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{{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 a former Secret Service agent Joe Hallenback, now working as a private detective, and Damon Wayans as a retired professional football player Jimmy Dix. The two join forces to solve the murder of Wayans' character’sDix’s girlfriend Cory (played by the then-obscure [[Halle Berry]]), leading them into a conspiracy and the plotted assasination of a senator. The entire film consists of often violent action scenes and an endless parade of one-liners. Classic example of [[Better Than It Sounds|better than it sounds.]]
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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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* [[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 Chet’s NOSE through HIS BRAIN!!!! Also the infamous helicopter scene.
* [[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]].
* [[Helicopter Blender]]
* [[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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* [[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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