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* [[Costume Porn]]: The Mayan elite, particularly the high priests and the royal family.
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: {{spoiler|Middle Eye}} is not the main character of the film, or even the main villain, he's simply the one with most distinctive sillhouette.
* [[Crapsack World]]: The film shows the Mayan civilization in a horrific state of decadence, scourged with drought, famine and diseases. We see fields of rotting crops, slaves burning down entire forests to make lime dust, young children dying of plague, and poor people who have been starved to the point of insanity. In response to all this, the priests are demanding more [[Human Sacrifice
** Interestingly enough, that was the whole point of the movie as based on the opening quote. It was showing how the Mayan civilization was already long since killing itself before the Europeans came over.
* [[Creepy Child]]: The plague-stricken little girl who cryptically foretells the events of the rest of the film in an eerie voice.
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* [[Savage Piercings]]: Most of the tribesmen and women had piercings of some description. There were wooden and jade studs, as well as more complicated, ornate pieces. The Mayan king is completely covered in elaborate piercings.
* [[Scenery Porn]] mixed with [[Scenery Gorn]]
* [[Sergeant Rock]]: Zero
* [[Scarily Competent Tracker]]: Zero Wolf and Snake Ink.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: While the stuff about the Mayans is either completely wrong or up for debate, one gruesome fact the film did get right was the jaguar attack. Jaguars have the strongest jaws of any of the big cats, and unlike the rest which will usually go for the jugular, the jaguar will instead crush its prey's skull between its jaws as in the film.
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* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Blunt is big-boned, but not unattractive; however, his wife is clearly meant to be the most beautiful girl in the village and everyone thinks she's too good for him.
* [[Verbal Business Card]]: [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya|Already mentioned]], his name is really Jaguar Paw and he is '''[[Captain Obvious|definitely]]''' a hunter.
* [[Villainous Rescue]]: The mother jaguar who angrily chases Jaguar Paw for (unintentionally) threatening her cub certainly counts as one of these. She ends up attacking and ripping the face off one of his
** {{spoiler|The ending should also count since the Europeans unknowingly stopped Jaguar Paw's execution and will bring about the further collapse of the Mayans... before taking over themselves.}}
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: When the women of the village are being sold as slaves, the oldest one is set free because there were no buyers. We last see her looking on as the men are marched off to be sacrificed.
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