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All spoilers for The Bad Guys will remain unmarked. You Have Been Warned!

The Bad Guys 2 is a 2025 animated action caper comedy film and the sequel to the 2022 DreamWorks Animation film The Bad Guys, based on the books by Aaron Blabey. The film sees Pierre Perifel return as director and original cast members Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Awkwafina, Craig Robinson, Anthony Ramos, Zazie Beetz, Richard Ayoade, Alex Borstein, and Lilly Singh. Newcomers to the cast include Danielle Brooks, Natasha Lyonne, and Maria Bakalova.

Following the events of the previous film, the former Bad Guys - Wolf, Snake, Webs (aka Tarantula), Shark, and Piranha - have officially turned over a new leaf and are attempting to make a name for themselves as good guys, even though the city remains reluctant to trust them. However, the gang soon find themselves pressganged into One Last Job by a trio of female thieves. Can the Bad Guys turn the tables on the Bad Girls? Or will their reputation be shattered forever?

The film was released in the UK on July 25, 2025, and globally on August 1, 2025. Additional animation was provided by Sony Pictures Imageworks Canada. It was released digitally on August 19, 2025.

A prequel short, The Bad Guys: Little Lies and Alibis, was put in front of screenings of Dog Man (2025).

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The Bad Guys 2 includes examples of the following:

• 0% Approval Rating: Despite every positive thing she's done as Governor, Diane becomes loathed by everyone the moment the truth about her being the Crimson Paw is leaked online. The reactions of those attending the funeral suggest she regained respect in the public eye after her faked death alongside the Bad Guys, however.
• Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: The wedding heist scene is followed by the Bad Guys and Girls hanging out at the warehouse hideout, showcasing the growing friendships between Doom and Pigtail with the rest of the crew, while Wolf and Kitty talk privately about how she became a villain.
• Actor Allusion: Natasha Lyonne once again voices a snarky female bird involved in an intergalactic mission.
• Actually Pretty Funny: When meeting the Bad Guys at the Lords of Lucha tournament, Doom calls Piranha a "mango with teeth." Shark finds that hilarious and asks Doom to insult him next.
• Adaptation Deviation: While the first movie could be considered a loose adaptation of books 1-4, this movie is far more its own thing, with its most prominent book ties being the rocket heist from Book 5 and the girls from Book 8, but even then, the movie does its own thing entirely with said concepts.
• Adaptational Mundanity: In the books, the space laser used by Marmalade is a "Cute-Zilla Ray" that transforms every cute animal on Earth into a rampaging monster. In this film, the Bad Girls instead build an electric magnet that can magnetize gold.
• Adaptational Nationality: Agent Hogwild in the books, while not given a confirmed location of origin, is portrayed as American Southern, complete with a Hayseed Name as her real name. Here, Pigtail, her movie counterpart, is Bulgarian.
• Adaptational Species Change: Kitty Kat and Pigtail (Hogwild in the books) (who are a domestic cat and pig, respectively, in the books) are a snow leopard and a wild boar here.
• Adaptational Villainy: In the books, Kitty, Hogwild (Pigtail's counterpart), and Doom were already Reformed Criminals by the time they debuted, enlisting the Bad Guys into their own heroic unit. In the trailers, similar to the main group in the first film, they are still villains, and openly shanghai the Bad Guys into a criminal heist. While Pigtail and Doom both do Heel Face Turns by the end, Kitty remains on the side of villainy and gets thrown in jail while her former teammates get community service.
• Adaptation Name Change: The pig character in the books is named Agent Hogwild. In the movie, she's now named Pigtail.
• Adapted Out: Shortfuse is the only member of the girl team from the books not to be adapted into the film.
• The Alleged Car: "Betty the Beater", the worn-down little blue car Wolf is stuck driving in the present day. Parts of it are falling off throughout its screentime, and it collapses entirely at the Lords of Lucha tournament.
• All There in the Manual: The Bad Girls are never actually referred to as the "Bad Girls" at any point in the film. The name only appears in the marketing material.
• Animal Gender-Bender: Downplayed with Pigtail; while she is shown in the trailers having tusks like a male wild boar, female boars do have tusks like males (although they're smaller and less visible).
• Apocalypse How: As Kitty intensifies the voltage of the gold magnet satellite, the amount of chaos happening down on Earth skyrockets as gold objects smash their way out of buildings, gold jewelry drags the people wearing them into the sky, and a chaotic storm of golden objects forms a cyclone in the sky while nearly destroying the city below.
• Arc Symbol: Lollipops for Kitty to symbolize control. She's always seen chewing on one or playing around with it in her mouth, and later relates to Wolf that stealing the teacher's supply of them, intended to be handed out to "good kids", was her first crime, giving her a taste of the respect/fear she craves with every theft, as the kids were forced to deal with Kitty instead for the sweets. When Kitty loses control of her emotions and tries to strangle Doom for wanting to help Snake and Piranha, the lollipop flies out of her mouth. Later, Wolf unwraps a lollipop in the zero-gravity environment within the space shuttle, snacking on it himself when he reveals his presence to Kitty as a "power move" before they start brawling over the MacGuffinite magnet's remote.
• Art Shift: In a few scenes, the art style switches from 3D to 2D artwork to showcase the character’s shock in extreme moments.
• Artistic License – Space: Quite a few cases during the last third of the film.
  • Diane should not have been able to survive the rocket being launched. One, she wasn't buckled in, so the launch would toss her body around and cause serious injuries. Two, she wasn't wearing an astronaut suit, which is meant to help maintain a safe air pressure, so she'd end up with the bends at best. Lastly, she was unconscious during the launch, meaning she was far more susceptible to flat-out dying even without all the other factors.
  • Similarly, there's no way the Bad Guys could have boarded the rocket the way they did. The sound alone from a rocket launch can kill someone if they're too close, so right off the bat, all of them, plus Luggins, would be dead. If that doesn't do it, definitely the fact that they are literally freezing while trying to open the hatch. They would only last a few seconds, so turning the latch the wrong way would be a death sentence.
  • Lastly, the space suits wouldn't do much good for most of the crew. Spacesuits are essentially life support systems when outside the rocket, but they only work when worn properly. Considering the spacesuits are made for more humanoid creatures, they would really only be effective on Wolf and Shark.
• Aww Look They Really Do Love Each Other: Snake and Doom spend much of the film being Sickening Sweethearts, but they do confess their mutual suspicion towards each other at the campfire. However, when the Bad Guys and Bad Girls are out in space, Piranha accidentally inflates the spacesuit he's sharing with Snake with his gas. When the pair subsequently gets tossed by the floating gold pieces, Doom wants to save them from getting killed. After Kitty's outrage at the suggestion, Doom - with Pigtail's help - decides to pull Snake and Piranha into the space station anyway. Even Snake is pleasantly surprised at this development.
• Badass Longcoat: Misty Luggins, now the Commissioner of police, wears a trench coat over her uniform, though she removes it when she springs into action.
• Bait-and-Switch Comment: When "Susan" reveals herself as Doom and a member of the Bad Girls, Snake talks in shock about how she used and betrayed him... which causes him to love her even more.
