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* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: Baron Scarpia against commoners Cavaradossi and Tosca.
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* [[Irrelevant Act Opener]]: the shepherd in Act III.
* [[Kill'Em All]]
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: Scarpia has all these gorgeously melodic tunes. He's singing about his plots to rape Tosca, kill Cavaradossi, and generally be as nasty as possible. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3McP88FGHo This all happens while he's
** His second [[Villain Song]], ''Ha più forte sapore'', in which he sings about how he likes to win women by force, is also quite lovely to hear.
* [[Moral Myopia]]: Talking loudly in church? Scandalous! Planning murder and rape ''while still in church''? Perfectly all right.
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* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Cavaradossi is hiding Cesare Angelotti from the authorities. Tosca finds a fan, dropped by Angelotti's sister when hiding food and clothes, and immediately assumes Cavaradossi is cheating on her.
* [[Rash Equilibrium]]: Scarpia doesn't actually pardon Cavaradossi, as he promised Tosca; Tosca kills Scarpia rather than sleep with him as she promised in order to get the pardon.
▲* [[Scarpia Ultimatum]]: The [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Scenery Porn]]: Sant'Andrea della Valle, the Farnese Palace and the Castel Sant'Angelo; Puccini seems determined to prove that there's no place more beautiful than Rome for a story of torture, murder, and suicide.
* [[See You in Hell]]: Kind of — just before jumping off the parapet, Tosca cries that she'll next be meeting Scarpia before God, with the implication that they'll both be answering for their crimes.
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