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* [[All Just a Dream]]: Played with. From the perspective of one level of the dream world higher, whatever happens in each dream layer is [[All Just a Dream]], but things that happen while you're dreaming ''can'' have very real results in the real world. Also, one theory surrounding the film is that {{spoiler|the entire thing is in Cobb's head and that ''he's'' the one who's had inception performed upon him to believe that his dream is the real world}}. {{spoiler|In a dream, the top will never fall, and it sure seems to stay up for a long time, but it clearly wobbles before [[Black Screen of Death|the credits roll]]. But it may or may not straighten out, and we don't see it fall. It also leaves a second question on top of "Was it a dream?": If it was a dream, ''how much'' of it was a dream?}}

** Well, {{spoiler|[http://screenrant.com/michael-caine-inception-ending-batman-3-benm-80670/ according to Michael Caine], the top wobbles and Cobb deliberately does not check, as he has confidence that he's in reality}}, and [[Word of God]] vaguely alludes to this as well. But Caine's theory hasn't stopped people from coming up with their own interpretations of the ending.

* [[All Star Cast]]: [[Leonardo Di Caprio]], [[Joseph Gordon-Levitt]], [[Ellen Page]], [[Ken Watanabe]], [[Michael Caine]], [[Cillian Murphy]], [[Marion Cotillard]], [[Tom Hardy]], and Tom Berenger. And Pete Postlethwaite one of his last roles.

* [[All-Star Cast]]: [[Leonardo Di Caprio]], [[Joseph Gordon-Levitt]], [[Ellen Page]], [[Ken Watanabe]], [[Michael Caine]], [[Cillian Murphy]], [[Marion Cotillard]], [[Tom Hardy]], and Tom Berenger. And Pete Postlethwaite one of his last roles.

* [[Aluminium Christmas Trees]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwdRD3AZBfc A top actually CAN spin for a ''really'' long time, depending on the design.]

* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Eames.

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* [[And I Must Scream]]: Limbo. {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|Or not]] -- since you are a [[Physical God]] there, it's far from suffering; Mal and Cobb didn't seem to mind it.}}

** {{spoiler|It's not so much limbo as it is the ''effects'' Limbo has on the mind. Since, once there, you are a [[Physical God]], you don't age and you have decades worth of time... Limbo is, in a way, a [[Lotus Eater Machine]] version of the prefect world. Leaving it is likened to a drug-addict off their fix... you can't just up and leave, you'll always want to go back. You'll ''"need"'' to just to have some sense of feeling. And that is the grand fear of limbo, because once you tasted it... you never want to leave, even if the door is right in front of you.}}

* [[Anti Hero]]: Both Cobb and Saito have rather selfish motives for messing with Robert Fischer's subconscious, and all the other team members are motivated by either money, curiosity, the thrill of the challenge, or a combination of all these. {{spoiler|They're arguably altering Fischer's subconscious for the better, in that he'll have a more positive outlook on his father and life in general, but it's an outlook that was based on lies.}}

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Both Cobb and Saito have rather selfish motives for messing with Robert Fischer's subconscious, and all the other team members are motivated by either money, curiosity, the thrill of the challenge, or a combination of all these. {{spoiler|They're arguably altering Fischer's subconscious for the better, in that he'll have a more positive outlook on his father and life in general, but it's an outlook that was based on lies.}}

** Even if you put aside their selfish motives, the team's remarkably deceptive and manipulative methods are morally questionable, to say the least.

* [[Anti Villain]]: Mal, in a fashion.

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Mal, in a fashion.

* [[The Apple Falls Far]]: Mal's shoe plummeting dozens of stories to the street below {{spoiler|right before she does too.}}

* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]:

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* [[Battle in The Center of The Mind]]: Quite a few.

* [[Bavarian Fire Drill]]: Cobb pretending to be Fischer's security expert in the bar scene, which leads to [[Come With Me If You Want to Live]].

* [[Beam Me Up Scotty]]: "Inception" has now become the term for whenever one object is placed inside an identical object, referencing the "dream within a dream" plot. "Inception" actually refers to planting an idea in the person's subconscious -- the "dream within a dream" plan was just a method of performing the inception.

* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: "Inception" has now become the term for whenever one object is placed inside an identical object, referencing the "dream within a dream" plot. "Inception" actually refers to planting an idea in the person's subconscious -- the "dream within a dream" plan was just a method of performing the inception.

** "We need/have to go deeper" is used in [[Image Macro|Image Macros]] and as a [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] of the movie despite not appearing in the film.

