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* [[Blessed With Suck]]: Coffey. "It's like pieces of glass in my head. All the time."
** Edgecombe's long life. "Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation."
* [[Card
** But you also have to remember that this was the South in the '30s, where the N-word was thrown about like it was nothing. However, none of the good guys say it without filtering it through another voice or shaming someone else.
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: Delacroix's botched execution. Its not called "The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix" for nothing.
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* [[Dirty Coward]]: Percy. Emphasis on ''dirty''.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: See the [[Nightmare Fuel]] entry? Percy did that because Delacroix laughed at him for pissing himself when Wharton grabbed him.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|Edgecombe is spiritually broken after executing Coffey, and is still alive sixty years later, hoping he'll [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|die before any more of his friends do.]]}}
* [[Dramatic Wind]]
* [[Electric Torture]]: ...Sort of.
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* [[Flying Dutchman]]: Paul, at least to some degree.
* [[Framing Device]]: Georgia Pines nursing home.
* [[Full
* [[Gentle Giant]]: John Coffey and Brutal Howell.
* [[Healing Hands]]: {{spoiler|Coffey's powers require him to be able to touch his patients, as close to the injury as possible. Thus is he mistaken for a murderer: when the posse finds a [[Scary Black Man]] with a mangled white girl under each arm, bloody hands pressing their crushed skulls, who would believe he had found them that way and was trying to heal them using magic? Also creates an awkward situation when Coffey heals Edgecombe's groin infection.}}
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* [[Last Minute Reprieve]]: Subverted; Edgcomb makes it a point to say the governor's line next to Old Sparky never rang. Both commutations (to a black woman who killed her womanizing husband and an insurance salesman who killed his father to collect the insurance money) were well before they were scheduled to be executed.
* [[Let Them Die Happy]]: A basic rule of the care of the condemned, and another reason Percy's a [[Jerkass]] is that he broke the rule with a condemned ''in the chair''...
* [[Long Lived]]: {{spoiler|Paul and Mr. Jingles, as a result of being cured by John Coffey, wind up "cured" of everything for the rest of their lives. Functionally, this means they keep aging but are immune to everything that would eventually kill them. When Paul is telling the story, he's over 100, and Mr. Jingles - a freaking ''mouse,'' - is over 60. Paul considers it his [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|punishment]] for allowing Coffey to be executed.}} However, {{spoiler|Mr. Jingles}} does finally die, so the punishment will end someday.
* [[Magical Negro]]: Literally.
* [[Magical Realism]]: A textbook example.
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* [[Offscreen Villainy]]: Used deliberately to allow audience sympathy. Remember, the men on death row are there because they were convicted of murder. Yet because we never witness the crimes of Delacroix or Bitterbuck, only their last days, we get to know them as people and not just criminals.
* [[The Rainman]]: {{spoiler|Coffey, as well as being a [[Magical Negro]].}}
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Everyone throws one at Percy after what he does to Del.
{{quote| '''Paul:''' You son of a bitch, you stand there and watch!}}
* [[Scary Black Man]]: Subverted. Coffey is big and scary looking, but gentle and childlike.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]]: Percy
** Later defied when the rest of the guards warn him not to tell anyone {{spoiler|that they straitjacketed him and locked him in solitary confinement}}, reminding him that he's not the only one who knows people.
** {{spoiler|Elaine}} pulls this as well.
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Percy, Percy, ''Percy''.
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: Literally; King's wife asked the question and it led to the [[Framing Device]].
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: {{spoiler|Paul Edgecombe, at the end, wishes for death.}}
* [[Writing By the Seat of Your Pants]]: At the time the first instalment was released to the public, King hadn't even figured out the ending yet... but still a set release scheduled for it.
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: By the time {{spoiler|Coffey's execution rolls around}}, the 30-something parents of the two dead girls turned basically into an elderly couple from grief.
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{{quote| {{spoiler|'''John:''' <''watching, entranced''> "They's angels... Angels, just like up in heaven..!"}}}}
** {{spoiler|Seeing ''Top Hat'' in his old age is enough to spook Edgecomb into telling his story to Elaine.}}
* [[One
** And while Harry Dean Stanton does show up for some other scenes, he only has any real lines in one scene, which ends up being a major [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
* [[Oscar Bait]]
* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: Some of the more rational explanations in the book are turned into supernatural explanations in the movie. {{spoiler|Instead of Paul figuring out who the actual killer was on his own, John Coffey gave him the information through his touch.}}
* [[Protagonist
** They're specifically asking why {{spoiler|''John''}} did it to Wharton. And they'd probably be right to ask: In the book it was mentioned that the two men didn't pass more than two dozen words past each other their entire time on the Mile, and half of those were when Wharton grabbed him.
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Wharton has an 8-year-old's sense of humor, but can be quite cunning, {{spoiler|and is a rapist pedophile}}.
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''(A pause) ''<br />
'''Paul Edgecombe''': I don't care where you go, as long as it's not here at this moment. }}
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[Working On the Chain Gang]]: Seen right at the beginning of the movie.
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