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Massive example crosswicking. Also removed some issues like word cruft and trope-slashing
* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: Charlie Bailygates can't remember his behavior or words when his bad mood shifts into Hank.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: There is no way a helicopter that size could lift off carrying 3 very large men. In fact, it didn't. [[OhCrap Oops]]. They used creative camera angles to make it appear that the chopper was airborne. This was largely PlayedForLaughs, though, since the image of three men of their size squeezing together in a tiny helicopter is akin to watching them squeeze into a VW Beetle.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: There is no way a helicopter that size could lift off carrying 3 very large men. In fact, it didn't. [[OhCrap Oops]]. They used creative camera angles to make it appear that the chopper was airborne. This was largely PlayedForLaughs, though, since the image of three men of their size squeezing together in a tiny helicopter is akin to watching them squeeze into a VW Beetle.
* BitsOfMeKeepPassingOut: Half of the protagonist's body falls unconscious and the half that his split personality is controlling is attempting to "carry" the unconscious half to the car.
* BluntYes: Irene is being held by the police who are going over her arrest record, revealing that she's been in jail for possession of marijuana.
-->'''Irene:''' So I smoked some pot. What, is that illegal?\\
'''Cop:''' ''[Stares at her]'' Uh-huh.
-->'''Irene:''' So I smoked some pot. What, is that illegal?\\
'''Cop:''' ''[Stares at her]'' Uh-huh.
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* ButtMonkey[=/=]TheChewToy: Charlie, after the whole town learned of his wife's affair.
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* ButtMonkey[=/=]TheChewToy: ButtMonkey: Charlie, after the whole town learned of his wife's affair.
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* [[ChocolateBaby Chocolate Babies]]: Charlie's "sons." They still love their father however, and Charlie loves them like they were his own biological kids.
* ClusterFBomb: Pretty much every time Charlie's sons open their mouths.
* ClusterFBomb: Pretty much every time Charlie's sons open their mouths.
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* [[ChocolateBaby Chocolate Babies]]: ChocolateBaby: Charlie's "sons." They still love their father however, and Charlie loves them like they were his own biological kids.
* ClusterFBomb:Pretty much every Every time Charlie's sons open their mouths.
* ClusterFBomb:
* DepravedDwarf: Chante is a chauffeur who's responsible for [[EmasculatedCuckold emasculating the protagonist Charlie]] and kicking off the mental traumas that would cause him to develop a SplitPersonality. Aside from physically assaulting Charlie with nunchucks after [[EverythingIsRacist construing everything he says as racist/ableist]] while playing the victim card, he proceeds to have an affair with Charlie's wife that results in [[ChocolateBaby children that look nothing like Charlie]], eventually running off with her and leaving Charlie with his kids.
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* DirtyCop: Subverted with Hank because he had a FreudianExcuse. Agents Gehrke and Boshane, however, are true to the trope.
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* DirtyCop: Subverted with Hank because he had is a FreudianExcuse. Agents Gehrke subversion. While he's certainly a {{Jerkass}}, he's ''not'' corrupt, and Boshane, however, [[spoiler:represents Charlie's repressed anger at the abuse he's taken over the years. It's Charlie finally accepting this aspect of his hidden personality that enables him to take down the ''real'' dirty FBI agents who are true to setting him up at the trope.end]].
* DisposingOfABody: The hero and his LoveInterest find a shovel, quicklime, and lawn darts in the trunk of their car, making them think that the hero's [[JekyllAndHyde split personality]] was planning to kill her and hide the body. When "Hank" resurfaces, he points out that they ''stole'' this car from a DirtyCop, so he was probably planning to kill all of them.
* DisposingOfABody: The hero and his LoveInterest find a shovel, quicklime, and lawn darts in the trunk of their car, making them think that the hero's [[JekyllAndHyde split personality]] was planning to kill her and hide the body. When "Hank" resurfaces, he points out that they ''stole'' this car from a DirtyCop, so he was probably planning to kill all of them.
* FunnySchizophrenia: Charlie is diagnosed with "Advanced Delusionary Schizophrenia with Involuntary Narcissistic Rage", which is really Multiple Personality Disorder that causes him to flip into his JerkAss alter-ego anytime he gets angry.
* GoodIsImpotent: The whole reason Charlie's psyche creates his evil alter-ego Hank is because Charlie's too much of a nice guy to stand up for himself.
