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* [[Kill the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Cabbie}}. He spends most of the whole movie as a happy-go-lucky, overly friendly wide-eyed optimist who looks out for {{spoiler|Plissken}} (even to the extent of {{spoiler|throwing a molotov cocktail at some thugs, driving him for free and coming back for him just in time)}}. Then, despite being in an explosion that leaves the others inexplicably unscathed, he dies horribly. Thankfully, Snake gets some justice for his unnecessary death {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|by screwing the ungrateful president.]]}}
* [[Laughing Mad]]: Romero.
* [[The Load]]: The president.▼
{{quote|'''Snake''': We have to move fast.▼
'''The President''': You're damn right I'll move fast! }}▼
** He doesn't.▼
* [[MacGuffin]]: The tape with the secret of nuclear fusion.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Snake Plissken.
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* [[Off-the-Shelf FX]]: What appeared to be an impressive (for 1981) wire-frame CGI image of Lower Manhattan was actually a physical model with the buildings outlined with glow-in-the-dark green tape and filmed in black light. Courtesy of none other than [[James Cameron]].
* [[Oh Crap]]: The President when he discovers {{spoiler|that Snake's switched the nuclear fusion tape with Cabbie's, and thus he's playing the dignitaries "Bandstand Boogie"}}.
* [[The Only One]]: Snake is told he's the man for the job due to his prior black ops experience and his expendability.▼
* [[Our Presidents Are Different]]: Well for starters he sounds British. An in-universe reason was given, but seriously it was to give Donald Pleasance the role.
* [[Parrot Exposition]]: An example occurs early on in the film. Also [[Hilarious in Hindsight]].
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* [[Stylistic Suck]]: The song "Everyone's Coming To New York" is sung by various criminals, and even on the soundtrack CD, the singers sing slightly out of tune, and various interludes are played on kazoos. Why yes, [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity most certainly does ensue]].
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]: Snake.
▲* [[The Load]]: The president.
▲{{quote|'''Snake''': We have to move fast.
▲'''The President''': You're damn right I'll move fast! }}
▲** He doesn't.
▲* [[The Only One]]: Snake is told he's the man for the job due to his prior black ops experience and his expendability.
* [[Timed Mission]]: Both films. {{spoiler|Subverted in the sequel in that it was a fake threat.}}
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: Occurs in 1997. In 1988 the U.S. crime rate rose 400%, Manhattan was turned into the maximum security prison for the whole country, and the U.S. became authoritarian. There is a war going on with Soviet Union (presumably non-nuclear) and the whole film begins as Communist terrorists kidnap [[Air Force One]]. [[Cold War]]-phobia was very popular in [[The Eighties]].
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