Line #160 Film/MacGruber


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3	->''MACGRUBER! Making life-saving inventions out of household materials!''\
4	''MACGRUBER! Getting in-and-out of ultra-sticky situations!''\
5	''MACGRUBER! The guy's a fucking genius! '''MACGRUBER!'''''
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7	''[=MacGruber=]'' is an AffectionateParody of ''Series/{{MacGyver\|1985}}'' originating as a recurring sketch on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.
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9	The title character [=MacGruber=] (played by Creator/WillForte), is ([[InformedAbility supposedly]]) a Special Ops agent versed in the most deadly forms of everything, the most infamous being his ability (or inability) to deactivate deadly explosives. This makes him somewhat of an IdiotHero, who is ironically lauded for his expertise and viewed as a skillful agent, yet his bumbling goes unnoticed by some, including himself. Most sketches involve him being locked in a room (pretty much the exact same room each time) with some sort of explosive, his female assistant (originally Casey, played by Creator/MayaRudolph; later Vicki, played by Creator/KristenWiig), and [[NoodleImplements a strange assortment of tools and items]]. He happens to be able to use them to deactivate the bomb, but something personal always comes up to distract him before he can.
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11	There is usually a third person in the about-to-explode room, making the sketches rather more interesting. Creator/RichardDeanAnderson himself was once said third person; apparently, Series/{{MacGyver\|1985}} is [=MacGruber's=] dad. Hm.
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13	Anyway, the sketch was sufficiently successful that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGruber_%28film%29 it got its own theatrical-release movie]] in 2010, with Creator/ValKilmer as the villain and Creator/RyanPhillippe as his HypercompetentSidekick.
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15	On August 10, 2020, Creator/{{Peacock}} ordered a TV series sequel to the movie. Forte, Wiig, and Phillippe reprise their roles with Creator/LaurenceFishburne, Creator/SamElliott, and Creator/BillyZane joining the cast. The series premiered on December 16th, 2021. The teaser can be seen [[https://youtu.be/P_zkOGsFTzw here]].
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17	!!General tropes:
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19	* TheAce: What [=MacGruber=] is claimed to be. He isn't. At all.
20	* AffectionateParody: Of ''Series/{{MacGyver\|1985}}'' and ''Rambo''. It's clear Forte knows and loves these characters, even as he mercilessly deconstructs them.
21	* CoolShades: [=MacGruber=]'s aviator shades seem definitely designed to evoke this trope.
22	* DoesNotLikeGuns: [=MacGruber=]. Unlike Series/{{MacGyver\|1985}}, it's because he doesn't know how to use them and thinks they’re scary.
23	%%* IdiotHero: [=MacGruber=] himself.%%zce
24	* InformedAbility: [=MacGruber=]'s status as a deadly badass who can get out of any jam. {{Played for laughs}}.
25	** One sketch series had [=MacGruber=] find out that everyone secretly thought he was incompetent, causing him to become needy and touchy-feely. And, of course, even worse at his job.
26	** Taken to the extreme in TheMovie where [=MacGruber=] is apparently a highly-decorated soldier who had accumulated numerous medals of honour during his years in service - despite not even understanding how to use a gun.
27	* {{Jerkass}}: [=MacGruber=] is a colossal jerk who treats everyone around him poorly, is completely self-involved and is generally as boorish and unpleasant as possible.
28	* MacGyvering: Averted, [[RuleOfFunny funnily enough]].
29	** In the sketches we see [=MacGruber=] ask for [[NoodleImplements household materials]], but the bomb always explodes before he has time to do anything with them.
30	** In the movie, he tries (and fails) to make a grenade with a tennis ball, then he does (off-screen) a water-based prank, and finally in the climax (and recreation of the sketches setup), he builds an engagement ring out of wire instead of using it to defuse the missile.
31	* OnlyOneName: The trailer for the movie even references this.
32	-->'''''Narrator:''' He's so top secret, we don't even know his first name.''
33	** Even his ''wedding vows'' in the movie refer to him simply as "[=MacGruber=]", as does a tombstone with his name on it.
34	** The sketches with Richard Dean Anderson suggest [=MacGruber=] ''is'' his first name and that his full name is [=MacGruber=] [=MacGyver=].
