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* BlackAndGrayMorality: Harry is the hero only because the people he's up against are far, far worse. To be fair, [[TraumaCongaLine he goes through a lot of shit]] and tries to let the authorities deal with it before taking matters into his own hands.
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* [[{{BlackAndGrayMorality}} Revenge Thriller]]: Harry is the hero only because the people he's up against are far, far worse.
** TraumaCongaLine: To be fair, he goes through a lot of shit and tries to let the authorities deal with it before taking matters into his own hands.
** TraumaCongaLine: To be fair, he goes through a lot of shit and tries to let the authorities deal with it before taking matters into his own hands.
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* TraumaCongaLine: Harry goes through one, and not just during the events of the movie, but one that has spanned most of his life (he lost a friend in Northern Ireland and then his daughter died when she was only 12.) [[spoiler: During the film, Harry loses his wife, his best friend, and learns that a man he considered a friend is actually a psychotic criminal scumbag who's involved in drugs. The only silver lining is that he survives the entire ordeal, although acccording to WordOfGod, even that is up for interpretation.]]
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* TraumaCongaLine: Harry goes through one, and not just during the events of the movie, but one that has spanned most of his life (he lost a friend in Northern Ireland and then his daughter died when she was only 12.) [[spoiler: During the film, Harry loses his wife, his best friend, and learns that a man he considered a friend is actually a psychotic criminal scumbag who's involved in drugs. The only silver lining is that he survives the entire ordeal, although acccording according to WordOfGod, even that is up for interpretation.]]
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* AxCrazy: Noel Winters is a bloodthirsty, sadistic lunatic who rapes and kills for his own sick amusement. His [[EvilUncle uncle]] is just as much of a psychopath as his nephew is.
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** Noel Winters is a bloodthirsty, sadistic lunatic who rapes and kills for his own sick amusement. His [[EvilUncle uncle]] is just as much of a psychopath as his nephew is.
** Noel Winters is a bloodthirsty, sadistic lunatic who rapes and kills for his own sick amusement. His [[EvilUncle uncle]] is just as much of a psychopath as his nephew is.
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* RecklessGunUsage: Most of the thugs are ridiculously negligent with their firearms - the drug dealer who Harry goes to buy weapons from takes the cake, though, given that he uses his pistol as a pipe, stuffing it with weed before sucking the smoke up through the barrel.
** Not terribly surprising when you consider just ''how'' strung out and generally messed up he is.
** Not terribly surprising when you consider just ''how'' strung out and generally messed up he is.
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* RecklessGunUsage: Most of the thugs are ridiculously negligent with their firearms - the firearms
** The drug dealer who Harry goes to buy weapons from takes the cake, though, given that he uses his pistol as a pipe, stuffing it with weed before sucking the smoke up through thebarrel.
** Not terribly surprising when you consider just ''how'' strung out and generally messed up he is.barrel.
** The drug dealer who Harry goes to buy weapons from takes the cake, though, given that he uses his pistol as a pipe, stuffing it with weed before sucking the smoke up through the
** Not terribly surprising when you consider just ''how'' strung out and generally messed up he is.
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*** Possibly justified considering how the thugs got the guns, and ex-military Harry doesn't exactly have a holster with him.
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* {{Understatement}}: On promotional stops, Michael Caine described Harry as "being upset" by his friend's death.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** [[spoiler:Sid]] is condescending towards Noel and treats him like a lackey, but he was unwilling to give him up and let Harry kill him, despite it being potentially viable to do so, while backed into a corner during the finale, putting himself between Harry and Noel while stating, "He's my sister's boy. He's blood."
** Noel, despite his sociopathic tendencies, held his other gang members in at least some regard, going by his initial refusal to stand down despite being ordered to by [[spoiler:Sid]] during the climactic confrontation with Harry, angrily proclaiming, "Fuck that! This senile old cunt killed Marky and Carl!"
** [[spoiler:Sid]] is condescending towards Noel and treats him like a lackey, but he was unwilling to give him up and let Harry kill him, despite it being potentially viable to do so, while backed into a corner during the finale, putting himself between Harry and Noel while stating, "He's my sister's boy. He's blood."
