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** On the other hand, she appears to take pains [[spoiler:not to kill anyone except]] the Russian spies, so she's arguably no worse than a type IV, at least from the perspective of [[spoiler:American intelligence.]]
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* AntiHero: Evelyn Salt lives on the edge of NominalHero, and goes deep into it after [[spoiler: Mike is killed.]]
** On the other hand,]] She is moral enough spare everyone she appears to take pains [[spoiler:not can, even when it would have been far easier to kill anyone except]] the Russian spies, so she's arguably no worse than a type IV, at least from the perspective of [[spoiler:American intelligence.]]them.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The list of Salt's special abilities that Peabody receives on his phone, which includes skydiving, hand-to-hand combat and many other skills Salt proves that she posesses through the film.
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* FugitiveArc: Salt is named as a mole by a captured Cold War derelict, making the CIA after her. She escapes house arrest, then reconnects with her Soviet spy comrades. However, when Salt learns that her superiors are planning a rogue operation that will trigger a nuclear war, she works feverishly to undo their plans. This makes Evelyn Salt kill-on-sight by American and Soviet forces.
* FugitiveArc: Salt is named as a mole by a captured Cold War derelict, making the CIA after her. She escapes house arrest, then reconnects with her Soviet spy comrades. However, when Salt learns that her superiors are planning a rogue operation that will trigger a nuclear war, she works feverishly to undo their plans. This makes Evelyn Salt kill-on-sight by American and Soviet forces.
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* AntiHero: And how! Evelyn Salt lives on the edge of [[SlidingScaleofAntiHeroes Type V territory]], NominalHero, and goes deep into it after [[spoiler: Mike is killed.]]
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* MsFanservice / EverybodyRemembersTheStripper: Twenty years from now, the movie might be remembered as "the film where AngelinaJolie takes off her knickers" (not that she actually revealed anything...).
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''Salt'' is an American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Kurt Wimmer and Brian Helgeland, and starring AngelinaJolie, Creator/AngelinaJolie, Liev Schreiber, and ChiwetelEjiofor. Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, who is accused of being a KGB sleeper agent, and goes on the run to try to clear her name. While TomCruise was initially secured for the lead, he was unable to commit to the role because of commitments to other projects, and the script was ultimately rewritten for Jolie.
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* {{Lzherusskie}}: As usual, Russian characters are played, with the exception of extras, by non-Russian actors. (though at one point it was [[EnforcedTrope enforced]]: AndreiKonchalovsky told Noyce to pick a certain actor for Orlov because "such an evil Russian character could only be played by a Polish actor")
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* {{Lzherusskie}}: As usual, Russian characters are played, with the exception of extras, by non-Russian actors. (though at one point it was [[EnforcedTrope enforced]]: AndreiKonchalovsky Creator/AndreiKonchalovsky told Noyce to pick a certain actor for Orlov because "such an evil Russian character could only be played by a Polish actor")
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** Also, [[spoiler: being a woman, Salt's real name would be ''Chenkova'' as opposed to the masculine ''Chenkov'']]. This was [[TranslationCorrection corrected]] in the Russian dub.
** The NATO representative is referred to as "Colonel" though he wears Colonel-General (equivalent to the American Lieutenant-General) insignia.
** Also, [[spoiler: being a woman, Salt's real name would be ''Chenkova'' as opposed to the masculine ''Chenkov'']]. This was [[TranslationCorrection corrected]] in the Russian dub.
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* GenderFlip: The part of Salt was originally written for a man, "Edwin Salt", and TomCruise was considered, but thought the character was too similar to Ethan Hunt in ''MissionImpossible''. The part was eventually changed to a female character and very few changes were made, although there was originally a different sequence in which [[spoiler: [[DistressedDude Salt saves her husband]]]], [[UnfortunateImplications which was changed]] because it seemed to [[ARealManIsAKiller "castrate" the male character too much]]. Uhh...
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* GenderFlip: The part of Salt was originally written for a man, "Edwin Salt", and TomCruise was considered, but thought the character was too similar to Ethan Hunt in ''MissionImpossible''.''Film/MissionImpossible''. The part was eventually changed to a female character and very few changes were made, although there was originally a different sequence in which [[spoiler: [[DistressedDude Salt saves her husband]]]], [[UnfortunateImplications which was changed]] because it seemed to [[ARealManIsAKiller "castrate" the male character too much]]. Uhh...
