History Film / BeverlyHillsCopII

* CoolGuns: Billy upgrades to a Smith and Wesson Model 29 after the shootout at the nightclub, reasoning that he needed more firepower. Axel responds that they need to talk.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Chief Lutz is verbally abusive to everyone, including his own assistant, and he refuses to listen to his own officers about the Alphabet Crimes ([[spoiler:that it's a cover up for gunrunning scheme]]). After Taggart, Rosewood, and Foley stop the bad guys and gather a shitload of evidence in the form [[spoiler: of literal truckloads of illegal guns]] and Lutz starts being a dick to them, [[spoiler: the Mayor gets fed up with Lutz's jerkass behavior to his own men and his obvious incompetence and fires him (and his aid for some reason).]]

* Fanservice: Women in bikinis playing volleyball at the Playboy Mansion.

** SuspectIsHatless: However, six foot tall blonde women grow on trees in Southern California.

** Subverted with Mayor Egan.

** One of Dent's mooks choosing an [[RareGuns Automag]], whose empty shell casings lead the heroes to find the conspiracy.

** [[RareGuns The Auto Mag]] used in the Adriano's robbery, which leads the heroes to the gun club.

* RareGuns: The .44 Automag used in the Adriano's job. The shells recovered from the scene become a plot point (to explain, the .44 Automag round is so rare that it needs to be made by order and some of the casings recovered are from .308 rounds cut and handloaded to fit).

* StupidCrooks: The Alphabet Crimes gunmen bring alone RareGuns like a .44 Automag to their heists, which becomes the thread that blows the case wide open for Axel and his friends.

* {{Corpsing}}: John Ashton is clearly trying to suppress his laughter during the Johnny Wishbone scene.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Chief Lutz is verbally abusive to everyone, including his own assistant, and he refuses to listen to his own officers about the Alphabet Crimes ([[spoiler:that it's a cover up for gunrunning scheme]]). After Taggert, Rosewood, and Foley stop the bad guys and gather a shitload of evidence in the form [[spoiler: of literal truckloads of illegal guns]] and Lutz starts being a dick to them, [[spoiler: the Mayor gets fed up with Lutz's jerkass behavior to his own men and his obvious incompetence and fires him (and his aid for some reason).]]

* PoliceAreUseless: Obviously [[AvertedTrope averted]] by Taggert, Rosewood, and Foley, but played straight with Chief Lutz who refuses to listen to them and treats them horribly.

* UngratefulBastard: Lutz. Instead of apologizing to Rosewood and Taggert and commending them for their work, Lutz fires them just to be spiteful, but this only proves to be the final straw for Mayor Egan, who fires Lutz for his abusive attitude and incompetence which had jeopardized the investigation.

* TheCameo: [[Magazine/Playboy Hugh Hefner]] appears when Axel, Billy and Taggart track the BigBad to the Playboy Mansion.

* TheCameo: Creator/HughHefner appears when Axel, Billy and Taggart track the BigBad to the Playboy Mansion.

* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Creator/EddieMurphy's ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' costar Creator/GilbertGottfried makes a cameo as Dent's accountant Sidney Bernstein.

* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Creator/EddieMurphy's ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' costar Creator/GilbertGotfried makes a cameo as Dent's accountant Sidney Bernstein.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/ChrisRock as the Playboy Mansion valet.

* KnifeNut: Axel breaks his pocket knife trying to prise open a desk. Billy obligingly offers him a loan of a switchblade, prompting [[RunningGag yet another]] "We need to talk!" reaction.

-->'''Rosewood (about the mixer)''': Don't complain! It's [[ClosestThingWeGot all that I could find]]!

* BumblingSidekick: Chief Lutz has one who hasn't the slightest idea what's going on. For example, when he floats his theory that the cement mixer truck that Axel and Billy use to chase the villains was a ploy to aid in the villains' escape, Lutz tells him to submit himself for drug testing. Axel notes that the guy couldn't catch the Alphabet Bandit if he nuked the city.

