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'''Wallace:''' Enormously. "My dog is dead." ''[pokes himself in the eye]'' "My dog is ''dead''." }}

 

* [[Born Lucky]]: Wallace

* [[The Butcher]]: Boris Blavasky. In this case, it has a dual meaning- "Butcher" because his work as a spy/hitman is so brutal and messy, but also because "butcher" is ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|actually his day job]]''.

'''Boris''': I ''like'' being butcher. You know exactly who you are killing... and ''why''. }}

* [[Cleanup Crew]]: Averted. Boris wants to use his favorite "messy" interrogation technique, but his assistants dissuade him, because "It is fun for you, but ''we'' have to ''clean up'' afterward!"

* [[One Dialogue, Two Conversations]]: Ninety-four solid minutes of this trope.

* [[Performance Anxiety]]:

* [[Professional Killer]]: Spencer, Boris, and The Plumbers. All are Hitmen rather than Assassins.

* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: Viewing the events of the movie from the point of view of the actual spies can lead to a wildly different interpretation of Wallace. He comes off as an absurdly skilled (even by badass standards) rogue agent who is doing everything he does just for laughs, and that it's so easy for him, he can afford to goof around and just do whatever amuses him at the time. Among his many deeds include pretending like he's going to execute Lori, [[For the Evulz|for no reason whatsoever,]] playing with a dead body and applauding it for being so remarkably dead, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and running over traffic cones]] while fleeing assassins, simply because he's always wanted to do it and now seemed like a good time. Basically, to those not in on the joke (Everyone but Wallace), he might as well be the super-spy version of [[The Joker]].

* [[They Look Just Like Everyone Else]]: Wallace expects Dr. Kropotkin, the "evil torturer lady", to look the part. She doesn't.

* [[Truth Serum]]: Except [[Cassandra Truth|no one believes Wallace when he's under the influence]].

'''Boris the Butcher''': Damn! They train them so well! }}

* [[Why We're Bummed Communism Fell]]: Sir Roger and Sergai's motivation.