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* CoolGuns: Gorman uses a Broomhandle Mauser for a GanglandDriveBy.
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* EscalatingBrawl: The idea is that Charles Swann, the British detective, will pretend to arrest a suspect, then Brannigan (the American detective) posing as a drunken tourist will intervene to save the man, earning his trust. Brannigan hits the British copper a bit too hard, so the return punch makes Brannigan stumble into someone who spills another person's beer. Soon the whole pub is involved.

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* EscalatingBrawl: The idea is that Charles Swann, the Swann (the British detective, detective) will pretend to arrest a suspect, then Brannigan (the American detective) posing as a drunken tourist will intervene to save the man, earning his trust. Brannigan hits the British copper a bit too hard, so the return punch makes Brannigan stumble into someone who spills another person's beer. Soon the whole pub is involved.
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* DoesNotLikeGuns: Commander Swann doesn't like some American CowboyCop shooting up London, given that British police don't carry guns. Brannigan points out that he's required by regulations to carry one and he was firing to save the life of one of his officers.

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* DoesNotLikeGuns: Commander Swann doesn't like some American CowboyCop shooting up London, given that British police don't carry guns. Brannigan points out that he's required by regulations to carry one and he was firing to save the life of one of his Swann's officers.
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* RampJump: Brannigan does the Tower Bridge version during a CarChase. The man he's chasing gets away with it as the bridge has only just started to rise, but Brannigan is not so lucky, [[RealityEnsues crashing once he hits the other side]].

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* RampJump: Brannigan does the Tower Bridge version during a CarChase. The man he's chasing gets away with it as the bridge has only just started to rise, but Brannigan is not so lucky, [[RealityEnsues crashing once he hits the other side]].side.
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* OfficerOHara: Lt. Jim Brannigan, an Irish-American Chicago P.D. officer, who encounters a cultural clash when he sees the {{Old Fashioned Copper}}s in action. He tries some methods considered unorthodox by the British police, and clashes with Commander Swann over Brannigan's use of a .38 Colt Diamondback revolver.
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* RampJump: Brannigan does the Tower Bridge version during a CarChase. The man he's chasing gets away with it as the bridge has only just started to rise, but Brannigan is not so lucky, crashing once he hits the other side.

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* RampJump: Brannigan does the Tower Bridge version during a CarChase. The man he's chasing gets away with it as the bridge has only just started to rise, but Brannigan is not so lucky, [[RealityEnsues crashing once he hits the other side.side]].
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* NoHonorAmongThieves: ZigzaggedTrope. [[spoiler:Mel Fields turns up to deliver the ransom, but everyone just smirks when Larkin demands to be released. Fields takes a gun off a LondonGangster and reminds Larkin of the first words he said to him: "Never trust anyone." He then kills the gangsters instead and it's revealed that Fields and Larkin set up the whole thing between them. Then Larkin picks up the gun and it looks like he will kill Fields, while Fields in turn admits that he was tempted to betray Larkin, "But where would the world be if you couldn't trust somebody?"]]

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* NoHonorAmongThieves: ZigzaggedTrope. [[spoiler:Mel Fields turns up to deliver the ransom, but everyone just smirks when Larkin demands to be released. Fields takes a gun off a LondonGangster and reminds Larkin of the first words he said to him: "Never trust anyone." He then kills the gangsters instead and it's revealed that Fields and Larkin set up the whole thing between them. Then Larkin picks up the gun and it looks like he will kill Fields, while Fields in turn admits that he was tempted to betray Larkin, "But "...but where would the world be if you couldn't trust somebody?"]]
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* RevolversAreJustBetter: Brannigan carries a .38 Colt Diamondback.

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* RevolversAreJustBetter: Brannigan carries a .38 Colt Diamondback.Diamondback with six inch barrel.
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* DynamicEntry: The film opens with Brannigan kicking down the door and saying "Knock Knock!" [[BookEnds He does it again]] for the final confrontation with Larkin.

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* DynamicEntry: The film opens with Brannigan [[OpenSaysMe kicking down the door door]] and saying "Knock Knock!" [[BookEnds He does it again]] for the final confrontation with Larkin.
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* DynamicEntry: The film opens with Brannigan kicking down the door and saying "Knock Knock!" Done as BookEnds because Brannigan does it again for the final confrontation.

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* DynamicEntry: The film opens with Brannigan kicking down the door and saying "Knock Knock!" Done as BookEnds because Brannigan [[BookEnds He does it again again]] for the final confrontation.confrontation with Larkin.

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