History Film / TheHeat

'''LeSoire:''' What?\\

'''LeSoire:''' [[ProfaneLastWords Aw, shit.]]

%%* PreMortemOneLiner: "You just gave me a ring, motherfucker!"

%%* InstantDramaJustAddTracheotomy: Subverted along with ChekhovsSkill, [[WorstAid to horrible effect]].

%%* {{Ladette}}: Mullins through and through.

%%* WorstAid: The tracheotomy scene, leading to a hilarious WhatTheHellHero from the paramedic.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Craig was a misogynistic asshole, which is basically the reason Larkin kills him.]]

%%* BigBad: Larkin, the drug lord.
%%* BigBeautifulWoman: Mullins definitely has her admirers.

%%* BingeMontage: The bar scene.

** Subverted with the RPG, which gets a whole conversation about where it came from and how ridiculous a thing it is to keep in a fridge, and even makes it onto the film's poster, but never gets used once.

** Mullins is not afraid to use brute force to interrogate anyone, and even threatens to shoot a perp in his dick to get a confession out of them. [[spoiler: However, she has never actually gone through with it even once, and she's horrified when Ashburn is forced to shoot Larkin twice in the dick to save Mullins and her brother's lives.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Mullins and Ashburn are both law enforcement officers that are extremely good at their jobs, but are despised by their peers due to their grating personalities. They also both have family issues.

* RealityEnsues: Trying to perform a tracheotomy and not knowing how will get you chewed out, as Ashburn finds out.

* 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. (The J-frame S&W .38 is a five-shot revolver. If you count the trigger pulls, there are five. The last one Julian didn't notice because he was hysterical with fear, but it proves that there were actally no live rounds in the weapon.) ]]

* 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.]]

** Subverted with the RPG, which gets a whole conversation about where it came from and how ridiculous a thing it is to keep in a fridge, and even [[PostersAlwaysLie makes it onto the film's poster]], but never gets used once.

* {{Malaproper}}: Ashburn during her ClusterFBomb, Sandra's clearly channeling her past character of [[Film/DemolitionMan Lenina Huxley]].

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%%* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Craig.]]

%%* BloodyHilarious:
%%** The incident with the choking man at Denny's.
%%** 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.]]

%%** Courtesy of Mullins.

%%** Mullins and Ashburn but Mullins is this especially, as most of what she says is a jab towards someone or something.
%%** Also Tatiana and most of the drug traffickers.
%%** And the albino guy, but with more snark and less deadpan.

%%* FriendlessBackground: Ashburn, ever since growing up in foster homes.

%%* GoshDangItToHeck:
%%** Ashburn until her ClusterFBomb.

%%* HeroicComedicSociopath: Mullins and that goes without saying, given that, to any perp, she's TheDreaded, has stockpile of weapons in her apartment, and is pretty nasty..

%%* 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.]]

%%* InsufferableGenius: Ashburn acts like this and tends to showboat.

%%* MarriedToTheJob: Ashburn. She confides that it cost her her actual marriage prior to the film's events.
%%* TheMole: [[spoiler:Adam, the DEA agent, was Larkin all along.]]
%%* NoSocialSkills: Ashburn, however, this in part due to being raised in foster homes and not having any friends as a kid.

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

%%* RealityEnsues: Trying to perform a tracheotomy and not knowing how will get you chewed out, as Ashburn finds out.

%%* RunningGag: Several.
%%** The Jesus-themed Boston sports teams paintings that Mullins' family has.
%%** The leftover sandwich Mullins has in her fridge.
%%* ShoutOut:
%%** "What is this, ''Film/TrainingDay''?"
%%** Also to ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo.''
%%--> Oh no, Scoob, Velma and Daphne got captured!

%%* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Both Mullins and Ashburn end up on the end of some spectacular slapstick, as does any perp Mullins ends up facing, especially Rojas and Julian. And that poor guy at the Denny's...
%%* {{Southies}}: Mullins' family.
%%* StandardCopBackstory: Mullins is looking out for her criminal brother, Ashburn is a foster child.
%%* 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.

%%* 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.

** The drug-sniffing dog being unable to find the drugs over the smell of fresh meat.

* BrokenAce: Ashburn, who's such an arrogant overachiever and InsufferableGenius that no one can stand to work with her.
* 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.
* ByTheBookCop: Ashburn.

** The grenade.

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Think it's weird how few lines the albino cop's partner gets? He's Larkin.]]