* [[Better Than a Bare Bulb]]: In-story. The Mr. Charles gambit: {{spoiler|when Fischer starts to near an awareness of the artificial nature of the world, Cobb assumes the role of Dream Security expert Mr. Charles to call attention to the fact he's being dream hacked in an effort to gain his trust and continue the hacking. It works.}}

* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: clearly state that two levels deep is the maximum ''stable'' level. This means anything deeper would send you into Limbo. The [[Five Man Band]] breaks that rule by using [[Applied Phlebotinum]] to tweak the rules and reach a third.

* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: clearly state that two levels deep is the maximum ''stable'' level. This means anything deeper would send you into Limbo. The [[Five-Man Band]] breaks that rule by using [[Applied Phlebotinum]] to tweak the rules and reach a third.

** [[WMG|There's so many levels in regards to the movie as whole]], its hard to tell what level they're on without [[Word of God]]. The pages [[Headscratchers]] has more speculation about how dreams are supposed to work and whether or not that logic is broken.

* [[BFG]]: The grenade launcher Eames uses in the dream when Arthur fails to hit his target.

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* [[Close On Title]]: The movie doesn't have a title card until the end credits. [[Department of Redundancy Department|Where it is displayed three separate times.]]

* [[Cold Sniper]]: When the team enters the third level, Cobb is equipped with a sniper rifle and shoots several mooks to clear the way to the fortress. Subverted in that {{spoiler|he's unable to bring himself to shoot Mal, who then shoots Fischer.}}

* [[Colour Coded for Your Convenience]]: In the snow level of the dream, Cobb's crew carry guns and/or wear goggles that have all been colored white, and the mooks defending the fortress cover their faces in black while carrying black guns without winterized camouflage. Helpful since everyone is wearing winter combat gear and would be otherwise indistinguishable. Possible [[Justified Trope]]: {{spoiler|Eames}} may have made this adjustment as the dreamer for the snow level, or {{spoiler|Fischer}} may be influencing the projections because {{spoiler|the Mister Charles gambit worked and he wants the Inception team to win.}}

* [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience]]: In the snow level of the dream, Cobb's crew carry guns and/or wear goggles that have all been colored white, and the mooks defending the fortress cover their faces in black while carrying black guns without winterized camouflage. Helpful since everyone is wearing winter combat gear and would be otherwise indistinguishable. Possible [[Justified Trope]]: {{spoiler|Eames}} may have made this adjustment as the dreamer for the snow level, or {{spoiler|Fischer}} may be influencing the projections because {{spoiler|the Mister Charles gambit worked and he wants the Inception team to win.}}

** The dream layers are also tinted differently to help the viewer discern between the switching scenes. The top dream layer is blue, the second is brown and the final dream level is white.

* [[Come With Me If You Want to Live]]: Saito does this to Dom. In a subversion, Dom (as Mr. Charles) does it to Fischer, albeit it's "if you want your secrets kept safe."

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** Also, he refused the studio's wish to have the movie converted to 3D as he isn't satisfied with the image quality of 3D.

* [[Dream Apocalypse]]: All the time.

* [[Dream Land]]: Basically almost the entire setting for this movie, or even [[Or Was It a Dream|all of it]].

* [[Dream Land]]: Basically almost the entire setting for this movie, or even [[Or Was It a Dream?|all of it]].

* [[Dream Weaver]]: Extraction/inception teams, and architects in particular, are a sci-fi variant.

* [[Dream Within a Dream]]: The dream-share can be used to [[Recursive Reality|create deeper-level dreams within the dream]].

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* [[Epiphany Therapy]]: {{spoiler|At the climax of the film, Cobb finally summons up the courage to confront his projection of Mal and accept the fact that she is dead.}}

* [[Everyone Lives]]: A [[Foregone Conclusion]], since it's all a dream. But dying isn't really [[Fate Worse Than Death|what they're afraid of.]]

* [[~~Everythings~~ Better With Spinning]]:

* [[Everything's Better With Spinning]]:

** Cobb's spinning top.

** Possibly the single most awesome fight scene ever to appear in anything ever, when Arthur takes on the man in the spinning ''corridor''. Made even cooler with little CG necessary for said fight. The hallway was a giant rotating set, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt did all of his own stunts in the sequence.

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* [[Faux Symbolism]]: Most probably the train. Who would think that it's just a coincidence when the only female member of the team gets into the car, and without warning a giant phallic shape comes out of nowhere at massive speed, kicking cars to the sides left and right and trashing everything in its path. But it's actually just a symbol for leaving behind an old life for a new one. {{spoiler|And by that also another manifestation of the main characters [[Freud Was Right|guilt for driving his beloved wife into suicide]]}}.

