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* [[Affably Evil]]: Several of the gangster characters, particularly Morty and Gene, Eddie Temple, and the protagonist himself.

* [[Apologetic Attacker]]: {{spoiler|Sidney}}

* [[As Long As It Sounds Foreign]]: See [[Fake Nationality]] below.

* [[As Long as It Sounds Foreign]]: See [[Fake Nationality]] below.

* [[Batman Gambit]]: Eddie banks on Mr. X's success of getting the ecstasies off the Serbians so the two can make a drug deal for themselves. {{spoiler|X delivers, but Eddie holds his folks under gunpoint and withholds any payment for him. It turns out that X already foresees this and ambushes Eddie's transporters}}

* [[Berserk Button]]: If you've just run into the guy who your incompetence landed in jail for ten years, it's probably best not to ask for money as soon as you've said hello.

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* [[Cool Guns]]: Amongst many others, Gene keeps a P08/Luger and a Thompson submachine gun in his cabinet.

* [[Council Estate]]: The grim location of Kinky's crack den.

* [[Covers Always Lie]]: The cover of the film's post-''[[~~Casino Royale (Film)|~~Casino Royale]]'' DVD release shows Craig in a [[James Bond (~~Film~~)|James Bond]]-style pose. In the film, he does that in only one scene as a joke.

* [[Covers Always Lie]]: The cover of the film's post-''[[Casino Royale]]'' DVD release shows Craig in a [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]-style pose. In the film, he does that in only one scene as a joke.

* [[Crazy Jealous Guy]]: {{spoiler|Sidney}}

* [[Damn, It Feels Good to Be A Gangster!]]: Deconstructed and then reconstructed by the end. At first XXXX proclaims his job to be an excellent method of employment with good retirement options. When he finally does end up facing the rest of the criminal underworld, however, they're all either idiots or terrifying cold-hearted thugs and all with their own flaws and quirks. {{spoiler|XXXX also finds out how much killing someone affects your conscience and peace of mind. In the end, however, the trope is at least partially reconstructed by Eddie Temple with an incredibly cool speech about the nature of the criminal game.}}

* [[Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!]]: Deconstructed and then reconstructed by the end. At first XXXX proclaims his job to be an excellent method of employment with good retirement options. When he finally does end up facing the rest of the criminal underworld, however, they're all either idiots or terrifying cold-hearted thugs and all with their own flaws and quirks. {{spoiler|XXXX also finds out how much killing someone affects your conscience and peace of mind. In the end, however, the trope is at least partially reconstructed by Eddie Temple with an incredibly cool speech about the nature of the criminal game.}}

{{quote| {{spoiler|You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake, son.}} }}

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: X after Eddie robs him his pills. {{spoiler|Turns out he's already planned to ambush Eddie's mercs and rob his pills back.}}

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* [[Diegetic Switch]]: Used with the infamous "Ordinary World" scene; the Duran Duran track can be heard faintly in the background before Morty gets his money out.

* [[Doesn't Like Guns]]: XXXX states this outright. In the novel, Cody also has this attitude, which makes sense, since he's a [[Con Men Hate Guns|con man]].

* [[Double Standard Rape (Male On Male)]]: Averted; it's treated as horrifying. Crazy Larry's treatment of men led to at least one man committing suicide and {{spoiler|to being killed by Gene, himself possibly a victim of Larry}}.

* [[Double Standard Rape (Male on Male)]]: Averted; it's treated as horrifying. Crazy Larry's treatment of men led to at least one man committing suicide and {{spoiler|to being killed by Gene, himself possibly a victim of Larry}}.

* [[The Dragon]]: Actually named Dragan, however, {{spoiler|he's such a tough dragon that he never comes close to getting defeated. His employer also isn't the [[Big Bad]] of the story.}}

** Also Mr. [[Meaningful Name|Troop]], ex-soldier and Eddie Temple's right-hand man for dirty work.

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* [[The Faceless]]: Dragan, until the very end of the film.

* [[Fade to White]]

* [[Fake Nationality]]: The Serbians are played by Romanians who, [[As Long As It Sounds Foreign|when not speaking English, speak Romanian]].

* [[Fake Nationality]]: The Serbians are played by Romanians who, [[As Long as It Sounds Foreign|when not speaking English, speak Romanian]].

* [[False-Flag Operation]]: X fakes a police raid to extract the ecstasies from splinter gang, as well as to trick Dragan into conceding his people's stolen ecstasies for good. He knows that the Serbians are satisfied enough with the death of those who steal their drugs.

* [[Fat and Skinny]]: [[Those Two Bad Guys|Liverpudlians Trevor and Shanks]]. Trevor is a big, laid-back black guy and Shanks is white, skinny and highly twitchy.

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* [[Shower of Angst]]: XXXX takes one after {{spoiler|he shoots Jimmy}}.

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The use of Duran Duran during [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VHyFuZgd4E this particular scene.]

* [[Spanner in ~~The~~ Works]]: The tiniest loose ends can get you in the end.

* [[Spanner in the Works]]: The tiniest loose ends can get you in the end.

* [[Spot of Tea]]: Naturally, being a British film... but horrifically subverted.

{{quote| '''Morty:''' But let's forget about all that. Let's have a cup of tea, Mr Hurst.}}

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* [[Villainy Discretion Shot]]: Justified; the protagonist himself finds the "end users" of his business quite distasteful, and steers clear of any involvement with them, so no one is shown becoming addicted to or overdosing on his drugs.

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Well, X is a drug dealer...

* [[Villain ~~With~~ Good Publicity]]: Eddie Temple (Eddie Ryder in the novel)

* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: Eddie Temple (Eddie Ryder in the novel)

* [[Warrior Poet]]: Played partly for laughs with Gene and his habit of meditating with guns through [[Gun Stripping]] and the like, although his personality fits the trope, being generally a fairly mellow guy.

* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Eddie Temple, especially, who is an opera lover and has a vast library in his estate; his counterpart in the novel attends opera but doesn't seem to actually like it much, although he has an unusual interest in Buddhism due to a [[Granola Girl]] second wife

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