35	%%* SmallNameBigEgo: [=MacGruber=] is an UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist after all.%%zce
36	%%* TimeBomb: The usual setup for the sketches, and the climax of the movie.%%zce
37	* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: [=MacGruber=] is a self-absorbed, idiotic, bigoted, misogynistic, obnoxious, thin-skinned and incompetent man who generally has no positive qualities whatsoever.
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39	!!Tropes used in the ''SNL'' sketch:
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41	* CouchGag: The final shot of the intros for each sketch differs, and tends to fit the context of Mac's current predicament (In one sketch series, we see [=MacGruber=] giving a thumbs up to the camera, proud of being sober for fifteen years, then drinking a beer, and then finally, drunkedly walking past the camera.)
42	** The intro song also changes this way, starting pretty close to the page quote and drifting for each skit.
43	* CureYourGays: [=MacGruber=] tried to do this with his son, played by guest host Shia [=LaBeouf=].
44	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Will Forte (the actor who plays [=MacGruber=]) sings the theme.
45	* EveryEpisodeEnding: The location exploding, accompanied by a shout of "[=MacGruber=]!", with the same superimposed over the shot of the explosion.
46	** In the second of the Pepsi [[ProductPlacement sketches]], the "[=MacGruber=]" shout and title are replaced with "Pepsuber."
47	** In the sketches featuring [=MacGyver=], the flashbacks to when [=MacGruber=] was a baby end with a "[=MacGyver=]" shout and title.
48	* InMediasRes: Every SNL appearance starts with [=MacGruber=] and his friends locked in with a bomb about to blow up, no explanation how they got there.
49	* JitterCam: Used in the sketches, but not TheMovie.
50	* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard
51	* MagicCountdown: [=MacGruber=] nearly always has "twenty seconds" to disarm the bomb, but the sketch runs a good deal longer.
52	* OnlySaneMan: In some of the latter sketches, Vicki is the only character to not seemingly forget that there's a, you know, bomb about to go off. Sometimes, the second companion, usually played by the guest host, will join her in begging him to remember the bomb.
53	* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: "I just log into the website, put in my password, '[=MacGruber=]'. Do not tell anyone, you guys, I'm serious."
54	* PleaseKeepYourHatOn: When [=MacGruber=] was worried about aging, he wore a bandana over his head and it turned out he was bald underneath it. ([[NegativeContinuity He has a full head of hair in every other appearance, of course.]])
55	* ProductPlacement: Severely lampshaded in a [=MacGruber=] skit-cum-Pepsi ad from 2009's Super Bowl. In the first one, Mac is unable to defuse the bomb because he's too busy talking about or drinking a Pepsi, and announces he's legally changed his name to "Pepsuber." A later one (broadcast during an SNL ''commercial break'') has changed the opening theme song, replacing most of the lyrics--and all of [=MacGruber=]'s dialogue during the sketch--with a repetition of "Pepsi".
56	--->''MACGRUBER! Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi!''
57	--->''MACGRUBER! Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi!''
58	--->''MACGRUBER! Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi!''
59	--->'''''MACGRUBERRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!'' (PEPSI!!!)'''
60	* RecycledSet: Every sketch takes place on the same set, meant to be the "control room" of various places, with absolutely no effort made to disguise this. A RunningGag is that such a control room does not even make sense for some of the settings, such as a monastery.
61	* SensitivityTraining: [=MacGruber=] has to go to this when he makes a racist joke.
62	* SoundtrackDissonance: Sometimes, the intro details how [=MacGruber=] is screwing up his personal life this week. Thus, the narrator will be describing what a loser [=MacGruber=] is while backed by macho music with shouts of "[=MacGruber=]!" The actual sketch has tense, adventure music playing on a loop which usually continues when [=MacGruber=] becomes sidetracked by some petty issue.
63	* StockFootage: The intro and the exterior of the location. Some of the intro footage is lifted from ''[=MacGyver=]'' itself.
64	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Vicki replacing Casey when Maya Rudolph left the show. Vicki, therefore, gets to be in TheMovie, where her last name (St. Elmo) is given for the first time.
