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{{quote|''"He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue!"'' |'''Jimmy Malone''' ([[Sean
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== [[The Untouchables (1959 TV series)|The first TV show]] contains examples of: ==
* [[The Big Bad]]: Capone, even after he is incarcerated, remains the puppet master.
* [[Bond One-
* [[By-The-Book Cop]]: No anti-heroes here.
* [[Clean Up the
* [[Cop Show]]
* [[The
* [[The Fettered]]: Ness.
* [[Film
* [[Five-Man Band]]: Except for the first season, when they are a six man band.
* [[Framing
* [[The Great
* [[Incorruptible Pure
* [[Just a Stupid
* [[Made of
* [[
* [[No Sense of
* [[Police Procedural]]: Somewhere between this and [[Cop Show]].
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: One episode involves a stolen sable coat.
* [[The Roaring
* [[The Film of the Book|The Show of the Book]]: Ness's semi-fictional memoir.
* [[So Once Again the Day Is Saved]]: The basic gist of Winchell's voiceover, although done rather cleverly.
* [[The Windy
* [[Workaholic]]: Implied. Although we see the criminal of the week's personal lives, the show never follows the Untouchables home. Judging by the late-night hours Ness pulls, he certainly is one (not to mention the [[Married to the Job|real
* [[You Look
== [[The Untouchables (film)|The
* [[Agree to
* [[At the Opera
* [[Baby
* [[Badass
* [[Badass
* [[Batman
* [[Batter Up]]: Al Capone famously used a baseball bat to savagely murder one of his subordinates.
** [[Very Loosely Based on a True
* [[Berserk
*** This came after {{spoiler|Eliot refused to shoot Frank on the principle of upholding the law and common decency}}. [[Too Dumb to Live|This is why you shouldn't taunt the cops while you're getting arrested.]]
** When Stone is wounded by a gangster, Wallace goes on a shotgun rampage against an entire convoy of armed bootleggers.
* [[Big Bad]]: Capone, of course.
* [[Bittersweet
** Even worse, a reporter notes that Prohibition, the law that enabled Capone to build up his criminal empire, may be getting repealed soon (historically, it was repealed two years after Capone's arrest), meaning that Congress had figured out the law was a mistake, and that the whole thing was a mistake. So {{spoiler|Malone and Wallace died}} for almost nothing.
* [[Black and White
** As the film goes on, it turns into [[Black and Gray
* [[Blood
* [[By-The-Book Cop]]: Eliot Ness, at least at first.
* [[Car
* [[Chekhov's
* [[Comically Missing the
* [[Dangerously Close
* [[Died in Your Arms
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: {{spoiler|Nitti}}.
* [[Disproportionate
{{quote|'''Malone:''' You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. ''That's'' the Chicago way!}}
* [[Doomed Moral
* [[The
* [[Evil
* [[Evil
* [[Fake Kill
* [[Famous Last
** "What are you prepared to do?" {{spoiler|Malone}}.
** "He died screaming, like a stuck Irish pig. Now you think about that when I beat the rap." {{spoiler|Frank Nitti}}.
*** Also qualifies as [[Evil
*** I believe technically his last words were "AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
*** "[[Berserk Button|DID IT SOUND ANYTHING LIKE THAT?!]]"
* [[Fanfare]]
* [[The Film of the
* [[Going by the Matchbook]]: Frank Nitti has the address of Jim Malone (Sean Connery) written on a book of matches. Unfortunately he forgets to dispose of it after killing Malone, so when Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) searches him later it leads to their final shootout.
* [[Hollywood
* [[Hollywood Law]]: When they discover the jury has been bribed, they switch Capone's jury with the jury next door. This is, interestingly, actually an ''aversion'' as this [[wikipedia:Al Capone#Conviction and imprisonment|somehow really happened]]. Capone's lawyer attempting to enter a plea without his client's consent is ''not'', and, in real life, is a good way to have a mistrial, an overturned conviction, and disbarment for the attorney
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Ness and Co are in a corrupt town, they know they can't trust most of the police and what do they do with their key witness? They put him in an elevator with just one Untouchable (Oscar the accountant) and don't bother to clear out the elevator of anyone they don't trust. They were really holding onto it that day.
* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: On asked what he'll do when Prohibition is over, he replies he'll immediately have a drink.
* [[Justice by Other Legal
** Justified. In [[Real
* [[Let's Get
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Frank Nitti is always seen dressed in white.
* [[Man in
* [[Mentor Occupational Hazard]]: {{spoiler|Jim Malone}}.
* [[Never Bring a Knife to a Gun
** Also, this memorable line:
{{quote|'''Malone''': Now isn't that just like a wop, brings a knife to a gunfight!}}
* [[Noble Bigot with a
* [[Officer O'
* [[Psycho for
* [[Put Down Your Gun and Step
* [[Reliably Unreliable
* [[Schiff One-
* [[Screw the Money, I Have
* [[Shotguns Are Just
* [[Shout-
** It's even more impressive when you know that the sequence was a last-minute alternative to the original scene, a car/train chase that was prohibitively expensive (the chase did make the novelization).
* [[The Squad]]: Also a [[Badass Crew]].
** [[The
** [[The
** [[The
** [[The Smart
* [[Steel Ear
* [[Such a Lovely
{{quote|'''Frank Nitti:''' Nice house.}}
* [[Team
* [[Too Dumb to
* [[Took a Level in
* [[Tragic
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: The leader of the [[Canada, Eh?|RCMP]] calls out the Untouchables' [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|brutal]] [[Disproportionate Retribution|methods.]]
** Let us note that the guy being brutally interrogated was already DEAD when Malone splattered his brains out. The only person that KNOWS said crook is dead is Ness, being the man who killed him quite thoroughly a few moments ago. That is to say, the RCMP officer fell for it as well as the hood.
{{quote|'''RCMP Captain''': ''I do not approve of your methods.''
'''Eliot Ness''': ''Yeah, well... You're not from [[Crapsack World|
** Even if the Mountie knew that it was a dead man (since the movie only shows clearly that the reluctant gangster isn't aware that Malone is interrogating a corpse), many would find it a questionable method of doing police-work.
** Also an example of [[Where Do You Think You Are?]].
* [[What You Are in the Dark]]: Ness is sorely tempted to shoot Nitti during the rooftop chase, when it's just the two of them there. He decides against it and arrests Nitti instead. {{spoiler|But then Nitti [[Berserk Button|just had to go
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Al Capone beats one of his goons to death with a bat.
== [[The Untouchables (1993 TV series)|The 1990s TV show]] contains examples of: ==
* [[Guns
** In the 1980s version, 'George Stone' has two guns on him at the train station when they separate. Stone notices Eliot has run out of ammunition, charges in, and passes Eliot one of his own pistols.
* [[Meek
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