* [[Film Noir]]: [[Christopher Nolan]] has effectively mixed [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Noir chocolate]] with [[Cyberpunk]] peanut butter, and it's as tasty as it sounds.

* [[Fire Forged Friends]]: By the time {{spoiler|he rescues him from Limbo}}, Cobb and Saito seem to share a deep bond and trust.

* [[Fire-Forged Friends]]: By the time {{spoiler|he rescues him from Limbo}}, Cobb and Saito seem to share a deep bond and trust.

* [[Five Man Band]]:

* [[Five-Man Band]]:

** [[The Hero|The Extractor]]: Dom

** [[The Lancer|The Point Man]]: Arthur (who is also The Engineer)

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** More than a few fans have been resorting to [[Death of the Author]] on this matter.

* [[Journey to The Center of The Mind]]: Taken in the most literal way imaginable.

* [[Just in Time]]: Everything, thanks to [[Year Inside Hour Outside]] and it being a [[The Caper|heist]], albeit a darker version than most where [[Your Mind Makes It Real]].

* [[Just in Time]]: Everything, thanks to [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]] and it being a [[The Caper|heist]], albeit a darker version than most where [[Your Mind Makes It Real]].

* [[Kansas City Shuffle]]: The Mr. Charles Gambit.

* [[Kill It With Fire]]: The grenade launcher scene.

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* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Mal. After she died, Cobb inherited a dose of crazy.}}

* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: Played with interestingly. {{spoiler|Cobb's love for Mal prompted him to [[Mind Rape]] her in order to get her out of Limbo. In turn, the brainwashed Mal ruined Cobb's life to make sure he would commit suicide with her. Cobb then knowingly risked the lives of his crew by trying to keep Mal alive in his dreams, whereupon she constantly sabotaged his jobs and attempted to kill his comrades so that he would join her in Limbo.}} You follow all that?

* [[Magic a Is Magic A]]: While the protagonists can alter dreams however they wish, in order to successfully steal or plant information they have to keep attention away from themselves long enough to do so. That means limiting in-dream special effects to subtle paradox trickery and convenient firearms, a la ''[[Mage: The Ascension (Tabletop Game)|Mage: The Ascension]]''/''[[Mage: The Awakening (Tabletop Game)|Mage: The Awakening]]''.

* [[Magic A Is Magic A]]: While the protagonists can alter dreams however they wish, in order to successfully steal or plant information they have to keep attention away from themselves long enough to do so. That means limiting in-dream special effects to subtle paradox trickery and convenient firearms, a la ''[[Mage: The Ascension (Tabletop Game)|Mage: The Ascension]]''/''[[Mage: The Awakening (Tabletop Game)|Mage: The Awakening]]''.

* [[Magic Is a Monster Magnet]]: Changing dreams too much causes this.

* [[Malevolent Masked Men]]: Cobb's team don ski masks while pretending to be violent kidnappers interrogating Fischer Jr. in his dream.

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** This is basically the entire point of inception itself -- to plant an idea in someone's head that will consume them.

* [[Mind Screw]]:

** Take notes. Better than most, due to [[Magic a Is Magic A]]. There are several different kinds.

** Take notes. Better than most, due to [[Magic A Is Magic A]]. There are several different kinds.

** The most obvious mind-screw is keeping track of how many levels of dreams they take Fischer into. It's stated that beyond two is too unsafe to attempt, and three is what the characters are aiming for all along, but {{spoiler|they go into at least four. They go from the plane to a rainy city (first level) to a hotel (second level) to a snowy mountain fortress (third level) as planned, but when [[It Got Worse]], they're forced to go into Cobb's crumbling wasteland (fourth level). Of course, that's assuming the plane is "real" and not a dream at all.}}

** The movie starts [[In Medias Res]], as noted above, and most scenes do as well, jumping straight from one bit of dialogue or action to another without establishing shots of people introducing themselves, walking up the street, etc. Coupled with the observation that dreams often work that way, it forces viewers to question either the nature of the scenes in this movie that supposedly aren't dreams, or the nature of movies in general.

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* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: Averted and played straight. {{spoiler|In the third layer, just before going into Limbo, Eames says that they're going to go once the kick comes, whether Cobb and Ariadne are back or not. A few moments later, Cobb stays in Limbo to find Saito.}}

* [[No Pronunciation Guide]]: Early on, people were pronouncing Saito's name as ''Say''-toe as opposed to ''Sigh''-toe. This changed later in the film.