65	* TakeThat: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=indnwMwNF6w MacGruber: Coronavirus]]", [=MacGruber=] gets caught up in Far Right conspiracy theories online. It starts with [=MacGruber=] finding excuses not to wear a mask or get vaccinated, eventually culminating in him dressing like the [=QAnon=] Shaman and [[IRejectyourReality pretending like the bomb ticking down next to him isn't real]].
66	* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Each sketch ends with the bomb going off and presumably [[EverybodyDiesEnding killing everyone]]. Then they appear unharmed in the next segment only to be killed again. Oddly, the continuity of what was happening ''before'' the bomb went off is continued into the next segment.
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68	!!Tropes used in TheMovie:
69	-->''MACGRUBER! He made a fucking movie! MACGRUBER!''
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71	* AdaptationExpansion: SNL bits that were even shorter than regular sketches get expanded into a feature film, by making the film a parody of action movies.
72	* AintTooProudToBeg: [=MacGruber=] eventually has to get down on his knees and tearfully beg Piper to join his team. [[spoiler: He even offers to suck Piper's dick, allow him to fuck him, or to fuck something while Piper watches. All while [[InelegantBlubbering sobbing]].]]
73	-->[[spoiler:'''[=MacGruber=]''': Just tell me what you want me to fuuuuuuuuuck!]]
74	* AmbiguouslyBi: [=MacGruber=] was previously engaged to another woman, and even gets engaged to Vicki. However, see FreudianSlip and AintTooProudToBeg.
75	* AmbiguouslyGay: [=MacGruber=] turns down an old war buddy from joining his team once he sees the man in a homosexual relationship; however, this is only ''after'' [=MacGruber=] has recruited 5 other muscle-bound buddies in a montage loaded with homoerotic imagery, with the first recruit in particular implicitly even having a crush on him.
76	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: At the beginning of the movie, when meeting Mac, Piper gives a rundown of our hero's many, ''many'' impressive achievements, and ends with "...and starting tight end for the University of Texas, El Paso."
77	* ATeamFiring: [=MacGruber=] has atrocious aim, shoots excessively, and can't even keep his eyes open while firing. Just as someone who has never used a gun would react if in a firefight.
78	* AvengersAssemble: Subverted. [=MacGruber=] assembles a team of badasses--only to accidentally blow them all up.
79	* BadassBoast:
80	-->'''Colonel Faith:''' [=MacGruber=], thank God.\
81	'''[=MacGruber=]:''' Your God can't help you, Jim. But I can.
82	* BadassCrew[=/=]TheCameo: Comprised of Wrestling/ChrisJericho, [[WorldsStrongestMan Mark Henry]], [[FunWithAcronyms Montel Vontavious Porter]], [[TheGiant The Great Khali, and Kane]].
83	* BrickJoke: [=KFBR392=]. It only comes up twice and doesn't get mentioned for a good portion of the movie. Up until Mac finds the car at the graveyard and gets his [[DisproportionateRetribution revenge]].
84	* BringMyBrownPants: After a shootout, Vicki says, "I peed my jeans. I peed 'em."
85	* BouquetToss: During the credits, [=MacGruber=]'s gay buddy catches the bouquet Vicki tosses during the wedding party. At least [=MacGruber=] was kind enough to invite him over with his fiancé [[spoiler:and totally not because he's the only former military companion he didn't blow up]].
86	* BulletproofHumanShield: Done literally to escape some thugs; [=MacGruber=] uses Piper as a human shield, and they both survive as Piper was wearing a bulletproof vest, but [=MacGruber=] didn't know that.
87	* CallBack: When crashing Cunth's party, [=MacGruber=] briefly excuses himself to take an "upper-decker" (defecating in the water tank of a toilet, rather than the bowl). Later, during the climax, Cunth says "By the way, thanks for the upper-decker you left in my toilet."
88	* ClusterFBomb: Even [=MacGruber=] isn't immune to saying "fuck" throughout the film.
89	* ContinuityNod:
90	** When Mac goes to recruit Vicki for his team, a photo in Vicki's house shows both Vicki and Casey in their costumes from the SNL sketches.
91	** The climactic scene where [=MacGruber=] is attempting to disarm the missile is staged just like one of the skits, right down to the background music.
92	* CoolCar: [=MacGruber=]'s red Mazda Miata.