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* AHandfulForAnEye: During Hank's fight with Dickie, he tries to throw dirt into Dickie's face, but misses entirely and blinds Irene instead.
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* AHandfulForAnEye: AHandfulForAnEye:
** During Hank's fight with Dickie, he tries to throw dirt into Dickie's face, but misses entirely and blinds Ireneinstead.instead.
** Also, Hank spits into his own eyes to discomfort Charlie when the personality assumes control of the body.
** During Hank's fight with Dickie, he tries to throw dirt into Dickie's face, but misses entirely and blinds Irene
** Also, Hank spits into his own eyes to discomfort Charlie when the personality assumes control of the body.
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* HateSink: Chanté. He picks a fight with Charlie because he just happened to say "you people" to a short black guy, [[DisproportionateRetribution going as far as to attack him with nunchaku and not listening to Charlie's "bullshit"]] ([[NotHelpingYourCase which Charlie retaliates by slapping him]]). He then sleeps with Charlie's new wife Layla, not even bothering with protection since she gave birth to black triplets. He then takes Layla and leaves his kids with Charlie. His attempts to [[PlayingTheVictimCard play the victim card]] [[FreudianExcuse due to his race and dwarfism]] only make him come across as [[ItsAllAboutMe bitter]] [[ManipulativeBastard and manipulative]]. If there was ever somebody who should get some of Hank's wrath, it's him.
** Layla's no peach either. She sides completely with Chanté even when the guy is physically abusing her husband ''right in front of her'' and blames Charlie for it. Keep in mind that they just got married which is foreshadowing just how awful she is not only as a person but as a wife. She and Chanté also leave their sons behind for Charlie to raise alone with no remorse or even child support.
* TheHeartless: Hank is a product of Charlie's rage over his wife ditching him, and the resulting disrespect he gets from the townspeople, finally boiling over.
** Layla's no peach either. She sides completely with Chanté even when the guy is physically abusing her husband ''right in front of her'' and blames Charlie for it. Keep in mind that they just got married which is foreshadowing just how awful she is not only as a person but as a wife. She and Chanté also leave their sons behind for Charlie to raise alone with no remorse or even child support.
* TheHeartless: Hank is a product of Charlie's rage over his wife ditching him, and the resulting disrespect he gets from the townspeople, finally boiling over.
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* HateSink: HateSink:
** Chanté. He picks a fight with Charlie because he just happened to say "you people" to a short black guy, [[DisproportionateRetribution going as far as to attack him with nunchaku and not listening to Charlie's "bullshit"]] ([[NotHelpingYourCase which Charlie retaliates by slapping him]]). He then sleeps with Charlie's new wife Layla, not even bothering with protection since she gave birth to black triplets. He then takes Layla and leaves his kids with Charlie. His attempts to [[PlayingTheVictimCard play the victim card]] [[FreudianExcuse due to his race and dwarfism]] only make him come across as [[ItsAllAboutMe bitter]] [[ManipulativeBastard and manipulative]]. If there was ever somebody who should get some of Hank's wrath, it's him.
**Layla's no peach either. She Layla sides completely with Chanté even when the guy is physically abusing her husband ''right in front of her'' and blames Charlie for it. Keep in mind that they just got married which is foreshadowing just how awful she is not only as a person but as a wife. She and Chanté also leave their sons behind for Charlie to raise alone with no remorse or even child support.
* TheHeartless: Hank is a product of Charlie's rage over his wife ditching him, and the resulting disrespect he gets from the townspeople, finally boilingover. over.
* HollywoodNewEngland: The movie revolves around a road trip from Rhode Island to Vermont. Unlike most movies filmed about the area, the filming locations were actually ''in'' Rhode Island and Vermont (not Massachusetts, which was odd, since there is no easy way to drive from Rhode Island to Vermont without passing through it). In fact, avoiding Massachusetts means driving the long way through Connecticut, and then the long(er) way through New York.
