Pegg's mum, Edgar Wright's mum, and Wright's former drama teacher.

'''Nicholas''': What year?<br />

'''Underage boy''': ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|Every year.]]''<br />

** Roughly 50% of Danny Butterman's lines.

* [[Creepy Monotone]]: ''"The greater good...."''<ref>SHUT IT!</ref>

** If you look closely at the crossword, one of the words filled in is 'swan'.

*** '''SWAN!!!!'''

* [[Curse Cut Short]]: "...Cousin Sissy can go and f-"

* [[Danger Takes a Backseat]]: {{spoiler|SWAN!}}

** Gets flipped on its head at the end: Nick makes one and Doris jokingly calls him a dirty bastard.

* [[Dramatic Gun Cock]]: Parodied with a scene in which a group of heavily-armed officers charge toward a building accompanied by the sound of literally dozens of gun cocks as each of them cocks his/her weapon four or five times. Without cocking it.

* [[Eagle Eye Detection]]: Angel utilizes this to build on his theory that the murders are being committed as part of a scheme for a property deal. {{spoiler|Plausible, but wrong.}}

* [[Entertainingly Wrong]]: Nick's original accusation, and what drives him. {{spoiler|The truth is far, far more silly... and dangerous.}}

** Also, Angel {{spoiler|uses Danny}}, only for the [[Genre Savvy]] [[Big Bad]] to call him on it.

*** The final fight reverses their roles, and Nick calls out the [[Big Bad]], {{spoiler|Butterman}}, saying that {{spoiler|since this all started with the death of his wife, he couldn't let it end with the death of his son.}}

** More specifically {{spoiler|"Fuck off, grasshopper!"}}

** {{spoiler|The NWA}} discussing the death of the hoodies in the village, while wearing dark cloaks and hoods!

* [[Knight Templar]]: {{spoiler|The NWA}}

* [[Large Ham]]: [[Timothy Dalton]], whose character does own a supermarket.

* [[Leap and Fire]]

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]

* [[Mistaken for Prank Call]]: When Nicholas gets a call from one 'Peter Ian Staker' about a missing swan, he assumes it's a prank call (Peter Ian Staker = P.I. Staker = piss taker). It's not. That's his real name, and his swan really is missing.

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The movie likes to play with this, usually to help increase dramatic tension or humor value. For example, Sergeant Angel just got done relating his origin story in a heartwarming moment of bonding. Then Danny STABS HIMSELF IN THE EYE WITH A FORK!? Then he reveals it was a ketchup packet. From heartwarming to [[Eye Scream|horrific]] to [[Crowning Moment of Funny|freggin hilarious]].

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Sergeant Nicholas Angel.

** Amusingly, Nick Angel is the real name of the music supervisor on the film. Confirmed as an in-joke on the commentaries. A picture of the real Nick Angel, playing the {{spoiler|late}} Sergeant Popwell, was edited out of the scene it was shown in.

** Also a [[Shout Out]], [[The Wicker Man|given the actor.]]

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: {{spoiler|Turns out they are chanting the town motto, as seen on the sign on the way in.}}

* [[One Steve Limit]]: Subverted with [[Those Two Guys|The Andys]].

* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: {{spoiler|The council are all, with a single very notable exception, more inconvenienced and angered by their gunshot wounds than anything, somewhat justified in that they are visibly shot in less immediately vital areas like the shoulder or the foot.}}

* [[Pocket Protector]]: Subverted, but not in the way you might expect. {{spoiler|"It's ketchup."}}

* [[Post Climax Confrontation]]: It seems that everyone just forgot about {{spoiler|Tom Weaver}}.

** And again at the end of the movie to indicate that Angel has lightened up considerably, he responds to have a waste basket thrown at his head with, "You cheeky fucker!"

** {{spoiler|Right before the (seemingly) deadly guest.}}

** For example, Sandford is the name of the fictional town traditionally used in UK police training exercises. And how the official vocabulary guidelines have to say "police ''[[Insistent Terminology|service]].''"

** They also sat through dozens upon hundreds of cop movies and assorted subgenres, making sure they got all the cliches just right.

* [[Sleep Cute]]: Danny and Angel. [[Ho Yay|Awwwwwwwww...]]

* [[Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror]]

* [[Troperiffic]]

* [[Trunk Shot]]: As a [[Shout Out]] to the [[Quentin Tarantino|man who popularized it.]] {{spoiler|Danny gets one looking down on Nicholas after he drives him out of town.}}

* [[Unflinching Walk]]

* [[The Unintelligible]]: Two characters, both old men with ridiculously over the top [[The West Country|West Country accents]]. (They get easier to understand as the movie progresses, though.)

** One of them does. {{spoiler|The other shows up dead the next time he's seen...}}

** Inspired by a real life anecdote the writers heard about a cop who did need a local officer to translate for him.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Tim Messenger greets everyone with "Hi-Hi."

* [[Villainous Valour]]: After the shootdown on the city centre, the polices storm the supermarket. And what the workers of the supermarket do? They fight a police squad clad in riot gear by trowhing miscallenous products and knives at them.

** For that matter, the entire local police [[Insistent Terminology|service]] is convinced that officers transferred from out of town are paranoid lunatics, seeing every single obvious accident as a potential murder just because somebody died.

* [[The West Country]]: All the typical indicators are present.

** The dramatic pint-pouring.

** And piss-taking.

** Lampshaded when Blower gets pulled over for speeding in possible the shortest high speed car chase ever.

{{quote| '''Danny''': That was brilliant.}}

** {{spoiler|Let's not forget a woman was murdered for trying to move and the NWA didn't want her sharing her gardening talents with another community. It turns out she was NWA also, but still. Then there's Officer Popwell who was killed for having a great big bushy beard. Though it can be inferred that he discovered the town's secret and he disapproved. Then there were the Traveling Irish. The NWA even killed dogs for pooping in the streets instead of just sending them to the pound. Brutal.}}

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: A single guy coming into town who {{spoiler|uncovers and crushes its Dark Secret and [[Ancient Conspiracy]]}}? He's gotta be an Angel. Some also say that in the scene where {{spoiler|he rides into town on a white horse, the large guns tied across his back}} are meant to resemble wings. (Though according to Wikipedia, the character was named after Nick Angel, the Musical Director.)

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