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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: 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. Affectionate Parody: The movie is more this than a straight-up Deconstruction. Given that it plays hopscotch with superhero tropes, it's really hard to classify. At least the end's clear about where it stands. Bullet Dodge: During the hallway shootout, Hit-Girl jerks her head to one side to avoid a mook shooting at her. 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.
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Go Out with a Smile: Big Daddy. So what if he's rather crispy, his daughter's safe and has made him proud. Hit-Girl being 15 in the second film. It's been several years, and Chloe Moretz had grown up noticeably. Kids Are Cruel: Hit-Girl slaughters crooks and mobsters with huge gusto and a certain sadistic glee. However, she does not harm innocents, and loses her meanness while out of costume — just not her foul mouth. Anti-Climactic Unmasking: Early in the film, our hero is stripped of his clothes by paramedics, but even after he's become famous, no one associates the hero with a random mugging victim. Prisons Are Gymnasiums: In Big Daddy's autobiographical comic book, he is shown working out like crazy when doing his time in jail.In the film, Dave becomes a superhero because he was disgusted over how no one actually takes a stand against injustice. In the comics, he was just bored and thought it would be fun. Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Big Daddy and Hit-Girl. They adore each other very much, but her father raises her to be a foul-mouthed killing machine by training her from early childhood, and the training includes testing body armor by shooting her with guns. Marcus, Big Daddy's former partner in the NYPD who looked after her before Big Daddy's release, does not take it well. There are moments of adolescent angst, the "hero" actually does get the girl (not really a spoiler, here) and the words, "With no power comes no responsibility" are actually uttered. What better time for this movie's release than at the height (I hope) of Hollywood's superhero fetish. Driven to Suicide: Mindy's mom, while pregnant and alone with her husband in prison, fell into a deep depression. As a result, she overdosed on pills, though the doctors saved Mindy. This became the impetus for her dad's revenge.
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Hit-Girl's introduction. Nothing says "a little girl slaughtering an apartment" like the theme song of a children's television show. The movie ends with Red Mist quoting The Joker from Tim Burton's Batman (1989): "Wait 'till they get a load of me." Played straight with Hit-Girl's mother and Big Daddy's wife (she kills herself with a drug overdose while her husband is in jail and she is pregnant with Hit-Girl). Also, Frank D'Amico is this to Red Mist the supervillain.The Mafia: Frank D'Amico is an Italian-American mob boss in New York City. However, while most of his men are Italian-American, he's also got many non-Italians working for him too.
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Mafia Prince and Queen: Chris/Red Mist and Mrs. D'Amico. Chris is aware that his father's a crime lord, apparently, and wants to be just like him, but spends most of the movie without realizing just how terrible his father's deeds really are. Mrs. D'Amico gets too little screentime to tell if she knows or cares about her husband's exploits. And in his origin story, Big Daddy was set up and sent to jail, missing the birth of his own daughter. 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. Dave's name was chosen at a charity auction held to name him. The winner of the auction chose his own name, Dave Lizewski. Decon-Recon Switch: The first half of the movie is a deconstruction (superheroes don't exist in Real Life because if anyone tried it, they'd be killed on day one) and the second half is a reconstruction (...but if they somehow survived long enough to learn the ropes, they would indeed be completely awesome!) of the superhero genre. The third act is an unashamed love letter to awesome, reality-defying superheroics.Lady Swears-a-Lot: Hit-Girl had a dirty mouth when she was twelve years old, and it isn't casual swearing either. Chloë Grace Moretz herself commented on how nasty it was. 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.
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