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* HistoricalRapSheet: The film implies that the CorruptHick [[ThoseWackyNazis Neo-Nazi]] Tremor family was the ''real'' perpetrator of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_11,_2004_Madrid_attacks March 11, 2004 bomb attacks in Madrid]], as part of a world-wide campaign of terror orchestrated by BigBad "Hal Leuco".
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* HistoricalRapSheet: The film implies that the CorruptHick [[ThoseWackyNazis Neo-Nazi]] Tremor family was the ''real'' perpetrator of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_11,_2004_Madrid_attacks March 11, 2004 bomb attacks in Madrid]], as part of a world-wide campaign of terror orchestrated by BigBad "Hal Leuco".
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* CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: By the end of the film, the only major characters still alive are [[SavedByCanon Lester Tremor, Lazlo Soot]] and Agent Baker.
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* DenserAndWackier: The Tremors' antics including using kidnapped circus clowns as [[WhyAmITicking quite unwilling and literal]] human cannonballs, Lazlo Soot's slasher-style rampage, Ariella's EstablishingCharacterMoment being killing someone while [[NaughtyNuns dressed as a dominatrix nun]], [[spoiler:Baker's brief moment of [[OffscreenTeleportation ninja omniscience]] to blast a few holes in Weed's KarmaHoudiniWarranty]] after TheEndingChangesEverything…
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* TheCameo: Creator/ErnieHudson shows up briefly as an FBI agent at the end.
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* ShroudedInMyth: Hal Leuco-a terrorist mastermind of world-wrecking proportions, and apparently so deep in the government that it's impossible to root him out. [[spoiler:In reality, Wood is a mid-level member of the FBI and somehow this gives him enough "non-importance" on the democracy of the Bureau to be BeneathSuspicion but still is high enough that he can easily move the necessary resources to orchestrate an unstoppable campaign of terror and pay the madmen who carried it out with none the wiser.]]
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* ShroudedInMyth: Hal Leuco-a terrorist mastermind of world-wrecking proportions, and apparently so deep in the government that it's impossible to root him out. [[spoiler:In reality, Wood is a mid-level member of the FBI and somehow this gives him enough "non-importance" on the democracy bureaucracy of the Bureau to be BeneathSuspicion but still is high enough that he can easily move the necessary resources to orchestrate an unstoppable campaign of terror and pay the madmen who carried it out with none the wiser.]]
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Faked, when Soot committed a murder disguised as an American soldier to stir up international tensions.
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* GunsAkimbo[=/=]GunFu: Attempted by both Ariella and Kaitlyn Tremor on separate moments. Unfortunately for them, RealityEnsues on each occasion and one of the FBI agents manages to draw a bead on them and fatally wound them.
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* GunsAkimbo[=/=]GunFu: Attempted by both Ariella and Kaitlyn Tremor on separate moments. Unfortunately for them, RealityEnsues the expected results happens on each occasion and one of the FBI agents manages to draw a bead on them and fatally wound them.
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* DumbMuscle: Baby Boy Tremor is the biggest of the Tremors and isn't all there.
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* NobleDemon: Martinez might be a killer but seems genuinely affronted by the PedophilePriest she's killing, as well as willing to ally with fellow assassin Finbar.
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* ObligatoryWarCrimesScene: Faked, when Soot committed a murder disguised as an American soldier to stir up international tensions.
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* ShoutOut: OnceMoreWithClarity reveal that [[spoiler:Weed is "Hal Leuco" and masterminded the events of the film to wipe out all evidence of his terrorism campaign]] is done very much like the reveal of who "Kaiser Soze" really is in ''Film/TheUsualSuspects''. [[spoiler:Unlike Verbal Kint, [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Weed doesn't gets to walk away]].]]
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Weed put the hit out on ''himself''. He's actually a terrorist mastermind who used his mid level desk job to plot attacks and murders abroad, and used a number of lethal assassins to do it. The entire film is a ploy to get the assassins killed and fake his death to cover his own tracks.]]
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Weed [[spoiler:Weed put the hit out on ''himself''. He's actually a terrorist mastermind who used his mid level desk job to plot attacks and murders abroad, and used a number of lethal assassins to do it. The entire film is a ploy to get the assassins killed and fake his death to cover his own tracks.]]
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* ContinuityNod: Prequel aside, it is mentioned that the elaborate safehouse bunker that Weed is taken to try to keep him safe from the killers used to belong to Primo Sperazza (who used it as a man-cave and occasional brothel).
