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''[[The Action Hero's Handbook]]'' is a [["Faux To" Guide]] giving tongue-in-cheek tips on how to live it up like your favorite big screen movies. As such, it [[Hangs a Lampshade]] on most action movie tropes.
 
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== This book covers how to: ==
* Secure/[[Room Disservice|Spyproof]] a Hotel Room
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* [[Perp Sweating|Interrogate A Suspect]]
* Survive in Prison When You're [[Miscarriage of Justice|Wrongly Incarcerated]]
* Catch a [[TheLegendary Catfish|Great White]] [[Everything's Even Worse Withwith Sharks|Shark]]
* Tell When Someone Is [[Faking the Dead|Really]] [[He's Dead, Jim|Dead]]
* [[CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable|Save Someone]] Who Has Flat-Lined
* Drive a Bus at High [[Speed (Film)|Speed]]
* Negotiate a [[Hostage Situation|Hostage Crisis]]
* [[Taking the Bullet|Take a Bullet]]
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* Predict the Future
* Perform the [[Jedi Mind Trick]]
* Perform the [[Tap Onon the Head|Vulcan Nerve Pinch]]
* [[Training Montage|Train]] for a World Championship Title Fight
* Take a Hit with a [[Chairman of the Brawl|Chair]]
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* Escape a Sinking Cruise Ship
* Climb Down Mount Rushmore
 
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== {{tropelist|This book also has examples of the following tropes: ==}}
* [[Billions of Buttons]] - the picture of the Space Shuttle's controls
* [[Don't Try This At Home]] - parodied: "The skills taught within this book are for [[Action Hero|action heroes]] only"
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