93	* CountryMatters: The villain is named "von Cunth". It kind of sets the tone for the whole movie.
94	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: von Cunth makes it very clear to his men that however idiotic Mac might seem, he's not to be underestimated under any circumstances. After all, he won all those medals fighting in conflicts all over the world without ever using a gun and stopped an assassination plot on Jimmy Carter.
95	* DaddysLittleVillain[=/=]PutOnABus: In one scene, von Cunth is playing a poker game with a beautiful ''femme fatale'' and [=MacGruber=] asks if they are screwing; it turns out this is von Cunth's daughter. Oddly, other than standing around in another scene about a minute later, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse she is never seen again]].
96	* DamnedByFaintPraise: The ads like to run a quote praising this film for being the best ''SNL'' movie since ''Film/WaynesWorld''. That is not saying a lot.
97	* DeathByCameo: All the wrestlers featured in the AvengersAssemble sequence are immediately killed.
98	* DidntThinkThisThrough: Mac learns the hard way that C4 isn't something You store unsafely in Your trunk and setting up an elaborate trap and taunting Your villain aren't great ideas in a time-sensitive espionage mission.
99	* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Cunth gets a hilarious version of this. [=MacGruber=] [[RasputinianDeath throws him off a cliff, shoots him with bullets as he falls (and is still alive at this point) until he finally hits the ground, which kills him]]. But then he [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill shoots the corpse with a grenade launcher and urinates on it]].]]
100	* DisproportionateRetribution:
101	** After visiting his dead wife's grave, [=MacGruber=] finds the car of the guy who laughed at him in Vegas. He smashes its windows and sets it ablaze.
102	** Also Diether von Cunth, whose hatred for [=MacGruber=] all started because [=MacGruber=] [[spoiler:stole his girlfriend... while she was pregnant with Cunth's child... which [=MacGruber=] convinced her to abort without telling Cunth. [[SubvertedTrope You know what]]? Screw "disproportionate", [=MacGruber=]'s a {{Jerkass}}]].
103	* DoesntLikeGuns: Mac insists that "he don't roll that way" without giving a good reason why he refuses guns in favor of pitifully MacGyvering up gadgets. When he's actually handed a gun, he learns that firing a gun is awesome but is [[ATeamFiring terrible with it]].
104	* DoubleEntendre: "Time to pound some Cunth."
105	* ExpansionPackPast: When [=MacGruber=] is introduced, we are told of his many tours of duty in pretty much every branch of the military. Many would be impossible because they occur at the same time or the war was simply too short to accommodate all of them. [=MacGruber=] would have to be a hundred-year-old man with a time machine to squeeze them all in.
106	* FanDisservice: Equal-opportunity!
107	* FireForgedFriends: [=MacGruber=] and Piper start out actively disliking and insulting each other, with [=MacGruber=] even using him as a human shield without knowing he was wearing a bullet-proof vest. However, by the end of the film, the two of them finally learn to work together.
108	* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the opening credits we [[FreezeFrameBonus briefly]] see [=MacGruber=] working on a gadget involving a cup of water, ropes, pulleys, and a door. He uses this gadget near the climax.
109	* FreudianSlip:
110	-->'''[=MacGruber=]:''' If rippin' throats gets that warhead back, I'll suck as many dicks as I got... Uh, rip as many throats as I have to.
111	* FunWithSubtitles[=/=]GratuitousSpanish:
112	-->'''[=MacGruber=]:''' You're loco, man!\
113	'''Subtitles''': You're crazy, man!
114	* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[spoiler: Averted with Casey when [=MacGruber=] tells Piper about how he, she and Cunth were college friends and she agreed to "terminate" her and Cunth's baby to start fresh when she left him for [=MacGruber=]]]. Piper comments "[[WhatTheHellHero That's really fucked up]]" and Mac thanks him thinking that he's referring to Cunth killing the love of his life.
115	* TheGruntingOrgasm: Mac's expressions during sex are a piggish and rather disturbing series of odd grunts.
116	* GroinAttack: Double subverted. [=MacGruber=] tries to cut off Cunth's penis, only to find out that it was already blown off in the explosion.
