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* [[Bed Trick]] - Castor-As-Archer with the real Archer's wife.

* [[Black Best Friend]] - Tito to Archer.

* [[Bluff the Impostor]] - Happens to both.

* [[Bottomless Magazines]]

* [[Heroic Bloodshed]] - The best-known and most-quoted example of this trope in western cinema.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Archer (as Troy) combines this with a monumental [[Oh Crap]] when Troy (as Archer) shows up at the prison, revealing that he's woken up out of his coma, stolen Archer's face and identity, killed the surgeon who did it and then ''torched all the evidence of the switch''.

** [[Margaret Cho]] plays an FBI Agent.

** [[The Punisher|Tom Jane]] as Burke Hicks

'''Dietrich''': No more drugs for that man. }}

* [[Mexican Standoff]] - A very masterful one of these goes down in the church near the end of the movie. It ends in a [[Blast Out]].

* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: Averted with face replacements. {{spoiler|Even though the doctor who originally performed the procedure is dead, the FBI has some of their best doctors flown in to reverse it on Archer.}}

* [[Oh Crap]]:

* [[Tear Off Your Face]]: The hero and the villain, for contrived reasons, end up surgically switching faces (and taking each other's places). At one point prior to the villain's surgery, he is shown walking around without a face (just barely; it's limited to a couple of seconds of his face reflected in someone's sunglasses).

* [[Title Drop]]: "Face off" is uttered several times in the movie.

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: Mythological names. Mirrors. Faces. Hmm...

** As a by-product of the mythological symbolism, we have possible ''astrological'' symbolism, what with Sagittarius (the ''Archer'') facing off against its opposite sign, Gemini (Castor & Pollux--the ''twins'').

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