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▲* [[Absence of Evidence]]:
** Where's the cocaine?
** Where did the van with all the money go {{spoiler|after Hockney gets shot?}}
* [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"]]
* [[Amoral Attorney]]: Kobayashi
* [[Anyone Can Die]]:
* [[Ax Crazy]]: The backstory for Keyser Söze told by Kint portrays Söze as this.
* [[Bad Boss]]: Söze's minions are disposable, and his enemies...
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]
* [[Be
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]:
** Those who speak Hungarian get to hear a cut off joke from Hockney finished by two Hungarian mooks later in the film.
** Speakers of Turkish get a hint at a major spoiler, as Söze is Turkish for {{spoiler|"talks too much"}}.
* [[Break the Haughty]]: {{spoiler|Agent Kujan. His constant flaunting of his intelligence to Verbal returns to bite him in the ending.}}
* [[Cast
* [[Clueless Mystery]]
* [[Consummate Liar]]:
* [[Conveniently Cellmates]]: The main characters first meet in a jail cell, and this is revealed to be part of Keyser Söze's plot.
* [[Creator Cameo]]: Screenwriter Chris McQuarrie is one of the cops conducting the line-up -- he ad-libs the "English, please" remark to Fenster when Benicio del Toro mumbles his line.
* [[Dead-Man Switch]]: Kobayashi lets the protagonists know that if he dies under suspicious circumstances, his boss Keyser Söze will immediately know who did it and take revenge on them and their families.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Hockney.
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'''Hockney:''' Really? I live in Queens. Did you put that together yourself, Einstein? What, do you got a team of monkeys working around the clock on this?
* [[Deep-Cover Agent]]: {{spoiler|Verbal Kint may or or may not be a cover identity. If it's a cover, it goes back at least as far as the original line-up in NYC. Kint also has a criminal history that includes ratting on a drug dealer named Ruby Deamer.}}
* [[Diabolical Mastermind]]
* [[The Ending Changes Everything]]: This trope was formerly called the Usual Suspects Ending.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: McManus.▼
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: How Kobayashi blackmails the Suspects.
* [[Everyone Is a Suspect]]: Who's Keyser Söze?
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** [[The Big Guy]]: Hockney may be the smallest of the suspects, but he's [[The Napoleon|the one always looking for a fight]] and the explosives expert, which more than makes up for his small size.
** [[The Chick]]: Poor Fenster never got a chance to shine.
* [[Gangsta Style]]: How Söze finishes off
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Several, mostly done quite artfully.
* [[Guns Akimbo]]:
** During the jewel heist, McManus aims two pistols and gets kill shots on two different targets who are both grappling with his accomplices, after clearly concentrating hard, ''and'' waiting for a clean pair of shots.
** Keaton uses two pistols during the climax, but again it is handled fairly realistically, as he mostly uses the two guns at very close range, and when he gets a moment to catch his breath and move on he only uses one gun.
* [[Gut Feeling]]: Kujan believes he already knows what happens and tries to get Verbal to confirm his suspicions. Early in the film, Verbal encourages this behavior by sarcastically asserting that, when a cop thinks the brother did it, he's usually going to be right.
* [[Hand of Death]]: Söze's identity is hidden by showing various parts of his body -- his hands, the back of his head -- but never his face, except in a single dark and blurry shot of him [[Unflinching Walk|walking away from a burning building]]. Söze was played in flashbacks by about six different people, including ''three'' members of the main cast (
* [[He Knows Too Much]]: the one surviving Hungarian from that boat.
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* [[Hidden Villain]]
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: McManus pulls off a few impressive shots, notably the one during the jewel heist.
* [[Indy Ploy]]: {{spoiler|The whole movie is a story Söze pulls out of his ass when he's stuck in police custody.}}
* [[Ironic Nickname]]: "Verbal" Kint is chatty in the interrogation, but in the flashbacks he's very reticent. He doesn't utter a word before introducing himself, saying, "People say I talk too much." Hockney quips, "Yeah, I was just about to tell you to shut up."
* [[Karma Houdini]]:
* [[Kill Them All]]: In the end
* [[Large Ham]]: Fenster. Del Toro basically added this characterization himself. The character on the page was pretty flat nondescript.