• Batman Gambit: The Bad Guys learn of a new thief known as the "Phantom Bandit" and everyone, including Luggins, suspects they are already back in a life of crime. They help Luggins in pinpointing the thief's next target and, when they believe Snake may be sneaking out into his old habits behind their backs, they run into him but see the actual suspect and try to catch them in the act. However, said suspect, revealed later to be part of the Bad Girls (whose leader does carry the Phantom Bandit alias), pulls one over them with a Frame-Up. They are eventually captured by this new gang, who reveal that using the Bad Guys' old tactics was the best way to bring them out in the open. With the police force after them once again, as well as blackmail regarding evidence of Diane's Crimson Paw career, the Bad Guys are forced to help the Girls with the penultimate part of their heist.
• Bicep Kiss: Handsome Jorge García does the thing after he says "No one can defeat my handsomeness!" at the Lords of Lucha arena.
• Big Damn Heroes: Diane saves Wolf from Kitty Kat out of nowhere (while they’re in the ship) after it looks like she’ll tear him to dog meat.
• Big Damn Reunion: After spending a huge chunk of the story apart, Wolf reunites with Diane inside the MOON-X rocket, to which he hugs her, much to her surprise. She hugs him back, while holding on to him, showing how much they missed each other. Cue the Big Damn Kiss.
• Bittersweet Ending: On the downside, Diane is publicly exposed as the Crimson Paw, destroying her reputation, and she and the Bad Guys faking their deaths means they can no longer go out in public again. Marmalade is released from prison and, now returning to his home planet, will no doubt plan another scheme. On the upside, the Bad Guys and Diane do stop the Bad Girls' heist, with Pigtail and Doom beginning to reform while Kitty is sent to prison. The crew is recruited into a top secret agent organization to continue doing good, and their faked deaths allow Commissioner Luggins to influence public opinion so the world would finally recognize them for the heroes that they are.
• Blackmail: This is how the Bad Girls force the Bad Guys to join their plan. They reveal that they have a video that reveals Diane as the Crimson Paw and threaten to show it to the world if the Bad Guys don't cooperate. This would not only destroy Diane's career but also destroy any chance of the Bad Guys getting accepted by society. It turns out that exposing Diane was Marmalade's one request of Kitty in exchange for information about MacGuffinite, and she fulfills that promise by uploading the incriminating video, destroying Diane's reputation overnight while clearing his name.
• Bowdlerize: One of the tattoos across Marmalade's back depicts the book design of his alien form, except without the butts for hands.
• Break Them by Talking: Kitty gives one to Wolf while she's crafting the MacGuffinite spheres. She talks about how she was the outcast child in her class due to them being scared of her, and they only respected her once she stole lollipops from the teacher. Then she asks Wolf why he gave up his crime career and chose to live a life following the rules set by those who will never respect him, and tells him his "bad" life really was the best path for him and his friends. It's enough to rattle Wolf, leaving him questioning his own motives when he and the crew try to leave.
• Brick Joke: One that spans two movies: In the first movie, Marmalade attempted to help the Bad Guys go good by positively applying their criminal talents. At the end of the sequel, Misty recruits the gang as secret agents so they can legitimately use their talents of espionage against other crooks for the sake of good.
• Bubblegum Popping: An unnamed female DJ during the wrestling scene does this.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Wolf gets hit with this during his job interview with the Bank Manager. It turns out that Wolf had previously robbed this very bank — and not just once, either, but three times. Wolf's committed so many robberies over the years that they all blur together, and he'd honestly forgotten all about this "repeat customer" until now.
• Call-Back:
  • When Diane figures out that MacGuffinite can be turned into a gold magnet, she says, "All the crime, none of the exercise". Mr. Snake says the same thing in the first film when Marmalade gives him the mind-control helmet.
  • In the first film, Snake tells Wolf that he can taste air. Unfortunately, one of the drawbacks of that ability is shown when he's forced to share a spacesuit with Piranha, who farts out of nervousness about being in space.
    Mr. Snake: Ohh! Piranha! Dude! I can taste it!
  • While making their getaway from the wedding, Wolf is shown to still wear boxers with hearts on them.
• Call-Forward: In the "5 years earlier" Cairo heist, Wolf is at the top of his game. He skydives down through an open skylight and a water vortex, timing his parachute opening to stop him just enough to let the whiplash rip away his wingsuit and leave him in his trademark white outfit. In the first film, at his lowest, he tries a daring escape from the Golden Dolphin heist but the whiplash from his grappling gun only rips away his pants.
• Casting Gag: Craig the bank manager interviewing Wolf for a job is voiced by Michael Godere, who has actually voiced Mr. Wolf himself in various spinoff media, such as The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday, The Bad Guys: Haunted Heist and DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing.
• Central Theme: The movie's two main messages are about remaining hopeful in the darkest situations and the conflict of respect between trusting and fearing others.
• Chekhov's Gag:
  • Shark is prone to panic attacks in this installment, which leads him to toss Wolf's phone and knock out a few people at a few points. However, his panicking becomes useful when the Bad Guys are in space. He and Webs have to hack into the space station's computer to open the airlock. Since Webs cannot interact with the environment due to being in Shark's helmet, she has to give Shark the command to type in. However, he has another panic attack that leads him to destroy the computer. Luckily, though, it opens the airlock anyway.
  • Piranha's farting returns in this film, naturally leading to a few gags about his nervousness. The most prominent one, however, is when the Bad Guys are in space. Snake and Piranha - sharing the same spacesuit - have to manually detach the shuttle from the space station. Unfortunately for Snake, Piranha gets so nervous that the fish inflates the suit with his gas. Just as they're floating out in space, Piranha grabs the bank manager's golden pen and punctures the suit with it, causing them to rocket all the way back to the switch and finish the job.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • When Shark accidentally knocks out Luggins, Wolf leaves a note for her apologizing, referring to the crew as "The Good Guys". In the third act, Luggins, while driving the crew to jail, remembers the note and gives them the benefit of the doubt.
  • The bank manager has a golden pen in his possession, which gets drawn up into orbit by the MacGuffinite magnet. Piranha - while floating in space with a semi-unconscious Snake in a gas-filled spacesuit - grabs the pen and uses it to puncture the suit and rocket themselves back to the override switch to detach the shuttle from the space station.
  • Following the success of the wedding heist, Wolf tells Kitty Kat that a successful heist isn't about the action, but the distraction, shortly before revealing that he pickpocketed the control watch from her while she was listening to him. In the final battle, he pulls off the same sleight-of-hand on Kitty Kat, even repeating his precious statement for good measure.
• Chekhov's Hobby: Being so in love with Susan (aka Doom), Snake uncharacteristically takes up hobbies to spend time with her. One of those hobbies is vinyasa, which gives him rock-hard abs. It also gives him enough strength to pull his crewmates up the rocket when they try to board the shuttle.
• Company Cross-References: One of the stolen objects mentioned in Luggins' board is "Po's Swords of Destiny".
• Cool Car: After becoming secret agents at the end of the film, the main characters drive off in a cool white muscle car, an upgraded model of Wolf's old black getaway car.
