Million Dollar Baby: Difference between revisions

* {{spoiler|[[Career-Ending Injury]]}}: To Maggie.

* [[Casualty in the Ring]]: Eddie [[Eye Scream|lost the eyesight in one of his eyes]] years ago.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:

** Maggie's story about her dog Axel and her father {{spoiler|putting it down when it was sick.}} Actually used more skillfully in the film than in the short story, in which she tells the story right before {{spoiler|asking Frankie to kill her}}. In the movie it comes a good hour beforehand.

* [[Corrupt Hick]]: Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald's family, who hail from the Ozarks. They care little about Maggie's well-being, and will cheerfully cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]] just to get her money. Maggie herself is a [[Defector From Decadence]].

* [[Cynical Mentor]]: Frankie Dunn.

* [[Dead Little Sister]]

* [[Determinator]]: No matter how discouraging her circumstances or the people around her get, Maggie refuses to give up on her dream of becoming a boxing champion. {{spoiler|After she's paralyzed, she's no less determined to end her own life.}}

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Maggie's father, who died long before she started her boxing career.