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** Nadedja appears late in the movie in [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Borg]] cosplay.

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** Subverted later when Sebastien breaks into an abandoned gym and tries this with one of those really dense gym mattresses. It's just not dense enough.

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** Subverted later when Sebastien Sebastian breaks into an abandoned gym and tries this with one of those really dense gym mattresses. It's just not dense enough.


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* HehHehYouSaidX: Audrey and Sebastian infiltrate the gala as guests while Morgan is among the acrobats on stage, and doesn't realize that [[spoiler:Drew's fake parents aka the heads of Highland]] recognize them.
-->'''Sebastian:''' Morgan. Get backstage. I've just been blown.\\
'''Morgan:''' (loud giggle)
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** Creator/GillianAnderson is the head of MI6 [[Film/JohnnyEnglishReborn again.]]

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** Creator/GillianAnderson is the head of MI6 [=MI6=] [[Film/JohnnyEnglishReborn again.]]
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** Creator/GillianAnderson is the head of MI6 [[Film/JohnnyEnglishReborn again.]]

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** Morgan claiming to have auditioned for the role of an impoverished Ukrainian girl, which sounds more like her Olya Povlatsky character from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.

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** Morgan claiming to have auditioned for the role of an impoverished Ukrainian girl, which sounds more like her Kate [=McKinnon's=] Olya Povlatsky character from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.



* TheCameo: Creator/JaneCurtin and Creator/PaulReiser appear as Morgan's parents.



* ConcealmentEqualsCover: Morgan and Audrey are forced to evade gunfire by hiding behind the trolley case they got at the airport. It was in America so bulletproof trolley cases are probably available for purchase, but it's still ''two grown women behind a trolley case.''

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Morgan and Audrey are forced to evade gunfire by hiding behind the trolley case they got at the airport. It was in America so bulletproof trolley cases are probably available for purchase, but it's still ''two grown women behind a trolley case.''''
** Subverted later when Sebastien breaks into an abandoned gym and tries this with one of those really dense gym mattresses. It's just not dense enough.



* FacialHorror: Relatively minor, but after [[spoiler:Sebastian kicks a grenade back at her, Nadedja is left with distinctive burns on the left side of her face]].

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* FacialHorror: Relatively minor, but after [[spoiler:Sebastian [[spoiler:Morgan kicks a grenade back at her, Nadedja is left with distinctive burns on the left side of her face]].
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* ConcealmentEqualsCover: Morgan and Audrey are forced to evade gunfire by hiding behind the trolley case they got at the airport. It was in America so bulletproof trolley cases are probably available for purchase, but it's still ''two grown women behind a trolley case.''
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* ActorAllusion:
** There's several references to Ukraine in the beginning of the movie - Mila Kunis really does hail from Ukraine.
** Morgan claiming to have auditioned for the role of an impoverished Ukrainian girl, which sounds more like her Olya Povlatsky character from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.


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* BrickJoke: Morgan gets dick pics from Victor, and says several times that he's uncircumcised. Then Viktor appears completely naked, as if to confirm it.


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** Audrey tells Drew to find the worst song in the jukebox, saying [[Series/MissionImpossible "Your mission should you choose to accept it..."]]
* SkewedPriorities: Morgan turns out to be the queen of this (heavily implied to be a case of AttentionDeficitOohShiny).
-->"Do you want to die having never been to Europe? Or do you want to go to Europe, and die having been to Europe?"


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* TakeThat: Sebastien is clearly annoyed at Duffer taking "just two minutes" to bring up that he's been to Harvard.

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* AlmostFamousName: InUniverse; Morgan's last name is [[Creator/MorganFreeman Freeman]].
-->'''Morgan''': I can get a reservation anywhere I want.



* NamesTheSame: InUniverse; Morgan's last name is [[Creator/MorganFreeman Freeman]].
-->'''Morgan''': I can get a reservation anywhere I want.

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* FullFrontalAssault: Viktor, the assassin from the beginning of the film, shows up butt-naked to Audrey and Morgan’s apartment. You can even see his balls (from the back).

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* FullFrontalAssault: Viktor, the assassin from the beginning of the film, shows up butt-naked to Audrey and Morgan’s Morgan's apartment. You can even see his balls (from the back).