• Cool Shades: The Bad Guys and Diane sport these after being recruited by ISGLOP.
• Cooldown Hug: Wolf gives one to Diane in the climax, right after she knocks Kitty out.
• Criminal Record Stigma: Even though they redeemed themselves from life as thieves at the end of the first film, and even willingly did time, the titular gang have a hard time building themselves a new life after being The Dreaded for years. Everyone is still very suspicious of them (especially the LAPD Commissioner), and no workplace will hire them, not even bowling alleys. One of the first scenes sees the leader, Mr. Wolf, trying to get hired...at a bank he robbed three times. It goes as well as you'd expect. Even Diane Foxington, formerly the infamous Crimson Paw only managed to get as far in life as Governor because her criminal past was never discovered, and the millisecond the villains of the sequel expose her to the public, she sinks all the way to the 0% Approval Rating. It takes the Bad Guys and Diane a (fake) Heroic Sacrifice to finally get some public love despite their past as crooks.
• Crisis of Faith: Wolf has a brief one after his private conversation with Kitty, wondering if "going good" was the best thing for him and his friends. Thankfully, the rest of the crew quickly reassures him that it was for the best.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Played for Laughs with Wolf and Diane's training spar. After getting knocked around with little to show for it, Wolf begins to pump himself up, declaring that he won't be holding back any longer. Smash Cut to Wolf laid out on the bench, nearly comatose, with a nasty black eye.
  • During her confrontation with the Bad Girls, Diane very quickly knocks down Doom and Pigtail. Kitty holds on relatively longer, even landing a vicious headbutt that almost knocks Diane off the bridge, but is largely outclassed too, relying on distracting Diane with the exposed footage before neutralizing her with a tranquilizer dart.
  • During the climax, Wolf has to face off against Kitty Kat. Though pulling some decent evasive maneuvers and even an impressive judo-throw, Wolf spends most of the fight getting thrashed around by Kitty. However, it wasn't about winning the fight, as he later reveals he pickpocketed the Moon-X control watch, while the others had detached the shuttle while Kitty was distracted, allowing Wolf to sabotage the plan regardless.
  • In turn, just before Kitty can kill Wolf in anger, she finds herself on the wrong end of another one of these from Diane, and this time Diane knocks her out.
• Curse Cut Short:
  • Averted with a driver calling Wolf a jackass early in the film.
  • Played straight later on with Mr. Snake. He is heard uttering, "What the -" before he and his friends are pulled back onto the MacGuffinite magnet in the hangar.
• Darkest Hour: The third act begins as such, with the Bad Guys being framed for the stolen MacGuffinite, Diane exposed as the Crimson Paw and losing her reputation and position as Governor, Marmalade acquitted and released from prison, and the Bad Girls successfully hijacking the rocket.
• Didn't Think This Through: During the Lords of Lucha tournament, Wolf tries to intercept the masked Pigtail from stealing the belt by throwing a chair at her. All he manages to do is irritate her.
• Disguised in Drag: Wolf takes the place of the bride during the wedding heist. Mr. Soliman catches on, but the Bad Guys watch Wolf's cover and swap him back for the real bride before Soliman exposes him.
• Distant Prologue: The movie opens on the Bad Guys on a heist in Egypt (Ms. Tarantula's first, in fact) before cutting five years to the present.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Let’s see here: our premise has the reformed Bad Guys struggling to make ends meet and find opportunities to create a 'decent' life, only to be either rejected or deemed ineligible for their past crimes and infamous relations, to the point that the public easily believes that they are willing to return to their bad habits. Granted, they did commit many crimes and few institutions accommodate their needs, but add in the Fantastic Racism that was present in the first film, and you get a group of people whose forms of marginalized cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds or social otherness alienate society from bothering to help them, especially in a Western country. Then, you toss in the Bad Girls, a group of crime fanatics, forcing the Bad Guys to do 'one last heist' and the situation parallels that of terrorist groups coercing or appealing to vulnerable minorities to enact dangerous crimes to achieve power. Even without the 'terrorist' label, Kitty’s warped mindset mirrors that of those who believe the system is beyond assisting fellow outcasts and anyone trying to oppose her plans is deemed a sell-out, as Doom finds out the hard way.
  Kitty: You think if you play nice and follow their rules, they'll just see you for who you truly are. But let me tell you, they won't. What if the bad life was your best life? My advice: Stop hoping and enjoy the lollipop.
• Et Tu, Brute?:
  • After they help her track down a mysterious criminal's next target, Commissioner Luggins genuinely thanks the Bad Guys, to the point where she greets them happily at the scene itself before Shark accidentally knocks her out. Upon seeing them (apparently) be the criminals, she very quickly turns on them after feeling genuinely betrayed.
  • A subverted example, this appears to be Snake's reaction to the reveal that Doom was only playing him. Only for him to immediately state that the fact she pulled one over on him makes him even more in love with her.
• Evil Counterpart: Kitty Kat to Wolf. They're both leaders of a group of bad guys, wanting to be feared by everyone when there is no other option. However, Wolf is a reformed bad guy, and while a plan gets screwed, he improvises, while with Kitty, she resorts to violence and frustration towards anyone if things go wrong, including her teammates. Just as important, Wolf eventually desired to turn good in the previous film, but Kitty chose to remain bad throughout this one.
• Exact Words: As Marmalade starts cackling in his golden limousine-now-spaceship, he mentions that it's time to go home. That home, however, is not on Earth, but beyond the stars.
• Expy: The main heist revolves around a rocket owned by a private aerospace company Moon-X, and the control bracelet owned by the company's owner, Mr. Moon.
• Eye Scream: While sparring with Diane, Wolf takes a black eye so bad that its lids nearly close it shut. It remains bruised until the Bad Guys arrive at the Lords of Lucha tournament.
• Faking the Dead: As part of a gambit to honor their sacrifice and keep the authorities off them for good, Misty sets up a staged funeral for the Bad Guys after the crash of the Moon-X rocket that the Bad Girls used to steal all of the world's gold. In the next room, they and Diane are hired by the government as secret agents.
• Fantastic Racism: While describing her childhood, Kitty mentions the teacher never considered her one of the 'good kids', and implies it may have been because she was a predatory animal in a classroom full of humans. Since most humans in the film point to the Bad Guys' criminal histories as reason for their distrust, this is the first indication in the series that animals may be discriminated against.
• Fantasy Metals: MacGuffinite, known in full as "MacGuffinium Fictitium", is a rare metal with no known practical use yet, but it's been used to make several valuable items, which are stolen early in the film. As it turns out, Marmalade had been researching the metal prior to his arrest, and MacGuffinite is not only magnetic, but also the atomic inverse of gold. At a high enough voltage, it can turn into a powerful gold magnet. Kitty's plan is to install the stolen MacGuffinite onto a space station and steal all of the world's gold at once.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: After Snake leaves for his vinyasa session, Wolf supports his friend's lifestyle by saying, "As long as he's happy." His ears are briefly seen drooping just before the scene changes to Wolf and Diane in a sparring match, during which she surmises that he's not happy.
