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Really, though, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective's insensitivity toward animals and the mentally ill is peanuts compared to its contempt for LGBT people. After hunting down all potential suspects rocking the 1984 AFC Championship ring (one of whom Ace inspects while standing beside him at a urinal, and who prances after Ace with arms aflutter expecting a hookup), the “pet dick,” as he's often called, realizes Finkle's been in his midst all along. Turns out Finkle is now Lois Einhorn (Sean Young), the local, libidinous police lieutenant who derides Ace when she's not sticking her tongue down his and everyone else's throats. At the time of this movie's release, Ace's revelation was played entirely for laughs, but seen today, it's basically horrifying. “Finkle is Einhorn!” Ace declares to himself. “Einhorn is a man!” With that, Ace, remembering that Einhorn pinned him on her desk and gave him sloppy kisses, goes into a violent burst of queer panic, purging in the toilet, loading his mouth with toothpaste, taking a plunger to his face, purging some more, burning his clothes, and finally crying naked in the shower, all to the tune of Boy George's “The Crying Game.” Spying the pre-op trans woman the next day, Ace, still loading his mouth with chewing gum as a disinfectant, notes that “the gun” that was “digging into [his] hip” during the pair's make-out session was in fact a penis, and he shudders madly at the thought.

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