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* LifeImitatesArt: The real-life cases of sleeper agents implanted in the US was recently brought to light with a prisoner exchange between Russia and the US, some of the prisoners being undercover spies. The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program plots]] and [[http://theblemish.com/2010/10/anna-chapman-is-in-maxim-russia/: skills]] of the real sleeper agents were less impressive than the ones in the film.
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* LifeImitatesArt: The Just as the film was being released, real-life cases of sleeper agents implanted in the US was recently were brought to light with a prisoner exchange between Russia and the US, some of the prisoners being undercover spies. The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program plots]] and [[http://theblemish.com/2010/10/anna-chapman-is-in-maxim-russia/: skills]] of the real sleeper agents were less impressive than the ones in the film.
* {{Lzherusskie}}: As usual, Russian characters are played, with the exception of extras, by non-Russian actors. (though at one point it was [[EnforcedTrope enforced]]: AndreiKonchalovsky told Noyce to pick a certain actor for Orlov because "such an evil Russian character could only be played by a Polish actor")
* {{Lzherusskie}}: As usual, Russian characters are played, with the exception of extras, by non-Russian actors. (though at one point it was [[EnforcedTrope enforced]]: AndreiKonchalovsky told Noyce to pick a certain actor for Orlov because "such an evil Russian character could only be played by a Polish actor")
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* ViralMarketing: The producers of SALT ran a multi-week game where the player, being a rookie agent, is given the choice to assist Salt or turn her over to the government. If the player turned her over, the game ended. If the player helped her, [[spoiler: she used the player to assist her in eliminating other, deep-cover agents]]. After the last episode, she then [[spoiler: had the player trapped in an abandonded warehouse and then called the player's superior officer, who came and picked up the agent, presumably for arrest and punishment.]] The premise of the game was [[spoiler: the rookie agent unwittingly helped her (a Russian deep-cover mole) while thinking she was actually being framed for the crime.]] Pretty mind-blowing, huh?
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* Web: The producers of SALT ran a multi-week game where the player, being a rookie agent, is given the choice to assist Salt or turn her over to the government. If the player turned her over, the game ended. If the player helped her, [[spoiler: she used the player to assist her in eliminating other, deep-cover agents]]. After the last episode, she then [[spoiler: had the player trapped in an abandonded warehouse and then called the player's superior officer, who came and picked up the agent, presumably for arrest and punishment.]] The premise of the game was [[spoiler: the rookie agent unwittingly helped her (a Russian deep-cover mole) while thinking she was actually being framed for the crime.]] Pretty mind-blowing, huh?
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''Salt'' is an American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Kurt Wimmer and Brian Helgeland, and starring AngelinaJolie, Liev Schreiber, and Chiwetel Ejiofor.ChiwetelEjiofor. Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, who is accused of being a KGB sleeper agent, and goes on the run to try to clear her name. While TomCruise was initially secured for the lead, he was unable to commit to the role because of commitments to other projects, and the script was ultimately rewritten for Jolie.
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* TomatoSurprise: All the trailers imply that Salt is being framed, and throughout the first half of the movie she certainly acts like it. Then it turns out she ''is'' a DeepCoverAgent and has been concealing it from her coworkers, her husband and the audience this whole time.
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* {{Bifauxnen}}: Salt spends the last twenty minutes of the movie sporting a short haircut and men's clothes. It's AngelinaJolie. [[FetishFuel Nuff said]].
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* Web: The producers of SALT ran a multi-week game where the player, being a rookie agent, is given the choice to assist Salt or turn her over to the government. If the player turned her over, the game ended. If the player helped her, [[spoiler: she used the player to assist her in eliminating other, deep-cover agents]]. After the last episode, she then [[spoiler: had the player trapped in an abandonded warehouse and then called the player's superior officer, who came and picked up the agent, presumably for arrest and punishment.]] The premise of the game was [[spoiler: the rookie agent unwittingly helped her (a Russian deep-cover mole) while thinking she was actually being framed for the crime.]] Pretty mind-blowing, huh?
