History Film / TheHeat

* MadeOfIron: Rojas somehow survives a three story drop onto the hood of his car with no injuries whatsoever. The car was less lucky.

* WatchThePaintJob: Rojas gets [[HighAltitudeInterrogation dropped]] onto the hood of a car.

* {{Badass}}: Mullins, as any of the captured criminals can tell.

** Also when [[spoiler: Mullins and Ashburn get taken hostage. Mullins pulls a knife out of Ashburn's leg, only to have to put it back in before the captor comes back.]]

** Ashburn taking her neighbor's cat, to the point where she fools Mullins into thinking that is really her cat. [[spoiler: During TheStinger, Mullins kidnaps the cat for Ashburn, only to realize that Ashburn was lying.]]

** At the beginning of the movie Ashburn is channel surfing and watches a few seconds of a program demonstrating how a tracheotomy is performed before walking away from the television. [[spoiler: Later on, Ashburn sees a man choking in a diner and takes control of the situation by calmly performing the procedure ... unsuccessfully. She panics when she puts a straw in the man's neck and blood comes out, admitting to Mullins that she doesn't really know what she's doing. At this point Mullins pounds on the man's chest, causing the obstruction to come flying out. An emergency tracheotomy is a dangerous procedure that should only be attempted after all other steps have been taken to determine if it really is necessary. Ashburn took none of these steps, as one of the paramedics implies a few minutes later while criticizing her for being so reckless.]]

* ButtMonkey: Rojas the drug dealer. He gets chased, knocked down, terrified, dangled off a building and (accidentally) dropped onto HIS car while being questioned. Also Ashburn, it seems nothing ever goes right for her.

** Mullins' [[spoiler: groin Russian Roulette]] on a perp ends up being a subversion: [[spoiler: she never had bullets in the gun...which Ashburn only learns after actually shooting a guy in the crotch.]]

* {{Corpsing}}:Demian Bechir during Ashburn's above ClusterFBomb.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Larkin]] didn't like his partner because he was a "misogynistic asshole."

** [[spoiler: Subverted. The albino DEA agent Craig, despite Mullins' [[GenreSavvy expectations]] is not a bad guy or TheMole, just a {{Jerkass}} and a misogynist.]]

* [[WallOfWeapons Fridge Of Weapons]]: Mullins keeps one in her apartment complete with ''grenades'' and a ''rocket launcher''.

--> [[spoiler: Gina - Jessica Chaffin]]
--> [[spoiler: Gina's Boobs - Jessica Chaffin's Boobs]]

* IKnowMortalKombat: Subverted. Ashburn watches a video early in the movie describing how to perform an emergency tracheotomy. When a guy at a local Denny's starts choking she tries to apply what she's learned and nearly kills the guy. Turns out all he needed was a good hard whack to get the piece of pancake out. The EMT that takes the guy to the hospital chews her out for this.
* ILied: After Ashburn takes one out of Mullins' book and [[spoiler: shoots a drug lord in the crotch]], Mullins reveals that [[spoiler: she never had any bullets in the gun during her groin Russian Roulette on a perp earlier.]]

--> Rojas: Oh, hell no! I told you about that racist shit!
--> Mullins: I tried to hit you with my car. What does that make me?
* {{Irony}}: Mullins' family ostracizes her because she arrested her brother Jason. The only one not upset with her is Jason himself who, if anything, seems grateful.

** Also when you meet her family you can understand why she ended up that way.

* [[SirSwearsALot Lady Swears-A-Lot]]: Again, Mullins. [[CaptainObvious Not that she's much of a "lady" to begin with of course.]]
* LamePunReaction: Ashburn's "tongue in cheek" quip when talking about a corpse who had his tongue cut out and [[AssShove shoved in ass.]] Mullins and the coroner react with an ''incredibly'' awkward silence.

* NotSoStoic: Julian faces Ashburn in the interrogation room without breaking sweat. Then Mullins plays RussianRoulette with his balls, and he cracks by the second blank shot.

* PrettyLittleHeadshots: One is seen on a corpse and later [[spoiler: the albino guy]] is killed with one.

