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=== This TV movie features examples of: ===
* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Zantetsuken's cutting ability is a major plot point of the film.
* [[Back -to -Back Badasses]]: Jigen and Goemon when they're attacked by Galvez's men.
* [[Big Eater]]: Zenigata orders ten hamburgers and finishes them all.
* [[Biker Babe]]: Fujiko rides a motorcycle for much of the movie.
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* [[Chase Fight]]: The duel between Lupin and Goemon. Lupin runs away as an increasingly frustrated Goemon tries to fight him.
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Fujiko, of course. During the course of the movie, she manages to betray Lupin, Galvez, and Shade.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Zenigata single-handedly takes takes down three drug dealers. {{spoiler|Who later turn out to be undercover officers. Whoops.}}
* [[The Dragon]]: Shade to Galvez.
* [[Embarrassing Rescue]]: Lupin saves Jigen from Galvez's goons. Jigen is ''not'' pleased.
* [[Everyone Meets Everyone]]: The whole point of the episode.
* [[Fire -Forged Friends]]: Pretty much how Lupin's gang comes together.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Lupin tells Jigen that robbing the Federal Reserve Bank is his dream, and he could do it if they worked together. Guess what Lupin and his gang rob during the credits.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Jigen at the end, when he decides to join Lupin instead of fighting him.
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* [[MacGuffin Delivery Service]]: Galvez and Fujiko plot to have Lupin steal the key and then steal it from him. {{spoiler|Lupin is aware of this, but he still ends up captured.}}
* [[Mythology Gag]]: The movie contradicts Goemon's introductions in the manga and the first TV series, but the fight between Lupin and Goemon is filled with references to both of them.
* [[No MacGuffin, No Winner]]: {{spoiler|The scroll ends up being destroyed.}}
* [[Older Sidekick]]: George McFly for Zenigata.
* [[The Rival]]: Jigen to Lupin, at first.
* [[Sleeping Dummy]]: Lupin uses one to fool Galvez's hit men.
* [[Theme Music Power -Up]]: When Lupin, Jigen, Fujiko, and Goemon are together for the first time in Galvez's basement, the new version of ''Lupin III '78'' starts playing just as they begin kicking ass.
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: An argument about this at the end of the film ensues.
* [[Whole Episode Flashback]]: Except for the bits with Elena, the entire movie is one big flashback.
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