History Film / BeverlyHillsCopII

* GunsAkimbo: Billy, with ''dual pump-action shotguns'', at the climactic shootout. Only fires that way once, though, demonstrating just how impractical it is to fire two pump shotguns with pistol grips.* HandCannon: Billy upgrades to one after the shootout at the nightclub, startling and impressing Axel.

* GunTwirl: Axel does this twice - during the opening credits and in the shooting club.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Dent's goons are unable to hit the heroes despite shooting at them on full auto at a range of
less than 100 feet. Nor do they appear to have any grasp of tactics, such as suppression and flanking. Nor do they get the idea to pick up any of the heavy weapons that are close to hand.

* ConvenientlyTimeAttackFromBehind: Taggart shoots Karla in the back before she can shoot Axl.

* DaChief: The incompetent and rude Chief Harold Lutz

* CriminalMindGames: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in II, as the "alphabet crimes" are actually a RedHerring to cover up Dent's robbery of his own properties to finance his arms smuggling.

* GoingByTheMatchbook: Axel recovers the secondary {{Big Bad}}'s fingerprint from one.

* AccidentalMisnaming: As a RunningGag, Lutz ''cannot'' remember Rosewood's name.

* GunsAkimbo: Billy, with ''dual pump-action shotguns'', at the climactic shootout. Only fires that way once, though, demonstrating just how impractical it is to fire two pump shotguns with pistol grips.
* HandCannon: Billy upgrades to one after the shootout at the nightclub, startling and impressing Axel.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Dent's goons are unable to hit the heroes despite shooting at them on full auto at a range of less than 100 feet. Nor do they appear to have any grasp of tactics, such as suppression and flanking. Nor do they get the idea to pick up any of the heavy weapons that are close to hand.

** The Mayor of Beverly Hills also seems like a nice, reasonable guy. He fires Lutz because of his mistreatment of his subordinates(not to mention his bungling of the Alphabet Case).

Axel Foley is back, this time prompted to return to Beverly Hills after Captain Bogomil is gunned down in cold blood as part of a serial crime rampage. Naturally, the local police chief, Lutz, wants nothing to do with him, so he invents an elaborate cover story, first as a psychic and then later as part of a mythical intercity task force on organized crime. He's up against the "Alphabet Bandit", a man who pulls off daring crimes in broad daylight and leaves behind only a cryptic clue in the form of a coded note. With the aid of Taggart and the newly BadAss Rosewood, he traces the bad guys all over the city, including a car chase involving a cement mixer, the Playboy Mansion, and finally a shootout at an international arms smuggling depot. The film features Creator/BrigitteNielsen as Karla Fry, TheDragon.

--->'''Axel (to Rosewood)'': Are you actually sure you know how to drive this thing, or you're like, using [[Franchise/StarWars The Force]]?

--> *[[BaitAndSwitchGunshot Bang bang bang]]

* [[WouldnHitAGirl Would Shoot a Girl]]: Taggart shoots Karla Fry before she can kill Axel.

* [[WouldntHitAGirl Wouldn't Shoot a Girl]]: Taggart shoots Karla Fry before she can kill Axel.

+ PhraseCatcher: Billy becomes this. Every time he pulls out a new gun, either Foley or Taggart remark, "Billy, we really need to talk."

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Billy keeps at least three in the back of his car and {{Dual Wield}}s two of them. Taggart is GenreSavvy enough to take one with him.

* GunsAkimbo: Billy, with ''dual pump-action shotguns'', at the climactic shootout. Only fires that way once, though.

* SuspectIsHatless: StatuesqueStunner Karla Fry's description as a "six foot blonde". It's pointed out that six foot tall blonde women grow on trees in Southern California.

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