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** Among the living, Uncle Billy is the best candidate.

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Henry Potter, one of the most notable examples in film.

* [[Crapsack World]]: Pottersville, from Capra's wholesome, conservative Catholic perspective. The main part of town is a swinging place packed with bars, dance halls, strip clubs and gambling dens blasting jazz music. Just in case you might think that [http://www.salon.com/entertainment/feature/2001/12/22/pottersville/index.html sounds pretty awesome], the rest of the town is a depressing, dreary slum full of abandoned houses, where the people George knows are all miserable.

* [[Crapsack World]]: Pottersville, from Capra's wholesome, conservative Catholic perspective. The main part of town is a swinging place packed with bars, dance halls, strip clubs and gambling dens blasting jazz music. Just in case you might think that [https://web.archive.org/web/20110306003808/http://www.salon.com/entertainment/feature/2001/12/22/pottersville/index.html sounds pretty awesome], the rest of the town is a depressing, dreary slum full of abandoned houses, where the people George knows are all miserable.

** George spends most of the Pottersville sequence trying to find the last friend he saw, bar owner Martini. A deleted scene exists of George finds Martini's grave near Harry's, and that Martini and his family died in a fire because they couldn't move out of Potter's slums.

* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]: If you're looking for it, it's so obvious: when the angels 'pause' George's life, he's standing with his arms held up and out in the pose.