** Courtesy of Mullins.

* ComicallyIneptHealing: The tracheotomy scene.
* {{Corpsing}}: Demian Bechir during Ashburn's above ClusterFBomb.
* CrazyCatLady: Ashburn; given an especially pathetic twist by it not even being her cat, but her neighbour's.

** Mullins and Ashburn but Mullins is this especially, as most of what she says is a jab towards someone or something.
** Also Tatiana and most of the drug traffickers.
** And the albino guy, but with more snark and less deadpan.

* {{Dissimile}}: "Like little, tiny, little-girl balls, if little girls had balls."

* ExactWords:
-->'''Julian:''' Relax. I totally get it.
-->'''Goon:''' Thank you then.
-->'''Julian:''' I'm not gonna shoot you.
-->'''Goon:''' Okay, that's cool, man. Thanks.
-->'''Julian:''' [looks to an armed goon standing next to him] [[LoopholeAbuse He is.]]
-->'''Goon:''' [[OhCrap Wait, wait, hold on-]] '''[BANG]'''

* FalseRoulette: Mullins, right there in the interrogation room at the police station. She's crazy enough to make the threat believable.

* FatBastard: Mullins, although she clearly leans on JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* FreudianExcuse: When we meet Mullins' family, we see, to a degree, why she is what she is, as her family (other than her dad and [[spoiler: Jason]]), besides being a bunch of assholes, have made her the {{unperson}} because she [[spoiler: arrested her brother]]. From what can be guessed they might be the reason as to why [[spoiler: Jason's a criminal in the first place]].
* FriendlessBackground: Ashburn, ever since growing up in foster homes.
* GagBoobs: Subverted with Tatiana. While the dealer who led them to her described her boobs as being huge enough for the audience to expect this, they look fairly normal sized when she shows up, if accentuated by a low top.
** The credits feature this gem:
--> [[spoiler:Gina - Jessica Chaffin]]
--> [[spoiler:Gina's Boobs - Jessica Chaffin's Boobs]]
* GoshDangItToHeck: Ashburn until her ClusterFBomb.
** In the [[{{Bowdlerise}} edited for airlines]] version, Ashburn and Mullins both talk like this throughout the movie. This erases a lot of Ashburn's character arc.

** Mullins threatens Julian with this, playing Russian Roulette until he talks.

* HeroicComedicSociopath: Mullins and that goes without saying, given that, to any perp, she's TheDreaded, has stockpile of weapons in her apartment, and is pretty nasty..
* HighAltitudeInterrogation: Mullins and Ashburn pull this on Rojas... only to drop him accidentally.

* 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.]]
* InstantDramaJustAddTracheotomy: Subverted along with ChekhovsSkill, [[WorstAid to horrible effect]].
* InsufferableGenius: Ashburn acts like this and tends to showboat.

* {{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.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Ashburn did her undergrad at Yale.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mullins is, for lack of a better term, a psychotic bitch, but she genuinely cares about the people in her city, her family, and Ashburn. Also, when you meet her family, you can understand why she ended up that way.

* JurisdictionFriction: Mullins and Asburn at first. Also, the DEA.

* {{Ladette}}: Mullins through and through.

* MarriedToTheJob: Ashburn. She confides that it cost her her marriage prior to the film's events.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Adam, the DEA agent, was Larkin all along.]]
* NoSocialSkills: Ashburn, however, this in part due to being raised in foster homes and not having any friends as a kid.

* OddCouple: Much of the humor of the film comes from Mullins and Ashburn being this, given that the latter is the more docile of the two.
* PreMortemOneLiner: "You just gave me a ring, motherfucker!"
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: One is seen on a corpse and later [[spoiler:the albino guy]] is killed with one.
* RabidCop: Mullins, to comical degrees. She threatens deadly force with abandon, breaks a suspect's hand, and threatens to shoot a prisoner's dick off, to name a few episodes.
* RealityEnsues: Trying to perform a tracheotomy and not knowing how will get you chewed out, as Ashburn finds out.

