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* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: And how!
* [[Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence]]: The film depicts the genocide as being a consequence of this logic.
* [[Guile Hero]]: Paul.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Paul has one shortly after
** Colonel Oliver has one when he finds out the U.N. soldiers aren't going to protect the refugees or help them get out of the country.
* [[Honest Corporate Executive]]: Paul's boss in Belgium, Mr. Tillens, who does what he can to help Paul and the refugees.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Subverted; Paul finds his wife and family hiding in a shower, wielding a shower hose as a weapon. He even points out, "What were you going to do with this?!" especially since the water was turned off by that point.
* [[It Got Worse]]: Most of the movie, up to the ending.
* [[Les Collaborateurs]]: One of Paul's hotel employees is a virulent Hutu partisan who {{spoiler|tells the militia about the location of the Tutsi refugees
* [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition]]: There's lots of bonus material if you buy even the [[Vanilla Edition]], though, including [[DVD Commentary]] by the real Paul Rusesabagina himself.
* [[Police Are Useless]]: The United Nations soldiers, but not by choice.
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* [[Scary Black Man]]
* [[Sword Drag]]: The Hutu militia does this, sliding their machetes against the ground while closing in on the Tutsi refugees.
* [[Take a Third Option]]: Given the choice between shooting the Tutsi refugees or being shot himself, Paul instead {{spoiler|bribes the soldier holding him at gunpoint into releasing them
* [[Take That]]:
{{quote|'''Jack''': ''"I think if people see this footage, they'll say oh my God, that's horrible. And then they'll go on eating their dinners."''
* [[Thanatos Gambit]]: It's theorized that the assassinated President Habyarimana did this so it would give his followers an excuse for committing the genocide (which was
* [[Wham! Line]]:
{{quote|'''George Rutaganda''': ''"Cut the tall trees. [[It Got Worse|Cut the tall trees now!]]"''
* [[Would Be Rude to Say Genocide]]: The UN refused to call it a genocide, despite obvious evidence that the Tutsi population was being massacred. Definitely a cowardly form of [[Loophole Abuse]].
** The [[Insistent Terminology]] on the part of the US government, the UN, etc
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[[Category:Hotel Rwanda]]
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