History Film / HobbsAndShaw

* CurbStompBattle: Due to his SuperSoldier status most of the battles against Brixton go this way for the heroes, with them repeatedly only surviving via taking advantage of their terrain ([[spoiler:sending his bike crashing into a tour bus, having half his Ukrainian base collapse on him during the truck fight]]). [[spoiler:It's only in the final battle the heroes are able to subvert this by working together to overload his enhanced senses]].

* CardCarryingVillain: Brixton flatly introduces himself as "Bad Guy" shortly before his massacre of the MI6 team.

** Shaw is a former MI6 agent. He and Brixton are old associates, both of whom gradually became disillusioned with the world they were fighting to preserve over the course of their careers. [[spoiler:Eteon approached both of them and offered the chance to JoinOrDie; Brixton accepted, but Shaw declined, and Brixton was sent to assassinate him to [[HeKnowsTooMuch keep him from talking]]; he failed and Shaw ended up killing him, but not before successfully framing Deckard for going rogue and killing the rest of his squad. Shaw was forced to go underground and his sister broke all ties with him because she thought he was guilty, while Brixton's body was recovered and he was revived as a cyborg assassin.]]

* WillfullyWeak: Hobbs manages to track down Hattie and she tries to fight him off. Despite being a skilled MI6 operative, he's still a foot taller and 200 pounds heavier. A few moments makes it seem like she is getting the upper hand using {{Improvised Weapon}}s, grappling and arm locks, but he is just biding his time letting her wear herself out. The instant he's done he just lifts her in the air.

* PaperThinDisguise: After everyone being framed as terrorists, Shaw hand waves a claim about being able to digitally hide their appearance and create new passports when they travel. While Hattie's in-person disguise is rather convincing (due to wearing big glasses and a brown pixie cut wig to hide her medium length blonde hair), Shaw's amounts to wearing a beanie and Hobbs wears a nightmarishly ugly shirt. While Hobbs is given trouble at the airport due to Shaw messing with him, no one is discovered. All the more blatant as Hattie ditches her wig as soon as she's on the plane, which you'd think the aircrew might have noticed.

* HollywoodHacking: Exagerated. In the movie are 'net-connected weapons that can be disabled remotely with ease. Becomes FridgeLogic because [[spoiler: even the bad guy can be disabled in a similar way, but nobody even consider doing it via hacking]].

* TellMeHowYouFight: Hobbs realizes Hattie is not the remorseless traitor she is being framed after their fight. Explaining to her you learn a lot from fighting someone and at no point she seriously tried killing him.

* TellMeHowYouFight: Hobbs realizes Hattie is not the remorseless traitor she is being framed after their fight as she fight to escape him instead of killing him.

** To be fair, Hattie was taken hostage while the virus was being extracted from her body and seemed to be weakened by the process. Once the process was complete she freed herself with little effort.

* LogicalWeakness: Brixton cybernetics makes him impossible to beat in single combat but his CombatClairvoyance is limited to his sight so people can still blindside him. [[spoiler:Hobbs and Shaw just have to coordinate their attack so that one is always in a blindspot as Brixton attack the other.]]

* LogicalWeakness: Brixton cybernetics makes him impossible to beat in single combat but his CombatClairvoyance is limited to his sight so people can still blindside him. [[spoilers: Hobbs and Shaw just have to coordinate their attacks so that one is always in a blindspot as Brixton attack the other.]]

* RealityEnsues: Hattie is a highly trained MI-6 operative and can handle any number of ordinary mooks, but trying to fight the equally skilled, much bigger, much heavier Hobbs doesn't go so well.

* BrickJoke: One involving an actual brick: Locke complains about the improbability of Brixton stabbing someone with a brick when he initially meets Hobbs. [[spoiler:Cut to TheStinger and we see he's somehow managed to do the same with one of Eteon's goons. Turns out it's actually pretty easy]].

* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: Shaw when he tries to figure out which agent out of a pile of agents he just knocked out will open the door that has a [[FacialRecognitionSoftware face recognition lock system]].

* BattleInTheRain: [[spoiler: The FinalBattle with Brixton is a rain-soaked fistfight. It's all the more notable as when they briefly cut back to Eteon's men and Hobbs' family fighting it's still glorious sunshine.]]

* {{Expy}}: Locke is basically as close as we're gonna get to a ''Fast and the Furious'' version of Deadpool.

* JustPlaneWrong: When a helicopter is trying to gain altitude while chained to a [[spoiler:truck]], the pilot grunts and groans while pulling back on the main control stick. The clear implication is that a helicopter's ability to climb is in direct proportion to the amount of musclepower applied to the stick. In reality, the stick he's holding is called the ''cyclic pitch'' stick, and all it does is tilt the helicopter in the direction you pull the stick. Another control called the ''collective pitch'' lever, which you pull up on like a parking brake, controls how much lift the main rotor generates, in conjunction with a twist-grip throttle on the same lever (which works like a motorcycle's throttle). ''None'' of these controls gets harder to pull or twist if the helicopter is lifting a heavy load.