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* [[Enemy Mine]]: Kohler, a man with an immense hatred for religion, must assist the Vatican from exploding into itty-bitty pieces.
** In the film the man who comes from the Vatican to enlist Langdon's help invokes this trope, though not by name.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Although the Camerlengo's name is mentioned briefly, the narrative and all the characters just refer to him as Camerlengo.
* [[Exact Time to Failure]]: The battery for the antimatter containment device lasts precisely 24 hours.
* [[Eye Scream]]: In the novel, the safe to get the antimatter requiring retina scans. ''[[Self Explanatory|You can guess what happened next.]]''
** {{spoiler|Vetra, mad as Hell at being bound and gagged for quite a while and [[Mind Raped]], shoves the "Illuminati" brand into the Hassassin's eye ([[Bond One -Liner|complete with an "eye for an eye" one-liner]], to boot).}}
* [[Fantastic Catholicism]]
* [[The Film of the Book]]: Released in 2009. Now with less stupid hair. To make things highly confusing, the film is a ''sequel'' to ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]''.
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* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]
* [[Hot Scientist]] - Vittoria.
* [[Kill 'Em All]]: in the book, Landgon fails to save any of the Preferiti. {{spoiler|Averted in the movie, where he saved the last one.}}
* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: In the book, the Hassassin plans to rape and kill Vittoria as a "reward" for his hard work. However, he gets no further than tying her up and groping her before Langdon arrives to save her.
* [[Instant Death Bullet]] - Both used and averted in the film.
* [[It Makes Sense in Context]]: "[Langdon] hated hospitals, but they certainly beat aliens harvesting his testicles."
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* [[Moon Logic Puzzle]] - Following the Path of Illumination requires you to not only be an expert on science, Christianity, and various pagan belief systems, but also the train of thought used by Bernini at the time.
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]] - the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5dgxDIYMT4 teaser trailer] for the film features a sinister voice talking about how the Illuminati are about to take their revenge. {{spoiler|But it turns out that the [[Big Bad]] just used the Illuminati as scapegoats for his plot, and they probably no longer even exist.}}
* [[No Hugging, No Kissing]]: The removal of the romantic plot between Langdon and Vittoria from the film.
* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]] - Dr. Vittoria Vetra (a physicist) seems to know all the medical symptoms of the pope's poisoning.
** But she must be a pretty poor physicist, because Langdon has to explain to her that a low-oxygen environment can cause light-headedness.
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* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Vittoria Vetra
* [[Sherlock Scan]]: Langdon does it in the movies when it determines that the man who comes to see him is jetlagged because a) he has bags under his eyes, b) it's 5am, and c) he's from the Vatican.
* [[Slap -On the -The-Wrist Nuke]] - A quarter-gram of positrons mixed with another quarter gram of electrons yields enough photons to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Man cook Nagasaki] and at medium altitude should have blinded every naked eye in Rome (including the onlooking crowd in Piazza San Pietro), scorched every non-reflective surface in line of sight and set ablaze every dark surface. Not so much.<ref>Note that this is just the flash-burn (light energy) from a Fat-Man-sized nuclear blast, not the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_nuclear_explosions other exciting effects] that usually come from a nuke, thanks to this being a pure energy conversion of positronic antimatter and matter.</ref>
** Perhaps a much smaller quantity of electrons were bottled than the CERN scientists thought. An instrumentation error, to be sure.
* [[Soft Water]]: {{spoiler|Langdon survives a fall from the helicopter into the Tiber river thanks to a tip he learned from a [[Chekhov's Classroom]]. It's noted by the emergency personnel who save him that he didn't break his bones.}}
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* [[Those Two Guys]] - Two BBC journalists start following Robert during his chase to save the kidnapped Preferiti in hopes of a better story and an award.
* [[Unfazed Everyman]]: Poor Langdon.
* [[Viewers Areare Morons]]: During an early sequence at CERN, Langdon takes a back seat from his usual role of [[Mr. Exposition]] to play [[The Watson|Audience Avatar]] while Dr. Kohler and Vittoria explain "dark matter" and the "Big Bang."
* [[Wham Line]]: Arguably for the narrative, definitely in-story, for the Camerlengo:
{{quote| {{spoiler|"The pope fathered a son."}}}}
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* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]] - In the film, [[The Dragon]] {{spoiler|gets blown up by car bomb}} after completing his tasks.
** And of course he's probably the only one who didn't see it coming.<ref>Justified in that the Vatican had been a repeat client of his, and valued his work. He probably had difficulty imagining they would so casually dispose of a top-notch freelance assassin.</ref>
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: The bishops in the novel try this. Subverted, when it's revealed that [[Actual Pacifist|they really can't do a thing]] against [[Woman Scorned|Vittoria]]. {{spoiler|[[What the Hell, Hero?|"What you gonna do? Kill me?"]]}}
 
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