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[[File:lastboyscout_6393.jpg|frame| [[Deadpan Snarker|And then some.]]]]
{{quote|"This is the '90s. You don't just go around punching people. You have to say [[Rule of Cool|something cool]] first."
|'''Joe Hallenbeck'''}}
''[[The Last Boy Scout]]'' is a 1991 action film starring [[Bruce Willis]] as
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* [[Asshole Victim]]: Mike Matthews, the scumbag private detective.
* [[Badass Boast]]: "You touch me again and I'll kill ya."
* [[Big Bad]]: Sheldon Marcone.
* [[Bond One-Liner]] - The final scene of the movie has the Damon Wayans and Bruce Willis discussing future use of Bond One-Liners.
* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: Milo kills McCaskey this way.
* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]: Darian. However, she comes from an extremely troubled home so it's understandable (mostly).
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Milo
{{quote|'''Joe:''' You're the bad guy.
'''Milo:''' I am the bad guy. }}
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: Milo is shot by several SWAT officers and falls into the blades of a police helicopter.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The duo comes across a box of shotgun shells. Later, Jimmy uses one to help Joe, Darian and himself escape Marcone.
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]
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** "Nobody likes you. Everybody hates you. You're gonna lose."
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Hallenbeck always win the snarking contest against other characters. [[Captain Obvious|See below]].
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Billy Cole, after shooting several opposing players.
{{quote|Ain’t life a bitch?}}
* [[The Dragon]]: Milo.
* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: Manages to do this in a reasonably subtle way, contrasting Joe's zero tolerance with justifying Jimmy's addiction through his tragic backstory.
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* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Marcone and Milo. Both lose their niceness VERY quickly.
* [[Friend to All Children]]: Despite his drug problems and short temper, Jimmy is remarkably good with kids, if Darian is any indication because they quickly bond with each other after a little friction.
* [[Gorn]]: Brutal moments punctuated by humor. There is a scene where Bruce Willis punches
* [[Helicopter Blender]]: Milo, after being shot by a SWAT team, falls into the blades of a helicopter. The result is the upper half of his body turning into [[Ludicrous Gibs]].
* [[If We Survive This]]
{{quote|'''Joe Hallenbeck:''' "I swear to Christ that if I survive this fucking case I'm gonna dance a jig." {{spoiler|He does.}}}}
* [[Jerkass]]: Mike gives Joe the surveillance job on Cory in the hopes he’d be killed.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Joe. However, it's buried pretty deep under a cover of sarcasm and self-loathing so it's nearly a [[Hidden Heart of Gold]] at certain points.
* [[Like You Would Really Do It]]: Unintentional, retrospective aversion for modern viewers--yes, they really ''would'' kill off [[Halle Berry]]'s character after a couple of scenes, because when this film was made she was a no-name playing a bit part.
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* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]] - quote on top of the page
** "Touch me again and I'll kill you."
* [[Private Detective]]: Joe Hallenbeck and Mike Matthews.
* [[Punctuated Pounding]]
** "I told ya [BIFF!] if you touch me again [BAM!] I'll KILL YA! [POW!]"
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Billy Cole, after being told by Milo that he’d be killed if he lost the game, consumes PCP and shoots several opposing players before blowing out his own brains.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]] - Milo
** As well as Scrabble Man
*** "The envelope, very smart. See, Jake, here's a man who knows when a situation is untenable."
* [[Stuffed in The Fridge]]: Cory. An especially egregious example when you condsider that Joe and Jimmy spend the rest of the movie tossing out flippant one-liners.
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]
* [[Take Me Out At the Ball Game]]
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Joe and Jimmy.
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