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* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Guess what language is spoken by almost all of the main characters. Hint: Russian. (In addition to English obviously.)
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''Salt'' is an American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Kurt Wimmer and Brian Helgeland, and starring AngelinaJolie, Liev Schreiber, and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, who is accused of being a KGB sleeper agent, and goes on the run to try to clear her name. While TomCruise was initially secured for the lead, he was unable to commit to the role because of commitments to other projects, and the script was ultimately rewritten for Jolie.
Filming took place on location in Washington, DC and New York City between March and June 2009. Jolie was taken to the hospital after suffering a head injury on set but was released the same day where filming resumed. The film opened in North America on July 23, 2010.
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'''''Salt'' provides examples of:'''
* ActionGirl
* {{Adorkable}}: Mike.
* AntiHero: And how! Evelyn Salt lives on the edge of [[SlidingScaleofAntiHeroes Type V territory]], and goes deep into it after [[spoiler: Mike is killed.]]
** On the other hand, she appears to take pains [[spoiler:not to kill anyone except]] the Russian spies, so she's arguably no worse than a type IV, at least from the perspective of [[spoiler:American intelligence.]]
* BecomingTheMask: Salt was originally only using her husband as a cover to gain entry to North Korean territory for the CIA, but his rescue of her when she was capture lead to genuine love, [[spoiler: which lead her to betray her ''real'' superiors, the Russians who later had him killed.]]
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Salt spends the last twenty minutes of the movie sporting a short haircut and men's clothes. It's AngelinaJolie. [[FetishFuel Nuff said]].
* BorrowedBiometricBypass: No surgery is involved, but [[spoiler: Winter]] does use the unconscious[[spoiler:(dead, in the director's cut)]] President's fingerprints to confirm the launch codes.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The fanatical sleeper agents, especially [[spoiler: Winter and the suicide bomber who used being a NATO agent and White House liaison as his cover.]]
* CarCushion: Salt falls from great heights and has her fall broken by cars and vans, and never receives any lasting damage.
* ChekhovsGun: We see Salt collecting [[spoiler: spider venom]] early in the movie, and at the very end it's revealed that she uses it to [[spoiler: fake the Russian president's death.]]
** More like [[spoiler: [[IncrediblyLamePun Chenkov's gun]].]] Am I right?
* ColdWar: Even though it's set in present day, the roots of the conflict can be traced back here.
* CombatStilettos: Averted. One of the first thing she does when she goes on the run is take off her heels. She wears flat boots for the rest of the movie.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: And how. Especially when you consider that Salt is tearing through scads of presumably highly-trained Secret Service agents.
* DeepCoverAgent: During the Cold War, the plan was to send dozens of them into American society, and for all of them to attack different highly placed American targets on a given day. [[spoiler: Salt is one as well.]]
* DefconFive: Averted: [[spoiler: In the White House's bunker, one of the President's Cabinet]] correctly changes the Defcon level from '4' to '2'.
* DescriptionCut: Peabody, Winter and other agents are discussing how hard it would be for Salt to break into St Bart's chapel, then we see her crawling along the sewers.
* DidNotDoTheResearch: That is ''not'' how you [[spoiler: milk a spider.]]
** Also, [[spoiler: being a woman, Salt's real name would be ''Chenkova'' as opposed to the masculine ''Chenkov'']]. This was [[TranslationCorrection corrected]] in the Russian dub.
** The NATO representative is referred to as "Colonel" though he wears Colonel-General (equivalent to the American Lieutenant-General) insignia.
* DirtyCommunists: And how!
* DyeOrDie: Evelyn Salt is blonde. While on the run, she paints it black (and at a certain point, cuts it in order to [[spoiler: disguise herself as a man]]).
* {{Expy}}: Angelina Jolie [[spoiler: [[MrAndMrsSmith as a sleeper agent assassin who Turns Against Her Masters because she fell in love with her cover husband.]]]]
* FanDisservice: Your milage may very, as its Angelina Jolie, at the beginning the movie, Salt, looking dangerously skinny from starvation, being tortured in her underwear.