* RipTailoring: Mullins to a suit of Ashburn's at a club, giving her booty shorts and a more attractive looking top.
* RunningGag: Several.
** The Jesus-themed Boston sports teams paintings that Mullins' family has.
** The leftover sandwich Mullins has in her fridge.
* ShoutOut:
** "What is this, ''Film/TrainingDay''?"
** Also to ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo.''
--> Oh no, Scoob, Velma and Daphne got captured!
* SirSwearsALot: Again, Mullins. She curses in almost every sentence she speaks.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Both Mullins and Ashburn end up on the end of some spectacular slapstick, as does any perp Mullins ends up facing, especially Rojas and Julian. And that poor guy at the Denny's...
* {{Southies}}: Mullins' family.
* StandardCopBackstory: Mullins is looking out for her criminal brother, Ashburn is a foster child. Tick, tick.
* 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.

* 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 ones who don't seem to feel like this is her dad and [[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.
* WallOfWeapons: Mullins keeps one in her apartment, complete with ''grenades'' and a ''rocket launcher''. Although, they are in her fridge not a wall.
* WatchThePaintJob: Rojas gets [[HighAltitudeInterrogation dropped]] [[CarCushion onto the hood of a car.]]
-->'''Rojas:''' Please don't be my car, please don't be my car... ''[looks]'' Awww, my 2003!
* WorstAid: The tracheotomy scene, leading to a hilarious WhatTheHellHero from the paramedic.
* WouldHitAGirl: Julian.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Being DaChief to Mullins has aged Captain Woods by at least ten years.

* ActionGirl: Both main characters, but Mullins takes it further, given that her apartment is, essentially, a stockpile of weapons.
* AntiHero: Mullins, with her caustic personality and generally antagonistic way/views.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Craig.]]
* BenevolentBoss: Ashburn's. Mullins' is more of a jaded and incompetent PointyHairedBoss.
* BigBad: Larkin, the drug lord.
* BigBeautifulWoman: Mullins definitely has her admirers.
* BigDamnHeroes: Ashburn and Mullins to each other, at several points.
* BigDamnKiss: Mullins gives one to a random guy at a bar, and he is played by none other than Melissa [=McCarthy=]'s real life husband Ben Falcone.
* BingeMontage: The bar scene.
* BlackComedy
* BloodyHilarious:
** The incident with the choking man at Denny's.
** 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.]]

* EvilAlbino:
** [[spoiler:Subverted. The albino DEA agent Craig, despite Mullins' [[GenreSavvy expectations]], is not a bad guy or TheMole, just a {{Jerkass}} and a misogynist.]]
** There is also a shout out to this trope when Ashburn flips past the relevant scenes in ''Film/FoulPlay'' and ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' on TV.

* WallOfWeapons: Mullins keeps one in her apartment, complete with ''grenades'' and a ''rocket launcher''. Although, their in a fridge not a wall.

* ActionGirl: Both main characters.
* AntiHero: Mullins.

** Mullins and Ashburn.

* FreudianExcuse: The aforementioned FalseRoulette is aimed squarely at the perp's groin.

* HeroicComedicSociopath: Mullins.

* InsufferableGenius: Ashburn.

* NoSocialSkills: Ashburn.

* OddCouple

* 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]].

''The Heat'' is a 2013 action-comedy starring Creator/SandraBullock and Creator/MelissaMcCarthy. It is directed by Paul Feig.

Bullock plays Sarah Ashburn, an uptight, by-the-books FBI special agent who is forced to team up with Shannon Mullins, a foul-mouthed and abrasive detective ([=McCarthy=]) in order to take down a drug lord.

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

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mullins is, for lack of a better term, a psychotic bitch, but she genuinely cares about the people in her city, her family, and Ashburn.
** Also, when you meet her family, you can understand why she ended up that way.

* [[KavorkaMan Kavorka Woman]]: Mullins may not be conventionally attractive, but she certainly has her fair share of unshakeable admirers.

* [[SirSwearsALot Lady Swears-A-Lot]]: Again, Mullins. [[CaptainObvious Not that she's much of a "lady" to begin with, of course.]]

* MissingTrailerScene: The trailer uses an alternate version of the scene where Ashburn cuts her hand after her beer glass breaks. In the trailer, after Mullins sees the blood she faints and falls backwards on the pool table. In the film, Mullins merely laughs it off and tells Ashburn to keep her hand up.

Not to be confused with ''Film/{{Heat}}''

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

** Also to ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo.''

* {{Hahvahd Yahd In My Cah}}: The extremely thick Boston accents possessed by Mullins' family results in a humorous scene where one of her brothers asks Ashburn if she's a Narc[[note]]narcotics cop[[/note]] -- pronounced more-or-less like "knock" -- and she has no idea what he's saying. It's enforced with subtitles, where it says they are saying "knock."