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* [[Smitten Teenage Girl]]: Tommy seems to have quite the soft spot for Mickey's mam...
* [[Call Back]]: The Madonna track that Tony hears on the radio and gushes over is the same song that was playing when he got shot in flashback.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]:
** Avi is waiting to explode into them at any time.
{{quote|'''Doug the Head''': Avi!
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{{quote|'''Turkish:''' Well, fuck me. What ''have'' you been reading?}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Turkish. Completely. Tony also has more than a touch of it.
** "Well, c'mon. Before ''ze Germans'' get here."
** Tommy is panicking about what to do if any of the countless things that can go wrong with the plan they're forced into go wrong. Turkish has no trouble working out the right thing to do but Tommy doesn't seem too happy with a plan involving "get murdered before we leave the building and I imagine we get fed to the pigs."
** "You show me how to control a wild fucking Pikey, and I'll show you how to control an UNHINGED, pig-feeding gangster!"
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'''Bullettooth Tony''': ...Because he [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|dodges bullets]], Avi. }}
** "Anything to declare?" "Yeah -- don't go to England!"
* [[Disposing of a Body]]:
** Brick Top's very ''detailed'' description of how to [[Fed to Pigs|feed a body to pigs]].
** Lincoln points out that "bad boy yardies" generally ''create'' the bodies without thought of ''erasing'' the bodies.
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* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Turkish and Tommy.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: The main Traveller who isn't Mickey or Mickey's mam is played by Jason Flemyng, who was Tom in ''Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels''. In the DVD commentary, the filmmakers joke about how much screen time Flemyng managed to nab for himself in what was supposed to be a cameo.
** Avi is [[Law and Order|Detective Fontana]], [[Fight Club (film)|Tyler Durden]] is getting into fights again, and Tommy looks an awful lot like both [[Boardwalk Empire|Al Capone]] ''and'' [[Public Enemies|Baby Face Nelson]].
** The random informant that Bullet Tooth Tony drags through the street by his tie while driving is [[Trainspotting|Spud]].
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: Basically what Avi is subjected to over the course of the movie.
* [[I Just Shot Marvin in the Face]]: Avi is rather easily excitable.
** And Rosebud, Avi's henchman, accidedently stabs himself.
* [[Implacable Man]]: Tony and Boris both.
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Sol, Vinnie and Tyrone.
** If you consider them to be villains. This troper considers them to be the protagonists in their little part of the story.
** Cousin Avi might count. He's clearly a ruthless criminal and not an incredibly nice man, but the movie takes what would normally be a pretty clear-cut villain (the ruthless mob boss who gets something stolen from him and goes on a quest to get it back by any means necessary) and instead sends him blundering through an increasingly humiliating and exasperating comedy of errors until you kind of want him to get the diamond since it's sort-of supposed to be his anyway.
* [[Informed Flaw]]: Doug's view of Bullet-Tooth Tony as 'a liability' doesn't seem entirely fair, since he's pretty much a paragon of [[The Ace|efficient,]] [[The Stoic|understated]] [[
* [[Irish Travellers]]
* [[Ironic Nickname]]: Brick Top probably received his nickname ''before'' his hair went grey.
* [[Irony]]: To such a degree that 'Ironic Situations' could be a replacement title for the movie. Some notable examples include:
** Sol, Vincent and Tyrone are hired by Boris to rob Frankie as he's putting a bet on at the bookies under cover of robbing the entire establishment. They sit outside for hours waiting for him to show up... completely unaware that he was in the van they rear-ended as they arrived and was knocked unconscious by the collision.
** {{spoiler|Tommy and Turkish, the only two main characters who were not involved in the diamond plot and had no idea it even existed, end up acquiring and profiting from it.}}
* [[Jerkass
* [[Kick the Dog]]: There's no real reason to dislike Avi until he gives a certain command involving a dog. Bricktop is also seen killing two [[Mooks]] and brutalizing dogs early in the film to establish him as a villain amongst villains. When he order the burning of Mickey's caravan with his mother still inside, he crosses a [[Moral Event Horizon]].
* [[Knuckle-Cracking]]: Tony does this, but Mickey takes the cake. He spends most of the fight against Gorgeous methodically cracking his entire skeleton, before [[Curb Stomp Battle|laying him out with one punch]].
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** Mickey gets one in the last fight in the movie, when he almost knocks the other fighter out in the first round. {{spoiler|He's worried because he knows that his friends haven't had enough time to take care of Brick Top's men, and if he won the fight that early, they'd all be fucked. [[Running Gag|Proper fucked]].}}
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Turkish seems to be the only main character in the film who is not too greedy, crazy, or stupid.