* FootFocus: After the aforementioned shedding of the high heels. Even RogerEbert [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100721/REVIEWS/100729997 noticed]].
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: The Russian President]]. Also, does anyone really think [[spoiler: Liev Schrieber's character]] ''won't'' be back for the sequel?
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The list of Salt's special abilities that Peabody receives on his phone, which includes skydiving, hand-to-hand combat and many other skills Salt proves that she posesses through the film.
* GenderFlip: The part of Salt was originally written for a man, "Edwin Salt", and TomCruise was considered, but thought the character was too similar to Ethan Hunt in ''MissionImpossible''. The part was eventually changed to a female character and very few changes were made, although there was originally a different sequence in which [[spoiler: DistressedDude Salt saves her husband,]] [[spoiler: UnfortunateImplications which was changed]] because it seemed to [[ARealManIsAKiller "castrate" the male character too much]]. Uhh...
* [[spoiler: GoodIsNotNice]]
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Guess what language is spoken by almost all of the main characters. Hint: Russian. (In addition to English obviously.)
* HandyCuffs: A spectacularly silly example, as [[spoiler: Salt had previously just beaten the piss out of several cops and Secret Service agents with her bare hands. Not that it matters. When they cuff her hands behind her back at the end, she still manages to kill Winters.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: It is unclear when, but somewhere down the line, [[spoiler: Salt stopped being a Russian agent, though it most probably happened when [[LoveRedeems she fell in love with Mike]].]]
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Pistol whips are abound in this movie.
* ImprovisedWeapon
* InspectorJavert: Peabody, in the beginning of the movie. For all he knows, there's a Russian spy loose, and it's his job to catch her.
* JumpOffABridge: Salt escapes from her fellow [=CIA=] agents at one point in this way.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Averted - just as it looks as though Ted is going get away with everything, Salt strangles him to death.]]
* KickTheDog: After [[spoiler: Ted mows down everyone in the bunker, while Ted is talking with the president]], one woman pops her head out, behind a chair, to have a look around. She is promptly shot in the face, because we weren't sure how evil he was after we laughed at the National Security Advisor joke.
* LifeImitatesArt: The real-life cases of sleeper agents implanted in the US was recently brought to light with a prisoner exchange between Russia and the US, some of the prisoners being undercover spies. The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program plots]] and [[http://theblemish.com/2010/10/anna-chapman-is-in-maxim-russia/: skills]] of the real sleeper agents were less impressive than the ones in the film.
* {{Lzherusskie}}: As usual, Russian characters are played, with the exception of extras, by non-Russian actors.
* MacGyvering: Salt improvises a cannon of sorts from several cleaning chemicals, the hollow plastic leg of a table and a fire extinguisher.
* MakeTheBearAngryAgain: [[spoiler: The bad guys are deep-cover Soviet agents trying to destroy the United States, and they'll do anything to make that come to pass, including eliminating the president of Russia. In other words, Russians are trying to make ''their own bear'' angry again.]]
* TheMole: A great many characters.
* MoleInCharge: [[spoiler:The Director's Cut heavily implies that the new US President is one of the sleeper agents.]]
* MsFanservice / EverybodyRemembersTheStripper: Twenty years from now, the movie might be remembered as "the film where AngelinaJolie takes off her knickers" (not that she actually revealed anything...).
** And in the process, she creates the luckiest security camera in that ever existed. Of course, given that she had any number of other articles of clothing she could have used, the fact that she used her ''panties'' of all things is a bit silly.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Russian president Boris Matveyev bears more than a passing resemblance to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin Boris Yeltsin]]; is name isn't exactly very differentiated from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev Dimitri Medvedev]]'s either...
** Salt's male disguise looks suspiciously like [[TomCruise the guy she would've been]] had they not changed the script.
* NotHelpingYourCase: Salt immediately goes on the run after she is accused of being a Russian sleeper agent with orders to assassinate the president of Russia, leaving American law enforcement no choice but to chase her.
** But then again, [[spoiler: she ''was'' a sleeper agent after all and so she might have been found out if she hadn't left to protect her husband.]]
* NotQuiteDead: When everybody thinks that [[spoiler: the Russian president]] has been shot, it turns out that [[spoiler: it was actually spider venom that causes paralysis.]]
