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** He's [[Bishonen|androgynously sexy]] enough in more than a few drawings that [[Even the Guys Want Him]].
* [[Never Heard That One Before]]: The police captain has the last name "Hook" - which, yes, makes his name [[Peter Pan|"Captain Hook"]]. It's implied that Hook found this funny earlier in his career, but over time became absolutely disgusted with people constantly bringing it up.
* [[No Shirt, Long Jacket]]: Eric, constantly.
* [[Pretty Little Headshots]]: Averted ... poor Eric. {{spoiler|It takes two to actually kill him.}}
* [[Suicide Is Painless]]: Funboy accepts his unavoidable death, agrees to act as Eric's messenger boy to the rest of the thugs and talks things over fairly civilly with Eric rather than futilely trying to resist. Eric rewards him by allowing Funboy to kill himself by a massive drug overdose, sparing him the savage vengeance he inflicts on the other gang members.
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* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Albrecht.
* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: Myca and Top Dollar.
* [[Bloodstained
* [[Break Out the Museum Piece]]: Top Dollar is a collector of antique weapons, and he uses a rapier to execute Gideon. Also see [[Katanas Are Just Better]] below.
* [[The Cast Showoff]]: The final fight makes good use of Brandon Lee's Kung Fu skills. Three guesses [[Bruce Lee|whom]] he learned those from.
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* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: Top Dollar is defeated by the misery he caused to Eric and Shelly.
* [[Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday]]: Eric's death and return from the grave take place on Devil's Night. ''City of Angels'' had its resurrection scene on All Saints' Day, and its climax at a Day of the Dead festival.
* [["I Am Becoming" Song]]: [[The Cure (Music)|The Cure]]'s "Burn" (the movie's unofficial anthem) thunders on during the sequence where Eric makes himself into the Crow.
** Although if you listen to the lyrics closely, it's clear that the song was written from the comic's plot, not the movie's.
* [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice]]: [[You Have Been Warned|Spoilers]].
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* [[No Name Given]]: Top Dollar, Myca and Grange are not referred to by name until the end credits.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Myca (Top Dollar's Chinese half-sister, played by Bai Ling) normally speaks in a childish idiom that suggests a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] and sometimes borders on [[You No Take Candle]]. ("I like the pretty lights.") Yet she is really every bit as crafty as her brother, and she even comes up with a scheme to blunt Eric's supernatural power. Plus, she proves herself a capable [[Action Girl]] when she {{spoiler|shoots Lieutenant Albrecht}}.
* [[One
* [[One Last Smoke]]: {{spoiler|Subverted. Eric helps a wounded Albrecht have one, but he survives. And (supposedly) quits smoking.}}
** Eric's "You shouldn't smoke these, they'll kill ya" line after taking a puff was ad-libbed by Brandon.
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* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: What Top Dollar and his Devil's Night gang like to do. Eric blows up Gideon's pawnshop as well as T-Bird's car with him inside.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Gideon, literally so. Just ''could not shut up'' when dealing with either Eric or Top Dollar. Eric blew up his shop. {{spoiler|Top Dollar [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice|rammed a rapier through his throat]] and shot him twice.}}
* [[Unhand Them, Villain!]]: Top Dollar.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: T-Bird pretty much loses his mind the moment he recognizes Eric. Considering the verses he's quoting from John Milton's [[Paradise Lost]] ("Abashed the Devil stood ..."), this might also qualify as a [[Heel Realization]].
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