** Chanté. He picks a fight with Charlie because he just happened to say "you people" to a short black guy, [[DisproportionateRetribution going as far as to attack him with nunchaku and not listening to Charlie's "bullshit"]] ([[NotHelpingYourCase which Charlie retaliates by slapping him]]). He then sleeps with Charlie's new wife Layla, not even bothering with protection since she gave birth to black triplets. He then takes Layla and leaves his kids with Charlie. His attempts to [[PlayingTheVictimCard play the victim card]] [[FreudianExcuse due to his race and dwarfism]] only make him come across as [[ItsAllAboutMe bitter]] [[ManipulativeBastard and manipulative]]. If there was ever somebody who should get some of Hank's wrath, it's him.
**
* TheHeartless: Hank is a product of Charlie's rage over his wife ditching him, and the resulting disrespect he gets from the townspeople, finally boiling
* HollywoodNewEngland: The movie revolves around a road trip from Rhode Island to Vermont. Unlike most movies filmed about the area, the filming locations were actually ''in'' Rhode Island and Vermont (not Massachusetts, which was odd, since there is no easy way to drive from Rhode Island to Vermont without passing through it). In fact, avoiding Massachusetts means driving the long way through Connecticut, and then the long(er) way through New York.
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* JekyllAndHyde: Charlie and Hank.
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* JekyllAndHyde: The movie has this with the main character having a dual personality, with both facets jointly displaying this trope: Nice cop Charlie and bad cop Hank.
* RasputinianDeath: Charlie and Irene come across a cow that's been hit by a car. Charlie shoots it multiple times to put it out of its misery, but the cow keeps raising its head and mooing. He pistol-whips, strangles and smothers the poor animal before it stops moving. [[spoiler:The cow is shown alive during the credits.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness: Charlie is very willfully blind to the fact that his three sons are [[ChocolateBaby very obviously not his]], even after his wife left him for her lover. The scene where they're born implies he realized something was amiss as soon as the first was born, but then aggressively chose not to accept it.
-->'''Eric:''' Charlie, did you ever notice your kids have sort of a... year-round tan?\\
'''Charlie:''' Uh, yeah, well, my great-grandmother's half-Italian, so...
-->'''Eric:''' Charlie, did you ever notice your kids have sort of a... year-round tan?\\
'''Charlie:''' Uh, yeah, well, my great-grandmother's half-Italian, so...
--> '''Shonte Jr.:''' Okay, so, you're sayin' I add up the atomic masses of the proton and the neutron, right, I see's that, but what do I do with the goddamn electron? Can I bring it over here?\\
'''Jamaal:''' Enrico Fermi'd roll over in his motherfucking grave if he heard that stupid shit. I mean, he'd just turn over ass up in your face. He wouldn't give a fuck!\\
'''Lee Harvey:''' Hey, Jamaal, man, just cut my man some slack, dog.\\
'''Jamaal:''' Look here, man, I'm just tryin' to help him save face, all right? I mean, you know, he keep askin' questions like that, motherfuckers gonna think he's stupid!
* SpitefulSpit: After Hank is first unleashed, he crashes the car of a guy he hates. He then writes him a ticket which he sticks to the car by spitting on it.
'''Jamaal:''' Enrico Fermi'd roll over in his motherfucking grave if he heard that stupid shit. I mean, he'd just turn over ass up in your face. He wouldn't give a fuck!\\
'''Lee Harvey:''' Hey, Jamaal, man, just cut my man some slack, dog.\\
'''Jamaal:''' Look here, man, I'm just tryin' to help him save face, all right? I mean, you know, he keep askin' questions like that, motherfuckers gonna think he's stupid!
* SpitefulSpit: After Hank is first unleashed, he crashes the car of a guy he hates. He then writes him a ticket which he sticks to the car by spitting on it.
* SplitPersonalitySwitchTrigger: Rhode Island State Trooper Charlie, a DoggedNiceGuy everyone takes advantage of, develops a split personality named Hank Evans, a rude and violent {{Jerkass}} that emerges whenever Charlie is unable to deal with some external conflict. By the end of the movie, [[spoiler: Hank [[SplitPersonalityMerge is subsumed into Charlie]] once the latter becomes able to stand up for himself]].
* StealingTheHandicappedSpot: Subverted whwn Charlie's alter-ego Hank sees a healthy, fit young man park his vehicle in a handicapped space and go bounding into a convenience store. Hank self-righteously trashes the man's car in retaliation, and is in the middle of pissing in the gas tank when the driver exits the store, accompanying a frail old man with a cranial brace and walker.
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* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: Charlie putting up with this for years is part of what makes Hank manifest.