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Both the Russian and American presidents are [[spoiler: President Targets.]]
* PetTheDog: Quite literally--Salt has an adorable little dog in the beginning of the movie, just so she can show the audience her softer side. Her relationship with Mike serves the same purpose, in addition to providing her excuse for fleeing.
* PlotArmor: If pulling off nigh-impossible stunts for most of the movie (including falling from a bridge inside a car, with no seatbelt and back to the panel) and leaving without so much as a scuffed knee doesn't qualify, walking away unscathed after being shot by a rifle (wearing only a light vest) surely does.
* ReCut: Apart from the theatrical version, there's a Director's Cut and an Extended Cut, each with its own ending (the former has [[spoiler:a voice-over implying Salt is dead, and [[TheBadGuyWins the new president is a covert Russian agent]]]], and the latter [[spoiler:Salt escaping from the FBI, and leaving for Russia, where she kills Orlov - the scene with his death in the barge was cut - and destroys the facility where new agents are being created]])
* RenegadeRussian: [[spoiler: Orlov represents a group of Communist hardliners that somehow outlived the Cold War and are opposed to the Russian government.]]
* RuleOfCool: For all we know, Evelyn Salt is WonderWoman's sister, taking into consideration all the crazy stuff she is able to pull off in the film.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:The FBI chief frees Salt, on the promise she'll hunt the rest of the [[DeepCoverAgent KAs.]]]] Absent from both {{ReCut}}s (see above).
** That scene is present in the Director's Cut, in addition to the [[SequelHook further implication]] that [[spoiler:one of the [=KAs=] is now the new American President]].
* ShootTheShaggyDog: The first half of the movie. [[spoiler: After desperately searching for her husband, she finds him...only to be forced to stand there and watch him die as a test of loyalty]]. Granted, it's what opens up the second half of the plot, and in a way it nicely averts AMillionIsAStatistic and ProtagonistCenteredMorality (since it could be interpreted that her actions - or inactions - mean she believes that [[spoiler: preventing Orlov's plans to start a world war is more important than saving Mike]]. Even so, it did seem to undermine the first half of the movie.
** Of course, doing this makes the first half of the movie a violent rescue movie and the second half of the movie a kind of revenge movie. Both are normally styles of film reserved exclusively for male protagonists, yet Salt pulls off the lead role being at least as bad-ass as any male action hero.
* ShoutOut: When Ted [[spoiler:reveals his TrueColors by shooting down most of the President's Cabinet in the bunker]], the National Security Advisor is gunned down after stating his position in a futile attempt to be spared. This is a reference to ''Film/AirForceOne'', in which Russian operatives also killed the National Security Advisor during an attempted coup on the titular plane.
** Also several shoutouts to the Bond films, including the whole North Korean sequence from ''DieAnotherDay'' and Orlov's switchblade shoe from ''FromRussiaWithLove''. Both are entirely factual, but likely to have been shout outs.
** The way Salt dyes her hair and employs various disguises is reminiscent of the ''Film/MissionImpossible'' films and the TV show ''Series/{{Alias}}''.
** She also refers to herself as a "patsy" at one point--possibly a reference to Lee Harvey Oswald, mentioned in the beginning of the film, who referred to himself as such in relation to JFK's assassination.
* StunGuns: Salt uses a Taser to knock out and then "puppeteer" a police car driver.
* {{Tagline}}: "Who is Salt?"
** Which is immediately answered lower in the poster with "Angelina Jolie".
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Ted Winter. He's actually another sleeper agent.]]
* TwistEnding
* WaifFu: Ms Jolie has never looked thinner but has no problem chucking men twice her size around.
* WallJump: Salt does this at least twice, jumping off the wall to kick an assailant.
* WhoShotJFK: "In 1959, Lee Harvey Oswald visited Russia. The guy who returned was an agent named Alek"
* WouldNotShootAGoodGuy: If you notice carefully, Salt never kills any of the "good" guys, she knocks them out with darts, non-lethal venom and painful but not deadly martial arts moves. She only kills [[spoiler: Orlov, Winter and the other Russian sleeper agents.]]
