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Based on a book, which in turn was an account of a true story. No, really.
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* [[Actor Allusion]]:
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* [[Bee-Bee Gun]]: A gun that shoots wasps is one of PSIC's ideas in between a non-lethal airbag mine and ''[[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|mutilating enemy corpses]]''-- "We don't do that anymore! Idiot!".
** Note that he was shouting "We don't do that anymore!" in reference to the corpse mutilations, '''not''' the gun that shoots wasps.
* [[Call to Adventure]]: "I was a [[The Lord of the Rings|Hobbit safe in the Shire]], a [[Star Wars|blond farm-boy on a remote desert planet who had no idea that he was about to be drawn into an epic struggle between the forces of good and evil.]]"
* [[Character as Himself]]: One [http://www.impawards.com/2009/men_who_stare_at_goats.html poster] lists the Goat as an "actor".
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Pretty much everyone in the New Earth Army.
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* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: {{spoiler|Locking people in small rooms, constantly flashing strobe lights on them, and playing the "I Love You, You Love Me" song from ''[[Barney and Friends]]''.}} Variants of this are actually [[Truth in Television]].
* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: PSIC
* [[Genius Bonus]]: {{Spoiler| When Bill Django regains his confidence and trains with Bob, he falls over. Having received a vision of Timothy Leary. Which prompts them to go to the shop under the guise of getting Ice Cream and take enough LSD to drug the powdered eggs and the water supply. Timothy Leary was a psychologist who advocated for psychedelic drugs, such as LSD.}}
* [[Godiva Hair]]: The hot tub scene(s).
* [[Granola Girl|Granola Guy]]: Bill is the General of Granola.
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* [[Too Funny to Be Evil]]: {{spoiler|How PSIC's "dark side" experiments get played in the press at the end of the movie.}}
* [[Touch of Death]]: {{spoiler|Lyn believes that his cancer was caused by a death touch performed on him by Larry almost 20 years before.}}
* [[Training From Hell]]: Played with. When Lyn joins New Earth Army, Django at first comes across as a [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]. Only to relent and say he was joking. During the dance sequence some of that drill sergeant stuff was comically invoked in order to get Lyn to join in. However much of it is played straight. Walking on hot coals in an effort to try to make their feet invulnerable, driving while blind and no solid food for the first week. {{Spoiler| Played horrifyingly straight, when Hooper and PSIC force prisoners on LSD and Strobe lights while listening to the "I Love You." Song.}}
* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: Several of the main characters are based on real people, and the basic background about the training is based on actual experiments. As the opening puts it, "More of this is true than you would believe." How much? [[wikipedia:First Earth Battalion|Read the First Earth Battalion Wikipedia article.]] Notably, the [[Actor Allusion]] criticized by so many reviews was real - McGregor has explained in interviews that they really did call themselves Jedi warriors, and even noted during filming the oddity of it after playing young Obi-Wan.
** If nothing else what is true is that some very strange things can, do and have been funded and experimented with by armies and intelligence agencies when they manage to find the right patron and there's even a vague suspicion that the opposing force may be experimenting with something similar.
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'''Lin:''' ''(sadly sheepish)'' Yes, sir.
'''Hopgood:''' ''(grinning broadly)'' Far out! }}
* [[Warrior Monk]]: One of Bill Django's goals was to create this trope.
* [[War On Terror]]: The trunk narrative takes place in war-torn Iraq.
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