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== Plot ==
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In [[New York City]], male model Derek Zoolander is at a low point; he is ousted as the top male fashion model by rising star Hansel McDonald, his roommates and colleagues are killed in a "freak gasoline-fight accident", and an attempt to reconnect with his [[South Jersey|southern New Jersey]] working-class relatives ends with the family rejecting him. Meanwhile, fashion mogul Jacobim Mugatu and Derek's agent Maury Ballstein are charged by the fashion industry with finding a model who can be [[Brainwashing|brainwashed]] into [[Assassination|assassinating]] the new progressive-leaning [[Prime Minister of Malaysia]], whose policies will prohibit them from retaining cheap [[Child labour|child labor]] in the country. Mugatu hires Derek, whom he had never worked with, to star in the next [[Fashion show|runway show]] for his brainwashing plan. It involves Derek being [[Ivan Pavlov#Reflex system research|conditioned]] to attempt the assassination when the song "[[Relax (song)|Relax]]" by [[Frankie Goes to Hollywood]] is played.

Journalist Matilda Jeffries, feeling responsible for Derek's downfall as she wrote a scathing ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' article about him, becomes suspicious of Mugatu's offer. She tells her concerns to Derek, but he ignores her. After receiving info through calls from former [[hand model]] J.P. Prewett, Matilda and Derek meet him in a cemetery. Prewett reveals that the fashion industry has been behind several of history's political assassinations, including [[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln|Abraham Lincoln]] and [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|John F. Kennedy]], and the brainwashed models are soon killed after they have completed their task. Mugatu's cronies attack the group, forcing Derek and Matilda to flee. They go to Hansel's home, the last place they believe Mugatu will think to look. Derek, Hansel and Matilda bond, the two male models resolving their differences while partaking of Hansel's collection of narcotics and participating in group sex with Matilda and others. Derek and Hansel break into Maury's office to find evidence of the assassination plot, but they cannot operate his computer to find them.

Derek goes to the runway and Mugatu's [[disc jockey|DJ]] plays a remix version of "Relax". This activates Derek's mental programming, only for it to stop after Hansel breaks into the DJ booth and shuts off the turntable. After Hansel smashes the computer on the floor (since he took Matilda saying the incriminating files were "in the computer" literally), a guilt-ridden Maury admits to the conspiracy. Mugatu then attempts to kill the Prime Minister himself by throwing a [[shuriken]] at him, but Derek stops it by unleashing his ultimate model look, "Magnum". In Derek's rural hometown, his father Larry watches the event on television and proudly acknowledges Derek as his son while Mugatu is arrested. A few years later, Derek, Hansel and Maury start "The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too". Derek and Matilda have a son named Derek Zoolander Jr., who has already [[Zoolander 2|developed his first modeling look]].