** However, Arthur still messes it up in every line, putting this into [[Spell My Name With an S]] territory.

** However, Arthur still messes it up in every line, putting this into [[Spell My Name With an "S"]] territory.

* [[Not Even Bothering With the Accent]]: Fischer Jr., who's supposed to be Australian (according to his passport), speaks with an American accent. [[Cillian Murphy]], the actor who plays Fischer Jr., is Irish in real life. It is entirely possible that Fischer Jr. was raised in America, or that his mother was American, which would help explain, but none of these things is explicitly stated.

* [[The Not Love Interest]]: Ariadne to Cobb. She grows to understand him more than any of the other crew, and {{spoiler|is perhaps single-handedly responsible for saving his soul}}. At the same time, her concerns are more practical than romantic, {{spoiler|as Cobb was taking an ''enormous'' gamble with everyone's lives.}}

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* [[Once More With Clarity]]: The first scene of the movie.

* [[One Last Job]]: Cobb tells Miles that Saito's job will be his last, and that he's only taking it on so that he can see his children again.

* [[One Man Army]]: Although the entire crew is [[Badass Crew|extremely badass]], the gold medal of badassery goes to Eames. {{spoiler|In the snow level, Eames distracts an entire scout team so that Saito and Fischer can infiltrate the stronghold. He then beats the scout team consisting of several snowmobiles and skiing mooks all by himself, steals one of their snowmobiles, and proceeds to destroy an entire convoy of a snow-Humvee and several skiing mooks by cutting the rope between the Humvee and the mooks with his snowmobile and blowing up the Humvee by throwing up a C4 into the turret-guy's hand. Moreover, when he told the injured Saito to look after Fischer, Eames went outside to the perimeter of the base, defended the base from a ton of Mooks while planting C4 in every pillars.}}

* [[One-Man Army]]: Although the entire crew is [[Badass Crew|extremely badass]], the gold medal of badassery goes to Eames. {{spoiler|In the snow level, Eames distracts an entire scout team so that Saito and Fischer can infiltrate the stronghold. He then beats the scout team consisting of several snowmobiles and skiing mooks all by himself, steals one of their snowmobiles, and proceeds to destroy an entire convoy of a snow-Humvee and several skiing mooks by cutting the rope between the Humvee and the mooks with his snowmobile and blowing up the Humvee by throwing up a C4 into the turret-guy's hand. Moreover, when he told the injured Saito to look after Fischer, Eames went outside to the perimeter of the base, defended the base from a ton of Mooks while planting C4 in every pillars.}}

* [[One Scene Wonder]]: Two -- [[Michael Caine]] as Cobb's father-in-law, and Pete Postlethwaite as Fischer Senior.

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Two -- [[Michael Caine]] as Cobb's father-in-law, and Pete Postlethwaite as Fischer Senior.

* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: No characters show injury or bleeding from the blood vessels in their wrists. And at the beginning of the movie, one character yanks the tube off like it's not even sticking out of his body, going against the guidelines of the PASIV manual.

* [[The Ophelia]]: Mal.

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* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: The projections are one's subconscious. This could get really creepy, really fast. Not to mention Ariadne being tricked into giving a kiss.

** You can also change your appearance and gender in the dream, as demonstrated by Eames.

* [[Pre Mortem One Liner]]: Arthur says "Paradox" before pushing a mook off [[Bizarrchitecture|the Penrose Stairs]].

* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: Arthur says "Paradox" before pushing a mook off [[Bizarrchitecture|the Penrose Stairs]].

* [[Prequel]]: "[http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/inception-comic.html The Cobol Job]", the story leading up to the events of the movie.

* [[Pretty Little Headshots]]: When Cobb shoots Arthur in the head at the start of the film so the latter can escape from the dream.

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* [[Rare Guns]]: Being in a dream world where everything is possible, Arthur has no problem whipping out a SCAR-L, which in real life costs better than $2500, roughly $4000 with the scope, and is hard to find even if you can afford it. And then Eames upstages him with the revolving grenade launcher.

* [[Reality Warper]]: The whole point of having an Architect on the team (in this case, Ariadne).

* [[The Reason You Suck Speech]]: {{spoiler|In the dream limbo, Cobb finally tells "Mal" that she doesn't have the perfections, imperfections, or complexity of his real wife and that she's just a '''shade'''}}. [[Berserk Button|She doesn't take that well.]]

