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Connor tries to kill the witnesses off, but botches the job and ends up killing Mike's wife and [[Parental Favouritism|younger son]]. Expecting revenge, the mob takes out a [[Contract On the Hitman]] and Mike and Peter go on the run, pursued by a chillingly psychopathic assassin, Maguire (Jude Law).
The film deals largely with father-and-son relationships -- both the protagonists and the villain of the movie have deep issues with paternal [[Parental Favouritism|favouritism]] and [["Well Done, Son" Guy|respect]]. Whereas Connor forces his father to try to protect him at the cost of a man he clearly [[True Companions|loves as a son]], Michael becomes determined that his only surviving child [[Evil Parents Want Good Kids|will not become like him]].
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* [[Dissonant Serenity]] - The silent gunfight.
* [[Dragon Their Feet]] - {{spoiler|After the protagonist kills the entire Rooney crime family, Psycho For Hire Maguire still shows up at the end and kills him, despite the fact the people who were paying Maguire were already all dead}}.
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* [[Depth Deception]] - Michael Jr. approaches the front door of his house, seeing Connor approaching {{spoiler|after he has killed his mother and brother}}, and freezes when Connor appears to stare directly at him through the door's window, but it turns out {{spoiler|Connor was actually looking at his own reflection.}} After Michael realizes this, he has time to hide before Connor leaves the house.
* [[Epunymous Title]] - Michael ''is'' on the way to irrevocably dooming his soul to hell... but he's also driving to a town called Perdition.
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* [[Historical Domain Character]] - Frank Nitti, the entirely unseen Al Capone.
* [[Hitman With a Heart]] - Michael, especially in the comic.
* {{spoiler|[[Kill
* [[Moral Event Horizon]] - this is almost the exact meaning of "perdition" - being doomed to go to hell once and for all, with no chance of salvation.
* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] - Connor tries to use a cynical facade to hide his jealousy and childishness. It doesn't work.
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{{quote| ''Because it's all so fuckin' hysterical...''}}
* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: Mendes deliberately wrote every death to be near or surrounded by water to demonstrate the commoness (and uncontrollability) of death in the mobster's lives.
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]
** The Looney Family from the comic became the Rooney family for the movie. Oddly, The former surname was more historically accurate.
** Likewise the O'Sullivans were called the Sullivans in the movie.
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* [[Uriah Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Connor}} sets up Sullivan to be killed this way.
* [[Vertigo Effect]] - Jude Law's character first appears walking toward the camera underneath an L track. It takes about thirty-plus seconds of screen time, whereas the typical Vertigo shot is much more fast-moving.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]] - Connor Rooney in the movie. In the comic, however, none of his angst (nor his father's favoritism towards Michael Sr.) is even hinted at (his motives for doing what he does are out of bloodlust and paranoia rather than out of envy).
* [[The Windy City]]
* [[You Remind Me of X]]: An inversion of the regular usage, see [[Parental Favouritism]] above.
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