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* {{Anvilicious}}: Towards the end, when Aladeen gives a TakeThat speech likening GOP policies to that of a dictatorship.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Aladeen pretty much as dictator of Wadiya.
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* PsychopathicManChild Aladeen's ideas on how bombs work comes from watching DaffyDuck cartoons.
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* MethodActing: Sacha Baron Cohen appeared at the Oscars as Genral Aladeen and has done many interviews as him.
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Zoe is far from the most intelligent character in the film.
* TheDitz: Aladeen and Zoe both come across as pretty flaky but they are far more on the ball than Aladeen's moronic double.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Anna Faris (who usually tends to play a DumbBlonde or TheDitz) actually plays the most intelligent character in the film.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Anna Faris AnnaFaris (who usually tends to play a DumbBlonde or TheDitz) actually plays the most a (slightly) more intelligent character in the film.brunette.
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Oops, wrong way round,.
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* FaceHeelTurn:[[spoiler: {{Zigzagged}} towards the end, with Aladeen going back and forth between deciding to introduce democracy and remaining as a dictatorship. Ultimately played straight, at least to some extent.]]
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* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Zoe is revealed to be pregnant during the credits.]]
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* HiddenDepths: For all of Aladeen's many, many faults, he's actually an incredibly efficient manager. This is evidenced when [[spoiler: he forcibly takes control of Zoe's store. After a couple of days, he's got the right employees doing the right job, has the store looking nice and generally running smoothly.]]
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* TheCameo: Was anyone expecting to see EdwardNorton in this?
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* LighterAndSofter: Compared to ''{{Borat}}'' and ''{{Bruno}}''. While those two films were R-rated (and very hard R's, at that), this one seems to play it on the safe side and with a few trims could have easily been a PG-13 (which was the studio's original plan).
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* PlayingAgainstType: Anna Faris (who usually tends to play a DumbBlonde or TheDitz) actually plays the most intelligent character in the film.
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* MistakenForTerrorist This happens to Aladeen and Nadal when they are on the helicopter.
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* PsychopathicManChild Aladeen's ideas on how bombs work comes from watching DaffyDuck cartoons.
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* GranolaGirl: Zoe, who manages a completely democratic health food store which is hyper eco friendly and takes in political refugees as workers.
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* PointyHairedBoss: Zoe is a sort of FridgeLogic example. While she's a BenevolentBoss she's allowed such blunders as letting an African refugee from a tribe with no concept of money man the registers, a Peruvian woman whose hands have been replaced with hooked prosthetics do inventory, and is oblivious about one of her employees skimming from the till.
** Worst of all is probably hiring Aladeen, though it turns out his totalitarian "Supreme Grocer" managing style worked wonders.
** Worst of all is probably hiring Aladeen, though it turns out his totalitarian "Supreme Grocer" managing style worked wonders.
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* LineOfSightName: Aladeen seems almost incapable of coming up with an alias any other way. This leads to fake names like "Women's Washroom" that don't fool anybody.
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* CrossingTheLineTwice.
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* RefugeInAudacity: What did you expect from a Sacha Baron Cohen film? This quite possibly outdoes Borat and Bruno in terms of outrageousness
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* XMeetsY: The film is basically ''Film/ComingToAmerica'' meets ''AliGIndahouse''.
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He\'s nowhere orderly enough to be Hitler.
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In this film Sacha plays Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen of the Republic of Wadiya, a fictional country in North Africa. Shabazz is pretty much the worst ruler of a country this side of Hitler (in a funny way of course) but to him it just everyday life. However when he's invited to give a speech at the United Nations in New York, he's kidnapped and has his beard shaved off, making him unrecognizable.
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In this film Sacha plays Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen of the Republic of Wadiya, a fictional country in North Africa. Shabazz is pretty much the worst ruler of a country this side of Hitler Pol Pot (in a funny way of course) but to him it it's just everyday life. However when he's invited to give a speech at the United Nations in New York, he's kidnapped and has his beard shaved off, making him unrecognizable.
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** Of course, he eventually becomes the JerkWithAHeartOfGold due to being somewhat humbled by his experience, but not by much.
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** He also appears to be one for (again former) real world dictator MuammarGaddafi of [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny The Great Socialist People's]] [[OverlyLongName Libyan Arab Jamahiriya]], now just {{Libya}}.
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** He also appears to be one for (again former) real world dictator MuammarGaddafi of [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny The Great Socialist People's]] [[OverlyLongName Libyan Arab Jamahiriya]], now just {{Libya}}.[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Libya Libya]].
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* CharacterBlog: The Republic of Wadiya site.
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* MethodActing: Sacha Baron Cohen appeared at the Oscars as Genral Aladeen and has done many interviews as him.
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* {{Qurac}}
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** He also appears to be one for (again former) real world dictator MuammarGaddafi of [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny The Great Socialist People's]] [[OverlyLongName Libyan Arab Jamahiriya]].
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** He also appears to be one for (again former) real world dictator MuammarGaddafi of [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyrrany The Great Socialist People's]] [[OverlyLongName Libyan Arab Jamahiriya]].