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: {{spoiler|In the dream limbo, Cobb finally tells "Mal" that she doesn't have the perfections, imperfections, or complexity of his real wife and that she's just a '''shade'''}}. [[Berserk Button|She doesn't take that well.]]

* [[Recursive Reality]]:

** The various levels of dreams. Just so we're clear, the conversation where Cobb offers to help guard Saito against idea theft is {{spoiler|a flashback, within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream ([[~~Schrodingers~~ Butterfly|possibly within a dream]]), ''to'' a [[Dream Within a Dream]], possibly within a dream.}}

** The various levels of dreams. Just so we're clear, the conversation where Cobb offers to help guard Saito against idea theft is {{spoiler|a flashback, within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream ([[Schrodinger's Butterfly|possibly within a dream]]), ''to'' a [[Dream Within a Dream]], possibly within a dream.}}

** Recursive Simulacrum subtype, as well as, let's face it, every other mind screw trope. This is an interesting play on the [[Matrix Hypothesis]], since due to [[Magic a Is Magic A]], for some reason the [[Applied Phlebotinum|chemical cocktail]] works the ''same inside every level'' of the dream, presumably because [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]. Never has a more logical dream been dreamed; presumably Fischer has a very organized subconscious, while Cobb does not.

** Recursive Simulacrum subtype, as well as, let's face it, every other mind screw trope. This is an interesting play on the [[Matrix Hypothesis]], since due to [[Magic A Is Magic A]], for some reason the [[Applied Phlebotinum|chemical cocktail]] works the ''same inside every level'' of the dream, presumably because [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]. Never has a more logical dream been dreamed; presumably Fischer has a very organized subconscious, while Cobb does not.

* [[Red Oni Blue Oni]]: Cobb and Arthur, respectively. Eames even refers to Arthur as a "stick in the mud" with "no imagination." Meanwhile, Cobb is much more intense and reckless.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Cobb and Arthur, respectively. Eames even refers to Arthur as a "stick in the mud" with "no imagination." Meanwhile, Cobb is much more intense and reckless.

* [[Redshirt Army]]: The subconscious security... projections of Fischer's heavily self-guarded mind.

* [[Refusal of the Call]]: Ariadne tries this, but it doesn't last long.

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* [[Scenery Porn]]: Near on everywhere. Tokyo, Paris, the snow fortress, the final dream city...

* [[The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction]]: In the second dream level, Eames poses as a [[Hello Nurse|gorgeous blonde]] and hits on Fischer in order to distract him while he steals his wallet - and in order to make Fischer [[The Chessmaster|more]] [[More Than Mind Control|trusting]] of Cobb's "Mr. Charles" gambit.

* [[~~Schrodingers~~ Butterfly]]: The characters take great pains to avert this. The ending takes great pains to leave it ambiguous.

* [[Schrodinger's Butterfly]]: The characters take great pains to avert this. The ending takes great pains to leave it ambiguous.

* [[Screw the Rules I Have Money]]: Apparently, Saito is rich/powerful enough to {{spoiler|clear Cobb of his murder charge with a single phone call.}} And then there was this priceless moment when the team is discussing how to be left alone with Fischer for ten hours during a flight...

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Apparently, Saito is rich/powerful enough to {{spoiler|clear Cobb of his murder charge with a single phone call.}} And then there was this priceless moment when the team is discussing how to be left alone with Fischer for ten hours during a flight...

{{quote| '''Arthur:''' But you'd have to buy out the entire cabin. And the first class flight crew.<br />

'''Saito:''' I bought the airline.<br />

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* [[Shoot the Money]]: Did they ever. Filming took place in six different countries, and the filmmakers made sure to make creative use of the exotic scenery. They don't just show you downtown Paris -- ''they fold it on top of itself''. They don't just set a few scenes in an ancient Japanese castle -- ''they flood it, and then blow it up''. And so on.

* [[Shout Out]]: Has its [[Inception (Film)/Shout Out|own page]].

* [[Sir Not Appearing in This Trailer]]: Yusuf, despite being a key player in the dreamscape, doesn't appear much in the promotional material, certainly not as much as the big stars. Mal isn't in much of the trailers either, though she does make it to the posters. In fact, on the main theatrical release poster that shows the entire team, Yusuf is pictured despite the fact his actor isn't among the [[All Star Cast|sizeable billing list of actors]]; even Pete Postlethwaite and Tom Berenger receive a mention in the billing despite appearing just a few minutes apiece in the film, but poor Dileep Rao is left out...

