History Film / ShootEmUp

* GroinAttack: Played for laughs with the male version (the Marilyn Manson wannabe with the cock ring.) Played for drama and squick with the female version [[spoiler:(when Hertz tries to burn DQ's vulva with his hot gun barrel).]]

* CompleteMonster: Hertz's primary objective for most of the film is to murder a newborn infant, along with anyone else who gets in his way. After his initial appearance about four minutes in, he can't even go for even ''fifteen seconds'' without crossing the MoralEventHorizon (he kills one of his own wounded Mooks in order to get a better shot at Smith.) He wastes no time racking up his count of atrocities as he proceeds to [[spoiler:snipe an innocent bystander who tries to take Oliver, [[Squick fondle the corpse of Oliver's mother]], interrogate DQ by burning her with the hot tip of his gun barrel, threaten to burn DQ's ''genitals'' with the gun barrel (he's interrupted just in time by Smith), interrogate Smith in a horrific scene of ColdBloodedTorture, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking lie to his wife about making it home in time for his son's birthday party.]] ]]

[[ExcusePlot Oh, you want a bit more than that?]] All right, we'll give it a shot...

* ADateWithRosiePalms - "What were you doing in there?" "Cleaning my gun." "...Oh, really?"

* BrokenAesop: A movie that celebrates gun violence has a [[AmericanGunPolitics pro-gun control]] message. According to the DVD commentary this was not an attempt at a SpoofAesop, but was simply in keeping with the overall gun theme. All the problems and solutions of the film directly relate to guns.

* InfantImmortality

* ChaoticGood: Mr. Smith

* ActionHero: Mr. Smith, who can not only kill a man with just a carrot, but also shoot someone with a handful of bullets - ''with no gun.''

* ClusterFBomb: "Fuck you, you fucking fuckers!"

* ClusterFBomb: Smith shoots out a sign to read, "FUK U," while saying, "Fuck you, you fucking fuckers!" The camera pans to show the word "TOOL" next to it, and Hertz shoots out the L to have it read, "FUK U TOO."

* MoreDakka: Oh dear god.

* StrawmanPolitical: The liberal strawman political [[spoiler:thinks he's destined for the White House, and sells out his beliefs to save his own life. To be slightly fair, the Conservative strawman just blackmailed him into loosening up his gun laws.]] The conservative strawman does bad things with great relish and apparent enjoyment, and monologues about how guns are great because they let cowards feel powerful. So one strawman's a little more overstuffed than the other.

* ShoutOut: The whole film is a series of hyper-violent yet comedic encounters between [[LooneyTunes a protagonist who constantly eats carrots, and his hunter, a balding antagonist]] whose ringtone is ''[[WhatsOperaDoc Ride of the Valkyries]]''. Made explicit in one scene:

* BadassBystander: Arguably the entire point.

* BerserkButton: A number of things can trigger this response in Mr. Smith. For example, when he steals a car for parking in the handicapped zone, or runs another car off the road for repeatedly changing lanes without a signal. Basically everyday annoyances that usually only merit a gripe or two from normal people triggers homicidal rage in Mr. Smith. [[HeroicSociopath And we love him for it]].

* BizarreAndImprobableBallistics - The ending takes this to a new level - [[spoiler:a robber hides behind cover, and Smith shoots the robber's partner several times, with each bullet moving the partner's body in such a way that the partner's gun eventually shoots the guy hiding.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution : Smith rams a guy off the road for not signaling.]

* HypocriticalHumor: After Hertz [[spoiler:discovers the "Oliver" he ''ran over in the street'' is a fake]], he flips out and yells, "Oh, that is twisted. That sick son of a bitch!"

* PetTheDog -- Done straight up with the BigBad, who's openly fond of his Alsatian, and subverted with Smith -- who'll shoot a man because he has a ponytail, but refuses to shoot a tracker dog because he likes dogs. But Smith's best PetTheDog moment is when he starts showing affection for the baby (which he previously referred to as 'it') by ''teaching him the proper way to handle a firearm safely''. Awww...

* StealthPun: Monica Belluci's character is named/nicknamed DQ. [[spoiler: Dairy Queen.]]

* BadAss

* BeyondTheImpossible

* ActionHero: Mr. Smith, who can not only kill a man with just a carrot (but not in the way you're probably thinking: he sticks it into the trigger guard and uses it to pull the trigger), but also shoot someone with a handful of bullets - ''literally, with no gun.''

** {{Nirvana}}'s "Breed" in the first gunfight scene sets the tone of the rest of the movie. And "[[{{Wolfmother}} The Joker and the Thief]]" shortly after.

** No ''Shoot to Thrill''? They got {{AC/DC}} but not ''Shoot to Thrill.''

* ActionHero: Mr. Smith, who can not only kill a man with just a carrot, but also shoot someone with a handful of bullets ''and no gun.''

* AffablyEvil: Hertz is a husband and father, and has a remarkably unexceptional home life that bleeds into his ruthless thuggery.

** There's also "you know what I hate?"

* CoitusUninterruptus: Smith guns down a few mooks in the process of having sex with Monica Bellucci. "Talk about shooting your load!"

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "THE ACE OF SPADES!! THE ACE OF SPAAAADES!!"

*** God bless Motorhead.
** Nirvana's "Breed" in the first gunfight scene sets the tone of the rest of the movie. And "The Joker and the Thief" shortly after.

* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Monica Belluci's character, who, to protect baby Oliver, will [[spoiler: give a John head to buy him a bulletproof vest.]] Smith quips, "makes me think what you'd do to get him into the right school."

* MeaningfulRename: "Smith" is both a generic pseudonym as well as a reference to the character's former career as a gunsmith. It reflects the character's desire and inability to forget his tragic past.

** No ''Shoot to Thrill''? They got AC/DC but not ''Shoot to Thrill.''
** ''Another One Bites the Dust'' has the absolutely needs-to-be-made-true lines "Out of the doorway the bullets rip/to the sound of the beat."

* OfCorsetsSexy: Monica Bellucci spends most of the movie in one.

** This, of course, triggers Monica Belluci's he'd-make-a-good-father-so-now-I-want-to-have-sex-with-him hormones.

* PrettyInMink: Monica's purple fur coat.

* ShoutOut: The whole film is a series of hyper-violent yet comedic encounters between a protagonist who constantly eats carrots, and his hunter, a balding antagonist whose ringtone is ''[[WhatsOperaDoc Ride of the Valkyries]]''. Made explicit in one scene:

* WithThisRing: Smith slips the trigger guard of a pistol over Monica's finger with obvious symbolism.

** Or in the torture scene where [[spoiler: it's subverted.]]

* PlatonicProstitution

* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Oliver's mother, who is pretty and got a headshot. [[spoiler: It's the only one.]]

* HandWave: Parodied. Smith's BeyondTheImpossible [[ImprobableAimingSkills shooting skills]] are implied to be because he eats carrots all the time. Pretty much everybody knows that carrots improving your vision (at least to any significant degree) is little more than an old wives' tale.

* ActionHero: Mr. Smith, who can kill a man with not just with a carrot, but ''with a gun minus use of his fingers.''

* [[BadAss Badass]]. Goes without saying, really.