History Film / Wanted

* At the end, Wesley creates rat bombs in order to [[spoiler: bomb and raid the Fraternity mill]], by mixing an explosive with peanut butter, luring rats to eat it, and then strapping detonators on to them. The explosive that he finds in [[spoiler: Cross' apartment]] and then uses is called [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrolite Astrolite G]]; the film correctly depicts the explosive as a clear, oily liquid, with the only things wrong was the color of the explosive (it's clear in real life) and that it's toxic, so the rats would've most likely died after ingesting the Astrolite/peanut-butter mixture.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The Japanese version uses a song by Breakerz as its [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6qs41_breakerz-yy_music ending theme]].

** The film's BookEnds [[spoiler:involve Cross (at the start) and Wesley (at the end) making a successful head shot with a sniper rifle from what is implied to be an insane distance, even by long-ranger sniper standards]].

** ImprobableAimingSkills: Played straight with the crazy sniping and bullet curving nonsense. The film's Book
Ends involve Cross (at the start) and [[spoiler: Wesley (at the end) making a successful head shot with a sniper rifle from what is implied to be an insane distance, even by long-ranger sniper standards]].

* RoadBlock: The Chicago police create one during the car chase between Fox and Cross, which fails because Fox flips the Dodge Viper she’s been driving over the barricade and lands it on a bus. It doesn’t even stop Crosses stolen van, as it had already been abandoned and ended ups rolling then stopping in front of the barricade.

** The exterminator says that rats go apeshit with peanut butter, which is true, as in real life, peanut butter is often used as a common railroaded bait and it said to work better than the classic wedge of cheese.
* At the end, Wesley creates rat bombs in order to [[spoiler: bomb and raid the Fraternity mill]], by mixing an explosive with peanut butter, luring rats to eat it, and then strapping detonators on to them. The explosive that he finds in [[spoiler: Cross’ apartment]] and then uses is called [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrolite Astrolite G]]; the film correctly depicts the explosive as a yellow, clear, oily liquid similar to appearance in motor oil.

* VillainProtagonist: In the comic, Wesley may come across as a funny, snarky everyman that you'd like to grab a beer with, but ''boy'', does ''that'' change fast. In the film, he’s more noble, as he has reservations against hurting innocent people and some of the other fucked up things at the Fraternity does, like using real human corpses as targets, but he’s still a NomialHero in the sense that he’s completely motivated by his own desire for revenge and escape from his boring, unfulfilling life, but fighting against [[spoiler: corrupt, self-righteous assassins manipulated him into killing his own father, who was trying to stop them and prevent Wesley from going down a dark path]].

TruthInTelevision: First off, no, it’s impossible to curve bullets.

* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Played straight, subverted, then [[DoubleSubversion played straight]]. In ''Weapons of Fate,'' played heartbreakingly straight with [[spoiler:Wesley's mother,]] and Wesley [[LampshadeHanging discusses]] how absurd he thinks this trope is after defeating the Immortal.

* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:The Russian bombmaker]] when he is dying.

** In ''Weapons of Fate,'' Cross evacuates a [[spoiler:crashing airliner]] by ''driving a car out the back'' as it [[spoiler:skims a hill]].
* ChekhovsGun:

* DestructibleProjectiles: Only featured in the BulletTime scenes of the game, where you have to literally ShootTheBullet within a few seconds, or else suffer from a OneHitKill.

* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Cross. Turns out that his killing of other Fraternity members was to get rid of Sloan's corruption and his attempts to capture Wesley was to try to prevent his son from becoming Sloan's pawn.]]
* GoodIsNotSoft: Fox's general attitude. She believes that killing people is a necessary evil to protect others, that the death of one may save many more.

* HealingFactor: [[InvokedTrope Induced by]] the pools of wax.
* HitmanWithAHeart: Wesley Gibson tries to be a good guy. He is reluctant to kill someone just because a machine printing out a piece of cloth says so. He wants to be sure they are really bad people before offing them, but gets sweet talked into it by another assassin. Subverted in [[ComicBook/{{Wanted}} the original comic]]: Wesley is a Supervillain who happily rapes and slaughters because as a Supervillain he has the authority to get away with anything he does.
* HowWeGotHere
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Played straight with the crazy sniping. Played to an ''extreme'' straight with bullet-curving. ''Weapons of Fate'' even takes it one step further; bullet curving with submachine guns sets multiple bullets on course to ''collide with each other'' when they reach the target, thus producing a frag-grenade effect. The game also has fun with this trope in one cutscene; Cross' ImprobableAimingSkills aren't quite good enough to hit the Immortal, so he [[spoiler:shoots his gun down the barrel, blowing it up in his face]] instead.

