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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Illya and Gaby, in spades...see the AlmostKiss entry up above.
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** [[spoiler: Victoria's proves to be the smearing of her husband's name, she seemed nonplussed until Solo decided to "embellish" the nature of his death; after which she promptly gives him an epic villain's speech in the most classic and grandiose tradition...which immediately proceeds to be her undoing.]]
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* ShoutOut: One of Kuryakin's victims in the bathroom brawl is Count Lippi, who is up to no good. Perhap's he's Count Lippe from ''Novel/Thunderball'', published in a similar time, seen at a health clinic recovering.
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* TeamShot: Played with, [[spoiler: the very last shot of the film cuts to silhouettes of the newly formed U.N.C.L.E...only with Gaby, Illya, and Napoleon flabbergasted and wincing instead of the classic dignified unity shot in cool poses.]]
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* FriendOrIdolDecision: Both Napoleon and Illya get this toward the end of the movie: each of them get an order to retrieve the tape of information at all cost, and if necessary, kill the other one to do so. Yet to kill each other would mean killing a man they've come to respect. [[spoiler: After Napoleon gives Illya his father's watch (that he got off one of the mooks) they decided to just burn the tape together instead. This is when Waverly comes to them with another job offer.]]
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: The end credits show still shots of the four leads on the adventure in Istanbul Waverly mentioned.]]
* BrickJoke: To escape, Kuryakin jumps out of a three-story window, expecting to land in the water. Solo only hears a thud and a scream. He then does the same a few seconds later...and finds too late that the window was right above a wooden boat dock.
** The "glitch" in [[spoiler: Rudi's]] torture device.
** Gaby's [[spoiler: second engagement ring.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Waverly, showing up innocuously early on, comes back in a big way in the third act.
* ChekhovsSkill: Subverted. Ilya's "The Kiss" move is used once, in its introduction, and never again.
** Gaby's [[spoiler: second engagement ring.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Waverly, showing up innocuously early on, comes back in a big way in the third act.
* ChekhovsSkill: Subverted. Ilya's "The Kiss" move is used once, in its introduction, and never again.
** Solo also uses it during the island raid.
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler: When Victoria finds out that Solo is a spy, she drugs all of her alcohol, so no matter what he chooses will knock him out.]]
* CuttingTheKnot: Solo shows off special wire cutters that use, for an extra kick, a CO2 laser. Kuryakin immediately produces a CO2 laser.
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler: When Victoria finds out that Solo is a spy, she drugs all of her alcohol, so no matter what he chooses will knock him out.]]
* CuttingTheKnot: Solo shows off special wire cutters that use, for an extra kick, a CO2 laser. Kuryakin immediately produces a CO2 laser.
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* TheFilmOfTheSeriesTheFilmOfTheSeries: And an origin story to boot.
* FireForgedFriends: The best way to describe Solo and Kuryakin's arc.
* FireForgedFriends: The best way to describe Solo and Kuryakin's arc.
* FreezeFrameBonus: The credits, before showing scenes from the adventure in Istanbul, show the four lead's dossiers. [[spoiler: Waverly is a recovering alcoholic and opium addict; Solo has "serial womanizer" listed for a psychological problem; Kuryakin is noted to have an Oedipus Complex.]]
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* HiddenDepths: Early on, Illya demonstrates a refined knowledge of haute couture in the scene in the Berlin shop where he and Napoleon are bickering over how Gaby should be dressed. (This bit might also be seen as a ShoutOut to the 1983 TV movie, "The Fifteen Years Later", where Illya is described as having taken up high-fashion design after leaving U.N.C.L.E..)
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* HiddenDepths: Early on, Illya demonstrates a refined knowledge of haute couture in the scene in the Berlin shop where he and Napoleon are bickering over how Gaby should be dressed. (This bit might also be seen as a ShoutOut MythologyGag to the 1983 TV movie, "The Fifteen Years Later", where Illya is described as having taken up high-fashion design after leaving U.N.C.L.E..))
** He's also a chess master, photographer, and at least knows enough about architecture to fake his cover.
** He's also a chess master, photographer, and at least knows enough about architecture to fake his cover.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever caused Solo to be drugged unconscious before. It's taught him to lie down on pillows before collapsing, to avoid head injuries.
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* TakeAThirdOption: Both Solo and Kuryakin are tasked with recovering Professor Teller's research, at any cost. [[spoiler: When they decide they don't want to kill each other, they burn it while sharing scotch and enjoying the Roman view.]]
