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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Max California.
* [[Defensive Failure]]: Welles has one of the men involved in the making of the snuff film tied to a support bar in the building where the film was made. He has his gun trained on the man's head...but can't bring himself to fire, even as the man taunts him (to the point of ''licking the gun''). Welles then steps outside, {{spoiler|calls the mother of the snuff film's victim, and begs for permission to kill the man. He gets it. Five seconds later he pistol-whips him to death}}.
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: lampshaded as Longdale is called {{spoiler|"Satan Ex Machina" in the reveal at the end}}.
* [[Divide and Conquer]]: {{spoiler|Welles is about to be murdered when he reveals exactly how much money -- a million dollars -- Christian paid for his snuff film. The others immediately turn on the lawyer who commissioned the film, giving Welles time to grab a weapon.}}
* [[Dragon Their Feet]]: {{spoiler|Welles kills (or sees killed) the people who created the snuff film before going after the "performer" who murdered the girl. Justified, the actual murderer was injured and it took Welles a while to figure out where he was.}}
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* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: crossed so many times, arguably the whole film really revolves around this concept:
** Mr. Christian for wanting the film made.
** Longdale for {{
** Dino, Eddie and Machine for making the film.
** Machine for killing Mary Anne.
** Welles {{
*** Although this is seemingly justified in the spirit of [[Pay Evil Unto Evil|cinematically justifiable homicide]].
* [[Mysterious Watcher]]: {{spoiler|He turns out to be the attorney Daniel Longdale, who commissioned the snuff film for Mr Christian. While it's odd that surveillance expert Welles doesn't notice him, Longdale has the advantage in that Welles is reporting everything he does back to his client, in order to show how hard he's working on the case.}}
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* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Welles does a lot of smoking, and hides it from his wife.
* [[Smug Snake]]: {{spoiler|Daniel Longdale.}}
* [[Snuff Film]]: In an effort to reassure Mrs. Christian, both Welles and Longdale state that snuff films are nothing other than an [[Urban Legend]]. Welles sets off looking for proof to the contrary, whereas [[Irony|it turned out]] that {{spoiler|
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* [[They Look Just Like Everyone Else]]
* [[Unhand Them, Villain!]]
{{quote|'''Velvet:''' "Machine, set him free."
''(Machine cuts {{spoiler|Max's}} throat)'' }}
* [[The Voiceless]]: Machine
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