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* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: {{spoiler|Machine is revealed to be a psychopath mama's boy who only loves his mother}}.

* [[Famous Last Words]]: The filmmaker Velvet, {{spoiler|after being shot in the neck by a .25}}.

* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Dino Velvet.

* [[Film Noir]]: Of the neo-noir type.

** Mr Christian: [[The Man Behind the Man]].

* [[For the Evulz]]: Machine's only reasons to kill and butcher women in Dino Velvet's movies.

** Also {{spoiler|Mr. Christian}}'s reason for {{spoiler|having the snuff film made}}:

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Machine goes out of his way to [[Subverted Trope|subvert the trope]]. The idea that some people are ''[[For the Evulz|just plain twisted]]'' is one of the core ideas explored in the film.

* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: We never see the murder being committed on the 8mm reel, just Welles' reaction to it.

* [[He-Man Woman Hater]]: Eddie Poole.

* [[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.}}

* [[Not So Harmless]]: Inverted. {{spoiler|The terrible masked Machine turns out to be a glasses-wearing geekish character who [[Basement Dweller|lives in his mother's basement]].}}

* [[Oh Crap]]: Eddie Poole barely has time to scream [[Big No|"No!"]] when he realizes that Welles is about to ''beat him to death'' with his gun.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: In the hard - core underworld, Max California is the only one who is "normal" - he reads Truman Capote and he has dream of becominga Rock star.

* [[They Look Just Like Everyone Else]]

* [[Unhand Them, Villain!]]

''(Machine cuts {{spoiler|Max's}} throat)'' }}

* [[The Voiceless]]: Machine intially starts as this (probably because he wants to hide his identity) before having real lines.