The Pink Panther: Difference between revisions

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Clouseau is an arrogant man and believes enough in his own brilliance and rightness that he often misses the obvious. This also contributes to his chronic clumsiness. (Sellers himself saw Clouseau as a man who knows he's an idiot but is determined not to let anyone else find out.) On the other hand, he is genuinely on the side of good, is quite chivalrous with women to the point of unfounded faith (he was betrayed by his own wife), conducts himself with all the dignity he can muster, and as ''Trail'' points out, he ''never gives up''. As pointed out on the [[Karma Houdini]] page, it was perhaps this that made the character so sympathetic to audiences.

* [[Juggling Loaded Guns]]: Chief Inspector Dreyfus keeps in his office desk both a real gun and a lighter that ''looks just like'' said gun. [[Hilarity Ensues]] with predictably violent results, such as when his assistant Francois, hearing a gunshot, bursts in the office to see the top half of Dreyfus' face looking up at him from behind his desk:

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Lytton and his accomplices; as the trope entry points out, they are ''never'' caught in any of their appearances. {{spoiler|Clouseau and Chandra are almost this at the end of ''Curse'' - they aren't found out by Sleigh, but Lytton's wife steals the diamond from them!}}

** Dreyfus in ''A Shot in the Dark'' (accidentally) killed four innocent bystanders in an attempt to kill Clouseau, yet no one called him on it.

** However, every day and in every way, [[It Gets Better|he's getting better]].

* [[Shaped Like Itself]]:

'''Clouseau''' (gravely): The exploding kind. }}

* [[Sidekick]]: Cato's role is largely confined to Clouseau's apartment in most of the films, but he becomes this outright in the second half of ''Revenge''. In the Inspector animated shorts, Deux-Deux fills this role.

* [[Time Bomb]]: Dreyfus sends Clouseau a clock in ''Shot'' that is really a bomb set to go off at three. When it goes off, however, [[Non Fatal Explosion|nobody is killed or injured]].

* [[The Tooth Hurts]]: In ''The Pink Panther Strikes Again'', former Chief Inspector Dreyfus gets a bad toothache and sends for a dentist. Clouseau pretends to be the dentist and performs dental malpractice on Dreyfus.

** Note he (and Clouseau) are laughing hysterically through this whole scene due to a malfunction with the nitrous oxide.

* [[Torpedo Tits]]: One of the killers in ''Strikes Again'' attacks Clouseau with spikes emerging from her dress. She meets her end when she pins them to a table.