** Noel, despite his sociopathic tendencies, held his other gang members in at least some regard, going by his initial refusal to stand down despite being ordered to by [[spoiler:Sid]] during the climactic confrontation with Harry, angrily proclaiming, "Fuck that! This senile old cunt killed Marky and Carl!"
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Up To Eleven is being dewicked.
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* JugglingLoadedGuns: Stretch ''smokes'' [[UpToEleven out of his gun]]. Averted however in that the gun isn't actually loaded, as once he fires his only shot the slide locks back. [[spoiler: He's so drugged up that he forgets this moments later when trying to kill Harry.]]
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* JugglingLoadedGuns: Stretch ''smokes'' [[UpToEleven out of his gun]].gun. Averted however in that the gun isn't actually loaded, as once he fires his only shot the slide locks back. [[spoiler: He's so drugged up that he forgets this moments later when trying to kill Harry.]]
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* BadassGrandpa: Harry Brown, an old man who despite not being an actual grandpa, (he has no living family to speak of) is undeniably very badass.
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* OldSoldier: Harry Brown, an old man who despite not being an actual grandpa, (he has no living family to speak of) is undeniably very badass.
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* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Film/GranTorino''. While that film's take on the plot of a RetiredBadass played by an A-list older actor fighting street thugs was far more deconstructive (especially of [[Creator/ClintEastwood its star and director]]'s previous vigilante films), this film plays it straight and makes Harry an unambiguous hero whose violent tactics genuinely do solve the problems in his community.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: After Len is murdered,]] Harry goes on a relatively calm and subdued one, as being an elderly man with a health condition, he poses little to no physical threat to the much younger crooks and instead has to resort to being a CombatPragmatist, using his brain and the weapons at his disposal in order to get an advantage over his enemies.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: After Len is murdered,]] Harry goes on a relatively calm slow and subdued one, as being an elderly man with a health condition, he poses little to no physical threat to the much younger crooks and instead has to resort to being a CombatPragmatist, using his brain and the weapons at his disposal in order to get an advantage over his enemies.
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* TraumaCongaLine: Harry goes through one, and not just during the events of the movie, but one that has spanned most of his life (he lost a friend in Northern Ireland and then his daughter died when she was only 12.) [[spoiler: During the film, Harry loses his wife, his best friend, and learns that a man he considered a friend is actually a psychotic criminal scumbag who's involved in drugs. The only silver lining is that he survives the entire ordeal, although acccording to WordOfGod, even that is up for interpretation.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: After Len is killed,]] Harry goes on a relatively calm and subdued one, as being an elderly man with a health condition, he poses little to no physical threat to the much younger crooks and instead has to resort to being a CombatPragmatist and the firearms at his disposal in order to get an advantage over his enemies.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: After Len is killed,]] Harry goes on a relatively calm and subdued one, as being an elderly man with a health condition, he poses little to no physical threat to the much younger crooks and instead has to resort to being a CombatPragmatist and the firearms at his disposal in order to get an advantage over his enemies.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevengeRoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: After Len is killed,]] Harry goes on a relatively calm and subdued one, as being an elderly man with a health condition, he poses little to no physical threat to the much younger crooks and instead has to resort to being a CombatPragmatist and the firearms at his disposal in order to get an advantage over his enemies.
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* TraumaCongaLine: Harry goes through one, and not just during the events of the movie, as he but one that has spanned most of his life (he lost a friend in Northern Ireland and then his daughter died when she was only 12. 12.) [[spoiler: During the film, Harry loses his wife, his best friend, and learns that a man he considered a friend is actually a psychotic criminal scumbag who's involved in drugs. The only silver lining is that he survives the entire ordeal, although acccording to WordOfGod, even that is up for interpretation.]]
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* BadassGrandpa: Harry Brown, an old man who despite not being an actual grandpa, (he has no living family to speak of) is undeniably very badass.