• Foreshadowing:
  • When Wolf comes home from his job interview, the TV is broadcasting a message from Mr. Moon about his rocket launch and the debut of his new power cell. The Bad Girls later steal the rocket and fuse the power cell with the MacGuffinite spheres to make the world's largest gold magnet.
  • The Bad Guys initially think Snake is slipping back into bad habits and committing the various thefts of the Phantom Bandit after realizing that all his various exercise regimes happen to align with the times the thefts were taking place — that, and his weirdly peppy upbeat attitude as of late, making them think he's doing crimes again. Snake isn't, but his new secret girlfriend that he's been seeing in said regimes, Susan/Doom, turns out to be the Femme Fatale for the Bad Girls, luring Snake into the vicinity in order to help frame the Bad Guys and coerce their cooperation with their master plan.
  • When Diane visits Professor Marmalade in prison, and he challenges her to a game of Connect Four to amuse himself if she wants his insight into MacGuffinite's properties and what the Bad Girls are doing with it, he teasingly says "backstabbing Governors first" as they sit down to play. Except, Diane herself never actually "betrayed" Marmalade in any sense during the events of the first film, with it being more applicable to Marmalade's plans taking advantage of Diane's ignorance of his good guy facade to remain Beneath Suspicion. It turn out that Marmalade is only using the game as a stalling tactic (albeit, one he is actually very invested in) to waste Diane's time and enable the Bad Girls to proceed with their own plans, successfully framing the Bad Guys for their thefts, and then uploading the video evidence exposing Diane as the Crimson Paw once everything's in position. Sure enough, when Diane catches up to intercept the trio at the launch site, the release of her hidden past just moments ago results in a slew of angry internet posts from all the people "betrayed" by Diane's duplicity on her phone, giving Kitty the opening needed to tranquillise the superior hand-to-hand fighter in her horror. Marmalade as good as told Diane what the outcome was going to be from engaging in his game before they ever started.
    • When Diane wins the game during her "Eureka!" Moment, her opponent looks down to see that she's succeeded in not only achieving the single-line win condition, but stacked two additional diagonal lines on top of that, beating him from multiple directions at once. However, when she's leaving Marmalade reveals that he was visited prior by Kitty for his insight into MacGuffinite, and gave her advice for her plan, revealing that he's indirectly manipulating the current events, even locked in his prison cell. Marmalade punctuates Diane's horror at The Reveal by opening the game board and scattering the pieces everywhere, erasing the evidence that Diane ever outsmarted and beat him with a single move. Despite being rightfully locked up for his criminal actions (albeit false ones he didn't commit), by having Kitty expose Diane as the real Crimson Paw, in a single move, Marmalade undoes everything good she's ever done as Governor and secures his own release from prison.
  • Early on, when the Bad Guys visit Misty Luggins, they all use their individual experiences as crooks to identify the methods of the Phantom Bandit. Not only were they actually close to catching the Phantom Bandit, but they also thrived and enjoyed their investigation more than their failed job-hunting. It gets to a point that Luggins, who has been under immense stress regarding the case, is downright gleeful when their deduction of the bandit's strategy proves successful and the Bad Guys themselves are technically victorious in catching the Phantom Bandit at the luchador tournament. At the end, Luggins has found ways to enlist them as secret agents to use their talents at heists against other crooks, giving the Bad Guys a much better, meaningful job than they thought.
  • Following the wedding heist, when Wolf is explaining to Kitty how he pulled it off, he swipes Mr. Moon's watch from her as a demonstration of his skill in misdirection. In the climax, he demonstrates this to her again by making her think he's trying to take the magnet controller, when in reality, he steals the watch from her again.
  • When the Bad Guys arrive at the Luchador tournament, Wolf sees Pigtail emerging as a challenger and exclaims that the best way to steal the championship belt is to win it. They later join the fight and pin Pigtail, thereby "winning" the belt - only to have her strap it on Piranha and frame the Bad Guys for trying to steal it.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus:
  • On the TV's VCR in the Bad Guys' lair, the acronym "DWA" can be seen. This stands for "DreamWorks Animation", the very studio that made the film.
  • Inspecting the final state of Diane and Marmalade's Connect 4 game reveals she not only beat him, but beat him three ways in a single move.
• Gilligan Cut:
  • The Distant Prologue begins with the Bad Guys stealing a fancy muscle car — the same one they drive in the first movie, in fact — and Wolf boasts that he'll never drive any other car again. Smash Cut to five years later, and Wolf is driving a small, beat up clunker.
  • Happens again during Wolf and Diane's sparring match. Wolf decides to get serious and tries to show her what he can do. Smash cut to Wolf lying flat on his back with a black eye.
  • As the team struggles to withstand the heat of the shuttle's re-entry, Wolf states that they'll land it, or die trying. Cut to their (fake) funeral.
• The Gloves Come Off:
  • When Wolf and Diane spar, Wolf teases, revealing her to be the Crimson Paw to nudge her into stopping holding back. He's left a bruised mess afterward.
  • When Diane fights the Bad Girls the first time, she's holding back so she can subdue and arrest them. But later, when stripped of her position as Governor and Kitty about to kill Wolf, Diane makes quick work of her and knocks her out cold.
• Good Is a Choice: After leaving their criminal lives behind, The Bad Guys actively try to live as law-abiding citizens. This isn't easy, as they're constantly rejected for jobs due to being ex-cons, but they do try and continue to make the right choices... despite the nigh constant temptations to go back to being bad.
• Growling Gut:
  • When the Bad Guys first obtain their getaway car, Snake's stomach can be heard rumbling just before he regurgitates the confetti bomb.
  • As per his nervousness, Piranha's stomach grumbles just before he farts.
• HA HA HA—No: The Bad Girls kidnap the Bad Guys for the purpose of recruiting them for another job. Wolf politely declines and requests that they let him and the rest of his troupe free. Kitty Kat starts laughing with her allies joining in, and the Bad Guys doing the same out of nervousness. Kitty Kat then bangs her fist on a desk, at which point everybody stops laughing.
• Happy Ending Override: While the first film ended with The Bad Guys fully reforming and ready to start their new lives as "Good Guys", the start of this one hits us with the reality of their situation. Being notorious ex-cons, each of them has difficulty finding jobs thanks to their past reputation, on top of the public pinning the recent string of thefts on them. To make matters worse, it’s even shown that Wolf has been close to getting evicted from his home by the start of the movie.
• Hollywood Density: Zig-zagged. On one hand, the Bad Guys and others seem to have no trouble moving objects that should weigh a lot if they were made of solid gold. But when solid gold objects fall to the ground in the climax, it definitely shows just how hard they would hit.
• Honor Among Thieves: Kitty promises to Wolf that in exchange for helping her steal Mr. Moon's watch, she'll give him the video exposing diane and let the Bad Guys go, and she keeps true to her word. She then goes back on her promises by trapping the Bad Guys in the hangar and uploading Diane's video.
• Hope Spot:
  • At the end of Wolf's job interview at the bank, the manager, Craig, says he might have a position available and says he'll call Wolf back. Wolf leaves the office overjoyed, then twirls around to tell Craig something... only to see Craig shoving his resume in the shredder.
