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* TrojanAmbulance: Parker steals an ambulance to facilitate his escape from the hospital. He later uses the medical supplies in the ambulance to conduct SelfSurgery.
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* GoodSamaritan: An elderly couple see Parker lying by the side of the road, stop and take him to the hospital. At the end of the movie he gives them a lot of money to reward them for it. Since Parker disappeared right after he arrived in the hospital, the couple came to believe that he was an angel sent by God to test them and now they are rewarded for being Good Samaritans.

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* HonorAmongThieves: Parker believes that you stay loyal to your partners unless they try to screw your over. Melander and his crew break that rule, steal his money and try to kill him so he has no problem killing them and taking their money. On the other hand, Leslie helped him when he was injured and did not betray him so gave her a share of the loot even though he could have kept it all for himself with no consequences.



* NoHonorAmongThieves: Parker refuses to throw in with his partners and pool his share of the loot with them so they can pull a second a job. His partners shoot him, take his share of the loot and leave him for dead.

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* NoHonorAmongThieves: Parker refuses to throw in with his partners and pool his share of the loot with them so they can pull a second a job. His partners shoot him, take his share of the loot and leave him for dead.
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* BadHabits: Parker dresses as priest for the first heist.

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* BadHabits: Parker dresses as a priest for the first heist.



* TheCanKickedHim: During the fight with the hitman in the hotel, Parker slams the hitman across the head with the lid from the cistern, causing him to fall and smash is head into the bathtub.

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* TheCanKickedHim: During the fight with the hitman in the hotel, Parker slams the hitman across the head with the lid from the cistern, causing him to fall and smash is his head into the bathtub.



* GentlemanThief: Parker.

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* %%* GentlemanThief: Parker.



* InformedAbility: The hitman. It should be the best, but we see him killing only an hapless character and he fails to kill Parker after surprising him from the back.

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* InformedAbility: The hitman. It He should be the best, but we see him killing only an a hapless character and he fails to kill Parker after surprising him from the back.



* MsFanservice: Leslie. Especially in her underwear.

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* MsFanservice: Leslie. Especially Leslie, as played by Creator/JenniferLopez, particularly while [[LingerieScene in her underwear.underwear]] when Parker orders her to strip so he can check that she's not wired. Parker is loyal to his girlfriend though, and [[NotDistractedByTheSexy immune to her charms]].



* TooDumbToLive: Arguably Parker; just knocked down an hitman? Forget about him and give him shoulders... Fortunately he is MadeOfIron}

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* TooDumbToLive: Arguably Parker; just knocked down an hitman? Forget about him and give him shoulders... Fortunately he is MadeOfIron}MadeOfIron.
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* RaceLift: In the novel ''Flashfire'', Leslie Rodgers is a blonde Caucasian. In the movie she is a Latina played by Creator/JenniferLopez, with Rodgers being explained as her married name.

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* RaceLift: In the novel ''Flashfire'', Leslie Rodgers is a blonde Caucasian. In the movie she is a Latina played by Creator/JenniferLopez, Jennifer Lopez, with Rodgers being explained as her married name.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the novel ''Flashfire'', Leslie is a middle-aged blonde Caucasian, running towards plumpness. In the film, she is Creator/JenniferLopez.

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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the novel ''Flashfire'', Leslie is a middle-aged blonde Caucasian, running towards plumpness. In the film, she is Creator/JenniferLopez.Music/JenniferLopez.
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: When the hitman is attempting to suffocate Parker with the shower curtain, Parker is able to break his grip by stamping his cowboy boot down hard on the hitman's instep.
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* FootprintsOfMuck: Leslie notices that her mother's dog is tracking bloody footprints across the kitchen floor. She has to clean them up without the cop she is talking to noticing.

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* SelfSurgery: After escaping from the hospital, Parker uses some of the supplies from his stolen ambulance to patch himself up.



* SelfSurgery: After escaping from the hospital, Parker uses some of the supplies from his stolen ambulance to patch himself up.
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* CrazyPrepared: Parker, to the extent that he breaks into his enemy's hideout and hides his own gun in there in case he needs them later.

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* CrazyPrepared: Parker, to the extent that he breaks into his enemy's hideout and hides his own gun guns in there in case he needs them later.
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* FeetFirstIntroduction: The first shot of Parker is of his feet emerging from his car. The camera slowly moves up his body as he takes a case out of the boot, before finally revealing his face.
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* BavarianFireDrill: Milander and his crew stage a fake fire at the auction, then turn up dressed as firefighters. This allows them to take control of the situation, exclude everyone else from the scene, and then loot the auction before the real firefighters turn up.
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* CHairmanOfTheBrawl: Parker uses a stool to battle, knock down, pin and interrogate Hardwicke's brother.