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* {{Tagline}}: "From gentle to mental."
* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: Near the opening of the movie, a woman asks Charlieputting up with whether she can scoot ahead of him in line at the grocery store. She only has a few things, apparently, so he says yes. She calls her kids and their three full shopping carts over and Charlie has a psychotic breakdown. This was the straw that broke the camel's back. Everyone in the town had been doing this to him for years years, which is part of what makes his sordid persona Hank manifest.
* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: Near the opening of the movie, a woman asks Charlie
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* VandalismBackfire: See second point at ParkingPayback.
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* VandalismBackfire: See second point at ParkingPayback.Happens when a ParkingPayback goes awry. When Charlie sees a young football player drive a convertible up and park in the handicapped space (flaunting his unhandicapped status by leaping out over the door) it triggers Charlie's rage-fueled alter-ego Hank, who goes to town on the car with a trash bin and pisses in the fuel tank. The football player then emerges from the store, helping the owner of the car who is a man in a neck brace. The owner is none too happy to see what Hank did (and is still doing) to his car.
* WhyWontYouDie: One scene has Charlie finding a cow lying in the road, and he tries to put the poor thing out of its misery, thinking it had been hit by a car. It refuses to die despite having a gun emptied into its head, being pistol whipped, and then choked unconscious. A deleted scene taking place afterward has a farmer warn Charlie to watch out for his cow, who got loose and has a habit of taking naps in the road. [[BrickJoke The cow shows up again before the credits, bandaged up but otherwise okay.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: Charlie is not an example, as the scream of a child sends him running the other way. Hank, on the other hand, is an example, as he attempts to drown the same girl in a fountain.
-->'''Hank:''' ''(pulls the girl out of the water)'' Still wanna skip rope on the street?\\
-->'''Hank:''' ''(pulls the girl out of the water)'' Still wanna skip rope on the street?\\
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* WouldHurtAChild: WorseWithContext: While waiting for a train, Irene tells Charlie about her past as an aspiring actress.
-->'''Irene:''' I got this eating disorder where I gained, like, twenty pounds.\\
'''Charlie:''' That's not that bad.\\
'''Irene:''' [[BigEater In a week.]]
* WouldHurtAChild:
** Charlie is not an example, as the scream of a child sends him running the other way. Hank, on the other hand, is an example, as he attempts to drown the same girl in a fountain.
-->'''Hank:''' --->'''Hank:''' ''(pulls the girl out of the water)'' Still wanna skip rope on the street?\\
-->'''Irene:''' I got this eating disorder where I gained, like, twenty pounds.\\
'''Charlie:''' That's not that bad.\\
'''Irene:''' [[BigEater In a week.]]
* WouldHurtAChild:
** Charlie is not an example, as the scream of a child sends him running the other way. Hank, on the other hand, is an example, as he attempts to drown the same girl in a fountain.
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* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: Charlie Bailygates can't remember his behavior or words when his bad mood shifts into Hank.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: There is no way a helicopter that size could lift off carrying 3 very large men. In fact, it didn't. [[OhCrap Oops]]. They used creative camera angles to make it appear that the chopper was airborne. This was largely PlayedForLaughs, though, since the image of three men of their size squeezing together in a tiny helicopter is akin to watching them squeeze into a VW Beetle.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: There is no way a helicopter that size could lift off carrying 3 very large men. In fact, it didn't. [[OhCrap Oops]]. They used creative camera angles to make it appear that the chopper was airborne. This was largely PlayedForLaughs, though, since the image of three men of their size squeezing together in a tiny helicopter is akin to watching them squeeze into a VW Beetle.
* BitsOfMeKeepPassingOut: Half of the protagonist's body falls unconscious and the half that his split personality is controlling is attempting to "carry" the unconscious half to the car.
* BluntYes: Irene is being held by the police who are going over her arrest record, revealing that she's been in jail for possession of marijuana.
-->'''Irene:''' So I smoked some pot. What, is that illegal?\\
'''Cop:''' ''[Stares at her]'' Uh-huh.
-->'''Irene:''' So I smoked some pot. What, is that illegal?\\
'''Cop:''' ''[Stares at her]'' Uh-huh.
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* ButtMonkey[=/=]TheChewToy: Charlie, after the whole town learned of his wife's affair.
