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Each film is not intended as anything other than sheer popcorn fun. Planning out the heists is entertaining, but it is mostly an excuse to get an [[All-Star Cast]] together and have them bounce lines off of each other. This was very much the only real purpose of the original film as well, having the [[Rat Pack]] get together and look cool.
* Danny Ocean ([[George Clooney]]): The gang's mastermind, Ocean knows everything about Vegas and nearly everyone in it. His plan in the first film is to rob the casinos to take revenge on the guy who stole [[The Chick]] from him.
* Rusty Ryan ([[Brad Pitt]]): Ocean's level-headed right-hand man. A jack-of-all-trades, he plays a number of roles in the heists themselves. A running gag is that he is almost always snacking on something, showing his nonchalance.
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* Linus Caldwell ([[Matt Damon]]): A skilled pickpocket and Ocean's new protege. Linus comes from underworld royalty, as both of his parents are famous thieves. He desperately seeks to earn some respect of his own by pulling off big scores.
* Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia): The [[Big Bad]] of the first film, owner of the Bellagio, MGM Grand and the Mirage, three of the biggest casinos in Vegas. He provides the impetus for the second film by tracking down the Eleven and demanding repayment (with interest), and later becomes an ad hoc member of the Thirteen, both as a financial backer and [[The Shill]].
* Tess Ocean ([[Julia Roberts]]): [[The Chick]]. Ex-wife of Danny Ocean, who by the first film has shacked up with Benedict. She's the main reason why Danny decides to rob Benedict's casinos. She becomes a member of the Twelve after most of the main crew are jailed during a failed heist; the attempt to complete it involves Tess [[Celebrity Paradox|impersonating Julia Roberts]].
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* Willie Bank ([[Al Pacino]]): the [[Big Bad]] of the third movie, a [[Jerkass]] business mogul who partners with Reuben to build a new hotel casino, only to muscle him out of his share. Reuben suffers a heart attack as a result, prompting the rest of the crew to take revenge.
* Abigail Sponder (Ellen Barkin): Bank's [[The Dragon|Dragon]] and personal assistant. She's the one who's really in control of everything at his casinos.
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Quite a few:
** George Clooney talking to other young actors about [[ER|the risks of going from TV to film]] in ''Eleven''
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** Danny delivers this gem to Bank ([[Al Pacino]]):
{{quote|[[The Godfather|What I want; what's most important to me]] is that Reuben gets his share of the hotel restored.}}
* [[Author Existence Failure|Actor Existence Failure]]: George Clooney is on the record as stating there will never be another Ocean's movie since Bernie Mac has died. (Not that another is ''needed'', but still.)
* [[Acceptable Targets]]:
{{quote|"C'mon, we can beat this guy -- he's rich and he's ''French''."}}
* [[Affably Evil]]: Terry Benedict is unfailingly polite to everyone, though he's never actually friendly with anyone.
* [[All-Star Cast]]
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* [[Caper Rationalization]]: If there is one trope that drives the plot of these films other than [[The Caper]], it's [[Caper Rationalization]]. This merry band of crooks all have very good, reasonable, and ''understandable'' reasons for ripping people off for tens of millions of dollars per movie.
* [[The Cast Showoff]]: Vincent Cassel is a fantastic dancer. So is François Toulour.
* [[Celebrity Paradox]]
* [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys]]
{{quote|'''Reuben:''' They've got enough armed personnel to occupy Paris! ...okay, bad example.}}
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:
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'''Rusty''': OK. Not so bad that you'll notice.
*cut to Livingston being a neurotic, skittish control freak while working surveillance with the FBI* }}
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: In the third film, two massive tunnel boring machines are used to simulate an earthquake in Bank's casino. They're alleged to be responsible for the Channel Tunnel -- the second is even captioned as "the one that dug from the French side" -- but the "Chunnel" was actually dug using ''eleven'' such machines, and most of them are still under the English Channel, sealed into cul-de-sacs alongside the transport lines. Another was auctioned off on [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3599191.stm
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Benedict is feared because of his tendency to ''completely destroy'' the livelihoods of anybody who wrongs him, and everybody related to them as well. While doing recon on him, Linus informs Rusty that Benedict not only had the last guy who cheated in his casino put away for ten years, but he also had the bank seize the guy's house before bankrupting the tractor dealership of the guy's brother-in-law. As Reuben describes Benedict;
{{quote|'''Reuben''': He'll kill you, and then he'll go to work on you.}}
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'''Bank:''' I don't ''want'' to. }}
* [[Fake Brit]]: American Don Cheadle as Cockney Basher Tarr. No audience member has yet been fooled.
* [[Failsafe Failure]]: Subverted in ''Thirteen'', where the team finds out that the Greco security system automatically shuts down and reboots when it detects a threat to itself, and a side effect of the reboot is that it locks down the control room and cuts off communications for several minutes. {{spoiler|They use this to lock Bank inside his own control room, leaving him unable to stop the team's plans.}}
* [[Fallen-On-Hard-Times Job]]: Several members of all the teams are stuck here at the movies' beginnings.
* [[Fixing the Game]]: These are heist films, but some of the protagonists get side jobs as cheaters. Danny finds Rusty running a bent card game for [[Flash In The Pan]] teen beat celebs in the first film.
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* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: ''Twelve'': "Tell him having a sexy assistant is cliche." (Speaker's sexy assistant enters).
* [[The Infiltration]]: ''Eleven'' involves an intricate plan which requires numerous small infiltrations of the casino all in order to carry out the biggest infiltration at the end.
* [[Involuntary Charity Donation]]: As payback for an attempted double-cross by [[Enemy Mine|Benedict]] in ''
* [[It's Personal]]: The motivation for the plot of the third film.
** I think you can consider part of the plot from ''Twelve'' -- Benedict was going after each, and you can't tell me that blowing up Rusty's favorite car ''wasn't'' personal.
** File ''Eleven'' under it as well. Even Danny doesn't deny that Benedict's relationship with Tess is part of his motivation.
* [["I Know What We Can Do!" Cut]]: All of the group's planning is done like this.
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* [[Motive Rant]]
{{quote|'''Rusty:''' I need a reason. And don't say money. Why do this?
'''Danny:''' Why not do it? I just left the joint after losing four years of my life and you're cold-decking ''Teen Beat'' cover boys. Because the house always wins. Play long enough, the house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes, you bet big, and then you take the house.
'''Rusty:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|...Been practicing]] [[Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic|that speech, haven't you?]]
'''Danny:''' Little bit. Did I rush it? I felt like I rushed it.
'''Rusty:''' [[Crowning Moment of Funny|No, it's good, I liked it. ''Teen
* [[Mythology Gag]]: {{spoiler|The scene where the shootout leads to half of Danny's loot being torched by a flamethrower is almost certain homage to the climax of the original, where Ocean's loot is burned with Bergdorf's body.}}
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Linus' stunt during the theft of the pinch leads directly to Yen's hand getting broken.
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* [[Plot Hole]]: {{spoiler|In ''Ocean's Eleven'', The bags of hooker fliers appear in the vault elevator without anyone carrying them in.}}
* [[Precision F-Strike]] Some of Yen's only dialogue in English.
** Also the final conversation with Benedict in ''Ocean's 13''
{{quote|'''Terry Benedict:''' You think this is funny?
'''Danny Ocean:''' Well, Terry, it sure as shit ain't sad. }}
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