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* [[Not Using the Zed Word]]: The word "Mafia" was deliberately never spoken in the first film, nor is the "official" name of the organization, ''La Cosa Nostra'' ("This thing of ours" or, simply "Our Thing"). Each term is mentioned exactly once in Part II, both by Michael Corleone when he faces the senate hearing, and he says them to immediately refute any connection between himself and any such organizations.
** Twice. In the same scene, Senator Geary refers to "these hearings on the Mafia. . . "
** As for the first movie: it was produced at a time when [https://web.archive.org/web/20120307074712/http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Silicon_Anti-Defamation_League a Mafia AstroTurf organization] was attempting to convince people that there was, in fact, no such thing as the Mafia. Accordingly, the word was never used in that movie. By the time of ''Godfather II'', people had figured out the con, so it was once more politically correct to use the term (though in the novel at least, it's made clear that, strictly speaking, Don Vito and his lieutenants are ''not'' members of the Mafia: the Corleone family are upstarts rather than "official" mafiosi).
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Michael, specially in ''Part I''; he deliberately projects the image of a weak boss and even his capos start to doubt his leadership. [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]] ensues.
* [[An Offer You Can't Refuse]]: The [[Trope Namer]], it's right up there on the poster.
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