* ImprovisedWeapon: Drew uses a cue ball wrapped in a scarf in the film’s opening fight.

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* ImprovisedWeapon: Drew uses a cue ball wrapped in a scarf in the film’s film's opening fight.



* NeckSnap: Drew kills his target in the ActionPrologue by breaking his neck. He follows that up by blowing him up with a piece of metal in a microwave.



* PacManFever: When we first see Audrey, she's playing the arcade game Point Blank -- except somehow, the screen shows the Nintendo DS (portable) version.



* PacManFever: When we first see Audrey, she's playing the arcade game Point Blank -- except somehow, the screen shows the Nintendo DS (portable) version.
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* ActionHero: Henshaw is one in the James Bond/Jason Bourne "super spy" vein, effortlessly taking down multiple henchmen.

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* ActionHero: Henshaw is one in the James Bond/Jason Bourne "super spy" vein, effortlessly taking down multiple henchmen.henchmen and pulling off numerous impressive feats.
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* ActionHero: Henshaw is one in the James Bond/Jason Bourne "super spy" vein, effortlessly taking down multiple henchmen.


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* BadassBystander: The tourist in the youth hostel saves the crew from [[spoiler: Duffer]] by picking him up and smashing him to the ground, assuming he was a thief.


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* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Duffer went to Harvard and will bring it up at every available opportunity.


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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Henshaw is English but Sam Heughan's natural Scottish accent can be heard leaking through on occasion.
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* PacManFever: When we first see Audrey, she's playing the arcade game Point Blank -- except somehow, the screen shows the Nintendo DS (portable) version.

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* PostersAlwaysLie: Slightly. Audrey and Morgan only wear the [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles dresses in the poster picture]] during a short mid-credits [[TheStinger Stinger scene]].


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* SpoilerCover: Slightly. Audrey and Morgan only wear the [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles dresses in the poster picture]] during a short mid-credits [[TheStinger Stinger scene]].

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* {{Eagleland}}: Downplayed. When Nadedja is given the order to shoot "two dumb American women", she can't find Audrey and Morgan because of all the uncouth pairs of American tourists.
** Also, when the large man in the youth hostel sees their guns pointed at him, he just squints and say, "Americans?"


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* UglyAmericanStereotype: When Nadedja is given the order to shoot "two dumb American women", she can't find Audrey and Morgan because of all the uncouth pairs of American tourists. Also, when the large man in the youth hostel sees their guns pointed at him, he just squints and say, "Americans?"
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* KickTheDog: While holding Sebastian at gunpoint, [[spoiler:Duffer]] forces him to raise his broken arm higher for no reason other than he can.
* LookBothWays: One of the biker assassins is killed when Audrey knocks him off a car into the street, where he gets run over by a bus.
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* FullFrontalAssault: Viktor, the assassin from the beginning of the film, shows up butt-naked to Audrey and Morgan’s apartment. You can even see his balls (from the back).


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* ImpaledPalm: One of the assassins in the cafe is stabbed through the hand by Sebastian, causing her to fire her gun into a microwave and a large amount of steam to billow into the room.


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* ImprovisedWeapon: Drew uses a cue ball wrapped in a scarf in the film’s opening fight.


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* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Drew turned out to have survived getting shot in the throat early in the film]].
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* InvisiblePresident: Morgan calls her old boyfriend, Edward Snowden, to hack into the flash drive. The actor who plays Snowden is only shown from behind.

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* ChekhovsGag: Morgan mentioning that Edward Snowden had a crush on her when they were kids.



* HistoryWithCelebrity: Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who leaked NSA files in 2013, apparently had a crush on Morgan in summer camp. Morgan takes advantage of this and gets him to [[spoiler:remotely hack the drive]].
* HollywoodHacking: Sebastian is unable to hack the drive after some laptop tapping (tutting that it would take a supercomputer days to figure out the password). The team's solution? [[spoiler:Call Edward Snowden, who is able to do it remotely after a few minutes.]]

