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=== The book provides examples of : ===
* [[A-Team Firing]]: During a showdown between Behemoth and the Moscow police, a firefight ensues in which ''nobody'' gets injured - in a ''tiny room''. However, Behemoth's terrible marksmanship is established in an earlier scene when he tries to show off.▼
* [[Action Girl]]: Margarita, after her transformation into a witch.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Woland.
* [[All Part of the Show]]
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Many of these in Moscow.
▲* [[A-Team Firing]]: During a showdown between Behemoth and the Moscow police, a firefight ensues in which ''nobody'' gets injured - in a ''tiny room''. However, Behemoth's terrible marksmanship is established in an earlier scene when he tries to show off.
* [[Author Appeal]]: Bulgakov's portrayal of the Soviet writer society; arguably also the theology, which he took interest in.
* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: Woland's ballroom.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]
* [[Brought to You by The Letter "S"]]: Margarita made the Master a cap with the letter "M" on it.
* [[The Brute]]: Azazel.▼
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]
* [[Chase Scene]]
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Ivan the poet - although he is not the hero, but rather a [[Jerkass]] who eventually redeems himself - when he realizes Woland is Satan.
* [[Heroic Sociopath]]: Woland, for some sense of heroic.
* [[The Hunter]]: Hilariously subverted with Ivan the poet, whose attempt to track and stop Woland and his servants ends very abruptly and anticlimactically.▼
* [[Intellectual Animal]]: Behemoth, though he is actually a demon in the form of a large black cat.
* [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]: Woland says it most blatantly in the first chapter, but the story of Yeshua itself suggests that the Gospels are portrayed in the novel as highly fictionalized [[Memetic Mutation]] of real events, which are themselves revealed through the Master's novel. Matthew Levi, in particular, is likely supposed to become Matthew the Evangelist, and Yeshua himself asserts this:
{{quote|''"No, no, Hegemon," the arrested man said, straining all over in his wish to convince, "there's one with a goatskin parchment who follows me, follows me and keeps writing all the time. But once I peeked into this parchment and was horrified. I said decidedly nothing of what's written there. I implored him: "Burn your parchment, I beg you!" But he tore it out of my hands and ran away."''}}
* [[Loveable Rogue]]: Korovyev and Behemoth.▼
* [[Lou Cypher]]: In German folk legend, Woland is an old nickname for the Devil, and Mephistopheles in Goethe's ''Faust'' goes one time by this moniker.
▲* [[Loveable Rogue]]: Korovyev and Behemoth.
* [[Man of Wealth and Taste]]: Woland, who may have inspired Mick and Keith to write that tune
* [[Mega Neko]]: Behemoth.
* [[The Messiah]]: Jesus/Yeshua in the Jerusalem storyline.▼
* [[Mind Screw]]
* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: One of Woland's eyes is bright green, the other one is black. Apparently [[Marilyn Manson]] was also inspired by the book.
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* [[Talking Animal]]: Behemoth.
* [[That Came Out Wrong]]: In the original and translations to Slavic languages ("Bezdomny" means "Homeless"), Ivan's phone call to the MASSOLIT goes like "It's Ivan, the homeless! I'm calling from the insane asylum!" No wonder the conversation is ''short''.
▲* [[The Brute]]: Azazel.
▲* [[The Hunter]]: Hilariously subverted with Ivan the poet, whose attempt to track and stop Woland and his servants ends very abruptly and anticlimactically.
▲* [[The Messiah]]: Jesus/Yeshua in the Jerusalem storyline.
* [[The Thirties]]: No, not [[The Great Depression]] -- the Soviet thirties, when [[Josef Stalin|Stalin and his cadre of fanatics were consolidating their power]]. (Strictly speaking, the novel is ambiguous on its setting: Critics generally argue that the novel is a mashup of [[The Soviet Twenties]] (when it was begun) and the Thirties.)
* [[Trickster]]: Korovyev and Behemoth.
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