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* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]: Joe and Bill's lovely daughter Susan. Probably one of the most touching love scenes out there.
** Although, for some reason, they still skip foreplay.
* [[Hand Wave]]: Why did Death, after witnessing all of human history and everything beyond, pick a rich, white American businessman as his guide to life? Given the entire planet to choose from, why would he spend his time exclusively in an apartment in Manhattan and an estate on Rhode Island? The film's hand-wave is that Death was intriuged by the ineffable life-guidance given by Bill to his daughter. The device is successful strictly on the basis of Anthony Hopkins' badassery.
** Also, after {{spoiler|Nameless is returned to Susan by Death, and the only explanation he offers for his total shift in personal and immediate-onset amnesia is "It's all a blur": she asks, incredulously, "That's it?" Her question echoes the incredulity assumed on the part of the audience, who are expected to swallow her acceptance of a totally inexplicable personality-turnabout, in the interest of a happy ending.}}
*** {{spoiler|The above only needs handwaved if Susan doesn't know that Joe was really Death. The movie is a bit vague on the point, but he must have revealed his true identity to her (at the party when he was staring at her intensely), because how else would she have known her father was dead? Her confusion when Coffee Shop Guy comes back over the bridge can be explained as her thinking it was Joe had come back, and she only realises it's Coffee Shop Guy after he specifically refers to events at the coffee shop.}}
* [[First Time Feeling]]: Joe has no experience with love whatsoever and so falling for Susan completely overwhelms him.
* [[Implacable Man]]: Joe, obviously, begins as being implacable and unwaivering as... well, what he is. He loosens up a bit as things progress and he becomes a little more human through his association with the others.
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