* [[Line-of-Sight Name]]: {{spoiler|Many details from Verbal's story turn out to be taken from objects in the room. Verbal is seen looking around the room before his interrogation, and a later shot even shows him looking up at the bottom of Kujan's coffee cup.}}
* [[Living Legend]]: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
* [[Lost in Translation]]: In-film example.
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
▲* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: McManus.
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: Some early trailers for the film implied that the main characters, in a combination of self-preservation and [[Even Evil Has Standards|horror at Keyser Söze's activities]], were banding together to take him down.
* [[Obfuscating Disability]]:
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]:
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Brutally subverted by Söze. He has a beautiful wife, three adoring children, and he's big and hairy and aggressive- then his family is taken hostage. {{spoiler|He killed his wife and both surviving kids himself rather than allow his enemies to do it. That way, he explains to the surviving enemy mook, they won't have to live with the humiliation.}}
** [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Or]] [[Fridge Brilliance|maybe]] he realized that his family would always be in danger from people who would torture them to hurt or manipulate him and thought
* [[Personal Effects Reveal]]:
* [[Pet the Dog]]: McManus comes across a dog while on the boat in the climax, and gives it a head rub before moving on. Before that, {{spoiler|we find out he actually cared about his partner, Fenster, and the two were close friends.}}
* [[Police Lineup]]: How the suspects all meet each other. It's the picture used on the posters and DVD cover.
* [[Posthumous Character]]: Most of the characters.
* [[Rabid Cop]]: David Kujan of U.S. Customs:
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* [[Red Shirt]]: {{spoiler|Fenster, who actually wears a red shirt.}}
* [[The Reveal]]: Aside from the obvious, there's a rare case where it's mostly inconsequential to the plot. When Kobayashi is rattling off everyone's crimes against Söze, he reveals that
* [[Robbing the Mob Bank]]: Each of the suspects has unwittingly stolen from from one of Söze's fronts or minions.
* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: According to Benicio Del Toro,
* [[Saying Too Much]]:
* [[
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]]: Söze is able to manipulate law enforcement agencies to a truly disturbing extent.
* [[Seamless Spontaneous Lie]]: {{spoiler|The entire movie is one long example.}}
▲* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]]: Söze is able to manipulate law enforcement agencies to a truly disturbing extent. {{spoiler|Despite admitting (as Verbal Kint) to a raft of crimes, the most the police can hit him with is a minor weapons charge. Rabin says he's "protected from up on high by the prince of darkness." Later on, Kint's story includes Kobayashi saying that Söze arranged the line up to gather up the five crooks whose crimes had interfered with Söze and get them to repay their "debt".}}
* [[Self
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: {{spoiler|The end reveals that Verbal Kint's story, which comprises the bulk of the film, is a fabrication}}.
* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: Söze. Somewhat unusually, he lives up to his reputation.
* [[Tuckerization]]: Averted. Keyser Söze's original name was changed due to the feeling that his namesake wouldn't appreciate being associated with such a character.
* [[Twist Ending]]: {{spoiler|Just when Kujan thinks he's got it all figured out, he looks at the pin board papers and realizes that Kint's story is a massive ball of lies.}} ''Convince me.''
* [[Two Aliases, One Character]]:
* [[The Unfettered]]: Keyser Soze.
* [[The Unintelligible]]: Fenster. Benicio del Toro thought the character was too boring on the page and came up with a bizarre accent (Chinese and Hispanic, by his account) to spice things up. He drew inspiration from Mumbles in the ''[[Dick Tracy (
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Verbal.
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Keyser Söze himself killing his wife and child to stop the home invaders from using them as hostages, then killing all but one of the invaders (so he'd go tell his associates), then going out and killing everyone connected with the people who did the home invasion of his house, including people whose only connection was that that owed money to them or had dealings with them.
▲* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Verbal. {{spoiler|Kujan constantly accuses him of lying, and ultimately Verbal confirms Kujan's preconceived notion that Keaton was Keyser Söze. Of course, Verbal wanted him to think that all along.}} Also, {{spoiler|Kint narrates things he wasn't actually there to see. Unless he was Soze.}}
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▲* [[Urban Legends]]: Keyser Söze himself is one.
▲{{quote| "He becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night. 'Rat on your pop, and Keyser Söze will get you.' And no one ever really believes."}}
▲* [[You All Meet in A Cell]]
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[[Category:Mystery and Detective Films]]
[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]
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