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* [[An Aesop]]: Never underestimate the power of a simple solution. Andi, {{spoiler|Helen in reality}} smashes the puzzle box in a mix of pragmatism and catharsis rather than join the Disruptors' group call. {{spoiler|The real Andi could have leaked the real napkin to the press or showed her lawyers.}} While Benoit doesn't dismiss the possibility, he does say that {{spoiler|Miles}} is the least likely suspect because surely no one is that stupid because {{spoiler|killing a woman after beating her in a high-profile court case would pin the murder on Miles}}. {{spoiler|Yes, Miles is that stupid}}.

* [[Badass Gay]]: It's revealed that Benoit is either gay, pan or bi, being in a partnership with a man named Philip who is cooking when they both receive the puzzle box.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Eventually, {{spoiler|Helen avengers her sister}} and Benoit uncovers the real criminal of the weekend. {{spoiler|To do so, however, she has to destroy the Mona Lisa using Klear after Miles burns the real napkin, the only proof that she and Benoit had that Andi really created Alpha. Everyone nearly dies in the fire, and the Disruptors agree to testify against Miles for killing Andi and Duke. Whiskey is still mourning Duke, however, and the Disruptor careers are in shambles.}}

* [[Brick Joke]]: Benoit asks politely if the winner of the murder mystery weekend gets a prize like an iPad. Everyone is surprised by the question, but Miles says that he has an iPad if anyone wins. {{spoiler|When Benoit proceeds to solve the mystery in a matter of minutes rather than days, Miles silently and sullenly tosses him an iPad in the privacy of his Glass Onion living room}}.

* [[Busman's Holiday]]: Benoit leaps at the opportunity to go on a vacation with a murder mystery game, hoping it will break his pandemic funk. He then fears this trope is in place when learning Miles didn't invite him, warning Miles that he has experience with anonymous invitations. {{spoiler|Turns out he and Helen conspired to pull a [[Bavarian Fire Drill]] so they could find out who killed Andi, using his presence as a distraction.}}

* [[Crazy Enough to Work]]: This is why Benoit proposes that {{spoiler|Helen, to find Andi's killer, impersonates her twin sister for the island vacation. Only the killer would know that Andi died in her garage, and everyone else would not suspect that Helen would do such a thing. And it works; when Helen reveals herself after faking her death, only Miles saw through the ruse.}}

* [[Do Wrong Right]]: Lionel is baffled that {{spoiler|Miles kept the napkin, the proof that Andi formed Alpha. He asked why didn't Miles just burn it. Miles proceeds to do that with his lighter.}}

* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Duke is a very stereotypical example: he looks like he took tons of steroids and can't figure out simple puzzles.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]:

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* ~~[[Even Evil Has Standards]]:~~ The Disruptors each have morally ambiguous actions, with Birdie having the excuse of being [[The Ditz]] and [[Book Dumb]] that lead to her racially offensive mistakes. Lionel and Claire are concerned, however, about if Klear is safe given it's derived from hydrogen molecules in seawater, meaning that with improper development the gas form could turn a home into a walking explosion site. In the climax, they look downright horrified after Benoit helps them realize that {{spoiler|Miles killed Duke that night, and the real Andi a week earlier. While they aren't willing to lie after Miles burns the napkin, and with it proof that they committed perjury, that participate in smashing his glass statues, with Lionel looking like he's feeling some catharsis. And in the end, when Helen uses the Klear crystal to blow up the Glass Onion, the Disruptors agree to testify against Miles, realizing their careers are sunk anyway by associating with him}}.

** Lionel is visibly regretful when telling Benoit about how Miles cut out Andi from Alpha. That Miles is his boss and blackmailed him to commit perjury and claim that Miles came up with the company and the napkin does not excuse that he stabbed one of his oldest friends in the back to save his job.