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''Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball'' is a 2010 prequel to ''Film/SmokinAces''.
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''Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball'' is a 2010 prequel {{prequel}} to ''Film/SmokinAces''.
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* MeaningfulName: "Hal Leuco", short for ''Haliaeetus leucocephalus''-the American [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_eagle bald eagle]]. Implied to be LineOfSightName-after all, [[spoiler:not only is the bald eagle part of the symbol of the FBI, Weed's personalized playing cards have the bald eagle printed on the back of them.]]
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* MeaningfulName: "Hal Leuco", short for ''Haliaeetus leucocephalus''-the leucocephalus''--the American [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_eagle bald eagle]]. Implied to be LineOfSightName-after LineOfSightName--after all, [[spoiler:not only is the bald eagle part of the symbol of the FBI, but Weed's personalized playing cards have the bald eagle printed on the back of them.]]
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This time, the target is Walter Weed, a lowly desk jockey at the FBI on the verge of retirement, who is informed by his bewildered superiors that a massive price has been placed on his head, on condition that he is killed at precisely 3:00AM on April 19th, the very day he retires. He is given a team of Federal Agents as bodyguards and taken to an impenetrable underground fortress disguised as a bar, while all manner of ruthless killers converge on his location. Once again, there is a twist at the end that changes the nature of the story.
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This time, the target is Walter Weed, Weed (Creator/TomBerenger), a lowly desk jockey at the FBI on the verge of retirement, who is informed by his bewildered superiors that a massive price has been placed on his head, on condition that he is killed at precisely 3:00AM on April 19th, the very day he retires. He is given a team of Federal Agents as bodyguards and taken to an impenetrable underground fortress disguised as a bar, while all manner of ruthless killers converge on his location. Once again, there is a twist at the end that changes the nature of the story.
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* CarnivalOfKillers: Just like the previous film, loads of competing assassins try to converge on the same target to collect the bounty on his head.
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* GunsAkimbo[=/=]GunFu: Attempted by Ariella. Unfortunately for her, RealityEnsues and one of the FBI agents manages to draw a bead on her and fatally wound her.
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* GunsAkimbo[=/=]GunFu: Attempted by Ariella. both Ariella and Kaitlyn Tremor on separate moments. Unfortunately for her, them, RealityEnsues on each occasion and one of the FBI agents manages to draw a bead on her them and fatally wound her.them.
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* BeneathSuspicion: The Leuco investigation had the belief that whoever was the guy had connections within the U.S. Government, but [[spoiler:they didn't expected that it would be Weed, who was "mid-level" within the FBI and wasn't high enough to be an immediate possibility, but was still high enough to have access to the needed intelligence and money through cooler talk, standard bureaucracy and some penny pinching. The assassination attempt that the whole film revolves around happens the day before he was to be officially interrogated by the Bureau.]]
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* OffscreenTeleporation: A heroic example. Look on "TheEndingChangesEverything" and "VillainExitStageLeft" for an explanation.
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* OffscreenTeleporation: OffscreenTeleportation: A heroic example. Look on "TheEndingChangesEverything" and "VillainExitStageLeft" for an explanation.
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* TheEndingChangesEverything: Once the chaos ends and the smoke is clearing, Baker's boss arrives and asks Baker if he saw Weed die, [[spoiler:before going on to explain that the Bureau had been suspecting the involvement of Weed on the "Hal Leuco" conspiracy for some time-and just Baker now is able to understand that Weed ''is'' Leuco. This is followed by us seeing that Weed made it out okay and enters a car he had conveniently left around for getting away...]] The ending becomes even ''more'' twisted because [[spoiler:somehow after figuring this out, Baker is able to immediately intercept Weed and shoot him dead.]]
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* MeaningfulName: "Hal Leuco", short for ''Haliaeetus leucocephalus''-the American [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_eagle bald eagle]].
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* MeaningfulName: "Hal Leuco", short for ''Haliaeetus leucocephalus''-the American [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_eagle bald eagle]]. Implied to be LineOfSightName-after all, [[spoiler:not only is the bald eagle part of the symbol of the FBI, Weed's personalized playing cards have the bald eagle printed on the back of them.]]
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*HiddenVillainHiddenVillain: [[spoiler:The BigBad, "Hal Leuco", was really Weed using ObfuscatingDisability, a low-level job on the Bureau and a lot of false feelings to paint himself as a "nobody" suffering DisproportionateRetribution.]]
