Tropic Thunder/Trivia


 * Directed by Cast Member: Ben Stiller. Made filming the movie a little complicated since it's about filming a movie within a movie.
 * Fake Nationality: American Robert Downey, Jr. played an Australian who was playing an African American and even disguised himself as an Asian farmer. He's a dude playing a dude playing as a dude disguised as another dude.
 * Role Association: Gaylord Focker, Dewey Finn and Tony Stark do a movie together, with Octavius as the director, Ethan Hunt as producer and Kenny Powers on special effects.
 * Lampshaded and mocked for the MTV Movie Awards intro of 2008: Ben Stiller tries to ramp up popularity by billing Jack Black as Po and RD Jr. as Iron Man on the poster. From there, he creates a viral video with the twosome, the first take of which has them in masks of their respective hit movie characters. Iron Man kicks Po in the crotch, and it just gets worse from there for Black.
 * Also in the fake trailers at the beginning of the movie, Tony Stark and Peter Parker as gay monks!
 * " Dear Mr. Joe Queseda, boy do I have an idea for you..."
 * Could also be an Actor Allusion to the relationship the two actors' characters had in "Wonder Boys".
 * Lampshaded in the Cast Commentary, where Ben Stiller notes Jay and Brandon weren't even present for the commentary (both supposedly had some other appointments at the time).
 * Throw It In: A few scenes just happened on its own.
 * The scene that had Tugg talking to a flying mantis it flying in his face actually happened by accident.
 * When Tugg nearly fell into the river while he was crossing alone, Ben Stiller really did trip and nearly drown.