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* [[Alliterative Name]]: Madolyn Madden.
* [[All Psychology Is Freudian]]
* [[All
* [[Animal Motifs]]: The last shot features a rat scurrying across a balcony with the state house in the background.
* [[Anti
* [[Asshole Victim]]: The police's view on Miles Kennefik, killed by Costello. 'We're not here to solve the case of the missing scumbag.
** {{spoiler|Frank Costello}} himself gets killed by {{spoiler|Colin Sullivan.}} Before that, {{spoiler|Delahunt}} before he can reveal Billy as a rat. And {{spoiler|Fitzy and the rest of Costello's men.}}
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'''Costello's Translator:''' The boss doesn't think it's wise to bring automatic weapons. Are you crazy? Put your weapons away! Quick! Come on!<br />
'''Chinese Mob Boss:''' Put the guns down.... I'm ordering you, check the goods. }}
* [[Big "Shut Up!"]]: Costigan to {{spoiler|Sullivan}}, [[Punctuated Pounding|punctuating each syllable with a punch to the face.]]
* [[Black and Gray Morality]]
* [[Blast Out]]: At one point a squad of cops follow Costello's men, with Sullivan ordering them to stay back and watch. Eventually they get fed up with this, ignore Sullivan's orders and charge in with guns blazing. The result is multiple casualties on both sides.
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** {{spoiler|Dignam arguably, who walks out of the film 40 minutes before the end seemingly for good, letting Costigan and Sullivan face off uninterrupted, before coming back in at the very end to wrap up the plot.}}
* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: [[Jack Nicholson|"I smell a rat."]] Nicholson almost ''literally'' chews the scenery when doing his ''bizarre'' imitation of a "gnawing, ''cheese''-eating ''fucking'' rat."
* [[Cluster F
* [[Country Matters]]: This gem:
{{quote| '''Oliver Queenan:''' Do you know what we do here? My section?<br />
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* [[The Dragon]]: Mr. French for Costello.
* [[Enhance Button]]: Subverted. Zooming all the way in on the security camera footage does not enable Sullivan to discern any more details about his pursuer.
* [[
* [[Evil
* [[Face Death With Dignity]]: {{spoiler|Sullivan (Damon): "[[Get It Over With|Okay]]..."}}
* [[Five
** [[Big Bad]]: Frank Costello
** [[The Dragon]] / [[The Brute]]: Mr. French
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* [[Had to Come To Prison To Be A Crook]]: Invoked when Costigan {{spoiler|goes to prison to build up a reputation as a crook to be able to infiltrate [[The Irish Mob]].}}
* [[Hahvahd Yahd in My Cah]]
* [[Hair
* [[Hired to Hunt Yourself]]: Sullivan.
* [[Hollywood Silencer]]: {{spoiler|In the final scene}}.
* [[Hope Spot]]
* [[Hypocrite]]: Frank told Collin as a kid not to let anyone tell him what to do. {{spoiler|Frank's an FBI rat}}.
* [[I'll Kill You!]]
* [[If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten]]
* [[The Infiltration]]: Played straight and inverted.
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* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: Staff Sgt. Sean Dignam.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|At the end it looks like Sullivan is going to get away scot-free. Then [[Reality Ensues|Dignam shoots him.]]}}
* [[Kill
* [[Kudzu Plot]]: They stretch this out into a ''two-and-a-half hour movie''. Hell, the title card only comes in after 20 minutes!
* [[Large Ham]]: Jack Nicholson
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* [[Mister Sandman Sequence]]
* [[The Mole]]: In both directions, even.
* [[
* [[Number Two]]: Dignam for Queenan.
* [[Obstructive Vigilantism]]: Dignam keeps mum about what he knows, and in the end he {{spoiler|[[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|just shoots Sullivan]]}}.
* [[Oddly Small Organization]]: The Boston mob is composed by five members, twenty to forty percent of whom are {{spoiler|undercover cops}}.
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]:
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* [[Overt Rendezvous]]: Whenever Queenan and Dignam need to chat with Costigan, they meet him in some park/riverbank area. This worries Costigan, because if anyone sees him with them, he's pretty much dead.
* [[The Password Is Always Swordfish]]: In this case, a [[Justified Trope]].
* [[Politically
* [[Pretty Little Headshots]]: Averted as most people in this movie die from getting shot in the head, and it's ''never'' pretty. It's also [[Defied Trope|defied]] in the opening montage at the academy, as the instructor details for his cadets the effects that their hollow point ammunition would have on a human skull.
* [[Prolonged Prologue]]: The credits don't appear until nearly 20 minutes after the start of the movie, by which time you've already seen a flashback scene, a [[Training Montage]], and the first plot twist.
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* [[Torture Always Works]]: In this case, it would be ultimately ''less'' painful to maintain the lie.
* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Costigan, to Madolyn.
* [[The Un
* [[Uncomfortable Elevator Moment]]
* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: So how does {{spoiler|Sullivan}} thank the guy who saved him from his captor? By shooting his rescuer in the face, of course.
* [[Very Loosely Based
* [[Vigilante Execution]]: {{spoiler|Sorta. Sullivan manages to kill the only people who've discovered that he's Costello's mole and appears set to get away with it without even being charged with a crime, much less convicted, but Sgt. Dignam has other ideas.}}
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Both Costello and Sullivan are main characters.
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