Fight Club (film): Difference between revisions

* [[Chekhov's Gag]]: {{spoiler|The cock that Tyler puts onto family friendly films reappears in the end of the film.}}

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]

* [[Coming of Age Story]]: One of the weirdest examples of this trope in cinematic history. It helps if you bear in mind that Fincher's biggest influence while making the film was ''[[The Graduate]]''.

* [[The Commandments]]: The rules of Fight Club.

* [[Cut Himself Shaving]]

'''Narrator:''' [[Department of Redundancy Department|I fell down some stairs.]] }}

* [[Creepy Monotone]]: The nameless narrator sometimes slips into this, both in his narration and in his dialogue in the film

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: "The first rule of Fight Club is you [[Masquerade|do not talk about Fight Club]]. The second rule of Fight Club is you '''do not''' talk about Fight Club!" Justified in-universe, since Tyler isn't joking -- you really shouldn't be telling anyone.

* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: When Lou brutally beats up Tyler Durden when they first meet, smashing open his mouth and nose, Tyler is... laughing his ass off.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The Ho Yay between Tyler and the narrator is very much intentional.

* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]: The story is supposed to show how awful and self-destructive Fight Club, Project Mayhem and basically anything at all to do with Tyler Durden is, but some fans instead think it's glorifying violence and Tyler is living the life they all want to live, to the point where some people are [[Completely Missing the Point|setting up Fight Clubs.]]

* [[Hypocritical Humour]]: to summerise: "We were shaving our head and cutting our nails for [[Fight Club]], this is entirely different from people who shave their head to be ''Cool''"

* [[I Ate What?]]: The movie has several references to people urinating or worse into food, based on stories told to the author by waiters who spoiled the food of bad customers.

'''Waiter in the Tyler-staffed restaurant:''' In that case, may I advise against the lady eating the clam chowder? }}

* [[Ironic Echo]]: Related to [[Arc Words]].

* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: Done enough times to make the camera a supporting character. In at least one montage the narrator directly addresses the camera to tell us about Tyler.

* [[Life Will Kill You]]

* [[Looks Like Cesare]]: Marla Singer.

* [[Made of Iron]]: Lots of characters, but particularly Tyler.

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Most conversations about how attractive Brad Pitt is will mention this film.

* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: Tyler ''sounds'' like one at first glance, but it soon becomes apparent that he's ''anything'' but a true nihilist.

* [[No Communities Were Harmed]]: The Narrator's hometown is never given, but clues suggest that it is Wilmington, Delaware. Other cities are mentioned by name as locations of satellite Fight Clubs.

* [[Mr. Exposition]]: The "Narrator"

* [[Second Person Narration]]: The "You wake up at SeaTac" scene.

* [[Secret Other Family]]: The narrator's father, repeatedly.

* [[Sensei for Scoundrels]]: The trope was originally titled [[The Tyler Durden]], which still exists as a redirect.

* [[Shirtless Scene]]: The sixth rule of Fight Club says "no shirts, no shoes". Bob averts this rule without comment. [[media:bitchtitsbob.jpg|Guess why?]] (It also saved money on makeup effects.)

* [[Ubermensch]]: Tyler. Charismatic? Check. Atheistic? Check. Has agenda intended to tear down the existing establishment (mindless consumerism coupled with a society where masculinity cannot be expressed openly) with a new paradigm after rejecting all previous moral codes and overcoming the inherent nihilism? Check. Has a Last Man equivalent (and in the protagonist, no less)? Check.

* [[The Unfettered]]: Tyler Durden

* [[Up to Eleven]]: Both Marla and Tyler.

* {{spoiler|[[Unreliable Narrator]]}}

* [[We Are Everywhere]]: Tyler Durden delivers one to the man who planned to investigate Fight Club:

* [[Western Terrorists]]: Project Mayhem

* [[Wham! Line]]: {{spoiler|"Why do you think I blew up your condo?"}}