History Film / ShootEmUp

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Hertz. According to his minions: "He doesn't guess -- he sees things we don't."

* FlippingTheBird: Not a good idea in this movie.

* GenreSavvy: Mr. Smith seems to know about typical action movie tropes, and actively takes steps to avoid them.
** Hertz is also quite savvy:

* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: discussed and subverted. Smith calls NBC, ABC, CBS, The Post, The Times, and the FBI to come check out [[spoiler: an illicit baby bone marrow harvesting laboratory]], because he hates it when a hero calls only one person and ends up betrayed by that one person. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:the Lone Man uses his connections to make sure it stays out of the press]].

* HelloNurse: One of Donna's outfits.

-->'''Hammerson:''' Don't worry Duchess, this ain't going to happen to you. Not for a few years anyway.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: DQ 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."

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy : Like the rest of this movie it's cranked up to 11 - ''and that's if they're able to fire at all.'' Lampshaded when Go-To-Guy claims he was only trying to scare Smith into surrendering. Smith snarks back that it explains why he's such a lousy shot.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Smith.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Hammersmith performing taxidermy on his German Shepard. Once Hammersmith is dead, his [[ReplacementGoldfish new dog]] starts to eat his face.

* LiteralAssKicking: Done by Hertz to a henchman near the beginning of the film. After getting shot in the bum. Twice.

* MeaningfulRename: "Smith" is both a generic pseudonym as well as a reference to the character's former career as a gunsmith. It also recalls the popular brand Smith & Wesson. The name reflects the character's desire and inability to forget his tragic past.

* MrSmith: Smith is obviously not the hero's real name; the BigBad even lampshades him as TheManWithNoName who rides into town on a pale horse. Hertz thinks he's worked out [[MysteriousPast who Smith is]], but isn't completely sure right up to the end. What he does get is a tragic past and his real last name.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Hertz resolving not to lose his temper, quoting the Discovery Chanel on how anger lowers your IQ. Needless to say, he gets [[VillainousBreakdown increasingly livid as the movie wears on]].

* PetTheDog -- Done straight up with Hammerson, 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. [[spoiler: He even adopts the aforementioned Alsatian after killing Hammerson.]] 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...
** This, of course, triggers Donna's he'd-make-a-good-father-so-now-I-want-to-have-sex-with-him hormones.

* 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.'' And his hand is broken. And via '''fireplace.'''

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Hertz. According to his minions: "He doesn't guess - he sees things we don't."

* BadassAndChildDuo: which leads to a whole lot of BadassAndBaby carrying while in fights.

* BizarreAndImprobableBallistics: The ending takes this to a new level - [[spoiler:a robber hides behind cover, and Smith shoots the robber's partner several times, first in the leg (causing him to fall down), then in the arm (causing his gun to point at the hiding robber), then in the wrist (causing him to fire). Keep in mind that Smith's fingers are broken at the time, so he pulls the trigger by putting a carrot in the trigger guard and slapping the back of the gun with his other hand.]]

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

* CountingBullets: When the villain is torturing the female lead he shoots to heat up the barrel of his gun. When Smith comes in to save her the villain points his gun at him, he notes that he's hasn't got anything left.

* CorruptPolitician: The senator who sells out to the gun lobby. Though he makes up for it in RedemptionEqualsDeath

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Smith has one. There's a few hints dropped, and Hertz believes he knows what it is, but Smith never confirms it.
* {{Determinator}}: most obviously shown when Smith [[spoiler: takes down the BigBad and TheDragon, ''after they break all his fingers, with nothing more than five bullets set off by fire.'']]

* DisposableWoman: Oliver's mother starts out as a distressed damsel and is killed off minutes later so that the importance of her baby can remain a mystery.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Smith rams a guy off the road for driving aggressively without signaling. But keeping with the tone of the movie, Donna lampshades it.
-->'''Donna''': You are the angriest man in the ''world''!