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* TraumaCongaLine: Harry goes through one, and not just during the events of the movie, as he lost his daughter when she was only 12. [[spoiler: During the film, Harry loses his wife, his best friend, and learns that a man he considered a friend is actually a psychotic criminal scumbag who's involved in drugs. The only silver lining is that he survives the entire ordeal, although acccording to WordOfGod, even that is up for interpretation.]]
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* VigilanteManVigilanteMan: A "vigilante pensioner" as Superintendent Childs puts it. Kinda rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Harry interrogates Marky by whipping him.
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Harry interrogates Marky by whipping him.him and then threatening to blow his kneecaps out.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Harry is a kind old fellow who keeps to himself and spends his days playing chess with his friend Leonard. [[spoiler: He's also a retired member of the Royal Marines Commandos, and is implied to have done some serious things in Northern Ireland. When Leonard is murdered by a group of chavs, he goes on a RoaringRampageofRevenge by putting his Marine training to use, utterly devastating the amateur criminals who did it.]]
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Harry is a kind old fellow who keeps to himself and spends his days playing chess with his friend Leonard. [[spoiler: He's also a retired member of the Royal Marines Commandos, and is implied to have done some serious things in Northern Ireland. When Leonard is murdered by a group of chavs, he goes on a RoaringRampageofRevenge RoaringRampageOfRevenge by putting his Marine training to use, utterly devastating the amateur criminals who did it.]]
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Harry is a kind old fellow who keeps to himself and spends his days playing chess with his friend Leonard. [[spoiler: He's also a retired member of the Royal Marines Commandos, and is implied to have done some serious things in Northern Ireland. When Leonard is murdered by a group of chavs, he goes on a RoaringRampageofRevenge by putting his Marine training to use, utterly devastating the amateur criminals who did it.]]
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* CoolOldGuy: Harry Brown of course. He's a retired Royal Marine and a very friendly elderly gentleman, who for the most part accepts the crime on the estate and lives with it. [[spoiler: When he learns his best (and only) friend Leonard is murdered by a gang of chavs and that the [[PoliceAreUseless police aren't doing anything about it,]] Harry finally decides he's had enough and takes matters into his own hands, killing the people that murdered Len and dismantling part of a large drug operation in the process.]]
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* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: When Harry puts his plan into action and [[spoiler: attempts to make use of a BallisticDiscount on Kenny and Stretch, the latter holds Harry at gunpoint and mocks him before pulling the trigger. The gun fails to fire of course as it has no bullets and is filled with weed. Apparently, Stretch was so minced that he completely forgot he had fired off the last round in the gun and then smoked weed out of the empty chamber just one minute earlier.]]
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* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: When Harry puts his plan into action and [[spoiler: attempts to make use of a BallisticDiscount on Kenny and Stretch, the latter holds Harry at gunpoint and mocks him before pulling the trigger. The gun fails to fire of course as it has no bullets and is filled with weed. Apparently, Stretch was so totally minced that he completely forgot he had fired off the last round in the gun and then smoked weed drugs out of the empty chamber just one minute earlier.]]
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* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: When Harry puts his plan into action and [[spoiler: attempts to make use of a BallisticDiscount on Kenny and Stretch, the latter holds Harry at gunpoint and mocks him before pulling the trigger. The gun fails to fire of course as it has no bullets and is filled with weed. Apparently, Stretch was so minced that he completely forgot he had fired off the last round in the gun and then smoked weed out of the empty chamber just one minute earlier.]]
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* JugglingLoadedGuns: Stretch ''smokes'' [[UpToEleven out of his gun]].
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* JugglingLoadedGuns: Stretch ''smokes'' [[UpToEleven out of his gun]]. Averted however in that the gun isn't actually loaded, as once he fires his only shot the slide locks back. [[spoiler: He's so drugged up that he forgets this moments later when trying to kill Harry.]]
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** Troy Martindale is shot in the head by Harry from outside his car in an effort to get capture Marky, whom Troy was sexually abusing.
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* BoomHeadshot: Happens four times:
** An innocent woman is shot through the head by two chavs on a motorcycle in the opening sequence.
** [[spoiler: Kenny is stabbed through the arm and then has his brains blown out by Harry, who is currently making use of a BallisticDiscount.]] The bullet goes straight through his skull and destroys the TV behind him.