* [[Plethora of Mistakes]]
* [[Police Are Useless]]: The only time we even ''see'' any policemen comes after all the action is over and all the bad guys are dead.
* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: Avi constantly refers to Boris as a "Cossack."
* [[Preemptive "Shut Up"]]: Brick Top, to Errol:
{{quote|'''Errol''': ''[to Turkish]'' Oi, fuckface, was he talking to you?
'''Turkish''': Fuckface, huh? I like that. I'll have to remember that next time I'm crawling off [[Your Mom|your Mum]].
'''Brick Top''': ''[to Errol]'' Not now. }}
* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: The Traveller played by Jason Flemyng delivers a pretty good one to Brick Top before he blows away one of Bricktop's men:
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'''Traveller''': ''[On Pete's phone]'' If you want yer friend to hear ye, ye'll have to talk a lot louder than that. ''[BANG]'' }}
* [[Psycho Serum]]: Turkish attributes both Boris' [[Made of Iron|near-invulnerability]] and his [[Ax Crazy|extreme]] [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|kookiness]] to "one too many disco-biscuits".
* [[Rapid-Fire Comedy]]: It's best to watch this film on DVD so you can pause it to crack up laughing without missing another joke in the process. They're "blink and you'll miss it" at times.
* [[Rare Guns]]: The two most prominent firearms in the film is a Franchi SPAS-12S shotgun ("That's a fucking anti-aircraft gun, Vincent!") and Tony's Desert Eagle "Point Five-Oh".
* [[Rasputinian Death]]: {{spoiler|Boris, appropriately.}}
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* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Pretty much said word-for-word by Sol after witnessing a massive shoot out which they only just managed to survive.
{{quote|'Fuck it, we're outta here.'}}
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Brad Pitt as a bareknuckle boxer spends a lot of time with his shirt off, exposing his numerous gypsy tats and chiseled abs.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Bullet Tooth Tony is introduced in a scene where he is continuously banging a car door off the head of some random Mook in the same manner as Big Chris (Also played by Vinnie Jones) does in ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]''.
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]
{{quote|'''Brick Top:''' Do you know what Nemesis means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by a 'orrible cunt. Me.}}
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: For ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]''. Similar tone, subject matter, and some crossover in cast and crew. Vinnie Jones is shown crushing someone's head in a car door in both films.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Brad Pitt's character first appears performing the act that 'Brad Pitt' is [https://web.archive.org/web/20131203132432/http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/brad_pitt rhyming slang] for.
* [[Stupid Crooks]]: Sol, Vinny, and Tyrone. Apparently, everything they do was inspired by stories shared on late night talk show monologues.
* [[Take a Third Option]]: Apparently trying to back the [[Irish Travellers]] into a corner is a ''really'' bad idea.
* [[This Is Sparta]]:
** Attempted, poorly, by a wannabe badass, but it might have been better if it weren't aimed at [[Memetic Badass|Vinnie Jones]].
** "All. Bets. Are. Off."
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* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Referenced. When Tommy reveals he has bought a gun "for protection", Turkish replies "Who from? Ze Germans?"
* [[Throwing the Fight]]: Mickey is asked to do this twice. He's not too keen on the idea.
* [[Took a Level
* [[To the Pain]]: Brick Top describing [[Fed to Pigs|"the best way"]] to dispose of a body to Sol and Vinnie.
* [[Tranquil Fury]]: For Brick Top, "loud and aggressive" is his default mode. When he gets ''really'' angry, he gets very quiet.
* [[The Unintelligible]]: The Pikeys, Mickey in particular. [[Fun with Subtitles|The subtitle feature of the DVD reads "???????" at a certain point.]]
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]:
** Minerals (fancy way of saying "stones").
** Tony shouting to Avi "Pull your socks up!" as a way to warn him to duck, before he shoots through the wall.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: For a given value of 'villain' (he's certainly not nearly as bad as some in this movie), Avi spends most of the movie getting more and more edgy and irate with things until he's eventually reduced to firing a gun wildly at a dog. One gets the feeling he'd been wanting to shoot something/one for a while by that point.
{{quote|'''''I HATE FUCKING DOGS!'''''}}
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* [[The Yardies]]: Lincoln (played by Goldie) is described as "a bad boy Yardie."
* [[You Have to Have Jews]]: Doug the Head obviously believes this, because he ''pretends'' to be Jewish thinking it's good for business, "because when you're in the diamond trade... it ''is'' good business".
* [[Your Mom]]:
{{quote|'''Errol''': Oy, fuckface. Was he talking to you?
'''Turkish''': Fuckface, huh? I like that. I'll have to remember it next time I'm crawling off your Mum. }}
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