* DragonInChief: Although Hammerson is the mastermind, Hertz, his enforcer, gets the most screentime.
* DramaticDrop: DQ's serving trays when Smith reunites with her.
* DyingTruce: [[spoiler: at the very end, when Smith and Hertz are both nearly dead, Smith lets Hertz answer his cellphone as he walks away. The truce breaks, though, and both of them attempt one final shot to really kill each other off.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Hertz braces his gun on a wounded mook's chest, then shoots the man when his breathing disturbs his aim. When Smith takes the gun off him a moment later, he exchanges calm GunpointBanter, [[spoiler:then reveals his Desert Eagle will only fire to his thumbprint]].

* FailsafeFailure: Thumbprint scanners on all of Hertz's guns. Smith simply [[AnArmAndALeg hacks off a mook's hand]] and points the gun with it.
* FamousLastWords: Subverted. [[spoiler:When Smith tells the Strawman liberal politician how his (the politician's) death will create the sympathy needed for his gun control legislation to pass. When the politician starts to speak in resigned, but dignified agreement, he is KilledMidSentence.]]

* {{Fingore}}: Hertz' torture.

* RubeGoldbergDevice: In order to get into the AbandonedWarehouse he's using as a home, Smith takes a rat out of a cage, removes a brick from the wall and pushes the rat inside. The rat runs down a tunnel into a wire basket on a pulley which drops from its weight, pushing down a latch to open the door.

* SerialEscalation- When the first gunfight has Smith use leaked oil to turn himself into a sledding death machine, you know how often this trope's gonna be used.

* StrawmanPolitical: The liberal strawman political [[spoiler:thinks he's destined for the White House, will do anything to get there (including inflicting horrible pain on babies), and sells out his beliefs to save his own life. To be slightly fair, the Conservative strawman is going to kill him painfully if he doesn't loosen 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.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Smith likes him some carrots, and his first kill in the movie? Via carrot.
* UsefulNotes/GunSafety: Smith knows you can never learn them too young.

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

* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:Smith's wife and child were killed in a restaurant by a rampaging gunman, using weapons he bought in Smith's gunshop.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Smith has one. There's a few hints dropped, but the movie never reveals what it is.

** The BigBad has a dog he's openly fond of too. [[spoiler:This turns out to be a ChekhovsGun -- Smith realises the senator has changed sides when he sees dog hair on his trousers, and realises he's met with the villain.]] Subverted when Hammerson is shown stuffing his dog's predecessor.

** The BigBad has a dog he's openly fond of too. [[spoiler:This turns out to be a ChekhovsGun -- Smith realises the senator has changed sides when he sees dog hair on his trousers, and realises he's met with the villain.]]

* CompensatingForSomething: Hammersmith's lecture on America being a place where "[[OnlyInAmerica a poor man can become rich, and a pussy can become a tough guy]] -- ''if'' he's got a gun in his hand." It's notable that Hertz has the biggest pistol in the movie.

* KilledMidSentance

** The BigBad is a dog he's openly fond of too. [[spoiler:This turns out to be a ChekhovsGun -- Smith realises the senator has changed sides when he sees dog hair on his trousers, and realises he's met with the villain.]]

** Lampshaded when Go-To-Guy claims he was only trying to scare Smith into surrendering. Smith snarks back that it explains why he's such a lousy shot.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy : Like the rest of this movie it's cranked up to 11 - ''and that's if they're able to fire at all.''

* ILoveTheDead: Hertz gropes the bare-breasted corpse of Oliver's mother, though he at least looks ashamed of himself immediately afterwards.

* StairwellChase: Subverted: More like "stairwell turkey shoot".

* VisualGag: Smith exclaims "Shit!" when he has a EurekaMoment; on seeing a politician in the newspaper Oliver has been using as a diaper.

* BoobyTrap: Smith rigs up automatic weapons in Hammerson's gun warehouse to fire when he pulls cords attached to the triggers, aiming them via OminousMultipleScreens.

* CoverCacaphony: Presumably why the BabyFactory was established on top of a heavy metal rock club.