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* The ''[[Saw]]'' film series seems to have a running subplot that is a Take That to everyone that John Kramer believes to have wronged him.

* B-movie ''[[Laserblast]]'', about a white trash teenager who gets a laser gun that works like the One Ring, featured the main character randomly blowing up a ''[[Star Wars]]'' billboard and laughing about it. Everybody saw ''Laserblast'', right? Ya know, outside of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''...

** At the time ''Laserblast'' first came out, people actually ''compared'' it to Star Wars and discussed which film was better. For a brief time it looked like a serious rival. Hard to believe....

* One of the opening scenes of ''[[Armageddon]]'' has a dog chewing on a toy Godzilla. The remake of ''[[Godzilla]]'' was another big blockbuster the same summer.

* One of the tidal wave scenes from ''[[Deep Impact]]'' shows the water wiping out an offshore oil drilling rig, which was a [[Take That]] against ''Armageddon''. ''Armageddon'' didn't consider ''[[Deep Impact]]'' enough of a threat to [[Take That]]; as mentioned above, they took their shot at ''[[Godzilla]]'' instead.

* In ''[[Space Jam]]'', [[Daffy Duck]] suggests that they call their basketball team "The Ducks". [[Bugs Bunny]]' response: "What kind of [[Mickey Mouse]] organization would call their team the Ducks?" Besides using "Mickey Mouse" as a pejorative term, this could be considered a slam against both the [[Walt Disney]] Pictures film series ''[[The Mighty Ducks (film)|The Mighty Ducks]]'' and the then Disney-owned NHL hockey team The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.

** The Anaheim Ducks dropped the "Mighty" when Disney sold the team. This leaves them simply "the Ducks" in a league where most teams have names like "Predators", "Thrashers", "Flames", "Hurricanes", and "Wild". Hockey teams are supposed to have names that inspire ''fear''. Even names like "Canadiens" and "Canucks" inspire fear in those familiar with Canadian military history.

** Seven years later, in ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]'', [[Steve Martin]] does a bit near the climax where he unzips various disguises, one of them being [[Michael Jordan]] quoting "Let's do some drills" from this film. "This doesn't make a lick of sense," muses Daffy.

* The original ''[[The Evil Dead]]'' showed a torn poster of ''[[The Hills Have Eyes]]'' in the background of one scene. [[Bruce Campbell]] reveals in the DVD commentary that [[Sam Raimi]] intended it as a sly dig at Wes Craven's film, as if to say: "If you thought ''that'' was scary..." Craven responded [[Shout-Out|goodnaturedly]], by having ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'''s protagonists seen watching the trailer for ''[[The Evil Dead]]''. Raimi then answered back by showing Freddy Krueger's infamous glove hanging above a door in ''[[Evil Dead 2]]''. The whole thing was actually started by a scene in ''The Hills Have Eyes'' with a torn poster for ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'' in the background, which Raimi took as a similar "If you thought that was scary" swipe.

** The second Jurassic Park, ''The Lost World'' features a notable diss against paleontologist Robert T. Bakker. Quick history lesson: Dr. Bakker has been a longtime rival of Dr. Jack Horner, the Jurassic Park series' official paleontological consultant. Horner is well known for having a massive ego (he proudly states that he was the inspiration for Dr. Grant's character), and always seemed to be in a perpetual state of bickering with Dr. Bakker, even on the most petty of speculative topics (such as the T-Rex's eyesight, which there is no way of actually studying). And thus in ''The Lost World'', Dr. Bakker is given his very own [[Captain Ersatz]], a bumbling poser who gets scared out of hiding by a snake, and [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|into the jaws of a T-Rex]].

** It is well known among fans, however, that Dr. Bakker actually loved the scene, and even called Horner after watching the movie and told him "See? I told you it was a predator!" (Horner is the oldest- and practically, the only- defender of the theory of T-Rex as a giant, slow-moving full-time scavenger, whereas Bakker always defended the idea of T-Rex as a fast, ferocious killer).

* ''[[DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story]]'' has a scene after the end credits that is basically a [[Take That]] to the studio executives who forced him to change the ending from a [[Downer Ending]] to a [[Happy Ending]], as well as American audiences for not being able to handle sad endings or any complexity in their movies.

{{quote|{{spoiler|White Goodman: "Yep, I hope you're all happy now. Good guy wins, bad guy loses. Big freakin' surprise! I love happy endings. You know, that's the problem with the American cinema. Can't handle any complexity in it, you know, 'Don't make me think, I just want to be entertained!'"}}}}

* Speaking of which, ''[[Idiocracy]]'' manages to do a [[Take That]] against many of the companies that appear in the movie by firmly associating them with, well, idiots: Fuddruckers evolves into "Buttfuckers", Carl's Jr. becomes [[Darker and Edgier]] ("Fuck you, I'm eating."), Starbucks serves cappuccino and prostitutes, Crocs are the shoes of choice, a Gatorade-esque drink replaces all piped water except in toilets, and CostCo. becomes a fortress city the size of Kansas with its own subway system.

