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* [[And Starring]]: In one theatrical poster: "And Kenneth Branagh."
* [[Armed Legs]]: Jim West's blade-equipped shoes
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: In the scene where Loveless first appears, he goes on a rant where he lists all the body parts he lost in the accident where he was left for dead, including 35 feet of small intestine; which is about ten more feet than the typical adult's small intestine.
* [[Artistic License History]]:
** An early scene shows the Capitol Building in Washington under construction; the actual building was completed in 1800, decades before the setting of this film.
** A scene after that shows sheep grazing on the White House lawn. President Woodrow Wilson did that, but Grant did not.
** At the end of the movie, West and Gordon become founding members of the Secret Service, an organization that, according to Grant, has the specific intent to protect the President. Which is, in fact, ''not'' the original purpose of the Secret Service, or truly the ''current'' purpose. The Secret Service has always been a branch of the U.S. Treasury tasked with investigating crimes involving counterfeiting and forgery, protecting the President is a secondary task. ''And'' there was no formal group who had such a purpose until 1901, in response to the assassination of President William McKinley.
* [[Artistic License Physics]]: The trap neckbraces have some truly inconsistent magnetism (the braces only attract themselves after Gordon hits them with a stone, the buzzsaws they're attracting rarely go in a straight line...).
* [[Batman Cold Open]]: Jim West and Artemus Gordon vs. General McGrath in the saloon.
* [[Beard of Evil]]: Loveless has once of the most bizarre styles of beard in film history. [https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/File:Arliss_Loveless.jpeg Seriously, is that supposed to be a goatee?] Whatever it is, it ''does'' make him look pretty evil.
* [[Belly Dancer]]: Jim West as "Ebonia", in a last ditch attempt to {{spoiler|stall the meeting of Dr. Loveless and America's enemies and kill Loveless.}}
* [[Black Vikings]]: Jim West as a U.S. Army captain in 1869. Noted to be highly unusual.
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* [[Groin Attack]]: Jim West to two of Loveless' [[Mooks]] on the giant spider's engine deck.
** Also [[Balls of Steel|subverted]].
* [[The Gump]]: Kinda-sorta. Artemus Gordon invents the airplane ''decades'' before the Wright Brothers, using [[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s design. One can assume he never researched the concept further.
* [[Half the Man He Used To Be]]: Occurs in Dr. Loveless' [[Backstory]], but he survives.
* [[Hand or Object Underwear]]: West's hat.
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** Loveless' [[Bodyguard Babes]] could count as both this and [[Fanservice Extra]].
* [[The Name Is Bond, James Bond]]: "Mr..." "West. Jim West"
* [[Never Speak of This Again]]: When Jim West gets [[It Makes Sense in Context|stuck to
* [[Nitro Express]]: At the beginning of the film, Captain Jim West jumps on a wagon carrying cases of nitro (with only hay for padding) for a renegade regiment of the former Confederacy.
* [[Nobody Here but Us Statues]]: Loveless' [[Mooks]] hiding in the paintings.
* [[Not Me This Time]]: {{spoiler|Obviously, General "Bloodbath" McGrath was not a nice fellow, but he did ''not'' commit the atrocity that earned him his nickname.}}
* [[Of Corsets Sexy]]: Pretty much every female character's costume for most of the film (except for Garcelle Beauvais, who [[Scenery Censor|went without]].)
* [[Official Parody]]
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* [[The Remnant]]: The ex-Confederates Jim fights at the start of the movie.
* [[Rescue Romance]]: Appears to be occurring with Jim, Artemus and Rita Escobar.
* [[Revenge]]: Loveless' actual motive. While he claims to be a Confederate sympathizer, he despises them too as he was crippled fighting on their side in a war where they ultimately gave up.
* [[Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony]]: President Grant hammering in the Golden Spike.
* [[Riding Into the Sunset]]: Played with by Jim West and Artemus Gordon in the last scene.
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* [[Shiny New Australia]]: Loveless wants most of the U.S. Northwest to retire on.
* [[Shout-Out]]: [http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Wild_Wild_West_1999.aspx?Page=6 A scene imitates the painting on RCA's logo.]
* [[Sobriquet]]: Inverted with Confederate General "Bloodbath" McGrath. He doesn't seem all too proud of his nickname at all, and he ''really'' doesn't like being called "The Butcher of New Liberty", seeing as he got that dubious title for the annihilation of a free slave town {{spoiler|he didn't actually commit.}}
* [[Soul Brotha]]: Will Smith. Parodied and lampshaded on occasion, whenever Gordon suggests he act stereotypically black.
* [[Spider Tank]]: An ''eighty foot tall'' [[Giant Spider]] tank.
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