* [[Sir Not Appearing in This Trailer]]: Yusuf, despite being a key player in the dreamscape, doesn't appear much in the promotional material, certainly not as much as the big stars. Mal isn't in much of the trailers either, though she does make it to the posters. In fact, on the main theatrical release poster that shows the entire team, Yusuf is pictured despite the fact his actor isn't among the [[All-Star Cast|sizeable billing list of actors]]; even Pete Postlethwaite and Tom Berenger receive a mention in the billing despite appearing just a few minutes apiece in the film, but poor Dileep Rao is left out...

** On a positive note, his is one of only three actors names to appear on the Netflix envelope for the movie.

* [[Sixth Ranger]]: Saito, as well as Ariadne. {{spoiler|And, in one of the best [[Batman Gambit|Batman Gambits]] ever, Fischer himself.}}

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* [[Undisclosed Funds]]: It isn't out right stated how rich Saito is, but he seems rich enough to buy an entire airline for the operation (in what appears to be seconds), plus have enough connections to {{spoiler|clear Cobb's murder charge.}}

** The speed of the airline purchase is actually the result of how quickly his line goes by. He ''already'' took the precaution of buying the airline, ''before'' telling the group that they would be using it.

* [[The Un Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Whether or not Cobb is still dreaming at the end of the movie. Cobb spins the top, but the movie ends before the audience sees whether it falls or not.}}

* [[The Un-Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Whether or not Cobb is still dreaming at the end of the movie. Cobb spins the top, but the movie ends before the audience sees whether it falls or not.}}

* [[Up to Eleven]]: It appears that even a two-level dream setup is tricky and reserved for only the most important missions. Cobb wants to go ''three''-levels.

* [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]: Cobb's deepest dream world, which consists of a decaying city full of skyscrapers collapsing into an ocean shoreline. The thunderstorm that happens later on definitely adds into the mood here.

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* [[Wasn't That Fun]]: Yusuf after rolling the van and landing it upright.

* [[The Watson]]: Ariadne.

* [[Well Done Son Guy]]: Fischer Jr., [[Flaw Exploitation|which Cobb and the team use to their advantage]].

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Fischer Jr., [[Flaw Exploitation|which Cobb and the team use to their advantage]].

* [[A Wizard Did It]]: As with having all the enemy [[Mooks]] [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|consistently miss]] when they fire at the heroes, the unique premise of the movie allows Nolan to employ a normally cheesy element of Hollywood blockbusters -- in this case, action sequences that would be [[Hollywood Science|physically]] [[You Fail Physics Forever|impossible]] in real life -- in a way that not only makes sense, but ''actually enhances the story's believability''.

* [[Womanin Black]]: Mal, being "The Shade."

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* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: Mal {{spoiler|planned to kill herself (though only to "wake up"; she thinks she's dreaming) and convince her husband to go with her, and she used a [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]] as part of the means of convincing him of that. 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 agree to go with her, everyone would think he killed her. She threatened her own husband with false incrimination on murder, and actually followed through on that threat when he didn't agree to go with her.}} Because of this, she manages to come across as the most [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulative]] character in the movie, which says a lot in a movie [[Black and Grey Morality|where even the good guys are manipulative]].

* [[Yandere]]: {{spoiler|Mal. Or at least, the projection of her created by Dom's subconscious. Though real Mal, after her Inception, was a [[Yandere]] as well, seeing as how she pretended to be kind and gentle, but in reality was psychotic beyond words, going so far as to trash her own hotel room as part of an elaborate [[Plan]] to make it seem like Cobb killed her.}}

* [[Year Inside Hour Outside]]: Subjective time stretches in a dream compared to the layer above, with the exact amount of time depending on the sedative used. For the dreams earlier in the movie, time stretches by 12 times per level, for the inception operation, time stretches for 20 times per level.

* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]: Subjective time stretches in a dream compared to the layer above, with the exact amount of time depending on the sedative used. For the dreams earlier in the movie, time stretches by 12 times per level, for the inception operation, time stretches for 20 times per level.

* [[You All Look Familiar]]: If you look closely, you'll notice that Cobb's team [[Only Six Faces|keeps fighting the same projections over and over.]]

* [[You Cannot Kill an Idea]]: As seen in the top quote, an idea is the most resilient parasite. Moreover, we're told that subtle as inception must be, it will relentlessly grow into an obsession that can change everything about the target, so it's more like "Don't even [[A Worldwide Punomenon|dream]] of killing an inception."