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* [[Adaptation Decay]] / [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: The book is a detective mystery interwoven with 500 pages of incredible detail of the religious and political schism in the church that is nearly inscrutable to anyone without a post-graduate degree in Theology and 14th Century Political History. (Or, reasonably arguably, anyone but [[Umberto Eco]].) The movie drops most of the Theology, History and Politics in favor of the detective story.

* [[Asshole Victim]]: In the movie, {{spoiler|Bernardo Gui's cart gets pushed off a cliff by angry peasants, causing him to fall on a spiked thing which kills him. Your heart bleeds for him.}}

* [[Awesomeness By Analysis]]: William, and how.

* [[Camp Gay]]: One of the victims

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: William of Baskerville is described as [[Occam's Razor|William of Ockham]] [[X Meets Y|combined with]] [[Sherlock Holmes]] [[Recycled in Space|in the 14th century]].

* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Averted. Does William of Occam exist in this version? Yes, he's a friend of William of Baskerville.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Several, notably the [[Mad Oracle|eccentric]] Ubertino da Casale ''(film only)'', and the deformed Salvatore.

* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Bernard plans to use it on the cellarer, but even the mention of torture is enough for him to admit everything, even things he didn't commit.

* [[Eureka Moment]]: William has one considering the secret of the library. Adso remembers how Salvatore said "tertius equi", which is [[Canis Latinicus]] for "The third of horse" (when he meant "the third horse"). William concludes: "the first and the seventh of the four" really means {{spoiler|"the first and the seventh of the ''word'' four", and "four" is "quatuor" in Latin, so you have to push the letters Q and R!}}

** They had a minor one earlier, when Adso dreamed a story similar to the "Coena Cypriani", a kind of [[The Bible|Bible]] [[Parody]]. Which helps William to remember that there was a book in the library consisting of four texts, one of them a comment for the Coena Cypriani, another one the book they're looking for.

* [[Finger-Licking Poison]]

* [[Flanderization]]: The transmogrification of the [[Purity Sue|saintly]] Ubertino da Casale (a minor character) from well-educated, decent, pious (if slightly fanatical) old man to a [[Mad Oracle|creepy]], [[Cryptic Conversation|obtuse]] [[Butt Monkey]] who hits on Adso and is ridiculed by William. Note that the poor guy actually existed.

** William has to choose between burning to death to save as many books as he can, or abandoning the library.

* [[Gonk]]: The Abbot, the Greek translator, and Adelmo are pretty much the only three of the Benedictine monks who is not frightfully ugly. The worst is undoubtedly [[Ron Perlman|Ron Perlman's]] Salvatore, who doesn't even look human.

* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Bernard(o) Gui(donis), Ubertino da Casale, Michael of Cesena.

* [[Primal Stance|The Hunchback]]: Salvatore. Played by [[Ron Perlman]] with extreme creepiness in the film.

* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: {{spoiler|Bernardo Gui in the film}}. This didn't happen in the book or in [[Real Life]], in which he died a far less cheesy death a couple of years after the time in which the movie takes place.

* [[The Spanish Inquisition|The Inquisition]]

* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|Bernardo Guy}} in the book

* [[Knight Templar]]: A whole army of them: the killer, the Dulcinians, the Inquisitors…

* [[The Late Middle Ages]]

* [[The Library of Babel]]: The plot [[The Tower|centers on one]], at the heart of the abbey.

* [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]: One of the go-to examples.

* [[Lit Fic]]

* [[MacGuffin]]: Averted with the {{spoiler|Second Book of the}} ''{{spoiler|Poetics}}''{{spoiler|, which is both thematically relevant to the story and, ironically, the murder weapon of most of the killings}}

* [[Mad Oracle]]: Ubertino is considered to be this in the film.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: William of Baskerville. The name is a two-part [[Shout-Out]] to logician and monk William of Ockham and [[Sherlock Holmes|a certain fictional detective.]]

** Also, the blind monk Jorge of Burgos is a shoutout to the (blind) [[Jorge Luis Borges]], an important literary influence for Eco

* [[Rape Is Love]]

** Actually, the girl kind of jumps on Adso, but after the initial shock he seems quite willing -- and even enthusiastic. He's a young man who probably struggles even against the desire to masturbate. Few would have more self-control in that situation. William later says that in Adso's place "even a father in the desert would have damned himself".

* [[Recycled in Space]]: The story is basically a medieval [[Sherlock Holmes]] mystery in addition to the literary elements.

* [[Red Herring]]: {{spoiler|The connection between the various deaths and the seven trumpets of Revelation turns out to be a coincidence after all}}. When this theory is discussed openly, the killer decides to run with it, which complicates things further.

* [[Theme Serial Killer]]: The killings follow symbolism from the Book of Revelations. {{spoiler|As it turns out, this is mostly by accident.}}

* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: The lost dialogue of Aristotle is assumed to be this. {{spoiler|[[Finger-Licking Poison|it's actually poisoned]]}}.

* [[Torture Always Works]]: Averted. William used to be an inquisitor, but avoided using torture. He explains that poeople under torture say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what they imagine might please him. Later, when Bernard intorrogates the cellarer, the threat of torture is enogh for him to admit that he committed all the murders (which he didn't do).

* [[The Tower]]: The hidden and locked library looms over the monastery, tall, dark, [[Living Labyrinth|labyrinthine]] and foreboding. Eco helpfully draws a diagram of it for readers.

* [[The Unintelligible]]: Salvatore, played by Ron Perlman.

* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]

* [[Villain Teleportation]]: {{spoiler|Jorge}}'s ability to get in and around the library unseen.

* [[What a Senseless Waste of Human Life|What A Senseless Waste Of]] <s>[[What a Senseless Waste of Human Life|Human Life]]</s> [[What a Senseless Waste of Human Life|Precious Ancient Books]].

* [[Wimp Fight]]: Subverted: William and Jorge are both senescent intellectuals. They know absolutely nothing about fighting...[[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|but will do absolutely anything to win.]]