Later on in the comic, after he gets out of the torture room, he replaces the batons with the legs of the chair he was on. He later breaks them on Chris Genovese's face and ditches them for a hand gun he took from Chris. He then uses this to shoot his father in the testicles or "Tunk" as he put it. Pragmatic Adaptation: The film version hews close to the book, but is its own beast. For the most part, things are changed to be more idealistic or happier endings. Some notable changes included: Indy Ploy: Dave walks into a gang hangout to tell Razoul to stop bothering Kate. He's not ready with a response when Razoul asks him "or else what?"

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Evil-Detecting Dog: While not a dog, Hit-Girl was hesitant to introduce herself to Red Mist when she first meets him, until Big Daddy tells her to show some manners. She was right not to trust him, since upon going to shake his hand, Red Mist shoots her. While Big Daddy questioning Hit-Girl on John Woo was in the comics, it helps that Nicolas Cage starred in two John Woo directed films, Face/Off and Windtalkers. Girlish Pigtails: Mindy tends to wear them when out of her Hit-Girl costume. She also uses them when getting past Door Goon disguised as a Deliberately Cute Child. Evil Costume Switch: After Chris D'Amico decides to become a supervillain, he changes the color scheme of his costume to eerily-patterned orange and dons a scary mask. In the film, Big Daddy was a cop and burns to death. Keep in mind, neither of these things happened in the comic when Nicolas Cage wasn't involved.Frame-Up: Damon McCready was framed by dirty cop Vic Gigante, who works for the D'Amico crime family, because he was trying to bring them down. This destroyed his life and cost him his wife (who killed herself in despair while he was imprisoned). Intimate Lotion Application: After he gets Mistaken for Gay, Dave's crush Katie befriends him as she always wanted a Gay Best Friend. Dave goes along with this so he can be close to her. In one scene, Katie allows Dave to rub self-tanner on her body, and he fully takes advantage, with her somehow missing how nervous and distracted he is during the process. Chris D'Amico uses his knowledge of superhero tropes to come up with plans that are far more effective against the main characters than anything Frank can think up.

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Cooked to Death: The scar-faced villain uses a giant log microwave to blow up a Russian mobster. They chopped off a finger and then axe-murdered the other guy. There are no cliches in that film at all. Pop!" Goes the Human: The Mook who gets shoved into an industrial microwave, who is the same mook that claimed that Fingore Mook was selling him D'Amico's coke. Even after Fingore Mook was killed. Dave Lizewski (Johnson) is an Ordinary High-School Student and a big fan of Comic Books with one burning question: how come nobody's ever tried to be a superhero in Real Life before? Angie D'Amico vanishes without a trace halfway through the movie, but her role is extremely small and often goes unnoticed. She briefly appears again in the sequel where her fate is revealed. Hit-Girl's introduction. Nothing says "a little girl slaughtering an apartment" like the theme song of a children's television show.Mistaken for Superpowered: The film opens with a shot of a man in a superhero costume jumping dramatically off a building... and crashing to his death. The protagonist's narration remarks the man was insane and inspired by "real-life superheroes" like himself; presumably, he thought he could actually fly. Training from Hell: Though not explicitly shown, it's logical to assume Hit-Girl underwent this. It doesn't help that Big Daddy educates her on being shot by actually shooting her (she's wearing a Bulletproof Vest). For whatever it's worth, he admits to using low-velocity rounds when she says that getting shot by actual criminals was more painful.

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Hit-Girl being 15 in the second film. It's been several years, and Chloe Moretz had grown up noticeably. Improvised Weapon: After Hit-Girl runs out of ammo, she throws the gun itself at a goon. It distracts him just long enough for her to take his gun and try and shoot him with it (turns out that gun was out, too). A couple minutes later, she uses a set of kitchen knives to take out the aforementioned goon.

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Redemption Equals Death: It's implied that Damon McCready/Big Daddy realizes his mistakes like training his daughter to be a death machine. In fact, when she says to him he's the best father in the world, he, just before dying, answers, "No. I just love you." Cold-Blooded Torture: To Frank D'Amico and his goons, gruesomely torturing someone to death is something as trivial as drinking a glass of water. In addition, Big Daddy and Hit-Girl crush a mafia goon in a car recycling press without the slightest hint of remorse soon after their first appearance, reinforcing their Anti-Hero status. Combat Pragmatist: There's a way for a costumed avenging man with no superpowers to take out a dozen armed goons at once. "Batman" Big Daddy uses guns, shoots to kill with law-enforcement precision (it helps that he’s an ex-cop), and his "Batman" costume is apparently made of ceramic ballistic plate armor.

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Dexter Fletcher plays a gangster called Cody, who drives a yellow Range Rover. In Matthew Vaughn's previous film Layer Cake, he also plays a gangster called Cody, who drives a yellow Range Rover. It is unclear if they are the same character. Exaggerated Trope: As well as deconstructing superhero tropes, the movie plays many of them straight, but overblown to the point of absurdity. Combat Parkour: Hit-Girl uses this to cover ground between her and her opponents with complex flips and spins. Posthumous Narration: Played with. Dave hilariously breaks the fourth wall during the torture scene, telling the audience that now they're obviously assuming he'll make it since he's alive to narrate it. He then proceeds to call them a bunch of smartasses and name a bunch of other movies that happen to be narrated by dead/dying characters. Also, his attempt to save Mr. Bitey, which fails because the cat is simply too far away from him on the side of a billboard.Dirty Cop: Vic Gigante, a detective with the NYPD whom mob boss Frank D'Amico pays to cover his criminal dealings (and in one case, get rid of fellow cop Damon McCready with a frame up as he'd become a threat). Later, he also helps hunt down the costumed superheroes gunning for the D'Amico family too on their behalf. Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight: Even Hit-Girl can't manage more than flesh wounds against Frank D'Amico. Cape Swish: Hit-Girl's cape and schoolgirl skirt both swirl around impressively when she's pulling her Combat Parkour moves. Captain Ersatz: Big Daddy is essentially Batman with guns, and the close similarity is lampshaded. Nicholas Cage channels Adam West and William Shatner. And Elvis Presley. His costume also resembles the film version of Nite Owl II. Frank D'Amico's knowledge of Wing Chun. Also, Big Daddy is shown shooting Hit-Girl in the chest at the beginning, so she won't be surprised when it happens for real. It does.