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* ShroudedInMyth: Hal LuecoLeuco-a terrorist mastermind of world-wrecking proportions, and apparently so deep in the government that it's impossible to root him out. [[spoiler:In reality, Wood is a mid-level member of the FBI and somehow this gives him enough "non-importance" on the democracy of the Bureau to be BeneathSuspicion but still is high enough that he can easily move the necessary resources to orchestrate an unstoppable campaign of terror and pay the madmen who carried it out with none the wiser.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: Turns out that Weed had some explosives concealed within his wheelchair and he uses them to try to take out the assassins. [[spoiler:In reality, being quite able to walk, he just rolls the chair ''towards'' the assassins and hopes that the carnage left behind will bee too messy for the coroners to sift through and find out that he isn't there.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: Turns out that Weed had some explosives concealed within his wheelchair and he uses them to try to take out the assassins. [[spoiler:In reality, being quite able to walk, he just rolls the chair ''towards'' the assassins and hopes that the carnage left behind will bee too messy for the coroners to sift through and find out that he isn't there.]]
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* ObfuscatingDisabilityObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler:A wheelchair-bound FBI desk agent who's due to retire is informed that he's become the target of a death contract. He's then quickly moved to a secure location that the agency can use to lure in and dispatch possible assassins. After the deaths of a whole bunch of people it's revealed at the end that the guy in the wheelchair was a dirty cop who masterminded terrorist attacks during his career, and loses the wheelchair to escape on foot.]]
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* ForegoneConclusion: As its a prequel, Lester Tremor and Lazlo Soot are both guaranteed to survive.
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* ForegoneConclusion: As its it's a prequel, Lester Tremor and Lazlo Soot are both guaranteed to survive.
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* VillainExitStageLeft: Subverted once again. Right when it looks like [[spoiler:Weed/Leuco]] is about to make a standard, clean getaway at the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Baker comes from nowhere and shoots him through the windshield.]] Doubles as SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
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* VillainExitStageLeft: Subverted once again. Right when it looks like [[spoiler:Weed/Leuco]] is about to make a standard, clean getaway at the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Baker Baker comes from nowhere and shoots him through the windshield.]] Doubles as SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
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* UsualSuspectsEnding: Subverted. [[spoiler: Weed is shot by Baker in the middle of doing this.]]
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''Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball'' is a 2010 prequel to ''Film/SmokinAces''.
This time, the target is Walter Weed, a lowly desk jockey at the FBI on the verge of retirement, who is informed by his bewildered superiors that a massive price has been placed on his head, on condition that he is killed at precisely 3:00AM on April 19th, the very day he retires. He is given a team of Federal Agents as bodyguards and taken to an impenetrable underground fortress disguised as a bar, while all manner of ruthless killers converge on his location. Once again, there is a twist at the end that changes the nature of the story.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:The prequel is even worse than the first movie. It introduces several new characters who don't appear or were even mentioned in the original film (except Lester Tremor and Lazlo Soot, [[ForegoneConclusion obviously]]). Besides those two, only ''two'' characters survive the bloodbath in the film.]]
* AwesomeByAnalysis: Finbar immediately susses that Ariella is another assassin, and that most of the people in the bar are feds.
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Weed put the hit out on ''himself''. He's actually a terrorist mastermind who used his mid level desk job to plot attacks and murders abroad, and used a number of lethal assassins to do it. The entire film is a ploy to get the assassins killed and fake his death to cover his own tracks.]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Tremors. Emphasis on "big" since Lester is the only one who is in both films; the other three are his brother, sister and dad.
* {{Expy}}: Finbar [=McTeague=] is essentially Pasquale Acosta from the first film; both are [[TortureTechnician coldly professional torturers]] with nicknames who are in it for the money, both of whom disguise themselves as FBI Agents.
* ForegoneConclusion: As its a prequel, Lester Tremor and Lazlo Soot are both guaranteed to survive.
* GlasgowSmile: Again, Lazlo.
* GunsAkimbo
* HiddenVillain
* HistoricalRapSheet: The film implies that the CorruptHick [[ThoseWackyNazis Neo-Nazi]] Tremor family was the ''real'' perpetrator of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_11,_2004_Madrid_attacks March 11, 2004 bomb attacks in Madrid]], as part of a world-wide campaign of terror orchestrated by BigBad "Hal Leuco".
* KicktheDog: The Tremors' firing exploding clowns out of a circus cannon.
* KissOfDeath: Ariella Martinez's speciality.
* MasterOfDisguise: Still Lazlo Soot.