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* OliveGarden: The great majority of the movie is set in LaDolceVita-era Rome and its suburbs.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Illya plays a solitaire chess game in the scene where Gaby tries to seduce him, and in the dossier excerpts seen in the end credits, he's reported to be an internationally-ranked chess master.
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* FourEyesZeroSoul: Uncle Rudi wears glasses (sometimes accessorized with removable shades when he's outdoors). [[spoiler:In the torture scene, he talks in a perfectly affable, scholarly manner with Napoleon about his horrific career and how he plans to take color photographs of Solo's slow death by electrocution while his glasses glint in a thoroughly disturbing way.]]
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The hotel room argument between Illya and Gaby has one line that wouldn't have made the cut if this took place in modern day, unless he was joking.
-->'''Illya:''' Don't you make me put you over my knee!
-->'''Illya:''' Don't you make me put you over my knee!
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* BattleInTheRain: The final fight with Alexander.
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* TheDragon: Alexander Vinciguerra, Victoria's husband.
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* BloodlessCarnage: By the standards of 21st-century action movies, there's very little blood or gore visible in this movie (an echo of the original series, where almost nobody was ever shown bleeding when shot). For example, when [[spoiler:Gaby's father is shot in the forehead by Victoria, the audience doesn't see the wound, even when the body is discovered by Napoleon and Illya]]; also, when [[Illya [[spoiler:Illya fatally stabs Alexander Vinceguerra during their climactic fight, Alexander bleeds from the mouth but the actual wound in his body can't be seen]].
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* BloodlessCarnage: By the standards of 21st-century action movies, there's very little blood or gore visible in this movie (an echo of the original series, where almost nobody was ever shown bleeding when shot). For example, when [[spoiler:Gaby's father is shot in the forehead by Victoria, the audience doesn't see the wound, even when the body is discovered by Napoleon and Illya]]; also, when [[Illya fatally stabs Alexander Vinceguerra during their climactic fight, Alexander bleeds from the mouth but the actual wound in his body can't be seen]].
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* ChekhovsGun: Early on, Illya, while out with Gaby, has his most precious possession, his father's watch, stolen by goons working for the Vinceguerra operation (nearly causing his BerserkButton to be jammed down). [[spoiler:Napoleon recovers the watch later on and gives it back to Illya at a crucial moment near the end of the film, completely defusing what could have been a bloody showdown and starting a beautiful friendship instead.]]
* CoolGuns: Take a close look at the firearm Illya's carrying during the penultimate chase scene (the one with the all-terrain vehicles, where Illya is on a cycle). That's the iconic U.N.C.L.E. Special assembled into carbine form, complete with sniperscope and shoulder stock. [[spoiler:It's implied in the end-credits imagery that Waverly designed the weapon.]] Also, the reflector that Victoria orders Gaby's father to remove from the nuclear warhead [[spoiler:is later placed into the missile that's used to destroy Victoria's boat - ''and'' the nuclear warhead that she's about to deliver to the Nazi submarine.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Early on, Illya, while out with Gaby, has his most precious possession, his father's watch, stolen by goons working for the Vinceguerra operation (nearly causing his BerserkButton to be jammed down). [[spoiler:Napoleon recovers the watch later on and gives it back to Illya at a crucial moment near the end of the film, completely defusing what could have been a bloody showdown and starting a beautiful friendship instead.]] Also, the reflector that Victoria orders Gaby's father to remove from the nuclear warhead [[spoiler:is later placed into the missile that's used to destroy Victoria's boat - ''and'' the nuclear warhead that she's about to deliver to the Nazi submarine.]]
* CoolGuns: Take a close look at the firearm Illya's carrying during the penultimate chase scene (the one with the all-terrain vehicles, where Illya is on a cycle). That's the iconic U.N.C.L.E. Special assembled into carbine form, complete with sniperscope and shoulder stock. [[spoiler:It's implied in the end-credits imagery that Waverly designed the weapon.]]Also, the reflector that Victoria orders Gaby's father to remove from the nuclear warhead [[spoiler:is later placed into the missile that's used to destroy Victoria's boat - ''and'' the nuclear warhead that she's about to deliver to the Nazi submarine.]]
* CoolGuns: Take a close look at the firearm Illya's carrying during the penultimate chase scene (the one with the all-terrain vehicles, where Illya is on a cycle). That's the iconic U.N.C.L.E. Special assembled into carbine form, complete with sniperscope and shoulder stock. [[spoiler:It's implied in the end-credits imagery that Waverly designed the weapon.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Early on, Illya, while out with Gaby, has his most precious possessions, his father's watch, stolen by goons working for the Vinceguerra operation (nearly causing his BerserkButton to be jammed down). [[spoiler:Napoleon recovers the watch later on and gives it back to Illya at a crucial moment near the end of the film, completely defusing what could have been a bloody showdown and starting a beautiful friendship instead.]]