  • Wolf throws the laptop uploading the video exposing Diane towards the furnace, and it looks like it'll land in the hole... then the laptop clips against the edge of the furnace hole and falls on the floor, finishing the upload in the process.
• Hypocritical Humor:
  • Unintentionally by one of the security guards in the Distant Prologue. As he's telling Yalla that Yasmin wants him to be more attentive, he doesn't notice Shark tackling Yalla and taking his clothes as his disguise.
  • Despite spending the entire film being Sickeningly Sweethearts with Doom, up to and including putting her entire head in his mouth during a kiss, Snake reacts with disgust when he sees Wolf and Diane share a much more conventional kiss in the finale.
• In Love with the Mark: Doom turns out to have genuine feelings for Snake, to the point of asking Kitty not to let him die in space.
• Instant Sedation: Wolf gets taken out pretty quickly when Doom shoots him with a tranquilizer dart.
• Instant Web Hit: The Crimson Paw's exposure was logically going to go viral no matter what, but it already has tens of thousands of views seconds after the upload completes.
• Interspecies Romance:
  • Wolf and Diane (a fox) have obvious feelings for each other, with lots of flirting in their sparring match, but with Diane in her reelection year and Wolf being an ex-con with a bad reputation, they both recognize it'd be bad for her image to have their relationship go any further than "medium-friendly." Snake even teases Wolf that he's being friend-zoned by her. They finally share a Big Damn Kiss in the climax.
  • Snake falls in love with Doom (a raven), and his feelings for her only deepen when he learns that she's been conning him.
• Ironic Echo: While working on the evidence board in Luggins's office, Piranha says how MacGuffinite sounds like a made-up word. In the end, when two secret agents approach the Bad Guys and Diane to join their secret agency ISGLOP, Diane says how it sounds made up.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Turns out Commissioner Luggins is one. She arrests the Bad Guys but after some time thinking about it, she frees them, as she it turns out, she trusts them by knowing they really mean into doing good, and for leaving behind a note to her by apologizing for knocking her out and considering her as their friend.
• Karma Houdini Warranty:
  • A rare negative example. The first movie ended with the Bad Guys turning themselves in for Marmalade's big heist after framing Marmalade himself for Diane's previous crimes as the Crimson Paw. With this, Diane continues as governor scot-free. Unfortunately, the Bad Girls blackmail the team into helping them in their team-up by threatening to show footage of one of her old robberies on the internet, but promise to return the flash drive containing it if they succeed. While Kitty honors her deal, at first, she then helps Marmalade externally by giving them a Sadistic Choice: Escape from her trap and allow a separate upload to go viral, or stay behind and be arrested once again. Finally, all their attempts to destroy the laptop while escaping fail, resulting in their arrest anyway (at least at first), and Diane's past being exposed to the world, losing her governor position.
  • Because of everything that occurred above, Marmalade is given an inverted example. After spending time in prison for the Frame-Up, he is able to be let out with his name cleared. He seems to fall victim to the Bad Girls' gold heist, when his conveniently golden limo is pulled into space... only to reveal that he actually prepared for this, allowing him to fly back to his supposed home world when no one else bothers to find him.
  • A more positive example. After blackmailing the Bad Guys into stealing the watch from the Moon-X rocket, trap them in gold handcuffs with MacGuffinite, uploading the video that exposes Diane as the Crimson Paw, stealing the Moon-X rocket to steal all the gold in the world and mistreating her teammates for wanting to help the Bad Guys, Kitty Kat gets her comeuppance when Wolf and his friends destroy the satellite, followed by Diane knocking her down for nearly killing Wolf and eventually getting arrested by the police and taken to prison.
• Lampshade Hanging: The Applied Phlebotinum is called MacGuffinite, which Piranha says "sounds kinda made-up".
  Webs: Hey, listen to this. Translated into English, the word "MacGuffinite" means "A Small MacGuffin". Cute.
• Lighter and Softer: While still having some dramatic moments, the film is a lot lighter than the Dramedy that was the first.
• Meaningful Echo:
  • "A heist is never really about the loot. It's a power move." First said by Wolf and Shark to Webs in the opening flashback to show what kind of mindset the Bad Guys have, and later said between Kitty and Wolf when she reveals her intention to steal the rocket, showing how she's taken after them. Wolf says it to Kitty one more time when he rams the shuttle into the orb of stolen gold.
  • "It's not the action. It's the distraction." First said by Kitty when she learns from Wolf after the wedding heist, and later said by Wolf himself in the climax when he reveals to Kitty that he stole the watch from her during their fight.
• Metaphorically True: When Diane sees the angry comments about her being the Crimson Paw, one of them points out that it means that Marmalade is innocent, and while he wasn't the Crimson Paw, he was still responsible of stealing the meteorite and using it to control thousands of Guinea pigs at the first movie, which the world is still unaware of yet, except for the Bad Guys and Diane.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: What prompts Doom and Pigtail's Heel–Face Turn is Kitty's violent outburst on them after Doom suggests that they shouldn’t leave Snake and Piranha to die. They don't stop Kitty, but they do save Snake and Piranha. While they are in no position to stop their gold heist without the watch, that job is left to Wolf and Diane.
• Morton's Fork: Kitty puts the Bad Guys into one of these: the gang is handcuffed in gold and suspended in the air by MacGuffinite. In front of them is a laptop ready to upload a video exposing Diane as the Crimson Paw. The computer is wired to the magnet so that if the magnet is turned off, the upload will start. But if the magnet remains on, the upload will be paused. The gang can either allow themselves to get caught, which will spare Diane's reputation, or they can turn the MacGuffinite off to free themselves, which will cause the video to upload and expose Diane. Wolf tries to Take a Third Option by using the short time free from the MacGuffinite to stop or destroy the laptop, but fails.
• Mythology Gag:
  • The Distant Prologue shows Tarantula in her first heist with the Bad Guys; Legs was the last to join the group, having been introduced in the second book.
  • In the scene in Diane's office when she is talking to Wolf on the phone, there is a framed picture of her drawn by a child in the background. The child gave Diane blond hair in the picture, making her resemble her book series counterpart, Agent Fox.
  • During the heist at Mr. Moon's wedding, Doom's disguise as a waiter includes a black wig with swooping bangs resembling her book counterpart's emo hairstyle.
  • The climax shows the gang attempting to board a rocket ship, related to the One Last Job; stealing a rocket is something the group did in the 5th book, Intergalactic Gas.
  • Snake and Piranha have to share a space suit, which Piranha fills with farts that are ultimately used to the duo's benefit. The same happened to Wolf and Piranha in Intergalactic Gas.
  • The heist turns out to be to deploy an orbital ray to steal all the gold from Earth, which evokes the book version of Marmalade's plan from Attack of the Zittens. Even their conclusions are similar in that they become events that solidify the Bad Guys as heroes in the minds of the public, albeit played out differently: in Intergalactic Gas, it's Wolf broadcasting a message of goodwill to Earth as he turns off the ray, while in the film, the Bad Guys and Diane (appear to) selflessly sacrifice themselves to stop the heist.