** Half of the things she did would kill someone such as the makeshift rpg.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Averted quite hard.
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''Salt'' is an American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Kurt Wimmer and Brian Helgeland, and starring AngelinaJolie, Liev Schreiber, and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, who is accused of being a KGB sleeper agent, and goes on the run to try to clear her name. While TomCruise was initially secured for the lead, he was unable to commit to the role because of commitments to other projects, and the script was ultimately rewritten for Jolie.
Filming took place on location in Washington, DC and New York City between March and June 2009. Jolie was taken to the hospital after suffering a head injury on set but was released the same day where filming resumed. The film opened in North America on July 23, 2010.
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'''''Salt'' provides examples of:'''
* ActionGirl
* {{Adorkable}}: Mike.
* AntiHero: And how! Evelyn Salt lives on the edge of [[SlidingScaleofAntiHeroes Type V territory]], and goes deep into it after [[spoiler: Mike is killed.]]
** On the other hand, she appears to take pains [[spoiler:not to kill anyone except]] the Russian spies, so she's arguably no worse than a type IV, at least from the perspective of [[spoiler:American intelligence.]]
* BecomingTheMask: Salt was originally only using her husband as a cover to gain entry to North Korean territory for the CIA, but his rescue of her when she was capture lead to genuine love, [[spoiler: which lead her to betray her ''real'' superiors, the Russians who later had him killed.]]
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Salt spends the last twenty minutes of the movie sporting a short haircut and men's clothes. It's AngelinaJolie. [[FetishFuel Nuff said]].
* BorrowedBiometricBypass: No surgery is involved, but [[spoiler: Winter]] does use the unconscious[[spoiler:(dead, in the director's cut)]] President's fingerprints to confirm the launch codes.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The fanatical sleeper agents, especially [[spoiler: Winter and the suicide bomber who used being a NATO agent and White House liaison as his cover.]]
* CarCushion: Salt falls from great heights and has her fall broken by cars and vans, and never receives any lasting damage.
* ChekhovsGun: We see Salt collecting [[spoiler: spider venom]] early in the movie, and at the very end it's revealed that she uses it to [[spoiler: fake the Russian president's death.]]
** More like [[spoiler: [[IncrediblyLamePun Chenkov's gun]].]] Am I right?
* ColdWar: Even though it's set in present day, the roots of the conflict can be traced back here.
* CombatStilettos: Averted. One of the first thing she does when she goes on the run is take off her heels. She wears flat boots for the rest of the movie.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: And how. Especially when you consider that Salt is tearing through scads of presumably highly-trained Secret Service agents.
* DeepCoverAgent: During the Cold War, the plan was to send dozens of them into American society, and for all of them to attack different highly placed American targets on a given day. [[spoiler: Salt is one as well.]]
* DefconFive: Averted: [[spoiler: In the White House's bunker, one of the President's Cabinet]] correctly changes the Defcon level from '4' to '2'.
* DescriptionCut: Peabody, Winter and other agents are discussing how hard it would be for Salt to break into St Bart's chapel, then we see her crawling along the sewers.
* DidNotDoTheResearch: That is ''not'' how you [[spoiler: milk a spider.]]
** Also, [[spoiler: being a woman, Salt's real name would be ''Chenkova'' as opposed to the masculine ''Chenkov'']]. This was [[TranslationCorrection corrected]] in the Russian dub.
** The NATO representative is referred to as "Colonel" though he wears Colonel-General (equivalent to the American Lieutenant-General) insignia.
* DirtyCommunists: And how!
* DyeOrDie: Evelyn Salt is blonde. While on the run, she paints it black (and at a certain point, cuts it in order to [[spoiler: disguise herself as a man]]).
* {{Expy}}: Angelina Jolie [[spoiler: [[MrAndMrsSmith as a sleeper agent assassin who Turns Against Her Masters because she fell in love with her cover husband.]]]]
* FanDisservice: Your milage may very, as its Angelina Jolie, at the beginning the movie, Salt, looking dangerously skinny from starvation, being tortured in her underwear.
* FootFocus: After the aforementioned shedding of the high heels. Even RogerEbert [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100721/REVIEWS/100729997 noticed]].