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* ButtMonkey[=/=]TheChewToy: ButtMonkey: Charlie, after the whole town learned of his wife's affair.
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* [[ChocolateBaby Chocolate Babies]]: Charlie's "sons." They still love their father however, and Charlie loves them like they were his own biological kids.
* ClusterFBomb: Pretty much every time Charlie's sons open their mouths.
* ClusterFBomb: Pretty much every time Charlie's sons open their mouths.
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* [[ChocolateBaby Chocolate Babies]]: ChocolateBaby: Charlie's "sons." They still love their father however, and Charlie loves them like they were his own biological kids.
* ClusterFBomb:Pretty much every Every time Charlie's sons open their mouths.
* ClusterFBomb:
* DepravedDwarf: Chante is a chauffeur who's responsible for [[EmasculatedCuckold emasculating the protagonist Charlie]] and kicking off the mental traumas that would cause him to develop a SplitPersonality. Aside from physically assaulting Charlie with nunchucks after [[EverythingIsRacist construing everything he says as racist/ableist]] while playing the victim card, he proceeds to have an affair with Charlie's wife that results in [[ChocolateBaby children that look nothing like Charlie]], eventually running off with her and leaving Charlie with his kids.
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* DirtyCop: Subverted with Hank because he had a FreudianExcuse. Agents Gehrke and Boshane, however, are true to the trope.
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* DirtyCop: Subverted with Hank because he had is a FreudianExcuse. Agents Gehrke subversion. While he's certainly a {{Jerkass}}, he's ''not'' corrupt, and Boshane, however, [[spoiler:represents Charlie's repressed anger at the abuse he's taken over the years. It's Charlie finally accepting this aspect of his hidden personality that enables him to take down the ''real'' dirty FBI agents who are true to setting him up at the trope.end]].
* DisposingOfABody: The hero and his LoveInterest find a shovel, quicklime, and lawn darts in the trunk of their car, making them think that the hero's [[JekyllAndHyde split personality]] was planning to kill her and hide the body. When "Hank" resurfaces, he points out that they ''stole'' this car from a DirtyCop, so he was probably planning to kill all of them.
* DisposingOfABody: The hero and his LoveInterest find a shovel, quicklime, and lawn darts in the trunk of their car, making them think that the hero's [[JekyllAndHyde split personality]] was planning to kill her and hide the body. When "Hank" resurfaces, he points out that they ''stole'' this car from a DirtyCop, so he was probably planning to kill all of them.
* FunnySchizophrenia: Charlie is diagnosed with "Advanced Delusionary Schizophrenia with Involuntary Narcissistic Rage", which is really Multiple Personality Disorder that causes him to flip into his JerkAss alter-ego anytime he gets angry.
* GoodIsImpotent: The whole reason Charlie's psyche creates his evil alter-ego Hank is because Charlie's too much of a nice guy to stand up for himself.
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* AHandfulForAnEye: During Hank's fight with Dickie, he tries to throw dirt into Dickie's face, but misses entirely and blinds Irene instead.
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* AHandfulForAnEye: AHandfulForAnEye:
** During Hank's fight with Dickie, he tries to throw dirt into Dickie's face, but misses entirely and blinds Ireneinstead.instead.
** Also, Hank spits into his own eyes to discomfort Charlie when the personality assumes control of the body.
** During Hank's fight with Dickie, he tries to throw dirt into Dickie's face, but misses entirely and blinds Irene
** Also, Hank spits into his own eyes to discomfort Charlie when the personality assumes control of the body.
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* HateSink: Chanté. He picks a fight with Charlie because he just happened to say "you people" to a short black guy, [[DisproportionateRetribution going as far as to attack him with nunchaku and not listening to Charlie's "bullshit"]] ([[NotHelpingYourCase which Charlie retaliates by slapping him]]). He then sleeps with Charlie's new wife Layla, not even bothering with protection since she gave birth to black triplets. He then takes Layla and leaves his kids with Charlie. His attempts to [[PlayingTheVictimCard play the victim card]] [[FreudianExcuse due to his race and dwarfism]] only make him come across as [[ItsAllAboutMe bitter]] [[ManipulativeBastard and manipulative]]. If there was ever somebody who should get some of Hank's wrath, it's him.
