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** [[Unreliable Voiceover]]: The three punches don't even knock the guy and is Nicky's brother who has to deliver more blows to make him fall.

* [[Based on a True Story]]: The story takes a few liberties, of course. For example, Artie didn't die of a heart attack while being arrested.

* [[Big Fancy House]]: The Rothstein's; it's on a golf course and so Seventies ''it hurts''.

* [[Black Comedy]]: What humour there is in the film is ''very'' dark.

* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|Nicky, viciously beaten along with his brother and dumped into a hole ''alive'', and Ginger, who's possibly murdered via deliberate drug overdose}}.

* [[Kill Them All]] :

** {{spoiler|Ginger's and Nicky's life mistakes catch up to them, and Piscano dies of a [[Hollywood Heart Attack|Heart attack on the spot]]. Only Ace survives because he is a big earner, too valuable to waste.}}

* [[Lady Drunk]]: Ginger.

** Nicky, the number one jewel thief of the town opens a jewelry called "The Gold Rush" as a front. It gets bugged pretty quickly.

** It's written on the wall that The Tangiers is mob controlled, the local authorities happily tolerate it as long as the managers stay in line and play ball.

* [[Nepotism]]: Las Vegas apparently runs on this trope. Ace is forced to keep an imbecilic 'local cowboy' hired in a cushy position because his brother-in-law is an influential local civil servant. When he finally gets sick of the guy's incompetence and justifiably fires him, the sky begins to fall in...

* [[Nice to The Waiter]]: Nicky abuses the croupiers, who have to take it stoically.

* [[Nothing but Hits]]:

** The soundtrack, which goes from the late Sixties to the Eighties, is amazing.

** As is the use of Bach's ''The Passion of St. Matthew'' in the opening and closing of the film.

* [[The Pen Is Mightier]]: ''Jesus Christ.''

* [[Persona Non Grata]]: Nicky gets his name in a ''Black Book'' and is banned from the casinos. [[Cassandra Truth|Sam warns him beforehand]] but Nicky mocks the issue as the book only has two names and one of them is still [[Al Capone]] and continues to generate waves. Then he laments, as the ban hurts his operations.

** Also, Frank Marino lies to one of the Mafia bosses to protect Nicky, Ace and Ginger- all the while knowing that he'll be killed as well if the truth is discovered.

* [[Playing Against Type]]: Don freaking Rickles in a Scorsese movie? Playing an intimidating mob collaborator?

* [[Posthumous Narration]]: Given that the first thing we see is Ace -- one of the two primary narrators of the film as a whole -- get blown up by a car bomb, this is a reasonable assumption to make. {{spoiler|It's subverted; by freak chance and a [[Good Bad Bug]], Ace survives the bomb and is one of the only characters to survive the whole clusterfuck at the end of the movie. Played with by Nicky, who's own narration is ''interrupted'' by his being beaten to death, suggesting he was delivering it up to the point where he died.}}

* [[Professional Gambler]]:

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]]: The reason the incompetent employee Ward is on Sam's payroll. Discussed and ultimately subverted

* [[Shock and Awe]]: The casino uses a stun gun to simulate a heart attack on a casino cheater and get him back to the back room for some [[Fingore|disincentivizing]].

* [[Show Within a Show]]: ''Aces Hiiigh!"

* [[Skunk Stripe]]: Nicky develops one as he ages.

** Nicky is [[Genre Savvy]] and gets away implementing anti-surveillance devices and tactics for a while, but he is bested when the Feds put a wire inside an adjacent wall.

* [[Taking the Kids]]: [[media:casino_00341.jpg|Ginger attempts to do this]], but she comes back, knowing what could happen.

* [[Trunk Shot]]: Done when the police finds two corpses inside a car.

* [[Twisting the Words]] "I'm the boss".