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{{quote|''Transportation is a [[Serious Business|precise business]].''|'''[[Jason Statham|Frank]]'''}}

 

Rule 3: ''Never'' look in the package. }}

 

* [[Bad Boss]] / [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: The 4 bank robbers at the beginning of the film are quietly reminded by the Transporter that the conditions to using his car as a getaway car is that there is to be 3 bank robbers due to their weight, which with an added body would counter the shock absorbers he has installed. So, one of the bank robbers shoots another in the head and tosses him out the door. And for added effect reiterates the deal in a desperate manner. {{spoiler|They get caught anyway, but only some time ''after'' Frank has successfully evaded the police and delivered them to their drop-off point.}}

** In ''3'' Johnson subverts the [[Affably Evil]] trope by shooting dead a mook who earlier had failed to 'recruit' Frank by force, and who interrupts his politely 'persuading' Frank to work for him.

* [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop]]

* [[Bait and Switch]]: In the opening of ''Transporter 2'' Frank carves through a gang of carjackers to get to a prior engagement. It looks like another bank job as in the beginning of the first movie {{spoiler|only for the doors to open and a horde of schoolkids to run out.}} In the next movie {{spoiler|the 'package' turns out to be the girl who's in the car with Frank, not the bags the villains put in the trunk.}}

** The second movie has a [[Scary Black Man]] who's probably the hardest opponent Frank has to contend with.

** Lampshaded in the third movie.

{{[[[Punched Across the Room]] Punches Frank across the room}}] }}

* [[Guns Akimbo]]: As noted above, Lola, though memory seems to recall Frank doing this a couple of times. Just look at the poster (pictured above).

* [[Hidden Badass]]: No one seems to expect a simple Transporter to be a [[Badass]] former Special Forces operative. And remember the slimy gangster, [[Card-Carrying Villain|Wall Street]], who tried to have Frank's car blown up at the start of the first movie? The one who's always surrounded by henchmen, and comes off as a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|sleazy businessman]] and [[Dirty Coward]]? Turns out he's the [[The Dragon|only guy]] in the movie capable of giving Frank a half-decent fight. And something of a [[Blood Knight]], what with telling Frank to "keep alive" so they can finish their earlier, aborted fight.

* [[I Gave My Word]]: In ''2'' Frank has a Rule #4 which is "Never make a promise you can't keep." He promises to protect his young charge; when the boy is kidnapped the [[Big Bad]] informs Frank he's going to have to break that rule. Fat chance.

'''Frank:''' I don't. }}

* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: {{spoiler|Lola}} is impaled on a wall decoration about [[Curb Stomp Battle|ten seconds]] after engaging Frank.

* [[Switch to English]]: The Chinese father tells his daughter to converse in English with him (even though she speaks perfect Chinese), because language school was expensive.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: In the second movie, after Frank, Jack, and Lola have avoided pursuit from cops by jumping their car from the top of a parking garage to another under construction. The car skids to a stop near the edge, Lola's side facing out.

(Cut to shot from the rear of the helicopter. Automatic-gunfire is heard. [[Special Effects Failure|The helicopter explodes]].)<br />

'''Lola''': (pulls arm with smoking pistol back into car) [[Subverted Trope|Thought completed]]. Let's go. }}