** Layla's no peach either. She sides completely with Chanté even when the guy is physically abusing her husband ''right in front of her'' and blames Charlie for it. Keep in mind that they just got married which is foreshadowing just how awful she is not only as a person but as a wife. She and Chanté also leave their sons behind for Charlie to raise alone with no remorse or even child support.
* TheHeartless: Hank is a product of Charlie's rage over his wife ditching him, and the resulting disrespect he gets from the townspeople, finally boiling over.
** Layla's no peach either. She sides completely with Chanté even when the guy is physically abusing her husband ''right in front of her'' and blames Charlie for it. Keep in mind that they just got married which is foreshadowing just how awful she is not only as a person but as a wife. She and Chanté also leave their sons behind for Charlie to raise alone with no remorse or even child support.
* TheHeartless: Hank is a product of Charlie's rage over his wife ditching him, and the resulting disrespect he gets from the townspeople, finally boiling over.
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* HateSink: HateSink:
** Chanté. He picks a fight with Charlie because he just happened to say "you people" to a short black guy, [[DisproportionateRetribution going as far as to attack him with nunchaku and not listening to Charlie's "bullshit"]] ([[NotHelpingYourCase which Charlie retaliates by slapping him]]). He then sleeps with Charlie's new wife Layla, not even bothering with protection since she gave birth to black triplets. He then takes Layla and leaves his kids with Charlie. His attempts to [[PlayingTheVictimCard play the victim card]] [[FreudianExcuse due to his race and dwarfism]] only make him come across as [[ItsAllAboutMe bitter]] [[ManipulativeBastard and manipulative]]. If there was ever somebody who should get some of Hank's wrath, it's him.
**Layla's no peach either. She Layla sides completely with Chanté even when the guy is physically abusing her husband ''right in front of her'' and blames Charlie for it. Keep in mind that they just got married which is foreshadowing just how awful she is not only as a person but as a wife. She and Chanté also leave their sons behind for Charlie to raise alone with no remorse or even child support.
* TheHeartless: Hank is a product of Charlie's rage over his wife ditching him, and the resulting disrespect he gets from the townspeople, finally boilingover. over.
* HollywoodNewEngland: The movie revolves around a road trip from Rhode Island to Vermont. Unlike most movies filmed about the area, the filming locations were actually ''in'' Rhode Island and Vermont (not Massachusetts, which was odd, since there is no easy way to drive from Rhode Island to Vermont without passing through it). In fact, avoiding Massachusetts means driving the long way through Connecticut, and then the long(er) way through New York.
** Chanté. He picks a fight with Charlie because he just happened to say "you people" to a short black guy, [[DisproportionateRetribution going as far as to attack him with nunchaku and not listening to Charlie's "bullshit"]] ([[NotHelpingYourCase which Charlie retaliates by slapping him]]). He then sleeps with Charlie's new wife Layla, not even bothering with protection since she gave birth to black triplets. He then takes Layla and leaves his kids with Charlie. His attempts to [[PlayingTheVictimCard play the victim card]] [[FreudianExcuse due to his race and dwarfism]] only make him come across as [[ItsAllAboutMe bitter]] [[ManipulativeBastard and manipulative]]. If there was ever somebody who should get some of Hank's wrath, it's him.
**
* TheHeartless: Hank is a product of Charlie's rage over his wife ditching him, and the resulting disrespect he gets from the townspeople, finally boiling
* HollywoodNewEngland: The movie revolves around a road trip from Rhode Island to Vermont. Unlike most movies filmed about the area, the filming locations were actually ''in'' Rhode Island and Vermont (not Massachusetts, which was odd, since there is no easy way to drive from Rhode Island to Vermont without passing through it). In fact, avoiding Massachusetts means driving the long way through Connecticut, and then the long(er) way through New York.
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* JekyllAndHyde: Charlie and Hank.
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* JekyllAndHyde: The movie has this with the main character having a dual personality, with both facets jointly displaying this trope: Nice cop Charlie and bad cop Hank.
* RasputinianDeath: Charlie and Irene come across a cow that's been hit by a car. Charlie shoots it multiple times to put it out of its misery, but the cow keeps raising its head and mooing. He pistol-whips, strangles and smothers the poor animal before it stops moving. [[spoiler:The cow is shown alive during the credits.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness: Charlie is very willfully blind to the fact that his three sons are [[ChocolateBaby very obviously not his]], even after his wife left him for her lover. The scene where they're born implies he realized something was amiss as soon as the first was born, but then aggressively chose not to accept it.