117	* HairTriggerExplosive: The C4 in Mac's trunk seems to go off by his crew pounding on the crates. Considering it was homemade, it might not be the most stable stuff.
118	* HowDidYouKnowIDidnt:
119	-->'''Piper:''' How did you know I was wearing a bulletproof vest?!\
120	'''[=MacGruber=]:''' You were wearing a bulletproof vest? Awesome!
121	* HumanShield: Piper puts up with a lot of nonsense from [=MacGruber=], but when [=MacGruber=] uses him as a human shield, Piper quits the team.
122	* HypercompetentSideKick: Pretty much Piper. He's the only rational person on [=MacGruber's=] team and usually has to do most of the fighting.
123	* ImpromptuTracheotomy: [=MacGruber=] is capable of ripping throats out like in ''Film/RoadHouse1989''.
124	* IndyPloy: [=MacGruber=]'s preferred strategy is to "see what happens." [[InsistentTerminology Which is not the same as winging it.]]
125	-->'''Piper:''' What is the plan?\
126	'''[=MacGruber=]:''' I kinda make it up as I go.
127	* IntimateHealing: Vicki pulling out the bullet Grubes got into his inner thigh ''really'' close to the crotch area. It doesn't take long for that to get sensual and the two make love soon after.
128	* INeverSaidItWasPoison: [=MacGruber=] tries to catch Cunth with one of these after the stolen nuclear warhead is brought up. "I never said it was a ''nuclear'' warhead". Cunth's response? "[[SarcasmMode Oh, that's right, because most warheads are filled with air.]]"
129	* InformedAbility: Averted. [[OnlySaneMan Lieutenant Piper]] thinks [=MacGruber's=] penchant for throat rips is a load of hot air...until Mac rips a throat right in front of him during their attack on Cunth's headquarters.
130	** Possibly played straight with [=MacGruber's=] various military honours at the beginning of the film. We never see how Mac earned such achievements at all.
131	* InsultBackfire: [=MacGruber=] compliments the attractive woman present at Cunth's poker game. Then tells her to have fun getting date raped by Cunth. The woman turns out to be Cunth's daughter.
132	* IronicEcho: "The game has changed!" "But the players are the same!" - Spoken respectively as [=MacGruber=] refusing Colonel Faith asking him to help locate the X-5 and bring down Cunth, and then as [=MacGruber=] begging to be kept on the case after he blows up his team.
133	* {{Jerkass}}: Despite being a highly-decorated soldier, [=MacGruber=] is a jerk who's willing to destroy the car of someone who laughed at him and use Piper as a human shield. He's a pretty big jerk in the SNL sketch as well, which has at various times portrayed him as petty, racist, alcoholic, vain, homophobic, and possibly sexist.
134	* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Played with a couple of times. Both times involved [=MacGruber=] not liking the music playing on the car radio and changing stations to something lame.
135	* LifeOrLimbDecision: [[spoiler:How Dieter flees the destruction of his headquarters to attack [=MacGruber=] one last time.]]
136	* LockAndLoadMontage: Spoofed, as he arms himself with floss, thumbtacks, and bottle caps. And celery.
137	* MythologyGag: The climactic scene is framed and shot just like one of the SNL skits, with [=MacGruber=] calling for random items as Vicki says "You got it, [=MacGruber=]!", while alarm klaxons go off.
138	* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: When one of the guys [=MacGruber=] tries is shown to be in a relationship with another man, [=MacGruber=] urgently crosses his name off of the list.
139	* OnlySaneMan: Amongst the three lead characters, Piper is by ''far'' the most competent and level-headed.
140	* RefugeInAudacity: [=MacGruber=]'s plan to distract a bunch of snipers so Piper can take them out? Walking out and dancing in the middle of the wide open space the snipers are watching... while completely naked, cupping his genitals and with a piece of celery in his ass. And it fucking worked! [[spoiler:Piper takes after him when he regains some respect for [=MacGruber=]. It distracts Cunth's henchman long enough for Mac to do his thing.]]
141	* RearrangeTheSong: The [=MacGruber=] theme song is redone as a film epic version, complete with an orchestral choir in lieu of the rock 'n roll macho singing from the skits. And Mac gets to show off his saxophone skills, too.