* CoolGuns: Take a close look at the firearm Illya's carrying during the penultimate chase scene (the one with the all-terrain vehicles, where Illya is on a cycle). That's the iconic U.N.C.L.E. Special assembled into carbine form, complete with sniperscope and shoulder stock. [[spoiler:It's implied in the end-credits imagery that Waverly designed the weapon.]]
* CoolGuns: Take a close look at the firearm Illya's carrying during the penultimate chase scene (the one with the all-terrain vehicles, where Illya is on a cycle). That's the iconic U.N.C.L.E. Special assembled into carbine form, complete with sniperscope and shoulder stock. [[spoiler:It's implied in the end-credits imagery that Waverly designed the weapon.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Early on, Illya, while out with Gaby, has his most precious possessions, possession, his father's watch, stolen by goons working for the Vinceguerra operation (nearly causing his BerserkButton to be jammed down). [[spoiler:Napoleon recovers the watch later on and gives it back to Illya at a crucial moment near the end of the film, completely defusing what could have been a bloody showdown and starting a beautiful friendship instead.]]
* CoolGuns: Take a close look at the firearm Illya's carrying during the penultimate chase scene (the one with the all-terrain vehicles, where Illya is on a cycle). That's the iconic U.N.C.L.E. Special assembled into carbine form, complete with sniperscope and shoulder stock. [[spoiler:It's implied in the end-credits imagery that Waverly designed the weapon.]] Also, the reflector that Victoria orders Gaby's father to remove from the nuclear warhead [[spoiler:is later placed into the missile that's used to destroy Victoria's boat - ''and'' the nuclear warhead that she's about to deliver to the Nazi submarine.]]
* CoolGuns: Take a close look at the firearm Illya's carrying during the penultimate chase scene (the one with the all-terrain vehicles, where Illya is on a cycle). That's the iconic U.N.C.L.E. Special assembled into carbine form, complete with sniperscope and shoulder stock. [[spoiler:It's implied in the end-credits imagery that Waverly designed the weapon.]] Also, the reflector that Victoria orders Gaby's father to remove from the nuclear warhead [[spoiler:is later placed into the missile that's used to destroy Victoria's boat - ''and'' the nuclear warhead that she's about to deliver to the Nazi submarine.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Early on, Illya, while out with Gaby, has his most precious possessions, his father's watch, stolen by goons working for the Vinceguerra operation (nearly causing his BerserkButton to be jammed down). [[spoiler:Napoleon recovers the watch later on and gives it back to Illya at a crucial moment near the end of the film, completely defusing what could have been a bloody showdown and starting a beautiful friendship instead.]]
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* TheMengele: [[spoiler: Uncle Rudi, in what's arguably the film's darkest turn - he's got a special page reserved in his scrapbook just for the shiny new color pictures of experiments on Solo.]]
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* SpyFiction: Of the Martini variety, though neither of the leads ever wear tuxedos (Napoleon is closest in the visual sense, choosing to stay in nothing but fine three-piece suits for much of the movie) - the film's sense of style and glamour still make it a perfect fit.
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* BaitAndSwitch: ''All over the place.'' A lot of the film's humor and even some of its heartwarming moments are derived from the follow-through of an action ''not quite'' going where you think it's going to go, or it goes there but does it with a twist.
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* OneSteveLimit: This is why Waverly's only referred to by his last name: the villain's husband is also named Alexander.
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'''''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.''''' is a 2015 spy-fi movie directed by Creator/GuyRitchie, based on [[Series/TheManFromUncle the 1960s television series]]. It stars Creator/HenryCavill as Napoleon Solo, Creator/ArmieHammer as Illya Kuryakin, Creator/AliciaVikander as Gaby Teller, Elizabeth Debicki as Victoria Vinciguerra and Creator/HughGrant as Mr. Waverley. It was released on August 14th, 2015.
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'''''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.''''' is a 2015 spy-fi movie directed by Creator/GuyRitchie, based on [[Series/TheManFromUncle the 1960s television series]]. It stars Creator/HenryCavill as Napoleon Solo, Creator/ArmieHammer as Illya Kuryakin, and Creator/HughGrant as Mr. Waverley. It's scheduled for release It was released on August 14th, 2015.
