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Not to be confused with the [[Series/{{Bones}} TV show]].
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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Pearl does this twice; first when Jimmy’s murdered, then as her last words to him before her HeroicSuicide.

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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Pearl does this twice; first when Jimmy’s Jimmy's murdered, then as her last words to him before her HeroicSuicide.



** Jimmy still loves Pearl [[spoiler: and Cynthia is the daughter they conceived before his death.]]

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** Jimmy still loves Pearl [[spoiler: and Cynthia is the daughter they conceived before his death.]] death]].



* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: After Jimmy’s body regenerates and he lays waste to the club, Pearl reveals the truth to Cynthia.]]

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* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: After Jimmy’s Jimmy's body regenerates and he lays waste to the club, Pearl reveals the truth to Cynthia.]]



'''Pearl:''' [[IfIWantedYouDead If he wanted to kill you, you would’ve been dead already.]]\\

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'''Pearl:''' [[IfIWantedYouDead If he wanted to kill you, you would’ve would've been dead already.]]\\



* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler: In the third act, it’s revealed that Pearl was pregnant when Jimmy was murdered, which makes Cynthia his daughter. When Pearl reveals the truth, she tells Cynthia that she has her father’s eyes.]]

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* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler: In the third act, it’s it's revealed that Pearl was pregnant when Jimmy was murdered, which makes Cynthia his daughter. When Pearl reveals the truth, she tells Cynthia that she has her father’s father's eyes.]]
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* BareYourMidriff: Several of Tia's shirts show off most of her stomach.

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* BareYourMidriff: BareMidriffsAreFeminine: Several of Tia's shirts show off most of her stomach.stomach in a TankTopTomboy style.
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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:The deal that resulted in Jimmy's death only caused the neighborhood that the betrayers cared for to go into ruin rather than help them.]]
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* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Jimmy Bones genuinely cared for the neighborhood and turned down the drug empire because of how damaging it will be. When he comes back to life, he only goes after the people who betrayed him and anyone who tries to stop him. His former bodyguard was spared the fate of hell for old times sake, he genuinely loved Pearl, and he chose to die with her when she sacrificed herself. His ultimate goal for the neighborhood was to restore it to its former glory.]]

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* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Jimmy Bones genuinely cared for the neighborhood and turned down the drug empire because it would ruin the lives of how damaging it will be. the community. When he comes back to life, he only goes after targets the people who betrayed him and anyone who tries to stop him. would leave everyone else alone if they stayed out of his way. His former bodyguard bodyguard, Shotgun, was spared the fate of hell for old times sake, he hell, Bones genuinely loved Pearl, and he chose sincerely tried to die with her when she sacrificed herself. herself to save their daughter. His ultimate goal for the neighborhood was to restore it the community to its former glory.glory and undo the damage caused by the drug empire.]]

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* FemalesAreMoreInnocent: Four of the five notable female characters (Cynthia, Pearl, Tia, and Jeremiah's second wife) are utterly nice and caring characters. This isn't true for the fifth, Eddie Mack's hooker, but she's still not quite as bad as the rest of his organization. Every prominent male character besides Patrick and Bill engages in some form of criminal behavior (although Jimmy and Shotgun are {{Lovable Rogue}}s).* TheGhost: Jimmy is this throughout the movie until literally coming back as one in the climax of the movie.

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* FemalesAreMoreInnocent: Four of the five notable female characters (Cynthia, Pearl, Tia, and Jeremiah's second wife) are utterly nice and caring characters. This isn't true for the fifth, Eddie Mack's hooker, but she's still not quite as bad as the rest of his organization. Every prominent male character besides Patrick and Bill engages in some form of criminal behavior (although Jimmy and Shotgun are {{Lovable Rogue}}s).Rogue}}s).
* TheGhost: Jimmy is this throughout the movie until literally coming back as one in the climax of the movie.
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** His reaction to getting Lupovitch's blood on him is asking Jimmy "Was that really fucking necessary, Man?".

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** His reaction to getting Lupovitch's Lupovich's blood on him is asking Jimmy "Was that really fucking necessary, Man?".man?".
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''Bones'' is a 2001 American horror film directed by Ernest Dickerson and starring rapper Music/{{Snoop Dogg}} as the eponymous Jimmy Bones, a murdered gangster that rises from the grave to avenge his death. The movie is an homage to blaxploitation films of TheSeventies and incorporates numerous elements from the genre. The film stars Music/{{Snoop Dogg}} as Jimmy Bones and Creator/{{Pam Grier}} as Pearl. Other cast members include Michael T. Weiss, Clifton Powell and Ricky Harris among many others.