* ButtMonkey: Dent's henchman Charles Cain. He is used as the frontman for his operations, but he's regarded as an incompetent idiot by Dent, Karla and even his own men.
* CallBack:

** Much to his surprise, it turns out that the goons who Axel was trying to bust undercover at the beginning of the first movie now work for the the guy who Axel is trying to bust undercover at the beginning of this movie.

* ChekhovsSkill: Axel's gum trick to enter a building with an alarm. Subverted when Billy tries it at Dent's oil field and it doesn't work.

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

* GoingByTheMatchbook: Axel recovers a matchbook from a failed hitman, and is able to recover Cain's fingerprint. Oddly, though ''not'' the hitman's fingerprints, even though he was the last one to handle it and didn't have gloves.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Chief Lutz is verbally abusive to everyone, including his own assistant, and he refuses to listen to his own officers about the Alphabet Crimes ([[spoiler: that it's a cover up for gunrunning scheme]]). After Taggert, Rosewood, and Foley stop the bad guys and gather a shitload of evidence in the form [[spoiler: of literal truckloads of illegal guns]] and Lutz starts being a dick to them, [[spoiler: the Mayor gets fed up with Lutz's jerkass behavior to his own men and his obvious incompetence and fires him (and his aid for some reason).]]

* RageBreakingPoint: After being insulted by Lutz one time too many at the film's resolution, Rosewood finally loses it and rants what Dent's scheme was really about (InsuranceFraud, followed by using the money to finance gun-running), and insults Lutz to boot. Even more unfortunately for Lutz, the Mayor of Beverly Hills happens to be right there with them and he gets angry at Lutz's incompetence and abusive attitude.

'''Detective Billy Rosewood''': [points to Nikos Thomopolis, who is being arrested] That guy sold them, and Dent bought 'em with stolen money from Adriano's and his own racetrack. He was on his way to Central America. And if you'd bothered to take your head out of your a--, '''YOU'D SEE WE SOLVED THE WHOLE GODDAMN THING!'''

* RareGuns: The .44 Automag used in the Adriano's job. The shells recovered from the scene become a plot point (to explain, the .44 Automag round is so rare that it needs to be made by order).

RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/ChrisRock as the Playboy Mansion valet.

* BilingualBonus: When Axel meets with Vinnie for the exchange of 2000 credit cards towards the beginning of the movie, he tells him that he used to be a Muslim. At the end of their conversation, to prove that he was, he says "Allahu Akbar" which means "God is the Greatest" in Arabic.

** Creator/ChrisRock as the Playboy Mansion valet.

* FamousLastWords:
** "Goodbye, Mr. Foley." Karla Fry
** "Mister Foley! You have involved yourself in business that does not concern you. That was a mistake!" Maxwell Dent

* RealityEnsues: Chief Lutz is verbally abusive to everyone, including his own assistant, and he refuses to listen to his own officers about the Alphabet Crimes ([[spoiler: that it's a cover up for gunrunning scheme]]). After Taggert, Rosewood, and Foley stop the bad guys and gather a shitload of evidence in the form [[spoiler: of literal truckloads of illegal guns]] and Lutz starts being a dick to them, [[spoiler: the Mayor gets fed up with Lutz's jerkass behavior to his own men and his obvious incompetence and fires him (and his aid for some reason).]]

'''Detective Billy Rosewood''': [points to Nikos Thomopolis, who is being arrested] That guy sold them, and Dent bought 'em with stolen money from Adriano's and his own racetrack. He was on his way to Central America. And if you'd bothered to take your head out of your a--, '''YOU'D SEE WE SOLVED THE WHOLE G------ THING!'''

'''Taggart:''' F--- Franchise/{{Rambo}}.

