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** Also {{spoiler|Knockout Ned's killer, a young boy whose father was shot by Knockout Ned during a robbery.}}
* [[Children Are Innocent]]: Brutally averted all the way to hell. Lil' Zé (called Dadinho at the time) goes on a senseless killing spree in a [[Love Hotels|whorehouse/motel]] when he is only 12 years old. At the very end of the film, Lil' Zé {{spoiler|gets his well-deserved [[Karmic Death]] at the hands of The Runts (''Caixa Baixa''), a group of even younger kids whom he bullied}}.
* [[Child Soldiers]]: The subversion of the above trope leads to this, obviously.▼
* [[Children Forced to Kill]]: Has an infamous example in which a ganglord forces one small child to kill his even younger friend after they steal from him.
▲* [[Child Soldiers]]: The subversion of the above trope leads to this, obviously.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: So much that (at least in Brazil) the most famous line is "''Dadinho é o caralho, meu nome agora é Zé Pequeno, porra!''" (translated as "The fuck I'm Dadinho! My fucking name is Zé Pequeno now!")
* [[Crazy Jealous Guy]]: Lil' Ze
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* [[Fallen Hero]]: Mané Galinha (Knockout Ned), to the point of becoming an antagonist.
* [[Gang-Bangers]]: The street gangs in Cidade de Deus are of the drug-wealthy but definitely lower-class variety.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Lil' Zé and Benny in the first half of the movie.▼
* [[Here We Go Again]]: The movie ends with the group of young street boys seen throughout the movie as they make a "death list" of the biggest drug dealers and forming their own gang.
▲* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Lil' Zé and Benny in the first half of the movie.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Mané Galinha (Knockout Ned)'s campaign of guerrilla justice against the street gang responsible for the rape and murder of his girlfriend slowly turns him into exactly the type of person he had been hunting.
* [[Initiation Ceremony]]: Zé initiates some runners, but but one of them is shot in the foot and forced to kill another of his choice before they can do so.
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* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: After spending his life clawing his way to the top, Zé dies with nothing; his gang's defeated, he's lost all his money, and he's gunned down by the very people he abused in a filthy alley with nothing. In short, he loses it all. Now THAT'S Karma.
* [[Mob War]]
* [[Morality Chain]]: Bené to Li'l Zé.▼
* [[Montages]]: Many.
▲* [[Morality Chain]]: Bené to Li'l Zé.
* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: The City of God is a pretty terrible place, and certainly doesn't come across as holy.
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: Nearly all of the characters. We only hear Buscapé's official name at the end of the movie. This is [[Truth in Television]]; Brazil is very much a nickname society, and favelas even more so.
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