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: The Russian President]]. Also, does anyone really think [[spoiler: Liev Schrieber's character]] ''won't'' be back for the sequel?
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The list of Salt's special abilities that Peabody receives on his phone, which includes skydiving, hand-to-hand combat and many other skills Salt proves that she posesses through the film.
* GenderFlip: The part of Salt was originally written for a man, "Edwin Salt", and TomCruise was considered, but thought the character was too similar to Ethan Hunt in ''MissionImpossible''. The part was eventually changed to a female character and very few changes were made, although there was originally a different sequence in which [[spoiler: DistressedDude Salt saves her husband,]] [[spoiler: UnfortunateImplications which was changed]] because it seemed to [[ARealManIsAKiller "castrate" the male character too much]]. Uhh...
* [[spoiler: GoodIsNotNice]]
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Guess what language is spoken by almost all of the main characters. Hint: Russian. (In addition to English obviously.)
* HandyCuffs: A spectacularly silly example, as [[spoiler: Salt had previously just beaten the piss out of several cops and Secret Service agents with her bare hands. Not that it matters. When they cuff her hands behind her back at the end, she still manages to kill Winters.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: It is unclear when, but somewhere down the line, [[spoiler: Salt stopped being a Russian agent, though it most probably happened when [[LoveRedeems she fell in love with Mike]].]]
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Pistol whips are abound in this movie.
* ImprovisedWeapon
* InspectorJavert: Peabody, in the beginning of the movie. For all he knows, there's a Russian spy loose, and it's his job to catch her.
* JumpOffABridge: Salt escapes from her fellow [=CIA=] agents at one point in this way.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Averted - just as it looks as though Ted is going get away with everything, Salt strangles him to death.]]
* KickTheDog: After [[spoiler: Ted mows down everyone in the bunker, while Ted is talking with the president]], one woman pops her head out, behind a chair, to have a look around. She is promptly shot in the face, because we weren't sure how evil he was after we laughed at the National Security Advisor joke.
* LifeImitatesArt: The real-life cases of sleeper agents implanted in the US was recently brought to light with a prisoner exchange between Russia and the US, some of the prisoners being undercover spies. The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program plots]] and [[http://theblemish.com/2010/10/anna-chapman-is-in-maxim-russia/: skills]] of the real sleeper agents were less impressive than the ones in the film.
* {{Lzherusskie}}: As usual, Russian characters are played, with the exception of extras, by non-Russian actors.
* MacGyvering: Salt improvises a cannon of sorts from several cleaning chemicals, the hollow plastic leg of a table and a fire extinguisher.
* MakeTheBearAngryAgain: [[spoiler: The bad guys are deep-cover Soviet agents trying to destroy the United States, and they'll do anything to make that come to pass, including eliminating the president of Russia. In other words, Russians are trying to make ''their own bear'' angry again.]]
* TheMole: A great many characters.
* MoleInCharge: [[spoiler:The Director's Cut heavily implies that the new US President is one of the sleeper agents.]]
* MsFanservice / EverybodyRemembersTheStripper: Twenty years from now, the movie might be remembered as "the film where AngelinaJolie takes off her knickers" (not that she actually revealed anything...).
** And in the process, she creates the luckiest security camera in that ever existed. Of course, given that she had any number of other articles of clothing she could have used, the fact that she used her ''panties'' of all things is a bit silly.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Russian president Boris Matveyev bears more than a passing resemblance to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin Boris Yeltsin]]; is name isn't exactly very differentiated from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev Dimitri Medvedev]]'s either...
** Salt's male disguise looks suspiciously like [[TomCruise the guy she would've been]] had they not changed the script.
* NotHelpingYourCase: Salt immediately goes on the run after she is accused of being a Russian sleeper agent with orders to assassinate the president of Russia, leaving American law enforcement no choice but to chase her.
** But then again, [[spoiler: she ''was'' a sleeper agent after all and so she might have been found out if she hadn't left to protect her husband.]]
* NotQuiteDead: When everybody thinks that [[spoiler: the Russian president]] has been shot, it turns out that [[spoiler: it was actually spider venom that causes paralysis.]]