-->'''Police Chief Harold Lutz''': What the hell have you done here? Looks like a g------ war zone. What in the hell have you done, Taggart? Tell me.\\

'''Police Chief Harold Lutz''': You shut up! Who the hell is talking to you? ''I'' personally solved the Alphabet case up in a body bag over an hour ago. And you, I don't give a g------ what agency you say you're working for, You're in jail, buddy.\\

'''Detective Billy Rosewood''': '''NO''' '''G------''' '''IT''', '''''YOU''''' '''SHUT UP!!''' This is what the Alphabet crimes are all about... [picks up M-16] guns!\\

* RealityEnsues: Chief Lutz is verbally abusive to everyone, including his own assistant, and he refuses to listen to his own officers about the Alphabet Crimes ([[spoiler: that it's a cover up for gunrunning scheme]]). After Taggert, Rosewood, and Foley stop the bad guys and gather a s------- of evidence in the form [[spoiler: of literal truckloads of illegal guns]] and Lutz starts being a dick to them, [[spoiler: the Mayor gets fed up with Lutz's jerkass behavior to his own men and his obvious incompetence and fires him (and his aid for some reason).]]

'''Taggart:''' Fuck Franchise/{{Rambo}}.

** During the scene where Axel, Rosewood, Taggart and chief Lutz are attempting to solve the Alphabet letters, you can see a neon sign in the background that says "SUPER COP". Axel refers to Rosewood and Taggart as "Super cops" in the first film when he explains to Lt. Bogomil how the robbery at the club was prevented by the duo.

* TheCameo: Creator/HughHefner appears when Axel, Billy and Taggart track the BigBad to the Playboy mansion.

* CelebrityParadox: Billy has a poster for ''Film/{{Cobra}}'' in his apartment. Which also co-starred Bridget Nielsen. Interestingly, Creator/SylvesterStallone was considered for the role of Foley in the first film.

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

* OddFriendship: Apparently middle-aged family man Bogomil and young streetwise Cowboy Cop Foley have become best of pals between the first and second movie.

* PhraseCatcher: Billy becomes this. Every time he pulls out a new gun, either Foley or Taggart remark, "Billy, we really need to talk."
* PoliceAreUseless: Obviously [[AvertedTrope averted]] by Taggert, Rosewood, and Foley, but played straight with chief Lutz who refuses to listen to them and treats them horribly.

-->'''Police Chief Harold Lutz''': What the hell have you done here? Looks like a goddamn war zone. What in the hell have you done, Taggart? Tell me.\\
'''Detective Billy Rosewood''': We solved the Alphabet crimes.\\
'''Police Chief Harold Lutz''': You shut up! Who the hell is talking to you? ''I'' personally solved the Alphabet case up in a body bag over an hour ago. And you, I don't give a goddamn what agency you say you're working for, You're in jail, buddy.\\

'''Detective Billy Rosewood''': '''NO''' '''GODDAMN''' '''IT''', '''''YOU''''' '''SHUT UP!!''' This is what the Alphabet crimes are all about... [picks up M-16] guns!\\

'''Detective Billy Rosewood''': [points to Nikos Thomopolis, who is being arrested] That guy sold them, and Dent bought 'em with stolen money from Adriano's and his own racetrack. He was on his way to Central America. And if you'd bothered to take your head out of your ass, '''YOU'D SEE WE SOLVED THE WHOLE GODDAMN THING!'''

* RealityEnsues: Chief Lutz is verbally abusive to everyone, including his own assistant, and he refuses to listen to his own officers about the Alphabet Crimes ([[spoiler: that it's a cover up for gunrunning scheme]]). After Taggert, Rosewood, and Foley stop the bad guys and gather a shitload of evidence in the form [[spoiler: of literal truckloads of illegal guns]] and Lutz starts being a dick to them, [[spoiler: the Mayor gets fed up with Lutz's jerkass behavior to his own men and his obvious incompetence and fires him (and his aid for some reason).]]

* StupidCrooks: The Alphabet Crimes gunmen bring alone RareGuns like a .44 Automag to their heists, which becomes the thread that blows the case wide open for Foley and his friends.