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* CHairmanOfTheBrawl: ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Parker uses a stool to battle, knock down, pin and interrogate Hardwicke's brother.



* DamselInDistress: Leslie Rogers siezes the [[IdiotBall Idiot Ball]] [[spoiler: by going to the hideout]] and nearly bollixing Parker's play.

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* DamselInDistress: Leslie Rogers siezes seizes the [[IdiotBall Idiot Ball]] [[spoiler: by going to the hideout]] and nearly bollixing Parker's play.
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* CHairmanOfTheBrawl: Parker uses a stool to battle, knock down, pin and interrogate Hardwicke's brother.
-->"...And you'll have the posthumous humiliation of having been killed by a chair."
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* UnorthodoxHolstering: When Parker goes back to visit Norte, he tucks his backup gun into his belt in such a fashion as to allow him to fire it backwards without drawing it. After he allows his main gun to be taken off him, he uses the backup piece to shoot Ernesto in the leg before he can be grabbed from behind.
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* SelfSurgery: After escaping from the hospital, Parker uses some of the supplies from his stolen ambulance to patch himself up.
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* ImpaledPalm: During the fight with the hitman in the hotel, Parker blocks an attempt to stab him with his hand. The knife goes all the way through his hand and remains there for the remainder of the fight.
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* TheCanKickedHim: During the fight with the hitman in the hotel, Parker slams the hitman across the head with the lid from the cistern, causing him to fall and smash is head into the bathtub.
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* LodgedBladeRecycling: During the final fight, Parker stabs Milander in the neck with the ejected [[ImprovisedWeapon clip from his gun]]. After Milander is dead, he grabs the clip back, slams it into his gun, and uses it to shot Hardwicke.
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* EarAche: Carlson gets his ear shot off when Parker deflects Ross' shotgun in the back of the getaway car.
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%%* DisneyVillainDeath: The hitman.

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%%* * DisneyVillainDeath: The hitman.hitman is kicked off a balcony by Parker. A long shot shows him falling, but another building blocks any shot of him hitting the ground.
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* RaceLift: In the novel ''Flashfire'', Leslie Rodgers is a blonde Caucasian. In the movie she is a Latina played by Creator/JenniferLopez, with Rodgers being explained as her married name.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the novel ''Flashfire'', Leslie is a middle-aged blonde Caucasian, running towards plumpness. In the film, she is Creator/JenniferLopez.
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* CrazyPrepared: Parker, to the extent that he breaks into his enemy's hideout and hides his own gun in there in case he needs them later.
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* ShowerOfLove: Parker and Clair share an intimate moment in the shower during a flashback while Parker is bleeding to death.
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* ScarSurvey: Claire conducts a scar survey on Parker's back during a ShowerOfLove in a flashback while Parker is bleeding to death.

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That's Caring Gardener now, and there's nothing about caring as a direct connection to being gardeners, in there..


--> '''Parker:''' Take off your clothes.
--> '''Leslie:''' ....What?
* TheGardener: After Parker is left for dead, he's saved when he gets picked up by some tomato farmers (Mundane Gardeners) who take him to a hospital.[[spoiler: At the end of the movie, they're on tv talking about how they think he was an angel sent to test them because they were sent enough money (which was actually from Parker, but they don't know that)to pay off their debts.]]

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--> '''Parker:''' Take off your clothes.
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clothes.\\
'''Leslie:''' ....What?
* TheGardener: After Parker is left for dead, he's saved when he gets picked up by some tomato farmers (Mundane Gardeners) who take him to a hospital.[[spoiler: At the end of the movie, they're on tv talking about how they think he was an angel sent to test them because they were sent enough money (which was actually from Parker, but they don't know that)to pay off their debts.]]
What?
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: It wasn't the most sane of ideas of his former partners to double-cross him.
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* TheGardener: After Parker is left for dead, he's saved when he gets picked up by some tomato farmers (Mundane Gardeners) who take him to a hospital.[[spoiler: At the end of the movie, they're on tv talking about how they think he was an angel sent to test them because they were sent enough money (which was actually from Parker, but they don't know that)to pay off their debts.]]

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