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* [[Ass Shove]]: In the novella, Andy smuggles five hundred dollars into the prison by this method. Taken [[Up to Eleven]] by Red at the end, in which he smuggles out [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|the pages on which he is writing the manuscript]] with the same trick. The novella is nearly one hundred pages long.
* [[Badass]]: Hadley. Though it's apparently subverted in the end, when {{spoiler|Red says he heard he "cried like a little girl" when arrested.}}
* [[Badass Baritone]]: Hadley, though it's to be expected when you're portrayed by Clancy Brown.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Andy Dufresne himself, of course, {{spoiler|using his knowledge of biology to explain to one of The Sisters why he wouldn't be able to help it if he "bit" after they hit him in the head, and his knowledge of geology to figure out from the weakness of the wall that he could tunnel his way out.}}
{{quote|'''Boggs:''' Where do you learn this shit?
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* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Heywood.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: The actual murderer of Andy's wife. {{spoiler|He was apparently locked up in another prison for an unrelated crime when he confessed to doing it. We don't find out what became of him afterwards.}}
* [[Kick the Dog]]: {{spoiler|The Warden clearly hindering Andy's appeal for Tommy to testify, and out of the blue ordered him to serve a month in solitary confinement.}}
** Heywood did this earlier in the movie, as he taunted an emotionally-overwhelmed prisoner by reeling him in with what starts out sounding reassuring, only to go on to something that is practically the opposite of reassuring.
{{quote|"''Don't you listen to these nitwits, you hear me? This place ain't so bad. Tell you what, I'll introduce you around, make you feel right at home. I know a couple of big old bull queers that'd just [[Prison Rape|love to make your acquaintance. Especially that big, white, mushy butt of yours.]]''"}}
*** That emotionally-overwhelmed prisoner then broke down in tears, and Heywood laughed at this out loud. For what it's worth, {{spoiler|Heywood}} actually turns out NOT to be a [[Complete Monster]] (which shows when we see him wanting the prisoner he taunted to shut up from crying once Hadley comes in the room), but given what he did, who could blame viewers for expecting him to be?
* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: Hadley, the leader of the guards, ambushes and severely beats Boggs, who screams and cries for help the whole time. Seeing as ambushing and severely beating people was what Boggs took sadistic pleasure in, one can't help but feel satisfied when Red sums up the end result...
{{quote|'''Red''': To my knowledge, he lived out the rest of his life drinking his food through a straw.}}
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* [[Pet the Dog]]: Hadley agreeing to Andy's request for the beers could be interpreted as such, Red going so far as to describe his behavior as "magnanimous". It's made particularly explicit in the novella, where Red points out that there was nothing stopping Hadley from throwing Andy off the roof and accepting his advice anyway.
** In the movie at least, Andy did point out that he could set up the tax-free gift for what presumably is cheaper than the "ball-washing bastard" lawyers would charge. So Hadley had a reason to keep him alive.
** Hadley does it again when he {{spoiler|beats Boggs so badly, that he has to be hospitalized for the rest of his life when he returns from solitary confinement.}} It comes off as another way for Hadley to thank Andy for helping with his financial issues.
* [[Police Brutality]]: Taken [[Up to Eleven]] by Hadley.
* [[Prison Rape]]: The "Sisters".
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