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* [[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.]]
** Alternatively, the story is supposed to mock both ways. It's meant to scorn the normal corporate suburban life and how people need to learn to let go a little more, but also show the dangers of living completely like someone like Tyler. Both the book and the movie show that you can and need to find a balance, and not become a person solely focused on their appearance, money, and job, but not become a self-destructive nihilistic nut like Tyler.<br />Project Mayhem was an exaggerated version of the very real [
* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: When Tyler asks the narrator he wants to be hit as hard as he could, the narrator winds up and... hits him in the ear. Brad Pitt was told Ed Norton would hit him in the shoulder. "Ow! Motherfucker! Why the ''ear'', man?!" is a legit reaction. Apparently Norton and Pitt also got drunk before shooting the scene in which Tyler and the narrator drunkenly fling golf balls at the paper factory opposite Tyler's house. Pitt's amused giggle certainly sounds quite realistic. It was early in the morning and they were aiming the golf balls at the catering truck.
* [[Easter Egg]]: {{spoiler|In detail [http://www.eeggs.com/tree/1525.html here] }}
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* [[Gag Boobs]]: Bob is a rare male example.
* [[Genre Busting]]: Looking past the bare-knuckle fights and domestic terrorism, this is probably the best example of a [[Romantic Comedy|Romantic]] [[Black Comedy]].
* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: The narrator and Tyler do this to the Project Mayhem applicants, which becomes ''really'' weird after you get to [[The Reveal]].
* [[Groin Attack]]: "Anyone interferes with Project Mayhem, we gotta get his balls."
* [[Happy Place]]: The icy cave the Narrator imagines. Subverted during the chemical burn scene.
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'''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]].
* [[If You Can Read This...]]: The newspapers all have the same nonsense text, whether the headline is "Fountain Befouled" or "Feces Catapault Seized" or "Stolen Lab Monkey Found Shaved".
* [[I'm Not Afraid of You]]: Jack to Tyler
* {{spoiler|[[Imaginary Friend]]}}: Wait for the ending
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* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: The trailer focused on the fighting elements instead of the psychological elements.
* [[Nothing Is the Same Anymore]]: [[The Reveal]] throws everything that you thought was going on out the window, both for the audience and the Narrator.
* [[No
** The "fights" in the film are usually sloppy brawls or lopsided beat-downs, particularly "Jack" vs Angel Face, and Tyler vs "Jack".
** Lou beating the shit out of Tyler, who refuses to defend himself [[I Surrender, Suckers|until Lou turns his back.]]
* [[No Name Given]]: Ed Norton's character is known in the script only as the Narrator, and is never given a name in the film.
* [[Once More, With Clarity]]: Towards the end of the film, {{spoiler|the Narrator figures out Tyler Durden exists as a hallucination of his id. Once this happens, the film shows previous scenes involving both the narrator and Tyler -- without Tyler in them.}}
* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: Near the end of the movie, {{spoiler|a major characters gets shot through the cheek, but seems to come out of it fine, except for the (plot-important) mental shock.}}
* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]]: Jaret Leto's character is credited as "Angel Face". And of course the nameless Narrator has become known as "Jack" to fans, after one of the movie's most memorable running gags.
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** ''Fight Club'' subverts this by showing numerous name-brand products and companies -- while holding them up as examples of the failure of modern society. One notable scene involves Ed Norton's apartment morphing into the not-IKEA "Fürni" catalog page he ordered his furniture from. In the [[DVD Commentary]], the filmmakers wondered what 7-UP thought about their glowing logo providing a silhouette for Tyler's gun. Hell, the Narrator himself says it outright: "When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything. The IBM stellar sphere, the Microsoft galaxy. Planet Starbucks."
** To shoot a scene where Project Mayhem destroy a Starbucks shop with a dislodged street sculpture, the producers needed permission to use the Starbucks logo. According to the [[DVD Commentary]], they tried to use it ''anywhere they could manage'' when they received permission.
* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]: ''Fight Club's'' story imparts the idea of society neutering male nature and discouraging traditionally male impulses and activities by labelling them shameful. The Fight Clubs (before Project Mayhem) exist as a way for the characters to subvert society's expectations by allowing them to release their impulses in secret (the dialogue makes sure to emphasize the Club's male-exclusive status). This theme makes ''Fight Club'' one of the most notable [
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Tyler is impulsive and rash, whereas the Narrator is a calm and cool corporate executive. Their different personalities are, of course, all mixed-up in the heat of the fight, and then we find out that {{spoiler|they're actually [[Not So Different]].}}
* [[Revised Ending]]: In the book, {{spoiler|the protagonist tries to destroy one building, but fails when Tyler botches the explosive mixture (which the book foreshadows in the opening chapter). The Narrator ends up in a mental institution -- though he considers it Heaven -- and some of its wardens are members of Project Mayhem, who patiently wait for Tyler to return from the depths of the Narrator's mind. The book also explicitly says the mental split happened the moment the Narartor fell in love with Marla -- the Tyler psyche loved her, while his regular psyche hated her -- while the movie only hinted at this.}} In the movie, {{spoiler|the Narrator manages to regain his sanity, but eleven buildings end up annihilated by Tyler's explosives, with the Narrator and Marla hold hands while watching in awe. [[Freeze Frame Bonus|Big black cock]], roll credits.}} [[Chuck Palahniuk]] liked the movie's ending more than his.
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{{quote| '''Tyler Durden:''' Hi. You're going to call off your rigorous investigation. You're going to publicly state that there is no underground group, or we are going to take your balls. […] The people you are after are the people you depend on; we cook your meals, we connect your calls, we guard you while you sleep. Do '''not''' fuck with us.''}}
* [[Western Terrorists]]: Project Mayhem
* [[Wham! Line]]: {{spoiler|"Why do you think I blew up your condo?"}}
* [[Wire Dilemma]]: "[[Briar Patching|Oh, heavens, no, not the green one -- anything but the green one!]]"
* [[Writer Revolt]]:
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