  • Marmalade's tattoos include the book series design of his own alien form (minus the butt hands) on his back, and his right arm has book characters Dread Overlord Splaarghön, Agent Shortfuse, and Abe the bat.
  • The film ends with the gang becoming secret agents, all donning matching black suits; their book outfits.
  • Similar to the first movie, this movie's home release features the gang standing together against a solid color background in a manner similar to the book covers, this time being yellow; the color of Intergalactic Gas, the book this movie has the most plot ties with.
• Narcissist: Mr. Soliman, an art collector whom the Bad Guys robbed five years prior, has a statue of himself looking far more muscular than he actually is.
• Never Say "Die": Averted when Piranha fills the spacesuit with his gas and he and Snake start to float away into deep space. Snake half-consciously pleads, "Help! I-I-I don't want to die like this!"
• Never Trust a Trailer: The teaser trailer footage has many scenes that differ significantly from the final film, especially the ones taking place in the warehouse where the Bad Girls kidnap the Bad Guys. Notably, the girls are only referred to as The Bad Girls in the trailers, never in the movie itself. The second trailer implies that Wolf and Diane get to converse after the Bad Girls rope them into their scheme, where he assures her that his plan is to pretend to work with the Girls but will actually sabotage their plans from within, none of which actually happens in the movie.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: After witnessing Kitty almost kill Mr. Wolf, Diane flies into a rage and pummels her unconscious.
• Not Helping Your Case: While at an interview for a job at a bank, Wolf, a known bank robber, justifies his applying by saying some of his best memories involve banks.
• Not What It Looks Like: During the Lords of Lucha tournament, when the Bad Guys try to stop the Phantom Bandit from stealing the Belt of Guatelamango, Pigtail straps the belt around Piranha, making it look like the Bad Guys were stealing the belt themselves. The Bad Guys are forced to flee the enraged audience and wrestlers, which is spotted by Commissioner Luggins, who immediately assumes the worst.
  Mr. Wolf: [frantically] Chief! It's not what it looks like!
  Luggins: I... I trusted you! [She becomes enraged, throws her longcoat aside, and gives chase.]
• Nothing Is the Same Anymore: Diane loses her status as governor when the video footage of her being revealed as the Crimson Paw is uploaded online, and she and the Bad Guys are believed to be dead by the rest of the world. On the other hand, the team is offered a job as secret agents thanks to Misty, and Diane gets to be officially part of the team.
• Once More, with Clarity: Following the wedding heist, while Wolf is explaining to Kitty how they pulled it off, the events of the wedding are replayed in a flashback to show how the Bad Guys manipulated Mr. Soliman into being the patsy, so he would cause an outburst, giving Wolf the right moment to steal Mr. Moon's watch.
• One Last Job: The Bad Girls - Kitty, Pigtail, and Doom - force the Bad Guys to pull off one last heist, or else they'll expose Diane's past as the Crimson Paw to the world.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Just like the previous film the Bad Guys (and Girls) can blend in with disguises during the wedding heist. The sole subversion is Mr. Soliman, who is great at remembering faces and eventually catches on to Wolf's disguises.
• Picture-Perfect Pose: When Wolf starts his job interview, the manager reads his resume, showing Wolf’s picture with a cheery smile. When the manager lowers the resume, Wolf is still making that smile.
• Pec Flex:
  • Mr. Snake has occupied himself post-criminal life with a strict yoga and health lifestyle, with his exercise of choice being vinyasa. This has helped him gain real muscle beneath his scaly body, which he happily flexes his abs for his former crewmates. Once again, this newfound strength will come in handy for the final spaceship heist.
  • A now-buff Professor Marmalade shows off his pec bounce briefly when he meets his visitor, Diane, at a prison, and once again to his adoring fans when he gets into his golden limousine before it lifts into space, where Kitty Kat had activated the space station's magnet to draw in all the gold from Earth.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Marmalade, who's gotten significantly more muscular after his arrest in the first movie.
• Precision F-Strike: While Wolf is driving his, um, car through Los Angeles, an irate driver passes him and shouts, ‘Nice carbon footprint, jackass!’ This was Bowdlerised into “idiot” in the novelization.
• Prisons Are Gymnasiums: Marmalade is shown to have gotten seriously buffed up following his imprisonment.
• Product Placement: The game of Connect Four that Diane and Marmalade play is the actual brand from Hasbro, not a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo. Diane outright reads from the game's box at one point, with the box using its official design at the time of production without any of the film's stylization, and there's a close-up of one of the tokens when Marmalade deliberately releases the tokens from the frame for dramatic effect, clearly showing the official design with the number "4" on them.
• Promoted to Love Interest: While the girls have always had Ship Tease moments with the guys in the books, the relationships still differ in the film:
  • In the books, Snake and Doom have mutual crushes on each other but never act on them. Here, they're smitten the moment they meet, and Doom's backstabbing of Snake only makes him more attracted to her, although they both deny being really in love. Doom's feelings for Snake are solidified when she chooses to disregard Kitty's orders and save Snake's life. In turn, while Doom is doing community service, Snake slips her one of the buttons from his hat to show her he's still alive.
  • In the books, Wolf is immediately smitten by Agent Fox, and while she gradually falls for him, the two don't become an item until the final book. Here, they're mutually attracted to each other but choose to keep things only "medium-friendly" in order not to tarnish Diane's reputation, only to share a Big Damn Kiss in the climax, cementing them as a couple.
• Pubescent Braces: Webs wears braces on her teeth in the opening flashback to highlight that this is her first outing with the team.
• Punny Name: The MacGuffinite derives its name from "MacGuffin".
• Rapid-Fire "No!": Said by Diane, as she realizes her past as the Crimson Paw was exposed while reading the irate comments and messages sent to her on her phone.
• Red Herring: Recognizing how the "Phantom Bandit" is using the Bad Guys' methods of thievery (such as their confetti bomb), they assist the recently-promoted Commissioner Luggins in tracking down the suspect. They later believe Snake is the culprit, linking his planned schedule to the Bandits' string of heists, only to find him on a date with a raven. Then discover the actual suspect, a boar disguised as a luchador, but she frames them, allowing Snake's date to help then capture them. They soon wake up to finally meet the "Phantom Bandit" known as Kitty Kat, with the boar and raven as her partners.
• Redemption Equals Death: Played with. The Bad Guys and Diane are presumed dead after the space station crashes to Earth, and the world remembers them as heroes to sacrificed their lives to stop the Bad Girls. Tiffany Fluffit even laments how tragic it is that no one recognized the crew as heroes while they were alive. In truth, all of them survived and used the crash to fake their deaths.
• Reformed, but Rejected: The Bad Guys are struggling to get jobs because of their criminal past; the first present-day scene shows Wolf, Piranha, Shark, and Webs all trying and failing to get jobs. It's best shown when Wolf is trying to apply for a bank that a manager pointed out that he robbed three times beforehand, then shreds Wolf's resume the moment he thinks Wolf is out of earshot. The same is true for Diane when she gets exposed as the Crimson Paw after the blackmail video gets out; all the goodwill she had as Governor is immediately lost.
