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[[File:cryinggame_3417.jpg|frame|The original [[The Mighty Boosh|great confuser]].]]
▲{{quote|Those eyes, those thighs,<br />
▲''Surprise!''<br />
''I didn't order that!''
▲It's the Crying Gaaaaame!<br />
So you [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"|want to know about]] ''[[The Crying Game]]''? The movie is best remembered for its [[It Was His Sled|now infamous]] plot twist, but there's more to it than that.
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Having no other course of action, Fergus makes his way to London to honor Jody's last request. He reinvents himself as Jimmy and finds Dil working as a hairdresser and sometime lounge singer. Though he means to tell her the truth about himself, he finds himself falling for her first. But, he's not the only one with a secret.
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* [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"]]
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: David for Dil.
* [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"]]: [[Trope Namer]].
** This film is mostly remembered for the fact that one of the characters is
▲*** The movie is also psychologically interesting in how Stephen Rhea's character, who is basically a decent person, tries to deal with bad situations and people. But all this was arguably ruined by the way the director handled the reveal of Dil's transsexuality.
** Movie posters and DVD boxes featured Miranda Richardson to try to confuse the issue.
** "Hot Shots! Part Deux" includes a spoiler for ''The Crying Game'' in the [[Credits Gag|closing credits]].
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* [[Ate His Gun]]: Dil wants to, but Fergus won't let her.
* [[Award Bait Song]]: Averted. "The Crying Game" wasn't original, so it wasn't eligible for an Academy Award.
* [[Bad Dreams]]: Fergus has them about Jody.▼
* [[Badass Boast]]:
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▲* [[Bad Dreams]]: Fergus has them about Jody.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]:
* [[Captain Obvious]]: Fergus is pretty slow on the uptake regarding Dil and who knew about this and that and so on.
* [[Conspicuously Public Assassination]]: The IRA wants Fergus to perform one of these.
* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: AND HOW!!!
* [[Femme Fatale]]: Jude, ''especially'' when she goes raven-haired.
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* [[Frog and The Scorpion]]
* [[Gender Blender Name]]: Jody, Jude, and Dil.
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* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Peter.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]:
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* [[Honey Trap]]: The IRA gets Jody by sending one of these (played by Miranda Richardson) after him.▼
▲* [[Honey Trap]]: The IRA gets Jody by sending one of these (played by Miranda Richardson) after him
▲* [[If It's You It's Okay]]: Implied to be the resolution for {{spoiler|Dil and Fergus}}.
* [[Important Haircut]]: One for Fergus (though done off-screen) when he reinvents himself as Jimmy. Another for Dil when she has to go into hiding.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Dil continues to call Fergus loving terms
* [[Lima Syndrome]]
* [[Male Frontal Nudity]]: Used for [[The Reveal]].
* [[Manslaughter Provocation]]: Probably what
* [[Nausea Fuel]]: [[The Reveal]], for [[In-Universe|Fergus]].
* [[Resignations Not Accepted]]: Jude to Fergus.
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'''Jude:''' ''(practically rolling her eyes)'' You're ''never'' out.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]:
* [[Shower of Angst]]: This famous post-revelation scene has been
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Eddie.
* [[Suspiciously Apropos Music]]: The film opens "When a Man Loves a Woman", and ends with "Stand By Your Man".
* [[Sympathetic Murderer]]:
* [[Title Drop]]: The eponymous song is song by Dil.
* [[
* [[Traumatic Haircut]]: Dil.
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'''Dil''': Anything... ''(Fergus starts to cut her hair)'' '''[[Anything But That|NO WAY!]]'''
'''Fergus''': You said ''anything''.
'''Dil''': Girl has to draw the line ''somewhere''.
* [[Unrequited Love]]: The theme of the film.
* [[We Do Not Know Each Other]]: When
* [[What You Are in the Dark]]: Fergus gets one of these when it's time to kill Jody. He can't bring himself to do it.
** Given an [[Ironic Echo]] when
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