* ObfuscatingDisability
* OutlawCouple: Finbar convinces Ariella to [[VillainTeamUp team up]] once he informs her the bar they are in is crawling with Federal Agents. [[spoiler: They both die, but Ariella removes her poisoned lips to let Finbar kiss her, suggesting they had fallen for each other.]]
* PreMortemOneLiner[=/=]BondOneLiner: Kaitlyn Tremor does both in one scene, going so far as to {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing the latter trope.
-->''Dismissed!''\\
'''[shoots her sailor lover]'''\\
''Gonna make this joke about you shooting your load and then me shooting you, but it wasn't as good as "dismissed."''
* ShroudedInMyth: Hal Lueco
* TortureTechnician: Finbar [=McTeague=], aka "The Surgeon".
* UsualSuspectsEnding: Subverted. [[spoiler: Weed is shot by Baker in the middle of doing this.]]
* VillainExitStageLeft: Subverted once again. Right when it looks like [[spoiler:Weed/Leuco]] is about to make a standard, clean getaway at the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Baker comes from nowhere and shoots him through the windshield.]] Doubles as SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
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''Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball'' is a 2010 prequel to ''Film/SmokinAces''.
This time, the target is Walter Weed, a lowly desk jockey at the FBI on the verge of retirement, who is informed by his bewildered superiors that a massive price has been placed on his head, on condition that he is killed at precisely 3:00AM on April 19th, the very day he retires. He is given a team of Federal Agents as bodyguards and taken to an impenetrable underground fortress disguised as a bar, while all manner of ruthless killers converge on his location. Once again, there is a twist at the end that changes the nature of the story.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:The prequel is even worse than the first movie. It introduces several new characters who don't appear or were even mentioned in the original film (except Lester Tremor and Lazlo Soot, [[ForegoneConclusion obviously]]). Besides those two, only ''two'' characters survive the bloodbath in the film.]]
* AwesomeByAnalysis: Finbar immediately susses that Ariella is another assassin, and that most of the people in the bar are feds.
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Weed put the hit out on ''himself''. He's actually a terrorist mastermind who used his mid level desk job to plot attacks and murders abroad, and used a number of lethal assassins to do it. The entire film is a ploy to get the assassins killed and fake his death to cover his own tracks.]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Tremors. Emphasis on "big" since Lester is the only one who is in both films; the other three are his brother, sister and dad.
* {{Expy}}: Finbar [=McTeague=] is essentially Pasquale Acosta from the first film; both are [[TortureTechnician coldly professional torturers]] with nicknames who are in it for the money, both of whom disguise themselves as FBI Agents.
* ForegoneConclusion: As its a prequel, Lester Tremor and Lazlo Soot are both guaranteed to survive.
* GlasgowSmile: Again, Lazlo.
* GunsAkimbo
* HiddenVillain
* HistoricalRapSheet: The film implies that the CorruptHick [[ThoseWackyNazis Neo-Nazi]] Tremor family was the ''real'' perpetrator of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_11,_2004_Madrid_attacks March 11, 2004 bomb attacks in Madrid]], as part of a world-wide campaign of terror orchestrated by BigBad "Hal Leuco".
* KicktheDog: The Tremors' firing exploding clowns out of a circus cannon.
* KissOfDeath: Ariella Martinez's speciality.
* MasterOfDisguise: Still Lazlo Soot.
* ObfuscatingDisability
* OutlawCouple: Finbar convinces Ariella to [[VillainTeamUp team up]] once he informs her the bar they are in is crawling with Federal Agents. [[spoiler: They both die, but Ariella removes her poisoned lips to let Finbar kiss her, suggesting they had fallen for each other.]]
* PreMortemOneLiner[=/=]BondOneLiner: Kaitlyn Tremor does both in one scene, going so far as to {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing the latter trope.
-->''Dismissed!''\\
'''[shoots her sailor lover]'''\\
''Gonna make this joke about you shooting your load and then me shooting you, but it wasn't as good as "dismissed."''
* ShroudedInMyth: Hal Lueco
* TortureTechnician: Finbar [=McTeague=], aka "The Surgeon".
* UsualSuspectsEnding: Subverted. [[spoiler: Weed is shot by Baker in the middle of doing this.]]
* VillainExitStageLeft: Subverted once again. Right when it looks like [[spoiler:Weed/Leuco]] is about to make a standard, clean getaway at the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Baker comes from nowhere and shoots him through the windshield.]] Doubles as SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
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