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* [[Black and Grey Morality]]
* [[Black Comedy Burst]]: At heart it's a brutal film about the perils of the drug trade, but there's an awful lot of [[Gallows Humour]] about too.
* [[Book Ends]]: The film starts with an [[Armed Blag|armed robbery of a payroll van]] in the [[The Sixties|60's]], and [[Full
{{quote| '''Trevor''': "Just like the old days, Shanks. A nice bit of armed robbery."}}
* [[Billing Displacement]]: The film advertising prominently places Sienna Miller with Craig, even though she plays a minor character in the film.
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* [[Covers Always Lie]]: The cover of the film's post-''[[Casino Royale (Film)|Casino Royale]]'' DVD release shows Craig in a [[James Bond (Film)|James Bond]]-style pose. In the film, he does that in only one scene as a joke.
* [[Crazy Jealous Guy]]: {{spoiler|Sidney}}
* [[Damn, It Feels Good to Be A Gangster!]]: Deconstructed and then reconstructed by the end. At first XXXX proclaims his job to be an excellent method of employment with good retirement options. When he finally does end up facing the rest of the criminal underworld, however, they're all either idiots or terrifying cold-hearted thugs and all with their own flaws and quirks. {{spoiler|XXXX also finds out how much killing someone affects your conscience and peace of mind. In the end, however, the trope is at least partially reconstructed by Eddie Temple with an incredibly cool speech about the nature of the criminal game.}}
{{quote| {{spoiler|You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake, son.}} }}
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: X after Eddie robs him his pills. {{spoiler|Turns out he's already planned to ambush Eddie's mercs and rob his pills back.}}
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* [[Diegetic Switch]]: Used with the infamous "Ordinary World" scene; the Duran Duran track can be heard faintly in the background before Morty gets his money out.
* [[Doesn't Like Guns]]: XXXX states this outright. In the novel, Cody also has this attitude, which makes sense, since he's a [[Con Men Hate Guns|con man]].
* [[Double Standard Rape (Male On Male)]]: Averted; it's treated as horrifying. Crazy Larry's treatment of men led to at least one man committing suicide and {{spoiler|to being killed by Gene, himself possibly a victim of Larry}}.
* [[The Dragon]]: Actually named Dragan, however, {{spoiler|he's such a tough dragon that he never comes close to getting defeated. His employer also isn't the [[Big Bad]] of the story.}}
** Also Mr. [[Meaningful Name|Troop]], ex-soldier and Eddie Temple's right-hand man for dirty work.
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* [[Fade to White]]
* [[Fake Nationality]]: The Serbians are played by Romanians who, [[As Long As It Sounds Foreign|when not speaking English, speak Romanian]].
* [[False
* [[Fat and Skinny]]: [[Those Two Bad Guys|Liverpudlians Trevor and Shanks]]. Trevor is a big, laid-back black guy and Shanks is white, skinny and highly twitchy.
* [[Gangsta Style]]: Done by the Duke's gang. Probably an instance where the people doing this were supposed to look stupid.
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* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: After seeing their stolen ecstasy's holdout busted by the cops, the Serbs let X live. Granted, {{spoiler|they don't know the bust was staged by X}}, but the idea is that they don't prolong bloodfeuds for a lost cause.
* [[Pretty Little Headshots]]: {{spoiler|On both Jimmy and Mr. Lucky}}.
* [[Product Promotion Parade]]: A surreal fantasy version featuring a pharmacy/boutique full of [
* [[Professional Killer]]:
** {{spoiler|Inverted with the protagonist, in the film at least. XXXX hates guns and killing, and when he does assassinate Price it affects him so much afterwards that he can barely function for an indeterminately long montage of drinking, sedation, and hiding in his apartment watching TV and occasionally twitching.}}
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* [[Reverse Mole]]: {{spoiler|Jimmy Price, who's been planning on shopping XXXX and Gene to the police so he can make a clean getaway with XXXX's money}}.
* [[Room Disservice]]: How the [[Magnificent Bastard]] gangster has the protagonist brought to him, preventing him from having sex with Sienna Miller.
* [[Scary Black Man]]: Averted by the two main black characters, Morty and Trevor, who are very soft spoken and seem perpetually calm. Eventually played straight when the idiot who landed Morty in jail for ten years wanders in off the street and asks him for money. [[No
* [[Schrodingers Cat]]: While surviving and leaving England in the book, the protagonist is implied to die in the movie. Connolly does write a sequel book titled Viva La Madness, but whether it's going to be adapted for theatre remains to be seen.
* [[Scope Snipe]]: Used against {{spoiler|Mr. Lucky}}. Triggers an [[Oh Crap]] from XXXX.
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{{quote| '''XXXX''': What the ''fuck''?!<br />
'''Morty''': ...I might not be around for a while. }}
* [[Sharp
* [[Shout
* [[Shower of Angst]]: XXXX takes one after {{spoiler|he shoots Jimmy}}.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The use of Duran Duran during [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VHyFuZgd4E this particular scene.]
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