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Both the Russian and American presidents are [[spoiler: President Targets.]]
* PetTheDog: Quite literally--Salt has an adorable little dog in the beginning of the movie, just so she can show the audience her softer side. Her relationship with Mike serves the same purpose, in addition to providing her excuse for fleeing.
* PlotArmor: If pulling off nigh-impossible stunts for most of the movie (including falling from a bridge inside a car, with no seatbelt and back to the panel) and leaving without so much as a scuffed knee doesn't qualify, walking away unscathed after being shot by a rifle (wearing only a light vest) surely does.
* ReCut: Apart from the theatrical version, there's a Director's Cut and an Extended Cut, each with its own ending (the former has [[spoiler:a voice-over implying Salt is dead, and [[TheBadGuyWins the new president is a covert Russian agent]]]], and the latter [[spoiler:Salt escaping from the FBI, and leaving for Russia, where she kills Orlov - the scene with his death in the barge was cut - and destroys the facility where new agents are being created]])
* RenegadeRussian: [[spoiler: Orlov represents a group of Communist hardliners that somehow outlived the Cold War and are opposed to the Russian government.]]
* RuleOfCool: For all we know, Evelyn Salt is WonderWoman's sister, taking into consideration all the crazy stuff she is able to pull off in the film.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:The FBI chief frees Salt, on the promise she'll hunt the rest of the [[DeepCoverAgent KAs.]]]] Absent from both {{ReCut}}s (see above).
** That scene is present in the Director's Cut, in addition to the [[SequelHook further implication]] that [[spoiler:one of the [=KAs=] is now the new American President]].
* ShootTheShaggyDog: The first half of the movie. [[spoiler: After desperately searching for her husband, she finds him...only to be forced to stand there and watch him die as a test of loyalty]]. Granted, it's what opens up the second half of the plot, and in a way it nicely averts AMillionIsAStatistic and ProtagonistCenteredMorality (since it could be interpreted that her actions - or inactions - mean she believes that [[spoiler: preventing Orlov's plans to start a world war is more important than saving Mike]]. Even so, it did seem to undermine the first half of the movie.
** Of course, doing this makes the first half of the movie a violent rescue movie and the second half of the movie a kind of revenge movie. Both are normally styles of film reserved exclusively for male protagonists, yet Salt pulls off the lead role being at least as bad-ass as any male action hero.
* ShoutOut: When Ted [[spoiler:reveals his TrueColors by shooting down most of the President's Cabinet in the bunker]], the National Security Advisor is gunned down after stating his position in a futile attempt to be spared. This is a reference to ''Film/AirForceOne'', in which Russian operatives also killed the National Security Advisor during an attempted coup on the titular plane.
** Also several shoutouts to the Bond films, including the whole North Korean sequence from ''DieAnotherDay'' and Orlov's switchblade shoe from ''FromRussiaWithLove''. Both are entirely factual, but likely to have been shout outs.
** The way Salt dyes her hair and employs various disguises is reminiscent of the ''Film/MissionImpossible'' films and the TV show ''Series/{{Alias}}''.
** She also refers to herself as a "patsy" at one point--possibly a reference to Lee Harvey Oswald, mentioned in the beginning of the film, who referred to himself as such in relation to JFK's assassination.
* StunGuns: Salt uses a Taser to knock out and then "puppeteer" a police car driver.
* {{Tagline}}: "Who is Salt?"
** Which is immediately answered lower in the poster with "Angelina Jolie".
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Ted Winter. He's actually another sleeper agent.]]
* TwistEnding
* WaifFu: Ms Jolie has never looked thinner but has no problem chucking men twice her size around.
* WallJump: Salt does this at least twice, jumping off the wall to kick an assailant.
* WhoShotJFK: "In 1959, Lee Harvey Oswald visited Russia. The guy who returned was an agent named Alek"
* WouldNotShootAGoodGuy: If you notice carefully, Salt never kills any of the "good" guys, she knocks them out with darts, non-lethal venom and painful but not deadly martial arts moves. She only kills [[spoiler: Orlov, Winter and the other Russian sleeper agents.]]
** Half of the things she did would kill someone such as the makeshift rpg.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Averted quite hard.
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