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* [[Fish Out of Water]]: Chance. Luckily, he adapts quickly.
* [[The Fool]]: Chance.
* [[Good Adultery, Bad Adultery]]
** Good -- Ben has no problem with Eve's attraction to Chance because he's dying and would be happy to know she would be taken care of, thus freeing her up to woo the unsuspecting gardener.
** Bad -- (Movie only) The lawyers who come to close the house are a male-female duo who are carrying on an affair behind the back of the man's wife (who is getting suspicious).
* [[Good Morning, Crono]]: The opening sequence of the movie follows Chance as he's awakened by the TV in his bedroom, and he proceeds to tend to his garden (there's a TV in the greenhouse), watch some more TV in his bedroom, and then go down to the dining room to wait for breakfast and watch ''more'' TV.
* [[Hey
* [[Hilarious Outtakes]]: The end credits run over footage of Sellers constantly breaking down laughing during a monologue that was ultimately cut from the film. Sellers thought this was a violation of the movie's tone and tried to have them removed. The tone of the film (and especially the actor's death) makes the outtakes seem more melancholy than anything else. It doesn't help that Sellers is lying face-up on a table wearing a dark tailored suit to deliver the speech, thereby resembling a ''corpse'', as a film journal put it in a retrospective article not long after he died.
* [[Ice Cream Koan]]: Chance's "wise sayings".
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* [[Madwoman in The Attic]]: Chance.
* [[Man Child]]: As Louise the maid puts it to Chance in the film, "You're always gonna be a little boy, ain't ya?"
* [[May
* [[Meaningful Funeral]]: {{spoiler|Ben's...but in an unusual way, in part because it is ''not'' meaningful to Chance.}}
* [[Messianic Archetype]]: Subverted with Chance, who comes across as this but only because he's constantly misunderstood. {{spoiler|And then there's a Double Subversion in the final shot}}...]]
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* [[No Ending]]: Famously so. "[[Arc Words|Life is a state of mind]]".
* [[No Name Given]]: Chance only knew his benefactor as "the Old Man" (in the film, the lawyers refer to him as a "Mr. Jennings"). We never learn Chance's last name; he introduces himself to others only as "Chance, the gardener". He may not even have one.
* [[One Dialogue, Two Conversations]]: Most of Chance's interactions with others are these.
* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]]: In the novella, Eve's nicknamed "E.E." after her initials (her middle name is Elizabeth) and everyone refers to her as such. The movie sticks with Eve instead, probably because "E.E." would have sounded strange on screen when spoken.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Chance's mother [[Death By Childbirth|died in childbirth]] according to the novella, and the (largely absent) father figure of The Old Man dies early on.
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