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''Bones'' is a 2001 American horror film directed by Ernest Dickerson and starring rapper Music/{{Snoop Dogg}} as the eponymous Jimmy Bones, a murdered gangster that rises from the grave to avenge his death. The movie is an homage to blaxploitation films of TheSeventies and incorporates numerous elements from the genre. The film stars Music/{{Snoop Dogg}} as Jimmy Bones and Creator/{{Pam Grier}} as Pearl. Other cast members include Creator/KatharineIsabelle, Michael T. Weiss, Clifton Powell and Ricky Harris among many others.



--> '''Shotgun:''' Four outside are dogs and sorcerers ... Revelation 22: 15.

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--> '''Shotgun:''' Four For outside are dogs and sorcerers ... Revelation 22: 15.
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* TryingNotToCry: Despite all of his bad qualities, Jeremiah seems genuinely upset and horrified as he is forced to stab Jimmy, and is struggling not to cry.

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* TryingNotToCry: Despite all of his bad qualities, Jeremiah seems genuinely upset and horrified as he is forced to stab Jimmy, and is struggling not to cry.cry.
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Jeremiah and Eddie, both of whom have sold out the black community, are romantically involved with white women.
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* AsTheGoodBookSays: Shotgun quotes Bible verses at several points, most notably after seeing the hellhound kill two {{Frat Bro}}s buying drugs.
--> '''Shotgun:''' Four outside are dogs and sorcerers ... Revelation 22: 15.

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* AmbitionIsEvil: Jeremiah's first flashback establishes him as being resentful of how Jimmy refuses to accept criminal deals which could help him advance in the world. When Jimmy says he's fine with the status quo, Jeremiah replies that "you got all the status, and I got nothing but quo." He pressures Jimmy to partner with Eddie and Lupovich to get rich selling drugs, and while he's horrified during Jimmy's actual murder, he's unrepentant about helping to turn his old neighborhood into a slum.



* BareYourMidriff: Several of Tia's shirts show off most of her stomach.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Patrick refuses to let his younger sister Tia accompany him during the climax due to how dangerous it is. In a deleted scene, he and Bill also race to help Tia when she's in danger from a fire Jimmy set, and don't get mad when she thinks that she set it by mistake.



* BumblingHenchmanDuo: Drug dealer Eddie Mack has a pair of dim-witted gangbanger henchmen who always appear together.



* DownerEnding: Jimmy Bones possesses [[spoiler: his daughter]] Cynthia and it is implied that he kills Patrick off-screen.

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* DirtyCop: Lupovich has spent at least twenty years taking bribes from drug dealers and helped murder Jimmy Bones when he tried to keep the dealers away.
--> '''Detective Lupovich:''' Don't you think I deserve something extra for knocking out the competition?
--> '''Eddie Mack:''' Shit, you was just doing your motherfuckin' job.
--> '''Detective Lupovich:''' The last thing you need is for me to start doing my fucking job.
* DownerEnding: Jimmy Bones possesses [[spoiler: his daughter]] Cynthia and it is implied that he kills Patrick off-screen. attacks Patrick.



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Jimmy still loves Pearl [[spoiler: and Cynthia is the daughter they conceived before his death.]]
* TheGhost: Jimmy is this throughout the movie until literally coming back as one in the climax of the movie.

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
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Jimmy still loves Pearl [[spoiler: and Cynthia is the daughter they conceived before his death.]]
** Jeremiah is complicit to murder and drug-dealing, but he wants his sons to have advantages he didn't have (although he expresses this pretty coldly) and is seen looking nostalgically at pictures of them as children. He also seems to be a [[GoodStepmother good stepfather]] to Tia, as she calls him "Daddy," and he is upset when Lupovich makes a lecherous comment about her.
* FemalesAreMoreInnocent: Four of the five notable female characters (Cynthia, Pearl, Tia, and Jeremiah's second wife) are utterly nice and caring characters. This isn't true for the fifth, Eddie Mack's hooker, but she's still not quite as bad as the rest of his organization. Every prominent male character besides Patrick and Bill engages in some form of criminal behavior (although Jimmy and Shotgun are {{Lovable Rogue}}s).
* TheGhost: Jimmy is this throughout the movie until literally coming back as one in the climax of the movie.movie.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: When Tia finds a stray dog in the abandoned building, she approaches him gently, offering him her hamburger upon seeing that he's hungry, and then takes him home with her.