  Webs: How are we supposed to get a fresh start if no one would trust us?
• Replaced with Replica: For the wedding heist, Mr. Wolf switches Mr. Moon's smart watch with an identical-looking fake.
• Repurposed Pop Song: As with the previous film, the first trailer is set to "bad guy" by Billie Eilish. The second trailer also adds "I Like It" by Cardi B, and some commercials feature "Bad" by Michael Jackson.
• Riddle for the Ages: How did the Bad Girls get a hold of Diane's secret identity tape in the first place?
• Running Gag:
  • Shark randomly attacking whenever he panics, which actually proves useful aboard the space station.
  • Piranha's frequent farting while under pressure, which proves useful with enough gas to fly himself and Snake from infinite space after using a pen to pop their suit.
• Sadistic Choice: When Kitty finds out that the Bad Guys were about to rat them out, she immediately traps them in their hideout, cuffing them all with golden chains, and suspending them with their gold magnet. Kitty alerts the cops about their location, and they are moments from breaking in, but she gives the boys a chance to escape by handing them a remote that deactivates the magnet, but it also activates an upload of footage exposing Diane as the Crimson Paw. So the group can either escape, and let Diane’s secret get exposed, or they can remain hoisted on the magnet, as the police come to arrest them.
• Selective Magnetism: The MacGuffinite the Bad Girls have been stealing turns out to be a literal gold magnet, with the Bad Girls attaching it to a space station and using its power to bring every piece of gold on Earth to them.
• Sequel Hook: The film drops two: after having successfully faked their deaths, the Bad Guys and Diane are recruited into a new organization to start their career as heroic secret agents. In a mid-credits scene, Marmalade's golden limousine is revealed to be a spaceship, and he flies away to his home planet.
• Sexophone: This happens in a few points when Snake and Doom flirt with each other.
• Shout-Out:
  • When remarking on Snake's newfound hobbies such as pottery, Webs asks who even does pottery besides the cast of Ghost (1990).
  • Diane's visit to the maximum security prison housing Professor Marmalade is shot visually like The Silence of the Lambs. Marmalade even greets Diane similarly to Hannibal Lecter addressing Clarice Starling.
    • In the same scene, Marmalade laments to Diane that out of all the supermax prisons in all the world, she had to walk into his.
  • In The Stinger, Marmalade says, "I love it when a plan comes together."
  • Continuing with the Lupin III homage from the first film, Luggins is now sporting a brown trench coat similar to Zenigata's.
  • When Governor Diane confronts the Bad Girls at the rocket pad, one of them mistakenly calls her "Foxenstein." Dianne Feinstein was a long-serving California Senator who passed away in 2023 during production of the film.
• Shipper on Deck: Mr. Shark, when he and the other guys encounter Wolf kissing Diane.
  Mr. Shark: About time!
• Shoo Out the Clowns:
  • Following the wedding heist, Wolf and Kitty have a serious conversation in the hangar while the rest of the Bad Guys and Girls celebrate around a bonfire outside.
  • This happens again in the climax; Snake, Piranha, Shark, and Tarantula work on helping sabotage the heist while Pigtail and Doom abandon the mission. This leaves Wolf alone to confront Kitty in the space station, followed by Diane.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Wolf gives this to Kitty during their final showdown.
  Kitty Kat: Why would you risk your life to save people who wouldn't even give you a chance? At least when you were the Big Bad Wolf, they respected you!
  Wolf: Oh, that was respect, huh? That wasn't respect. That was fear!
  Kitty: Oh, whatever, man. What's the difference?
  Wolf: Trust me, there's a difference. Respect is earned. One day, you'll learn that.
• "Shut Up" Kiss: Inside the MOON-X rocket, Wolf tells Diane how he and the guys were unable to stop the video from uploading, but Diane proceeds to kiss him instead, no longer caring about her status as an ex-governor, only caring about wanting to start a relationship with Wolf. They kiss each other again after that.
  Mr. Wolf: Ah, wow. What happened to medium friendly?
  Diane Foxington: Well, good thing I'm not the governor anymore, huh?
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: Snake and Doom spend much of their screen time together flirting and generally acting lovey-dovey with each other, which ends up disturbing the rest of the Bad Guys. Snake later accuses Wolf and Diane of being this when he witnesses their Big Damn Kiss.
• Significant Name Shift: Wolf spends most of his interactions with Luggins calling her Chief, and every time, she bitterly reminds him that she's the Commissioner now. This is meant to emphasize that because of her lack of trust in them despite his effort to reform, Wolf doesn't respect her in turn. When she gives the Bad Guys the benefit of the doubt and helps them get to the Moon-X rocket, Wolf finally addresses her as Commissioner, which makes Luggins cry tears of joy.
• Simple Solution Won't Work: Wolf first tries to break out of the Sadistic Choice Kitty set up by swinging Piranha to the laptop and having him remove the flash drive from the laptop, uploading the video revealing Diane as the Crimson Paw. Piranha removes the drive, but the upload keeps going. Wolf then tries to get Tarantula to hack the laptop and deactivate the upload, but the system is too well protected for her to hack it quickly enough with several of her legs tied. By the time the simplest possible solution of just destroying the laptop comes up, there isn't enough time left to do that properly.
• Skipping the Basics: In their first scene together, Wolf and Diane are having a friendly boxing spar, and it's clear that Mr. Wolf has a long way to go before he can hit or dodge half as well as her. Despite this, he decides to "stop holding back" and takes off his protective gear to show his worth as The Big Bad Wolf; it cuts immediately (and predictably) to him covered in bruises while Diane medicates him. The moral is not to snub your protections while you're still learning how to fight, especially if your sparring partner is a One-Woman Army.
• Slipping a Mickey: After the Bad Guys are set up as the Phantom Bandit and narrowly escape arrest, Doom tricks them into eating mints laced with sedatives. Wolf, the only one not to take a mint, is shot by a tranquilizer dart.
• Smart People Play Chess: Parodied. When Diane goes to consult with Marmalade in prison, the Wicked Cultured Mad Scientist agrees to give her the information she wants if she challenges him in a game of... Connect 4. Which she wins rather easily because the game is made for children.
• Space Is Noisy: In the space scenes, everything that takes place outside of the shuttle and space station is accompanied by extremely muffled sound effects. The only fully audible noise is the laser from the activated gold magnet, and its explosion.
• Start of Darkness: Kitty tells Wolf a story about how she had a teacher in school who gave lollipops to students who were "good". Kitty never received even one, so she stole the entire bag from the teacher's desk, ensuring that the other kids would have to come to her for lollipops.
• The Stinger:
  • In a mid-credits scene, the muscular Marmalade is floating in space in his gold-plated limo, which transforms into a spaceship as he says he's "going home". While not outright showing it, he heavily implies he's been an alien all along, just like in the books.
  • Played for Laughs with the post-credits scene which is just an earlier clip of Snake going "Well, byeeeeeee!" in the gang's hideout as the door closes.
• Stylistic Self-Parody: Doom makes fun of Piranha’s head shape by calling him a "mango with teeth".
