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* [[Always Second Best]]
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: The Wigmaker when Mozart is buying the three wigs.
* [[Annoying Laugh]]: Mozart.
* [[Antagonist in Mourning]]: Salieri, despite having relished the moment for a long time, seems utterly crushed when Mozart dies.
** YMMV
* [[Based on a Great Big Lie]]: It's widely considered to be an urban legend that Salieri
** Compounded by the fact that part of the movie's tagline is, "...Everything You've Heard Is True".
* [[Bedlam House]]: The lunatic asylum that Salieri is confined to.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|At the end of the movie, Salieri rediscovers his own spirituality after realizing at the end of his confession that he wasn't Mozart's killer after all, and that he himself never knew that God was setting him up as something better, be it ever so slightly, than just a great composer doomed to live to see his fame and fortune wither away before his eyes: the patron saint of mediocrities
* [[Black Cloak]]:
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Mozart all the way.
* [[California Doubling]]: 18th century Vienna was shot in
* [[Casanova]]: Mozart.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "...There it is." Quite pithy for a Royal Emperor.
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* [[Driven by Envy]]: Salieri, Very much so -- as a core driver of the plot.
* [[Faith Heel Turn]]
* [[Fan Service]]:
* [[A God Am I]]: Salieri's aspiration to become God's musical messenger in this world. It all goes downhill when he understands that Mozart fits the role much better.
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Salieri is the living embodiment of this trope.
* [[Hard Work Hardly Works]]: Salieri.
* [[Heroic RROD]]:
* [[How We Got Here]]: Via a [[Confessional]].
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: ''Both'' Mozart and Salieri. Mozart is boorish, rude, infantile, and argumentative against anyone who can't appreciate his work. Salieri is snobbish and pandering, and demonstrates contempt for others. Salieri merely does a better job of hiding his contempt.
* [[Intermission]]: Usually occurs when the movie is shown on premium cable channels (i.e.
* [[Interrupted Suicide]]
* [[In the Style Of]]: Mozart playing "Vivat Bacchus" in the style of Salieri, punctuated with flatulence.
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* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: "It was not Mozart that was mocking me -- ''it was God!''"
{{quote|'''Salieri''' [throwing a crucifix in his fireplace]: "From now on we are enemies, You and I. Because You choose for Your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me for reward only the ability to recognize the incarnation. Because You are unjust, unfair, unkind, I will block You, I swear it. [[Blasphemous Boast|I will hinder and harm Your creature on earth as far as I am able]]."}}
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Mozart and Salieri.
* [[Scenery Porn]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: The freckled little boy watching Mozart show off his mad piano skills at the masquerade party is a reference to [[Ludwig Van Beethoven]]. While the two of them attending the same party is fairly unlikely, Mozart did attend a recital in which young Beethoven performed.
* [[Sidelong Glance Biopic]]
* [[A Simple Plan]]: Salieri's plan to
{{quote|'''Salieri''': {{spoiler|His funeral! Imagine it, the cathedral, all Vienna sitting there, his coffin, Mozart's little coffin in the middle, and then, in that silence, ''music!'' A divine music bursts out over them all. A great mass of death! Requiem mass for Wolfgang Mozart, composed by his devoted friend, Antonio Salieri! Oh what sublimity, what depth, what passion in the music! Salieri has been touched by God at last. And God is forced to listen! Powerless, powerless to stop it! ''I, for once in the end, laughing at him
* [[Sweet Tooth]]: Salieri has a thing for candy (may also count as [[Genius' Sweet Tooth]]).
* [[Technician Versus Performer]]
* [[Toilet Humour]]: Mozart's sense of humor is rather... lavatorial.
* [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]: While by no means pure, Salieri admitted at the end that Mozart (or at least, his music) was so sacred that {{spoiler|God himself called him home to [[Out-Gambitted]] Salieri's plot to kill him and steal the last laugh from right under the Most High's nose
* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]: [[In-Universe]], Mozart is seen struggling against everyone who can't comprehend the operas and music he's creating for them. Most of them -- Emperor included -- can't recognize good music even when it points them to the [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] tropes page, while the one person who ''can'' comprehend -- Salieri -- is working behind the scenes to sabotage Mozart's efforts. Parodied when Mozart, in a huff after being told that the Emperor has banned ballet in opera, Mozart just removes the music from the ballet scene in The Marriage of Figaro and has the dancers just dance to silence. When the Emperor attends a rehearsal, he asks an aide if this is just a new modern development?
* [[Unknown Rival]]
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