* ItsProbablyNothing: In a flashback, Pearl reads Jimmy's palm and senses that he's in danger if he goes to the meeting with Eddie Mack, but he ignores her concerns.
* LackOfEmpathy: After shooting Jimmy and observing Pearl sobbing in grief, Lupovich is preoccupied with how he's gotten blood on his best suit.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Jeremiah is a SharpDressedMan who is contemptuous of his old neighborhood, while his children are hipsters who want to revitalize his old neighborhood and bring something good back to it. At the end of their first scene, they help Cynthia and Pearl (who are both strangers to them) carry their groceries in from the street.



* NonIndicativeName: Jimmy's bodyguard Shotgun is seen using pistols and rifles but never shotguns.



* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Downplayed with Tia, who comes from a predominantly white gated community. She doesn't use African-American slang, but does wear inner city-style sunglasses and head kerchiefs, while being fully on board with Patrick's plan to revitalize the African-American neighborhood he grew up in by opening a nightclub there. In her first scene, she's also wearing a tank top with pictures of a black celebrity on it.
* PursuedProtagonist: The film opens with Shotgun fleeing from Jimmy's hellhound to establish the danger it poses, barely locking himself inside his apartment in time.



* RobbingTheDead: When the main characters find Jimmy's body in the basement of the new nightclub, Maurice takes his diamond ring after the others leave, breaking off one of his skeletal fingers in the process.



* TownWithADarkSecret: More like neighborhood with one, as most of the people from the neighborhood know what is going on with that house.

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* TownWithADarkSecret: More like neighborhood with one, as most of the people from the neighborhood know what is going on with that house.house.
* TryingNotToCry: Despite all of his bad qualities, Jeremiah seems genuinely upset and horrified as he is forced to stab Jimmy, and is struggling not to cry.
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* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler: In the third act, it’s revealed that Pearl was pregnant at the time of Jimmy’s murder, which makes Cynthia his daughter. When Pearl reveals the truth, she tells Cynthia that she has her father’s eyes.]]

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* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler: In the third act, it’s revealed that Pearl was pregnant at the time of Jimmy’s murder, when Jimmy was murdered, which makes Cynthia his daughter. When Pearl reveals the truth, she tells Cynthia that she has her father’s eyes.]]
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* DownerEnding: Jimmy Bones possesses his daughter Cynthia and it is implied that he kills Patrick off-screen.

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* DownerEnding: Jimmy Bones possesses [[spoiler: his daughter daughter]] Cynthia and it is implied that he kills Patrick off-screen.



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Jimmy still loves Pearl and Cynthia is the daughter they conceived before his death.

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Jimmy still loves Pearl [[spoiler: and Cynthia is the daughter they conceived before his death. death.]]



** Pearl setting herself on fire to destroy her dress with Jimmy's blood on it to put his soul to rest. Ends up being a SenselessSacrifice when he just possesses their daughter who has his blood in her.

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** Pearl setting herself on fire to destroy her dress with Jimmy's blood on it to put his soul to rest. [[spoiler: Ends up being a SenselessSacrifice when he just possesses their daughter who has his blood in her. her.]]



* LukeIAmYourFather: After Jimmy’s body regenerates and he lays waste to the club, Pearl reveals the truth to Cynthia.
-->'''Cynthia:''' ''(sobbing)'' He tried to kill us.\\

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* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: After Jimmy’s body regenerates and he lays waste to the club, Pearl reveals the truth to Cynthia.
-->'''Cynthia:'''
Cynthia.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Cynthia:'''
''(sobbing)'' He tried to kill us.\\



'''Pearl:''' …''[[WhamLine Your father]]''. He was your father. You have his eyes.

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'''Pearl:''' …''[[WhamLine Your father]]''. He was your father. You have his eyes.]]



* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: In the third act, it’s revealed that Pearl was pregnant at the time of Jimmy’s murder, which makes Cynthia his daughter. When Pearl reveals the truth, she tells Cynthia that she has her father’s eyes.

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* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler: In the third act, it’s revealed that Pearl was pregnant at the time of Jimmy’s murder, which makes Cynthia his daughter. When Pearl reveals the truth, she tells Cynthia that she has her father’s eyes.]]
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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Pearl’s last words to Jimmy before her HeroicSuicide.

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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Pearl’s Pearl does this twice; first when Jimmy’s murdered, then as her last words to Jimmy him before her HeroicSuicide.

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* BlackComedy: Eddie Mack's talking decapitated head is funny in most of his scenes as he is constantly complaining and is trying to get on Jimmy's good side by cheering him on when he goes after the others.

