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'''Lori:''' What's the matter with you? Are you enjoying this?
'''Wallace:''' Enormously. "My dog is dead." ''[pokes himself in the eye]'' "My dog is ''dead''." }}
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Wallace receives information about the character he should play via a phone call; unknown to him, the calls get mixed up, and he instead receives instructions intended for a real hitman. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
Wallace proceeds to [[Large Ham|ham his way]] through the underworld of secret agents and espionage. He almost immediately decides to break from "the script" and help the person he was ordered to kill: Lori ([[Joanne Whalley]]), a [[Hooker
It should be noted that, beyond the <s>similar titles</s> title which is obviously a [[Shout
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* [[And You Thought It Was a Game]]
* [[Anticlimax Cut]]: In one scene, Wallace tells Lori that he's not completely a good guy, that if she wants his help, she'll have to do something for him. The dialogue is set up to make the viewer think Wallace is talking about sex... then the scene cuts to Wallace driving Lori's Cooper Mini.
* [[Axe Before Entering]]: Used as a blatant [[Shout
** For extra points, he uses a croquet mallet, which is what Jack Torrance used in the original novel.
* [[Balcony Escape]]: Wallace prefers doing this for the film because its much more dramatic than the more conventional method. Since he isn't that strong, he has trouble doing it.
* [[Bang Bang BANG]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|"Whoa, that was loud."]]
* [[The Baroness]]: Dr. Ludmilla Kropotkin averts the superficial aspects of the "evil torturer lady" stereotype. But Wallace's [[Wrong Genre Savvy|familiarity with that particular trope]] leads him to mistake the first septuagenerian dominatrix he meets for Dr. Kropotkin.
* [[Black Comedy]]: Referenced and played with. Wallace Ritchie is just having fun gawking at the elaborate "sets" and the performances of his fellow "actors", but Lori interprets his lighthearted demeanor around so much death and danger as a sign that he is an [[Lack of Empathy|emotionally-stunted]] hitman with a [[Laughably Evil|seriously depraved sense of humour]].
** At the end where Wallace is being recruited to be an assassin, he believes they are hiring him to be an actor and offers to do the work for free for children and old people.
* [[Born Lucky]]: Wallace
* [[The Butcher]]: Boris Blavasky. In this case, it has a dual meaning- "Butcher" because his work as a spy/hitman is so brutal and messy, but also because "butcher" is ''[[Exactly What It Says
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'''Boris''': I ''like'' being butcher. You know exactly who you are killing... and ''why''. }}
* [[Cleanup Crew]]: Averted. Boris wants to use his favorite "messy" interrogation technique, but his assistants dissuade him, because "It is fun for you, but ''we'' have to ''clean up'' afterward!"
* [[Cringe Comedy]]
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: After his assassination attempts of Wallace fails for the umpteenth time, Boris gains so much respect for him that he embraces Wallace, gives him a [[I Call It Vera|gun of sentimental value]], and announces his intention to retire and become a butcher full time.
* [[Did the Earth Move For You, Too?]]: "Wow, that felt like an explosion."
* [[The Fool]]: Wallace.
* [[French Maid]]: Lori's costume in her introductory scene.
* [[Hey, Catch!]]: "You've got to see just how dead they are. They might be able to '''catch this!'''"
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Alfred Molina (Doctor Octopus) as Boris the Butcher
** Peter Gallagher (Buddy Kane from ''[[American Beauty]]'') as the brother-in-law
* [[Hoist
* [[Hooker
* [[I Always Wanted to Say That|I Always Wanted To Do That]]: Knocking over traffic cones during a car chase.
* [[Inspector Oblivious]]
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* [[Mistaken for Badass]], of course.
* [[Mistaken for Spies]]
* [[Not
* [[One Dialogue, Two Conversations]]: Ninety-four solid minutes of this trope.
* [[Performance Anxiety]]:
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* [[Professional Killer]]: Spencer, Boris, and The Plumbers. All are Hitmen rather than Assassins.
* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: Viewing the events of the movie from the point of view of the actual spies can lead to a wildly different interpretation of Wallace. He comes off as an absurdly skilled (even by badass standards) rogue agent who is doing everything he does just for laughs, and that it's so easy for him, he can afford to goof around and just do whatever amuses him at the time. Among his many deeds include pretending like he's going to execute Lori, [[For the Evulz|for no reason whatsoever,]] playing with a dead body and applauding it for being so remarkably dead, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and running over traffic cones]] while fleeing assassins, simply because he's always wanted to do it and now seemed like a good time. Basically, to those not in on the joke (Everyone but Wallace), he might as well be the super-spy version of [[The Joker]].
* [[Shout
** When Boris leaves his minions alone with Wallace he instructs them "...and watch that man." - referencing the source material of the film.
* [[Spy Speak]]: "Remember to flush."
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* [[They Look Just Like Everyone Else]]: Wallace expects Dr. Kropotkin, the "evil torturer lady", to look the part. She doesn't.
* [[Truth Serum]]: Except [[Cassandra Truth|no one believes Wallace when he's under the influence]].
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'''Wallace Ritchie''': Blockbuster Video, Des Moines Iowa.
'''Boris the Butcher''': ''Who'' you are ''working'' for?
'''Wallace Ritchie''': Blockbuster Video, Des Moines Iowa!
'''Boris the Butcher''': Damn! They train them so well! }}
* [[Why We're Bummed Communism Fell]]: Sir Roger and Sergai's motivation.
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