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* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: Hence the suicides.
** [[Truth in Television]]: This was fairly common among patrician Romans.
* [[A Birthday, Not a Break]]: Cassius before the battle of Phillipi.
* [[Blood On the Debate Floor]]
* [[Cassandra Truth]]: The soothsayer's warning.
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Th' eternal devil to keep his state in Rome<br />
As easily as a king. }}
* [[Murder
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]/ [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: Brutus decides to let Mark Antony speak on condition he doesn't say anything bad about the conspirators. Antony goes on to prove what a [[Manipulative Bastard]] he truly is and gets the people of Rome to riot against them. Good going.
* [[Not So Harmless]]: Brutus dismisses Antony as Caesar's harmless little yes-man, which turns out to be one of the biggest mistakes of the play.
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* [[Sock Puppet]]: Cassius gets Brutus to join him by forging a bunch of petitions in various writing styles, all criticizing Caesar and praising Brutus.
* [[Stealth Insult]]: Marc Antony's funeral speech is full of these.
* [[Tag
* [[Tears of Blood]]: From a statue of Caesar in his wife's dream.
* [[Third Person Person]]: Caesar often refers to himself in third person.
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** Cassius does this more subtly to Brutus in Act I, Scene II, when he expresses pleasure that his "weak words have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus".
* [[Vigilante Execution]]
* [[With Friends Like These...]]: Brutus and Cassius are supposedly best friends, but in a lot of scenes, it's hard to see this.
** Almost, but not quite, [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]. Cassius sure does get ''snippy'' once in awhile. And he used less than honest means of winning Brutus to the conspiracy (see [[Astroturf]], above).
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