-->'''Eric:''' Charlie, did you ever notice your kids have sort of a... year-round tan?\\
'''Charlie:''' Uh, yeah, well, my great-grandmother's half-Italian, so...
-->'''Eric:''' Charlie, did you ever notice your kids have sort of a... year-round tan?\\
'''Charlie:''' Uh, yeah, well, my great-grandmother's half-Italian, so...
--> '''Shonte Jr.:''' Okay, so, you're sayin' I add up the atomic masses of the proton and the neutron, right, I see's that, but what do I do with the goddamn electron? Can I bring it over here?\\
'''Jamaal:''' Enrico Fermi'd roll over in his motherfucking grave if he heard that stupid shit. I mean, he'd just turn over ass up in your face. He wouldn't give a fuck!\\
'''Lee Harvey:''' Hey, Jamaal, man, just cut my man some slack, dog.\\
'''Jamaal:''' Look here, man, I'm just tryin' to help him save face, all right? I mean, you know, he keep askin' questions like that, motherfuckers gonna think he's stupid!
* SpitefulSpit: After Hank is first unleashed, he crashes the car of a guy he hates. He then writes him a ticket which he sticks to the car by spitting on it.
'''Jamaal:''' Enrico Fermi'd roll over in his motherfucking grave if he heard that stupid shit. I mean, he'd just turn over ass up in your face. He wouldn't give a fuck!\\
'''Lee Harvey:''' Hey, Jamaal, man, just cut my man some slack, dog.\\
'''Jamaal:''' Look here, man, I'm just tryin' to help him save face, all right? I mean, you know, he keep askin' questions like that, motherfuckers gonna think he's stupid!
* SpitefulSpit: After Hank is first unleashed, he crashes the car of a guy he hates. He then writes him a ticket which he sticks to the car by spitting on it.
* SplitPersonalitySwitchTrigger: Rhode Island State Trooper Charlie, a DoggedNiceGuy everyone takes advantage of, develops a split personality named Hank Evans, a rude and violent {{Jerkass}} that emerges whenever Charlie is unable to deal with some external conflict. By the end of the movie, [[spoiler: Hank [[SplitPersonalityMerge is subsumed into Charlie]] once the latter becomes able to stand up for himself]].
* StealingTheHandicappedSpot: Subverted whwn Charlie's alter-ego Hank sees a healthy, fit young man park his vehicle in a handicapped space and go bounding into a convenience store. Hank self-righteously trashes the man's car in retaliation, and is in the middle of pissing in the gas tank when the driver exits the store, accompanying a frail old man with a cranial brace and walker.
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* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: Charlie putting up with this for years is part of what makes Hank manifest.
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* {{Tagline}}: "From gentle to mental."
* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: Near the opening of the movie, a woman asks Charlieputting up with whether she can scoot ahead of him in line at the grocery store. She only has a few things, apparently, so he says yes. She calls her kids and their three full shopping carts over and Charlie has a psychotic breakdown. This was the straw that broke the camel's back. Everyone in the town had been doing this to him for years years, which is part of what makes his sordid persona Hank manifest.
* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: Near the opening of the movie, a woman asks Charlie
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* VandalismBackfire: See second point at ParkingPayback.
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* VandalismBackfire: See second point at ParkingPayback.Happens when a ParkingPayback goes awry. When Charlie sees a young football player drive a convertible up and park in the handicapped space (flaunting his unhandicapped status by leaping out over the door) it triggers Charlie's rage-fueled alter-ego Hank, who goes to town on the car with a trash bin and pisses in the fuel tank. The football player then emerges from the store, helping the owner of the car who is a man in a neck brace. The owner is none too happy to see what Hank did (and is still doing) to his car.
* WhyWontYouDie: One scene has Charlie finding a cow lying in the road, and he tries to put the poor thing out of its misery, thinking it had been hit by a car. It refuses to die despite having a gun emptied into its head, being pistol whipped, and then choked unconscious. A deleted scene taking place afterward has a farmer warn Charlie to watch out for his cow, who got loose and has a habit of taking naps in the road. [[BrickJoke The cow shows up again before the credits, bandaged up but otherwise okay.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: Charlie is not an example, as the scream of a child sends him running the other way. Hank, on the other hand, is an example, as he attempts to drown the same girl in a fountain.
