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By TRS decision Whip It Good is now a disambiguation page. Moving entries to appropriate tropes when possible.


* ClothingCombat: Panguinao kills Shadeline with one of his spurs: attaching it to [[WhipItGood the end of his whip]].

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* ClothingCombat: Panguinao kills Shadeline with one of his spurs: attaching it to [[WhipItGood [[EnhancedArchaicWeapon the end of his whip]].



* EnhancedArchaicWeapon: Panguinao uses a whip as one of his weapons. He kills Shadeline with a single stroke after tying his spur to the end of it.



* WhipItGood: Panguinao uses a whip as one of his weapons. He kills Shadeline with a single stroke after tying his spur to the end of it.

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%%* Actio nGirl: Take a guess.

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%%* Actio nGirl: ActionGirl: Take a guess.


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* DemandingTheirHead: The trope {{Invoked|Trope}} in the film's title. A powerful Chilean gangster does everything he can to stop a mercenary who wants to kill him by offering an army of hitmen--and, by accident, a naive DJ--a staggering sum of cash for her head.
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* SuprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Santiago attempts to buy a gun, but is told that he can't without a licence. In the end, he has to settle for an airsoft pistol: the most realistic looking replica the clerk is allowed to sell him.

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* SuprisinglyRealisticOutcome: SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Santiago attempts to buy a gun, but is told that he can't without a licence. In the end, he has to settle for an airsoft pistol: the most realistic looking replica the clerk is allowed to sell him.

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* ActionGirl: Take a guess.

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* ActionGirl: %%* Actio nGirl: Take a guess.



* RealityEnsues: Santiago attempts to buy a gun, but is told that he can't without a licence. In the end, he has to settle for an airsoft pistol: the most realistic looking replica the clerk is allowed to sell him.


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* SuprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Santiago attempts to buy a gun, but is told that he can't without a licence. In the end, he has to settle for an airsoft pistol: the most realistic looking replica the clerk is allowed to sell him.
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* TheJoyOfX: The title is a riff on ''Film/BringMeTheHeadOfAlfredoGarcia''.

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* ClothingCombat: Panguinao kills Shadeline with one of his spurs: attaching it to [[WhipItGood the end of his whip]].



* LockAndLoadMontage: Santiago undergoes a lock-and-load montage when he decides to return to the Tango Club and rescue the Machine Gun Woman. He strap on all of the weapons he finds in the back of the Machine Gun Woman's jeep; transforming himself into a skinny version of Rambo.

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* LockAndLoadMontage: Santiago undergoes a lock-and-load montage when he decides to return to the Tango Club and rescue the Machine Gun Woman. He strap straps on all of the weapons he finds in the back of the Machine Gun Woman's jeep; transforming himself into a skinny version of Rambo.



* WhipItGood: Panguinao uses a whip as one of his weapons. He kill Shadeline with a single stroke after tying his spur to the end of it.

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* WhipItGood: Panguinao uses a whip as one of his weapons. He kill kills Shadeline with a single stroke after tying his spur to the end of it.
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* TheyCallHimSword: If the Machine Gun Woman has another name, no one ever uses it.
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* CripplingCastration: The Machine Gun Woman's final vengeance on Che Longara is brutal. She [[EyeScream takes out his eyes]], shoots out his kneecaps, and the fires two shots into his groin.

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* CripplingCastration: The Machine Gun Woman's final vengeance on Che Longara is brutal. She [[EyeScream takes out his eyes]], shoots out his kneecaps, and the then fires two shots into his groin.
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* ActionGirl: Take a guess.


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* BadassInDistress: The Machine Gun Woman is captured in the finale, inspiring Santiago to mount a rescue.


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* BigDamnHeroes: Santiago storms a building to rescue The Machine Gun Woman in the climax.
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* OverlordJr: El Chinchinero has a son who he is training to follow in his footsteps as a ProfessionalKiller. At the end of the film, his as son attempts to [[AvengingingTheVillain avenge his father]] by shooting the Machine Gun Woman.