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'''''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.''''' is a 2015 spy-fi movie directed by Creator/GuyRitchie, based on [[Series/TheManFromUncle the 1960s television series]]. It stars Creator/HenryCavill as Napoleon Solo, Creator/ArmieHammer as Illya Kuryakin, and Creator/HughGrant as Mr. Waverley. It's scheduled for release on August 14th, 2015.
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!!Tropes in the film include:
* ActionGirl: Gaby Teller participates in the same mission as Solo and Kuryakin.
* AlliterativeName: '''V'''ictoria '''V'''inciguerra.
* {{Badass}}: Both Solo and Kuryakin are among the best agents in the CIA and the KGB, respectively.
* BadassBaritone: Solo and Kuryakin, played by Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Solo and Kuryakin have great taste in clothes, to say the least.
* BadassInDistress: At some point in the film, Solo is strapped to an electric torture device.
* BasedOnATrueStory: Napoleon and Gabriella ziplining over the BerlinWall in 1963 was based on Michael Becker and Holger Bethke doing the same in 1983.
* BerserkButton: Solo and Kuryakin attempt to get on each other's nerves while getting acquainted. Solo talks about the bad reputation Kuryakin's parents endured, while Kuryakin brings up Solo's criminal background. Solo wins, causing an angry Kuryakin to [[FlippingTheTable flip a table]].
* BigBad: Victoria Vinciguerra, leader of a terrorist organization in possession of a nuclear weapon.
* BlondesAreEvil: Vinciguerra.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Kuryakin tears the back off Solo's getaway car with his bare hands. Solo claims what Kuryakin did was not humanly possible.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Vinciguerra gets close to the captured Solo and says she is looking forward to kill him, in a charming, seducing tone.
* TheFilmOfTheSeries
* FunWithAcronyms: As in the TV series, U.N.C.L.E. stands for United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.
* HeadbuttingHeroes: As expected of a CIA-KGB joint operation in the middle of the Cold War, Solo and Kuryakin have trouble working together.
* {{Prequel}}: The movie serves to answer the question (never addressed in the series) as to how agents from the CIA and KGB came to team up during the height of the Cold War.
* TheSixties: Probably wisely, Ritchie decided to simply set the film in the same period that the show was on rather than try to duplicate the Cold War politics in modern times.
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'''''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.''''' is a 2015 spy-fi movie directed by Creator/GuyRitchie, based on [[Series/TheManFromUncle the 1960s television series]]. It stars Creator/HenryCavill as Napoleon Solo, Creator/ArmieHammer as Illya Kuryakin, and Creator/HughGrant as Mr. Waverley. It's scheduled for release on August 14th, 2015.
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* ActionGirl: Gaby Teller participates in the same mission as Solo and Kuryakin.
* AlliterativeName: '''V'''ictoria '''V'''inciguerra.
* {{Badass}}: Both Solo and Kuryakin are among the best agents in the CIA and the KGB, respectively.
* BadassBaritone: Solo and Kuryakin, played by Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Solo and Kuryakin have great taste in clothes, to say the least.
* BadassInDistress: At some point in the film, Solo is strapped to an electric torture device.
* BasedOnATrueStory: Napoleon and Gabriella ziplining over the BerlinWall in 1963 was based on Michael Becker and Holger Bethke doing the same in 1983.
* BerserkButton: Solo and Kuryakin attempt to get on each other's nerves while getting acquainted. Solo talks about the bad reputation Kuryakin's parents endured, while Kuryakin brings up Solo's criminal background. Solo wins, causing an angry Kuryakin to [[FlippingTheTable flip a table]].
* BigBad: Victoria Vinciguerra, leader of a terrorist organization in possession of a nuclear weapon.
* BlondesAreEvil: Vinciguerra.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Kuryakin tears the back off Solo's getaway car with his bare hands. Solo claims what Kuryakin did was not humanly possible.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Vinciguerra gets close to the captured Solo and says she is looking forward to kill him, in a charming, seducing tone.
* TheFilmOfTheSeries
* FunWithAcronyms: As in the TV series, U.N.C.L.E. stands for United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.
* HeadbuttingHeroes: As expected of a CIA-KGB joint operation in the middle of the Cold War, Solo and Kuryakin have trouble working together.
* {{Prequel}}: The movie serves to answer the question (never addressed in the series) as to how agents from the CIA and KGB came to team up during the height of the Cold War.
* TheSixties: Probably wisely, Ritchie decided to simply set the film in the same period that the show was on rather than try to duplicate the Cold War politics in modern times.
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