-->'''Hank:''' ''(pulls the girl out of the water)'' Still wanna skip rope on the street?\\
-->'''Hank:''' ''(pulls the girl out of the water)'' Still wanna skip rope on the street?\\
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* WouldHurtAChild: WorseWithContext: While waiting for a train, Irene tells Charlie about her past as an aspiring actress.
-->'''Irene:''' I got this eating disorder where I gained, like, twenty pounds.\\
'''Charlie:''' That's not that bad.\\
'''Irene:''' [[BigEater In a week.]]
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** Charlie is not an example, as the scream of a child sends him running the other way. Hank, on the other hand, is an example, as he attempts to drown the same girl in a fountain.
-->'''Hank:''' --->'''Hank:''' ''(pulls the girl out of the water)'' Still wanna skip rope on the street?\\
-->'''Irene:''' I got this eating disorder where I gained, like, twenty pounds.\\
'''Charlie:''' That's not that bad.\\
'''Irene:''' [[BigEater In a week.]]
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** Charlie is not an example, as the scream of a child sends him running the other way. Hank, on the other hand, is an example, as he attempts to drown the same girl in a fountain.
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* FingerInABarrel: Subverted. Charlie attempts to talk down the villain, putting his thumb over his gun. The villain just shoots off his thumb.
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* FingerInABarrel: Subverted. Charlie attempts to talk down the villain, Dickie, putting his thumb over the muzzle of his gun. The villain just shoots off his Charlie's thumb.
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-->'''Charlie:''' ''[after screaming blue murder]'' ''[holds up his bloodied hand]'' You know that's assault ''and'' kidnapping, right?
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-->'''Charlie:''' ''[after screaming blue bloody murder]'' ''[holds up his bloodied hand]'' You know that's assault ''and'' kidnapping, right?
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* AHandfulForAnEye: During Hank's fight with Dickie, he tries to throw dirt into Dickie's face, but misses entirely and blinds Irene instead.
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* WorldOfJerkass: Most of the townspeople are this to Charlie (save for his three sons).
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* WorldOfJerkass: Most of the townspeople are this to Charlie (save (except for his three sons).sons) are this to Charlie.
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* WorldOfJerkass: Most of the townspeople are this to Charlie (save for his three sons).
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* WorldOfJerkass: Most of the townspeople are this to Charlie (save for his three sons).
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* PlayfulHacker: Jamaal is shown in one scene casually hacking into ''the Pentagon's'' database while procrastinating on his homework.
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* HappilyAdopted: Charlie's sons are aware they're not biologically related to him (for [[ChocolateBaby very obvious reasons]]), but that doesn't stop them adoring him. Whenever Charlie is being spoken badly of, they're the first people to bat for him.
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* ChildProdigy: Charlie's sons built a working plan when they were children.
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* ChildProdigy: Charlie's sons built a working plan plane when they were children.
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* SceneryCensor: When Hank exposes himself to a crowd, his genitalia is obscured by a woman's head blocking the way.
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* TheDividual: Charlie's sons are never seen apart from each other and basically share the same incredibly foul-mouthed but supremely intelligent mind.
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* ChildProdigy: Charlie's sons built a working plain when they were children.
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* ChildProdigy: Charlie's sons built a working plain plan when they were children.
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* BoisterousWeakling: Though by no means non-threatening, Hank is not the scrappy fighter that he fancies himself being. The fights he starts with other people commonly result in him getting the crap beaten out of him.
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* GoodParents: Even though Charlie is aware that his sons are not biologically his, he still treats them like they were his flesh and blood.
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* GoodParents: Even though Charlie is aware that his sons are not biologically his, he still treats them like they were his flesh and blood. His rather passive nature results in them growing up to be incredibly foul-mouthed, but they adore him nonetheless.
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%%* AssholeVictim: The line of people that Hank first takes revenge on. The little girl whom Hank nearly drowns is quite an example, possibly the only time you feel like cheering for a little girl getting violently attacked.
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* BlackComedyRape: During Hank's first laundry list of felonies, he forces himself on a horrified mother. It's pushed to absurdity by the fact that he assaults her by ''suckling on her lactating breast''. He's even shown with a milk moustache afterwards!
