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==== Tropes used by [[Murder on the Orient Express]] (''there will be non-concealed, highly spoilerific material later: you have been warned''): ====
* [[Adaptational Angst Upgrade]]: In the original novel and most adaptations, Hercule
* [[Artistic Title]]: The 1974 film opens with a montage sequence by [[Richard Williams]] depicting the kidnapping and murder of Daisy Armstrong via various [[Spinning Paper|Spinning Papers]].
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Ratchett's portrayed as a terrible man, so there isn't much sympathy when he is killed. {{spoiler|We find out that he's so deserving of his fate that Poirot eventually lets his murderers go.}}
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* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|While the murderers do get off scot-free, that's because even Poirot agrees that Ratchett's crime against the Armstrong family (who they all had connections to) had been paid back justly, with interest.}}
* [[Busman's Holiday]]
* [[The Butler Did It]]:
* [[Closed Circle]]: Not only are they on a train, but trapped in a snowdrift.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The 2010 adaptation, in spades.
* [[Dead Little Sister]]:
* [[Eagle Land]]: The portrayal of the U.S. makes it obvious that Christie didn't know very much about it. For example, Poirot says that it is "obvious" that the Hungarian ambassador stationed in Washington D.C. must have been acquainted with the Armstrongs, a prominent family from Chicago.
** Caroline Hubbard embodies this whenever the opportunity presents itself {{spoiler|Then again, it's all an act.}}
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* [[The Killer Becomes the Killed]]
* [[The Killer Was Left-Handed]]: One clue Poirot notices is that the victim was stabbed by both a right handed and left handed person.
* [[Let Off by the Detective]]: Being an [[Asshole Victim]] of the highest order, Poirot
* [[Massive Multiplayer Scam]]
* [[Off on a Technicality]]: How Ratchett managed to walk free after the killing of Daisy Armstrong. He still
* [[One Degree of Separation]]: The passengers all are closely connected.
* [[Orgy of Evidence]]: Not only are there a dozen suspects with a connection to the victim, but there are also a misplaced match, a pipe cleaner, a handkerchief, a button from a railway worker's uniform, a watch broken at entirely the wrong time, and sightings of a woman in a red kimono. Poirot, to his credit, dismisses most of these fairly quickly as [[Red Herring|Red Herrings]].
* [[Orient Express]]: Obviously.
* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: The victim had been guilty of the kidnapping and murder of a small child years before.
* [[Pinkerton Detective]]: Cyrus Hardman in the 1974 film version. The original novel has him employed by McNeil's.
* [[Poirot Speak]]
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* [[Sand in My Eyes]]: The reaction that the snow was dazzling a suspect's eyes actually turns out to be a clue.
* [[Seamless Spontaneous Lie]]: {{spoiler|Everyone on the train was a part of the murder. They had to make up several lies to throw Poirot off their trail. This was something like a dozen people. That kept up a lie under the scrutiny of Poirot. On a train in the middle of the Alps.}}
* [[Sherlock Scan]]: Poirot
** It's an insult about his
* [[Snowed In]]
* [[Thriller on the Express]]: [[Trope Namer]], along with the numerous examples that use the title format for a reference.
* [[You Never Asked]]: The solution to the mysterious handkerchief with a H on it. It involves the Cyrillic alphabet and Princess Dragomiroff's first name.
* [[You Said You Would Let Them Go]]: Cassetti kills three-year-old Daisy just after the ransom had been paid and flees the country. [[Pay Evil Unto Evil|He gets what he deserves.]]
* [[Zig-Zagging Trope]]:
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