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* HistoryWithCelebrity: Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who leaked NSA files in 2013, apparently had a crush on Morgan in summer camp. Morgan takes advantage of this and gets him to [[spoiler:remotely [[spoiler: remotely hack the drive]].
* HollywoodHacking: Sebastian is unable to hack the drive after some laptop tapping (tutting that it would take a supercomputer days to figure out the password). The team's solution? [[spoiler:Call [[spoiler: Call Edward Snowden, who is able to do it remotely after a few minutes.]]


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* PostersAlwaysLie: Slightly. Audrey and Morgan only wear the [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles dresses in the poster picture]] during a short mid-credits [[TheStinger Stinger scene]].


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* SpotTheImposter: Though not physical copies, [[spoiler: Drew and Sebastian]] both tell Audrey that the other is working for the bad guy during the climax, and she has to choose which one she thinks is telling the truth. Leads to…
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* CompanionCube: Nadejda, raised from childhood as an assassin with the cover of being an Olympic gymnast, is emotionally attached to the balance beam.

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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Morgan may appear to be just an actress whose career has never taken off, but she picked up a range of interesting contacts and skills over the years, allowing her to call [[spoiler:Edward Snowden]] for help and perform on a complex trapeze display as part of an improvised cover.



* FacialHorror: Relatively minor, but after [[spoiler:Sebastian kicks a grenade back at her, Nadedja is left with distinctive burns on the left side of her face]].



* HairContrastDuo: Extroverted and energetic blonde Morgan is best friends with introverted and reserved Audrey.

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* HairContrastDuo: Extroverted and energetic blonde Morgan is best friends with introverted and reserved brunette Audrey.


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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Morgan defeats Nadedja by [[spoiler:kicking her into an anchor on the side of the room as part of a museum display, which goes straight through Nadedja's chest]].


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* TheNondescript: Sebastien basically describes Canadians as this [[spoiler:to justify him and Audrey replacing the Canadian ambassador and his wife as part of their attempt to intercept the trade for the drive]].


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* SmallNameBigEgo: Duffer never misses an opportunity to bring up the fact that he went to Harvard even when it isn't relevant.
* StopCopyingMe: [[spoiler:Sebastien and Drew]] fall into this in the final confrontation as the former just repeats the latter's accusations back at him.


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* TrueCompanions: For all their differences, Audrey and Morgan make it clear that they know they can trust each other without question.

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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Morgan's uncle Roger was killed by Nadedja and replaced by a double]].

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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Morgan's uncle father's friend Roger was killed by Nadedja and replaced by a double]].


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** Also, when the large man in the youth hostel sees their guns pointed at him, he just squints and say, "Americans?"
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"Topher"??


* BorrowedBiometricBypass: Audrey saws off [[spoiler:Topher]]'s thumb to gain continued access to his [=iPhone=].

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* BorrowedBiometricBypass: Audrey saws off [[spoiler:Topher]]'s [[spoiler:Duffer]]'s thumb to gain continued access to his [=iPhone=].
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* FreezeFrameBonus: A quick pause when Duffer's emails are on screen shows that he even signs his black-market emails with "Harvard '11".
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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Morgan's uncle Roger was killed by Nadedja and replaced by a double]].
* DestinationDefenestration: [[spoiler:Morgan kills Viktor by shoving him out a window]].
* DisposablePilot: Well, driver. During the CarChase in Vienna, Audrey and Morgan's taxi driver gets shot by {{Mooks}}, forcing Audrey to take the wheel.
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* TrouserSpace: At one point Morgan hides the drive [[spoiler:in her vagina.]] Revealing this to Sebastian is understandably awkward.

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* TrouserSpace: At one point Morgan Audrey hides the drive [[spoiler:in her vagina.]] Revealing this to Sebastian is understandably awkward.
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Audrey (Kunis) finds out that the ex-boyfriend who dumped her through text, Drew (Creator/JustinTheroux), is actually a CIA agent. Drew is murdered while retrieving a fantasy football trophy from Audrey, and gives her specific instructions to go to Vienna and hand over the trophy to his contact. Audrey's best friend and roommate Morgan ([=McKinnon=]) convinces her to go to Vienna, and the two become embroiled in an international race to gain the contents of the drive. Dodging brutal assassins and renowned criminals throughout Europe, their only ally seems to be [=MI6=] agent Sebastian (Creator/SamHeughan)... or is he?

