The Spirit (film): Difference between revisions

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** When Jackson opens the chest, it glows much like the briefcase in ''[[Pulp Fiction]]''.

* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: According to some.

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: At one point the Spirit looks directly at the audience and explains who Plaster of Paris is.

* [[Cargo Ship]]:

{{quote| ''My city, I cannot deny her. My city screams. She is my mother. She is my lover, and I am her Spirit.''}}

** He's also very attached to his hat (who he repeatedly calls "Buddy") and his red tie.

* [[Cute Kitten]]: Sort of. The kitten is killed off right away...and the only remains are its eyes.

* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Sand's father.

* [[Death By Origin Story]]: The Spirit.

* [[Dirty Old Man]]: [[Frank Miller]]

* [[The Ditz]]: Ethos, Pathos, Logos, Dialos, Thermos, Huevos, Rancheros, Tacos, Matzos, Fatsos, Nervos, Dildos, etc...

** Thankfully the actor playing the clones is only credited as being "Athos, Etc." in the end titles.

* [[The Dragon]]: Silken Floss.

* [[Fan Service]]: It's a Frank Miller film with [[Scarlett Johansson]], Eva Mendes, Paz Vega, and Jaime King. You work it out.

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]:

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Retroactively. Officer Morgenstern is played by Stana Katic, currently Detective Kate Beckett on ''[[Castle]]''.

** As chief Dolan said she would, she made Detective in no time.

* [[Hypocrisy]]- just before the climax, Sand and the Octopus are planning on exchanging their respective [[MacGuffin|MacGuffins]]. Sand tells her latest cohort to blow the Octopus' head off the moment the transaction is complete. But the moment she arrives, she lectures Silken Floss about how the Octopus can't be trusted and will undoubtedly betray her (despite it never having been so much as ''hinted'' that either one is unsatisfied with the other).

* [[Impossibly Cool Weapon]]:

'''Morgenstern:''' No, sir, they're just equipped! }}

* [[Incoming Ham]]:

** Full of trademark [[Frank Miller]]-esque dialog: "That's crazy talk...you're talkin' crazy talk!" Only Frank and Mickey Spillane talk like that.

* [[In the Style Of]]:

** As it would be an [[Affectionate Parody]] of comic books made by [[Frank Miller]].

* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|Sand Saref.}}

* [[Kiss of Death]]: Quite literally.

** Also, rookie cop Stana Katic insists on SHOUTING EVERYTHING SHE SAYS FOR NO APPARENT REASON.

* [[Love Triangle]]:

* [[Mad Scientist]] AND [[Mad Doctor]]: The Octopus

* [[Male Gaze]]: The film shamelessly indulges in this, although, given that the director is [[Frank Miller]], this isn't particularly surprising.

* [[Meganekko]]: "Silken Floss is the most beautiful woman in the world. And she will remain so as long as she never takes those fucking things off."

* [[Men Are the Expendable Gender]]: If you are a female character, it doesn't matter whether you are good or bad - you'll survive the film ({{spoiler|and get away scot free if evil}}). Male side characters, on the other hand, are totally fair game.

** "''Heracles''? I always thought it was pronounced ''Hercules''!"

** This line [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade]] on the fact that the Romanized version of the name (Hercules) has generally replaced the original Greek (Heracles) in popular culture.

* [[Not So Different]]:

{{quote| '''Spirit''': ''(to The Octopus)'' Why do you KEEP saying that?!}}

* [[Rise From Your Grave]]: The Spirit does this one in a [[Flash Back]] showing his origin.

* [[Running Gag]]:

** And The Octopus's apparent egg fetish...

** The Spirit would like to remind you that he's "'''''NOT ON DRUGS!!'''''"

* [[Spam Attack]]:

{{quote| '''The Octopus''': There's shot to hell, there's shot to hell, and there's just plain ridiculous...}}

** The Octopus can clone expendable henchmen, but can't make them smart.

** Well, he tried to make a smart clone. But the results were just... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5xWXJpSvzM plain damn weird].