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • The film starts with the natural consequences of a group of notorious ex-convicts, who've committed many crimes over the years in many locations, sincerely trying to go straight and make an honest living: they're stonewalled at every turn, unable to get any kind of job thanks to either their infamous reputation, prior skillset not translating into a civilian lifestyle, or because many of the institutions that would provide them with avenues for learning new skills being unwilling to engage with them after their past crimes inconvenienced them. Furthermore, because none of the Bad Guys can get income, Wolf's mortgages and bills are going unpaid, and the Bad Guys' pad is on the verge of being repossessed.
    • Being notorious criminals with an established "style" makes it easy for the Bad Guys to be subjected to a Frame-Up by the "Phantom Bandit" mimicking some of their past tactics, like a confetti bomb calling card. Both the police and the media are openly eyeing them up as the most likely suspects, with only a lack of direct evidence preventing an arrest.
  • The last film had Diane recounting her own Heel Realisation moment to Wolf during the theft of the Golden Dolphin, seeing her reflection in the window and lowering her hood to get a good look at herself, the "tricky fox" that everyone else saw. This film reveals that doing this during a heist, especially in an area with security cameras around, was a very dumb move, as Diane's oversight created video evidence of her as the Crimson Paw, driving the latter half of the move as the Bad Guys are blackmailed with it into cooperating with the Bad Girls and it ultimately gets her exposed.
• Take a Third Option: Wolf tries this when stuck in Kitty's Morton's Fork dilemma by turning off the MacGuffinite magnet and attempting to destroy the laptop containing the video exposing Diane as the Crimson Paw. He fails.
• Take That!: The film takes a swipe at health foods when Snake mentions that his kombucha has wheatgrass, moss, and dandelion.
  Shark: Uh, I don't think you're supposed to eat those things.
• Tempting Fate: As the Bad Girls are stealing all the gold in the world, Kitty proclaims, "Nothing gonna stop us now!" Just then, Snake and Piranha's inflated spacesuit comes into view and subsequently gets tossed by the floating gold pieces. When Doom wants to spare their lives by turning off the magnet, Kitty instantly tries to strangle her out of wrath. As she sends her crewmates away to do their jobs, Doom and Pigtail decide to turn their backs on Kitty and save the pair floating in space anyway. This, as well as other factors, led to the gold heist going awry and the girls getting sent to prison.
• Tranquilizer Dart: The Bad Girls have a tranquilizer gun that they use three times across the movie.
  • First, Doom uses it to subdue Mr. Wolf, since he declined to take a breath mint laced with sedatives.
  • Second, Doom drops it during the watch heist and it accidentally shoots the bride.
  • Finally, Kitty Kat uses the gun to sedate Diane while she's distracted.
• Tranquilization Taunt: It's almost a Running Gag that one of the Bad Girls will mock their victim right after darting them with a tranq gun. First Doom tells Mr. Wolf he should have taken the (laced) mint when he still had a chance. Later, when Diane is distracted with her social media feed after being exposed as Crimson Paw, Kitty darts her and keeps mocking her further.
• Unobtanium: All the Bad Girls' heists revolve around the theft of objects made out of "MacGuffinite", a metal which, when linked to a certain magnetic field, can attract gold.
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Kitty's plan to steal the watch from the wedding, which she explains as the steps play out, goes awry when Wolf spots Mr. Soliman, who recognizes him from the Cairo heist. By contrast, the other two plans where the details are not given to the audience right away (the second attempt at the watch, and stopping the gold heist) go exactly as planned.
• Unwitting Pawn: The Stinger indicates that Kitty's entire plan was masterminded/co-opted by Marmalade from within his prison cell to have her expose Diane as the Crimson Paw and thus exonerate him for being "framed" for her crimes, as well as also pulling him and his gold-plated limo/spaceship into orbit to give him a means of surreptitiously leaving the planet to "go home", with implied further devious schemes in mind. By the end, he's completely escaped with nobody the wiser.
• Villain Cred: The Bad Girls are well-aware of the Bad Guys' villainous legacy, with Kitty's first scene having her give a monologue about the importance of the "Big Bad Wolf," and Pigtail is overjoyed to meet her personal heroes.
• Villain Has a Point: Kitty can't help but point out to Wolf how terrible his life is now compared to when he was a career criminal. Even though Wolf is only playing nice to get the video of Diane from her, he can't help but mull over her words, as he feels guilty over ruining his friends' quality of life, and how no one trusts them despite them serving their time and trying to do the right thing.
• Villainous Breakdown: After Wolf and the other Bad Guys sends the gold back to Earth, Kitty tries to kill Wolf in a fit of rage before Diane stops her.
• Wham Shot: When the Bad Girls are shanghaing the Bad Guys into their job, Kitty Kat pulls out a certain video on a projector, revealing an unmasked Diane as the Crimson Paw, stealing the Golden Dolphin all those years back.
• Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: The kitten only appears during the scene in the Bad Guys' lair at the beginning and never shows up again for the rest of the film.
• Will They or Won't They?: Wolf and Diane struggle in forming a proper relationship, but are stuck as "medium friends" at best, thanks to their respective reputations, and Wolf's friends seem to notice and lampshade. It takes damning footage of Diane's past life as the Crimson Paw, uploaded by the Bad Girls (ruining her career as governor), and a life-or-death battle to foil the trio's gold heist that allows them to move past the supposed "friendzone" and kiss.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds:
  • Kitty Kat had a difficult past where she felt excluded and disrespected for her appearance, leading her to steal and commit crimes for what she mistook as respect. As a young schoolgirl, she was always denied a lollipop for not being considered a "good kid" due to her claws and teeth, which hinted that her teacher was a racist. This led her to steal the lollipops, which was the beginning of her path into crime, as she mistook the fear of others for respect. This shows that she's what Mr. Wolf could have become if he had never been given a second chance. Tellingly, Wolf himself can't help feel a pang of sympathy for Kitty even after all she has done, warning her that she will ultimately regret her outlook on life.
  • This would have been branched further in the earlier script for the film, where it would be revealed she was originally Diane's partner and best friend during her tenure as the Crimson Paw. When Diane had her epiphany and begun to give back all her loot out of guilt, a horrified and angry Kitty left her, failing to understand Diane's motivations. This would have essentially made Kitty a Shadow Archetype to Snake, what he would have become if Wolf had not ultimately managed to reason with him and spark his Good Feels Good epiphany. While her and Diane's bond is not referenced in the final script (to the extent that Diane violently hates Kitty), Kitty's paranoia and feelings of betrayal towards those that simply try to reason with her remains a clear characteristic during the climax.
• Worf Had the Flu: Sans a Curb-Stomp Cushion by Kitty, Diane would have beaten the Bad Girls easily, had it not been getting distracted by her phone blowing up following her exposure as the Crimson Paw. Kitty takes the opportunity to knock her out with a tranquilizer dart while she's distracted.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Webs has this reaction when the rest of the crew is struggling to open the cargo bay of the shuttle, and she notices they're pulling the handle the wrong way:
  Ms. Tarantula: Are you kidding me?! Lefty-loosey, righty-tighty!