The Transporter: Difference between revisions

* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: The director of the second movie has stated that Frank is gay, but it's only written in on the subtext level. Inspector Tarconi's description of his relationship with Frank makes them sound like a gay couple, and Frank turns down the advances of Audrey Billings, but that could just as easily be because she's tipsy, emotionally vulnerable, and married to his employer. It's also contradicted by the events of the other movies, where he sleeps with women and (in ''3'') says he's not gay.

* [[Anticlimax Boss]]: {{spoiler|Lola. You'd expect her to give a better fight but Frank dispatches her quite easily.}}

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Lola.

* [[Badass]]: Would be easier to list the characters who aren't.

* [[Badass Driver]]: Frank.

* [[Bad Boss]] / [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: The 4 bank robbers at the beginning of the film are quietly reminded by the Transporter that the conditions to using his car as a getaway car is that there is to be 3 bank robbers due to their weight, which with an added body would counter the shock absorbers he has installed. So, one of the bank robbers shoots another in the head and tosses him out the door. And for added effect reiterates the deal in a desperate manner. {{spoiler|They get caught anyway, but only some time ''after'' Frank has successfully evaded the police and delivered them to their drop-off point.}}

** In ''3'' Johnson subverts the [[Affably Evil]] trope by shooting dead a mook who earlier had failed to 'recruit' Frank by force, and who interrupts his politely 'persuading' Frank to work for him.

** There's also the [[Bare Your Midriff]] [[Zettai Ryouiki]] girl who tries carjacking Frank in the opening of ''2''. And my God -- Lola!

** And the female fans get Frank's [[Shirtless Scene|Shirtless Scenes]]

* [[Giant Mook]]: One appears in all three movies:

** Downplayed in the first film: One of the villains is an enormous guy complete with [[Beard of Evil]], but is only mildly harder for Frank to defeat than the others.

'''Chillini:''' Never make promises you can't keep, my friend.<br />

'''Frank:''' I don't. }}

* [[Improvised Weapon User]]: Light fixtures, fire hoses, bicycle pedals, sweaters, motor oil -- the list goes on and on. One could call Frank the MacGyver of beating people up.

** In ''2'' his weapons include watermelons, fire hoses, and ''an entire boat'' being renovated which Frank uses to crush a mook after knocking out the support props (the mook was stuck in the porthole).

** All the Oranginas Frank drank in the first film.

* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Lola is a straight example and Chillini is a variant, being an [[Evilutionary Biologist]] [[Hired Guns|For Hire]].

* [[Rule of Cool]]: The second and third movies subsist almost entirely on this.

* [[Sharp-Dressed Man]]: Frank. Lampshaded in scenes where he beats up a bunch of mooks, then gets a fresh suit out of his car.

* [[Sissy Villain]]: Wall Street, with his exagerated gestures, and feeling up of Frank.

* [[Smug Snake]]: Wall Street

* [[Stripperiffic]]: Lola's "outfit" such as it is.

* [[Switch to English]]: The Chinese father tells his daughter to converse in English with him (even though she speaks perfect Chinese), because language school was expensive.

* [[Unholy Matrimony]]: Lola and Chillini.

* [[Waif Fu]]: The stick-thin Lola tries this on Frank. {{spoiler|It's promptly subverted; she gets knocked off her feet. Then she changes tactics.}}

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: In ''2'' when chased by police Frank tells Lola to let him drive so no-one will get hurt. Except all those cops whose vehicles [[Car Fu]] or land upside down.

* [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]]: Chillini does this ''on three separate occasions'' despite knowing from the first that Frank is a [[Hidden Badass]].