** Mike Judge wanted to use actual Gatorade, but was forced to come up with [[Brand X|Brawndo]] because PepsiCo refused permission. Notice how Luke Wilson's character goes out of his way to compare the drink to Gatorade...

** Somehow, that doesn't seem like it was the [[Fridge Logic|intended]] [[Unfortunate Implications|purpose]].

** Before the debut of ''Revenge of the Fallen'', some of the ''dozens'' of new toys released depicted a new Decepticon, Sideways, touted as the deadly adversary to Sideswipe. The toys never state what make of car he is (while nearly everyone else's does), but he bears a close resemblance to the Audi R8, made famous by the movie ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]''. Now look how Sideways winds up in the movie. Or the opening of the movie, at least. It's worth noting here that Audi is a German company and the Autobots always transform into American vehicles.

* The opening sequence of ''[[All That Jazz]]'' is Bob Fosse showing that he can do ''A Chorus Line'' better in under five minutes with almost no dialog.

* The [[View Askewniverse]] movies have varying levels of this in each movie, but it reached fever pitch in ''Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back'', taking shots at pop culture, themselves, their audience, and everything in-between.

* The [[So Bad It's Good|hilariously over-the-top]] biker movie ''[[Torque]]'' featured an opening scene in which two cars are engaged in a drag race using camera cuts and CGI effects in an obvious reference to ''The Fast and the Furious''... only for the lead character, on a motorcycle, to swoop in and easily outrun both of them. A few minutes later, he beats them both up at a gas station, quipping about the obvious inferiority of guys who drive cars. Yeah....

** Don't forget the scene where the main character repeats the line from Fast And The Furious-"I live my life a quarter-mile at a time" to which Shane replies-"That's the stupidest thing i've ever heard!"

* In ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', when the Mayor is starting to panic due to Jack not answering the door (because Jack's in the [[The Lost Woods|Hinderlands]] at the time), the Mayor yells, "I'm only an elected official here, ''I can't make decisions by myself!''"

* In [[James Cameron]]'s ''[[Titanic]]'', a character first says that old Rose is a fraud: "Just like that Russian girl, [[Anastasia|Anesthesia]]" (which was also released that year).

* The entire film ''[[An American Carol]]'' was meant to be one big long [[Take That]] against [[Michael Moore]].

* In ''[[Daredevil (film)|Daredevil]],'' the film opens with a rapist getting turned loose by the courts thanks to a mob lawyer's intervention. Daredevil hunts the rapist down, breaks his bones and lets him fall to the train tracks, and as the subway approaches, Daredevil coldly states "You see that light? It's not coming to take you to ''heaven."'' And what is the name of this rapist who has earned a Marvel superhero's damnation? [[Joe Quesada|José Quesada]].

* It's never been confirmed as such, but Chief Orman, Peter Boyle's [[Marlon Brando]]-esque character in ''Honeymoon In Vegas'' is commonly perceived as a take that to Brando himself. Writer / director Andrew Begrman would have reason for throwing such a take that in: His previous film, ''The Freshman'', starred Brando, who later trashed the film in an interview.

* When [[Wes Craven]] read Kevin Williamson's script for ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]'', he was worried that the line about how the first ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' was good, "but the rest sucked" could be mistakenly seen as a [[Take That]] from him to people who made the sequels. But then he realized that "the rest" would include his own ''New Nightmare'' as well, and left it in.

* In ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'', in Deathly Hallows Part 1, there is a moment where a wizard is reciting a "short" list of dead or missing witches and wizards. Among them is a witch named "Ebony Raven," who any Harry Potter fan could recognize as part of the name of Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way, a Mary Sue of epic proportions that served as the protagonist of the bad fanfiction ([[Alternative Character Interpretation|or]] ''[[Poe's Law|satire]]'' [[Troll Fic|of bad fanfiction]]) [[My Immortal]].

* The Hallmark Channel made-for-TV movie ''The Santa Incident'' is just one big take that at [[Lawful Stupid|Homeland Security]].

* [[Sacha Baron Cohen]]'s newest film [[The Dictator]] has multiple ones, but a beautiful one against G.W. Bush and co. stands out at the end:

{{quote|'''Aladeen''': Imagine if America was a dictatorship. You could let 1 percent of the people have all the nation’s wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes and bailing them out when they gamble and lose. You could ignore the needs of the poor for health care and education. Your media would appear free, but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family. You could wiretap phones. You could torture foreign prisoners. You could have rigged elections. You could lie about why you go to war. You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group, and no one would complain. You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests.}}

 

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