** "What is this, ''Film/TrainingDay'' ?"

* SuperOCD: Ashburn, to a degree. She uses it well to aid her in finding hidden drugs/guns but it makes her rather annoying to others.

* TitleDrop: Mullins says she and Ashburn are "the heat". [[spoiler: it's a a sign of Ashburn's development when she later echoes it.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Ashburn, though she was pretty damn good already in regards to finding drugs etc so it's a case of her stepping up her game.

* UnPerson: Mullins' family effectively treats her like this after she [[spoiler:arrested her brother Jason]] to the point that the family photo in their house is folded down to obscure her face. The only one who doesn't seem to feel like this is [[spoiler:said brother, and at the end of the movie she and the rest of the family reconcile]].

* VitriolicBestBuds: Ashburn and Mullins, by the end
* WatchThePaintJob: Rojas gets [[HighAltitudeInterrogation dropped]] onto the hood of a car

* WouldHitAGirl: Julian

-->''''Rojas:''' Please don't be my car, please don't be my car... ''[looks]'' Awww, my 2003!

--> Rojas: A watermelon? I told you you were racist!
--> Mullins : I tried to hit you with my car. What does that make me?

* IvyLeague : Ashburn did her undergrad at Yale.

* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:Larkin didn't like Craig because he was a misogynist, but he made a derogatory remark about Mullin's Irish ancestry.]

* AntiHero: Mullins
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Craig]]

* FakeNationality: [[Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Kaitlin Olson]] cameos as Tatiana, a Bulgarian prostitute.

** Also to ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' : "Oh no, Scoob, Velma and Daphne got captured!"

* ShoutOut: "What is this, ''Film/TrainingDay'' ?"

* CarCushion: Rojas lands on the front hood of his car after Ashburn and Mullins accidentally drop him. Rojas survives, the car doesn't.

** At the beginning of the movie Ashburn is channel surfing and watches a few seconds of a program demonstrating how a tracheotomy is performed before walking away from the television. [[spoiler: Later on, Ashburn sees a man choking in a diner and takes control of the situation by calmly performing the procedure ... unsuccessfully. She panicks when she puts a straw in the man's neck and blood comes out, admitting to Mullins that she doesn't really know what she's doing. At this point Mullins pounds on the man's chest, causing the obstruction to come flying out. An emergency tracheotomy is a dangerous procedure that should only be attempted after all other steps have been taken to determine if it really is necessary. Ashburn took none of these steps, as one of the paramedics implies a few minutes later while criticizing her for being so wreckless.]]

* ShoutOut: "What is this, ''Film/TrainingDay''?

* HoYay: There's a great deal of subtext that implies that Ashburn and Mullins were attracted to each other and ended up developing romantic feelings for one another. At the end up the movie it's implied that they have a sisterly relationship, but it seems just as likely that Mullins deliberately put some distance between them because she knew that neither of them were ready for a committed relationship.

* [[LesYay Les Yay]]: There's a great deal of subtext that implies that Ashburn and Mullins were attracted to each other and ended up developing romantic feelings for one another. At the end up the movie it's implied that they have a sisterly relationship, but it seems just as likely that Mullins deliberately put some distance between them because she knew that neither of them were ready for a committed relationship.

** Ashburn mistaking a large, bearded, long-haired man for Mullins when she first goes to the bar for her keys. Later, after the BingeMontage, she wakes up next to him on the table, thinking he's Mullins.

* At the beginning of the movie Ashburn is channel surfing and watches a few seconds of a program demonstrating how a tracheotomy is performed before walking away from the television. [[spoiler: Later on, Ashburn sees a man choking in a diner and takes control of the situation by calmly performing the procedure ... unsuccessfully. She panicks when she puts a straw in the man's neck and blood comes out, admitting to Mullins that she doesn't really know what she's doing. At this point Mullins pounds on the man's chest, causing the obstruction to come flying out. An emergency tracheotomy is a dangerous procedure that should only be attempted after all other steps have been taken to determine if it really is necessary. Ashburn took none of these steps, as one of the paramedics implies a few minutes later while criticizing her for being so wreckless.]]

* NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize: [[spoiler: Boy, that recognizable SNL cast member sure isn't talking much. Why'd they even bother casting him?]]