History Film / ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain

* OneManArmy: The US President refers to Clouseau as this when he is told that twenty-six assassins dies trying to kill the French inspector. However, Clouseau is actually an aversion; the assassins took each other out by accident while Clouseau, who wasn't even aware of them, [[InvincibleIdiot survived through dumb luck]].

Three years after the events of ''Film/TheReturnOfThePinkPanther'',[[note]]though this film was only made one year after[[/note]] Former Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Creator/HerbertLom) is seemingly cured, but after meeting up with Clouseau prior to his release from the psychiatric hospital, the therapy is undone. Dreyfus escapes and organizes a criminal gang that kidnaps nuclear physicist Hugo Fassbender (Richard Vernon) and his daughter Margo (Briony [=McRoberts=]). Forcing the former to build a Disintegrator Ray, Dreyfus threatens to unleash it on the world unless Clouseau is killed, and many countries immediately send assassins after Clouseau as he sets out to stop Dreyfus himself.

Three years after the events of ''Film/TheReturnOfThePinkPanther''[[note]]though this film was only made one year after[[/note]], Former Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Creator/HerbertLom) is seemingly cured, but after meeting up with Clouseau prior to his release from the psychiatric hospital, the therapy is undone. Dreyfus escapes and organizes a criminal gang that kidnaps nuclear physicist Hugo Fassbender (Richard Vernon) and his daughter Margo (Briony [=McRoberts=]). Forcing the former to build a Disintegrator Ray, Dreyfus threatens to unleash it on the world unless Clouseau is killed, and many countries immediately send assassins after Clouseau as he sets out to stop Dreyfus himself.

* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Going by the way that Clouseau accidentally shot a man in the ass by knocking one over and making it go off, Professor Fassbender stores his hunting rifles loaded and unsafed.

* OperationBlank: Fassbender worked on a project called Operation Looking Glass, which was the basis of his doomsday machine.

* BathroomBreakOut: Dreyfus orchestrates the escape of a prisoner being transported by train. He goes to the bathroom, then climbs out through the ventilator on to the roof of the train and holds onto the skid of a waiting helicopter.

* YankTheDogsChain: After three years of therapy, Dreyfus is finally sane again and within hours of being released from the asylum. He suffers a total relapse and ends up even crazier than before after spending a mere five minutes in Clouseau's company.

->''"Why are the world's chief assassins after Inspector Clouseau?\\
Why not? Everybody else is."''
-->-- '''{{Tagline}}'''

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Some of the criminals ask Dreyfus why they don't just go after Clouseau themselves, instead of having the world's assassins do it. Dreyfus replies that they would not stand a chance.

* ManlyGay: Jarvis the butler is drag queen and kisses Clouseau at one point but drives around on a motorcycle and is able to kill an assassin who tries to silence him.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: in his previous films, Dreyfus' has been a threat just to Clouseau. Here, he is the leader of a powerful crime group and threaten's the world's powers into doing what he wants.

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->''"Why are the world's chief assassins after Inspector Clouseau? Why not? Everybody else is."''

* TorpedoTits: One of the killers attacks Clouseau with spikes emerging from her dress. She meets her end when she pins them to a table.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: When Dreyfus attempts to blow up Clouseau in his apartment, he calls him, to insure he's within the blast radius, and claims he's part of a committee that intends to present him with an award. Clouseau remarks that he wondered why, after nine years of service, he's not been recognized sooner.

* TheDragon: Bank robber Tournier, who is the first recruit to Dreyfus's army, acts as an advisor to him and goes to try and kill Clouseau himself after most of the worlds assigns fail.

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:After being catapulted back into the castle, Clouseau lands on top of the doomsday machine, knocking it out of position and zapping Dreyfus' legs. Despite this, Dreyfus is still able to walk normally until the entire castle is vaporized.]]

* ArmedLegs: One of the killers uses a shoe knife.

* BathroomBreakOut: Dreyfus orchestrates the escape of a prisoner being transported by train. He goes to the bathroom, then climbs out through the ventilator on to the roof of the train and into a waiting helicopter.

* ReferenceOverdosed: The opening titles include parodies of ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'', ''[[Series/Batman1966 Batman]]'', ''[[Film/KingKong1933 King Kong]]'', ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', ''{{Dracula}}'', ''Film/SinginInTheRain'', ''Film/SteamboatBillJr'', and ''Theatre/SweetCharity''.