** Troy Martindale is shot in the head by Harry from outside his car in an effort to get capture Marky, whom Troy was sexually abusing.
** [[spoiler: Marky is accidentally killed by Carl after Harry shoots him and causes him to fire his gun off, hitting Marky in the head.]]
** An innocent woman is shot through the head by two chavs on a motorcycle in the opening sequence.
** [[spoiler: Kenny is stabbed through the arm and then has his brains blown out by Harry, who is currently making use of a BallisticDiscount.]] The bullet goes straight through his skull and destroys the TV behind him.
** Troy Martindale is shot in the head by Harry from outside his car in an effort to get capture Marky, whom Troy was sexually abusing.
** [[spoiler: Marky is accidentally killed by Carl after Harry shoots him and causes him to fire his gun off, hitting Marky in the head.]]
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* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Averted. Four times in the film does someone get shot in the head, with the result being very messy every time.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Noel, Sid and many other violent criminals]] are killed, but [[spoiler: Sgt Hicock was also killed in the line of duty, and Detective Frampton is probably going to suffer from psychological trauma after she was almost murdered by Noel.]] But the estate appears to be a much safer place to live now, and Harry finally walks through the subway he was afraid to use earlier.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Kenny, one of the drug dealers who hangs around Sid's pub, is mentioned by Len to be involved in selling guns as well as drugs. [[spoiler: Later, when Harry needs a gun to take on the armed criminals on the estate, he follows Kenny to his hideout to buy one. Or rather, make use of a BallisticDiscount.]]
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* CombatPragmatist: Harry, being an elderly pensioner with health problems, knows he hasn't got a chance in hell taking on the much younger gangs of criminals in a straight fight, and so calls on his Royal Marine training to get the job done. Throughout the film, he employs minor misdirection, physical and psychological torture and guerilla tactics in order to lay waste to the skittish and drug-addled crooks he goes up against.
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* CombatPragmatist: Harry, being an elderly pensioner with health problems, knows he hasn't got doesn't have a chance in hell taking on the much younger gangs of criminals in a straight fight, and so calls on his Royal Marine training to get the job done. Throughout the film, he employs minor misdirection, physical and psychological torture and guerilla tactics in order to lay waste to the skittish and drug-addled crooks he goes up against.
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* MuggingTheMonster: Dean, one of the drug dealers, spots a drunken Harry flashing a wad of cash in the pub. Thinking him to be an easy mark, Dean attempts to rob the older man on his way home. Despite being over seventy and very drunk, Harry's Marine training kicks in and he turns the knife on Dean when he moves to attack him. Harry's reaction implies he may not have even realised he was doing it.
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--> '''Harry:''' I want to shoot the pigeons... off my room.
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--> '''Harry:''' I want to shoot the pigeons... off my room.roof.
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* BlantantLies: When Harry is dealing with one of the thugs for a gun, he claims he wants to use it to "shoot the pigeons from his roof". While it makes the thug no less willing to go ahead with the deal, it's implied that he doesn't believe Harry for a second.
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* BlantantLies: BlatantLies: When Harry is dealing with one of the thugs for a gun, he claims he wants to use it to "shoot the pigeons from his roof". While it makes the thug no less willing to go ahead with the deal, it's implied that he doesn't believe Harry for a second.
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--> '''Thug:''' What do you want a gun for, brother?
--> '''Harry:''' I want to shoot the pigeons... off my room.
--> '''Thug (smiling sardonically):''' Yeah... of course you do.
--> '''Thug:''' What do you want a gun for, brother?
--> '''Harry:''' I want to shoot the pigeons... off my room.
--> '''Thug (smiling sardonically):''' Yeah... of course you do.
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** RetiredBadass: A former Royal Marine.
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** RetiredBadass: A former Royal Marine.
*** Except... It's pretty clear from the paraphernalia in Harry's box that he was a Para - the knife especially - and the photograph shows a detachment in Ulster which would be quite inappropriate for Marines, so this maybe a case of Lost In Translation
