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'''Kaffee:''' I want the ''truth''!
'''Jessep:''' ''You can't '''handle''' the truth!''<ref>The rest of the line is [[A Few Good Men/Quotes|here]].</ref> }}
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* [[Anachronic Order]]: Col. Jessup's meeting with his officers about Santiago is depicted after the start of the film.
* [[Armor-Piercing Question]]:
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'''Col. Jessep:''' '''YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I DID!''' }}
* [[Awful Truth]] ("YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!")
* [[Backhanded Compliment]]:
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* [[Badass Boast]]:
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* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Danny Kaffee and Jack Ross both qualify
* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: The famous quote said on this page is often interpreted as simply just one line: "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!"
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* [[Bluffing the Murderer]] (Kaffee brings in a pair of [[Surprise Witness|Surprise Witnesses]] to help pressure Jessep at the end. {{spoiler|They don't have any actual information.}})
* [[Brick Joke]]:
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'''Kaffee''': "One more and I get a set of steak knives."
Later on when it looks like the case is slipping away from them:
'''Galloway''': "I'm sorry I cost you the steak knives." }}
* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: Kaffee is a brilliant attorney with a fantastic mind and charisma. But He'd much rather practice getting his softball swing perfect.
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* [[The End]]: Used straight, in a fairly rare example for such a recent film. Rob Reiner says on the DVD commentary that it felt right, with the story being a sort of old-fashioned morality play.
* [[Eureka Moment]]: Kaffee retrieves his baseball bat from his closet and has an epiphany.
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* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: See [[Pet the Dog]] below.
* [[Expecting Someone Taller]]: Kaffee, to Aunt Ginny. Aunt Ginny, to Kaffee.
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* [[Fatal Family Photo]]: [[Subverted]]. We see Sam taking a walk in the park with his baby daughter, and the whole business seemed shady. Then nothing happened.
* [[Friendly Enemy]]: Prosecutor Jack Ross. He and Kaffee are friends outside the courtroom, and Ross even privately believes the two Marines shouldn't be jailed, but in his own words:
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* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]]: [[Played With]]. Aunt Ginny, although it's made clear that she's younger than what you'd expect. Just ''how'' young is never specified.
* [[Gung-Holier Than Thou]]: Lt. Kendrick.
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Kaffee goes out and gets [[Drowning My Sorrows|rip-roaring drunk]] after {{spoiler|his star witness kills himself}}.
* [[He's Back]]: "I got my second wind."
* [[Heel Realization]]: Dawson realizes that they deserve {{spoiler|dishonorable discharges for "conduct unbecoming of a Marine"}} at the end. He even takes the time to explain it to [[The Ditz|the amazingly slow-witted Downey]].
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'''Dawson:''' Yeah, we did. We were supposed to fight for the people who couldn't fight for themselves. We were supposed to fight for Willie. }}
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Why Dawson refuses the plea bargain. The proposed deal would have saved them from prison, but a dishonorable discharge essentially [[Unperson|negates everything they'd done in the Corps]].
* [[Ho Yay]]: Between Kaffee and Ross. They seem to know each other pretty well, and then there's the whole scene with Cruise sucking on his doughnut-dust-covered finger while Bacon stares him down. And then some of the final lines:
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'''Kaffee:''' And handsome too, didn't you think? }}
* [[Hypocrite]]: For all of his talk about how Marines never disobey orders, Jessup thinks nothing of ignoring the orders of his own superiors because he thinks he knows better. For all of his talk about loyalty, he is more than willing to throw two of his men under the bus to save his own hide.
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** Unusually for this trope, Dawson changes his mind at the end. Having been acquitted for the major crimes, he accepts a dishonorable discharge for "conduct unbecoming a Marine," admitting that he should have stood up for Santiago.
*** Which is partially foreshadowed when he refuses to plea bargain:
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* [[Jerkass]]: Col Jessep. Aside from being the villain, he's also a colossal dick to his underlings.
** Also Kendrick. He's equally unpleasant to Kaffee and Galloway and becomes equally incensed when his authority is remotely questioned.
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** Additionally, when the defence team are down in Cuba we find out that Jessup is a great admirer of Kaffee's late father for his work defending civil rights. He's also [[Nice to the Waiter]].
* [[Plea Bargain]]: Fabulously averted.
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* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: Col. Jessep's speech about superior officers is shockingly misogynist.
** Interestingly, Jessep was also wrong. Dr. Antonia Novello was the US Surgeon General when A Few Good Men was released. As the head of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, Surgeons General always hold the rank of vice admiral. Jessep would have been required by law to salute her.
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* [[Spanner in the Works]]: Both Galloway and Dawson are this to Jessup's freinds in the Pentagon's attempts to handle Santiago's death quietly. Galloway for actually insisting that Kaffee actualy give his clients' due dilligence for once instead of rushing straight to the plea bargin, Dawson for telling Kaffee to take his plea bargin and shove it.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: After Jessep was placed under arrest, Kaffee delivers this line
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* [[That Was Objectionable]]: A borderline example. The prosecution puts on a doctor to give his opinion as to the cause of Willie Santiago's death. Lt. Cmdr. Galloway objects on the basis of his qualifications. When the judge overrules her, she "strenuously objects" and is again overruled.
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** Her "strenuous objection" prompts the judge to say "The witness ''is'' an expert, and the court will hear his opinion;" undermining her own point in front of the court members, which Sam calls her on.
* [[Take Five]]
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'''Lt. Cmdr. Galloway:''' Thank you, sir, I'm fine.
'''Capt. West:''' Commander, I'd like you to leave the room so we can talk about you behind your back.
'''Lt. Cmdr. Galloway:''' Certainly, sir. }}
* [[Those Two Guys]]: Dawson and Downey.
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* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Kaffee's late father was of the overachieving variety.
* [[You Can Say That Again]]: Kaffee trades cliches with the guy at his newsstand, resulting in this exchange:
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'''Kaffee:''' You can say that again.
'''Luther:''' It ain't over till the fat lady sings.
'''Kaffee:''' (with him) Fat lady sings. I walked into that one. }}
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