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* BlackComedy: BlackComedy:
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Eddie Mack's talking decapitated head is funny in most of his scenes as he is constantly complaining and is trying to get on Jimmy's good side by cheering him on when he goes after the others.



* HeroicSuicide: Pearl setting herself on fire to destroy her dress with Jimmy's blood on it to put his soul to rest. Ends up being a SenselessSacrifice when he just possesses their daughter who has his blood in her.
** Jimmy also did this as well, as he lunged forward onto the blade so Pearl would be saved from Lupovitch.

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* HeroicSuicide: HeroicSuicide:
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Pearl setting herself on fire to destroy her dress with Jimmy's blood on it to put his soul to rest. Ends up being a SenselessSacrifice when he just possesses their daughter who has his blood in her.
** Jimmy also did this as well, as he lunged forward onto the blade so Pearl would be saved from Lupovitch.Lupovitch without needing to stab him herself.
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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Pearl’s last words to Jimmy before her HeroicSacrifice.

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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Pearl’s last words to Jimmy before her HeroicSacrifice.HeroicSuicide.

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* HeroicSuicide: Pearl setting herself on fire to destroy her dress with Jimmy's blood on it to put his soul to rest. Ends up being a SenselessSacrifice when he just possesses their daughter who has his blood in her. Jimmy also did this as well, as he lunged forward onto the blade so Pearl would be saved from Lupovitch.

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* HeroicSuicide: Pearl setting herself on fire to destroy her dress with Jimmy's blood on it to put his soul to rest. Ends up being a SenselessSacrifice when he just possesses their daughter who has his blood in her.
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Jimmy also did this as well, as he lunged forward onto the blade so Pearl would be saved from Lupovitch.

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* AnimalMotifs: Jimmy Bones is associated with dogs; as shown by the symbiotic relationship with the dog/hellhound, Bones.
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Jimmy Bones genuinely cared for the neighborhood and turned down the drug empire because of how damaging it will be. When he comes back to life, he only goes after the people who betrayed him and anyone who tries to stop him. His former bodyguard was spared the fate of hell for old times sake, he genuinely loved Pearl, and he chose to die with her when she sacrificed herself. His ultimate goal for the neighborhood was to restore it to its former glory.]]



* HeroicSuicide: Pearl setting herself on fire to destroy her dress with Jimmy's blood on it to put his soul to rest. Ends up being a SenselessSacrifice when he just possesses their daughter who has his blood in her.

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* HeroicSuicide: Pearl setting herself on fire to destroy her dress with Jimmy's blood on it to put his soul to rest. Ends up being a SenselessSacrifice when he just possesses their daughter who has his blood in her. Jimmy also did this as well, as he lunged forward onto the blade so Pearl would be saved from Lupovitch.



* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Jimmy Bones has a lot of similarities to [[UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar Julius Caesar]]; both being powerful and popular figures, who had their loved ones tell them they were going to die, were stabbed to death by those they worked with, one of their murderers felt envious of them, and were betrayed by an alledged friend.

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* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Jimmy Bones has a lot of similarities to [[UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar Julius Caesar]]; both being powerful and popular figures, who had their loved ones tell them they were going to die, were stabbed to death by those they worked with, one of their murderers felt envious of them, and were betrayed by an alledged alleged friend.



* SadisticChoice: Lupovitch, after shooting Jimmy in the flashbacks, convinces everyone in the room with him to stab Jimmy with his switchblade ...by pointing a gun at them. The idea is that each of them shares responsibility in Jimmy's death, making it impossible for any of them togo to the police. Because if they do, all of them would go to jail. Of course it would be especially bad for them, because they are all black and it is the 70s. Which means that they would get a harsher sentence, with only their word against Lupovitch, who is a white cop.

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* SadisticChoice: Lupovitch, after shooting Jimmy in the flashbacks, convinces everyone in the room with him to stab Jimmy with his switchblade ...by pointing a gun at them. The idea is that each of them shares responsibility in Jimmy's death, making it impossible for any of them togo to go to the police. Because if they do, all of them would go to jail. Of course it would be especially bad for them, because they are all black and it is the 70s. Which means that they would get a harsher sentence, with only their word against Lupovitch, who is a white cop.



* TooDumbToLive: The protagonists as they were told from the beginning not to feed the dog and not to stay at that house. If they had done that, Jimmy wouldn't have been able to come back from the dead.

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The protagonists as they were told from the beginning not to feed the dog and not to stay at that house. If they had done that, Jimmy wouldn't have been able to come back from the dead. To be fair on them though, it's not like they knew the symbiotic relationship between Jimmy and the dog.

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