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Audrey (Kunis) finds out that the ex-boyfriend who dumped her through text, Drew (Creator/JustinTheroux), is actually a CIA agent. Drew is murdered while retrieving a fantasy football trophy containing a USB flash drive from Audrey, and gives her specific instructions to go to Vienna and hand over the trophy to his contact. Audrey's best friend and roommate Morgan ([=McKinnon=]) convinces her to go to Vienna, and the two become embroiled in an international race to gain the contents of the drive. Dodging brutal assassins and renowned criminals throughout Europe, their only ally seems to be [=MI6=] agent Sebastian (Creator/SamHeughan)... or is he?
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[[caption-width-right:220:''Don't trust anybody.'']]

->''"There is no turning back for us. We're semi-professionals at this point. Professional. We are professional."''
-->-- '''Morgan'''

''The Spy Who Dumped Me'' is a 2018 action buddy comedy film directed by Susanna Fogel and starring Creator/MilaKunis and Creator/KateMcKinnon.

Audrey (Kunis) finds out that the ex-boyfriend who dumped her through text, Drew (Creator/JustinTheroux), is actually a CIA agent. Drew is murdered while retrieving a fantasy football trophy from Audrey, and gives her specific instructions to go to Vienna and hand over the trophy to his contact. Audrey's best friend and roommate Morgan ([=McKinnon=]) convinces her to go to Vienna, and the two become embroiled in an international race to gain the contents of the drive. Dodging brutal assassins and renowned criminals throughout Europe, their only ally seems to be [=MI6=] agent Sebastian (Creator/SamHeughan)... or is he?

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* ActionSurvivor: Both Audrey and Morgan are untrained civilians, but manage to survive several deadly encounters with assassins and rogue agents purely through wit, savvy, and dumb luck.
* AllPartOfTheShow: Morgan faces off against Nadedja during a trapeze show and manages to take her out. The audience gives her a standing ovation.
* BorrowedBiometricBypass: Audrey saws off [[spoiler:Topher]]'s thumb to gain continued access to his [=iPhone=].
* DrivingStick: Morgan and Audrey try to steal a car in Vienna, but give up shortly after because neither of them can drive stick.
* {{Eagleland}}: Downplayed. When Nadedja is given the order to shoot "two dumb American women", she can't find Audrey and Morgan because of all the uncouth pairs of American tourists.
* HairContrastDuo: Extroverted and energetic blonde Morgan is best friends with introverted and reserved Audrey.
* HistoryWithCelebrity: Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who leaked NSA files in 2013, apparently had a crush on Morgan in summer camp. Morgan takes advantage of this and gets him to [[spoiler:remotely hack the drive]].
* HollywoodHacking: Sebastian is unable to hack the drive after some laptop tapping (tutting that it would take a supercomputer days to figure out the password). The team's solution? [[spoiler:Call Edward Snowden, who is able to do it remotely after a few minutes.]]
* HurricaneOfPuns: In TheStinger, Morgan makes a bunch of Japanese food puns in quick succession.
* IKnowMortalKombat: Audrey is remarkably cool-headed when shooting a man in the cafe shootout; she attributes it to playing lots of video games.
* MacGuffin: The flash drive that was in the trophy. What turns out to be in it (formerly believed to be terrorist plans, actually [[spoiler:a "backdoor" to the entire internet]]) isn't as important as how everyone is fighting to get it.
* NamesTheSame: InUniverse; Morgan's last name is [[Creator/MorganFreeman Freeman]].
-->'''Morgan''': I can get a reservation anywhere I want.
* ShoutOut:
** The film's title is a play on ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''.
** Morgan refers to Wendy as "[a] Creator/JudiDench", referencing the role of M in the Creator/DanielCraig ''Film/JamesBond'' films. She also calls her the Music/{{Beyonce}} of government.
* TrouserSpace: At one point Morgan hides the drive [[spoiler:in her vagina.]] Revealing this to Sebastian is understandably awkward.
* TykeBomb: Nadejda, a young Russian gymnast and model who appears to have been groomed into a professional assassin by Highland.
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