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* [[Disguised Hostage Gambit]]: The thieves make the hostages wear the same uniform as them, but with the full knowledge of the police outside. This keeps the police from interfering at first. {{spoiler|It also lets most of the robbers blend into the crowd of freed hostages and escape after the robbery is complete.}}
* [[Double Meaning Title]]: Quite an epic one. {{spoiler|Russell is really hiding behind a false wall the robbers built, making him the literal "Inside Man." However, Case was sort of an inside man himself, appearing to be a charitable and goodhearted man after having sold his soul to the Nazis. And White is an inside woman for a living, working her way to the heart of delicate situations. So really, the only main character who isn't some kind of an "Inside Man" is Frazier, the overall good guy.}}
* [[Eureka Moment]]: A chance comment another cop makes to Denzel Washington's character allows him to figure out how exactly the hostage takers were able to stay ten steps ahead of the police.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Even White, who is an unscrupulous political fixer, is appalled by {{spoiler|Case's history of collaborating with the Nazis.}}
{{quote|'''Madeleine''': Well, I'd love to tell you what a monster you are, but I have to help Bin Laden's nephew buy a co-op on Park Avenue.
'''Arthur''': If that were true, you wouldn't tell me.
'''Madeleine''': We're listing you as a reference. }}
** The robbers can also qualify. The first freed hostage was an old man having chest pains (sure he was forced to wear the outfit, but the fact that he was let out first puts them on here). Also their interactions with the kid, Brian. They let him keep his game when he was giving it up with all the cell phones, didn't force him to wear the costume everyone else was forced to wear, didn't beat him up like they did to a few of the other patrons, and one robber even showed concern over the content in his game. Arguably, also when he beat up the bank manager for hiding his cell phone. Any hostage taker knows to never back down once you have made a threat because the hostages will probably revolt, but he also didn't want to carry out his threat of shooting him in the head.
* [[Every One Remembers the Stripper]]: One of the hostages can vouch for another hostage who happens to be a racktastic woman. And you can [[Male Gaze|see why during the robbery and afterward]] how she can be so... [[Gag Boobs|noticeable]].
* [[Evil Pays Better]]: {{spoiler|Case: The Nazis...paid too well.}}
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* [[Out-Gambitted]]: White's good, but as is revealed at the end, Russell has outfoxed her by {{spoiler|leaving the ring for Frazier}}.
* [[Pac-Man Fever]]: The film went the opposite extreme of this trope. A kid plays an ersatz ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' [[PSP]] game. When we see clips, the game's graphics are too advanced for the PSP, especially since at the time Sony had the CPU speed slowed down to preserve battery life. This has since been lifted.
* [[The Perfect Crime]]
* [[Planet of Steves]]: The bank robbers called one another by various forms of "Steve" (Steve, Stevie, Steve-O). This was part of their plan to stay confusingly anonymous.
* [[Pregnant Hostage]]
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** When the police imagine a scenario where they storm the bank and try to kill the robbers, blood from a shot robber splashes over the safe deposit box {{spoiler|where the evidence of Arthur Case's involvement with the Nazis is located}}
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: There's a very tense scene early in the movie where the robbers are taking everyone's cell phones. One of the guys claims that he doesn't have his, but the lead robber isn't buying. After threatening the guy several times, he suddenly starts going through all the hostages' phones, until he finds one with a number with the guy's name on it. He calls the phone....and everyone hears [[Oh Crap|Kanye West's "Gold Digger" start playing.]] Believe it or not, it works.
* [[Sympathetic Criminal]]: Dalton Russell.
* [[Technically a Smile]]: White has a way of smiling in a way that looks genuine at first, but without any warmth whatsoever. Which makes sense, as she's in politics.
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: Portrayed in a video game played by a young boy. The boy makes his alter ego shoot many times at what must be an already dead man's head, and then he puts a grenade in the man's mouth. An onlooking bank robber/hostage taker is appalled.
* [[Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000]]: The leading bank robber sees one of the hostages, an African-American boy, playing a violent GTA-like game with racial overtones. He's not happy.
* [[Values Dissonance]]: In universe. The lead bank robber has issues with the violent GTA-inspired game the young boy hostage plays on his portable. The boy points out the objective of the game is "Like what my man [[
* [[Van in Black]]: The van used by the bank robbers.
* [[Vertigo Effect]]: Twice, once subtle, once less so.
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