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--> Aladeen righteously declared his father Eternal President of the Republic and called for free elections to determine who would serve as Vice-President under his dead father. Aladeen won with only 99.999% of the vote. After an exhaustive government investigation, it was discovered that the one dissenting vote came from Aladeen himself, who deliberately misspelled his own name as an ingenious test of the system.
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* RefugeInAudacity: What did you expect from a Sacha Baron Cohen film? This quite possibly outdoes Borat and Bruno in terms of outrageousness
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it\'s a large beard, that does not make it badass, no way that characterisation fits.
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* BadassBeard: What Shabazz sports at the start of the movie.
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* CrapsackWorld: Wadiya is ''so'' worthless, that the European colonial powers all played hot potato with one another for the ownership of the country, since no one wanted it. First the Italians claimed it, but they then they sold it to the Swiss for a truckload of cheese, who then payed Germany to take it. Germany then had to convince the people of Wadiya that they wanted independence.
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* MadeItLookLikeAnAccident: Shabazz seized power from his father after murdering him in a "hunting accident". Though he apparently did a really shitty job of making it look like an accident.
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In this film Sacha plays Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen of the Republic of Wadiya, a fictional country in North Africa. Shabazz is pretty much the worst ruler of a country this side of Hitler (in a funny way of course) but to him it just everyday life. However when he's invited to give a speech at the United Nations in New York. He's kidnapped and has his beard shaved off, making him unrecognizable.
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In this film Sacha plays Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen of the Republic of Wadiya, a fictional country in North Africa. Shabazz is pretty much the worst ruler of a country this side of Hitler (in a funny way of course) but to him it just everyday life. However when he's invited to give a speech at the United Nations in New York. He's York, he's kidnapped and has his beard shaved off, making him unrecognizable.
* BlatantLies: Shabazz's propoganda about himself is ''full'' of this. [[http://www.republicofwadiya.com/biography.php For example, read his biography.]]
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* MadeItLookLikeAnAccident: Shabazz seized power from his father after murdering him in a "hunting accident". Though he apparently did a really shitty job of making it look like an accident.
-->'''[[http://www.republicofwadiya.com/biography.php Biography]]''': When Aladeen was just a child, his father Omar died in a tragic hunting accident when he was hit by 97 stray bullets and a stray grenade. Shortly afterwards, Omar's Chief Advisor suggested that Aladeen should be officially declared the successor. The supremely-humble Aladeen responded by accepting the position.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: The Republic of Wadiya does not have an overly long name, but it deserves a mention for just now blatantly undemocratic it is. From the official site:
--> Aladeen righteously declared his father Eternal President of the Republic and called for free elections to determine who would serve as Vice-President under his dead father. Aladeen won with only 99.999% of the vote. After an exhaustive government investigation, it was discovered that the one dissenting vote came from Aladeen himself, who deliberately misspelled his own name as an ingenious test of the system.
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-->'''[[http://www.republicofwadiya.com/biography.php Biography]]''': When Aladeen was just a child, his father Omar died in a tragic hunting accident when he was hit by 97 stray bullets and a stray grenade. Shortly afterwards, Omar's Chief Advisor suggested that Aladeen should be officially declared the successor. The supremely-humble Aladeen responded by accepting the position.
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Now penniless and without status. Shabazz finds himself picked up by a kindly restaurant manager who offers him a job...which he quickly usurps. HilarityEnsures as Shabazz tries to find a way back to his throne.
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Now penniless and without status. Shabazz finds himself picked up by a kindly restaurant manager who offers him a job...which he quickly usurps. HilarityEnsures job. HilarityEnsues as Shabazz tries to find a way back to his throne.
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* BadassBeard: What Shabazz sports at the start of the movie.
* BlackComedy: Already some promo's have proven to have had some extremely dark sense of humour and or
* CrossingTheLineTwice.
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* BadassBeard: What Shabazz sports at the start of the movie.
* BlackComedy: Already some promo's have proven to have had some extremely dark sense of humour and or
* CrossingTheLineTwice.
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A 2012 movie staring SachaBaronCohen doing what he does best.
In this film Sacha plays Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen of the Republic of Wadiya, a fictional country in North Africa. Shabazz is pretty much the worst ruler of a country this side of Hitler (in a funny way of course) but to him it just everyday life. However when he's invited to give a speech at the United Nations in New York. He's kidnapped and has his beard shaved off, making him unrecognizable.
Now penniless and without status. Shabazz finds himself picked up by a kindly restaurant manager who offers him a job...which he quickly usurps. HilarityEnsures as Shabazz tries to find a way back to his throne.
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In this film Sacha plays Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen of the Republic of Wadiya, a fictional country in North Africa. Shabazz is pretty much the worst ruler of a country this side of Hitler (in a funny way of course) but to him it just everyday life. However when he's invited to give a speech at the United Nations in New York. He's kidnapped and has his beard shaved off, making him unrecognizable.
Now penniless and without status. Shabazz finds himself picked up by a kindly restaurant manager who offers him a job...which he quickly usurps. HilarityEnsures as Shabazz tries to find a way back to his throne.
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