%%* MaddenIntoMisanthropy

** And done in ''Weapons of Fate,'' when Wesley realizes his own nightmare fuel has been ''turned against him''.

* OurAncestorsAreSuperheroes: Wesley is unknowingly descended from a secret society of assassins dating back centuries with innate superhuman powers. An example of type 2 above.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Wesley gives an absolutely ''epic'' one to his MeanBoss just before he quits, and to top it off slugs his former best friend in the face with a keyboard on his way out. Made even more awesome by the fact that several keys and one of the guy's teeth break off for a visual PrecisionFStrike.

* RoadBlock: The film version has a scene that pretty much exemplifies this trope.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Basically the last twenty minutes. And all of Wesley's levels in ''Weapons of Fate,'' too.

** ''Charlotte's Web''.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The sociopathic female [[ActionGirl killer-for-hire]] Fox (played by Creator/AngelinaJolie) is the ''only'' female member of an ancient fraternity of assassins, and (what else did you expect) the top-ranking member. Sex sells even [[StrawCharacter Strawman Political]] orgies of violence.

* TeethFlying: When the main character snaps, quits his job and smacks his backstabbing "best friend" on the way out with his keyboard, we're treated to a BulletTime shot of a series of broken keys spelling out "F.U.C.K.Y.O." with his bloody tooth forming the final "U".

* ThrowAwayGuns: Wesley, [[spoiler:during his major assault on the bad guy headquarters.]] [[JustifiedTrope Why waste time reloading your gun when you can take the guns from your dead enemies?]]

* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Fox's back [[SexySurfacingShot coming out of the bath]], covered in elaborate tattoos.

* VerbedTitle

** It's also totally {{Justified|Trope}} in that all of [[spoiler:the members in the room had been doing Sloan's bidding unwittingly...meaning they had been killing innocent people that the loom hadn't chosen. Of course the loom would pick them out then.]]
* VillainProtagonist: Wesley may come across as a funny, snarky everyman that you'd like to grab a beer with, but ''boy'', does ''that'' change fast.

Meet Wesley Gibson (Creator/JamesMcAvoy). His father abandoned him when he was a week old, and things have gone steadily downhill since. He works for a disgusting boss at a job he hates before going home to a girlfriend who's sleeping with his best friend Barry (Creator/ChrisPratt). But suddenly, Wesley is tapped Fox (Creator/AngelinaJolie) to join The Fraternity, a league of elite international assassins. He is trained specifically to kill Cross (the rogue Fraternity member who killed his father), mostly by [[TrainingFromHell getting the shit kicked out of him]] by the rest of the team.

Meet Wesley Gibson (Creator/JamesMcAvoy). His father abandoned him when he was a week old, and things have gone steadily downhill since. He works for a disgusting boss at a job he hates before going home to a girlfriend who's sleeping with his best friend. But suddenly, Wesley is tapped Fox (Creator/AngelinaJolie) to join The Fraternity, a league of elite international assassins. He is trained specifically to kill Cross (the rogue Fraternity member who killed his father), mostly by [[TrainingFromHell getting the shit kicked out of him]] by the rest of the team.

''Wanted'' is a 2008 action film very loosely based on, or [[InNameOnly at least named after]], a [[ComicBook/{{Wanted}} comic-book miniseries)] by Creator/MarkMillar with very different characters, themes, and setting.

Meet Wesley Gibson. Wesley's father abandoned him when he was a week old, and things have gone steadily downhill since. He works for a disgusting boss at a job he hates before going home to a girlfriend who's sleeping with his best friend. But suddenly, Wesley is tapped to join The Fraternity, a league of elite international assassins. He is trained specifically to kill Cross (the rogue Fraternity member who killed his father), mostly by [[TrainingFromHell getting the shit kicked out of him]] by the rest of the team.

Of course he doesn't. He just runs headlong into TheReveal, which sets up the ''real'' finale. A sequel for the movie is currently in DevelopmentHell according to an official Q&A.

Very loosely based on, or [[InNameOnly at least named after]], a [[ComicBook/{{Wanted}} comic-book miniseries by Mark Millar]] with very different characters, themes, and setting.

* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: See TheReasonYouSuckSpeech below.

** The Russian release had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7lLGQp8Hsc a part-Russian, part-English version]] of "The Little Things".

* DeadpanSnarker: Wesley does this a lot in ''Weapons of Fate,'' and it's often CasualDangerDialog as well.

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It has now a [[Characters/{{Wanted}} character sheet!]] It's in progress, however.

* ArtisticLicencePhysics: Surely any bullet able to travel in a circle, through multiple skulls, wouldn't just stop at Fox's.