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** Dabbled with in the first game with the {{spoiler|death of Lin and when Playa is apparently killed in the secret, true ending.}}

** Brought out in full force in the second. {{spoiler|Sometimes by your hand, regarding Julius.}}

** The Third smacks you in the face with this trope, courtesy of losing {{spoiler|Johnny Gat.}}

** The Third smacks you in the face with this trope, courtesy of losing {{spoiler|Johnny Gat}} early on, plus several more depending on your choices.

* [[Arc Words]]: The Pyramid is referenced multiple times throughout ~~both~~ games. {{spoiler|1=You and Gat break into and destroy it during SR2's finale.}}

* [[Arc Words]]: The Pyramid is referenced multiple times throughout the first two games. It can be heard during radio advertisements, and often mumbled about by the bums and homeless people in their mad ranting. {{spoiler|1=You and Gat break into and destroy it during SR2's finale.}}

** It can be heard during radio advertisements, and often mumbled about by the bums and homeless people in their mad ranting.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: [[Zig-Zagging Trope|Zig-Zagged]]. Some gang-bosses turn out to be powerful boss-characters, while others are just weak administrators dispatched with ease, or even executed in a cutscene. The player character himself can be said to be an embodiment of the trope from the second game onwards, but notably, he was kicking ass BEFORE he became the leader of the Saints, too. Meanwhile, Jules - the original leader - {{spoiler|is killed in a cutscene}}, and rarely ever kicks any real ass, much as he talks the talk.

** A one-person example of the zig-zag would have to be Phillipe Loren from the third game. Leader of a huge criminal syndicate called [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The Syndicate]], he's able to kill {{spoiler|Johnny Gat}} offscreen, and subsequently acquires an [[Eyepatch of Power]]... but then {{spoiler|the tables ~~gets~~ turned, and you kill him fairly easily in a cutscene.}}

** A one-person example of the zig-zag would have to be Phillipe Loren from the third game. Leader of a huge criminal syndicate called [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The Syndicate]], he's able to kill {{spoiler|Johnny Gat}} offscreen, and subsequently acquires an [[Eyepatch of Power]]... but then {{spoiler|the tables get turned, and you kill him fairly easily in a cutscene.}}

* [[Back Seats Are Just for Show]]: Hardtop cars with two doors but four seats can't be used to carry more than two people, but convertibles can be used since gang members hop over sides.

* [[Badass Crew]]: You ''don't'' fuck with the Saints. By the third game, they've amassed enough power that, depending on player actions, {{spoiler|they can openly challenge the United States military in a second Civil War.}}