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* OverlordJr: El Chinchinero has a son who he is training to follow in his footsteps as a ProfessionalKiller. The son even wears a miniature version of el Chinchinero's outfit. At the end of the film, his as the son attempts to [[AvengingingTheVillain [[AvengingTheVillain avenge his father]] by shooting the Machine Gun Woman.

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* OneManBand: El Chinchhinero is a one man band who uses his bass drum as an InstrumentOfMurder.

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* OneManBand: El Chinchhinero Chinchinero is a one man band who uses his bass drum as an InstrumentOfMurder.InstrumentOfMurder.
* OverlordJr: El Chinchinero has a son who he is training to follow in his footsteps as a ProfessionalKiller. At the end of the film, his as son attempts to [[AvengingingTheVillain avenge his father]] by shooting the Machine Gun Woman.
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* AvengingTheVillain: El Chinchinero's son attempts to avenge his father by shooting the Machine Gun Woman as she leaves Longara's club.
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* EmbarrassingPassword: The pass phrase to get into Mecánico's workshop is the deliberately homoerotic "I want you to check my oil. You will need to go very deep."
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* MadeOfIron: The Machine Gun Woman takes an extreme amount of damage and keeps going; extracting her final vengeance after having been near fatally wound and then tortured.

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* MadeOfIron: The Machine Gun Woman takes an extreme amount of damage and keeps going; extracting her final vengeance after having been near fatally wound wounded and then tortured.



* RealityEnsues: Santiago attempts to buy a gun, but is told that he can't without a licence. In the end, he has too settle for an airsoft pistol: the most realistic looking replica the clerk is allowed to sell him.

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* RealityEnsues: Santiago attempts to buy a gun, but is told that he can't without a licence. In the end, he has too to settle for an airsoft pistol: the most realistic looking replica the clerk is allowed to sell him.

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* BrandishmentBluff: Santiago attempts to bluff Panguinao by jamming his airsoft pistol against the base of his skull. The bluff fails almost immediately when he accidentally fires and a hard plastic pellet his Panguinao in the back of the neck.

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* BrandishmentBluff: Santiago attempts to bluff Panguinao by jamming his airsoft pistol against the base of his skull. The bluff fails almost immediately when he accidentally fires and a hard plastic pellet his hits Panguinao in the back of the neck.



* GangstaStyle: the Machine Gun Woman holds her automatic like this when she is interrogating Santiago. Tellingly, she never holds her guns like this when she is actually killing someone, so Santiago was probably never in any real danger from her and she was just holding the gun like this to scare him.

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* GangstaStyle: the The Machine Gun Woman holds her automatic like this when she is interrogating Santiago. Tellingly, she never holds her guns like this when she is actually killing someone, so Santiago was probably never in any real danger from her and she was just holding the gun like this to scare him.


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* RealityEnsues: Santiago attempts to buy a gun, but is told that he can't without a licence. In the end, he has too settle for an airsoft pistol: the most realistic looking replica the clerk is allowed to sell him.
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* TheCoatsAreOff: Any time the Machine Gun Woman removes her fur jacket, it means that many people are about to doe bloodily.

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* TheCoatsAreOff: Any time the Machine Gun Woman removes her fur jacket, it means that many people are about to doe die bloodily.



* ImprobableAimingSkills: The Machine Gun Woman displays some incredible aiming skills through the course of the movie. At one point, she casually shoots someone who is behind without turning around: she just points the gun behind her and fires without looking.

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* ImprobableAimingSkills: The Machine Gun Woman displays some incredible aiming skills through the course of the movie. At one point, she casually shoots someone who is behind her without turning around: she just points the gun behind her and fires without looking.



* OffWithHisHead: The Machine Gun Woman cuts the heads off Longara's hitmen to prove that she has killed them. Santiago is horrified when he sees her take an axe to their corpse.

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* OffWithHisHead: The Machine Gun Woman cuts the heads off Longara's hitmen to prove that she has killed them. Santiago is horrified when he sees her take an axe to their corpse.corpses.

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