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** One of these Earworms is actually derived from the other one. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVkQ0C4qDvM When you hear it, you'll shit bricks...] It's implied that this music is in the movie because ''the characters are hearing it'', distorted by the time dilation.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: We could pretty much call this movie a case of a Darkhorse Casting. Every member of the team has fans and is considered awesome in one way or another.
** But for a more specific example, before this film Tom Hardy was only particularly well known in the UK. US filmgoers, if they had heard of him at all, would probably only know him as being the [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'', which was a critical and commercial bomb. This film kickstarted his American film career by the sounds of it - he's been linked to quite a few films since Inception's release.
* [[Fan Nickname]]:
** "Team Inception"
** "The Dream Team"
** Robert Fischer is "Fischer Jr."
*** Which he is only referred to once in passing by Eames
** Ariadne is a [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Worldbender!]]
** Eames is "the Face", thanks to his filling the same function as the character from ''[[The A-Team]].''
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* [[Fountain of Memes]]
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: Robert Fischer's father is dying of a long-term illness {{spoiler|and passes away before the Inception begins}}. Just under seven months after the film was released, the actor (Pete Postlethwaite) lost his second battle with cancer.
** In the movie itself: The scene with the shared dreamers in Mombasa [[
* [[Hell Is That Noise]]:
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2jUhnCU9iA BWONG!]
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** There's also a teensy bit of this between Cobb and Fischer during the bathroom scene.
** Cobb and Saito? The whole "grow old together"/"be young men together" parallel is just the beginning of their subtext.
** And for the girls, Mal walking close to Ariadne and asking her if she knows what it's like to be a lover. [[It Makes Sense in Context]], but...
* [[Hype Backlash]]
* [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]]: Arthur, if the kink meme page and fanfiction.net are to be believed. The usual suspects are (in descending order) Eames (Darlingshipping), Ariadne, Eames ''and'' Ariadne, and Cobb. Mal, Saito, and occasionally Robert Fischer too, though that's less common.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Saito. In the prequel comic, it's revealed that The Cobol Job was an attempt to get information from Saito's corporation, in an effort to keep Fischer's energy monopoly together. It appears that in actuality, this was all Saito's plan to lure Cobol's best and brightest to him, so he could audition them and steal them from under Cobol's noses, and use them to break up the very monopoly Cobol was trying to preserve.
* [[Memetic Badass]]: Fandom has very rapidly turned Saito into one of these.
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** And then there's...[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/strutting-leo-leo-strut the Leo Strut].
** How about Eames's use of pet names being dialled [[Up to Eleven]]? In the film, he calls Arthur "Darling". Once. With definite irony. But in many fanfics, he not only calls him "Darling" left, right and centre, but also "Love", "Pet" and sometimes "Sweetheart". And he often uses the same pet names for Ariadne (although she gets "Darling" less often because apparently that one belongs to Arthur) and occasionally other characters get pet names too. Sometimes it's almost like he's [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Spike]] without the bleached blond hair and vampirism. Unless it's a Vampire!AU fanfic, of course.
** X within an X.
** "We need to go deeper." Alternately: "We need to go deeper." "[[Double Entendre|That's what]] ''[[Double Entendre|she]]'' [[Double Entendre|said.]]"
** The "Owl Face" Leo squint reaction image comic.
* [[Mind Game Ship]]: At times, Cobb and Mal can become this. ''Especially'' on Mal's part.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Mal's [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]. {{spoiler|She planned to kill herself (though only to "wake up"; she thinks she's dreaming) and convince her husband to go with her. This alone wouldn't be a [[Moral Event Horizon]] if not for her method of going about the latter; she told her lawyer that she was fearing for her life, and then trashed the room Cobb was in, just so that if she died and he didn't go with her, everyone would think he killed her. Mal literally framed her own husband for murder, and she doesn't seem to voice the slightest shred of remorse for it. On the other hand, the only reason she did this was because said husband had ''intentionally brainwashed her'' in a completely untested bit of manipulation that was believed to be impossible and eventually drove her completely insane - hence, this - it's less horrible than it sounds, especially since she doesn't plan on seeing him ever face the murder charges, and is just asking him to do what she already did. She lay in front of a train when he asked, but evidently that only went one way.}}
* [[Paranoia Fuel]]: Both in the movie and outside the movie.
** In the movie, the extractors have to be careful not to alert the projections to their presence or they will be physically assaulted, which Ariadne learns the [[Nightmare Fuel|hard way]].
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