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* [[Berserk Button]]: Mrs Lintott takes the revelation that Hector has been molesting her students relatively well, but it's easy to see her horror.
{{quote| "He ''handled the boys balls?''"}}
** Later she also delivers a brief, to-the-point [[What the Hell, Hero?]] on the same subject.
{{quote| "Hector, a grope is a grope. It is not the Annunciation."}}
** "WILL YOU SHUT UP ABOUT THESE EXAMS!"
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* [[Love Martyr]]: Posner.
* [[Motive Rant]]: Mrs. Lintott gets a rather good one about women and history. Obviously a non-criminal example.
* [[No Hugging, No Kissing]]: The characters who state that they are in love never make physical romantic contact.
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* [[Schoolteachers]]: ''The History Boys'' deconstructs these one teacher at a time. Mr. Hector is the [[Cool Teacher]] who habitually gropes his pupils and is a "bit of a shambles". Mrs. Lintott is set up to be the [[Stern Teacher]] but is very nice and the most stable teacher, so to speak. Mr. Irwin is the <s>[[Hot Teacher]]</s> deconstruction of types like [[Dead Poets Society|Mr. Keating]], popular with the students, but with some rather extreme views that nonetheless as a person he has difficulty living up to. The [[Hippie Teacher]] is always miffed that no one is taking her subject seriously; the Overly Religious Gym Teacher is a parody of, well, both of those things, and [[Dean Bitterman]], though mostly played straight, is actually shown to be in a difficult situation by the end of the film and delivers a pretty decent [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speech to the [[Cool Teacher]].
* [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness]]: Straight down the middle, probably. It is a ''very'' funny film, but is also very moving and raises some issues that leave the viewer in gray territory. This is invoked by Hector in a conversation with Irwin about halfway through the film. He says that he actively introduced the boys to "the tosh" in order to counteract the general seriousness of the rest of the story.
* [[Someday This Will Come in Handy]]:
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* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: It's an uplifting coming-of-age drama where a good-looking teenage boy and his friends chase girls while struggling to get into Oxford! Meanwhile, their inspirational teacher is persecuted by the stuffy headmaster for his progressive teaching style! Also, judging by the Blur soundtrack, it's the mid-90s... (There's no hint at all from the trailer that the main characters are gay, to the point that disparate scenes are cut together to make Dakin's relationship with Fiona look like a major plot element and Posner's line about being "I'm a Jew, I'm small, I'm homosexual and I live in Sheffield" is cut to just "I'm small and I live in Sheffield".)
* [[What Could Have Been]]: The subjunctive.
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]: In the film there is a [[Bittersweet Ending|bittersweet]] one. In the play it's just depressing.
* [[You Make Me Sic]]: A variation: "Actually Hector would like that — 'your sucking me off'. It's a gerund. He likes gerunds."
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