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* [[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
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]
* [[Brought to You
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]
* [[Chase Scene]]
* [[Dark Chick]]: Hella.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: The book plays with this trope repeatedly.
* [[Deal
* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: Ivan the poet. The Master and especially Margarita are introduced relatively late in the book -- the Master first appears a third of the way through the novel, in a chapter [[Lampshade Hanging|entitled]] ''Enter the Hero''.
* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]
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* [[Self-Inflicted Hell]]: Berlioz, who believes in nothing, gets nothing after death.
* [[Selfless Wish]]: Margarita wants more than anything else for the Master to be returned to her, but when Satan offers to grant her one request, she instead asks for mercy for one of the damned souls she met at his ball.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Particularly to [[Johann Wolfgang
* [[Show Within a Show]]: The Master's novel.
* [[Smite Me Oh Mighty Smiter]]: Matthew Levi; it accomplishes nothing.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Lots of bureaucrats and high-ranking functionaries in the Moscow storylines, Caifas in the Jerusalem storyline.
* [[Sympathy for
* [[Take That]]:
** Towards Russian society; possibly also towards many individuals on whom the [[Asshole Victim|asshole victims]] [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|were supposedly based]])
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