142	* RoomFullOfCrazy: Piper looks through [=MacGruber=]'s notepad of clues. He isn't surprised when the first page has no clues, but he comes across his increasingly erratic scribbling about the "[=KFBR392=]" guy. The license plate number is covered across several pages ending with crude drawings of Mac shitting on the guy's car and face. [[NoJustNoReaction Piper just shuts it and tosses it to the side.]]
143	* RunningGagged: [=MacGruber=] repeatedly threatens to rip off Cunth's dick and shove it in his mouth. He finally gets the chance to say "Hey Cunth... suck your own dick!" [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Cunth's genitals were burned off while escaping the explosion. [=MacGruber=] is crushed that he lost his opportunity for ultimate revenge.]]
144	* SarcasmBlind: [=MacGruber=], twice when mocked by Cunth. The second time, Cunth actually becomes exasperated at his stupidity.
145	* ShoutOut:
146	** To ''Film/RamboIII'' with [=MacGruber=] being a RetiredBadass living as a monk in Ecuador similar to how Rambo is introduced living in a Thai monastery, before his mentor/superior arrives with the CallToAdventure.
147	** Possibly to the ending of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' when [=MacGruber=] sees the luminescent ghosts of his deceased war companions greeting him during the wedding.
148	* SignatureMove: [=MacGruber's=] Franchise/MortalKombat-esque throat-ripping ability.
149	* SplashOfColor: The MonochromePast FlashbackNightmare [=MacGruber=] has about Casey's death during their wedding leaves the BookSafe bomb at the altar, the light of its remote trigger (turning from red to green) and the flames of the explosion colored.
150	* StunnedSilence: Piper, when [=MacGruber=] explains his and Cunth's history [[spoiler:and showing in no uncertain terms that Cunth has every reason to want to seek his revenge and [=MacGruber=] still won't comprehend that he did anything wrong]].
151	* StylisticSuck: The two songs written by Vicki ("The Perfect Number", which Vicki sings when [=MacGruber=] tries to recruit her, and "Rock my Body" which airs over the end credits) have terrible lyrics.
152	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When [=MacGruber=] opens up the nuclear warhead in the climax so he can diffuse it, he's surprised to discover that there's actually dozens of wires inside instead of the usual three colored wire bombs he usually deals with.
153	* TakeAThirdOption: In the climax, [[spoiler:when [=MacGruber=] realizes the missile is too complicated for him to diffuse the normal way and it's close to launching to destroy Washington D.C., he decides to simply remove the nuclear warhead and guidance system so it will just explode inside the base like a regular bomb.]]
154	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [=MacGruber=]'s final revenge on Dieter von Cunth involves throwing him over a cliff, shooting him as he falls, launching a grenade into his corpse, ''pissing on his corpse'', and later taking a dump on his body bag.
155	* TwoFaced: Dieter von Cunth after surviving the explosion of his lair.
156	* UnexplainedRecovery: Dieter von Cunth survives the explosion of his lair and returns to crash Grubes’ wedding. This is most likely a reference to Murdoc, the most recurring villain on ''Series/{{MacGyver\|1985}}'', who had a tendency to survive things that would kill a normal man. This time, though, [[spoiler: Grubes makes sure Cunth is dead]].
157	* UnflinchingWalk: Grubes does this after destroying the "[=KFBR392=]" car, but is interrupted by the owner of said car.
158	-->'''Car owner:''' Hey, what the fuck?\
159	'''[=MacGruber=]:''' Fuck you, asshole!\
160	''[=MacGruber=] runs to his car''
161	* UnstoppableRage: Grubes goes into this right as [[spoiler:Cunth cuts off his trademark mullet and verbally mocks him]].
162	* ViewersAreMorons: PlayedForLaughs, see FunWithSubtitles above.
163	* VillainOpeningScene: Played very, self-consciously straight in contrast with the rest of the movie.
164	* WeddingSmashers: Cunth caused Casey's death [[WidowedAtTheWedding widowing]] [=MacGruber=] by setting off an explosive at the altar with a remote control. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] [[spoiler:in the ending, when Cunth attacks [=MacGruber=] and Vicki's wedding ceremony but Vicki avoids dying while Grubes kills him for good]].
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166	-->''[Explosion]''

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