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** Sorta truth in television seeing it's a French film. About 95% of all cars on the French roads seem to be either a Peugeot, Citroën, or Renault, including (obviously) all cop cars.
* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]]: Spectacularly averted by Général Bertineau's limousine in ''Taxi 2''. A truck hits it and rips off the entire engine compartment ([[Clothing Damage|and the driver's pants]]), but it doesn't even explode after Général Bertineau got out.
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Fake Nationality]]: Swedish actress Emma Sjöberg as German policewoman Petra.
* [[Fan Service]]: A lot.
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* [[The General's Daughter]]: Daniel dates Général Bertineau's daughter Lilly. And he does the personal chauffeur's part deliberately. But it's the Général who convinces (read: shanghais) him to drive the Cobra through the urban obstacle parcours.
* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]: In the American remake, one of the bank robbers pats down Lt. Robbins for weapons in a suggestive way, much to the pleasure of all the guys present.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: A group of criminals drive three slightly tuned black Japanese cars–in a movie that was released one year before ''[[The Fast and
* [[Hollywood Skydiving]]: It's perfectly okay to jump off a flying Transall in a Peugeot 406 on which three parachutes are mounted (because one or two might fail). At least for Général Bertineau.
* [[Housewife]]: Camille Coutant-Kerbalec is perfectly this despite [[Disappeared Dad|lacking a husband]].
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* [[Panty Shot]]: The scene in ''Taxi 2'' in which Petra and the Japanese hostess fight the Yakuza.
* [[Police Are Useless]]: Applies to pretty much every cop in the French movies, perhaps with the sole exception of Petra. And Emilien actually, who is the first (even before Petra) to deduce the modus operandi in the first movie; he also manages to catch up with the ninjas in the second, he does find the yakusas in the third, and he does manage to solve the case in the fourth. He's just extremely unlucky and bumbly (confirmed by word of God in the first movie's making of.
* [[Punk in
** Then Emilien has the brilliant idea to infiltrate the German bank robbers by hiding in the trunk of one of the Mercedes while they stop at Krüger's shop to buy new tires. What he didn't take into consideration is that it's right there where they'd put the tires.
* [[Double Standard Rape (Female
* [[Running Gag]]: The Cobra's [[Unusual User Interface|voice-controlled]] engine starts up and shuts down when you say "Ninja" and "Nip" respectively. ''Whenever'' someone says these words within the microphone's range. And "nip" is what Gibert calls the Japanese secretary.
{{quote| '''Gibert:''' "The mission is simple. We prepared a demonstration... Get it? With fake attacks! Like the ghost train? Yes, so as to impress the Nip..."<br />
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