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* [[Crazy Jealous Guy]]: Bud towards the end of the film, due to {{spoiler|finding out Lynn slept with Exley}}. |
* [[Crazy Jealous Guy]]: Bud towards the end of the film, due to {{spoiler|finding out Lynn slept with Exley}}. |
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* [[Da Chief]]: Dudley Smith. He's one of the rare {{spoiler|villainous examples}}. |
* [[Da Chief]]: Dudley Smith. He's one of the rare {{spoiler|villainous examples}}. |
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* [[Death by Adaptation]]: Dudley Smith. Preston Exley, too. |
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* [[Defective Detective]]: Jack Vincennes. ''In spades''. |
* [[Defective Detective]]: Jack Vincennes. ''In spades''. |
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* [[Determinator]]: Bud White. It rubs off on Exley by the end of the book. |
* [[Determinator]]: Bud White. It rubs off on Exley by the end of the book. |
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* [[High Altitude Interrogation]]: How Bud gets his answers from Ellis Loew in the movie. |
* [[High Altitude Interrogation]]: How Bud gets his answers from Ellis Loew in the movie. |
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* [[High Class Call Girl]]: Lynn and the other girls at Fleur de Lis. |
* [[High Class Call Girl]]: Lynn and the other girls at Fleur de Lis. |
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* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]: Lynn Bracken. |
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* [[Horrible Hollywood]] |
* [[Horrible Hollywood]] |
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* [[Ho Yay]] / [[Foe Yay]]: [[In |
* [[Ho Yay]] / [[Foe Yay]]: [[In-Universe]]. Half the characters are convinced there's something more to Bud and Ed's rivalry than just hatred. |
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{{quote| '''Jack:''' (to Ed) Bud White's gonna fuck you for this if it takes him the rest of his life.}} |
{{quote| '''Jack:''' (to Ed) Bud White's gonna fuck you for this if it takes him the rest of his life.}} |
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** Ed has another, fairly epic "oh crap" facial expression when Bud shows him the pictures of {{spoiler|Ed and Lynn sleeping together}}. |
** Ed has another, fairly epic "oh crap" facial expression when Bud shows him the pictures of {{spoiler|Ed and Lynn sleeping together}}. |
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** And again, when {{spoiler|he mistakes Lana Turner for a call girl.}} |
** And again, when {{spoiler|he mistakes Lana Turner for a call girl.}} |
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* [[Paparazzi]]: [[Two Words Obvious Trope|Two Words]] - Sid Hudgens. |
* [[Paparazzi]]: [[Two Words: Obvious Trope|Two Words]] - Sid Hudgens. |
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* [[Parental Substitute]]: Dudley Smith serves as this for Exley and White in the film, in different ways. Bud sees him as more of a traditional father-figure, where Ed admires his police career. The ending reveals how expendable they really are to him. |
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Dudley Smith serves as this for Exley and White in the film, in different ways. Bud sees him as more of a traditional father-figure, where Ed admires his police career. The ending reveals how expendable they really are to him. |
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* [[Perp Sweating]]: A [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for Ed in both the book and the movie, with his interrogation of the three Nite Owl suspects. |
* [[Perp Sweating]]: A [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for Ed in both the book and the movie, with his interrogation of the three Nite Owl suspects. |
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* [[Turn in Your Badge]]: Bud in both the movie and the book, though the movie gives us the traditional scene. |
* [[Turn in Your Badge]]: Bud in both the movie and the book, though the movie gives us the traditional scene. |
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* [[Twerp Sweating]]: Exley and White's [[High Altitude Interrogation]] of Ellis Loew in the movie is really an excuse to dangle a thoroughly unpleasant man out a very high window, not for information they mostly already know. |
* [[Twerp Sweating]]: Exley and White's [[High Altitude Interrogation]] of Ellis Loew in the movie is really an excuse to dangle a thoroughly unpleasant man out a very high window, not for information they mostly already know. |
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* [[Two Guys and |
* [[Two Guys and a Girl]]: Bud, Lynn, and Ed. |
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* [[Vigilante Execution]]: In the movie, but not the book, {{spoiler|Ed executes Dudley Smith, rather than let him be arrested}}. |
* [[Vigilante Execution]]: In the movie, but not the book, {{spoiler|Ed executes Dudley Smith, rather than let him be arrested}}. |
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* [[Villain with Good Publicity]] |
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* [[Wife-Basher Basher]]: Bud White. He's introduced kicking the crap out of a wife-beater, tying him to his porch with Christmas tree lights to wait for the patrol car to bring him in. Later, to scare the location of a kidnapped and repeatedly raped teenage girl out of the alleged Nite Owl suspects, he rips a solid oak chair in half with his bare hands in front of them and THEN shoves a gun in the face of one of the cowards and played [[False Roulette]] (probably) with him. He continues to play the trope arrow-straight {{spoiler|until he hits Lynn when he finds out she slept with Exley. This was major [[Heroic BSOD]] on his part, however.}} |
* [[Wife-Basher Basher]]: Bud White. He's introduced kicking the crap out of a wife-beater, tying him to his porch with Christmas tree lights to wait for the patrol car to bring him in. Later, to scare the location of a kidnapped and repeatedly raped teenage girl out of the alleged Nite Owl suspects, he rips a solid oak chair in half with his bare hands in front of them and THEN shoves a gun in the face of one of the cowards and played [[False Roulette]] (probably) with him. He continues to play the trope arrow-straight {{spoiler|until he hits Lynn when he finds out she slept with Exley. This was major [[Heroic BSOD]] on his part, however.}} |
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* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: In the book, Exley would just about bend over backwards to win his father's approval. {{spoiler|Well, until he learns his father let a child-killing psychopath walk because it was his best friend's son, and covered it up.}} |
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: In the book, Exley would just about bend over backwards to win his father's approval. {{spoiler|Well, until he learns his father let a child-killing psychopath walk because it was his best friend's son, and covered it up.}} |
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* [[Woman in White]]: Lynn in most subsequent appearances, especially in the iconic scene where she {{spoiler|seduces Ed}}. |
* [[Woman in White]]: Lynn in most subsequent appearances, especially in the iconic scene where she {{spoiler|seduces Ed}}. |
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* [[Working the Same Case]]: All of the detectives, but most notably Exley, Vincennes, and White. |
* [[Working the Same Case]]: All of the detectives, but most notably Exley, Vincennes, and White. |
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* [[Yiddish as a Second Language]]: Mickey Cohen in the book. His lines are ''hilarious''. |
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* [[You Talkin' to Me?]] |
* [[You Talkin' to Me?]] |
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