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** The Disruptors each have morally ambiguous actions, with Birdie having the excuse of being [[The Ditz]] and [[Book Dumb]] that lead to her racially offensive mistakes. Lionel and Claire are concerned, however, about if Klear is safe given it's derived from hydrogen molecules in seawater, meaning that with improper development the gas form could turn a home into a walking explosion site. In the climax, they look downright horrified after Benoit helps them realize that {{spoiler|Miles killed Duke that night, and the real Andi a week earlier. While they aren't willing to lie after Miles burns the napkin, and with it proof that they committed perjury, that participate in smashing his glass statues, with Lionel looking like he's feeling some catharsis. And in the end, when Helen uses the Klear crystal to blow up the Glass Onion, the Disruptors agree to testify against Miles, realizing their careers are sunk anyway by associating with him}}.

* [[Everyone Has Standards]]:

** Whiskey actually doesn't like sexing up Miles {{spoiler|on Duke's orders}} and tells Andi while they walk to the pool that she thinks Duke's politics are distasteful.

* [[Every Man Has His Price]]: The basis of the Disruptors' relationship to Miles. It's revealed that while Birdie is genuinely cordial with him, most of them depend on him for their income. Lionel has the most legitimate excuse as Miles is his boss, and he fully admits to Claire that he is in too deep to seek alternate employment.

* [[Fiction 500]]: The ''Mona Lisa'' is valued to be at least on the range of dozens of billions of euros. Entrepeneur Stéphane Distinguin once even proposed use it to eliminate a good part of France's ridiculously huge national debt by the late 2010s by selling it, maybe to DaVinci's Italy. The concept a billionaire could even rent it out puts his fortune's size beyond any realistic estimate.

* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]:

** This is what killed {{spoiler|Andi and cost her ownership of Alpha. The way that Helen recalls, Andi brought a group of friends together for drinks, and asked them to give Miles a chance because she felt he needed friends. Miles seemed to build their careers and brought Andi's idea of Alpha to life, but the guy is, as Benoit realizes, a "moron" when it comes to anything beyond networking and greedy. He decided to take a chance on an experimental fuel without doing the equations, something Andi did when she advised against it, and cut her out of the company when she threatened to walk, blackmailing their friends so they would commit perjury. When Andi did find the napkin, rather than either make a backup, give it to her lawyers or leak it to social media, she sent an email with a photograph of the napkin within an envelope, to give them one last ~~chacne~~ to "Do the right thing". She was found dead shortly after; it comes out that Lionel, per his job, faxed a printout of the email to Miles. Helen rightly calls the group "shitheads" and Benoit suspects any of them could have caused Andi to overdose on sleeping pills and suffocate her in her garage.}}

** This is what killed {{spoiler|Andi and cost her ownership of Alpha. The way that Helen recalls, Andi brought a group of friends together for drinks, and asked them to give Miles a chance because she felt he needed friends. Miles seemed to build their careers and brought Andi's idea of Alpha to life, but the guy is, as Benoit realizes, a "moron" when it comes to anything beyond networking and greedy. He decided to take a chance on an experimental fuel without doing the equations, something Andi did when she advised against it, and cut her out of the company when she threatened to walk, blackmailing their friends so they would commit perjury. When Andi did find the napkin, rather than either make a backup, give it to her lawyers or leak it to social media, she sent an email with a photograph of the napkin within an envelope, to give them one last chance to "Do the right thing". She was found dead shortly after; it comes out that Lionel, per his job, faxed a printout of the email to Miles. Helen rightly calls the group "shitheads" and Benoit suspects any of them could have caused Andi to overdose on sleeping pills and suffocate her in her garage.}}

** The Disruptors suspect something is up with Andi, but {{spoiler|they couldn't tell her apart from her twin sister when Helen was impersonating her. Helen even lampshades that she can do Andi's "Rich Bitch" accent but not ''all'' her mannerisms. Claire was the only one who said things were not right, because of how Helen confronted them while hopped on kombucha about not responding to the email}}.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Benoit Blanc does make up words in the first movie, like "mistruthing," while pretending to be a bumbling Southern gentleman. One thing that he says clued him in to the real killer's identity was {{spoiler|Miles using made-up words like "inbreathiate" and misusing terms like "reclamation". Miles is no genius; he's an idiot. Benoit justifies it in that he pretends to be stupid, but Miles actually ''is''.}}